Chapter 258

Yin Qingqing gritted her teeth in secret, but did not dare to show it on her face, only swallowing the full cavity of hatred into her stomach.

Jiang Ye looked at her with an indifferent expression and suddenly spoke, his voice unhurried:

"You said before that you accidentally obtained the Gu art inheritance and pill formula while training in Miaozhou."

"Coincidentally, this old man is also quite interested in the Gu art of Miaozhou..."

"Take it out and let this old man see!"

Hearing this, Yin Qingqing's expression changed slightly, her eyes, clear as a stream, turning slightly in their sockets, and then her voice trembled:

"Mas... Master..."

"That Gu art inheritance disappeared as the Gu insect entered my body..."

"Although I really want to show it to you... I am truly powerless..."

"As for the pill formula for the 'Yin-Yang Harmonizing Qi Pill', I didn't bring it with me; it's left at the Pill Spirit Peak."

"If Master wants to see it, Qingqing can take you back to the Pill Spirit Peak to get it later."

Jiang Ye curled his lips into a sneer, looking at the other party with a playful expression, without speaking.

Judging by his intuition.

This statement by Yin Qingqing is definitely five parts true and five parts false.

I have to say, this woman is truly a master of lying.

Every lie is mixed with some truth, and every truth hides some lies; reality and falsehood are intertwined, and ordinary people have no way to distinguish them.

Facing Jiang Ye's scrutinizing gaze that seemed to see through everything, Yin Qingqing shrank her shoulders and nodded pitifully:

"Master..."

"Qingqing really didn't lie to you..."

"You can go to the Upper Sect's Scripture Hall to check the information."

"Many Gu art inheritances in Miaozhou are bound to Gu insects; when the Gu insect enters the body, the inheritance appears, and when the Gu insect leaves the body, the inheritance dissipates..."

"Qingqing would never dare to deceive Master on this matter."

Jiang Ye looked at her meaningfully and said faintly: "Then take out the Gu insect and let this old man take a look."

The pupils in Yin Qingqing's eyes rotated again, and that fleeting panic was accurately captured by Jiang Ye.

She spoke cautiously, her voice even lighter than before:

"Mas... Master..."

"The Gu art that Qingqing cultivates is quite special..."

"The Gu insect cannot be taken out... sometimes, even Qingqing doesn't know where the Gu insect is..."

Jiang Ye smiled.

The smile on that old face was not intense, but it made Yin Qingqing's heart crawl.

A coldness flashed between his brows, his voice flat but revealing a daunting chill:

"It seems you really think this old man is easy to fool."

"Since you are so dishonest, this old man can only use some means."

"You think this old man can't find it, right?"

The moment the words fell, Jiang Ye grabbed Yin Qingqing's fair neck with one hand, lifting her up easily as if she were a small chick.

With his current strength of the Jin Gang Body, Yin Qingqing, who weighed only a hundred catties, was as light as a sheet of paper in his hands.

"Ugh..."

Suddenly lifted by Jiang Ye, Yin Qingqing let out an unexpected muffled groan in her throat.

Both hands subconsciously grabbed Jiang Ye's withered and powerful wrist, her legs kicking helplessly in the air, her heart trembling violently, instinctively feeling a strong sense of misfortune.

The next instant.

Two clusters of crimson-gold flames suddenly rose in Jiang Ye's eyes.

The firelight was like two miniature scorching suns, illuminating Yin Qingqing's pale face in every detail.

"Ah..."

The moment their eyes met, Yin Qingqing felt as if her eyes had been severely burned by two raging fires, a stinging pain penetrating from her eyeballs straight to her brain. She subconsciously closed her eyes tightly, letting out an uncontrollable cry of pain.

Oh no!

She instantly realized that what this old thing was performing was definitely a high-grade eye-refining secret technique.

The Upper Sect's Scripture Hall contained such eye-refining secret techniques.

Once mastered, one's vision far exceeds that of ordinary martial artists, and one can even penetrate skin and flesh to see the flow of Qi and blood and the distribution of meridians in the human body.

If she were truly scanned from head to toe by these fiery eyes, her biggest secret within her body would not be hidden.

Jiang Ye operated his fiery eyes, starting from Yin Qingqing's head and scanning down inch by inch.

Those crimson-gold eyes penetrated skin, muscle, and bone, seeing every meridian and every flow of Qi and blood within her body clearly.

From top to bottom, slowly arriving at the abdomen.

"Hmm?!"

Jiang Ye's fiery eyes penetrated that thin layer of flesh and blood, clearly seeing the dantian within Yin Qingqing's body.

Not only was it filled with rich wood-green True Qi, but in the very center wrapped by the True Qi, there was also a strange, faint life aura lurking.

"So it was hidden here."

Jiang Ye nodded thoughtfully, the crimson-gold flames in his eyes suddenly becoming a bit more vigorous.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...

Where the fiery eyes focused, the clothing on Yin Qingqing's abdomen could not withstand the heat condensed to the extreme, and began to self-ignite, emitting wisps of scorching blue smoke.

Her brows twisted into a ball, her eyes still closed tightly, not daring to open them, and she let out a trembling cry of surprise:

"Ah..."

"No..."

"Hot... too hot..."

Jiang Ye ignored Yin Qingqing's cries of surprise entirely.

Under the gaze of his fiery eyes, he vaguely saw that within Yin Qingqing's dantian, the figure lurking there had a silhouette somewhat like a fox.

"Let's take it out directly."

Jiang Ye murmured softly, a coldness flashing in his crimson-gold fiery eyes, his withered fingers closing slightly.

Hearing this, Yin Qingqing was scared to the point of peeing two drops.

She hugged Jiang Ye's arm tightly, her voice trembling uncontrollably:

"Wait a moment... wait a moment..."

"Master... Master..."

"Qingqing suddenly remembered, I seem to have a way to make the Gu insect come out..."

"If you take it out by force, the Gu insect will die..."

"This is Qingqing's life-bound Gu insect; if it dies, Qingqing will also lose my life..."

"Qingqing still has to help Master get the Primordial Great Restoration Pill; please spare Qingqing this time..."

She spoke quickly and urgently, tears sparkling in her eyes, and on that face naturally possessing affinity, there was no longer any of the usual composure, only pure fear.

Jiang Ye sneered, let go casually, threw the limp Yin Qingqing onto the ground, and said faintly:

"I'll give you ten breaths of time to take out the Gu insect."

Yin Qingqing sat slumped in the pile of gravel, panting heavily, her robes on her back already soaked through with cold sweat.

She dared not delay any longer, nor did she care about the injury on her chest that was still faintly aching, struggling to sit up straight, clasping her hands together, the wood-green True Qi within her body slowly surging.

A moment later.

She slowly opened her mouth, and a cluster of soft green light floated out from her mouth, landing between her spread palms.

And in the very center of that light cluster, a small, fire-red fox was curled up.

The fox was only the size of a palm, its whole body covered with a layer of fine, soft fur, its pointed ears pressed tightly against its head, a pair of small, dark, round eyes turning around, looking somewhat cute and somewhat cunning.

"It really is a fox?!"

Jiang Ye's eyes lit up, and with a wave of his hand, he took the green light cluster into his palm, his brows raised slightly.

This tiny fox actually had three tails...

It seemed to feel fear toward Jiang Ye instinctively; once it reached Jiang Ye's palm, it immediately shivered, desperately flipping its three tails upward to cover its little head tightly, looking exactly like an ostrich burying its head in the sand.

In Jiang Ye's cognition.

Gu insects should all be poisonous insects like centipedes, spiders, and scorpions.

Who would have thought that the Gu art of Miaozhou could cultivate Gu insects in the form of foxes, and this young fox actually dragged three furry tails behind its butt.

Each tail tip glowed with a faint pink luster, exactly the same color as the claw tips of the fox that appeared in his mind when he was previously afflicted by the Gu art.

"Can a fox also count as a Gu insect?"

Jiang Ye looked at the shivering three-tailed little fox in the light cluster with great interest, extending his index finger to gently push away the tail covering its face.

Touched by him, the little fox shivered even more violently, letting out a whine as thin as a mosquito's, its three tails exploding into three little fur balls.

Yin Qingqing knelt to the side, explaining tremblingly:

"Mas... Master..."

"Gu is the essence of heaven and earth, wonderful and indescribable, not confined to form."

"This is a Fox Gu..."

Jiang Ye nodded thoughtfully: "Fox Gu... the world is so vast, there truly are all kinds of wonders..."

As he spoke, he prepared to put the Fox Gu away and take it back to study slowly.

Yin Qingqing was so anxious that tears were about to burst from her eyes again:

"Master..."

"This Fox Gu is my life-bound Gu insect, closely related to Qingqing's life, and cannot leave my body for more than seven days..."

"Otherwise, both I and it will die..."

"Please return it to Qingqing, Master."

"Qingqing guarantees that I will never lie to Master again!"

Hearing this, Jiang Ye's hand movement paused slightly, then the corners of his mouth curled into a meaningful arc:

"That's simple, won't it be fine if you come to find me every seven days from now on."

"It can both let the Gu insect continue its life and let this old man rest assured; killing two birds with one stone."

He was originally worried about what method to use to control this woman who was as cunning as a fox.

After all, this woman was quite dishonest.

Eight out of ten words in her mouth had to be discounted.

Relying solely on her verbal submission, she would probably turn around and engage in small actions behind his back.

Now it's fine; isn't this Fox Gu a ready-made leash...

Hearing this, Yin Qingqing was stunned.

The expression on her face turned from anxiety to bewilderment, and from bewilderment to a belated realization.

She wished she could slap herself twice on the spot.

Oh no...

I said the wrong thing.

Now I have truly handed my life over to this old thing.

"Master... this..."

She was anxious and wanted to say something more to salvage the situation.

Jiang Ye's cold gaze fell on her, and he said faintly: "You said you wanted to be my slave and maid; was it fake and insincere?"

"..."

Yin Qingqing was speechless for a moment, all her defenses stuck in her throat.

She knew that no matter what, she could not get the Fox Gu back now, and if she continued to pester, this old thing would really be impolite to her.

She took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing all the resentment surging in her heart, trying hard to pull the corners of her mouth upward, pulling out a slightly stiff smile:

"Master..."

"Then Qingqing will take you back to the Pill Spirit Peak to get the pill formula for the 'Yin-Yang Harmonizing Qi Pill'."

Jiang Ye shook his head slightly, a burning sensation of unknown meaning surging in his old eyes.

He stepped forward, looking down at Yin Qingqing who was kneeling in the gravel pile, the corners of his mouth curling into an arc, and he spoke in a flat voice:

"That is not urgent..."

"However, the aphrodisiac you used before does have some effect."

"This old man is very angry right now."

He felt that this woman was full of lies and was too dishonest.

She should be the most cunning one among the women he has come into contact with so far...

Although Xu Qinghuan likes to act spoiled, she has never dared to lie in front of him.

Even that Yang Han, who was full of bad water, at least maintained a surface level of decency.

Only this Yin Qingqing, seemingly soft and harmless, is actually full of lies and truths; if he doesn't teach her a lesson, she will probably never learn what it means to be honest.

It is very necessary to give her a "stick education."

Hearing this, Yin Qingqing was scared out of her wits, her legs went soft, and she knelt directly at Jiang Ye's feet, her two hands clutching Jiang Ye's robe tightly, her voice trembling violently:

"Master... Master..."

"The Gu art Qingqing cultivates... cannot be broken before it is mastered..."

As she spoke, fearing that Jiang Ye would not believe her and think she was lying, she raised her hand and swore tremblingly:

"If Qingqing is lying about this, may my martial path never advance an inch in this life, and may I be struck by lightning and die a horrible death..."

Jiang Ye smiled faintly, looking down at the girl shivering at his feet, the smile on that old face not intense, but it made Yin Qingqing shudder inexplicably:

"No matter, as long as you have the heart, it doesn't necessarily have to be broken."

After possessing the Jin Gang Body, his physical body had long reached a realm difficult for ordinary people to understand.

There were many paths he could take.

"Ah..."

Yin Qingqing was slightly startled.

Could this old thing really be so easy to talk to, letting her go so easily...

Her heart had not yet had time to secretly relax.

The next instant.

Jiang Ye suddenly extended his hand, his withered five fingers hooking her neck, and an irresistible force lifted her whole body lightly from the ground.

That palm had distinct knuckles, pinching her neck as if hooking a disobedient little beast.

"Master... what are you..."

Yin Qingqing's feet left the ground, her two hands instinctively grabbing Jiang Ye's wrist, but her body began to tremble uncontrollably.

She was like a fox caught by the hunter by the scruff of its neck, struggling a few times only to find that the force of that hand was astonishingly great, not moving a bit.

At this moment, for the first time in her life, she felt an inexplicable fear.

In the distant mountain forest.

A spring chrysanthemum was swaying in the wind.