Chapter 377: Li Longling, blind physically but not mentally blind
The long night was not over, and heavy snow was falling across the white snow-capped mountains. A cave in the mountains glowed with a faint light of fire.
In the cave, a group of three people gathered around the campfire, using the most primitive method to relieve the bad news that the cold weather in the northern domain had brought to their bodies.
“Liang Xiao Liu, Liang Xiao Liu… uh… cough cough cough -”
Lying on a simple straw mat, Gu Mingxin, who was now covered in bruises, kept calling the name of the person she loved even in the process of unconsciousness.
Wu Tianci, who was poking at the wood in the campfire with a branch, couldn’t help frowning after hearing this, and there was a little embarrassment in his eyes.
Ever since they met the three core-formation cultivators in Huilong Town, they followed the footsteps of Liang Xiao Liu, starting from Linghe Immortal City and traveling northeast for nearly 1,500 miles.
On the way, they met countless fellow demon cultivators who were brutally killed by Liang Xiao Liu and the master of Chilong Mansion. They also met countless swordsmen from the Northern Domain who came to exchange their heads for bounties.
Although he had promised Gu Mingxin that he would accompany her to find Liang Xiao Liu and then kill him,…
Wu Tianci opened his collar and looked at the horrific wound on his chest made by a Nascent Soul stage cultivator he met a few days ago using magic techniques. There was no doubt that they were running out of ammunition and food.
Lu Meimei suffered some minor injuries. His injuries were not serious but not light either. However, Gu Mingxin was almost wandering on the edge of life and death.
He had to admit that Gu Mingxin was worthy of being the direct disciple of their sect master.
If it were an ordinary cultivator in the middle stage of core formation, it would be difficult for him to survive the three people who first returned to Huilong Town.
Although the two cultivators holding a harp and the sword cultivator from the Qixuan Sect died in the hands of Gu Mingxin, if they were placed in the Four Realms, they would be the best among the core formation cultivators.
“Senior Sister Gu, is that enough?”
“Ahem…” Gu Mingxin opened her eyes weakly and glared at him angrily, “Brother Wu, ahem… Are you afraid?”
“It’s not that I’m afraid, but…” Wu Tianci sighed softly, “Liang Xiao Liu was deliberately sneaking out. Every time they killed the Demon Sect’s foundation-building cultivators along the way, they would always leave one to report the news. Senior sister, you can see that he did it on purpose…”
Gu Mingxin stared angrily, “So what?”
“A head-on confrontation will only hurt both sides. Junior Brother just doesn’t think it’s necessary… Senior Sister, our mission is to come to the Northern Domain to find the Han Tian Formation Eye, not to hunt down Liang Xiao Liu. You…”
Before he finished speaking, Gu Mingxin stood up suddenly, came to him in one step, grabbed his collar, and stared at him with her red eyes covered with bloodshot eyes, “Liang Xiao Liu will die! If not, then the demonic cultivators will be destroyed sooner or later because of him!”
“…” Lu Meimei, who was roasting human meat on the side, looked at the two of them and quickly acted as a peacemaker, “Oh~ don’t quarrel… Brothers and sisters must get along well with each other. Here, eat meat~”
Gu Mingxin turned her head to look at Lu Meimei, then let go of Wu Tianci’s collar and lay back on the straw mat, “Thank you, Sister Lu, but I don’t eat people.”
Wu Tianci took a bunch, took a bite, looked at Gu Mingxin, and said, “Senior Sister Gu, are you sure you want to continue? It might be a dead end… Then maybe Liang Xiao Liu wants to lead us into a trap.”
Gu Mingxin answered the wrong question, “…Brother Wu, don’t you mind about your father’s matter? The master of the Chilong Mansion is Liang Xiao Liu. Don’t you want to talk to her?”
Just when Gu Mingxin said these words, a voice suddenly sounded in the minds of the three of them.
——”Grand Master of Demonic Poison Sect, Jiang Mojiao, please help me destroy the immortal!!”
The sound transmission from about thirty miles to the northeast caused the three of them to freeze on the spot.
Wu Tianci frowned, “Evocation Order!”
Gu Mingxin frowned. After all, she was a descendant of the master of the Heavenly Demon Sect. Most of the cultivators above Nascent Soul in the six sects of the Demon Sect were well-known and famous cultivators.
However, when she heard the name Jiang Mojiao, she recalled it for a while but couldn’t think of it, so she asked, “I’ve never heard of this name. What about Brother Wu and Sister Lu?”
Wu Tianci shook his head slightly and said he had never heard of it. Lu Meimei looked even more confused. She nodded her bloody lips, tilted her head, and said, “When did you conceive a baby? There are twelve Gu Grand Masters in the Gu Poison Sect, and they are all quite powerful. Jiang Mojiao… I have never heard of him.”
Wu Tianci lowered his eyes and was silent for a while, then shook his head and said, “The Demon Summoning Order is not an ordinary thing. It is a token given by the master of the six demon sects. Since he has it, he will not be in a small role.”
After saying that, he looked at Gu Mingxin’s injuries and said, “Senior Sister Gu, I don’t know when I will meet those swordsmen from the Northern Domain again. Why not take this opportunity to go to Jiang Mojiao’s cave? You also need a place where you can cultivate in peace…”
“Ha, rest in peace in the insect cultivator’s cave? Are you serious? Ahem…”
“No matter how you say it, it’s better than this wilderness. After all, he is a master of the Demonic Poison Sect who wields demonic orders.”
Gu Mingxin smacked her tongue slightly. She didn’t like the insect-raising cultivators of the Demonic Poison Sect, but looking at her scarred body, she finally nodded reluctantly.
“Um…”
“Then go now, Senior Sister Lu, please carry Senior Sister Gu on your back.”
Wu Tianci nodded, waved his sleeves, and put out the bonfire, then stood up, summoned the flying sword, and stepped on it.
In the cold sky and snowy ground, the three of them drew two streaks of light among the dark clouds.
In just a moment, Wu Tianci led the two of them to the top of a snow-capped mountain. Following the location of the previous summoning order, they searched in the snow for a while before arriving at a secret cave.
“Inner disciples of the Heavenly Demon Sect, Wu Tianci and Gu Mingxin. Inner disciples of Hehuan Sect, Lu Meimei. In response to the summoned demon’s order, Senior Elder Jiang opened the cave.”
After the sound fell, a seven-eyed spider poked its head out from the ground, looked at the three of them, then shook its fat butt and led them towards the cave hidden in the formation.
In the cave, the lights were extremely dim, and there were countless hoarse grinning sounds of demonic insects.
Gu Mingxin lay on Lu Meimei’s back. As soon as she walked into the cave entrance, she felt goosebumps aroused by these sounds.
Xue also emerged from her mind at this moment, looking around the cave with physical discomfort, and said with a look of disgust, “Ming Xin, this place is so dirty…”
Gu Mingxin was unconvinced. The cave of an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator would not be full of stench even if it was simple. Now she felt more and more that Jiang Mojiao was not a normal Nascent Soul cultivator.
After crossing several blood pools and insect nests, the three of them followed the seven-eyed spider to the deepest part of the cave.
Jiang Mojiao was sitting cross-legged on top of a pile of corpses. When he heard the footsteps behind him, he stood up and looked at the three of them with a smile on his face.
Apart from those compound eyes, it seemed quite hospitable at first glance. However, when he saw the scarred appearance of Gu Mingxin and the others, the smile on Jiang Mojiao’s face instantly collapsed.
He grabbed his cheek and dug out bloody streaks on his forehead with his fingers, “No, no, no, no! You guys!!! I don’t need waste!!!”
Seeing his appearance, Wu Tianci frowned slightly, but after all, the other party was the Grand Master of Demonic Poison Sect, and he had the Demon Summoning Order, so he quickly raised his hand and said, “Senior, I came here in response to the summoning demon order, but I suffered some injuries on the road a few days ago… I hope…”
Jiang Mojiao was furious, and his fly eyes suddenly popped out, “Get out!!! Get out!! Trash!! You are the trash!! I want people to help me kill those people in Tianfeng Immortal City, you look like this…”
“Senior… Although Junior suffered some injuries, but…”
“Roll!!!”
Wu Tianci gritted his teeth slightly, but Gu Mingxin, who was staying on Lu Meimei’s back, couldn’t sit still. She jumped down, summoned her spiritual sword, and came to Jiang Mojiao.
Swish——
The seven-foot-long sword was placed directly in front of Jiang Mojiao’s neck.
“Who is trash?”
Jiang Mojiao glared at Gu Mingxin in front of him and played Allegro with his upper and lower front teeth. Suddenly, a centipede fell from the ceiling and hit Gu Mingxin on the back of the head.
When Wu Tianci saw it, he immediately wanted to step forward, but before him, a black python’s head appeared out of thin air and bit the centipede to pieces.
Chie-hee-hee-!
After seeing the black python, Jiang Mojiao was so frightened that he couldn’t stand still and sat on his butt on the ground.
“Ah! You, you, you…”
“Ha…” Gu Mingxin slowly put the sword back into the storage bag and glanced at her, “A cultivator who relies on insects to induce the Nascent Soul dares to be so arrogant. Patriarch saw it wrong. He gave the Demon Summoning Order to a piece of trash like you, huh!”
“…”
“If I hadn’t respected Ancestor Gu, I would have just killed your fake Nascent Soul with a sword and helped Ancestor Gu clean up his family.”
After saying this, Gu Mingxin limped back to Lu Meimei and took her back. Seeing that nothing happened, Wu Tianci breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he was said to be a fake Nascent Soul, he was still considered a phoenix tail after all. If there was a real fight, it would not be easy to deal with…
He looked at Gu Mingxin, and then bowed his hands to Jiang Mojiao who was sitting on the ground, “Senior Jiang, borrow a room.”
After saying that, he ignored Jiang Mojiao, turned around, took Lu Meimei and Gu Mingxin, and walked towards what looked like a spirit-gathering formation nearby.
After the three people walked into the stone room and closed the door, Jiang Mojiao stood up, pointed at them, and cursed, “I’m not a waste!! You are!! I’m not, I’m not, I’m not!! Master!! I’m not a waste!! Wuwu… I’m not!! You are!”
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Huhu…
The cold wind was howling outside the window, and a pot of warm wine was placed on the wooden table next to the window on the second floor of the Inn in Baiyue Town.
Ye Anping put on a velvet robe and sat at the table, sometimes looking through the window at the Tourist Pavilion across the street, sometimes frowning at the names written on the paper in front of him, thinking constantly. He asked Xiao Tian to spy on his junior sister’s situation, and then he found out that the junior sister used the method he taught before to actively let himself be poisoned by the poison, and then located the location of the poison master through the soul connection between the poison and the poison master.
This method was not easy for the poison master to discover, and it was also very direct.
However, if ordinary people used this method, they would probably be possessed by the poison the moment they ate it and became walking zombies. It seemed that the junior sister had completely inherited the knowledge from his senior brother.
Ye Anping was pleased with this, but he was pleased because he also needed to help his junior sister prepare a backup plan.
If it was just Jiang Mojiao, he could easily solve it with his junior sisters and Xu Mulan.
But what if Gu Mingxin and Jiang Mojiao get together…
A fake Nascent Soul, plus Heavenly Scroll and an outstanding body cultivator in the Core Formation stage, and a mediocre Hehuan Sect Mei cultivator…
With these people together, the Royal Guards led by Xu Mulan had no power to fight back.
On their side, Feng Yudie, junior sister, Xiao Yunluo, Xu Mulan, and him, there were five people in total.
In a five-on-four situation, if they fight in a team battle, their chance of winning was only 50%. After all, Nascent Soul was still a chicken head and a phoenix tail no matter how fake he was.
What was more, he deduced that Jiang Mojiao would use a Demon Summoning Order left by his master to summon other demon cultivators.
In this case, Xu Mulan and Xue Yiwei need to deal with other demonic cultivators.
“Well… team fights are not advisable.”
Ye Anping drew a cross on the paper and then thought about it——
What if it was defeated individually?
However, to defeat it alone, Jiang Mojiao would need at least two people, so there would not be enough people on their side.
Unless Li Longling was included…
But Li Longling was only in the middle stage of the foundation building, and she was blind, so she might not be able to face anyone…
Just as Ye Anping was thinking of this, a pair of small hands reached out from behind and covered his back with a blanket.
“Anping, what’s wrong? Your brows are frowned so tightly.”
“Um!” Ye Anping looked back and noticed that Li Longling had entered his room at some unknown time. Some water drops were hanging on her hair, scattered behind her head, and she did not bring a fire phoenix.
“Aren’t you sleepy? It will dawn soon.”
“I just felt that Anping was talking about me in your heart, so I came over.”
Li Longling smiled, raised her hand to touch Ye Anping’s face, and then rubbed his eyebrows with her index finger.
“If you are so tight, that demonic cultivator will be difficult to deal with… After all, he is also a Nascent Soul cultivator. If it doesn’t work, how about taking a step back?”
Ye Anping shrugged slightly and replied, “It’s just a fake Nascent Soul.”
Li Longling touched the table, sat on the side of the bench, tilted her head and asked, “Fake Nascent Soul!”
“It’s just a Nascent Soul that was created through some enlightenment techniques. Its background is not as good as that of a Nascent Soul cultivator like your father.”
Ye Anping was silent for a while, thinking about the Nascent Soul cultivators he had met in the past six years.
Li Longling’s father, Li Feng.
Elder Qin and Mr. Qi of Xuanxing Sect.
Elder Tianyun and Elder Hu Tianyue of Moon Shadow Sword Sect.
These people were all serious seniors who relied on their background to conceive babies. Everyone had at least one His specialized Daoist skills had also left a mark in the history of the Four Realms Immortals.
“Jiang Mojiao is just a person who has no merit except for his high level of cultivation.”
“So since you are not worried about him, are you worried about Gu Mingxin you mentioned before? Do you think they and Jiang Mojiao will meet up?”
“It’s very possible, so I have to make a backup plan for my junior sister and the others.”
Li Longling lowered her eyes and thought for a while, then said, “So Anping, the reason why you were talking about me in your mind before is because I can’t help in this matter? Because I only have the foundation building level?”
Hearing this, Ye Anping twisted his eyebrows. How did she know that she was thinking about this just now…
“Long Ling, how do you know I’m talking about you?”
“Who knows your son better than your father, and who knows your ruler better than your wife…” Li Longling pursed her lips and smiled, gently placing her hand on Ye Anping’s chest and saying, “Although I am blind, my heart is not blind. What I gained from my blindness is that it’s just that my mind can see more clearly than many ordinary people. I can guess what you are thinking, Anping.”
“The blind can read minds, right?”
“That’s right, hee~~” Li Longling reached out and touched the piece of paper on Ye Anping’s desk. She scanned the names on it with her jade fingers and said, “Back then, Anping, you also relied on foundation building to cultivate your skills. Didn’t you beat the demon cultivation in the core formation stage?”
Ye Anping frowned slightly, immediately understood what she meant, shook his head, and said, “Long Ling, this matter is too dangerous for you. I said I won’t let you…”
“Anping.” Li Longling pressed his lips and said, “Didn’t you say before that Senior Sister Xiao and the others will not grow up by your side? Senior Sister Xiao and I are not as good as Senior Sister Feng and Pei. Senior sisters and the others are so powerful, but they are not pretty girls.”
“…”
“Is there any foolproof plan in this world? Whoever is the weakest among these people, you leave him to me.”
Ye Anping looked a little helpless as he listened, looked down at the list again, and said, “The three of Gu Mingxin must have expended a lot of real energy along the way, and their strength is no better than in their prime… This person named Lu Meimei, are you confident in dealing with her?”
Li Longling nodded her lips and thought for a while, “It’s a little bit difficult.”
“Then I’ll do something else… ugh.”
Chirp~~~
“It’s not difficult now.”
Ye Anping licked his lips, it was a bit sweet…
Then he sighed softly and said, “Long Ling…”
“It’s just a joke, it’s not difficult.”
“I am serious.”
Li Longling also quickly became serious, straightened her body, frowned seriously, and said, “Anping, trust me, okay?”
“I think you’re raising a flag.”
“Flag?” Ye Anping smiled and shook his head, then looked down at the list on the table. It would be best if Li Longling could deal with Lu Meimei. If not…
“Well… It’s okay. I’ll leave it to you then. Go and rest first. I’ll talk to you about things you need to pay attention tomorrow.”
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I think the quality went down a bit. I think the chapter needs a bit more editting.