Cultivation through Skin Making novel Chapter 26

Chapter 26: 26. Undercurrent

A few days later...

Morning.

Song Yan was still sleeping on the bed when he suddenly heard a rumbling sound from not far away.

He quickly got up.

The quilt slipped off, revealing the smooth white shoulder of Lady Qiu inside.

Song Yan swiftly put on his Profound attire, hurried to the door, and just listened from behind it without stepping outside.

Outside the house, there was some commotion after a short while.

"Qi Yao, without the Peak Master’s order, how dare you leave the cave on your own?!" a disciple questioned.

"I want to see the Peak Master; I can clear my suspicions."

Qi Yao’s voice was as cold as ice, carrying a dark aura that Song Yan had never seen before.

The air quieted down...

Song Yan was also curious about "how this little spy would clear her name."

But he didn’t get an answer, as Qi Yao was taken away shortly after.

...

...

That evening, after Song Yan finished skin making, he ran into Qi Yao, who was just coming down from the hill.

Despite being on the same path, Qi Yao didn’t even glance at him; she just stopped and waited for him to pass first. It seemed that after her previous proposal of "Why don’t we become Dao companions?" was rejected, she had already considered Song Yan a complete stranger.

Wang Susu, on the other hand, was well-informed and seemed to know something. At this moment, she actually smiled and waved, calling out: "Sister Qi."

Qi Yao pretended not to hear, no longer waiting but coldly raising her snow-white neck and descending the steps.

Wang Susu’s smile remained undiminished.

Song Yan wondered, "Sister Wang," what’s happened?"

Wang Susu’s smile vanished, her expression turning colder as she spoke jealously, "Qi Yao isn’t a low-grade Miscellaneous Profound Root; she is a middle-grade Earth Profound Root.

Disciples with such aptitude usually go straight to the main peak of Shadow Puppet Peak, where they can enjoy better cave mansions, better furnaces, better elixirs, and a rather precious resource called Profound Jade."

She said increasingly ominously, "But, for a middle-grade Earth Profound Root to not pass the disciple examination and mix in with the servants is rather interesting."

After speaking, Wang Susu smiled again.

Song Yan was also a bit astonished.

He never expected Qi Yao to actually be a "middle-grade Earth Profound Root," nor did he expect her to "expose" herself to clear suspicions.

Isn’t this increasing suspicion instead of clearing it?

...

...

However, what shocked both Song Yan and Wang Susu was that Qi Yao’s transfer order actually came, and soon she would go to Shadow Puppet Peak’s main peak and become an official disciple there.

Wang Susu said sourly, "She somehow got out of trouble; she must have already made a pledge."

Song Yan understood.

Spies are hard to catch, but yet some disciples from the Nanwu Sword Sect have fallen into the hands of Shadow Puppet Peak.

If Qi Yao isn’t suspected, then it’s likely she already killed a disciple of the Nanwu Sword Sect with her own hands.

As a complementary measure, the Shadow Puppet Peak would very likely spread this news to make others aware of this event.

...

...

Another night, Song Yan was asleep when he suddenly heard noise from next door again.

The stone door on Qi Yao’s side opened.

Next came a man’s voice.

Song Yan distinguished it and recognized it as Kang Defu’s.

Recently, this senior brother had been very miserable. Since he last sought the "Great Wei Royal Bloodline Furnace," he had been suppressed by Zhang Yin and bullied by fellow disciples; it’s said even his furnace was used by others...

Despite Wang Susu being assigned a second royal furnace, this senior brother still didn’t have one.

The voice filled with endless resentment sounded softly.

"Fairy Qi, I know you are a good person, but in a few days, I’m going to be driven down the mountain to fend for myself. Do you have any messages you want me to take out?"

Kang Defu resentfully said, "I’m willing to do anything that can harm the Puppet Sect!"

The air was silent for a few seconds.

Then came Qi Yao’s cold voice.

"Get out."

Kang Defu wanted to say more, but the stone door had already closed again.

Song Yan could only listen in speechlessness.

Whether Kang Defu was genuine or not, he didn’t know.

But Qi Yao did indeed have a message to send out, which was that she was forced to make a pledge and kill her own.

Yet this was probably a trap, which Qi Yao also noticed, so she wouldn’t let Kang Defu carry a message; even if she had any cryptic words to send, she wouldn’t use them.

But...

She still fell into a pit.

Because "telling someone to get out" and "going directly to report" are two completely different attitudes... yet Qi Yao chose the former.

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