My Lady Always Lacks Ambition

Chapter 1270 - 1196: The Symbiotic Well

Though Cui Shixue noticed it, Qin Liuxi did not appear, which surprised Feng Xiu.

"I thought you would see him."

"Seeing him would just mean he’s going to ask me to find ways to fleece money, I don’t have that kind of leisure time." Qin Liuxi shook her head: "Everyone has their place, everyone fulfilling their own role is the right way."

She glanced at him again and said, "If you have Silver, you can donate some."

"Why should I?"

"You can’t take it with you when you die, and you, a Demon Emperor, don’t rely on Silver to live, turn it into merit, and gain a bit of Power of Faith for yourself."

Feng Xiu: "I refuse, I’ll build myself a house of Gold, wouldn’t that be splendid to live in someday?"

"Yes, blindingly splendid." Qin Liuxi snorted, suddenly moving her wrist. Her eyes narrowed, and she rolled up her sleeve as the Golden Cicada Poisonous Insect crawled out from her hand, turning in circles.

"Keep searching for those Array Eyes, communicate if there’s anything." Qin Liuxi stepped into the Void and disappeared.

Feng Xiu was quite angry, feeling he was even lesser than a woman!

Using the Golden Cicada Poisonous Insect to communicate, who else could it be but that witch?

Qin Liuxi indeed received a message from Si Lengyue; she had found an Array Eye but it was rather troublesome and difficult to eliminate, she had no choice but to notify her.

When Qin Liuxi arrived where Si Lengyue was, it was already after midday, the sky was dense with clouds, and it seemed snow might fall.

"Little Xi."

Si Lengyue approached Qin Liuxi, first examining her, then frowned and said, "You’ve lost weight again."

A year without seeing her, Qin Liuxi had grown even thinner, already tall and slender, she stood with a fierce aura, although she deliberately restrained it, a powerful pressure could be felt from her.

She was slimmer yet stronger, now she seemed like a Divine weapon about to be unsheathed!

Qin Liuxi looked at her robe of snowy white embroidered with totems, and noticed a small gold-red totem mark on her forehead, she remarked: "Is it tattooed on?"

Si Lengyue touched the totem mark on her forehead and said: "It’s the totem of the White Witch Family, only the direct lineage with true witch power awakening, blessed by ancestors, will show up. It’s also a symbol of being the Sect Leader of the Witch Sect."

Qin Liuxi smiled with relief: "Congratulations."

She could sense the Spiritual Power on Si Lengyue, different from the Taoist Sect, it had an air of mystery, somewhat eerie, dark yet slightly divine.

It was generally the power of the White Witch Clan.

"Where is the Stone Beast you mentioned? What’s the situation?" Qin Liuxi straightforwardly asked.

Si Lengyue put on a serious expression, leading her forward, said: "It’s a Well Sealing Stone Lion, also a Water Source Well for a small village."

"Is there something wrong with the well water?" Qin Liuxi immediately guessed the key issue.

Si Lengyue said: "The well has been used to worship a so-called Well God."

Upon hearing the word "God," Qin Liuxi became annoyed and coldly asked: "Is it an Evil God?"

A well having a Well God isn’t strange. Some wells due to their geography or feng shui have Spiritual Energy, a well with spirit, if people worship and offer to it, over time, it naturally becomes a god, rendering the well water especially sweet.

Once the Well God disappears, the water may become bland or even murky.

However, if the Well God is an Evil God, then trouble arises, especially as a Water Source Well, everyone drinks from that well, year after year, making it easier to brainwash, fearing that in their minds that water is more sacred than celestial water, and cannot be destroyed.

Spreading belief normally requires persuasion, but drinking water and willingly believing in the Well God doesn’t need persuasion.

The difficulty of dealing with ignorant people is even greater than killing ghosts; if you attack their deeply-rooted belief in the Well God, they can fight you to the death.

Qin Liuxi was getting nervous, she suspected that the sly fox had long known about this situation, informing her in advance to prepare her, now she faced an unavoidable mission.

With a stern expression, she said: "If the Stone Beast is evil, even if it’s a God, I must slay it, let alone if it’s an Evil God."

Si Lengyue replied: "If it’s merely an Evil God, it would be easier to exterminate; the issue is complex."

"Why?"

"Because the villagers are already bound in life with the well."

Qin Liuxi’s pupils shrank, a thought surged through her mind, and her heart started racing.

Si Lengyue’s exquisite face was filled with frost, she said: "Calling it an Evil God is less accurate than calling it a Gu God. That well has nurtured a Divine-level Devouring Yin Mother Gu, and the well water contains child poison, once the child poison enters the body, one must drink from that well to remain stable; otherwise, the essence and blood will be drained and they will die."

Qin Liuxi understood.

Basically, the water from this well is both the villagers’ lifeline and their demise!

Destroying whatever’s in the well will mean destruction of the well, and when the well is ruined, the water is done for, those harboring child poison will perish along.

Qin Liuxi couldn’t help but curse: Damn fox, get over here, I promise not to kill you!

What a jinx of a mouth!

"Don’t the villagers know?"

Si Lengyue: "Do you think they don’t? They can’t leave this place, and if they do, they must take enough water with them. If they lose the Divine Well water, they will die. Would anyone fail to guess? They have guessed, some of them even perform sacrifices every year."

"Can’t drink other water?"

"Yes, and they resist." Si Lengyue remarked, "Precisely because of this, the villagers wouldn’t abandon the well and move away. Even if they leave temporarily due to trivial matters, they will return swiftly."

Qin Liuxi frowned: "How did the Devouring Yin Gu reach Divine-level?"

"Devouring Yin Gu thrives by consuming yin energy. With child poison inside the hosts, they continuously supply essence and blood, feeding child poison; mother and child poison are connected, the essences digested by child poison provide nourishment to the Mother Gu. Once hosts die, child poison dies too, all yin energy returns to the Mother Gu." Si Lengyue explained, "Essentially, child poison and the hosts are food, nourishment for the Mother Gu, women are particularly ideal."

Qin Liuxi was puzzled, asked: "Regardless of departure, those people would still die, where can a village find so many to feed it?"

To cultivate a Gu God, it surely needs many people, yet people’s lifespan is limited, having such a parasite means short life, where do so many people come to nurture it?

Si Lengyue chuckled: "Do you know what another name for the well is? Conception Well."

Qin Liuxi suddenly felt nauseated.

"Legend has it those who drink from the Conception Well’s Divine Water will conceive, would women knowing this seek a bowl of water?" Si Lengyue said coldly: "Ancient Well Village has rules, asking for water is allowed but requires marrying one person to them, gender, or age do not matter. This way, the villagers of Ancient Well Village have not faced extinction, and now the village holds over two hundred people."

Qin Liuxi’s gaze turned cold; if this were the case, the villagers of Ancient Well Village surely know their own secret. Yet they not only don’t share it, but constantly draw outsiders to fill the dead man’s soul pit, and even harm others, utterly reprehensible!