Chapter 56 The Childhood Betrothal of a Miao Girl (Twenty-Six)
"Are you Xiaozhi?" Zhao Xiran arrived at Yushan Experimental Middle School, asked around, and finally found Xiao...
"Are you Xiaozhi?" Zhao Xiran arrived at Yushan Experimental Middle School, asked around, and finally found Xiaozhi.
Xiao Zhi was chatting and laughing with several Miao girls, looking very cheerful. When she saw Zhao Xiran, whose attire was obviously different from the others, she said goodbye to the others and went to the shade of a tree with Zhao Xiran.
"Yes, that's me. And who are you?"
“I’m Jiang Yiqing’s roommate. She and Shui Mingsheng asked me to come and take you back.” Zhao Xiran said as she dialed the phone.
Jiang Yiqing's voice came through the phone: "Xiaozhi, could you please come back for a while? Mingsheng and I have something to discuss with you."
Xiaozhi said, "Okay, Sister Yiqing."
Zhao Xiran had the teleportation talisman given to her by Jiang Yiqing, and she immediately teleported with Xiao Zhi to the room she rented off-campus.
She sat on the sofa, and Zhao Xiran brought her a glass of water. Xiaozhi held the glass somewhat uneasily.
A short while later, the doorbell rang. Zhao Xiran opened the door, and Jiang Yiqing and Shui Mingsheng walked in.
Xiao Zhi looked at them with surprise and delight.
After not seeing them for a few days, she noticed that her sisters looked somewhat serious, as if they had encountered some major problem.
Jiang Yiqing and Shui Mingsheng also sat on the sofa. They first chatted with Xiaozhi about school matters, and then Jiang Yiqing said, "Xiaozhi, we may have encountered an enemy, so we'll have to trouble you to stay here for a while."
“I promise you, I will resolve this matter as soon as possible, and then you can go back to school,” Shui Mingsheng said.
"I'm fine," Xiao Zhi said with a smile. "I know you guys must be doing something amazing, and I would never want to hold you back."
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"Sect Master, I have something to report to you."
The door to Tiantongyuan opened, and Li Shi walked in.
"Li Shi, it's you. What do you want?"
Li Shi told Wu Xing his speculation. The fact that Xiao Zhi was taken away deepened his suspicions. No, he was almost certain that Wen Qing was Shui Mingsheng.
"She has such abilities, and she's just a young girl who has just become the chieftain, isn't she?"
“But now she has become a Gu Master on par with you.” Li Shi thought that if the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman will benefit. He had to shift all the blame onto Wu Xing and make Shui Mingsheng turn against him.
Xiao Zhi has been taken away, so who can keep them in check? Xia Yi has tree poison, so forget about her. What about Xin Fang?
"Sect Master, you can find out about this by asking Elder Xinfang. She knew about it but didn't report it, and her intentions are despicable."
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"Xinfang, you lied to me too, isn't that a bit much?" Inside Tiantong Courtyard, Wuxing urgently summoned Xinfang back and asked her if she knew anything about the White Emperor's Dream Gu.
Xin Fang said she didn't know. At this point, the True Word Gu didn't react obviously. But when Wu Xing changed the way he asked the question, asking, "Is there anything you're hiding from me?" Xin Fang also said no. At this point, the True Word Gu started circling anxiously.
Xinfang knew that Wu Xing possessed some powerful, unknown Gu worms, but based on this statement alone, she couldn't tell whether he was bluffing her.
Xinfang insisted, "Master, everything Xinfang said is true."
"Is it true?" Wu Xing stood up. "Then why did the Truth Gu say you were lying! Xin Fang, how dare you betray me! Have you forgotten who made you the Grand Elder of Miao Jiang!"
Wu Xing poured the flames of the Crimson Jade Emperor Gu into the Truth Gu, then used his palm to blast it into Xin Fang's body, saying, "If you don't tell the truth, these Jade Emperor flames will continue to burn you until your body is charred and torn apart! Xin Fang, as the number one Gu healer in Miao Jiang, you have the Ice Silkworm King Gu protecting you, but can you withstand my Jade Emperor flames?"
Xin Fang's body slammed against the gate of Tiantong Temple. She vomited a mouthful of blood as she leaned forward. Even with the medical Gu protecting her body, the flames were too domineering. She felt as if she had entered a raging inferno. In just a quarter of an hour, the karmic fire generated within her body would transform into a tangible flame and burn her entire body. Even a great immortal could not save her life.
Seeing Xin Fang being treated this way, the Gu Masters who rushed over couldn't help but plead for her: "Sect Master, Xin Fang hasn't done anything wrong, how can you be so cruel?"
"She has made so many contributions to our Miao region, are you just turning a blind eye to it all?"
"What do you know?!" Wu Xing usually pretended to be kind, but at this critical moment, he had no choice but to use his full strength: "The White Emperor's Dream Gu has actually shaken the position of my Crimson Flame Emperor Gu! Position, Gu techniques, this is why I stand at the top of Miao territory! Would you just watch someone climb into your position and then applaud and congratulate them?!"
Bai Mei and the others stared at him in astonishment. Of course, they also wanted to compete for the relics, but they didn't seem to have such a strong drive. They hadn't thought that this was a cruel game where whoever came in first place could dominate everything.
Clearly, Wu Xing acknowledged this and decided to win by any means necessary.
"The Saintess's treasures have long been inherited!" Wu Xing tried to wake these fools: "The first layer of treasures appeared in the giant pit of that monument ridge. Just that one time created a Wen Qing who appeared out of nowhere! No, she is Shui Mingsheng! You don't understand what power is, what strength is!"
Wu Xing's words jolted everyone awake. Indeed, his speculation was quite reasonable. The relics possessed such absolute power that no one could stand by and watch someone else take them away.
Bai Mei and the others were no match for Wu Xing, while Li Shi had already used his influence to gather his own team. As for Xu Shou, he was by no means an ordinary person! Only by joining forces could they fight against these people, not to mention Wen Qing, who had been hiding in the shadows all along!
"Xinfang, are you still unwilling to tell the truth?"
Now, not only Wu Xing, but everyone else glared at Xin Fang fiercely, disregarding their past friendship, and asked her, "Shui Mingsheng is Wen Qing, Xin Fang. You officiated at her wedding, so you two have been in cahoots all along, haven't you?"
When Xinfang saw the name "Mengming", she immediately realized that Wen Qing was Shui Mingsheng.
But she could never say this truth. Even if they spoke of it so confidently, she would not admit that she was willing to sacrifice herself for it.
“Just use my Gu worms. I have the ‘Soul-Searching Gu’,” a Gu master stepped forward and said. “It’s the easiest way to interrogate someone about hidden things, because memories don’t lie.”
Xin Fang was hit by the soul-searching technique and vomited a mouthful of blood. The most vivid memory they saw was of attending Shui Mingsheng's wedding. At the wedding, she drank the blessing wine and took the initiative to help Shui Mingsheng remove the curse. Jiang Yiqing said to her, "Elder Xin Fang, we would be very happy to receive your blessing." They saw that Xin Fang wrote in her casebook that she wanted Jiang Yiqing to become the next successor of the medical Gu master.
However, no matter how hard they searched, they couldn't find any memories related to the Bai Di Meng Ming Gu. Whenever a figure seemed to emerge in Xin Fang's memory, it was forcefully suppressed by her own consciousness. As a physician, she possessed a stronger mental fortitude than anyone else, and she had long known about these insidious Gu worms in Miao territory, and had taken precautions and preparations accordingly.
"Xinfang, you really have deep feelings for these two girls, but what's the use of denying it?"
"Better to kill one innocent person than let a hundred guilty people go free," Wu Xing said.
Xin Fang's consciousness began to tremble with fear. At that moment, Wu Xing laughed loudly and said, "It's them, it's definitely them!"
"In two more hours I will be able to inherit the second layer of the legacy. Then I will kill them. How can they fight me?" Wu Xing laughed wildly, looking up at the sky.
Just as Xinfang was in unbearable pain, a giant hand suddenly reached out from Tiantong Courtyard. The hand was as white and slender as a woman's and grabbed Xinfang.
All the onlookers saw was the Soul-Searching Gu and the True Word Gu mixed with flames falling off her body, and then being firmly grasped by another giant hand.
"What's this?"
Suddenly, the Tiantong Temple was completely dark, and no one could see anything, but a hand could be seen moving freely.
"Xinfang has been taken away!"
"It's alright." Wu Xing waved his hand and said, "This only confirms that Shui Mingsheng is indeed Wen Qing."
Xin Fang, still in shock, saw Shui Mingsheng and Jiang Yiqing through a huge white door.
"Elder Xinfang!" The two came to her side with concern. Jiang Yiqing immediately bought some medicine from the mall to treat internal injuries and stabilize her mind, and fed it to her.
After taking the medicine, Xinfang felt a little better. Despite her serious injuries, she still blamed herself, saying, "I never thought I would be such a burden to you all. I'm so sorry."
Shui Mingsheng said, "You have suffered because of us."
"But I haven't helped you at all."
“You helped us break the curse on me,” Shui Mingsheng said. “Elder Xinfang, we are now stronger than before, so it is only right that we protect you in return.”
"Those are real beasts." Xin Fang's face was still red with anger. "I don't know how they found you by following your scent. What are we going to do now?"
"Now that we've been exposed, we don't need to worry about going to school anymore," Jiang Yiqing said, clearing the entrance to the dormitory. "Let's go to Teacher Xia's place to lay low for a while."
Staying inside the Gate of Daylight is actually the safest place, but time doesn't flow outside; it's just an escape from reality. The relic will appear in two hours, and they must hold on until then, no matter what.
"By the way, how did you do that?" Xin Fang was also a little curious. In the Tian Tong Academy, where there were so many experts and the barrier was so strong, how did that giant hand descend from the sky and refine the True Word and Soul Searching Gu in an instant? The strength it showed was no less than that of Wu Xing.
Jiang Yiqing said, "This was truly a critical moment. After Mingsheng obtained the first layer of the legacy, he was able to use the Holy Maiden's divine power once, which is how he saved you."
The two exchanged a glance, realizing they had indeed been pushed to the limit. After learning that Elder Xinfang had been taken away, Shui Mingsheng wanted to mortgage the White Emperor Dream Gu to the system to obtain supreme power. However, with their spiritual power waning, it would be difficult for them to redeem the White Emperor Dream Gu. In their desperate situation, Shui Mingsheng suddenly awakened the power of the Thousand-Year Saintess, although this power completely disappeared after she used it once.
"It's actually the power of a saint..." Xin Fang exclaimed with admiration, "As expected of a saintess of a thousand years, all the Gu masters of today must be no match for her."
"If it weren't for the sudden burst of power, I really don't know what we would have done." Shui Mingsheng also began to blame himself: "I dragged you all into a dangerous situation. It was my oversight."
“Mingsheng, luck is also a kind of strength. Besides, how do you know it’s not the Holy Maiden protecting you?” Jiang Yiqing hugged Shui Mingsheng’s waist and comforted her. “Moreover, in my opinion, it’s very strange that those people are targeting you like this.”
"Yi Qing, why do you say that?" Both of them looked at her. Indeed, they also felt that they had done it perfectly, but when Wu Xing exposed them, they also felt that they must not have done it perfectly, which was why someone had found a loophole.
“Instead of doubting yourself, you should question the enemy,” Jiang Yiqing said. “Just like I have a system that can help me a lot, perhaps the enemy also has a secret accomplice?”
"As expected of you, Yi Qing." Shui Mingsheng felt her spirits lifted again, and she could forge ahead once more: "I will definitely be stronger than I am today, and I will definitely repay them tenfold, a hundredfold, for what they did to Elder Xinfang!"
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