Chapter 66: Lu Qingluo has returned!

Jin Xiao clasped his fists and said: "Yes!"

Forcibly suppressing the anger in his heart, Li Xun glanced at the miserable Fang Xu before him and said: "How did you obtain this letter?"

Fang Xu clasped his fists and said: "Reporting to Young Master... that day after I was captured, that witch brought me to a cave and implanted a kind of worm inside my body."

"Just when I thought my life was over, the worm seemed to have had its fill and crawled out on its own."

"I found that letter in that cave."

He had already thought up these excuses on the way to the government office.

The witch's methods were strange; he guessed Li Xun wouldn't know all about worms, so Fang Xu casually made up this lie.

"You're rather lucky."

Li Xun indeed had no doubt about his words, and casually took a crimson pill from his satchel and handed it to Fang Xu, saying: "This is a fourth-grade Blood Qi Pill."

"In consideration of you bringing this Young Master such important news, I reward you with it."

"As for whether you can survive, that depends on your own fortune."

"Fourth-grade Blood Qi Pill!?"

Fang Xu stared in surprise at the pill in Li Xun's hand.

The Wu family's ancestor Wu Huan spent half his life refining Blood Qi Pills, and could only occasionally produce a second-grade one.

Li Xun pulls out a fourth-grade one right away; it seems the imperial family has many high-level pill masters.

"Thank you, Young Master!"

For Fang Xu, the fourth-grade Blood Qi Pill is undoubtedly very precious; his scheme was merely to dispel Li Xun's suspicions of him and, incidentally, to get rid of Wu Huan.

He hadn't expected to also gain such a benefit.

"Go back now; if you don't die, rest a few days then come find this Young Master." Li Xun waved his hand and said.

Fang Xu hastily clasped his fists and then tremblingly returned home.

Whoosh—

Extreme weakness made him very unaccustomed.

However, this state must be maintained for several days; otherwise, recovering too quickly will surely arouse Li Xun's suspicion.

On the bed, Fang Xu sat cross-legged, took one of the twelve second-grade Blood Qi Pills he had previously obtained from a hidden compartment under the bed, and swallowed it.

He forcibly controlled his starving cells throughout his body, preventing them from absorbing this Blood Qi Power, and with his consciousness guided the power into the hidden reserve of the second aperture.

Having advanced to Martial Disciple Second Realm for some time, the chaotic qi within the second aperture remains less than one-fifth; Fang Xu hopes to use this time to make a breakthrough.

Currently the situation is unpredictable; relying on wit and scheming to get by is never secure; only by raising his own strength can he cope with any sudden changes.

After a night of cultivation, the chaotic qi in the hidden reserve of the second aperture is now less than one-tenth.

The released reserve energy did not give Fang Xu much noticeable feeling; largely because his own qi and blood are severely depleted, he cannot effectively use Blood Qi Power to integrate this power into himself.

Fortunately, this situation is only temporary; once his own qi and blood power replenishes, everything will return to normal.

After daylight broke, Fang Xu did not go to the courtyard to cultivate.

Chu Mu rose early, prepared breakfast, and curiously came to Fang Xu's room; seeing the bone-thin figure on the bed, she was frightened pale.

"Fang Xu older brother!?"

She called out cautiously, and Chu Mu, worried, wheeled her wheelchair to Fang Xu's side.

"'Mu.' Waking from his cultivation state, Fang Xu gave a faint smile."

But at this moment his whole face is skin and bones; smiling makes him look especially gaunt.

"\"Fang Xu older brother, what's wrong with you? \" Chu Mu said, full of worry."

Fang Xu shook his head: "Nothing, it's due to cultivation; I'll recover in a few days."

Hearing this, Chu Mu let out a slight sigh of relief.

"\"That's good if it's nothing; I've prepared the meal and will bring it to you, older brother. \" Chu Mu said, then turned her wheelchair to go bring the food to Fang Xu."

"\"No need for that trouble. \" Fang Xu quickly rose, went behind Chu Mu and pushed her, saying: \"I've only lost some weight; I can still move. \""

Last night's cultivation, although he desperately tried to stop his body from absorbing Blood Qi Power, a small amount was still absorbed by his cells, and he actually recovered considerable strength, no longer looking like he might die at any moment as he did the previous night.

Together with Chu Mu they came to the courtyard; Fang Xu quickly washed up and then brought out the food.

The stockpiled blood food in the kitchen has run out; the remaining low-grade blood food amounts to only a few hundred catties, nowhere near enough for two people to eat several meals.

He himself could subsist on Blood Qi Pills, but Chu Mu is now at a critical stage of recovery and must have a steady supply of blood food.

Before, he had planned to go into the mountains to bring back the carcasses of the ferocious beasts he had hidden.

But later, after following Li Xun into the mountains to investigate the witch, suffering an ambush and then being pursued by those martial artists, he never had the chance to retrieve them.

Fang Xu estimates that those ferocious beasts' carcasses have probably been completely eaten by other ferocious beasts.

Now in Fenglin Town, Lu Zhiyuan has been arrested, the blood food shop is closed; to obtain blood food one must either buy it from other towns or go into the mountains to hunt oneself.

The Wu family's bounty should still be active; we might as well wait a bit longer on this matter.

After accompanying Chu Mu to finish breakfast, Fang Xu threw himself back into his room to continue cultivating; he intends to refine the chaotic qi in the space of the second aperture into ten thousand today, then breakthrough to Martial Disciple Third Realm!

Noon.

Two swift horses appeared on the official road from Qinghe County to Fenglin Town.

On the back of one of the swift horses was indeed Lu Qingluo, who had left Fenglin Town a few days ago; the other rider was a young man whose visage bore some resemblance to Yun Wan.

"\"How much farther? \" the young man asked, frowning slightly."

Lu Qingluo looked ahead at the road and replied: \"Not far; at most another hour and we'll reach Fenglin Town. \"

The young man said nothing, lashing the horse's back hard with his whip, increasing the speed a bit more.

The two had come all the way from Huangzhou Prefecture, each having already ridden several fine horses to death; the two horses beneath them were just exchanged in Qinghe County city.

On the night Yun Wan disappeared, Li Xun pondered for a long time and ultimately wrote a letter to the Huangzhou Yun family about this matter.

The dangers of the Ti Lan Shan ruins, Yun Wan's father Yun Tianming had long learned from his brother Yun Tianhe.

The daughter secretly went to explore the ruins of Blue Lift Mountain, which made Yun Tianming very worried. Just as he was preparing to send someone personally to Maple Forest Town to inform his sister Yun Jin, Lu Qingluo arrived at Yellow Prefecture carrying Yun Wan's jade pendant.

As a direct descendant of the Yun family, Yun Wan's younger brother Yun Qing simply did not believe his sister would act so impulsively. After seeing the jade pendant in Lu Qingluo's hand, he kept pestering his father, insisting on personally coming to Maple Forest Town to have a look.

First, he wanted to understand what his sister was really thinking; second, since his sister had promised to protect whoever possessed the jade pendant, he also wanted to come himself to help Lu Qingluo resolve this trouble.

By the time it was Shen hour, the two finally arrived outside Maple Forest Town.

Looking at the town from afar, Lu Qingluo couldn't help but think of her father and Li Yunshan again; the two had been taken away by people from the Ascension Immortal Society, and now she didn't know how they were faring.

And Fang Xu...

In these few days that I've been away, I wonder whether the Wu family's ancestral elder will take action— is he still alive now?

"What are you thinking, Miss Lu?" Yun Qing said, glancing at the worry on Lu Qingluo's face.

"No... nothing, I'm just worried about my junior martial brother."

"The Wu family's ancestral elder is a third-level Martial Master; once he acts without reservation..."

"Pfft!" Yun Qing snorted disdainfully: "A third-level Martial Master?"

"Miss Lu, please take me to the Wu family to have a look." Although his talent is not as good as his sister's, he is now also a seventh-level Martial Master.

To wipe out a mere martial artist with depleted qi and blood, only possessing third-level Martial Master level, can be said to require no effort at all.

"Go now?" Lu Qingluo said, slightly startled: "But..."

"Never mind the 'buts'; let's settle the Wu family quickly—I still need to go find my sister." Yun Qing patted the horse's back and strode straight ahead.

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