Chapter 28: Walking in the Darkness without Light
On this day, Ting Yu, who had grown up living in the purple earth and had a hard time knowing the hardships of the world, had a dream.
In the dream, Chen Feiyuan was being mean and making things difficult for Xu Qing, and she was very angry.
Until early in the morning, Ting Yu who woke up from her dream, her mood was a little different from the past, and after arriving at Grandmaster Park's tent, she was a little distracted as she sat there reciting the medicinal codex, and from time to time, she raised her head to look outside the tent.
Until she saw ...... Chen Feiyuan.
Ting Yu's eyelids rolled, remembering yesterday's dream.
Chen Feiyuan snorted, rubbed his eyes and lifted the tent, a buttock was about to sit beside Tingyu, the next moment the futon was moved away directly by Tingyu.
Chen Feiyuan froze and looked at Ting Yu.
"What are you doing?"
"You sit there." Ting Yu was too lazy to pay attention to Chen Feiyuan, and pointed to where Xu Qingping was sitting on a regular day.
"By what right!" Chen Feiyuan instantly quit, his eyes widening.
"Just on the basis that you don't study hard, on the basis that you've been taking a lot of vacations during this period of time, I'm annoyed that you're sitting here, is that enough?"
Ting Yu's almond eyes glared, her speech was very fast, hearing Chen Fei Yuan froze there once again, after a long time muttering a few words, seemingly a little afraid to provoke the other party, sitting at Xu Qing's seat with depression.
"Alas, Tingyu you ......" After sitting down, Chen Feiyuan just opened his mouth, did not wait to finish, Tingyu there eyes showed ill will.
"Do not say ugh this word, be heard, misunderstanding how to do."
"Ah? Alas this word how?" When Chen Feiyuan was at a loss, the door of the tent was opened and Xu Qing walked in.
Seeing Xu Qing, two shallow dimples surfaced on Ting Yu's face, revealing a smile as she patted the futon beside her that originally belonged to Chen Feiyuan.
"Junior brother, you sit here."
Xu Qing was stunned, and Chen Feiyuan froze for a moment.
"What are you still waiting for, teacher is coming, come over here." Tingyu urged.
Xu Qing was a little hesitant, looking at Ting Yu, and then at Chen Feiyuan who was sitting in his seat, frozen there.
At this moment, it was indeed the time that Master Park was going to come, so Xu Qing could only walk over to Ting Yu's side and sit in the position that used to belong to Chen Feiyuan.
Chen Feiyuan's entire being was dumbfounded, and as soon as he pointed at Xu Qing and was about to open his mouth, Ting Yu turned her head and glared at him fiercely.
"Shut up!"
"I haven't spoken yet." Chen Feiyuan was about to cry, he felt that it was unfair, and was just about to continue speaking when the tent door opened and Grandmaster Park walked in.
Chen Feiyuan could only hold back what he was going to say, sitting there with a puff of anger, on the other side Ting Yu seemed to be very comfortable, as for Xu Qing, he was a bit uncomfortable, sitting on pins and needles.
As for Master Park who walked in, after seeing where Xu Qing was sitting, and looking at Ting Yu and the aggravated Chen Feiyuan, a wisp of a smile appeared on his face, and didn't bother to interfere, starting the examination.
As usual, Chen Feiyuan stumbled and was reprimanded, while Ting Yu completed the examination with glee and looked at Xu Qing with anticipation.
Xu Qing's answers, on the other hand, were even more perfect, and he even asked some of his own questions during the examination.
The entire process had caused Chen Feiyuan's depression to reach its extreme.
So when this day's lesson ended, he was the first to run out of the tent, feeling that he had been discriminated against today.
Xu Qing also had a hard time sitting there during this lesson, and at this moment, he stood up and was just about to leave after paying a bow to Grandmaster Park, but he was shouted at by Ting Yu.
"Junior Brother, why is your face dirty again."
Ting Yu took out her handkerchief and leapt to her feet, Xu Qing frowned slightly, immediately avoiding it and hurriedly leaving.
Until he left, Ting Yu looked a little aggravated and looked to the side to see the watching Grandmaster Park.
"Teacher, why is this kid dirty every day, I'm helping him with good intentions."
Grandmaster Park laughed, dotingly touched the young girl's head and spoke softly.
"Because, for people who live in affliction and danger, being overly noticeable is not a good thing."
Ting Yu nodded thoughtfully.
Xu Qing hadn't heard Grandmaster Park's words, but what he thought in his heart was the same as what Grandmaster Park had said.
Growing up in the slums, he knew very well that the less noticeable he was, the safer he was, and with most of the people around him being dirty, if he were to be different, he would be like a torch in the night, adding to the danger in vain.
This was the law of survival that he had grown up with, and as for those who didn't, most of them wouldn't survive for long unless their strength was high.
Because of this, that was why Xu Qing had gotten into the habit of not going to the cleaners, he needed to blend into the environment and make himself unobtrusive.
Like a hunter in hiding, the only time to strike is when his sharpness is revealed.
At this moment, Xu Qing, who had left the campground and reached the border of the restricted area, was also like this. He picked up some rotten leaves from the jungle, rubbed them together and smeared them on his body, integrating himself into nature as much as possible, and slowly stepped into the forbidden zone.
Although the Thunder Team had gone to live in the city, Xu Qing hadn't given up on searching for the Heavenly Fate Flower.
And the increase in his cultivation, the increase in his strength, combined with his richer and richer experience nowadays, as well as his knowledge of grasses and trees, as well as his usual vigilance, caused him to encounter fewer dangers in the outskirts of the jungle in this forbidden zone.
Thus, the scope of Xu Qing's exploration also slowly no longer stopped at the temple, but slowly groped towards the depths.
Despite the greater crises, this sharpening also allowed his battle power to continue to increase, and the harvest of grass and trees to become richer.
Only the same as the outer area, although there were more herbs in the depths, they were still mostly Yin Evil Poisonous Grass.
The predominance of poisonous grasses also caused Xu Qing's knowledge of herbs and trees to be mostly placed on the configuration of poisons. While getting more and more refined, he also had a few more types of poison dispersions.
For this reason, he had specifically gone to a clothes store and bought a jacket full of pockets, each of which held a different poison.
As for the black gloves that he had gotten from the Blood Shadow Captain's leather pouch, they were also put on by Xu Qing, gradually feeling more and more comfortable.
These gloves could both make his fists more lethal and also possessed a certain degree of poison isolation, so along with the dagger given by the cross, they became the same daily weapons on his body as the iron signature.
Right now, as the sun was about to set, Xu Qing, who had ended his day of sharpening and developing poisons, stepped out from within the canyon's small pharmacy, and after tidying up his weapons and Poison Dispersal, he swung around with a cat's back and headed straight for the temple.
Every time before he left in the forbidden zone, he would make a trip to the temple to look for the scar removal stone.
Although many previous trips had been unsuccessful, he had poked around this stone and knew that it was naturally occurring, with a seven colored color, and was occasionally visible, so he persisted until this ...... time.
After he arrived at the temple, under the afterglow of that setting sun, he saw what appeared to be a flash of seven-colored light in the distance, in the location of the stone sculpture's head's brow.
Xu Qing's eyes condensed as he flew to check the surrounding area, and then checked his previous hidden arrangement, and after finding it intact, he jumped to the top of one of the temples and crouched down to observe once again.
Finally determining that there was really no danger here, he then swung straight to the place where the stone sculpture head was located.
Upon arriving, he saw a seven-colored stone growing within the crack in his brow.
This stone should have once been ordinary, but within this mysterious temple, washed by the years, on this day, it changed into something different.
Xu Qing hastily removed it and flew around looking for it again, until he had searched the entire temple complex, and he had found six such stones.
Looking at the stones in his hand, Xu Qing breathed a long sigh of relief, the Heavenly Fate Flower and the Scar Removing Stone, these two items had finally been found by him in one way or another.
After carefully storing away these six small stones, Xu Qing took a deep look at the temple complex, bending down to pay his respects before he flew away and disappeared within the distant jungle.
As he sped along, Xu Qing's figure jumped and undulated from one canopy to another.
As darkness descended, as the hissing of the ferocious beasts echoed, his pace remained unchanged, his speed quickening and slowing as he made his way towards the edge of the jungle, getting closer and closer.
Not long after, the moment Xu Qing jumped onto a tree trunk, wanting to use his strength to move forward, suddenly the silt on the ground next to him burst open, and a giant horned python violently rushed out, opening its large mouth and swallowing unexpectedly towards him.
Its body was even larger than the one he encountered in the camp that day.
In the face of this sudden attack, Xu Qing's expression didn't change in the slightest, only lifting his right hand, he flicked out a finger, pointing it at the head of this devouring Giant Horned Python.
With a bang, the Giant Horned Python was unable to withstand it, and its mournful hissing came to an abrupt end just as it exited, its tough skin unable to block the force from Xu Qing, and its head split into pieces, its flesh and blood collapsing.
This collapse spread all over the body in the blink of an eye, until it became a cloud of blood mist.
Only its guts ...... were retained unharmed, falling from within the blood mist, and was grasped by Xu Qing in his hand, leaving with a shake.
Just like that, at dawn, Xu Qing walked out of the jungle and returned inside the campground.
The pitch-black camp, with few lights at this time of the day, Xu Qing walked amongst them, and the mood of obtaining the small stone turned low as he approached his residence.
His residence, too, was pitch black, with the only exception of the dozen or so wild dogs that lay on the ground and wagged their tails after noticing his return.
Xu Qing, who walked into the courtyard, habitually glanced at the room where the Lei Team used to be, and silently walked into the kitchen.
Warming up yesterday's leftovers, he swallowed them just to fill his stomach, and after cleaning up and returning to his room, he sighed softly.
"I don't know how Team Lei is doing in the city, how is it going, it should be good, if I still don't find the Heavenly Fate Flower in the end, I'll save up some more Spirit Coins, and go and buy a spot as well."
Xu Qing muttered and closed his eyes, allowing himself to sink into cultivation.
The next day, Xu Qing went to class as usual.
Ting Yu turned normal, but the seat was still reserved for him, and Chen Feiyuan resigned himself to his fate, watching with bated breath as Xu Qing sat in what was originally his own seat.
As the lesson ended, Ting Yu no longer opened her mouth to wipe his face, and there was more understanding in her eyes.
This understanding, Xu Qing felt, and he bowed his head slightly as he bid farewell to Grandmaster Park.
As he left the tent Xu Qing touched the small stone in his leather pouch and headed towards the grocery store where the little girl was.
But without waiting to get closer, he saw from afar that outside the grocery store, there was actually a group of strangers!
Their clothing was very special, on their black robes, they were embroidered with blood-colored suns, and a sense of killing and bloodshed was also extraordinarily evident on them.
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Share with you a real experience when I was a child, for some reason, this thing I still remember, may be at that time ignorant for too long, and even I went home and asked my parents ......
It was when I was in the fourth grade, my deskmate was a girl, one morning, she somehow looked at me especially bad, I deeply remember, I was with her and said: "Alas, so-and-so, you lend me your homework."
Then she looked at me fiercely, and I said: "you do not say ugh this word, let others hear misunderstanding how to do!" After saying that, it seems she also sideways darted her head and swept a male classmate in our front row ......
Real experience, later grew up when the reunion, I also laugh about this matter, my old desk does not recognize it ......
