Chapter 606: Life-Saving Rope

Li Li Banfeng repeatedly reviewed his memories of the past few days and denied the Peddler's accusation on the spot: "I indeed had the feeling of climbing onto the clouds, but I absolutely did not do the thing of setting a fire. I myself was burned by fire these past few days."

The Peddler was also surprised: "Who burned you?"

Li Li Banfeng's expression was stern: "This matter is not as simple as we imagined. I don't know who burned me yet, but it might be the same person who set the fire to burn your house. He might not be trying to burn me; he might be trying to burn you!

This person is very insidious. He has a grudge against you, or he has a grudge against your lover, or he has an affair with your lover. It's more likely that the two of them are having an affair and want to join forces to harm you.

I think every time I imagine the clouds, fire starts on my body, which proves that someone has laid an ambush in advance, specifically targeting you!"

The Peddler thought carefully and shook his head: "I haven't been burned by fire when I go to the clouds. They are not targeting me." Li Li Banfeng thought for a moment, and his expression became even sterner: "Then they are targeting me."

The Peddler was even more puzzled: "Why target you?"

Li Li Banfeng smoothed out his thoughts and gave another reasonable speculation: "Because they thought I discovered their conspiracy. In order to kill me to silence me, they have been targeting me. When they see me, they burn me with fire, and they also accuse the victim first, telling you that I set the fire!"

The Peddler and Li Li Banfeng sat shoulder to shoulder, both falling into deep thought.

After ten minutes of silence, Li Banfeng couldn't help but scratch an itch, and the Peddler asked: "They want to kill you, why must they use fire? Is there no other way?" Li Li Banfeng answered very seriously: "I think it's to destroy the body and eliminate the evidence."

The Peddler nodded slightly: "If you were a decent person, I would really believe these words."

"I am a decent person! Why don't you think carefully, besides your enemies, who else can go to your house to set a fire?"

This matter really stumped the Peddler: "There are very few people who understand the Yunmen Technique, and even fewer who can find that cloud. Tell me first, how did you get up there?"

Li Li Banfeng answered truthfully: "At first I couldn't get up, but after careful observation, I had a clear impression of that cloud." "Observation? Using your eyes to look?" The Peddler was very surprised.

"Yes, using my eyes to look," Li Li Banfeng pointed to the window, "Isn't that cloud right there? No need to open the window, you can see it through the glass." The Peddler looked at the window, which was the window he came in through. The window sash and glass had nothing special.

But under normal circumstances, Li Li Banfeng shouldn't be able to see this cloud.

The Peddler stood by the window and looked out, asking: "You saw this cloud right here?" Li Li Banfeng nodded: "Yes, the view here is quite good."

The Peddler asked again: "How many times have you looked?"

"This is hard to remember. If you just look casually, you can see it with one glance. I haven't counted carefully."

"Can see it with one glance..." The Peddler narrowed his eyes and asked again, "Let's not talk about looking casually, just say how many times have you looked at it seriously?"

"Doesn't need to be looked at many times, right? This cloud basically has no changes. Isn't looking once enough?" As for serious observation, Li Li Banfeng had only observed it once. "What time did you look at this cloud?"

"Dusk."

The Peddler nodded slightly: "So you saw a fire cloud?"

Li Li Banfeng recalled slightly, nodded repeatedly: "It really was a fire cloud, burned very thoroughly, the weather that day was very clear... halfway through, Li Li Banfeng frowned: "You can't mean that because I saw a fire cloud, I ran to the clouds to set a fire, right?" "A decent person shouldn't, but it's hard to say for you."

"Then tell me how I am not decent?"

The Peddler sat back beside Li Li Banfeng and gave Li Li Banfeng a rolled cigarette: "Do you know what the Yunmen Technique is?"

"Don't know!" Li Li Banfeng answered very honestly, "Since it's a technique I can learn, it should be a technique of traveling cultivators or residential cultivators, right?"

"Neither," the Peddler shook his head, "The Yunmen Technique is a boundary-less technique, meaning it doesn't distinguish between sects and doesn't care about cultivation base. It's a technique that everyone can learn." "Then there must be many people who know this technique."

"Not many!" The Peddler shook his head, "Because this technique is too difficult. Many people with extremely high cultivation bases haven't been able to learn the Yunmen Technique in their whole lives. As for why you learned it by accident, I estimate there are many complex reasons here."

Li Li Banfeng lowered his head modestly: "Actually, I haven't learned the Yunmen Technique either. I should not have truly climbed onto the clouds. I just used the False Moving technique to move the scene on the clouds into the room. Your house being burned has nothing to do with me."

"Still refusing to admit it? I saw you burn my house with my own eyes yesterday."

"Why should I admit it?" Li Li Banfeng remembered the details at the time clearly, "When I used the False Moving technique, I only saw white clouds, not fire clouds."

The Peddler nodded: "If it were a decent person, if they didn't see fire clouds, they would think they went to the wrong place. If it were you, if you didn't see fire clouds, you would estimate you would have burned the clouds."

"Do you think I'm crazy? Why would I do that kind of thing?" It wasn't that Li Li Banfeng was denying it, he really had no impression of setting a fire.

"You really don't understand the Yunmen Technique. There are some things you don't even know how to control," the Peddler took a puff of the cigarette and asked about another matter, "Why do you insist on learning the Yunmen Technique? Are you trying to leave a way out, or are you trying to hide your combat power?"

Li Li Banfeng didn't understand the Peddler's meaning: "Why hide combat power?"

"That's what I'm saying. You have so little combat power, why hide it? Could it be that you are preparing for promotion?" Does promotion have anything to do with the Yunmen Technique?

Unexpected gains?

Li Li Banfeng directly took the slope: "I am indeed preparing." The Peddler was startled: "You have reached the third layer?"

"Residential cultivation has it, traveling cultivation hasn't reached it yet." A truth, spoken with certainty, and this slope became a bit more solid. The Peddler asked: "You don't want to go above the clouds?"

"Who wants to go above the clouds? Above the clouds doesn't have layers. This name sounds earthy!"

The Peddler expressed deep agreement: "I also think it's earthy. In the past, some people called above the clouds 'stars', and some called them 'constellations'. I say, do you know where the stars and constellations are? One by one, they dare to call them so loudly.

In my opinion, this above the clouds is not the right path for cultivation at all. Even the layers are gone, just closing your eyes and walking blindly. This is obviously unscientific!" Li Li Banfeng nodded repeatedly: "I also think this path is unscientific, that's why I want to learn the Yunmen Technique."

"The Yunmen Technique is indeed a way, but do you know how to use this way?"

"I've only heard a few rumors, I don't know any details, just thinking about learning the technique first!" Li Li Banfeng looked at the Peddler sincerely. The slope was built, just waiting for the donkey to come down. "It's still early. From the third layer above the clouds to promotion, whether going above the clouds or to the fourth layer above the clouds, it requires a large amount of popularity to rush up. You should save enough popularity first and then talk."

The Peddler didn't walk down the slope.

Li Li Banfeng lowered his eyes, very dissatisfied with this result.

"I have saved popularity, saved enough. The key is I don't know what to do next. What if I use the wrong method and rush above the clouds? Wouldn't that be a waste of previous efforts?"

The Peddler shook his head slightly: "You think things too simply. Rising from the third layer above the clouds to the fourth requires a huge amount of popularity. Green Water Bay alone cannot solve the problem." Li Li Banfeng shivered.

The Peddler smiled: "What's wrong, brother? What are you afraid of? You have already become the local deity of Green Water Bay, do you think I don't know this?" Li Li Banfeng folded his hands and smiled honestly: "I never intended to hide it from you. Between us brothers, what can't be said?"

"Then why didn't you say it when we met last time?"

"I wanted to say it, but wasn't it interrupted by your lover last time?"

The Peddler sneered: "Fine, you managed to round it off. Green Flower had already reached the third layer above the clouds and saved a lot of popularity without using it, just waiting to rush to the fourth layer above the clouds. Now he went to Blade Ghost Ridge to be a living god. The popularity he worked hard to touch was eaten by you."

Li Li Banfeng asked: "Green Flower has so much popularity, isn't it enough to rise to the fourth layer?"

"Enough is enough. He can't rise because I didn't recognize his sect at the time and didn't give him the initiation medicine powder. After the third layer above the clouds, he couldn't find the way and wasn't willing to rise above the clouds, so he has been stuck at the third layer above the clouds.

Although it is the third layer, many cultivators above the clouds can't beat him. It's a pity for his good talent. Disease cultivation is too evil. In order to cultivate, Green Flower often spreads disease. I wanted to kill him, but when I was about to take action, he did a good deed."

Li Li Banfeng thought for a long time: "What good deed can Green Flower do?"

"The Inner Continent spread a plague in Puluo Continent, killing many people. This plague was cured by Green Flower." Speaking of this, the cigarette was finished, and Li Li Banfeng continued one for the Peddler.

The Peddler recalled the situation at the time: "This matter is hard to handle. Losing and earning, neither owes the other. Everything I do must be fair. Green Flower saved Puluo Continent, I can't kill him, but I can't let him run around either.

I made a contract with him. He is allowed to beg for one year. He can go anywhere, a village, a town, a city. Even if this place is not in Green Water Bay, I can't interfere.

But no matter where he goes, there is one condition: he must beg all the way, pass through this territory, and as long as three people give him alms, he must return to his residence." "What if there are no three people?"

"He will spread a plague."

Li Li Banfeng remembered his experience in Blue Poplar Village: "At that time, Green Water Beggar went to Blue Poplar Village to beg, intending to spread the plague in Blue Poplar Village. But Blue Poplar Village was his own territory. What was his purpose for doing this?"

The Peddler shook his head: "I still haven't figured this out to this day."

Li Li Banfeng asked again: "There is another matter. Spreading the plague depends on population density. Why didn't he go to densely populated cities? Blue Poplar Village is so remote, the plague might not spread."

"According to the contract, if he went to a city, he would have to pass through a city. Cities have many people, he would definitely get three alms, and thus would have no chance to spread the plague. This is the wonder of the contract," the Peddler changed the subject and said to Li Li Banfeng,

"If you want to learn the Yunmen Technique, I can teach it to you. Why don't we sign a contract? I'm not trying to limit you, I'm also helping you save popularity. There is a place in Puluo Continent with extremely prosperous popularity, called Zhong Zhong Desong Cliff, which is a good place for cultivation. You go there to be a local deity for three years..."

"Not going!" Hearing Zhong Zhong Desong Cliff, Li Li Banfeng felt uncomfortable in his stomach, "The territory of virtue cultivation, why let me be a local deity? Where did their original local deity go?"

The Peddler sighed: "The former local deity of Zhong Zhong Desong Cliff, named Wang Wang Zhengde, was a person of great virtue. Perhaps because he was old, his mind was a bit unclear. He went to Black Stone Slope to open a lecture hall, specifically lecturing on virtue, and recruited many disciples.

Last month, Tang Tang Shijiang couldn't bear it anymore and told Wang Wang Zhengde to leave immediately. He didn't listen. Later, Tang Tang Shijiang went to persuade him. You also know that Tang Tang Shijiang is clumsy and doesn't know how to speak, so he didn't say much."

Li Li Banfeng didn't quite understand: "Didn't say much, how did he persuade people?"

The Peddler gritted his teeth: "This fool Tang Tang Shijiang directly beat Wang Wang Zhengde to death. If he had left even one breath, Zhong Zhong Desong Cliff wouldn't have been in such a mess.

Now the local deity is gone, and a group of virtue cultivators are fighting for the position of local deity in Zhong Zhong Desong Cliff. I think a truly virtuous person doesn't lie in the sect, but in the state of mind. If you go to Zhong Zhong Desong Cliff with this state of mind, you will definitely convince the crowd. Just believe me..."

"Don't believe me, I'm not suitable," Li Li Banfeng shook his head repeatedly, "Pan Lao is suitable. Pan Pan Dehai himself is the local deity of the right land, has qualifications, strength, and experience. This position belongs to him."

"Wang Wang Zhengde just died, and Pan Pan Dehai went to Zhong Zhong Desong Cliff. They fought for nearly a month, and all his old teeth were knocked out. Yesterday he just returned to Sea Eat Ridge to heal his injuries. So, think about this matter again..."

Li Li Banfeng squatted on the ground: "Zhong Zhong Desong Cliff is not going. This matter is not negotiable!"

The Peddler squatted beside Li Li Banfeng: "Brother, I'm doing this for your own good. Wang Wang Zhengde also touched a lot of popularity and also wanted to rush to the fourth layer above the clouds, but he didn't find the way and couldn't rush up.

I'm telling you this way now, you go and eat Wang Wang Zhengde's popularity, one bite down, a big wave of fat, how can you not make a big profit?" "I just don't like the territory of virtue cultivation."

"That is a piece of righteous land, and you still dislike the territory. If you are so picky, I can't help you. The Yunmen Technique, you can figure it out yourself."

Li Li Banfeng sniffed his nose, tears swirling in his eyes: "I'm at such a critical juncture, you don't help me, what about our brothers' feelings? What about the friendship of hands and feet?" "I remember the feelings and friendship, but doing business can't just talk about friendship. The key is to talk about the price, pay attention to fair trade, and not deceive the old or the young."

Hearing the four words "not deceive the old or the young", the tears that were about to flow out were taken back by Li Li Banfeng.

No wonder the Peddler kept refusing to get off the donkey. Sun Sun Tiecheng once said that the Peddler created the "not deceive the old or the young" technique, which has a restraint on foolish cultivators. "If you don't help me, forget it, I'll figure it out myself." Li Li Banfeng set his sights on that cloud in the sky again.

The Peddler tidied up the cargo cart: "Brother, it's fine if you figure it out yourself, but don't always think about burning my house. Change to another cloud." "Are there any other suitable clouds?"

"Yes!" The Peddler looked at the sky, "There are many clouds in the sky of Puluo Continent. Some you can see, most you can't see. Among the clouds you can see, some don't move, these have owners. Some change constantly, these have no owners.

You can snatch the clouds with owners, and you can collect the clouds without owners. As long as you don't burn my house, the sky is vast, you can gallop as you please." The Peddler pushed the cart to leave. Li Li Banfeng remembered another important matter: "I want to find Water Snake Grass, where should I go?"

"Dry grass or fresh grass?" "Dry grass is fine."

"I have some here, twenty big oceans per plant."

The Peddler was also too reliable. Li Li Banfeng was excited: "How many do you have?" "Thirty-some plants."

"I want them all!"

Li Li Banfeng gave the money, the Peddler handed over the goods, pushed the cargo cart, walked out of the window, landed steadily on the ground, shook the rattle-drum, and continued to push the cart and peddle. Looking at the Peddler's back as he walked away, Li Li Banfeng smiled secretly.

It doesn't matter if you don't tell me the Yunmen Technique, my wife must know some.

Li Li Banfeng returned to the Leaving Suishenju and saw the Water Snake Grass. His wife was very happy: "Husband actually brought back so many. This thing is quite hard to find." "Is this enough?"

"Enough, there will be quite a bit left after making the rope. This is a very precious medicinal material and will definitely be of great use in the future." "Precious wife, do you know the Yunmen Technique?"

His wife thought for a while: "Heard some rumors before, it seems to be a technique that can be performed above the clouds." Li Li Banfeng was very disappointed: "Even our family's A-Pen knows this, but wife only heard some rumors?"

The phonograph smiled: "Precious husband, you look down on our family's A-Pen. He is a literary person with wisdom, a figure who can be ranked in the literary cultivation. The books he has read are perhaps more than all of us combined."

"Humph!" The Judge's Pen shook at Li Li Banfeng's waist. "But he can't remember the essentials of the technique anymore."

"Why does husband want to learn the Yunmen Technique?"

"For the sake of promotion in the future, precious wife, I don't want to go above the clouds, I want to rise to the fourth layer above the clouds."

His wife was stunned for a long time: "Husband, the fourth layer above the clouds is also a rumor. I have seen people who claim to be above the third layer above the clouds, but whether it is true or false, it is impossible to verify.

There are indeed people who want to avoid above the clouds and continue to stay above the clouds to cultivate, but it is said that this requires special means to assist. What specific means, opinions differ, and it is hard for me to distinguish. In short, this is not the right path for cultivation, husband should not think too much."

His wife walked the path above the clouds and was not familiar with the path of breaking through to the fourth layer above the clouds. Hong Ying's situation was the same as his wife's, and she didn't even believe there was a fourth layer above the clouds.

The Judge's Pen knew the most and might have truly walked this path, but he couldn't remember. Red Lotus might know more, but she pushed it off as having forgotten, and Li Li Banfeng couldn't do anything about her either.

What to do? Figure it out by himself?

Or grit his teeth and go to Zhong Zhong Desong Cliff to be a local deity.

It's still early to think about this. Residential cultivation has just reached the third layer above the clouds, and traveling cultivation is still at the second layer. The popularity in various territories has been collected by Li Li Banfeng almost all. I don't know how many years it will take to gather enough popularity to rush to the fourth layer.

Wait for his wife to finish making the rope and rescue Little Pang first. Two days later, the rope was completed.

An earthy yellow hemp rope, three fingers thick. Li Li Banfeng didn't see anything special, but his wife put in a lot of effort for this rope, and every detail was arranged very thoroughly. Li Li Banfeng didn't go to Hemp Bamboo Village this time. Always using the Dark Bridge Cannon in one place, he was afraid of arousing suspicion.

He went to Leqing Town, which was the boundary between Green Water Bay and Pants Belt Ridge. The boundary line passed through a large swamp. This place didn't see a human shadow all year round and was more desolate than Hemp Bamboo Mountain. Li Li Banfeng carried his wife out of the Leaving Suishenju. His wife controlled the Dark Bridge Cannon and projected two overlapping shadows on the boundary line.

"Husband, you must be careful when using the rope. But if you feel something is wrong, abandon this rope immediately and get out of the wormhole quickly. Whether Qin Qin Tianjiu can be saved depends on his good fortune. Husband must not let himself be implicated."

Li Li Banfeng agreed, brought the rope, and walked into the shadows.

A burst of smoke and dust fell, Li Li Banfeng entered the wormhole, walked for more than ten seconds, and first saw that white crane. The white crane stood on one leg beside the dark bridge, its long neck bent backward, its long beak inserted into its wings.

It was sleeping.

Li Li Banfeng passed the white crane silently and walked forward for a distance.

Walking all the way to the end of the dark bridge, Li Ban

Li Li Banfeng walked all the way to the end of the Dark Bridge without seeing Qin Qin Tianjiu. Where had this kid run off to?

Visibility in the wormhole was extremely low. Li Li Banfeng tapped the Thread-Pulling Earrings, wanting to locate Qin Qin Tianjiu through sound. He could vaguely hear some breathing, but he couldn't be sure if it was Qin Qin Tianjiu.

In desperation, Li Li Banfeng shouted, "Qin Qin Tianjiu?" This shout echoed in the wormhole for a long time.

The white crane woke up, stretched its neck, looked around for a moment, tilted its head, and watched Li Li Banfeng with one eye. This white crane's perception was too strong.

Li Li Banfeng was considering whether to keep calling for Qin Qin Tianjiu; if the white crane held Qin Qin Tianjiu hostage, how should he handle it? While he was pondering, the white crane suddenly spoke: "Little brother, come quickly, someone is looking for you!"

Qin Qin Tianjiu walked from the darkness toward the Dark Bridge. He was thinner than before, his eye sockets deeply sunken as he looked around, shaking his head: "Senior, who is looking for me?" The white crane didn't speak, and Li Li Banfeng responded: "Little Pang, it's me."

Qin Qin Tianjiu was very excited; he wanted to call out "Brother Seven," but didn't dare to speak. He knew he couldn't easily expose Li Qi's identity here.

Li Li Banfeng stared at the path beneath his feet, his gaze slowly extending outward from his feet, using the technique of the Golden Eye and Autumn Hair to slowly search for the gap between the Dark Bridge and the wormhole. Determining the location of the gap wasn't difficult; near the gap, because light poured in, there would be a certain degree of change in visual brightness.

Li Li Banfeng found the approximate location of the gap and placed the rope near it.

The thick hemp rope crawled like a snake. After testing for a moment, the rope suddenly flattened and widened, like a piece of paper, and drilled out through the gap. The rope had a certain ability to perceive, but it didn't recognize Qin Qin Tianjiu and could only crawl toward living targets.

It crawled to the white crane's feet.

The white crane looked at the rope on the ground and remained silent for over ten seconds.

He hid to the side and said to Qin Qin Tianjiu: "Little brother, this is here to save you, go quickly."

Qin Qin Tianjiu bowed deeply to the white crane. Just as he grabbed the rope, the white-clothed man suddenly rushed over, shouting loudly: "Don't go yet, take us with you, don't go yet!" The white crane blocked the white-clothed man, not letting him get close to Little Pang.

The white-clothed man shouted: "My Lord, let this little brother take us with him; we haven't treated him badly." The white crane shook his head, and no matter how the white-clothed man cried and shouted, the white crane never let him get close.

Following the Lady's instructions, Li Li Banfeng slowly pulled the rope.

Little Pang followed the rope to the vicinity of the gap. Under the tension of the rope, Little Pang's withered body was slowly pressed flat.

"Cough, cough!" Unable to bear the intense pain, Little Pang coughed up a mouthful of blood foam. Before long, he didn't even have the strength to cough, and his whole body was pressed like a piece of paper, slowly sliding into the gap.

He wasn't flattened by the squeeze of the Dark Bridge's gap; he was flattened by the special technique on the rope. After entering the Dark Bridge, the technique was lifted. Little Pang didn't suffer heavy injuries, only breaking a few bones, which was already the best result within the plan.

The white crane was still outside the Dark Bridge. He continued to watch Li Li Banfeng with one eye: "This friend, if you still have the strength to help us, we will never forget your kindness in this life. If you can't save us, then take this brother and go. Take care of yourselves."

Li Li Banfeng looked at the white crane, turned to support Little Pang, and walked to the end of the Dark Bridge. A cloud of ash rose, and the two walked out of the wormhole together. Before them was a swamp, and Little Pang rushed into the muddy water and took two gulps.

In the past few days, he had only been able to rely on eating moss on the ground to quench his thirst. Even though the muddy water in the swamp was so filthy, it tasted very sweet in Little Pang's mouth. Li Li Banfeng pulled him up and handed him a water bottle.

Little Pang held the water bottle, his knees trembling slightly.

Li Li Banfeng frowned: "If you dare to kneel, I'll throw you back in." Little Pang didn't dare to kneel, but tears still flowed down.

"Brother Seven..." He grinned and cried, crying for so long he couldn't speak.

Someone was crying even more miserably than him. The white-clothed man was currently sitting beside the white crane, wailing loudly: "My Lord, how could you do this? We only had this one chance, how could you just let him go like that?

How long have we been trapped here? Can we still get out? Is this life over just like this?" "Stop babbling!" The white crane waved his wing and slapped the white-clothed man.

The white-clothed man lowered his head and saw a rope crawling on the ground. This was the rope that had just saved Qin Qin Tianjiu.

Li Qi had returned; he had released the rope from the Dark Bridge again. The white crane looked at the white-clothed man: "You go first."

The white-clothed man wiped his tears. Just as he grabbed the rope, he hesitated for a moment and then yielded it to the white crane. "My Lord, you go first."

"No need to push it back and forth, we can all get out. You go first." The white crane let the white-clothed man enter the gap first.

Could they really all get out?

The white crane wasn't sure either; perhaps the other side could only save one person, but he still gave the opportunity to the white-clothed man.

Before long, the rope extended out again. The white crane let out a long breath. Just as he was about to bite the rope, he thought for a moment, turned his head, and shouted: "Miss, come quickly, grab this rope."

Li Li Banfeng greatly admired this white crane. Trapped in the wormhole for two full years, finally waiting for a chance to get out, yet he could still give the opportunity to others. Such people were too rare.

A woman walked over: "Senior, you go first."

The white crane shook his head and said: "You go. My cultivation is high; even if I can't get out, I won't die if I endure a few more years here."

The woman wanted to decline, but the white crane urged: "Go quickly, the person who came to save us also took a great risk, don't waste time here!" The woman didn't say anything more and quickly grabbed the rope.

Although she was much more haggard, Li Li Banfeng could recognize this woman at a glance. Whether it was her appearance, figure, or voice, Li Li Banfeng was very familiar with her. Teacher Song.

Why did you run into the wormhole?

PS: I think this white crane is a person worth associating with.