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:
"Are you... Miss Zhiluo?"
He had seen this woman during the incident at the Ming Guogong 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 clearly too strong and you haven't properly controlled it, so you've lost your breath. How could this happen?"
"And what's with all this ghost energy around here? It's like you just fought a great 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 suddenly slammed her palm.
"You rushed from the Imperial Capital to the northwest in less than half a day. You must have done it to find him. You used some means to forcefully inject spiritual energy into me, but 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 and sat beside her, propping up her cheeks. "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 sleep a wink 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 that spiritual energy last night, but an evil spirit suddenly appeared, causing my 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 spirits, and now he has entered a dormant state."
"No wonder." Zhiluo sighed, "I was staying peacefully in Tianming Pavilion, and suddenly I sensed you were injured. You actually ran a thousand 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.
"I told you, even if there are a group of evil spirits, they are just serving food in your eyes, and there is no need to hurt you internally." 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 didn't give you time to regulate your breathing. You vomited blood later... It's also because I did unnecessary things, right?" He whispered.
Zhiluo’s words last night hit his heart like a heavy hammer.
The long night was enough for him to chew these thoughts over and over again, and the conclusion was always the same.
In order to come and find him, Yun Qingqing forcibly injected spiritual power.
After finding him, she worked tirelessly to bandage him, set up a tent, settle him down while he was unconscious, and prepare medicine.
She had time to calm her spirit power, but he kept pestering her, and she even had to patiently coax him to drink the medicine...
And when the evil man walked towards her with a 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 the overwhelming self-blame.
Yun Qingqing looked at him with a normal expression:
"You don't understand these things. What happened last night was caused by my own lack of consideration. That's why I delayed my breathing exercises. It's not your fault."
She made those decisions on her own and never thought of blaming him.
"Actually, 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 moment, then suddenly smiled at Xiao Changheng:
"You were willing to 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, that..." 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, and 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, named 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.
"Huh? What's going on?" Zhiluo asked curiously, "Why can't I summon this person's soul?"
Yun Qingqing frowned even tighter:
"It's not that he can't be summoned, it's that his soul 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 cold:
"I had just beheaded the Xilan commander and was hit by several arrows and fell off my horse. When Miao Yuanshu rushed over, I thought he was coming to save me."
"But he lifted me onto his horse and, taking advantage of the chaos, stabbed 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 and many small holes around it.
It happened that he was shot with arrows all over his body and his chest was stabbed with a knife.
The blow was enough to be fatal, so the talisman became ineffective after it took the damage for him on the spot.
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 obeying the evil way."
"Because last night, I blocked your aura to prevent the forest monsters from targeting you, but the evil spirits' 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 path. So when a person dies, the soul will fly directly back to the evil path to be used by him."
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, the clues are broken, and there is no point in thinking too much.
"There's another thing you should think of a solution for."
Yun Qingqing said.
"Someone, in the name of the Northwest Army, sent false news to the Imperial Capital, saying that you were dead."
Xiao Changheng's expression froze: "......?"
Zhiluo burst into laughter:
"The entire Imperial Capital should be preparing for a state funeral right now. There's going to be a lot of fun to watch when you get back!"
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