Otherworldly Merchant
Chapter 645: Yin-Yang Tiger’s Evil Scheme

My heart calmed down. I held the Holy Mother Sceptertightly and made my waytowards the Corpse Tree.Unexpectedly, I didn’t have tobear thetree’s attack.I shortlyreached Chuyi.

Chuyi’s woundshadopened again, and his blood had dyed his white shirt red. His face was now chalk-white. I felt a twinge in my heart.

“Damn you!” I couldn’t help but curse. Ever since I had known him, I had never seen him in such alife-threateningsituation.

Icalmedthe flame of anger in myheart.Iraisedmy hand to untie him.However, even thoughI had worked on it for a long time, Istill couldn’t untie the rope. I cursed under my breath, feeling helpless.

“Jiulin…”

While I didn’t know what to do, Chuyi suddenly called me. I turned to see him. He was awake!

Tearsfellfrom my eyes.I carefullyasked, “Chuyi, how do you feel now?”

At thismoment, Chuyi was like a cotton doll. He weakly gasped for his breath. “I’m okay. This Corpse Tree has extremely thick Yin energy, so give the rope two drops ofyourblood.After that,wait for the dark smoke to vanish. You can untie me then.”

I took a closer look. Indeed, wisps of dark smoke were crawling on the rope. It seemed that dark smoke had affected my mind. Otherwise, even athree-year-oldkid could have untied such a knot.

I bit my index finger todropsome blood on the rope. However, I captured a glimpse of Chuyi through the corner of my eye while doing so. Shockingly, he was looking at me with bright, high-spirited eyes!

No! He’snot Chuyi!

I panicked andsmeared bloodovermy eyesbefore lookingat him again. He was breathing weakly,butitdidn’t look like he was awake!

“Screwyou!” I couldn’t help but curse.It made no sense forChuyito have recovered thatquickly. I was tricked byan illusionagain!

Chuyi’s Yang energy wasdiminishing. Two of the three Yang flamesin his body had extinguished. The last one was flickering.

I dropped my blood into his mouth. After his Yang flame burned normally again, I freed him from the rope and carried him on my back before leaving the tree.

After walking for around ten minutes, I felt thatsomething was wrong. Although the deadly Corpse Tree was massive, it wouldtakefive minutesat mostto get out of its canopy range.

I used the Invisible Needle tofindmy way. However, the needle flewdisorderlyaround me and landed back on my palm.Icould only put it away.I closedmy eyesanddidn’t think. I just kept walking forward. After a while, I felt something in front of me. I opened my eyes and saw a collapsed wall.

A wave ofcold airswarmed toward me. My heart sank. It wasn’t a wall, butmaterialized Yin energy!

“YoungBenefactor, are you there?” Zen MasterBaimei’s voice arosefromthe other side of the ‘wall.’

I screamed happily, “Zen Master, it’s me. I’vegot Chuyi. Help me out!”

Zen MasterBaimeididn’t answer. With Chuyi on my back, I paced back and forth. I could have just stormed through the wall, which wouldhave costsome of my Yang energy. However, Chuyi’s Yang energy was insufficientat the moment. If I did that, I could smash his soul.

“YoungBenefactor, listen to me carefully. Don’t talk, just listen.” Zen MasterBaimei’s voice arose in my head. I shiveredand paid attention to his words.

“The Chuyi you have rescued is an imposter. Chuyihasjustwokenup. He called me. He’s in the hotel. We’ve stepped in their trap.”

Perhaps it was some sort of mental effect, but my back felt so coldafter listening to Zen MasterBaimei.

The people from the Longquan Villa were so cunning. They had used Li Mazi to trick me, and now they were usinganotherold trick, whichhad worked on me well!

I gritted my teeth to calm down. Iknew I couldn’tlet him know that Ihad found out the truth. As I was afraid that he would findout, Ipretendedto beworriedand nervous. I pacedback and forth to find the way out.

Zen MasterBaimeiwas still speaking in my head. “The person you have rescuedhas tobeYin-Yang Tiger. He’sgot the Taiyi Traceless Sword. Don’t quarrel with him!”

I knew that already. If I fought against him now, it would bethe same as asking fordeath. I let him downand pretendedto drop more blood into his mouth to enhance his Yang flame.

A few drops of blood couldn’t boost the Yang flame that much.Yin-Yang Tigerhadweakenedhis Yang flames on purpose to deceive me, which wasa big mistakeasit would go well with my new plan.

I gentlysaid, “Chuyi, I will take you out of here. You must be patient. Put up with it for a while more.”

I put himback on my back and headed towards the Yin energy wall. When the Yin energycoveredus entirely, I heard himscream. Since he hadweakenedhis Yang flame, he couldn’t endure this thick mass of Yin energy.

I pretended notto hearanythingand keptrunning around the mass of Yin energy.

Soon, the Yin energy founditsway to my body. I felt the blood in my body freezing.

I guessed I had torturedYin-Yang Tigerenough. I pulled myself togetherand bargeddirectly into the wall.

At the moment I reappeared, Zen MasterBaimeiscreamed, “Watch out!”

I suddenly hurledYin-Yang Tigeraside and ran toward Zen MasterBaimei.Yin-Yang Tigernow knew that he was busted. With a dark face, he wielded the Taiyi Traceless Swordand attacked. His sword energy aimed at Zen MasterBaimei; he stabbedfuriously. Zen MasterBaimeirose his mala beads to parry against him.

Although I had played withYin-Yang Tigerfor a while to drain him, his reflexeswerestillgood. Zen MasterBaimei’s attacks weredealt witheasily. After a few strikes,Yin-Yang Tigergrimaced while Zen MasterBaimeihad already vomited blood.

I knewthat if I didn’t do anything, itwould be too late. I hurriedly controlled the Invisible Needle to stabYin-Yang Tiger. Even if his reflexesweregood,theywouldn’t be faster than my thoughts.His moves slowed down after the Invisible Needle had pricked him a few times.

Zen MasterBaimeiseized the chance to wield his mala beadsand hit Yin-Yang Tiger’sforehead. The man was shaken, but then, he decided not to defendand recklesslyattackedZen MasterBaimeiwith his sword energy.

Ifelthappyas I controlledthe Invisible Needle to stabthespine of his neck. He suddenly laughed crazily and shouted, “A life for a life.It’s worth it!”

“No!” Zen MasterBaimeiscreamed. Hetried his best to smash the sword energy from the other party.Then, hequickly turned around to run away.

A bad premonition arose in my head. I cruelly stabbedYin-Yang Tiger’s neck with the Invisible Needle. However,Icouldn’t concentrate wellandmissed the target by a little bit.Yin-Yang Tigerspurted blood.

Zen MasterBaimeiturned to meand screamed, “Don’t touch him. Chuyi’s in danger!”

I immediately retrieved the Invisible Needle and followed himback to the village.When we arrived at the inn, Zen MasterBaimeidirectly kicked the door open. He returned shortly after. “Chuyi isn’t in the room.”

I was scaredand rushedinto our room to check. The bedsheet was damp with blood. Chuyi’s Prince Ma’sWhip and the eight-faceted Han swordwere nowhereto be seen.

It made sense now. Earlier,Zen MasterBaimeiand I had almost killedYin-Yang Tiger,but One-Armed Dragonhadn’t shown upto help. He hadgoneto the innto trouble Chuyi!

With a murderouslook on my face, I wanted to go out. However, Zen MasterBaimeistopped me. His voice was heavy. “I’llfind Chuyi. You shouldlook forsome herbs thatcan strengthenhis foundation. Hurry! We’ll meet upin a while!”

I was surprisedand lookedat Zen MasterBaimei. Helookedworriedas hehastilyleft. He didn’t even have time to explainthe situationto me.

Foundation-strengtheningherbs werewhatwe used when we wanted to gather the pieces ofa soul. I felt a heart-wrenching pain. Did Zen MasterBaimeiknow that Chuyi was dying?

I went downstairs to find a pharmacy. However, after spending a great deal of timetalkingto theshopkeeper, Irealizedthat he couldn’t see me! Asit was anemergency, I had to leave a note at his counter. Ipicked up the herbsand rantoward the entrance of the village.

When I got there, the chain of mala beads I was wearing slowlyfloatedup andpointedin a direction. It seemed Zen MasterBaimeiwas there. I ran faster. However, it took me quite a long time before Icould hear thefight.

I became anxious. When I got there,Yin-Yang Tigerand One-Armed Dragon were forcing Zen MasterBaimeiintoa corner.Yin-Yang Tigerscreamedas he wieldedhis sword. He was attemptingto slash Zen Master.

I threw the Emei Piercer and read theBigDipper Sirius Spell. At the same time, I controlled the Invisible Needle to stabYin-Yang Tiger.

AlthoughI wasn’t competent enough, Ineeded tobet onmy strength!