Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 38

Qiuming Pill Hall was taken over. Yan Zhuguang asked Yun Mixue to send Su Qian’er back to the Pill Hall to rest first, while she slowly led Qiu Qiao and the others around Danye City.
Senior Sister’s reputation could not have any stains. Even if this matter was Qiu Qiao and the others’ fault, Yan Zhuguang could use this kind of tooth-for-tooth method, but Senior Sister could not. If someone recognized Senior Sister and spread this matter, that would not be fun.
Yun Mixue did not know Yan Zhuguang was considering this. She only thought Yan Zhuguang was worried about Su Qian’er, so she did not think much and took Su Qian’er away first.
However, her spiritual sense covered Qiu Qiao and the others from beginning to end. It even formed a strong pressure to guard against them suddenly rioting and harming Yan Zhuguang.
With Yun Mixue’s spiritual sense pressing down on them like a mountain, Qiu Qiao and the others truly did not dare move recklessly. For the sake of their lives, even if people in Danye City pointed at them and whispered, they could only grit their teeth and accept it.
Qiuming Pill Hall had some fame in Danye City, and Qiu Qiao was the young master of the Pill Hall, so quite a few people recognized him. Now the entire group from the Pill Hall had been caught in one sweep and was being led around by a plain grass rope with no special power at all. How could people not be curious?
Before long, the matter spread through all of Danye City. Some shopkeepers and runners doing business in their own shops ran out to watch Qiuming Pill Hall’s joke.
Everyone had a heart for gossip. Even cultivators were no exception.
Who knew what the people from Qiuming Pill Hall had done, to be led around by an early Foundation Establishment young woman with a grass rope and not dare resist?
Yan Zhuguang’s features were bright and beautiful. When the onlookers saw her appearance, they could not help guessing in the direction of romantic gossip.
For example, perhaps they were willing to be led through the streets by her just to make a beauty smile. But were the people from Qiuming Pill Hall not a little too devoted? They were not angry even like this?
There were people who guessed, and naturally there were also bold people who asked directly. One person who had a grudge with Qiuming Pill Hall suddenly stopped the group on their street walk. “Miss, what crime did the people from Qiuming Pill Hall commit, for you to drag them like this?”
“You know them?” the beautiful young woman asked back.
“I suppose I do.”
“Then do you know he has a fiancee?”
When his fiancee was mentioned, the onlookers’ moods became even stranger.
The person blocking the road said, “Of course I know. She is Miss Su Qian’er, the cousin young lady of a branch of the alchemy Qiao family. She is the granddaughter of Perfected Qiao Zhenbang, the head of the Qiao family branch that directly oversees our major Pill Halls.”
The alchemy Qiao family was a great family in the cultivation world and controlled part of the cultivation world’s pill resources. Even one branch was an extremely powerful force.
Although Danye City’s city management was under Tianyu City in name, the ones who truly controlled the Pill Halls in Danye City were a branch of the Qiao family, meaning Qiao Zhenbang’s line.
Back when Qiu Qiao became engaged to Su Qian’er, no one knew how many people had secretly envied and hated him.
Although Miss Su Qian’er was born weak and in poor health, as long as one married her, one would enter the Qiao family’s eyes. In the future, resources would naturally be endless. How could that not make others jealous?
Even if this young lady could not cultivate, could not walk the path to immortality with him, and might even die young, there were many people in the cultivation world who lived alone. Even if the Qiao family watched him and did not allow him to remarry, enjoying so many benefits would not be a loss.
Unfortunately, that pretty boy Qiu Qiao had gotten the benefit. He had also relied on the Qiao family’s endless resources to rise easily from mere Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment.
Now Qiu Qiao was being led through the streets by a beautiful young woman, and the other side had even mentioned Miss Su Qian’er. Did they have a chance to ruin this marriage?
After hearing that person’s words, the beautiful young woman said, “Since you know, this is easier. This man surnamed Qiu secretly harmed Miss Su and was caught by me on the spot. Miss Su was injured and has been sent to recover. Which of you can go inform Miss Su’s family? I will offer a generous reward.”
Oh. They had thought Qiu Qiao could not resist stealing a bite elsewhere, but they had underestimated him. He had eaten a bear’s heart and a leopard’s gall. He even dared harm Miss Su.
“He actually dared harm Miss Su? He is truly bold beyond belief. Miss, there is no need for any reward. We will report this matter to the Qiao family at once.”
“Exactly. Such conduct is truly shameful. We cannot let this Qiu man have an easy time.”
“Miss, why not hand them to us? We will definitely help you send them to the Qiao family and ask the family head to punish them properly.”
“Thank you for your kind intentions,” Yan Zhuguang said. Senior Sister still needed to question this person, so how could she hand him over to them? “To avoid trouble on the road, I will take them to Qiuming Pill Hall and keep watch over them first. Please trouble everyone to invite Miss Su’s family over. Miss Su is also recovering at Qiuming Pill Hall.”
It seemed Qiu Qiao had offended quite a few people on normal days. There were actually so many people ready to hit him when he was down.
Yan Zhuguang did not know Su Qian’er’s identity. She had met Su Qian’er’s group on the road, and she herself was not someone who liked to form deep ties with others, so she had not deliberately asked. She only knew Su Qian’er was Qiu Qiao’s fiancee.
But Qiu Qiao had gone to such trouble for Su Qian’er’s drawing and had even wanted to kill Yan Zhuguang to silence her. It was clear Qiu Qiao did not want others to know Su Qian’er’s death was related to him.
If Su Qian’er were an ordinary person, Qiu Qiao could have simply killed her. But he had chosen such a roundabout method, which showed that Su Qian’er’s identity was not simple.
Originally, Yan Zhuguang had planned to take the people to the mission board and post a mission, asking someone with information to send word to Su Qian’er’s family. She had not expected these gossiping onlookers to come forward. Seeing that they seemed to have old grudges with Qiu Qiao and the others, Yan Zhuguang simply went along with it.
Since Su Qian’er was from the Qiao family, things were easier. She believed these people would be very willing to send word to the Qiao family and step on Qiuming Pill Hall a few times.
After arranging for Su Qian’er’s family to be notified, Yan Zhuguang had also achieved her goal of parading Qiu Qiao and the others through the streets and ruining their names. She no longer acted like a spectacle on the main street. Under everyone’s eyes, she led the group back to Qiuming Pill Hall.
Under the pressure of Yun Mixue’s spiritual sense, Qiu Qiao and the others did not dare speak a single word in their defense. Under those strange, mocking, or gleeful gazes, they could only bury their heads lower, wishing they could crawl into a crack in the ground.
Their faces became even more defeated, but in their hearts, they hated Yan Zhuguang even more.
As long as they had a chance to escape, they would definitely take back this humiliation tenfold or a hundredfold in the future.
Yan Zhuguang saw the malice that flashed through their eyes from time to time and sneered inwardly.
How could she leave hidden danger for herself? A petty man like Qiu Qiao, who could endure even the shame of being paraded through the streets, would become a poisonous snake hidden in the dark, ready to bite her at any time, if she let him go.
Yan Zhuguang was no innocent beginner.
Those grass leaves were indeed formed from ordinary weeds urged to grow. That was true. But the rope end was in her hand. If she wanted to do anything, it was extremely easy.
Did these people think she was only a young woman borrowing Senior Sister’s power to show off? That would be a very big mistake.
They did not know yet that Yan Zhuguang’s poison spiritual energy had already entered their spiritual cores silently. As long as she wanted, she could harvest their lives at any moment.
Heh. They wanted revenge on her? How could she give them the chance?
After returning to Qiuming Pill Hall, Yan Zhuguang tossed aside the rope end and went to find Yun Mixue.
“Senior Sister, I have already had people invite Miss Su’s family. Someone may come before long.”
Yun Mixue nodded.
Su Qian’er had been placed on a reclining chair in Qiuming Pill Hall’s back courtyard. Yun Mixue said, “Miss Su is improving. She should wake before long.”
Yan Zhuguang nodded.
In Yan Zhuguang’s view, saving Su Qian’er was already the full extent of kindness. Helping her arrange to notify her family and such was actually for Senior Sister’s sake.
Yan Zhuguang asked, “Senior Sister, what was it you said you would explain to me earlier?”
Yun Mixue said, “This matter must be explained from the beginning.”
The place where Fenghua Immortal Sect’s sect master had fallen was suspected to be near Tianyu City. Six years ago, Yun Mixue and several elders had hurried here to investigate.
Unfortunately, Tianyu City’s city lord did not cooperate with them very much, so Yun Mixue and the others could only investigate slowly through other methods.
After six years of effort, they finally found a little information. Six years ago, the former sect master had once come into conflict with a cultivator surnamed Su.
The former sect master had been a Spirit Division great expert, while that cultivator surnamed Su only had Core Formation cultivation. It was already very strange for the two of them to have a conflict, and for other cultivators to have seen it was even more unusual.
Although no one had heard what the two of them discussed, this was still a clue. They decided to start from this angle, hoping to follow the vine and find useful information.
However, that cultivator surnamed Su was very mysterious. He had no family or faction behind him, and there was almost no useful information about him.
Recently, after checking from many sides, they finally confirmed that the son of that Su cultivator was the son-in-law of the head of a branch of the Qiao family. This son had fallen together with his wife several years ago, leaving behind only a daughter born with poor health.
That cultivator surnamed Su loved this granddaughter very much and often went back to visit her.
Not long after the conflict with the former sect master, the Su cultivator vanished without a trace. They could only place their hopes on this Miss Su and hope to learn something about that Su cultivator from her.
Yun Mixue had sent two titled disciples to the Qiao family to look for Miss Su Qian’er. Unfortunately, they arrived at a bad time. Only after reaching the Qiao family did they learn that Miss Su had already been picked up by her fiance, the young master of Qiuming Pill Hall.
It just so happened that Qiuming Pill Hall was in Danye City near Tianyu City. After receiving the message sent back by jade arrow, Yun Mixue personally came to Danye City to look for Qiuming Pill Hall.
She had originally wanted to visit this young master and, through him, meet Miss Su. She had not expected to run into Qiu Qiao trying to harm Miss Su.
If Yan Zhuguang had not tracked Su Qian’er’s trail, if the two of them had been even a moment slower, Su Qian’er might already have lost her life. At that time, the clue about the former sect master would have been cut off again.
“So that is how it is.” After Yan Zhuguang finished listening, she could not help sighing at the coincidences within it all. Thinking of it this way, she had helped Su Qian’er twice, which meant she had helped Senior Sister twice too.
She shook her head and smiled. “Then now we only need to wait for Miss Su to wake, then ask whether she has any information about her grandfather.”
Yun Mixue nodded.
Just then, a strange voice suddenly sounded in Yan Zhuguang’s mind.
“Do you accept the main quest: Assist Yun Mixue in investigating the truth behind the former sect master’s death?”
“Hm?” This was Yan Zhuguang.
“Ah?” This was the system.
“Why are you ah-ing?” Yan Zhuguang’s expression did not move as she asked the system in her heart.
The system said in embarrassment, “This main quest is very hard to trigger. In my memory, it seems no host has ever triggered it before. How did Host trigger it? That is so strange.”
Yan Zhuguang thought for a moment, and her heart suddenly moved. “That drawing?”
“Ah?”