"Ah......h

Chu Tianyao sat up suddenly, his body was still passing through bursts of convulsions like electricity, and his face was covered with cold sweat.

The door was wide open, and several Nine Shadow Holy Envoys stationed there rushed in.

"Nine Venerables, are you alright?"

Chu Tianyao still sat stiffly, his eyes wandering away from this faint light for a long time before slowly regaining focus.

Without the master, without the evil ghosts that demanded his life, and without the blood that covered his vision, he still stayed in his room, and everything just now turned out to be just a dream.

After escaping from the Qingxin Martial Arts Gym that day, perhaps because of the sequelae of serious injuries, he would always feel a dull pain in his throat, and he would also have nightmares from time to time, and he would be choked by the neck in his dreams, and he would be out of breath...... But never before has it been so real!

Moreover, the master, who had always been kind and kind in his dreams in the past, turned out to be so hideous and terrifying. Those resentful eyes would still shake in front of him until now.

Under the anxious questioning of the Nine Shades Holy Envoys, Chu Tianyao silently took a few deep breaths before regaining his tone.

"It's okay, you all stand down. ”

The Nine Shadow Holy Envoys looked at each other a few times, and then one of them bowed down and responded: "Nine Venerables, then you have a good rest, and then you will prepare for the primary election in the hall, this is not an accident!"

Chu Tianyao waved his hand tiredly, not even wanting to say a word. Silently wrapped the quilt tightly, let the door close, and blocked out the only light. So this room was imprisoned in the darkness of despair.

These subordinates, they don't really care about themselves at all...... Chu Tianyao thought to himself. They were just worried that something had happened to the Nine Venerables and that they would be held accountable for dereliction of duty by their superiors, nothing more.

It is because I have experienced it that I know it. In the past, when I was sick in the Xuantian Sect, a group of senior brothers sat around the bed, talked to me, and brought me the medicinal porridge they had boiled with their own hands...... That's the real caring, the real affection. The sparkle in your eyes doesn't lie. It is completely different from those subordinates, who only have interests and calculations in their eyes!

In the darkness, Chu Tianyao raised his hand and stroked his throat lightly, staring at the empty quilt in front of him.

Just now in the dream, the Master was in this position, and he said that he was going to kill himself......

After gasping for a few gulps one after another, Chu Tianyao's eyes swelled with a burning hatred of madness.

"Master, you can kill me, but you must not kill me for Ye Shuo!"

"Ye Shuo......" His hands clenched fiercely on the quilt, and Chu Tianyao's heart was full of grief and indignation. Gritting his teeth, he chanted the name, this ...... There's not a day going by that he doesn't want to be torn to pieces!

"No......" After muttering to himself for a while, Chu Tianyao seemed to suddenly think of something, "If Ye Shuo dies, he will see Master underground, and they can be reunited, in that case, he will still snatch Master away from me......"

"yes, so he can't die...... He had to live and be torture......d! That's it......"

Nodding vigorously, affirming his conclusion, Chu Tianyao also seemed to have been pulled out of a maze, and his body collapsed and collapsed. Wipe the sweat from your head and roll over and get out of bed. One step at a time, he walked to the low cabinet not far away, opened the drawer, skillfully turned out a medicine bottle, poured out a few pills, and then swallowed it all in one gulp without looking at it.

In the drawer, there is also a row of medicine bottles of the same style. I don't know when he started, and every time he woke up from a nightmare, he had to use these drugs to get back asleep. Outsiders only saw the spirit of the Nine Venerables, but no one understood that his spirit had already weakened to the extreme. It's like a string that is always tight, and it has reached the verge of breaking.

Stiffly walked back to the bed, shrunk into the already cold quilt. Groping for the jade slip, his fingers couldn't help shaking, and he pressed it on the screen with difficulty.

"Tell me a few words. ”

"Don't leave me alone. ”

"Please. ”

Yan Xueying's departure was like pulling out his last spiritual pillar. Knowing that she would never return, he still sent her a message begging, like a drowning man, trying to grab a piece of driftwood that was drifting away.

The light of the jade slip continued to flicker, and then due to the long period of inactivity, the light gradually turned faint until it turned into pitch black.

Chu Tianyao's thoughts, too, fell into distant memories in this pale wait-

The Xuantian faction of that year.

There was a beautiful cream cake on the table, and five candles were burning vigorously.

"Tianyao, happy birthday!" looked at him with a smile, "Let's make a wish?"

At that time, the little boy, who was only five years old, nodded and folded his palms seriously: "My wish is that in the future, I will also be like the master, and become the head of the Xuantian Sect! However, I don't want to be like him, with such a long beard, I want to be a handsome master!"

Hearing this, the Daoist laughed: "Haha, Tianyao, listen to what Master said, 'Flying Dragon is in the sky', your future achievements will definitely not be limited to the Xuantian Sect." Look further!"

Chu Tianyao blinked his eyes in confusion: "Master, outside of the Xuantian Sect, is there a wider world?"

The eyes of the chief of the dust road were full of yearning, and he touched his head lovingly: "Yes, the outside world is very big, and it is still waiting for you to explore!"

"Then Master, why don't you explore again?" Chu Tianyao asked bluntly.

The elder smiled stiffly, then sighed and stroked his long beard: "Master is old! The future world will still belong to you young people!"

Chu Tianyao shook his head vigorously, jumped down directly from the chair, and ran forward and pulled the sleeve of the dust chief: "Master is not old! No matter where I go in the future, I will definitely take Master with me! Where Master is, it is my home!"

The Taoist Elder laughed heartily when he heard this: "Okay, okay, then I'll just wait for you to have a chance in the future and bring the master to enjoy happiness?"

Master......

In the wilderness, the little boy giggled and ran as fast as he could in front of him, turning his head from time to time and waving at the dust path chief behind him.

"Master, you should catch up!"

In the suburbs, the little boy jumped around the dust chief, clumsily maneuvering the kite in his hand.

"Master, you see my kite flying so high!"

On the martial arts training ground, the little boy performed a set of boxing techniques that he had just practiced, sweating like rain. From time to time, his eyes turned to the dust chief not far away, wanting him to see his most handsome appearance.

"Master!"

"Master!"

Scenes of familiarity and long-ago passed by before my eyes. In those pictures, there will always be a soft children's voice, affectionately calling out to Master.

Gradually, the child's voice became clearer. The little boy in my memory has also grown up day by day.

"Master!" is no longer as innocent and naughty as he was when he was a child, and the one who walked quickly at this time was already a young man with a jade tree in the wind. Bowing down just right, you can hear the exclamations of the female disciples not far away.

His life, his world, has always revolved around Master......

In the picture of the two people, I don't know when, there is a third figure.

That's Ye Shuo.

The figures of Master and Ye Shuo are gradually moving away, and all the senior brothers are also going away with them. Chu Tianyao looked at them sadly, but he couldn't move, as if standing on a floating single tree, swept by the waves, and could only float against the current......

The picture cracked one after another.

……

Chu Tianyao was still sitting alone in the dark, and the jade slip beside him never lit up.

Master, and Uncle Master......

……

In his memory, although the master was a short-tempered person and strict with his disciples, Chu Tianyao knew that in his heart, some of them were actually quite childish.

It was a sunny afternoon. As soon as Chu Tianyao stepped into the room of the dustless road chief, he beckoned to him happily.

"Tianyao, come here!"

In his hands, he was holding a bunch of strange-shaped balls of thread, his whole body was wrapped with wool, and there were two long needles in the crook of his arm, and the whole picture looked quite nondescript.

Chu Tianyao walked over with some hesitation: "Uncle Master, ...... are you?"

The dustless Taoist shook the woolen ball in his hand, revealing a slightly cramped smile: "Older people are always idle, I just thought, I don't know how many children you and Lingsha will have in the future, whether they are boys or girls, thinking about it, I want to make them a few small clothes." If we do it again, it won't be too late......"

"Tianyao, you also come over to see, which trick do you like?"

The corners of Chu Tianyao's mouth twitched, and he smiled dryly: "Uncle Master, don't bother, as long as you do it, Lingsha and I both like it." ”

The disciple suddenly remembered that there was still homework to be done for cultivation. As he spoke, he retreated slowly, and waited until he retreated to the door, and then gave a big salute vividly: "The disciple has retired first!"

Between the cracks in the hidden door, he could still see the helpless and doting smile of the master.

……

"Master, Master...... Don't you want to see me and Ling Sha get married?" Curled up in the quilt, Chu Tianyao raised his hand with a wry smile and touched the darkness of nothingness, "Come back, we will definitely be filial to your ......"

"We will kneel before you together, and bow down to you, and invite you to drink the wine of your father-in-law......"

"We're going to have a lot of children, and we're going to run all over the house, all in the little clothes you made......"

"When the weather is nice, we can take our children and go kite flying in the suburbs together......"

"When the children grow up and start cultivating, I will sing black face, and you will sing white face, because we are the masters and apprentices who have the most tacit understanding......"

"I'm able now, I can make you happy, come back......"

"Come back, okay......"

As if he was also intoxicated by the imaginary picture, a sincere smile was rarely revealed on Chu Tianyao's face. If life can really be lived simply like this, how good would it be......

Suddenly, the jade slip in his hand vibrate, the screen lit up, and there was a prompt of "a new message" at the top.

Chu Tianyao grabbed the jade slip as if he saw a life-saving straw and pressed the read button. But his heart was also cold at the same time.

Yan Xueying didn't reply to him, it was just an advertising message.

"Congratulations on winning the lottery......"

Before that, he had also received scam text messages when he had insomnia. Maybe it was a person whose night was too difficult, in order to escape this loneliness, he took the initiative to reply and chatted with the liar enthusiastically.

As long as someone can talk to him, even if he is just a liar...... It's good.

But soon, perhaps because he didn't take the bait, even the liar stopped bothering him.

Now, looking at the dim jade Jane, there are few people left in the address book. Most of them were colleagues in the Nine Shadows Palace, or subordinates who contacted him, and they were just superiors and subordinates. And I can't even find anyone who can say a few words to him.

As he swiped to one of the names, Chu Tianyao stopped, his fingers almost trembling as he stroked over the name.

In the past, the senior brothers of the Xuantian Sect, he had already deleted all of them. It's just Lingsha...... There is only Lingsha, and he has never deleted it.

Even though he knew that she would never take the initiative to contact him again, and he would never be able to contact her again, he still hoped that he would let her stay in his jade slip like this. It's like...... I still have her.

The girl who was obedient to her words at the beginning has been pushed away by herself. The only thing left between them is hatred.

"Lingsha, the Snow Shadow has also left me, I have nothing now, only you......"

Chu Tianyao smiled bitterly, slowly tilted his head, put his face on the side of the cold jade slip, and raised his other hand at the same time, around his knees, and put it on the other end of the jade slip, as if hugging her in an imaginary way.

"It's just you......"

All night, he maintained this lonely position.

***

Alternating morning and dusk.

After the battle of the Qingxin Martial Arts Hall, Ye Shuo stayed for the time being. On the one hand, it is to get together with everyone, and on the other hand, it is also to recuperate from one's injuries.

Although with the help of the second consciousness, he had the upper hand in the battle, but after all, the opponents were two Tongtian Realm powerhouses, and as soon as the foreign aid was gone, the wounds accumulated suddenly erupted in his body.

This time, although he was indeed seriously injured, Ye Shuo's physical strength and soul strength were far beyond ordinary people after all. After recuperating for a while, his cultivation returned to its peak. What's even more gratifying is that due to the long-term accumulation and the understanding gained in the battle, after the injury healed, Ye Shuo directly broke through to the second stage of the Qi Transformation!

Originally, he wanted to leave immediately, find a quiet place to retreat and cultivate, and strive to make a breakthrough before taking the assessment. Even if you can't, you must completely stabilize your current skills.

However, according to the other disciples in the hall, in a few days, in order to celebrate the appearance of Tiangongmen, a large lantern festival will be held in the city, and the scene is very lively. Ye Shuo thought to himself, if he wants to cultivate, he is not in a hurry for a few days, so why bother to spoil everyone's interest, so he agreed.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, just after lunch, Ning Bufan ran over in a hurry.

"Brother Ye, can you please help tell Qingxin that tonight's lantern festival will be on the streets west of the city, and we will see you there. ”

"Are you going to confess to her?" Seeing Ning Bufan's shy smiling face, Ye Shuo's mind moved, and he cried out in surprise.

"Great, you will definitely succeed!" Thinking that the other party's long-term crush was finally about to be reciprocated, Ye Shuo was also sincerely happy for him.

It seems good to see friends tie the knot before leaving!

(End of chapter)