Imperial Treasure
Chapter 254 - 184: Blessing and Calamity Coexist

Chapter 254: Chapter 184: Blessing and Calamity Coexist

Greed, bloodthirst, devouring flesh... and if one were to add the innate lewd desires, at this moment, Wei Huan in Sui Yi’s eyes was undoubtedly a monster that stood apart from humanity.

Therefore, any bit of mercy that should have been there instantly faded away, and she gripped the Shaving Knife in her hand. As Wei Huan’s next fierce swipe came...

Sui Yi’s waist bent like a cat, and she slid away!

However, Wei Huan was too fast, twice as fast as yesterday, catching up to Sui Yi in the blink of an eye and taking a swing at her back!

Whoosh!

Sui Yi narrowly turned her body to the side, lifting her arm... the Shaving Knife thrust diagonally upwards!

Bang!

The Shaving Knife was knocked flying...

And embedded into a bamboo stalk.

The palm wind carried a slightly dark gray mist!

Whoosh... Sui Yi twisted her body, leapt onto the slanted bamboo pole, shot up into the air, and landed on the bamboo. Looking down, she saw Wei Huan setting his palms in motion, the gray mist emitting a vibrating sound. His inner strength was concentrated on his palms, overwhelming and fierce, seeming to warp the air itself.

Wei Huan now must have sixty to seventy years of Inner Strength!

Far exceeding Sui Yi!

"Zha!" Wei Huan let out a fierce yell, and slapped the bamboo that Sui Yi was standing on... snap, the bamboo broke in the middle...

As the entire bamboo fell, Sui Yi lightly tapped her foot and sprang up!

Elsewhere, Wei Huan had already leapt from another bamboo, a few flickers and he was soaring through the air, facing Sui Yi mid-flight and ferociously slamming down a palm at her!

Spinning around, a flying kick!

Leg and palm clashed!

Boom!

Sui Yi fell from the sky! Landing on the ground, the Qi Force smashed the earth leaving indentations as large as fists.

Legs in searing pain...

She twisted her foot slightly, took a shallow breath, and heard Wei Huan chuckling, "Impressive... your legs didn’t break.. but I will still break them later, make you immobile, and then... take you!"

Wei Huan walked over slowly, step by step, as if deliberately torturing Sui Yi’s heart...

"By now, you definitely can’t move your legs anymore... heh heh, but don’t you think you should throw away that pouch on your waist? Can’t bear to part with the jewels inside? So you’re just a worldly person after all, fond of money... how are you different from me..."

Wei Huan seemed to have found something amusing, his face beaming with a bright smile as his palms and fingers twisted, his nails sharp...

Sui Yi’s hand reached into the snakeskin pouch.

"These jewels are indeed very important to me"

"It’s apparent"

"Wei Huan, the people who went missing from Mao Bamboo Village years ago, was that your doing?"

"What do you think?"

"How long have you been here?"

"Three years..."

"Which sect are you from?"

At that moment, Wei Huan was only three or four steps away from Sui Yi, a distance where... with just a tap of his foot, in a single breath, he could kill Sui Yi.

His footsteps halted, looking at Sui Yi with ripples in his eyes, his dimples showing as he smiled, "Hehe~~ are you trying to stall for time?"

Sui Yi looked at him firmly, finally withdrawing her hand from the pouch, she untied the rope, throwing the pouch onto the ground.

"Yes"

As her voice fell, a terrifying aura erupted from Sui Yi, chilling, sharp, and massive!

That kind of aura, one that both good and evil had to avoid, was like the air of ancient times!

Almost instinctively, Wei Huan blasted backwards...

And Sui Yi burst out at a speed far surpassing her previous limit, her figure roaring like lightning, whistling fiercely through the air, and in the blink of an eye catching up to the retreating Wei Huan... Moving at high speed, she fiercely grabbed the Shaving Knife embedded in the bamboo, cutting... the bamboo broke, she leaped up, jumping forward towards Wei Huan!

Inner Strength, magnetic energy, all converged on the Shaving Knife! Forming a cyan aura...

With a knife, yet it was a sword strike!

Whoosh...

With one slash, or was it a sword strike, Wei Huan could no longer tell, only feeling that everything about him was locked down under this one strike.

Frozen!

"Ahh~~~" A shrill scream, capable of piercing through the bamboo forest, as if it were the agony of a tormented evil spirit from Hell, and also like the grieving howl of a Giant Fox.

Splash!!!

The slender Shaving Knife was thrust into Wei Huan’s chest...

Bang!

Nailing him directly onto the bamboo.

The screams persisted for a while, Sui Yi holding the Shaving Knife, staring at Wei Huan’s ferocious and terrifying face, and his twisted body...

Was this person, still human?

His strength grew stronger, as if he would break free at any moment, Sui Yi gritted her teeth, forcing out the last of her magnetic energy, compressing it all into his body, frantically destroying his heart and brain...

At last, Wei Huan’s struggles faded away...

The hand holding the Shaving Knife also dropped down.

Was that still a hand?

Sui Yi stared at the nails that had grown sharp and elongated before death, then looked towards Wei Huan’s face.

Veins bulged on the face, fierce and vile, like a green-veined demon mask, and beneath the temples, weird yellow hairs had sprouted...

A monster?

Sui Yi felt a slight chill in her heart, Could this person have been sharing water from the same pond as the Giant Fox every day...

Or absorbed the blood of the Giant Fox, eaten its flesh?

After thinking for a bit, Sui Yi still took several photos to save on her phone, then sat cross-legged on the spot for a while, turning the Magnetic Sensation absorbed from the jewelry in the bag for her own use. Her Inner Strength had already advanced to about sixty years or so, nearly the same as Wei Huan had been before.

"Thank goodness for Mao Sanqing’s jewelry, otherwise..." Sui Yi silently celebrated, but upon closer thought, if it wasn’t for that Mao Sanqing, she wouldn’t have been targeted by Wei Huan.

Fortune and disaster really do depend on each other.

After regaining her strength, Sui Yi got up to tidy up the scene.

Although the scene was horrifying, Sui Yi still used her Inner Strength to make a pit of decent size on the ground and buried the human remains in it. She covered it with earth, then used a Shaving Knife to chop off a piece of bamboo, sticking it into the grave... What name should she carve?

Just write the people of Mao Bamboo Village.

As a martial artist, she was nimble with her movements, so she quickly dealt with everything. There was no blood on Sui Yi’s hands because she had worn Wei Huan’s clothes to gather the bones.

It was also to settle the resentment of those who had died.

Standing in front of the grave, Sui Yi was silent for a while, perhaps reciting a prayer for rebirth in her heart, or perhaps just uttering a word of peace. As for Wei Huan, Sui Yi did not neglect him, and she buried him by the side as well.

"After death, if you enter the Underworld... with so many of you together, I suppose you could join forces to torment him a bit..."

Sui Yi smiled slightly, picked up the snakeskin bag from the ground and hung it on her waist, the Spiritual Energy attached to the jewelry inside had been completely absorbed by her, clinking as it moved. Proceeding further, she then picked up the woman from the ground.

She walked deeper into the bamboo forest.

She felt that Wei Huan, despite his cruelty, did not tell too many lies before... maybe she could trust him once.

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By now, Mao Bamboo Village was already in utter chaos, Li Jingyan and Lin Yun were nearly losing their minds!

Where’s the boss?

Disappeared?

If she had gone out alone at night, it would be impossible not to have returned by now, how big is this mountain anyway!

If it was a departure in the daylight, there was no need to leave without saying a word!

Could she have been taken away by the Giant Fox?

The two of them, together with the villagers, checked Sui Yi’s residence, but couldn’t find a single trace...

Li Jingyan, being observant, did notice a few strands of hair on a tree...

The fox had been there!

So where was Sui Yi?

They were anxious to death, worried to death! Also scared to death!

The fox wasn’t dead yet? It still dared to seek revenge?

Too ferocious!

If it doesn’t die, the villagers won’t live!

Mao Gang, both shocked and furious, called for nearly half the village to go out searching, with women, children, and elderly all staying at Old Lady Mao San’s house...

They searched and searched until the middle of the day, without finding anything...

Everyone was about to collapse!

Had they rescued Xiao Dao, only to cause harm to their savior?

At this moment, at the edge of the mountains, clouds weighed heavily above.

A group of people had gloomy expressions on their faces.

"This really is... I’m sorry, we’ve let Miss Sui down..." Mao Gang clutched his head, depressed, while Li Jingyan repeatedly pressed his phone... Lin Yun couldn’t bear it and stopped him, "Stop pressing, there’s no signal in the mountains... let’s keep searching, she couldn’t just vanish like that..."

"Lin Yun, go down the mountain to get help, tell Elder Tang and Elder Lin to send people over... I refuse to believe that we can’t find her with more than a hundred people searching!" Li Jingyan knew the importance of Sui Yi, and if Elder Tang and the others found out, they would surely go mad!

They would turn the mountain upside down to find her!

"Alright!... Oh, what’s down there? Is there a way to quickly reach the top or bottom?" Lin Yun was about to leave when she suddenly turned to look below the mountain ridges, thinking it was a shortcut.

"Down there, that’s a dead end! It’s a sealed valley... our people here never go down there, Miss, you definitely shouldn’t head down there..."

Li Jingyan and Lin Yun suddenly exchanged glances, "Which means that area hasn’t been searched yet!"

The villagers were startled, indeed it hadn’t been searched, but down there...

Li Jingyan was about to go down when the villagers didn’t dare to stop her, and even a few mustered the courage to say they’d go down together...

Suddenly, Mao Gang shouted loudly, "Don’t go down!"

"What do you mean? I’ll go down and search myself!" Li Jingyan, who wouldn’t listen to anyone, was dragged back by Mao Gang...

"Don’t go, look over there, over there!! Someone’s coming up!"

All eyes turned in unison...

Indeed, they saw on the mid-slope of the mountain, by the carved out slender path hidden by the foliage, a dark figure moving uphill...

Those with keen eyesight could even see the white clothing...

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It was an hour later that Sui Yi returned to Mao Bamboo Village; regarding the woman she was carrying on her back, others had asked, so she simply said it was someone she happened to have saved... The woman was nearly harmed by the Giant Fox...

Upon hearing this, the villagers immediately showed various forms of sympathy, only Lin Yun and Li Jingyan were puzzled, firstly, the woman was too beautiful and clearly not someone from Mao Bamboo Village, how could she appear in these mountains!

Secondly, the clothes she was wearing... they were ancient!

Naturally, Sui Yi obviously did not wish for them to ask too many questions, and with Wei Huan having appeared earlier, the arrival of another woman was no longer strange.

Moreover, their first reaction, what they cared most about, was Sui Yi’s tattered clothes and exposed shoulder; all those men had seen the bare white skin...

Although it was quickly covered by the jacket Li Jingyan took off, those men were too embarrassed to keep looking.

Thankfully, it was just a small portion of the shoulder...

But there was blood on it. (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast a recommendation vote, a monthly ticket, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)