Chapter 655: All Stop

Cheng Jing startled: "Sachet? Haven't you always carried it with you?"

"Yes!" Liu Guiyan frantically rummaged on herself, then leaned down to look under the stool, "It's not here!"

She ran to the dressing table, opened the powder case, comb, bronze mirror… all of them, but still none.

Could it have fallen in the kitchen just now?

She turned and ran to the kitchen; on the stove, on the floor… still none.

Her face turned ashen as she came back.

Cheng Jing understood at a glance: "Didn't find it?"

Liu Guiyan nodded, voice trembling: "It was clearly there yesterday…"

"You've been bedridden these past days, I haven't left a step; where could it have gone?"

Cheng Jing, with a composed face: "Servants!"

The servant hurried in: "Here!"

"Everyone, start searching together, inside and out! Whoever finds it will be richly rewarded!"

"Yes!"

Half an hour later, several servants entered together, kneeling on the ground: "We've searched everywhere, none, none!"

Cheng Jing waved his hand: "Leave."

The servants hurriedly withdrew.

Liu Guiyan, frantic to the point of tears: "Brother Cheng, what shall we do now?"

"Lu Wu's antidote is missing, and your medicine is gone… what shall we do now?"

"My sachet, could Shadow Blade have taken it too?"

Cheng Jing, supporting his increasingly painful head, looked up at Liu Guiyan: "Is there any antidote left?"

Liu Guiyan shook her head, bitterness in her mouth: "That antidote is extremely laborious to make; even with all ingredients, it takes at least about three months."

Cheng Jing was silent for a moment: "Don't panic."

He lifted the quilt, braced the bed rail and stood up; Liu Guiyan hurriedly supported him.

"A quick trip will tell us," Cheng Jing said in a low voice, "Even if Shadow Blade accidentally snatched the sachet, we don't know what's inside."

"Do not panic and reveal any weakness."

Liu Guiyan bit her lip and nodded firmly.

She ordered: "Prepare a sedan chair!"

"Yes." The servant responded and left.

Two small sedan chairs, one ahead of the other, stopped in front of an inconspicuous courtyard gate.

The two slipped out of the chairs, entered the courtyard, and a sharp sound of things being smashed reached them.

"Get out! All of you, get out!"

Lu Wu's voice was hoarse and irritable: "You dare use such means to scheme against me!"

"You Zhongyuan people, not a single good one!"

Cheng Jing and Liu Guiyan exchanged a glance.

Liu Guiyan slightly exhaled, whispering: "It seems he truly doesn't know what's inside that sachet."

Cheng Jing nodded: "Then it's easy to handle."

Liu Guiyan supported his arm, and the two entered the house.

A scene of utter chaos.

The teapot and teacups were shattered on the floor, tea spilling everywhere.

Chairs toppled against the wall, the calligraphy and paintings on the wall were torn into a mess.

Lu Wu sat at the table, both hands pressed hard on his forehead, his complexion pallid, eye sockets sunken.

Hearing footsteps, he jerked his head up, a pair of cloudy old eyes filled with blood vessels.

"Cheng Jing? What are you here for?"

Cheng Jing, with Liu Guiyan's help, slowly sat opposite him, looked up: "Mage, this morning I discovered that the bottle of medicine you sent yesterday is missing."

Lu Wu was startled, then sneered: "I've already given you the medicine; its disappearance at your place is none of my business."

"As expected! You Eastern Sea old dog, gave me the medicine, then ordered someone to steal it, thinking I have no way to deal with you?"

Cheng Jing's anger surged, his headache worsening.

He rubbed his temple: "The medicine was just brought by Shadow Blade from the Eastern Sea; your Shadow Blade is extraordinarily miraculous, so it could naturally be taken back."

Lu Wu's complexion changed.

He sprang to his feet, then staggered, gripping the table edge: "What do you mean?"

"You mean, I sent Shadow Blade to steal your medicine?"

Cheng Jing remained silent, his face cold, staring at him.

"Nonsense!" Lu Wu leaned close, forcing his gaze: "Shadow Blade just arrived yesterday, and I ordered someone to deliver the medicine to you!"

"If I wanted to harm you, why would I still give you the medicine? Letting you die of pain would be easier."

Cheng Jing still said nothing.

Liu Guiyan slowly spoke, voice calm: "Mage, does your head hurt?"

Lu Wu's whole body went rigid.

He vaguely understood something, turned his head and fixed his gaze on Liu Guiyan, eyes fierce: "My headache today is relentless, and it's not the hand of the supreme one? But yours?"

Liu Guiyan smiled slightly: "Mage, why get angry."

"Given the current situation, Brother Cheng's medicine is gone; you must endure the pain of the headache."

And you, having been poisoned by my Nine Nether Powder, only my exclusive antidote can cure it.

If I don't give you the antidote, you'll suffer headaches every day like Cheng, and we'll be even.

Even? Lu Wu laughed angrily, "What kind of even is this?"

Don't forget, if it weren't for my secret medicine," he pointed at Cheng Jing, "he would have died of pain long ago!

I thought that after I just gave orders to the Shadow Blade yesterday, from now on we must obey the Supreme Venerable's commands, but today he wants to burn the bridges after crossing the river.

I never expected it to be you!

You two, with wolf hearts and dog lungs, ungrateful for my life-saving kindness, actually went and poisoned me!

Recalling everything that had happened to him here, Lu Wu flew into a rage, pointing at Cheng Jing and cursing ever more fiercely: "I damn well shouldn't have come here!"

It's you yourselves who lack the ability to deal with that child, and you invited me here!

Otherwise, how could I have ended up looking like this ghost?

Wasn't I fine, being revered by tens of thousands in Japan?

The more he thought about it, the angrier he grew: "You're simply worse than beasts!"

He grabbed Cheng Jing's collar with one hand and threw a punch at his face.

Liu Guiyan exclaimed in shock, "Stop!" and forcefully pulled Cheng Jing backward.

Cheng Jing swayed aside, dodging the punch, but his collar remained in Lu Wu's grasp.

Lu Wu climbed onto the table, lunged forward, and knocked Cheng Jing to the ground.

"Help! Help!" Liu Guiyan clung tightly to Lu Wu's arm, trying to pull him off Cheng Jing.

"Everyone, stop!" a harsh shout rang out, and the three halted mid-motion.

The Masked Man stood at the doorway.