Zhao Ning's calmness was almost destroyed by this series of encounters.
"Where is this?" Zhao Ning held three books in her hands and suppressed trembling. This was completely beyond her knowledge, as if...as if a ghost or god was teasing her.
There was no other trace in the inner room, and she silently returned to the main hall.
She sat at the foot of the high platform, mumbling to herself.
"Is this really a mortal mansion? Is this really the human world?"
There was no breath to respond to Zhao Ning, only Zhao Ning's breathing and heartbeat, and not even the wind sneaked in to inquire.
Chapter 011
Zhao Ning lost consciousness at some point.
When she regained her clarity, before she opened her eyes, the unpleasant rancid odor rushed straight into her nose, and her ears were surrounded by the buzzing of various mosquitoes and flies. She struggled to get up, shrank her feet suddenly, and there was actually something lying next to her feet. There were several corpses that were beginning to rot. The sun was high and the smell of corpses was even stronger.
Looking around, I found that the place had changed again. It was no longer the ancient and magnificent palace. It was surrounded by overgrown weeds. All kinds of garbage were hidden in the grass. From time to time, fist-sized rats would fly by quickly.
This is the back ravine of the Qingyun Gang. Zhao Ning has been here before. This is the garbage pool of the Qingyun Gang. Servants ranging from daily waste to secret executions are thrown here.
Zhao Ning remembered that after being fed with medicine, the gang leader instructed Manager Liu to throw her down. At that time, she was still conscious, but she woke up in a strange gray fog place last time and arrived at a magical palace. There was no way to explain this series of encounters, but she looked at her hands, which were still stained with blood, and her face was still sticky. After removing the gray fog and the palace, it was all coherent.
He got up and turned over the corpses at his feet. The new corpse spots and mottled blood were not enough to hide their original identities. They were the medicine boys who went to Jinpeng Mountain to look for medicine with Zhao Ning. They still had There were residual whip marks, but there were also obvious blood marks on the seven orifices.
"Could it be that they were given that... Lingqiao Powder directly after being whipped?" Zhao Ning realized that if they died in this way, it could be said that they died of being unable to withstand the whipping, completely covering up the cause of death.
"Lingqiao Powder... is so cautious. The skill they say can be used to cultivate invincibility and immortality. Is it... true?"
That group of people didn't care that Zhao Ning was still alive at that time. They still heard what they were saying clearly with their vague consciousness. To them, Zhao Ning was just like these corpses. He was bound to die. The dead would not Know the secret.
Zhao Ning lowered his eyes and looked around. When leaving the back ravine, he had to pass through the Qingyun Gang's manor. During the previous battle with the Muro Gang, he was afraid of being attacked from behind, so he specially sealed the back mountain. This was the only way Zhao Ning could go.
The Qingyun Gang can't stay any longer. If they are discovered, it will be another fatal disaster and they will have to wait until late at night.
It was still some time before midnight. Zhao Ning looked at several corpses that were still alive a few days ago. She sighed slightly, found a wooden board from the grass, and dug a hole with difficulty. Until the evening, she dug all the corpses. Push it into the pit and fill it with soil.
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, I give you a ride."
Night came soon, and Zhao Ning crawled out of the back ravine. She was not sure how long she had been asleep, but she noticed the spots on the corpses. It seemed that they had not formed in one day, but had been at least three or four days.
Zhao Ning slipped into the backyard. The moon was looming behind the clouds that night. At midnight, it was supposed to be the time to sleep, but Zhao Ning heard the chaos in the front yard, swords beating, and people running away crying and howling.
"The top ten gangs are coming?" Zhao Ning thought to herself. After knowing the value of the so-called secret book, Zhao Ning was very aware of the madness of these gangsters.
However, it is a good thing for Zhao Ning now, because no one will know that Zhao Ning has slipped in.
She entered the courtyard where she lived before. It was dark and extremely quiet. She carefully moved to the back window of the room. When she was about to push the window and slip in, she suddenly thought that Bu Yin had been whipped three times and might not be able to escape. She listened closely. After a while, I heard nervous and rapid breathing.
Zhao Ning was a little closer to the window, which allowed the moonlight to reflect her figure more clearly on the window.
The dark outline scared everyone in the room almost crazy, "Who... who is standing there!"
Zhao Ning silently pushed open the window, and the window "squeaked". The moonlight dimmed a little at this time, and Zhao Ning's face still had the terrifying look of bleeding from all his orifices.
"Ah...ah...Shen Zhaoning!!!"
The people in the room screamed in fright, ignoring the pain on their bodies and shrank into the corner, "Ghost! Ghost!!!"
Zhao Ning crawled into the room slowly, and Bu Yin screamed even louder. She stumbled and tried to escape, but got tripped by the quilt and fell directly to the ground. Her wound was bleeding from the fall. The pain made her lose all sense and talk nonsense. .
"I didn't kill you! Don't come to me! I didn't know you would die!!! I really don't know!!!"
Zhao Ning came closer step by step, "It was you who forced me to get involved. It was you who told the gang. It was you who made me be dragged away by the punishment hall. It was you who made me enter the gate of hell."
Her voice was very soft, but every word was followed by a step, as if it was pressing on people's reason, crushing them forcefully.
"No—no—no—"
"I didn't harm you, it was the Punishment Hall that wanted to kill people. I want to live, I want to live... no... no... no..."
Bu Yin, like the drug boy buried in the back ravine, was punished and dragged to test the medicine. He happened to hear Bi Lingyan leaking the secret, so Bu Yin made a random complaint and blamed Zhao Ning for everything. Zhao Ning's life was exchanged for Bu Yin's own life.
"You murderer!" Zhao Ning gritted his teeth and said every word, extremely angry.
"No, no, no - no -" Bu Yin was extremely frightened and struggled to rush up, trying to escape.
Zhao Ning stared at her back, but his subordinate picked up the sickle in her medicine basket and said in a cold voice, "I warned you before, don't mess with me!"
Blood spattered and dyed the window paper red.
Zhao Ning turned her back and placed the bloody sickle on the table. She wiped the blood on the quilt, her expression not changing at all.
Zhao Ning has been wandering for many years and has never been one to be bullied. She can tolerate it, but to the extreme, it is time to settle the accounts.
Chapter 012
The sounds in the front yard became more and more chaotic, and Zhao Ning was no longer anxious.
She even washed her face, changed her clothes that were full of blood and rancid smell, packed up her savings from working in the Qingyun Gang for half a year, and then went out with her sickle in hand.
Zhao Ning hid in the garden between the front yard and the back yard. She peered through the hollow window in the corridor wall and saw swords and swords in the front yard, and blood splattered everywhere.
The intruders were well prepared at first glance. They all wore armor and carried offensive weapons such as spears and sticks. The people of the Qingyun Gang were unable to resist. One by one, the gang members were chopped to the ground. There were constant attacks outside the courtyard. More outsiders rushed in.
Zhao Ning saw the gang leader and the young gang leader among the resisting crowd. They had already received a lot of injuries. The remaining combat power of the Qingyun Gang gathered around them, but even so, they could not last long. There were too many people from the top ten gangs besieging them. Oh, I can't resist it at all.
Someone outside the hospital shouted, "You won't last long, hand over the Rejuvenation Secret!"
"Don't even think about it!" The young gang leader sternly refused without thinking, "Even if I die, you can't even think of getting the Rejuvenation Technique!"
"Okay! Young Gang Leader, let's see how long you can hold on! We are not in a hurry. We will kill you all, let alone the Rejuvenation Art. The entire Qingyun Gang belongs to us. What do we have to be impatient about! We can take our time. Let’s play with you! Hahahaha!”
Many people outside the hospital laughed arrogantly.
Soon Invade pushed Tangqian down, and when he saw that the opponent's spearhead was about to stab the young gang leader's body, the gang leader blocked the blow with his arm. Half of his arm was barely connected with only skin and flesh.
"Dad!" The young gang leader shouted in panic.
The gang leader stopped him and shouted outside, "You are not going to fight over getting this Rejuvenation Secret. I don't believe you can make it public. Why don't you stop negotiating with us and we can lend the Rejuvenation Secret!"
The gang leader knew that there was nothing he could do to save the situation and tried to save it.
But outside the hospital, this was not the case at all. "When our three gangs came to negotiate with you a few days ago, you looked disdainful. Why are you here begging us now?"
"The gang leader is reluctant to leave the Qingyun Gang. Ha, then you have to watch carefully how your Qingyun Gang disappears from the world! Kill me!!!"
The attack became more fierce, and Zhao Ning heard Manager Liu ask them in a trembling voice whether they wanted to escape.
The gang leader gritted his teeth and slashed the approaching person with his sword, showing his refusal with his actions.
But the young gang leader hesitated.
Zhao Ning's eyes darkened, and he sneaked away from behind the corridor wall, followed the shadow in the corner and hid in the Qingyun Gang leader's study.
As expected, not long after, the young gang leader stumbled back with injuries all over his body.
Zhao Ning just saw this guy's hesitation and knew that he had to run away and he couldn't bear to part with the Rejuvenation Art.
The young gang leader hurriedly pushed open the secret compartment of the study, took out an old book from the secret compartment and stuffed it into his arms.
At this moment, Zhao Ning came out from behind the shadow of the curtain and raised the sickle behind him.
"Who!" The young gang leader was extra vigilant and reacted very quickly. The knife missed the target and landed on his shoulder.
He was extremely panicked and angry, but he was stunned when he saw Zhao Ning, "It's...it's you! Aren't you dead? That medicine! It works! It works!"
He suddenly became ecstatic and shouted, "I can...become an immortal!"
Unexpectedly, Zhao Ning's knife didn't wait for him at this time. Taking advantage of his serious injury, the blade twisted and struck the main artery in his neck amidst his screams.
Large streams of blood came out.
You talk so much, go be an immortal in your next life!
Zhao Ning snatched the old book from his arms, and before the war in the front yard approached, she went around to a dog hole and got out.
Chapter 013
Zhao Ning left the county town overnight and entered Jinpeng Mountain.
She could guess that when the top ten gangs occupied the Qinghe Gang and found out that things were missing, they would be furious and would search endlessly for who had taken the "Rejuvenation Art". Just compare the scars on the young gang leader's body with Bu Yinyi... ...Bu Yin is accustomed to being diplomatic. During this time, the story that she indirectly killed Zhao Ning was widely spread among the medicine boys. If Zhao Ning's body was missing, it was a fake death, and it would be easy to associate it with Zhao Ning.
The county town is not safe, and even the surrounding villages and ruined temples will be places they search.
Zhao Ning has been with the Qingyun Gang for half a year, and the only thing she is familiar with is the Jinpeng Mountain. It is dozens of miles in radius, and it is not feasible to search the mountain inch by inch.
Zhao Ning found a sinkhole. The sinkhole was not deep, but it ran horizontally inside and connected several sinkholes. It was an extremely easy place to avoid searching.
She leaned against the rock wall of the tiankeng. The mouth of the tiankeng was irregular. A crescent moon hung above the tiankeng, and the gauze-like moonlight was gently waving.
The anxious heart gradually calmed down.
Bu Yin's fear, the young gang leader's joy and madness, and the Qingyun Gang's blood flowed like a river. They were nothing if they closed their eyes.
After a long while, Zhao Ning took out the book that everyone was flocking to from her arms. What the young gang leader said was not wrong. This was not a secret book. At least judging from the title, it should be a life story—— "Jiuzhou Travel Notes".
"In my life, I have traveled throughout the Nine Provinces and Sixteen Kingdoms, traveled 30 million miles, and sought immortality in more than a hundred places. I lived to be 121 years old. I remember the worldly world, record my life's travels to pass on to future generations, and seek to prove immortality. - —Tai Ke Bi"
The handwriting on the title page is like a pen moving like a dragon and a snake, as if you can see the courage of this "Tai Ke" ancestor to see all the rivers and mountains. Zhao Ning can't help but sit upright.
The young Zhao Ning traveled around several counties and cities and knew that there was a dynasty above the counties and cities. The name of the dynasty here was Nanjing. However, he did not know that Nanjing was not even a name in the Sixteen Kingdoms of Kyushu. One of the small countries with hundreds of bullets.
Tai Ke's ancestors were born in the Dayue Kingdom of the Sixteen Kingdoms of Kyushu. Dayue Kingdom is full of supernatural beings. There are often folk legends about gods descending to earth and mountain spirits repaying kindness. Tai Ke's ancestors even have legends about their ancestors being destined to be immortals and transforming into immortals. Along with the legends What was left behind was a cultivation technique called "Rejuvenation Technique".
Our ancestors said that if you learn this technique, you will gain immortality. Dozens of generations of Tai Ke's ancestors have devoted themselves to this technique, and four people even broke through the limit of lifespan and lived to be over a hundred years old. It's just that the family members are sparse, and he is the only one left by Tai Ke's ancestors.
Tai Ke's ancestors learned this technique in their early years, but it was often ineffective. They did not want the family's technique to become lonely because of this, so they traveled to the Nine Provinces and Sixteen Countries and found a secret recipe called "Lingqiao Powder". Taking it can help practice the "Rejuvenation Secret" 》, especially those that cannot achieve results through practice, can achieve immediate results.
Ancestor Tai Ke was already fifty years old when he obtained this secret recipe. Practicing "Rejuvenation Technique" at the age of fifty actually had the effect of rejuvenating his youth. Practicing until he was eighty years old was like being thirty years old in the human world. However, he encountered bottlenecks after that and was delayed for more than ten years. Neither can break through.
The young Zhao Ning seemed to see a vast world slowly unfolding before his eyes.
She suppressed the mixed emotions of shock and excitement in her heart, and fully understood the madness of the Qingyun Gang and the Top Ten Gangs.
