"Ah! What is this!"
Jiang Zhiyun shrieked in fear, covering her eyes. Qing Qing immediately returned to her side and gently wrapped her in his arms.
"Zhiyun, if you're scared, don't look. I'm here."
Jiang Zhiyun could hear her heart pounding. She swallowed hard and tried to calm her breathing.
She wasn't actually that scared. After all, as a medical student, she had some experience with dissections. She was just startled by the sudden sight of the bloody scene.
However, since Qing Qing was willing to take the initiative to get close, Jiang Zhiyun simply pretended to be extremely frightened and nestled in his arms.
Qing Qing lowered his head and saw the cunning in Jiang Zhiyun's eyes clearly, but he still doted on her and protected her.
Shen Qing threw the skin in her hand on the ground and cleaned the bloodstains on her hands with magic, looking disgusted.
Li Xian looked at Shen Qing's fearless expression and rolled his eyes at Qing Qing and Jiang Zhiyun, who were hugging each other.
He sighed again. Having a rational wife was really not a good thing!!
After Banfenghe's facial skin was torn off, she was stunned for a moment. Then, seeing Shen Qing disgustedly throw away the face she had carefully chosen, she finally realized that she had been exposed.
"Ah!! My face!! Shen Qing, you bitch!!"
Banfenghe shouted like a madwoman. She groped on the ground with both hands and stuck the facial skin that Shen Qing had just thrown down on her face haphazardly.
Although the re - attached face was loose and shapeless, it was still better than the previous appearance with bulging eyes about to fall out and bloody facial features.
"Shen Qing... Why is her face like this?"
Jiang Zhiyun was really curious, so she asked in her softest voice, and her eyes would glance at Qing Qing from time to time.
Shen Qing repeated Ling Zhou's words in her mind and said in a deep voice, "Drug - made people are the predecessors of puppet corpses. There is a secret technique in this world that uses drugs to refine people into emotionless, senseless, and unperceptive puppets. These puppet corpses are obedient and have no self - consciousness. They are the most useful tools."
"The Main God's Temple went to such great lengths to send Banfenghe in. They had made up their minds to turn Qing Qing into a puppet corpse when he merged with the Elixir of All Things."
"What??"
Jiang Zhiyun's voice rose sharply. She stood up suddenly and almost hit Qing Qing's chin.
The softness on her face disappeared, replaced by a fierce expression.
"The Main God's Temple is so vicious! It turns out that they weren't after immortality but to turn Qing Qing into a puppet corpse for their use!!"
But then, Jiang Zhiyun was puzzled again. "But how did they know for sure that Qing Qing and the Elixir of All Things would merge?"
"Could they really have calculated this far?"
Shen Qing said, "If not Qing Qing, there's still her."
She raised her chin and pointed at Banfenghe.
The system of the Main God's Temple was everywhere. It mustn't be difficult for them to merge the Elixir of All Things with the puppet corpse, just like what happened to her spiritual bones back then.
If Banfenghe hadn't obtained the Elixir of All Things, her task would have been to refine Qing Qing into a puppet corpse.
If Banfenghe had obtained the Elixir of All Things, she would probably end up as an emotionless puppet corpse as well.
Either way, the Elixir of All Things would fall into the hands of the Main God's Temple.
Qing Qing continued, "As a magical tool, the Elixir of All Things can only passively follow the master's orders and can't exert much power. But if I become the Elixir of All Things, it will be different..."
"Qing Qing..."
Jiang Zhiyun was really scared. Tears began to well up in her eyes.
She had thought that as long as Qing Qing woke up safely, everything would be fine. But the people of the Main God's Temple were eyeing them covetously. There were so many of them, and their methods were endless. She really didn't want to experience the feeling of losing Qing Qing again.
The feeling of watching the person she loved die in front of her while being powerless was really despairing.
Qing Qing gently stroked Jiang Zhiyun's cheek and comforted her, "Don't worry. I'll be fine."
Jiang Zhiyun nodded, but the uneasiness in her heart still didn't dissipate.
Banfenghe glared at Shen Qing resentfully. "Shen Qing, why do you have to be so smart and expose all our plans? Do you know that if the plan fails, I will really die!!"
With her ferocious appearance and harsh voice, she looked very much like a fierce ghost climbing out of hell.
"You're an accomplice of the evildoers. Who else should die if not you?" Shen Qing retorted righteously, leaving Banfenghe speechless for a moment.
When she told Shen Qing about her resentment and pain, Shen Qing said she deserved it. When she cursed at Shen Qing, Shen Qing would slap her back. It really left her at a loss.
Shen Qing raised her eyebrows, walked around Banfenghe twice, and asked, "Besides these words, didn't Lin Yibai teach you anything new?"
Hearing Lin Yibai's name, Banfenghe's body stiffened, and despair welled up in her heart.
Shen Qing knew everything.
Actually, when she first saw Banfenghe, Shen Qing vaguely felt that Banfenghe's behavior was familiar. That familiar feeling made Shen Qing realize that this was the second Lin Yibai.
It was a pity that Banfenghe's cultivation was not even half of Lin Yibai's, and most of the disciples of the Green Wood Sect were women who didn't fall for Lin Yibai's tricks.
"You know everything," Banfenghe looked up and forced a sad smile. "So, is the next step to kill me?"
Shen Qing stared at Banfenghe for a while. After a moment of silence, she said calmly, "You're just a small minion. Killing you won't solve anything. Moreover, with your current state, you're doomed not to live long. I don't need to take on this karma."
"Go. Take care of yourself."
Jiang Zhiyun looked at Banfenghe coldly, then buried her head in Qing Qing's arms and didn't look at her anymore.
Banfenghe looked at Li Xian. He was concentrating on the teacup in his hand. Even when Shen Qing tore off her facial skin, he didn't look at her once.
"Li Xian, do you still remember me? When we were kids..."
"Shen Qing, come here."
Li Xian interrupted Banfenghe's half - spoken words and called Shen Qing back to his side. He carefully wiped her hands.
Banfenghe was stimulated by this scene in front of her, and her heart ached.
She really liked Li Xian.
Her feelings for Li Xian didn't start from the Sect Conference as Qing Dai had said, but when she was a child. She had followed her father to the Five Elements Taoist Sect to gather information and saw the young Li Xian covered in wounds, trapped in a small dark room.
Out of kindness, she had thrown the candy in her hand through the crack in the window.
At that time, Li Xian still had amber eyes, which were deeply engraved in her mind.
It was a pity that Li Xian didn't remember her at all.
Banfenghe closed her eyes and silently digested her tears. When she opened them again, she seemed to have made up her mind. She said to Shen Qing, "I've lost."
"If you want to know about the Main God's Temple, I can tell you everything. But you know, there are restrictions on me..."
"So, Shen Qing, if you really want to know the secrets of the Main God's Temple, then you should search my soul yourself."