The night breeze on the cliff is cool.
Ning Jiujiu quietly folded his sleeves, his pupils were clear of black and white, without a trace of golden light, just like the stars in the sky that had been silent for thousands of years.
Liu Junzhuo listened to his answer, her mouth opened slightly, but she didn't know how to speak. Her slender white fingers tightly bent the edge of the black cloak. When the breeze blew by, the woman's eyelashes, hair, cloak and body seemed to be trembling slightly.
Liu Xiwan was also stunned for a moment.
"It's you? What is you? Which one are you...? Xiu Snake? Jiu Ying? It can't be the sun that was shot to death, right?" Liu Xiwan's mind was still a little confused.
Ning Jiujiu took a deep breath, looked helplessly at Liu Xiwan, and geared up.
Only then did Liu Xiwan react: "You... are you Yi?"
Ning Jiujiu didn't want to pay much attention to her. He looked at Liu Junzhuo and said, "Why did Miss Mu suddenly ask this question?"
Liu Junzhuo asked this question, firstly, because when she was trying to integrate into the remnant country, the mythical pillar that shot the sun did not light up at all, and secondly, because when she was in a coma, she dreamed that she was walking on a wasteland... the entire wasteland. It looks like it has been baptized by the battles of gods. It is full of pits and piles of gravel and grass clippings. The occasionally uprooted mountains are also formed by the battle bones of gods.
The earth was infinitely far and flat. She seemed to be walking on an endless line, and she always felt that something around her was warming her.
She turned around many times and could see nothing but the sun hanging in the sky.
When she woke up, she looked at Ning Changchun and the golden bonfire. She vaguely guessed something and was at a loss.
Liu Junzhuo didn't seem to hear Ning Jiujiu's question. She just murmured: "It's really you... How could it be you..."
"What's impossible?" Ning Jiujiu smiled calmly and said, "If you had a previous life, you would have been my student four thousand years ago."
Liu Junzhuo shook his head slightly and said, "I am not the reincarnation of a god."
Ning Jiujiu turned his head and said: "Why do you still look like you are facing a formidable enemy? I will not silence you."
Liu Junzhuo hesitated for a moment, walked to Liu Xiwan's side, and sat down on the edge of the cliff.
Liu Xiwan leaned against her senior sister's arm.
The broken Qianfeng Mountains came into view, and there was a long desolation in the mess.
"Since you were such a hero in the past, why are you standing on the opposite side of heaven now?" Liu Junzhuo looked at him and asked.
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said softly: "Since I was him once, shouldn't you call me senior?"
"You..." Liu Junzhuo looked at his delicate face and felt suspicious.
Ning Jiujiu restrained his smile, and he suddenly said seriously: "Because this is what I did three or four thousand years ago, and now my great cause is still unfinished and my remnant soul is still there. A skinny dog still knows how to bark when it meets an evil person. I have seen my true self. Of course we have to continue to do what we didn’t finish back then… that’s all.”
Liu Junzhuo listened to his words, and her hands in her sleeves trembled slightly. She knew that she was a little shaken, but it was difficult for her to control her emotions at this moment.
Ning looked at her for a long time and said, "Don't you believe it, Miss Mu?"
Liu Xiwan asked curiously: "Why do you call me Senior Sister Mu? My Senior Sister's surname is Liu."
"that is because… "
"shut up!"
Liu Junzhuo scolded her, but this scolding was slightly weak. She was upset. She raised her bare hands between her cloaks and straightened the strands of dark hair on her sides, her eyes flickering like sparks of light.
Ning Jiujiu continued: "The destruction of three hundred years of faith is certainly disappointing, but people can't live in lies all their lives. I know you have chivalry in your heart and want to cultivate a path worthy of the sword, so you need to think more. think."
Liu Junzhuo retracted her hands into her clothes. She still kept her back straight, but her arms were crossed unconsciously, as if she was hugging herself.
Liu Junzhuo thought for a long time and said in a trembling voice: "I have been a disciple of Jiange since I was a child. My senior sisters and masters have treated me like family. What I have learned is also the way of chivalry and benevolence... When we walk in the world, we should obey the orders of heaven. Three hundred Over the years, I have killed demons and slain demons, acted chivalrously and righteously, and have never done any evil, so what's wrong with me? What's wrong with Jiangge?"
Ning stared at the sparks in the sky for a long time and said calmly: "What you did in the past may not be wrong, but you are destined to make big mistakes in the future. Jiange is a famous sect in Middle-earth, so it is natural to use this to win the trust of disciples and the trust of Middle-earth, but once A lie out of a thousand truths is often the most deadly."
"Are you saying... Master has been lying to me?" Liu Junzhuo bit his lip.
Ning Jiujiu said: "He is lying to everyone in the world."
"No... I don't believe it!" Liu Junzhuo blurted out, shaking her head.
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said: "The Sword Master said that I am a rebellious person. Do you think I look like it?"
"Like." Liu Xiwan said with deep understanding.
"..." Ning Changjiu narrowed his eyes and stared at the short-haired girl.
Liu Xiwan said innocently: "You only narrowly defeated me half a year ago, but now even the senior sister is no match for you, let alone the past when we fought side by side to defeat the sinner... If the kingdom of God and the way of heaven represent fate, wouldn't you be rebelling against fate? Who?"
Ning Jiujiu felt that what she said made sense.
He nodded, letting her go for now.
Ning looked at Liu Junzhuo for a long time and continued: "You can think about it slowly. If you believe me one day, I can tell you some deeper secrets."
Liu Junzhuo's mood became calmer. She was silent for a long time and hummed softly.
Liu Xiwan's big cloak looked small when it fell on her body. At this moment, she was sitting on the cliff, with her white calves swaying gently in the night wind, like a wandering snow kite in sorrow.
Liu Junzhuo sat for a while, then slowly stood up and walked towards the cave.
She picked up the wooden sword, placed it across her knees, and sat quietly.
Liu Xiwan looked at Ning Changjiu and asked softly: "Why on earth do you call me Senior Sister Mu Miss..."
Ning Jiujiu gathered his voices and told her mercilessly the paintings Liu Junzhuo had drawn in private.
Liu Xiwan was stunned for a moment after hearing this, "Senior sister... Senior sister, why did she... Mu Junshi..."
As she spoke, Liu Xiwan couldn't help but laugh. She quickly covered her lips and turned around to look into the cave.
I didn’t expect that senior sister has such a side...
Just as Liu Xiwan was thinking about it, she felt a sudden pain on her forehead, and Ning Jiuchuan's chestnut fell.
"This is to teach you a lesson for your senior sister." Ning Jiujiu said calmly.
Liu Xiwan covered her head and curled her lips.
Ning Jiujiu looked at the girl's messy hair falling on her neck and said, "Why is your hair cut like this? How about I help you straighten it?"
Liu Xiwan evaded responsibility and said, "This was cut by my second senior sister..."
"This... people who didn't know better thought it was an attempted beheading."
"Humph, I think it looks pretty."
The boys and girls sat on the top of the cliff and chatted quietly. They soon talked about the story of the Duanjie City, and then they argued about the battle that defeated the guilty king, and everyone took some credit.
Liu Xiwan's mood suddenly changed when she heard that Shao Xiaoli was also in Nanzhou now.
When she had not yet determined her gender, she was still clamoring to see Shao Xiaoli's body every day. Now it seems that this is history that cannot be looked back on...
"Do you want to meet Xiao Li?" Ning Changjiu asked.
"Is she taller than me?" Liu Xiwan asked.
"higher."
"That's not going to happen."
Liu Xiwan puffed up her cheeks.
She was a little sleepy, so she stretched out on the edge of the cliff, stretching her beautiful body curves.
Ning Jiujiu called out the Golden Crow and took advantage of the night to replenish his spiritual energy.
"Golden Crow." Liu Xiwan finally realized: "So it was you who shot it down..."
Ning Jiujiu nodded, "You can say that."
Liu Xiwan also stretched out her hand, and the Golden Crow flew to the back of her hand following Ning Changjiu's will. Liu Xiwan was a sword spirit. She had innate awe and admiration for the Golden Crow. She pursed her lips and followed the movement of its body. Hair, teasing the bird's head.
"Want to go in and take a look?" Ning Changjiu asked.
Liu Xiwan looked at Jinwu, frowned and said, "How... how can you get in here?"
…
The girl came to the Golden Crow Kingdom for the first time.
She raised her head and looked at everything hanging in the air, and was deeply shocked by its majestic and magnificent sight.
"Is this the Kingdom of God?" Liu Xiwan sighed.
Ning sighed for a long time: "It's far from complete... I'll take you for a walk."
Liu Xiwan nodded slightly.
Ning Jiujiu took her and floated gently over the Golden Crow Kingdom.
"What are those flowers? I think they look very sad." Liu Xiwan asked, pointing to the black flower field.
Ning Jiujiu said: "Those are Sun Puppet, they are smiling so happily."
"Hmm... Okay." Liu Xiwan raised her head, looked at the stars and temples hanging high in the sky, and asked the names of these temples one by one.
"What is this?" Liu Xiwan asked, looking at a deep well where the yin and yang energy swirled.
Ning Changjiu said: "This is the well of fetal spirit. It was built by me and Jiumei using the yin and yang towering ceremony."
Liu Xiwan frowned, "You... you tricked me into this, didn't you want me to be with you..."
Ning Changjiu ruffled her hair and joked: "Don't think so wildly. If I do such an animal thing, I'm afraid I won't be able to go back to Yujian Tianzong."
Liu Xiwan said quietly: "How could Lu Marry be so vicious?"
"She is so fierce now... By the way, I remember that you have always admired her." Ning said for a long time.
"Of course!" Liu Xiwan firmly believed: "I will always support Lu Marion!"
Ning Jiujiu smiled gently, and he took her to the Xihe Hall. Liu Xiwan stood in front of the stunning and exquisite statue and stared at it for a while.
"This...is this Zhao Xiang'er?" Liu Xiwan asked.
Ning Jiujiu nodded.
Liu Xiwan was a little jealous even though they were both women.
"But I'm afraid Xue Ci will live here in the future..." Ning Jiujiu said.
"Xue Ci?" Liu Xiwan was stunned for a while before reacting: "Si Ming? You can't do the same to her, right?"
Ning Changjiu smiled and said, "Xue'er is much better behaved than you now."
Xue'er... Liu Xiwan froze, unable to connect Guai and Siming together.
Liu Xiwan asked: "Is Si Ming also in Nanzhou now?"
"Not here."
"Then where did she go?"
"She followed the monks to hunt down the Sword Master."
"Chasing the Sword Master?! Can he be killed..." Liu Xiwan was startled.
"I don't know." Ning looked up at the sky for a long time and said softly: "As long as she is okay."
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The sea in Beiming is endless.
Si Ming was dressed in a black robe, with her hands behind her back, standing on the bow of a solitary boat. The strong wind blowing her robes, her graceful figure was outlined by the wind, like clouds floating in the North Ming Dynasty, rising from the sky. Go outside, go to the outer world.
Si Ming's sparkling colored hair dimmed slightly.
She closed her eyes and expanded the scope of her mental search to the extreme.
In the lake in her heart, she could reflect the rise and fall of every wave, and could hear the long chants of whale dragons and mermaids on the seabed, but she couldn't find the slightest bit of sword intent.
In the past two months, Si Ming, Jiuling Yuansheng, Ji Xuan and others set out from different locations to search the sea in Beiming, but Ke Wenzhou seemed to have disappeared without a trace. , leaving no trace.
During this period, Siming even discovered several isolated islands and new continents in the Northern Sea.
She took the opportunity to carve stone tablets on these islands, leaving her own name and taking it as her own. She named the largest one Rainbow Island.
Summer is coming to an end and the sea is calming down after several consecutive heavy rains.
Si Ming stood at the head of the boat, and the evil demons on the seabed sensed her royal aura, and they all stayed dormant and did not dare to come out. So I was rowing alone in the sea, wearing a black robe and a black sword, just feeling lonely.
She somewhat misses the days when she and Ning Changjiu traveled together...
Siming shook his head gently, abandoned his distracting thoughts, and continued to search for the Sword Master.
Suddenly, several divine pillars reaching the sky were reflected in her sea of consciousness.
"Tangled Dragon Pillar?" Si Ming was slightly confused.
How come there are so many dragon-winding pillars left in Beiming
Before she could think about it, a discordant sound suddenly sounded from under the deep sea.
The sound was ancient and long, like a chant or a roar. It was pushed into the night by the water waves, and kept echoing inside and outside the deep sea.
The boat stopped momentarily.
Siming Xian's face trembled, and she crushed the token in her hand without hesitation.
All the hunters got the signal at the same time.
At the same time, in the deep sea, the monstrous tornado turned into a wall of thousands of feet of waves and stood up, instantly covering the bright stars in the sky. Then, a huge thing opened up the waves and jumped out.
The creature was larger than the dragon whale in ancient times. Its surface was smooth and reflected the unique light of its scales.
After its body was pushed out of the sea, its wings that were originally sunken in the sea pushed away the heavy water and suddenly opened up. The fish wings were like the wings of a giant bird. The surface reflected the sea water and moonlight, and also emitted a dark silver light.
Kunpeng…
Siming was a little surprised.
She knew this creature was real, but she didn't expect it to survive to this day.
This kind of ancient divine beast continues to this day. Their cultivation level is also comparable to that of the powerful people at the peak of the Five Paths, and they are almost unkillable.
The most eye-catching thing was the old man sitting above Kunpeng's head.
Juggernaut!
Siming did not hesitate and directly used the sundial.
But to her surprise, the Sword Master did not attack her. He just looked back and flew deeper and further into the sea on Kunpeng.
The long roar of the giant Kun broke through the clouds and resounded throughout the sky.
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On the cliff, dawn arrives quietly.
Ning Changjiu took a nap in the cave for a while. When he woke up, Liu Junzhuo was already practicing his sword cross-legged, and Liu Xiwan fell asleep on her lap.
Seeing that Ning Jiujiu woke up, Liu Junzhuo gently hugged the girl and leaned her body against her. Then he picked up the wooden sword on the side and said seriously: "I want to challenge you."
Ning Jiujiu didn't ask any more questions, nodded and walked out of the cave.
Liu Junzhuo followed him.
Among the thousands of peaks in the early morning, the vast spiritual energy was cut open by the sword light again.
Liu Junzhuo's sword heart is no longer transparent, so there is no suspense about the outcome of this battle.
In the end, she was knocked to the ground again by Ning Changjiu's sword.
Liu Junzhuo was holding the sword. She was originally full of energy and her heroic brows were full of confusion. She found that she could never regain the feeling of holding the sword.
Ning Jiujiu didn't say anything more. After defeating her, he returned to the cliff with his sword in his arms, summoned the Golden Crow and continued to swallow the spiritual energy.
He roughly calculated that the Golden Crow would need to swallow seven rounds of spiritual energy to collect enough spiritual energy for the Well of Fetal Spirits and the Pillar of Mythical Logic. It’s only the third round now.
And he has been delayed here for five days...
How will I deal with my wife after I return? Is it true...
Ning was worried for a long time.
After Liu Xiwan woke up, Ning Jiujiu wrote another note to her, asking her to continue collecting medicine.
Liu Xiwan only thought that he was testing herself. She took the note and glanced at it a few times, then agreed, and then said: "You are not allowed to bully senior sister when I am not around."
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said, "Just ask your senior sister not to come to trouble me."
Liu Xiwan worriedly asked her senior sister not to provoke him, because the senior sister was beautiful and a female swordswoman, which was very dangerous.
After giving instructions, Liu Xiwan went into the mountain alone and had a thrilling battle with many ancient beasts and little squirrels.
But Liu Junzhuo obviously did not follow this junior sister's instructions.
During the day, she challenged Ning Jiujiu many times, trying to find her lost sword heart.
Ning Jiujiu also wanted to help her. After all, he really lacked a sword-training opponent with a similar level.
They didn't attack with all their strength, but tacitly suppressed their realms and only competed with each other in sword skills.
However, Liu Junzhuo was getting worse and worse. Since her first defeat, her sword became more and more chaotic. If the center of the sword is not straight, gaps will flow out of the sword's moves, but Ning Jiujiu can always accurately find these gaps and penetrate them cleanly.
Liu Junzhuo's defeat is getting faster and faster.
The more she failed, the more unwilling she became. She challenged Ning Jiujiu more and more frequently, and the sword heart gradually collapsed.
Ning Jiujiu looked at this proud and proud woman when he first met her, and sighed softly. The last time, after Liu Junzhuo was defeated, her wooden sword was taken away by Ning Jiujiu. Ning Jiujiu pressed her back against the wall, and used the wooden sword as a ruler to hit Fu Rou's proud parts. Three times.
"These are the three swords you used to bully Marry. I want them back for her." Ning Jiujiu threw the wooden sword to the ground, turned and left.
Liu Junzhuo didn't react for a while. She felt the pain and her cheeks were burning.
She slowly knelt on the ground and picked up the wooden sword.
Lu Marry... She couldn't help but think of the figure in the white dress and blue silk stockings. That time, she lost miserably even though she knew she would win.
She thought about it for a long time after returning to the cabinet.
Now, when she recalled the figure of Lu Marion and the unyielding face on Youyue Lake, Liu Junzhuo looked dazed. She knew that she seemed to be far away from such pure sword intention.
She lost the right to hold a sword.
Even the wooden sword in his arms.
She couldn't make a choice between the words between her master and Ning Changjiu. She could only kneel on the ground holding the wooden sword. After a long silence, she burst into tears. She felt sorry for the lost swordsmanship, the dusty sword heart, and the three proud things. Hundreds of years have wept.
When Liu Xiwan came back, Ning Jiujiu had finished the fifth round of devouring.
He can leave until tomorrow morning.
Liu Xiwan handed the extracted elixir to her senior sister, then picked out the fruits inside and gave them to Ning Changjiu.
"You asked me to collect herbs, do you really want to sharpen me?" Liu Xiwan couldn't help but ask.
Ning Jiujiu shook his head and said: "If you were a swordsman, would you kill the enemy with a sword thousands of miles away, or walk in front of the enemy and stab him to death."
Liu Xiwan shook her finger and said, "Of course it's killing people with a sword thousands of miles away."
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said, "That's right."
Liu Xiwan was startled and said angrily: "You! You really treat me as your sword!"
Ning Jiujiu peeled two fruits for her, which calmed the girl's anger.
While eating the fruit, Liu Xiwan looked at the cave and said, "Did you bully Senior Sister? Why didn't Senior Sister speak today?"
"Perhaps he is practicing silent meditation." Ning Jiujiu said.
"Liar..." Liu Xiwan curled her lips.
After the two ate the fruit, Ning Jiujiu continued to practice on the cliff, while Liu Xiwan went to refine medicine for her senior sister to heal her injuries.
After the healing was over, Ning Changjiu walked in.
Liu Junzhuo happened to be wearing a large cloak. She had her back to him, her head lowered, and her lapel tied.
"Is Miss Liu coming to play dice?" Ning Jiujiu asked.
Liu Junzhuo turned around and looked at him slightly surprised: "What?"
Ning Changjiu smiled and took out a square dice and tossed it in his hand. This was what he had just casually carved out with his sword energy.
Ning Changjiu said: "I'm leaving tomorrow. Don't Mr. Liu Er like gambling? I can gamble with you tonight."
Liu Junzhuo shook his head slightly and said, "You misunderstood. That time in Tianbang was the first time I entered a casino in three hundred years."
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said, "It's okay, let's just play casually."
Liu Junzhuo asked: "What are the chips?"
Ning Jiujiu took out more random stones, pushed half of them to Liu Junzhuo, and said, "Let's use this as a bargaining chip."
"What's the point?"
"No point, just for fun."
Liu Junzhuo looked at him suspiciously. She couldn't see through this young man and always felt that he was trying to trick her in some way.
Ning Jiujiu sat cross-legged in front of her, covered the stone dice with a chopped bamboo tube, and said: "The gameplay is very simple, just guess the size, bet the big one on the left, and the small one on the right."
Liu Junzhuo said coldly: "Don't think I don't know, you can spy on the dice, right?"
Ning Jiujiu said: "Don't worry, we are not betting on anything, and I will not use my authority."
As he spoke, he began to shake the bamboo tube, and the dice hit the wall restlessly inside, making a squeaking sound.
"Big or small?"
Liu Junzhuo stared at Ning for a long time, and finally said in a very soft voice: "Xiao..."
Ning Jiujiu slowly opened the bamboo tube, while Liu Junzhuo watched intently.
Point two. Small.
Ning Changjiu smiled and said: "Miss Liu won the first round... In a casino, this is not a good sign."
Liu Junzhuo felt a little strange, and she felt a strange emotion—this seemed to be her first win.
Ning Jiujiu pushed the losing stone to her.
Liu Junzhuo put away these meaningless stones. She raised her head, stared at Ning Changjiu, and said, "Continue."
That night the cave was filled with the sound of dice rolling.
Liu Xiwan really couldn't understand how they could play such a boring game all night.
So she stared at it all night to figure it out.
"You guys are so boring!" Liu Xiwan couldn't help but sigh with emotion in the early morning.
Originally, they were competing against each other. Ning Changjiu was lucky and had a small victory, but in the last move, Liu Junzhuo pushed all the stones to the 'big' side.
Ning Jiujiu nervously opened the bamboo tube.
Liu Junzhuo stared intently.
six. big.
Liu Junzhuo breathed a long sigh of relief.
She grabbed all the stones, and a look of pride reappeared in her brows: "By the way, you didn't let me go, right?"
"Don't worry, absolutely not."
"Then I win."
"Well..." Ning Changjiu was stunned for a while and laughed at himself: "My luck has not been very good."
Liu Xiwan whispered: "Sister, what's the point of winning these stones?"
Liu Junzhuo was also stunned. She tapped Liu Xiwan's head lightly and said, "Don't talk too much."
"Oh..." Liu Xiwan nodded weakly.
"Of course it makes sense." Ning Jiujiu smiled slightly and said, "This proves that you are not a loser in every bet. What's more, although you lost many games before, you made the right choice in the last one. I won them all back..."
"There are no clues in throwing dice, we can only rely on guessing, but there are some in our lives. Now the final bet is placed in front of Miss Liu. Whether you can win all the chips like today depends entirely on Mr. Er. choose."
After Ning Jiujiu said this, he let out a long sigh of relief. He stood up and walked out of the cave.
The golden crow flew out from between the eyebrows, fluttering its wings and burst into the valley.
Liu Junzhuo looked at his back, dressed in white as snow, and was lost in thought for a long time. When he came back to his senses, the young man had already left the valley.
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(Thank you to the book friend_Wangmo_ for the reward! Thank you to the book friend for your support~ Mmm.)