Chapter 168: The True Traitor
The Lingbi Dog is a very peculiar magical beast, its combat power is not high, but it has an unimaginable sense of smell that is beyond imagination, which is its special ability, and it has an astonishing effect on tracking. The Lingbi Dog King is the highest evolution of the Lingbi Dog, known as the most spiritual nose on the continent. However, Xiaobai is extremely disdainful of the Lingbi Dog King, which shows Xiaobai's strength and also indicates that Xiaobai is quietly showing some of its abilities.
Wings allow for free flight and incredibly fast speed.
Olfaction, surpassing the keen sense of smell of a bloodhound.
For Xiaobai's forced performance, Xie Ao Yu could only smile and let it go, hoping that in the future he would be able to gradually develop Xiaobai's abilities.
"The Bingyue tribe has always forbidden outsiders from visiting, so if someone wants to secretly poison here without being detected, it's unlikely to be an outsider, but rather one of their own people." Ziyan's expression turned grave, this meant that the Bingyue tribe had a traitor, although she had suspected this before, but after confirmation, her emotions were different.
Xie Ao Yu smiled and said: "Then let's find that traitor, since he has poisoned here, I believe he will definitely come to check on it continuously. We'll capture him, and that's it."
Ziyan nodded.
Now there is no other way but this one.
Even though Zi Yan has a high authority in the Ice Moon Clan, after all, she is not an Ice Moon clansman and is not very familiar with the Ice Moon Clan, so she can only adopt this method, guarding the tree to wait for the rabbit.
"Xiao Bai, this arduous task is left to you." Xie Ao Yu pinched Xiao Bai's nose.
"Yiya!" Xiaobai responded.
It has a small body and hides in flowers and grasses. Outsiders can't find it at all, let alone that it's a White Spirit Beast. Even if they did discover it, no one would take it seriously.
Xie Ao Yu and Zi Yan then left.
They returned to the summit of Bingyue Lake, Xie Ao Yu continued his cultivation, while Zi Yan began researching an antidote for Guzhiren, after all, the Medicine God's needle couldn't be used casually.
Ziyan advanced to a Master-level alchemist, with unparalleled freedom and uniqueness in her approach to alchemy.
Before you know it, the day is gone.
Xie Ao Yu's Qi was fully restored after that, and he directly entered the Ice Moon Lake, sitting in the Ice Moon Spring water to cultivate, the Purple Crystal Spiritual Water also flowed into the Ice Moon Spring water.
Even if the level of Amethyst Spirit Water may not be comparable to that of Ice Moon Spring Water, which has become a heteromorphic water, after all, Ice Moon Spring Water is still in its formative stages. Therefore, Amethyst Spirit Water is of great help to it. After flowing into Ice Moon Spring Water, its evolution began to accelerate rapidly.
An extremely cold air current surrounds all around.
Xie Ao Yu completely ignored him, and went to cultivate his Dou Qi, using the environment here to stimulate his Dou Qi, causing it to rapidly rise.
Bingyue Spring also began to shrink quietly, which means evolution.
When Xie Ao Yu opened his eyes again, it was already deep in the night. Through the more than ten meters deep ice and moon lake water, he could see a crescent moon in the sky.
"It's back." Xie Ao Yu retrieved the Purple Crystal Spiritual Water.
At this moment, the Ice Moon Spring water is faintly emitting a purple glow, clearly indicating that the Ice Moon Spring water has undergone a transformation in its essence. In other words, once it forms an exotic water, it may be a brand new, extremely powerful exotic water formed by the fusion of two kinds of exotic waters.
Xie Ao Yu looked at the purple crystal spiritual water in his hand and smiled lightly: "Good people will be rewarded?"
The original Purple Crystal Spirit Water unexpectedly carried a bone-piercing chill, unlike the previous Purple Crystal Spirit Water which had little to no chill, only having water attributes. Now, due to helping Ice Moon Spring Water, it became extremely icy, rivaling the extraordinary chill of Ice Moon Spring Water. To think that Ice Moon Spring Water could easily freeze Xie Ao Yu when he couldn't control the Purple Crystal Spirit Water.
This means that Amethyst also has a certain amount of attack power.
It will be interesting when it becomes powerful.
He put away the purple crystal spiritual water and came out of Bing Yue Lake, only to see Xiao Bai circling around the lake, making low hissing sounds.
Ziyan then disappeared without a trace.
"Go." Xie Ao Yu immediately understood, someone had gone to the place where the poison was administered.
He brought Xiao Bai quickly to the bend of the poisonous river, and saw that Zi Yan's face looked very bad, her phoenix eyes staring forward with a fierce gaze.
Xie Ao Yu looked over there.
A man in his fifties walked up from downstream along the river, wearing a Taoist alchemist's attire, with a serious expression on his face.
The Bingyue tribe has only one alchemy grandmaster, and that is the great elder of the Bingyue tribe... Bing Jie.
"It might not be Ice Jie, the elder." Xie Ao Yu put his arm around Zi Yan's waist and gently hugged her, saying softly. She had heard Zi Yan mention it in the past few days that among the Bing Yue tribe, the one who was closest to Zi Yan was Ice Jie, because Ice Jie was also a master of alchemy, so they had a lot of common language, wanting to study some formulas together.
"I hope so." Zi Yan leaned her head lightly on Xie Ao Yu's shoulder and said softly.
Bing Jie is a pure alchemist, and his involvement with Dou Qi is only superficial. He can be said to be the most authoritative person in the Bing Yue tribe, next to the tribal leader, Bing Ye Xuan.
He walked along the river step by step, occasionally looking around to his left and right, as if worried about being discovered. That expression was also a sigh in Xie Ao Yu's heart.
More than ten minutes later, Ice Jie was about to reach the corner.
Just as Xie Ao Yu and Zi Yan were about to temporarily hide, a figure rushed over from afar at high speed, likely using a movement technique.
"That's Bing Jie's son, Bing Ge." Zi Yan explained to Xie Ao Yu, "He has a high talent for cultivation and has always been noticed by our family. As long as he meets the requirements, he can enter our family's sacred land for cultivation and even have the opportunity to marry a woman from our family."
Xie Ao Yu nodded ambiguously.
For some of the means by which these ancient families maintained their strength, he had long been prepared; but for any young man of great talent to think of ways to join the family and serve it was inevitable.
Bing Ge's appearance is about 70-80% similar to Bing Jie, but more prominent in height, about 1.85 meters tall. In this dark night, he wore a white shirt without any intention of hiding, and under the moonlight, the shirt emitted a faint white glow. His cold and stern face was pursed with his lips.
"Father." Icigo swiftly arrived beside Icejia.
Bing Jie didn't even lift his head, "What's up?"
"Father is up all night without rest, what brings you here, the Patriarch's situation has become even more severe, if you don't hurry to develop an antidote, I'm afraid the Patriarch..." Ice Gong said.
"The antidote for the Frostbone poison isn't easy to concoct, I've already entrusted Miss Ziyuan with brewing it." Ice Jie continued walking forward, his brow furrowing more deeply, "You go back, guard the clan leader's side, don't let anyone easily approach the clan leader."
Bing Ge gazed at Bing Jie's figure, a hint of pain appearing on his face.
Xie Ao Yu and Zi Yan's hearts skipped a beat as they stared at everything in front of them, could it be that Bing Ge had discovered it long ago?
Just then, Bing Ge gritted his teeth and flashed in front of Bing Jie, blocking his way. "Father, are you looking for the Poison of Attachment again?"
"How did you know?" Ice Jie's face changed drastically, his eyes gleaming with a fierce light as he stared at his own son, grabbing Ice Ge's collar, "Was it you who did it?!"
Bing Ge pursed his lips, and his face looked very unsightly.
"Answer me!" Bing Jie shouted in anger.
"Yes!" Icigo said.
Xie Ao Yu and Zi Yan looked at each other in surprise, both of them showing a shocked expression. They did not expect that the person who poisoned was Bing Ge, while Bing Jie was searching for the source of the poison.
Everything has turned upside down.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Bing Jie's anger surged, and with a swift motion, he slapped Bing Ge four times, causing the old man's beard to stand on end. His eyes widened in shock, pointing at Bing Ge, unable to utter a word for a moment.
"Bang!"
Bing Ge knelt on the ground, saying nothing.
"Get up." Bing Jie kicked Bing Ge to the ground with one foot, "You bastard, I don't have a son like you, a thing that eats inside and crawls outside." Bing Jie, who was about to get furious, gave Bing Ge a good beating, and finally said coldly after panting, "Say, why did you do this, why!"
He was knocked down and got up again, his nose blue and swollen, he closed his eyes, tears streaming from the corners of his eyes, saying: "I don't want to either, but if I don't do this, not only will I die, you and Mother will also be killed by him."
"Bang!"
Bing Jie slapped him again and shouted, "How dare you! How can the lives of our family of three be compared to the entire Bing Yue tribe? You can't even tell the difference between light and heavy. Are you worthy of being my son?" He looked at his son's pitiful appearance after being beaten by himself, and his heart was also in pain. But as soon as he thought of the situation of the Bing Yue tribe, his head buzzed with anger, and he wished to beat him to death.
As an Ice Moon clansman, he had devoted his life to the development of the Ice Moon clan and earned the respect of its people. Even the clan leader showed him three points of courtesy. How could it not pain his heart that his own son would do such a thing?
"Tell me, what's going on," said Bing Jie.
"I don't know how I was poisoned either, by the time I found out, it was already too late. I was cultivating here at that time, and originally I wanted to tell my father about this and ask for your help in detoxifying me. But he said if I told you, he would kill both you and mother. I didn't believe him, but then he took the Spirit Pellet from your hand within an hour, just like that... If he could do something so easily, killing you and mother would be even easier..."
"Who is he?" Bing Jie asked coldly.
"I don't know, from head to toe I've never seen him." Ice Gou shook his head and smiled bitterly. "If only I knew who it was, I could only determine that he is a member of our Ice Moon tribe, and his status is very high, extremely likely to be one of the elders. Only in this way can he get close to the tribal leader and you without being discovered by you. These days, I've been observing, but he's hiding too deeply."
After hearing what Ice Gou said, Ice Jie also fell silent.
Xie Ao Yu and Zi Yan exchanged a glance, both of them knew they didn't need to hide anymore, so they both came out.
"Miss Ziyan." Bing Jie looked up at the two of them, a bitter smile on his face, and his old eyes welled up with tears, as if he had suddenly aged a lot.
Bing Ge also closed his eyes with a bitter expression.
Ziyan said faintly, "Ice Ge, your actions may not have my approval, but everything you've done is for the sake of your parents. This shows that you still have a conscience. I won't blame you for this matter."
"Miss Ziyan." Bing Jie's eyes instantly welled up with tears.
Indeed, he would have liked to kill Yngvi with his own hands, but after all, it was his own flesh and blood; how could he bear to see his own son die?
Shaking her head, Zi Yan said: "Now our problem is to find out who the real traitor is as soon as possible."