Xuanxia

Chapter 159 Tai Chi Fish

"What bad things did you do behind your master's back? Why are you so scared?"

Fu Qingzhou rubbed his broken lips and rolled his eyes.

Qiu Chan blushed: "It's none of your business."

"Don't let me take care of it, your leg will be crippled." Fu Qingzhou curled his lips, tightened the cloth straps, and fixed the splint made of iron arrows for Qiu Chan.

Falling from a great height, most of her clothes were badly damaged, and her trouser legs were almost torn into strips. But in this situation, Fu Qingzhou had no time to look at the girl's long white legs...

His only thought was that, as expected of a martial artist, his legs were quite strong...

"What do we do now?"

Qiu Chan bit her lip and asked softly, "We both have injured legs, and one of your hands is broken. There are monsters in this cave..."

After she woke up, Fu Qingzhou naturally told her what he had encountered.

As for Qiu Chan, her condition was fine. Apart from her broken legs and loss of internal energy, there were no major problems. However, all the elixirs and yellow talismans she always carried with her were missing. No one knew whether they were lost when she fell or when she was dragged here by the monster.

"I only have one crutch, and you have injured both legs. I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to walk."

Fu Qingzhou said: "Let me carry you on my back."

Qiu Chan's expression tightened: "You pervert, you want to flirt with me again!"

"You are still a girl..." Fu Qingzhou sneered: "Aren't all the people in Ziqi Xianfeng Temple Taoist nuns? You are clearly a Taoist nun."

"What's wrong with the Taoist nun? What's wrong with the Taoist nun?"

Qiu Chan was furious: "Can't a Taoist nun be a girl?"

"Okay, save your energy. I'm too hungry to argue with you."

Fu Qingzhou shook his head and said, "There are monsters here. I suggest that we should not separate... Besides, apart from your injured legs, your physical condition is much better than mine. If I carry you, you can save your energy. When we need to do hard labor or fight, you can do it."

After hearing what he said, Qiu Chan calmed down and nodded slowly.

The two of them began to struggle with some difficulty, and it took a lot of effort for Fu Qingzhou to manage to use the longbow as a crutch while carrying Qiu Chan on his back.

Her body was very cold, and the skin of her arm around Fu Qingzhou's neck was as cold as ice.

The two of them moved forward step by step with difficulty...the direction was the same direction that the monster had escaped from before.

Now they didn't know where to eat or drink in this huge underground cave, so they could only take a little risk and go in the direction chosen by the monster.

At least where a living creature is willing to go, there is probably food there.

"You're breathing so loudly."

As they walked, Qiu Chan suddenly whispered, "Are you okay?"

Fu Qingzhou shook his head slightly, but was too weak to speak.

It was tiring enough for him to walk alone with a longbow, and now he had to carry another...

Cold sweat oozed out of his forehead. Qiu Chan sighed slightly and reached out to wipe it away for him.

Fu Qingzhou didn't feel anything... he could only feel the stabbing pain coming from his broken bones.

For him, every step now felt like walking on the edge of a knife, extremely painful.

"The sound of water!"

Qiu Chan suddenly patted his shoulder: "I heard the sound of water!"

Fu Qingzhou was tired and in pain, his head was buzzing, and he responded vaguely: "Hmm?"

"Go that way!" Qiu Chan stretched out her hand and pointed to the right intersection of the fork in the road in front of her.

Fu Qingzhou exhaled heavily and walked forward slowly.

He walked slower and slower. Qiu Chan seemed to be saying something in his ear, but he could no longer hear clearly. He could only hear his own heavy breathing.

After an unknown amount of time, he felt Qiu Chan patting his shoulder excitedly.

He raised his eyes and saw a gurgling river in front of him!
In fact, how could the river in the underground cave be so big? At most, it was just a small stream with fast-flowing water. But in Fu Qingzhou's eyes, it was no less than a turbulent river.

He smiled, his eyes went dark, and he finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell down.
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After an unknown amount of time, Fu Qingzhou faintly felt something cool and moist in his mouth, like jelly, extremely sweet and refreshing.

He swallowed it subconsciously. The next second, his consciousness miraculously became clear, and a force flowed into his limbs like a trickle, and he felt strong all over his body.

"?"

Fu Qingzhou opened his eyes in confusion and surprise, and what came into view was Qiu Chan's slightly dirty but smiling face.

"How's it going? Is it delicious?"

She smiled and said, "Do you feel stronger now?"

Fu Qingzhou responded, still a little confused, then he tilted his head slightly, and felt something cold and delicate on his cheek.

He was actually lying on Qiu Chan's legs...

He was startled and sat up quickly.

It didn't matter that he sat there, he suddenly realized something and patted his chest.

"My ribs...don't hurt anymore?"

Fu Qingzhou was extremely surprised and looked down at his right hand: "My hand is healed too?!"

Not only his hands, there was no scar on his entire body. Although his internal energy had only recovered less than 10%, all the fatal injuries had been recovered!

Qiu Chan knelt on the ground, leaning against the stone wall, and nodded slightly: "My legs are healed too."

Fu Qingzhou finally reacted. Yes, if her legs were still broken, how could she let him... uh, use her knees as a pillow?
"How is this going?"

He was overjoyed: "What magic elixir did you get?"

"Taiji fish."

Qiu Chan chuckled and said, "There are Tai Chi fish in this river."

Fu Qingzhou was startled: "What fish?"

"Taiji fish." For some reason, Qiu Chan looked particularly gentle and peaceful at this moment: "This kind of fish grows very slowly, and it takes decades to mature. Its roe can cure all kinds of injuries. It is a real miracle medicine... Do you remember the elixir I fed you after you were injured by Dharma Fate? It was made with Taiji fish roe as the main ingredient."

"This kind of fish cannot be killed and eaten directly, as their meat is highly poisonous. You cannot kill the fish to take their eggs, as they must be laid by themselves to have medicinal effects."

"We also have Taiji fish in Ziqi Xianfeng Temple, but those fish are kept in a forbidden area, they are extremely delicate, and there are only two of them."

As she spoke, she pointed to the creek not far away and said, “But there are quite a lot in this river.”

Fu Qingzhou became curious, slowly stood up and walked towards the river.

At first glance, there were indeed several carp-sized fish swimming in the river. They looked very special, with half black and half white bodies, extremely small scales, but large fins, like bird wings.

"It turns out their meat is poisonous. No wonder it wasn't destroyed by those monsters."

Then he noticed that in the short distance from where he walked to the river, there were clear signs of someone crawling.

One can imagine how Qiu Chan dragged her broken legs, crawled to the river with great effort, and tried every possible way to fish out the fish eggs.

Fu Qingzhou was somewhat touched and turned back to smile at her: "Thank you."

"Do not."

Qiu Chan shook her head gently: "I should thank you. I didn't know you were so badly injured before. You even bandaged me and carried me on your back."

Her cheeks flushed slightly, and her long eyelashes trembled slightly: "You know what? Even before you lost consciousness and passed out, you still protected me and didn't let me fall too hard."

Fu Qingzhou was startled: "Uh...I..."

He wanted to say that my mind was muddled at the time and I didn’t remember such a thing…

But Qiu Chan interrupted him, her big watery eyes flashing: "I was a little mean to you before, you...you don't..."

Fu Qingzhou's heart skipped a beat as he looked at the beautiful young girl in front of him who was bowing her head in shame. Having lived two lives and being nearly 40 or 50 years old, his mentality almost became like an old tree blooming.

For a moment, a faint and ambiguous atmosphere rose in the cold cave.

Just then, a burst of dense footsteps interrupted the atmosphere.

Both of them were startled and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see a large group of red-skinned monsters with big heads and small bodies rushing towards them screaming!

(End of this chapter)