Chapter 25: Encountering the Three Ways of Wudang
Ren Yingying returned to the cabin. After a moment, the elegant piano sound came from the cabin. The sound was gentle and gentle, as if his mother's hands were stroking her body. Tang Jinlou knew that Ren Yingying was using the piano sound to help her regulate her inner breath. She closed her eyes and relaxed her spirit. After only a while, her eyelids gradually became heavier, and her mind was in chaos, and she fell asleep gradually.
When he woke up again, Tang Jinlou was already lying in the cabin, with his right hand on the canvas in the cabin. Tang Jinlou stretched out his hand and pulled the canvas a corner. The stars in the sky suddenly fell in. Tang Jinlou looked at the crescent moon above his head, and his heart was not happy or sad. The boat was leaning against the shore, and the boatman didn't know where to rest. Ren Yingying leaned on the other side of the cabin, resting with her eyes closed.
Tang Jinlou glanced at him, stood up with his hands on the ground, left the cabin, and sat down at the bow.
He looked up at the moon and said to himself, "Is it almost here?" He pointed his hands and began to breathe slowly. With just one breath, Tang Jinlou had already frowned deeply, calmed down, and began to breathe carefully again, but it was only a moment later, Tang Jinlou stopped dejectedly, and he was already in a state of fear.
"Not all my true qi was sucked away by Ren Woxing, why can't the remaining true qi be controlled?"
"I used to think that it was because of serious injuries and the internal organs of the body were damaged, so the true qi was not working, but now it seems that this is not the case."
Tang Jinlou thought carefully, and before he knew it, cold sweat had already flowed down.
A figure swayed in the cabin door. Tang Jinlou looked at him and said, "Why are you awake?"
Ren Yingying looked at him and said, "What's wrong?"
Tang Jinlou was silent for a moment, shook his head, and said, "It's okay." Ren Yingying didn't say much, turned around and walked into the cabin. After a while, the peaceful and close "Qingxin Pushan" sounded again. Tang Jinlou fought fiercely with Ren Woxing, and Ren Woxing destroyed Tang Jinlou's internal strength. Tang Jinlou stabbed Ren Woxing in the eyes. Ren Yingying rescued Tang Jinlou because of the emergency, but no matter what, she was still worried about her father.
Listening to the sound of the piano played by Ren Yingying, Tang Jinlou did not relax as before. He closed his eyes, but just thought carefully about why he could not re-mobilize his internal strength.
Suddenly, a thought flashed through: "Is it the poison of the Blue Phoenix?"
As a result, Tang Jinlou immediately raised his mind. If this is the case, it would probably be awkward. If it was because of the Blue Phoenix Poison that he could not control his remaining true energy, the idea of re-cultivating internal energy would only be a joke.
More importantly, if the poison was restrained by Tang Jinlou's internal strength before, then the antidote given to him by Lan Fenghuang was very likely to be a big discount because his internal strength was destroyed.
If that's true, then this poison...
Tang Jinlou frowned, and felt a little confused in his heart.
Ren Yingying was concentrating on playing the piano, occasionally glanced at Tang Jinlou, who was sitting on the bow of the boat, and didn't know what he was thinking.
After a few more days of travel, the boat arrived at the entrance of Wuhan. Tang Jinlou was at the bow of the boat. He saw a person from afar. He was surprised and turned to the cabin and said, "Did you ask my master to send someone here and pick me up?"
There was no sound in the cabin. Tang Jinlou's heart moved, he lifted a corner of the canvas, looked inside, and saw that the cabin was empty and there was no one.
Tang Jinlou looked at the shipman at the stern and shouted: "Where did that girl go?"
The shipkeeper replied: "That girl left the boat money early this morning and got off the boat alone."
Tang Jinlou was speechless. He was used to sitting at the bow of the boat, waiting for Ren Yingying to play the piano to reassure him or occasionally leave the cabin to talk to him for a while, but he didn't realize that Ren Yingying had left.
Tang Jinlou stood up and walked into the cabin. Although his internal strength was not much different from being completely destroyed, his body gradually improved. He was almost as good as ordinary people when walking, lying, sitting, and standing.
There was nothing in the cabin. Tang Jinlou's bag was quietly placed on the table. As for Ren Yingying's seven-stringed lyrics, it was naturally no longer there. There was a piece of paper on the table. Tang Jinlou's brow moved and went forward to pick it up. He saw four big words written on it, "There will be no future." There was a row of small words behind, which seemed to have been added later.
"Be careful, if my father sees you again, he will definitely kill you."
Tang Jinlou silently put down the letter paper and thought to himself: "If he comes again, he may not be able to keep his other eye." Then he smiled bitterly and said to himself: "I have even been nullified by him now, so what qualifications do I have to be complacent?"
At this time, the hull was shocked, and the shipkeeper said outside: "Young Master, Wuhankou has arrived. The lady said, just send you to Wuhankou."
Tang Jinlou walked out of the cabin, thanked the boat fairly, and then got off the boat.
He had already run over from a distance, and Tang Jinlou stood there waiting for her to run closer. He stood in front of him, then smiled and said, "Yan'er."
Su Yanyue stood in front of him and stared at him tightly. The water waves in her eyes were flowing. One point was happiness, but the remaining nine points were worried and worried.
"Cousin, how are you?"
Tang Jinlou smiled and said, "What do you think?"
Su Yanyue looked at him for a long time and said in a trembling voice: "Are you suffering internal injuries?" People who practice internal skills are often vaguely radiant, with round and smooth pearls in their eyes, and bright and bright. Except for the masters who have reached the state of returning to nature and those with strange physical symptoms, everyone is like this. But Tang Jinlou's face is sallow, his face is sick, and his eyes are dull, which is clearly a sign of excessive internal injuries.
Tang Jinlou smiled slightly: "That's right, I fought with Ren Woxing and almost died at his hands."
Su Yanyue said in a trembling voice: "I heard from my senior brothers that Ren Woxing was the former big devil of the Demon Sect. How could you get involved with him?" He stepped forward to help Tang Jinlou's arm and said: "Cousin, let's go to the city for dinner first?"
Tang Jin's corridor said: "Okay."
The two of them were close together and walked slowly towards the city along the official road.
Su Yanyue said: "After you arrived in Huashan, several senior brothers saw your letter. The master was not on the mountain, so I told the senior brothers that I came here only after I told you." Tang Jinlou smiled bitterly and said, "Isn't Master on the mountain?" Tang Jinlou couldn't use any of his internal skills. Now he thought that Lao Yue, who had decades of experience in practicing Zixia Gong, could find a way to help him, but he didn't expect that Yue Buqun was not in Huashan.
Su Yanyue said: "After discussing the matter with the Zuo Alliance Leader in Songshan, his wife left Songshan. Later, she just sent a letter back, saying that she wanted to visit the other four factions and discuss important matters. The letter was originally for you, but you were not on the mountain at that time. The senior brothers were afraid that the master had important matters, so they opened it and read it."
Tang Jinlou smiled bitterly and said, "So, don't we know where Master and the others have gone?" He thought to himself: If Yue Buqun was not there at this moment when he returned to Huashan, the injury might have been dragged on for a while. But when he thought of Huashan, Tang Jinlou's heart suddenly moved: Damn, why did I forget Uncle Feng?
Tang Jinlou has seen Feng Qingyang's internal skills and accomplishments. Although he has retired, if Tang Jinlou is seriously ill, he may not have appeared. It is better to have hope than not.
Su Yanyue was silent for a moment, nodded, and suddenly said, "Cousin, are your injuries very serious?"
Tang Jinlou looked at her worried expression and finally sighed, saying, "You look at it and you will know." Su Yanyue put her hand on Tang Jinlou's wrist almost in fear. After a moment, her face became confused. After another moment, Su Yanyue finally reacted, and her face was frighteningly pale.
"Is this what they say 'Star-absorbing**'?"
Tang Jinlou hugged Su Yanyue in his arms and comforted him: "It's okay, Yan'er, I will be able to practice back one day." But at this moment, he said this just to comfort Su Yanyue, and he was not sure even himself.
Su Yanyue buried her head in Tang Jinlou's arms and murmured: "When they talked about Ren Woxing, I was very worried. Cousin. You have lost your internal strength, why can you still laugh?"
Tang Jinlou patted Su Yanyue's back and was about to comfort her. On the official road, three horses came with the three riding on the horses. The horses walked in very leisurely. As they got closer, Tang Jinlou recognized at a glance that two of them were actually two elders from Wudang!
Tang Jinlou patted Su Yanyue, let go of her, saluted to the three of them from afar, "Senior."
Immediately, an old man bent over and hunched over and looked at the person next to him. The man looked at Tang Jinlou, exclaimed, and said, "Little boy, why haven't you seen him for two months? You have become like this." He turned his head and said, "Senior Brother, this is the young hero of Tang of the Huashan Sect that I told you. I didn't expect to meet him at Wuhan entrance. This is really a coincidence." Tang Jinlou was shocked. Unexpectedly, this little old man who bent over and hunched over and was actually the head of Wudang. Master Chongxu immediately bowed to him again. Chongxu waved his hands repeatedly and said, "No need to be polite." The three of them got off the horse, Chongxu narrowed his eyes, looked at Tang Jinlou, and also exclaimed, "Young Master Tang seems to be seriously injured in his internal state. Can you let the old Taoist see?"
Tang Jinlu said, "I will not be able to ask for it."
Chongxu smiled slightly, stepped forward and pinched Tang Jinlou's maritime door. After only a moment, he let go and sighed, "It turned out to be a star-absorbing**." He looked at Tang Jinlou in surprise and said, "Young hero has seen Ren Woxing?"
Tang Jinlou smiled bitterly and said, "I have all my internal strength in his hands. How could I never see it?" He told me about the day's incident in the teahouse, but just omitted the part where Ren Yingying saved her, and also omitted the character Xiang Wentian by the way, saying that he had stumbled and escaped.
Chongxu was staring at him tightly, with a faint light in his eyes. Wu Shengsheng, who was often disguised as a man who picked firewood, frowned and asked: "Once the Star-Absorbing** takes action, the person being controlled will not even move. What moves do you use can actually hurt him?" He had seen Tang Jinlou two or three times, and was even more kind to him. Naturally, he was not like Chongxu. Due to his inconvenience to speak out, he had doubts in his heart and had already said it directly.
Tang Jinlou said lightly: "When I was fighting with Ren Woxing, I occasionally realized something, so although my hands and feet were weak, I still hurt him."
Chong Xu glanced at him and frowned and said, "Once the Star-Absorbing** is used, the true energy will inevitably be magnificent. If you are controlled by the Star-Absorbing**, your hands and feet are weak, how can you still stab him?"
Tang Jinlou knew that Taoist Master Chongxu was suspicious, but he was just telling the reason why his internal strength was destroyed, and he had to deliberately deceive them to expect what benefits... Therefore, once he questioned, he immediately felt unhappy.
Tang Jinlou said lightly: "Everything I said is true. If the Taoist priest does not believe it, I would like to give it a try with the Taoist priest."
Taoist Master Chongxu smiled faintly, and was about to speak, Elder Zhao Chai smiled and said, "You kid, you have challenged the head of Wudang." Looking at him, his expression was strange, "But you kid is really weird. Every time I see you, it's very different from the last time. Come on, I want to see how you can break the magical power of Ren Woxing if you are weak."
Taoist Master Chongxu said, "Junior brother, Young Master Tang is seriously injured. How can he still take action..."
Chapter completed!