Chapter 93: I’m Going to Kill (Part 2)
“Fairy, please tell me! As long as you can save my father and all the villagers, I’ll do anything.” Li Shi asked impatiently.
Qi Huang felt very awkward hearing her former companion call her Fairy, but she didn’t have time to dwell on it and immediately stated her purpose: “Take me to the zombie’s grave to have a look.”
“Okay!” Li Shi immediately led the way outside.
Qi Huang and several senior sisters followed closely, and they soon arrived at a small mountain valley near the village. Qi Huang saw that the grass was full of tombstones, many with newly turned soil. She wasn’t surprised. As long as it was a place with good feng shui, everyone would bury their ancestors there. People are all the same, whether rich or poor.
A few fairies noticed the many tombstones and drew their swords, becoming vigilant. Qi Huang also released her Spiritual Sense to probe for any disturbances in the surroundings. Anyone could see skeletons and zombies, but only she could detect wandering spirits.
Just then, two dark figures suddenly leaped out from the darkness by the roadside. They floated without touching the ground, shadowy and indistinct like flags in a gale, but their speed was incredibly fast. They were clearly two Vengeful Souls.
‘As expected, it’s an extremely yin place, actually breeding Vengeful Souls!’ If it were before, Qi Huang would have been helpless, but now it was different. She had learned many ways to use Spiritual Sense from her Main Body.
“Hmph!” Qi Huang snorted, her powerful Spiritual Sense retracted, transforming into two giant hands. She then grasped one Vengeful Soul in each hand and squeezed hard.
“Ah!” The two Vengeful Souls let out screams and dissipated in the air one after another.
“What’s wrong?” Ruan Lingyu nearby asked in confusion.
“It’s nothing, just dealt with some unclean things,” Qi Huang smiled nonchalantly, afraid of scaring the girls.
“Strengthen your guard, there are unclean things here.” Ruan Lingyu, however, took it to heart and immediately gave orders. The other senior sisters also took out their weapons.
“Are there unclean things here? What unclean things?” Li Shi was an ordinary girl, and naturally very sensitive to such things.
“It’s okay, I’ve already eliminated them,” Qi Huang quickly reassured her.
Although Li Shi was scared, she was anxious to save her father, so she braced herself and led the group to a grave, indicating that it was where the zombie had been buried before. Qi Huang looked around and noticed ashes from burning things nearby. Without focusing on them, she unleashed her Spiritual Sense to search for what she was looking for. This time, Qi Huang searched for a long time but found nothing purple.
“How is it? Found anything?” Ruan Lingyu whispered from the side.
‘Did I guess wrong!’ Qi Huang subconsciously moved aside, fearing that the fragrant senior sister would get too close. Ruan Lingyu shook her head helplessly, her face full of sorrow.
‘No! That Ghost Tomato looks like an eggplant. If a villager really saw it, it wouldn’t be a simple touch. Starving as they were, they might have taken it back to satisfy their hunger, or even eaten it on the spot.’ Qi Huang tugged at her long hair, her mind suddenly flashing.
‘If there’s no Ghost Tomato, then I can only look for its vine.’ Qi Huang made a decision and then continued her search with her Spiritual Sense. This time she guessed correctly, and indeed found a Ghost Tomato vine in the grass not far from the grave. Qi Huang quickly went over to examine it closely and found a remaining stem. At this point, she was seventy percent certain her guess was correct. As for why only seventy percent, she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes, so it was better to be conservative.
“This… isn’t this a Ghost Tomato vine?” Yun Fei exclaimed in surprise, as their Junior Sister had picked Ghost Tomatoes before.
“Indeed, this is called a Ghost Tomato. It’s highly poisonous to ordinary people. Contact can cause severe skin inflammation, and it’s contagious too. Eating it is even worse; it’ll send you straight to your ancestors. If I’m not mistaken, someone in your village touched it, or even ate it, on the day you burned the zombie, which is why the entire village suffered.” Qi Huang explained in detail.
“So that’s how it is!” All the girls felt enlightened.
“My family has been practicing medicine for generations, and I’ve heard of the Ghost Tomato, but I’ve never seen it. I didn’t expect this thing to be the Ghost Tomato,” Li Shi said, examining it closely with curiosity.
“You’ve never seen this before?” Qi Huang asked in surprise.
“Yes, this thing is said to be very rare, only growing in extremely yin places as your Immortal Sect calls them. Some estimate that there are no more than a hundred plants in the entire Xihui Kingdom,” Li Shi replied.
Hearing this, Qi Huang fell silent. If the “Compendium of Strange Plants and Animals in the Cultivation World” was just theoretical, then practical people like Li Shi wouldn’t be wrong. But if the Ghost Tomato was so rare, why did she find three in a row? Was there really such a coincidence in the world?
“Is something wrong?” Yun Fei noticed the change in Qi Huang.
Qi Huang hesitated for a moment before sharing her thoughts, after all, it was just a casual discussion about Ghost Tomatoes and didn’t involve her own secrets. The senior sisters also found it strange, but no one could explain why.
“Never mind, now is not the time to discuss this. Since we’ve figured out the cause, we should immediately find a way to detoxify the villagers.” Ruan Lingyu quickly organized the scattered thoughts of the group and turned to Li Shi, saying, “Since you’re a doctor, do you have a way to deal with the Ghost Tomato toxin?”
“No, I’ve only heard of this thing, I’ve never even seen it,” Li Shi shook her head helplessly.
“It seems we have to ask the sect for help.” Ruan Lingyu immediately made a decision and, without being picky, used the “Thousand Li Sound Transmission Device” to report the matter of Bajiao Village to her Master.
“You all protect the villagers there first. I’ll go find the Sect Leader. If there’s a way to detoxify, I’ll send someone to support you immediately,” Xu Mei gave such an order.
Qi Huang and the other senior sisters could only wait on the spot, helping Li Shi take care of the poisoned villagers. Qi Huang took the opportunity to walk around the homes of the two distant relatives. The courtyards were still as she remembered, but the familiar voices were gone. She couldn’t help but feel emotional about the changes.
Not long after, Xu Mei replied, saying that the HongHua Sect had a way to detoxify, but many medicinal ingredients needed to be collected temporarily, and asked Qi Huang and the other senior sisters to wait patiently.
That night, Qi Huang and the other senior sisters stayed in the village. Fearing incursions by wandering spirits, she kept her Spiritual Sense released all night for surveillance. With the Tongming Comb to replenish her energy, she had no worries.
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Five days later, seven men of different ages entered Gaoge Village. They wore blue and white uniform clothing and carried uniform long swords, which was the standard attire for official disciples of the HeYi Sect. The disciples arrived at the burial site of the infant spirit and its mother and began searching the surroundings. As time passed, their expressions grew increasingly grim.
“What the hell! Why isn’t it here?” A short, stocky disciple muttered.
“Ge Hao, tell me, what’s going on?” The leading middle-aged disciple questioned.
“Senior Brother Ma, I don’t know either! I checked here not long ago, and that Ghost Tomato was growing right here. Since it wasn’t ripe yet, I didn’t pick it,” the male disciple named Ge Hao hastily explained.
“Could it have been picked by those villagers?” a disciple beside him guessed.
“Impossible. Ordinary people who touch that thing die, and it’s contagious too. If they picked it, the entire village would be dead by now,” Senior Brother Ma immediately shook his head and denied it.
“Besides, we repeatedly warned them not to come to this place when we dealt with the infant spirit. With the villagers’ courage, they shouldn’t dare to come here,” another disciple added.
“Forget it, let’s go ask in the village first,” Senior Brother Ma waved his hand, and his junior disciples followed him into Gaoge Village.
Not long after, they found a clue: a few female disciples from the HongHua Sect had come to Gaoge Village a while ago, and one of them had taken the Ghost Tomato.
“These meddling little bitches!” Ge Hao cursed loudly, completely forgetting that this was the territory of the HongHua Sect.
“Our HeYi Sect spent a great deal of effort to obtain the seeds of every Ghost Tomato. We absolutely cannot lose them like this. We must find them,” Senior Brother Ma gritted his teeth and said.
