Cao Yi looked away from the classics calmly, glanced at Xu Keming, and said, "You really don't want to leave?"
"Master uncle, master nephew is sincere and willing to accept any test."
Xu Keming looked sincere.
Cao Yi ran out of patience and directly activated the spirit gathering array.
The King of Ginseng, who had disappeared for a while, reappeared, and the rich aura of vegetation also appeared, and the hall was instantly enveloped in green.
"This is?"
Xu Keming looked at the green shrine with surprise.
Soon, as if he smelled poisonous gas, his head tilted and hit the ground, and his body kept shaking. The originally well-maintained face turned as red as a cooked lobster.
Cao Yi used the Golden Liquid Return Pill Technique, his chest sank continuously, and then he sucked in sharply. Most of the vegetation spiritual energy in the shrine disappeared in an instant. Due to absorbing too much vegetation spiritual energy at once, a layer of light green appeared on the surface of Cao Yi's skin.
"Ahem..."
Xu Keming, who felt much relieved, struggled to get up while coughing, but failed.
"Master, uncle, save...save me, save me..."
Xu Keming struggled to ask for help, his voice getting lower and lower.
Cao Yi's eyes moved to a futon beside him, and he had a thought in his mind.
The futon stuffed with sawdust swished and ran under Xu Keming, then supported Xu Keming and left the shrine at a height of more than a foot from the ground...
Three or four minutes later.
Xu Keming woke up from the cold and found himself lying on the steps in front of the Taoist temple.
After taking a greedy breath of cold air, he stood up, hugged the Taoist temple, and left with a complicated expression.
A few minutes later, I arrived at the wooden bridge at the water bay, boarded my boat, and sailed into the vast Taihu Lake.
Because of winter, the weather is very cold. In Taihu Lake, where there is no barrier, the cold wind is not small.
Xu Keming shrank his neck coldly, his already presbyopic eyes half-squinted.
When he was still seven or eight miles away from the shore, a picture came into his eyes.
A small boat carrying three pilgrims he met in the inlet of the island not long ago. It collided with a boat carrying a middle-aged man and a child. The huge impact pushed all five people into the cold lake water.
The two empty boats went away in opposite directions, leaving five people struggling in the water.
"Ahem, help..."
"Help, cough cough..."
…
A cry for help mixed with choking water came.
Xu Keming sped up and drove nearby, then carefully drove to a fat man who was struggling, reached out and grabbed the fat man's clothes and pulled them up.
People wear more clothes in winter, which makes them even heavier when they get wet. In addition, he is a big fat man. It took a lot of effort for the elderly Xu Keming to pull the fat man, Mu Heng, up.
The latter drank a lot of lake water and was severely frozen by the cold lake water. After coming up, he fainted.
Xu Keming had no time to get out the water Mu Heng drank, and then rescued the next person. In view of the lesson just now, this time he rescued a child weighing only a few dozen kilograms.
It didn't take much effort to save the child.
"Ahem, save, save my dad"
The child vomited a few mouthfuls of dirty lake water, shouted something, and then lay down straight.
Xu Keming glanced towards the lake and saw a middle-aged man who could hardly hold on.
He should be the child's father.
"Help, cough cough..."
The middle-aged man struggled and called for help.
Xu Keming drove the boat over, but unexpectedly lost control and hit the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man groaned and sank.
Xu Keming's eyes widened, with a look of remorse on his face. Saving someone turned into killing someone.
Fortunately, the middle-aged man quickly surfaced again.
Xu Keming quickly rescued the person.
The impact just now not only caused the middle-aged man's head to bleed a lot, but also made him drink a lot of water.
Xu Keming quickly moved the middle-aged man over, leaned down, and slapped him on the back several times.
"vomit……"
The middle-aged man vomited a lot of water.
Xu Keming breathed a sigh of relief. When he was about to save the remaining two people (Zhang Shan and Li Si), he found that one of them (Li Si) had sunk.
He quickly drove the boat over and reached out to save the people, but was unexpectedly dragged into the cold water by the struggling Zhang Shan.
Xu Keming, who didn't know how to drink water, choked on the water. At the same time, his calves were cramped and he couldn't use any strength.
"save"
As soon as Xu Keming shouted, he was kicked several times by Zhang Shan who was struggling randomly. His whole body sank, and endless cold lake water got into his mouth and nose.
It’s over!
Xu Keming's mind was filled with these two words, and soon his consciousness fell into darkness.
Zhang Shan, who dragged Xu Keming into the water and kicked him off, miraculously climbed onto the boat more than a minute later.
Half a minute later, Li Si, who had sunk before, surfaced and happened to be beside the boat.
Zhang Shan spent all his strength to drag Li Si up, who was desperate to survive.
One minute, two minutes, but Xu Keming didn't come up.
As if to show mercy to the dead, white, clear snowflakes fell from the sky, and the cold north wind also joined in the fun, blowing the snowflakes flying all over the sky.
Three minutes later.
Zhang Shan and Li Si, who had recovered their strength, woke up Mu Heng. The three of them shouted at the lake for a while, but the old Taoist priest who rescued them did not come up.
My body felt cold again.
Reluctantly, he drove the boat away.
Not long after, the snowflakes were replaced by snow larger than goose feathers, and the lake was completely white.
…
after an hour.
In the emerald green hall, the green on Cao Yi's skin completely faded, replaced by white and ruddy skin.
"call"
He exhaled a mouthful of light green gas that looked like a dragon and snake, and opened his eyes.
Outside, the dancing snow and the white snow on the ground came into view.
"Snowing"
Cao Yi stood up, walked out of the shrine, and walked through the snow without leaving a trace.
He has now reached the threshold where he can make his body light with just a little spiritual energy.
"I wonder what happened to selling jade and buying precious medicinal herbs?"
An idea flashed through my mind.
Cao Yi stepped out of the Taoist temple.
Not long after, I came to the wooden bridge covered with heavy snow, my steps lifted lightly, and I landed on the wooden boat that was also covered with snow.
With a thought, the fire spirit came out of the body, and the snow on the wooden boat went through the process of melting and drying at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Cao Yi sat down and thought. The two oars on the boat ran to both sides and swung rapidly in the water as if they were being held by someone.
The boat sailed briskly towards the depths of the snow-covered, white lake.
About ten minutes later.
Two ships came into view.
On a boat, a strong middle-aged man was holding a rope in his hand, as if he was pulling something.
On the other boat, there were three people standing, Mu Heng, Zhang Shan, and Li Si.
As the distance got closer, clear voices entered my ears.
"Thirty thousand for a corpse, not even a dime less."
"Thirty thousand per person, why don't you go and grab it?"
"I went into the water four times and lost half my life. Is that more than 30,000 yuan per person?"
"you"
"If you can't pay, just tell Zhiguan. Monks and Taoists are all very rich these days."
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