Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 26: Viper Heart (V)

There is a natural cave in the mountain stream, probably formed by the fracture of the mountain and the erosion of running water.

It is the dry season now, the water flow is small, people can walk on the slippery rocks on both sides, and they fall from time to time.

After groping in the dark for a long time, a little light finally appeared in front of me.

It was a stone chamber carved out of the rock wall. The opening was a small hole, and there seemed to be a candle lit inside.

"Sir, we're here." Master Ma said, "I dug a tunnel from here to the valley."

His voice echoed in the overly quiet cave, sounding a little sneaky.

When Gu Jingnian looked over, he suddenly saw a pair of bright eyes, as if a kitten was looking over here curiously, but quickly shrank back after being discovered.

"Yingyao, don't be afraid." Master Ma's voice became softer, with a kind of clumsy tenderness, "I brought back good medicine to cure you."

"gentlemen."

A thin girl leaned out. Her appearance could not be seen in the darkness, but her voice was clear and pleasant, one of the most beautiful sounds in the world. It also carried a sense of joy, making people feel as if they were in a place with fresh breeze and bright moon, and their mood was very comfortable.

She was still very afraid of Gu Jingnian and Huang Hu, and asked Master Ma again, "Who are they?"

"He is our benefactor." Master Ma deliberately lifted Gu Jingnian up high, "Yingyao, you kneel down first to thank the benefactor."

"it is good."

The girl immediately knelt down obediently and said in a crisp voice: "Yingyao, thank you very much, benefactor."

Gu Jingnian only then realized that she was very weak, her limbs were as thin as bamboo poles, her body was weak, and even a few simple movements were very difficult. However, she still looked very happy.

Master Ma smiled ingratiatingly and said, "Sir, can I treat her right now?"

As he spoke, a hand stretched out in front of Gu Jingnian.

However, Gu Jingnian did not give him the Viper Heart.

Huang Hu understood and said, "Let's talk about it inside. Who knows if you took it and ate it yourself?"

Master Ma had no choice but to raise his hand and say, "Please come in, young master."

Gu Jingnian leaned over and found that the cave entrance was too small and he couldn't get in. Seeing this, Master Ma asked Gu Jingnian to hand over the snake heart to him, but Huang Hu still refused and punched the stone wall.

"Oh!"

With a loud bang, a piece of stone was smashed and Huang Hu's hands were covered in blood.

Just as he was about to hit it a second time, a shovel was handed to him.

"I didn't tell you earlier."

Huang Hu took the shovel and glared at Master Ma. His impression of the timid girl in the stone chamber became much better. The little girl was still honest.

He chiseled a few times skillfully, and Gu Jingnian squeezed into the stone chamber. Huang Hu was anxious and chiseled a few more times to squeeze out, but he was stuck at the entrance, unable to move forward or backward.

Ying Yao couldn't help laughing when she saw this funny look, but Huang Hu glared at her and she quickly put away her smile.

The good impression left by handing over the shovel just now was completely gone.

Gu Jingnian looked around and found that there was no candle lit in the stone chamber. What was shining was a huge night-shining pearl, which was hung on the ceiling by a fishing net. There was a small bed on the side with very clean bedding. Several musical instruments were placed on a small shelf made of tree branches. There was an ancient zither that had no place to be placed and could only stand upright. On the other side was a medicine cabinet with various bottles and jars. There was a curtain hanging on the wall opposite to the cave entrance, which must be the way to the valley.

This place is small but has everything.

When he lowered his head again, he could see the girl's face clearly. She had big eyes, a pointed chin, and unusually pale skin, but her hair was red, and even in the dim light it looked like a bright red tassel.

There was always something shaking gently under her earlobe. Gu Jingnian initially thought it was some kind of earring, but when he looked closely, he found that there were long colorful fuzzes growing on the back of her ears, which she had tied up and tied with a beautiful thin rope, which complemented her red hair.

No wonder her name is Ying Yao.

Probably because she hadn't seen a stranger for a long time, Ying Yao felt a little shy when Gu Jingnian looked at her, but she was courageous. She raised her hand and pointed to a piece of lava in the stone chamber, as if sharing the most interesting thing here.

"look."

Gu Jingnian looked and saw only an irregular stone, but he didn't know what it was used for.

Yingyao waited for a while, and seeing that he didn't respond, she asked, "Does it look like a monkey picking peaches?"

"Yeah, it looks a bit like it." When Gu Jingnian looked at the stone as a monkey, the more he looked at it, the more it looked like a monkey.

"Is that so?" Ying Yao was very happy and continued, "There are all kinds of things over there, like a turtle, a fairy, and two fairies playing chess. They look very, very similar...ah, can you get out?"

She looked towards the cave entrance and wanted to point out the rugged rocks to Gu Jingnian, but she saw Huang Hu was still stuck there and felt uneasy.

Huang Hu said proudly: "I can smash this stone with one punch, I'm afraid it will collapse your house."

"Then don't destroy this place." Ying Yao said hurriedly: "This is where I live most comfortably."

As she got anxious, she looked even weaker, her eyes lost their luster, and she sat down on the cot.

Huang Hu saw this and had to comfort him: "Don't be afraid, I won't smash it."

He struggled to free himself by pulling his body back, despite having a large piece of flesh torn off from his shoulder and arm.

Seeing this bloody scene, Ying Yao became even more anxious.

"Are you okay?!" "No problem!" Huang Hu shouted from outside, "I saw the two immortals you mentioned playing chess. Not bad, they look alike."

Master Ma immediately prostrated himself before Gu Jingnian and begged again, "Master, please save her."

Gu Jingnian was not moved by this plea. His eyes fell on the colorful hairs on Yingyao's ears. He knew that she was an alien who could be identified at a glance. It seemed that she did not have the ability to protect herself like him.

They all had similar fates.

"Give it to her."

The snake heart was finally handed to Master Ma.

Master Ma was overjoyed, but he did not reach out to take it. He kowtowed heavily on the ground and said, "Please wait a moment, sir."

Then he ran to the medicine shelf, rummaged through the bottles and jars, and finally poured out a bowl of black medicine and handed it to Ying Yao.

"Good boy, it can cure the disease, drink this first."

Ying Yao seemed increasingly weak, her hands holding the bowl were shaking a little, but she still drank the bowl of medicine obediently.

She blinked and soon passed out.

Master Ma soaked his hands in the medicine jar for a while, then took out a box, opened it, and took out a jade-like dagger from it. There was a hint of coldness on the blade.

He walked to Ying Yao, unbuttoned his shirt, and with swift movements, he slashed her barren chest with a knife.

The first cut did not result in a single trace of blood. He quickly made a second cut, and after several such cuts, he successfully opened Ying Yao's chest with his miraculous skills.

"Son."

Gu Jingnian walked forward, but was stunned. He saw that Yingyao's ventricle was not on the left like that of ordinary people, but in the middle. Blood was overflowing in the ventricle, and a small heart that looked withered was beating weakly.

He guessed what Master Ma was going to do, but he couldn't believe that it could be done. It was too bizarre.

"Sir, put the snake heart in."

Gu Jingnian frowned, looked at Master Ma deeply, and gently placed the snake heart in his hand into Yingyao's ventricle.

At the same time, Master Ma slashed with the dagger in his hand and cut off the withered little heart.

The next moment, a strange scene happened. Small whiskers grew out of the snake's heart, stretched out as if wanting to suck blood, and pierced into the ventricular wall.

Master Ma breathed a sigh of relief cautiously and took out needle and thread from the box to suture the wound.

As for the original little heart, it withered at an extremely fast speed after leaving the body, and finally shattered into dust.

Gu Jingnian said nothing, just stood there and watched his actions coldly.

After Master Ma sutured the wound and applied medicine, the first thing he did was to kneel down and apologize in fear and trepidation.

"You lied to me again." Gu Jingnian said.

Master Ma said that the viper heart could not be reattached to the big viper, but Gu Jingnian had just seen with his own eyes that the viper heart itself had a strong vitality and healing power.

"I am ashamed of my life, sir." Master Ma did not dare to argue any more. He held up the cold dagger in his hands and said, "I am willing to be killed without complaint. But since Yingyao has received your love and effort, I will be loyal to you. Please protect her."

Gu Jingnian didn't buy it and kicked him aside.

This is another example of Master Ma's cunning. He knows that as long as Gu Jingnian is reluctant to kill Ying Yao, he will naturally not kill him.

Gu Jingnian could guess all his thoughts, but the young man didn't like these calculations and was too lazy to talk nonsense with him.

Master Ma was kicked, but he thanked him profusely: "Thank you very much, sir, thank you very much, sir. I owe you two lives today. Even if I have to work like a cow or a horse, or give you a favor, I will repay you."

"Why won't her wound heal?" Gu Jingnian looked at Ying Yao and asked.

"I don't know either. After all, this is the first time for everyone to see this Viper Heart."

As Master Ma spoke, he gave two guesses, and then said: "Perhaps the big snake inherited the young master's ability because it was born from the young master's blood, and it cannot be inherited by grafting. Or perhaps it is because of the different physiques. After all, Womin is also an alien from the Yihai Sea."

"She is Womin?"

Gu Jingnian had heard the story of Womin at Chongjing Academy. It was said that the man lived in the sacred mountain of Queen Mother of the West and was granted the elixir of immortality by the Queen Mother of the West.

"I am not sure. In Zhongzhou, Womin are the rarest, and no one can tell whether they are immortal." Master Ma said, "I only know that she was caught in a cage because she was mistaken for a Womin."

At this moment, Huang Hu whispered outside: "Sir, it seems someone is searching this way."

They listened carefully and heard a long and shrill cry faintly coming from outside the cave.

Master Ma whispered, "It's Fu Wei, a creature with a human face and a bird body, sharp eyes and a keen sense of smell. The old man sent him to find Kui Xin."

After that, he comforted Gu Jingnian, "Young Master, don't worry. Fu Xiu can no longer smell the Viper Heart. If you hide for another day, the old guy will know that the Viper Heart has lost its effect and will not look for it anymore."

Gu Jingnian knew Master Ma’s little thoughts.

As long as Liu Heng fails to find any other clues, he will conclude that he was the one who took the Viper Heart and will only go after him from now on.

But he was too lazy to argue with Master Ma because he also wanted to kill Liu Heng.

(End of this chapter)