Chapter 9: The Grave Pit
Ah Ting was startled for a moment, and subconsciously took two steps back.
The surroundings were surprisingly quiet, and even Lin Feng didn't know when it stopped, which made the surrounding "buzzing" sound particularly obvious.
Ah Ting covered her nose, only to feel that the smell of rotten blood in her nasal cavity was very strong, she looked at the broken arm at her feet, and her heart beat violently a few times.
A moment later, Ardin picked up the lantern that had rolled to the side, illuminating the scene around her, and only then did she realize that there was a huge dirt pit right next to where she had fallen.
On the edge of the pit were some messy dead grass and branches, which seemed to have been originally covered on the surface of the pit as a cover, like a trap left by hunters in the mountains, but at some point these dead grass and branches were blown away by the forest wind, revealing the scene under the pit.
Ah Ting lowered his eyes and looked into the pit, his expression changed slightly.
I saw that the pit was densely packed with stumps and broken arms and inhuman-shaped torsos, some of which looked like they had just been thrown in, and the corpses were still fresh, but more were half-rotted corpses, and flies and maggots arched over them.
None of them were whole corpses, they were all tormented and dismembered and thrown inside.
At this moment, Ting suddenly noticed an anomaly in one of the stumps, which was a left arm, which had not yet completely decayed, and a crescent moon mark was imprinted on the wrist.
Ah Ting's heart sank, she squatted down, picked up a branch from the ground, flicked the corpse below, turned all the severed arms over, and then found that all the left hands that could still be seen clearly were all crescent moon marks.
The pit was littered with the corpses of slaves.
Ah Ting squatted on the edge of the pit and was silent for a long time, and his heart felt a chill, he originally only had seven points of doubt about the light, but now it has become ten.
Seeing this scene in front of me in the middle of the night, it is impossible to say that I am not afraid. But what she is afraid of is not the dead, she is afraid that she will become a dead person.
She was indeed taken aback by the sight of so many corpses at first, but the panic only lasted for a short time. And the fear that haunts her now actually comes from these slave marks, and she is afraid that she will die here without knowing anything like these people.
This pit full of slave corpses made her feel a sense of sadness for the dead rabbit and fox.
She knew that how could such a good thing as pie falling from the sky be spread on her head, and how could the dignified nobles of Longyu Mountain deign to take care of a slave like her on the side of the road, it turned out that they had other plans.
Ah Ting's thoughts on escaping were deeper.
She rose from the ground, wiped out all traces of her stay with a branch, and continued to explore the edge of the mountain protection formation with the lantern.
It wasn't until the eastern sky turned white that Ah Ting finished the entire mountain protection array, but he found nothing.
But fortunately, I didn't find it all night.
Ah Ting had no choice but to resign himself to returning to the halfway point of the mountain, and decided to deal with the cheap master for a while, and then think about it in the long run.
After dawn, she sat in front of the courtyard gate, waiting for her cheap master to come back and arrange for her.
She was trembling in Huiling Peak, but she didn't know that Long Yu Mountain had exploded at this moment.
The Golden Feather Edgeworth brought her to Huiling Peak was not hidden, and many people on the mountain saw it. The huge Longyu Mountain, the news could not be hidden, but after a while, the news that the real person of the light had received an apprentice spread widely.
"Isn't this going through the back door? We tried our best to make it to Longyu Mountain and became an inner disciple, and we were good, and we landed directly in Longyu Mountain, and we were the true disciples of the elders. ”
"yes, what's this called?"
"No, isn't the point to collect real people to accept apprentices?"
“…… I don't even know if I should be jealous or gloat. ”
"Yes, to some extent, it's an unlucky bastard, I didn't look at the yellow calendar when I went out and was accepted as an apprentice by the real person, hahahaha."
"When I think about it like this, I suddenly balance, the true disciples of the true disciples of the true people of the light seem to be no better than those of us inner disciples."
"The garbage collects light, and if you can learn something from him, you have a ghost, and he himself is a half-ass."
……
Ah Ting sat at the door and waited for a long time, until the sun was in the middle of the day, and Jiguang came back with two wine jars in a staggering manner.
As soon as he saw Ah Ting, he was startled, jumped back after "kicking", glared and asked, "Who are you?" ”
Ah Ting saw the drunkenness on his face clearly, then put on a harmless face, and hurriedly said, "...... Master, I am your new apprentice. ”
Even if he had already known the nature of the light through the corpse pit in the back mountain, Ah Ting didn't dare to tear his face at this moment.
Jiguang's head is not very easy to use at this time, he was stunned for a long time, and then suddenly realized, pointed at Ah Ting and said, "Oh, I remember, apprentice." Haha, I'm sorry, I forgot about you as a teacher. ”
"Apprentice, what are you doing sitting here? Go to sleep. He said innocently and seriously.
"Master...... It's daylight. ”
"White Sun...... Oh, no matter, I'm going to sleep for the teacher, and I'll teach you to cultivate when I wake up. Jiguang shook the jar and staggered into the house.
Hearing this, the pretended harmless look on Ah Ting's face froze for a moment, and his eyes uncontrollably revealed a trace of expectation.
She raised her head and pretended to be very happy, "Can I cultivate?" ”
Lian Guang looked at her strangely with a drunken face: "Of course you can." ”
Ah Ting was originally happy and suspicious in his heart, but after carefully distinguishing the look of the light, he suddenly realized that he was really drunk, and most of the time he was talking nonsense at the moment, and the small fire in his heart was suddenly extinguished a lot.
But she was a little unwilling, even if she knew that the person in front of her was probably not a good stubble, but cultivation, the temptation for her was too great, you know, in the Xuanling Continent, the slave who was controlled by the slave contract would not be able to set foot in the door of the cultivation realm for the rest of his life.
Ah Ting said, "Master, you have forgotten, I am a slave. ”
Hearing this, Jiguang was stunned for a while, looking a little confused, and after a while, the chaos in his eyes dissipated a lot, he threw the wine jar aside, sat in front of Ah Ting, grabbed her left hand with one hand, looked much more sober, and said:
"Due to the restriction of the slave seal, the spiritual vein of that piece of your left hand is completely blocked, so the spiritual energy cannot operate in your body, if you want to cultivate, you must first open up the spiritual vein of that piece, although it is difficult, but it is not impossible."
Ah Ting paused, and the light that had just been extinguished in his eyes gradually lit up again......
Ah Ting's desire to flee immediately suddenly decreased by one point.
Her heart is entangled, she wants to cultivate the Fa, but she doesn't want to be controlled by others, which is a dilemma for her.
……
Following.
"Master, when will we start cultivating?"
Ah Ting thought about it all night, but she was still reluctant to use this cultivation method, and early in the morning, she got up from the bed, and while panicking, she blocked the door of the room full of anticipation.
The light that hasn't woken up yet: "......"
"What are you cultivating as a slave?"
Ah Ting's eyes widened suddenly, "Master, you didn't say that yesterday. ”
"What did I say yesterday?" Jiguang rubbed his eyes that hadn't woken up yet, and tried to think about it for a long time, and finally searched for the corresponding fragment from last night's memory, he yawned, "Oh, the spiritual vein, that's what I said when I was drunk, how can the spiritual vein be so easy to get through, the slave contract is the Elder Scrolls, if it is so easy to crack, then the slavery will not continue to this day." ”
Ah Ting looked at him, silent for a long time before holding back the killing intent rising in her heart, she tried to play the role of a disciple, and then said, "Master, you said that although it is difficult, it is not impossible, why can't I become this possibility?" ”
Gathering light: "......"
"That's going to be hard, apprentice, it's going to be bitter."
"I'm not afraid of hardship." Arting said.
Hearing this, the casual color in his eyes gradually disappeared, replaced by a touch of seriousness.
"Okay, as a teacher, I can teach you, if you want to open up the spiritual vein, first forge your body."
"How do you forge your body?"
He was about to speak, when he suddenly noticed something, turned his head to look out of the courtyard, and after a while, a figure came up from the bottom of the mountain.
"The disciple has seen Uncle Jiguang and Uncle Ting." A voice rang out.
Ah Ting turned his head and saw a male disciple wearing a pure white Taoist robe standing outside the courtyard, bowing his hand while secretly looking at Ah Ting.
Jiguang glanced at him and said, "You are a disciple of the main peak?" What happened. ”
The disciple said, "Uncle Guang, the Dragon Feather Great Election has ended, and the Great Elder asked me to invite Senior Uncle Ah Ting to participate in the Spirit Root Test. ”
"I see." Jiguang nodded.
The male disciple bowed, glanced at Ah Ting curiously one last time, and then turned to leave.
"Master, why does he call me Uncle Shi? The man looked bigger than me. As soon as the people left, Ah Ting immediately asked.
When he heard this, he was suddenly a little proud: "Of course, it's because of the high ranking of the teacher, and even you will be stained with it." ”
After speaking, he sent Ah Ting away: "You go down the mountain by yourself, and let the disciple just now take you to the main peak." ”
"Uh-oh." Ah Ting's eyes lit up for a moment, but the next second he showed a little tangled.
In the past two days, Jiguang has never opened the mountain protection array, and is still preventing her from escaping, today is the first time, he asked her to go down the mountain, Ah Ting knows that this is the best and most dangerous time to escape.
She is not afraid of danger, but she has always had some obsession with the cultivation method in her mouth.
"What are you thinking?" Jiguang looked at her with a grin.
Ah Ting was startled, then lowered his head and said, "I didn't think about anything, Master, I'll go back as soon as I go." ”
With that, she turned to leave, but Jiguang reached out and grabbed her by the back collar.
"Master?"
Jiguang smiled, his expression was gentle, but his eyes were sharp, and he said, "Little rabbit, if you dare to run, Lao Tzu will break your legs." ”
Ting: "......"