At noon.
A person came from a distance.
This man was wearing a bamboo hat, rags, and holding a wooden stick in his hand, walking alone on the road between the mountains and fields.
In early autumn, the weather is still hot and hot; driving under the scorching sun is especially hard.
A small river appears ahead.
The man on the road walked a few steps to the river, dropped the stick, squatted down, reached out and took a few sips of the river water. The cool river water refreshes the heart and refreshes the mind. At this moment, a carriage drove up from behind him and went directly across the shallow river. The water stirred up by the wheels splashed all over him. He slowly raised his head, revealing a childlike face under the worn hat. He looked at the distant carriage, the familiar river beach, and the small town ahead, with a look of helplessness and anxiety in his eyes.
Yu Ye came to Lingjiao Town again.
He was dressed just like the boy from the mountains before. And his situation at this time was far more difficult than before. Because while avoiding pursuit and interrogation, he had to risk another trip to Lingjiao Town.
This is the agreement between Bai Zhi and him.
Yu Ye didn't find his mount in the woods outside Lingjiao Valley, so he went straight to Lingjiao Town.
In order to deceive others, he changed into a pair of shabby clothes when passing through a mountain village, found a bamboo hat and a dog-beating stick, and dressed up as a wandering boy. Even the iron rings on the hands were covered with rags. Along the way, there was indeed a lot less trouble. Even if he met a few people in the world, they didn't bother to look at him.
Yu Ye shook off the water stains on his hands and picked up the stick. When he looked at the dusty and worn-out boots on his body, as well as the river beach in front of him, and recalled the scene during last winter's hunting, he couldn't help but shake his head.
If there is such a thing as fate, his fate is so round and round and capricious.
Yu Ye took off his boots and waded through the water.
The small Lingjiao Town has only one inn and a few shops. At noon, there were not many people on the dirt streets.
Yu Ye was quite familiar with the town. He went to the drug store and the grocery store successively and bought a jar of cinnabar and two wolf brushes. After a while, he stopped in front of a courtyard.
Under the big tree in front of the courtyard, there is a worn-out flag hanging with the two embroidered characters "flying dragon" on it. Next to it is a line of small characters: Visitors from all directions come and go, and the dragon turns into a flying dragon.
This is the inn in Lingjiao Town, Feilong Inn. He had passed by this place several times without paying any attention to it. Besides, he was illiterate, so he didn't expect that there was something special about the flag banner of the inn.
In the secular world, there is a saying that a dragon can turn into a dragon. The inn was named Feilong, presumably to seek good fortune and good luck.
The several shops on the left side of the courtyard gate are where the inn's concierge and wine shop are located.
There were several diners sitting in the wine shop.
The shopkeeper was an old man over fifty years old, dozing on the counter. Another waiter in his twenties came up to him, but waved his hand impatiently and said: "You are not allowed to beg here, go ahead!"
Before Yu Ye could enter the wine shop, he was kicked out again. He looked like a beggar at this time. He reached out and took out a piece of silver. Before he could express his intention, the waiter said with a smile on his face: "Your honor, please——"
"Room B, Tianzi, for seven days."
"What a coincidence, there is already a guest in Room B of Tianzi."
"A young woman?"
"Hey, how did this little brother know? The woman paid a year's rent in advance. Although she hasn't been seen for several months, she can't break the rules of the inn. Room C next door is vacant. Look... "
Yu Ye paid the rent and followed the waiter out of the wine shop.
The courtyard of the inn is quite spacious. There are five or six stone houses on the left and right sides. The third room at the east end of the north side of the courtyard is the so-called Tianzi No. C guest room.
Yu Ye stood in front of the guest room door, his eyes hidden under the bamboo hat flickering slightly.
The situation of inns in various places is similar, except that they differ in size, simplicity and luxury. There were not many guests staying in the inn here, and the empty courtyard seemed very quiet.
The room next door is Room B, Tianzi. The door is now locked and looks like it has not been opened for a long time. According to the shopkeeper, the woman who booked this room should be Bai Zhi, and since she left, she has never been seen again.
Yu Ye turned around and walked into his guest room.
The guest rooms are poorly furnished, the wooden couches and mattresses are old, and there is even a layer of dust on the wooden stools and tables. Fortunately, the window next to the door is ventilated and bright, making it a little less stuffy.
Yu Ye closed the door, lowered the bolt, threw away the bamboo hat and wooden stick, turned around and sat down on the doorstep.
Bai Zhi's guest room is only separated by a wall, so she can notice the movement in the room even without using her spiritual consciousness. As long as she returns here, he will notice in time.
And what if I can't wait for her?
If this is the case, I am afraid that the favor owed to her will never be repaid.
First, outside Xingyuan Valley, she stepped forward to save him regardless of life and death, and then in Lingjiao Valley, she went on an adventure alone to help him get out of trouble. To Yujiacun, this is a great kindness. But he was not afraid of anything in the wild, but he was afraid of debt first and debt of love!
Alas, no matter what, according to the agreement, we will wait here for seven days!
Yu Ye took out the spirit stone and closed his eyes tiredly.
In the evening, the waiter knocked on the door and said that the meal had arrived and brought a lamp for lighting, but he refused. He excused himself as feeling unwell and needed to rest for a few days. The guys were too lazy to do anything, so they stopped bothering each other.
Night fell and the room was dark. As the long night recedes, the sky gradually becomes brighter, and then slowly dusk falls...
It's afternoon again.
Yu Ye woke up from his meditation, his eyes flashed, and when he looked at the fragments of spirit stones scattered in his hands, his mood gradually became depressed.
It takes five days of hard work to absorb a spiritual stone. Five days later, there was still no movement in the guest room next door.
Did Bai Zhi really encounter something unexpected?
What made him depressed was not only Bai Zhi's safety, but also his current progress in cultivation.
Every time after absorbing the spirit stones, I feel full of energy and energy, and my whole body feels energetic. But that's all. Once he gets into a fight with someone, he feels powerless. In addition, he also felt that his cultivation level had not improved yet. He was even worried that after absorbing all the spiritual stones in his body, his cultivation would still stop at a standstill. If his worries finally come true, he will inevitably end up like the ancestors of the Yan family, Hong Gu, and Mo Can, who have worked hard all their lives but achieved nothing in the end.
It's not that he wants to become a master or become an immortal. At least he won't be bullied and hunted by Bu Yi, and he won't have to flee the world.
However, the current state of cultivation is really frustrating and unsettling.
Yu Ye shook his head and stretched his legs to the ground.
Well, let’s talk about it tomorrow.
Right now, he was still thinking about how to survive, and the way to save his life was naturally the armor-breaking talisman.
Yu Ye brushed off the dust on the wooden stool and table, placed a long sword, a pottery bowl, a wine jar, snake skin, cinnabar, a wolf brush and a piece of snake skin, and then sat down with his sleeves rolled up.
He put cinnabar and strong wine into a pottery bowl, then took a long sword and cut the index finger of his left hand.
With a little more force, a stream of hot blood came out of the cut finger.
I endured the pain and drained out less than half a bowl of blood, then hurriedly covered my finger. As the technique continued, the wound slowly stopped bleeding and healed.
Or he lost too much blood and felt a little dizzy.
And in order for the armor-breaking talisman to be more effective, what's the harm even if a bowl of blood is shed!
Yu Ye calmed down, took a sword to cut a piece of snake skin, cut it according to the size of the talisman, held each one in his hand and kneaded it with his true energy to refine it. An hour passed, and there were nine talisman-like snake skins on the wooden table in front of him. He took a break, picked up a wolf-hair brush, dipped it in blood-red cinnabar, poured his true energy into the tip of the brush, and drew the talisman he had been meditating on for a long time...
Another half hour passed, and the nine talismans were completed.
The prepared cinnabar has been exhausted.
Yu Ye picked up the long sword and continued to bleed blood to prepare cinnabar.
Every additional talisman is like an additional life. He wants to refine all the remaining snake skins into his life-saving talisman.
Before he could take action, he suddenly heard a scream coming from the depths of his consciousness——
"stop!"
"ah?"
Perhaps it was a long time since he heard the familiar voice, and Yu Ye didn't understand it for a moment.
"You are deaf, can't you hear? Put down your sword, you are looking for death..."
Jiaoying!
After being silent for half a year, she finally spoke out.
Yu Ye was overjoyed and hurriedly comforted him: "Don't worry, I'm refining the armor-breaking talisman..."
It would have been better if he didn't respond. As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he was greeted by a storm of reprimands——
"Oh my God, I have seen experts refining talismans, but I have never seen anyone bleeding blood in order to refine the talisman. It's half a bowl of blood. This is not refining the talisman. This is life-threatening. What I want is you. Your own life. And you ruined not only your life, but also your cultivation. If you lose a drop of blood essence, you can’t get it back with ten spiritual stones. But you are so generous, can you give me half a bowl to try... "
Yu Ye couldn't help but drop his sword, and a chill ran down his spine.
No wonder I often feel tired or powerless during these days. It turns out to be because I consume too much energy and blood. If he continues to be so reckless, as Jiao Ying said, not only will it be difficult to improve his cultivation, but he will also lose the only cultivation he has until he loses his life.
Although there was something wrong with the method of refining the talismans, he was forced to have no choice but to do so. He had no master and no one to guide him. If you don't think about it and mess around, what can you do? Fortunately, the armor-breaking talisman was effective. Even if half a bowl of blood was exchanged for one life, he at least survived, otherwise it would not have been Jiaoying's turn to get angry here.
After Yu Ye panicked, he gradually calmed down and hummed: "Huh! You knew this, why didn't you remind me in time?" He didn't wait for Jiaoying to say anything, and said again with resentment: "I don't understand the technique. When I was practicing, I failed many times. I have gone astray, where are you? I am trapped in a tight siege, life and death are unpredictable, where are you? I have exhausted my cultivation, face a master of foundation building, and am trapped in a desperate situation. Where are you? It is easy for you to scold me, do you know that I How did you escape death and live to this day?"
"Oh, the boy has grown up and knows how to reason and refute!"
Jiao Ying's voice suddenly became softer, but she was still eloquent.
"I also have to practice, otherwise I won't have the energy to discipline you. And when you are most in danger, you are not in a tight siege, facing divination, or when you have exhausted your cultivation, you know?"
"I……"
"The most dangerous thing is when a beautiful woman is with you. As long as she activates her Qi, she can kill you in an instant!"
"Baizhi doesn't mean to harm me!"
"Tsk, are you pretending to be confused, or are you deceiving yourself?"
"咴聿聿——"
At this moment, horses suddenly neighed in the yard. At the same time, the crowd was noisy...
