Chapter 1059: To see old age again (2/2)

“You!” Cang Qiuying fumed.

Meanwhile, the two Lockheart disciples she sent away came running back with their faces covered in wrinkles. It seemed as if they had aged decades in a flash.

“Eldest young Miss, save us! Eldest young Miss!”

“Eldest young Miss, have we been poisoned? Please help us!”

The two fearful scouts ran in front of Cang Qiuying while clutching their faces pitifully to beg for help. Their tender-skinned hands were a sharp contrast to their wrinkled faces, making Cang Qiuying’s hair stand on end. She had seen the same wizened face on Duanmu Yao!

This was…”One Night Like One Year!”

Cang Qiuying gave Han Yunxi a disbelieving look. She finally understood what they were waiting for--the poison’s reaction time!

When did she poison them? And she was standing so far away too. How could she poison without a sign?

Cang Qiuying had already planned to prod Han Yunxi into a one-on-one duel if she couldn’t delay them. A useless waste like Han Yunxi, no matter how good her martial arts was, would never be able to get close to her. Thus, she wouldn’t be able to poison her!

But Han Yunxi was clearly using these two disciples to warn her! When did she master martial arts?!

Cang Qiuying began to grow afraid. She couldn’t help but clutch at her own cheeks. The faces of the two aged disciples were already disgusting enough to make her want to puke and she desperately wanted to avoid sharing the same fate. She wondered if that would drive her mad.

“No….” she inexplicably backed away, fear creeping up her face.

“Protect the eldest young Miss!” it was Cang Qiuying’s second senior brother who spoke, unsheathing his sword. But he’d hardly stepped out before his face began to pain. Brushing casually against his skin, he soon discovered multiple wrinkles.

“My face?!” he exclaimed as he looked around the crowd. All of them were scared by the sight as they watched his wrinkles increase in real time with his sagging skin.

He’s been poisoned too!

Heavens, how did Han Yunxi do it?!

Han Yunxi was holding Long Feiye’s specially ordered poison needles in her hands! She took step after step towards Cang Qiuying. All of the senior brothers who had started to protect her had frozen in place after seeing second senior brother’s fate. When Han Yunxi drew closer, they even began to retreat. Cang Qiuying turned tail and prepared to flee. She didn’t care about the mountaintop anymore. Her face was more important than anything!

Unfortunately, Gu Qishao soon landed in front of her to block the way. Cang Qiuying immediately fled right, only for him to stop her again. Going left yielded the same results. Meanwhile, Long Feiye stood on the side to watch out for any sneak attacks against Han Yunxi by the other disciples. He disdained to make moves against women.

Finally, Han Yunxi stopped in front of Cang Qiuying and played with a poison needle between her fingers. Cang Qiuying collapsed to the ground in terror, but Han Yunxi only remarked, “Boring!”

Was she too strong? Or was her opponent just too weak? Just as Han Yunxi prepared to crouch down and question Cang Qiuying about the mountaintop, the girl blurted out, “Han Yunxi, back then you didn’t know martial arts and it was Long Feiye who helped you up the mountain. Now you’ve learned some, so how about we have a match today? See who can cross this suspension bridge first. If you beat me, I’ll receive one of your needles; if you beat me, don’t ever come to Celestial Mountain again. Do you dare?”

Han Yunxi laughed out loud. “That’s so dull! How about we do it this way…”[11]

1. So once Han Yunxi led LFY, GQS, and GBY along...dundundun, you get the rest. xD

2. Gong Beichen (宫北辰) - one of our new characters since forever, it feels like! Gong is “palace, temple,” Beichen is “north star (Polaris)”

3. Again, the only “decent dude” and master of the one-armed blacksmith here!

4. This is where I start yawning because you bet the next line is gonna be “if it wasn’t for that dastardly female lead blahblah”

5. This is super lame in retrospect when you consider HYX had no martial arts skills at that time and only her poisons + Lil Thing to have a fighting chance of surviving. It was obviously her father’s own greed that doomed him, but good luck convincing villainous female characters to believe that. No wonder “transmigrated into evil cannon fodder females to redo the story” stories are so popular and enjoyable. I’m reading a handful myself, haha~

6. Because no villainous female in this story is complete without getting jealous of HYX’s husband and wishing they were in her place, right, right~ At the rate they’re all dying out/being incapacitated in this story, I guess we’ll never get the cannon fodder VS. cannon fodder fight I’d rather see instead…

7. We just spent 4 paragraphs reading over Cang Qiuying’s “oh my poor me I hate her so much” tragic thoughts. Not bad, I was worried she’d mope for an entire page before getting to the action.

8. Reminder that Chu Xifeng’s name literally means “west wind (西风).”

9. You fooooooolllllllll…..

10. How many stunning men in red robes follow HYX around?! Looks like Cang Qiuying’s a low watt bulb too. I’d say 15 watts for her max...maybe 20 when she remembered to send off the scouts.

11. Here it comes again, villain!HYX emerges! Now that I think of it, it's pretty rare to see a female lead in Chinese novels be tough and kind to their enemies. I sort of want to read a book with a protag like that...but I'd guess the villains would have to be more sympathetic and less brain-dead first...