Chapter 58: Temple

Lu Fei almost wanted to sit up straight, but unfortunately his body did not give him the opportunity. The movement distorted his face and he almost screamed.

But Lu Fei still tried her best to maintain her precarious dignity, and tried to maintain a normal voice, saying to Jian An Ning: "Why are you standing outside? Come in and sit down."

"Wait a minute," Lu Yu interrupted him, turned around and said to Jian Anning with a pleasant face, "I have some food cooked in the pot in the kitchen. Please bring it over."

Jian Anning nodded, turned around and left.

"Grandma?" Lu Fei was a little confused.

But Lu Zhui put his hands under his armpits, used himself as a human crutch, helped Lu Fei up, and asked, "Where did you meet such a girl?"

After Lu Yu took a breath, he said, "Why do I feel like there's something wrong with her brain?"

Time still has to go back to the night when Lu Fei was seriously injured and fainted.

Seeing Jian An Ning standing there in a daze, Lu Yu thought she was frightened by the scene, so he called her for help and said, "Xiao Fei has too many wounds on her body, it's not suitable for her to move. I have some hemostatic herbs in my bag. I'll crush them and apply them to Xiao Fei's wounds. You go to the clinic on the street and ask a doctor to come over."

Jian Anning was silent for a while, then asked sincerely, "What is a doctor?"

Lu Yu's eyes widened, and her hands trembled slightly as she took the herbs from the bag, but Lu Fei's situation was urgent, so she didn't say much and just changed the division of labor.

When Lu Yu came back with the doctor, he saw Jian An Ning holding the crushed herbs in one hand and lifting Lu Fei's clothes with the other. The upper body had been almost lifted up, and she was about to lift the lower half of the clothes.

Lu Yu hurriedly held her hand and said, "No need, no need, the doctor is here."

The doctor performed a series of operations and then said to Lu Yu, "Your grandson's injuries look serious, but his tendons and bones are not injured. I just see some abnormalities in his meridians, which is why he fainted. I can't treat meridian problems, so I can only prescribe some medicine for external injuries."

The doctor wrote a prescription and took out two sets of medicine from his medicine box.

Lu Yu's heart tightened as he listened to the doctor's words. He asked repeatedly, "Shouldn't Xiao Fei's life be in danger?"

The doctor thought for a while and said, "I can only say that it's not caused by external injuries, but I don't know what's wrong with his meridians."

Seeing that he couldn't get anything else out of her, Lu Yu had no choice but to send the doctor away and went to boil some medicine. He kept muttering to himself, saying, "It must be okay. Xiao Fei will definitely be able to live well. She won't die like this."

Probably because she kept mumbling like this, and Jian Anning heard it, she asked her again: "Is there any difference between being alive and being dead?"

Lu Yu's hands, which were decocting the medicine, paused for a moment, and he looked at her with wide eyes, thinking: Is this girl mentally ill?

However, Jane Anning's eyes were so pure, with only curiosity in them.

Time goes back to the present.

Lu Fei was also a little surprised after hearing what his grandmother said, but when he thought about it carefully, Jian An Ning had a similar situation when she was with him.

He decided to ask nicely.

Lu Fei, Jian Anning and Lu Yu sat around the wooden table, on which were the side dishes cooked by Lu Yu.

"Who's at home?"

Lu Fei felt that Jian An Ning's behavior must be related to the situation at home, so she asked.

Jian Anning thought for a moment and said, "My sister and I."

Lu Fei and Lu Yu looked at each other and subconsciously imagined a pitiful story about two girls whose parents died early and had to depend on each other for survival.

Speaking of which, Lu Yu still remembered that if she hadn't told Jian An Ning, Jian An Ning wouldn't even know how to eat normally.

Perhaps it was because the two sisters lived in a remote place where there were only the two of them and they did not often interact with the outside world, so she knew nothing about many common sense.

It's not impossible for such a thing to happen.

After a while, Lu Zhuo and Lu Fei, the grandfather and grandson, had already come up with a reasonable story for Jian An Ning.

Lu Yu looked at her with a hint of pity in his eyes, which made Jane An Ning feel creepy.

"What are you thinking about?" Jian Anning asked bluntly, but Lu Fei and Lu Yu, the grandparents, waved their hands and said, "Nothing, nothing."

Lu Yu changed the subject and repeated the doctor's words to Lu Fei, saying with a hint of concern, "External injuries are easy to treat, but internal injuries are difficult. Think about what you have experienced before that caused the abnormal meridians?"

Lu Fei pondered for a while, but couldn't think of anything else except a fight with the group of men in black.

It was Jian Anning who suddenly spoke up and said to him, "Divine blood."

Lu Fei slapped his forehead, then remembered to say to Lu Yu: "Grandma, we two also went to participate in the trial, and we came back safely."

Lu Yu suddenly showed a look of surprise. She had always hoped that Lu Fei could pass the cruel trial and become a cultivator.

Because she had such a wish when she was young, but due to various coincidences, she was ultimately unable to pass the trial and could only be a mortal for the rest of her life.

Lu Fei passed the trial and fulfilled one of her biggest wishes in life.

She was overjoyed, but suddenly came to her senses and said to Lu Fei: "Have you been to the temple?"

"When my grandmother was working for the Lord's, she heard them mention that after drinking the blood of the gods, one must go to the temple at least once a month, otherwise they will be punished by the gods."

Lu Fei shook his head honestly.

In fact, he still doesn't know where the temple is and has no chance to get there.

But his grandmother suddenly became flustered and kept saying, "Grandma, you've seen the punishment for those who were late."

Lu Yu's voice trembled uncontrollably, and her expression was filled with obvious panic, as if she had just remembered something extremely terrifying. That fear urged her to keep saying, "Hurry to the temple, and go after dinner!"

"No! Don't eat! Go now!"

Just like that, before they finished their meal, Lu Fei and Jian An Ning were packed up and kicked out together.

In the courtyard, Lu Yu was still saying, "Grandma, I heard that there is a temple in the center of the open space in the center of Luming City."

Lu Fei scratched his head. He didn’t think going to the temple was that urgent.

But his grandmother was already in such a hurry, and he didn't want to make her worry.

So he said to Jian Anning with a hint of apology: "Do you want to go with me?"

Lu Fei noticed that what her grandmother had just said was that only those who drank the blood of God needed to go to the temple as soon as possible. However, although Jian An Ning also obtained the blood of God, she did not drink it.

So there should be no need for her to make this trip.

However, Jian An Ning herself didn't mind much. She just nodded to Lu Fei, and the two of them went to the center of Luming City together.

Throughout Lu Fei's life, he always believed that the center of Luming City was a large open space. During festivals, people would gather here to sell all kinds of small items.

However, today, Lu Fei finally opened his eyes to the city where he had lived for many years.

There was a temple standing in the center of the open space. It looked like a simplified version of the temple in the trial ground, and the eaves and roof were hung with colorful flags.

There are two tall pomegranate trees planted at the entrance of the temple, and the pomegranate flowers are in full bloom as red as the magma in the trial land.

Lu Fei and Jian An Ning walked in.

The structure inside the temple is like a simplified version of the temple in the trial ground. Its space is much smaller, and an extremely magnificent statue almost occupies 70% of the space. In front of the statue is a small altar with two large bunches of pomegranate flowers on both sides, and in the middle is an incense burner. The faint smell of sandalwood lingers in the temple.

There are three cushions in front of the altar, and a person is kneeling on one of them with his hands folded, as if he is praying to the statue wholeheartedly.

"Hello?"

Lu Fei's words broke the silence in the temple. The person kneeling on the ground stood up, turned to look at him, and said, "Are you the ones who succeeded in the trial recently?"

Lu Fei nodded, but seeing that person's brows were furrowed, he continued, "You guys just came here empty-handed?"

Lu Fei was really confused.

The man continued, "Since you have just passed the trial, let me remind you that you must offer sacrifices to the gods when you come to the temple."

What kind of sacrifice? Lu Fei's brows also furrowed.

The man then said, "Since you are here for the first time, just bring a wreath each. Whatever you want to do, take the wreath and come back."

Lu Fei was driven out in confusion, and it was Jian An Ning who reminded him: "This place is the same as the trial ground."

He suddenly remembered the ceremony of worship that the young man had mentioned when they went to the temple in the trial ground.

"Then we need to find some pomegranate flowers."

Lu Fei felt a little troubled, but fortunately, what Luming City had the most of was pomegranate flowers, and he quickly found enough flowers to weave two wreaths.

Then he went back to the temple in the center of Luming City.

This time, Lu Fei followed the ritual of worship at the trial site, offering the wreath to the statue, touching the statue's toes, and then touching her own forehead.

But the man in the temple was still not satisfied. He looked coldly at Jian An Ning behind Lu Fei and said, "Why don't you do it? You are so disrespectful to the gods. Be careful of being punished."

Jane Anning just looked at him without answering.

Although Lu Fei didn't understand why Jian An Ning didn't do it, it didn't stop him from stopping the slightly angry temple dweller and said, "She just came here to accompany me."

The man did not seem to forgive or understand Jian Anning's disrespect. He simply turned to Lu Fei and said, "I'm not being aggressive, but if you don't perform the ritual of respect, you won't be able to obtain the blood of God bestowed by God."

The man then introduced himself to Lu Fei and Jian Anning, "I am Wuxi, the priest of the Luming Temple."