She turned her head and saw a masked man appear in front of her at some point, and as soon as she wanted to ask who he was, he said, "You are weak, don't go to the rain again, I have prepared a jug of water for you, and it is in the house, if you want to drink, go into the house." ”

The girl immediately knew that the person in front of her was none other than the patron saint she had met in the sacrificial mountain that day, and she was both excited and frightened, and knelt tremblingly in front of him, greeting and thanking him incoherently, and the patron saint did not speak again, but silently cast a spell and handed the prepared pot of water to her.

"Thank you!" the girl carefully took the kettle, then glanced at the Patronus, and found that he did not care about herself, so she did not hesitate to drink the pot of water, licked her lips, and wanted to drink again, before the words came out, the girl felt the kettle in her hand become heavy, she was extremely surprised, and later found that the original kettle was filled with water again.

After going back and forth for a long time, the girl finally drank enough, and without saying a word, the Patronus immediately took her to a place, which was the northwest direction of the Sacrifice and Mountain, where there was an endless sand and gravel land, and the Patron God waved his hand, and the sand and stones on the ground instantly suspended in the air, and the girl was stunned as she looked at everything in front of her.

But what she didn't expect was that on the original gravel floor, there was a little stream of water, she was surprised, the guardian spirit moved the suspended sand and gravel to other places, turned her head to look at the girl, without saying a word, she conjured a dagger in her hand, and slashed on the girl's hand with lightning speed, a drop of blood flowed out, and it was naturally condensed in the palm of his hand.

"There is a well in Zaikong City, and there is a stream here, all of which have been sealed and have not seen the light of day, and now I have opened their seals for you, and I have to bear the price of opening the seal, and you will also bear the price of letting me open the seal, this drop of blood, it will be regarded as if you returned me, I don't see!"

With that, he left the girl, leaving her alone in stunned place, still at a loss for what he said about the price.

But the patron saint really didn't deceive her, after he left, a stream really appeared in front of the girl, and the water droplets kept gushing out from under the soil, and the girl who saw it was dumbfounded, and the dry well in the empty city was also, there was water in an instant, everyone thought it was God's mercy, but only the girl knew that it was the patron god who broke the seal.

She wanted to go to the mountain to thank him personally, but when she arrived at the mountain, she couldn't find him, even the holy water and his statue disappeared without a trace, and the girl was suddenly a little scared, afraid that this is what he said before, the price to pay for breaking the seal.

After looking back and forth in the sacrificial and mountain for a day, the girl still did not find any trace of him, but on the way back, she found a snake skin that had been peeled off, the snake skin was so huge that it could almost wrap the girl's whole body, leaving no gaps, the girl was shocked, thinking that there was a giant python nearby, so she hurriedly wanted to leave.

But after running two steps, she tripped over something and fell to the ground, and when she looked back, she found that the thing that tripped her was actually a human leg, she panicked, and her eyes kept moving up with the leg, and finally, she saw the Patronus.

He fainted next to the tree, still wearing a mask, but all the clothes on his upper body were torn and scattered, and he was covered in blood! The girl then thought of what he meant by the price, no wonder, he would only need a drop of her blood, it turned out that the greater price was borne by himself!

Tears welled up in tears at the thought of his torment, and she took the Patronus back to her home, taking care of him, hoping that he would wake up and relieve her guilt.

Year after year, day after day, the girl took care of him every day, but the patron saint never opened his eyes, and time flew by, but in the blink of an eye, the girl had entered old age, and became an old woman with gray hair, married to a merchant when she was young, and now lived a very happy life.

After the baptism of time, the city has become a prosperous city, the people in the city take advantage of the geographical advantage of the city surrounded by six mountain ranges, in the six mountain ranges of the Beiban to dig rivers to ensure the drinking water source of the people in the city, and also take the strange scenery of the six mountain ranges as a gimmick, attracting hundreds of people to come for sightseeing.

The girl's husband came to Zaikong City because of this, met her, and then, at first sight, he decided for life, and willingly stayed in Zaikong City for her.

The Patronus finally woke up on the day of the girl's ninetieth birthday.

At that time, the girl was full of children and grandchildren, and everyone was singing and dancing for the girl's birthday, but the patronus saint did not know why, and broke into the sight of all of them, and he recognized the girl sitting in the upper seat at a glance, and looked at the picture of her gray hair and smiling at himself, he suddenly couldn't help it, and shed tears.

The girl faltered, and with the support of her children and grandchildren, she walked in front of him step by step, and told him with all her might, "Thank you!

Before the words fell, the girl knelt in front of him, and everyone knelt down when they saw the situation, and the Patronus reached out to help the girl, looking at her wrinkled face, but still full of kindness, and finally couldn't help it, hugged the girl, and then, under the gaze of everyone, turned into a light and disappeared in front of them.

The picture of the girl's dying struggle, the last words of the girl, deeply pierced his eyes and touched his heart, so he took action to save her life, and cracked the seal used to protect the holy water for her, and the power of the seal consumed his thousand years of cultivation, so that he once changed his original form in the sacrifice and the mountain, and the two degrees were divided into a turtle and a snake, and the snake skin was forcibly removed, and the true qi was almost exhausted, and the whole body was scarred.

Everything in the world has to pay the price for his actions, fortunately, he can bear the price for her, the price she has to bear, although he missed most of her life, can not watch her get married and have children happily, but fortunately God favored him and let him see her last face in the last period of her life.

The girl finally died, at the age of ninety-six, and disappeared into this world.

Her children and grandchildren buried her body in the sacrificial mountain, it is said that this was her only request, and the guardian god used her blood to lay an isolation barrier in the sacrificial mountain, and sealed it in this enchantment together with holy water, and he, exhausted all his cultivation, finally became a statue, and as he wished, he was guarded under the girl's tombstone for the rest of his life.

I have never had the luxury of being able to stay by your side and accompany you for a lifetime, because we are people from different worlds, I only want to be able to do all the things you want to do for you in your lifetime, protect everything you want to protect, and not let you be hurt in the slightest until the end of your life.

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The story was finally finished, and it was getting dark, Lin Shuihan and Bai Ningxi sat in place in a daze, immersed in the story for a long time......

Gu Dao Zhenren didn't know when to disperse, the tea shed was empty, everyone went to play elsewhere in the empty city, tonight's empty city is very lively, the shops on both sides of the street are lined up, the moonlight as thin as silver yarn is quietly sprinkled in this piece of busy and lively, the pedestrians on the road are endless, a prosperous and prosperous scene.

Later, Ning Xi reacted first, and pulled Lin Shuihan to leave the tea shed before Gu Dao Zhenren found the two of them.

Walking on the street, Lin Shuihan still echoed the story in his mind, "Ning Xi, you said, that guardian beast and that girl, have they been staying in the sacrifice and the mountain?" After being silent for a long time, Lin Shuihan finally asked.

Ning Xi thought about it carefully and shook her head, "I don't know, but the story told by Gu Dao Zhenren is too true, and the real one seems to have really happened,"

"Do you think so too?" Lin Shuihan's eyes lit up, obviously, he also felt that this story was real as if it had really happened, so he and Ning Xi began to discuss.

"Do you know? There is a sealed stream in the northwest of the story, and there is actually a small stream dozens of steps west behind our village, and I thought it was strange when I heard it, how could it be so coincidental?"

"That's right, and I told you before that there is a sacred well in Zaikong City, and the water in the well there does not dry up all year round, and this is very similar to the sealed dry well in the story!"

"Yes, maybe that guardian beast is really the guardian spirit of the Northern Barbarian Land! Hey, by the way, Ning Xi, there is one thing I have always forgotten to ask you, I heard Gu Dao Zhenren say that there is a thing sealed under the Hanxu Mountain, do you know what the thing that is sealed underneath is it?"

Ning Xi frowned, and seemed to have an impression of this in his mind, as if he had heard someone say it before, and there was a traitor of the Qilin Gate sealed under the Hanxu Mountain......

But after a long time, she didn't take it to heart, so she didn't remember, so she shook her head and said, "I don't know...... I've heard a lot of people say that there is a person sealed underneath, and some say that there is a monster sealed underneath, and there are various versions anyway!"

......

The two of them walked back to the village like this, Ning Xi has often come to this village to play with him since he met Lin Shuihan, and he sleeps in the empty room of his house when it gets dark, sometimes he stays for two or three days, and tonight is no exception.

Lin Shu had already fallen asleep, and the two of them walked into the house lightly, said a simple good night, and prepared to go back to their rooms to rest.