Chapter 130130 The Dagger Revealed
Su Xiaoyuan's hand holding the communication mirror began to tremble involuntarily.
"Do you want Achun's people to bring him to Taiyan?" Ruan Mianmian asked.
Although Su Xiaoyuan already knew that the world of immortal cultivation was apathetic towards the rule of law, she was still taken aback by her best friend's composure. "I'll just send him a message and ask him a few questions."
"So, let them summon you now?"
Su Xiaoyuan thought for a moment and said, "Wait...are you at Dragon Ridge Peak? I'll come find you later."
Wuji Palace is the territory of Lingyue Immortal Venerable. Those faceless puppets are as quiet as cats. They might have overheard the message.
She sent a message to her Taoist companion: [I'm going to visit Kaishan and pick up some things.]
I received a reply almost immediately: [Okay, come back soon.]
[Can I see messages even when I am in a trance?]
[Only yours can.]
Su Xiaoyuan's face flushed, and she couldn't help but feel the sweet and sour taste of melting orange candy in her heart: [Senior Brother is meditating seriously... I won't disturb you anymore...]
[Come back early.]
[Um. ]
Fu Tingyun stared at the words on the communication mirror for a long time. Her handwriting was as small and delicate as her, with a hint of childishness, which made people like it at first sight.
Then he read the old news from beginning to end several times before putting away the communication mirror.
Xiao Wuxin said that Xiao Yuan is soft-hearted and does not respond to harshness, so you must not push her too hard, otherwise it will easily cause the couple to become estranged.
Every profession has its own expertise, so he decided to trust his third senior sister once.
But she always wanted to run away. Even if he had deliberately found excuses to avoid her and given her some time alone, she would still go find someone else.
Why wasn't she content with being with him? Why did she always have to look for someone else?
I really want to lock her up in Wuji Palace...
But he knew that he could not indulge this thought. Once he did, his selfish desires would expand infinitely. Sooner or later, even if he locked her up in Wuji Palace, he would not be satisfied. Even if he kept her where he could see her all the time, he would not be satisfied. Even if he locked her up with shackles, he would not be satisfied. Even if he swallowed her into his stomach and merged her into one with him forever, he would not be satisfied.
Not only does he have desires hidden in his dantian, but he also has a bottomless pit in his heart.
Only by telling himself over and over again that she was his could he restrain himself from releasing his spiritual sense and staring at her all the time.
She is his.
Now that he has the Soul Contract, he can grab it when the system appears, and then he can keep her by his side for a long time.
…
Su Xiaoyuan put away the communication mirror, summoned the spiritual crane before she could regret it, and left Wuji Palace on the cloud car.
When I arrived at my best friend's house, Yu Yingchun was there too.
Su Xiaoyuan didn't have time to explain everything to them, so she asked Fellow Daoist Yu to help her get through to Huang He, the owner of the puppet shop.
Boss Huang's trembling voice came from the mirror: "Fairy Su, I know I was wrong... If three hundred thousand is not enough, we can negotiate. I have parents and children to support..."
Su Xiaoyuan was stunned. "Three hundred thousand? Did you ask someone to deliver those three hundred thousand spirit stones?"
Huang He choked and was even more surprised than her: "Fairy Su doesn't know?"
Of course Su Xiaoyuan didn’t know. She thought it was a scam at first, and then she thought it was given by the system.
"Why are you giving me three hundred thousand?" she asked again.
Huang He choked again: "Didn't Fairy Su send a puppet to beat me that night?"
Su Xiaoyuan: "Ah?"
Huang He then told the story of how the puppet had blocked the door late at night and made crazy hints with the stir-fried pork.
Su Xiaoyuan: "...I didn't send him to find you. I just told him I wanted to eat stir-fried pork. I don't know why he came to you..."
Not knowing whether Huang He believed her or not, she continued, "These are not important... I just wanted to ask you about that puppet. Where did you get it from? Why are you so scared of him? Was it because of him that you ran away at night?"
Boss Huang, who had just been feeling aggrieved, began to stammer upon hearing this: "I really didn't mean it..."
Before she finished speaking, Su Xiaoyuan heard a man on the other side say in a gruff voice, "Tell the truth, or I'll break your arm!"
Su Xiaoyuan: “…” What kind of business is Fellow Daoist Yu’s family in?
Yu Yingchun touched the back of his head and gave an awkward and shy smile.
Boss Huang whimpered in the communication mirror and amended his words, "I did it on purpose... I was blinded by greed and had lost all conscience... The puppet had passed through several hands, and I spent 100,000 high-grade spirit stones on it. I thought I had found a great bargain, but who knew that the buyer went crazy right after I sold it to him? His family returned the puppet, and I thought it was a coincidence, so I sold it again. I don't know what the second buyer did, but he died..."
"I sought out a curse-breaker in the Yunyu Sect's territory, but he was also insane... I asked someone to invite a master over, and he examined the formation and immediately said he couldn't make the deal, no matter how much money he offered. I knew I was doomed... I just wanted to get rid of the puppet as soon as possible, so I resorted to this desperate measure..."
Before Su Xiaoyuan could say anything, Ruan Mianmian had already rolled up her sleeves and yelled into the communication mirror, "You profiteer! If Fairy Su hadn't been so lucky, wouldn't she have been killed by you?! Just wait, I can't let you go like this!"
"Calm down, Kaishan, calm down..." Su Xiaoyuan hurriedly protected her communication mirror, "Let me find out what happened first."
Ruan Mianmian then sat back down and motioned Yu Yingchun to come and massage her shoulders.
Su Xiaoyuan then asked, "Did that expert curse-breaker explain why he couldn't break it? Is it because the formation is too complex?"
"More than that," Huang He said, "The expert didn't want to say more, but he hinted at a little bit, saying that this is a soul-hosting puppet. It's likely that it once housed the soul of some extremely vicious and powerful being, leaving a mark. If anyone else forcibly forms a bond with the puppet, they will suffer backlash."
Su Xiaoyuan's heart skipped a beat: "Are you sure?"
Huang He: "That's what the master said."
Su Xiaoyuan: "Will he make a mistake?"
After all, even Mu Qingxianjun, the direct descendant and last-ditch genius disciple of the Yanshi Sect Master, didn't realize that Xiao Wuxin seemed to be a curse-breaker with a rather prominent background.
Huang He: "I had to rely on many connections to invite this big Buddha, and it cost me hundreds of thousands of spirit stones. I still can't solve it, so I didn't charge more!"
Su Xiaoyuan frowned: "Can the inner disciples of Yanshi Sect tell that this is a soul puppet?"
"Of course," Huang He said, "The formation within the puppet is a secret method of the Yanshi Sect that is not passed on to outsiders. Our disciples are naturally familiar with it, and the marks left by the formation are also easy to detect."
"How do you know so much?" Su Xiaoyuan became more cautious.
Huang He sighed, "Because I spent over ten years in the outer sect of Yanshi, but because the puppets I made were too ugly, I wasn't chosen to join the inner sect. I've always had this regret."
Su Xiaoyuan: “…” So you cheated people under the guise of Yanshi Sect.
Boss Huang on the opposite side began to beg her to let him go. Su Xiaoyuan had no intention of settling the score with him, so she asked Yu Daoyou's men to let him go. Without waiting for his thanks, she said "goodbye" and cut off the communication.
Without waiting for Ruan Mianmian and Yu Yingchun to ask in detail, she said that she had to rush back to Wuji Palace and hurriedly said goodbye to them.
She did not return to Wuji Palace immediately, but returned to her own residence. She picked up some sundries and put them into her Qiankun bag while digesting the shocking information she had just received.
This is a soul-hosting puppet, so there is no need to say whose soul it is.
Immortal Lord Mu Qing and Sister Xiao swore that there was no problem with the puppet, but Huang He personally admitted that several incidents had happened before.
The former is her friend, and the latter is a profiteer.
But in this matter, the profiteer's words are more credible. Three hundred thousand spirit stones is not a small amount of money. He would not have compensated her so much money if he did not feel guilty.
Su Xiaoyuan suddenly remembered that the timing of Sister Xiao and Immortal Lord Mu Qing's appearance was also very coincidental, especially Immortal Lord Mu Qing, the direct disciple of Sect Master Yanshi. Why did he come to the Yunyu Sect's territory to open a shop?
If you think about it carefully, Xiao Wuxin is also very suspicious. She was the first one to arrive when the puppet got into trouble twice.
After all, they had only met a few times. Was he really so concerned about her puppet?
If it wasn't because of her, then it could only be because of the puppet itself.
Everything that happened after the puppet man came emerged from her memory one by one.
The details that she had subconsciously ignored were all suspicious when she reviewed them.
She recalled the puppet's dazed look when it was staying with Mu Qing for kidney repairs. At the time, she thought it was caused by an injury. Now, she thought, maybe that dazed look was what a puppet should be like...
Su Xiaoyuan walked to the dressing mirror, opened her clothes and revealed the mole on her heart.
You don't even need a color comparison card to know it has turned red again, it's already the color of cinnabar, close to blood.
Her mind has been full of Ling Yue Xianzun recently, and she can hardly spare any attention for the puppet. Why is the mole getting darker?
The more she thought about it, the more strange it seemed. She took out the communication mirror, found Xiao Wuxin's communication talisman, hesitated for a moment, and did not put her finger down.
She found Mu Qing's communication talisman again. Compared to Sister Xiao, this young immortal was still a high school student, and was about the same strength as her. The two equally matched rookies might be able to fight each other.
Su Xiaoyuan's heart was in her throat. As an honest college student, she had never done such a thing and was completely unsure.
The call was connected shortly afterwards.
"I wonder what Fairy Su wants to talk to me about?" Mu Qing's voice was full of confusion.
Su Xiaoyuan decided to make a quick decision and threw out her trump card: "I already know."
Mu Qing was obviously panicked: "What? What does Fairy Su mean? I don't understand..."
"Stop pretending," Su Xiaoyuan said angrily, "I know the puppet is Ling Yuexianzun, why did you and Sister Xiao lie to me?"
If it were someone more cunning, they would never admit it even if they were beaten to death, but Mu Qingxianjun was also an honest man, and immediately said: "Sister was forced to do so."
Su Xiaoyuan almost fainted, as expected!
"Who is Sister Xiao?" she asked, "Does she know Immortal Master Ling Yue? If you don't tell me, I'll ask Sister Xiao myself..."
Mu Qing hesitated and said, "Sister... is actually the Immortal Venerable's third senior sister..."
Su Xiaoyuan was speechless.
The dignified master of Taiyan Peak, a highly respected powerful man of the time, who is hundreds of years old, aided and abetted the evil and helped his junior brother to deceive her, a young disciple of Yunyu Sect.
This is ridiculous.
For a moment she didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
After a while, he asked, "Why did you go to such great lengths to deceive me?"
"I'm sorry..." Mu Qing's voice was filled with guilt, "I'm really sorry..."
"I don't blame you," Su Xiaoyuan said, "I understand. Thank you for telling me the truth."
After a pause, he said, "If you really feel sorry, could you please not tell anyone else about my visit to you today?"
Mu Qing hesitated: "Including my sister?"
"Including Sister Xiao," Su Xiaoyuan said, "Don't worry, I won't betray you if anything happens."
"Okay..." Mu Qing hesitated for a moment before agreeing, "I'm really sorry."
Su Xiaoyuan really did not blame Xiao Wuxin and Mu Qing. Every wrong has its perpetrator, and Immortal Ling Yue was the culprit.
She did not have much affection for Xiao Wuxin and Mu Qing, so she did not have much resentment.
She sat down in front of the window and stared blankly at the green courtyard outside.
She was surprised to find that the emotion that filled her chest was not anger, but deep disappointment.
Perhaps the anger had already run out when the first layer of armor was torn off.
There was only one thought that kept swirling in my mind - how could he?
How could he lie to her so calmly, how could he form a pact with her as if nothing had happened, and act like he loved her so deeply?
She really wanted to fly back to Wuji Palace immediately and ask him face to face why he had lied to her like this.
But before she stood up, she gave up the idea.
She wants to go home, and she can't do anything that might affect her going home.
She also pretended to be fine and went to pick up the liar.
Su Xiaoyuan forced a self-deprecating laugh, her brows trembled, and she lay on the table and burst into tears.
She didn't cry for long. If she left Wuji Palace for too long, he might become suspicious. It would also be dangerous if he saw any signs of crying.
Oh, and I have to hurry up and arrange the inheritance.
She had previously secretly researched the procedures for disposing of inheritances in the world of immortal cultivation. Her greatest legacy was the spiritual stone vein, which she could transfer to her best friend through a shop after her "death." All she had to do was send a document with her seal and a photo stone to the shop via a transmission array.
She took out the anti-counterfeiting paper specially used for documents, set up the photo stone, and was about to pick up the pen to write the document when her hand suddenly stopped.
Before this spiritual stone vein was transferred to her name, the puppet man happened to burn her things.
Is it just a coincidence?
She recalled that when she mentioned the spirit stone mine to the system, the system paused for a long time before acknowledging it.
Was that mineral vein really given to her by the system?
If you think about it carefully, there are loopholes.
A mineral vein is not a cabbage. The system cannot create one for her out of thin air. The newly discovered mineral vein will definitely cause a sensation.
It is also impossible for the system to steal the spirit stone mines owned by other families or large sects and give them to her.
No, the spirit stone mine was given to her by Fu Tingyun as compensation for burning her things.
Fu Tingyun is the richest man in the Three Realms. He owns several mineral veins, including the ownerless mineral vein in the Chaos Domain. He doesn't need to alert anyone else if he wants to transfer one to her.
The system lied to her.
The blood in Su Xiaoyuan's body almost froze into ice.
She didn't know why the system was trying to deceive her, but if the system could deceive her about this, would it really send her home as promised?
"System, system, are you there?" Su Xiaoyuan tried to shout in her head.
Of course there was no answer.
She used the Five Elements magic to condense a block of ice, wrapped it in a handkerchief and applied it to her eyes for a while. Then she picked up a pen and gave the 300,000 spirit stones and the interest earned by the store owner to her best friend, and the mineral vein returned to its original owner.
She rode a cloud car to the sect's item transmission array to send the documents and photo stone to the Yunyu Sect's counter, and then returned to the Wuji Palace.
Perhaps because she was so angry, she was unusually calm. It was easier than she thought to pretend that nothing had happened.
In the next few days, she used the time between classes and spending time with her Taoist partner to send messages to the elders and senior sisters of the Yunyu Sect to chat about their recent situation as a farewell. She also wrote a long letter to Kaishan, instructing on her funeral arrangements and entrusting her spirit pet.
Ruan Mianmian found that her best friend suddenly became very clingy, but she just thought it was because of her early marriage and did not suspect the reason for her sudden clinginess.
In a blink of an eye, there are only three days left until the deadline.
Su Xiaoyuan was not sure of success in one go, so she reserved three days for herself.
But she still had no idea how to do it.
They slept together every night. Fu Tingyun served her and hugged her tightly to sleep, acting like a puppet without any desires.
But she could clearly feel his emotions many times, but she was trying hard to suppress them.
While Fu Tingyun went to take a shower, Su Xiaoyuan secretly flipped through the notes of Yunyu Sect, then put on the gauze pajamas she had bought just in case when she was in Yunyu Sect under her outer clothes, and sat on the edge of the bed with a blushing face waiting for him.
Soon, the man returned to the bedroom, all wet.
He was about to turn off the lights when Su Xiaoyuan said softly, "Wait."
Fu Tingyun looked at her, his eyes fluctuating slightly, like a breeze blowing across a calm lake.
Those eyes seemed to be able to see through everything. Su Xiaoyuan looked at him and cold sweat broke out on her back.
"I want to look at you..." She lowered her eyes, trying to make an excuse that made it even more obvious.
The man sat down beside her, raised his hand to push aside her long hair that fell on her shoulders, leaving a lock of hair, and twirled it with his fingers for a while. He lifted her chin, tilted his head, lowered his eyes to look into hers, and whispered, "What happened today?"
Even though she knew he was a liar, his eyes and voice still made her heart beat faster and her legs go weak as a reflex.
This is a good thing for her, otherwise she wouldn't be able to get away with it with her acting skills.
"Nothing... I just didn't see you after a day of classes..."
"Miss me?" There was a hint of sarcasm in Fu Tingyun's voice.
Su Xiaoyuan heard that he was blaming her for not going back earlier to accompany him.
During the day, she was busy accompanying her bestie and spirit pet. Firstly, she couldn't bear to leave them, and secondly, she was afraid that if she stayed with him for too long, she would be exposed.
"I'm sorry, I haven't been spending enough time with you lately..."
"Senior brother?" He rubbed her lower lip with his thumb, neither lightly nor heavily.
Su Xiaoyuan subconsciously wanted to bite her lip, but she bit his finger instead, making a sound as soft as a mosquito. "Can I make it up to you tonight?"
Fu Tingyun looked at her, his throat tight, his voice slightly cold: "How do you compensate me?"
Su Xiaoyuan's cheeks were almost burning, and she bravely touched his belt.
The man subconsciously pressed her hand, as if trying to stop her, but then withdrew his hand and looked at her leisurely, to see what she was going to do.
Su Xiaoyuan untied his belt, and reached into his open collar with her trembling hands, stroking his slender waistline and touching the shark muscles she liked, feeling his muscles tense and trembling under her hands.
This was the first time she took the initiative to touch his body.
When they were together, she was always the passive one, initially because of the guilt she felt towards the puppet man, and later because she was angry because she knew he had lied to her.
Now she would put aside her grudges and try her best to please him, seduce him, and complete the task.
She tried to keep her mind focused on what she was doing.
To be fair, this is not a difficult thing. He is so handsome and his eyes are so gentle. She doesn't need to pretend to be addicted to him because she has already fallen for him a long time ago.
She gently touched the slightly raised scar on his smooth skin with the pads of her finger.
The scars on his body were crisscrossed, many more than Fu Shiyu's, and they were added after he turned fifteen - Ling Yue Xianzun was very meticulous.
Su Xiaoyuan sneered in her heart, but at the same time she couldn't help feeling distressed.
How many times does a person have to go through life and death to be left with so many scars?
No matter how powerful he is, he is still a human being with flesh and blood. It must be painful when he is injured, right?
She despised herself for being useless. How could she still feel sorry for him after being deceived like this?
But she couldn't help but touch each of his scars, wanting to engrave these details into her heart.
If all goes well, this will be their last night...
She slowly placed her lips on a half-foot long scar on his chest, kissed it gently, and then licked along the scar with the tip of her tongue.
Fu Tingyun let out a suppressed groan: "It's ugly, isn't it?"
Su Xiaoyuan shook her head and began to eat him like he usually did, while reaching her hand down.
The man grabbed her wrist before she could touch it.
Su Xiaoyuan raised her eyes and looked at him: "But I want..."
"After the wedding..." His voice trembled, weak but strong.
"We've already formed a pact, we're already Dao companions, and we even sleep in the same bed every day." Su Xiaoyuan's hands were restrained and she couldn't move, so she simply sat on him and rubbed her legs against him. "Why should we wait? I don't want to wait anymore..."
She seldom acted coquettishly towards him, so the effect was immediate. The vigorous heat her skin felt through the fabric startled her.
She licked his tightly pursed lips with the tip of her tongue, as if trying to pry open a hard clam shell with a soft knife, while murmuring to him: "You think so too, don't you? Don't endure it anymore...husband..."
The man gasped heavily, threw her onto the mattress, and tore open her coat, revealing the collar of her gauze nightgown.
He let out an ambiguous chuckle, and Su Xiaoyuan's face felt so hot that it was smoking.
The man parted his lips and swallowed her tongue, then leaned over.
No matter how good it is under normal circumstances, there is nothing you can do now.
Su Xiaoyuan was in so much pain that tears rolled down her cheeks.
He didn't seem to be much better than her. She felt cold sweat instantly break out on his back with her palm.
Su Xiaoyuan's eyes lit up, and she inexplicably recalled an illustration she had seen as a child of a python swallowing an elephant. She imagined herself as the python, patient and resilient, swallowing the giant beast bit by bit.
Both of them froze and dared not move.
"Husband..." Su Xiaoyuan said with a breath of cold air, "I want to try spiritual intercourse..."
No matter what happens tonight, it must be resolved once and for all. She doesn't want to suffer this sin a second time.
But as soon as the words came out, it seemed as if some unspoken spell was broken.
Su Xiaoyuan felt the scorching air around her cool down instantly.
Fu Tingyun slowly pulled away, took a handkerchief from the pillow and wiped the cold sweat from her forehead: "I won't let you go."
Su Xiaoyuan was stunned for a moment, then she understood what he meant.
She looked at him in disbelief, tears instantly welling up in her eyes, and she opened her mouth but no sound came out.
He knew everything, no wonder he had been holding back and not doing it to the end, it wasn't for the sake of waiting for the wedding.
But that was a secret between the system and her, how did he know it?
Absolutely impossible...
The man stroked her cheek gently, his voice as gentle as velvet: "Give up on this idea."
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