Xuanxia

Chapter 846 His Response
Qi settled down next to the mass grave.

The little boy's home is here, a small thatched hut with traces of three people living in it. Qi heard him say that the crazy woman and her family of three once lived here.

But this child never mentioned who his father was, nor how long ago this "once" was...

After all, it was more than ten years ago that Qi participated in the siege of the crazy woman.

Judging from this, the little boy is definitely not as young as he looks.

Of course, Qi didn't care about that.

After he entered the cave at the age of seventeen, his appearance has never changed. Who knows if the little boy has had any other adventures?
Qi has been studying the stone tablet these days.

He was very sure that what he sensed when he looked into the eye on the stone slab was the existence that had asked him for help in the Gate of Wonders.

But now, half a year has passed, and the slate still can't speak as the little boy said.

Qi tried many ways, but couldn't get the stone slab to speak.

And just as the little boy said, his cultivation was never able to recover even a little bit.

"Hasn't it spoken to you yet?"

The little boy placed a bowl of porridge in front of Qi and asked casually.

Qi shook his head helplessly.

He sat outside the hut in the sun, took a few sips of the porridge, and continued to study the stone slab in front of him.

But in the past six months, he had already memorized every inch of the stone slab's tiny lines, and even counted the bloodshot on the strange eyeball, but still gained nothing.

The eye seemed to be moving around unconsciously, occasionally staring at Qi for a while.

As for where did the slate come from?
The answer Qi got was...it fell from the sky.

Still an answer without any value.

"What's the problem?"

Qi frowned and asked, "Fang Ruyue, has it talked to you recently?"

Fang Ruyue is the little boy's name, and it sounds a bit feminine.

Hearing this, Fang Ruyue shook her head: "Since you got the stone, it won't talk to me."

After that, he patted Qi on the shoulder in a mature manner and said, "I'm going to go farm, you take your time to figure it out."

Fang Ruyue carried the hoe and went to the vegetable field not far away, leaving Qi holding the slate.

This is how I have been spending the past six months.

Qi's ecstasy and excitement when he first got the stone tablet have gradually turned into the confusion and pain of today.

Why? Why can't I sense anything? Is it because I don't have any cultivation now?

He had also tried to cultivate again, but in that battle, it seemed that the two selfless gods had left something in his body, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not cultivate again.

Of course, he also thought about leaving this remote and uninhabited place and going to the land of China to look for opportunities, but...

Qi had just left the mass grave last month and less than an incense stick's worth of time had passed when he ran into a group of practitioners from afar. After asking around, he felt very disappointed.

This place is less than five miles away from Milun Temple!
What's worse is that the place is surrounded by mountains. If he wants to leave with his current uncultivated body, he must pass through the Buddhist kingdom where the Milun Temple is located.

That's... too dangerous.

Qi was not a man who was afraid of danger, but he was afraid... of being separated from the stone tablet in his hand.

So in the end, he stayed here.

"What exactly is the problem?"

Kai sighed.

He also asked Fang Ruyue if she had done anything with the stone slab, and if Fang Ruyue's mother had given any help... But after listening to what Fang Ruyue said and trying again and again, Qi still didn't get any results.

"Why? Why exactly?"

Qi let out a sigh and ran his fingers through his hair in annoyance.

The stone slab lying flat on his knees did not move, and the eyeballs turned and stared at him.

"What do you want in order to talk to me?"

Qi held the edge of the stone slab tightly with both hands and gritted his teeth and said, "Didn't you ask me for help at the beginning? Why are you ignoring me now?"

Perhaps because he was too excited, he was not paying attention and accidentally chipped off a finger-sized piece from the edge of the stone slab!

"!!!"

Qi was shocked and his heart sank.

In the past six months, he had been extremely careful with this slate, not daring to let it get even slightly bumped. Who would have known that he could break off a piece of it in a moment of excitement? !

But just when he was panicking and didn't know what to do, the eyeballs started rolling wildly.

At the same time, a voice finally sounded in Qi's heart.

"Eat...eat...I...eat..."

The sound only lasted a short while before disappearing again. But it was enough.

Qi's eyes instantly widened into a big circle, filled with joy!
He once cultivated to a very high level. Even though he has lost all his cultivation now, he still has enough confidence in his senses. He is very sure that he really heard it!

"You want me to...eat you?!"

He asked between gasps.

But the eyeballs on the stone slab just rolled wildly and there was no response for the time being.

Kai took a deep breath.

After waiting for so long, he finally got a response. He will not be entangled or hesitate anymore.

This is the only way.

The next moment, he had stuffed the small piece of stone slab he had just broken off into his mouth.

This should have been hard gravel, but it didn't hurt my teeth at all. It even felt a bit like meat... very tough meat.

The texture and taste are not good, but it is probably not edible.

The most important thing is that after eating this small piece of stone, the voice in Qi's heart sounded again!

"Yes...I ate it..."

This time, the sound was much clearer.

Qi smiled.

Finally, finally found it.

This is the way to communicate with Him.

This is the way to save Him.

Let Him merge with yourself and become one with yourself.

He used his strength to break off pieces of gravel and threw them into his mouth.

As he chewed, blood began to flow from his mouth. He didn't know whether the blood was his own or came from the "gravel".

He ate very quickly and fiercely, and soon he reached the core, the eyeball rooted in the stone slab, with blood vessels and tendons. Qi dug it out and stuffed the whole thing into his mouth.

Tick-tick. Tick-tick.

The blood that flowed from Qi's mouth dripped onto the ground.

His own movements were frozen in place.

The moment he swallowed the eyeball, his own eyes lost their luster and turned gray.

A loud yet weak voice sounded in his mind.

"Go to a higher place... and be closer to me."

"I have a lot to say to you."

So, Qi stood up.

He started walking like a controlled puppet, then walked faster and faster until he started running.

Then, the running turned into a gallop at an extremely astonishing speed, which was even faster than that of a horse!
In the end, he even flew!
A person who had no ability to practice cultivation just flew up like that.

He flew over the mountains and forests, over the sea of ​​clouds, and finally landed on a very high mountain top.

The strong wind lifted Qi's red hair. He slowly raised his head to the sky, and the dullness and woodenness in his eyes gradually disappeared.

What replaced it was an obsession.

It seemed that what he was looking at was not the sky, but some kind of heavenly book that contained countless mysteries.

His pupils were shaking rapidly, and the huge voice in his mind was saying something at an extremely fast speed.

Before I knew it, the sun had set and night had fallen.

Under the starry sky, Qi suddenly started coughing heavily.

He came out of that mysterious state, and his body seemed to have undergone some changes. He covered his chest, half-knelt on the ground, and coughed continuously.

After a while, he sat cross-legged on the spot and closed his eyes.

There was no increase in momentum, and he did not return to practicing. Everything seemed to be unchanged.

But after a moment, he suddenly opened his eyes.

Qi looked up at the sky again, and the expression on his face changed again and again.

First there was sadness, then joy, and then slowly it turned into laughter.

"You actually responded to me! You actually responded to me!"

He seemed to have unloaded a huge burden from his heart and laughed wildly towards the sky!

"Don't worry, I will definitely save you! I definitely will! Even if I die, someone will take over my mission and lead you out of this cycle!"

(End of this chapter)