Being knocked down by the Heavenly Dao while ascending

Uncle Yu put Xiaokong on the only wooden bed in the hut and covered him with a quilt.
"It's okay, you can go back first." said Uncle Yu.

"What happened to Xiaokong?" Pei Mingyan said anxiously, "I know a little bit about medicine, but I've never seen such strange symptoms."

"He's fine. You go back first." Uncle Yu said, "I have already notified the director and Yao Huichun, they will be here soon. My room is small and cannot accommodate so many people, you go back first."

Pei Mingyan thought: This is because he is afraid that people don't know the hidden truth, so he was asked to go back three times with just two sentences. It's really ridiculous.

"But Xiaokong is my friend. He fainted at my place. I might be able to provide some useful information to the doctors. I also know a little bit about medicine. Staying here will definitely help."

Uncle Yu had an expression that said "I understand you very well" and said earnestly, "We know Xiaokong's illness very well. You go back first."

Seeing that the other party was unwilling to give in, Pei Mingyan took out the jade pendant and said, "I have this. You have to listen to me. I must stay here."

“……” Uncle Yu looked at the jade pendant, speechless for a moment.
He took a few deep breaths and suppressed his anger.

The two of them waited in the room with eyes wide open, waiting for the doctor to come. The first person to come was none other than Tang Gu.

"Xiao Kong?! Xiao Kong fainted?" Tang Gu walked into the thatched house quickly, not paying attention to the differences in her surroundings at all. "How could it happen so quickly?! Didn't Yao Huichun say last time that he was just a little weak and just needed to take good care of himself?"

Uncle Yu didn't answer immediately, but coughed a few times.

Tang Gu paused, noticing something was wrong. She turned around and saw Pei Mingyan standing on the other side of the door. She frowned and asked, "Why are you here?"

Pei Mingyan explained: "Xiao Kong fainted at my place. I wanted to carry him straight to Xinglinyuan, but when I got to the foot of the mountain, I remembered Uncle Yu and sent him here."

Tang Gu nodded, her face looking better. "Thank you very much. You can go back first, we will watch over here."

“……” Pei Mingyan had no choice but to repeat what he had just said.

So, the three of them waited there unhappily, however, Yao Huichun never showed up.
Tang Gu ran out of patience and took Xiao Kong's pulse. Her face suddenly looked bad. She was full of disbelief and murmured, "How could it be..."

Uncle Yu asked, "What's wrong?"

Tang Gu didn't answer, she was lost in thought, not knowing what she was thinking about.

Pei Mingyan noticed that Tang Gu no longer used her hands to take Xiaokong's pulse. She touched Xiaokong's wrist with her fingertips, and a green light flashed and penetrated into Xiaokong's body.
After a moment, Tang Gu turned pale and looked dazed, as if she had suffered a huge blow. "How could it be... How could it be... This is impossible... How could it be that she is at the end of her rope? Impossible, impossible..."
Tang Gu pressed her hands hard on her temples, almost losing her balance and falling backwards.

Uncle Yu supported the man, and his expression changed. He was about to speak, but then he noticed Pei Mingyan was still there, so he asked, "Has the condition changed?"

Tang Gu kept shaking her head, sweat constantly coming out of her forehead. She didn't know whether it was caused by pain or worry. "I don't know... I don't know... Find medicine to bring him back to health! Quick! Make him faster!"

Pei Mingyan had been observing the two of them. It was obvious that they were hiding something and did not tell the truth.
He added at the right time: "Why did Xiaokong suddenly become like this!?"

Tang Gu seemed to have found an outlet for her anger. She rushed over and grabbed Pei Mingyan's sleeve, asking in a hoarse voice, "Tell me! What happened? Xiao Kong was originally ill, but his condition shouldn't have suddenly deteriorated to this extent! What did you do with him?! Tell me!"

"We played with the big white goose for a while, and he said he wanted to go fishing, so I went to find materials to make a fishing net for him. When I found the materials and came back, I saw him lying on the ground unconscious." Pei Mingyan licked his lips, as if he was a little nervous. "The Mei family's main practice is still life skills, and they only have a little knowledge of medicine. I took Xiaokong's pulse and found that his blood was stagnant and his body was hardened. I have... Although I have some cultivation, it is not high enough to stabilize his blood. I had to feed him elixirs. Those are the Mei family's Dingyuan Dan, which are used to maintain his physical condition and prevent the situation from getting worse."

Tang Gu lowered her head and murmured, "The blood is stagnant... the blood is stagnant... why is the blood stagnant..."

Uncle Yu glanced at Xiao Kong's face and said to Aunt Tang, "Aunt Tang, calm down. Everything will be fine. The dean hasn't come for so long. Maybe something has happened. I'll go take a look."

Tang Gu nodded unconsciously, and a red brocade box suddenly appeared in her hand.

Pei Mingyan frowned. As soon as the box appeared, the room was filled with a strong smell of blood.
He glanced at Xiaokong and tapped his fingertips on his leg, ready to respond at any time.

Tang Gu seemed to be oblivious to the outside world. She opened the brocade box and found a red bug inside.

——Blood-nourishing Gu? !

Pei Mingyan put his hand away.

Tang Gu's lips trembled and she made a strange chirping sound. The poisonous insect in the brocade box moved, quickly crawled onto Tang Gu's fingers, and disappeared.

“……?” Pei Mingyan had a bad guess in his mind.

Sure enough, the next second, Tang Gu took out a white brocade box, which contained two white and tender larvae.
The two insects bumped their heads against each other, crawled out of the brocade box, one entered Xiaokong's body, and the other entered Tanggu's body.

A strange red color appeared on Tang Gu's face, and a scarlet line on the back of her hand became more and more obvious.

Suddenly, there seemed to be a hole on Tanggu's fingertips, and blood gushed out.

The white larva on Xiaokong's arm poked its head out, and the blood in the air seemed to be attracted and all flowed into Xiaokong's body.
His pale face gradually regained its rosy color.

Tanggu's expression gradually relaxed, and her whole body was filled with deep fatigue.
After a long time, Tang Gu stopped what she was doing, and the poisonous insects retreated and returned to the brocade box.

She wiped the sweat off her face and said to Pei Mingyan, "The situation won't get worse for now. Yao Huichun and Uncle Yu haven't come back for so long, maybe something happened to the dean. I have to go check it out. Xiao Kong is in your hands for now."

Pei Mingyan said nothing and handed her a pill to strengthen her body.

Tang Gu's lips turned pale as she took the pill and said, "Thank you."

After Tang Gu left, Pei Mingyan walked to the bedside, used his finger as a sword, and gently scratched Xiaokong's finger, then dipped his finger lightly, and the fingertips were stained with blood.

He raised his hand and sniffed. His expression suddenly changed.
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The next day, Xiaokong opened his eyes and found himself lying in Uncle Yu's house. He was at a loss, but when he saw Pei Mingyan's back, he suddenly remembered everything.

Pei Mingyan’s plan was to pretend to be sick.
In this way, it will be clear who treated him and whether the hospital owner's illness is related to him.

Xiao Kong jumped off the bed and asked quickly, "Fortune teller! How is it? Did you see it? Who is treating me? Where is Uncle Yu? Why is Uncle Yu not here?"

Pei Mingyan turned around and laughed, "Xiao Kong, you idiot! How can I treat illnesses and prescribe medicine? I was just lying to you! I gave you a 'long sleep' medicine, and you lost consciousness after taking it, and you only knew how to sleep! After I tricked Uncle Yu away, you slept peacefully here for a night. Otherwise, if you were really sick, Uncle Yu would definitely accompany you."

Xiao Kong was right when he thought about it. He was immediately furious and pointed at him: "You, you, you! You...you liar! I will never trust you again!"

Pei Mingyan raised his finger and swore, "Don't be angry, don't be angry! I swear it's all for your own good! See if you feel better after a good night's sleep. I lied to you because I saw you needed to rest."

Xiaokong moved his body around doubtfully and indeed felt much better.

Pei Mingyan stroked his hair and said, "Let's go, Uncle Yu will be back soon. If he knows that we secretly slept in his room, he will be so angry!"

Xiaokong didn't move, "I always feel like you're lying to me."

"What's the benefit of lying to you?"

Xiaokong stammered, "No..."

"That's it." He pulled Xiaokong out of the hut, "By the way, do you still have the plum cake you stole from the abbot last time?"

Xiaokong covered the small cloth bag he was carrying and looked at him cautiously, "What are you going to do?"

"What else can I ask about food? Of course I want to eat it. Do you have any more? Give me another piece!"

Xiao Kong shook his head. "No, the abbot no longer has this kind of pastry. If you want to eat it, let me ask Aunt Tang to see if she can make it for you. Now that you have the abbot's token, she should be able to make it for you."

"Made by Tang Gu?" Pei Mingyan was puzzled. "Doesn't Tang Gu only know how to cook soft-boiled eggs?"

Xiao Kong shook his head, "I've never seen Aunt Tang make this. Usually when I want to eat it and ask Aunt Tang to make it for me, she never agrees."

"You want to eat but she won't cook for you?"

Xiao Kong nodded. "This plum blossom cake is only available at the master's place. The servants there watch the cake very closely. Over the years, I have only stolen three pieces."

Pei Mingyan nodded, "I understand."

"Hmm? What do you understand?" Xiao Kong asked.

"No, nothing." Pei Mingyan smiled at him and asked, "By the way, you didn't go home to sleep all night. Where do you live? I'll take you there."

Xiaokong didn't say anything.

Pei Mingyan's smile gradually faded. "Hey! We are friends, and you don't even bring your friends to see where you live!"

Xiaokong looked a little embarrassed, "I...I don't usually live here."

Pei Mingyan pretended to be angry, ignored him, and went straight up the mountain.

Xiaokong caught up with him and held him back, explaining, "I live on the main peak. There is a big waterfall on the back of the main peak, and my house is there."

"Fall?"

Xiao Kong nodded. "When I was a child, the dean picked me up and kept shouting that I wanted to see the sea. The dean had no choice but to take me to the waterfall and set up a formation so that I could see the sea. Only then did I stop making trouble. Later, when I grew up, the dean apologized to me and said that it was just a waterfall and there was no sea near Yongshan. He was just lying to me. Now that I have lived there for a long time, I have always lived there."

There was nothing Pei Mingyan didn't understand.
Xiaokong's special status, his residence near the main peak, and even his occasional illnesses, were all due to the same reason - Xue Qingyu, the dean of Yongshan Academy.

The reason why Xiaokong has a name in the book is the same, because because of him, there can be a dean.

"The main peak? That's too far. I won't go there. You go back by yourself. I'll go back and rest first." Pei Mingyan answered him.

Xiao Kong looked at him with disdain, "How can you go back on your word?"
After he said that, he went to the main peak angrily.
Pei Mingyan, who was supposed to return to Zhulixing, followed Xiaokong all the way to the main peak.
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The foot of the main peak was not much different from other places in the academy. Unlike what Pei Mingyan had imagined, the main peak was a towering cliff surrounded by steep cliffs. At the foot of the mountain, the water rushing down from the waterfall formed a small river under the main peak, surrounding the main peak, just like a "peak protection river".

He didn't see any guards along the way, as if the entire Yongshan Academy was really just an academy, like a small village, and there was no danger at all.

And behind the main peak is the big waterfall that Xiaokong mentioned.

There are layers of formations surrounding the main peak, and there is no way to climb up the cliffs on all sides. There is a no-fly formation one meter above your head, so you will be detected immediately if you fly.
There is a small boat on the cliff, which should be the special boat used for flying. There is a melodious sound of piano coming down from above. If you listen to it for a long time, your thoughts will be confused and you will forget things.

Pei Mingyan looked at it for a while, turned around and was about to leave. Then, he took out the jade pendant for some reason.
The small boat on the cliff seemed to be summoned and soon disappeared.

Pei Mingyan immediately moved to the back of the cliff, and sure enough, he saw a small boat going down the waterfall and landing in the river below, waiting for him to get on.

Pei Mingyan stood beside the waterfall, looking at the small house not far from the waterfall.
The house was built simply, with many fishing nets hanging on it, and there was even a small beach outside the yard.

He stood outside the window and looked inside. The usually noisy Xiaokong was now sitting at a small square table, holding a brush and writing something on a book. After a while, Xiaokong walked behind the door with the book in his arms. There was a pair of long shoes there. Xiaokong rolled up the book and stuffed it into the shoes.
"From now on, I'll leave it to you to remember the things I can't remember."

After listening to this, Pei Mingyan left silently, stood in front of the waterfall for a while, and then got on the small boat.

The small boat floated on the water, going upstream, and reached the top of the cliff in a short while.

The top of the cliff was empty except for a small pavilion.

Uncle Yu had been standing here waiting for him for a long time.
Seeing him coming up, he didn't even say anything else, just said: "The dean wants to see you."

“……”So everything was within the dean’s expectations?
He walked behind Uncle Yu.

Uncle Yu was silent all the way. After walking for a long time, he suddenly asked, "You really didn't know the abbot before?"

Why is this the question again?
"I don't know him." Pei Mingyan said affirmatively.

Uncle Yu didn't ask any more questions and just said, "Thank you for keeping Xiaokong's matter a secret."

Pei Mingyan smiled, "No need to thank me, I just... don't want Xiaokong to be disappointed."

Uncle Yu nodded. "All the guqins around here are the incarnations of the academy's master. I know that you have been observing the people in the academy and even testing them. You guessed right. The people in the academy have indeed been influenced by the academy's spiritual suggestion."

Pei Mingyan looked at Uncle Yu, "Why are you suddenly telling me this?"

Uncle Yu looked away and said, "The dean has chosen you. You don't need to ask for anything else. You will know everything in the future."

“……”I hate this kind of ambiguous words the most.

"Everyone knows that Yongshan Academy never recruits disciples." Uncle Yu said, "Then do you know where the people in the academy come from?"

Pei Mingyan recalled, "Did it fall down?"

Uncle Yu nodded, "Not far off. Aunt Tang should have told you that the academy doesn't care about origins or distinguish between good and bad. This has never been a joke. The academy is full of hidden talents and there are almost no constraints between them. You must have wondered why such people would gather in the academy and why there is almost no fighting between them."

Pei Mingyan answered him: "I have indeed thought about this issue. The Academy is a sect after all, but it is full of contradictions. To promote equal rights in a sect, I don't know whether to say that the dean is too careless or that he doesn't care at all. Without the cohesion of power change, everyone will do their own thing, and it won't be long before the Academy will perish."

Uncle Yu nodded, "That's right. But the academy still survived."

However, the family was about to be wiped out soon.
"But later I no longer doubted it. Tang Gu and the people in the academy would become fanatically paranoid when they mentioned the dean. This emotion was too abnormal. I guess it was mental suggestion. However, there are at least a thousand people in the academy. Suggesting so many people at the same time is almost equivalent to constantly fighting with the thoughts of these thousand people. No wonder he always gets sick."

"The abbot...is a good man." Uncle Yu answered him.

"Xiao Kong also said this." Pei Mingyan said sarcastically, "What's the result? Xiao Kong is just the dean's medicine."

"You really do know."

Pei Mingyan said: "There should be a few people in the academy who have not been spiritually suggested by the dean. One is you, and the other is Xiaokong. You should be the dean's confidant, and you don't need to control him. Xiaokong is different from you. For some reason, he has not been spiritually suggested, so you have to constantly strengthen his trust and feelings for the dean. You tell Xiaokong that the dean will come to see him when he is sick. The fact is that it is because the dean is sick that Xiaokong becomes sick. You took Xiaokong's blood to make medicine, just to treat your great dean."

Uncle Yu did not refute directly, "The people in the academy were all willing to be mentally suggested by the dean. Most of them had no desire to live and were saved by the dean when they were on the verge of suicide." Uncle Yu paused and said, "Only Xiaokong is an exception."

Pei Mingyan's face changed suddenly.

Uncle Yu nodded at him, confirming his guess.
"It is because the abbot feels guilty towards Xiaokong that he is unwilling to give Xiaokong mental hints."

"You guys are awesome." Pei Mingyan said with a smile, "You're the one who saves people, you're the one who hurts people, you're the one who exploits people, and you're the one who deceives people."

Uncle Yu didn't say anything else and just took him into the pavilion.

The pavilion has four corners, and there is a zither placed in each direction, which forms a "M" shape with the zithers in the four directions outside the pavilion, including east, south, west, north, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, and all eight directions are complete.

The pavilion was not luxurious, with gauze curtains covering all sides. There was a piano table in the middle of the pavilion, and other than that, there was only a couch.

At this moment, Tang Gu was kneeling beside the couch, and an old man with a white beard was bleeding the person on the couch.
Blood dripped onto the ground.

This sound reminded Pei Mingyan of the strange sound of dripping water in his dream.

Seeing someone coming in, Tang Gu whispered, "Master, Pei Mingyan is here."

The person on the couch moved his eyelids, but ultimately did not open his eyes.

The old man with white beard shook his head.

Tang Gu then stopped talking, and Yu Shu reached out and took Pei Mingyan's hand and was about to leave.

Pei Mingyan suddenly said, "I know a little bit about medicine, and I'm from the Mei family. I specialize in fortune-telling. Maybe I can help him."

Yao Huichun looked at Uncle Yu, and Uncle Yu nodded.

Pei Mingyan got consent and went forward to treat the unknown Dean Xue Qingyu.
He didn't even get started and could see the crux of the problem at a glance.

This abbot should have been dead.
It was trying to stay alive in some way. He took a look at the bloodstains on the ground that were gradually becoming transparent, and immediately understood.

Xiaokong has a special physique, or he is some kind of rare treasure, which can strengthen the connection between the soul and the body and maintain the body's vitality.
When the dean is awake, he relies on his own powerful cultivation to stabilize his soul and body.

However, the dean was destined to be a hard worker. He had to fight with the minds of thousands of people in the academy at the same time, suppressing their original thoughts of suicide and changing their minds. This put too much pressure on the soul. Every once in a while, he would faint. At this time, the dean's body would be disconnected from the soul.
Once the soul is separated from the body, the physical body will fall apart, and the soul without the physical body will soon dissipate.

At this time, Xiaokong's blood is needed as a stabilizer. And plum cake is a kind of cake that can relieve the pain of the hospital owner after adding Xiaokong's blood.

The solution is difficult to say, but also not difficult.

Pei Mingyan sighed. He probably knew why Xiaokong and Uncle Yu, the two people who had not been brainwashed, always swore that the dean was a good person.

He is truly a rare good person, the kind that is willing to risk his life for the better.
For an unknown reason, he took on the suffering of thousands of people and created new, non-fatal paranoia for them, which made it easier to manage them and allowed these thousands of people to survive.

Apart from the fact that he had to use Xiaokong's blood to stay alive when he was on the verge of death, there was nothing else to complain about.

He came to solve Xiaokong's troubles, so naturally he had to solve the dean's problem from the root.

He had actually studied this problem. After all, he was a transmigrated soul, and he was also worried that one day the owner of this body would come back and kick him to the foot of some unknown mountain.
Therefore, the dean's problem was not a problem for him.

"I have a general understanding of his problem. We can give it a try," said Pei Mingyan.

Tang Gu looked up in surprise, "Can you really save the dean?"

"…" Save the dean. You overestimate me. Heaven will definitely make him die. If I save him, I might die first.
"I can't say I can save him, but it's not that difficult to stabilize his soul. The Mei family studies the art of life and knows the future based on the theory of life. Their research on soul consciousness is indeed more in-depth. The person with the highest level of cultivation in the Mei family is Young Master Mei. If we can find his help, it won't be difficult to solve the problem. However, Young Master Mei was seriously injured and unconscious after the last ascension failure. I think he is unable to help. Although I have learned the art of life of the Mei family, my cultivation is not superb. I can't say how long it will take, but it will not be a problem to stabilize it for one or two years."
It's good that he can stay here for a year.

"Sure! As long as it's stable, Xiaokong's body has been unable to hold on for so many years. It would be great if there were other ways now!" Tang Gu said sincerely.

Yao Huichun was skeptical, "Are you the one who came to the academy to get treated for injuries a few days ago?"

Pei Mingyan looked at him and nodded.

"Who is Pang Yuan to you?" Yao Huichun asked.

"..."
Pei Mingyan pursed his lips, "I don't know him."

"Don't know him? Don't you know that Pang Yuan cares about you so much? He repeatedly told several disciples to take good care of you, and even wanted to take you away from the academy. If I hadn't used your coma as an excuse, he would have taken you away from the academy anyway." Yao Huichun said, "Do you think this behavior looks like not knowing him?"

"Maybe I look good to him." Pei Mingyan smiled and looked at the person on the couch. "I don't think it's strange. There are quite a lot of people like this in your academy, don't you think?"

Uncle Yu and Aunt Tang both avoided his sight.

Yao Huichun was choked. "You! How dare you! No matter what the reason is, the importance of soul consciousness is self-evident. Even if you have the mark of the dean, I cannot let you touch the dean easily."

Pei Mingyan looked indifferent when he heard this, "It's nothing to me. I'm not the one who's going to die anyway."

When Tanggu and Yushu heard these words, their faces changed immediately.

Pei Mingyan was worried that he would anger everyone and end up making things worse, so he took out the jade pendant and said, "This thing was given to me by your dean. It should be usable, right? I was wondering why your dean gave me this jade pendant because he couldn't figure it out. Now I understand. It's because I'm an upright person and I won't stand by and watch someone die. He gave me the jade pendant just to prevent you from doing this."

Yao Huichun was so angry that he couldn't speak and kept blowing his beard.

Uncle Yu stepped forward to mediate the fight. He patted Pei Mingyan on the shoulder and said, "Stop talking. Go now."

Pei Mingyan touched Xue Qingyu's arm. It felt like jade, but it was not warm jade. It was icy cold and there was not a trace of the feeling of a living person.
After investigating, he found that the abbot's problem was much more serious than what he had just seen with his naked eyes.
The abbot's soul consciousness is incomplete, and the eight pianos around him all have the aura of the abbot's soul consciousness.

No wonder, up to now, Tang Gu's obsession with the dean has not diminished, which is enough to show that the dean has never relaxed for a moment.

It is not difficult to stabilize the soul and body. With the help of the Mei family's life technique, one can strengthen the connection between the body and the soul.

But... he couldn't solve the problem once and for all. He could only help the dean recover a little bit, otherwise it would only be a matter of time before his identity was exposed.

In order to conceal his tracks, Pei Mingyan took out a white porcelain bottle, took out a pill and placed it near Xue Qingyu's mouth.
The pill disappeared as soon as it touched the lips and was quickly absorbed.

Pei Mingyan pulled off half of his hair and drew a talisman on it with his right hand. A golden light flashed on his hair. He tied the hair to Xue Qingyu's little finger, and soon, the hair disappeared.

Xue Qingyu's chest began to rise and fall gradually.

Yao Huichun had been staring at him. When he saw the dean's reaction, his eyes lit up, "The Mei family... they are indeed worthy of being the Mei family!"

“……”No, you should praise me.

Suddenly, the sound of piano outside the pavilion became louder and Uncle Yu rushed out of the pavilion.
Tang Gu and Yao Huichun immediately stepped in front of Xue Qingyu.

Pei Mingyan followed him out of the pavilion and saw two people standing outside.

The two men looked extremely embarrassed, but Pei Mingyan recognized one of them at a glance: it was Pang Yuan.

(End of this chapter)