Chapter 187: The Scourge of Losing Troops
Wushan, there is a desolate land in the altar of the gods, where there is a dilapidated pavilion, perhaps because it has been abandoned for too long, a thick layer of sand has been piled up on the pavilion, and even the plaque above has been completely buried by time, it is difficult to distinguish.
Yuan Xuan stood in the small pavilion, very calm, but under a closer look, there was a faint vigilance hidden in the depths of his eyes, he had been in this place for so long, he had been very careful, and he would never expose himself easily, and the black cloth covering his face had not been removed so far.
"Click~~Click~~" Suddenly there was a cracking sound behind him, it was an ice sculpture, a trace of cracks from the inside, gradually enlarged, in a moment, a gray-eyed man broke through the ice.
"Nosy!" said the gray-eyed man coldly.
"It's you who think of others too simply!" Yuan Xuan said lightly, "Do you think that what you can think of, others can't think of?
"Hmph!" said the gray-eyed man, spitting out blood, "You're at ease, there are so many people over there looking for your whereabouts, and you can still be at ease!"
"The rabble, don't say they can't find it, even if they find it, I also have a way to get out!" Yuan Xuan slowly turned around, faced the gray-eyed man, and said, "Meet again, Left Wing!"
"Extinction!" said indifferently, "Since you already have a way to get out, what are you doing here?"
Yuan Xuan didn't respond, and asked rhetorically, "What about you? What are you doing here?"
The two of them looked at each other silently, neither of them would say their purpose, and after a long time, the left wing said slowly: "One thing is for sure, if Simon sees me, he may not kill me, but if he sees you, it will not be necessarily!"
"You're wrong again!" Yuan Xuan shook his head, "Simon, I've been thinking about him for a while, if he really wants to kill me, he won't make so much noise, he just needs to take action in person, cooperate with these so-called rabble, and I will be difficult to hide my whereabouts!"
"What? you can't beat him?" said the left wing, "or are you not confident in yourself?"
"What does it matter if the enemy is better than the enemy?" Yuan Xuan smiled, "If I really am an enemy of him in my heart, I will not venture deep into this place!"
"It's strange, you two are not enemies, why is one hiding and the other is silent?" the left flanked confused.
"I can't figure this out either!" Yuan Xuan looked up at the big array in the sky and frowned, "He trapped me with the big array, obviously he didn't want me to leave, as for the ultimate goal, I don't think even today's Savin Ding can be known!"
"Savindin!" the left wing sneered, and then frowned again, "Simon's apprentice, it's not easy!"
"It's not simple, although that move Cangling Snow Feather is powerful, if you observe carefully, you will find that he still has reservations!" Yuan Xuan commented, "This person is very hidden, if he is given time, maybe there will be a possibility of being blue!"
"That's enough!" said the left wing, waving his hand, impatiently, "I don't want to talk to you about this, why did you come to me?"
"Speaking of which, you and I don't know each other anymore!" Yuan Xuan smiled, "Now that we are trapped here, it is better to join forces and take care of each other!"
"Joke, join forces with you?" the left wing sneered, "Now that you are here, everyone is shouting and beating, and I stand with you, is it too long for me to idle myself?"
"You're very sober-minded!" Hearing the refusal, Yuan Xuan was not angry, he paused again and again, and stepped forward to ask, "You are in danger but you are looking for a place?"
Zuo Yi's face changed, and he looked at Yuan Xuan coldly, silent.
"Coincidentally, I happen to know such a place!" Yuan Xuan raised a finger and slowly clenched his fist, "You and I might as well cooperate tonight, and each will take what they need when the time comes!
"Looks like you're confident!" said the left wing, who pondered for a moment, and finally stretched out his palm, clenched his fist and slammed it into Yuan's fist.
At noon, the new disciples in the Witch Mansion had been taken away by Savinding in the name of the Tongyou Seal. Silence was back now, except for the deepest backyard.
"You haven't told me yet, what does Wu Kui do?" Ling'er chased after Seven Kills and asked, she always felt that the departure of those women this morning was not so simple.
"Ling'er, don't mess around, okay!" Seven Kills frowned, "Anyway, you still find a way to contact Yuan Xuan and ask him to take you away quickly!"
"Hmph!" Ling'er snorted and muttered, "Wu Kui, it's not a good thing to hear it!"
"Ling'er, do you really have a way to contact that fate?" Hanyue stepped forward, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Can you take me with you then, I want to go down the mountain to see Ayou!"
"Senior sister!" Qi Kill's brows furrowed even tighter, he really couldn't figure out what these women were thinking, "Master has given an order, you must not leave this place for half a step, let alone step out of Wushan!"
"Are you a senior sister, am I a senior sister?" Hanyue looked horizontally, straightened her waist, and said, "Senior sister's affairs, do you also want to take care of it?"
Seven Kills was speechless, and could only smile silently.
"Ling'er, what do you want to do when you go up the mountain this time!" Hanyue approached Wan Ling and asked in a low voice, "You tell me, maybe I can help you!"
"Senior sister, you!" Seven Kills interjected again.
"Shut up!" Han Yue glared at Qi Killing, "The affairs of my daughter's family, why do you always eavesdrop on the affairs of your big man!"
"No!" Ling'er said in a panic, "I... I just want to learn witchcraft!"
"Pretend! You still pretend!" Hanyue said dissatisfied, "It's boring like this!"
"He... He... He's looking for someone!" Ling'er's heart struggled for a long time, and finally spoke.
"Who are you looking for!" Han Yue asked, and even Seven Kills couldn't help but come forward to eavesdrop again.
"It's our former sword-wielding elder, whose name is Tuke!" Ling'er puffed out her cheeks, looked up at the two in front of her, and asked, "Do you know where he is?"
"Tuke!" Hanyue wondered, "It's such a familiar name, I seem to have heard it somewhere!"
Seven Kills' face changed, because the name Tuke is a taboo in the wilderness, he still remembers that person returned from the Central Plains ten years ago, and there was a big battle with Master Simon at that time, and the two of them fought until the depths of the desert, and the victory or defeat was always unknown, and then the master came back alone and issued a divine decree, in Wushan, who dared to say the name Tuke, there was no forgiveness for killing.
Now that ten years have passed, the matter has gradually been buried, so few people still remember the name.
"Tuke!" Hanyue was still pondering, "Let me think about it, I must have remembered this name!"
"Senior sister!" Seven Kills pushed Hanyue, he sensed that there was a strong resonance in the seals around the courtyard, and it was obvious that someone wanted to temporarily open the seal and walk in.
"It's not good, it's my father who is here!" Hanyue's face changed slightly, and she hurriedly pushed Ling'er into the house and instructed, "I'll help you ask, you must hide it well, don't be discovered!"
Ling'er nodded and hid silently in the room.
The courtyard door opened, and Simon walked in, his face was peaceful, and he seemed to be in a good mood, scanning the courtyard for a while, and then froze on the Seven Kills.
"Master!" Seven Kills was very respectful, "The apprentice has seen Master!"
"Hmm!" Simon nodded, "Third child, it's good to stay here these days!"
"Thank you Master, disciple!" Seven Kills didn't understand what Simon meant, so he had to say, "It's the disciple who is at fault first, and he deserves to be punished!"
"Hehe!" Simon smiled, his eyes twinked, and asked, "What is wrong with you!"
Seven Kills kept hanging his head and didn't respond.
"By the way, thanks to you for taking care of Yue'er these days!" Simon said, "I plan to lift the ban here in a few days, and when the time comes, you have to help me watch Yue'er!"
"Yes, it is incumbent on the disciple!" Seven Kills nodded.
"Dad, you're here!" Hanyue walked out of the door, her hair was unkempt, she dressed herself a little sloppily, came to Simon, and said coquettishly, "Dad, you quickly lift this seal, my daughter is suffocated here!"
"Yue'er!" Simon seemed to enjoy Hanyue's coquettishness, gently straightened his daughter's hair, and said with a smile, "As far as I know, you just went to Canglin, why did you suddenly become so sloppy, did you deliberately do it for your father?"
"How can there be!" Hanyue's eyes fluttered, "Dad, hurry up and lift the ban here, my daughter wants to go out to play!"
"Okay, good!" Simon nodded, glanced at Seven Kills, and said, "Tomorrow, Dad will definitely lift the seal, but you have to promise me not to mess around!"
"En, en, en!" Han Yue nodded again and again, "My daughter listens to her father this time, I will do whatever my father asks me to do!"
Simon smiled, treating his daughter, his domineering and gloomy, as if they had disappeared, at this moment, his eyes were full of gentleness and love, although he didn't believe Hanyue's assurance, he glanced at the door and said, "What, it's rare for dad to come to see you, don't you invite dad in and sit?"
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The room is very square, there are pink decorations everywhere, and there are some small jewelry used by girls, and it is a woman's boudoir, except for the center of the main hall, where there are always two things, a wooden scimitar and a wooden bow and arrow.
Simon took a deep look at the two things, and the softness in his eyes vanished, replaced by a kind of nostalgia.
"Dad, you drink tea!" Hanyue poured a cup of tea herself, and found Simon looking at the two pieces of wood in a daze, frowning, "These two pieces of wood, if Dad likes them, take them away, they are always placed in this, they are very eye-catching!"
"Let's put it first, if you don't like it, just take a piece of cloth and cover it!" Simon shook his head, "This is the only thing that Dad's master gave Dad!"
"Then why don't you take it away?" Hanyue asked rhetorically, "and let my daughter clean them on time every day to prevent them from being dusty!"
"Yue'er!" Simon looked back at the house and said nostalgically, "Do you know, my father grew up here when he was young, and I can't remember how many springs, autumns, winters and summers, by the way, and your two uncles!
"Two uncles?" Han Yue muttered, "I've never heard my dad mention it!"
"Of course you haven't heard of it!" Simon laughed, "you were ignorant at that time, and they all hugged you! Now it's been almost twenty years, and who remembers them!"
"Who said I don't remember!" Hanyue rolled her eyes and tried to ask, "Is there a guy named Tuke?"
"Huh!" Simon's face changed when he heard the name, and he asked rhetorically, "Do you remember that someone told you?"
"Hmph!" Han Yue raised her head, "Daughter, I'm smart and unforgettable!
"Alas!" Simon sighed, stepped forward to stroke the two wooden weapons, and recalled, "Since you remember, I might as well tell you, you know, when my father was young, he often fought with them, and these two people tend to get together, so every time I am at the disadvantage!"
"Wouldn't it be despicable to be two against one!" Han Yue asked rhetorically, her impression of these two so-called uncles fell instantly.
"Despicable!" Simon smiled, "At that time, we were all young, how did I know this, but I was arrogant and refused to admit defeat, so I relied on this strength and hard cultivation, and it took me three whole years to finally defeat the alliance of these two people!"
"That's good!" Hanyue said, "Daddy finally beat the bad guys away!"
"That's what I thought before!" Simon shook his head, "But do you know what it's like to be lonely? Since then, no one has been willing to take the initiative to talk to me, and at that time I was still a teenager, and no one would talk to me at all, except for the occasional master who came to supervise my cultivation!"
Hanyue blinked and didn't speak.
"In this way, I stayed alone on the wind cliff in the back mountain for two years, and finally I couldn't bear this endless loneliness and took the initiative to ask Master!" Simon closed his eyes, and his thoughts seemed to really return to the cliff of the year, "I said, Master, why no one wants to play with me! Why am I so lonely!"
"Master was silent at first, and then he responded to me!" Simon said, "He said that you would understand the answer to this question after ten years, but now, he can tell me, he said, at the beginning of the Tao, you want to ask for it all, and you will be ruined!"
"What does this mean?" Han Yue wondered.
"I don't understand!" said Simon, "but then Master said, "Do you remember the scourge of apprenticeship?"
"Later, Master left! I sat alone on the wind cliff and pondered! Finally, I finally understood!" Simon picked up the two weapons and sighed, "It's me who is too sharp! When I was apprenticing to the master, I had an obsession in my heart, and the master put three things in front of us, a wooden staff, a scimitar, and a bow and arrow! He we choose, and at the same time we find the direction of the future!"
"Is that all?" Hanyue pointed to the two wooden weapons, "and a wooden staff!"
"Yes!" Simon took out a golden wooden staff from his bosom and placed it with the other two, "Tuke chose the scimitar, and your other uncle Beichen chose the bow and arrow, but when it was Daddy's turn, everything changed!"
"What's wrong?" Hanyue couldn't help but ask when she saw her father close his eyes and be silent.
"Dad was full of hatred in his heart at that time, and he wanted the best he wanted, and while picking up the wooden staff, I walked towards the other two...... Simon's eyes suddenly sharpened, "I snatched Tuke's scimitar, snatched Beichen's bow and arrow, and held all three things in my hands! At that time, everyone was stunned, but Master kept shaking his head and sighing! It was this incident that created an indelible estrangement in the hearts of the three of us!"
"Over the years, my father should have been very bitter in his heart!" Hanyue snuggled on Simon's shoulder and said softly, "When my mother is reborn, ......"
"Don't talk about it!" Simon interrupted in a cold voice, "Tomorrow night, these two uncles of yours should both go to Yuzhu Pavilion, and when the time comes, Dad will show you the demeanor of these two people!"
"Well, okay!" Hanyue nodded, "No matter what, my daughter will always be by her father's side and accompany her father!"
"Fool, my daughters are going to get married when they grow up!" Simon stretched out his hand and gently took Hanyue in his arms, but under his soft gaze, he flashed a strange look, glanced at the inside of the room slightly, and a faint smile condensed on the corner of his mouth.