Let's say that Sun and Huang ran all the way and arrived in front of the formation.
While Huang Donglai was running, he saw that the last bit of incense was about to fall off, so he quickly shouted: "There is no time! Lie down quickly!"
Sun Yixie didn't hesitate. When he heard the sound, he slid a shovel towards his "corpse".
Huang Donglai, on the other hand, took off on the spot three meters away from the formation...
But seeing that after Huang Donglai's feet left the ground, he retracted them in the air and became a "cross-legged" state, and his hands had already begun to perform kneading and he was chanting a mantra in his mouth.
Two seconds later, just as Sun Yixie's "hun'er" slid back to his body, Huang Donglai also landed on his butt, "sat" directly into the formation with a long jump movement, and completed the process of reciting the curse.
It was at this moment that the last wisp of fragrance... drifted away.
And as the incense smell dissipated, there were also the green soul lights in the sights of Sun and Huang.
A suffocating darkness suddenly swallowed them up, as if it wanted to eat them both up.
Fortunately... after a breath, their eyes lit up again.
When they came to their senses, they were back in the rice shop. The light source not far away was the oil lamp that the shopkeeper had lit when they entered the house.
"Huh..." Huang Donglai finally let out a sigh of relief, "Damn, I was scared to death. I thought I failed just now."
Normally, even at this moment, Sun Yixie would argue with him and make some remarks to each other, but now, as soon as Sun Yixie sat up, before he could speak, his face suddenly changed, and now A look of pain on his face.
Immediately afterwards, Brother Sun grabbed a half-empty rice vat lying on the ground beside him, lowered his head and said "Uh-huh" into it, and started to vomit wildly.
This time of his... let's put it this way, it was as if he didn't eat the meal tonight, and even drank a lot of bile.
This wasn't over yet. What was even weirder was that the food and liquids he vomited out were all pitch black and emitted a pungent odor.
"Brother Huang...what's going on with me? Could I die again?" Sun Yixie was frightened when he looked at the things in the tank, and quickly turned around and asked.
Upon hearing this, Huang Donglai came over and looked at him with disgust, then replied: "Don't worry, it's nothing. It's just because you have been to 'that kind of place', so when you come back, your body will destroy your soul." The 'dirty stuff' contaminated there should be expelled, and... the poison in your body that caused your death should also come out, which is a good thing." As he said that, he pointed at Sun Yixie "If you don't believe me, touch it. When I brought you in, the right side of your face was still swollen and a large area was black and purple, but now you can't even see the wound."
In fact, Huang Donglai was not very sure about Huang Donglai's explanation. He was just guessing based on the knowledge he had learned.
However, he was generally right - people who "return to the sun" will basically go through such a stage, because the three souls and seven souls after reorganization have a "new" power that can kill people in the body. Injuries, poisons, diseases, etc. are expelled together with the "underworld air and dirt" that the soul has been contaminated with in the underworld, and it can even "regenerate" and "self-heal" the organs to a certain extent.
This phenomenon can be said to be a reward, or a kind of mercy, from the Yin and Yang laws of heaven and earth to those who successfully survive the "catastrophe of death"; after all... without this mechanism, the vast majority of those who "return to Yang" People will die again immediately because they return to a body that has already failed.
"Oh...that's it." Sun Yixie nodded after listening, but soon he remembered something again, "Oh, isn't that right? Why didn't you vomit?"
"Na, are you a fake cultivator?" Huang Donglai started to show off at that time, "I have been practicing in the mountains for more than half a year. I just took a short trip to the underworld. How could I be invaded by the evil spirit?"
"Okay, okay, Brother Huang is awesome... Uh-huh..." Sun Yixie said casually, then buried his head again and vomited again.
When Brother Sun was vomiting, Brother Huang told him what happened after the two of them were attacked, such as how he killed the sneak attacker, how he brought Sun Yixie to Mipu, and how he brought Sun Yixie to Mipu. How to do it, "chasing souls in the underworld"...
He talked for a while, and the shop owner of the rice shop also came out of the back room.
The shopkeeper obviously had a lot of experience in dealing with Taoist priests, so as soon as he heard someone talking in the outer room, and the tone seemed to be quite relaxed, he knew that Huang Donglai's business was finished.
"Ha... Xiaodao, I see that you are not very old, but you are very capable. You can even save the dead." The shopkeeper was not too surprised when he saw Sun Yixie who had been "resurrected from the dead".
"Yes, thank you shopkeeper for your generous help." Huang Donglai also quickly bowed and thanked him.
"No! Master Taoist, please don't mention the word 'righteousness'." The shopkeeper waved his hand, "We'd better be more vulgar and ask for money."
The shopkeeper is also a sensible person. The situation was urgent just now and it was important to save people, so Huang Dong came to withdraw money and he didn't respond. But now that people have been saved, there is no need to talk about "righteousness"... just in case the other party wants to default on the debt. If you go that way, if he continues to be polite, you will lose money.
"Oh, that's easy to say." Huang Donglai lightly kicked Sun Yixie, who was squatting on the ground. "Brother Sun, I helped save your life. It's up to you."
Sun Yixie had finished vomiting at this time, or there was nothing left to vomit, so he let go of the rice vat that he had held for a long time, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, stood up, looked at the shopkeeper and said, "Thank you very much. Well, then you think...how much should I give?"
As soon as the shopkeeper heard what this guy said, he knew that he was also a businessman.
In those days, most buyers and sellers understood: the buyer who paid the money should try not to mention the specific amount before the other party. The seller should let the seller pay the money first, otherwise you would be an amateur and deserve to be ripped off.
"Hey... this." The shopkeeper put on a very embarrassed expression and glanced around the room, "The incense burner and bowl, although they can be used for washing... but I don't dare to use them anymore. The half a bucket of fresh glutinous rice and the half a jar of white rice that you contaminated are not cheap... Oh, by the way, I can’t take that jar anymore, you have to take it away; and, ah, the ground was covered with It takes a lot of effort and a lot of water to clean it up like this... As for me opening the door for you in the middle of the night and helping to save your life..." He touched his beard and rolled his eyes. After walking around for a few times, he said, "I want five taels of silver from you in total. Isn't that too much?"
After Sun Yixie listened, he thought to himself: Just the small incense burner on the table, a big broken bowl, and a broken vat. If you take these three items to a pawn shop, you might not be able to pawn them off for even ten bucks, right? Even if you add half a bushel of glutinous rice and half a jar of rice, it will only be worth one or two silver if it holds up to the sky. As for the formation painted with ink on the ground, tomorrow you can ask the man who comes to work to pick up some water and wipe it, can't it be done? Even if there is no such formation on the ground, do you still have to pay extra if you ask your man to wipe the floor? This would have been cost-free.
Of course, things have a price, but human lives are priceless. What if they don’t open the door tonight? Or not be so cooperative with Huang Donglai, or even cause trouble for him? There is nothing to say about this matter.
From this point of view, it is not too much for the other party to ask for five taels.
"Okay!" Sun Yixie thought for a while and then returned, "Five taels is five taels."
As mentioned before, Sun Yixie is not stingy, he just cares about whether the money spent is worth it - if it is worth a few thousand taels, it is not a big deal, but if it is not worth a few taels, he will feel painful.
Moreover, even if he thinks it is worth it, he must be skillful when giving money. If he gives it too easily, it will make the other party think, "It turns out that this person is so rich, but it is a pity that I have less." There may be unwillingness or even resentment... Therefore, even if the money is really not much for Brother Sun, he still has to pretend that it is "not easy to give".
"But shopkeeper, we have something to say first." Sun Yixie said, having already taken out five taels of silver, and slapped it into the shopkeeper's hand, but at the same time he firmly grabbed the shopkeeper's wrist and refused to let go. The other party took his hand back and said, "You should also understand that we two brothers are not ordinary people. The amount of money... is not small. You have to take it steadily. Then what happened here tonight..."
"I understand, I understand..." Can the shopkeeper still not understand this? He didn't even have to wait for Brother Sun to finish speaking and said, "I've never seen you before. I've been sleeping in bed tonight."
"Well...thank you." After receiving this reply, Sun Yixie let go of the other party's hand with satisfaction.
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The next day, early in the morning, the news that Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai were attacked at the inn spread like wildfire and spread quickly throughout Dengzhou City.
But the person who brought the news naturally didn't know that Sun Yixie was attacked and killed instantly last night and "died once". People only knew that Chang Youfeng, the "scorpion" in "Snake, Scorpion, Spider Toad", laid a trap to ambush him at the inn. He was poisoned in the east and poisoned in the west, but he was killed in the end.
At this time, the strength of Sun and Huang was further overestimated by their colleagues, because judging from the scene left in the inn lobby, the battle set up by Chang Youfeng would not have been possible even if it was replaced by Di Bujue. Once you step in, you may not be able to escape intact...
Speaking of which, Di Bujue actually came to this inn that day.
Because in Di Bujue's eyes, or from the Cao Gang's point of view, Shuangxie was kind to them. Gang Leader Di didn't know that these two guys came yesterday pretending to be old men in the name of "Hunyuan Star Gate" Qixiong met. He thought there was some reason why these two young heroes came to Dengzhou City but did not go to Qixiong. Now, as soon as he got up early in the morning, he heard that Sun and Huang were in his territory. After something like this happened to him, could he not come and take a look?
It's a pity that this morning, Gang Leader Di and other martial arts people who wanted to see Shuangxiong with different mentality or purpose, all came to nothing.
These two turtles...oh no...the two scheming "young heroes" were very frightened after the attack last night. They were afraid that there would be other dangers here.
Therefore, after they rescued those who were stunned in the inn and explained the situation, they picked up their luggage and ran out of the city before dawn.
The two of them have a long trip this time. They will start from Dengzhou and go southwest all the way to Shu, to Fushun, and visit Huang Donglai's hometown.
And on the following journey, what Shuang Xie saw and encountered was a constant stream of strange things, with dangers amidst the wonders, and harmonies amidst the dangers...
As for the details, let’s discuss them in the next volume...
