Chapter 865 - 458: Back Then, Killing Them Was Like Slaughtering Dogs

Chapter 865: Chapter 458: Back Then, Killing Them Was Like Slaughtering Dogs

Cold night.

The platform of the train station, under dim yellow lights.

Travelers pulling luggage, hurrying by, wheels making a "swish" sound.

A train is parked by the platform, conductors in padded coats shouting at the train doors.

"K250 to West State, anybody still here?

"Closing the doors soon, hurry up and get on!"

Hong Xiaoyun, wearing a windbreaker, backpack slung over, pulling a suitcase, rushed over.

"Coming, coming!"

The night wind is cold, the sky dark blue, she felt a bit scared inside.

She reached the train door, struggling to lift her suitcase, stepping inside.

In her mind, her master’s voice resounded.

"Very good.

"The first step, successful!

"Xiaoyun’Er is awesome!"

...

Swish...

The train rushed out of the platform, into the night, leaving the little town of Yishui, into the darkness, into the vast wilderness, heading north.

Inside the carriage, Hong Xiaoyun sat on a crowded seat, holding her backpack, huddling her neck, closing her eyes.

In her dream, her master sat cross-legged at the table, dripping some medicinal soup into a plate of pig’s blood, sprinkled a handful of medicinal powder, then squeezed juice from a leaf, dripping it in.

The pig’s blood in the plate gradually started to give off wisps of black smoke.

"Master, what exactly is happening?

"Can you tell me?"

Hong Xiaoyun sat cross-legged opposite the table, craning her neck to watch her master’s operation.

There she saw Marquis Qing Yue in silence, picking up a bright green mulberry leaf, biting his finger to break the skin, evenly smearing the blood from the wound onto the leaf, using the smoke from the pig’s blood to fumigate the blood-smeared leaf.

Hong Xiaoyun craned her neck to look at the leaf.

"Huh? Master, has this leaf’s vein changed color?"

The green mulberry leaf, smeared with red blood, smoked... its mesophyll turned yellow, but its veins turned blue.

Marquis Qing Yue nodded.

"You didn’t see wrong.

"There’s a Gu Insect hidden in this pig’s blood."

Hong Xiaoyun looked at that leaf again.

"Master, did you see the insect?"

The marquis shook his head.

"No, I didn’t. Some Gu Insects are very, very small, impossible to see.

"But your master here, having roamed the Immortal Dynasty for a thousand years, slayed countless evil Gu Masters, accumulated a wealth of experience!

"This technique of blood-smeared mulberry leaf is something I accumulated back then, specifically to identify various Gu Insects."

The marquis, feeling triumphant, ignited a wisp of Pill Fire at his fingertips, burning the leaf to ash.

Hong Xiaoyun was still scared.

"Then master, is this matter very serious?

"Is Yishui City in crisis?

"What level of Gu Master are we dealing with? What level of Gu Insect?

"Can we handle it?

"Should we report it to the Immortal Committee?"

The marquis looked at the meat and vegetables on the table, at the hotpot that’s gone cold, smacking his lips, expression regretful.

"What a pity, can’t eat this hotpot.

"When we get to West State, we’ll definitely feast ourselves on a big meal!

"Uh... you were talking about the Gu Master matter?

"Don’t panic!

"Back then, your master roamed the Immortal Dynasty for a thousand years, slaying Gu Masters by the hundreds if not thousands, never once was I afraid of them.

"To me, killing them is like slaughtering dogs!

"Xiaoyun’Er, just listen to your master, do what I say, and nothing will go wrong.

"Rest assured, okay?

"Oh right, did Xiaoyun’Er have a boxed meal on the train?

"Just now a dining car passed by you.

"How’s the taste?"

Hong Xiaoyun frowned, snorting through her nose.

Can this master be relied on?

Hong Xiaoyun was very skeptical, thinking that her master’s tales of a thousand years in the Celestial Law were probably just boasting.

Saying he’s completely unafraid of Gu Masters was likely exaggeration too.

"The boxed meals on the train are bad, expensive and hard to eat."

Then the marquis frowned.

"Expensive and hard to eat? That’s no good.

"Let’s do this, Xiaoyun’Er, go buy your master a cup of instant noodles, I want braised beef flavor, with two sausages, and a marinated egg!

"Oh no, we have a bowl here, don’t buy cup noodles, just get the plastic-packaged ones."

Hong Xiaoyun pouted.

"Oh!"

...

A dozen minutes later.

On the Bronze Table, master and disciple, each holding a bowl of instant noodles, warmly and aromatically slurping away.

Of course, only the marquis’ slurps were audible.

Hong Xiaoyun sipped a little soup, seemingly not in the mood to eat.

Her heart felt like a stone was stuffed in it, stuck there, neither up nor down, uncomfortable no matter what.

"Master, I’m not in the mood to eat, do you want to..."

Before she finished speaking, the bowl in her hand was taken and placed on the table.

And she herself, was embraced into the arms of her master, who had at some point sat down beside her.

Her master’s embrace was soft and warm, her master had a faint herbal scent, her master’s arms were slender, but very strong, holding her waist.

Her master’s voice was soft and tender, ringing in her ear.

"Xiaoyun’Er, don’t be afraid.

"It’s not as urgent as you think.

"Take it slow, one step at a time.

"Do what master tells you, and nothing will happen."

Hong Xiaoyun also hugged her master.

Her master’s waist was slender and soft, hugging was so comfortable.

"Okay, then I’ll just listen to master."

... ℯ𝐥.

The train had left a long time ago.

The small train station at Yishui had returned to quiet.

At the entrance, outside, bright lights shone.

In a sentry post, the Immortal Technique Committee in padded coats, were on duty, chatting and laughing.

"I heard our Yishui branch is organizing the Immortal Exam too."

"Who would want to test in our little place?"

"Locals, working in hometown, it’s quite nice..."