"Put me down. I've almost recovered. Just sit here and rest for a while, and I'll be ready to leave." Seeing my confusion, Master didn't rush to answer my question, but asked me to let him down.

Listening to his words, I also know that he has slowly begun to recover. As long as he gets through the initial discomfort of the soul shock, he will recover very quickly.

I followed my instructions and put Master down. Master sat on the bluestone and began to rest. It seemed that he didn't want to answer my questions. I heard the sound of killing coming from the town below, and I felt anxious, wondering what Master was doing.

Calm down?

Finally, I asked Master: "Master, why don't you ask me to count the stairs in a hurry?"

Master saw me asking the question, glanced at me, then took my arm and stood up, gesturing for me to follow him forward, and said: "Chengyi, I hope that the more impatient you are, the calmer you will be.

At least you have to learn not to let others see that you are impatient."

"Yes." I took a deep breath and nodded, knowing in my heart that Master would not harm me.

"Because the responsibilities you will have to shoulder in the future are not light, you should learn to be a little more "mind-minded". You have grown up with me, and I regret that I didn't let you beat you less. After all, the character I shaped when I was a child.

Compared with this complicated world, it is too simple. Simplicity is not a bad thing, simplicity is right for the Tao

It is easy for a young man to be famous. But God is not as good as man. Who knows what he will be burdened with in this life?" The master seemed a little nagging. He rarely talked like this in the past, but this time they reunited.

After that, I noticed that he seemed to be nagging more often.

While he was talking, he stopped and pulled me to a stop.

I looked at the master, thinking he had something to express, but this time he said to me: "Chengyi, this bluestone road is the only way to the village where Qiangzi practices."

"Ah, isn't that the Hidden Village?" What I meant was that a road was specially built. Isn't it too obvious?

"Haha, how can the real situation be so simple? Do you know what the name of this staircase is?" Master asked me back, but he also knew that I would definitely not be able to answer, so Master said directly: "It's still there.

It has another name, called the Soul-Destroying Ladder. After a hundred steps, if you still want to walk up this ladder in the normal way, you will never be able to climb it. Losing your life accidentally is a trivial matter, and the worst result will be that your soul will be gone."

"Ah?" I looked at this ordinary bluestone staircase. Apart from the fact that it looked a bit vicissitudes due to years of wear and tear, I couldn't see anything surprising at all.

"Let's not talk about it for now. Now you listen to my command. Next step, directly step up the two stairs and stick to the right." The master said seriously.

When he told me the nickname of this staircase before, he really scared me. I didn't dare to neglect it, so I moved to the rightmost side of the staircase conscientiously, then straddled the two staircases in one step, and stepped up.

Everything was quiet and nothing happened, but my heart felt inexplicably tight. I couldn't help but wonder, what would have been the consequences if I hadn't followed Master's instructions? But at the same time, the effect of the secret technique began.

Gradually it faded away, and my body couldn't help but feel weak.

The master climbed up the stairs in the same way. It was almost time for him to discover my secret technique. He then directed to himself: "Next step, go directly to the first step of the stairs and step on the middle of the stairs."

And the 'sequelae' of the secret technique comes very quickly. Once it starts, it is like a flood that bursts the dam, and there is no time to stop it. I could still bear it at the beginning, but as soon as the master finished speaking,

I couldn't bear it any longer, and I suddenly leaned on Master's body. The pain began to appear on my body, like the pain of countless ants burrowing around in my muscles. I immediately couldn't move, and I couldn't even see.

His hearing also became blurry.

"Chengyi?" Master noticed something was wrong with me, but immediately understood what was going on. This time, Master carried me on his back without hesitation, and whispered to me: "Chengyi

One, be patient."

In fact, besides enduring it, what else could I do? My face was pale, because my body felt so uncomfortable, and all the muscles in my body were spasming. I could only grit my teeth reluctantly, and try my best to endure it, so that I would not completely admit it.

Losing control of the body, slipping off the master's back, or putting all the weight on the master.

Ordinary people can feel this kind of thing. If you are carrying a conscious person, or because the stress points are different, you will not even feel the weight. If you are carrying an unconscious person, you will find that the weight is the same.

Man, he would be many times heavier.

I just tried to lighten Master's burden a little bit, but this time the attack had a lot of secret holes, and Master Chen was not around this time, so my consciousness soon became blurred, leaving only a clear feeling of pain.

, don’t know anything anymore.

Time always passes very slowly in pain, and this kind of pain from body and soul can only be borne by myself, not anyone else can share it. In this kind of suffering, I don't know how long time has passed.

When the pain subsided and I regained consciousness, I felt like I was thrown on Master's back, and the bright sun in the sky shone into my eyes, making me unable to open them for a moment.

But I could clearly tell that it was afternoon. I felt like my whole body was covered with sweat. Almost all the clothes on my body were soaked and stuck to my body. It was steaming and Master was still climbing the Soul-Destroying Ladder.

Judging from the body contact, he was also covered in sticky sweat and his steps were a little heavy.

This situation made me want to get off Master's back and walk on my own. But just like the exhaustion I felt after every use of secret techniques and the sequelae, after feeling so clearly and resisting the pain, my soul was exhausted to the limit.

, I didn’t wake up for two minutes, and I fell into a coma.

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When I woke up again, it was night.

The night breeze in the mountains blew away the heat of the day, making me feel much more comfortable. Apart from being a little tired all over, my condition has basically recovered completely.

The dancing firelight told me that it was time to camp at night. Have we climbed the terrifying-sounding Soul-Destroying Staircase?

I woke up, and Master was the first to notice. He didn't say much, he just silently handed over a glass of warm water with just the right temperature. My mouth was already dry, so I took it and drank the water in the glass in one breath.

After it fell to the ground, Master took it and poured me another cup from the mountaineering water bottle.

After drinking the water, Master handed me another bowl of cooked food, which was nothing more than paste with dried meat or the like inside. I always found it very unpalatable, but after a day of exhaustion and hard work, I actually felt like eating it.

Extremely delicious.

All this is going on in silence, with a strange tacit understanding and naturalness. They depend on each other just like breathing. They live and die together. After a long time of trusting each other, any two people will become like this.

son.

Whether their relationship is between brothers, friends, family or husband and wife, it is not easy to cultivate this kind of relationship.

I was thinking about a question when I was eating. Am I destined to never repay the friendship I owe Master in this life? Or in which life did he owe me? Today I just carried him on my back up the mountain with bloodshed, and I was going up the mountain.

He immediately carried me up the Soul-Destroying Staircase again. Was this fate destined to be like this?

If you owe me, then you owe me. In fact, what people are most afraid of is not the love they owe to someone. If they are still thinking about the love I owe someone, it must be that they are not close enough to and recognize the person who is closest to them.

What I'm afraid of is that we don't owe anything to each other. If everything is settled, what's the point of entanglement? It's like settling the bill and leaving!

And because I owe Master, does that mean that I will meet him again in the next life? This feeling makes me feel more at ease.

After I finished eating this simple meal, my hungry stomach felt much better. At this moment, all the problems during the day came to my mind one by one.

"Master, have we finished climbing the soul-breaking ladder?" I asked.

"See for yourself." Master pointed casually. Only then did I notice that the place where Master and I camped was on a small piece of flat grassland. It was like a platform in the mountains deliberately built by someone, except that it looked natural.

A lot.

And the direction that the Master's hand is pointing is, isn't it the Soul-Destroying Staircase? But it's already at the end here. What's special is that at the end, there is a wooden shelf with a strange-shaped drum and drumsticks fixed between the shelves.

Just hang it on the wooden shelf.
Chapter completed!