Chapter 14 Penglai Island (Part 4) All's fair in war
"Let me go! You liars, you despicable villains!"
"Give me back my spiritual plant jade slip!"
The cave was dim, cold and quiet, with the exception of Qu Wanqing's shouting and cursing.
She regretted it deeply now. Fifteen minutes ago, the seriously injured young man begged her to save him. Adhering to the principle of not standing by and watching someone die, she dragged her exhausted body to save him. Who knew that all this was a conspiracy?
The boy deceived her after all.
Qu Wanqing was furious.
He looked at the three people in front of him coldly.
The young man knew he couldn't face her, so he lowered his head. He had six or seven wounds of varying sizes on his body, and they were bleeding from the beating he had just received. His white clothes were turning red.
The other two were tall and thin, with a gentle face but a very vicious look in his eyes; the other was slightly shorter, with chubby cheeks and a pair of triangular eyes, exuding an aura of shrewdness and calculation.
"Is there any information over there?" Gongsun Xin narrowed his triangular eyes.
Jia Liang gestured for him to read it. There was only a brief message on the jade slip.
[Zhu Ciying]: Okay.
"Hmph, idiot." Gongsun Xin sneered, leaning his back against the cave wall, a smug look in his eyes. "Let's just sit here and wait for the points to come to us."
"After the matter is completed, you and I will split the things equally."
Jia Liang naturally had no objection to his arrangement: "Then how should they deal with it?"
"Is there any need to ask? Of course I will beat him up and then drive him out of the secret realm." Gongsun Xin said.
Hearing this, the young man, who had been silent until now, looked up in shock and said in panic, "What about my brother? You promised me before that as long as I tricked him here, you would give me the elixir to save him!"
"I've done everything I promised you." His eyes were bloodshot. "Give me the elixir!"
"Shut up!"
"You have no right to speak here!"
A stream of spiritual power came and hit the young man's face hard. He staggered back two steps and fell to the ground.
"My... senior brother..." A large amount of blood flowed out of his mouth, and he crawled tremblingly towards the male cultivator who was lying on his back on the ground not far away and unconscious.
This is too much! The fire in Qu Wanqing's heart suddenly burned even more fiercely.
"Gongsun Xin, Jia Liang, don't forget the rules the Island Master laid out before you entered the secret realm. It prohibits maliciously humiliating or abusing other sect disciples! You have now seriously violated the rules."
She wasn't speaking for the boy, she was just giving him a warning.
However, her warnings had no effect.
They became more outrageous and outrageous.
Jia Liang grabbed the boy's collar, lifted him up and punched him. The boy screamed and almost lost his mind.
His body trembled with excitement, perhaps finding it interesting, and was about to continue when he was stopped by Gongsun Xin.
Gongsun Xin said, "She has some truth to her. What we did in the secret realm might be discovered by others someday, and that would be very troublesome."
His interest was suddenly interrupted, and Jia Liang threw the person to Qu Wanqing in annoyance, as if he was throwing away a piece of garbage that was in the way.
The boy fell heavily to the ground with a groan, his messy hair covering his eyes.
Qu Wanqing glanced down at him and saw his chest still rising and falling, confirming that he was still alive and breathing.
After a while, she heard his voice, low and weak.
After hearing him say it several times, Qu Wanqing finally heard clearly that what he said was, "I'm sorry."
Qu Wanqing ignored him.
Turning to look at a gray bird on the side.
Strangely enough, this bird had flown into the cave not long ago and landed beside her, pecking at the spiritual grass on the ground with its head down.
But this did not attract the attention of Gongsun Xin and Jia Liang!
The more Qu Wanqing thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
Could it be...Junior Sister Yingying?
*
A hundred meters outside the cave.
On top of a giant tree, Zhu Ciying was sitting on the thick and sturdy trunk, folding a piece of paper in her hand.
The gray bird landed on her shoulder and she injected some spiritual power into it.
The bird's eyes flashed white, and it opened its mouth and spoke in human language.
"Shaoyang Sect is one of the three most famous top sects in the Thirty-Four States. Its disciples have high levels of cultivation and their strength should not be underestimated."
"Especially the four people participating in the trial this time. I heard that one of them has reached the Nascent Soul stage. He is most likely their team leader."
"So in this trial, they will definitely be able to obtain a large number of precious spiritual plants, and will most likely win first place in the end."
"But so what? We have their teammates in our hands. They'll have to hand over their spiritual plants and exchange them with us. Humph, what's the point of just being strong? In the end, it's like the mantis stalking the cicada, only to find the oriole behind."
Zhu Ciying folded the last corner, and a lifelike yellow-green spiritual herb took shape. She poured spiritual energy into the paper, and in a moment, the paper underwent a complete transformation, becoming a true spiritual herb.
Zhu Ciying took out the Seven-Leaf Magic Branch and compared it to the other one. They were identical. Satisfied, she put the magical herb away and jumped down from the tree.
Thanks to the message delivered by the paper bird, she now understands Qu Wanqing's situation and what kind of group they are.
One of them was forced to board the pirate ship, and the other two had their own calculations and were not in harmony with each other.
Such organizations are the easiest to break into.
The only person she was a little worried about was Qu Wanqing.
Senior Sister grew up in Shaoyang, with a kind heart and pure innocence. She had never left the mountain and had never been exposed to the evil and conspiracy of human hearts.
I got into trouble this time, and I can't help but feel guilty and self-blame.
I don’t know what kind of impact this incident will have on her spiritual heart.
Zhu Ciying walked to a tree stump and placed the spiritual herb on it.
There are some stones scattered around.
That was the formation she had set up.
Just waiting for the "yellow bird".
*
"How dare you disregard the trial rules? How outrageous!"
Yu Yongji slammed the table with such force that it couldn't bear the weight and shattered.
Leaders from all the major sects also spoke out to accuse Gongsun Xin and Jia Liang of bullying the weak.
Someone suggested, "Why not cancel their trial qualifications and bring the injured out as soon as possible?"
Someone immediately objected: "Didn't Gongsun Xin tell Jia Liang to stop? He hasn't continued to hit anyone since then."
"But they've been tortured to the point of barely having a last breath. Even if he throws one more or one less punch, the two injured won't be able to hold out for much longer. Aren't we sitting here watching to prevent any accidents from happening to the disciples?"
"That's right, if we don't care now, are we going to wait until the person dies before we care?"
Yu Yongji said, "These two people have evil intentions and poor moral character. If we leave them alone, I'm afraid more people will be deceived." He was worried that Zhu Ciying would also fall into their trap.
Upon hearing that there was an opportunity to challenge Shaoyang Sect, the elder of Dan Sect immediately put aside the scene of his own disciple being beaten into a pig's head and regained his spirits.
"Island Master, look at what you're saying. Since ancient times, 'all is fair in war,' and they've used their schemes and tricks. Isn't there anyone who can counter their tactics and break their plans? In my opinion, this trial is quite interesting."
There is some truth in this.
Yu Yongji turned his head to look at Yu Yin Zhenren, who looked like he was enjoying a good show. He said calmly, "As long as no lives are lost, there's nothing wrong with fighting and getting the people and things back."
Yu Yongji was stunned. What was he talking about?
Everyone had different opinions and was debating at once.
Yu Yongji was still worried about Zhu Ciying, so he took advantage of the chaos to ask, "The enemy is treacherous and cunning. Aren't you really worried that Yingying will be deceived and suffer?"
"Will the little fairy really be okay?" The spirit bird was also worried about Zhu Ciying, and the nuts in its mouth no longer tasted good.
Xie Rangchen calmly put down his teacup and swallowed the cake in his mouth.
"She'll be fine."
How can we still be cheated when paper-making can be used to the point where it is difficult to distinguish the real from the fake?
"Suffering a loss?" Master Yu Yin couldn't help but laugh. "That kid has been hanging out with Ming Ran since he was little. He has a lot of tricks up his sleeve."
"Oh, you should have told me earlier. I wouldn't be so anxious if you had told me earlier." Yu Yongji drank a cup of cold tea, and his restless heart calmed down a little.
Finally, he glanced in the direction of Xie Rangchen. The young man was wearing pink clothes, with one hand resting on the armrest, supporting his head as if he was about to sleep.
How can you still have the time to sleep at this hour?!
Yu Yongji's anger flared up again. He couldn't help but whisper to Master Yu Yin, "When did you accept another disciple? His taste is nothing like yours..."
Yu Yin Zhenren's forehead twitched slightly, and he said with a smile: "Ming Ran said that this is called 'Ji Feibai's aesthetics'."
*
It was one quarter past three. It was quiet outside the cave, with no one around.
[Announcement]: Group 2 obtained 100 points, with a total score of 1,200, ranking first so far.
"Damn it! Where's the person?" After waiting for half an hour longer than expected, Jia Liang's patience was mostly exhausted and he pounded the wall to vent his anger.
The other teams' points were skyrocketing, while his own bunch of losers had only managed to score 400 points after all their hard work, waiting for him to return and turn the tide. And Zhu Ciying hadn't shown up yet. He was getting impatient.
Gongsun Xin scoffed, genuinely despising his impatience. "Why rush? She has a thousand points. Waiting even a quarter of an hour will still be faster than you going out and painstakingly searching for spiritual plants."
Jia Liang understood this when he heard it.
At this moment, the jade slip suddenly flashed.
Jia Liang clicked on it and found it was a message from Zhu Ciying. He immediately showed it to Gongsun Xin.
[Zhu Ciying]: Senior sister, I’m almost there, please hold on a little longer.
"Hooked," they both thought to themselves at the same time.
They waited patiently for another quarter of an hour.
There was no sound outside.
Jia Liang clenched the jade slip: "Is she playing tricks on us?"
Gongsun Xin said nothing, his expression slightly solemn.
Jia Liang was still threatening: "If she falls into my hands, I will torture her so severely that she can neither live nor die!"
"Hello." Gongsun Xin approached Qu Wanqing and asked in a deep voice, "Do you know what's going on?" He suspected that there was some other connection between Qu Wanqing and her.
Qu Wanqing's hands and feet were bound by spirit-sealing chains, and he couldn't struggle free, so he simply gave up to save his energy.
She was probably frightened by the other person's appearance, as tears kept flowing out of her eyes. She pursed her lips and said, "I can tell you, but you have to promise me that after you get the spiritual plant, you will let us go immediately and you are not allowed to hurt my junior sister!"
Naive. The last time she made a request to him, what happened? This stupid beauty has never learned her lesson.
Gongsun Xin pretended to agree to her conditions.
Qu Wanqing calmed down and said hesitantly, "My junior sister has had a physical defect since she was a child. She can't tell east from west, south from north, and can't find her way. It's useless for you to send her the location. She won't be able to find this place."
"Unless... you send someone to pick her up."
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