Chapter 146: A Leaf Blinds You to the Beauty
Hongying finally coaxed Zhuhuang to sleep. Just as she was thinking of coming back to ask about Master Xuanhuai's condition, she saw Lingxiang squatting at the door, teasing someone.
When Lingxiang heard the noise behind her, she immediately stood up and went to greet Hongying.
"It's inconvenient to enter now. My master is giving acupuncture to Master Xuan Huai."
Hongying understood what he meant when he heard it - some doctors have exquisite medical skills, but those are just their special skills, and most of them are not suitable to be shown to outsiders.
"Since the treatment has already begun, does that mean my master can be saved?"
Lingxiang shook her head and said she didn't know. Hongying looked frightened when she heard that.
"How confident are you, Master?"
Lingxiang still shook her head. "Don't worry too much. Since my master has started treating Master Xuanhuai, it means there is a solution. However, acupuncture is a physically demanding job and cannot be disturbed. Let's just wait patiently."
Hearing this, Hongying looked towards the door, her face full of worry. Seeing her like this, Lingxiang took her hand and said, "Don't worry, sister. My master said that Master Xuanhuai has a face that is extremely lucky, so he will be fine. But there is something I don't understand right now. Why don't you take me to see your senior brother?"
Hongying was a little confused: "Why do you want to see Senior Brother?"
Lingxiang smiled and said, "My master just said that if we want to detoxify, we need to know what kind of poison it is, but we can't know it now. You said earlier that your senior brother saw Taoist Xuantan poisoning me with his own eyes. I think he must have seen the appearance of the poison. I was thinking that if he could remember the color of the poison, whether it was a powder or liquid, and what kind of packaging it was in, he could roughly deduce the type of poison. Although this way, we can't figure out the exact poison, we can deduce its general type, which will be more helpful to Taoist Xuanhuai's treatment."
After hearing what Lingxiang said, Hongying felt that it made sense. She thought to herself that since it would benefit her master, she would naturally cooperate with her wholeheartedly.
Lingxiang followed Hongying to a courtyard. Although it was not large, it was very exquisite. The four rooms in the courtyard were connected by a long corridor. Below the corridor was a pond. Although there was only a pool of clear water, you could vaguely see some fish swimming around in it.
Hongying led Lingxiang through a long corridor and knocked on a door.
"Big Brother, I'm Hongying."
After waiting for a moment, the door opened, and a thin man in a green Taoist robe came out.
The man had a thin face, thick eyebrows and narrow eyes. When he opened the door, his face was full of surprise and he asked:
"Why are you back? Did you get the life-extending elixir?"
Hongying shook her head: "But I have invited Master Fuyin from the Yuanqing Sect, and he has already started treating Master."
The man just saw Lingxiang behind Hongying at this time and couldn't help but be extremely surprised. Could this be the Yuanqing School's Master Fuyin?
Lingxiang saw the expression on the man's face and hurried forward to pay her respects. "Brother Daoist, please don't misunderstand me. I am Maidong, a disciple of the Yuanqing Sect. Master Fuyin is my master. I am currently treating him at Master Xuanhuai's academy."
The man took a step back upon hearing this and invited the two into the house: "My name is Bai Yang."
As soon as the three of them sat down, Lingxiang asked directly, "I heard from Sister Hongying earlier that Brother Dao saw Taoist Xuantan poison him with his own eyes?"
Bai Yang nodded. "That day, I was about to go to Master's room to answer him, but outside the window I saw Master's uncle Xuantan holding a porcelain bottle and pouring something into Master's food behind his back. After that, Master fell seriously ill."
"Since it is sprinkled, it is powder. Can you see what color it is?" Lingxiang asked with a frown.
"It should be white. After the medicine was sprinkled into Master's mica porridge, it immediately dissolved."
"Since you saw Master Xuantan drugging someone, why didn't you stop him?" Lingxiang asked.
Bai Yang frowned upon hearing this. "I didn't know it was poison at the time. I only realized it when Master fell ill." He stood up and took a porcelain bottle from a nearby shelf. "Everyone in the sect always keeps this kind of thing on hand. The two bottles are the same, so I didn't take it seriously."
Lingxiang took the porcelain bottle after hearing this. As soon as she pulled out the cork, she smelled a strong scent of silver dan grass. She looked at Hongying.
"This is……"
Hongying quickly took out an identical bottle from her bosom and said, "This is our sect's exclusive recipe. We do add some to our meals on a daily basis. Although it has a strong taste, it helps with the cultivation of our sect's mental methods, so every inner sect disciple has a bottle."
"So that's how it is..." Lingxiang said as she covered the porcelain bottle, a thoughtful look on her face.
Seeing her like this, Hongying hurriedly asked what was wrong. Lingxiang just smiled and didn't answer. Instead, she asked Baiyang, "Then how did you find out about the life-extending pill?"
"I heard Junior Sister Changpu mention it before. It seems that Elder Fu Cang of your sect once saved a life in the Supreme Sect using this method. She was there at the time and came back to tell us."
Hearing this, Lingxiang frowned even more tightly. Although Lu Ying's life was in danger at that time, she was confident and not panicked at all, so she remembered it very clearly - there was no woman present at that time. This Changpu was obviously lying.
But how did she know?
…
Maidong has been very happy living in Xianyun for the past two days, as if she is the owner of Xianyunju. From time to time, she asks Rendong to serve tea and water, chop firewood and cook.
However, she originally wanted to get closer to Xinyi, but he didn't return to Xianyunju often recently.
To know where Xinyi went, of course she had to keep a close eye on Changpu's every move.
However, these days, Changpu seemed to be fine. He followed Taoist Xuantan closely during the day, and at night, he just returned to the house with his fellow disciples.
He seemed to be behaving normally, but Xinyi always felt that this person was very familiar to him.
But he had never seen this woman before, so why did he have this feeling?
On the third night that Xinyi was watching her, she saw her leave the guest house alone in the middle of the night and walk into the mountains.
Seeing this, Xinyi immediately followed, but Changpu only walked into the forest and stayed in one place without moving, as if he was waiting for someone.
Xinyi was puzzled. Logically speaking, Changpu was just a foreign teacher. Even if she had something to say to someone, it should be to one of her fellow disciples. There was no need for her to come out in the middle of the night. Why did this happen?
Could it be that he was sleepwalking?
Just when Xinyi was confused, she heard Changpu talking.
"You are following me like this, are you attracted by my beauty?"
Xin Yi was shocked when he heard this. He had always concealed his aura, so how did this woman know? Could her cultivation level be higher than his?
But based on what I saw every day, this woman was just a Qi Refiner. How could she detect me?
"How did you know I was following you?" Xinyi twisted her fingers and released the spell. "This is my unique spell. With your level of cultivation, it's impossible for you to detect it. Who are you?"
Upon hearing this, Acorus chuckled softly, and that chuckle was extremely charming.
"It's just the Lu family's technique, Xinyi. Have you forgotten me after just a few days?"
Xinyi was shocked when she heard this: "You are! Yinghua!"
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Lingxiang and Master Fuyin have been staying in Master Xuanhuai's house and have never gone out. Even Hongying is not allowed to enter, saying that they need to remove the poison for Master Xuanhuai. If there are too many people in the house, it will be inconvenient.
Hongying also understood and stayed at the door without leaving. Zhuhuang came to look for her many times, but he never let her into the house.
At this time, Master Xuanhuai was playing chess with Master Fuyin.
"Your disciple is truly interesting," said Xuan Huai Zhenren, making a move. "She is so clever that I want to take her in as my disciple."
Master Fuyin held the chess piece in his hand and pondered silently. Master Xuanhuai was an excellent chess player and had almost surrounded and killed him just now, so he could not be careless at all.
Lingxiang, who was standing by, laughed and said, "I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. After all, I did deceive you."
"Oh? What do you mean?"
"The person playing chess with you is actually not my master." Lingxiang smiled and put down the porcelain bottle in her hand - there are really quite a few rare things in this old man's house.
Xuan Huai Zhenren was shocked when he heard this. Seeing him like this, Ling Xiang quickly said, "Of course, he is the Taoist Fu Yin of the Yuanqing Sect. There is no doubt about that. However, he and I are not master and disciple, but fellow disciples."
Xuan Huai was shocked again. Although he rarely interacted with the Yuanqing Sect, they were both major Taoist sects, so he had naturally heard of them. Since this girl was the junior sister of Fu Yin, that meant...
"Yes, I am Elder Fu Cang of the Yuanqing Sect."
When these words were spoken, Master Xuan Huai was so frightened that he almost fell off the couch.
He had heard of the Nine Sons of Yuanqing, but he didn't expect that Elder Fu Cang was actually a girl.
And this little girl could actually refine the life-extending elixir that Fairy Tu Mi had refined back then!?
"Kid, don't try to make fun of an old man like me. How can you be an elder of the Yuanqing Sect at your age?"
Lingxiang smiled and picked up a mermaid pearl beside her and weighed it. It was not as good as the one in Senior Brother Zhaoming's hall, but the color was very beautiful.
Seeing her like this, Master Xuan Huai hurriedly asked the hesitant Master Fu Yin, "Is this little girl really Elder Fu Cang?"
Master Fuyin was concentrating on thinking about how to make his move. He didn't really take Master Xuanhuai's question to heart. He just nodded subconsciously, still thinking about how to get out of the predicament.
When Master Xuan Huai saw him like this, he was so frightened that even his beard began to tremble.
…
"I am the Yuanqing Sect's Chief of Punishment and Subjugation. There is no one else in the room right now. Since you are all right, why don't you stand up and talk? Wouldn't that be very convenient?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Master Xuan Huai on the bed opened his eyes and sat up!
"I didn't expect that Hongying would invite Master Fuyin." Master Xuanhuai said as he put on his shoes and socks, saying sorry for making fun of him while putting on his shoes.
"Your fellow Daoist is clearly fine, but you have shut down your four senses. What's the reason?" Master Fuyin was not polite and asked directly.
Master Xuan Huai sighed as he fastened his shoelaces, "I think my junior fellow apprentice must have already reached Jiuque Mountain. To be honest, someone from the demon clan has entered the Kunwu Sect."
Upon hearing this, Master Fuyin was shocked. According to Chi Yanzi, the demons have always been in the territory of the Barbarian Continent. How could they set foot in the Central Plains sects?
However, Master Xuan Huai continued, "It's just that my Kunwu sect has always been good at subduing demons, and knows very little about the affairs of the demon clan. I heard that your sect was a pioneer in defeating demons many years ago, so I came to seek your help."
Lingxiang heard this and asked, "So, the matter of Taoist Xuantan giving me the drug was also planned by you?"
Drugged? What drug? Master Xuan Huai looked puzzled upon hearing this. Ling Xiang then told him about her previous encounter with Hong Ying, and Master Xuan Huai immediately burst into laughter.
"Why would my junior brother drug me? That was a secret medicine made by our sect, it was only used to assist our cultivation method."
Lingxiang was surprised when she heard this. She had never heard that practicing martial arts required the assistance of medicine.
Seeing her like this, Master Xuan Huai smiled again and said, "I am ashamed to say this, but our sect's Taoist method was originally the method of the celestial immortals. However, due to the scarcity of spiritual roots these days, it is difficult for the people in our sect to practice it. Fortunately, my master found a good recipe, which is how we preserved the inheritance of this method."
"Since fellow Daoist is deliberately creating confusion, I think you know who the demons are who have infiltrated?" Master Fuyin quickly spoke to relieve Master Xuanhuai's embarrassment.
Can……
"Oh, I'm ashamed to say this, but... I really don't know..."
"Then...are there any clues?"
"Yes, there are, but it's too complicated and I can't explain it clearly at the moment."
Hearing this, Lingxiang couldn't help but roll her eyes: "You know nothing about this question. Even if you ask Yuanqing Sect for help, there will be nothing you can do, right?"
Upon hearing this, Master Xuan Huai laughed. "It's not that I know nothing. Based on what I've seen so far, there are indeed two people in the sect who are somewhat strange. However, one of them is my disciple who I've watched grow up, and the other is my junior brother's disciple. It's hard to confirm who they are at the moment."
"According to what you said, one of them is your eldest disciple who is under house arrest?" asked Master Fuyin with a frown.
Xuan Huai Zhenren nodded: "That's right, there is one more person..."
"The other person is a female disciple who followed Taoist Xuantan to the Yuanqing Sect," Lingxiang said. "Since we were already suspicious of these two, we separated them to prevent any complications."
Master Xuan Huai raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Hmm! This girl is very smart, much better than my Hongying."
Lingxiang listened to Xuanhuai Zhenren's praise but did not become arrogant. She just continued, "I'm afraid that female disciple is not from the demon clan."
"Why do you say that?"
Master Fuyin smoothed his sleeves and said, "To be honest, fellow Daoist, many years ago, the Yuanqing Sect suffered a sudden change due to the invasion of the demons. Now, Yuanqing has set up mountain defense formations throughout the sect, and the demons are absolutely unable to enter the mountain gate."
"So, then it must be my eldest disciple?" Master Xuan Huai frowned. "But my disciple has been learning Taoism from me since he was young. How could he have become a member of the demon clan..."
Lingxiang found it extremely funny to see Master Xuanhuai frowning. The old man had long, thick, white eyebrows, and when he frowned, he looked just like the facial makeup on the stage, which was very funny.
Seeing the unfinished game on the table beside her, she smiled and said, "Why don't I go and investigate for the Master? That would save the Master from worrying about his disciples, wouldn't it?"
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"I saw that you were so young, but I didn't expect you to be an elder. I was really shortsighted!"
Upon hearing this, Lingxiang smiled and walked towards Master Fuyin, taking a chess piece from the chess basket and placing it down.
"It's time to close the net."
Upon hearing this, Master Xuan Huai looked at the chessboard. The white piece that was about to be surrounded and killed actually had a chance of life again.
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