Chapter Twenty-Three: The Temple of the Hundred Gods
"Your hands!" Tang Qiqi saw that Xin Yishu's arms were covered with blue and yellow stripes, and let out an exclamation: "The martial arts of the Five Immortal Sect do not hurt the body, what kind of evil demon are you refining." β
"The evil demon is crooked?" Xin Yishu let out a cold snort: "I'm just expanding the scope of the poison I use." β
"The Five Immortals Sect only uses five kinds of poisons because the toxicity is stable and easy to control, and if you act so rashly, you are not afraid of taking your own life. β
"What if you die, it's better than laughing at others!" Xin Yishu said: "After I succeed, I will make those old stubborn regret expelling me from the school!"
"So you live here in seclusion just to practice poison arts?"
"Or else?"
"What about the residents?
"What if I ordered it, I refined so many Gu that I couldn't feed them, so I had to let them go down the mountain to forage. β
"Do you know that most of those inhabitants are old and weak, women and children, and your lives are fate, but their lives are not? β
"Vicious? Of course I'm vicious, otherwise how could I be so ruthless that I killed my little junior sister with my own hands. β
Tang Qiqi trembled with anger: "Why do you want to harm Geboshu?"
"I am higher than her in terms of qualifications and martial arts, so why should she take over the sect leader, just because she is the sect leader's daughter? I don't accept it! As long as she is dead...... As long as she's dead...... That location is mine!"
"Poisons are violent by nature, and their temperament is closely related to their owners. The leader of the Five Immortals Sect must have a stable mind and a gentle temperament in order to be able to balance strength and softness and control the overall situation. If you have a ghost in your heart, you may be used by poisons and harm the common people. You are a member of the Five Immortals Sect, how can you not understand this truth. β
Xin Yishu looked up to the sky and smiled: "What you mean is that I am vicious by nature and am not worthy of being the leader of this sect." β
"Otherwise?" Tang Qiqi sneered: "You have been sharp since you were a child, competitive and competitive, and unscrupulous in order to achieve your goals. If the Five Immortal Sect falls into your hands, I am afraid that the century-old foundation will be ruined. β
"That's what I did. But if Gboshu were in my situation, she would have done the same thing. β
"She won't!" Tang Qiqi said sharply: "It's because she is kind by nature that she wholeheartedly believes in you, the senior sister who grew up together! In the end, I don't even know how I died!"
"She deserves it!" Xin Yishu trembled: "Who made her stupid, who let her take what belongs to me!"
"To this day, don't you feel a little guilty?" asked Tang Qiqi.
"I'm guilty, I've been expelled from the school, why should I feel guilty? I've already got the punishment I deserve!"
"Stubborn, innocent. Tang Qiqi condensed a cluster of dark blue cold fire in his palm.
"Tang Qiqi, I advise you not to do it. You may not be able to beat me now, so you might as well leave yourself a whole corpse. β
"What a big breath. Tang Qiqi sneered, flew up, and attacked Xin Yishu directly: "Today I will take your dog's life and avenge Ge Boshu." β
Xin Yishu quickly dodged, put a green bamboo flute to his lips, and with a circle of sound waves rippling on the ground, snakes, centipedes, toads and other poisons crawled over in all directions.
Wen Ember drew his sword and slashed them one by one, seeing that there were more and more poisons, and the four of them gradually couldn't parry.
"Retreat!" Xiao Mu kicked away a snake beside him.
"Want to go?" Xin Yishu sneered and whistled, the bronze door of the main hall was slammed shut, and the candles in the hall swayed in the wind, most of which were extinguished.
Seeing that Tang Qiqi was beaten and retreated, Liu Xunyin pulled out the jade flute on his waist, and with the sound of the flute, the poison of the attack everywhere actually stopped in place. Xin Yishu saw that they were unmoved, and in a fit of anger, the sound of the flute became more violent, sharp and piercing. The poison could not bear it, and died of convulsions.
Xin Yishu was startled when she saw this, and she was about to escape from the top. Ember reacted quickly and followed, slashing at her leg with his sword. Xin Yishu was in pain and fell heavily on the ground.
"What kind of kung fu are you, you can actually break my snake control technique!" Xin Yishu asked sharply.
Liu Xunyin stroked the jade flute suspiciously: "I don't know, I just wanted to give it a try, but I didn't want it to work." β
"To put it bluntly, these poisons rely on discerning rhythms to move and attack people. Xiao Chumen is a famous and decent family, and Xiao Pu is naturally gentle and pure, which has the effect of calming the mind. Xiao Mu spread out his fan and said with a smile: "I think it is Miss Liu's flute sound and your flute sound cancel each other out, making it ineffective against poisons." Your ability to control poison is still shallow, otherwise you wouldn't need to borrow innocent residents to scatter Gu. β
"There is some truth to that. Tang Qiqi touched his chin and thought.
"You!" Xin Yishu was unwilling, and took advantage of his unpreparedness to hit Liu Xunyin with a palm. Wen Ember instantly blocked it with his sword and pushed it in reverse: "Are you looking for death?"
"Looking for death?" Xin Yishu laughed out of tears: "I'm not a ghost now, is there a difference between me and a dead person?"
"If you do much injustice, you will be killed. Tang Qiqi said: "It's a pity that a wicked person like you died, but I want Lagboshu to bury you." β
"Little sister, she has a good heart and won't blame me. β
"Don't deceive yourself!" Tang Qiqi rebuked sharply: "You have been ridiculed for having no father or mother since you were a child, who protected you behind you! You went mad and fell unconscious during your practice, and were thrown into the back mountain by the sect members wrapped in a straw mat, and who carried you back to take care of you! Are you worthy of taking revenge like this?"
Xin Yishu's eyes were full of tears, and she muttered, "Little junior sister won't blame me...... No......"
Tang Qiqi let out a sneer: "I will finish you off with my own hands today, you go below and ask her unjust soul to see if she blames you." β
She was about to make a move, but she saw Xin Yishu slap her chest hard, spitting out a mouthful of black blood.
"You!" Tang Qiqi walked over quickly and ripped off her coat, and the toxin spread from her heart to the top, so fast that it was incurable. Liu Xunyin pressed Xin Yishu's pulse and shook his head gently.
"I'm going to die...... and death by his own hand. Xin Yishu smiled weakly: "You Tang Qiqi, don't try to kill me." β
Tang Qiqi had tears in his eyes and turned his back wordlessly.
"Little junior sister...... Senior sister ...... As the toxin spread to her neck, Xin Yishu's face was flushed with suffocation, her hands waved, she grabbed the air in front of her in vain, and said sadly: "Senior sister didn't mean it...... Not intentionally ......"
Then he spat out a mouthful of blood and died of exhaustion. The blue and yellow streaks on her skin all dispersed, revealing a white and pure face, but it was very delicate.
"Do you hate her so much, leave the whole corpse?" Xiao Mu walked over and kicked Xin Yishu's arm away.
"The three of us...... Originally best friends. Tang Qiqi held back his tears and choked up: "That's it, just throw it here." There are so many poisons here, and she deserves to die. β
"It's just that she's dead, what about those residents who haven't solved the poison. Liu Xunyin said worriedly.
Wen Ember grabbed a few grass aunts who were hiding behind the door of the main hall and threw them on the ground: "Why do you hurt people?"
"Heroes spare their lives. They were just young women, pale and trembling with fright. Liu Xunyin felt something wrong, and pressed their pulses tightly, frowning. After a while, he looked up and said to Wen Ash, "They have death Gu in their bodies. β
"Death Gu?" Wen Ember wondered.
The purple-clothed woman kneeling in the middle burst into tears: "We were originally protΓ©gΓ©s of the Five Immortals Sect, Xin Yishu tricked us into taking the golden pill, saying that it could increase our strength and dissolve the toxins in our bodies. She is a big sister and we trust her completely...... I didn't want her to give us a trick. There are countless kinds of toxins mixed in the golden pill, and even if we are members of the Five Immortal Sect, we don't know how to resolve them. If you don't obey her orders, defect to the division, and follow here, there is only a dead end. β
"So you're going to harm those innocent residents?" Tang Qiqi asked.
"What can we do?" The girl in the middle cried bitterly: "If we don't let the Gu out to forage for food, we will be eaten and die, but who doesn't want to live?"
"Are you raising so many poisons really just to cultivate martial arts? Or are you doing something shady? Ember asked.
The women glanced at each other, gritted their teeth, and their heads were covered with fine beads of sweat.
"She's dead, what are you afraid of? Wen Ember put his sword on the neck of the woman in the middle: "Say it, we will spare your life." β
"We're just a bunch of obedient puppets. Xin Yishu is indeed refining poison, saying that it can come in handy one day. As for what she's used for, we don't really know. The woman replied in a panic.
Wen Ember glanced at Liu Xunyin and withdrew the sword from its scabbard.
"That's it, if she dies, the Gu that will be placed on you will also be invalid. Liu Xunyin grabbed their wrists and tested their pulses: "Regarding how to dissolve the dead Gu remaining in the abdomen, you should be more proficient than me. β
"Thank you, girl. With tears in their eyes, they took out the medicine bottles from their arms: "These are Gu Pills, we will take them to make amends to the residents in person." β
"Remember to cover your tattoos so that your identities are not revealed. The inhabitants hate you to the core. β
"Good. β
"What are your plans for the future?" Xiao Mu asked.
"It is a great blessing to be able to regain our free body, and in the future, several of us will support each other, and the world is so big that there will always be a place for us. β
"Don't use poison anymore, lest you reap the consequences. Liu Xunyin persuaded.
"Yes. The purple-clothed women kowtowed a few times to the four of them, packed up their clothes and went down the mountain to leave.
"Just let them go?" Xiao Mu asked, looking at their backs.
"They refine poison in a disorderly manner, and they lose three points of their own money. The Gu poison has already invaded the internal organs, and the lifespan is short. Liu Xunyin said: "It's just a group of poor people, since the culprit is dead, don't dig into it." β
"Well, let's go. Xiao Mu smiled: "It's finally solved, and it can be regarded as a good thing." β
Tang Qiqi had a sad face on his face when he left the Hundred Gods Temple, and he looked back several times.
"Go forward, don't look back. Ember whispered beside her.
"Hmm. Tang Qiqi wiped away his tears and turned away firmly.