Chapter 35
Chapter 35 – Evil Poison?
Translator: Mr Voltaire
Editor: Master Shadow
The woman in white felt a tinge of goodwill blossom within her towards the youth that helped her without ulterior motives. She never got along with men, so even she herself did not notice her feelings.
"What’s wrong?" Xiao Yun asked in curiosity as he noticed her slight change in expression.
"N-Nothing," the woman in white said, feeling a bit perplexed. She avoided his gaze as she received the demonic beast meat. As she started to bite into it, she felt quite confused - why did she suddenly feel so nervous just then?
When he saw the woman in white’s strange expression, Xiao Yun also felt quite confused. However, he did not ask anymore and only silently glanced at her.
The young woman’s complexion looked much better today. Her exquisite features were able to move anyone, and combined with her flawless skin, she looked like a G.o.ddess from the Nine Heavens. There was a slight l.u.s.tre to her skin, which added to the aura around her and made her seem even more enchanting.
"Big sister s.h.i.+ Fei is peerlessly beautiful, but it’s a different sort of beauty to this woman." Xiao Yun couldn’t help but compare this young woman to Yan s.h.i.+ Fei. Both of them were exquisite beauties, but Yan s.h.i.+ Fei’s charm was one that stole souls with every look and smile.
As for this young woman, her beauty seemed otherworldly, like she was some sort of G.o.ddess. She gave off a n.o.ble air that could not be sullied. Despite this, both of these women were peerless beauties who anyone would go crazy for.
In the end, Xiao Yun only compared them, and didn’t continue thinking about this. He knew that this young woman’s background was not ordinary, and she definitely was not someone from the Moonwind Kingdom. They had only met by chance, and it was unlikely that they would ever meet again.
After slowly eating the piece of demonic beast meat, the woman in white blinked as she spoke, "This young sir, can you help me find the medicinal pills I lost?" She felt quite awkward in asking a stranger to help her. After all, they had only met coincidentally.
However, her injuries were too severe; she would not be as strong as before if she didn’t find the medicinal pills, even if her meridians fully healed. In order to regain her strength, she could only throw away her face.
Xiao Yun slightly frowned as he asked, "Find the medicinal pills? Do you know where you lost them?"
"Back then, everything happened so suddenly, so I’m not sure where the exact place is. However, it should be within that region." The woman in white frowned, then described the place where she had been ambushed by those adventurers.
After listening to the young woman’s descriptions, Xiao Yun nodded and said, "Alright, wait here for me. I’ll be back soon."
If it was anyone else looking for the medicinal pills, it would have been incredibly difficult. However, this was not the case for Xiao Yun – with his spirit energy, not even a blade of gra.s.s could escape his detection. As long as he was at the right place, it wouldn’t be too difficult for him to find the lost medicinal pills.
"Thank you for your troubles," the woman in white said with an expression of grat.i.tude on her face.
"It’s nothing," Xiao Yun said as he waved his hand. "Just be careful by yourself here."
"Mm." The woman in white nodded as Xiao Yun got up and left.
The place the woman in white described was not too far from the lake where he had met her, and he scanned his way to that place. After around half a day, Xiao Yun’s eyes lit up - his spirit energy had finally found a trace of fluctuation in Essence Qi.
There was a medicinal pill lying in some shallow gra.s.s, and a dense wave of Essence Qi wafted from it. The smell of the medicinal pill caused the air around it to become quite fragrant.
This was where the young woman had been initially attacked, and they had chased her downstream.
"Is this the medicinal pill?" Xiao Yun picked up the medicinal pill, looking at it in curiosity.
The medicinal pill was white, and the dense Essence Qi it contained swirled around it like a fog. Just breathing in some of the Essence Qi it gave off made Xiao Yun feel refreshed and comfortable. The Essence Qi it contained would be enough for an Innate realm cultivator to break through.
"No wonder she asked me to come find this medicinal pill; it’s definitely
He had heard of medicinal pills before, but had never seen them before. This was because they were simply too rare, and not just anyone could make them. Within the entire Violet Cloud County, there was only a single Pill Refiner, who was only a lowly First Rank Pill Refiner.
"After I learn pill refining, perhaps I’ll be able to refine these sorts of medicinal pills too." Xiao Yun was filled with hope and expectation.
Before, he had only heard of medicinal pills, but had never experienced them before. Now, he saw that they were truly amazing. These medicinal pills gathered much Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, and were greatly beneficial to cultivators.
"I wonder if there are any other medicinal pills around here," Xiao Yun muttered to himself as he continued to scan around.
According to the young woman, she had taken out a medicinal pill from the bottle when she was attacked. That meant there should be a bottle of medicinal pills around here.
However, despite looking around with his spirit energy for 2 hours, he didn’t find the bottle or any other pills.
"Looks like I won’t be able to find the other medicinal pills." Xiao Yun felt quite disappointed, and hurriedly returned. There were countless demonic beasts and adventurers within this mountain, and it would be dangerous to leave the young woman by herself for too long.
As the sun set, the sky was dyed with a beautiful l.u.s.tre, and the tree leaves were covered with an amber glow as the evening wind blew.
Within the cave, the woman in white continued to rest. By now, most of her meridians had recovered, and some of her broken bones were slowly healing. However, she had been injured too heavily, and had even injured her foundation. Her Essence Qi was almost depleted, and she had no idea when she could fully recover.
"If I don’t have enough medicinal pills, let alone my full strength, I might not even be able to recover enough to deal with a True Essence realm cultivator." After looking over her condition, the woman in white sighed in frustration as she finally opened her eyes.
Even if she cultivated now, it would be of no use.
"I hope he can find those medicinal pills," the young woman muttered to herself. Her eyelashes fluttered as she looked towards the entrance of the cave. It was now dusk, and getting quite dark, with cold wind blowing in from outside.
"It’s been so long; why isn’t he back yet?" The young woman frowned, feeling a bit worried for some reason. "Could it be that he’s left me behind and went off by himself?" When she thought this, an indescribable sense of sadness swept through her heart.
This young woman would not have felt this way before about being left behind by a youth she hardly knew. However, without her knowing it, Xiao Yun had become her support. After what she experienced 2 days ago, her heart had become quite weak.
After falling into these hard times, she couldn’t even deal with Innate realm experts!
She suddenly heard footsteps from the distance.
"Is he back?" The woman in white smiled, her sadness instantly disappearing. She quickly walked to the entrance of the cave with some hope in her heart.
However, when she reached the entrance, she couldn’t help but frown.
The sounds of footsteps became clearer, and after listening carefully, she found that there were multiple people.
"There is definitely more than 1 person. Could it be other people?" The woman in white felt quite anxious. She quickly hid within the cave – after the things she had gone through, she couldn’t help but be careful.
After the woman in white hid within the cave, a group of cultivators arrived outside. The lower parts of their clothing had a wolf’s head embroidered on it – evidently, they were adventurers as well.
"There’s a cave ahead." The group of people immediately saw the cave in front of them.
"It looks like someone’s been staying in there." These people were quite eagle-eyed, and immediately noticed that the gra.s.s and plants around there had been disturbed.
"Eh, why’s there some sort of fragrance? Is there a woman nearby?" The man at the head of the party’s eyes flashed as an evil smile appeared on his face. He muttered, "It’s so hard to find a woman in the depths of this mountain!"
"A woman?" Hearing this, all of the other men’s eyes lit up. These men had been on this mountain for more than 1 month; they desperately needed ‘release’!
"Let’s go and see." A sinister expression appeared on the leader’s face, chilling intent in his eyes. The most striking feature about him was that he had scars on his face. He waved his hand and led the rest of the adventurers forwards, planning to have a look at the cave.
This man’s cultivation was at the late stage of the Innate realm, and he also had a few close lackeys who were also in the Innate realm. Within the adventurer groups, they were a moderately-powerful faction.
"G.o.ddamit." Within the cave, the woman in white heard the adventurers walking towards the entrance, and her heart tightened. "I’m still incredibly weak; if they enter the cave, I definitely won’t be able to put up a fight against them."
After thinking for a moment, the woman in white made a decision. "I’ll run!"
Just as the adventurers reached the entrance, she held her sword and rushed out from the cave.
"There was someone inside!"
"What a beautiful woman; is she a G.o.ddess?" The adventurers’ eyes lit up, expressions of pa.s.sion appearing on their faces.
"Chase after her; don’t let her get away!" the leader yelled as he hurriedly ran after her.
"I hope I’ll find him," the woman in white thought as she looked around, running in the direction Xiao Yun had left in.
Right now, she could only hope that she would run into the youth.
However, after the young woman had run only around a thousand metres, the adventurers caught up to her. "Haha, girly, you can’t get away." Although her meridians had mostly healed, she had not yet fully recovered, and even running took up much of her strength.
In just a short while, she was completely surrounded.
"Don’t come over, or I’ll die right here." Seeing that she had been surrounded, a look of despair appeared in the woman’s eyes as she prepared to slit her own throat. Right now, it would be difficult for her to fight even cultivators of the Ninth Layer of Body Tempering – she had no chance against these Innate realm cultivators.
As such, she could only choose death.
The young woman’s voice was pleasant and beautiful, but it contained a sense of dreariness and desolation.
"Die?" The leader frowned.
The others also frowned. "Boss, what do we do? That girl is quite hot-tempered."
"Haha, it’s good if she has a hot temper. Your elder likes the fiery ones." The leader suddenly gave an evil smile as he said, "Heheh, I just bought a type of medicine called ‘Pleasure Powder’. No matter how unyielding a woman is, as long as she breathes in even a bit, she’ll lose her mind."
"Haha, I want to see what this G.o.ddess-like beauty will be like after taking the medicine."
The man gave a savage smile as he took out a bottle of powdered medicine.
"What? Poison?" The woman in white’s heart sank. The man was evidently talking about some sort of evil poison!