Chapter Twelve: The Dazed Shifu Sister

  Lin Xiao woke up from his nightmare. He saw his father, Lin Shan, being hacked to pieces by a group of people with chaotic knives. He saw everyone in the Hui Chun Tang dying under the swarm of black knife gangsters. He saw Hua Wenyang and Lin Yao standing in front of him, covered in blood, stretching out their long arms to grab his throat. He saw Hu Zhutie and Wei Xiansheng from the account room, their bodies broken and battered, struggling and groaning on the ground.

  Everyone he knew was lying in a pool of blood, staring at him with wide eyes. Those unwilling and resentful gazes seemed to be asking Lin Xiao why they all died, but only Lin Xiao was still alive!

  Then, it was the people of Shenjia Village. Thousands of Shen family members were chopped into pieces by the Overlord's Halberd, thousands of black shadows stood in front of Lin Xiao, silently staring at him. Why did he want to save those who broke into Shenjia Village? Why did he want to save their lives? Among these thousands of lives, there was also a share of Lin Xiao's guilt.

  Shen Xiaobai's face suddenly emerged, her pale and delicate little face now covered in blood. She stood in front of Lin Xiao, constantly saying something to him. But Lin Xiao couldn't hear a word, he couldn't hear anything, nor could he sense anything. Just as he was about to ask Shen Xiaobai what she had said, what she wanted to say to him, a large knife suddenly slashed across, and Shen Xiaobai's head flew high into the air, with droplets of blood splashing onto Lin Xiao's face. Lin Xiao turned around in anger, just in time to see Xue Wu sneering at him.

  His whole body was covered in sweat like a soup, and Lin Xiao suddenly woke up.

  The thick sweat was like glue, sticking to his body, making his skin feel sticky and uncomfortable. However, inside his body, he felt extremely comfortable, not only had all his injuries healed, but even his meridians seemed to have expanded a lot. The true energy that used to be slightly stagnant during his qigong practice now flowed freely and easily throughout his body, as if it was following his heart's desire. Lin Xiao was even surprised to discover that several of the acupoints he had spent years trying to open up but couldn't, had suddenly become major thoroughfares. Even the Ren and Du meridians, which determined a martial artist's innate and acquired abilities, were now flowing smoothly like the two main commercial roads in the city of Guihua.

  He slowly sat up, and Lin Xiao saw that he was wearing a blue coarse linen shirt. Underneath him was a simple wooden bed, with only a blue coarse linen cloth spread on the smooth bed board. He had just been lying on this bed. He turned his head to look around, huh, the room wasn't big either, probably about two zhang square in size. Except for the wooden bed under him, there was only a small four-legged table in the house, and two long benches by the table.

  On the square table there was a bronze oil lamp, a small teapot and a tea cup.

  On the stool, there was a girl wearing a green skirt, her two elbows resting on the square table, her hands supporting her chin, and she was dozing off.

  She was sitting in the direction of the wooden bed, so Lin Xiao easily saw her face. A clean and neat goose egg face, a clear water face that had not been modified at all. A straight nose, a slightly red small mouth, and a pair of very delicate long eyebrows. Overall, this is a very clean, beautiful, and approachable girl. Lin Xiao roughly guessed her age, hmm, maybe one or two years older than Lin Xiao, but definitely not much older.

  This girl gave Lin Xiao a very strange feeling. But for the time being, Lin Xiao didn't notice what specifically made him feel uneasy.

  The raven-black long hair was very shiny, but the girl simply used a thorny stem to tie it up on her head, with a few strands of hair sticking out from the bun and swaying back and forth in front of her face. Her clothes were washed very clean, but there seemed to be some unknown substance stuck to the cuffs, which looked black and dirty, and the cuffs and chest appeared to have been burned by fire, with large and small transparent holes.

  "Ah, Lin Xiao finally understood what was wrong. The girl's hands were drooping down to her chin as she dozed off, but her small mouth was slightly open, with a thread of saliva hanging from the corner of her mouth and slowly dripping onto the table, forming a palm-sized puddle. Lin Xiao stared blankly at the thread of saliva, when suddenly the girl smacked her lips and started talking in her sleep: "Master's wife, save the chicken leg for Yao'er, it's been so long since I've had chicken leg...slurp, slurp, delicious!"

  Lin Xiao's mouth twitched and he looked around the room again, softly calling out: "Miss... this miss... uh, young lady!"

  Lin Xiao called out several times, gradually increasing his voice, but the girl continued to sleep soundly, without any reaction. Helpless, Lin Xiao could only slightly mobilize a bit of true energy and coughed forcefully. "Hmmm" - the lamp on the table shook violently, the tea lid was shaken off and fell onto the table with a loud "clang".

  "Ah?" The little girl suddenly opened her eyes, she blinked a few times in a daze, and stared blankly at Lin Xiang for a while.

  The little girl wiped the corner of her mouth with her sleeve and nodded vaguely at Lin Xiao: "Oh, you're awake!"

  She stood up and was about to leave. Lin looked at her in a daze, hesitating whether to speak up to ask where this place was and who she was when the little girl suddenly burst out with an earth-shattering shriek: "Heavens! Who are you? How did you get into my room? Look! Are you here to steal my secretly refined elixir?"

  The little girl suddenly turned her body around and stretched out her hand towards Lin Xiao Yao.

  Lin Xiao Meng suddenly raised his arms and blocked in front of him, shouting: "Wait a minute, I am not ～～～"

  Lin Xiao hadn't finished speaking when a loud "boom" shook the air, and a bolt of lightning shot out from the little girl's palm, striking Lin Xiao and the wooden bed, shattering them both into the wall behind. Lin Xiao flew out of the house in disarray, his clothes reduced to black ash, his entire body scorched by the lightning fire. Feeling his internal organs convulsing, Lin Xiao crashed heavily to the ground. He opened his mouth to say something, but a stream of black smoke burst forth instead. He shook his head and let out a "gurgle" before passing out once more.

  Lin Xiao was struck by a palm and flew away. The little girl looked at the wall in confusion, saw that there was an extra large hole in the house, and suddenly slapped her forehead, exclaiming: "Strange, this doesn't seem to be my bedroom!"

  She blinked her eyes, and suddenly the little girl shouted: "Ah ya ya ya, it's bad, it's bad, I remembered! This dark and dirty guy is the little brother that Master is going to take in! Ah ya, little brother, how did you become like this? Just now when I was washing your bath, you were still all white and tender!" The little girl rushed to Lin Xiao's side in a flurry, with tears already welling up in her eyes: "Wu wu wu, how did you get hurt by someone? Master will definitely blame me for not taking good care of you!"

  People appeared from all directions, either flying in or jumping in with quick movements using their light body skills. One by one, the Taoist priests and nuns arrived nearby, staring blankly at the little girl who was holding Lin Xiao and wailing loudly. They shook their heads, patted her bottom, and turned to leave. Only a middle-aged nun wearing an apricot-yellow robe walked away for a few steps before hearing the little girl's crying again. She couldn't bear it and turned back to say: "Medicine Girl, your Palm Thunder power is not enough. This kid is fine; just give him two random medicine pills and he'll be okay."

  "Oh? Just take two pills?" The medicine child blinked, and indeed took out two black pills from her sleeve and stuffed them into Lin Xiao's mouth. As soon as the pills entered his stomach, they turned into two streams of bitter, spicy, and astringent heat that rushed into Lin Xiao's abdomen. For a moment, there was a "gurgling" noise in Lin Xiao's stomach, and his body began to convulse violently.

  The Taoist nun in the apricot-yellow robe instructed Yaoyi with a sentence, and just took two steps away. Suddenly she slapped her forehead hard, turned around sharply and shouted: "Yaoyi, no! Don't give him the medicine!"

  Yaoyao pointed at Lin Xiao's body which was convulsing violently and said to the Taoist nun with a smile: "Flower Shijie, he has already swallowed it."

  Hua Shi Jie's hands trembled slightly as she asked Ya Er somewhat nervously: "What medicine did you give him?"

  She blinked, and the medicine child stupidly fished out a handful of colorful pills from her sleeve, puzzled, and said to Hua Shijie: "Didn't you say that just feeding him two pills would be enough? I... forgot what medicine I gave him." She counted the pills in her hand, comparing them one by one, saying: "Look, there are over thirty kinds of pills here."

  "Hua Shijie let out a series of dry, mirthless laughs, then suddenly stood up straight and shouted at the top of her lungs: "Master! Come quick and save us! The medicine has been given to the wrong person! Come quick and save us!"

  A streak of cyan light flashed through the void, and a middle-aged Taoist with a pale face and no beard rushed over with his sword light. He shouted loudly: "Medicine boy, I just collected all the medicine balls from you last month, where did you get these elixirs?" As he shouted, he rushed towards Lin Xiao with his sword light, stretching out his hand to grab him.

  Suddenly, Lin Xiao, who was in a coma, let out an earth-shattering roar and jumped up from where he was lying, soaring to a height of over 50 feet. The night wind blew, instantly blowing away the clothes on his body that had turned to dust, revealing his dark, shiny body to the gaze of nearly a hundred Taoist priests and priestesses around him. A Taoist priest holding a sword looked up with one hand grasping at nothing, feeling extremely embarrassed, only to see Lin Xiao let out a strange cry, covering his lower body with both hands, and rushing towards a distant thicket of flowers in disarray.

  Soon, a strange noise came from the flower bed, and a faint smell of something unusual wafted over.

  The Daoist's aura was still and his sword light had been retracted, standing fiercely in front of Yao who was huddled with her shoulders shrunk, head lowered, and tears streaming down. Before the Daoist could even open his mouth to scold, Yao had already squatted on the ground and burst into loud wailing: "Waaahhh... Master's wife~~~~~Master is going to scold me again~~~~~Master's wife, come quick~~~~~Master is going to scold Yao again~~~~~Waaahhh... these medicinal pills were made by me in the past few days while I was playing around in the Dan room..."

  The Taoist's face twitched violently a few times, and he asked in a low voice: "Ya'er, what kind of pill did you give him? Do you still remember the prescription for that pill?"

  The young boy looked up at the Taoist priest with a bewildered expression, blinking his eyes several times before speaking in a puzzled tone: "A formula? Hmm, I don't know either! I just randomly grabbed some herbs and threw them into the crucible, and it ended up producing a pill. I have no idea what kind of thing it is... Uh, but I do have some pills that were made according to traditional formulas here. Let me show you - there's 'Bone-Melting Pill', 'Cold Marrow Pill', 'Wooden Puppet Pill', and...

  The Taoist's face twitched even more fiercely. He stared blankly at Yao, and after a long while, he spoke in a dry tone: "Within three months, you are not allowed to step into the Dan room again. Hand over all the elixirs on your body to me! Quickly, including those on your hands and in your sleeves!"

  The young medicine god looked at the Taoist priest with an expression of utmost grievance, slowly handing over a large handful of medicinal pellets to him, and then pulled out a large handful of medicinal pills from his sleeve and handed them over.

  The Taoist pointed at the waistband of the medicine: "There are seven hidden pockets in your waistband, all the elixirs inside, quickly!"

  She rolled her eyes and retrieved a few medicine bottles from her waistband, handing them over to the Taoist.

  The Taoist's hand pointed at Yao'er's boots: "You have always hidden medicine pills in your boot, hand them over to me as well."

  He also pointed at Yao's hair bun: "Also, sometimes you hide a few wax pellets in your hair bun, don't think that I, as your master, am unaware of these little tricks of yours."

  One side forced the medicine boy to hand over all the scattered Dan medicines, while the Taoist listened carefully to the movements on Lin Xiao's side. The Danfeng Taoist had handed over a pure fire-attribute disciple to him, wanting him to take Lin Xiao as his apprentice, which was a good thing, and he absolutely did not want anything to happen to this apprentice who was destined to have great achievements in the "fire-refining" way. Soon, the Taoist felt at ease, the strange noises in the flower garden continued, and although Lin Xiao's groans were painful, his breath was very sufficient, it seemed that the Dan medicine given to him by the medicine boy was not a highly toxic substance.

  After sweeping away the medicine pills on Ya'er's body, Daoist pointed at Hua Shi sister who was wearing an apricot yellow Daoist robe and scolded: "Hua Feng'er, you're also muddled. You know what kind of temperament Ya'er has, yet you can give her advice to just feed her two medicine pills casually, you, you, you! Have you also become muddled?"

  Huā Fēng'er also looked at Dào Rén with a pitiful expression, helplessly spreading his hands and saying: "Master, this... the power of Shī Jiě's palm thunder is indeed not enough. As long as she takes two pills of Hù Xīn Shén and Yǎng Ròu Tǐ's elixir, it will naturally be fine. But Shī Jiě, she..."

  Huafeng'er cast a strange glance at the flowerbed over there and smiled wryly at Daodao Ren.

  The Taoist's face was momentarily unable to hold on, he glanced at his fellow disciples nearby and loudly waved his hand: "Alright, disperse, disperse, let me see how exciting Dan Fuyou's life is!"

  A group of Taoist priests and nuns laughed and chatted as they bid farewell to the mortal world, quickly disappearing after displaying their magical powers.

  The next morning, after a night of diarrhea, he was already exhausted, walking slowly like a zombie. Under the leadership of Dan Fusheng, they headed to the 'Danqi Lingxiaotian' under the main peak of Huichun Valley. After a severe night of diarrhea, Lin Xiao felt that his internal organs were about to be drained out. If not for Dan Fusheng giving him two medicinal pills to replenish his energy, he would probably still be lying in bed now.

  Even with the Dan floating in his life, the two 'laxatives' made by the medicine boy seemed to have used some strange materials, Lin Xiao still felt limp and weak all over, his two legs trembling, every step soft and mushy, as if he was about to fall at any moment.

  Dan Fusheng looked at Lin Xiao beside him, who was pale and expressionless, and couldn't help but smile with narrowed eyes: "Hehehe, having a big purge once in a while is also a good thing. The impurities in your body are now completely gone, the two pills of Medicine King's were quite domineering, but the effect is not bad. Hmm, hmm, it saved you from taking a dose of 'Washing Marrow Soup' after entering the sect."

  Lin Xiao slowly turned his head around, opened his mouth weakly and slowly, and softly said: "Oh～～～"

  Dan Fusheng gently patted Lin Xiao's shoulder, remained silent for a moment, before saying: "Today, I officially accept you as a disciple of the Great Luo Dan Dao. The matters regarding Gui Hua City and Hui Chun Tang, we already know about them. Your two Shifu uncles have gone to investigate and returned overnight. Hmm, the Jiemo Gate dares to enter Dayuan Country to cause trouble, and even destroyed our outer sect's descendants. This matter, we will definitely settle with them. However, your cultivation is too low, so don't worry about this matter."

  Lin Xiao opened his mouth, wanting to say something. But he suddenly discovered that he didn't even have the qualification to express his opinion.

  Last night, the palm thunder of Yao's medicine and the sword light driven by Dan Fuxing made Lin Xiao clearly understand that he, Lin Xiao, had already touched a legendary world.

  In this world, Lin Xiao, who only had a decade or so of true energy cultivation in the secular realm, didn't even have the qualifications to speak.

  Daluotan Dao and Jiemomen will create what kind of trouble for Huichuntang, and what kind of conflict will erupt. All of this has nothing to do with Lin Xiao anymore.

  Perhaps many years later, when Lin Xiao has the same strength as Dan Fusheng, he will have the qualifications to find the Jimo Gate in person and seek justice for Lin Shan.

  The main gate of the Lingxiao Hall was wide open, and the golden bell and jade drum emitted a pleasant soft hum. After five years of closed cultivation, after refining a large amount of elixir for Yuan Zong, the Dalo Dan Dao reopened its mountain gate, and Dan Fusheng took in Lin Xiao, becoming an ordinary white-clothed Taoist disciple of the Dalo Dan Dao.

  Lin Xiao knelt down in front of the ancestral statue of Daluo Dao and piously kowtowed to it.

  The elders of the Great Luo Dan Dao, such as Dan Jing Dao Ren, nodded slightly. They could see the sincerity, persistence and determination in Lin Xiao's heart.

  But they all didn't see that in the future, Lin Xiao would become what kind of person and what things he would encounter!

  Just as Lin Xiao heavily knocked his head on the ground, smashing out a patch of bloodstains, Dan Fusheng felt a little heartache and called him to get up. At this time, a shocking and earth-shaking loud noise suddenly came from the direction of the Dan house under the mountain peak in the south.

  The Taoists in the main hall rushed out of the main hall, cast spells and floated in mid-air towards Dan Fang.

  Only a small black mushroom-shaped cloud rose from the Dan House, and the Dan House had already been blown up into the air. Now countless broken bricks and tiles were falling down.

  Dan Jing Dao Ren looked at the various junior brothers and sisters in a daze, and asked stupidly: "I seemed to have said yesterday that the Dan medicine has been completely refined, and let all the disciples rest for a month. But who is in the Dan room?"

  Dan Fusheng's mouth twitched and he suddenly let out a sharp yell: "Medicine~~~~"

  A faint, sobbing cry came from afar: "Wuuu... Master, save me! Medicine child lost a 'Violent Sun Fruit', why did the alchemy furnace explode?"

  With a "thud", Dan Fuyao's true energy was disrupted, and for a moment he couldn't stand firm, tumbling down from the sky in disarray.

  Lin Xiao's mouth twitched and a happy smile suddenly appeared on his face.

  What is Taoism?

  It seems this school is pretty good.