Chapter 13 Sang Rou
Huan Ni was immediately appeased: "Draw quickly, I want to see!"
Shi Yuan carefully put away the large yellow croaker and the dead wood, took a deep breath, and loosely clenched his right index and middle fingers into a fist, channeling his metal-type supernatural power to his fingertips. With a slight movement of his wrist, gold flashed wherever his fingertips brushed.
Excitement flashed in Shi Yuan's eyes. Finally! She could finally use her supernatural ability to draw talismans again!
Who understands the redemption of having superpowers!
Only then did she truly have confidence that even if the plot was beyond her control, she could protect herself and Shi Ling.
Success!
Shi Yuan pointed to the empty flower bed in the center of the courtyard, built with old bricks, and shouted, "Break!" The golden talisman flew swiftly, and with a "boom," a deep crater was blasted into the empty flower bed.
Shi Yuan was a little disappointed: "I thought we could blow up an abyss."
At this moment, Huan Ni was very considerate: "Yes, yes, there's plenty of time, don't rush." She flew over to observe the empty flower bed, "Shi Yuan, come quickly! There's something under the flower bed!"
At the same time, in a detached house in town, a woman holding a cup of green juice for Ma Rong suddenly spat out a mouthful of green juice. Her hand slipped, and the tray and juice fell to the ground.
"What's going on?" Ma Rong put down his pen, frowning and asking unhappily.
"My lord, someone has tampered with half of my original body that I left at the dojo!"
Ma Rong frowned: "Didn't you say that you hid your true form very well and that no one could find it?"
To ensure everything went smoothly, he also instructed the members of the Revolutionary Committee to smash the mountain god temple. With the temple abandoned and no one going there anymore, Sang Rou's true form would naturally be safe.
"Go and take a look..." Before Ma Rong could finish speaking, Sang Rou spat out another mouthful of green liquid, and her body visibly weakened. "Someone is digging into my original body."
Ma Rong cursed and helped Sang Rou into the car, heading straight for Qinglin Bay.
"It's just a dead tree stump." Shi Yuan poked at it a couple of times and then lost interest.
"This seems to be the flower fairy's true form," Huan Ni said uncertainly. "Why is it only half?"
“So it was only half,” Shi Yuan said casually. “No wonder it’s all withered.”
Huan Ni looked around, rubbed her chin with her wings, and said in a deep voice, "I feel like something's not right here." Then she continued to pry open the dead tree stump.
Shi Yuan ignored her and continued drawing talismans on her own. After a series of successes, she finally realized that her abilities had not declined.
The amount of gold absorbed is limited and the ability level is not high enough to throw out a talisman array in a second like in the apocalypse, but it is more than enough to protect oneself.
We still need to get the gold!
"Phantom, let's go!"
"Hey, they're here!" Huan Ni looked around but didn't see anything, then flapped her wings and followed.
At this moment, Ma Rong was flooring the accelerator, speeding towards Qinglin Bay. His expression was far from pleasant: "How can you be so useless?"
"I've been nourishing you with the finest ginseng and fresh virgin blood all these years, and you still cough up blood all the time!"
Sang Rou was very weak. She thought to herself that she was in this state because she had given half of her life to Ma Rong and had to cut blood from her own body from time to time to nourish him.
These words, which might have moved Ma Rong in the past, now only annoy him.
"You're a monster, yet you're weaker than an ordinary woman!" Ma Rong continued to complain. "If it weren't for me, you would have been reduced to ashes long ago!"
He glanced at Sang Rou with disdain and continued, "I had found you an excellent virgin, but it turned out to be a tough nut to crack. Even Ah Da got caught in the crossfire. You really are a jinx."
Sang Rou smiled bitterly, her vision gradually blurring. After nearly a century of companionship, she had almost forgotten what the young man who had tilted his umbrella towards her in the rain looked like.
"If I had known you were this useless, I shouldn't have rejected Bai Mudan back then!" Ma Rong clearly didn't care about Sang Rou's feelings and just kept spouting nonsense, "Otherwise, she wouldn't have died under the lightning tribulation back then."
He glanced coldly at Sang Rou, who had her eyes closed and was crying: "It was my stupidity! I treated a wild rhododendron like a treasure!"
"If it were Bai Mudan who shared my life, I certainly wouldn't have to go through all this trouble!"
Sang Rou remained silent. No demon would be willing to share life with a human; only a fool like her could.
"If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have been able to escape the lightning tribulation at all, Sang Rou. Meeting me is a blessing you've accumulated over several lifetimes!"
"So stop acting like I owe you something!"
Sang Rou shifted her gaze to the window. Had she known that Ma Rong would be unrecognizable, she would rather have died under the lightning!
Instead of going down the mountain, Shi Yuan went to a cave.
"Let me go right now!" Ah Da said, struggling as he saw Shi Yuan approaching. "Master Ma has a lot of influence. Going against him will only end badly!"
"You should worry about whether you'll have a good ending first!" Shi Yuan took out the piece of dead wood and polished it on the mountain wall.
What do you want to do?
"They're using torture to extract confessions, they're preparing instruments of torture, can't you tell?"
"You dare!"
Shi Yuan shrugged; whether he dared or not wasn't something he could decide with words.
This withered branch in my hand is quite difficult to polish.
The cave was dimly lit, so she used her supernatural power to conjure a sharp point on the top of a withered branch.
She politely asked, "Are you ready?"
"Prepare what?" Before Ah Da could react, the tip of a dead branch had already pierced his palm.
"Ah!" Ah Da cried out in pain, "How dare you!"
Shi Yuan pulled out the withered branch and plunged it into A Da's other hand: "I dare." She said calmly, "If I didn't dare, I would have died at your hands yesterday."
Ah Da was ruthless, every move aimed at her vital points. If she were an ordinary person, she would be dead by now.
"Tell me, why did you approach me, Master Ma?"
"Don't lie about it being for the sake of ginseng," Shi Yuan added. "I don't believe it."
Master Ma is after her life!
"I don't know!" Ah Da answered through gritted teeth.
Shi Yuan sneered. This time, the withered branch aimed at A Da's thigh, only millimeters away from the carotid artery: "Oops, I missed."
"Sorry, I aimed correctly this time." After saying that, he pulled out the dry branch and was about to continue stabbing Ah Da's thigh.
This time, Ah Da didn't try to be a tough guy and struggled to hide.
You see, how unimportant the mouth is, the subconscious reaction is the most authentic.
Shi Yuan chased after her and stabbed her, casually remarking, "You missed again!"
"I'll talk! I'll talk!" Ah Da struggled and backed away again before saying, "Master Ma told me to subdue you, as long as you don't die."
"Then what?"
Ah Da remained silent for a long time until Shi Yuan raised the withered branch to continue piercing it before saying, "I'll take you to the mountain god's temple."
"I really don't know anything else!"
Shi Yuan and Huan Ni exchanged a glance. What did Master Ma have to do with the Mountain God Temple?
Ah Da really doesn't know.
“I only recently started working with Master Ma,” he said. “He’s very generous, but he doesn’t really trust me.”
Shi Yuan thought for a moment and asked, "Before me, were there any other girls who were taken to the mountain god temple?"
Ah Da's eyes flashed: "You're the first person I'll ever make a move on."
In other words, it cannot be ruled out that Ma Rong had someone else do it beforehand.
Shi Yuan suddenly remembered the distraught look on the red-clad female ghost's face after seeing Ma Rong. Stepping out of the cave, she whispered to Huan Ni, "Where is that female ghost?"
Huan Ni shook her head: "It floated away before we entered the mountain temple."
"What should we do with the one inside?" she asked.
Shi Yuan was about to say that they should just kill them and be done with it, but then she suddenly remembered that this wasn't the apocalypse and they couldn't just kill people randomly, so she casually asked Huan Ni, "What do you suggest we do?"
“It’s that simple. Just put the man back with Ma Rong, then tell Ma Rong that A-Da sold him out, and let them fight like dogs.”
"Speaking of Ma Rong, don't let him get away either. After they've finished biting, you should stab him a few times too."
"We need to find out why he attacked you."
Seeing Shi Yuan staring intently at him, Huan Ni wrapped her wings around him and said, "What are you doing? I told you, don't covet my treasure, I won't give it to you!"
Shi Yuan ruffled Huan Ni's bird-like head: "Huan Ni, you're so smart!"
Huan Ni raised her head high: "Do you need to tell me!"
Shi Yuan returned to the cave and pricked A Da a few more times. Then, Chao Jue accidentally pricked the vine that was binding A Da. A Da felt it and immediately stopped struggling. He endured a few more blows and finally managed to outlast the female demon Shi Yuan.
Has Shi Yuan left?
Of course I didn't leave!
Is she going to follow Ah Da to find Ma Rong?
Ma Rong, whom she was thinking about, helped Sang Rou to the mountain god temple and found that the empty flower bed where half of Sang Rou's body was buried had been blown up into a deep pit.
A few broken branches lay scattered around the empty flower bed, covered with fresh soil, clearly indicating that they had just been dug up.
"Who did this!" Ma Rong was furious. It wasn't that he felt sorry for Sang Rou, but that Sang Rou had injured her original body, which would lower the quality of the demon blood she gave him. He was able to maintain his youth and immortality only by relying on Sang Rou's demon blood.
“Tell me! Did you slip up somewhere and get tracked down by those Taoist priests?” Ma Rong immediately denied it after saying that, “No, there aren’t any Taoist priests like that anymore.”
He muttered to himself, "I don't need to be afraid of those hooligans. I'll report them one by one when I see them!"
"What are you standing there for?" he yelled impatiently at Sang Rou. "Hurry up and clean up those damn tree roots!"
Sang Rou stroked the tree roots, looked up and said, "When I left, I set up a barrier around the flower bed," which ordinary explosives simply couldn't break through.
But before she could finish her sentence, Ma Rong interrupted her: "I knew you were useless. You can't even set up a proper restriction!"
Do you know how much trouble it will be if you get injured?
"Now that Ah Da has disappeared, do you want me to go and catch him myself?"
"We're both demons, how come you're so useless!"
Sang Rou suddenly lost the strength to speak. She thought, if a master really discovered her, then so be it. She had long been tired of this kind of life.
She reburied the scattered roots in the flower bed, glanced at Ma Rong, and finally set up a restriction.
After Shi Yuan left, A Da did not immediately break free from the vines. Instead, he waited for a while and only broke free of the vines after confirming that Shi Yuan would not return.
He tore open his clothes to bandage his wound and staggered away from the cave.
The red-clad female ghost appeared out of nowhere, her expression somewhat bewildered.
"What's wrong?" Shi Yuan asked.
The woman in red shook her head: "I don't know what's wrong with me? I feel like I've forgotten some things."
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