Chapter 50: The Immortal Stone

"Do you love me?" Abai asked.

Is that the problem? Just answer the question, can he get that stone? It's that simple! No wonder Ruan Zhan said that he was too smart, so he would make things simple and complicated and do so many unscrupulous things. It turned out that all he wanted was a sentence to solve.

"No, you'll tell me when you're ready." Ah Bai stopped Sima Nan's words, his expression was a little nervous, "You must think clearly, ask your own heart, don't answer me casually." Count me begging you, don't lie, even if you say you don't love me, I'll give you the stone, as long as you tell the truth. Just a word of truth! ”

Looking at her gentle and earnest beautiful eyes, Sima Nan was in a trance for a moment.

Does he love her? He couldn't tell. If he loves, yet he can do things that forsake her, imprison her, betray her; If he didn't love her, why did she linger in his heart for so long? Why is she so different to him?

From the day he practiced Taoism, he forced himself to break off his love and love. He just wants to study all the ancient Chinese techniques, and restore all the lost ones, and human feelings are no matter how stupid they seem to him, he doesn't need them at all.

At the beginning, he stayed in the mountains and forests and married Ah Bai as his wife, also because he wanted to find a safe place to practice the resurrection technique of the Matsui family in Japan, wanted to use Ah Bai's heavenly divine energy to help him, and also wanted to steal the secret art of the witch cult. Although he didn't learn much secret art because Ah Bai swore to abide by the rules of the witch cult, at least because of Ah Bai's kindness and strength, he was successfully 'resurrected', and he had to say that his time with Ah Bai was the most peaceful and happy he had in so many years.

But none of this can say whether he really loves her or not! Or he himself simply can't tell the difference, love is too foreign to him to understand, he doesn't understand, he can't understand! And for the sake of the stone, he had to answer her before he could figure it out.

"I love it." He nodded solemnly, "I only love you!" ”

Someone at the pergola gasped, Sima Nan knew that it was Hong Haohao, but he didn't care at all, even Ah Bai could deceive, what was Hong Haohao? She's just a pet he raises, an ornament for him to fiddle with.

Ah Bai looked at Sima Nan with a snow-white face, not knowing whether the words she had been looking forward to for a long time were happy or sad for her. She didn't immediately give the stone to Sima Nan, and although Sima Nan was anxious, she couldn't stand it.

"Are you sure you love me? Those who cannot lie will be punished. "I said, no matter what kind of thing you say, as long as you don't lie to me, I will give you stones, and you don't have to make me happy." ”

"I'm pretty sure." Sima Nan said half-truthfully, "You are the first and last one I love." ”

"Really?"

"Really!"

"If you lie—"

"Ah Bai!" Sima Nan finally couldn't bear it anymore, "What I said is true, I really love you, if I lie, let me-"

Before he could finish his words, Ah Bai suddenly rushed over and hugged him. Although she was a soul and had no substance, Sima Nan still felt the soft coldness surging into his arms, and at the same time, a soft little hand covered his mouth, "Don't swear!" As long as you're sure it's really what you're talking about. ”

In an instant, Sima Nan breathed a sigh of relief, not for the stone that was about to arrive, but for the long-lost hug. He coveted her tenderness, and it would be a bad day for him to leave her, but he couldn't indulge himself in the gentle countryside and force himself to work tirelessly towards his goal.

"The stone is for you." Ah Bai held Sima Nan's hand, and he immediately felt a warm beating sensation in his palm, which made him ecstatic.

Ah, the stone, the magical stone he had been looking for for a long time, the stone that could fulfill his wish, finally, came into his hands.

Ah Bai took a few steps back and stared at Sima Nan from a distance, with a hint of nervousness in his eyes in addition to gentle affection.

"Don't be afraid. What I'm saying is true, I love you from the bottom of my heart. "Even if he secretly took the antidote after taking the love medicine, even if he couldn't be sure if Ah Bai deliberately put the antidote where he could find it, even if he couldn't understand his own heart, but he got the stone, what else did it matter?!

"Immortal Stone, Immortal Stone, you are finally mine, you can finally reflect your own value." He muttered, and then, in the midst of everyone's astonished gazes, he suddenly swallowed the stone into his belly.

Ah Bai looked at Sima Nan with a complicated expression, and when he saw Sima Nan's face as usual without any change, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and smiled gently, "You didn't lie to me. ”

"Of course I didn't lie—" Before Sima Nan finished speaking, he suddenly felt that something was wrong in his body, and an itchy feeling came from his body. He subconsciously stroked his chest with his hand, thinking it was just a small physical reaction. But before he left his chest, the tingling sensation returned, and became more and more frequent, making him feel as if there were countless ants crawling in his body.

"Anan, what's wrong with you?" Hong Hao saw that Sima Nan's expression was wrong, his hands were scratching his body, and he asked loudly.

As if he hadn't heard, Sima Nan didn't answer her at all, stretched out his hand to draw a talisman and hit his body.

With a 'bang', Sima Nan was hit by his own charm and took a big step back, hit the tower door, and spurted out a mouthful of blood, but as if he hadn't noticed this, he frowned, pressed his hand on his abdomen, rubbed it twice, and then snorted in pain.

"Ahh Sima Nan raised his head and stared at Ah Bai angrily. At this moment, the numbness in his body had turned into a huge pain like ten thousand arrows piercing his heart.

Ah Bai's face was almost transparent, she stepped forward step by step, without saying a word, just holding Sima Nan's head in her arms. Sima Nan wanted to break free, but he didn't, the huge pain made him powerless to resist, and Ah Bai's gentle and cold embrace was like an antidote, making him much more comfortable.

"What did you give me? Did you still help Ruan Zhan after all? He lay in her arms and asked unwillingly, jealousy exacerbating his pain.

"Immortal Stone, haven't you always wanted to?" Ah Bai said softly, his tone was soft and desolate, and tears rolled down drop by drop like beads with broken threads.

"You lied to me! The Immortal Stone can help me fulfill my wish, how could I ask for it-my life! Another wave of pain struck, and Sima Nan hugged the invisible but sensible Abai's body, only to feel that she was so delicate and fragile, as if it would break in his arm.

"I've said many times that if you don't love me, I'll give you the stone. Why don't you believe me? Why don't you understand that whatever you want, as long as I have it, how can I not give it to you? Ah Bai's tears fell on Sima Nan's face, which turned out to be warm, making him feel gently soothed, and his mind couldn't help but be a little blurred.

"I didn't lie to you." He muttered.

"If you hadn't lied to me, it wouldn't have been. I'm glad to hear you say you love me, but if you trade this lie for your life, I'd rather you don't love me at all! ”

"I didn't lie to you, I really love you. Ahh

"Don't speak. I know you eavesdropped on my conversation with my master's spirit, but do you know what the Eternal Stone does? ”

Sima Nan endured the pain and slowly faded away in his body, feeling the same discomfort as his body melted, but he still replied to Ah Baidao, "The Eternal Life Stone can help people live forever, and I want to get eternal life to fulfill my wish." ”

Ah Bai shook his head, tears still falling in strings, "So you heard it wrong." You heard it wrong! The Eternal Life Stone does not allow people to get eternal life, it is actually called the Question Stone, which means eternal life and eternity. ”

"Ask the love stone?" Sima Nan asked confusedly.

Ah Bai hugged Sima Nan tightly, as if he wanted to rub him into his body and never separate.

She regretted that she shouldn't have sent this stone from afar, it turned out that Anan didn't know the true function of this stone. She had never understood why he had to ask for the stone, and today she realized that he had misunderstood the use of the stone.

This sacred stone was originally inadvertently obtained by the ancestors of their witch cult, and it was passed down from master to apprentice until her generation. Because most of the people in the witch cult are Yaban, that is, women, this stone is particularly important.

In addition to the fact that the stone soul and the human soul are mixed together, and the characteristics of never giving up if you don't give it away, this love stone can also test a man's sincerity. If a man really loves the owner of the stone, then if a woman gives the stone to the man, not only will the man not do any harm if he swallows the stone, but he will also become the next owner of the stone and boost his spiritual power.

If he is a cultivator, it will be of great help; If he wasn't a cultivator, he would have fulfilled his wishes for the rest of his life, as if a lucky star was following him!

But for women, the wish it can help people fulfill is actually to get a sincere and unpretentious love. It sounds ridiculous, but in a woman's mind, the most important thing in life is this one, with love, you can give up everything in this world.

The witch religion has been handed down for nearly a thousand years, and most of the people who have obtained the stone are single, and even if they marry, they are married to medicine ghosts, so this stone has never appeared in the world, and it has never been given to any man. It was only in her lifetime that the master prophesied the disappearance of the witchcraft church, and she also met the people she truly loved.

Is it a catastrophe? She didn't know that even if she loved him, her life was discounted, and she never regretted it, but now she regretted it. She wants to leave this world completely, so she wants to see him, so she wants to give him something as a souvenir, in the end, she is selfish.

She didn't want him to forget him! She also wanted to know his sincerity! Now she knew, but she would rather not know.

He didn't love her and was going to lose his life for lying. If the person who swallows the stone of love tells a lie, the stone will suck everything out of his body, and he will not even have his soul left. Well, she lost him forever! Forever and ever!

Why so stupid? At that time, when he eavesdropped, she and the spirit of the master spoke the local local language, even if Anan knew the national dialect, after all, he was a Han Chinese, and it was very likely that he would hear it wrong. Why didn't she expect this? By now, he was going to lose everything - life and soul because of his lies!

What to do? What to do? How could she let him go up like this, but how could she save him?

"I see!" Listening to Ah Bai's explanation in a daze, Sima Nan was discouraged.

He has been in love with Taoism since he was a child, but once he came into contact with it, he realized how vast he wanted to learn, and how limited human life is, and he can't understand what if. Taoism pays attention to nature and seeking immortality, but when a person reaches middle age, he understands that he will not succeed in relying on cultivation. So he tried his best to learn the art of resurrection, to learn everything that could prolong his life.

For this reason, he indulged in it, unscrupulous means, and did whatever it takes, and also had some inextricable grievances with Ruan Zhan's father.

However, he failed again and again until his physical body died, on his way to Miao Jiang to find immortality. But he met Ah Bai, and although she couldn't resurrect him, she didn't let him really 'die', and let him overhear about this immortal stone.

He saw that Ah Bai's master had to come back and tell Ah Bai after he died, wishful thinking that the immortal stone could help people live forever, so he took advantage of Ah Bai's feelings for him to stay by her side. And now it seems that what he is seeking is all vain, no one can live forever, and no one can really understand everything in this world!

It's just, does he really not love her?

Judging from the churning pain in his body, it seemed like this, but why did he feel that there was something unusual protecting his heart?

"I'm sorry." Ah Bai cried, "Don't leave me! Please. ”

Seeing Ah Bai's heartbreak, Sima Nan wanted to promise her, but judging from his physical condition, he knew that his life was short, and there would be no soul left. If he can't do it, he can't promise her, because he doesn't want to give her the last deception in the last moments.

It seems that people are really dying, their words are good, birds are going to be all the people, and their songs are also mourning, and people will really have good thoughts when they are dying, just like at this moment, he suddenly feels how ridiculous he has been pursuing for many years, how small he is, and he regrets that he ruined everything for these unworthy things.

A leaf obstructs the eyes, and the South Mountain is not seen. How many good things in life have he ruined for this goal?

"It's me who I'm sorry for you." He smiled, and his gentle appearance reminded Ah Bai of their wedding time, "I shouldn't lie to you, and I shouldn't trap you." Any idea why I did that? ”

"No, I don't want to know, you don't talk."

"But I want to tell you." Sima Nan said softly, "You have powerful abilities, and you will be able to understand people's hearts even more after you die." This makes me feel very weak, afraid that you will know that I am not sincere to you, afraid that you will retaliate against me and give the secret art and stones to others. Sima Nan took a breath and continued intermittently, "I'm sorry, but I really have a hard time." I am afraid that you will despise me because of it, and I would rather you hate me, because—at least that is a strong emotion. He paused again, "Seeking eternal life, so that I have time to study all the Dao techniques slowly, is the goal of my life, and I can give up everything for him, including you." But in fact, I can't give up on you, so I trap you, I don't want you to find me, to see my shamelessness, and I don't want you to be reincarnated and disappear without a trace. And I trapped you, knowing that you were there, always felt like you were waiting for me. ”

His words were so gentle that Abai wept sadly, and the other people present also stared at all this in a daze, speechless.

"Will you forgive me? Ah Bai! ”

Holding Sima Nan's appearance, which had not changed much, but was getting lighter and lighter, Ah Bai was terrified.

Wanting to say goodbye to him, wanting to give him a gift, why did her love kill him! That's right, he has done too many bad things, but no one knows his contradictions and struggles, no one knows his pain and anger, only she knows. So she thought, since everyone hated him, it would be better for her to love him.

"I've never blamed you." She kissed him tenderly on the forehead.

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