Chapter 40: When the elixir is refined, the choice finally comes
There is a towering tree in the southernmost part of the Heavenly Palace, it is said that when Pangu opened the heavens and the earth, one of his hairs fell in the heavenly realm, and since then it has taken root and sprouted, growing into a giant tree that covers the sky and the sun, and has become a tree wall guarding the heavenly realm.
A young girl sat on a tree and looked into the distance.
"I guessed you're here again." Yun'er carried an empty basket and walked under the big tree, and when she looked up, she saw the girl sitting on the branch in a daze.
Two years have passed in a blink of an eye, Yun'er loves to dress herself up as a teenager, slightly taller than her peers, and she thinks she is a handsome young man who doesn't know, so that those little fairies who are pregnant with spring all have a shy expression when they see her, and some of them also wrote lingering love poems for Mo Fei to transfer to her, making Mo Fei cry and laugh.
And Mo Fei became more and more slim, the skin without powder could be broken, and the two red clouds on her fair and delicate cheeks became more and more beautiful and lovely, and all the immortals guessed which rouge she wore was so good-looking.
Yun'er put down the basket, jumped on the branch, and sat down next to the girl who was looking into the distance.
"Yun'er, do you have anyone you miss?" Since he and Yun'er discovered this place a year ago, Mo Fei has often come, sometimes with Yun'er, sometimes alone, sitting on a high branch looking at the world, the sea of clouds is vast, and occasionally a few cranes pass by.
"The one who misses? I miss my dead brothers and sisters, all buried thousands of miles away in their homeland. Yun'er's eyes were sad, looking back on the past, when the plague was raging in the world, countless lives died, the master was ordered by the emperor of heaven to go down to earth to save the common people, and happened to save her who was dying, and by chance she became his apprentice.
"Why is there sickness, hatred, separation, and hurt in this world?" Murphy muttered to herself that she hadn't seen Mei Li since that snowy night, but she knew the cause of the feud between him and Master.
For her, they were all people she cared about, and she couldn't let go of either side and watched the hatred between them grow stronger.
One day, she overheard Xiao Se say to her master that now the entire demon world is looking for Mei Li, and if he wants to kill him quickly, his eldest brother announced to the outside world that anyone who takes Mei Li's head will be rewarded, it seems that Mei Li's life is not easy, Mo Fei is worried, but there is nothing he can do.
Half a year ago, Grandma Pu Xi and the unicorn beast also left the Heavenly Palace to recuperate in the distant Le Ji Hall in the south, the Heavenly Palace became more and more deserted, she was worried about Mei Li, but she couldn't tell others, her heart was depressed, and she became more and more silent, fortunately, Yun'er was there, but Yun'er's next words made Mo Fei melancholy.
"Mo Fei, Master and I are going to leave Heaven for a while." Yun'er had a sad face.
"Where are you going?" Murphy asked anxiously.
"Recently, there has been a vicious disease in the world, the patient is in pain, the shape is like a withered tree, more than 100 people have died in just a few days, the most bizarre thing is that there is a hole the size of a copper coin on the top of each corpse's head, and the stomach is empty, the emperor suspects that it is a demon to make trouble, so he sent the master to the world two days later to relieve the disaster." Yun'er held Mo Fei's hand, and she was reluctant to leave her best friend.
"How long will it take to be back?" Murphy asked hurriedly.
"I don't know, but it should take some time to listen to Master's tone." Yun'er sighed.
"You have to be careful, I'll wait for you to come back." Mo Fei was reluctant to hold Yun'er's hand tightly, at this time she didn't know that this parting was actually the end of the world.
The day before leaving, Xiao Se summoned Mo Fei to front of him, his face was solemn, Mo Fei didn't know what he was going to say to her, and heard Xiao Se speak slowly.
"In the past few years, I have been refining the elixir to solve Yuye's eye disease, and I see that the day of refining the elixir is approaching, but now the evil disease in the world is serious, I may not be able to rush back in time, if I don't return in time, you will go to my alchemy room to pick up the medicine, remember that the time after twenty days is the time to take the medicine, don't miss it." Xiao Se looked into Mo Fei's eyes and told her the riddle of the alchemy furnace opening.
After thinking about this matter again and again, he had always been meticulous in handling things, looking at the entire heavenly court, and Mo Fei was the only person he trusted. Over the years, he has seen her defend Yu Ye everywhere, if he didn't treat him sincerely, how could he do this, seeing that the smile on Yu Ye's face gradually increased, Xiao Se let down his guard, maybe she was really a lucky star sent to Yu Ye by God.
"Are you saying that after the master takes the pill, his eyes will be able to see?" Mo Fei's eyes widened as he looked at Xiao Se, unable to hide the surprise on his face.
"Yes, Yu Ye's eyes were injured by Jing Ji's old poisonous woman, I have been looking for a recipe for detoxification for three hundred years, but Jing Ji Shi's poison has a poison that is her unique formula, no one has ever understood it, I ran all over the Three Realms, and finally let me find a prescription that can cure this poison." Xiao Se stretched his brows, and his tone was not without emotion.
"Kyohime's poison?" muttered in his mouth, this name seemed to have been heard somewhere, and suddenly a white light flashed in his mind, Mo Fei remembered what Mei Li had said, he said that the poison on his body was under Jing Ji, in this world, except for the poisoned person, there is only one antidote, and that antidote is in the heavenly realm, but it will take several years to refine it, could it be that this elixir is, and his heart was shocked.
Following Xiao Se, Mo Fei suppressed the panic in his heart and came to the alchemy room, where a huge copper furnace appeared in front of him, the furnace was like a gull in the sun, wrapped in three legs, and green smoke rose from the furnace......
On the second day, Xiao Se and Yun'er left the heavenly realm, looking at their distant backs, Mo Fei was preoccupied, she hadn't slept well all night, and in the morning Yun'er saw her swollen eyes, and touched her face distressedly, "Take care of yourself, maybe we will be eliminated as soon as we go to the evil disease." Murphy waved goodbye to them with tears in his eyes.
"Master, I want to go and pick some nectar, you can go back first." Mo Fei looked at his master's face and forced a smile.
"Okay, don't come back too late." Yu Ye heard the sadness in Mo Fei's tone, thinking that she was reluctant to Yun'er.
Seeing the master walking away, Mo Fei was in a trance, and unconsciously came to the big tree again. The vast sea of clouds can't solve the sorrow in her heart, what should she do, Master is the best person in the world to treat her, how can she betray him, but what about Brother Meili, he doesn't know where to hide now, and who is taking care of him when he is poisoned.
For a few days in a row, Mo Fei was depressed and locked himself in the room, Yu Ye was worried, but he didn't know how to comfort him.
Since Mo Fei came here, the whole courtyard has been lively, don't look at her all day long confused and reckless, but her mind is delicate, afraid that he will be bored, sometimes she will read poems to him, sometimes tell some interesting things encountered, most of the time she is alone to talk about it, he listens.
Her footsteps are always hurried, either kicking the corner of the table or hitting her forehead, and she hums a little song when she is in a good mood. She likes to try her hand at all kinds of dishes, not only in terms of their names, but also in their tastes, and every time he can't bear to blow her kindness, he will take a few bites and hear her laugh out loud.
Maybe Long Fuzhi's return can make her happier, thinking of this, Yu Ye's frown slowly eased, he didn't know that the person in his mouth had changed at this moment.
At the same time, in a dark room under Xuan Iceland, an emaciated teenager knelt respectfully in front of a man in black, with his back to him.
"You're leaving here in three days, what's going on with him?" The man asked.
"As the master expected, he is no longer the dragon Fuzhi he used to be." At the mention of this name, the teenager shuddered.
"You must keep a firm grasp of his whereabouts, and remember not to let him come into contact with a girl named Murphy, and you can do it as a last resort, but don't hurt the girl." The man turned around, and a pair of slightly raised peach blossom eyes rested on his handsome face.
The boy left the secret room, and the door slowly closed behind him.
He remembered a night many years ago, when his mother was a day of sacrifice, and his father and his people did not allow him to pay his respects at the house, and his half-brothers taunted and abused him.
Frustrated with scars all over his body, he wants to commit suicide by throwing himself off a cliff, but when he wakes up and finds that he is not dead, a handsome man saves him and tells him that it is a coward's act to seek death, and that only those who laugh at him are the real winners when they trample under their feet.
From then on, he went to the valley to learn from him without his father and his people, and he taught him the art of the piano and swordsmanship, but as a condition, he had to obey him.
"Qi Shang, where have you been, Long Fuzhi is looking for you." When a student from Xuan Iceland saw him, he hurriedly walked over with a panicked expression.
"I'm about to leave here, I'll walk around, don't worry, I'll go now." Qi Shang came to a dilapidated courtyard in Xuan Iceland, pushed open the door, and heard the sound of ghosts crying and wolf howling from the house.
"Please, let us go, Long Fuzhi, we were wrong before, we don't dare anymore......"
"For the sake of our fellow dragons, please spare us......"
"Long Fuzhi, if you kill us, how will you explain to the dragon clan......"
Walking into the gloomy room, a musty smell came to the nose, a huge wooden barrel was placed in the middle of the room, and the three teenagers were tied in the barrel with ropes, leaving only their heads outside, and they begged for mercy at a man sitting in the dark, and wept bitterly.
"Three cousins, did I say that I would kill you, you used to be very friendly to me, so I reciprocated your kindness." The man's face was shrouded in shadow, and his face was never visible.
He called the two men to open a sack that was lying on the ground, and the sack was filled with poisonous snakes, scorpions, centipedes, geckos, and toads, and threw them into the barrel and closed the lid.
"Qi Shang, you came just in time, do you know what the name of this one prepared for them today is, it is called the Five Poison Bath, and you are about to leave Xuan Iceland, give them a big gift to keep in their hearts." The man had a smug look on his face.
"But what if the poison kills them?" Qi Shang was worried that if the three princes of the Dragon King of the North Sea died here, their father would not give up, this was not in the master's plan.
"Don't worry, they can't die, I have already asked someone to adjust the antidote, and then play half a pillar of incense to fish them up, if they dare to sue, then next time it will not be as simple as the five poison bath, if the others are not strict and reveal what happened in Xuan Iceland, you know the end." The man's fierce gaze swept over everyone.