135 A Restless Day (2/2)

The merciful monk was moved and said to Lianye, ”Brother Lianye, please help this poor boy.”

Lianye felt reluctant to help the boy, but he could not deny Monk Lianhua's request. He turned to face west and repeatedly chanted, ”Amitabha, to save a person is better than building a 7-story pagoda.” After a while, he finally calmed himself down and went to treat the brown-belt assassin. He grabbed the teenager's wrist with his left hand to inject some cool energy into the boy, and in the meantime he sent out strands of Qi with his right hand to help the cool energy flowing inside the boy's meridians.

The hot Qi inside Gu Shenwei's Baihui, Xuanji and Yongquan acupoints felt threatened and started shivering.

Soon, with the help of the strands of Qi, the cool energy began to attack the hot Qi and drive it out of the boy's body.

Feeling that the hot Qi was defeated by the cool energy, Gu Shenwei was overwhelmed with joy, although this remedial process made him suffer a lot physically.

An hour later, Lianye was soaked in sweats and was too exhausted to continue the treatment. Gu Shenwei also felt tired and weak. The moment the monk released his wrist, he immediately fell to the ground.

Tie Hanfeng went to check out the situation inside the room. When he discovered that the monks were treating his apprentice, he decided to leave them alone and asked Xu Yanwei and Xu Xiaoyi to stay away from this room.

”How's he?” Lianhua asked solicitously. Breaking Obsession was the brainchild of him and his brother, so he really cared about this slave boy, who was one of the first learners of the incantation.

Lianye was panting heavily. He spent some time stabilizing his internal breath and then said, ”I'm sorry. Brother Lianhua. My internal strength isn't strong enough to erase the evil force inside his body. I've tried my best but I'm afraid that I can only give him a few more days to live by doing that.”

”That's probably the boy's fate. You've done your best. That's enough. You don't have to be sorry. Let's go to find the girl,” said Monk Lianhua, decisively.

Now that the monks knew that the slave boy would die soon, they decided to find Maid Lotus, the other learner of Breaking Obsession.

Gu Shenwei was quite pleased to send the monks away now. ”Goodbye, Monk Lianhua and Monk Lianye. The girl was taken away by someone else. I'll appreciate it very much, if you can find her.”

Seeing the monks leave the house, Tie Hanfeng came to Slave Huan and said, ”Shangguan Hongye came here. He asked me to tell you that the Eighth Young Mistress wants to see you. He said that it's something important.”

Gu Shenwei had been waiting for this order from Luo Ningcha all this time. He had paid Shangguan Hongye an ingot of gold for this. He needed a reasonable excuse for his return to Golden Roc Fort.

”I see. I'll set out right away.” With these words, Gu Shenwei staggered up and headed for the gate of the house.

Tie Hanfeng thought that Slave Huan behaved abnormally today, so he grabbed the boy and asked, ”Do you know what you're doing?”

”Yes,” Gu Shenwei nodded and replied assertively. Faced with so many tricky problems, he really wished that he was as confident as he sounded.

At night, after he returned to Golden Roc Fort, he went to report to Luo Ningcha. He told her how he had fawned over the Fifth Young Master Meng during the dinner.

Miss Luo quickly lost her patience and got tired of hearing the trivial details about the dinner. She felt a little disappointed, since Shangguan Hongye had told her that Slave Huan had something important to say. ”Alright, that's enough. You don't have to report such a trivial matter to me. Now that you've come back, l give you another task. Go to have dinner tomorrow with Shangguan Hongye and his mother,” she said to Slave Huan.

Luo Ningcha was much more prudent than before. Although Shangguan Hongye and Madam Yang had already accepted her money and promised to support her, she still doubted their loyalty. She decided to send her conspiracy teacher to feel them out.

Gu Shenwei's top priority now was to complete the task given by the tall woman from the Barren Sect. He did not want to waste his time on Shangguan Hongye and his mother, however, he had no choice but to accept Miss Luo's order. Before he left, he asked Miss Luo to do him a favour. ”Miss Luo, please find a chance to go to Inner Residence to tell Shangguan Ru that I want to meet her.”

Luo Ningcha refused to deliver the message for him in the beginning, since she hated Lady Meng and all the lady's children. Gu Shenwei told her the benefits of keeping a low profile and maintaining friendly relations with Lady Meng to persuade her, but she still insisted that Slave Huan should tell her the reason for this meeting.

”The twins are going to select their own killers on their birthday. Only Master Ru can make me a red-belt killer now,” Gu Shenwei said to Miss Luo.

”If she makes you a red-belt killer, you'll become her and her mother's loyal servant, won't you?” Luo Ningcha asked suspiciously.

”Miss Luo, I'll never betray you and the Eighth Young Master. I've taken a blood oath to you and sworn to be your loyal servant forever. Now, all the other young masters have promised to send their best brown-belt assassins to the twins. If I get kicked out of the election, it'll be a disgrace to the Eighth Young Master.”

After convincing Miss Luo to deliver the message for him, he hurriedly went back to Tie Hanfeng's yard in East Castle before curfew to read Death Scripture. He hoped that he could find some clues to his trouble in this scripture and read the book for hours. As a result, he only took a nap during the early hours of the morning.

When he woke up, he felt dizzy. Today, he had lots of things to do. He had to meet Shangguan Ru to carry out his plan and dine with Shangguan Hongye and his mother at noon on behalf of Luo Ningcha. He also needed to sneak into Firewood Yard to fasten the rope for the Barren Sect before midnight.

Today would be a very busy day.