Escape Room
Lan Fangshu noticed Master Lan mysteriously entering a secret room. She felt a little strange and followed him: "Why is he running here instead of helping the elders outside?"
And his face looked unhappy, which was very different from his usual appearance!
"Bang!" A sound woke Lan Fangshu who was thinking.
Looking up, Master Lan was banging on the door with a hammer, angrily saying, "You're actually on guard against me!"
This stone gate requires the heart blood of the Lan family cultivators! How important is heart blood? It is equivalent to half of the cultivator's cultivation!
Ever since he became an elder, the previous elders told them that the Lan family has been cultivating the top-grade spiritual plant, the Blue Orchid, for generations. It can not only heal injuries, but also help one break through from the Core Formation Stage to the Nascent Soul Stage in one fell swoop!
How could he not be tempted by such a good thing? So he joined forces with the Wei family to suppress the Lan family, actually to see them both suffer losses so that he could reap the benefits. In fact, after sending out the puppet, the deity had already arrived at the Spirit Plant Garden, just for the Blue Orchid.
"who!"
Master Lan's spiritual sense detected someone nearby, and his eyes flashed: "It turned out to be Fang Shu, come here quickly."
He seemed like a different person, or rather, he was wearing sheep's clothing. He smiled and said, "It's been a long time since we last met. I didn't expect you to have regained your sanity."
"Come here, don't you want to know what I'm doing?"
Seeing Lan Fangshu curled up in the corner without making a sound, he narrowed his eyes, smiled slightly, and with a move of his spiritual energy, he pinched her neck and drew out her heart blood.
"Since the heart blood of the Lan family cultivators is acceptable, then I'll use yours!"
A drop of blood merged into the Lan family totem, shining brightly. The stone door that had not been opened for a long time was now slowly opening, revealing what was inside.
Lan Fangshu covered her chest and fell down limply. She really didn't have the strength to stand up and could only watch Master Lan go in.
"What's in there? What is he looking for?" Lan Fangshu gritted his teeth, forced himself to crawl to the door, but was so shocked by the scene in front of him that he was speechless!
I saw a different world inside. There was a huge flower, which was a hundred meters high and the top could not be seen. The leaves were thick and lush. The dense green leaves covered the entire secret room and almost broke it!
There are only two or three flowers, some are buds, some are about to bloom, and some are in full bloom. The fragrance of orchids in the valley is so faint that one sniff of it is more beneficial than absorbing a day's worth of spiritual energy!
The flowers are in the common orchid shape, but are larger than ordinary orchids, have more petals, a stronger fragrance, and more spiritual energy!
Master Lan sighed, "So this is the Blue Orchid..."
He sniffed the air gently, completely addicted and enjoying it: "The smell of maturity, the smell of power."
As long as he had the Biluo Youlan before him, he would be able to break through to the Nascent Soul stage in one fell swoop, second only to the emperor and above everyone else! To be the overlord of a region would be a life well spent!
His ambition was satisfied and expanded like never before at this moment, like a rapidly inflating balloon, huge and fragile.
"Fang Shu, are you okay?"
"Master Lan! It's actually you!"
Lan Baicao arrived late. She looked at Master Lan angrily and supported Lan Fangshu: "You took her heart's blood! You want to kill her!"
"How could I have harmed her? She is only at the Great Perfection of Qi Training now, but what about half of her cultivation? Isn't she still at the Qi Training Stage?"
Master Lan looked indifferent as he stroked the blue orchid and said softly, "It's a pity there's only one."
"But it's okay. As long as I have Biluo Youlan, all the cultivators in the world are in my palm and can be toyed with by me!" He is ambitious. Not only does he want to become the ancestor of the Lan family and the district chief of the sixth district, he also wants to become the master of the Tianyan Continent!
"Hehe..." Lan Baicao sneered and put a flying talisman on Lan Fangshu.
"Elder, no! I can't stay here alone. He is in danger. Please let me stay..." Lan Fangshu knew what Lan Baicao was going to do and spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Look at you, even though you're in such a bad shape, you're still thinking about me..." Lan Baicao sighed and fed her the Rejuvenating Pill and the Soul-Replenishing Pill. "Go back and take good care of your injuries. Don't miss me so much..."
Finally, she hardened her heart, slapped Lan Fangshu away and sent her out.
Lan Fangshu, who had the flying talisman, immediately flew away uncontrollably. She watched Lan Baicao turn around and point the long sword that he rarely used at all at Master Lan in front of her, and her heart tightened!
As expected, Master Lan grabbed his neck.
Lan Fangshu spat out another mouthful of blood and tried to walk back, but he couldn't stop the flying talisman on his body: "Elder!!!"
She tried desperately to tear the talisman off her body, but the talisman seemed to be stuck to her and could not be torn off at all!
"What should I do? I have to tell Caiying and the others about this!"
…
In the secret room, the flowing jade brush was gently waved, and thousands of drops of ink poured down, which was very poetic, but it should not appear in the hands of the person who betrayed his family!
"Bah! You are so shameless!" Lan Baicao glared at the man in front of him fiercely, and stabbed his chest with his sword.
Master Lan dodged lightly and released her neck. "I didn't expect you to be able to fight back even when being strangled by the neck. You are indeed worthy of being a Baicao Elder in the late Foundation Establishment stage."
"But, what about this..."
His aura suddenly changed! It continued to rise, from the late stage of foundation building to the great perfection of foundation building, all the way to the early stage of core formation!
His robe fluttered, his face was thin and pale, his eyes were slanted upwards, and he showed a smug smile: "How is it?"
"You are actually in the Jindan stage!"
How is that possible? How did he reach the Jindan stage in just a few months? Lan Qianhua had been in seclusion for several months and still hadn't achieved the Jindan stage!
"Why can't I be at the Jindan stage? My talent is better than all of you. Why can't I be at the Jindan stage?"
The orchid-like light of the azure sky shone on Master Lan. He curled his lips into a smile, his eyes dark and gloomy. When he thought of the injustice he had suffered in the Lan family before, and then looked at Lan Baicao's shocked face, he felt so happy that he wanted to laugh out loud and ridicule the woman in front of him!
"I have never been valued in the Lan family since I was young. No matter how hard I practice, I can't compare to women like you who have wood spiritual roots. Because the female cultivators of the Lan family have an affinity for spiritual plants, cultivating them is much easier than with half the effort. You two sisters have been carefully nurtured by the family since you were young, and you haven't suffered any hardship at all."
He laughed at himself, "And I... a man without wood spiritual roots and no affinity attributes, was ostracized everywhere in the Lan family. Especially in the old house, my parents died when I was young, and I had no choice but to live under the care of others. There were more female cultivators than male cultivators in the old house, so I grew up in an abnormal environment."
"When I practiced diligently, drawing Qi into my body, and broke through the first level of Qi training, everyone sighed in my ear, regretting that I was not a woman, that I did not have wood spiritual roots, and could not cultivate spiritual plants. Such a ridiculous thing actually happened to me! In a family led by female cultivators, male cultivators have become the most useless people!"
"Even if I broke through the Qi Condensation Stage and reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, I could only teach and educate people, becoming a teacher who doesn't care about worldly affairs. How could you possibly know about my aspirations and ambitions?"
"You're asking me why now?"
"That's my answer, because I'm dissatisfied with gender inequality. I hate being ignored by my family and being ridiculed by female cultivators. More importantly!" He narrowed his eyes, looked directly at Lan Baicao, and raised his eyebrows. "What I hate most is you women standing over me."
She took a deep breath and said, "Tell me, did you kill my grandmother?"
Master Lan sneered, "You've only just realized this, but it's too late. We're both in the late Foundation Establishment stage, so why is she the Lan family's grandmother? I can only be a Third Elder, teaching and educating people? I didn't accept that, so I took the opportunity to kill her while she was in seclusion."
Recalling the tragic death of Lan's grandmother at his hands, the corners of his mouth curled up: "They are just ants that I can easily crush to death. They are far worse than me!"
He flung the ink dot, and the countless ink splashes like rain soaked Lan Baicao's cheeks and neck. She listened to Master Lan's dissatisfaction, her heart filled with anger, her chest heaving. "Mockery? When have we female cultivators ever mocked you? Who in the Lan family hasn't respected you? As a teacher, students respect you, parents admire you, and younger generations admire you. When have my sister and I ever spoken coldly to you?"
"When have we ever been wary of you? Aren't we three always together when we discuss things?"
"How did the Lan family's grandmother ever do you any wrong? You actually killed her just to become the ancestor!"
She pulled something out of her storage bag and threw it fiercely on the ground: "You were the one who put this Jue Ling Powder there! You wanted to destroy me and my sister so that you could take over the Lan family and get the Biluo Youlan!"
Lan Baicao was furious. She couldn't understand why Master Lan betrayed the Lan family for such a reason! Because no one in the Lan family respected him, because the female cultivators of the Lan family mocked him. But when did they ever have such thoughts? Was he just suffering from paranoia?
He even killed the Lan family's grandmother! This is an unforgivable crime!
Master Lan, seeing his scheme exposed, didn't get angry. Instead, he raised his eyebrows slightly. "You can argue however you want, but in my eyes, you're just mocking me, snubbing me, and ignoring me. Now you're saying these hypocritical words to me. You're so hypocritical."
"You! You are simply!" Lan Baicao was so angry that she could hardly speak!
She glared at Master Lan for a long while before finally saying, "I think you just can't stand seeing women climbing over you. You believe deep down that men are superior to women."
Sure enough, Master Lan's pupils darkened, the corners of his eyes were pressed down, his breathing became disordered, and he cast a spell to interrupt Lan Baicao's speech. He swung the jade pen, and the ink came towards her like a storm, making a rustling sound.
Lan Baicao retreated hastily. "I was right, wasn't I? You've joined forces with Wei Wuji. I'm sure the Wei family looks down on our Lan family just as much as you do. I reckon that among the six major families, the Jin, Wei, and Tao families all look down on the Jiang, Lan, and Shui families. You must hate that you weren't born into one of them!"
"Master Lan, admit it! You're a villain. It's a waste of all your years of studying and teaching so many students!"
"You are the hypocritical villain who confuses right and wrong!"
Lan Baicao spoke more and more angrily, and finally he directly scolded: "You are ashamed of the ancestors of the Lan family, ashamed of your parents, ashamed of the elders who raised you, and ashamed of your students and their parents!"
"You are unkind, unjust, unfaithful, and unfilial! Go to hell for clinging to your old-fashioned rules of male superiority and female inferiority!"
Lan Baicao is not good at fighting, so he can only use words to provoke Master Lan, suppress him psychologically, drive him crazy, and finally become possessed!
She guessed that after Master Lan took the Ningjin Pill, he did not consolidate his cultivation in the early stage of Jindan, but instead became complacent and joined forces with the Wei family to attack the Lan family!
Being too arrogant is also his weakness!
In the spiritual plant garden, ink wind and rain covered the sky, as if pouring out from the sky, rolling down. Under the influence of spiritual energy, they turned into spiritual swords that stabbed at her, carrying a dangerous and sharp aura.
"Lan Baicao! I didn't expect you to be so sharp-tongued even when death is imminent!"
"You want to provoke me? No way! You are only in the late stage of foundation building, and you are still using pills to build up your strength! How can you compare to me who is in the early stage of core formation! If you want to defeat me, you must also be in the core formation stage!"
Lan Baicao was nearly stabbed, and her cheek brushed against an arrow. Even with so many arrows, so densely packed together that she couldn't break free, those ink arrows could still hurt people!
"Hahahaha!" When Master Lan saw her like this, he laughed out loud, opened his hands, and was confident of victory.
Standing in the ink-and-wash wind and rain, he felt that this was his entire world. This was his universe, his domain! In his domain, he was omnipotent, invincible, and no one could defy him!
He is the ancient emperor!
"Those who follow me will prosper, those who oppose me will perish!"
The thin young man in the storm tore off his hypocritical side and finally couldn't help but reveal his true appearance, which was hideous, ugly, greedy and arrogant.
“After swallowing a golden pill, I realized that my fate is not determined by heaven!”①
So this is what it feels like to be at the pinnacle of power. It's truly wonderful! Those who once looked down on me will become ants beneath my feet, trampled into the mud, never to be able to rise again!
"Hahahaha! Lan Baicao, prepare to die!"
"Not only you, but also everyone who has laughed at me will die. And from now on I will be the new head of the Lan family. No, I may even be the new district chief!"
Master Lan had fallen into a frenzy and was laughing non-stop.
…
Outside the spiritual plant garden, Lan Caiying, who was waiting anxiously, tried various methods but failed to open the spiritual plant garden. The spiritual plant garden had activated the protective measures and could only be opened from the inside, not from the outside.
Lan Caiying didn't believe it. He gritted his teeth and pried at the door. Even though his hands were bloody, he didn't dare to give up. Countless bloody handprints appeared on the door.
His spiritual weapon was also damaged from fighting against the spiritual plant garden. Without spiritual energy, he was as desperate as an ordinary man. He pressed his hands weakly against the door and cried out sadly, tears streaming down his face: "Fang Shu..."
"Caiying, you..." Lan Huairen wanted to comfort her, but he really didn't know what to say. His wife next to him patted his hands and shook her head.
"Just leave him like this. If you don't let him move, he might overthink it. The elders have already gone inside to rescue Fang Shu. I hope they are safe."
Just when everyone was about to lose hope, the door inside opened with a loud bang.
A bright white light flashed, and a figure emerged from it: "Cai Ying!"
Lan Caiying was stunned for a long time before he reacted. He wiped his face, which was covered in blood. Tears welled up in his eyes, but he didn't dare to reach out and hug her: "Fang Shu..."
"Why are you... like this..." Lan Fangshu hugged her husband's waist without any disgust, tears streaming down her face, she took a long breath, and patted his chest, just like an ordinary couple.
"Have you forgotten you're a monk? How come you're trying to imitate someone else's door-peeling technique and act so frighteningly?"
Even as she uttered words of blame, tears were already streaming down her face. Meeting her husband and giving birth to a lovely daughter were the happiest moments of her life. Even when she was losing her mind, he stayed by her side. If only Mingzhu were here, their family could be reunited.
The thought of her daughter made her cry uncontrollably, frightening Lan Caiying. She consoled her, "What's wrong? What happened in there? Are you hurt anywhere?"
He saw the blood on the corner of Lan Fangshu's mouth and her cultivation...how could she have dropped so much!
The people around also asked: "Fang Shu, what happened in there? Why haven't the two elders come out yet?"
Lan Fangshu wiped the corner of his mouth, calmed down, and explained the reason for what happened: "This is all Master Lan's conspiracy. He colluded with the Wei family, burned the spiritual plant garden, and wanted to take away the Blue Orchid!"
"What! This kind of thing actually happened!"
"How could Master Lan betray the Lan family? Why haven't we been good enough to him?"
“People like this also teach our children!”
...Everyone instantly hated Master Lan. When they thought of him as a sheep in wolf's clothing, they got goosebumps all over their bodies. They didn't expect that such a kind person could be so cruel and vicious!
Lan Wen was anxious: "What about Elder Baicao? Can she deal with Master Lan alone?"
Lan Fangshu wiped his face and said, "I had already shut down the protection system of the Spirit Plant Garden when I came out just now. Now we can go in. Although I am not in the Foundation Establishment Stage now, I have also reached the Great Perfection of Qi Training. Let's go and rescue the elder!"
The two couples are loyal to their families and will never leave Lan Baicao alone!
"Okay!" The two couples looked at each other and saw the determination to die in each other's eyes.
They turned around and said to the Lan family monks, "You'd better leave the Lan family mansion. It's full of dangers. If we can't get out safely, Master Lan will definitely make things difficult for you when he comes out!"
After a day of misfortunes, the Lan family monks were exhausted. They looked at each other in bewilderment: "No, we've left the old house. Where should we go? The old house is our home!"
"Yes, I have lived here since I was a child. Leaving the old house, does that mean I have to leave my hometown?"
"No, we must not leave here. We must rescue the elders. Let's go together! I don't believe that Elder Qianhua will succeed in forming a pill. She won't avenge us!"
"That's right! We still have Elder Qianhua! His death will definitely not be in vain!"
The two couples did not expect that other monks of the Lan family also had the determination to face death, but they would never allow them to act recklessly like this. If all the monks died, the Lan family would no longer exist.
"Everyone……"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard bursts of thunder coming from the distance!
The purple thunder split the sky, cut through the clouds, stopped the wind and brought down the rain. The momentum was overwhelming, and the violent wind and rain made the surrounding trees bend down low, like lowly slaves.
Even the monks could not bear the pressure of the thunder, and they supported each other to avoid being blown away by the wind.
"What's going on? Is the Wei family showing up again?"
"This thunder doesn't seem simple. It feels strange?"
"I don't think so either. Its power is even greater than Wei Wuji's. His is the power of a magic weapon, but this thunder from top to bottom seems to be the power of natural thunder, and it also contains the power of the Great Dao!"
Lan Caiying thought of Lan Qianhua who was in seclusion practicing, and was surprised: "Could it be that Elder Qianhua is experiencing the Jindan thunder tribulation?"
When these words were spoken, everyone was ecstatic.
"It must be! Elder Qianhua is in the process of forming a pill!!!"
"We are saved, and Elder Baicao is saved too!"
"That's right! This thunder has been ringing for a day! I originally thought it was Wei Wuji's Thunder Trident, but I didn't expect it to be Elder Qianhua!"
"It's really timely. May the ancestors bless us, may Elder Qianhua succeed in forming the elixir!"
They bowed to the sky again and again: "We must succeed!"
I only heard the thunder strike countless times, deafening, with lightning and thunder. Spiritual energy gathered in the sky, with an inexplicable Zen feeling. It was indeed the thunder tribulation of Danjie.
Everyone sat down cross-legged, absorbing spiritual energy and watching the thunder tribulation of forming a pill to help their practice.
About half an hour later, the thunder subsided and countless lights bloomed in the sky, dispelling the darkness and illuminating everything. Colorful clouds flowed and the sky was full of rosy clouds, magnificent and spectacular, like the flowing light belt of an immortal.
Qian Luo in the cabin breathed a sigh of relief and looked inward at her spiritual palace. The golden elixir was complete, and she was one step closer to the great road.
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