NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 253.2
“You’re doing well!” Lin Beifan’s voice drifted ethereally, sounding both distant and near.
“Senior!” Mo Yuyan replied with great joy and stopped in her tracks.
“Your moves are very fierce, each one practiced to perfection, but something is missing!”
Mo Yuyan expressed her frustration, “Senior, you’re absolutely right. I’ve practiced this set of moves hundreds of times, to the point where I can perform them effortlessly, but I always feel like something is missing! Senior, how can I break through?”
“Mo Yuyan, you should leave the mountain now!”
“Senior, are you sending me away?” Mo Yuyan asked with a hint of grievance.
“Don’t misunderstand! You’ve been on the mountain for two months now, and with your efforts during this time, Great Luo has gradually stabilized. So you can take action again! You can seek revenge while looking for the Taoist Sect Grandmaster to practice swordsmanship! After sparring with the Grandmaster a few times, you’ll understand what you’re lacking!”
Mo Yuyan pondered, “Senior is right, it’s time for me to leave the mountain!”
“Go ahead, I await your good news!”
“Senior, I’ll pack my bags and prepare to descend the mountain!”After some thought, Mo Yuyan asked, “Senior, Great Xia and Great Luo are sworn enemies! Do you think if I cause a huge commotion in Great Luo, will Great Xia take any action?”
“How would I know? The Great Xia Emperor’s actions are always inscrutable. Who can predict him?” Laughter came through.
Another attempt at probing had failed, and Mo Yuyan felt a slight disappointment.
“Senior, I’ll take my leave!”
After packing her belongings, Mo Yuyan left the mountain.
Upon leaving the White Tiger Mountain Range, she didn’t act rashly but first inquired about the situation in Great Luo before adapting to the circumstances.
After some investigation, she found that the situation in Great Luo had indeed improved significantly.
With the help of the Taoist Sect, the rebels in various places were suppressed, and basic order was restored throughout Great Luo.
However, the rebels were not wiped out. Instead, they went into hiding.
Due to a lack of sufficient food, the people of Great Luo were still living in dire straits, with many starving to death on the streets.
The Great Luo Emperor neither provided them with food nor allowed them to leave. He used food as leverage, offering rations only to those who joined the army, while those who didn’t were left to starve, effectively dividing the common people—a truly malicious act.
As for herself, she was still wanted, with a bounty of 5 million taels on her head, but no one dared to take on the job.
What made her both amused and exasperated was that she had truly become a spiritual leader for the rebels, with many commoners worshipping her like a deity.
Just then, someone tugged at her clothes.
Looking down, she saw it was just a little girl, no more than 7 years old.
The child was filthy, barefoot, wearing patched clothes, and her hair showed signs of malnutrition, turning a yellowish-brown color.
Only her big eyes remained bright. She asked softly, “Sister, are you Sister Mo Yuyan?”
Mo Yuyan squatted down, lifted her veil, and asked curiously, “Little girl, how did you recognize me?”
“Wow! You… you really are Sister Mo Yuyan!” The little girl was extremely excited.
Mo Yuyan was surprised, “From your tone, you hadn’t recognized me before?”
The little girl whispered, “Whenever I see a woman who looks similar, I always ask. If I find her, that’s great; if not, I keep searching until Ido!”
Mo Yuyan nodded slightly. This method was like finding a needle in a haystack, purely based on luck.
However, the little girl was lucky today.
“Sister Mo, please come with us. Everyone is looking for you!”
“Who’s looking for me?”
“You’ll know when you get there!”
The little girl tightly grasped Mo Yuyan’s hand and stealthily pulled her into a dilapidated room.
Inside the room, various items were scattered in disarray.
The little girl pushed aside a pile of straw in the corner, revealing a hole. She pulled Mo Yuyan into it and they saw a group of people who were skinny, sallow, and filthy.
“Look who I’ve brought!” the little girl announced proudly.
“It’s the heroine Mo Yuyan!”
“Hero Mo has come!”
“We are finally saved!”
Everyone was extremely excited.
Mo Yuyan was stunned: “Who are you…?”
At that moment, everyone began to kneel and kowtow loudly.
“Lady Mo, please save us!”
“We really have no way out!”
“If you don’t save us, we might as well die!” they pleaded, their words interspersed with a string of seemingly random symbols and numbers that were likely a code or a secret group identifier.
This was the first time Mo Yuyan had encountered such a situation, and she was somewhat at a loss. “Please get up, everyone. Let’s talk this through slowly!”
After some conversation, Mo Yuyan finally understood the identity of the group; they were the local rebels.
To call them rebels was perhaps an overstatement. They were nothing more than a group of peasants who had failed in their uprising.
After their failed rebellion, fearing retribution from the imperial court, they had no choice but to hide underground and barely cling to life.
While they were not willing to sit and wait for death, they lacked the strength to resist the court, so they placed their hopes on Mo Yuyan.
Thus, they sent out children to find Mo Yuyan.
Children’s identities were less likely to arouse suspicion, and so far, the imperial troops had not discovered them.
Now, after a month of effort, they had finally found Mo Yuyan.
Looking into their hopeful eyes, Mo Yuyan felt a sting in her eyes and complex emotion in her heart.
To be honest, at first, she was only seeking revenge and hadn’t thought much beyond that.
She had never considered bearing the hopes of the common people.
But now, her heart was moved.
As the saying goes, with great power comes great responsibility!
Another saying goes, when you see injustice on the road, draw your sword to help!
If she had no power, that would be one thing, but now she possessed remarkable martial skills, it seemed she could do something for everyone while seeking her revenge.
“Alright! We will rise up again, and this time we must overturn Great Luo and welcome a new life!” Mo Yuyan promised loudly.
The crowd was ecstatic: “Thank you, Lady Mo!”
After making their plans, Mo Yuyan left the place.
That night, she single-handedly stormed into the local official place and slaughtered everyone from top to bottom.
Then she ran to the local granary and killed all the soldiers guarding it.
The waiting rebels rushed out joyfully.
“Grab the food!”
“We finally have food to eat!”
“Thank you, Hero Mo!” they cheered.
Seeing that the situation here had been settled, Mo Yuyan moved on to the next city with peace of mind.
She then made contact with the local rebels and replicated her previous tactics.
She took it upon herself to eliminate the local officials and soldiers, then allowed the local rebels to seize the food supplies and take control of the city.
Due to her swift actions, Great Luo was once again thrown into chaos.
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