Chapter 17: Plan Ahead
Seeing Qingwu disappear into the sky with Yan Shiyi, Yan Jiu breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, his heart hung nervously. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After settling down, there are still a bunch of difficult troubles waiting for you, but the top priority is to get rid of Red Aya.
Yan Jiu shouted in his heart: God! I don't want to lie at all, but I'm going further and further down the road of honesty!
Yan Jiu put away all his thoughts and looked at Hong Aya indifferently.
"Yan Qing is dying, are you willing to save him?"
Hong Ayan's eyebrows were raised, and she looked at Yan Jiu suspiciously, "Isn't Yan Qing in retreat?" How could his storage ring end up with you? ”
"It's a long story." Yan Jiu sorted out his thoughts for a while, and then he told the story.
"I was born with an earth spirit root, and I also practiced earth attribute exercises, and when I was practicing the method that day, I found Yan Qing trapped under the Yan Mansion, and it was Steward Yan who trapped him."
"Butler Yan?" Hong Aya's eyebrows furrowed slightly, "Isn't he a mortal?" ”
"Nope! He's a demon cultivator! Yan Jiu said with an angry expression.
Then Yan Jiu began her nonsense without changing her face.
"Steward Yan used to like a female cultivator very much, but this female cultivator died to save Yan Qing. For this reason, he was very jealous of Yan Qing. even committed himself to the Yan Mansion and became a small housekeeper, in order to wait for an opportunity to take revenge on Yan Qing. This time, he took advantage of Yan Qing's retreat to secretly poison Yan Qing, imprisoned Yan Qing underground, and planted a demon plant on Yan Qing to torture Yan Qing. I know that you once received the favor of Yan Qing, and now I will tell you everything, Hongyan, can you help me? Help me save Yanfu and save my father. ”
Yan Jiu looked at Hong Aya with sad eyes, but he was beating a drum in his heart, and he didn't know how much Red Aya believed.
Hong Aya looked at Yan Jiu scrutinically, but she already believed a little in her heart. Yan Qing's face is indeed powerful at attracting bees and butterflies.
"And where did you get the storage ring on your hand?"
"It was Yan Qing who told me where this ring was placed, and he said that as long as he showed you this ring, you would believe me."
Yan Jiu took out the storage ring and looked at Hong Aya expectantly, "The only one who can help me now is you!" ”
Red Aya looked into the distance, and on the blue sky, there were occasional thin clouds drifting by.
Many years ago, it seems that it was in such a weather that I met Yan Qing......
"Husband! Guess what I got? ”
At that time, Hongya still had the joy of becoming a first-time wife, and that day she was selling the crystal nucleus obtained from hunting demon beasts in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, plus her own income over the years, and exchanged it for a Tsukidan with other monks.
Hongya happily returned to her residence, and she wanted to give this Tsukidan to her husband, who had completed her qi training.
Who knew that when he opened the door, he was not facing his husband's compassion and gentleness, but the "soul breaking needle" that killed him!
I saw those three soul-breaking needles shooting through the air! Hit yourself in the upper, middle and lower three ways, even if you try to avoid it, but in such a hasty situation, you can only avoid two.
One of them hit his left leg, and the venom quenched on the Soul Breaker Needle traveled to it with the meridians, making him unable to move in an instant.
And the owner of the Soul Breaker Needle is not his husband, who else.
Even quenching the poison on the Soul Breaker Needle was his own idea.
But who knows, now it is self-inflicted.
Red Aya lay on the ground, watching as Zhou Sheng took Tsukidan from his arms.
This husband, who used to be extremely gentle to himself, never looked at himself from beginning to end.
Hong Aya laughed loudly, laughing at herself for being stupid, laughing at herself for being stupid, laughing at her blindness, laughing at herself for being infatuated is just a joke.
She laughed so hard that tears flowed from her eyes.
The toxin swam through the meridians, and soon, it spread to her waist and abdomen, and Red Aya lay on the ground, waiting to meet the final death.
She opened her eyes and looked into the distance, the weather was really good that day, the sky was blue, the occasional wind blew, mixed with the fragrance of unknown flowers, and in the grass not far away, there were small insects singing.
"What is true in this world? What is Fake? Red Aya murmured blankly.
The husband who used to smile is just the executioner who has taken his life now.
The sweet past is nothing but poison flowing through the body at the moment.
The happiness I have been chasing is just an illusion, like the moon in the mirror, which can only be imagined, but it is out of reach.
Hong Aya closed her eyes and muttered alone, "I am empty and affectionate, but what I want is the illusion of a mirror. ”
Red Aya realized at this life-and-death juncture.
"My way is called Mirror Flower Water Moon"!
A pair of bright eyes opened suddenly! There seemed to be a mysterious sermon flashing in his eyes.
If I can live, Zhousheng, you have to wait for me. The poor and the blue fall into the Yellow Spring, and my red silk will also break your body into ten thousand pieces!
However, the toxin did not stop at all, and it has already traveled to the vicinity of the heart. Red Aya closed her eyes in despair, a tear faltered between her eyelashes, I realized, but unfortunately I was going to die.
"Will I save you?"
A voice was like a heavenly sound, coming from afar.
Hong Aya opened her eyes and saw Yan Qing with a playful look in her eyes.
Hong Aya looked at Yan Qing longingly, and the desire to survive in her eyes was self-evident.
Yan Qing chuckled, and at that moment, Hong Aya suddenly said: Lang Yan is unique, and there is no other feeling in the world.
"I can save you, but what can you give me?"
"I give you my life ......"
Hong Aya walked out of her memories, and then looked at Yan Jiu and asked lightly, "How to save it?" ”
Yan Jiu is overjoyed, this is promised!?
"I have a way to save Yan Qing out, you just need to drag Steward Yan as much as possible!"
Yan Jiu took out a few bottles of pills and handed them to Hong Aya, among which there were several medium-grade pills with good effects, and of course, they were also mixed with the medium-grade Gathering Spirit Pill that Yan Qing gave him.
"This is the elixir that Yan Qing personally refined, you can use it for cultivation together, and it is also good to use it to restore aura at critical moments."
Hong Aya took the jade bottle, pulled out the cork and sniffed it gently, the aura was full, the fragrance was overflowing, it was indeed the best elixir.
"Are you really going to give it to me?"
"Of course, we are grasshoppers on a rope now, and the better your strength, the better our chances of success." Yan Jiu returned with a smile.
In fact, not only that, Yan Jiu was also to prove his conjecture, and that day Yan Qing found himself hiding in the shadows. The reason could not be in the exercises he cultivated, but the "Gathering Spirit Pill" that he held in his mouth at that time was even more suspicious.
And that Gathering Spirit Pill came from Yan Qing, and it was very likely that Yan Qing did something on it.
Once Yan Qing is rescued, it is very likely that he will "unload the mill and kill the donkey", so he still has to plan early and prepare a way out in advance.
After all, Yan Qing's cultivation is ruthless! Ruthlessly, cut off relatives! Break the love!
Yan Jiu originally thought that only people with "anti/social/social/personality" would choose to cultivate the Ruthless Dao. But I didn't expect that Yan Qing, a "stallion" who is merciless everywhere, will also cultivate ruthless Taoism.
And he is still racking his brains here to try to rescue, and I admire myself when I think about it.
However, instead of worrying about yourself and worrying that you will become flower fertilizer, it is better to play with the excitement now.
Yan Jiu took out an hourglass, and then said to Hong Aya, "After the sun sets, you turn the hourglass upside down, and when the sand in the hourglass leaks halfway, you do it!" ”
Yan Jiu repeatedly advised, "Remember! Steward Yan is already a foundation building Great Perfection monk, you only need to hold him down for a moment, don't go head-to-head with him! If you are defeated, just escape! ”
When Hong Aya heard this, she couldn't help but feel warm in her heart, "Don't worry, although I am not Steward Yan's opponent, it is more than enough to hold him back." ”
Hong Aya changed her words and asked casually, "Then where are you?" ”
"Me?" Yan Jiu looked at Hong Aya with some surprise, as if surprised that the other party cared about him.
I really didn't expect that the cold-looking red aya would also show concern for herself.
Yan Jiu said with a smile, "Of course, I'm going to make other preparations." ”
Hong Aya nodded, this is the difference from Yan Jiu, although what she said is light, but after all, Steward Yan is the cultivation of the foundation building the Great Perfection, and there are a lot of preparations to be made.
Seeing Hong Aya leaving, Yan Jiu turned around and entered the Pill Medicine Workshop, where two colorful thorn flowers were hung on the door.
Shops with thorn ornaments serve monks, and the number of flowers determines the level of the shop.
Usually the pill shop with two thorn flowers represents: you can not only buy finished pills here, but also sell the pills in your hand.
According to the records of the "Chronicles of the Central Continent", the pill shop marked with five thorn flowers can bring the pill and the various elixirs recorded in the pill recipe and let the alchemists in the pill shop refine it with their own hands.
It's just that this kind of "private customization" is not only very expensive, but also may not be successful.
However, Yan Jiu went to the pill shop just to buy some ordinary pills that could be used during the Qi cultivation period. Although Yan Qing can also refine pills, Yan Qing is a monk in the late stage of foundation building after all, and there are very few pills that can be used during the Qi cultivation period in his storage ring.
There was no way, Yan Jiu could only buy it for himself. Fortunately, with the spirit stone in Yan Qing's storage ring as support, this thing is of course not a problem.
Half an hour later, Yan Jiufang came out of the Medicine Pavilion, and before she could take a breath, she hurried to the Demon Beast Trading Market in the east of Burning Flame City.
The Demon Beast Trading Market, as the name suggests, is a place to buy and sell demon beasts, and there is a reputable profession in the Central Continent, called - Soul Tamer.
It is to domesticate all kinds of demon beasts into docile spirit beasts and sell them to monks for a profit. Adult monsters are usually difficult to tame, so the trainers usually buy the monster cubs and monster eggs in the monks' hands.
The Demon Beast Trading Market is located to the east of Blazing Flame City, and is about the same size as the two Yan Mansions. As soon as Yan Jiu walked into the demon beast trading market, he had a sense of immediacy when he entered the zoo.
I thought that monsters should be as tall and mighty as prehistoric monsters and dinosaurs, and they were hideous and human-loving! Who knew that these monsters, in addition to their strange appearances, were just like those tigers in modern zoos, lying there quietly.
The smaller monsters were trapped in cages, and the larger monsters were directly trapped in the magic circle placed on the ground, which was even more casual than a zoo.
Probably because of the price of demon beasts, there were not many people in the demon beast trading market, and when they saw Yan Jiu coming, several beast tamers also seemed to be ignorant of it.
After all, Yan Jiu's age is there, and what the seven-year-old girl likes is nothing more than some low-level demon beasts such as moonlight rabbits, and this kind of demon beasts are usually only three or four fast to grade spirit stones, which is not enough to waste spirit.
Yan Jiu enjoyed this kind of "snubbed" treatment very much, what she wanted was that no one would disturb her, and she could choose a substitute spirit beast with peace of mind.
"Ah, it's a Wind Leopard! It's fast when it's running, but it's not long, so it's not good. Yan Jiu took the booklet in his hand, and while watching the spirit beast in the cage, he explained the picture above.
This kind of explanation manual can be seen everywhere in the demon beast trading market, as long as one lower grade spirit stone, you can take ten volumes. It is really a good product for sightseeing tours and cultural relics browsing. Especially for people like Yan Jiu who don't know about demon beasts, it's really intimate.
Yan Jiu walked towards the next spirit beast, this time the spirit beast was directly trapped in the magic circle on the ground, and what stayed inside was a big fiery red bird with a lizard head.
"Don't know what this is?" Yan Jiu flipped through the book in his hand, "It turned out to be an "Aurora Lizard Bird", with advantages: fast flying speed and docile. Disadvantages: Extremely large appetite. ”
Yan Jiu touched his chin, "This is worth considering." ”
Soon, Yan Jiu looked at the atlas and looked at these spirit beasts, of course, focusing on those spirit beasts that ran fast, flew high, and were cheap.
In the end, Yan Jiu still chose the ugly but gentle "vegetarian" - the Aurora Lizardhead.
Seeing that Yan Jiu looked at the aurora lizard in the cage again and again, the owner of the aurora lizard bird saw that business had come to the door even if he was blind again.
"This little fellow Daoist, but you have a crush on me, the Aurora Lizard Bird?" The shopkeeper with the mustache smiled kindly.
"No, I just think it's too weird." Yan Jiu continued.
"I've never seen such an ugly monster! Are you sure someone will buy it? ”
Hearing Yan Jiu's answer, the mustachioed shopkeeper's face immediately showed a little unhappiness, whose little girl is this, isn't she here to smash the field?!
Seeing that the store's face was unhappy, Yan Jiu also knew that the point was over. This "bargaining" of buying things is a degree.
"Hey~"
I saw Yan Jiu sigh with a distressed face, and muttered in a depressed voice.
"I really don't like this ugly mount, I really don't understand Daddy, why should I buy this mount? There's a moonlight rabbit there. ”
This kind of melancholy appearance of pretending to be old is indescribably cute for a child of Yan Jiu's age.
Although Yan Jiu's voice was small, the shopkeeper heard it clearly, and the mustachioed shopkeeper simply laughed like a flower.
"Little girl, you don't know about this." The mustachioed shopkeeper pointed to the aurora lizardhead.
"You only know that this monster beast is ugly, but you don't know that this aurora lizard bird flies extremely fast, and even some foundation building monks like to use it as a substitute. And don't look at his fierce appearance, but he doesn't eat flesh and blood, and his temperament is the most docile. Your father asked you to buy him as a mount for your own good. ”
Yan Jiu covered his mouth in horror, his big eyes full of incredulity.
"You, how do you know, Daddy asked me to buy it!"
The mustachioed shopkeeper laughed "haha", whose child is this, how is it so funny!
Seeing the shopkeeper laughing, Yan Jiu couldn't help but stomp his feet angrily and shouted, "What are you laughing at!" Will you sell it to me or not! If you laugh any more, I won't buy it! ”
The mustachioed shopkeeper stopped his voice at this time, and his gaze at Yan Jiu was a little more real.
"Don't," the mustachioed shopkeeper smiled back, "don't you buy it, aren't you afraid your father will be angry?" ”
Yan Jiu twisted his head to the side angrily, "I don't care about him, I won't buy it anyway, it's ugly!" ”
"Look, he's flying fast!" The mustachioed shopkeeper opened the circle on the ground, put his finger to his lips and whistled. The aurora lizard bird opened its big feathers behind it, fluttered twice and moved its muscles and bones, and then flew up.
The vigorously waving wings rolled up a gust of wind, blowing Yan Jiu couldn't open his eyes, and in the dust, the aurora lizard-headed bird curled up its claws, took advantage of its momentum to rise into the sky, spread its wings and swim proudly in the sky, and after a few flapped wings, it disappeared.
Judging from the speed shown by this aurora lizard bird alone, Yan Jiu is still very satisfied, but there is still a long way to go to bargain.
Yan Jiu sighed silently in his heart, it's shameful to be cute! Especially the adult who is running for three, he is still pretending to be Lori here, and he is drunk when he thinks about it.
"Ahh He flew away! Yan Jiu covered his mouth and exclaimed.
The shopkeeper smiled and waved his hand, "If he doesn't fly far, I'll call him back." ”
I saw that the mustachioed shopkeeper whistled again, and a small red dot gradually appeared in the sky in the distance, which was the aurora lizard bird that flew away.
Yan Jiu's eyes were full of amazement, this was simply a "private flight" on call. This kind of pulling out the spirit stone and shouting "Buy!" Buy! Buy! The desire was too strong, and Yan Jiu could only subconsciously protect the storage bag to remind himself that the spirit stone was not easy to come by.
The aurora lizard-headed bird landed obediently, gathered its wings and quietly prostrated into the magic circle where it had stayed.
The mustachioed shopkeeper's face was a pride that could not be concealed.
"Little girl, my aurora lizardhead bird is good, do you want to buy it back?"
Looking at the mustachioed shopkeeper with "profiteer" written on his face, Yan Jiu sneered in his heart, buying is to buy, but not the kind of buy you think!
Yan Jiu cleared his throat, put his hands on his shoulders, and asked with a "little adult" look, "How many spirit stones does this demon beast have?" ”
The mustachioed shopkeeper rubbed his hands again and again, and the excitement of this kind of big business coming to the door could not be understood by non-merchants.
Especially when the other party is still a coaxing "child".
"This little Taoist friend," seeing that Yan Jiu wanted to buy it, the mustachioed shopkeeper even raised his title from "little girl" to "little Taoist friend".
"You have also seen it, my aurora lizard bird flies very fast, and it looks very powerful, it is really a mount suitable for Taoist friends, and I am not vain, this aurora lizard bird costs fifteen medium-grade spirit stones."
The mustachioed shopkeeper touted the aurora lizard-headed bird for a while, and even its ugly appearance turned into might, Yan Jiu could only sigh "profiteer"!
Yan Jiu's face was embarrassed, "That's it, then I still don't want it." Do you have a moonlight bunny here? I want one by one. ”
The mustache shopkeeper's beard shook angrily, I'm ready for you to bargain with me, you just tell me no! Can you still do business well?
"Why? Am I a bad aurora lizardhead? The mustachioed shopkeeper asked eagerly.
"Okay!" Yan Jiuyu said innocently.
"That's what you don't want?" The mustachioed shopkeeper asked.
"Yes!" Yan Jiu continued to return innocently.
"Then why not?"
The beard on the shopkeeper's face twitched even more, this must be here to smash the field!
"Because it's too expensive!" Yan Jiu spread his hands and said helplessly, "I don't have so many spirit stones!" ”
Yan looked at the mustache shopkeeper and said happily, "Anyway, what I wanted at the beginning was a moonlight rabbit!" I told my father that the spirit stone was not good enough. By the way, can you help me pick a moonlight rabbit with a little longer hair? I like the ones with a little longer hair. ”
Seeing Yan Jiu's relaxed appearance as if he was unburdened, the mustache shopkeeper felt that his whole person was not good. There are not enough spirit stones, won't you bargain with me! I can give you a cheaper price!
The mustache shopkeeper exhaled and exhaled again and again, allowing himself to calm down quickly.
"How many spirit stones did you bring?"
"Five medium-grade spirit stones!"
Fortunately, the mustachioed shopkeeper secretly comforted himself that there was still a profit.
"Look at you so cute, five medium-grade spirit stones will be sold to you!"
Looking at the mustache shopkeeper's seemingly painful reply, but in fact he was extremely refreshing, Yan Jiu knew that the price he gave was still too high.
"But I still can't buy it."
"Why!" The mustache shop is going crazy! Are children so tormented nowadays!!
Yan Jiu looked at his feet and said weakly, "Daddy said that three spirit stones are used to buy mounts, and two spirit stones are used to buy magic weapons, and they are all given to you, what about magic weapons?" I'd better buy Moonlight Rabbit, I like Moonlight Rabbit. ”
The mustache frowned thoughtfully, and the little abacus in his heart "crackled". The three medium-grade spirit stones seem to have made a profit, but the profit is too small.
The mustachioed shopkeeper smashed his palm and said ruthlessly, "Three pieces are three pieces!" I admit it too! ”
Seeing that the mustache shopkeeper's face seemed to be serious, Yan Jiu also knew that this was almost the bottom line, as the so-called "take it when you see it", and if you do too much, I am afraid that the gains outweigh the losses.
"Really?" Yan Jiu's face was not happy, but a little more lost.
I saw Yan Jiu take out the spirit stone and say with great amazement: "If you buy the Aurora Lizard Bird, you can't buy the Moonlight Rabbit." ”
The mustache shopkeeper simply can't say that he is suffering, he has regressed so much, and the other party still looks sad! What's going on!
The mustache shopkeeper casually touched the pet egg placed on the shelf next to him and pushed it into Yan Jiu's arms.
"This is the monster egg of the Moonlight Rabbit, you can take it back and incubate it!"
Yan Jiu held the demon beast egg of the Moonlight Rabbit in his left hand, and the "Spirit Beast Bag" containing the Aurora Lizard Bird in his right hand, and was pushed out of the store in this way.
"Smack!" The door of the store behind him was slammed shut, and Yan Jiu was officially on the "blacklist" of this store!
Yan Jiu couldn't help but smile, from fifteen medium-grade spirit stones, to three medium-grade spirit stones, plus a gift demon beast egg, this "shopping" feeling seems to be pretty good.
Yan Jiu smiled, and then walked into the next shop......
Just when Yan Jiu was running up and down to work, thousands of miles away above the clear sky. Qingwu was steering the boat to fly in the direction of Kunlun, and the wind was fierce outside the cabin, and thin clouds were accumulating.
In the cabin, Qingwu was cooking tea and wine, and I saw him holding a teapot and tilting slightly towards the teacup. An amber tea soup poured out, flowing steadily into the small teacup, no more, no less, just seven points full.
Qingwu pushed the teacup onto the small table in front of Yan Shiyi, and then spoke.
"The ninth order of the Ninth Order Heart Refining Platform is called 'Asking the Heart', and the one that asks is your Dao Heart. At this level, you will face the last person you want to face in this life, perhaps a powerful enemy, perhaps your best friend, or your closest family member. ”
Qingwu poured himself a full cup and put it between his lips and tasted it slowly.
"I saw a beast that devoured people's hearts, so I slashed it with a sword. But you're faced with an image of your sister, and I'm curious, why did you make that choice? ”
Yan Shiyi was silent, just silently touched the hairband in his hand, which Yan Jiu had used to tie his hair, and there were two beautiful peace knots at both ends of the hairband.
"She's not my sister."
Yan Shiyi heard himself say this.
"She's someone more important than me!"
Yan Shiyi looked out of the cabin, and there was not a single light in those dark eyes.
That's why I killed "myself" with a sword! ”