Seeing this, Qi Jingzhi sighed and couldn't help but remind him: "There is another one inside."
Cui Zitao was startled when he heard this, and then he seemed to finally remember something, jumped up suddenly, and crashed into the back room of the study like a whirlwind.
Not long after, the young man who had suffered a sudden change and had tears on his face rushed out.
He rushed to Qi Jingzhi and said in a hurried tone: "Qi Jishi, I know that your cultivation is extraordinary. Please save my old servant's life. Cui will be grateful!"
After that, Cui Zitao grabbed the young man's arm and ran back regardless of whether Qi Jingzhi agreed or not.
Qi Jingzhi didn't say anything and followed the other party quickly into the back room of the study.
The inside was as messy as the outside, with blood stains on the bed and the floor.
The old servant's eyes were closed tightly and he was sitting on the edge of the bed covered in blood. There was already a pool of blood under his body.
Qi Jingzhi could clearly see that although the old man was not dead at this time, he only had one breath left.
There was no good piece of flesh left on the old man's body, and his chest was densely covered with small wounds that burst and oozed blood. There were also more than a dozen blood holes of different depths scattered around, all as thick as a finger, with blood flowing out.
The fatal wound was on his heart, which was as bloody and bloody as Pearl's back, and his slowly beating heart could be faintly seen.
Seeing that Qi Jingzhi was just watching but not making any move, Cui Zitao couldn't help but said anxiously: "Qi Jingzhi, please use your skills quickly!"
Qi Jingzhi shook his head silently and pointed at Cui's old servant.
Cui Zitao was startled, and subconsciously turned his head to look, and saw that his old servant's eyelids were moving slightly, and he was opening them slowly and with difficulty.
After a few breaths, a faint light came out from under the drooped eyelids of Cui's old servant, looking at it like a candle in the wind, as if it would be completely extinguished in the next moment.
Just the act of opening his eyes almost exhausted the old man's strength. His lips moved, but he could only make a vague and weak sound.
Cui Zitao quickly leaned over and put his ear to his old servant's lips.
Qi Jingzhi did not step forward, but quietly watched the other party's mouth movements, knowing that he was briefly describing today's events. ..
The old man was too weak and had to slow down to speak a few words, which made the time seem extremely long. During this period, Cui Zitao's expression changed drastically again, ranging from horror to sadness, and most of all, disbelief.
Speaking of which, whether it was the plan of the Cui family head and the old servant to revive the family, or the matter of the tiger girl and the demon boy, everyone in the family was full of schemes, but Cui Zitao, who was the party involved, was kept in the dark.
Later, the face of Cui's young county magistrate was filled with deep confusion.
He turned his head and looked at his old servant, unable to bear his death being so unstable. He wanted to interrupt, but he was afraid that if he interrupted, the old man would let out a sigh of relief and die immediately.
Perhaps because his wish came true, Cui's old servant's complexion actually improved a bit at this time, his breath became stronger, and he could gradually speak clearer sentences, but he saw that his young master could no longer hear a word. , and felt that the explanation was almost complete, so he simply stopped talking.
The old man turned his neck with some effort and looked at Qi Jingzhi aside. The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he even nodded slightly.
Qi Jingzhi then smiled at him and said, "The Cui family is about to be revived, and you will definitely be recorded in the family tree in the future! If Brother Cui forgets, I will give him two big slaps on his ears for you!"
These words were words of comfort at first sight. Qi Jingzhi had no way of seeing Cui's family tree, and he was not qualified to interfere with how others recorded today's events.
The old servant's eyes lit up brightly, like the bright moon.
His back suddenly straightened up, and he yelled with all his strength: "It has been more than 1,800 years since the founding of the Cui family in Yecheng by Donglai Jun, the first ancestor of the family, and they have never...never been willing to be weaker. To others! If you want to beat the young master then... that's just a dream!"
Before he finished speaking, the old man leaned back heavily on the bed, his chest rising and falling violently, and his whole body's energy leaking.
"Trib!"
Cui Zitao held the old man up and burst into tears.
"The majestic Tiger Cui is no weaker than a human..."
The old man's voice gradually became weaker and eventually became inaudible. His eyes closed and his head dropped.
At the same time, his two colorful tiger eyebrows that had just grown out fell off one after another, and they fell completely in the blink of an eye.
Seeing this, Qi Jingzhi couldn't help but sigh. This loyal servant who seeks benevolence and gets benevolence deserves to be said to have died a worthy death.
He did not try to persuade Cui Zitao, who was lying on his body and crying, but silently exited the inner room and walked outside the study.
The tiger girl lay on the ground with her head lowered, showing no sign of struggle, and did not react at all to the boy's approach.
This tigress, who wants to turn her husband into a ghost and lives and dies in one place, is quietly waiting for her end.
After a while, the crying in the study gradually stopped.
After a while, Cui Zitao walked out slowly. His eyes were still bloodshot, but there were no tears on his face, and there was no tiger aura lingering around him.
He had already put on his clothes. Although the clothes were stained with a lot of blood, he was dressed very neatly, covering the gobies on his body.
Qi Jingzhi noticed that Cui Zitao even held a scroll in his hand.
I saw the young county magistrate walking up to the tiger girl, lowering his head and looking into the tiger's eyes for a long time, and suddenly smiled miserably: "It turns out that it was no coincidence that you and I met each other in the past. It was really a deliberately evil marriage. This matter will be spread in the future. Drive away, people say that I, Cui Zitao, indulged in sex and took my life lightly, sleeping with a tiger in my arms for several years, which can be called an East China Sea anecdote."
After saying that, Cui Zitao knelt down, stretched out his hand to caress the tiger girl's furry head, and started stroking it slowly.
In an instant, big tears burst out of the corners of the tiger girl's eyes. They quickly slid down her cheeks and hit the ground hard. They rolled in the dust and turned into mud pellets.
"Ma'am, why are you crying?"
Cui Zitao smiled slightly: "Although you deceived Cui and invited foreign enemies to assassinate Zhu'er, the love between you and me over the years cannot be faked. If you were not controlled by others and could not be independent, we might not be husband and wife. We can’t grow old together.”
"What's more, without this marriage, my husband would not be able to open the door to practice. I don't know when the Cui family in Yecheng will have hope of revival! Even after this experience, my husband has already understood the origin of the Cui family's three lines of practice. The Cui family of Yecheng should be deeply grateful to you for this harvest!"
Hearing this, the tiger girl stopped crying, her eyes showed confusion, and she looked at her husband blankly.
Cui Zitao smiled again, immediately retracted his palm, and slowly unfolded the scroll in his hand: "Look, madam, there is a three-foot-long goby fish missing from this painting. It looks a bit empty."
Hearing this, the tiger girl became more confused and a little more wary.
"My lady doesn't know that this painting itself is not a rare treasure. It all depends on the artist's skill in painting and the Cui family's bloodline, so that it can communicate with a secret realm in the Infinite Wilderness."
"When the ancestors of the Cui family traveled in the wild, they accidentally wandered into it and made an alliance with a group of chitiger fish spirits living in the secret realm. Only then were they able to open up three smooth paths of practice for future generations, which have been passed down from generation to generation. Both parties have already They are connected by blood and inseparable."
"To be unfilial and rebellious, the Cui family members can disrespect their dead ancestors, but they cannot help but honor these living ancestors in the painting!"
Cui Zitao paused, shook his head and sighed: "Originally, this matter is not a secret, just because it involves the Wuji Wilderness, the children in the family may have too high aspirations, or they may have intellectual obstacles, which affects the practice of the third and even fourth realms. Generally, only when one reaches a certain level of cultivation, will the elders in the family inform him in detail, so it has always been passed down from word of mouth, and even the family tree is not clear about it."
"I feel ashamed to say that a few generations ago, the Cui family in Yecheng suffered a strange disaster. All members of the clan who were qualified to travel in the wild were wiped out in one fell swoop. As a result, only the skills from the first two realms were still complete when it was passed down to my father and husband. . We can only hope that an unparalleled talent will emerge from our clan and enter the Wuji Wilderness to complete the lost inheritance."
At this point, Cui Zitao raised his head and greeted Qi Jingzhi with a smile: "Qi Jingzhi is actually laughing at me. I'm afraid even the Demon-Suppressing Academy couldn't have imagined that our Cui clan in Yecheng would be so ruined. The qualifications of the younger members of the clan are just mediocre. , he even lost his own inheritance!"
Qi Jingzhi shook his head when he heard this: "The ups and downs are the ups and downs.
Common sense, nothing to laugh about. Moreover, as long as the bloodline of the Cui family in Yecheng is not cut off for a day, and can still use the "Chi Tiger Fish Picture" to exchange for tiger evil, the foundation of the family will still be solid, the inheritance will not be lost, and sooner or later it will be revived. "
In fact, rather than the source of Cui's practice, the young man was more concerned about the "Wilderness of the Infinite" and "obstacles of knowledge and vision."
This is the first time Qi Jingzhi has heard of the so-called infinite wilderness. Listening to Cui Zitao's words, it seems that knowing too much is not a good thing when the level is not enough, so that's it. However, this is the third time he has heard this saying. .
The first time was on the Caojiang Painting Boat. Deng Fuqing casually mentioned it before explaining the second realm of cultivation. He believed that there was not much difference between the Zhuangming realm and the Sensing realm. It would not be a big deal for Jiao Yulang to know in advance.
The second time was in the garden of the Jiao Family Villa. When Mu Yingxian mentioned the companion artifact, he said that in such cases, one has to wait until the third stage to ascend the spiritual platform and attract the artifact spirit to achieve a complete spiritual artifact. However, But he refused to explain in detail what the spiritual platform was and how to attract him. The reason was to prevent Qi Jingzhi from developing intellectual impairment.
One is to ascend the spiritual platform and attract the spirit of the weapon, and the other is to travel in the wild and make a covenant with the spirit. The methods may be different in terms of difficulty, but the inner essence seems to be similar.
After confirming the two facts, Qi Jingzhi knew that the Wuji Wilderness should be similar to the Lingtai, and also involved the subsequent cultivation path, so he had no choice but to suppress his curiosity and did not ask rashly.
As for why Cui Zitao suddenly knew it in such detail, it naturally has something to do with the chili tiger fish spirit from the secret realm of Wuji Wilderness.
He has raised such a living ancestor with a great background in his body. Although his current state is not very advanced, there are many things that he doesn't know even if he wants to.
The head of the Cui family and his old servant had no choice but to take a risk. Not only did they succeed by chance, they actually made a mistake.
"Is the foundation still solid?"
Cui Zitao murmured and repeated something, and suddenly showed a wry smile: "This may have been the case in the past, but it may not be the case after tonight!"
"Although there are definitely more than five Chihu Fish Spirits in the secret realm, they are not too many. They are all shared by the three lines of the Cui family. Now that Yecheng Humai has caught one without permission, it has broken the rules and is more likely to anger Chi. The tiger fish spirit clan."
He paused, then suddenly looked down at Tigress: "Cui thought about it, he must make some amends!"
Qi Jingzhi then glanced at the colorful tiger, which was still restrained by Ban Nu, and then moved his gaze to the scroll in Cui Zitao's hand. He suddenly felt that this scene was very familiar.
Not long ago, the old servant of the Cui family knew that there was nothing he could do to Qi Jingzhi, so he could only hold Zhu'er and the demon boy in his arms while demonstrating and explaining the methods of changing evil spirits and fishing, in order to arrest Qi Jingzhi, the Demon Suppressing Academy. Fanyi showed Cui's magnanimity in exchange for his standing aside.
Now Cui Zitao once again explained the origins of Cui's practice in front of the young man, and even admitted that his family's inheritance was lacking. Even though these are not big secrets, it would be harmful to hear too much, and it still seems to be a superficial conversation.
"Hey, the Cui family's style of making decisions and showing sincerity is really the same. He took so much trouble to lay the groundwork, I'm afraid he still cares about his wife."
"Before Mr. Cui died, he said that the tiger girl could no longer be the wife of the Cui family and could be left to my disposal. Now I still remember her words, but I'm afraid she won't be able to do anything anymore."
Sure enough, Cui Zitao put his palm on the tiger girl's forehead again, and asked in a very gentle tone: "Madam, are you willing to change your foundation, turn into water attribute, and transform into the secret realm for the sake of Mrs. Cui and your husband?" A chigo fish spirit?"
Upon hearing this, the tiger girl's eyes suddenly widened, her hair stood on end, and the sudden burst of struggling strength actually lifted most of Bannu's fat body into the air.
Bannu let out a roar, and immediately used all his strength to pounce and smash, forcing the frightened tigress back to the ground. The sharp claws that were originally holding the tiger's neck were unable to hold back for a moment. From the back of the opponent's neck to his shoulders, there were several very long and deep blood marks.
Cui Zitao withdrew his hand to avoid his wife's bite, but his expression and tone became gentler: "It's better than being eaten by Qi Jishi's ferocious beast, but the undead spirit is still controlled by the old master, like a ghost, and will live forever. Is it better to be free? Or maybe... this one on you
The tiger skin swallows the body and soul together? "
After hearing this, the tiger girl's struggle immediately subsided by half, and her face showed a complex expression of doubt and fear.
"Others may not be able to see it, but as my husband is now the host and food of the Chihu Fish Spirit, I can still relate to it. If you continue to wear this tiger skin, one day you will become one with it. Not only will you be able to The flesh and blood all over the body have become blood food, and even the soul and spirit cannot be preserved."
"What's more, not everyone can enjoy the opportunity to enter the secret realm to become a Chi Tiger Fish Spirit! If the Tiger Evil in you is not very strong, and you happen to be the opponent and qualifications of the Tiger Evil in the water attribute, your husband would just want to be selfish. Nothing can be done."
"As long as she survives the flood of blue water and the fish eating her soul, my wife can be reborn, and from then on, she can swim freely and enjoy the worship of the Cui family!"
At this point, Cui Zitao's expression suddenly became solemn, as if he was worshiping a god: "If you are willing, my husband will ask for permission at all costs to prevent you from being devoured by strange beasts!"
"If you are willing, my husband will immediately swear an oath to the chigo fish spirit on my body!"
"After Cui Zitao's death in the future, his spirit will never enter reincarnation. He will definitely transform into a chitiger fish spirit and enter the secret realm to stay with you forever!"
