Poisoning the World: The Secret Service Mysterious Doctor is a Young Beastly Wife Chapter 260-264

Chapter 260 – Tricked by Her! (4)

Rumble! Rumble! The noise gave the impression of the heavens falling and the earth rending. The dome-shaped ceiling opened, revealing a big hole.

Originally, the hole was filled with rocks and stones. However, the pale golden light he sent out split open a path amongst the rocks and stones. It felt like the hole was a vortex, spreading out layer by layer toward the surface.

After fifteen minutes, light suddenly shone down from above. 'At last, light from the surface!'

At this time, it was already evening on the surface. From below, they could see the deep blue of the night curtain covering the whole sky, decorated by numerous twinkling stars.

The little qilin suddenly exclaimed in a low voice, "Master, my psychokinesis is back!" Its voice was filled with excitement.

Ning Xuemo nodded. She could also feel the surge of psychokinesis returning. At this moment, it slowly circulated within her blood vessels.

There was no need to ask that the sealed room must have a special magnetic field, which interfered with the way her and the little qilin, the intruders, emitted psychokinesis, thus neutralizing the use of it. However, that man wasn't affected by it at all…

It seems like the person who sealed the red clothed man in there is quite skilled…

"Who sealed you in the coffin?" Ning Xuemo abruptly asked the red clothed man.

The man glanced at her before giving an ambiguous reply, "Guess who?"

How was she going to guess? She didn't even know the whole history of 2,000 years ago.

She smiled. "In fact, the person who sealed you is pretty good and didn't want to completely eradicate you…"

The red clothed man turned stiff; a light flashed inside his eyes. "How do you know?"

"I guessed!" Ning Xuemo replied bluntly. She used her finger to point at the crystal chains, "Where do these hollowed chains lead to? These chains are specially made to absorb the blood and flesh of all the animals passing by. Then, all the nutrients are sent to your body. It let you live on for more than a thousand years without starving to death…"

When the little qilin and her examined the skeleton of the magic beast, she saw those chains in the vicinity.

At that time, there must have been a special property inscribed into the chains that made them inconspicuous. Right when the exit was opened, she saw the chains nearby, and after observing them, she immediately deduced their real function.

She now knew why the demon beast became a dried up corpse in such a short time.

The man's eyelashes trembled while his pale lips slightly pursed. He looked at his palms which looked faintly pink. 'Even after thousands of years, nothing has changed."

He sighed vaguely. "Perhaps, what you said is correct. This is that person's[1] way of burning incense for me… But what I wanted was never this…"

"A man? Or a woman? Is the person who sealed you a man or a woman?" Ning Xuemo asked in curiousity.

Graceful like a poem, his smile turned treacherous and murderous without really exposing his mood any further. It was rare for him to show such a painful expression.

Therefore, it stirred Ning Xuemo's curiosity, making her unable to refrain herself from asking.

The man's expression became heavy, but he immediately resumed smiling. "Aren't you curious? You think I want to find that person and let that person seal me again?"

Ning Xuemo yawned. "You're overthinking. I haven't heard of anyone who lived for more than 2,000 years except for this continent's godly Ancestor…"

Suddenly, she sized him up and down. "You weren't sealed by the Ancestor, right?"

"The Ancestor?" The red clothed man raised an eyebrow. "Who is he?"

[1] That person is a woman. In Chinese, the pronoun for he and she used the same pronunciation, but the characters are different. Thus, Ning Xuemo's questions and also why I have to put a footnote.

Chapter 261 – Let Me Send You Up (1)

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Ning Xuemo, "…" From the red clothed man's words, it was possible to infer that the person who sealed him wasn't the Ancestor. 'Could it be that there's still another ancient old master who's alive?'

"You haven't heard about the Ancestor?" Ning Xuemo probed again with a question.

"Who is he? Should I have heard of him?" The man asked back.

Ning Xuemo's mind stirred! 'This man was sealed more than 2,000 years, so he didn't know about any influential figures that appeared during that time. So this means that when that man roamed this world freely more than 2,000 years ago, there was no such character called the Ancestor…'

It was easy to guess from this information that the Ancestor was 2,000 years old at most. For that red clothed evildoer, the Ancestor could only be considered as part of the brilliant younger generation.

"The Ancestor is currently the most powerful character in the continent. Every commoner from every country worships him like a deity." Ning Xuemo summed up the information about the Ancestor.

The red clothed man didn't pay much attention to her words. His lips hooked into a smile as he said, "I didn't expect that the humans will have a cultivator in the Heaven realm… Interesting. When I have the time, I'll pay him a visit and see if this younger generation can resist some of my moves…"

Ning Xuemo coughed. She didn't expect that her few words just gave the Ancestor a formidable opponent…

However, the Ancestor truly stood at the peak of this continent for the longest time, who knew how many years passed by without him being able to find an opponent, just like Dugu Qiubai[1]. As they said, "There's only solitude when one's at the top."

Her giving the Ancestor an opponent could be said to make his dull life a bit more exciting. Perhaps, it might give some meaning to his current life…

But, what would happen if the Ancestor had difficulty handling this evildoer? This evil guy appeared gentle from the outside but was in reality a vicious and merciless scourge. Won't he dye this world in rains of blood? Then, the sin she committed was certainly huge!

'Who could have sealed him at that time?' She didn't hear about anyone who lived longer than the Ancestor. 'Could it be a hermit living in a godforsaken place?'

Ning Xuemo felt that there weren't many unknown but powerful hermits in this world. It just made her remember that time when she got acquainted with people from the Jiang Hu in her world; some love to be boastful; others were passing chivalrous heroes helping a master, while a few among them preferred to be low-key despite possessing real skill. Those people never revealed their true nature in front of people and often had an obscure or unknown reputation in the Jiang Hu. For example, the monk sweeping the floor in "Demigods and Semi-Devils".

'Forget it! The situation already developed to this point.' There was no use regretting her slip of tongue. 'Carpe Diem…'

"Your Excellency, we've been conversing for quite some time and could be regarded as brought together by fate. May I ask you for your honorifics?" Ning Xuemo wanted to fish out his name so it will be more convenient for her to investigate his identity when she returned home.

The red clothed man raised an eyebrow. He wore a gentle smile, while spouting poisonous words, "Little kid, do you think you are qualified to know my name?" He obviously didn't care much about a tiny and insignificant human like her.

'Arrogant jerk!'

When the conversation becomes disagreeable, saying more would only be a waste of breath. Ning Xuemo didn't speak to him again. She patted the little qilin's horn while saying, "Little Apple, let's go up." She turned around and jumped on the little qilin's back.

"Leave behind the Blackwave Zither!" The red clothed man coldly reminded her.

"Wait until we reach the surface, then I will give it back." Ning Xuemo tightly held onto the guqin.

Although that red clothed evildoer already swore, she wouldn't feel relieved until she returned to the surface. If she gave it back to him at this moment, God knows what kind of trouble he could brew!

"Little girl, you're too cautious! I wish later you will not regret the decisions you made today…" The red clothed man's smile was somewhat restrained with his arms crossed. He stepped aside from the exit tunnel. "You want me to send you both out or are you going to do it yourself?"

[1] Dugu Qiubai is a character that could be found in name as a legendary undefeated swordman in three of Jin Yong's novels. His name literally means “The Loner Who Seeks Defeat”. For more informations, click here.

Chapter 262 – Let Me Send You Up (2)

"We will go up ourselves!" The little qilin stated. Its psychokinesis was restored, so getting out of this hole would be effortless.

It used its four limbs as a spring to jump up around 12 meters high. By the time its jump lost power, it stepped on the stone wall and used it to jump up several more meters.

The red clothed man didn't plan to trick them. Still waiting below with his arms crossed, he told them, "Be careful. If you fall to your death, make sure you don't break my guqin…"

'This degenerate!'

Ning Xuemo wished she could smash the guqin in her arms on his head!

She smiled at him while riding on the little qilin's back. "Then bless and protect us so we won't fall. If we were to fall, the first thing to share our fate will be this guqin!"

What Ning Xuemo never expected was that after riding out safely from the weird tomb, she was ambushed!

It wasn't an ambush by the red clothed man. Multiple attacks came from all directions!

She and the little qilin had barely just landed. They didn't even regain their footing when they heard the whistling sound of a magic spell raining down on them!

Ning Xuemo was shocked. Right now, except for that guqin, she was weaponless. She was only left with one choice : flip off the little qilin's back and slip down its underbelly to dodge some of the attacks.

The little qilin was also startled by the sudden attack, but it still had a fast reaction speed. It immediately opened its mouth and breathed out a dazzling blue water barrier which completely surrounded its body.

Two rays of attacks from the magic spells and magic weapons smashed into the water barrier like lightning.

The water barrier flickered, and immediately afterwards, the qilin's body shook. It was quite evident that these two attacks held great power, causing the little qilin to feel somewhat strained from resisting them.

After the water barrier flickered, it disappeared, exposing their figures to plain sight.

"Qilin!"

"A real qilin!" Someone exclaimed with a voice filled of surprise and disbelief.

Following the shouts, the figures of three people wearing white clothes flew over, surrounding Ning Xuemo and the little qilin.

Ning Xuemo came out from hiding and could finally clearly see her attackers. Her heart slightly accelerated at the sight!

She knew one of the them. All cladded in white clothes, wearing a white skirt, looking gaudy and cold, it was none other than the disciple from Bright Reverence School that she once crossed swords with, Zhong Rushuang!

The other two also wore white clothing, but a feather was embroidered on their collars. They were obviously disciples from Bright Reverence School.

Two men and a woman. The men were handsome, free and relaxed. The woman was glamorous like a flower. It appeared that the rumors were not unfounded about how the Bright Reverence School was similar to the Sun Moon Sect. Their inner disciples were not only highly skilled, their appearance were also outstanding. Just one of them was enough to be eye candy.

Zhong Rushuang's charming face slightly changed as she also recognized Ning Xuemo right away. She immediately said, "Eldest Senior Brother and Third Senior Brother, it's that loathsome girl who caused the deaths of several of our junior brothers and sisters! If it wasn't because we were poisoned by that accursed girl, three of our junior disciples wouldn't have died on the Sixth Peak under the claws of the Flying Dragon Centipede!"

Ning Xuemo's heart slightly sank. 'No wonder I didn't see the other three. So they were already dead?'

Her little mouth pursed as she clearly stated, "Zhong Rushuang, you were the one who schemed against us first. I had no choice but to poison you all. It was an act of self-defense. Furthermore, the poison at that time could only cause pain, and the effect only lasts for four hours, during which it's impossible to restore your strength. It was absolutely not deadly."

Chapter 263 – Let Me Send You Up (3)

"As long as you stayed in one place and rest for six hours, your strength would have recovered. I clearly told you about this before I left. You didn't heed my words and courted death, so what does that have to do with me?"

Zhong Rushuang angrily said, "Little demoness, you're speaking nonsense! You are justifying yourself even after poisoning us?! If it wasn't because of your poison, my three juniors wouldn't have lost their strength during combat and met with calamity!"

"You losing your strength during battle was due to the flying dragon centipede's poison! Stop blaming others for your own inability and mistakes!" Ning Xuemo rudely replied. Her eyes narrowed as she continued, "Zhong Rushuang, are you trying to take revenge and using a random reason to start it?! You're not forgetting about that cruel oath you made, aren't you?"

Zhong Rushuang's expression slightly changed, "I'm not thinking about taking revenge on you…"

"Then, what did you plan to do by obstructing me with your senior brothers? I don't suppose it's to reminisce our past together?" Ning Xuemo's cold voice interrupted Zhong Rushuang's words. "Or did you forget about that vicious oath you made before? Do you want me to repeat the words you swore to once again? If you go against your oath, aren't you afraid of what would happen to your master?"

Ning Xuemo caused Zhong Rushuang to be choked with her words, causing her face to turn from green to white. "Y-you… Stop speaking nonsense! We didn't know you were in there. We only heard a strange noise, so we came here to take a look. Who knew a little girl like you would recklessly jump out from that hole!?" She gave Ning Xuemo a suspicious glare before remembering to add, "That's right! Where's Number Two? How did you come to the 8th Mountain by yourself? This is impossible!"

She turned to her two seniors and said, "Eldest Senior Brother and Third Senior Brother, this girl is a psychokinesis trash, but she possessed numerous crafty and unique tricks… How could she appear here? According to her skills, it should be impossible for her to accomplish such feats…"

Her Eldest Senior Brother appeared to be in his late 20s. His bearing was elegant and calm with an easygoing impression. He watched Ning Xuemo before indifferently said, "Anything happening that's unusual must have to do with demons and monsters. I'm afraid that this girl is a monster!"

The Third Senior Brother immediately interjected, "Correct! It's impossible for such a trash to be able to run off to this 8th mountain. It's very likely that she is some kind of monster who transformed into human. Number Two must have been deceived. Since Number Two is currently not present by her side, perhaps his life is already in jeopardy. Us, upright and righteous sects, will take it upon ourselves to subdue monsters and get rid of demons. Since we have encountered such a monster, we cannot let it be!"

Zhong Rushuang's eyes brightened. She coldly snorted at Ning Xuemo, "That's correct! Since we encountered an evil demon, how can we not get rid of it?! Little Demoness, I am not taking revenge on you. I'm simply upholding my beliefs by getting rid of a demon like you!"

Finally, they found a reason to kill Ning Xuemo, and it was also an honorable reason. They immediately stopped being polite and revealed their weapons.

Ning Xuemo lightly clapped. She applauded at them three times. "Not bad! Not bad! You went to such lengths to scheme against an unarmed and defenseless little girl. Your reasoning is such a load of crap, really just like you! Turns out that the Bright Reverence School's disciples are actually no more than that. I must thank you for the eye-opener!"

She shifted her eyes and saw that the red clothed man already flew up. He was lazily leaning on a big boulder at this instant, with the corner of his mouth stretched into a smile. He had the attitude of a spectator enjoying a bustling scene. He clearly had no intention of involving himself.

She held the guqin tighter and looked at the three others. Her lips hook into a smile as she asked, "Do you all want to attack together? Or would it be a tag match?"

She saw Zhong Rushuang's skills before and estimated it to be at mortal realm rank 8.

Chapter 264 – Let Me Send You Up (4)

If Ning Xuemo had the choice, she would have preferred to settle Zhong Rushuang in one fight. However, her two senior brothers were here as well, and their skills couldn't be regarded as weak!

If they dared to bring Zhong Rushuang with them to the Eighth Peak, their psychokinesis is certainly at least earth realm rank 3 or 4. They might be much stronger than Ji Yunhuang. She didn't want to add more enemies to her collection.

As for the little qilin, it seemed as if it didn't have much ability. At best, it could defend itself with a water shield or whatever. It was very likely that he wasn't an opponent for these three people…

She tried to think of a safe and sound escape route, another alternative to her predicament…

Despite the uncertainty plaguing her mind, it could not be seen from her appearance. A smile exuding confidence still hung on her face.

The three Bright Reverence's disciples didn't expect that despite Ning Xuemo being absolutely in a disadvantage, she could still remain calm. While sitting on the qilin's back, her manner was relaxed, comparable to that of an expert. That kind of demeanor caused their minds to be alarmed!

At first, they didn't put Ning Xuemo in their eyes. Who in their right mind would view someone who is considered trash as a worthy opponent? Not to mention that their opponent was still a young girl less than 15 years old.

Earlier, they pulled out so many justifications just to pin the appellation of demoness on Ning Xuemo and used the "just and honorable" reason to justify their actions to kill her and capture the little qilin beside her.

Deep in their hearts, they were still unconvinced about Ning Xuemo's so-called real ability. To be able to reach the Eighth Peak, she could have simply encountered a "Great Fortune".

However, looking at her current appearance brimming with confidence, their hearts suddenly felt a bit uncertain!

'Maybe that little girl really possesses some sorcery? Otherwise, how can this divine qilin obediently let her sit on its back? And how can she charge to this place unscathed? What's more, who is that man clad in red behind her?''

'This is strange! Very strange!'

All three of them looked at each other, and they all read in their counterparts' eyes, the signal of a blitzkrieg strategy!

The Eldest Senior Brother coldly laughed, "To handle these kinds of corrupted creatures, there's no need to be careful with the method! That demoness appears to be young, but who knows for sure if she's not already a several thousands year old monster! Second Brother, Junior Sister Shuang, let us do it together?!"

At this moment, all three of them had tacit understanding and thought about charging at the same time.

They glanced at each other and immediately attacked!

Three different rays of light shot out towards Ning Xuemo and engulfed her!

Their teamwork is very well coordinated. They simultaneously attacked Ning Xuemo; one attacked her chest, while the other attacked her abdomen, and the last one attacked her head.

Every single ray of light split into more than 10 beams during their course toward their target, flickering with brilliance as they hone in toward Ning Xuemo, completely shrouding Ning Xuemo's body without a warning!

Ning Xuemo let out a scream, while swinging the guqin in her arms to obstruct the attacks shot at her!

'Damn it! My guqin!'

Red-Clothed who was leisurely watching the scene let out a low curse. His figure flashed as he waved his sleeve. A pale golden sword took shape in an instant and appeared in a whirlwind in front of Ning Xuemo. The rays light that were about to reach Ning Xuemo began to twist and then dissipate!

"Wretched girl! If you damage my guqin, I'm taking your life!" Red-Clothed's tone was not good, as he attentively watched Ning Xuemo's fingers.

'This loathsome girl's fingers was just pulling on the guqin's strings. If she were to exert a bit more force, the strings would snap immediately!'

Because he greatly cared about the guqin, his heart had many worries, and he didn't dare to start a fight with her.

Meanwhile, the three others were greatly shocked. Although they had long noticed the man in red clothes, based on the principle of avoiding unnecessary troubles, they didn't involve the man in their dispute this time. Thus, they temporarily didn't pay attention to him…

However, they didn't expect that at that crucial moment, the man would suddenly make a move. Not only that, his attack was this fierce, destroying their combined attacks without breaking a sweat!

"Your Excellency, may I ask who are you? Why are you helping this demoness?" The Eldest Senior Brother's questioning tone was heavy.

Chapter end

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