Chapter 400 He Would Rather Be Dead Than Alive

Slight bloodstains spattered onto Nan Shiying’s hands. Nan Shiying watched, wide-eyed, as a living person dissolved into a pool of foul blood.

“Is it poison?”

Nan Shiying asked the Ghost Old Man.

The Ghost Old Man bent slightly, his shadow lifting a bit of the blood and bringing it to his nose. He sniffed the foul blood carefully, then slowly shook his head, “Doesn’t seem like it.”

“But this technique… it resembles the Asura Ghost Fiend!”

Nan Shiying: “……”

She turned to look at Ji Jinmo, her brow furrowed, a look of confusion on her face. What in the world was this Asura Ghost Fiend?

Ji Jinmo only uttered three words: “Ghost Fiend Sect!”

Nan Shiying suddenly understood. Ah, it was the sect leader of that Ghost Fiend Sect!

“So it’s the Ghost Fiend Sect?” She had interrogated for a long time without getting anything, yet this method of silencing had directly exposed the mastermind behind the scenes. It was utterly absurd!

“No, it should be the Longevity Sect!”

Nan Shiying suddenly recalled that the Ghost Fiend Sect was actually a subordinate of the Longevity Sect. Therefore, the mastermind who kidnapped Feng Quan to threaten the Ghost Old Man must be the Longevity Sect.

“Longevity Sect?”

Hearing these three words, a cold glint flashed in the Ghost Old Man’s eyes. If it weren’t for them, his senior brother would not have refined medicinal youths in pursuit of that ethereal art of longevity.

He stood up, waved his hand, and his shadow, supporting the pool of blood, broke open the door and didn’t stop until it reached the back alley of the adjacent tavern, where it poured out all the foul blood.

“So, what exactly do they want from you?” Nan Shiying stared intently at the Ghost Old Man. Why would the Longevity Sect go to such lengths to find this Medicine Venerable who had once defected from Medicine King Valley? And what could the Medicine Venerable do for the Longevity Sect?

The Ghost Old Man frowned, his wrinkled face etched with impatience, “I don’t know.”

Nan Shiying blinked her eyes and asked again, “Don’t you truly care about Feng Quan’s life or death?”

The Ghost Old Man lowered his gaze, his aged eyelids almost obscuring his entire eyeballs. He calmly replied with four words: “Fate dictates life and death!”

He did care, after all!

Since it was the Ghost Fiend Sect under the Longevity Sect that acted, Feng Quan was most likely being escorted into the Ghost Fiend Sect’s sphere of influence. If they searched along the way, they might find something. However, since the other party had a purpose, Feng Quan would be relatively safe in the short term.

Therefore, the important matter now was not Feng Quan, but whether the person who stole the border defense map and the person who abducted Feng Quan were the same group.

“Could you perhaps move somewhere else to live?” Nan Shiying thought about it, still feeling that she couldn’t leave the Ghost Old Man in the black market.

“You must be dreaming!”

The Ghost Old Man was not polite to Nan Shiying. By seniority, Nan Shiying was a junior, a little descendant of his disciples. Although she was now famous, in his eyes, she was just a junior.

Nan Shiying hissed, feeling that the old man had a terrible temper.

Ji Jinmo slightly cupped his hands. Nan Shiying saw this, walked to his side, and their eyes met. She bowed in understanding, bringing her ear close to Ji Jinmo’s mouth. Ji Jinmo only said one word to Nan Shiying: “Wine!”

Xuan, Ying, Qian, Mo.

The hidden guard organization controlled by the Lin Yuan imperial family was spread throughout the land, in the jianghu and in the imperial court. Anyone with some reputation, the hidden guards would investigate everything about them and record it.

The Medicine Venerable loved wine.

In bold.

To the point of being addicted to it.

Nan Shiying raised her eyebrows slightly and feigned regret, sighing, “Is that so? Then I won’t force you, Senior. It’s just a shame about the good wine in the Prince’s mansion.”

“Ah, what about thirty-year-old Zhuangyuan Red, what about the Royal Special Brewed Pear Blossom Drunk, and what about…”

The Ghost Old Man swallowed, lowered his head, and pondered for a moment, then looked up, feigning difficulty. It seemed he was extremely unwilling to leave the black market, but he made a compromise for the sake of bringing the murderers to justice as soon as possible. He first let out a long sigh, his voice tinged with helplessness, “Forget it, forget it. This old man will go with you!”

Nan Shiying took out a handkerchief and handed it to the Ghost Old Man, “Wipe your mouth. Tears of happiness are flowing from the corner of your mouth.”

Ghost Old Man: “……”

I’ll wipe your sister!

A thousand miles away, in Chengyang County, a hundred miles from Xiling Prefecture.

The woman looked at the jade pendant that had turned to ash in her hand and raised her eyebrows slightly. Qian Gui was dead. Did the sect leader personally do it?

So, has the sect leader infiltrated the capital?

Although the sect leader’s Guihua technique was powerful, its only drawback was that it couldn’t be too far from the person on whom the Guihua was planted, not more than a hundred miles at most. However, this drawback was not only unknown to outsiders, but even to people in their Ghost Fiend Sect, only a few knew about it.

However… the woman patted Feng Quan’s face and smiled, “The Medicine Venerable truly doesn’t care about your life or death.”

She didn’t know what the sect leader was thinking, to actually attempt to coerce the Medicine Venerable with this person? What kind of person was the Medicine Venerable back then? If he could be easily controlled like this, he wouldn’t have risked his beloved junior sister Sui Qing’s life to save a mere few medicinal youths back then.

He had personally watched the dying old valley master push Sui Qing off a cliff!

He could abandon Sui Qing, let alone this Feng Quan.

Feng Quan was tied up and thrown on the ground. He looked at the woman in front of him with anger, but he didn’t understand what she meant.

Who is the Medicine Venerable?

Seeing the confusion in Feng Quan’s angry gaze, the woman widened her eyes exaggeratedly, covered her mouth, and laughed, “Ah, I forgot. You only know him as the Ghost Old Man who raised you, but you don’t know that he is the Medicine Venerable who defected from Medicine King Valley to save you!”

Who, that old man?

That old man defected from Medicine King Valley for him?

Although Feng Quan had never heard the name Medicine Venerable, he knew very well what Medicine King Valley was.

He didn’t care about the woman’s attempts to sow discord at all. His mind was filled with the fact that the old man had defected from Medicine King Valley for him. If that were the case, he owed the old man even more.

“So you kidnapped me to threaten the old man?” Feng Quan gritted his teeth and asked angrily.

The woman nodded noncommittally, “Of course.”

Feng Quan didn’t say another word and suddenly bit his tongue.

The woman, quick as lightning, clamped his jaw. She couldn’t help but become angry, forcefully twisting his jawbone, making his bones crackle, “Want to die?”

“You won’t die!” As she spoke, with a “crack~”, the woman directly dislocated Feng Quan’s jaw.

Then, the woman stood up and stepped on Feng Quan’s chest, advising, “You’d best behave yourself, otherwise, when we reach the Ghost Fiend Sect, I’ll throw you to Mei Sha!”

Feng Quan was surprised that the other party revealed their affiliation. His heart sank to the bottom.

The fact that they didn’t hide it meant only one thing: the moment they achieved their goal, it would be the moment of his death.

Before that, he would wish he were dead!