Xuanxia

Chapter 14 Hua Xiaolan

In the cell, Fu Qingzhou was sweating profusely and panting heavily. He leaned against the wall, so tired that he could hardly open his eyes.

What the Smoker said was right. It was very difficult and dangerous to continuously open up the martial acupoints in such a short period of time...

When he opened up the Ren Meridian just now, it was going smoothly at the beginning, but when he reached one-third of the way through, the spiritual energy he could guide was greatly reduced, his spirit was obviously exhausted, and the speed and force of the impact were severely weakened.

After gritting his teeth and breaking through two more orifices, Fu Qingzhou was no longer able to continue. Seeing that he was about to fail and suffer backlash, the Smoker came out cursing.

It told Fu Qingzhou not to just use brute force to break through the barrier, but to learn to let the spiritual energy flow back and forth rhythmically like breathing, and then accumulate strength again to attack... Under its guidance, Fu Qingzhou recovered and finally broke through the barrier successfully, advancing to the third level of Wuqiao.

"Damn it! You tricked me out of my secret acupuncture technique!"

The Smoker said angrily, "Thousand-Layered Waves! This is the acupuncture technique that I learned after spending two months in seclusion in the sea!"

Fu Qingzhou smiled weakly: "If I don't teach you today, I will teach you tomorrow. Stop talking nonsense."

"Humph……"

The Smoker said coldly: "You are already in the third realm now. If you don't practice internal skills, your realm will be stuck here forever. What do you want me to teach you?"

Fu Qingzhou raised his eyebrows: "What kind of internal strength do you have?"

"Nine-turn Styx Divine Art." The smoker laughed and said, "This is my most powerful technique, which contains the great principles of life and death. I can rely on this to keep my soul immortal after death!"

Fu Qingzhou yawned: "It sounds spooky, I don't want to become like you, I won't practice."

The Smoker was startled. "Then I also have a 'Xuanyun Dafa', which follows a moderate and peaceful approach. It becomes more powerful in the later stages and can be combined with almost any other martial arts. It was one of the most powerful martial arts of my time."

Fu Qingzhou scratched his ears: "It has no characteristics at all, I won't practice it."

"you!"

The Smoker was furious: "Okay! There is one more! The Ten Thousand Spirits Sword Forging Technique! It can help you cultivate the Tiangang Sword Body, which can be said to be invincible in the same realm! Then you will be the strongest sword fairy in the world!"

Fu Qingzhou picked his nose: "Hmm... sounds good."

The smoker was overjoyed: "Okay, okay! Then I will teach you the formula now..."

"But I still don't want to practice."

Fu Qingzhou flicked his booger away and interrupted it: "The swordsman is handsome, but he's too pretentious. Change him to another one."

"Do you think I'm the Sutra Library?" The Smoker was furious: "There are only a few good techniques. If you don't practice, you'll lose them!"

Fu Qingzhou smiled and said, "Then don't practice."

The Smoker was stunned at first, then quickly calmed down and sneered, "I see, you are still afraid that I will tamper with the technique."

"That's right." Fu Qingzhou admitted generously: "I'm also very tired now, so don't worry, we can talk about it later."

The smoker snorted coldly, but there was nothing he could do as he was the one being controlled.

At this moment, it suddenly changed its tone and reminded: "Boy, there is a little thing with bad intentions at your feet."

Fu Qingzhou exclaimed and looked down.

I saw a small purple scorpion that had entered the cell at some point and was moving silently through the hay without making any sound. It was only a few inches away from me.

He frowned. If it was anywhere else, it would be fine, but this was the Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain. Who didn't know that the elders and disciples here raised countless poisonous insects? If he was stung by this little thing, he would probably suffer a great punishment.

So he raised his foot and subconsciously wanted to step on the little scorpion to death.

But just before his foot landed, a flash of inspiration suddenly occurred to Fu Qingzhou's mind.

Not long ago, the Miao youth said that he was testing himself on behalf of others and he would soon know whether what he said was true or false.

If the elders or the traitors in the Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain wanted to kill me, they would have done it at the foot of the mountain. Why wait until now? I don't think they released this little scorpion.

So... was it released by the Miao youth and the people he represented?
In this case, it was not to kill me, but... for other purposes. All thoughts flashed through his mind in a flash, and Fu Qingzhou quietly put his foot down, allowing the purple scorpion to approach his feet.

"Why don't you step on it to death?" the smoker asked in confusion.

Fu Qingzhou ignored it and watched the little scorpion suddenly extend its tail with a sharp poisonous needle, which pierced through his trouser leg and into his skin.

The smoker was shocked: "You are sick! If you want to die, tell me and I will take your body away!"

"I know you are anxious, but don't be anxious yet." Fu Qingzhou said lightly.

After stinging him, the little scorpion scurried into the hay and disappeared, leaving a small red dot on his calf where it was stung. It didn't look serious, just like a mosquito bite.

Then he looked inside himself and felt a faint poison spreading through his blood. It spread throughout his body in a very short time, but he did not feel anything special and did not feel uncomfortable.

At this moment, a female voice like a silver bell came from outside the cell: "What's your name?"

Fu Qingzhou was startled. Just as he was about to ask a question, he answered unconsciously, "Fu Qingzhou."

He understood instantly, wow, this is not poison at all, it's actually truth serum!

As expected, the female voice asked again: "Why do you want to go to Wandu Mountain?"

"To remove the curse on me and save my own life."

Fu Qingzhou spoke out uncontrollably.

"Huh? Is it really to break the curse?"

After a light exclamation, a beautiful figure floated into sight.

The woman outside the cell was a Miao girl of about fifteen or sixteen years old. She was dressed in colorful Miao clothes and wore gorgeous silver jewelry on her head. She was different from the simple attire of the Miao female disciples of Wandu Mountain that Fu Qingzhou had seen before, and she seemed to be of higher status.

She looked very cute, with an indescribable cunning in her big, lively eyes, like a kitten planning something bad.

The small purple scorpion that had just stung someone was now leisurely squatting on her shoulder - it was obvious that she was the one who released the scorpion.

"you are?"

Fu Qingzhou narrowed his eyes: "You poisoned me to force me to tell the truth?"

"Yes, you will be fine. The effect of the medicine will wear off in half an hour." Miao girl chuckled and said, "You told me your name, and I will tell you mine too - my name is Hua Xiaolan, and I am the one who can save you."

Fu Qingzhou smiled and said, "Because I didn't come to Wandu Mountain for any other purpose, right?"

"That's right~"

Hua Xiaolan blinked: "I originally thought that if you had nothing to do with this matter, I would just let you go... But from what Senior Brother Kua Ye brought back before, it seems that you are quite capable, and now you have a request for my Wandu Mountain. What do you think, can we cooperate?"

Senior Brother Kua Ye was probably the Miao youth who had come to the prison earlier.

Her last sentence was also a question. Fu Qingzhou could not help but speak out his true thoughts: "Why should I cooperate with you? Is your power and status higher than that of the so-called Council of Elders?"

After saying this, Fu Qingzhou was shocked himself. He smiled bitterly and said, "I'm sorry. Normally, if I wanted to ask this kind of question, I wouldn't say it so bluntly."

This is of course true.

The smoker beside his ear was already laughing.

But Hua Xiaolan's next question abruptly interrupted the smoker's laughter.

"Master taught me not to do anything that I'm not sure of."

She teased the little scorpion on her shoulder and said, "So let me see your spell first - was this spell really planted after you touched a rock in the mountains?"

(End of this chapter)