novelraw Chapter 685: 669: Buying a Coffin Without Knowing the Way
Chapter 685: 669: Buying a Coffin Without Knowing the Way
Chapter 685: Chapter 669: Buying a Coffin Without Knowing the Way
Qin Liuxi was furious.
Sha Yuanzi, that bastard, she didn’t go looking for him, but he came to her door first looking for trouble and even hurt her people, quite arrogant indeed.
Feeling Qin Liuxi’s overpowering aura and evil spirit, Wuwei couldn’t help but move closer to Qing Yuan, fearing that this ancestor would choke and beat him.
Qin Liuxi said, “Once you’ve come to Qingping Temple, don’t just think about retiring peacefully. You need a spirit of advance. Without learning, you won’t achieve anything. Learn as much Daoist Skill as you can, and only then can you dominate in this temple, and maybe even plot to become a temple master!”
Wuwei was so startled by these rebellious words that he nearly knelt, glanced at Master Chi Yuan with shaky legs, and said, “I dare not.”
“You must dare,” Qin Liuxi said sternly. “Right now, they’ve only used a Soul Scattering Technique on you. If next time they’re in a bad mood and kill you directly, you can go reincarnate. At most, we’ll just hold a ritual for you!”
Wuwei swallowed hard, thinking who knew there would be such arrogant colleagues who dared to play dirty in the Daoist Temple.
Qin Liuxi disdainfully glanced at him and then said to Qing Yuan, “Prepare a Soul Stabilizing Talisman for him to drink.”
“Yes.”
After watching Qin Liuxi and Master Chi Yuan leave, Qing Yuan said to Wuwei, “The Junior Temple Master might be harsh, but it’s for your own good. In the path of cultivation, learn as much Daoist Skill as possible. More life-saving magic means more days to live, doesn’t it?”
Wuwei sighed, “I know that. How could I expect to end up ensnared by magic in my own Daoist Temple, and by a fellow practitioner at that?”
“He’s no fellow practitioner but a sneaky sewer rat,” Qing Yuan spat out. “Go get a Soul Stabilizing Talisman, dissolve it in water, rest well in your Daoist Room. Let others handle the rest. Although the Soul Scattering Technique is simple, the gathering and scattering of your three souls weaken your vital energy. You need to recuperate for a while. Oh, and add some incense ashes from the Grandmaster’s seat into the water when dissolving the talisman.”
Wuwei nodded in agreement.
Master Chi Yuan had just sat down in his Daoist Room when Qin Liuxi rushed in and grabbed his wrist, placing her fingers on it.
“Don’t worry, that youngster hasn’t hurt me yet,” Master Chi Yuan forced a smile.
Qin Liuxi sneered, “Oh? The Pear Blossom Needle didn’t pass through your body? That means you’re unharmed?”
Master Chi Yuan was choked, but thought better of it, deciding not to add fuel to her fire.
After feeling his pulse, Qin Liuxi asked, “Where’s the True Essence Pill?”
“Do we really need to use that?” He glanced at a row of cells holding Scripture Scrolls.
Following his gaze, Qin Liuxi walked over, examined one cell, took out a scripture scroll, and then pulled out a box from the very back. She opened it to reveal two pills the size of fingertips wrapped in honeycomb wax.
She took one pill, put the box back, then broke open the wax, and a foul smell wafted out. The dirt-yellow colored pill was nauseating to smell.
Ignoring the old man’s resistant face, Qin Liuxi brought the pill to his mouth.
Master Chi Yuan sighed, held his breath, shoved the pill into his mouth and took the water she pushed towards him to swallow it down.
Who could have imagined, this top-grade body rehabilitation True Essence Pill smelled like shit, not to mention eating it.
Tonight, he could fast.
After downing two glasses of water, Master Chi Yuan looked at Qin Liuxi, “Now that they have come knocking on our door, what do you plan to do?”
“You tidy up and go into seclusion at that small dragon vein for cultivation,” Qin Liuxi lowered her gaze, hiding the coldness in her eyes, and said, “As for Sha Yuanzi, he’s buying a coffin without knowing the way; naturally, I will show him a clear path.”
Master Chi Yuan frowned and cautiously said, “Actually, any place would do for retreat, the back mountain is also feasible.”
“The spiritual energy of the back mountain is no less than that of the small dragon vein; cultivating there would certainly be better. You can discuss other matters once your cultivation improves unless you don’t want to deal with the nuisance from Chi Zhenzi, then don’t go.”
“Should I go, will you take care of Qingping Temple?”
Qin Liuxi scoffed, “It sounds like I’m not managing it now. Every part of Qingping Temple, inside and out, has been maintained by the incense money I painstakingly earned.”
Master Chi Yuan felt somewhat guilty as he coughed and said solemnly, “Earning incense money is just incidental, let’s not talk about that. Our main focus is to accumulate merit and devote ourselves to the Dao.”
“If you dare say that in front of Grandmaster, I will be impressed even without the need to lean on a wall.”
Master Chi Yuan thought: This sharp-tongued little rascal!
He took out some Pear Blossom Needles from his sleeve and placed them on the table, “Look at these needles, they were crafted by Sha Yuanzi.”
Qin Liuxi didn’t mind his abrupt change of topic. She picked up a needle, and as yin energy entwined around it, she held it up to see the oil gleam, the tip slightly green.
She put the needle close to her nose to smell it and detected a rotting stench. She threw the needle into a cup still filled with warm water, and soon a film of oil formed on the water’s surface.
Qin Liuxi, thoroughly repulsed, flicked her fingertip and a spark fell into the cup, igniting it.
Master Chi Yuan’s forehead twitched.
“These Pear Blossom Needles, heavy with yin energy, must have been soaked in corpse oil, even nurtured on a corpse for a while. Thin as a hair, entering the body without exit, naturally, this yin energy would wreak havoc in the body,” Qin Liuxi explained.
Master Chi Yuan’s expression turned grim: “His artifact refining techniques are becoming more malicious, and even his disciples are the same. If left unchecked, who knows how many people, or even vindictive souls, could fall victim to their cruelty.”
Qin Liuxi’s gaze was cold and distant, “In time, all misdeeds will be accounted for.”
Master Chi Yuan sighed, “It’s true that both the Merit and Demerit Record and Mirror of Sin would document their sins, but by the time judgment comes many innocent people might have died.”
Qin Liuxi fell silent.
“Why have you come?”
Qin Liuxi replied, “I have taken on a patient, someone from the Northwest Quan Family, afflicted with a poison named ‘Frost Flower Bone Erosion’, concocted by a Priest named Atupu from the Turkic lands, using Red Flame Ants found only in the Black Desert. I intend to look through the Collection to find something that might countervail it.”
“When did such a priest emerge? I’ve never heard of him before,” Master Chi Yuanr said with a furrowed brow. “Even if there was an antidote in the Black Desert, do you intend to venture there yourself? That is the desert of death.”
“If there is something, and indeed there is, by then I’ll use the Ghost Path for travel, and see who in the Underworld dares to come claim my soul,” Qin Liuxi snorted.
Listening to such a haughty tone, who could manage her?
Master Chi Yuan looked at her and said, “One should never harm the innocent, it would detract from one’s merit.”
“You always urge me to accumulate merit, what exactly does this thing help me do?”
Master Chi Yuan spitefully said, “At the time of your ascension and tribulation, it could save you from lightning strikes, preventing being struck to death.”
Qin Liuxi stood up, “That’s it, we’re disbanding. You’ve cursed your disciple to death!”
Master Chi Yuan watched her leave in resentment, and with a wry shake of his head, moved to the small golden statue of Grandmaster in the room. He lit incense and reverently offered it, sighing, “No amount of merit seems enough.”