"Master, wait for me!"
In the depths of the white clouds, camel bells sound. The boy ran up the sand dune with bare feet, stopped behind the young man with his back turned to him, gasped for a while while holding his knees, straightened up curiously: "Master, what are you looking at?"
The wind swept the golden gravel towards the sky, and the young man's eyes reflected the blue sky in the distance. After a while he whispered: "Hometown..."
The young man's face was blank. The young man pressed his shoulder with one hand, and pointed to the east with the other hand. At the end of the mountains, rivers and thousands of miles of desert, the direction of the rising sun on the horizon: "There is a huge capital city surrounded by eight rivers. Ten thousand nations come to court, and there will be long-term peace and stability." …”
"...that's your hometown, where you were born."
On the edge of the cliff of Sheshou Mountain, killing intent suddenly condensed in the air.
After panting, Shan Chaoju closed his eyes and opened them again, trying to see the figure approaching in front of him clearly, but no matter how blurred his vision was, he couldn't focus. From the grotesque world, the only thing he could see was the Tai'a sword edge slowly lifted from Xie Yun's hand.
—All nations come to Korea, long-term peace and stability...
where you were born.
The wooden door was knocked open with a bang, and the moonlight and cold wind whistled into the dim cabin at the same time. The boy Shan Chao was in a panic, and was thrown into the room by Xie Yun with his collar, and fell heavily on the floor.
"What do you want?" The boy staggered up, turned around and grabbed his master's cold hand, like a drowning man crazily grabbing the last straw: "Tell me what you want, and I will give it to you! No matter what I can repay you! Everything about me is... "
"Your life," Xie Yun said.
Shan Chao stopped suddenly, his pupils trembling slightly in his eye sockets.
"I saved your life, what if I want to take it back now?"
The boy finally let go of his hand, staggered back, tears quickly filled his eyes.
"Why do you have to do this..." he said in despair, and finally revealed the secret he had kept in his heart for a long time: "I... I love you, Master..."
"I love you..."
However, Xie Yun's handsome face didn't show any waves, and even the ending sound seemed to be frozen in ice, each word was lightly smashed into the air: "I don't love you."
There was a muffled bang, and it was the boy's back hitting the earthen wall.
The hut surrounded by four earth walls was once his warmest and most caring safe haven, where he grew up in this boundless desert. The faintly visible scratches on the walls are the result of his countless days and nights. Traces left behind.
The young man slid his back across the wall, as if the last hope and eagerness in his heart had been emptied, and he knelt down slumped.
"Are those letter eagles..." he hoarsely said, "Someone told you to kill me... right?"
Silence answered him.
The air freezes into ice, filling each other's throats.
"Please, Master, please tell me who that person is," the boy raised his head from the darkness, tears rolled down his blood-stained face, and choked up, "I'm going to kill that person, even if I slap my hands If I risk my life, I will kill that person, and then you will be free. We can go back to before yesterday, when everything was normal, and live together in this desert forever... okay?"
"Let's just pretend that this never happened, you are still my master, and I am still your apprentice, okay?"
The shrill sobs covered the sky and covered the sand dunes, bushes and dark rivers shrouded in silver light.
The cold stars in the distance are faint, and all the hustle and bustle in the world has receded, leaving only this lonely cabin standing at the end of the eternal horizon.
After a long time, Xie Yun finally stepped forward, stopped in front of the young man, and looked down into his pleading eyes: "You said you can do anything...then you can stand on the top of the world again for me!" place?"
The boy was stunned.
"If you take back the greatest power and the highest position in this world, when you are sitting on the top of the country and the world, we can go back to a time when nothing happened before, but can you do it?"
"..." The young man's lips trembled slightly, and after a while he shook his head in disbelief, and asked, "What do you mean by re...?"
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"Wait, Xie Yun." Shan Chao reluctantly stopped his backing steps, used Long Yuan to clamp the stone crack under his feet, and said in a daze: "You just said that you mean...you..."
Xie Yun opened and closed his lips, as if he had said something, but Shan Chao's ears were buzzing, dizziness and tingling mixed together, constantly burning his sanity which was gradually on the verge of breaking down.
He only saw Xie Yun raise his wrist, and Tai Ah waved it towards him.
Boom!
Long Yuan and Tai Ah collided, and there was a curling reverberation.
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"Let me go!" In the desert, Xie Yun flung the boy's hand away, pointed to a line of dust and smoke rising from the depths of the sandy sea in the distance, and said angrily, "They're already here, didn't you see? I have to go! I want to go!" Don't drag me with you!"
Days of trekking had exhausted the young man, and Xie Yun's toss was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, causing him to collapse and fall on the sandy ground.
The sun is scorching above the head, and the golden red air waves are blowing towards the face. As long as the rough sand is touched, the skin will burn and blister. Xie Yun strode away, and after walking more than ten steps, the young man staggered up his body with some strength, rolled and crawled after him, and grabbed Xie Yun's wrist from behind!
"Master...Master," the boy's chapped lips bleed out as soon as he moved. Due to the lack of water, the blood was thick and soaked into the dark dust on his chin: "Tell me, Master...you must Go back? Really can't... "
Xie Yun turned his head abruptly, and the young man's desperate eyes came into his sight, like a scarred, desperate lone wolf.
"Aside from what you're after...money and power...besides that, have you ever had any affection for me?"
"Master's feelings for his disciples, no matter what kind of feelings...any love is fine?"
The dust and smoke winding from the horizon was getting closer and closer, Xie Yun breathed out impatiently, grabbed the young man's hand that was holding him tightly with the last bit of strength, broke it away decisively, and repeated for the last time: "If you don't want to die, you can die!" Go back. Go!"
The boy staggered and fell to his knees in the sand.
Xie Yun turned around and left without even turning his head. His resolute back coincides with the figure in the boy's memory of opening the door curtain, walking into the tent, and looking at each other with his scarred childhood self; the boy once thought very fervently that that moment was all the love and hope in his life However, until this moment, he didn't realize what an absurd joke it was.
He is not loved, nor is there any hope.
All the beautiful pasts are lies full of interests and calculations.
"Xie Yun..." The young man grabbed the ground in pain, the yellow sand broke through the blood bubbles in his palm, and the severe pain made every syllable hoarse and convulsive: "Xie Yun... Xie Yun..."
The bloody words were engraved in his heart over and over again, but not far away, Xie Yun seemed to be stimulated by the call, and suddenly turned around and said sharply: "Shut up!"
The boy shook his head in despair.
"I'm just using you! I just want the greatest power in the world and the status of being under one person and above ten thousand! You have no use value anymore, it's useless! Go back!"
"If you don't want to die, stand up and get out!"
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-when!
The two swords collided again, trembling, dust fell from the rocks on both sides, and sprinkled on Shan Chao's heaving shoulders with a clatter.
"Are you ready?" Xie Yun said expressionlessly, turning his wrist to hold Tai Ah Jian in an arc.
Shan Chao frowned subconsciously, his pupils were distracted, and the flames of violent hatred engulfed and burned every inch of nerve endings, making him unable to see or hear everything around him.
Beside the ruins of the high platform, the soldiers who had fled in all directions gathered again one after another, and Ma Xin rushed here with a large number of guards in a hurry.
"Are you ready?" Xie Yun asked again.
Shan Chao's gaze finally fell back to his body, with a slight scarlet glow in the depths of his pupils, and he fixed Xie Yun's eyes firmly.
Tai'a sword was tilted at a very strange angle, from top to bottom, straight to the heart, and made a sword move that suddenly made Shan Chao inexplicably familiar.
"Jin people say that the bullfighting stars often have purple aura, which means the meaning of the two swords pierces through the sky. One is Tai Ah, and the other is Long Yuan..."
The most profound scene in my memory reappeared again, from the vast void, overwhelmingly smashed at him: "The one who killed you here today is Longyuan."
At that moment, the heart-piercing sword in the nightmare of the past two years overlapped with the scene where Tai Ah came with the strong wind at this moment, and turned into Xie Yun's icy cold eyes in the illusion.
The one who killed you here today—
Yongyeon—
Snapped!
Shan Chao tightly held onto the hilt of his sword, and under the scorching bloody sun, he split open the raging yellow sand, and slashed at the fatal sword two years ago.
Not far away, Ma Xin exclaimed:
"No!"
Puff!
Blood burst and splashed under the cloudy sky, and all the hustle and bustle on the cliff turned into a gray-white silent background, together with the chaotic illusions and memories, they disappeared at that moment.
The time was infinitely stretched so that it was frozen, and I saw Tai'a falling from Xie Yun's hand, spinning and flying into the air.
— Long Yuan pierced into Xie Yun's left rib, piercing close to the side of his heart, revealing a section of the blood-stained sword tip from behind!
Shan Chao's whole body trembled violently, and he shouted uncontrollably: "Xie Yun!"
However, it was too late. Xie Yun knelt on his knees, panting in pain and astonishment, and fell down slowly.