Zhao Ge

Chapter 198: Past and present

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You are the seed.

When hearing this sentence from Li Bankuang's mouth, Jun Wanbai was not surprised, but instead had a sense of "it's finally here". It's like a fallen leaf that has been fluttering and dancing in the air for a long time has finally fallen.

Jun Wanbai had this premonition when she heard that Jiuxuanmen began to cleanse the disciples of the sect. One day, the thing she was most worried about would happen.

She will no longer be the senior sister of Xuanshuangfeng, will no longer be a disciple of Jiuxuanmen, and her juniors and sisters will no longer trust her back.

Because, she... is the seed that Jin Tang left in the Nine Profound Sect.

In fact, very early on, Jun Wanbai knew that there was a problem with her memory. She only remembered that she was with a group of exiled children, struggling to climb up to the Heavenly Steps, hoping to become a disciple of the Nine Profound Gate and survive. However, she couldn't remember the earlier memories.

When Master asked her name, there seemed to be a voice in her mind saying, Your name is Jun Wanbai. So she said, but in fact, she didn't know if her name was really Jun Wanbai, but the voice in her mind seemed to carry an inviolable force.

"Surname Jun?"

The master read her name softly, and glanced at the sect master. The master came over and put his hand on her shoulder. After a while, he nodded to the master.

—It was only later that she understood the meaning of the surname "Jun", which was one of the eighteen ancient clans born in the Chaos Era. Some people want her to use this name to become an important disciple of Jiuxuanmen.

At the beginning, Jun Wanbai didn't really care about these things. Is she really called Jun Wanbai? Is there really someone who wants to use her to do something? What does this have to do with her? She just wants to survive. She doesn't remember who she was in the past, she only remembers that she was in the ranks of refugees, walking on the desolate land hungry and numb, feeling that the shadow of death followed and lingered.

She doesn't want to die.

Because she had seen a person who was still breathing and fell to the ground, the crows in the sky flew down and pecked at the person's flesh. The man let out a hoarse and desperate wail, but the people around him just walked around numbly. Everyone was dying at any moment, and no one could save the other. Jun Wanbai saw the man's eyeballs being pecked out, and saw worms slowly crawling up his face, which was ugly and terrifying.

At that moment, she was so scared.

She didn't want to become like that, so she wanted to survive, and followed the voice in her head to climb up the Tongtian Steps step by step. When she fell down exhausted, a senior sister came over and grabbed her hand, telling her that she is a disciple of Jiuxuanmen.

The voice in her head didn't exist all the time. For a long time, Jun Wanbai didn't hear that voice again, and she almost thought it was her hallucination.

Although the master accepted her as a disciple, in the early stage of cultivation, it was not the master who took her, but the senior sister. It was the senior sister who came to pull her up on the Tongtian steps. The senior sister's surname is Zhou, and her single name is Jin. Zhou Jin, Zhou Jin, is a masculine name. The senior sister is just like her name. She is not as gentle and quiet as a girl. The senior sister always does things vigorously and resolutely.

Senior Sister Zhou Jin was the head of Xuanshuang Peak at that time, she taught Jun Wanbai the swordsmanship, and also brought her out of the shadow of worrying about dying all the time.

"What are you afraid of? The sky is falling and the tall ones stand on top of you. What's the matter? We, the senior sisters, are standing in front of you. The Jiuxuanmen is so big, what do you need for a small carrot like you?" Senior Sister Zhou Jin said casually. Holding Jianhua, he squinted at her, "Three-legged cat kung fu guys can practice with peace of mind."

- The sky fell and the tall man stood on it.

She finally realized that she was in Jiuxuanmen, a disciple of Jiuxuanmen, with senior brothers and sisters, there would be no crows circling here, no worms crawling on the face.

Jun Wanbai, you are Jun Wanbai of Jiuxuanmen.

However, when she started to like this, the long-silent voice in her mind reappeared. dreaming.

Jun Wanbai started to dream, day after night.

In the dream, she saw a gorgeous, bright and spacious house, where servants and slaves came and went in an orderly manner. She felt that she had become a child of six or seven years old, being held in the arms of a refined middle-aged man. They sat by the window, and the bright sunlight came in from the window, which was a bit dazzling.

Servants come and go outside the window, but the sound of walking is very soft.

She was held in the arms of a middle-aged man, who seemed to be her father, and his arms carried an almost unreal warmth like sunshine. There was a pile of military books on the table, and my father opened the pages, pointed to the military formations on it, and told her, "This is the Teng Snake, and this is Chi Fang."

"Snake—"

She followed her father to read word by word, and his father rubbed her head, occasionally showing a faint smile.

"Wan Bai is a very smart child. After learning these formations, he will be able to become a general of Jin Tang in the future. A child of the military god family, even if it is only a girl, is not comparable to those mediocre people. Our Wan Bai It will scare the enemy." The father said softly, praising her.

In the dream, she didn't know what the family of military gods was, and it wasn't that she didn't know why the enemy should be frightened by the news. She just wanted her father to praise her more, and only wanted him to gently rub her hair and say that Wanbai was a smart child.

"Remember, Wanbai is going to be the most prestigious general in Jintang."

In the dazzling sunlight, which was almost dreamlike, my father said in a low voice.

For a long time, Jun Wanbai could hardly tell what was real and what was a dream. Could everything she saw in the dream be her past? She is actually the daughter of a general in Jin Tang. But why did she follow the fleeing hungry people on the way to Jiuxuanmen? The person holding her... why isn't her father by her side? Shouldn't fathers protect their children

During that period of time, Jun Wanbai had so many questions in her heart, but intuitively, she didn't say anything.

Just keep things to yourself.

The number of dreams became more and more day by day, and the six or seven-year-old girl in the dream was also growing up slowly, learning the art of war began to become more sophisticated, and it was no longer simply memorizing some names. She would even follow her father to the barracks and learn to command the cavalry. The look of pride on my father's face grew more and more day by day.

Jun Wanbai also began to gradually accept that the girl in her dream was herself, and that was her past.

She began to wait for that dream every time with complicated emotions, wanting to know why, the father who would hold her in his arms would no longer be by her side and let her walk with the refugees like a walking dead On the desolate land.

Before waiting for her to see what happened in the end, she became Xuanshuangfeng's inner disciple, and began to follow the senior sisters to leave the sect for the first time to perform tasks.

While sitting on the flying boat, Jun Wanbai was thinking about the scene in her dream the day before, and she remained silent. Senior Sister Zhou Jin thought she was afraid, so she came over and rubbed her hair, and patted her on the shoulder Said: "Don't be nervous, this time I'm taking you out for a bit of experience, and the senior sister will be there for everything."

When Senior Sister Zhou Jin rubbed her hair with her hand, she thought she would think of her father rubbing her hair in the dream.

But no.

What she thought of was that when she had just climbed the Tongtian Steps, she staggered and fell to the ground, and the senior sister came over and took her hand. The senior sister's hand was warm and strong.

The task that time was very simple, they just went to check the formation in a secret realm belonging to the Nine Profound Sect, and if they found any difference in the formation, they would report back to the sect.

There are many disciples who have carried out this task, and nothing has happened to them, except that the environment in the secret realm seems a bit desolate. It was a vast expanse of land, and the woods and rivers in it were all black. For some reason, Jun Wanbai always felt uncomfortable when walking in the secret realm.

The formation is in the very center of the secret realm, and they need to travel for a day to get there. When resting at night, Jun Wanbai had a dream.

Dreaming of the black ancient python crawling slowly on the ground, and the ancient python's eyes looking at her, she felt fear and subconsciously wanted to avoid it, and subconsciously wanted to call Senior Sister—Senior Sister said she would protect her. But when the huge ancient python hovered beside her and raised its head, its red eyes were looking straight at her, Jun Wanbai only felt that he was nailed in place and could not move at all.

She looked at the ancient black python, unconsciously, she felt that her soul was sucked by her red eyes.

Consciousness began to become blurred.

"Wanbai is a good boy, don't be afraid."

A faint voice said this, and she began to feel that she saw the gorgeous courtyard full of sunshine again. The voice came from behind her, and she felt a familiar aura, and her father stood behind her, facing the dark ancient python with her.

"It just wants you to let it go. Don't be afraid of Wanbai. I'll go over and do it. I'll be with you."

Father said softly, comforting her.

In her father's voice, she stepped forward step by step, as if her body was being manipulated, she was obviously very scared, but she involuntarily stretched out her hand to touch the pitch-black ancient python.

The ancient python lowered its head, its sharp teeth sank into her wrist, it was sucking her blood.

The pain in her hand made Jun Wanbai cry out. She felt that the blood in her body was flowing rapidly. She turned her head hard to look at her father behind her, and wanted to ask if her father said he wanted to protect herself? When she turned her head away, she was stunned, and the next moment she screamed in horror, standing behind her was a dark white skeleton, the jaws of the skeleton collided, and the middle-aged man was low and light. The voice of strange power.

— not her father.

"Wanbai! Wanbai!"

The ancient python opened its huge mouth to devour her, at this moment someone called her name.

Like a ray of light suddenly breaking through the heavy darkness and pulling her out of the drowning suffocation, Jun Wanbai suddenly opened her eyes and woke up.

It was Senior Sister Zhou Jin who called her name. Her expression was serious. Seeing that she woke up, she explained the situation in a few words—just now, there was a change in the formation in the secret realm. There was danger in the secret realm, and they had to withdraw immediately.

Jun Wanbai looked in the direction that Senior Sister Zhou Jin said, and saw that in the dark secret realm, in the direction of the formation that was only half a day away from them, a black beam of light rose from the ground—at Jun Wanbai's In sight, that black beam of light looked like a black ancient python.

Seeing her in a daze, Senior Sister Zhou Jin thought she was afraid, so she reached out and stroked her hair, and said, "Don't be afraid, there is Senior Sister."

She lowered her head and saw the blood on her wrist dripping slowly to the ground.

After a long time, Jun Wanbai realized one thing.

She is the dynasty's pawn, the seed that the dynasty buried in Jiuxuanmen, and one of the swords that the dynasty uses to deal with the sect. When she set out to go to the secret realm with her senior sisters, whoever was hidden in the cloak and darkness in the underground of Jintang wrote her fate. Her blood is the blood of Gushi Shiba, and her blood can awaken the sealed things in the secret realm.

The dream for so long—Jun Wanbai no longer wanted to care whether those dreams were real or not—was just for her to step forward at the last moment and use her own blood to awaken the sealed thing.

She is a pawn, and her life and death are indifferent to those who set up Skynet.

However, not everyone doesn't care about her life or death.

When the black beam of light rose, the sound of scales rubbing against each other sounded from all directions, and the black snake wrapped in eerie devilish energy rushed towards it like a tide. Big and small, tens of thousands. Dense snakes surrounded them, trying to bury them here.

Senior Sister Zhou Jin's twin swords bloomed gorgeously and delicately in the air, beheading waves of black snakes. She was protected by her senior sister, and the stinky snake blood splashed on her face like lava.

"Take this back and tell the elders that the secret realm has changed."

Senior sister Zhou Jin pushed her to the exit of the secret realm and activated the formation to teleport out of the secret realm. A piece of jade engraved with a message was stuffed into her hand.

She didn't know what expression she had at that time, maybe she was crying, because after the senior sister stuffed the jade into her hand, she paused, patted her on the head, and said in a relaxed tone: "Don't be afraid, you'll be fine when you go out." Don't cry anymore... isn't there a senior sister who is going to stop the sky from falling?"

The black snake, the strong wind, the strange coercion, and the fragmented dreams all became far away.

Only the senior sister smiled at her, turned around, and stood outside the formation, her two swords pointed obliquely at the ground, and white light burst out from her body—it took a few breaths to activate the exit formation, And those black snakes didn't want to give them this little time.

"Senior Sister!"

She once walked on the desolate land for so long, and felt that no one in this world could save anyone, and she would die at any time. But in the end, after all, there will still be such a person, she holds the sword, comforts you with a smile and tells you not to be afraid, then turns around to block the wind and rain for you.

Because she is your senior sister, and the senior sister always wants to protect the younger brothers and sisters. She said that there is a tall person blocking the sky, and the senior sister is there.

At that moment, Jun Wanbai finally understood why Jiuxuanmen is the number one Jiuxuanmen in the world, and why brothers and sisters regard Jiuxuanmen as their home.

Because here, from generation to generation, the older brothers and sisters protect the younger brothers and sisters, and the older brothers and sisters protect the new younger brothers and sisters again.

This is the Nine Profound Gate, not the high and distant things of the sect inherited from the Ten Thousand Immortals Era, but those people, those familiar people.

It doesn't matter what the past is.

From that moment on, Jun Wanbai will no longer be afraid of death, because her life is no longer her own. The senior sister protected her and died in the dark secret place. She should have died. She will be as brave as a senior sister, as strong as a senior sister, will use double swords like a senior sister, and will stand in front of the brothers and sisters in Xuanshuang Peak like a senior sister.

One day, she was standing at the end of the Heavenly Steps, and saw Bai Li who was staggering up. She walked over and picked up the little girl who was about to fall—just like the senior sister picked herself up.

At that moment, Jun Wanbai felt that he heard senior sister Zhou Jin say softly, "Don't be afraid."

As time passed, she changed from a formal disciple of Xuanshuangfeng of Jiuxuanmen to a senior sister of Xuanshuangfeng. Jun Wanbai buried those windows under the sun and the middle-aged man holding her in the depths of her memory. For a long time, Jun Wanbai didn't have any more dreams about that courtyard - she started to have other dreams.

The dark secret realm, the pitch-black ancient python, and the senior sister who turned around.

A voice said softly: You killed her, you killed senior sister, you practiced sword so desperately, just to let yourself not think about these things.

But you killed the senior sister.

yes.

This is the nightmare that Jun Wanbai can't escape no matter what, it is the biggest fear buried in her heart. Everyone thought that the change in the secret realm was an accident, but only she knew clearly in her heart that it was not an accident at all. It was she who believed the so-called father's words in her dream and opened the seal with her own blood. She was the real one. murderer.

That is her sin and unforgivable.

Maybe one day, someone will discover her identity and know that she is a chess piece of the dynasty. When that day comes, the juniors and juniors at Xuanshuang Peak will no longer call her Senior Sister Jun.

However, before that day comes, Jun Wanbai wants to be like Senior Sister Zhou Jin, work harder, and protect the ignorant juniors and juniors behind her. It seemed that as long as she did this, the senior sister would not be dead, and she would not feel so uncomfortable.

She seemed to be waiting for a doomed punishment.

Sometimes, Jun Wanbai thinks that the best ending is when he dies fighting for Jiuxuanmen before other people know his identity. In this way, when she dies, everyone will remember that she is still Xuanshuang's chief senior sister instead of other disgraceful characters.

When Li Bankuang's words came out, Jun Wanbai felt that the long-awaited verdict was coming.

"It turns out that you have some brains, you are half crazy."

Jun Wanbai laughed and threw the two swords to Li Xin.

Li Xin caught the sword and looked at her.