Ning Que lowered his head and tidied up the luggage scattered on the ground. He asked, "Can you walk?"
Mo Shanshan's face was thinner than usual, which made her look more delicate. She smiled bitterly.
Ye Hongyu leaned against the wall tiredly and frowned. It was obvious that she could not walk.
The main reason was that they were seriously injured, but there was another important reason why they were struggling to walk — hunger. Their empty stomachs couldn't even make a sound at this point.
Ning Que sighed and said, "Why are we so hungry? How many days have we been unconscious? "
Mo Shanshan shook her head and said, "I don't know."
Ning Que's palm landed on his abdomen and pressed down gently. He paused for a moment and said, "Four days."
Mo Shanshan squinted her eyes to see him more clearly. She asked in confusion, "You know that already?"
Ye Hongyu, who had been silent all this while, suddenly interrupted and asked, "Are you always hungry?"
Ning Que was unpacking his luggage again. When he heard her question, he replied casually, "I may not be as good as you and many others in terms of state, but no one in this world has more experience of enduring hunger than me."
Ye Hongyu said scornfully, "I don't know where your disgusting self-confidence comes from. You actually dare to talk about starvation. That is because you have not experienced a childhood like mine."
Ning Que was furious to be questioned by a Haotian Taoism girl who had grown up in luxury. He scolded her, "How would a woman like you know what it was like during the drought?"
Ye Hongyu smiled mockingly and was about to say something.
Mo Shanshan sighed and looked at the two of them helplessly. She said, "Is this worth fighting over?"
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Ning Que did not continue reminiscing about his childhood. He used facts to prove that his memory and fear of hunger were stronger than Ye Hongyu's, because he had successfully found some food from his luggage.
There was always a small mountain of luggage beside him.
When the Big Black Horse was present, the Big Black Horse would carry it on his back. When the Big Black Horse was not present, he would carry it on his back. No matter how dangerous the Tianqi Mountains were, no matter what kind of danger they faced, he would never abandon his luggage. That was because he was very clear about the importance of stocking up. There were medicines, weapons, and sleeping bags that he had researched himself in the luggage. Of course, there would be food.
Ye Hongyu leaned against the wall and watched the guy take things out of his luggage as if he was moving. There was a strange look in her eyes. When she saw the slender black arrow case, the strange look in her eyes became more intense.
It was the arrow in the box that had crippled Long Qing.
These terrifyingly powerful arrows had caused her great suffering outside the mountain gate.
She did not know which sect in the world could actually cultivate arrows, nor could she remember when such a powerful arrow had appeared. She had been obsessed with Taoism all her life, so she was shocked and confused. She wanted to ask Ning Que about it, but she knew that it must be his trump card to save his life, so she could not ask.
Ning Que passed a piece of jerky and a small water bag to her and said, "The meat of the Desolate Man is better than the jerky in the army. Eat it with water, but don't eat too much. Chew slowly."
After saying this, he walked to Mo Shanshan and sat down beside her. He tore the jerky into shreds and passed it to her.
Mo Shanshan smiled and shook her head. She tried to raise her weak arms to eat by herself. Ning Que shook his head and insisted on feeding her the shredded meat. Then, he raised the water bag and fed her a few mouthfuls of water.
Ye Hongyu did not notice the movement beside her. She was staring at the hard jerky in her hands in a daze.
She had experienced many hardships and seen many tragic things in her life. Logically speaking, there should not be any problems that she could not overcome. However, looking at the jerky and feeling the feeling in her fingers, she thought of the dried corpse in the White Bone Mountain. She thought of the Divine Lord Lotus's corpse-like fingers and cold, dry lips …
She frowned slightly and stared at the jerky in front of her as if she was staring at a Heavenly Book. After some time, she took a deep breath and put the jerky into her mouth. Then, she chewed mechanically.
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After eating, drinking, and resting for a while, the three of them recovered some energy and prepared to leave. At this moment, a new problem appeared. They did not know if it was because the Confinement Array had been broken or for some other reason, but the tunnel that they used to enter the Devil's Hall had completely collapsed. With their current physical strength, they could not force their way through.
Ning Que looked at the stone mountain that blocked the tunnel. After thinking for a while, he turned around and walked towards the stone wall opposite him.
There were two iron chains deeply embedded in the stone wall. In the past decades, these two iron chains had locked Master Lotus here, causing him to suffer a rare pain and torture. However, now that the Confinement had been broken and Lotus was dead, the iron chains only had some rust on them. The aura of the talisman had long dissipated and they had become the most ordinary iron chains.
Ning Que held the iron chains with both hands and took a deep breath. He secretly released the aura deep in his abdomen and used all his strength to pull. With a loud bang, the stone wall collapsed and revealed a deep tunnel behind it.
Ye Hongyu and Mo Shanshan supported each other and walked behind him. Ye Hongyu looked at the deep tunnel that seemed to have no end. She frowned slightly and asked, "How did you know that there was a tunnel behind that wall?"
"I guessed."
Ning Que answered matter-of-factly. In fact, it was a vague feeling in his mind that he could discover that there was a tunnel behind the iron chains and the stone wall. He did not know where this feeling came from. He silently thought that it could be the effect of the information that Master Lotus had sent to his sense of perception before he died.
"The Devil's Doctrine is a place where one can only enter but not leave. To be more precise, after the Devil's Doctrine was destroyed, a kind of inhibition appeared and only left one exit. I believe that there are countless of such tunnels that will eventually lead to the same place."
The feeling in his mind appeared again and Ning Que subconsciously said this. Then, he was slightly shocked and fell into a long silence as he looked at the tunnel in front of him. At this moment, he finally understood that regardless of whether he could understand the information that Lotus had sent to him, it would appear and tell him what he should do when needed.
A piercing chill took over Ning Que's body. He looked at the deep tunnel in a daze and did not know what to say. What kind of state would be able to leave behind such a method? What exactly were those incomprehensible information fragments? Was it Lotus' impression of the world or … the cultivation method of the Devil's Doctrine? What would these bring to him?
Ye Hongyu looked at his back and was a little shocked at his knowledge. No one in the Divine Hall should know that the Devil's Doctrine had such a strange setup, but he did. However, she naturally thought that it was the knowledgeable and omniscient Headmaster who had told Ning Que these secrets of the Devil's Doctrine. She completely did not connect it to the dead Divine Lord Lotus.
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The four sides of the tunnel were made of stones and looked extremely sturdy. It was deep and very dark. Under the circumstances where there was no light source, it was very difficult for the three of them to walk, even with their eyesight. Along the way, they passed by a few forks. The three of them tried to pick a random one and realized that their luck had finally improved. They actually did not go the wrong way.
Standing in front of the cliff outside the tunnel, Ning Que smiled bitterly as he looked at the bottomless fog beneath his feet. He thought to himself that this was not luck at all. It was obvious that there was an old ghost who loved to eat humans in the dark that was giving him directions.
The fog was very deep and they did not know what was below them.
Judging from the distance that they had walked in the tunnel, the three of them should still be in the Tianqi Mountains.
Ning Que tied the heavy luggage on his body tighter and pointed to a tripwire that seemed to be in disrepair at the edge of the cliff. He said, "If you are not afraid, then we should go up."
After the long tunnel, there was a long noose. The basket that was hung under the long rope was not big, but it was more than enough to fit the three of them. Listening to the sound of the wind whistling past the basket and seeing the fog that was within reach, the three of them gradually relaxed their vigilance.
There was a faint light in front of the fog. Ning Que opened his mouth slightly and vaguely guessed that he had finally left the Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine. He could not help but smile happily.
Mo Shanshan sat quietly beside him and looked at him and smiled.
Ye Hongyu used her fingers to gently comb her hair that was messed up by the mountain wind. She looked at the unfocused but focused look in Mo Shanshan's eyes and looked at Ning Que who was too happy to notice her. She could not help but laugh coldly.
"Adulterer."
Although her voice was very soft, it was extremely clear in this quiet world where there was no one else except for the fog. Ning Que suddenly became extremely embarrassed and angry. He did not care that they were running for their lives together and wanted to fight with her with all his might.
Mo Shanshan was slightly embarrassed but not angry. She looked at Ye Hongyu and explained very seriously, "I like him, but I know that he doesn't like me enough. So I can't say that we are adulterer for now."
Ye Hongyu was slightly stunned. She did not expect that a woman like the Calligraphy Addict would become a fierce woman once she fell in love. She could not help but sigh regretfully but could not say anything.
As for Ning Que, apart from squinting his eyes against the cold mountain wind and trying to catch the shapeless clouds outside the basket to pretend that he was still a naive child who could not understand what they were talking about, what else could he do at this moment?
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No one knew what the powerhouses of the Devil's Doctrine had used to set up such a long ropeway in the inaccessible Tianqi Mountains. When the basket slowly touched the ground, it was already a long time later.
Ning Que jumped out of the basket and looked back.
The two girls stood beside him and looked back at the same time.
The fog in the mountain gradually dissipated and he could clearly see the end of a very thin black line. It was a lonely and proud Snow-capped Peak.
They had come down from that Snow-capped Peak.
It was believed that they would never want to return to that Snow-capped Peak.
Ning Que looked at the unworldly Snow-capped Peak where the Devil's Doctrine was and could not help but shake his head. He reached into the basket and wanted to take out his luggage. However, he did not expect to touch a soft and smooth little ball of meat.
He looked at the little white dog in his hands in shock and wondered where this little thing came from. He had been frightened enough these few days, please don't be some elder of the Devil's Doctrine.
Please don't … be the ghost of Master Lotus.
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(I really wanted to write an entire chapter about the scene on the ropeway, to watch the scenery and talk about the past. This is what one should do in their youth. This is the time worth remembering before people fight in the future, just like Yan Se and Guangming. However … people said that it was too long, so I could only hold back my tears and not write it. I have something to do in the afternoon. The next chapter will probably be at night.) (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com to vote for me. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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