"Come out!"
After Master Jun Xuan left and walked away, Master Jin Yu, who was sitting by the bed, said expressionlessly.
Wan Yun Ting, who was lying inside, slowly lifted the quilt. He glanced at Master Jin Yu's graceful back, quickly got off the bed, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Master Jin Yu. I've caused you trouble."
Master Jin Yu gazed at him with her phoenix eyes and said, "My senior sister Jun Xuan came looking for you, didn't she?"
Wan Yun Ting's expression froze. It seemed he couldn't hide anything from Master Jin Yu, who gave him a somewhat mysterious, profound, and calm impression. However, he didn't answer the question. Instead, he said, "I overheard the conversation between you and Master Jun Xuan just now. I presume you support Ruo Xi becoming your Emei sect's leader, right?"
Master Jin Yu remained expressionless and said plainly, "Senior Sister Feng Ling's dying words asked Ruo Xi to take over as leader. Naturally, I support her."
Wan Yun Ting narrowed his eyes and said, "But now Master Jun Xuan is bullying Ruo Xi for being young and trying to snatch her position as leader. Are you really not going to intervene, Master Jin Yu?"
Master Jin Yu looked directly at him with her phoenix eyes and said, "As far as I'm concerned, it makes no difference who becomes the leader!"
Wan Yun Ting remained silent, as he had understood from Master Jun Xuan's earlier words that Master Jin Yu, who was detached from worldly affairs and didn't concern herself with them, wasn't interested in this matter.
"But as the fourth elder of the Emei sect, if you don't support Ruo Xi taking over as leader, wouldn't you be going against the dying wish of Sect Leader Feng Ling?" Wan Yun Ting said, looking at her.
Master Jin Yu raised her delicate eyebrows and gazed at the young man before her. She didn't expect him to lecture her, but she didn't seem angry. She said, "Tell me, why was Senior Sister Jun Xuan looking for you in the middle of the night?"
Wan Yun Ting curved his lips and then said, "Because I overheard them saying things they shouldn't have!"
Master Jin Yu looked at him curiously. Wan Yun Ting said, "How should I put it? Master Jun Xuan is using Ruo Xi's feelings for me to arrange her marriage with a disciple from Longhu Mountain. She invited me to your Emei sect, but her true intention behind the scenes was to have me disrupt the wedding. This way, Master Jun Xuan could use the influence of the major martial arts sects to deal with me, preventing me from establishing a foothold in the martial world!"
Having overheard the conversation between Master Jun Xuan and her senior disciple Zhang Xin Cai earlier, Wan Yun Ting was greatly surprised. He never imagined that Master Jun Xuan and Sima Bo Yong had plotted to make him an enemy of all the major martial arts sects!
If he truly became an enemy of all the martial sects, it would also implicate the entire Wuliang Daoist Monastery!
Master Jin Yu looked at him and said, "Do you have a grudge against Senior Sister Jun Xuan?"
Wan Yun Ting shook his head and said, "No, I haven't. This is my first time meeting Master Jun Xuan since coming to your Emei sect. However, she knows my enemies, and they planned this conspiracy together!"
"Heh heh, I have to say, Master Jun Xuan's conspiracy is a great scheme that kills two birds with one stone!"
This remark made Master Jin Yu somewhat confused. Wan Yun Ting sneered and said, "Master Jin Yu, why don't you try to imagine it this way? If I were to truly snatch the bride on the day Ruo Xi marries the Longhu Mountain disciple, in front of all the major sects, I would become everyone's public enemy, and Ruo Xi would also suffer a bad reputation!"
"Then, Master Jun Xuan would seize this opportunity to forcibly dismiss Ruo Xi's qualification as the prospective sect leader, and she could then naturally ascend to the position of Emei sect leader!"
Master Jin Yu nodded in agreement with Wan Yun Ting's words, as she also knew Senior Sister Jun Xuan's ambition. How could she be content with being just an acting leader?
She had been planning to become the leader from the very beginning!
Wan Yun Ting narrowed his eyes, a cold smile on his lips. "Since that's the case, I'll just defy his wishes!"
Master Jin Yu looked at him with great interest and asked curiously, "What do you plan to do?"
Wan Yun Ting looked at her and smiled mysteriously, "It's a secret for now!"
Master Jin Yu was stunned, seemingly not expecting him to say that, which made her slightly displeased.
"Master Jin Yu, let's first discuss your body's cold poison condition!"
Wan Yun Ting shifted the topic to her and said seriously, "Earlier, I only used the Xuan Huo Acupuncture technique to suppress the cold poison in your body, but not to completely expel it. Because your cold poison has entered the bone marrow and reached a critical stage, it will be very difficult to completely remove the cold poison from your body!"
Master Jin Yu's expression was calm, as if she had long since accepted the critical state of her cold poison with a sense of detachment.
"However!"
Wan Yun Ting looked at her and said, "I do have a method to completely eradicate the cold poison in your body!"
This statement caused a ripple in Master Jin Yu's previously placid expression. Her phoenix eyes fixed on Wan Yun Ting. Although she didn't immediately ask for the method, it was evident that Master Jin Yu deeply desired to have her cold poison condition eradicated.
Because her innate cold body had accompanied her throughout her life, causing her to be reclusive from childhood and unwilling to interact too much with others. If her master hadn't brought her back to the mountain sect, Master Jin Yu would likely have died long ago.
"The method I'm talking about is to expel the cold poison from your body."
Wan Yun Ting looked at her and said seriously, "However, I've never attempted this method before, so I don't have much confidence!"
"How to expel it?"
Master Jin Yu couldn't help but ask.
Wan Yun Ting said, "I wonder if Master Jin Yu has ever heard of an internal cultivation technique that can absorb another person's internal energy and convert it for one's own use?"
Master Jin Yu narrowed her phoenix eyes and gazed at Wan Yun Ting, saying, "Are you talking about the Gong Absorption Great Technique?"
"Yes."
Wan Yun Ting nodded and said, "This technique can absorb another person's internal energy and convert it for one's own use. By this principle, if your cold poison is absorbed, and then another technique is used to transform and expel the cold poison, it can be completely eradicated without affecting the other person!"
Master Jin Yu did not seem surprised by the method he described.
Decades ago, when her master was still alive, she had also mentioned this Gong Absorption Great Technique, which could absorb the cold poison from her body. However, this dualistic Gong Absorption Great Technique had long been lost. Even after searching all the major sects, no sect possessed such a technique, which was why Master Jin Yu's cold poison had accompanied her to this day.
"This method has long been lost. What you're saying is as good as saying nothing," Master Jin Yu said faintly, a hint of disappointment flickering in her phoenix eyes.
Wan Yun Ting looked at her and said, "Master Jin Yu, please don't be disheartened, because I happen to have learned a set of such Gong Absorption Great Techniques!"
"You know the Gong Absorption Great Technique?"
This statement made Master Jin Yu's phoenix eyes instantly light up, as if she had seen a glimmer of hope for survival.
Wan Yun Ting waved his hand and chuckled, "Master Jin Yu, please don't worry about that. After all, it's not appropriate for me to talk too much about it now. It's just that I've never absorbed another person's internal energy before, so I don't know if this method will work!"
Master Jin Yu gazed at him, realizing that this young man was not simple!
Wan Yun Ting checked the time. It was already past two in the morning. He said, "Master Jin Yu, I'll go back and think carefully, formulate a treatment program, and then I'll come back to discuss it with you. It's late now, and I need to go back immediately. I'm afraid if Master Jun Xuan can't find me in the guest courtyard, she'll become suspicious!"
Master Jin Yu nodded and said no more.
Seeing this, Wan Yun Ting didn't linger. He turned and left the bamboo hut, heading back down the mountain towards the Emei sect. However, he followed the path through the back mountain forest...
Wan Yun Ting was not yet confident about treating Master Jin Yu's cold poison condition, so he had to go back and devise a specific and reliable treatment plan before he could try it with Master Jin Yu.
Meanwhile, in the inner sect of the Emei sect, many disciples were searching various corners of the sect with sticks and batons, causing confusion among the people from the various sects staying in the guest rooms. Someone pulled an Emei sect disciple and asked, "What's going on?"
The disciple saw Tan Song, the leader of the Tai Shan Sect, and said, "Sect Leader Tan, we are merely patrolling, and nothing has happened. We apologize if we have disturbed your rest..."
Tan Song and the other leaders exchanged glances. Seeing the Emei sect disciples coming and going outside, it was clear that it was more than just a patrol.
In another courtyard, it was the guest courtyard where Master Jun Xuan had arranged for Wan Yun Ting, Lu Xiao Die, and Zheng Rong to stay.
At this moment, Zhang Xin Cai and Liu Lian Er, along with a group of junior disciples, arrived at the entrance of the courtyard and knocked, calling out, "Open the door..."
Lu Xiao Die and Zheng Rong, who were in the reception hall of the courtyard, knew that the Emei sect disciples seemed to be searching for something. They had been waiting for Wan Yun Ting to return, but he hadn't come back after such a long time.
Therefore, Lu Xiao Die and Zheng Rong were worried, feeling that Wan Yun Ting might have done something excessive, causing the Emei sect disciples to search so openly outside.
"Xiao Die, what should we do?" Zheng Rong asked in a flustered tone, her heart anxious.
"Don't worry, Senior Sister."
Lu Xiao Die was calmer, but she was still nervous. Hearing the knocking and calls from outside, Lu Xiao Die narrowed her beautiful eyes and said, "Senior Sister, go open the door and try to drive them away. If they want to search, let them come in and search!"
Zheng Rong looked at Lu Xiao Die in astonishment and nervously asked, "Will that work?"
Lu Xiao Die stood up and said, "There's no other way, hurry up."
"Okay."
Zheng Rong nodded and quickly went out...
Lu Xiao Die also went out and quickly returned to the adjacent room to prepare...
"Open the door quickly, we're looking for Master Wan Guan!"
Zhang Xin Cai shouted loudly, banging on the door from outside.
Earlier, they had searched the sect and investigated the major sects that had come to the mountain today. Apart from Sect Leader Shi of the Hua Shan Sect, Sect Leader Yuan of the Kunlun Sect, and Elder Zhang Qing, who were at the Martial Dao Gang Jin realm, all other sect members were below the late stage of the Martial Dao Dan Jin realm.
Although Zhang Xin Cai believed that the thief who had overheard her and her master's conversation earlier was definitely not Wan Yun Ting, for some reason, she had a strong feeling that the thief had something to do with this person!