Feng Qingyang screamed and jumped up. He stared at the quiet girl beside him and felt a sudden sense of panic in his heart.
"Didn't they say that as long as you use 'Ice Ling Grass' to make a detoxification pill, you can be restored to your original state?" At this moment, his heart was in turmoil and full of bitterness. The feeling was as if he had just obtained a desired treasure but was told by others that it was bad in an instant. It was indescribable!
Zhu Xuezhu's expression remained unchanged. She looked at Feng Qingyang who was worried about her and said softly, "It would have been great if you hadn't cut out the 'Ice Grass'. I would have been freed. But now you have given me hope of life, but I know the rest of my life. This kind of life of counting my lives... You don't understand!"
"You don't understand..." Feng Qingyang's mind went blank, and the three words "you don't understand" lingered in his mind for a long time.
This seemingly young and quiet girl actually has such a clear view on life, which makes her feel helpless and desolate.
Feng Qingyang felt as if her heart was stabbed by something. It was not the ten years of life she mentioned, but her longing and desire for life.
"No... There must be a solution!" He then took Zhu Xuezhu's hand regardless, put it gently on his back, and ran towards the gambling house with a loud swish.
He wants to get to the bottom of it, to ask thoroughly!
Zhu Xuezhu lay on Feng Qingyang's back with a calm face. In fact, a few ripples had already formed in her heart, but she quickly suppressed them because she had no future. If she had no future, how could she face the ripples in her heart
Looking at Feng Qingyang who was anxious for her, she felt particularly relieved. Apart from her father, no one had ever truly cared about her, and apart from her father, she had never had such intimate behavior with any man.
"Xuezhu... you have to believe in yourself and live well..."
Feng Qingyang ran and talked as his vision began to blur and mist actually rose in his eyes. Between life and death, he really didn't know how to comfort himself.
If it were him, he would definitely laugh and say that he would be a hero again after eighteen years, but after all, he is not Zhu Xuezhu.
Zhu Xuezhu said nothing, her head resting lightly on his shoulder, feeling particularly comfortable.
Feng Qingyang, who was at the peak of his corpse-jumping skills in the late stage, was already incredibly fast, and now he was bursting out with another speed, his speed was like a gust of wind. If you looked with your eyes, you could only see a trail of afterimages as he ran along.
"Senior Zhu..."
When he ran to the courtyard of the gambling house, he saw Zhu Youqian, Feng Lei, Yu Dian and the other three sitting in the hall chatting about something. Everyone had a smile on their face. Feng Qingyang already knew what was going on, but when he looked at Zhu Youqian's smile, he felt extremely bitter.
"Qingyang?"
"Little brother?"
Everyone replied in unison, and when they saw that he was carrying Zhu Xuezhu on his back, their faces changed at the same time.
Feng Qingyang had no expression on his face. At this moment, his heart was in a knot. He gently put Zhu Xuezhu down from his back and said to Zhu Youqian, "Are you hiding something from me?"
Every word he spoke seemed to come out from between his teeth. He did not blame Zhu Youqian for deceiving him, but rather blamed Zhu Youqian for not telling him the truth.
"Daddy... I'm going back to my room first!" Zhu Xuezhu said softly, bowed slightly to everyone, and walked out of the courtyard to her boudoir.
After her back completely disappeared, Zhu Youqian sighed deeply and sat on the chair. He had a smiling face before, but now there was no spirit on his face.
"It seems that Xiaozhu told you everything..." he said to Feng Qingyang meaningfully.
"Qingyang, what happened?" Guifeng asked anxiously. He was fine before, how come his expression changed in just half a day
And... and he also faintly smelled a hint of blood from Feng Qingyang's body. He was afraid that he had... killed someone before!
"Even if the 'Ice Grass' cures Xiao Zhu's poison, she won't live more than ten years..."
"What?"
Gui Yu was surprised. That sweet and peaceful woman could not live for more than ten years? This made her heart change a little. She did feel uncomfortable when she hugged Feng Qingyang's arm, but now she felt bitter. How could she have the nerve to argue with a dying person
“Alas… the old send off the young… my poor Xiaozhu…” Zhu Youqian lamented, his eyes blurred, as if he was recalling something from the past.
Without saying anything else, just looking at Zhu Youqian's expression was enough to make their hearts melt.
The lifespan of cultivators is long. After they step from the mortal body into the Qi Refining realm, they can gain ten years of life. If they do not make any breakthroughs in the future, they can live steadily to 110 or even 150 years old.
The increase in lifespan from the early to late stages of Qi Refining is not large, about fifty years or so, but if one breaks through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, that would be a huge change.
A carp leaps over the Dragon Gate and turns into a dragon when it encounters the wind. After a cultivator breaks through the late stage of Qi Refining and enters the Foundation Establishment stage, his life span can be increased by 300 years out of thin air. If he breaks through the Golden Elixir stage, he can have a life span of thousands of years.
It can be imagined that Zhu Youqian has reached the peak of foundation building and his life span is at least several hundred years, but his daughter only has a short life span of ten years. How do people feel about this
"Senior Zhu... please tell me everything... I never know how I can help..." Feng Qingyang, who was standing aside, had already become extremely anxious. He was now in a state of confusion, with his mind in a mess.
"Brother Qingyang, please take more care of me... But this matter is a bit strange, so I will just get to the point!"
"When I was young, I was just like you. I broke through to the late stage of Qi Refining at a young age. In everyone's eyes, I was a child of destiny. It was at that time that I met Xiao Zhu's mother. The two of us entered the world of cultivation together and became Taoist companions. However, I had many enemies. When his mother was about to give birth to Xiao Zhu..."
At this point he suddenly paused, looked at Feng Lei Yu Dian and said, "She was hit by the Xuan Yang Qi of the Five Senses King of the Fourth Palace, which directly led to the death of Xiao Zhu's mother. Xiao Zhu was also burned by the Xuan Yang Qi, and the Xuan Yang Qi will burn on its own every year."
"This is why I urgently need 'Ice Ling Grass'. After Xiao Zhu was poisoned, I visited countless alchemy masters, but they all said that only elixirs made with 'Ice Ling Grass' can suppress the Xuan Yang Qi in her body, and it can only be suppressed for ten years."
A 'Ice Grass' from the thousand-year-old snow-capped mountains in the Western Regions can only suppress the energy for ten years. You can imagine how powerful the Xuan Yang Qi is.
When Zhu Youqian said this, Feng Qingyang had already guessed something in his mind and said, "Senior, please continue..."
Zhu Youqian just shook his head and said, "Some things cannot be said too much. This is why I have been in the gambling house all these years."
"Because... Because if I leave the Dark Night Ghost Market, I will die!"
"Senior, you must be joking. With your existence at the peak of foundation building and half a step into the golden elixir, who can easily take your life?" asked Gui Feng on the side. He seemed to know something when he heard him mention the fifth hall before.
"You will know when you reach your strength. There are many people in the cultivation world who can easily crush me, but they are not here!"
Zhu Youqian shook his head, sighed again, and said something earth-shattering.