Chapter 75: What to do, she is really a minor girl (1)
The bronze corpse, having tasted the smell of blood, was biting like a rabid dog. Upon hearing Huang Qi’s voice, it froze as if struck by lightning.
Qin Quan, resembling a bloodied man, did not let go of this opportunity. Flames erupted from his right hand, and he thrust a palm forward, hitting the bronze corpse squarely in the chest.
“Bang!”
The bronze corpse was sent flying backward, its impact leaving a deep gully in the ground. It angrily got up, a clear palm print now visible on its chest.
“On all fours, and you bite people? Did your parents teach you that?”
Qin Quan gasped and sarcastically commented.
The bronze corpse was furious, opening its monstrous maw to devour people, its posture ready to pounce at any moment.
“Hong Ling! Now you can see his origin, right? Finding his descendants shouldn’t be that hard. Just find a stray dog in the street and slaughter it. Who knows, maybe you can even kill his parents.”
Qin Quan looked at Huang Qi, continuing his taunts.
“My Sect Leader Qin, if you want to seek death, don’t drag me along, okay?”
Huang Qi was flustered. He never imagined that this Sect Leader Qin would be so venomous.
The bronze corpse glanced at Huang Qi, fear evident on its face. In the end, it cast a backward glance and fled outwards.
Huang Qi narrowly escaped death. A gust of cold wind blew, and he realized his clothes were soaked in cold sweat.
“Hong Ling! If you had come a moment later, I would have been…”
As Qin Quan said this, his eyes rolled, and he suddenly straightened his back, declaring with an air of arrogance, “I would have killed that beast. It’s all your fault for scaring it away.”
“What?”
Huang Qi, unsure, looked at Sect Leader Qin again, thinking, ‘Doesn’t it hurt? He’s in such a state, and he still wants to save face!’
“Are you alright?”
Huang Qi hurried forward to inquire.
“I’m fine, just a superficial wound. The corpse poison is a bit troublesome, I need to deal with it. I’ll leave the HongHua Sect to you for now. I trust your work.”
Qin Quan spoke nonchalantly, but his legs were already “uncontrollably” running away.
“Leave it to me? You think too highly of me.”
Huang Qi felt like crying but laughing. He could only attribute his presence here to sheer luck, and he dared not rashly take on missions while feeling impulsive.
However, fortunately, now that the bronze corpse had fled, the other minions would definitely not dare to linger and should disperse soon.
Huang Qi, concerned about his Master, quickened his pace towards the back mountain and soon arrived at “Yangchun Courtyard,” where the male disciples resided.
Although Yangchun Courtyard was called the residence of male disciples, many high-level male figures in the sect also lived there, just like “Orchid Courtyard” where the female disciples resided. This was because the housing in the HongHua Sect was rather tight, and there weren’t enough private residences with individual courtyards to allocate.
Huang Qi didn’t bother with his disguise as Hong Ling Fairy and walked in boldly. Fortunately, the place was in chaos, and no one noticed a female disciple suddenly barging in.
However, based on Huang Qi’s understanding of men, even if the place weren’t chaotic, those guys wouldn’t have minded a female disciple walking in.
Huang Qi skillfully made his way to where his Master lived. He saw that the door of the small wooden house was open, and a faint smell of blood wafted out.
Huang Qi immediately sensed trouble and rushed in. He then saw a man lying on the ground, blood flowing from two holes in his neck, staining the floor.
“Master!”
Huang Qi’s eyes were about to burst with rage. He rushed forward to check, but he found that it was a man in his twenties, not his Master Hu Bing at all.
“Thank goodness! Thank goodness!”
Huang Qi patted his chest with lingering fear, but felt a jolt of elasticity and awkwardly lowered his hand.
“Where did Master go?”
Huang Qi turned and walked out of the wooden house, looking around. He couldn’t find his Master for a long time. He knew he didn’t have time to delay, so he left, preparing to find a disciple to ask.
Huang Qi hadn’t walked far when he quickly spotted a familiar figure. That person was Shi Wan, a fellow disciple from his outer disciple days.
Huang Qi hurried over and asked, “Shi Wan, have you seen Master… Deacon Hu?”
Huang Qi almost misspoke due to his anxiety.
“Hong… Hong Ling Fairy… Oh no… Junior Sister? You… you know me?”
Shi Wan was stunned speechless. He never imagined that this exceptionally talented junior sister of the HongHua Sect would know him.
“Stop the nonsense and tell me, where is Deacon Hu?”
Huang Qi said impatiently.
“Didn’t my Master leave the HongHua Sect three years ago? What? You don’t know?”
Shi Wan asked in confusion, while continuously tidying his messy clothes, hoping to leave a good impression on the talented junior sister.
“Left the HongHua Sect? Why?”
Huang Qi quickly pressed.
“I don’t know. After I became a formal disciple, I changed Masters.”
Shi Wan awkwardly rubbed his head.
“Thank goodness! Thank goodness! Since he has already left the HongHua Sect, there’s no more danger.”
The heavy burden in Huang Qi’s heart was lifted. He then hurried outside. Now he had important matters to attend to.
“She… she actually recognizes me! Heh heh… Junior Sister Hong Ling… Heh heh…”
Shi Wan looked at Huang Qi’s enchanting back, a perverted smile on his face.
Huang Qi walked all the way down, soon reaching “Orchid Courtyard.” He hesitated for a long time outside the gate before walking in with seven parts apprehension and three parts curiosity. After all, this was the residence of the female disciples. Although he had entered many times in his dreams, those were just dreams.
Huang Qi entered Orchid Courtyard and found it even more chaotic than other places, with sounds of fighting everywhere. After all, everyone knew that the value of a fairy was far greater than that of an ordinary woman, so most of the experts among the intruders were targeting this place.
Huang Qi put away his curiosity and quickly ran towards the small wooden house in his memory. From afar, he saw that it was in disarray. Dozens of intruders had surrounded the female disciples, constantly attacking and probing.
“Elder Xu is said to be over forty, but why does she look like a young woman in her thirties, so fair and tender? It makes me hesitate to make a move.”
“Cultivators are like this. Their aging speed is much slower than ours warriors.”
“Then marrying a fairy, wouldn’t one be able to live a heavenly life of an old husband and a young wife in their later years?”
“Of course, but that’s secondary. If she can cultivate, it means your offspring have a high probability of becoming cultivators. This is the importance of bloodline. Otherwise, why would the price of a fairy be tens or hundreds of times more expensive than ordinary women?”
“Haha, then this time, I must capture a fairy and bring her back to have ten children, until one of them can cultivate.”
…
The intruders attacked while discussing, appearing to have victory in their grasp.
“Dream on! Have your mother give birth to them for you!”
The fairies were enraged and cursed loudly, each holding a long sword, showing a resolve to fight to the death.
Huang Qi observed carefully and found that a leader stood in front of the female disciples. It was Xu Mei, who was already injured but was protecting all the disciples behind her like a mother hen.
Among the female disciples were also a few family members. Huang Qi quickly spotted a familiar yet unfamiliar figure, which turned out to be Jiang Liniang.
Familiar, because she was the mother of the body he inhabited in his dreams! Unfamiliar, because he didn’t know her in reality!
“It… it’s real… she really exists!”
Huang Qi’s heart churned like stormy waves. The characters he had seen in his dreams were appearing one by one. He was now almost certain that everything had actually happened in reality. Strictly speaking, these were the memories of Hong Ling Fairy from her childhood!
Because of the dreams, Huang Qi felt a strange sense of closeness to Jiang Liniang and Xu Mei, especially the former, even feeling a connection by blood. So, he anxiously rushed forward and yelled, “Do you not consider me Cheng Hong Ling? Are you looking for death?”
“Junior Sister! It’s Junior Sister Hong Ling! She has come out of seclusion! Now we are saved!”
Upon hearing this voice, the female disciples cheered joyfully, and the gloom on their faces vanished.
The intruders turned around and were so scared that their souls scattered. They no longer bothered to do evil and fled in all directions.
Xu Mei collapsed softly on the ground, relieved. The disciples around quickly went to support her.
Huang Qi didn’t know whether to step forward or not, because those were Hong Ling Fairy’s closest people. If he went up, he was likely to be exposed. But if he didn’t go up, it would seem even more suspicious.
“Ling’er, you’re finally back! Mom has been worried sick.”
Jiang Liniang, however, was eager to see her daughter. Excitedly, she ran up and hugged “her daughter” tightly, sobbing.
