The night passed quickly, the light pierced the darkness, and the earth ushered in the dawn. A few people tidied up hastily, and walked along the mountain road to the depths of Baihu Mountain.
Baihu Mountain is rolling and rolling, and the top of the mountain is hidden in the white fog. After entering the mountain, Tao Jingyi kept Dongfang Yue's instructions in mind and followed him closely.
Several people have light skills, and it is not difficult for them to climb the mountain. After walking a winding mountain road, the vegetation in front of them has become more and more prosperous, almost covering the sky.
The path gradually became deep, and the road was covered with moss, making it slippery to step on. Because of the tall plants growing around, all the sunlight was covered along the way, and the more you went to the valley, the sunlight became weaker. At the end, a cool breath came over your face, and the sunlight had completely disappeared.
Surrounded by tall mountain walls, these mountain walls seem to be cut out by knives, surrounded by green vines. The valley is secluded, covered with a layer of mountain mist, and at a glance, it is a piece of thick green, and there are faintly overlapping buildings in the thick green.
Shen Rou said softly: "Is Young Master Gui really here?"
"Do you feel that the mountain fog is a little thicker?" Shangguan Qi clenched the sword in her hand and said in a deep voice.
Not only him, but everyone noticed that since they stepped into the valley, thick fog had covered them at a speed visible to the naked eye.
A rustling sound floated into everyone's ears, and Shen Rou exclaimed in surprise: "It's vines, these vines are moving!"
As soon as the words fell, a vine swept across the blade in her hand. Shen Rou's complexion changed slightly, and she waved the sword in her hand.
These are naturally just Shen Rou's illusions. There was no thick fog at all, and there were no vines at all, it was just the poison Duan Feibai put in that had its effect.
It is also very simple to get rid of these hallucinations, all you need is pain. Tao Jingyi raised the back of his hand, and took a bite hard. After the bite, the dense fog faded, and the vines were hanging on the mountain wall, while Shen Rou frantically slashed at the air with the sword.
The others have disappeared.
Even Dongfang Yue, who had been watching over Tao Jingyi, disappeared. He had clearly locked his eyes on Tao Jingyi's figure, but in the blink of an eye, he stood in front of the cliff.
The sound of a sharp blade piercing the wind came from behind his ears, Dongfang Yue raised his hand, and with a "ding", it was the sudden blade of a sword hitting his scabbard from behind.
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Tao Jingyi looked around in a blink of an eye, searching for Duan Feibai. Behind the shadow of the green tree, a white corner of the clothes flashed away.
Tao Jingyi hastily followed.
Duan Feibai has to change into a ghost boy, and the best time is when he puts down his piano and sword.
Tao Jingyi didn't take a few steps when a red figure appeared behind her. The man raised his five fingers together, and with a mass of internal force in his palm, he slapped her on the back.
Tao Jingyi was completely unprepared, and after a **** arrow spewed out of his throat, his consciousness was plunged into darkness.
The man stretched out a hand and hugged her gradually limp body, his sharp eyes swept across her cheeks, and his red lips curled up coldly: "Su Xiyan, you really are not dead."
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Duan Feibai took the puppet string in his hand and swiftly cut off Shangguan Qi's head. Shangguan Qi's eyes widened, she looked at him in shock, with a look of reluctance.
He never thought that Mr. Gui was Duan Feibai, and Duan Feibai had already poisoned him.
Duan Feibai threw his head on the ground in disgust, not even the blood-stained puppet thread. He kicked Shangguan Qi's head away, turned and left.
After ten years, the great revenge was finally avenged, but there was no expression on his face, and even his heart was so calm that there was no fluctuation.
Duan Feibai left along the narrow mountain path. Heron stood at the mouth of the valley, bowed to him and gave him a salute, and said, "Dongfang Yue fell off the cliff."
"Where's Tao Tao?"
"This subordinate has never seen Madam, but this subordinate picked up this." Heron presented something with both hands.
It was a silver dagger. Tao Jingyi always carried it with him and never left it. Duan Feibai held the dagger in his hand, tightened his fingers, and said, "I see, you step back."
"How should Shen Rou deal with it?" Heron asked.
"Throw it out of Emerald Valley."
"Yes." Heron replied.
Duan Feibai took the dagger and left White Fox Mountain. At the foot of the mountain, several fine horses are still waiting for their owners. Duan Feibai untied them from the reins and let them go away, leaving only the little red horse and his mount.
He got on his horse and drove away. Before arriving at the Doll Villa, he took off the ghost mask hanging around his waist, covered his face, and stepped into the villa all the way.
When the guards and maids in the villa saw him, they all knelt down and saluted.
"Where is the master?" he asked.
"If you go back to the son, the owner is in the hall." The maid replied.
Duan Feibai stepped into the hall, and the strong smell of alcohol came to his face. The woman in red was half lying on a chair, holding a wine jar in her hand.
"You're here, come here, and have a drink with aunt." Duan Hongying waved to him with her misty drunken eyes. She is really happy, and she has never been so happy as she is today in all these years. Once Shangguan Qi died, the Shangguan family mansion collapsed, and sooner or later it was all in her pocket.
"Father, mother, brother, have you seen it? Our Duan family's blood feud has finally been avenged! Hahaha..." Duan Hongying laughed wildly, and tears fell, "It's a pity, Hong Ying I have been away from home for many years, and I have not seen you for the last time, Hong Ying is not filial."
"Auntie, stop drinking." Duan Feibai said with a frown as he took the wine jar from her hand.
Duan Hongying raised her face, tears covered her cheeks, and her eyes were filled with cruelty: "The next one is the Flower God Sect, so Yu Sangqing is lucky to die early, otherwise, I will definitely make her life worse than death." .”
The collapse of the Duan family was all because of Yu Sangqing's one word that planted the root of disaster. Now the whole world is staring at Duan Feibai, if not for Duan Feibai's high martial arts and backing to the Tianshan faction, he might have been divided and eaten by them long ago.
"Yu Sangqing, even if you die, there is still your son. I will let your son pay back all the debts you owe." Duan Hongying gritted her teeth.
Duan Feibai put the wine jar on the table, squatted halfway in front of her, raised his head, and stared straight into her eyes: "Auntie, where is Tao Tao?"
"Who is Tao Tao?" Duan Hongying froze for a moment.
"Su Xiyan."
"Bastard!" Duan Hongying slammed her palm on the table, and with a "boom", the table shattered under her palm, and the wine jars placed on the table also shattered to the ground.
"Su Xiyan, she is your enemy, how can you fall in love with your enemy." Duan Hongying's eyes were red, and the bottom of her eyes was burning with raging flames.
"She's not my enemy, Auntie, do you believe in resurrecting the dead?"
"Borrowing a dead body, heh, you can make up such nonsense, Duan Feibai, you really disappoint me." Duan Hongying sneered, and slapped three times, "Bring it in!"
"Tao Tao!" Duan Feibai hurried over. His steps were messy, and the face hidden under the ghost mask was full of panic.
"Stop!" A trace of anger flashed across Duan Hongying's heart, she stood up and shouted in a deep voice.
Duan Feibai ran to Tao Jingyi's side as if he had never heard of it, and stretched out his hand to check her pulse. Fortunately, he just passed out from a serious injury.
He breathed a sigh of relief, turned around, and said to Duan Hongying, "I want to take her away from the Doll Villa."
"Don't even think about it! Today I will kill her in front of you, and cut off your wishful thinking." Duan Hongying jumped up, her palm was full of internal energy, and struck Tao Jingyi's Tianling Gai.
This palm came so fiercely that the two guards could barely open their eyes. Duan Hongying's hair danced wildly, her sleeves were filled with energy, Tao Jingyi would be smashed to pieces when the palm fell.
Duan Feibai quickly pulled Tao Jingyi into his arms, pushed out with one palm, and forcefully took Duan Hongying's move.
His internal strength is not as deep as Duan Hongying's, and this palm is only for protecting Tao Jingyi, not for hurting Duan Hongying, so he deliberately restrained three parts of his internal strength. Injured, he took several steps back on the spot, and a bright red blood arrow spewed out of his throat.
Even so, he still used his body to firmly protect Tao Jingyi, not letting her suffer any harm.
Duan Feibai hugged Tao Jingyi tightly in embarrassment, raised his head, and looked at Duan Hongying.
Sensing that Tao Jingyi in his arms was about to wake up, he poked the acupuncture points on the back of her neck, and Tao Jingyi fell into a coma again.
Duan Hongying's palm intended to kill Tao Jingyi, Duan Feibai not only protected her, but also forcibly carried the palm. Judging from the fact that he vomited blood, he probably hurt his internal organs.
Although Duan Hongying was annoyed that Duan Feibai didn't live up to expectations, he was her only family member in this world, and she didn't really want him to die, and for a while she regretted that she had acted too hard.
"Thank you, aunt, for your mercy." Duan Feibai coughed out a sigh of relief, picked up Tao Jingyi, stood up unsteadily, and walked towards the outside of the house.
Where he walked, there was a long trail of blood.
"Come back." Duan Hongying called from behind.
Duan Feibai ignored it, and still stubbornly walked out of the house.
"She was hit by my flaming palm. If you take her away from the Doll Villa, it's like sending her to die with your own hands."
Duan Feibai's footsteps suddenly stopped, and a stern look flashed in his eyes.
"I believe what you said about reviving a dead body." Duan Hongying walked down the steps with her hands behind her back, "Take her to soak in the medicinal spring, a total of seven days, and one day must be missed."
Duan Feibai is not only her only relative, but also a very good helper. In the future, he will rely on his reputation for his peerless martial arts and excellent piano and sword skills to compete in the world. The Red Maple Villa has been destroyed, many members of the Su clan have died, but there is only one Su Xiyan, Duan Feibai likes it, so he will keep it.
How could Duan Feibai not have thought of the reason for Duan Hongying's sudden change of mind? As an aunt, he has never been able to hide her ambition. Didn't she get the position of owner of the doll villa by killing her lover with her own hands?
At that time, she was only in her teens, and she was not satisfied with Mei Lin's secluded life. She wanted to make a living in the rivers and lakes, and followed that man out without hesitation. But unfortunately, things didn't go as smoothly as she imagined. The man had a wife and concubine in his family. Even if she followed him, it was just a concubine. The concubine's room of the owner of the doll's villa, if you talk about it, you can easily hear it.
She coaxed that man to kill his wife and sell his concubine to sit in the main room, but she was still not satisfied. What she wanted was not a man's favor, but the status of being above ten thousand people. So, she killed him and announced that his death was accidental. After his death, she cut off his influence, cultivated her own people, and successfully took the position of owner.
Today, the supremacy of the underworld martial arts can no longer satisfy her ambitions. What she wants is to be the king and hegemony, to rule the whole world, and everyone bows down to her.
She kept him because he was useful to her, so she could tolerate the existence of the enemy's daughter.
Duan Feibai saw through Duan Hongying's thoughts, but he didn't point it out. He just said lightly: "Thank you, aunt."
Flaming palm, the palm contains fire poison, if the poison is not detoxified by the special medicine spring made by the doll villa, the palm holder will feel the burning fire, and within half a month, he will suffer from the burning pain and die.
Duan Feibai hugged Tao Jingyi and walked back to his room. He put her on the bed, put his head against his shoulder, and stretched out his hand to take off the clothes on her shoulders.
As the clothes slipped down inch by inch, all the snow-white skin fell into the eyes. Without squinting, Duan Fei continued to take off her clothes calmly, until a red palm print came into view. As expected of the Raging Flame Palm, it looks like it was branded on. It seems that Duan Hongying's Raging Flame Palm has improved a lot.
Duan Feibai stretched out his hand and pressed on the head of the bed, and with a "click", a small drawer popped out. He took out a white porcelain bottle from a drawer, which contained amber ointment.
Duan Feibai dipped some ointment on his fingertips and lightly spread it on his palm prints. After applying it, he put Tao Jingyi's clothes on.
Tao Jingyi woke up from the medicine spring.
After opening his eyes, the mist in front of his eyes was steaming, half of his body was immersed in the spring water, a chain was buckled on his wrist, and the other end of the chain was submerged in the ground. And she herself was sitting on the steps of the pool, with her back leaning against the wall of the pool.
Tao Jingyi's first reaction was to look at the clothes on his body. Fortunately, there were a lot of clothes, but his whole body was soaked and wrapped tightly around his body.
The spring water was warm and had a slight medicinal smell, so she judged it was a medicinal spring. As soon as the word Yaoquan came out, she immediately thought of Doll Villa.
Duan Hongying has a set of Raging Flame Palms. If she gets hit by the Raging Flame Palms, only the medicinal spring specially made by the Puppet Villa can get rid of the fire poison. Reminiscent of the scalding heat of the palm she struck before she fell into a coma, Tao Jingyi immediately guessed that the person who hurt her was Duan Hongying, and this place was the Doll Villa.
There are white walls all around, and various patterns are carved on the walls, but a pool is dug out in the middle and filled with spring water. Not far away is a soft couch covered with gauze curtains, and even the red tassels on the gauze curtains are the same as those described in the original book.
Some past events of Duan Hongying were mentioned in the original book, for example, she and her lover, every time after soaking in the medicinal spring, they would have fun on this soft couch.
Thinking of this, Tao Jingyi felt uncomfortable all over, even though she knew that the spring water in this pool was changed frequently.
Tao Jingyi tugged at the chain that tied his wrist. The chain was golden and looked very valuable. Over the years, the Puppet Villa had amassed all the wealth in the world. It could be described as extravagant, even the chains that bind people are so luxurious.
When she leaves, I must take this chain with me, maybe I can sell it for a good price.
While thinking wildly, the stone door slowly opened to both sides, revealing a figure. After seeing the ghost mask clearly, Tao Jingyi subconsciously folded his hands around his chest to cover the looming snow-white skin on his chest.
Although she already knew who the face under the mask was, she still pretended to be surprised and said, "Master Gui? Why is it you! Where's the elder brother?"
"Why, you only have senior brother in your eyes?" Mr. Gui walked towards the pond, stopped by the pond, and squatted down.
I couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, but there was a sharp light in his eyes. When he swept over, Tao Jingyi was so scared that he backed away again and again until he stood in the middle of the pool.
The chain on her wrist jingled as she moved.
Gui Gongzi noticed her reaction, his eyes darkened, and the coldness quickly faded away. He was just used to it, and after wearing this mask, he could release his malice to the greatest extent.
"And Shen Rou and the others..." Tao Jingyi stood in the middle of the pool, finally feeling a little safer, and said weakly, "What did you do to them?"
"Take care of yourself first." Mr. Gui didn't know what he thought of, chuckled, he stretched out his hand and pulled the other end of the chain, "Do you think I can't do anything if I stand far away? As long as I exert myself , you will be pulled into my arms. Or, as long as I am willing to enter the water, you will have nowhere to escape."
"You—" Tao Jingyi was ashamed, still tightly protecting his chest, "Don't mess around! Someone will come to save me!"
"Who do you expect to save you? Dongfang Yue, or Duan Feibai..." When he said "Duan Feibai", a strange light flashed in his eyes.
"Otherwise you can guess." Of course Tao Jingyi knew which answer he wished he could give. She just went around in circles with him until he wasn't interested in torturing her.