The moonlight outside was pale, and the fire inside the cave flickered slightly.
Chi Meng threw in a piece of wood and glanced boredly at Hou Qing sitting next to him.
"What's going on with Miss Sister and Xiao Guo Guo?"
Hou Qing concentrated on using a carving knife to slightly carve on the bone flute, blew on the debris on it, and thought about it seriously: "I think Brother Li is a long-lived person, so there must be no problem."
"But there are so many people..."
Chi Meng stood up, his mouth closed, and his face was very worried: "In the end, we ran away first..."
Hou Qing stood up from the stone and slapped the bone flute on his hand: "With the teacher's strength, no one here can suppress her, don't worry."
Chi Meng walked out towards the cave entrance.
"The poisonous bastard, that old bastard, has a dark heart. He has a lot of poisonous ideas. We'd better go out and find them."
At this moment, soft footsteps sounded outside.
"Xingyun, are we going the wrong way? You can't even see a person in this cave of ten thousand poisons. If you ask me, we should follow that white-haired young man!"
Listening to this feminine voice, Chi Meng cautiously took out his jade flute and carefully stuck his head out.
"Zizu Zhizu, someone is coming."
Hou Qing had already stood behind her, blocking the firelight, and was about to drag Chi Meng behind her.
Chi Meng saw a few vague figures flashing out from the corner of the outer path.
There was a slender figure in front of him, his face gradually became familiar under the faint moonlight.
"Little...little pot pot!?"
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In the dense forest not far from here, a small dark temple was lit with a torch, and Li Jingzheng, who Chi Meng couldn't stop talking about, was lying on the clay sculpture platform with his bare back.
Most of the feather arrows on his back had been cut off, leaving only a few short stubbles exposed.
"Just pull it out, it won't kill you."
The empress silently burned a small knife on the fire and walked to the clay sculpture table.
Li Jing sighed in his heart. He was helpless. If he had pulled out the arrow directly, the self-healing function of the bead would not be used...
The empress had been silently ignoring him since he woke up. Only at Li Jing's request did she prepare to treat the wound on his back with a cold face.
"In that situation, your own internal strength is almost exhausted. If I don't block it, won't you be shot into a hedgehog?"
The empress smiled coldly and used the tip of the knife to dig out an arrow that had penetrated shallowly.
Li Jing frowned: "Chi Meng's father is the key. Saving her father is equivalent to having the key to the Twelve Cave. I don't know what difficulties and dangers there will be on the road ahead. If you are injured and lose the prize, who will be the boss behind? beat?"
The knife behind his back just steadily picked up the arrow inserted into Li Jing's back, ignoring Li Jing's nonsense.
Li Jing kept frowning. It was the first time in several years that he had suffered such a degree of pain. Although he was used to having a knife applied to his body, the pain did not diminish at all.
"I never expected that the empress of Huanyinfang... would actually cry..."
"I, Lao Li, actually still have this honor..."
The pain on his back made Li Jing speak out what he thought of instantly. Then he felt the knife on his back and the empress' cold snort sounded.
"When did I ever cry? You didn't even breathe. If you hadn't woken up quickly, I would have thrown your body into the wild for wild dogs to eat. Don't bring hallucinations to me."
"If you hadn't found my brother, why would I have bothered to save you?"
Li Jing chuckled.
"I thought you had to pretend to be mute for the rest of your life..."
The empress's eyes were full of anger, and she showed no mercy in her hands. She fiercely dug out the arrow that had pierced the deepest part: "I am doing what I do, why do I need to explain to you!"
Li Jing took a breath of air, not daring to tease this woman any more, and lay silently on her bare back, letting her handle her.
The empress obviously knew that Li Jing was in pain, and she slightly curled her mouth where Li Jing couldn't see her. She stopped torturing him and treated the wound first.
The pain in his back was real, but Li Jing felt that the internal force in his Dantian was slowly gathering. The tingling sensation in his heart when he woke up at first gradually disappeared. It must have been the effect of the beads.
Then remembering the last whisper of the mysterious person, Li Jing guessed that that person was related to the bead.
In this way, that person is equivalent to living in his own body...
I just don’t know if there will be another chance for this ability to bring people back from the dead...
The pain in his back gradually became numb, and Li Jing felt a little weak. He used to use the blood-replenishing pills to replenish his blood volume when practicing, but now he handed over the pills as poison. What happened today was really a bit... Ischemia.
It seems that part of the blood on the body was sucked into the beads and did not completely return to itself.
Several iron arrows were thrown on the ground, and the empress said coldly: "A few of them almost pierced into the heart. It seems that you are still alive and escaped this disaster."
Li Jing smiled and prepared to sit up.
"You said you can't die, you can't die, and you still..."
The empress pressed his head down and took out a few pieces of gauze from the baggage next to her: "Stop talking nonsense, why bother so much if you don't show off? You, Li Jing, are the only people in the world who can allow me to treat arrow wounds." First."
Li Jing rested his chin on his blood-stained Miao uniform and allowed the empress to wrap the gauze on his back.
The empress' fingertips were slightly cold, and for some reason there was a tingling feeling when they crossed his skin. Li Jing forgot his words for a moment, and the small temple suddenly fell into silence.
The empress' expression was cold, but her cheeks were a little flushed in the night. She felt a subtle breath in the air. She quickly wrapped a bandage on Li Jing and took two steps back.
Li Jing sat up wearing her old shirt and coughed.
"I had a dream when I was unconscious just now. I can't understand it. Let me ask you."
The empress looked at Li Jing and said coldly: "You are not good at divination. How can you not understand anything?"
Li Jing coughed dryly and landed on the clay sculpture platform.
"Well, if you are in a chess game and are treated as a pawn, how can you escape from this control..."
The empress put her hands behind her hands and stared at Li Jing with her phoenix eyes.
"You mean bad handsome?"
"It's him..."
Li Jing felt the inner force inside her body and spoke in a deep voice.
"I thought I was out of control before, but I was just moved to another place..."
"Now it seems that everywhere in this world is my prison..."
In the past, Li Jing might not have said this to the empress, but now, for some reason, she was no longer wary of her and just wanted to get it off her chest.
The empress obviously understood what Li Jing meant. Although she didn't know why Li Jing had such a relationship with Bad Handsome, a die-hard Tang loyalist, she still nodded.
"You have the blood of Li Tang, so you naturally have a mission that is beyond the reach of ordinary people. There is no need to worry about it. Just do your best."
Li Jing smiled bitterly in his heart.
His mission is to be a stepping stone for others. Presumably the poisonous master laid the poison eggs for him, and it was Yuan Tiangang who wanted to control him like Ji Ruxue in the play...
Before he could speak, he heard the empress speak faintly again.
"I don't like playing chess, and I don't know any game skills. But if you want to break the game, you must either kill the chess player or become the chess player."
"This world is his game, and it can also be your game. Xianyun Yehe is destined not to be your business. Since you have such great ambitions, why not realize him?"
Li Jing shook his head and saw the empress's phoenix eyes looking straight at him.
"If you are willing, I can help you."
