Sean heard Fan Xian's confident words and coughed violently for a long time, not stopping. High on this cliff in the middle of the night, he wondered if the Jinyi Guards searching below could hear him. Fan Xian was a little worried, took out a thin needle, and groped to insert it into Sean's neck, helping to soothe his heart.

Fan Xian's fingers gently rested on Sean's neck, but he felt a slight wetness and stickiness. He sniffed and smelled a faint fishy smell, knowing that Sean had begun to cough blood. His face was expressionless, but his heart was slightly touched.

"She's a fairy," the dying old man stubbornly confirmed his judgment from thirty years ago.

Fan Xian didn't want to argue with him about this matter and asked, "How could a four-year-old girl lift a box? Who was carrying that box?"

"What box?" Sean's voice was direct, not like he was lying.

Fan Xian was slightly stunned, knowing that the other party didn't need to hide anything at this point, and Uncle Wu Zhu hadn't appeared yet. Wu Zhu had once said that he and his mother had come out of their home together. Where was this home? According to the letter left by his mother, Wu Zhu had fought a strong person in the temple, causing him to lose part of his memory. Why did Wu Zhu fight with the people in the temple? Could it be a lovers' quarrel?

"What happened next?"

This was the basic duty of everyone who listened to a story. Sean, the old storyteller, was about to die, so Fan Xian naturally wouldn't forget to ask these three words.

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Inside the tent, Ku He lay on a fur, breathing rapidly. No one knew what the four-year-old girl had promised him that could make him go against his long-held beliefs and dare to attack the people in the temple.

Sean glanced at the little girl who had lifted the tent curtain and was looking at the snowy ground outside. The wind and snow outside hadn't lessened. The little girl's skin was as white as snow, and her small hands tightly gripped the thick tent cloth. Her small figure looked at the big world outside, and there was a sense of loneliness that didn't match her age.

He carefully moved to Ku He's side and reached into the opening of Ku He's robe.

"That's what I gave him," the little girl said without turning her head. "Don't touch it."

Sean looked at the little girl, and a fierce light suddenly appeared in his eyes. What Ku He was hiding in his arms at this moment must be the supreme heavenly book from the temple, so he couldn't help but be tempted. But when he thought that the little girl was a little fairy who had sneaked out of the temple, Sean immediately abandoned all his ideas.

He knelt down with utmost respect and kowtowed to the little fairy at the door, "This humble servant is the Shuangying Commander of the Great Wei Zhenfu Division, and I am here at the order of His Majesty to listen to the heavenly decree at the temple, seeking the immortal medicine of longevity from the upper immortal."

This was Sean's mission, and he had not forgotten it.

The little girl at the door laughed when she heard this. She laughed very happily. After a while, she suddenly threw a pill to Sean, "You helped me, so I'll help you too. That monk got benefits, so you should get some too."

Sean took the pill and carefully examined it, but he couldn't see anything special about it. But since it was given by a fairy, he couldn't take it lightly, so he took out a jade box and carefully put it inside.

"You can go back," the little girl said in a rather old-fashioned tone. "What's so good about staying here?"

Sean was a little disappointed. He had finally found the temple, but he hadn't gone inside. He didn't even know what the immortals in the temple looked like.

"Thank you, fairy, for the medicine."

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"Don't come here again in the future," the little girl suddenly said softly. "And don't tell anyone where the temple is."

"If I find out that you have revealed the location of the temple, I will kill you," the little girl turned around, her tender face full of frost. "Did you hear me?"

Sean repeatedly bowed his head and said yes. Although these cold words seemed a little funny when spoken by a little girl carved from ice and snow, the fact that a four-year-old girl could say these things so clearly proved that she was not an ordinary person.

Even though Sean was the leader of the Great Wei Tiqi, he still didn't dare to disobey.

The old man had no choice but to obey.

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"After Ku He woke up, that little fairy forced the two of us to make a poisonous oath, and then we started walking south. In those days, the smile on the little fairy's face gradually increased, as if she felt that being able to set foot in the human world was a very interesting thing." Sean continued to recall, "It's strange to say, but every time Ku He and I looked at her small back, we never felt how much magical power was in her body. Alas... there is a difference between immortals and mortals. We mortals can't really understand."

"One day, the little fairy looked back at the snow mountain behind her and suddenly muttered to herself, 'He's too pitiful.' I remember this sentence very clearly because I have never seen such compassionate feelings on the face of a mortal."

Fan Xian certainly knew that his mother was not a fairy. At the time, she probably didn't have much power. She was actually able to fool the two strongest people in the world. Her brain was really good, but he didn't understand who his mother was talking about when she said "too pitiful."

Moreover, he didn't believe in any compassionate feelings and couldn't help but laugh.

Sean mocked, "How can rats like you and me, who live in the sewer, know the appearance of the crane in the nine heavens? I can't describe the little fairy's eyes at all, but they have made Ku He and I unforgettable."

Fan Xian was silent.

"The next day, the little fairy suddenly disappeared. I don't know where she went. She suddenly disappeared without a trace on that cold, boundless snowfield, scaring Ku He and me half to death." Sean recalled, panting in the cave, "This is the most mysterious adventure I've ever had in my life. It's considered good luck to be able to see a fairy who doesn't belong to this human world."

"Then you and Ku He went back to Northern Wei?" Fan Xian asked.

"That's right. The journey back was more difficult than the journey there, but overall, we returned without any danger." Sean said, "I presented the pill given by the fairy to His Majesty, and this matter was considered to have a relatively good outcome."

Fan Xian said, "Don't lie to me. That pill should have already gone into your stomach."

Sean hissed and laughed, "I knew I couldn't fool you."

Fan Xian said, "How could there be an elixir of immortality in this world?"

"That kind of temptation is something that every normal person can't refuse." Sean sighed and said, "Of course, I only realized after eating that pill that my physique was just a little better, and it was impossible to achieve immortality at all. Only then did I realize that even little fairies can lie."

"I believe that that little fairy liked to lie the most in her life." Fan Xian said in a daze, "Maybe even her death was a lie."

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"What death?" Sean said, "How could a fairy die?"

Fan Xian ignored him, closed his eyes, and firmly remembered Sean's memories in his mind. Then, he stood up and held the dagger. At this time, there was no light around, and the dark clouds covered the stars and the moon, so it was so dark that you couldn't even see your fingers. Sean couldn't see his movements clearly.

"Why does Ku He want you to die?" This was Fan Xian's last question. "I don't think knowing the location of the temple would cause such a big disturbance."

Sean found Fan Xian's question very strange, "Everyone knows what the temple means to the world. If such important news were to spread, I'm afraid the world would be in chaos. Whether it's the children of the Zhan family in Qi or your incredibly poisonous emperor of Southern Qing, they would all send teams to the north to pay homage. The strong people in the world would constantly try to find the temple."

Fan Xian rubbed his nose and said, "The temple? You've been there and said it's just a big temple. What's so good about worshiping it?"

Sean sneered, "Ku He only knelt in front of the temple and became the top grandmaster in the world. This kind of temptation is something that martial arts practitioners can't even imagine... And do you think Ku He is really a great saint? Seeing how devoutly he knelt in front of the temple, but the little fairy only gave him a book, and he instantly overturned the temple he had believed in all his life and took a risk. In the face of profit, he is just a great villain who is good at disguise."

Sean continued, "If I am killed, he will be the only one in the world who knows where the temple is. What exactly is in the temple? Ku He may never know in his life, but he has already obtained enough benefits. So why should he risk allowing other strong people in the world to have this opportunity?"

Fan Xian thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case. He vaguely understood why Ku He was so determined to kill Sean. Perhaps it was to protect his glorious image as a national preceptor and not expose the ugly things that happened on the way north, or perhaps Ku He knew that the things in the temple would bring unknown dangers to the world.

"What exactly is in the temple?"

Fan Xian fell into deep thought, and his fingers subconsciously drew the "勿" character that Sean had mentioned on the door of the temple. His fingers gradually accelerated, making a whistling sound.

"For thousands of years, everyone has known that the temple does not interfere with worldly affairs. It was already a very risky gamble for Ku He and me to go to it. The facts prove that as long as we leave the temple, the people in the temple will not come to trouble the world... Ku He is protecting the current Northern Qi. How dare he risk offending the heavenly power?"

Sean's energy was gradually waning, and his voice was getting softer and softer, but the fear in his voice could never be dispelled, "What's more, the little fairy forced us to make a poisonous oath. Even if Ku He always boasts that he is the closest person to heaven in this life, how dare he break the oath?"

"Don't take oaths too seriously," Fan Xian said. "Didn't you tell me the location of the temple?"

"That's because I'm about to die." Sean turned his head to one side with some difficulty, "And you will die in this cave too."

Fan Xian smiled slightly apologetically and said, "I don't think so."