Scourge Messenger

Chapter 159 Meeting
As the Pharmacist and the Bunny Girl crossed the Demon-Slaying Hall from the edge, someone threw a wine glass at them, which was about to hit the Bunny Girl on the head from a distance. However, the Pharmacist swung it away and smashed the wine glass into pieces, with oak shards flying everywhere.

The noise drew the attention of everyone in the hall. Suddenly someone shouted "Great Protector!" and the hall quickly fell silent. Everyone turned to look at the Pharmacist and the Bunny Girl who were about to go upstairs. No one dared to cause any more drunken trouble.

The Pharmacist was still dressed in a hooded and masked outfit. Her mysterious style of dress was not uncommon in the Shu Road Mountains. If she appeared alone, others might not recognize her. However, the little girl next to her was too obvious.

"Lord Wolf Master and Lord Star Rain." Someone started bowing to greet them, and dozens of demonic messengers bowed in unison to show their goodwill. Even if they were unwilling, they had to follow the crowd. After all, people might not remember who was the most respectful, but they would definitely remember who was the most disrespectful.

Not only the Bunny Girls, but also the Pharmacist Wish were filled with awe.

Of the twenty-odd demonic messengers that Zhong Ji led down the mountain to ambush people, nearly four were killed by Yao Shiyuan. Don't underestimate this number; demonic messengers aren't stupid, they'll run away.

The fact that he was able to kill four people under the siege of more than twenty demonic messengers shows that the Pharmacist was willing to kill anyone in this hall—even without the dominance of the other three guardians, they were not people they could afford to offend.

As for Bunny Girl, let's not even mention her; she's the Storm Messenger, whom even Zhong Ji could instantly kill. Apart from the three guardians, no one in the entire stronghold could stand in front of her without their legs trembling.

But some people's eyes were full of obsequiousness and flattery. Suddenly, someone shouted, "Lord Wolf Master, we four brothers are very good at dealing with the Wine Pool Wolves. If you want to conquer the Wolf Den Secret Realm, please consider taking us with you!"

"Our Black Wolf Society is no less formidable, Master Wolf Master! We once successfully breached a wolf's den!"

"You think just smelling someone's buttocks after following a blood sample is enough to call it 'opening up'?"

"Red-haired devil, I'll fuck your mother!"

Once they reached the second floor, the pharmacist explained, "The Great Protector has many privileges, but only two are truly precious. One of them is that all the spoils from conquering the Wolf's Den Secret Realm are tax-free, whether they are from demons or treasure chests."

"No wonder everyone wants to curry favor with you," Bunny Girl chuckled. "You've made it big, big sister."

"Don't make fun of me," the pharmacist said with a wry smile. "Besides that, there's another benefit: the Grand Protector can share in many of the stronghold's profits, including the secret realm's produce, the sale of dried meat, and the taxes from Chang Le City."

"This heroine is not short of money," said the bunny girl.

"What's meant to be yours is yours. This Great Protector is half yours." The Pharmacist tried to pat the Bunny Girl's head, but she dodged it. She snorted and laughed, "Didn't your brother say that unsolicited kindness is either malicious or thieving? Why are you giving me your money? Do you have ulterior motives? Do you want me to be your sworn sister?"

My brother once said—

"I know you need your sister-in-law's approval to become sworn brothers with someone else, but didn't you say your brother was deceived by a bad woman? Maybe he'll have a sister-in-law soon."

"But my brother is such an eccentric person, maybe even bad women would be driven away by him," the bunny girl sighed.

"That's true," the pharmacist agreed.

Ok?
Yan Qing looked at the bunny girl's words and wondered if that was what he meant.

He clearly wanted to answer "absolutely impossible," so how did Bunny Girl end up slandering him? And what the hell do you agree with Pharmacist? You've drawn conclusions without even meeting him; that's shallow.

"Speaking of which, why do you call me Xingyu, but you call me Langshiyao? I clearly gave my full name."

"Perhaps they felt you didn't quite match your name, so they gave you a more fitting nickname: Sword Light Like Stars, Rain of Pear Blossoms. After all, saying you were defeated by the Star Rain Heroine is better than saying you were defeated by the Bunny Heroine; the latter sounds too humiliating."

They made their way to the hall at the far end of the second floor, where the servants bowed and left. The two pushed open the door, revealing a rather spacious conference room. A rectangular stone table stood in the center, piled high with scrolls of paper. The floor was covered with wolf skins, and treated white wolf heads hung on the walls. Wolf bone artifacts were scattered throughout the room, demonstrating how closely the aesthetics of a place were related to its hidden gems.

"What a grand display," Blood Prime Minister said coldly by the window. "You actually made us wait for an hour."

The meeting was supposed to start in the afternoon, but Yan Qing needed to switch to Rat Monk's account to run the second-tier dungeon for three hours straight, so he naturally didn't have time to deal with them. He simply notified them and then went offline. This was Yan Qing's most important source of income, and he couldn't stop even if he had a kidney stone attack.

"It takes time to recover after unleashing a torrential downpour, let alone after unleashing it repeatedly," Prajna said kindly. "How is Benefactor Xingyu's health?"

"It's Bunny Girl... never mind." Bunny Girl pointed at Bei You and asked, "Is he painting?"

Although Bei You was also in the conference room, he completely ignored the bunny girl and the pharmacist's entry. He was focused on the drawing paper on the long table, holding a pen in each hand and a pen in his mouth. His clothes were covered in paint of various colors, and his long hair was also multicolored.

"It's almost finished," Prajna said, glancing at the drawing. "This is his studio, and he spends most of his time here, so we sometimes come here to discuss things—we just have to wait for him to finish."

Just as Prajna had said, Bei You stopped after making five or six strokes, and then pressed his seal heavily onto the red clay. When the Rabbit Girl and the Pharmacist went over to take a look, they were shocked to find a giant wolf depicted disemboweling a corpse and feasting on it.

Even without entering the wolf's den to witness this demon, Yan Qing and the Pharmacist could immediately recognize the wolf in the painting. Deeply sinister and ruthless, its shadowy form unpredictable, Bei You's painting perfectly captured the characteristics of the Shadow Wolf, lifelike and full of ferocity. Especially striking was its posture as it devoured a corpse; every detail—teeth, blood, organs—was meticulously rendered, as if the painter had witnessed the wolf eating people up close.

In the lower right corner of the painting is engraved a large seal that reads "Knowing the North and Traveling the South".

"Do you want it?" Bei You suddenly asked. "It's free."

Bunny Girl and Pharmacist immediately shook their heads, and Bei You regretfully rolled up the painting and put it aside.

"I invited you here, naturally, to discuss the opportunity we mentioned before," Prajna said. "However, as you probably guessed, the most well-known opportunity in Shudao Mountain is the Foundation Establishment inheritance left behind by the powerful demonic cultivator Si Wuxie."

"This inheritance is hidden in the Corpse Forest, a secret realm of the fourth level. According to the rules of Shudao Mountain, only the Great Protector is qualified to lead people to explore the Corpse Forest."

The so-called rules are just an excuse. After all, the three guardians are the heavens of Shudao Mountain, and aren't the rules set by them? What Prajna said was actually a promise: the great guardians can enter the Corpse Forest, so the pharmacist is willing for them to be qualified to share and even compete for the Foundation Establishment legacy.

"What a huge pancake!" Yan Qing thought to herself.

However, he was also very curious as to why the three guardians valued the Bunny Girl so much that they were willing to share their Foundation Establishment inheritance.

"Enough with the small talk," the pharmacist said bluntly. "You say you need our assistance, but what exactly is it?"

"According to the notes of our predecessors, the Forest of Corpses is divided into the front hall, the central courtyard, and the rear forest. We are still unable to break through the demonic blockade of the front hall," Prajna said. "The Si Wuxie lineage has existed for over a hundred years, during which countless messengers have attempted to conquer it, but all have been stopped at the front hall."

"It wasn't until Prajna arrived at Shudao Mountain that we saw a glimmer of hope," Beiyou continued. "Because he is the Messenger of the Rainstorm, and the Messenger of the Rainstorm is the key to conquering the front hall. But Prajna alone is not enough. We have been waiting bitterly for all these years, just to wait for the second Messenger of the Rainstorm."

"Now that you've arrived," Bei Youchao said, extending his hands to the Pharmacist and the Bunny Girl Warrior. "The fact that two powerful individuals capable of wielding torrential rain have gathered at the same time on Mount Shu is perhaps destiny."

"The foundation-building legacy of Si Wuxie will be unlocked by the five of us!"

(End of this chapter)