Chapter 422: The Priestess's Goal Is Qingluo!

Dad, dad?

Pan Li, no, it was Shi Er Niang softly calling in the dim room.

Li Qingluo looked at her.

She said bitterly, "I have long recognized them."

But outwardly, she only calls them godfather and godmother.

This secret, only we know.

Li Qingluo nodded heavily, indicating she understood.

Beside her, Ms. Guan wiped her swollen, red eyes.

The three rose and walked outward, while Luo Fan only then carried a box and went inside.

Pei Yuan could no longer be awakened by shouting.

Even water could not be forced in.

At the Princess Residence, the great warhorse entered the palace two days ago to help summon an imperial physician.

But even the imperial physician was at a loss.

"What is happening to your Pei family?"

"One after another..."

"Sigh, we have no method either; you should seek another expert."

Unable to discern the cause, even administering strong medicine to force the person back would only keep them conscious for another quarter hour.

After a quarter hour, the person would be like an oil lamp suddenly blown out.

Completely departing this world.

The imperial physician left after saying those words.

This completely terrified Ms. Guan; in a daze, Shi Er Niang hurriedly wrote a letter to Li Qingluo.

She had also heard from the Pei family that the Li family has a divine physician who might have a solution.

Although Li Qingluo was not in the city, she quickly brought people over.

Now the whole courtyard was dead and silent; even the servants dared not make loud sounds.

"Qingluo, they say our Pei family is cursed."

"Could it be true?"

"Several paternal uncles have died in succession."

"And two cousins..."

"All like dad, suddenly fell gravely ill and could not be saved."

"Could it really be my dad's turn?"

Ms. Guan thought of the blue thread on her husband's wrist and turned pale.

"Is it that... thread?"

Li Qingluo knew the inside story but could not explain it clearly to them.

She raised her hand and wiped the tear streaks from Shi Er Niang's face.

"Don't worry, let Grandpa Luo take a look first to see if he has a method."

Shi Er Niang: "I have just been buried."

"If dad goes again, what about my mom?"

"Qingluo, how could I not be anxious?"

After Zu Li Ya died, Pei Yuan received news from Prince Su's manor.

Only after the true murderer of Shi Er Niang was dead and the coffin containing her, which had been placed in the Dali Temple, was finally lowered did the burial occur.

Turning his head, Pei Yuan collapsed again.

This wretched family of three, as if Heaven deliberately torments them.

Luo Fan emerged quickly.

He gave Li Qingluo a worried look and shook his head, "I can only temporarily steady his pulse, at most buying three more days."

"We still need Dong Siyuan and the sect leader Jin Hua; only then might there be a sliver of hope."

Upon hearing there was even a sliver of hope, Shi Er Niang's eyes showed a glimmer.

She clutched Li Qingluo tightly, "Qingluo, please save my dad."

Li Qingluo: "But the Pei family, they let you come to beg me?"

Shi Er Niang, knowing she could no longer hide it, nodded, "Yes. It was Pei Jingzhe; he said only you have a way to save my dad!"

Li Qingluo felt a lump of breath in her chest.

She had long guessed it.

But the Pei family's manipulative attitude still filled her with anger.

Shi Er Niang's knees softened and she knelt, "I know, I shouldn't have pressured you like they did."

"But Qingluo, I have no other way."

"I cannot watch my dad die right before my eyes."

"So when Brother Jingzhe said you have a method, I could only turn to you."

Ms. Guan also knelt.

"Miss Li, I, your humble servant, know that we have already done our utmost for Shi Er Niang's tragedy."

"Now we must again humbly trouble you; regardless of the outcome, we ask you to help us once more!"

"Your great benevolence, we will never forget for all our lives—"

Li Qingluo stepped forward and helped up Gu Shi and Shi'erniang's mother and daughter.

"This is what I should do."

"Friends helping each other need not say too much."

"However, I cannot guarantee it; I can only do my best."

"Shi'erniang, take good care of your parents."

After saying that, Li Qingluo quickly left the Pei family's small courtyard with Luo Fan.

Returning to Xiuli Jiangjun Fu, Li Qingluo rummaged through chests and cabinets, pulling things out.

"Miss, what are you doing pulling these things out?"

Zheng Mama looked puzzled at the box Li Qingluo was holding in her hands.

Those were exactly the treasures that Zayna had originally left for Li Qingluo.

Li Qingluo: "Where is Jin Yun now? Do you know?"

Zheng Mama: "They say she lives in Bright Tower."

"The sect leader of MiaoJiang is really strange."

"The Old Lady previously said she would give her half of the family wealth, and it was sincere. Miss, after you detox, we will present the Token, but she actually said she doesn't want it and just refuses."

"Perhaps she still doesn't understand what half of the Old Lady's Heavenly Wind Trading Company's wealth means."

Li Qingluo looked at the box in her hand: "What could truly move her heart might not be money at all."

However, it is already curfew outside now.

Moreover, the night is already deep.

So Li Qingluo decided to go to Bright Tower again tomorrow to look for Jin Yun.

She placed the box on the bedside: "Grandma, tomorrow you and Kill One will accompany me to Bright Tower."

Zheng Mama: "Yes."

Li Qingluo had just lain down when she suddenly felt a slight prickling pain behind her shoulder.

She reached out to touch the Hudie mark.

The infant gu corpse inside her body has not yet been removed.

Jin Yun said that some will digest themselves inside the body.

That's why Li Qingluo didn't take it to heart.

But what just happened?

Could it be her illusion?

After Zheng Mama left, she sat up again.

Facing the mirror, she slowly took off the clothing on her shoulder, but even after disinfecting the small knife, Li Qingluo could not measure the exact position no matter how she tried.

Forget it, let's wait until Que'er returns to talk about it.

Thinking that, she then tossed aside the dagger and lay down again.

That sleep, she slept extremely deeply.

When she woke up again, the sun looked wrong again.

Li Qingluo hurriedly called Cui Er in: "How long have I slept? What time is it now?"

Cui Er came over with tea: "Miss, it is already noon."

Noon?

From the time she fell asleep last night, she actually slept another full seven double-hours?

"You all, you can't wake me again?"

Cui Er said worriedly: "Miss, the Luo Shen doctor has examined you again, and the Old Lady also came by. Do you really feel nothing at all?"

Li Qingluo shook her head.

She didn't even have any dreams.

She merely felt herself in a pitch-black darkness, extremely relaxed.

But this situation has been happening more and more often.

It occurs every three to five days.

Moreover, her duration of deep sleep is getting longer and longer.

Li Qingluo felt deeply uneasy, feeling that this strange matter on her body was becoming more and more troublesome.

Moreover, even Grandfather Luo is at a loss.

"Miss, should we inform the Old Lady?"

Li Qingluo thought of the matters at hand, yet still got up first.

"Just tell Grandmother I've woken up. Zheng Mama? Let her hurry over and go out with me."

Cui Er: "Yes."

Zheng Mama came over and picked up the case; Kill One had already been waiting at the front gate of the front courtyard.

When Li Qingluo came out, he hurriedly said: "Miss, Qishan has already been surrounded."

Li Qingluo: "Understood, let's go."

Yesterday Duan Rongshi went to Qishan, so there we just need to follow the plan; Li Qingluo is not worried.

As for the Pei family's affairs, she actually doesn't want to manage them either.

But she indeed took over the Night Slayer Sect.

And now, the Kill group are using things very smoothly.

Moreover, she cannot bear to see the father of the Twelfth Lady, Pei Yuan, die before her eyes.

So, Li Qingluo could only make a trip to Bright Tower to see Jin Yun.

Whatever she wants, as long as I can give it, can be traded.

Bright Tower.

Dong Siyuan had just been beaten and came tumbling down the stairs, head in hands, and all the gifts he brought were thrown all over the floor by A Lan and A Duo.

Before he could even get up, he ran into Li Qingluo coming toward him.

"Oh dear. Miss, you've finally come. Please, do me a favor and say a few kind words to this young lady for me!"

Li Qingluo: "What kind words?"

Dong Siyuan: "At least let her accept the things I've sent her."

"These are all good things that MiaoJiang doesn't have!"

Li Qingluo: "I won't say."

"I don't want to provoke her."

Jin Yun's methods and abilities absolutely do not belong to Zulya.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have so easily noticed the power of the Hudie gu.

Against such a powerful gu master, Li Qingluo naturally would avoid offending her if possible.

Dong Siyuan wore a bitter expression: "What can I do then?"

Li Qingluo: "Does she want to capture you and take you back, or has she poisoned you with gu?"

Dong Siyuan covered his face: "If that's really the case, then it's still talkable. I just want to sincerely apologize to her, but she now refuses even to see me."

Li Qingluo could see that these two still cared deeply for each other.

Otherwise, upon meeting again they would be strangers who have forgotten each other in the jianghu, rather than still being entangled as they are now.

"But what good would an apology do?"

"You abandoned her back then; that's already a fixed harm and fact. An apology cannot make up for all these years lost."

"You'd better think about how to move her with sincerity; she will surely feel it."

Having said that, Li Qingluo brought Sha Yi and Zheng Mama upstairs.

Heavenly Room Number One, in the most luxurious guest room of Bright Tower.

After Li Qingluo entered, A Lan and A Duo immediately asked Zheng Mama and Sha Yi to follow them out.

"Miss..."

Zheng Mama hesitated, looking toward her master.

Sha Yi also looked over.

Li Qingluo nodded at them: "Go out."

Sha Yi: "I'll be waiting outside the door."

Li Qingluo: "No need. Just wait at the stairwell."

Li Qingluo believed Jin Yun would not harm her; otherwise, there would be no need to so quickly dispel the Hudie gu that causes excruciating pain.

After everyone had left the room, Jin Yun then came out from the inner chamber.

"The Princess of Yaoguang has arrived."

"Please have a seat."

Li Qingluo: "Senior, just call me Qingluo."

Saying this, she sat down and pushed the box in her hands toward Jin Yun.

"Senior, please take a look at what's inside."

Jin Yun hesitated a moment, then half-believing, half-doubting, opened the box and flipped through it casually.

"This...?"

After casually picking up a sheet of paper and glancing at it, she suddenly widened her eyes: "Where did you get these things?"

Li Qingluo: "It's the notes left by Zha Yina for me, the junior, and also the fruit of her many years of hard work."

"Senior, you have saved my life, and also saved the entire Wan Jia Village."

"I heard you don't care for wealth, but I think keeping these things for myself would be of little use; if you like them, Senior, please accept them as a gift."

Jin Yun was indeed tempted.

But she lifted her head to look at Li Qingluo and said, "But I, I want you more."