Chapter 570.2: Beauty Gu

Li Hong Yuan’s shadow guards took it all in. This woman, afraid, wasn’t that simple, from the looks of it, perhaps even having deep grudges with their master. Moreover, that obsession seemingly was also a bit too deep. This was just even more strange. But, they were very clear, they’ve never seen this woman before by their master’s side. Then, then it can only mean that this face wasn’t hers, or perhaps, she was closely related to someone that had ‘deep connections’ with their master.

These things, perhaps will have an answer very soon, but even if there isn’t one, it also didn’t matter. Regardless whether it’s resentment or grudges, once all taken care of, then there won’t be anything serious left, so who would still care about exactly who she was.

The woman returned to her own room, having the things inside thoroughly smashed. Anger made her entire face seemingly all distort and change shape somewhat. Just, as she was smashing, she suddenly stopped. Her face pierced with a burning pain, and afterwards, her perfectly fine face suddenly seeped with blood, seemingly appearing to be decaying little by little.

She alarmingly used her two hands to cover her face, hurriedly putting on the veil, “Someone come, bring over a sacrifice from the dungeons, quick, quickly———–” Irritation, fear, and impatience overlapped.

A woman’s voice sounded outside, but it wasn’t Qi Yuan’s official language, and seemingly also wasn’t one of Qi Yuan’s relatively common local dialects either. It should be an even more obscure language, even possibly not existing within Qi Yuan’s borders.

Movements very quickly sounded outside. A beautiful, yet appearing at most just thirteen fourteen years old, plainly dressed young girl got dragged in by two women dressed in clothes of the same ethnic tribe, casually throwing on the ground. That young girl perhaps knew what kind of ending she will be facing, thus from her eyes to her expression, it all penetrated with deep fear. Just, she was unable to speak, only able to make a ‘wu wu’ sound from her throat, kneeling on the floor and loudly kowtowing. Even if unable to speak, it was still obvious that she was begging for her life.

The woman bent over. Her fingers that had the nails dyed with blood red nail polish pinched the young girl’s chin. Just that hand, that was originally smooth, delicate, and pretty, this while was instead like having dried up, the veins protruding, the skin dry without luster, even having fine wrinkles, “To be able to become my sacrificial offering, that is your honor. However, no need to be this excited either.” Her other hand even lightly caressed the young girl’s face, “Really pretty, but also really loathsome.” She affectionately murmured softly like as if facing her lover. Just, that fingernail slid across the young girl’s face again and again, from shallow red lines, to strips and strips of bloody cuts. Fear and pain interweaved in the young girl’s eyes. Perhaps because of deep fear, she was unable to move, with only her body uncontrollably trembling.

And perhaps because of the sweet blood on the young girl’s face, the woman’s arm suddenly started bubbling. Slowly, from the inside of her wrist, a very large patch swelled up. The skin got blown up, even appearing somewhat translucent. And when it swelled to a certain degree, it suddenly split open. A pitch black lump crawled out from inside. Under careful examination, it was somewhat like a spider covered in fine fur. And from the young girl’s line of sight, because it was the closest, she seemingly saw on the spider’s body a human face.

She originally was just an ordinary peasant family daughter, and because her family was still considered wealthy, she had always been pampered and sheltered, carrying innocence and naivety. Yet, one day, she got deceived by a stranger, and afterwards, got kidnapped over. And very soon, she just learned what kind of fate she might be facing, because in front of her, she’d seen not just once. She was paralyzed in fear all day, hoping that she can be saved, all the way until this moment………..

Her last desire to survive made her began struggling with all her might. Because of suddenly exerting strength, the hand that was holding her chin, directly cut through the skin, fresh blood directly spilling, causing that ‘spider’ to become increasingly restless.

And that woman, because of the other party’s resistance, produced violent anger, grabbing the young girl by the hair, directly having the spider shoved into the young girl’s mouth, “Insolent little slut!”

The young girl was still struggling. Just, the struggle right now perhaps wasn’t just because of her desire to live.

Just, that woman that separated from the ‘spider’, her skin became increasingly worse. If earlier, it was that of a young maiden, and afterwards a middle-aged woman, then right now, perhaps it’d already become that of an old woman. Just, one was unable to see her face, so no one knows how horrifying it has become.

However, because of that change, the woman also became even more irritable, and that fresh young life under her hand just became the target of her venting, both pinching and kicking, like a crazy old woman.

And that young girl also gradually stopped struggling, visibly aging rapidly, all the way to the end, appearing as if seventy eighty years old.

The woman finally disdainfully let go. The aged young girl that just had one last breath left collapsed on the ground. Afterwards, a bright red ‘spider’ crawled out from her collar. Compared to previously, it grew more than double its size. Crawling along the woman’s extended hand, along the original path, it crawled back into her body, and that opening on her wrist also instantly disappeared without a trace. The originally aged skin became glossy and supple again, and that hand also was like slender jade.

During the entire process, the woman was just like having taken an immortal pill. From her mouth came a sigh that made one’s bones all soften along with, and the dark air around her, also because of regaining her youth and beauty, disappeared without a trace. Removing the veil, she was full of smiles, still that captivating beauty.

TN: All

Without needing her to say anything, the ‘young girl’ on the ground just got dragged out like trash.

“Go make preparations, I want to bathe.” The woman said, carrying a bit of laziness.

The pupils of the two women serving by the side shrunk, “Saintess, is it a normal bath, or………….”

“This kind of thing, if even need for me to say, then what use is there having you all?” Her languid tone instantly became sharp.

“Saintess, please forgive, we will go prepare for saintess right away.” The two of them fearfully begged for forgiveness, and afterwards, hurriedly retreated out, just fearing that if a step too slow, the saintess will just use them to feed the beauty gu.

Beauty gu, just as the name implies, can make an ugly person become beautiful, and can also let a person preserve their youth and beauty. But, from that so called saintess’s actions just now, one will just know, to want to remain beautiful, how cruel of a method this was.

In order for the beauty gu to take effect, one must use beautiful young girls to raise it. And those beautiful unmarried girls were the best option. The more beautiful the sacrifice that got ‘eaten’, the longer the user of the beauty gu can maintain their beauty. But, no matter how beautiful, it at most will just last for a month, and afterwards, one must feed on sacrifices again. But, as the number of times increase, the effect will just gradually weaken, and as the user increase in age, it similarly will cause the effect to weaken. Towards the end, for a single human life, it perhaps was just two three days. In fact, one might even need two three human sacrifices at a time. It can be seen, this beauty gu, just how cruel and sinister of a thing it was. And for the people that used the beauty gu to remain beautiful, they already exceeded the scale of a human, becoming less than an animal.

And this saintess actually wasn’t that old, merely just twenty years old, and one sacrifice can also last for a month, but she still wanted to use the blood bath.

The blood bath naturally just used blood, and the source of the blood was just the same as the sacrifices. But, how much blood can a single person have? And how many lives need to be sacrificed in for a single blood bath? Even though the blood bath’s function was also for maintaining the beauty, but in the early stages of using the beauty gu, it at most can just add on a tiny bit of effect. And correspondingly, it would instead have the beauty gu raised too well, letting the beauty gu become increasingly greedy, wanting to eat even more sacrifices, eating even more frequently.

And for this so called saintess? Whenever she was in the mood, she will just want to take a blood bath.

For this kind of person, phrases such as snake, scorpion, animal, and so on already wasn’t enough to describe.

A bathtub was very quickly lifted in. And afterwards, seeing the amount of blood in the tub, this saintess flew into a rage, “How come it’s just this bit?” In reality, it was already quite a lot. Sitting in it, it for the most part can fill up to her lower abdomen.

“Saintess, please forgive, in the dungeons, there already isn’t anymore sacrifices. This place is rather remote, not having any inhabitants, so the sacrifices were all brought over from other places. Because recently we’ve been frequently catching people, the relatively close places have already attracted the attention of Qi Yuan’s authorities, if……….”

“Shut up, I don’t want to hear your excuses. Regardless of what methods you use, continue bringing me even more sacrifices. As for now, it’s time for you all to offer yourself up.” The saintess coldly said.

The two women’s eyes dyed with deep fear, their bodies also slightly trembling, but they didn’t panic, hurriedly kneeling down, “To be able to offer oneself up for the saintess is our honor, but right now, there isn’t any other sisters present, so when time comes, who will be serving saintess?”

The saintess knew that they were merely just making excuses, but this was also indeed a fact. She can’t just have no one serving by her side, “Fine, temporarily spare you all, now quickly go draw water to fill it up. Just this bit, how can I bathe?”

Adding water, the effect certainly will weaken. This made this so called saintess quite displeased.

But, it was also better than nothing. Thus, after it was ready, her entire body sunk into the water. A moment later, she slowly lifted her head. Her entire head and face was filled with blood water. No matter how one looked, it was all very disgusting, yet she exceptionally took pleasure in it.

Perhaps because of the beauty gu, the blood water gradually diluted, and towards the end, it actually became clear water.

The saintess stood up from the water, her entire body appearing snow white and rosy, lustrous like gemstones. That skin even surpassed the most high quality silk.

Using the softest fabric, her body was wiped dry little by little. Standing before a body mirror, she carefully studied her own body inch by inch, just like admiring the most perfect work of art.

Narcissism perhaps wasn’t anything, but being narcissistic to a certain degree, that was just no different from a pervert.

However, this was already in the middle of winter. In this thatched hut located in the middle of nowhere, there certainly won’t be any heating, so was she just not afraid of the cold? The cold perhaps can be endured, but the changes on the body wasn’t something that can be erased by just enduring. But, this saintess previously just dressed quite revealingly. Even for those that practiced martial arts all year round, their clothes were all thicker than hers, yet her body didn’t have the slightest change. This was just very abnormal.

Using the blood water to recuperate, even the damage caused by the love-locking gu seemingly all disappeared.

T/N: The wording for the last part might be a bit confusing, and even as I was translating I didn’t understand what the author meant at first, but it’s talking about the natural reactions on the human body in cold weather. For example, the skin becoming chapped in the cold, or the face turning red, and so on.