The stalemate in the atmosphere was almost solidified, only then did Xu Shuangce make a "hmm" and say, "Got it."
Then he turned around and walked towards Yuchixiao.
"Sect Master Xu?" The Xianmeng envoy thought he was going to leave, and said anxiously, "According to the laws of the Xianmeng, in order to prevent the group from being without a leader, one of the Alliance Leader and the Sect Master Cangyang must guard the rear, and must not be involved in danger together. You must not leave Cangyang Mountain at this moment!”
Xu Shuangce walked towards Yuchixiao: "I know."
"The sect master, you—"
The messenger's voice seemed to be choked, and he was stunned as he watched Xu Shuangce draw his sword, murderous intent burst forth, and pointed at Yuchixiao's throat!
This time, no one will stop him. The sword qi made Yuchi Xiao unable to move, and for a moment he even had the illusion that he had been pierced by a sword.
- Am I already dead
But then, he felt the cold and sharp sword tip slowly move to the side of his face, and he slapped it twice, and a trace of blood suddenly overflowed along the sword groove.
"..." Yuchixiao shivered in the stinging pain and opened his eyes, facing Xu Shuangce's condescending and mocking gaze.
Jingxu Zhenren trembled: "Sect, Sect Master..."
At this moment, a pass token suddenly flew out of Yuchixiao's sleeve, slamming out a thousand-mile display formation. The red-gold rays criss-crossed, and Jianzong Yuchi Changsheng appeared in the formation, holding the divine sword Rakshasa Pagoda, and he took a step to stand in front of the helpless Jianfeng!
"Xu, Shuang, Ce." He said coldly.
Everyone reacted a step late, and hurriedly saluted: "Meet the Sword Sect!"
Yuchixiao collapsed as if his whole body was washed in cold sweat, and blurted out, "Uncle! How are you?!"
"..." Xu Shuangce looked at Yuchi Changsheng up and down, and he couldn't tell what he was thinking from his indifferent face. After a while, he calmly dismissed the helpless Jianfeng under the tense gazes around him.
The breath that everyone hung in their throats was finally relieved.
Yuchi Changsheng turned his head to his nephew behind him: "Go back to Kinmen."
"You are also trapped in Dingxian Mausoleum?!"
Jianzong increased his tone: "Return to Jinmen!"
Yuchixiao stood up while holding on to the hook Chen Jian: "I'll go right now..."
There was a sound of wind, and Jianzong suddenly turned around. The little spiritual power left in the magic circle fluctuated violently because of this action, and Yuchixiao widened his pupils in astonishment.
Jianzong's golden armor was cracked everywhere, his neck, chest, and front belly were full of scars, and his left arm was more than a foot long, and the sleeves of his robes had been soaked with blood!
Just listen to his words: "Return to Jinmen, protect yourself, don't come to Dingling."
Immediately afterwards, the array burst suddenly, and countless light spots drifted away with the wind, disappearing into the mid-air of gray smoke.
Xu Shuangce turned around, sheathed his sword, and stopped looking at Yuchixiao, "Wen Xiuyang."
Wen Xiuyang immediately leaned over: "Yes."
"Send him down the mountain."
"Yes!"
Xu Shuangce didn't even turn his head back, and walked towards Xuanji Hall with his hands in the air.
·
The cracked mountains and gunpowder went farther and farther, and gradually disappeared behind him.
The endless long wind was coming towards him, Xu Shuangce did not have a sword, and walked towards the endless mountains step by step. Flowing clouds gathered and dispersed at his feet, and in the distance between the silent and uninhabited mountains and forests, there was a great hall, faintly showing the magnificent outline of glazed green tiles and silver eaves.
jingle!
The three spirally twisted golden rings collided with the helpless scabbard, giving off a crisp echo.
jingle-
He seemed to hear the wind chimes in the depths of the corridor, and the heavy gauze curtains fluttered in the wind. In the afternoon of Punishing Shugong Haruhi, a thin and young figure suddenly emerged from the top of the wall, peeking at him from top to bottom, thinking that he was very secretive.
"...Sect Master Xu, don't be surprised, that's the little boy that our leader brought back half a month ago. He seems to be insane and can't speak..."
Xu Shuangce stopped and stretched out a hand towards the wall.
The figure shrank, revealing only two vigilant eyes.
But Xu Shuangce didn't move, he kept his palms up and looked at him. After a while, he saw that pair of eyes blinked, and his right pupil suddenly turned red, and after blinking again, it returned to normal, full of doubts and sympathy. hesitate.
"… "
Xu Shuangce retracted his hand and put it into his sleeve. Following this action, the figure behind the wall couldn't help but stick out an inch, but Sect Master Cangyang took out two small gold coins from his arms, threaded them with a silk thread, and swayed them with a tinkling sound.
The boy's eyes widened.
Jingle!
Jingle!
The sun passed through the gauze curtain of the corridor, and the small gold coins shone brightly and made noises, and the curious eyes of the young man couldn't stop swaying from side to side.
jingle —
Before the lingering sound of the wind passed by, Xu Shuangce only felt a flower in front of him, and his hand was actually empty.
The back of the young man slipped away like a flying cloud, and he was several meters away in an instant, and his thin white fingers were still clutching the two small gold coins that were wearing silk threads. He clenched it so tightly, as if he was afraid of losing it, and with the rapid clanging of his steps, he disappeared at the end of the long winding corridor.
Only the wind moved, and it passed by wrongly, for a long time.
"Zong, Sect Master, don't take it offense! The young master is insane, young and ignorant, this is definitely not intentional..."
Xu Shuangce suddenly let out a low laugh, and the disciple of Punishment Shu Palace stopped abruptly, thinking that he had heard it wrong.
"Run fast," he said.
The disciples of Punishing Shu Palace were not sure whether he was happy or angry, so he didn't dare to say anything.
"Very good." Cangyang Sect Master commented, "Those who run fast will at least live longer."
·
Perhaps it was a coincidence that in those few years, there were suddenly many occasions where Sect Master Xu needed to attend the Immortal League in person.
The boy who was picked up by the leader of the alliance grew up day by day - although "growing up" was a pseudo concept to him, because the years did not leave a trace on Gong Wei's body from beginning to end.
He just gradually began to know about personnel, or, in other words, learned more like a person.
Xu Shuangce taught him to recite the Taoist scriptures and teach him to write. In the late spring season of the Gongshu Palace, withered peach blossoms drifted by the wind through the window lattice, Xu Shuangce sat upright in front of the desk and held his hand copying "The Collection of Swords"; although Gong Weiren was still sitting decently, the nib of his pen was always crooked. , no matter how you pull it, you can't pull it straight. After writing for a while, you can't help but turn around and feel helpless, and ask: "What is this word?"
In fact, he seldom speaks, probably because he knows in his heart that he has not learned to look like, and his accent is always inaccurate.
Xu Shuangce said, "I can't help it."
"what do you mean?"
"Ghosts are helpless."
Gong Wei didn't understand at all, but nodded thoughtfully, and asked after a while, "Why do you all have swords?"
Xu Shuangce still held his right hand, his eyes fell on the paper: "Who else has it?"
Gong Wei said, "Senior brother." After a while, he added, "Yuchi Changsheng."
Yuchi Rui was about the same age as him. When the two first met a few years ago, they had a fight. Yu Chi Rui beat Gong Wei to tears. The crying Gong Wei broke out and kicked Yuchi Rui from the pavilion to the bottom of the cliff. When Ying Kai came out to look for him, he saw Yu Chi Rui swaying by the branches and hanging on the edge of the cliff, with a confused look on his face.
Xu Shuangce said lightly, "It will be there when you grow up."
Gong Wei asked, "How can we have it?"
The source of the fairy sword in Xuanmen is nothing more than two ways, the first is the inheritance of the relics of the elders, and the second is the master's help to temper it. In Gong Wei's situation, Ying Kai should help him to refine a weapon with the same attributes and the fusion of spiritual power - but that will have to wait for a long time. Because monks are not allowed to have their own fairy swords before entering the Golden Core Realm.
No one has explained the concept of golden core to Gong Wei. After all, he can't say anything right, and even building a foundation is a very distant thing.
Therefore, Xu Shuangce only said: "It will come naturally when you grow up."
Gong Wei didn't understand at all, but still nodded thoughtfully. After a while, he seemed to have suddenly made a decision. He turned his head and looked up at Xu Shuangce's chin: "Xu Bai."
Xu Shuangce said, "You talk a lot today."
Gong Wei maintained that posture, looked at him eagerly, and said solemnly: "I just like you."
The tip of the pen stopped suddenly, hanging in the air.
The room was so quiet that it was clear that a needle fell on the ground, the treetops swayed outside the window, and the wind was blowing.
After a long time, Xu Shuangce reprimanded in a low voice, "... nonsense."
Gong Wei was unconvinced and wanted to argue, but at this time there was a sound of footsteps outside the window, and then a figure jumped up and started to beat the window, it was Yu Chi Rui: "Gong Wei! Come and help! I'll take Ying Kai's fish. If it's all caught, he's going to beat me!!"
Gong Wei: "?!"
I'm going to be beaten when I'm young, is there anything more important in the world than this
The wind whistled, and Xu Shuangce was already empty.
The next second, Gong Wei jumped out of the window excitedly, and didn't even look back. The two teenagers were so excited that they vanished in the direction of Punishing Shu Palace.
"… "
The room slowly returned to silence, and the early cicadas chirped on the branches and drifted away with the wind.
Xu Shuangce didn't move or express his expression. After a long while, he slowly put down his pen and sat there, the quiet dust in the air reflected in the depths of his pupils.
"It's just nonsense," he said through the gap of his teeth.
At that time, the years seemed to be very long. They all thought that Gong Wei still needed many years to build the foundation, and then Jindan, even if he couldn't get to the Mahayana realm, at least he could get a fair sword.
No one would have imagined that just a few years later, Taishou Bai would be born out of nowhere in a situation that everyone did not expect, and then the battle would shake the Quartet.
Gong Wei's life has gone farther and shorter than anyone imagined.
But that came later.
·
Xu Shuangce walked down the cloud with his hands behind his back, and landed in the air on the soft ground in front of the main hall.
The silver vault was vast and huge, reflecting pale light under the sky. The surroundings were extremely quiet. On the huge silver plaque above the gate of the hall was engraved with the words "Dragon Flying Phoenix Dance". It was written in the Cangyang Sect's secret incantation.
"ban".
Cangyang forbidden area, trespassers will be killed without mercy.
Xu Shuangce looked up at the door plaque and looked at the word for a long time.
Everyone knows that the head of punishment and punishment used to be the object that Sect Master Cangyang hated the most in his life.
It was twenty years ago, when Xu Shuangce just woke up from the fantasy world of Qiandu Mirror World, he rushed out of Xuanji Palace with his sword, killed all the way to the Daishan Xianmeng, and smashed the gate of the Punishment and Punishment Court with a loud noise. . The trembling President Gong had no time to pack up and escape overnight, when Xu Shuangce grabbed the back collar and carried it out alive.
Although everything that happened later was more twisted, made up, and bizarre by later generations, at least one detail of that night was unmistakable. Because at that time, half of the disciples in the Punishment Palace heard Sect Master Xu's roar:
"If you dare to kill my wife, I will let you pay for it today!"
"Miyagi!"
Gong Wei howled and ran for his life, but Xu Shuangce was in hot pursuit, almost cutting off his feet several times. The entire Daishan Mountain was disturbed, and even Ying Kai woke up in the middle of the night and put on his clothes, and chased after him: "Shuangce stop! That's not your real wife, it's just a fantasy!"
"Senior brother help! Senior brother help!!"
"I know you have a great prejudice against Gong Zhengyu, but this time he entered the fantasy world with all his heart, he is just helping you break the barrier, Shuangce!!"
"Help! Help!"
"Shuangce, stop! Come, come and hold Sect Master Xu—"
All the turning points happen at the same instant.
Gong Weiyi slammed his head into the corner of the wall, and then had nowhere to go, he subconsciously held his head and reached out to block it.
However, Jianfeng suddenly stopped in front of his arm.
—I saw a faint light flickering under the blade of the sword. It was Gong Wei's cuff slipping when he raised his hand, revealing a very familiar golden ring on his elbow, which slammed into Xu Shuangce's eyes.
"… "
There was a crackling sound, and it was because the tip of the sword was reluctantly plunged into the floor tile, and Xu Shuangce staggered back half a step.
"I've been wearing it since I can remember, and I've forgotten where it came from." General Bai's hoarse voice in the fantasy world was still ringing in his ears, with longing and admiration that only he knew in his heart, and said, "Nowadays I want to give it to you, thank you."
"I don't know why. I've never seen your face with my own eyes or heard your voice, but when I first met you, I felt a sense of past and present."
"I feel like I've been waiting for you for a long time, I like you for a long time..."
"Tao, do you also think that you have seen me in your previous life?"
"When we meet in the future, I would like to be husband and wife."
…
When we meet in the future, I wish to be husband and wife.
All kinds of words in the fantasy world are still in my ears, every scene and every sentence is like a cruel claws, and the truth that has been deceived for many years has been revealed—
No matter how powerful the illusion is, how could he fall in love with a person he has never seen or talked to
It turned out that it had nothing to do with that bewitching right eye from beginning to end, and it had nothing to do with any inhuman tricks.
All past and present lives, all deja vu, all reunion-like joy and self-deception yearning, all got the answer at this moment.
"Is President Gong okay?!" "Hurry up and help Sect Master Xu!" "It's okay, it's okay..."
The roaring, the noise, and the confusion all turned into a white background. Xu Shuangce stared straight at Gong Wei, who was surrounded by a group of people, hiding behind the stone pillar and looking over, his eyes were frightened and puzzled.
"Shuangce, Shuangce, how can you be so impulsive, so undivided?" Ying Kai was so angry that he didn't choose what to say, and he kept scolding him on the side: "I know you have always been prejudiced against Zhengyu, saying He behaves strangely and belongs to a non-human being, and one day he will bring disaster to the world... But he has been conscientious for many years, and no one except you thinks he has any strangeness! This time he entered the fantasy world just for the sake of Help you break the killing barrier! You have always had grudges, but it is better to resolve them than to end them. I will never allow you to do anything to Gong Zhengyu again!…”
"Ying Kai." Xu Shuangce said hoarsely.
"How could you almost cut off Gong Zhengyu, who you watched grow up, because of the 'wife' that doesn't exist in the illusion? You just... What happened to you?!"
Ying Kai looked at Xu Shuangce in horror, but saw that his face was pale and dazed, as if he didn't hear those nagging reprimands at all, and just stared straight at Gong Wei in the distance.
"If only I hadn't gone to that peach forest with you that year," he murmured.
"If only I had never met this heartless thing."
Ying Kai's pupils shrank suddenly, only to see Xu Shuangce tightly covering his mouth with one hand, and suddenly coughed out a mouthful of blood!
"Frost, frost policy!"
…
That extremely chaotic late night ended here, everyone was comforting Gong Wei, who was screaming in horror, but no one noticed that Xu Shuangce left without saying a word.
His soul seemed to have been pulled away from his body, suspended at a high place, coldly watching his corpse-like self wielding his sword and returning to the top of Cangyang Mountain, the mouth of blood had solidified into a hideous shape in the palm of his hand.
"metropolitan!"
"Sect Master is back!"
"Sect Master, what's wrong with you?!"…
Xu Shuangce stood there like a wandering soul, his expression was indifferent as before, his face was calm, but the depths of his eyes were lax.
"There should be a forbidden place here," he whispered suddenly.
Wen Xiuyang, who was closest to him, was taken aback: "Sect Master, what did you say?"
"... Build a forbidden temple here." Xu Shuangce finally sighed with blood and rust, stood up straight, and said, "After repairing, I will personally write the forbidden spell, and no one is allowed to approach from now on, and those who violate the order will be killed. No pardon."
Everyone was at a loss, but they didn't dare to ask any questions, so they hurriedly bowed: "Yes!"
The Forbidden Palace of the Cangyang Sect started twenty years ago. It is located in a remote mountain. The materials used are extremely yin. Every brick and every wall has been personally engraved by Xu Shuangce with a picture of the forbidden spell with violent mana.
Everyone in the world said that Sect Master Cangyang and the Head of Punishment and Punishment had bad relations, but no one knew that from that day on, Gong Wei had become Xu Shuangce's worst nightmare.
And here is where he is going to lock his nightmare.
·
-ban.
Xu Shuangce finally retracted his gaze, raised his feet and walked forward, the soles of his boots made a small sound on the thick fallen leaves.
With a creak, he pushed open the carved door and stepped into the hall.
The twelve whalebone screen doors are wide open, the high bed with carved beams and paintings has soft pillows, and the gauze curtains like crimson clouds move without wind. He took off the golden ring on his wrist and placed it lightly beside the bed. At this moment, footsteps were heard from outside the hall, and he cautiously stopped under the window and did not approach any more. !"
Xu Shuangce asked, "Where's Xiang Xiaoyuan?"
The disciple was probably a little surprised, and after a while, he said, "It should still be in Xuanji Hall."
"bring."
"Yes!"
Xu Shuangce took a deep breath and looked at the familiar furnishings around him.
The dust was suspended in the hazy sky, the bogu frame cast vertical shadows on the ground, and stacks of novel illustrations were stacked on the sapphire case. There is a set of comic strips on the wall "Ghost Prince Welcomes His Kiss". Twenty years have passed since the paper has turned yellow, but the brushwork is lively and interesting. It is very common in Xuanmen aristocratic families.
His eyes fell on the eighth picture of the little fox blowing suona in the middle, and he didn't move away for a while, as if he was caught in some distant and soft memories.
"Sect Master!"
At this moment, the disciple came back with his sword, walked quickly to the window, and said urgently, "At the order of the sect master, I summoned the junior and senior brothers, but they are nowhere to be found. I just heard from the mountain guard that the junior and senior brothers have left the mountain, and they are with the eldest son of Yuchi. The sword is gone!!"
Xu Shuangce's sharp eyebrows slowly tightened.