The woman hesitated for a while, and finally said slowly: "My name is Lu Marian, Married to Marry."
Lu Marry…
What a strange name, and... a little cute
Ning Xiaoling was slightly startled, and for a while it was difficult to associate this name with this cold, quiet and indifferent sister of the Sword Immortal.
The woman who claimed to be Lu Marion sighed and said helplessly: "I was thin and dark when I was a child. My mother was worried that I wouldn't be able to get married, so she named me Marry for good luck."
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said, "It seems that Miss Lu is going to let down your mother's kindness."
Lu Yuijiao knew that he was praising her appearance, so she was silent for a moment and said: "Since I practice Taoism, I should devote myself to it. Although there are Taoist companions in the sect, I don't have this in mind."
Ning Xiaoling asked: "After practicing Taoism, do you have to stay away from the world?"
Lu Marry nodded and said: "Since you are born in the world, you should try not to be in the world. Cause and effect in the world are complicated. The more you are contaminated, the more difficult it will be to get rid of the inner demons when you enter the Purple Court."
Ning Xiaoling asked again: "Then why does sister want to go down the mountain?"
Lu Marry's heart moved slightly, but her words remained calm: "The demon is in the world and has to come."
Ning Jiujiu suddenly asked: "Since demons can break the path in the human world, why do immortal masters want to live outside the world?"
Lu Marian was speechless for a moment. She had never thought about how a human could be compared with a demon.
Ning Jiujiu continued: "I once asked Second Senior Brother this question."
Lu Marry immediately asked, "How would he answer?"
Ning Changjiu said: "Second senior brother said, it's not that I avoid the world, but that the mortal world avoids me."
Lu Marry was stunned for a moment, then her eyes dimmed. She felt that she understood the words and nodded gently: "Your senior brother is extraordinary. If there is a chance, I can meet him someday."
Ning Changjiu's eyes suddenly became blank. In his memory, the second senior brother had ascended to the Immortal Palace along with the other six senior brothers and sisters. According to the laws of heaven and earth, once one ascends, he truly transcends the world and can never come back.
That was a real departure from the world.
Lu Marian looked at the pair of senior brothers and sisters who depended on each other. She just thought that her senior brother had also suffered. She sighed quietly in her heart and did not ask any more questions.
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said: "My second senior brother is very charming. If you really see him, Miss Lu should be careful."
Lu Marian frowned slightly, her expression was a little dizzy, and her voice was slightly stern: "Although you are kind to me, but if you want to join my family, you can't be so playful and rude. You must know that even though we are all on the same path in cultivation, , but there should also be respect and respect between master and disciple."
Ning Jiujiu didn't expect that his joke would make her so angry. He thought about it and asked, "Do you want to accept us as your disciples to cut off the cause and effect?"
Lu Marry looked at him in surprise, and after a while nodded gently: "Although you are not as strong as your junior sister, your mind is quite agile."
Ning Xiaoling saw that her face was a little serious and comforted her: "I just promise my sister. If you can get out alive, we will follow you to the sect to become a disciple."
Lu Marian's face softened slightly and she looked at Ning Changjiu.
Ning Jiujiu said calmly: "I want to think about it again."
The woman was a little angry, thinking that his vision was too short-sighted. If he really saw the smoke-filled fairyland, which looked like a cave carved by a god, how could he have any thoughts of returning.
After hearing this, Ning Xiaoling was in a dilemma: "Then if senior brother doesn't agree, what does it matter if I get in first? By then, won't I become senior sister? How can this be reasonable?"
Ning Changjiu smiled and patted her head, "Now that the imperial city is in turmoil, there's no telling whether we can survive."
Ning Xiaoling nodded with deep understanding: "Well... it would be bad if that old fox found me."
Ning looked at her young and worried face for a long time and smiled slightly.
Lu Marry looked at them, and for some reason, she always felt a little... baffled.
Soon, her thoughts were interrupted.
It seemed that the sky suddenly cleared outside, and the originally dark window paper lit up in large areas.
Her sword rang out, realizing that the old fox had arrived outside the palace.
Ning Xiaoling also noticed something strange, and couldn't help but want to open the window to take a look, but Ning Jiujiu held her hand and shook her head solemnly.
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When the demon fox entered the city, the streets were deserted.
Wearing the skin of the witch master, he looked like a respectable old man. He walked leisurely through the straight streets and walked towards the center of the imperial city.
A hundred years ago, this place was still a barren mountain and wild ridge where wild beasts roamed wildly. Now, as you look around, you can see bluestone paved roads and towers rising from the ground.
If it were normal, at this afternoon, even if it rained heavily, the streets would be bustling with people coming and going. But today, the imperial city was in trouble. Under the strict orders of the officers and soldiers, everyone stayed behind closed doors to prevent innocent people from being robbed.
As soon as he stepped into the street, the sound of soldiers' footsteps breaking through the rainwater could be heard.
In the alleys in all directions, a knife was unsheathed in the air, breaking through the water droplets and piercing the rain curtain. The bright silver light swayed coldly, pointing at himself one after another.
The rain was so heavy that it hit the helmet and shattered outside the eye sockets. The old demon was just standing there, showing off his demonic aura. Many people who had already been splashed by the rain and couldn't open their eyes could only see a blurry figure at this moment. And the old figure.
The leading general held the sword in both hands and looked at him extremely nervously, but the tip of the sword did not tremble in the rain.
The general recognized the old man in front of him. He was the witch master, the great monk he once respected. But at the same time, he could also detect that the man in front of him was full of evil aura.
"Aren't you afraid of me?" The demon fox looked at the man in front of him with the blade pointed directly at him.
The general said: "I just respect the witch master and don't want to slash at this body with my sword."
The demon fox smiled and said: "But this witch master doesn't seem to love you. Today he even thought about waiting for me to kill him, then sacrifice his blood to heaven and earth to achieve his own path. Fortunately, I killed him in time for you."
The rain streaked across the rough cheeks of the general. He looked at the unfathomable old man in front of him, feeling fearful in his heart, but his body was already sinking subconsciously. His feet were kicking the ground forward and back, ready to exert force at any time.
"Don't slander the Lord Witch..." The general slowly twisted the handle of the knife with his wrist and said coldly.
The demon fox put his hands behind his back and said with a smile: "After all, you still don't dare to take action against me. You know clearly that I can kill everyone here."
He looked at the middle-aged general and continued: "Maybe you are not afraid of death, but you should be afraid of the unreasonable death of your subordinates. Your Highness asked you to come, but in fact he just asked you to die. You clearly know , but you still brought your subordinates here, you must feel very uncomfortable in your heart, right?"
The general took a deep breath, his eyes wavered slightly, but his tone was firm: "As a general of the Zhao Kingdom, you should be responsible for guarding the Zhao Kingdom's imperial city with the Zhao Kingdom's military pay."
The demon fox looked around and asked, "Then have you asked if they are willing to die with you?"
The general shouted in a deep voice: "I haven't asked, but I know the answer. Today the country will be overthrown, and there will be no eggs left in the overturned nest. I am willing to die first for the sake of the rest of my family, including me."
After that, the saber in the rain moved. It was a battle-tested but extremely simple slash. But at the moment when the saber light moved, everyone subconsciously held their breath. The saber light seemed brighter than ever before. Like thunder and lightning flashing across his pupils, the surrounding soldiers leaned slightly, feeling as if something in their chests was ignited.
The sword light fell sharply and then stopped.
Everyone was shocked when they saw the old man holding the tip of the knife with two fingers. Those two fingers were extremely stable, more stable than the general's hand holding the knife.
So the knife stopped here and could no longer fall.
"What's your name?" the demon fox asked him.
The general held the handle of the knife with one hand and pressed the back of the knife with the other, trying to force the knife down, but still couldn't make any progress.
Seeing that he didn't answer, the demon fox didn't ask further questions. He just stretched out his other hand and pointed at himself, "This person's position can be filled by you in the future."
Before the general could hear what he was saying, the sound of the blade cracking sounded in his ears. He leaned forward violently, but did not hit the old man, but hit the ground with a bang. Fortunately, he reacted very quickly. The moment his body touched the ground, he leaned on the ground with the handle of the knife and suddenly turned over. When he regained consciousness, the old man was already walking towards the back of the long street.
"Stop!" the general shouted loudly, casually drew a knife from the waist of the soldier beside him, and chased after him. However, in the blink of an eye, the old man evaporated into the air and disappeared completely.
The general stood there for a long time. His whole body was hot, and the raindrops on the back of his hands seemed to be burning.
He stared at the place where the old man disappeared, and after a long time he threw the broken knife in his hand back to the ground with a snap. The soldiers around him put down the blades in their hands and began to wipe the sweat from their foreheads.
The general smiled with difficulty and said softly: "His Highness did not lie to us. He really did not dare to kill anyone."
At this moment, the old fox had appeared on another road closer to the palace.
It's not like he can't withstand the backlash and kill a general to establish his authority.
But when he looked at the soldiers who were obviously afraid but still surrounded him, he suddenly thought that this imperial city seemed to be his own.
"This entire Zhao country was born for me, and of course it is my country."
Since they are all their own people, there is no need to take action.
At this moment, he suddenly wanted to take a look at the throne in the palace, and thought about what it would be like if he sat on it and unified Nanzhou with the soul of the demon clan.
The old man stroked his beard and smiled. He gently raised his foot and dropped it heavily. The next moment, the heaven and earth thundered and the imperial city shook, and heavy rain poured down from the sky.
Under the archway with the four words "Phoenix Birds Ming" written on it, the old man had already passed by, and the towering walls of the palace were pressing in front of him in black.
The bows and arrows on the city wall were strung tightly, one after another, pointed at the old man who appeared out of thin air.
"The national seal, ancient scrolls, and red umbrellas are all shields, and the fire pestle is a sword. That's it." The old fox turned a deaf ear to those bows and arrows, and just looked at the wind and rain in the city and murmured to himself: "The immortal had a good plan back then, and used this to delay my destruction. The speed of the country, but I don’t know how much sword energy you, Zhao Xiang’er, can use with this sword?”
As soon as the words fell, iron arrows were fired from the city wall, and the sound of sharp objects piercing the air shrieked.
But in the eyes of the old man, what is the difference between those ordinary raindrops
Ding ding ding!
Time and space around him seemed to freeze.
Those iron arrows stopped strangely a few feet away from him, and only the tips of the arrows rippled with extremely fine water ripples.
The old man rolled up his sleeves, and the iron arrows were packed into his sleeves like water. The old man said loudly: "Thank you for borrowing the arrows, Your Highness."
He raised his foot, and he was about to step towards the middle door of the five-arched door at the entrance of the palace.
At this moment, on the throne in the palace hall, the girl after bathing and changing clothes was sitting alone in front of the mirror, drawing her eyebrows with a paintbrush.
She was wearing a bright yellow cloak painted with golden feathers, phoenixes, and flame patterns and snow waves, and she was sitting alone in the palace. In the black and white world, this figure sitting on the throne looked particularly bright.
In the mirror is her face, which is not yet sixteen years old, but still pretty and childish. The brush sweeps over the black and white eyebrows, as if the brush is moistened with ink and lightly painted on the most delicate rice paper, with a refreshing and cold charm. .
She gathered up her long hair that hung on her thin shoulders and looked quietly at the childish face in the mirror for a long time. It wasn't until the old fox's old and powerful voice sounded outside the imperial city that she finally seemed to have figured out something. , smiled, and gradually came back to his senses.
"If you really want to lock him up, then why do you need to make these four keys?" Zhao Xiang'er slowly stood up. Her robe was rich and the hanging sleeves covered her fingertips, but her slender waist remained the same. Outlining the soft and undulating figure, she slowly moved her eyes upward, looking at the luxurious and beautiful caisson, and said: "Mother, I understand. I hope that when we meet again in the next year, your daughter will not disappoint you."
She walked down the stairs.
Outside the city gate, the old fox's kick failed to land.
Under the water on the sole of the shoe, a pale red shadow appeared vaguely. The shadow became clearer and clearer. It was vaguely a bird with flaming wings. Its reflection hovered in the stagnant water, as if there was also a free world under the stagnant water. world.
At that moment, the fearless old fox suddenly felt a strong sense of alarm in his heart.
He wanted to crush the shadow in the water with one foot, but it remained suspended.
In the palace, a clear chirp sounded, reaching the sky and the earth.
Under the accumulated water, the fire phoenix swooped down like an arrow.
From the perspective of the old fox, the dive of that world was going against the fire, and the speed was getting faster and faster.
As it approached the world above the water, the figure of the fire phoenix grew larger and larger. Within a few breaths, the rainy ground outside the imperial city was filled with the shadow of its waving wings.
At this moment, it seemed as if the entire water surface was on fire.
That kind of temperature has not yet penetrated the barrier of the water world and turned into real heat, but everyone can foresee that the thin barrier between the water world and the real world will be broken at any time.
"The glimpse of the Suzaku burns the sky fire?" The old fox's heart moved, and this prophecy suddenly appeared.
He was confused for only a moment, but the old fox looked resolutely: "It's just a fake, how can you be the real Suzaku?"
Even so, the moment the water surface rippled, the old fox's figure still swept back a hundred feet.
The figure of the fire phoenix was pulled out from the water, like a flying arrow, like lightning, like a meteorite or like flowing fire.
The moment it broke out of the water, there seemed to be an invisible thread connecting it to the figure of the old fox, which could not be cut away and kept melting.
Zhao Xianger had already walked out of the palace hall.
The bows and arrows on the city wall fired again.
Zhao Xiang'er raised the red bird burning fire pestle high. At this moment, her spirit became one with the fire bird protecting the city.
And after a hundred feet, the old fox was also unwilling to retreat. The Suzaku Burning Fire Pestle was originally the sword left by the immortal to kill him. Now that sword was close in front of him. Although he had hidden worries, after all, it was not the sword that killed him back then, so he did not Not much fear.
The old fox stopped, his three souls were at peace, motionless. He wiped his fingers across his body with one hand and used the condensed sword on Qifeng Lake just now. At the same time, he waved out all the arrows gathered in his sleeve with the other hand.
The iron arrows struck each other in the air and fell to the ground one after another with a sound as clear as iron beads falling onto a plate.
The figure on the ground collided with the Hokage.
Those are two fires.
It was impossible to tell who was hotter and who was brighter, but they were entangled with each other and rose into the sky, turning into bright beams of light that shot straight into the sky.
The rain burned into mist, the clouds shattered into crumbs, and the bright light poured down towards the imperial city. It looked like the sun in front of me in the near distance, and like the tiny brilliance shaken off by the bright moon in the distance.
In front of the palace, Zhao Xiang'er wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, but stared at the beam of light without blinking, shedding tears at some point.
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