Wife is hell

Chapter 86 (First Update) 4,000 words

Outside the cave, the swirling mist was a bit thinner than before.

Jiang Mu leaned against an old tree, carefully examining the Phoenix Heart Pearl he had just taken out.

The beads are about the size of a thumb.

The surface was still covered with a few glistening dewdrops, emitting a delicate fragrance with a hint of sweetness.

It resembles musk but is not musk, it resembles orchid but is not orchid.

After taking out the bead, Su Meixin blasted him out and began to heal her injuries herself.

"This bead shouldn't be from the Xuanming world."

Jiang Mu murmured, "However, the materials used are from the Xuanming Realm and were processed later. They can absorb the demonic energy trapped in the human body, so they can be considered a rare treasure."

A woman in green sat atop a high tree branch, gently swaying her delicate feet. Her skirt fluttered in the breeze, and her smile was as radiant as a flower.
"Young master, how did it feel just now?"

Jiang Mu took out a handkerchief, wiped the remaining dew from his hands, and said lightly, "I definitely feel better than you."

"hehe."

A woman in green gracefully landed in front of him, her eyes sparkling with allure. "Don't speak too confidently, okay? How about I show you something?"

"Then let's take a look."

"Tch, dream on."

The woman in green blushed slightly, then reached out a slender finger to lightly tap his nose, and said with a playful smile, "When I finally achieve my true form, I'll definitely show you what I'm made of."

"Mu Jiang... come in."

At that moment, Su Meixin's voice came from inside the cave again.

What's this woman up to now?
Jiang Mu frowned, bent down, and went inside.

Upon entering the cave, they saw Su Meixin still leaning against the stone wall, her hands forming a magic seal, white steam rising from her head, and her long legs stretched out.

Clothes soaked with sweat clung tightly to the skin.

The already loose neckline slipped down a little, revealing delicate collarbones and a touch of glossy skin.

"What's wrong? What trouble have you run into this time?"

Jiang Mu asked.

Su Meixin's eyes were closed, but her curled eyelashes trembled slightly. Her tone was deliberately cold, with a slight tremor in her voice: "Have you ever studied massage or acupressure?"

"what?"

Have you studied it?

Su Mei raised her voice slightly.

"Uh, I've studied a little bit."

Jiang Mu wasn't lying.

Shi Yuhua often fell ill, and Dr. Mei would massage her feet, something he had learned from her when he was a child.

"my leg……"

Su Meixin moved her pink lips slightly and whispered, "She lost consciousness."

Jiang Mu was startled and looked down.

Through the thin black silk, several winding blue lines can be clearly seen, extending upwards from the ankle and disappearing near the back of the knee.

It added a touch of morbid eeriness to those long, slender legs.

Demonic energy contamination?

Jiang Muxin understood.

The beads were not removed in time, which ultimately caused some harm to the body.

"Give me a massage to prevent the demonic energy from spreading too quickly. I can handle the rest myself."

Su Meixin tried her best to remain calm and keep her voice steady.

I don't want to show too much of a girl's shyness.

Jiang Mu didn't mince words.

If you, a woman, don't care, then I, a grown man, have no reason to be coy.

He stepped forward and knelt on one knee beside him.

When the warm palm gently touched the woman's calf through the delicate silk, Su Meixin's body trembled slightly, and her toes curled up inside the sock.

She closed her eyes tightly and clenched her teeth.

Today was definitely the most nightmare day of her life.

As a woman of noble birth, she had never been so close to a man before; she would never have dared to even dream of it.

She hated getting married and even considered becoming a nun, which infuriated her father, the emperor.

Essentially, I just don't like smelly men.

As a result today...

Oh well, that's fate.

Fortunately, she didn't dislike Mu Jiang, especially since he was her best friend Tang Jinxian's little darling.

Let's just pretend that Tangtang's beloved dog rubbed against me.

Jiang Mu gently massaged upwards with his fingertips, following the direction of the blue veins.

The pressure gradually increases, sometimes kneading, sometimes pinching.

Su Meixin secretly opened her eyes and glanced at Jiang Mu, who was focused on his work. She couldn't help but feel a sense of goodwill towards him: "This kid is quite honest and didn't try to take advantage of me."

It wasn't that Jiang Mu didn't want to take it.

The main problem was that there was a dramatic person watching intently nearby, so I didn't have the heart to make a move.

As the blue veins disappeared, Su Meixin, who had regained consciousness, immediately pulled her leg back: "Alright, you can go out now, I'll take care of the rest myself."

Jiang Mu walked out of the cave.

Su Meixin breathed a sigh of relief and looked down.

A faint red mark was drawn along the edge of the black silk stockings, contrasting with the snow-white skin above.

"Am I not charming enough?"

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"Hehe, young man, you're really honest. If you do something more now, she won't be able to resist."

"I'm in green," said the man in blue with a smile.

Jiang Mu ignored her and instead looked to the thin mist that was spreading to his right:
"somebody is coming."

Before the words were finished, a brightly colored figure suddenly broke through the thin mist.

It was the flower-clad woman who had been tracked down here.

He was visibly startled when he saw Jiang Mu, and demanded sharply, "Who are you?"

Jiang Mu did not respond.

The woman in the flowery dress glanced across the cave and then asked, "Have you seen a woman wearing a gold dress?"

"Healing inside."

Jiang Mu answered very honestly.

A hint of joy flashed in Hua Yishang's eyes, but she waved her hand impatiently: "Get out of the way, don't get in my way!"

Jiang Mu took a step forward instead, and said seriously:
"You have dragged me into this formation without my knowledge, causing me physical and mental harm and torment. If you wish to leave, you must compensate me with at least 100,000 taels of gold."

"One hundred thousand taels of gold?!"

Flowery-clothed man laughed in exasperation, "Kid, I think you're looking for death!"

He shook his arms, and his black robe fluttered without wind.

As the ground trembled, seven or eight corpses burst from the earth, their eye sockets glowing with eerie green flames, and rushed straight at Jiang Mu.

"It can even summon corpses?"

Jiang Mu frowned. He wanted to summon his wife's severed hand to fight the enemy, but he found that the "Sinful Curse Butterfly" pattern on the back of her hand was dim, indicating that she had consumed too much energy and had not yet recovered.

He was about to shake the bell when he heard the woman in green beside him chuckle softly:
"Young master, these filthy things should be given to your sister."

She floated forward, her sleeves fluttering.

Jiang Mu suddenly realized.

At this moment, Qingyi was a pure Yin soul, with extremely heavy Yin energy.

These corpse puppets move entirely by their corpse energy, so Qingyi can easily absorb all their Yin and Sha corpse energy.

Without the Yin Sha Corpse Qi, the Flowery Clothes naturally cannot be controlled.

The woman in green, with her slender fingers like orchids in full bloom, gently touched the brow of a corpse puppet.

Thick, inky black mist was forcibly drawn from the seven orifices of the corpse puppet and flowed into the fingertips of the woman in green.

The corpse puppet froze instantly, then collapsed to the ground with a thud.

The figure in green robes moved gracefully, like a butterfly flitting among flowers, or a dancer under the moon. With a few flicks of her fingertips, the corpse puppets fell one after another in her wake.

Jiang Mu simply stood by and watched with his arms crossed.

This female ghost seems unreliable most of the time, but she actually comes in handy when it matters. "How...how could this be?"

The woman in the flowery dress was stunned.

He repeatedly activated the magic incantation.

The corpses, however, remained unresponsive, like puppets with broken strings.

"Oh no, we've run into a tough opponent!"

Hua Yishang immediately realized that the young man in front of her was a hidden master, and she was horrified. She turned around and tried to run away.

However, he had just taken a step when everything went blurry before his eyes.

Jiang Mu had already blocked his way like a ghost.

The woman in the flowery dress, filled with fear and trembling, gathered all her strength and struck Jiang Mu in the chest with a palm strike: "Die!"

The palm strike was fierce and carried a putrid stench.

Unexpectedly, the moment her palm struck her, it was rebounded by a tremendous force, causing the woman in the flowery dress to go numb.

"Diamond Body?"

Just as Hua Yishang was in shock, Jiang Mu's hand was already on his shoulder.

"The great method of absorbing energy!"

Hua Yichang felt her life essence surge uncontrollably towards the other person's palm, like a river overflowing its banks.

He tried to struggle, but he couldn't even lift a finger.

His skin shriveled at a visible speed, his eye sockets sunken... In the blink of an eye, he had turned into a withered, dried-up corpse, and then exploded into bits of flesh.

Jiang Mu felt the newly added mixed energy within his body and slowly finished his practice.

He noticed that the runes on the bell had become a bit more blurred, and thought to himself, "As expected, the cultivation technique is useful. If it were before, I would have collapsed from the backlash of the side effects long ago."

A moment later, Su Meixin finally finished her meditation inside the cave and came out.

She still wore a light veil over her face, but the exposed skin had an alluring pink hue, as if she had applied the finest rouge.

A light sheen of sweat glistened on Xueyu's neck, adding to her languid and alluring charm.

Although he forcibly suppressed the backlash from the cultivation technique, there was still a hint of fatigue between his brows.

Upon seeing Jiang Mu, her eyes flickered slightly, and she hesitated for a moment before approaching him.

"Give."

Jiang Mu handed over the cleaned Phoenix Heart Pearl.

Su Meixin quickly took it, her fingertips inadvertently touching his. She quickly withdrew as if burned, clutching the bead tightly in her palm, a blush rising to her ears.

"What happened today..."

She raised her eyes, trying to look fierce, but her embarrassment and anger made her appear charming instead. "If you dare to utter a single word about it, I will not let you off easily!"

Jiang Mu nodded and said in a serious tone:

"Madam Tao, rest assured, I will certainly keep my mouth shut. After all... you are my most important patron, and I can't afford to offend anyone but you, can I?"

Su Meixin glared at him irritably, but felt slightly relieved.

She paused, her tone softening, and a hint of apology in her voice:

"It was my fault for dragging you into this, I'm very sorry. Right now, we must find the core of this formation as soon as possible to escape. Those people will probably be here soon..."

Before she could finish speaking, Jiang Mu stepped aside, revealing the corpses behind him, and smiled:

"I think they won't be able to come for the time being."

Su Meixin looked up and saw several lifeless corpse puppets lying on the ground.

There were also fragments of floral clothing around.

Her phoenix eyes widened, and she suddenly looked up at Jiang Mu, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief: "You...did all of this?! You killed Hua Yishang?"

"It was just a fluke."

Jiang Mu described it lightly.

His pretentious manner earned him a roll of the eyes from the woman in green standing next to him.

A storm raged within Su Meixin's heart.

She had personally experienced Hua Yishang's strength and knew she was no easy opponent.

I never imagined I would die at the hands of a mere yamen runner.

She took another deep look at the young constable in front of her and finally understood why her best friend Tang Jinxian valued him so much and was determined to recruit him into her ranks.

This child's true strength and abilities far exceeded her previous investigations and expectations.

"When did you acquire such skill?"

She couldn't help but ask, "I've looked into your background. Not long ago, you were just a..."

"I recently had a chance encounter with a celestial being and received some guidance from him."

Jiang Mu gave a perfunctory reply.

Su Meixin secretly guessed.

It seems there really is a master secretly teaching this kid.

The woman was somewhat annoyed.

You, Tang Jinxian, you even kept it from me.

Are you afraid that I'll secretly steal your man and your treasure?
I am not that kind of person!
Su Meixin said, "Mu Jiang, it's a real pity that someone with your abilities is stuck in a small county government office. Would you like to seek a higher position? Perhaps I can lend you a hand."

As the saying goes, "Those who are near the water get the moonlight first."

Digging into the corner of a wall that your best friend has her eye on can be quite interesting.

Jiang Mu initially wanted to refuse outright, but recalling Madam Yan's remarks about power, he changed his mind and said, "Let me think about it."

"Okay, I hope you'll think it over carefully."

Su Meixin's beautiful eyes curved into a smile, "What Tang Jinxian can give you, I can give even more of."

Other people can bark in front of me, can you do that?

Jiang Mu thought to himself that he would definitely consider it.

Just then, the surrounding scenery blurred and distorted, and the thin fog completely dissipated.

In the blink of an eye, the two found themselves in a mountain forest.

The sky overhead was a normal blue sky and bright sunshine, no longer shrouded in purple haze.

"The formation has disappeared..."

Su Meixin looked around and frowned, saying, "It seems that the person controlling the formation outside saw Hua Yishang die and knew that the situation was bad, so they withdrew the formation and fled."

Jiang Mu was very disappointed.

He wanted to collect a few more ghost pills, but he didn't expect the other party to run away so easily.

I should have kept my head from killing that woman in the flowery clothes.

He surveyed the unfamiliar surroundings and muttered, "This formation is quite interesting; it even has the ability to teleport."

"The principles of this type of formation are complex. It requires pre-planning and thorough preparation to function. Sometimes, even with thorough preparation, it may suddenly become ineffective."

Su Meixin explained, "It's clear that the other side had been planning this for a long time and even hired a high-level array master. They just didn't expect to bring you along as well."

Jiang Mu took out the bracelet the other party had given him and complained, "Madam, this thing of yours doesn't work either."

It's not working?

How could this be? This is a top-grade protective treasure from the palace.

Su Meixin took the bracelet and examined it closely. Suddenly, her expression changed, and a strange look appeared on her face: "Strange, this bracelet has been tampered with... Who could it be?"

At that moment, a sharp cry of a falcon rang out from the sky.

But then a grey-black eagle was seen circling high in the sky.

Su Meixin looked up and said, "It was my guards who came looking for me."

Jiang Mu asked, "Should I leave?"

Su Meixin wanted to say no, but then she thought of the backlash from her cultivation technique, which was about to cause her to revert to her little girl form. If this guy saw her like that, wouldn't it be incredibly embarrassing?

So he nodded in agreement:

"Very well, I am very grateful to you for today. I will remember this favor and will definitely visit you to express my gratitude in person another day."

"No need for a personal thank you, just give me a bigger share of the profits."

Jiang Mu smiled, turned around, and headed towards Yancheng.

Su Meixin gazed in the direction the man had disappeared, a slight smile playing on her lips:

"Tangtang, oh Tangtang, such a wonderful person, you, a widow, can't handle her. It's up to me to cultivate her properly."

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