Stars fall and locust trees grow

Perhaps because his body and mind had suffered an unprecedented blow, and because he did not take the nourishing pill, Qi Luoxing actually fell asleep that night, which was a rare occurrence.

In a daze, he seemed to hear a very faint voice coming from above his head, as if someone was calling his name.

"Axing."

Qi Luoxing raised his head and found himself standing under a big locust tree at the foot of Weihua Peak. The breeze gently brushed across his cheeks, and the air was filled with the faint fragrance of locust flowers.

Li Chi was sitting on the branch of the locust tree, waving at him with a smile.

"Axing! Come up quickly!"

Is it my cousin?!

My cousin is not dead?!

Qi Luoxing was stunned for a moment, then he looked at the person on the tree, raised the corner of his mouth happily, and replied: "Cousin, I'm here!"

But the next second, Li Chi, who was sitting on the tree, suddenly stood up expressionlessly, then closed his eyes, and fell straight down from the tree.

The scenes around him also began to change rapidly.

In just a moment, they appeared in the training room on the lowest floor of the training hall.

Afterwards, Li Chi fell heavily to the ground in the training room. Blood was gushing out from his eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and every part of his body.

Slowly, the blood gathered into a long, thin red stream, meandering and crawling, slowly approaching the direction of Qi Luoxing.

"cousin!!!"

For a moment, Qi Luoxing couldn't tell whether this was a dream or reality, but he knew that he had lost his most precious thing once again.

He covered his head and roared in pain, then sat up directly from the couch.

Reaching out to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, Qi Luoxing suddenly discovered that the sky outside was beginning to brighten slightly.

At this moment, a faint voice sounded from under him.

"Ah Xing... are you... having a nightmare?! Don't be afraid, I'm here..."

Qi Luoxing was slightly stunned, and turned his head towards the direction of Li Chi with some disbelief.

He saw the other person staring at him with a pair of bright eyes, without blinking.

"……cousin?!"

Qi Luoxing couldn't believe his eyes. After being stunned for a moment, he reached out his trembling hand and gently touched Li Chi's face.

There is breathing and temperature.

Then he slapped himself hard again.

"It's real! It's not a dream! I'm not dreaming!!!"

"Cousin, you are really alive!"

He was so excited that he didn't know what to do. He wanted to say something to the other party, but his throat suddenly tightened and he couldn't make any sound. In the end, he could only helplessly fall on Li Chi, sobbing.

"Okay...Axing!"

Li Chi raised his arm with difficulty and patted Qi Luoxing's violently shaking body, "I managed to survive with great difficulty, I hope I won't be crushed to death by you again later."

Upon hearing this, Qi Luoxing quickly sat up and wiped the snot and tears from his face with his sleeves.

He gasped for breath and gradually recovered to normal after a long time. "They said they wanted to take you away..."

"You're not dead at all, how can I leave you in the back hills..."

"You are mine, no one can take you away..."

"Woooooooo..."

"Don't worry." Li Chi forced a smile and said softly, "Cousin will never leave you."

Seeing that Li Chi was fine, Qi Luoxing finally laughed from the bottom of his heart, "By the way, cousin! Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere now?"

Li Chi sighed, his voice weak, revealing the weakness that comes with illness, "I feel uncomfortable all over my body."

"And it feels a bit cold."

Qi Luoxing immediately sat up straight, then slowly transferred his spiritual energy into Li Chi's body, "What about now? Are you feeling better?!"

"Much better!" Li Chi moved his arms and raised his legs, "Finally I have some strength."

In fact, he had been awake for a long time.

After waking up, he did not dwell on how long he had been dead, nor did he think about why he suddenly came back to life, because during this time, his mind was filled with everything that had happened in the training hall.

Everything is bloody, depressing and terrifying.

It turned out that the so-called secret techniques of the Juyun Sect were so dangerous that he almost lost his life the first time he came into contact with them.

No wonder that crazy brother said, "We will all die here."

The layout of the training hall also made Li Chi feel strange.

The main pillar standing in the center of the house and the blood-red roof do not look like the structure of a normal house.

He didn't know what happened after he lost consciousness, nor did he know how Qi Luoxing managed to hold on.

After thinking for a while, he suddenly said, "Ah Xing, how long have I been lying here?!"

"Less than a day."

"Then do you know what this secret technique is?!"

Qi Luoxing lay on his back beside Li Chi and recounted in detail everything that happened to him after the blood rune entered his body.

"I see." Li Chi touched his chin, then suddenly sat up and reached out to take off Qi Luoxing's clothes.

Qi Luoxing was startled, and pinched his collar hard and said, "Cousin, what are you doing?!"

"Look at your injuries!" Li Chi said, "Those bone spurs have penetrated your skin, leaving holes all over your body. I have to treat them for you!"

"My wounds are all healed now." Qi Luoxing released his hands and peeled off the clothes on his shoulders. "I did bleed a lot at first, but I don't know if it's because of the secret technique, but not long after I came back, I found that they were slowly healing."

Li Chi turned his head and leaned close to his shoulder to take a closer look, then stretched out his fingers and touched it gently, and it had indeed returned to normal.

"This may be the only benefit of this secret technique!"

He curled his lips, then put on a serious face and continued to say to Qi Luoxing: "Axing! Looking at the current situation, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to have a chance to get out again."

"Yesterday, before entering the training room, I carefully looked at everyone in our courtyard, and Senior Brother Bai Xin was nowhere to be found. I think he might have died."

"And my uncle, it should be the same." Qi Luoxing thought of something and suddenly said in a muffled voice: "I heard the conversation between Li Shi and Li Shang. They said that this secret technique has been practiced for more than a hundred years."

"So, now everything makes sense." Li Chi said, "They claim that they don't care about identity or qualifications and accept a wide range of disciples, but in fact they are just treating people like us as cheap test subjects."

"This set of secret techniques will rapidly consume or even devour our spiritual consciousness, and those so-called spiritual nourishing pills are used to consolidate our spiritual power."

"However, no matter what, we have to find a way to escape from here." Li Chi reached out and touched Qi Luoxing's head, "But given our current conditions, we still have to ensure that we don't die first, and then, step by step, we can make long-term plans."

Qi Luoxing nodded.

The room had just returned to silence when the dormitory door was suddenly opened.

Li Chi looked up and saw two purple figures standing at the door.

It turned out to be two quarters past noon.

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