Chapter 17 Soul Search

Yu Niao slowly woke up from her coma.

It was dark all around, with only a crack in the door letting in a little light into the room.

Hmm.

Yu Niao wasn’t sure how long she had been unconscious. She hadn’t opened her eyes for so long that everything in front of her was blurry and shaky. All she could remember was what happened before she fell into a coma.

"I should have known that nothing good would happen if I followed Zheng Yinshang."

From the time they set out from Yanyun Tower to the time they arrived at Qingji Sect, the owner of Yanyun Tower allowed them twelve days to travel. They had not left the sect for many years, so they were naturally very excited when they came down the mountain. On the second day of departure, Zheng Yinshang suggested that everyone should hurry up so that they could save time to visit Yaochuan City.

"If I don't come out to see the fun, it would be a wasted trip!" he said.

At first, Senior Sister Lu Youyu firmly refused. However, Zheng Yinshang started to make a fuss all the way, saying that he felt dizzy and then that he had a brain fever. In the end, everyone turned around to persuade Lu Youyu and Song Mingke, and finally, the two agreed to take a detour to Yaochuan to have a look.

As a result, everyone was extremely happy and changed into robes with Wuyanyunlou patterns, and traveled all the way through wind and rain until they reached Yaochuan. Everyone arrived on the first night, and Song Mingke agreed to let everyone play for the whole day and leave on the morning of the third day.

When the young monk first arrived in the big city, he just visited restaurants, theaters, and the like. That evening, the disciples were packing up. Zheng Yinshang said that he really liked a piece of cloth he saw in the morning and planned to go back and buy it and ask them to send the item to Qingji Sect.

Song Mingke originally strictly forbade everyone to go out at night. It just so happened that he wasn't there at the time. Lu Youyu couldn't resist Zheng Yinshang's coquettishness, so he turned a blind eye and told him to come back quickly after buying the things.

Yu Niao was worried and followed him.

Zheng Yinshang did not go north. He pulled Yu Niao to an empty corner mysteriously and took out an invitation.

"I heard that there is an auction house in Yaochuan City, where many interesting things are auctioned. There will also be special performances recently." His eyes flashed with curiosity, "Do you want to go with me to take a look?"

Zheng Yinshang spoke in a very exaggerated way. Yu Niao was also very curious. Like Song Mingke, she was an orphan adopted by Yanyun Tower when she was young. From childhood to adulthood, except for going to the secret realm with her senior sisters and brothers, she had never left Yanyun Tower.

She only asked one question: "Where did the invitation come from?"

Zheng Yinshang said: "I was very generous in a store and someone sold it to me."

But later I thought about it carefully, those who can enter and exit "rebirth" are people with connections. How could such a person sell invitations on the street?

So there is only one possibility: selling the stolen goods.

And they specifically sell stolen goods to outsiders like them who look like students.

There was no signature on the invitation, but one could faintly smell the fragrance of osmanthus. Yu Niao couldn't help but feel curious, so she went with Zheng Yinshang along the route on the map.

Then……

“Rebirth” is truly shocking. But they were two ignorant people who first witnessed the harm of slaves in the "performance" for the sake of curiosity, and then became extremely angry. Then he got lost again, and unknowingly walked into a private room with the invitation.

The young man in the private room was also surprised to see them.

"How did you get in here?" he said.

The man was wearing a green brocade robe, had a gentle temperament, and his features were extremely gentle.

Then, he pointed at the scars on his body and begged the two of them. Since they can get in, you might as well be merciful and a good person and rescue him.

The two rookies were very enthusiastic and started working right away. What happened next was very natural. The escape attempt was exposed and the man in green was caught. Yu Niao was hit by a palm strike, and she saw that Zheng Yinshang, who was carrying her on his back, was also injured.

The door to rebirth is closed. The two had nowhere to go.

Due to the injury, his eyelids drooped heavily. Before she fell into coma, she heard a voice.

"Come with me."

The man had a feminine voice and was wearing a white mask. Yu Niao, who had a keen intuition, shuddered even though she was about to faint.

Because the feeling that person gave her was extremely eerie and terrifying - this extraordinary "inspiration" was a unique ability given to her by Yu Niao's practice.

But Zheng Yinshang couldn't feel it. And the man said another sentence.

"You don't have any other choice, do you?"

Memories return to the body. Yu Niao propped herself up and thought about it, and the light in front of her eyes widened.

She looked up and was startled.

Then she realized that the thing that looked like a white moth ghost was actually a mask worn on the man's face.

"It looks like your injury has healed." The man said, "Since you are healed, go out."

It was strange that before falling into coma, Yu Niao could feel the gruesomeness and horror in the way that man treated the two of them. But now that she woke up, the man was wearing an even more terrifying mask, but his aura made Yu Niao feel calm and gentle.

She didn't feel any threat from him.

Yu Niao subconsciously touched her abdomen. The palm strike in the abdomen when she was escaping was the reason for her coma.

By the way, she also has something like a "birthmark" there. It is said that Song Mingke also has one on his ankle. Sometimes Yu Niao thought that they were both orphans, both adopted by Yanyun Tower, and both had a birthmark, so they were truly destined to be together.

But now...

"Have you helped me change my clothes?" she whispered.

He also treated her injuries.

"The blood-stained clothes are too conspicuous." said the man.

Yu Niao became more and more confused. The man's voice sounded strange. She couldn't understand the change in this man's attitude towards her, and his kindness in helping her heal her wounds.

But fortunately, Zheng Yinshang should be fine, right? He was less injured than she was.

Yu Niao stood up and followed the masked man. On the way, she asked: "Thank you, kind man, what should I call you?"

Besides, why did you help us and how should I repay you?

The masked man did not respond. Soon, Yu Niao realized that the masked man was not taking her to meet Zheng Yinshang.

But just let her go.

She then asked, "Master, may I ask how my fellow disciple who came with me is doing now?"

"The man who came with you?" The masked man said calmly, "He is more seriously injured than you and needs more time to recover."

More seriously injured than her? How is that possible?

Yu Niao only asked a few more questions before she felt the cold breath again - although she didn't understand why the masked man was so nice to her, it was obvious that his "niceness" to her was due to some reason and was very limited.

But Zheng Yinshang is her fellow student. Yu Niao said: "Zheng Yinshang is my fellow disciple, and we have a deep friendship. No matter what, I must go back with him and I cannot leave him here."

After thinking for a while, she tried to use another trick: "We are very grateful for your help, Immortal. We also implore you to leave your name, and our sect will definitely repay you well..."

Yu Niao's breath was choked.

The masked man turned to her. Being stared at by the two red eyes in the white moth mask, she felt her mind go blank and she couldn't tell a lie at all. A sense of fear also rose from the depths of her soul.

Is this soul-searching? She thought intermittently.

This is a forbidden technique that is expressly prohibited by the immortal way!

"Big sect, fellow disciples, you keep referring to our sect... Are you very loyal to Yanyun Tower?" he said softly.

He looked at her steadily, his eyes cold.

Yu Niao couldn't even ask how he knew that she was from Yanyun Tower.

"Yes." She said in a trance, "Yanyun Tower took care of me when I was growing up. The kindness I received is as great as a mountain. Zheng Yinshang is my junior fellow apprentice."

After a moment, the man chuckled.

"Ning Mingmei, you, and so many children... have all become dogs of the big sect." She seemed to hear him say softly.

"In that case," the man stroked her cheek with his thumb, "then I'll take you back to find your fellow apprentice."

There was no ambiguity in that action; it was more like a person's evaluation of an item worth buying.

Yu Niao woke up as if someone had poured a basin of cold water on him. Her shoulders trembled slightly, and she could no longer remember what had just happened. She only remembered asking the man why he saved them.

"Because I also feel pity for those furnace tripods. I am also a furnace tripod." The man turned around and looked at her. "Come on, I will take you to find your friends."

He smiled gently, but Yu Niao shuddered.

"Thank you, Immortal." Yu Niao said.

…

Ning Mingmei said: "How come there are dual-sex furnace tripods in this world? I have discovered a new academic direction."

The system automatically ignored the second half of the sentence: "The world of immortal cultivation is so vast that there are all kinds of wonders. Haha, I guess the human world you traveled to before wasn't so exciting."

For the first time, the system found a sense of victory in the dialogue with Ning Mingmei, which made it proud.

Ning Mingmei pushed the mask up: "Where I study, there are 97 different genders."

system:…………

The system asked hesitantly: "What is your gender?"

Could this be the reason why Ning Mingmei is so weird?

Ning Mingmei: "An asexual person who identifies himself as male."

He followed Adai downstairs, and the faint fragrance of osmanthus came to his nose.

When I turned my head, I saw someone wearing a bamboo hat with a chin as white as jade. A flash of light blue clothes appeared as she entered another private room.

"Master Gui is here too." A'dai followed his gaze and peered in.

Ning Mingmei: "Master Gui of the Qingyu Altar?"

This man is also the cousin of his third apprentice.

The Minghua Valley branch that manufactures medicines without a license. I don't know if it has moved to India.

"The medicine cultivator brother of Minghua Valley Master Gui Ruoxu was once known as the Minghua Medicine God. When he left, Minghua Valley lost half of its medicine cultivators." A'dai said, "Qingyu Altar has done some very interesting things."

The little witch is afraid that the world will not be in chaos.

Ning Mingmei said to the system: "He doesn't want to be the Medicine God of Minghua Valley. Write it down and find out why Gui Tanzhu became independent later."

System: "What are you going to do now?"

Ning Mingmei: "It is very important for me to find out whether he wants to make a profit by pirating drugs or is just doing it out of interest and against humanity."

System: "You don't sound like a human being."

Adai suddenly smiled, with a mysterious look in her eyes: "Come to think of it, Guitan Master is also related to that excitement."

"What's the excitement?"

Facing Ning Mingmei, A'dai was like pouring out beans from a bamboo tube: "A few days ago, someone came to rob the dual-sex furnace tripod. He brought the invitation from Guitan Master, so he broke through the restrictions and had no obstacles... By the way, the furnace tripod was ordered by Guitan Master."

Ning Mingmei: "What?"

"It's just that Guitan Master was involved in a storm a few days ago and was too busy to come and pick him up. So he was delayed for these days and didn't come to pick him up. Even the invitation was lost." Adai said, "Finally, it was caught by two little thieves. Oh... I heard that the two little thieves are still hiding in "Rebirth". All exits are heavily guarded and they can't get out."

She was in a good mood: "I just want to prevent them from leaving. Otherwise, what will others think of 'rebirth'? Can they come when they want, make trouble when they want, and leave when they want?"

This time, Master Gui came to take away the cauldron that they had packed up.

It looks like he has pretty much taken care of things on his end. I'm also in the mood to attend an auction.

Ning Mingmei said: "This is really unexpected."

The system looked at him suspiciously: "Yeah, how come you can find someone by accident?"

How did Ning Mingmei develop such skills and intuition? You are so smart that you are almost a demon.

Ning Mingmei said: "I never thought that in this world of immortal cultivation, people who study pharmacy can still have sexual desires."

...This is what surprised you?

But speaking of it, Ning Mingmei doesn't seem to have any sexual desire.

Ning Mingmei: "I studied for seven years, actually seven and a half years."

Don't take this as a universal answer.

Ning Mingmei followed Adai to visit the backstage area of ​​"Rebirth". Somehow, this little girl acted like a peacock showing off its feathers in front of Ning Mingmei, which made the system puzzled.

The items for auction are nothing but various rare treasures. Ning Mingmei had no idea how precious they were and his attitude was very calm and composed. The little peacock showed off in vain.

Ada then took him to see some slaves that were to be auctioned that night. There are demons, some whose horns were cut off after the demons were defeated in the battle, and a few humans.

Ning Mingmei still had facial paralysis.

Adai said, "Hey! Why don't you look happy at all?"

The little devil girl got angry and jumped onto the box and sat on it, with her legs tied with silver bells swinging back and forth. Ning Mingmei said: "These are all expected auction items."

In the face of the little demon girl's dissatisfaction, he finally said: "To be honest, I am interested in the furnace that caused the turmoil."

Ning Mingmei originally expected that he would have to say a few more words, but the little vixen's face immediately lit up.

"Okay, why didn't you tell me earlier!" She immediately stopped shaking her legs. "If you had told me you wanted to see it earlier, I would have taken you there earlier."

Adai jumped down from the box, as light as a butterfly. She took Ning Mingmei's hand and said with a smile, "I've already said that I will do my best to be a good host for Mei Xianchang."

Ning Mingmei was surprised. He followed Adai to a more confidential direction and asked, "Do you usually come to this auction to buy things?"

Adai: "Sure, guess what I will buy? Or, what I won't buy?"

Ning Mingmei said: "Those who know how to buy, will buy magic weapons, spells, slaves, and decorations. Those who don't know how to buy... furnaces and tripods?"

"Why, I can't use the furnace?" She pouted.

Ning Mingmei didn't pay much attention to this sentence. The system felt a chill on the back of its neck.

...I don't know why, but I have a bad feeling.

The theft of the furnace a few days ago has made the underground defense even tighter. But Ada is the sister of the official owner of the Xiaojinlou, so she has a smooth journey.

The waiter opened the paper folding door in an orderly manner, and the furnace tripod in green clothes should be behind it.

But there was another person in the room.

The man was tall and slender, dressed in black, with a white moth-like bone mask on his face.

Ning Mingmei glanced at him and had no impression of him at all.

"Hundred faces?" A'dai asked, "Why are you here?"

The masked man turned around.

Even though she was wearing a flashy mask, Ning Mingmei felt that he was not looking at Adai, who was obviously someone he knew.

But looking at him.