in2ebook Chapter 355 Escape
Chapter 355 Escape
Cui Jinhua stared blankly at him as she drank water from his hand, her eyes unwilling to leave him for a moment.
After drinking two cups, she felt her throat was a little better. She raised her hand to touch Mo Li's face, but then seemed to remember something and pulled it back.
Mo Li gently grasped her hand and pressed it against her face, her expression filled with deep affection. "Mother, Li'er is back."
Cui Jinhua nodded with tears in her eyes, touching his face and reluctant to take her hand away.
"The moon is full!"
The old woman suddenly spoke, pulling everyone back to reality.
"I know where he is," Mo Li reassured Cui Jinhua and said to the others.
Before Wu Yao left, she told him that Ying Wuyai was in a dark cave near the altar.
He got up to leave, but Cui Jinhua stopped him, saying, "Li'er, it's dangerous."
"You shouldn't go."
The person who looks exactly like them must be quite extraordinary to have been able to approach them so quietly and maintain the disguise for so long.
In her dream, she saw that person swallow her son whole, and she still breaks out in a cold sweat when she recalls it.
Mo Li withdrew her hand and smiled, "Mother, I'm very capable now, you don't need to worry."
"Master Xiannian and the others are with me, so I'll be fine."
He left as soon as he finished speaking, fearing that Cui Jinhua would stop him at all costs.
Having gone through so much, he has grown up and can no longer live under everyone's protection forever.
Mo Xiao blocked Cui Jinhua's view, and he understood why the Imperial Advisor had said those inexplicable things to him back then.
He ordered many people to follow Mo Li, and also ordered people to surround the palace to protect Cui Jinhua.
Inside the dark cave, as soon as Ying Wuyai saw the full moon, he urged Wu Yao, "Quick! Release Mo Li's soul for me!"
His voice trembled with excitement; he had been waiting for this moment for many years.
"What living soul?" Wu Yao took off her straw hat and laughed heartily.
Ying Wuyai clenched his fists as he looked at the unfamiliar woman before him. "Who are you?"
"Why does her voice sound exactly like Wu Yao's?!"
No wonder this guy didn't take off his hat twice after entering the dark cave; it turns out there was someone else under the hat.
Is that stupid Wu Yao dead?
She's dead. Where did Mo Li's soul go? Without a soul, wasn't his joy all for nothing?!
Seeing that he was so angry that his face turned ashen but he didn't move an inch, Wu Yao figured that he was in so much pain that she wasn't in a hurry to do anything.
She took out a small mirror and carefully examined her face against the moon, sighing inwardly that she could never get enough of looking at herself.
"Who could I be? I am Wu Yao, of course!"
She blinked hard, and saw that the eyelashes Wen Luozhi had given her looked as lively and charming as two butterflies fluttering their wings.
Ying Wuyai lost his patience. Looking at the woman in front of him who was completely unserious, he assumed that Wu Yao was dead.
"Hand over Mo Li's soul! I might spare your life."
He suddenly stood up, and many tentacles appeared out of thin air behind him, all baring their fangs and claws and pointing at Wu Yao.
Wu Yao had never seen him like this before. She put away the mirror, took out the luminous pearl, and shone it in front of her.
A series of crisscrossing red and black lines of blood appeared on Ying Wuyai's face, extending all the way down to his neck.
"Tsk tsk," she couldn't help but click her tongue and then sneered, "I thought I was ugly enough."
I never imagined you were so much uglier than me.
When she first met Ying Wuyai, he already looked like Mo Li, and she thought that's what he always looked like.
I never imagined that the real person would be so ugly and terrifying, much uglier than her ugliest witch doll.
"I'll kill you right now!" Ying Wuyai roared in fury, and the tentacles behind him seemed to receive a command, instantly growing longer and attacking Wu Yao.
Wu Yao was prepared. She took out the blood-red banner, chanted a few incantations, and barely managed to deflect the attack.
"Killing me won't get you Mo Li's soul. You'd better just go back to where you came from."
As she spoke, she dodged the tentacles, afraid that the sharp things would scratch her face.
"If I can't have his soul, I'll rip out Cui Jinhua's heart and swallow it whole!"
As soon as Ying Wuyai finished speaking, he heard light footsteps outside, and Mo Li appeared before him first.
Upon seeing Mo Liying, Wuyai instinctively shrank back, and the tentacles, as if they had thoughts, quickly retracted themselves.
"You're actually still alive?!"
Once Ying Wuyai calmed down, he transformed back into Mo Li, and those who entered afterward couldn't tell them apart for a moment.
"The one with the disheveled hair is a fake, this one is real."
Wu Yao leaned against the stone wall and gestured towards Mo Li, while Ghost Granny stepped forward to shield Mo Li behind her.
"What evil spirit has lurked here until now? Today I will surely make you fly away and your soul be scattered!"
She chanted a spell, and a strong wind swirled around her, seemingly mixed with painful howls.
Ying Wuyai, however, showed no fear whatsoever, his face revealing a hint of excitement.
As the strong wind swept past, the tentacles behind him suddenly stood upright, their tips slightly curved as they greedily sucked up the strong wind.
The roaring stopped after a while, and the Ghost Granny launched another attack, but the result was the same.
"You old codger, you've got some skills, but now it's my turn."
Ying Wuyai's eyes narrowed, and the tentacles behind him scrambled to spit out what they had just ingested.
Two gusts of wind swept towards the group, and Wu Yao felt a slight pain in her face.
She raised her hand to touch it, and when she took it down, she saw that there was blood on her palm.
Looking at the others, they all had streaks of blood on their faces.
Xian Nian and his apprentice, along with the three Ghost Grannys, stood side by side, protecting Mo Li behind them.
Mo Li was unharmed thanks to what Wen Luozhi had given her, which enraged Ying Wuyai once again.
"What are you doing hiding behind someone else! Come out!"
He shouted and leaped into the air, about to pass over the three of them to grab Mo Li.
Xianmian forcefully struck him with the Buddhist prayer beads on his wrist, sending him flying back. The tentacles behind him drooped limply to the ground.
"I am you, I am you," Ying Wuyai kept repeating. Mo Li felt a wave of dizziness, but then something flashed in his chest and he suddenly came to his senses.
"No! You are just my shadow! You are not me! You stole my things and harmed my mother!"
Mo Li suddenly rushed over, slid out a dagger from her sleeve, and stabbed it towards Ying Wuyai's chest.
Ying Wuyai gave a sinister laugh, and vanished without a trace as his dagger fell.
"Ran!"
Wu Yao slapped her thigh and exclaimed in surprise. That ghostly thing had been gathering strength to escape.
It must have been seriously injured by that Buddhist bead. The only way to quickly recover is through Mo Li's life soul and the mother-child blood.
"Quickly, quickly, go back to Cui Jinhua's place!"
She grabbed Mo Li and ran outside, completely forgetting that what she had always wanted to see most was Cui Jinhua die a miserable death.
Ying Wuyai had already appeared at the entrance of the palace, and looked exactly like Mo Li from before.
"Your Highness, the King has decreed that no one is allowed to enter the palace."
The guards stopped him at the door, looking embarrassed; they hadn't even figured out what was going on when they were called over.
Ying Wuyai had his own methods. He moved his lips and uttered something, and the person at the door made way for him with a blank expression.
Mo Xiao couldn't sit still any longer, and Cui Jinhua also got out of bed, saying she was about to leave.
"Father, Mother, your son has returned."
Ying Wuyai walked in from outside and happened to meet the couple who were about to leave.