Chapter 181 It was actually his fault...
Xiao Changheng looked vigilantly in the direction where the sound came from.
But I saw a wisp of green smoke floating down in front of my eyes, and in the blink of an eye it turned into an enchanting woman in a red dress.
He felt relieved and looked at the woman and said:
"You are... Miss Zhiluo?"
He had seen this woman during the incident at the Mingguo family's ancestral tomb and knew that she was Yun Qingqing's friend.
Zhiluo ignored him and rushed to Yun Qingqing to look her over:
"Your spiritual power is obviously too strong and you haven't tamed it properly, so you are out of breath. How could this happen?"
"And what's with the ghost energy around here? It's as if you just fought a big battle and killed countless evil spirits!"
Yun Qingqing: “…”
“Oh…I see!”
Seeing that Yun Qingqing didn't say anything, Zhiluo glanced at Xiao Changheng and slammed her palm.
"You rushed from the Imperial Capital to the Northwest in less than half a day. You must have come to look for him. You used some means to forcefully inject spiritual energy into me, but you didn't refine it properly!"
"What?" Xiao Changheng's heart stagnated, "Qingqing, you..."
"I'm fine." Yun Qingqing said calmly, "Don't make any noise, I need some quiet time now."
"Oh." Zhiluo pursed her lips, sat beside her and propped up her cheeks, and said, "I'll protect you. When you recover, tell me what's going on."
Yun Qingqing nodded and glanced at Xiao Changheng.
Zhiluo understood and raised her hand. A puff of green smoke wrapped around Xiao Changheng. In a flash, he saw the man returning to the tent.
Xiao Changheng: ...
He didn't get any sleep that night.
When the sky turned white again, Yun Qingqing opened her eyes from her trance.
Zhiluo looked her up and down for a few times before she breathed a sigh of relief:
"Tell me, what was that ghost energy about yesterday? Was it directed at him?"
Yun Qingqing knew who the "he" she was referring to, nodded and whispered:
"I had time to refine the spiritual energy last night, but an evil spirit suddenly came, which caused the spiritual energy to go out of control and I couldn't suppress it. I suffered some internal injuries."
"In order to prevent me from falling in realm, Poxiao forcefully killed off the evil spirits and evil ghosts, and now he has entered hibernation."
"No wonder." Zhiluo sighed, "I was staying in Tianming Pavilion peacefully, but suddenly I sensed that you were injured, and you ran thousands of miles away. I was so scared!"
She had made a contract with Yun Qingqing, so she could sense it immediately when Yun Qingqing was injured.
"That's what I told you. Even if there are a lot of evil spirits, they are just serving food to you in your eyes. They won't cause you any internal injuries." Zhiluo sighed.
"It's my fault." A low, hoarse male voice suddenly came from not far away.
The two turned around and saw Xiao Changheng sitting at the entrance of the tent, looking at Yun Qingqing with deep eyes.
"It's me. I caused you to have no time to regulate your breathing. Later you vomited blood... It's also because I did something unnecessary, right?" he whispered.
Zhiluo’s words last night hit his heart like a hammer.
The long night was enough for him to chew over these thoughts many times, and the conclusion was always the same.
In order to rush to find him, Yun Qingqing forcibly injected spiritual power.
After finding him, she worked non-stop to bandage him, set up a tent, settle him down while he was unconscious, and boil medicine.
She had time to calm her spirit, but he kept pestering her, and she still had to patiently coax him to drink the medicine...
Also, when the evil man walked towards her with the sword in hand, she looked so calm, it was obvious that she had a plan in mind.
So she vomited blood later, it was actually his fault...
"You think too much." The girl's clear voice pulled him out of his overwhelming self-blame.
Yun Qingqing looked at him as usual:
"You don't understand these things. The accidents that happened last night were caused by my own lack of consideration. That delayed the opportunity to regulate my breathing. It's not your fault."
She made those decisions on her own and never thought of blaming him.
"In fact, the reason you couldn't use your internal energy last night was because of that bowl of medicine. Otherwise, you wouldn't be completely unable to protect yourself."
After Yun Qingqing finished speaking, she tilted her head and thought for a while, then suddenly smiled at Xiao Changheng:
"You would rather risk your life to protect me then, thank you very much."
Xiao Changheng looked at her steadily for a moment, silently lowered the tent curtain, and lay back down.
He raised his arm, covered his eyes with the back of his hand, and curled the corners of his lips in self-mockery.
She said he "didn't understand", which was obviously the truth, but it was so heartbreaking.
It made him realize more and more how far he was from her world.
But as long as she smiled and said thank you, all the emotions in his heart would be swept away, and he would be filled with her smiling eyes, clear as a lake and bright as stars.
Really, it’s a complete failure.
"Ahem, um..." Yun Qingqing coughed through the tent curtain.
Xiao Changheng sat up suddenly and listened with bated breath.
Yun Qingqing: "It's almost time to go back, but I have something to ask your subordinate first, do you want to come with me?"
Xiao Changheng's eyes darkened, and he immediately put aside everything else:
"good."
Yun Qingqing took out a wheelchair from the space. Xiao Changheng was no longer surprised.
Several people came to the body together.
Zhiluo hissed and looked at Xiao Changheng.
He slowly stepped forward, pulled out the knife stuck in the corpse's chest, and said in a deep voice:
"This is my right forward, his name is Miao Yuanshu. He attacked me by surprise and I killed him."
Yun Qingqing had guessed it earlier, and when she heard him confirm it in person, she nodded.
She took out the soul-gathering talisman and tried to summon the soul, but found no response at all.
"Hmm? What's going on?" Zhiluo asked curiously, "Why can't I summon this person's soul?"
Yun Qingqing frowned even more tightly:
"It's not that he can't be summoned, it's that his soul has already left his body the moment he died."
She turned to look at Xiao Changheng:
"You were on the battlefield when you disappeared. How did you end up here alone with him?"
Xiao Changheng took out a broken yellow talisman, his face showing a cold expression:
"I had just beheaded Commander Xilan, and I was hit by several arrows and fell off my horse. When Miao Yuanshu came over, I thought he was coming to save me."
"But he lifted me onto his horse and took advantage of the chaos to stab me in the heart. When I regained consciousness, he had already brought me here."
Yun Qingqing took the talisman paper and saw a big hole in the center of it, with many small holes around it.
As expected, he was shot with arrows all over his body and his chest was stabbed with a knife.
The knife was enough to be fatal, so the talisman became ineffective after it took the effect on him.
I think the arrow wound on his waist was caused by a stray arrow after he lost consciousness due to Miao Yuanshu's ambush.
Yun Qingqing said in a deep voice:
"I have long suspected that this person is related to the evil way. Now it seems that Miao Yuanshu should be taking orders from the evil way."
"Because last night, I blocked your aura in order to prevent the forest monsters from targeting you, but the evil spirit's target was very clear, and it was obvious that someone had reported it."
"Now it seems that Miao Yuanshu's soul has long been controlled by the evil way, so when a person dies, the soul will fly directly back to the evil way for him to control."
Xiao Changheng nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
There are too many people in this world who want to kill him. Miao Yuanshu's soul is gone, and the clues are gone. There is no point in thinking too much.
"There is one more thing you should think of a solution for."
Yun Qingqing said.
"Someone sent false news to the Imperial Capital in the name of the Northwest Army, saying that you were dead."
Xiao Changheng was stunned: "......?"
Zhiluo burst into laughter:
"The entire Imperial Capital should be preparing for a state funeral right now. There will be something exciting to watch when you return!"
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