"This old woman …"
Yi Yun used his perception to observe the old woman. He could clearly sense that there was a layer of ghostly aura lingering around her.
Furthermore, the old woman looked rather terrifying. She looked like a corpse that had crawled out of a grave.
As for Ji Shuiyan, she carefully walked to the door of the old woman's room after hearing the old woman's voice transmission. After mustering her courage several times, she pushed the door open.
Instantly, a deathly aura emanated from the room. It felt like an ancient tomb had been dug open.
Ji Shuiyan's lips turned pale when she saw the old woman's face that was as white as a paper figurine. However, she bit the bullet and walked to the old woman before bowing.
"Yan'er greets Granny."
"Heh! Heh! " The old woman let out an unpleasant laugh from her throat. She paused after every laugh. It was hair-raising. "Greets Granny? You still know how to greet me? Do you think I don't know what you were doing while I was recuperating in seclusion? "
"You spared no expense to save a person in the desert. Why did you save him? Why don't you tell Granny? "
Upon hearing the old woman's words, Ji Shuiyan's face paled. However, she forced herself to remain calm and said, "It was fate that brought us together. Yan'er only saved him because it was fate that brought us together … Ah!"
Ji Shuiyan suddenly screamed. The old woman suddenly extended her bony hand that resembled a chicken claw and slapped Ji Shuiyan away!
"Pa!"
With a crisp sound, Ji Shuiyan's entire body slammed into the door. Her veil was torn apart, leaving three bloody wounds on her face. They were left behind by the old woman's fingernails.
Soon, the wounds on Ji Shuiyan's face began to turn black. The blood that flowed out seemed to have corroded.
Pain, excruciating pain!
The old woman's fingernails were laced with corpse poison. When the poison entered her body, it left Ji Shuiyan in excruciating pain.
However, all Ji Shuiyan did was cover her face and endure the pain in silence.
Upon seeing all of this, Yi Yun finally understood why he had seen the scars on Ji Shuiyan's face.
It was no wonder that Ji Shuiyan had covered her face with a veil to hide her scar when he first met her. Furthermore, despite being the mistress of a large trading firm, she was unable to heal the scar.
If it was really a scar left behind by the corpse poison, ignoring the difficulty of treating it, just the fact that the old woman left behind a new scar after treating it would make Ji Shuiyan despair. She would then abandon all thoughts of treating it!
"You're in so much pain, yet you're not making a sound. Your bones are pretty hard! I know what you're thinking in your heart, you little hussy. You're treating that brat as some senior with profound cultivation and want him to owe you a favor. Then, you'll ask him for help and let him deal with this old woman on your behalf, right? "
"It just so happens that the cultivation technique that the kid practices is the Righteous Path's Power of Life. You see that the grass in the desert has sprouted because of him, so you want to use his Power of Life to counter my Ghost Path cultivation technique?"
"What a pity! What a pity! Your calculations are exquisite, but he is really a junior! You're desperate and afraid of my revenge, so you want him to leave the caravan as soon as possible? "
With a few words, the old woman had exposed everything that Ji Shuiyan had been thinking about.
The black blood on Ji Shuiyan's face increased but she did not bother wiping it away. All she did was cover her face and clench her teeth in silence.
Ji Shuiyan was unable to put up any resistance against the old woman that was neither human nor ghost. She had planned to save Yi Yun while the old woman was in seclusion. However, not only did her plan turn out to be for naught, it had also been discovered by the old woman.
Upon thinking of this, Ji Shuiyan felt a sense of despair.
Her death was not to be regretted, but was the Divine Secrets Trading Company that her grandfather had left behind really going to decline because of her incompetence?
"This is the last time. Yan 'er, follow Granny and help her find the medicine. Granny will not mistreat you. If you have any other thoughts, that beautiful face of yours will be completely ruined. You might even lose all your vitality and become like Granny."
The old woman's voice suddenly turned gentler. She gently caressed Ji Shuiyan's face. Although her actions appeared gentle, her fingernails had deliberately scratched Ji Shuiyan's wounds. This made Ji Shuiyan feel a heart-wrenching pain. Her face turned pale and her lips trembled, but she could only endure it.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. What a beautiful face. It's a pity that there's a price to pay for your little tricks. The person you saved is an eyesore to me. I have a Heart Devouring Insect here. It's more than enough to deal with that junior. Go and kill him."
As the old woman spoke, she flipped her skinny palm and a tiny beetle appeared in it.
Upon seeing the tiny beetle, Ji Shuiyan's body trembled as her heart shrank. She knew that this was the red-dressed old woman's punishment for her. She was a kind-hearted person, so killing someone she had saved with her own hands was definitely a form of mental and physical devastation.
"Granny, let that youth off. He is innocent. Besides, Shuiyan has already allowed him to leave the caravan. He has already gone far away."
At that moment, Ji Shuiyan only wished for Yi Yun to go as far away as possible. However, the old woman's words left Ji Shuiyan's body cold. "Leave? Unfortunately, he hasn't left. How can he bear to leave after seeing a delicate beauty like you save him? He is currently following the sand boat on an Azure Qilin Horse! "
He hasn't left?
Ji Shuiyan felt like all her strength had been sucked out of her. Yi Yun had refused to leave despite being allowed to. There was no way he could live. She understood the old woman's character. She could slaughter a mortal city without batting an eyelid in order to nurture a Yin soul. What was the big deal about killing a youth?
…
Yi Yun had seen everything that had happened in the sand boat clearly. He never expected that the sand boat, which looked like a girl's bedroom, was hiding such an old monster.
A Heart Devouring Gu?
Yi Yun thought nothing of the Gu. He was indeed at the Dao Manifestation realm and had only cultivated for a hundred years. However, among Dao Manifestation realm warriors, his strength far exceeded anyone's imagination. Even Yi Yun himself was no exception.
Yi Yun did not know how strong he would be after condensing four nine-leaf Dao fruits, one of which was a Major Destruction Dao fruit. Together with the divine tree seed that had entered his dantian, he did not know how strong he would be.
Now, he could give it a try. Although the old woman's cultivation level was high, Yi Yun's perception after fusing with the divine tree seed allowed him to see everything clearly.
She was at the fourth-storey Dao Palace realm, more than an entire realm higher than him.
She was an excellent touchstone.
However, the divine tree seed in Yi Yun's body still occupied a portion of his meridians.
Yi Yun had a premonition that as the divine tree seed slowly sprouted, it would need to absorb more and more Heaven Earth Yuan Qi essence. If he did not provide it with enough, the situation from before might happen again. The divine tree seed would occupy all his meridians, preventing him from moving.
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