Leng Mushi fell from the sky at a high speed - her screams tore through the entire Cangsheng Courtyard. She was about to fall face down on the ground, when suddenly, the door of the shabby little house was knocked open by something. Hua Yanyue raised her hand and a whip was wrapped around Leng Mushi's waist, throwing her directly onto the roof.
Leng Mushi retracted the whip on her waist, and she clung to the eaves, staggering. She kicked off a spider that was bigger than a human head, and then climbed down the spider's sticky web. Finally, her feet touched the ground, and she landed in front of Hua Yanyue in a daze.
Leng Mushi was almost frightened. Hua Yanyue tilted her head and looked at her: "Most of them are untamed beasts. Are you scared? Do you regret it?"
But before Leng Mushi could nod, Hua Yanyue quickly said, "It's too late to regret. Anyone who betrays the sect must die."
Leng Mushi choked back the words "I want to think about it again" that were about to come out of her mouth. She finally understood that a vicious female supporting role is a vicious female supporting role. She still wanted to study hard... There was no such good thing waiting for her.
"You have to learn how to run quickly," Hua Yanyue said, "I will be going down the mountain in a few days, so I won't have time to watch you. Or you can pick a strange beast to tame and let it protect you. Anyway, there will only be more things in this yard, not less, so you have to adapt as soon as possible."
Leng Mushi nodded stupidly. Hua Yanyue looked into the distance and said, "Find a way to get your disciple uniform back first. Otherwise, Chi Mang will spit out poison on it. Even if it is a first-class rune disciple uniform, it will burn big holes in it. You will have to wear clothes with holes in front of the whole sect."
Leng Mushi looked back and saw that Chi Mang was indeed studying her clothes. She made an expression but she didn't even know whether she was crying or laughing.
Hua Yanyue looked at her carefully for a moment and said, "Since you are so obedient, I won't give you the newly developed elixir for dinner today, but you will have to eat it starting tomorrow, so take your clothes back first, then change into them and go to eat with the other disciples."
Leng Mushi curled the corner of her mouth, and Hua Yanyue turned and went into the house. She hesitated for a moment, followed him in, and then tripped at the door, face to face with the big spider she had just kicked down.
Leng Mushi cried out "Ah!" and got up, turning around and running towards the red snake.
She finally got the disciple's uniform before dark, quickly climbed up the tree to pick the golden fruit, and then rode the Bone-Breaking Lizard to get it back while the red snake was napping.
Other creatures don't dare to mess with the Bone Crusher because the bite force of its teeth is too fierce. Animals also know what kind of enemies they can defeat and what kind they can't.
However, this red snake was obviously not one that people dared not to mess with, so Leng Mushi could only take advantage of it when it was taking a nap.
And by taking the disciple's clothes, picking up jade pendants and scattered storage bags to test, Leng Mushi found that as long as she got close to the edge of the small house, no monsters or beasts would follow her except spiders.
Leng Mushi guessed that Hua Yanyue had set some kind of restriction, so she had a little luck among her ten thousand misfortunes, that is, she was not without any breathing time. At least in this little house, she didn't have to worry about being swallowed by the red snake when she slept at night.
At night, she changed into disciple clothes, combed her hair, and used the last one or two small fruits to lure the bone-crushing lizard to carry her to the door quickly. The red snake's bloody mouth was already hanging above her head, and Leng Mushi was almost caught by it.
Of course, she had thought about staying in the little house and eating the small yellow fruit to fill her stomach. However, just as she was about to eat, Hua Yanyue suddenly said, "That's the First Infant Fruit. After you eat it, you will become..."
Hua Yanyue gestured with her hands, which were about an arm's length long, and said, "It will become this big, and then the spider on the eaves will tie you up and suck you dry in less than an incense stick. You may only have a layer of skin left that is thinner than your big monster."
Leng Mushi's mouth froze open. Hua Yanyue said, "That was an adult bone-crushing lizard. I brought it back with great difficulty. I was going to make medicine for it. I just fed it because it was hard to control. Otherwise, why do you think it became so small?"
Leng Mushi closed her mouth, then rode the Bone-Crushing Lizard and risked her life to go out and eat.
If people don’t eat, they will die.
When she risked her life to arrive at Linggu Hall, there were many inner disciples and new outer disciples inside, all of whom were eating and talking.
Leng Mushi was wearing the elder's jade pendant with a flower covering the moon on her waist. As soon as she entered, the sound of the disciples' conversations gradually decreased, and then slowly increased again. Many of them were observing her.
Leng Mushi was so frightened that her mind went blank. She knew that some people were talking about today's entry test, and she also knew that some people were talking about her, but she was too hungry. She felt so hungry that she could eat the size of a whole young bone-crushing lizard.
She prepared the meal by herself, then sat there wolfing it down like a starving ghost, without caring about her image. She was thinking about how she should move when she got home that night so that she would not be swallowed by the red snake, and how she could avoid the several strange beasts with pustules. Without the First Infant Fruit, the Bone Crusher would definitely not let her ride it...
She was concentrating on eating and thinking, and she didn't know when people sat down opposite her, and there were several of them.
Leng Mushi looked up, choked, then quickly grabbed the bowl of soup on the table and started drinking it.
"Sister, are you okay? I heard that the Second Elder's courtyard is very dangerous. Her apprentice died before..." Leng Tianyin said with tears in her eyes again, "Brother Xiao and I are almost convincing the Fifth Elder. Why don't you wait a little longer? Maybe the Fifth Elder will accept you as his apprentice."
Leng Mushi raised her eyes to glance at her, and surprisingly, she didn't even feel irritated anymore. There were too many things in her mind, and she looked confused and out of touch with the world.
Yi Tu and Xing Zhou were also worried: "You are too impulsive. You don't even look at who would take the initiative to go to the Second Elders' Courtyard. I really didn't scare you yesterday. You are too bold. Is the Second Elders' Courtyard really dangerous? Why don't you say anything? Are you scared?"
Xiao Mian stood up and poured her another bowl of soup, then sat back and handed it to her, whispering, "I will continue to persuade Master. Tianyin has also become my Master's disciple. We can persuade him together. My Master has already wavered. When the time comes, he will go to the Second Elder to ask for you. You... don't be afraid."
Leng Mushi looked at the people opposite her and slowed down her eating. She knew that they were all doing this for her own good.
She had also witnessed Hua Yanyue's cruelty and the danger of the poisonous creatures in her courtyard, but when Leng Mushi listened to them talking and looked at their concerned expressions, she suddenly felt very far away.
It was so far away that it seemed as if there was a barrier between them, a barrier that she could not break through.
"But... my spiritual roots are of inferior quality. Even if I leave the Second Elder's courtyard, where can I go?"
Leng Mushi slowly raised her head and looked at everyone, swallowing what she had in her mouth: "Even if I become the disciple of the Fifth Elder, I won't be able to practice any advanced skills. One day..."
"When I go down the mountain to train in the future, will you brothers still protect me?" Leng Mushi looked at everyone, curled the corners of her mouth, and thought of her destined path. She said with some self-mockery, "None of you can watch over me forever, and no one... can live for me."
After she finished speaking, she drank the last of her soup and stood up.
Everyone looked at her and tried to persuade her, but Leng Mushi didn't listen.
She walked up the stone steps to Cangshengyuan alone, walking in front of everyone else, walking towards the path she had chosen. No matter whether it was right or wrong, dangerous or safe, she would go on.
Because she knows too well that no one can truly be with you in this life.
Didn't her mother believe her father's words about being together for life? But in the end, she still ended up following his path of being heartless and never seeing him again.
Her mother once held her in her arms and promised to love her all her life and stay with her until old age, but she was unable to control her own fate and passed away, leaving her alone in the world to suffer and wander as a companion.
Leng Mushi walked step by step towards the stone steps leading to Cangsheng Courtyard. Behind her, Leng Tianyin's eyes were red from crying. She vowed to practice hard and protect her sister.
Xiao Mian Yitu, Xingzhou and the others had been following her, but once they entered the barrier of Cangshengyuan, they could no longer follow her and could not even see her figure.
Leng Mushi came in at night and arrived at the cabin in a panic after midnight. All her excessive emotions were consumed by her life, and even her sadness was reluctant to show up.
She stood at the head of Hua Yanyue's bed in the middle of the night, and pushed Hua Yanyue awake from her sleep like a ghost demanding her life. She smiled, revealing a mouthful of sharp white teeth, and threw all respect and discipline behind her. She didn't pull Hua Yanyue's hair, only because she couldn't beat her.
Leng Mushi asked faintly: "Master, I'm back from dinner, where should I stay tonight?"
Hua Yanyue frightened her greatly. She sat up and lit the eternal lamp with her spiritual power. Looking at her, whose clothes were disheveled and dirty, but whose eyes were bright as if the sky was filled with broken stars, she felt frightened.
"How did you come back?" Hua Yanyue thought she would run away tonight and betray her master. Unexpectedly, she actually came back.
Hua Yanyue was in a trance for a moment and thought that the person standing in front of her was the Xuanzhu from that year.
She pursed her lips, and first instructed Leng Mushi to pour her a glass of water, and then said in a daze: "There is no extra room. This Cangsheng Courtyard only has one bed for people to live in. The disciples' courtyard is full of firewood, and there is a spider nest over there. If you sleep on it tonight, you will be sucked to the point of only a layer of skin left tomorrow morning..."
Leng Mushi listened to her as if she was telling a horror story, but she didn't feel scared at all. After all, no matter what emotion is over-consumed, it will tend to be peaceful and become empty, and the same goes for fear.
Leng Mushi felt that she could become a nun by shaving her head, so she actually found this harsh environment a little funny.
"Actually, I just killed a spider." Leng Mushi said, "The biggest one."
Hua Yanyue opened her mouth, covered her heart and said, "Do you know that the spider silk spit out by spiders can reconnect the meridians of cultivators? One strand of spider silk produced by them... just one strand can make cultivators whose meridians have been torn in the cultivation world fight over their heads."
Leng Mushi had no expression on her face. Hua Yanyue sighed, "The biggest one can spit out a ball as big as a fist in a day."
The master and the disciple were silent for a moment, and Leng Mushi asked again: "So where do I live?"
Hua Yanyue smiled and felt more and more satisfied with Leng Mushi. If one lived in her yard in fear, he would not survive for more than a few years.
We must make these beasts feel afraid so that we can be safe. As for the spider silk? This quilt is filled with that stuff, and sometimes it is used to burn the alchemy furnace.
So Hua Yanyue patted her bed and said, "If you don't mind, go wash up and sleep with me."
So on Leng Mushi’s first day as a disciple, she killed a demon spider whose silk thread was worth thousands of spirit stones, and she even hugged her master when she slept at night.
The wonderful day came to an end. Leng Mushi hugged her master's slender waist, and was so tired that she lay down and fell asleep like a dead pig.
The next morning, she was woken up by strangulation. Perhaps the magic spider she killed last night was the leader of these spiders. They couldn't enter the house, so they spit silk from the window and tried to strangle her.
When Leng Mushi sat up, two demon spiders were helping each other spit silk towards her neck.
She reached out and touched it, then rolled up the spider silk. When the two demon spiders saw that she had woken up, they were so scared that they ran away with their long legs.
Leng Mushi grabbed the spider silk rolled into a fist in her hand and was about to get up to find Hua Yanyue when she suddenly heard a "bang".
There was a huge sound that shook the earth and even the small shabby house trembled three times.
Her ears suddenly buzzed, and then she saw Hua Yanyue happily climbing up the stairs leading down to a pit in the middle of the ground, clutching a handful of hot pills and stuffing them into Leng Mushi's hand.
"Come! Come and try out the medicine that Master has just made!"
Leng Mushi smiled but didn't smile, and said, "Master, I haven't eaten this morning, so I'm afraid the drug won't work. How about I eat first?"
"It's just right that you haven't eaten yet. You'll be full!" Hua Yanyue took out a whole handful of food from the storage bag and stuffed it into Leng Mushi's hand.
She didn't go down the mountain to eat for three whole days, mainly because she couldn't get up. Hua Yanyue was indeed not joking with her. To be her apprentice, one must test the medicine.
As for how the drug testing process goes, just look at the elders who, at their age, still can't get over their childhood nightmares after seeing Hua Yanyue. It's very simple and can be summed up in four words - life is worse than death.
When Leng Mushi felt that he was about to be torn apart, he finally took the opportunity to grab Hua Yanyue's soft long hair, trying to betray his teacher and ancestors.
But it failed, and I was fed again in the end. Burp, I was so full.
Seven days later, when the effects of the medicine had worn off and she went down the mountain to eat, she appeared to have completely recovered to normal.
It’s just that her manner when eating was a little scary. In the middle of noon, she ate three whole bowls of food by herself, plus two plates of spirit beast meat, which stunned her senior brother who was serving food in Linggu Hall.
Actually, she was not going to be able to come down today. This morning, her good master refined a new batch of medicine, and planned that the master and disciple would not eat anything else today.
Yes, Hua Yanyue not only forced her to eat, she also ate the stuff she refined as food. When Leng Mushi was in a trance, she couldn't help but suspect that the master and disciple would be found dead in Cangshan Courtyard one day, and the cause of death might not be death by drugs, but death by consuming too much drugs.
She couldn't tell that Hua Yanyue was a master of alchemy. She could refine many furnaces a day. Every time she opened a furnace, it was earth-shattering. Sometimes she even broke herself into pieces, but she never got tired of it.
Leng Mushi concluded that she was a crazy person in the art of alchemy. Leng Mushi didn't know how talented she was, but she was definitely a crazy person.
The reason why I was able to come down today was also thanks to Leng Tianyin who had not practiced well these days and went to the gate of Cangshengyuan to "cry" every morning and evening.
Hua Yanyue was afraid that if she was not released, Leng Tianyin would gather a group of senior brothers and sisters who could not bear to see her in tears, and drown the Cangsheng Courtyard with tears.
So Leng Mushi came out and finally had a normal meal.
She buried her head in the basin, not knowing when the next meal would be, and did not notice her changes at all. She looked normal, but a delicate little sister like her could not eat three bowls, let alone three basins.
Her stomach wasn't even full by the end of the meal. Leng Tianyin, who had rushed over after hearing the news, threw herself on her and started crying.
Leng Mushi sat with her legs crossed, supporting her crying sister with one hand and slowly sliding a bowl of soup in the other.
Finally, she finished eating. Xiao Mian from Yitu Xingzhou and even her senior brothers and sisters who she didn't even know but had heard of her came after hearing the news. They surrounded her like they were watching a monkey show, concerned about her life or death, and out of curiosity couldn't help but ask about the affairs of Cangshengyuan.
Leng Mushi naturally said: "My master is very kind to me and makes delicious food for me every day."
Then he took the opportunity to run away.
Leng Tianyin could no longer catch her as she was so slippery that she could easily avoid Chi Mang, but Leng Mushi was still intercepted by Xiao Mian halfway.
"Wait a minute!" Xiao Mian stopped Leng Mushi at the gate of Cangshengyuan.
"There's something wrong with you... Are you really okay?" Xiao Mian said as he glanced at her stomach. How could anyone eat so much without it showing
He looked at Leng Mushi's face again and handed her all the anti-aging pills he had obtained in his arms these days: "This is the anti-aging pill, it can cure the problem on your face..."
"Ugh..." Leng Mushi couldn't help but dry heaving when she saw the pills. She was really about to vomit.
Xiao Mian frowned and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Leng Mushi just wanted to go back quickly and take advantage of the time when Hua Yanyue was making the elixir to lie down for a while, otherwise she would be tormented again.
So she didn't bother to be polite with Xiao Mian, nor did she say that the Rejuvenating Pill was useless. She had taken a whole furnace of top-grade Improving Beauty Pill a few days ago and changed her appearance into that of several people. However, the scar of Fen Lian on her face was still there. Hua Yanyue had told her clearly that she would recover if she killed Fen Lian.
How could she kill Fenlian? Fenlian is her good helper now.
So Leng Mushi took the pill vaguely, said a few perfunctory words and was about to leave, but Xiao Mian grabbed her and refused to let go: "Are you really okay? I..."
He paused, lowered his eyes and said, "We are all very worried about you."
Leng Mushi was very annoyed, but suddenly she remembered that she was supposed to go find Xiao Mian according to the plot a few days ago, but she didn't go. The punishment of the law was enough to relieve her pain in her situation at that time, so she didn't care.
Is it because she doesn't want to look for Xiao Mian, but Xiao Mian has to look for her
"Don't worry, I'm fine, right?" Leng Mushi was in a hurry, "I'm leaving."
In the end, Xiao Mian still didn't let go: "You..."
"What exactly are you going to do?" Leng Mushi interrupted him coldly.
Xiao Mian felt depressed and didn't know what to feel, but ever since Leng Mushi became the Second Elder's disciple, he had indeed been trying hard to persuade his master to help him, and he always wondered how she was doing.
Now that she treated him so coldly, Xiao Mian blushed, feeling ashamed and helpless.
"No, it's okay." He couldn't figure out what was wrong with him and was too embarrassed to say anything else. He let go of Leng Mushi and was about to leave.
Leng Mushi suddenly remembered something and asked in a low voice: "The male protagonist will never die, right?"
Falì instantly guessed what she was going to do, and said with some helplessness and even doting - yes.
Then Leng Mushi ran a few steps quickly, grabbed Xiao Mian's hand, and changed her expression faster than turning a page of a book. She smiled and said to him in a tender voice: "Senior Brother Xiao, Brother Xiao, I'm just teasing you, don't be angry!"
Leng Mushi grabbed his hand and pressed it against her face: "Good brother, I really miss you these days, let's find a place where no one is around to chat..."
Xiao Mian's eyes widened in shock and he quickly pulled his hand back, his ears burning.
But in the end, he could not resist Leng Mushi's pleading, and he found a place on a cliff where disciples rarely passed by to talk with her.
As a result, after just a few words, he was coaxed by Leng Mushi into eating several pills that Hua Yanyue had just refined this morning.
The effectiveness of these medicines needs to be tested and told to Hua Yanyue.
Leng Mushi had just eaten so much that she couldn't eat any more, so she gave the food to Xiao Mian and then quietly took out the rules and used them as a photo stone to record Xiao Mian's reaction.
As Xiao Mian swallowed it, he said, "Don't steal the medicine that can improve your cultivation for me in the future. I can't use it, or you will be punished by the Second Elder. Her temper..."
Leng Mushi observed him carefully and found that he was pressing his neck and his face began to turn purple and red. Not only was he unable to speak, but it seemed like something was moving around under his skin, which looked very scary.
When Xiao Mian looked at Leng Mushi in astonishment, she murmured, "Sure enough, I said that adding random monster viscera to the elixir would definitely not work, but Master didn't believe it..."
"It's okay, it's okay, Brother Xiao, just bear with it. This medicine works like that." Anyway, the rules say that you will definitely not die, so the risk is much lower than if she took it.
But after a while, Xiao Mian lay straight on the ground. Leng Mushi touched his nose and found that he was... dead.