1. Secrets
Qingdu is adjacent to the Xiongguan in the northwest of Dayong, it is the capital of Liangzhou, it has won since ancient times, it is a place where bandits do not live, although it is not as good as the people of the Central Plains, but it is not the desolation of the yellow sand in the imagination of the Central Plains.
In the fifteenth year of Qingyuan, autumn.
After a rainstorm in the middle of the night, the sand and dust in the city of Qingdu were also washed away with the last few remaining heats.
The perennial dusty Qingque Road street rarely shows its true face, and the pieces of bluestone slabs polished over the years are like dyed blue, reflecting each other with the blue sky, which perfectly interprets what Qingdu is.
It just so happens that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, which also makes this autumn rain that moistens the earth a little more celebratory.
"I almost forgot, there is also a Mid-Autumn Festival in this world......"
Lin Yue sat on the recliner in his small courtyard, looking up at the luxuriant golden-leaved elm tree in the courtyard, with some nostalgia in his eyes.
In the previous life, there was also such a golden-leaved elm planted in front of the house.
Unfortunately, the tree is no longer that tree, and the heaven and the earth are not the same heaven and earth.
Alone in a foreign land as a stranger, every festival is full of relatives.
In the previous society with developed transportation, he did not have any special feelings about this poem, and it was not until now, when he found that it was impossible for him to return to his hometown, that he really had a deep understanding.
"It's been a year so soon......"
Calculate the time.
Lin Yue has been in this world for almost a year.
Although the world in which I lived in my previous life was bad, it was 10,000 times better than this boring ancient feudal society with a weak sense of human rights.
The only consolation is -
This is not a simple ancient world, there are still real practitioners.
It's very desirable.
It's just that the existence of cultivators has also caused the class in this world to be more strict and cruel.
And he crossed over into a mortal with no cultivation qualifications.
It's very helpless.
"It's good that I have a ......"
Lin Yue grunted and leaned back on the recliner lazily, "Wait, maybe you can get the secret method of changing your qualifications in the future." β
That's when β
"Knock knock."
Outside the courtyard gate, there was a sudden knock on the door.
Then, a soft girl's voice came from outside the door: "Brother Yue, are you at home?" β
"Xiaotong? You wait for me to open the door. When Lin Yue heard this, he immediately stood up and walked towards the courtyard gate.
As soon as I heard it, it was the youngest daughter of the Wang family next door, and among the few families in this alley, she was relatively familiar with it.
"Ah...... No, Brother Yue, don't open the door. β
The girl outside the door said a little nervously: "I'm just here to deliver a box of moon cakes to you, I'll talk to you through the door and leave, you will open the door later, otherwise...... Sister Ziqiu is going to misunderstand......"
Lin Yue was dumbfounded.
Only then did I realize that in the eyes of outsiders, I still have a 'wife' who has not passed through the door.
It is indeed inappropriate to meet other women in private.
Besides, he knew the little admiration in the girl's heart......
I think she is more of a 'thief'.
"Okay." Lin Yue stopped at the door and asked through the door, "Xiaotong, you just said moon cakes?" β
"Yes, it's the mooncake that my mother just made, don't accept it."
After the girl outside the door finished speaking, she seemed to hesitate for a moment before asking, "Brother Yue, how is Sister Ziqiu's illness?" I haven't seen her in a long time. β
"It's still like that, I can only lie in bed every day, and I only wake up once in a long time." Lin Yue sighed.
There was silence outside the door for a long time before a soft sigh came.
"Brother Yue, you have a really good relationship with Sister Ziqiu, you don't give up taking care of her at this time, so envy Sister Ziqiu...... Ah, no......"
The girl seemed to notice that she had lost her words, and her voice became a little flustered.
"IβI'll go first...... Happy Mid-Autumn Festival. β
After a moment of silence, the girl's small and rapid footsteps gradually faded away.
Lin Yue opened the courtyard door, and there was a bamboo food box at the door.
He glanced at the corner of the alley not far away and smiled dumbly.
Immediately, he picked up the food box, returned to the courtyard, and sat down at the stone table under the tree.
Opening the food box, Lin Yue couldn't help but muttered to himself: "Sure enough, it's not a Cantonese-style moon cake, how can it be the same as naan...... I want to eat lotus seed yolk......"
I tore off a piece of dough and tasted it, it was freshly baked, but it also had a unique flavor.
It's the Mid-Autumn Festival today.
At this timeβ
"Hmm......"
Suddenly, a weak murmur came from the room behind him.
"Woke up so soon?" Lin Yue turned his head to take a look, and the corners of his lips curled.
He immediately stood up, lifted the sand-proof curtain at the door, and walked into the house.
A strong smell of herbs permeated the room.
The source of the smell of medicine was the young woman on the bed.
She lay weakly on the bed, her face was sickly pale, and her eyebrows were full of haggardness, although she was a little thin and her complexion was not very good, but it could be seen that she had once been a rather beautiful woman.
Now she can also be called a sick beauty.
"It's only been eight hours, and you've been waking up faster and faster lately, and it seems that you've started to have medicine resistance."
Lin Yue smiled at her and sat down on the edge of the bed.
Immediately, he lifted the quilt and groped around her thin body through the thin obscene clothes, and began to carefully examine the bones and joints of her body.
And throughout the whole process, although the thin young woman did not resist, or could not resist, she always stared at him with hateful eyes.
The hatred in it seems to be eager to eat its flesh and drink its blood.
"Don't look at me like that, I feel disgusting too."
Lin Yue said to himself, while patiently pressing and checking the bones and joints everywhere, "But you must check it to prevent you from secretly recovering." β
It wasn't until she was sure that every bone and joint of her was softer than a normal woman's, that she stopped.
Immediately, he bowed his head slightly and exclaimed: "Your body is really good, you can still live after eating so many side bone powder, you are worthy of being the most noble bloodline in the world, it is indeed extraordinary." β
The muscles in the corners of the young woman's eyes twitched, and the resentment in her eyes was about to erupt.
But on this delicate and beautiful face, it looks murderous.
"By the way, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Sister Xiaoyu also sent us a box of mooncakes."
While speaking, Lin Yue casually pinched the cheek of the woman on the bed, and skillfully took out a brown medicine ball the size of a walnut from her mouth and put it aside, "It's a pity that you can't eat moon cakes with your teeth now, so let's continue to drink porridge." β
The young woman opened her mouth with difficulty, but her tongue was so stiff that she couldn't say a word.
"Hungry? Or do you want to scold me? β
Lin Yue glanced at her and said calmly: "Don't worry, with your physique, after this black hemp powder is taken out, the effect of the medicine can only make you paralyzed and speechless for a while, wait a while." β
A moment passed.
"Drink quickly."
Lin Yue held a bowl of vegetable porridge mixed with medicinal powder with one hand, pinched the young woman's nose with the other, and poured it into her mouth.
The woman seemed to be extremely hungry, and although her mouth and tongue were stiff and slow, she kept trying her best to swallow.
After a while, a bowl of porridge was fed.
Lin Yue put the empty bowl on the table beside him, picked up the brown black hemp loose medicine ball, and was about to stuff it back into her mouth.
"Wait...... Wait. β
The young woman spoke out a little hurriedly, but the numbness was not yet completely over, and she was a little slurred.
Lin Yue stopped and looked at her with interest, "What do you want to say?" β
The young woman stared at him for a moment of silence before she said with a slight slurred voice: "I know you hate me to the bone, why don't you torture me or kill me?" What's the point of abolishing me like this, raising me, and turning me like this? β
"Meaning?"
Lin Yue smiled, his smile was full of pleasure: "Seeing you become the way you are now, reduced to a waste waiting for death, I am very happy, how can it be meaningless?" β
The young woman was stunned for a moment, then gritted her teeth and said angrily: "You despicable pariah! If you have the ability, you will kill me, I ...... Uh-huh......"
Before she finished speaking, Lin Yue pinched her emaciated cheeks and directly stuffed the black hemp pill into her mouth, which immediately filled her mouth, making her unable to say a word.
Soon, the power of the medicine paralyzed her tongue.
"Everyone thinks that you are my unfinished wife Su Ziqiu, how can I kill you? Besides, it's only been two months, so you can enjoy it slowly. β
Lin Yue sneered, and wiped the saliva from her fingertips on her quilt with some disgust.
Then he got up and walked out of the house.
He went outside and sat down again on the chaise longue in the courtyard, silently looking at the blue sky.
For a while, he sighed silently.
"How long can I hide it, ...... like this?"
I don't know how long it took.
A gust of wind blew through the golden-leaved elm trees in the courtyard, making the golden leaves rustle on the trees.
And suddenlyβ
"Bell!"
A sound like striking Hong Zhong Da Lu suddenly exploded in Lin Yue's mind!
At the same time, everything in front of me seemed to stand still in an instant, and the elm leaves that were blown by the wind completely stopped swinging, and the heavens and the earth were also silent.
It's silent.
All that was left was the high-pitched and grand bell, which reverberated like thunder in my mind.
"Today's finally here, how many rings?"
And Lin Yue had long been used to it, so he was not surprised, but he was happy in his heart.
Listen carefully.
"Bell!"
After another high-pitched and grand bell, an ethereal and illusory whisper that could not distinguish between men and women sounded in my mindβ
"You know what? Although there are various cultivation paths in the heavens and the earth, only seven paths are expected to break through all the heavenly barriers, and the one with the greatest potential among the seven paths can only be cultivated after the bloodline of the Dayong Imperial Clan awakens......"
In an instant, the illusory whisper disappeared, and the still elm leaves in front of me swayed gently in the wind again.
Everything went back to normal, as if nothing had happened.
"Seven roads? The cultivation path with the greatest potential, can only be cultivated by the royal family? β
Lin Yue frowned slightly, and then sighed helplessly in his heart: "Although it is the secret of the second ring, I don't even have the cultivation qualifications, so it won't help me at all......"
That's how he hangs.
Or rather, a special ability that he awakened after coming to this world.
In the parlance of this world, it should be called 'innate supernatural powers'.
Every one to two days, a strange bell would ring in his head, followed by a whisper telling him a 'secret' he didn't know.
Judging from the pattern of the past year -
The more the bell rang before the voice poured out the secret, the more 'advanced' the secret seemed to him to hear.
In a year, he has obtained two or three hundred secrets.
The highest level of secret is an eight-ring, followed by a five-ring, a four-ring, a three-ring, and a second-ring.
As for the other more than 200 secrets, they are all at the level of a ring.
The secrets of the ringing level are basically just the small secrets of ordinary people around them.
For example, the second uncle next door Wang was born infertile, but he had three children.
For example, the girl Xiaoyue in the drunken spring building buried one hundred and fifty taels of silver under an old locust tree in the north of the city.
For example, Zhang Hai, the white and chubby shopkeeper of Guangjuxuan, has always been unforgiving to women, but his body is very modest, and he can be called Ruan Xiaoer.
From the second ring, it is basically a secret involving the cultivator.
For example, the formula of bone meal.
It is the relic of a Taoist practitioner that he discovered through a second-level secret.
The matter of the 'Innate Divine Power' was also known to him from a second-level secret.
There are indeed very few people in the world who will awaken their innate supernatural powers, which can be called a once-in-a-million encounter, but there is no rule.
Moreover, once the bloodline of the Dayong royal family awakens in the current dynasty, it is also possible to awaken the innate supernatural powers.
It's just that......
A peculiar innate supernatural power like him is probably also an outlier.
When it comes to the secret of the third ring, it is already a level that ordinary people will never be able to access.
The secret of the four rings made him know more about the supernatural things of the Dayong royal family.
And the secret of the Five Rings level allowed him to find a rare treasure that even cultivators could only dream of.
As for the eight rings......
He didn't dare to reveal anything at all.
It was a terrible secret that shook the world.