Chapter 279: Journey to Zhongnan (2)

Suddenly, vulgar words flew in out of nowhere.

But Seol Iri didn’t look surprised or frown, she just blinked and tilted her head.

“Aren’t you a master?”

She seemed to find it strange that a man who looked like he’d be first-rate at best was brandishing a knife so proudly.

Seol Iri is a Peak Realm martial artist.

To Qing’s eyes she’s just a newbie who barely made it to Peak Realm, but by Central Plains standards she’s a sufficient young expert.

Removing “young”, there’s some debate but she’s at a level where you’d hesitate whether to call her a master or not.

“Stupid bitch. Low-level fighters have low-level fights. Look at that bitch over there, she’s completely passed out. Aren’t you getting sleepy?”

Seol Iri had been nodding off occasionally while watching Qing sleep soundly.

She thought it was natural for a person to be sleepy when their companion was sleeping, it was raining outside, and the driver’s skill was smooth.

“I feel dizzy, ugh…”

Her arms went limp and drooped, seeming not to be from sleepiness.

Only then did Seol Iri’s expression turn serious.

“Keke, kuhaha! You, you don’t know how long I’ve been waiting for this moment! Everyone called me a cripple! But I! All of this! I was waiting for a time like this!”

“……”

“Keke, aren’t you curious? What kind of wondrous poison I used to make you so helpless like this, how I could hide the gradual poisoning?”

“……”

“Kuheh, it was five whole years, five years! I poured all five years of income into buying this one poison. Everyone called me a cripple! But someday like this! There would be a use! Wait, are you listening?”

Regardless, Seol Iri was busy circulating her inner force to drive out the drug’s effects.

The poison that had gradually accumulated could barely be traced by circulating inner force, so it was a secretive poison that could only be noticed after hearing about being poisoned.

“When someone’s talking, listen! You’re just a bitch who’s going to be moaning under me anyway, how dare you when your man is speaking!”

The driver shouted and threw something down hard. A cloud of dust rose from whatever was thrown roughly onto the carriage floor.

“Keke, in a little while you won’t even have the strength to move a finger. Then no matter if you’re a master or what, you’ll just be a woman with holes. I wonder how tight your holes will be, kukuk, kuhaha.”

And then bang, the carriage door closed.

Seol Iri staggered up and kicked at the carriage door, but however it was made, it didn’t budge at all.

At this, Seol Iri drew up her inner force.

A faint watery energy gathered in her palm.

At the same time, cold air swirled and blew fiercely in all directions.

If there was a discerning martial artist here, they would have immediately jumped up with wide eyes and shouted:

Snow White Divine Palm!

And so bang! Seol Iri’s palm strike hit the carriage door with a loud noise.

Crack, white frost slowly spread in concentric circles centered on Seol Iri’s hand.

The carriage’s inner wall crumbled with a crashing sound.

Through the gaps, closely spaced iron bars appeared.

“Oh my. What kind of carriage has iron bars installed? You really prepared thoroughly, thoroughly prepared.”

“!”

Seol Iri’s head whipped around.

“Everyone is so impolite. When someone’s sleeping, shouldn’t you be quiet and careful not to make noise? Shouting and banging on walls. You should think about the sleeping person too.”

“Miss Ximen? Are you okay?”

“Don’t waste energy and rest. Don’t overdo it when you’re not feeling well.”

“Now’s not the time-“

“Sigh. This is why Peak Realm practitioners. Making such a fuss over nothing.”

A rare clear emotion appeared on Seol Iri’s face. It was disbelief.

“Come here. If you act so mean they’ll get scared and run away. Bad guys are usually cowards, so they only come out when they think they can win, and if it seems like they can’t they run away, right? That’s no good. I don’t want to chase in the rain even if it’s me.”

Qing said this and reached out her hand.

Seol Iri tried to avoid it but her body was sluggish and suddenly lost strength, swaying, and in an instant the beautiful hand firmly grasped her wrist and pulled her in.

But the carriage was already filled with sleeping poison, paralysis poison, and judging by the gradually dissipating inner force, qi dispersion poison too.

Seol Iri blamed herself thinking if only her body was fine, but in fact even if it was, nothing would have changed.

Because Qing’s Shadowless Divine Hands was a pickpocketing technique that could be called a divine art and a gold-snatching technique.

Seol Iri’s body helplessly lurched into Qing’s arms.

“What is this. Were you circulating inner force again? Just how hot is it that you’re so hot? Hmm it’s cool.”

“Now’s not the time-“

“Just stay still. That’s why you should have listened to what I said. I told you to choose the driver carefully when taking a carriage. It was all advice that would become your flesh and blood.”

“But you were sleeping-“

“Tsk tsk. Blaming others isn’t good.”

“It’s not blaming others-“

“Tsk. No good. How can a martial artist blame others? Will you blame the person who stabbed you when you get stabbed? Isn’t it natural causes if you get hurt while living by the sword?”

The words were right.

If you get stabbed by a sword it’s your fault for not avoiding it. You didn’t take out the enemy beforehand, didn’t notice and avoid, if you couldn’t handle them you should have run away earlier or not given any cause for conflict in the first place.

Seol Iri closed her mouth as if upset.

It was because this was this and that was that.

It felt unfair to say she just watched when Qing did everything herself, choosing the carriage and driver all alone.

But just watching while everything was done for her wasn’t something to be proud of as a companion either.

Qing lay down completely on the carriage seat.

She put the cool bamboo wife on top of her and held her.

The bamboo wife struggled to escape but very weakly, seeming like the drug’s effects were starting to work.

“What are you thinking?”

“Hmm. Thoughts like wondering if there might be more in the gang? And what should we eat for lunch today?”

“Don’t speak informally.”

“I don’t want to? I’m going to speak informally? So what can Miss Seol do about it?”

“I’ll speak informally too.”

“Miss Seol can’t. Only I will. You’re already unlikable, if you speak informally too you’ll be even more unlikable. Then I’ll abandon you right away.”

“I don’t want that.”

At this, Qing’s eyes gleamed wickedly as she giggled.

Because she was properly filled with killing intent, looking forward to what would happen soon, to making it happen.

How much Qing had been looking forward to this.

Central Plains people look at physiognomy when evaluating people.

Qing sees a bit differently.

Not three-dimensional, but more accurate numbers appear above heads, in a number system Central Plains people don’t use.

When she went to the stable to find a driver, she discovered a super grade bastard, so wow! It’s been a while, let’s see some blood, blood, it’s a feast, a feast.

Plus, now I can use sword force.

When people buy a new knife, don’t they all want to use it as soon as possible? Stabbing, cutting, slicing to see if the knife is sharp and how it feels, martial artists naturally look forward to christening a new knife with excitement.

Let alone a knife, this is sword force.

It was before the christening of sword force, so Qing’s patience had almost reached its limit.

Now, how will it play out? He seemed cowardly, so is he planning to wait until we’re pickled in drugs?

How many will there be? I hope there’s a lot.

Qing’s heart was pounding fiercely.

But somehow there’s no news even after this long.

Just how long do I have to wait?

I can’t stand how boring and tedious this is.

Is this some new assassination method to make people die of boredom?

Thanks to this the bamboo wife had completely passed out, snoring quite loudly with dorodong dorodong sounds, probably because of her blocked nose.

The color that didn’t exist in the world in Qing’s pupils was gradually deepening, now to the point of faintly glowing.

I’m bored. I should grope her breasts.

I fed her, let her sleep, even bought and dressed her in clothes. If it wasn’t for me, this stupid woman would have been standing before the King of Hell last night from hypothermia.

So of course I have this much right.

Qing’s white hand slipped into Seol Iri’s collar.

Hmm. But they’re quite small.

It’s best when they fill your hand and you can squish and squeeze and knead them…

Though they look good, there’s really no fun in the hand feel.

Still, it’s better than nothing. What can you do. I’ll have to fiddle with these at least.

Oh, they’re getting hard. What a lewd woman.

She should be grateful to me. I’m groping these boring things for her.

Of course, Seol Iri could feel wronged.

It’s an unavoidable physiological response to stimulation.

But she didn’t know because she was sleeping from the drug, so there’s nothing to feel wronged about.

Then Qing’s hand started itching.

Come to think of it, it really hurts when you squeeze breasts. How will she react?

Since she’s a taciturn bamboo wife, will she hold back her screams? Or will she shriek in a shrill voice that doesn’t suit her, begging to be let go? How will she wail? Will she beg pitifully to be let go, saying it hurts, or will she reveal vivid hatred with a flood of curses?

What will her expression be like? Will she think she’s been betrayed? Or will she look with hatred thinking “I knew it” because she never trusted in the first place?

Either way, it should be fun.

Qing’s lips stretched into a long smile. It was a vicious smile that almost reached both ears.

And then at that moment-

The door flung open.

“Finally!”

Qing shouted angrily as she jumped up.

“Kukuk.”

Before the driver could finish even one bar of his idiotic laugh, he was immediately grabbed by the jaw and pulled into the carriage.

Qing’s hand firmly gripped the driver’s jaw and lifted it while pressing down on his instep with her toe.

Qing’s training shoes already had heels only on the big toe. The clicking heel of the training shoe slowly dug into the driver’s instep.

This feeling of invasion transmitted from the tip of her foot.

Crunch, the foot bones crumbled and went deeper, shoop. And finally hitting the hard carriage floor, wow penetration! Cleanly pierced through!

“Mmph!”

The driver whose jaw was gripped could only scream through his nose, so hot breath warmed Qing’s cold hand.

“Hello? Friend? You made me wait too long so I’ve gone crazy. Now. How many of you are there? How much fun can I have?”

“Mmph.”

“Not answering? Then should I make it hurt a little?”

Qing’s toe slowly lifted.

She stepped about half an inch to the side and pressed down again.

At this the driver’s eyes rolled back.

Qing frowned hard.

What is this, already passing out after just that.

I didn’t even get to christen my sword force.

Qing lifted her foot and rubbed it on the floor to wipe off the bottom of her heel, then switched feet and targets and this time, yes, in one hit.

Clop!

“Guh! Mmph!”

The driver’s eyes snapped open in one hit.

It was a hit that woke him right up.

“Now. I’m going to let go of your hand, but if it’s noisy for me to hear, I’ll kill you? If you understand, answer.”

“Mph. Mph.”

“Ah. I covered your mouth. Then do it with your eyeballs. Nod if you understand, shake if you don’t.”

At this the driver’s eyeballs started making big up and down motions.

I didn’t tell him to move his eyebrows too, but he seems overly enthusiastic.

Qing smiled with satisfaction at this and let go of her hand.

The driver collapsed to the floor.

He just flailed his arms in an awkward position, not daring to touch his feet with holes punched through them.

Qing crouched in front of him and met his eyes.

“Driver mister. What kind of poison did you use that a master around Peak Realm can’t resist? And where did you get such precious poison?”

“H-I bought it from Black Store. And…”

Apparently they were secret drugs he bought for three whole gold taels each.

Everyone laughed at him, but it was also the determination of a man who poured his entire five years of income into the obsession of one day using this to fuck a precious woman they wouldn’t dare look at.

And if she was such a precious woman, he could earn enough by selling her after fucking her.

“Ah. Those Black Store bastards again…”

Of course poison was included in anything that could be obtained.

It’s regrettable that I didn’t completely destroy all the Black Store martial artists then. I just ran away because they said it wouldn’t be good to mess with them.

But no matter how much you dwell on past regrets, they’ll just keep being regrettable.

Rather than that, you should know the importance of the future and what you have now, and focus on that.

Qing had always done that.

So, Qing did that this time too.

“You didn’t do this alone, right? Gang, no. Never mind all that. How many of you are there?”