Chapter 1: First sight of white hair and purple eyes?
The outskirts of Westland.
The sky was dark and full of dark clouds. Strong winds were howling all around, rustling the leaves and covering the ground with yellow.
"Thump thump thump--" A sound of footsteps came from not far away, getting closer and closer.
“Ding Dong——”
Xiao Qi reminded: "Host, the doorbell rang."
Mu Xingchen sat on a high seat in the tower, her head lazily tilted and supported by one hand. She closed her eyes lightly, as if she didn't hear the sound.
"Xingchen!" Xiao Qi raised his voice a little angrily, "We finally have a guest!"
Mu Xingchen slowly opened her eyes. She yawned lazily, a strange light flashing in her pupils. The next second, she opened her red lips and said, "Open."
After saying that, the bracelet on Mu Xingchen's right hand lit up, and after a "click", the tower door opened.
The moment the door opened, the light from outside came in, becoming the only beam of light in the dark tower, guiding the direction of those entering the tower.
"Tada tada..." The footsteps are getting closer.
"It's a young man who came this time," Xiaoqi explained.
Mu Xingchen said "hmm" lazily. She sat on a high place and looked down at the man who was getting closer and closer.
At this moment, there was a "creak" sound, and the tower door closed tightly. The inside of the tower was pitch black, with only a pearl above the throne emitting a faint light.
The young man stopped and looked up in the direction of the light. He finally saw a person sitting on a throne high up in the tower. He asked tremblingly with a look of fear on his face, "Excuse me, are you the owner of the Wishing Tower?"
Mu Xingchen curled the corners of his lips, and the ending tone was lazy and slightly raised: "Yeah."
"Then may I ask, can you really fulfill any wish?" the man asked anxiously.
Mu Xingchen smiled and replied seductively, "Of course. Seven Star Tower, once a deal is done, it means your wish will come true." Her smile deepened, and she asked slowly, "So, what do you want to wish for?"
A glint of excitement flashed in the man's eyes. He swallowed, his eyes full of undisguised greed, and said word for word firmly: "I want my wife and father-in-law to die!"
Mu Xingchen paused for a moment, curled the corners of her lips, and asked curiously, "Oh? Why?"
The man smiled, his eyes filled with malice. "My father-in-law is the richest man in Pingyuan County, and my wife is his only daughter. If they die, I can get all their property and cultivation resources."
"Heh." Mu Xingchen laughed and casually played with the ring on his hand. "What's so difficult about this?"
The man's eyes lit up. "Is it really possible? When can it be realized? Can it be realized soon?"
Mu Xingchen raised an eyebrow: "Are you anxious?"
The man nodded without hesitation. "It's urgent, very urgent. A while ago, I poisoned my wife and father-in-law, but it was discovered. Afterwards, my wife wanted to kick me out and divorce me!" He gritted his teeth and said, "Once we divorce, all that property will have nothing to do with me."
After he finished speaking, he raised his head and prayed eagerly, "I heard that in the wishing tower, as long as you make a wish, your wish will come true..." He became more and more anxious as he spoke, and there was no concealment of greed and eagerness in his mouth.
Mu Xingchen knocked on the chair calmly, making a "da da da" sound. She sighed with some regret: "No wonder you were able to find the Seven Star Pagoda. This pagoda requires one to have extremely high desires to find it..."
The man looked at Mu Xingchen expectantly, hoping that Mu Xingchen could fulfill his wish, "Tower Master, as long as you can help me, I am willing to give you half of my property and those resources."
The curve of Mu Xingchen's mouth grew wider, and her tone was frivolous: "Half? That's quite touching. How about this, come find me again in three days."
The man's eyes lit up: "Thank you, Tower Master."
After saying that, Mu Xingchen raised his hand slightly, and a force drove the man out. The tower door then closed, and darkness returned to the tower.
Mu Xingchen yawned and said in a bored tone, "What the hell."
Xiao Qi sighed, "Xingchen, you've kicked people out again. We didn't sign any business deal during our first meeting, so you can never enter the tower again. It's been several months, and we haven't closed a single business deal. We've finally promoted the Seven Star Tower, but your spiritual power hasn't recovered yet. What should we do with the Gu Spirit in your body? Are you really planning to find a man to practice dual cultivation with to restore your spiritual power? Although this is indeed faster, it will take at least an old man to find someone with the right cultivation level." Xiao Qi shuddered as he spoke.
Mu Xingchen smiled and touched the bracelet, comforting her, "Don't worry, as long as I don't do anything, the Gu spirit won't attack. As for the man, he won't be looking for him." After saying that, Mu Xingchen's thoughts fell into memories.
A few months ago, she was plotted against by her childhood sweetheart and was poisoned by a Gu spirit.
The Gu Spirit, the king of all Gu, is cultivated by the Gu Poison Formation and poses the greatest threat to those with high spiritual power. This type of Gu, when not using spiritual power, behaves like an ordinary person, but once spiritual power is used, it will suffer severe backlash, with the amount of spiritual power used being returned to it.
The person who planned all this was trying to snatch the Seven Star Tower from her. She didn't want to be controlled by others, nor did she want the Seven Star Tower to fall into the hands of others, so she died together with that bitch.
I thought she was going to die that time, but I didn't expect Xiao Qi to exhaust the spiritual power of the tower spirit to rescue her and bring her here. After Xiao Qi was seriously injured, the originally five-story tower was closed one by one, and now there is only one floor left. The fastest way to restore the spiritual power of the Seven Star Tower is to collect the Desire Spirit.
"The Seven Star Tower is a place for making wishes, not a place to distinguish between good and evil. As long as the wish is the highest, it can be realized. What we collect are lustful spirits, not good souls. Xingchen, it’s OK that you didn’t want to receive these guests before, but now our top priority is to eliminate the poisonous spirit and restore the vitality of the Seven Star Tower. Otherwise, if it goes on like this, what should we do when those people come looking for us?" Xiao Qi said worriedly.
Mu Xingchen touched the bracelet and soothed in a deep voice: "They won't be able to find us for a while. Xiaoqi, ever since that incident, these people don't even want me to help them realize their wishes. They feel sick just by seeing them." As she spoke, a bone-chilling chill emerged in her eyes.
Xiao Qi sighed helplessly and said, "Forget it, I'll do as you say." She knew that ever since Xingchen was betrayed, she hated people who stabbed her in the back the most. "You deliberately let that man think that you agreed to his wish in order to punish him. Now he can only sit and wait for death and get nothing."
Mu Xingchen smiled and said, "It's not a good ending after all."
It started to drizzle in the sky, and on the road, the rain became heavier and heavier, almost like a downpour.
Mu Xingchen took a shortcut towards the Imperial Tutor's Mansion with an umbrella. Suddenly, she stopped at the entrance of a damp alley.
"What's wrong, Xingchen?" Xiaoqi's thoughts reached Xingchen's ears.
"There's a strong smell of blood, there's someone." She said as she slowly raised the umbrella in front of her. The moment the umbrella was raised, she saw the front. Just three meters in front of her, a black man was lying. Around him on the ground, there were large patches of red mixed with rain and blood.
Mu Xingchen looked down at her shoes. Stepping an inch closer, they were stained red with blood. She tapped the umbrella handle lightly with her index finger, a trace of contemplation flashing in her eyes. This man was so badly injured, yet he was still breathing.
To save or not to save?
After thinking for three breaths, she walked over.
"Xingchen, do you want to save him?" Xiaoqi asked doubtfully.
Mu Xingchen did not answer. Just before she walked over, there was suddenly a murderous aura around her, and this murderous aura was becoming more and more intense.
After a few steps, she walked to the side of the man. Just as she was thinking about whether to save him or not, a strong wind blew, and in an instant, the cloak on the man's head was blown off, and the silver hair under the cloak had no place to hide anymore.
Silver hair? Mu Xingchen's lips curled up in an almost invisible arc.
Just when she was about to squat down to check the man's injuries, the man moved. Mu Xingchen stopped squatting and just looked down at him.
The person on the ground opened his eyes first. Mu Xingchen looked at his pupils, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.
It turned out to be purple eyes.
White hair, purple eyes?
The moment those purple eyes opened, an endless chill seemed to flash across them, so fast that she almost thought it was an illusion. When she looked into his purple eyes again, she only saw his eyes blurred due to excessive blood loss, and his hands with only a trace of willpower left, trying to support his body.
But the rain hitting the back of his hand felt like it weighed a thousand pounds. After a painful struggle, a trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. In the entire alley, the only sound left was his painful breathing, except for the sound of rain.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and Mu Xingchen squatted down and asked with some concern: "Sir? Are you okay?"
The man did not reply. He seemed to have lost consciousness, his eyelids drooping uncontrollably, and only a trace of his eyes remained fixed on her direction. The two looked at each other, but unfortunately, his beautiful purple pupils seemed to have collapsed, and there seemed to be no light at all.
"Sir?" Mu Xingchen frowned slightly, raised the umbrella over his head, and asked again, "Are you okay?"
The man's left hand, hidden in his sleeve, completely lost its strength and fell to the side. The murderous aura around him grew stronger and stronger. He endured the pain and uttered a word with a hoarse voice: "Go."
Mu Xingchen raised an eyebrow: "Hmm? What did you say, Master?"
The next second, the man completely lost consciousness and collapsed on the ground.
Mu Xingchen stood up with an umbrella in her hand. She fiddled with her ring silently, and all she could recall in her mind was the pair of purple pupils just now.
"Tsk", the man has fallen into coma now. If he waits a little longer, he will be unconscious forever.
Mu Xingchen rubbed the umbrella pole with her fingers. She squatted down, then curled her right lip slightly and said, "Save or not save?" She tilted her head back slightly and sighed, "It seems that I can only save her. Since we met, it must be fate."
At this moment, the murderous aura from all sides has tightly surrounded this place.
A murderous voice came from behind: "This matter has nothing to do with you, young lady. Please leave immediately, otherwise I will kill you too!"
Xiao Qi was startled when he heard the voice: "Xingchen, you can't do it. The Gu spirit is still inside you! And you've been nursing your injuries for six months, and you've only just recovered."
Mu Xingchen sighed, then smiled helplessly: "Can I get away without doing anything?" After saying that, she slowly stood up and turned around.
When the killer heard what Mu Xingchen said, a trace of contempt and surprise flashed in his eyes, "The girl is smart, it's a pity." He raised his sword and went towards Mu Xingchen. In a moment, he was in front of Mu Xingchen, but for some reason, after the sword was an inch away from Mu Xingchen, it could no longer move forward.
The killer's eyes flashed with disbelief: "How? Possible!"
The next second, the killer's body flew several feet away, blood oozing from all seven orifices, his pupils wide open, and he died with his eyes open.
At the same time, assassins rushed out from all around. Mu Xingchen paused, gripping the umbrella handle. She lowered her eyes to glance at the man on the ground, then sighed softly, "You owe me more than one life, so you'll have to pay me back even more."
The next second, the assassins around were repelled by the powerful spiritual power of Mu Xingchen. The entire alley was covered with blood. There was no room for maneuver. A killer who was not yet dead looked vaguely at the woman holding an umbrella walking away in the alley, and finally closed his eyes in unwillingness and shock.
After finishing, Mu Xingchen took the man through a shortcut back to the small courtyard where he lived.
"Cough." Mu Xingchen, who returned to the room, could no longer bear the rolling pain in his chest, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth.
Xiao Qi immediately said anxiously, "Xingchen! How are you? Are you okay? I told you not to do anything. You are really risking your life by doing this."
Mu Xingchen covered her chest and half-knelt on the ground, another mouthful of blood coming out of her mouth. She wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and said, "It's okay, I'm not going to die yet."
Xiao Qi said angrily: "Mu Xingchen!"
Mu Xingchen frowned as he looked at the weak man on the ground. "As for this guy, if we don't save him, he will really die."
Xiao Qi was shocked: "How to save him? You don't want to use your spiritual power to save him, do you? Xingchen, you are already seriously injured!"
Mu Xingchen glanced at Xiao Qi with amusement, "How can I use my spiritual power to save him? Do you think I'm stupid? Bringing him back is already a great act of kindness on my part."
Xiao Qi breathed a sigh of relief: "As long as you don't want to use spiritual power to save him, it's fine. What about Xingchen? What should we do now?"
Mu Xingchen wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stood up. "This is the Imperial Master's Mansion. There must be a lot of medicine. Xiaoqi, help me find it."
Xiao Qi was speechless. She was at the end of her rope. She said unhappily, "Only this time."
Mu Xingchen smiled and nodded.
After a moment, Xiao Qi replied, "In the study."
Mu Xingchen raised his eyebrows. Study? The old man's study was not guarded.
Xiao Qi: "Strange, why didn't he put the medicine in the treasure pavilion."
"The most dangerous place is the safest place." Mu Xingchen looked at the man on the ground, "A quarter of an hour." After saying that, she walked towards the study with an umbrella.
It was raining heavily today and there was no one on the road. She arrived at the old man's study without any obstruction. Fortunately, the old man was not in the house at the moment, and there were only two people guarding outside the study.
The two guards saw Mu Xingchen, who was wearing a white dress and a mask, and a strange look flashed in their eyes. They held the hilts of their swords and asked cautiously, "Which lady is it?"
Mu Xingchen walked forward with a smile, then slowly put away the wet umbrella in her hand, "I am..."
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