Mo Qingkun scratched his head, "It's been five or six years since I came out. The competition between my eldest brother and me as a registered disciple didn't succeed. Uncle Baiyun has long since ignored us. We didn't want to work as handymen, so we left Qingxiao Sect directly. I want to return to the mortal world and be a carefree person, but who would have thought that when I was traveling through the Lingwu Forest, my eldest brother was killed by a monster in the forest, and I was the only one who escaped."
Zhao Ning silently realized that this was the real Spiritual Mist Forest, where death was common sense and survival was a matter of luck and strength.
"I have wasted so many years in the mortal world, and my cultivation is still stuck at the seventh level of Qi training. This is the case when I came out. Now I finally understand that those casual cultivators in Guiyuan City said that they would rather be a sect servant ghost than be rich in the ordinary world. people."
"By the way, when I came here, I heard the villagers in the suburbs talking about gods fighting, and my green bamboo garden was moved halfway up the hill. I was thinking more and more, only strength is the last word. If I can have such strength, Then..." He was thinking about it, but suddenly he realized something and looked at Zhao Ning with a strange expression. He wanted to glance at Qin Keyuan, but he didn't dare and held it back, "My hilltop, my house, You shouldn't have flattened it, right?"
Zhao Ning didn't expect that Mo Qingkun had the ability to kill him with his carbine, so he paused for a moment, with a hint of embarrassment appearing on his calm face.
She coughed slightly, and one could tell she was covering it up.
"As expected, it's you." Mo Qingkun didn't feel any pain anymore and stood up directly, "You... you... I have all my belongings in my garden!"
Zhao Ning glanced at the storage bag on his waist suspiciously, and Mo Qingkun covered it up in excitement, "There are only a few left here, don't even think about destroying them."
Zhao Ning was a little speechless at this change. They were not specifically going to cut the mountain. She said softly, "In this matter, I think we should go to the Jindan Master and empty his storage bag to repay fellow Taoist Mo for his loss." .”
What Zhao Ning said was serious. After all, the Jin Dan didn't seem to be a powerful person. Coupled with serious injuries and arrogance, it was easy for him to plot.
But Mo Qingkun immediately calmed down and waved his hands repeatedly, "Forget it, just think that I, Mo Qingkun, am unlucky and have been in this world for five years."
"Then where are you going next?" At this time, Qin Keyuan finished adjusting his breath and opened his eyes to look at him.
Zhao Ning walked over and subconsciously reached out to help him up. Qin Keyuan patted her hand to indicate that everything was fine.
After listening to Qin Keyuan's words, Mo Qingkun quickly bowed and bowed.
"Chief Qin. You should go back to Kunxu. Although Qingxiao Sect cannot go back, it is better to be in the world of cultivation than in the world."
Qin Keyuan looked at him, but pointed him to another place, "To see if you can make a difference in swordsmanship, go to Bianzhou Cultivation World. Dayue Kingdom is three thousand miles north of here, and over the snowy mountains is Bianzhou."
Mo Qingkun's eyes brightened, but then dimmed again, "Thanks to the advice of the Chief Qin, I know that Bianzhou is good at swordsmanship, but I know nothing about the rest of Bianzhou. It is probably better to practice in Kunxu and be more stable in Bianzhou." "
At this time, Qin Keyuan handed him a jade slip. Mo Qingkun realized something and held the jade slip with both hands in surprise.
Listen to Qin Keyuan say, "This letter is sealed in this jade slip. You go to Bianzhou Jianxin Sect to find Master Zuijian, and he will arrange it for you."
Upon hearing this, Mo Qingkun knelt on the ground on the spot, "Thank you so much, Chief Qin, for your arrangement. Mo Qingkun has lived up to his expectations and studied swordsmanship with the real master!"
"There is no need to thank me. After your trip, you forgot that you met us here. Unless you meet Master Zuijian himself, you are not allowed to take out the letter talisman."
Mo Qingkun raised his head in surprise, "This...why is this?"
But Qin Keyuan's eyes were cold, and Mo Qingkun felt a chill in his heart. He hurriedly leaned over and kowtowed, "Junior, please follow the arrangements of the leader."
"You go."
Mo Qingkun did not dare to ask any more questions and bowed directly to exit the cave.
Zhao Ning saw him walking away from the cave outside the cave, and asked Qin Keyuan, "Uncle Master, this Drunk Sword Master..."
"He is a top-grade Jindan real person registered in the Heavenly Palace. He knows the truth about Kunxu and has an old relationship with me."
Zhao Ning suddenly realized.
A few days later, Zhao Ning and Qin Keyuan also left Kunxu, hid their faces, and were about to leave Yuexiu Mansion. They saw that the Qingzhu Peak was extremely lively. Half of the mountain was flattened, and many people came to visit. Zhao Ning heard that In their words, some said it was a meteor falling, while others said it was a fight between gods.
But without exception, they all said firmly, "It must be the appearance of the national master to attract this divine power."
So, the two of them saw that someone had built a temple at the foot of Qingzhu Peak Mountain. The temple was quite grand, with red walls and gold tiles. If they looked carefully, they could see some structural features of the main building of Qingzhu Garden. They didn’t know how long it had taken in the past few days. How the temple was built in such a hurry.
Until Zhao Ning and Qin Keyuan entered the temple, they saw the golden statue in the main hall shining with golden body. When they got closer, the image of the statue inside turned out to be Mo Qingkun.
Zhao Ning was surprised, and entered with Qin Keyuan, and looked at the golden statue carefully. Mo Qingkun's appearance was obviously beautified, with a fairy-like posture, holding a sword in one hand and holding a pearl in the other.
At this moment, someone next to him said "Hey" in surprise, "It's you!"
Zhao Ning turned around and saw that it was the young lady who had survived the rock fall. She looked down at the stone platform again and saw a row of boys standing on the tree, "The eldest lady of the Zhenguo Mansion, Cui Ruyue, stands."
She frowned, "You can't steal my portrait, but you want to steal my golden body?!"
Zhao Ning curled her lips helplessly and asked, "Is this the statue erected by Miss Cui?"
Cui Ruyue said "Huh" again, "You know me? Of course, Master Mo not only exposed the evil deeds of Zhengyang Guan to harm our Dayue Kingdom, but also caused miracles to come. This was an act to protect our Dayue Kingdom. Although Master Mo The disappointment is far away, but I must tell the whole Dayue Kingdom about his achievements on his behalf, and I must set up a statue to make the whole Dayue Kingdom respect him."
Zhao Ning covered her mouth slightly and looked at Qin Keyuan with a hidden smile in her eyes, and Qin Keyuan showed a smile.
When Cui Ruyue praised Mo Qingkun like this, it was unclear whether she respected him or was obsessed with him.
But Zhao Ning knew that Mo Qingkun's mortal love would probably come back after the foundation was built. After all, he was building a temple to collect incense, but it was unclear whether it was fate or evil in the end.
"Here, here you go."
At this time, Cui Ruyue handed over three sticks of incense. Zhao Ning didn't react for a moment, but saw that she was about to hand three more sticks to Qin Keyuan.
Zhao Ning quickly took all six of them and said, "I'll take my brother's place."
So Zhao Ning lit the incense and bowed three times to the statue. Cui Ruyue was dissatisfied and wanted to say that Zhao Ning's incense ceremony was extremely inadequate. However, Zhao Ning had already quickly inserted it into the incense burner. Cui Ruyue could not let Zhao Ning do it. Pulling out the incense from the incense burner, I had to give up.
But a hundred miles away, Mo Qingkun, who was rushing through the night, suddenly fell to the ground inexplicably, his face buried directly in the black mud, and he got up depressed. A group of wild geese flew over the sky, and the next moment he received a bunch of He wiped his face with the geese's excrement in disgust, "What's going on? Why did I suddenly fall down and get fucked by the geese? Could it be that someone is plotting against me?!"
He was so excited that he didn't dare to waste time looking for the wild geese in the sky. Yufeng accelerated and left very quickly.
Zhao Ning and Qin Keyuan left the temple, and Zhao Ning couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh.
Qin Keyuan said helplessly, "According to the law of cause and effect, Mo Qingkun should not receive incense. Mortal incense has no effect on him. But with your bow, cause and effect and realm are reversed. He may be unlucky for a few days."
First, it was only because they saved Mo Qingkun that Mo Qingkun was exposed. Second, there was no reason why he should receive the incense of the foundation building period during the Qi Refining Period.
"I'm reminding him." Zhao Ning pretended to be serious, "Cui Ruyue still wants his uncle to burn incense. If Mo Qingkun accepts it, it will not be unlucky, but he will vomit blood directly."
Chapter 149
Night falls a few days later.
Zhao Ning and Qin Keyuan came to Daqu Town on the border of Yongfeng County.
It's the night of the full moon and the Mid-Autumn Festival, so the town is quite lively. There are acrobatics, lanterns, appreciation, cakes, etc. at the gathering.
Zhao Ning rarely had the opportunity to experience such lively gatherings when she was a child, but now she has some leisure time and wants to experience it.
She half-crouched in front of an old man's stall, watching the old man draw candy figures with syrup, and asked him to draw a bunch of them for her.
The old man happily agreed and asked, "What pattern does the girl want?"
Zhao Ning thought for a moment and took out a jade pendant from her cuff. It was Qin Keyuan's ancient dragon-patterned jade, "Can I paint this, old man?"
"Of course, girl, wait a moment."
This jade with an ancient dragon pattern is simple and light in color, and is not a common jade in ordinary eyes. Therefore, this treasure is not surprising in the eyes of ordinary people. They just sigh that the dragon pattern is particularly weird.
When the old man seemed to have the prototype of the dragon pattern, Zhao Ning shook the jade pendant towards Qin Keyuan, Qin Keyuan smiled and said "keep it away".
Zhao Ning put it back in her sleeve pocket, took the candy man that her old man had just made, handed over the money, thanked her, and walked into the crowd with Qin Keyuan.
The dragon pattern was lifelike, as if it were a perfect replica of the jade pendant. Zhao Ning asked casually, "Uncle Master, what is this jade pendant? I rely on it to escape from the lava river."
Qin Keyuan always knew everything about Zhao Ning, but for some reason, he didn't speak directly.
Zhao Ning turned to look at him in confusion.
At this moment, a running child suddenly bumped into her side. Zhao Ning subconsciously avoided it, and the child jumped directly to the ground. Zhao Ning saw something bad and grabbed a handful, then stabilized the child. .
With this collision, the candy man shattered and fell to the ground.
Zhao Ning had no choice but to squat down to look at the child, only to realize that it was a little girl. She was so thin that she looked only six or seven years old.
For a moment, I seemed to see myself back then.
The child looked panicked, Zhao Ning rubbed the top of her hair, "It's okay, don't worry, be careful in the future."
But she didn't expect that as soon as she let go of her hand, the child slipped into the crowd.
After Zhao Ning paused, he stood up and looked at the child's retreating shadow. Qin Keyuan said, "Want to take a look?"
The child touched the jade pendant with the ancient dragon pattern at the moment of escaping, his hands were extremely quick.
Of course, the ancient dragon-patterned jade pendant must be brought back, but the market was crowded and crowded, and perhaps she still had some empathy born from wandering, so Zhao Ning did not directly recall the ancient dragon-patterned jade pendant.
As soon as I followed, I saw the child crawling into the dilapidated yard through the dog hole.
She dug out a package from the messy flower bed in the courtyard. When she opened the package, she found that it was full of everything, from rusty copper coins to broken silver the size of fingernails, from a single earring to a yellowed hairpin. He put everything in the market into his arms and cheered happily, "Great, I have enough money!"
The child packed the package again, kicked it in his arms, sneaked out, and went around to a pawn shop in the town while there was no one in the alleyway.
"I want to change money!"
The child stood on tiptoes and raised his hands, but they were not as high as the pawn counter. The shopkeeper, who was lazily watching the bustling street by the window, glanced under the counter. When he saw the tattered bundle, he said with a look of disgust, "No, no, no, no. You dug it out of some rubbish heap, take it, take it."
The child's face fell, and he lifted up the ancient dragon-patterned jade pendant in sadness, "I don't want these, I still have this one, this can definitely be exchanged for money!"
The shopkeeper squinted and couldn't tell the quality of the jade pendant, but as long as it was jade, the price couldn't be any lower no matter how low it was, but he hummed twice, "Where did you get it? You stole it!"
"You take care of me and give me money!"
"One or two!"
"You cheated money!"
The shopkeeper threw the jade pendant on the counter with disdain, "Then I don't want it."
The child was about to burst into tears and couldn't regain his momentum. He gritted his teeth and said, "At least give me five taels."
The shopkeeper chuckled. He said that this jade boy only had fifty taels. He was such a fool. He took back the jade pendant and was about to say "ok" with a smile. His eyes froze and the conversation changed inexplicably, "How can this jade pendant be worth fifty taels? I'll give it to you." You have one hundred taels!”
As he spoke, he turned around and pulled out a banknote from under the cash register. He even walked out of the counter and half-crouched in front of the child. The child was just astonished and couldn't understand the shopkeeper's sudden change of attitude.
The shopkeeper thrust the banknote into her hand with a great attitude and told her to "keep it carefully. If you lose it, it will be gone."
No matter how surprised he was, the surprise of getting a banknote for the first time in his life washed away all other emotions, and he ran away full of joy.
The shopkeeper looked at the child's running back with a pleased expression on his face, until the back completely disappeared. His expression froze again, and his eyes turned blank.
"I...what I just did."
"Hey, what am I doing standing here?"
The shopkeeper returned to the counter in confusion. The ancient dragon-patterned jade pendant on the counter had disappeared at some point. He was also unconscious, as if he had completely forgotten this memory.
Zhao Ning took back the jade pendant, wiped off the mud marks on it, looked up at the child, and saw the child taking out a large bag of medicine from the drug store.
The child was led out by the drugstore owner. The owner immediately closed the shop, carried the medicine box on his shoulder, and left with the child.
