"Wan Lai!" Bu Shuihan recognized him, feeling both surprised and puzzled. "Didn't you go back to the Wan family? Why are you here?"
"It's a long story," Wan Lai stepped forward and bowed, then took out his folding fan and opened it, saying with a smile, "I have already done what the master asked me to do, and Junior Brother Mu should not make any mistakes."
Gu Pinglin smiled and said, "Well done, you have done a great job this time."
"Forget it, it must be another arrangement by the headmaster," Bu Shuihan didn't mind being kept in the dark, and said with a smile, "As long as it goes smoothly, I won't ask any more questions, go back quickly."
Wan Lai moved the stone wall back to block the cave entrance: "Master, how did you know there was a cave here and asked me to wait here?"
Gu Pinglin looked at the stone wall, pulled the front of his cloak, and said calmly, "I've passed by there before."
In his previous life, Lingxin Sect was besieged, and he escaped under the protection of Chen Qian. His Dantian was destroyed and he had nowhere to go. In order to avoid being hunted down, he hid from place to place like a wild dog. He lived here for some time. At that time, his mind was filled with the three words "Duan Qingming" and he wanted revenge madly.
Ridiculous, lamentable and pitiful.
Gu Pinglin decisively put away his emotions and led the two down the mountain. As soon as they reached the foot of the mountain, they heard the woman's cry. The three hurried over and saw two women with terrified expressions, pointing their swords at a scarlet demon grass. The demon grass was twice as tall as the others, and the spikes on the top had turned into countless tiny suction cups, which looked ugly.
"It's the two Miss Zhous," Bu Shuihan frowned, "They haven't formed their inner elixir yet, so why would Lord Zhou bring them here? Isn't that inappropriate?"
Gu Pinglin said: "It was my arrangement."
Bu Shuihan was surprised at first, then worriedly said: "I know you must have a reason for doing this, but this trip is dangerous. They are the daughters of Master Zhou, and there can be no mistakes."
The three did not attack. The demon grass had just transformed, and it was difficult to hurt the outer alchemy cultivators. Zhou Caige and Zhou Caiqin were just frightened by its ugly appearance. When they found that it did not have much power, Zhou Caige cut it off without much effort.
Gu Pinglin walked over and said, "Girls, how are you?"
"Master Gu!" The two sisters said in unison and came over to greet him.
Wan Lai said with a smile: "Master will talk to the two girls slowly, we will go back first? Uncle Bu?"
Seeing that there was no danger, Bu Shuihan also wanted to joke: "Let's go."
The Zhou sisters blushed, smiled and pretended not to hear. After they left, Zhou Caige nudged her sister with her elbow, and Zhou Caiqin said, "There are many people during the day, so we dare not disturb Master Gu. We just heard that you came here, so we wanted to talk to you, but we didn't expect to meet such a monster." She couldn't help but touch her arm and said with disgust, "What is this thing? It's so disgusting!"
"It's a demonized golden grass," Gu Pinglin looked at the twisting dark red grass stems, "It actually attacked people, it must have sucked human blood."
Zhou Caige frowned: "What will happen if the cultivation world becomes like this!"
"Isn't it that Master Gu is here?" Zhou Caiqin laughed. "I didn't expect that father would bring us in. We sisters have learned a lot along the way."
Gu Pinglin bowed to the two of them and said, "Actually, this was arranged by me. I would like to ask the two girls to do me a big favor, so I specially asked Master Zhou to bring you here."
The two sisters looked at each other in bewilderment. Zhou Caige reacted quickly and hurriedly pulled her sister aside: "I dare not accept the gift. Master Gu, please tell us what you want us to do. However, we are only at the sixth level of Qi transformation..."
Seeing her uneasy, Gu Pinglin smiled and said, "It's okay. Although this matter is important, it's not difficult for the two girls."
The two sisters breathed a sigh of relief, and were slightly excited, their faces flushed. Zhou Caiqin probed: "What's the matter?"
Gu Pinglin said: "I will tell you two when the time comes."
After he said that, the two sisters didn't ask any more questions and followed him back to the village. The people who were discussing swordsmanship had already dispersed.
Gu Pinglin stopped in the open space and warned, "It's not safe to be alone in the yin area. The two girls should not act alone like they did today."
The two sisters bit their lips and looked at him, their eyes curved with smiles, pushing each other.
Seeing this, Gu Pinglin said, "It's okay for the two girls to speak frankly."
Zhou Caige said shyly, "We mistook you for someone like Senior Brother Yan before. Master Gu, please don't be surprised. Actually... you are very considerate." She couldn't help herself and smiled as she pushed her sister, "My sister asked you if you want to find a Taoist partner?"
"Who wants to ask this?" Zhou Caiqin stamped her feet and scolded with laughter, "You want to ask it yourself, right?"
The two sisters were really quick to speak and dare to say anything. This time, they really did not find the wrong person. Gu Pinglin laughed: "The disaster in the Yin Land has not been eliminated, and the road is unknown. I dare not think too much. It's getting late. If you two don't go back, Master Zhou may be worried."
After this quarrel, the two sisters were afraid of being discovered by Zhou Qiu, so they said goodbye in a tender voice.
After watching the two men disappear, Gu Pinglin turned around and left the spot. However, the cold sword intent was everywhere and easily cut through his cloak.
The man is the sword and the sword is the man.
Gu Pinglin retreated to the dead tree in the middle of the clearing and looked sideways at the hand on his shoulder: "You lost your composure, Duan Qingming."
"Twin sisters have such similar personalities, it's rare," Duan Qingming looked at the direction the Zhou sisters went and admired them. If it weren't for the strength between her fingers that almost crushed his shoulder bones, she wouldn't have looked out of control at all. It would have been as if she had just casually placed her hands on his shoulders. "Isn't she cute?"
Gu Pinglin raised his eyes to look at him and said, "Indeed."
Severe pain in shoulder.
"They are not beauties," Duan Qingming looked away and looked at him with a half-smile, "only their eyes are of some value."
Gu Pinglin said calmly: "There are millions of people in the world, this is not surprising, I have also seen women with eyebrows and eyes similar to yours."
Duan Qingming said, "Oh," "She is so lucky."
"It should be unfortunate," Gu Pinglin suppressed his emotions and gestured, "Let go."
The hand did not let go, but pushed him against the tree trunk. Duan Qingming leaned over and asked, "What about the Zhou sisters?"
Gu Pinglin's expression changed slightly: "You ask too many questions."
"No answer?"
"I advise you not to irritate me."
Duan Qingming ignored the warning and said, "So, you want to go see the cave where you hid and reminisce about the past?"
Gu Pinglin was silent for a moment, then said coldly, "You know where I'm hiding."
"Do you think you can hide it from me?"
"Are you happy to see me in such a mess?"
"Of course, I'm excited when I think about how you've lost all your skills and I'm the only one left." The man in front of him seemed to be reminiscing about the past, and his tone was tinged with excitement. He slowly lowered his head, and his tall nose bridge was pressed down, with his thin lips close at hand.
With the activation of the true Qi of creation, the Guying Sword came out as expected, with a sharp sword wind.
"Are you going to kill me?" Duan Qingming said slowly.
He did not stand still, but the overwhelming murderous aura suddenly disappeared. The Gu Ying sword floated in the air, with the tip of the sword only three inches away from the back of his neck.
The changing finger gestures froze in the previous moment, and Gu Pinglin slowly clenched his hands: "Of course I can't kill you."
"What if I can kill him?"
The close distance caused their lips to rub against each other slightly, and even the words they spoke were tainted with each other's warmth, and their breaths exchanged, as if they were feeding each other with words.
Gu Pinglin was silent for a while: "I should ask you, do you want to be followed again as before?"
The shoulder force is reduced.
His heart was also relieved. Gu Pinglin turned his head and recalled Gu Yingjian. He tried to keep his voice steady: "In the previous life, the Zhou sisters betrayed their master in order to follow you, and their end was miserable."
"so?"
"So, what are you doubting now?"
The cold light in his narrow eyes gradually faded, and Duan Qingming slowly stood up: "You know when to advance and when to retreat, and you are good at taking advantage of things. You can always find the most advantageous method. I have always admired this about you."
Gu Pinglin said: "I didn't intend to take advantage of it."
"No?" Duan Qingming said, "It was your decision to hire me. My refusal was an opportunity to draw a line in the sand, and you gave up the opportunity. Gu Pinglin, you used this deal to trap me in your camp, but you never asked about the price from beginning to end. How could you, such a cautious person, forget such an important thing? Since you have decided to do it at any cost, what is this resistance? Are you trying to resist but still willing? Oh - Master Gu is very good at using the beauty trap."
Gu Pinglin grabbed the hand, pulled it away from his shoulder, and said calmly: "I am not a beauty, and the deal is not done."
"So I will look forward to your success, and maybe even help you?"
"I haven't thought about it."
"oh?"
Gu Pinglin took two steps away: "It is really difficult to tell the past. You helped me to be reborn, and now I have feelings for you as a fellow disciple, but not all feelings in this world are right. Ji Qiniang fell in love with Qi Shisan by mistake, and was forced to marry into Penglai. As time went by, she fell in love with him, and she chose to save Nanzhu, but she underestimated Nanzhu's hatred for the Ji family." He paused: "A wrong relationship is not worth continuing. You are a smart person, don't you know?"
Duan Qingming asked: "Is it a mistake to make a choice knowing the consequences?"
"So Penglai, the result of your gambling with your life is not a mistake?" Gu Pinglin turned around, "You just don't have a suitable opponent. The so-called pursuit may just be an interest."
"Then wait until the interest disappears. I am also curious about how long it can last if it takes a hundred years to regain the interest. Fortunately, you chose this deal." Duan Qingming walked slowly in front of him. "Of course, if I die in this deal, you don't have to pay any price, and maybe you can prove me wrong again."
Eyes met.
"Then you should be careful not to fall into the same trap again."
"I will remember your reminder."
Gu Pinglin nodded, lowered his head and took off the black cloak that was torn by the sword energy: "You have been here."
Duan Qingming looked towards the back mountain and said casually, "Of course, once the cave is discovered, your life will be in danger, so I lived in Jinmao Village until you left. The thatch on the mountain turned white and withered... Are you happy that someone took the trouble to protect you?"
Gu Pinglin paused: "I am not happy, and I will not be grateful to you." The cloak fell to the ground and turned into ashes in the firelight. Gu Pinglin tried his best to stay calm: "Without you, I would not have fallen into that situation, and Lingxin Sect would not have been implicated."
Duan Qingming said nonchalantly: "No sect can exist forever. Even without you, Lingxin Sect will disappear sooner or later. You are trapped in your own trap. When you are on the road of Taoism, you will always lose things. Bu Shuihan and the others can't accompany you to the end."
"You are not the leader of the Lingxin Sect. You don't have fellow disciples who you have entrusted your life and death to, so you naturally cannot understand." Gu Pinglin shook his head. "My Dantian was destroyed and my cultivation was lost. I was also desperate once."
"Entrusting life and death to others is mutual assistance between the weak. I don't need it." Duan Qingming turned around to look at him and chuckled. "So what if you are desperate? You will definitely not give up because of despair. I helped you get the Creation Art, and your cultivation is even better than before."
"What you have done will only make me think that you are playing tricks on me. If it was you who had your Dantian destroyed..." Gu Pinglin realized something and stopped.
As expected, Duan Qingming continued with a smile: "Yes, I was also tricked by you before, and I lost all my cultivation, but I still forgave you without holding a grudge. But you are so petty."
Being petty? Gu Pinglin laughed: "Duan Qingming, your ideas are always different and admirable."
"That doesn't feel like a compliment."
"It's a compliment to you that you can speak such a nonsensical truth without batting an eyelid."
“I can prove it, so it’s right.”
"You haven't attained enlightenment, let alone ascended to heaven," Gu Pinglin said, "I don't like the experience of losing everything, and I don't want you to have that experience either."
Duan Qingming said: "Touching words can always win trust."
Gu Pinglin did not refute anything and sat down on the spot: "I need to heal my wounds, do you have feather coins?"
A soft couch suddenly appeared on the open ground. Duan Qingming walked over and sat down. "Just now, you ignored your injuries and tried to kill me. Now you're asking me for money to heal your injuries. Where is justice?"
Gu Pinglin took out two top-grade feather coins, closed his eyes and practiced the Creation Technique.