Ye Xiao actually didn't have high expectations for the jade slip with a broken corner in his hand. After all, the manufacturing and recording methods of the jade slip are not like writing on paper. A broken corner does not affect the content.
However, the moment Ye Xiao's consciousness came into contact with the damaged jade slip, the very messy information on it immediately poured into Ye Xiao's mind.
The information inside can also be read!
This was beyond Ye Xiao's expectation.
It's just that the information inside is a mess, and the first thing that catches my eye is one word! Pain!
Countless words of pain filled Ye Xiao's eyes. Most of the damaged jade slips were engraved with this word. He didn't know whether it was the true feelings of the former head of the Xu family before his death or just because of the damage. So this
One word has been highlighted.
But Ye Xiao soon discovered what he was interested in.
In the middle section of the jade slip, there is recorded such a period of intermittent words.
"My husband, Xu Ruojun, has been promoted to martial arts with great perseverance, but he was eroded by poisonous insects in his body, and his life is not long... He only left a message to... the tiger... The pill cannot be taken...
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Up to this point, the former head of the Xu family was still sane enough to make such remarks.
But then his whole speech became confusing. One moment he said that the way of heaven harmed him, the next moment he said that the heads of other cultivation families in Qingyang Mansion persecuted him, the next moment he said that his fate was not controlled by fate, etc.
Anyway, it was very confusing, as if the former head of the Xu family had gone crazy when he recorded these remarks.
Seeing this, Ye Xiao suddenly said in confusion: "Can you still have your own consciousness after being parasitized by insects?"
After all, there is a wisp of the soul parasitized by the insect in the vial in his sleeve at this moment. The soul is safe and sound at the moment, but the insect seems to be dead.
Ye Xiao speculated that this insect would only be activated when it really has the power to take away everything from the host. Before, it would have been feigning death and secretly accumulating power. The process of accumulating power may not even be known to the host.
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So how did Xu Ruojun, the former head of the Xu family, know that there were worms in his body?
The following content in the jade slip is as messy as a code. It is completely impossible to combine it into one sentence to understand the meaning. It is also unclear whether these damaged words are useful or the crazy words of the previous head of the Xu family.
After coming back to his senses from reading the jade slips, Ye Xiao looked at the jade slips and fell into confusion.
"The former head of the Xu family must have discovered the bugs in his body in advance and fought with them. In the end, both parties died together. The man died and the bugs died. Neither party won the final victory."
Ye Xiao was pacing back and forth in the room holding the jade slip, but he could never figure out what the key to this was.
After all, the Xu family has a very good relationship with the Tiger God Sect, and the intermittent sentence mentioned in the jade slip should probably be "Tiger God Sect pills cannot be taken." Then there is a high possibility that the centipede is related to the Tiger God Sect.
So if you can understand the key, you will be more confident about your next trip to the Tiger God Sect.
"I wonder if I have to go to that underground passage again."
Ye Xiao's eyes narrowed and he made a decision.
He pushed open the door, just in time to see Cui Jue using the knife in his hand to attack the core members of the Xu family lying on the ground who knew the underground passage as an escape route.
"etc!"
Ye Xiao's words immediately made Cui Jue, who was about to raise the knife and drop it, immediately stop her hand. At this moment, she had ptsd on Ye Xiao's whole person. It was the kind of situation where she could tremble when she heard Ye Xiao's voice.
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"Senior, what's wrong? I'm following your order and I won't leave anyone from the Xu family behind."
Ye Xiao did not respond to Cui Jue, but walked towards her step by step.
Seeing Ye Xiao walking towards him, Cui Jue immediately threw the knife on the ground and squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, feeling at a loss.
Her mental pressure is so great that the string that holds her together is about to break.
Ignoring Cui Jue's weird behavior for the time being, Ye Xiao came to the people who had been knocked unconscious by him before.
Three young men and two old men, this is the Xu family's last hope.
"Since you know this place, you must also know about Xu Ruojun's final entry into the underground passage. I hope you can be more confident and give me some clues."
Ye Xiao put his hand on the head of one of the old men and used the Soul Searching Technique.
For a moment, the unconscious old man opened his eyes wide. He wanted to let out a piercing scream but couldn't. He could only make a strange sound of "uh uh uh" from his mouth. In less than a moment, his eyes were filled with tears.
It turned into a sheet of white, and the whole eyeball almost turned over due to the severe pain.
"No."
Throwing the rag-like old man aside, Ye Xiao stretched out his right hand to the other old man and started doing the same thing.
"No."
Ye Xiao, with a cold face, looked at the three teenagers. They were all very young. It was unclear whether they were Xu Qingshan's younger children or children from other rooms.
Ye Xiao stretched out his hand to one of them's head, but immediately a smell came from the boy's crotch, followed by his body shaking like a dustpan.
He's awake!
"..." Seeing this young man's appearance, Ye Xiao's hand that was about to use Soul Search stopped, and a smile appeared on his lips.
He moved his hand horizontally and performed a soul search on the person next to the young man.
"No."
Saying the same words, Ye Xiao started searching for the soul of the last boy, but unfortunately there were still no clues.
Judging from the information obtained from the current soul search, the two old men are the two housekeepers of the Xu family. They have won the trust of the Xu family father and son, and they also know about the escape tunnel.
So when Cui Zhengwan came to kill Xu Qingshan's head, the two of them made a decisive decision and directly chose three talented descendants of the Xu family instead of the trash Xu Jie.
The two planned to take three descendants of the Xu family to escape from Qingyang Mansion and go to the Tiger God Sect to seek justice, but who knew they were stopped by Ye Xiao, who knew about this place.
Although these two old housekeepers have served the Xu family for two generations, they are completely unaware of the details of Xu Ruojun's breakthrough into the underground passage. They still dream that Xu Ruojun is still alive so that they can seek justice for the Xu family.
And what the two teenagers knew was limited.
"Okay, it's your turn." Ye Xiao looked at the young man who was already awake but was put at the end with a smile on his face.
Ye Xiao also felt that there was little hope for him.
After all, the memories of the four people before and after him had almost no information about the underground passage. What else could this coward who could wet his pants have to offer?
"No, don't kill me. Whatever you want or want to know, just ask me! I will tell you everything I know, but please don't kill me!"
The young man wanted to get up with a look of horror on his face, but the trembling in his legs caused him to fall directly to the ground, and his pants were almost soaked at the moment.
"What's your relationship with Xu Ruojun?" Ye Xiao squatted down and asked the young man with a smile on his face, his expression and tone were like a kindly big brother next door.
But in the eyes of young people, it is completely different!
This is a murderous devil!
"Well, that's my grandpa, I'm the third eldest son of the Xu family." The young man didn't dare to hide anything, and stumbled back to Ye Xiao.
I'm not lying. After all, Ye Xiao has read the memories of the other four people, so he has a good understanding of the configuration of the scene.
For such a frightened young man, Ye Xiao didn't bother to play with him and directly asked his own question.
"Do you know what was wrong with Xu Ruojun before he went into retreat? Who did he meet? Or did he practice any skills that were not from the Xu family? Or did he eat something and bring anything into the retreat?"
These questions can be obtained by Ye Xiao through soul searching, but after all, soul searching is only a general reading, and the details are definitely not as complete as what I remember.
Otherwise, it would be so cool to search for souls and pull out the cultivation techniques directly from the opponent's head.
"No, no, something wrong? No! Grandpa was very optimistic before the retreat. I met many people. The heads of various families in Qingyang Mansion and the Tiger God Sect also sent people to express their condolences. I don't know the technique or what I ate.
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Speaking of this, the young man almost burst into tears. After all, judging from the direct answer, he really didn't know whether the demon in front of him would become angry and treat him just like he treated San Bo and the others!
The young man tried his best to recall all the situations before and after Xu Ruojun's retreat. Finally, he raised his head sharply and looked at Ye Xiao as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.
"Wine! When my uncle was in seclusion, he once held a wine jar. The wine tasted very strange, and it felt like medicinal wine."