Toxic Snake

When Qin Leyan saw how disheveled he looked, she drifted over and reached out to help him up. Only when her hand passed through Qin Xiaoran's arm did she realize that she was now nothing more than a wisp of a soul.

"Brother, I can finally call you Brother, and you can finally see me."

Qin Leyan had been trapped inside that pair of earrings all these years. Her soul had grown along with her body. When she was little, she did not understand why, whenever she called for her brother, father, or mother, they never responded.

Later, through the fake Qin Leyan's repeated torment, she finally learned the truth.

It turned out that it was not that her brother and parents ignored her. That wicked woman had sealed her away, taken over her body, stolen her identity, and enjoyed the affection of her parents and brother.

Her parents and brother had no idea that the daughter they cherished was actually an impostor who had stolen her place.

Watching that wicked woman toy with her parents and brother, using their love for her to deliberately harm the body and torment them, made her heart ache terribly.

She was especially devastated when that wicked woman used her body to pass messages to her accomplices, reveal Qin Xiaoran's whereabouts, and cause him to be ambushed and hunted down, leaving him gravely injured when he returned.

She felt utterly useless, unable to warn her parents or brother. In her extreme pain, she had even wanted to scatter her soul and vanish from the world.

Fortunately, things took a turn today. Someone had discovered her. Someone had saved her.

At last, she could call him Brother and meet him face-to-face.

Seeing Qin Xiaoran's battered and weakened state, Chu Moqing took a white porcelain bottle from his storage ring and poured out a pill.

The moment the pill appeared, the entire room filled with a delicate fragrance. Simply breathing in its scent made everyone feel considerably better.

Shen Ziheng recognized it at a glance. "The Nine-Turn Resurrection Pill!"

Chu Moqing fed the medicine to Qin Xiaoran, then glanced at Shen Ziheng. "As expected of someone from Divine Physician Valley. You have a good eye. It is indeed the Nine-Turn Resurrection Pill."

Qin Xiaoran had already been seriously injured, and he had just forced himself to use spiritual power. If Chu Moqing had not feared damaging his foundation, he would never have been willing to take out this medicine!

The Nine-Turn Resurrection Pill was a supreme healing medicine said to save someone even with only half a breath left. Even he only had a few.

Feng Wuhen had once again encountered something he knew nothing about, and he realized just how little he truly understood of the cultivation world. He decided that once he returned, he would ask his master for some books and broaden his knowledge.

Otherwise, if he went out like this, he might be swindled so thoroughly that not even his underwear would remain.

Hearing his thoughts, Chu Moqing took several books from his storage ring and handed them to him. He had no desire to see his own disciple get cheated out of everything.

Though he found that unlikely, considering his disciple could see through the past and future, expanding his knowledge was still a good thing.

"Wuhen, these are the Cultivation Guide, the upper and lower volumes of the Compendium of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, Evil Arts and Artifacts, and the Collection of Monsters and Beasts.

Read them when you have time. Everything about the cultivation world is recorded in these books. As for the one on top, it contains what I encountered during my travels over the years, as well as what I heard from my senior brothers, senior sisters, and master. Some of the things recorded in it are not found in the other books, so you must read that one."

Feng Wuhen had just been thinking of asking his master for these books, yet his master had already prepared them for him. He had even given him his own insights, as well as those of his martial uncles and aunts. It was truly thoughtful.

While master and disciple were passing around the books, Qin Che entered from outside, supporting the red-eyed Ruan Siyao, whose body was too weak to remain standing.

When they saw Qin Leyan's transparent body floating with her feet off the ground, one's eyes reddened while the other let out a mournful cry.

"Ah! My daughter, my daughter!!"

Seeing the floating Qin Leyan, Ruan Siyao reached out, wanting to pull her into her embrace. Naturally, she touched nothing, and her body passed right through Qin Leyan.

Ruan Siyao clutched her chest and spat out a huge mouthful of blood. The blood that fell to the floor bloomed into flowers of tragic beauty.

Slap!

Qin Che moved to support her, but Ruan Siyao turned around, raised her hand, and slapped him hard. Her gaze was full of hatred. "It's all your fault! Why did you have to save people so casually out there? Why should the trouble you brought upon us be borne by our children?!"

As Ruan Siyao berated Qin Che, she was also berating herself. They had truly failed as parents, allowing their child to suffer such terrible hardship because of them.

How could they make up for it? And how could they ever truly make up for it?

Qin Che accepted the slap without resistance. He blamed himself too. How could he have failed to see through someone and saved a poisonous snake?

Had only he been harmed, it would have been one thing. But now, his wife and children had suffered the deepest wounds. And if Feng Wuhen had not joined Mount Grand Mystery, allowing them to hear his thoughts, then after this, the ones to suffer even greater harm would have been his sect.

His own mistake had made these innocent people suffer for nothing. As Qin Che thought of this, his Dao heart began to waver.

Qin Leyan covered her mouth in shock when she saw Ruan Siyao slap Qin Che. After Ruan Siyao finished speaking and Qin Che's Dao heart began to waver, she drifted over.

"Father, Mother! This is not your fault. Father saved someone out of kindness; he never expected to save such a poisonous snake. Mother, you too, do not blame yourself. Aren't I fine now? Brother is fine too. Let's forget what happened this time and start over, all right?

I just wonder whether Father and Mother would be willing to raise me all over again?"

Qin Leyan tried her best to comfort them. After taking the medicine, Qin Xiaoran continued regulating his breath. Once he had finished, he joined Qin Leyan in comforting Qin Che and Ruan Siyao.

Watching the family comfort one another, Feng Wuhen turned to Chu Moqing, who had sheathed his sword. "Master, do you have a way to remove that wicked woman's soul from Senior Sister Qin's body? As long as her soul is removed, Senior Sister Qin can return to her own body, right?"

Hearing Feng Wuhen's words, Qin Xiaoran and the others no longer had the heart to comfort one another. They all turned to look at the master and disciple.

Chu Moqing looked at the terrified 'Qin Leyan' and revealed a maliciously amused expression. "That soul is no good anyway. It should be fine if it gets accidentally hurt while being removed, as long as Leyan's body is not harmed."

Feng Wuhen watched as Chu Moqing placed a hand on 'Qin Leyan's' forehead and muttered, "Whale Swallow." A purple vortex appeared in Chu Moqing's palm.

Then he saw 'Qin Leyan's' black soul being drawn out by the purple vortex and compressed into a ball.

Noticing that Feng Wuhen had been staring at him, Chu Moqing handed him the ball in his palm. "Judging by your expression earlier, you really wanted to deal with her. Now you can do so without worry."