Chapter 55

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Poison of the Human Panacea: Chapter 55

“To agree this simply, you don’t even seem like a wolf cub now.” Wu Yanfu smiled like he’d just released a sigh of relief, his body swayed and his hand pinned against the wall.

That was when Bai Tan felt wetness in front of his chest, he fixed his eyes on it.

Through the opening of the man’s clothing, those obvious, extremely deep wounds on his chest were exposed, even a few of the ghost vines had broken, it seemed as if they were made by a wild beast. Plus, sand was all over the wounds, even his flesh was all over the place, causing it not to be able to heal as quickly as it had in the past. Visually, it was very frightful.

Bai Tan’s heart clenched, “You are…”

“Got clawed by the Gu Ren on the ring.” Wu Yanfu observed his expression, “You’re caring for this master?”

Bai Tan furrowed his brows, “It’s just a pity about the medicinal blood.”

“You’re caring for this master.” Once finished, Wu Yanfu held him up to walk up the stairs, Bai Tan didn’t struggle, he nervously pointed to the empty room on the left, “Go to that room.”

Wu Yanfu got the door open in one kick, he walked to the bedside and couldn’t stop as he fell onto it, pressing the person in his embrace onto the bed as well. Bai Tan pushed himself up then jumped off the bed, he struggled to flip the other over. Wu Yanfu lay on the bed with no movement at all, his head tilt to the side as his half-opened eyes looked at him, seeming very weak.

Bai Tan had already been prepared to fight to the death with him, never had he expected this kind of situation. Suddenly, he didn’t know what to do. He looked around to see a pot of wine, so he retrieved it, then also got the oil lamp. He ripped off a clean piece of cloth from his inner clothes before squatting down to help Wu Yanfu treat the claw wounds on Wu Yanfu’s chest.

He used the wine to soak the cloth so he could get the sand out of his wounds, bit by bit. This should’ve been extremely painful, but Wu Yanfu just felt like his chest was being scratched by a little kitten’s claws over and over, even causing his heart to feel numb from the scratching.

Though it was merely a wound treatment, it was a hundred times more pleasurable to him than to be admired by thousands.

Wu Yanfu’s gaze fixed on the youth’s face without looking away at all, the candlelight had made his fierce brows and eyes appear gentle as well. His eyelashes that shuddered slightly were like a moth flying into fire, intruding into the forbidden zone of his.

Noticing his stare, Bai Tan held his head super low, but his slightly rushed breathing had exposed him.

“It’s done, lay for a while first.”

He turned around, but was grabbed by Wu Yanfu’s hand and pulled back unexpectedly, slumped on the bed, surrounded by the man’s half-naked body. A head of silver locks bent down, covering the candlelight, mottled and ambiguous, but the flickering sentiment in those blue eyes was crystal clear.

“Tan’er.”

Bai Tan panicked internally from the given look, he avoided his eyes with a cold face, then a large hand caressed his cheek, heat seeped through the ice-cold palm as two fingers pinched his earlobe, stroking without stop.

Bai Tan turned his head to dodge, he clawed towards his chest, “Don’t pinch my ear!”

“This master is still going to.” Wu Yanfu couldn’t help but laugh, he just wanted to lower his head and give it a bite. However, it was really inconvenient with the mask on his face, he grabbed his wrist, “Little wolf cub, still this ferocious even without your martial skills, where did you get the guts from? If not for the fact that master adores you, how could master allow you to be this impudent?”

Bai Tan was annoyed and wanted to retort, but remembering Li Wuzhang’s situation, he relaxed his tone, “When did you adore me? You obviously… just want to have a pet.”

This sentence that fell in Wu Yanfu’s ears merely seemed coquettish, he couldn’t help cover the other’s eyes with a hand, remove his mask and kiss him, starting from light to deep. Bai Tan couldn’t handle it, his mind was immediately in a mess, he panted continuously while the root of his ears flushed red.

Since he’d gotten a taste of love making, even his body heated up, emitting sweetly-fragrant sweat.

Afraid that he might get excited from smelling it, Bai Tan immediately started to flounder.

Wu Yanfu was already riled up, he took in a breath, and when his lips and tongue withdrew, a wisp of silver thread appeared on the tip of his tongue.

“Who would allow their pet to annihilate them, and even tolerate him to scratch and claw at them, mn?”

Bai Tan’s chest trembled, even though he clearly knew enough of how cold-blooded this person was, to be treated so gently by him now, an ember still lit up within the dead ashes in the bottom of his heart. The most powerful weapons in this world aren’t blades without eyes, but tender affection and sweet words, it is both a soft punishment, and poison as well, it could end one’s life easily.

Sadly, he didn’t have the life to enjoy the most fatal poison of the world.

“Shizun, if you sincerely adore Tan’er, then can you agree to something for Tan’er?”

Wu Yanfu listened to him acting spoiled with him, he couldn’t stop the waves inside of his heart, he put the mask on again, “What is it?”

Bai Tan gulped, “The spell on Li Wuzhang, it was cast by you, right?”

Wu Yanfu’s eyes darkened, he already knew what he wanted to say, “That’s right. He betrayed this master, so naturally this master would punish him.”

“Can you… forgive him?”

Wu Yanfu squinted his eyes, he was completely silent for a long while, holding tightly onto his waist, he spoke one word at a time, “Since Tan’er has spoken, this master will forgive him this once; but, though the death punishment can be exempted, he can’t run from other punishments. This master is going to kick him out of the sect, leaving him to survive on his own, you and him shall not interact ever again in the future.”

“Do you really mean it?” Bai Tan hadn’t thought he would agree, he couldn’t believe it.

“That will be decided by you.” Wu Yanfu smiled, “This master and you still have forty-eight positions that haven’t been trained left.”

Bai Tan’s face flushed, he quickly questioned, “Then…can Shizun undo the spell on him?”

Wu Yanfu face expressed displeasure, “Tan’er is focused on thinking of another person, what place does that leave master?”

Bai Tan was speechless for a moment, that sentence was full of the smell of jealousy, he didn’t seem like a master, he sounded just like a grumbling, imperial concubine of the Cold Palace[1].

“Then…tomorrow morning.”

“Alright, what you said, tomorrow morning.” Wu Yanfu reached out a hand to flick the candle flame out, he let down the bed curtain then sighed deeply, “The spring night is too bitterly short, time within the curtains should be cherished well.”

Once Bai Tan heard those words, the hairs all over his body stood up, he immediately wanted to escape off the bed, but was blocked by Wu Yanfu at the bed’s end; so he tried crawling out under his arm, it was like Wu Yanfu had caught a little fox. After he’d finally caught the person back into his embrace, Bai Tan shrank in fear with one kiss, then with another kiss, he shrank in even more, his whole body was rolled up into a ball again.

Wu Yanfu looked at how he used his arms to block his face securely with a curved back as his knees balled up to cover his abdomen, it was both funny and angering. With one hand, he held onto the pair of delicate jade-like feet that he couldn’t hide, grasping them in his palm.

“Was last night’s activity that scary? This master thought it had… an endless aftertaste.”

Bai Tan shook his head, biting onto his lip to not make any sounds…… Wu Yanfu was definitely still wanting to take away his martial powers.

If it didn’t succeed the first time, then there would be a next time, he still had forty-eight opportunities left.

As long as he was still alive for a day, he couldn’t afford to lose his martial power, just as a pangolin can’t lose their shell.

But how could Wu Yanfu allow him to keep those sharp claws.

Wu Yanfu didn’t cross the line. “Whatever, since you’re so scared, it’ll be fine for this master to teach you in later days as well.” He lay down while hugging him, then pulled up the blanket to wrap both of them under it, his arms held him from behind, locking him tightly into his embrace. Such a position was very intimate, Bai Tan instantly felt a wave of movement from his alluring bone. He quickly turned around and his face happened to press against Wu Yanfu’s, sticking right up against the cold and chilly jade mirror mask.

A dull light drifted in the dark, seeming rather gloomy.

“Why are you always wearing this mask, and even have bandages underneath?”

“Do you still remember this master’s past appearance?”

Bai Tan’s head shook like a pallet drum.

This little kid! Wu Yanfu grazed the tip of his nose, he threatened in a low voice, “If you don’t remember, then master also has a method to make you remember, except, you might not really like that method.”

Bai Tan shivered in fear, he nodded.

“If you remember, then illustrate this master’s appearance, this master naturally has a use for it.”

Bai Tan quickly realized it……

In the Jiang Hu community, Wu Yanfu’s identity would be much more useful than Tian Su’s identity.

But…

Bai Tan remembered something, he blurted out a question, “Why should I illustrate it? That Si You already knew your identity, right? He’s so loyally infatuated with you, shouldn’t he remember your appearance even better?”

Wu Yanfu paused and then hugged him tighter, “This master said, you will illustrate.”

Bai Tan was stunned for a while with wide eyes, understanding the meaning behind those words, his breathing stopped for an instant.

“If you let me kill him, then I will illustrate for you.”

“Tan’er, you’ve already cut off his arm, wasn’t that bad enough? Si You used to be…”

Bai Tan broke out of his arms roughly, he jumped off the bed, “I know he was once your Concubine Ming, he followed you and was by your side for over ten years, you merely searched for me because you didn’t want him to die.”

“Tan’er, who did you hear such things from?”

“Naturally it was from Si You. You believe in him, and not me, logically, you should believe in his portrait illustration more, right?”

“Then tell this master, did Si You kill someone with Shiyue then cut his own arm off?”

Bai Tan’s chest clogged up in anger, “That’s right, he certainly cut off his own arm. He schemed against me, he had it all planned out since the beginning, luring me to accidentally kill that Kong Xing Sect’s monk, then purposely crashed into my blade!”

“Nonsense!” Wu Yanfu sat up from the bed, he raised his eyes and fixed them on him, “As the Fu Tu Sect’s Hu Fa for two generations, also a well-known figure of Jiang Hu, in order to scheme against you, he was willing to cripple himself? While there’s you, in order to train martial arts in the beginning, you seduced this master’s close friend, Mi Lansheng, did you think this master had forgotten?”

Bai Tan had no words to respond with, he clenched his fists tight, the little ember at the bottom of his heart extinguished completely.

In the end, he wouldn’t believe him, whatever, there was never any trust to be had between the two of them.

“Right, in order to train, I didn’t care what method I used. I saw Mi Lansheng had pretty good martial skills, so I wanted to use him for testing, ha, he kept saying he’d avenge you, but what happened in the end? His was entranced by my seduction, head dizzy, he even stole a piece of veil I wore……”

“Silence!” Scenes of his enchanting look as he acted out that day in front of Mi Lansheng flashed by Wu Yanfu’s eyes, his heart burst in anger. He dragged the other over and firmly pushed him onto the bed.

“Right, if this master wasn’t here, you probably would’ve already been pleasured underneath someone else.”

Each word of this sentence was a spike in his ears, Bai Tan suddenly felt a sharp pain in his alluring bone, instantly, his whole body shivered. He wanted to have his points released and escape right there, but was mindful that Li Wuzhang was still under Wu Yanfu’s control, so he forcefully endured it.

“As my shizun, when you violated me by taking advantage of me being in a vulnerable state, you sure didn’t feel ashamed!”

“Ashamed? Today, this master will act shamefully to the end then!”

“Don’t you know how to enchant people? Why is it that you become like this with this master?”

Wu Yanfu grabbed onto his belt before pulling it down in an instant, then he grabbed the youth’s lapels to pull them apart harshly.

“Mhn…… Shizun, no! No!” Bai Tan started yelling panickedly, immediately showing his weak side as he struggled with all his mind, yet still, all his clothes were peeled off, falling to the floor in the next moment. He held onto both of his legs, curling up to a ball entirely to protect his body, helpless like a child facing a beast.

Wu Yanfu’s movement staggered seeing him like that, suddenly, a loud knock came from the door.

A figure walked in through the door, but after just a few steps, he kneeled onto the ground with a loud thud.

“Shizun…please let Tan’er go. He’s already…”

“Shut up!” Bai Tan yelled fiercely, he didn’t want to let Wu Yanfu know that he didn’t have long left to live.

He doesn’t want him to find some way to save him, he only wished to… never meet him again in the next life.

Xiao’s Comments: Ugh, why would you not want him to save you? I know you’re disappointed but what Wu Yanfu said about your actions weren’t false…

Translator: Crispyfry

Proofreader: Grumpykit

QC: Xiao

Translator’s Notes:

[1] Cold Palace (冷宫) – this was a place where a prince, princess, concubine, or anyone else that had fallen out of the emperor’s favor, but were not allowed to leave the imperial palace, would be placed at. It’s basically a place where one is confined and most importantly neglected. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4danvs/what_was_exactly_the_cold_palace_%E5%86%B7%E5%AE%AB_in_the/

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