Novel Lived
Chapter 29
Chapter 29
The young apprentice visibly relaxed after taking back the medicine bowl from Ma Wu.
“Cough! Cough!”
Ma Wu suddenly started coughing.
The abrupt sound startled the young apprentice, causing him to tremble and drop the medicine bowl from his hands.
“Crash—”
The bowl shattered, scattering in all directions.
Ma Wu frowned and turned to look at his apprentice.
That one glance caused the young apprentice to lose his composure, his face turning as pale as paper.
With a ‘thud’, the young apprentice knelt and kowtowed.
“Master! Spare my life, Master! It was all Jiang Chen who forced me! I… I had no choice!”Jiang Chen?
Hearing this name, Ma Wu’s eyes widened suddenly, and he immediately made a connection.
Glancing at the broken bowl on the ground, he suppressed his anger and asked, “What have you done?”
“The disciple just… just crushed the pill Jiang Chen gave me and mixed it into the medicine bowl earlier. Jiang Chen said that the pill could make you, Master, instantly vigorous and at least ten years younger…”
The young apprentice kowtowed again.
“You!!”
Ma Wu was furious, his eyes blazing with anger.
What vigorous and ten years younger?
He knew at once that these words meant it must be a harmful medicine pill!
Fortunately, although his cultivation was not high, he was a sixth-grade pill refiner, and a mere poison pill could easily be forced out of the body with the use of pill fire.
“Jiang Chen really underestimates me.”
Ma Wu scoffed while saying to his apprentice, “I know you fear Jiang Chen, but I didn’t expect you to be so terrified. Well, considering you were forced, as your master, I will forgiv…”
Before he could finish, a surge of medicinal power emerged from his dantian, rushing to his head through his limbs and bones!
Driven by this medicinal force, he breathed rapidly, drenched in sweat, indeed feeling vigorous as if he had become ten years younger!
In an instant, Ma Wu thought of the Ma family.
He thought of the Ma family’s cook, the gatekeeper Da Zhuang, and the sister-in-law he used to often bother.
He also thought of…
The Ma family’s big yellow guard dog!
“Not good!”
Ma Wu was alarmed and sat cross-legged on the bed.
He never expected that the pill he had ingested would be so potent! And take effect so quickly!
Immersing in his mind, Ma Wu immediately stimulated the pill fire within his body, hoping to use its power to burn the chaotic heat inside.
The power of the pill fire is related to the grade of the pill refiner.
A sixth-grade pill refiner is already a rare existence in the Central Domain, and the pill fire they possess is naturally extraordinary.
Just as Ma Wu was confident and ready to destroy the medicinal power in one fell swoop, an unexpected event occurred!
Influenced by the medicinal power, the pill fire also started to act abnormally!
It became overly excited as if it had met a loved one and was ready to dance!
The next second, the pill fire went out of control, perfectly merging with the medicinal power, running wild through the meridians, quickly beginning to seep into the soul, gnawing at the mind, and penetrating deep into the marrow!
“Heart-Devouring Soul-Bewitching Pill!!”
Ma Wu cried out in shock!
It was only then that he remembered an important issue.
Being a sixth-grade pill refiner himself, how could he not have noticed something odd in the medicine bowl?
Not only did he not notice, but he also drank it directly!
This could only mean…
The pill that Jiang Chen tricked him into taking was a poison pill of a grade higher than six, with extremely potent and concealed toxicity!
The Heart-Devouring Soul-Bewitching Pill was precisely of the seventh grade!
Ma Wu panicked.
Just moments ago, he was planning to use the Heart-Devouring Soul-Bewitching Pill to expose Jiang Chen’s true colors.
Who would have thought that he himself would have taken it by now!
As a pill refiner, he naturally knew the effects of the Heart-Devouring Soul-Bewitching Pill.
A slight mishap could lead to a loss of reputation and social death!
Suddenly turning his head, he looked at his young disciple and roared angrily, “You dare to collude with Jiang Chen to poison your master?! Unforgivable!”
“Master, please spare my life!”
The young disciple begged again, “Jiang Chen threatened me with the lives of my family members outside our sect. I had no choice but to comply! The Jiang Family is too powerful, so I can’t fight them!”
“Not only you’re as cowardly as a mouse, but you also help a tiger hunt! Jiang Chen is ruthless and inhumane! Do you think he will let you go after this? How can he hide his despicable actions if you remain?”
Ma Wu roared again.
“This disciple is not stupid. I obviously know all of this. But by doing so, only I would die, yet it could save the lives of my family members,” the young disciple replied.
Ma Wu closed his eyes, momentarily speechless.
Perhaps having resigned himself to his fate, the young disciple suddenly stood up, his face no longer showing any fear, replaced instead by hate!
Bitter, teeth-gritting hate!
Looking straight at Ma Wu, he hysterically said:
“Master, you’re so noble! You’re so great! Even now, you’re still scolding me!”
“Great! Really great! But have you ever thought about my situation?”
“Do you know how I’ve been bullied? Just because I am your disciple, the disciple of an elder who ‘hates evil as if it were his enemy’! Those disciples you’ve scolded and reprimanded all come to bully me!”
“I’m wronged! I haven’t done anything wrong! You want to be the pioneer of righteousness, then go ahead! Why do you have to drag me and my family into this?”
“I can’t take it anymore! Better to be dead, then no one will bully me anymore!”
“I don’t regret what happened today! You forced me to listen to so many grand principles, but today I want to be a bad person! A person who personally betrays his master, a person beyond redemption!”
“You… you…!”
Ma Wu was so angry he couldn’t speak coherently.
He had sworn to never coexist with evil, yet he never imagined that the disciple he had taken in would kneel before evil!
What does it matter if one is bullied or wronged?
For the sake of righteousness! For the sake of the sect, one should be prepared to sacrifice oneself, even to the point of tarnishing one’s own reputation!
“Today! I will cleanse the sect!”
After a roar, Ma Wu leaped up from the bed and swung his left palm toward his disciple’s forehead.
Seeing this, the young disciple closed his eyes in despair.
Indeed, Jiang Chen had forced him, but wasn’t this also a form of rebellion?
Shortly after becoming Ma Wu’s disciple, he had realized. Sooner or later, he would be killed by his own master!
That’s why he was so terrified when he heard that the Ma family had been slaughtered!
But… the anticipated pain did not come.
The young disciple was somewhat surprised and slowly opened his eyes.
Ma Wu was still in front of him, but it seemed he had abandoned the idea of ‘cleasing the sect’ and was instead gently caressing his cheek with his remaining left hand.
The palm on his cheek was slightly rough, but the young disciple’s tears fell like rain.
He regretted it.
He truly regretted it!
He could never have imagined that after making such a grave mistake, not only did his master not strike him, but he also forgave him with this gentle caress on the cheek!
The young disciple’s heart was wracked with guilt and self-reproach!!!
After a moment…
“Waahhh——!”
The young disciple cried out loud, once again kneeling and clinging to Ma Wu’s legs, sobbing loudly:
“Master! How can I ever repay your kindness to me?”
“Disciple is wrong! I failed to see the good intentions behind Master’s strictness, and I couldn’t learn Master’s integrity and nobility!”
“I will definitely reform and start anew!”
“I will reflect on myself daily and vow to never coexist with evil!”
“Master, I was wrong!!”
Such sincere and heartfelt words moved the young disciple to tears.
But as soon as the words were spoken, “Hehe… hehehe…”
The strange laughter of Ma Wu echoed.
“???”
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