Chapter 29

Wearing a white robe.

With a long, slender black hair, under the moonlight, coupled with her pale face, she indeed frightened Lu Wushuang, who was hiding behind Yue Yuan.

Yue Yuan, on the other hand, was first startled, then his eyes lit up, and he looked at the woman walking towards him from the darkness with great surprise.

Xiaolongnü.

The woman who appeared before Yue Yuan and Lu Wushuang was indeed Xiaolongnü. However, at this moment, Xiaolongnü looked very bad, her face was pale, and there was a trail of blood at the corner of her mouth, clearly indicating that she was severely injured. Moreover, she was drenched in water, and the cold and heat had worsened her condition.

When Xiaolongnü, staggering, reached the fire, upon seeing Yue Yuan, her eyes lit up with joy, and she collapsed.

"Oh?"

Yue Yuan, who was stunned by Xiaolongnü falling onto the grass in front of him, finally reacted and quickly went to support her. He touched her forehead and found that she had a high fever. After some thought, Yue Yuan helped her to the big rock and let her sit against it.

"…Huh?"

Lu Wushuang, who had thought it was a female ghost coming ashore, was relieved and no longer afraid after recognizing the person. Without time to blame Yue Yuan for scaring her earlier, Lu Wushuang's attention was drawn to the white-robed woman.

With her cloud-like hair and flower-like beauty, she truly resembled a celestial maiden.

Since childhood, Lu Wushuang and her cousin Cheng Ying were both beautiful and charming girls, and could be called beauties. However, after the Lu family was exterminated, Lu Wushuang, who had been raised in a sheltered environment, finally stepped out into the world.

The first person she met was Li Mochou. Compared to the young and vibrant Lu Wushuang, Li Mochou displayed the qualities of a mature and elegant woman. If Lu Wushuang could be called a little beauty, then Li Mochou was truly a great beauty.

However, her apricot-yellow Taoist robe concealed much of her charm.

In the martial world, apart from the famous Huang Rong, who was called a true great beauty, there was only her teacher and enemy, Li Mochou.

The title "Crimson Serpent Immortal" was enough to tell people about her.

Though she was as poisonous as a crimson serpent, she could not hide the aura of a celestial maiden.

This was Li Mochou.

More terrifying than a thorny rose was that this flower was poisonous.

Now, Lu Wushuang found another woman with a celestial aura, the white-robed woman who had just appeared before her and Yue Yuan.

Unlike Li Mochou's crimson serpent poison, the woman in front of her, though young, exuded a cold and aloof aura, making one feel that she came from heaven, something to be admired from a distance but not to be desecrated, and that she did not belong to this world.

For some reason, Lu Wushuang felt that this severely injured woman had a peculiar, almost identical quality to her teacher, Li Mochou.

"Who is she?"

Lu Wushuang watched Yue Yuan busy himself, pulling out various bottles and jars from his wide sleeves, and wondered where he kept all those miscellaneous items. After seeing Yue Yuan give the white-robed woman a strange white pill, she finally asked, "Do you know her?"

"She is Chu Ren… uh, no, she is Xiaolongnü!"

Fortunately, he caught himself in time, otherwise Yue Yuan might have continued to be caught up in the previous story. After taking out a syringe and filling it with medicine, Yue Yuan held Xiaolongnü's arm, inserted the needle, and injected the medicine before pulling it out and sighing in relief.

Yue Yuan didn't think much about the propriety of physical contact between men and women. Besides, they were all martial artists, and in many situations, they had to tough it out.

Standing up, Yue Yuan looked at the severely injured Xiaolongnü with a heavy heart. Although he had given her medicine and an injection, his mind was still churning.

He couldn't help but wonder what had caused Xiaolongnü to be so severely injured, and more puzzlingly, the plot of the "The Return of the Condor Heroes" seemed to have deviated.

It was like a domino effect, where the fall of the first domino would cause a chain reaction.

When Yue Yuan accidentally arrived and saved Xiaolongnü from being defiled by Yin Zhiping, he thought it wouldn't have a significant impact, at least not on Yin Zhiping, who would never dare to speak of such a thing.

However, Yue Yuan didn't expect that just a few days later, when he met Yang Guo again, Xiaolongnü was not by his side. A few days later, on this dark night, he and Lu Wushuang found Xiaolongnü severely injured.

To be honest, Yue Yuan was very puzzled about what had happened to Xiaolongnü in the past half month to leave her in such a state.

"This woman has been poisoned and suffered internal injuries!"

While Yue Yuan was deep in thought, Lu Wushuang, the lame girl, came forward to examine her and made the final diagnosis.

"Poisoned?"

"Internal injuries?"

Yue Yuan was stunned and then recalled the plot of the book. Could it be that Xiaolongnü had encountered Li Mochou, the Crimson Serpent Immortal, again? Before he could finish this thought, Lu Wushuang said in a serious tone, "These injuries… she was hit by Li Mochou's Five Poison Palm! She might have even been hit by the Ice Soul Silver Needle!"

As a disciple and a mortal enemy, Lu Wushuang had learned to be cautious and patient under Li Mochou's tutelage. She would carefully observe Li Mochou's martial arts effects. Apart from Li Mochou herself, perhaps no one understood Li Mochou's martial arts as well as Lu Wushuang, who had always considered Li Mochou her enemy.

Because of her understanding of Li Mochou's martial arts, Lu Wushuang had tried to steal Li Mochou's "Five Poison Secrets" and continued to study it while fleeing. Seeing Xiaolongnü's condition, she naturally recognized it.

"…"

Yue Yuan was speechless. The last time he met Xiaolongnü, she had internal injuries, but they were manageable. However, in just a few days, she had ended up in such a state. Yue Yuan could imagine that the Crimson Serpent Immortal must have found Xiaolongnü again, trying to get the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra.

Yue Yuan could understand Li Mochou's obsession with the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra. She hated two things in her life: one was Lu Zhan yuan's betrayal, and the other was her teacher giving the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra to Xiaolongnü instead of her.

These two grievances were intertwined.

When Li Mochou was first expelled from the sect, she had no interest in the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra, as her mind was entirely on Lu Zhan yuan. However, she never expected that Lu Zhan yuan would change his heart and marry a wealthy and beautiful woman.

In that situation, Li Mochou was enraged.

At Lu Zhan yuan's wedding to He Yuanjun, Li Mochou and He Yuanjun's adoptive father, Wu Santong, disrupted the ceremony.

However, due to her inferior martial arts, Li Mochou was driven back and could only watch as Lu Zhan yuan and He Yuanjun got married. The extreme blow led Li Mochou to conclude that the reason for this was two-fold: one, Lu Zhan yuan's betrayal, and two, her own lack of martial arts prowess.

In the end, Li Mochou's target became the sect's most important martial arts technique—the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra.

Initially, Li Mochou could not obtain the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra from the sect, and with Sun Po Po still alive and the Ancient Tomb's defenses strong, her attempts to infiltrate it were unsuccessful. In desperation, Li Mochou combined the sect's poison techniques (Xiaolongnü had the Jade Bee Needle) with other secret manuals to develop the Five Poison Palm and the Ice Soul Silver Needle. In her heart, she never forgot the sect's ultimate technique.

Over time, as hatred became a habit, these two grievances became the demons in Li Mochou's heart, tormenting her and driving her deeper into darkness.

Sigh!

Was the Ancient Tomb Sect a family of tragedies?

Lin Chaoying died alone and old, Li Mochou lived and died for love, and although Xiaolongnü was luckier, her experiences and sufferings were still heart-wrenching. Sun Po Po died a tragic death, and the only male disciple, Yang Guo, suffered for years, foolishly enduring a love affair with Xiaolongnü for over a decade. But overall, Xiaolongnü and Yang Guo were much better off than Lin Chaoying and Li Mochou.

In the end, the lovers were united.

Scratching his head, Yue Yuan sighed and looked at the lame girl Lu Wushuang, saying slowly, "Then… let's detoxify her!"

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