[GL]Whose Wife Is Always Acting Pitiful? Oh, It Turns Out It’s Mine 171

Chapter 171: Eating Gu and Letting Blood

Yu Hanhong came to let blood every three days. Xue Mu went from cursing loudly at the beginning to exhaustion later, her body limp without any strength. Even though Mu Ruo forcefully fed her blood-replenishing pills and made various foods forcing her to eat them all, her essence and blood had been consumed a lot. Her mind became increasingly dizzy, and her reactions were much slower.

Her only thought was Dugu Yuan’an. Thinking of Dugu Yuan’an gave her the spirit to count the number of times Yu Hanhong came to calculate how long they had been separated.

Whenever Mu Ruo came to see her, they either broke into an argument, worsening Xue Mu’s injury, or Mu Ruo spoke and Xue Mu ignored her, eventually worsening the injury anyway. Mu Ruo even used internal force to slap the iron chains piercing her lute bones, causing her to break out in cold sweat from pain and faint for a long time before waking up.

The only comfort was Xue Wuluo’s presence. However, Xue Mu always saw red marks and bite marks on her exposed skin. New ones covered old ones, and the old ones were deepened before they had time to heal.

“It seems you are like me, the one being punished,” Xue Mu said.

Xue Wuluo was stunned, not understanding what she meant. “Young Mistress…”

“The girls of the Yu Clan of Jin Mountain are fiercer than the last.” Xue Mu was in the mood to make a joke. Seeing Xue Wuluo blank and unresponsive, she felt bored again. “Sigh… does Mu Ruo consummate with you every night?”

Only then did Xue Wuluo realize, the unburned half of her face turning extremely red. “Young Mistress…” Not liking to talk, she didn’t know how to respond to Xue Mu’s teasing, only stammering, “Maiden Mu treats me very well.”

“But she is unwilling to let you recover your internal energy,” Xue Mu said.

Xue Wuluo looked slightly gloomy. Xue Mu added, “Wuluo, if you fall into this tender trap like this, you will never get out of this cave. Have you found out the map of the cave?”

“Maiden Mu doesn’t let this subordinate go elsewhere. Every time this subordinate comes out… I am blindfolded and carried here,” Xue Wuluo said.

Xue Mu frowned, then laughed. “She is patient.”

“Young Mistress, when this subordinate talks to you, Maiden Mu is also waiting outside,” Xue Wuluo said.

Xue Mu snorted coldly. “If she has the ability, come in herself. Is she afraid of seeing me?”

Xue Wuluo didn’t answer, just staring at her blankly, her eyes reddening unknowingly. Xue Mu didn’t want to see her tears, so she said, “Presumably Maiden Han Yan is also looking for you.”

Xue Wuluo: “…Yes, Maiden Mu told me.”

Not knowing where Yu Hanhong and Mu Ruo took them, calculating the number of bloodlettings, another three or four months had passed. According to Mu Ruo, the current Jianghu martial arts world was unprecedentedly united, all wanting to catch Yu Hanhong. While searching, major sects also caught many villains who raped, looted, and committed all kinds of evil. Those with martial arts were crippled, and those without were beaten disabled. It was a scene of prosperity.

When Mu Ruo said these words, her face clearly showed mockery and sarcasm. Unwilling to argue with her, Xue Mu closed her eyes and didn’t answer. Fortunately, besides bloodletting and Mu Ruo often pulling the chains to torture her, no other punishments were used on her. But as time passed bit by bit, Xue Mu didn’t know Dugu Yuan’an’s current state and worried about her more and more.

Don’t know if Miaofu married Han Yan. My disappearance must have delayed their wedding ceremony.

Xue Wuluo fed Xue Mu a bowl of stewed mutton. Xue Mu said, “Since they are hiding in a cave, how do they buy food?”

“This subordinate doesn’t know either. Maybe they used disguise techniques to mix in the crowd.” Xue Wuluo smiled bitterly. “Or maybe they captured a cook to cook. Anyway, the dishes are very rich.”

“Yes, we are not short of dishes.” Xue Mu had figured it out. Without eating, she would have no stamina. If there was a chance to run out but she couldn’t move her legs, that would be laughable. She bit a piece of mutton and chewed slowly. Mu Ruo suddenly entered the stone room, looking at the two calmly.

Xue Wuluo stood up hurriedly. Mu Ruo handed her a clay pot and said, “Feed it into her mouth.”

“What is it?” Xue Wuluo said.

Mu Ruo said, “Thousand Poison Worm. Feed one into her mouth every day. If the poison blood in her body doesn’t work, increase the amount of worms.”

Xue Wuluo screamed, “No—!”

Mu Ruo frowned, snatched the clay pot back, opened the lid, and quickly took out a multi-legged sharp-thorned long worm similar to a centipede, a full half-foot long. Xue Wuluo turned pale, reaching out to stop her, but her acupoints were sealed by Mu Ruo. Stiffening in place, she watched helplessly as Mu Ruo stuffed the Thousand Poison Worm into Xue Mu’s mouth. “Swallow it. It won’t kill you.”

Xue Mu bit the Thousand Poison Worm into pieces with the force of tearing mutton. A fishy and foul smell filled her mouth, making her want to vomit. Mu Ruo just covered her mouth coldly, forcing her to swallow it. Even after being bitten into pieces, the Thousand Poison Worm was still wriggling. Entering Xue Mu’s body, it instantly stimulated the toxicity in her blood, turning the worm body into bloody water.

Xue Mu felt a pain in her wrist. Mu Ruo took a little of her blood and left gracefully.

Xue Wuluo was still stiff there. Looking at the place illuminated by light in the stone room, Xue Mu only felt a dull ache in her chest. After the toxicity in her blood was stimulated, her whole body actually started to hurt. Xue Mu gritted her teeth and held on without making a sound. The pain lasted for a while. Suddenly, a cold current surged through her Dantian, then slowly turned hot, vaguely feeling like internal breath was generated.

Xue Mu was suddenly overjoyed. She tried to sense that heat flow calmly. But the heat flow surged twice in her Dantian and suddenly disappeared. Her Dantian was still empty, without a bit of internal energy.

She couldn’t help feeling dejected and curled her lip.

After an unknown amount of time, Mu Ruo returned very satisfied. She said that there were several kinds of poisons from the Gu King Blood Pill in Xue Mu’s body. Previously, too many bloodlettings caused the Gu King’s toxicity to slowly stop working in the blood. Only after feeding new poisonous Gu worms would that toxicity be stimulated again. She asked Xue Wuluo to feed her a Thousand Poison Worm every day.

Thus, bloodletting became once a day. After Xue Mu swallowed the Thousand Poison Worm, the heat flow in her Dantian often surged only twice before disappearing. She realized that the toxicity of this Gu worm might help her generate internal breath. After all, she had eaten the Gu King Blood Pill. Her blood itself was a kind of extremely toxic blood. Absorbing the blood of other poisonous Gu worms would instead strengthen the toxicity of her own blood.

In this way, she could also practice internal kung fu through this method, only it belonged to the heterodox path. But as long as she could generate internal breath, what did it matter if she practiced evil kung fu temporarily? Thinking this, Xue Mu resisted eating the Gu worms on the surface, but actually hoped Xue Wuluo would feed a few more, so she could feel a longer heat flow generating new internal energy.

Later, the Thousand Poison Worms increased from one a day to two, three, and then to five, six. Xue Mu silently felt the heat flow in her Dantian. Whenever she wanted to combine the “Thirty-Six Cycle Life Breath Technique” to use that heat flow to generate internal energy, the heat flow dissipated. She didn’t give up, patiently comprehending that method of generating breath.

Later, she couldn’t tell how many days had passed.

After the effect of Thousand Poison Worms stimulating the toxic blood in Xue Mu’s body diminished, Mu Ruo brought even more toxic Gu worms.