Yuan Qi searched for a long time but couldn't find a secret room or hidden compartment, so he concluded that there really wasn't one.
Bai Youhui helped her search the house, and in no time the house was turned upside down as if it had been ransacked.
Yuan Qi, seeing how familiar Bai Youhui was with finding things, mocked him: "Those who know you know you're the young master of the Bai family, but those who don't might think you're a professional robber. The way you know the way around, it's like you've been doing it for years."
Bai Youhui chuckled: "When I was a child, I was naughty, and my father would always punish me by making me kneel in the ancestral hall. After a while, I would hide food in the ancestral hall and I was never caught. I know best what adults like to check, and I can always find unexpected places to hide food, so I never went hungry when I was punished by kneeling."
Bai Youhui stood in front of the dressing table, examining each bottle and jar one by one. He actually found a jade bottle about the length of a finger. This was not a box for rouge and powder, and it looked quite suspicious. He excitedly took it over to show Yuan Qi: "Look at this!"
Yuan Qi's face lit up with joy; this really was a soul-nourishing bottle.
Xiao Zhen was trembling inside. He had heard the two talking for a long time, but he didn't dare to make a sound for fear of being discovered by them.
Today his physical body died, and he thought his life was over. Unexpectedly, Kongling said that it would be more convenient for ghost cultivators after he died. He told Kongling to let him cultivate in this soul-nourishing bottle and find him a physical body when the time was right.
It was unexpected that Yuan Qi and Bai Youhui, the young masters and ladies from wealthy families, would engage in such petty theft.
Yuan Qi opened the jade bottle and, sure enough, saw Xiao Zhen inside.
"Fifth Prince, I've come here specifically to see you off. A bad person like you who has no bottom line and doesn't care about the consequences deserves to die ten thousand times."
Even after becoming a ghost, Xiao Zhen couldn't let go of his princely demeanor. He solemnly reprimanded Yuan Qi: "How dare you! Which prince hasn't done a few shameful things? What I did is nothing! Don't hold a grudge against me. You have no idea what Xiao Yi did. If you knew what he did, you would definitely want to kill him too!"
Bai Youhui knew he was changing the subject and begging for mercy, so she asked him, "Tell me, what grudge do you have against Bai Fujun that you want to plant a life-giving elixir for him? My Bai family has never made things difficult for you in your private affairs, how can you treat us like this?"
Xiao Zhen disagreed with Bai Youhui's point of view, and snorted, saying, "The Bai family has been targeting me in court quite a bit. Their support for the Crown Prince is an attack on me! What's wrong with me teaching the Bai family a lesson?"
Judging from his tone, Bai Youhui knew he had done more than just Bai Fujun: "Was it you who stole our Bai family's fortune?"
Xiao Zhen chuckled: "I know about this, but I didn't do it. Your Bai family has offended someone powerful, and you don't even realize it, yet you keep courting death. You're getting into trouble yourselves, and you're trying to shift the blame onto others? Fools!"
Yuan Qi wanted to let him out to speak, but it was really inconvenient for him to be inside the jade bottle: "Come out and talk."
Xiao Zhen knew he could feel somewhat safe inside the bottle, but once outside, he would be at Yuan Qi's mercy: "I'm not going out! I'm not stupid, I'm not going out."
Bai Youhui was eager to know who was plotting against the Bai family, so he asked Yuan Qi, "Do you have a way to get him to tell the truth?"
Yuan Qi released a tiny bit of Red Lotus Karmic Fire from her fingertip, just a tiny flame the size of a grain of rice. She placed her finger at the mouth of the bottle and said to Xiao Zhen, "See that? Even if you don't come out, I have ways to deal with you. This Soul Nourishing Bottle is not a refuge. To be honest, who wants the Bai family to suffer?"
Xiao Zhen felt the temperature of the fire rising higher and higher. Even curled up at the bottom of the bottle, he could feel the terrifying threat of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire. That temperature wasn't just about burning flesh, especially since he didn't have flesh anyway. That temperature could scorch the soul.
Yuan Qi, outside, sent the Red Lotus Karmic Fire into the Soul-Nourishing Bottle, and asked gloatingly, "Will you talk or not? If you don't, I'll make your soul disappear immediately."
"It's my father and the Imperial Preceptor!" He felt his soul being scorched and immediately blurted it out.
Bai Youhui was not surprised at all by this answer, after all, there weren't many people who could touch the Bai family.
Bai Youhui mocked him: "Look at you, so pathetic. You're supposed to be a prince? Bah! People like you should be scattered to the winds. Keeping you around is just a disaster."
He continued, "Why plant a living tomb on Bai Fujun instead of someone else?"
Xiao Zhen said arrogantly, "Naturally, it's because I'm healthy, lucky, and smart. I'm also the next head of the family. To be honest, I'm planning to possess Bai Fujun's body!"
"You bastard, how dare you! Seventh Sister, kill him!" Bai Youhui knew that Xiao Zhen was utterly wicked. He didn't care whether he had any grudges against someone or not. As long as it was beneficial to him, he would do it without any bottom line.
Yuan Qi directly burned Xiao Zhen with the Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
The Soul-Nourishing Bottle also turned into powder.
Bai Youhui also found a lot of talismans and silver notes in another box, and took them all away.
When the two left the ethereal room and arrived at the Sanqing Hall, they discovered that the paper figures of Yuan Qi and Bai Youhui had been captured by the people of Wuji Palace, and Kongling was interrogating them.
Yuan Qi chuckled and snapped his fingers, turning the two people who were bound hand and foot into paper figures.
Kong Lingqi threw down the whip in his hand: "Damn it, search quickly, their real people are definitely here, and who knows what bad things they might be doing."
Her first thought was of her room, and she pulled out a teleportation talisman and immediately disappeared from the spot.
She teleported to her room and found it in complete disarray, as if it had been robbed. The valuable pills and the talismans given to her by her master were gone.
A line of large characters written in ink was left on the ground: "Thank you for the gift."
"Ah—Yuan Qi, Bai Youhui, I'm not finished with you!"
She drew her sword and charged out, while Yuan Qi and Bai Youhui had already left in their carriage.
On the carriage, Yuan Qi categorized Bai Youhui's bottles and jars, distinguishing which were highly nourishing pills and which were poisons, and thoughtfully marked them with cinnabar on the bottles. As for the talismans, Yuan Qi happily explained to Bai Youhui how to use them.
"I've gotten so many good things, how about I share half with you?" Bai Youhui opened the bag, letting Yuan Qi choose whatever he wanted.
Yuan Qi looked down on those pills and talismans, saying they were not as good as the ones she refined. However, she did not say that. These pills and poisons were already rare and valuable items for ordinary people.
"I don't want it, I can do it myself, you keep it."
Bai Youhui said, "Then I won't be polite. Oh my, I really didn't expect to get such good stuff today. Look, there are teleportation talismans, immobilization talismans, teleportation talismans, and Five Thunder talismans and explosion talismans. I'm rich! I'm rich! I don't have to be afraid of anyone anymore."
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