The end of retreat is often accompanied by hunger. Chen Mo found two steamed buns in his storage bag, hurriedly filled his stomach, and quickly left the room.
He didn't know whether Meng Qianqiu had left or not. Going to the inn lobby to eat in a swagger would undoubtedly bring trouble to himself.
Every extra day you stay here means one more day of danger, so it’s better to escape as soon as possible.
Coincidentally, when Chen Mo went to find Lin Yuqin, he happened to catch up with the two of them packing their luggage. Of course, they couldn't think of going with him. Chen Mo asked in surprise: "Who is leaving?"
"Me." Zhong Qing said calmly: "Yan Yuezong has assigned a temporary task, and it will take a few more days."
Lin Yuqin said: "She wanted to inform you last night, but you were still in retreat, so we had no choice but to come back."
"It's okay." Chen Mo waved his hand, indicating that it was all trivial matters: "I originally thought that we could go to the Devil's Island together, but now it seems that we can't go." Chen Mo said with some regret.
Zhong Qing didn't say anything after hearing this, but Lin Yuqin also felt regretful. After packing the package and putting it in her pocket, Zhong Qing turned to look at her and suddenly said:
"Sister Qin, I want to have a few words with Brother Chen alone."
Lin Yuqin was startled subconsciously: "Ah? Of course, then I'll go out and you can chat."
Without giving Chen Mo a chance to agree or refuse, Lin Yuqin slammed the door. Zhong Qing made a secret with one hand, and her spiritual power flashed rapidly in the air. After a while, the room was decorated with a layer of cyan. Sound barrier.
It was obvious that there were things she didn't want her to hear.
Chen Mo had already guessed what she was going to say, and it would definitely not be an apology. In fact, it was not what he expected, and a cold word came out:
"Do you like Sister Qin?"
Chen Mo said: "Does it have anything to do with you?"
"If you don't like her, just let her go. What's the point of forcing her to stay with you?"
Chen Mo looked at her without saying a word, and Zhong Qing stared back without fear. The atmosphere dropped to freezing point at this moment.
"Does it have anything to do with you?"
After a long time, Chen Mo said calmly and repeated what he said before.
Zhong Qing laughed angrily, then looked at him with disdain and said, "Just pretend I didn't say anything."
Chen Mo said: "Are you asking for her?"
"She shouldn't have been deceived by you!"
"Then it's not something you, an outsider, have to worry about. Zifei Yuan knows the joy of fish. Let's go. Have a nice trip."
Chen Mo immediately made a gesture of invitation, indicating that Zhong Qing could leave.
"You...you are a hypocrite! A real villain!"
Zhong Qing's face turned red with anger, she glared at Chen Mo and said, "Wait! I'm going to tell her everything you said!"
Chen Mo thought for a while and said, "I advise you not to go."
Zhong Qing sneered: "Why, are you scared?"
"I'm afraid that you will lose each other's friends. Please believe me for once." Chen Mo said calmly.
"Haha! Just you?"
"Are you not that old this year?"
Chen Mo changed the topic and said: "You are still a girl. There are many people pursuing you but you are picky. Well... one of your parents is an elder of the sect and should be in charge of the sect's herbal medicine operation."
Zhong Qing snorted coldly: "Did Sister Qin tell you that?"
"You can see it with your eyes."
Chen Mo bent his two fingers and gestured in front of his eyes: "Just like you observed me when we first met, you think I have someone else in my heart and I am still entangled with Lin Yuqin, and you feel very angry, don't you? "
Without giving her a chance to interrupt, Chen Mo continued: "You are not her, so you don't know what she is thinking. You are not me, and you can't understand my situation either. Do you understand what I say?"
Seeing that she was confused by his few words, Chen Mo said again:
"Your cultivation path was paved by your elders, but I made it with one knife and one shot. To be arrogant, I have seen more dead people than you have seen alive. People like you who don't know the heights of the world Eldest lady, no one will accommodate you outside the sect. This is my kind advice to you for the sake of calling me Brother Chen. As for how much you can listen to, it all depends on God's will."
After saying that, Chen Mo waved his hand and the soundproofing restrictions instantly collapsed. Ignoring Zhong Qing's reaction, Chen Mo turned around and left the room.
Lin Yuqin was not at the door, but probably waiting outside the inn. Chen Mo didn't want to see Zhong Qing off, which would make everyone embarrassed. After thinking for a moment, he walked back to Lin Yuqin's room.
After more than half an hour, Lin Yuqin belatedly knocked on the door. Chen Mo let her in and asked first: "Leaving?"
Lin Yuqin nodded: "Let's go."
"Then we have to leave." Chen Mo said: "At this juncture, I shouldn't hide it from you anymore. To be honest, Meng Qianqiu and I have a little feud. If she finds out that I am here... ..”
"Ah? Then...why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Before she finished speaking, Lin Yuqin stood up in panic. No wonder Chen Mo's expression became so strange after hearing the news about Meng Qianqiu: "So there is still such a relationship, so why..."
Chen Mo smiled bitterly and said, "I can't just hear someone's name and run away in fear, right? What's more, there are outsiders present."
Lin Yuqin didn't dare to delay any longer, and quickly stood up and said, "I'll go back and pack my things now."
"Yes." Chen Mo nodded and suddenly mentioned something she had been thinking about before: "If you can see Linglong Well on the way out, you can give it a try, but it is best not to do it more than twice. It is just luck. Too much hope.”
...
The two of them came and went like a breeze, and the check-out process sped up a lot. At a quarter of noon, they left the inn and set off for Lin Yuqin's home.
As the vague threat was lifted, Chen Mo felt a lot more relaxed. Since they still had to find Linglong Well, they did not rush with their swords, but walked on their legs.
But a few hours passed, and there was not a single monk accompanying them, not to mention the mouth of the well, not even a decent puddle. Chen Mo thought that this legendary incident was over.
Chen Mo estimated the time in his mind. If he didn't meet tonight, he would give up completely. He didn't like this kind of thankless waste of life.
Towards evening, the two of them were a little tired from walking, so they rested on a rock. Chen Mo breathed air with her, and Lin Yuqin had no choice but to agree.
"But... huh? Brother Chen, look!! It's Linglong Well!!"
When Lin Yuqin turned around, a hexagonal wellhead made of bluestone suddenly appeared not far away. Chen Mo's eyes widened. He had scanned that side with his consciousness before, but there was nothing there, just a blur. When he was free, a deep well appeared out of thin air. How could he not be surprised?
Chen Mo jumped down immediately: "Let's go over and have a look."
The two of them hurried to the well. There was still a little moss growing on the part where the stone slab was connected to the ground. Even if it was here for many years, some people would believe it.
They looked down the well together, and the faces of the two people were immediately reflected in the water. At a glance, they were no different from wells in the secular world.
Chen Mo frowned: "In this way, we will lose five years of life?"
Lin Yuqin was amused by him: "Brother Chen, it's not that easy. If you want to prove whether it is really Linglong Well, you have to hold the edge of the well with both hands and recite silently in your heart: Linglong Well, Linglong Well, who is the one I love?" ? Only in this way can the fairies feel your sincerity and show you the person you want to see."
"So that's it." Chen Mo asked another question: "Then if it is fake, what will happen?"
"There is nothing, not even my own appearance. But I heard from those people that even if it is a real well, there will be situations where the person you like can't be seen."
"Oh? Then why."
"Either this person will not live long and Linglongjing cannot predict the marriage of a dead person, or he is destined to be alone in his life and Linglongjing has no way to give him an answer, so he can't see anything."
Chen Mo quickly grasped the doubt: "Well, since both the real well and the fake well may have the same situation, who knows whether what they saw is true or false?"
Lin Yuqin shook her head: "No one knows, but there are very few cases where the real Linglong Well cannot see the marriage, so now everyone agrees that as long as the face cannot be seen, it is a fake well."
"Do you want to try this?" Chen Mo asked.
Lin Yuqin said: What about you?
Chen Mo said: "Forget it, what a coincidence. The first time we saw this well, it was a real wishing well. With such luck from God's blessing, we should have become immortals long ago."
"Then it's a fake well?"
"If you're itchy, go ahead and try it."
"...Forget it." Lin Yuqin said: "After hearing what you said, Brother Chen, I don't think it is possible. Let's look forward."
Chen Mo nodded, and the two of them set off again immediately. The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. There was a forest with lush foliage for dozens of miles outside the city. Cicadas were chirping and insects were chirping in their ears. There were only two people walking in the gray and purple world, but it was a different scene.
Lin Yuqin walked side by side with him, thought for a while, and suddenly said: Brother Chen, what did you say?
"What are you talking about?" Chen Mo tilted his head but did not stop.
"What I said to Zhong Qing in the room, I saw that she seemed aggrieved when she was leaving."
"Oh." Without mentioning it, Chen Mo almost forgot about it, so he explained:
"To a person who has never experienced the pain of spiritual practice, I simply said a few words. Maybe the medicine is bitter and she didn't like to hear it."
This was obviously not the answer Lin Yuqin wanted to hear. She asked again: "But she was the one who came to you first. What on earth did she come to see you for? Why can't I hear it?"
Chen Mo said helplessly: "Just say whatever comes to your mind."
"I don't know if you can understand, it's her. Aha..." Lin Yuqin gestured in front of her neck: "Everyone can do what she can do."
"What are you talking about?" Chen Mo was really confused by what she said.
"Anyway, I can do it too!" Lin Yuqin also said shyly.
Chen Mo didn't understand why she was so shy. Just when he was about to speak, his consciousness suddenly flashed: "There is someone in front!" Lin Yuqin was slightly startled, and also followed the direction he said to check. As expected, two women also discovered He walked into an exquisite well and seemed to be making a wish.
"They are all from the Qi training period. Just go over and take a look."
Chen Mo and Lin Yuqin both pretended to be of the same level as them, so that they would not be wary or even scared away. After walking for more than 20 steps, they walked to the other side of the woods. The two women also saw them, and someone spoke. Asked: "Who is coming?"
"Don't be nervous, we are also looking for Linglong Well." Chen Mo said in a natural tone: "I wanted to take the first step, but you guys beat me to it."
Hearing what Chen Mo said, the woman carefully looked at the appearance of the two of them, but she looked like a Taoist couple, so she relaxed her vigilance: "She has already gone to try it. If it is really Linglong Well, you will also Can you follow me?"
"Thank you, thank you." Lin Yuqin said, cupping her hands towards the woman.
Chen Mo knew that she still had one sentence left. If it was false, then they would have saved five years of life in disguise. Thinking of this, Chen Mo's mind suddenly moved and he said:
"This girl, are everyone looking for Linglong Well in groups?"
"Of course it is. Can the probability of trial and error be the same for one person and a hundred people?"
"Oh! No wonder everyone gathered together and set off when we were at the inn. It turned out to be like this!"
Lin Yuqin understood what was going on after Chen Mo's guidance. She regretted it a little. If she had known this earlier, the two of them should not have come out to fight alone!
On the other side, the woman seemed to have finished making a wish and walked over quickly. Seeing the liveliness of their conversation, she interrupted: "I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you. This is a fake Linglong Well."
"Oh, I knew it would be like this!"
After hearing this, her friend also looked disappointed and said: "We have each spent ten years of our lives, but we still can't get Linglongjing's favor. It seems that this time we are destined to be together."
The female cultivator who was looking at the mouth of the well also sighed: "How much life have you two wasted?"
"us....."
Before Lin Yuqin finished speaking, Chen Mo said first: "We are the same as you, and we have been together for ten years."
Little did he know that when Chen Mo said this, the two women looked at him in surprise. Chen Mo felt weird, but heard the woman say again: "Didn't you pay for her?"
"What's the meaning?"
"You're blocking her lifespan, don't you know that?"
This time it was Chen Mo's turn to be surprised again. He said, "Can others stop such a thing?"
Chen Mo originally wanted to say, since I am willing to shorten my life for you, if she goes to see who is the person in the well, won't she have water in her head? But due to the gazes of several people, he finally did not say anything.
"Of course you can, but the premise is that both of you are willing to do it. If one party disagrees, both of you will suffer backlash."
"Is there such a thing?"
Lin Yuqin heard this for the first time, and Chen Mo finally suddenly realized that there were pairs of Taoist couples in the inn. It turned out that they had no hope of finding the real Linglong Well, they just wanted to test each other's sincerity!
Find the best one, if you can't find it, let the other party pay five years of life to get an answer without any loss.
"Boring as hell!"
Chen Mo didn't say anything on the surface, but he was scolding him in his heart: Who could be so heartless as to come up with such a ridiculous thing, and let the man or the woman lose five years of their life just for a promise? This... this is too much. So vicious!
After working on it for a long time, the two of them didn't know it. Their annoyance at being caused by the fake Linglong Well dissipated a little, and they said that if Chen Mo and the others didn't believe it, they could try it again.
"No, no, I believe you." Lin Yuqin said with a helpless smile.
Not long after, the two separated from Chen Mo and the others. Lin Yuqin looked at the fake well and sighed leisurely: "I didn't expect this to be the case."
Chen Mo said: "I didn't expect this, and no one told us that this area of several hundred miles is a testing ground for love, so do you still want to find Linglong Well?"
"If this continues, it's just like finding a needle in a haystack. Let's go." Lin Yuqin said with some disappointment.
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