The surroundings lost their sound, and everything returned to silence. There was no human habitation within a hundred miles, and evil spirits scattered and roared towards the surrounding area.
A scarred man was dragged down from the sky by evil energy. After a long time, he slowly opened his eyes.
No one, nothing, he braced himself and struggled to get up.
His mind was blank, and he looked around blankly. This was a world completely different from what he knew. In his memory, the world...
memory…
He frowned, apprehensive at the word leaping out of nowhere. He knew exactly what this meant, and then discovered that he... had no memory.
Who is he, what is his name, what has he done, his mind is at a loss.
The wind whizzed by, like weeping and complaining. He looked around, chose a direction at random, and staggered towards that direction. After walking a few steps, he heard a voice behind him, turned around, and saw a white jade sword with peach blossoms painted on its body, glowing brilliantly, quietly floating behind him.
He frowned and turned to leave. After walking a few steps, he turned his head and saw that the sword was still maintaining the distance just now, floating in the air, looking at him as if it was alive.
"You... are following me?" He thought for a long time before finally speaking. As soon as he made a sound, he found that his voice was hoarse and unpleasant, as if his vocal cords had been seared by a soldering iron.
He was so frightened that he immediately shut his mouth, but Jian didn't speak, and circled around him, as if affirming his answer.
He felt that Jian was very happy, as if this encounter was not easy. He raised his hand, and the sword obediently leaned against his hand. He couldn't help laughing, held the sword in his hand, and said slowly, "Then follow me. What's your name..."
As he thought about it, a name popped up in his mind.
The sword of life and death.
The sword that determines life and death, young Bai Yuxian.
Some pictures floated in his mind, but they were like clouds, making him feel a little confused.
He was hungry, and there was not even a living grass around him. He couldn't bear it anymore, and knew that he had to leave quickly, find a place with people, and get something to eat.
Otherwise he will starve to death.
He thought clearly, feeling that the thought was distant and familiar.
He walked forward, his mouth was dry all the way, and he didn't know how long he walked, and finally saw a lush forest.
He walked into the lush forest, saw some fruit trees, picked some fruits next to each other and bit into his mouth. The fruits in the mountains are astringent and bitter, but at the moment his stomach is empty, as if he has been hungry for hundreds of years, everything tastes delicious, he doesn’t care what it tastes like, he swallows it whole, as long as he can It's good to resist hunger.
While looking for the fruit, he walked into the deep mountain. After walking for a long time, he finally saw a small stream in front of him. Not knowing where the thought came from, he felt that he should take a bath, so he walked to the edge of the stream, squatted down, and picked up a handful of water—
At that moment, he saw the reflection in the water.
The face with no human facial features can be seen at all, and there are dense scales on it. Each scale is half the size of a palm. It looks sharp and smooth, and it sticks to the face docilely, like a monster.
He screamed, but after a while, he remembered that it was him, this monster in the water, it was him!
It turned out that he was a monster, but he shouldn't be like this, he shouldn't be like this!
His whole heart was full of panic, and a thought crawled out uncontrollably—it shouldn't be like this, he shouldn't be a monster, he should be a handsome, powerful, and noble man, how could he become such an evil thing
Everybody's going to hate him, everybody's gonna hate him, that one... that one too...
who
He suddenly remembered, and couldn't help asking himself "Who? Which person?" over and over again.
But he couldn't remember it, he couldn't remember it at all, he let out a painful howling sound, and his heart was full of despair, as if he had thought of everyone's ridicule and sarcasm, as if there was a desperate nightmare surrounding him. Trembling all over, he curled up against the tree, buried his face in his knees, and couldn't help comforting himself: "No... don't be afraid. Everyone will still like me the same... She will like me the same... "
"I'm not afraid. I'm not a monster. I..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a timid voice: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"
He looked up blankly, and saw a seven or eight-year-old girl with a small bow and arrow on her back. She was innocent and cute, and seemed to be a child of some hunter family. She was looking at him worriedly, but the moment he looked up, the little girl screamed instantly!
He stretched out his hand and said in a panic, "Don't be afraid...don't..."
The little girl slapped his hand desperately, turned and ran away. Something in his heart collapsed, and he couldn't help chasing after her, staggering after her, calling out to her, "Don't be afraid... I won't hurt you. Look at me, look at me again, I'm Not a monster, I'm really not that disgusting...”
There seemed to be the sound of a hound behind her, the little girl panicked, stomped on the road, and rolled down! He immediately chased after him, and accidentally followed the little girl and rolled down the hillside!
The sound of the hound behind him was far away, he grabbed the little girl, protected her with his arms, and rolled all the way down the hillside, the stone pierced into his body, he hit the tree trunk hard, his waist seemed to be broken . The little girl was unharmed, and cried loudly in his arms: "Let go of me... you monster... let me go!"
"I'm not..." He seemed eager to get approval from others, insisting: "I'm not, I'm not that scary, I'm not that ugly..."
The little girl ignored him, turned around and got up and ran to the side. He slowly got up, stared blankly at the direction she was walking away, and heard a very clear voice.
Look, she's gone.
You look so horrible, you are a monster, you have nothing, and people are disgusted when they see you.
She is the same, if she sees you again... she will be sick to death!
who is she
He had a splitting headache, but when the word "she" sounded, he was filled with fear.
Don't want to be abandoned, don't want to be abandoned, don't want to make her feel sick.
He's not a monster, he's not an evil thing...
It's these scales!
In a blink of an eye, he remembered his appearance in the water, madly putting all his anger on those palm-sized scales on his face! He stretched out his hand tremblingly, pulled the scale away alive, then held back the pain, and ruthlessly tore it off!
The scales were covered with flesh and blood, and he was so painful that he wrestled with his whole body, but he seemed to be completely ignorant of the pain, looking at the scales in his hand, he felt a kind of crazy joy in his heart.
He can remove it, and when he removes these scales, he's not a monster anymore! These people would not be afraid of him, and she would still like him.
Holding back the pain with anticipation, he pulled off the scales on his face one by one. Until his face was dripping with blood and his original appearance could not be seen at all, he finally pulled out the last scale.
He looked at the blood donations all over the floor and the receding scales, and happily followed the girl in the direction she left.
"Look at me!" he yelled, and said to the girl, "Look at me! I don't have these scales anymore! I'm not a monster!"
After all, the girl is just a child, even if she ran away from him so much first, she was quickly overtaken by him. There was a small hole behind her, she had nowhere to escape, so she hid in the hole, watched the people walking around looking for her, and said in a crying voice: "Look at me... I'm not a monster anymore."
The girl squatted tremblingly in the cave. After a while, he suddenly stopped, as if he had discovered her.
He squatted down and carefully opened the straw curtain in front of her. Lei Ting just struck behind him, his face was covered with blood, he smiled flatteringly at her, and said seriously: "Look at me, don't I look much better?"
How could a girl be so frightened? Howled on the spot, shouting loudly: "Father! Father!"
The girl's tears frightened him, and he stared blankly at the other party crying, and it took a long time for him to react slowly.
What is he doing
He lowered his head and looked at his hands covered in blood, feeling a little dazed.
How could he run after a child covered in blood like this? !
He stood up suddenly in shock, and hurriedly said: "I'm sorry... I scared you... I'm sorry..."
Before he finished speaking, someone slapped him on the neck. His eyes darkened, and then he was led by a few people with hunting dogs. A big man kicked him in the stomach and said angrily: "How dare you bully my daughter? You don't want to live!"
"I'm sorry..." He hurriedly said without fighting back. These people rushed up, beat and scolded, and the hounds came up to bite him. He hugged himself and curled up on the ground, motionless, and his eyes slowly darkened.
After a long time, one of them said, "Isn't he dead?"
"No... I can't." The big man trembled for a long time, and the woman said: "Hurry up and carry it to the doctor! What if you really die!"
"Okay, okay," the big man quickly carried him on his back, greeted everyone and dragged his daughter to the city.
Not long after that person was taken away by Orion, Su Qingyi was finally dug out from the rubble by Yun Xuzi.
As soon as she opened her eyes, a mouthful of blood spurted out. Yun Xuzi hurriedly hid to the side, stuffed her with a pill and said, "Where's the person?!"
"Who?" Su Qingyi spit out the blood, and she recovered a lot. She hurriedly meditated to get luck. Yun Xuzi patted his thigh and said, "Where are Xiao Su and Zichen?!"
Hearing this, Su Qingyi turned pale, opened her eyes suddenly, and forced herself to sweep her consciousness around!
The consciousness instantly covered all the creatures under the surrounding ruins, but after scanning for a while, there was nothing.
She spat out a mouthful of blood again, Shen Zhu who rushed over supported her, and hurriedly said: "Fellow Daoist Su, don't use spiritual power anymore, heal your injuries first."
"Where's Zi Chen?" Su Qingyi ignored him, grabbed Yun Xuzi and asked, "Did he be taken away by you?"
"Are you stupid? I took him away and came to ask you?"
Hearing this, Su Qingyi couldn't hold on any longer, she fell into Shen Zhu's arms with her head tilted.
When Su Qingyi woke up again, she was already in an inn. Shen Zhu stood by her side, she was full of spiritual energy and her breath was steady, it seemed that she had cultivated for many days.
Su Qingyi opened her eyes, seeing that the top of the bed did not move, and slowly recalled what happened before she fell into a coma.
Qin Zichen disappeared again, or maybe forever.
Thinking that he was the one who transformed the dragon this time, thinking of the direction in which he soared into the sky, and thinking of Xiao Su who was the black hand at the end, she couldn't help but think of the noise she thought was hallucination when she went to find Xiao Su that day.
That's Zichen...
Su Qingyi closed her eyes and shed tears.
There was a lot of noise below, and there seemed to be some noisy voices.
Shen Zhu stood up, closed the window, cut off the noise below, and said affirmatively: "Are you awake?"
Su Qingyi didn't speak, and pretended to be asleep. Shen Zhu tapped the ground with his green bamboo stick, sat on the chair beside her bed, as if he could see her, and said softly and earnestly: "I heard your cry."
"You lied." Su Qingyi said, her voice hoarse: "I didn't cry."
Shen Zhu didn't speak, he took out a veil from his bosom, stroked her cheek, like many young people, and said in a low voice: "Yes, you didn't cry."
"I heard you cry."
Hearing this, Su Qingyi couldn't stop anymore, she threw herself into Shen Zhu's arms and wailed loudly.
As if she was the carefree girl at Nebula Gate many years ago, this person in front of her is her most gentle, considerate and patient elder brother.
The years have not changed anything, and nothing has changed. Her relatives and master are all there, and they all love her and protect her.
She hugged him and wept bitterly, Shen Zhu patted her back lightly.
"He made me forget about him..."
She wailed: "But how could I forget..."
If the feelings of the 21st century are superficial because of selfishness and pity for life, and can be forgotten in the long years later, then how can we forget the two hundred years of cultivating together in the cultivation world regardless of life and death
This is not a sudden relationship, it is a love that she guards, cultivates, makes up for and grows little by little.
She was carved into today's Su Qingyi in this love, every bit of this love has infiltrated her life, when you look back, you will find that, in fact, this person in this relationship has already been embedded in her life. in your soul.
The reason why she grew into what she is today, the reason why she is independent, the reason why she is brave, and the reason why she works hard, all of her character traits contain traces of that person.
Chen Zhu looked at her, feeling a little bitter in his heart. When Su Qingyi was tired from crying and slowly woke up, she suddenly remembered something, grabbed him, and raised her head suddenly: "Ran Shu gave you that formation, right?"
"Qingyi..." Shen Zhu frowned, Su Qingyi pushed him away, Shen Zhu staggered suddenly, saw the woman rushing down from the bed with tears all over her face, and said coldly: "You already know who I am , do you still pretend to be with me, brother?"
Shen Zhu froze slightly, but stubbornly refused to call her name, and said in a trembling voice: "Calm down, Qingyi."
"I can calm down," she said coldly, "If you didn't harm him. Let me ask you again, did Ran Shu give you the array?!"
"The formation was drawn by members of the Xingyun Sect." Shen Zhu frowned and said, "I have used it many times before, and there will be no problems. If there is a problem, it must be because Xiao Su changed the formation."
"Really?" Su Qingyi said coldly, "I just want to ask you, did Ran Shu give you the formation?"
"Qingyi..."
"Call me Ran Yan!" Su Qingyi yelled violently: "Admit that I am Ran Yan, that I have come back from the dead, that I am standing here alive, is it difficult?! Brother Shen Zhu, tell me, are you Don't you want me to die too?!"
"How is it possible?!" Chen Zhu raised his head suddenly, and suddenly raised his voice: "I don't want you to die, I don't want anyone to die, I hope you are well, I hope you are as good as before, why not OK!"
Su Qingyi didn't speak, this was the first time she saw Shen Zhu get angry.
This elder brother who has always been gentle is sitting on the ground at this moment, blind, covered his face with trembling hands, and cried out in embarrassment: "I hope you live well... live well... don't come back after you leave, be good Su Qingyi, be a disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect, okay?"
"Brother..." Su Qingyi stared blankly at Shen Zhu, she had never realized that the person in front of him would have such explosive and strong emotions, he cried out in despair: "I want to protect you, I want you to live Well done, why don't you understand!"
"You know..." Su Qingyi trembled: "You know, they want to use me as a sacrifice to complete the mountain and river sacrifice, don't they?"
Shen Zhu was slightly taken aback, as if he did not expect to hear this word from her mouth. Su Qingyi looked at him quietly, squatted down in front of him slowly, and said seriously: "You knew from the very beginning that I would not be your eternal junior sister, I am a sacrificial offering, and I will leave one day, so you treat me with respect." Well, it's all about making up, right?"
Thinking of Shen Zhu's extraordinary gentleness and patience back then, and thinking of the pity and guilt in his eyes when we first met, Su Qingyi trembled all over: "So you chose to retreat at that time... because you knew the ending, So you just watched me die?!"
Shen Zhu didn't speak, only tears kept falling down.
Su Qingyi laughed loudly: "Brother Shen Zhu, you also think I deserve to die, don't you?"
"I deserve to die," she yelled hysterically, clutching her chest, "I should obediently be a sacrifice, complete the mountain and river sacrifice, suppress evil spirits, and then bring peace to this cultivation world for thousands of years."
"I am a body of pure yang, a first-grade fire spirit root, a high-ranking monk, and I have practiced the way of pure kindness since I was a child... You have taught me to love, teach me to be kind, and teach me to be a good person since I was a child, but the result is only because you are bad people , you are so bad, you are a bunch of scum! Garbage! So you need me to save you with kindness!"
"I should learn how the Buddha fed the eagle, cut off my flesh and blood and feed it to your mouth piece by piece, so, is it right?!"
Shen Zhu didn't speak, but after listening to her words, he slowly laughed, the low laughter made people's hair stand on end.
"You hate me? You hate us?" He raised his head, as if everything didn't matter: "Since you hate, why don't you kill me? Why don't you stay away from us scumbags? Why are you always You want to go to the Nebula Gate, you want to get close to me, you want to protect me, and you don’t forget to save me when something goes wrong?"
"I've been through so much, and I've been betrayed so many times," he said with sharp swords, piercing Su Qingyi's heart one knife at a time. Su Qingyi stood where she was, with a calm face, quietly waiting for this Ling Chi. Hearing the other party's clear voice, he said softly, "Why are you still so stupid?"
"What do you always think about going back to Xingyunmen? What do you always think about being Ran Yan? Always think about saving this world, this cultivation world, saving others, what to do?!"
"You said that Ran Shu was wrong time and time again, and asked if this formation map belonged to Ran Shu, and I tell you, no."
Shen Zhu's words made Su Qingyi's heart feel cold and dripping with blood.
"She is my junior sister. I don't need her to do some things. I will help her."
"The layout plan was made by Nebula Gate, but I changed it."
He looked at Su Qingyi quietly, and said calmly: "It has nothing to do with Ran Shu, everything is done by me."
"You did everything?" Su Qingyi sneered: "Then tell me, what does this formation do?"
"Transfer evil spirits and turn people into evil dragons."
"Evil Qi turned into an evil dragon?" Su Qingyi's smile became colder and colder: "Then how do you and Xiao Su know each other? What is your purpose for doing this? Who is Xiao Su?"
"Xiao Su is the acting lord of the Huan Yin Palace. She wants to transform into an evil dragon to help her Taoist partner ascend. I don't know who she is. My purpose is to disrupt the cultivation world."
"Disrupt the cultivation world?" Su Qingyi mocked, "Why?"
Shen Zhu remained silent, Su Qingyi said gently: "Brother, do you want to say that you want to avenge me?"
Shen Zhu didn't speak, Su Qingyi asked the last question: "Then I want to know, this formation is a Xuan-level formation, senior brother, you are only a third-level formation master, and you are two big realms away from the Xuan-level. How did it change?"
Shen Zhu's face turned pale, and Su Qingyi stood up: "Brother, it seems that Ran Shu is your junior sister, but I really shouldn't have anything to do with you."
"Senior brother really cared so much for apologizing so seriously and speaking so clearly, but there are some crimes that can't be forgiven, and I can't. I will go to Ran Shu."
She got up and walked, and said calmly: "Even if the Xingyun Gate is flattened, I will kill her."
"Ran Yan!!" Shen Zhu finally couldn't help it, and broke down and said, "Why do you always think that Ran Shu is wrong?! She is the junior sister you grew up with! When you were alive, she never believed it. There were many disputes with many fellow Taoists, and she was almost expelled from the house; after you died, she accompanied Xie Hantan to summon your soul every day, and looked for you everywhere, didn't you see these things?!"
Shen Zhu stood up, tapped the ground with the green bamboo stick, walked towards her, and cursed angrily: "I'm blind, are you blind too?!"
Su Qingyi didn't speak. After a long time, she looked at Shen Zhu's anxious face and said slowly: "Senior brother, until this time, I really know that you are blind."
"And you are not only blind, your heart is also blind."