Mortal Mirror

Hearing Li Ergou's question, the old beggar forced a smile and said, "Today is the sixtieth birthday of Manager Wu of Dachang, and they are giving out food. There are not only pastries but also delicious roasted chicken. I thought you were so badly injured that you needed to replenish your strength.

So I joined the crowd to grab some. Alas, I'm old and useless. Although I was lucky enough to grab a roast chicken, another beggar spotted it and started fighting with me for it.

Unexpectedly, that guy didn't play fair and pulled out a knife and stabbed me. That's how I got injured. Fortunately, I'm not afraid of death and desperately held onto the roast chicken. Even so, half of it was snatched away, and I barely managed to keep the other half.

Alas, if I were young, I would have definitely fought back. Damn it, it's really infuriating."

Hearing all this, Li Ergou felt a strange tremor in his heart. He knew that the old beggar made it sound easy, but the scene must have been very tragic.

He looked at the old beggar and said, "Was it worth it, for me?"

The old beggar chuckled and said, "Kid, do you know why I insisted on saving you?"

Li Ergou shook his head. He had never really thought about this question.

"Alas, that's a secret I've buried in my heart for a long, long time. It's because you look a lot like my son. Unfortunately, he lost his life to an illness back then.

Seeing you, I think of him. If he were alive, he would probably be about your age.

Rather than saying I'm saving you, it's more like fulfilling my own wish, so you don't need to overthink it. People like us have cheap lives, just a worthless existence. It doesn't matter if we die."

Hearing this, Li Ergou felt a warmth in his heart. He really hadn't expected a stranger to be willing to die for him. This kindness moved him.

The old beggar said, "Eat, hurry up and eat, otherwise, I would have taken this knife for nothing."

Li Ergou tore open the oil paper. The half roast chicken was uneven, obviously torn apart violently. The chicken smelled delicious, but at this moment, he had no appetite.

Looking at the old beggar's expectant gaze, he still forced himself to eat. After all, how could he have strength without eating? How could his body recover without eating?

Even if he didn't like it, he had to eat, for himself, and perhaps also for the kindness of the old beggar in front of him.

As he ate, tears couldn't help but flow down his face.

The old beggar laughed and said, "Good, that's right. Eat when you should eat, drink when you should drink, so you can get better quickly. Leave the chicken butt for me, I love eating chicken butts the most. Damn, it smells so good!"

Li Ergou didn't even know how he fell asleep. When he woke up, he realized that the old beggar's face was pale, and his lips were so dry that they were about to crack.

He was lying weakly beside him, with fresh blood still flowing from his wound. There was a large patch of blood on the ground.

At this moment, he thought something was wrong. He immediately touched the old beggar's forehead, which was scalding hot.

After a moment of thought, he lifted the old beggar's clothes and saw a wound about an inch long. Fresh blood was constantly seeping out, and it didn't seem to be healing. He endured the severe pain in his body and grabbed some of the still-red embers from under the fire.

Without any hesitation, he pressed them onto the old beggar's wound.

With a sizzling sound, the smell of burning flesh filled the air.

"Ah..."

The old beggar in his sleep suddenly opened his eyes, glanced at Li Ergou, and then passed out again.

Li Ergou removed the embers and saw that the old beggar's wound was charred black. At least it had stopped bleeding, so he wouldn't die from blood loss.

However, he had a high fever. If it didn't come down quickly, he would either die or become an idiot.

Looking at the old beggar's appearance, Li Ergou sighed in his heart, gritted his teeth, and insisted on standing up. It hurt, it hurt so much.

Fortunately, although all the bones in his body were broken, he had recovered a lot after so many days of recuperation. After all, he was a martial arts practitioner. Even if his golden core and cultivation were destroyed, his physique was still better than that of ordinary people.

Moreover, his Netherworld Tendon Refining was not within the realm of martial arts but took a different path. Its endurance was even stronger.

Gritting his teeth, he could still walk. He had to go out and beg for some money to get some medicine for the old beggar. He couldn't just watch him die like this.

What use was face at this moment? The old beggar risked his life for him, so how could he not do something for him?

At this moment, he knew that he couldn't continue to be confused. He had to cheer up, at least to save the old beggar.

It hurt, it hurt a lot, it really hurt.

But who was Li Ergou? Hadn't he endured a lot of pain over the years? He walked out of the dilapidated Taoist temple.

Yesterday was shrouded in dark clouds, but today was bright and sunny.

When the sunlight shone on him, he felt warm all over, as if he had never been so warm before.

He leaned on a crutch and walked out.

At the city gate of Baojing Prefecture, Yu Tongtian led Yu Lu into the city. It was Yu Lu's first time in such a big city, and she couldn't help but exclaim, "Master, this place is so big, and there are so many people."

"Of course, this is the prefecture capital of Baojing Prefecture, and also the largest city in the entire prefecture. But in Great Xia, there are even bigger cities than Baojing Prefecture.

For example, the Four Great Cities, such as the capital of Great Xia, Dadu.

When you grow up, you will know that Great Xia is very, very big, but for us, Great Xia is not that big. The world is vast, and Great Xia is only a small part of the world."

"Oh, then what is outside Great Xia? Master, do you know? Have you been there before?"

"Outside Great Xia? To the east are the Wu tribe and the land of the barbarians. Although the barbarians are powerful, they are not to be feared.

To the south is the endless sea. The sea has no end. Legend has it that at the end of the sea is Guixu, Guixu seems to be a chaos. There were once great figures who wanted to go in and explore, but unfortunately, none of them ever returned. It's a pity that Master has never been there either.

To the north of Great Xia is the Northern Sea Forbidden Land, which is the land of the demon race and alien races, full of endless dangers. Many powerful and strong people in Great Xia are guarding there. Once the alien races invade, Great Xia will be plunged into misery. Your eldest brother has been guarding there for thousands of years. Master misses him a little."

To the west of Great Xia is a boundless desert. It is rumored that the entrance to the demon world is there, but it has never been confirmed. It is sparsely populated, with only a very few aliens living there.

Rather than saying they are humans, it is better to say they are a kind of demon."

"Aliens, why does it sound so strange?"

"Because aliens are very strange. Human bodies, but their heads... um, it's hard to say. In fact, they call themselves descendants of gods. Although they live in the desert, in reality, they live under the desert.

They dig out underground worlds under the desert and live in those huge underground worlds. Fortunately, these guys don't cause trouble and live honestly down there.

So Great Xia is too lazy to pay attention to them, as long as they don't come to Great Xia to make trouble."

It was the first time Yu Lu had heard of such a thing, and she was very curious. She immediately asked what the alien races and demon races in the Northern Sea were like.