Lin Ranzhi didn't know why, and there was an indescribable depression in his heart.

In fact, after getting along in the past few days, she found that this Senior Sister Zhuo ...... is a good person, no wonder everyone in the palace respects her.

It's just, it's a pity.

Zhuo Qingtan suddenly smiled lightly, breaking Lin Ranzhi's obviously low mood at this time.

"Senior Sister Lin brought such a big food box today, what is inside?"

Lin Ranzhi woke up in an instant, she immediately put away her depression, and introduced with a little interest: "I can bring a lot of delicious food today, including stir-fried white mushrooms, boiled vegetables, and fried yellow beef, oh yes......"

She glanced at her mouth reluctantly, and added, "There is also an enlarged stewed ginseng chicken soup and peach blossom crisp, ask me to bring it to you." I was so annoyed by her that I had to bring it with me. ”

"Unbelievable."

Zhuo Qingtan smiled with a hint of a smile in his eyes: "I can actually eat three dishes, one soup and snacks, I don't seem to be here to be punished." ”

"Then you need to be able to eat it!"

Lin Ranzhi complained in a low voice: "In the past three days, you haven't eaten anything except for the body strengthening pill and half a bowl of wind and cold decoction yesterday, right?" ”

She came to the Breaking Ring Peak every day to deliver food and water, and no one in the entire Duanxu Palace knew Zhuo Qingtan's situation better than her. Even for the first five days she was imprisoned, she only drank all the water every day, and her meals were rarely moved.

Today is the eighth day, and this person who was born taller and thinner than others is even thinner, and now he is even thinner, almost out of shape.

If people who don't know see it, they can't really think that she Lin Ranzhi did some kind of lynching on her, the head of the Duxu Palace, on this Broken Ring Peak!

Not to mention others, if An Yunong and Senior Brother Luofu saw Zhuo Qingtan like this now, they were afraid that they would have to rush to the sky and come to her desperately.

"For immortal cultivators, it doesn't matter if you eat less."

Zhuo Qingtan smiled indifferently.

"Cut," Lin Ranzhi rolled his eyes: "Even so, that's what we're talking about are those of us who are immortal cultivators with spiritual power to protect our bodies, we won't die of hunger if we eat a few less meals, what about you?" Do you have the spiritual power to work around your body and sustain yourself? ”

Zhuo Qingtan looked at her with a smile and sighed softly: "Then let's drive my senior sister and help me to the stone table." ”

Lin Ranzhi gritted his teeth a little: "...... Can't you just eat it in bed? What's the toss after it's all like this? ”

Zhuo Qingtan's eyes were clear, although his eyes were weak but firm, he looked up at her slightly.

Lin Ran's anger at the bottom of her heart suddenly vented, and she whispered to herself: "Okay, okay, I know!" I'll help you up. ”

She leaned over to support Zhuo Qingtan's arm, but the force transmitted from her hand was not heavy, which showed that Zhuo Qingtan did not press all the weight on her.

This man is really reckless.

Lin Ranzhi pursed his lips.

She carefully held her up: "Hey, you slow down...... Leave the weight of your body to me! Why don't I carry you over, it's faster. ”

Zhuo Qingtan shook his head and smiled faintly: "Nonsense, I just can't use spiritual power, it's not that I can't move." ”

“...... Dead stubborn. ”

Lin Ranzhi muttered quietly, but the movements of his hands were very gentle.

She held her arm with one hand and the back of her shoulder with the other, and carefully avoided several bone nails on her arms and shoulders.

Waiting for her to sit on the stone chair, Lin Ranzhi opened the food box like a treasure.

I saw three dishes, one meat and two vegetarian dishes, delicately arranged, with a serving of white rice, and a can of fragrant ginseng chicken soup and peach blossom crisp on one layer, which looked good.

Today's food box was sealed by Lin Ranzhi before going out, and it was brought all the way with immortal arts, and it was still steaming at this time.

When Zhuo Qingtan saw the chicken soup and dim sum, he immediately shook his head lightly and smiled: "Senior Sister Lin's dishes are very good, but this soup and dim sum must not be from my little junior sister's hands." ”

An Yunong was born in the Xianmen family, and is a descendant of the Jiusheng Mountain An family among the four major immortal sects in the world.

Although she was sent to Duanxu Palace to learn art with her brother Luo Fu when she was a child, she has always been served and cared for by palace servants in her daily life, and her ten fingers do not touch the spring water on weekdays.

It would be fine if she was asked to cook a bowl of noodles simply, but such a soup and dim sum with such a delicious taste would not be able to be made even if she was killed.

When Lin Ranzhi heard this, he smiled a little proudly.

"I think it's the same, I think she will make soup like the daughter of a fairy family, you eat and vegetables first, this dish is all made by me, and it tastes amazing!"

Zhuo Qingtan smiled: "You did it?" ”

"Of course."

Lin Ranzhi raised his chin and said very proudly: "Who in the Duanxu Palace doesn't know that you, the head of the palace, have always been exquisite, and the food and drink are prepared separately every day in the small kitchen of the palace master of Qingyue Peak. I expected that if you couldn't eat it a few days ago, it must be because you thought that the big pot of rice in our Zhangjietang canteen was careless and delicious, and it was difficult to swallow. So, if I cook it myself today, you can't help but give me face. ”

Zhuo Qingtan was really a little surprised this time.

She glanced up at her in slight surprise, then chuckled and shook her head: "This is too troublesome, do you know that I don't eat less because I am picky...... In short, there is no need for this tomorrow, so it is better to take the ready-made ones from the canteen of the Zhangjie Hall. ”

Lin Ranzhi smiled but didn't answer, and secretly slandered in his heart: Do you want to take care of it? Now that you're a prisoner, I don't have to listen to you.

She unconsciously looked at Zhuo Qingtan's eating demeanor chewing slowly, and she was actually distracted.

She had heard rumors in the palace before, it is said that this senior sister Zhuo Qingtan was accidentally discovered by the palace master when she was still a baby, and the palace master was amazed by her talent on the way to cultivating immortals, and made an exception to bring it back to Duanxu Palace. According to legend, Zhuo Qingtan was raised by the master of Duanxu Palace since he was a child, and he was taught and raised by hand.

Is this the child raised by the palace master himself?

Lin Ranzhi thought distractedly.

Her every move, in Lin Ranzhi's eyes, has an indescribable nobility and good-looking, calm and unhurried.

Even if she had been silently hating Zhuo Qingtan in her heart for the four years before, she couldn't deny that she was indeed outstanding, the kind of outstanding person who was far away from others and surpassed many disciples in Duanxu Palace.

Even at this time, Zhuo Qingtan, who was sitting on the stone chair, only wore a simple wooden hairpin on his head, his face was bloodless, his body was covered with bruises, and he was almost out of shape...... But she just sat in this simple and dilapidated prison cell, eating quietly and silently, and the nobility that leaked out of her bones couldn't be stopped.

If Lin Ranzhi used to go out often to eliminate demons and practice, she would know that in the words of the young disciples of the hundred schools of Xianmen, only these few words are the most appropriate to describe the senior sister of Duanxu Palace:

——Xianmen model, noble and noble, graceful, freehand and graceful.

Of course, this was eight days ago. As for now......

Lin Ranzhi shook his head slightly, and a trace of compassion flashed in his eyes.

"Can you still get into your mouth?"

Although a person who knows such rules as Zhuo Qingtan must be particular about food and sleep, she still couldn't help but ask.

Zhuo Qingtan swallowed the food in his mouth, smiled faintly, and nodded in affirmation: "Your craftsmanship is excellent." ”

Lin Ran's heart was snickering, but his face was still indifferent, and he pretended not to care: "That's good, then you have to eat more, or I'll be busy in vain." ”

Zhuo Qingtan nodded good-naturedly.

Xu was unwell, she ate very slowly, and every bite was laboriously chewed for a long time.

Lin Ranzhi didn't urge her, for fear of disturbing her, so he didn't speak again.

Despite this, in the end, what Zhuo Qingtan actually imported was only one or two spoonfuls of each dish. The bowl of rice barely moved, and the soup was put down after only one sip, presumably because the chicken soup was too greasy.

But Lin Ranzhi didn't force her anymore, she could see that Zhuo Qingtan was indeed eating very hard, and she was already trying her best to eat.

She helped her back to the stone bed, and watched her sit on the bed upright, and her heart became more and more panicked.

"You skeletal nail...... The palace master and my master, did you say how long you want to take it? ”

knew that she shouldn't have asked, but she couldn't help but ask after enduring and enduring.

It is necessary to know that mortals are born with only eight veins, namely the heart vein, the life vein, the dry vein, the kun vein, the Du pulse, the Ren pulse, the Chong pulse, and the belt pulse.

And mortals who have the talent to cultivate immortals, such as the disciples of the Immortal Sect, are born with one more vein than ordinary mortals, which is for the love vein, and the symbiosis of nine veins.

The seven emotions and six desires of mortals are all over the eight veins of the heart, so they cannot be suppressed separately.

However, if a person who cultivates immortals attains the Tao, he can suppress all the mundane miscellaneous feelings in the emotional vein, so that he can meditate and condense his mind, be open-minded and fearless, and go further in cultivating immortals.

Zhuo Qingtan was born to be a person with no obvious affection, so he was open-minded and cold, which was especially suitable for the supreme heart of the Duanxu Palace.

But these eight bone nails hit the other eight veins around her at this time, except for the heart veins.

It is very rare for a disciple of the Immortal Sect who makes a mistake to be punished so severely, even if he wants to enter the bone nail, at most he will only score one or two, which is enough to deter the offender.

Even in order to prevent it from really damaging the body and cultivation of the tortured, the time for the bone to be nailed into the body is strictly controlled, and most of them will be taken out within a few hours to heal.

But Zhuo Qingtan was beaten into his body with eight bone nails, and he hasn't been taken out for eight days!

I couldn't get one more, not out of kindness, but because eight Bone Nails were already the upper limit! If the last vein of the heart is also driven into a bone nail, then whether it is a human or a demon, I am afraid that it will definitely die.

Zhuo Qingtan listened to her question and was slightly stunned.

She was silent for a moment, then shook her head slightly: "I don't know. ”

"You don't know?"

Lin Ranzhi frowned.

Isn't the palace master really going to abolish her? Abolish this high-level disciple who was cultivated by him?

Isn't it said that Zhuo Qingtan is the most suitable genius for the entire Duanxu Palace for thousands of years? Doesn't it mean that the palace master and the hundred schools of the immortal sect are waiting for this genius junior to one day achieve positive results and ascend to the Tao?

Is this really going to abandon her?

Lin Ranzhi's brows furrowed: "Before my master left, he didn't leave any words, and the palace master really didn't say anything before?" ”

Zhuo Qingtan's tone was calm: "No." ”

"What?"

Lin Ran's anger knotted: "Your body has been beaten for eight days, and as far as I know, no one has ever been punished for so long among the people who have been ordained in the Ring Hall. If it takes a little longer, it means that your cultivation can be preserved, and this body cultivation will be difficult to protect! ”

"Since the cultivation is taught by the master, it is the master who takes back my cultivation, so it doesn't matter."

Zhuo Qingtan shook his head slightly, as if he didn't want to talk about this topic anymore.

"What? You are now the first young disciple of the four major sects of the Immortal Sect, what do you have to think of to fight for your cultivation? Could it be that you really colluded with the evil demon to kill the immortal family? ”

Lin Ran looked her up and down, she didn't look like that kind of villain at all!

Zhuo Qingtan was silent.

It's not that she doesn't want to confess, it's that she really doesn't know.

Eight days ago, she received a distress signal from her fellow disciple in the palace, Langya Yu, and immediately rushed to the Wufu Sea to try to rescue the four major factions trapped under the Juntian Cliff of the Wufu Sea.

The backflow of the weak water cold pool caused the Juntian Cliff enchantment to shatter, and the fire in the center of the earth gushed out.

She could only order the major immortal sect juniors and sisters who were not cultivated enough to withdraw first, leaving alone to support the enchantment, but unfortunately, in the end, even she could not hold it.

With the complete cracking of the Juntian Cliff barrier and the impact of the evil qi gushing out of the fire in the center of the earth, she lost consciousness at the last moment. When she woke up, she found that she was already in one of the four major sects of the Immortal Sect that had guarded the Juntian Cliff Enchantment in the past dynasties - the Wufu Sea.

After that, her master, the Duanxu Palace, also rushed to the Wuxu Sea.

Master said that the Juntian Cliff barrier guarded by the Boundless Sea was completely broken, and it seemed to have something to do with her. There was a remnant of the fierce and evil demon yuan power in the cliff, which was similar to the breath that remained in the spiritual veins when she was rescued, and there was a peerless demon near the secret realm of Juntian Cliff at that time.

Therefore, after the joint agreement of the heads of the four major factions, in order to avoid any more extraneous branches, and her spiritual veins were burned by the fire in the center of the earth, they needed to seal the spiritual veins of her whole body.

As for these eight bone nails...... It was her master's meaning.

However, the world only knows that the bone nail is the most cruel criminal law in the Duanxu Palace, which is used to punish the fierce and evil rebels in the palace. But only the palace masters of the Duanxu Palace in the past generations knew that the bone nail also had an unknown role......

That is, it can suppress the demonic power and ferocity in the body of the demon and beast, so that the monster and the beast cannot release the power; Or the power of the soul of the town owner, blocking the mark of the past life.

Coincidentally, Zhuo Qingtan was one of the very few people who knew this secret. Because, she is the next heir to the palace master.

Zhuo Qingtan frowned slightly.

So..... Why did Master insist on using eight bone studders on her? Even if the heads of the various factions really suspect that she is colluding with monsters, but before the truth is known, it is just enough to seal her spiritual veins and confine her, if it is not a last resort, the master will not be able to punch eight bone nails into her body.

Take 10,000 steps back, even if she is convicted of colluding with monsters to harm her fellow disciples, she will be abolished or executed at most. What's more, as the next young palace master of Duanxu Palace, the heavy punishment of nailing eight bones into the body is not much better in terms of death, and the master is using such a cruel method to treat her.

Unless...... Master's move, isn't it to suppress the power of the peerless demon or the demon bone demon of the fierce beast?

Zhuo Qingtan's eyebrows frowned slightly, in fact, she had grown so big, it was the first time that she had such a feeling of helplessness from the bottom of her heart like in the past few days.

In the past eight days, she has not been as calm and calm as she appears on the outside.

It is not only because of unbearable physical pain, but also because of unrestful mental rest.

Zhuo Qingtan unconsciously tapped his fingers lightly on the stone table.

Don't...... Is she really a demon or a beast?

Is this possible?

And in order to protect her, the master didn't want her to expose her identity again? That's when she was forced to drive a bone nail into her eight veins, and she was a demon bone?

However, she is obviously human.

She would never be mistaken about this. If she was really a monster, how could the master take her back to Duanxu Palace to raise her personally?

She's not going to be a demon!

...... Something must have gone wrong.

A deep sense of powerlessness emerged clearly from the bottom of my heart.

Since the day of the accident in the secret realm of the Wufu Haijun Heavenly Cliff, everything around Zhuo Qingtan seemed to be so confusing, even subverting her previous twenty years of cognition.

No one could answer her questions.

Including herself.