Chapter 169: Sudden Death
Is the man it mentioned my eldest brother?
[Yes, yes. I saw him. Your big brother is unlucky—but with a bit of luck mixed in. Every time something bad happens, he ends up running into that girl.]
She seems like a good person. She’s already helped my brother twice and still wants to help him again.
[Because there’s a bit of a misunderstanding between them. That girl thinks your brother’s misfortune was caused by their Wu Clan.]
Why would she think that?
[It’s not entirely a misunderstanding… how should I put it…]
[The Wu Clan has very few members—only two or three per generation. It always feels like they’re on the verge of extinction, yet they somehow continue to pass on with just a handful of people.]
[Wu Li has an uncle named Wu You…]
So her father is called Wu Zuo?
[Yes, but that’s not the point. The point is that Wu You was possessed by the Insect Clan. Using the Wu Clan’s innate ability to manipulate fortune, he framed Si Yi twice.]
[That Insect Clan creature even tried something against your father. But your father seems somewhat immune to all evils, so it failed.]
[Even your mother was affected once. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been so easy for that shameless Si to succeed.]
[After all, that shameless Si couldn’t even defeat your mother.]
Si Er’s fingers curled slightly.
That Insect Clan thing… it must have killed quite a few people, right?
[More or less. Its main target has always been the four City Lords of the Four Great Cities. But those four are hard to kill, so it could only start with the people around them.]
It really deserves to die…
[Yeah. But that girl doesn’t know her uncle has already been possessed. After seeing your brother’s situation, she thought her uncle had simply gone mad.]
[So while cleaning up the mess, she’s also been searching for him, trying to stop him.]
[She wanted that Great Sun Grass because she feels guilty about what happened to your brother and wants to help as much as possible.]
So that’s how it is…
Si Er felt conflicted.
If only she could know her uncle is already dead. Or better yet, if that Insect Clan thing would just drop dead suddenly. That way it wouldn’t harm anyone else.
While communicating with Guagua, Si Er kept a thoughtful expression on his face, as if weighing whether to agree to Wu Li’s proposal.
He believed his acting was flawless—but his inner thoughts had already exposed everything.
Wu Li was stunned. She hadn’t expected her uncle to already be dead—and that the one committing evil deeds now was some so-called Insect Clan.
She didn’t quite understand what the Insect Clan was, but it sounded like some kind of bug, didn’t it?
How could her uncle’s body be occupied by a bug?
Wu Li gave Si Er a faint smile. “Sorry, Student Si Er. Think about the cooperation proposal again.”
“I suddenly remembered something I need to take care of. I’ll step away for a bit.”
With that, she left with the Misfortunate Crow.
She plunged deep into the forest, found a secluded spot, set up a concealment array, and then took out a pitch-black, fluffy spirit beast.
“Meiqiu’er, help conceal the heavenly secrets. Don’t let certain special spirit beasts spy on this.”
“Of course, Lili. Serving you is my honor.”
After Meiqiu’er finished shielding the heavenly secrets, Wu Li took out a small bottle, pulled out the stopper, and poured out the blood inside.
Whenever a member of the Wu Clan left the clan grounds, they would leave behind a drop of their heart’s blood with the Wu Deity. It had many uses.
If you died, the clan elders could use that drop of blood to locate your corpse and track down your killer.
If you were alive but committing evil, the clan could also use that blood to purge you.
After her first encounter with Si Yi, Wu Li had gone back to retrieve this bottle of blood.
It had been easy—this generation of the Wu Clan consisted only of her, her younger brother, and that uncle.
But now, her uncle was truly gone. His body had merely become a blade for someone else’s wrongdoing.
Originally, Wu Li had intended to bring her uncle back to the clan grounds for punishment.
Now, there was no need.
A mere bug had no qualification to enter the sacred grounds of the Wu Clan.
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Meanwhile, Si Er and the others were discussing how to harvest the Lingzhi and the Great Sun Grass.
The light-attribute Lingzhi was beneficial to Si Er. Yu Beixuan and Si Xu both felt they couldn’t give it up so easily.
The Great Sun Grass benefited Si Yi. Si Er and Si Xu both felt that couldn’t be abandoned either.
Although the Great Sun Grass wasn’t surrounded by powerful spirit beasts, picking it would require passing through the territory of those powerful beasts—still troublesome.
Previously, their odds of success hadn’t been high. But if Wu Li joined them, things would be different.
Aside from Lu Taiping, the other three believed they only needed to wait below. Before the Lingzhi fully matured, those several nests of spirit beasts would surely start fighting among themselves.
At that point, as long as the Misfortunate Crow improvised a little while they fought, there was a chance the beasts would all collapse together—leaving them powerless to stop the harvest.
Just as their discussion grew heated, Guagua’s voice suddenly exploded in Si Er’s mind.
[Er’er, that Insect Clan creature possessing Wu You’s body suddenly dropped dead!]
So suddenly?
I just found out I have another enemy, and that enemy suddenly dies on its own?
Even if I hoped for that, I’m not so blessed that my wishes come true instantly, right?
[Apparently… you are.]
Guagua sounded bewildered as well.
[I was trying to see what Wu Li was doing. I didn’t see anything in particular—just suddenly noticed she had one less blood relative.]
[Looking closer, it was her uncle who died.]
Wasn’t her uncle already dead?
[His soul had been devoured by the Insect Clan, so it wasn’t obvious. His body never actually died.]
[But just now, his body suddenly collapsed—life cut off abruptly, without any visible wounds.]
[When he died, he was still in the posture of scheming against your brother.]
…Why is it my brother again?
Si Er couldn’t understand.
Did my brother offend it or something? Why does it keep targeting him?
[No. It seems that among this generation, your brother is the most talented of all those with fire attributes.]
[If he’s gone, then Si Ran becomes the number one fire-attribute genius. So that Insect Clan was helping Si Ran eliminate competition.]
[And your brother is the best candidate to become the next City Lord. If he dies, the Si family—even all of Dongyao City—would lose a significant portion of its fortune.]
[Then it would be much easier to scheme against your second brother.]
[If your second brother were gone too, your father would be devastated. He wouldn’t be immune to evil anymore.]
That sounds exactly like the script of the foreign Heavenly Dao.
[Exactly. That’s how it was supposed to operate. But you’re still alive, and Si Yi met Wu Li. Everything now has variables.]
Si Er couldn’t help but let out a breath of relief. As long as there were variables, that was good.
Are there other Insect Clan creatures causing trouble? If they could all just suddenly drop dead, that would be perfect.
[There definitely are. But they probably won’t drop dead that easily.]
[If I’m not mistaken, the sudden death of Wu You’s body and that Insect Clan creature likely has something to do with Wu Li.]
[But I don’t know what exactly she did—or what stimulated her into acting.]
