Chapter 371 - Rest In Peace
Rat's heart was filled with alarm, but he still loudly shouted. "You...... In the end, what did you do to us? If you dare to kill all of us, the people behind us won't let you go!"
Hexi raised her hand and suddenly, the medicinal pill in her hand flew out. The pill landed in Rat's mouth and soon made it's way down his asophagus.
"Seeing as you're so noisy, it seems like you can't wait to often feel the feeling of being tyrannized. You can be at ease, I'll satisfy you!"
"You...... What did you give me to eat?!"
Rat didn't get to finish speaking before he suddenly let out a mournful and miserable cry. His entire body resembled a small shrimp, curling up on the floor.
The other bodyguards watched as Rat's complexion turned purple. The corner of his mouth was overflowing with blood and foam, so much so that they even thought that Hexi had fed him a highly toxic pill.
Just when they were scared witless, they suddenly heard Rat let out a heart wrenching and lung tearing scream. He suddenly seemed to go crazy and frantically began clawing at his stomach.
In the blink of an eye, he seemed to manage to claw open his stomach. After, he took out all of his internal organs.
But this didn't seem to be enough, after taking out all of his intestines, Rat's face was still filled with suffering. He began to use his own two hands to pound his legs, hitting the joints. Until finally, he took a flying sword and chopped his own two legs off.
He kept saying, "Don't bite me! Don't bite me- -!"
Everyone became stupefied seeing the scene in front of them. Obviously all he had eaten was a pill. Yet this martial artist, who was at the peak of Foundation Establishment stage, seemed to have gone insane. He cut open his own stomach, cut off his own two legs, and repeatedly rammed the joints in his arms into a wall. Even after his bones let out a "ka la la" sound, he still didn't stop.
This scene was truly too terrifying. The eyes of the other bodyguards no longer contained hostility and fighting intents, all that was left was desperation.
On the other hand, the Purple Abyss Vine was incomparably happy. After receiving Hexi's approval, it quickly rushed over to Rat's side and completely swallowed his flesh.
In the blink of an eye, this hellish scene faded away without a trace. It was as if the previously miserable scene didn't even occur in the first place.
But the scattered skeletons on the floor and howls of grief echoing in their ears allowed everyone to understand that what occurred just now wasn't some nightmare.
From start to finish, Hexi's expression was calm. So calm it was close to coldness.
It was only until Rat completely stopped breathing that Hexi lightly threw the medicinal pills in the air. Mildly smiling, she said, "Let me take a look...... Who should be my next victim!"
Ji Sheng Hall's bodyguards all simultaneously widely opened their eyes and let out "ge ge" sounds while shivering.
This youth in front of them wasn't human at all!
She was a devil. A ruthless spirit who crawled out from the depths of Hell!!
After an hour, inside Ji Sheng Hall's main shop, over a dozen bodies have been disorderly put to rest.
The Purple Abyss Vine had eaten until its vine was smooth and round. Swaying and wobbling, it was almost unable to fly.
And of those dozen or more bodies, not one hadn't become a mummy with no flesh. In fact, each of those bodies were left with wide open eyes.
Each and every pair of eyes were filled with terror and suffering. As if dying still hadn't been able to free them from feeling desperation.
If a woman with less guts was viewing this current scene, then there was a chance they would be scared so much that they wouldn't be able to sleep for a several months.
But as Hexi looked on, her heart didn't move an inch. All she did was blink her eyes a few time and slowly said, "Wet Nurse Chen, you can rest in peace. Hexi has already gotten revenge for you."
Chapter 372 - Selfish Appearance
Finished speaking, at the turn of her wrist, Purple Abyss Vine turned into a purple shadow that entered into the palm of her hand.
Turning around, Hexi began to make her way to the corner of the room, towards the back of a screen.
Upon hearing the footsteps, shopkeeper Qin and Qin Hai, who were originally hiding behind the screen seemed to be birds who were startled by the mere twang of a bow. Suddenly lifting up their heads, their faces were full of fright as they looked towards Hexi. "You...... You better not come over here. Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"
"If you want something, I'll give it to you. Any of the items inside Ji Sheng Hall can be taken by you. I'm begging you not to kill me!"
Shopkeeper Qin's voice was filled with fright. Thinking about the anguished wailing of those bodyguards when they were at death's door, he was truly scared.
Up until now, he had his doubts. Would they be able to successfully bring together Doctor Xie and this youngster, what were the odds of success? Even Doctor Xie had countless experts lying in wait!
Because this youth before his eyes was too ruthless, too decisive, and had countless methods.
He watched Hexi walking step by step closer to him, the Purple Abyss Vine curled around her wrist lightly swayed around, causing its leaves to create rustling sounds.
Shopkeeper Qin couldn't help himself anymore and began to shriek. Taking the son by his side, he ruthlessly tossed him towards Hexi.
Having been pushed towards Hexi by shopkeeper Qin, the originally frightened Qin Hai couldn't help but begin to push his entire body towards Hexi. The loyal and protective Purple Abyss Vine didn't wait for Hexi's order before flying out and rolling into Qin Hai's body.
The sharp purple vine entered his body with "pu pu" sounds. In the blink of an eye, it had already sucked his flesh cleanly and neatly.
Upon seeing this scene, Hexi's lips couldn't help but lift up into a taunting sneer.
Qin Fu, who just a moment ago was repeatedly shouting that he would take revenge for his son, used that son as a shield in the face of death.
In front of life or death, a person's selfish and ugly appearances would come out. Looking at it would really let people feel amused but also disgusted.
Shopkeeper Qin staggered along, throwing himself at the front door of the shop and began frantically began pounding on the wood door. He even took out his flying sword and began to repeatedly chop at the door, loudly shouting, "Save me! Save me! Someone inside Yan Jing city is murdering people!"
As long as he could run away from Ji Sheng Hall, then he could stay alive.
Because martial artists were unable to fly or fight inside Yan Jing city. Murdering people was an even more serious crime.
And every night, imperial guards patrolled every street inside Yan Jing city. If he went to cry for help from those imperial guards, how could that Xi Yue possibly content against all those imperial guards.
But, no matter how many times shopkeeper Qin pounded on the wooden door, it didn't budge an inch.
Furthermore, he had almost yelled until his throat was hoarse. But the entire time, the outside was quiet, nobody even heard his voice. Even more so, nobody would care about his life or death.
A fifth rank magical Purple Abyss Vine at its peak would have a strength that was equivalent to a martial artist who was at the summit of Gold Core stage. Compared to Qin Fu, who was merely at Foundation Establishment stage, how could he possibly break the enchantment that Purple Abyss Vine had put down?
Frightened, Qin Fu urgently turned his head. He wanted to run inside the courtyard and escape through the courtyard's walls.
But just when he ran two steps, his entire body was enveloped by a purple vine and was firmly held in the air.
Hexi's icy cold voice sounded out, "Tell me, who incited the matters in Cang Mountain's Bie Courtyard?"
"If you honestly and clearly answer, I can still give you a quick death."
Shopkeeper Qin was suspended in the air by Purple Abyss Vine. He felt the purple vine's sharp vines continuously moving around his body. This scared him until he pissed his pants, snot and tears rolled down his face. "Spare me! Spare me, ah! Genius Doctor Xi!"
"It wasn't me. This matter wasn't done by me, it has no relation to me ah! I'm only Ji Sheng Hall's shopkeeper, I don't know anything ah!
Chapter 373 - Eastern Outskirts Other Courtyard
Hexi's mouth lifted into a faint smile. "Don't know?"
She talked extremely slowly, but just when she just finished speaking the Purple Vine suddenly came out. After a wooshing sound, shopkeeper Qin's hand had been nailed to the wall.
"Ah ah ah- -" Shopkeeper Qin let out howls that resembled those of a pig who was being slaughtered. Fishy smelling water kept incessantly coming out of the crotch in his trousers, letting out 'di di' sounds.
Hexi softly stroked the foliage of the Purple Abyss Vine wrapped around her wrist. She quietly said, "This is your last chance. If you don't say anything, I'll give you a medicinal pill. I trust that you saw the way your subordinates died."
"Do you want to experience the feeling of digging out your own stomach and digging out your intestines?"
"I'll talk! I'll talk! I beg of you not to feed me that pill, wu wu wu......"
Shopkeeper Qin had long been scared out of his wits and didn't dare to hide even a little bit of information. "It was Doctor Xie. It was Doctor Xie who brought people to Bie Courtyard."
"From the day that the both of you fought, he had been searching for you. But I don't know what he wants to find you for. All I know is that he's determined to win the secret methods on your hands from you."
"But these matters truly have nothing to do with me, ah! I'm merely a shopkeeper who sells pills, I don't know anything. I'm begging you, young hero, to be a big person with big generosity. Let me off! I'm begging you to let me off!"
Doctor Xie? It was the arrogant third rank doctor from the day she saved Xiao Li's older brother.
Then it seems like that day when coming to massacre Bie Courtyard, they truly took away Xiao Li. It must have been to take the secret repairing broken muscles and tendons medical method in her hand.
However, it was just for such an insignificant prescription that they went as far to cruelly murder the people of Bie Courtyard. Allowing Wet Nurse Chen to experience a violent death.
He he, Doctor Xie! Xie Chongming! Very good! Very, very good!
"Where is Doctor Xie?"
Shopkeeper Qin's voice trembled. "Xie...... Doctor Xie is in a residence in the eastern outskirts. People are waiting there for you to walk into the trap, to ambush you. Doctor Xie is also there!"
Sure enough, he had set up a good trap inside the residence at the eastern outskirts, just waiting for her to jump in!
Hexi's mouth secretly curved coldly. "The little guniang that you guys took, where is she?"
Shopkeeper Qin opened his mouth, just as he was about to speak the Purple Vine rustled about and arrived at his stomach. The sharp purple vine softly rubbed against his clothes, seeming to act as if it could plunge inside him at any moment.
Shopkeeper Qin was frightened stiff, he no longer concealed thoughts he originally wanted to hide. At once, he loudly said, "That little guniang is also at the other courtyard in the eastern outskirts. She has just been imprisoned inside the basement."
"That basement is very well hidden. If the person wasn't one of our men, they wouldn't be able to find the entrance, no matter what."
She has been imprisoned inside the basement?
Hexi knit her brows. The purple vine followed along with her mood and softly trembled up and down.
Shopkeeper Qin's body continually kept shrinking backward. Wailing, "Genius Doctor Xi, I have the map for the residence in the eastern outskirts in my hand, it even has the entrance to the basement on it."
"I'm willing to hand over the map of the residence as well as the method to getting into the basement to you. I only beg of you to spare my life!"
"I beg you to spare my life!"
Hexi narrowed her eyes and arrogantly looked at him. "If the map you take out is real, I can spare you."
"But if the map is fake, he he. Even if I let you off today, in the future I have ten thousand ways to let you experience a life worse than death."
"I absolutely don't dare, I absolutely don't dare to deceive young hero!" Having heard what was said, shopkeeper Qin was overjoyed at the good news. His entire being frantically arrived in front of a medicinal cabinet. Softly, he patted it a few times when suddenly, there was a "peng" sound and a medicinal cupboard appeared.
Afterward, a piece of kraft paper appeared alongside a jade slip inside the medicinal cabinet.
Chapter 374 - Massacre of An Entire Family
Hexi took the kraft paper. Glancing at it, she discovered that the drawing on it resembled the design of a building, and sure enough, there was a symbol marking the entrance and location of the basement.
And that jade slip was actually the key to opening the basement.
After shopkeeper Qin handed over the map and jade slip, he warily watched Hexi. His voice trembled, "You agreed with me. As long as I handed you the map, you wouldn't kill me!"
"Naturally." Hexi walked outside as she stored away the map.
Behind her back, shopkeeper Qin's face exposed a sinister smile.
The map had poison on it. The moment the poison made contact with blood, the person's throat would seal up. You just had to damage a little bit of skin and you would be injured.
Just moments prior, he saw Hexi's finger brush past a sharp point coated with poison. It was just that, he didn't detect it at all. Or, he simply didn't care for these small wounds.
In the end, it was just a careless and inexperienced youth, ah. He was still able to trick him with such a trap.
Just by walking two steps out of the door, this youth would lose consciousness and fall to the floor. Additionally, the poison would completely engulf this youth's spiritual energy.
Ha ha...... Now he just had to wait to capture that youth and take him to Doctor Xie to take credit for his work.
But, Hexi, who was a step away from exiting, suddenly stopped in her tracks. Slowly turning around, she exposed a hidden smile. "Are you guessing that, as long as I step out a step, the extremely poisonous Seven Steps Intoxication on my body would flare up?"
He discovered it. Unexpectedly, he had long since found out, and even found out that it was the Seven Steps Intoxication!!
Cold killing intent quickly flashed through Hexi's eyes then disappeared. The Purple Abyss Vine on her wrist came out as if it was a phantom.
Shopkeeper Qin's eyes were wide open and he frantically shouted out, "You said that you wouldn't kill me! Ah, ah, ah- - - -"
The Purple Abyss Vine quickly pierced into his skull. Inside his skull, it turned around in a circle before it unwillingly returned to Hexi.
And Qin shopkeeper, who was previously kicking up a racket, now had a foolish expression on his face and continuously kept laughing.
His entire body no longer had any trace of spiritual energy and his eyes were empty. He was clearly already an idiot.
Hexi withdrew the Purple Abyss Vine and slowly said, "I did say I wouldn't kill you because letting you live this way, compared to dying...... This is far more interesting."
Saying this, Hexi's long and thin finger spun around in the air.
In the blink of an eye, the Purple Abyss Vine seemed to have receive a command. In an instant, it flew up and turned into a purple phantom, entering inside her body.
After about an hour passed, people finally discovered that there were frightened shrieks coming from Ji Sheng Hall.
It was the voices of the little manservant who had lost consciousness and the innocent part-time workers.
Their shrieking attracted the attention of everyone nearby, including the imperial guard. But upon seeing the miserable scene, everyone couldn't help but hold their breath and feel a chill going up their back.
Every one of the corpses were nothing but a thin layer of skin covering bone, each one had wide open eyes that were filled with fright. This allowed the medicinal hall that was used to save people turn into a place more frightening than Hell.
One after another, everyone was trying to guess who was so vicious and merciless. Who was so reckless and bold, even going as far as to completely massacre Ji Sheng Hall's family in front of the imperial guard. In addition, they were also able to escape without a trace.
At this moment, Hexi, the "ruthless murderer" everyone was spiritedly discussing had long since arrived at the eastern outskirts' other courtyard. Moreover, with the Purple Abyss Vine's concealing abilities and the map, she was able to successfully locate the basement's entrance.
Chapter 375 - Abandoned Haunted House
After leaving Ji Sheng Hall, Hexi never stopped advancing towards the other courtyard in Yan Jing city's eastern outskirts.
Inside Yan Jing city, you couldn't fly with your sword, so Hexi exhausted her qinggong. At xu shi, Hexi was able to see the area three li north of the eastern outskirts.
A small unremarkable hill sat here. An official road led up to the eastern side of this hill, but because it was night time, people on the road had long since been scarce.
On the west side of the hill, there was a house that seemed to be particularly gloomy and shabby.
From far away, in the dark night, one could only see a yellow piece of paper that was stuck to black painted doors. The piece of paper fluttered about in the wind whenever it blew.
There weren't any decorations at the door nor was there a plaque. Even the eaves were sunken in, exposing a fist-sized hole.
The whole house seemed to have merged into one with the surrounding night. Just by looking at it would cause someone to feel a type of gloomy cold.
If an ordinary person were to be walking along this official road and happened across this residence, they would definitely think this was an abandoned haunted house. They wouldn't have any interest in checking this house out.
The white moon brocade robe Hexi was wearing had already been changed into agile black clothes.
She didn't use any spiritual energy, just her qinggong to jump over the wall. All her actions were soundless, even the bats hanging on the eaves weren't disturbed by her presence.
Using the map Hexi took from shopkeeper Qin, Hexi quickly made her way through the house.
And along this road, Hexi saw many martial artists hidden inside the house.
At the very least, they were at high-rank Foundation Establishment stage. Every one of them was holding their breath and concealing themselves in the main courtyard, seeming as if they were patiently waiting for something.
What surprised Hexi the most was the fact that this entire residence was separated by a boundary.
The front yard was eerie. The martial artists were all hidden in secret places, not speaking and not moving. While the back yard was filled with patrolling martial artists. At times, one could even hear their boisterous laughter and conversation.
The map shopkeeper Qin gave her indicated that the location of the basement was in the back yard.
This allowed Hexi to be convinced just a bit more of this map's authenticity.
Relying on the Purple Abyss Vine's unique ability, Hexi was able to quickly break through the boundary and travel through the back yard's various houses.
In the time it took to burn a stick of incense, she was finally able to locate the basement's entrance which was similar to an ancestral hall.
The simple jade slip was lightly inserted into the notch at the entrance of the basement. As the basement began opening, a murky and moist smell along with the pungent smell of blood assaulted one's senses.
Hexi's body flashed into the basement. After walking for a moment, she saw an iron door.
This iron door seemed to be very thick and didn't seem to have a lock or chain. Evidently, this door needed to be opened from the inside.
Hexi pushed against the door but found out that it didn't even move an inch and the light in her eyes dimmed a little.
Suddenly, Xie Chongming's harsh face flashed through Hexi's mind. The corners of her mouth raised up and she quickly took out a disguise from her space, putting it on her face.
In the space of a few breaths, the originally beautiful youth transformed into a grizzly bearded old man.
Even the greedy glint in Xie Chongming's eyes was imitated to perfection.
Although her build couldn't be changed in such a short period of time, this disguise would be sufficient inside the dusky basement.
Hexi softly knocked on the iron door. Soon after, a square hole appeared on the iron door.
A guard peered out of the hole and at once, he saw the disguised Hexi's impatient face. "Why haven't you quickly opened the door? Until what time do you want me to wait here?"