Chapter 361 She was more terrifying than her own father and brothers.
Yu Sui and Wan Qi talked for a long time about the Ji family's medicine man, and finally asked Wan Qi to wake up Ji Meng in an attempt to find some more clues from him.
The experiment on the "unclaimed qi" that has captivated the entire medical community has been going on for countless years.
What all sorts of people considered impossible, a pipe dream, was mastered by a little girl who was once called Ping Shu.
Yu Sui also successfully proved that it is indeed possible to bypass the loopholes in one's talent by utilizing the Qi of No Owner and to practice the techniques of various schools.
She stepped off the ferry and caught sight of Xue Mushi hammering away at the stern. Speechless for a moment, she walked over and asked, "Can you move these planks?"
"It's a bit difficult, but I can manage if I try," Xue Mushi replied, his forehead covered in sweat.
Yu Sui: "Why don't you go sit over there?"
Xue Mushi shook his head: "I always feel that when I move, my internal energy circulation also speeds up."
Yu Sui: "Then be careful and don't use the Five Elements Qi."
Ji Meng's Five Elements Light Core was sealed, preventing him from circulating the Five Elements Qi and using the Nine Streams Technique. At this moment, he was no different from an ordinary person. He had been starving for two or three days without a drop of water. Now that Wan Qi had awakened him, he was extremely listless, with dry lips and lifeless eyes.
When Wan Qi came and woke Ji Meng up, he stopped. The task of torturing people was left to Wei Ren and Yu Sui.
Wei Ren stood to the side, a playful smile on his face. Terrifying spiders and scorpions crawled across his neck, sending chills down one's spine. He mentally suppressed Ji Meng, causing Ji Meng's forehead to twitch with fear as he curled up against the cliff face.
However, the person Ji Meng was spying on was the girl who seemed the most harmless and least likely to be there among those who had kidnapped him.
Ji Meng couldn't understand why Nangong Sui would do this.
Why was she with Wei Ren? Why was she arrested? Why... did she become completely different from the person she remembered?
At this moment, Ji Meng glanced at Yu Sui with a mixture of doubt and pleading in his eyes.
He was so thirsty.
I was hungry, thirsty, and in pain.
Yu Sui handed the kettle forward, and Ji Meng subconsciously raised his head.
Wei Ren didn't hold back in his sarcasm, humiliating the boy's self-esteem: "Ji Meng, you're like a dog begging to be fed right now."
Ji Meng didn't even have the energy to be angry anymore. He licked his dry, cracked lips.
Yu Sui said nothing, but poured out the kettle, and clear water flowed from the spout. Ji Meng, whose hands were tied, looked disheveled and desperately tilted his head back to grab the water to drink.
Ji Meng drank too quickly and choked. The girl seemed amused by his action and stopped pouring water.
Having barely drunk any water, Ji Meng knelt on the ground, pleadingly looking at Yu Sui, practically wagging his tail.
"You really didn't know about the Ji family's drug trials?" Yu Sui asked softly.
Ji Meng's mind was in a daze, and he could only shake his head.
"Strange, how did Brother Gu know that?" Yu Sui bent down slightly, looking at the boy leaning against the cliff with a troubled expression. "Brother Gu said that in order to explore more of the Nine Schools of Mystery, the Ji family has gone mad by testing medicines on their own people, including children like you who have Ji family blood but are not important."
Ji Meng hated himself for hearing these words so clearly even when his mind was in a daze.
“The Ji family has many children, so it doesn’t matter whether you’re here or not.” Yu Sui smiled at Ji Meng. “Although what Brother Gu said was a bit harsh, it wasn’t wrong.”
It doesn't matter whether you're here or not.
It seems that not only the Ji family, but everyone else shares this view of him.
Ji Meng bit his lower lip hard, and bright red blood oozed from his pale lips.
Overwhelmed by hunger, exhaustion, and the pain of being mocked, Ji Meng's anger flared, and he shouted in a trembling voice, "You...aren't you the same?"
"Me?" Yu Sui blinked in confusion.
Ji Meng dared not look her in the eye, his gaze darting away as he vented his anger intermittently: "The Nangong family... it's all the same whether you're here or not. Do you really think you can become the next head of the Nangong family?"
"Everyone is only respectful to you because of the prince. Your brothers all have their own maternal clans supporting them. Do you have that?"
"Compared to you, the legitimate princess, the Nangong family is even more convinced of Gu Gan's authority. Even an outsider has more influence than you. How many people in the Prince's Mansion do you think are convinced of your authority? Princess Nangong."
Ji Meng's last words were spoken with trembling hands, yet a maniacal smile appeared on his pale face.
Yu Sui did not stop Ji Meng from continuing. Instead, she poured the water from the kettle onto the ground in front of him. As the water seeped into the dry sand and gravel, the bloodshot in Ji Meng's eyes gradually increased, and he began to get anxious.
Ji Meng was both anxious and furious, but he desperately restrained himself from bowing his head and prostrating himself on the ground in such a undignified manner, thirsting for this water. As a result, he became even more frantic, his breathing quickening as he spoke:
"Nangong Sui, you're just like me, born of a mother but unloved by one!"
"No, you're in a worse situation than me! My mother would use sweet words to coax me into pleasing my brothers, but what about you? When you're out and about, who has ever seen Madam Su give you a kind look!"
"Do you know what those ladies say about you after every banquet? They say you're not Lady Su's child, that you're just a pawn used to deal with the Yan Kingdom. They don't treat you like a human being! They're all waiting for you to die so they can find an excuse to attack the Yan Kingdom!"
"You believe everything Gu Gan says? Do you know what Gu Gan says about you behind your back? He says you're pitiful! No matter how much you like Gu Gan and how much you help him out and clean up his messes, he only pities you!"
"He's only been in Taiyi for a few years, and he's already fallen for Xun Zhiya. How many years have you been with him? You yourself... cough cough cough..."
Ji Meng suddenly started coughing rapidly, his originally pale face turning blood red as he coughed and choked.
The boy who had been cursing and raving in a frenzy just moments before suddenly became weak. The suffocating feeling of impending death terrified Ji Meng. Trembling, he looked up at Yu Sui, his bloodshot eyes filled with pleading.
Wei Ren said gloatingly, "Why did you stop talking? You were so impressive just now!"
Yu Sui showed no anger whatsoever. She shook the remaining water in the kettle and continued to pour it on the ground in front of Ji Meng: "I thought you really regarded me as the high and mighty Princess Nangong. If you could see that, do you think I wouldn't have known all these years?"
Judging from Ji Meng's words and expression, he was very concerned about Gu Gan telling Yu Sui his secret.
People who are insignificant and have no presence to anyone else seem to have found their place next to Gu Gan.
Ji Meng thought he was Gu Gan's best friend, but Yu Sui showed him that this was not the case; Gu Gan did not care about him as much as Ji Meng had imagined.
Perhaps in Gu Gan's eyes, he's just like everyone else; it doesn't matter whether I'm there or not.
Ji Meng's emotions were in turmoil. The surge of anger mixed with physical pain and dried-up desire, which made his already unstable emotions go crazy, and he said those words that enraged Yu Sui.
"I..." Ji Meng coughed violently, struggling to look up at Yu Sui, stammering, "I was talking nonsense... I'm sorry... Please... water..."
"You were just mocking me so forcefully, and now you're begging me for water?" Yu Sui looked at him with a smile. "I'm not like you, who can fawn over anyone."
"It's not unusual for Gu Gan to pity every girl with a bad background."
"But he won't pity boys. When you were bullied by your brothers and didn't dare to fight back, you tried to please my third brother in order to please your mother. You followed him around with a smile, but were kicked away. How did Gu Gan view you then?"
Yu Sui bent down and stared into Ji Meng's eyes: "He thinks you're disgusting."
"Why do you think he stepped in to save you? Because you were so disgusting, he couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to end that farce as soon as possible."
"Do you really think Gu Gan considers you his good brother? He has plenty of good brothers, he doesn't need you. It's the same whether you're here or not. You've been missing for so long, has he come looking for you?"
Yu Sui felt nothing when Ji Meng said those words, but her words were like knives, stabbing Ji Meng in the heart with each one.
He stood up angrily, ready to pounce on Yu Sui, but Yu Sui did nothing. She simply released the Five Elements Qi, and the invisible wave of energy easily slapped Ji Meng back, causing him to fall against the mountain wall and bleed profusely.
Ji Meng was like a madman, his mouth and eyes filled with blood, yet he still lunged at Yu Sui, only to be blasted away by the shockwave each time.
Yu Sui said to Wan Qi, "Give him some medicine, don't let him faint."
Wan Qi grunted twice and hurriedly came over to feed Ji Meng the medicine. After feeding him, he left, standing far away, afraid that Ji Meng would rush around and splatter blood on him.
After being hit several times, Ji Meng coughed and vomited, feeling as if his bones were about to break. The blood he coughed up stained the sand, which was already wet with water, red.
After the anger and impulse subsided, Ji Meng was met with excruciating pain.
Yu Sui poured the clear water into the bloody water and said to Ji Meng, "Drink."
Ji Meng was trembling all over, and he struggled to lift his head from the ground to look at the pool of blood.
Yu Sui said, "If you drink it, I'll let you go."
Ji Meng could no longer distinguish whether it was the desire for thirst or the desire to survive; he only knew that he was very thirsty and needed to drink water.
With his hands and feet bound, he could only crawl forward without any dignity. When he reached a pool of blood, his lips trembled several times, but he still stuck out his tongue and finally plunged his head into the blood.
After abandoning his dignity and reason, Ji Meng's taut nerves snapped completely.
Taking advantage of Ji Meng's moment of collapse and relaxation, Wei Ren once again focused his attention and used the Enchanting Serpent. A slender black shadow slowly moved across the ground and leisurely entered Ji Meng's shadow.
Previously there had always been obstacles, but now the Enchanting Serpent easily merged into Ji Meng's shadow, becoming one with him.
A hint of excitement flickered in Wei Ren's eyes. He looked at Yu Sui, indicating that they had succeeded.
His previous failures were due to the fact that his Enchanting Serpent skill was not as strong as before, making it impossible for him to silently infiltrate another person's body.
Wei Ren thought it might be related to personal emotions. Ji Meng was very wary of them, and now he was driven to the brink of collapse by Yu Sui. His emotions collapsed and his defenses crumbled, which gave the Evil Serpent an opportunity to take advantage of him.
Ji Meng's face was covered in blood, and he coughed incessantly, looking neither human nor ghost. His head trembled, and he pleaded in a hoarse voice, "Is that enough?"
"Huh?" Yu Sui looked at him amusedly. "What did you say?"
Ji Meng said, "Let me go, let me go."
"You actually believe me that much?" Yu Sui was surprised at first, then her smile turned malicious. "I'm lying to you."
Hearing the girl's soft, harsh words, Ji Meng stood there stunned.
The girl reflected in his pupils was clearly smiling, but the image of Nangong Sui in his memory was completely overturned at this moment.
Ji Meng had known Nangong Sui since childhood at the National Academy. He had seen Nangong Sui's obedient, weak, and harmless appearance countless times; he had seen her being ridiculed, teased, and bullied in crowds countless times; he had heard people gloating over her countless times, but he had never seen Nangong Sui's cruel side.
Yu Sui turned to Wan Qi and asked how long it would take for Ji Meng to transform into a beast under the stimulation. They had given Ji Meng the medicine Wan Qi had prepared, which suppressed Ji Meng's beast transformation while sealing the Five Elements Light Core, but the duration of the suppression was still uncertain.
The three of them were talking together, but Ji Meng could no longer hear them. Blood was flowing from his ears, and his ears were ringing. He stared blankly at Yu Sui.
Yu Sui seemed to notice his scrutiny, turned her head and smiled at him.
Ji Meng's consciousness froze at that moment.
...
When Ji Meng woke up again, the scenery around him had changed drastically. There was no blood-stained sand or smooth mountain walls on the ground, but a dark and narrow underground cabin.
He was chained to a pillar, and could only move no more than three steps.
Ji Meng was awakened by thirst again; his throat was dry and itchy, and he couldn't help but cough.
In the hazy darkness, a stream of cool water fell from above his head, the icy, thirst-quenching water cascading down his cheeks. Ji Meng instinctively stuck out his tongue to lick it.
When clusters of firelight appeared ahead, Ji Meng trembled upon seeing Yu Sui holding a kettle, a sense of fear rising within him.
“It’s already evening,” Yu Sui said, pouring a full pot of water over Ji Meng.
Ji Meng was drenched, but dared not go crazy like before.
He secretly licked the water dripping onto his skin, and whispered, "What do you really want?"
Yu Sui gave an innocent smile: "I want to hear you continue. How many bad things Brother Gu has said about me to you over the years?"
“…That’s all,” Ji Meng said awkwardly.
"Did he only tell you that I was pitiful?" The girl seemed somewhat disappointed.
Ji Meng mumbled, "More or less, I can't remember clearly, my memory isn't good."
“You seem quite lucid now.” Yu Sui changed the kettle of water and continued to pour it on him. “This afternoon, you turned into a beast again. Half of your body grew snake-like scales. You didn’t recognize anyone and only knew how to kill.”
Ji Meng's mind went blank; he couldn't remember anything.
“I…” He licked his still dry lips.
Yu Sui said, "If your family is researching monsters that only know how to kill after they turn into beasts, then you've been quite successful."
Ji Meng's cloudy eyes dimmed slightly after hearing this.
After a brief silence, Ji Meng took the initiative to ask, "What did Gu Gan tell you?"
Yu Sui met Ji Meng's persistent gaze, which was eager to know the answer. She put down the kettle and turned to leave, leaving him alone in the darkness, leaving Ji Meng wanting to confide in her.
The next morning, Yu Sui came to the underground cabin again and flicked the medicine Wan Qi had prepared into Ji Meng's mouth. Only then did Ji Meng wake up. Seeing that Yu Sui was about to leave, he hurriedly spoke up, "Wait! I'll talk!"
Yu Sui kept moving.
Ji Meng shouted in a hoarse voice, "I really thought those anomalies were caused by my daily cultivation and drug testing!"
“I don’t have any specific memories. When I was a child, I would get injured for no reason for a while, and I didn’t think much of it. But one time I woke up and found that I was not only not at home, but also covered in blood. In the end, someone found me and took me back. After that, I realized that something might be wrong.”
"I really don't know the specifics! Even Gu Gan's use of the Divine Strategist to help me recover my memories didn't work!"
Ji Meng stared longingly at Yu Sui, who had stopped walking away.
Yu Sui stood by the dimly lit doorway: "Continue."
Ji Meng's gaze wandered and landed on the kettle.
"Want some?" Yu Sui asked.
Ji Meng swallowed hard.
Yu Sui smiled and said, "Go ahead and say it."
Ji Meng answered in a trembling voice, "...I want to drink."
His basic human dignity was gradually destroyed and rebuilt by Yu Sui.
Yu Sui slowly walked up to him, raised the kettle, and let the water pour over his head.
Driven by desire, Ji Meng awkwardly looked up to receive it.
He had only taken a couple of sips when the kettle slipped from Yu Sui's hand and fell to the ground, shattering into pieces. Ji Meng was startled, his shoulders trembling.
"I'm suddenly in a bad mood and don't want to listen to anything today."
Yu Sui stared at Ji Meng for a while without blinking.
Ji Meng lowered his head, not daring to look at her. These days, Nangong Sui's temperament was unpredictable, and he had no idea what he might do or say that might suddenly anger the girl.
After Yu Sui left, Ji Meng looked at the clear water still flowing on the ground and slowly bent down.
There are also many extremely dangerous areas within the Wujian Mountain Abyss, which are known as forbidden areas within the abyss.
The narrow passage is considered a forbidden area, and Thousand-Foot Cliff is located at the end of the narrow passage. At the end of Thousand-Foot Cliff is the entrance to the Weak Water and Green Mud.
Mei Liangyu entered the entrance a day and a night, and it was quiet inside. There was no change near Qianchi Cliff either.
The ferry has been built, and Yu Sui and the others are all gathered around it.
When Yu Sui came out of the underground cabin, she happened to see Wan Qi and Wei Ren preparing their breakfast, one eating grass and the other eating insects.
She glanced back and saw Xue Mushi sitting cross-legged at the bow of the boat with his eyes closed. There was another one who was just sitting there eating air; she decided to ignore him.
Ji Meng is currently in a very confused mental state. He thought he was in a coma, but during the time he was unconscious, he was in a beast-like state.
Wan Qi told Yu Sui, "Although the Enchanting Serpent successfully infiltrated Ji Meng's body and could control his fear, it would also trigger a beast-like state due to the stimulation of his emotions and desires, causing him to go mad."
Wei Ren chimed in from the side, "I'm only responsible for controlling his emotions with the Enchanted Serpent; the beast transformation is your problem to solve."
So Wanqi pondered how to prepare medicine for Ji Meng to stabilize him. One side wanted to stabilize Ji Meng's emotions, while the other side wanted to make Ji Meng's emotions worse. Both sides were looking for a balance.
After several failed attempts to prepare the medicine, Wan Qi couldn't help but complain, "Can't you improve your control over the Enchanting Serpent? Or raise the level of the Enchanting Serpent's power, like the Formless Serpent did to Sheng Fei?"
Wei Ren sneered: "Sure, I'll train the Enchanting Serpent to the thirteenth level today. Do you want me to train another Formless Serpent for you tomorrow?"
Yu Sui ignored their bickering; she was seriously considering how to cover both sides of the Thousand-Foot Cliff with cursed characters and death talismans.
Since suppressing the Yin Fish, Yu Sui has discovered that the number of Five Elements Light Cores being conceived daily has increased to about 38,000.
Using these light cores merely as surveillance eyes would be a waste of their potential. It would be better to use them for practice and see if we can simultaneously use multiple light cores to create similar ninth-class techniques.
Yu Sui stared at the Five Elements Light Core in front of her. As her realm improved, the Qi gathered inside the light core gradually increased, and the level of the Nine Stream Techniques that she could materialize also increased.
The most basic and core element supporting the Nine Schools of Thought is the capacity of Qi.
Below the Divine Soul Core level, the amount of Qi required for materializing the same ninth-level technique is half that of a sorcerer below the tenth level.
Some people can use all their energy to use a single Heavenly Secret Technique, but others can use only a trace of the Five Elements Energy to unleash a powerful Nine Stream Technique and maintain its stability and duration. These are mostly people who have reached the Thirteenth Realm to the Saint Realm.
Besides the difference in Qi brought about by the light core and realm, in cultivation, one also needs to consider the individual's proficiency in using the Nine Streams Technique to control and manipulate Qi.
Yu Sui estimated that she could not sustain the five elemental light cores she currently possessed, unless she could materialize them into a kind of nine-class technique, unless it was the simplest Bagua generating technique.
When she was little, she would get so tired from controlling a Five Elements Light Core for too long that she would faint.
Yu Sui estimated a rough number for himself, released the Five Elements Light Cores, and let the tiny, dust-like light cores stick tightly to the mountain walls on both sides.
Wei Ren and Wan Qi were still arguing in the back when suddenly, the mountain walls on both sides shimmered with a pale blue light, and death talismans were lit up from the void, climbing up the Thousand-Foot Cliff.
They resembled long, lit dragon lanterns, one after another illuminating the scene.
The two first looked at Yu Sui, who was surrounded by a huge amount of Five Elements Qi, and then looked incredulously at the death talisman wall that had been lit up on the mountain wall.
"What is she doing?" Wei Ren asked, startled.
Wan Qi stammered, "Should I...should I put on a death talisman?"
In just a few moments, 3,736 Ghostly Death Talismans were pasted on the cliff face.
Yu Sui stopped making hand seals, calmed his surging anger, and stared intently at the death talisman on the mountain wall.
That's probably not enough.
But she already had a headache, and continuing would only make her condition worse. However, she was still somewhat dissatisfied that she had only used a little over 3,000 of the 30,000 light cores.
The senior brother went into the mouth for a day and a night, but nothing happened, which made Yu Sui even more vigilant.
The longer Mei Liangyu stays inside, the more unfavorable the situation becomes.
Yu Sui turned around and saw Wei Ren and Wan Qi staring at her nervously. She couldn't help but ask, "What are you looking at?"
Both of them shook their heads.
Wei Ren said stiffly, "Your death talisman... is really unique, and the quantity is quite impressive."
Yu Sui said, "I need to rest for a while. You guys keep an eye on the entrance and Ji Meng."
After Yu Sui left, Wan Qi looked at the death talismans on the mountain wall and sighed, "How many death talismans are there on this wall? In just a short time, she used so many death talismans. If the disciples of the Ghost Dao Clan saw this, they would be green with envy."
Wei Ren looked at Wan Qi with an inscrutable expression, thinking to himself, "You think only sorcerers from the Ghost Dao School would be envious? If you knew her other skills, all the sorcerers in the world would be green with envy!"
...
When Ji Meng was awake, he was alone in the lower cabin. It was dark and quiet all around, and he couldn't hear any noise from outside. This made him feel uneasy, and he couldn't help but hope that Yu Sui would appear. At least then he wouldn't feel scared.
Yu Sui doesn't come very often in a day, but when she does, she tells you what time it is outside.
In the morning and evening, Yu Sui would water Ji Meng, this little grass planted in the darkness. When she appeared, Ji Meng would tell her everything he knew in fits and starts.
When Yu Sui was angry and gave him a cold look, Ji Meng would purse his lips and dare not speak.
That evening, when Yu Sui should have appeared, Ji Meng did not see her. He was filled with anxiety, his body trembling as he bit his nails, his back pressed tightly against the pillar.
When Yu Sui appeared, Ji Meng's tense nerves finally relaxed, and he subconsciously asked, "Why are you so late today?"
The firelight illuminated the room, shining into Ji Meng's eyes and revealing the girl's disdainful gaze as she looked at him.
"I can come whenever I want, and I can stay away from whenever I don't want to," Yu Sui said.
Ji Meng shrank back, afraid of angering her, and dared not speak.
Yu Sui stepped forward and placed the kettle on the ground.
Ji Meng looked at her with a puzzled expression, not understanding her meaning.
"Drink up," Yu Sui said. "It's only been a few days, and you've already forgotten how to drink water?"
Ji Meng stared at the kettle on the ground for a long time.
In just three to five days, he had gotten used to licking water from his skin and the ground, completely forgetting the normal way of drinking water. It seemed that the transformation from human to animal was instantaneous.
"...Is that alright?" Ji Meng asked cautiously.
Yu Sui: "Don't you want to drink?"
Upon hearing this, Ji Meng moved immediately, grabbed the water bottle, and drank it down.
The continuous flow of water quenched his thirst, and Ji Meng felt so satisfied that he wanted to cry. It seemed that in all his years of life, only at this moment had he felt such a strong and clear sense of happiness.
He drank and cried at the same time, sobbing loudly.
The boy cried until he fainted and remembered nothing.
When Ji Meng woke up again, he saw that the kettle had fallen to the ground and shattered into pieces, and there were still a few traces of fire left on the ground.
The boy fell to the ground, his neck twisted to one side. The intense pain made him gasp, his eyes trembling as he looked at his hand, which was stuck in the ground with a dagger.
“I…” Ji Meng was trembling all over with fear.
“Look,” Yu Sui said, holding out a pale but bleeding arm in front of him, “you suddenly turned into a beast and went mad, causing me to get hurt.”
Ji Meng stared in disbelief at the long, deep scratches on the inside of Yu Sui's arm, injuries that could only have been caused by a sharp object.
He was so scared that he slowed his breathing.
Yu Sui cleaned her wounds, wrapped them with white bandages, and said casually, "Ji Meng, don't blame me for not treating you like a human being. Because of drug testing, you've become a monster who can go crazy and hurt people at any time. You killed someone for no reason, and afterwards you could comfort yourself with 'I don't remember, so it wasn't my fault,' and then forget about it with a clear conscience."
"I really don't remember!" Ji Meng retorted, raising his voice.
"Yeah, just because you don't remember, does that mean it's over?" Yu Sui waved her injured hand at him. "Everyone should forgive you?"
Ji Meng's face contorted in pain, and he became completely at a loss.
He looked at Yu Sui, as if asking, "What should I do?" "What do you think I should do?" "I'll listen to whatever you say."
Ji Meng had gotten used to listening to Yu Sui.
“You’re becoming less and less human, and Brother Gu will only become more and more disgusted with you.” Yu Sui stirred up trouble between him and Gu Gan without any guilt. “Brother Gu is busy looking for the fragments of the Pagoda of Floating Pagoda. He has no time to care about you or whether you live or die. If you go to him for help, he will only think that you have not made any progress and that you always need his help and need him to save you.”
Ji Meng's fingers trembled and curled up as he choked out, "I don't need his help!"
"Even I think you're the most useless of Gu-ge's friends. Guess what the others think?"
"Qian Ying must think that you're a good-for-nothing who's always causing trouble and dragging Gu-gege down, and she's been fed up with you for a long time."
"Huo Xiao is also someone who follows Gu Gan. He is a follower of Gu Gan. If you hadn't come to Taiyi with Gu Gan, he wouldn't have given you a second glance."
"Everyone only has eyes for Brother Gu, and no one cares about you, so no one has come looking for you until now."
The girl, bandaging her wounds in the shadows, turned to face the boy with a bright smile, her tone cheerful: "I'm different. If anyone kidnaps you now, I'll chase them to the ends of the earth."
“They…they really don’t care about me.” Ji Meng muttered to himself, “Even my mother doesn’t care whether I live or die, so how could there be anyone in this world who cares about me?”
"How could I believe that Gu Gan is different from others? Everyone is the same."
He became emotional again at the end, laughing and crying at the same time.
This time, Yu Sui didn't indulge him. She stepped down the dagger a third of the way, which earned Ji Meng a painful howl.
The excruciating pain in his palm gradually brought Ji Meng back to his senses, and he looked shakily at Yu Sui.
“I won’t sweet-talk you like your mother did, nor will I treat you like an ornament like Brother Gu would.” Yu Sui lowered her head, her dark eyes fixed intently on him. “I need to study the reason for your beast transformation, so you have to cooperate with me, understand?”
Ji Meng nodded slowly, his voice weak and hoarse: "I know."
"I... will cooperate with you."
Yu Sui laughed and said, "You're worthless as a friend, and worthless as a son, so just be a good medicine person. At least many people will care about you, right?"
Ji Meng responded sullenly.
"Okay, then you can drink water normally from now on." Yu Sui squatted down, her smile bright and her tone gentle. "Congratulations."
Jimon felt that she was more terrifying than his father and brothers.
Yu Sui pulled out the dagger, and Ji Meng, clutching his bleeding hand, arched his back in pain.
"Come in." Yu Sui walked to the door and knocked with her finger.
Wan Qi and Wei Ren, who had been waiting outside, then came in. Wei Ren walked around Ji Meng with obvious disgust, but when he saw the fear in Ji Meng's eyes, he smiled in a half-smile.
Wan Qi stepped forward to help Ji Meng stop the bleeding, but Ji Meng was so frightened that he backed away repeatedly.
"Weren't you going to cooperate with me?" Yu Sui asked.
Ji Meng tensed up and stood still, but his hands and feet were trembling.
Wan Qi's gaze was complicated.
He felt that Ji Meng deserved to die for killing Ling Jian, but he had also witnessed Ji Meng's changes over this period of time, so he could only sigh in his heart and stop thinking about it.
After Wan Qi finished treating Ji Meng's wounds, Yu Sui, who had been standing by the door, asked softly, "Does my father know about your family's production of medicine people?"
Ji Meng frowned deeply, as if he was trying very hard to recall, and finally answered in a trembling voice, "I don't know... but... Your Highness probably doesn't know."
Yu Sui looked at him calmly.
Those extremely dark eyes, when the girl wasn't pretending to be silly or smiling, exuded an imposing and captivating aura without anger.
“I…I saw it once…” Ji Meng seemed uncertain, so he spoke vaguely, his tone full of insecurity, “My two grandmothers came out of the medicine farm together…the medicine farm where I was taken whenever I showed any unusual behavior.”
Nangong Ming didn't know, but his grandmother did.
Yu Sui looked thoughtful, stared at Ji Meng for a long time, and then chuckled softly.
...
Ever since Ji Meng was persuaded by Yu Sui, he has obediently cooperated with Wan Qi in testing medicines. He eats whatever Wan Qi gives him.
Wei Ren then silently manipulated the enchanting snake within his body to improve his proficiency.
Wan Qi was trying to replicate the formula that the Ji family used to test the medicine on Ji Meng. He was quite focused and completely forgot about other troubles, only busy with this one thing.
Because Xue Mushi cannot use the Five Elements Qi, he might not be able to deal with emergencies in time. Therefore, someone must keep watch outside. Since Wan Qi could not spare the time, Yu Sui and Wei Ren took turns.
On this day, Yu Sui had just come out of the underground cabin when she discovered that the Five Elements Light Core she had placed at the entrance of Thousand Feet Cliff had been shattered due to the influence of the Nine Streams Technique.
“Someone’s coming,” Yu Sui said. “I’ll go take a look.”
Sitting at the bow of the boat, Xue Mushi opened his eyes and reached into his sleeve to pull out a Gu worm that looked like a black broad bean: "It might be Li Jinshuang. Since we can't use the Wind Listening Ruler here, I gave her a Decapitation Gu when she came to the Boundless Abyss, so that we could meet up after we arrived."
"The fact that the Gu worm is reacting means that she is already within the Gu worm's detection range."
Yu Sui walked off the boat: "Besides her, there are others."
There must have been a fight at the entrance to Thousand Feet Cliff; Li Jinshuang wasn't the only one who came.
Yu Sui landed on the ground and looked back at the waterfall behind her.
It's been seven days, and my senior brother hasn't come out, nor has there been any response from Thousand-Foot Cliff.
Yu Sui told herself to wait two more days. If Mei Liangyu still didn't come out, she would go in to look for her.
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