I sat cross-legged on the stone platform and slowly began to practice qigong and regulate my breathing. Xiao Baitang stood beside me to protect me.
Not long after, there were footsteps coming from a distance, as if a large number of people were approaching us. Xiao Baitang couldn't help but turn around anxiously, as if he wanted to tell me that "the people from the Xuanjing Division are coming to kill us", but he didn't dare to interrupt me easily.
After turning around for a few times, Xiao Baitang whispered, "Dongbao, the people from the Xuanjing Division are here, you should leave quickly!"
Dongbao, who had been sitting next to us, seemed not to hear what Xiaobaitang said, and just sat there motionless. Xiaobaitang couldn't help but said anxiously: "Dongbao, why don't you leave? Hurry up..."
Just as Xiao Baitang was stamping her feet in anxiety, I suddenly heard Jie Jingwen burst into laughter and said, "Wu Zhao, I finally found you. Go and catch him for me."
When Xiao Baitang reached for the poison beside her, I whispered to her, "Don't move, let them come over!"
Xiao Baitang was stunned for only a moment, and several Mirror Sorcerers quickly jumped into the pool and swam towards us. As they just stepped onto the platform from the water, I suddenly stood up and pushed the two closest to me into the water with my hands. I grabbed Xiao Baitang's wrist, jumped into the water, and swam quickly towards the Mirror Sorcerers.
Xie Jingwen said coldly: "Prepare the crossbows!"
"Wait!" Gu Piaoran said in a deep voice, "Let them come over first."
"No!" Xie Jingwen said coldly, "If we don't kill them now, when will we wait?"
Gu Piaoran said in a deep voice: "I think Wu Zhao has other intentions, so why not let them come over."
Xie Jingwen said coldly: "I don't think he has any other intentions..."
Gu Piaoran also interrupted him coldly: "You are not bringing more than ten experts with you, and you are not brave enough to confront Wu Zhao head-on, right?"
"I..." Xie Jingwen only said one word, and Sun Xiaomei said, "No one is allowed to move. Let them two come over."
While they were talking, I grabbed Xiao Baitang and swam to the shore quickly. As soon as I got ashore, someone put a knife to my neck.
Sun Xiaomei sneered and said, "Wu Zhao, are you walking into a trap?"
I said in a deep voice: "I am saving myself, and I am also saving you."
Before I could finish, Xie Jingwen sneered, "It sounds nice, but I think you are just trying to use sweet words to save your life, right? Master's wife, I think we don't need to listen to him, just kill him."
Sun Xiaomei raised her hand slightly, and the two warlocks beside me immediately moved the blades forward a little. The sharp blade immediately cut my skin, and the dripping blood instantly dyed my clothes red.
I still looked at Sun Xiaomei coldly: "Madam Sun, I can tell you frankly that as long as I die, you will come to accompany me soon. It will be too late to regret when I am about to die."
"Don't say anything nonsense!" Xie Jingwen said sternly, "Cut off his head for me!"
"Wait!" Sun Xiaomei said in a deep voice, "Let him go and let him talk."
Xie Jingwen was surprised and asked, "Master's wife, are you just going to let him talk nonsense like this?"
Sun Xiaomei said coldly: "If you have half of his ability and courage, I can listen to your nonsense. Back off!"
"Yes!" Xie Jingwen didn't dare to disobey Sun Xiaomei, but the look he gave me became more vicious.
I said in a deep voice: "I am sure that the winter treasure is either the secret realm divine Gu or the divine Gu Yin."
Sun Xiaomei raised her head sharply: "What evidence do you have?"
Before I could even open my mouth, Xie Jingwen spoke up first: "What a joke! Is Dongbao a bug? Who has ever seen a human being become a Gu bug? Master's wife, he is clearly making up a story. I think..."
Sun Xiaomei's face darkened. "Before I speak, you don't need to look at anything. Just listen to me quietly. Do you understand what I said?"
Xie Jingwen didn't dare to say anything. Sun Xiaomei asked again: "Tell me your evidence."
"Before you tied Dongbao into the coffin, I was hiding in the compartment above the cave. At that time..." I told the story of Dongbao's sacrifice in detail, except that I omitted the part where Gu Piaoran pretended to be the cave god.
"After the ghost was forced back to its original position by you, it tried to devour Dongbao to replenish its blood. At that time, I clearly heard the sound of teeth gnawing through bones in the black fog, but Dongbao is unharmed now. Don't you find it strange?"
Xie Jingwen said coldly: "What you said is just what you saw yourself, and maybe it's all made up. How can you prove whether what you said is true or false?"
Sun Xiaomei also shook her head and said, "I don't think that's right either. If she was a divine Gu, why would she go to all that trouble? Wouldn't she just kill the person directly?"
Sun Xiaomei was probably on the safe side, so she just finished her words and said, "Look and see if there is anything abnormal with Dongbao!"
After several sorcerers who were holding Dong Bao carefully examined her, they replied, "There is nothing abnormal."
Xie Jingwen said proudly: "How about it? Do you have anything else to say?"
I asked back, "Where did you meet Dong Bao, and how did you capture him?"
Xie Jingwen said proudly: "It took me less than half an hour to take her down by a stream, so what?"
"You idiot!" Sun Xiaomei cursed, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Xie Jingwen was puzzled and asked, "Master's wife, what's wrong with me?"
Sun Xiaomei gritted her teeth and said, "Miao girls are sentimental, but that doesn't mean they are fickle, especially Miao witches who don't easily fall in love. You captured Dong Bao in half an hour, do you think she is a fool?"
Sun Xiaomei said sternly, "Tell me exactly how you met Dongbao!"
When Xie Jingwen saw the other party getting angry, he immediately wilted: "That day, after we encountered the corpse chasers, they killed our team and I ran all the way to the mountains. I was in a panic and didn't know where I was running to or how long I ran. I only stopped when I was hungry and thirsty."
"At that time, I heard the sound of water nearby, so I wanted to go find some water to drink. At that time, I happened to see Dongbao sitting by the river, using a Gu pot to draw out the Gu. I also saw her throwing the Gu worm into her mouth and eating it like eating candy beans."
"I originally wanted to attack her from behind, but then I changed my mind and thought that maybe she could lead us out of Miao Territory, so I suppressed my nausea and went over to talk to her."
"At first, Dongbao really ignored me, but then..." Xie Jingwen looked at Sun Xiaomei, "Then, I used the Thousand Silk Knot..."
"You... you are such a useless thing!" Sun Xiaomei gritted her teeth and said, "Besides the Thousand Silk Knot, what else did you use?"
Xie Jingwen's voice became smaller and smaller: "I still need to understand... the antidote..."
"Asshole!" Sun Xiaomei slapped him, causing blood to come out of the corner of his mouth. "You have completely disgraced my brother!"
At that time, I didn't know why Sun Xiaomei was so angry. Later, I learned that there was a strange secret medicine in the Nianhua Sect called Qiansijie. Once this secret medicine was inhaled by a man and a woman at the same time, both of them would fall in love with each other, which is what ordinary people often call "love at first sight".
However, Sun Yifan himself was extremely disgusted with this secret medicine and even planned to destroy it. In his opinion, the Thousand Silk Knot was another kind of *. If two people were not in love, using the Thousand Silk Knot would be a disguised form of coercion.
Later, another confidante of Sun Yifan thought that "when Qiansijie forced others, it also forced itself, which can be considered fair in a sense. Besides, future generations have no right to destroy things passed down by the ancestors." Only then did Sun Yifan give up the idea of destroying Qiansijie.
However, Sun Yifan also repeatedly emphasized that Jie Jingwen was not allowed to use the Thousand Silk Festival after he had taken the antidote first. The result of doing so would be that the other party would be aroused while he would not, and there would be no difference between using the Thousand Silk Festival and using *.
No wonder Sun Xiaomei was so angry.
Sun Xiaomei, whose chest was heaving with anger, finally suppressed her anger and asked, "What else have you done?"
"No, no..." Xie Jingwen waved his hands and said, "I never did anything again, and I never touched her. Later, I asked her to lead me to find you, and then contacted the Xuan Jing Division, and asked her to lead us quietly into the secret realm. That's all..."
While Xie Jingwen was speaking, I couldn't help but look at Gu Piaoran in the distance, and the latter nodded slightly at me.
No wonder Xie Jingwen happened to meet Dongbao. It turned out that Gu Piaoran was behind the scenes. I thought that he had directed the fight between Xuan Jing Division and the corpse-driving people just to gather all the employers to my side. I didn't expect that he also had plans to plot against Xuan Jing Division. I am sure that when Xie Jingwen was escaping, it must be because of some arrangement by Gu Piaoran that he met Dongbao unexpectedly.
So, my inference was wrong? Is Dongbao really just a Miao witch who accidentally fell into Xie Jingwen's trap
When I was frowning secretly, Sun Xiaomei said word by word: "Have you tied a marriage string for Dongbao?"
"He's tied up!" Xie Jingwen didn't dare to be vague anymore.
The marriage line is a sign of the Nianhua Sect. Once a disciple of the Nianhua Sect marries someone, a red line will appear on the wrists of both of them, symbolizing their eternal marriage. The number of red lines on the wrists of the Nianhua Sect disciples represents the number of wives they have; but as for their women, there can only be one red line on their wrists. Once there is an extra red line, the woman will definitely bring disaster to herself.
Sun Xiaomei shouted loudly: "Can you guys check for me if there is a marriage line on Dongbao's right wrist?" (To be continued)