Chapter 246: Collusion
() Burning, weakness, dizziness, tearing.
He Tianyao stumbled all the way out of the dungeon. Although he escaped from danger, he paid a terrible price. His eyes were blurry, his ears were roaring, his mouth and nose were bleeding, and his liver and gallbladder were split.
The old man in the mask claimed that He Tianyao had been poisoned by his newly developed poison, but He Tianyao was not aware of when the old man in the mask was poisoned. Out of the secret passage, He Tianyao groped to the table, picked up a cup of tea that had already been cooled, and splashed it on his face. However, the temporary coolness is only a drop in the bucket. He tried to use his power to force drugs, but it was also in vain. The strange poison developed by the master of immortal cultivation could not be easily forced out.
Taking advantage of the gap when his vision was slightly restored, He Tianyao opened the door and rushed to the courtyard. The oncoming wind and cold rain seemed to lessen the burning pain. The fairy sword was broken, and he could only escape from Chiri Peak on foot. As he walked through the courtyard and was about to enter the back door of the Xihe Temple, a hand suddenly appeared from behind his back and grabbed him by the shoulder.
He Tianyao's heart sank, his attention was distracted because of the poisoning, and he didn't notice that the pursuers were coming behind him. He struggled, but the hand that grabbed him didn't move. "Don't panic, I'm not from the Red Sun Vein!" the man behind him whispered.
It's a female voice, and it seems to be friend but foe.
"The poison in you must be dealt with immediately......" As soon as He Tianyao turned around, the woman sprinkled a ball of medicinal powder in front of him, and he immediately fell asleep groggily.
......
A pungent smell of herbs penetrated his nose, choking He Tianyao's throat itching, he sat up and coughed repeatedly.
"Where is this?" he came to his senses, and immediately looked around wary: a simple thatched hut with only a wooden bed, a long table, and two cupboards. The cabinets, on the long tables, and even at the head and foot of the bed were filled with bottles and jars of all sizes, and in the middle of the table there were several mortars and piles of powder spread out on paper.
This is the first feeling that the grass house gave He Tianyao.
The pungent smell of herbs just now came from outside the window. He Tianyao tiptoed out of bed and came to the window to peek out. Surrounded by woods, there was only a small open space on which a crucible furnace had been erected, and a woman was sitting on the ground with her back to the window, gently fanning the fire at the bottom of the pot with a cattail fan.
She was dressed in a plain gray shirt and had short hair. For some reason, He Tianyao felt that the back seemed a little familiar.
The woman had already noticed that He Tianyao was looking at her, and asked without looking back, "Are you awake?"
This is the second time He Tianyao has heard the woman's voice, but unlike the previous time, He Tianyao is refreshed and energetic at this time.
The familiar voice made He Tianyao stunned, and immediately shouted ecstatically: "Sister Qingyu!"
He rushed out of the grass hut and hugged Hua Qingyu tightly as he got up with a smile.
"Sister Qingyu, I really miss you!" He Tianyao was so excited that tears flowed out.
"I'm also worried about you," Hua Qingyu said with a smile, "You are really, you caused such a big danger when you met again after a long absence, if I hadn't been prepared, I'm afraid your life would not be able to be saved!"
"You have cured my poison?" He Tianyao asked.
"Although there is nothing major for the time being, there are still some sequelae, let's go into the house and talk about it. ”
"Good. But...... Sister Qingyu, what kind of medicine are you boiling? That smell is really ......" He Tianyao rubbed his nose and made an embarrassed expression.
Hua Qingyu laughed: "That's just a pot of stinky soup, if you don't smoke you, you won't wake up, right?"
"This ......" He Tianyao's eyes widened in surprise.
"You and I met unexpectedly, let this fragrant fragrance help us. ”
Hua Qingyu spread a cloth on the bed and poured two glasses of water: "There is no tea in the wilderness, only dew mountain springs, let's just take a break!"
"How can you pay so much attention?" He Tianyao sat cross-legged, raised his glass and drank it all, and then asked, "Sister Qingyu, why did you cut off your long hair?" I almost didn't recognize you. ”
"I'm living in seclusion here, and my long hair is inconvenient to take care of, so I just cut it off, isn't it good to be so refreshing?" Hua Qingyu smiled, "I was just thinking about what you would say to me when you woke up, but I didn't expect it to start a conversation with my hairstyle." ”
"Hehe......" He Tianyao touched his head, "There are too many things I want to talk about, but I don't know where to start!"
"Let's start with your adventure. What's the situation in the dungeon?" said Hua Qingyu.
"There are a total of ten cells in the dungeon, including A, B, C, and D. Ao Xue and Ling Shuang were locked in the innermost cell of the Zodiac cell, and one person was also imprisoned in the other cell C, and the other eight cells were all darkly lit. ”
Hua Qingyu frowned.
"Oh, Qin Aoxue and Qin Lingshuang are the twin daughters of Xiaomin and Senior Brother Qin. Xiaomin and his wife entrusted their two children to me, but I put them in prison......"
"Xiaomin has children?" Hua Qingyu exclaimed, "Then you sneaked into the Red Sun Vein late at night to save those two children?"
"yes. Then what are you going to Chiri Pulse for? Could it be that you came to save me on purpose?" He Tianyao remembered that Hua Qingyu had just said the words "unexpected encounter".
Hua Qingyu shook her head: "I suspect that someone in the Red Sun Vein is doing evil, so I went to find out the situation, but I inadvertently saved you." You first talk about how Ao Xue and Ling Shuang were arrested. ”
He Tianyao recounted the ins and outs of the matter in detail.
"With your ability, wouldn't it be over if you got rid of those three wicked people on the spot? You seem to be a master, and you still leave the two children so recklessly!" After Hua Qingyu heard this, she blamed He Tianyao with dissatisfaction.
He Tianyao said helplessly: "Alas, I already regret it a lot. At that time, I was just afraid of alarming the two children and didn't want them to see the bloody scene, but I didn't expect that Qian Qiu would be so unscrupulous and insidious as to take the two children as hostages, which would make me angry! If Xiaomin and Senior Brother Qin knew, I didn't know how to explain to them. ”
"We must find a way to get them out. "Hua Qingyu said.
"It's not easy to talk about! You don't see it, I almost lost my life! I eavesdropped on the roof at first, and there were only two voices in the room, Zhuo Qingfeng and Qian Qiusui, and after sneaking into the dungeon, an old man wearing a mask suddenly appeared, and his strength was amazing, and I was not sure of winning a single battle with him!" He Tianyao recalled the vicious fight in the dungeon and was still afraid for a while.
"Taking Aoxue and Lingshuang hostages is to lure you to the rescue, there is a perceptual auxiliary array in that courtyard, and all movements after you enter are under the control of the arranger, and that old man deliberately kept silent to lure you deep into the dungeon. Their purpose should be your giant sword, right?" Hua Qingyu speculated.
He Tianyao nodded: "That's right." The old man in the mask gave me three days to hand over the giant sword, otherwise he wouldn't give me the antidote. Fortunately, when the poisoning master meets the drug expert, he would never have expected that the strange poison he developed would be solved by others, ha. By the way, Sister Qingyu, didn't you also enter the courtyard at that time?
Hua Qingyu replied with great certainty: "No, I have my own way to enter the magic circle without letting them know. That old man is actually lying to you, with his temperament, he can only poison people, how can he make an antidote?"
"Listen to your tone, do you know that old man in the mask?" He Tianyao asked.
"Of course I know, and you know it. That old man was the original Poison Refining Sect Master, Peng Xinwei. ”
"It's him!"
"Ever since the dragon clan launched the Demon Beast Rebellion, Peng Xinwei seemed to have disappeared. Do you still remember the confrontation between my master and the master who was expelled from the sect in the Hall of Morality?" Hua Qingyu refers to the fact that the Golden Immortal Sect Master "Wu Suying" was recognized by Hua Qianxue as Ying Suwu.
"Yes. He Tianyao said, "Listening to Shi Niang, she was stabbed by Sect Master Ye on the spot. ”
"At that time, she used a strange poison called 'Chaoshen San' in a vain attempt to assassinate the masters present, but she was relieved by the master who had prepared for a long time. Since 'Chaos Scattered' is a secret poison that must not be leaked in my vein, Master concluded that it would be difficult to research and create it by Ying Suwu alone. Thinking that she and Poison Refining Sect Master Peng Xinwei are double cultivators, this matter is not difficult to explain. ”
Peng Xinwei ...... After disappearing for so many years, it turns out that he is still doing evil!" He Tianyao said angrily, "If Sect Master Ye hadn't killed Ying Suwu immediately, but had followed the vine to touch the melon......"
"Hmph, think about what Ye Shenrong did in the fairy and demon war. The reason why he was in such a hurry to solve Ying Suwu was probably inseparable from that incident. Don't forget, the Poison Refining Sect and the Tianyun Sect belong to the same Xianglong County, and the two bad sect masters are simply the same dog, embarrassed and treacherous. ”
Speaking of the fairy and demon battle where they lost many companions, they couldn't help but feel a wave of sorrow in their hearts, and the two were silent for a moment.
"Oh! I forgot! Second Senior Sister is still in Chiri Peak!" He Tianyao suddenly patted his head and bounced up from the bed, "No, I have to rush back immediately!"
"Don't worry!" Hua Qingyu tugged at his sleeve, "I already told her when I took you out of the Red Sun Vein." You, why are you still so flustered! If you hadn't happened to run into me this time, you would have been in danger!"
He Tianyao smiled and said, "Thank you Sister Qingyu for saving your life...... By the way, what did you mean when you said that there were some sequelae? I didn't feel anything uncomfortable!" He Tianyao said as he moved his limbs and bones.
Hua Qingyu pointed to the small bronze mirror on the opposite wall: "You can take care of it yourself." ”
He Tianyao came to the mirror suspiciously, and he was so frightened that he gasped: his face was full of scars, some were dark black blood scabs, some were freshly born new meat, and his face was like a flatbread full of sesame seeds, which was extremely uncomfortable to look at.
"Tsk, it seems that it is not possible to do it without a face covering, just such a face, you can't scare one or two people when you go out at night?" He Tianyao touched his face and laughed at himself.
"Oh, don't worry, the blood scab will fall off in a few days, and when the new flesh gradually darkens, your handsome face will come back. Hua Qingyu's comforting voice came from behind.
He Tianyao turned around and asked, "Sister Qingyu, Peng Xinwei said at the time that this was a strange poison that he had newly created, and there was no one to solve it except himself, I don't know how long it took you to make the antidote?"
"To make an antidote, you need to know the many ingredients of the poison and guess the ratio between the various ingredients, so it takes longer to make the antidote than to develop the poison. The poison created by Peng Xinwei this time is indeed very powerful, and it took me three and a half years to prepare the antidote. "Hua Qingyu said.
"What? three and a half years?" He Tianyao exclaimed, "Have I been in a coma for so long? Peng Xinwei gave me only three days!"
Hua Qingyu smiled slightly: "Definitely." You've only been in a coma for a day and a half. Peng Xinwei never expected that when his poison had not been successfully developed, I would already start to configure the antidote. ”
"And how did you know that he was working on poison? How do you know what its raw materials are?
Some?" He Tianyao was even more confused.
"This is going to start after I left the Taiqing Sect. Hua Qingyu patted the edge of the bed, motioned for He Tianyao to come and sit down, and began to slowly recall the past.
After the end of the Immortal Demon War, the Seven Great Sects were reorganized into the Qinglong Sect according to Zhu Honglie's intentions. Li Yuanxiao, Yu Ruijiang and Hua Qianxue were all killed in the battle, He Tianxiao and Xiao Liying died, He Tianyao was taken away by the Sword Immortal, Zhu Xiaomin quit the sect and returned to the world, so Hua Qingyu also had the idea of leaving the Taiqing Sect. Although Han Mingfei and Tang Junhe kept it again and again, considering that his cultivation was inseparable from various poisons and medicinal materials, and he had lost the relationship between Yu Ruijiang and Hua Qianxue, Hua Qingyu was unwilling to ask Taiqing Sect for it again, so he went out to practice alone.
She transferred the inheritance treasure of the Huajun vein, the Qiankun Eight Kings Ding, to the Valley of Forgetfulness one by one. The Forgetless Valley that had been submerged by the flood was already in a depression, most of the poisonous woods, poisonous flowers, poisonous weeds, and poisonous insects had been drowned, and a lot of poisonous stones had also been washed away by the flood, making it no longer suitable for cultivation. Hua Qingyu had no choice but to bury the Qiankun Eight Kings Ding in a secret place in the valley, and then go to find a suitable place to cultivate.
Poisons and medicines are already rare, and it is not easy to collect, how can there be a suitable place for cultivation in the whole world? Hua Qingyu thought about it and set her target at a place at the southern end of the Wuling Mountain Range, the Seven Poison Gardens of the Poison Refining Sect.
The Seven Poison Garden, which covers the seven mountain peaks, is the foundation of the Poison Refining Sect. Although some poisons were destroyed by the heavy rains that arose from the dragon clan at the beginning, the mountain peaks are no better than the valleys and will not accumulate water, so they are fundamentally dependent. Later, the Poison Refining Sect was also included in the Qinglong Sect as the second largest sect in Xianglong County, but no matter what, the Seven Poison Gardens could not be moved along with it, how could other immortal cultivators allow the Poison Refining Sect to raise poisons in the Eight Great Mountain Regions? Therefore, Peng Xinwei, the leader of the Poison Refining Sect, ordered the closure of the Seven Poison Gardens, and in order to prevent the poisons from leaking out and causing trouble to others, he simply used the formation to block the Seven Poison Gardens, and only occasionally sent a few disciples to take care of them.
After Hua Qingyu came to the hometown of the Poison Refining Sect, he found a mountain peak next to the Seven Poison Garden and lived in seclusion. Although the Seven Poisons Garden is not as good as the two of Wuwu Gu poison and medicine, it at least solves the problem of "poison".
Han Mingfei and Tang Junhe guessed that Hua Qingyu might return to the Valley of Forgetfulness, and they also went to look for her, but the valley was empty, so they didn't know about Hua Qingyu for many years.
In this way, Hua Qingyu quietly retreated beside the Seven Poisons Garden for more than twenty years, until a few years ago, Peng Xinwei, who had been silent for a long time, reappeared in the Seven Poisons Garden.
Peng Xinwei came to get poison materials.
Half out of curiosity, half out of vigilance, Hua Qingyu paid attention to the materials that Peng Xinwei had taken. Because she had been infiltrating the Seven Poisons Garden for many years, Hua Qingyu knew the distribution and number of its poisons well, and she knew what Peng Xinwei had taken after a glance.
The material is nothing more than to make poison, but judging from the poison taken by Peng Xinwei, it seems that it is not as simple as quenching the poison to the sword. Perhaps because it was not proper to refine poison in the Blue Dragon Sect, Peng Xinwei stayed in the Seven Poison Garden from time to time to refine something. Hua Qingyu secretly monitored Peng Xinwei's every move, while figuring out his intentions.
After a long period of cultivation, Peng Xinwei's cultivation is already very high. But fortunately, Hua Qingyu did not waste time, and his cultivation was not low. In addition, the Seven Poison Garden has always been disgusted by other immortal cultivators, and few people approach, so Peng Xinwei has never found that anyone is watching him in the dark.
It was supposed to be a precautionary move, but there was an unexpected gain. After a long period of observation, Hua Qingyu concluded that Peng Xinwei was developing a new type of strange poison, otherwise with his level of drug production, there would be no need to stay in the Seven Poison Garden for so long.
It's nothing to develop a new poison book, the Poison Refining Sect is the same as Hua Jun's vein, it needs to borrow poison to enter the Dao, and the person who can make poison is Peng Xinwei, who is not too good at Hua Qingyu's letter, so you need to keep an eye on it. Anyway, Hua Jun has a double cultivation of poison and medicine, in order to prevent Peng Xinwei from poisoning people in the future, Hua Qingyu began to develop an antidote, and the right is to cultivate.
Sure enough, the antidote really came in handy. Because it was an antidote prepared by speculating on the test, there was still some trouble when it came to detoxification in Tianyao, but it was no longer a problem for Hua Qingyu, who had superb medical skills.
After listening to Hua Qingyu's description, He Tianyao praised gratefully: "Sister Qingyu, it's good that you are careful, otherwise I would be really unlucky this time." The Poison Refining Sect has always had a very bad reputation, and Peng Xinwei is a vicious corner, and he will definitely not give me an antidote after forcing me to take out the Juque Sword. Coincidentally, how do you know they're going to harm me? Could it be that we have telepathy?"
"I said it, I didn't go to Chiri Peak that night to save you, I was worried that someone would do something wrong and find out the situation, which was originally different from Peng Xinwei's development of strange poisons, but I never thought that Peng Xinwei was also involved in doing evil. Zhuo Qingfeng, Qian Qiusui, Peng Xinwei, the three of them are in cahoots and smell the same. "Hua Qingyu said.
"Could it be that you have heard some news?" After He Tianyao asked, he suddenly realized, "Ah, is it for the person in the C-shaped cell?"
Hua Qingyu nodded solemnly: "From the situation you described, it is inferred that Zhuo Qingfeng and Qian Qiu are persecuting him, and Peng Xinwei is testing poison with him......"
"Just in case he escaped, he also cut off his hands, feet and limbs, it's just too cruel!" He Tianyao gritted his teeth angrily, "As an elder-level figure of the dignified Red Sun Vein, he actually does such a degrading thing!"
"It's called 'justifying the means to the end.'" That person must have a secret that made Zhuo Qingfeng and Qian Qiu crazy, and besides, I suspect ......" Speaking of this, Hua Qingyu suddenly stopped, his upper teeth gently biting his lower lip, and his brows furrowed.
"What do you suspect?" He Tianyao asked.
"That poor man, I'm afraid, is an acquaintance of ours. Hua Qingyu said word by word.