Chapter 62: The Death of a Young Man with a Sword of Heaven and Earth (V) "You've turned evil." ...

The two men, staring through the small openings in the door and window, exchanged a glance of surprise.

Ye Qingzhan wondered: How could Qinghuai be here?

Mingche, seeing the suspicion in her eyes, asked, "What's wrong?"

Ye Qingzhan reached out and pulled him towards him, pointing at Qinghuai as he emerged from Ziyuan's room and entered the wing. "Can you remember him?"

Mingche, peering through the sesame-sized gap, caught a glimpse of Qinghuai's face and, startled, said, "Isn't this the master of the first illusion, Ah Yang? The killer." As soon as the word "

killer"

came out, the two ghost ferries remembered.

In the first illusion, the exiled immortal had pursued Ah Yang to separate Xie Zhiyan and Zhao Jinfan, seeking to resolve Qinghuai's lingering feelings. The exiled immortal said Ah Yang had once muttered to himself by the bamboo stream, saying that if he helped the Bai family massacre a certain mountain village, Jin Xiao would set him free.

Now, thinking about it, the so-called mountain villa must be this Wuya Academy.

After thinking it through, Ye Qingzhan looked at Mingche with a complicated expression, then turned his back to the young man approaching outside the door, and wailed in his heart: What is going on? Mingche's death can't be related to Qinghuai!

Depressed, Qinghuai stood outside the door and said coldly: "Open the door."

The candlelight in the room was bright, and the shadows of the three people fell on the door and windows.

She didn't think of hiding from Qinghuai. If he really came to help these talented people massacre the academy, he would definitely know who was here, and there would be no way to avoid him.

Ye Qingzhan opened the door, and Wen Gu stood beside her.

Qinghuai stepped through the door, his icy gaze piercing each of them. He asked, "Are you three not poisoned? Are you hiding?"

Ye Qingzhan remembered what Ziyuan had said and said, "Young man, I am the Holy Maiden of the Snake Clan. I am protected by the Holy Serpent. Others cannot penetrate my body, and naturally, they cannot poison me."

Qinghuai listened to her explanation and glanced past her, seemingly convinced. He then looked at Wen Gu.

Wen Gu tilted his head slightly, his dark eyes fixed on him, and said, "I use poison to nourish myself. To try to control me with poison is to seek death."

Very good—Ye Qingzhan felt relieved. He had already mastered the art of using his identity to deceive people.

When that icy gaze fell on Mingche, the wide-eyed boy shuddered and said, "I've been drinking poison like water since I was a kid. My blood is full of poison, and I've long been immune to all poisons." Seeing the killer's gaze still on him, he paused, lifted his sleeves to reveal his smooth arms, and asked, "Want a taste to see how salty it is?"

"..."

An eerie silence followed.

Qinghuai glanced at the bat mask on his face, pulled a bottle of medicine from his sleeve, tossed it to him, and said nothing, walked out of the room.

Ye Qingzhan, stifling a laugh, took the white bottle and was about to smell it to see if it was what it was, but Wen Gu hijacked it and probed it with his Yin Sha before handing it to her.

"It's not poisonous."

Ye Qingzhan's heart moved, and she slowly said "Oh," and held it to her nose and sniffed it.

The medicine smelled faint and refreshing, with a cool fragrance. She had seen this medicine when she was studying medicine with Li Ying. It was used for pain relief.

Qinghuai threw it to Mingche...

Ye Qingzhan made a "tsk". He guessed that Qinghuai had listened to Mingche's nonsense and felt that he was a "poisonous man" and there was no part of his body that didn't hurt, so he gave him the medicine. He

also remembered that Ziyuan had told her to stay away from the young man named Li Ming, whose face was half covered by a bat mask. She said that this man was notorious and had been raised as a furnace by his mother for revenge since he was a child. He was full of poisonous insects and diseases in his bones, and his temperament was very evil.

Thinking of this, Qinghuai must have known about Li Ming's past and remembered himself.

Ye Qingzhan returned the medicine to Mingche, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Keep it well." Then he stepped up to catch up with Qinghuai.

Wen Gu also glanced at him sideways and followed Ye Qingzhan.

Mingche obediently put the medicine into his sleeve, and many things flashed through his mind when he stepped up.

Qinghuai stood in front of the bed of the man who used the meteor hammer in the daytime, glanced at his arm which had reduced swelling, and said to the three people who came later: "When they all wake up, all the people in Wuya Academy will be slaughtered."

***

Dawn was approaching, the sky was dim, and the people who were poisoned opened their eyes one after another and sat around the table.

Ye Qingzhan sat next to Qinghuai, his eyes passing over the wrists of the people around him one by one. Qinghuai came last night, actually on the orders of Lord Jin to bring medicine to relieve the pain temporarily.

Jin Xiao said that if they succeeded, he would give them the antidote, and if they failed, he would give them one last chance. If they still failed this time, these people, including Qinghuai, would have to die.

Their lives were in the hands of others, and everyone's faces were not very good at this time.

"If this operation fails again, we will all die." Qinghuai said in the silence of everyone.

The big man who wielded the meteor hammer was named Inuye. Upon hearing this, he looked at Ye Qingzhan and said, "I heard you're very smart. Do you have any way to stay alive?"

Ye Qingzhan looked at him and blinked slightly. Zi Yuan, who was standing beside him, interrupted him and said, "How can you talk to a saint like that? You're thinking of the saint now. Why didn't you value the saint so much in the past? Didn't you always rely on brute force to be the boss? Now that you can't do it, you ask the saint?"

Zi Yuan's face was pale, and her wrist, wrapped in gauze, was trembling with blood. However, her voice was loud and clear. She stood up and blocked the way of the man, fearing that others would bully the saint of her tribe.

Ye Qingzhan gently tugged at her gauze sleeve, and Zi Yuan sat down again, turning her face away. Ye Qingzhan glanced at Wen Gu and Ming Che, then met Qing Huai's gaze and said, "Wuya Academy has a barrier and is often protected by Dr. Fox. His skills are superior to yours and mine. If we attack head-on like before, we will definitely not be able to take it down. We can only find a way from the inside."

"Inside?" The dwarf-sized Ha Chi jumped down from his brother Ha Yan's shoulders, stood on the table, looked at Ye Qingzhan, and said, "Please tell me clearly, Saint."

Without waiting for Ye Qingzhan to answer, Wen Gu, who was standing behind her, pushed Ha Chi back and said, "You are so stupid. It would be strange if you really took it."

Ha Chi jumped on the table angrily when he heard this. "How dare you say that to me, a pretty boy. You follow the snake girl around like a peacock all day long, and no one pays any attention to you. Didn't you also participate in the siege of the academy? Apart from knowing how to use some poison, you always hide faster than a dog!"

Everyone in the room was dissatisfied with this show-off. After listening to Ha Chi's words, they looked at Wen Gu with a look of mockery and contempt.

Wen Gu didn't care about these unfriendly eyes falling on him. He tilted his head slightly, and his already dark pupils became a little darker.

Others just thought that "Su" was angry, but only Ye Qingzhan saw the black mist that suddenly spread from Wen Gu's body, like a sharp blade, approaching the dwarf man on the table inch by inch.

How could this be?

In the past, when Wen Gu was angry, he would always cover his heart first, and then blood would flow from the corners of his lips. Now, when stimulated by words, the Yin Sha appeared first, just like when they first met, it instantly obscured the sky and the sun.

And... Ye Qingzhan looked up at Wen Gu's dark eyes, and remembered the loss of control that night. Suddenly, he felt a little dry in his mouth. He couldn't help but licked the corner of his mouth and held his hand.

The Yin Sha disappeared.

Wen Gu lowered his eyes to look at him, his eyes full of guilt.

- He was controlled by the thing in his heart again.

Seeing and hearing, Ye Qingzhan's eyes brightened slightly. Amidst the astonished gazes, he continued, "What I mean is, one of us should sneak into the academy first, break the barrier, and then send out a signal. While Dr. Fox is away, we can work together inside and outside to capture Wuya Academy in one fell swoop."

Those who had been waiting for her brilliant plan had been waiting with eager ears, but after waiting for so long, they only got such a plan. Their disappointment was clearly written in their eyes.

"If we can get into Wuya Academy, why would we need to storm it?" Inuye said angrily. "Aside from the cultivators of our academy, not even a fly can get in!" As he spoke, he squatted on the ground with his meteor hammer. "Except for Qinghuai, none of us look like people from the Central Plains. We don't know how to disguise ourselves, and none of us can break the barrier."

"The barrier set up by the Fox Immortal is like a master. It has never allowed anyone outside the academy to enter, and it is indestructible."

For a moment, everyone sighed.

Ye Qingzhan covered her face with a veil, her eyes rolled around, and she said, "I have a way."

As soon as she finished speaking, everyone's eyes were like thousands of lightning bolts, falling on her again.

Ye Qingzhan couldn't help but tighten her grip on Wen Gu's hand. This grip made some people feel a little itchy. Wen Gu thought of some charming pictures inappropriately in her mind, and looked at her seriously with red earlobes. She heard her say, "I know the art of disguise, we can..."

Before she finished speaking, Zi Yuan, who had been staring at the two entangled hands, asked blankly, "When did the saint learn the art of disguise?"

"This..." Ye Qingzhan was speechless for a moment, forgetting that this girl knew almost everything about the snake saint.

Before she could reply, Zi Yuan, as if reacting, cast a glare filled with hatred at Wen Gu. "I know, it must be you. They say the Miao people are skilled at controlling poisonous insects. There's a kind of insect that's difficult to raise but very useful, called the Hundred-Use Gu. One of its uses is that it can change one's appearance, right?"

Ye Qingzhan: "...Huh?" I don't know.

Wen Gu, one hand held by Ye Qingzhan, played with Ye Qingzhan's long hair that fell down his back with the other, twirling it with his fingertips. He didn't look at Zi Yuan's now angry face, his gaze always downward, not knowing whether to focus on the girl's slightly curly hair or the faintly visible white waist and back beneath the long black hair.

Everyone in the room turned their gaze to Wen Gu again, waiting for his answer.

"Yes,"

he said after a long moment, his tone casual and unconcerned.

"..." Everyone in the room watched Wen Gu's gaze shift from contempt to anger, and finally to helplessness. Yinuye gritted his teeth and said, "Why didn't you tell me earlier if you had this thing!"

Wen Gu hooked a strand of hair with his fingertips, tilted his head and looked at him, as if puzzled, and asked, "Why did you tell me earlier? The Saint and I have not been poisoned."

It was the same tone as before, and the people who listened secretly clenched their fists, and loosened them after a moment.

Ye Qingzhan and Mingche, who was wearing a bat mask, looked at each other, afraid that if they continued, Wen Gu would piss off these people who worked hard, so they hurriedly said, "Ziyuan also said that this poisonous insect is difficult to raise. Su didn't take it out before, I'm afraid it hasn't been refined yet. Now that he is willing to take it out to help, please don't be too harsh on him." Ziyuan's

eyes almost popped out after hearing what her Saint said.

Wen Gu said nothing, just hooked Ye Qingzhan's hair with his fingertips.

Ye Qingzhan ignored him. Seeing that everyone's expressions had eased a little, she continued, "The barrier can protect against people, but it may not be able to stop snakes. If it doesn't stop snakes, I will release my snake and let it find a way to break the barrier." In fact, Ye Qingzhan didn't have any snakes. The only snake-like creature she had seen was the big black dragon, and Wen Gu couldn't bring it out of his sea of consciousness.

The snake was just an excuse. There was no reason why Ye Qingzhan couldn't enter the barrier she wanted to enter. But she had to find a reason that would not arouse the suspicion of the people in front of her.

"If the barrier also protects against snakes, let Su use a Gu. It can blend into the flesh of those entering and leaving the academy, then crawl out from within, waiting for an opportunity to steal the method to break the barrier. We can then disguise ourselves and enter, disrupting their presence, while those outside can attack from within." At this point, Ye Qingzhan pretended to ask Wen Gu, "Su, do you have this kind of Gu? One that can blend into a person's flesh and then crawl out to retrieve something?"

In fact, those present had asked the Gu man for such insects before, but he was unruly and seemed to have slaughtered the people of Wuya Academy simply for fun. His usual mood was unpredictable, and he seemed to reserve that bit of brightness for the Saint.

But the Saint, completely devoted to the snake clan, had no regard for any other man, and even treated this peacock-like, serpentine man with a cold gaze. But after last night, something had transpired between the two, leading to a sudden intimacy.

Zi Yuan was not the only one surprised; they were all waiting to see what he would say next.

These expectant eyes pressed on Wen Gu. He still lowered his head, hooked his fingers in the girl's hair, slowly untied it, and slid it down along the black hair bit by bit, stopping at the girl's ear, and bent down again.

The earlobe was gently twisted, and Ye Qingzhan's body trembled uncontrollably. He only heard someone whispering in his ear with a smile:

"My wife."

"You have become bad."