116: Chapter 116 The Green Snake is Angry

"It leveled up after just one use!"

Xu Qing looked at the skill bar in disbelief.

He had such a talent for Charm.

No, the leveling speed of the Charm skill should depend on temperament and looks.

And as for himself...

With looks unsurpassed throughout history, it naturally improved rapidly!

The scholar, who had regained a bit of sobriety due to the pain, fell back into a daze under the level 2 Charm.

Xu Qing bluntly asked about matters regarding the Wang Mansion.

At the mention of the Wang Mansion, a look of anger appeared on the scholar's Face as he resentfully recounted the mansion's crimes.

The Wang Mansion was not a prince's residence, but the residence of the Wang family clan.

However, in this Imperial Capital, they naturally possessed overwhelming power.

The family head, Wang Naiping, was a Minister of the current dynasty.

And Wang Naiping's grandson, the Young Master of the Wang Mansion, Wang Lizhi, was an even greater profligate.

In the West City and East City of the Imperial Capital, he was a playboy hated with gnashing teeth.

Forcibly seizing commoner women, killing husbands to take wives, killing fathers to take daughters, killing sons to take mothers—he had done it all.

Moreover, it was said that countless female corpses were thrown out of the Wang Mansion every year.

They were just dumped outside the West City without even being buried.

Every month, people whose daughters or wives had been snatched away would go outside the West City to rummage through the corpses, wanting to confirm if their own wives or daughters were there.

If they found them, they would hold a funeral and bury the body.

If they couldn't find them, then they were simply gone.

Xu Qing thought of the shackles in the side room; that was likely the room where those chaste and virtuous women were imprisoned.

However, even so...

Those bloodstains already proved that the outcome was perhaps not good.

"Are there any rumors of strange occurrences at the Wang Mansion?"

"Like a lady hero in red or something?"

Xu Qing asked.

"...A lady hero in red? Young Miss, are you talking about that Scarlet Swallow from the Jianghu?"

"That was truly tragic."

The scholar sighed and began to recount it in detail, as if reminiscing.

This scholar was considered an educated man, so his narration was clear and organized.

"Scarlet Swallow came here a few years ago, I believe..."

"I heard she was beautiful and elegant, with peerless martial arts."

"Hearing about Wang Lizhi's deeds, she gnashed her teeth in anger and vowed to kill him."

"Under the cover of night, she slipped into the Wang Mansion, but because of the heavy security, she could only rescue a few women."

Xu Qing listened intently.

However, the subsequent development was beyond Xu Qing's expectations.

"Unexpectedly, among the rescued women, someone returned to the Wang Mansion under the cover of night to inform on her!"

"For ten taels of silver—just ten taels of silver!"

"As a result, the next night, that dog Wang Lizhi set an ambush, having that wretched woman pose as a captured girl."

"While Scarlet Swallow was rescuing her, a poison needle was stabbed into Scarlet Swallow's neck."

"..."

As the scholar spoke to this point, he was already gnashing his teeth.

"No matter how peerless Scarlet Swallow's martial arts were..."

"Struck by a poison needle and facing an ambush..."

The scholar stopped speaking.

"Angry, angry, This Snake is so angry!"

Xu Qing flicked his tongue, his tail nearly poking out from under his clothes in rage.

Although he was a snake,

hearing such things still made his blood pressure rise!

"What happened to that woman later!"

"And Scarlet Swallow!"

Xu Qing asked.

"The woman who informed, her name is Bai Chunchun; she is now a female supervisor in the Wang family."

"They call her a supervisor, but in reality, she helps manage the women who are captured and brought in."

"As for Scarlet Swallow..."

"I heard her corpse was found outside the West City back then, in a state too horrific to look at."

"She is now buried over at West Mountain."

Xu Qing wished he could go back and burn the Wang Mansion to the ground.

Xu Qing was not human.

He repaid grudges and grievances in kind; if he didn't like someone, he'd just draw his sword and deal with them.

Even the Xiliang Sword by his side continuously hummed, as if it also wanted to go and slash the Wang Mansion.

"Scarlet Swallow was already extraordinary in life."

"After death, her resentment did not dissipate, so she did not enter the boundary of life and death and could not undergo Reincarnation."

"Happening upon the chaos of the Xia Dynasty and the time when evil energy was festering, she merged with that evil energy to become what she is today."

Xu Qing was no longer the ignorant wild green snake he once was.

The current Xu Qing had read many books, though the vast majority were snatched from other Cultivators.

Thus, he easily determined Scarlet Swallow's current state.

Logically, with such a major evil spirit, the Wang Mansion should be a scene of carnage by now.

How could it still be peaceful and unharmed?

"Young Miss, Young Miss?"

Seeing that Xu Qing had stopped talking, the scholar tried to strike up a conversation.

"Scram, this lord is in a very bad mood right now."

"Be careful, or I'll kill you just to vent my anger!"

Through the cloth strip over his eyes, Xu Qing glared at the scholar.

In an instant, the scholar felt like a mouse being glared at by a giant snake, his body trembling.

Then, everything seemed like an illusion.

Before him was only a "young girl" with a cloth strip wrapped around her eyes.

Then he felt a bout of dizziness and turned to leave in a daze.

"No, if I don't destroy the Wang Mansion, my mind won't be at peace!"

Xu Qing paced back and forth.

However, that Scarlet Swallow is currently like she has a split personality.

It's very hard to communicate.

Should I go to her grave to burn some incense and pay my respects?

Xu Qing rummaged through his Spatial Pupil.

His gaze swept over various Spiritual Artifacts and Magical Artifacts.

In West River, he had killed countless evil spirits, and his treasure reserves had reached a ridiculous level.

Spiritual Artifacts and Magical Artifacts for all sorts of purposes were too many to count.

At this moment, Xu Qing...

...could already be called Dora-snake-mon.

"Ta-da! Sobriety Hairpin!"

Xu Qing took out an azure-blue hairpin.

[Blue Dream Hairpin] Spiritual Artifact, crafted using blue jade frozen for countless years in deep-sea glaciers as the primary material and the skull bone of a spiritually enlightened monkey demon as the secondary material. Attached skills: Sobriety Lv.5, Clarity Lv.4, Sanity Lv.4.

I don't know which evil spirit I killed to get this reward...

It was quite useless and a bit too feminine, so Xu Qing hadn't worn it.

At least the green silk flowing light skirt had a transformation skill.

"...Wang Mansion."

"The Wang Mansion of the Imperial Capital, heh."

"Right under the nose of the Imperial Capital, such a garbage dump still exists."

Xu Qing put away the hairpin, ready to take it out at any time.

He patted the heaven-accepting gourd and took out the ice evil ruyi scepter and the green tail white hair sword.

Then, with resolute determination, he rushed toward the Wang Mansion again.

Today, only one can survive: the Wang Mansion or the green snake.

...

"Not bad, not bad."

"That green snake is indeed quite good. Mother, it seems you didn't pick the wrong person to follow."

On the other side of the Imperial Capital, Elder Li seemed to have sensed something; she pinched her fingers and performed a casual divination.

"Mother, let's go over there and take a look."

Elder Li took Daya's hand and also walked toward the Wang Mansion.

There's probably going to be a big commotion today.

She naturally wouldn't intervene to help Xu Qing.

She had already said she wouldn't help; if she did now, where would the Face of a Nascent Soul Great Perfection Cultivator go?

She also cared about her Face.

But she would help the green snake block the prying eyes of petty people, lest the commotion be too great and alert the people of the Xuanji Sect.

"What a foul atmosphere."

"The green snake is being mistreated; he is a River God and has a sharper nose than mine, so he must be disgusted by the stench."

As they got closer to the Wang Mansion, the scent of evil energy became increasingly thick.

Holding Daya, she flew above the clouds and waved her sleeve.

A transparent barrier enveloped the Wang Mansion and its surroundings.