Laying the Foundation 3

Yao Qing dragged his sister, Yao Yuanhui, who was covered in blood, as they ran desperately through the woods.

From behind, the sounds of dogs barking echoed intermittently, neither too close nor too far, as if they were deliberately keeping pace with the two.

"Brother... I... can't... run anymore..." Although Yao Yuanhui practiced martial arts on a regular basis, she was still somewhat delicate, and being a woman, her stamina was lacking. After running for more than an hour, she was already at her limit.

Their bodies were covered in wounds from the bites of the hounds, with blood and flesh blurred on their legs and arms. Although they had applied hemostatic powder, blood continued to seep out.

"You have to run even if you can't!" Yao Qing said anxiously, pulling his sister up and continuing to stumble forward.

The two rounded a stream and ran wildly downstream, stumbling and occasionally falling. The pebbles and sand on the ground scraped their knees and calves raw, causing unbearable pain.

After running for about a few minutes, the two suddenly paused, slowed their pace, and looked up ahead.

They saw a middle-aged man sitting upright on a large blue stone by the stream and grassy area ahead.

This man had graying eyebrows, wore a Dark Daoist Robe, and held a slender fishing rod in his hand, fishing with his eyes closed.

He sat there as still as if he were dead, without moving at all.

"Could this person also be here to intercept us?!"

Yao Qing was already a frightened bird, having been blocked all the way. If they encountered anyone, they would suspect whether the other party was a strongman sent to intercept them.

Seeing this strange man now, sitting by the stream fishing in the wilderness, surrounded by fierce beasts and poisonous insects, if he were an ordinary person, he would at most be gathering herbs and chopping wood. Real fishermen would go to regular and safe large lakes or rivers, not here.

Anyone who could fish here would probably not be an ordinary person.

Thinking of this, Yao Qing's heart sank.

"Could it be that they're here to catch us again?"

Yao Yuanhui also looked frightened.

"Let's go around from the side."

She heard the faint sound of dogs barking behind her again, indicating that the pursuers were approaching.

"Greetings, young friends."

Just as she spoke, the two saw the Daoist Priest slowly rise from the blue stone, casually placing the fishing rod aside.

"You look so disheveled. Did you encounter some fierce beasts and poisonous insects in the deep mountains?" The Daoist Priest smiled. For some reason, although his smile was very gentle, it gave people an extremely fierce feeling, as if standing next to a violent beast that could pounce and kill at any moment.

"Daoist Priest..." Yao Qing did not dare to relax his vigilance. "Daoist Priest, are you here to fish, or to fish for people?" His words had a double meaning.

"Naturally, I fish for both people and fish."

The middle-aged Daoist Priest smiled slightly, giving an unusually direct answer.

He was Lin Xin, who had been staying in this wilderness for several days.

At this moment, Lin Xin's gaze fell on the little girl Yao Yuanhui beside Yao Qing.

"I have a connection with this little girl and have come specifically to take something from her. If you have any requests, you can use this as an exchange and ask this Daoist Priest to solve them for you."

The two were slightly shocked. The other party knew that they were in such a disheveled state, yet they were not afraid of getting into trouble and made such a strange request.

"Could it be that we've encountered robbers?" Yao Qing's heart twitched slightly, but he quickly asked, "Have we encountered robbers?"

"I wonder what item you want from my younger sister, Daoist Priest?"

"A small door like this."

Lin Xin retrieved a silver small door from his sleeve, only the size of a palm, miniature and exquisite.

"Ah!"

Yao Yuanhui exclaimed in surprise.

"You have this thing on you?"

Yao Qing asked urgently.

"I... I do. I picked it up in the grass on the road... I thought it was a toy, but..." Yao Yuanhui was also somewhat surprised and stunned, not knowing what was going on. She quickly took off her backpack and quickly took out a similar small door from it, also silver, with a one-eyed creature engraved on the door frame, looking quite exotic.

"I wonder, Daoist Priest, if I return this item to you, can you help us get rid of the pursuers behind us?"

Yao Yuanhui also knew that this thing was indeed not an ordinary object, probably dropped by the person in front of her. Recalling the various magical things that had happened before, she immediately realized that this was a good opportunity.

Lin Xin smiled.

"Of course."

The higher one's cultivation, the more importance one placed on the unseen cause and effect.

To obtain something, one must inevitably give something in return. He had always tried his best to maintain this principle, so as not to violate his original intention.

As soon as he said this, both siblings felt a slight sense of relief.

Yao Yuanhui directly raised her hand and threw the small door to Lin Xin.

Pa.

Lin Xin reached out and caught it, slightly stunned.

They just handed it over to him like that? Weren't they afraid that he would go back on his word and just leave?

Looking at the two siblings again, their eyes were full of seriousness, obviously they had never thought that this would happen.

These two fledglings.

Lin Xin shook his head and smiled.

"Aren't you afraid that I'll just turn around and leave after I get the thing?"

He asked directly.

"Uh..."

The two siblings then remembered that there was still this possibility, and their faces suddenly turned a little ugly.

But Yao Yuanhui still stubbornly insisted.

"We believe that Daoist Priest is not that kind of person!"

Even she herself didn't quite believe what she said.

Lin Xin was speechless.

Suddenly, a burst of urgent barking came from behind them.

Several burly men, leading black hunting dogs, rushed out of the forest with sneers on their faces.

"Running? Why aren't you running anymore? I'd like to see what kind of hellhole you can run to!"

The leader, a man with a face full of hbulging muscles [excessive flesh], held a golden ring broadsword in one hand while holding a dog leash in the other, his eyes fierce and sinister.

"Golden Saber Bear Guo Jing!"

Yao Qing recognized the man's identity at a glance. It was the villain who had killed his mother and maidservant that night.

His eyes instantly turned red, and his fists clenched tightly. If his sister wasn't by his side, he might have rushed forward to fight this man with his life.

"Oh? You dare to glare at me? If you have to blame someone, blame yourself for seeing my secret that night!" Golden Saber Bear Guo Jing cackled. "Anyone who knows I have three balls is already dead!"

Lin Xin's expression turned strange, and he struggled to suppress his laughter.

Guo Jing...

This guy is also called Guo Jing... and he has three balls...

This was the first time he had encountered such a situation, and he suddenly found this man somewhat endearing.

He was a little reluctant to act.

"Do it! Keep the woman alive! Kill the rest!"

Guo Jing glanced at Lin Xin, ignored him, and directly charged at Yao Qing and his sister with his golden ring broadsword, leading his group of men.

"Daoist Priest!"

Yao Qing and his sister had already exhausted their strength from running. Seeing this, they were terrified and cried out in alarm.

Lin Xin smiled.

He casually plucked a green leaf branch and tossed it forward.

Chirp!

The branch shot out like lightning, instantly reaching the Golden Saber Bear and his men.

The Golden Saber Bear was shocked, completely unprepared for the speed. He hurriedly raised his blade to block.

Pfft!

In an instant, the branch suddenly disintegrated and exploded, transforming into dozens of gray rays that shot out and bloomed, forming a slowly opening, beautiful flower in mid-air.

Chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp!

The moment the flower bloomed, the Golden Saber Bear and his men were instantly splattered with blood. Each of them had dozens of bloody wounds all over their bodies.

The most robust Golden Saber Bear was hit the most, his body riddled with seventy or eighty bloody holes as if he had been put through a sieve.

He stopped in his tracks, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"Such... such a powerful hidden weapon..."

Those were his last words before he fell backward to the ground.

The remaining dozen or so people, along with the hunting dogs, all fell to the ground without a sound, all dying in that instant, sprawled in disarray.

The scarlet blood and the smell of rust instantly filled the entire meadow.

Yao Yuanhui and Yao Qing both turned pale.

Looking at the corpses scattered on the ground, the two of them didn't even have the courage to look up at Lin Xin.

Before, when they saw this Daoist Priest, they thought he was a righteous expert, fair and indifferent.

But now, looking at the corpses all over the ground, and the miraculous, bloody flower of hidden weapons from just now.

A wave of chills surged in their hearts.

'Could it be that we've left a wolf's den only to encounter a hungry tiger?'

Yao Qing's heart trembled. Although he lacked experience in the martial world, his discernment was still there.

That hidden weapon technique just now, he feared that no one in the martial world had ever heard of anyone being able to achieve such a feat.

"Little friends, now that the exchange is over, this Daoist Priest will not disturb you any further." Lin Xin was also planning to leave at this time.

Now that he had obtained the Bewildering Gate here, he checked it. It had only been used once. His own Bewildering Gate could not be used because it was a fixed channel.

Fortunately, this Bewildering Gate still had two more uses, which meant that it might be a new small world World Stabilizing Stone.

In a great mood, he didn't notice that he had been too ruthless, completely lacking the restrained style that a righteous cultivator should have.

Yao Qing was eager for him to leave quickly.

Lin Xin turned to leave, his foot just lifted.

"Daoist Priest, please wait!"

Suddenly, Yao Yuanhui called out.

"Hmm?"

Lin Xin turned back and saw Yao Yuanhui kneeling on the ground towards him.

"I beg Daoist Priest to have mercy and save my father and the others."

Yao Yuanhui's voice was mournful, obviously reminded of the tragedy that happened in the Yao residence that night.

"Save people?"

Lin Xin was now able to faintly perceive the traces of karma.

Thinking about it now, the fact that the Bewildering Gate could be picked up from the roadside bushes was a stroke of luck that was second to none in the world.

He focused his mind and looked at this woman again.

Immediately, he felt a faint, thick, inexplicable aura surrounding her.

"Could it be that this woman is the current child of fortune?"

He had a faint guess in his heart.

The child of fortune, the general trend of the world, there will always be some nodes, more or less. These nodes can affect and change the situation, or push the overall situation forward, whether this kind of influence and change is good or bad, righteous or evil.

If each of these nodes falls on a person, they will become the so-called Child of Destiny.

They carry all sorts of entangled causes and effects. Before completing the tasks of their node, they will not easily die.

Because as nodes, they are caught up in and driven by the power of the general trend.

To shake them is to shake the general trend of the world, moving the whole body by pulling one hair. It will inevitably suffer backlash from the general trend.

This is the so-called Child of Destiny.

And Lin Xin can now vaguely detect this kind of invisible power.

Carefully sensing it at this time, his heart is also certain.

"It really is a Child of Destiny. I just don't know if it's the only one." (To be continued ~^~