After Becoming a High-Risk Master, I Flipped the Script Chapter 204

After that, Mo Xuanli went to look for Lou Zixiao and found that she wasn’t in her room at all. He then turned around and went to the dispensary where they adjusted people’s bodies with medicine, and sure enough, he saw Lou Zixiao there, so busy she was almost numb.

After entering, the eerie silence made it hard to breathe.

Mo Xuanli called out to her several times, but she didn’t respond, her hands continuously pounding spiritual herbs.

When Mo Xuanli went over, all he saw were herbs pounded into a pulp and hands already bleeding.

Mo Xuanli took the thing from her hands. Only then did she come back to her senses, froze for a moment, but her eyes were empty, as if she wasn’t thinking about anything at all.

Mo Xuanli didn’t know how to comfort the girl. Lou Zixiao also seemed not to need comfort; she was merely venting her emotions to herself.

“You tell me… Master clearly doesn’t like Senior Sister Zihan, so why does he have to marry her? I’m not talking nonsense, I’ve seen Senior Sister Zihan confess to him and be rejected. How could he possibly turn around and want to marry her again? But… Master is going to marry her, he really is going to marry her. She hates me so much, she’ll definitely make Master drive me away. I won’t be able to be a dao companion… Could it be that I can’t even be a disciple anymore? I clearly only have Master as family now. Why… no, that’s not right. I should get ready to leave this place. They’re getting married, I can’t stay and disturb their lives. But… I don’t want to go anywhere. This place is my home… my home.”

Mo Xuanli frowned slightly. In fact, he couldn’t really understand Lou Zihan’s actions. According to what Master had heard and inferred, Lou Zihan should have known about Lou Zixiao’s hybrid identity, and should also have known that Lou Xuan and the others were raising Lou Zixiao in order to save her. Since everything was in Lou Zihan’s favor, why could she use this as leverage to threaten Lou Xuan?

And she insisted on choosing this time to marry, moreover, Lou Xuan was successfully threatened? Since he was already willing to be ruthless toward Lou Zixiao, why worry about her identity being exposed? For the reputation of Immortal Medicine Valley? Then the only explanation was that Lou Zihan was a madwoman, willing to sacrifice Immortal Medicine Valley’s reputation just to get married, and her grandfather couldn’t do anything about her and indulged her.

There always seemed to be something unreasonable about it. He hoped that Lou Xuan had been threatened only because he was soft-hearted and couldn’t bring himself to act. After all, this pair of master and disciple looked too much like him and his Master, kindred in misfortune. He didn’t want Lou Zixiao to meet a tragic end.

Lou Zixiao seemed to suddenly come back to herself and looked at Mo Xuanli. Forcing out a smile, she said, “Big Brother Mo, why did you suddenly come to find me? Were you worried I might do something foolish? I won’t.”

Mo Xuanli had actually thought about not telling her the truth and just taking her and running away, but he knew Lou Zixiao wouldn’t agree. After all, this place was her home. Knowing that Lou Zixiao was in pain, he shouldn’t have made her suffer even more, but now was the time for her to choose her own fate.

“I came to find you to tell you something.”

“What is it?” Lou Zixiao asked with a smile.

Mo Xuanli lowered his eyes and said lightly, “Didn’t you show me Lou Zihan’s physical condition notes before? I remembered that I once saw a treatment method in an ancient text that could cure her.”

Lou Zixiao looked at Mo Xuanli in astonishment, standing frozen for a moment.

Seeing that Lou Zixiao didn’t react, Mo Xuanli said, “You don’t want to save her?”

“No… no. I’m just too surprised,” Lou Zixiao immediately responded. Curing Lou Zihan was the wish of the entire Immortal Medicine Valley, and she herself had once tried hard to think of ways. And now… Lou Zixiao let out a bitter smile and said, “She’s the person Master wants to spend his life with, so of course she should live a long life. I hope you can tell me the method.”

Mo Xuanli narrowed his eyes slightly. “According to the records, if the origin bone inside a hybrid is used as medicine, it has the effect of bringing the dead back to life.”

As soon as Mo Xuanli finished speaking, he saw Lou Zixiao’s expression go blank.

Mo Xuanli continued, “If one can find a hybrid and, from childhood, regulate her body with appropriate medicinal agents, in other words, nurture the origin bone within her body then when the origin bone matures, which would roughly be when the hybrid reaches adulthood, the origin bone can be dug out and used as medicine. Your senior sister’s body should then be able to recover.”

Mo Xuanli spoke as if it were nothing, but to Lou Zixiao it was a bolt from the blue, like falling into an icy abyss. The blood in her body seemed to freeze almost instantly, disbelief leaving her mind completely blank.

Lou Zixiao abruptly stood up. Her whole body trembled uncontrollably, the expression on her face seeming to crack inch by inch as she almost roared, “You’re lying!”

Mo Xuanli said expressionlessly, “I’m only recounting the information I saw. Whether it’s true or false, I don’t know. But it’s very strange, why is it that something even I know, no one in your Immortal Medicine Valley has discovered? At the very least, someone at the level of the Valley Master or your Master should have heard of it. Oh right, perhaps it’s because they couldn’t find a hybrid to raise as medicine, so even knowing was useless.”

Lou Zixiao stood there stiffly, trembling more and more violently. Tears slid down uncontrollably. Finally, she bent over to retch violently to the side. There was almost no color left on her face, as if her soul had been hollowed out.

That Master who had dug her out of a pile of corpses, that Master who had raised and taught her, that Master she had devoted her whole heart to for such a long, long time, had he only regarded her as medicine to save her senior sister? She didn’t believe it. She didn’t believe it!

Seeing Lou Zixiao like this, Mo Xuanli couldn’t help but feel pity. He stepped forward to support her and said, “Are you alright?”

Lou Zixiao suddenly shoved Mo Xuanli away. In that instant, she seemed not to recognize anyone, warily eyeing everything around her. That look, Mo Xuanli understood it all too well.

In truth, Mo Xuanli could have stopped at hinting this much. That might have been the best arrangement for Lou Zixiao.

He also didn’t want to give Lou Zixiao hope. But even as one of the same kind, he had no right to make decisions for someone else.

So he continued, saying, “Are you still saddened over your master’s wedding? Actually, I’ve heard that the reason this wedding is so rushed seems to be because your senior sister has some secret of yours and used it to threaten your master into marrying. Although I don’t know whether your master agreed to this in order to protect you, there are indeed some problems with this marriage.”

Lou Zixiao’s body stiffened. Something seemed to light up for an instant in her pitch-black pupils, but very quickly it sank into boundless darkness.

Mo Xuanli never once made Lou Zixiao’s identity clear. Given what Immortal Medicine Valley was doing now, Mo Xuanli was already no longer suitable to acknowledge Lou Zixiao.

He could only make sure to remind her of what needed to be said. Finally, he spoke casually, “But it seems you can’t really change anything. Just live your own life well. If you can’t stay here, you can leave with us. Anyway, in outsiders’ eyes, you’re already an outstanding medical cultivator. The world is vast, anywhere could become a place for you to settle.”

Lou Zixiao stared blankly at Mo Xuanli, as if she understood, yet also as if none of it truly sank in.

Mo Xuanli hinted to Lou Zixiao at a possible future, one he himself hoped she would move toward. In the end, he left her with a talisman, using the excuse of preventing the medicine people from attacking again, and told her to keep it on her. If anything happened, she could tear it apart and they would arrive quickly to rescue her.

In truth, the medicine people were no longer the main issue. The real question was whether Lou Xuan would still set his sights on the origin bone, and when he would act, before the wedding or after. He thought this was also something Lou Zixiao needed to consider.

But as Mo Xuanli was leaving, Lou Zixiao suddenly smiled at him and said thank you. At that moment, the look in her eyes made Mo Xuanli feel something he couldn’t put into words.

On the way back, he kept thinking about what Lou Zixiao would choose, an unease faintly rising in his heart. And just then, he sensed that the barrier he had set in his master’s room was being breached.

Mo Xuanli’s expression changed. He flashed forward, and in the next moment appeared inside the room, where he saw a red-clad figure about to walk toward the bed. Mo Xuanli swung his long whip, sharp wind blades lashing straight toward the figure.

The figure dodged quickly as well, only a corner of her clothing being sliced away.

In an instant, the two switched positions. Mo Xuanli guarded the bed, while opposite him stood Yuxin, her face full of regret. “You came back so fast? Watching this closely?”

Mo Xuanli hadn’t expected this woman called Yuxin to be so incorrigible. His anger surged at once, his master was his, how could anyone else covet him?

This time, Mo Xuanli showed no mercy. He transformed the whip into a bow, leaped into the air, and shot an arrow, carrying an intent to seriously injure Yuxin and make her learn a thorough lesson.

Yuxin’s expression changed drastically as she retreated rapidly, but she couldn’t evade the arrow’s speed at all.

With a loud bang, Yuxin smashed through the door. Immediately afterward came the sound of her body being pierced by the sharp arrow, crashing through the artificial rockery outside, and finally being nailed to the wall. The disturbance made half of the small courtyard’s defensive formations tremble, showing just how much force Mo Xuanli had used.

Yet when Mo Xuanli leapt out of the room, he didn’t see that red figure. Only a pool of blood remained on the wall where God Nine Transformations arrow had pierced it.

Mo Xuanli was somewhat surprised by Yuxin’s strength, it seemed even greater than what she had shown.

When Mo Xuanli returned to the room, he saw that Gu Baiqing had already sat up. Sure enough, he had long since woken, after all, he was his master; how could he have been completely unaware? But why had he allowed her to approach? Mo Xuanli felt a bit sullen.

With an unfamiliar presence entering the room, how could Gu Baiqing still sleep? Naturally, he had been on guard from the first moment. He was just a bit curious, was this Yuxin really so fearless and merely greedy for the pleasures of dual cultivation? Her existence always felt shrouded in mystery. Unfortunately, Mo Xuanli had returned too quickly.

The two inadvertently met each other’s gaze. For some reason, they both looked away at the same time, a flush rising on both their faces.

Gu Baiqing hurriedly got up and asked, “Where is she?”

“She probably ran off after being injured.” Mo Xuanli then sat down, poured himself a cup of cold tea, and quietly calmed his mind.

Gu Baiqing had slept for a while. Being at the tribulation-crossing stage, his physique recovered quickly, and any wounds on his body had healed fast. By now, there were basically no traces left.

So when Gu Baiqing finished tidying up and came over to sit down, Mo Xuanli no longer saw any marks behind Gu Baiqing’s ear that belonged to him. He couldn’t help feeling regret in his heart, then licked his lips, dry-mouthed, as if hungry.

Mo Xuanli quickly changed the subject and brought up the matter of having just gone to see Lou Zixiao. He deliberately didn’t mention the term “hybrid.” He thought that since his master was disguising himself as an ordinary person, he naturally wouldn’t bring it up either. Mo Xuanli didn’t want to discuss the topic of hybrids with Gu Baiqing. Moreover, he wasn’t entirely sure whether his master actually knew about Lou Zixiao being a hybrid.

When Gu Baiqing heard this, he was stunned for a moment. By now, Lou Zixiao should already know the truth about herself. In fact, Gu Baiqing had also intended to let her know everything. But the suggestion Mo Xuanli made to Lou Zixiao took Gu Baiqing by surprise. On the surface, it was said to be to escape emotional pain by leaving with them, but in reality it was to escape the fate of having her bones stripped, a fate that could cost her life. Although Gu Baiqing’s final inclination was also toward leaving together, he truly had no confidence at all, and didn’t even know what to do afterward.

Did Mo Xuanli really have confidence that Lou Zixiao could survive after leaving here? Did he think that without Lou Xuan’s continued treatment, Lou Zixiao could still conceal her bloodline without being discovered? And that Immortal Medicine Valley would have difficulty targeting her?

When Gu Baiqing thought about Lou Zixiao, his first thought was that although the world is vast, there is no place for hybrids to live. Even a tribulation-crossing cultivator like himself might not be able to protect his disciple.

Yet Mo Xuanli’s thinking was the opposite. He actually believed that in such a vast world, there would definitely be a place that could accept hybrids. When had he educated his disciple to be so optimistic?

Well, since things had come to this, they could only take it one step at a time.

Suddenly, Gu Baiqing noticed that Mo Xuanli’s expression was somewhat downcast. He couldn’t help thinking so he really is worried about the future, then? He said, “What’s wrong? Afraid that Miss Lou will stay and fight it out to the end?”

Mo Xuanli thought for a moment and said, “I don’t know what she will do.”

Gu Baiqing was taken aback. Could it be that leaving wasn’t the best choice? He then couldn’t help worrying and said, “She wouldn’t be stupid enough to go mad, make a scene, and demand to verify the truth, would she?” If she were a bit smarter, she would escape as quickly as possible before the other side noticed, preserving her life was what mattered.

Suddenly, Mo Xuanli lifted his head, his gaze blazing as he looked at Gu Baiqing and said, “If her master did something that wronged her, shattered her heart, and even wanted her life, what do you think she would do?”

Gu Baiqing shook his head and said, “I don’t know. She’d probably be heartbroken and collapse, harbor resentment, maybe react more intensely and seek revenge? But it all varies from person to person.”

Mo Xuanli, however, suddenly seemed to have figured something out. His expression changed, and he said, “Maybe… she would want to die.”

Gu Baiqing’s heart jolted. He saw Mo Xuanli lift his head and look over, revealing a smile as if he had seen through everything. “Because… she reveres her master, admires her master, her master is her everything. If she learned that everything was false, that everything was a deception meant to make her die, she would die, obediently go to her death.”

“N-no… that can’t be.” Gu Baiqing’s expression changed slightly. “Since everything was false, no matter how foolish she is, she should know to turn back…”

“She would, because… I’m the same as her,” Mo Xuanli suddenly said.

Gu Baiqing’s heart tightened, his face inexplicably heating up. What did he mean by the same as her? Revering, and also admiring? This guy was saying something like that right in front of Young Master Bai, did he mean that? Gu Baiqing instantly felt uncomfortable.

But the next second, Mo Xuanli spoke earnestly, “If one day, Master tells me to die, I would willingly go die.”

What should have been moving words instead made Gu Baiqing’s expression change, the warmth in his body quickly fading.

Yes, yes, this foolishly obedient disciple of his, who would even die if told to. He didn’t cherish his own life at all; he really had educated him for nothing. As expected, he listened to Master in everything, so what did love even count for?

For a moment, Gu Baiqing didn’t react to what Mo Xuanli was trying to express. He only felt that Mo Xuanli needed to turn back and be re-educated.

“Then your Master would be very disappointed,” Gu Baiqing said bluntly.

Mo Xuanli stiffened, not expecting his master to reply like that, and stared at the person before him in astonishment.

“I think the way your Master taught you, he wouldn’t want you to be so careless with your life. If he says something and you do it, then you’re not a disciple he raised, but a dog on a leash in his hand. But have you ever thought about whether he would rather hold that leash, or rather see you vividly alive in front of him?” Gu Baiqing said awkwardly. If Mo Xuanli had no independent sense of self and obeyed everything, how could they ever take another step forward?

Mo Xuanli was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood up, one hand bracing on the table as he leaned toward Gu Baiqing, until his breath could brush against Gu Baiqing’s ear.

Gu Baiqing immediately grew tense. Had what he said angered him? This posture felt far too ambiguous, and his heartbeat involuntarily sped up.

Then he heard Mo Xuanli chuckle softly. “That’s because he doesn’t know what he represents in my heart. Even a dog has its own soul. I’m willing to hand over the leash that controls me to him alone, willingly. I’m very glad to do so. I’ve longed for this for a very long time. I shamelessly wanted to give it to him, only to him, no one else would do. If he doesn’t want it, then to me, that’s a tragedy.”

Word by word, it was utterly absurd, yet like a sudden clap of thunder, it shook Gu Baiqing’s soul.

Gu Baiqing fell silent, his expression blank, the word “preposterous” about to leave his mouth.

Suddenly, a sound came by his ear.

“Woof.” Low and hoarse, filled with an indescribably thick emotion.

Gu Baiqing’s whole body shuddered, and he then heard a laugh that seemed satisfied.

“Wait here for me. I’m afraid Yuxin won’t give up and might cause more trouble. I’ll go find Lou Zixiao again, I’m still a bit uneasy.” With that, Mo Xuanli left.

Gu Baiqing was left alone, staring blankly for a long while, before finally flushing red and fanning his face with his hand.

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