Chapter 85: Senior Brother Zhao, Long Time No See!
With the spirit fruit identified by the snake, everyone’s mood improved considerably.
No matter how loud Fei Changxiu’s opposition was, it couldn’t erase its role within the small group of four. Although the snake was unwilling, Ming Chenxing’s iron will and heart forced it to comply obediently.
The night was still dark and silent.
The fog grew denser and more obscuring.
They encountered more and more white bones before them, one after another, all remnants of disciples from various sects who had perished in this formation.
No wonder the talisman formation managed by Saint Feng He was the foremost; it turned out she had been letting too much through.
Before their eyes, it remained a misty expanse, and all they could hear was the whistling wind.
Suddenly, after an unknown amount of time, Ming Zhaoshuang and the others heard a series of faint, rustling sounds.
Everyone followed the sound, only to be surprised.
The source of the sound was none other than Zhao Congbai and his group, with whom they had a prior falling out.
It was obvious that Zhao Congbai did not have their good fortune in finding spirit fruits that could slow the effects of the poison mist. Nearly a day and a night had passed, and their bodies were beginning to fester.
Sores were breaking out, pus was forming, and the skin from their backs to their chests had rotted away, oozing foul pus. In some severe areas, the decay was so deep that the white bones were visible.
At this moment, Zhao Congbai had clearly lost his reason and roared at Sun Qianhe, “There are only three spirit fruits left! You’re still thinking of saving your sister! What about us!”
Sun Qianhe bit her lip, shielding Sun Qianshan behind her, and said, “But my sister will die if she doesn’t eat the spirit fruit.”
Zhao Congbai sneered at her words, “If she dies, it will be us.”
Zhao Congbai raised his arm, which had rotted to the bone, the rotten flesh almost sliding off with a touch.
Qian Ye also fanned the flames, “If Sun Qianshan had come earlier, perhaps the Gu Diao’s reward would have been ours. Why should we give up our spirit fruits for her now!”
Zhao Conghua frowned fiercely and said, “Exactly. If she had come just now, I wouldn’t have said anything. But she didn’t listen to my brother; why should we share the spirit fruits with her now!”
The few of them pressed forward aggressively, leaving the Sun Qianshan sisters speechless.
The System, seeing this, couldn’t help but say, “Isn’t this Zhao Congbai human? He’s acting like this, refusing to save them. After all, Sun Qianhe has some connection to him.”
Ming Zhaoshuang ignored the System and quietly watched the quarreling group.
Seeing that they were still arguing, Shen Liqian asked, “Do we need to intervene?”
Ming Zhaoshuang took a bite of a spirit fruit and said with a smile, “Why bother? Evil people will always meet their match. We’re happy to watch the show.”
Fei Changxiu said, “But Sun Qianshan did not participate in the encirclement and suppression against us, so it doesn’t seem right for us to just watch.”
Ming Chenxing looked at Fei Changxiu, “Are you so soft-hearted?”
Fei Changxiu replied, “What kind of soft-heartedness is this? I’m just helping out when I see injustice. Sun Qianhe might be one thing, but Sun Qianshan must have offended these people before for refusing to join the encirclement and suppression against us. I can’t just stand by and watch her die.”
Ming Chenxing let out a cold scoff, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.
Ming Zhaoshuang, hearing this, looked up at Fei Changxiu and sighed, “Truly a young and noble heart.”
It wasn’t that Ming Zhaoshuang didn’t pity Sun Qianshan, but they were all struggling to save themselves, how could they concern themselves with such trivial matters.
Therefore, even though Fei Changxiu said so, Ming Zhaoshuang remained unmoved, “Let’s wait and see. No rush.”
Because Zhao Congbai and the others were affected by the poison mist, Ming Zhaoshuang and the others could see them clearly, but they could not see Ming Zhaoshuang and the others.
Thus, all their arguments fell into Ming Zhaoshuang and the others’ ears word for word.
Sun Qianshan, initially having parted ways with these people, ventured out alone after passing the first trial. However, her luck was not good, and the few fruits she ate were all poison fruits.
As a result, her body deteriorated very quickly.
Fortunately, she met Zhao Congbai and the others again, but Zhao Congbai and his group didn’t have many spirit fruits, and they themselves were almost decaying in the poison mist.
They only had three spirit fruits left, and they were reluctant to eat them, let alone give them to Sun Qianshan.
But Sun Qianhe, as her younger sister, was unwilling to see this situation and secretly fed one to Sun Qianshan behind Zhao Congbai and the others’ backs. However, as soon as she took a bite, the spirit fruit was snatched away by Zhao Congbai and his group.
They only had three left, and naturally, they didn’t want Sun Qianshan, the “traitor,” to eat them.
Sun Qianhe argued with them because of this, but Zhao Congbai, under the influence of the poison mist, could no longer think rationally. He led the remaining five people to criticize the Sun Qianhe sisters, which led to the scene at the beginning.
The spirit fruit had already been bitten by Sun Qianshan, but Zhao Congbai ate it all without hesitation, and even passed half of it to his younger brother, Zhao Conghua, as he ate.
His eyes were tiny, and when he glared at Sun Qianhe, there was a hint of mockery in them.
“Still thinking of eating spirit fruits? Not a chance! I’ll tell you today, I’d give this spirit fruit to a dog before I’d give it to your sister!”
Sun Qianhe’s eyes were equally red with anger, and tears streamed down her face in large drops, “Consider me, Sun Qianhe, to have misjudged you. I used to think you, Zhao Congbai, were quite a person, but now it seems you’re worse than a dog.”
The Sun and Zhao families were old acquaintances, and she had some feelings for Zhao Congbai originally.
She never expected that this person would now watch her sister die before his eyes, how could she not be sad.
Sun Qianhe was originally of red lips and white teeth, and although not stunningly beautiful, she was quite attractive. She should have looked delicate and moving when crying.
However, at this moment, she was infected by the poison mist, and half of her face had already rotted. Tears streaked across the decaying flesh, making her look particularly terrifying in the hazy mist. Zhao Congbai was almost frightened by her appearance.
He glanced at the people from the Qian clan and the Li clan and said, “You all quickly share the remaining two spirit fruits, so as not to waste them.”
Zhao Congbai naturally wanted to keep the remaining two spirit fruits for himself, but he had lost his spiritual power and needed these people to work for him, so he said this.
Seeing this, Sun Qianhe recklessly lunged forward, trying to snatch a spirit fruit for her sister from their hands.
Sun Qianshan’s body was already decaying, and even speaking had become an extremely painful matter. But even so, she urged her sister, “Just… give up.”
Without spiritual power, their strength was far inferior to Zhao Congbai and the others.
After all, women are physiologically weaker than men. In this formation where spiritual power was lost, they had no resistance against Zhao Congbai and the others.
Sun Qianhe didn’t care about any of this and, with almost no forewarning, was kicked away by Qian Ye.
Although their movements were also very inconvenient in the poison mist, Sun Qianhe was similarly affected.
Sun Qianhe couldn’t snatch the spirit fruit from Qian Ye’s hand, so she turned to snatch the one from Li Zhimu’s hand, only to be easily kicked away by him as well.
Sun Qianhe went to snatch the spirit fruit from Qian Ye’s hand and was kicked away, then Sun Qianhe went to snatch the spirit fruit from Li Zhimu’s hand and was kicked away. She went back and forth between the two like a stray dog. The two did not eat the spirit fruits but played with her, as if they had discovered something extremely amusing.
The more desperate the situation, the more the wickedness of human nature is amplified.
Sun Qianhe’s previously clean clothes were all stained with mud, and her already decaying body was even more soiled, with streaks of pus oozing out.
Yet, she persisted in trying to snatch those two spirit fruits.
She was trying to snatch the hope of her sister’s survival.
Shen Liqian’s brows furrowed, Fei Changxiu’s hands clenched tightly, and even Ming Chenxing turned his head, unable to watch any longer.
They were all waiting for Ming Zhaoshuang to speak.
But Ming Zhaoshuang remained impassive, watching the scene with a faint gaze.
Finally, when Sun Qianhe realized that she would never be able to get a spirit fruit from the six people in this way, she bent down, prostrated herself on the ground, and knelt before Zhao Congbai and the others.
“Please…”
Before she could finish speaking, a long sword suddenly flew out and landed in front of Zhao Congbai and the others.
Ming Zhaoshuang said with a smile, “Senior Brother Zhao, long time no see.”
