"It has recognized its owner. You are its owner now. Unless you die, it will not let you go." The old man's expression was terrible. "How could such a noble holy object choose such an ugly thing like you?"
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Qu Le glanced at him sideways: "If you dare to attack me again, I will let the noble holy object bite you and make you as noble as it."
The old man turned his head and decided not to be familiar with her.
Looking around, Qu Le suddenly asked an irrelevant question: "Why are you staying here?"
The old man looked at her angrily: "Why do you ask this?"
"I'm curious," Qu Le shrugged nonchalantly, and threw the black spider to the ground. Then she watched it roll on the ground and then immediately crawled back to her, continuing to hug her and rub her happily.
The deputy's virtue of kneeling down and licking the soles of his master's feet made the old man feel very disillusioned. He would never admit that this spineless thing was a noble sacred object in southern Xinjiang!
He took off his hood, revealing his silver hair and the spider totem on his neck, and said: "This is the mark of a sin slave. Anyone who has committed a serious crime in the clan will be branded with this mark. When I was sixteen years old,
, because he stole the holy medicine and became a sin slave. He was sent here by the saint of the previous generation to refine the elixir. He will not be able to leave here again until he dies."
That's why he didn't want to see Sang Yue again. His whole life had been ruined and he would only be able to live here for the rest of his life. Why bother Sang Yue anymore.
All of this is destined to be fruitless. It would be better not to see each other again.
Qu Le didn't know what he was thinking, and asked in surprise: "So, you have been here for more than fifty years?" He was sentenced to life imprisonment just for stealing two pills.
It's a bit too heavy.
"I don't remember. There is no change between day and night here. I can't feel the flow of time." The old man raised his eyebrows with a surprised expression. "Has it turned out that fifty years have passed? No wonder, I always feel that I am moving more and more recently.
I can’t move anymore, and I can’t move without this broken crutch.”
Seeing him swinging the crutch with a disgusted look on his face, Qu Le suddenly felt a little sad. She became serious for a rare moment: "Do you want to leave here?"
The old man was stunned and looked at her in surprise.
"You were sent here by the saint of the previous generation to atone for your sins. This means that the saint has the power to decide whether you stay or go." Qu Le paused, looked into his eyes and said word by word, "Now,
I am a saint, and I also have the power to deal with you."
Qu Le's last words made the old man freeze up. He slowly opened his eyes wide, his heart beat violently, and his fingers couldn't help but start to tremble. He was so nervous that he even forgot to breathe and stared at her with breathless concentration.
He had been imprisoned here for more than fifty years. He had almost forgotten the color of the sky outside. Now he was almost too old to walk. He was ready to wait for death in this hellish place, but then suddenly
One man offers hope of freedom.
He felt that all this was like a dream, and he could hardly believe that this dream was real.
Qu Le said with a smile: "Now, you can leave here. From now on, you are free again." No matter what he stole back then, he was imprisoned for fifty years and spent the best years of his life.
Being trapped in this small cave is enough for him to atone for his sins. The power of magic is nothing more than human kindness, so Qu Le decided to take it upon himself to release him from here, so that he could finish the rest of the journey with the most important person.
day.
The old man was holding the crutch tremblingly, his eyes were hot, and two lines of tears fell down his old cheeks. He put his face into the cloak, and his thin shoulders kept shaking.
Unexpectedly, this bad old man with a vicious tongue and bad temper turned out to have such a fragile side. Qu Le clicked her tongue twice. As a compassionate woman of the new era who respects the elderly and loves the young, she decided not to laugh at him for the time being.
The embarrassing story of Jin Doudou.
When the old man had almost finished crying, he came to his senses and realized that there was a stinky girl standing next to him. Thinking that her embarrassing behavior had been seen by her, he felt ashamed and annoyed. He wiped it off with his sleeves.
With tears on his face, he glared at Qu Le: "What are you looking at? I've never seen anyone blinded by the wind and sand!"
Qu Le looked at him coolly with an expression of "I really don't want to expose you."
The old man turned away and stopped playing with her.
Qu Le asked: "Why are you going?"
"Do you need to take care of me when I go to pack my luggage?"
Qu Le made a big face at his back, what a arrogant and smelly old man!
While the old man was packing his luggage, Qu Le was bored and rummaged through the large wooden cabinets next to her, and she found a bunch of precious medicinal materials that even those with money outside could not buy. Tsk, I didn’t expect that.
This smelly old man is quite rich too!
She thought that she couldn't come here in vain. It would be a waste to leave these medicinal materials here anyway. If she could take some of it, it would be regarded as a reward for her work as a saint.
She found a piece of cloth, spread it on the ground, and threw the medicinal materials she liked on the cloth. When the old man came out with a big baggage on his back, Qu Le had already finished. She picked up the corners of the cloth and tied a knot, and then carried it.
Putting it on his shoulder, he smiled and said, "Let's go."
Looking at the bulging burden on her back and the medicine cabinet that she had rummaged through, the old man twitched his beard and said, "As the most noble saint in southern Xinjiang, I am really ashamed of your shamelessness."
Qu Le grinned: "It doesn't matter, just get used to it."
The old man was almost blinded by her smile and turned his head. He would be more comfortable if he ignored this stinky girl.
So, one of them, one old and the other young, carried a big baggage on their backs and walked out of the alchemy room one after another. When they passed by the Saint Eve and the crazy fans, the old man knelt down and kowtowed to them three times, not counting the kowtows he finished.
After that, he forced Qu Le to kneel down and kowtow.
Qu Le could accept kneeling down to two ancestors who had been dead for hundreds of years. After kowtowing obediently, she turned around and asked, "Is this okay?"
"Well," the old man pulled up his hood, turned around slowly and left with his cane, and Qu Le quickly followed after him.
They walked back along the original path and saw those densely packed poisonous insects, snakes and scorpions again. Qu Le could not help but feel his scalp numb, and whispered: "Will they attack us?"
The old man and the old god said on the ground: "I have sprinkled insect repellent powder on my body, so they will not come near me."
Qu Le: “But I didn’t spread the insect repellent powder, blah blah blah blah!”
"What the hell! You are a saint, and you carry a bone flute and a holy object with you. These poisonous insects, snakes, and scorpions will obey your orders. As long as you don't have a seizure, they will never hurt you!" The old man said with a look of disgust.
As I looked at her, the more I looked at her, the more I felt that she was the most inferior saint in history.
Qu Le was dubious: "Really, really?"
"Forget it if you don't believe it," the old man ignored her and walked towards the entrance of the cave. Qu Le hurriedly followed.
She carefully shrank behind the old man, her eyes constantly darting around, for fear that some insect would suddenly pounce on her and bite her.
What surprised her was that until they walked up the steps and stopped in front of the iron gate, the poisonous insect bats did not move. Only the poisonous snakes lying on the ground raised their heads and glanced at her, then closed their eyes and continued to sleep as if nothing had happened. .
It seemed that the old man had not lied to her just now, and none of these poisonous insects, snakes and scorpions would hurt her! Qu Le felt relieved. Although the title of Holy Girl sounded silly, at least it had such benefits, and she was very relieved.
There was a corpse lying in front of the iron gate. All the flesh and blood on the corpse had been eaten away, leaving only a white skeleton with a few white fragments hanging on it.
The old man glanced at the skeleton and said mockingly: "Is this the idiot who tried to use you as a hostage to get the elixir of immortality?"
Qule nodded.
"This is the price of greed." The old man took out a small porcelain bottle and poured the liquid inside evenly onto the bones. Soon, the bones were melted and turned into water stains, and then quickly evaporated. Looking over, the ground on the ground It's been clean, nothing is left.
Qu Le was dumbfounded: "Is this the legendary bone-transforming water?"
"It's just a kind of water poison used for cleaning," the old man glanced at her, "You want it?"
Qu Le nodded vigorously. For such a practical thing, you must have a bottle as a backup!
The old man dug through his clothes for a long time, took out a pamphlet, and threw it to her: "The only method I know about poison medicine is written on it. You can take it and learn it slowly."
Qu Le, who originally only wanted to get a bottle of Ten Thousand Waters Gu, didn't expect to get a book on the secrets of making Gu medicine. She couldn't help but be stunned. She looked at the crumpled booklet in her hand. It didn't even have a decent cover. It was in tatters. Yes, the corners of the pages are all rolled up, and it looks like they are in danger of falling apart at any time.
She was speechless: "Add some oil and salt, stir-fry with this book, and it can be used as a dish."
The old man raised his eyebrows: "What dish?"
"Fried pickles."
The old man snorted: "If you don't want it, just give it back to me!"
Qule immediately stuffed the pamphlet into his clothes: "There has never been a precedent for spitting out the things that have entered my mouth."
The old man didn't want to pay attention to her. He took out the key, inserted it into the small hole in the wall, twisted it twice, and the iron door slowly opened.
Elder Lan, who had been guarding the entrance of the cave, was stunned for a moment when he saw them coming out. Then he grabbed Qu Le with surprise and said excitedly: "A Le, you finally came out!"
Qu Le didn't know until he arrived outside the cave that not only Elder Lan, but also several other elders had arrived.
When they saw Qu Le coming out safely, they all breathed a sigh of relief. They didn't see Lan Ling and asked about her whereabouts.
Just as Qu Le was about to explain, the old man next to him suddenly spoke first and said, "That woman is dead."
Hearing this, the elders looked at each other and said one after another: "The traitor who tried to covet the holy medicine and harmed the saint. Her viciousness has offended the gods, and she finally got the punishment she deserved!"
As for Lan Ling's specific death process, they all chose not to ask questions tacitly, including Qu Le's experience in the cave, which they cleverly avoided talking about. In their eyes, the cave is a forbidden place, and only saints can With the qualifications to enter, they cannot be curious, let alone ask, especially after learning that Lan Ling has died inside, they are even more taboo about the forbidden area, and no one will foolishly ask things that they should not ask. (Unfinished) to be continued)