I Outworked the Entire Cultivation World

Chapter 712: Chapter 659: Reunion with Lv Ying

Lv Ying and Tao Nian were brought out of the dungeon by Yinhuan. From the outside, both of them seemed unharmed, except they were under the Gu, with their cultivation and strength sealed.

Jiang Yuebai and Lv Ying exchanged glances across the distance. Calculating the time, it had been over seventy years since they parted at twelve years old.

If they weren’t cultivators, that separation at twelve would have been a lifetime.

Jiang Yuebai felt a mix of emotions, her brow furrowing, not much joy in the reunion, only a sense of relief seeing her still alive.

Lv Ying glanced at Jiang Yuebai from afar, stood still, and quickly looked away to avoid eye contact.

Because she was too dazzling, Jiang Yuebai was even more dazzling than Lv Ying remembered, so bright it hurt to look and took her breath away.

She had failed, even after being prepared to sacrifice her life, while Jiang Yuebai could solve it with ease.

This left Lv Ying with a deep sense of defeat, especially meeting again in her most embarrassed state.

Jiang Yuebai silently sighed, glanced at the young female cultivator following Lv Ying. Although she had grown up, Jiang Yuebai remembered seeing this Tao Nian.

Back then, when she went to her grandfather’s hometown to find Wuwei Temple and obtain the inheritance of the Five Elements Returning to Truth Skill, she had seen the four generations of the Tao family from afar, and little Tao Nian was there.

Could it be that something she left at Mist Immortal Ridge led Tao Nian onto the Immortal Path?

If that’s true, it truly must be destiny!

”Xia’er, oh Xia’er~”

Hearing Lan Biqing’s voice, Jiang Yuebai withdrew her gaze and turned around, seeing two Snake Village female cultivators fully armed, wearing gloves insulating against toxins, escorting a sixteen-year-old girl.

The girl’s hair was disheveled, she couldn’t speak due to being under the Gu, her hands were bound, and her eyes were defiant, staring at Lan Biqing like a lone wolf filled with hatred.

In her struggle, Jiang Yuebai saw under her collar a large patch of snake scales, transitioning from gold to orange like a morning glow, a feature of Extraordinary People.

This Lv Xia’er made Lan Biqing furrow her brows, somewhat worried about the disaster that might come from setting a tiger back to the mountain.

Originally, Lan Biqing’s plan was to tame her for a while, and if she really couldn’t be tamed, to leave behind the essence blood for the Fetal Gu and then kill her to prevent future troubles.

The Fetal Gu only needed to absorb the essence blood of two people, along with Primordial Yin and Primordial Yang Qi, to nurture a fetus outside the body, sparing women the pain of childbirth.

But the Fetal Gu still had many drawbacks and imperfections yet to be overcome. Part of Lan Biqing’s reason for indulging in relationships was to improve the Fetal Gu.

Lan Biqing approached Lv Xia’er, her gaze gentle as water, ”Xia’er, don’t blame Mom. It’s the Witch Clan’s rules that don’t tolerate Extraordinary People bloodlines. Mom knows you don’t like it here, so Mom will be kind this time and let you go.”

”Remember, once you leave, don’t come back to the Witch Clan. Here is some information on your deadbeat dad. If you want to find him, try looking in the Extraordinary People Country. Back then, he left so heartlessly.”

Lan Biqing slipped a Jade Scroll into Lv Xia’er’s belt through her clothes, hoping Lv Xia’er would go search for her deadbeat dad, to redirect some of the hatred, and not cause her trouble.

Lv Xia’er was visibly startled, looking around to see Jiang Yuebai, she froze, then she saw Lv Ying in the distance and immediately became agitated, struggling and silently screaming, her lips seemed to be calling for her mother.

Lan Biqing ordered to release Lv Xia’er, who stumbled to Lv Ying, their eyes meeting filled with tears.

Tao Nian comforted the two from the side, occasionally glancing at Jiang Yuebai.

Lan Biqing handed two medicine bottles to Jiang Yuebai, ”Here are the antidotes for the Gu poison in their bodies. Someday, when I visit the Heavenly Interence Sect, True Monarch Wangshu should personally come to welcome me, or else I might say something I shouldn’t~”

Lan Biqing extended her hand towards Jiang Yuebai, who used her Divine Sense Threads to roll the bottles over, a stream of air rippling off her body, pushing the person away.

”I await your grand arrival!”

After speaking, Jiang Yuebai glanced at the three people in the distance and turned to leave.

Yinhuan stepped to Lan Biqing’s side, watching them leave the village together, Yinhuan couldn’t help but sigh at how the person who once disguised as a man in her village had now become the renowned True Monarch Wangshu of the Heavenly Interence Sect.

If she had won that Poisonous Insect Fighting back then, she wondered what the situation might have been.

”Village Chief, are we really just going to let them go?” Yinhuan asked in concern.

Lan Biqing gathered her wayward hair behind her ear, suddenly turning to stare at Yinhuan.

”Yinhuan, if I wanted you to become the Village Chief of Snake Village, would you dare?”

Yinhuan was shock-struck, but there was a seriousness in Lan Biqing’s eyes. Yinhuan furrowed her brow momentarily, then decisively nodded.

”Then come with me, to be the Village Chief, there’s much you need to learn, and the time I have to teach you is limited.”

*

Jiang Yuebai took Lv Ying and the others to the Mountain and Sea Building branch in Snake Village for a temporary rest, and asked Yun Shang to thoroughly check them for any other Gu remains.

In a room in the backyard, when Yun Shang was about to touch Lv Xia’er, Lv Ying hurriedly stopped her.

”Don’t touch her, she has a naturally poisonous body, touching her will release poison.”

”I’ll do it.”

Jiang Yuebai moved Yun Shang aside, directly picking up Lv Xia’er’s hand, startling Lv Ying who gasped, and Tao Nian sprang from her chair.

The patch of extremely faint bluish color appeared where Lv Xia’er was touched, turning into a cloud of poison that drifted into Jiang Yuebai’s body.

Lv Ying raised Lv Xia’er for sixteen years despite her poisonous constitution, which was difficult as special fabrics were needed to touch Lv Xia’er, and several times Lv Ying nearly died from the poison mist Lv Xia’er emitted.

While inspecting Lv Xia’er’s body, Jiang Yuebai said, ”Books describe your poisonous body as not extraordinarily unique. You can cultivate a Medical Dao Cultivation Technique to neutralize the poisons within, or cultivate corresponding Poison Skills to control it, allowing you to handle it freely and not harm others.”

Lv Xia’er’s eyes grew increasingly bright, she eagerly asked, ”True Monarch, can you teach me?”

Lv Xia’er spent these sixteen years living in Toad Village of the Witch Clan, having visited only the Ten Thousand Mountains, with no opportunity to learn about the outside world.

Lv Ying lowered her head in guilt, blaming herself for being unable to find a good cultivation technique for Lv Xia’er due to her limited abilities.

Jiang Yuebai confirmed no other Gu poison residues were left in Lv Xia’er, she released her wrist, glanced at Lv Ying, who still wouldn’t meet her eyes since leaving Snake Village. There was always something between them, as before at the Heavenly Interence Sect.

Perhaps a person’s character truly isn’t something that can change on a whim.

Jiang Yuebai turned to Lv Xia’er, ”Though I said you were my disciple to Lan Biqing earlier, I don’t actually take in disciples; it was merely to intimidate her.”

Considering how Jiang Yuebai’s Lotus Platform Small World is already full of people, ghosts, demons, and beasts needing care, accepting a disciple would require her to be as devoted as her master was, something she couldn’t commit to nor had the confidence for.

”Actually, I think Lan Biqing wasn’t wrong. You could try looking for your biological father. The Extraordinary People Country might suit you better, as with the current situation in the Earth Spiritual Realm, exposure of your identity as an Extraordinary Person will still bring endless trouble.”

Upon hearing this, Lv Xia’er instinctively tightened her collar, covering the snake scales expanding to her back.

In reality, she was quite fortunate. The only trait of an Extraordinary Person on her body was the snake scales, which could be hidden with a vestment robe, allowing her to live like a normal Human Clan Cultivator.

But hiding it was just hiding; it couldn’t change her bloodline.

Standing up, Jiang Yuebai said, ”You absolutely cannot stay with the Witch Clan any longer. Where you go from here, discuss it yourselves and let me know. I’ll send you there.”

Pausing, Jiang Yuebai glanced at Lv Ying, ”If you wish to return to the Heavenly Interence Sect, I can arrange it.”

With that, Jiang Yuebai left the room alone, Yun Shang turned to watch her, sensing Jiang Yuebai’s mood wasn’t the best.

The crux of the issue naturally lay with Lv Ying. People are different, not all long-separated reunions can be as straightforward as Yun Shang and Jiang Yuebai’s, without any barriers.

After all, it was because of an unresolved knot in Lv Ying’s heart that she chose to leave and escape back then.