Volume Three, Troubled Autumn, Chapter 50: Two Pearls Set on the Dark Stone Wall
The last twilight disappeared, the capital of Qi was covered by night, and the light in the room of the white Taoist temple gradually faded away. The people who worshiped devoutly woke up from the awe and intoxication, and stared at the window, not knowing what they were thinking.
What? Thousands of lights are starting to light up.
The door opened, and Ye Hongyu walked out. His beautiful face was still so indifferent, without any unnecessary emotions, but the tiredness in his eyebrows could not be concealed.
Ning Que noticed that she was tired and even haggard, but he didn't say anything. He walked directly into the room, sat on the couch and reached out to hold Sangsang's thin wrist, feeling silently for a moment.
After confirming that Sangsang's physical condition had improved, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, tucked the corners of the quilt for her, put a new wet towel on her forehead, and walked out.
He looked at Ye Hongyu who was leaning on the stone wall and said sincerely: "Thank you for your hard work."
Ye Hongyu noticed that he only said thank you for his hard work, and raised his eyebrows slightly, asking, "Don't you want to thank me?"
Ning Que said: "This is in exchange for my life."
Ye Hongyu said: "Your prescription and the medicinal materials from the Taoist Temple seem to have worked. A lot of the toxins in her body have been resolved, but I can only suppress the cold breath temporarily. ="
After a pause, she frowned slightly and continued: "That night at Yanming Lake, I knew that the divine radiance in the body of the Lady of Light was much purer and more abundant than mine. Even she herself could not remove the Yin in her body.
Naturally, I can’t help the cold aura disappear. Speaking of which, where does that cold aura come from?”
Ning Que told the story of how he found Sangsang among the corpses beside the road.
Ye Hongyu did not answer his doubts, but his thin eyebrows furrowed even more fiercely, saying: "Corpse, flesh, and rotting water are indeed the most sinister and filthy things in the world. The cold rain from the sky will indeed cause great damage to the body of the little girl, but
How can this acquired coldness compete with the Haotian's divine brilliance within the daughter of light?"
Ning Que looked at her with hope and asked, "Do you have any ideas?"
Ye Hongyu looked into his eyes and asked, "Master, do you have any ideas?"
Ning Que shook his head.
Ye Hongyu said expressionlessly: "Master can't do anything about the cold aura in her body, and you still come to ask me if there is anything I can do. Although this is a faux pas out of necessity, you still look like an idiot."
Ning Que's expression became a little gloomy, and his forced smile was extremely bitter.
Looking at his current expression, and remembering that before Ning Que used magic to treat Sangsang's illness, Ning Que did not hesitate to hook up with him. For the first time, Ye Hongyu felt that this shameless academy disciple did not seem to be completely useless.
When she thought of this, she looked at Ning Que with a gentle expression and said: "Since Master said that Buddhism has a way to cure Sang Sang's disease, then you and your team at Lanke Temple will definitely gain something."
Ning Que smiled and asked, "Are you trying to comfort me?"
Ye Hongyu said: "You can understand it this way."
Ning Que said: "What I can't understand is that the person who comforts me is actually you."
Because he was smiling heartily, the small dimple on his cheek looked particularly sunny.
Ye Hongyu looked at his face and said, "You are indeed a bit cute, but your temperament is really hateful."
The priests and knights of the Qi State Taoist Hall and the Adjudication Department were all blocked outside by the closed door. At this time, the Taoist Hall was quiet and no one was there, and the lights in the stone corridor were naturally not lit. The stone windows facing the street leaked in the capital city.
The stars and lights were not very bright, but they were not dark either.
Ning Que looked at the Taoist girl's face in the dim light, looked at the tiredness and haggardness between her eyebrows, looked at her smooth eyebrows, bright eyes, and elastic lips, and suddenly felt that this was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.
The fingers of the right hand hanging on the side of the leg of the beautiful and charming Ye Hongyu trembled slightly.
Trembling slightly and touching something hard with his fingertips, he raised the teacup in his hand and handed it to her.
Ye Hongyu took the tea cup and took a sip of the still strong cold tea.
The corridor was very quiet. The disciples at the back of the academy and the high priest of the Xiling Temple were leaning against the cool stone wall in silence. They looked at the faint light from the window and did not speak for a long time.
I don’t know how long it took, but Ning Que suddenly said: "You said it before today, you said it by the Yanming Lake, you also said it in the wilderness, our academy and your Taoist sect are natural enemies, and one day we will be
A magnificent war is ushering in, and the pace of that day is getting faster and faster. Have you ever thought about what we should do if we really meet on the battlefield one day?"
Ye Hongyu was holding the teacup, raised it and glanced at him, his eyes full of mockery, and said: "We all have no friends, so why do we need to pretend to be friends and talk about the past and the future? You want to treat our
The relationship becomes closer, just to save my life in the future, this kind of behavior is really shameless."
Ning Que didn't defend himself and said, "I just want to know what you would do if that day comes."
Ye Hongyu said without hesitation: "I said that you are the most dangerous enemy to the Taoist sect, so if there is a day of war, of course I will kill you first at all costs."
Ning Que reached out and took the tea cup from her hand, brought it to his lips, and said thoughtfully: "That makes sense. For someone as dangerous as you, I should try my best to kill you first."
After saying this, he poured the last few drops of the strong tea in the cup into his mouth and drank it, feeling extremely bitter.
Seeing him drinking his own leftover tea from his own cup, Ye Hongyu was a little annoyed. However, looking at his frowning brows stimulated by the bitter taste after drinking all the leftover tea, he didn't know why (--house most
Update soon) He suddenly didn’t want to be angry anymore.
"I will show no mercy."
Ye Hongyu looked at the night view of the capital outside the stone window and said with an indifferent expression, but he didn't know whether he was speaking to Ning Que, to himself, or to the loyal subordinates outside the Taoist Palace.
Ning Que thought about the scenery and people in Chang'an City, and the pastoral scenery he saw on his way south, and the farmers and soldiers who kept pouring their hard work into the fertile wilderness, and said, "The same is true for me."
The dim stone corridor fell into silence again.
It was Ning Que who broke the silence again.
He looked at Ye Hongyu and smiled and said, "Speaking of which, I haven't congratulated you yet."
Ye Hongyu was slightly startled and said, "What are you congratulating me for?"
Ning Que saw that her expression didn't seem to be hypocritical, and he also knew that she would never act mature in terms of human relations, so he couldn't help but sigh silently, thinking that you are still the Taoist idiot who is difficult to disturb external things and has a pure heart.
"Isn't it something worth celebrating to sit on the black jade throne and become a high priest of judgment? Chen Pipi said that there are only a few people at your age who have become high priests in thousands of years."
Only then did Ye Hongyu realize that he was congratulating him for this, and said calmly: "Since I started practicing Taoism, I knew that I would become the Great Priest of Xiling. From the first day I entered the Judgment Department, I knew that one day I would become the Great Priest.
You will sit on that black jade throne. So this is just natural, what is there to celebrate?"
Ning Que said with emotion: "That is to say, I understand you. Otherwise, if anyone in the world listens to what you say, they will think that your narcissism has surpassed that of my second senior brother, and you are about to go crazy with your narcissism."
Ye Hongyu smiled slightly and was very satisfied when he heard him compare herself with Jun Mo.
Ning Que turned to look at her face, looking into the deepest part of her bright eyes, recalling the two indescribable rays of divine power he saw in her eyes during the day. He said with emotion: "The younger generation of practitioners,
As long as there are some talented and narcissistic people, they have been chasing your footsteps all these years, but they have never been able to catch up with you. You are always at the front, and even pull you farther and farther behind, so I really
I admire you."
Ye Hongyu looked into his eyes, feeling the luster hidden in the black pupils. He said: "You have only been practicing Taoism for a few years, and you have transformed from an ordinary person who knows nothing about it to a great practitioner who knows your destiny. I admire you.
Among the younger generation, you are the only one who makes me admire and even be wary of you."
Ning Que smiled and said: "Praise and self-praise are always pleasant things for the body and mind. However, there is no audience at this time. It is a pity that we rarely praise each other."
Ye Hongyu said: "It's just that you congratulate me. I congratulate you too."
Ning Que said: "It is really not a joyful thing for me to advance to the realm of destiny."
There was a lot hidden in his words, including the fragments in the depths of the ocean of his consciousness, the generous legacy of Master Liansheng, the terrifying and bloody demon sect techniques, and the fire in Honglian Temple.
Even Long Qing couldn't fully understand what happened to him at that time.
Of course, Ye Hongyu didn't know. She looked at him doubtfully.
Ning Que covered it up lightly and said: "You have already entered Zhiming, Shanshan has also entered, and Senior Brother Chen Pipi entered it many years ago. In front of you, I have no qualifications to be proud of."
Ye Hongyu said: "I have said many times that we are different people from ordinary monks. The realm of knowing fate is more significant to us, because for us, the realm is a means of fighting."
Ning Que said: "I always feel that you have repeated this statement countless times to tell the world that the two of us are the same person, just like two identical pearls on the seabed, a perfect match?"
"That's how it was. I dared to challenge the former Judgment God's Throne as soon as I entered the realm of knowing my destiny. Although the wounds left by the God of Light on him had not yet healed at that time, you could kill Xiahou before you entered the realm of knowing your destiny. Once you entered the realm of knowing your destiny, you could kill him.
Understand your fate, even if you encounter Long Qing one after another, he is still no match for you."
She said proudly: "There are not many Taoists like the two of us. Not Long Qing, not a bookworm, not even Chen Pipi, even though he has been called an unparalleled genius in Taoism since he was a child."
Ning Que never expected that Ye Hongyu would completely ignore the deliberate teasing in her words. He couldn't help but feel speechless. When he heard her mention Chen Pipi, he immediately showed a look of disapproval.
"There are many types of geniuses. The talent of a spiritual genius should be reflected in spiritual practice, not just in fighting or killing like you and me. I have never seen such a genius like the twelfth senior brother in my life.
A person who doesn’t know anything about himself is much better than you and Long Qing when it comes to the purity of Taoist heart.”
He looked at Ye Hongyu and warned: "Senior brother doesn't seem to be good at fighting, but that's just because he doesn't like fighting. If he is really forced to fight one day in the future, you will probably understand how terrifying he is."
Hearing his comments about Chen Pipi, Ye Hongyu frowned slightly, thinking about the chubby boy in the temple when he was a child, the boring guy who liked to peek at the female Taoist priests taking a shower, and the guy who was under his little fist.
A coward who screams in pain like a woman and doesn't dare to resist. I can't imagine how terrifying he will be.
Ning Que looked at her thoughtful expression and suddenly asked: "How did you become the High Priest of Judgment? I only heard some rumors in Chang'an that you killed the previous priest?"
Ye Hongyu said in a very ordinary tone: "Unlike the inheritance of the God of Light, the God of Judgment has never designated a successor, and there is no definite successor, so there is no process of returning to the throne. For thousands of years, the Black Jade God's throne has been
I kept changing masters in the bloody battles, and there was no other way to become the High Priest of Judgment. I killed the previous priest, and then I naturally inherited his position."
Ning Que looked slightly stern and asked: "If there are other powerful people on Xiling Taoshan who want to become the seat of judgment, what they need to do is kill you?"
Ye Hongyu said calmly: "That's it, but it seems that no one dares to kill me for the time being."
Ning Que looked at her and said, "But I know there is a person who wants to kill you and dares to kill you."
Ye Hongyu knew who he was talking about and said, "He can't kill me."
Ning Que said: "But you must admit that he has been in the Judgment Temple for so many years and has so many loyal subordinates. He will definitely not give up the opportunity to sit on the Black Jade God's Throne."
Ye Hongyu knew that the conversation was getting to the point, and after thinking for a moment, he said: "Long Qing is just a dog. Although he is different from Luo Kedi, he is not the master's dog, nor is it my dog. Although he has many dogs that even me
It feels like incredible luck, but he is still just a dog."
Ning Que looked into her eyes and said: "You said that dogs will not resist their masters, but have you ever thought that a mad dog does not know who its master is, and it will become crazy and dangerous."
Ye Hongyu looked back at him quietly and said, "It seems that he left a deep impression on you at Honglian Temple yesterday."
Ning Que thought about yesterday's cold autumn rain, the blood-stained grass blades, the raging fire in the ruined temple, the empty quiver, and the black peach blossoms. After being silent for a long time, he said: "Yesterday's Long Qing made me feel...
fear."
Ye Hongyu said: "But you still defeated him."
Ning Que said: "But he is not dead. I don't know if I can beat him next time."
Ye Hongyu said: "What exactly do you want to say?"
"Don't tell me, Xiling Temple doesn't know how terrifying he is now. If he is allowed to survive, he will become stronger and crazier day by day, and the two people he wants to kill most in this world are
It's me and you, so we should kill him while he's not strong enough."
Ning Que stared into her eyes and said: "I beg you to kill him... This is the first chapter, the second chapter will be released before six o'clock.) (To be continued...rq