Chapter 86: Heart Demon
Mengyu didn’t use her Inner Strength, relying purely on brute force, but each punch landed squarely on flesh.
Yet even using only brute force was more than Jiang Huaiyu could bear.
Jiang Huaiyu wanted to scream out in pain to vent, but her Dumb Acupoint was sealed, and she couldn’t make a sound.
Only the pained expression on her face and the large sweat beads that formed could show the extreme pain she was enduring at the moment.
Gradually, Mengyu was controlled by the Heart Demon, striking heavier with each blow.
Finally, Jiang Huaiyu was beaten to a near-death state, collapsing to the ground.
But Mengyu kept hitting, with only one thought in her mind: kill her, kill her!
Xiao Tao finally noticed something was wrong with her master.
She desperately shouted in Mengyu’s heart: "Master, stop! If you keep going, she won’t be savable!"
With a jolt, Mengyu finally came to her senses.
She looked down at Jiang Huaiyu on the ground, who was gasping weakly, seemingly about to breathe her last at any moment.
"What—what happened?" she exclaimed in shock.
Xiao Tao: "Master, it was you who beat her. You were almost possessed by the demon. Fortunately, you could still hear me calling."
Mengyu also felt a bit frightened; she had only just started her cultivation, her spirit was unstable, and her traumatic past life had triggered the Heart Demon. Fortunately, Xiao Tao was there.
Mengyu looked again at Jiang Huaiyu lying on the ground like a corpse, feeling somewhat depressed.
This wasn’t a deep forest; if Jiang Huaiyu died, she couldn’t escape the law.
Besides, the suffering she endured in her previous life wasn’t something that could be compensated for by Jiang Huaiyu’s death alone.
Mengyu took out the medicine she had stolen from the storage talisman. She used it on all of Jiang Huaiyu’s external wounds, but for the internal injuries, she only administered half a dose to preserve her life.
By tomorrow morning, her external injuries would be healed, but her internal injuries would take at least a month to recover. Even then, her physical condition would have significantly deteriorated.
Taking advantage of Jiang Huaiyu still being unconscious, Mengyu quickly opened her suitcase, retrieved her own antique vase, and stored it away in her space.
Xiao Tao exclaimed from inside the space, "Wow, what a fantastic item! This antique vase goes as a pair with the one from last time, also worth two hundred Essence Value. With this, the space can expand a bit more."
Mengyu knew, of course, that this vase was a pair with the one from last time.
She moved Jiang Huaiyu to the bed, covered her with a blanket, meticulously erased any signs of her own presence, left the room, and exited the inn without being noticed.
Tomorrow, when Jiang Huaiyu wakes up, her acupoints will release on their own, and she will remember tonight’s events, but since no injuries will be visible on her body, even if she calls the police, no one will believe her.
Ultimately, people will just think she had a nightmare, even if she mentions the vase, no one will believe her.
After wandering around for a bit, Mengyu checked into a separate room at another inn.
That night, she entered her space and found that because the space absorbed the Sun and Moon Essence from the antique vase, it expanded another meter outward.
Although the fog only receded one meter further, the whole space seemed much wider, with three-fifths of the peach tree now visible.
Initially, the whole space appeared to be only four acres, but now it should be about six acres.
Even though previously it was slightly more than four acres wide, the mountains, rivers, and beach occupied most of it, leaving less than one acre of land.
But with this expansion, mainly toward the side of the peach tree, the added land area, together with the original one acre, now totaled three acres. Of course, the thatched house’s Medicinal Garden that comes with the space doesn’t count, as it’s a Space House.
She should bring in some seeds to plant. With this space, she wouldn’t have to worry about food and shelter in the future.