The Villain Fox's Sickly Beauty Master - Chapter 18

Chapter 18: Could It Be That Trash Like Mo Tong is Also a Heartthrob?

Cang Yu also recognized Fu Yi. Due to his little martial aunt, he held a deep dislike for her. He let out a cold snort but still respected Jiang Jinheng’s status.

“I don’t know how your Master taught you, doing such despicable things. Now hurry up and scram, watching you irritates this Venerable.”

In terms of seniority, Fu Yi should be his peer, but in terms of cultivation level and status, she was far behind. So, even though Fu Yi was unjustly scolded, she felt a little upset inside but could not show the slightest bit of it on her face. She still had to smile, cup her hands, and bow to bid farewell.

But Mo Tong wouldn’t let her off that easily. He didn’t even bother to take the treasure sword he was longing for. Driven by some unknown competitive spirit, he ran up to Fu Yi and blocked her path.

“Wait, the score from this morning hasn’t been settled. Now that I’ve run into you in the Secret Realm, it’s your bad luck. If you don’t hand over that Yuan Gang Body Protection Pill (Yuán Gāng Hù Tǐ Dān) from the market this morning, don’t even think about leaving this cave!”

There was indeed a Senior Sister from Dan Peak selling a few slightly cheaper low-grade Earth-rank Yuan Gang Body Protection Pills at the market this morning. This pill was prepared for cultivators in the Foundation Establishment stage preparing to form their Golden Core. It seemed to have been bought by Qi Ranyan in the end, and Fu Yi had only been looking at the stall. With her financial resources, her pitiful few hundred low-grade spirit stones were barely enough to buy a very small storage pouch and a few low-grade Yellow-rank talismans, leaving her with no surplus.

The Yuan Gang Body Protection Pill was basically a necessary pill for every cultivator entering the Golden Core stage. After all, a cultivator would face three layers of lightning tribulation when forming their Golden Core, with each layer consisting of nine bolts of tribulation lightning. Without a top-quality body protection pill, even if they successfully formed the Golden Core, they would need years to recover their damaged body. The higher the rank of the body protection pill, the better the effect. That rank of pill would cost at least several hundred high-grade spirit stones. How could she afford it?

This scoundrel probably thinks that the Master who disappeared for three days and has not been seen left me a lot of spirit stones and treasures, and he wants to extort me.

Fu Yi’s dissatisfaction with Jiang Jinheng increased, but she only frowned slightly and said calmly: “Leaving aside the fact that I didn’t have the spirit stones to buy that Yuan Gang Body Protection Pill, even if I did, why should I give it to you? Does Junior Nephew Mo think that everything in the Azure Vast Immortal Sect belongs to you?”

As soon as Fu Yi said this, Mo Tong felt his argument was a bit weak, but he just glanced at Cang Yu’s expression. Seeing that he said nothing, his courage grew even bigger.

“What I mean is that I saw the pill first, and you snatched it before I could retrieve the spirit stones. Now, if you return those three Yuan Gang Body Protection Pills to me, I will give you two hundred high-grade spirit stones. How about that? Besides, what does it matter if you have a single spiritual root? I am confident I will form my Golden Core before you, so this pill is most useful to me.”

“Hmph… What a wild delusion. However, you did say one thing correctly: this pill is indeed more useful to you, since I won’t rely on elixirs to increase my cultivation.”

Hearing his unreasonable words, Fu Yi couldn’t help but let out a laugh. Two hundred high-grade spirit stones probably wouldn’t even buy one Yuan Gang Body Protection Pill, yet he had the audacity to demand three from her. He truly was a shameless ruffian.

However, seeing Mo Tong this time was slightly different from the previous life. From the spiritual energy that occasionally leaked out around his hands due to his emotions, Fu Yi could tell that he had also entered the Qi Condensation stage. However, seeing his listless appearance and turbid aura, it was obvious that his cultivation was forcibly raised by elixirs. It was for this reason that she spoke the latter sentence.

While thinking this, Fu Yi was also contemplating a way to escape. Her divine sense scanned her storage pouch. Inside were only the few talismans she bought this morning. She had used one Energy Concealment Talisman, leaving two, plus three Divine Movement Talismans (Shén Xíng Fú), which could only allow her to move about 100 li away.

Using all three would only allow her to escape three hundred li, and Cang Yu would catch up to her in less than a stick of incense’s time.

Fu Yi had originally bought the talismans to avoid fierce beasts, but now she might have to use them to avoid people. However, escaping could only be considered a last resort. Persuading them to leave should be the better option.

Seeing her decisively refuse and insult him, Mo Tong’s gaze became more venomous: “Some words can be said, but saying others will only harm yourself. The Elders all said that this Secret Realm is extremely dangerous. If some disciples die in the Secret Realm, it is quite reasonable.”

Hearing him say this, Fu Yi clenched the wooden plaque in her right palm even tighter. She looked at Mo Tong, trying her best to make her voice sound more confident, intimidating him by invoking her Master: “You can try it all you want. My Master is nearby. She has my life token. If I meet with misfortune, do you think she won’t rush over to stop you and report it to the sect?”

After Fu Yi finished speaking, she heard Cang Yu, who had been silent all this time, let out another cold snort and said disdainfully:

“Little girl, before you entered the Secret Realm, I clearly saw you entering with a steward from the Enforcement Hall. Out of curiosity, I even left a wisp of my Primordial Spirit on her. Even if she is as powerful as my martial aunt and can defeat me, she is now hundreds of li away. How can she rush over to save you?”

Saying that, he used spiritual energy to lift the unprepared Fu Yi high up, then cast a spell to release the wooden plaque from her hand and snatched it away: “I advise you to do as my disciple says. We are fellow disciples, and it will save your Master from losing face.”

Fu Yi forgot that only she had seen through Jiang Jinheng’s true form, and everyone else thought she was the Enforcement Hall steward, Xue Qin. Hearing him report Jiang Jinheng’s location and having her wooden plaque taken away, her face instantly turned pale.

She calculated the time she could sustain using the Energy Concealment Talisman and Divine Movement Talismans together. She swallowed hard and negotiated with Cang Yu: “Fine, I’ll listen to you. Put me down, and I’ll give him the pills right away.”

Hearing this, Mo Tong looked like a triumphant rooster, just as he had when he spoke to her in the water prison back then.

“Wouldn’t it have been better to do this earlier, instead of suffering like this?”

Fu Yi endured it, but kept her eyes on the timing. As soon as she landed and the spiritual energy around her dissipated, the instant Mo Tong rushed towards her, she used a Divine Movement Talisman and fled.

Seeing this, Mo Tong’s face instantly turned ashen. He looked at Cang Yu behind him, who said unhurriedly: “It’s fine. She’s only at this stage. She must have used a talisman that allows for instant travel. With her spiritual power reserve, she couldn’t have used a very high-grade talisman, and she won’t run too far. I can’t sense her aura now, so she must have used an Energy Concealment Talisman. You go ahead and subdue the spiritual sword first. Once her talisman’s effect wears off, she’ll be easy to find.”

“Yes.”

The talisman was used quickly. Fu Yi hadn’t thought much about it. Now she didn’t know where she was. She gasped a few times to escape the feeling of suppression. But this was only a temporary measure. Her talismans were limited, and relying only on escape wouldn’t last long.

Thinking this, Fu Yi suddenly regretted shaking off Jiang Jinheng. If she had known she would run into this pair of shameless old and young scoundrels, she would have been better off staying with Jiang Jinheng, at least only having to cleverly maneuver her to the places she wanted to go.

Now that she had a moment to catch her breath, she suddenly wondered. She had clearly seen Cang Yu in her previous life. Although she didn’t have a good impression of him, he wouldn’t typically attack a fellow disciple. His current behavior of abetting evil was truly baffling.

Could it be that trash like Mo Tong is also a heartthrob, and that all men and women who meet him can’t help but fall head over heels for him?