Chapter 446: Venerable Qing Jing

POSTED ON AUGUST 21, 2023 BY KEN

Who knew that after hearing the words Venerable Qing Jing, the taoist boy immediately said in shock,

“Go, go, we don’t have such a person here!”

Immediately after finishing speaking, he was about to close the door and shut him away.

Fang Linyan looked grim immediately. He stretched out his right foot to block the door and said seriously,

“Human life is at stake, little master really doesn’t want to accommodate?”

The taoist boy was about to speak impatiently, but a broken gong-like voice coming from inside,

“Little Feng Zi, who are you talking to!? Hurry up and pick up the water!”

The taoist boy immediately said,

“Second Senior Apprentice, there is an annoying person at the door. He insists on entering the door to find someone!”

The second senior apprentice immediately said angrily,

“Really? Stop him right there. Don’t let him disturb master’s cleaning.”

With the support of second senior apprentice, Little Feng Zi immediately said loudly,

“Get out immediately! Otherwise…”

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a gust of wind passing by his cheek, then he heard a loud “crack” in his ears.

It was actually the person who punched the door.

The door was made of high-quality willow wood with a thickness of 3 inches. It was even covered with iron sheets and nailed with copper nails.

But this person actually left and punched a sunken hole. Even the inside of the gate was protruded.

Then, the person looked at him and said with a half-smile,

“Block? Can little master block this punch that has 20 years of experience?”

The taoist boy twitched his mouth immediately, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said timidly,

“Just stay here if you dare.”

Fang Linyan sneered and said,

“Wait here? In your dream! You told me that the person isn’t here? Okay, let me go in and take a look. If he really isn’t there, I will leave immediately.”

The taoist boy hurriedly ran backward when he couldn’t stop the visitor. As a result, he bumped into the second senior apprentice who came in after hearing the punch.

Seeing a stranger was about to walk in, the second senior apprentice was about to curse.

Unexpectedly, the other party kicked on a nearby elm tree, causing a crisp “crack“.

Then the big elm tree trembled. The leaves of the tree rustled down, then it broke from the middle and slowly slid sideways.

The second senior apprentice trembled all over. The curses that reached his mouth were swallowed back.

Then the second senior brother burst into a smile instantly, and he said sincerely and excitedly,

“No wonder there are magpies singing early in the morning. It turns out that an honorable guest has arrived!”

“This sir possesses a dignified aura. Your eyes are like bright stars and your nose is tall. You must be a man of great wealth and good health. It is really our honor to have your visit!”

“Does sir have anything for visiting so early in the morning?”

Fang Linyan said lightly,

“I traveled more than 200 miles overnight to look for Venerable Qing Jing here. There is a life and death matter that I need to find him. This taoist boy says that he is not here?”

“That is fine. Just let me search around. If he really isn’t here, I will leave without asking.”

The second senior apprentice smiled wryly and said with embarrassment,

“Sir, my junior is really not lying. Now Venerable Qing Jing… it really doesn’t matter if he is here or not. He really can’t see any guests.”

Fang Linyan frowned and said,

“I don’t believe it unless you let take a look.”

The second senior apprentice said in a startle,

“Huh? This, this is not appropriate.”

Fang Linyan threw him a tael of silver directly and said,

“Let me tell you, I really have a life and death matter to see Venerable Qing Jing today. .”

“So, you have 2 choices now. The first is to take me in, and get money along the way.”

“The second is I break both of your arms and you bring me in. You will lose the tael of silver too. Your choice?”

The second senior apprentice’s face turned pale immediately. He didn’t dare to ask how his hands were broken. After accepting the money, he obediently led the way.

The Rain Fairy Temple looked very small from the entrance, but it occupied quite a large area inside. The second senior apprentice walked him around for more than 10 minutes before coming to a beautiful small courtyard.

There were a stone table and benches, and a small lotus pond for watching fish.

The old plum tree outside the window had lush branches and leaves while the white wall next to it was covered with a wall of wisteria flowers in full bloom, like a waterfall curtain. It was lively and full of life.

However, after entering the small courtyard, Fang Linyan vaguely heard thunderous snoring as well as an unpleasant smell of alcohol coming from inside.

When he walked in, he saw a large table in the middle of the main room. There was a large amount of vomit on the ground.

The most outrageous thing was that the landscape painting hanging on the wall next to it was directly torn off and crumpled. There seemed to be traces of oil stains on it.

It was not difficult to deduce that someone must have torn the painting off after vomiting, wiped his mouth and hands, and then threw it away.

Seeing this scene, the second senior apprentice rushed forward as if being struck by lightning, knelt down, held the painting, and said with a crying tone,

“This, this is Master’s favorite Mi Dian Shanshui. Sir Cao couldn’t even get it by offering 2 villas… It’s over, what should I do?”

Fang Linyan heard the snoring sound coming from the bedroom next to him. When he walked in, he found a fat taoist lying on the bed and snoring loudly.

The most striking features were a huge rosacea nose and a long scar on the right side of his face.

His upper body was naked. There was a big patch of black hair growing from his chest to his lower abdomen.

Fang Linyan looked back with a strange face, and he found that the second senior apprentice was absent-minded because he was too sad. He asked the taoist boy who followed along,

“This is Venerable Qing Jing?”

The taoist boy pursed his lips before nodding.

Fang Linyan wondered where did the courage of this taoist come from to name himself ‘Qing Jing’ (peace and quiet).

It’s just that he really doesn’t have the patience to wait for Venerable Qing Jing to sober up slowly.

After looking around, he picked up the teapot and shook it.

After realizing that there was still half a pot of residual tea in it, he picked it up and poured it into Venerable Qing Jing’s wide-open mouth.

Then Fang Linyan quickly ran away.

So the snoring stopped abruptly. After a few seconds of awkward silence in the room, Venerable Qing Jing abruptly clutched her neck and bounced up.

He began to roll his eyes and cough violently, and he finally calmed down after a while.

At this time, the taoist boy poked his head in from the outside and said timidly,

“Master Taoist, are you alright? A visitor came to visit, and he said that your Junior Apprentice Si Nan died.”

Venerable Qing Jing was about to scold when he heard the words later, then he tightly grabbed the bedrail,

“What!!”

There was a crisp sound immediately from the bedrail.

At this moment, his temperament changed.

From the lazy drunk man with a hangover before, he suddenly turned into a man who looked indifferent on the outside but seemed to be burning with raging anger on the inside.

He slapped his face with both hands, rubbed hard, and said:

“Take me to that person.”

Fang Linyan then appeared and apologized first,

“This is a serious matter that I can’t wait for you to wake up, Master Taoist, so I made such an offensive action. Please be understanding.”

Venerable waved his hand and led him to sit on the stone bench outside, then he said.

“Si Nan is dead?”

Fang Linyan said,

“Yes……..”

Then he told the whole story, because he knew that these people of the Zhong Nan Sect were very wicked and good at calculating, so he told the truth honestly.

After listening to Fang Linyan’s words, Venerable Qing Jing closed her eyes and thought for a while,

“That mechanic bird of yours can really repeat the last words of your junior?”

Fang Linyan said,

“Yes, everything single word. Master Si Nan also tested it first. You can tell the truth by listening.”

Venerable Qing Jing waved his hand and said,

“Junior Apprentice has an unusual identity. He is deeply favored by Master. I can’t listen to his last words alone.”

After finishing speaking, he casually picked a leaf from the tree branch.

Then the thick fingers nimbly folded the leaf into an emerald praying mantis, then he blew it away.

Probably in about 10 minutes, a woman in a blue gauze gown came out of the house where Venerable Qing Jing lived. She looked gentle and amiable just like the elder sister next door.

Fang Linyan was taken aback for a moment, and he immediately understood that there should be a teleportation array in this room.

After seeing Venerable Qing Jing, the woman said anxiously,

“Senior Apprentice, is Si Nan in trouble?”

Venerable Qing Jing nodded, then he told her about the news he just got.

Finally, he pointed to Fang Linyan and introduced,

“This is the person Si Nan finally selected to deliver the letter, Exorcist Fang Xiaoqi.”

Then he said to Fang Linyan,

“This is Fairy Chen from our sect.”

After the introduction, Fairy Chen said very anxiously,

“Xiaoqi, please summon your mechanical bird and let us hear Senior Apprentice’s last words.”

Fang Linyan did as she said. And as soon as the recording of the mechanical bird was played, Fairy Chen and Venerable Qing Jing looked at each other, knowing that it was indeed Si Nan’s voice, at least in terms of voice.

When they heard Si Nan’s sentence ‘Junior sister remembered to mend the hole in the bellyband’, they were 100% sure that it was Si Nan’s message.

Fang Linyan noticed that Fairy Chen’s pretty face was flushed, and he wondered. Could it be her bellyband?

But Fang Linyan misunderstood it.

The bellyband that Si Nan mentioned was a mountain that he and Fairy Chen discovered half a year ago.

This mountain was shaped like a bellyband with steep peaks.

There was a hole in the mountain that had a spiritual fruit tree. It had to be irrigated once every 2 months.

Si Nan was reminding fairy to take care of this spiritual fruit.

Si Nan also recited a good poem for this.

A natural immortal cave,

The enchanting scenery was on the dangerous peaks.

Ahem, not sure whether he wrote this poem when hugging Fairy Chen or looking into the distance from the mountain peak.

Of course, there was another possibility that it was written when he was hugging Fairy Chen from behind on top of the mountain peak…