"Put me down, I'm almost recovered, sit here and rest for a while, and I'll be almost gone." Seeing that I was confused, Master did not rush to answer my question, but asked me to let him down.

Listening to him, I also knew that he had slowly begun to recover, and as long as he got through the initial discomfort of the soul shock, he would recover quickly.

I put the master down as I said, and the master sat on the bluestone slab and began to rest, and it seemed that he didn't want to answer my question, and I heard the sound of killing from the town below, and my heart was anxious, thinking to myself, how did the master calm down?

Finally, I asked Master, "Master, why don't you rush me to count the stairs?" ”

Master looked at me and asked, looked at me, then took my arm and stood up, motioning for me to follow him forward, and said, "Chengyi, I hope that the more impatient you are, the calmer you will be. At the very least, you have to learn not to let others see that you are impatient. ”

"Hmm." I took a deep breath and nodded, knowing in my heart that Master would not harm me.

"Because the responsibility you have to shoulder in the future is not light, some 'heart eyes' still learn a little, you grew up with me since you were a child, I regret letting you beat less, after all, the character you created when you were a child is too simple compared to this complex world. Simplicity is not bad, it is easy to be called simply for Taoist disciples. But people are not as good as heaven, who knows what they will carry in this life? Master seemed a little chattering, he had rarely chattered like this before, but after we got together again this time, I found that he seemed to be chattering more often.

As he spoke, he stopped and pulled me to stop.

I looked at the master and thought that he had something to say, but this time he said to me, "Chengyi, this bluestone road is the only way to the village where Qiangzi practiced. ”

"Ah, isn't that a hidden village?" Isn't it too obvious that I am deliberately building a road?

"Hehe, how can the real situation be so simple? Do you know what this ladder is called? Master asked me rhetorically, but I also knew that I would definitely not answer, so Master said directly: "It also has another name, called the Soul Breaking Ladder, after a hundred ladders, if you want to walk this ladder in a normal way, you will never be able to go up, and it is a trivial matter to accidentally lose your life, and the worst result will be scattered." ”

"Huh?" I looked at this ordinary bluestone slab staircase, except that the years of tempering made it look a little vicissitudes, I couldn't see anything strange at all.

"Let's not talk about it for now, you listen to my command now, and the next step is to directly cross the two flights of stairs and stick to the right." Master said seriously.

And when he told me the alias of this ladder before, he really scared me, how dare I slack off, honestly moved to the far right of the ladder, and then crossed the two steps in one step, and stepped up.

Everything was quiet and nothing happened, but my heart was inexplicably tightened, and I couldn't help but wonder what would have been the consequences if I hadn't walked this ladder as Master had said. But at the same time, the effects of the secret art began to fade gradually, and my body couldn't help but weaken for a while.

Master went up the stairs in the same way, and the time for the time to discover my secret technique was almost up, and he commanded to himself: "Next, go directly up the stairs and step on the middle of the stairs." ”

And the 'sequelae' of the secret art comes very quickly, once it starts, like a flood that bursts the embankment, it will break the dam, and it will no longer have time to stop it, I can still bear it at first, but when the master's words just fell, I couldn't help it anymore, and all of a sudden it was on the master's body, and the pain began to appear on my body, like the pain of countless ants burrowing in my muscles, I immediately couldn't move, and even my vision and hearing became blurred.

"Seiichi?" Master noticed that something was wrong with me, but immediately understood what was going on. This time, instead of the master, he carried me on his back without hesitation, and whispered to me, "Chengyi, bear with me." ”

In fact, what else can I do but endure it? My face was pale, because of the abnormality of my body, the muscles of my whole body were spasming, I could only grit my teeth and try to endure it so that I would not completely lose control of my body and slip off Master's back, or put all my weight on Master.

This kind of thing is felt by ordinary people, if you are carrying a sober person, or because of the different force points, you will not even feel how heavy, if you are carrying an unconscious person, you will find that the same person, he will be many times heavier.

I just tried my best to lighten the burden on Master, but this time I had a seizure because there were a lot of secret caves, and there was no Uncle Chen this time, so soon my whole consciousness was blurred, and I only had a clear sense of pain, and I didn't know anything.

Time always passes very slowly in the pain, and this pain from the body and soul can only be borne by oneself, not anyone can share in this torment, and I don't know how long the time has passed.

When the pain faded and my consciousness recovered, I felt like I was thrown on Master's back, and the sun shone into my eyes, and I couldn't open them all at once.

But I can clearly know that it is afternoon, I feel that my whole body is drenched in sweat, almost all the clothes on my body are wet and sticky to my body, and the master is still climbing this soul ladder, judging from the contact with the body, he is also covered in slimy sweat, and his steps are a little heavy.

This situation made me want to get off Master's back and walk on my own, but just like the exhaustion after the sequelae of the sequelae every time I used up the secret technique, after feeling and resisting the pain so clearly, I was exhausted to the limit of my soul, and before I was awake for two minutes, my whole body was in a coma

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When I woke up again, it was night.

The night breeze in the mountains blew away the heat of the day, making me feel much more comfortable, except for some fatigue all over, my condition has basically fully recovered.

The flickering light of the fire told me that it was time to camp at night, and that we had climbed the terrifying-sounding Soul Breaker Ladder?

When I woke up, Master was the first to notice, he didn't care too much, just silently handed over a glass of warm water with just the right temperature, I was already dry, took it and drank the water in the cup in one go, Master took it again, and poured me another cup from the mountain teapot.

After drinking the water, Master handed me another bowl of boiled food, which was nothing more than a paste and put dried meat or something like that, which I had always found unpalatable, but after a day of exhaustion and hard work, I actually felt that it was extraordinarily delicious.

All this is in progress, all silent, with a strange tacit understanding and nature, ordinary like breathing, dependent on each other, living and dying together, mutual trust for a long time, any two people will become like this.

Whether their relationship is brotherhood, friends, family or husband and wife, it's just that the cultivation of this affection is not easy.

When I was eating, I was thinking about a question, is the friendship I owe to Master in this life destined to be repaid? Or in what life did he owe me? Today I just carried him on his back to kill the bloody road to the mountain, and when he went up the mountain, he immediately carried me to climb this soul-breaking ladder, is this fate clearly to be like this?

If you still think about who I owe, it must be to who is not close enough to you and recognize the person who is closest to you, and what you are most afraid of is not owing each other, clearing, what is there to entangle? That's a checkout and leaving!

And I owe Master, does it mean that I will meet him again in the next life? It's that makes me feel more at ease.

After I had eaten this simple meal, my hungry stomach was much more comfortable, and at this time, all the problems of the day came to my mind.

"Master, have we finished climbing that Soul Breaking Ladder?" I asked.

"See for yourself." Master pointed to it, and then I noticed that the place where Master and I were camping was on a small flat meadow, as if someone had deliberately built a platform in the mountains, but it was much more natural.

And isn't the direction that Master's hand is pointing in the Soul Breaking Ladder? But here we have come to an end, and at the end, in particular, there is a wooden shelf, between which is fixed a strangely shaped drum, and the drumstick is hung on the wooden shelf.

"The Soul Breaking Ladder, people who don't know how to walk, if they forcibly go to it, they will naturally break their souls. And for those who know how to walk, then it is no different from the usual ladder. Master said.