Seeing Li Shuidao's concerned gaze, Xia Ruoxue gave a sweet smile. Her gaze then wandered around hazily as she observed her surroundings.
"What happened?" Xia Ruoxue asked groggily.
"Xue'er, don't be scared. You just lost a little blood, you're fine, don't worry," Li Shuidao said gently.
"You should rest for a while. I still have things to handle," Li Shuidao suddenly said.
"Mm," Xia Ruoxue subconsciously nodded and obediently let go of his hand.
Li Shuidao first went to the unconscious Tang Yindong and fed him a little less than half a bottle of Gecko poison. Using earth to counter water, it stopped his Toad Poison, preventing this guy from dying from the poison.
Then, he bound Tang Yindong's limbs, gave him a simple dressing for his wounds, and even gave him a hemostatic pill to prevent him from bleeding to death.
Afterward, Li Shuidao began searching the surrounding environment for herbs.
He pushed aside the grass, bent down, and picked a black mushroom: Chuanxiong Round Cap Mushroom.
Then he picked another white mushroom with red spots, which was a Deer Stone Pine Mushroom.
As Li Shuidao continued searching, he found another red, fan-shaped mushroom. This was a Blood Eye Red Fan Mushroom, a type of mushroom rich in hallucinogenic components.
He spread the collected mushrooms on a flat stone slab and used a rough stone to pound them into a pulp.
Then, Li Shuidao took out a jade bottle from his person, put the finely crushed mushrooms into it, and squeezed it with his fingers. Fresh mushroom juice came out.
With his hands and feet severed, the intense pain had already caused Tang Yindong to fall into a coma.
His consciousness was immersed in endless darkness...
Dao Technique: Water Moon Flowing Pearl.
As he cast the spell, Li Shuidao's fingers moved gently like flowing water.
In his palm, the Water Moon Flowing Pearl appeared, emitting a gentle radiance.
The light of the Water Moon Flowing Pearl instantly enveloped Tang Yindong, healing his broken body. Although his limbs were still severed and could not be restored, the bleeding miraculously stopped, and his injuries no longer worsened.
Slowly...
Tang Yindong's consciousness began to awaken. He groggily raised his head.
Before him, Li Shuidao forcibly poured a bottle of liquid into his mouth. He subconsciously opened his mouth and cooperated in drinking the medicine.
The liquid was fresh and sweet, with a beautiful taste...
The sensation was like "ascending to the clouds..."
Tang Yindong, with his severed limbs, lay on the ground with a strange expression.
The corners of his mouth turned up slightly, his eyes hazy and vacant.
His lips parted slightly, revealing his teeth. His eyes were dull and lifeless, his eyebrows slightly drawn down, as if he were forcing a smile.
This smile was a blatant display of someone who had lost their intellect.
It was a smile of idiotic innocence...
Li Shuidao squatted in front of Tang Yindong, his gaze meeting Tang Yindong's in mid-air.
Tang Yindong gave an even more foolish smile.
"What's your name?" Li Shuidao asked coldly.
Tang Yindong fell into a daze. His mind seemed shrouded in a fog, and his thoughts jumbled as he replied, "I... my name is Tang Yindong."
"Who is Lin Yunzhi to you?"
Tang Yindong replied somewhat confusedly, "He... he is my nephew."
Li Shuidao's gaze was sharp as a knife. He said coldly, "Who is the traitor of the Li Family?"
Tang Yindong shook his head uncertainly, "There are no traitors."
Li Shuidao's eyes widened, and he said fiercely, "Nonsense! If there are no traitors, why were we found by you guys after only two days out?"
Tang Yindong fell into a hallucination. His mind wasn't working well, and after thinking for a long time, he painstakingly replied, "It's the Companion. Zhi'er can sense the location of his Companion."
Hearing this answer, Li Shuidao's eyebrows shot up, and a sense of foreboding arose.
"What kind of Companion is Lin Yunzhi?" Li Shuidao asked, his voice trembling.
Tang Yindong looked at Xia Ruoxue with a foolish grin.
"Impossible!" Li Shuidao shook his head. "Using a person as a Companion, how can one cultivate?"
The foolish Tang Yindong chuckled like an idiot and said, "There are plenty of cultivation methods that use people as Companions. Like the Daoist arts of the Joyful Union Sect, where men and women are Companions to each other."
Li Shuidao: "..."
"What cultivation method is Lin Yunzhi practicing?" Li Shuidao asked, frowning.
Tang Yindong's eyebrows relaxed, his eyes stared blankly ahead, maintaining his dazed smile as he said, "Blood Demon White Bone Technique."
Hearing the name, it didn't sound like a technique from the Joyful Union Sect, and Li Shuidao breathed a sigh of relief.
"What kind of technique is this?"
"A demonic technique... a great demonic technique... a top-tier great demonic technique, giggle giggle giggle..." Tang Yindong started laughing as he spoke.
Li Shuidao frowned and took out a Detoxification Pill from his embrace.
Crush!
He gave Tang Yindong half the dosage, directly stuffing it into his mouth.
After eating half a Detoxification Pill, the hallucinogenic mushroom poison in Tang Yindong's body was diluted. He didn't look as foolish as before.
"Where did Lin Yunzhi get the Blood Demon White Bone Technique?" Li Shuidao continued to ask.
"From his great-grandfather, Lin Yuanxiu. It's said that Lin Yuanxiu obtained it while exploring an underground tomb." By this time, the hallucinogenic poison in Tang Yindong's body had lessened. Not only were his words clear, but he could even recount the cause and effect completely.
This dosage is just right...
"Is the Lin Family a cultivation family?" Li Shuidao continued to ask.
Tang Yindong looked at Li Shuidao with a foolish grin and said, "Yes, the Cangzhou Lin Family is affiliated with the Azure Scale Hall."
"How many cultivators does the Lin Family have now?" Li Shuidao asked, his eyes narrowing slightly.
"A little over ten."
"Only a little over ten? What kind of cultivation family is that?"
"They were annihilated. Only a little over ten remain. Giggle giggle..." Tang Yindong started laughing again as he spoke.
"Who annihilated them?" Li Shuidao gave Tang Yindong a little more Detoxification Pill.
"The Azure Scale Hall."
"Why?"
"For the demonic technique."
"The Blood Demon White Bone Technique?"
"Giggle giggle... Yes." Tang Yindong nodded with a foolish grin.
Li Shuidao frowned. The Azure Scale Hall, a cultivation sect, actually annihilated a cultivation family for the Blood Demon White Bone Technique. The Lin Family would rather be wiped out than hand over this cultivation method.
The power of the Blood Demon White Bone Technique was evident.
"How exactly did Xia Ruoxue become a Companion of the Blood Demon White Bone Technique?" Li Shuidao asked coldly.
This was the most crucial question!
Tang Yindong shook his head, drooling, and said, "Giggle giggle... I don't know."
"You really don't know!"
"I just don't know. This is a secret of the Blood Demon White Bone Technique. Young Master Lin didn't tell me."
"He's your nephew, why do you call him Young Master?"
"After the Lin Family was annihilated, he became the head of the Lin Family, so I naturally have to call him Young Master."
Li Shuidao pondered for a moment and asked the last question: "Four months ago, it was one thing for you to rescue Lin Yunzhi, but why did you have to kill my fourth uncle?"
"Fourth uncle... who?"
"The person you killed at the Li Family."
"Oh... to snatch back the Jade Tablet."
"What Jade Tablet?"
"The Jade Tablet for the inheritance of the demonic technique..."
I changed the plot where she got pregnant and lost the baby again, because I was driving before, so there had to be a child. But the review process made me realize my mistake, and they directly cut off my driving. So I thought, what the hell, and scrapped this plot. It was only a few hundred words anyway. I'll just write it as a eunuch cultivation story.
If any readers who had a child before can re-read the latest two chapters, I believe the plot twist will be much smoother. There won't be any "forced" plot points.
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