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“Oh, beat him…” Bai Roushuang made a mistake and felt tragic for nothing. After thinking about it, she felt no psychological burden at all about beating Lu Beichen, so she readily agreed, “No problem!”
The group went out with a fierce look on their faces.
Lu Beichen was waiting at the foot of the mountain, lost in thought. When he saw Xu Shulou appear in his sight, his expression was complicated: "I thought you wouldn't come to see me. After all, that poison... You are very brave."
Xu Shulou covered his chest and said softly, "You are the brave one."
Hmm? Is the poison starting to work? Bai Roushuang gritted her teeth and moved closer to Lu Beichen, ready to strike at any time. Lu Beichen was completely unaware of her sinister intentions and smiled at her innocently.
"You are the brave one," Xu Shulou continued to say to him, "You know that to avoid the poison, I can just kill you, right?"
Lu Beichen's face froze: "Shulou..."
Under normal circumstances, he believed that Xu Shulou would never kill someone easily, but the other party had just killed Fan Yang a few days ago. What if he wanted to kill him now...
He didn't want to be implicated by that bastard Fan Yang.
Xu Shulou comforted him: "Don't be nervous, I don't have such plans for the time being."
Lu Beichen looked at her expression and just breathed a sigh of relief, then he heard her calmly continue: "When I can't find anyone to help me get rid of the poison, it won't be too late to kill you later."
"..." Lu Beichen almost shed tears, cursing Fan Yang and Fan Zhi, the two old bastards, in his heart, how dare you call this a love poison? How dare you say that this is to humiliate Xu Shulou? You are afraid that I, the eldest disciple of Lingxiao Sect, will not die quickly enough, right?
He really couldn't respond to Xu Shulou's words. After thinking for a while, he temporarily avoided the topic and talked about his purpose: "I owe you an apology, but I swear that I had no prior knowledge. When I first saw Fan Zhi bringing the little girl back, I was against it, but they promised me that they would never hurt the child, but only wanted to use her to exchange for Uncle Zhang... I didn't expect things to develop to this point. I don't even understand why they suddenly attacked you. But I believe that after I report this to my master, the master will definitely punish Elder Fan Zhi severely."
Xu Shulou nodded: "I believe you."
Seeing that Bai Roushuang was ready to make a move behind Lu Beichen, Xu Shulou added with a smile: "This is not the work of the love poison. I believe that Senior Brother Lu is not that kind of person now."
Lu Beichen is not a bad person by nature. He is a disciple of a famous family and has had a smooth career without any exposure to any shady practices. He cannot and does not need to do such a thing now.
He was even a little naive, and he firmly believed that Lingxiaomen would severely punish Fan Zhi for this.
This is also the reason why Xu Shulou is not yet able to kill him with a single blow of the knife.
After hearing this, Lu Beichen's face was slightly moved. He lowered his head and continued to talk about the information he knew: "Elder Fan Zhi... has taken her spirit back to Lingxiao Sect. When I return, I will report to the sect. This time, it was not your fault. It was Fan Yang who started it first. But from the look on Fan Zhi's face, I'm afraid she hates you to the core. You must be careful of her."
"I understand." Xu Shulou always appreciated the kind reminders from others, so he didn't say anything like Fan Zhi couldn't beat him. He just said softly, "Thank you."
"I asked Elder Fan Zhi about the love poison, but she didn't know how to cure it. She only said that it was very potent and could make you, cough..." Lu Beichen wisely changed his words in time, "It could make the person poisoned lose his dignity like a dog. She also said that Fan Yang got it by accident and could only infect but not cure it."
Xu Shulou nodded. She didn't regret killing Fan Yang on the spot, so she didn't feel anything after hearing these words.
Even if Fan Yang could cure the poison, she would not regret killing him.
"Then I'll go back first." Lu Beichen didn't want to hang around in front of Xu Shulou any longer. What if he didn't want to kill her just now, but now he said something she didn't like to hear, and she suddenly wanted to kill him? After saying what he should say, he nodded to her and Bai Roushuang and said goodbye, "See you again in the future. I'll trouble you to take care of my junior uncle for the time being."
"Okay." Xu Shulou clasped his fists.
Bai Roushuang looked at Lu Beichen's back, feeling a little complicated.
Seeing him walk away, everyone immediately surrounded Xu Shulou. They held their breath nervously during the conversation, not wanting to miss any of her expressions: "Senior Sister, how is it?"
Xu Shulou shook his head: "He doesn't have much influence on me, don't worry."
"Really? Senior sister, please don't be so stubborn."
Everyone's hearts sank when they heard Lu Beichen say "It can make the person poisoned by the Gu lose his dignity like a dog". Now seeing Xu Shulou's nonchalant expression, they didn't dare to believe it.
"It's really okay."
Xu Shulou pressed his chest.
I could control my overwhelming hatred back then, so naturally there is nothing I cannot control about love now.
She waved the folding fan in her hand and smiled: "What are we having for dinner today?"
———
Xu Shulou finally pushed his junior sister down from the top of the green mountain as he wished.
Bai Roushuang looked at her nervously: "Senior Sister will definitely catch me, right?"
"No," Xu Shulou said with a straight face, showing extreme coldness, "I've fallen in love with Lu Beichen, and now I regard you as my love rival. I just want to kill you immediately."
"What? Senior Sister, don't joke like that...Ahhhhhh!" Bai Roushuang screamed and fell down.
Xu Shulou stood on the top of the mountain leisurely and looked at her: "Fly quickly! If you can't fly, I won't catch you."
Bai Roushuang fell like this, watching Xu Shulou's face getting smaller and smaller in her sight. She struggled a few times in the air, but the other party remained motionless, with no intention of flying over to save her.
Her eyes were blurred with tears. At the critical moment of life and death, she mobilized all her strength to control the sword and tried her best to unleash her potential. The next moment, she found herself standing firmly on the sword, hovering in the air.
She looked at her feet in surprise and curiosity, and moved nervously. The sword trembled. She was so scared that she immediately stood still, fumbling for a long time before she flew up smoothly, circled twice in the air, and carefully controlled the sword to fly back to the top of the mountain.
"Senior sister, wuwuwu, senior sister," Bai Roushuang hugged Xu Shulou's thighs with tears and snot as soon as she fell. She was extremely sad and wronged. "I want my old sister to come back, wuwuwu, I want the senior sister who will protect me, I want the senior sister who will buy ice cream to coax me, wuwuwu... I hate that bitch Fan Yang so much... wuwu, how about we just go and kill Senior Brother Lu..."
"Junior sister, why are you crying? Are you scared?" Song Ping's slightly concerned voice sounded behind her, "Who did you just say you were going to kill?"
Bai Roushuang looked back at him with tears on her face: "Second Brother? Why are you here?"
"I've been waiting at the bottom of the mountain. My sister said she was worried that you wouldn't be able to fly, so she asked us to wait at the bottom to pick you up."
“…”
Jiang Yan and the others also flew to the top of the mountain and saw Bai Roushuang crying while hugging her senior sister's thigh. They were all slightly shocked: "What's wrong with you, little junior sister? You are crying so sadly. Who offended you?"
Bai Roushuang looked up at Xu Shulou in a daze. The latter smiled and said, "Sorry."
"Senior Sister!" Bai Roushuang was so angry that she started to roll up her sleeves.
Xu Shulou had already swooped out as swiftly as a flying swallow: "Want to hit me? Come and chase me."
"You!" Bai Roushuang stepped on the sword and chased after him without saying a word.
She was so intent on catching up with her senior sister that she forgot how cautious she had been. She just felt the sword move as her heart moved, and rushed out smoothly like flowing water.
In the blink of an eye, several high mountains passed by her feet. She flew very high, almost having a bird's eye view of the clouds. After soaring in the air for a while, Bai Roushuang realized that she had overcome the problem of being afraid of flying a sword alone at high altitude so easily.
Xu Shulou suddenly turned around, and Bai Roushuang didn't have time to stop, so she bumped into her. She took the opportunity to hug her junior sister in the air: "Flying with a sword is more about feeling than relying on skills."
“…”
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Xu Shulou coaxed her, "Okay, good junior sister, calm down."
Bai Roushuang blushed: "I...I'm not angry with you."
"real?"
"Yes! I know Senior Sister is doing this for my own good."
Xu Shulou laughed, lowered his head and gently bumped her forehead: "Be good, I won't scare you anymore."
Bai Roushuang's pretty face turned even redder. It was strange to say, but there was a kind of people in this world whose charm seemed to have nothing to do with gender, and even less to do with love. Just by standing there, people could not help but look up at them.
Xu Shulou held her and fell down. Bai Roushuang then realized that they had flown to a stream deep in the mountains.
There was a gurgling stream beside the mountain creek, and there was no one around. Even the little deer that was drinking water wasn't afraid of people. When it saw Xu Shulou approaching, it probably thought that she was also going to lie down by the stream to drink water, so it politely made room for her.
Xu Shulou hesitated for a moment, but decided to let it down. He touched its antlers, turned to his junior sister and said, "This little deer is about to develop spiritual intelligence."
Bai Roushuang just felt strange: "I have never seen a deer demon before."
"After all, demon cultivators are rare. It is naturally more difficult for them to cultivate than humans. It is difficult to cultivate into a human form, and it is even more difficult to cultivate into an immortal."
Bai Roushuang suddenly asked: "Senior Sister, do you really want to become an immortal?"
Xu Shulou tilted his head to look at her: "Why do you ask this suddenly?"
"I just feel that, with such extraordinary talent, Senior Sister will surely achieve enlightenment and ascend to heaven soon," Bai Roushuang bit her lip, "I will definitely miss you a lot by then."
"Silly boy, why worry about something so far away?" Xu Shulou thought for a moment, "Actually, I don't have any special pursuit of becoming an immortal."
"Why?"
"The human world is pretty good, but who knows if there are Dongpo pork and beggar's chicken in the fairy world?"
Bai Roushuang laughed: "Can I return to the mortal world after becoming an immortal?"
"There has never been any trace of immortals in the mortal world," Xu Shulou shook his head, "I guess this road to heaven is only for going there but not for returning."
Bai Roushuang made a thought-provoking guess: "Maybe the fairyland is too good, so they don't want to return once they go there?"
“…”
"Senior sister!" Song Ping's voice came from afar, "The reply from the master has arrived!"
Bai Roushuang, who had been silent for a moment, stood up and pulled Xu Shulou up with her: "Senior Sister! Go back and read the letter quickly. Maybe it contains a method to cure the poison!"
"I know, don't get excited..." Xu Shulou was already dragged out by his junior sister, "Wait, is this how I taught you to fly a sword?"
———
Xu Shulou unfolded the letter, and the others huddled together behind her to read it.
The letter only stated two things.
Regarding the matter of Zhang Baihe, the leader told them to bring him back to Wuchen Island first; regarding the matter of the poison, the leader expressed regretfully that there was no one on Wuchen Island who was good at using poison.
Xu Shulou was not surprised by this. The famous and righteous sects always looked down on Gu Shu, thinking it was a low-level method and few people practiced it. Even if there were occasional people who practiced it, they would hide it secretly, fearing that others would know about it.
Fortunately, the head of the sect also pointed out a way for her - there was an unknown small sect in Miaojiang that was the best at poison, but ordinary people could not find a way to approach them. However, the biological mother of the eldest son of the owner of Xuanwu Tower was once a member of this sect, so maybe she could go and ask him.
"Xuanwu Tower?" Everyone looked surprised. "Is it the Xuanwu Tower that threatened to destroy the Hehuan Sect?"
Jiang Yan thought for a moment, "I did hear that the first wife of the owner of Xuanwu Tower had a mysterious background and acted viciously, so the owner didn't like this son very much."
Hehuan Sect Master Luo Hongtang was sitting nearby, not lowering himself to read the letter with them. Upon hearing this, he spoke up, "The person you are looking for is called Gao Ming. It was he who injured his meridians while saving someone from my sect. The Xuanwu Tower Master used this as an excuse to attack the Hehuan Sect. The person from my sect he saved is called Le Ling. She has been following Gao Ming to take care of him in order to repay her kindness. If Gao Ming refuses to see you, go find her. Maybe she can say a few words for you."
"What a coincidence," Xu Shulou closed the letter, "It seems that I have to go to Xuanwu Tower."
Song Ping nodded: "It is important to remove the poison. Why don't we split up into two groups? I will take a few junior brothers and Uncle Zhang back to Wuchen Island, and you take..."
Bai Roushuang raised her hand very actively: "Take me with you! I'll accompany you, Senior Sister!"
Song Ping was startled by the positive look in her eyes: "Well, okay, you accompany me..."
He glanced at Bai Roushuang again, feeling a little worried: "After all, Senior Sister has been poisoned, so let's take two more people with us."
Xu Shulou shook his head: "Although Lu Beichen said that Fan Zhi has returned to Lingxiaomen, if she refuses to give up and turns back halfway... you and your group will be in the most danger."
Luo Hongtang interrupted: "Don't worry, I will send someone to escort you all and ensure that Fellow Daoist Zhang is safely delivered to Wuchen Island."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but Xu Shulou looked at Song Ping solemnly, and the latter nodded: "I understand, I will take Uncle Zhang back to Mingyue Peak directly, and let several junior brothers take turns to guard him, without anyone else's hands."
Luo Hongtang looked at Xu Shulou again: "Miss Xu, I will also send more people to escort you."
"No need," Xu Shulou refused. "If the Hehuan Sect sends many people into the Xuanwu Tower's territory, won't it be seen as a declaration of war against them?"
"Then I will go with you personally."
"How dare you leave Hehuan Sect for so long?" Xu Shulou looked at her. In the storybook, it was only after Luo Hongtang passed away that Xuanwu Tower dared to launch a large-scale attack on Hehuan Sect. Her importance to the safety of this place was self-evident.
These words touched Luo Hongtang's heart. She really couldn't let go of the Hehuan Sect, but she was also worried about Xu Shulou: "You just cooperated with our Hehuan Sect to hunt down the demon a few days ago. If they get the news, they will definitely not be happy with you. This matter was caused by the Hehuan Sect, and I must not sit idly by."
Xu Shulou comforted her: "It's okay. Even if the people in Xuanwu Tower treat me badly, this matter cannot be entirely blamed on the Hehuan Sect."
"Why?"
"As for Xuanwu Tower, I haven't mentioned it to anyone yet, but I actually had some disagreements with their Left Protector a few years ago."
Luo Hongtang was stunned, thinking that Xu Shulou was just saying it casually to comfort her. She felt a little warm in her heart. Just as she was about to say something, she heard her continue to count on her fingers: "There are also the Third Miss and the Fifth Master, the biological children of their building owner, a guest elder, and what are the names of those who are responsible for recruiting new disciples? Oh, yes, they are called deacon disciples, and their sect-guarding spirit beasts..."
Xu Shulou counted and felt a little guilty: "In fact, after thinking about it carefully, I think my cooperation with the Hehuan Sect to hunt down the evil demon is the thing they care least about."
The feeling of being touched in Luo Hongtang's heart had disappeared: "How did you offend even the spirit beast?"
Xu Shulou felt that he was really innocent in this matter, and he straightened his back a little with confidence: "Who knew that it was born so cute, but didn't want to be touched?"
Luo Hongtang was already numb, and suggested: "Why don't you change your appearance?"
“…Good idea.”
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