Chapter 21 (Overhauled)
Lian Yu was stunned and couldn't tell whether it was an illusion or reality.
Before he could think of an answer, his wrist was grabbed from behind by someone. The person moved so quickly that Lian Yu was pulled and spun around suddenly.
"Qin——"
Lian Yu saw the person in front of him clearly.
Gu Yuan looked anxious:
"Where have you been? I've been looking for you for a long time!"
The continuous rain makes my throat sticky.
"I……"
"You need to go find Qin Yi."
Gu Yuan suddenly made a conclusion.
"Why?"
The young man's shoulders heaved violently.
"Why does it have to be him? He clearly treated you like that. Is it just because I'm not the protagonist!?"
Lian Yu was suddenly stunned.
Did I hear it wrong?
Otherwise, why would Gu Yuan say such a thing?
Suddenly, the gardenia branch in his hand trembled.
trembling?
Lian Yu looked at his palm in confusion. Was his hand shaking?
No, that's not right...
The ground is shaking!
Lian Yu suddenly raised his head and saw dark clouds gathering from one side of the sky and pressing towards the top of the mountain on the other side.
And located on the top of that mountain is Yaotai.
People's discussions gradually began to be heard around.
Lian Yu reacted suddenly. He quickly stuffed a silver dollar into the little girl's flower frame and then pushed her on the shoulder.
"Go home quickly!"
The people around were still stunned.
Gu Yuan understood, and with a wave of his powerful arm, he shouted in a rough voice:
"Did you hear that? Go home!"
The streets were instantly in an uproar.
People ran like seaweed tossed in huge waves.
Even the rain started to move.
“Master!”
Gu Yuan grabbed him again, his eyes filled with even more fear than before:
"Where are you going? The inn is over there!"
Lian Yu just remained silent and slowly pulled his wrist away.
"Xiao Yuan, you are alone, please be careful."
"You still want to care about him?"
"yes."
Lian Yu opened her eyes and met Gu Yuan's eyes, which were red with anger.
"Because I am Qin Yi's Master, I must stop him from doing the wrong thing. I cannot watch my disciple go astray, and I cannot watch him disregard the lives of the people of the world."
"Then I'll go with you!"
Lian Yu shook his head.
Gu Yuan staggered back a step.
"You protect yourself."
Lian Yu held his face and looked at it for a while.
"Goodbye, Xiao Yuan."
After a long while, Gu Yuan nodded and said in a hoarse voice, "I understand."
At this point, all the dark clouds have gathered at the top of Yaotai.
The two didn't even have time to say goodbye.
Gu Yuan was the only one left on the empty street.
He looked in the direction Lian Yu left and clenched his fists:
"I should learn swordsmanship..."
There was a strong wind on the top of the mountain.
The young man, surrounded by a group of black-robed elders, stood with his back to the elders, his clothes rustling.
Lian Yu gritted his teeth and climbed up the last stone step.
According to legend, one needs to climb a thousand steps to ascend to heaven, the first nine hundred and ninety-nine of which are behind Lian Yu, and the last step is in the hands of the young man in front of him.
"Qin Yi."
The young man turned around and looked down upon the elders.
Qin Yi raised his lips to smile:
"Master, you're here."
"Brother Lian is not dead?"
Before Lian Yu could answer, a clear female voice sounded from behind the crowd.
The crowd quickly separated into a wide path.
Mingzhu, dressed in white, was seen walking out from among a group of black-robed elders, supporting an old man with a staggering gait. She looked like a graceful lotus flower growing in the mud.
Lian Yu sneered, his eyes fixed on the old man's unsteady steps.
"No wonder he's so eager to use my disciple. It seems the Sect Master really can't wait any longer."
"you!"
The clan leader's eyes widened, as if he was about to fall down in the next second.
"Brother Lian, why are you being so sarcastic? You said we took advantage of Junior Brother Qin, but you didn't realize it was Junior Brother Qin who took the initiative."
Mingzhu narrowed her eyes and smiled:
"What's more, this is a good thing. Once the gate to heaven is opened, won't all of us here be able to ascend to godhood?"
"What a success for one man, and how his family will prosper."
Lian Yu glanced around, his expression unchanged:
"Don't you all know that 'Virtue unworthy of position will inevitably bring disaster'?"
A single stone caused a thousand ripples. An elder immediately rushed out to fight Lian Yu to the death, but was stopped by the sect leader with a raised hand.
The clan leader looked at Lian Yu with his cloudy eyes and smiled:
"Do you think you can stop us? Your disciple has grown up and has become independent. He no longer listens to your teachings."
Lian Yu ignored the Sect Master's provocation and simply extended his hand to the young man:
"Qin Yi, follow me."
Qin Yi didn't move.
"Qin Yi!" Lian Yu called again.
His hand had been hanging in the air for too long and was shaking and about to fall.
But the boy suddenly raised his voice as if he was irritated by him: "Go with you, where to go with you? Into the grave together?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the sect leader laughed out loud.
The sharp laughter mixed with the wind, forming a strange echo that seemed to surround everyone.
At the same time, an ice-blue spiritual power burst out from under Lian Yu's feet and quickly wrapped around Lian Yu's body like a vine.
With his arms forcibly twisted behind his back, Lian Yu looked at Qin Yi in disbelief.
Qin Yiqi begins.
Mingzhu curled the corners of her lips:
"Then let's get started."
Dark clouds gathered and for a moment it was difficult to tell day from night.
The wind whimpered, and then suddenly accelerated, and in an instant the towering tree was blown in half.
Lian Yu knelt down to avoid being blown away by the strong wind.
The same goes for everyone on Yaotai.
In the center of the whirlpool, Qin Yi stood alone, like a solitary pine tree on a cliff.
The strong wind blew the boy's hair. In a trance, Lian Yu felt that Qin Yi seemed to look at him, but it seemed to be just an illusion.
Soon a gap appeared in the dark clouds, and brilliant golden light poured down, forming a ladder to heaven.
This is the power of an extremely cold body.
“It’s open!”
The elders were instantly excited and rolled and crawled towards the golden light.
Qin Yi took a step back silently.
The green-headed flies surrounded the corpse tightly in an instant.
It was unknown who grabbed the ladder first, but Qin Yi suddenly spoke:
"This ladder can only bear the weight of one person. If a second person steps on it, it will instantly dissipate. So, have you decided who will go up first?"
Everyone looked at each other for a moment.
"Let me go first!" The sect leader stretched out his hand to pull the person in front of the ladder.
The man on the ladder twisted his face and shoved the elder to the ground. "Why should you go up first? What if the ladder breaks down when it's my turn?"
Like a stone hitting the calm water, the elders' faces instantly became ferocious when they were reminded by these words.
"Get off me!"
"I'll go first!"
The scene became chaotic, with curses mixed with the smell of blood, it was like hell on earth.
The last wailing stopped and the platform became quiet.
At the same time, the last ray of golden light dissipated and the wind slowed down.
Lian Yu knelt on the ground, looking at the bloody mess in front of him, his heart beating rapidly.
Suddenly, the vines on his body disappeared.
As the binding loosened, Lian Yu suddenly lost his strength, but before he fell again, he fell into a warm embrace. The arms held him tightly, almost like a life-saving straw.
Lian Yu relaxed her body and buried her face in the boy's soft neck.
"Master, I'm sorry for forcing you to reveal yourself in this way."
The young man placed his broad palm on the back of Lian Yu's head.
"But you can't underestimate me anymore. I said, they can use me, and I can use them too."
Lian Yu was somewhat helpless: "Okay, I won't look down on you anymore."
"Then let's go!" Qin Yi hurriedly helped Lian Yu up, his expression somewhat excited: "Anywhere is fine!"
Lian Yu wanted to laugh and tease Qin Yi: Even if it was a grave, it would be okay?
But when he opened his mouth, he suddenly choked on a mouthful of blood.
A black clot of blood spread on the hem of Qin Yi's clothes, and the young man suddenly looked panicked.
He hurriedly lifted up Lian Yu's face:
"Master? Master, what's wrong with you?"
"If you dare take another step forward, I can make him die right here and now."
Behind the two men, a woman in white had a faint smile on her lips. She twisted her fingers into a lotus shape and hung it in front of her. A wriggling, golden soft-bodied worm lay on her fingertips.
"Did you poison me?"
Qin Yi suddenly understood everything.
"Yes," Mingzhu's smile widened, "I was the one who put all the poisons in."
As soon as she finished speaking, countless shiny black poisonous insects crawled out from the corpses of the elders and crawled towards the poison mother at Mingzhu Mingzhu's fingertips.
Qin Yi felt all the hairs on his body stand up.
"Why? Why do you do this?"
"Why? How could such a good thing as Ascension be left to those old immortals? They said I got to this position without knowing why. I'll show them that I'm the one who ascended, and I'm the one who stepped on them!"
Mingzhu laughed out loud, and the red mole between her eyebrows looked like it was engraved in blood:
"I want to live forever, become a god, and have everyone in the world be my subjects!"
The laughter stopped abruptly.
Mingzhu frowned and lowered her eyes, looking down at the two people as if they were grass or ants.
"Lower the ladder."
"Kill me."
Lian Yu lowered his head and whispered in Qin Yi's ear:
"Little lunatic, kill me."
"I can't do it." Qin Yi shook his head with tears in his eyes, "I can't do it, Master."
Lian Yu closed his eyes.
Qin Yi clenched his hands suddenly, lifted Lian Yu's head and slowly leaned it against the tree trunk, then stood up.
He stared at Mingzhu and said, "I'll help you lower the ladder, and you'll help Master remove the poison?"
"certainly."
Qin Yi clenched his fists and stood in the center of the Yaotai.
Mingzhu was only two steps away from him.
With spiritual power stored in his fingertips, Qin Yi raised his hand——
Then he suddenly attacked Mingzhu.
Mingzhu had also been on guard and retreated swiftly before Qin Yi got close.
But she didn't expect that Qin Yi's target was not her.
"Xiao Gu!"
I saw the golden mother Gu suddenly fall down.
Mingzhu's expression changed drastically, and her previous complacency was gone.
The Gu mother was writhing in pain on the ground.
"Xiao Gu, Xiao Gu... hold on a little longer..."
As if she had intelligence, the Gu mother rubbed her head against Mingzhu's trembling fingertips for the last time, and then collapsed completely.
Almost at the same time, Lian Yu vomited.
A ferocious poisonous insect was twisting in the dark red blood.
When the mother of the Gu dies, the Gu insect dies.
Lian Yu's poison has been cured.
“Master!”
Qin Yi rushed forward and held Lian Yu in his arms.
"What a little lunatic," Lian Yu put his palm on the boy's face, "How dangerous."
Tears welled up in an instant, Qin Yi bit his lip and just kept shaking his head.
"How dare you kill Xiao Gu!"
The wind suddenly blew up, Mingzhu waved his sleeves violently and roared:
"Kill them for me!"
At a command, countless monks and disciples rushed out from behind the shelters in all directions.
It turned out that Mingzhu had already instigated rebellion against the sect.
Countless cold white swords pointed directly at Lian Yu and Qin Yi.
"run!"
At the critical moment, Qin Yiyi lifted Lian Yu up and made hand gestures quickly.
The scenery quickly receded and turned into a distorted wind of colors.
After climbing up another hill, Qin Yi pushed aside the overgrown weeds and helped Lian Yu sit down in the cave.
The cave is hidden, but it is only a temporary refuge and cannot hold out for too long. Perhaps the monks have already chased us down the mountain.
But Qin Yi no longer cared about these things at this time.
“Master!”
He choked out a mouthful of blood, which splashed onto the half-dried bloodstain on the collar of his raincoat.
Qin hurriedly wiped the blood from Lian Yu's chin:
"Master, please hold on a little longer!"
Lian Yu held his hand and smiled.
It's too late.
In fact, they all understood that Lian Yu had been tortured by the life-threatening poisonous insect for more than ten years. Even if he was cured now, the root of the damage caused by the poisonous insect could never be repaired.
To put it bluntly, Lian Yu has run out of energy at this time.
"no."
Qin Yi just kept shaking his head, tears and snot streaming down his face.
Lian Yu had never seen Qin Yi so embarrassed.
"No... Master, you promised me that we would be together forever... You promised me..."
"sorry."
All his strength was drained out, and Lian Yu's voice was so soft that he wasn't even sure if he had spoken it out loud.
"Master is going to break his promise."
Tears flowed silently, Qin Yi murmured:
"It would have been better if it had been earlier."
"You've done very well."
Lian Yu wanted to hold Qin Yi's face in his hands, but his body was out of control. He had clearly used all his strength, but his fingertips only touched hers before drooping.
"Master."
The boy looked at him through his tearful eyes, looking serious and resolute:
"Kiss me again, okay?"
Lian Yu's heart skipped a beat.
He nodded.
The boy's kiss was solemn.
Soft lips and teeth touched each other, and their breaths overlapped.
Lian Yu's long eyelashes trembled and he slowly closed his eyes.
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