Chapter 16 The Southern Frontier Holy Son Obsessed with Gu Poison 16
Lu Yi walked behind Xie Rong, his gaze lingering on Xie Rong's slightly strange walking posture, and paused for a moment.
He now sleeps on the ground in front of the bamboo house, not only eating Xie Rong's leftovers and drinking Xie Rong's leftover cold tea, but also bathing in the water Xie Rong had left to wash with. Therefore, he has to watch over Xie Rong every night while he bathes, and he can only bathe after Xie Rong has finished.
Last night, as he leaned against the door, he glanced through the crack and saw Xie Rong, still damp with sweat, lifting the hem of his bathrobe and examining himself with his back to the bronze mirror.
He seemed not to understand why he felt unwell. With a cold expression, he flipped through the books and examined himself in the mirror. After a long while, he threw the books and the bronze mirror on the ground.
Lu Yi thought coldly that he would never tell Xie Rong the reason why he felt unwell.
He almost hated Xie Rong to death! From now on, he would only work the fields and do laundry for this devil with hatred in his heart, and would never be foolish enough to have any illusions again.
Ironically, that night he had thought that since they had been intimate, they should become husband and wife, and he could bear the consequences of Xie Rong's sins.
A sharp cry from a hawk pierced the silent sky, bringing Lu Yi back to his senses. He suddenly looked up.
"What are you dawdling about?" Xie Rong yanked fiercely on the iron chain around his neck.
Lu Yi withdrew his gaze and quickened his pace without saying a word.
...
Under the blazing sun, waves of heat rolled in. Between bending over to plant seedlings, the herb slaves wiped the sweat from their faces and occasionally glanced under the orange trees.
There are two orange trees in the Misty Valley. The orange tree in front of the bamboo house has the words "Xie Rong's Little Orange" carved on it, while the one by the field has the words "Xie Rong's Big Orange" carved on it.
The only creatures in the Misty Valley without names carved on them were the captured drug slaves.
At this moment, under the big orange tree, Xie Rong was leaning against the rocking chair to cool off as usual. The only difference was that there was a man with chains on his hands next to him.
If any of the medicine slaves were lazy, he wouldn't need to whip them anymore; he would just drag Lu Yi over and have Lu Yi teach the medicine slave a lesson.
Xie Rong never imagined that he could come up with such a brilliant idea.
He let Lu Yi and that stupid pig and dog fight each other. Even after they returned to Shangyunjing, the protagonist was still a villainous accomplice that everyone hated! An accomplice of the villain!
Lu Yi personally beat up this group of pitiful drug slaves. He can no longer be a good person. He must be beating his chest and stamping his feet every day.
Xie Rong was peeling an orange when he thought of the man's comical appearance of beating his chest and stamping his feet, and couldn't help but laugh.
He couldn't help but laugh; he clutched his stomach, a flush of excitement rising on his cheeks.
[Why is the host so happy?] The system puffed out its cheeks, used all its system energy, and its simulated hand grabbed a small fan, creating afterimages as it fanned the fan.
"Someone's going to be in trouble soon, of course I'm happy," Xie Rong said, breaking off a segment of orange, stuffing it into his mouth, not chewing, but just squinting his eyes to savor the orange aroma.
[Host, autumn hasn't arrived yet, are these oranges safe to eat?]
"It's delicious, would you like to try some?" Xie Rong broke off another piece and held it to the system's mouth.
[Host, I am a system; I have no sense of taste.]
"Why don't you just grant your main system the ability to sense taste?" Xie Rong said casually. "Isn't he omnipotent?"
The system glanced at the tempting orange segments at its lips and hesitated for a moment.
【Host, wait for me.】The system disappeared on the spot.
After a while, the white slime jumped back onto his shoulder, its mouth wide open: 【Ah—】
Xie Rong tilted his head and blinked innocently, then stuffed a segment of orange into the system's mouth.
After chewing a few times, the white slime's electronic display changed its facial expression to two large sticks.
[So sour, so sour, so sour! Host, you're messing with me again!]
Xie Rong laughed so hard his shoulders trembled. "You're a little fool too."
On the table beside him was a flower basket with Xie Rong's name on it, and Xie Rong threw all the orange peels into it.
He can then crush the orange peel, mix it into the blood of the medicine slave, and feed it to the Gu worms, thus obtaining a group of orange-flavored Gu worms.
As for the remaining oranges...
Xie Rong glanced sideways at the man beside her who stood motionless like a stone pillar, and said, "Come here."
As the man approached with a stern face, he shoved all the orange segments into the man's mouth, then smiled and said, "If you dare spit them out, everyone in the valley will have to go hungry for three days."
"..." Lu Yi silently chewed for a few moments, his brows furrowing and veins bulging on his forehead, before forcibly swallowing the orange.
The intense sourness, accompanied by the bitterness of young fruit being forcibly picked, spread from the tip of the tongue all the way into the blood and the heart.
"What a kind person you are. Don't worry, during dinner later, I will kindly tell all the drug slaves that it was because you sacrificed yourself that they had food to eat. They will definitely be very grateful to you, right?" Xie Rong patted his face lightly, glancing casually at him. "Now, cut off one of that drug slave's Achilles tendons."
As if knowing that Lu Yi would rather die than comply, Xie Rong curled his lips into a wicked smile and said softly, "Cut one person's Achilles tendon, or I cut all of their Achilles tendons, it's not a difficult choice, is it?"
"You're happy just watching me play the villain?" Lu Yi said in a hoarse voice.
The man's breath carried the scent of oranges. Xie Rong leaned closer to smell it. "Seeing you in pain makes me happy."
"If you are in pain, you will understand how much I suffered when you destroyed my eighteen years of hard work."
Lu Yi closed his eyes briefly, and when he opened them again, his dark eyes were dull and lifeless, especially when he looked at him, there was no light at all.
"Okay, I'll go."
Xie Rong watched him walk over.
[Host, aren't we being a bit too cruel? I'm almost afraid to watch.]
Xie Rong broke open another orange, lowered his eyes, and remained silent.
A scream suddenly came from afar, and the egrets that were moored in the field were startled and scattered.
Xie Rong walked over and glanced at the medicine slave who had fainted from pain and was pale as a ghost.
"Why didn't he bleed?" he asked, turning his head with a curious expression.
“I’ve already used needles to prick the acupoints on his legs, so that he can experience the same pain as if his tendons were severed,” Lu Yi said in a hoarse voice. He paused for a moment. “Besides, if his Achilles tendons are severed, he might not be able to work for you in the future.”
Xie Rong chuckled and turned to leave, but he hurriedly grabbed her hem.
"Xie Rong! Everything has its cause and effect, and you must not taint yourself with bloodshed again. If you are unhappy, you can torture me, lock me up, and do whatever you want to me! I am willing, and I will not blame anyone." Lu Yi said in a trembling voice.
There was a few moments of silence.
Xie Rong smiled and said, "Okay."
[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have unlocked hidden plot points from the original book!]
In the Mystic Valley map, the protagonist, in order to find a cure for the Gu poison, willingly allows himself to be imprisoned in a secret chamber by the villain and suffer endless torture. He endures the agonizing darkness while outmaneuvering the villain, ultimately learning a flute melody in the chamber to control the Gu worms. This causes the Gu worms within everyone in the valley to fall into a deep sleep, and under the protection of the Gu worms, he survives to cross the poisonous miasma and burns down the Mystic Forest to avenge his family.
"System, you don't need to tell me about things that don't offer rewards in the future," Xie Rong said, pulling the chain and leading the man back to the bamboo house.
Underneath the bamboo house, there was indeed a secret room, which he used to concentrate on refining Gu poison in order to avoid being disturbed.
"Lu Yi, you seem to know a lot about Gu poison. Why don't you tell me, besides the mother Gu and the child Gu that obey him, what else does the Gu King have?"
Lu Yi was tied to the couch in the secret room. He shook his head as a spider crawled onto his face. "I don't know."
Xie Rong wasn't angry. He took out a silver needle, heated it red-hot with a candle flame, and slowly inserted it into Xie Rong's firm waist and abdomen. "And food to absorb yang energy anytime, anywhere."
After saying that, he sat on the edge of the bed, opened a newly acquired book on the use of yang energy, and followed the method in the book to sit on Lu Yi's body.
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