Chapter 16: The Old Man in the Cave
"What about you!" the girl continued in an innocent tone. She played with the long whip in her hand, looked at Song Yuan and the two behind him with interest, and when she saw the flower in Jin Guan's arms, she suddenly said: "If you don't throw her into the water, she will turn into her original form!"
"But she's obviously very cold, wouldn't it be worse if she threw it into the water again?" Jin Guan was puzzled.
Decay walked over slowly, looked at Hua Chao and said: "The flower spirit can't do without water, no matter what the situation, it's right to throw it in the water!"
Seeing his doubts, he sneered, "Forget it, no kidding, she is like this because the miasma and yin qi in this mountain are too thick, and her Taoism is too shallow to parry." Throwing water into one is to purify the miasma, and the other is really just watering. ”
"So how are we okay?"
"You two are men! You are in the prime of life, and your yang energy is at its peak, so naturally it doesn't matter much, but if you don't go out again, I'm afraid it won't be like that!"
"Who the hell are you?"
"Didn't you say that, rotten? Turning around, he continued, "Come with me, there is a valley ahead, and there is water, and a cave, and if you don't dislike it, a freshly roasted hare." These are the ways of hospitality that my grandfather explained to me. ”
Even if you are suspicious, there is no other way.
After all, relying on their abilities, they can't get out of this place. And the appearance of Hua Chao seems to be indeed as decayed as he said, if he doesn't "die a horse as a live horse doctor", it will be dangerous. So they had to follow the strange girl to a valley.
The valley was so secluded that the faint light from the cave barely lit up a pool in front of it, and the water shimmered and could be heard in the silence.
Rotten Xi walked in front and led the way, walked to the edge of the pool, asked Jinguan to put Hua Chao into the water, and said: "This is the Ganlin spring water of Xiaoguan Mountain, which can get rid of all filth, let her stay in it for a while, and she should come to her senses." You two, come in with me!"
As he spoke, he walked straight towards the cave and shouted from afar, "Grandpa, I'm back!"
Jin Guan and Song Yuan followed in, only to find that there was something else in the cave.
It was clean and tidy, with all kinds of household utensils, and even many knick-knacks that were not common in the world, and those things that were neatly placed on wooden shelves belonged to the same style as those ornaments worn by the decayed body.
Next to the coffee table on one side of the cave, an old man with white hair sits upright, holding a cane with exquisite carving techniques, meditating with his eyes closed, as if pranayama.
Before he got close, Jin Guan could feel that the spiritual power of this old man was very high, so high that ordinary people almost dared not approach. His spiritual power is not as gentle as Zhuge Ang and Chen Zhixuan, but has an extremely strong oppressive force, which makes people feel extremely uncomfortable.
Hearing the decaying shout, the old man opened his eyes slightly, and when he saw the person, he instantly closed his hands, and in an instant, the spiritual power disappeared almost imperceptibly.
Zhuge Ang once said to Jinguan that those with high spiritual power in the immortal gate, when walking outside, in order to avoid the release of spiritual power and injuring the innocent, they will definitely collect more than half of their spiritual power, and they will generally not let themselves release all their spiritual power unless necessary. The old man in front of him should be the so-called spiritual power master in Zhuge Ang's mouth!
But high spiritual power does not mean that this person's immortal skills are high, there are many people with high spiritual power in the immortal gate, but they will not use them, and there are very few immortal skills, wasting a body of spiritual power. In Zhuge Ang's words, it is simply a tyrannical thing.
But looking at the old man in front of him, Jin Guan really couldn't tell how many immortal arts he knew.
The old man hid his spiritual power, looked at Jinguan and Song Yuan and said with a smile: "When the old man was meditating, he felt that someone had broken into Xiaoguan Mountain, and he thought it was those demonic thieves who specialized in cultivating strange tricks in the side door, so he asked the immortal to check, but I didn't expect that it was two such handsome and dignified sons and brothers. ”
As he spoke, he walked to Jinguan's side and stretched out his nose and sniffed, and found that both of them had some faint spiritual power, and Jinguan was slightly stronger than Song Yuan, so he asked, "Boy, you are also cultivators?"
Although Jin Guan is bent on seeking the Immortal Dao, except for the few lame immortal techniques that Zhuge Ang taught him, he can't do anything, at most he can only be regarded as half a cultivator. And Song Yuan didn't even set foot in the realm of cultivating immortals, let alone cultivating immortals. So for the old man's inquiry, Jin Guan and Song Yuan shook their heads at the same time.
"But the two of them have some spiritual power on their bodies......"
"Grandpa, don't ask, the spiritual power on their bodies may be from the flower spirit in the pool outside!"
"Oh?" the old man was interested, "It's rare to see a flower spirit that has been cultivated. Rotten, take me to see. ”
So he led the old man to the pool. Hua Chao hadn't woken up yet, his eyes were closed, but the expression on his face was obviously much soothed than before. It seems that the decay did not deceive the Jinguan and them.
The old man took a closer look at Hua Chao, stroked his beard, and said with a relaxed expression: "Don't worry, let her soak in the pool, and she will wake up in a short time!
Hearing this, Jin Guan vigilantly asked, "Why did the senior ask this?" Could it be that this old man is ...... to Hua Chao
Xu is saw Jin Guan's doubts, and the old man smiled: "Don't worry, the old man just thinks that this kind of spiritual creature is generally cultivated alone in the deep mountains and old forests, and it is rare to encounter it in the world, so it is just a curiosity, and the old man didn't have the idea of beating her." Besides, I am the mountain god who guards thousands of living beings in Xiaoguan Mountain, and it is too late to cherish these spiritual creatures, how can I hurt them!"
After hearing these words, Jin Guan put his mind at ease, and then informed the old man of the matter of himself and Hua Chao, and also stated the purpose of his trip, and followed the "pole", seemingly inadvertently begging the old man to take them out of the mountain.
The old man knew that without their help, they would never be able to get out of Xiaoguan Mountain. And he also knows that those who follow the path of the underworld must have great courage and determination.
Perhaps, these three people will be candidates for the big task in the future, so he naturally has no reason not to let them go, so he confessed to the decay, and sent them out of the mountain early tomorrow morning.
When he explained the decay, he also pointed out the dangers ahead to Jinguan and them, so that they could be mentally prepared. And after listening to the old man's words, Jin Guan kept cursing Zhuge Ang in his heart, scolding him for giving him such a difficult path. If he didn't let him go, he would let him take such a route that might cost him his life, if he died halfway before he could reach Tianyuan Pavilion, he wouldn't let him go.