Xuanxia

Chapter 329 Two Speculations
“Ugh…Aaaaaaah!”

Fu Qingzhou was lying on the bed, his whole body hunched over like a shrimp, except that he was not curled up. Instead, his chest and abdomen were sticking out high, and his back was bent into a crescent shape, making a series of cracking sounds!
Zhuang Zhenglin stood not far away, looking extremely reluctant, but he still gritted his teeth and wrote down the words on the paper.

This is already the eleventh day of drug testing...

The bones in Fu Qingzhou's body crackled like firecrackers, he screamed loudly, and his body kept twisting, as if someone was twisting his hands, feet and limbs and putting him into strange postures.

"After Master Fu swallowed the medicine, he heard a series of strange sounds coming from his body and his limbs twisted. It was obvious that he was in dire straits. The pain he was experiencing was beyond description..."

Zhuang Zhenglin was recording on paper.

After an unknown amount of time, Fu Qingzhou finally collapsed back onto the bed with a thud, unable to move even a finger. He just stared blankly at the ceiling, gasping for breath, his clothes and sheets soaked with sweat.

"…After about an incense stick of time, the effect of the drug gradually wore off, and Young Master Fu collapsed on the bed, sweating profusely, his whole body exhausted, unable to move."

Zhuang Zhenglin wrote down the last sentence, sighed softly, put away the pen and paper, took out a square handkerchief from his sleeve, and walked forward to wipe the sweat off Fu Qingzhou.

"Master Wu... Master Wu..."

Fu Qingzhou asked weakly: "...How is his progress in refining the elixir?"

"I don't know either." Zhuang Zhenglin smiled bitterly, "But these few days, he didn't even see me. He just told me to leave my notes outside the door every day... When I went to his house the next day, there was only a bowl of medicine soup outside the door."

"Okay, okay."

Fu Qingzhou sighed: "Thank you for your hard work..."

Zhuang Zhenglin was very quick and efficient. He quickly wiped the sweat off his face, changed his clothes, applied new medicine, and even changed the bed sheets. Then, without any intention of resting, he hurried to do the next thing.

"It seems that Jiang Baichuan is really good to these disciples. They have been busy with these things day and night during this period, but no one of them holds any resentment."

Fu Qingzhou looked at Zhuang Zhenglin's back as he left, and thought to himself, "It's a good thing that there is a Wulin Alliance in this world."

As the door closed, the room returned to silence.

Fu Qingzhou lay on the bed, still without any strength left in his body.

"Tang Jiao has to go to Master Feng to learn sword forging today, and also has to take some time to go shopping with Xiaoyue."

"Qiu Chan heard about Li Qing's situation and said she would go to help investigate and see if she could find out anything. Apart from anything else, she is really concerned about the matter of Jinchan Temple. I just don't know whether Ziqi Xianfeng Temple is trying to deal with its opponents or to do justice. That's all. Let's not judge by deeds but by heart. Why bother about these things?"

"I heard that Brother Wu was able to get out of bed a few days ago? I'll have to go see him when I have time in the next few days."

"Ah... today, it seems like no one can come to see me... so boring."

Fu Qingzhou closed his eyes and took a long breath.

"Old man, are you awake?"

He called out in his mind.

However, Smokey didn't respond.

"Forget it, whether you wake up or not...just listen to my nagging."

Fu Qingzhou said leisurely: "This time I was tricked by the Northern Barbarians and almost turned into a different person, but you are so anxious. It seems that my previous guess was right. Not only do you know the secret about me, but I even have some relationship with you..."

"Since I have nothing to do, let me analyze it."

"I have two guesses about you, old ghost."

"The first one... you really didn't know how special I am."

"When we were at Bailu Mountain, you really wanted to possess my body, and you did secretly cast a spell on me to get me. Although you had met Long Dabei at Bailu Mountain before, you didn't know him at that time, and you didn't know who I was. After you met me, you schemed against me until... at Langhuan Mountain."

"I don't know when and how you communicated with Qingsongzi, but you must have learned something from him and also knew about my peculiarity, so your purpose has changed." "Since I went to Langhuan Mountain, you have never mentioned taking over my body again. Even if you did something, it was to take over other people's bodies. At first I thought it was because of Qi Ran Jue, but after experiencing this incident, I found that it was not right... When I was influenced by the Beiyi people, you were too anxious, as if this matter had a lot to do with you..."

"Old man, why is this happening? Who were you in the past and what is your relationship with me?"

"Of course, I have a second guess."

"This guess is a bit more daring - that you knew who I was from the beginning."

"It's just that you have been lying to me before. The so-called possession and the so-called strange curse were all just tricks to deceive me."

"With your ability, you were able to break Yuan Wu Dong Tian Realm's soul into pieces and give me the opportunity to take over. How could you not be able to take over my body? I hadn't even practiced at that time, how powerful could my soul be?"

"You said that there was a strange curse on me, but for a long time, this so-called strange curse has not caused me any harm at all. Even Wan Dushan has studied it for several years and has never given me a conclusion that 'this strange curse may harm my life'. Could it be... that this is not a strange curse at all?"

"Even this second guess is more reasonable in my opinion. In the desolate land of Bailu Mountain, apart from a few small civilian villages and towns, there is not even a cultivator to be found, let alone the remains of a sect. How could you, a powerful Xuanxing from hundreds of years ago, perish there? And why would I, a special being with a mysterious origin, appear there?"

"If there is no special reason, why would you and I be in the same place?"

"If there is nothing special about Bailu Mountain, how could the Great Shaman of Beiyi know where I am?"

Fu Qingzhou spoke slowly in his mind, but the smoker never responded.

In fact, this is not the first time he has said these words.

Over the past few days, every time he finished trying the drugs and lay in bed, unable to move and bored, he would go over these analyses in his mind, trying to provoke the smoker's rebuttal or... approval.

But today was no different from the past few days. The smoker was still not awake and had not responded.

Perhaps just as it had said before, it forcibly helped Fu Qingzhou break free from control from a great distance, and that was the greatest expenditure of energy it had ever incurred since leaving the ruined temple on Bailu Mountain.

In the past, its "sleep" was mostly shallow.

But this time, I really slept for ten days and half a month without waking up...

"Forget it. No matter what kind of guess it is, we will know it sooner or later."

Since it was nothing serious, Fu Qingzhou's thinking was very slow, and it took him nearly half an hour just to finish talking about all this in his mind.

During this time, he also recovered some strength, so he struggled to get up from the bed, moved to the table, and poured himself a glass of water.

"Speaking of which..."

He whispered, "Now, I really have some hope that you are not an evil ghost who kills innocent people indiscriminately."

As he spoke, he handed the cup to his lips...but just then, a loud shout suddenly came from outside the yard!
"Don't drink that water!"

Fu Qingzhou was startled, and his already weak hands trembled, and the cup of water immediately spilled.

He raised his head and looked out the window, only to see Zhuang Zhenglin supporting Master Wu Lian and walking out of the courtyard.

The shout just now was made by the usually mysterious Master Wu!

"What, what's wrong?"

Fu Qingzhou responded in astonishment: "Is there poison in the water?"

"No... don't drink a drop of water half an hour before using the pill!"

Wu Lian's eyes sparkled with excitement: "I have refined the elixir for you!"

(End of this chapter)