"A gift from the gods that can cure all diseases?"

Cheng Li glanced at the water in the pool, looked left and right, and didn't think there was anything special about this water. He shook his head and asked, "What, does Young Master Yan suffer from any disease?"

The peacock looked resentful and sighed: "It's hard to say. If it's convenient for En Gong, you can come with me and see for yourself, then everything will be understood. ”

Cheng Li asked, "Young Master Yan is also here, what kind of place is this?"

There was a hint of surprise between the peacock's eyebrows. Said: "This is the main hall of Yongzhou Pai Sect." Don't you know?"

It's a problem to explain how you got here. In a few words, it is absolutely unclear. So Cheng Li simply didn't say anything. Said: "It turned out to be the main hall of Pai Jiao. Then peacock girl, you lead the way. ”

Seeing that Cheng Li didn't say anything, the peacock obediently stopped asking. She whispered, "Please wait a minute." I took the water from the pond before leaving. ”

Cheng Li nodded, then took two steps back, leaning against the wall and watching. The peacock took out a translucent glass bottle, knelt beside the pool, prostrated himself on the ground, and whispered to the sky.

Her demeanor was solemn, and there was a kind of piety in her voice. It seems to be praying. However, the language used is not the Central Plains Chinese, it should be the Barbarian Miao language. So to whom and what is she praying to? Cheng Li didn't understand it at all.

After a while, the peacock's prayer came to an end. She let out a long sigh of relief and sat up on her back. Then he took the glass bottle and carefully put it into the pool to draw water. In an instant, a full bottle was filled.

It's strange to say. When the water is still in the pool, it is ordinary and colorless and transparent. But once it's drawn into the bottle, it immediately turns pale blue and glows brightly. Cheng Li walked over, stretched out his hand and touched the bottle lightly, but found that the bottle was as cold as ice, but under one touch, his fingers were already covered with a layer of light white frost.

Cheng Liqi said: "How can this bottle be cold like this? How can you hold it when it is cold like this?"

Peacock said: "The holy water given by the gods is like this. It's really hard for an average person to hold it. Fortunately, the head of the family once taught me a martial art to practice. That's why I can hold this bottle. Before there was no holy water, he relied on this martial art to relieve the pain of his son. ”

Cheng Li was stunned and said, "You can also do martial arts?" What's the name of your martial arts?"

The peacock lowered his head and said softly: "The head of the family said that this martial art is called 'Cold Light Snow Clothes'. I practice this martial art just to serve my son, not to fight with others. So I haven't even learned those hands-on methods. Maybe because of this, Eun Gong can't see it. ”

Cheng Li suddenly realized. "I see. Let's go, then. Take me to meet your son-in-law. ”

A hint of worry appeared between the peacock's eyebrows, and he asked, "Engong, is it okay to go out like this?" ”

Cheng Li smiled: "It's okay, you just go." They can't see me. ”

"They can't see you?"

Peacock is unknown. But he obediently stopped asking. At that moment, she carried the glass bottle, turned and walked through the secret door where she had come in before, and walked outside.

Beyond the secret door, there is also a deep tunnel. On the walls on both sides of the tunnel, there are oil lamps, which are as dim as beans, but barely enough to illuminate. The peacock was alone, walking dozens of steps in the tunnel alone, but he couldn't hear the movement of someone behind him at all. She couldn't help but look back, only to see nothingness. Where are the other figures in the tunnels?

The peacock struck a sudden moment in his heart, and whispered, "Engong?"

"I'm here, don't panic. ”

Cheng Li's voice sounded. Immediately after, an invisible hand gently patted the peacock on the shoulder twice. The peacock tried to keep his eyes open, but he couldn't see anything. I was in doubt. blurted out: "Ah, it turns out that Engong knows stealth?"

Stealth is a spell that only appears in legends, and Cheng Li naturally doesn't. He just gathered a layer of dark matter and shrouded himself.

Dark matter is a special substance that cannot be observed and sensed in any conventional way. Normally, when Cheng Li gathers dark matter, the reason why wisps of black gas appear is only because the concentration of dark matter is highly compressed, from invisible to visible.

But if the concentration is reduced to a certain level, the dark matter will return to its invisible state. Enveloping yourself with dark matter in this state is equivalent to putting on a cloak of invisibility. Even with himself "disappeared".

But even though you can't see it, you can still feel it. So the cloak of invisibility is not completely invisible. As long as someone touches Cheng Li, or Cheng Li takes the initiative to touch others, then his existence can still be felt.

Regarding the properties and utility of dark matter, these things are also unexplainable to the people of this era. So Cheng Li said casually: "It's good to think of it as a stealth technique." Keep walking. ”

The peacock was shocked, but he had to calm down and move on. After a long while, the two left the tunnel and walked onto the ground. But when I saw where I was, it turned out to be a temple again.

In the center of the temple, there is also a statue of a patron saint who is half human and half snake. It's just that this statue looks very solemn, and it is completely different from the eyebrows in the pool of the underground palace, as if it also exudes a smelty style from the bones.

The peacock casually picked up a robe from the floor next to the statue and put it on. Then he walked out. Cheng Li also followed suit. But outside the temple, bluestone roads crisscross the city. In the distance, rows of houses are lined up, very neatly planned. As far as the eye can see, a towering wall encloses the houses and streets. Obviously, this is not only the general rudder of Yongzhou Paijiao, but also a huge fortress.

The streets inside the fortress are very clean and tidy. From time to time, it can be seen that there are groups of platoon disciples carrying knives and guns, patrolling back and forth, and they are very well guarded.

When these Pai Sect disciples saw the peacock, they would come forward to inquire and investigate. The peacock took out a token and handed it to them to verify that it was correct before they could pass.

In normal times, this is just a routine, and the peacock doesn't feel anything unusual. But today, Peacock clearly knew that he was followed by an uninvited guest. If discovered, things can get out of hand at any time.

Therefore, even if he knew that Cheng Li knew how to make "stealth techniques", others couldn't see him at all. But the peacock is still worried, for fear that he will be seen something. Such an appearance was seen by those patrolling disciples, and they were naturally very suspicious. But the inventory came and went, and nothing was found, so in the end I had to let it go.

Stop-and-go, delayed a lot of time. It was only after half an hour that the peacock led Cheng Li to the southeast corner of the fortress, in a very richly decorated courtyard. The guards outside the gate here are not the children of Yongzhou Paijiao, but the children of the Chenzhou Yan family.

Seeing the peacock coming back, these Yan family children were overjoyed, and urged repeatedly: "Peacock girl, you are back." Hurry up, Childe's illness has flared up again, and he is waiting for the holy water. ”

The peacock was in a hurry, and said in a lost voice: "Why did you have another seizure? If you calculate according to the hour, it shouldn't be so fast." He didn't care about listening to the answer of the disciples of the Yan family guarding the door, so he rushed into the gate and rushed into the wing room in three steps.

Cheng Li also followed the door. As soon as I crossed the threshold, I immediately noticed a cold snap coming. Looking around, I saw that huge pieces of ice were placed all over the courtyard. Those disciples of the Yan family each took a big fan and fanned the wind vigorously, infanning the cold into the room where the son of the Yan family was staying.

The peacock hurriedly pushed open the door of the wing room and rushed in with the glass bottle. Cheng Li then entered the door and saw that all the furniture in the room had been removed. There was only one large bed in the room, which was large enough for five or six people to lie on at the same time.

The bed is topped in gold and surrounded by beaded curtains, all of which are smooth and rounded pearls the size of a baby's thumb. Just such a gold-topped bead bed is worth at least tens of thousands of taels of silver. It can be seen that whether it is Yongzhou Paijiao or Chenzhou Yanjia, it is so extravagant.

Seeing the peacock come in, the two maidservants who had been waiting by the bedside immediately bowed deeply to the peacock and then withdrew. The peacock couldn't wait to open the bead curtain, broke in and called out in a loud voice: "Childe, childe, how are you feeling?"

Cheng Li watched intently, and saw a curled teenager lying on the bed within the bead curtain. It is the son of the Yan family who has met once a few days ago. However, when they met a few days ago, the clothes on the son of the Yan family looked very gorgeous. But now goodbye, the son of the Yan family is only wearing a pair of knee-length shorts, and his upper body is lying on the ground.

The courtyard was full of ice, and the temperature was about two or three degrees at most. Even ordinary adults will feel cold, so they have to wear cotton jackets and leather clothes to keep out the cold. But instead of feeling cold, the son of the Yan family turned red all over his body, and at first glance, he looked like a cooked prawn. Moreover, as the son of the Yan family exhaled and breathed, Cheng Li actually felt bursts of hot air rushing over. Reaching out again and touching his forehead lightly, it felt like touching a red-hot charcoal stove.

Cheng Li was taken aback. With a wave of his hand, the dark matter shrouded in the body was dispersed and reappeared in front of the person. He asked, "Peacock girl, how could Yan Gongzi burn so badly? If you burn like this, won't even your brain burn to the core?"

The peacock said with a mournful voice: "When Gongzi was still in his mother's womb, there was a powerful enemy who invaded Chenzhou. Childe's mother had no choice but to drive away the enemy, but she hurt her tires. Childe suffered a very serious internal injury at that time, but it was only dormant until a year ago that he suddenly had a seizure.

Once this strange injury occurs, Childe will be so hot that ordinary people can't even bear it if they want to touch it. Alas~ Childe was originally very smart and clever, and his talent was also very high. But since the onset of this strange disease, his brain has been burned out, so that his words and deeds are reversed. The doctor also said that if there was no way to treat it, he would ...... I'm afraid it's only half a year at most. That's why the head of the family had no choice but to send us to Yongzhou. ”