HBWnovel Chapter 103
Chapter 103
The clear spring water flowed quietly, washing away the dirt on the two of them little by little, and smoothed away the tension and sleepiness caused by running around a few days ago. Every inch of the pores seemed to be reborn at this moment.
Qin Yi hugged the fragile but quiet Shen Qingtang in his arms, feeling lucky and grateful in his heart.
It is said that the Hundred Thousand Great Wilderness is extremely dangerous, and there is no return, but judging from their experiences, it seems that this is not the case.
It was also fortunate that Shen Qingtang was able to communicate with the Lingzhi here, and largely avoided disadvantages, otherwise they might have entered the belly of the beast by now.
Seeing Qin Yi and Shen Qingtang cuddling each other, the banyan tree in the distance was silent for a while, then suddenly spoke quietly.
"If you want to get out of this place sooner, don't delay any longer."
Qin Yi's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously looked towards the banyan tree.
The banyan tree was silent for a while, and slowly told Qin Yi a story.
The banyan tree said that the Hundred Thousand Great Wilderness was not what it is now, but the jungle is dense and full of vitality. Countless monsters and spiritual plants live together in this peaceful ecological circle. They never bothered to deal with those monks in the realm of cultivation , because they know that the Great Wilderness is the best.
And in the depths of the Great Wilderness, there is a place similar to a miracle, where the mountains and rivers are magnificent, the seasons are always spring, and it is full of dreamlike wonders.And there is a temple in the depths of the miracle, where there is a Lingquan, which has been continuously providing vitality to the entire Hundred Thousand Great Wilderness.
But decades ago, a young man who accidentally broke into the miracle broke all this tranquility.
"It's Alan."
"He hurt his foundation at that time, and he couldn't live long. I saved him like I saved you. He said he would stay here with me forever, so I took him to the temple."
"It's the most regrettable thing I've ever done in my life."
"He stole the staff of life, and also learned the forbidden technique, and left here."
"Without the staff of life, although the spiritual spring is still there, the brilliance of the temple has dimmed a lot, and the spiritual power is not enough to cover all the places in the Hundred Thousand Great Wilderness."
"As a result, the spiritual plants in many places withered, and the monsters fled in a hurry."
Hearing what the banyan tree said, Qin Yi had almost confirmed the identity of that Ah Lan.
At this time, the vines that had been climbing on Qin Yi's body slowly fell down again, and then landed on the sandy ground beside him.
Those green and slender vines moved quietly on the sandy ground, and after a while, they depicted the appearance of the national teacher wearing a veil and the scepter in his hand.
Seeing the appearance of the national teacher on the sand, Banyan became excited: "Have you seen him?!"
I didn't expect that it was really a national teacher...
Qin Yi smiled helplessly, and said dumbly: "Yes, Qingtang was injured by him, and he is now crazy."
The banyan tree was silent.
After a long time, its leaves shook slightly for a moment, and said: "This is my fault, I will help you."
"But you also need to help me get back the staff of life."
Qin Yi didn't expect Rongshu to say such a thing, so he was silent for a while.
Just when the banyan tree thought that Qin Yi would repent, Qin Yi had come to his senses, then he raised his eyes and said calmly: "Okay, you cure Qingtang, and I'll help you grab that scepter. "
There were vines wrapped around Qin Yi's hand at this moment, as if anxiously trying to object to Qin Yi's hasty agreement to Banyan Tree's proposal, but Qin Yi squeezed it again with a smile.
Then, Qin Yi whispered calmly, "It's okay, I know it well."
Shen Qingtang: ...
Seeing this scene, the banyan tree was inexplicably depressed, but after a while, it said: "I know you are too far behind his cultivation base, I will not let you go to die, wait for your body to recover, I will take you to a place to improve your cultivation."
"Thank you senior."
"You guys should take a good rest these days, I'm not in a hurry."
"Okay." Qin Yi silently hugged Shen Qingtang tightly in his arms.
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Shen Qingtang and Qin Yi quietly healed their wounds in the wilderness, but they didn't know that all kinds of absurd rumors about them had been flying all over the cultivation world.
"It is said that this year the Qingyu Sword Sect took in an evil cultivator, and even provoked the national teacher in the sect ranking competition, and finally escaped successfully. This is too terrifying."
"That evil cultivator seems to be called Qin Yi, and he came from Lingyang City, he is really unrecognizable."
"Do you think he will just hide somewhere, and what if he comes out to hurt people once he becomes aggressive?"
"What are you afraid of? The national teacher said that there is a reward of [-] high-grade spirit stones for finding his whereabouts. As long as you run fast enough, you will earn it."
"However, he has been seriously injured by the national teacher, and he has practiced evil skills like that again. He may have died before we found it."
Where these rumors come from, one can know with a little thought.
But none of the monks from the four sects who witnessed everything that day dared to speak out.
They all kept a strange silence.
They knew in their hearts that although the national teacher had problems with this matter, Qin Yi was undoubtedly an evil cultivator. If they spoke rashly, their lives would be lost.
Some people even angered Qin Yi and Shen Qingtang because of the National Teacher's attack, thinking that it wasn't for these two who disrupted the game, and the National Teacher would not hurt people at will, and secretly hoped that the two of them would die outside sooner.
An undercurrent surged among the monks.
However, with such earth-shattering commotion outside, the small courtyard where Shen Ting and Liu Xulan lived was unusually peaceful, and it still looked like it had been peaceful for years.
At this time, Shen Qing'an sat quietly beside them, making tea for them with a smile.
Although his eyes were slightly red, he only said that he stayed up all night for the competition, and neither Shen Ting nor Liu Xulan suspected it.
At this time, Liu Xulan took a bite of the rose cake that Shen Qing'an brought her, and couldn't help but smiled and said, "Tang'er's taste was strange when she was a child. She didn't like sweet things. When the rose cake was made for him, he would spit it out secretly. , I just like spicy food, but when I grow up, I don’t like sweet and not happy.”
Hearing Liu Xulan's words, Shen Qing'an's throat choked slightly, and then he forced a smile and said: "Yes, my brother was mischievous when he was young, but now he is very sensible and gentle."
At this moment, Shen Ting finally couldn't help but interjected: "You said Tang'er and Qin Yi were transformed into gods and went to Tianhuan, why didn't you come to see us first, and left in such a hurry? Hmph, not filial at all .”
As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Xulan frowned and clapped his hands: "You are really short-sighted, wouldn't it be good for your son and son-in-law to win glory for our Shen family?"
Shen Ting glared at her and said, "Why are you short-sighted? Being filial to your parents is called short-sighted?"
Liu Xulan: ...
Shen Qing'an finally couldn't hold back, smiled silently, and then he took out the set of words he had prepared a long time ago, and explained in a low voice: "The Holy One is in a hurry to summon, and it is not up to them to decide, father, you just Don't blame them."
Liu Xulan, on the other hand, took it easy, and took advantage of the situation and said, "That's right, don't be so emotional when the child is going to pursue his future."
Shen Ting: "Hmph."
Liu Xulan and Shen Qing'an looked at each other and smiled silently.
For a while, the atmosphere in the small courtyard gradually became more gentle and joyful.
In the end, Shen Ting went to the inner room to read first, and Liu Xulan talked to Shen Qing'an with a smile while drinking tea.
"It's really good here. The food is much better than the ones in Lingyang City. It's just that there are fewer trees. The big pagoda tree in our yard used to be really big. Sitting under it in summer, it's cool, and there's a smell of it. It smells so good."
After Liu Xulan finished speaking, she suddenly felt a chill spreading in the courtyard.
Shen Qing'an also stood up abruptly at this moment.
The next moment, a low knock sounded outside the door, accompanied by a cold voice: "It's me."
Shen Qing'an was stunned and heaved a sigh of relief, then he quickly stepped up and opened the courtyard door.
Dressed in cold white clothes, he appeared in front of him.
It was Gong Mingze.
Liu Xulan also stood up suspiciously at this moment: "Is An'er your guest?"
Shen Qing'an pursed his lips, and said with a respectful yet grateful expression, "It's His Royal Highness."
If Gong Mingze hadn't sent people to stay here all this time and concealed the news, he really didn't know what would happen to Liu Xulan and Shen Ting after they found out about those things...
When Liu Xulan heard that Gong Mingze was the crown prince, her expression changed slightly, but she immediately bowed her head and said, "The woman has seen His Royal Highness the crown prince."
Gong Mingze gently raised his hand, and a gentle aura lifted Liu Xulan up in the air.
Gong Mingze's aura is different from others, with a bit of coolness and dignity, Liu Xulan didn't dare to be negligent, so she quietly went to the side to pour tea at this moment.
Shen Qing'an moved the armchair from the side over.
Gong Mingze didn't sit down, but was silent for a while, and then asked in a slightly hoarse voice: "Just now you said that the Shen family used to have a locust tree?"
Shen Qing'an didn't expect Gong Mingze to ask this question. He was stunned for a moment, but he still said truthfully: "Yes, that locust tree has been around for many years, and it's so thick when surrounded by two people—is there something wrong? Could it be that the locust tree is so thick? What kind of mutated spiritual plant?"
Gong Mingze didn't speak, the wind blew up his clothes, fluttering quietly, against his cold face, there was an inexplicable trace of strange loneliness.
Seeing Gong Mingze like this, Shen Qing'an didn't know what to say for a while.
It was Liu Xulan who stepped forward and put the tea in front of Gong Mingze, and Gong Mingze slowly came back to his senses.
Then he smiled strangely, as if remembering something from a long time ago, and said: "It's not a mutant spiritual plant, but I have seen that locust tree before."
Shen Qing'an was a little surprised: "What a coincidence? When did His Highness come to Lingyang?"
Gong Mingze was silent for a long time: "Ten years ago."
"When hunting down the remnants of the royal family."
Shen Qing'an suddenly became quiet.
A layer of cold sweat secretly broke out on his vest, and he felt that he had asked a question that shouldn't be asked.
But Gong Mingze didn't say anything, he just stood there alone for a long time, when Shen Qing'an and Liu Xulan felt that they were about to stand still, Gong Mingze raised his head as if waking up from a dream.
At this moment, he looked up at the gradually setting sun, a trace of red was slowly reflected in his cold pupils, then he lowered his head, picked up the tea on the table, and drank it in one gulp.
After drinking tea, Gong Mingze closed his eyes, turned around and said, "It's getting late, I should go, if you need anything, just tell Elder Chen, you're welcome."
Shen Qing'an was baffled by Gong Mingze's series of actions, but he didn't dare to question anything, so he could only agree in a low voice, and then sent Gong Mingze out.
But Shen Qing'an didn't know that when Gong Mingze left, the hand hidden under the wide sleeve was clenched tightly, and the thin nails were almost bleeding from the palm.