In the dream, the white plum and snow are swaying all over the sky.
Ye Yunlan looked blankly at Chen Weiyuan, who said, "It's so hard to miss him", the veins on the back of the hand holding the Queying Sword protruded.
"Chen Weiyuan, you make me sick."
Chen Weiyuan's expression did not change, but he smiled and said, "Yun Lan, it's been a long time since we meet again, why be so irritable."
Ye Yunlan just stared at him coldly, all guarded.
The person in front of him was completely different from the Chen Weiyuan he met on Tianchi Mountain two years ago. Being in this world, and being outside of things, is the Tao that only exists in the period of metamorphosis.
The other party's casual clothes and gentle smile on his face even made him feel unfamiliar.
In the previous life, when he was rescued by the Demon Lord from the Buddha Tower, he saw Chen Weiyuan for the last time.
At that time, the other party was standing in the void, wearing a star robe, holding an astrolabe, gathering thousands of Taoist practitioners to build the Zhou Tianxingdou Great Array, to besiege him and the Demon Venerable. The Demon Venerable ordered the blood river to come into the world, Zhou Tianxing was broken, and Chen Weiyuan disappeared.
After a hundred years, they never saw each other again. Until he broke through Ta Xu and managed to pierce the Seven Love Needle in the soul, he rushed to the Northern Territory to slash it under the sword, but only heard the news of Chen Weiyuan's death.
If you don't count the Tianchi Mountain for a while in this life, they have not seen each other for more than a hundred years.
And Chen Weiyuan's change must have occurred after the Taoist discussion in Tianchi Mountain.
But why
Reliving one life is so absurd, but now not only does he have memories of his past life, but Chen Weiyuan also seems to recall all kinds of past lives.
If it is inferred like this, is it possible that Shen Shu will also...
Ye Yunlan was surprised by his own guess, and saw Chen Weiyuan raise his hand, wave, and a stone table appeared in front of the two. There was a wine glass on the stone table. Chen Weiyuan bent over and picked up the jug of wine that was warm in the snow, walked to the table and sat down, pouring two glasses.
"I know you have a lot of questions you want to ask me," Chen Weiyuan pushed a glass of wine to Ye Yunlan's direction, "Why don't you come over and sit down and talk slowly."
Ye Yunlan didn't move.
In Xu Shi's dream, when he met Chen Weiyuan this time, the Seven Love Needles in the Soul did not occur.
The lack of shadow sword was unsheathed, and the sword light cut through the snow, like a meteor, and it was in front of Chen Weiyuan in an instant!
Chen Weiyuan didn't move either.
The sword light swept across his body, only forming a dark crack without any blood flowing out, and the dream space was slightly distorted—in an instant, Chen Weiyuan had recovered.
"You know that you can't hurt me in your dreams?" Chen Weiyuan sighed, "Why do you have to use a sword, what if you are hurt in your body?"
Ye Yunlan: "You said I can't hurt you?"
He also pointed at the blade of the Queying Sword and slowly passed by, Chen Wei saw him move, and his eyebrows jumped, "I have been preparing for this dream for a long time, and now the entire Chen Clan is ancient. The formation is all tied to me. If you have to kill me at any cost, following the dream, it may not be feasible if there is a large formation blocking me."
This is also the reason why it took him so long to meet Ye Yunlan in the way of dreaming after the Tianchi Mountain Daoist Conference.
No one knows the horror of stepping into the virtual world better than him. If Ye Yunlan's cultivation base was in full bloom in his previous life, not to mention dreaming, if he dared to leave the Chen clan for half a mile, Ye Yunlan noticed it and pointed it at a distance of thousands of miles. Sword, I'm afraid he get seriously injured.
He—? Life can only be counted to the point of his own death.
- The only way to overturn the chessboard and re-play the chess.
Ye Yunlan said indifferently: "The dignified pavilion master will only use inferior means to be a tortoise?"
Chen Weiyuan sighed and shook his head and said, "There are all kinds of things in the past, so my wife hates me and wants to kill me, which is also right. But I can't bear the suffering of my wife. Since the seven emotions are penetrating into the body, how much suffering you have suffered is known to your husband. , the same heart is like a knife."
Ye Yunlan: "What does this have to do with you! Chen Weiyuan, don't keep claiming to be my husband, between you and me, the enemies of life and death have long been immortal."
Chen Weiyuan fixedly looked at him, then slowly rolled his eyes and smiled.
"When the lady is angry, she blooms like a red plum, shining brightly. She deserves to be the number one beauty in the world of practice today."
He picked up the wine glass on the table and drank it, his cheeks were slightly drunk, and he murmured, "But I still miss the way you looked when you wore a mask and called my husband." He supported his chin lazily, His long eyes drooped slightly, "You were very good at that time, and I would listen to everything I said. I actually liked you very much at that time, but, after all, it was not worth your fate."
"The catastrophe of the heavens and the earth will start from the magic star. And under the catastrophe, no one wants to see it happen. Yunlan, you are the only star that was born at the same time as the magic star and can destroy it. ."
Ye Yunlan suddenly interrupted: "Enough."
He already knew about the double star.
He didn't believe in fate at first, but in his previous life, it was after the death of Demon Venerable that his realm soared, and he finally landed on Taxu. He couldn't help but believe it.
Therefore, in this life, he never thought of going to find the Demon Venerable. After being injured by the fire of God, he only planned to stay in Tianzong alone and spend the rest of his life. It was for this reason.
He has lived long enough, this world, he wants to fulfill the person he has never met.
It was not until later that he took Shen Shu as his apprentice, and in order to take care of his apprentice, he walked out of the Tianzong twice, once to Tianchi Mountain, and once to the Netherworld.
What he never imagined was that the person he could not meet in this life was his own apprentice.
Fortunately, his life was over.
Chen Weiyuan's plans were doomed to fail.
"It's useless for you to tell me these things," Ye Yunlan said indifferently, "I'm just a dying person. Whether it's the catastrophe of heaven and earth, or the fate you said, it has nothing to do with me."
"Then what about the demon bone of the very beginning that is about to be born, does it have anything to do with you?" Chen Weiyuan put down the wine glass in his hand and said slowly.
Ye Yunlan's pupils tightened.
Primordial Demon Bone.
This is an indispensable formation for the ancient magic refining formation!
Back then, Mozun wanted to marry him, but he was controlled by Chen Weiyuan and stabbed Mozun with a poisoned dagger. On the day of the wedding banquet, Dao Xiu took the opportunity to invade the Demon Realm in a big way, and set up an ancient demon refining formation on Luming Mountain outside the Demon Palace, intending to kill the Demon Venerable.
Demon Venerable's physique is special, and he has cultivated a nine-turn heavenly demon body, which is immortal and immortal. This is the only way the human race between heaven and earth can completely eliminate it.
That time, it was he who secretly shifted the demon bone and destroyed the formation, so that Demon Venerable was able to take him? He escaped. Later, he was arrested in the Buddha Tower and tortured. The most serious of all the crimes was that Dao Xiu besieged the Luming Mountain where the Demon Lord was besieged.
If the demon bones of this life were born and taken away by Chen Weiyuan, if they were to fight against Shen Shu in an array, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Ye Yunlan: "Where is the devil bone?"
Chen Weiyuan didn't answer him immediately, but said slowly: "After the death of Demon Venerable, you spent countless costs to collect remnants for him. I think you value that person very much. I'm just wondering, what is his good temperament? Domineering, likes and dislikes?, imprisoned you in the deep palace, and forced you to marry him."
Although he was still smiling gently, his eyebrows showed gloom, "After he kidnapped you from the Primordial Demon Refining Array, the demons were severely injured and repulsed, so you must have suffered a lot from him. So, you still want to Save him—one more time?"
Ye Yunlan repeated: "Where is the devil bone."
Chen Weiyuan sighed, "After half a month, the Frost Sea Realm in the Northern Territory, the Primordial Divine Ruins. Yunlan, I will wait for you there." He raised his eyes, "When we meet, you will kill or slash, My husband won't mind."
Ye Yunlan remembered the birth of the Primordial Divine Ruins—the incident that shook the realm of self-cultivation at that time, even more so than the secret realm of the Netherworld. It is full of relics from the ancient times, and the devil bones from the beginning of time are indeed likely to be obtained in the Shenxu.
However, he didn't believe Chen Weiyuan's nonsense saying "you don't mind if you want to kill or cut". Since Chen Weiyuan has been invited into a dream, he must be fully prepared.
If you go here, you must go to Hongmen for a banquet.
To go, or not to go
Before he could think about it, he saw the white plums around him fall faster and faster, like snow flying, and the surrounding scenery began to tremble.
The dream is about to collapse.
Seeing that Chen Weiyuan was pouring a glass of wine for himself, he lightly touched another glass that Ye Yunlan hadn't touched, and raised it towards him.
The white plums fell like rain on the tips of his hair.
He smiled slightly and said, "I hope that after half a month, I can meet the lady in the Northern Territory and drink with you."
The dream suddenly shattered.
Ye Yunlan woke up from the dream.
He sat up straight and looked sideways out the window.
In the distance, there are morning chickens announcing the dawn, and the gloomy night has not yet completely faded away, and a few dim stars can be vaguely seen.
Shen Shu sensed his movement, he also sat up, leaned close to his back, put his arms around his shoulders, and asked in a low voice, "Master, why did you wake up so early today?"
Ye Yunlan raised her hand to break Shen Shu's arm, and said, "You said that you are going down the mountain today, when will you leave?"
Shen Shu said: "No hurry. After breakfast with Master, we will leave."
Ye Yunlan said: "Is things packed?"
Shen Shu leaned on his shoulder, smiled in a low voice, and said, "How can Shizun still treat me as a child? It's only a month, it's not very long, so I don't need to pack anything. Maybe Shizun will read the two books. Books, I'm back."
Ye Yunlan: "... a month?"
He stopped talking.
Shen Shu buried his head in his hair, sniffed the cold fragrance on his body, and suddenly said, "Shizun can't bear me anymore?"
"…No."
Shen Shu said: "But I suddenly felt a little reluctant to bear Master." Like a small animal foraging, he sniffed Ye Yunlan a few more times before he said, "But think about it carefully, if I can't help Master find food," Shen Shu said. I am afraid that after two months, I will be even more reluctant to come back to continue my life. So Master, you must wait for me to come back."
Ye Yunlan just looked at the dim stars outside and did not speak.
Shen Shu got up and sorted his clothes for him, put on his coat, and went out to the backyard to prepare breakfast.
Morning dew is moist.
Ye Yunlan-? Dreaming at night, tired of thinking, but don't want to sleep anymore.
Get up and stand by the window, watching the flowers blooming outside the window.
Those flowers were taken good care of by Shen Shu.
It is the early spring season, most of them have already bloomed, and the beautiful and soft petals are spreading cheerfully.
He suddenly remembered that many years ago, the young Shen Shu entered the house through the window, and carefully held a snow flower in his hand. Spread it out for him.
"Master, breakfast is ready, come and try it."
The grown-up boy stood by the door and smiled at him with a plate of cakes.
He turned around.
"good."
…
After breakfast, Shen Shu cleaned up the dishes. Ye Yunlan was sitting in the study, with pen, ink and paper on the desk.
The morning light has gradually brightened.
The cold light came in from the window, he picked up the pen, and it didn't fall for a long time.
Shen Shu walked in and said.
"Master, I'm going down the mountain."
Ye Yunlan made a faint "hmm" sound.
Shen Shu said: "I used the formation method to seal the prepared meals in the kitchen, and the spiritual power in it is enough to preserve for a month. I cleaned the living spring pool brought in by the back mountain again yesterday, so I can take a bath with confidence. The disciples of the Book Collection Pavilion will come here once every three days, and I have already instructed them to do whatever they want.” He repeated yesterday’s entrustment again and again.
Ye Yunlan: "Okay."
Shen Shu: "Then I'm leaving, Master."
Ye Yunlan: "Take care."
Shen Shu: "Master, too."
Seeing that Shen Shu turned around and was about to leave, Ye Yunlan suddenly called out to him, "Shen Shu."
Shen Shu turned his head, "Master?"
Ye Yunlan said: "I? Play a song to see you off."
Shen Shu was a little surprised, but immediately responded with joy.
Ye Yunlan got up and went to the wall to get the qin, sitting in front of the qin case, ten slender fingers resting on the strings, and bowed his head to play.
The sound of the piano lingered.
- As always cold and empty, as if to a place where no one else is, to wash people's hearts
But slightly different.
Shen Shu closed his eyes and listened, feeling that the sound of the qin seemed to be more compared to what Ye Yunlan had played before.
He couldn't say what it was.
Just suddenly, I really want to hug my master.
So after the song was over, he went around behind his master and hugged him.
The other party didn't push him away this time.
Shen Shu took an inch, pressed his chest tightly against his master's back, and sprayed his hot breath on the opponent's neck.
He thought of what Ye Yunlan had promised him. When he comes back from Moyuan, Ye Yunlan will be willing to heal with him and stay with him forever.
forever.
Beautiful words he hadn't thought of before.
Now—? When I think about it, I feel happy.
Shen Shu's blood was rushing, and he suddenly couldn't help but opened his mouth and bit Ye Yunlan's shoulder, like a wolf marking its prey.
"I must wait for me to come back," he said, "Master."
Ye Yunlan just felt a little pain in his shoulder, and Shen Shu had already let him go.
If he stayed any longer, he didn't know what he would do. So he picked up the afterglow and walked quickly to the door a few steps before turning around to say goodbye again, "Master, take care."
Ye Yunlan: "... take care."
The door of the study closed slowly, Ye Yunlan raised his hand and stroked his shoulder, staying there for a moment in pain. Then get up and look at the window.
His eyesight was lacking, and he could only see Shen Shu's figure passing through the continuous sea of flowers, reaching a place he could not see, leaving only a vague outline. After a while, I can't even see the outline.
Ye Yunlan didn't close the window, but just sat up before the desk, picked up the pen, and pondered for a while.
Then he wrote down on paper.
Shen Shu. See words like meet.
When you read this letter, your teacher has already gone to Huangquan.
If I want to teach you not to worry about it, I also think about the promise I made with you, but it was a missed appointment for the teacher. This is the fault of the teacher.
…
The wind blows over the windowsill, and the wind chimes outside the bamboo building. Ye Yunlan wrote the last word, folded the letter, put it in an envelope, and pressed it with an inkstone.
It was almost noon, and the sun was rising, and the sound of birds and birds outside the window was endless.
Ye Yunlan got up and went to the kitchen in the backyard, where he saw a wooden shelf with more than a hundred plates of meals neatly arranged on the top. There are dishes, cakes, soups, etc., which are placed in different categories, and even the names and ingredients are marked with bamboo sticks, and then sealed with a matrix method.
He took out the plate from the wooden rack, and it still felt warm in his hand, with a fragrant aroma and bright color, which made the index finger move.
Is blindly squirrel mandarin fish, and hibiscus fresh vegetables.
There is also a bamboo bowl next to it, filled with white rice and a cup of tea.
He carried it back to the bamboo building and slowly ate the meal by himself. He is weak and usually does not have a great appetite most of the time, but Shen Shu was afraid that he would not eat enough when he was away, so he deliberately made more—? .
After finishing the dishes, I went to the study to read.
The red sun is westward. When you arrived at Youshi, a disciple from the Book Collection Pavilion came over.
He was a simple-looking young man, and he was very respectful towards him. He returned all the books he wanted to return, but he didn't borrow any books. The Bookstore disciple asked in surprise, "I heard from Senior Brother Shen that you like reading books, why don't you borrow more?"
Ye Yunlan: "I don't need it recently. You don't have to come again this month."
The disciples of the Library Pavilion were very puzzled, but they still took the books and left.
When the night got darker, Ye Yunlan went to the bamboo forest in the backyard.
There is a pool of hot springs in the bamboo forest. The hot spring water is drawn down from the back mountain, and the surrounding spring stones are stacked high, so there is no need to worry about being peeped.
Ye Yunlan removed his clothes one by one, his black hair spread out, and he stepped into the hot spring.
Lingling moonlight shone on his pale skin. The sound of running water gurgled in my ears.
He leaned his head down against the rock and watched his reflection in the water silently. With a pale face and long hair like algae, he felt like a ghost crawling back from the end of the Yellow Spring, without any anger.
The curling hot air rose, forming water droplets on his eyelashes, and then falling into the spring water, causing ripples.
At night, he went to bed and slept peacefully.
Was quilted cold. It was difficult to fall asleep, and the night was still disturbed by nightmares.
There are many things in the past, and there are showers and thunder in the dream.
When I woke up again, it was not clear outside the window, and it was raining.
Pattering rain. Gloomy sky.
He got up and walked to the window.
There was a bamboo basket hanging on the window sill, and in the basket was sleeping a fluffy golden chick. Ye Yunlan reached out and stroked the fluff on the chick's body, and then poked its head. However, the chick remained motionless and slept very sweetly.
Ye Yunlan thought for a while, took down the bamboo basket, closed the windowsill and locked it, and placed the bamboo basket on the wooden shelf in the study.
Go back to the room to pack some clothes, bring a few bottles of Bigu Pill, wrap it as a burden, and carry it by hand.
He picked up Quying Ying and the paper umbrella by the door, and went out.
It was raining coldly outside the window.
The faint fragrance of flowers floats in the damp air.
Holding a paper umbrella, Ye Yunlan walked through the winding path in the sea of flowers and stepped into the green bamboo forest.
"Where are you going?"
Suddenly, a cold voice sounded.
Ye Yunlan stopped, and saw that in the bamboo forest, a man in white clothes and a crane cloak was watching him quietly.
"What do I have to do with the Sect Master?" Ye Yunlan said.
Qi Yunjun said: "You are my Tianzong disciple, I am Tianzong's suzerain, it doesn't matter." His complexion was much paler than what Ye Yunlan had seen before, his breath was unstable, and the surrounding bamboo leaves trembled slightly. The Taiqing Du'er Sword hummed lowly in his hand.
Ye Yunlan said: "Since the sect master is already unstable, he can live in seclusion, so why bother with his own business."
Qi Yunjun said hoarsely, "It's because of you that my mind is unstable."
Ye Yunlan only said indifferently: "So, what is it with me?"
Qi Yun-Jun was silent and said, "I owe you a lot. If you need anything, you can tell me. I will help you."
"You do it for me?" Ye Yunlan's eyebrows filled with sneer, "If I want you to imprison yourself for a hundred years and give up your sword, wouldn't the sect master also do it?"
Qi Yunjun frowned tightly.
Ye Yunlan: "Since I can't, there is nothing to say. Sect Master, borrow it."
"You hate me?" Qi Yunjun suddenly spoke up, his voice very hoarse, "...why." Although he mistakenly recognized people, he never hurt Ye Yunlan himself. Still so dissatisfied with him.
This kind of hatred seems to come from no reason. Long ago, when he first saw Ye Yunlan, he had already noticed it in the other party.
When Ye Yunlan was young next year, he was so close to him that he would laugh at him and call him "brother".
What did you go through to become what you are now
Qi Yun-jun couldn't understand.
He only felt that the spiritual energy was rushing around in the body, the painful meridians could not be relieved, and blood was dripping from the thin lips. more and more.
Ye Yunlan looked at the pale man in front of him in a state of embarrassment, did not answer his question, only said, "You shouldn't have come to see me?"
Qi Yunjun: "If I don't see you, how do I know where you're going?"
Ye Yunlan asked back: "I don't know if it's better? You have mentioned to me about the double cultivation of deeds, but up to now, your ruthless Dao has not been broken. It's just because you don't want to break it. Just like for more than 20 years, You never remember that memory because you don't want to."
Qi Yunjun was silent.
Ye Yunlan said: "You have been delayed for more than 20 years in the metamorphosis stage, don't you want to break through? Use me to overcome the evil calamity, from ruthless to sentient, and then from sentient to ruthless, to achieve a perfect state of mind, really It's a good way."
"It's just that I still have something to do, please forgive me? I don't have time to accompany the sect master."
Qi Yunjun said hoarsely: "It's not like that, me? It's just..." Just what, he couldn't say. He couldn't even tell his feelings for Ye Yunlan, whether it was love or pity, desire or possession.
He had never had such complex emotions. He doesn't understand.
Ye Yunlan said: "Those who cultivate the ruthless Dao cut off love and love, but talk about the cause and effect of old love with others, how ridiculous."
As he said that, he has already stepped past Qi Yun-Jun.
Qi Yunjun stood where he was, watching Ye Yunlan's back, frowning tightly, suddenly bent down, raised his hand to grab his chest.
Blood dripped down drop by drop, splashing on the ground and spreading like red plums.
Taiqing Du'e sword trembled violently.
He raised his eyes and looked at Ye Yunlan's back disappearing at the end of the bamboo forest, raising his hand to grab something. But nothing was caught.
The aura in the body is extremely disordered and must be suppressed by seclusion. I had no choice but to get up with my sword and return to Yuntian Palace.
…
The sky was drizzling.
Ye Yunlan walked through the Green Bamboo Forest, then walked through the Daodao Slope, and finally came to the three thousand-long steps outside the sect.
The long steps are long, and there are green mountains in the distance, and the mist is vast.
In the previous life, he was dragged down the long steps, and his life was bumpy, and it started from this.
In this life, he only wanted to live a peaceful life, so he only walked out of Tianzong twice in a few years.
The first two times were accompanied by someone. Now, it's the third time.
All sorts of things passed by like a dream.
He held the lack of shadow sword and fell into the wind and rain alone.