There seemed to be dragonflies on the water, with endless ripples. The surface of the scroll suddenly became bright and then gradually darkened.
The rice paper is as white as clouds, and the feathers of the bluebird have lost their luster and are hidden among the clouds.
Ning Jiujiu's figure disappeared in front of the scroll.
The space is like a bluebird's erratic feathers.
Ning Jiujiu's figure fell to the ground like a feather.
The weather is fine on the streets of Liantian Town, and the rabbit spirit with a carrot is still patrolling, but it looks gray and dusty, as if a fierce battle had occurred in the town.
There were sword marks on the wall nearby, the blood stains on the ground had not been completely wiped off, and some purple pieces of clothing could even be seen in the corner.
Have all the people from Zitian Dao Sect died here...
He thought silently, his eyes scanning this familiar town.
The town was quiet and peaceful, and his appearance did not cause any shock.
Ning took a long look in the direction of the lotus pond. He hesitated for a moment and then went to Zhang Chengyu's home first.
The door was ajar, Ning Jiujiu knocked symbolically and then pushed it open and walked in.
Qiu Sheng, who was cleaning the house, heard the movement behind him. He was slightly startled and turned his head. He rubbed his eyes and saw the person clearly. He was surprised and said: "Master Xian, why are you back?"
Ning Jiujiu noticed that his eyes seemed a little red, as if he had cried.
"What's wrong?" Ning glanced at the salute on the ground for a long time and asked.
Qiu Sheng lowered his head.
Behind the door, the little girl holding the black cat stuck her head out and took a look, and saw that it was Ning who came over cautiously after a long while.
"You want to move?" Ning Jiujiu asked again.
Qiu Sheng hummed and said, "Grandpa left. Before leaving, he asked me to stay at the mayor's house."
"Gone?" Ning Jiujiu was slightly shocked, thinking that Master Hanchi really killed Zhang Chengyu and then took Jiuying away.
Qiu Sheng knew that Ning Jiujiu had misunderstood, and quickly explained: "No, grandpa... Grandpa has left. He said he was going to a far away place. He doesn't know if he can come back in the future."
Ning Jiujiu thought of something and asked, "Someone took him away?"
Qiu Sheng nodded.
Ning Jiujiu asked: "Who is he?"
Qiu Sheng thought seriously for a while, but couldn't remember the person's appearance. He shook his head and said, "I don't remember."
Ning Changjiu already knew it in his mind.
Sure enough, Zhang Chengyu will go to Dahe Town sooner or later, but in this life, he will go to Dahe Town eight years later. So who is coming
Ning Changjiu recalled for a moment that the only people who often went down the mountain were the Fourth Senior Sister and the Fifth Senior Brother. It should be one of them. Eight years ago it was the Fourth Senior Sister, and this time it might be her.
No wonder…
Ning Jiujiu figured out many things that he thought were unreasonable before.
Ning Changjiu comforted him: "The place where your grandfather went is very safe. You should meet again in a few years."
Qiu Sheng's eyes brightened slightly, but he still said a little distrustfully: "Is it true..."
Ning Jiujiu said: "Gods will not lie to people."
Qiu Sheng nodded vigorously.
Xiao Lian on the side also seemed to have heard something worthy of happiness. She grabbed Xiao Hei's elbow with both hands and stretched out her arm, as if she wanted to give it to Ning Jiujiu as a gift. Xiao Hei was caught in her hand. The limbs were spread out, the body drooped, and he whined.
Ning Changjiu reached out and scratched Xiao Hei's belly. Although there was a faint smile on his face, his expression was deep and he was thinking absentmindedly.
Ning Jiujiu suddenly asked: "Where is that big black snake? Is it still there?"
Since Jiuying is still alive, it means that the task given to them by the master of the temple is to take away Zhang Chengyu. The master has always been right, and the senior brothers and sisters have no habit of adding superfluous things to the situation, so Xiu She should still be alive...
Qiu Sheng didn't expect that he would ask this.
Nowadays, it is well known to the townspeople that there was a big demon battle on the lotus pond.
Most of the lotus leaves in the lotus pond were rotten, and the mud has not yet settled, and they are still muddy. It made many people feel distressed. I don’t know if the Lotus Seed Festival can be held this year.
Regarding the details of that battle, many people have different opinions, and no one can give an accurate answer.
Qiu Sheng shook his head and said, "I don't know, but that big black snake is so big, no one should be able to hurt it."
Ning Jiujiu nodded and said: "I understand. You should take good care of yourselves. If there is a chance in the future, I can take you to see your grandfather."
Qiu Sheng felt that he was probably trying to comfort himself, but he still nodded in gratitude and said, "Is the immortal master just here and leaving? How about eating a fish..."
Ning Jiujiu shook his head and refused, and rushed towards the lotus without stopping.
He untied a lotus boat and took it into the water. At this moment, the lotus pond was no longer clear and green, and looked turbid.
The lotus boat opened the water and quickly sailed into the center. Ning Jiujiu unfolded his spiritual consciousness, but was unable to sense the position of the black snake on the spiritual consciousness scroll.
He pondered for a while, but without giving up, he did a water-avoiding trick and dived under the lotus pond.
This lotus pond is so big that even if Ning Jiujiu opens his sword eyes, he can't see the bottom of the pond. And the stems of those lotus flowers are also very unusual. The seemingly slender and tender stems extend to the very depths of the lotus pond. I don't know. How many feet should they be? Looking from the water, they look like dragon pillars holding up the sky in a chaotic world.
After Ning Changjiu entered the water, his figure quickly dived.
After walking for a while, he came to the bottom of the pond. The bottom of the pond was almost unobstructed at a glance. There were large and small river snails and shells buried in the sand. The surviving fish kept tapping the bottom of the pond with their lips. Not knowing what he was searching for on the sandy surface, Ning Jiujiu continued to spread out his spiritual consciousness, trying to search for any traces of huge life activities, but still received no reply.
It was dark under the water, as if only the cold lake water was surrounding him.
Ning Jiujiu tried his best to wipe away the worries in his heart and calmed down a little. He was like a black shadow of water droplets, bringing up patches of river sand as he passed through at high speed.
But the search still yielded no results.
If Xiu She is really dead, there should be bones in the lotus pond. Because it's impossible to bring back its bones, and the senior brothers and sisters don't have the habit of eating meat. If this snake cultivator is brought back, won't the food for the next six months be all snake meat? If the Sixth Senior Brother, who was also born in the Demon Clan, found out about this, wouldn’t he be angry for half a year
Ning Jiujiu thought like this and resurfaced. He closed his eyes and recalled the scene when he saw Xiu Snake for the first time.
He knew that there must be a mystery under the lotus pond. For such an important creature as Xiu Snake, Zhang Chengyu must have the means to hide it.
He retrieved the floating lotus boat and came to the place where Xiu Snake first appeared in his memory.
Ning Changjiu pulled out the sword from his waist, carved a symbol on the boat, and then threw the sword along the mark on the boat.
The sword has no emotions, so it cannot be deceived.
Ning Jiujiu sensed the whereabouts of the sword and let out a light sigh - the sword was obviously falling vertically, but its position would stagger every time it passed through a layer. It didn't take long for the sword to match the position of the symbol engraved on the boat. Couldn't be more wrong.
Ning Jiujiu drove the lotus boat, felt the true location of the sword, and found the point where the mark on the boat matched the mark of the sword. Then he got off the boat from the carved place and entered the water to find the sword.
He used the method of water and moon in the mirror to make himself a phantom, so that he would not be interfered by Zhang Chengyu's space laws.
His spiritual consciousness connected the scale of the lotus boat and the position of the sword, drawing an absolutely straight line. He descended along the line of his spiritual consciousness and successfully arrived at the location of the sword.
Ning Jiujiu opened his eyes and found that half of the sword was stuck in the mud.
Ning Jiujiu understood clearly.
He pushed aside the thick sand with his hands, and found a slate painting under the sand. The slate painting was clearly a picture of cultivating snakes and swallowing elephants, but this picture was much more detailed. The snake cultivation was at its peak. It was entangled on a very high mountain peak, opening its mouth wide, as if it wanted to swallow the entire mountain into its belly. Under the mountain, there were four giant elephant-like hooves.
Human beings were under the mountain peaks, holding stone tools and bows and arrows they had picked up, fearful and afraid to move forward.
Ning Jiujiu had no intention of admiring it. He had already roughly understood the meaning of Zhang Chengyu's painting skills.
Zhang Chengyu's ability is to open up space. This ability was originally not very distinctive, but through acquired efforts, he developed a set of miraculous painting skills on his own. He used this painting skill as a lock for every space. Then the rice paper, the carrier of the painting, is simulated into mirrors, so that the space can reflect and invert each other. Only two opposing "mirrors" are needed to construct an endless space box stacked on top of each other.
Ning Jiujiu is the person in the world, other than Zhang Chengyu, who is most familiar with this "lock".
He quickly found some unreasonable spots on the mural, and then used his finger as a carving knife to complete the original appearance of the mural - he drew swords on the empty hands of two unarmed humans.
The ripples rippled again.
Ning Jiujiu's figure penetrated the mural and swam backwards.
There is a cave under the lotus pond.
It was a tall and thick mountain. There were many cracks in the rocks on the hard mountain, and dense bones were exposed in the cracks.
After a brief moment of surprise, Ning Jiujiu realized that this was the bone of the divine elephant.
Three thousand years later, they are still largely intact.
Even the highest mountain in this world will sink to the bottom of the sea. It is a miracle that it remains intact despite the vicissitudes of the sea.
And the cultivating snake is wrapped around the body of the divine elephant. It is far from its peak state at this moment, so its size looks much smaller, and it is far less proud than the proud aura on the scroll that swallows mountains and rivers.
There are countless traces of battles on Xiu She's body, white flesh and blood tumbled out from under its scales, and broken scales are falling off one after another as its body squirms.
Xiu She looked at this human with a familiar aura, the snake's head shrank slightly, and it was vaguely hostile.
Ning Jiujiu came to it and said bluntly: "Three thousand years ago, Jiuying and Yuqi betrayed you."
"During the hunter war back then, Jiuying and Yanqi pretended to deal with other guardian gods, leaving you alone to deal with that divine elephant. You were so powerful in your heyday, and that divine elephant was indeed Not your opponent."
"But you won the victory in the end and swallowed the divine elephant, but you were unable to destroy it immediately. In the end, you left a legacy of disaster. You were the weakest after swallowing the divine elephant, and that was also your biggest flaw."
"Jiuying and Yuqi are actually hidden among those human races."
"On the murals entering here, the scrolls painted by Yuqi obviously have different brushstrokes between the two people. These details were left deliberately by him, or maybe they were complacent about the assassination that year."
"Now Yuqi is gone, but Jiuying is still here. I can take you to take revenge."
Ning Jiujiu spoke very quickly and enunciated his words clearly.
He didn't know if what he said was true, but it sounded reasonable.
Xiu She stared at him without blinking.
Even though its body is no longer as huge as it used to be, at this moment in this deep lake, the huge figure wrapped around the stone statue still looks like an ancient god. Every piece of deep water is a layer of historical fog.
Xiu She opened her mouth, and wavy lines came out of her throat.
These were Xiu She's words. Ning Jiujiu couldn't understand them, but he could feel the sense of resistance in them.
This resistance is not aggressive, but because it is unwilling to leave the bottom of the water.
Ning Jiujiu knew clearly in his heart that this should also be a method used by his senior brother and sister.
He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes were filled with hot gold, the color of the rising sun when it first crossed the horizon.
A golden crow flew onto his shoulder.
Xiu She's vertical pupils suddenly narrowed.
It seemed to sense some terrifying existence. The body coiled on the stone elephant kept twisting, and its already broken scales fell rustlingly, falling into the deep lake bottom like snow.
The golden crow flew out and chewed up all the darkness in the water.
Then, the Golden Crow seemed to dissolve in the water, and a large area of the lake turned into a golden color, winding towards the place where Xiu Snake was.
Xiu Snake kept struggling in the water, but it was like a poisonous snake meeting an eagle, with no chance to resist.
That is the natural suppression of blood.
But this move was extremely mentally draining, and Ning Changjiu's face soon turned paler than his clothes.
Xiu She resisted violently.
The Golden Crow is like sunlight penetrating through glass. No matter how thick the glass is, it penetrates without hindrance.
The golden crow wrapped around Xiu Snake's seven inches and turned into a rein.
Ning Jiujiu was connected to the Golden Crow's mind, and his figure appeared on Xiu She's back the next moment. He grabbed one end of the reins and forced the words he had said before into its brain again through the Golden Crow, trying to replace the previous The prophecies made by senior brothers and sisters have left a new mark.
In the world of monsters and monsters, the suppression of blood is sometimes more terrifying than the suppression of realm. The fear brought by the Golden Crow even makes Xiu Snake unable to have any thoughts of resistance, as if it was born to be the servant of this golden bird. .
Soon after, the water surface of the lotus pond will explode again, and Ning Changjiu's figure holding a golden rein is like a god driving a black dragon and ascending into the sky.
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In the hole of an ancient tree, the back of Lu Yuemou's sword dress was stained red with blood. She hid in the hole and tried her best to stabilize her injuries.
She originally thought that after she perfected her sword body, she could completely ignore the body's acupoints and truly do whatever she wanted with her spiritual power.
However, many times of body training did not really give her an indestructible body. After a whole day of fighting and the calamity thunder pouring all over her body, her originally hidden injuries finally could not be stretched, and the wounds that opened again were almost fatal. Her life.
She briefly escaped Jiuying's pursuit and hid in this tree hole to recover from her injuries.
She knew that it wouldn't be long before Jiu Ying would catch up again. This inevitable result made her upset, because although she could temporarily suppress her physical injuries at this moment, it did not solve the problem at all. When she fought Jiu Ying, she would have It was extremely difficult, and now the injury has worsened, and the final chance of victory has been wiped out.
Is she going to die like this... Lu Marion recalled how high-spirited she was not long ago when the sword was fully completed, she leaned against the tree trunk and smiled bitterly.
In the past, she was not too afraid of death, but now she cherishes her life more and more.
She still has a lot of things to do.
For some reason, at such a critical moment, she remembered the inner demon calamity.
During the calamity of inner demons, she and Ning Changjiu had experienced many years as apprentices, boating on green lakes, walking together in the wilderness, being under the same roof in heavy rain, holding an umbrella under the same umbrella in heavy snow, and white on the hot porridge in winter. Qi, and also the ice and snow stored in the summer cup...
Those scenes were obviously fake, but they made her so attached to them.
Perhaps that was the reason why she was reluctant to wake up subconsciously.
She had some regrets. If she had not been obsessed with this and woke up earlier, could she have interrupted the fusion between Master Hanchi and Jiuying and prevented all of this from happening
It's all the fault of Ning Jiujiu... She was silently shirking responsibility in her heart, but the corner of her mouth curled up in a slight arc.
Behind him came the roar of Jiuying crushing trees.
Another voice was heard in her ears.
That was when Ning Changjiu read Shiyao softly to himself on the snow-covered sword field when he was still young during the inner demon tribulation.
"The years are fleeting, how long is your life? In the morning, I see the traveling swallows, and my heart goes to the Jianghuai River. In the dusk, I look at the morning glory, and I am in love with Yang Yue. I cry with sorrow in the morning, and my heart is filled with thousands of thoughts at night. I don't know how to make a living, and I don't know myself. Knowing it is death..."*
The age of this poem cannot be determined, and many of the place names cannot be compared today, but the emotions evoked in the rhymes seem to be able to easily cross the barriers of time, washing through the heart like spring breeze and rain over and over again.
Lu Marry's heart calmed down again.
She pulled out Minglan.
The moment Jiuying's huge body rolled over, Lu Jiewen stepped on the tree trunk, and her figure used the force to rush out, like a white line, rushing forward again.
Nine babies and nine lives are definitely not something she can compete with now.
So the direction she was heading was to the southern wilderness bounded by the Red River.
That was the only chance she could think of.
But she still overestimated her current body.
After all, she is not a truly emotionless cold weapon.
The injury in her back weighed her down.
On the horizon, the sun gradually changes color and sinks to the west.
Without the cover of the white light, Lu Marion's snow-like figure appeared much clearer in the wilderness, and Jiu Ying's shadow was getting closer and closer to her.
The noisy conversations were more like pebbles hitting the surface of the lake in her heart, trying to disturb her state of mind.
Pong! Pong! Pong!
Jiuying's huge feet stepped on the ground, leaving huge marks wherever they passed.
In order to move faster, it even used the remaining eight heads as claws and ran quickly on its hands and feet.
Lu Marry glanced at the ground.
In the long shadow of the sun, the mountain-like shadow almost overlapped with his own.
Pong!
Jiuying hit the ground with his head again.
Lu Marry's figure dodged left and right amid Jiuying's violent blows, and her snow-white clothes were splashed with large amounts of dust.
Jiuying's noisy words came closer again, almost roaring in the ears.
"Kill her, kill her!"
"Kill her..."
The nine heads of the nine infants repeated one sentence without emotion, but this sentence carried a concise and shocking power, like the sentence of the gods falling.
Lu Marian felt that her body was getting heavier and heavier.
Her heart also sank to the bottom little by little.
With another loud noise, Lu Jianjian was finally hit by one of Jiu Ying's hammers, and her body was thrown forward at high speed. Then she was imprisoned by Jiu Ying's other hammer with the law of space, and smashed to the other side, Lu Jianjian's natural sword. This was reflected in the fact that there was a flaw in his physical condition, and he was quickly shaken to pieces by the collision of Jiuying's songs like throwing a ball.
Pain eroded his whole body, and the world was spinning. Lu Jiaoyue's consciousness was shaken, her wrists were numb, and the Minglan Sword almost came out of her hands.
Jiuying used space as a shackle, imprisoned Lu Jiaoyou in it, and threw it up high. The one in the middle finally opened its bloody mouth, intending to crush it to death with its sharp teeth, and then swallow it into its belly.
"Blood...the blood of the woman in white..."
"Isn't it a pity to kill her like this..."
"Don't have other thoughts. The Kingdom of God in the sky may have noticed our existence!"
"Kill her..."
The words suddenly stopped.
In Lu Marian's peripheral vision, a black torrent roared away from under her clothes.
The torrent hit Jiuying and overturned it.
When Lu Marian's body was falling, a hand caught her numb wrist in the air, and she was suddenly pulled forward, and then crashed into a chest that was not warm but very stable.
She opened her eyes and saw Ning Changjiu's face. For a moment, she couldn't tell whether it was reality or a dream, and she subconsciously shouted: "Master..."
"Huh?" Ning Jiujiu was also surprised. He looked at the pale face of the woman in his arms due to injury, and thought with pity that the master he had known in his life was indeed a fool.
"I...I shouted the wrong thing." Lu Marian suddenly woke up and knew she had made a mistake. Even though the situation was critical, she still took the time to explain and maintain her extremely unstable dignity.
Ning Changjiu's tense heart relaxed a little, and he smiled and said: "That's right, I'll call you that from now on, good disciple."
"You're dreaming!" Lu Marry retorted, moving her shoulders slightly, trying to break free, but Ning Jiujiu held her tightly.
Ning Jiujiu chuckled softly and said: "I've already shouted, don't default on your debt. If the disciple doesn't behave in the future, be careful of the master's lack of kindness. It's a sect rule."
Lu Marry was embarrassed and wanted to scold them, but their bodies suddenly lifted into the air.
Only then did Lu Marry realize that they were actually on the back of a giant snake, and at this moment the giant snake raised its head high.
Repairing the snake... Lu Marian suddenly understood its identity, and she felt more and more that Ning Changjiu had great supernatural powers. He could pull out any kind of bizarre creatures, such as golden birds and black pythons, and use them for his use.
Xiu She's figure was larger than Jiu Ying's. The moment it suddenly appeared, it met Jiu Ying's rapidly moving body. The impact of the collision between the two was almost devastating, and Jiu Ying's bones were, after all, It was made up of fragments, and the strength of the bones was not as strong as that of Xiu Snake. Not only was its body overturned, but its chest was even sunken due to the broken bones.
But three thousand years ago, Jiuying was the elder brother, and the power it held was even more powerful than Xiu Snake. Now Xiu Snake's state is even worse than it. The victory of this collision was only based on physical hugeness and tyranny.
Jiu Ying fell to the ground, his heads hissing wildly. Xiu Snake wrapped around it, trying to crush it completely, while Jiu Ying stretched out the rest of its head, the snake's mouth opened wide, and its saw teeth fell, crushing Xiu Snake's scales. , directly penetrated deeply into its flesh and blood.
Ning Jiujiu held the golden rein with one hand and held Lu Jianwei with the other, dodging under Jiu Ying's bites.
The sound of Jiuying's bones being crushed resounded, and Xiu She's huge body was also torn off countless bits.
The sound of scales being broken rang loudly in his ears.
Ning Jiujiu narrowly avoided the attack on Jiu Ying's head, and the Jiu Ying's sharp teeth sank deeply into Xiu Snake's flesh.
Ning Jiujiu released his hand from Lu Jiamu's waist and screamed: "Behead!!!"
Lu Marry used the few breaths before to calm down.
She understood Ning Changjiu's words, temporarily suppressed her injuries, and soared into the air.
The woman raised the sword with both hands, and the wind filled her sleeves, revealing her snow-white and slender arms. She was like the legendary envoy of heavenly punishment, using the sword burning with holy flames to slash down on the torso. .
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(I will try to stay up late tonight to write another chapter and finish this volume. I’m not sure if I can finish it. Don’t wait, just read it when you get up in the morning!)
(The source of this poem: "In the Northern Qi Dynasty and Yang Pushe Shu" by Chen Xuling of the Southern Dynasty)