Chapter 75: The Emperor’s Blood Edict Hidden in the Belt, Three Villages and Five Powers Beyond the Heavens

Great General Qin had finished his warm-up.

Ning Xuan suddenly said, “I’m not fighting.”

Great General Qin paused and replied, “Oh?”

Ning Xuan said, “After you left, I took care of your family. I called your wife Aunt Zhao.

As for your confidants and personal guards, they were all bound to die. You didn’t intend for them to live when you left them. You can’t blame me for that.

As for Xuezhi, she rushed to send Aunt Zhao and your Qin family to the Western Regions. Was it really not to send them to you?”

He was not stupid.

Qin Shan Jun was a person from the previous era.

Although he looked young and strong, he was an old man over a hundred years old.

He couldn’t defeat him.

Qin Shan Jun smiled and said, “Don’t guess randomly, and don’t talk nonsense. Today… we have to fight.”

When Ning Xuan heard this, he immediately understood. This was “checking for spies and verifying identity.” If his identity was unknown, they would not really talk to him. However, he still pretended to be curious and replied, “Oh?”

Qin Shan Jun said, “After the fight, there will be an explanation.”

Ning Xuan withdrew his golden body and put the two women down. He glanced again and found that Lu Xuezhi was not seriously injured, but Xiao Jie’s breathing was becoming more and more rapid, and her chest was heaving.

He frowned.

Suddenly, he heard a “ding.”

A milky white bottle flew over from a distance.

It was thrown by Qin Shan Jun.

He caught it.

Qin Shan Jun said, “Dizzy but not dead, asleep but not awake, it’s toad poison. The dose of toad poison this time should be based on your constitution. A little girl like her certainly can’t take it. This is the antidote.”

Ning Xuan did not talk nonsense. He directly opened the bottle, took out a pill, and put it in Xiao Jie’s mouth.

The effect of the medicine was extremely fast. In just a few breaths, Xiao Jie looked much better.

He stretched out his hand again.

Qin Shan Jun said “tsk,” but he still took out another bottle and threw it out.

Ning Xuan gave it to Lu Xuezhi.

Qin Shan Jun said, “Are you done?”

Ning Xuan said, “Wait a little longer.”

Qin Shan Jun frowned and asked, “I’ve given you the antidote, what are you still waiting for?”

Ning Xuan said, “Let’s fight after they wake up.”

He and Qin Shan Jun would definitely not be able to win. What if there was a yellow sparrow lurking beside them during the fight, and the two women were kidnapped?

Qin Shan Jun was stunned for a moment. He looked Ning Xuan up and down and thought to himself: In the past, they were on opposite sides. Huang Cihe and the demons had tried to take his life several times, but he had managed to escape. Now it seemed that it was not a fluke. This son was really cautious.

He was really patient, or rather, he was patient with the young man in front of him. He jumped up and jumped onto the sand ridge beside him, “I, Qin, will wait.”

A short while later, Lu Xuezhi slowly woke up. As soon as she woke up, she quickly turned over and jumped up like lightning. Her eyes were as vigilant as a fierce beast as she scanned the surroundings. When she saw Ning Xuan beside her, and Qin Shan Jun standing on the sand peak not far away, she relaxed a little and said in astonishment, “What’s going on?”

When Ning Xuan heard this, he knew that the situation just now was not in the stupid wife’s plan.

This kind of thing was not strange.

You and others set a plan A, and then you execute plan A, but others quietly execute plan B.

Obviously, the wife had been played.

He had said it. No matter how naive, there should be a limit.

Now it seemed that although the wife was stupid, she was still in the category of being saved.

Ning Xuan said coldly, “Miss Lu, wasn’t it you who colluded with outsiders to drug me, Xiao Jie, and even yourself, and then let a group of camel cavalry tie us up and take us to who knows where?”

Lu Xuezhi was stunned when she heard this. Her face turned cold, and then pale. She lowered her head and suddenly turned to leave.

Ning Xuan said, “Stop.”

Lu Xuezhi stopped.

Ning Xuan asked, “Where are you going?”

Lu Xuezhi said angrily, “I’m going to ask him! He clearly said in the letter that he would only make you and Xiao Jie’s hands and feet weak, and cut off your perception, so that it would be easy to blindfold you and take you into the village. Otherwise, it would not be good if you remembered the route.

He also didn’t allow me to tell you in advance, for fear that you would be prepared and have an accident.

These are all the rules of the village, and they cannot be violated.

But to prevent accidents, I still insisted on taking the antidote in advance, because I have received the inheritance, and he agreed.

I thought that with me here, even if there was an accident, I could react. And this was the rule, so I agreed to cooperate.

Because I brought you here, I actually wanted to show you the real ancient martial arts, and also wanted to bring little sister Jie to recognize her ancestors and return to her clan, so I naturally had to abide by their rules.

If… if I had known it would be like this, I definitely wouldn’t have… I, I’m sorry, it was my self-righteousness, my stubbornness, that almost put all of us in a desperate situation where our lives were not our own.

I’m sorry, husband.”

She said a lot in one breath.

She had never said so much.

“Who is he?”

“It’s… it’s my master. It shouldn’t be. Master shouldn’t have lied to me.”

Ning Xuan said coldly, “Miss Lu, how many more things are you hiding from me?”

Lu Xuezhi looked at him blankly, and a faint tear flashed in her eyes.

Not far away, Qin Shan Jun, who had landed at some point, coughed and interrupted in a muffled voice, “Alright, Ning Xuan, she’s awake now. It’s our turn to fight.”

Ning Xuan coldly glanced at Lu Xuezhi and said, “Take care of Xiao Jie first.”

In the past, Lu Xuezhi, who was not under his command at all, now, like a child who had done something wrong, hurriedly said “oh,” and then obediently helped Xiao Jie to the sand peak on the side. At the same time, she secretly gave Qin Shan Jun a look from a distance, shook her head, and glared at him fiercely. The meaning was “don’t use a heavy hand.”

She had already smelled the blood in the surrounding area, and saw the broken meat and bones wrapped in the yellow sand. She had roughly guessed what had happened.

A feeling of fear rose in her heart.

Why did she lose her head and walk into a trap set by others?

But, why did that person set such a trap?

In the wind and sand, the dusk had passed, and the stars were all over the sky.

Two figures stood in this wind and sand.

Facing Great General Qin, Ning Xuan naturally had no intention of holding back. Of course, he didn’t think he could win either. He just wanted to see how far his superficial strength was from the level of the previous generation.

He revealed his golden body, and his fingers held the Ruyi. Suddenly, a sharp buzzing sound came from the air, as sharp as a swallow’s cry.

The cry gradually became louder, and it became a clamor, like a group of swallows returning from a distance.

Swoosh.

Ning Xuan’s fingers loosened.

He let the “petal” move with the wind, and it moved ten zhang, a hundred zhang…

Swallow Tide.

The three forces combined into one, and this one scattered into a hundred thousand fragments. The hundred zhang was still dense, and the next moment, it rapidly expanded to a thousand zhang, like a saber that had suddenly become longer. In the midst of the “rumbling” explosion, it reached Qin Shan Jun’s throat.

However…

A strange sound suddenly sounded.

Clang! Clang! Clang!!!

It was like the harsh and strange sound of a zither string being violently pulled.

Following this strange sound, Ning Xuan’s thousand-zhang-long flying saber “danced,” lost its accuracy, and was scattered all over the place.

Qin Shan Jun watched calmly.

The next moment…

Swoosh!

He disappeared from the spot, and almost at the same time, he suddenly appeared in front of Ning Xuan’s golden body, and placed his hand on the surface of the golden body.

His hand was the size of a cattail-leaf fan, but his strength was not mighty. Instead, it was quiet and soft.

So quiet that there was no sound, so soft that the golden body was not disturbed at all.

But Ning Xuan, who was in the golden body, felt a strange tremor…

Ning Xuan felt that his soul was about to leave his body.

On the other side, Qin Shan Jun was also stunned. He felt the terrifying soul power in the young man’s body. He had not been able to knock this soul out of his body with one blow. He could not help but say, “Good boy.”

After saying that, he suddenly retreated.

Ning Xuan was able to buffer, but he did not attack again. The other party’s power was too strange. Just those two moves made him think of the “four taels moving a thousand jin” and “hitting a cow across a mountain” in the martial arts novels he had read in his previous life.

He was thinking about how to counterattack, but he saw Qin Shan Jun disappear again.

He instantly retracted his saber.

The hundred thousand scattered fragments instantly returned, and rushed towards him from all directions.

But Qin Shan Jun was too fast.

He suddenly disappeared, and then suddenly appeared, appearing behind his golden body, and then he struck down with another palm.

Boom!

This time.

Ning Xuan suddenly felt his soul leave his body.

This was a very strange power, not brute force, but a strange and skillful power.

Qin Shan Jun had knocked his soul out of his body with one palm.

After one palm, Qin Shan Jun did not attack again. Instead, he took a deep breath with a solemn expression, and a mouthful of scorching qi rose into the air, and pounced on Ning Xuan’s soul.

Ning Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly, but he did not summon the [Confined Ghost] Heavenly Demon Record. Before he summoned it, he was mainly a human soul. After all, it was he who had devoured Tianyouzi, not Tianyouzi who had devoured him; after he summoned it, the [Confined Ghost] was complete, and the two were connected, and the water rose with the boat. At that time, it would be mainly a ghost soul.

At this time, he was naturally a human soul, not a ghost soul.

Before the scorching qi arrived, a comfortable feeling came over him.

When it reached his body, Ning Xuan felt even more comfortable.

The next moment, his soul returned to his body, but the scorching qi did not dissipate. It gradually spread and spread in his body, making his whole body comfortable.

He glanced at the panel. In just a few breaths, his constitution had actually changed from “11.5” to “12.”

“Thank you.” Ning Xuan cupped his fists.

Qin Shan Jun’s expression softened a lot. He waved his hand and said strangely, “Now I, Qin, really want to take you as my son-in-law.”

After speaking, he turned his head and looked at Lu Xuezhi not far away, “Junior Sister, no problem.”

Ning Xuan’s expression moved slightly, but he was not surprised.

He had long guessed that Lu Xuezhi and Qin Shan Jun must have a relationship. Now, it was just that “fellow disciples” had been filled in the relationship column.

Lu Xuezhi looked over a little embarrassed. After meeting Ning Xuan’s gaze, she lowered her head and explained incoherently, “I… I have always believed you, but the sect insisted on checking. That… it’s a big deal, so I had to check. The sect said that those ghosts would use people as clothes. If you are not a ghost, then this test will only be good for you.”

She had made a mistake before, and now she seemed to have made a mistake again.

She was at a loss and looked left and right. She looked at the yellow sand, and at Xiao Jie who was still in a coma. She just didn’t look at Ning Xuan. Then she suddenly puffed out her chest, coughed delicately, cleared her throat, and then said, “General An Yuan, Ning Xuan, receive the decree!!”

After saying this, she gently pinched her belt with her fingers.

The belt made a crisp cracking sound.

There was actually a hidden compartment inside.

No wonder she had not taken off her clothes when she bathed before, and even when she washed her clothes, she had controlled the water to soak them carefully, and had not touched this belt.

Lu Xuezhi pulled out a piece of yellow silk from her belt and unfolded it.

Qin Shan Jun took a step forward and knelt on one knee.

Ning Xuan also knelt on one knee.

Lu Xuezhi’s pretty face was solemn, and she read aloud:

“By the grace of heaven, the emperor proclaims:

I, with my meager virtue, have inherited the great lineage. I worry day and night, only thinking of the safety of the country and the suffering of the people. However, treacherous officials are in power, and the Taiyin is a disaster. The Zixia Temple’s evil Taoists have borrowed the name of immortals, but they are actually demons and ghosts, entrenched in the forbidden palace, confusing people’s hearts, and causing chaos in the court. I am now controlled by the thieves, and I am in prison. I cannot issue a clear edict to the world, and can only secretly entrust this blood letter to the loyal and good.

General An Yuan, Ning Xuan, is loyal and brave, and I have long known of him. Now that the country is in danger, and the demonic atmosphere is covering the sun, you should quickly prepare your army, and secretly gather righteous men, and wait for the right time to act. Your wife, Lu Xuezhi, is a heroic woman, and her wisdom and strategy are extraordinary. She should assist you and plan the great cause together. Remember to endure and accumulate strength, and do not act rashly. When the time is ripe, you will wipe out the demonic atmosphere in one fell swoop, and return our bright and clear world!

This edict is sworn by blood, and heaven and earth are witnesses. If I unfortunately die at the hands of the treacherous, you should take the country and the people as the most important, punish the evil and support the righteous, and do not fail my trust!

By imperial order.”

After reading, Lu Xuezhi handed the imperial edict to Ning Xuan.

Ning Xuan took the imperial edict with both hands and looked at the great seal. The rolling dragon qi was condensed on it, and he could vaguely feel the heavenly might on it.

And the words written on the imperial edict actually contained a faint blood color.

This was actually a blood edict.

This world was really a big stage. After you finished singing, I would come on stage. On and off the stage, good people and bad people, enemies and friends, white faces and black faces, they really reversed as they said, true and false, false and true, who could see clearly?

Who would have thought that the Great General Qin, who was deeply hated by the Son of Heaven and colluded with the demons, was actually a loyal minister?

This water was too deep.

And the deeper the water, the more he wanted to be a slacker.

Speaking of which, His Majesty had given him a blood edict. In the spring examination next year, he couldn’t not open the back door for the reading seeds of his Ning family, right?

Now it was stable.

His Majesty had provided him with trust, and he also had to provide some emotional value.

Ning Xuan thought of the benefits he could get, and immediately took a deep breath, and bowed to the east, and cried, “Your Majesty, it is I who am incompetent, it is I who am incompetent!!!”

When Lu Xuezhi saw him like this, she was immediately happy. She hurriedly went forward and pulled him up, “Husband, from now on, we are truly like-minded.”

Ning Xuan wiped away the “big pearls” that he had squeezed out with his strength, and continued to cry, “As a minister, when the ruler is worried, the minister is troubled. When the ruler is humiliated, the minister dies. Even if we ministers die a thousand deaths, how can we allow the evil Taoists to humiliate the ruler to this extent! Your Majesty!!”

When Lu Xuezhi saw that he was crying so much, she didn’t think that her man was so loyal for a moment. She felt sad and started to cry with him.

Qin Shan Jun’s face was cold on the side, and his fists were clenched. It was obvious that he had also thought of some humiliation.

After a long time…

Ning Xuan let out a long breath.

The tears he had just squeezed out were enough.

Lu Xuezhi raised her sleeve and wiped her tears. When she looked at Ning Xuan again, there was a bit more tenderness in her expression.

“Husband, from now on, let’s live a good life and repay the king together. I promise, I will never hide anything from you again, nothing at all.”

After speaking, she was relieved.

Before, she had always had a grudge in her heart, so she was not so close to Ning Xuan.

At this time, she suddenly thought of something. She turned her head and looked at Qin Shan Jun, and asked, “Senior Brother, you are already a fourth-grade. When you fought with my husband just now, it seems that there was an accident?”

Qin Shan Jun glanced at Ning Xuan and met Ning Xuan’s gaze.

Ning Xuan did not speak.

Qin Shan Jun smiled and said, “Even a horse can stumble, and a person can make a mistake. A hero comes from a young man.”

After speaking, he looked at Ning Xuan and said, “General Ning, welcome to the Five Poisons Sect.”

The next day…

Qin Shan Jun brought Ning Xuan and the two women into the Five Poisons Sect.

Ning Xuan tried to silently remember the entrance, but… it was very difficult to remember, because the entrance might be a certain point in the desert. However, the wind and sand in the desert were unpredictable, and it was impossible to remember a point.

So, he could only use the previous oasis as a positioning point, and roughly set a position in his heart: northwest direction, half a day’s journey.

Why was it a point?

Ning Xuan had never seen this before.

The moment before he stepped over this point, it was still a desert, but the next moment, the scene suddenly jumped, and it had become a strange land of mountains and rivers.

Thanks to some of his experience from his previous life, he roughly understood this situation as a “secret realm,” a “small world,” and so on.

At this time…

The wind with water vapor blew from the bridge hole of the green brick arch bridge. Near the bridge hole were houses with black tiles and white walls. The winding river was as clear as crystal, and it flowed forward and merged into a swamp. There were many boat houses moored on the swamp.

He turned around again, and behind him was a continuous high mountain.

There were many stilt houses on the mountain, and he could vaguely see people carrying bamboo baskets and walking around.

Qin Shan Jun said, “This is a piece of the sky left over from the prosperous period of the sect.”

Lu Xuezhi looked left and right curiously. She had obviously never been here before.

“What piece of the sky?”

Qin Shan Jun pondered for a moment and said, “A world collapsed and broke into many pieces. One of them fell here and overlapped with our world.”

Lu Xuezhi was horrified and said, “Besides the incense fire world, there are other worlds? And the world will also collapse?”

Qin Shan Jun shook his head and said, “I, Qin, don’t know either. This is recorded in the remaining ancient books of the sect.”

After speaking, he continued to introduce, “You have to be careful. This place was used for the disciples of the sect to train in the past. Now, although we are hiding here, we can’t kill all the beasts in it.

The village chiefs feel that it is good to coexist with the beasts. First, the beast meat is delicious and very nutritious; second, a martial artist, how can he grow in a stable place? A hundred-forged fine steel needs to be burned by a fierce fire and forged by an iron hammer. Danger is the cradle of the strong.”

As he spoke, he pointed at the swamp, the mountain, and the water, and said, “These three places are not ordinary. They are all very deep, and they all hide big beasts.”

Ning Xuan scanned the surroundings and said with some curiosity, “Could it be that only our Five Poisons Sect is left from the former sects?”

Qin Shan Jun said, “No. Besides the Five Poisons Sect, there must be many other sects, and even… there may be two Five Poisons Sects.

However… the sects are not connected to each other. Even if they meet outside, no one will go to investigate the other’s lair. This is a big taboo.

If not for this, the evil ghosts of the Zixia Temple would have long been rampant and have no scruples.

But now, even if they try their best to infiltrate, and even if they pull out a sect, they can’t pull out the radish and bring out the mud, and they can’t find other sects.

What’s more, our sect is not independent. For example, our Five Poisons Sect has supported many sand bandits and small tribes in the Western Regions, and helped them build their countries. Our control over them is like the Zixia Temple’s control over the imperial dynasty.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages.

The sects are scattered, which is the disadvantage.

Take our Five Poisons Sect for example. The Five Poisons Sect is now divided into three factions, one faction one village, one village one village chief.”

He raised his hand and pointed at the houses with black tiles and white walls around the arch bridge, “This is the radical faction. They reject all external assistance and feel that a martial artist must rely on himself. As long as he is strong enough, he can protect this world.”

Then he pointed at the boat houses in the swamp in the distance, “That’s where we live. We belong to the moderate faction. We feel that the enemy of our enemy is our friend. We can use the demons that have invaded from the incense fire world and let them fight with the Zixia Temple. We will first unite with the demons to destroy the Zixia Temple, and then expel the demons from the world.”

Then, he frowned and pointed to the mountain in the distance, “That’s the surrender faction, but they don’t admit it themselves. They say they are the migration faction. They… feel that since this world is controlled by evil ghosts, why not just migrate to the incense fire world with the Buddhist country and the Taoist court, and live in a new world in the future? After all, Buddhism and Taoism sound better than ghosts.”

After speaking, Qin Shan Jun paused and said coldly, “On the way here, I have been thinking about where the problem is. After thinking about it, there is only one answer. Someone not only hid Junior Sister’s letter, but also changed Master’s letter, and then pretended to be Master and communicated with you.

All the people and letters from the outside will first stop at the outer village.

The outer village is a place very close to here.

Only after being reviewed in the outer village will people and things be brought into the inner village.

And all the letters sent from the inner village to the outside will also go to the outer village and then be processed.

Obviously, someone deliberately intercepted Junior Sister’s letter and Master’s letter, and then played tricks.

So, you were poisoned in the oasis.

The reason why I was able to arrive was also because I have been understanding the intelligence on your side recently, so I often run to the outer village. That’s how I accidentally knew that you had arrived, and then I arrived in time.

However, General Ning is still cautious.

Even if I, Qin, had not arrived, you would have been fine.

As for why they intercepted your letter?

I, Qin, think that it is because you are different from the people who live here.

Most of the people who live here cannot leave. Even if they leave, they are on a mission, and the review is very strict.

I also returned here after my position as a great general was gone. After I came here, it was difficult to go back.

But you are different from everyone else. You came, and you will return to the imperial dynasty. You are both generals, and you are a young general couple, with a boundless future. To be able to make you their own people is of great value.

I, Qin, think that there are only two people in the Five Poisons Sect who can do this.

And there is only one who has the motive to do it.”

His eyes were deep as he locked onto the stilt house on the deep mountain.

He did not say.

But everyone knew that he was talking about the “village chief of the surrender faction.”

The surrender faction wanted to migrate, so they naturally needed to “win the favor of the friendly nations.”

Where did the “friendly nations” operate?

Of course it was the imperial dynasty.

Two young generals of the imperial dynasty were naturally very important to him.

Qin Shan Jun said in a deep voice, “You are not the opponent of that old thing yet. I, Qin, will vent your anger for you. You can stay here for a few days, learn what you should learn, and then return. At that time, I, Qin, will personally send you off. I’d like to see who dares to play tricks.”

He had a good impression of the two young people in front of him.

Not only because he valued their potential, but also because these two had a good relationship with him.

Ning Xuan suddenly asked, “Great General Qin, you are a fourth-grade. How is your strength in the Five Poisons Sect?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Shan Jun waved his hand and frowned, “Junior Sister calls me Senior Brother. You are my Junior Sister’s husband. What do you call me?”

Ning Xuan smiled and said, “Brother Qin.”

Qin Shan Jun laughed out loud, and then patted him on the shoulder, “Don’t worry, my, Qin’s, strength can barely be considered a deputy village chief in the Five Poisons Sect. I can’t chop off that old thing’s hand, but that old thing also has to hand over the person who intercepted the letter and give me an explanation. After all, he is in the wrong in this matter.

Alright, now follow me, Qin, to my home to rest for a while. Tomorrow morning, we will go and see the village chief.”

On the swamp, the boat houses were very high out of the water. The outer circle of the houses exuded a faint medicinal fragrance. Where the medicinal fragrance spread, there were not even half a mosquito.

There were simple wooden boards between the boat houses, just like the streets in an ordinary town.

The boat houses here were very large. Although they could not compare to the mansions on land, they were still sufficient.

As soon as Ning Xuan got on the boat, he saw a familiar person.

Madam Zhao was smiling at him at the bow of the boat.

Ning Xuan shouted, “Sister Zhao.”

Madam Zhao had long known through Qin Shan Jun that this title was not a problem. So she glanced at the girls dressed as fisherwomen behind her and said, “Why don’t you call him Uncle Ning?”

Qin Yi’er glanced at the young man who had once made her teeth itch, and then saw the white-jacketed girl who had made her so angry behind the young man. She reluctantly shouted, “Uncle Ning.”

Qin Jin’er looked curiously at the young man who had almost married her, and shouted, “Uncle Ning.”

The other Qin family girls also shouted separately.

Madam Zhao looked at Lu Xuezhi on the other side with a serious expression, and bowed gracefully, “I misunderstood Miss Lu that day. Later, when I knew the truth, I was really ashamed. Please accept my bow, Zhao Zhi.”

Lu Xuezhi hurriedly went forward to help her up, “Sister-in-law, why are you so polite?”

Madam Zhao asked, “Did Miss Lu get into trouble for sending us away in a hurry?”

Lu Xuezhi shook her head and said, “No.”

Ning Xuan let out a silent “heh” in his heart. No, you were cursed by your partner behind your back for being stupid, and you still say no?

Madam Zhao took a flower-patterned apron from the side and tied it on, “General Ning, Miss Lu, our old Qin said that you might come, and then he left in a hurry.

Although he didn’t say it clearly, when I heard him, I had already tidied up the room. The bedding and pillows are all new, and they were sent from the outer village. You should come and have a look.”

Ning Xuan, the two women, and Madam Zhao went to have a look.

Madam Zhao had tidied up two rooms.

Lu Xuezhi thought that she had wronged Ning Xuan before, and she wanted to serve him well and do something she had never done before to make him happy. So she gritted her teeth and said, “Sister-in-law, we’ll have one room.”

Madam Zhao was stunned for a moment. She glanced at Ning Xuan and smiled, “Alright.”

That night…

“Miss Lu, you…”

“Mmm, mmm, mmm…”

After a long time, as if she had poked her head out from the bottom of the water, Lu Xuezhi looked up fiercely, glared at him, and said, “Can’t you move?”

Xiao Jie’s giggling came from the side.

The night grew deeper.

Gradually, the fine steel bed, the warm quilt, and the madness slowly calmed down.

Ning Xuan held the two women in his arms, and in the boat house in the winter swamp, they slept under the same quilt.

The feeling of flesh against flesh was like a burning flame.

Before, even if they were under the same quilt, they would sleep on opposite sides. Now, Lu Xuezhi, perhaps because of guilt, or because Ning Xuan had passed the test, and had shown such loyalty to the country when he accepted the blood edict, she had thrown herself into it.

If it was said that after the “Flying Eagle Tower” incident, Ning Xuan had truly obtained Xiao Jie.

Then, after the “blood edict” incident, Ning Xuan had truly walked into Lu Xuezhi’s heart.

“Husband, I was still young at that time, but I wanted to be a general with all my heart. I fought with other children with wooden swords. When I lost, I ran to the side and got angry.

Then, at that time, I met Master.

Master was a sloppy and untidy wandering Taoist. He asked me to get him some wine. I naturally disagreed, so…”

Lu Xuezhi murmured softly and began to tell her past.

She felt the man’s tight embrace behind her, and she was a little unaccustomed to it, but she was trying hard to get used to it.

As she spoke, the room gradually became quiet…

The next day, Ning Xuan, Lu Xuezhi, and Xiao Jie met that “Master.”

The “sloppy and untidy” wandering Taoist in Lu Xuezhi’s mouth last night was now a man with a crane-like hair and a childlike face. He was wearing a wide black robe with red cloud patterns, and his head was quietly lowered. He was sitting on a cattail hassock, and he was a little drowsy.

Hearing the movement, he raised his head.

After a simple greeting.

The wandering Taoist opened his mouth, “Some people call me Master, some people call me Village Chief, some people call me Senior, but my real name is Lan Yu. I don’t remember if this is my real name. I have lived for 180 years, and I don’t have much time left.”

Seeing that Lu Xuezhi was about to say something, Old Man Lan Yu raised his hand and interrupted. Then he raised his head slightly, and a look of nostalgia appeared in his eyes, “When the sect was at its peak, I was just the most useless outer disciple of the Five Poisons Sect. Now, it’s my turn to inherit the sect. It’s really a trick of fate.”

A smile appeared in his old eyes, “You must be very curious, why do I dare to take the risk and bring people in from the outside? Am I not afraid that you will learn the skills and then betray me?”

Without waiting for an answer, Old Man Lan Yu answered himself, “I’m not afraid, because anyone who knows the truth about the Zixia Temple, and knows that those evil ghosts use people as clothes, will not be with them. Either kill them, or become their clothes. There is never a third option.”

Then, Old Man Lan Yu told the three of them the truth about the Zixia Temple.

These were all consistent with Ning Xuan’s impression.

He was right. A martial artist, or anyone, could not coexist with a Taiyin Ghost Cultivator.

A moment later, Old Man Lan Yu seemed to be a little tired. He raised his hand and took out five jade slips from the void.

The jade slips were respectively labeled: snake, scorpion, centipede, spider, and toad.

Old Man Lan Yu said, “The five poisons recorded in this jade slip are not the formulas of poisons, but five kinds of poisonous power. The five kinds of poisonous power seem to be independent, but they are closely related. Only those who are extremely talented can link them.”

After speaking, his face became kind, and he looked at Lu Xuezhi and said, “Little Lu has connected the snake and scorpion powers. Although the scorpion power is not yet skilled, it can already be used in actual combat. Little Lu is only eighteen now, and her future is promising…”

Lu Xuezhi said, “Disciple will definitely work hard.”

Old Man Lan Yu said, “You guys choose one to refine first. Touch the jade slip with your hand, and you can perceive its general content and know its cultivation direction. When you have decided, you can absorb it with a calm mind. These ancient artifacts of the sect will send the inheritance in them to your mind, which is very convenient.”

Ning Xuan tried them one by one.

The snake was agile, the scorpion was venomous, the centipede had a hundred feet, the spider spun a web, and the toad was ethereal.

Lu Xuezhi’s short and rapid power that had kicked him flying several times before was the “scorpion,” and her long legs that were curved and soft like a soft sword, and her control of the water flow to bathe her body should be the “snake”…

But choosing one of the five was still a bit difficult.

Suddenly, a thought came into Ning Xuan’s mind.

He remembered.

This place seemed to be a fragment of the outer world, right?

None of them were natives here, right?

Those beasts were.

Did this mean that Lu Xuezhi, Qin Shan Jun, and even this Old Man Lan Yu could be considered Heavenly Demons?

Instantly, Ning Xuan’s heart began to beat faster.