"You are so rude!"
Bailu stepped forward and took the dish aside.
"Don't eat this watery soup!"
Liu Yanqiu, who had just picked up the chopsticks, let out an "ah" and watched Bai Lu take the dish away.
"Bai Lu, let him eat."
Gu Qingsheng gave an order, and Bai Lu snorted and put the dish down again.
"Eat! Eat you to death! Eat so much you'll get diarrhea! You profiteer!"
"Alright, alright."
Whenever Bai Lu and Liu Yanqiu got together, they seemed to be about to quarrel. Gu Qingsheng was also helpless. He looked at the sky that was getting darker outside.
"Why don't you go back first, Bailu? Someone will be coming to deliver dinner soon at this time."
She was naturally talking about the monks in Luofo Temple. She had not told anyone in Luofo Temple about her leaving. If they came and found that she was not there, it would be difficult to explain how her injuries had healed.
"Miss, won't you come back with me?"
Bai Lu's face fell again.
"I still have some things to do. You go back first, and I'll be back soon. If they ask about me, just say I'm not feeling well and won't be having dinner. Got it?"
Bai Lu, who had wanted to comfort Gu Qingsheng, could only accept her fate and go back after hearing her words. She was vaguely worried.
"Well, Miss, you must hurry back. You are unfamiliar with this place. What if you run into some bad guys?"
When Bai Lu said the word "bad guy", she hinted at something and glared at Liu Yanqiu who was sitting at the table.
Liu Yanqiu turned his head away, as if to say, "Just say whatever you want and I won't pay any attention to you."
"Okay, okay, I got it."
Pushing Bai Lu out, Gu Qingsheng nodded vigorously.
After explaining everything again, Bai Lu left, looking back every few steps.
As soon as Bai Lu left, Liu Yanqiu threw down his chopsticks.
"No more."
He looked so casual but not at all restrained. Gu Qingsheng smiled.
"Boss, are you full?"
"What are you eating? It's so light."
He put the fox mask back on his face, and Gu Qingsheng, who had just turned around, didn't have time to see his face.
"Tell me, what do you want from me?"
After finishing adjusting the mask, Liu Yanqiu spoke like this, his tone completely different from when Bai Lu was there just now.
"The boss is a smart guy."
Gu Qingsheng sat down opposite Liu Yanqiu with a smile on her face. Her eyes curved into crescents when she smiled, revealing her cunningness. For a moment, Liu Yanqiu couldn't tell who was wearing the fox mask.
"We're strangers, yet you're helping me for no reason and letting me eat and drink for free. If you don't have something to ask of me, then what is it? And it's something that girl shouldn't know."
After saying this, he seemed to have guessed what Gu Qingsheng was thinking. He leaned back in his chair, swaying nonchalantly.
"Go ahead, I'm very familiar with this place."
Leaning forward, Gu Qingsheng thought for a while, and whispered something in a voice that only the two of them could hear.
Liu Yanqiu fell silent, and his originally careless voice also stopped. He focused on his movements, and after a while, he hesitated with a hint of surprise and said,
"...I didn't expect that you, who look so young, would have such a need. Tsk tsk tsk tsk..."
"It's definitely not me."
Gu Qingsheng rolled his eyes at him
"I am useful, can you get it?"
"Don't say that."
Liu Yanqiu's voice has a sly taste
"I really can."
…
In the cold pool at the foot of Luofo Temple, the water is icy cold, and a large amount of water falls from the waterfall above with ice chips.
Below the waterfall, two long iron nails were covered with ice. Thick chains were wrapped around the nails on both sides, with a man tied in the middle.
The man had long hair draped over his shoulders, his eyebrows were drooping, his face was pale, and his upper body was naked, revealing his strong muscles and very beautiful complexion.
However, there was no way to appreciate his figure.
Countless hideous bloodstains covered his body. Those bloodstains seemed to be moving and climbing on his body.
And every time he climbed a little higher, the man's brows furrowed a little more.
His pale lips kept trembling, and his lower lip had been bitten and was bleeding. The waterfall falling from above carried the blood on his body into the cold pool, and soon it was soaked in the water and disappeared.
"Amitabha."
Jing Yuan stood calmly at the edge of the cold pond, her eyes as still as a vast ocean as she looked at the extremely miserable man.
The man slowly raised his head, revealing a pair of beautiful eyes that were lifeless and forbearing.
Xu Qingyi's current appearance is really very different from usual.
The bloodstains on his body were like flesh worms crawling in his skin, looking hideous and hideous.
“…Master…”
After an unknown amount of time, Xu Qingyi spoke to Jing Yuan with a dry throat.
"Yun Yi, how do you feel?"
Yun Yi was the Dharma name Xu Qingyi used when he was still in Luofo Temple. After he became the National Master of Jin and Chu, Jing Yuan always called him National Master and had not heard of Xu Qingyi's Dharma name for a long time.
So, when Jingyuan called out this name, Xu Qingyi's body shook slightly, accompanied by the sound of iron chains colliding with each other.
"Master... Yun Yi, I'm much better now, cough..."
He coughed weakly and spat out a mouthful of black blood. As if aware of Xu Qingyi's vomiting of blood, the red flesh worms on his body twisted even more happily, and the piercing pain kept rushing into Xu Qingyi's brain.
He suddenly clenched his fists tightly, veins popped on the back of his hands, and breathed heavily with the remaining strength.
Jingyuan saw all this, and he sighed slightly, closing his eyes and not wanting to watch any longer.
"Not yet... Not yet..."
"Also, forty-six lashes will be needed to eliminate the remaining poison in your body."
"Yun Yi, when you were little, your master advised you countless times that you can hurt or protect others, but you must not kill."
"Killing is a grave sin. You were born under the protection of the Buddha. To inherit great things, you must first control your desires and cleanse your soul."
"You have the Buddha's seal in your heart. Killing will bring you unspeakable pain. It is a poison that eats away at your heart and bones."
"It's hard to understand, it's hard to understand."
Jingyuan shook her head and turned around, but slowly heard Xu Qingyi's weak and powerless murmur, which seemed to be the last trace of clarity in his consciousness.
"Master... Yun Yi, I have no regrets... I will never regret what I did today... forever..."
As soon as he finished speaking, a whip suddenly rang out in the air, cutting through the cold air! It swung fiercely towards Xu Qingyi—
“Bang!!!”
Suddenly, Xu Qingyi broke out in a cold sweat!
Another blood-red moving mark appeared on his body and kept wriggling, but there was no whip in the air.
The sound just now seemed like an illusion, but Xu Qingyi's pain was visibly increasing exponentially.
"And forty-five lashes."
Jing Yuan said.
"This is all a calamity, Yun Yi. It's what you deserve, it's what you deserve."
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