Uncle Nine, where are you running to?

"Are you ready?" Zhu Jiu asked.

Jingzhi looked around at the familiar environment and nodded slowly.

This precious cave was finally put to use.

Zhu Jiu and Jingzhi sat cross-legged facing each other, each holding two bronze mirrors in their hands, directing the moonlight onto their heads.

Suddenly, the weather changed suddenly, and there were thunder and lightning.

The two of them began to flicker, and a bolt of thunder broke through the air, and the two figures on the ground disappeared in an instant.

The dark clouds dispersed and the moonlight was still bright, as if nothing had happened.

……

On the other side, three months have passed here in the thatched cottage.

After returning, he often sat in the pavilion, stroking his empty left wrist in a daze.

The turtle is already thin.

Because of self-blame, he was now as thin as a paper man, as if he would be blown away by the wind.

Looking at the thatched cottage where he was daydreaming again, he tightened the tray in his hand, stepped onto the path beside the rockery, and walked towards the pavilion.

"Master, please have some tea."

"Let it go." Cao Lu turned to look at him and sighed softly, "I didn't punish you, so why are you punishing yourself? Didn't you have any food today?"

Xigui lowered his head and his voice gradually choked.

"If I hadn't been so playful and greedy that I didn't practice well, Master-wife wouldn't have let you leave that world so early just to save me."

Caolu withdrew his gaze, which fell on the blooming lotus in the pond, and smiled helplessly.

"Whether you leave early or late, you have to leave anyway."

"I actually believed her at the time, hoping she would go with me."

"You can't be blamed for this. Blame me for being greedy."

If you seek pleasure for a moment, you will end up hurting others and yourself.

"Master, Junior Brother Ma has also gone back. Have you ever thought about recruiting another disciple? Let's open the Heavenly Gate again and go find them?"

Cao Lu took the whisk from the table and tapped Xigui's forehead. "The cultivation of Taoism is all about fate. Ma Shangfeng and we have a fate, so I am honored to be your junior brother for a while."

"If I recruit someone to open the Heavenly Gate just to find her, it will only—"

Before he could finish his words, two loud noises suddenly sounded from outside the illusion.

Cao Lu's eyes turned cold, and he immediately stood up, picked up his whisk and walked out.

The thin turtle followed closely behind, frowning and asking:

"Could it be someone from the imperial court again? They're just asking for peace, why are they using all these tricks?"

Cao Lu's expression was indifferent. "He was just testing my strength. Just send him away."

Xigui hesitated to speak, "Master, Buddhism is now prevalent and Taoism is lagging behind. Since the court heard that you killed the Ghost King and values ​​you, why don't you take advantage of the situation and join the court? What if Taoism in our country rises from this opportunity?"

Cao Lu stopped and looked at him, "Power can deceive people, but that's not my ambition."

"It is better to cultivate here than to flatter those people."

……

Outside the fantasy world.

The area within a radius of ten miles is all green. In the wilderness, there is only one thatched house.

Jingzhi and Zhu Jiu supported their tail vertebrae which were about to break, and walked around the low thatched house in front of them.

"Ajiu, didn't you set a fixed point?"

"This room...even a small turtle can't lie down straight. Are you sure Ah Zheng lives here?"

Zhu Jiu frowned and looked around the thatched cottage slowly, saying:

"Don't worry, Brother Caolu is good at illusions. Once I find the center of the formation and break through the illusion, I will take you to find him."

"Oh." Seeing him covering his waist, Jingzhi took out a bottle of medicinal wine and lifted the clothes on his back.

Zhu Jiu was startled and turned to look at her, "What are you doing?"

"Your waist is injured. Let me massage it for you. Go ahead and look for it. I won't disturb you."

Zhu Jiu: "...We'll talk about it later."

He lifted the clothes off.

"We can't wait. If you fall and get hurt, it's best to rub the bruises out as soon as possible, otherwise it will cause a serious illness!"

The clothes were lifted up again.

Zhu Jiu: "Aren't you afraid that Brother Caolu will come out and misunderstand us?"

She held the hem of his clothes in her hand. Jingzhi blinked twice and pulled his clothes down bit by bit.

"Never mind, never mind. Five minutes is not a big deal. Once we get in, I'll—"

"call out!!"

A whisk suddenly shot out from the door of the thatched hut and wrapped around Jingzhi's waist.

In the blink of an eye, Jingzhi, who was still talking, disappeared in front of Zhu Jiu.

Zhu Jiu was stunned for a few seconds, holding his waist and cursing at the people in the hut.

"Lin Zheng, what do you mean?!"

"I finally brought her to you, and you whisked her away!"

"At least let me in!!!"

"If you dare to do anything to her, I will, I will break your apprentice's legs!!"

……

The thin turtle stepped out of the gate and suddenly retracted his leg. What does it have to do with him? The person that the master caught was not him.

"division……"

The thatched hut carried the person up and down, crossed the water, and flew to the wing room.

With a wave of his wide sleeves, the two antique lattice wooden doors slammed shut.

Jingzhi didn't need his scroll at all.

She wrapped her legs tightly around his waist and her arms tightly around his neck, smiling happily, "Ah Zheng! Ah Jiu said you were in there, so it turns out you really were in there... um!"

Caolu hugged her tightly, turned around, and put her on the tea table, pressing his trembling lips tightly against hers. He could hardly hide his excitement at the feeling of regaining what he had lost.

Jingzhi had never seen him so out of control.

His movements were somewhat forceful, and Jingzhi obediently raised her chin. Caolu hugged her tighter and tighter, and Jingzhi couldn't bear it and leaned back. Her tailbone was suddenly pulled in pain, and her hands instantly grabbed his collar tightly.

Jingzhi frowned and pushed him away slightly, sweating from the pain.

"Ah Zheng, wait wait! My tailbone is about to split."

Caolu took two deep breaths to calm himself down, then carefully helped her down from the table.

The moment she lay flat on the bed, she screamed again, raised her hand, and a bottle of medicinal wine appeared in front of her.

She spontaneously lifted the hem of her dress, revealing a small part of her slender waist, with half of her cute waist faintly visible between her trouser belt. "A Zheng, help me apply the medicine."

Not to mention applying medicine, Caolu didn't even know where to look when he came to his senses.

"I, I...I'll go out and ask Jiu to come in and wipe it for you."

"Well, his waist is injured too. I think you should not only help me wipe it, but also help him!"

Caolu held the medicine bottle tightly, feeling a little overwhelmed.

He couldn't ask Xigui to rub it, and there was no woman here...

"Lin Zheng! Where did you hide Jingzhi?!"

Zhu Jiu's angry voice came from far away.

Jingzhi placed both hands flat on her chin and suddenly uttered two "ohs". "You are so anxious. You rolled me up and ran away. He is angry."

Cao Lu pursed his lips, opened his puppy eyes, and looked at her lovingly, "I... I've been thinking about you for three months. I thought... I would never see you again."

"Three months?" she was surprised.

Sure enough, she asked why his beard had grown so long and he had lost a lot of weight.

"Yes, it has been three months since I returned."

She frowned and called out to him, "Come here."

Cao Lu obediently walked up to her and squatted down. The doubt in his eyes was suddenly filled with embarrassment and joy.

With a "bang", the door was kicked open.

The four tightly pressed lips suddenly separated, leaving a silver thread.

Cao Lu wiped his mouth and stood up. "Ah, Ajiu, I, she... I'll apply some medicine to her."

Zhu Jiu glanced at him and saw how skinny he looked. He suddenly couldn't bring himself to say anything reproachful.

He sat down on the edge of the bed unhappily and looked around the room slowly.

There are simple wooden furniture everywhere, landscape paintings and calligraphy are hung on the left wall, and a few swords are hung on the right side.

"Is this your room?"

Caolu: "Yes."

Zhu Jiu stretched out her long legs, stepped into the bed, then lay down and lifted her clothes around her waist.

"You used to sleep in my room, but now your room has been requisitioned by us."

"Take medicine."

Jingzhi's head began to sway from side to side, sometimes looking at the stunned Lin Zheng, sometimes looking at Zhu Jiu who was a little unhappy but didn't dare to say it, smiling so much that her eyebrows were not visible.

"Still laughing!"

Zhu Jiu glared at her softly, "Just now you hugged his head and kissed him, I saw it all, and you were still restless even with your waist injured!"

Jingzhi said cheerfully to Caolu: "You massage him first, and I'll laugh for a while."

The two men shook their heads helplessly at the same time.

"You..."

"You..."