I use my daughter's body to cut down the rivers and lakes

Chapter 280 The Ghost Reappears
The two days passed quickly.

When Liu Qi opened the door, he saw his uncle Xu Yongyuan waiting outside.

He looked tired, and when he saw Liu Qi coming out, he asked hurriedly, "Fang Fu, should we postpone the date?"

According to Liu Qi's plan, she will take a boat south today.

Xu Qingjiang's father Xu Yongding and brother Xu Qinghuai, who went to investigate his disappearance, showed no signs of returning yet. Even Chu Xingbai, who went later, did not reply.

Everything seemed to be heading in a bad direction.

Liu Qi hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No need to postpone, we will set off on time at noon today."

If the other party really came for him, then the more Liu Qi cared about the Xu family, the more dangerous the Xu family would become.

Besides, there is Chu Xingbai. Unless the other party has a top master, with Chu Xingbai's means, he will definitely find a way to escape.

Xu Yongyuan wanted to persuade Liu Qi again, but when he saw Liu Qi's resolute gaze, he swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue, then smiled bitterly and nodded: "Since you insist on leaving today, uncle will make arrangements now."

Liu Qi looked at Xu Yongyuan's lonely figure as he left, his eyes moved slightly, and then he said softly: "Uncle should persuade Second Uncle and his family to go south together. Although Feng Qun is good at martial arts, it is impossible for him to watch over them all the time."

It is safer to stay with her than to stay in Qingjiang Mansion.

At least that was the case before Liu Qi died.

Xu Yongyuan stopped and seemed to tremble slightly. Then he said "Uncle knows" without looking back, and left.

Before he had taken a few steps, Liu Qi's cold voice came from behind him: "Are you blaming me for doing nothing?"

Xu Yongyuan stopped again after hearing the voice. After a brief silence, he turned his back to Liu Qi and said in a deep voice, "Qingjiang is my son. As a father, I am naturally very worried when his family of three disappears."

Xu Yongyuan slowly turned around, looked up and saw that Liu Qi was still calm as usual, and couldn't help but said sadly: "But Third Brother is your biological father, Xu Fangfu, and Qing Huai is also your biological brother from the same mother!"

"Even if you don't care about Qingjiang's life or death, you should still think about your father and brother!"

Listening to Xu Yongyuan's heartfelt words, there was no trace of emotion on Liu Qi's face.

She nodded gently and said casually, "I understand. I hope you can take care of our departure today."

Xu Yongyuan looked at Liu Qi in confusion, not knowing what she meant by "I know". Just when he wanted to find out, he saw Liu Qi turned around and entered the room. The words on his lips could only turn into a silent sigh!

By noon, everything had been arranged. Xu Yongyuan, who had just returned home, asked the housekeeper Cheng Kang about Liu Qi's condition.

After learning that Liu Qi did not leave the house but stayed with Zhou Mi and Liu Shijiu, he immediately showed a look of disappointment.

"Master, are you really not going to wait any longer?" Cheng Kang asked cautiously. As the steward of the Xu Mansion, he naturally knew some inside information.

Xu Yongyuan shook his head helplessly: "Since Fang Fu has set the time, let's do it according to her wishes."

Cheng Kang was stunned when he heard this, but he nodded respectfully and said, "Yes!"

Xu Yongyuan wanted to leave, but suddenly he thought of something. He turned to Cheng Kang, who was waiting beside him, and said earnestly, "Warn the people on the boat, never treat Fang Fu lightly. You too, don't treat her like a lady from the mansion. Otherwise, if something goes wrong, I won't be able to save you!"

"Yes!" Cheng Kang responded quickly, his expression and tone showing his caution.

Although he was a man of the world, he also knew the name of the Overlord, but... he just couldn't connect the notorious Overlord with his own beautiful lady!
At this time, the notorious Overlord was calmly drinking tea.

When she glanced sideways, the little maid who was standing beside her with a teapot in her hand trembled suddenly, her hands became unstable, and the hot tea in the teapot spilled onto her hands.

"what!"

The little maid hurriedly placed the teapot on the stone table, then lowered her head and rubbed the burned area, occasionally raising her tearful eyes to quickly look at Liu Qi.

Zhou Mi, who was sitting opposite Liu Qi, couldn't help but shook her head, and then said softly to the little maid: "There is ointment for treating burns in the box containing clothes. Hurry up and take it out and apply it. If a scar is left, it will be too late."

"Thank you, Sister Zhou." The little maid said in a crying voice, and before she finished her words she ran into the room in a hurry.

Watching the little maid leave, Zhou Mi immediately turned around and said to Liu Qi angrily, "You too, it's fine if you just ruin her martial arts, but why bother scaring her? She's just a little girl who hasn't grown up yet!"

The little maid who just ran away was Gongsun Yan.

After Liu Qi destroyed her martial arts, he wanted to lock her up in a woodshed in the mansion, but the kind-hearted queen spoke up, so Gongsun Yan stayed with Zhou Mi and temporarily served as a maid.

Liu Qi scoffed at Zhou Mi's statement: "The girl has not grown up yet... If she still has martial arts skills, she can kill everyone in the mansion without even a cup of tea."

Zhou Mi pursed his lips helplessly. Seeing that Liu Qi was still calmly drinking tea, he couldn't help but sigh: "I found that after your martial arts skills have become more and more mature, your heart has become harder and harder."

"It's not that Liu Qi is hard-hearted, but that Your Majesty is too soft-hearted." Liu Qi replied without even raising his head.

Zhou Mi chuckled upon hearing this, then held her chin up and blinked at Liu Qi: "What you said does make sense. If I hadn't been soft-hearted, there probably wouldn't be the Great Qi today."

Liu Qi's hand holding the teacup suddenly tightened, then he slowly raised his eyes and looked directly into Zhou Mi's eyes and asked, "Has the Majesty ever regretted it?"

Zhou Mi was puzzled and asked: "Regret? Regret for what?"

Liu Qi said in a cold voice: "He ran away from home and passed on the Canghai Divine Art to outsiders, bringing disaster to the people of the clan."

The smile on Zhou Mi's face gradually faded, and then she lowered her head as if she was lost in thought. After a moment, she raised her head and replied, "In fact, I have thought about what you said, but even if the Cang Hai Divine Art is not passed on to outsiders, no one in the clan has mastered the Cang Hai Heng Liu. As long as our hiding place is discovered one day, I am afraid that we will still not be able to escape the fate of being exterminated."

"Besides... the incident at Jinshan Yinhai Manor also reminded me that the Canghai Clan is not what the elders in the clan thought. No one in the Central Plains knows about it anymore."

"Perhaps someone has been searching for us for thousands of years."

Liu Qi didn't know whether to praise Zhou Mi for her open-mindedness or praise her for her foresight.

But what she said was indeed reasonable. Liu Qi had personally seen the Cang Hai Heng Liu and had also learned the first three levels of the Cang Hai Divine Art. If a person had been in a severely closed environment since birth, Liu Qi thought that he would never be able to practice the Cang Hai Heng Liu on his own.

And with people in the outside world eyeing them covetously and never giving up searching for his whereabouts, the Canghai clan, to which Zhou Mi belongs, living in seclusion is tantamount to being self-contained and courting their own destruction!

Seeing Liu Qi in deep thought, Zhou Mi couldn't help but asked with a smile: "Why, Liu Bawang, do you want to know the complete method of Cang Hai Divine Art?"

Liu Qi put away his thoughts after hearing this, and then nodded slightly: "I want to!"

On the contrary, Zhou Mi said in surprise: "I thought you would ask me for the Canghai Divine Art after fighting with Jiang Jiyu?" Liu Qi said calmly: "So, in your opinion, I will definitely win the battle with Jiang Jiyu?"

Zhou Mi was quite calm. She smiled and said frankly, "My talent was obvious to everyone in the family. Otherwise, my old father wouldn't be so angry and furious because I didn't practice hard!"

As the saying goes, if you don't expect something, you won't be disappointed.

Zhou Mi was obviously extremely proud of her own talent in martial arts.

In fact, when she ran away from home and met Taizu Xiao Lang, she was only in her early twenties, but she was already a top master. This was the result she achieved despite her hard work in her daily martial arts training.

Liu Qi's eyes flickered when he heard this: "Liu Qi feels that the queen and Cang Hai Heng Liu are very compatible."

"Who said it wasn't true?" Zhou Mi looked annoyed, but then changed to a smiling expression, "It's a pity that it's too late to understand now."

She spread her hands helplessly: "At that time, I could only choose between martial arts and my life. Do you know how long it took me to make up my mind?"

"That was a blink of an eye, without any hesitation!" Zhou Mi shook his index finger and said complacently, "If I lose my life, I won't be able to enjoy all the fun in this world!"

Liu Qi:......

rustling...

Liu Qi heard a slight noise beside his ears, and then he looked sideways, only to see a figure floating towards him on the roof.

Chu Xingbai is finally back.

As soon as he landed and hadn't even stood firmly, Chu Xingbai hurried to the stone table where Liu Qi and Zhou Mi were sitting, picked up the teapot on the table and took a big gulp, wiped the remaining water stains from the corners of his mouth, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"I am so tired, Grandpa!"

As soon as he finished speaking, as if sensing Liu Qi's gaze, Chu Xingbai put the teapot back on the table, then looked back at Liu Qi and said in a deep voice: "Don't look at me, your father and your brother are fine. They found some clues, but got lost when they chased them!"

Liu Qi frowned when he heard this.

get lost?

Xu Yongding and Xu Qinghuai are both grown men. Xu Yongding has worked as a county lieutenant for many years, and Xu Qinghuai is a first-class master from a famous family. How could they get lost?

Liu Qi's eyes darkened slightly, and then he looked up at Chu Xingbai, wanting him to give a reasonable explanation.

Chu Xingbai shrugged and said, "You may not believe me if I tell you this, but the two of them probably entered the ghost area by mistake. Fortunately, they didn't go too deep. After the ghost fog dissipated, the two of them came out. Now they are probably close to the city gate."

Ghost realm, ghost fog?
Liu Qi felt vaguely that these two words sounded familiar.

And what Zhou Mi said next made Liu Qi wake up completely.

"Has the ghost of Fengdu reappeared in the world again?"

Chu Xingbai laughed at Zhou Mi and said, "You also know about Fengdu Ghost Cave?"

Zhou Mi rolled his eyes at him in annoyance: "One of the three most dangerous places in the world, Kunlun Desolate Land, Fengdu Ghost Cave, and South China Sea Dragon Abyss, aren't they known to everyone in the martial arts world?"

Chu Xingbai scratched the back of his head and said with a smile: "I have been in Southern Xinjiang for more than ten years, I almost forgot it!"

Zhou Mi then noticed that Liu Qi seemed to have a suspicious look on his face, so he carefully explained: "Among the three great forbidden areas, Kunlun's Desolate Land is the most well-known, South China Sea Dragon Abyss is the most dangerous, and Fengdu Ghost Cave is the most mysterious. Many people even suspect that the Ghost Cave is purely a man-made fabrication and does not exist at all!"

Liu Qi responded and asked: "Have you seen it?"

Zhou Mi shook his head: "Although I have never seen it with my own eyes, there was a person who claimed to have set foot in the ghost den and gained a great opportunity from it."

"Who?"

Zhou Mi said slowly: "Red Emperor, Tuoba Xiong!"

……

Xu Yongding and Xu Qinghuai, father and son, finally returned to the Xu Mansion before noon.

After Liu Qi met them, he finally understood some of the truth about Xu Qingjiang's disappearance.

Xu Qingjiang and his family were indeed kidnapped. Although the scene was handled very cleanly, Xu Yongding, who had many years of experience in handling cases, still managed to find a clue and followed up with Xu Qinghuai.

As a result, they unknowingly stepped into a misty forest. The two seemed to be trapped in a maze in the woods. No matter which way they walked, they would end up back at the same place. Moreover, the mist seemed to be poisonous, and their consciousness gradually became blurred.

An unknown amount of time had passed before the two confused people were found by Chu Xingbai. However, they found themselves in an empty and isolated mountain. The dense forest in their memory did not exist at all!
He thought it was all a dream, but fortunately Xu Yongding was prepared. Before he lost consciousness, he grabbed a leaf from the tree and hid it in his arms.

The last leaf is still there!
Moreover, Xu Yongding and his two companions searched the area within dozens of miles but did not find any leaves exactly the same as this one. It was at this time that Chu Xingbai wondered whether Xu Yongding and his son might have accidentally entered a den of ghosts!
"This is the leaf I picked." Xu Yongding took out a leaf the size of a baby's palm from his arms and handed it to Xu Yongyuan.

After Xu Yongyuan took it, he looked over it several times, and finally handed it to Liu Qi with a frown: "Fang Fu, look at this leaf, there seems to be something wrong!"

Liu Qi took it and placed the leaf flat on his palm. Against the backdrop of his snow-white skin, the dark leaves looked particularly dazzling, and...

Liu Qi slowly brought the leaf to his nose and sniffed it gently.

Although the leaves are pitch black, upon closer inspection, the texture on them is still vivid and well preserved, and they look as if they were just picked from the tree.

However, the leaves themselves exuded an imperceptible scent. The moment Liu Qi smelled the scent, he couldn't help but recall the scenes of his time at Xiliu Villa.

So familiar!

Whether it's a human or an animal, this is what it smells like after being buried in the ground for half a month!
In order to learn how to deal with corpses and cultivate the character of Liu Qi and the others, Madam Mei tried every possible means.

Liu Qi still remembers that face.

The middle-aged man with tears on his face begged for mercy!
That was the first time Liu Qi killed someone with his own hands.

Half a month later, Liu Qi dug this man out again at Madam Mei's request.

Because he was the first to carry the corpse to the designated location without vomiting during the whole process, Liu Qi received Madam Mei's public praise for the first time!

(End of this chapter)