Don't be afraid, fairy, I'm blind

Chapter 245: Apprentice = Dependent? (4.9k)

In the cave, fire flickered.

You Su and He Kongyue were stunned on the spot, and Huo Yuandi's roar continued to echo in the cave.

Suddenly there was a loud bang, attracting the attention of three people.

It turned out that the bonfire that You Su had built collapsed. Sparks rose into the air with crackling sounds, and then went out in an instant.

He Kongyue's brows suddenly became stern, and he kicked Huo Yuandi on the shoulder, knocking him sideways twice.

"make it clear!"

Huo Yuandi curled up in pain and whimpered to ease the pain. He looked up and glared at the young master of the He family, his eyes full of resentment.

"Can't you hear him?"

You Su also shouted fiercely, extinguishing the little bit of courage that Huo Yuandi had finally mustered.

"Yes Yes Yes……"

Huo Yuandi quickly agreed, and after this commotion, he calmed down.

He was not a fool. The man who saved him was as handsome as the young master of the He family. Although he was a stranger, he could guess that this man was the fierce and strong man who defeated him.

"My benefactor pushed me to the edge of a cliff that day. I had no other options, so I jumped off the cliff. I used up my last bit of strength to cushion the fall, but I accidentally climbed into a cave. In the cave, I saw the immortal sword I had always dreamed of. Only then did I realize that I had accidentally entered the cave of Master Chengying in advance."

Huo Yuandi actually only recovered some strength, but in order to prove his worth to You Su, he still tried his best to force himself to say more.

"Go on." You Su ordered coldly.

"I tried my best to touch the magic sword, and just when I thought I was about to make a comeback... a skeleton stepped on my foot."

"Is that Venerable Chengying?" He Kongyue asked.

"That's right. There was no flesh and blood on her body, only a skeleton covered with dark patterns. I was terrified at the time, but she told me that if I wanted to survive, I should worship her as my master. She would let her best disciple inherit the Chengying Sword."

Huo Yuandi made a helpless expression, "I had no choice but to agree. But after I performed the ceremony of becoming her disciple, this Chengying Venerable suddenly changed her mind and said that I was not worthy of being her disciple at all. Not only that, I felt that all the strength in my body began to be stripped away. Then I watched helplessly as flesh and blood grew on the bones...! It was as if..."

"Like what?" He Kongyue asked with a frown.

"It's as if my flesh has grown onto her body..."

Huo Yuandi's voice trembled slightly. He was still frightened at this moment:
"Just when I was about to die, the restrictions of the tomb began to collapse. She had no time to care about me. She said, 'The sect will be revived today.' Then she snatched my sword and flew out. How could I dare to stay there any longer... I struggled to crawl out, and fainted several times along the way. Finally, I saw my benefactor!"

This ferocious swordsman wanted to burst into tears to express his gratitude to You Su.

"You mean... this place leads to the tomb of Master Chengying?"

You Su did not forget his mission to investigate the mystery of Venerable Chengying's drastic change in temperament.

Huo Yuandi stretched out his finger tremblingly and pointed behind him.

"It should be this direction... I crawled all the way here in the dark, and I don't know if I went the wrong way."

You Su ignored him and fell into deep thought. After a moment, he asked:
"She took your sword and left. What about the Chengying Immortal Sword?"

"Nature is still in the cave."

Huo Yuandi knew You Su would ask this, so he volunteered, "I can take you there! You are handsome and have extraordinary swordsmanship. This magic sword is tailor-made for you! As long as you take me there, you will be my second parent from now on! If you tell me to go east, I will never go west!"

You Su just looked at him indifferently, with no sadness or joy in his eyes.

"You want You Su to go and get the sword. Do you want You Su to die at the hands of Master Chengying just like you?" He Kongyue snorted coldly.

"No, no! I don't dare! That Chengying Venerable is hysterical and is obsessed with recruiting disciples. She must have gone out to look for disciples! We can just take advantage of the opportunity, snatch the immortal sword and run away, isn't it wonderful?!"

Huo Yuandi crawled on the ground with difficulty a few times, eager to get to You Su's feet.

However, You Su had already taken a step forward, walked around him and came behind Huo Yuandi.

"Brother He, let's go."

You Su said as he took out the Wind Weasel Array Plate. As long as this road was accessible, with this treasure, he didn't need Huo Yuandi's help at all.

He Kongyue glanced at the shocked Huo Yuandi and followed You Su's footsteps.

"My benefactor! My benefactor! I am willing to atone for my sins! I have done something wrong, but I know I am wrong! Please take me with you, my benefactor!"

Huo Yuandi only had one hand left. Even if he recovered some strength, how could he catch up with the two men's walking speed?

He could only keep begging, hoping that the young man would change his mind. His hoarse voice kept echoing in the cave, and it was very mournful.

"Brother You, this person is quite talented. If he becomes your subordinate, he can be a great help. Are you really going to... leave him alone?"

He Kongyue held up the night-shining pearl and asked You Su softly.

You Su shook his head:
"This kind of person deserves no pity for his death, let alone being used by me. He knew that the bones were tainted with evil, and that the so-called apprenticeship was nonsense, but he still sacrificed himself in order to survive. He deserves to be in such a situation."

He Kongyue nodded in response, with a look of approval in his eyes.

He was just testing You Su. Huo Yuandi had done so many evil things. As long as You Su worked hard, he would not lack a thug like him who was at the lower level of Huayu. Why would he discredit himself for a little bit of profit?

As You Su finished speaking, Huo Yuandi, who had already disappeared, suddenly felt someone strangle his neck, leaving him unable to utter a word. He could only whimper and make struggling sounds.

The emotion that swept through him was called despair. Why did fate play such a trick on him? It repeatedly shattered his hopes when he thought he could come back to life, and made him fall into a deeper abyss.

In the last moments before his life disappeared, he widened his eyes in disbelief, and one of his eyes had fallen out.

Until his death, he couldn't figure out why the man held his throat tightly and refused to let go...

Could it be his own right hand?

At this moment, You Su's mind moved, and in the picture formed by the golden hydra, the portrait of Huo Yuandi under the column of dependents gradually disappeared, and turned back into the state of Ji Xueruo and Ji Lingruo, two equally outstanding faces echoing each other.

You Su looked at them and finally felt that they were more pleasing to the eye...

Who would have thought that a blind man would one day judge people by their appearance...

……

Huo Yuandi did not lie, or rather, after becoming You Su's relative, he could no longer lie in front of You Su.

After walking for a long time, they actually found the tomb that Huo Yuandi had mentioned.

"It seems that he really wants to live..."

He Kongyue sighed softly as he recalled the distance they had traveled. He couldn't imagine what kind of willpower Huo Yuandi had to drag that body so far.

"Those weak monks who died at his hands thought the same." You Su said calmly.

He Kongyue just said it casually. The death of such a person was not worthy of their pity. He quickly focused his attention on observing the tomb in front of him:
"It's hard to imagine that this would be a tomb."

With the illumination of the night pearl, the surrounding environment can be clearly seen.

The surrounding stone walls were all carved with delicate edges and corners. If you look closely, you can actually find that they are connected to each other, forming a room-like pattern. Because You Su couldn't see, he had been using his spiritual sense to outline the space he was walking through. The shape of this tomb of the Venerable took shape in his mind, huge and very three-dimensional.

"It's more like a palace than a tomb."

He Kongyue gave an even more astonishing comment:
"No, it's more like a sect built into the mountain. Starting from the waterfall we first saw, it's all traces of human carving. All along the way, we were actually walking slowly upwards, and Huo Yuandi only had the strength to climb so far by going downhill."

As he spoke, he touched the texture on the stone wall with his hand:
"We didn't look carefully at many places. If we had gone to see them, we would have found that they were the same as here, with these wooden brick-like carvings. They are like other rooms in the sect, and this is the sect master's hall."

This sentence made You Su take a deep breath:
"A sect? Are you saying that Venerable Chengying dug out a sect in a mountain?"

You Su looked around, but his eyes that could see evil spirits could not see anything. If he wanted to find out something, could he only start from Master Chengying himself?

"'The sect's revival begins today'. Venerable Chengying wanted to accept a disciple so much. His long-cherished wish before his death was probably to restore the glory of the Chengying Sect." He Kongyue sighed slowly.

"Restore the glory of Chengying Sect? Is Chengying Sect gone?!"

You Su then remembered a key issue. As a member of the Chengying Sect, even if Venerable Chengying was dead, the opportunities in this tomb should have returned to the Chengying Sect. There was no way they would allow cultivators from all over the world to come here to search for treasures.

"No one has told Brother You?" He Kongyue was also a little surprised.

You Su shook his head: "The person who mentioned this to me did not say anything about Chengying Sect."

"No wonder. How could the people of Xuanxiao Sect make random comments about such things?"

He Kongyue showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, and continued:
"Back then, Venerable Chengying single-handedly brought Chengying Sect from a second-rate sect to the Divine Mountain. However, because she was always at the border killing evil spirits, she had no time to manage the sect. And a sect will not become full of geniuses just because one genius emerged. So even though Chengying Sect went to the Divine Mountain, it did not get any better. Instead, it became more and more difficult because of the many rules of the Divine Mountain.

But the people of Chengying Sect did not want to disgrace the reputation of Chengying Venerable, and they had been trying their best to support him. Later, Chengying Venerable was ordered to go out to sea to investigate the source of the evil spirits. Chengying Sect finally could not withstand the pressure from the outside world, and the position of Shenshan was taken away by other sects. They returned to the old site of Chengying Sect, but also attracted the covetousness of Chengying Venerable's enemies. When Chengying Venerable returned from overseas, Chengying Sect had been destroyed, and his enemies were defeated by the various sects of Shenshan. "

After listening to this, You Su finally understood why the chief elder did not tell him about this matter.

Venerable Chengying was out there getting rid of evil for the people, but he couldn't even protect his own family. The rules of Shenshan were strict, which was really disheartening. Even if they wanted to demote Chengying Sect, they should at least wait for Venerable Chengying to come back, but at that time, none of the Shenshan sects wanted to keep Chengying Sect.

How much responsibility does Shenshan have for the tragedy that befell Chengying Sect? And how much of the revenge he took for Chengying Sect was out of guilt?
There is nothing wrong with following the rules, but it lacks a certain human touch.

"Anyone who encounters this kind of thing will go crazy."

You Su lamented, if he was Venerable Chengying, how desperate he would be when he came back to find that not only his family was gone, but even his enemies were gone. Would he vent his hatred and misery on the sacred mountain?

No wonder she died without any disease...

"Let's go and take a look first."

As he spoke, He Kongyue took the lead and entered the cave.

The first thing that caught my eye was a sword inserted into a jade stele.

The jade exudes a dim green light, and this sword with a simple shape and elegant temperament has been inserted in the jade for who knows how many years, but it is still as smooth as new, and exudes a sharpness like cutting jade and gold.

"This is the Chengying Sword that Huo Yuandi mentioned..."

He Kongyue stared in amazement at the immortal sword that had been passed down for thousands of years. Even though he did not practice swordsmanship, he could feel the extraordinaryness of this sword.

The reason why these immortal weapons are called "immortal" is because no matter whether they are formed by nature or by acquisition, they all have the earth-shaking ability to change the color of mountains and rivers.

You Su is a sword lover and also an expert in swords.

A good swordsman and a good sword will appreciate each other and can naturally feel each other's "emotions".

The Mosong Sword has not reached the level of a fairy sword, but it is spiritual enough. When You Su gets excited, it vibrates in response to his fighting spirit.

This was the case with the Mosong Sword, and even more so with the Chengying Sword. It was just inserted there, without any contact at all, and You Su could feel the eagerness coming from it.

It was like an old maiden who had been sleeping for a thousand years finally saw a handsome young man who pleased her...

Although this metaphor is not elegant, You Su had to admit that this was the hunger of the sword...

You Su suddenly felt a vibration at his waist. It was the Mosong Sword that was shaking continuously. However, it was not that this mortal weapon was afraid of the immortal sword, but that it was... provoking it?
You Su held the hilt of the sword, trying to calm Mo Songjian.

"Venerable Chengying is not here, why don't you try to retrieve the sword, Brother You?"

You Su was not anxious: "No, no one knows what will happen if we draw the sword. If we lure Master Chengying back, we will be doomed."

He Kongyue naturally understood this truth. Venerable Chengying was no longer a human being, but an evil spirit who could create followers!

"According to the guidance of the Wind Weasel Array, the only exit of this tomb is in the north. Brother He, this matter is beyond our control. No one could have thought that Venerable Chengying is not dead. If we want to survive, we must contact the outside world and ask for help!"

He Kongyue also looked solemn: "I have already tried, but all kinds of communication methods are unable to contact the outside world. I am afraid that Venerable Chengying has already cast another forbidden spell here."

"Even Xuanji Order doesn't work?"

He Kongyue was stunned when he heard this, a look of nervousness flashed across his face, and then he shook his head and said:
"I'm afraid this forbidden spell was set just now. We can still contact the outside world when we are at the waterfall. Lord Gray cannot contact us, so he will definitely notice something and send reinforcements."

"This is the tomb of Venerable Chengying. The cultivators from the outside world should have discovered it long ago, but until now no one has come in to look for opportunities... Could it be that they were all stopped outside by Venerable Chengying?"

You Su was a little nervous. The severity of the situation was far beyond his imagination.

He suddenly remembered that the evil girl Cai Ling had stolen his jade beads...

By crushing the jade bead, one can summon the chief elder. The chief elder has great power, and the magic weapon he gives should be able to ignore the forbidden spell cast by Venerable Chengying.

Could it be that when the evil woman stole the jade beads, she had anticipated that he would be in such a desperate situation?

But what was her purpose? If she really wanted to kill herself, she would have had many opportunities to do it. Why did she insist on forcing him into a desperate situation?

He Kongyue's words interrupted You Su's contemplation:
"I'm afraid it's very likely. Judging from the attitude of Venerable Chengying towards Huo Yuandi, she should want others to worship her as a master and revive the Chengying Sect, but in fact she wants others to become her followers."

It is obviously impossible to go back upstream, as the gap in the mountains over there has probably been filled up long ago.

"There is no other way. We can only get out of here first." He Kongyue took a deep breath, "Even if Venerable Chengying is waiting outside the cave, we must let this only hope go!"

As if worried that the situation might be too pessimistic and frighten You Su, He Kongyue comforted him:
"There are many people of outstanding status who come to Lingxu Mountain to seek opportunities. Maybe they have already contacted support. We can go out and take a look to confirm the situation."

You Su was stunned: "Brother He, have you ever thought about returning the same way? Maybe we can hide in the waterfall and escape..."

He Kongyue looked at You Su in surprise, and then said solemnly:

"It is my heart's desire to eliminate evil and save the world. Although this Chengying Venerable is Dongxu, he is also evil, so I will not sit idly by. If you have any concerns, I can escort you back first."

Having said this, how could You Su back down? He was moved by He Kongyue's enthusiasm and admired this friend even more.

He Kongyue is such an enlightened person as an ordinary cultivator. However, he is not only the Lord of Allah, but also the Son of God of the Exorcist Department. How can he protect himself?
You Su did not say anything, but gave his answer with his actions.

He had already grasped the hilt of the sword and walked into the dark corridor.

He Kongyue curled the corner of his mouth slightly and hurriedly followed.

But before the two of them took a few steps, they suddenly felt a huge pressure coming down, making it difficult for them to move.

A pair of cold hands suddenly pressed on their shoulders:

"I didn't expect there are two good talents here... You guys are here to participate in my Chengying Sect's Immortal Ascension Conference, right?"

(End of this chapter)