Chapter 378 I'm Going to Find Someone
Xing Chungang and Zhong Lishan met at Cang Shu's farmhouse. Upon hearing the news, they were both somewhat surprised. Just then, Kong Yiyi's voice came from outside: "Where are Yuezhen and Cang Shu now?"
“We haven’t heard from them since they entered the Medical Clan’s Trial Grounds.” Xing Chun looked somewhat anxious. “Has she gone mad to do something like this?”
"Find the person first. Where is Nian Qiuyan?" Zhong Lishan said calmly.
Kong Yiyi's expression was also not good: "I just can't find him."
"Go to the Communications Institute to find out the specifics, and ask the medical family." Xing Chun spoke quickly as he walked out, picking up the wind-listening ruler to shake people.
Kong Yiyi also walked out: "I'm going to ask what happened to the Nine Capital Guards during the medical trial."
Zhong Lishan frowned. He had come to find Mei Liangyu, but Shi Yuezhen and Cang Shu had intercepted him halfway. Mei Liangyu should be alright, but if they didn't find Shi Yuezhen, she was definitely doomed.
Since Jiang Shulan has issued a warrant for the arrest of the entire academy, it means that not only academy disciples can attack Shi Yuezhen, but also the instructors of the Thirteen Realms, and even other deans and saints.
On the other side, Wei Ren and the others in the dormitory, after hearing the entire academy's report, couldn't help but look at Li Jinshuang sitting at the table.
“You must have been to the clinic quite a few times,” Wei Ren said. “I remember that during that period, Shi Yuezhen was the only one seeing patients at the clinic.”
Li Jinshuang looked somewhat hesitant; she couldn't quite believe that Shi Yuezhen would do such a thing, and that she herself would fall for it.
Xue Mushi looked at Li Jinshuang and said, "You should do as Dean Jiang said and go to the bathhouse to wash off the mark first."
Ji Meng remained silent, seemingly unmoved by anything, quietly eating his meal.
Wan Qi had been in a daze since hearing the hospital-wide announcement, but suddenly clapped his hands and said, "So her eyes are the abyss of vipers!"
Wei Ren picked at his ear: "What? What have you thought of now?"
Wan Qi looked at Li Jinshuang and said, "If you were really treated by Senior Sister Shi, then hurry up and wash your worm-eaten eyes."
"What are you talking about? If she's marked by the insect eye, then all the energy in her light core will be transferred to Shi Yuezhen. Her inner energy will be empty, and she won't be able to advance to the next level at all. She's only just broken through from the seventh to the eighth level." Wei Ren looked at Wan Qi.
“If you’ve reached the point where you can’t advance any further, then you’re not far from death.” Wan Qi said quickly. “If it’s an Abyss of Vipers that grows naturally, then it’s all beneficial to the host. But if it’s an Abyss of Vipers that grows after birth, then the host is just a container for the vipers. The most obvious difference is whether you’re blind or not.”
"Those born from the Abyss of Insects will not have any problems with their eyes. They can see the physical forms of the Five Elements and also see what we look like."
"The Abyss of Vipers that comes after birth is like Senior Sister Shi's eyes, like eyes without pearls. She can't see our appearance, nor can she see the flowers, trees, or even a single hair. She can only distinguish them by the five elements."
"What is a viper?" Wei Ren suddenly asked coldly.
Wan Qi exclaimed in surprise, "Aren't you a disciple of the Farmer's School? How come you don't know?"
Wei Ren said expressionlessly, "I haven't learned it yet, so what? I never said I was a master of agriculture."
Xue Mushi also said weakly, "It should actually be considered within the scope of medical and pharmaceutical sciences, not agricultural sciences."
With these words, Wei Ren became even more self-righteous.
“The serpent, well, it’s a kind of disease-causing insect in the medical field that feeds on the five elements. Because it first consumes the host’s five elements, it makes the host weak and sickly, but it also gives the host exceptional talent, allowing them to comprehend any of the nine streams of magic on their own.” Wan Qi rubbed his hands together and said with a touch of emotion, “But even those who aren’t disciples of the medical field should have heard of the legend of the serpent transforming into a dragon, right? Doesn’t our academy preserve the corpse of the last dragon on this continent? In the Dragon Slaying Cave, the entire Dragon Slaying Cave is almost entirely a manifestation of that dragon’s corpse.”
Wei Ren looked suspicious: "Dragons have existed for countless millions of years, according to ancient legends. Could it be that Shi Yuezhen's eyes could give birth to new dragons?"
Wan Qi shook his head and said, "Senior Sister Shi's method is no good. Judging from her methods, her Abyss of Insects is acquired and cannot gather energy to nurture a dragon. I guess the reason she released the insect eyes was to imitate this ancient legend, so that before the Abyss of Insects completely devoured her, she could use the five elements of others to nourish the insects and make them ascend to become dragons."
Upon hearing this, Xue Mushi also felt that Shi Yuezhen's idea was unreliable.
Those are ancient legends from thousands or tens of thousands of years ago, and their authenticity is uncertain. Even the dragon in the Dragon Slaying Cave was only preserved with one head thanks to repeated repairs by Taiyi and the people of the Mechanical Family.
The dragon now shows signs of human intervention.
"If she hadn't been driven to the brink, she wouldn't have risked using the insect eye to steal the five elements from others."
Ji Meng, who had been eating quietly, suddenly spoke.
Everyone looked at him, and Ji Meng's hand holding the chopsticks trembled as he suddenly became frightened.
Wei Ren snorted coldly: "Instead of saying such things, you should pray that the people whose Five Elements Qi she has taken from them are as understanding as you."
What's the difference between this and someone who is about to die, and killing you would save their life?
Would you be willing to die for her?
"Let's go check out the herbal bathhouse," Wei Ren said to Li Jinshuang.
After hesitating for a moment, Li Jinshuang did as instructed and went to the medicinal bathhouse.
...
The number of people who came to the medicinal bathhouse was more than Jiang Shulan had imagined.
The disciples were either confused or afraid, but their eyes were full of trust when they looked at Jiang Shulan, as if they believed that the medical sage could definitely solve the insect holes on their bodies. However, after Jiang Shulan performed acupuncture and confirmed that there were insect holes in their bodies, she was unable to remove them immediately.
Li Jinshuang was also diagnosed with wormhole marks in her body. According to Jiang Shulan, she first went to soak in a medicinal bath to suppress the transmission of the five elements to the wormhole.
Wan Qi told Li Jinshuang, "If there is a worm eye, you won't be able to go to Senior Sister Shi. The light core marked by the worm eye cannot be used on her with the Nine-Stream Technique."
Wei Ren sneered, "Even you were infected with insects by Shi Yuezhen, and Nangong Sui often goes to the clinic, so didn't she also get infected?"
"It's hard to say," Xue Mushi said.
Nangong Suiyi is Mei Liangyu's junior sister and Chang Gen's disciple. She often hangs around in front of the saint and is also a beginner in the Nine Streams Technique. When her desire to explore the Five Elements Light Core and the Nine Streams Technique was at its strongest, if she were smart, she wouldn't have placed the insect eye mark in Nangong Suiyi's body.
Wei Ren went to Tingfengchi to ask Yu Sui, but did not get an answer.
Yu Sui was on her way back when she unexpectedly received a message from Nian Qiuyan asking for her help.
At this moment, Nian Qiuyan was with Shi Yuezhen and Cang Shu.
The Blue Moon Valley is a valley with rugged mountain paths. The streams and crevices are covered with small blue flowers that glow at night, blooming in large patches.
Cang Shu carried the severely injured and weak Shi Yuezhen on his back, occasionally reaching out to touch her face to feel her warmth.
Shi Yuezhen closed her eyes, but bloody tears flowed from her right eye. She buried her head in Cang Shu's shoulder to rest for a while, and asked softly, "Is it Nian Qiuyan?"
Cang Shu looked up at the person standing in front performing divination and gave a light, indistinct "hmm".
Nian Qiuyan said from the front, "I had divined it in advance, so I arrived just in time."
Shi Yuezhen confronted Jiang Shulan. Although she managed to injure Jiang Shulan using Qian Ying, she herself was not much better off. Because she placed the worm's eye inside Jiang Shulan's body, she was instead severely injured by Jiang Shulan's qi.
Although Cang Shu could hold out against Jiang Shulan for a while, the longer it dragged on, the more people would arrive. Fortunately, at the crucial moment, Nian Qiuyan intervened and used a divination array to teleport them away.
At this moment, Shi Yuezhen's right eye was itchy, as if countless insects were tearing at her eye. She gripped Cang Shu's clothes tightly with her five fingers, restraining the crazy thought of scratching her right eye raw.
“I’ve blocked other people’s divinations, so the people from the academy can’t find us through spells, except for the Wind Listening Ruler’s location,” Nian Qiuyan said. “Now I only have one last divination left. You all need to think about what to do.”
"Then why are you still carrying the Wind Listening Ruler?" Cang Shu asked.
Nian Qiuyan: "We need to find someone to help us. Even the Wind-Listening Ruler can't locate us. Besides... aren't you going to explain this to others?"
He looked at Shi Yuezhen.
Cang Shu's face remained expressionless. He calmly channeled the five elements of energy into Shi Yuezhen, helping to stabilize her and prevent her five elements from becoming disordered.
It seems that he can accept whatever shocking things Shi Yuezhen does, because he will always stand on Shi Yuezhen's side.
Shi Yuezhen couldn't see clearly at this moment, her eyes were shrouded in darkness. She said softly, "It's just as Master said. I have nothing to explain. Trying to find reasons for what I did now would only make me seem more cunning."
"Why didn't you tell us about your eyes?" Nian Qiuyan asked, frowning.
“That would only add another problem for you.” Shi Yuezhen hugged Cang Shu tightly, but smiled. “I didn’t want to die, so I chose to steal the five elements of others to prolong my life. The reason I didn’t tell you is that when you know the truth, you can immediately harden your heart and break off your friendship with someone like me.”
Nian Qiuyan was stunned when she heard this.
For some reason, a feeling of bitterness welled up from the bottom of my heart.
“I deceived you, so this is the result I deserve.”
Shi Yuezhen faced her current predicament with equanimity.
Nian Qiuyan unconsciously tightened his grip on the sacred wooden talisman, realizing that what he lacked was the courage to face the truth.
He couldn't be as open and brave as Shi Yuezhen.
He was terrified of his friends' disappointment and disgust when the truth was revealed.
Cang Shu remained silent, not uttering a single word.
If Nian Qiuyan shows disappointment and disgust, he can understand and accept it.
Unfortunately, the person standing in front of him wasn't much better off.
“It’s normal for people to want to live.” Nian Qiuyan turned her face away and said in a low voice, “Let’s avoid the pursuit within the academy and go to the outer city first.”
Shi Yuezhen was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "I'm going to find someone."
Nian Qiuyan asked, "Who?"
“Xun’s elegance”.
Shi Yuezhen let the blood and tears from her right eye fall onto Cang Shu's shoulder. The blood that landed on her clothes soon turned into tiny red worms, which swallowed and bit her flesh and returned to her body.
Her eyes had already reached their limit at the beginning of the year.
Shi Yuezhen found the story of the serpent transforming into a dragon recorded in ancient books. After thinking it over, she decided to take the plunge.
Whether she did it or not, it was a lose-lose situation for her anyway.
But these years in Taiyi are different from the dark and damp days before. Instead, they are warm and bright, which makes people unconsciously hopeful and greedily want to continue.
"What do you want with her?" Nian Qiuyan asked.
“Xun Zhiya’s aura is very strange. I want to confirm it one last time,” Shi Yuezhen said. “If it doesn’t work… then you don’t have to worry about us.”
Nian Qiuyan did not answer immediately, but her hand continued to cast the divination.
Shi Yuezhen leaned wearily against Cang Shu, feeling the darkness and silence. This long-lost darkness meant that no matter how beautiful the world outside was, she could only see an endless world of light.
She whispered to Cang Shu, "If we don't make it out alive this time, don't die before me. I'm afraid I'll go blind and won't be able to find you."
Cang Shu: "Okay."
Shi Yuezhen then calmed down.
Because they have been together for a very, very long time, and have never been separated.
Shi Yuezhen fell into a brief drowsy state on Cang Shu's back.
In her dreams, she seemed to have been to many places.
That was a scene she would never forget in her life: she and many other children had their eyes gouged out and were thrown into the dark water, while the thin boy held her hand tightly in the dark, foul-smelling, and turbulent water, pulling her out of the water where she could not breathe.
The boy took her to many places.
At that time, they were poor and hungry, and could only rely on each other during countless cold and hungry nights.
Being driven away, verbally abused, and chased eventually became a common occurrence.
Shi Yuezhen had always wanted to know who had turned her and Cang Shu into this state.
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