Chapter 46 (2/2)

”Yes, that was me Later, Dad wanted to trade me for other people's children to eat, but Mo her life and said he could sell her instead in order to protect reed However, just a few days after he exchanged Mom for food, both my brother and sister died fro with sobs, ”Dad felt I was a burden to him and wanted to eat htof pancakes and took on Monastery and settled here My original naave me a new narabbed Shen Qiao's hand as if he was going to offer him consolation, but he didn't dare to use too et your kindness If it wasn't for the piece of cake you gave h to ize tothere al, how could I not help?”

Shen Qiao's hands tre in his eyes It was hard to tell whether it was because what shi+wu said or because it triggered soht it was caused by pain He hurriedly aked, ”Is it hurting really bad? I'll go ask master to come over and help you apply soave hio Do you think rumbled He walked just in time to hear him

Despite what he said, he still walked over, picked up Shen Qiao's hand and started taking his pulse

”All of your le trance of inner qi left What the hell did you do to get yourself into such a state?! You can forget about practicing ue

”Master!”shi+wu shouted anxiously He was afraid that what his master said would upset Shen Qiao too much

The abbot rolled his eyes ”Why are you so softhearted? Even he hiers at me It's not like I'h, Shen Qiao said nothing for quite a while

shi+wu said softly, ”Don't be sad, Mister Shen My ood doctor…”

”Hey! Why do you always side with outsiders instead of your own hter ood doctor? I only know a little bit theory, just a little bit! Do you understand?”

shi+wu grabbed onto his robe and said flatteringly, ”Master has a sharp tongue but a soft heart He's actually a very kind person! And very capable too!”

The abbot taunted, ”You little bastard!”

He then turned to Shen Qiao and said, ”Your injury is too serious I'm not an expert in medical practices, and this place doesn't have all of the ht need Therefore, I can only try to doI can do about it Your foundation and yourthat's humanly possible to revert…”

Shen Qiao suddenly asked, ”May I ask…if…the poison…is…still…in…htly baffled, ”Poison? What poison? I didn't find any poison in you when I took your pulse”

In order to double check, he once again put three fingers together, pressed them onto Shen Qiao's wrist, and examined carefully A moment later, he withdrew his hand and said, ”You're severely injured, but I indeed did not find any signs indicating you were poisoned”

Ever since Shen Qiao was poisoned with Quietus, the poison had remained inside him Even Yan Wushi+ could not find a way to remove it It rooted and lived inside his blood and bones, fading in and out, significantly i his effort at cultivating inner qi It also affected his eyes, as they were not fully healed even till today

However, the abbot was now saying that there wasn't any poison in hi Jingxing with hi his own foundation, his desperate action ended up saving hi poison in his body

Could this be considered as a blessing in disguise?

Shen Qiao pulled a bitter sht with hi it down to the side, he saw the slight smile on Shen Qiao's face He couldn't help but ask in surprise, ”You're already in such a h?”

He then turned around and asked shi+wu, ”Do you think all the catastrophes happening recently have finally broken him and turned hi to cover the other person's ee should be ready I'll go take a look Ah, I' that little bastard Chuyi at ue as he walked, he continued, ”Huh! I went through soIt's so precious that I didn't even use it for ets to have it!”

After he left, shi+wu apologized, ”Please don't take it to heart Master is a very kind person He's just not good at expressing himself His words may sound harsh, but we really owe him a lot Without this old man's help, I wouldn't even knohat to do!”

”I know…and I'm…I'm not crazy either…Is this baseht”

He could only utter one word at a ti effort

shi+wu said, ”Yes Master drilled two holes in here, so soh Can you see now?”

”I can see…a little…but…not very…clear…”

shi+wu said, ”Don't worry Master said this base District's men came over twice, and both times they had to leave at last because they couldn't find us Master said that after some time, they would think that we had ”

”Thanks…”

shi+wu laughed, ”There's no need to thank ood rest You'll need that for a speedy recovery I'll go boil some water for you to drink”

The place was dark and shi+elded froht, but its quietness alsoto shi+wu, the White Dragon Monastery was first built in the final years of Eastern Han Dynasty and had existed forwas able to survive the fire of war, the conflagration had also taken away its popularity and liveliness, leaving nothing but a scarred and neglected monastery When shi+wu and his master came and settled here, it was already uninhabited The back of the basement was connected to a tunnel, probably built around the sa discovered by shi+wu's master, it became an excellent shelter

Shen Qiao slept for two more days afterwards Sometimes he felt awake and sober, but other times his mind was just a totalin bed all by himself, he even felt like he was still on Mount Xuandu, and that he would see hismartial arts if he were to open the door

But it was only a delusion The past could not be re-lived, and those who died could never colorious and peaceful years were forever gone as if they had remained behind on Mount Xuandu

What came after was the betrayal, setbacks, predica each other for faainst one another and stubbornly clinging to their own views It was the co in hell with no way to escape

All these sufferings were too startling and ghastly to look at They made Shen Qiao empathize with them as if he had experienced it himself

The reason you're able to persist in carefully following your Daoist Heart and refusing to give up your so-called principles is because you still haven't experienced in your life a situation so desperate that you find it absolutely intolerable, aht?

Yan Wushi+ once asked hiht of this sentence, every bit and piece of it, and all the days that they spent together

The friendshi+p that he once deeply believed in was so fragile in front of the other person's ridicule and schele blow

But even if he could start all over again…

Even if he starts over…

”Mister Shen, are you feeling better today? I brought you so Master said this would be good for your recovery… Ah! Mister Shen, why are you crying? Are you in toodrop slowly and slid down the corner of Shen Qiao's eye and disappeared into his hair without a sound

shi+wu quickly put down the congee and hurried over ”I'll go get led to reach out and grabbed his robe

”Hey!” shi+wu shouted in surprise There was an unaffected joy in his voice ”You can move now?! Master said all of your ht not be able to fully recover for the rest of your life It looks like he's just trying to scare me!”

Shen Qiao replied with a smile

When he ake, every bone of his was screaony was so ed to pull through it as he recited in his head the lines fro he had learnt, and this had led to a rather surprising result

Back then when he was studying The Strategy of the Ver, he already had Mount Xuandu's martial arts as his foundation, so it wasn't hard for him to pick it up However, no ress at an unhurried pace Qi Fengge too could not figure out the reason for it At that ti no one else to ask, he could only let Shen Qiao explore by himself as he occasionally provided assistance from the side

But nohen all of his meridians were broken and there was no inner qi left in his body, the force of The Strategy of the Ver seemed to have taken a totally unexpected effect The tattered Dantian was recovering little by little with an unbelievable speed, while his day of the Ver the before all of his injuries were healed

The Strategy of the Verrated thebeyond coh Shen Qiao only had chance to learn two out of the five books, he could already feel its ihteousness of Confucianism, the softness and profoundness of Daoisathered and turned into a streah his body

Shen Qiao couldn't tell if he could count this as finding a way out of desperation through desperate actions, but his body was indeed getting better and better as the days passed The recovering speed was so fast that it even astonished the abbot who once believed he was going to be like this for the rest of his life

shi+as considerate enough to not ask why he cried, but Shen Qiao actively grabbed him and said, ”shi+wu, thank you”

shi+as confused and also somewhat embarrassed ”You've thanked me many times already!”

Shen Qiao treated people with kindness, but he never expected the others to return kindness to him with the same mindset Because no matter if other people repaid him or not, it wouldn't affect his actions

He did it only because he wanted to do so It didn't reed with hi at it from this perspective, Yan Wushi+ wasn't any different from him

But Shen Qiao was only human after all His heart was not made of stone, nor was his mind shaped by metal He too felt tired, downhearted, or even painful

”This one is different,” he said to shi+wu

”You're recovering so fast Master said it's tiht a chicken today to etically, ”You've spent so o make money as soon as I recover…”

shi+wu smiled, ”You don't have to worry about this Actually, master has quite a fortune in his secret purse He just refuses to take it out and pretends to live a rough life…”

”shi+wu! Are you itching for so? How dare you badrateful! You ungracious bastard!” The abbot walked in just in tiue out, ”It's rily, ”Why did I think that you were better behaved than Chuyi?! Each of you is more unworthy than the other! Unworthy disciples!”

shi+wu listened obediently as his , he was finally able to cal about his older disciple, ”The northa fair today Chuyi ran out early thisand still hasn't come back yet With a heart as wild as his, he can probably poke a hole in heaven if given a pair of wings!”

shi+wu said, ”Maybe Senior Brother found so soot a few copper coins on hih to buy snacks for hi

It was a tiny bell, its sound faint as well But because the abbot was standing right next to it, he could hear it immediately

It was a si whose other end was tied soate If people cahtly, and the people in the basement would notice it at once

shi+wu said cheerfully, ”It o out, the abbot suddenly grabbed hiht after he said it, they heard Chuyi's lively voice, ”Master! shi+wu! I'ed This is bad!

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