CH 50

When leaving with Fu Qing, Wu Rong did not forget to take away the unconscious Hui Xin. The ghost dog disappeared long before the big ghost did, and cleverly sneaked into his shadow before Fu Qing came. It wasn’t just Fu Qing who came, the staff behind him would naturally clean up the still breathing Hu Xian and the blood mud fallen all over the mountains and plains.

Wu Rong and Fu Qing returned to the real world together, that’s right, they directly appeared in the No. 444 Tiankeng Security Bureau, and not in the No. 444 Tiankeng again.

“The Tiankeng has collapsed.”

After returning to reality, the two naturally returned to their original states. Fu Qing wiped off the blood on Wu Rong’s face, and looked at his pale skin against the bloodstains, frowning. He untied the small jasper gourd tied to his belt, and handed it over to him, “Drink a few sips.”

Fu Qing’s movements were so natural that Wu Rong didn’t mull over them after taking it. What entered his mouth was an extremely dense, mellow and sweet liquid, its consistency was like diluted honey, and it tasted a bit like fruit wine, but it had a better taste. Wu Rong’s face flushed as soon as he took a sip, and a warm current poured in from his throat, making his whole body warm up. The taste was so good that the corners of Wu Rong’s mouth twitched unconsciously when he returned the jasper gourd to Fu Qing. 

“It’s delicious.”

“Here you go.”

Fu Qing didn’t take the jasper gourd back. Seeing Wu Rong’s appearance at this moment, his eyes became warmer, and he reminded: “You have too much Yin in your body now, so you can’t drink more.”

The feeling of being slightly drunk was very comfortable, coupled with the fact that he was finally out of danger and had returned to reality, Wu Rong’s tense nerves were finally relaxed, and he let his drunkenness rise. He smiled and nodded casually, whistling. Then, he continued to talk to Fu Qing:

“I brought a lot of dangerous things with me when I came back this time.”

Wu Rong spoke briskly, grabbed Fu Qing’s hand that was still cleaning the blood on his face, held it in his hand, and emphasized happily: “I brought back quite a lot.”

Just then, a commotion came out from behind them. Accompanied by approaching messy footsteps and the sound of screams and panic. 

“The poisonous spider is gone!”

“Be careful it’s highly poisonous, grab it quickly!”

“People in front get out of the way, beware of the poisonous spider!”

They saw a group of black shadows rushing towards Wu Rong with lightning speed, obviously its whole body was black, but it had eight pure white limbs, and it came towards Wu Rong in the blink of an eye, lightly, as if floating on the wind. 

“Be careful—!!”

The words of the staff chasing after it stopped abruptly, and they watched in horror as the black ball jumped up from the ground like a jumping spider, and crawled along Wu Rong’s trouser legs to his shoulder in the blink of an eye. But after the blackness left the ground, eight pure white, extremely long, jointed limbs were still on the ground. After careful inspection, one could find that it was actually an extremely flat spider!

Just as everyone was startled by the horrifying grimace behind it, they saw the white flat spider slowly and hesitantly climb onto Wu Rong’s shoe, curled up like an inconspicuous decoration.

“Kaka!” 

The black rock tarantula finally returned to Wu Rong’s side, circling back and forth on his shoulders with great excitement, and its heartfelt emotions flashed across Wu Rong’s heart like swiping a screen “’You’re bad’ ‘You’re bad’ ‘You’re so bad! ‘”

“Wait for when we go back, I’ll bring bugs for you.”

Wu Rong had a good temper as he promised, and the black rock tarantula was very coaxable, and immediately became happy. After this mess, someone finally invited them to a special lounge.

When the visitor saw the jasper gourd in Wu Rong’s hand, his eyes widened in astonishment, and he looked at Fu Qing again. He didn’t dare intervene, and while leading the way, his eyes flicked back and forth between Wu Rong and Fu Qing, as if seeing an incredible world. Wu Rong didn’t care too much, and after entering the lounge, he nestled on the soft and comfortable sofa, hugged the gourd, and wanted to drink a few more sips. 

Fu Qing washed the towel and wiped his face, and as the cold steam hit his face, Wu Rong finally woke up from his drunkenness. He felt indescribably good in this moment, all the exhaustion after the battle and the weakness from excessive blood loss disappeared, and he felt completely refreshed.

“What’s in here?”

“monkey wine, mixed with my fingertip blood.”

No wonder. 

Wu Rong recalled the blood that Fu Qing had tapped on his forehead when he was still in Tiankeng No. 444, which gave Wu Rong a very strong feeling at that time.

“You have too much Yin Qi in you.”

Fu Qing handed the towel to Wu Rong and let him clean himself up: “Pay more attention when you are young.”

The big ghost drank blood, and now he drank some himself. 

Although the drunkenness subsided, his good mood was still there. Though it was not as obvious as before, there was still a little smile in Wu Rong’s eyes: “Your body?”

“It’s nothing.”

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“I am not worthy.”

Wu Rong sidestepped: “Hui Xin also helped me a lot.”

Zhou Xun, who came in quickly following Master Kuchan, saw Wu Rong covered in blood, and his face wrinkled in horror and anxiety, his breath calmed and relaxed slightly when he heard his words. After seeing the jasper gourd in his hand, his eyes suddenly widened again, with an expression of disbelief. He wanted to talk, but was being hindered by the highly respected Master Kuchan. His face was flushed from coming and going around, which made people worry that something might be wrong with him. 

Fortunately, after two sentences, Wu Rong handed over the backpack containing the stone box and the child’s skeleton to Master Kuchan for inspection. It was full of high-risk items. Fu Qing went to the back room together with Master Kuchan. Every tester who returned from the Tiankeng must undergo strict inspection to confirm that nothing in the Tiankeng had been brought back into the world. It was Zhou Xun who was in charge of inspecting Wu Rong.

After the inspection, Wu Rong took off his clothes, received the clean and disinfected pajamas provided by the Security Bureau, and went to the bathroom to wash up. The wound that was used to feed blood to the big ghost had healed, and the newly grown tender flesh was whiter than the skin next to it. After washing up, Wu Rong wiped his hair and went out. Zhou Xun had already sealed up all his clothes and sent them for inspection.

“You worried me to death!”

Without Master Kuchan and Fu Qing by his side, Zhou Xun immediately showed his true colors, wishing to examine Wu Rong from his hair to his feet, and he kept saying, “Did you know that Tiankeng No. 444 has been destroyed!” 

“The No. 444 Tiankeng was destroyed?”

Wu Rong paused and sat down on the sofa opposite Zhou Xun.

“Yes! The consciousness of Tiankeng No. 444 is gone, and the core figure, Chi Fangfang, is also gone. Together with the destruction caused by the torrent of Yin Qin, it must’ve been destroyed!”

Zhou Xun still had lingering fears when he said this: “It’s all thanks to Fu Qing, who found a way to reopen the torrent of Yin Qi, otherwise, you wouldn’t have even been able to get out!” 

At this moment, he paused for a moment, looked at Wu Rong hesitantly, as if hesitant to speak. Wu Rong immediately noticed and asked, “What’s the matter?”

“You are friends, it’s better for him to tell you about this, but I’ll tell you the truth first.”

Zhou Xun lowered his voice: “Fu Qing is definitely a descendant of the Fu family in Longhushan, and his status is not low. Professor Tong Fuyuan from Tianda University in the capital came here specially for him.”

He pursed his lips, gestured towards the jasper gourd Wu Rong held in his hand, and said nervously, “Professor Tong specially brought this for Fu Qing. It’s said that it’s a relic of Great Master Fu!” 

In fact, Zhou Xun was also confused right now, but he saw that Wu Rong also didn’t know anything, so he became even more worried about Wu Rong. From Zhou Xun’s point of view, Wu Rong had a cold personality, but he was a very kind person. He didn’t have many friends, but he took them all to heart. It seemed like his relationship with Fu Qing was also good, so Zhou Xun hesitated and then chose to tell Wu Rong.

Although Fu Qing looks like a person with a true temperament, with his talent, if he really chose to return to Longhu Mountain to inherit his ancestral business, then the status gap will instantly widen between him and Wu Rong. It wouldn’t be too much to call it the difference between the heaven and the earth. Society is realistic, and even the purest friendship would be quick to degenerate once mixed with their vastly different status’.

In the future, if Fu Qing takes a task, he would probably take a S-level task, and the trials he would go to would be at some Great Tiankeng. However, ordinary ghost raisers like Wu Rong have few chances to even go to a small Tiankeng. Why is it always said that people at the same level are more likely to become friends and partners? If the time in question arrives, they would not get along as well as they used to.

Zhou Xun felt that no matter what, if Wu Rong knew earlier then there would be no harm. He had hinted to a lot, especially regarding the jasper gourd that Wu Rong casually held in his hand. 

This is the relic of Grandmaster Fu! As a family treasure, it is not an exaggeration to enshrine it as the Fu’s lineage treasure!

And Professor Tong, who is famous all over the world, came here specially and solemnly handed it over to Fu Qing, which was enough to show how high Fu Qing’s status is, Zhou Xun didn’t even dare to think about it! He couldn’t even understand how Wu Rong remained calm after hearing this. Could it be that he was so shocked that his face remained expressionless?

Seeing Wu Rong’s unchanged expression, Zhou Xun scratched his head anxiously, and wanted to remind him with a few more words, but at this time Master Kuchan and Fu Qing came back.

“Amitabha.” 

Master Kuchan’s expression was extremely dignified and serious, with his palms folded above his chest, his five fingers close together, the tips of his fingers almost parallel to the tip of his nose, and he saluted Wu Rong solemnly. Wu Rong didn’t have time to evade, so he could only receive it.

“Don’t worry about it, benefactor, you deserve it. It’s a great merit for you to bring back the Wise Vajra Boy back to the world!”

Wu Rong intuited that what Master Kuchan said had something to do with the child’s skeleton he had brought back, as expected, Master Kuchan then told him about it.

“The Wise Boy is a kind of fate’s life, also known as the Zhen Boy. ‘Vajra’ means Dorje in Tibetan, and the Wise Vajra boy is the only boy who served beside the reincarnated living Buddha, Sima Gyatso. When the spiritual recovery first came, he followed Sima Gyatso all the way from Tibet to Mount Longhu, and when the nine heroes from all over the world gathered, he also followed Sima Gyatso to seal the Tiankeng.” 

“We all thought that the Wise Boy died in the Tiankeng, but we didn’t expect…”

Master Kuchan let out a long sigh and said Amitabha: “Now it seems that Sima Gyatso may have predicted that something would happen in the Great Youpotan Tiankeng many years later, so he set up a crack in the Tiankengs, where Hu Xian was sealed, in No. 444 Tiankeng, right in the middle of Youpotan’s Tiankeng. The Wise Boy was left there, and various means were set up.”

Master Kuchan put three groups of things on the table, from left to right, they were the honey-colored skeleton wrapped in red sheepskin, the skull with the purifying orb, the human bone horn in the stone box, and the golden box sealed by Wu Rong. It was unknown what means he used, but these things that could only be seen with the ghost eye all showed their original shape.

Wu Rong understood that now it was time to ‘split the spoils’, although this time, in order to encourage the trainees, many of the items obtained in the Tiankeng were officially owned by the trainees. This one involved the sacrifice of the Dalai Lama Sima Gyatso. According to Master Kuchan, these things were considered holy objects comparable to the shroud of Jesus. His other words were to make it clear that the Tiankeng Crack was not included in the no. 444 Tiankeng. 

Wu Rong remained calm and did not speak. Fu Qing was always silent, and his eyes fell on Wu Rong. Zhou Xun looked at the master in embarrassment, then at Wu Rong, and finally bit the bullet and said, “Master, these items were brought back from the Tiankeng by A-Rong at the risk of his life, this…”

It can’t be too ugly.

“Amitabha, you misunderstand me. I had made the rules beforehand, so I will follow them.”

Master Kuchan said gently and sincerely, “I just hope to ask Benefactor Wu for the bones of the Wise Boy and send them to Tibet for burial.” 

“Yes.”

Wu Rong nodded, pointed to the closed honey-colored skull and said, “There is an purifying orb sealed inside.”

If Master Kuchan wanted to take away all the bones, he had to find a way to put away the purifying pearl.

“The purifying pearl is the purest thing in the world, so naturally only the purest things can contain it.” 

Saying that, Master Kuchan looked at Zhou Xun. Zhou Xun was startled, as if he had just remembered something, hurried out of the door, and returned after a while, holding a tray covered with a red cloth.

“A-Rong, you ranked first overall in this trial, this is your reward!”

Lifting the red cloth, a sandalwood box, with one corner inlaid with copper, and an emerald jade box, wrapped with ink strings, were placed side by side on the tray. Master Kuchan opened the sandalwood box with his own hands, and a bright and shining light burst out from it. Inside the wooden box was a hand-cranked mani wheel inlaid with various coral gems in pure gold, that is, a prayer wheel. Master Kuchan held up the mani wheel with both hands, picked up the honey-colored skull, and chanted something, lightly knocking the skull against the mani wheel.

Buzz——

There was a small buzzing sound, and a faint green light appeared fleetingly. After the purifying pearl entered the prayer wheel, the prayer wheel turned spontaneously, and a calm and peaceful pure energy radiated from the prayer wheel. Master Kuchan handed it to Wu Rong: “There is a six-character mantra engraved in the mani wheel. Each turn is equivalent to reciting a mantra to accumulate merit. It can hold the purifying pearl.”

“If you don’t want the mani wheel to spin, just cover it with a blackout cover.” 

This prayer wheel was undoubtedly extremely precious, just the fact that it could hold the purifying pearl made Wu Rong feel extraordinary. The upper part of the prayer wheel was made of gold, and various scriptures, birds and animals were carved into it, just like an expensive handicraft! But the handle of the prayer wheel was not ordinary wood, but a peculiar light-yellow color, the material looked like jade but was not jade, like stone but not stone.

“Human bones?”

“Human bones.”

Master Kuchan nodded, spread the yellow silk cloth in his hands, and picked up the bone trumpet that had been placed in the stone box onto the silk cloth: “Many magical instruments of Tantric Buddhism are made of human bones. People often remember that death and life are impermanent, and most of the human bones are taken from the bodies of those who had cultivated deeply or those who were pure in nature and voluntarily donated. This hole is made of the leg bones of girls.” 

It is called Gangdong in Tibetan, which was actually the tibial trumpet. Its main body was carved out of the leg bones of a 16 or 18-year-old pure girl. It was pale yellow in color, with a silver-covered head decorated with red hides from unknown animals. In order to demonstrate how to use it to Wu Rong, Master Kuchan played a short song. The sound was not harsh, but very penetrating, desolate and bleak, which made people feel sad.

“Gangdong has two purposes. One is to exorcise demons, which can dispel the resentment of the dead and lead them to a blissful rebirth. The other is to summon souls.”

Master Kuchan even made a joke: “Try not to use it in the ghost domain, otherwise it may attract a wave of ghosts.” 

Placing Gangdong back into the stone box, Master Kuchan then opened the emerald box. As soon as he opened it, Wu Rong heard a hiss. For the first time, the Qingling Gu jumped out of the locust wood statue, quickly wrapped around Wu Rong’s wrist, and hissed eagerly at the emerald box, with the tip of its tail shaking. At the same time, the Zhong Gu that had been silent for a long time also trembled, constantly conveying the emotion of desire and prayer to Wu Rong.

Master Kuchan did not untie the ink string on the emerald box, but only opened it a crack. A refreshing mellow air immediately permeated, and everyone sitting around the table was refreshed. Wu Rong vaguely guessed what was in the emerald box, and was rarely excited.

The clear air around the box was as thick as white mist, and then, a few slender and pure white roots like snow, wich seemed to be alive, probed out from the gap. Retracting in panic after touching the ink line.

Master Kuchan closed the emerald box and tightened the ink string: “This wood spirit has intelligence, and it’s very quick to escape if it is not sealed with ink thread.” 

Sure enough, it was Wood Essence!

Wu Rong stroked the little green snake wrapped around his wrist as it shook its head and tail excitedly, and his spirits lifted. To incubate the Zhong Gu, you need gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, all these five elements. Wood Essence is the best and rarest wood attribute. Only when a thousand-year-old tree happens to grow on the dragon veins where the pure holy spirit gathers, and the heart of the tree is born by coincidence, will a wood spirit that resembles a human be born!

And it is also extremely beneficial to the Qingling Gu, if there were enough wood spirits, the Qingling Gu may even evolve again! But it was too rare, far rarer than Purified Rootless Water, so even though Grandma Wu told Wu Rong about it when he got the Zhong Gu, he didn’t expect to get a piece of Wood Essence so quickly!

No matter whether it was the Wood Essence or the prayer wheel cylinder, both of them had surpassed the rewards given by the government in the previous Tiankeng trials, which was really unbelievable. 

Since Master Kuchan dared to give it, Wu Rong dared to accept it. With the Wood Essence and the Purified Rootless Water sent by the Witchologist, he only needed to find the pure objects of the three attributes of gold, earth, and fire to hatch the Zhong Gu. The appointment with the Evil Miao was still a year away, and the time Wu Rong set for himself to incubate the Zhong Gu was half a year, and right now he was not far away from success.

Thinking of the Zhong Gu, Wu Rong’s thoughts could not help but drift to the big ghost in his left arm, and he asked Master Kuchan about the tomb on the barren mountain, in the crack of the Tiankeng.

“Sealed in the tomb was Hu Xian. The purifying pearl and Yangjin Zhuoma were the two most commonly used magic tools by Sima Gyatso. One is the main attack and the other is the seal. It’s not unusual to have plaster in the tomb. Yangjin Zhuoma likes to eat crickets, there should be such bugs near the grave.”

Master Kuchan pondered: “The golden talisman you mentioned. I guess it may be the Tantric Tiger Supressing Talisman. It’s just for sealing Hu Xian, so a top talisman of this kind of Tantric was not really needed. It’s usually used to seal a ghost king.” 

Speaking of this, Master Kuchan shook his head with regret: “It’s a pity that No. 444 Tiankeng and the crack of the Tiankeng were destroyed, and all of them were merged into the Great Youpotan Tiankeng. So I can’t confirm it with my own eyes.”

Seal a ghost king?

Wu Rong suddenly thought of the big ghost. Could it be that he and Sima Gyatso were old acquaintances? Was it an enemy or other relationship acting as the source of attracting the big ghost to the barren hill?

Wu Rong didn’t bother to think about this, but just thought about how to remove the seal on the big ghost. Once the golden needle and golden thread are removed, the big ghost would hear and speak, and then he could ask it whatever he wanted. 

The testers who entered the No. 444 Tiankeng this time suffered heavy injuries. After the consciousness of the Tiankeng left, the ghosts in the pit rioted, and a group of people died. The Tiankeng will be destroyed, and many hidden rare ghosts and spirits, that were originally hidden, have also been born one after another. The surviving testers were either strong or lucky, and they all had good harvests. In order to protect the safety of the testers and guard against people with ulterior motives, the testers were sent back to their original locations in batches by the cars of the Security Bureau.

Wu Rong was last in line, and while waiting, Zhou Xun told him about the grand occasion of the Tiankeng live broadcast.

“You have become famous this time, and many big platforms want to sign you!”

Zhou Xun was happy for Wu Rong. It would usually take a long time to accumulate an audience if one wanted to become an anchor, but now, Wu Rong could be said to have surpassed the previous accumulation step and directly gained countless fans. Many viewers were very concerned about the safety of the No. 3 anchor, and even in the past few days, “No. 444 Tiankeng No. 3 live broadcast room” has been listed as a hot search in various website forum platforms. 

With this kind of foundation, as long as Wu Rong signs a big platform with generous conditions, he won’t have to worry about money in the future!

This matter still needed to be carefully considered after returning home. When he boarded the car at night, Hui Xin was unexpectedly there. Out of the Tiankeng’s role, the young monk looked only about ten years old, with red lips and white teeth, as delicate as a Buddha child. It’s just that his complexion was still a little pale, and Wu Rong noticed that Hui Xin’s left arm was still hanging down, empty.

“Amitabha, thank you Benefactor Wu for saving my life.”

Hui Xin came over to thank him with a serious look, a very serious one, but it matched with his young face, he looked a little cute. 

“I still have a lot of shortcomings, and I still need to practice.”

This time they did not take the special channel for the return journey, but took the train back. On the way, Wu Rong remembered Zhou Xun’s words, and looked at Fu Qing several times beside him. Fu Qing’s beautiful and handsome side face was carved like jade, with long eyelashes. Fu Qing kept his eyes closed all the time and Wu Rong thought he didn’t notice it, but who knew that when the journey was over, and everyone said goodbye after getting off the bus, when Wu Rong was left with Fu Qing alone, he would suddenly ask.

“Yes?”

“Are you going back to Longhu Mountain?” 

Wu Rong thought about it, and asked directly: “If you go back to Longhu Mountain, you can learn more Taoism.”

Although he felt that Fu Qing was already very strong, the pursuit of becoming stronger in this world was always endless. The environment of the Longhu Mountain Taoist Temple was obviously more suitable for Fu Qing’s development.

But hearing him ask, Fu Qing said indifferently: “I don’t intend to go back.”

“They can’t teach me more.” 

This, this sentence made Wu Rong choke for a while. If others listened to it, they would definitely think that he was ignorant and talking nonsense, but seeing Fu Qing’s calm expression, Wu Rong believed it without any doubts. Also, with such strength, Fu Qing must have a deeper understanding of himself. Wu Rong rubbed the jasper gourd unconsciously, Fu Qing saw his silence, and as if he had misunderstood something, the Taoist priest frowned, and promised in a slow voice:

“I will not leave.”

“I can come and live at your house.”

Wu Rong: ???? 

Is there a causal relationship between these two sentences?

Wu Rong was stunned for a while, not knowing how Fu Qing’s brain circuit turned in this direction, but seeing the Taoist priest’s expression, he didn’t seem to be joking at all, but was seriously waiting for his reply.

Wu Rong subconsciously refused; he did not intend to live with others. But after thinking about it carefully, Wu Rong felt that this might be a good opportunity. Su Xiaomi said that the big ghost’s gold needle and gold thread seal came from Longhu Mountain, so maybe Fu Qing knew the way to unlock it. After this Tiankeng experience, Wu Rong changed his mind. The existence of the big ghost would always become known, but Wu Rong would rather prefer that the first to know about it would be Fu Qing.

The words of refusal were on his lips, but Wu Rong agreed. His villa is in the suburbs, not far from the drop-off point, and the two arrived side by side in no time. But at the entrance of the villa, Wu Rong immediately saw Huang Mao standing at the door with a sad face, nodding and bowing to persuade someone. At the door of Wu Rong’s house, there was a small bench and a folding table, and a middle-aged woman was sitting there calmly,folding paper ingots in her hands.. 

Wu Rong was stunned when he saw it, and hurriedly led Fu Qing over.

“Mom?”