Oh no! Seven kids at the start, all yellow and skinny.

Chapter 418 The Master Behind the Scenes

The moment Master Taichu saw the insect, his eyes widened, for it was none other than one of the two flying zombie insects that Yunyi had caught earlier.

The flying zombie insect had already been modified by Yun Yi and was now considered her pet. It probably sensed the presence of a living person, so it seemed somewhat excited. Unfortunately, it couldn't fly and could only emit a soft buzzing sound.

"You..." Master Taichu's expression changed completely. "Who exactly are you?"

"I am Fang Yunyi, you can call me Yunyi." Yunyi raised an eyebrow slightly. "What? Does the Daoist priest think I am someone else?"

"You are not Fang Yunyi." Master Taichu had calmed down from his initial shock. "What kind of demon are you?"

"Guess!" Yun Yi said, reaching out and pulling out the whip, which she then lashed out at Daoist Taichu.

"You..." Master Taichu didn't expect the other party to attack before they finished talking. He hurriedly waved his whisk to defend himself. He was quite skilled in martial arts and also knew Taoist magic, so apart from the initial panic, he quickly calmed down. "Demon, do not act rashly. Show yourself at once."

Yunyi chuckled: "Idiot."

"what?"

"I'm telling you, you're an idiot." Yun Yi changed her initial probing and sped up. With the crisp sound of the silver bells, the whip moved so fast that it left afterimages.

Master Taichu was ultimately a little lacking. When Yunyi increased her attack speed, he was overwhelmed and quickly took out a talisman and threw it over.

Yunyi glanced at the talisman and lashed it out with her whip, shattering the half-burnt talisman into pieces.

"Damn it!" Master Taichu was furious. He pulled out a handful of talismans. "Today, I'll make you reveal yourself." He threw them into the air.

Yun Yi frowned slightly. This old Taoist priest was quite skilled; these talismans did have power. With so many stacked together, their power was not to be underestimated. Fortunately, the old man had set up a barrier beforehand, otherwise she would have been exposed. She then put away her whip and pulled out a stack of talismans herself: "What are you talking about with a bunch of waste paper? Come on, try out your great-aunt's talismans." With that, she threw them out with a whoosh.

Dozens of talismans flew into the air, seemingly possessing sentience. Each talisman occupied a position and began to rotate, forming a Bagua (Eight Trigrams) plate that completely covered all of Master Taichu's talismans.

Soon, the talismans failed to even ignite on their own and fell to the ground, becoming nothing more than waste paper.

"The Seven Stars Eight Trigrams Formation?" Master Taichu's face truly changed, turning deathly pale. "You...you actually..."

Yunyi didn't give him a chance to ramble on. She took out her whip again and lashed it at Taichu: "Do you know? Villains die because they talk too much nonsense."

Before Master Taichu could dodge, he was struck in the chest and sent flying, crashing into the barrier before falling to the ground and spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Yun Yi cried out inwardly that something was wrong. The old man's blood could break his own barrier, and she couldn't afford to reveal her true identity for the time being. So she quickly stepped forward and stuffed the flying zombie worm into his mouth.

Master Taichu was too weak to resist and could only look at Yunyi in horror.

Yunyi glanced at the barrier, which was slowly dissipating, but judging from the speed, it would probably take another ten minutes or so. Therefore, she needed to interrogate them: "Tell me, what are these girls for?"

"I... Ah!" Master Taichu didn't want to say it, but the flying zombie worm wouldn't allow him to disobey, and directly burrowed into his brain, so the pain was indescribable.

Yunyi snapped her fingers.

Master Taichu fell silent: "You can actually modify flying zombies."

"That's nothing, isn't it?" Yunyi smiled. "Do you want to tell me? If you do, you won't have to suffer so much."

“I will say this,” Master Taichu took a deep breath, “The Emperor wants to live to be a hundred years old and wants me to help him extend his lifespan.”

Yunyi's face darkened immediately: "What a beast." The so-called lifespan borrowing means extending someone else's lifespan into one's own, but this comes at a price. It's not that if you borrow ten years from someone else, you will live ten years longer. Rather, it's a ten-to-one ratio, meaning that if someone else loses ten years of their lifespan, you can only gain one year.

Emperor Zhou Shun is fifty-one years old this year, and his health is already depleted. Recently, his health has been deteriorating, and he is no longer able to go to the harem. Therefore, if he wants to be healthy and live to be a hundred years old, he needs to extend his life by at least fifty years. So he needs to borrow five hundred years. How many people would he need to kill?

Master Taichu chuckled: "Anyone with this opportunity wouldn't miss it."

"So what are we doing today?"

"You are a woman from another world born in a yin year and yin month. Your lifespan is longer than others, and your blood can cure all poisons and beautify the skin..."

Yunyi: ...

Why does she seem like Tang Sanzang?

"What about them?"

“Their virgin blood is the best ingredient.” Master Taichu swallowed again.

"Heh." Yun Yi chuckled coldly, no longer dwelling on the matter. "Who's your master?"

“I…I am loyal to the Emperor.”

"Bullshit!" Yun Yi snapped. "Do you think I'm stupid?"

But Tai Chu remained silent.

Yunyi urged the flying zombie insects, but the old Taoist priest with the bull's nose wouldn't let go even though he was rolling on the ground in pain.

Clearly, the person behind this old Taoist priest is even more powerful.

Seeing that she couldn't get any more information and the barrier was about to disappear, Yunyi stopped insisting: "Alright, I won't make things difficult for you anymore, but the worm is already inside you. Although you raised it, it's now under my control, so you know what to do."

"Yes." Master Taichu cursed inwardly. He was being bullied by both sides. If only he had known... Oh well, there's no point in wishing he had known. This is his fate.

The barrier disappeared quickly.

Master Taichu painfully got up and found that Yunyi had already lain down and continued to be unconscious. He couldn't help but purse his lips, took out a small bottle, cut his finger, put half a bottle of blood into it, and then went over to open the door.

"Grand Preceptor, how is it?" The first to ask was Emperor Zhou Shun, who had been waiting outside for the better part of an hour.

"Everyone is alright now." Master Taichu chanted his Taoist name. "They will all wake up soon." He then showed the other person his bottle.

Emperor Zhou Shun smiled and nodded, "That's good, thank you for your hard work, Grand Preceptor." He then glanced at everyone, "You've all been wronged. Go back and rest well. Guards, give each of you a set of jewelry as a reward."

Grandpa Zhong hurriedly agreed.

The parents of everyone quickly helped express their gratitude.

About fifteen minutes later, the girls who had been unconscious began to wake up one after another.