Chapter 02 Desert

Yan Ji stopped and stood, his eyes recalled sadly for a long time, and almost forgot that there was still a woman behind him waiting for him to reply.

When he came to his senses, he only gave the woman two words: "No!" After saying that, no matter what she reacted, she walked out of the fishing village alone.

The fields of the fishing village are thousands of dark green rice fields. The evening wind blows, and there are waves of "rustling" of rice leaves.

In the new autumn and July, the rice seedlings in the field have not yet grown rice ears, only green and black rice leaves.

At the edge of the rice field, Yan Ji meditated quietly, and his cyan clothes seemed to dissolve with the rice field. Suddenly, seeing his eyes dull, he knew that he was recalling the past again.

After a long time, he finally stopped recalling, took out the two secrets given to him by his senior sister, opened a secret book that he had never seen before, carefully read and understood, and wanted to learn the eight styles one by one.

When he looked through it, he found that there seemed to be something in the middle of the page of the secret book. Yan Ji quickly turned to the page and suddenly found a white jade pendant the size of a copper coin between the pages, wearing a red line. Looking at the length of the red line, he knew that it was a jade pendant on his wrist.

"Is it your sister's?"

Yan Ji picked up the jade pendant and looked carefully. On one side of the jade pendant was carved with a winged phoenix, and on the other side, it was carved with the word "ling". Seeing the word "Ling", Yan Ji was sure that the jade pendant was his sister Liang Xiangling's.

This is the only memorial left by the senior sister, and Yan Ji naturally should cherish it. In memory of her senior sister, Yan Ji put it on her left wrist.

At this moment, his heart is full of mixed feelings, and he can't calm down to understand the gist of the eight-style sword formula words and sentences. He feels quite irritable, and his resentment is difficult to calm down. He can't wait to tear off this secret as waste paper.

"At this time, what you need most is a pot of wine!"

I don't know when Qin Shen came over, sat next to Yan Ji, handed him a porcelain wine jar, and said in a low voice, "Although wine can't make you forget her, it can temporarily paralyze you. Over time, it will fade."

Yan Ji didn't say anything, put the secret into his arms, took over the wine jar and poured a few mouthfuls into his throat. He first learned to drink, but he didn't drink much. After only two sips, he was already drunk.

Since then, Yan Ji has lived with alcohol every day, and alcohol has become an indispensable thing in his life. Of course, he did not forget to learn "Tianang Xuanshu" and "shocking eight styles". He knew very well that he still had "great revenge", and that he was still very weak and unable to revenge.

During the day, he is a drunk; at night, he is a martial arts idiot. Whenever he couldn't calm down to practice Taoism, he repeatedly recited his "Taishang Qingxin Mantra" passed by Master Guangyi.

He has almost never done such trivial things as bathing, washing his face or changing clothes. After a long time, he became the beggar four years ago. If Zhang Linger hadn't told him to wash his face and change his clothes, he would never have done this. Yan Ji did not calculate how long the time had passed. Seeing that the rice seedlings in the field had pulled out the tender rice ears, he vaguely guessed that more than a month had passed.

For more than a month, Yan Ji never said half a word. Zhang Linger brought him grilled fish and he ate it. He brought him water and he drank it. Qin Shen brought him wine and he drank it. When an unknown person sees it, he will definitely think that this person is a mute.

In the morning, the morning sun rose, and Yan Ji came to the uninhabited place as usual to practice Taoism.

On this day, Zhang Linger did not bring breakfast when she came over, but Yan Ji did not care about her appearance, let alone whether she brought breakfast or not, but only practiced Taoism.

"Hey! Why don't you even say a word? You will get sick after a long time!" Zhang Linger finally couldn't stand it and talked to him.

The expressionless eyes only glanced at Zhang Linger and said three words: "What did you say?"

Zhang Linger took a deep breath, bit her lip, and said helplessly, "Forget, I don't care about this. Do you have any place you want to go? After all, it's not far from Bagong Mountain, which is not safe.

"Where can I go?" Yan Ji asked himself in his heart. After a long time, he whispered, "I'll go home."

His "home" naturally refers to the two dilapidated houses in Shuijiahu Town, which are far from the gathering place of Bagong Mountain Demon Sect. A beggar hides at home all day to practice Taoism, which is difficult to attract the attention of others.

Yan Ji thought like this in his heart, and when he mentioned the fairy sword Jinghong, he wanted to leave.

When Zhang Linger saw him get up and leave, she didn't know what he was going to do. She called "Hey" and asked him, "What are you going to do?"

Yan Ji did not stop, but only said the word "go home" and walked slowly to the fishing village to find someone to ask for directions.

Zhang Linger paused for a moment, seemed to summon up her courage, and said, "Can we go to your house?" None of us have a home..."

In the past month, the three of them have prepared three meals for Yan Ji every day, and Zhang Linger has sent three meals to Yan Ji every day. Yan Ji couldn't refuse this request and replied, "Yes."

Although he spoke as "as cherishing words as gold", it also made Zhang Linger quite happy. At least he was willing to speak, not to the point of death.

Returning to the abandoned shabby house in the fishing village, the four took their own fairy swords and began to drive south in Shuijiahu Town, Yan Ji's hometown. Zhang Linger holds a white fairy sword in her hand, whose sword name is "Ning Shuang"; Qin Shen's sword is the Tianshi Sword. It turns out that he is the fourth disciple of Guangling Zhenren. Since the death of Guangling Zhenren, the Tianshi Sword has been passed on to Qin Shen.

Yan Ji glanced at the fairy sword "Zi Xiao" in Ye Yunxiao's hand and couldn't help thinking of the scene when she first saw Zi Xiao. There happened to be her in that scene. As long as "she" appeared in Yan Ji's memories, there would be a burst of pain in Yan Ji's heart.

Ye Yunxiao was quite intelligent and sensed Yan Ji's abnormality, so he deliberately walked behind Yan Ji to prevent him from seeing his fairy sword.

This place is still within dozens of miles of Bagong Mountain. If the sword flew, it is very likely to be found by the demon religion, so the four of them had to walk. The road was very quiet, and Yan Ji didn't say much. The other three also experienced the pain of being destroyed and had no time to laugh.

After half a day, the four walked into a mountainous area, which was overgrown with grass and few trees. The further you go, the more vigorous the weeds are. There is a faint smell of vegetation and decay in the air, as well as the rotten smell of beast corpses, which is pungent.

There was morning dew in the grass, which wet the trousers of the four of them. Yan Ji didn't care and just walked forward, but Qin Shen considered the difficulties of his two daughters' family. He happened to see that there was no grass under a cliff and the ground was also very dry, so he suggested: "We have been walking for a long time. Let's just rest for a while!" It's convenient to go when the dew is dry.

Ye Yunxiao and Zhang Linger were the first to second. They found a stone to sit down under the dry cliff and clean up the sticky grass leaves on their trousers. Although Yan Ji didn't say anything, he had no objection. He went to find a clean big stone and sat down.

Although it is the season of mid-autumn and August, the weather is still as varisical as midsummer. As soon as the sun was clear, it turned into dark clouds and light rain.

The four of him did not have rain gear to cover the rain. Ye Yunxiao and Zhang Linger's two daughters were even more inconvenient to travel in the rain. The four of them simply retreated to the shallow cave under the cliff and waited for the rain to stop.

The four of them didn't have breakfast. Now it's noon and they don't bring dry food. Zhang Linger is already hungry and looks around to see if there are any wild fruits and beasts to satisfy their hunger.

There is no beast, but she found the wild fruit. On the cliff covered with green vines not far away, there are red fruits the size of grape grains between the vine leaves.

"There is fruit there! Let's pick some and eat!" Zhang Linger shouted happily and ran down to the cliff to pick the red fruit in the rain.

Ye Yunxiao looked carefully at the purple fruit on the cliff and frowned, as if she had found something unusual. After a long time, she said two words in consternation: "Zhu Guo!"

Yan Ji saw very little. Naturally, he didn't know what Zhu Guo was, but Qin knew that he listened to Ye Yunxiao's shouting and quickly ran to the cliff. Ye Yunxiao then followed, only Yan Ji sitting still and had no interest in the fruit.

In his current situation, if he knew what Zhu Guo was like, he would have the same interest in this fruit as them.

In that box, the three of them searched carefully in the green vine, found three or five fruits each to make sure that the fruits were picked by them, and then returned to the original place to shelter from the rain.

Ye Yunxiao took a purple fruit in the palm of his hand and looked carefully. After looking at it for a while, he still looked confused. He asked Qin Shen beside him, "From the fruit, vine leaves and growth environment, this fruit is like Zhu Guo. What do you think?"

She was not sure that their luck would be so good. Many practitioners deliberately took time to find the "Zhu Guo", but they couldn't find a "Zhu Guo" in their whole life, and they found it inadvertently.

Zhang Linger is also a person who doesn't know the goods and asked, "What is Zhu Guo?" Is that the name of this wild fruit?"

Qin Shen answered Ye Yunxiao's words affirmatively and explained to Zhang Linger: "According to the Honghuangjing, it is recorded in the Heavenly Materials and Earth Treasures: Zhu Guo, a strange fruit born in the deep mountains and Daze, is round and red in color. It blooms for thousands of years and bears fruit in thousands of years. Taking it can increase the Taoist cultivation of Jiazi."

Yan Ji's heart moved and immediately became interested in this "Zhu Guo". If he increased his cultivation after taking it, he could kill the magic religion to avenge his master and sister. Although he thought so, it was difficult for him to ask them for it.

Zhang Linger was rich. She took a look at Yan Ji and gave half of the eight red fruits in her hand and said, "There are only three or five of them. I went to pick eight first. I'll give you half of them!"

Although she gave it to Yan Ji so generously, Yan Ji couldn't answer because of her face. She clearly wanted it, but she couldn't reach out.

Qin Shen smiled and said, "Brother Yan, just take it. It's useless to have more Zhu Guo. It's enough for one person."

Ye Yunxiao was a little puzzled and asked, "Why can only one person eat one?"

She thought that eating one could increase the power of Jiazi, but if she ate two, it could increase the power of two Jiazi.

Qin Shen explained: "Every time you eat one, you can increase the power of Jiazi, but for those of us shallow Taoism, the meridians can only withstand the power of Yijiazi, and if you eat more, the meridians will burst and die."

After listening to Qin Shen's explanation, Yan Ji just put it down and reached out to take four Zhuguo, but he did not forget to thank Zhang Linger.

Zhang Linger listened to Yan Ji's thank-you words and felt a little happy. If it hadn't been for the sadness in Yan Ji's heart, which made him expressionless and his eyes cold, she would have laughed.

The four of them each took a red fruit and ate it. As soon as the cold fruit passed their throats, they immediately turned into a few strands of heat and rushed around their bodies. Then he heard Qin Shen explain: "After eating Zhuguo, it will not have any effect immediately. It needs to run the true qi to resolve the true qi running around the body and store it in all parts of the meridians. It may take about a month to take effect."

The rain was getting stronger and it was inconvenient to travel. The four of them meditated cross-legged here, dissolved the true power of Zhuguo in his body to the eight strange meridians.