HLnovel Chapter 460 Young lady, are you alright?
Chapter 460 Young lady, are you alright?
A girl lay in the coffin, her face covered by a red brocade veil. She lay there peacefully, motionless.
Lu Yangyang reached out and tentatively lifted the veil, revealing a delicate and youthful face. Her eyes were open, but they were devoid of any spirit, as if she had already left this world.
"Xiuniang?" Lu Yangyang called out tentatively.
Xiu Niang's eyelids trembled slightly, then she blinked gently. Only then did a faint light slowly gather, illuminating Lu Yangyang's face, which showed a hint of confusion.
She moved her lips, then asked uncertainly, "Who...who are you?"
Hearing her response, Lu Yangyang finally breathed a sigh of relief. She hadn't looked for the wrong person, and she had finally gotten what she was waiting for.
“I’m here to save you. Your mother asked me to come. How are you now? Can you move?” Lu Yangyang asked her.
“My mother…” Xiu Niang seemed somewhat incredulous, but still replied, “They stabbed me a few times, and I can’t move. You…you really were sent by my mother? Go back and tell her I’m fine, I’m still alive, and I will live well. Tell her not to worry.”
Lu Yangyang stretched half of her body into the coffin, touched her wrist, squeezed it, and then took out silver needles from her body and pricked Xiu Niang a few times: "Try it, can she move?"
Xiu Niang tentatively tested Lu Yangyang's movements with a mixture of disbelief and skepticism, then looked at her incredulously, "You... Sister, are you a fairy?"
Lu Yangyang grabbed her wrist and pulled her up: "There's not much time left, we'll talk about it later. Now hurry up and take off your clothes, I'll take you away."
"And what about you?" Xiu Niang asked.
"You go first, I'll take you to meet up with the people who are waiting for you. They'll take you back to see your mother. I'll be there later." Lu Yangyang urged, "Hurry up."
Xiu Niang stubbornly shook her head. "No, sister, you don't know. There are many people down there, and they say there are many people up there too. If you let me go, they will definitely not let you go. Is my mother alright? Sister, I'm fine. Go back and tell my mother not to worry about me. I'm not afraid."
Her hands, hidden in the sleeves of her ill-fitting wedding dress, were still trembling, yet she stubbornly looked at Lu Yangyang and said she wasn't afraid.
Seeing that they were getting closer and closer to the iron chain, they could not delay any longer. Lu Yangyang simply jumped into the coffin, grabbed Xiu Niang's shoulder, quickly helped her take off her wedding dress, then took off the outer garment she had taken from Wen Qingqing and put it on Xiu Niang, forcibly pulling her out of the coffin.
Just as Lu Yangyang was about to jump onto the iron chain with her, they suddenly heard the sound of fighting coming from above.
Oops!
Something must have happened!
Lu Yangyang didn't have time to send Xiu Niang away. If they were discovered, they would both be killed!
She hoisted Xiu Niang onto her shoulder, leaped onto the rock face, climbed to a naturally formed hollow in the rock face that Xiu Niang had found while she was hiding, and stuffed Xiu Niang inside: "No matter what happens, don't come out. I'll come to save you. Wait for me, dare you?"
Xiu Niang nodded, her eyes red: "I dare!"
She was meeting this woman for the first time, and she didn't really believe that her mother could find someone to save her. But she inexplicably trusted this woman. Just looking into her eyes, it was as if anything could come true.
Lu Yangyang reached out and broke off two lush branches from a nearby tree branch, quickly using them to cover the dent. Before the coffin could rise, she leaped back, flipped herself inside, and closed the coffin.
There was no time to notify Luo Jing and the others; we could only wait until we got up there to figure out a solution.
Lu Yangyang let out a breath, quickly fumbled to put on her wedding dress, and pulled the veil over her face.
The coffin was still slowly rising along the iron chains.
Meanwhile, about two zhang above the coffin, the two sides were locked in a fierce battle.
One of them, dressed in black, gripped an iron chain hanging from the rock wall with one hand and held a thin, diamond-shaped sword in the other, skillfully fighting off the attackers.
The people of the Celestial Palace originally thought that this person would be the easiest to deal with because of his leg disability, but they did not expect him to be so difficult to handle. They had no choice but to send more people over, and five or six people came together to besiege him.
"You cripple, no matter who you are, anyone who dares to trespass will be killed without mercy!" the leader shouted at the man in black.
Zong Que chuckled lightly, "Kill without mercy? You try it."
"Arrogant! Look where you are! This entire Jade Mountain is teeming with our people. You few alone can't escape even if you had wings!" The leader, standing on a tree branch on the rock face, swung his long sword straight at Zong Que.
With his hand gripping the iron chain, Zong Que nimbly dodged the falling blade as it came down, the blade scraping against the rock wall and sending sparks flying.
"Damn it!" the other party cursed, flipped his body and slashed at Zong Que again. At the same time, one of his subordinates came close to support him. The two of them, one above and one below, swung their long swords at Zong Que.
Zong Que dodged the two blades and grabbed another iron chain, which enraged the leader, who then slashed upwards at the iron chain he was holding.
Several iron chains on the rock face connect the passageways for transporting goods up and down, and two of them happen to be connected to the slowly rising coffins.
Lu Yangyang lay in the coffin, which was closed. She could barely hear any noise outside, but she could vaguely sense that things weren't quite stable.
Just in case, she took out a rope she always carried with her and wrapped it around her waist.
Amidst the fierce fighting above, the coffin slowly rose, naturally pulled by the iron chains. When the leader angrily slashed at the chains, the iron plate holding the coffin also swayed.
Zong Que had already realized the other party's intentions and naturally saw the coffin that was about to rise to his feet. He hurriedly dodged to another iron chain, trying to interrupt their plan. However, how could the leader let him succeed? He directly raised his hand, signaling the men surrounding Zong Que to cut the iron chains together. He had already discovered that Zong Que's legs were weak, and he could only rely on these hanging iron chains to confront them. Once these iron chains were broken, his strength would be greatly reduced.
With the combined efforts of several people, the iron chain hanging on the rock wall suddenly snapped, and the iron plate suspending the coffin instantly lost its balance and fell downwards.
Zong Que frowned, quickly flew over, grabbed the broken iron chain, and threw it out to wrap around the tilting coffin. The coffin fell down with it.
After falling several meters, Zong Que saw the iron chain running across the mountain. He grabbed one end of the chain that was wrapped around the coffin, wrapped it around the horizontal chain, and threw the other end out to wrap it around a tree trunk at an angle, barely managing to place the coffin across the iron chain.
After doing all this, the hair on his forehead was soaked with sweat, and his legs ached so much that he could barely stand. He gripped the sword in his hand and walked step by step to the coffin. His hand landed on the coffin, and he paused for a moment.
Then, she pulled a dark-colored hair ribbon from her hair, pushed the coffin open a crack, slipped the ribbon inside, and asked softly.
"Young lady, are you alright?"