LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 564
The peak of the Heavenly Silver Waterfall was covered in blood.
Hung Leung, Hung Siu, and the other Great Wisdom City elites arrived at this hair-raising scene, visibly distressed by the surrounding headless corpses.
“What's going on?” Hung Leung spoke coldly. He was still trembling slightly from the terrifying state of the Heavenly Silver Waterfall – the waterfall made of blood.
It was an ugly surprise and greatly disturbing to have beautiful scenery outside your door turn into such an unpleasant sight.
Chui Yim wanted to give a casual reply, but the solemnity only had him mumbling. “Well, erm, they just decided to commit suicide all of a sudden…”
“I'm aware of that.” Hung Leung waved his hands and turned to Kam Chin Kee, “So what exactly did you feel while sitting under the waterfall?”
This was an unforeseen situation, but clearly the fuse was Kam Chin Kee suddenly rushing to the peak with a request to wake up everyone in the waterfall.
After about twenty people died under the lead of Wai Chung Yin, the entire silver waterfall became a bloody waterfall. The remaining attendants immediately woke the cultivators in the wet zone up.
The cultivators’ skin had already turned pinkish, and their veins were black in colour. In a hurry, they were transported back to Great Wisdom City, and Southern Ping doctors were informed to travel over by teleportation gliph.
“I felt that something was odd.” Kam Chin Kee frowned. “I'm aware that the waterfall was formed from the essence and blood of a gliphic beast, but while I was cultivating under the waterfall, I felt a violent and fierce energy trying to enter my body.”
The Great Wisdom City elites were frowning in distress at the sight of the blood red waterfall, and Hung Leung even sneered at Kam Chin Kee.
“So tell me, why are you the only one who's fine!?”
Hung Leung's words drew the rest to look at Kam Chin Kee suspiciously. Great Wisdom City and the Heavenly Silver Waterfall had been around for centuries, and there had never been any mishaps. Yet, everything took a turn after Chui Yim and Kam Chin Kee arrived. Firstly, Kam Chin Kee got hold of the treasure hidden in the waterfall for centuries, and now this happened.
“Clan Leader, I have bad news.” Out of nowhere, a person dashed over.
“Be composed.” Hung Siu only spared him a glance. “Why are you in such a hurry?”
The person took a deep breath and continued. “There's more and more people who are experiencing the same effects… even… the first and second young masters are among them.”
“What?” Hung Leung’s face fell drastically as he rushed down the mountains.
Kam Chin Kee and Chui Yim wanted to follow subconsciously, but Hung Kwan stopped them. “Stop in your tracks! Nobody is going anywhere until you guys explain the entire situation clearly!” The other elites also stood around the teens, seeping with malicious intentions.
Kam Chin Kee did not utter a word, but Chui Yim stepped up, looking at Hung Kwan like he was an idiot. “Did you not hear Wai Chung Yin before he left this world? He's challenging me, with all the cultivators that are currently sick from the bloody waterfall. Now is not the time for you to be a detective or judge, but the time for me to treat those casualties.”
With that, Chui Yim turned to Hung Siu, the actual leader of Great Wisdom City, who had absolute power if he wished. His power allowed him to revoke all authority given to the other elites as long as he wished to do so.
“Let's head back to the city.”
“Clan Leader!” Hung Kwan yelled anxiously.
“What’s there to fear?” Hung Siu looked at him expressionlessly. “They can't escape with me around.”
It might have sounded rude, but that was the truth. With Hung Siu's cultivation state, even if Kam Chin Kee and Chui Yim were Cloud Palace disciples, they were still lacking greatly in comparison, and Hung Siu could take their lives within a second.
Thus, Hung Siu did not fear that the teens would play tricks. Hung Siu might not care about worldly affairs, but as a five-chambered elite, he wasn’t an idiot. This was a grave matter targeted at the entire city, and it did not benefit the teens in any way.
The other elites like Hung Kwan weren't stupid, they just had preconceptions of the teens, thus they did not look into the matter in detail.
With Hung Siu's approval, the group hurried towards the city. All the casualties were placed in one of the Hung Clan's martial arts schools.
The moment Chui Yim walked in, he saw that the entire place was filled with people whose skin was red in color lying on the ground.
“Brother Chui?” someone called to him.
Pleasantly surprised, Chui Yim turned around subconsciously to see a beautiful girl and caught a waft of fragrance. It wasn’t the natural smell of a girl or perfume or makeup, but the smell of pills. Since alchemists had to spend most of their time refining pills, they were always donned in the smell of gliphic plants.
“Ping Ching?” Her appearance surprised Chui Yim.
It had been four years since she revealed her true gender to the world, and her beauty had reached new heights. She was like a fresh blossom standing peacefully in the middle of a lake, attracting the attention of all.
Even under such a grave situation, her arrival stirred up a huge commotion.
Southern Ping was considered to have the best medicine and alchemy techniques of the South. A message had already been sent to Southern Ping using the special method of the South's Five about the serious incident of Great Wisdom City, asking for help.
Because of the seriousness of this incident, Southern Ping sent the current clan leader of the Ping Clan, Ping San Yat, along with seven glipheons and three alchemists. If not for Mo-Yung Yin being in the North due to an invitation and Ping Chi working on an important cauldron of pills, they would definitely be present as well.
Ping Ching was one of the alchemists.
Ping San Yat walked over. Four years was enough to turn his hair slightly white, so it made sense why he emphasised and deliberately made Ping Ching's ability known to the world; he had the intention of making Ping Ching the next clan leader of their clan.
Ping San Yat nodded to Chui Yim with a smile, but he did not greet him specially.
There were many controversies regarding how Ping Ching was a girl, but with her excellent performance recently and Ping Chi’s support, nothing could go wrong.
As doctors, they did not waste any time and got to the topic. “Initial diagnosis, they are poisoned.”
Chui Yim did not waste any more time and randomly found a teen to test. Coincidentally, it was the first person who challenged him, the Ching Clan's Ching Gai. Chui Yim placed his middle and index fingers together before checking his pulse.
“Hmm?” Chui Yim frowned.