I Got Together with the Goddess [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 42

Xiao Zhi decided to attend school at Yushan Village because she felt like a bit of a “third wheel” staying beside the two of them. Thinking about whether they might actually dislike her, Xiao Zhi felt a wave of sadness.

After all, there truly weren’t many girls her age who were as gloomy and reticent as she was.

“Little orphan, I heard you’re going to school?” On Xiao Zhi’s way back to the Qingyu Building, her path was once again blocked by those few boys.

“Move,” Xiao Zhi said.

“As expected, nobody wants you around. They say you’re going to school, but they’re actually just trying to drive you away,” the boys discussed among themselves, laughing loudly. In truth, they wanted to go to school too, to see the outside world, but their parents immediately backed down the moment they heard that a year’s tuition at Yushan Village cost fifty thousand.

“How has Chieftain Shui been training you? Let us see if this little orphan’s strength has grown at all since last time.”

Speaking of strength, children of this age couldn’t even manage Gu-control yet; their basic method was releasing the most common Bee-Gu to bite people.

Xiao Zhi knew they were going to deal with her again and watched them coldly. However, when she saw the swarm of bees flying toward her, she was still a bit terrified. Those bees were as large as a one-yuan coin; Xiao Zhi’s face turned deathly pale.

Seeing that she finally had something to fear, the boys became even more relentless, chasing after Xiao Zhi. The Stinger Bees flew toward her, forcing Xiao Zhi to start running as well. The bees, provoked, followed her closely the entire way.

As they ran, the boys suddenly felt as if their faces had been covered by something; they could no longer see. They came to a halt, but it was already too late. Dark and terrifying images began to flash continuously in their minds. The sensation was like watching a hundred horror movies without interruption.

Xiao Zhi ran swiftly and didn’t notice the strange state they were in behind her.

She ran without stopping. Hearing that bees were afraid of water, she ran toward the riverside. However, the mountain forests of the Miao territory were dense and the paths complex. In her panic, she didn’t even know where she had run to. By the time she stopped, panting for breath, the boys had long been left behind, and the Stinger Bees were nowhere to be seen. Xiao Zhi breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the ground beneath her feet was not very sturdy. Xiao Zhi took just one step forward when she unexpectedly stepped into thin air. By the time she realized something was wrong, her body was already plummeting into a suddenly appearing sinkhole.

The hole was pitch black, but there was a rustling sound of objects crawling on the ground. Xiao Zhi’s family raised many venomous insects, so she was not unfamiliar with this sound. When she realized the cave was filled with snakes, scorpions, and centipedes, Xiao Zhi nearly fainted from fright despite her courage. She clamped her hand firmly over her mouth, not daring to scream for fear that the noise would agitate the venomous creatures.

In the Miao territory, the “Five Venoms” were very common things, but it was incredible for so many venomous creatures to gather in one cave. In the words of the elders, this was called a Five Venoms Pit. It was specifically created by Miao people to perform Gu-sorcery, and generally, it was only used for very sinister purposes.

Those who utilized a Five Venoms Pit would not be tolerated even by fellow Miao people because it was simply too cruel.

“It’s over. I seem to have discovered some incredible secret. I won’t be silenced, will I?” Xiao Zhi thought, her face pale with dread.

Jiang Yiqing had been staying inside the Qingyu Building, studying textbook knowledge to avoid being discovered as a “fool” when she went to school. The Qingyu Building had the Shui family’s protective Gu-formation and was very safe, so she figured keeping the Fear-Gu on herself was useless. She had placed it in Xiao Zhi’s Gu box as a return gift for the Affection-Gu they had given her.

The moment the Fear-Gu reacted to fear and attacked the enemies, Shui Mingsheng sensed it immediately.

Knowing that Xiao Zhi was in danger, she and Jiang Yiqing immediately rushed toward Xiao Zhi’s location. However, Xiao Zhi was constantly on the move. Shui Mingsheng and Jiang Yiqing followed the trail, spotting the boys who had been attacked by the Fear-Gu. They had no time to deal with them and continued searching for Xiao Zhi.

When they saw the large hole appearing in the ground, Shui Mingsheng’s sixth sense told her that something was very wrong.

The location they were in was extremely remote. Furthermore, the Gu-insect activity they felt along the way was intense, making it a perfect place to create a Five Venoms Pit. In the Miao territory, anyone found using such a sinister thing as a Five Venoms Pit would be expelled.

In fact, being expelled was getting off easy; using such a method to murder one’s own clansmen was a crime punishable by death.

“Xiao Zhi? Xiao Zhi, can you hear me? Are you down there?” Shui Mingsheng asked anxiously.

Xiao Zhi didn’t dare to answer because things were crawling below, even moving up her ankles. Xiao Zhi feared that the moment she spoke, those things would dare to give her a bite.

“It looks like I have no choice but to go down,” Shui Mingsheng said, preparing to jump into the hole.

Jiang Yiqing instinctively grabbed her arm and asked, “Mingsheng, you won’t get hurt if you go, right?”

“Yiqing, do you not want me to go?” Shui Mingsheng said, her eyes fixed steadily on her.

Shui Mingsheng had raised the Affection-Gu that Xiao Zhi gave her within her own body. The Affection-Gu would make her listen to Jiang Yiqing completely; as long as it was something Jiang Yiqing said not to do, she would not do it.

Jiang Yiqing never imagined that on the very night they received the Gu-insect, Shui Mingsheng had planted the Affection-Gu in herself. When the Affection-Gu flew before Jiang Yiqing and received a drop of blood from her fingertip as nourishment, Jiang Yiqing finally realized what was happening, but the Gu had already been planted in Shui Mingsheng.

Since things had come to this, there was no turning back for them. The two people connected by the Affection-Gu would be unable to separate for all their lives due to the bond of their emotions.

For Shui Mingsheng, doing this was to fulfill the promise she had once made; it was something she should take the initiative to do without Jiang Yiqing even asking. Especially knowing that she and Yiqing shared mutual feelings, she wanted to do the most romantic thing in all of the Miao territory for her.

Shui Mingsheng would listen to Jiang Yiqing completely, but because of this, Jiang Yiqing fell into a dilemma. She didn’t want Shui Mingsheng to risk her life, but she also couldn’t sit by and watch Xiao Zhi suffer. She couldn’t stop thinking about the dangers that might occur in the cave, and she couldn’t watch Shui Mingsheng face an unknown peril alone.

“Mingsheng, I’m going with you,” Jiang Yiqing said.

“No. There are many venomous insects below. Yiqing, we Miao women who train Gu year-round aren’t afraid, but your skin is so delicate—it would break my heart if you were bitten,” Shui Mingsheng said.

As they spoke, they had no way of knowing what was happening below. The situation was urgent. If they didn’t go down, what else could they do? Shui Mingsheng suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

She took out the Gu box at her waist containing the King-Gu, removed the King-Gu, and threw it into the hole. Once the King-Gu slipped into the opening, a strange light immediately radiated from the cave.

Though the King-Gu was small, it was the pinnacle of all living things in the Miao territory. Upon entering the Five Venoms Pit, it actually devoured every single one of the unformed venomous Gu until they were completely gone.

However, this also placed a massive burden on the King-Gu. If it couldn’t fully digest them, there was a possibility it might die directly.

Only then did Shui Mingsheng take Jiang Yiqing’s hand and enter the cave.

When they landed on the ground, the King-Gu’s body had already grown quite large, and the light emitting from its body illuminated the entire cave. Xiao Zhi watched this scene, too shocked to speak.

“Xiao Zhi, are you okay?” Shui Mingsheng asked.

“I’m okay.” Xiao Zhi looked at the King-Gu and said, “This… this is the King-Gu. This is actually the King-Gu.”

“Yes, Xiao Zhi, you actually recognized it.”

“So powerful! You two sisters are too amazing!” The things Xiao Zhi feared to death were wiped out in an instant. She thought that she also wanted to become a person as powerful as them, so she definitely had to study Gu-arts well.

“Haha, it’s alright, it’s alright,” Shui Mingsheng said, her expression turning heavy as she surveyed the surroundings of the cave.

Jiang Yiqing was also looking around. Under the light of the King-Gu, they gradually saw several strange stones standing at the end of the cave.

Shui Mingsheng stepped forward. She saw several stones piled into a strange formation, still emitting a faint blue glow, though the light was now weak due to the disappearance of the venomous insects.

On the topmost stone, something was faintly moving. Shui Mingsheng walked over to look and saw a Curse-Gu parasitic in a hollow of the stone. That was a curse mechanism with powerful incantation power in the Miao territory.

As she approached this Curse-Gu, Shui Mingsheng’s left hand began to throb with pain. The chains bound her fingers extremely tightly. Shui Mingsheng finally knew why the Spirit Snake Gu had been weak all these years.

The Spirit Snake Gu had been cursed by a Curse-Gu, which further used the venomous insects of the Five Venoms Pit to continuously strengthen its power.

Why her father had suddenly fallen into a coma, and why Elder Qiu Shu had died—everything seemed to have an answer now. Because that true venomous snake had been lurking in Qingfeng Village all along, wanting to pull their Shui family down from the position of Chieftain and take it for himself.

“Feng Zheng, it really is you…” Shui Mingsheng clenched her hands, speaking with fury.

“Yes, you are about to learn the truth, but will you be able to leave here alive?” A middle-aged man’s somber voice drifted down from the mouth of the cave.

Jiang Yiqing quickly raised her guard. She had always had a bad feeling, and now that premonition had indeed come true.

Feng Zheng landed opposite the three of them, smiling sinisterly. “Shui Mingsheng, if you leak this matter, I, Feng Zheng, will be ruined. I have no choice but to send you to meet the King of Hell.”

“Watch out!” Shui Mingsheng said, pulling the other two back a step as a row of poisoned needles landed exactly where they had been standing.

Shui Mingsheng was naturally very clear about the source of these poisoned needles: it was the heirloom Gu of the Lianye Village Chieftain, the Spiny Hog Gu.

“I didn’t expect to see the King-Gu. Chieftain Shui really isn’t simple. But in this Miao territory, good things must belong to the winner, don’t you agree?”

Another middle-aged man appeared before everyone. He had a righteous appearance, but in reality, he gave off a feeling of being sinister and cunning.

“Isn’t this Chieftain Lian? You couldn’t wait for the formal competition and want to cross paths with me now, is that it?” Shui Mingsheng’s eyes were filled with rage as she questioned him.

The original Lian Ye was already dead. The current Lian Ye was nothing more than a walking corpse under someone else’s command, controlled by Xu Shou, an evil Gu-practitioner who specialized in Corpse-Gu. However, in appearance, he was no different from a living person.

“Chieftain Shui, you can only blame yourself for being too smart and not leaving others a way out. Tell me, why bother?”

“The Southern Frontier has no room for scum like you. I, Shui Mingsheng, will definitely wipe you out completely!” Shui Mingsheng’s left hand shifted, and that spirit snake emerged within her palm.