Chapter 17: The End of Master and Apprentice
The anonymous package that Mu Xueyi received half a day ago was sent by Modu. It contained one of Lan Fei's severed fingers and a letter. The content of the letter said that if Mu Xueyi couldn't get here alone in half a day, he would hang Lan Fei's miserable body at the gate of Qingfeng Zhai.
Lan Fei was kidnapped by Mo Du in order to trick Mu Xueyi into falling into this trap he had carefully arranged.
"Mo Du, Master treats you well, why do you want to do this?" Lan Fei's voice was already very weak, he had been tortured by Mo Du for a day, he hadn't even drunk a drop of water, his function had reached its limit, even if Mo Du let him go now, he didn't even have the strength to stand up.
"He treats me badly?" Mo Du felt sad and angry when he heard this, and he laughed hideously: "If he treats me badly, he won't teach you all his skills and not teach me! If he treats me badly, he won't give you all the resources and not give them to me! If he treats me badly, he won't drive me out of the school!"
Lan Fei did know Mu Xueyi's secret.
The person behind Mu Xueyi is Yunhe, under the recommendation of Mu Xueyi, Lan Fei usually helps Yunhe, he is also a person from Flying Fox Valley, and his work includes alchemy and healing. Yun He trusted Lan Fei very much, and he could pick as many of all the rare plants in the entire Flying Fox Valley as he wanted, and it didn't matter whether the elixir he refined with these resources was used in the Flying Fox Valley, because Lan Fei was the same as Mu Xueyi, he was a person from the Flying Fox Valley!
Therefore, to be precise, Lan Fei's alchemy resources come from Yunhe. It was precisely because Mo Du saw Lan Fei's inexhaustible alchemy resources that he misunderstood Mu Xueyi's partiality.
Thinking of Yunhe's trust in himself and Master's doting on him, Lan Fei already had a firm belief in his heart, even if he didn't want this life, he couldn't betray them! The matter of Flying Fox Valley and Yunhe could never be said!
I hope that Modu still has a trace of kindness and reins in the precipice. But judging from Modu's attitude towards himself, he hates himself and wishes he had died sooner, and this time he may not be able to go back. No matter what Mo has done to himself now, he must endure it and not be found by him......
Your Highness, Master, Xiao Fei can only repay your kindness in the next life.
Thinking of this, Lan Fei's eyes were covered with tears, and he said sadly: "Mo Du, you and I grew up together, I know Master, and I know you. Master, he is not biased. Everyone's talents and abilities are different, and Master just gives us different abilities based on our characteristics. My medical skills are higher than yours, but your alchemy skills are also higher than mine, and we all have our own strengths. Master asked me to practice medicine to help others, because there were more people to be treated, and the dosage was also very large, and it was normal for me to give me more alchemy materials. As for Master's insistence on expelling you from the school, it is because you have made a mistake! Master trusts you and asks you to go to the invigilator examination, but you do tricks and tricks during the admissions assessment to exclude potential candidates...... Forget it, you also sent people to intercept the candidates who had just left the examination room, in an attempt to make them disappear from this world! Your behavior of harming yourself and others has seriously violated the rules of Qingfeng Zhai!"
What Lan Fei was referring to was that Mo Du was instigated by Zheng Yun to do tricks in the white scroll and the purple stove, embarrassing Tang Zixi and Xiao Dan. The difficulty of the other candidates' questions is only at the level of an alchemy apprentice, while the questions of Tang Zixi and Xiao Dan are at the level of an alchemy grandmaster. If Tang Zixi didn't have the divine book in her mind, she would not have been qualified.
In addition to being jealous of Tang Zixi, Mo Du was also jealous of Xiao Dan, who was more talented than him. He once sent a few people to ambush Xiao Dan. It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, this Xiao Dan has a lot of origins, and he was disguised by the Fire Wolf King of the Western Fantasy Continent, how could those people be Xiao Dan's opponents? As a result, they all became the food of those fire wolves.
The third level of the admissions assessment is an interview by Mu Xueyi. After Xiao Dan saw Mu Xueyi, he shook out all of Mo Du's bad deeds.
It turned out that this Xiao Dan was not a fuel-efficient lamp, he had long been unpleasant to look at Mo, and secretly sent his subordinates to use jade slips to record many ugly things in Mo Du, including Mo Du receiving the benefits of Starlight Academy.
The application conditions for Qingfengzhai enrollment are harsh, only the students of Starlight Academy or Qingtong County are eligible to apply for the examination, and Starlight Academy took this opportunity to double the tuition fee, and then recruited a large number of students from other places to achieve the purpose of collecting money. In order to hide this from Mu Xueyi, Starlight Academy stuffed a lot of money into Mo Du's pocket, and hoped that Mo Du would persuade Mu Xueyi to sit in Starlight Academy.
Mo Du has made a lot of benefits because of the invigilation, all of which are ill-gotten gains.
In addition, Mo Du also had an affair with Zheng Yun, and on the eve of the assessment, the two hugged each other to play the dragon and phoenix. What made Mu Xueyi feel the most chilling was that Mo Du also sent someone to ambush Xiao Dan after the assessment, just because Xiao Dan's talent was higher than him, he was afraid that Xiao Dan would surpass him in the future and threaten him, and he would take Xiao Dan's life, but the picture of those people being torn apart by the Fire Wolf Clan was omitted.
In short, there are too many shady scenes revealed in that piece of jade......
After reading the content of the jade slip, Mu Xueyi checked the information records of the candidates for the two assessment artifacts, the white copy scroll and the purple fire furnace, and found that Mo Du had done something in the questions of Xiao Dan and Tang Zixi, fortunately, Xiao Dan and Tang Zixi were both talented, and even the difficulty of the alchemy grandmaster level had been passed.
Mu Xueyi was furious when she knew everything, and expelled Mo Du from the division in a fit of anger. The matter of Modu also hit Mu Xueyi hard. He realized that he was bent on alchemy and assisting Yunhe, and he had neglected to manage Qingfeng Zhai over the years, resulting in many internal contradictions, infighting, and protégés collecting money outside under the banner of Qingfeng Zhai.
The disheartened Mu Xueyi dismissed all the protégés of Qingfeng Zhai, leaving only the most loyal Lan Fei. Of course, except for Mo Du, every protégé who was sent away received a huge amount of cash and a large amount of elixir, which was enough for them to live for a long time, which was a little compensation for Mu Xueyi for them.
Naturally, this time, the enrollment of Starlight Academy was also canceled, and even the assessment results were not announced.
Since Xiao Dan originally revealed the true face of Mo Du, Mu Xueyi will definitely drive Mo Du away, and he who acts bravely will be appreciated by Mu Xueyi, and successfully become a protégé of Qingfeng Zhai, and learn exquisite alchemy skills, you can improve the alchemy level of the Fire Wolf Country.
But Xiao Dan didn't expect that while Mu Xueyi drove Mo Du away, he also drove away the other protégés, leaving only Lan Fei and vowing not to accept apprentices in the future.
Xiao Dan was clever but was mistaken by cleverness, and he was busy in vain, and in the end he couldn't worship Mu Xueyi as a teacher, so he had to go home disappointed and return to the Fire Wolf Country far away in the Western Fantasy Continent. At that time, Tang Zixi had not returned from Shenmeng Mountain, and Xiao Dan regretfully left the Chiyan Country without even having a chance to say goodbye to this friend.
Modu has a bad reputation and is desperate. Just when he thought that he would never turn over in this life, a mysterious figure suddenly appeared in front of him.
This mysterious man frightened Mo Du with his absolute identity and strength, and put forward a condition for Mo Du.
As long as Mo can find out Mu Xueyi's secret for him, he will accept Mo Du as an apprentice and give him a place to live, and the resources he will get from now on will definitely not be less.
Mo Du was moved.
The forces behind this mysterious person are not comparable to Mu Xueyi's Qingfeng Zhai. Anyway, now that Mu Xueyi doesn't recognize himself, for the sake of his future, what is it to hurt Mu Xueyi again? If he succeeds, he will be able to turn over.
So the two hit it off, and the mysterious man generously invited the hungry Mo Du to a sumptuous meal. Once you've had your fill of food and drink, it's time to get to work.
According to the information provided by the mysterious person, Mu Xueyi never accepted the invitation of other forces to cooperate, and rarely traded the elixir he had refined. But Mu Xueyi has been in retreat for a long time, and the subsidies he receives every year from the Chiyan Kingdom are not enough to support the operation of Qingfeng Zhai.
There are still many doubts. Although there are plantations in Seifusai, the things grown there are simply not enough to support the amount of Seifusai. Obviously, someone has given a lot of money and resources for Mu Xueyi to refine the pill, and Qingfeng Zhai exists just to hide people's eyes. So who is funding Qingfeng Zhai? Who is Mu Xueyi alchemizing for? What is the force behind Qingfeng Zhai?
Finding out Mu Xueyi's secret is what the mysterious person wants Mo Du to do. The mysterious person also specially explained that as long as Mu Xueyi's secret can be found out, even if Mo Du harms Mu Xueyi's life, he will have countermeasures to help Mo Du settle the matter.
Mo Du also has a concern, Mu Xueyi is returning to the Sky Realm, and he is only the fifth level of the Spirit Sea, and he is not Mu Xueyi's opponent at all. As a result, the mysterious man laughed, patted him on the shoulder, and told him that Mu Xueyi's realm had fallen, and now it had become a triple Linghai realm. The Spirit Sea Realm is threefold, don't be afraid!
With the assurances of the mysterious man, Mo Du dared to do it.
Robbed Lan Fei to this ruined temple, and then repaired a letter to ask Mu Xueyi to come over for a visit, and a severed finger was attached to the letter. Mo Du believed that Mu Xueyi would never abandon Lan Fei's life after seeing it.
The trap is set, the bait is there, and now it's time for the prey to throw itself into the net.
When he had nothing to do, Mo Du tortured Lan Fei to pass the time. He was jealous that Lan Fei could usually get the trust and doting of his master, and he was ruthless. After cutting off one of Lan Fei's fingers, Mo Du beat Lan Fei again and was scarred and dying.
Mo Du felt that Lan Fei would more or less know some of Mu Xueyi's secrets, after all, Lan Fei had been around Mu Xueyi for a long time, but Lan Fei had a very stubborn personality, no matter how Mo tortured him, he refused to say it, and cleverly avoided the edge of the topic, pretending not to know anything, and doing everything possible to cover up for Mu Xueyi.
"Modu, you listen to my advice, don't make mistakes again...... Because of you, Master is very sad. If you let me go, I won't tell Master about this. You can start all over again, with your talents, you can't break through the world wherever you go? Why take a human life for the sake of gambling on this? We grew up together, and I don't want to watch you go down this road of no return. After being beaten by Mo Du, Lan Fei's tears that he had finally held back finally fell.
Mo Du had no compassion, he said coldly: "Lan Fei, if you still want to live, tell me Mu Xueyi's secret as soon as possible!