Lingxu, Sword Coffin, Blind Swordsman

Li Guanqi stood carefully outside the tattered fence, gently knocking on the wood.

Tap, tap, tap.

The woman in the house turned her head blankly, seeing a blind man in a white robe standing at the door.

His black hair was slightly pulled up, with locks hanging down his shoulders.

The handsome young man stood at the door with a warm smile, his temperament out of tune with the surrounding dilapidated village.

His ethereal aura was like that of an immortal descended from the heavens.

The woman was stunned. Seeing that Li Guanqi hadn't left, she confirmed that he had come to find them.

The boy on the earthen bed laboriously turned his head to look outside.

Through the dark room, the white-clothed youth in the setting sun was so unreal.

The woman wiped the tears from her eyes, her eyes swollen as she got up and walked out of the house, standing at the door and cautiously asking.

"You are... here to see us?"

Li Guanqi smiled and nodded, his eyes looking at the little boy in the room with a strange expression.

"My name is Li Guanqi. May I come in and talk?"

Creak!

The door of the neighboring house opened, and a plump woman came out carrying a slop bucket, looking at Li Guanqi with surprise.

Seeing Li Guanqi's extraordinary clothes, she smiled at the woman and said.

"Sister-in-law Chen, who is this?"

The woman was flustered upon hearing this, and unconsciously tightened her grip on the corner of her clothes.

Li Guanqi spoke up to ease the situation, "I am a distant relative of sister-in-law."

The woman nodded in a bit of a panic, not daring to say much.

The woman heard this and a strange smile appeared on her face, glancing at the woman and nodding with a smile.

"Ah... a distant relative, I was wondering why I've never seen him before."

"Haha, then you guys chat, you guys chat."

Li Guanqi looked at the woman beside him with a calm expression and said softly, "Sister-in-law, let's go inside."

The woman nodded quickly, leading Li Guanqi towards the house.

The woman looked back at Li Guanqi's back every few steps, picked up the slop bucket and sprinkled it on the side of the road.

Shaking her head, she muttered very meanly, "A distant relative? How could she, in her poor state, have such a relative?"

"I'm afraid she's up to something shady, right?"

Just as Li Guanqi stepped into the door, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he gently hooked his finger!

The woman by the roadside suddenly frowned, clutching her neck, "Ouch, why does my throat suddenly hurt so much?"

"No, I have to go to Doctor Li to have him take a look."

As soon as he walked into the room, he was met with a pungent smell of dampness and fishiness.

The dampness was because the house was badly damaged and didn't provide shelter from the wind and rain. Over time, it would naturally have some smell.

However, this smell did not make him feel uncomfortable at all, but rather a strange sense of familiarity and peace of mind.

As for the fishy smell, it came from the fleshy growth on the boy's neck.

The woman looked at Li Guanqi very restrainedly. There was no light in the dark room, just like the lives of the mother and son.

He saw that black energy had already appeared between the woman's eyebrows, and her vitality was weak, obviously she would not live long.

But the little boy on the bed had a dark complexion, obviously not as good as the woman.

The woman looked around, and finally picked up the clothes next to her and put them on the bed, saying a little embarrassedly.

"My home is poor, I'm sorry to have made you laugh."

Li Guanqi reached out and picked up the clothes and put them on the boy, sitting on the earthen bed full of dust without caring.

The boy looked at Li Guanqi with extremely excited eyes, his eyes clear and bright.

Li Guanqi said with a smile, "Sit, don't be so restrained."

The woman slowly sat on the wooden stool next to her, holding her knees with her hands, not knowing what to say.

Seeing this, Li Guanqi took the lead and said, "Don't be nervous, I don't have any malice towards you."

"If... possible, would it be convenient to talk about your family's affairs?"

The woman's expression softened slightly upon hearing this, not as restrained as at the beginning.

She looked up at Li Guanqi and said softly.

"My name is Xu Jinglan, and my child is seven years old, named Chen Xiaotian."

"As you can see, there are only the two of us in the family. His father died early... and we, mother and son, depend on each other for life."

At this point, tears couldn't help but slide down Xu Jinglan's swollen eyes, and she raised her hand to wipe away her tears.

She turned to look at the boy on the bed and said in a choked voice, "This child... has a hard life..."

"He hasn't enjoyed any blessings since he was born."

"God has no eyes... I am seriously ill, I'm afraid... I won't live long."

"I'm just crying for my son... he's only seven years old!!"

"I have suffered all kinds of hardships for so many years, but I never thought... that in the end, I would let my son suffer so much pain."

As she spoke, the woman's tears poured out like a flood, holding the boy's hand and sobbing on the edge of the bed.

Li Guanqi's throat moved slightly, and he couldn't help but close his eyes, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Rope breaks at the thinnest point, and misfortune finds the miserable."

"Chen Xiaotian..."

Thinking of the thoughts he had heard before.

"Worthy of his name!"

Li Guanqi looked at the little boy and found that he was looking at him.

Before Li Guanqi could speak, the little boy asked timidly.

"Are you an immortal?"

Li Guanqi hesitated for a moment, but nodded, took his hand and said softly.

"Yes, and also the kind of very powerful immortal."

Xu Jinglan was shocked when she heard this, and then her eyes were filled with hope.

She got up from the stool without hesitation, and knelt on the ground with a thud.

Regardless of the hard and protruding stones on the ground, she started kowtowing!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The woman's forehead oozed blood when she kowtowed for the first time, but she still didn't care, letting her hair become messy.

The woman bit her lip tightly, she knew that this might be the only chance to save her son!!

The boy looked at his mother with tears in his eyes, and called out softly, "Mom..."

Li Guanqi didn't stop the mother, but gently raised his hand after she kowtowed three times.

Then the woman was lifted up by an invisible force.

He glanced at the woman's torn forehead, sighed, and a flash of inspiration passed over the woman's forehead, and the wound healed instantly, leaving only a few traces of blood.

The woman's eyes showed surprise, and her joy was beyond words.

She looked at Li Guanqi excitedly, and did not get up for a long time, but said in a pleading voice.

"Immortal!! Immortal... I... I beg you... please save my son."

"As long as you can save him, I will be your slave in this life, the next life, and the next life!"

Li Guanqi just raised his hand slightly when he heard this, and said softly.

"There's no need to be a slave, I will save Chen Xiaotian."

Chen Xiaotian asked with bright eyes when he heard this, "Can the immortal really save me?"

"Then... then do you need money?"

"I... my family... has no money."

"If you don't need money, I can do anything to repay you in the future."

Li Guanqi's breathing stagnated when he heard this. Such a young child knows so many principles.

But such understanding is inevitably a bit distressing.