Ningning had no intention of killing from the very beginning.
Although many spirit beasts and monsters in the Xiaochongshan Secret Realm will attack humans indiscriminately, in the final analysis, they are only defending their territory and expelling invaders.
To them, the monk who suddenly appeared was the unreasonable one.
Therefore, unless she was in a critical situation of life and death, she would not intend to kill anyone at other times.
The human-faced scorpion was praised to the skies by her, and unexpectedly he actually enjoyed it very much. After a cold snort, Biebie not only pointed out the exit of the cave, but also marked the location of Tianxin grass on Ningning's map to facilitate her to find it.
Only after leaving the green and gloomy cave did Ningning feel that she had truly entered Xiaochong Mountain.
The cave is located halfway up the mountain. Looking around, you can see layers of mountains all around.
The sky, clouds, mountains and water are all covered with a leisurely green color. In the distance, thick fog hides the green mountains like eyebrows. Nearby, birds sing and flowers bloom. Orioles and swallows sing everywhere, bringing the faint fragrance of leaves.
The place where the human-faced scorpion pointed was very close to the cave. In just half an incense stick of time, Ningning successfully reached her destination.
This is a small corner on the edge of the cliff blocked by huge rocks. The rocks are tightly attached to the nearby mountain wall, leaving only a narrow gap that is only wide enough for one person to pass through.
The gap is blocked by vines and branches, and it is difficult to find if you don't look carefully. If you push aside the vegetation and look through the gap, the other side is just a very narrow open space.
Most ordinary people would lose interest after seeing this, but they would never have thought that if they looked through the gap to the right, they would find that in the corner blocked by the boulder, there grew a spiritual plant with a completely snow-white body and four heart-shaped leaves.
——It is said that every leaf of Tianxin grass can cure a hundred diseases.
What Ningning didn't expect was that when she lifted the thick vines next to the boulder, she actually heard an unfamiliar female voice behind the stone.
The voice was extremely gentle, and it was unclear whether it was out of fear or nervousness, but it was trembling slightly when it spoke: "Senior, my family member is seriously ill. If there is no Tianxin Grass to save his life..."
Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by another bright and flamboyant voice: "I've seen your excuses many times. Instead of trying so hard to deceive me, you should think about how to take on this couplet."
There are actually two people in such a secret place?
Ningning became suspicious and stuck her head in.
There were indeed two figures standing behind the boulder.
She had some impression of one of them, she was Yun Duan Yue who never spoke to strangers in Liuming Mountain; the other woman was in her twenties, with ordinary features but an extraordinary temperament, she was leaning against the stone wall behind her with a smile on her face.
Sensing the presence of a stranger, they both turned their heads at the same time.
Yunduanyue was like a frightened rabbit, and immediately lowered her eyelashes after a very brief eye contact. But the woman acted like a master, smiling carelessly: "Are you here to get the Tianxin grass too?"
Seeing Ning Ning nod, he immediately said brightly: "I am the spirit in the stone. I have been here with Tianxin Grass for a hundred years. If you want to take it away, you must ask my opinion first."
She didn't show any obvious refusal, Ning Ning knew something was going to happen, and asked politely, "What do you mean, senior?"
"This shabby place is so boring. Over the years, the only human object I have come into contact with is the "Picking Flowers" that was left here by someone unknown."
Shi Zhongling was very satisfied with her cooperation and raised his lips: "It's a pity that I have seen couplets for so many years, but I can't find anyone to match them. Today I will give you the first line and you can answer it. If you can match it, I will give you this grass. I won't bully you. I allow you not to delve into the rhythm and artistic conception. As long as the words are there, how do you do it?"
This is actually a very artistic monster, probably a distant relative of Sun Wukong, both of them were born of stone.
Ning Ning nodded and looked at Yun Duan Yue beside her: "You came here first, I won't cut in line."
Yun Duanyue still lowered her head and didn't look at her. Just by being addressed, her ears turned slightly red and she pursed her lips.
"This girl can't tell."
During the conversation, a yellowed old book appeared in the woman's hand. Amid the rustling sound of the pages turning, the Stone Spirit's voice rang out leisurely: "Let's start with a simple one, ghosts and monsters."
Ning Ning blurted out: "Pie wonton."
She clearly felt that the smile on Shi Zhongling's lips stiffened for a moment.
But the other party was a piece of stone that was brought up by literature after all, and he was very calm. He paused and said, "The small road is like a thin horse in the west wind."
Ning Ning didn't know what scene was in her mind. She touched her belly and laughed softly, "A big plate of Dongtu fat beef."
Stone Spirit: ...
Shi Zhong Lingqi laughed back: "Girl, why do you keep talking about food?"
Ning Ning said seriously: "Didn't we agree not to dwell on the rhythm and artistic conception? As long as the words match, that's all."
She was quite confident.
Shi Zhongling hadn't composed poetry with anyone for a long time. This time, he finally met someone, but he turned out to be a troublemaker.
In that case, she would increase the difficulty. In more advanced couplets, she didn't believe that this girl could continue to put out a bunch of food and drink stuff while maintaining neat parallelism.
"My third pair, the Crane's Feet at the Cold Pond."
The other party was indeed stunned for a long while.
I guess this girl is just a little clever. Once she encounters a difficult sentence, she will inevitably show her true colors -
This thought just crossed his mind, and before it fully emerged, the girl's clear voice rang in his ears: "Hot pot stewed pig's trotters."
Shi Zhongling's face twitched.
Hot is paired with cold, stew is paired with ferry, pig's trotter is paired with crane's foot. Not only are the radicals and character shapes opposite, but the meanings and parts of speech are also very compatible. Although it sounds fine at first...
But she always felt that the first line of her couplet was dirty.
——No matter how I think about it, it smells like stewed pig’s trotters, you bastard! Were you a pot in your previous life? All I think about all day is eating!
"You, you girl!"
Shi Zhongling gritted his teeth and said, "The rhythm and mood are all wrong. It seems like you are playing a cruel game!"
The so-called ruthless couplet is a very special format in couplets. It does not require the contents of the upper and lower couplets to be relevant or the grammatical structure to be symmetrical, but only requires the single words to be antithetical. Therefore, it inevitably looks awkward and funny, creating a strange sense of disparity.
For example, Zeng Guofan once wrote "When the public officials compete for glory, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium"; during the Republic of China period, there was also "Three Stars of Brandy, the plum blossoms in May".
In the final analysis, this is just a low-level technique in couplets, a kind of word game that is nitpicking.
"What's wrong with the ruthless pair? The ruthless pair is so much fun."
Ning Ning admitted it openly: "Poverty versus nothing, excuse versus talk back, sailor versus ham, fungus versus flower heart - didn't you say that as long as the words match, it's fine?"
Shi Zhongling was speechless after hearing what she said. After taking a deep breath to ease the helpless suffocation in his chest, he continued, "Come again! Yingshanhong Yingshanhong."
Azalea is the name of a plant, and the word "ying" can also be used as a verb alone.
After she finished speaking, she raised her eyes and glared at Ning Ning: "Don't say stewed pig's trotters, stewed pig's trotters, roasted duck feet, roasted duck feet! The artistic conception of this couplet must be the same."
"……oh."
Ningning felt a little disappointed for a moment because her lines were snatched away. Seeing her standing there with a depressed look, Shi Zhongling couldn't help but let out a smug smile.
There was no way she could be clever this time, she was at her wits' end.
"This couplet is very interesting, but I am not very knowledgeable."
Ningning's voice came softly as she expected, and the woman's smile deepened.
In fact, this little girl is quite interesting. Although Wuqing is at the bottom of the list, it is not easy to be teased by her and get food from every word. If you are a little sweet-mouthed later, it is not impossible to get Tianxin Grass.
She nodded in agreement, but at the same time, she heard the same voice: "I can only think of two, but both have some flaws."
The spirit in the stone suddenly looked up.
"First, 'Spring flowers, Spring flowers', which is a flower couplet, fits the imagery of the blooming mountain flowers in the first couplet; rhododendrons bloom in autumn, one spring and one autumn, which is also a remote correspondence. It's a pity that the word nature of 'spring flowers' and 'mountain red' doesn't match well, which is a failure."
Ning Ning said slowly, "The second is 'Yu Meiren Yu Meiren'. The word 'Yu' means entertainment, which means to please a beauty with flowers. Although it also has a sense of agility and liveliness, it is still a little worse than the previous couplet."
Shi Zhongling opened his lips slightly and said slowly: "Not bad."
"Since you love couplets so much, it just so happens that a gentleman from my hometown wrote a couplet that is known as the absolute couplet that is hard to find. I wonder if you would like to give it a try?"
Seeing the woman's eyes light up, Ningning smiled and said, "The first line is, 'The thief stole something.'"
This couplet may seem simple and plain, but it is actually a very interesting word game. The four characters "偷" contain three meanings, not to mention the need to consider repetition and sentence coherence.
In the world where Ningning originally lived, thousands of descendants over the past hundreds of years could only come up with "history books, books, books, ancient and modern times."
As soon as the first couplet came out, Shi Zhongling's expression restrained, and he frowned and lowered his head in deep thought.
However, after thinking it over and over, he still couldn't come up with an answer. After a moment's silence, he laughed out loud, "Great...Great! I thought that after reading "Picking Flowers" well, I wouldn't be bothered by parallelism anymore, but it turns out I'm still far from it. Anyway, you beat me today, so you can take the Tianxin Grass."
Ning Ning blushed at the compliment and waved her hands repeatedly: "I didn't write this couplet, and I can't match it. I just borrowed something from my predecessors, so I can't say I won."
Shi Zhongling's expression remained unchanged. He pointed with his finger slowly, and the Tianxin grass in the corner floated up out of thin air and flew straight into the hands of a little girl not far away.
Ningning always felt unworthy of the gift, and told her a few ancient aphorisms like "Smoke locks the willows in the pond", "Tour the West Lake and carry a tin pot, the tin pot falls into the West Lake, how pity the tin pot", and the female demon was amazed and her eyes were as big as copper bells: "The gentlemen in my hometown are really gods!"
Ningning was happier than she was when she was praised, and nodded repeatedly in agreement: "Of course! The people over there are very nice, and they are all super, super awesome!"
The spirit in the stone got many couplets and returned to the boulder with satisfaction, disappearing without a trace in an instant. Ningning lowered her head to look at the white Tianxin grass and did not notice the strange look from the girl next to her.
Yun Duan Yue's eyes dimmed and she subconsciously clutched the edge of her skirt.
Her only purpose in coming to the secret realm of Xiaochong Mountain was to obtain the Tianxin Grass. After much effort, she asked all the spiritual beasts in the mountains that could understand human language before finally arriving here.
She had never expected that Shi Zhongling's way of testing people would be something she was totally not good at, and she had never expected that the Tianxin Grass would be taken away by another person first.
It's all because she's not as skilled as others.
But……
The girl in the blue skirt bit her lower lip secretly, suppressing her pounding heart, and said in a barely audible voice: "Girl, Tianxin Grass——"
Before he could finish his words, he saw a small white hand suddenly stretched out in front of him.
What he held in his hands and handed to her turned out to be two crystal clear pieces of paper that were still stained with dew...
Tianxin grass leaves.
Even Yun Duyue, who usually has a blank expression on her face, couldn't help but have her pupils shrink suddenly.
Is she... going to give up half of the Tianxin grass?
In Yunduanyue's opinion, such a thing is pure fantasy.
All the cultivators she knew fought tooth and nail for resources, and even did all kinds of shameful things that were against the will of heaven and earth and robbed others of their opportunities. Tianxin Grass is a priceless treasure, and they just met for the first time, and the swordsman in front of them actually...
He actually gave it to her without hesitation?
"I heard your conversation with that senior."
The strange little girl who had never met me had a sincere look in her eyes. Her bright almond eyes were like black grapes, pure and without any impurities: "I hope your relatives are safe and sound."
It was because of those words.
But even Shi Zhongling said that she had heard that excuse countless times and no longer believed it. This girl looks like a smart person, how come she has no doubts?
"I heard that you don't talk to people on your own initiative. If you ask for it, it must be a matter of urgency."
Ning Ning saw the doubt in her heart and grinned: "Even if you are lying, I won't lose anything. Anyway, I have obtained the Tianxin grass, one or two pieces are enough. If your family members' lives are delayed because of suspicion, that would be really bad."
The Tianxin grass in front of her moved closer to her.
Yundu Yue resisted the urge to have tears well up in her eyes, took it with trembling fingertips, and whispered with almost all the courage in her body: "Thank you."
No one knows how much suffering she has been going through these days.
Although he was known as a rare genius in Liuming Mountain in a century, Yun Duanyue's childhood was actually miserable.
As a concubine's daughter of a wealthy family, she was afraid to talk to others. Her father ignored her and her mother treated her as a useless tool. Only her grandmother was willing to treat her like a normal person and taught her to read, play the piano and do needlework.
Now that grandma is seriously ill, only Tianxin grass can prolong her life. She came here full of longing, but the moment she saw Ningning holding the Tianxin Grass, all her hopes were crushed into despair.
But now two small leaves appeared in the palm of her hand.
Like a dream.
A warm current surged into his eyes. Yun Duanyue lowered his head and took a deep breath: "I will repay you for saving my life."
As she was about to lean over to thank him, Ning Ning held her shoulders and said, "No, no! I feel embarrassed if you do that... I'm not helping you for any reward anyway."
Yun Duan Yue looked up at her very quickly, her trembling eyelashes like the fluttering wings of a black butterfly. Her eyes were slightly red and her cheeks were lightly pink. She didn't say anything in response, and the surroundings fell into silence.
However, the silence did not last long before it was suddenly broken by a frantic young man's voice: "Give me back my sword!"
Then there was another more outrageous shout: "You little devils, let me show you my Armstrong cyclotron jet cannon! Da da, da da da!"
This extremely familiar voice, extremely familiar lines.
Ningning felt suffocated.
"Sorry, it looks like someone I know. I'll go out and take a look."
She hurriedly explained to Yundu Yue, and came through the gap to the other side of the boulder, where the view was suddenly clear, and happened to meet a pair of eyes filled with red bloodshot.
He Zhizhou had messy hair and was holding two unsheathed swords like a gun, firing randomly. Behind him followed a panting young man. Ningning had some impression of him. He seemed to be from the Wanjian Sect and his name was Xu Ye.
She was startled and called out tentatively: "He Zhizhou!"
The young man with beautiful features was stunned for a moment, then suddenly smiled at her in a very friendly manner: "Second Battalion Commander, you're here! Hurry up and bring my Italian cannon over!"
Ningning:?
"This person, this person is poisoned!"
Xu Ye, who was following behind him, stopped to catch his breath: "He and I were sent to the jungle together. Senior Brother He picked some white mushrooms from under a tree and ate them. Suddenly, he became like this."
After he finished catching his breath, he pointed at He Zhizhou viciously and said, "Give me back my sword!"
"Pointing a gun at me?"
Unexpectedly, the other party ignored him and smiled evilly: "I bet there is no bullet in your gun."
Ning Ning was stunned: "Yan, Yan Shuangying?"
"good!"
He Zhizhou waved his hand and said, "Li Yunlong, charge with me! Tonight we will wipe out these little devils and join the Red Army at Jinggangshan!"
Help! This poisoning is too deep!
Before Ningning could say anything, she saw He Zhizhou look around, then without warning jumped up and fell to the ground. At the same time, he used his hands and legs to start wriggling like a frog.
That’s right, creep.
Ningning couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so she turned her gaze to Xu Ye.
Unexpectedly, the boy who was so serious in the last second suddenly hunched over and lowered his head, with his hands swinging on both sides of his head. Occasionally he would turn his head to look at her, and he would actually open his mouth wide to breathe and roll his eyes.
Ning Ning's sanity dropped drastically, and she asked cautiously, "What are you two doing?"
"Nonsense, let's go swimming."
Xu Ye looked at the idiot with a matter-of-fact expression: "You are so comfortable sitting on the boat - be careful! There is a huge wave coming over there!"
Where the huge waves come from, there the boat comes from.
It turns out you were poisoned too, brother! ! ! It seems like both of you are abnormal! Are you the legendary Lu Youqi? She is so scared!
On the other side, He Zhizhou continued to use his hands and feet to breaststroke, turning his head from time to time to laugh at her and said in a low voice:
"I'll tell you in secret. The Chairman told me that Optimus Prime and the Hulk agreed to help us start a revolution. International friends are great! Once we cross the Yalu River, the new China will be established!"
The two of you were talking about yours and mine, shaking your bodies and limbs in different postures, and the scene was very strange at one point.
I would rather call it the cultivation version of "Zombie Rescue", the new version of "Train to Busan", and the tenth part of "Resident Evil".
Just when he didn't know what to do, he suddenly heard a voice he had never heard before, with undisguised aggression and ill intentions: "I see that the Taoist's package is full of spiritual energy. Could it be that he has found the legendary Tianxin——"
The man didn't finish his words and just stood there in a daze.
He followed the spiritual energy here, and it was not until this moment that he finally saw the situation here clearly.
The two sect disciples were like possessed, one of them was crawling on the ground and crawling forward, while the other was like a zombie that had been drained of its blood, with his hands trembling above his head like branches, and he staggered towards him step by step.
This is too scary.
The young man shuddered and took a half step back.
He recognized the lying man as wearing the uniform of Xuanxu Sword Sect. He heard the gossip spread by Xu Ye of Wanjian Sect that the people in this sect were very abnormal and it was best to avoid them if possible, otherwise he would bear the consequences.
And the other one who looked like a zombie——
Oh my god! It turned out to be Xu Ye himself!
He was panicked, as panicked as an innocent child.
Could it be that the madness of the Xuanxu Sword Sect is contagious from person to person?
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