After soaking in the warm water for only a quarter of an hour, Pei Yunshu fell asleep under the aroma of wine.
He slept until the next day, and only woke up slowly when the sun was high in the sky.
The cave was quiet. Pei Yunshu rubbed his forehead and was about to sit up, but suddenly he found something extra in his hand. He looked down and found it was a very worn key.
In addition to the key, there was also a piece of paper stuffed underneath. Pei Yunshu unfolded the paper and the large, flamboyantly written characters on it caught his eye.
"Madam, you have just entered my secret realm, and I don't have much to give you. After thinking about it, I decided to show you this secret realm. It's just a small gift, so I hope you won't be polite."
Every sentence was polite, in stark contrast to the flamboyant handwriting.
Pei Yunshu frowned slowly.
How come I know every word but can’t understand these sentences
Madam, secret place, key.
He stood up and walked out. As soon as he came out of the cave, he saw Zhu You and Hua Yue standing under the shade of a tree. The fox was stealthily taking out a book from his sleeve and handing it to Zhu You, looking like a guilty thief.
What is this doing
Pei Yunshu walked towards them. Hua Yue glanced at him and when she saw him, her hands trembled and the book fell to the ground before Zhu You could take it.
Zhu You turned his head to glance at Pei Yunshu, then took the book in his hand calmly.
"My beauty, you are finally awake," Hua Yue looked at Pei Yunshu, and after looking him up and down, she smiled, "Is the alcohol strong enough? Fortunately, you didn't drink much, otherwise you might not wake up all day!"
Pei Yunshu smiled and asked, "Since I fell asleep, have you found anyone nearby?"
Huayue shook her head, "No."
Since no one has ever come in, what about the key and the note
Pei Yunshu frowned and showed them the thing in his hand. The fox blinked his amorous eyes curiously and was about to touch the paper. However, before he could touch it, the paper suddenly floated up and turned into ashes in the air.
Only a key with an ancient shape remained in Pei Yunshu's hand. The key was extremely worn, as if it had gone through many years.
Zhu You looked at the key solemnly and asked in an unhappy voice, "What's written on the note?"
"… "
The word "Madam" cannot be uttered at all.
Pei Yun omitted these two words and said, "That person said he would give me the secret realm as a gift."
He suddenly had an idea and turned to look at Huayue: "Huayue, did you receive anything?"
Hua Yue's slender fingertips entangled a strand of black hair on the side of her body, her eyes full of doubt, "That's not the case."
There was the secret realm and the lady. Pei Yunshu could only recall the ridiculous wedding ceremony with the stone fox in the stone wall. But if Hua Yue had not received these things, why did he alone have them
He was deep in thought. Zhu You had already taken the key from his hand. Judging from his expression, if Pei Yunshu had not been here, he would have crushed the key into ashes with one hand.
Zhu You asked: "Do you want this secret realm?"
He looked at Pei Yunshu with his dark eyes.
Pei Yunshu shook his head, "I don't want it."
The words on the note, as well as this huge secret realm, are not easy to deal with.
Zhu You's eyebrows and eyes were filled with joy. He raised his hand and casually threw the key to Hua Yue. Hua Yue caught it in a panic, and couldn't believe it: "Give it to me?"
"don't want?"
Hua Yue was caught by Zhu You's side glance and was so polite that she stopped talking. He held the key and loved it very much. The beauty blushed. "Then I will shamelessly take it as a return gift for the inner elixir of April Snow Tree. But this return gift is really heavy. Beauty Yunshu, please wait a moment. I will find all the good things in the secret realm and give you half."
Pei Yunshu was about to refuse, but Hua Yue quickly said, "If Miss Yunshu doesn't want it, then I don't want this secret realm either."
Pei Yunshu didn't know what to say.
Seeing that he stopped talking, Huayue chuckled and walked aside to explore the key.
*
Hua Yue spent a whole day and the things she took out almost filled up Pei Yunshu's storage bag.
Pei Yunshu felt like he was walking in the clouds after suddenly getting so many good things. After he came to his senses, he took away the storage bag and stopped Hua Yue from putting more things in it.
In the evening, Pei Yunshu sat by the cold pond, staring at the sky in a daze for a while, and began to rummage through the things in his storage bag.
One after another excellent spiritual plants were found, and these were regarded as gifts of thanks to the master and senior brothers.
He didn't plan to go back to Wuzhi Peak.
He didn't know when he would go back. If possible, he never wanted to go back. He wanted to stay away from his master, his senior brothers and Yun Wang.
Pei Yunshu sorted out the things he had picked out and planned to send them out after leaving the secret realm. Perhaps he could return the things that his master had given him. If he could return them, he would have no worries.
In addition to these priceless spiritual plants, Pei Yunshu also took out pen and ink and wrote a letter to his master.
Tell the master and fellow brothers not to look for him. That way, no one will take him up the mountain.
After he finished all this, he asked Hua Yue, "When can we get out of the secret realm?"
"Any time is fine," Hua Yue sat on the beauty couch beside her. The couch was full of green spiritual fruits, which was extremely luxurious. "If the beauty wants to leave, then you can leave early tomorrow morning?"
Pei Yunshu paused slightly and nodded.
"Beauty, are you still going to look for your brothers?"
Pei Yunshu shook his head. "After we get out, I'll send a message to tell them where the exit is."
He lowered his eyes and looked at the silver chain on his hand.
The Qingyue Sword cannot cut this bracelet, so tomorrow I can only rely on Zhu You. If Zhu You can cut the chain, then it will be completely broken. If even Zhu You can't do anything, I'm afraid the whole world will be helpless against this chain.
Thinking of Zhu You, Pei Yunshu looked in the direction of Zhu You.
The dragon hid in the cold pond and did not approach the shore. Instead, it ran to the depths of the cold pond to read the book that Hua Yue gave him, as if it was afraid of being secretly seen by others.
He actually has a time when he loves books so much.
Pei Yunshu couldn't help but become curious, and asked Huayue, "What book is Zhu You reading?"
Hua Yue avoided looking at Pei Yunshu, and said vaguely: "Country talk, beauties don't like to read it."
Countryside dialect? Pei Yunshu looked confused. He had never heard of such a book. What kind of book was this? Was it about farming
*
It was not until the sun set that Zhu You emerged from the cold pond holding the book.
His whole body was filled with steaming mist, and the demonic patterns on his face were raging, spreading from the sides of his face to below his neck.
He was so hot that everyone else could feel the heat.
That night, Zhu You did not soak in the cold pond, but ran into the cave and slept in the same bedding with Pei Yunshu.
Pei Yunshu was so sleepy that he could hardly open his eyes. Not wanting to argue with him, he acquiesced to Zhu You crawling into the quilt and sleeping with him.
In just a moment, Pei Yunshu fell into a half-asleep dream, but Zhu You seemed to be uncomfortable and kept moving behind Pei Yunshu.
Pei Yunshu turned over and wanted him to fall asleep quickly, but just after he turned over and before he could say a word, he couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell into a deep sleep.
*
The next morning, when Pei Yunshu woke up, he felt his lips were swollen and painful.
He tried to touch his lips, but when he raised his arm, he felt the pain in his chest again. Pei Yunshu was puzzled, so he opened his clothes and saw that the place was swollen as well.
Overnight, everything was swollen and painful. Pei Yunshu didn't even dare to open his lips. Did he eat something poisonous? Or was he bitten by an insect
But why is it here... It's really strange.
After thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't figure out the reason. Pei Yunshu frowned and stood up, carefully turning his back to the cave entrance. While changing clothes, he used the milky white spiritual energy to try to reduce the swelling on his lips and that place, but after a while, the spiritual energy seemed to be useless and had no effect at all.
He had no choice but to put on his clothes and go outside to find Huayue and Zhuyou.
*
Pei Yunshu was uncomfortable at first because he felt his lips were terribly swollen. But Huayue and Zhuyou remained calm, as if Pei Yunshu was the same as yesterday, without any change.
Seeing them acting like this, Pei Yunshu felt that he seemed to be overthinking.
They flew up from the bottom of the cliff, and Huayue opened the door to the secret realm here. Suddenly, a crack appeared in the air, and the scenery outside the crack was the scenery outside the secret passage of Chunfeng Tower.
Pei Yunshu flew towards the exit with the two of them on his sword. When they were almost out of the secret realm, he stopped the Qingyue Sword.
The two demons beside him also stopped and watched him pinch a sound transmission note and send it to the distance. They also set up a barrier with the rare spiritual plants that had been prepared long ago, and flew away with the sound transmission note.
Pei Yunshu watched them getting farther and farther away. He raised his right hand and pulled up his sleeves, revealing the silver bracelet on his wrist, which shone silver in the sunlight.
"Zhu You," Pei Yunshu put his hand in front of him, "Can you tear it apart?"
Zhu You, "Dear."
Pei Yunshu looked at him silently. Zhu You looked back calmly, but still stretched out his sharp claws and hooked it lightly. The bracelet made by the second senior brother fell from a height of thousands of feet into the jungle.
Pei Yunshu felt a pain in his hand the moment it was torn off. He looked at his wrist and saw a needle-hole-sized wound that had slowly healed under the effect of the April Snow Tree. In just a blink of an eye, the needle-hole-like wound disappeared.
Pei Yunshu withdrew his hand and lowered his eyes to look at the bracelet that had disappeared. Suddenly, a smile appeared on his face, his eyes bright. He looked at the exit above his head and rushed out of the secret realm without hesitation.
*
Yun Cheng, who was meditating with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes. He took out an exquisite wooden box from his sleeve. After opening it, he found that an exquisitely carved bracelet in the box had shattered into white powder.
Yun Cheng's eyes were dim and unclear, "Fourth Junior Brother..."
The third brother next to him opened his eyes and asked, "What happened to the fourth brother?"
Yun Cheng did not answer. He raised his hand and ran his fingertips across the sharp corner of the wooden box. His fingertips were scratched. Yun Cheng pinched the wound and let the bright red blood drop into the powder.
The bracelet, which had been ground into powder, absorbed his blood and suddenly began to wriggle from the bottom. Finally, a beautiful insect as small as a grain of rice and with an ice-crystal color jumped out of the powder, sniffed Yun Cheng's blood, and drilled into his wound.
Third Senior Brother’s face darkened. “Gu worm. Yuncheng, why is there a Gu worm in your bracelet? Did you poison Fourth Senior Brother as well?”
"They are just some little things that are very beneficial to the body." Yun Cheng wiped the blood off his fingers with a handkerchief and smiled. "Although they have some other small uses, they will not hurt Fourth Junior Brother."
Yun Man had an unhappy expression on his face, but he reluctantly believed what he said. However, before he could ask him anything else, he saw a sound transmission note flying into the cave.
The sound transmission note was followed by many spiritual plants, which, at first glance, turned out to be rare and valuable things.
Looking at these things, Yun Wang suddenly had a bad premonition. He stood up, almost staggered forward, and crushed the sound transmission talisman.
Pei Yunshu's voice came out from it.
"Senior brother," the voice paused before continuing, "Junior brother."
"Yun Shu has found the exit of the secret realm. You can follow the instructions now."
The third brother smashed the folding fan into his hands and said happily: "As expected of the fourth brother, you found the exit of this secret realm earlier than the four of us."
Yun Cheng raised his eyes from the shattered bracelet, his dark eyes deep as he looked at the spiritual plants in the air.
Pei Yunshu's voice then came out.
"Yun Shu left the secret realm first, and now that he has formed a pill, it's a good time for him to go down the mountain and travel."
"Don't read it."
There was silence in the cave, and the joy on the third brother's face froze, as if he didn't hear clearly what the sound transmission note said at the end.
"Brother, did you hear what Junior Brother Qing Yunshu said?" He turned to ask the eldest senior brother.
The eldest brother nodded, "Junior brother Yunshu said he wanted to go down the mountain to gain experience."
For a moment, the cave became quiet again. Yun Wang let go of his hand and looked down at the broken sound transmission note in his hand.
He pulled down the warm jade from his waist and held it tightly in his hand. The round white jade hurt his hand bones, and a layer of frosty coldness appeared on his gorgeous eyebrows.
Before he could explain to his senior brother, he was about to escape from him.
The white jade pressed heavily, and Yun Wang turned around and gave his senior brothers a well-behaved smile, but his eyes were full of pressure. The surging emotions made his expression look as if covered with a layer of gray, "Senior Brother."
He smiled slowly, "Yun Wang has never been to other places since he was a child. Now that I hear that Fourth Senior Brother wants to go and gain experience, I am very envious."
"Yun Wang knows that his cultivation is not good enough and he cannot go down the mountain to train," he laughed twice, "but the brothers can protect Yun Wang and take him to travel around the world. Maybe he will meet Brother Yun Shu. If he does, we brothers can return to the sect together."
"I'm sure Master will agree."
*
On the endless peak.
Master Ling Qing opened his eyes and took a storage bag full of treasures.
Along with the storage bag came a thin letter.
Master Ling Qing looked at Pei Yunshu's letter, and after reading the two words "Don't worry", he waved his sleeves and sent the storage bag to Yun Wang's room.
He put the letter aside, closed his eyes and meditated for a long while, but he couldn't get into the state.
Ling Qing opened his eyes again and looked around the room.
After he brought the young Yunshu to the mountain, Yunshu became particularly attached to him and would come to his room from time to time. Yunshu's shadow could be seen everywhere in the room.
Master Ling Qing stood up, walked to the table, and picked up the jade porcelain cup on the table.
In the blink of an eye, more than 20 years had passed, and there were already a few cracks on the jade porcelain cup. Ling Qing Zhenren suddenly felt a little dazed. He straightened his mind and put the white porcelain cup down.
*
There were crowds of people on both sides of the street, and the sounds of hawking were endless.
Pei Yunshu walked slowly in it. It was not that he didn't want to walk faster, but if he walked faster, that part would rub against his clothes.
Zhu You was right next to him. When Pei Yunshu walked slowly, he followed suit. He stared at Pei Yunshu with his pair of black eyes, as if he couldn't see anything else, without blinking.
If he hadn't been staring at him, Pei Yunshu could have loosened his belt a little. He was wearing the clothes he had just bought, which were made of better material from the clothing store, but they were still not as loose and comfortable as the Taoist robes. The pain became more severe with every step he took.
Huayue waved at them from the front. When the two of them walked up to Huayue, they saw Huayue pointing at an amber stone on the stall and said in surprise, "They said this thing is called ambergris."
The three ignorant people all looked at the stone.
Ambergris
The stall owner said enthusiastically, "Isn't it ambergris? This is very precious. If the customer wants it, just pay this amount."
He stretched out a hand, and seeing that the three people in front of him had no reaction, he smiled mysteriously, covered his lips with one hand, and whispered: "This ambergris not only strengthens the body, but also has a long-lasting fragrance. It also has some aphrodisiac benefits. If I light one in front of the bed at night, and enjoy the fragrance every night, wouldn't it be wonderful?"
Pei Yunshu understood. He coughed lightly and looked away from the ambergris. He thought that this dragon was really... Even its saliva could have such an effect.
Hua Yue was extremely envious. He bowed deeply to Zhu You beside him and praised: "Your Excellency is indeed worthy of being called an Excellency. Such grace is truly admirable. Even this little saliva has such a miraculous effect. Is there any other demon in the world that can be compared with your Excellency?"
After listening to this, Zhu You nodded slightly, agreeing with what Hua Yue said.
The boss at the side was confused. He stretched out another hand and closed his thumb. "If the three customers are really interested, then I will give you a discount. It can't be any less."
Zhu You suddenly reached out and picked up the amber stone on the stall. In just a blink of an eye, the stone disappeared from his hand.
The boss opened his eyes wide, "You—"
Zhu You looked at him expressionlessly, and glanced at Pei Yunshu beside him. Then he remembered something, took out a spiritual fruit from his sleeve, and threw it to the boss.