Chapter 556: Go back and tell her (2/2)

She wanted to ask Han Yunxi what she’d done, but couldn’t spit out the words. She couldn’t fathom how the girl had scattered all the bats. But who else could it have been but Han Yunxi? It was impossible to disperse these bats once they made up their minds to attack, much less escape their assault.

Han Yunxi didn’t do anything beyond holding Lil Thing in her hands and petting its sleeping form. Witch Aunt did notice the squirrel-like creature, but she didn’t pay it any mind. She never would’ve connected it to the Poison Sect’s fearsome poison beast. After standing stunned for awhile, she muttered, “Han Yunxi, it really was you?”

Han Yunxi neither answered nor explained herself. She arched her brow at Witch Aunt and smiled lightly instead. Seeing this, Witch Aunt recalled all the words she said before and the mocking laughter from Gu Qishao and the rest. Her face flushed involuntarily. After living for all these years, this was the first time she’d felt so disgraced! The first time she realized just how ignorant she was, and how conceited. She had been completely on guard against those bats, but Han Yunxi resolved the issue so simply that Witch Aunt still didn’t know what she did! She felt that her decades’ worth of study in the poison arts were all for naught. She actually lost to a damned girl like Han Yunxi.

How humiliating!

Despite her shame, Witch Aunt still had to ask. “Han Yunxi, how did you scatter the bat swarm? And how did you counter the poisons I used against the vine just tell? Speak!”

Gu Qishao wanted to know too and instantly perked up his ears. Han Yunxi only replied, “Even if I told you, you wouldn’t understand. You must be Chu Qingge’s relative, right? No wonder you’re just as ignorant and conceited as she is.”

“You! You!” Witch Aunt was both embarrassed and annoyed as her nails dug into her hands. She moved to slap the girl, but she never got the chance. Long Feiye grabbed her hand and viciously twisted her fingers, breaking them all.

“Your lordship isn’t planning to kill you just yet,” Long Feiye said coldly. “But if you want to seek death, your lordship will give you a life worse than death!”

Witch Aunt was in so much pain that she couldn’t even speak. Her broken hand hung listlessly by her side while the other one didn’t dare to move. Even if she had the strength to attack with poisons, she lacked the will. None of her toxins had worked on the vine back then, so trying them now would just be a joke.

That damned girl Han Yunxi is so frightening! In the end, she hung her head in defeat.

“Witch Aunt, I’d like to trouble you to pass on a word to Chu Qingge. With brains like hers…she’s not worthy to like my husband!” Han Yunxi suddenly spoke up, her air aggressive and her eyes cold like a queen’s.

Chu Xifeng and Tang Li were both startled by the words, while Gu Qishao felt a helpless twinge in his heart. In the end, he still ended up grinning at her statement. She’s probably the only woman in Cloud Realm Continent who would say such things out loud. I…really like hearing it.

As for Long Feiye, he was as expressionless as ever, but a twitch of his lips betrayed his true emotions. He was used to being the domineering one, so Han Yunxi’s sudden shift in attitude was new for him.

Once again, the old Witch Aunt was thoroughly shaken by Han Yunxi. She finally understood why her niece had lost so miserably against the girl. Even she herself had failed, hadn’t she?

After defeating Chu Tianyin and Witch Aunt and getting the four toxic teardrop, Han Yunxi’s group had finally managed to successfully conclude their trip to the Poison Sect. Although they didn’t know how to get back to the underground palace from their current location, it was much easier to leave the forbidden grounds from these poison grasses and woods. They had to get away quickly. More likely than not, the stir from the earthquakes would’ve caused quite a commotion. If any medical academy members found them, they’d be in trouble. After taking Chu Tianyin and Witch Aunt into custody, they prepared to depart when Han Yunxi inexplicably stopped.

For a second just then, she’d felt her soul quiver. After a moment’s hesitation, she slowly turned to face the blank stele in the middle of the Poison Sect’s sacrificial altar. It was a simple and unsophisticated piece of stone, half-blackened, half overgrown with moss. It seemed to radiate with an air of both life and death, like the interplay of shadows and light fused together. An invisible force seem to draw Han Yunxi towards the stone. Her mind now was completely blank, her eyes filled with nothing but its image. It felt like her very soul was being drawn out of her body.

Long Feiye was holding her hand and clearly felt her fingers turn cold. He had no idea what was going on, but felt a flicker of panic before he asked, “Han Yunxi, what are you looking at?”

Han Yunxi recovered her senses, uncertain as to what had just happened. “Nothing…I was just taking a glance, let’s go.”

Long Feiye tightened his grip on her hand and looked uneasily at the stone stele. He didn’t want to stay here a moment longer.

The group hunted around before finding the fissure where they’d fallen from between two mountain ranges. Then they expended effort to avoid the medical academy scouts before finally making it into Medical City at nightfall. Naturally, they wouldn’t dawdle here, either. After a bit of rest, they left the city behind, where Long Feiye released Witch Aunt to go free.

He said, “Go back and tell the head of the Nether Clan that his son is in your lordship’s hands!”

Nether Clan?

Han Yunxi grew curious…