Xuanxia

Chapter 31 True and False Keys
Bamboo pieces are flying and the air is surging.

Fu Qingzhou's eyes went dark for a moment, and he felt as if he had crashed into a speeding dump truck and was thrown flying.

But at the moment of being blown away, it seemed that there was a force protecting him.

In the blink of an eye, he fell heavily to the ground. His whole body ached as if it was falling apart. He quickly concentrated his mind, calmed down, and used his martial arts to breathe in and out.

After about three or five breaths, he finally recovered from the dizziness and sat up from the ground.

Beside him, Hua Xiaolan knelt on one knee, confronting the elder not far ahead.

The stilt house had been completely blown into pieces by now. An elder stood in front of the ruins, holding a cane, with a half-smile on his face. Hua Xiaolan had blood at the corner of her mouth and a grim expression. A pendant around her neck seemed to be floating lightly without gravity, and a faint green smoke surrounded her.

"Cui Yan Zhui... humph."

The old elder sneered and said, "I didn't even manage to kill you. You're so lucky."

As he spoke, he flipped his hand lightly, and a brass key appeared between his fingers. It was the one that Fu Qingzhou had taken out earlier: "You are really cautious... Even I was fooled, but now, prepare to die!"

Two rays of light flashed in the elder's eyes, and he slammed the cane in his hand heavily on the ground.

The whole earth began to tremble, and the ground in front of him seemed to have turned into a carpet, causing waves. The collapsed earth and rocks rose more than five feet high and rushed towards the two of them!

Fu Qingzhou's pupils shrank, and he clenched the jade token in his hand. He ignored the random shouts of the smoker in his mind and prepared to throw it out. He didn't believe that this guy couldn't protect himself...

But before he could make a move, Hua Xiaolan moved first.

She moved her upper and lower lips lightly and uttered a series of incomprehensible words at a very fast speed. Her voice was completely different from her usual tone and seemed extremely gloomy.

The next second, the earth and rocks that had already rushed in front of the two men suddenly collapsed into powder, covering the two men with dust and mud, but did not cause any harm.

At the same time, the elder let out a scream!
In the diffuse smoke and dust, one could see him taking a few quick steps back, his crutch falling to the ground with a clang. His right hand, which had been holding the crutch, was decaying at a terrifying speed, his flesh and blood turning into pus and blood in the blink of an eye, and even his bones were melting!

In less than a few breaths, the elder's right palm had completely melted, leaving only a pool of pus, blood and bone powder on the ground.

"Transform into a demon?!" His voice was trembling, and with fear and anger, he glared at Hua Xiaolan fiercely: "You?!"

"Master had already guessed that this day would come. More than ten years ago, he had already planted a Gu in your body!"

Hua Xiaolan sneered, "Nian Rufeng, aren't you going to kill me? Come on!"

Fu Qingzhou's eyes gradually calmed down. As expected, since she dared to run around in the mountains alone when the two camps had already fallen out, it meant that she had enough power to protect herself.

On the other side, the elder gritted his teeth as he watched his right hand rot and melt bit by bit. While he was talking, most of his forearm had melted as well.

"Humph……"

A fierce look flashed in his eyes, and he raised his left hand like a knife and chopped it heavily on his right elbow!
As blood gushed out, the only thing left of his right arm fell to the ground with a thud and turned into pus and blood on the ground.

Seeing this, Hua Xiaolan smiled even more happily: "You can survive by cutting off your arm? Nian Rufeng, are you underestimating the Master's methods?"

The elder's expression changed and he lowered his head.

He was wearing a loose robe, so no one could see what was happening inside. But from his expression, it seemed that Hua Xiaolan was not just talking nonsense.

"hateful……"

He gritted his teeth in hatred, then a cruel smile appeared on his face: "Okay, you are lucky... At least the key is in hand, Long Dabei must have a way to break your Gu!"

After saying that, he no longer bothered about killing the two people in front of him, turned around and left. A gust of wind blew away the smoke and dust, and the elder disappeared in the blink of an eye.

On this side, Hua Xiaolan breathed a sigh of relief, and felt a little weak.

Fu Qingzhou finally had the chance to speak. He smiled and said, "Great, you actually scared him away."

Hua Xiaolan turned her head and glared at him: "What on earth is going on with that key?"

"You cooperated so well, you should have guessed it, right?" Fu Qingzhou said with a smile: "I asked Tang Jiao to ask the craftsmen in the village at the foot of the mountain to make the key before I went to the Phoenix Blood Pool this morning. It can't open anything."

Hua Xiaolan's face was slightly strange: "But why would the elder follow me and come to steal this key?"

Fu Qingzhou dusted himself off and said leisurely, "Of course it's because he had the key from before and couldn't save Long Dabei."

"He couldn't open the lock with the key, so he naturally thought the key was fake. The first thing he thought of was that I hid the key. So he probably didn't follow you, but came for me from the beginning... He just happened to see you, so he hid and waited to see if I would tell you about this."

"Well, I'll just give him the key he wants."

Hua Xiaolan frowned, "But why couldn't he open the lock with the key he used before? Could it be that the key-guarding disciple was also guarding a fake lock?"

He spread his hands and said, "I'm not afraid to tell you that when I first learned from Meng Zhugang that the brass key was used to save a great villain, I wore down the teeth on it."

Hua Xiaolan's eyes widened: "Ah?!"

"correct."

Fu Qingzhou blinked innocently: "What's wrong?"

Hua Xiaolan looked a little dizzy: "You, you, you wore it out? Then Long Dabei will be trapped in Youzhu Cave forever?"

"Yeah, otherwise."

Fu Qingzhou curled his lips and said, "If such a villain cannot be released, then he cannot be released... I am actually very surprised, why is such an important key so ordinary?"

"The boxes used to hide the keys at that time had mechanisms. Could it be that your Youzhu Cave relies on a copper key whose teeth I can grind off with a stone to open the lock? That lock shouldn't be difficult to pick, right? How can it be impossible without the key?"

After asking these questions, he found that Hua Xiaolan's brows were frowning again...

"Okay, okay, I won't ask about your secrets."

Fu Qingzhou smiled bitterly and spread his hands, saying, "At least now that the elder is poisoned and has a fake key to save people, you should have enough time, right? Why are you still staring at me? Why don't you organize people to surround him?"

"Humph, do you even need to say this?"

After escaping danger, Hua Xiaolan returned to her previous innocent self. She rolled her eyes and waved her hand, saying, "But you have to follow me - don't think I didn't notice that when the elder knocked the two of us away just now, you used the power of the jade token to protect yourself. Now we are short of manpower, you still have to help me!"

Fu Qingzhou laughed: "So you have no confidence? The elder is like that. I'm afraid that by the time we get to Youzhu Cave, he will have already rotted into a pool of mud in front of the cave. What are you afraid of?"

Hua Xiaolan glared at him: "Didn't you say that Elder Ma came here on purpose to hold us back? Then will he..."

Before she could finish her words, a loud bang was heard from a mountain not far away!
"Oops!"

Her expression suddenly tensed: "It's where Elder Ma is imprisoned!"

(End of this chapter)