Chapter 92
Brother Gu was transmitted out of Dragon Slaying Cave, finding himself in the Legalist School's open space. There were quite a few people around, and he could still hear other eliminated disciples cursing and swearing.
He covered his injured chest, raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, his expression sinister and indescribable.
His plan was completely disrupted. At this moment, he even had the heart to kill Mei Liangyu in the academy.
The mountaintop had been right before his eyes, just one step away from the goal, but it was muddied by Mei Liangyu's group. Not only that, even the chance to go to Inverted Moon Cave was ruined. Brother Gu was now so hateful he could grind his teeth to pieces.
If he could swallow this insult, he might as well not bother staying at Taiyi.
Brother Gu was still thinking that maybe Xiang Feifei had entered the dragon head, but soon he saw both Xiang Feifei and Xun Zhiya being transmitted out, followed by Huo Xiao and Ji Meng and others. Complete annihilation.
"......"
Brother Gu was cursing Mei Liangyu's ancestors eighteen generations back in his heart. He quickly stepped forward to support Xiang Feifei, who couldn't stand steady due to poisoning, while looking at Xun Zhiya. Seeing she wasn't seriously injured, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiang Feifei's complexion was pale. Even after being transmitted out of Dragon Slaying Cave, the toxins remained. Her consciousness was somewhat unclear. Leaning in Brother Gu's arms, she bit her lip and said: "I'm sorry."
She had originally been brought to obtain Heavenly Mechanism Arts, but encountered this situation. Xiang Feifei felt somewhat annoyed that she couldn't reach Ye Pool, rarely showing such humility.
"This isn't your fault." Brother Gu's expression was cold and grim as he led her toward the Medical School instructor. "Let's clean out the poison first. I'll figure out something for what comes next."
Brother Gu had just handed Xiang Feifei over to the Medical School instructor when he saw Qian Ying standing beside the instructor helping out. She had been waiting outside at the elimination point to wait for Brother Gu.
Seeing Qian Ying didn't surprise Brother Gu, but what made his pupils constrict was seeing Wenyang Hui standing beside Qian Ying.
Why was he also outside?!
Xun Zhiya and Huo Xiao also saw Wenyang Hui, both showing unexpected expressions.
Ji Meng directly asked: "How was Wenyang Hui also eliminated? Wasn't he at the dragon's tail? What's there to be eliminated about at the dragon's tail?!"
His voice grew more tremulous with each of these three questions.
Brother Gu walked toward Wenyang Hui and Qian Ying. The first to notice him was Qian Ying, whose eyes lit up at first, then she froze: "Brother Gu? How are you so fast......"
Wenyang Hui, who was sitting in a chair nearby, also turned around. Seeing Brother Gu's group, he stood up in surprise: "How did you all......"
"Why are you also outside?" Brother Gu asked with a frown.
Wenyang Hui's complexion also wasn't good. He recounted his encounter at the dragon's tail. Brother Gu listened with his eye twitching slightly, his anger growing: "You used Golden Thunder on Sui Sui?"
Ji Meng was also stunned.
"I was targeting Su Tong. She insisted on protecting Su Tong." Facing Brother Gu's released fury, Wenyang Hui also showed some dissatisfaction, frowning: "Nangong Sui helped Su Tong and Yan Xiaochuan eliminate me. Otherwise, how would I be here?"
Brother Gu grabbed his collar, laughing angrily: "You can endure being hit by Golden Thunder without fighting back? Wenyang Hui, you better explain clearly to me, you can't control your Golden Thunder?"
"Hey." Ji Meng and Huo Xiao stepped forward to break up the fight.
"She's First Realm. What could she do to you? But you, as a Class A Student, you can't control your Five Elements Energy attacks?" Brother Gu's eyes were filled with murderous intent. "If you did this on purpose, this better be the only time."
Wenyang Hui also turned cold: "What about Nangong Sui eliminating me?"
"If Sui Sui wasn't Mei Liangyu's Junior Sister, would you have lost control of your Golden Thunder?" Brother Gu's gaze was like blazing sunlight, instantly seeing through Wenyang Hui. "Since you were brought to help Sui Sui pass, what would it matter if you let them through? Why did you have to act at that moment?"
Wenyang Hui's heart trembled, his eyes flickering as he avoided direct eye contact.
He indeed didn't look favorably on Yu Sui because of Mei Liangyu and Yu Sui's relationship.
In Brother Gu's eyes, Yu Sui had been pampered in Qingyang, raised well by the manor. How could she have suffered such hardship? He had also experienced the pain of Golden Thunder and knew what it felt like. Learning that Yu Sui had also tasted it once, his feelings of affection instantly soared to the peak.
This was even done by one of his own people. Brother Gu felt a surge of anger rush straight to his head. Nothing was going smoothly.
Sui Sui also knew about Wenyang Hui's relationship with him. After being struck by Golden Thunder and then taken away by Mei Liangyu, didn't this give Mei Liangyu an opportunity to get close to Sui Sui?
Thinking about how Mei Liangyu had picked up this advantage and seized the initiative, improving his image in Yu Sui's heart, Brother Gu's loathing for him intensified greatly.
"Brother Gu, now isn't the time to be angry about such things." Qian Ying took Brother Gu's hand, separating him from Wenyang Hui. "Since things have already happened, let's treat the injuries first, then make decisions about what comes next."
She gave Huo Xiao a look, having him take Wenyang Hui farther away so both of them could cool down for a while.
Brother Gu was pulled by Qian Ying to sit in a chair, his temple still twitching with anger. Not knowing whether Yu Sui had left Dragon Slaying Cave, he picked up his Wind-Listening Ruler, preparing to ask where she was.
……
Yu Sui was just discussing with Xue Mushi whether to stay or leave when she suddenly received Brother Gu's message. She lowered her eyes to glance at it, somewhat surprised to see it was from Brother Gu. He had just been eliminated not long ago, how did he already have time to contact her?
Only after Yu Sui opened and read the message did she understand. Brother Gu had learned about Wenyang Hui using Golden Thunder on her.
Wenyang Hui and Mei Liangyu's relationship had turned bad since their youth.
After Brother Gu's elimination from Dragon Slaying Cave, his malice toward Mei Liangyu would multiply several times.
Probably after this, Brother Gu would steel his heart and have her help deal with Mei Liangyu.
What Wenyang Hui did with the Golden Thunder actually gave Yu Sui an excuse to avoid getting involved in Brother Gu's revenge and temporarily distance herself from him.
Besides Brother Gu's message, Yu Sui also received a message from Li Jin Shuang.
It was the message Yu Sui had asked Li Jin Shuang to send daily: "I am a woman, I can protect the Li family."
She really had been sending it every day.
After leaving Dragon Slaying Cave, all the previous messages had been transmitted to Yu Sui.
At this moment, Li Jin Shuang also actively informed Yu Sui that she had left Dragon Slaying Cave and asked how Yu Sui's Golden Thunder injuries were.
Yu Sui's finger lightly slid across her message interface. She put away the Wind-Listening Ruler without replying.
"Let's go out," Yu Sui said after contemplating. "I once probed about the specific location of the Floating Pagoda fragments, but Brother Gu never answered. He doesn't even know who I am, only contacting through Wind-Listening Ruler. Brother Gu wouldn't tell me everything. Some secret realms and rare treasures at Taiyi aren't very friendly to you and me either. We don't know what might trigger something that would expose the existence of Strange Fire."
Xue Mushi recalled the trial at the dragon head and silently nodded, feeling Yu Sui was right.
The greatest threat to them now wasn't Saints or humans, but those strange and peculiar treasures and secret realms.
Regarding snatching Floating Pagoda fragments, Brother Gu was more anxious and concerned than these two.
Brother Gu's side had more people, sufficient strength, and it wasn't his first time breaking into Inverted Moon Cave. He had experience. Under these circumstances, Yu Sui was more willing to wait patiently, as the risk was also minimal.
Xue Mushi also agreed to leave. Thinking about Wei Ren, who had just entered Dragon Slaying Cave only to come out again, he couldn't help but touch his nose. A wasted trip.
Wei Ren was currently maintaining distance on the opposite bank of the river, watching Princess Shangyang's group.
He had done this kind of work plenty before. Sometimes a mission to watch people would last several months. This had just begun, and Wei Ren's mind had already thought of countless methods using poison and parasites to restrain enemies.
Princess Shangyang standing on the mechanism bridge was also quite bored, chatting with her little sisters, occasionally looking down at the river water below the bridge, as if she thought Nangong Sui would pop out of the water the next moment.
When Wei Ren received Yu Sui's message about leaving, he momentarily thought his eyes were playing tricks on him.
He asked one more question: "Did you get it?"
Yu Sui replied: "Brother Gu was eliminated."
Wei Ren: "......"
Hah!
So there was someone even more unlucky than him.
Wei Ren immediately packed up and left.
The transmission points for leaving Dragon Slaying Cave were all concentrated in one place. The Legalist School's open field was lit up, with instructors maintaining order and providing medical treatment coming and going at the field's edge, not bothering with some disciples' quarreling in the field.
Things like "I just eliminated you, then I got eliminated," or people specially coming to the transmission point to fight with those who eliminated them happened every year. It was commonplace. As long as the disturbance wasn't too excessive, the instructors would turn a blind eye and let it be.
Many instructors also enjoyed watching disciples tear into each other over elimination matters. This was when they could hear all sorts of strange things.
Yu Sui and Xue Mushi were transmitted out, standing in the lively crowd. To their left were people pushing and shoving each other, to their right were people cursing at each other. The two stood quietly in the middle, actually appearing somewhat eerie.
Wei Ren had just come out when he saw a golden light emerge from Yu Sui and Xue Mushi in the crowd ahead, transforming into a dragon that roamed the entire field, emitting deep dragon roars, announcing that the two were victors who had emerged from Dragon Head Ye Pool.
Yu Sui: "......"
Xue Mushi: "......"
The two unlucky ones who had wanted to leave quietly became the focus of everyone's attention because of this golden light dragon.
Now everyone knew they had been to Dragon Head Ye Pool.
"Damn, my Taoist School's little golden dragon, how did some disciple I've never seen get it this year?"
"Nangong Sui?!"
"Brothers, remember those two glowing guys. When we meet again in Dragon Slaying Cave next year, beat them first."
"Isn't that Sheng Hao's sister?"
"......"
The people who had been gathered together arguing and fighting all paused simultaneously, turning their heads in unison, looking in disbelief at the two golden, glowing figures right beside them.
Brother Gu, who hadn't noticed Yu Sui's appearance before, also discovered it now.
Brother Gu saw the person standing in the field, incomparably dazzling, with some surprise in his expression, but he quickly understood. For Yu Sui to reach Ye Pool, it must have been Mei Liangyu who helped bring her there. Realizing this, he felt as uncomfortable as if he had swallowed a fly.
Wenyang Hui not far away said in a neither cold nor indifferent tone: "Looks like Mei Liangyu successfully brought his Junior Sister to Ye Pool."
Ji Meng looked at him speechlessly, his eyes signaling: couldn't you just not speak at this moment?!
Li Jin Shuang had originally been about to leave, but happened to see Yu Sui come out and stopped.
"Cousin!" Xue Jiayue's furious shout came from the crowd, startling Xue Mushi and somewhat undermining the cool demeanor he had just managed to maintain.
Seeing Xue Mushi, Xue Jiayue was furious: "You actually snuck off to Ye Pool by yourself behind my back!"
Yu Sui pretended she knew nothing and separated from Xue Mushi, letting Xue Jiayue take Xue Mushi out of the crowd.
Seeing Yu Sui about to leave, Brother Gu stood up and called to her: "Sui Sui!"
Only then did Yu Sui stop and turn around. Seeing Brother Gu, her eyes lit up first, and she walked toward him with a bright smile: "Brother Gu!"
Then her gaze shifted, and after discovering Wenyang Hui, she stopped, the smile on her face also fading.
Brother Gu also noticed this. Seeing Yu Sui stop because of Wenyang Hui, his heart sank, and he strode toward her.
Wei Ren, seeing this, also decided not to leave, just like Li Jin Shuang.
Watching Nangong Sui change expressions was so entertaining.
Xue Mushi was being lectured by Xue Jiayue at the field's edge, hanging his head while glancing toward Yu Sui with his peripheral vision.
"Sui Sui, did you just come out of Ye Pool?" Brother Gu walked to Yu Sui, his voice gentle. "Did you obtain Heavenly Mechanism Arts?"
"Yes!" Yu Sui nodded, looking completely obedient, though the smile had disappeared from her eyes. She said, "Senior Brother brought me to get it."
At these words, Brother Gu's fingers clenched in his sleeves, making soft clicking sounds.
He didn't release his loathing for Mei Liangyu in front of Yu Sui. His gaze lightly traced Yu Sui's cheeks and neck. During her battle at Dragon Throat Mountain, she had inevitably suffered some minor injuries, leaving traces.
Brother Gu naturally took Yu Sui's hand, saying: "Come over first, let's apply medicine to the wounds on your face."
But Yu Sui stopped without moving, looking at him pitifully: "Brother Gu, I don't want to go over there."
"What's wrong?" Brother Gu turned to look back.
Yu Sui lightly lifted her chin toward Wenyang Hui, her gaze pointing: "He's over there."
Brother Gu's expression paused, and he softened his tone to speak with Yu Sui: "I'll have him apologize to you. For this Dragon Slaying Cave challenge, I also had him guard that area and not let people pass. I didn't expect he'd encounter you. It was my oversight."
"What does this have to do with you, Brother Gu? He clearly just doesn't like me, that's why he attacked." Yu Sui frowned, speaking indignantly: "He struck me with several Golden Thunder bolts. After being hit, I fell into the water, and I couldn't use Eight Trigrams Living Arts in the water. When I was young and the princes bullied me by making me fall into water, I developed a trauma. He not only hit me with Golden Thunder but also made me fall into water and nearly drown."
Hearing her mention the past incident, Brother Gu felt guilt and pity rise in his heart, his momentum also weakening considerably.
His gaze was full of affection, and just as he was about to speak soothingly, Yu Sui was already angrily shaking off his hand: "Golden Thunder hurt so much, and it pained me for over two days. In the middle, I even fell into other Military Formations. If Senior Brother hadn't come to rescue me, and if Sister Yue Zhen hadn't helped eliminate the thunder marks, I would have died from pain."
"When have I ever suffered such hardship in my entire life?"
"I refuse to go over there. I'm not angry with you, Brother Gu, but seeing him just makes me sick."
Brother Gu couldn't refute a single word Yu Sui said. Just as he was about to reach for Yu Sui's hand again, she had already turned to leave. He called out: "Sui Sui."
She didn't turn back.
Brother Gu followed with a headache, coaxing as he walked.
"This absolutely won't happen again. I'll have Wenyang Hui apologize to you," Brother Gu said.
Yu Sui kept her head down, saying sullenly: "Even if he apologizes, I won't forgive him. He already hit me, I was the one in pain. What use is an apology?"
Brother Gu coaxed her: "Wenyang Hui also said before that he was wrong. If I hadn't said no one could pass, he wouldn't have acted."
Yu Sui remained sullen: "I don't want to deal with him. Anyway, Senior Brother said he would help me get revenge."
Brother Gu's temple twitched violently.
Senior Brother again.
She had just left Dragon Slaying Cave, and she couldn't go three sentences without mentioning Senior Brother.
While Brother Gu was jealous, his loathing for Mei Liangyu multiplied again. He grabbed Yu Sui's hand and said in a low voice: "Sui Sui, do you know I was eliminated by Mei Liangyu? He's not as good as you think. If not for him, Father's plan wouldn't have been disrupted."
Perhaps due to jealousy, or perhaps due to anger at being eliminated and having things ruined.
Brother Gu spoke these words with some weight, making Yu Sui's eyes widen slightly as if frightened.
Brother Gu instantly regretted it, showing apologetic eyes, and just as he was about to remedy the situation, he heard Yu Sui say: "But the one who brought me out of the Military Formation, saved me multiple times in Dragon Slaying Cave, and finally brought me to Ye Pool was Senior Brother. Isn't this considered good?"
Yu Sui looked at him with somewhat hurt eyes: "Brother Gu, so in your heart, Wenyang Hui is actually more important than me."
She shook off Brother Gu, half angry and half sad.
This was the first time Brother Gu had been looked at by Yu Sui with such eyes, making him panic: "No, of course you're more important than Wenyang Hui!"
Damn that Mei Liangyu!
Yu Sui wouldn't listen anymore. Using this matter to have a cold war with Brother Gu for a while would prevent him from finding her to help with revenge against Mei Liangyu.
Brother Gu caught up with Yu Sui again, coaxing all the way.