Chapter 530 Fairy Servant
"Thank you for the tea, senior. My last name is Yuan. May I know your name?" Yuan Ming thanked him and asked.
"Zhao Gui." The old farmer did not care that Yuan Ming only reported a last name and replied.
"You seem to be extraordinary and not of the same clan as those people outside. Could you be the immortal on Jinkui Island?" Yuan Ming praised him and asked again.
"Hehe, I am just an old slave. How can I be considered an immortal? Even my ancestors were just servants of Jinkui Immortal." Zhao Gui said with a self-deprecating smile.
"Jinkui Immortal?" Yuan Ming's eyes lit up.
"Yes. Jinkui Immortal is the owner of this immortal island. It's a pity that he has left the island for many years. My ancestors' original tribesmen have always followed him. It's a pity that when he left, he did not take my ancestors away, leaving them to fend for themselves on Jinkui Island. Now all the tribesmen are dead, and I am the only one left." Zhao Gui said.
"What about those outside?" Yuan Ming asked in confusion.
"Those are the Fire Horns that originally existed on this island. They are not very intelligent and pose no threat to you, so don't attack them for no reason." Zhao Gui said.
"I am just a passerby who accidentally broke in. I will not cause trouble. You can rest assured. However, do you know what this Jinkui Fairy Island is like? It is obviously called a fairy island, so why is there such a scorching sun and a peach forest that can trap people?" Yuan Ming said hurriedly.
"It is where the immortals live, so there are naturally extraordinary and magical things. Immortals may be happy to live here, but mortals like us would feel like we are in purgatory." Zhao Gui said, shaking his head.
"Senior, what you said makes sense. I can't stay here for a long time for some reason. I wonder if you can tell me how to get out of this peach forest?" Yuan Ming asked.
"Don't worry, let me tell you about the situation on this island first. As you can see, there is more than one sun in the sky here. To be precise, there are seven suns." Zhao Gui waved his hand and said.
Yuan Ming was startled when he heard this. He didn't say anything, but nodded without comment.
"The concept of time here is different from that in the outside world. There is no twelve-hour alternation of day and night. Usually, every hour, there will be an extra sun in the sky. When seven suns appear at the same time for seven days, it is the hottest time for the entire Jinkui Fairy Island. After this hour, the remaining six days will set and only one sun will remain in the sky. At that time, the temperature will drop to the lowest." Zhao Gui said.
Therefore, the sky of Jinkui Fairy Island will not be dark. After the extreme heat, it will only give people a short period of relief, and then it will be another cycle of rising suns.
The two talked for a while, and suddenly there were cheers outside the house.
Yuan Ming looked at Zhao Gui in surprise, but the latter had already stood up.
"Let's go, just go out and take a look." Zhao Gui said calmly without any surprise on his face.
Yuan Ming originally wanted to continue to ask how to leave, but seeing this, he had to follow him out.
As soon as he came outside, he was surprised.
I only felt that the light in the void around me was a little darker, and the temperature around me also dropped significantly.
He looked up quickly, and through the gaps in the leaves above his head, he saw that there was only one sun hanging in the sky, and the light it emitted seemed a little softer.
At this moment, people from the Fire Horn Alien Clan were everywhere in the village. They crawled out of those simple semi-underground houses, shouted excitedly, ran towards the peach forest, and disappeared outside the village.
"What are they doing?" Yuan Ming asked in confusion.
"Go to the forest to collect a kind of spiritual herb that can relieve the pain of their fire sores." Zhao Gui said.
"But can't the leaves of the Qinggui tree detoxify the fire poison? Why do we have to go out to look for it?" Yuan Ming said puzzledly.
"The leaves of the Qinggui tree can only detoxify mild fire poison. Besides, the body structure of the Fire Horn Alien Clan is different from ours. It is easier to absorb fire attribute spiritual energy, and it is also easier to accumulate fire poison. The poisonous sores on their bodies have grown for a long time, and they can no longer be cured by the leaves of the Qinggui tree." Zhao Gui shook his head and said slowly.
"So that's it. But if they just run out like this, aren't they afraid of getting lost in the peach forest?" Yuan Ming nodded.
"Don't worry, the peach forest outside this area hasn't changed that much. They have lived here for many years and won't get lost." Zhao Gui said.
Yuan Ming was a little disappointed when he heard this.
He thought these Fire Horn aliens had some special way to identify the direction.
"By the way, senior, you said before that you would tell me how to get out..." Before Yuan Ming finished speaking, he heard a roar from the peach forest outside the village.
Then, the wailing of the Fire Horn aliens followed.
Yuan Ming frowned and hurriedly rushed in that direction. Zhao Gui beside him took a step and his figure also floated towards the outside of the village. His movements were indescribably smooth.
When the two came to the peach forest outside the village, they saw a dozen Fire Horn aliens surrounding Lei He and Yan Xiang in the center, each holding up their spears and preparing to attack.
However, although they seemed brave, they had actually suffered a great loss. Two bodies of the Fire Horn aliens had already fallen on the ground not far in front of Yan Xiang.
Yan Xiang looked at the group of angry aliens with anger in his eyes.
Although he practiced the fire attribute technique, he had been trapped in the peach forest for a long time and his body was already covered with fire sores. When Qi Ri was in the air just now, he thought his blood was boiling and his whole body was about to burn.
Fortunately, he managed to hold on in the end.
He was about to find an oasis, but was stopped by these red-skinned foreigners. Now he just wanted to kill all these uncivilized red-skinned beasts.
So, he grabbed a red sword with scattered red flames painted on it and slashed at a fire-horned foreigner in front of him.
On the sword, the flame pattern flashed, and several flames flew out "whoosh" and rushed straight to the foreigner.
When the flame flew close, the fire suddenly surged, like a flame beast about to devour the man.
"Stop." Zhao Gui's face was angry, and his figure suddenly disappeared.
The next moment, a shabby hoe with a faint yellow light appeared out of thin air in front of the sword.
With a loud clang!
The hoe blocked the sword, and the red flames were also dispersed. Yan Xiang's body was shaken, and he stepped back three steps.
The shabby hoe was motionless, and Zhao Gui's figure appeared next to the hoe, holding the hoe handle with one hand.
"Who are you?" Yan Xiang was shocked and angry, and was about to attack Zhao Gui.
Lei He, who was standing by, was very calm. Seeing that Zhao Gui could easily block Yan Xiang's attack, he was a little surprised.
When he saw Yuan Ming was also here, his face was obviously surprised.
"Daoyou Yan Xiang, wait a minute, we are all family members." Lei He quickly stopped him.
Yan Xiang was confused by his words "family members", and he didn't react for a while, so he didn't continue to attack.
"Why are you killing people here for no reason?" Zhao Gui put down the hoe and asked coldly.
"This...Daoyou, we didn't kill people for no reason, they suddenly attacked us, and we had to fight back." Lei He said with a bow.
Yan Xiang was about to speak, but was suppressed by his eyes.
"Daoyou Yuan, talk to this Daoyou, we are all companions who accidentally entered this place, and we have no ill will towards the people here." Lei He looked at Yuan Ming again and said quickly.
"Do you know each other?" Zhao Gui asked with a frown.
"Senior, I did come with them. We got separated in the peach forest earlier." Yuan Ming said.
Hearing this, the coldness on Zhao Gui's face dissipated a little.
"Forget it, ignorance is not a crime. Considering that you are a first-time offender, I will not make it a fuss this time. However, it will not happen again next time." Zhao Gui glanced at Yan Xiang and said lightly.
Yan Xiang was immediately furious when he saw him like this.
He himself did not even know why he was so irritable today.
Zhao Gui walked to the bodies of the two dead Fire Horn aliens, put the two severed heads back in place, and shot out several root-like black filaments from his palm and injected them into their bodies.
The broken body of the Fire Horn alien quickly healed, and it barely recovered in a few breaths, and stood up swayingly.
Yuan Ming and the other two saw this scene and could not believe their eyes.
Those two Fire Horn aliens were definitely dead, but they could come back to life!
"Senior is indeed a master. I wonder if you can show us how to get out of the peach forest." Yuan Ming bowed his hands.
Yan Xiang saw the way the old farmer came back to life, and then heard that the plain-looking old farmer in front of him knew how to leave this ghost place, and his expression became much more restrained.
Lei He was also surprised, and hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "Please teach me, Taoist friend."
"I can tell you how to leave the peach forest, but you have to do something for me first." Zhao Gui said.
"What is it?" Yuan Ming sighed, it was not that easy.
"I want you to go to a place thirty miles northeast of here and collect the golden sunflower spirit grass for me." Zhao Gui said.
The three of them looked at each other when they heard this, and they obviously had a lot of questions.
"It seems that Taoist friend has lived here for many years and is more familiar with the environment here than us. Why don't you go and pick it yourself?" Lei He said in surprise.
"Of course I have reasons why I can't go, you don't have to worry about it." Zhao Gui did not mean to explain.
"How do we know you are not lying to us? How do you prove that you have a way to get out of the peach forest?" Yan Xiang couldn't help asking back.
"The reason why you can't get out of this peach forest is because you are affected by the Liuren Qimen formation in the peach forest, and you are constantly moving your position, and you can't break the illusion of misleading. I have a way to prevent you from being affected by the Qimen formation. Otherwise, you will get lost as soon as you enter the forest, and how can you bring back what I want?" Zhao Gui said, not bothering to look at him.
Yuan Ming was stunned. He had never heard of the name Qimen, but Lei He and Yan Xiang on the side changed their faces.
"What is Qimen, Senior Lei?" Yuan Ming asked Lei He through voice transmission.
"Qimen is a kind of magic formation. It not only includes the formation pattern and the changes of spiritual power, but also integrates factors such as numerology, earth veins, sun, moon, stars, etc. The most brilliant Qimen formation will also integrate the two major factors of time and space. It is much more complicated than ordinary magic formations. There are many formation masters in Yunhuang Continent, but there are probably few who are proficient in Qimen formations." Lei He replied through voice transmission, and his voice could not hide his shock.
"So that's what happened. Since the senior ordered us to go, we will go." Yuan Ming looked at Zhao Gui and nodded.
"I can try it too." Lei He said.
Yan Xiang didn't say anything, but the expression on his face no longer objected.
"Okay, in that case, I need to say something in advance. My method can only last for a quarter of an hour and is completely unaffected, so don't think about escaping in this time. The journey of thirty miles, plus picking the golden sunflower spirit grass, is still very tight. I hope you don't play any tricks." Zhao Gui said lightly.
"We must keep our promises and do what we say. We will not break our promises." Lei He said.
Yuan Ming and Yan Xiang each nodded.