Xiaodie was noncommittal and didn't speak.
Qining thought for a moment and then asked softly: "Xiaodie, Ksitigarbha and this group of people are important criminals of the imperial court. Sooner or later, the imperial court will arrest them. You can't stay with them anymore and you have to find a way to leave here. "
"But...!" Xiaodie hesitated, and finally said: "Are you bent on doing things for those dignitaries now?"
Qi Ning smiled and said: "Do things for them? What qualifications do they have to ask me to do things for them." After thinking for a while, he said: "The first thing I have to do is to protect the people around me, and I will do my best to protect the people around me. Do something for the people of the world. Xiaodie, you may not know something in this deep mountain. The previous emperor has passed away, and now a new emperor has ascended the throne. Although this little emperor is not old, he has great ambitions. He I hope to bring peace and prosperity to the people, and as long as he really does this, I will try my best to help him."
Xiaodie sighed softly: "Have you forgotten, we...when we were in trouble, we didn't see the government coming to help us, but those corrupt officials wanted to harm us."
"The emperor will definitely do this to rectify the administration of officials." Qi Ning said: "Xiaodie, does Ksitigarbha send people to train you to make you rebel against the imperial court?"
Xiaodie said: "I don't know if we want to resist the imperial court, but those corrupt officials must be eliminated. The boy told us that as long as we train hard, when the time comes, we can go down the mountain to take the heads of corrupt officials. .”
"That's to train you into killing tools." Qining sneered.
Xiaodie said, "Don't... those corrupt officials deserve to be killed?"
"Of course they should be killed." Qi Ning said: "But it is not to assassinate with Ksitigarbha's method, but to find out the crimes of those corrupt officials according to the court's system and to clear them out justifiably."
"There are so many corrupt officials in the world, how can we eradicate them?" Xiaodie sighed: "And those corrupt officials are protected by officials, how can the court get rid of them?"
Qi Ning's voice was solemn: "Perhaps we won't be able to clear out all the corrupt officials in the end, but Xiaodie, I promise you, as long as I live, I will do my best to guillotine those corrupt officials who have harmed the people. But Compared with those corrupt officials, many evildoers with ulterior motives who want to bring chaos to the world are even more abominable. They use the banner of resisting the court, but they are not really benefiting the people, but just to achieve their own selfish interests. For such I will not be soft on people like you." After a pause, he said: "With the war, people are displaced everywhere, and how many people are displaced. I want to help the emperor establish a peaceful world and prevent the people from continuing to be displaced."
Xiaodie was silent for a moment, and finally said: "You can't be wrong when you say this. Little Diao'er, you are locked up here, but... can you think of any way to escape?"
"This place is closed on all sides. I can talk to you now only because there is such a small hole for delivering food." Qining sighed: "There are no accessible doors on all four sides. I guess there must be some mechanism or something like that, but There is absolutely no way to find any secrets in this."
Xiaodie said softly: "There are still people guarding outside day and night. There are spies everywhere in Yegui Ridge. Even if we can get out of this prison, it is very difficult to escape from Yegui Ridge. There are many places on this mountain where we are not allowed to move around at will. , I have been going up the mountain for a long time, and I have seen very few places. I don’t even know... I don’t even know the topography of the mountain, and I don’t know where the road down the mountain is.”
"Are you all restricted in your actions?"
"After we go up the mountain, someone will monitor us every day, and someone will train us." Xiaodie whispered: "Once we go up the mountain, no one can go down the mountain without permission. In the past... someone wanted to sneak down the mountain before, but they didn't go far. Yuan entered the forbidden area and was immediately caught, and then...!" There was a hint of panic in his voice. Although he did not continue, Qining had already guessed that the fate of those who escaped from Wild Ghost Ridge without authorization would be very miserable.
Qi Ning thought to himself that although he had to rely on Xiaodie's help to escape from here, this Wild Ghost Ridge was heavily guarded, and he must not let Xiaodie fall into danger because of himself. He said softly: "I see, but don't worry. , I can figure out a way to get out of here soon.”
"You... can you come up with any ideas?" Xiaodie said, "You yourself said that this prison is as solid as gold and there is absolutely no way to escape. Don't worry, I... I will always come up with a way."
"Xiaodie, you must not act rashly." Qining knew that since Xiaodie knew that she was Xiao Diaoer, she would risk her life to save him. He was moved in his heart, but he was even more worried about putting Xiaodie in danger: "I can think of a way myself, this mountain is all theirs, you...!"
"Don't worry, I will be careful myself." Xiaodie's voice was very calm, but the determination beneath the calm was self-evident.
Qining could see Xiaodie's affection for Xiao Diao'er from just a few followers. He knew that although this girl was instilled by the Ksitigarbha people in the mountains to hate the imperial court, deep down in Xiaodie's heart , but the former kindness and friendship did not disappear because of Ksitigarbha, and he whispered: "Xiaodie, if we really want to go out, it will be difficult for just the two of us to do it. You just said that there are people detained nearby. Someone else."
"Yes, he is not far from here, in another prison." Xiaodie said: "I pass by there first every day, deliver food to him and then come to your side."
"Have you never spoken to him?"
Xiaodie hummed softly, and Qining said: "He is an old Jianghu, maybe he can come up with a solution." After thinking for a while, he said: "You can test it for me to see if he is called Li Xigong. He is A miracle doctor with superb medical skills.”
Xiaodie said: "This is easy. I... I will test his identity the next time I see him."
Qi Ning said: "But you must be careful and never put yourself in danger, otherwise... otherwise I really can't help you."
Xiaodie chuckled and said: "Don't worry about me. If I am really caught, you can't come out. I will be very careful for you." Then he said with some reluctance: "Then... I will go first."
Qi Ning was also a little reluctant to leave. When Xiaodie left, he thought that the old man was Li Xigong, which proved that Xuanyuan Po and others must have been imprisoned here that day. Ksitigarbha revealed his true body in Chaowu Ridge that day. This The news would naturally not spread. The few people present at the time had only two outcomes, either they were imprisoned here like themselves, or the other outcome was that they had been poisoned.
Since Li Xigong is imprisoned, there is a great possibility that the others will also be imprisoned.
Yin Wuji was defeated by Ksitigarbha that day. It is not known whether he is alive or dead at the moment. He is thinking that if Yin Wuji is still alive, Ksitigarbha may not kill him easily. Although the Black Lotus Sect has fallen apart, this force has dominated the western border for decades. Ksitigarbha wants to use Yin Wuji to control the Black Lotus Sect. Although he was rejected by Yin Wuji that day, he may not make another fuss about Yin Wuji. If he kills Yin Wuji easily, it will be even more difficult to control the rest of the Black Lotus Sect. Disaster.
He has been wondering about the relationship between Ksitigarbha and the leader. Before his death, the leader seemed to be full of apologies to Ksitigarbha. One should be the wife of the village owner who never leaves home, and the other is the leader of the Miao family. Logically speaking, It seems that these two people are not even close to each other, but what kind of past do they have
It's a pity that the leader has passed away, so it's not easy to know the answer anymore.
For more than a month, Qi Ning tried his luck several times, but his Dantian was always empty, and all his internal energy had almost completely disappeared. Qi Ning secretly thought that he might have been disabled by Ksitigarbha in martial arts, but at the beginning, his whole body felt sore. It has already disappeared, and I haven’t felt any discomfort in my body for a while now, and my qi and blood seem to be normal.
Although the complete loss of internal energy is frustrating, Qi Ning is not depressed at all. In the past few days, he has been rebuilding his internal energy according to the Qing Sutra he learned at Daguangming Temple. Xiang Baiying once said that his internal energy is pure yin internal energy and is not suitable for He continued to practice the fierce pure yang internal power of Daguangming Temple, but now he didn't have even a trace of internal power in his body, so there was no such thing as pure yang or pure yin.
Qing Jing was the first orthodox qi training method he learned, and he only hoped to use this method to rebuild his internal strength.
But what shocked Qi Ning was that when he practiced Qi with Qing Jing, he could clearly feel the breath flowing in his Dantian, but this time, no matter how hard he practiced, his Dantian was always empty.
This is of course an extremely strange thing, as if water is diverted from various waterways into a reservoir, but no matter how much effort is spent, not even a drop of water can be stored in the reservoir.
Qi Ning knew that this must be Ji Zang's trick on him, but it was really hard to know what the trick was.
After Xiaodie came over, Qining immediately approached and heard Xiaodie whispering outside: "The old man's name is Li Xigong, he... He asked me how I knew his name, and asked me if you were the same He was imprisoned here. You said he was your friend, so I told him you were also imprisoned here."
"It is indeed him." Qi Ning was heartbroken and said, "What else did he say?"
Xiaodie said: "I told him that I would find a way to get you out. He said don't worry about him, just get you out." Then he whispered: "Don't eat any more of today's food, it's poisonous!"
"Poisonous?" Qi Ning's heart trembled.
Xiaodie said: "I didn't know before, but the old man said that there was always poison in this food. Although it won't kill people, it can make people weak and unable to raise any strength." He whispered: "I I’ll find a way to get you something else to eat, but you can’t eat this food anymore.”