Things seemed to be going too smoothly. Xue Lingxiu prepared the antidote and handed it to Yun Xian. Yun Xian walked over to the bedridden wealthy businessman Liu and said absentmindedly, "Big Liu, take the medicine."
Mr. Liu always felt that the tone of this gangster's speech was a little strange, but he had already confirmed that this person was trustworthy and had someone test the poison, so he decided to drink the medicine immediately.
Sure enough, the effect was immediate and I was able to get out of bed and walk around quickly.
Xue Lingxiu was quite gentle and kind to the patient: "How are you feeling now? If you feel any discomfort, let me know as soon as possible."
"I'm fine now," said Liu Fushang eagerly. "I even think I can do a set of Five Animal Exercises... Ouch!"
Half an incense stick later, Liu Fushang got out of bed and lay back in bed because of a back sprain.
Yun Xian received the spirit stones and the store deed amidst Miss Liu's thanks, and walked out of the Liu residence, still immersed in thought.
No, no, it's too easy.
Feng Ye asked, "Yun Xian, do you want to rent this shop?"
"I'm not renting it anymore. Qiankun City is in the Northern Territory, and I won't be coming here often." Yun Xian stroked his chin and said absentmindedly, "Brother Xue mentioned earlier that an old lady who repairs shoe soles has been squeezed out by the Sword Sect. Let's give her the shop deed."
As the words fell, everyone gasped.
Yun Xian stopped and asked inexplicably, "What are you doing?"
Seeing everyone's expressions of disbelief, she felt a little unconvinced. "I've already said it, I'm not greedy. I just like collecting shiny things, like gold, silver, and spirit stones."
Qi Zhiye asked, "Are you a crow?"
"..." Yun Xian said silently, "You are a monk, not an assassin. Since your mind is not upright, you should act more uprightly. Can you please not suddenly appear behind others all the time?"
Ji Rongxue said, "That's right."
Yun Xian: “Ah!!!”
Yun Xian was frightened, but she was not angry, because Ji Rongxue not only brought a bounty of 30,000 spirit stones allocated by the Body Refining Sect, but also brought good news.
"Liu Xu told me privately that Liu Liu seemed even more stupid after being knocked unconscious by Su Chi all night." Ji Rongxue said, "Now he goes to the toilet at the exact time of the morning hour every day."
"Ah? He must have eaten so much delicious food that he still needs to go to the toilet." Monks don't need to do this for normal meals unless there are too many impurities. Qiao Lingshan was puzzled. "Then going to the toilet on time is also good, isn't it?"
Ji Rongxue: "Wake up at 7:00 PM every day."
Everyone: “…………”
Why was the little corner suddenly filled with some indescribable smell?
"Thanks to your assistance in this matter," Ji Rongxue said frankly, "My sect cultivates the body, not the mind. Honestly, I don't really like to think about things. It would be great if everything could be solved with force."
Yun Xian said: "Really? We are of the same faith!"
Feng Ye said weakly: "There is a difference between being able to do something and wanting to do it."
Xue Lingxiu: "Stop scolding her. Does she want to?"
"But I still feel that this matter went a little too smoothly." Yun Xian pretended not to hear, resting his chin on his hand as he pondered, "We can say that Liu Liu was born with a bad brain, but Fang Fei clearly had such evidence that could overturn everything, and yet we took it away so easily."
Everyone had already felt something was amiss.
"It's impossible for someone who seeks fame and reputation like this to suddenly have a change of heart." Xue Lingxiu frowned and said, "Could it be that something unexpected has happened?"
Qiao Lingshan continued, "It was a major change that made him stop caring about all this. He was quite impatient when he chased Yun Xian away. Did you guys notice that?"
Although everyone felt that Yun Xian's poor move would make him impatient if he replaced Master Mingguang, they still felt that what Qiao Lingshan said made sense.
Qi Zhiye sat silently in the corner. Suddenly, there was some movement outside the window, and he straightened up alertly.
"Qi Zhiye, there's something." Yun Xian turned around and said, "I saw a paper lantern like this in Liu Liu's room. It had words like 'never suffer' and 'immortality' written on it. It might be related to the anti-Buddhist incident that Master Mingguang is investigating."
Qi Zhiye didn't seem very surprised and just nodded.
It seems that he has acquired a lot of information in recent days.
Everyone in the group was thinking about their own things. At this moment, the familiar sound of clappers came again. A new storyteller appeared, and the opening line was the same as usual: "Today, let's talk about Yun Xian, the leader of the four regions!"
Yun Xian: “…”
Sure enough, the next thing was the same old story. Something about "vicious and ruthless" and "deeply scheming" suddenly struck Yun Xian, who said, "Right. I haven't gotten back at the Blade Sect for framing me yet."
"I'll help you." Ji Rongxue said, "Are you going to destroy the Sword Sect?"
"I told you that you and Qi Zhiye should have a lot in common..." Yun Xian shook his head, waggling his fingers, and said gravely, "No. These are not strong enough."
Destroying the sect wasn't enough? What else do we need?
"There's no such thing as the most despicable, only more despicable." Yun Xian smiled sinisterly and said, "Don't try to clear yourself up, but slander others!"
The next day.
The crowds were outside early in the morning, watching the excitement, their heads crammed together, all trying to get to the front.
Someone was curious and patted the person in front of them on the shoulder, "What's going on? What are you looking at so early in the morning?"
"There's something interesting to watch!" The man in front said with a look of delighted delight, "I didn't expect that the Sword Sect, which looks so reputable and upright, could actually be so extravagant in private!"
In the crowd, a charming man with fox ears sat slumped on the ground, his tail swishing behind him. He was dressed rather lightly, tears welling in his eyes. He said aggrievedly, wanting to accept but also to refuse, "No, Elder Liu definitely doesn't think that way. He won't abandon me. He said he loves me! Even if he finds a Taoist partner, he'll always have a place for me in his heart!"
If he had scolded her in public, it might not have caused such a stir. However, one woman couldn't stand seeing this vixen so obsessed with love, and said angrily, "You still like him?! He's just playing with you and doesn't want to take responsibility at all! Bah! He's even the Sword Sect Elder!"
"No, he has nothing to do with the Sword Sect." The fox demon was startled and quickly avoided looking: "I didn't say he was from the Sword Sect, I didn't..."
Everyone understood it at a glance.
"I understand. I completely understand. Who else in this place is surnamed Liu? The Sword Sect is so powerful that they wouldn't dare to say anything when they bully a little demon!"
"It's okay. We will seek justice for you today!"
"Young man, could you please tell me which Elder Liu it is? There are over a dozen elders in the Sword Sect, and every wrong has its perpetrator. How can one person's actions bring anger upon the entire group? Why don't you just say his name openly?"
The fox demon was silent for a moment, his eyes showing three parts of brokenness, five parts of fragility, and two parts of unwillingness to look back. He stammered, "All..."
"What?! Did I hear that right?!"
"Oh my god!! The world is going downhill!! The world is going downhill!!!"
"What a rotten bunch! Disgusting! There aren't many good guys with the last name Liu!"
"No, it's not the elder's business." The fox demon quickly defended himself: "In fact, it's more about Young Master Liu... Ah! I let it slip!"
"What?! Even Liu Shi, the former Young Master, actually..."
"The Blade Sect is truly hopeless. It's rotten to the core!!"
“…”
Liu Liu finished tidying up the bed and came down, his face dark blue. Just as he walked onto the street, a banana peel flew out of nowhere. Someone groaned, "Scumbag!"
The plan had already gone awry. Someone had snatched the antidote away. He was already fretting over it, and was also being sprayed with confusion. At this moment, someone else rushed to his feet and said nervously, "Elder! Something's wrong, Elder!"
"What's the hurry?" Liu Liu was afraid that he would speak too quickly and forget what he had said before, so he said, "Just say it if you have something to say!"
"Last night and this morning, people in over a dozen of our shops have been finding food in their bowls." The man clearly knew he was being rigged, but he couldn't find the culprit. He despaired, "Finding bugs is one thing, but someone just found a slipper in their sliced noodles!!! Isn't this a joke?!"
"What?!" Liu Liu couldn't believe his ears: "Which house? Take me there!"
The noodle shop where the incident occurred.
Yun Xian, wearing a new disguise, stood in the middle of the noodle shop holding the half-broken slipper and said, "You bunch of Sword Sect members, why are you humiliating me like this? A few days ago, a friend of mine found a cockroach in his food here, and I didn't believe it. You dared to put bugs in your noodles yesterday, and today you dared to cut noodles with your feet. I don't dare to imagine what you are going to do tomorrow!"
"Sir, are you alright?" the steward said with a forced smile, "No matter how you look at it, these slippers aren't ours. That's not how you extort money!"
The others murmured and thought that this man was just fooling around.
"Oh? Really?" Yun Xian remained calm in the face of danger and said, "If you are truly so innocent, why not let everyone check the kitchen to see if anyone is wearing these slippers!"
The manager's expression suddenly changed.
There were those exploited laborers in the kitchen, and even baskets of flower petals. How could he dare let anyone see them?!
"What? You don't dare?" Yun Xian said indignantly, "What have you hidden in there that no one can see? It turns out that the Sword Sect is still determined to destroy Qiankun City!"
The others didn't believe it at first, but seeing the guilty look on the steward's face, their brows gradually furrowed.
No one had ever asked to see the kitchen before. What was the point of watching something as technically inexpensive as knife-cut noodles? But now the manager was being secretive. Didn't that just confirm that something was going on?
"No wonder I felt something was wrong..."
"I said that the Sword Sect is not so kind."
The steward's face turned ugly, but when he saw Liu Liu coming from a distance, he was overjoyed, "Elder——"
Yun Xian curled the corners of his lips.
At this moment, a table of guests suddenly covered their throats, their eyes widened, and they fell to the ground, making a hoarse sound: "This...this side..."
The person opposite him cried out in surprise, and rushed over with tears in her eyes: "My dear! My dear, what's wrong with you? My dear! Have you forgotten the vows we made to each other? Have you forgotten the hard times we went through? How could you bear to leave me like this!"
Liu Liu: "...This can obviously be salvaged!!"
Without further ado, the guest spat out a mouthful of blood into the air, then tilted his head and stuck out his tongue: "Almost. Dead."
"Ahhhhhhhh!!!" The guest opposite cried loudly, tears streaming down his face. "My dear!! We have known each other since we were three years old. You have such a tragic life. Your grandfather died when you were eight, and your father followed in his footsteps when he was only six. Both of them died young. You fought on your own to get to where you are now, but because of this... because of the Sword Sect! You left me just like that! I can't accept it!! I can't accept it!!!"
Liu Liu was speechless: "I can't accept it! What the hell is this!!!"
Everyone was so frightened that they hurriedly checked their bowls to see if there was anything in them. Yun Xian was quick-witted and flicked an ordinary flower seed into the bowl on the next table. The man immediately grabbed it, picked it up, and said seriously, "Really?! What did they put in there?!"
"Not only does the Sword Sect produce a lot of scumbags, but they also do these things?"
"It's so scary! Go away, go away!"
Qiao Lingshan sat across from Yun Xian. The two looked at each other for a moment, almost triggering laughter. They quickly took emergency shelter. Qiao Lingshan turned away and said in a voice transmission: "Where did Miss Ji hire such a superb actor?"
"I don't know." Yun Xian looked at the person on the ground, who was acting like a corpse very well. "Go back and ask her to tell me the channel. Maybe I can use it."
"Um."
Amidst the complaints, the crowd dispersed. At this moment, a woman who had been sitting quietly in the corner suddenly raised her head and spurted out a stream of dark red blood again!
"What?? Still coming??"
"Did they poison the noodles? They're harming people indiscriminately!!"
The woman raised her head and spurted blood, and now she slowly lowered her head. Her face was covered with spots of her own blood, and there was sticky blood dripping down the corners of her lips.
But she was smiling.
A heartfelt, gentle laugh, even one that looked like a kind of insane joy. Then, in front of everyone's shocked gaze, her expression suddenly changed, and she opened her mouth in pain—
From her blood-red throat, flesh and blood, like a living thing, slowly crawled out. It was covered with blood vessels and blue veins, and was still stretching and beating slightly.
The flesh and blood fell into the boiling noodle soup, instantly dyeing the soup bloody. With a flash of golden light, the pieces of meat turned into powder and disappeared without a trace.
Amidst the screams of the crowd, she smiled brightly once more, looked toward the sky, and murmured something devoutly:
"The three realms are like a burning house, in purgatory the Buddha appears. All the people in the world are empty, only I do not suffer."
Feng Ye was almost frightened by this scene and fainted, so he could identify it as real blood: "... Yun Xian, she?!!"
"..." Yun Xian frowned and said, "This isn't an actor. Quick, save him!!"
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