Chapter 20: Black Crow

  The sound of footsteps approached, but it was hard to conceal the man's good mood. As they drew closer, it became apparent that the man and Duji shared a resemblance between their eyebrows, and indeed, the newcomer was none other than Duji's brother, Hei Ya! For this man with a severe sister complex, nothing was more important than his sister. When they were young, their parents had passed away early, and their family was poor, making their lives extremely miserable. One time, when he went out to find food, his dependent sister was kidnapped? After searching desperately but to no avail, he even made the worst assumptions, but fortunately, last year, during a mission, he coincidentally encountered the notorious Duji. The siblings reunited, and Hei Ya wanted to make amends, but the sister he recognized was no longer the innocent and kind girl from his childhood. Seeing this person, the man felt even more heartbroken, blaming himself while also being doubly good to this only sister of his. If his sister told him to go east, he didn't dare go west; if she wanted to enter Chongmen, he helped her without hesitation; if she wanted to get close to the master, he provided convenience time and again, even helping her clear all obstacles. Since the master was trapped, watching his beloved sister busy herself, now that someone had finally returned, how could he not be excited?

  Unfortunately, ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel. If Hei Ya knew, what awaited him would be a thunderclap on a sunny day, and it's uncertain how heartbreaking it would be!

  "Huh? Huajie? How did you end up here, Qing'er? Have you seen Qing'er? I heard that the master hasn't returned yet?" Black Crow called out to her sister's nickname, feeling puzzled.

  "Uh..." After all these years of working together, she really couldn't bear to say it out loud.

  Those big apricot eyes, however, could see the endless joy in them, and Hei Yan was so excited that he ignored Hua Gongzi's stiffness for a moment. "Is she still in the front hall? I'll go find her, this girl is really something, came back without saying a word..."

  One hand grasped the person who was about to leave, but Hanae didn't know how to comfort the person in front of her. As for Dokkaebi, most people in the Soong family had no good feelings towards her, it's just that this black crow was after all one of the eight great guardians, and so many years of emotions weren't fake either.

  "Eh, eh, what are you pulling me for? I just got back and still need to go pay respects to the master..." The robust man looked at the petite person in front of him with confusion, and it was only then that he gave a proper glance at Qing Huan.

  "Black Crow, you...you're a good brother, we've seen everything you've done over the past two years. However, spoiling someone too much isn't a good thing. And everyone's troubles are caused by their own actions, so they can only taste the bitter fruit they themselves have brewed. Do you understand what I mean?" The hint was dropped, and Hua Gongzi also felt conflicted in her heart.

  What's all this about? The relationship between the woman in front of me and our lord is not shallow, and Poison Lady has been infatuated with our lord for so long. With her narrow-minded and poisonous thinking, she must have done something unforgivable to be silenced by this red-clothed girl. And to make matters worse, Poison Lady still has a doting older brother, while Black Crow is one of our lord's most trusted subordinates. Not to mention our lord's different attitude towards this girl... it's all so complicated!

  The anxious black crow, how would he know so much about Huajie's thoughts? At first, when he heard "good brother", he was still a bit proud, but after hearing the tone of voice behind him, it was obviously not right. The man asked doubtfully, "Is Qing'er doing something again? Alas, you're worrying too much, just let her be for my sake... Alright, alright, I won't say anything else, I'll go take a look at her..."

  The words that Hakuren Oak wanted to say were interrupted, and Kuroba quickly left, so he naturally didn't hear the sigh that followed.

  The silence was finally broken when she ran out of patience. She lifted her foot and walked into the medicine field, where she began to examine the medicinal herbs inside.

  Noticing her movements, Huajie hesitated for a moment before giving Qingkuang a slight wake-up call. The Chongmen family was indeed experiencing one wave after another!

  "Uh... Miss, you just met that guy earlier, he's Hei Yan, the brother of Du Niang... You'd better be careful."

  He paused for a moment, and the red glow in his eyes flashed again, then he continued walking forward. However, a faint voice of thanks came from the air, calm and peaceful, as if everything was not taken to heart.

  Endless fields of medicine, neatly divided into several parts, but most of the plants are highly toxic. If someone who doesn't understand pharmacology comes in, they'll be having tea with King Yanluo if they're not careful.

  A spacious courtyard stood deep in the medicine field. When seeing those familiar living dead people in the yard, lightly surprised and raised an eyebrow, then suddenly understood. Those dead warriors met at Foyuan Mountain before were all for rescuing that seductive man!

  But all of this has nothing to do with her, let's find the antidote first! As soon as she stepped into the house, two black shadows flew over, instantly triggering a fierce killing intent. The black flames directly attacked the shadows, burning them into ashes.

  Hua Ji was also shocked, fortunately this girl reacted quickly enough to avoid disaster, otherwise the master would have blamed her. But she didn't expect that Du Ji would put such a "thing" in the house, was it caution or viciousness? Yao Tian is a forbidden place of Chong Men, and it's also Du Ji's territory, so naturally no one would come here usually, which is why the scene just happened.

  "The young lady is frightened!" said Hana-ko with a look of shame.

  Looking at the apology in front of her, the person who had always been respectful to her suddenly took a closer look. The small figure seemed to be about the same height as hers, with colorful ribbons wrapped around her clothes; Her slender phoenix eyes were slightly raised at the corners, looking very capable; High nose bridge, cherry lips; What caught people's attention was that there were a few pale pink cherry blossom tattoos on her clavicle. She looked so pure and innocent, yet she had a hint of charm. The poisonous girl before also had a tattoo, I wonder if everyone in this sect has such a tattoo?

  Recalling his spirit, he lightly said, "This isn't your fault, you don't have to be so polite to me."

  "The newcomer is a guest, let the girl be frightened, it's Huajie's fault!"

  "It's nothing." Since someone was treating her with courtesy, she naturally wouldn't put on a face to look at him, and this person looked much more pleasant than that poisonous woman.

  For a moment, the house fell silent. Jing Kuang was checking one by one the finished dan medicine, as well as countless medicine cabinets. Poisonous medicine, poisonous medicine, nothing but poisonous medicine. It can be seen that the owner of this house is really ruthless, not leaving any way out for others, and there isn't even a single antidote!

  Looking at this, it's not a waste of time anymore. Back in the medicine field again, Leng Kuang had no choice but to take matters into his own hands and work hard to make ends meet.

  "Is there anything I can help you with?" Seeing her reaction, Huajie knew that the antidote was unlikely to exist.

  "No need, just wait." Squatting down, he took out a small shovel from the spatial ring and began to dig, but then thought for a moment and explained, "Many of the herbs here are poisonous, don't come near."

  Regardless of how surprised Huā Jī was, the movements in her hand were quick and steady, with a very skilled technique. In the short term, it's not easy to find ordinary medicinal herbs, so she could only use poison to attack poison, although it would be more painful, but as long as it could detoxify, that's all that mattered. The poison she used was called Lán Xīn (Blue Heart), and its toxin spread through the bloodstream, slowly turning the heart blue, which meant death. It was a kind of euthanasia, with no pain at the time of death, but three days after death, the corpse would rot extensively, emitting a strange fragrance that could attract countless insects, making it a true "ashes to ashes". That Poison Girl wasn't too stupid, after all, this slow-acting poison wouldn't be discovered by Chóng Yāo, right?

  Bitter nail grass, beautiful tongue fragrance, lemon snake gall grass, wow! The medicine field actually raised countless poisonous insects? Not bad not bad, can also be, black-tailed devil scorpion, green velvet spider, toxic yellow ant, and numb heart grass, green calyx...

  After collecting all the herbs, Qing Kuang washed his hands clean and also processed the herbs. This scene made Hua Ji look at him with admiration, looking at his skilled movements, he was obviously a master alchemist too, and even better than Du Ji, otherwise how could she have lost her life? Originally, she was worried that there were not enough alchemists, which would bring inconvenience to Chong Men, but now it's great, an even more powerful one has arrived! And earlier that water, this young girl really opened his eyes wide, unexpectedly a water-based cultivator too?

  However, as she looked down further, Hua's eyes grew wider and wider. She saw that the red-clothed girl in front of her had a large flame rising from her hand, and she was about to throw the crystal core and herbs into it. Was this alchemy? She had never seen such a method before - didn't all alchemists need to use a crucible?

  Unbeknownst to him, the light madness was not that she didn't want to use it, but rather that she simply didn't have a suitable medicine cauldron at present. The divine dragon cauldron from before had exploded in the final moment of concocting the elixir when treating Ye'er, rendering it useless. Moreover, over such a long period of time, she hadn't even had the chance to find another medicine cauldron, so for now, she could only make do. However, inside the Poisonous Maiden's alchemy room, she did see several medicine cauldrons; it was just that using someone else's medicine cauldron to concoct elixirs felt like using someone else's toothbrush - no matter how she thought about it, her heart would feel a sense of revulsion. So in the end, she decided to forget about it!

  The Ma Xin Cao was also thrown into the great fire, and the crystal nucleus from before had all been melted away. The poisonous insects that were caught still refused to be honest and were again sealed by Lin Feng using his wood-element spiritual power, then tossed into the great fire. In the round ball of flames, the essence of the poisonous grass was being refined, but just as it was about to become a dan, a figure flew in from afar, accompanied by intense hatred.

  "Witch, I'll kill you!"

  "Black Crow, what are you doing?!" Blocking the furious person, even a three-year-old child knows that they can't be disturbed when refining medicine, how could she not know.

  "Get out of my sight!" The furious man's eyes, once bright and cheerful, had lost all their sparkle. His eyeballs were bloodshot, with a hint of tears welling up in them. He rushed to the front hall, where he met with the emperor, but his little sister was nowhere to be found. When he mentioned her, the emperor flew into a rage, telling him that his sister was dead? How could this be true? She had been fine just a short while ago, and now she was gone? Although he didn't want to believe it, the emperor wouldn't joke about such a thing. So who was it, then? Who killed his little sister? Suddenly, he thought of that red-clad girl. Given Qing'er's personality, how could she tolerate another woman by the emperor's side? And yet that woman had been able to enter the palace, while his sister was dead... what did this imply? He knew his own sister better than anyone. No matter what, he would avenge her death!

  The more he thought about it, the angrier the man became. He pushed aside the obstructing Huajie and directly threw the earth-elemental spiritual power in his hand at Qingkuang. Upon closer inspection, Hei Ya turned out to be a Tianxuan realm one-star strongman!

  Feeling the killing intent behind him, a fierce glint also rose in his red eyes. However, he couldn't stop the movement of his hands now that he was about to succeed; how could he afford to fail at this critical moment? The dark spiritual energy formed a barrier, barely blocking the attack from behind. The large flame in his hand inevitably wavered, and the fierce killing intent grew thicker. "If my elixir is ruined today, I'll ruin you too!"

  "Go die for me!" The crazy man couldn't hear anything anymore. Qing'er was dead, and this person had to go with her to the grave!

  Just as the man was about to take action, another figure flashed by, stopping Hei Ya's movement.

  "Stop it, all of you! Black Crow, what are you causing a commotion about?"

  "Your Majesty!"

  "Don't stop me, no one can stop me..." Panting heavily, the angry Black Crow's forehead was covered in blue veins, his entire body radiating a murderous aura that would only be satisfied with a fight to the death.

  "The Poison Maiden is dead, it serves her right!" Watching the swift and violent movement of Qing Kuang's hand, Chong Yao felt a sense of relief in his heart. Seeing Hei Ya rush out, he hastily handed over the matter in his hands to someone else and rushed over, fearing that if he didn't, a great disaster would be brewed.

  With a sudden turn of his head, the black crow looked at Chong Yao in disbelief, and the tears in his eyes could no longer be held back, his whole body trembling uncontrollably. "Your Majesty! What are you saying? What do you mean by 'she had it coming', that's my sister, a human life! How can you say such things, how can... You clearly know her thoughts..."

  "What if I know? Must I accept just because I know?" A cold hum, Chong Yao's words were filled with an overbearing aura of superiority.

  "Your Majesty!" He took a deep breath, the black crow was terrified and didn't know what to do, would Qing'er's heartfelt feelings be in vain?

  "You also said that your sister is a life, can't other people's lives be lives too? Inferior to others, what else can you say!" He never needed useless people by his side, let alone those who couldn't even tell the difference between who could be offended and who couldn't. What use were they if they stayed?"

  "I don't care, I know Qing'er is dead, and now her murderer is right in front of me!"

  She let out a cold laugh, her movements quickening as she gathered all the essence and slowly condensed it into a small ball. But Hei Ya didn't care about that, and was about to charge up again to take revenge.

  "You mean... your sister poisoned me and I deserved it?" He glanced at Black Duck with a cruel smile, as if the reunion of siblings was not bad either.

  "I don't care, you killed her, you killed her..." It's really difficult to reason with someone who has lost their mind.

  "Your sister's life is worth a lot, I'm really sorry to say that my life as a Light Cavalryman is even more valuable!" If her family's men were to find out about this matter, it wouldn't be so easy for them to just gradually kill her off. Thinking of this, another wave of darkness passed through Light Cavalryman's heart...

  "Ah... kill you, kill you!" Flying forward, Chong Yao subdued the enraged person and stared straight at the red-clothed girl with his peach blossom eyes. Is she being reckless? Heh heh, indeed living up to her name, recklessly unrestrained, recklessly unbridled!

  Suddenly, a faint white shadow flashed, and the small infant wrapped the large fire inside, then stretched out a lazy waist, and slowly sat up. The big fire was just at his little belly, as if it had been hugged by the infant. Finally, the big fire suddenly flourished, and disappeared completely in the blink of an eye. Only the slowly formed elixir continued to revolve in mid-air, rising bit by bit, until it was finally spat out from the infant's mouth and returned to Qingkuang's hand. The small elixir flashed with a faint silver light, and the infant also disappeared.

  Everyone present was shocked by this scene. Is this girl a Medicine Lord? This method of forming Dan, they had only heard of it but never seen it before. Could such a young person really be a Medicine Lord?

  No matter what others think, Qing Kuang has already casually thrown a 9th-grade pill into her mouth, which dissolves instantly. However, the medicinal properties are extremely overbearing, after all, it's her using poison to counteract poison. The medicinal pill is absorbed into the bloodstream, circulating throughout her body before gathering at her heart, where the two poisons completely neutralize each other, causing Qing Kuang immense suffering, as if her entire heart has been kneaded into a ball and squeezed non-stop.

  Deep gasps, her pale face also became very unsightly, and Chong Yao and Hua Fei beside her looked worried.

  "How are you?" Looking at the slightly arrogant appearance, it can be seen that he is really in pain, cold sweat dripping down, and his already pale face gradually turned blue.

  Taking advantage of the momentary distraction, the black crow struck a fatal blow. A wave of yellow sand rushed in, and hidden within it were two short blades, clearly intended to put Lightfoot to death.

  "Black Crow!" Rarely, Chong Yao was also enraged. This matter was originally the poison girl's fault from the start. Now this person still came to cause trouble unreasonably. However, he had forgotten that when a loved one passes away, such actions are also considered normal human emotions.

  When she felt the spiritual power attacking, the dark spiritual power in her body instinctively counterattacked, and with a mouthful of blood, the poison hadn't been fully resolved, and she was injured again.

  "Hey, hey, don't faint..." Worried, he stepped forward, just as Chong Yao was about to support her, but she dodged past him, leaving him awkwardly withdrawing his hand.

  "Cough, cough... won't die..." After a quick internal scan, the blue color at the corner of her heart had gradually faded away, and the feeling of suffocation wasn't as intense as before. However, the reason for her vomiting blood was still the Dark Spirit Pearl wreaking havoc inside her, seemingly refusing to stop until it had drained every last drop of blood from her body.

  "Hana, is that you? Come and support me for a moment..." The freshly spat blood strangely disappeared again. Liang Kuang lowered his head, wiping it off in a covering manner, lest others notice anything unusual.

  "Oh, okay...... be careful......" With caution, Hanae approached and helped Rikuo up from the previous scene.

  "Is there a place to rest?" Every time I was drained of blood by the Dark Spirit Pearl, my body felt unusually exhausted.

  What a pity! Lightly romantic thoughts are about to take flight, but there's still someone beside her who won't let go, vowing to avenge his sister!

  "You murderer, don't let him go!"