Chapter 22: Crimson Scars

  Suddenly awake, seven-star sea buckthorn was just an illusion, then what did I see in front of me?

  Damn it! The sky is vast and the field is boundless, what kind of fate am I in?

  What I saw was not the seven-star sea lantern, but the red cicada shell.

  The Seven Star Sea Rose is the most poisonous flower in this world, but at the same time, it is also the magical medicine that can cure all kinds of strange poisons.

  Hong Shang, a poisonous flower as toxic as the Seven Star Sea Rose, but unlike the latter, it only takes lives without saving any.

  Why did I mistakenly think that the red bean was the seven-star sea buckthorn, just because there was a rogue household in the book that drew a so-called picture of the seven-star sea buckthorn.

  In fact, what he painted was a picture of the red cicada. From then on, people all over the world thought that the seven-star sea pavilion was actually the appearance of the red cicada.

  Therefore, people all think that the seven-star sea buckthorn is a red flower with seven small yellow dots in it, but actually not.

  What the Seven Star Sea Hibiscus really looks like, only one person in this world has seen it, and that person is the old demon. But perhaps, I have also seen it, and I've been seeing it all along, only to realize that thing was actually the so-called Seven Star Sea Hibiscus.

  One year when I came down from the mountain, because of showing off and competing with others in toxic techniques, I accidentally fell into that beast's sinister plot, lost the chicken but got the rice instead, and ended up poisoning myself.

  The old witch saw the situation and hurriedly gave me a Clear Heart Pill, but it seemed that the effect was not great.

  In the middle of the night, when I was in a daze while sleeping, I opened my eyes to see the old demon standing in front of the window, looking very hesitant. After a long time, he slowly walked up to me and stuffed something into my mouth.

  After he left, I secretly spat it out and found that the thing in my mouth was actually a petal of the black flower planted by the old demon.

  This thing, I seem to have forgotten for a long time, and suddenly remembered it in a flash of inspiration.

  If I'm guessing correctly, that black flower should be the real Seven Star Sea Lavender.

  I was already shining with stardust, and now with this ridiculous red scar, my half-life has indeed stepped into the coffin.

  I think that after I came to Beijing, I was unlucky at every step, and encountered obstacles everywhere, it's as if I'm the combined embodiment of the God of Bad Luck and the God of Embarrassment.

  I thought that with the Seven Star Sea Lantern, the starlight on my body would be able to dispel it effortlessly. But unexpectedly, one poison had yet to subside when another came to invade.

  Miss Qin's whip left a wound in my palm, and it was this wound that gave Hong Shang an opportunity to let his poison seep into my body through the wound.

  It is proved once again that there is an idiom called "extreme joy begets sorrow".

  Disaster is where fortune leans. I had forgotten that this saying has a second half, which goes: Fortune is where disaster lurks.

  The fact also proves that having good agility is not always a good thing.

  If my agility were slightly inferior, I wouldn't have been able to reach the red cliff, and even if I had some regrets in my heart, I could only sigh with longing.

  Everything has cause and effect, and the effect of the cause is always satisfactory. As I looked at the fresh blood gushing out from my palm like a spring, I suddenly fell down with no warning, my head tilted to one side and my body slanted to the other.

  I knew I would pass out in this godforsaken place, I should have taken out the things from my bag and scattered them on the ground, if so, when falling down, it wouldn't be so painful.

  Alas, I'm so regretful that my intestines have turned green, and they're still dark green.