Chapter 57: Consumables

"Evil Man City?"

She looked up at Shen Yu, not expecting him to ask about Evil Man City right off the bat. Could it be that he was the same as her?

You couldn't tell by looking; this scholar looked like a decent person, yet who would have thought he was just as heinous as she was? Otherwise, he wouldn't be thinking of seeking shelter in Evil Man City.

However, the person before her was too terrifying. Her little bit of Charm Technique had always been foolproof in the past. Even those elders of so-called righteous sects sometimes couldn't withstand it.

But now, she had hit a wall in front of this young man. Not only was it of no use, but she had also suffered a significant backlash herself.

Mei Liuniang fully believed that if it weren't for the fact that she might still have some utility, she would likely have died from that last encounter.

Why had she ended up in this state today? It was all because she had provoked someone she shouldn't have. Therefore, facing such an expert, she was cautious to the extreme.

"Senior, this junior does not yet know the location of Evil Man City, but this junior believes that it won't be long before Evil Man City comes looking for me!"

Regarding this point, Mei Liuniang was quite confident. Everyone who entered Evil Man City was ruthless and wicked enough.

Only by letting the people of Evil Man City see her ruthlessness and strength would they be willing to accept her.

Her strength was decent, and she certainly didn't lack ruthlessness. Over the years, the number of so-called experts who had died at her hands was at least eight hundred, if not a thousand. As for the common rabble, they were countless; even she couldn't remember them all.

"You are the Poison Scorpion Mei, you really did flee here!"

Just then, Gu Yutong, who was beside Shen Yu, suddenly spoke, not forgetting to look her up and down.

Mei Liuniang—she had found the name familiar when it was mentioned just now, though she hadn't dared to be certain at first. Now, matching it with the rumors, that Charm Technique, that acting, wasn't it her?

It was a pity she had let her sympathy run wild just now; no wonder so many men had been deceived. These methods were truly impossible to guard against.

"Poison Scorpion? That fierce person who fought seven or eight people alone?"

At this, even Shen Yu couldn't help but become interested. He knew this woman wasn't simple, but he hadn't expected her to be the notorious Poison Scorpion.

This was a legendary figure. It was said she came from an ordinary background, originally just a little girl in a mountain village. She was naive and innocent, with little experience of the world.

One day, while gathering wild fruits and vegetables on the mountain, she accidentally saved a man who had been severely injured, which also began her tumultuous half-life.

Supposedly, a beauty saving a hero should have become a beautiful story. Unfortunately, the person she saved was no hero, but a flower-plucking thief despised by everyone, and one without any bottom line at that.

This flower-plucking thief didn't have much strength and was a half-baked practitioner; he likely obtained some inheritance from somewhere, gaining a set of Illusion Technique and a Cultivation Method for Yin-Yang Harmony.

Instead of diligently practicing the method he had obtained, this person had crooked ideas, forcibly turning the Yin-Yang Harmony bedroom arts into a Harvesting Technique, and began to constantly harm decent women.

This method of rapidly increasing strength, once started, could never be stopped, and one would only sink deeper and deeper.

As he harmed more and more people, he gradually gained some notoriety and was hunted by those so-called heroes of the Jianghu.

This bastard looked like a soft persimmon with no real strength, and he did the most despicable work—if you didn't mess with him, who would you mess with?

If he hadn't run fast, he probably would have been beaten to death on the spot. Of course, if he hadn't met Mei Liuniang later, he wouldn't have survived either.

As it turned out, he was ungrateful. After recovering from his injuries, this flower-plucking thief gradually revealed his true nature and began to prey on the pure and lovely young girl, Mei Liuniang.

Mei Liuniang's family tried to stop him when they saw it, but how could they be a match for a martial arts expert? As a result, all six members of her family were killed, except for Mei Liuniang. At that time, she wasn't called Mei Liuniang, but she changed her name to Mei Liuniang because of her family's death.

She wanted to remind herself that because of her momentary kindness, she had harmed six members of her family.

After ruining Mei Liuniang's purity, the flower-plucking thief prepared to drain her dry using the Harvesting Technique—even a mosquito is meat, after all. He was injured, so he didn't mind that the mosquito meat was small.

Yet, he didn't expect that Mei Liuniang's constitution was extremely special, as if born for this Harvesting Technique. As a result, the harvesting failed, and he was drained dry by her instead.

Afterward, Mei Liuniang began to practice the cultivation method she had obtained from the flower-plucking thief.

Perhaps to take revenge on all the men in the world, or perhaps because she was similarly addicted to the Harvesting Technique that allowed one to gain without working, the once innocent and naive mountain village girl fell into depravity.

The perfectly fine Yin-Yang Harmony method was turned into a Harvesting Technique of Harvesting Yin to Replenish Yang and Harvesting Yang to Replenish Yin by the flower-plucking thief and Mei Liuniang.

One wonders if the person who created this technique back then would be angry enough to curse.

Later, Mei Liuniang relied on her beauty to constantly maneuver among numerous experts. She actually managed to understand seven or eight out of ten of the martial arts mental cultivation methods she hadn't understood before.

Then, relying on her Charm Technique and the means of Harvesting Yang to Replenish Yin, she thrived in the Jianghu.

At first, she knew how to restrain herself, only harvesting internal energy without harming lives. But as her strength grew, Mei Liuniang became increasingly unscrupulous.

Of course, there was also the reason that it became harder to improve her internal energy the further she went, so she would squeeze anyone she caught.

In short, for the later Mei Liuniang, once she found a target and tricked them into bed, there was never any man heard of who could walk out of her bed alive.

The most impressive time, it was said that this Mei Liuniang fought in the wild with seven or eight experts at once, and after one night, she had sucked all seven or eight of them into dried husks.

This special constitution was truly not just talk. Mei Liuniang became famous in one battle, and the name Poison Scorpion spread far and wide, making people hate her to the point of gnashing their teeth, yet unable to resist wanting to see her.

Heh, men!

However, Mei Liuniang's strength was not weak, and she was ruthless. She usually dealt lethal blows to those who dared to hunt her, and she left no one alive, not even the old or young of their families.

Therefore, gradually, few people dared to offend her easily. But she shouldn't have, absolutely shouldn't have, become so arrogant as to dare to strike at a major power.

Once, she encountered a young expert and used all her skills to trick him into bed, but she didn't expect that person to be a direct descendant of the He family, one of the eight great clans of the world.

Once someone ended up in Mei Liuniang's bed, how could they possibly walk out alive? This was poking a hornet's nest.

The He family was furious and directly issued a kill order, while simultaneously pressuring the imperial court to have the Capture Gate speed up their pursuit, insisting that such a person who brought chaos to the Jianghu must be punished with the iron fist of justice.

Mei Liuniang also knew she had caused trouble. Previously, few people had moved against her because she hadn't provoked anyone she shouldn't have, which was why she had thrived.

But this time, just because of one He family member, she was reduced to a situation where everyone shouted to beat her.

You say you're usually reckless, but to actually dare to lay hands on a He family member—wasn't that just asking for trouble?

For a time, Mei Liuniang was almost at a dead end. Finally, she exhausted all her schemes and disguises to flee to Xiaozhou, after which she disappeared completely.

Some said she had been killed, others said she had entered Evil Man City, so the He family could do nothing to her; in short, there were many different opinions in the Jianghu.

Yet, she hadn't entered Evil Man City at all, but had been hiding in Xiaozhou for a while, concealing herself to create the illusion that she had entered Evil Man City.

Waiting until those hunting her lost patience and left Xiaozhou, she dared to come out and continue her activities.

But it seemed her strength and status couldn't catch the eye of Evil Man City, so until now, no one had come to find her or lead her into Evil Man City.

Having no other choice, Mei Liuniang used various means every day in the city to seduce those with relatively strong power, partly to improve her strength, and partly to attract the attention of Evil Man City.

Who would have thought that instead of attracting Evil Man City, she had invited a massive iron plate that slapped her right in the face.

For a moment, sorrow welled up in Mei Liuniang's heart; this period of time for her had truly been bitter!