The Legend of the Condor Heroes: From Being Expelled from Peach Blossom Island

Chapter 155 Night Detective
Besides feeding these Jin people extra-seasoned kebabs, Wu Chengyu also had to figure out how to deal with someone who didn't eat meat.

Naturally, it was the Fourth Prince, Wanyan Hongyu, a person who was abstaining from meat all year round. He couldn't even stand the smell of meat, so naturally he wouldn't eat Wu Chengyu's roasted meat.

However, Wanyan Hongyu was already on Wu Chengyu's kill list, but before Shi Miyuan appeared, his life had to be spared for the time being.

However, once Wanyan Hongyu meets Shi Miyuan, he will definitely be surrounded by skilled guards, and his old perverted rival, Guihua, might also appear.

The opportunity to kill on the spot is fleeting. If there is only one chance to strike, then Wu Chengyu's primary target is still Shi Miyuan.

However, Wu Chengyu was unwilling to accept that Wanyan Hongyu was still alive and well after he killed Shi Miyuan, and could continue to negotiate with Song Dynasty officials. Therefore, he had to find a way to get rid of Wanyan Hongyu. Fortunately, although Wanyan Hongyu did not eat meat, he loved to drink alcohol, and he would deliberately add drugs to the alcohol.

This guy drinks medicinal wine every night without fail. With so many servants around him, how could his body, which has been a vegetarian for years, possibly keep up?

Since ancient times, nobles have been known for their extravagance and debauchery, and their bodies have long since deteriorated, relying entirely on tonics to keep them afloat. Wanyan Hongyu is no exception.

Wu Chengyu gets excited when this is mentioned. He gets very excited when it comes to drugging people, and he already has successful practical experience in doing so. But my love for firewood is not useful here.

Although "I Love a Piece of Firewood" is extremely potent, those who are affected by it cannot control themselves and will even go into a frenzy. Since we cannot kill Wanyan Hongyu immediately, the fact that someone has drugged him will be exposed as soon as he takes "I Love a Piece of Firewood".

Moreover, after ingesting "I Love a Piece of Firewood" and going mad, one's body will be weak for a few days at most. As long as one takes some supplements and rests properly, one will be fine. This will not achieve Wu Chengyu's goal of secretly killing Wanyan Hongyu.

Fortunately, he now has a new option, something that isn't an aphrodisiac.

Last time, he saved Lu Zhiyi and other descendants of Yue Fei's army outside Suzhou. He was also rewarded with a bamboo slip, first with half a line of poetry: "The candle burns to ashes before the tears dry."

In fact, the bamboo slips this time contained another prescription, with a very strange name: "Lighting Candles at Both Ends".

According to the instructions on the bamboo slips, this medicine, once ingested, can rapidly enhance a person's strength, internal energy, and speed, directly reaching a superhuman level.

Taoism emphasizes refining essence into qi, while this prescription promotes the transformation of essence into qi. It uses a destructive and exploitative method to fully unleash a person's potential, at the cost of destroying their foundation, to greatly increase the user's martial prowess.

Of course, once this medicine is taken, the user will be basically crippled after the effects wear off, or at the very least, half-crippled. Recovery will be extremely difficult, essentially a pill version of the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique.

Like a candle, if you light both ends at the same time, it will burn out very quickly, and indeed, the candle will turn to ash.

For Wu Chengyu, this kind of elixir was something he never wanted to take in his life, but since arriving in Hangzhou, especially after meeting Guihua, it had become extremely difficult for him to kill Shi Miyuan. Who knew what other unseen masters were on both the Song and Jin sides?

Now he only seeks clarity of mind; having made a promise, he doesn't want to betray his true self.

After a moment's consideration, Wu Chengyu still prepared the elixir. If the final outcome required a desperate fight, then he had to be alive to fight, at least to kill all his opponents before he died.

This medicine also has another use: to unleash potential, the user must have internal strength. The higher the internal strength and the stronger the foundation, the better the effect.

If someone without a foundation in internal energy takes this medicine, and the dosage is reduced to one-tenth, it will act like an adrenaline-fueled stimulant. The user won't feel anything, only that they have exceptionally high energy levels, which in turn increases their libido. However, the ultimate cost is that within a few months, their kidneys will develop problems, eventually leading to kidney failure. In this era, this is a terminal illness; there's no dialysis, no kidney transplant, and even a prince can only wait to die.

When the night was deep and quiet, Wu Chengyu quietly came to the main house in the center of the manor, where Wanyan Hongyu lived.

Dozens of Jin guards were stationed around the area, with both overt and covert sentries, but Wu Chengyu's three-dimensional map could accurately track everyone's movements, allowing him to easily evade them with his superb lightness skills.

The strong smell of barbecue on him was initially a clue, but the guards all recognized him; they were the same guys who had been tending his barbecue grill during the day, enduring the smoke while eagerly waiting to eat their skewers.

The Jin people were big eaters, and these martial artists were burly and had huge appetites. Each of them ate no less than forty or fifty skewers per meal. Their smell was definitely no less than that of Wu Chengyu, which actually prevented them from leaving any flaws.

Wu Chengyu tiptoed to the main hall and hung upside down under the eaves. According to Wanyan Hongyu's habit, he would drink the medicinal wine before going to bed and when he wanted to favor someone. The medicinal wine had just been delivered and was still warm.

The medicinal wine was placed on the octagonal table in the main hall's living room. Wanyan Hongyu was discussing something with someone in his study, and the person next to him was his confidant, Wanyan Qing.

There was no one else in the main hall at this time. The door to the study was half-closed, and only a corner of the octagonal table could be barely seen from inside the study.

There was a small horizontal window under the eaves, just big enough for one person to pass through, but it was now bolted shut.

Wu Chengyu used his internal force to adhere to the window frame. The shifting energy of the stars slowly passed through the horizontal window, and he quietly pulled the window bolt. It was extremely slow and made no sound.

Once the horizontal window opened, he slipped inside like a cat, not touching the ground, but instead clinging to the ceiling like a spider, slowly making his way to the main beam of the main hall.

The octagonal table is located under the main beam.

Wu Chengyu was very careful. There was bound to be dust on the main beam. If it was stirred up even slightly, the dust would settle down, and anyone with a little sense would surely notice the flaw.

He once again enveloped the beam with his inner force, using it to absorb the dust. Then, he used the "Shifting Stars" technique to gather all the dust together. Next, he took out a rope, tied one end of it around his waist, and, head down, slid it down little by little until it reached the distance of the Eight Immortals' table.

The rest is simple. There is a silver wine jug on the table, but his medicine will not cause silver to react.

Wu Chengyu gently lifted the lid of the pot and put the powder, which had been ground into powder and contained only one-tenth of the medicinal amount, into the pot.

This powder is colorless and odorless, dissolves instantly in water, and blends with the medicinal wine in less than two breaths.

Having achieved his goal, Wu Chengyu did not leave immediately, but wanted to see Wanyan Hongyu drink it himself before he could feel at ease.

He gently returned to the main beam, untied the rope, went back down from the ceiling to the horizontal window, crawled out through the window, and slowly closed the window, pulling the bolt back in.

He then hid under the eaves and listened to the conversation between Wanyan Hongyu and Wanyan Qing.

(End of this chapter)