Xuanxia

Chapter 23 Changes
"How on earth did you do that?"

After leaving Qianwu Tower for a long time, Kua Ye whispered: "The jade tablet was left by an old friend of the sect master. Even the sect master didn't know it had such power..."

Fu Qingzhou yawned and did not answer.

"besides."

Kua Ye covered his chest, obviously he was also seriously injured, but he just frowned and asked: "Weren't you a little too arrogant just now? Why did you provoke them and force them to kill you?"

Now that the question has come to this, there is no choice but to answer.

Fu Qingzhou slowly turned his head and looked at Kua Ye: "I am helping you, don't you think it's ridiculous for you to be like this?"

Kua Ye's pupils shrank.

Fu Qingzhou smiled faintly: "You are not in an advantageous position in this internal struggle. You all know who the traitors are, but you dare not take action against them."

"Otherwise, you wouldn't have known they were going to do something to me tonight but didn't dare to warn them. You could only quietly get a poor young lady from the capital to be my maid so that I could prepare in advance."

"No..." Quaye answered subconsciously: "She was not arranged by us..."

"Stop making excuses."

Fu Qingzhou curled his lips: "I don't believe there is such a coincidence."

Kua Ye shook his head and gave up his defense: "Junior Sister Hua is right, you are smarter than we thought."

"So you have to understand one thing." Fu Qingzhou's eyes turned cold. "I am not the kind of chess piece that you can manipulate. I can cooperate with you to remove the curse, but you suddenly put me in danger without saying hello. Don't blame me for flipping the table."

Kua Ye's expression changed for a moment, then he gradually calmed down: "Is this why you provoked Elder Ma just now?"

"correct."

Fu Qingzhou stretched his body lazily: "I don't understand what your original plan was and why you let Meng Zhugang go to kill people and seize the key, but now that I'm here, there must be some changes, right?"

"I'm here to seek the removal of the curse. No matter how bloody the fights are inside the Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain, it has nothing to do with me. I don't want to sit here and play a show with you for ten days or half a month."

"So I thought, let's just cut the Gordian knot... The elders won't believe that the appearance of me, the 'Mingjian Pavilion spy', is a coincidence. They are now wary of me because they are worried that I have a trick up my sleeve."

"But you and I both know that I have no backup plan, right?"

He patted Kua Ye's shoulder and said, "If we wait any longer, we will only have more trouble. Today's test is just the beginning, so why don't I help you change your plan and see if the elders have the courage to take the gamble?"

Kuaye smiled like he did when they first met, but this smile was very stiff, more like he was hiding his uneasiness: "Boy, do you want to provoke a war within the Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain?"

At this time, the two of them had already walked back to the stilt house where Fu Qingzhou temporarily lived, and the candlelight in the window was still on.

"If the elders had the courage to assassinate the imperial officials, you should have figured it out... the war might have already begun."

Fu Qingzhou waved at him: "Traitors won't disappear on their own, we can only kill them all - Goodbye, remember to take me to the Phoenix Blood Pool tomorrow."

He staggered into the building, and Kwa Ye was still standing there motionless.

Not long after, a small figure came out from nowhere and stood beside him. It was Hua Xiaolan.

"Junior Sister Hua."

Kwaye's expression was very serious: "It seems that it was a mistake for us to cooperate with him."

"No, he's right." Hua Xiaolan played with the silver tassel on her head, with a mysterious throbbing look in her eyes: "We are content with the peaceful status quo of Wandu Mountain and dare not make any changes."

Kwa Ye turned his head and looked at her in surprise: "You want to use that plan? Elder Yu..." "I'll go talk to him."

Hua Xiaolan shook her head, her silver ornaments rustling. "I still remember how Master was alive, but his body was rotting away like a dead person. I had a chance to save him, but I was powerless... Elder Yu will never understand that kind of pain."

"Long Dabei..."

The light in her big eyes became very complicated, with sadness, pain, cruelty, and resentment intertwined together: "Or maybe I hoped he would escape from the beginning. I wanted to see if he was really unkillable?"

……

“Hahahahaha! Cool! It feels so good!”

The voice of the smoker buzzed in Fu Qingzhou's mind, mocking and complacent: "You didn't let me enter this jade card before? Now you know! I'm very capable! Without me, you would have died just now!"

Fu Qingzhou ignored it and just lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling.

The candles in the room had been extinguished. Tang Jiao wanted to "sleep with him", but he drove her to the side room to sleep.

"You can't keep helping me this way."

Finally, he slowly responded in his mind: "And you won't do that. Now that you've entered the Jade Plate, I believe that with your ability, even if the Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain brings out a Phoenix Blood Pool or a Dragon Blood Pool, it won't be able to cure the curse on me."

“Hehehe…” The smoker laughed dryly: “Good to know.”

Fu Qingzhou sighed softly and said self-deprecatingly, "After all this time, I got myself involved in this matter, but it was all in vain?"

"So you might as well just run away now."

The smoker encouraged him, "Why bother with these guys? With my help, it won't be hard to escape. Don't keep thinking about killing me, and I won't trigger your curse. Let's just live in peace like before, how nice is that?"

Fu Qingzhou's face turned strange: "You, you wanted to take over the body of an old man you saw in Lingxiang Town before, but now there are so many young and brave Miao people in this mountain, and you want me to leave quickly?"

"Could it be that this Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain really has a way to cure the strange curse?"

The smoker was shocked when he heard this: "What are you talking about! What are you talking about! I am only thinking about your life!"

"I don't trust you." Fu Qingzhou smiled: "It seems that I still have to stay here for a while... I can't trust Elder Ma at all now, but if I help Hua Xiaolan fight off the traitor, maybe I can get some clues."

“You…”

The smoker cursed: "Whatever you want! Anyway, if something like this happens again next time, I won't care about you!"

Its voice gradually faded away, and Fu Qingzhou was still lost in thought.

Elder Ma was also on Elder Nian's side, he would never really help him to remove the curse, and after all the trouble he had put in to create a Phoenix Blood Pool, it was a remote and dangerous method, wouldn't that be a perfect place for assassination? Even if the Mingjian Pavilion spy died there and attracted the court, they would have sufficient reasons to get away with it.

I was so ashamed that I felt a little touched when I saw that old man turning the pages for me late at night...

It is unreliable to rely on them. I think Hua Xiaolan did this tonight just to let him see that he can only rely on her. Only if she wins can he get real help.

Although he was forced into a corner at that time, Fu Qingzhou believed that Kua Ye would not let Elder Ma, Jiang Yunfeng and others kill him, and there must be a backup plan.

But he was unwilling to rely on others for his life, and would rather let the smoker enter the jade card than not take control of the situation in his own hands.

"Yes...We must take the situation into our own hands."

Fu Qingzhou slowly closed his eyes: "Even the method to break the curse cannot rely solely on Hua Xiaolan's promise."

(End of this chapter)