Chapter 35: The Oath
Gambling.
Sometimes it is not to see who is more powerful and who is smarter, but to see who has no bottom line and who is more open-minded.
The side that is at a disadvantage in the game often has too many concerns and has no way to pay the price of losing both.
If it was just himself, Sun Yang would not be bluffed by him, the big deal was just a life for a life. But for him, the lives of Cao Daoping and Lu Xiaoling are things he can't give up.
He gritted his teeth and didn't cut it for half a day, which undoubtedly told Baron of his weakness.
He didn't stimulate Sun Yang too much, and his expression suddenly eased.
"I was wrong before, and I shouldn't have thought about harming you." He tried his best to calm his voice. "You give me back the worm flute, and I'll take you out. Everyone is a cultivator, and we can each make a poisonous oath to the gods we believe in, and we will not frame each other in the cave, and we will no longer be enemies of each other when we go out. What do you think? ”
Sun Yang hesitated.
This seems to be a viable solution for the situation that is already at an impasse.
Although for ordinary people, gambling and vowing are as simple as drinking cold water, and the consequences do not matter at all, but for monks, for those who survive with the power of ghosts and gods, the power of the oath still exists, and often the more powerful those who value the oath more seriously, and the more tragic the backlash after breaking the oath.
But......
"I, Barong, swear to the Three Miao Ancestral Gods that as long as these two people in front of me return the worm flute to me, no longer try to hurt or deceive me, and do not endanger my safety, I will never do anything to harm them. I will send them to the exit of Sammiaodong as soon as possible, and I will not actively fight against them after that. If I violate this oath, I will be crushed to pieces, and ten thousand insects will devour my heart, and I will die without a place to be buried! ”
When he hesitated, Barong had already said the oath, which should be a very heavy oath for the Sanmiao people.
"But Master Cao ......"
"Honestly, I don't know where he is." Baron said. "I can just control these pythons, but I can't communicate with them. I did have bad intentions in guiding him to this place before, because I wanted to use him to explore the reality here, and weaken the power of the python so that I could come in later. But I had no idea what happened after that. You can all come this far, and there's no reason for him to die here. Now that you know this place and what's inside, you're perfectly prepared to come back to him."
"Don't believe him!" Lu Xiaoling said.
Sun Yang stared at his eyes tightly.
"Then why don't you ask him to help you find the worm flute?"
"He has studied these things himself, and will give me the worm flute?" Baron shook his head. "It wouldn't do me any good to let him get the bug flute."
He smacked his teeth, tore off a piece of clothing and bandaged his hand, and carefully wrapped the severed finger in his bag.
Sun Yang finally put the dagger away.
"What are you arguing about?"
"Quarrel?" Baron shook his head. "You must be mistaken. Although the two of us had some arguments, we didn't fight. My purpose is to let him help me find my way, what good is it for me to quarrel with him? ”
Such words are reasonable, and they have even far exceeded Sun Yang's expectations.
"Okay." He said.
"Sun Yang!" Lu Xiaoling said anxiously.
Sun Yang walked back to her side. "Your injuries can't be delayed any longer!" He whispered to her.
"How do you know there are no traps in his oath?" Lu Xiaoling said. "I've been injured but I'm able to hold on. But if he plots again, we will really die! ”
"We don't have time to delay." Sun Yang shook his head slightly and said. "Even with a tourniquet, you won't last long. You should know very well that after a long time you will die. ”
"I'd rather die like this than make a deal with someone like Baron." Lu Xiaoling said. "We've been tricked by him once, do you want to do it a second time? So what is my injury? ”
Sun Yang didn't know how to convince her, but he had already made up his mind, so he bent down and picked up the worm flute.
"I can't give it to you." He said to Baron. "At least not yet! Wait until we get out safely. ”
"It can't be!" Baron said. "Those pythons don't mess around in the temple, but they ...... in the caves"
Sun Yang took out a pack of the previous powder, a total of four packets, just now used up one pack to disperse the pythons on the rock wall, and now it is just one pack per person.
Balon looked at it suspiciously, and finally said, "You must swear like me." She wants it too. ”
Lu Xiaoling shook her head and said that she resolutely did not support Sun Yang's approach.
"I swear to Patriarch Sanqing, as long as you don't plot and deceive us, I won't hurt you again, and I won't let her hurt you. If this oath is violated, the sky will thunder, and there will be no place to bury him. Sun Yang said solemnly. He didn't know which sect he should be considered a disciple of, but most of the knowledge that Lu Lou and Cao Daoping taught him was derived from Taoism, and it was not wrong to swear to Sanqing. "But if I find out that you have done something wrong, I will definitely make you die an ugly death!"
Such an oath has no binding force on Lu Xiaoling, but because of Sun Yang's oath, if she doesn't want anything to happen to Sun Yang, she can only pinch her nose and accept such a fait accompli. On the other hand, her injuries also prevented her from making too drastic movements.
"Let's go." Baron stood up holding on to the altar.
He suddenly gave up everything he had done before, which made Sun Yang feel a little unreal, and at this time, he suddenly remembered the figure he had seen before.
Who else will be in the cave?
Master Cao? Huang Dou?
But there is no reason for them to sit on the sidelines and not help when they are at a disadvantage.
"Does anyone else know the secrets of this cave?" He immediately asked Baron.
"I don't know if there are any records of other branches of Sanmiao here." Baron shook his head. "Why do you ask?"
Is it a delusion?
Sun Yang shook his head.
The light was dim, and it was only a fleeting shadow, and he couldn't be sure if he really saw a figure.
"Let's hurry!" He picked up Lu Xiaoling, and she glared at him fiercely. "Be careful." He said.
Barong led them towards a cave, and the huge pythons began to hiss, and Barong began to hesitate in his movements.
"Give me the worm flute!" He said to Sun Yang. "I've sworn by it!"
"They won't attack!" Sun Yang said.
As if to confirm his statement, without the drive of the insect flute, they gradually approached, and the pythons really escaped.
Baron seemed to be unable to believe this, he took the small paper bag in his hand and looked at it repeatedly, and finally walked to the front.