Chapter 63
Pu Fang originally had the boy with her give Yan Hui the acupuncture treatment . But after the night where they shared the pilfered chicken, she took the responsibility upon herself again .
Every time Yan Hui arrived for treatment, Pu Fang expelled everyone from the room . Even her assistant that was there to learn wasn't allowed to learn . The large room was solely occupied by Yan Hui and Pu Fang . Then Pu Fang used took Yan Hui's treatment time as a an opportunity to pour out all her repressed feelings .
Yan Hui refused at first .
"Mmhm, you went to San Chong Mountain to gather medicinal herbs and bumped into the xian petrol by accident . Then you panicked and ran away, then a young xian cultivator overtook you, then you fought with him, then you two somehow fell into a magic array, then you two fell in a love-hate relationship in the array, then you guys got out of the array, then he didn't kill you and let you go, then . . . . . . . . "
Taking advantage of the time when Pu Fang was switching needles, Yan Hui expressionlessly said: " . . . . . . . . . you became like how you are now . . . . . . . . . . ah!"
Yan Hui sucked in a quick breath . Pu Fang had fiercely stabbed her with a needle .
"I can't talk to anyone else about this . Only to you," said Pu Fang . "It doesn't matter if you find me annoying, but you can't tell anyone about this . I know better than anyone else that you're annoyed, but you can't tell me that . But if you can't hold it in your grumbling anymore, that's fine . It'll be just like before, I'll stab you harder with the needle . If you keep complaining, then maybe my mood won't be so good, and I'll prick you until I draw blood . If you end up bleeding, I can't guarantee it won't leave a scar . "
Seeing as she was pretty attractive . . . . . . . . . . Yan Hui gritted her teeth and held her tongue . After all, her face had several more days of acupuncture treatment to go .
Pu Fang stuck another needle in Yan Hui's face and sighed: "I miss him again . . . . . . . . I want to know what he's doing right now, who he's meeting, what he's saying . Those mortals' shows always sing about how longing is like poison . Before I didn't understand, but now I completely do . "
Yan Hui dead-eyed rolled her eyes at Pu Fang's yearning . Pu Fang sighed again when she finished talking and whispered, "I really miss him . "
Yan Hui looked at Pu Fang, who was lost in thought . She said, "Don't do anything stupid . " Yan Hui's tone was much more serious than her usual flippant voice toward Pu Fang . "There's tension between the xian and demons . There are military guards patrolling San Chong Mountain at the boundary around the clock . Don't think you can run around like before no matter how familiar you are with the area . " Yan Hui's solemn gaze bored into Pu Fang . "Times have changed . "
Pu Fang was shaken by Yan Hui's intense look . It was like Yan Hui's sharp look had probed into her inner heart's plan . Her hand shook, stabbing the needle until it drew blood .
Yan Hui sharply inhaled a breath . She turned over and got up: "Can you be more professional?! Focus on your work, not on men! I'm bleeding! There's going to be a scar! Compensate me!"
Pu Fang focused at the last part of Yan Hui's tirade . She smirked: "You didn't even pay me! Compensate what?! I'll pay you back a needle, lay back down!" She pressed Yan Hui down and extremely efficiently pricked Yan Hui with skill . "How could a great doctor like me be unable to cure your small wound?"
"It was bleeding . Did you say you couldn't guarantee there wouldn't be a scar if I bled?"
"It was to scare you! Lay down . If you talk back, I'll made the next needle painful . "
Yan Hui: " . . . . . . . . . "
Pu Fang pressed Yan Hui back down and lightly wiped away the blood droplet . Suddenly, she spoke: "You're learning that dragon demon's magic, right?"
"Ya, but only magic that sharpens the senses, and a little bit of nine-tailed fox demon magic . " Yan Hui snuck a glance at Pu Fang . "How do you know?"
"Your blood's aura has slight dragon aura . " Pu Fang continued, " Probably because you're learning from him . But it's strange, usually xian cultivators that transition to demon cultivation without first purifying their essence early on end up misguided and heretical . However, your mind is still clear and sane . From the smell of your blood, it actually seems like your more suited to follow the demon path than the xian pathway . "
The Third Prince didn't know the relationship between Yan Hui and Tian Yao . Thus, it was expected that Pu Fang wouldn't know either . In Qing Qiu, other than the king himself, no one else could see what linked Yan Hui and Tian Yao was a heart protection scale .
"If you continue learning from the dragon demon, the dragon aura in your body will become more distinct . But if you continue wearing the anosmia sachet, unless you bleed, no one will be able to tell . "
Yan Hui silently listened to those words . She changed the topic: "How do you all know I'm wearing the anosmia sachet?"
"The nine-tailed fox demon clan wear it to make it easier when going to Central Plains . "
Yan Hui nodded and didn't continue to topic . The room grew quiet, and Pu Fang started to talk about the xian cultivator again .
Yan Hui didn't pay any attention . She was pondering her own matters .
Time was going by fast during their stay at Qing Qiu . Every day, Tian Yao was busy discussing with the nine-tailed fox demon clan on how they were going to break the sky-splitting seal on the night of the full moon . He was so busy that there was no rest . When Yan Hui woke up, he had already left . When Yan Hui went to sleep, he still hadn't returned . They haven't even seen each other these past few days .
Yan Hui didn't care about that at all . She was very satisfied with her current lifestyle . Clothes and food were just a beckon or open mouth away . There probably was nowhere else in the world more suitable for Yan Hui's idle-living-and-eating-until-death style . As for the xian-demon tensions and even Chen Xing Mountain, that was all in the past . She no longer wanted to think about it . She figured by the time her wound healed and the scar was gone, it would've all blown over .
In a blink of an eye, nine days had passed . The wound on Yan Hui's face turned into a scab . She inspected in in a mirror: "Once the scab falls off, that's it? You there won't be a scar?"
Pu Fang rolled her eyes and sneered . She handed over a bowl of black medicinal soup: "Drink that and see for yourself . "
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Yan Hui looked at the color . She immediately thought it looked bitter and narrowed her eyes in worry: "Is this edible?"
"What do you think?"
Yan Hui signed and accepted the medicine . She tipped her head back and poured it down her throat . The soup was as bitter as she had imagined . Yan Hui made a face when she finished . She couldn't even speak due to the taste . A piece of honey candy was stuffed into her mouth .
The sweet taste immediately dispelled the bitterness .
Yan Hui was shocked . She lifted her head and looked at Pu Fang . Pu Fang proudly arched an eyebrow: "That's what I do when I have to treat naughty little demons . Don't think I"m giving you special treatment . "
When Pu Fang said that, Yan Hui suddenly felt her cheek where the scab was start to itch . She looked toward the hand mirror . The dark scab entirely fell off, revealing healed skin underneath . There wasn't even a trace of a dark mark left behind .
Yan Hui felt her face in astonishment . She put down the mirror and hurried said toward Pu Fang, "There's a scar on my chest where my heart is . You have to help me treat it . "
"You don't have any money to pay . " Pu Fang packed away her case . "Now that your wound has been treated, I won't come by tomorrow . "
Yan Hui heard, and she slightly shifted her gaze way from her reflection in the mirror to fall onto Pu Fang's back . Pu Fang didn't speak further; she hefted her case and left the room .
Late at night, a black figure hurried through the dark forest . The clouds were thick tonight, so the moonlight would shine through only to be covered again . This gave the person a perfect screen .
When that person passed under a large tree, their head was hit by a sturdy tree branch . The person cried out in pain . It seemed like a heavy blow .
However after rubbing their head, the person still seemed intent on continuing onwards .
"If that was a sword, you would be in two pieces right now . " A person suddenly leapt down from the tree and blocked Pu Fang's path . Yan Hui clasped her hands on top of the branch and partially leaned on it . She calmly looked at Pu Fang, and her words sloppily drawled out: "With that little skill, are you going to San Chong Mountain to die?
Pu Fang was silent .
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Yan Hui stepped forwards . "Enough, stop being childish . Let's go back . " She reached out to pull Pu Fang .
However Pu Fang stepped sideways to avoid it: "I thought you understood me . " Pu Fang felt wronged . "They all don't understand . I thought you would at least understand . "
Yan Hui pursed her lips and rolled her eyes: "Acting out a show in the middle of the night, do you think acting pitiful will make me let you go? Come on, let's go . "
"Tch!" Pu Fang clicked her tongue in annoyance . Sure enough, she stopped pretending: "You don't have a bit of sympathy!"
"It's because I have sympathy that I'm stopping you! It's still as I said before, you can only love when you're alive . Return with me . "
Pu Fang clenched her teeth . She looked unwilling but also like she had no other choice . She held her hand out, and Yan Hui reached out to grab it . However before Yan Hui could grasp it, Pu Fang suddenly raised her hand . White powder immediately hit Yan Hui's face .
Yan Hui instinctively knew this wasn't good . She covered her nose and backed away, but she had already inhaled the powder's strange odor .
In a short moment, she felt her head spin, and her body immediately tipped over .
"It's not poison . It'll just make you sleep . " Pu Fang leapt over Yan Hui's body . "I know this path way . I'll be back in the morning!"
Yan Hui, who was lying on the ground, felt like her eyelids weighed 500 kilograms . Right before she lost the struggled and closed her eyes, she saw Pu Fang's leaping figure bounding down the path .
In that moment, Yan Hui suddenly understood how her Head Senior Disciple felt after she played tricks and ran away . . . . . . . . .
This . . . . . . . brat . . . . . . . . . .
When Yan Hui woke up, it was still deep into the night . She glanced up at the sky . It seemed like she was out for no more than an hour . Looks like she backed away fast enough and didn't breathe in too much powder .
She supported her body into a sitting position . She still felt weak . Yan Hui hurriedly circulated her inner breath and stood up . She tracked Pu Fang's footprint and headed down the path .
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Looks like Pu Fang really was familiar with the area . The entire way, Yan Hui didn't encounter any of the demon clan's guards .
She got closer to the crack left 50 years ago where Qing Qiu's king and Zhenren Qing Guang fought . Glowing red lava gurgled below; it was like a scar the earth was bleeding from . On the other end of the crack, Yan Hui saw the dark mountain side had torches gathering toward an area .
. . . . . . . . . . . It looked like an intense response toward an abnormal incident .
Yan Hui's heart tightened .
She tossed away the anosmia sachet and changed her appearance . Then she carefully jumped down to the edge of the crack . Using the swirling hot air from the vent, she leapt up and flew along the current to the other end . Climbing up from the crack, Yan Hui's body was covered in sweat from the burning area . Her clothes were also covered in dust .
She had just stood up from climbing up the crack when she saw about 10 xian cultivators holding jians . They warily looked at her: "Another . . . . . . . . . another monster?"
Another?
Yan Hui's heart gave a hollow thump, but on the surface she still looked calm . She pretended to look frantic and stumbled toward the cultivators: "Fellow xian cultivators? Are there other xian cultivators here?"
Those people inspected Yan Hui for a long time: "You're . . . . . . you're a xian cultivator?"
Yan Hui nodded: "I was originally over at the east side patrolling the boundary, but today demon launched a sneak attack . I barely made it out . " San Chong Mountain was enormous . The east and west side are a vast distance apart . The people on this side wouldn't immediately know what happened on the other side . At least . . . . . . . . the underlings on patrol wouldn't know . As expected, the patrol ground was greatly alarmed: "
"There was a sneak attack on the east side tonight too? How many wounded?"
Yan Hui shook her head and skipped over the question: "There's demons here too?"
"A five-tailed fox demon crossed over . Not many were hurt, but quite a few were poisoned . Fortunately, xian cultivators Xi Feng and Ling Fei worked together to capture it . "
Yan Hui's heart thumped . Naturally, it wasn't because of Ling Fei . When she was heading over, Yan Hui had been prepared to run into Chen Xing Mountain people . What she was scared by was the name, Xi Feng . This was the name Yan Hui had been hearing daily these past nine days-------
The xian cultivator Pu Fang liked .