Can you leave your heart behind?

  Xiao Congrong was suffering in the heavenly prison, while her chosen 'partner' Chu Qingkuang was unknowingly chasing after Wu Guanzhi in the mysterious Wushan.

  Wushan is shrouded in mist all year round, and since no one has ever ventured deep into the mountains, no one knows that this mountain range stretches for thousands of miles. The further you go in, the thicker the fog gets, and the less you can see with your eyes, until finally, people just ten meters away are invisible.

  Venomous insects and ferocious beasts are everywhere in the valley, and poisonous plants can cause severe burns and death if touched carelessly. What's even more treacherous is that because they're invisible, one often doesn't realize the danger until it's too late.

  Chu Qing's companions who followed him into the mountains were either dead or injured. He himself was not careful and slipped, rolling down the cliff. Fortunately, he relied on his exceptional lightness skills to escape with only a scratch on his face and waist.

  The two of them lost contact with each other and could only rely on intuition to chase after Wu Guanzong's whereabouts.

  The deeper he walked into the valley, the thicker the fog became. There was also toxic gas in the fog, and the detoxification pills he took were no longer effective. His head gradually lost its clarity, and he didn't know how he managed to find a huge cave despite his dizziness.

  Fog shrouded the entrance, he was completely unaware, just wanting to rest for a moment, but as soon as he leaned against the mountain wall, he pressed an empty space and fell into a dark cave.

  The cave was a steep slope, both slippery and wet. He kept falling until he finally stopped at the bottom. The cave was pitch black, but after regaining his composure, he discovered a small patch of light in the farthest corner.

  He pulled out a lighter, and as soon as he opened it, it quickly went out. In that instant, he saw thousands of snakes of all sizes coiled on the surrounding mountain walls, and from their colorful green colors, it could be seen that they were highly venomous snakes.

  Even with his extraordinary courage, he was startled by this glance and covered in cold sweat, fearing that he would be swallowed up by these snakes. His hundred or so pounds of body weight probably wouldn't even be enough for them to gnaw on as an appetizer!

  He stood still for a while, listening to the snakes' complete silence, and he slightly put down his heart. Letting his eyes get used to the darkness, he vaguely made out that the bright spot was an entrance to a cave, but he didn't know what was on the other side.

  He had fallen dozens of meters, and it was even more difficult to climb up from this slippery cave. Moreover, seeing so many snakes, he already had a lingering fear, wondering if the slippery feeling earlier was caused by a pile of snakes!

  Thinking this way, he didn't have the courage to climb up anymore. Since I've come all the way here, I might as well make myself at home. This cave might just be the one Wu Guanzhi is looking for, and if I don't go take a look, it would be a waste of heaven's will.

  Heaven must have its reasons for making him fall into this hole! With this thought in mind, Chu Qingchuan reopened the lighter and let the light flash by, but quickly took stock of the situation inside the cave.

  After doing this three times, he found a way to get to the cave entrance without startling the snakes. Thinking of it, he rested for a while, adjusted his breathing, and suddenly lit the fire starter, throwing it at the pile of snakes above, borrowing the light to fly towards the sky, landing on the rock wall, and then flying again, after several ups and downs, he reached the cave entrance.

  As he turned back, the snakes that had been thrown into the air by the lighter were tangled together in a mess. A huge snake was coiled among them, its blue eyes gleaming with a fierce light as it stared at Chu Qingcang. The golden light of its tail flashed across his eyes for an instant.

  The snake king? Chu Qingcang's eyes widened, the flames had already been extinguished by the snake's liquid, and all he could see was that the giant snake suddenly stiffened its body and shot towards him like an arrow.

  A sudden gust of wind blew through the air, and Chu Qing was shocked to rush towards the bright cave entrance. Unexpectedly, there was still a steep slope below, and he rolled down several times before falling to the bottom.

  His head was smashed against the sharp mountain wall, his body was also battered and bloody, his brocade robe was torn, his hairpin fell off, and his black hair was disheveled. If there were people from the capital who knew him here at this time, they would never have thought that the elegant young master Chu Qingcang could be so miserable!

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  He was too distracted to look at himself, but when he brushed aside the hair that covered his eyes, all he saw in front of him was a vast expanse of white. He was still inside the cave, with no light shining in; the whiteness came entirely from the walls of the cave itself.

  The stones in the cave were as transparent and bright as jade, he stared at the tens of thousands of large and small, strange-shaped stone pillars in amazement, almost thinking that he had arrived in a paradise on earth.

  But before he could fully appreciate the beautiful view, he heard a faint cry for help: "Save me... save me!"

  Is anyone there? Chu Qingkuang searched around for the source of the voice, and when he turned a corner behind a cluster of stone pillars, he was shocked to see an old man lying on the ground, his body already festering with rot, yet still stubbornly digging at something that looked like a stone pillar sticking out of the earth.

  Chu Qingkong fixed his eyes on it, and that stone pillar was different from the others. It wasn't white, but a translucent flesh-red color, shaped like a palm, short and stout, and quite lovely...

  Thousand-year-old Meat Buddha? Chu Qing's heart skipped a beat as she suddenly realized who the person in front of her was!

  The King of Medicine Wu Guanzi? I didn't expect that after searching everywhere, it would come easily and effortlessly!

  "Come... help me!" The old man croaked loudly at him.

  Chu Qing walked over with a smile, looking at the big and small scars all over his body, and teased: "You won't be bitten by those snakes one by one to get here, will you?"

  Wu Guanzhi was too exhausted to argue with him and could only weakly say: "If you were to lose all your internal energy, you would end up like me!"

  "Have you lost all your strength?" Chu Qing was shocked, looking at him crawling and digging at the stone pillar with a weak and powerless appearance. He couldn't help but ask: "How did you come this way?"

  He was a highly skilled martial artist who had come here with great difficulty. He had lost all his martial arts skills, so how did he manage to walk here without dying halfway?

  "Dig out the meat first, otherwise you'll be talking to a corpse!" Wu Guanzhi was already on his last breath, lying on his side panting heavily.

  Chu Qingkuang stopped talking nonsense, took his medicine shovel and followed the guide to continue digging the stone pillar. After digging for a while, he found out why Wu Guanzhi couldn't dig it out - this stone pillar was like being poured with iron liquid from below, and after half a day of digging, only a little bit of stone dust fell off.

  He was shocked, wiped his sweat and continued digging. He dug until his palms were all blistered before he finally removed a small part of the Buddha's roots.

  Wu Guanzi saw a flash in front of him, beckoned to Chu Qingkuang to bring over the roots, and then guided him to take out a small jade bottle from his waist. He removed the stopper, crushed the roots, and stuffed them into the bottle. After a while, he let Chu Qingkuang feed him the juice from the bottle, and then told him to continue digging while he himself struggled to sit up in a cross-legged position and started to breathe deeply.

  Chu Qing crazily dug and observed him, slowly discovering that his complexion began to become ruddy, the festering places on his body also stopped bleeding and oozing pus. Although it wasn't as miraculously healing as the legend said, it was enough to show that this flesh Buddha was good stuff!

  "Are you that Chu family's young master who spent a thousand gold to buy the Bone-Breaking and Tendon-Reconnecting Ointment?" Wu Guanzong asked as soon as he came back to his senses.

  Chu Qing's madness had dissipated at this moment, and he didn't bother to argue with him. He sincerely replied: "It was indeed me! Senior, please name your price for the gold, but I implore you to give me the good medicine. Chu will give it to you even if it means bankrupting his family."

  Wu Guanzi smiled bitterly, pointing to the wounds all over his body, and said: "Do you think gold and life are important? The hardships I've gone through to get this medicine, you've also seen it, and this is just one of them. Do you think I care about your gold?"

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  Chu Qingxiang didn't argue with Wu Guanzhong because he saw these scars, the medicine was something he risked his life to get, he has the right to sell it or not!

  He fell silent for a moment, then said bitterly: "Senior, I'm not asking for this medicine for myself, but for someone very important to me! All I can say is that if senior sells me the medicine, I'll owe you one. If in the future you need me to jump into boiling water or walk through fire, even if it means giving up my life, as long as senior asks, I won't refuse! If I break this oath, let me be bitten by the thousands of snakes from that snake pit earlier, and have my bones and flesh torn apart!"

  "Haha, this oath is really moving, but don't blame me for being heartless. The medicine only has one dose left, and it was only obtained by chance. I won't be able to make another complete dose in this lifetime, so I'll have to keep some on hand for emergencies. Sorry, I won't comply!"

  Wu Guanzhi gave Chu Qing a sideways glance, saying with a proud tone: "You'll regret saving me. This thousand-year-old flesh Buddha is here, you can kill me and take it away. Although it can't cure your patient, it's still a good thing!"

  Chu Qing's eyebrows furrowed in anger, and for an instant, the thought of killing him really flashed through her mind. This stubborn old man, was he waiting for his own legs to break before taking the medicine?

  Looking at his fearless appearance, the medicine is definitely not on him. If it were on him, for Water Pearl, he would really be able to do this!

  He suffered a great calamity since childhood and was adopted by Chu Yun'an, who deeply understood his bold and uninhibited personality. He did things in a way that was both righteous and evil, never adhering to conventional norms. Therefore, he would not feel ashamed of stealing medicine to kill someone, nor would he do something completely meaningless.

  He smiled wryly: "Senior, you're really stubborn. I won't kill you. The Meat Buddha was found by you, but it was dug up by me. How about we split it 50/50?"

  Wu Guanzi's eyes rolled around, and although he had recovered a bit, he didn't have the energy to do this job. Since it was one person doing half the work without losing out, he agreed.

  Chu Qing finally dug out all the meat Buddhas after half a day of hard work, with only a few roots left at the bottom and a string of fleshy fruit hanging from the top.

  Wu Guanzi took out a box, hesitated for a moment and said to Chu Qingcang: "Chu younger brother, this meat Buddha may look like a good thing, but it's also highly toxic. If you're not careful, you'll lose its medicinal effect. You have to trust me, let me take it back and make it into a pill, and I'll give you half of it, okay?"

  Chu Qing was suspicious, and in this snake den, the things that grew were said to have wonderful uses in "Shan Hai Jing", but it didn't say how to deal with them specifically. The liquid in Wu's jade bottle just now must be fishy, and he couldn't understand it himself, so it would be better to do a favor for Wu instead of wasting good medicine.

  "You'd better take good care of it, just give me a little bit when it's done!"

  Wu Lao didn't expect him to be so easy-going, and with a smile, he said: "Chu Xiao Di is really generous, I like making friends with people like you. If you don't mind, call me Old Brother!"

  Chu Qing laughed wildly, this old man's seniority was even higher than his own adoptive father, and he actually wanted to call him brother? However, he wasn't a stubborn person, so he immediately changed his tone and said: "Big brother, the medicine has been dug up, how are we going to get out of here?"

  Just thinking about those snakes outside, he wasn't so scared that he was trembling with fear, but he couldn't help feeling a headache. Everyone has a love for beauty, and he didn't want to end up like Wu Guanzhi, bitten all over his body.

  Wu Guanzi chuckled and pulled out a jade bottle, saying: "Drink this medicinal wine, and you'll be immune to all poisons!"

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  Chu Qing looked at him with a smile that wasn't quite a smile and asked, "How did Big Brother get all these injuries?"

  Wu Guanzi's face turned red with shame as he lowered his head: "There are tens of thousands of snakes here, some can be avoided, and some don't even know what kind they are. Big brother is a mortal, and even if you have medicine, it's impossible to cure all diseases!"

  Chu Qing furiously glared at him and rolled her eyes, he also knew that he was just a mortal, losing his martial arts skills and still running into this snake pit, wanting to die didn't need to run so far!

  Wu Guanzhi was unable to find a way out, so he had to think of a solution himself. When they came in, there were fire starters to light the way, and Wu Guanzhi relied on his agility to make it through safely. But going out without fire starters would be very difficult, and adding to that, he still had to bring Wu Guanzhi, who didn't know any martial arts, with him, making it even more challenging. How were they supposed to get out?

  His handsome face was illuminated by the flashing light of the stone, and he suddenly had an idea. These stones themselves could emit light, wouldn't it be great to use them to attract snakes?

  This can be done, but how did Wu Guanzhi get out? Thinking of that giant snake king, he furrowed his brow and asked: "Big brother, did you see the snake king when you came in?"

  Wu Guanzi looked bewildered: "What snake king? Didn't see it!"

  Chu Qing was shocked and couldn't help but rub his temples, feeling fortunate for himself that his lightness skill was high enough, almost getting caught up by the snake king. He didn't have any martial arts skills, how did he manage to evade the snake king? Was it because the snake king was sleeping when he came in, so it didn't discover him?

  He told Wu Guanzhi about the appearance of the snake king, especially the blue eyes of that snake and the golden yellow striped tail.

  Wu Guanzi listened with a thoughtful expression, furrowed his brow after thinking for half a day and said: "The place where the snake king rests must have rare flowers and grasses, but what kind of species is that snake? I've never heard of it before."

  Chu Qingxian looked at him with a tangled expression, knowing that he had again fallen into the idea of ??"good medicine to control the world", and couldn't help but say: "You'd better think about how to keep yourself alive first! Without your life, even the best medicine is useless to you."

  Isn't that so? If he hadn't accidentally fallen into this cave, he would have died here long ago, and the thousand-year-old meat Buddha or whatever spiritual medicine would have been buried with him! This medicine crazy only knows how to study medicine, but hasn't thought about providing you with the best online romance.

  "We'll work together for three years. Within these three years, if I cure my leg, I won't take a single penny from you. If I don't cure it, within the three years, you give me one year's worth of the money I help you earn, and we'll be even!"

  Xiao Congrong's confident face appeared in front of him again, making his heart a bit confused. By refusing her, was he betraying her trust? He didn't even tell her when he went out to find medicine; would he still be able to appear calm and composed in front of her when she found out?

  Thinking of her blushing in his arms that day, he was a little distracted. What did it mean? Did the woman who dared to love and hate also have feelings for him?

  No... it won't be! She likes the Third Prince, this is something everyone knows!

  But... didn't he see her submit her resignation and leave the Third Prince without any regrets?

  People can leave, but can the heart? Don't be foolish... Even if there's really some subtle feelings between you two, even if she really has feelings for you, and even if you have good feelings towards her, what does it represent?

  Can you be together? Can you give her the only medicine in the world that can cure legs and abandon Water Pei? Since you can only give it to Water Pei, what will you give her? If she knows your choice, will she still have a good impression of you?

  Chu Qing shook her head violently, forcing herself to stop thinking about Xiao Congrong. She suppressed the turmoil in her heart and gathered the stones she had collected earlier. With Wu Guanzhi by her side, she climbed up the steep slope and arrived at the entrance of the cave they were at earlier.

  The entrance was very small, only allowing one person to pass through. The pungent smell at the entrance was very strong, giving him a kind of illusion that the snake king was coiled at the door, staring at them with cold eyes, waiting for them to fall into its trap...