Chapter 331 Turning Misfortune into Good Fortune
After hearing Yu Sui's words, Wei Ren became restless. If the new light core in his body was Nangong Sui's doing, then it was simply... terrifying!
This is appalling!
The world was shocked!
Wei Ren mentally organized all the words he knew to express his shock at the matter.
"How is this possible..." Wei Ren did not expel the moisture, but his frozen brain was heating up.
After tidying herself up, Yu Sui instead asked about Wei Ren and the Five Elements Light Core. At this moment, in her eyes, Wei Ren was simply an experimental subject, and she needed to collect data from him during this period.
"How is the user experience?" Yu Sui asked. "Can you freely control and refine the five elements for cultivation?"
Wei Ren instinctively replied, "Okay."
Yu Sui then asked, "Do you feel any rejection from your body?"
“No…” Wei Ren frowned. “That’s why it’s strange. At first, I thought the damaged light core had been repaired, but later I found that I didn’t do anything, yet the light core’s level is higher than before.”
Yu Sui stared at the location of the Five Elements Light Core on Wei Ren's chest, listening to him recount his experiences over the past few days. From waking up and discovering Pei Daiqing and Shen Tianxue, to meeting Zhang Guanyi in the Snow Valley, and returning to Taiyi Academy with Zhang Guanyi.
Zhang Guanyi knew Yan Manfeng was going to die, so what was the reason for his return to Taiyi Academy?
Yu Sui was lost in thought for a moment, but quickly focused her attention back on Wei Ren's Five Elements Light Core.
"Try using your lowly arts," Yu Sui said.
Wei Ren did as instructed, using his Qi to cast a spell. He used the simplest and most commonly used Wind Control Technique to return to the Black Water. As he moved, Yu Sui sensed the operation of the Five Elements Light Core. With a thought, she blocked the Qi connected to the Five Elements Light Core. Wei Ren was caught off guard and lost his Five Elements Qi. His body plummeted and fell into the water.
Yu Sui then used his Qi to reconnect with the Five Elements Light Core.
She can manipulate the energy within this Five Elements Light Core, but is limited by distance.
Previously, when Wei Ren was in the Snow Valley, Yu Sui was unable to control or sense the location of the light core, but within a certain range, he could not only sense the location but also cut off the gas inside the light core.
Wei Renxin scrambled out of the water, his teeth chattering, and asked, "What just happened? Did you sever the five elements of energy within this light core?"
"You're the first one, so I don't know either. The situation was critical at the time, and this was the only unstable method I could think of," Yu Sui said, half-jokingly. "In the future, I'll need your cooperation to understand more. If you don't want this Five Elements Light Core, that's fine too..."
"I want it!" Wei Ren shouted immediately, as if he was afraid that if he hesitated even a little, Yu Sui would take back the Five Elements Light Core.
Something is better than nothing.
Moreover, his original light core had suffered irreversible damage due to a misjudgment at the time.
This is now a brand new and powerful Five Elements Light Core.
Even if this Five Elements Light Core is controlled by someone else and doesn't completely belong to him, so what? That person is Nangong Sui, so Wei Ren can accept it.
Yu Sui was startled by Wei Ren's shout, then nodded in agreement.
Wan Qi's shouts came from not far away. He was carrying a spider cocoon on his back and was running towards the two people on the shore, panting and waving.
Yu Sui waved to him.
Wei Ren asked her in a low voice, "How much do you know about this person?"
Yu Sui didn't even turn her head: "He doesn't know anything."
Wei Ren couldn't help but ask the question that had been bothering him: "So what do you like about him?"
Yu Sui then turned to look at Wei Ren, her suspicious gaze seeming to ask if he was out of his mind.
Wei Ren awkwardly explained, "I meant his abilities."
"Didn't you notice that his protective aura is strange?" Yu Sui then said, "Logically speaking, Gu Gan's Divine Mechanism Heavenly Official can dissolve and eliminate all the manifestations of the Five Elements Qi, but it has no effect on Wan Qi's protective aura. Isn't the protective aura also a manifestation of the Five Elements Qi?"
Wei Ren sized up Wan Qi, who was running towards them, and thought to himself that this kid was indeed something special.
He recounted the fight between Wan Qi and Lu Pengpeng in detail, speculating, "Nine-style techniques disappear when they reach Wan Qi, as if they are swallowed up by his protective aura. Lu Pengpeng realized this at the time and then used a short sword to test Wan Qi. As long as you don't use techniques that manifest energy to attack Wan Qi, you can succeed."
After saying that, he brought up Shen Liu again: "He must have known Wan Qi's weakness, which is why he was able to succeed in ambushing Wan Qi."
Yu Sui said jokingly, "I don't know if it's because someone from Qingyun had mentioned it to him, or if they're from the same village."
Wei Ren was completely confused: "What, a village?"
Yu Sui only offered a brief explanation, guessing that Wan Qi and Pu Heng's relationship was not simple. Wei Ren had only been back for a short time and hadn't yet learned much about the Qingyun Society.
Wan Qi ran up to the two of them, panting, and asked, "Are you alright?"
Yu Sui was perfectly fine, showing no signs of distress. Wan Qi's gaze fell on Wei Ren's face; the bright red handprint wouldn't fade anytime soon.
That was quite a blow. Serves him right.
Wan Qi pretended not to have seen anything and turned her gaze away.
Wei Ren rubbed his face, sneering inwardly.
Wan Qi asked, "Have you two reached an agreement?"
He seemed to have noticed the change in Wei Ren's attitude towards Yu Sui, so he wasn't worried that the two would fight again. After receiving a nod of response from Yu Sui, Wan Qi put Ji Meng on the ground: "What about him?"
"Did you leave one person behind?" Wei Ren asked, picking a fight. "Didn't your friend die over there?"
Mentioning Ling Jian, Wan Qi's face paled even more: "The disciples who died during the Hundred Families Night Parade will be taken away by the instructors. Instructors should be heading to the Lake of the Dead by now, but they will not interfere with what happens there."
That's what they say, but who can guarantee it?
Just like when Yu Sui was being chased, he ran to the main gate of the Ghost Path Holy Hall. Although he couldn't go inside to hide, who would dare to kill Yu Sui in front of Saint Chang Gen at the main gate of the Holy Hall?
Yu Sui wasted no time. She squatted down, parted the spider cocoon, and carefully examined the unconscious Ji Meng. She asked Wan Qi, "You are a disciple of the medical school. Can you tell anything?"
Wan Qi also squatted down to check Ji Meng's condition. He pulled out a knife and cut open Ji Meng's wrist, the blood turning bluish-black. Wan Qi then took out other tools from the mechanism box and collected the scales and blood that had been cut off Ji Meng's body.
Whether by coincidence or not, after Ji Meng was bled, although his face grew paler and his breath grew weaker, the scales and fangs that had grown on his body gradually disappeared.
Wan Qi remained focused throughout and didn't utter a single word.
He stands out from the crowd when he's focused on his work.
Wei Ren watched for a while, then frowned and asked, "Did he do some experiments too?"
Wan Qi looked up blankly: "What?!"
Wei Ren snapped at him, "Never mind that, just tell me if it's true or not."
"I don't know," Wan Qi said helplessly. "I'm just collecting these first, and then we'll see if we can find out anything later. He's also a disciple of a medical family, so maybe he knows something about my situation."
Wan Qi said, "It would be faster to wake the person up and interrogate them directly."
Wei Ren rolled his eyes: "Do you think you're a genius? You're even trying to extract a confession. What if he suddenly goes crazy again and kills another one?"
“That was an accident that happened when we were caught off guard.” Wan Qi took a deep breath and stared at Ji Meng. “He has to take responsibility for it.”
Wei Ren: "How do you want him to take responsibility?"
Wan Qi's lips trembled, but his eyes suddenly went blank and lost their focus.
In the past, he would have firmly uttered the words "a life for a life." But later... why couldn't he say it anymore?
Yu Sui glanced at Wei Ren, signaling him to shut up and not provoke Ji Meng or drive Wan Qi crazy again.
"You can help investigate, after all, I don't know many doctors and sorcerers." Yu Sui slowly stood up and looked into the distance. "We don't have much time left. I need to go find Third Brother, and you need to go find Shen Liu to get the antidote."
After hearing this, Wan Qi checked Ji Meng's body again and said, "His Yin poison has been cured."
Wei Ren lifted his eyelids to look at him: "Then all that's left is for you to get the antidote."
Wan Qi went to check on Yu Sui: "Weren't you together? I think you all know each other. Wouldn't it be faster to rescue people together..."
Before he could finish speaking, Wei Ren impatiently interrupted him: "Who told you we were together?"
“Gu Gan and Wei Ren are mortal enemies, but I have a decent relationship with both sides. It wasn’t easy for me to be the middleman, you can understand, right?” Yu Sui smiled, her eyes crinkling, and bent down slightly to look at Wan Qi, who was still squatting. “If Brother Gu knew that Wei Ren and I were on good terms, he would ask a lot of annoying questions. I don’t like trouble, I like things simple, you…”
"Okay, okay, I understand." Wan Qi raised her hands in surrender before Yu Sui could finish speaking, her eyes lacking any energy, and said, "But Gu Gan has caught up with us, hasn't he? What should we do?"
Yu Sui turned to look at Wei Ren: "Can you find Shen Liu's location?"
“Okay.” Wei Ren raised his hand, with several black lines flowing in his palm. “Shen Liu has the scent of spider silk on him.”
Fortunately, he was careful at the time.
Yu Sui looked in the direction Wei Ren pointed and said softly, "Don't worry about Gu Gan, go find my third brother first."
Wan Qi pointed at Ji Meng and said, "And what about him?"
Yu Sui remembered that Ji Meng disliked Sheng Fei and said with a smile, "Take him with us."
After the yin and yang appeared, Shen Liu hurriedly led Lu Pengpeng and Feng Xiu back to the pile-driving site, but the three of them were nowhere to be seen.
Xu Dian disappeared, the fishing line broke, and there was no trace of Sheng Fei and Mu Mengbai.
“There are no signs of a fight,” Feng Xiu said.
"I need to see his body, dead or alive," Shen Liu said to Lu Pengpeng with a grim face. "Find Xu Dian's location."
Although Lu Pengpeng was still recovering from her injury, she quickly did as instructed.
After finding Xu Dian's location by testing the waters, the three of them immediately began their operation.
The distance is neither far nor near.
Lu Pengpeng kept checking Xu Dian's location and discovered that Xu Dian was also constantly moving.
At this moment, Xu Dian was chasing Sheng Fei and Mu Mengbai in the water. The water of the Dark Lake was extremely cold. Mu Mengbai was carrying the unconscious Sheng Fei underwater to escape. Several times he was almost swept away by the undercurrents and pulled into deeper water, but he stubbornly floated to the surface each time.
When Mu Mengbai discovered Xu Dian relentlessly pursuing him, his eyes widened in fright, and he swam desperately while clinging to Sheng Fei. The divine wooden talisman shone with dazzling golden light in the black water, guiding his way.
Whenever he faced a life-or-death situation, the divine wooden divination stick always helped him turn misfortune into good fortune.
Xu Dian was in much better condition than the other two. Once Mu Mengbai was within his attack range, Xu Dian would make his move, and the golden spirit words would transform into streaks of azure water arrows that shot towards Mu Mengbai.
Even though Mu Mengbai had his back to him and couldn't see what was happening behind him, he always missed the water arrows by mistake due to the sweeping undercurrents.
After this happened several times, Xu Dian began to feel uneasy and suspected that Mu Mengbai might have secretly used the divine wooden divination sticks to perform magic.
According to his observation, Mu Mengbai had neither the opportunity nor the time to use the divination array.
Xu Dian refused to believe it. He endured the biting cold and plunged deeper into the water, swimming faster. How could he possibly be in the wrong if he couldn't catch those two near-death individuals even at his peak?
Xu Dian, who was lurking in the deep water, finally waited for Mu Mengbai, who was swept back by the undercurrent. The two were almost pushed face to face by the current.
Xu Dian's muscular arms gripped Mu Mengbai's collar tightly, choking him. Mu Mengbai gasped for breath, bubbles coming out of his mouth, almost suffocating and fainting. Just as he thought to himself, "This is bad," the person next to him finally woke up.
Sheng Fei, in the black water, opened his golden-red eyes. His handsome yet tired face became ferocious, like a raging tiger, letting out a roar and warning as if about to tear its prey apart.
The man's pale lips breathed silently as golden spirit words twisted in the void and landed on the back of his hand.
Xu Dian was caught off guard and before he could react, a pair of hands grabbed his neck. In the next instant, the five fingers of that hand, filled with rage and twisted killing intent, pierced his flesh and snapped Xu Dian's neck.
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