Pain
The moonlight is hazy and the shadows of the trees are swaying.
Li Ling walked back to the cave where he was temporarily living in a daze.
The evil spirit in his body became rampant again...
It must be suppressed, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous.
Li Ling sat down cross-legged, two forces raging within him, ready to tear him apart. The intense pain made his face turn pale, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
Li Ling took out the technique for suppressing demonic energy given to him by Master Lei with trembling hands and practiced it clumsily.
After a few days, Li Ling finally suppressed the evil spirit.
This was his first time suppressing the evil energy in his body. Once he became proficient in it, it would not take so long.
Li Ling was about to get up when he found something in his arms.
Jade pendant?
It was a sound transmission jade pendant, and he didn't have such a thing.
Whose?
At this moment, the sound transmission jade pendant lit up.
"Brother Ling, come sit with me?"
Li Yu? It seems like she was let in during the fight a few days ago. This guy is really calculating.
"What's the matter" is always wearing a fox skin, and no one knows how much evil is hidden in his belly under that gentle smile.
Honestly, Li Ling didn't want to have too much contact with him. He wasn't one to hold grudges, but he wouldn't let himself be bullied forever, otherwise he wouldn't have taken the initiative to remove the seal. He would take revenge for all the past grudges he had.
Li Yu seemed not to notice the perfunctory tone in Li Ling's voice, "Don't you want revenge for how Yin Chao bullied you before..."
Both sides were silent. Li Yu chuckled and took the initiative to break the silence.
There was a hint of temptation in his voice as he said, "I can help you. Let's join forces."
"Master, you have to know that you are no different from those people in my place."
Li Yu, not knowing what was going on, actually took the initiative to remove his smiling face: "I only care about interests, and your interests do not conflict with mine. Li Ling, I will be your most satisfactory ally. I'll wait for you in the bamboo garden, don't be late."
Before Li Ling could say anything, the light of the jade pendant went out.
“…”
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When Li Ling arrived, Li Yu was already waiting in the bamboo garden. He waved a green bamboo fan in his hand and said with a faint smile, "I've been waiting for you here for a long time, just worried you wouldn't come."
Li Ling followed Li Yu to the Lei An River beside the bamboo garden and said in a displeased tone, "What do you want from me?"
"Let's have a heart-to-heart talk. Let's increase the invisible trust between us." Li Yu raised her fan and waved it lightly, and a wooden boat appeared beside the river bank.
The two of them got on the boat together, feeling the breeze and the waves.
Li Ling sat down and jokingly said, "Am I on a pirate ship?"
"Those who can get on but can't get off are definitely pirate ships." Li Yu poured tea for Li Ling, raised the cup and said to him, "Today I will offer a glass of tea to Brother Ling instead of wine."
Li Ling didn't drink. He had lived in the lowest echelons of the Hidden Tide since childhood, where reason was unheard of and only the strongest held the final say. Therefore, he disliked those who plotted and circumvented the rules and asked bluntly, "What is your purpose?"
"Purpose?" Li Ling put down the teacup: "Of course, it's to become the master of the Hidden Tide."
Li Ling's eyes trembled, but after thinking about it for a while, he felt that there was no problem.
The leader of the Yinchao tribe won people over with his virtue, but Lize was an exception. He rose to power by fighting for power.
The previous chief of Yinchao tribe was Li Ze's younger brother Li Wu. During his reign, Li Wu was frugal, loved the people and governed well. The people of Yinchao all loved this chief who was rarely seen in a century.
To the regret of the Yinchao people, Li Wu tragically died while involved in an external mission. The vast Yinchao clan could not survive without a clan leader, and amidst this grief, Yinchao needed a clan leader who was both virtuous and virtuous.
At that time, among all the Hidden Tide elders, Lize was the least likely to be elected as the clan leader due to his bad character. However, as happens so often, the day before the election, the elders in the running either died suddenly or voluntarily withdrew from the election, leaving only Lize.
It’s not that no one opposed it, but they were all killed by Lize.
In order to win the hearts of the people, Lize has pretended to be friendly and amiable over the years, which has made the people of Yinchao forget what kind of person he was before he came to power.
Even dogs can't stop eating that thing, let alone Li Ze. Li Ling never believed that Li Ze would change.
The reason why Li Ling knew all this was because Old Lei had a lot of historical records about the five tribes. When he had nothing to do, he would read those books as storybooks. Day after day, he knew most of the past events of the five tribes.
Li Ling glanced at Li Yu and thought to himself, sometimes they really are alike, both wearing a fox mask.
However, there is a well-known unspoken rule in the selection of the patriarch of the five tribes - pure bloodline.
"From what I understand, you seem to be from a branch of the Hidden Tide, right?"
Li Yu smiled but said nothing.
If you don't deny it, then you admit it.
Li Yu gulped down the tea in her hand and sneered, "Bloodline?"
"I don't need those. As long as I have enough strength, they will naturally follow me as their leader."
Li Ling was stunned. He had to say that his idea coincided with Li Yu's.
The wooden boat moved slowly and passed a small bend in front. The banks were originally barren with night grass, but after passing the bend, it became green and beautiful, full of vitality.
A seemingly unsolvable deadlock may turn around in the next moment.
Li Ling picked up the tea on the table and took a sip: "I can help you, but not everything." Li Ze was the person he wanted to bring down. Now that he had a helper, he could naturally kill someone with a borrowed knife. Why not?
“It’s a pleasure to work with you.”
·
As dusk passed, a few sparks of sunset glow remained on the edge of the night, illuminating the desolate wild path where few people walked.
Li Ling was walking on the way back to the cave. The cool breeze blew the short grass, carrying a hint of murderous intent.
Li Ling's eyes suddenly became sharp. He drew his sword, turned around and looked at the lonely dead tree not far away.
"come out."
His tone was calm, yet extremely cold, as if he was going to chop down the tree with a sword if the man didn't come out.
"It's me."
Li Ling was a little surprised: "...Elder Yuan."
The person who came was Yuan Jing, the second elder of Qingya.
The fierceness in Li Ling's eyes diminished a bit, but he did not relax his vigilance just because it was Yuan Jing. His hand was still on the hilt of the sword.
"I came here today to ask for a favor, so don't be nervous, young friend."
Puzzlement flashed across Li Ling's face briefly, and he said, "I'd like to hear the details."
Yuan Jing didn't say it directly, but turned slightly and said to the dead tree: "Shuang'er, come out."
The person behind the tree did not come out immediately. It seemed like he thought for a long time before he poked his foot out, and then a furry little head popped out.
As the night deepened, Li Ling could not see the person's appearance clearly, but judging by the outline, it should be a little girl, not tall, only reaching Li Ling's chest.
Yuan Jing introduced, "This is my sister, Yuan Shuang. She's a little shy, so I'm sorry to bother you."
Li Ling murmured in his heart that Yuan Jing was a little too polite, which was completely different from the way he had been asking for debts from him before.
Just as Li Yu left, another one with bad intentions came. Li Ling complained inwardly and spoke first: "The junior's ability is limited. I wonder how I can help the senior?"
"This..." Yuan Jing didn't know how to say it.
"Since Elder Yuan is fine, I will leave first." Li Ling said and was about to leave.
Yuan Jing said anxiously: "Wait a moment."
"I really have something to ask of you. I'd like to entrust my little sister to you for a while."
Li Ling looked at the small figure behind the dead tree with a look of surprise on his face.
Yuan Jing quickly added, "Of course, I'm not asking for your help for nothing. I can pay back half of the medicinal herbs you owed Qingya."
Li Ling's eyes flashed, and he hesitated. He had never taken care of a child before...
Yuan Jing added, "Eighty percent."
Eighty percent!
Li Ling was a little surprised. This was a high price. Elder Qingya was indeed rich. Li Ling thought about it and glanced at the child again. He thought to himself, taking care of a child shouldn't be difficult, right?
You can learn!
Li Ling was about to agree when he heard Yuan Jing's voice: "100%!"
"make a deal."
With so many medicinal herbs, even Elder Qingya must have spent a lot of blood... He is willing to pay such a high price. It seems that this sister is very important to Yuan Jing.
Yuan Jing said with a pained look, "Come out and go to Brother Ling."
"I... I don't want to..." The little girl clung to the dry branches and said vaguely in a tender voice.
People who practice cultivation have very good hearing, so Li Ling must have heard it.
Yuan Jing looked embarrassed. He turned around and whispered something in Yuan Shuang's ear.
Yuan Shuang was a little surprised and said, "Are you serious? Don't lie to me."
"Of course it's true."
Yuan Shuang's eyes sparkled, and she let go of the tree trunk without hesitation.
She tied her hair into two ponytails and trotted over to Li Ling. She looked at him excitedly and said crisply, "Can I call you Brother Ling?"
Wasn't this girl afraid of him? Why did she act like she saw a treasure now?
Li Ling felt something was fishy, but since he had already agreed to it, there was no reason to go back on his word. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and respond, "Okay."
"Brother, you can call me Shuang'er. I'm a very good boy and won't cause any trouble for you."
The little girl's serious promise looked inexplicably cute, but Li Ling soon stopped thinking so.
He would think this is a disaster!
·
"Father—come here quickly, there's a sister here who's injured and unconscious!"
"Girl, stay there obediently. Don't go over there. Let your father take a look."
The man was carrying a small bamboo basket on his back, which contained a few magical herbs covered in mud.
"Father, I'm here!"
A little girl of four or five years old was sitting on the slope, holding a purple wild flower in her tender white hands, with an innocent smile on her face.
Yao Li saw his daughter's smiling face and said helplessly and worriedly, "Be careful! Don't move, don't fall."
Yaoli walked over, put down the medicine basket on his back, then half-leaned over and picked up his daughter.
The little girl pointed down the hillside, waving her hands hurriedly, urging: "Father, there is a sister down there who is injured, please save her~"
Yaoli placed his daughter in the medicine basket and said, "Okay, let's go together."
"Okay~ Father is the best."
Yaoli walked down the hillside from the path and saw a woman in red lying in a pool of blood.
Yaoli put down the medicine basket and said to his daughter, "Be good, Daddy will be back soon."
The little girl's eyes sparkled as she nodded and quickly replied, "Okay!"
When he walked over, he saw that the woman's face was as pale as paper and her breath was weak.
Being injured so seriously, it must be very serious and I don’t know whether he can survive.
He took the woman's pulse and found that she had profound magical powers, so she could still be saved. He fed her a pill and sighed, thinking that his wife would nag him for a while when he got home.
"Yaoyao, let's go home."
"Sister, are you going home with me?" The little girl held the edge of the medicine basket with her chubby hands, and stared into the medicine with her big eyes, making it hard to refuse.
Yao Li said helplessly but amusedly: "Let's go back together."
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