"Xiao'er, what's the matter..." Qiu Yutong suddenly paused when she said this, and then looked down at the lump of black charcoal in her hand, and suddenly understood something.
Uh... no way
Lu Xiao lowered his eyes slightly, acquiescing.
"Ahem." Qiu Yutong was silent for a moment, pulled the corners of her mouth reluctantly, and coughed lightly in embarrassment.
Dare to love this kid Lu Xiao, he was trying to save face for him just now... But, having said that, is his cooking skills really just like this... No, no, no, it must not be his problem, it must be the ashes! It's probably because when Lu Xiao roasted the rabbit meat before, he blew too much sparks from the ashes! That's right, that's right, absolutely right!
Qiu Yutong put down the burnt black rabbit meat in his hand calmly, and said calmly: "Actually, I eat too much rabbit meat, and it tastes a bit boring."
"That's right." Lu Xiao obviously breathed a sigh of relief, "By the way, I also picked some wild fruits, which taste pretty good. Do you want to taste it, Master?"
"Well, that's fine." Qiu Yutong said lightly, showing a fairy-tale look.
Xu Dongqing gnawed on the rabbit meat sullenly, not knowing why.
The three ate rabbit meat and some wild fruits, and it was already completely dark. The cold moonlight is like a tulle, quietly cast in from the temple gate, reflecting a bright moonlight on the bluestone brick floor. At night in the mountains and forests in early spring, there is not even the sound of cicadas, only the slight "rustling" sound of branches and leaves, like weeping and complaining.
Xu Dongqing was overly sad and overworked before, so she curled up in the straw pile and fell asleep early.
Qiu Yutong was lying in the pile of straw, his mind was full of those two strange turtle shells in his arms, and he couldn't sleep no matter what. What are these two turtle shells? Why does the Beihai Sword Sect attach so much importance to them, and spend so much effort to snatch them, even at the expense of killing them in public
After thinking about it, he couldn't figure it out, and couldn't help but turned over irritably, meeting Lu Xiao's dark eyes.
Qiu Yutong was taken aback for a moment, but Lu Xiao said softly, "Master, what's wrong? You've been tossing and turning...can't sleep?"
Qiu Yutong hesitated for a moment, and took out two turtle shells from her bosom: "Xiao'er, look."
Lu Xiao took the tortoise shell and frowned suspiciously: "Why are there two pieces? Yes, I found this one under the couch... where did this one come from?"
"I found that tortoise shell in a dry well in the Daning Palace before. At that time..." Qiu Yutong explained the origin of the first tortoise shell.
After finishing speaking, he couldn't help sighing: "I always feel that these two turtle shells are very unusual, but I can't figure out why... Xiaoer, what do you think?"
Lu Xiao stared at the two turtle shells in his hand, frowned, and didn't say anything for a long time. After a while, he took advantage of the bright moonlight to carefully look at the two turtle shells again and again, and finally slowly put them together: "Master, look. These two turtle shells should be the same turtle shell." Broken."
"It's really like this." Qiu Yutong murmured.
The edges of one side of the two pieces of tortoise shells are put together, and they fit perfectly, which is exactly half a complete tortoise shell.
Lu Xiao pointed to the totem on the tortoise shell: "On the edge of the first shell, there is a totem of Suzaku, which belongs to the south. On the edge of the second shell, there is a totem of the green dragon, which belongs to the east. There are also these curved lines. The curved lines... Master, I guess this is a map, Suzaku and Qinglong represent directions, and the lines on it represent mountains, rivers and rivers."
Qiu Yutong was stunned for a while, and leaned over to take a closer look, and was a little puzzled: "But, I Yujian has been to most places in the human world and the cultivation world, and I have never seen such mountains and rivers."
Lu Xiao murmured: "There is no such thing as the world of human beings or the world of self-cultivation, and it may not be the same in other places. For example, the devil world, such as the secret realm... Moreover, this map still lacks two pieces - the white tiger in the west and the Xuanwu in the north."
Qiu Yutong looked at the two turtle shells, her mind was in a mess. This weird turtle shell turned out to be a map when put together? Where are the remaining two turtle shells? If it were a map, where would it... lead
He was thinking wildly, when Lu Xiao suddenly lowered his voice: "Hush, there seems to be some noise."
Qiu Yutong was startled suddenly, and hurriedly listened intently, and indeed heard a slight cracking sound of "chi-chi-". He closed his eyes and counted softly: "One, two, three, four... there are nine monks coming here with their swords, and there are... twelve miles away from here. According to their speed, they will arrive in a while. "
Lu Xiao stood up immediately: "We have to hide quickly!"
Qiu Yutong nodded, and pushed Xu Dongqing twice: "Second owner! Second owner!"
Xu Dongqing opened his eyes in a daze, and looked at Qiu Yutong stupidly, as if he hadn't figured out what was going on, Qiu Yutong pulled him up, and the three snuggled into the back of the God of the Land in the heavy curtain.
"What's wrong?" Xu Dongqing was a little puzzled.
"Shut up." Lu Xiao said impatiently.
Qiu Yutong comforted Xu Dongqing with a silent gesture: "Shh."
But after a while, I heard a few soft "swipes" and several people fell to the ground in front of the earth temple.
Then, there was a clear voice: "Just rest here."
"Yes, Master!" Everyone said in unison.
This voice... Qiu Yutong and Lu Xiao looked at each other. That clear voice just now was exactly the voice of Luo Wugou, the third junior brother of Gui Wuya, a red-clothed sword cultivator from Beihai Sword Sect.
Following a flurry of footsteps, a group of people walked into the Earth Temple, muttering in unison: "It's been a long time, and I haven't found anything, but I'm exhausted."
"Oh, brother, you're alright, I just learned how to control the sword, and my legs are still weak."
"There's no other way, Mr. Chen ordered us to search the mountains and forests to the south..."
"Speaking of which, the area to the north that Uncle Tu and the others are responsible for searching is bigger than ours!"
Qiu Yutong listened intently, listening to the conversation of these disciples, it seemed that Chen Wushang and Tu Wuwei were not there, but Luo Wugou was alone with eight low-level disciples.
Luo Wugou said in a deep voice: "Xiaohe, have you brought Ye Mingzhu?"
After a while of groping, a disciple mumbled, "Master, I forgot to bring it. How about lighting a fire?"
"Why are you so careless? Let's light a fire." Luo Wugou seemed a little displeased.
The disciple hurriedly yelled at the atonement: "Come on, you two, let's start a fire together!"
"But where did you get the firewood?"
"Cut this table down!"
Amidst the clamor, there was a "cracking" sound outside, as if the altar was split, and a fire was lit outside after a while.
"The fire isn't burning very well... Hey, there are a lot of tattered cloth towels hanging behind the statue, or they're all torn up and burned!"
"Alright, let's go, let's tear it away!"
Qiu Yutong's heart tightened slightly, and Lu Xiao gently squeezed his palm as if to comfort him. Qiu Yutong blinked her eyes, looked down slowly, only to realize that at some point, he had grabbed the little apprentice's hand, and couldn't help being a little embarrassed.
The group of young disciples outside were still yelling: "No! I've already split the table, if you want to tear the cloth towel, you can tear it away yourself."
"Let's go together!"
"Why?"
"Okay, don't talk about it. Get some ashes later, it's very dirty." Luo Wugou said impatiently.
"Yes, Master." Several disciples murmured.
After a while, there was a groping sound outside: "Who brought water?"
"Oh, I still have some pancakes here!"
"I brought jerky."
"Come, come, sit here, this side is bright."
"Master, please sit down."
Then there was another messy sound, as if everyone sat down around the fire and were sharing dry food.
"As a teacher, I have already bigu, you can eat it yourself." Luo Wugou said lightly.
A disciple said: "Master, we Yujian searched for a long time, but we didn't find even a hair. I don't know if Master Chen and the others found anything in Zhuangzi?"
His voice was vague, as if he was eating dry food.
"Chen Wushang..." Luo Wugou sneered, as if he was in a bad mood.
Another disciple said: "Who knows. I just received the interrogation scroll from Master Tu, but he didn't seem to find anything."
"Hey, our group searched in the southern forest, and Tu Shishu and his party searched in the northern forest. Why didn't everyone find anyone? That kid Xu Dongqing is not very powerful, so he can't fly with his wings, right?"
"Who knows?"
"He won't really run away from Yu Jian? Then our efforts will be wasted."
Luo Wugou said coldly: "That kid didn't draw Qi into his body, and he doesn't know how to control a sword at all, so how could he go to heaven? From my point of view, he is probably still hiding in Zhuangzi. Chen Wushang stayed in Yaowangzhuang by himself, Searching all over the world, but sent me and the fourth child out... Humph."
He seemed to be in an extremely bad mood, and all the disciples were silent, and no one dared to speak.
Qiu Yutong also understood that before in Yaowang Manor, this Luo Wugou was very respectful to Chen Wushang, even vaguely flattering, but behind the scenes, he was very dissatisfied.
"By the way, Master, I can't figure it out. We didn't kill the bride. Why did Uncle Chen do that? In the end, that old guy committed suicide."
All the disciples also echoed and asked, "Yes? Why?"
Qiu Yutong was taken aback for a moment, what are they talking about? The bride... didn't they kill it? He couldn't help looking at Lu Xiao, who also frowned suspiciously, then shook his head slowly, as if he didn't understand why. Xu Dongqing's eyes widened, and his whole body trembled slightly. Qiu Yutong pressed the back of his hand to comfort him.
"Chen Wushang's thinking was too simple. He thought that as long as he dropped the woman's head and frightened Xu Qiushi into a fool, he would obediently hand over that thing. He didn't expect that Xu Qiushi turned out to be a stone in the latrine. It stinks and is hard." Luo Wugou snorted coldly.
"Master, then do you think, who killed the bride?"
Luo Wugou was silent for a moment, before he said: "Early this morning, the senior brother of the sect master received a summons scroll, saying that Xu Qiushi's bride was a demon, and that thing was also in Xu Qiushi's hands. Wushang and Tu Wuwei came to Yaowangzhuang for inspection. Chen Wushang wanted me and the fourth child to come forward, kidnapped the bride on the way, and threatened Xu Qiushi to hand over the thing... "
"and then?"
"My fourth child and I used the ground-breaking technique to get into the sedan chair from below, but the bride was already out of breath."
Qiu Yutong opened her eyes wide, feeling extremely surprised. At this time, what Luo Wugou said should be true... But, how is this possible? If this is the case, then in the short period of one or two hours from when Xu Qiushi received the bride to when Luo Wugou and Tu Wuwei sneaked into the sedan chair, the bride was killed quietly... Who would do that? This, there is no reason at all.
The disciples were silent for a moment, and someone asked again: "Master, how did the bride die?"
Luo Wugou didn't speak, but shook his head presumably.
"At that time, was she beheaded?" another disciple asked.
"That's not true. At that time, she didn't have any scars on her body, and there was no panic on her face, and she was still smiling." Luo Wugou said slowly.
The smiling bride's corpse... Qiu Yutong inexplicably felt a chill run down his spine, and Lu Xiao squeezed his palm as if to comfort him.
Luo Wugou said again: "I and the fourth child have no choice but to bring back the bride's body, but we really didn't kill her."
The disciples were silent for a moment, and then chattered enthusiastically: "Maybe the bride is a demon traitor and was killed by the demon family!"
"With a smile on his face? I heard that there is an evil cultivator in the East China Sea. He has a famous kung fu called 'Hundred Steps of Smiling Killing Palm', one of which is called 'Smiling like a Flower'. The deceased is smiling, and his seven orifices bleed..."
"Oh, yes, yes, I know too..."
Luo Wugou sighed: "I have thought about what you said as a teacher, but now I can't tell what happened. At that time, the person was already dead, and Chen Wushang had no choice but to cut off the bride's head." , wanting to intimidate Xu Qiushi by surprise, who would have thought that that stubborn old man committed suicide."
Everyone chatted and discussed again, and suddenly someone exclaimed: "Look, there is a fire outside!"
"Oh, really, half the sky is red!"
"In that direction... it seems that Yaowangzhuang is on fire?"
"That's right, it's Yaowangzhuang!"
"What a fire!"
There was a commotion outside, all the disciples were in a commotion, Luo Wugou seemed to get up, and after a while he sneered and said, "It seems that Chen Wushang didn't find anyone, so he became angry from embarrassment, and decided to burn Zhuangzi..."
Qiu Yutong felt sad for a while, and couldn't help but look at Xu Dongqing. Xu Dongqing's eyes widened, his face was so pale that he hardly seemed alive, and his lips trembled slightly.
"Hush—" Lu Xiao quickly covered his mouth with his sharp eyes. Xu Dongqing's sobbing sound seemed to be cut off by scissors, and the remaining half was choked back into his lungs.
But it was too late.
Luo Wugou's voice stopped abruptly, and then he said sharply: "There is someone behind! Search for me!!"
In the blink of an eye, Lu Xiao suddenly jumped up, stretched his legs and kicked him hard!
With a loud bang of "Boom!!!", the statue of the Lord of the Land suddenly toppled, and the temple was filled with dust for a while, and all the disciples screamed in unison! ! Taking advantage of the chaos, Lu Xiao grabbed Qiu Yutong and Xu Dongqing and wanted to rush out!
"Want to run?" Luo Wugou sneered, and made a sword formula casually, the long sword was like a spirit snake, and came out of its sheath with a "swipe" sound!
The long sword came through the air, and the flickering sword light completely enveloped the three of them!
In a blink of an eye, Qiu Yutong yanked down a long curtain, shook her hand lightly, and went up to it without hesitation! The bright sword light froze suddenly, and the curtain narrowly caught the hilt of the sword, forcing the spirit sword to fly obliquely!
"Twice!" Luo Wugou exclaimed in admiration, and then whispered a mantra, "Hanging the sword in the air, Qi—"
Following the decisive sound, the spirit sword circled slowly in mid-air, and then turned around like a living thing, with an ear-piercing whistling sound! The bright sword light fell like a violent storm, and the fierce invisible sword energy made a sound of "chi-chi-chi-chi" piercing the air, smashing the dilapidated curtain in Qiu Yutong's hands with a few blows!
The light of the sword is overwhelming, seeing the three of them is about to splatter five steps with blood! !
It was too late and then too fast, Qiu Yutong hardly had time to think about it, and he couldn't care less about self-protection. He turned around suddenly, pulled up all the spiritual power in his body, and gave Lu Xiao and Xu Dongqing a hard push: "Go!!"
Qiu Yutong could almost feel the cold sword energy pricking his back!
He is dying
"Boom!!" In the next moment, he was slammed to the ground, and he was dizzy, but he didn't feel any severe pain. Something heavy and warm was lying tightly on his back, and some warm and moist liquid slowly soaked his vest clothes.
But in an instant, Qiu Yutong understood, and even her voice trembled: "... Xiaoer?"
He turned over in a panic, only to see Lu Xiao lying limply on the side, staring at him blankly with dark eyes: "...Master, Master."
At this moment, Qiu Yutong couldn't care about anything else. Xu Dongqing, Luo Wugou, and running away were all forgotten... He rushed forward and said in a trembling voice, "Xiao'er."
"Master, I, I..." Lu Xiao's thin lips trembled slightly, as if trying to say something to him, but he couldn't say it.
On his left chest, a large dark wet mark was quickly soaked on the black cloth, even on the black clothes, it looked so shocking.
"No, no..." Qiu Yutong tried to press the wound in a panic, but it didn't help at all. A large stream of thick blood quickly overflowed from between his fingers, scalding frighteningly hot.
Lu Xiao took a low breath, and reluctantly bent the corner of his mouth at him: "No, it's fine."
Qiu Yutong tremblingly said: "Xiao'er..."
Lu Xiao stared at him blankly, there seemed to be a thousand words in his dark eyes.
Luo Wugou sneered, and stretched out his hand to recall the spirit sword: "Tie the remaining two to me."
"Yes!" All the disciples swarmed up, hurriedly tied Qiu Yutong and Xu Dongqing together, and tied them firmly to the pillars.
Lu Xiao lay softly on the ground, a large thick blood quickly spread under his body, he tried his best to turn his head slightly, his dark phoenix eyes stared at Qiu Yutong for a moment, as if at the last moment of his life, he also wanted to Take one more look... just one more look.
Luo Wugou didn't pay attention to Qiu Yutong and Lu Xiao, his eyes were only on Xu Dongqing, and he suddenly laughed grinningly: "I didn't expect, I didn't expect, I ran into the second owner of Yaowangzhuang here. This is really, intentionally planted!" If the flowers don't bloom, the willows will be planted unintentionally to make shade."
A disciple walked up to Luo Wugou and offered two turtle shells with both hands: "Master, this was found on that person when he was kidnapped just now."
Luo Wugou's eyes suddenly lit up: "This is... a turtle shell? Why, why are there two pieces?"
Holding the two turtle shells, he was so excited that his hands trembled a little, and then he closed his eyes hard, as if he was trying to suppress the joy in his heart: "Look at them carefully, we will go back to Xiandao tomorrow morning! Take this opportunity, for Master, talk to the senior brother in charge, this time, our team can get at least five jade tokens for the Blood Prison Mystery Realm!"
All the disciples cheered for a while: "That's great!"
"Before we only had three passing jade tokens, Master Chen has a full five!"
"That's right! This time the master has made a great contribution, and the master master can't be partial!"
"By the way, this little boy with a tortoise shell looks good, and he can even give it to the master master to make a furnace, hahaha..."
"Hey, don't tell me, his delicate appearance seems to be enticing his body, maybe the master master will really like it!"
Luo Wugou smiled and said, "It's not impossible."
Qiu Yutong didn't care about these insulting words at all, her eyes were fixed on Lu Xiao, and her chest was so anxious that she almost burned her insides. How to do? How to do? ! His little apprentice is just a mortal, and he won't last long at all. In case, in case something happens... There is no possibility of collecting spirits and souls to reshape the body...
How to do? He can't even protect his own apprentice, he... What is the use of his master? !
Lu Xiao stared at Qiu Yutong stubbornly, his dark eyes were a little loose.
There was an unspeakable pain in Qiu Yutong's chest. His only little apprentice, whom he had raised for ten years, was about to be unable to hold on when he watched the little apprentice grow up... That kind of extreme pain, like A red-hot knife stirred his heart fiercely, and it seemed like a big rough hand was ruthlessly squeezing his heart... He practiced swordsmanship since he was a child, with a pure temperament, an indifferent attitude, and almost no desires. , I have never felt such extreme pain...
Qiu Yutong closed her eyes hard, tried her best to calm down, and tried her best to turn her head, what should I do? Do you want to be honest about your identity and ask Luo Wugou to rescue Lu Xiao? With his status, the North Sea Sword Sect could exchange many benefits from Shuo Xuecheng... However, Luo Wugou might be afraid of Shuo Xuecheng's revenge, so he simply killed the three of them directly to silence them.
At this moment, Lu Xiao turned his head slowly with great effort, stared blankly at the raging fire in the temple, and suddenly murmured: "Mom... I'm so cold."
Qiu Yutong twisted his heart, he naturally knew that mortals would feel cold if they lost too much blood, and they would also have all kinds of hallucinations... But, but... At this moment, he suddenly had a very slight weird feeling that Lu Xiaoniang was dead. Very early on, Lu Xiao didn't seem to have any memories of her. When Lei Yutian was afraid when he was a child, he would only call him "Master". Why did he suddenly think of his mother at this time
Lu Xiao tried his best to move towards the fire, and as he moved, a scarlet bloodstain gradually appeared on his body, and his eyes became even more confused: "Mother, mother..."
All the disciples gathered around enthusiastically, and said happily, "This mortal boy hasn't been weaned yet, and he's still calling his mother when he's dying, hahahaha..."
Lu Xiao didn't seem to hear what they were saying at all, he just moved towards the fire in a daze, and tried to reach out his hand forward, wanting to touch the warmth: "Mom, I'm so cold..."
A disciple directly kicked him, and laughed loudly: "Get lost! Go to the underworld to find your mother!"
Lu Xiao was kicked and rolled several times in a row, lying on the ground limply, motionless.
"Look at him like that, he looks like a dog!"
"I'm still looking for a mother, hahaha..."
All the disciples laughed happily, and suddenly, their expressions became a little strange.
They looked at each other, I looked at you, their lips moved slightly, as if they wanted to say something, but they couldn't say a word, and then one after another, they fell limply.
Luo Wugou sternly said: "Why..."
Before he could finish speaking, he fell down limply.
Qiu Yutong also felt extremely weak all over his body, and he was about to slide down, but he was tied to the pillar, so he couldn't slide down.
Luo Wugou and all the disciples were limp on the ground, unable to speak, only a pair of eyes could blink twice, some were frightened and angry, some were terrified, some were at a loss.
what is going on
Qiu Yutong was also stunned, then realized something, and looked at Lu Xiao.
Lu Xiao lay prone on the ground, struggled to wriggle a few times, and managed to support himself up. Suddenly, with a "wow", he vomited a big mouthful of blood. He lay on his stomach in the pool of blood, took two low breaths, and after a while, he managed to get up.
He tightly covered his nose with one hand, slowly picked up a bright long sword with the other hand, and stumbled towards Luo Wugou.
Luo Wugou's eyes widened, his lips trembled slightly, his gaze changed from extreme anger to panic and begging.
Lu Xiao looked down at Luo Wugou, with no expression on his face. Then, he slowly raised his right hand, and gently inserted the bright sword into Luo Wugou's throat.
The author has something to say: Xiao Xiao: Unexpectedly, before entering the tunnel, I took the tortoise shell from the pharmacy, and also took the ecstasy charcoal, Wudu powder and healing elixir.
Why, I’m so busy at the end of the year, but I’m so inspired, just like the exam month, I always want to watch dramas, watch novels and draw pictures... Thanks at 2020-01-05 20:05:15~2020-01-06 20:04: During the period of 24, the little angel who voted for the overlord or irrigated the nutrient solution for me~
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