Mr. Baili was lying on the cold adobe bricks. His wide-open eyes were no longer alive, but he still retained a joy that was almost crazy.
Fat white maggots soaked in pus and blood crawled out of his eye sockets.
Lin Xixue closed her eyes and calmed down.
This is false, these are all false, Mr. Baili specifically told me not to believe it, no matter what happens, don’t believe it.
Calm down, be sure to calm down.
Lin Xixue didn't know how long she had been waiting. She only heard the watchman's clapper ringing again and again outside the house, and the sunset spread an orange-red light.
The maggots had eaten away all the eyeballs in Mr. Baili's eyes, leaving only two black holes. Most of his nose had disappeared, and several gray moths flew out of his mouth.
The gray scale powder rubbed against his lips. Facing the light of the setting sun, his lips showed an extremely dark color like chestnut skin.
Lin Xixue called tentatively: "Mr. Baili?"
She didn't get any response, but she still didn't dare to act rashly.
Maybe this is just an illusion that disturbs my mind. If I act rashly at this time, I am afraid that all my previous efforts will be wasted.
However, not long after, Bai Qing also returned to the medicine shop. She looked at Mr. Baili lying on the ground and was not surprised. She burned the body clean with real fire.
She walked around the ashes and corpse oil after burning and came to the back hall. When she saw the three silver needles inserted in Lin Xixue's body, she reached out to pull them out.
Lin Xixue pulled away and hid. She was not sure whether the Bai Qing in front of her was some strange illusion, and she tried to pull out the three needles that had been inserted.
Bai Qing sighed speechlessly and said, "You can do it if you want. You said you would write back to Liang Cheng and keep the appointment. Now you have gone to the appointment and the person is dead. You can go."
"If I don't leave, I won't believe anything until the thirteen needles are inserted."
"If you don't believe me, I've already told you that it's just a waste of time for you to come back to find this worldly doctor." Bai Qing activated the restraint, then picked up Lin Xixue and placed her on the horseback outside the door.
Bai Qing led the horse and walked out of the alley, explaining to Lin Xixue as she walked.
"These Thirteen Acupuncture Needles can only deal with minor illnesses and evils in the world, but you are so thoroughly infiltrated by evil spirits. Not only is this method useless to you, but it will also backfire on the person administering the acupuncture."
After hearing this explanation, Lin Xixue couldn't help but feel a little angry. Bai Qing had known that this acupuncture method was useless and would let Mr. Baili kill herself. She could have tried to dissuade him in advance, but she didn't say anything.
"Since you knew that this acupuncture method was useless, why didn't you tell Mr. Baili in advance, but instead watched him suffer the backlash?"
"The art of looking at qi is the basic skill of a monk. Mr. Baili's body is too full of death energy. He just relies on his obsession to hold on for a breath. Otherwise, he should have gone two days ago."
"Whether he does it or not, he won't be able to survive today. Why not follow his wishes and let him implement his so-called great medical method without any regrets?"
Bai Qing's tone was very indifferent, and she didn't seem to care about Mr. Baili's death.
Lin Xixue was speechless for a moment, and after a moment of silence she said again: "Even so, people in the secular world insist on being buried in peace, so you just burned Mr.'s body with a fire?"
Although Lin Xixue is not opposed to cremation, it can even be said that in her world view, cremation is a more common and efficient method.
But before that, she heard the conversation between the second cobbler of the Jingling Department and the corpse exterminator, and she knew that there seemed to be some principles in this world where the corpse must be intact and buried.
"In order to save others, he took the initiative to introduce the corpse energy of others into his own body. I don't need to burn his corpse with real fire. Do I have to wait for the corpse to transform?"
"As a mortal, he has absorbed so much corpse energy. If it is not handled properly, it will be a matter of time before he turns into a corpse. It seems that he himself knows this very well and does not want to injure others, so he dismissed the young apprentice in advance. "
"So, it was obviously his original intention to dispose of his body properly and not cause trouble to others."
Lin Xixue was still a little hesitant. Mr. Baili told him not to believe anything he saw before he finished thirteen needles.
But he only took three injections before the evil energy came back to bite him and he died. So is it just an illusion now?
Besides, I had been waiting for so long, even being tied to a horse by Bai Qing, but I still couldn't get the fourth shot.
Or is this not an illusion and Mr. Baili is really dead?
However, as long as you are not sure whether this is an illusion or not, it will be fine as long as you don't pull out the silver needles on your body.
If what I am experiencing now is a hallucination, as long as I don't pull out the silver needle, Mr. Baili will give the fourth shot sooner or later.
If Mr. Baili has not received the fourth injection in another ten days and a half, then Mr. Baili must have really left.
When her thoughts came to this point, Lin Xixue suddenly thought of something again.
Previously, the Wuzeng Temple was damaged because of her, and she had promised in her heart that she would build a larger temple for the master and the embroidery lady.
She had been misled by the auditory hallucination before, and she couldn't tell the owner's position for a while, but now that Bai Qing had woken up, it showed that the owner had indeed helped her objectively.
Since objectively he did help him, he should fulfill his promise to help him rebuild the temple.
"So you want to take me back to Lantau Island now?"
"right."
"So you are not going to pursue the case of meat gold anymore?"
"I have contacted my fellow disciples through Yunzhou Mansion a few days ago. The master has issued an urgent order. All disciples who have gone out must return to the master immediately without delay."
"Before leaving Xinliang City, there is one more thing I need your help with." Lin Xixue stated her request straightforwardly.
"Tell me first if you can promise me not to guarantee it."
"I want to build a temple, but this temple was destroyed because of me. And if it weren't for this temple, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to wake up from your serious injury."
"No." Bai Qing refused simply, "The sect's iron rule strictly prohibits disciples from having any cause and effect with temples, monasteries, Taoist temples and the like. Whether it is repairing, visiting, or receiving incense, it is not allowed."
"Why is this?" Lin Xixue was quite puzzled. Could it be that this person from Lantau Mountain was not a disciple of Taoism?
"I don't know, it just doesn't work." Bai Qing's tone was firm, leaving no room for negotiation.
Lin Xixue was even more confused. Previously, she felt that the method used by Bai Qing was the closest to the right path of the Immortal Sect that she knew.
But why does Lantau Island have so many weird rules? This is not allowed, and that is not allowed. The reasons are not clearly explained.
"In that case, then you can lift my restriction and I will contact the craftsmen to repair it myself."
She didn't force it anymore, after all, she had previously found a large box full of hidden silver in the small courtyard, which was definitely more than enough to repair a temple.
Bai Qing nodded and released the restraints on her body.
She wasn't afraid that Lin Xixue would disappear. After all, after she woke up, she tracked her through the forbidden induction, and finally took Lin Xixue back from the hands of Sanyuan Guan.
Lin Xixue dismounted and the two walked out of the alley side by side and returned to the cross street in the city.
In the busy city, Lin Xixue suddenly heard a somewhat panicked female voice shouting.
"Help! Hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium and boron change from odd to even. The symbols look at the quadrants! Can anyone understand what I'm talking about..."
