The Evil Emperor's Favorite: The Sickly and Poisonous Concubine Goes Crazy

Song Ci'an looked at her hurried back with a hint of doubt on his face.

Xiaoqi is hiding something from him.

"Xiao Qi! Xiao Qi!" Ji Chen's joyful voice came from far away.

Looking at Song Ci'an, who was turning around and walking slowly out of the gate of Xiaoqi's yard, he paused.

"Hmm? Big Brother, why are you here? Where's Xiao Qi?"

"I'm going to see the master."

Ji Chen scratched the back of his head, and felt a headache when he thought of his furious master today. Forget it, Xiao Qi is back anyway, and the master will not hold him back anymore.

Song Ci'an glanced at Ji Chen, feeling a little uneasy for some reason. He looked at the direction Su Jingning was going, thought for a moment, and decided to follow him.

Bamboo courtyard on the top of the mountain.

Su Jingning looked at the old man in a white coat who was watering the medicine garden with his hands behind his back, carrying her on his back. He smiled slightly, pushed the door open and walked in with a soft voice.

"Master, Xiao Qi is back!"

The white-haired old man paused and looked behind him.

"Humph! You still remember to come back!"

Seeing the graceful girl in the yard, he suddenly frowned and cursed in a strong voice. He threw the wooden ladle in his hand into the bucket, shook his hand, and walked into the bamboo house angrily.

Su Jingning was not in a hurry, he smiled as usual and followed him into the house. Who would have thought that the master of Mo Lin Yuan, Su Cang, who was said to be so magical by the outside world, would be an irritable old man.

Su Jingning entered the room and looked at the stubborn old man standing with his back to her. She put down the snacks in her hand and slowly knelt down to greet him.

"Disciple Su Jingning wishes Master well."

Then she raised her head and looked at the old man who still didn't turn around to look at her. With a sly smile in her eyes, she stood up and walked to the tea table and sat down.

"Master, Xiaoqi brought you some Xunhua cheese and chestnut cake from Yuesheng Lane. Would you like to try them?"

Su Cang snorted coldly, cursed and sat down.

"You have been out of the Abyss for so long, but you didn't even send a message to Master. You are really amazing. If Master could not leave the Abyss, he would have brought you back to teach you a lesson..."

Su Jingning lowered his eyes, brewed tea, and listened silently to his master's familiar chatter, with a hint of warmth in his eyes.

In her previous life, she had never returned since she left the abyss. Her master taught her to use sacred knowledge to benefit the people's livelihood, and to be kind and compassionate in her heart to seek wisdom. He hoped that she could live a free and unfettered life with her skills, and that there would be fewer constraints on women in this world.

But she ultimately failed to live up to her master's expectations, plunged headfirst into a stupid scam, and lost completely.

She felt ashamed of her master's teachings and failed to live up to his expectations.

When the master had finished nagging, she handed over the prepared tea.

Su Cang took the tea and sniffed it gently. The anger in his eyes disappeared. He looked at Su Jingning again, full of kindness, and asked with a smile:

"You have been out of the Abyss for two years. Have you been bullied outside? I will ask your senior brother to vent your anger for you!"

Su Jingning put down the teacup in his hand, walked to the side and knelt down:

"My disciple violated Mo Linyuan's rules and used the power of the Hidden Pavilion without permission. I beg Master to punish me."

Su Cang knew that Xiao Qi had used the power of Yin Ge without authorization to deal with a concubine of the Zhou Dynasty.

Yin Ge is Mo Linyuan's hidden sword, which only kills those who are harmful to Mo Linyuan. However, the person Xiao Qi killed was an ordinary concubine, which broke the rule of Yin Ge not to kill innocent people.

He put down the teacup in his hand and asked:

"Why did you kill that concubine? Master knows. With your personality, if you really wanted to kill her, you would not have spared her life the first time she provoked you."

Su Jingning lowered his eyes and did not answer his question.

Su Cang looked at his little disciple who was kneeling straight with her head down and keeping silent, and he knew that she was unwilling to speak.

He sighed, "Forget it, get up. Since you have admitted your mistakes, go to the ancestral temple tomorrow to reflect on your mistakes for three days."

"Yes."

Su Jingning got the order and sat down. It was too biased of his master to let him reflect in the ancestral hall for three days, so the punishment was too light.

Su Cang looked at the well-behaved little disciple in front of him and saw the reincarnation bead on her hand at a glance. A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes. Su Jingning lowered his head and did not notice anything unusual about his master.

Reincarnation bead!

No wonder he felt the child seemed to have changed after not seeing him for two years.

He quickly calculated with his hands hanging down from the table, and then slowly stopped after a long time, with a bit of confusion in his eyes, and then relief. Even if he couldn't figure it out, it might be a good thing for his little apprentice.

"Master."

Song Ci'an walked in holding a fan and bowed to Su Cang.

Su Cang nodded and motioned for him to sit down.

"Why are you here, brother?"

He looked at Su Jingning, who was sitting quietly opposite his master, and his expression was rarely warm. He walked straight to her side and sat down.

He looked at Su Jingning without replying. After a while, he sneered, with a rare anger in his eyes:

"I was wondering why they were hiding when they saw me. It turns out that some of them are guilty and afraid that I would find them, right?"

Su Cang saw that his eldest disciple, who always had a smile on his face, had a gloomy face towards Xiao Qi, and he spoke in a sarcastic tone as soon as he came in.

He asked Su Jingning with curiosity:

"Speak nicely, what's the matter? Xiao Qi, you've provoked your senior brother again as soon as you came back?"

Su Jingning looked at his senior brother with a dark face, his heart skipped a beat, he moved away calmly and hid his hands behind his back.

Seeing her actions, Song Ci'an became even angrier. He didn't care that Su Cang was still there, and slammed his fan on the tea table, saying angrily:

"Still hiding? Stretch out your hands."

Even Su Cang, who was watching the show with a smile on his face, was startled by him. He asked cautiously:

"What did Xiao Qi do wrong? How could you make your senior brother so angry?"

After all, he only has such a reliable disciple, and he dare not offend him. He is the one who takes care of all the affairs in the abyss. If he gets angry and quits, his leisurely life that he has worked so hard to get will be over.

When Su Jingning saw his angry senior brother, he was frightened and obediently stretched out his hand.

Song Ci'an felt her pulse with a cold face, and his fair face suddenly became even colder, with a hint of anxiety in his eyes.

Sure enough, Xiao Qi forcefully broke through her sealed internal energy.

"When was the seal broken? Why did you break the seal?"

Song Ci'an was silent for a long time before he suppressed his worry and anxiety, then looked at Su Jingning and asked.

"What? The seal is broken. Xiaoqi, did you use your internal energy?" Su Cang looked at Su Jingning fiercely and immediately understood that she had just forcibly suppressed her internal energy so that he would not discover it.

Su Jingning didn't expect his senior brother to be so angry, and quickly explained:

"Brother, don't be angry. Although I used my internal energy, I only used it once and didn't feel any discomfort. Moreover, I remembered the instructions of my master and brother. I would not use my internal energy unless I had no choice."

"You should be thankful that you only used it once, otherwise even Master wouldn't be able to save you."

Song Ci'an thought of how she had been secretive before, and felt furious. However, he couldn't bear to get angry with her again, so he just turned his back and didn't look at her anymore.

It was the first time that Su Jingning saw her senior brother so angry. She blinked and looked at her master, hoping that his master would help her. However, her master only looked up to the sky and down to the earth, not even at her, and it was obvious that he told her to fend for herself.

She had no choice but to bite the bullet and said to Song Ci'an in a gentle voice:

"Xiao Qi knows he was wrong. He shouldn't have joked about his own body. Thank you Master and Senior Brother for your concern. I will never make the same mistake again in the future."

Song Ci'an felt softened in his heart. He was just angry that she didn't take care of her body. But when he saw how cautious she was, most of his anger disappeared.

He sighed, turned around and looked at Su Jingning, whose eyes were clear and bright, with a flattering smile on his lips, and his clear voice slowed down:

"Back then, you were practicing the Frost Seal too quickly and lost control, and you almost went insane. Master and I worked together to suppress it for you. Since then, the Frost Seal has merged with the cold syndrome in your body. Once you use your internal energy, it will trigger the cold syndrome that you have finally alleviated over the years."

"If I use my inner strength once more, the cold in your body will be completely drawn out. Have you forgotten what it feels like when your cold attacks, and how painful it is?"

Song Ci'an looked at Su Jingning and asked word by word. He would always remember how she looked when she first arrived at Mo Linyuan, with a cold attack from time to time. She was cold all over and her face was pale, not like a living person. He watched over her again and again, and pulled her back from the brink of death again and again.

People all admired his medical skills that could bring the dead back to life, but they didn't know that after all these years, he still couldn't cure the person he cared about the most.

"Master, it's useless to seal Xiaoqi's internal energy now. What should we do next?" Song Ci'an asked Su Cang.

Su Cang looked at Su Jingning with a headache. What on earth had this girl done in the past two years since she left Yuan to end up like this?

He reached out to check Su Jingning's hidden pulse. Sure enough, the coldness in the hidden pulse was stronger than before, and it was rampant. But he had not detected any of it in the visible pulse. This was the reason why Xiao Qi did not feel uncomfortable even though he used his internal force. But if the coldness in the hidden pulse broke out, it would be far more severe than the previous symptoms.

Fortunately, this internal force was only used once. If it was used again, it would be just as Ci An said, even he might not be able to save the life of his beloved disciple.

"Xiao Qi, you must listen to your senior brother in the future. You must never use this inner force again."

"Luckily you're back now. If it's any later, it would be troublesome. Ci'an, starting tomorrow, use ice needles to treat Xiaoqi every day to suppress the power of the frost seal in her hidden veins. Although this method is a bit torturous, it can restrain the frost seal in Xiaoqi's body."

Su Jingning nodded yes.

The worry in Song Ci'an's eyes eased a little, and he was glad that Xiaoqi came back. If it had been delayed a few more days, he didn't even dare to think about the consequences.