Chapter 201: Love Elixir
Qi Shuo heard Yeying’s question and wanted to answer.
However, his mind was filled with fog, and he felt a little dazed.
He wanted to focus on Yeying, but his thoughts scattered as soon as they formed.
Although he realised that something was wrong, Qi Shuo was strangely unconcerned.
"Young master Qi?" Jiang Yue called with a smile on his lips.
Qi Shuo shook his head and looked at Jiang Yue, but he didn’t say anything.
His pupils were blown up, and his eyes had an unusual dullness.
’Poor guy.’ Jiang Yue thought and sighed.
"Young master Qi, I want to eat fruit." Lu Xuanrui suddenly said.
As if a switch was flipped, Qi Shuo jumped into action.
His eyes brightened, and he carefully selected a piece of fruit from the platter.
He then delivered the fruit to Lu Xuanrui and fed it to her.
Lu Xuanrui ate the fruit and looked at Jiang Yue with a smug smile on her lips.
"Is it fun?" Jiang Yue looked at her in disgust.
He expected the Lu family to make a move but didn’t expect that Qi Shuo would also be targeted.
However, when he thought about it, he realised he should have expected it.
Although he wasn’t clear about Qi Shuo’s background, he knew he was the young master of a big family.
With the Lu family’s ambition, it was impossible to let Qi Shuo slip through their fingers.
’Love elixirs are too dangerous.’ Jiang Yue thought and sighed.
In most regions of the Cangxing world, love elixirs were forbidden. However, many alchemists secretly brewed them, and victims could be found everywhere.
This wasn’t because it was difficult to expel the effects of a love elixir, it was because the victims couldn’t help themselves.
If there was no one to help them, they could only endure and continue being controlled.
Fortunately, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen didn’t need to worry about love elixirs and love gu.
From the moment they forged an unbreakable Taoist contract, they welcomed the protection of the heavenly tao.
As long as it was something designed to make them involuntarily betray their Taoist companion, the tao would step in and protect them.
It was because of this that Jiang Yue was not afraid to drink the wine spiked with love elixir.
Unfortunately, Qi Shuo did not have the same protection, and he was immediately recruited.
"It..." Lu Xuanrui started but frowned before she could finish.
She was sure that Yeying drank the wine laced with the love elixir. However, she could tell he wasn’t affected.
’How is this possible?’ She wondered and panicked a little.
She looked at Lu Yufen, but the young girl was also at a loss.
After Yeying drank the wine, she waited for his eyes to glaze over but eventually waited for his mockery.
His eyes showed that he knew what they were trying to do and disdained them from a superior position.
’What right does he have to look down on us?’ Lu Yufen thought and clenched her hands.
Her eyes narrowed in anger, but she soon returned to calm.
This was the kind of situation that had no turning point.
Since Yeying knew what her Lu family had done, he had to be brought under control no matter what.
With that thought, Lu Yufen planned to find her grandfather. She tried to stand up but found that she couldn’t.
’What’s going on?’ She wondered and once again tried to stand.
However, her bottom was rooted to the seat, and she couldn’t stand up, no matter how much she tried.
"Why are you in a hurry?" Jiang Yue suddenly said and gave her a beautiful smile.
Under normal circumstances, Lu Yufen would have loved to receive that smile.
However, when she received it now, she only felt like her body was soaked in ice water.
A cold sweat broke out on her skin, and she looked at Jiang Yue in horror.
"What did you do to me?" She asked.
However, Jiang Yue didn’t answer her. Instead, he looked at Qi Shuo and fell into deep thought.
’Should I save him?’ He considered.
He disliked the person’s affection for him and thought he was a bother. Jiang Yue also knew that the person would be unkind to Yu Nianzhen if given a chance.
For this, he considered allowing the person to be controlled by Lu Xuanrui.
However, this solution left a bad taste in his mouth.
Even though he disliked the person’s thoughts, he disliked the Lu family more.
If it was before he was married to Yu Nianzhen, he would most definitely be affected by the love elixir.
When Jiang Yue thought of the consequences, a deep hatred sprouted in his heart.
In the world, he most hated rapists and those who destroyed other people’s feelings.
Given their use of the love elixir, the Lu family was both, and Jiang Yue didn’t want to tolerate them.
At first, he just wanted to escape the Lu family’s grasp and safely return to his residence to wait for Yu Nianzhen.
However, after seeing the family’s methods, he decided to take things further. Since he couldn’t beat the elders, he had to plot a way to make the Lu family suffer.
’First things first.’ He thought, and a blue light flashed in his eyes.
Soon after, Qi Shuo felt a presence in his mind, and a voice shook his soul.
[Wake up.] The voice echoed around his body.
[Yeying?] He called.
Under the influence of the love elixir, Qi Shuo felt like his soul was split in two.
His true soul was suppressed, and could only watch as the fake soul fell in love with a woman he despised.
The love was the kind of irrational love that made him unable to deny the woman anything. He even suspected that he would put himself in harm’s way for the woman.
When he realised this, Qi Shuo wanted to stop himself. Prevent himself from listening to the woman’s words, but he couldn’t.
His other soul was in a trance and only seemed to exist to please Lu Xuanrui.
This kind of thing was unbearable for Qi Shuo, and his heart was filled with hatred.
However, there was nothing he could do to save himself until he heard Yeying’s voice.
At first, the voice was barely audible, but it carried a tremendous pressure that suppressed the fog in his mind.
[Do you know why you were affected and I wasn’t?] Jiang Yue asked.
[Does Yeying have a treasure that prevents charm attacks?] Qi Shuo had heard of such treasures.
[I do. It is my Taoist contract.]
When he heard that, Qi Shuo went silent.
He understood what Yeying meant, but he was still unwilling. His nature was stubborn, and he couldn’t give up without trying.
Although Jiang Yue wanted to take this chance to make him understand, he realised that he underestimated Qi Shuo’s stubbornness.
With a sigh, he continued.
[I will help young master Qi resolve the situation in exchange for a favour.]
This time, Qi Shuo was silent for a different reason.
As a young master of a big family, he was careful about owing favours. Even when he owed cause and effect, he repaid it on his terms and not the other party’s terms.
If he agreed to Yeying’s condition, how to repay the favour wouldn’t be up to him.
[Young master Qi doesn’t have to agree.] Jiang Yue said unhurriedly.
After all, he was not the one in trouble.
For the time being, Lu Xuanrui and Lu Yufen were under his illusion and wouldn’t cause a fuss.
However, when the banquet ended, things would fall out of his control.
If he was going to remove Qi Shuo from the elixir’s control, it was best to do it before the banquet ended.
Qi Shuo also understood this, and he sighed.
[I will agree to the exchange, but Yeying has to promise one thing.]
[Say.]
[I am willing to agree to anything, but the favour can’t be detrimental to my Qi family and my tao.]
[Alright.] Jiang Yue immediately agreed.
He had no reason to be detrimental to the Qi family. Even if he had, he wouldn’t ask Qi Shuo to participate unless it was mutually beneficial.
As for Qi Shuo’s tao, Jiang Yue wouldn’t participate in anything like that. Such a thing that destroyed another cultivator’s tao was easy to breed inescapable cause and effect.
Although he wanted Qi Shuo to owe him a favour, he didn’t want to form the kind of entanglement that continued for a lifetime.
[If that’s the case, how can Yeying help me?]
Without waiting for an answer, Qi Shuo felt a divine sense enter his mind.
The divine sense was light like gossamer but stuck to his fake soul like cotton sugar.
Soon after, the fake soul began to deform and struggle to escape the divine sense.
However, the fake soul was weak compared to the divine sense.
[Is Yeying a soul refiner?] Qi Shuo asked but received no answer.
At this time, Jiang Yue was focused on suppressing the fake soul.
’This is also a chance.’ He thought and his divine sense thickened around the fake soul.
A moment later, the fake soul was compressed into a ball and swallowed by Jiang Yue’s divine sense.
