Chapter 563: Interrogation, Wood of Ten-Thousand Poisons (1/2)
Chapter 563: Interrogation, Wood of Ten-Thousand Poisons
A single night’s dream had unlocked the secrets of the poison storage space. It was probably the greatest gain Han Yunxi had gotten from the forbidden fields of the Poison Sect. She didn’t wonder whether she had any surviving ties with the Poison Sect, or if they had uncovered the secret too. The first thing she thought of was Jun Yixie!
Once she cultivated to Level 2, she could definitely beat him senseless!
Why did Han Yunxi target him first? Because it was a personal grudge and because Jun Yixie had a well-known reputation in the poison communities. Before it grew light, Han Yunxi seized the time to meditate some more. Meanwhile, Long Feiye sat on her roof while staring blank at the skies. His eyes were deep, his thoughts possibly lingering on Witch Aunt’s warning about the respect deserved by the Chu Clan, or Gu Qishao’s parting words, or that inexplicable death of the fire back at the caves.
Perhaps he wasn’t thinking about those things at all, but how to deal with the Chu Clan and stir things up in Western Zhou. His eyebrows were creased upon that cold, handsome visage, making him seem frosty and untouchable even as his thoughts remained a mystery. In the silence, another figure suddenly appeared on the roof—Tang Li.
He brought over two flasks of wine and tossed one to Long Feiye. “Big bro, drink a cup with me!”
No one knew the extent of Long Feiye’s alcohol tolerance, but he wasn’t a fan of wine. He simply set the flask aside without speaking a thing. Tang Li was already a little tipsy as he settled to sit by his side. “Say, big bro, does that woman need to act like that? I don’t even like her, so why does she insist on marrying me?”
Ever since he fled from his arranged marriage, Tang Li had been feeling depressed. Besides relying on Long Feiye, he had nowhere else to go. Long Feiye ignored him as he lost himself in thought, so Tang Li scooted closer to murmur, “Big bro, I should just find a random woman and have some kids with her. I’ll see what father can do then after bringing them back to the clan with me! Actually, they don’t need to be in such a rush. Maybe I’d end up wandering back on my own someday. But the harder they look for me, the less I want to return.”
Finally, Long Feiye sat up and looked over at Tang Li, who hiccuped drunkenly and laughed. “You’re going to call me childish and naive, aren’t you?”
Wrong!
Long Feiye didn’t say anything at all, but grabbed Tang Li by the hand and flew into the air before releasing him. He fell from the air with a thump, the pain jolting him out of his stupor.
“Try and make a racket for Han Yunxi again!” Long Feiye warned coldly.
Tang Li was stunned. He only realized just then that Han Yunxi was still sleeping inside. So that means he’s on night watch for her sake? As Long Feiye approached him, Tang Li chased after him and grabbed onto his robes, his voice low. “Big bro, you…you’ve, no, that’s not right, the two of you are…”
Before Tang Li could finish, Long Feiye’s expression shifted. “Let go.”
“Big bro, just one last word. The two of you should hurry up and have a baby already. I promise my father and Aunt Ru won’t have any nasty designs against Han Yunxi then!” Tang Li said earnestly.
Long Feiye’s face fell before he simply kicked Tang Li into the nearby pond to clear his head. Whether or not the suggestion raised waves in Long Feiye’s heart was something only he himself knew. In any case, his furrowed eyebrows had finally relaxed. After taking care of the Chu Clan, he would wait for the snows to melt again before going to Celestial Mountain!
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The next day, Han Yunxi was the first to discover that Gu Qishao had disappeared.
“Did he leave last night?” she asked doubtfully. The fact that he’d suddenly left without any goodbye made her uneasy. We haven’t even interrogated Chu Tianyin yet, so what’s his rush? Did an emergency pop up? Where did he go?
Originally, she thought it’d be simple enough to get the Earth of Ten-Thousand Poisons, so she told Mu Linger that Gu Qishao would be back very soon. The girl was probably still awaiting his return back at the pharmacy. It would be cruel to wait so long in vain, especially when she had staked her everything on seeing him again. Han Yunxi didn’t know how much she understood Gu Qishao, but she was sure that he’d only left if something had come up.
“Last night…what happened?” she asked.
Tang Li yawned and shook his head. “I don’t know. I drank too much and everything’s hazy…” He had even forgotten the words he said to Long Feiye, as well as how the other had kicked him into the water.
Long Feiye was silent in the face of Tang Li’s words. Instead he asked Han Yunxi, “Do you have something important to find him for?”
How could Han Yunxi tell him about her little details with Mu Linger? She simply shook her head. Long Feiye had his own knowledge of things, so he simply passed on the issue and brought Han Yunxi to Chu Tianyin. The man was currently locked up in a secret room with heavy injuries, still unconscious. But once Long Feiye poured a bucket of ice water on his head, his eyes flew open.
Chu Tianyin was truly a stalwart man. Even under these circumstances, his gaze was fearless as he arched a brow at Long Feiye and spat up a mouthful of water. Long Feiye’s lips curved into a cold arc. “Tang Li, sent Witch Aunt to the military barracks to serve as a prostitute.”
“Long Feiye, come at me if you have any guts. What’s the use of molesting a woman?” Chu Tianyin raged. He had no idea that Witch Aunt had already been released.
“You know the Earth of Ten-Thousand Poisons so well. Is the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion in the Chu Clan’s hands?” Long Feiye asked with interest.
It wasn’t easy tracking down the underground palace of the Poison Sect’s forbidden grounds, much less recognizing the special soil there and its weakness to fire. Whoever knew that must have done research into the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion.
Chu Tianyin and Witch Aunt had searched for a long time before discovering the secret to cracking Perplexing Butterfly Illusion lay in the Poison Sect’s forbidden grounds. Long Feiye “suspected” Chu Tianyin as much as the man suspected him. The fact that he had ran into Long Feiye and Han Yunxi in the forbidden grounds last time already made him suspect that the duo was aiming for the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion. Perhaps the poison was even now in their hands.
But Long Feiye’s question now dissipated much of Chu Tianyin’s suspicions. The Perplexing Butterfly Illusion was the most valuable treasure of the Poison Sect, after all. It had been missing for so many years that it seemed unlikely for Long Feiye to have it. Chu Tianyin was a shrewd and subtle man with many intelligent ideas, but in the end he still wasn’t a match for the old fox that was Long Feiye. Naturally, Long Feiye’s questions were to throw him off track.