The Wheel-Turning Master.

Chapter 66 Dead Tree
There was no spring rain in the mountains. The afternoon sun shone through the tree branches, casting a mottled shadow on the ground.

After a great battle, few branches were broken, and the number of fallen leaves was not as many as that blown down by the wild wind in the mountains.

None of the four spoke.

Pei Ning knelt down and tried his best to lift Lin Bai up, letting him lean on him.

She no longer took any precautions and looked at Lin Bai, panting.

Lin Bai's body was trembling slightly, and he seemed to be very cold, but sweat was oozing out of his neck.

His face was covered in a mixture of blood and sweat, and his brows were deeply furrowed, as if he was trying hard to endure the pain.

But even though he looked like he had kidney deficiency and overdrawn, Lin Bai forced his eyes open and stared at Song Qing and Zhang Han.

Pei Ning let Lin Bai lean on him and held his shoulder tightly with one hand, trying to keep him warm.

She seemed to have accepted her fate and did not intend to resist anymore.

"nothing?"

Lin Bai couldn't understand why the black cicada was so powerful that it destroyed the black tortoise with just one blow, but in the end Song Qing and Zhang Han were unharmed?

"Could it be that the Black Cicada's attack was neutralized by the Black Turtle?"

Lin Bai felt severe pain all over his body, and his mind was in a fuzzy mess. He felt as if he was being pricked by needles whenever he thought about something.

"Eat." Pei Ning pinched three pills and stuffed them into Lin Bai's mouth. Her tone was soft, as if she didn't care about Song and Zhang at all.

Then he reached out his hand again and touched Lin Bai's collar. It was even stickier and made his hands sweat.

Pei Ning just heard from Song Qing that it was Lin Bai who forcibly activated the talisman and drained his body.

"It really is like the legendary horse wind..."

Pei Ning muttered something, raised his head slightly and looked at Song Qing and Zhang Han.

I saw the two people standing there, not moving forward, looking at each other, as if they were in deep thought or confused.

The two men raised their hands to look, it didn't look like they were making hand gestures to cast a spell, but rather like they were examining their own hands.

Lin Bai felt that he was about to collapse, and he wanted to close his eyes and rest urgently. But at this moment, how could he dare to close his eyes and leave everything to Pei Ning?
He rolled his eyes and looked at Pei Ning.

Pei Ning was also looking at him.

"You always told me to be cautious and steady. Look at them, they are really cautious! They are really steady!"

Pei Ning panted and patted Lin Bai, "Now that they have already won the game, why don't you come forward? You are even talking with your eyes, as if you are afraid that I will eavesdrop!"

Lin Bai wanted to open his mouth to speak, but he couldn't utter a single word.

Pei Ning's mouth was still bleeding, and he was panting. He did not take the pills, but continued to mutter: "As immortal masters, they are so cautious. They are really as cowardly as mice."

There was no fear on her face. Instead, she smiled, stretched out a hand, and gently placed it on Lin Bai's face.

Lin Bai knew that Sister Pei had become a loser again and was determined to die!
He wanted to persuade her to escape, but knowing that she would never leave, he did not try to persuade her and just stared at Song and Zhang.

After staring at each other for a few breaths, the two men still did not move, just looking at each other, not even looking at him.

"They said they would take you back to the mountain gate and ask the elders to search your soul. I'm afraid you will suffer great punishment..."

Pei Ning wiped the blood off Lin Bai's face with his hand, his face showing determination, but his tone was extremely gentle, "I know your character, if you weren't worried about Mr. Bai and Xiuxiu... and me, you would have run away long ago, and you wouldn't have fallen to this point... Don't worry, I won't leave you alone!"

As she spoke, she placed her palm on Lin Bai's head.

Lin Bai already had a severe headache, so he didn't think about Pei Ning's nagging at all. He just looked at Song Qing and Zhang Han.

"My breathing is a little smooth, I have to make you die quickly." Pei Ning smiled, withdrew his hand, took out the bottle of pills, poured out two pills, and swallowed them into his stomach.

He circulated his internal energy slightly again, and the effect of the elixir was immediately apparent. He felt warm all over, and he could clearly feel that his injuries were recovering, and he had strength again.

She looked down at Lin Bai, sighed, put her palm on Lin Bai's head, leaned close to his ear, and whispered, "Bear with it, I'll be there soon."

What's coming soon? I usually arrive last!
"???" Lin Bai looked at Pei Ning, felt her palm, and was frightened. He quickly said, "Don't..."

Lin Bai finally understood what Pei Ning was going to do. He tried hard to raise his hand, but he couldn't.

"I know what you want to say." Pei Ning grabbed his hand, put it on his face, and said softly, "I can't bear to leave you either."

Lin Bai was stunned: How could the once decisive and heroic Pei Ning act like a little girl? Did he reveal his true nature just because he was about to die?
He turned his head and glared at Song and Zhang. He gathered some strength and shouted in a low voice, "You two don't want to fight, and you don't want to retreat! What's your intention?"

After saying this, Lin Bai felt short of breath and his head ached unbearably.

"That's right!" Pei Ning also spoke, reached out to pick up a piece of gravel, and threw it at Song Qing.

"puff!"

The stone hit Song Qing's shoulder and then fell to the ground.

Song Qing didn't dodge, didn't stop, and didn't say a word.

Looking at Zhang Han again, he turned around and looked back, as if he wanted to leave, but seemed to be hesitating whether to take a step.

The gentleness on Pei Ning's face disappeared immediately, and she frowned and looked at Lin Bai.

Lin Bai was also looking at her.

Both of them were smart people and had dealt with many immortal masters, so they immediately realized that something was wrong!

These immortal masters are high and mighty, looking down upon the common people. If they were asked to sit down and reason, they would surely feel wronged and helpless.

In this situation, the other party could be considered steady if he didn't take action, but how could he allow the stone to hit him?
Song Qing is indeed a man of deep thoughts and a very cautious person, but he didn't even take precautions or test anything. How can he be considered deep-minded? How can he be considered cautious?
Lin Bai and Pei Ning finally understood that there was something wrong with Song Qing and Zhang Han, something very wrong.

The two of them stared at each other without any trace of the charming look they had just now. Instead, they just stared at Song and Zhang.

Song Qing's face showed a vicious and ruthless look. He gritted his teeth and looked at Lin Bai with hatred in his eyes.

Then he slowly raised his hands, as if he was going to put them together to make a gesture.

But as soon as he put his hands together, he felt as if he had been hit by a heavy hammer. He shook continuously and could not stand steadily.

Lin Bai looked intently and saw that Song Qing was gasping for breath and seemed extremely tired.

"What on earth is this?" Zhang Han's voice was dry and old, and his face was full of fear.

"Yes...it should be the dead tree cicada. The dead tree cicada does not kill, but its chirping only urges people to..." Song Qing opened his mouth and trembled continuously.

Before he finished speaking, a mountain breeze blew by, and his hair turned from black to white.

Whiter than winter snow, drier than dead grass.

Then wrinkles appeared on the smooth face, from light to dark. At first they looked like dried orange peels, but soon they looked like the old jujube tree peel in Lin Bai's yard.

His eyes were cloudy and lifeless, his body was hunched over, and he didn't have any energy at all.

The young immortal master who was as handsome and gentle as jade in the past has become a withered old man whose fire of life has burned out.

Looking at Zhang Han again, he was also hunched over, with extremely pale hair and beard.

Both of them collapsed to the ground, coughing non-stop, and even coughing up a mouthful of teeth.

These two were just like ordinary old men in their twilight years, unable to exert any of the majesty of immortal masters anymore.

From the time when both sides threw the talismans to now, it has only been a cup of tea...

Pei Ning was stunned and speechless with horror.

She had seen Qu Chengjia's unrivaled grace as he walked high in the sky, breaking through the clouds and mist, and she had also seen the mysterious magic of the black tortoise...

But at this moment, Pei Ning was a little unable to understand: What kind of magical power could take away a person's life?
It was just a short cup of tea, but it felt like a lifetime.

Pei Ning was smart and immediately understood that when he threw gravel at Song Qing just now, it was not that he didn't want to block it, but that he didn't have the energy to do so.

As for Song Qing's pinching and casting of spells, he really wanted to fight back before dying, but he was powerless.

Pei Ning breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What should we do next?"

“How can the Foundation Establishment Cultivator block the magical power of the Golden Core? They are already useless people…” Lin Bai could clearly feel that the two men no longer had the aura of Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and were as weak as ordinary old men.

"We survived..." Pei Ning smiled and looked at Lin Bai.

I saw Lin Bai had closed his eyes and was resting, with a slightly relaxed smile on his lips.

"As expected, you are my old lover. I give you such a good thing..."

Pei Ning's tone was no longer gentle, but rather a little sour.

She patted Lin Bai's face lightly, then put him down and said, "Take a good rest."

Pei Ning finished speaking, then stood up and picked up the broken sword. Now Song and Zhang seemed to have no power to resist, but it was better to be safe.

Pei Ning was very steady. Although she believed what Lin Bai said, she felt that she still had to do something.

"Pei Ning, spare my life." Song Qing slumped on the ground, his voice no different from that of an ordinary old man, his breath weak, and he looked old and powerless.

"Ms. Pei, please spare my life. I will teach you the method of entering the Tao..." Zhang Han was even more shameless and fell to his knees on the ground.

He had a head full of white hair, a wrinkled face, hands like chicken claws, and a fawning look on his face. He really looked like an old but not dead, which was disgusting.

Pei Ning ignored him and kicked a small stone, hitting Zhang Han in the face.

Zhang Han had no way to dodge, and blood immediately flowed from his face. He covered his face and begged for mercy.

"You are a person who has entered the Tao, how can you...hiss!" Before Song Qing finished scolding, he was hit in the face.

Song Qing covered his face and looked at Pei Ning with cloudy eyes. There was a vicious look on his face, as if he was trying hard to suppress his anger.

"Bang!" Another stone flew and hit him right in the middle of his eyebrows.

"Pei... Miss Pei, spare my life." Song Qing clenched his fists, his whole body trembling, as if he had never suffered such humiliation before. He crouched down and said in an old voice: "Spare my life... Lin Zhuanlun... Wait until he wakes up, if he wants to kill me again, I will admit it."

Pei Ning didn't say anything.

Although Song Qing and Zhang Han are old, they are not stupid. They took off the storage rings on their hands and put them beside them.

Very well behaved.

Pei Ning picked it up, then stepped forward and cut the two men's arms with the broken sword.

Blood immediately flowed out, Pei Ning still didn't say anything, just watched silently.

"We are all useless now, why do you keep testing us?" Song Qing was so angry that his face was wrinkled and his whole body was shaking. It was obvious that he could no longer suppress his anger.

Zhang Han didn't care about his wounds and kept kowtowing.

Pei Ning still didn't say anything, and cut Song Qing's arm again, so deep that the bone was visible.

Then he looked at their wounds silently.

She had heard Lin Bai mention that the bodies of people who had entered the Dao were different from those of ordinary people. Because they were cleansed by spiritual energy, spiritual energy condensed in their flesh and blood, so even if they had broken legs and feet, they could slowly grow back.

As for other sword wounds, they healed quickly, and even faster with the help of elixirs.

Pei Ning observed for a while and saw that Song and Zhang's wounds were recovering very slowly, so he felt relieved.

But she was a cautious person after all. She would cut the wound every hour. No matter how Song and Zhang begged, she ignored them.

At this time, inside the stone plate.

Lin Bai sat upright in the middle of the stone plate. He still felt severe pain all over his body, but his heart was at peace and his head didn't hurt at all.

Because of the exhaustion of spiritual power, depletion of qi and blood, the sea of ​​consciousness can't bear it, which is the reason for the unbearable headache.

This stone plate is where Lin Bai’s life is, and his life is also hidden in his sea of ​​consciousness.

This stone plate has always had the effect of calming the mind and relieving the irritability and depression.

"I need to find a way to train my spiritual consciousness in the future."

Spiritual energy slowly came in from the mist around the stone plate, showing a green and yellow color, and finally slowly gathered in the center of the stone plate.

Guiding the spiritual energy from the spiritual orifice into the qi sea, Lin Bai suddenly felt a pain like being pricked by a needle.

He had just forcibly activated the talisman, and the spiritual energy in his sea of ​​​​qi had been drained. It had become exhausted and even slightly damaged.

Lin Bai silently slowed down the speed of the spiritual energy entering his body, only slowly flushing his body and slowly resting.

One day, two days, three days...

Nearly a month has passed in the stone plate, and Lin Bai's injuries have recovered, but his qi sea needs to be slowly nurtured. But his movements are no longer impeded.

It's time to go out and take a look. Lin Bai felt that someone was touching him. It must be Pei Ning.

When I opened my eyes, it was already late at night.

There was a fire next to me, and someone was using something to wipe his body. It felt quite comfortable and cool. But... why was it getting lower and lower the more he wiped?

"Where are you touching?" Lin Bai asked.

Pei Ning was startled, her face flushed a little, but she immediately said disdainfully: "Let me see if you can still spin the wheel."

"..."

Lin Bai felt it silently and found that all his wounds had healed. He no longer had the tinnitus or headache and his strength had returned.

It's just that the Qi Hai is slightly damaged and needs to be healed for a while.

"Where are they?" Seeing Pei Ning's relaxed tone, Lin Bai knew that they were safe.

Pei Ning pursed her lips.

Lin Bai looked over and saw a fire burning a hundred steps away. Two old men were leaning against a rock, talking about something.

"Did they say anything?" Lin Bai asked.

"I have to wait until you wake up." Pei Ning opened his hands, revealing two small copper rings.

Lin Bai put it away, stood up and walked towards Song and Zhang.

It was not until they arrived at the campfire where they were resting that Song and Zhang discovered Lin Bai.

Under the firelight, the wrinkles on their faces were more obvious, and their silver hair was blown by the night wind, giving them a bit of their former immortal demeanor.

But their arms were wrapped several times and bleeding, which made them look a bit shabby.

The two men had cloudy eyes and looked confused and worried.

This is really a tiger in trouble... It's really like a phoenix in the water is worse than a chicken! Lin Bai was thinking about what to say when he heard Zhang Han sobbing.

Song Qing took a fire stick, poked the fire, and sneered.

"Why is Master Song laughing?" Lin Bai stepped forward and asked.

Song Qing ignored it.

"Why is Master Zhang crying?" Lin Bai asked someone else.

"Wow, wow, wow..." Zhang Han cried even louder, and there was a sense of desolation in the mountains.

"Can you be a little more promising?" Song Qing couldn't stand it.

"How can I be successful?"

Zhang Han cried more and more vigorously. His white hair was disheveled and his face was covered with tears. He sat slumped on the ground. "In the past, I was Master Zhang. Wherever I went, I had to be respected and coaxed. Even princes and nobles had to kneel when they saw me. Any girl I liked, even the concubine of that dog emperor, had to enter my tent. What about now? I am nothing. I shouldn't have come here..."

"Oh, how did you build the foundation for such a character? Are you still not weaned?" Song Qing said.

"You have a good character, you have established a solid foundation at a young age, and everyone praises you as a genius, so don't kneel down to Pei Ning!" Zhang Han was not convinced at all, his beard fluttering.

Lin Bai went to see Pei Ning, who smiled without saying anything.

"You..." Song Qing was so angry that he couldn't speak.

"What? You're still not convinced?" Zhang Han wiped his tears and snot from his face. "The dead wood cicada is the magical skill of the old wood demon. Even when your master Qu Chengjia comes, he has to avoid it. What else do you want?"

Song Qing looked at Lin Bai and remained silent.

"Look at him..." Zhang Han pointed at Lin Bai, looked at Zhang Han, and said, "He was drained of energy by the talisman during the day, but now he is alive and kicking. He must have some magic medicine on him! Before you came, you even predicted something good or bad. I think you are a fool."

"It's true that I'm a fool, but at least I didn't cry." Song Qing said.

Zhang Han was stunned for a moment, then he covered his face and started crying again.

It was late at night and the wind was cold; the whimpering sound was joined by the cries of distant monkeys.

"Master Zhang, let's talk nicely. Why are you crying?" Lin Bai was a kind-hearted person and couldn't stand seeing people cry.

Zhang Han ignored her and just cried.

"Hold it." Pei Ning suddenly spoke.

Zhang Han stopped crying immediately and curled up into a ball in fear.

"Look," Pei Ning smiled at Lin Bai, "there is no such thing as an immortal master. He is just a snake in the mountains. Without his claws and teeth, he is more obedient than a dog."

(End of this chapter)