Chapter 81: Those Who Can Use Their Mouths Definitely Won’t Use Their Hands

“Just bear with it. We are sneaking around; we have to be careful not to let the people in the valley discover who we are.”

Ning Shengsheng said in a muffled voice.

Yun Huaiyue sniffled. “You’re right.”

The Mirror Demon thought to himself: This young lady, actually, you don’t need to accept advice so humbly!

The two of them pushed the door open and hunched over as they went out.

The Huan Li, who had been playing wildly outside, ran back and picked something up with its claws to show Ning Shengsheng.

“A Red-Eyed Centipede?”

She glanced at Yun Huaiyue.

“Sure enough, there are Gu worms.”

“Little Huan Li, you play with it, but remember, don’t play it to death.” Ning Shengsheng patted the Huan Li’s head as a reward.

“Awoo~”

The Huan Li batted the centipede back and forth with its paws.

Ning Shengsheng sweated for the Gu worm. She didn’t want it to die because she feared Shen Qinghe would discover something. If the Gu worm died, its master would know.

The night was vast. The valley, which was like a fairyland during the day, was silent at night. There was no wind, and the motionless spiritual plants exuded an eeriness.

The two decided to go to Qiqi’s room first.

Ning Shengsheng lay by the window and poked a hole in the window paper.

She blew sleeping smoke inside.

Yun Huaiyue wore an expression that said, ‘You are so well-equipped.’

Ning Shengsheng, who had just learned spiritual sound transmission, joked with her: “Find me for infiltration; I’m a professional!”

Waiting until the person inside was breathing deeply and slowly.

The sleeping smoke had taken effect.

The two looked at each other and pushed the door open to enter.

Ning Shengsheng turned the person on the bed over and pointed to the green mark on the back of her neck.

“Look, it’s moving.”

Yun Huaiyue squinted and leaned in; something was wriggling under the fingernail-sized mark.

“Inside should be the Gu worm controlling people.”

“Is the person implanted with the Gu worm still alive?” Yun Huaiyue looked worried. “Is there a way to remove the Gu?”

This.

It was truly a blind spot in her knowledge.

If Xue Chen were here, he would definitely know.

“I don’t know either. Let’s investigate the matter clearly first before finding help.” Ning Shengsheng turned the person on the bed back over. “Now the enemy is in the open and we are in the dark. Since the other party hasn’t attacked openly, it shows they have scruples and won’t harm people’s lives for the time being.”

“An’an is right.”

Closing the door, the two walked out of the disciples’ courtyard.

“Did you find anything out about the black powder in the alchemy room?” Ning Shengsheng asked while adjusting her mask.

When it came to professional knowledge, Yun Huaiyue was very confident.

“I went back and examined it carefully with tools. The ingredients inside include Bone-Eroding Nether Orchid and Heart-Illusion Rotting Grass. A poison made from these two spiritual herbs together can cause hallucinations.”

Ning Shengsheng nodded. “The black powder looked like it had been burned. I know!”

“Incense burners!”

The two spoke in unison.

“To let the disciples concentrate on refining pills in the alchemy room, Mother ordered calming incense to be burned daily.”

“And this batch of incense was obviously made from poison powder.”

“Not good, he wants to destroy the alchemists of the Hundred Herb Valley!”

Ning Shengsheng’s expression gradually became solemn. “Senior Sister, I’m afraid many people in the valley have been implanted with Gu worms.”

Like the disciples with shallow cultivation in the medicine fields.

Gu worms can control them directly.

The alchemists in the alchemy rooms have high cultivation, so to plant Gu in them, one must wait for them to be poisoned and weak.

Hundred Herb Valley was in danger!

“The situation is urgent, but Mother happens to be in death seclusion.” Yun Huaiyue realized the enemy’s plot ran deep. “What should we do?”

“Don’t panic, let’s go to the alchemy room first. Do you remember the register Shen Qinghe was looking through?”

“Mm, I remember!”

“I suspect it’s a list of disciples implanted with Gu.”

If the Hundred Herb Valley fell into a great battle, the disciples under the Gu spell must be locked up.

To prevent fratricide.

Yun Huaiyue understood Ning Shengsheng’s meaning, and the two continued to sneak in the dark night.

Meanwhile, in Ning Shengsheng’s room.

The Huan Li accidentally patted the centipede to death.

It froze in surprise; this thing was full of poison, how was it so fragile?

Done for, it was going to be scolded by its master.

The Huan Li guiltily lay by the pillow, pretending to sleep.

On Ning Shengsheng’s side, the two arrived at the alchemy room.

The disciple guarding the alchemy room was sleeping soundly.

She lowered her head and finished taking out the sleeping smoke, preparing to use it on this disciple. Looking up, she saw Yun Huaiyue slap him down.

The disciple fainted instantly.

Hiss!

She touched her own neck; why did it feel a bit painful?

Walking straight in, circling behind the counter.

“It’s locked.” Just as Ning Shengsheng spoke, Yun Huaiyue raised her hand and brought it down like a knife.

The lock was smashed open directly.

Is this still the weak and delicate Senior Sister Yun?

“Senior Sister Yun, if I make you angry in the future, please tell me, don’t hit the back of my neck.”

Ning Shengsheng rubbed her hands together, her expression serious.

Yun Huaiyue touched her head. “Don’t worry, I am very reasonable.”

“Those who can use their mouths definitely won’t use their hands!”

“Hehehe, I believe you.”

Taking out the booklet inside.

Ning Shengsheng sucked in a breath of cold air. “We guessed right.”

Lucky to guess right.

Unlucky that half of the people in Hundred Herb Valley had been put under the Gu spell.

“Senior Sister, look.”

Yun Huaiyue took it, read it roughly, and was so angry she almost crushed her silver teeth.

Just then.

A gentle voice sounded behind the two.

“Junior Sister Huaiyue, Princess Ning An, is it good to look at?”

Ning Shengsheng looked up.

Shen Qinghe, dressed in white, stood at the door.

A shallow smile hung on his jade-like face.

The arc of the smile had never changed from beginning to end.

Like a fake person.

“Good…” to look at!

Before Ning Shengsheng finished speaking, Yun Huaiyue gathered spiritual power and punched towards Shen Qinghe.

Wait!

“Didn’t we agree that those who can use their mouths definitely won’t use their hands?”

“Bad people who harm the Hundred Herb Valley don’t deserve my words.”

Yun Huaiyue and Shen Qinghe fought fiercely.

“I’ll help you!”

At times like this, it should be two against one.

Absolutely cannot let the other party get the advantage.

Unfortunately.

Shen Qinghe was not an ordinary person.

Even though Yun Huaiyue and Ning Shengsheng used all their skills.

They were eventually defeated.

Ning Shengsheng’s Divine Soul Art had not yet been cast, and Yun Huaiyue’s intrinsic spiritual weapon had not been summoned either.

Both were hit by the other party’s Gu technique together.

Yun Huaiyue gritted her teeth, pressing her chest and asking, “Shen Qinghe, what did you put on us?”

“Just a mere Heart-Eroding Gu.”

The man stepped forward, raising his hand to stroke Yun Huaiyue’s cheek.

Ning Shengsheng’s lips were pale, the location of her heart being gnawed by Gu worms, yet under such circumstances, she still threw out a handful of Five-Thunder Talismans.

Blowing Shen Qinghe’s face black.

Shen Qinghe: “……”

“Don’t think about touching my Imperial Sister-in-law.”

She had taken her brother’s money.

She had promised Ning Xuan not to let Shen Qinghe touch Yun Huaiyue.

Even if she was poisoned by Gu, it wasn’t allowed!

“You—”

Shen Qinghe’s scorched face twitched fiercely.

“Very good, Great Ning, I remember this.”

“I wonder what reaction Ning Xuan will have when this Princess of Ning Country’s corpse is exposed in the wilderness?”

Ning Xuan would go crazy.

Yun Huaiyue’s eyes were scarlet, roaring: “You dare! Mother will definitely not spare you when she comes out of seclusion!”

“Hehe…”

Shen Qinghe calmly wiped his face.

“You think, she can still come out of seclusion?”

“What do you mean?”

Yun Huaiyue looked at Shen Qinghe in shock, tears bursting out of her eyes. “Shen Qinghe, do you have any humanity? Mother raised you, taught you alchemy and martial arts… …how could you kill her?”

Seeing Yun Huaiyue pouncing on him.

Shen Qinghe sacrificed the God-Binding Rope and tied her up.

Just in case, Ning Shengsheng was also tied up.

“Don’t worry, she’s not dead.”

Shen Qinghe’s eyes were indifferent. “If not for the kindness you mentioned, I would have killed her long ago. The stubborn old thing doesn’t know the times and refused to use the Hundred Herb Valley to help me revive the Ten Thousand Gu Sect, so I had to do it myself.”

Hearing that her mother wasn’t dead, Yun Huaiyue calmed down a little and asked calmly: “How are you going to deal with us?”

Shen Qinghe was just about to speak.

Then he heard Ning Shengsheng say faintly.

“Honestly, this dead look of yours is much more pleasing to the eye than that fake smile.”

Shen Qinghe: ……