Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman (1-200)

Chapter 103: A Painting Worth Seven Figures

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Gu Xiqiao wasn’t aware of the thoughts that were running through Tang Qinghong’s mind. Rolling her eyes, she turned to look out at the yard.

 Tang Qinghong had yet to finish arranging the items in his hand, and he had never felt more embarrassed than he was now in his life. When this was all over, he was going to return to Jing Capital and remove his seals immediately, this feeling was really humiliating!

 “What’s wrong with my house?” Gu Xiqiao asked, still looking around. She glanced at the setting sun and the reddish-orange sky as she took out the bamboo tube from last night. “I don’t feel anything.”

 “You’re just at Bone Refinement level, right?” Tang Qinghong said, straightening up, thinking that he would give her a basic understanding of the ancient martial arts world. He had felt it last night, when her chi was surging up, it was even comparable to some disciples in the Tendon Forging levels. “Under normal circumstances, you wouldn’t be able to see the malicious aura, yesterday was an abnormal incident. You may not know about the problem in your house, but on the first day I came here, the malicious aura here was ten times stronger than the one on the mountain!”

 “What is more curious is that your house is built on this land, and it seems like it was done deliberately. The malicious aura that lingers here, an average person would definitely die in about half a year without even knowing the reason for it. Disregarding the fact that you’re not affected due to your chi, but how is it that the people living nearby this area are also unaffected?”

 Gu Xiqiao looked around the small yard again in surprise. She knew more about this place than him, naturally. Yu Man had passed away two months ago, and she had left the place. Returning two months later, she found that the people staying closest to her—the Li family and the village chief, they had been caught up in all kinds of accidents. According to her memory from her past life, the entire village had moved out of this place soon after.

 “I don’t know why I can’t see it,” Gu Xiqiao said, as she continued to glance around. She couldn’t feel anything wrong, and she always felt that Yu Man had something to do with it. “My mother had never said anything about it either.”

 Tang Qinghong placed the last piece of jade from his hands down, and there was a sudden ripple that tore through the air. Tang Qinghong’s face paled slightly, but nothing else happened. He turned to Gu Xiqiao, looking at her with a solemn expression. “You’re also part of the ancient martial arts world, I need your help in this matter!”

 “You don’t even need to ask,” Gu Xiqiao replied, taking a deep breath. “Let me know what you need.”

 Her bright eyes narrowed slightly as she glanced around again, accurately pinpointing the few jade stones that Tang Qinghong had placed. Without waiting for him to say anything, Gu Xiqiao reached out to change the position of a few of them. A wave of energy rippled the air, and then there was a steady wave of energy circulating in the area.

 “This is… a small Eight Trigram array?” Tang Qinghong’s surprise expression broke through his gentle mask again, feeling slightly numb as he asked, “How do you know this?”

 1Even for him, it would have taken a lot of effort to set up the small formation, and the entire process would take all the energy he had in his body, otherwise he would have done something by now. But how was it that she just casually moved her hands and formed the array, which didn’t look like it took any effort at all by the look on her face?

 “I just practised some.” Gu Xiqiao said, looking at him. Then she raised the bamboo tube that was shaking uneasily due to the formation, and coldly said, “If you continue to move, I’ll burn you.”