Hearing Fan Xian's confident words, Xiao En began to cough violently for a long time. It was the middle of the night, and he didn't know if the Brocade Guards searching below could hear him. Fan Xian was a little worried. He took out a thin needle and probed it into Xiao En's neck to help soothe the pulse of his heart.
Fan Xian's fingers gently rested on Xiao En's neck, and he felt a slight wetness and stickiness. He sniffed and smelled blood. He knew that Xiao En had begun to cough up blood. His face was expressionless, but his heart was stirred.
"That was a fairy." The dying old man stubbornly confirmed the judgment he had made thirty years ago.
Fan Xian didn't want to argue with him on this matter. "How could a four-year-old girl carry a trunk? Who was carrying that trunk? "
"What trunk?" Xiao En's voice was straight, and it didn't seem like he was lying.
Fan Xian was a little surprised. He knew that there was no need for him to hide anything, and Wu Zhu had not yet appeared. Wu Zhu had once said that he and his mother had left home together. Where was that home? According to the letter his mother had left behind, Wu Zhu had once fought with the strong men of the temple, and had lost part of his memory. Why would Wu Zhu fight with the men of the temple? Was it jealousy?
"What happened after that?"
This was the duty of all who listened to the story. Xiao En, the old storyteller, was about to die. Fan Xian naturally wouldn't forget to ask this question.
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Inside the tent, Ku He lay on top of the fur. His breathing was a little ragged. He didn't know what the four-year-old girl had promised him, but it had caused him to go against his beliefs and dare to attack the men of the temple.
Xiao En looked at the little girl, who had lifted the flap of the tent and was looking out into the snow. The wind and snow had not lessened, and the little girl's skin was whiter than snow. Her small hands gripped the thick tent cloth tightly. She was so small, and looking out into the vast world, she felt a sense of loneliness that did not match her age.
Carefully, he moved to Ku He's side, and put his hand into the opening of Ku He's robe.
"That's what I gave him." The little girl didn't even turn her head. "Don't touch it."
Sean looked at the little girl, and a fierce glint suddenly appeared in his eyes. What Ku He was hiding in his bosom must be some sort of heavenly book from the Temple. Xiao En could not help but be tempted. But when he remembered that the little girl was a fairy who had sneaked out of the Temple, Xiao En immediately gave up on the idea.
He knelt down respectfully and kowtowed to the little fairy at the door, saying, "I am the commander of the Discipline Commission of Da Wei. Under the orders of His Majesty, I have come to the temple to listen to the Heavenly Edict. I beg the Heavenly Deity to grant me the elixir of immortality."
This was Sean's mission, and he had not forgotten it.
The girl at the door laughed when she heard that. She laughed very happily. After a while, she suddenly threw a pill at Sean. "You helped me, so I'll help you too. Since that monk has benefited, you should benefit too."
Xiao En took the pill and examined it carefully. He couldn't see anything special about it, but since it was a gift from a fairy, he couldn't ignore it. He took out the jade box and carefully placed it inside.
"You should go back." The little girl's tone was somewhat old-fashioned. "There's no point in staying here."
Xiao En was a little disappointed. They had finally found the Temple, but they hadn't entered. He didn't know what the immortals inside looked like.
"Thank you, fairy, for the pill."
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…
"Don't come here again," the little girl suddenly said softly. "And don't tell anyone where the Temple is."
"If I find out that you have revealed the location of the Temple, I will kill you." The little girl turned around, her young face full of frost. "Do you hear me?"
Xiao En bowed his head in agreement. Although such cold words came out of the mouth of a little girl who looked like she was carved from ice and snow, the fact that a four-year-old girl could speak so clearly proved that she was not an ordinary person.
Even though Xiao En was the leader of the Tiqi of Da Wei, he still didn't dare disobey.
The old man had no choice but to obey.
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"After Ku He woke up, the fairy forced the two of us to swear a deadly oath. Then we began to head south. During those few days, the smile on the fairy's face gradually grew. It was as if she thought that stepping into the world of mortals was a very interesting thing. " Xiao En continued to recollect. "It's strange. Every time Ku He and I looked at her back, we couldn't feel any mysterious power within her. Ah … there is a difference between immortals and mortals. We are mortals, and we can't understand."
"Then one day, the fairy turned around and looked at the snowy mountain behind her. She suddenly said to herself, 'He's too pitiful.' I remember those words very clearly, because I have never seen such compassion on a mortal's face. "
Of course, Fan Xian knew that his mother wasn't some fairy. At the time, she probably didn't have much power, but she was able to scare two of the world's most powerful beings. That brain of hers was quite good. But he didn't understand who his mother was referring to when she said "too pitiful."
And he didn't believe in compassion. He couldn't help but laugh.
Xiao En mocked, "You and I are rats that live in the gutters. How could we know the beauty of a crane in the clouds of the ninth heaven? I can't describe the look in the fairy's eyes, but Ku He and I could never forget it."
Fan Xian was silent.
"The next day, the fairy suddenly disappeared. I don't know where she went. In that cold, endless snow, she suddenly disappeared without a trace. Ku He and I were scared half to death." In the cave, Xiao En gasped for breath as he recalled. "It was the most mysterious adventure of my life. To be able to see a fairy that didn't belong to this world, I was lucky."
"And then you and Ku He returned to Northern Wei?" Fan Xian asked.
"That's right. The journey back was more dangerous than when we left. But in short, we came back safely." Xiao En said, "I gave the pill that the fairy bestowed upon me to His Majesty, and that was the end of the matter."
Fan Xian said, "Don't lie to me. That pill must have fallen into your stomach a long time ago."
Xiao En laughed hoarsely. "I knew I couldn't lie to you."
Fan Xian said, "Where in this world can there be an elixir of immortality?"
"That kind of temptation is something that no normal person could resist." Xiao En sighed. "Of course, after I took the pill, I realized that it only improved my constitution. There was no way I could live forever. Only then did I realize that the fairy could also lie. "
"I believe that the fairy loved to lie," Fan Xian said, a little absent-minded. "Perhaps even her death was a lie."
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…
"What death?" Xiao En said. "How could a fairy die?"
Fan Xian ignored him. He closed his eyes and committed Xiao En's recollection to memory. Then he stood up and gripped the dagger. There was no light all around. Dark clouds covered the stars and the moon. It was so dark that Xiao En couldn't see his movements.
"Why did Ku He want you dead?" This was Fan Xian's last question. "I don't think that knowing the location of the temple could cause such a huge uproar."
Xiao En felt that Fan Xian's question was strange. "Everyone knows what the temple means to the world. If such an important piece of news were to spread, I'm afraid the world would be thrown into chaos. Whether it's the child of the Zhan family of the Kingdom of Qi or the sinister Emperor of the Qing Kingdom, they would all send troops to the north to pay their respects. The strongest of the world would constantly try to find the temple."
Fan Xian rubbed his nose. "The temple? You've been there, and you said it was just a big temple. What was there to pay respects to? "
Xiao En laughed coldly. "Ku He only knelt in front of the temple, and then he became the greatest grandmaster in the world. For a martial cultivator, this kind of temptation is unimaginably strong … and do you really think that Ku He is a saint? Seeing him kneel so piously in front of the temple, but the fairy only gave him a book, and in the blink of an eye, he overthrew the temple he had believed in all his life and took the risk to attack. In the face of profit, he is just a great villain who is good at pretending. "
Xiao En continued, "If he kills me, he will be the only one in the world who knows where the temple is. What is in the temple? Perhaps Ku He will never know, but he has already reaped enough benefits. So why would he take the risk and allow the other strongest of the world to have this opportunity? "
Fan Xian thought about it. This was indeed the case, and he vaguely understood why Ku He was so obsessed with killing Xiao En. Perhaps it was to protect his glorious image as the Imperial Advisor, and not to expose the ugly things he had done on the journey north. Perhaps Ku He knew what was in the temple, and that it would bring unknown dangers to the world.
"What is in the temple?"
Fan Xian sank into deep thought. His finger unconsciously traced the word Xiao En had spoken of, the word "do" at the door of the temple. His finger gradually sped up, and there was a sound of rushing wind.
"For a thousand years, the world has known that the temple does not meddle in worldly affairs. Ku He and I going to find it was already a very risky gamble. Reality has proven that so long as we leave the temple, the people in the temple will not cause trouble for the people of the world … Ku He is the protector of Northern Qi. How would he dare to take the risk of offending the heavens? "
Xiao En's energy was gradually waning, and his voice was getting quieter and quieter. But the fear in his voice still lingered. "Furthermore, the fairy forced us to swear a deadly oath. Even if Ku He always boasted that he was the one closest to the heavens, would he dare to break his oath?"
"Don't take things like oaths too seriously," said Fan Xian. "Didn't you tell me the location of the temple?"
"That's because I am going to die." Xiao En turned his head to the side with some difficulty. "And you will die in this cave."
Fan Xian smiled apologetically. "I don't think so."
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