Traveling alone is always accompanied by isolation and loneliness.
When Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu were walking together, he always felt that time passed quickly, and the seemingly long journey always reached the end inadvertently. But when he was alone, he began to miss him.
Even if you are with Zhang Yuelu, you will always encounter various emergencies, it is much better than not seeing a single figure in your eyes.
It took Qi Xuansu three days to finally reach the edge of the salt lake.
The salt marsh, the yellow sand of the desert, the desolation and gloominess, and the few green spots not only fail to bring much vitality, but instead make the Gobi desert desolate and dead.
However, Yanze is not the sea of death after all, so there are scattered human settlements on the edge of the salt marsh and even in the depths of the salt marsh. Now Qi Xuansu's top priority is to buy a horse to travel. He still has three hundred Taiping money left.
His savings, as well as the 500 Taiping money given by Zhao Fuan, a total of 800 Taiping money, should be enough to support him for a long time. At this time, Qi Xuansu no longer cares about revenge. It is serious to survive first.
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In addition, although the Spring Festival has passed, the weather in early spring is still very cold, especially in the Western Regions. It is even colder than in Wuzhou in the south of the Yangtze River. If Qi Xuansu had not had strong energy and blood, he would have been frozen to death.
The only advantage is that if it is not necessary, people from the Taoist sect are not willing to go to such a place to suffer hardships. Although it is right at the door of the ancestral home, people from the Taoist sect are rarely seen. It can be said that Qi Xuansu is temporarily here.
It's already safe.
After nightfall, Qi Xuansu found an uninhabited place leeward, poured his true energy into the talisman in his hand, used the talisman as firewood, and burned a ball of flame. It was not hot and hot, but Qiniang's face appeared in the firelight.
The phantom of the upper body is only the size of a palm, and is slightly distorted as the flames dance, as if watching people through the fire.
Qiniang's voice came out from the firelight, slightly distorted: "Tianyuan, are you okay?"
"Qiniang, do you know everything?" Qi Xuansu asked.
Qiniang said: "The flying boat crashed. This is a big event that has not happened in many years. Not to mention that it spread all over the world in just a few days, but it is not a secret. How could I not know about it? I just didn't expect it.
Such a once-in-a-lifetime thing has happened to you, I really don’t know what to say.”
Qi Xuansu said: "Qiniang, you don't seem to be surprised at all that I am still alive."
Qiniang's eyes widened on the other side of the fire: "You heartless little thing, if I don't expect you to live, do I expect you to die?"
"That's not what I meant." Qi Xuansu had to explain, "I mean, when encountering such a thing, wouldn't your first reaction be that it is impossible for me to survive?
When you were feeling sad for me, I suddenly contacted you. You should have been surprised and happy, but you were very calm and seemed to have expected that I would survive."
"So that's what you're talking about." Qiniang said coquettishly, "Of course I believe you will survive. After all, you are a man of great blessings, protected by the gods, and blessed with great fortune..."
"Stop, stop." Qi Xuansu quickly interrupted Qiniang's nonsense, "Qiniang, don't pretend to be confused. What is going on? Is it related to the reform of Qingping Society you said? Also, don't pretend.
The formations are interfering and you can’t hear what I’m saying. There are no formations here, it’s a truly barren land.”
For this reason, Qiniang couldn't pretend to be stupid anymore and had to say: "Okay, it does have some relationship."
"Is it related a little bit?" Qi Xuansu asked, "Is it just a little bit?"
Qiniang said: "This is what I find strange. Indeed, the transformation of the Qingping Society will bring you back to life. To be precise, it will make you enter a state of suspended animation, and then in the long state of suspended animation, you will slowly
Slowly repair your body. The specific time required depends on the injuries you suffered before death, and it cannot be cut into pieces, beaten into powder, burned to ashes, etc. At the very least, you must have a relatively complete body.
Corpse. According to my calculations, it may take three months for you to wake up and contact me. How could you be back to normal in just a few days?"
Qi Xuansu immediately remembered something and asked tentatively: "Could it be related to...'Xuanyu'?"
"You got another piece of 'Xuan Jade'." Qiniang said, "When did this happen?"
Qi Xuansu told Qiniang about the story of Yulan Temple.
After Qiniang heard this, she did not immediately answer Qi Xuansu's doubts, but asked: "Then why didn't you tell me then?"
Qi Xuansu said: "I was with Qingxiao at the time and didn't have time to tell you."
Qiniang asked again: "Then when we arrive at Yunjin Mountain in Shangqing Mansion, we should have some time, right? We can't still restrict the use of Zimu Talismans in Da Zhen Mansion."
Qi Xuansu felt guilty: "You sent Li Qingnu here, and I thought you already knew it."
Qiniang snorted: "I found out some clues through other channels. It's my business. It's your business whether you want to tell me or not. It's not the same thing. To me, you are just a heartless white-eyed wolf."
, I married a daughter-in-law and forgot my mother. No, my daughter-in-law hasn’t entered the house yet.
He no longer recognizes me."
At this point, Qiniang hid her face and said: "Come on, come on, come on, I think it's because I'm blind. I thought I would have someone to rely on when I get old, but I didn't expect that I would be a white-eyed wolf who is not familiar with it.
Go home to Gaozhi, go quickly."
Qi Xuansu looked helpless, not feeling distressed at all, and had no intention of immediately apologizing and confessing. They said that parents are the best teachers for their children. Qi Xuansu's ability to pretend is not to be self-taught. There must be a teacher, that is, the person in front of him.
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Seeing that Qiniang's emotions were rising, and she seemed to be planning to close the mother-child talisman under "sorrow and anger", Qi Xuansu hurriedly said: "Don't try to get away with it, you can't deceive me. You obviously know everything, and if you don't explain it clearly, this matter will never be over.
, unless you never see me again and keep avoiding me."
Qiniang had no choice but to put down the hand covering her face, wiped the corners of her eyes again, and said, "You are so unfilial, even if your mother is crying like this, you are indifferent."
Qi Xuansu immediately thought of Qiniang's declaration that she was his godmother. He was not disgusted with it. After all, in fact, the relationship between the two was almost that of adopted mother and adopted son. However, it is not easy for women to raise children alone in today's world, so most of them
It is an adopted father and an adopted son, and an adopted mother is still relatively rare. Qi Xuansu also admitted from the bottom of his heart that his master and Qiniang had filled the void for him without parents, but Qi Xuansu was unforgiving: "I have never seen anyone acting in front of my own children.
Mother. It’s enough to lie to others, but also to your own people?”
The two looked at each other for a long time. Qiniang was the first to compromise and said: "I'm really scared of you. Okay, I'll do it. Isn't it enough if I do all the moves? It is indeed related to 'Xuanyu', Qingping will collect 'Xuanyu'
It’s also related to this matter.”
This was something Qi Xuansu had guessed a long time ago, so he was not surprised. He asked again: "So what exactly is the transformation of the Qingping Society you mentioned?"
Qiniang replied: "When you were pierced through the heart with a sword, although it cannot be said that it is difficult for gods to save you, with my ability, I couldn't save you. So I used the idea of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor.
You have been transformed by the Qingping Society. The principle is not complicated. Since your heart is rotten, just implant a new heart."
Qi Xuansu was startled and immediately remembered that there was no heartbeat in his chest when he just woke up. He subconsciously pressed his heart and asked urgently: "This, does this mean that I am an unintentional person now?"
"Of course not. If you don't have a heart but are still beating, it will be easily misunderstood and it will be very inconvenient." Qiniang shook her head and said, "Amputated limbs can be regenerated, but it takes time. Of course, the heart can also be regenerated, which also takes time, but the heart
No time to jump
If you grow up, you will die, so the general idea is to replace your heart with something else to maintain your vitality and give your heart enough time to slowly regenerate and heal itself. When your heart returns to its original state, you can start again.
Use your heart back."
Qi Xuansu suddenly said: "This is why I went through several inspections later."
"Of course we need to check. If we don't check, how will we know how your heart is recovering?" Qiniang said matter-of-factly.
Qi Xuansu asked again: "Then what is this thing that you are talking about that temporarily replaces the heart?"
Qiniang said: "As for this thing that replaces the heart, Qingping will call it the 'vice heart', which roughly means that there is a main and a deputy, just like the hall master and deputy hall master of a Taoist sect. If the hall master is not there, the deputy hall master
Act as director. Once your heart disease is over, we will let the accessory heart act as director. When the heart disease is cured, we will return the heart to its original position."
Qi Xuansu had some guesses and quickly asked: "Where is the so-called 'secondary heart'?"
"Of course it's still in your body." Qiniang looked at Qi Xuansu with a look that looked at her stupid son, "Do we have to disembowel you again to take out this 'secondary heart'?"
Qi Xuansu covered his heart, took a few steps back, and managed to avoid falling backwards. He said with difficulty: "In other words, the reason why I didn't die this time was because of my 'secondary heart'?"
"There is also 'Xuanyu'. The piece of 'Xuanyu' you got seems to mean 'life'." Qiniang explained, "The power of 'Xuanyu' has entered the 'Vice Heart', and when you fake death
, the 'secondary heart' replaces the stopped heart and injects this vitality into your whole body, healing your injuries, so that you can turn death into life in a short period of time."
Qi Xuansu said in disbelief: "It's really a work of art that surpasses the creation of heaven and earth."
"Look at how you look like you have never seen the world." Qiniang said with disdain, "Actually, the Huasheng Hall of Taoism can also do it, but because the cost is too high, you low-grade Taoist priests can't enjoy it, and the heavenly and human stage
High-quality Taoist priests do not need to use these means to save their lives, they can ignore such injuries."
Qi Xuansu suddenly calmed down and said cautiously: "The cost is very high. In other words, Qiniang, you helped me pay for the medicine in advance?"
Qiniang glanced at him: "Well, Qingping will still bear the big head, so it's okay if you want to leave Qingping, but you have to pay off the debt, and I gave you the name of the brand 'Jincuo Dao', just to make you remember this