LGHTNOVELBOOK 48: A Heart Disease is Hard to Cure
Mu Changqing was well-informed about the outside world and knew she was an exceptionally talented talisman master. His gently persuasive tone was like a venomous snake hiding its fangs to display its docility, truly… seeming utterly harmless.
Chu Sang was almost bewitched by him, thinking how this person was even better at pretending than her.
The reason the Lingqing Sect Leader confined him to the Eastern Peak was that once released, he would wreak havoc upon the world!
Originally, the Sect Leader had confined him to make him reflect on his actions and purify his six senses, but before Mu Changqing had been confined for even a year, he discovered a loophole in the formation.
This formation only targeted him, meaning other external objects were not restricted.
Since then, he had been researching how to use puppets to gather information and run errands for him, and even specially raised a Nascent Soul stage beast, providing fresh corpses every day without interruption.
He could cause so much trouble without even leaving, what would happen if he were released??
“This is a formation set by the Sect Leader. I’m just a small Foundation Establishment cultivator, I can’t break it,” Chu Sang wasn’t foolish enough to jump into a trap willingly.
Mu Changqing’s smile faded instantly, and he sneered, “Then what can you do for me?”
“Help you treat your legs,” Chu Sang pointed out.
Mu Changqing stared at her for a long while, then suddenly laughed, his smile full of mockery. “Treat my legs? You mean these useless legs? Haha……” He rested his chin on his hand and said languidly, “I can’t leave this peak anyway, so these legs are useless to me. Since that’s the case, why not just let them remain crippled.”
“Do you think I need them?”
Chu Sang nodded, “You do need them.”
Faced with her firm answer, Mu Changqing seemed to have been struck by some embarrassing matter. “Get out!”
Indeed, he was a capricious major villain, changing his attitude in an instant. Chu Sang applied a Speed Talisman just before he could act and quickly escaped. She then found Mu Chihuai sorting herbs in the pill-refining room at the foot of the mountain. She sat down beside him and asked, “Sixth Senior Brother, do you have any pills that can treat leg injuries?”
“You’re talking about Third Senior Brother’s legs, right?” Mu Chihuai immediately saw through her intentions and looked up, saying softly, “It’s useless. If Third Senior Brother’s leg injury could be treated, I would have done it long ago.”
“Is Third Senior Brother’s leg injury very serious? Could it be poison, or are his meridians severed?”
Mu Chihuai shook his head, “Not quite.”
Contrary to her guess, Mu Changqing’s leg injury wasn’t particularly severe. With his abilities, healing it wouldn’t be a problem.
“Physical injuries are easy to treat, but diseases of the heart are hard to cure,” Mu Chihuai said. “Third Senior Brother’s leg injury isn’t difficult to treat. His real illness isn’t in his body, but in his heart.”
“You must have heard that Third Senior Brother’s leg injury wasn’t caused by others, but by himself.”
“Let’s not even mention that he doesn’t allow others to get close to him. Even if I were to heal his legs, if he has another episode one day, he might cripple his leg or arm again. It’s completely useless.”
“A heart disease?”
The original story had very little description of Mu Changqing. He basically appeared as a madman opposing the male and female protagonists from the start. Could such a madman have emotional knots?
Chu Sang looked up at the sky and sighed deeply, then lowered her head and grabbed Mu Chihuai’s hand. “Sixth Senior Brother, please refine a batch of pills for treating leg injuries first. Leave the rest to me.”
Mu Chihuai raised an eyebrow. He had quite some faith in his little junior sister’s ability to stir up trouble and was somewhat curious about what she wanted to do. He nodded and said, “Leave it to me.”
“However, I’m missing a precious herb for refining the pill, the Thousand-Li Ginseng. It’s very difficult to buy on the regular market. It only grows on Mount Guihe, at the border between the cultivation world and the demon realm. You should go with that fellow Tantai Ming. Be careful and don’t encounter any demons.”
Thinking that it was just a mountain at the border between the cultivation world and the demon realm, not within the demon territory, there shouldn’t be any major issues.
Now that Seventh Senior Brother had gone to deliver a “big gift” to the Zhao family, she decided to go to Mount Guihe alone on her flying sword.
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On the Eastern Peak, in the quiet bamboo house, there came a rustling sound. The long red robe dragged on the ground as Mu Changqing, holding an almost completed puppet head, carved its eyebrows and eyes. However, he seemed somewhat distracted. The carving knife in his hand accidentally cut his finger, drawing a bead of blood.
He casually waved his hand, and the great snake slithered in from outside. It lowered its head, carefully holding back its sharp fangs, and gently licked the blood from his finger. A flash of red light passed through its eyes, disappearing in the next moment. Its aura seemed to become even more intense and profound.
Mu Changqing asked carelessly, “Has she left?”
The great snake nodded. Seeing his master’s aura become even more gloomy, the great snake trembled slightly. It was clearly the master who had just scolded the little junior sister away……
Whimper, it felt wronged on behalf of the kind-hearted young lady who had been feeding it, but it couldn’t guess its master’s thoughts. It only instinctively felt some fear, worried that the master would go mad again and turn it into one of those things piled in the corner in the next moment, or perhaps a pot of delicious snake soup.
It was originally an ordinary wild snake in the mountains, but because Mu Changqing was too bored being confined to the mountain, or perhaps he wanted to find a living being to talk to, or simply needed someone to run errands, Mu Changqing fed it his blood, giving it spiritual awareness. It had been by his side for nearly ten years.
The great snake wasn’t clear about the true identity of this man before it, or why his blood could turn an ordinary wild snake like itself into a powerful Nascent Soul stage beast step by step.
However, now that it had gained spiritual awareness, it naturally knew what to ask and what not to ask, not wanting to bring disaster upon itself.
“She… won’t come today?” Mu Changqing paused, then said somewhat boredly.
For over a decade, it was the first time someone had come to him voluntarily, not only unafraid but even bringing him gifts.
Mu Changqing wasn’t moved, he just rarely encountered interesting things and found it somewhat curious. Suddenly, when the interesting thing disappeared, he became bored again.
Now that the little junior sister knew his true nature, she would probably stay far away like everyone else in the future, right?
“Sister Sang went to find medicine to treat master’s legs. She just left, seemingly heading to Mount Guihe at the border of the demon realm,” the great snake spoke in a childish voice.
Mu Changqing’s expression showed a hint of realization. “The demon realm?” He paused his work. That wasn’t a peaceful place.
He had thought she was just talking, but she actually intended to help treat his legs?
“……Foolish, I already said I don’t need it,” he said coldly.
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“???” Chu Sang was startled by the prompt in her mind. Indeed, he was capricious, impossible to understand.
Chu Sang put away her flying sword and arrived at Mount Guihe.
This place was quite desolate, rarely visited by cultivators, but demons often came here.
Chu Sang applied a Concealment Talisman to herself and searched more than half the mountain, but didn’t find any Thousand-Li Ginseng.
As she was puzzling over this, several demon cultivators approached. She hid behind a tree and overheard their conversation.
“We’ve gathered all the Thousand-Li Ginseng on this mountain, right? I just looked around twice and couldn’t see a single one. It’s getting late, we should head back.”
“By the way, why does the Demon Lord need so much Thousand-Li Ginseng?”
“Thousand-Li Ginseng, along with these few stalks of Frost Grass, are rare healing treasures. Could it be……” Someone hesitated.
“We shouldn’t talk about this carelessly. If others find out, we’ll lose our heads!” A nearby demon cultivator quickly interjected, looking around vigilantly. After making sure no one was eavesdropping, he breathed a sigh of relief. “Let’s go, let’s go. After we pick this patch of Frost Grass, we’ll head back.”
No one spoke further. They silently picked a few herbs and prepared to leave.
As a demon cultivator who had fallen behind the group was passing through the woods, Chu Sang quickly knocked him out, swiftly changed into his clothes, put on a human skin mask, and brazenly joined the group.