Unrivaled Miracle Doctor: The God-Defying Demonic Consort novel Chapter 587

Chapter 587: Chapter 22: Kill or Be Killed

What does it feel like when the soul separates from the body?

At this moment, Mu Qingge felt a bit like this! She hadn’t dreamed for a long time, but as soon as drowsiness overwhelmed her, she unexpectedly entered a deep dream...

In the dream, she transformed into those golden figures, and according to the Refining Method in the Divine Strategy, she began to operate her body. Forcing out all the Spiritual Power from the Elixir Field into the meridians.

Then, by reversing the meridians, she transferred this Spiritual Power into her internal organs, muscles, bones, and even her blood.

This kind of reverse Refining Technique brought with it the danger of self-destruction at any moment.

In the dream, Mu Qingge felt extreme pain all over her body, as if her blood were burning, her muscles rapidly expanded, and soon she turned into a gigantic ball in the dream, and then—with a boom, she saw herself being shattered into pieces.

Hoo—!

Mu Qingge abruptly awoke from bed, ice-cold sweat soaking her clothes.

The rapid breathing echoed in the quiet room.

As Mu Qingge gradually calmed down, a feeling of survival after a disaster suddenly rose in her heart. She slowly lifted her hand, touching her cold cheek, and murmured gratefully, "Luckily, it was just a dream. Otherwise, it would have been a really frustrating way to die!"

She lifted her eyes, only to notice that it was already bright outside. It turned out, an entire night had passed.

Mu Qingge was slightly surprised in her heart. She remembered that after finishing dinner last night, she quickly felt sleepy, lay down, and fell asleep. Then she had that dream where she was scared awake, and it was already dawn?

In her perception, it seemed like only a couple of hours had passed, but in reality, an entire night had gone by.

Mu Qingge felt a bit puzzled, but didn’t continue to dwell on it. She lowered her eyes, gazing at her own palms, frowningly said, "Could it be that the Divine Strategy, said by Si Mo to be the highest secret of the Divine Clan, is actually a cultivation technique for killing? Or is it... that only the Divine Clan can cultivate this technique? But... then why would the Mu Family have fragments of the Divine Strategy? And the Legacy Clan..."

Slowly pursing her lips tightly, Mu Qingge fell into deep confusion. The people of the Legacy Clan inexplicably recognized her as their master, and then used the middle volume clues of the Divine Strategy as bait to force her to accept the servant Xie Ya. Why did they use this as bait? Could it be they already knew she had the Divine Strategy?

Or did they know that years ago, the ancestors of the Mu Family took the fragmented scripture of the Divine Strategy upper scroll and went to Linchuan.

If so, then they indeed had a complex relationship with the Mu Family.

However, the cultivation method of this Divine Strategy’s upper scroll is simply not something that can be practiced, and the recent dream was the best warning for her.

Mu Qingge automatically categorized the previous dream as belonging to the realm of ’thinking of it by day and dreaming of it by night’.

It must be because after unraveling the secret of the Divine Strategy’s upper scroll, she kept thinking about it, which led to such a dream. In the dream, she couldn’t resist the temptation of the Divine Strategy and practiced according to its cultivation method, resulting in tragedy.

"Dreams are subconscious reactions, is my body trying to tell me not to rashly cultivate like this?" Mu Qingge slightly raised her eyebrows.

Her thoughts somewhat chaotic, Mu Qingge thought for a moment, then took out the Pill Furnace for alchemy.

Alchemy can concentrate qi and calm the mind, gather focus, and train Spiritual Sense. As always, Mu Qingge wouldn’t waste any time and would arrange her various cultivation practices properly.

The Pill Furnace she took out was not the Heaven-Burning Furnace.

The ambiguous words of the Medicine Tower’s courtyard elder revealed to her that the Heaven-Burning Furnace was not only a valuable item in the Linchuan Realm but even in the Middle Ancient Realm, it was an alchemist’s coveted object.

Since she didn’t fully understand the situation in the Middle Ancient Realm, she wouldn’t take out ’Little Black’ to ’attract trouble’.

Therefore, what she took out was just an ordinary Pill Furnace, but anyway, with her Perfect Realm, even using an ordinary Alchemy Furnace, she could produce top-quality Elixir.

The only difference was the quantity being slightly lower and the speed a bit slower.

Soon, the scent of herbs began to fill Mu Qingge’s room...

Outside the window, the sky turned white, and the night receded.

In Yu Shui City, the peace had vanished since a day ago. Even at night, different people and horses were constantly searching through the streets and alleys.

People from the Jiang Family, people from the Sheng Family, all searching the entire city with torches in hand, and some invisible undercurrents quietly surged.

A night passed, the searchers returned empty-handed. The Dragon Tooth Guards, silently watching everything in the dark, also retreated quietly, returning to Mu Qingge’s temporary residence, the small courtyard.

In an unknown place, the place where Qin Yiyao was held, the pitch-black environment made it impossible to distinguish day from night.

In the darkness, she finally fumbled her way to the side of someone who claimed to be a Sheng Family miss, the two carefully plotted, but neither had a completely assured escape plan.

Qin Yiyao pursed her lips and said, "The situation is unclear now, we don’t know where this place is, who caught us, what their purpose is, how many people are guarding outside, we can only take it one step at a time."

The Sheng Family girl whispered, "As long as I can get out of here, once outside I can release my Sheng Family’s signal, it can be seen within a hundred miles of Yu Shui City, and my family will definitely come to rescue me by then!"

So there’s this move!

Qin Yiyao felt a surge of joy.

It must be said, this was a good opportunity. If the Sheng Family comes, her chances of escaping are greatly increased.

Now, the task was to find a way to get the girl beside her out of this dark prison.

Of course, she had to ensure that before the Sheng Family came, this Sheng Family miss would not be discovered and killed because of releasing the signal.

Otherwise, when the Sheng Family arrived, it would not be a rescue but a killing.

Qin Yiyao frowned slightly, she asked, "After you send out your signal, how soon can your family get here?"

The Sheng Family girl calculated in her mind and honestly replied to Qin Yiyao, "I don’t know where this place is, how far it is from Yu Shui City. If it is within the visible range of the signal, they will arrive in at most half an hour."

So—there were still too many uncertainties.

What to do? Gamble or not to gamble?

Qin Yiyao slowly bit her lower lip, falling into a struggle and deep thought.

"Hey, we’ve been talking for so long, I still don’t know if you’re a man or a woman. But judging by your voice, you should be young, maybe even younger than me, yet so capable, thinking of so many things I can’t." The Sheng Family girl suddenly said.

Qin Yiyao had been speaking in a deliberately modulated tone, making it hard to discern the gender from her voice.

Hearing the admiration in the Sheng Family girl’s words, she smiled silently, a touch of unseen melancholy flashing through her eyes hidden in the darkness.

The Sheng Family girl’s praise brought her memories of the past, of that person.

All of a sudden, the image of someone in a blood-red robe, dazzling like the sun, vividly flashed in her mind, their flawlessly beautiful face still carrying that arrogant and confident smile. With every gesture and movement full of strategic insight, mastering clouds with one turn of the hand, covering rain with another, ruthless yet at times gentle and meticulous...

A hint of daze appeared in her expression, murmuring, "Am I formidable? That’s because you haven’t met that person. My little survival tricks are nothing before him. No matter how I disguise myself, I’m utterly defenseless in front of him."

"Who is it! So formidable? More intelligent than you?" The Sheng Family girl curiously asked.

Qin Yiyao smiled with a complex expression, speaking in a bitter tone, "He is not just intelligent, he could be described as a prodigy!"

"So formidable! I really want to meet him. Once we get out of here, will you take me to meet him? I’ve always had a thing for smart people, unlike my silly brother who keeps telling me not to do this and that!" The Sheng Family girl pleaded.

Qin Yiyao shook her head with a bitter smile, "I’m afraid I can’t promise you that. I don’t even know if I’ll ever have the chance to see him again, or if I should even meet him."

The Sheng Family girl sensed the faint sadness in her words.

Just as she was about to ask, there was a sudden noise.

It was the sound of a bolt being drawn, as if the people who captured them were finally about to show themselves.

"Shh." Qin Yiyao snapped back to reality, her numerous experiences between life and death making her entire body vigilant. She reminded the Sheng Family girl beside her, "Before we figure out the situation, don’t reveal your identity, and don’t act rashly."

The Sheng Family girl admired Qin Yiyao at this moment and nodded her head continuously, sealing her lips tightly.

The tightly closed door finally opened.

The long-lost light streamed in through the crack, dispersing the darkness near the door and allowing Qin Yiyao to see the thickness and texture of the door. It was a Mystic Iron Gate, very thick, which she couldn’t break through with her current cultivation.

According to her experience, only those above the Gray Realm might be able to break this door.

The door was slowly pushed open from outside, light wrapped around a few people, appearing in the dark room.

"It stinks." The person who just stepped in couldn’t help muttering with disdain.

It was a man who had come!

Immediately, he impatiently said, "Make it brighter here. How am I supposed to choose anyone in this darkness?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the few people who entered with him began to disperse, heading to the corners of the room to light the torches hanging on the walls.

Flames ignited in the room, and the firelight dispelled the darkness, gradually revealing the outlines of the room to everyone present.

The interweaving of light made certain areas clearer, while some corners became even darker as shadows layered.

However, it finally allowed Qin Yiyao and the female from the Sheng Family to see clearly their surroundings.

It turned out that this was a prison.

Before them, with the newcomers on the other side of the bars, it felt like being trapped in a cage like a small beast.

Besides them, quite a few people were crammed together in the cage. Qin Yiyao finally saw clearly the appearance of the girl claiming to be from the Sheng Family next to her.

Despite some dirt on her cheeks, the girl had a pretty and charming look, her eyes brimmed with spiritual energy, appearing somewhat playful.

As she scanned Qin Yiyao, the girl from the Sheng Family curiously looked back at her.

She realized Qin Yiyao was dressed as a man, and couldn’t help but feel shy, as if she had never been so close to a stranger man before.

"Don’t get me wrong, I am a woman," fearing the Sheng Family girl might harbor resentment and affect their cooperation, Qin Yiyao promptly clarified her identity.

Hearing this quiet explanation, the girl from the Sheng Family was taken aback, scrutinized Qin Yiyao earnestly, and confirmed her gender upon noticing a hint of femininity between her eyebrows.

She playfully stuck out her tongue and whispered, "Turned out you’re an elder sister."

Qin Yiyao smiled faintly and quickly scanned around, signaling her not to act rashly. Previously, their whispered conversations after huddling together were not likely heard by others.

Besides, in this predicament, most people were dazed, and who would notice what they were saying?

The girl from the Sheng Family grasped the hint, shrunk inwardly, pursed her lips.

At this moment, the man walking into the cell scanned over, and Qin Yiyao promptly lowered her eyelids.

"Why are they all like this?" the man unhappily spoke. The dissatisfaction in his tone also tightened his eyebrows.

Someone leaned close to him and cautiously said, "Lord, our Ninth Lord asked me to tell you that many people have been missing recently in various cities, causing some commotion. There are fewer people moving alone, making business difficult, asking for your understanding."

Upon hearing the explanation, the man still responded with a cold snort of dissatisfaction.

Nonetheless, he did not continue to complain, and impatiently took the long pole handed over by the person beside him.

The long pole resembled a fishing rod, but it was thicker and longer than a fishing pole.

Holding the long pole, he extended its other end into the gaps of the bars.

The other end of the pole swung back and forth among the people inside, seemingly selecting merchandise.

Qin Yiyao and the Sheng Family girl squeezed into the corner, secretly observing the movements of the pole.

The pole intermittently hit some people, lifting their chins, as the man outside the bars carefully scrutinized them left and right, then disappointedly shook his head, moved the pole away, and landed it on another person.

This selection process gave Qin Yiyao a feeling as if they had fallen into the villain’s hands.

She was being treated as a slave for sale!

Vaguely, Qin Yiyao seemed to realize she had fallen into some sort of den. She never imagined that within the Middle Ancient Realm, such an underground human trafficking market existed!

"Too poor, this batch of goods is really too poor. Tell your Ninth Lord, such goods can’t fetch the usual price." The person holding the pole selected with disgust, occasionally bargaining with the nearby people.

The people beside him only smiled apologetically.

The matter of price was beyond their control.

The person with the pole seemed aware of this fact, so he merely complained verbally and did not persist continuously.

After a long while, he reluctantly chose a person, pointed the pole at her forehead, and said to the person beside him, "She counts as one."

Immediately, the gate to the bars was opened, and someone entered, walked up to the selected woman, and roughly grabbed her hair.

"Ah—!" The woman was already very scared and now in pain, she couldn’t help but cry out.

Yet, this cry of fear did not change her fate; the person who entered had no sympathy for her, forcefully lifted her by the hair, dragging her towards the door.

The woman was dragged awkwardly across the ground, her scalp seemed on the verge of tearing apart. She tightly grasped the hand on her head, constantly screaming and flailing her legs.

But ultimately, she was dragged out of the cage and thrown before the man with the pole.

"Be gentle, if she’s damaged and the price drops, will you compensate me?" the man with the pole complained.

The person who dragged the woman shrank their neck, stepped back.

Indignantly glaring at him, the man with the pole then focused his gaze on the woman on the ground. He looked down at her, his eyes assessing like examining goods. "Raise your head."

The woman on the ground was engulfed in fear.

Upon hearing his voice, she dared not refute. Her body trembled uncontrollably, as she shakily raised her head, looking pitifully at the person standing in front of her.

The man holding the pole glanced at her, snorted through his nose, "Passable."

Saying that, he no longer paid attention to her, and started selecting others with the pole again.

The cell contained both men and women, but mostly women. The men remained unconscious, unaware of their current circumstances.

This point puzzled Qin Yiyao, why were only women awake?

Could it be, the drug had a stronger effect on men?

She didn’t realize her speculation was the truth.

Those who captured them used a formula that included some ingredients, which made men’s physique more susceptible to paralysis and prolonged the sleep.

This way, by the time they awoke, most transactions had been completed, the situation was irreversible.

Even if they wished to resist, it would be useless.

Indeed, the man holding the pole appeared only interested in women, indifferent to men. Qin Yiyao noticed his pole always bypassed the unconscious men, landing on the frightened, crying women.

He selected two more women, but his expression was never satisfied.

Finally, his pole moved from the periphery, stretching toward the corners of the cell, those shrouded in shadow, the hiding place of Qin Yiyao and the Sheng Family girl.

"Sister, what should we do?" Seeing the pole draw closer, the Sheng Family girl quietly asked Qin Yiyao.

"Stay calm. Maybe this is a chance to leave!" Qin Yiyao’s mind rapidly raced.

They didn’t know where they were, how far from Yu Shui City, if Sheng Miss’s mark was useful, or if Sheng Family could arrive in time, so they could do nothing.

But if selected by this person and left here, they might find out where they are outside and then seize an opportunity to escape!

The girl from the Sheng Family didn’t quite understand Qin Yiyao’s meaning, but chose to trust her anyway.

Finally, the pole landed on the shoulder of the Sheng Family girl.

That jab was quite forceful, nearly making her cry from pain, but she managed to hold it in. She raised her head, her small face filled with anger as she looked outside the bars.

If she were at the Sheng Family, anyone who dared treat her this way would have long met their demise!

Unfortunately, this wasn’t the Sheng Family, nor did anyone recognize her as the girl from the Sheng Family!

"Oh! Those eyes are nice, with a stubborn glint, truly appealing to some wealthy young masters." Surprisingly, her look caused the eyes of the man holding the pole to brighten.

Upon seeing her appearance clearly, a satisfied look appeared on his face for the first time. "Didn’t expect such outstanding quality merchandise here, nearly overlooked you. You’re the one!" Saying this, he forcefully jabbed her shoulder again with the pole.

"Sister!" The Sheng Family girl instinctively looked at Qin Yiyao beside her, seemingly seeking her advice.

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