Chapter 22: The Choice

As the orb emitting an earthy yellow light in the palm of the stone hand was pressed into the stone wall on the top floor of the passage, the entire passage immediately fell into darkness again, but this darkness did not last long before it was torn apart by a burst of light. It turned out that Wen Yiyang used his spell to summon another firefly.

After the fireflies he summoned lit up the passage again, Wen Yiyang suddenly remembered an incident, and immediately shouted anxiously: "It's not good, we actually forgot an important thing." Brother Dao, now that you have sealed the bat demon into the rock on the top layer of the passage with a spell, isn't there one less medicinal herb needed to treat General Yang?"

After hearing Wen Yiyang's reminder, Yu Fei'er patted his head a few times and said, "Ah, Yu Fei'er actually forgot about refining medicine on a whim. But if Yu Fei'er released that bat demon from his spell, it would not be so easy to subdue him, so how can it be good?"

Just when Yu Fei'er was at a loss, the white-bearded old Taoist stood up and comforted: "Don't worry, two little Taoist priests, Lao Dao has found something near here that can replace the bat demon as a medicinal material for refining medicine. After speaking, the white-bearded old man picked up a round thing from the nearby ground, and then pointed to this thing and continued to Yu Fei'er and Wen Yiyang: "There are records of this thing in many medical books, this thing is called luminous sand, also known as heavenly rat feces, which can be used as a Chinese medicinal material, to put it bluntly, it is the dried feces of bats. Since this luminous sand is the inside of the bat demon, it can completely replace the bat demon as a medicinal herb for the old alchemy. ”

"This ......" Wen Yiyang looked at Yu Fei'er, and wanted to say whether it was appropriate to use bat's feces to make medicine for General Yang, but after seeing Yu Fei'er grimacing at him again and again, he insisted on taking this sentence back.

Seeing that Yu Fei'er and Wen Yiyang no longer had any objections, the white-bearded old man took out a small bottle from the blanket on his shoulder and filled it with the luminous sand in his hand. After he put the small bottle containing luminous sand back into the blanket, the white-bearded old man pointed to the five thousand-year-old bats on the ground and asked tentatively: "According to the records in the medicine book, taking this thousand-year-old bat can indeed prolong life, if a cultivator takes this thousand-year-old bat, it can not only prolong life, but also help the cultivator improve his own Taoism." Now there are five thousand-year-old bats here all at once, if the old Taoist cultivates all five of them into golden pills and gives them to the two, maybe he can help the two little Taoists improve their Taoism for a hundred years. I wonder what the two little Taoist priests want to do with these five thousand-year-old bats after listening to Lao Dao's advice?"

It is said that Yu Fei'er had already made the decision to release these five thousand-year-old bats in his heart, so he was not moved by Whitebeard's words at all, and said to the five thousand-year-old bats: "Before these rebellious monsters appeared in Xianxialing, there were no incidents of monsters hurting people in this area, so it can be seen that the five of you originally lived an isolated life here, and did not do anything related to harming the people in my human world. Now the reason why the five of you will help the bat demon to harm one side is that the five of you must have been coerced and lured by the bat demon. Now that the bat demon has been subdued by us, you can live the carefree life you had before. Xiaodao knows that your future life will not be truly isolated from the world, because there are always some cultivators in this world, who do not work hard but always want to be in a hurry, and do some opportunistic things all day long, and some of these people may find your hiding place and disturb your life, Xiaodao hopes that the five of you can stay away from them as much as possible and do less killing. Xiaodao will let the five of you go, but you must remember that if you dare to do something harmful to the people in my world in the future, Xiaodao will definitely not spare you again. After saying that, Yu Fei'er solved the spell cast on the ground, and the mirror-like ground quickly returned to its previous uneven and uneven appearance.

The five Chitose bats thanked Yu Fei'er and the others for their grace not to kill, and promised that they would not do anything harmful to people in the human world in the future, and then waved their wings and disappeared into the darkness of the passage.

Just after the monsters on Xianxia Ridge were eliminated by Yu Fei'er and the three of them to restore peace, there were incidents in this area of Xianxia Ridge where pedestrians accidentally fell into the abyss when crossing Xianxia Ridge and were finally rescued mysteriously. When the rescued people woke up, they all said that it was five fairies dressed in white who saved them, and the five fairies turned into five bats and flew away after saving themselves. In the following years, there were many floods in Fujian and Zhejiang. When the flood came, the river overflowed, and the flash floods occurred, and many villages were washed away by the flood in an instant, but the people in the village survived mysteriously. When those who survived the flood said that they were rescued by five fairies in white, people finally began to believe that there were indeed fairies incarnated by five bats in Fujian and Zhejiang to help them secretly. Since then, in order to express their gratitude to the five fairies, and also to express their desire to be protected by the five fairies in the future, the people in Fujian and Zhejiang have gradually developed the custom of sticking pictures of five bats on the door of their homes. This should be the original origin of "Five Blessings".

After watching the five thousand-year-old bats completely disappear into the darkness of the passage, Yu Fei'er turned to Wen Yiyang and Whitebeard Lao Dao and said, "Let's continue to hurry, according to Xiaodao's guess, the exit of this passage should not be too far ahead." ”

Seeing that Yu Fei'er had released all the five thousand-year-old bats, the white-bearded old Taoist deliberately pretended to be very sorry and said: "There are indeed records in ancient books that eating thousand-year-old bats can make people become immortals, although I don't know whether it's true or not, but for cultivators, I would rather believe it. Now that this thousand-year-old bat is in front of you, facing the opportunity to become an immortal, the little Taoist priest of Putuo Mountain, are you really not tempted at all?"

"Brother Yiyang, what do you think after listening to the old gentleman's question?" Yu Fei'er pushed the boat down the river and threw the question to Wen Yiyang.

Therefore, this kind of practice of using external objects to improve one's cultivation is like the moon in the sky, and there is a shadow in the water. Wen Yiyang always kept in his heart what his master said, and he didn't dare to forget it. After years of cultivation, Wen Yiyang firmly believes that cultivators can only continuously improve their cultivation through their own efforts. If a cultivator wants to attain supreme power without his own efforts, he can only look at the flowers in the mirror, and he can't pick them. Wen Yiyang replied with a firm expression.

After listening to Wen Yiyang's statement, Yu Fei'er nodded in agreement and said, "Brother Yiyang, what you said is so good, you said everything Yu Fei'er wanted to say at once." ”

After listening to Wen Yiyang's answer, the white-bearded old dao said with a satisfied smile: "Although the two Xiaodao elders are young, they can stick to their own cultivation direction and have no distractions, which makes the old Taoist very admirable. Lao Dao believes that one day the two will be able to ascend to immortality. ”

As soon as the white-bearded old Tao's words fell, Yu Fei'er immediately responded: "It is true that attaining the Tao and ascending to immortality is the ultimate goal of every cultivator, but for me and Wen Yiyang, who have been cultivating since childhood, cultivation has long been a part of our lives, and I don't care if we can ascend to the Immortal Path. Xiaodao only hopes to use the skills he has learned to help those who need help as much as possible, and to stand up and bring them hope to move forward when they are in pain and despair. ”

Wen Yiyang empathized with Yu Fei'er's cultivation that had become a part of his life, and Yu Fei'er's subsequent words made Wen Yiyang have a clearer goal for his own path of cultivation. As soon as Yu Fei'er's words were finished, Wen Yiyang immediately joked: "Well, maybe one day Brother Dao and Wen Yiyang will become the ones who save this world." With that, he laughed as he controlled the fireflies he had turned into and walked briskly towards the front of the passage.

"You just want to be beautiful. Yu Fei'er smiled and immediately followed.

"Hey, I said that you two little Taoist priests, why didn't you remind Lao Dao and left alone. Hey, you two wait for me. The old man shouted and immediately followed.

The three of them walked in this passage for a while, and then they heard the sound of "whooshing" water flowing in the distance. It seemed that they were not far from the exit of the passage, and the three of them were happy in their hearts, and immediately quickened their pace.

As the sound of water in the distance became clearer and clearer, the three of them soon saw a light appear in the distance of the passage. When the firefly flying in front passed by that light, its entire body immediately seemed to melt into that light, and instantly disappeared without a trace in the field of vision of the three of them. At this time, the light around the passage had turned bright, and there was no need for the light in the fireflies at all, so Yu Fei'er and the three of them didn't care about the sudden disappearance of the fireflies at all.

In the bright passage, the three of them continued to walk forward for a while, and finally came to the exit of this passage, and then they saw a curtain of waterfalls hanging on the cliff stone wall on the left side of the cave entrance, no wonder they could hear the sound of "whooshing" water flowing in the passage. After walking out of the hole, the three of them couldn't help but look up at the top of the waterfall, but they couldn't see the end of the waterfall, only to see the clear water pouring down from top to bottom, like a green dragon spitting saliva, from time to time on the stone wall to stir up a splash of water splash in the mountain. Looking down the waterfall, I saw that the water of the long waterfall fell to the bottom of the cliff and formed a long stream in the valley bottom, and the stream in the stream gurgled forward, and I couldn't see the end of it at a glance, but I saw that the stream was dense and scattered with countless stones of different sizes, like stars in the sky dotted in the night sky. Since the entrance to the passage that the three of them had walked through was a kilometer high from the stream, the water of the stream could not enter the passage.

After seeing the scene in front of them, the excitement that ignited in the hearts of the three of them disappeared at once. Unexpectedly, the way forward was blocked by a stream, and there was no way to turn back, so Yu Fei'er looked at the stones in the stream and said with some disappointment: "Old gentleman, it seems that the three of us can only continue to move forward with the help of these stones in the stream, I hope that the stones in these streams can take us out of this valley bottom." ”

The white-bearded old man replied helplessly: "There is no way back, it seems that this is the only way." ”

Wen Yiyang naturally couldn't come up with any good way, so he immediately nodded in agreement, so the three of them climbed down the rocks on both sides of the passage hole. When the three of them came to the stream below the passage, they immediately found a rock close to them and stepped on it, and then began to look for the next rock in the stream where they could settle down. When they found a suitable stone, they jumped over one by one, and in this way, they walked slowly among the stones of the stream.

Although it was very difficult to walk through the stream in this way, the three of them helped each other to walk quite smoothly. I don't know how far the three of them walked out of this stream, but they saw a flat piece of land suddenly appear in front of the stream.

"Look, there's a piece of land ahead, and maybe we'll be able to get out of it soon after we get on it. Yu Fei'er shouted happily, and immediately sped up her feet and walked through the rocks of the stream.

At this time, Yu Fei'er's attention was all focused on the land in front of him, and he didn't notice that a person was sitting on a stone not far from him. How can there be an ordinary person in this place where evil people are wreckantly causing chaos? If this person is not an ordinary person, then it will be ......