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"Hey, that looks like my apprentice's room."
Chi Meng was stunned when he saw the door of Hou Qing's room being knocked open by the "little girl".
"Could she be his daughter?" Lu Linxuan also guessed. After all, Ying Gou looked only eleven or twelve years old now, and her appearance was incredibly delicate. It was not surprising that she mistook her for Hou Qing's daughter.
"No... She is Hou Qing's sister." Shi Yao retracted her gaze and said calmly: "She is Minghai Wu'an, one of the four great corpse ancestors, Yinggou..."
"What?"
Hearing Shi Yao's words, the other four girls were all startled, and Miaocheng Tian even said, "But she looks like just a child!"
"Many years ago, she became insane due to her practice and turned from an adult into the child she is now." Shi Yao said, "Just like the Demon Emperor Zhu Yougui."
"Nine Netherworld Divine Art?"
When the four girls heard her say that, they knew what was going on. After all, the complete version of the Nine Nether Mysterious Heaven Divine Art was in Shi Yao's possession. They had seen it before, but after hearing that Zhu Yougui became a half-human, half-ghost appearance after practicing the Nine Nether Mysterious Heaven Divine Art, no one dared to practice it. Even though Shi Yao said that there would be no problem if one practiced the upper and lower volumes of the Nine Nether Mysterious Heaven Divine Art at the same time, they did not believe it.
"But, Sister Shiyao, didn't you say that Ying Gou was my apprentice's sister? Why... it seems like they are fighting?"
At this time, the sound of fierce fighting was heard in Hou Qing's room. Listening to the noise inside, Chi Meng was a little worried. After all, Hou Qing was her apprentice after all.
"I don't know either." Shi Yao shook her head. When she was undercover in the Xuanming Sect, she had basically no contact with the four corpse ancestors and did not know the relationship between them.
"And it has nothing to do with us," she added.
As she said this, she continued to walk downstairs. Now that she had left the Xuanming Sect, although she still retained her identity as a bad person, it didn't matter anymore. She was now just Shen Ye's maid.
Lu Linxuan and the other girls looked at each other and agreed that the four corpse ancestors had nothing to do with them, so they followed Shi Yao downstairs.
Chi Meng took two steps and looked back at Hou Qing's room, but after thinking about it, he gave up the idea of going over to take a look.
"Apprentice, you're on your own!" she thought to herself.
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By the time Hou Qing and Ying Gou came downstairs, Shen Ye and his friends had already ordered a table full of dishes and started eating.
"Brother Hou, I heard from Shi Yao that this little girl is your elder sister?" Shen Ye put down his chopsticks and looked at Hou Qing who was covering one eye, with a mischievous smile on his face.
"Yes, and she is my biological sister." Hou Qing said distressedly, emphasizing the word "biological sister".
Then he moved his hands away from his face, revealing his bruised eyes. It was obvious that the way his sister loved him was a little different from that of normal siblings.
Seeing his face, which could make many women jealous, being beaten like this, Lu Linxuan and Chi Meng couldn't help laughing. Even the older Miaocheng Tian and Xuanjing Tian had faint smiles on their faces.
Only Shi Yao frowned and looked at Ying Gou who was not polite at all and started eating from the bowl. In her impression, Ying Gou was a very bloodthirsty and cold-blooded woman, but now it seemed that she was more like a child who had not grown up.
"Why are you looking at me?" Feeling Shi Yao's gaze, Ying Gou raised her head from the bowl, licked the rice grains stuck to her lips, and asked in confusion.
"It's nothing, just continue eating." Shi Yao shook her head, but her brows relaxed. She did not see the familiar murderous intent in Ying Gou's eyes.
"oh!"
Ying Gou didn't think much about it. She responded and continued to eat, saying, "The food here is delicious. Brother, you should eat quickly too. I have followed you for many days and have eaten steamed buns every day..."
Hou Qing sighed helplessly and sat down beside her.
However, just as he picked up the bowl, he heard Shen Ye say, "Come to think of it, Brother Hou, you came to Miaojiang this time not just to learn the art of controlling poison with music, right?"
Hou Qing frowned slightly: "Brother Shen, what do you mean by that?"
Shen Ye did not respond immediately, but looked at Ying Gou again before saying, "Guess."
Although at the beginning, he thought it was normal for Hou Qing to appear here, and even if Ying Gou also appeared, he still thought it was normal, but now after thinking about it carefully for a while, he felt it was abnormal again.
However, if asked to tell him what was wrong, he couldn't say it, so he asked Hou Qing tentatively.
But judging from Hou Qing's tone, it was obvious that he guessed right.
"Indeed, I came to Miaojiang not only to learn the method of controlling poison with music." Hou Qing put down the chopsticks he had just picked up, his eyes fell on Ying Gou, he sighed, and continued: "I came here to find a way to restore my sister's body."
As soon as these words were spoken, almost everyone's eyes fell on him, except Ying Gou, who was still concentrating on eating, as if she didn't hear Hou Qing's words.
"I just heard from Sister Shi Yao that your sister seems to have had problems with her Nine Nether Mysterious Heaven Divine Art..."
"You actually knew that?"
Hou Qing immediately looked at Lu Linxuan who had spoken, and then looked at Shi Yao.
"Who are you and why are you so familiar with us?"
Shi Yao didn't say anything, but just looked at Shen Ye. When she saw him nod, she took out two books from behind her and threw them in front of Hou Qing.
"Nine Nether Mysterious Heavenly Divine Art?"
Seeing the words on the two books, Hou Qing's pupils shrank suddenly. Then he thought of something and asked in confusion, "Did you kill Zhu Yougui and Zhu Youwen?"
"Zhu Yougui was killed by Zhu Youwen, but it was me who killed Zhu Youwen." Shen Ye said without hiding anything.
Then he added: "But I'm a little curious, who asked you to come to Miaojiang?"
"How do you know someone asked me to come?" Hou Qing was surprised again.
Shen Ye smiled calmly again: "Guessed."
"Brother Shen's guess is really accurate." Hou Qing looked at Shen Ye's expression and eyes for a long time, and then nodded, "Indeed, someone asked me to come."
"So who is it?" Shen Ye asked curiously.
Hou Qing pondered for a while before saying, "Buliangshuai."
"Who?" This time it was Shen Ye and the others' turn to be stunned, "Buliangshuai?"
"Yes, Buliangshuai." Hou Qing fell into reminiscence and said, "Half a month ago, I met Buliangshuai in Luoyang. He told me that there is someone in Miaojiang who can help my sister restore her original body and personality."
"Did he tell you who it was?" Shen Ye continued to ask curiously.
"No." Hou Qing shook his head, and then said in a strange tone: "He just said that if my sister can meet a man who can make her heart beat, that man can help my sister return to normal."
"puff!"
Shen Ye almost spit out the wine he had just taken. Fortunately, he saw Shi Yao sitting next to him, so he forced himself to swallow it. However, it made him cough repeatedly. After a long time, he recovered and asked with a strange look, "Do you believe this?"
Ying Gou is not sick, she just had problems practicing martial arts. Just like the Demon Emperor Zhu Yougui, she went astray and became possessed, causing her body to become smaller and she also developed a second personality. She is more like a mental illness. If she can cure schizophrenia and restore her body shape by finding a man who can make her heart beat, then why do we need psychiatrists in the future?
Moreover, according to Shen Ye's idea, leaving aside schizophrenia, Jiang Chen should be the one to be looked for to restore his body. After all, Jiang Chen contributed the most to the creation of the Nine Nether Mysterious Heaven Divine Art, and he is also a top surgeon. If it really doesn't work, he can just steal the bodies of some newly dead girls and use them for her. Although it is immoral, it is also a solution.
The women around also looked at Hou Qing with strange expressions, but Ying Gou ordered a second bowl of rice. She didn't seem to understand what Shen Ye and Hou Qing were talking about.
"I didn't believe it at first, but I came to Miaojiang just to give it a try. After all, I looked for someone to solve my sister's health problem, including Jiang Chen, but Jiang Chen's whereabouts were erratic, so I couldn't find him, so I had to give it a try." Hou Qing glanced at his sister and continued, "As for why I believed what the bad commander said, I have to talk about what happened yesterday."
"What happened yesterday? What happened?" Shen Ye looked curious.
"When I set out, the Buliangshuai told me that on the way to the Ten Thousand Poison Valley, I would meet a girl who could control poison with music. He also said that if I asked her, the girl would definitely not agree, but if I asked her husband, he would definitely agree. Then I met you, and everything he said really came true." Hou Qing said, with a yearning expression on his face: "You are really good at fortune-telling, and I don't know where I can learn it."
After hearing what Hou Qing said, Shen Ye was confused and felt something was wrong.
He didn't understand how the Buliangshuai could have guessed that he would agree to let Chi Meng teach Hou Qing the art of controlling poison? After all, he was not from this world, and there was no "future" in this world. Logically speaking, his future should be vague.
For example, he already knew the true identity of Accord. This android girl had the ability to travel through countless worlds and across the long river of time. She could even modify what happened at a certain time point through special means, adding or erasing a specific event. But even a android girl with such terrible abilities didn't know where he came from, let alone his future. Then how did Yuan Tiangang, a first-level mortal, know this even though he could live forever?
"No, he definitely didn't predict it through divination... Could it be..." Shen Ye's heart was shocked and a terrible idea popped up in his mind.
"Yuan Tiangang certainly can't predict my future, but he can control it. Everything I do now is within his expectations, or in other words, under his control."
Suddenly, he remembered what Chi Meng had said.
Immediately, he turned to Chi Meng and asked, "Meng'er, where did you hear that your father and the Witch King were once subordinates of the Buliangshuai?"
Chi Meng blinked, thought for a while, and said, "A mysterious person."
"What does it look like?" Shen Ye asked.
Chi Meng shook his head: "It was night, I was resting in my room, and that person was outside the room. I don't know what he looked like, but his voice sounded very low."
"It's indeed him. He arranged all this." Shen Ye thought suddenly.
The people he met along the way were not coincidences at all, but were specially arranged for him to meet by Yuan Tiangang.
But, why did he do this?
He fell into deep thought.
Seeing Shen Ye suddenly fall into deep thought with a frown on his face, no one around him spoke to disturb him.
After a long time, Shen Ye slowly relaxed his brows, and there seemed to be a hint of enlightenment in his heart.
"You old fool, I roughly know what you want to do. Even though you will end up helping Old Li, it doesn't seem to be a bad thing to me. But, how are you going to convince Old Li? Haha..."
The corners of Shen Ye's mouth curled up slightly, and he sneered a few times while thinking in his heart. Then, his face straightened, he looked at Hou Qing, clasped his fists to him and said:
"Brother Hou, if I am negligent in the future, please forgive me."
Hou Qing was stunned. He didn't understand what Shen Ye meant. When he was about to ask for clarification, he saw the other party suddenly picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it into his sister's bowl.
"Little sister, eat more so you can grow taller."
"You kid, you have to call me sister. I'm not some little sister." Ying Gou glanced at Shen Ye, and a hint of blood appeared in her black eyes, but it only flashed and soon disappeared.
Hou Qing looked at his sister thoughtfully. Of course he saw the blood in his sister's eyes, and knew that whenever blood appeared in her eyes, it meant that his sister's main personality appeared.
Touching his bruised eye sockets, he suddenly had an illusion that perhaps his sister could really return to normal?
Thinking of this, the way he looked at Shen Ye changed, and he began to understand what he had just said.
However, he couldn't figure out what Shen Ye thought of after hearing what he had just said, and why did his attitude change so drastically?
"Could it be that the person that Buliangshuai mentioned is him?"
Suddenly, a hint of enlightenment flashed through Hou Qing's mind.
Thinking of this, Hou Qing looked at Shen Ye more eagerly. If he didn't feel it was inappropriate, he would have wanted to pick up some food for Shen Ye with his chopsticks to show his affection.
At this time, Shen Ye looked at Ying Gou, turned to the maid beside him and said, "Shi Yao, after dinner, go and get a room for...A-Sister. It can be next to Brother Hou."
"Yes, sir."
"Miaocheng Tian, Xuanjing Tian, go out and buy a carriage later. There are more people now, and one carriage is not enough. Also, remember to prepare more food."
Looking at Ying Gou who had ordered her third bowl of rice in a short period of time, Shen Ye gave another order.
The two girls nodded and immediately quickened their eating speed.
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