Chapter Eighty-Eight: A Visitor
Cui Ying said disapprerovingly: "It's a demon who killed ......"
Chen Jing took the first step and said, "His name is Jiang An." β
Cui Ying was a little surprised, and when she saw Chen Jing's eyes, she immediately shouted, "That's right." It's called Jiang An, and he was still a guy who formed a golden pill, and he was slaughtered by the two of us. β
After the disciple of the Spirit Control Sect heard "Jiang An", he rummaged through the sea of knowledge in his heart, and said to himself: "Jiang An, Jin Dan's cultivation is empty, and his ability is scarce, and it is not impossible to kill him with your cultivation."
But that guy is cowardly by nature and hasn't shown his face for years, where did you two kill him? β
Chen Jingdao: "On the bank of the Quliang River, at the foot of Li Mountain. β
Seeing that the white-clothed monk was puzzled, Chen Jing simply said more, "Before that person died, he said that he had betrayed the sect, and as for the rest, we didn't know anything. β
"I see. Jiang An's skills are sparse, he has no credit, and there are few hard works in the Demon Sect, he will inevitably be spied on in the Blood Soul Cave, and sooner or later he will die in the hands of his fellow disciples, and it makes sense to defect. β
The white-clothed monk changed his indifferent expression in front of him, and solemnly arched his hand: "Lingling Sect, Qiu Peng, I have seen two Taoist friends. β
This Qiu Peng may have recognized the cultivation of two young people, or simply killed a sworn enemy of the Spirit Control Sect, so that he became close.
Chen Jing was a little helpless in his heart, but he still arched his hand and said, "Ye Xiu, Chen Jing." β
Cui Ying grinned and said, "Cui Ying." β
Chen Jing asked, "Why does Qiu Daoyou know that the two of us have fought with the Blood Soul Cave Demon?" β
Qiu Peng took a few steps forward and said with a smile: "Since they are mortal enemies of each other, the means are clear in their hearts. The Blood Soul Cave has a vicious ability, scattering blood poison to erode other people's bodies, if it is contaminated, it will give birth to patches of red spots after a while, and then the skin will fester, until it is damaged inside and out, and the body is dead.
The two of you are not deeply contaminated with blood and poison, and after many days, it seems that the red spots have faded and seemed to heal to outsiders, but this is not the case in the eyes of our Spirit Control Sect. β
Chen Jing hurriedly asked, "But are there other hidden dangers?" β
Qiu Peng said: "It's not a big deal. There is some kind of unknown spell in the blood poison, as long as it is encountered by the demon sect demons in the Blood Soul Cave, it can be recognized at a glance, if it is touched by them, it will be a big trouble for the two of you. β
Cui Ying rolled up her sleeves, but she still couldn't see anything wrong, and said politely: "Big brother, you said so much, there must be a way, the same is the right way, help." β
Chen Jing politely arched his hand and said, "I don't know if you have a way to crack it?" β
Qiu Peng pressed his fists and said heartily: "It's just a gesture, the two of you are polite." It's just that he didn't come out today without carrying the pill to eliminate blood poison. In this way, tomorrow the two of you can go to the Spirit Control Sect, and I will personally receive the two of you, have a good time, and talk about the heroes of slaying demons and demons. β
As soon as Cui Ying heard that there was wine to drink, she hurriedly said: "This relationship is good, there is food and drink, let's definitely go for it." β
Chen Jing said helplessly: "Then tomorrow will be disturbed." β
Qiu Peng laughed a few times, and got up in the sky and returned to the sect.
Cui Ying glanced at the person surnamed Qiu and left, walked to Chen Jing's side and said, "Can you believe it?" β
Chen nodded and said: "It shouldn't be bad, since you can fly in the sky, you should have a prestigious position in the sect, so as not to deceive two unknown wild cultivators." β
Cui Ying said: "That's okay, let's go tomorrow, don't blame me for complaining if the drink is bad." β
Chen Jingxian complained to her: "Restrain your stinky temper, we are asking others, don't make a scene of unhappiness and parting, drink and make mistakes, if you drink too much and start talking nonsense, be careful that I smoke you." β
Cui Ying said impatiently: "Okay, depending on you, I'll just drink less." β
"Mo Lian, you steal again!"
"It's dark and blind, I'm not stealing food."
"Ever since the old fairy landed, your mouth hasn't stopped."
"I thought it was a demon, we might be served in one pot, I quickly ate two bites, don't be a starving ghost."
"Looking for a fight."
"Don't kick with your feet!"
"Are you really going with me?" Chen Jing stared at Mo Lian and said.
The next morning, Chen Jing and Cui Ying were about to go to the Lingling Sect for an appointment, and Mo Lian, a living treasure, came over and planned to go with them.
Mo Lian's eyes were a little dodgy, and he muttered: "The territory of the immortal master, alas, who will not be rare?" β
Cui Ying twisted his ear and said, "Just to see? β
Yu Bao came over and reprimanded him: "I want to mix everything, I invite you to go?" β
Mo Lian couldn't shake Cui Ying off, and jumped to his feet in a hurry, "I want to go and see if I can find something to eat." I don't dare to speak, but with two big brothers, I can be bolder, maybe the fairy master will be merciful and generous, and give us some rations. β
Cui Ying let go of his ears and rubbed his little head instead, "That's going to be difficult, those guys may not eat grains, and your little abacus may be in vain." β
Several children opened their mouths in confusion, and after thinking about it, Yu Bao asked carefully: "If the immortals seek immortality, they don't need to eat whole grains?" β
Cui Ying pouted and said, "It's not that I don't eat anything, I eat another pill, Bigu Dan, do you know?" β
Several of the children shook their heads.
Chen Jing asked Yu Bao, "What do you think of that person's proposal last night?" As long as you enter the mountain gate, you will be sheltered by it, and the man's request does not seem to be excessive, just sweeping the mountain road, if you feel embarrassed to agree in person, I can speak for you today. β
Yu Bao glanced at his younger siblings, shook his head and said, "Forget it." That fairy master may be sincere, but there are many people in a mountain gate, not everyone is necessarily kind-hearted, what should we do if we wild children accidentally provoke one of the fairy masters and be killed casually? Who can bring justice to us? β
Cui Ying nodded and said: "What you said is also right, the golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as your own kennel, and you can still have a happy life if you live by yourself, and you won't be happy if you send someone under the fence." β
Chen Jing scolded her for using the word "kennel", and she was also open-mouthed to a group of children, not admitting that the children didn't care, and laughed heartily.
Chen Jing was a little distressed, a group of children who couldn't survive, "etiquette" was insignificant, and it was not as important as half a piece of dry food.
"Since you want to follow, let's go together."
After Chen Jing finished speaking to Mo Lian, he looked at the other children, "Who else is going to go with you?" β
Yu Bao shook his head, took out a slingshot and said, "I have to continue to practice, and I will go to the tree hole in the west later, and smoke it with firewood, so as not to get snakes and rats into it." β
Cui Ying saw that a few of them were not interested, and said bewildermently: "Eating at a table with the immortals Alas, it is a rare thing in a lifetime, so I should have a long insight, and I will not go in vain." β
Yu Bao thought for a moment, pushed the thinnest Xiaohua over, and wanted Xiaohua to go to the fairy to get rid of the immortal energy, saying that the thin body could recover, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and he didn't dare to miss it.
"I don't dare to go, I'm black and ugly, if the gods dislike me and drive me down the mountain, it will be a shame."
Cui Ying picked up Xiaohua and said with a smile: "I don't dare to borrow the courage of the two of them, let's come to the door as a guest, whether to give them face, or four faces, they have to hold it steady." β
Mo Lian can be regarded as waiting for someone to go with him, if he is alone, he is a little cowardly, and said eagerly to Xiaohua: "It's okay Xiaohua, there are two big brothers here, maybe we can still go to the wine table to drink and eat, one is not careful, you can eat a long life, we must go." β
Cui Ying teased him, "Eat a feast? Whose feast do you eat? β
Mo Lian said "Bah, Bah" a few times, and slapped himself, "My stupid mouth, the family banquet is right." β
Yu Bao walked up to Mo Lian and whispered a few words in his ear, Mo Lian said annoyedly: "I know, I know, I am in trouble, I am so out of tune?" β
Chen Jing explained to Yu Bao: "At most, we can come back before dark." β
A few children nodded obediently and watched them leave.
It is about thirty miles away from the Spirit Sect, if you take care of the feet of the two children, you can only reach it until dark, Cui Ying simply put the small flower to her neck, Chen Jing carried Mo Lian's clothes, and every time she ran for two or three miles, he stopped and rested for a while, letting the two children slow down.
Mo Lian took advantage of the pause to rest, and asked with a smile: "Xiaohua, doesn't it look like riding a big horse." β
Xiaohua said in a soft voice: "I haven't ridden a horse, I don't know." β
Cui Ying put one hand on Xiaohua's leg to make Xiaohua feel more at ease, and rewarded Mo Lian with a chestnut with the other hand, "You are a male baby, only envy." β
Mo Lian rubbed his brain, bared his teeth and said: "I don't envy, Lao Tzu is a man who stands up to the sky, and it is not uncommon for girls to play at home." β
"Oops, you said you were fat and panting, and you had the ability to run over by yourself."
"It's all your own people, don't embarrass the eldest brother, it seems that you are not broad-minded enough."
"I'm just a little cautious, what do you say?"
"Spare your life, spare your life."
Mo Lian hid beside Chen Jing, caught a glimpse of a place, pointed and said, "We usually get water near here." β
Chen Jing saw a stream, and looked along the way it came, the source should be the mountain to which the Spirit Sect belonged.
Xiaohua put her head against Cui Ying's head and whispered: "Brother Bao, they have to kowtow every time they get water, for fear of offending the gods." β
Cui Ying said disdainfully: "Isn't it just to use some water, look at their bullishness." By the way, have you ever fished in the water? Forget it, with your guts, you don't dare to do it until the sky falls, instead it's me, who poops and pees and fertilizes in the water every day, and they have to thank me when they turn around. β
Mo Lian and Xiaohua giggled, they didn't dare to think about this kind of thing, and they didn't take Cui Ying's words very seriously, but being able to say it at least relaxed the heartstrings of the two children's original fear.
After stopping and going a few times, Chen Jing and Cui Ying tacitly stopped, and someone walked out of the dark part of the woods in front of them.
"Who's coming? What's the point? β
A man with a beard on his face, dressed in silver armor, held a bright long knife to block the way of several people.
Mo Lian was very eye-catching, hiding behind Chen Jing, Xiaohua also wanted to come down like him, and was held down by Cui Ying.
Chen Jing arched his hand and said, "I'll be invited to the Spirit Control Sect." β
The man's eyebrows and beard moved together, "In this case, there can be an invitation token, so that I can check it." β
This is a little difficult, last night Qiu Peng was just a verbal invitation, and Chen Jing didn't know how to answer for a while.
Cui Ying lost his temper, "That guy named Qiu Peng, he didn't give us an invitation or anything at the time, if you want to, go to him." β
Dahan was stunned for a moment, and arched his hand: "It turned out to be a distinguished guest of the Immortal Master, and he was offended." β
Chen Jing arched his hand and said: "It's just a misunderstanding, it's okay." β
Cui Ying said proudly: "You really guessed it, that Qiu Peng seems to be quite famous in the Spirit Control Sect." β
The big man gestured to the left and right, and Chen Jing saw that some people in the shadows retreated and loosened their guard.
"There are two guards in the back, and they all know my old face, so I will take a few of them into the mountain, so as not to cause trouble."
"Then it's hard work."
Since it was on foot, Chen Jing chatted with the big man casually, "Forgive me for taking the liberty of it, it seems that Daoyou is not a disciple of the Spirit Control Sect?" β
The man smiled freely, "My surname is Kou, my name is Shixiong, and the little immortal master can call him by his name." I can't afford the word 'Taoist friend', I was originally from a mortal background, my hometown is in the north, that is, the north of Nanyuzhou, which has now been fragmented, and now I am a remnant of the country. β
Chen Jing met an adult in the north for the first time, and couldn't help asking: "At the beginning, natural disasters and man-made disasters, how many people survived?" β
Kou Shixiong turned around, glanced at him strangely, then looked at the two children, sighed and said: "It can't be calculated, after all, the corpses pave the way, and those who have that ability may not necessarily have that mind." β
Chen Jing gritted his teeth and asked what he had heard from hearsay, "Were there any great dynasties that received the remnants of the dead country?" β
Kou Shixiong said as he walked, "This one does exist. The nearest Shangshui country is one, and the southernmost is the Great Qi Dynasty, which also sent people to open up roads to receive many remnants. β
"Daqi?" Chen Jing recalled the mountains and seas and asked, "The border of the Great Qi country is at least five or six thousand miles away from here, and if you go to the northern land, it will be at least more than a thousand miles." β
Kou Shixiong nodded and said: "Yes, even if it is so far away, Daqi still came to pick up people, and has been back and forth several times over the years, receiving no less than two million remnants, and ordinary small countries can't do such a grand event." β
Cui Ying's braincase turned a few times, a few thousand miles short, and nearly ten thousand miles if it was long, and he couldn't help but say: "Two million people, all of them were sent by immortal ferry?" β
Kou Shixiong laughed twice, and said a little bitterly: "How is it possible, it is good to have one percent, the immortal ferry is not specially used to entertain ordinary people." β
Cui Ying gestured with her fingers, "Isn't that ......?"
Kou Shixiong said: "Yes, go all the way, die all the way, the bones pave the way, it's literal, the family and country are gone, no one is pitiful, and no one owes them, there is not much difference between dying on the road and dying in a foreign land, isn't there a saying, 'early death and early reincarnation', it's good to be reincarnated in the next life, anyway, not born in the north, this is a blessing." β
Chen Jing took Mo Lian's hand, this child was born peacefully just now, I don't know if he was tired, or if he remembered the past, he lost his usual restlessness.
Thinking of his hometown, Chen Jing then asked: "Back then, when the natural disaster occurred, Nanyu and Yujin were implicated, what about Yujinzhou?" β
Kou Shixiong blew on the spoon and waved his hand to make the people in the shadows retreat, and then he spoke: "For people like me, Yu Jinzhou is far enough away, I don't know what the situation is on their side. However, since Yu Jinzhou still has the heart to come here to save people, he knows that the impact on their side should not be great. β
Cui Ying grabbed Xiaohua's two calves, walked upside down, and said suspiciously: "I thought it was two continents divided into two families, each in charge of its own family affairs." β
"In fact, people thought like this earlier, but later they took action righteously, which really made the world look up at Yujinzhou, which was full of businessmen."
After Kou Shixiong finished speaking, he said disdainfully: "It's really disdainful to use the reason, what's 'the master specializes in picking servants from thousands of miles away', 'what the master has in his hand is money, and he never picks a pick, it's all in a circle, regardless of men, women and children, the master wants it', and some deliberately provoke trouble, setting up a battle, shouting and robbing people." β
Kou Shixiong finally smiled and said, "It's all a group of big dogs!" β
Walking slowly all the way, after half an hour, I finally came to the gate of the Lingzong Mountain, a boulder stood at the foot of the mountain, and the three characters of "Lingzong" were engraved horizontally.
Kou Shixiong pointed to the road on the other side and said: "In addition to the north, there are roads in the east, west, and south of the Spirit Sect, and the two of you can take this road when you come back in the future. β
Chen nodded his head down.
A few people stepped up the steps, the sight was wide open, the foot of the Lingzong Mountain was unusually open, the ground was paved with stone bricks, and there were more than a dozen shops of all sizes, but most of them were only two floors, and the people in and out were a little scattered, and the bazaar of the Canglang Immortal Palace could not be compared.
Chen Jing saw a river and lake dressed up people walking by, and asked Kou Shixiong, "There are a lot of wild cultivators, right?" β
Kou Shixiong pointed to the shop and said, "Most of the places here are prepared for wild cultivation, all kinds of medicines, refining tools, and even captured ghosts can be bought and sold or exchanged. β
Casually pointing to the north, Kou Shixiong said in disgust: "As long as the Blood Soul Cave still exists, the Spirit Control Sect will not close the mountain gate for a day, which can be said to be fate." Since this is the case, let go of some places, let Ye Xiu come here to make some living, and let these Ye Xiu, who are intriguing and vigilant in the ancient battlefield, have a stable place to breathe. β
"Old Xiong, it's only noon, why did you go back to the mountain gate?"
In the distance, a man dressed in green clothes with a long beard walked over.
When the man walked in, Kou Baixiong pointed and said, "Jian Ziteng, I have an encounter with each other, and we are all remnants of the country. Back then, we were enemies of each other's countries, but this guy was a civilian official, and I was a military attachΓ©, so I had never met him on the battlefield, otherwise, his head would not have been cut off by me. β
"You just blow hard, you have a few hits, the old man already knows, when there are soldiers, you can bear twice, without soldiers, you are a living bear, people are as the name says you are."
Kou Shixiong didn't care, and said with a laugh: "This guy still has some civil official skills, staying here in the Spirit Control Sect to manage the store, similar to the supervision of the market, and living a very uncomfortable life." β
Jian Ziteng said angrily: "Why do you say it? In Xianmen, it is natural to be conscientious, in the mouth of you, a vulgar and reckless man, the old man is like a greedy little official. β
Kou Shixiong stopped laughing and introduced Chen Jing to him for the purpose of their visit.
Jian Ziteng's scholar bowed, "Since a few of them were invited by the Qiu Immortal Master, wait a while, and I will go to the door to inform you." β
Cui Ying blinked her eyes and said, "No need, the main lord has already come." β