Being knocked down by the Heavenly Dao while ascending

Pei Mingyan followed Xiaokong's movements to drag him out of the cave.

Xiaokong was gasping for breath as if he was suffocating.

Pei Mingyan helped him calm down with one hand, but turned back to stare into the cave.
The strange man in the cave disappeared, as if he wanted to see him on purpose.

Xiaokong recovered and kept looking towards the cave entrance with a vigilant look. He dragged Pei Mingyan and ran towards the narrow path.
Pei Mingyan hurriedly grabbed the man, "Hey, hey, hey! Wait, let's fly." You are so nervous and flustered, aren't you afraid of falling?
He shook out a whistle from his sleeve and explained to Xiaokong: "This was given to me by the medicine manager. He said that if I have an emergency, I can blow it and the spirit deer in their courtyard will come to pick me up." He turned the whistle in his hand twice and complained: "It's because we in Zhulixing have poor treatment and can only walk everywhere."

Little Air glared at him fiercely.

He made a face at Xiaokong and said, "This is all for your dean's own good. If he suddenly dies, I'll be able to catch him being buried when I slowly rush over. You don't want that, do you?"
"You're talking nonsense! You want to get a ride on the Linglu car!" Xiao Kong cursed as his tense body gradually relaxed.

Pei Mingyan's eyebrows softened, "Shh! Just keep it to yourself, don't tell Tanggu."
Xiao Kong looked puzzled, looking Pei Mingyan up and down, as if he was looking at some new species, "How can there be someone as shameless as you in this world!"
"I'm ugly, so what difference does it make whether I have shame or not?" Pei Mingyan gave him a bright smile.
Xiao Kong had a look of disgust on his face, but he still held Pei Mingyan's sleeve tightly and refused to let go. He even moved his body and stood behind Pei Mingyan.

The spirit deer carriage arrived quickly. Xiao Kong pushed Pei Mingyan on in a hurry, but suddenly pulled him down.
Now it was Pei Mingyan's turn to be puzzled, "What's wrong?"
Xiao Kong pointed at the Linglu car and said, "Isn't this the medicine manager's precious car? Why would he come to pick you up?"
The spirit deer seemed to see Xiaokong’s gesture and called out “yo yo” twice.
Xiao Kong retracted his hand and explained to Linglu in a low voice: "I didn't scold you or say anything about you."

Pei Mingyan glanced at Xiaokong who was talking to the deer, and became more and more convinced that Xiaokong might be able to speak animal language.

He looked at the spirit deer carriage. He had not noticed it before, but now he saw that it was a little different from the one they rode last time.
As for the spirit deer, it was of a better grade and would probably run faster. The decoration on the car was also different, at least the roof looked more upscale than the last time, the wood was so smooth and shiny that it almost caught up with the surface of pearls.
The only difference is the color of the yarn, which is the grading system of Xinglinyuan.

Pei Mingyan pretended to be ignorant, "There's no name on this car, how do you know it belongs to the pharmacy manager?"

Xiao Kongshou hid his hands behind his back and raised his chin to let Pei Mingyan look at the car. "That white gauze, only the medicine manager in Xinglin Court wears white, and everyone else wears various shades of red... It's ugly."
"Hmm... that pink gauze car last time was really ugly. I thought it was from My Little Pony."

"...I don't understand what you're saying." Xiao Kong looked at the car and said, "Xinglinyuan is convenient for travel, but their grades are ranked according to medical skills. Even if you go there, you can only wear red and use the shared Linglu Cart. You're there for a short time, so you won't have the chance to use it."
Xiao Kong looked back at the cave, pushed Pei Mingyan into the cart, and climbed up again. "The medicine manager is being nice to you now because you can help the dean temporarily. Um... remember to hide the method to save the dean, don't let him trick you."

Pei Mingyan saw through what Xiao Kong was going to say at a glance, "Don't worry! I will definitely listen to what Big Brother Kong Kong says! I will just chop wood in the bamboo forest with peace of mind!"

Xiao Kong muttered, "You just like to be lazy." As he spoke, he had already taken the initiative in driving and explained to Pei Mingyan, "The cave is very strange. Let's go find the abbot."

Pei Mingyan didn't expect Xiaokong to still care about this matter. He asked: "What's wrong? Do you know him?"

Xiaokong obviously didn't want to elaborate, "I don't know him."

"I don't know you. What do you mean by 'it's him, it's him'?"

Xiaokong turned his back and said nothing.

Pei Mingyan stopped asking and asked Xue Qingyu who was resting in his head: "Brother, it's your turn to explain it?"

Xue Qingyu sat in his sea of ​​consciousness with his eyes closed, like an old monk in meditation, and did not respond for a long time.
Pei Mingyan was wondering whether he should create a tornado in his sea of ​​consciousness to make him happy and have a "brain storm".
Xue Qingyu slowly opened his eyes, as if staring at him, "I also saw the scene just now." He paused and lowered his eyes, "This is a long story."

"Look, I'm on my way to you at full speed. I don't have that much time. Just keep your words short!"

"Xiaokong should have told you about his childhood."
Xue Qingyu is not an impatient person and speaks slowly and gently.
Pei Mingyan had no doubt that even if the sky fell and was only one millimeter away from him, if this man was drinking tea, he would never drink a sip more or less.

"I've said it before." Pei Mingyan responded dully.
At this rate, when will they get to the point? Can he take a nap first?

"I have always suspected that Xiaokong is not human." Xue Qingyu straightened his clothes and paced in his sea of ​​consciousness, "But I have never found any evidence. I have read all the books in the academy, but I have not found any relevant information."

Pei Mingyan was startled and immediately became energetic.

"Now that I have your array talisman to suppress me, I no longer need to rely on Xiaokong's blood to maintain my health. Over the past few days, his blood has gradually left my body." Xue Qingyu paused, "There is a problem that has troubled me for a long time, Xiaokong's blood."

Pei Mingyan thought of the blood that Xue Qingyu coughed up. After the blood left the body, it quickly turned colorless.
"The color of blood?"

Xue Qingyu nodded solemnly, "All along, the blood has been gradually fading until it became transparent. Everyone, including me, believed that this was because the substance in the blood that was truly effective in treating the disease had been absorbed, but..."

"But ever since I formed the array with my hair, you coughed up blood on purpose. That blood has never been absorbed."

Xue Qingyu's eyebrows curved, "You really know it."

"nonsense."

"Even so, once the blood leaves my body, it immediately becomes transparent and colorless." Xue Qingyu thought for a while, "Maybe Xiaokong's blood is colorless. It's just that he unconsciously disguised himself as a human, so the blood has color. And once the blood leaves him for too long, it will return to its original state. Of course, this is just my guess."

Pei Mingyan secretly noted it down, and couldn't help but think of Xiaokong's possibility of speaking animal language. He looked at Xue Qingyu, wondering whether he should exchange the information.

Then I heard the other party say: "I brought Xiaokong back from a small fishing village by the sea. The 'master' asked me to go to that place at that time. When I arrived, the surroundings were flattened by the waves, and there was only a child sitting on the beach. I followed the 'master's' instructions and brought him back. At that time, Xiaokong was still very small. He always made a fuss about wanting to see the sea, but there was no sea near the academy, so I had no choice but to find Minghai Beast."

Mingkaimon.
A giant turtle-like beast with a huge body and a shell for protection. It ignores almost all physical attacks. There are two ways to defeat it: attack its eyes or invade its spiritual world.

To put it bluntly, you either hit it in the eyes or attack it mentally.
But if you attack it mentally, it is a master at mental attacks and you may not win. It would be more fun to hit its eyes, because it will rarely open its eyes in its entire life.

The good thing is that this spirit beast will not actively attack people. The bad thing is that wherever it is, there is a sea, and this sea is like weak water, nothing can pass through the sea surface, no matter whether it is dead or alive.

This Xue Qingyu is no simple person. He was a master more than ten years ago, but he is still controlled by his "master". Who is this master?
Why is there no clue in the book?

Pei Mingyan laughed and said, "Brother, you should be honest. What you said doesn't match what Xiaokong said." Xue Qingyu didn't get angry, he just smiled and said, "You will understand after reading this."

Xue Qingyu suddenly squatted down and touched the "ground" with his hand, and the empty sea of ​​consciousness began to replay like a movie.

on the screen.
Xiaokong was a tiny kid, walking barefoot on the beach, carrying a fishing net on his back and holding a fish basket in his hand to pick up shells and conchs. From time to time, he turned back and waved to Dean Xue, who was still a young man, with a bright smile that made people feel warm from the heart.
In the distance, Mingkaimon was sinking in the sea with his eyes closed, like an isolated island.

The more Pei Mingyan looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong. "This isn't right. Wherever the Minghai beast is, there is the sea. This is true, but that water doesn't produce any marine life at all. It's just dead water. Where do the shells come from?"

Xue Qingyu nodded, "At that time, I had just come out of Fuyuan Tianqian, and had just experienced something big, but I was young and ignorant, so I didn't notice anything strange. So when I was busy, I let Xiaokong play alone."

Pei Mingyan frowned, "Then Mr. Wu showed up?"

"Hmm." Xue Qingyu's mind turned, and he saw that the entire sea of ​​consciousness was dark and there was nothing. "This is the memory of Minghai Beast."

As soon as he finished speaking, a small flame slowly appeared in his sea of ​​consciousness. The flame was just a tiny dot at first, then slowly grew bigger, and finally became like an ever-burning candle, dispelling the darkness.
Mingkaimon called out, as if greeting Little Flame.

Then, an inexplicable force enveloped the entire small flame, protecting it tightly.
From time to time, Minghaimon would call out a few times, and the small flame would flicker a few times, as if it was talking to it.

A feeling of emptiness and loneliness arises spontaneously.
Pei Mingyan felt his nose sour as he watched. He secretly scolded himself for being hypocritical and said jokingly, "This Minghai beast has deep feelings for you, so you just throw it away to show you the back door."
"It likes it there," said Xue Qingyu.

The sea of ​​consciousness suddenly shook, and the Minghai beast called out to the small flame anxiously, and the small flame began to tremble.

A beam of spotlight pierced in!
It was Mingkaimon who opened his eyes.

The eyes seemed to be in sync with Mingkaimon. Mingkaimon's eyes had not seen sunlight for years, and the sudden light made it almost unable to open them. Then, its eyes were stained with weak water, which slid down the corners of its eyes like bursts of tears.

Minghaimon gradually floated up and could see the scene on the beach clearly.

I saw a man in black grabbing Xiaokong's arm excitedly and shouting something.

Pei Mingyan frowned and asked, "Can Minghai Beast hear any sound?"

“Its world is devoid of sound.”

Xiao Kong's fish basket had been thrown away long ago, and shells and conchs were scattered all over the ground. He kept pushing the man, but the man pinched his arm and spoke to him anxiously.

During the struggle, the man's face was exposed to Mingkaimon's sight - the place where the face should have been was a bloody mess, his eyebrows and eyelids were gone, the bridge of his nose stuck out on his face, abrupt and terrifying, and his lips were gone.
Only his eyes still looked human, but his expression was so agitated at the moment, as if he was crazy, and the whites of his eyes were turning red, which made him even more terrifying.

Xiao Kong was so frightened by the flesh paste that couldn't even be called a face that he almost fainted. He just kept shouting and struggling.

Mingkaimon began to cry out.

The spiritual power carried the weak water towards the coast, and the mental attack from the chirping sound took effect first, and the man fell to the ground holding his head.

Ruoshui rolled up the unconscious Xiaokong, forming a spherical protective circle and flew towards Ruoshui.
Mingkaimon sank a little, carefully letting Xiaokong lie safely on its back, and then it floated up a little.

The man on the shore shouted curses at the Mingkai beast.

Mingkaimon couldn't hear it, so it closed its eyes.
A small umbrella appeared on his back and was held above Xiaokong to block the sun for him.

Although Pei Mingyan could not hear and was not proficient in lip reading, he understood two words, one was "Xiaokong" and the other was "beast".

Xue Qingyu smiled and said, "This is the umbrella Xiaokong gave you."

The memory of Minghai Beast faded away, and Pei Mingyan's sea of ​​consciousness became desolate again.

"When I arrived, the man had already disappeared. After sharing the memories of Mingkaimon, I have been looking for this person in the academy, but there has been no trace of him."

Pei Mingyan also smiled, "Your reaction just now was very cold, you didn't seem like you were looking for trouble."

“Impulsiveness doesn’t solve problems.”
Xue Qingyu paused for a while, "Besides, if he shows up now... it will be bad for the relationship between me and Xiaokong."

Pei Mingyan was originally lazy and carefree, but upon hearing this he keenly sensed something was wrong.
This may be the reason why there is no Protector Murong in the book.
He asked tentatively: "Why? Are you going to kill him for Xiaokong's sake?"

"Revenge?" Xue Qingyu was startled, then suddenly burst into laughter, "It turns out that Young Master Mei is not omniscient and omnipotent."

He smiled for a long time, and only lowered his eyes when his smile became stiff, as if he didn't want to face it, and said word by word:
"He held onto Xiaokong's arm and kept yelling, 'Run! Run!'"

Xue Qingyu looked at the void and said to Pei Mingyan: "He knows the master's plan. He is here to save Xiaokong."

(End of this chapter)