The road is long, take it and cherish it

Yue thought about the knowledge Chen Daozi said about cultivating immortals, and more questions came to his mind. He quickly suppressed these messy thoughts in his mind.

At this moment, a mess of footsteps came from outside the house. The moment Yue heard the footsteps, he couldn't help but trembled. Then he slowly turned around, and in his blurred vision, Yue couldn't help but tremble. , a white-haired old man wearing a white robe hurriedly walked toward him at the foot of the stairs in the distance. The next moment, they met each other's eyes, and it felt like being struck by lightning, and their whole bodies froze. Yue stayed there until the old man came a few meters in front of her, then she raised her somewhat stiff feet and ran towards him.

Arriving at the old man's side, Yue hugged his body without saying a word. She couldn't control her tears at this moment. The tears quickly wet Jiang Baicao's clothes.

Jiang Baicao was silent for a while, and then reached out and touched Yue's head, with tears flashing in his eyes.

"My child, you have grown up. I have been sorry for you for so many years..."

Yue took a deep breath, suppressed the turbulent emotions in her heart, looked up at him and asked.

"Master! You obviously promised to pick me up, why...I haven't waited for you..."

Hearing this, Jiang Baicao's pupils shrank, as if he was recalling something. He looked at Yue's tear-filled eyes and didn't answer the question for a long time. Finally, after he sighed, his whole spirit changed. Very depressed.

"I'll take you to a place, and when you get there, you'll know..."

After saying that, he bowed to Chen Daozi and took Yue's hand and walked out of the small building.

Feeling the master's slightly trembling hand, Yue suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, but he still forced himself not to think about that possibility.

After leaving the small building, Jiang Baicao pulled Yue out of the square without saying a word. After passing through a dense forest, they came to the deepest part of it, and finally they landed on the ground in front of the ancient tree.

Jiang Baicao looked at the ancient tree silently, then pointed at a half-person-high gap under the ancient tree and said.

"Yue, Angelica... he's been staying here for the past few years. Go in and see him. He will definitely be very happy to see you..."

Yue raised her head and looked in the direction of the master's finger in confusion. There seemed to be a large space in the gap, but why does senior brother have to stay here all the time? His mouth opened silently, and the ominous premonition in his heart became more solid, and he shook his head vigorously.

Seeing Yue didn't speak, and Jiang Baicao didn't say much either. He pulled Yue towards the gap. After reaching the gap, Yue bent down slightly and came to the inside of the ancient tree. Here he felt a surging spiritual power instantly enveloped him. After entering the ancient tree, his spiritual power was completely suppressed deep into his body. Seeing that the spiritual power had no intention of harming him, Yue did not resist.

As the torches around him lit up, a large space appeared in front of Yue's eyes. It was like a square. At the end of the square was a wooden plane, with several arms-thick iron rods faintly visible. Chains hung from the darkness above.

As they continued to get closer, relying on the faint firelight in Jiang Baicao's hand, Yue felt a familiar aura, which was the aura of his senior brother, but this aura was very unstable at this time.

Jiang Baicao came to the side and lit the oil lamp hanging on the side. Only at this moment did the things in front of him become clear. There was a person tied under the chains!

Under the illumination of the fire, they seemed to become very frightened, and they all curled up.

A rough count revealed that there were dozens of people here, both men and women. They were all unkempt and dirty. It could be seen that their exposed skin had turned black, and there were several new or condensed wounds on them. Judging from the appearance of the scars, they were all scratched out with his own fingernails.

Yue's eyes have been fixed on a man whose face he couldn't see clearly. That was his senior brother's aura. It was absolutely impossible for him to admit his mistake, but...how could it become like this...

When Yue was about to step forward to his senior brother, Jiang Baicao stretched out his hand to hold him. Looking at his bloodshot eyes, he sighed and spoke.

"Yue, don't go over there. Just stand here and talk to Angelica. Angelica, look who's coming to see you. It's Yue!"

Yue's red eyes looked at the master beside him and he gritted his teeth and asked.

"Senior brother, what's wrong with him? Why is he locked up here! What are those things on his skin? Is it a disease or some kind of curse?"

Jiang Baicao was silent for a long time before speaking.

"At the beginning, when I brought Forsythia and Angelica to Penglai, I planned to go back to pick you up after settling in, but the way back was too far. We were flown here when we came. If we wanted At that time, I had to go back to pick you up. The round trip would probably take several months, and the journey would be extremely dangerous. I also learned that my foundation building was complete enough to form a golden elixir. Once the gold elixir was formed, Dan, that would save a lot of time. I took the elixir and retreated for half a month, and the golden elixir was indeed condensed in my body. But when I woke up, I learned that Angelica Sinensis and Forsythia had also been taken. After receiving the elixir, I waited for a few more days because I couldn't bear to worry about them. Unexpectedly, Forsythia... failed to survive... After Angelica woke up and found out about Forsythia's death, he became obsessed. The spiritual energy in his body was reversed, and all his sanity was lost... The holy tree could suppress the violent spiritual power in his body. At that time, I really didn’t know what to do. I also wanted to go pick you up. However, I was afraid of letting you face this, so over time I gave up the idea of ​​looking for you. Maybe you don't know about it all your life, just think that you have a broken master, and you don't have to live like me in the future. I am in pain, but since you are still here today, I will no longer lie to you."

After Jiang Baicao finished speaking, he seemed to be much older again. His eyes stayed on Yue. He did not dare to look at Danggui who was tied up with chains in front of him.

After Yue knew about this tragic past, he felt as if his head had been struck by lightning, and his thoughts were completely stuck at this moment. Every sentence and word the master just said seemed to be constantly circling in his heart. As he spoke, each cold word was like a pair of sharp knives, cutting into his heart one by one.

His eyes began to become extremely blank, and he looked around helplessly, as if he was looking for something. But after coming back to his senses, his weak hands grabbed a piece of air in front of him. It took him a long time to finally stop. A word came out of his mouth.

"Can't find it..."

After saying that, blood began to drip from the corner of his mouth to the ground, and then only a void of darkness was left in his mind. It seemed that he was the only one left in the world at this moment, falling into a boundless darkness. among.