Noon five days later.
Lu Li was about to go out to the medicine garden east of Tianjue Peak to collect medicine for Xiao Jue when he suddenly heard a knock on the door from outside and couldn't help but frown.
In the past few days, Lu Li had been accompanying Xiao Jue in refining the elixir, until last night he had to stop because there was a lack of Xuanzhu grass among the four medicinal materials for refining the Ningzhen elixir.
During this period, Xiao Jue saw that Lu Li was performing well and asked him to practice fire control.
But after he shook his hand and burned the elixir in the furnace to ashes, Xiao Jue's face was full of pain and refused to let him practice anymore.
Xiao Jue's consciousness was severely depleted due to continuous elixir refining, so he planned to rest for two days and told Lu Li to go to the Tianjue Peak Medicine Garden to collect ten Xuanzhu grasses.
Lu Li was naturally eager to do so, because he had seen the Thunder Fire Orchid in Xiao Jue's hands last time, and this time he could go to the medicine garden to see if there was any Thunder Fire Orchid. If so, he would have to put it into good use.
When he opened the door, Lu Li was surprised to find that the person coming was the fat man from the kitchen, carrying several plates of fragrant stir-fry dishes and a bottle of wine.
This fat man hardly goes out on weekdays, why is he here today?
"Junior brother, let's talk?" Min He said with a smile.
"Senior brother, please." Lu Li stepped aside.
Entering the room, Min He went straight to the stone table and sat down. He took out the food and wine. After Lu Li sat down, he poured him a bowl of wine. He didn't wait for Lu Li to drink. He drank a bowl by himself and said:
"Junior brother, tell me...what is the purpose of our practice?"
Lu Li was baffled by the other party's behavior. He thought for a while and said, "If it were three years ago, I think my biggest ideal would be to be able to fly in the sky like what the book said."
"what about now?"
"Now." Lu Li pondered for a moment and said, "I want to become stronger without looking at other people's faces."
"Yeah, I thought I could live without restraint after practicing cultivation, but now I realize that even a dog in the secular world lives a more carefree and happy life than us..." Min He said, shaking his head, and drank another bowl of wine. He drank it directly:
"So...what exactly are we here for."
Lu Li shook his head, "Cultivation is like climbing a mountain. In order to reach the top, we sometimes have to crawl. The climbing path may be very long, or it may be very short. If you persevere, you will reach the top in front of you, and you will see all the mountains at a glance. Persevere. If you don't stay, the way back is easy, but it's difficult to come back up..."
"And we are now in the crawling stage. Not only do we need to be careful about losing our grip and falling, but we also need to be careful about people walking in front throwing stones at us."
"Sometimes, being a dog is just to prevent the person in front of you from getting into trouble. Of course, if you can get help from the person in front, it will be an unexpected blessing."
"We can be dogs, but we can't be dogs all our lives. When you surpass the person who once treated you as a dog, you can kick him down the mountain and make him irrecoverable..."
At this point, Lu Li stopped talking. He said so much because he just felt that this person's heart was unwilling to give up, and he just gave it a little bit of kindness hidden deep in his heart.
For Lu Li himself, no one could shake his will to practice. In his lifetime, he must personally stand on the top and take a look at the people crawling below this great river and mountain.
"It turns out that this is spiritual practice."
After hearing this, Min He's eyes suddenly became clear. He stood up and saluted Lu Li heavily, "Junior brother, your kindness will never be forgotten by Min He. If I can go on, I will definitely repay you."
Then he put a jade bottle on the table, said, "I'll open it tomorrow." Then he hurried away.
Lu Li frowned and stared at the jade bottle. Just as he was about to speak, Min He had disappeared.
He shook his head, put the jade bottle into the Space Palace, then walked out the door towards the west path.
Lu Li was able to realize this only after experiencing the death of Qingliang Mountain and Qin Shouren. People in the spiritual world are working hard to become stronger. It is difficult to distinguish between right and wrong, but there are friends and foes.
On the other side, Min He returned to the kitchen, carried a package on his back, and then walked onto the east path carrying another package. He was still limping as he walked, but his eyes were full of light.
After a while, Min He came to the cliff of the back mountain again, in front of the cave where Deng Qingsheng was imprisoned.
He patted the door and shook the package in his hand. Blood was still dripping from underneath the package: "Senior Brother Deng, this is what you want."
Deng Qingsheng inside looked happy when he heard this. He opened the middle of the iron door with a clang, revealing the square hole, and said impatiently, "You killed him. Hurry, give it to me!"
As long as he gets the head, he will have obtained the evidence. There are only a few of them in Tianjue Peak today, and he is locked up here with no way to get out. Then he can just make up an excuse and say that Min He is deliberately trying to please him. To kill Lu Li, you don't even need to do it yourself, the other person will die.
Wouldn't it be nice to kill two birds with one stone in this way?
Min He looked at Deng Qingsheng calmly: "Senior Brother Deng, don't you think something is missing?"
"What's missing?" Deng Qingsheng was stunned and said in a deep voice, "You have to let me take a look first, right?"
"Of course it's okay to see."
Min He slowly opened a corner of the package, and the head inside turned out to be exactly the same as Lu Li's. The head's eyes were wide open, and his face was full of horror.
"Okay, great!" When he saw the head, Deng Qingsheng suddenly felt that more than half of the matter was over. He took out two jade bottles and threw them out, "Here, give me his dog head quickly, I want to kick it How many kicks!"
Min He picked up the jade bottle and looked at it. He suddenly showed a playful look and forced the package through the gap. "Senior Brother Deng, please check it carefully. I am absolutely reliable in my work!"
Reliable?
Deng Qingsheng glanced at it strangely, thinking that after a while you will know what it means to be reliable. He couldn't wait to open the package, looked at it again and again, and suddenly pointed at Min He and laughed loudly:
"Hahaha, you bitch, you actually killed Lu Li just to please me. You are dead, you are dead, hahaha..."
"Yeah?"
Unexpectedly, Min He didn't panic at all and still stared at Deng Qingsheng jokingly, "Look what's under that neck?"
neck?
Deng Qingsheng was stunned and stared at the broken part of the head and neck. Then he realized that there seemed to be a piece of yellow paper among the bloody flesh. When he pulled it out, his expression suddenly changed, "Transformation Talisman! Min He, you fucking dare to use the Transformation Talisman." Come and deceive me!"
The moment Deng Qingsheng pulled out the magic talisman, the original head of 'Lu Li' turned into a dog's head!
"Hahahahaha..." Min He laughed unscrupulously, "Deng Qingsheng, do you think I will really help you kill people? You are too self-righteous! Hahahaha... You don't want to Dog head? It’s just what you want, hahahaha..."
"Min He, you, do you know the consequences of teasing me! Do you believe that I will be the first to kill you after I come out!" Deng Qingsheng gritted his teeth, and his eyes were about to spit out fire. He did not expect that this person who usually accepts everything, How dare the obedient fat man tease him like this.
"Kill me?" Min He sneered, "That will have to wait until you come out." At this point, his face suddenly turned cold, and he stared directly at Deng Qingsheng, "Deng Qingsheng, you'd better live well. Sooner or later I will come to you to take revenge for my broken leg!"
After saying that, he turned around and left without looking back.
"Bastard, don't go, don't go!" Deng Qing was so angry that he slammed the door wildly. In his anger, a mouthful of blood spurted out.
Tianjue Peak is very large. There is a mountain col at the end of the path to the east of the small square. The mountain col is shrouded in white mist all year round. On the edge of the white mist, you can vaguely see a wall surrounded by brown logs and a grass pavilion.
At the end of the path is the thatched pavilion. At this time, an old man in gray clothes who is over fifty years old is sitting cross-legged in the thatched pavilion. He seems to be practicing.
Lu Li stepped forward, took out the prohibition token given to him by Xiao Jue and said respectfully, "Senior, I am here to collect medicine on the order of the great elder."
The old man slowly opened his eyes, raised his head and stared at the prohibition token in Lu Li's hand before standing up and saying in a hoarse voice: "What medicine?"
"Xuanzhu grass."
"How many."
"Ten, ten plants."
"There are a total of fifteen Xuanzhu grass in the medicine garden. They are one mile to the east. Go and get them yourself." As he spoke, he spread his palms and a palm-sized jade tablet suddenly appeared in his hand.
The jade medal is light blue and has a cyan metal chain on it.
The old man waved to Lu Li, "Come here."
Lu Li didn't know why, so he walked over. The old man suddenly waved his hand, and the jade token flew towards him with a hiss, and was hung around his neck before he could react. Then the chain shrank, almost tightly strangling his neck. Lu Li's expression changed and he immediately started to pull it off.
"do not move!"
