Chapter 242 (1/2)
Xiao En heard Fan Xian's confident words and began coughing violently, unable to stop for a long tiht, and they sat on a precipice, unsure whether the Brocade Guards searching beloould hear Fan Xian was rather worried He took out a needle and thrust it into Xiao En's neck, helping to ease the tension in his veins
Fan Xian's gently felt Xiao En's neck, where there was a slight sticky da up a faint scent of blood He knew that Xiao En had begun coughing up blood, and though his face remained expressionless, he felt so ment he'd ue with hiirl carry a chest? Who carried it then?” he asked
”What chest?” Xiao En's was asked in a genuine tone of voice He didn't sound like he was lying
Fan Xian was rather taken aback He knew that the old , and Wu Zhu was still yet to appear Wu Zhu had once said that he and histo the letter his ainst the powerful forces of the temple, and as a result he had lost a portion of his ainst the people of the te for a woman's affections?
”And then what?”
This is the work that every person who listens to a storydeath, and there was no way Fan Xian would forget to ask those three words
Inside the tent, Ku He lay down on a pelt, his breathing hurried He didn't knohat that little girl had allowed hi-held beliefs and attack the people of the temple
Xiao En looked out of the open tent at the little girl in the snow The blizzard was still fierce outside, and the little girl's skin hiter than the snow Her tiny hands tightly gripped the thick tent material, and she looked out at the vast outside world, her fra of loneliness about her that seee
He carefullya hand into a hole in his robe
”I gave hi ”Don't touch it”
Xiao En looked at the little girl with a sudden o soe from the temple in his breast pocket, and he couldn't stop hiht about how the girl who had snuck out of the tehts
He kneeled, co toward the fairy ”I adom of Wei, and on His Majesty's command, we have come to hear the will of Heaven, and beseech that the immortals bestow upon us the elixir of imotten thehed merrily at his words After a moment, she suddenly threw a pill to Xiao En ”You have aided rant you aid in return That monk has already received his reward, and you shall have yours”
Xiao En caught the pill and looked at it carefully There was nothing unusual-looking about it, but since it had been given to him by a fairy, he could only treat it with the utmost care He took out a jade box and carefully placed the pill inside
”Return ho far older than her years ”This is no place to stay”
Xiao En was somewhat disappointed They had expended so much effort to find the temple, yet they had not been able to enter, and they had no idea what the immortals of the teift of this ain,” said the young girl calmly ”And do not tell anyone where the temple is
”If I ever learn that you have revealed the teirl turned around, her young face utterly austere ”Do you hear me?”
Xiao En koed over and over in affir alirl who seemed as if she had been sculpted froirl could say such things clearly showed that she was no h Xiao En was captain of the Red Riders, he still did not dare disobey her orders
The old man had no choice but to obey
”After Ku He awoke, the fairy forced us to swear a vow, and then we headed south,” said Xiao En, recounting his merew It seeh the world of e, I know Every tiet a sense of just how marvelous her poere immortals and mortals are different indeed, and we are but fools who understand nothing
”Later on, there was one day when the fairy turned around to look at the snowyto herself - 'he deserves our sympathy' I remember it very clearly, because I had never seen such a look of compassion on the face of any mortal”
Of course, Fan Xian knew that his mother was not a fairy He presumed she probably was not particularly powerful at that time, but to be able to scare two of the world's most powerful men, she definitely had brains But he didn't understand - exactly as she referring to when she said ”he deserves our sympathy”?