Ye Yunlan frowned as soon as he heard the familiar and soft voice.
Shen Shu stopped at the same time as his pace, turned sideways, and saw Rong Ran standing not far away. Three years ago, this person prescribed the medicine to the master, and now he is still entangled with the master. Three years ago, he did not understand the eyes of this man looking at the master, but now he understands it. When looking at the master, his eyes are full of the desire to teach others.
It's enough for this person to do it by his means, and why are he still daydreaming about his master here
Before Ye Yunlan could speak, Shen Shu took a step forward, blocked in front of Ye Yunlan, put the long sword in front of him, raised his chin slightly, and said, "What are you, you dare to stand in the way here?"
Rong Ran's complexion changed, but the sweet smile still did not fade from his face.
He raised his hand and curled the hair on his temples, "I always taught Alan to treat others with courtesy back then, Alan has always done a good job, and nephew Shen is clearly also Alan's disciple, how can he be so uneducated... oh , I forgot, you were like this three years ago, and now three years later, your nature is still hard to change. It's a pity that the senior brother failed to stop Alan from accepting you as his apprentice in time, so he taught Alan to have an apprentice like you. Now, I am afraid that Alan often has a headache for you, right?"
This person is always saying the word "Alan" when he opens his mouth and closes his mouth, which really makes people tired.
Shen Shu was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, and was about to pull out his sword when he heard Ye Yunlan's cold voice: "Rong Ran, I already said, don't call me Alan again. You don't deserve it."
Shen Shu listened, suddenly smiled, and said, "Master is right, calling each other by nicknames can be called intimacy, but calling at a stranger who already has a very bad impression of you is shameless. Now... oh, or rather, there's another word to describe it, it's called cheap."
Rong Ran's face turned black.
It's like this again, the master and the apprentice both sing and harmonize, and they really regard him as nothing.
He looked at Ye Yunlan, his eyes were no longer soft and beautiful, but a bit of morbid gloom and madness, and he still said slowly: "Alan, I remember that your apprentice is also going to participate in the Tianchishan Taoist conference. If senior brother That's right, he's only a golden pill right now, so do you feel at ease to let him climb the Heavenly Rank? After all, there are often casualties on the Heavenly Rank, and it is common to have broken hands and feet."
After he finished speaking, he suddenly smiled again, "But don't worry, Alan, I'm my uncle. If I meet my nephew Shen on the steps to the sky, I will naturally take care of him more. By the way, I can also teach Alan a lesson. , why is it a courtesy to treat others?"
Ye Yunlan stabbed Rong Ran with his sharp eyes, and said coldly, "Rong Ran."
Rong Ran just smiled at him.
Ye Yunlan's hand holding the Queying Sword was slightly tight, while Shen Shu pulled his sleeve, and then said to Rong Ran: "I don't know how to treat people with courtesy, but today someone taught me how to do it. His face is as thick as a wall, why would he be willing to be humble?"
"Junior Nephew Shen has a clever tongue." Rong Ran's brows turned cold, "I hope you can speak to me like this after the Ascension Rank is opened."
Shen Shu said: "I'm afraid at that time, you didn't even have a chance to speak."
Rong Ran narrowed her eyes slightly, and wanted to say something, but her expression changed slightly, and she left a ruthless sentence, "What will happen, we will know at that time." After that, he pressed his hand to his chest and hurried away.
After Rong Ran left, Ye Yunlan said lightly, "You don't need to be angry with him."
Shen Shu's eyes darkened slightly and said, "It's just a clown jumping on the beam, why am I angry with him? Master, don't worry, I have always remembered what you said before. When I reach the sky, I will definitely Be cautious and never act recklessly.”
The morning light reflected on Shen Shu's young and handsome face. The young man looked at his master seriously, and he couldn't see the slightest bit of hostility, but the shadow behind him was slightly distorted.
Ye Yunlan didn't notice it, and only said: "If you really encounter it, you don't have to be afraid of the battle. After all, in this world, only the strong have always been the real truth."
He said so far, his eyes indifferent.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise in the distance.
Then I saw that the longevity tree in the distance suddenly glowed, the blue flowers on the top of the tree swayed rapidly, the petals scattered in the air like rain, and a gap with golden light slowly split from the trunk.
Someone shouted: "The Ascension Step is open!"
He saw that the crowd gathered around the ancient tree began to squeeze into the crack of golden light, for fear of falling behind others by half a point.
Shen Shu stood beside him, but did not move.
Ye Yunlan: "Aren't you in a hurry?"
Shen Shu: "Many people haven't been in a hurry, so why should I be in a hurry?"
Around the ancient tree, there are indeed many disciples of the great sect who have not scrambled to enter. After all, it is different from the mountaineering road outside. The psychic stream is a world of its own. A little time is not enough to distinguish the so-called high and low.
"What's more... I want to stay with Master for a while."
Shen Shu looked back and smiled at Ye Yunlan, took out an oiled paper bag from the storage ring, and handed it to Ye Yunlan, "This is apricot flower mung bean cake. I saw that Master liked it at the market earlier, so I went out to bring it this morning. some back."
Ye Yunlan was slightly startled, and took the oiled paper bag to his hand. The other hand slowly rubbed the oiled paper bag a few times, and said, "You have a heart." He rolled up his sleeves and took out a piece of mung bean cake from the paper bag.
The mung bean cake was still hot, and his fingertips occupied by the cold winter felt a scorching pain, and he lowered his head and took a light bite.
Very soft and sweet.
Shen Shu stared at him intently, and suddenly said: "Master, if I climb the top of the clouds, can you promise to give me a reward?"
Ye Yunlan: "What reward."
"I want Shizun to fold a flower for me." Shen Shu said, "Just like I did for Shizun at the beginning."
Ye Yunlan raised her eyes slightly, "What flowers do you want?"
"Any flower is fine." Shen Shu said, "As long as the master picked it by himself, it's fine. As long as I thought when I was climbing that the master folded the flower and waited for me on the top of the floating clouds, I would have a lot more to move forward. strength."
"...Okay, I promise you for the teacher."
During the conversation between the master and the apprentice, most of the people gathered around the ancient tree had entered. Ye Yunlan had just finished chewing a piece of mung bean cake when he saw Shen Shu approaching, lifted the tulle with one hand, and wiped it off with the handkerchief in the other. The corners of his lips were broken, and he said in a low voice, "When I'm not here, Master should take good care of himself."
The young man's eyes were dark and deep, sharp and narrow, and vaguely familiar.
Ye Yunlan was in a trance again. He pursed his lips, raised his hand to take the handkerchief, and tapped the young man's forehead with the back of his hand, "The hardships and dangers on the steps to the sky are innumerable, so care about yourself first, you don't need to worry about being a teacher. Don't grind any more. Hurry up, hurry up."
"Yes," Shen Shu touched the place where he was knocked, looked at him and smiled, "—Yes, Master."
He turned around, and the vigorous figure leaped down from the hillside, the black hair ponytail tied behind him raised up, and rushed into the crack of golden light like a wolf.
The crowd disappeared, and the surroundings of the ancient tree became quiet. The breeze blew past, rolling up the blue petals in the sky.
Ye Yunlan held the oil paper bag in his hand, and the warmth dissipated a little winter chill for him.
He looked at the ancient tree from afar, slowly picked up the mung bean cakes one by one and ate them, then carefully wiped his palms with a handkerchief, and then turned to leave.
Back in the cave, there was a heat wave.
Gu Xuan was sitting cross-legged on the stone bed, the pale golden blood energy swirled around him, he closed his eyes, his eyelashes kept trembling.
There was blood oozing out from the bandaged chest. Suddenly, he spat out a mouthful of gray-purple-blackened blood. When the blood fell on the ground, it corroded a pit with black smoke.
Gu Xuan slowly stopped his work and calmed the blood flow in his body.
After spitting out the blood that squeezed out of his body, his injuries were more than half healed, but when he opened his eyes, he saw Ye Yunlan, dressed in snow-white fox fur, sitting by the stone table under the purple cloud wood, with Mi Li by his hand, watching him quietly.
"...You're back?" Gu Xuan was startled.
"Such a pure power of the fire bloodline, the most powerful of the sun, does not include the other elements of the Five Elements. In this world, only the royal family of Luminary who inherited the bloodline of the ancient Divine Phoenix is unique." Ye Yunlan said calmly, "You are not Gu, but Ye. ."
Gu Xuan was silent for a while, then smiled bitterly: "When did you find out?"
Ye Yunlan: "When I saved you. You have gold in your blood, I already know."
Gu Xuan fixedly looked at him, "Since that's the case, why do you want to save me when you say that you have a grudge with the Royal Family on the Day of the Sun?"
Ye Yunlan: "Do you need a reason to save people? Besides, you are already injured, so you should obey the agreement and leave."
"Since you know my surname Ye, aren't you curious about my identity?" Gu Xuan said, "Not to mention that fellow Daoist is also surnamed Ye. Maybe there is a blood connection between us."
Ye Yunlan's brows became more slack, "There are so many people with the surname Ye in the world, do you, the royal family on the day of the sun, want to go forward to recognize relatives one by one? Besides, whether I have the blood of the Divine Phoenix on me, don't you feel a little bit? Can you know?"
Hearing this, Gu Xuan's heart tightened slightly.
Back then, the method of blood sacrifice was cruel, and Ye Yunlan's bloodline had already been pulled away, so how could he perceive the bloodline of the other party? Even the intimacy between the twins when they were young has long since disappeared.
"I'm not a member of the Ye clan. I haven't been from the past until now." Ye Yunlan got up and looked at Gu Xuan's face, "Your Royal Highness Prince of the Royal Family has arrived at the psychic stream two days ago, you go to seek his shelter, rather than waiting It is much safer in the cave of my abolished cultivation base. Besides, you are not afraid of danger, and I am afraid of getting into trouble because of it. The affairs of your royal family on the day of the sun have nothing to do with me.”
Hearing Ye Yunlan say "your royal family on the day", Gu Xuan frowned more and more tightly, but he couldn't refute.
He was silent for a while, and after all, he still supported the bleeding wound on his ribs, slowly got up from the bed, and said in a low voice, "These two days, I have been bothering fellow Daoists."
"Although Daoist friend has always said that you don't need to say thank you, I have always remembered the life-saving grace of Daoist friend and will never forget it."
He took out a black robe from the storage ring and put it on himself. The hem of the robe is embroidered with dark gold patterns, which is very low-key, but the embroidery is extremely detailed. If you look closely, you will feel that it is expensive.
He turned around, his long sleeves hung down by his side, and walked out of the cave without saying a word, his tall back looked a little sparse and familiar.
Ye Yunlan looked at his back, and suddenly said: "Two days ago, I met a young man named Ye Xun in the market outside the mountain. He seemed to be looking for your prince. I think he should be related to your royal family on the day of the sun."
Gu Xuan stopped for a while, "Thank you, fellow Daoist, for letting me know."
After Gu Xuan left, Ye Yunlan was the only one left in the cave.
The stove that Shen Shu had arranged was still emitting heat on the stone table, and the petals of Ziyunmu were flying and falling on him. He took one from his hair, held it in the palm of his hand, and quietly watched the lines on the petals, thinking that he had promised just now. Shen Shu's matter.
Shen Shu asked him to fold flowers.
What kind of flowers does Shen Shu want him to fold
Red plums are too bright, white plums are too shallow, snow cups are easy to melt, ice lotuses are hard to find... And there are not many flowers that can bloom in winter.
Recalling that he felt sorry for Shen Shu back then and asked him to bring snow lilac flowers for him, but after a few years, Shen Shu learned to embarrass his master in turn.
Ye Yunlan thought helplessly, but deep in his eyes, there was a very shallow condoning smile.
It takes a lot of effort to go to the top of the floating clouds as a mortal.
When Shen Shu was away, Ye Yunlan had little interest in three meals a day, so he went out of the psychic stream and bought a few bottles of bigu pills in the market outside the mountain. Mung bean and apricot cake.
Just after taking it, I feel that it is not as good as the hot package that Shen Shu just handed over, and it is not as good as the one in the small courtyard of Zhongzhou back then. His mung bean and apricot flower cake is fragrant and sweet.
- That kind of taste, he should never taste it again in this life.
Ye Yunlan was walking in the market.
After the opening of the Taoist conference, the market was much less crowded, but in the Xuanji Pavilion by the lake, there were still many people who joined in the fun.
Ye Yunlan was just walking by, and suddenly heard a shout: "Look, there has been a change in the Tianji Ranking—" "True or false, isn't the Tianji Ranking only updated once a month? sky… "
"What do you know, as long as the top three on the Heavenly Secret Ranking list change within a month, the Heavenly Secret Stone will also change immediately. Come, let me take a closer look, the people on the Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings are not ranked yet. Change, and the weapon list, the weapon list is the first... The virtual wheel mirror, what is this? Can it surpass the Soul Eater ancestor's Shura sword ranking first?"
"The beauty list has also changed. Look, Xu Qingyue, who has occupied the first few years of the beauty list, has changed. Now he is the second, and now the first is... Dongzhou Tianzong, Ye Yunlan?"
"Ye Yunlan? Who is he?"