Chapter 39

When Seeing Xiao Yu Yu chased after them from behind, the riding-donkey Master Qin she saw, the Guishang with a lame leg, and the Wang Er carrying Guishang, were no different from normal people.

Appearance, expression, look, movements, clothes, exactly the same as the ordinary people of Hengsha Pass.

Guishang was a teenager of fourteen or fifteen, wearing silk clothes and a scholar's cap, looking like a young master from a wealthy family.

Wang Er was tall and sturdy, wearing short clothes, very capable and strong.

Master Qin's ge-cloth robe was of high-quality material, dressed like a Squire.

They were originally talking and laughing.

Even if it was pitch black and desolate at this moment, it still looked normal.

But as Seeing Xiao Yu Yu walked over and asked suspiciously, "Do you mean you are dead now?"

The atmosphere and scene changed all at once.

The air suddenly cooled by more than ten degrees, almost condensing frost on the ground.

There were also gusts of yin wind, carrying thick fog, surrounding them from all directions, and the already gray vision became even darker.

It was as if three searchlights were hitting the faces of the three people opposite, their eyes were two green fireballs, and their faces were rotting and deformed.

Guishang was still okay, he had no face directly, he was a skeleton.

Master Qin and Wang Er were particularly terrifying.

Master Qin's face was swollen and black, with green liquid seeping out from the seven orifices.

Wang Er's face was more than half rotten, and maggots could be seen drilling inside.

The clothes of the three became tattered.

"Don't you mean you are not dead?"

They seemed to have agreed, turning their heads stiffly at the same time, looking at her woodenly and coldly.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was terrified, shuddering, her brain, which was originally muddled like paste, suddenly cleared up by more than half.

"Bah!" She didn't shrink back but advanced, grabbing Master Qin who was closest, her apricot eyes widened, her small face full of frost, and she shouted loudly: "You three death-seeking prisoners, what great dog guts, actually provoking this young lady!"

Before her brain cleared up, she seemed to have had her gallbladder removed.

Once her brain cleared up, even knowing that the opposite side was three dead ghosts, the removed gallbladder immediately returned, and it was replaced with a diamond iron gallbladder; in her heart, there was truly not a single bit of fear or panic.

"Fierce Tiger Roars at the Sky!"

Without waiting for the three ghosts to react, she instinctively used the Seven Kills mystery "Tiger Roar Saber."

"Roar!"

The three dead ghosts were stunned.

The girl in front of them, with disheveled hair, face white as paper, and wearing white clothes, instantly changed from a person less than six feet tall into a fierce tiger more than a zhang tall.

The fierce tiger's fur was pure black, its body surrounded by blood-red evil clouds like clouds and mist, its two eyes full of killing intent and madness, its tiger mouth opened, emitting a heaven-shaking roar.

"Roar!" The roar rippled in the air in circles of transparent ripples, dispelling most of the cold fog nearby.

"Mommy, what a fierce tiger demon!" Guishang's courage was scared to pieces, his body was crushed by the momentum of the fierce tiger's roar, falling apart and turning into black smoke and disappearing.

"Help, help, the tiger demon is making trouble after death, it wants to eat ghosts!"

Wang Er was scared to the point of pissing his pants, crawling and rolling, while screaming miserably, frantically fleeing forward.

His legs were weak, he didn't run two steps before falling to the ground, then used his hands and feet to climb up and continue running.

"Tiger Grandmother, spare my life! This old man only has a pile of old bones left, not worth eating!"

Master Qin's left hand was originally grabbed by Seeing Xiao Yu Yu, now his left hand was pressed to the ground by a tiger claw, struggling desperately, unable to break free.

"Donkey, donkey, save my life, quickly take me and run!"

Master Qin hung half on the donkey's back, using his empty right hand to pat the donkey's butt hard, his two feet hooked tightly onto the stirrups.

"Hmm ah hmm ah~~"

The donkey kicked its legs desperately, finally dragging Master Qin's left hand out from under the tiger claw—mainly because Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was stunned again, had no movements, and didn't care about it.

She originally thought she was fascinated by a fierce ghost and was brought out of the Guan Mansion to the wilderness.

A fierce ghost capable of this means must be very powerful.

At least very fierce.

But these three dead ghosts seemed to be just ordinary people among ghosts?

Not even as fierce as her, a living person...

"Run, run!" Although Master Qin's left hand broke free, most of his sleeve was gone.

"Hmm ah hmm ah~~~"

The donkey ran wild, rushing toward the dim stage ahead.

"What's going on?" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu started to get muddled again.

She stood still, it seemed like a long time had passed, and it seemed like the next moment, "Cock-a-doodle-doo~~~"

A rooster crowed suddenly from the east, and a piece of white light seemed to flash before Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's eyes.

She subconsciously raised her hand to cover her eyes, "Is it dawn?"

"Is it dawn?"

In the back courtyard of the Guan family pharmacy, a hoarse murmur came from the embroidered bed.

On the embroidered couch behind the screen, the night-duty maid Xia Zhi rubbed her eyes, tilted her head to look out the window, and whispered: "Miss, it's only the fifth watch, do you want to get up?"

Xu Huier speaking, she had already climbed up lightly.

How diligent the young lady is in practicing martial arts, everyone in the Guan family sees it.

Now that she wants to dance with the rooster, it's not strange.

"Ah! Miss, what are you holding in your hand?"

Lighting the candle and pulling open the gauze curtain of the embroidered bed, Xia Zhi saw a piece of dark, blurry thing caught in the young lady's white jade-like small hand.

It was particularly eye-catching on the rice-white bed cover.

"Xia Zhi?" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu opened her eyes in a daze, and it took a long time to recover her clarity, "Is it dawn?"

She thought it was bright daylight, and the maid was calling her to get up.

"It's still dark, Miss, don't you want to get up and practice the sword?" Xia Zhi frowned, used two fingers to clip the dark, blurry thing on the bed, placed it under the lamp to look carefully, and couldn't help but gasp, surprised: "Miss, why is there a piece of ghost clothing in your hand?"

"What ghost clothing?"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu sat up, feeling her head heavy.

Like a high school student who stayed up late playing games and was woken up by an alarm clock early in the morning to go to school for early self-study.

She raised her hand, wanting to rub her forehead, and saw her right hand dark, blurry, and dirty.

"Why is there— in my hand"

A flash of lightning seemed to flash through her muddled brain, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu suddenly opened her mind, and realized: "See a ghost! This is the sleeve of that Qin old ghost! No wonder..."

No wonder when she saw Master Qin earlier, his clothes looked decent, but the clothes could see the collar, but there was no gap at the collar.

It turned out that the collar was painted, ghost clothing made of paper.

Clothes have seams, the ground has shadows, that is a person; clothes have no seams, the ground has no shadows, that is a ghost!

"Well, it does look like a sleeve." Xia Zhi said.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu thought for a moment with a gloomy face and said: "You go get water first, let me wash my hands."

"Yu'er, don't worry, Godfather already understands the situation, it's just soul-separation syndrome."

After breakfast, after listening to Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's narration, Huchen said thoughtfully, twisting his long beard.

Just soul-separation syndrome... that's all?!

Damn it, the soul leaving the body unknowingly, the consciousness muddled and unclear, isn't that serious enough?

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was dissatisfied with Huchen's attitude in her heart, and said with a worried expression: "If I knew I had become a wandering soul, the problem wouldn't be too serious, but I was like a pig's oil covering my heart, not noticing a single bit of abnormality.

I didn't even know when my soul left my body.

I thought I was practicing the sword in the courtyard... Could it be that my soul was practicing the sword in the courtyard?"

She had practiced the "Tiger Soul Seven Kills Sword" after eating dinner last night before taking a bath and going to bed.

She had taken Warm Spirit Soup and sank her consciousness into the Purple Mansion, continuing to use her mental will to practice the moves.

Then her soul left her body and practiced the sword in the courtyard... did she do anything else?

After practicing the sword and getting tired, she was attracted by the "ghost shouting sound," left Hengsha Pass in a daze... she didn't even know how far she had walked in the wilderness.

"Godfather, have you heard of Sun Family Village? I walked out of Hengsha Pass last night and arrived at the entrance of Sun Family Village all the way."

Huchen didn't live in Hengsha Pass often, so how could he know a small Sun Family Village?

He comforted: "Soul-separation syndrome is like this, let alone leaving the county town, there are those with soul-separation syndrome who ran to the Rakshasa country ten thousand miles away.

The key is that the soul must be able to return.

Your soul is tough and powerful, and your spirit is strong, so there is no problem at all.

If it were someone else, I would have found a Daoist to help you call your soul by now.

Just by yourself, you wouldn't be able to wake up."

Soul-separation syndrome is because the soul is not stable.

A strong soul does not mean a stable soul.

Refined steel is very hard, a table made of refined steel, if a table leg is broken, the table will still shake.

Wood is not as hard as refined steel, but a wooden table without missing corners or edges will still be stable and not shake.

But if a wooden table leg is also missing a section, it might fall apart after tilting, while a refined steel table won't break no matter how it falls.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said: "Godfather, I drank Warm Spirit Soup last night, but still left my body.

I heard Painting Saint Zhang say that if you spend day and night with the Shadow Spirit Portrait, you can greatly alleviate this situation..."

This was Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's main purpose for finding Huchen.

She wanted to get back the Shadow Spirit Portrait that contained a part of her "immortal spirit."

Huchen frowned and said: "Your Shadow Spirit Portrait must be sent out.

I am only a general of the Shu Kingdom and have no say in the Great Qin court of the Southern Continent.

To push you into Xianyang and enter the Epang Palace, I must rely on Great Qin nobles.

According to my plan, after returning and discussing with the ancestors, I will send the Shadow Spirit Portrait across the Liusha River as soon as possible.

Hand the picture to the noble we are about to rely on, and then it will enter Xianyang through several turns, and be 'accidentally' seen by the Human Emperor."

"I'll use it for a few days, and after the ancestors set the grand plan, I'll hand it over." Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said.

Huchen was still a bit hesitant, "Do you know that we are leaving Hengsha Pass tomorrow morning to wait for the Marquis of Lieyang at Feixian Ferry? At least for now, the Shadow Spirit Portrait cannot let the Marquis of Lieyang know."

If the Shadow Spirit Portrait is in his hands, he will lock it up and hide it in a secret place.

If the Shadow Spirit Portrait is hung opposite Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's bed, it will be easily exposed.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu settled for the next best thing and asked: "Is there any medicine for calming the soul and strengthening the spirit that is better than Warm Spirit Soup?"

—There must be, it's just the price...

Huchen gritted his teeth and said: "After returning to Yingxiang Prefecture, I will have the pharmacist prepare Nine-Fruit Anti-Spirit Pills for you."

It has been upgraded from "soup" to "pill"!

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was full of expectation, "What is the effect of Nine-Fruit Anti-Spirit Pills?"

"It can strengthen the spirit, enhance the soul, and repair soul trauma. Warm Spirit Soup can only be considered an eighth-grade spiritual medicine, while Nine-Fruit Anti-Spirit Pills are ranked third, almost worthy of being called 'immortal pills'." Huchen said.

"So, first-grade and second-grade pills are real immortal pills?" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu asked.

Huchen was a bit embarrassed, shook his head and said: "Even a first-grade spiritual medicine is just a spiritual medicine, not a god medicine that changes destiny, and it is even further away from the immortal pills refined by immortals..."

—Then what are you saying "almost" worthy of being called immortal pills. It's so far away, how is it "almost"?

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu complained in her heart, but her face was still full of gratitude, trust, and expectation.

"Master, Master~~"

Guan Zhong started shouting from across two doors, and when he ran into the hall, he was already sweating profusely.

But his fat face was full of joy, "Daoist Qingsong is back!"

"Hmph, the Marquis of Lieyang is about to arrive at Feixian Ferry, he should be back too."

Huchen stood up and prepared to go to the Prefecture Governor's Office to find Qingsong.

When his gaze swept over Seeing Xiao Yu Yu, his heart moved, and he said: "Yu'er, I am going to the Prefecture Governor's Office now, you come with me."

"I also want to see Daoist Qingsong?" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was a bit hesitant.

Daoist boy Qingsong just looks like a blessing-sending boy, but in essence, he is a ruthless, black-bellied, and highly capable old monster.

Even Guan Huchen before revealing the "Little Li Fei Plan" and letting her have a bottom line, didn't give her as much psychological pressure as half of Qingsong.

Now, Huchen can no longer completely control her life and death. But if Daoist boy Qingsong is willing, he can still make her fate not her own, and her life and death not her own.

"Do you know what Qingsong has been busy with recently?" Huchen sneered and told the dirty business Qingsong had done.

—Xu Huier suppressing and controlling major vassal states through dragon veins and Qi Luck, while extracting talents from all directions to benefit Great Qin, how could such a Great Qin not be strong?

Even after experiencing the breaking of the dragon vein, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu still felt very emotional at this moment.

"This has something to do with Yu'er?"

If it had nothing to do with her, Huchen wouldn't have brought her over.

"I suspect Qingsong missed something, you have special cultivation talent that hasn't been discovered besides innate wisdom. If it's immortal bone..." Huchen shook his head, "It shouldn't be immortal bone. With the means of Daoist boy Qingsong, he wouldn't miss immortal bone.

Regardless of what kind of talent or innate supernatural power it is, as long as it is determined, it can be targeted for development.

It will be of great benefit to your future cultivation.

It can also increase your bargaining chip for entering Xianyang.

A future immortal maiden with deep Dao fate, even if she is extremely ugly, can enter the Human Emperor's harem."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was surprised: "Are there ugly ghost female immortals in the Epang Palace?"

Huchen rolled his eyes at her, and said unhappily: "I was just using a metaphor. The temperament and spiritual charm of an immortal maiden are in harmony with the Great Dao, just as natural and pure as famous mountains and rivers, and will only have different characteristics, it is impossible to be extremely ugly and difficult to look at."