Chapter 21
Ren Zifei was still copying the "Magpie Gate Rules", and a thick stack of rice paper had been piled up on the table, and the paper was densely covered with crooked handwriting.
He didn't know much about the words in the "Door Rules", so he could only draw a scoop according to the gourd, and copy it one stroke at a time, but he didn't know its meaning, so he copied it very slowly.
When it was dark, the bell rang for dinner, and the fragrance of rice was sent into the temple with the wind, Ren Zifei shrugged his nose, swallowed his saliva, and his stomach gurgled and turned, lit the lamp and candle, and continued to copy.
Copying until late at night, Ren Zifei couldn't finish copying the door rules ten times, he was extremely hungry, very tired, his wrists were so sore that he didn't listen to the call, and his handwriting became even more sloppy.
The door of the hall creaked open, and Ren Zifei looked up to see that it was the fat Hu Gai Evil, who was holding a large blue and white porcelain bowl, and greeted in a low voice: "Little junior brother, I'm here to bring you food!" ”
Ren Zifei ran over, only to see that there were rice and vegetables in the bowl, as well as two pieces of braised pork, the aroma was fragrant, and his stomach sensed the food, and he gurgled a few times.
Hu Gaiyi sent the bowl forward and said, "Eat quickly, you're hungry, right?" ”
Ren Zifei smacked his lips and said, "Sixth Senior Brother, Master said that if you can't copy the door rules ten times, you won't let me eat and sleep." ”
Hu changed the evil way: "Words are dead, people are alive, he also asked you to memorize the whole text, those words are bent and scornful, there are no three or five days, you don't want to memorize it, don't you don't eat for three or five days?" Eat quickly, Master has gone to bed early. ”
Ren Zifei shrugged his throat, after all, he couldn't resist the torture of hunger, took the big bowl with both hands, and said, "Thank you, Senior Brother Six!" ”
Hu changed the evil way: "Brothers and sisters of the same sect, share blessings and hardships, what is there to thank? When I left, I remembered to return the bowl to the room, where no one lived and it was not locked. ”
After saying that, he closed the door of the temple and left.
Ren Zifei held the big bowl, returned to the desk and sat down, picked up the chopsticks and grabbed a piece of meat and was about to send it to his mouth, when he suddenly thought that he had promised Mrs. Qianying to bring her food during the day, but he was taught a lesson by the master and forgot about it.
So he endured his hunger, took the bowl out of the main hall, the moonlight was bright, and when he saw that there was no one around, he immediately used his flying skills and flew towards the cliff.
When he fell to the bottom of the valley, he found the cave, and when he walked in, the moonlight shone in through the hole, and he saw Lady Thousand Shadows lying flat on the rock, asleep.
walked over and shouted, "Senior, I'm bringing you food!" ”
Lady Thousand Shadows' eyes opened slightly, coughed twice, and said, "Help me up!" Ren Zifei put the bowl on the ground, helped Lady Qianying, let her sit against the stone wall, brought the bowl to her, and said, "Eat quickly." ”
Lady Thousand Shadows took the bowl, picked up the chopsticks, pulled open the braised pork on top, and picked two slices of green vegetables and put them in her mouth.
She didn't eat much, and her internal organs did not fully recover, so she stopped eating only a little bit and returned the dishes and chopsticks to Ren Zifei.
Ren Zifei said: "You eat some more!" ”
Lady Thousand Shadows shook her head.
Ren Zifei looked at the food, there was still more than half of it, picked up the chopsticks and devoured it.
Lady Thousand Shadows looked at him strangely and said, "Won't Magpie Mountain take care of your food?" ”
Ren Zifei stiffened his neck, swallowed a big mouthful of food, and said, "I was punished by the master for copying the door rules ten times, and I am not allowed to eat if I can't finish copying." ”
Lady Thousand Shadows said, "Then it's done now?" ”
Ren Zifei scratched his head with chopsticks and said, "I didn't finish copying it." ”
Lady Thousand Shadows smiled and said, "Didn't you break the rules?" ”
Ren Zifei froze there.
Lady Thousand Shadows said, "It's broken, eat it!" ”
Ren Zifei thinks about it, if you want to break the rules, I'm afraid that saving Mrs. Qianying is the biggest breaking of the rules, don't think about it anymore at the moment, and continue to gobble.
A bowl of food was quickly eaten, ran out of the cave, went to the river to wash the dishes, drank two large bowls of water in a row, scooped another bowl, and brought it into the cave for Lady Thousand Shadows to drink.
Lady Thousand Shadows drank half of the bowl, took out a silk handkerchief from her cuff, dipped it in the bowl, and scrubbed the blood on her face.
After she scrubbed it clean, Ren Zifei splashed the water in the bowl, hid the empty bowl in his arms, and said, "Then I'll go." ”
Out of the cave, fly to the top of the mountain, go to the room to return the bowl, and return to the Renwei Hall to continue copying the door rules.
After copying ten times, it was early in the morning, endured the sleepiness, and began to memorize the door rules, but many words were not recognized, and it was very difficult to memorize, and the brain was memorized into a mess, but I didn't even memorize a page.
Finally, he couldn't resist the tiredness, and fell asleep on the desk.
The sound of the opening of the temple door woke him up, and the sky was already bright, and the burly Yuan Kuo walked over and asked with a calm face, "Is it finished?" ”
Ren Zifei hurriedly got up and saluted, and said, "It's finished." ”
Yuan Kuo picked up a piece of rice paper full of words, snorted in his nostrils, and said, "Your word can be used as a rune." ”
He asked again, "Have you memorized it?" ”
Ren Zifei said in a low voice: "I don't know how to memorize, I don't recognize many words." ”
Yuan Kuo sighed and said, "Let's go eat first." ”
After going to the room for breakfast, Yuan Kuo led Ren Zifei back to Renwei Hall and explained the content of the door rules to him one by one.
With the guidance of the master, Ren Zifei memorized much more smoothly, and after reciting it all morning, he had memorized half of the book.
After lunch, while everyone went back to the room to rest, Ren Zifei tiptoed to the room, put a big bowl of leftovers, and flew to the bottom of the valley to deliver it to Mrs. Qianying.
And so it was for the next few days.
Lady Thousand Shadows' injuries recovered quickly, and she was able to walk, but the valley was winding and twisting, and she didn't know where it leads, so she still couldn't get out of it even though she couldn't fly.
In the afternoon of this day, Ren Zifei secretly went down to the bottom of the valley and delivered food to Mrs. Qianying, and Mrs. Qianying said while eating: "After eating this bowl of rice, the grievances between us should be settled." ”
As he spoke, he cast two sharp glances at Ren Zifei.
Ren Zifei was startled, trembled all over, jumped up instinctively, reached for the back of his neck and grabbed the hilt of the sword.
Lady Thousand Shadows sneered and said, "I don't think you can fly, you can escape from my hands!" ”
As soon as the arm was raised, the red silk shot out from the mouth of the cave, wrapped around a big tree the size of a barrel, and with a pull of the hand back, the big tree broke in two with a click.
Ren Zifei's face was as frightened as earth, and the hand that clenched the hilt of the sword slowly loosened, at this moment, he could only resign himself to fate.
Lady Thousand Shadows took back the red silk and said, "Although my current strength has only recovered one percent, if I kill you, it will be as easy as stepping on an ant!" ”
Ren Zifei trembled and didn't dare to speak.
Lady Thousand Shadows continued to eat, and said, "You killed my dearest and loved ones, but you saved me and gave me food, I remember your kindness, but you can't offset the hatred, then, do you have any dear and beloved ones?" ”
Ren Zifei didn't know what she meant, and immediately thought of Xu Qingya, but immediately thought of her instructions when she left, she couldn't tell outsiders about the acquaintance of the two, except for Xu Qingya, then only grandpa was left, so he said: "I have a grandfather who lives in Shenxian Yi, he is not my own grandfather, but he is closest to me." ”
Lady Qianying put down the dishes and chopsticks, took out a silk handkerchief to wipe her mouth, and said, "Then I will kill your grandfather and let you taste the loss of your relatives!" ”
Ren Zifei's eyes shed tears, and he pleaded: "Please don't kill my grandfather, please ......"
Lady Thousand Shadows said coldly: "I always have to kill one, you and your grandfather, you choose!" ”
Ren Zifei burst into tears, choked up, and said after a while: "Then, then you kill, kill me!" ”
Lady Thousand Shadows was stunned and shouted, "Do you think I won't dare to kill you?" ”
stood up suddenly, his hand was knife-like, compared to Ren Zifei's neck, but he didn't move his hand, sighed a long time, and said: "In this way, what are you embarrassed about, you want to do it but can't do it, if I do it for you, it will be regarded as repaying your kindness, and I can kill you; If I can't do it, then I think I'm incompetent, and from now on, we don't owe each other. Tell me, what is the most important thing you want to do but can't do? ”
Ren Zifei walked away from the ghost gate, knowing what to say next, he would decide his life and death, he didn't dare to be ambiguous, wiped his tears, thought about it seriously, and said in a panic: "I have had a wish since I was a child, hoping that one day I can land on Tongtian Island and become an immortal." ”
Lady Thousand Shadows smiled and said, "You are very smart, you have found such a big thing to embarrass me, then let's make a decision, when Tongtian Island descends on land in five years, I will help you land on the island, and let you live for another five years." ”
Ren Zifei was overjoyed, feeling that she had always been stupid and stupid, she was unprecedentedly smart, if she couldn't get on Tongtian Island, she couldn't kill him; If she landed on Tongtian Island, then Cheng Xian went, where would she find it?
Then he said: "A word is a certainty!" ”
Lady Thousand Shadows walked out of the cave, and Ren Zifei followed.
Lady Thousand Shadows said: "Your righteous path is estimated to take advantage of the fire to rob, unite to attack my Death God Temple, the two sides are fighting, the sword is ruthless, you had better hide away, otherwise I am afraid that it will not be able to wait for five years!" ”
With that, he took off into the air, flew westward, and disappeared into the sky in the blink of an eye.
Ren Zifei looked at the sky for a long time, went back to the cave to get an empty bowl, went to the river to wash it, and flew to the top of the mountain.
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More than ten days later, the seven major factions of the righteous path gathered in Magpie Mountain, and supported Ren Zifei as the successor to the head of the Magpie Gate, and the position of the leader of the Righteous Path Alliance.
The succession ceremony has been completed, Yuyan Zhenren proposed, the god is dead, the lady of a thousand shadows is seriously injured and fled, the temple of death has no backbone, and the righteous path should take advantage of its weakness and dissipation to concentrate on completely dismantling it in one fell swoop.
Yuyan Zhenren made a desperate attempt to pull out the poisonous fangs of the Temple of Death, and he personally led Yi Jinxiu, Ji Wusheng and his disciples a total of more than 30 people down the mountain, and only Ren was left on the mountain to guard the gate of the temple.
The other six factions also gave their best, not only led by the head of the sect himself, but also the elite of the sect, so to speak, this team represents the backbone of today's righteous path.