Chapter 154: Strange
Hearing this, Hua Seng immediately let go and stepped back, looking at her with a strange expression.
Tao Zi frowned in confusion and said, "Brother Hua... why do you look like this?"
Flower Monk took out a string of Buddhist beads from somewhere, spun them around and chanted a few Buddhist scriptures before solemnly saying, "Who are you, evildoer? Show yourself!"
She was so upset that she asked, "What are you crazy about?"
He looked at her warily and recited the Calming Sutra, the Demon-Removing Spell, and the Yin-Removing Spell over and over again.
Seeing that he looked like he could recite it all day, Tao Zi said helplessly, "I'm fine, what are you doing?"
Seeing that she hadn't changed at all, Hua Heshang asked hesitantly, "Are you really okay?"
She asked back, "What can I do?"
"Then why did you suddenly change your mind?"
Tao Zi was completely helpless and asked, "Are you going through all this trouble just for this one thing?"
"More than that." Flower Monk looked at her, hesitating for a long moment before continuing, "When you said that, I felt a bad feeling. I've been chanting Buddha's name since I was a child, so I'm particularly sensitive in this area. Junior Sister Tao, are you really okay?"
Tao Zi frowned, pressed her forehead, and said casually: "It's just a headache."
As soon as she finished speaking, her body suddenly stiffened.
Flower Monk noticed something was wrong and asked, "What's wrong?"
Tao Zi looked normal: "It's okay."
Flower Monk asked doubtfully, "Then why did you change your mind?"
Tao Zi said: "Senior Brother Li is the one we are escorting, we have to find him. Yueshan and his men are weak, so we have to be more careful."
"But we don't know where they are."
"There's only one exit for failed trials, and the teleportation locations are mostly near the ruins."
Tao Zi answered fluently, and Hua Heshang gradually relaxed. He began to persuade her, "But it's not a good idea for us to do this."
"Um?"
"We're far away from there. They don't know where we are, so they'll definitely head to the central region to look for us. If we go over there, we'll most likely miss them. It's better to go directly to the central region. Maybe we can meet them earlier."
Tao Zi lowered her head and thought about it, then felt that this was the case and nodded.
Hua Heshang breathed a sigh of relief and walked out again.
Tao Zi was ravaging the fox in her arms, and the thought just now emerged in her mind again: What was the reason for her headache?
She slowly stroked the fox's head until the fox could no longer bear it and said, "Can you please stop touching me?"
She let go of it quickly and her eyes suddenly fell on the ring on her finger.
She took it down instinctively and took out the scroll from it. As soon as the portrait came into her sight, her mind cleared up and she remembered everything she had experienced before.
Tao Zi gripped the scroll tightly, and her aura suddenly became particularly terrifying.
The fox sensed something was wrong and silently moved to the side.
She took a deep breath, controlled her temper, and put the scroll away. Is that how it is?
That thing wasn't aimed at Xu Qianjia and the others, but at her fellow juniors. Furthermore, that thing could motivate her to perfect her logic and persuade herself and those around her.
Just like the Flower Monk, if he was a person without any ideas and not that sensitive, he would not notice anything wrong and would just follow her ideas.
After every severe headache, she would gradually forget her doubts about the headache and be controlled unconsciously.
That’s really… brilliant!
There was some hatred in Tao Zi's eyes, but it quickly disappeared. If it weren't for her aura, the fox would have thought he had seen it wrong.
She slowly put the scroll back into her storage ring and suppressed the hatred in her heart. It must be said that it was really unpleasant to have one's memory and emotions manipulated by others.
The two of them rested in the village for three days, and after most of the gauze on Tao Zi's body had been removed, the two decided to set off.
While resting on the road, Hua Heshang looked at the gauze on her face in confusion and asked, "Your face hasn't healed yet?"
"Yes."
He murmured doubtfully, "That shouldn't be the case. I think the medicine Junior Brother Li used is good. He should be fully healed."
She calmly made up an excuse: "Some scars haven't healed yet, and I don't want anyone to see them."
Hearing this, Monk Hua sighed and said, "I only knew that mortal women valued appearance, but I didn't expect that female monks also valued it so much."
Tao Zi was too lazy to pay attention to him and looked at the map in her hand to figure out the route.
She discussed the route issue with Hua Heshang for three days, but they still couldn't come to a conclusion.
Seeing her so focused, Hua Heshang couldn't help but say, "Don't look at it. There's no need to look. We don't have any aircraft, so we can only advance on foot. At this speed, it will take another five days to reach the next fork in the road."
She continued to look at the map without saying anything.
When they were both almost done resting, Tao Zi put the map away and said, "Judging from our pace, we'll have to camp outdoors tonight."
Flower Monk said, "Then let's go quickly. We might still have time to choose a good place."
Shortly after the sun set, they managed to find a good place to stay and caught a rabbit and a wild boar.
Tao Zi handed the roasted rabbit to the fox, shared the wild boar with the monk Hua, and asked, "Do you want to guard the first or second half of the night?"
"I want the front legs...ah, I can do anything."
Tao Zi looked at his bald head, then belatedly remembered something and asked, "Can you eat meat?"
He said seriously, "Our Buddhist sect doesn't advocate eating meat, but I've already defected from the sect."
Tao Zi watched him eat the meat in big mouthfuls, and inexplicably felt that something was missing - wine.
I don’t know which sect trained this monk, but he is so rebellious.
She sighed as she ate the meat. Physical cultivators' needs for food were greater than those of Taoist cultivators. After walking for an entire afternoon, she was already hungry.
When she had almost finished eating, she suddenly looked towards the bushes to her left, and Hua Heshang also turned his head to look.
As they watched, the grass moved and a small person popped out.
He looked to be about two or three years old, dressed in rags, with a pale face and skinny body. His eyes stared straight at the little wild boar meat left in their hands.
Tao Zi looked at the child and waved at him. He walked over cautiously. She smiled and said, "Kid, you've been watching there for so long. Is there something wrong?"
He swallowed, pointed at the meat in her hand and said, "It smells good. I want to eat it."
Flower Monk looked at her and asked, "Kid, where are your family members?"
He stared at the wild boar meat and said, "My father and mother were eaten by a man covered in black. My brother fell asleep and couldn't be woken up."
A dark person?
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