Chapter 156: The Gu Master Who Cultivated the Young Hero
In early spring, dewdrops hung on the tender leaves on the branches, dripping down one by one as the wheels of the donkey cart rolled over the bluestone slabs.
The aroma of fried sweet fruits wrapped in a thin, cold mist filled the air, and along with a few shouts, it awakened the street.
The rooms facing the street in the inn are less effective in isolating sound, and the sound rises along with the hot white mist from the steamer.
Lin Zhi suddenly opened her eyes, looked at the unfamiliar environment around her, and pursed her lips slightly.
Without Xie Qing's noisy voice, the surrounding seemed a little deserted.
Lin Zhi took in the environment inside the room. It was an ancient guest room. Judging from the furnishings, it should be a place like an inn.
The window was opened a crack, and the sounds outside came in.
01: [Welcome host to the new mission world! You are awesome! Do you want to receive new mission objective information now? 】
Lin Zhi responded, but he didn't get up. He just lay back down, covered himself with the quilt, and sorted out the information about this mission.
After receiving just a little information, Lin Zhi raised his eyebrows in surprise. This time the personality fragment was a child.
Lin Zhi looked through the information again. This was somewhat beyond his expectations. He had no plans to do anything to the child.
Although this would make his task easier, as the immature mind is easy to be misled and the seeds are planted, he did not want to do this.
He wants to date someone who understands what love is and doesn't like to attack a child.
If it was the father... well... Lin Zhi wasn't sure if he could educate the child well. After all, the education he received was not healthy, he had no experience in raising children, and the one he was about to raise was the strange personality fragment of his lover.
It's really interesting and full of unknowns. It might be nice to give it a try if you can care for them as a family member and a guide.
Lin Zhi continued to integrate the information. He knew that the child would not have a good experience, and that was indeed the case.
This time the personality fragment is named Qi He, and he is eight years old.
He was born into a martial arts family, the Chunyi Qi family.
The Qi family's ancestral horizontal sword technique was very famous in the martial arts world, but it gradually declined after being passed down for two generations. It was then developed and promoted again in the hands of Qi He's grandfather.
Qi He's grandfather was extremely talented and born with great strength. He liked to touch swords even before he could walk smoothly. This made the Qi family ecstatic and they directly named Qi He's grandfather after the cross-cutting sword technique.
Qi He's grandfather Qi Hengduan lived up to everyone's expectations and practiced the Hengduan swordsmanship to perfection. People in the martial arts world nicknamed him "Martial Arts Fanatic" because he loved martial arts so much.
Qi Hengduan wanted to continue his swordsmanship, but unfortunately he had never found a suitable successor. He had two sons. The eldest son was mediocre and the second son did not like to practice martial arts. Seeing that the eldest son had no potential, he had to force the younger son, Qi He's father, to learn martial arts.
Unfortunately, talent cannot be forced, and Qi He's father chose to go into business. Eventually, he met the female leader of the escort agency, and they got married. Qi He was born soon after.
Qi Hengduan placed his hopes on the newborn Qi He, but before he could teach him the sword skills, something unexpected happened in his family.
In order to take revenge on him, his former enemies killed his eldest son, Qi He's uncle's family.
Qi Hengduan spent a month to wipe out his enemies, but even so he could not save the lives of his son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter.
Qi Hengduan pursued the ultimate in martial arts throughout his life and became famous at a young age. Although it was a pity that he had no successor and was a little frustrated, he was still relatively calm.
Although he was disappointed with his two sons, he still cared deeply about the bloodline between him and his deceased wife.
He had never thought that he would experience the pain of losing his sons and grandsons in middle age, and it was a disaster caused by him. His character was like his knife, but too hard would break easily. This incident made him almost obsessed, his meridians were damaged, and even his mind was a little unclear.
In desperation, he had to retreat from time to time to recuperate, and occasionally enjoy playing with his grandchildren.
But just the day before yesterday, something happened in the Qi family that caused a sensation.
Overnight, everyone in the Qi family, from the couple to the maids and guards, died tragically on the spot.
Although Qi He's father, Qi Erye, was not good at martial arts, due to the influence of his wife and father, he was quite respectful to people in the martial arts world and made many friends.
Madam Qi was the former leader of the Jiuyuan Escort Agency. After she gave birth to a child, she was not suitable for traveling, so she handed over her position to her confidant temporarily. But even so, she was still the leader of the escort in everyone's heart. She was generous and enthusiastic, and had a good reputation.
As soon as the bad news came out, everyone rushed to Chunyi to find out what happened.
The wounds of everyone in the Qi Mansion were strange. It was obvious that they were attacked by more than one weapon, including palm techniques, stick techniques, sword techniques, and even knife techniques. The first three moves of the horizontal knife technique were used.
This was undoubtedly a provocation, making everyone furious.
At this time, someone found the unconscious Qi He in the mechanism inside the house.
After receiving the news, Qi Hengduan forced himself to come out of seclusion. He met Qi He who had just woken up and asked him if he could see the enemy clearly.
Qi He didn't see it. He was put into the agency by his parents. He didn't see the enemy, didn't know who he was, or even how many people there were.
Qi Hengduan's meridians were already damaged, and at this moment his blood and qi were flowing backwards, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood, which fell into Qi He's eyes.
——Why don’t you know anything? You might as well be blind.
These were irrational and crazy words spoken in anger, but after that day, Qi He really couldn't see anymore.
Qi Hengduan, who had gone mad, went out with a knife. Everyone could not catch up with him and Qi Hengduan disappeared.
Now, the only member of the Qi family left is the blind Qi He. As he is young and has no other relatives, people in the martial arts world are discussing where to go for him.
Lin Zhi knew that the personality fragments all had similar not-so-good childhoods. In the past, he always appeared after they had grown up, when they had been away from grief for a long time. Now it just happened to be the time when he was most vulnerable.
Lin Zhi heard a sigh, and then realized that it was the sound coming from his mouth.
After sorting out his thoughts, Lin Zhi began to check his identity this time.
They were not the friends of Qi He's father, nor were they people from Madam Qi's escort agency, but a person who had nothing to do with these underworld forces.
The original owner was from Miaojiang and was a Gu Master.
They have lived in the mountains for a long time and rarely move around in the martial arts world. Outsiders define them as a cult, but this is not the case.
They are not a church-like group, nor do they have any desire to engage with the outside world. The Miao people live in villages, with women serving as clan leaders.
The original owner is the younger brother of the current clan leader. Because of his excellent witchcraft skills, he is also the saint of the village.
This time he left the village to track the whereabouts of a Gu. Not long ago, a tribe member betrayed the tribe, stole a mind-controlling Gu and escaped.
As the name suggests, the mind-controlling Gu can turn the infected person into a puppet. It is extremely difficult to practice and is a treasure that the original owner's sister placed in the secret chamber.
In order to retrieve the mind-controlling Gu, the clan leader asked the original owner to take the King Gu to look for it. The original owner chased all the way to Chunyi and checked into the inn last night.
Lin Zhi let out a light breath, sat up from the bed, and picked up the robe beside him.
When the original owner came out, he was still wearing Miao clothing, but after leaving the mountain, he felt that the clothes were conspicuous and not conducive to tracking, so he changed into Central Plains clothing, but he was not used to it and wore it in a messy manner.
Lin Zhi smoothed out the wrinkles on his clothes. He had lived in ancient times. Although the historical background was different, there were some commonalities.
Lin Zhi put on her clothes, tidied her quilt, and walked to the window.
After the window was opened, the street air rushed in. The aroma of food made Lin Zhi feel hungry for the first time in a long time. He had been a ghost for too long in his previous life and had long forgotten what it felt like to be hungry.
01's voice also sounded at this time: [Host, have you received the message? Then I will issue the mission of this world! 】
01's voice was still infectious, and he said with full energy: "Take care of him, warm him, and let him see the light again!" 】
Lin Zhi responded, having long been accustomed to her own medical miracles of bringing people back to health.
After washing up, Lin Zhi packed up his luggage and put away all the items brought by the original owner according to his own habits.
He looked at the finely textured porcelain bottle in his hand, opened the stopper, and cut his fingertips.
A red poisonous insect slowly crawled out of the bottle and sucked the blood.
Lin Zhi touched a knuckle-sized poisonous insect with his fingers, and put it back into the bottle after it finished eating. Rather than chasing the poisonous insect, he needed to go and see the poor little thing first.
After closing the door, Lin Zhi left a silver ingot as room fee with the shopkeeper and left the inn.
I ate a bowl of chicken wonton soup at a stall not far away, wrapped two big buns in oil paper, and headed towards Qi's house.
The closer you get to the Qi family, the more outsiders there are.
Lin Zhi found a tea stall and sat down, and heard the conversations of people next to him.
"In my opinion, we should let the Seven Star Sect take Young Master Qi away. I am a gentle person, so I think he will not be wrong. Who knows if other people were involved? After all, the deaths of those people were caused not only by the Hengduan sword technique, but also by the short arrows from Madam Qi's escort agency, the boxing techniques of the Five Elements School, and the poison feathers of the Diancui Palace. The people behind the scenes are deliberately muddying the waters."
The middle-aged man slammed the table so hard that the tea bowls fell to the ground.
"I don't know why Mr. Qi and his wife died, and why people went to such great lengths to cover it up."
"I don't know where that martial arts idiot has gone. He actually left his little grandson behind like this."
"I heard that Young Master Qi is blind. How pitiful."
Everyone shook their heads and sighed, feeling very sad.
Lin Zhi paid two copper coins for the tea and left.
【01, search and locate. 】
01: [Okay, we have planned the best route for you! 】
An electronic map appeared in Lin Zhi's mind, and it was not even the previous simplified version. Words like restaurants and inns were marked next to the map.
01Hands on hips: [Dang dang dang! Because you, the host, are so powerful, I have become stronger, and it will be more convenient to locate you in the future! The road I picked for you has the least people. If you meet people, I can give you hints! 】
Lin Zhi: [Very useful, very powerful. 】
This time it is a martial arts world with many martial arts masters. Those with strong internal strength can even hide, which is very useful for Lin Zhi.
01 was praised and laughed happily.
In the end, Lin Zhi did not say anything to break its current happiness, nor did he tell it the cruel fact that it would not be able to watch cartoons for a long time.
Following the route planned by 01, Lin Zhi approached the left wall of Qi Mansion.
The red dot reminded Lin Zhi that there were three people around him. Lin Zhi kept a certain distance and took out a small box.
Inside was a very beautiful butterfly. Lin Zhi sprinkled some medicine powder on its body and shook the small bell she carried with her.
The butterfly took off from the box, Lin Zhi leaned against the corner and used some more ants.
About half a cup of tea later, Lin Zhi leisurely walked out of the corner, passed by the three unconscious people one after another, and landed in the yard using his lightness skills.
Qi He was sitting next to the stone table, wearing a white dress, his face was pale and bloodless.
Lin Zhi walked up to him silently and looked at his young face.
His obsidian eyes were lifeless and gray.
Qi He suddenly asked, "Who are you?"
His expression was tense and his voice was calm, but his clenched fists on the table betrayed his uneasiness.
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