It was the middle of the night when it all was quiet.

    The water rippled outside of Dan Xin Monastery, like a mirror reflecting wave after wave.

    Yu Jinnian was sitting on top of the seat cushion. The medicine stove beside him was giving off an intense odour. He was holding his horsetail whisk in his other hand, half-hanging over the medicine stove.

    The fragrance of medicine was overwhelming. The little daoist boy was half-running, whilst holding the medicine mortar and medicinal herbs for grinding. The pestle and mortar made a crisp clashing sound as he walked.

    The bright moon entered through the window.

    This pot of medicine needed to collect moonlight before it could come out of the medicine stove. Therefore, at this moment it was being refined. Yu Jinnian swept a glance at the frosty moon before him, fingertips just covering the lid of the stove, he suddenly paused.

    He heard the subtle sound of footsteps.

    Yu Jinnian listened for a moment, withdrew his hand and raised his eyes to look at his late night visitor.

    The other’s footsteps were very slow, it took a moment before the person actually moved into Yu Jinnian’s line of sight. The person who had come was a young man, wearing Tianji Pavilion’s signature robes, which were covered in crests and diagrams of the constellations, he had long black hair and a handsome and distinct appearance.

    “……It’s you.”

    Yu Jinnian swept a glance over him, his mouth twitched：“Wang Wenyuan doesn’t dare to come himself?”

    “Xiong-Zhang succumbed to the Cylindrical Heart Powder, he has understood the Divine Sage of Medicine’s thoughts and intentions, so naturally he doesn’t not dare to set foot here again.”

    He could not show his worry. That would be showing his weakness to Wang Wenyuan. When the time comes he needed to take initiative and the other would no longer be in his hands.

    Wang Moxuan said: “I only have one close relative left, even though he has treated me a little harshly, I cannot lose him.”

    Although this sounded fake, it made Yu Jinnian’s teeth itch3. He looked at Wang Moxuan’s meek face with that I’ll just grin and bear the humiliation attitude and his head began to buzz.

    He wanted to memorise all of the curses, seals, as well as the gu insects on the other’s body and the other traces of poisons, this seemed to be almost — his only opportunity.

    Aside from that, there would be no other who could help him.

    And…… it had been so long that he hadn’t heard the other’s voice.

    Both of their acting skills were not bad, their exchanges and the mood between the two of them had been controlled sufficiently to deceive Wang Wenyuan. Although they only needed to use sound to build the facade, without the need to exchange actual blows, in the end they were still inexperienced.

    Yu Jinnian had his erotic books for guidance, but Wang Moxuan could only use intuition and conjecture, but it still turned out to be just right.

    When the “deed” was done, Yu Jinnian had memorised in his head and created a mental map of the curses and other things on the other’s body. He turned his head to look at the dumbfounded ginseng child, and frowned, pursing his lips, to make sure the child did not make a sound.

    After so many years of not being able to see him, their first time meeting again and it turned out to be such an awkward situation. It really was awkward, but the opportunity was hard to come by.

    Wang Moxuan lowered his head and re-dressed, still unable to speak. At this moment the moonlight shifted, the sky had a hint of daybreak.

    “Now can I……”

    “No you can’t.” Yu Jinnian cut him off, “I can give him a temporary pain relief potion to suppress it. If he wants to live two more years, he must find a way to kill Zhu Wuxin. I want Zhu Wuxin to repent before he dies and kowtow in front of Jiang Xianzun to make amends.”

    “As for you——”

    He leaned over closer, reached out and rubbed the other side’s lips with his fingers, he didn’t know what came over him but he suddenly leaned in closer and took a bite.

    The bite pierced the skin, a few drops of blood flooded out, and the other’s lips swelled up.