The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity
Chapter 188 - 185: The True Identity of Shangguan Qiu

Chapter 188: Chapter 185: The True Identity of Shangguan Qiu

Across from them were Si Xuekai and Xing Changqing’s rooms, the door was wide open, and the table was laden with food delivered by the landlady, they were about to start eating.

"Don’t eat! There’s something wrong!"

Qin Zhao noticed Si Xuekai reaching for his chopsticks and quickly spoke out.

Her sudden appearance and loud shout startled both Si Xuekai and Xing Changqing for a moment.

"What are you doing? You won’t even let people eat?"

After coming to his senses, Xing Changqing looked at Qin Zhao displeased.

If Qin Zhao didn’t let him eat, he had to eat. Why should he listen to her?

Xing Changqing picked up a piece of braised pork with his chopsticks and put it into his mouth, "I’ve traveled so far, have eaten nothing, and I’m starving to death. If you don’t want to eat, don’t, but don’t disturb us."

He scoffed coldly, completely ignoring Qin Zhao’s earlier intervention, and started to gobble down the food.

"Miss Qin, why can’t we eat?"

Si Xuekai, however, put his chopsticks down and asked with curiosity.

"Xuekai, don’t listen to her. What could be wrong with the food here? The tourists that came before also ate these dishes and nothing bad happened."

While eating, Xing Changqing tried to persuade Si Xuekai to start eating.

Watching him enjoy his meal so much, Qin Zhao just stood there leisurely.

"Does it taste good? Is it delicious?"

Xing Changqing glanced at her warily, "It’s just a meal, why all these questions? It isn’t that you are low on food and want to eat ours, right?"

At that moment, Shangguan Qiu walked over with a grave expression.

"Don’t eat the food here!"

After saying that, Shangguan Qiu noticed Qin Zhao standing at the door.

She looked at Qin Zhao and said to them seriously, "There’s something wrong with the food here."

Initially skeptical of Qin Zhao, but when Shangguan Qiu said the same, Xing Changqing immediately changed his expression and anxiously stopped eating, "What’s wrong? It isn’t poisoned, is it?"

Shangguan Qiu saw the half-eaten food and then nodded at Xing Changqing.

"Fuck! Ugh!"

Xing Changqing hurried to the bathroom and started to vomit violently.

Fortunately, he had just swallowed the food, so inducing vomiting could help him throw it up.

"How did you know something was wrong?"

Qin Zhao looked at Shangguan Qiu in surprise, not expecting her to detect the problem too.

They knew something was wrong with the food because Tengshe had sensed something off.

The Illusion Technique on the food was sophisticated; even Qin Zhao hadn’t noticed it immediately.

Being a Demon Beast on the brink of Ascension, Tengshe was particularly sensitive to anomalies.

"It tested positive for poison."

Shangguan Qiu answered Qin Zhao, then stepped forward, inserted a silver needle into the food, and the needle turned dark green at a speed visible to the naked eye—an extraordinarily lethal poison!

"This silver needle is special, it can detect all substances harmful to the human body. Every time I reach a destination and eat, I habitually use the silver needle to check."

Shangguan Qiu explained with an increasingly grave expression.

"Based on the silver needle, the poison in this food is most likely Corpse Poison."

Qin Zhao nodded, "Indeed, it’s Corpse Poison, after all, these dishes are transformed from rotten flesh."

Xing Changqing emerged from the restroom, and Qin Zhao smiled at him.

"Come take a look, see what you’ve eaten."

She casually waved her hand, sending a faint blue Spiritual Power towards the dishes, and an intense rotten smell hit them in the face.

The others were initially shocked by Qin Zhao’s abilities, but after smelling that bizarre odor, they all looked at the food, and what they saw gave them quite a fright.

A pile of bloody, rotting meat, with maggots wriggling on top!

With a bang, a chair was knocked over.

Si Xuekai had been sitting by the table, but now he almost fell to the ground in fright.

As for Xing Changqing, his face turned as white as paper; his eyes darkened, and he nearly fainted on the spot.

The deep-seated disgust in his heart kept him from passing out; he staggered back to the restroom, and then he violently threw up as if he was trying to vomit his guts out.

He thought eating poisoned food was scary enough, but he had never imagined he would encounter a supernatural event where their dinner had transformed from decaying human flesh!

Qin Zhao, hearing the commotion in the restroom, curled her lips in a somewhat schadenfreude manner.

She had warned him, yet he insisted on eating.

What can be done if someone is bent on courting death?

The room was filled with a foul odor, truly unpleasant, so Qin Zhao used the Fireball Technique to completely burn away the rotten meat.

After she used the Fireball Technique, Si Xuekai looked at her with even greater shock, "Miss Qin, so you and Shangguan are the same kind of person, no wonder you’re so good at fortune telling."

Shangguan Qiu also knew these strange methods and had saved them several times.

She agreed to film supernatural videos with them partly to earn money, but mostly her main aim was exorcism and ghost catching, sometimes even venturing into the mountains to catch demon beasts.

According to Shangguan Qiu, this was a necessity for their kind’s cultivation. If she were to go out alone looking for these things, it was easier to do it with them via a video account.

This account received many fans’ submissions, telling them about supernatural events in different places, hoping they would explore them. It was certainly more convenient than Shangguan Qiu working alone.

"This Illusion Technique is really impressive, I didn’t expect you to see through it."

Shangguan Qiu looked at Qin Zhao with a bit of admiration; she hadn’t been able to detect the Illusion Technique herself.

It was instead through testing with a silver needle that she discovered something was wrong with the dinner.

At first, Shangguan Qiu was displeased with Qin Zhao bringing people over because she played a protective role in the team. Without prior notice, she had to protect two additional people, which irritated her.

One of them was even a child, which greatly increased her workload.

But now, discovering how powerful Qin Zhao was and capable of protecting her people, Shangguan Qiu’s attitude changed. Plus, Qin Zhao was a fellow practitioner, which inevitably made her more favorable towards her.

"You didn’t see through it, yet you still detected something was wrong, that’s quite impressive too."

That wasn’t just Qin Zhao’s polite conversation; she appreciated Shangguan Qiu’s alertness. It was probably honed from frequently taking them to such peculiar places.

Shangguan Qiu closed the door to the room, then asked her, "What do you think about this situation?"

"This guesthouse and that large mansion both have issues. Let’s stay here tonight to see if there’s anything odd in the guesthouse, then visit the mansion tomorrow.

I’m not sure if that creature is related to this guesthouse or the mansion, or perhaps both. But from your description, I think that creature sounds like a half-demon."

Qin Zhao initially didn’t want to say too much, considering they were all ordinary people.

But having seen some capabilities in Shangguan Qiu, she shared a bit more.

"Half-demon?" Shangguan Qiu furrowed her brows, "I’ve heard of such a thing; it is mentioned in ancient texts by my ancestors, but I’ve never encountered one since I started my journey."

"Started your journey? May I ask what your family does?"

Qin Zhao was curious, she wanted to know if this world had any orthodox Cultivation Sects.

"Our ancestors have been Heavenly Masters for generations, but with the thinning of Spiritual Energy, we have gradually declined."

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