Chapter 56: Ji Yun and Wu Er

  "Miko? Why bother who it is." The old woman said: "People outside call me Kasumi no Okina, you can also call me that."

  "What's 'Kui Wu'?" The name is strange.

  "Heh heh!" The old woman cackled, emitting a strange laugh. "This is the place of fog, as for the name? I've lived here for a thousand years, and it's been shrouded in mist for a thousand years, so they call me that."

  Lin Fan exclaimed, "A thousand years indeed." This old woman's cultivation was truly not low. Although Nangong Wuhen was only four or five hundred years old, he had already reached an age of over sixty. Lin Fan realized his mistake and said, "Thank you for saving my life."

  The old woman's expression was rather cold and she said, "Don't be in a hurry to thank her, her name is Muer."

  Lin Fan made a bow: "I've seen Miss Fog."

  The fog hurriedly returned the gift, and some hands and feet were at a loss.

  The old woman said, "I picked her up seventeen years ago and have been living with her here. The condition for saving you is to take her away. The vast and desolate land is full of evil sects, I don't feel at ease, it's easy for people from the righteous path to get lost in this mist, so I saved you by chance."

  "Take away?" Lin Fan didn't understand.

  "Are you a disciple of Yun Qing Men?"

  "How did you know?" Lin Fan was surprised, he didn't bring anything from his sect.

  "It's not like we haven't had dealings with the Yun Qing Sect before." The old woman was too lazy to explain: "You bring her to our sect and have her join the Yun Qing Sect, she's already at the early stage of the Golden Elixir, she won't embarrass your Yun Qing Sect."

  Lin Fan said with difficulty: "But, Yu'er has already cultivated the Heart Method of others and then entered the Cloud Qing Gate to cultivate the Cloud Please Law. I'm afraid she will go crazy."

  "Don't worry, she's practicing Tai Chi."

  What is the Tai Chu Heart Method? Lin Fan was shocked, and the five Tai in the pre-heavenly stage were Tai Chu, Tai Yi, Tai Shi, Tai Su, and Tai Ji. Tai Chu refers to the very initial stage, and the entry-level heart methods of all orthodox schools, demonic sects, and evil factions are based on Tai Chu for evolution. The reason is that the progress of the Tai Chu Heart Method is too slow, and this girl can use the Tai Chu Heart Method to reach the early stages of Golden Elixir at the age of 17, which is a rare talent in a thousand years if there is no external force. Practitioners of the Tai Chu Heart Method can practice other heart methods of orthodoxy, demonism, and evilness without causing conflicts.

  "Only practicing heart methods, I'm worried she'll become a Qingxiu person. Young man, will you agree or not?" asked the old woman of Yuwu.

  "Of course, I'll introduce you to the sect, but whether it will work out... even if it doesn't, I can still help Miss Yu'er settle in." The Hundred Flowers Garden is a small, scattered sect from Eastern Continent that only accepts female disciples. Last time at Jiulang Mountain Range, she and several of her fellow disciples got along quite well.

  "Good!" The old woman nodded: "You can leave after a hundred days." After that, she took care of herself and left.

  Lin was puzzled by the strange relationship between the old woman and Wuer, as if Wuer was very afraid of her, without any affectionate dependence. When the old woman left, Wuer nodded: "Young master, rest first, the medicine will be ready soon."

  "My name is Lin Fan." Lin Fan introduced himself.

  "En." Wuer nodded and pulled up her sleeves to examine the medicine. Lin Fan saw that there were also many bumps on her arm, as well as a striped red mark.

  "Is this from being whipped?"

  Wu Er hastily pulled down her sleeve, grabbed her arm with her right hand and bowed her head. With her left hand, she picked up the medicine bottle, poured the liquid into a bowl, then placed the bowl on a chair one zhang away from Lin Fan: "Young master, please take it."

  Lin Fan thought for a moment and asked: "If I don't agree with Xue Wu, then..."

  "Then you will die." Wuer lowered her head and replied softly: "Last year, a demonic sect member broke into the mist because of the strict rules, and didn't dare to respond. Then... Young Master, drink your medicine, don't think too much, after going out, I have my own place to go, won't let you be troubled."

  Ugly goes back to ugly, but the person is still okay. Lin Fan asked: "Your face..."

  Wu'er's head hung even lower: "It's been like this since I was young, it might be due to the miasma, it should get better after going out, Young Master shouldn't look."

  "Whether you look or not, it's all the same to me. Although I think it's ugly, I think you're a good person, so I don't care about these things. Why bother yourself with them?"

  "...". Wu Er didn't respond, covering her face with one hand and saying: "Young Master should rest after taking the medicine."

  "Thank you."

  "Sir, is this demon fox useful?"

  Lin Fan was surprised: "Is that white fox corpse still there?" Wen Bao thought for a moment, and then said with a smile, "Nothing's wrong, I just want the fur." Lin Fan despised himself for being unable to escape his material desires.

  "Yes." The misty girl said: "Young master rest, I know how to get the skin."

  "Thank you, Fog Girl." Lin Fan replied.

  "En." The misty girl uttered a word and quickly walked away with her head down.

  At the age of seventeen, she practiced Tai Chi to Jin Dan. A thousand-year-old woman lived here for a thousand years, indicating that her previous cultivation was very high... No wonder I didn't die, and Baiyan Mojun didn't dare to rush in directly. I didn't expect that there would be such an extraordinary person in this desolate land. However, Lin Fan had no good feelings towards the old woman, not only because the old woman didn't care about him at all, but also because she killed him without responding to his requests. The main reason was that Lin Fan thought Yun'er was very kind, and there were scars of flogging on Yun'er's arm, indicating that Yun'er had suffered a lot under the misty old woman. Looking at the misty old woman and Yun'er again, no kinship could be seen between them.

  Then the question arises, since that's the case, why did Yu Wu want to save Wu Er? Out of kindness and compassion? It doesn't seem like it...it seems more like she was treating Wu Er as a servant. However, why would she take her servant away herself?

  Starting from the second day, the old woman in the mist did not appear again. The misty girl spoke very little but worked diligently. Since there was no clean water within the Misty Marsh, she had to travel twenty miles away through the mountain crevices to fetch clean water for Lin Fan's medicine. Fortunately, she was a cultivator; otherwise, it would have been exhausting.

  Wu'er didn't live in the mist, this wooden house was originally her residence. After Lin Fan moved in, she would sit outside under the open sky and rarely speak. When Lin Fan asked questions, Wu'er would give simple answers or just nod, without any curiosity about the world outside.

  A few days later, Lin Fan's foundation lotus began to recover, and Lin Fan also helped with some chores. Wuer, in addition to taking care of Lin Fan, was also responsible for the daily life of the old woman, fetching water from underground, boiling it, and sending it over for her to make tea. She also had to wash the old woman's clothes and drive away the poisonous insects that approached the wooden house. After finishing her own tasks, Wuer would sit on a stone at the edge of the foul-smelling pond, facing away from Lin Fan. Whenever Lin Fan walked near her, she would lower her head, and when he walked to the side, she would turn her head, seemingly unwilling to let Lin Fan see her face.

  One day Lin Fan got out of bed, only to see Wu Er holding water at the edge of the pond, touching the acne on her face and secretly crying. Lin Fan came out of the house, Wu Er hurriedly wiped away her tears, brought over the water, placed it on the stone table, put in a towel that had been dried in the sun during the day, and let Lin Fan wash his face.

  Lin Fan smiled and pulled out a piece of paper from his sleeve: "Look, what's this?"

  "Huh?" Wuer tilted her head and looked: "Ah...... who is this, so ugly......" As soon as the words came out, she felt that something was off.

  Lin Fan said, "This ugly ghost is called Zhong Kui... do you want to hear his story?" Lin Fan found it strange that there were no books or documents here. From the fragments he understood, this fog had never left the Misty Swamp, and since the old woman of the mist couldn't talk to the fog, Lin Fan was certain that the fog didn't know Zhong Kui.

  Wu Er nodded happily.