mtl008 Chapter 390: Poisoned
Chapter 390: Poisoned
"Third uncle?!"
Everyone in the Yun family stared in shock, their eyes wide open, their faces dazed. After Yun Yifeng came to his senses, he stared at Su Qingning with wide eyes and asked in surprise, "You...what did you call me?!"
Su Qingning smiled and didn't say anything. Instead, she raised her hand and waved, and two more people appeared in the hall out of nowhere.
The young man was dressed in white and had a handsome face. He looked almost like Yun Yijing. He was Su Qingyu, whom the Yun family had been looking for for a month.
The woman was wearing a purple-blue dress, looking as graceful as a fairy, and her beautiful face was filled with excitement. Who else could it be but Yun Ruopiao, who had been missing for eighteen years?
Perhaps because she was too excited, Yun Ruopiao didn't know how to start for a moment, and tears involuntarily slid down from her eyes, fell to the ground, and shattered with a "click", splashing water everywhere.
"Father……"
After a long moment, Yun Ruopiao called out in a trembling voice. She knelt before Yun Jizhou and choked with sobs, "I am an unfilial daughter. I am sorry to have caused you, father, to worry."
Looking at his daughter who had been lost and found, Yun Jizhou also burst into tears. He stretched out his trembling hand and gently stroked his beloved daughter. He said with heartache: "Ruo'er, you have suffered. Where have you been all these years? Why didn't you come back?"
"I'm sorry, father. It's my fault. I made you worry."
Yun Ruopiao apologized with self-blame and recounted his experience of being stranded in the Demonic Martial Continent.
After understanding the whole story, everyone in the Yun family was angry and heartbroken.
"So my Ruo'er went to the Demon Martial Continent. No wonder I sent so many people out over the years but still couldn't find you."
Yun Jizhou touched Yun Ruopiao's head, his eyes full of heartache, "My Ruo'er must have suffered a lot in the Demonic Martial Continent!"
Yun Ruopiao choked up and shook her head, "It's not bitter, not bitter at all."
"Father, really, I'm doing well. I met a husband who loves me, and we have a pair of lovely children."
As she spoke, Yun Ruopiao turned around and looked at her son and daughter standing beside her, and said softly, "Ning'er, Yu'er, come here quickly."
Su Qingning and Su Qingyu walked forward, and the brother and sister called out together, "Mother."
Yun Ruopiao held one of them in each hand, then smiled and introduced them to Yun Jizhou: "Father, these are Qing Ning and Qing Yu, they are my children."
After saying that, Yun Ruopiao hurriedly said to Su Qingning and Su Qingyu, "Ning'er, Yu'er, come on, call grandpa."
"Grandpa." Su Qingning and Su Qingyu called out obediently.
"Okay, okay, you two are really good kids, hahaha..."
Yun Jizhou immediately smiled. He looked at Su Qingning and Su Qingyu happily, and liked them more and more.
"Ning'er, Yu'er, come, come to grandpa."
Su Qingning and Su Qingyu looked at each other, then held Yun Jizhou's hands together and walked to his side.
During this handshake, Su Qingning's fingers naturally rested on Yun Jizhou's wrist, which made her discover that there was something wrong with her grandfather's pulse.
Su Qingning frowned slightly, applied a little pressure with her fingers on Yun Jizhou's wrist, and quietly began to take his pulse.
The others did not notice that there was anything wrong with Su Qingning. Most of their eyes were on Su Qingyu at this moment.
"Oh my! You really do look exactly like your uncle." Yun Yijing patted Su Qingyu's shoulder and said half-jokingly and half-complainingly, "You don't even know that because of you, your uncle was almost wrongly killed by everyone."
"what?"
Su Qingyu blinked blankly and asked, "Second Uncle, what do you mean? What's wrong with me?"
"You're fine, it's just that your face looks too much like mine."
As Yun Yijing spoke, he glanced at Yun Yuxuan beside him with a somewhat resentful look and said unhappily, "A month ago, on the night you underwent the tribulation, your eldest cousin saw you. He saw that you looked exactly like me, so he misunderstood that you were my illegitimate child."
"what?!"
Su Qingyu looked at Yun Yuxuan in surprise when she heard this. "Is my cousin's imagination so rich?"
Yun Yijing curled his lips, "Of course not!"
Being stared at by his cousin's clear eyes, Yun Yuxuan scratched his head awkwardly and said with a wry smile, "Haha...it's because you and Second Uncle look so much alike that it's easy for people to misunderstand you!"
Yun Yifeng and the other members of the Yun family, who had also misunderstood, felt a little embarrassed. They all laughed awkwardly and tried to smooth things over, saying, "Haha...it was all a misunderstanding. Now that the misunderstanding is resolved, everything will be fine!"
Everyone laughed for a while and then quieted down. Su Qingyu found it funny to think that everyone misunderstood him as his second uncle's illegitimate son. He turned his head to look at Su Qingning and was about to complain, but he found that his sister's expression was wrong, and the smile on his face instantly disappeared.
"Sister, what's wrong?" Su Qingyu asked, "What happened?"
When Su Qingyu spoke, everyone looked at Su Qingning. When they saw the solemn expression on her face, they couldn't help but feel confused.
"Ning'er, what's wrong?" Yun Ruopiao asked worriedly.
Su Qingning clapped her hands soothingly, then looked at Yun Jizhou. After hesitating for a moment, she asked directly, "Grandpa, is your cultivation level regressing?"
Yun Jizhou was stunned for a moment, and looked at Su Qingning with a hint of surprise in his eyes, "How did you know?"
Everyone who had doubted Su Qingning's words couldn't help but look shocked after hearing Yun Jizhou's disguised admission.
"What?! Father, your cultivation is regressing? How is this possible?!"
Yun Yimo and others were unwilling to believe it, but this was the fact.
"My cultivation is indeed regressing." Yun Jizhou spoke slowly. He looked at his three sons and said, "Do you really think that the reason I stopped caring about the Yun family's affairs in recent years is because Ruo'er disappeared?"
"Actually, this is only part of the reason. The real reason I decided to step down as the head of the family is because I found that my spiritual energy was gradually draining away, and my cultivation was gradually regressing."
"How could this happen?!" Yun Ruopiao was horrified. She quickly held Su Qingning's hand and asked anxiously, "Ning'er, do you know why your grandfather's cultivation has regressed? Do you have any way to cure your grandfather?"
Su Qingning certainly knew why Yun Jizhou's cultivation had regressed, because someone had once used the same method to harm her.
"If I'm not mistaken, Grandpa must have been poisoned by the Soul Devouring Gu." Su Qingning said, "The Soul Devouring Gu feeds on spiritual energy. Anyone poisoned by it will have their spiritual energy devoured bit by bit, and their cultivation will regress bit by bit until they become a useless person. Only then will the Soul Devouring Gu break out of the body and devour the poisoned person's life."
After hearing Su Qingning's words, everyone in the Yun family was really angry and scared. Letting a cultivator watch his cultivation level regress little by little, but being unable to do anything, isn't this cruel? The person who put the poison in the pot is really extremely vicious!