Chapter 146: A Leaf Blinds You to the Beauty
Hongying finally coaxed Zhuhuang to sleep. Just as she was thinking of coming back to ask about Master Xuanhuai's condition, she saw Lingxiang squatting at the door, teasing someone.
When Lingxiang heard the noise behind her, she immediately stood up and went to greet Hongying.
"It is inconvenient to enter now. My master is giving acupuncture to Master Xuan Huai."
Hongying understood what he meant when he heard it - some doctors have excellent medical skills, but those are just their special skills, and most of them are not suitable to be shown to outsiders.
"Since the treatment has already begun, does that mean my master can be saved?"
Lingxiang shook her head and said she didn't know. Hongying looked frightened when she heard that.
"How confident are you, then?"
Lingxiang still shook her head: "Don't worry too much. Since my master has started to treat Xuan Huai Zhenren, it means there is a solution. But acupuncture is a physical job and cannot be disturbed. Let's wait patiently."
Hearing this, Hongying looked towards the door, her face full of worry. Seeing her like this, Lingxiang took her hand and said, "Don't worry, sister. My master said that Master Xuanhuai has a very lucky face, and nothing will happen to him. But there is one thing I don't understand now. Why don't you take me to see your senior brother?"
Hongying was a little confused: "Why do you want to see Senior Brother?"
Lingxiang smiled and said, "My master just said that if we want to detoxify, we must know what kind of poison it is, but now we can't know. Earlier, you said that your senior brother saw Taoist Xuantan poisoning the patient with his own eyes. I think he must have seen the appearance of the poison. I thought that if he could remember the color of the poison, whether it was powder or liquid, and what it was packaged in, he could roughly infer the type of poison. Although this way, we can't figure out what the poison is, we can infer its general type, which will be more conducive to Taoist Xuanhuai's treatment."
After listening to what Lingxiang said, Hongying felt that it made sense. She thought that since it would benefit her master, she would naturally cooperate with her wholeheartedly.
Lingxiang followed Hongying to a courtyard. Although the courtyard was not big, it was very exquisite. There were four rooms in the courtyard, connected by a long corridor. Under the corridor was a pool. Although there was only a pool of clear water, some fish could be vaguely seen swimming in it.
Hongying led Lingxiang through a long corridor and knocked on a door.
"Big Brother, I'm Hongying."
After waiting for a short while, the door opened, revealing a thin man in a green Taoist robe.
The man had a thin face, thick eyebrows and narrow eyes. When he opened the door, his face was full of surprise and he asked:
"Why did you come back? Did you get the life-extending elixir?"
Hongying shook her head: "But I have invited Master Fuyin from the Yuanqing Sect, and he has already started treating Master."
The man just then saw the spiritual fragrance behind Hongying and couldn't help but be extremely surprised. Could this be the Yuanqing School's Master Fuyin?
Seeing the expression on the man's face, Lingxiang hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Brother Daoist, please don't misunderstand me. I am Maidong, a disciple of Yuanqing Sect. Master Fuyin is my master. I am currently treating him in Master Xuanhuai's courtyard."
The man took a step back upon hearing this and invited the two into the house: "I am Bai Yang."
As soon as the three of them sat down, Lingxiang asked straight to the point, "I heard from Sister Hongying earlier that you saw Taoist Master Xuantan poison you with your own eyes?"
Bai Yang nodded. "That day, I was about to go to Master's room to answer a question, but I saw Master Xuantan holding a porcelain bottle outside the window, pouring something into Master's food behind his back. After that, Master fell ill and never recovered."
"Since it is sprinkled, it is powder. Can you see clearly what color it is?" Lingxiang asked with a frown.
"It should be white. After the medicine was sprinkled into Master's mica porridge, it immediately dissolved."
"Since you saw Master Xuantan drugged someone, why didn't you stop him?" Lingxiang asked.
Bai Yang frowned upon hearing this: "I didn't know it was poison at the time. I didn't realize it until Master fell ill." He stood up and took a porcelain bottle from the shelf beside him. "Everyone in the sect always has this thing on hand. The two bottles are the same, so I didn't take it seriously."
Lingxiang took the porcelain bottle after hearing that. As soon as she pulled out the cork, she smelled a strong scent of silver dan grass. She looked at Hongying.
"This is……"
Hongying quickly took out an identical bottle from her bosom and said, "This is our sect's exclusive prescription. We do add some to our meals on a daily basis. Although it tastes a bit strong, because this medicine helps the practice of our sect's mental method, each inner sect disciple has a bottle."
"So that's how it is..." Lingxiang said as she covered the porcelain bottle, a thoughtful look on her face.
Seeing her like this, Hongying asked what was wrong, but Lingxiang just smiled and didn't answer. Instead, she asked Baiyang, "Then how did you know about the life-extending pill?"
"I heard from Junior Sister Changpu that it seems that Elder Fu Cang of your sect once saved a life in the Supreme Sect with this method. She was also present at the time, so she came back and told us about it."
Hearing this, Lingxiang frowned even more tightly. Although Lu Ying's life was in danger at that time, she was confident and not panicked at all, so she remembered it very clearly - there was no woman present at that time, and this Changpu was obviously lying.
But how did she know?
……
Maidong has been living very happily in Xianyun for the past two days, as if she were the owner of Xianyunju. From time to time, she would ask Rendong to serve tea and water, chop firewood and cook.
However, she originally wanted to get closer to Xinyi, but he didn't return to Xianyunju often recently.
To know where Xinyi went, one must naturally keep a close eye on Changpu's every move.
However, these days, there seemed to be nothing wrong with Changpu. He followed Taoist Xuantan closely during the day, and at night, he just returned to the house with his fellow disciples.
He seemed to be a normal person, but Xinyi always felt that he was very familiar with him.
But he had never seen this woman before, why did he have such a feeling?
And on the third night that Xinyi stared at her, she saw her leave the guest house alone in the middle of the night and go to the mountains.
Upon seeing this, Xinyi immediately followed, but Changpu just walked into the forest and stayed there motionless, as if he was waiting for someone.
Xinyi was puzzled. Logically speaking, Changpu was just a foreign teacher. Even if she had something to say to someone, it should be to her fellow disciples. There was no need for her to come out in the middle of the night. Why did this happen?
Could it be that he was sleepwalking?
Just when Xinyi was confused, she heard Changpu talking.
"You are following me like this, are you attracted by my beauty?"
Xin Yi was shocked when he heard this. He had always been hiding his aura, so how did this woman know about it? Could it be that her cultivation was higher than his?
But based on what I saw every day, this woman was just a Qi Refiner. How could she detect me?
"How did you know I was following you?" Xinyi twisted her fingers and released the spell. "This is my unique spell. With your level of cultivation, it's impossible for you to detect it. Who are you?"
Upon hearing this, Acorus chuckled softly, and that laugh was surprisingly seductive to the extreme.
"It's just the Lu family's technique, Xinyi. Have you forgotten me after just a few days of not seeing me?"
Xinyi was shocked when she heard this: "You are! Yinghua!"
……
Lingxiang and Fuyin stayed in Xuanhuai's house and never went out. Even Hongying was not allowed to enter, saying that they were trying to remove the poison for Xuanhuai. If there were too many people in the house, it would be inconvenient. Hongying understood and stayed at the door. Zhuhuang came to look for her many times, but he never let her in.
At this time, Master Xuanhuai was playing chess with Master Fuyin.
"Your disciple is really interesting," said Xuan Huai Zhenren, "She is so smart that I want to take her as my disciple."
Master Fuyin held the chess piece in his hand and pondered in silence. Master Xuanhuai was an excellent chess player and had almost surrounded and killed him just now, so he could not be careless at all.
Ling Xiang at the side heard this and laughed: "I'm afraid that the master will be disappointed. After all, I also lied to the master."
"Oh? How do you say this?"
"The one playing chess with you is actually not my master." Lingxiang smiled and put down the porcelain bottle in her hand - there are quite a few rare things in this old man's house.
Master Xuan Huai was shocked when he heard this. Seeing him like this, Ling Xiang hurriedly said, "Of course, he is the Taoist Fu Yin of the Yuan Qing Sect. There is no doubt about that. However, he and I are not master and disciple, but brothers and sisters from the same sect."
Xuan Huai was shocked again. Although he rarely interacted with Yuan Qing Sect, they were both major sects, so he had heard of them. Since this girl was the junior sister of Fu Yin, that meant...
"Yes, I am Elder Fu Cang of the Yuanqing Sect."
When these words were spoken, Master Xuan Huai was so frightened that he almost fell off the couch.
He had heard of the Nine Sons of Yuan Qing, but he didn't expect that Elder Fu Cang was actually a girl.
And this little girl could actually make the life-extending elixir made by Fairy Tu Mi back then! ?
"Kid, don't try to make fun of an old man like me. How can you be an elder of the Yuanqing Sect at your age?"
Lingxiang smiled and picked up a mermaid pearl beside her and weighed it. It was not as good as the one in Senior Brother Zhaoming's hall, but the color was very beautiful.
Seeing her like this, Master Xuan Huai hurriedly asked Master Fu Yin, who was hesitant, "Is this little girl really Elder Fu Cang?"
Master Fuyin was concentrating on thinking about how to make his move. He didn't really take Master Xuanhuai's question to heart. He just nodded subconsciously, still thinking about how to get out of the predicament.
When Master Xuan Huai saw him like this, he was so frightened that even his beard began to tremble.
……
"I am the Yuanqing Sect's Chief of Criminal Affairs. There is no one else in the room right now. Since you are all right, why don't you stand up and talk? Wouldn't that be very convenient?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Master Xuan Huai on the bed opened his eyes and sat up!
"I didn't expect that Hongying would invite Master Fuyin." Master Xuanhuai said as he put on his shoes and socks, saying sorry for making fun of him while he was doing so.
"Your fellow Daoist seems to be fine, but you have shut down your four senses. Why is that?" Master Fuyin did not hesitate to ask directly.
Master Xuan Huai fastened his shoelaces and sighed, "I think my junior fellow apprentice must have already arrived at Jiuque Mountain. To be honest, there is a demon clan member in Kunwu Sect."
Upon hearing this, Master Fuyin was shocked. According to Chi Yanzi, the demons have always been in the territory of Barbarian Continent, so how could they set foot in the Central Plains sects?
But Master Xuan Huai continued, "It's just that my Kunwu sect has always been good at subduing demons, and knows very little about the demons. I heard that your sect was a pioneer in defeating demons many years ago, so I came to seek your help."
Ling Xiang heard this and asked, "So, the matter of Taoist Xuantan giving the drug was also planned by you?"
Drugged? What drug? Master Xuan Huai was puzzled when he heard this, and Ling Xiang told him about her previous encounter with Hong Ying, and Master Xuan Huai immediately burst into laughter.
"Why would my junior brother give me drugs? That drug is a secret medicine made by our sect. It is only used to assist our sect's skills."
Lingxiang was surprised when she heard this, because she had never heard that practicing martial arts required the assistance of medicine.
Seeing her like this, Master Xuan Huai smiled again: "It is embarrassing to say this, our sect's method was originally the method of the celestial being, but because spiritual roots are scarce nowadays, it is difficult for the people in the sect to practice it. Fortunately, my master found a good recipe, which preserved the inheritance of this method."
"Since fellow Daoist is deliberately creating confusion, I think you know who the demons who have infiltrated are?" Master Fuyin quickly spoke up to relieve Master Xuanhuai's embarrassment.
Can……
"Oh, I'm ashamed to say this, but I really don't know..."
"Then...are there any clues?"
"Yes, there are, but it's too complicated to explain clearly at the moment."
Hearing this, Lingxiang couldn't help but roll her eyes: "You know nothing about this question. Even if you ask for help from Yuanqing Sect, there will be nothing you can do, right?"
Upon hearing this, Master Xuan Huai laughed: "It's not that I don't know anything. Based on what I have seen so far, there are indeed two people in the sect who are a little weird. However, one of them is my disciple who grew up with me, and the other is my junior brother's disciple. It's hard to confirm for the time being."
"According to what you said, one of them is your eldest disciple who is under house arrest?" asked Taoist Fuyin with a frown.
Xuan Huai Zhenren nodded: "That's right, there is one more person..."
"The other person is a female disciple who followed Taoist Xuantan to the Yuanqing Sect." Lingxiang said, "Since we already suspected these two, we separated them to prevent them from causing any trouble."
Master Xuan Huai raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Hmm! This girl is very smart, much better than my Hongying."
Lingxiang was not arrogant after hearing the praise from Xuanhuai Zhenren, and only continued: "I'm afraid that female disciple is not from the demon clan."
"how you said that?"
Master Fuyin smoothed his sleeves and said, "To be honest, the Yuanqing Sect encountered an unexpected change many years ago because of the invasion of the demons. Now, Yuanqing has set up mountain defense formations everywhere, and the demons will definitely not be able to enter the mountain gate."
"So, then it must be my eldest disciple?" Master Xuan Huai frowned, "But my disciple has been learning Taoism from me since he was young, so how could he become a member of the demon clan..."
Lingxiang found it extremely funny to see Master Xuanhuai frowning. The old man had long, thick, white eyebrows, and when he frowned, he looked just like the facial makeup on the stage, which was extremely funny.
Seeing a game on the table next to her, she smiled and said, "Why don't I go find out for the Master? That would save the Master from feeling bad for his disciple, right?"
……
"I saw that you were so young, but I didn't expect you to be an elder. I was really shortsighted!"
Upon hearing this, Lingxiang smiled and walked towards Master Fuyin, taking a chess piece from the chess basket and placing it down.
"It's time to close the net."
Upon hearing this, Master Xuan Huai looked at the chessboard and saw that the white piece, which was about to be surrounded and killed, had a chance of life again.
(End of this chapter)
