In the forest with mottled moon shadow, Ning stood beside the tree with withered petals for a long time, looking through the branches of the branches to the moon in the sky.
In the vast southern wilderness, strange roars often sounded.
All life here has been polluted by the Southern Wilderness and grows strangely. Even the flowers on the mountains are like golden waves, but they are actually just dead yellow and purple leaves of the brachiosaurus.
And because Ning Changxu was in authority, the pollution in the Southern Wilderness could not corrode him in the slightest.
What surprised him was that Lu Jianjian was still in the Southern Wilderness for two years, safe and sound, even though she was only in the Purple Court Realm.
Just like those poets, he looked at the moon with doubts in his heart, hoping to get answers.
Then the moon really gave him the answer.
The chirping of crickets in the forest suddenly stopped.
The rustling of leaves disappeared along with the sound of wind.
Not only that, the flowing clouds in the sky, the flowing moon beside the tree shade, and the fluttering white clothes and green silk of the beauty in the distance all stopped at the same time.
This scene happened so suddenly that Ning Jiujiu felt that his joints were filled with ice particles and he could not move.
"silence!"
These two words suddenly appeared in Ning Changjiu's mind, but he couldn't remember the origin of these two words for a while.
Then, a voice sounded behind him.
It was obviously a sound, but it was still so quiet, as quiet as the condensed clouds and shadows in the four rooms.
"Little junior brother."
In the quiet voice, Ning Jiujiu felt that his body could move freely again.
He turned around in this frozen world and saw the woman walking slowly in the forest.
The woman wore a bluish Taoist robe with moon-white lotuses painted on it. She silently stepped on the dead leaves, her skin was like jade, her long hair was like ink, and the fly whisk hanging down from her arms was like a ray of soft moonlight.
There was a quiet character all over her body.
She walked through the still world without any sense of disharmony.
The door of memory was opened again.
"Teacher..." Ning Jiujiu wanted to blurt out, but before the big words came out, he immediately realized that something was wrong.
The world is so vast. Since the senior sister has found herself, it means that the master has also found herself.
He shouldn't have identified himself so recklessly.
"Master... who sent you here?" Ning Jiujiu hesitated, looking as if he was facing a formidable enemy.
"Junior brother is so cute." Senior sister smiled lightly.
"Who is your junior brother?" Ning Jiujiu felt that he was extremely stubborn. In his previous life, he never dared to talk to his senior sister like this.
The senior sister didn't take it seriously and smiled softly: "Junior brother, actually I also want to know what happened ten years later."
"Ten years later?" Ning Jiujiu pretended to be puzzled.
The senior sister said: "You should know that the time of silence is limited."
The woman in blue Taoist robes twirled the fly whisk in her arms and said, "If my junior brother really wants to talk, I can't chat with you for a while."
Ning Jiujiu looked at the smiling face of the senior sister and sighed in his heart. He knew that he could not hide it from his master.
He calmed down and said, "Didn't Master tell you?"
The senior sister said: "Master, she may not know. She told me that going back in time is a last resort. In the whole world, maybe you are the most sober."
Ning Jiujiu felt a chill in his heart and asked, "Aren't many things in Zhao Kingdom's imperial city arranged by her?"
The senior sister smiled lightly and said: "If fate crosses the boundary, it sounds like fate."
Ning Jiujiu knew that the elder sister would not lie to him, but he was still confused: "Is everything I have experienced since I woke up at the age of sixteen... a coincidence?"
The senior sister nodded lightly: "If master didn't hide it from me, it would be a coincidence."
Ning Jiujiu felt a chill in his heart. In the past, he had dared to take many risks. In a sense, he believed that if the master was the person behind everything, then she would not let him die before he was twenty-eight years old... Now that he thinks about it, , those actions towards death are actually dancing on the tip of a knife.
Rather than think about this for a long time, he asked the question he was most concerned about: "Why is Senior Sister coming to me now?"
The senior sister raised her sleeves, and Zhanqing's sleeves slipped down, revealing her slender white hands. Her index and middle fingers were gently bent, and she smiled and said, "I'll give my junior brother a chestnut."
Ning Jiu could understand clearly and said, "I have already formed the innate spirit, so I don't need to recuperate."
The senior sister smiled and said: "Junior brother is indeed talented, but it's just not enough."
As she said that, the sleeve of her other hand also dropped, she stretched out a finger and pointed it at the center of Ning Jiujiu's eyebrows.
This finger was like the sure-kill sword of the Heavenly Mandate Sword Sutra. It was so light and gentle that no one could feel any breath. When she noticed it, she had already reached the center of her eyebrows.
A red mole flashed across the middle of the elder sister's eyebrows.
"Sin King?" The senior sister felt a certain breath in his sea of qi and let out a light sigh.
Ning couldn't hear her words for a long time.
There was silence in his ears.
The silent world is like an eggshell that is about to break. In that eggshell lies a giant beast that can break the tide.
After a while, the senior sister withdrew her finger and rewarded him with a chestnut.
Ning Jiujiu screamed in pain and covered his forehead. There was a bright red mark on his forehead.
This chestnut gave him as much pain as the piercing blow from Sin Lord's lightning spear.
But the pain disappears just as quickly as it comes.
Ning Jiujiu observed the sea of consciousness for a long time and found that all the indigestible insights in the past had completely dissolved and became the nourishment of the sea of consciousness. Even the part of Sin King disintegrated in the sea of consciousness and fell into the depths.
Heaven and earth are silent in "silence".
Therefore, the storm in the sea of consciousness becomes particularly fierce.
After a long time, he released his hand covering his brain.
"Thank you, senior sister..." Ning Jiujiu breathed a sigh of relief.
The eldest sister said: "I have erased the black feather mark left by Sin Lord in your body for you. Sin Lord, as well as many other kings, are all enemies to us, and we never expected you to be here so early. I have faced one of them... But this is also very good, he is worthy of being a disciple of Guanzhong."
Ning Jiujiu frowned and said, "Master of the country? Enemy?"
The senior sister did not continue to explain. She pressed her sleeves with one hand and gently reached into the night wind with the other hand, as if catching a drifting leaf.
But what she held between her fingers was not a leaf, but a piece of fire.
The firelight illuminated the eldest sister's pure and peaceful features.
Ning Jiujiu looked at Senior Sister's quiet eyebrows, thinking that this was the first time we met. Do you want to leave a good impression on Junior Brother? But I have experienced the first life. Senior Sister, how can you be such a peaceful beauty? , clearly a bloody Shura...
Of course, like the other senior brothers and sisters in the temple, he only dared to keep these words in his heart.
The senior sister pinched the piece of fire, and with trembling fingers, the flame dissipated and turned into a letter.
Ning Jiujiu recognized it at first sight.
"Is this... a marriage certificate?"
"Well, the marriage certificate between you and Zhao Xiang'er." The elder sister said, "There are two copies of this marriage certificate. One is with Zhao Xiang'er, and the other is with you."
"But sixteen is already over." Ning Changjiu said.
The elder sister said: "The marriage certificate is still there, and the engagement contract is there... Oh, actually now it seems that there is no difference whether there is this marriage certificate or not, but our Taoist temple's first marriage should be more legitimate, right?"
"Thank you, senior sister." Ning Jiujiu took the marriage certificate, the fireworks caught his fingers, but he didn't feel it was hot.
The form and content of the marriage letter were exactly the same as Zhao Xianger's letter.
Ning looked at the marriage letter for a long time and sighed in his heart.
The elder sister looked through the woods and looked at the snow-white shadow on the edge of the cliff in the distance.
"Is that my sister-in-law?" the senior sister asked knowingly.
"Well... yes, but not Zhao Xianger."
"Hey, do you need senior sister to help you get a marriage certificate?"
Without waiting for Ning Chang's answer, the senior sister walked towards her.
Ning Jiujiu quickly followed.
The senior sister walked to Lu Yuanxiang's side.
At this moment, Lu Marry was like a frozen beauty. Her eyes were still open, with the moonlight hidden in them. Starlight was draped on her shoulders, and her body wrapped in white clothes was slim and graceful.
"She's very beautiful. She doesn't look like a commoner. Her temperament and charm are somewhat similar to those of Master." The senior sister looked at Lu Marian and said, "Her sword body is still not good enough. Don't delay her body and sword training in the future. If there is anything you don’t understand, you can ask Fourth Junior Sister in the future.”
This is already a very high praise.
When Ning Jiujiu heard the words "body training and sword training", his heart skipped a beat. He raised his head and met the senior sister's quiet eyes.
He soon realized that he had thought wrongly. This kind of behavior was originally called body training and sword training in the spiritual world, but he gave it a special meaning...
Ning Chang said without changing his expression: "Thank you, senior sister, for reminding me, I won't slack off."
The senior sister said: "She has the feathers of a guilty king on her body."
Ning Jiuchuan was startled and looked at her quickly.
The eldest sister stretched out her hand, passed through Lu Marian's black hair, and took out a piece of black feather from the long ink hair. She put the black feather into her sleeve, and then extracted a wisp of red thread from Ning Changjiu's marriage letter and buried it. It got into Lu Marian's hair.
"Before, when she was not polluted in the Southern Wilderness, she was protected by black feathers. This Suzaku Feather Silk also has the same effect." The senior sister looked at the beautiful woman sitting quietly on the edge of the cliff, suddenly turned around with a smile, and said: "Zhang Jiu, you Think carefully, no matter how beautiful or stunning the woman in this world is, she may not be able to keep up with you. No matter what choice you make, the path you will take in the future will be the path to heaven. There are twists and turns in it. It’s hard, you don’t need to say it clearly, senior sister, right?”
Ning Jiujiu was silent for a long time, raised his head, looked calmly into the eyes of the senior sister, and said solemnly: "My name is Ning Jiujiu."
The eldest sister hummed lightly.
Ning Jiujiu continued: "In this life, I am willing to live my own way instead of following Master's arrangements. If I have ten more years in my life, then I will stay with her for ten years. If there is one more day in my life, then I will stay with her." Watch the last sunrise and sunset.”
The senior sister stopped, looked back and asked with a smile: "Why not say hundreds of years and thousands of years?"
Ning pursed his lips and remained silent for a long time. He knew that he only had ten years left in his life.
"Because you are afraid." Senior Sister gave her answer: "You know you can't give her hundreds of years, just as Master has exhausted everything and wants to give the world immortality... I never think that love in the world is insignificant, so I I believe that when you want to give her immortality, you will definitely look back."
Ning stood there quietly for a long time, as if frozen with the heaven and earth.
The senior sister's words touched his heart.
He likes Lu Yueyou, and of course he is not willing to accept that this love lasts only ten years.
"Shenyu!"
When the senior sister was about to leave on the moon, Ning Jiujiu stopped her.
Ning Jiujiu was not sure whether this was her real name or her Taoist nickname.
But this is the name he knows, Senior Sister.
The senior sister stopped: "What's the matter?"
"Why did Master want to kill me?" Ning Jiujiu asked anyway.
The senior sister was silent. After a moment, she asked softly: "Is this the ending of the last life?"
Ning didn't answer for a long time.
The senior sister said: "I don't know. If you want to know the reason, I'm afraid you can only ask the master yourself."
Ning Jiujiu asked: "If I want to go back, how can I go back?"
The elder sister said: "Master does not allow me to come to pick you up, and there is only one person in the world who knows the unforeseen path."
"who?"
"evil."
"Evil?" Ning Jiujiu was puzzled: "Where is he?"
Senior sister said: "He is in the most chaotic place in Middle-earth. He can even answer you some things that even senior sister doesn't know."
"That's it, it's not that Senior Sister doesn't want to give you too much advice, but that Master doesn't want to interfere too much with you before the next plan is decided. You can do whatever you want to do next, and no one will disturb you. "
The senior sister's words were quiet from beginning to end, and you even had to listen carefully to hear them clearly.
The voice faded.
The clouds pass over the moon, and the light and shadow change on the white clothes.
The wind blew through the woods, making a sound like rain.
The world after 'Silence' begins to flow again.
The light in Lu Marion's eyes gradually became vivid.
Ning Changjiu suddenly hugged her from behind.
"What are you doing?!" Lu Marian exclaimed in a low voice.
Ning Changming was clearly walking in the woods, why did he suddenly come behind him...
What kind of crooked magic is this
Her soft body was hugged all at once.
Ning Jiujiu recalled his previous conversation with his senior sister, and he sighed: "Marry, I suddenly understand that those stupid kings of the last dynasty are stupid."
"Huh?" Lu Marian's struggling body stopped slightly. She snorted in confusion and said, "What other nonsense is there?"
We know clearly that a dynasty has been suffering from abuses for generations, the treasury is in short supply, and the people are in dire straits. Looking around, the dynasty is full of treacherous ministers, with no one available, and the internal and external dangers are too numerous to describe.
The young emperor originally wanted to work hard to turn the tide and make his name go down in history. However, a white fairy, as holy as a lotus flower, came to the palace... Forget it, this dynasty is estimated to be destroyed in ten years at most, even if I try my best to destroy it. We may not be able to save it, even if we can, the princess in white and I are already old, and we have wasted the good times in vain. It seems that there is nothing wrong with singing and dancing every day, exchanging the infamy for these ten years after death. Who cares about the flood after death...
Ning Jiujiu couldn't help but imagine himself as the last monarch.
What he was holding in his arms was the most beautiful and beloved princess in white among the three thousand beauties in the harem.
He thought like this and joked: "You are my concubine. It's your turn tonight. Serve me obediently, otherwise you will be relegated to the cold palace."
Lu Marian held down her restless hands and said angrily, "What's wrong with you today?"
"Sickness? Is it possible that you are still an imperial doctor?"
"If you are really sick, I will give you acupuncture with a sword."
"Acupuncture? Who gives acupuncture to whom?"
"That... of yours is indeed a bit like acupuncture."
“…”
The two quarreled for a while, then both lay on the ground.
Ning Jiujiu looked at her somewhat ferocious beauty, and his heart became softer and softer. He thought that if he had to bear the reputation of a faint king for all generations, then the princess would not be the enchantress who brought disaster to the country and the people. How could she be allowed to bear such a reputation? Woolen cloth
"Marry, marry."
"Um?"
Ning Jiujiu suddenly said: "I will definitely give you back a piece of my kingdom for eternity!"
"..." Lu Marian had the urge to hit someone.
I waited for two years and came back a fool
"If I continue to talk nonsense to you, I will deceive the master and destroy the ancestors." Lu Marion threatened.
Ning Changjiu also laughed: "Are you sure?"
Lu Marion glared at him and thought, it's been almost half a month. When did you win the sword duel with me? How dare you be so harsh? If I hadn't indulged you, how would you have had the slightest chance to bully yourself
Ning Jiujiu felt everything flowing smoothly in his body behind the big sister's chestnut.
The rough spots in Taoist swordsmanship in the past have been smoothed out one after another, and the fractures in Shura's body have been completely stitched together. Although they are far from their peak, they are by no means a drag. All the masters in Duanjie City are far beyond the realm. The experience has also turned into real insights.
When the moonlight began to flow again, he naturally entered the third floor of the Purple Garden.
Lu Marry looked at him, thinking that he was going to give up again.
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said: "If you lose later, don't cry when you are forging the sword."
Lu Marion sneered: "Master is really becoming more and more ignorant of the world."
Ning Jiujiu said: "How about making a bet?"
"What bet?"
"If I win, you must listen to me and not disobey me for the next three years."
"Three years?" Of course Lu Jianjian would not agree. She knew that Ning Changjiu had many tricks and was hard to guard against.
"Well... a month!"
"Seven days." Lu Marian regretted a little after she spoke.
"Okay!" As expected, Ning Jiujiu agreed immediately.
Ning Jiujiu would not give her a chance to ask "What should you do if you lose?" He immediately stretched out his finger and said: "Let's start."
Lu Marry held out her finger calmly.
The sword's intention lingers between his fingers.
The two slowly advanced towards each other.
Lu Marian looked at Ning Changjiu's fingers and said contemptuously: "I thought you had some novel tricks, why are you still using these weak three-legged cat kung fu?"
Ning Jiujiu used different Taoist techniques to transform into swords, blocking them one after another in front of him to counter Lu Jiayou's sword intent.
He looked at Lu Marion's face with a cold smile, said nothing, and looked particularly focused.
It didn't take long for Lu Marry's expression to become serious.
She still uses the method of breaking all laws with one sword.
The sword intention of Jian Zong is like thousands of sharp knives. They are stacked on top of each other to form a gallows. They will push all the way through and crush Ning Changjiu's fancy Taoism to pieces.
But today, after the sword intent broke through dozens of different Taoist techniques, it seemed to have encountered a mountain blocking its way.
The sword intent hit the mountain.
Failed to cut.
Ning Jiujiu snorted.
His mountain is also a mountain of swords. Among them are the swordsmanship in the Shura Divine Record, the Tao sword in the view of the past life, the sword of heaven, the fairy sword, and the virtual sword. They should be mutually exclusive, but in the case of the senior sister After that chestnut, the stone turned into fine sand.
The shield made of jagged rocks is full of holes and can hardly block the torrent, while the sand table made of aggregated sand is difficult to leak.
But Ning Jiujiu still underestimated Lu Jianjian.
The sword intent was so powerful that it was like an arrow piercing the sun, spinning at high speed and trying to break through the peak.
Ning Jiujiu's sword intent was rapidly consumed, and he concentrated all his strength on the point where Lu Jiaoyou attacked.
Lu Marion is the spear and he is the shield.
Which one breaks first, the spear or the shield
Both of them looked a little pale.
The sparks between their fingers rose and died, and brilliant light exploded between their eyebrows, like makeup.
A long while.
Lu Marry's fluttering black hair became calm, and Ning's long-swaying sleeves turned into rags and hung down.
It was as if someone had burned a burner of incense between their fingers. After the sword intention was smashed into pieces, the sword intention dispersed like smoke.
Lu Marry's sword had been worn away, but there was still a thin distance between her and Ning Changjiu's fingers.
"I lost." Lu Marry retracted her finger, a little unwilling and a little angry: "Even to me, do you have to hide your strength on weekdays?"
The sword intent that Ning Changjiu displayed in the past was simply incomparable to today.
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said, "Now is not the time for you to accuse me."
Lu Marian knew that he was talking about a bet... Why did this man have so many traps
She recalled her previous disdain and contempt, and felt that she was a bit like a careless and evil character...
Just think of it as punishing yourself for being careless.
They walked into the thatched cottage, and Lu Marry took off her sword skillfully and lay on his lap.
Next, there are the old stories of forging swords, stealing bells, making medicine, and reclaiming the sea with Jingwei, which need not be repeated.
Finally, Ning Jiujiu told her a "self-contradictory" fable.
Only this time, their roles were reversed, and Ning Jiujiu became a spear. In this fable, the powerful and heavy spear quickly ripped holes in the shield, and the armor was discarded, just like how Lu Jiaoyu persevered in carving out the mountain before.
Every time after the story is told, Lu Marian is always the Lu Marian who is least like the female sword fairy. At this moment, he seems like a resentful little daughter-in-law.
Originally, Ning Jiujiu would coax him with soft words for a while, but today he just spoke, and both he and Lu Marian looked stern at the same time.
Is someone coming again
When Lu Marian opened the door, she was neatly dressed and her temperament was cold again.
Lu Marian looked down and saw Lerou standing at the door.
Lerou looked at her nervously.
Lu Marian's expression softened a lot, and she said worriedly: "Lerou? What are you doing here so late? Don't you know it's dangerous here?"
Le Rou said seriously: "I have a gift to give to Master."
Lu Marian asked: "What gift?"
Leju said: "Can I go in and talk?"
Lu Marry gave up her body.
Lerou walked in, sniffed with her small nose, and felt something strange.
She sat on the chair, took off the small package on her back, looked at Lu Marian, and said, "Master, sit down too."
Lu Marian did not sit down and asked directly: "Lerou, are you here to persuade me to return to the peak?"
Le Rou hummed softly, untied a small and beautiful sword from the package, held it in both hands, handed it to Lu Marian, and said: "This is the sword I bought specially for Master. It is full of engraved The names of all the people in the peak, except Master Lu, of course, whose Chinese characters are too ugly... "
Lu Jiao took over the small sword, which was no more than a palm long, and looked at the name engraved on it with a sudden look on her face.
It turns out it has been two years.
Lu Marian put down her sword and said with a smile: "Since Lerou misses Master so much, why hasn't she visited him in the past?"
Le Rou lowered her head and said cautiously: "Because Master has been thinking about Junior Brother. I'm afraid that my coming will disturb Master from thinking about Junior Brother. Master will be sad..."
Lu Marian's mind moved. She looked at the little girl sitting in the thatched cottage and felt a lot of guilt in her heart.
She walked gently to Lerou, touched Lerou's hair, and said, "Okay, master will definitely go back for the sect master's ceremony tomorrow... I have indeed not gone back to see you for a long time."
Le Rou was startled for a moment, then her eyes became extremely bright.
Ning Jiujiu hid outside the window holding the hidden breath technique, listening to the conversation between the woman and the girl in the house, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
That little girl just said innocent and childlike words, why did she become soft-hearted...
What a fool.
But it was precisely this kind of Lu Marian who he wanted to wait for for thousands of years.
He looked at the moon in the sky and listened to their words.
"What if the master can't wait for the junior brother? Then won't the master be sad all the time?" Lerou asked worriedly.
Lu Marry remained silent, not knowing whether she should tell the truth or not.
Ning straightened his clothes for a long time, walked around the window, opened the door openly and walked in.
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(Thank you to the helmsman, Blood Feather Fungus, for the reward! Thank you, Blood Feather Fungus, for your support and encouragement~~)