Chapter 93
Jitang stood up and bowed slowly to Huanmang, calling him brother in his heart.
Huan Mang observed her from head to toe, "Who did Su Jinzhou bring with him?"
Jitang didn't look up, "Yes."
Huan Mang said nothing more and turned to enter the Dragon Lord's cave.
When they came out again, Su Jinzhou and Huan Mang's faces looked very ugly.
Ji Tang stepped forward, and Su Jinzhou seemed to remember her. "Let's each rest first."
Jitang was taken to a cave by the Qingmang people. She nodded in thanks and went in to rest.
It was not until the hour of Yin that she concealed herself and headed for the Dragon Lord's Cave.
It is true that dragons hide during the day and come out at night, but Su Jinzhou and others are just taking a rest.
During the day, Su Jinzhou would definitely come to the cave again because of the Dragon Lord's matter, so she could only choose this time to visit her stepmother.
She was very familiar with the terrain of Qingmang Yanyue Mountain and even knew the shift changes of the guards. Although it had been hundreds of years, these hundreds of years were nothing to the dragon clan.
Ji Tang walked into the Dragon Lord's cave under the moonlight. Her soul stepped out before her, and only after confirming that there was no one else in the cave except the Dragon Lord did she quickly step forward.
The Dragon Lord was breathing shallowly as he lay on the ice bed. Ji Tang could already feel the biting cold before he even got close to him.
The ice used to build this ice bed was the thousand-year-old ice that she and Huanmang had taken from the highest peak of Ciyun Snow Mountain in Xiaoshuang Province. With it, it could delay the unknown toxins in the dragon's body.
At the same time, two people were lurking silently outside the irregular circular hollow roof above the cave.
Huan Mang placed a wisp of his spiritual power on Su Jinzhou's shoulder, transmitting the sound directly into his sea of consciousness. "This is just a young cultivator in the Kaiguang period. Isn't it a waste of talent for you to use the spiritual power of the Crossing Tribulation period to hide yourself?"
Su Jinzhou: "This person is a little strange, we can't take him lightly."
Huan Mang once again stared at Ji Tang, "Do you suspect she is a Black-Cloaked Follower?"
Su Jinzhou said, "It's possible. The previous Nightmare Clan leader, Xue Mei, was being used by Qiu Runfang. Many things between them are still unclear. With the deaths of Xue Mei and Qiu Runfang, this matter has reached a dead end. I've been feeling uneasy. She's also from the Nightmare Clan. The timing of her appearance and her words and demeanor are off. We need to be on guard."
Huan Mang's eyes darkened, "If she were a Black-Cloaked Follower, I wouldn't let her leave Qing Mang Yan Yue Mountain!"
I watched him silently all night long.
Huan Mang said angrily, "My sister and mother were killed by them. If I don't kill all the black-clothed believers, I won't be able to face Ji Tang and my mother when my life ends."
Su Jinzhou frowned, "What are you talking about? Dragon Lord will be fine."
Huan Mang's eyes gradually turned red, not knowing whether it was hatred or sadness. "Look at Mother, how long can she hold on?"
The boat was silent all night long.
Huan Mang: "And Ji Tang! How many of those famous and upright sects that attacked the Nine Nether Abyss were involved with the Black-Cloaked Followers? I will never feel at ease until this force is eliminated!"
Su Jinzhou's whole body turned cold because of these words. The cold air seeped into Huan Mang, and even he had to step back to avoid it.
"Those people must die." Su Jinzhou whispered, as if this was already a foregone conclusion. "No matter whether they are related to the Black-Cloaked Believers or not, or how many people are related to the Black-Cloaked Believers, they must die."
Huanmang hesitated and asked, "Your inner demon...?"
Su Jinzhou was stained with an unreal shadow by the moonlight. He lowered his eyes and said, "It doesn't matter."
The only sound left in the air was Huanmang's sigh.
Ji Tang looked at the Dragon Lord on the bed. She was getting thinner and thinner, her cheeks were sunken, her fair skin had lost all color, and her lips were an abnormal light purple.
She felt uncomfortable and knelt beside the bed, her hand gradually approaching the Dragon Lord.
Huan Mang's pupils were extremely sharp, and he wanted to jump down directly, but was stopped by Su Jinzhou.
He asked anxiously, "Why are you stopping me?!"
Su Jinzhou said, "There is no hurry."
Huanmang: "She's too close to my mother!"
Su Jinzhou closely watched Ji Tang's every move, "You don't believe me?"
This sentence successfully stopped the anxious Huanmang. He gritted his teeth and said, "You must protect my mother."
His cultivation level was not as good as Su Jinzhou's, so he had to rely on him at the critical moment. Huan Mang always had a strong sense of self-esteem, but he had to bow down to Su Jinzhou.
Su Jinzhou gently placed his hand on his shoulder and said, "Don't worry."
Ji Tang stretched out his hand and held the Dragon Lord's hand on his abdomen.
It feels cold to the touch, without a trace of warmth from a living being.
Ji Tang moved from kneeling to sitting. She didn't care about the cold air that was trying hard to get into her clothes, and leaned against the ice bed.
stepmother.
Jitang called out softly in his heart.
She held her stepmother's hand tenderly, hoping to transfer her warmth to her to warm her up - although she knew it was futile.
She slowly lifted her stepmother's cold hand, placed it against her cheek, and then closed her eyes.
Stepmother, Tangtang is here to see you.
The expression in Huanmang's eyes changed from hatred to surprise and then to confusion. He pointed at the people below and said, "What does this mean?"
The little girl below was snuggling beside the ice bed, just like a baby bird snuggling beside its mother. That kind of dependence and attachment was too real to be fake.
Besides, what reason does she have to lie?
Unless she knew they were up there.
Huan Mang suddenly looked at Su Jinzhou.
Su Jinzhou shook his head.
Too.
Huan Mang's tense shoulders relaxed slightly. Su Jinzhou had the power of the soul in the tribulation period. Not to mention the world of cultivation, even the dragons, nightmares, demons, monsters and other races had no one who could reach Su Jinzhou's achievement.
Jitang stayed quietly by her adoptive mother's side for a long time. She didn't know her adoptive mother's current physical condition and didn't dare to investigate without authorization, fearing that she would be self-defeating and catalyze the poison in her adoptive mother's body. However, her adoptive mother's health was getting worse, and she had to know her current condition as soon as possible so that she could find a solution.
When it was almost dawn, Ji Tang put his stepmother's cold hand back to its original place, hid his figure and left.
Huan Mang frowned, "Her soul power is also at the level of the Kaiguang period. If her strength is more than that, then it is really cautious."
Su Jinzhou: "Her strength is more than that."
Huanmang: "What do you mean?"
Su Jinzhou, "She said that her foundation was damaged in the battle, her soul was severely damaged, and only a few fragments of her golden elixir remained."
Huan Mang: "Do you believe it? Then what was her original cultivation level?"
Su Jinzhou only said: "Your cultivation is very profound."
"..." Huan Mang, "Does it make any difference whether you say this or not?"
Su Jinzhou glanced at him.
Huan Mang nodded, "Yes, it really makes no difference to you, a powerful being in the Tribulation Crossing Stage." After he said that, he withdrew his spiritual power.
Su Jinzhou's spiritual power immediately reached out and placed it on his shoulder. "Try her later."
Huanmang pondered for a moment, "How do you want to try?"
Su Jinzhou: "Lead the snake out of its hole."
Huan Mang: "Don't make things worse. If my mother is hurt in the slightest, I will hold you accountable." After he said that, he pushed away the power of the soul on his shoulders and disappeared from Su Jinzhou's sight in a few flashes.
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When the sky brightened, Jitang was taken to the Dragon Lord Cave by the Qingmang people.
Su Jinzhou and Huan Mang were both there.
Ji Tang bowed slightly: "Immortal Lord, Young Clan Leader."
Her eyes involuntarily fell on her stepmother, but she quickly looked away.
Huan Mang waved his hand and said, "I called you here to ask you something."
Ji Tang remained calm and took two steps forward, "Young Patriarch, what do you want to ask?"
"You are from the Nightmare Clan, and I heard that you have 'high cultivation', so you should know someone who once appeared in the Nightmare Clan."
Ji Tang raised his eyes to look at Su Jinzhou, and seeing that he didn't say anything, he asked, "Who is it?"
Huan Mang: "Qiu Runfang."
Ji Tang's eyes suddenly became sharp, and then he immediately lowered his eyelids to hide the sharpness.
But Su Jinzhou and Huan Mang still noticed this instantaneous change.
The two exchanged glances, and Huan Mang struck while the iron was hot, "It seems like we know each other."
Jitang was so shocked that he couldn't make any expression on his face, and his face was stiff and numb.
Qiu Runfang, everyone knows it.
On the surface, Qiu Runfang was an elder who rebelled against the Wei Hai Palace. She burned down the library, killed many disciples of the Wei Hai Palace, and stole the palace's treasure, the Xuanming Sea Pearl.
But in the dark, she is one of the black believers.
This is the abyss that Jitang doesn't want Su Jinzhou to fall into.
How much does Su Jinzhou know and whether he knows about the black-clad believers is what she is most unsure of now.
She sincerely hoped that Su Jinzhou would never know the existence of the black-clad believers.
She finally suppressed the turmoil in her heart, tried her best to steady her voice, and pretended to recall, "Qiu Runfang?"
The two men's gazes were too sharp, falling on Ji Tang and piercing straight into her body.
"I have some impression that the Immortal Venerable and the Young Clan Leader are looking for her?"
Huanmang's inquiring gaze suddenly turned anxious, "Do you know where she is?"
He and Su Jinzhou searched for Qiu Runfang, but Qiu Runfang seemed to have completely disappeared from the face of the earth. They dug three feet into the ground but couldn't find him.
Ji Tang remained calm and asked again, "Why did the young patriarch look for her?"
Huan Mang paused and turned to look at Su Jinzhou.
Su Jinzhou nodded silently.
Huan Mang walked to the ice bed and said, "You have seen her too. This is my mother, the Dragon Lord of Qing Mang Nightmare Moon Mountain."
Ji Tang lowered his eyes and responded.
Huan Mang: "She is poisoned, and no one can cure her. With my mother's cultivation level, she still has enough strength to deal with this poison."
Jitang knew that when she and Huanmang came back to find Hanbing and build the ice bed, her stepmother was still awake.
Huan Mang said sadly, "But a remnant soul entered my mother's body without her knowledge. It was this remnant soul that made my mother bedridden. Now she is almost at her limit."
Ji Tang was horrified. She was silent for a long moment before asking, "Young Clan Leader, are you going to tell me about the Dragon Lord's situation just like that?"
She certainly wasn't stupid enough to think they trusted her.
Calling her over this time was clearly a test.
The fact that the Dragon Lord was poisoned was no secret; everyone knew it when they were searching the entire cultivation world for a doctor. However, the fact that there was a remnant soul in the Dragon Lord's body was even more obscure.
It is not ruled out that Huanmang was eager to save his mother, but no matter how eager he was, he still had an idea of what to say to whom.
They are weighing Jitang's value and letting Jitang make his own choice.
Should I tell you everything I know, or avoid the important issues?
Isn't this a deeper temptation?
But Jitang was also eager to save his mother.
She cared more about her stepmother's health than pretending or speaking with hidden meanings.
This time she asked directly, "Is this remnant soul Qiu Runfang's?"
Huan Mang immediately said, "Yes!"
He looked at Jitang with certainty, "You really do know Qiu Runfang!"
Ji Tang avoided his gaze and said, "I just have some impression."
Huan Mang didn't want to dwell on this, "Where is she? I must find her!"
Ji Tang shook his head, "She's dead, Young Clan Leader."
She was the one who killed him.
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