The second day of September.
In the early morning of this day, Lin Yue suddenly discovered that 'Su Ziqiu' had a fever.
"So hot?"
Lin Yue sat on the edge of the bed and probed the temperature of her forehead with his fingertips. His tentacles were hot.
According to past life experience, it is at least 40 degrees.
Su Ziqiu was fine, but her cheeks were red, her breathing became more obvious, and her body became weaker.
"You have a fever."
Lin Yue retracted his palm, looked at Su Ziqiu calmly, and suggested, "How about I put you in ice water for two days?"
Su Ziqiu's mouth and tongue were numb, unable to speak, and could only stare at him angrily.
"But why did you suddenly have a high fever?"
Lin Yue looked at her body and frowned slightly.
He was not worried about Su Ziqiu's health, nor did he care whether she was sick or recovering.
After all, Su Ziqiu has been eating bone powder for more than two months. If it were an ordinary person, he would have been reduced to a pile of mud. Su Ziqiu has never practiced, but he relies on his hidden bloodline to survive for so long. thing.
If he had given him less bone meal for a few days, I'm afraid Su Ziqiu would have recovered as before.
What Lin was more concerned about was why Su Ziqiu suddenly developed a high fever?
This cannot be caused by an infected wound.
Because the wound on Su Ziqiu's chest that penetrated the lungs was caused by him more than two months ago, and her self-healing ability was much stronger than ordinary people. He had to re-open the wound regularly to prevent her from healing on her own.
But all this time, Su Ziqiu had never had a fever.
What's going on today?
"Do you know anything?"
Lin Yue slowly narrowed his eyes and looked at Su Ziqiu.
But Su Ziqiu just glared at him as always, his eyes full of hatred.
Lin Yue ignored Su Ziqiu's gaze and stretched out his hand to explore all parts of her body. He suddenly found that her whole body was hot, as if she had been roasted by a stove, as if the blood in her body was boiling.
blood?
"Could it be..."
A thought suddenly flashed through Lin Yue's mind, his eyes changed slightly, and he said softly: "It is said that once the Xia Hong family's royal bloodline is awakened, it is possible to awaken the innate magical power. Have you begun to awaken your bloodline?"
Regarding innate supernatural powers, he also learned something about it from a second-level secret.
In addition to the lucky ones like him who are one among billions of people, it is also possible to awaken the innate magical power once the bloodline of Dayong Royal Family is awakened.
As the flesh and blood of His Majesty the God-Emperor, the prince will inevitably awaken his innate supernatural powers once his bloodline is awakened!
This is also the special nature of the descendants of the God Emperor.
"It seems like this is the awakening of the bloodline."
Lin Yue looked at Su Zichu, narrowed his eyes and said, "If your blood is drained, will your bloodline still awaken?"
Su Ziqiu was speechless, but even if she could speak, she would probably only say nonsense like "Then kill me" or "Whatever you want".
However, Lin Yue would not really do this.
If too much blood was given, it might lead to her real death, and then he would be dead as well.
"I'm starting to get curious, what is your innate magical power?"
Lin Yue smiled, then picked up the small bowl of vegetable porridge next to him, poured bone powder and soul-trapping water into the bowl in front of Su Ziqiu's eyes, stirred it casually a few times, pinched her cheeks, and started Give her vegetable porridge mixed with medicine.
"To celebrate the awakening of your bloodline, I will give you double the amount of soul-trapping water and bone-transforming powder today. Consider it my gift." He said with a smile.
Su Ziqiu ignored him and just tried his best to swallow the gruel in the bowl.
After a while, she fell asleep softly.
Lin Yue put down the empty bowl in his hand, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared.
He could tell that Su Ziqiu wanted to live, so every time she knew that there was medicine in the vegetable porridge, she still tried her best to swallow it.
To stay alive.
Perhaps, she also knew that one day she would awaken her bloodline and her innate magical powers.
At that point, it would be her chance to escape and ascend to heaven.
Innate magical powers are gifts of extraordinary talent. No one knows what kind of abilities their innate magical powers will be.
If Su Ziqiu really awakened some special innate magical power that happened to be able to cope with the current situation, then he would be in trouble.
When the time comes, there are only two options: kill her, or give up on her and run for her life.
With the help of the rare treasure obtained from the Wuxiang-level secret, he was actually somewhat sure of just escaping.
But Lin Yue was unwilling to hide everywhere like a mouse, and he was not sure how long he could escape.
not to mention……
Tu Laodao is still under the control of Baili Fengzhi. If possible, he would like to save Tu Laodao and escape together.
With Tu Laodao taking care of him, perhaps escaping would be easier.
"so troublesome……"
Lin Yue took a deep breath, frowned and glanced at Su Ziqiu, only to feel that it was extremely difficult.
I have no idea how to solve the current dilemma.
It seems to be a dead end with no solution.
"It takes a certain amount of time for the royal bloodline to awaken. The purer the bloodline, the longer it will take."
Lin Yue recalled a classic book on the world that he had read a few days ago. In addition to human geography, the book also recorded some information about the awakening of the Xia Hong family's royal bloodline.
Although the Xia Hong family strictly controls the bloodline inheritance, after thousands of years of reproduction and spreading, there are now many people with the blood of the Xia Hong family, almost all of whom are extremely high-status dignitaries in Jingzhou.
The time it takes for Xia Hong's bloodline to awaken varies, the longest being nine days.
If there are many generations between you and His Majesty the God-Emperor, and the royal bloodline is thin, then the time for the bloodline to awaken will be very short, maybe only a few hours or even shorter.
The prince's bloodline is the purest, and the time it takes for his bloodline to awaken is the longest nine days.
"Within nine days, a decision must be made."
Lin Yue took a deep breath, glanced coldly at the sleeping Su Ziqiu, and then turned around and went out.
No matter what, keep trying.
Therefore, he did not give up his plan to continue to read in the Taoist Academy and learn more knowledge. The secrets he obtained in the future could involve more and more comprehensive secrets.
Unfortunately……
In the past half month, although he had received secrets very frequently, and he had obtained more than a dozen secrets in a row, all of them were only first-class secrets without exception.
It would not help his current situation at all.
However, he could only wait silently.
There is no other way.
…
Lin Yueduo wasted some time today because of Su Ziqiu's bloodline awakening. By the time he arrived at the Taoist Temple, it was almost time.
After walking into the entrance of the Taoist temple, I happened to see a few people walking towards me.
The leader among them was a young master, wearing a sapphire blue brocade robe and holding a folding fan in his hand. He was the third son of the county guard's family, Xu Mingli.
Lin Yue pretended not to see the other party and walked towards him expressionlessly, preparing to pass him by.
"Lin Yue."
Xu Mingli said, "I heard that you have been reading in the bookstore recently? Why didn't I see you going to the prison to see Master Tu?"
Lin Yue stopped and looked at Xu Mingli.
Obviously, Xu Mingli's words were testing Taoist Master Tu's current situation.
This is already the second time.
"I didn't expect Mr. Xu to care so much about Mr. Tu?"
Lin Yue showed a smile and said: "On the Mid-Autumn Festival last month, Mr. Xu went to deliver wine to Tu Laodao. It seems that he already knew Tu Laodao's true identity at that time, right? Could it be that Tu Laodao was exposed to Commander Baili? The Taoist priest is Mr. Xu?"
Xu Mingli frowned slightly and said calmly: "Yes, it's me. How do you treat me?"
"I just want to say thank you to Mr. Xu." Lin Yue said with a bright smile and cupped his hands: "Thanks to Mr. Xu's exposure to Commander Baili, Mr. Tu was unable to escape and was arrested and imprisoned by Commander Baili. .”
"Thank me?"
Xu Mingli couldn't help but be startled.
He only knew that Taoist Tu was ambushed and arrested by Baili Fengzhi and his personal guards on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and was imprisoned, but the specific situation was not clear.
Just from what my father said, it seems that Taoist Tu is still in prison.
He was also a little worried.
If Baili Fengzhi finally found out that Taoist Tu was innocent and let him go, wouldn't it mean that the Xu family, as the cause of reporting on Taoist Tu, an expert, would be enmity with Taoist Tu?
So he wanted to test Lin Yue to see if Lin Yue knew about Taoist Tu's situation.
After all, only Lin Yue and Taoist Tu had a good relationship in the entire Taoist temple.
But he didn't expect that Lin Yue would come to thank him?
"Yes, I am very grateful to Mr. Xu."
Lin Yue bowed his hands sincerely, but there was a somewhat indescribable strange meaning on his lips. He stared at Xu Mingli and said word by word: "If there is a chance, I will definitely repay Mr. Xu for his great kindness." Thank you for your kindness.”
He still remembered that he and Lao Dao had turned against each other, so he could only act in this way.
No matter what you say, just know it in your heart.
"……No."
Xu Mingli looked at Lin Yue's eyes and forced a smile.
For some reason, he felt a little frightened in his heart. He always felt that there was a chill hidden behind Lin Yue's seemingly sincere words.
"Yes." Lin Yue said seriously: "Don't worry, Mr. Xu, I will always repay your kindness and will never forget you."
After saying that, he cupped his hands with a smile and said, "Master Xu, please go slowly. I'll leave first."
Xu Mingli could only smile reluctantly.
The others were also confused. Why did Lin Yue thank Xu Mingli?
Lin Yue immediately stepped across the threshold of the Taoist temple and walked into the courtyard.
Before reaching the bookstore, I saw several lay disciples from the Taoist academy walking towards me.
These people were all acquaintances with him in the past and belonged to the same small circle in the Taoist temple. They had a pretty good relationship and they often chatted and laughed.
But at this time, these people walked towards Lin Yue, but they just glanced at Lin Yue and passed him by, as if they didn't see him, completely treating him as nothing.
Lin Yue also passed by, with a sarcastic curve on his lips.
Although he didn't mind losing so many so-called 'friends', the changes in human relationships were too fast.
Recently there is a news circulating in the Taoist Temple -
The deputy palm chief, Taoist Tu, was captured by Baili Fengzhi, the commander of the Northwestern Pass, and was imprisoned. It was said that he was related to the disappearance of Mr. Xialie, and he might be executed one day.
Taoist Master Tu was not popular in the Taoist temple. Naturally, no one sympathized with him when he was imprisoned. On the contrary, many people secretly applauded him.
Lin Yue, the only lay disciple who had a good relationship with Taoist Master Tu, also became the subject of everyone's gossip and became the target of the same hatred. It seemed that anyone who had anything to do with him would be implicated.
Naturally, it has become the current situation.
"That's good too."
Lin Yue walked into the Taoist study room with a faint smile, picked up a classic that he had not finished reading yesterday, sat down and began to read quietly.
He does not belong to this world, and he has only traveled here for a year, or it can be said that he has awakened the memory of his past life for a year.
In this world, he always feels a sense of loneliness, and only Tu Laodao can have some sympathy.
Now that he has become the object of neglect by everyone, he is at peace.
It happened that no one disturbed him while he was reading.
The Taoist academy's bookstore was already deserted. Very few people came to browse these insignificant books, and everyone seemed to want to stay away from Lin Yue, so he was the only one in the bookstore at this time.
There was silence in the bookstore, except for the sound of Lin Yue turning pages.
Time passed quietly.
Lin Yue spent almost all his time reading through the seemingly useless books, and it was almost sunset. It was not until the sky got dark and he couldn't see clearly in the room that he realized what he was doing.
“I’ll come back to it after reading this book.”
Lin Yue glanced at the "River Map Policy Theory" in his hand, thought for a moment, and was about to light an oil lamp and read for a while.
at this time--
"clang!"
A high-pitched and majestic bell suddenly rang in his mind.
At the same time, everything in front of me stopped in an instant, and the faint chirping of insects outside the study room completely disappeared. Everything was silent, only the majestic ringing of the bell echoed.
"Here comes today."
Lin Yue had no reaction and just listened silently.
The secrets that had been kept for more than half a month were all of the same level without exception, which made him anxious and helpless.
He didn't know what level of secrets he would need to solve his current predicament.
But when it comes to a world-shaking event like the son of the God Prince, the secret that is expected to help him must be of an extremely high level.
A mere sound level is of no use at all.
"clang!"
There was another high-pitched and majestic Hong Zhong Dalu sound, and Lin Yue's heart suddenly surged with hope.
"clang!"
"clang!"
"clang!"
Hearing the loud and majestic bells ringing continuously, Lin Yue couldn't help but be a little stunned, and he was even more surprised.
It wasn't until five consecutive bells rang that it stopped completely.
"It's a five-ring-level secret!"
After Lin Yue counted the number of times the bell rang, he was immediately overjoyed.
After he came to this world, the first secret he gained from his innate supernatural powers was the Eight Rings level.
But this secret had no effect on him at all, and it also made him a little scared. He was afraid of accidentally leaking it, so he didn't dare to reveal it to the outside world.
In addition, the most advanced one was a five-ring-level secret, which allowed him to obtain an extremely strange and rare treasure on a mysterious corpse in a hidden cave.
And other lower-level secrets would not be of much help to his current predicament.
However, now he actually heard the bell ringing five times in a row again!
Lin Yue couldn't help feeling excited, and quickly listened carefully, for fear of making any mistakes.
The next moment, he heard an ethereal whisper ringing in his mind, speaking softly to him——
"Did you know? In the cave where you obtained the rare treasure 'Appearance of All Living Beings', the stone wall at the end of the cave was actually a secret door, and inside the door was a cave mansion, but only the original owner of the cave mansion used the Luo Shu numbers of the Jiugong Bagua. Only by tapping the nine directions of the stone wall with your bare hands can you open the cave."
When the whispers disappeared, everything returned to normal.
Amidst the chirping of insects in the autumn night, Lin Yue held the scroll in his hand, stood there blankly, and murmured: "So, that cave... is a cave?"
At this moment, great hope and expectation suddenly arose in his heart.
Although he didn't know what was in that cave, he found extremely precious treasures such as the 'Phases of All Living Beings' just in front of the cave's door.
If you can get in, maybe you can really find a glimmer of hope...
"I have to, I have to find a way to get in."
Lin Yue's eyes suddenly became sharp, hiding immense desire and determination.
