Chapter 14: The Cave of the Scaly Snake
"Li Hebiao, you're here."
"Well, I'm here, and I'll be fine."
The stone was removed, and the man in his arms muttered intermittently, his tone getting weaker and weaker.
The silence in the dark cavern was terrifying, and the occasional sound of a poisonous snake snaking and crawling waited in the dark to observe the sudden intruder.
"I'll help you bandage it first."
Without saying a word, he took out a silver needle and stabbed two needles in her heart to stabilize her spirit, and then pointed at her acupoint, and with a force in his hand, skillfully straightened the twisted bones, tore off the placket and wrapped it around.
She gritted her teeth, her body trembling violently, and she didn't let out a painful breath.
"Let's go, let's get out."
He bent down and carried her on her back with great care.
However, in this mysterious cave in the dark, where is the way out?
I don't know how long he walked deeper, but the crawling sound became more and more intense, and even snakes tried to climb on his legs.
"Be careful!"
She crouched over his broad shoulder, struggled to free one hand, drew the horizontal knife from his waist, and with a flick of her side, sliced in two the vipers hidden among the vines on the wall that tried to pounce.
"It's okay," he patted her leg soothingly, "I studied medicine since I was a child, and I followed my master to taste all kinds of herbs, and I have long been immune to all poisons, let alone poisonous snakes." β
"Huh...... Less bragging......" she lowered her eyes.
"I don't have it," between the words, he changed into the high-spirited appearance of the young man when he first met, and the two of them were judged before, "Since you know Gu arts, you must know about the golden silkworm?" β
Li Qianyin nodded, "Silkworm Gu is easy to obtain, but the Golden Silkworm Gu needs to be refined by tens of millions of poisonous insects, and it can absorb all the poison, and there is only one in the world." Only when the parasitic golden silkworm dies can the next golden silkworm be cultivated, which is extremely rare. β
"That's right, in fact, these Gu were originally just to save people, but they were later transformed by people with a heart, and only then did they create those many murderous Gu techniques."
"My mother died of poison when she was pregnant with me, so that I was born with poison in my blood, and I was sickly, and Master said that I would not live more than twenty-one. So, a few years ago, I personally went to Miaojiang and found the golden silkworm after several twists and turns, which saved my life. β
At the mention of his mother, he paused, his expression complicated.
"After this catastrophe, everything will go well in the future," she didn't know what to say, and comforted stiffly, "but do you know what the cross gate is?" β
"Didn't Gu Qingrang say that day? Gentleness, courtesy, frugality, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith. It's just that after the Xingjiaomen Change, when the Cross Gate was established today, saying that it was to resist the rebels, all that could be done was to do something good and betray the country. β
He sneered and continued, "Liaodan in the north is eyeing each other, and in order to threaten Pingzhou's submission, Li Kang actually promised Liaodan to cede the sixteen states of Youyun. β
"In that case, what is your grudge against the king of Nayi? This person was mysterious and unpredictable before his life, and it seems that he is a little incompatible with the Son of Heaven, everyone in the world knows King Yi, but he doesn't know his name, and no one has ever seen his appearance, which is really strange. β
After being stunned for a moment, Li Heyang realized that she was talking about the big wedding, so he changed to a flamboyant tone, "The revenge of taking his wife is not shared." β
Look, he's healed the scar and forgot the pain, Li Qianyin was speechless, and twisted his ear from behind.
Just as the other party was crying out for mercy, she was silent, listened attentively, and vaguely heard a whistling wind.
"There's an exit ahead!"
She lost her voice.
Li Hebiao did not doubt that he had him, and quickened his pace.
But at the end, there is no exit at all.
In front of him was a huge deep pool, the surface of which was sparkling by the wind from nowhere, like the black scales of a dragon.
"Li Hebiao, we can't get out."
She sat on Tan's side, her straight and slender legs poking into the pool, trying to wash off the stains on her body.
The moment she opened the water, she looked down and saw a pair of golden eyes slowly opening in the bottomless black pool.
In the next second, the water splashed, and a five-foot long blue-scaled snake jumped up from the pool, opening its huge mouth to swallow her whole person!
In a hurry, Li Hebiao threw a long knife, inserted it into the giant python's eye, and twisted it in his hand. Then he picked her up in an instant, snatched her back from the bloody mouth, and retreated dozens of meters in a row.
The snake was in pain and roared back to the bottom of the pool.
But this roar alarmed all the snakes and scorpions in the cave, and they climbed down from the stone wall behind them densely, almost drowning the two of them.
This amount, even if it is not poisoned, will be eaten by them until there are no bones left.
Do you really want to die here?
Faintly, at the other end of the cave, a short man's exclamation sounded, but in a moment it was drowned in countless snakes and insects.
In the five Yao cycles and nine essences, the universe is empty.
The heart is born and there is no return, and the sky is reversed and the twelve palaces are gone.
On the stone wall where the water and light returned, she actually saw this mantra again!
"It's a fantasy."
"You think this is a script?" He looked at her in disbelief.
"In the Nine Essences of the Five Yao Cyclesβdo you know what this means?"
"In addition to the five yao, the nine essences are guarded inside, the jade key is in the gate of life, the north pole is in the yellow court, and the three scenes are in the Ming Hall."
The needle fell, and Li Hebiao immediately helped her seal the three acupuncture points of the Life Gate, Huang Ting, and Mingtang, "If all this is fake, then there is really only-"
Without waiting for him to stop, he saw Li Qianyin stretch out his hand and directly meet the sharp teeth of the poisonous snake, and there were immediately two black deep marks on his pale arm.
Sure enough, it worked! I see it. β
She chuckled under her breath, steadied herself, and tugged at his sleeve.
"Let's go, before I die, I'll show you the way."
Li Hebiao stood in the center of the snake and insect, waved his knife and slashed another wave, and then grabbed her with a big hand and carried her again.
"Don't be afraid, keep running south."
"It's a snake cave."
"Listen to me, jump."
They sank into the water, and a whirlpool swept them away.
Li Hebiao protected her head, and in less than half a stick of incense, the two were swept out by a huge wave of water.
The entire Fog Mountain roared again.
The black clouds cleared.
The sunlight stung her eyes, and when she looked closely, it was the upper reaches of the waterfall where she had fallen.
A few figures flashed on the mountain path, but coincidentally, it was Gu Qingrang and a few separated companions, with embarrassed faces.
"Brother Li, the people of the Cross Gate have all retreated. There were two masters in total, one of whom was injured by me, and the other older master of the Liangzi sect, whose martial arts were so mysterious that he never even saw his face. β
"That's it, now my identity can't be exposed to the public, when I come back from Liaodan, I'll find them to calculate," Li Hebiao said, and turned to her again, "Little demon girl, today, you are going to exchange your life for my life." β
She smiled when she heard this, and her eyes gradually drifted away after calming down.
"On that day, you said that I owed you a life, and I would ask for it back in the future, and now we will settle it in two."
Feeling the change in her attitude, although Li Hebiao was puzzled, he didn't mess around like before, but just quietly opened the topic:
"When I came out of the Gu Mansion that day, I originally just wanted to take you to see General Zhaonan's well-dressed tomb, but I didn't expect you to encounter so many dangers. General Zhaonan died in a conspiracy, and his bones were burned to the ground, and when we found him, there was only a jade pendant to prove his identity. β
"I'll send someone to send you back to your house first, and I'll also ask Brother Gu to arrange some people to be by your side, and the jade pendant will be sent over every other day," he blinked, and added, "In a few days, I'm going to go to the north for a trip, and it will take at least a month to come back, so be careful." β
Hearing his words, Li Qianyin thought for a while and spoke, "Then I'll wait for you to come back." β
Li Hebiao's expression was visibly happy, and he raised his lips and smiled:
"With you waiting, I will definitely come back."