Chapter 1272 - 349: Qingyi and the Secrets_5

Chapter 1272: Chapter 349: Qingyi and the Secrets_5

"Heh heh!"

"We’re gonna die, right!"

"Ah, jiejiejiejiejie!"

Yuchi: "..."

Are the Four Great Devils really this over the top? It shouldn’t be that bad... there shouldn’t be a problem... after all... after all, at the end of the day they’re all my own disciples, even if I haven’t gone to Yuncao Tower for a while to check on things in there, I don’t really know the situation inside Yuncao Tower, but it should be fine.

Should be...

Lu Qingyin: "Uh... what’s going on? Why does it suddenly feel off somehow, why is Sect Leader Senior Brother over here looking kind of scared... like there are ghosts living inside this building called Yuncao Tower?"

She really didn’t believe it. After all, Ascension Gate is so bright right now, plus there’s this super comfortable, never-before-seen special misty rain, and Senior Sister is so nice, so there really shouldn’t be a problem.

Whereas Yuchi over here had no way out.

"Let’s go, Qingyin."

"Okay!"

What’s meant to come will come anyway. I originally called Feiling to come along so we could bolster our courage together, but that Feiling girl didn’t even dare disturb the four disciples in their research and actually just slipped away?

Feiling, you shameless woman!

Swallowing hard, Yuchi forced his footsteps toward Yuncao Tower. Yuncao Tower was on the other side of the Martial Arts Arena, and to get there you had to walk down a long corridor.

Entering the corridor, you could see Yuncao Tower standing there, silent and upright at a glance. The windows of Yuncao Tower were either half-ajar or thrown wide open, and that thick, reeking darkness was downright terrifying.

The Spiritual Qi misty rain could only pass through living beings, then fall into the corridor, and you could hear the soft rustling as the rain tapped against blue bricks and green tiles. As they walked quietly, in time with the beating of his heart came waves of creeping horror.

Is this the road to hell?!

Step by step, they finally arrived at Yuncao Tower. Yuchi did not dare plan on directly walking in. He stood outside the tower and called out softly, "My disciples, your master has some matters to discuss with you."

Just stand outside, don’t go in to see the process of nurturing Medicinal Herbs—then there shouldn’t be any problem!

But from inside Yuncao Tower a voice came leaping out: "Sect Leader Senior Brother, come in."

Come in?

That’s... not good, right?

Here?

Way too sudden!

Yuchi shivered his way into Yuncao Tower, and on the first floor he saw an extremely blood-drenched scene.

The white velvet Medicinal Herb fields on the first floor were crammed full of bizarre, freakish Medicinal Herbs.

These Medicinal Herbs were practically like corpses trapped in a quagmire, all sorts of shapes and postures stretching toward the sky for help; pairs and pairs of eyeballs were actually the fruits of these Medicinal Herbs.

Wrapped in coils of black Spiritual Qi, they were just like corpses that had been dead for years and were now in the stage of corpse-transformation!

He didn’t dare look at these modified Medicinal Herbs. With Qingyin in tow, listening to the pounding of his own heart, he continued up toward the second floor. A head popped out in the stairwell to the second floor, and he glanced up at it.

The second floor was even more cruel.

There was a cluster of Medicinal Herbs whose outline looked like a large tree, but in reality it was the product of countless Medicinal Herbs continuously being grafted together; on a trunk thick enough that two people would need to join arms to encircle it, one twisted Medicinal Herb after another grew out...

The scene was like a man being lazily chopped in half at the waist, and after he was cut apart, someone planted all kinds of plants densely over his upper body, and on top of those plants other plants were grafted, one onto another, one strand onto another. This was no longer just horror—this was exploitation!

This was exploitation!

"This is brute-forcing this Medicinal Herb to support a bunch of crazed, blood-sucking children!"

"Holy shit, my mom..."

"What the hell is all this!"

But the disciples weren’t on the second floor yet. Yuchi’s heart was thudding wildly as he led Qingyin around another flight of stairs, and then he could see four black silhouettes glinting with blood-red light.

They were ferociously performing surgery on several Medicinal Herbs in front of them.

Jiang Sanqiu: "Its leaves are useless, just chop them off."

An Xiaoning: "And this head—no need for the head either. It doesn’t need to see any scenery around it; it just needs to be responsible for bearing fruit."

Qin Miaoyu: "Let’s put its head onto another Medicinal Herb’s body, jiejiejie."

Qin Lanyu: "This Medicinal Herb’s been disobedient lately, not very willing to grow up. Cut open its belly and stuff some other plants inside. Once it gets scared, it’ll finally give everything it’s got."

The four of them: "Ah."

Jiang Sanqiu: "It withered on the spot from sheer terror."

An Xiaoning: "Hehe, sure enough it’s a weakling. It can’t even overcome this tiny bit of hardship?"

Qin Miaoyu: "It disappointed me. This Medicinal Herb is getting eliminated—it actually couldn’t withstand being devoured and drained by a few other Medicinal Herbs."

Qin Lanyu: "Why don’t we pair it with a female plant as well? Just a single male plant is too uncontrollable and can’t be restrained by us."

Jiang Sanqiu: "We can give it a try. Bind the male and female together, and once they’re tied to each other, maybe they’ll bash their heads bloody as they struggle forward."

An Xiaoning: "That works... first like this... mm... and then like this... there, that does it."

Qin Miaoyu: "Hey, this really is nice! The effect is great. Look at those two plants—even though they’ve been forced to bend at the waist, they’re still neither servile nor overbearing."

Qin Lanyu: "Not bad. Sure enough, when you put two Medicinal Herbs together they share some common traits. So what’s their limit for how much they can endure?"