Tomb Raider: The man is in the Nine Gates, but the system insists it's the Primordial Era.

"Is this guy not a local?"

The cripple raised his hand and poured Su Mu a bowl of wine. After looking Su Mu over with his cloudy eyes, he spoke.

Su Mu frowned as he looked at the earthenware bowl filled with wine: "Yes, it's just that I didn't go out much before because I was sick, but I've recovered recently."

The cripple nodded: "No wonder. If it were a familiar face, it wouldn't be the Huo family who would have to ask for help before anyone would step in."

The lame man raised his wine bowl, gesturing for Su Mu to clink glasses.

Huo Xian'er lowered her head and tugged at Su Mu's sleeve.

In the girl's mind, neither she nor Su Mu had fully grown up.

Drinking is something only adults do.

Su Mu felt a pang of melancholy as he thought about what had happened during this time.

He raised his wine bowl, clinked it against the other person's, and then took a small sip of the cloudy grain liquor in his bowl.

Gollum~

The alcohol is still so awful, whether it's so-called Moutai, beer, or even the local liquors these days, they're all the same.

Su Mu, whose mouth tasted bitter from swallowing alcohol, held his chopsticks and chewed on a peanut.

"Hey buddy, you're not happy about this. Come on, bottoms up!"

The cripple's brows were furrowed, and his face was clearly unsightly from swallowing the bitter wine, but he still pretended to be comfortable as he spoke to Su Mu.

"Fine, I'll drink it."

Su Mu closed his eyes and drank all the wine in the bowl in one gulp.

With his witch-like physique, how could he possibly be afraid of the wine and drinks of these mortals?

"Don't mind him, young lady. I just thought he was a straightforward person. It's alright. I won't let him drink any more after he finishes this bowl." The cripple smiled broadly as he watched Su Mu finish his bowl of wine in one gulp.

"It's alright, this little bit of alcohol won't get me drunk. Come on, let's continue."

"By the way, uncle, I have a question for you."

Have you heard about the Huang family of the Nine Gates who kept a master carpenter who was an expert in the art of Lu Ban (a legendary carpenter)?

Su Mu stood up, poured a bowl of wine for the cripple, and took the opportunity to gather information.

The cripple nodded with great satisfaction at Su Mu's performance. After eating a few more peanuts, he said, "These things may be unknown to others, but we do know them."

The cripple belongs to a special faction.

He belongs to the last of the three upper gates of the Nine Gates, and is a capable subordinate of Third Master Half-Cut Li.

They followed each other when Half-Li was down on his luck, and over the years they have walked side by side until Half-Li was brought together by the underground emperor of Changsha.

The Huang family, one of the three ordinary families, has always wanted to rise to the top three, so the half-Li family, being at the bottom of the top three, naturally became their target.

"...Lu Ban's curse method, that guy knows a bit about it. It's fine to deal with ordinary people, but he wanted to deal with Third Master? I wonder who Third Master is... Afterwards, Third Master didn't get angry as usual. He just summoned him and scolded him in front of all of us, and that was the end of it."

After downing two bowls of wine, the lame man's face was flushed, but his eyes were bloodshot, clearly indicating that he was drunk.

Once the floodgates opened, she casually revealed the secrets of the Huang family within the Nine Gates that she shouldn't have told outsiders.

really!

The Su family also became one of the targets of persecution by the charlatan who was well-versed in the Lu Ban Book of Cursive Script and the spellcasting. After bringing ruin to the Su family, he took advantage of the situation and bought their ancestral home.

Then they would repeat this process to find the next target until the other party provoked Half-Broken Li.

The cripple didn't reveal Half-Li's method for dealing with the counterattack against the curse, but he had almost completely revealed all the secrets.

Su Mu raised the bowl again, his mind clear: "Thank you for letting me know, I know what to do next."

The cripple hesitated for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile: "I'm not doing it this time. I didn't expect you to be such a heavy drinker, buddy. You drank three bowls in a row and didn't even flinch."

Su Mu ignored the other person and simply downed the bitter wine in one gulp.

The burning alcohol stung his throat and flowed scaldingly into his abdomen.

Huo Xian'er suddenly grasped Su Mu's hand, staring intently at him with a worried expression.

Su Mu knew that the cripple couldn't drink anymore, and he also wanted to know the details of the Su family's murder, which he had already fully grasped.

So he stopped mentioning the cup.

After taking a couple of bites of food, Su Mu suddenly said, "In a few days, send someone to the shop next to Qi Tiezui on Old Tea Street. I have a medicine to cure your broken leg."

The lame man rubbed his eyes: "What did you say, buddy?"

Su Mu said with a serious expression, "I just came back from outside. I didn't have enough alchemy materials on me, but I should have some in a couple of days. Even if you don't come, I will send someone to deliver the limb regeneration pills to you. Thank you for helping me out this time, and thank you for this drink."

Su Mu stood up, cupped his hands in farewell, and took his leave.

The cripple stared blankly as Su Mu and the other man left, his heart filled with shock.

A miraculous cure for limb regeneration?

What's wrong with his limp?

He is already quite old and has experienced all the joys and sorrows of life.

But one person was different.

Third Master was not old; he had just barely passed the most difficult stage of his life.

Having lost both legs, it will be difficult for him to experience true happiness again in the future.

……

"Are you really going to go after Fourth Master?" Huo Xian'er seemed very nervous as she grabbed Su Mu's hand and pulled him to a stop.

Su Mu stopped and nodded vigorously: "They dared to harm me and my family with mere evil magic. If I don't avenge this, I'll be unworthy to be a son!"

Huo Xian'er bit her red lips lightly: "You, what do you plan to do? I can't get anyone from the Huo family to help me right now, I..."

Su Mu patted Huo Xian'er's small hand: "You don't need to get involved. I'll handle it myself. It would be too easy to just kill him like this. He died too easily. He won't die until I make sure he does. No one can kill him."

Su Mu suddenly remembered that Chen Pi would probably storm Shui Huang's house and slaughter the entire Shui Huang family within this period of time.

Then it was replaced and became the so-called Nine Gates Fourth Master, Chen Pi A Si.

But the situation is different now.

Among all the messy and bad things that Water Locust did, he also dragged Su Mu's family into it.

He had to avenge this personally.

"I..." Huo Xian'er tried her best to find a way to avenge Su Mu, but after thinking it over and over, she still couldn't come up with one.

The Huo family is indeed powerful and enjoys immense prestige, but if they were to truly dedicate their entire strength to clashing with another force that is no less powerful than their own, it would all be for a man from another family.

Huo Jinxi, as the head of the Huo family, would never agree to this.

Su Mu suppressed the complex emotions in his heart and forced a smile: "You want to ask me the name of the shop? Zhenxian Temple, yes, that's the name, I just suddenly thought of it."

"Why did you choose such a name?" Huo Xian'er asked with a puzzled look. At the same time, Su Mu successfully diverted her attention, and she stopped thinking about avenging Su Mu.

Su Mu, with his hands behind his back, strode forward and said, "This matter is related to another story. Haven't you always wanted to hear me tell a story? Well, I'll tell you."

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who had been studying under a Taoist priest at a Taoist temple since she was a child.

She was born intelligent and could distinguish between ancient and modern scriptures.

It is said in the scriptures.

To attain immortality, one must cultivate virtue and accumulate merit. Cultivating one's mind and virtue, practicing compassion and helping others, and only after perfecting one's merits and deeds can one transcend the mortal realm.

Those who break the precept against killing will be entangled in karma and will not be able to attain immortality.

During one of her descents from the mountain into the world, the girl witnessed a madman humiliating a family of four in the countryside. He broke the husband's limbs, nailed the wife to the door and raped her, and threw the child into a pot to cook and eat.

The girl asked, "Why haven't such evil people been punished? Why do kind-hearted people suffer such a terrible fate? Where is the justice in heaven?"

His teacher simply replied, "Good and evil will ultimately be rewarded."

As the girl pondered, an extra pupil mysteriously grew out of her two eyes beneath her eyelids.

"And then?" Huo Xian'er pressed.

"Later, the girl with double pupils abandoned the orthodox Taoist sect and built a Taoist temple on her own, which she named the True Immortal Temple. She also set a rule that anyone who kills the Five Demons can become a True Immortal..."

"..."