Chapter 357 As Big as a Fingernail
Jiang Yao and Tong Niang lived in the East Guest House, next to the garden.
When Zhou Yuande went to ask for help, Jiang Yao was meditating in the yard.
The moonlight is like water, and the white hair reflects the silver light.
Zhou Yuande paused. How come his hair turned white again?
Perhaps hearing footsteps, Jiang Yao opened her eyes and looked over. Her eyes were red and gray, looking very strange.
Zhou Yuande shuddered and was about to say something when he saw his white hair turn black in an instant, and Jiang Yao's eyes returned to normal. She tilted her head and looked at Zhou Yuande with a pair of dark eyes: "What's wrong?"
Zhou Yuande calmed himself down and said, "Young Master invites you."
"Let's go." Jiang Yao stood up, tied up her loose hair, and said to the room, "No need to follow."
The room that had just been lit up fell dark again.
The two walked through the garden and entered the main courtyard through the side door.
"Master, Abbey Master Jiang has arrived."
Jiang Yao walked out from behind Zhou Yuande and asked, "What do you want from me?"
"Look at this." Xiao Jingfan gestured to Chen Xing to hand her the jar.
Jiang Yao didn't answer, just stared at it.
After a moment, she closed her eyes, as if feeling something.
Everyone looked at the jar and then at her, waiting quietly.
After a few breaths, Jiang Yao opened her eyes and uttered two words from her pale lips: "Forbidden Technique."
Xiao Jingfan glanced at her eyes, which had turned gray, and asked, "What do you mean?"
"The stuff in here—" Jiang Yao reached out, her white fingertips touching the jar, "eats people."
Everyone was shocked and couldn't help but take a step back. Even Chen Xing put the jar back on the ground.
She is not afraid of corpses, but she is afraid of human-eating creatures.
Seeing that everyone was avoiding her like snakes and scorpions, Jiang Yao explained: "I won't eat people through the jar."
Everyone thought, what if it’s not sealed properly and someone escapes?
Feng Jing wasn't that scared. He pointed at the jar and said, "There are many man-eating poisonous insects, but not many that can be called forbidden techniques. What's in the jar?"
Jiang Yao answered simply: "Beauty Gu."
"Beauty Gu? I seem to have heard Master mention it." Feng Jing looked up at the sky, trying to recall.
Xiao Jingfan actually felt somewhat familiar.
"Master Jiang, what is the use of this beauty Gu?" The one who asked the question was Chu Liuzheng. Although he was afraid, he was also really curious.
Jiang Yao tilted her head to look at her, and Chu Liuzheng smiled at her: "Can you speak?"
Jiang Yao didn't hate her and was willing to answer some of her questions.
She said, "The beauty Gu I cultivate can make young people look forever young, and restore the appearance of old people to their youth."
"Wow!" Chen Xing exclaimed, holding his cheeks. "This is so magical, wouldn't everyone want it?"
Jiang Yao nodded. Everyone did want it, but not everyone could afford it.
Xiao Jingfan finally remembered why he felt familiar.
"According to historical records, Princess Mingzhu of the Great Yong Dynasty once traded a city for a Beauty Gu from a mysterious person, solely to preserve her youthful appearance." He looked at the jar with a sigh, "I originally thought this story was fabricated by later generations, but I never imagined such a magical item could actually exist in the world."
"It's not a fabrication. That city is Yuecheng." Jiang Yao was willing to say a few more words to the person who could help her kill Yin Lanci. "That mysterious person is the first Lord of Yuecheng, Yaoji."
"Yao?" Chu Liuzheng suddenly remembered that Jiang Yao's name also had the character "Yao" in it. "Could it be that your name is related to Yaoji?"
"Yes." Jiang Yao nodded slightly. "The head of the Jiang family will choose one of the outstanding women of the next generation and give her the name 'Yao' as a token of gratitude to the late master."
Feng Jing tutted his words. "According to what you said, there are many Jiang Yaos in your family tree. How can we tell who is who?"
Jiang Yao asked back: "Why do we need to differentiate?"
Feng Jing: “…”
Anyway, he didn't want to live under someone else's name, no matter how glorious it was.
Seeing that the topic had gone off track, Chu Liuzheng quickly brought it back: "Can the Beauty Gu really make people look young?"
"Only those who cultivate it can." Jiang Yao said, "A beautiful woman withered bones, a poison can kill a hundred people. The young can enjoy it for three years, and the old can enjoy it for one year."
Lu Fei sighed, "A few years of youth have to be exchanged for hundreds of lives. No wonder it is listed as a forbidden technique."
Jiang Yao glanced at him with some inexplicable meaning in her eyes.
Xiao Jingfan asked, "You have been emphasizing the need to cultivate the Beauty Gu. Could it be that the conditions for cultivating the Beauty Gu are very harsh?"
Jiang Yao didn't answer. She squatted down and tapped the jar with her white fingers: "Open it and you'll know."
Everyone looked at each other, and Chu Liuzheng volunteered: "I'll do it—"
Before he could finish his words, he was pulled back by several hands.
Chu Liuzheng and the three people who were pulling him stared at each other.
[It's fine with Mitsuki and Chenxing, but why is the Tyrant joining in the fun? ]
Xiao Jingfan: "..."
He doesn't need to worry about this!
He loosened his grip and put his hands behind his back, his face as dark as the King of Hell.
Seeing him like this, Siyue and Chenxing both let go of their hands and stepped back.
Chu Liuzheng, facing the emperor alone, felt inexplicably weak. He pointed at the jar and explained in a low voice, "Master Jiang said so. There's definitely no danger."
Xiao Jingfan said "hmm" with a cold face, which sounded more like sarcasm than agreement.
Chu Liuzheng immediately poured a cup of hot water and handed it over: "Would you like some water?"
Xiao Jingfan: "Not thirsty."
Chu Liuzheng kept smiling: "Then let me massage your shoulders?"
Xiao Jingfan: "Not sour."
"A massage on the head?"
"Need not."
Chu Liuzheng: “…”
Why is it so hard to appease a tyrant?
etc!
Chu Liuzheng suddenly realized that it was the tyrant who was angry, not her, so why was she trying to coax him?
Xiao Jingfan was still waiting, but when he didn't hear any sound for a long time, he couldn't help but look over there.
Chu Liuzheng lowered his head slightly, using the stick as a wooden stake, and had no intention of speaking again.
Xiao Jingfan:?
Xiao Jingfan: "..."
The others watched quietly until Feng Jing suddenly broke the delicate atmosphere: "Let me do it."
He squatted down, reached out to open the lid of the jar, and neatly removed the seal.
Everyone: “…”
Chen Xing and Si Yue sighed together. Look, this is the man who can’t get married.
Feng Jing sniffed as he unpacked it, muttering, "It doesn't stink."
Didn’t Uncle Fu say there was a foul smell?
When he mentioned this, everyone's attention returned and they all sniffed.
Apart from a bit of fishy smell, it actually doesn't stink at all.
Could it be that they guessed wrong and there is no body here?
"It's open." Feng Jing untied the black cloth that sealed his mouth, put it aside, and excitedly called everyone to come and see.
Except for Xiao Jingfan who was stopped by Zhou Yuande and Lu Fei and was not allowed to move forward, everyone else came closer to take a closer look.
Du Qian held the oil lamp and shone it towards the entrance of the altar.
There was nothing but white in the jar, which was filled with snow-white bones. There was not a single piece of rotten meat or dirty blood. It was surprisingly clean.
"There's nothing but bones." He stretched his neck and picked up the knife to stab it in.
Jiang Yao glanced at his hand holding the knife quietly, which made Du Qian feel a chill on his back, and he instinctively put down the knife.
"There seems to be something on this bone." Chu Liuzheng's eyes narrowed into slits as he pointed at the bone near the jar's mouth. "It's also white, about the size of a fingernail."
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