CHAPTER 471: CHAPTER 22: THE SECOND DROP OF HEART BLOOD (PART 2)

"After eating the porridge, will Yiyi be able to be discharged from the hospital?" Zeng Xuerou made time to go down the mountain and called to inquire. The physical examination results showed that all of Zhang Yiyi’s health indicators were very normal.

"You all should have guessed by now that the colorful gecko was raised by me. However, this gecko is not simple; it’s a kind of spiritual lizard that I refined using a hundred years of my Dao." Once Tianya said this, Xiao Xian realized that to help her assimilate the second drop of Heart Blood, Monk Tianya actually gave away a hundred years of his Dao in one go.

A hundred years for one colorful gecko, then two would make it two hundred years. Just how old was Monk Tianya? This same thought crossed the minds of the two teenage girls.

"She swallowed my hundred years of cultivation—claiming there’s no change would be impossible. We won’t talk about longevity, but her body will become more sensitive than before, capable of climbing, and her palms might even have some adhesive ability." Monk Tianya felt a bit embarrassed. It simply doesn’t seem right for a young lady to scuttle about like a lizard.

Nevertheless, he could only use the Night Lotus to mitigate the side effects the colorful gecko brought to Zhang Yiyi, but he could only try to ease it and not completely eliminate the effects.

"I think you should be the one to tell Yiyi," Zeng Xuerou said, imagining Zhang Yiyi on the basketball court, darting around with the ball, impossible for anyone to take it from her, and she couldn’t help but shudder.

"Why don’t you tell her? You’re more persuasive," Xiao Xian immediately refused.

" ..."

"You guys don’t need to argue, she will accept reality once she discovers these changes on her own," Xiao Xian said, although they haven’t been living here long, Monk Tianya had already become familiar with the three of them.

Among the three, Zeng Xuerou was the most composed and meticulous. Xiao Xian was the smoothest, with the most tricks up her sleeve. Zhang Yiyi appeared to be the last to catch on, but such people often have great potential once they come to terms with it.

After speaking, Monk Tianya stood up and urged the two to go to sleep.

"There’s still a question, Tianya Senior, the Jiuyou Lotus has been picked. Since you didn’t want it to blossom, then why go through all the trouble to arrange all this?" If it weren’t for Xiao Xian and the others accidentally coming here, no one would have known about a temple hidden here, a temple with an odd monk living inside.

"Growing lotus flowers isn’t necessarily for the enjoyment of the flowers, what do you think my intention is? The Clean Water is turbid; above lies the Night Lotus, below lies... it cannot be said, it cannot be said," Monk Tianya waved his hand as if he did not want to talk anymore, sending Xiao Xian and Xuerou away.

"Below lies what, isn’t it just lotus root beneath the lotus flowers? If he wanted to eat lotus root, couldn’t he have just bought some," Xuerou puzzled over the mystery of Monk Tianya, her doubts about him growing.

Having spent a whole week on the mountain, that night Xiao Xian and Xuerou slept very soundly, not waking up until the sun was high in the sky.

After waking up, Xiao Xian and Xuerou searched the temple but didn’t see Monk Tianya. When they ventured outside, the signboard bearing the weathered words "South Sea Temple" still hung there. The pond was still filled with lotus flowers of various colors.

"Something’s not right, the stalk of the Night Lotus has disappeared," Xiao Xian spotted an area in the depths of the pond where the water was muddy; the bare stalk left after cutting the Night Lotus yesterday had been taken away.

"Did he really dig out the lotus roots? What a strange person, to leave without a word." Xuerou went back inside the temple and from the pot in the kitchen, she found several boiled chicken eggs.

"There’s also a piece of paper on the stove, it looks like it’s meant for you," Xuerou handed the paper to Xiao Xian, before placing the still hot eggs in the pond to cool them down.

The note had only one sentence: "If fate allows, we shall meet above the Cangqiong."

"Above the Cangqiong? What place is that? Could it be that there’s actually a place called Cangqiong in this world?" Since "South Sea" was a temple, then "Cangqiong" could also be a place.

The eggs were cooled, and Zeng Xuerou cracked one open before handing another to Xiao Xian.

"It’s a very distant place," if she remembered correctly, Mei Nian had mentioned that Mei Xiang took the remaining Cultivators of the Mei Family to storm into the Cangqiong Palace. Not a single one of them returned.

Whether Mei Xiang is alive or dead, no one knows.

Mei Nian had also mentioned that a few people returned from Cangqiong Palace unscathed. Monk Tianya was one of them.

"Um, this egg is really delicious," Zeng Xuerou was hungry and started eating her own.

When she first peeled the egg, she noticed that although Monk Tianya’s eggs were small, as soon as the shell was removed, the egg white was transparent, allowing one to see the yolk inside clearly. The taste was so good that her tongue nearly followed the egg down her throat.

It was many times more delicious than a regular chicken egg. The egg white was full of elasticity, and the yolk was rich in flavor without any trace of a gamey taste. Xiao Xian and Xuerou had never eaten such eggs before.

"Leave one for Yiyi," Xiao Xian knew that the eggs left by Monk Tianya weren’t ordinary, and she too ate one.

When the two left the "South Sea" temple, hidden among the cattails, and looked back one more time.

In a flickering moment, among the multicolored lotus flowers in the pond and the dilapidated temple entrance, Monk Tianya stood with his hands pressed together in a prayer gesture towards them.

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