The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 876 - 870: They All Came Back

Chapter 876: Chapter 870: They All Came Back

No matter how disheveled she was, she did not want them to see her.

It turned out that those Poisonous Insects, or the viruses inside their bodies, were the things controlling them. So, in reality, no matter where they fled to, they could never escape.

...

Yu Jizi, clad in a black robe and holding a Peach Wood Sword, moved in the deep mountains where shadows leaped.

The junior Disciple driving the carriage had just come out of the ancient tomb, having just fed the person in the tomb’s coffin their medicine. Now, that person had fallen asleep.

The Master still stood there, having already been standing for two days and a night.

He could not help but say, "Master, the wind is strong on the mountain. Why don’t you go inside to rest first, and your disciple will keep watch for you."

Yu Jizi glanced at his junior Disciple, squinting his eyes. He suddenly asked, "What is your name?"

With so many disciples in the Dao Sect, he did not know each disciple’s name. This disciple was one he had picked at random before leaving.

The junior disciple, ecstatic to be asked his name by his Master, hurriedly bowed with hands held together and said, "Replying to Master, this disciple is named Zhiqiu. When my mother was giving birth to me, a golden ginkgo leaf floated in through the window, landing right upon her belly. Thus, my father named me Zhiqiu."

"Zhiqiu?" Yu Jizi nodded slightly. He cut a leaf from a tree with his sword, looked at it carefully in his hand for a moment, then placed it in Zhiqiu’s hand, and said indifferently, "A fallen leaf heralds the coming of autumn, it is a good name."

Zhiqiu did not understand why his Master had given him a leaf, but since it was given by his Master, he cherished it greatly, holding it with care.

After a short while, Yu Jizi pointed to the road leading down the mountain and said to him, "You should leave the mountain from here. After you depart, never come back."

While Zhiqiu was still overjoyed with the leaf in his hand, upon hearing this, he quickly looked up, confused, and asked, "Master, my fellow brothers have all been killed, how can I leave? I must serve you, Master, and also... brew medicine for that person inside."

Yu Jizi looked at Zhiqiu with a smile, "No need, he will not need to drink the medicine tomorrow. Go now, and heed your Master’s words."

The kind smile from his Master made it difficult for him to refuse. His heart warmed, he knelt down to kowtow to Yu Jizi, and said, "I will heed Master’s words. Master, your disciple takes his leave."

After Zhiqiu descended the mountain, the first medicine-fed person came before Yu Jizi, eyes coldly fixed on the writhing cinnabar in the dish on the table.

Naturally, the dish did not contain actual cinnabar, merely something that looked similar.

They were the eggs of the Poisonous Insects—once ignited, the mother bodies miles away would sense them, furiously releasing the coldness within their bodies, then controlling the host to come to the side of the eggs.

Soon, two, then three, then four... all the medicine-fed people arrived.

Gu Youyou was the last one.

Yu Jizi watched the disheveled women indifferently, finally setting his gaze upon Gu Youyou.

She actually took so long?

Not a few of the Poisonous Insects inside her body had been killed by her. If it were not for the control of the Youying Pearl, she might have truly managed to free herself.

It seems that choosing to place the Youying Pearl inside her was the right decision.

The women, expressionless, followed behind Yu Jizi, entering the ancient tomb together.

Gu Youyou felt blank inside, looking at the ancient tomb before her feeling both familiar and strange. Her heart had been drifting in a cold world, something within yearning to break free, yet it seemed unable to find an outlet.

The coffin in the tomb chamber was opened, and the person inside opened their eyes and stood up.