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Chapter 169 Silk Gu

“Children nowadays are so smart.”

Qin Xiao put the Qi guide given by Meng Liyun into his right ear, leaned on the soft bedding, and chatted with her.

"Oh? What did you mean?" Nangong Huaxue was hungry in the middle of the night. She was embarrassed to bother others, so she got up and made herself a bowl of noodles. She then sat cross-legged at the head of the bed, looking at the owl projected in front of her, blinked and asked.

Qin Xiao was in a relaxed posture, with his half-wet hair draped over his neck and shoulders, soaking the collar on his shoulders, and he half-raised his eyes to look at her.

"Didn't I tell you about Yin Xihui? That kid is very smart." Qin Xiao said, telling her about their recent meeting.

Nangong Huaxue listened and kept smacking her lips and sighing: "As expected of a child of the royal family, he is very eloquent... He was only six years old at the time, right?"

"Yeah." Qin Xiao nodded, as if hinting at something, "We are both five or six years old, why is there such a big difference..."

Nangong Huaxue heard it and said, "Are you implying something to me?"

"How could that be?" Qin Xiao laughed, "It was clearly said openly."

Nangong Huaxue: ...

"You said that he is worthy of being a member of the royal family. Don't you think so too? Now you still don't have any brains at all." Qin Xiao sighed, feeling quite disappointed with him.

Nangong Huaxue: ...

Nangong Huaxue also felt wronged: "Then I'm not that kind of person anyway."

Qin Xiao looked up at her and opened his mouth to say something, but when the words reached his throat, he showed reluctance and shook his head helplessly and closed his mouth.

Nangong Huaxue: ...

Nangong Huaxue: "I told you not to go too far."

Qin Xiao smiled and stopped teasing her: "Qing Yi and I have an appointment. Let's meet at the same teahouse tomorrow morning. Is that okay?"

When Nangong Huaxue heard him mention this, she also became serious and nodded: "Okay. Will you come with us then?"

"I can't." Qin Xiao shook his head, "I have an appointment with someone else."

“Oh——” Nangong Huaxue drew out a long voice, with a meaningful look in her eyes, “It’s with that kid, right…”

"You guessed wrong." Qin Xiao saw her teasing look, but he was not annoyed. He chuckled and said, "It was with those kids."

"That's why I said you've changed a lot." Nangong Huaxue put the bowl aside, "You didn't have the interest to play with children before."

"They are quite mature in their thinking." Qin Xiao said, and couldn't help but make another comparison, "Much more mature than you were back then."

"It's really sad that you said that." Although he said that, there was no hurt in his eyes. "This is talent."

"It's a matter of being more careful." Qin Xiao didn't think so, but he didn't say much here, "Go to bed early."

"Okay, bye." Nangong Huaxue saw that he looked a little tired, so she said no more. She waved and smiled and ended the communication with him.

As soon as Qin Xiao hung up the call, he leaned back into the soft bedding and closed his eyes.

"What is your relationship with her?" Qiongqi, who had been silent nearby, suddenly asked.

"...I don't know." Qin Xiao was a little confused when he mentioned this. He thought for a moment and said, "He should be considered an old friend."

An old friend?

Qiongqi smiled strangely. His gestures and language during the conversation did not sound like he was just an old friend.

But these have nothing to do with him.

Qiongqi lowered his eyes and closed his eyelids.

……

"Long time no see."

Nangong Huaxue sat upright on the cushion, staring intently at the casual young man opposite her with bated breath.

"Okay, long time no see." Nangong Huaxue laughed dryly and nodded in response.

Qing Yi seemed a little surprised by her attitude and raised her eyebrows slightly: "Why are you still so useless?"

Nangong Huaxue: ...

After all these years, this mouth is still so poisonous.

Nangong Huaxue closed her eyes and tried to hold back something: "Hasn't it been such a long time since I saw you getting nervous?"

"Really? Are you so nervous that you have to change your appearance?" There was sarcasm in Qingyi's eyes.

"You found out?" Nangong Huaxue was surprised. "How did you know? In order to match the body shape, I deliberately made it look a little more childish."

"What are you trying to do by hiding it like this?" Qing Yi asked casually in a familiar tone.

"I didn't do anything. I just wanted to have some fun and disguise myself so that no one would find out." Nangong Huaxue did not hide her thoughts from him. When she thought about the plan for a while, excitement was hidden in her eyes.

Seeing her like this, Qing Yi sneered, but didn't say anything else and got back to the point: "What do you want to do by calling me?"

"I want to show you two things..." Nangong Huaxue said, taking out two small bottles from the storage bracelet and placing them in front of him.

"This was given to me not long ago, and this was pulled out of my hair yesterday. Can you take a look?"

Meng Liyun didn't say whose hair it was, but Qingyi could tell at a glance.

"Who are you who has been poisoned?" Qing Yi said, picking up the bottle containing the poisonous insect.

When Nangong Huaxue was pulling out the poisonous insect, she accidentally pulled out two of them and put them in. The black hair and the two poisonous insects were mixed together and it was difficult to tell them apart.

But Qing Yi pulled out the insect accurately and spread it on his hand. As he watched the insect twisting a few times on his hand and then drilling into his flesh, there was a hint of disgust in his usually indifferent eyes.

"...It's just a low-quality thing." Qing Yi said, twisting the thin silkworm and returning it to Meng Liyun, "Burn it."

Nangong Huaxue heard this and raised her fingertips slightly. A flame suddenly shot up and instantly wrapped around the hair-thin silkworm. The insect twisted and seemed to be in pain, but in less than three seconds it was burned to ashes.

"I have a question." Qingyi glanced at the porcelain bottle on the table lightly, "Now that you are here, you can practice, why are you still doing that kind of bone-shrinking kung fu?"

The Nangong Huaxue in front of her was almost a circle smaller than her normal size, and the mask on her face was also childish and immature. At first glance, she looked like a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old.

"That's a boy's skill. If you don't practice it when you're young, you won't be able to practice it when you grow up." Nangong Huaxue blinked and said, "What if I want to practice it later? It's better to practice it from a young age in case I want to do it later and can't do it."

Qing Yi nodded indifferently. Seeing that she was staring at him, he lowered his eyes and opened his lips, saying slowly, "Silk Gu is made of Tianshan snow silkworm silk. It is as thin as hair, light and agile. After being inoculated, it will slowly melt into the hair on the body, then drill into the skin, enter the blood vessels, and reproduce and grow in the body until it covers the whole body."

Nangong Huaxue couldn't help but shudder when she thought of that scene, and said with a chill, "So disgusting? What's the impact?"

Qing Yi frowned and tapped his fingers: "Absorb the Qi in the body, restrict the cultivation... and finally block the tendons and veins, turning the host into an ordinary person."

Nangong Huaxue's frown deepened, with a cold light flashing in his eyes: "How do I get rid of this poison?"

"Just wash it off with a powerful and fiery medicine." Qingyi twisted his fingers, looking disdainful. "This Gu is crudely made and low-grade. Although it can penetrate into the flesh and blood, a Qi cultivator who has reached a certain level of cultivation will automatically be covered with a thin layer of Qi, just like skin."

"This Gu can't get in." Qing Yi said, sneering, "Although this Gu was trained to be the best, but the strength is not enough, and the result will not be good. It can only be like a blood-sucking leech."

Nangong Huaxue felt relieved after hearing this. Although she was still a little worried, she knew from Qingyi's words that nothing should go wrong in the short term.

However, are there any Gu Masters here as well?

Nangong Huaxue thought about it, and just raised her eyebrows to continue asking, when she saw Qingyi looking at her with a smile.

"Who is the person who was cursed?" he asked again.

"..." Nangong Huaxue paused, "Someone I care about more."

"Oh——" Qing Yi seemed to have suddenly realized something, with a hint of light teasing on her lips, "He has fallen in love with someone else."

"you--!"

Nangong Huaxue never expected him to suddenly say this and looked at him in disbelief.

Although she had a feeling that he knew about that, she still didn't expect him to say it so openly.

"That's good." Qing Yi ignored her surprise and said to herself, "Although it's not so timely, at least the loss has been stopped."

Nangong Huaxue was stunned.

Qingyi raised her finger, her eyes moved slightly, and motioned her to put her wrist over.

Nangong Huaxue was puzzled and did as she was told. Qingyi stretched out two fingers and gently pressed the tendons on her wrist. After a moment, she let go and took out a tissue next to her to wipe her fingers.

"Have you ever reshaped your tendons and veins?" Qing Yi asked casually.

Nangong Huaxue was surprised: "Ah... yes."

In this life, she had good attributes, but was born with weak tendons and veins. Although there were no major obstacles in her cultivation, her talent was only average among the royal nobles or even the aristocratic families. To be frank, it was only above average. She was completely incomparable to her father, who had been a genius since childhood.

Although the emperor was somewhat disappointed in her, he still found her a teacher who was said to be very experienced and specialized in teaching princes from various countries, and asked her to learn from him. But at that time, she did not recover her memory, and she dreamed of that figure every night, and was frightened to the point of mental weakness. It was painful to practice, and it felt like countless thin needles were pricking her.

Nangong Huaxue had been spoiled since childhood and could not endure hardship. She was not interested in these practices at all and mostly ignored her teacher's teachings.

The emperor was very angry when he found out and sent people to monitor her to prevent her from being so careless. She had no choice but to follow the teacher's instructions. But the teacher found that her talent was worse than he thought, and she was not even qualified for Qi cultivation.

After a struggle, the teacher looked at her sweating and in a dishevel, finally sighed and shook his head, and voluntarily asked to leave, saying that he felt he was not capable enough to teach her.

Just then, her memory returned.

Although she tried to keep him and told him that she would work hard, the extremely disappointed teacher did not believe her words or her talent and left stubbornly.

It was also from that time that she began to learn the skills from her previous life. Dislocated joints were commonplace. Although she was no longer so afraid of pain, it was still good to be able to find ways to change. So, while enduring the pain to practice, she looked for ways to make her practice go smoothly.

After going through so many things, becoming stronger has long become her obsession. She didn't have this talent in her previous life, but in this life, where everyone has attributes and cultivation is a hundred times easier than in her previous life, she naturally won't let go of this opportunity.

She still knew the difference between having a sword but not using it and having no sword at all.

In her previous life, she had asked Xiao to help her draw Qi into her body several times, but all ended in failure. Here, she could practice without the harsh talent requirements, but she only had to endure a little pain during the practice. Compared with the two, the present world was definitely better.

Finally, she found a secret book that contained methods for reshaping muscles and bones, and also explained the pros and cons. Although what was written there sounded scary, such as how destruction was like cutting flesh with thousands of knives and crushing bones with huge rocks, and how reshaping was like being bitten by thousands of ants...blah blah.

She chose to ignore those scary descriptions and only asked the mysterious and all-knowing Imperial Master if his method was feasible. The Imperial Master gave her a positive answer and was ready to help her after knowing her plan.

She was a little confused and asked why. He just smiled and said, "Everyone has the right to make themselves stronger."

Nangong Huaxue didn't quite understand what this reason was, but she knew that he wouldn't do anything. After all, his father was still alive and he wouldn't do such a thing even if he wanted to die.

Reshaping the muscles and bones was indeed painful. Not only did it hurt so much that she hated the pain, but it also caused unbearable itching all over her body. She was woken up by the itching several times, and in the end she even wanted to kill herself.