I sent Wusheng out of the village, rushed all the way, and finally stopped in front of a river.
Yu Qinglian frowned and asked, "How do you feel?"
Wusheng's face was very pale, and he did not answer her. There was a forest by the river. He slowly sat down with the help of a tree, closed his eyes, crossed his legs, and circulated the energy in his body for a small cycle. His life force was very weak, and at this critical moment, Yu Qinglian could not leave. She stood quietly behind him, guarding him against the ghosts in this place that were hard to guard against.
Not long after, it suddenly began to rain from the sky, pure black, like ink, and filled with evil spirits and resentment.
The whole world was covered in a hazy black.
Yu Qinglian frowned even more tightly, and a red umbrella appeared from her fingertips. She raised her hand and shielded Wusheng from the world of peace. The bell swayed slightly, and the monk's eyelashes trembled with the wind.
Soon, Wusheng covered his chest and spat out a mouthful of blood.
"How?" Yu Qinglian half squatted down.
Wusheng slowly opened his eyes and shook his head at Shangyu Qinglian's anxious expression: "Shu Yan is not nearby, so the impact is minimal. My relic is my heart, which can dispel some of the evil spirit, so it should be fine."
Yu Qinglian heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Okay."
Wusheng stared at her, his pale golden eyes showing worry and pity, and said, "Go back quickly, he should have been waiting for you for a long time."
Yu Qinglian forced a smile: "If you take off your veil, will you really become a person with flaming eyes and golden pupils?"
Wusheng smiled, but his eyes were still full of compassion, and said, "The sound of the bell, I remember it. When you took me away, there was a sound of bells in the yard - you shouldn't have cared about me at that time, you should have saved him first."
Yu Qinglian paused, raised her hand and placed the umbrella in the branches of the tree, opening it above Wusheng's head. The light fell on the girl's face, complex and cold. "It's not that easy to make a choice. I'm just glad that it wasn't Pei Yuzhi and you who asked me to choose."
Wusheng didn't say anything.
Yu Qinglian said: "Stay here and wait for me."
The girl left in a hurry, her white ankles stepping on the muddy black soil, the dark rain, the blue river, all the colors were gloomy and cold, only her red skirt was as red as fire and the golden bells were bright.
How can it be so easy to make a choice? Just abandon it, no excuses.
Fatty...
Yu Qinglian walked forward in the rain. The rain fell on her hair and coat, freezing her to the bone.
She whispered in the rain, "I'm so sorry."
She walked against the rain, along the rushing river, and didn't know how long she walked before she returned to the place where she came from. A sound of shaking the earth and mountains was heard. A group of ghosts and monsters came like a tide, with strange shapes, crawling, jumping, and leaping, but all of them had red eyes, and their consciousness rushed in one direction frantically, ignoring her as if she were nothing, and ran in the direction she came from.
Yu Qinglian was slightly stunned, holding the whip with her fingers, holding her breath, and not daring to make any unnecessary movements.
Going against the tide of corpses and ghosts, her heart slowly began to lift.
—What happened
I don’t know how long it will take.
She finally returned to the house. All the ghosts there had run away, and she could walk all the way to the yard unhindered.
All three jars were overturned, and turbid yellow liquid with a trace of blood remained on the ground. She also saw the scene in the jars clearly. It was human skin and hair, condensed together, with gray eyeballs in the middle. The evil spirit's body had been rotten like mud after being soaked for too long.
The monster in the tank had probably run out by now, but the remaining coldness and bloodiness still made her stand there for a long time.
—So Ji Wuyou was in the same tank with a ghost at that time
After walking a few steps forward, Yu Qinglian's toes touched something cold. She lowered her head and saw a small and delicate bell buried shallowly in the rain-soaked mud.
Her body was extremely stiff at this moment and her expression was frozen.
What was the mood of the little fat boy when he rang the bell
And what kind of mood was in which you lost it
You must have cried.
Yu Qinglian slowly squatted down, stretched out her hand to pick it up, and the golden bell fell into her palm, grinding against her flesh and blood with its coldness.
She clenched her fist little by little, kissed the palm of her fist, closed her eyes and shed tears.
Then the world suddenly turned upside down, and a blinding white light penetrated from a distant direction. In the light and shadow, everything in the world became stiff and turned into dust and particles. In the stillness of time, only dust was floating.
Yu Qinglian suddenly opened her eyes and stood up.
She only felt a powerful force pulling her out of this space.
... ... What's this
Overnight, the Zhuangyuan Temple was reduced to ruins. Overnight, several officials who had left the country died suddenly in their homes.
When the villagers woke up early in the morning, they saw that the temple they had believed in for a hundred years was only a pile of broken tiles. They were so angry that they almost fainted on the spot. They rolled up their sleeves, took poles and sticks, and blocked the door of the village chief. They were in an uproar and shouted for an explanation. The village women cursed loudly, and their accents could be heard all over the mountain.
The village chief's home is deep in the forest, and it was the first time it was so lively.
People always like to scare themselves.
"I told you not to let outsiders in! Now it's all right!"
"The Zhuangyuan Temple is gone, Wenquxing is angry, and the heaven wants to kill us!"
"I can't live like this anymore. I don't know how many days I can live. I heard that my nephew who was working as an official died last night! God wants to kill me!"
Pei Jing didn't really want to listen to their quarrel, and the village chief obviously had no intention of letting them go. He closed the door tightly and refused to see them. He stayed in the house, burning paper money one by one, and no one knew who he was worshipping.
"Grandpa, Grandpa."
A young girl ran down the stairs, wearing only a single layer of clothing, as if she had just woken up from a dream.
At this moment, her clear eyes were filled with fear. She tightly grasped the village chief's sleeves and said with a flat mouth, "Grandpa, I just had a very long dream."
The village chief lowered his head, glanced at her, and said calmly: "It's just a dream, what are you afraid of. Don't get in my way here, go out, I have something to talk to someone else."
Aju scratched her head. The dream was a mess, but she still trembled when she recalled the eerie atmosphere. However, when she opened her eyes and saw her loved ones, she felt more at ease. She left obediently.
Pei Jing looked at the girl's departing back and said, "It's good that she has no memory."
The village chief was silent for a long time before he said, "Thank you so much for curing my granddaughter's illness and saving the entire village."
Pei Jing could hear the scolding outside even from where he was standing. He suddenly found it a little funny. He turned his head and said, "It's not bad. Killing demons and eliminating evil is our duty."
The boy was dressed simply, wearing a brown ramie and his hair was tied up with a straw rope.
But with such a calm and light-hearted smile, the light and shadow from the window fell on the corners of his eyes and mouth, like a sword standing between heaven and earth, but the blade was gentle.
The village chief looked at him for a long time and said, "How are your friends?"
When Pei Jing heard him ask this, the smile on his lips froze. Ji Wuyou was unconscious, but Chu Junyu was also not feeling well after coming out of there. He turned pale and fell on him when he stepped out of the Zhuangyuan Temple. Fortunately, Chu Junyu was still a teenager at that time, so Pei Jing was able to help him out.
"He was slightly injured, but he should be fine."
The village chief nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work this time."
Pei Jing asked: "What are your plans after this?"
The village chief said in a deep voice: "They elected me as the village chief, so I should lead them a way out. What's the point of Wenquxing? This place is too evil. Let's change places and continue."
Pei Jing tilted his head and smiled: "That's good too."
He went out to look for Aju.
After Aju woke up, she still had an inexplicable liking for him.
Pei Jing half squatted down: "I had a dream. Do you remember what happened at the beginning of the dream?"
Aju looked at this very handsome brother, holding a cup of water in her hand, and tried to recall. There was a trance and a hint of confusion in her childish eyes.
"I was feeling very uncomfortable in the middle of the night, so I went to look for my brother, and then I saw... I saw some strange people. They carried my brother into the coffin. There seemed to be hands on the ground, sticking out from below. I was very scared, so I moved back and made a sound, and everyone in the temple looked over." Her fingers clenched her clothes tightly, "Their faces were hollowed out, and they walked towards me."
"I thought I was going to die, but Wenquxing appeared and saved me."
Wenquxing appeared and saved me.
He is not saving you, he is using you.
After Yu Qinglian came out, she actually looked after Ji Wuyou herself, which surprised Pei Jing. He closed the door and walked out of the room. Yu Qinglian's expression was a bit complicated and unpleasant. She directly confessed to Pei Jing what happened in Zhonglian Village. At the end, she said in a daze, "I think I should have left a little psychological trauma on the little fat guy. You treat him so specially, maybe you want to take him as your apprentice. You may need to vent it after returning to Yunxiao."
Pei Jing pulled the corner of his mouth: "You caused the trouble yourself, and you just push the responsibility to me? You are so inhuman."
He also understood why the protagonist looked so dazed when he saw Ji Wuyou in front of the tank. He was probably scared silly, or he doubted his life after being abandoned.
After coming out of the underground world and seeing Ji Wuyou safe and sound, Yu Qinglian's heart also fell. After hearing Pei Jing's words, she rolled her eyes, "You talk as if you are a human. If you did something bad outside before, wouldn't you just report us directly?"
It seems to be the case. Pei Jing said: "... ... How do you want me to tell him?"
Yu Qinglian's expression became serious: "Ji Wuyou's personality has changed a lot during this period, let me warn you first."
She was afraid that Pei Jing was too careless to notice, so she said seriously: "You may not think it's a big deal, but it's different for him - Ji Wuyou is sensitive and has low self-esteem. He has probably been bullied since he was a child. I saved him once and he was so moved that he cried. Then such a complete abandonment will make him fall into another obsession."
At this point, Yu Qinglian frowned: "I still don't understand why this little fat boy caught your eye. Do you admire his pure mind?"
Pei Jing didn't bother to hide it in front of his friends, and said: "I like his extraordinary bones. He will be a great man in the future. Believe me."
Yu Qinglian: "I don't know if your bones are strange or not. But I don't believe in your ability to be a master."
Pei Jing: "Why?"
Yu Qinglian: "Pei Yuzhi, I am serious now. You and Ji Wuyou are completely from different worlds, with completely different personalities. There are many small things that you never care about, but they may affect his life. I am afraid that you will dig a hole for yourself."
Pei Jing was silent for a while: "You talk like I'm raising a child."
Yu Qinglian: "Ji Wuyou hasn't formed any ideas yet. What's the difference between you and raising a child? Do you think it's troublesome?"
Pei Jing: "... Yeah."
Yu Qinglian: "If you think it's troublesome, then fine, find another disciple, or don't accept him at all."
Pei Jing: “… .”
Among the five people, Yu Qinglian was the most thoughtful. After explaining Ji Wuyou's matter, he returned to Shu Yan's main topic. As the future island master of Yingzhou, Yu Qinglian's personal presence this time showed the seriousness of what Shu Yan had done in Yingzhou.
"Do you still remember the turmoil in Yingzhou? My mother was in seclusion, and several elders imprisoned me with their own hands?"
Pei Jing: "Why do you suddenly bring this up?"
"How did those demon cultivators sneak into Yingzhou, and even sneak into the elders? I have been investigating for years. A few months ago, I found a clue. It was the elder who was killed by Shu Yan. My female official found a clue from her whereabouts."
Yu Qinglian said: "That elder..." Her eyes were a little cold: "He has always been in contact with people from Tianyan City."
Pei Jing was stunned.
Tianyan City.
Yu Qinglian said: "Just when I was about to deal with her, when I went to find her, I opened the door and saw her body, and next to it was Shu Yan's words."
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