Minglong

Chapter 168 The Solution to the Seven Star Nails

After leaving Zihui Mountain, Xie Jinhuan released the Wild Boar King, went to Danyang City to pick out some small gifts for Wanyi Momo, who was bound to be furious, and then rushed back to the capital.

He had left in such a hurry last night that he hadn't noticed the changes in the capital. Now, as he walked through the inner city streets early in the morning, he discovered that there were many more monks among the patrolling experts, and that he himself had become the revered Marquis of Danyang County.

Xie Jinhuan vowed to crush the local natives when he was three years old. His greatest dream was to become a hegemon like Shang Lianbi, dominating the entire Dragon Bone Beach. Although he only had the title of city lord, he was actually a self-proclaimed country.

Not only is he above everyone else, but he can also cultivate his skills. He indulges in debauchery and lavish lifestyles, and even if he humiliates the weasel spirit and the octopus girl every night, no one dares to say a word against him...

But to achieve that level, one must first possess the formidable strength to surpass all other religions and schools of thought, which he is currently far from meeting.

However, the older sister who saved him and his father three years ago led him south and promised him a royal title.

If one keeps their word and rewards both sides, it might be difficult to get both...

Moreover, after witnessing the golden-armored elder sister's ability to fly and travel through the earth, and recalling the hardships of traveling 30,000 miles of asceticism, his interest in the path of cultivation grew even stronger.

When he was shot through the chest, his only thought was to regret his own lack of ambition. Why did he waste his precious time, trying everything and ending up as a gigolo with no real skills?

Then he continued south, and what sustained him on was:

I will climb to the top step by step...

What doesn't kill me makes me stronger...

He was already sixteen or seventeen years old. If he gave up halfway, he would be nothing but a useless person when he went back. He couldn't protect his parents yesterday, and he wouldn't be able to protect his wife and children in the future. If he couldn't achieve anything in his studies, he might as well die on the road.

Although he couldn't remember where he ended up after sinking into the sea, Xie Jinhuan was no surprise at his own martial arts skills, which he had developed himself.

Their goals are twofold: to repay a debt of gratitude and to seek revenge. Of course, their initial intention to enjoy themselves to the fullest must not be changed.

Recalling the scene of the attack, the golden-armored elder sister saved him a second time, her five fingers surging with golden-red blood and qi, which, unsurprisingly, was the use of her life essence.

Her blood and qi are mixed with gold, perhaps she had an opportunity at the Western Rong Military Saint Mountain. The Overseeing God Lord is in charge of killing and warfare, so she might be a White Tiger sister...

The loss of something that could heal his fatal wound is certainly not something that a single lotus could repay.

The Golden Armored Elder Sister did not take a single penny from him and even helped take care of his relatives. However, after he returned, he broke his promise and indulged in revelry in Daqian. This is not human!

But he really didn't do it on purpose, and he needs to find an opportunity to contact the Golden Armor Sister to explain...

In addition, my father said that He Man and He Hai left with someone, and we don't know if it was the Crown Prince. This matter must be investigated.

However, given the magnitude of the incident, the Imperial Observatory failed to detect any problems. This suggests that either the Crown Prince is innocent or has a serious issue, making a thorough investigation unlikely...

……

Xie Jinhuan, holding an oil-paper umbrella and carrying the coal briquettes that had accompanied him all the way, walked along the familiar streets of the inner city. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly took out the Heavenly Gang Mace and examined it.

He survived three years ago because he met the Golden Armored Sister; he acquired his martial arts skills by practicing asceticism in the South China Sea, where he may have encountered a reclusive master; but why did the Heavenly Mace end up in his hands?

He bought it casually for two taels of silver, and many years have passed since then, so he can't remember the details.

After a moment's thought, Xie Jinhuan looked at the magnificent carriage beside him:
"Good wife, isn't this mace a divine weapon?"

Ye Hongshang, dressed in a vibrant red dress, walked beside him as usual, but a hint of absentmindedness lingered in her eyes as she pondered silently:

Why can't this soul-locking curse be broken...?

Could it be that Xie is my ex-lover, someone I hated because of love, who did something unforgivable, but I can't let go, so I deliberately forgot everything...?

Forget it, who knows what kind of ghost I used to be? Maybe I was like Xie Jinhuan, a thug who fought his way from Weizhou to Phoenix Harbor. It's better to forget the past and start anew...

Upon hearing Xie Jinhuan's question, Ye Hongshang snapped out of his reverie and casually replied:
"Aside from being very hard, it doesn't have any special effects."

"Oh……"

Xie Jinhuan was a little disappointed, but as a blunt weapon, hardness was enough. As long as the kinetic energy was large, it would be a "discarding sabot armor-piercing projectile," and any larger and it would be a "water droplet." He didn't care about any other fancy functions.

Therefore, this is the holy sword of physics, and can be considered a holy sword...

……

Inside the boudoir of the Lin family mansion.

Lin Wanyi sat at the round table, her beautiful face filled with worry and grievance.

The exquisitely beautiful little Zisu stood beside the table with her arms crossed, a hint of helplessness in her eyes—"the aunt is no match for the eldest son"—as she rambled on:
“Auntie, you can’t go on like this. You’re sleeping with him every other day. You’ve ruined Xie Lang’s life. Not to mention Sister Linghu, even I can’t stand it anymore! If you keep acting like this, I’ll have to give you a ‘spirit-boosting powder’. I guarantee you’ll be restless and unable to sleep whether you’re sitting or lying down…”

Lin Wanyi has been with Xie Jinhuan for the past ten days, and has been caught sleeping with him two or three times. Last night, she even made him lose his manhood. Now she has no way to express her suffering:

"I don't know what's wrong, but I feel like there's something dirty in the house, um... like, something you can't see or touch, but it's always watching you from the side..."

Lin Zisu blinked her big eyes and looked around:

"Does Auntie mean the house is haunted?"

"That's not what I meant. I just felt like there was someone nearby, but I couldn't find them..."

……

As the two, one big and one small, were talking, a noise came from outside the boudoir door, and a white figure descended from the sky.

Hula~
Lin Wanyi thought Linghu Qingmo had come to ask her for a man again, and she shrank back a few feet.

Upon seeing the aloof young man outside the door, her eyes first lit up with surprise, then her eyebrows furrowed in anger:

"You big jerk! You dare come back..."

As she spoke, she stood up, clenched her little fists, and rushed outside!

dong dong dong~
Just by looking at the hem of her clothes, Lin Zisu knew her aunt was furious, so she quickly hugged her from behind.
"Hey, Auntie, calm down..."

Xie Jinhuan knew Wanyi was extremely aggrieved, but he really had no choice last night. He quickly stepped forward and took out a small pouch he had obtained from a blind box at the 'Duobaozhai' shop on Jinmen Street:

“I woke up last night and saw you sleeping, so I thought I'd go for a run to test my legs. But before I knew it, I'd ended up in Danyang…”

Lin Wanyi spotted the familiar little purse, paused slightly, and quickly snatched it, hiding it in her sleeve. Her eyes seemed to say, "Why are you taking everything out when there's a child in front of you?"

Lin Zisu peeked out from under her aunt's shoulder, her eyes filled with disbelief:

"Young Master Xie, try your leg strength. Can you travel two or three hundred miles back and forth?"

Xie Jinhuan traveled deep into Zihui Mountain, a journey of more than three hundred li round trip, but this was not something he could say openly, so he simply smiled and said:

"I just wanted to test how much of an improvement I could get, and I got carried away. This pill is truly amazing; it's superior to others in every aspect, and it seems to have no side effects..."

Lin Zisu came up to him and, like a little doctor, pinched Xie Jinhuan's arms, chest muscles, and abs:
"Actually, it's hard to say. Young Master Xie, please take some time to adjust. If anything seems amiss, please let me know. If everything is fine, we'll try to get a few more Jiazi Lotus plants, one for each of us, and then we'll form a sect called... um... Nine Dragons Hall!"

"Heh~ That's a good idea..."

Lin Wanyi stood to the side, and when she heard about Jiazi Lian, she was reminded of her Uncle-Master Bu's matter.

When she returned last time, Xie Jinhuan tried on the bracelet as soon as they met, and Xie Jinhuan was so shy that she forgot to ask. Xie Jinhuan has been in hibernation for the past ten days or so, so she hasn't had a chance.

As a result, Uncle Bu didn't know what happened, but he contacted her every few days to ask about the situation. A few days ago, he even suddenly lowered the price to "Seven Star Nail Solution in exchange for Jiazi Lotus", without having to pay the difference!
This is a huge loss, it feels like someone has been hit by the Seven Star Nail and is about to die...

After Zisu finished her physical examination and went to play with the coal ball, Lin Wanyi pulled Xie Jinhuan into the inner room and whispered, "Jinhuan, do you have any way to solve the 'Seven Star Nails'? If you get it from your sect, they'll give you a Jiazi Lotus..."

Xie Jinhuan and Wanyi sat down in front of the bed, just about to say that it was impossible to obtain such a secret technique belonging to the head of Zihui Mountain.

But the ghost wife suddenly appeared from the side, slightly raising her right hand, and a crystal ball appeared in her palm.

The crystal ball contained an illusory human figure, whose veins could be seen throughout, and seven bright spots were faintly twinkling...

?

Xie Jinhuan was taken aback, his eyes questioning – what is this thing?
Ye Hongshang leaned against the four-poster bed, looking slightly smug.
"Master Qixia is the previous leader of Zihui Mountain, so naturally he knows the Seven Star Nails. I figured it all out yesterday. As long as I determine the current state of the victim's Qi, I can come up with a solution."

Upon hearing this, Xie Jinhuan felt that digging this grave might have been worthwhile.

Helping someone remove the Seven Star Nails without teaching them the techniques is like detoxifying someone—it's not like passing on the secret techniques of Ziwei Mountain.

This is equivalent to simply opening your mouth and getting a free Jiazi lotus!

Once he gets the Jiazi Lotus, he can return it to Bing Tuozi.

Seeing how trustworthy and efficient he was, Bing Tuozi would probably feel a sense of pity for him...

……

Lin Wanyi was waiting for Xie Jinhuan's response when she noticed him staring thoughtfully at the empty headboard. She turned to look at him, then tightened her clothes, her eyes filled with fear.

"What are you looking at? Is there something dirty in the house?! I've been feeling uneasy these past few days..."

"How can it be!"

Xie Jinhuan quickly turned his head back and put his hand on Wanyi's shoulder:

"I'm thinking of a way to break the Seven Star Nails! Go and find out which seven energy points are locked. Once you know, I can unlock them."

"is it?"

Lin Wanyi was naturally delighted to hear this reply.

However, thinking of Xie Jinhuan's habit of sneaking away, Lin Wanyi couldn't be happy. She glanced away and pretended to be unhappy.

"Hmph~ You big jerk, you ran away again last night. Do you know how I survived last night? Why didn't you run away when Linghu Qingmo was asleep? Just as Zisu said, a kind person is bullied, and a kind aunt is... cough..."

?

Xie Jinhuan found it somewhat amusing, hugged the girl with glasses to his arms, and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek.

"My mistake, I won't let it happen again. Take a look and see if you like this magical artifact..."

"Hmph, I bought this for myself, I don't want it..."

Kiss kiss kiss...

……

Not long after, in the alchemy room.

Xie Jinhuan was pushed out the door by Wanyi, who was blushing, and went to look around outside the alchemy room first.

Lin Zisu knew her aunt was being affectionate and didn't bother her. She was currently feeding Da Luan when she saw Xie Jinhuan pop out of the window, and was a little puzzled.
"Young Master Xie, aren't you going to stay with your aunt?"

"Hehe, I have to go out later, so I'll come and take a look."

Xie Jinhuan came up to him and asked:
"I accidentally slept for over ten days. Have you made any progress on the detoxification recipe that Miss Zisu mentioned last time?"

Lin Zisu had almost forgotten about it, but now she quickly got up and ran to the medicine cabinet, taking out two bottles of pills:

"It's already prepared, so this is just adding fuel to the fire!"

"Adding fuel to the fire?"

Upon hearing the name, Xie Jinhuan had already roughly grasped the nature of the Purple Perilla Immortal:

"Is this a case of fighting poison with poison?"

"Correct."

Lin Zisu took out the small red bottle with great interest:
"This is my potent yang poison, made primarily with bone-burning grass, supplemented with fourteen kinds of extremely yang medicinal herbs, carefully decocted..."

Xie Jinhuan was taken aback: "You can even concoct poisons?"

"?"

Poisonous Medicine Girl blinked her big eyes and looked at Xie Jinhuan with a strange expression.

Master, what do you do for a living?

"Uh……"

Xie Jinhuan was so focused on pharmacists concocting antidotes and poison masters concocting poisons that he forgot they were essentially from the same family. His mind hadn't quite grasped the concept, and he quickly raised his hand:

"Poison is medicine too, that's normal. Can this medicine cure the Burning Immortal Gu?"

"Ah."

Lin Zisu nodded confidently, but perhaps because explaining it would be too complicated, she took out a piece of paper:
"I've written down the usage, advantages, and disadvantages of this pill on this paper. Young Master Xie, just have the person afflicted with the Gu take the medicine according to the instructions. I'm going to grab something to eat with Coal Ball now, so I'll be going now!"

After saying that, he picked up a coal ball and went for a stroll.

Xie Jinhuan unfolded the paper and examined it. He could see that Zisu's handwriting was very neat and orderly, unlike that of a doctor with flamboyant handwriting. The efficacy and usage of the medicine were described in great detail.

The "Adding Fuel to the Fire" pill, while unable to cure the Burning Immortal Gu, does contain an antidote!

This elixir uses a man's true yang energy as a catalyst to ignite extreme yang fire that burns away the body's essence, both inside and out. Without an antidote, one will turn into a dried-up corpse within an hour or two.

The Yang poison of the Burning Immortal Gu is ignited by the ultimate Yang energy, burning the entire body. The two types of Yang poison will compete for resources within the body!

No matter how powerful the Burning Immortal Gu is, this pill will take away some of its living space. After taking the antidote to extinguish the extreme yang fire, some of the tainted meridians will return to normal!

As long as the flow of Qi is stabilized to prevent the spread of Yang poison, the Burning Immortal Gu can be eradicated by using poison to fight poison in this cycle.

Xie Jinhuan nodded secretly, thinking that this method of 'fighting poison with poison' was indeed promising. He continued reading and discovered the price was:
The Burning Immortal Gu is inexhaustible. As long as a tiny spark remains, it will turn into a raging fire when the Qi is stirred. Therefore, when the disease can be eradicated depends on luck. If you are lucky, it can be eradicated in two or three times, but if you are unlucky, it may take several years.

However, each time he takes the antidote, he can fight poison with poison and restore most of the qi and blood that have been infected.

Secondly, the two types of yang toxins ravage the body, like adding fuel to the fire. There is a 50% chance of immediate recovery and a 50% chance of immediate death!

Therefore, the only option is to have the fellow Daoist take the elixir, using true yang to ignite the extreme yang fire, and then transmit the qi...

Xie Jinhuan felt that this method had no side effects at all, but it was a gamble.

He glanced at the sky; it was getting late. Without further ado, he flew away from the Lin residence and headed towards the garage of the giant ice block…

(End of this chapter)