Xuanxia

Chapter 7 Attack and Defense Are Easy
The poisonous smoke mechanism that successfully trapped the middle-aged man was discovered by Fu Qingzhou before.

Of course, he was extremely careful not to trigger it. He just poked the lock open with a wire, and after finding that there was nothing inside, he closed it again.

Just now he locked the lock again and pretended to have been fiddling with it for a long time in order to reduce the middle-aged man's vigilance.

Mechanisms like these are extremely sensitive; it's impossible for someone to pry and smash them for a long time without any response.

Therefore, middle-aged people naturally thought that this was just an ordinary box.

The sharp knife pierced the middle-aged man's ribs, and he twitched in pain and lay on his back with his mouth wide open. But the next moment, he was shocked to find that the flow of toxins in his body was slowing down!

“Knife, knife…”

He said with difficulty: "Is there an antidote on the knife?!"

"Is this the antidote?" Fu Qingzhou chuckled. "I don't know. It's hidden in the kitchen, placed together with salt and sugar. I don't think your sister would put poison there, right? I think it's to prevent herself from coming into contact with poison too much in her daily life and to dissolve the toxins in her body."

"So I got some and put it on the knife, thinking, this will give you some relief."

The sharp knife stirred gently inside his body. The middle-aged man was in excruciating pain, blood gushed out of his mouth, and all the words he wanted to ask were stuck in his throat.

"I know you want to know why I do this."

Fu Qingzhou smiled and said, "Of course, because you are the murderer of your senior sister."

The middle-aged man's pupils shrank sharply, and his hands held the edge of the bed, shaking constantly: "What, what..."

"Don't try to insult my intelligence." Fu Qingzhou said lightly, "Wan Du Mountain has a close relationship with the Dayan court, and the murder of the owner of this house is related to Wan Du Mountain. If someone really wants to come from the mountain, they should go to the government office first, get the files, check the body first, and then come to the house. They will not come in the middle of the night when the lights are out. It should be when the sun is high and the light is bright, so that it is convenient to investigate the case."

"Moreover, the body was just found at noon, and you came here in the evening. The Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain is not in Lingxiang Town. Even sending a letter by carrier pigeon would take time. You knew about this, discussed the agenda, selected people and sent people, and then came here from the mountain. I don't believe you can move so quickly."

"I see, you are the guy who killed someone and then had no time to look for the things, so he came to the house in the middle of the night to check again, right?"

"What you want to do must be very important, so you didn't kill me right away after seeing me. You were worried that if I died here, something new would happen, so you simply wanted to pin the blame on me and kill me somewhere else. But since I seem to have some ability to find things, you wanted to keep me alive first. Am I right?"

The middle-aged man's breathing sounded like a broken bellows, and his whole body was shaking: "Yes... yes..."

"Ah."

Fu Qingzhou nodded and drew out his dagger.

The middle-aged man groaned, covered his wound and fell to the ground, his clothes soaked with cold sweat.

"There is no antidote to suppress your poison now, and your wound is still bleeding." Fu Qingzhou said with a smile: "You'd better tell the truth next time, otherwise I'm afraid you won't live long."

"Don't even think about doing anything rash, or I'll stab you in the neck with the next knife."

The smoker's laughter rang in his ears, and he kept scolding him for being vicious, but from the tone of his voice, it seemed that he was more impressed.

After the sharp knife left his body, blue spots immediately appeared on the middle-aged man's face. He raised his head stiffly and looked at Fu Qingzhou: "What else do you want to know..."

"who are you?"

Fu Qingzhou said coldly: "Also, what are you looking for? What is your relationship with Wandu Mountain? Is there any way to help me enter Wandu Mountain?"

"I……"

The middle-aged man murmured painfully, "I am indeed a disciple of Wandu Mountain. My name is Meng-Meng Zhugang."

"I, I, I'm looking for a...key."

He said a lot with difficulty, and Fu Qingzhou finally sorted out the cause and effect of the matter. It turned out that there was a great villain imprisoned in the Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain who had once caused great headaches for the martial arts world and the imperial court. The great villain was originally just a small Taoist priest, but he rose to become an unparalleled strong man in just a few years.

At that time, he was extremely powerful and almost invincible. More than 30 years ago, he was lured into a trap by the righteous heroes and court masters. After a series of battles, he was poisoned and poisoned by the master of the Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain at that time, and was finally captured.

But they did not kill the big villain - because it was said that this man was hiding a huge secret that was enough to make anyone excited, and it was also the reason for his rapid rise. Everyone wanted to know his secret, so they took him to the Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain and tortured him with poison day and night.

But now thirty years have passed, and the villain is still alive, which shows that no one can ask out his secret.

And the key to the cell where this evil man is imprisoned... is on the dead Miao old woman.

No one would have thought that an old woman who looked very old and had left the sect to live outside the mountains actually kept such an important key. Naturally, no one would be able to steal the key.

It was not until thirty years later that Meng Zhugang, who was responsible for delivering food to the villain day and night, was persuaded.

The evil man promised him that he would accept him as his last disciple and teach him supreme skills, but he asked him to release him.

This was a very simple, crude transaction, but Meng Zhugang believed it.

"I... I have been in the sect for more than 30 years..."

He murmured, "I am dull and stupid, and my bottleneck has not been broken for ten years. My master doesn't like me. Even my fellow apprentices who entered the sect more than ten years later are better than me. Some even sent me to do menial jobs like delivering meals!"

"This... This is my only chance!"

Fu Qingzhou looked at him coldly.

Meng Zhugang's face was covered with blue spots, his body had become visibly stiff, and even the blood flowing from the wound under his ribs was glowing blue.

"That means……"

Fu Qingzhou squatted down and slapped the other person's face with his knife: "If I find this key and send it back to Wandu Mountain with you, the traitor, it will be considered a great achievement for your sect. In exchange for a promise to remove the curse, it shouldn't be difficult, right?"

Meng Zhugang was stunned at first, then he showed an extremely ugly bitter smile.

"Is it really to remove the curse?" His tone was full of disbelief.

Fu Qingzhou smiled: "Yes, what else?"

"Well...well, of course you can." Meng Zhugang answered with difficulty and pain.

He could never have imagined that he would carefully inquire within the sect, approach those who looked down on him, and take huge risks to kill his senior sister... When he was just one step away from success, he would fall at the hands of a young man!
And this young man had nothing to do with the matter, he just wanted to break a curse!

If I had just agreed to take him to the mountains to find the elders to help break the curse, and if he had helped me find the key, would the ending be different?
Meng Zhugang didn't know, and didn't want to think about that possibility. He was afraid that he would regret it and go crazy.

"I...I have a request."

He tried hard to open his stiff mouth and said, "I, I will take you into the mountain, but I beg you to let me go before the mountain gate."

In less than half an hour, the positions of the person asking for help and the person being asked for help had been reversed.

Fu Qingzhou knew that Meng Zhugang just wanted to have hope of survival.

If this traitor returns to the mountain, death will surely await him.

If I extinguish this hope, I will never be able to find Wandu Mountain again.

So he smiled and said, "Of course no problem."

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