Chapter 41 Madness and Paranoia
The lunar eclipse faded and the morning light was dim.
There was deathly silence in the Lotus Tower.
Yao Mo, Wu Yan, and the others stood guard in the outer room, their faces pale and their eyes bloodshot, as if awaiting a trial. The door to the inner room had been closed all night. The painful roars and the terrifying aura of violent fluctuations of internal energy emanating from within made them tremble with fear, but no one dared to enter.
Finally, after the suffocating silence lasted for too long, the door of the inner room was pushed open a crack from the inside very slowly.
A figure staggered out.
Everyone looked up instantly, and the next moment, they froze in place as if struck by lightning, their pupils suddenly shrank, and all the blood drained from their faces!
The person who came out was Li Lianhua.
But she was no longer the Li Lianhua they were familiar with.
His once jet-black hair had, overnight... completely turned a pale white like snow and frost! It draped haphazardly over his shoulders, making his face appear almost transparent and lifeless. His steps felt as if he were treading on clouds, as if they would dissipate at any moment. He barely managed to keep his balance, relying on one hand to cling to the doorframe.
Even more shocking was the fact that there was no longer any sign of his internal energy flowing! The once vast, ocean-like, and jade-like Yangzhou aura had vanished without a trace, leaving only a fragility and emptiness, like a lamp with its oil running out.
"Owner of the... building?!" Wuyan's voice trembled, and he almost didn't dare to recognize him.
Li Lianhua raised his eyes. They were still clear, yet bottomless, filled with unspeakable fatigue and a kind of calmness that bordered on emptiness. He shook his head gently, indicating that he was fine, and looked past the crowd into the inner room.
Through the crack in the door, one could see Di Feisheng lying quietly on the couch, his brows relaxed. Although his face was still pale, his breathing was steady and long. The heart-pounding aura of poison and agitation around him had completely disappeared. He seemed to have simply fallen into a deep sleep.
"Your Majesty..." The Medicine Demon took a step forward eagerly.
"The poison... has been resolved." Li Lianhua spoke, his voice as hoarse as sandpaper, each word consuming a huge amount of his strength. "He... needs to rest... and cannot use force for a month..."
After he finished speaking, as if he had exhausted his last bit of support, his body swayed, and he loosened his grip on the door frame. He turned around and walked out of the building very slowly, step by step. His thin, white-haired figure looked so fragile in the morning light that it seemed as if it would shatter and dissipate at any moment.
"OP! Where are you going? Your body?!" Wuyan reacted suddenly and stepped forward quickly to stop him.
Li Lianhua didn't turn around, but simply waved her hand lightly, her voice as vague as a sigh: "...Don't tell him, otherwise, you will be punished according to the sect rules."
He walked out of the Lotus Tower and into the cool morning mist, his white hair and green clothes gradually walking away, and finally completely disappeared from everyone's sight, as if he had never appeared.
No one dared to chase him, and no one knew where he was going.
…
Inside the Lotus Tower, the dead silence was completely broken by a heart-wrenching roar!
"ah--!!!"
Di Feisheng's eyes burned bloodshot, and his raging internal energy exploded uncontrollably. The blast sent Wuyan, Shishui, and the others, who were kneeling on the ground, flying backwards. They slammed heavily against the walls and beams, vomiting blood! He didn't even bother to look. Like a mad beast cornered by despair, he rushed out of the building, roaring out that name: "Li Lianhua!!!"
But when I looked around, the morning mist was thick and the mountain was silent. Where was that green shadow?
Tremendous panic and devastating rage instantly devoured all of his rationality! He turned abruptly and darted back into the building like a ghost, his eyes fixed on the trembling Medicine Demon lying limp on the ground!
"explain!"
Just one word, but it was filled with overwhelming murderous aura and the smell of blood, which made the Medicine Demon's heart and liver break and almost suffocate!
“Your Majesty… Your Majesty…” The Medicine Demon prostrated himself on the ground, his teeth chattering and sweat pouring down like a waterfall. “The owner…he ordered…”
"I'm asking you what he did?!" Di Feisheng fiercely kicked the stone table next to him, and the hard granite table instantly exploded into powder! "How did you cure my poison?! Tell me!!!"
The final roar resonated like thunder, shaking the entire Lotus Tower. The terrifying pressure, like a substantial mountain, pressed down fiercely on the Medicine Demon, causing his bones to groan under the weight.
The Medicine Demon was terrified, knowing that if he concealed even a single word, he would be torn to pieces by the enraged Di Feisheng! Tears streamed down his face, and he kowtowed profusely, "Your Majesty, spare my life! It was…it was the OP! He used the forbidden Nan Yin technique, the [Same Life Gu Reincarnation Technique]! He used his own heart essence and blood as a guide, creating a reversal array…and during last night's peak lunar eclipse…he forcibly channeled the Ziqi within you…into his own body!!"
Every word was like a red-hot dagger, fiercely stabbing into Di Feisheng's heart! His body suddenly shook, and his face instantly turned as pale as a ghost!
Drawing evil spirits into the body...Nan Yin's forbidden technique...
He suddenly remembered the excruciating pain he'd felt while unconscious, the warm power he'd felt in his hazy consciousness that had surged into his body regardless of everything, and the soft yet incredibly firm "Let me do it" voice...
It turns out...it turns out that it wasn't a dream!
"Go... continue!" Di Feisheng's voice was hoarse and broken, and every syllable carried the fishy smell of blood foam.
The Medicine Demon was nearly fainting from fear, crying out as he continued, "That forbidden technique... uses the caster's entire vitality and cultivation as a cage... temporarily imprisoning the poison... In order to suppress the utterly erupting evil within you... the host... he... he exhausted all his internal energy... his meridians were completely destroyed... his vitality is like... like a candle in the wind... and that white hair... is a sign of his drained vitality, Your Majesty!"
Internal energy is exhausted... Meridians are destroyed... Vitality is depleted...
Di Feisheng felt his vision go black as a sweet, fishy taste suddenly surged up his throat, which he swallowed hard! He staggered a step and suddenly covered his heart with his right hand. The pain there was as if it was being cut open!
He imagined how Li Lianhua dragged his severely injured body, how he endured the excruciating pain, and how he resolutely brought the pain of the myriad poisons to himself... just to buy him a chance of survival!
The person who always smiled and said "I'm afraid of death"... the person he carefully protected behind his back... actually did this for him!
"What... did he say... when he left?!" Di Feisheng suddenly grabbed Yao Mo's collar and lifted him off the ground, staring at him with his red eyes, like a Shura from hell.
The Medicine Demon's feet left the ground, and he felt a suffocating sensation. He struggled in terror, "The... the owner of the building only told you to rest... and not to use force for a month... and then... he left... and didn't let anyone follow... me... I saw the look on his face when he left... I'm afraid... I'm afraid he's determined to die, Your Majesty!!!"
With the determination to die——
The last four words were like the last straw that broke the camel's back, completely shattering all of Di Feisheng's defenses!
"Ahhhh!!!" He let out a wail of extreme pain and threw the Medicine Demon to the ground. He staggered backward as if collapsing and hit the wall, shaking the beams and pillars so that dust fell down.
Finally, he could no longer hold back a mouthful of blood, which suddenly spurted out of his mouth, staining the ground in front of him red.
He seemed to feel no pain, but just tightly grasped his chest. In his blood-stained red eyes, madness, pain, despair, destruction... all kinds of emotions were violently churning, and finally turned into a bottomless and terrifying silence.
He slowly raised his head, his eyes sweeping across the messy hall, across the silent, wounded crowd, and finally landing on the empty door that Li Lianhua had walked through when she left.
White hair... exhausted... determined to die...
Every word was like the most vicious curse, gnawing at his soul.
"Li Lianhua..." He murmured in a low voice, his voice as hoarse as sandpaper, but with a creepy calmness, "How dare you... do this to me..."
The next moment, he stood up straight abruptly, and the destructive aura around him surged again, but it was even colder and crazier than before!
"No face!"
"I'm here!" Wuyan struggled to kneel down.
"Use all available manpower! The old members of the Golden Yuan League, all the resources of the Four-Gu Sect, all the hidden forces in the underworld! Find him! Search the entire world! Dig deep into the ground! Find him for me!" Di Feisheng's voice was icy cold and piercing, leaving no room for doubt. "I want him alive... dead..."
He paused, the word seemed to burn his throat, and his eyes became more bloodshot: "...I want to see the body too!"
"Yes!" Wuyan kowtowed heavily and immediately staggered out to make arrangements.
Di Feisheng's gaze fell on the limp Medicine Demon again. "Please gather all the details, texts, and possible side effects of that forbidden technique... and send them to my room."
"Yes... yes..." the Medicine Demon responded while crawling over.
Di Feisheng no longer looked at anyone. He turned and walked step by step upstairs, towards the bedroom where Li Lianhua's scent still lingered. His back was as straight as a gun, but it was shrouded in a lingering, almost desperate madness and paranoia.
If he can't find Li Lianhua, he doesn't mind letting the entire martial arts world... and even the whole world... be buried with him.
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