Blood Demon White Bone Technique

Seeing the concern in Li Shuidao's eyes, Xia Ruoxue smiled sweetly. Then her gaze wandered hazily around her, taking in the surroundings.

"What happened?" Xia Ruoxue asked groggily.

"Xue'er, don't be scared. You only lost a little blood. You're fine, so don't worry," Li Shuidao gently reassured her.

"Rest for a while. I still have something to take care of," Li Shuidao said abruptly.

"Mm." Xia Ruoxue nodded instinctively and obediently let go of his hand.

Li Shuidao first went to the unconscious Tang Yindong and fed him half a small bottle of gecko poison. Earth overcame water, stopping his own toad poison from killing the man.

Then he bound Tang Yindong's arms and legs, treated his wounds as best he could, and even gave him a hemostatic pill to keep him from bleeding to death.

After that, Li Shuidao began searching the area for herbs.

He pushed aside the grass, bent down, and picked a black mushroom: a Chuanxiong Roundcap.

Then he picked a white mushroom speckled with red. This was a Deerstone Pine Mushroom.

As Li Shuidao kept searching, he found another mushroom, red and fan-shaped: a Blood-Eyed Red Fan. It was rich in hallucinogenic compounds.

He spread the mushrooms across a flat stone slab and used a hard rock to crush them into pulp.

Then Li Shuidao took out a jade bottle and packed the crushed mushrooms inside. He squeezed them with his fingers, and fresh mushroom juice oozed out.

With both his arms and legs severed, Tang Yindong had temporarily fallen unconscious from the agony.

His consciousness sank into endless darkness...

Dao Art: Water Moon Flowing Pearl.

As he cast the spell, Li Shuidao's fingers moved with the gentle sweep of flowing water.

The Water Moon Flowing Pearl appeared in his palm, releasing a soft glow.

Its light instantly enveloped Tang Yindong, healing his shattered body. Though his limbs remained severed and could not be restored, his bleeding miraculously stopped, and his injuries no longer worsened.

Slowly...

Tang Yindong began to regain consciousness. In a daze, he raised his head.

Li Shuidao forced a bottle of medicinal liquid down his throat. Instinctively, Tang Yindong opened his mouth and drank.

The liquid was fresh and sweet, and it tasted wonderful...

It felt just like "rising into the clouds..."

Tang Yindong lay on the ground with his limbs severed, his face wearing a strange expression.

The corners of his mouth lifted slightly, and his eyes were dazed and vacant.

His lips parted a little, revealing two rows of teeth. His eyes were dull and lifeless, and his brows tilted down slightly, as if he were forcing out a smile.

That smile was a stark display of what a person looked like after losing his wits.

It was the pure, simple smile of an idiot...

Li Shuidao crouched in front of Tang Yindong, their gazes meeting.

Tang Yindong's smile grew even more foolish.

"What's your name?" Li Shuidao asked coldly.

Tang Yindong fell into a daze. His mind seemed shrouded in fog, and he answered with muddled thoughts. "I... I'm Tang Yindong."

"What is Lin Yunzhi to you?"

Tang Yindong answered uncertainly, "He's... he's my nephew."

Li Shuidao's gaze was as sharp as a blade. "Who is the traitor in the Li Family?" he asked coldly.

Tang Yindong shook his head, unsure. "There's no traitor."

Li Shuidao's eyes widened as he snapped, "Nonsense! If there's no traitor, how did you find Xia Ruoxue and me after we'd only been out for two days?"

Tang Yindong was hallucinating, and his mind wasn't working properly. After thinking hard for a long while, he finally managed to answer, "It's because of the Spirit Companion. Zhi'er can sense the location of his Spirit Companion."

At that answer, Li Shuidao's brows shot up, and a sense of foreboding rose within him.

"What is Lin Yunzhi's Spirit Companion?" Li Shuidao asked, his voice trembling.

Tang Yindong looked toward Xia Ruoxue with a foolish grin.

"Impossible!" Li Shuidao shook his head. "How could someone cultivate by taking a person as a Spirit Companion?"

The fool Tang Yindong chuckled as if Li Shuidao were the idiot. "There are plenty of techniques that use people as Spirit Companions. Take the Hehuan Sect's arts, for instance—men and women become each other's Spirit Companions."

Li Shuidao: "..."

"What technique does Lin Yunzhi cultivate?" Li Shuidao asked, frowning.

Tang Yindong's brows relaxed. His eyes stared blankly ahead as he kept up his vacant smile. "Blood Demon White Bone Technique."

The name didn't sound much like a technique from the Hehuan Sect, and Li Shuidao felt somewhat relieved.

"What kind of technique is it?"

"A demonic technique... a great demonic technique... a top-tier one, heh heh heh..." Tang Yindong started laughing as he spoke.

Li Shuidao frowned and took a Detoxification Pill from his robes.

He crushed it!

He gave Tang Yindong half a dose and stuffed it straight into his mouth.

After eating half a Detoxification Pill, Tang Yindong's hallucinogenic mushroom poison was diluted somewhat. He no longer looked as foolish as before.

"Where did Lin Yunzhi get the Blood Demon White Bone Technique?" Li Shuidao continued questioning him.

"His great-grandfather, Lin Yuanxiu, passed it down to him. They say Lin Yuanxiu found it while exploring an underground tomb." By then, the hallucinogenic poison in Tang Yindong's body had weakened. Not only could he speak clearly, he could even recount the whole story from beginning to end.

This dosage was just right...

"Is the Lin Family a Cultivation Family?" Li Shuidao continued questioning him.

Tang Yindong grinned foolishly at Li Shuidao. "Yes. The Lin Family of Cangzhou is affiliated with Azure Scale Hall."

"How many cultivators does the Lin Family have now?" Li Shuidao asked, narrowing his eyes.

"A dozen or so."

"Only a dozen? How can that count as a Cultivation Family?"

"They were wiped out. Only a dozen are left. Heh heh heh..." Tang Yindong started laughing again as he spoke.

"Who wiped them out?" Li Shuidao gave Tang Yindong a little more of the Detoxification Pill.

"Azure Scale Hall."

"Why?"

"For the demonic technique."

"The Blood Demon White Bone Technique?"

"Heh heh heh... Yes." Tang Yindong nodded with a foolish smile.

Li Shuidao frowned. Azure Scale Hall, a cultivation sect, had wiped out a Cultivation Family for the Blood Demon White Bone Technique. The Lin Family would rather be destroyed than hand over the technique.

That showed just how powerful the Blood Demon White Bone Technique was.

"How did Xia Ruoxue become a Spirit Companion for the Blood Demon White Bone Technique?" Li Shuidao asked coldly.

This was the most important question!

Tang Yindong shook his head, drooling. "Heh heh heh... I don't know."

"You really don't know?"

"I just don't know. It's a secret of the Blood Demon White Bone Technique. Young Master Lin never told me."

"He's your nephew. Why do you call him Young Master?"

"After the Lin Family was wiped out, he became its head. Of course I should call him Young Master."

Li Shuidao pondered for a moment, then asked his final question. "Four months ago, you rescued Lin Yunzhi. Fine. But why did you kill my Fourth Uncle, too?"

"Your Fourth Uncle... who's that?"

"The man you killed in the Li Family."

"Oh... To get the Jade Tablet back."

"What Jade Tablet?"

"The inheritance Jade Tablet for the demonic technique..."