Chapter 19. antidote
After saying that, Sora completely lost consciousness. I checked his pulse and found that he was fine, just unconscious from snake venom. Relieved, he skillfully dressed his wounds.
After doing all this, I couldn't help but feel a little difficult: no matter how bold I am, this mountain is full of poison after all, and it is not suitable to stay for a long time. But if he's kept in a daz, how are we going to get out of here? With his size, it must be unrealistic for me to carry him back.
While thinking about it, a touch of white clothes suddenly came into view. I was stunned and looked up.
"Xiu Li?" I'm overjoyed, with him still sad can't return to the view? But wouldn't he have a few more days to get out?
The corners of his mouth hooked, and his face was as indifferent as ever. Without saying a word, he picked up his back and motioned for me to go first.
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When I returned to the annex and settled down, it was already noon. After lunch alone, he saw that there was no sign of waking up, so he folded the quilt for him and went to the meditation to find cultivation.
That's right, I have a stomach of questions to ask him, such as who is the original owner of my body, and how to solve the poison of the void. And why I'm here, why I'm here, why I'm in this body.
Secretly, I always felt that I had some kind of connection with the original owner.
Stepping into the front yard of the Taoist temple, I saw that the door of the main hall was open, and Xiuli was meditating in it.
Knowing that it was inconvenient to disturb, he looked at the architectural pattern of this temple. After living here for five or six days, I hardly stopped in the front yard of this temple, and every time I hurried past and entered the residence in the backyard, so at this moment I realized that this temple was extremely small compared to the Taoist temple in my time and space. There are only a few ginkgo trees planted in the precincts, and there is nothing in the precincts except for a main hall and ear chambers on the left and right sides.
But in my time, even small Taoist temples had multiple shrines, and different gods were enshrined in different halls. The Taoist temple where I am located has only one hall, and the temple is not dedicated to the gods, but to a portrait of Danqing. Due to the distance, I couldn't see the people in the painting clearly, but I had an inexplicable sense of awe.
"Since Miss Xiao Xuan is here, why don't you come in?"
When I heard this, I looked at him, but I saw that he had risen at some point and stood by the temple gate, looking at me with a faint expression. I smiled and stepped forward, and sat down with him on a chair on one side of the temple.
"Xiao Xuanding is full of questions, why don't you say it?"
This cultivation really gave birth to a clever and exquisite heart, and I didn't need to open my mouth to guess my intention.
"......The poison in the void," I hesitated.
A hint of interest flashed in his eyes, and he said firmly: "There is a solution." ”
"Really?!" I have to admit that his answer did surprise me. If there is a solution, why hasn't his poison been solved yet?
He didn't answer, got up and went into the back room, and then came back in a moment, and sat down again, with an extra square wooden box in his hand.
He gently opened the wooden box, and it made a pleasant soft sound. I looked into the box, and saw that inside the box was a dark brown pill slightly smaller than a dragon's eye.
"If there is an antidote, why has his poison not been solved so far?"
"Xiao Xuan knows that the poisonous name in him is called Meng Zhisan, which is motivated by emotion?"
I nodded.
"Since it is a love poison, it naturally needs to be solved by love."
Erotic poison? It turns out that the key to detoxification lies in love. But I'm still full of questions: What is the poison of love and still needs love to solve?
"Xuan'er is stupid, and I hope that Master Xiuli will make it clear."
He didn't answer and asked, "Do you know what kind of emotions are triggering the poison of the childish dispersion?" ”
I've had a lot of speculation about this before, but I haven't come to a conclusion after all.
I shook my head.
"It's hate. Hate is one of the strongest emotions that the world can experience. ”
Hate? In this way, the person who poisoned him should have been afraid of Niankong and was driven by hatred to do something beyond his control. So what do people do when they are driven by hatred?
Could it be...... Revenge!? My eyes widened, could it be that the person who poisoned me was afraid of revenge? Is it empty of him...... Burdened with a sea of blood and hatred? Thinking of this, my heart tightened, but I listened to Xiuli continue:
"Niankong's poison was prompted by the hatred that erupted in an instant."
"What happened?"
He looked up at me. "At that time...... The original owner of Xiao Xuan's body, Miss Xuan'er, committed suicide by jumping off the cliff. ”
My heart felt like something had hit me, and my mind went blank for a moment, and then I immediately came back to my senses. "But ......"
He interrupted me and said while observing my expression: "Miss Xuan'er is Niankong's sweetheart, he was involved in the court dispute two years ago, and he also involved Miss Xuan'er. There should be a misunderstanding among them, Niankong wanted to wait for the matter to be thoroughly understood and compensated, but he didn't want Xuan'er girl to ......" He paused and continued: "Niankong witnessed all this with his own eyes, and fainted on the spot with blood in his mouth. When I woke up again, it was like this. ”
There was no hint of lament in his tone, as if he were recounting an anecdote that had nothing to do with him. Presumably, people outside the square look at the world from the perspective of a bystander!
What Xiu Li said just now coincided with the two memories of the original owner that I saw in my dream. It's just that I didn't expect his poison to be triggered at the moment when the original owner jumped off the cliff, not when he took revenge, which I am afraid even the person who poisoned him did not expect.
But when he saw the original owner jumping off the cliff, why did he have such a strong hatred? Who does he hate? Hate the original owner so resolutely? Or do you hate yourself for hurting her deeply? I'm afraid he hates himself, right? After all, it was he who personally drove the original owner to a dead end.
Thinking of this, I only felt sad in my heart, and secretly smiled bitterly: I actually gave my heart to such a man. But I admit it, this is my heart's choice, I can't disobey, I can't disobey, no matter what the outcome is, I will accept it calmly, even if I may be scarred.
As my thoughts turned around a thousand times, I found that there were still many doubts that had not yet been solved. When the question was not answered, I could not be at ease, so I simply asked: "Since it is hatred, the intention of the person who poisoned it ......" I looked tentatively at Xiu Li.
His eyes flashed, and he said lightly: "The girl is so smart, she has a conclusion in her heart, isn't it?" ”
"Is it really ......" Is it really the person who poisoned the person who is worried that one day Niankong will embark on the road of revenge?
Xiu Li is noncommittal, but his eyes are full of certainty.
"Xiu Li, do you know the past of Niankong? He...... Is there really a vengeance? Does he know about it? No...... He should not know, if he knew, the poison should have been triggered a long time ago, where can he get acquainted with the original owner? "I was asking about detachment, but I was carried away by my thoughts and started talking to myself.
"No, he knew, and he knew it early on." Xiuli's voice was still cold. It's just that when he was poisoned ten years ago, he was already full of hatred. If you want to induce toxicity, you need to be more hateful. ”
I see, so it seems that Nian Kong must have suffered a huge change ten years ago, but what kind of change will it be?
Looking at Xiu's secretive expression, he knew that he would not be able to solve it even if he asked, so he threw out another question: "Then what does 'love poison still need love to solve'?" ”
Xiu's eyes flashed. "The one who should take this antidote is not empty, but ......" he retracted and looked into my eyes.
"What do you mean......"
"With Xiao Xuan's intelligence, he will definitely be able to understand."
I was still guessing the meaning of his words, but I heard him say again: "This medicine is an antidote for men, but poison for women." And the antidote for women is men. ”
Is the antidote for women a man? What does this mean? I suddenly remembered the plot in the martial arts novels I had read in my previous life: some poisons were mainly developed for men, and if you want to get rid of them, you need to take the antidote first by the woman and then have sex with the poisoned man......
Could it be that this is the solution? Before I could think about it, I heard him say again: "The poison of the empty ...... Xiao Xuan can't solve it. ”
I was stunned when I heard this, I didn't even think that I might be the candidate to detoxify him, and he opened his mouth first. But...... That's exactly what I thought in my heart!
"Why?" I was a little weak and hesitated to ask.
"For this poison can only be lifted by the sweetheart of the poisoned person, and you ...... Not the person of his heart. His tone was still unpleasant, but the bland words were like a sharp knife that pierced my heart alive.
As if to see the change in my mood, his tone softened a little: "If my guess is right, he doesn't seem to know that you are not Miss Xuan'er." ”
I struggled to say, "He really doesn't know." ”
"Niankong is not simple and kind on the surface, even if you see him at night, he is not the real him. He would only treat Miss Xuan'er like that. If he detects the truth, I'm afraid he will be angry with you, Xiao Xuan can think clearly. ”
From his words, I could clearly hear that Xiu Li had realized my intention for Nian Void by relying on my words and expressions. This retreat is truly unfathomable. However, it was surprising that an outsider like him, who did not care about the affairs of the world, would be so bitterly persuaded to me. I'm afraid he's just worried about his disciples.
Thinking of this, another question that had been bothering me for a long time came up: "How could Master Xiuli accept Niankong, a disciple who is not much different from you?" ”
Xiuli raised his eyebrows, as if he didn't expect me to suddenly ask such a question, and then smiled lightly: "In Xiao Xuan's opinion, what age is Xiuli?" ”
"And the year of the establishment?"
He hooked his lips slightly and said, "Xiuli is no more and no less this year, exactly forty years old." ”
Forty? I looked at him carefully, but I didn't feel like it, not to mention that the average life expectancy of the ancients was short, and he aged early, just looking at his face, he didn't look like a forty-year-old person.
Suddenly, I felt that something was wrong. Wait a minute! What he just said was...... Gong Sui! Forty years old...... That is...... Eighty years old!? I was dumbfounded and speechless.
Seeing my stunned appearance, he still had no waves on his face, and only said lightly: "Xiu Li has followed his master to practice soul control since he was a child. Keeping the practitioner looking old is one of the wonders of soul control. ”
I know it. However, when I heard him mention the Soul Resistant, another question of mine came again: "I still remember that you just woke up when you told me that the original owner died five days ago, and you just said that the original owner jumped off the cliff two years ago......"
Before I could ask, he took over and said, "Miss Xuan'er jumped off the cliff two years ago. At that time, the air came to me in despair and asked me to save me. At that time, Miss Xuan'er had drowned due to falling into the river below the mountain. Seeing this, Kong'er almost became crazy, and I had no choice but to use the soul control technique to stop Xuan'er before his soul left his body and threw himself into the underworld. It's just that Xuan'er's longevity is over, and his soul can't remain in his body. In desperation, I had no choice but to temporarily seal his soul and seal his body into the ice stone room of Lingxiu Mountain to protect it from decay, just waiting for the time to help his soul return to his body.
Unexpectedly, his soul escaped on its own, and just when he thought that there was no way to return to heaven, the physical body actually had a breath, obviously possessed by a soul. And that soul is you, girl. ”
"How so!?" I was shocked and couldn't believe what he was saying.
"Not bad."
"Where is the original owner's soul now?"
Xiuli shook his head. "My sense of the soul out of the body relies on its physical body, and now that Xiao Xuan you occupy this body, I can no longer detect it. However, there are only two places for the soul to go out of the body: either to return to the underworld and be reincarnated, or to wander the world and become a lonely ghost. ”
"If she hadn't been reincarnated, would she have come back?"