The golden elixir condenses the cultivation of the golden elixir monk, and contains great magic power, as well as the monk's own understanding of the Tao. Liu Qinghuan did not dare to absorb this golden elixir the size of a fingernail rashly, and planned to go back and ask the poisonous lady before making any plans.
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After another long cycle, he exited and entered concentration, opened his eyes, and saw the entire valley at a glance.
The poisonous lady couldn't be disturbed because she needed to heal her wounds, so she set up another magic circle on a few trees on the left. Mu Yinyin sat by the small pool, hugging her knees and staring blankly at the pool, her mind wandering to nowhere.
, the back looks like it reveals a hint of tranquility...and vulnerability.
Liu Qinghuan walked over, and the sound of footsteps brought her back to reality. She turned her head and looked over with a slight smile on her face: "Fellow Daoist Liu, are you awake?"
Liu Qinghuan glanced at her face a few times and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Mu Yinyin was stunned, and opened her mouth several times, as if she was at a loss, and as if she didn't know how to talk about it. After calming down, she sighed softly: "I just heard about Sister Yang, and I felt something.
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Liu Qinghuan sat down by the pool. The water was very shallow, crystal clear, and covered with round pebbles. He stretched out his hand to stir up the water, and the coolness and comfort refreshed his spirit.
For a moment, I felt playful, squatted down and took off my shoes and socks, then paused: "Uh..."
Mu Yinyin put down her hugging knees and reached out to grab a handful of water. After getting along for a long time and experiencing life and death together, the two of them had become familiar with each other a lot. Her temperament also seemed much more cheerful, and she had relieved herself of all the worries she had before.
alienation and precaution.
Seeing Liu Qinghuan's movements at this time, he turned his head away with a naughty smile in his eyes: "You can do whatever you want."
Liu Qinghuan thought for a while, smiled casually, stretched her bare feet into the cool pool water, and instantly the fatigue in her body disappeared. She couldn't help but smile and said, "You want to try it too?"
Mu Yinyin was obviously extremely emotional, but as a man, he acted freely and freely, but it was not appropriate for a woman like him, so he had to hold back and just play with the water with his hands.
"I didn't expect that there would be such a wonderful scene in the coffin of the Earthly Fire Immortal. The owner of this place has such unique and unfathomable ingenuity."
Mu Yinyin said with a smile: "Speaking of this, you have to take credit for this. When I got separated from Sister Yang, we met three foreign monks. They came up and beat them indiscriminately. If anyone saw me protecting you, they would
I wanted to set my sights on you, so I had to fight and run away, and the sound of fighting attracted the puppet again..."
Liu Qinghuan's face darkened. One could imagine how dangerous that day was. Mu Yinyin was surrounded by enemies on all sides, but she still had to take care of him. The situation was probably extremely difficult.
Mu Yinyin talked about the situation that day in an understated way, with a little apology on her face: "The puppet was about to turn around and come through the passage. I killed two people in a row. I was unable to handle it and threw you out. The result was just right.
I hit the mechanism on the wall, but I escaped with my life."
"You're not hurt, are you?" Liu Qinghuan said suddenly.
Mu Yinyin said "Ah" and paused before saying: "Well, I was injured, but it's not serious and will be fine soon. By the way, how are your injuries doing? That day you fell into the lava.
He, there are many burns on your body, I originally wanted to feed you the Rejuvenation Pill, but I found that you healed very quickly."
Liu Qinghuan rubbed away a scar on his arm: "It's healed. Well... what were you thinking about before?"
Mu Yinyin glanced at him and was silent for a while before asking as if casually: "Fellow Daoist Liu, are your mortal parents... or family members still there?"
Liu Qinghuan said lightly: "I am an orphan and grew up in a beggar's den."
Mu Yinyin didn't expect that the other person had such a life experience, and she felt a little embarrassed for a moment, but then she smiled bitterly: "I do have parents, but... I would rather be an orphan as well."
She stared steadily at the water, showing confusion: "When I was a child, there were five sisters in my family, and I was the fourth. My father often beat us and scolded us for being debt collectors. He also beat my mother, saying that she didn't even have a leader.
I can't give birth. When my mother is angry, she will take it out on us. If she does something wrong, she won't give her food."
Her voice was soft and gentle, but with an extremely hard-to-detect sadness: "Later, the family became more and more difficult. After my father lost another bet, he sent the eldest sister out to pay off debts. Once there is a second time, the first three
My sisters were sold one after another, and I was so scared every day that I couldn't sleep at night. I washed, cooked, and cleaned the house every day to make myself more useful so as not to be sold too."
Liu Qinghuan couldn't hide her surprise. After feeling the poisonous lady's deep love for her daughter, and then hearing Mu Yinyin's words, the two were almost two extremes.
But Mu Yinyin's eyes were blurry, as if she had completely sunk into memory. She was a little stumbled when she started to speak, but then it was as if the door of memory had opened, and countless past memories came out: "In less than two years, it was...
News came back that the eldest sister was beaten to death by her husband. The second sister was sold to a brothel, dressed in fancy clothes, with red lips on her face. Every time I went to see her secretly, she drove me away... The third sister
He was sold to a passing businessman and never heard from again."
Her eyes were full of tears, but she tilted her head to prevent them from falling: "It was my turn soon, when I was ten years old. My mother happened to be pregnant again, and this time Po Wen said it must be a boy, and the whole family was
I was very happy, and I was very happy, thinking that I would definitely not be sold. Later, my mother gave birth to a younger brother, and I was dragged out of the house by my father three days after my younger brother was born."
"I cried desperately and went to my mother's bedside. I said that I would help take care of my younger brother and only ate half a bowl of rice every day. I begged my parents not to sell me. But..."
Her tears finally flowed down, and her clear and beautiful eyes seemed to have been washed, empty and lifeless: "My mother slapped me in the face, scolded me as a loser, and beat me to death if I disturbed my brother. My father came up and said
His feet kicked me out of the door..."
Liu Qinghuan felt pain in his heart. At that time, Mu Yinyin, who had excellent qualifications for cultivating immortals with Tianling roots and was as beautiful as snow, was just a poor girl who was beaten and scolded by her parents when she was young, and then sold.
little girl.
He stretched out his hand, pressed the other person's thin and stubborn body into his arms, and hid his tearful eyes in his collar, preventing outsiders from seeing him.
This girl has always wanted to live a strong life, wrapping herself in layers of coldness and alienation, not getting close to others, and not letting others get close, just for fear of being hurt again...
Childhood is the background of everyone's life. If it is lived well, the sunshine will seep into the foundation. But if it is not lived well, it will become a heavy shackles and turn into the fear and uneasiness when dreaming back at midnight.
Although Liu Qinghuan lost his father at a young age and lived a difficult life, he was spiritually rich because of Old Man Liu who taught him how to read, calligraphy, and behave. His fear was only about external things like eating, but Mu Yinyin was
He fell into despair from the depths of his soul.
In front of outsiders, we are extremely tough. When we are hurt, we will only get angry and sad. But the hurt from the people closest to us, no matter how thick the armor is, will hit the vital point and make us miserable.
Low sobs came from his arms, and the cold Mu Yinyin disappeared, leaving only a scared and helpless little girl, holding his clothes tightly, crying until her heart broke, suppressing the pain of countless years.
The pain made her whole body tremble and she couldn't stop.
Liu Qinghuan hugged her tightly, with a trace of warmth in his eyes. The sound of the waterfall covered up all the cries, and the gloomy sky was far away, looking at the joys and sorrows of mortals indifferently.
After a while, the crying gradually stopped, and the trembling body calmed down. Mu Yinyin leaned quietly in his arms and squirmed slightly.
Her eyes were red and she showed a shy smile: "Fellow Daoist Liu, I made you laugh."
Liu Qinghuan's eyes were deep and he said softly: "If you don't want to laugh, then don't laugh."
Mu Yinyin looked at him blankly, then lowered her head meekly, and when she raised her head again, she smiled brightly, like a pearl that had wiped away the dust, and her whole body relaxed. If she had a thorn on her body before, she would
It was just a little furry beast, but now all these thorns have turned into smooth and soft hair.
"Do you still want to hear the rest?"
"Um."
"It was nothing after that. I was taken to a wealthy family in Qingcheng to be a maid. Within half a month, a group of monks came to Qingcheng to fight. Later, when I entered the Xingyue Palace, I learned that it was two small sects fighting over each other.
A spiritual mine suddenly started a war over Qingcheng, and the people in the city also suffered."
Liu Qinghuan looked strange, but Mu Yinyin didn't notice it for a moment and continued: "The house I bought was mostly destroyed by a spell leaked from the sky. I crawled out of the ruins and found that everyone had escaped, so I followed.
The fleeing people left the city."
Liu Qinghuan interrupted her: "Escape to Tongda Prefecture?"
Mu Yinyin was surprised: "Ah, how did you know?"
"Because I was also in the fleeing team at that time..."
"Uh, uh...then why didn't I see you?"
"There were so many people at that time, and they all looked gray and gray. Besides, I was in the first wave of people."
The two looked at each other, and suddenly laughed. They didn't expect that they would have such a common experience, and they couldn't help but sigh again.
After probably telling her most miserable past, Mu Yinyin got closer to Liu Qinghuan, finally put down her reserve, put her feet into the pool, and sighed comfortably: "If I weren't in this earthly fire fairy coffin, what would happen outside?
There’s also a puppet that’s going around killing people, so this is a good place to be.”
Liu Qinghuan looked at the stone gate opened on the mountain wall in the distance: "You have been searching for ten days, and you really haven't found a way out at all?"
"Well, the passages outside will change positions, and they will be different every time you go out." Mu Yinyin said: "In addition, the puppet is running around everywhere, and every time there is a clue, it will force it back."
"It seems we can only wait."
This wait lasted for more than ten days.
The poisonous lady finally healed her wounds. Liu Qinghuan asked her what to pay attention to when absorbing other people's golden elixirs, and then slowly destroyed the golden elixir fragments the size of fingernails. As a result, her cultivation level increased a bit, and she was one step closer to the Great Consummation.
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They also went out every other day, but did not dare to go far, just to inquire about the outside world.
As expected, the maze passage outside changed every day. Liu Qinghuan explored it several times but couldn't find the nozzle.
During this period, I also met many monks, who came one after another from the outside world. Once they entered the maze, they were like shrimps thrown into the sea, unable to stir up any waves.
Others found the funerary room and began to attack the restrictions without mercy. Without exception, they were all torn to pieces by the silver puppets that flew towards them.
On this day, they met Chang Laoguai on the road. The other party suggested that they join together and escape: "If we wait for outsiders to come, we may not know how long it will take. It is better to rely on others than to rely on ourselves, and it is better for us to cooperate."
The poisonous lady wanted to get out more than anyone else, but she was completely immune to his temptation. At this moment, she looked at him sideways and said, "Are you going to lure that puppet away?"
Chang Laoguai smiled and said: "It's not impossible. I can use the thunder escape technique to lead the puppet away, and you can find a way out."
When Liu Qinghuan heard this, he looked around and saw that Old Freak Chang had used some method to grow his severed hand back again without any abnormalities.
The poisonous lady tsked twice and mocked: "It's a pity that I don't believe you!"
When they turned back, Madam Poison said to Liu Mu: "Old Monster Chang is very naughty. He is used to making false accusations and blaming others for misfortunes. He can only believe one point of what he says."
The matter was dropped, Liu Qinghuan said: "Senior, how about we take advantage of the puppet to enter the burial chamber and destroy the mechanism opened by the Dragon Breaking Stone so that the Dragon Breaking Stone can no longer be lifted up. How about locking it inside?"
The poisonous lady frowned: "Senior and junior, wouldn't you call me Sister Yang like Yinyin does? Just call me me for nothing!"
Liu Qinghuan was embarrassed and called Sister Yang in a condescending manner.
Only then was the poisonous lady satisfied and answered his previous question: "I'm afraid it won't work. I thought about it carefully. I have only put down the Dragon Broken Stone and mentioned it once in the past few days. It was when we escaped from the lava river. At that time, the old monster was in
The dragon-breaking stone is placed on the pit, and the puppet is raised on the funerary room."
In other words, if you want to put down the Dragon Breaking Stone and then destroy the mechanism, someone must stay on that side, and still be with the puppet. Not to mention whether they can destroy the mechanism, they can't block the puppet's attack at all, and I'm afraid they haven't waited.
When they started, they were already killed.
"I have an idea." Mu Yinyin said thoughtfully.
"Huh?" The other two people looked at him.
"Didn't I get down into the blue lava river before? I found that the river was extremely deep, and maybe it was directly connected to the fire veins in the Xianding Mountains outside."
Liu Qinghuan's eyes widened: "Really?"
Mu Yinyin glanced at him: "But the deeper the river goes, the higher the temperature becomes. We're afraid we won't be able to withstand it."
The poisonous lady laughed, took out a jade pendant and threw it to Liu Qinghuan: "As for the magic weapon to avoid fire, I still have one, so I will treat it as a reward for your help in healing my son."
But Mu Yinyin still shook her head: "Sister Yang, I'm talking about us, not just Fellow Daoist Liu. The Earth Fire Veins extend underground, and we need to find an exit, so we have to stay in there for a long time. The same is true for the Earth Fire Veins.
Just like the tides, there are hot peaks that are much higher than the lava temperature in other places. Although we may not encounter them, if we encounter them, they will be burned to ashes immediately."
"Exit?" Liu Qinghuan's eyes brightened slightly: "When Xianding Peak erupted this time, several volcanoes erupted together. The nearest one is only half a day away from Xianding Peak."
"But how do we tell the direction in the earth veins?" Mu Yinyin said.
He was stumped: "Well..."
"Anyway, it's only half a day's journey. It's enough for us to find a general direction." Madam Poison said disapprovingly: "Isn't it Zhifeng? How could our luck be so good? Okay, let's first find out if there is an exit to the outside world.
If not, all our talk is in vain."
This is true.
Liu Qinghuan said: "If we encounter Zhifeng, can we escape by hiding in the nearby rocks?"
The poisonous lady thought for a moment: "Maybe we can give it a try."
The three of them discussed for a while, adjusted their breath to the best condition, put away their things, and went out.
The journey went smoothly, but the puppet disappeared to nowhere, and the entire underground palace was completely silent.
They carefully reached the funerary chamber, then walked down the narrow stone path, and once again entered the underground mountains and rivers.
Except for a few fallen stone pillars, not much has changed here. And the coffin that originally contained the silver puppet has drifted to nowhere and has disappeared.
Lady Poison frowned and said: "In such a big place, what year and month are we going to find? Let's split up."
Mu Yinyin pointed to the big lake in the distance: "I'll start looking from there."
The three of them dispersed, Liu Qinghuan opened the fire-proof jade pendant, and then went down into the lava river. As expected, most of the high fever was isolated.
The river is completely blue, and the eyes cannot function at all, and the consciousness is also hindered to some extent. The range is not wide. And it is indeed extremely deep, like deep underground trenches, and the environment is quite complicated, so it is difficult to find the way to the river.
Exit to the outside world is not easy.
After searching for a long time, he suddenly received a message from Mu Yinyin: "I found it, come to me quickly!"
Liu Qing was overjoyed and hurriedly swam up the river. He saw Mu Yinyin standing on a mountain range bulging with lava. Poison Lady also came out on the other side, one step ahead of him.
Just as he was flying there, he saw Mu Yinyin's face suddenly became extremely frightened: "Quick, run!"
Liu Qinghuan's heart condensed, and without looking back, she used the Pingxu Wind Control Technique to the extreme in an instant.
And in the distance, across a long distance, a silver-gray figure appeared at the entrance.