CHAPTER 377: CHAPTER 352: BEARDED WILDMAN?

The sky was getting light, and Yu Xiaolian stood above the Myriad Snake Cave at the rear cliff.

She looked down, seeing only a foggy haze, but no snakes.

However, the stone tablet clearly stated Myriad Snake Cave, there was no mistake.

Could it be that Bai Qingying was deceiving her when he said that Su Jingchen jumped down from here?

"Su Jingchen? Su Jingchen?" Yu Xiaolian called down with her voice.

She didn’t expect anyone to respond, but a stone was unexpectedly tossed up from below, landing accurately at her feet.

Yu Xiaolian was filled with joy, "Su Jingchen, is that you? You’re still alive, that’s great, wait there, I’ll rescue you!"

Excitedly, Yu Xiaolian took out a bundle of climbing rope from her space and was about to lower it down when she quickly pulled it back.

"Su Jingchen? Why aren’t you speaking?" Could it really be as Miao Yingyao said, that Su Jingchen would only be a mute from now on?

"You can’t speak, is that it?" Yu Xiaolian guessed and asked.

Another stone was thrown up, as if answering her question.

Yu Xiaolian frowned, but she had to go down and see for herself.

Yu Xiaolian analyzed the direction from which the stone was thrown and chose the opposite direction to lower the rope, securing the other end to a large tree beside the stone tablet, and slid down the rope.

As Yu Xiaolian slid halfway down, she saw a small cave on the opposite mountain wall, with a ’wild man’ whose beard dragged on the ground sitting at the entrance.

"Was it you who threw the stone?" Yu Xiaolian wrapped the rope around her waist and braced her feet against the rock wall to steady herself.

The ’wild man’ with the long beard gazed intently at Yu Xiaolian. Just as Yu Xiaolian thought he was mute, she felt a sharp pain in her chest, followed by a rough voice in her ear, "Do you have a Longevity Gu on you?"

Yu Xiaolian felt the Longevity Gu in her come alive, scurrying around inside her body. She clutched her chest weakly and angrily questioned the long-bearded ’wild man’, "What did you do to me?"

"I did nothing, just the Mother and Child Gu meeting, and the Mother Gu awakening the Child Gu.

Haha...I was right, the little girl from the Miao Family actually managed to cultivate a Child Gu.

Are you a descendant of the Miao Family? Or is Miao Shun related to you somehow?" The long-bearded wild man looked excited, the chains as thick as an arm binding him clanging loudly.

Yu Xiaolian frowned. According to this wild man, the Longevity Gu was divided into Mother and Child Gu, and it seemed she had the Child Gu in her.

This was hardly good news for her.

Because the Mother Gu was stronger than the Child Gu, and the Child Gu would be controlled by the Mother Gu.

Although the Child Gu soon calmed down after rampaging inside her, Yu Xiaolian’s face turned pale without a trace of blood, barely able to grip the rope.

Miao Shun? Could Yu Xiaolian say that she had never even heard of this name?

"Are you a descendant of the group from the Northern Land? Of the Miao Family, the Xi Family, or perhaps the Qi Family?" The long-bearded wild man smiled eagerly, though his excitement bordered on madness.

"Uh, I’m a descendant of the Qi Family!" Yu Xiaolian decided to placate this wild man, since the Longevity Gu in her began acting uncontrollably upon seeing this wild man, indicating he could kill her at any moment.

The long-bearded wild man wasn’t as happy as before upon hearing Yu Xiaolian was a descendant of Qi. He subdued his smile and asked, "A descendant of the Qi Family becoming the new host of the Longevity Gu—has everyone from the Xi and Miao Families died out?"

Yu Xiaolian felt a pang of regret; she should have pretended to be Miao Yingyao. It seemed this old man was an elder of the Xi and Miao Families!

But she didn’t know Miao Shun, and as a Miao Family descendant, if she didn’t know her ancestors, she would be exposed soon enough, so Yu Xiaolian dared not lie recklessly.

As the long-bearded wild man scrutinized Yu Xiaolian, she noticed that he had no legs, with chains as thick as an arm shackled around his waist and wrists.

"Senior, be careful!" Yu Xiaolian suddenly saw through the mist a black snake stealthily attacking the long-bearded old man.