Chapter 177: Meet the Collaborator Again

"Father."

The twins hurried to Qi Xiuyuan's side.

Qi Xiuyuan hummed softly and said, "Be careful here. Don't be alone. You are not allowed to act alone. Do you understand?"

The twins naturally nodded obediently to show that they understood.

Just like that, two days later, something suddenly happened in the central area.

When Qi Xiuyuan, Shen Yichuan and their group arrived there, they saw several people lying on the ground, rolling around in pain, with black visible on their faces.

"Is this poison?" asked the twins.

They felt that the black on these people's faces looked a little familiar. After thinking about it, they thought of Luyin. At that time, Luyin's whole body was pitch black, and he looked similar to the current situation of these people.

Shen Yichuan thought thoughtfully: "It does look like he's been poisoned."

Lin Jiaojiao ran towards this side.

"Young Master Shen, Young Master Qi."

Shen Yichuan looked at the other person and asked, "How is it? Is he poisoned?"

"It's poisoning, but after taking some antidotes, they're not very effective."

"Oh?" Shen Yichuan thought for a moment and said, "How many people are like this?"

"At first there were only three, but in a short period of time, there are now 20, and the number seems to be increasing."

"Gather everyone together." Shen Yichuan said.

Lin Jiaojiao responded and did it immediately.

Naturally, she moved very quickly. All the poisoned people were gathered together. Now, she used her ultimate ice power to detoxify these people. Shen Yichuan was already very skilled at this.

He gathered those people together and placed them in a formation that could detoxify them. Then, when the formation started to work, he would input extreme ice power into it.

Qi Xiuyuan frowned slightly as he watched Shen Yichuan's actions. This ultimate ice power was indeed very useful, but if there were too many people poisoned, then even if the ultimate ice power could detoxify them, how much energy would it take?

Moreover, these things cannot be done by Shen Yichuan alone. He has more important things to do. If too much consumption is consumed here, what should be done with those space cracks?

Qi Xiuyuan felt that things were not going well.

The whole day that followed seemed to confirm Qi Xiuyuan's thoughts. More and more people were poisoned. Even those who had just been detoxified would suddenly be poisoned again. When investigating why they were poisoned, it was discovered that some of these people were contaminated with a powder, and it was that powder that poisoned them.

So, after being poisoned, all the people changed their bodies from the inside out. Qi Xiuyuan also took out the marrow cleansing water, diluted it and let these people soak in it. In this way, Shen Yichuan was busy for another day and finally detoxified those people.

Qi Xiuyuan's expression was not good. He looked at Shen Yichuan's tired face and said softly, "Perhaps this is the plan of the Black Hunters. They want to consume you so that the spatial rift will be delayed. My intuition tells me that while we are busy here, the Black Hunters should be doing other things targeting the spatial rift. But there is a barrier blocking them, so even if they did something, we would not know."

Shen Yichuan nodded thoughtfully, “Well, it’s possible. I’ll take a rest first.”

Qi Xiuyuan nodded and sent Shen Yichuan back to the tent.

The next morning, Shen Yichuan had not woken up yet. Qi Xiuyuan felt someone approaching the tent. Qi Xiuyuan gently touched Shen Yichuan on the face. Suddenly, Shen Yichuan fell into a deeper sleep and showed no sign of waking up.

Qi Xiuyuan dodged and landed outside the tent, and the person who came over was the ancestor of the Qi family.

Seeing the other party, Qi Xiuyuan bowed. The Qi family's ancestor quickly said, "Xiuyuan, you don't have to be polite. The poison in those people who were just detoxified yesterday has relapsed."

The Qi family's ancestor looked anxious and glanced at the tent behind Qi Xiuyuan, "Is Yichuan still resting?"

Qi Xiuyuan nodded calmly, "Well, there's no need to disturb him. Did they relapse or were they poisoned again?"

The head of the Qi family was stunned when he heard this, because he found that he could not be sure about the time.

Qi Xiuyuan snapped his fingers directly, which meant that people should keep an eye on this place. Nangong Liuyun was also here. With him and the other cultivators here, there was no need to worry about anyone disturbing Shen Yichuang in the tent.

Seeing that Qi Xiuyuan had already gone to the location of the poisoned person, the ancestor of the Qi family was stunned for a moment before quickly following him.

When Qi Xiuyuan arrived there, he saw that those who had just been detoxified were now in pain again. Their complexions and skin even looked darker.

The two cultivators who were not poisoned stepped forward quickly, "Master Qi, are you alone? Where is Master Shen?"

Qi Xiuyuan glanced at them calmly, and also at the poisoned monks who were looking over here in pain. "He's not the exclusive doctor here, and he can't save people time and time again. Those spatial cracks need to be repaired. If he wastes all his time here, will the spatial cracks get out of control and the whole army be wiped out?"

For a moment, everyone was stunned.

Qi Xiuyuan continued, "You just detoxified yesterday, and you're poisoned again. It's the same as the beginning. Did the poison relapse or were you poisoned again? If you can't protect yourself, just waiting for others to help you is unrealistic, isn't it?"

The expressions of those who were poisoned changed.

Some of the poisoned people wanted to say something, but Qi Xiuyuan said coldly before they could open their mouths: "Haven't you figured it out yet? Someone is poisoning you, and that person is among you. Or, at least, someone who can get close to you."

Many people's faces suddenly became even uglier.

"Let Master Shen save us again. This time, everyone should separate and not let anyone get close."

Some of those poisoned spoke up.

"We need to first investigate the situation with those spatial cracks. This could be a conspiracy by the Black Hunter. If he continues wasting time with you, then if something happens to the cracks, our entire army will be annihilated."

After saying that, Qi Xiuyuan left directly.

Those who were not poisoned began to investigate who had poisoned them. This situation meant that there were people in the team who were colluding with the Black Hunter Beast, which made all the monks very angry, almost to death.

The Qi family's ancestor followed Qi Xiuyuan out from the other side. As Qi Xiuyuan walked forward, he glanced at the Qi family's ancestor behind him and asked, "Grandpa, do you think I'm heartless?"

The Qi family's ancestor gave a bitter smile and shook his head. "No, not at all. How could I be so heartless? You're right. Right now, repairing the spatial rift is the top priority. We old bones have been prepared to die here. Now that we see the hope of the rift being repaired, naturally, the rift is the most important thing. It's just that I didn't die at the hands of the black hunter, but instead died at the hands of my own people. It makes me feel a little frustrated."

Qi Xiuyuan was silent for a moment before he said, "If we can't find the person holding us back, we'll keep getting poisoned again. If the ancestor really wants to help them, then we should find the person who's colluding with the Black Hunter Beast."

The Qi family's ancestor nodded, a murderous look flashing in his eyes. "Xiu Yuan is right. The most important thing now is to find the damn guy who is colluding with the Black Hunter Beast."

Qi Xiuyuan said nothing more and went to Shen Yichuan.

Half a day later, Shen Yichuan woke up.

Although he was very tired from treating those people in the past two days, this kind of fatigue was not without gain, because after waking up this time, Shen Yichuan found that his extreme ice power seemed to have been upgraded!

It turns out that this can also be upgraded.

If at the beginning, his ultimate ice power could only exert the number five, then now, he can exert the number seven, and he clearly feels that this number can still be upgraded, which makes Shen Yichuan feel happy.

Qi Xiuyuan came in directly after he felt that Shen Yichuan had woken up. When he saw the other party sitting there looking at his palm happily, Qi Xiuyuan immediately understood that the other party might have some unexpected gains.

So, Qi Xiuyuan looked over and asked, "What's wrong?"

Shen Yichuan laughed heartily, "I originally thought that I might not be able to work in vain these two days, but I didn't expect that my extreme ice power would be upgraded!"

"Upgrade?" Qi Xiuyuan raised his eyebrows.

"Yeah, if I were to receive treatment now, I would be much more relaxed. It seems that detoxifying those people is still beneficial, haha." Shen Yichuan couldn't help laughing.

Seeing Shen Yichuan so happy, Qi Xiuyuan nodded and said, "Then you have the opportunity to experiment now. Someone poisoned those people. There must be someone colluding with the Black Hunter Beast here."

"Hmm?" Shen Yichuan narrowed his eyes. "Is that really the case? At the beginning, those who had just been treated were poisoned again in the blink of an eye. I became suspicious. If this is the case, I can't always follow those people to detoxify them if I can't find them, right?"

"Indeed." Qi Xiuyuan nodded. "So, they should find the traitor themselves. We can't mess up our original plan."

Shen Yichuan touched his chin, “Those guys didn’t make a fuss?”

Qi Xiuyuan said coldly, "Why are you making a fuss? They were the ones who were poisoned. Those who weren't poisoned weren't affected. The fact that they were affected already represents a problem with their abilities. Whether such people died at the hands of their own people or in battle with the Black Hunter Beast, at least I don't think it makes any difference."

Shen Yichuan blinked, thinking that although this statement was a bit cruel, it was indeed not a problem. The cultivation of a cultivator was originally a struggle with the heavens. If they could not win, they would naturally have to pay the price, so this was really not surprising.

This is actually a matter of personal opportunity, so whether it is cruel or not, it is just like this.

Naturally, Shen Yichuan did not propose any treatment. He and Qi Xiuyuan began to observe the space cracks in the entire central area.

Soon, Shen Yichuan discovered that the problems in this central area were indeed much greater than those in the inner and outer areas.

Qi Xiuyuan stood beside Shen Yichuan, looking at him motionlessly staring upwards, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"The problem here is indeed quite serious. I need to see where to start."

Qi Xiuyuan nodded, "No rush, take your time to read it."

Shen Yichuan smiled and then started communicating with the spheres. The one that had been here the longest was definitely the gray sphere, which had been here for thirty thousand years. "Do you know where the problem started in the first place?"

"At the beginning?" The gray ball thought for a moment, then said, "Over there."

Following the guidance of the gray ball, Shen Yichuan quickly arrived at the place where the problem first occurred. Surprisingly, this was also the place with the biggest problem, because the space crack was the largest, and the black hunting beast could almost penetrate it directly.

After Qi Xiuyuan stood here, looking at the darkness above, he vaguely felt that there seemed to be a familiar breath above, and this breath made him extremely displeased.

Qi Xiuyuan thought for a while before he determined the reason for his displeasure, and also remembered the reason why this aura was familiar to him. It turned out that this aura was very similar to the aura of thunder tribulation when he fell on the road to becoming a god. At that time, he also felt this kind of aura.

For a moment, Qi Xiuyuan's gaze froze. Why was there such an aura here?

Shen Yichuan was also looking up. When he was about to say something to Qi Xiuyuan, he noticed the other party's wrong reaction and raised his eyebrows.

"What's wrong?"

Qi Xiuyuan slowly withdrew his gaze, and after a moment's hesitation, he said, "I feel that the aura above is somewhat familiar. You still remember when I told you that I fell on the road to becoming a god? My thunder tribulation at that time was very strange, and it seemed that there was also this aura then. It's a bit familiar."

"Oh?" Shen Yichuan narrowed his eyes. "Is this the aura you can sense from the crack above?"

"Hmm." Qi Xiuyuan frowned, "But I'm not sure. I don't know if it's the crack itself that gives me this feeling, or the crack's surroundings."

"Then you can feel it carefully." Shen Yichuan said.

Qi Xiuyuan nodded.

Shen Yichuan and Qi Xiuyuan arrived in the void together. As they got closer, they felt the repulsion and violence of the space crack more clearly.

Shen Yichuan pondered for a moment and said, “There is indeed a different aura here. I can’t feel anything for the time being, but… my instinctive feeling is not very good.”

Qi Xiuyuan looked at the other person, "Instinct feeling?"

"Yeah, don't we all trust our intuition the most? My intuition here doesn't feel very good." As Shen Yichuan spoke, his eyes seemed to be able to see through the crack here into another space. The other space was naturally the space where the black hunting beasts were.

Qi Xiuyuan also looked over there, and after a while, Shen Yichuan began to repair the space cracks here.

It was indeed difficult to repair this place, because he soon discovered that he had to use too much energy here, and even the two balls were not moving smoothly.

Therefore, before repairing it, some of the aura here may need to be dealt with, otherwise, this crack may be difficult to deal with.

Moreover, Shen Yichuan felt that since this was the first place where problems began to occur, there must be some special features here.

So, is the specialness of this place related to the aura surrounding the space cracks here?

Suddenly, Shen Yichuan thought of his ultimate ice power, and wondered if his ultimate ice power could be used in this place.

After all, his ultimate ice power has the ability to purify. In his opinion, this place also needs to be purified.

Shen Yichuan began to use the power of purification here. Under the influence of the ultimate ice power, he first circled out a piece of space with rules, and then used the power of space to cut it here. Then, using the ultimate ice power, a quarter of an hour later, this place was purified at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Shen Yichuan's eyes lit up, his method was indeed effective!

Qi Xiuyuan also looked over here. He watched Shen Yichuan deal with that area. Because he also knew the power of rules and the power of space, he could feel the difference in the processed space.

This ultimate ice power seems to be very useful indeed, Qi Xiuyuan couldn't help but think about it.

This busy work takes up the whole day.

That night, Shen Yichuan was also busy here, and while repairing the cracks here at night, he made some other discoveries.

For example, his ultimate ice power was surprisingly more effective at night, as if certain obstacles were much smaller at night than during the day. He didn't know if it was because of the unique characteristics of the central area or the first crack itself.

Qi Xiuyuan has been watching Shen Yichuan's actions here, just watching, Shen Yichuan didn't let him do anything. After the previous experiment, he knew that the rules here did not allow it, so Shen Yichuan could only wait and see.

On the other hand, the Qi family's ancestors and other cultivators who were not poisoned also conducted a fierce investigation this time. To be honest, after confirming that there was a spy around the poisoned person, some things naturally became much easier for them to do.

I didn't think about it in this direction before, but now, once everyone starts to really investigate, some clues can be found. After all, the person who poisoned has to come into contact with those people, right?

Therefore, the ancestors of the Qi family quickly locked onto three targets, but it was hard to say who among these three people was, or if it was all three.

At this time, someone suggested that they should just take action directly, just like they did before.

Anyway, he won't be really killed, at most he will be seriously injured. But if he is really a spy from the Black Hunter Beast, then the other party will have a fox tail that can be exposed.

Although not everyone agrees with this method, it is supported by the majority. The few who insist on opposing it will even arouse suspicion from others. Under such circumstances, this method was still used, and the final result really surprised and chilled everyone.

Because, in the end, those three people all revealed the characteristics of the black hunting beast's claws!

The three people naturally wanted to run away, but under the siege of everyone, they couldn't run away even if they wanted to.

After this discovery, the monks fell silent for a long time, as they were unsure whether other monks besides these three had been corrupted by the Black Hunter Beast. Most importantly, they simply did not understand why those people would betray humanity and cooperate with the Black Hunter Beast.

For tens of thousands of years, those people, those before them, many people who did not betray them really could not understand their choice.

The monks fell silent as they looked at the poisoned people. One of the three people poisoned himself probably in order to avoid suspicion.

They were so cruel to themselves and showed no mercy when betraying humans. Although the three of them had a bad end in the end, the atmosphere at the scene was also very bad.

When a few old guys came to see the ancestor of the Qi family, they looked at each other's old faces and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Old Qi, I know everyone is feeling disappointed, and so are we. However, there are still those people who have been poisoned over there. Can you please ask Young Master Shen for mercy?"

The Qi family's ancestor could only smile bitterly upon hearing this. "I can only go and talk about it, but I really can't guarantee what the result will be. You should also know that Xiuyuan and Yichuan are busy outside now. Let alone helping them, haha, we have always been making things worse. In this situation, I really can't be so shameless."

The others were suddenly speechless after hearing this. Before long, they had all become a burden, which made them really not know what to say.

Finally, the ancestor of the Qi family agreed to go and see the situation first.

When the ancestor of the Qi family approached the place where the space crack was located and saw Shen Yichuan so busy there, he was speechless.

Qi Xiuyuan naturally also saw the arrival of the ancestor of the Qi family, but he ignored him. The ancestor of the Qi family glanced at Qi Xiuyuan and saw that his younger generation did not pay any attention to his plan, so he could only smile bitterly.

However, when the ancestor of the Qi family was about to turn around and leave, Qi Xiuyuan finally stopped him.

The ancestor of the Qi family smiled bitterly.

Qi Xiuyuan said calmly, "I know what the old ancestor is here for. Those who are poisoned are not in danger of life for the time being. They are just suffering a little. They have all been through so much. They should be able to endure it for a few days. If they can't, it will be a matter of life and death. When Yichuan is done here, if I can go over and detoxify them, I will go."

The ancestor of the Qi family was relieved when he heard Qi Xiuyuan say this. After thanking Qi Xiuyuan on behalf of those people, the ancestor of the Qi family left.

Shen Yichuan didn't know what was happening below. By the time he had repaired most of the cracks here, it was almost dawn. As the day dawned, he also felt the obstacles here, so he planned to rest for a while.

During the day, when Shen Yichuan was in seclusion recovering, the twins came over.

"Mother and father, where's father?"

"Rest- ing, what's wrong?" Qi Xiuyuan looked at the twins.

"I just miss my father. Has he been busy all night?"

"Hmm." Qi Xiuyuan was silent for a moment. "Your father will be quite busy recently, so you should also practice hard, okay?"