Chapter 381 Villain
The second and third departments of the Nangong clan joined forces and, in the shortest possible time, dispatched a cloud chariot, the Flying Dragon, which could be started immediately. Gu Gan, filled with rage, flew into the sky.
Ground controllers frantically sent warnings to the suddenly taking-off cloud chariot, but Gu Gan ignored them all and ordered the driver to lift the restrictions, allowing the cloud chariot to move forward at full speed. At the same time, he released countless birds to probe the location of Mei Liangyu and the others.
They found an experienced coachman who was very familiar with the different cloud carriage routes in Taiyi.
Compared to them, Mei Liangyu's side can be considered two novices.
Wen Yangxiu was anxiously studying the control room of the cloud chariot when Mei Liangyu, who hadn't touched the cloud chariot for many years, stood beside him and asked, "Don't you ride the cloud chariot every day?"
"I always sleep soundly in the back when I go out, why would I go to the control room to look at all these densely packed mechanisms!"
As soon as Wen Yangxiu finished speaking, the dragon carriage suddenly plunged downwards. The jolts and weightlessness caused Xun Zhiya, who was bound by spider silk, to fall to the ground.
Cang Shu helped Shi Yuezhen up and held her tightly in his arms against the wall.
Suddenly, the door to the control room next to them burst open with a bang. The two people who rolled in from outside scrambled to steady themselves. Mei Liangyu, who was looking back at the control panel, caught the person who rolled to his side and grabbed him by the collar.
Just as Zhong Lishan regained his footing and reached out to grab Xing Chun, Mei Liangyu grabbed him to prevent them from falling again due to the rapid descent.
"You brat!" Xing Chun turned around, and upon seeing Mei Liangyu's face, immediately cursed, "I told you to wait! What do you mean by closing the car door so quickly?!"
"What are you doing up here?" Mei Liangyu asked, frowning.
Xing Chun grabbed his collar with both hands and said angrily, "What do you think! Don't you want to see what you've been doing lately? I've been looking for you since the Hundred Schools Night Walk! You're clearly in the academy, but you haven't said a word or even replied to my messages! Who are you trying to drive to their death?"
Zhong Lishan pushed away Mei Liangyu's hand that was gripping him and said calmly, "Did you break your hand or become mute during that time? You had time to go to Thousand-Foot Cliff with Nangong Sui, but no time to reply that you're alright?"
Mei Liangyu remained calm under the scrutinizing gazes of the two women, then turned to interrogate Shi Yuezhen: "Didn't I tell you that if you're going to do something shameful, you shouldn't be discovered?"
Shi Yuezhen was on the verge of death. Most of the insect eyes she had released were sealed by Jiang Shulan. Without the replenishment of the Five Elements Qi to suppress the Abyss of Vipers, she didn't even have the strength to speak.
Cang Shu skillfully and quickly took out the medicine and put it into the purple plate pot. He used the five elements to activate it, doubling its effect, and then fed it to Shi Yuezhen.
He said, "Then if you don't want us to find out about this, don't let Chun'er find out either."
Mei Liangyu: "Haven't we found it now?"
"What do you mean?" Xing Chun laughed angrily. "Is it fun to search the entire academy for you?"
Mei Liangyu said coldly, "I don't find being wanted and hunted down by the entire institute to be fun."
Cang Shu added, "The people who wanted to kill you during the night are also actively searching for you."
Mei Liangyu: "Did more people kill me or more people kill her?"
Cang Shu: "If you want to be number one, I'll let you have it."
"What exactly are you angry about?" Xing Chun was so angry she wanted to hit someone. "I'm angrier now, okay? You were driving your Cloud Chariot Flying Dragon so fast, we practically broke down the door to get in from the outside, almost falling off the sky! We just came to ask you one question, why didn't you reply to my message or respond to me? You even destroyed the Ghost Path Sanctuary, and I still don't know where you are."
Mei Liangyu sneered, "Do you expect me to find someone? Before worrying about others, worry about whether you can survive."
"Alright!" Xing Chun suddenly shouted.
Zhong Lishan frowned and looked at Mei Liangyu: "Are you crazy?"
Mei Liangyu said expressionlessly, "Does someone who climbed in from outside the Cloud Chariot Flying Dragon have the right to call me crazy?"
Zhong Lishan walked towards Mei Liangyu: "Say that again?"
Mei Liangyu bluntly said, "Get out."
Zhong Lishan, who was usually calm and composed, suddenly grabbed Mei Liangyu by the collar. Mei Liangyu also raised his elbow and blocked Zhong Lishan's wrist. Xing Chun's eyes twitched. The Cloud Chariot Flying Dragon suddenly dropped and lost its weight.
Wen Yangxiu cursed, "Stop arguing, all of you! Either help us take off or shut up!"
Zhong Lishan's raised hand was knocked away by Mei Liangyu, and he immediately turned to go to the control panel to help.
Xing Chun sulked silently to the side, while Zhong Lishan frowned as he watched Mei Liangyu's retreating figure.
After Shi Yuezhen took the medicine fed to her by Cang Shu, the medicine refined by the Purple Plate Pot had its effects increased dozens of times, making it very useful for emergency treatment.
The medicine she prepared herself was only slightly effective, so it needed to be re-refined in the Purple Plate Pot to improve its efficacy. Only then could she continue to suppress the Abyss of Vipers that was devouring her without resorting to the insect-hole method.
However, Jiang Shulan ultimately decided to give the Purple Plate Pot to Qian Ying, and Qian Ying, after receiving the Purple Plate Pot, would absolutely not lend it to Shi Yuezhen, nor would she help her improve the efficacy of the medicine.
In desperation, Shi Yuezhen had no choice but to snatch it, but unexpectedly, this exposed the fact that it was related to the insect eye.
Amidst the reclusive silence in the control room, Shi Yuezhen coughed and looked up, her eyes meeting Xun Zhiya, who was huddled in a corner, trying to minimize her presence.
Xun Zhiya was caught off guard when she met her empty eyes, and then turned her face away in an instant.
“When I was about to place the insect holes in you… you discovered it beforehand and stopped me,” Shi Yuezhen said weakly.
As soon as she said this, Xing Chun and the others all looked at Xun Zhiya.
Bound by spider silk, Xun Zhiya frowned slightly upon hearing this, though she was in a disadvantageous position. Despite this, she did not appear disheveled and maintained the elegant demeanor of the Holy Maiden of Nanjing.
"Is that your excuse for failure?" Xun Zhiya said calmly.
Shi Yuezhen, however, said with certainty, "You are very familiar with the power of the Abyss of Vipers."
Xun Zhiya frowned and looked back at Shi Yuezhen, saying, "I don't understand what you're saying at all, and I don't know what the point of you arresting me is."
Shi Yuezhen coughed and slowly said, "There was once a group of people who raised many children in the snow mountain. Every day they fed these children medicine and made them eat long snakes that were most similar to venomous insects to refine the children's five elements and teach them to cultivate pupil techniques."
"There is a Black Water Insect Pool in the snow mountain. It is the accumulated insect water after countless insects were roasted and turned into dust by fire. Every day, children whose eyes have been gouged out are sent into the Black Water Pool."
“Every child who survives the Blackwater Worm Pool will have one eye transformed into a Viper Abyss. The reason there is only one Viper Abyss is because they are too young and might die too quickly after being devoured by the power if they cannot control it. So blinding one eye is enough.”
Xun Zhiya's eyelashes trembled slightly as she listened, her eyes lowered, her expression unreadable.
"Then one day, an avalanche was triggered by the pressure of the Five Elements from an unknown source. It crushed the entire castle, and in the chaos of the battle, some children managed to escape."
Shi Yuezhen looked at Xun Zhiya with her senses and gradually regained some strength: "Can you tell me why you have the ability to avoid the Abyss of Insects? I thought only the people in that snow mountain castle knew how to distinguish insect eyes."
A brief silence fell over the control room.
Mei Liangyu and the others were unaware of Shi Yuezhen and Cang Shu's past. Only after hearing her words and seeing her eyes did they understand what they had gone through in the past.
Only Wen Yangxiu had no time to listen to those grudges and entanglements; he was focused on frantically pressing the buttons.
Xun Zhiya took a deep breath, looked up at Shi Yuezhen, and said coldly, "If you were one of those children, I would only sympathize with your plight, but I don't know what that has to do with me. Are you trying to say that I am someone from that snow mountain castle? Then I can only tell you that I am not."
Don't you know anything?
Shi Yuezhen asked the question silently.
Xun Zhiya looked again into Jiao Shiyuezhen's empty eyes. Her right eye, which was now stained red with blood, was eerie and unsettling. This made her heart tremble slightly, but she still remained calm and said, "I know nothing about what happened to you or the Abyss of Vipers."
After hearing this, Shi Yuezhen slowly pushed Cang Shu away, stood up, and swayed as she walked towards Xun Zhiya: "Is that so? Then would you mind if I put the wormhole in you again?"
"Of course I'm not happy about it."
Xun Zhiya was displeased.
Shi Yuezhen smiled, a tear of blood sliding down her cheek. She bent down and reached out her hand to Xun Zhiya: "Then I can only apologize to you in advance."
Xun Zhiya took a deep breath and quietly mobilized the five elements of energy. Unfortunately, the more she activated the five elements of energy core, the tighter the spider silk bound her, leaving bloody marks on her skin and sinking into her flesh.
Before she could break free of the spider silk, Shi Yuezhen's hand had already tightly gripped her neck, forcing Xun Zhiya to tilt her head back and making it difficult for her to breathe.
Xun Zhiya raised her head, her eyes fixed on the tear of blood that had slid down Shi Yuezhen's chin. The tear of blood was about to fall into her eye.
A look of panic flashed across the girl's eyes. Xun Zhiya twisted her head, trying to turn it away, but Shi Yuezhen held her firmly and she couldn't move.
"You..." Xun Zhiya had just opened her mouth in fear when a drop of bloody tear fell into her eye. The bright red teardrop transformed into a writhing blood-red worm as it fell.
Xun Zhiya subconsciously closed her eyes.
The tear that fell into Xun Zhiya's eye only made her feel cold and disgusted. As soon as Shi Yuezhen let go, she immediately turned her head away and disgustedly rubbed her shoulder to wipe away the blood.
Shi Yuezhen grabbed her neck again and said, "Open your eyes."
Xun Zhiya refused, so Shi Yuezhen reached out her other hand and pressed her thumb into her eye socket. The intense pain made Xun Zhiya open her eyes, and the bloody tears fell into her eyes, but nothing happened.
The insects dissipated into water.
This scene was all too familiar to Shi Yuezhen and Cang Shu.
Inside the Snow Mountain Castle, every guard who enters the Blackwater Worm Pool to retrieve a unconscious child will not be attacked by the worms. The worms will turn into water and disappear when they touch their skin.
It's a safe haven for adults, but a hell for children.
After searching for many years, Shi Yuezhen finally found some clues. Overwhelmed with guilt, she coughed up blood again and staggered backward, only to be caught by Cang Shu.
"You know nothing?" Shi Yuezhen asked. "Then how do you explain the serpent turning into water when it met you?"
Xun Zhiya bit her lower lip, refusing to answer.
“If she doesn’t talk, hang her outside the cloud chariot,” Mei Liangyu said coldly.
Just as Xing Chun and Zhong Lishan were about to make a move, Mei Liangyu said again, "You want to have the young general of Qingyang and the prince of Zhou attack the Holy Maiden of Nanjing?"
Zhong Lishan paused.
"Mei Liangyu, what's wrong with you?" Xing Chun turned around and scolded.
Cang Shu waved his hand, and the spider silk instantly dragged Xun Zhiya out of the control room. Mei Liangyu opened the car door, and Xun Zhiya was thrown out by the huge suction force outside. She was then held tightly by the spider silk and hung in the air. Her body was about to fall. Facing the brutal five elements energy outside, her internal organs were impacted. She screamed in fear and pain.
Her survival instinct made her struggle to raise her head and look up, but the person standing in front of the car door looked down at her with utterly indifferent eyes.
Xun Zhiya's tears and blood mingled, but were instantly wiped away by the suction of the external hurricane. The sound of bones breaking deprived her of all chances to struggle upwards. Her eyes trembled, and as she opened her mouth to compromise, Mei Liangyu turned her head to look behind her.
Another speeding cloud chariot, the Flying Dragon, caught up.
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