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Chapter 88 Testing Qiao's Gift of the Elixir

The City Lord's wife stood up suddenly after hearing what was said. A flash of panic flashed across her face, and then she regained her composure. She looked as if she didn't understand, and said with evasive eyes: "What are you talking about, Miss Lingxiang? I am naturally the mistress of the City Lord's Mansion..."

Seeing her like this, Lingxiang just smiled lightly and then slowly sat down.

"That's true. Although you pretend to be 80% like the city lord's wife, you can fool the city lord and the servants in the mansion, but you can't fool me." Lingxiang said as she raised the teacup in her hand.

The city lord's wife sat down gently and stroked her face with a handkerchief: "What is Miss Lingxiang saying? I don't understand..."

Lingxiang was not in a hurry. After taking a sip of tea, she slowly looked at the city lord's wife.

"It doesn't matter if you don't say anything. The man behind me is nominally my disciple, but in fact he is the descendant of a demon-killing family. He can easily make ordinary little demons reveal their true forms. Why not let him 'explain' for you?"

Xinyi felt a little amused when she heard that. Lingxiang had said that to her before, and now she was trying to use tricks to drag him into it. But since she had already said that, she should just let her do it. After all, she was nominally her master, so she had to give her some face.

Thinking of this, Xinyi glared at the city lord's wife. This glare was not simple. It was one of the Lu family's methods of subduing demons, a method of frightening demons.

The City Lord's wife immediately became nervous upon seeing this, but she forced herself to remain calm and said, "You! What are you going to do? This is the City Lord's Mansion, and I am the City Lord's wife!"

"Oh? Really?" Lingxiang said as she put down the teacup. "Since she is the city lord's wife, why are you so nervous? The magic he used just now is only effective against monsters. If it were an ordinary person, it would just be a glance."

"I... I wasn't nervous at all! It's just... that man looked ferocious and frightened me."

"Not nervous?" Lingxiang said, pinching the chin of the city lord's wife. "There's no charcoal fire in this room. If you're not nervous, why are you sweating so much in the middle of winter?"

"Maybe... maybe I'm wearing too much..." The city lord's wife couldn't persuade Lingxiang away, so she could only look aside.

"Heavy?" Lingxiang let go of the City Lord's wife and turned around, laughing softly, "They are just some silk clothes. I didn't expect that the City Lord's wife has maintained such a good health in the past two or three months."

"Yes... yes, since you left last time, I have learned some martial arts from the guards in the mansion, and my body..."

"shut up!"

Before the City Lord's wife could finish her words, Lingxiang immediately spoke up to stop her.

"Not to mention that the City Lord's wife has learned martial arts, with her body, it is impossible for her to do heavy work! Otherwise, I wouldn't have secretly given her a pack of health pills before I left last time!"

As he said this, he turned around and looked at the city lord's wife, with no trace of teasing on her face.

"Before, the city lord's wife fainted when she was hit by a yellow fox, and you said that Xinyi's ferocious monster scared you, but you can still sit here well! Why don't you tell the truth!?"

The "City Lord's Wife" on the seat was speechless after being asked this question. She looked at Lingxiang for a long time and finally slumped down on the armchair.

"How do you know I'm not the city lord's wife?" the man asked after a long time.

"Since you ask this, you are admitting that you are not the city lord's wife?" Lingxiang said, sitting back in her chair.

The person sitting on the seat hesitated for a long time before saying, "I am indeed not the wife of the city lord, but this body belongs to the wife of the city lord..."

Ling Xiang was surprised when she heard this. "So, you used the method of taking over another's body?"

The person sitting on the table nodded. Lingxiang asked, "Did Ah Jin help you?"

Hearing this, the man looked at Lingxiang in surprise, but Lingxiang seemed to know everything and just sat there calmly drinking tea.

"Yes, I guessed who you were from the beginning, and I just wanted to find out. With your cultivation level, you have only received incense for a few years, and it is impossible for you to take over someone else's body. The only one who can help you is A Jin, right, A Lu?"

It was actually A'lu!

"Since you already knew it was me, why bother with all this?" Ah Lu said as he sat up, completely unlike the gentle look he had just had.

Upon hearing this, Lingxiang took out two boxes from her Qiankun bag.

"With your level of cultivation, even if you succeed in taking over another body, this body might not be able to fit you. And your body is probably being guarded by those little yellow-skinned creatures, so it will definitely decay over time." As he said this, he placed the box on a small table beside him.

"Here is a box of Liuxiang Pills. Take one pill for your physical body every month to ensure safety. You are in the body of the City Lord's wife, so this body must not be able to get used to nature. If this goes on for a long time, something bad will happen. The Liuxiang Pills can also help you get through this period of time. Now that Ah Jin is not here, you can't take care of the guards in the mansion. The City Lord's mansion is a place with abundant spiritual energy, and it is possible that those monsters will come to the door. I will give you two more Juling Pills to train your descendants, so that you can be safe."

"Since you already know that I am not the real madam, why do you still treat me like this? Don't you practitioners all claim that it is your responsibility to eliminate demons and defend the way of Taoism?" A'qu asked Lingxiang in a daze.

Lingxiang chuckled: "It's just the sophistry of some hypocritical people. They say that demons harm people, but who did you harm by doing this? There are not many clear right and wrong in the world. What I believe is that there are only human hearts. Some people who are born as human beings are not as pure and kind as you. Or..."

"Or just think of it as me doing this for my own good!"

……

Ah Qu stared at the elixir given by Ling Xiang on the table in a trance, and kept thinking about the instructions given by his lady before her death that night.

On the night of the 28th, Ajin suddenly found her place of residence and said that her mistress wanted to see her, which surprised her greatly.

This lady is frail and doesn't seem to have any accomplishments. How come she knows of my existence?

She followed Ajin half-believing and half-doubting, but she couldn't help but ask the questions in her mind.

"Do you think my wife is really as ignorant as she appears to be?" Ajin said without turning his head.

What does this mean? Could it be that Madam still has some cultivation skills?
At this time, Ajin turned around, his fur blending into the darkness, but his golden eyes were like a golden moon, adding a bit of momentum to this crescent moon night.

"She is a descendant of the Qiao family, a family of demon hunters in Gaoling. How could she be the same as those people in the boudoir?"

What?! A family of demon hunters!?

Although I have only been practicing for a short time, I know a few things about the world. It seems that my wife is a descendant of the Qiao family.

Besides, wasn't the Qiao family wiped out many years ago? How did the lady escape?
"Madam is a person with the celestial spirit root aptitude that only existed in ancient times."

(End of this chapter)