Chapter 240 I'll tell you a secret
Yu Sui looked at Mei Liangyu's injured shoulder. The Five Elements Light Core she released was shattered by the shockwave, so she didn't see the scene of the Heavenly Soldier Goddess shooting an arrow through the young man's shoulder.
Even as an observer, Yu Sui felt that the arrow would be hard to dodge.
She didn't hear Wenren Xu and Geng Hanfu's conversation, so she didn't know that Qin Chongxue had used the orchid medicine on Mei Liangyu.
What Yu Sui couldn't accept at this moment was that Mei Liangyu hadn't told her in advance about leaving the Ghost Path Holy Hall to deal with Qin Chongxue and the others.
She turned to leave without a word, but Mei Liangyu, who had seen through her thoughts, grabbed her wrist and pulled her back into his arms.
Mei Liangyu lowered his head and leaned against her shoulder and neck, saying in a low voice, "Don't go."
Yu Sui couldn't help but lean back slightly: "You're covered in blood."
It almost rubbed against her nose.
Mei Liangyu held onto Yu Sui's wrist tightly and whispered to her, "That person must have done something to the arrow, disrupting the five elements in my body. It's like the five elements are reversed, or like they've disrupted and reshaped my five elements."
Yu Sui's eyes flickered as she listened.
Mei Liangyu added, "If he used some unknown orchid poison, would you still feel comfortable leaving me here alone?"
The speaker meant no harm, but the listener took it to heart. Yu Sui immediately frowned and said, "Hurry back and let Sister Yuezhen take a look."
Mei Liangyu turned her head and pressed her cheek against Yu Sui's. Her own face was icy cold from the wind, but Yu Sui's face was warm, so she couldn't help but press her cheek against Yu Sui's a couple more times.
Yu Sui turned her face away, not indulging him, and gestured for him to leave quickly.
Cang Shu and the others returned to the academy first. Shi Yuezhen had already heard about what happened tonight from him and told the injured Mei Liangyu to wait at Cang Shu's farmhouse.
Now Shi Yuezhen is not on duty at the clinic, and it is inconvenient for her to go there.
Yu Sui brought Mei Liangyu to the farmhouse courtyard and saw Cang Shu packing up his medicine basket in the yard. He tilted his head and gestured to Mei Liangyu that he was inside.
Mei Liangyu stepped inside, where Xing Chun and Yan Xiaochuan were also present. The two of them each held a bowl of dark, bitter medicine, touched it together, and then, with a pinch of their noses, tilted their heads back and drank it down in one gulp.
Shi Yuezhen said from the side, "You are not allowed to spit it out."
Yan Xiaochuan: "Ugh!"
Xing Chun: "Swallow it back, swallow it back!"
As soon as Yu Sui reached the door, she was choked by the sour and bitter smell of medicine in the room and backed away. Mei Liangyu turned to look at her, and Yu Sui covered her nose and said in a muffled voice, "Senior brother, you go by yourself."
Mei Liangyu: "Are you really at ease?"
Yu Sui said, "With Sister Yuezhen here, of course I feel at ease."
Mei Liangyu stared at her with a dark expression.
Yu Sui added, "I see there's only this one wound. Although it pierced through the skin and flesh, it didn't damage the bone. Go quickly."
Although she accompanied Mei Liangyu, it didn't mean she had calmed down.
Mei Liangyu walked inside expressionlessly, ignoring the pleading looks from Xing Chun and Yan Xiaochuan.
Two traitors, who abandoned him in the outer city first?
If he hadn't been quick-witted, his junior sister wouldn't have even given him a glance.
Yu Sui meant it and didn't go in. She stood outside and waited the whole time. Mei Liangyu looked into the courtyard several times, but could only see her profile as she waited quietly.
She stood outside and asked Mei Liangyu how his injuries were. Shi Yuezhen said that the arrow had pierced his shoulder and broken the bone, and he would need to rest for a while.
Before Yu Sui could speak, Mei Liangyu reassured her, "This injury only looks scary; it's nothing serious."
Xing Chun: "I'm only twisting my arm and I can't move it for several days, and you're doing this..."
Mei Liangyu gave him a cold look, while Yan Xiaochuan pushed Xing Chun's medicine bowl: "Senior Brother Xing, you'd better finish your medicine quickly, and your hand will be fine after you finish."
Xing Chun stared at the medicine bowl and said painfully, "You drink it first, I'll watch you drink it."
Yu Sui ignored them and asked again, "Any reactions to the orchid poison?"
Upon hearing this, Xing Chun and Yan Xiaochuan looked at Mei Liangyu again, both somewhat surprised. However, they then realized that it was possible; if it were someone from Xuan Kui, they would likely resort to such despicable means.
Shi Yuezhen said, "If it's orchid poisoning, Meimei will notice it herself. If you're worried, I'll give her a blood test."
Cang Shu also entered the room and said, "I see that his five elements are indeed somewhat subtle. I'll check it out to put my mind at ease."
Everyone in the room had already agreed, so Mei Liangyu couldn't say anything and let Shi Yuezhen take the blood for testing.
He mentioned Lan Du earlier only to appease Yu Sui and make his junior sister calm down.
Shi Yuezhen went to the doctor's house to get the green sprout water and then tested it on Mei Liangyu by taking blood. After a short while, the blood began to bubble and gurgle in the green sprout water. Soon, the blood and water coagulated and floated on the surface of the water.
Everyone in the room fell silent as they watched Qingya Water's reaction.
The blood clots forming beads in the water of the green buds are a result of testing positive for orchid poisoning.
Xing Chun and Yan Xiaochuan's expressions immediately changed, and Yan Xiaochuan angrily cursed, "These bastards!"
Shi Yuezhen, who was originally waiting to tease Yu Sui and Mei Liangyu, became a little more serious upon seeing this: "Don't rush. When the orchid poison enters the body, the five elements of qi will change. I won't be unable to detect it, Mei Mei?"
Mei Liangyu pondered, "When the armored formation was injured, the five elements seemed to have been disrupted and reorganized."
He glanced at Yu Sui out of the corner of his eye. The girl was still standing at the door, not moving, and showed no intention of coming in. She was just staring at the bowl of green sprout water.
The scene of blood droplets floating in his dark pupils was reflected in his eyes, making it impossible to discern his emotions.
Mei Liangyu wondered if it was just his imagination, but when he looked at her, he felt that the girl's gentle and harmless aura had diminished considerably, and she seemed to exude a sharpness and coldness.
"Let me check it carefully for you and see what exactly it is." Shi Yuezhen said and began to take action.
At this moment, the wind-listening rulers of the people in the room all rang. Cang Shu looked down and said, "Master and the others have returned and want us to go to the Legalist Heavenly Observation Division to explain what happened tonight."
Mei Liangyu stood up and said, "Then let's go to the Tianjian Division first. Don't worry too much about the orchid poison. I know what I'm doing."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Sui turned to look at him. When Mei Liangyu saw the moment when Yu Sui's delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly, he suddenly understood what it meant for people to be shameless.
I'm afraid she's not worried at all, but I'm also afraid she's worried too much.
The moment Mei Liangyu saw Yu Sui frown, she felt her blood rush faster. She even wanted to grab Qin Chongxue, force him to kneel before Yu Sui, and make him rip out his heart and sincerely tell Yu Sui that he would be alright.
The others tacitly refrained from disturbing them. Shi Yuezhen took the green sprout water behind the screen, while Cang Shu and the other two headed to the Legalist school first.
Mei Liangyu stepped forward, took Yu Sui's hand, and led her to the courtyard.
"Go back to the sanctuary first, I'll come to explain tonight's events to you later." Mei Liangyu looked down at her. "It was my fault for not telling you beforehand. Don't worry too much about the orchid poison."
Know when to back down.
Yu Sui: "Am I worried?"
Mei Liangyu reached out and smoothed her brow: "Then don't frown."
Yu Sui: "I'll just frown."
She had just furrowed her brow when Mei Liangyu gently smoothed it away with her fingers, a gesture tinged with helplessness.
"The substance coated on that arrow is similar to orchid poison, but it's not orchid poison. The Green Sprout Water can detect the reaction because my Five Elements Qi has not yet been reshaped back to its original form."
Mei Liangyu put one hand on Yu Sui's shoulder, seemingly pulling her into his arms, and leaned down to whisper in her ear, "I'll tell you a secret."
Just as Yu Sui was about to look up at him, the man's broad and strong hand firmly pressed her head back down.
"My Qi can be refined, and the orchid poison that I can manipulate to form a dependency on the Five Elements Qi is useless to me."
Yu Sui was stunned.
Can a person's energy be refined, altered, and reshaped?
She had never heard of it.
The five elements of energy in the universe can be absorbed and refined, but an individual's "energy" is representative and cannot be changed. The cultivation of the ninth-rank sorcerers is to refine energy that does not belong to them into their own.
Even if Yu Sui's Five Elements Light Core can be changed or replaced, the Qi within his body remains unchanged.
But Mei Liangyu was different.
According to Mei Liangyu, his Qi can be cleansed and reshaped, which means that the Lan Du poison that invaded his body and polluted the Qi of the Five Elements can also be cleansed and reshaped.
For Mei Liangyu, the orchid poison was like a speck of dust that accidentally got on his clothes; he could just pat it off.
Not only orchid poison, but any poison that targets the five elements can be eliminated by refining and reshaping the internal energy.
She looked up at Mei Liangyu: "So that's why you dared to meet Xuan Kui's people tonight?"
Mei Liangyu gently stroked the back of her neck with his hand, as if stroking her hair, and said in a low voice, "I'm only telling you this secret."
He was indeed not afraid that Xuan Kui's people would use such despicable methods as orchid poison.
Yu Sui looked up at him for a while, then suddenly stood on tiptoe, reached forward, and hugged his neck: "Senior brother, it's one thing that you're not afraid of the orchid poison, but it's another thing that they used the orchid poison on you."
She leaned close to Mei Liangyu's ear and whispered, "I don't like competing with others for things, but I hate it even more when others try to take my things away from me."
Legalism, the Heavenly Mirror Bureau.
People came and went within the Tianjian Division, busy sending some intelligence to the Communications Institute for analysis, while the Communications Institute was also busy sending the analyzed information back.
A corpse lay at the entrance of the Tianjian Division's main hall, and the four thirteenth-realm instructors who had been dispatched tonight stood beside it. Inside the room were several academy saints who had arrived earlier.
After Yan Xiaochuan arrived, he quietly greeted Mu Yong'an and, at the latter's signal, stood at the back.
Jiang Shulan was studying the body of the deceased Qin Chongxue when Qian Ying followed beside her, carrying a tray with several small bowls on it, including some Qingya water.
Two Legalist sages were also present.
Wan Guiyue sat quietly in her chair, a smile playing on her lips. Wei Xizhen stood just above Qin Chongxue's head, her hands tucked into her sleeves, observing him with downcast eyes.
Wu Huaiwei sat to Wan Guiyue's right, propping her chin up with one hand and smiling as she stared at Wan Guiyue. She loved watching the drama unfold and said casually, "We've been seeing each other quite often lately."
Wan Guiyue smiled and said, "While my body is recovering well, I also want to go out and walk around more."
"Life is short, so enjoy it while you can." Wu Huaiwei laughed along. "You really should go out and travel more, so that we won't be surprised if you die somewhere without us knowing."
Wan Guiyue covered her mouth with her hand and coughed lightly, only smiling and not saying a word, then turned her gaze towards the door.
Wei Xizhen asked, "Did he die from the poison of the Devouring Python?"
“That’s one way to put it,” Jiang Shulan nodded. “The Devouring Python’s poison accelerates the reversal of the five elements. According to the instructors, he used the Orchid Poison, which caused his strength to surge in a short period of time. However, after the effects of the Orchid Poison wore off, his internal energy became weaker due to the excessive consumption of the five elements. He then fought with Instructor Mu at that time. It’s not wrong to say that he died from the reversal of the five elements after being poisoned.”
Wei Xizhen glanced at Mu Yong'an without making a sound. The man lowered his head and coughed softly, looking like he wasn't in good condition.
"You were the last person he fought?" Wei Xizhen asked Mu Yong'an.
Mu Yong'an nodded and coughed, "The people we split up to chase, he encountered... cough cough, Instructor Zhang and the others first. After using the Orchid Poison, they escaped by seawater. This person was very weak after coming ashore, and I happened to run into him... cough..."
Yan Xiaochuan hesitated, wanting to go and see his master, but held back because of the people present.
"Alright, it takes you the time it takes to burn an incense stick to understand even three words in one sentence. You're even weaker than our Dean Wan." Wu Huaiwei glanced at Mu Yong'an with disdain, then looked coldly at Yan Xiaochuan. "Why don't you take your master down to rest? Do you really want to see him die here and cause trouble?"
Yan Xiaochuan immediately stepped forward to support Mu Yong'an: "Dean Wu is right, I will take Master down to rest now."
Sitting in the corner, Zou Qian put her hands behind her head, turned her head to look at Mu Yong'an, then at Wu Huaiwei, and finally back at Wei Xizhen.
Wei Xizhen was also looking at Wu Huaiwei at this moment. Her light-colored eyes stared quietly at the Yin Yang School Saint for a while, then turned away as if nothing had happened.
Yan Xiaochuan helped Mu Yong'an leave the Tianjian Division. After they exited the Tianjian Division and walked onto a secluded path, he couldn't help but ask, "Master, tonight..."
Mu Yong'an grabbed his hand, shook his head, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Are you hurt anywhere?"
In front of Mu Yong'an, Yan Xiaochuan was completely the image of a well-behaved and sensible child: "They are just superficial injuries, nothing serious. Senior Sister Shi has already prepared medicine for me, and I will take it on time."
"Are these people only targeting Senior Brother Liangyu because of the Xuan Kui Orchid Poison incident?" Yan Xiaochuan's tone was slightly cold. "They also used the Orchid Poison on Senior Brother Liangyu tonight, and Senior Sister Shi found out in her blood test."
Mu Yong'an patted the back of his hand lightly and said calmly, "Xuan Kui did come tonight because of the Orchid Poison, but they messed with the wrong person."
He recalled his meeting with Wenren Xu before returning to the academy.
Wenren Xu handed over Qin Chongxue's body, smiling as he said, "Please tell the young master that this is a gift I'm giving him."
"I have some connection with Lao Qin, so we can't let him die in vain. You should make good use of Lao Qin to help the young master accomplish what he wants to do."
[Author's Note]
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