406: Chapter 324 406: Chapter 324 They later heard that their destinations were different, and they were not heading to the Nangong Immortal Sect but to the hometown of Senior Brother Lai Jianlin.
The girls were excited, and Bian Shasha initially said she wanted to go to Senior Brother Lai Jianlin’s hometown too.
Now, by chance, being able to accompany these two to Senior Brother Lai Jianlin’s hometown, they should be able to find the detoxification medicine for them.
“How could we take you with us?
We’re going to a fellow sect member’s hometown!”
Bi Renchuan felt that taking them out here was already very kind.
These women were really asking for too much.
“Don’t misunderstand, Senior Brother, we can’t go back on our own because we’ve been poisoned.
Our Senior Brother Lai Jianlin is also in that place.”
“This Lai Jianlin you speak of, are you very close with him?” Bi Renchuan felt a bit sour when he learnt that the person he’d gone through so much trouble to rescue was actually going to find a lover.
In Bi Renchuan’s somewhat acidic tone, there was a hint of an ugly expression.
He didn’t realize the emotion involved was that of a man’s feelings towards a woman playing a part.
Hearing a woman talk about another man in front of a man indeed could make the man feel unpleasant.
“Senior Brother, we only know of Senior Brother Lai Jianlin.
Maybe he doesn’t even know us.
After all, there are too many brothers in the Immortal Sect, and Lai Jianlin is so outstanding that he’s never taken a proper look at us,”
a female disciple said self-deprecatingly.
“Yes, if we return to the Immortal Sect now without a master, we still have to ask the sect for detoxification medicine, but we don’t know who to turn to.
There might be even greater dangers on the road, so we don’t dare to take the risk,”
“Right, Senior Brother, having you accompany us to Senior Brother Lai Jianlin’s home, there’s a chance he might be able to save us.”
Several girls explained together, and Bi Renchuan’s expression finally improved a bit, reluctantly agreeing to let them follow.
On the journey outside, the four girls could no longer fly on their own, so the two men carried the four girls during flight sometimes, and they also needed to land to buy dry food or other things to eat.
Fan Dingding and Bi Renchuan were kindhearted; they didn’t want the girls, having escaped from the tiger’s lair, to enter a wolf’s den.
Entering the Martial World was dangerous not just for unmarried women; the women accompanying them were somewhat attractive, and being poisoned made it even more dangerous for them to be on their own outside.
Traveling with several girls and not being able to fly quickly turned a journey of two days into one that took them five or six days, and they still hadn’t reached their destination.
Looking at the map, they saw they were still more than a hundred li away from Immortal Lord City.
When they reached a marketplace, they had gone to local medicine shops several times to enquire if there was any detoxification medicine available.
Even though some medicine shops did have detoxification medicines for sale, none were of better quality than what they had on them, and none could cure the poison afflicting the four girls.
This time, while buying food, they also visited the medicine shop to ask about detoxification medicines.
As the group of six appeared in the marketplace, some of the people in the market began to follow them.
The bustling marketplace made tracking them inconspicuous.
After the group visited the medicine shop and left disappointed,
those following them continued their surveillance.
Some followed them, while others entered the shop to ask the shopkeeper what they were looking to buy.
Learning that they were looking for detoxification medicine, one person had a malicious idea and used the shopkeeper to purchase a sleeping drug.
After buying the sleeping drug, they continued to follow the tracking group into a teahouse.
As usual, Fan Dingding and Bi Renchuan would buy some food in the markets and treat themselves in a teahouse to some good food to break the monotony of dry rations.
This time they were unaware that someone intended to harm them, their days of smooth traveling would soon end.
Danger crept closer, and they were none the wiser.
It wasn’t for a lack of vigilance; everywhere there were strangers who did not seem threatening at all.
The four female cultivators, after all, still displayed a paleness characteristic of females, and although they couldn’t fly powerfully, walking was certainly not an issue.
They all entered the teahouse together.
They entered a private room, not choosing to eat in the main hall.
Those shadowing them saw them enter the private room and exchanged a knowing glance with a shopkeeper inside the teahouse, and then they whispered among themselves.
The teahouse’s shopkeeper signalled a waiter, who carried tea into the private room for the guests, poured tea for them, and took their orders for food.
Nothing seemed amiss inside the room, and the six men and women were oblivious to anything wrong.
As they waited for their meal and chatted, they observed the bustle of the street through a window in their room.
It looked the same as any ordinary city, albeit this marketplace was not very prosperous.
“It seems we’ve also seen some cultivators here,” Fan Dingding observed, noticing that this area wasn’t just limited to the mortal area.
“Hmm, perhaps there are some small cultivator families around,” Bi Renchuan responded casually.
As they chatted, the four girls were very subdued.
They didn’t speak much, content with the fact they could fill their stomachs here.
The pain in their bodies was becoming harder to endure.
Although the poison had yet to be neutralized and they had managed to prevent it from reaching their hearts, it was taking its toll.
The longer the poison lasted, the more uncomfortable they became.
They didn’t act coy or weaken their speech in front of the brothers.
They came from different Immortal Sects, and after all, these men were not obligated to save them, nor were they any closer to them in relationship.