Half a Brick
Chapter 76 Repeating the Old Trick
Okay, since she wasn't sending those female disciples to fight Qin Tianming, then I pretty much understood what Rakshasi (female demon) intended to do with them. Although I was now certain my answer was correct, I didn't interrupt again, but honestly listened to Rakshasi Mei continue to speak.
Anyway, she was going to tell the story, and there really wasn't any need for me to interrupt.
Rakshasi Mei continued, and sure enough, it was as I had guessed. These female disciples were being used as bargaining chips by Rakshasi to exchange for helping hands.
Although the female disciples' cultivation was inferior to Rakshasi's, they still had decent combat power with the blessing of the Jia Yi Gong (Wedding Dress Skill), and their internal energy was also very pure. More importantly, these female disciples were all extremely beautiful.
The *Hui Lin Yi Yi* mentions: "Rakshasa, this means evil ghost. They eat human flesh and blood, either flying in the sky or walking on the ground, swift and terrifying. The males are extremely ugly, while the females are very beautiful, and all devour humans."
It can be seen that female rakshasa ghosts are inherently very beautiful, and these disciples of Rakshasi were handpicked by her, so they can be said to be beauties among beauties. They had the figure and the face, and every frown and smile, every step and sway, not to mention the bonus of pure internal energy, just this beautiful ghostly form was enough to make many people's hearts flutter.
So, Rakshasi hid herself tightly, but sent a female disciple out to bewilder an old man in Qin Tianming's team.
For the sake of safety, Rakshasi did not choose Qin Tianming.
Qin Tianming came from a noble family and had seen everything since he was a child. He had a strong resistance to beauties, and he was there this time to make a name for himself. His upbringing taught him what was important and what was not, and he would not easily do irrational things.
But the old man was from humble origins. When he was young, he was a poor kid with no status, and no girl would look at him. When he finally achieved something, he was watched by many people because of his grassroots rise.
Although the old man had thought about indulging himself a bit when he was in his thirties, so many eyes were staring at him. For the sake of his reputation for being clean and self-disciplined, and for the sake of his hard-won status, he chose to live cautiously, not daring to have any flaws that could be criticized. He had persisted like this for decades.
He wasn't without thoughts when he saw beautiful women, but for the sake of his reputation, he married a woman who also had no status, no background, and who was very ordinary in appearance.
It can be said that his whole life had been burdened by his reputation. He hadn't enjoyed many things he should have, and he could only embrace those femme fatales in his dreams.
Such an old man, you can say he is the most powerful and strongest in his heart, or you can say he is the most fragile and vulnerable. As long as you use the right method, you can easily take him down. Once you have a handle on him, wouldn't Rakshasi be able to manipulate him however she wanted? He would have to do whatever she wanted him to do.
Don't even mention betraying Qin Tianming, he would probably be willing to kill Qin Tianming directly.
However, Rakshasi miscalculated. The old man did indeed sleep with the female disciple sent by Rakshasi, but he was not manipulated by Rakshasi.
The old man was even more ruthless than Rakshasi thought. Not only did he sleep with Rakshasi's eldest disciple, but he also absorbed all of her cultivation. In the end, he directly used a yellow talisman to scatter Rakshasi's eldest disciple's soul.
She was just a female ghost. Even if she had a relationship with him, she was still a ghost. Moreover, she was an evil ghost following Rakshasi. She should be killed.
After the old man scattered the eldest disciple, he even arrogantly went to Qin Tianming to ask for credit. Of course, he didn't say that he had eliminated Rakshasi's eldest disciple through such means. Instead, he said that he had encountered Rakshasi's eldest disciple in the back mountain, and after a hard battle, he had finally successfully eliminated this evil ghost.
Qin Tianming also felt that this was a good thing, and the attendants in charge of propaganda immediately began to embellish the story, making Rakshasi fume with rage.
In order to avenge her eldest disciple and to reverse the current unfavorable situation.
Rakshasi made a major decision, which was to repeat her old trick. She sent out her second and third disciples, and the target was still the old man.
Rakshasi felt that the last failure was because the old man was too cunning, and she had not expected that the old man could kill a ghost as soon as he got out of bed, without showing any mercy.
And after the female disciples lost their cultivation, they really had no combat power, so failure was reasonable.
This time, she would send two disciples together, one to seduce and the other to watch from the sidelines, protecting their companion from sacrificing her ghostly life while preserving important evidence that could ruin the old man's reputation, so that the old man would have no choice but to submit.
Rakshasi's eldest disciple had already died in the old man's hands, and the other disciples also knew how fierce the old man was, so naturally they didn't want to take any more risks. However, Rakshasi was fierce and irritable, an even more cruel existence than the old man. If they didn't go to deal with the old man, then Rakshasi had ten thousand ways to make them wish they were dead.
In order to make the second and third daughters go to seduce the old man obediently, Rakshasi directly tied the fourth daughter to a rack and lit a fire of the underworld underneath.
If the second and third daughters didn't carry out the mission, they would be roasted on the fire like the fourth daughter.
If the second and third daughters went and didn't return, the fourth daughter would be roasted on the fire until she died.
Only if the second and third daughters successfully completed the mission and returned could the fourth daughter be taken down from the rack.
There was no way. The second and third daughters could only set out tragically amidst the screams of the fourth daughter.
I don't know if it was Rakshasi's bad luck or the bad luck of the two female disciples, but when they went to find the old man, they happened to run into the old man playing chess with another old man.
Normally, when encountering this kind of situation, the two female disciples should postpone their actions and wait for the old man to be alone before making a move.
However, the two female disciples were frightened by the fourth daughter on the fire, fearing that they would be put on the fire by Rakshasi if they returned late, so they actually showed themselves directly.
The old man was a very upright person in terms of reputation. Although he dared to enjoy beautiful women when no one was around, he naturally had to pretend to be upright when his chess friend was present.
It was just that the old man could pretend to be upright, but his chess friend couldn't. In a few strokes, he pinned one of the female disciples to the bed.
When the other female disciple saw this, she thought, "This is terrible! Rakshasi told them to deal with the old man, not the old man's chess friend. How could they mess with the wrong person? Who knows how Rakshasi will punish them when they return?"
The female disciple was anxiously at a loss. Listening to her sister's screams, knowing that the chess friend was about to finish his business, she gritted her teeth, hardened her heart, and actually charged directly towards the old man.