The sun has set and the cold wind has not stopped.
Huang Donglai stood next to the dead tree where he met Zhao Achun. He looked around, but could not find any trace of him.
He also felt strange: Where could a person with his legs broken like that run? Could he have been picked up by some wild beast?
Thinking of this, he lowered his head and carefully observed the ground, and found... that there really was such a messy drag mark, slowly extending into the distance.
Huang Donglai hesitated for a moment, then followed the trail, heading in a direction he had never been before.
With this departure, another stick of incense time has passed.
When I realized it later, a cold moon had quietly swam up into the clouds.
The moonlight was like water, spreading away the mist in the mountains and illuminating the pitted swamps and shadowy wild forests.
This scenery has a unique flavor, but Huang Donglai was so impatient at the moment that he was not in the mood to appreciate it.
As for him, he is not too worried about Zhao Achun's life and death. After all, the other party is just a stranger. It is normal to feel a little compassion for him, but if you want to say that you care very much... this is illogical. Brother Huang is indeed not that kind.
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The main reason that made Huang Donglai anxious was that he didn't have much physical strength, so he wanted to find the other party quickly and then go back to the hut to rest early.
As for whether the person found is dead or alive, it depends on God's will - it is best to find someone alive, just carry you back; what if the person found is a corpse, Huang Donglai has also considered it, no matter what, I will eat it
I gave you half a piece of cake and drank a few sips of water. I won’t let your body be exposed in the wilderness and be eaten by wild beasts. I’ll at least collect your body and bury you next to my thatched hut. I’ve done my best.
With this idea in mind, he searched and searched, and got lost again...
At this moment, in Huang Donglai's mind, there were really ten thousand grass-mud horses whizzing by.
He felt regretful and said in his heart: Who am I to be a good person? When I return to the dead tree and see that no one is there, I can just let it go. Who cares where you have gone? Who cares whether you are dead or alive?
?Isn’t that the end of it if I just go back to the thatched hut and lie down? Damn it!
But now he has lost his way again, making it difficult to get off the tiger; if he cannot find Zhao Achun alive but only a corpse, then he will not be able to find his way back to the thatched hut, but his luggage and baggage are still in the house.
, isn’t this unfortunate?
Therefore, the more lost he got, the more anxious Huang Donglai became, as if he had a deep friendship with Zhao Achun.
"Zhao Achun—Zhao Achun!" He shouted while searching. The shout sounded desolate, mainly because he really had no strength left and couldn't even shout.
Finally, after searching like this for nearly an hour, Huang Donglai chose to give up.
At this time, he really couldn't move a step.
"Ah——" Brother Huang was so angry that he immediately knelt down on his knees and looked up to the sky and screamed.
This impotent rage that exhausted his last bit of strength resounded through the sky.
And just when he was about to say the next half sentence of "Zhao Achun, I fucked your ancestors"...
Suddenly, a golden light flashed before Huang Donglai's eyes, and accompanied by bursts of clear laughter, two figures appeared floating in the air.
"Hahahaha... ok... ok, I did see the right person." One of them, Huang Donglai also knew him, was the Miao Yinzi whom he had met at Lanruo Temple before.
"Well...it's really rare to be able to feel so sad for a stranger." And that other person turned out to be "Zhao Achun", but at this moment he was no longer dressed like a woodcutter, but a Taoist robe.
And the whole person's demeanor has become completely different from before.
As soon as Huang Donglai saw these two people, he immediately came back to his senses. He immediately understood that all the abnormalities before were all "tests" for him.
In his heart, he was already trying to get rid of these Taoist priests - he liked to play with people and his methods were cliché.
But on his face, he put on an expression of innocence and surprise, and said, "Ah? What's going on?"
Both Mioyinzi and "Zhao Achun" seemed to be impressed by his reaction, and the smiles on their faces became even brighter.
"Donglai, congratulations." Na Miaoyinzi immediately said with a smile, "You have passed the entrance test of our sect and are qualified to enter the mountain gate of my Xuanqi Sect." After saying this, he rushed to the side.
The man gestured and said, "Oh, by the way, this one is not Zhao Achun. He is the 'supervisor' of our sect and my uncle, with the name Chun Chenzi."
"Oh..." Huang Donglai heard this title and quickly bowed to him with fists in his hands, "Donglai has met the senior."
"Get up, you don't have to be so polite." Chun Chenzi's tone now was completely different from when she was playing the role of a woodcutter. She had the demeanor of a senior master when she spoke, "What our sect pays attention to is a person who is casual and indifferent.
Especially our Xuanqi Sect, we don’t like this kind of kneeling and worshiping... From now on, you just need to be polite, and there is no need for 'etiquette'."
"Okay." Huang Donglai nodded and continued, "But... senior, it's not that I don't want to get up now, it's that I really have no strength in my legs and I can't get up."
As soon as these words came out, Chun Chenzi and Mianyinzi looked at each other and smiled again.
Immediately afterwards, Chun Chenzi dug into his sleeves, and while digging, he said: "Don't call me senior, call me uncle, and I will give you something good as a meeting gift."
Huang Donglai thought to himself: As long as the things are in place, don't say anything, just a hundred times.
"Yes, uncle." So he didn't hesitate much and just called.
Chun Chenzi chuckled: "Ha... I'm quite thick-skinned, not bad." While chatting and laughing, he took out a small bottle from his sleeve and handed it to Huang Donglai, "This bottle is called 'Guiyuan Dew', take it
It will keep you full of energy for the next seven days, and you won't feel tired at all even if you don't eat, drink or sleep."
Before he could finish his sentence, Huang Donglai quickly opened the cork of the bottle and drank the liquid inside.
The effect of this thing was really immediate. As a warmth spread in his stomach, Huang Donglai's already sore and weak body was instantly filled with strength, feeling like he could run a marathon right away.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Uncle Master, this medicine is too powerful." Huang Dong said and stood up, "Do the people in our sect usually don't eat?
Yes, just drink this?"
"You have a good idea." Before Chunchenzi could reply, Miaoyinzi said, "These are not crops in the field. You can plant as many as you like; 'Guiyuan Dew' needs to be refined.
The stock is not too much, usually only when the disciples of our sect need to practice in seclusion, they can go to the alchemy room to get some as support."
"Oh...it turns out to be such a precious thing." Huang Donglai nodded, and then greeted him with a flattery, "Thank you, uncle!"
"Okay, since you can move, come with us." Chun Chenzi said, then turned around and made a "please" gesture to Miao Yinzi.
Miaoyinzi also made the same move towards Chunchenzi, and then the two of them turned and walked forward side by side; Huang Donglai didn't hesitate and immediately stepped to follow.
Strange to say, just now Huang Donglai looked in the direction where there was still a continuous line of tree shadows, but as he walked and walked with these two people, the scenery changed somehow... In the blink of an eye, they had walked out of the woods, and there was no path ahead.
In the distance, a mountain gate appeared.
On one side of the mountain gate, there is a large stone tablet with the words "Xuanqi Sect" engraved on it.
And behind the side of the stone tablet was a row of steps. Looking up, I saw that the stone steps extended all the way up the mountain, straight into the sky, and there was no end in sight.
"Donglai." At this time, Miaoyinzi called Huang Donglai, and without waiting for his response, he said directly, "The two of us went up the mountain first, and you... have to come up on your own." At this point, he seemed to
He was worried that Huang Donglai wouldn't understand that there was another test here, so after a half-second pause, he specifically added, "If you can come up... just come up. If you can't come up, don't force it. Go down the mountain to the northwest."
Go and you can walk out of the mountain."
"Eh? Senior, isn't this right?" When Huang Donglai heard that there was something wrong with this, he quickly stopped the other party and asked with a puzzled look, "Didn't you just say... that I have passed the trial and am qualified to enter the Xuan Dynasty?"
Is it a strange sect? Why is there such a thing as 'can't go up the mountain'?"
"Ha..." Upon hearing this, Chunchenzi replied before Mianyinzi could, "You don't know something about this...before we got here, we were testing your 'courage' and 'perseverance'
and 'character'; it is true that those who have passed these three levels are qualified to join our Xuanqi Sect, but being qualified to enter does not mean that you have the 'ability' to learn the things of this sect... Your talent
Just wait until you 'walk through these stone steps' to find out."
"Ah? Is there such a routine?" Huang Donglai was still complaining, then Chun Chenzi and Mianyinzi both turned around and walked up the stone steps.
These two veterans were like the scummy special effects in old movies where characters gradually fade and disappear, and slowly disappeared from Huang Donglai's sight.
In the blink of an eye, Huang Donglai was the only one left under the empty mountain gate.
He looked up at the endless stone steps, twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "This scene seems familiar... Could it be the same routine as the game "There's a hot girl on the roof"?"