When they arrived, it was raining lightly in Qingyan Town. Lu Fenfang didn't have an umbrella, and Ren Yuruo's spider silk was blown by the wind and stuck to her palm.

She ran alone on the back street, passing through one stone archway after another, and the bluestone pavement that had been washed and sharpened for a hundred years reflected her slender and vivid figure like a mirror.

She passed through several shops selling chicken chili, rose candy, and rice tofu, and bypassed Yingxiang Temple and Wenchang Pavilion, and finally found the courtyard wall made of small stone chips and green mud. She stood panting against the doorpost, hesitated for a long time, but did not dare to knock on the door.

The white umbrella top covered her head, and she turned to look, but it was Wu Yingshao. Wu Yingshao took a string of tofu balls and shook it in front of her eyes: "What's wrong with you, why are you running so fast?" ”

Lu Fenfang looked gloomily at the lush and quiet spotted bamboo in the courtyard and said, "This is my former home. My parents and my eldest sister and I live here. Every day, I walked down this stone road, and then walked south along the back street until I went to the field to deliver food to my father and mother......"

Wu Yingshao patted Lu Fenfang's shoulder and did not speak. Lu Fenfang looked at the extremely familiar door that she had pushed open countless times in her dreams, and felt uneasy: "You immortal cultivators all pay attention to pure hearts and few desires to cut off love, but you can push yourself and others, I really don't believe anyone can do it!" Even though my parents are long gone, I still miss them, and I just hate to bring them back to life. If they are alive, I don't want to cultivate immortals and cultivate the Dao, I just want to be filial under their knees for a long time, and never separate! ”

Lu Fenfang wept. Wu Yingshao wiped away her tears and comforted her softly: "The sad husband lives and dies in the world, and it is difficult to redeem the catastrophe." What do immortal cultivators seek? It is a feather ascending immortal, immortality, perhaps only those who see through life and death can transcend life and death. As far as I am concerned, I am afraid that I will not be able to become an immortal in my life. ”

Wu Yingshao is the first person in the young generation of Taisu Palace, but now he actually said that he couldn't become an immortal, so shocked that Lu Fenfang stopped sobbing. Suspecting that she had misheard, she asked, "What did you say?" ”

Wu Yingshao and Lu Fenfang sat on the stone bench under the spotted bamboo bushes, and handed her the tofu balls in his hand and said, "Tell you about me." My father is a monk of Penglai Palace, and he is close friends with my master, Elder Sword. I was born on Qiyun Mountain and was brought up by my master. As for my father, I have seen him once since I was so old, and that was when he gave me the Hongyan Sword on my tenth birthday. ”

Lu Fenfang couldn't help but feel indignant, she didn't expect Wu Yingshao's kinship to be so thin. She saw Wu Yingshao's calm and calm expression now, and remembered his heartless appearance on weekdays, and couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

"That'...... Your mother ......"

"I've never met her. My master never allowed me to ask about my mother. It wasn't until I was ten years old that a monk from Penglai, who claimed to be my father, came and gave me a Hongyan sword. I threw my sword on the ground, pounced on him, and struck him: 'I don't want a broken sword!' I want my mother! I want my mother! His expression was always cold, and he only said to me, 'If you want to find your mother, you should spend your life cultivating this sword.' ’”

When Wu Yingshao said this, his palm gently brushed his cheek, as if he was wiping away the tears in his heart. Lu Fenfang said: "What about later? ”

"After my father left, I became even more sad and didn't want to cultivate. The master didn't want to see me so sad, so he told me that my mother was the most gentle and resolute woman in the world. I asked Shizun where his mother was, and Shizun refused to say anything more. ”

"Don't be too sad." Lu Fenfang knew that Wu Yingshao had uncovered her old scars in order to comfort her, so she couldn't bear it anymore and said with relief, "Maybe your mother has become an immortal?" Since your father asked you to do sword cultivation, maybe when you become a sword immortal, you will be able to see your mother! ”

"Huh." Wu Yingshao smiled bitterly, "I hope that's the case too." It's a pity that my mother is a person whose spiritual root is damaged, and she will not become an immortal. ”

Lu Fenfang was stunned. No wonder Wu Yingshao has always been close to her, it turns out that his mother is a mortal girl with a damaged spiritual root like her!

"You don't have to feel sorry for me. My master and brothers were very kind to me, and I was lucky not to have my parents by my side. Wu Yingshao stretched out his hand to reach out, and the light rain had stopped, "Are you still going in?" ”

Lu Fenfang shook her head. In the past, when her parents were seriously ill, she and her sister sold the old house in order to raise money, and the house has changed hands several times in the past seven years, and now I don't know who lives there. She didn't want to go in and look, and she didn't want to see an unfamiliar face poking out of this door. She would rather imagine that there were her parents in the courtyard, who were chilling out under the orange trees, doing needlework, and chatting about household chores. Maybe she could hear her father's cough as she approached the door—but she couldn't see it anymore.

"Not going in. Let's go. ”

Lu Fenfang and Wu Yingshao returned to the back street, and saw that Tiaohua, Chengling, and Ning Zhen had bought a lot of rose candy, and looked for the two of them while shopping. A few people are young in the end, and they rarely have the opportunity to come out to play, and they just thought that treasure hunting is a big thing, and when they see something fresh and fun, they can't help but think about it.

Lu Fenfang happened to go to buy some lamps and candles, paper money, fruits, etc. to go to her parents' graves, so several people bought them separately and agreed to meet at the only inn in the town at the end of the year.

Along the way, Wu Yingshao insisted on accompanying Lu Fenfang, swept the tomb with her, and ate sour soup fish together, and the two returned to the inn.

Cheng Ling looked at them as if they had been together all afternoon, very unhappy, and glanced at Lu Xiangxiang, and his eyes glanced to the sky. Tiaohua said: "Uncle Xiao, it's not too early, should we hurry up and set tomorrow's itinerary?" ”

Wu Yingshao looked at Lu Fenfang, motioned for her to go back to her room to rest first, and then said to the rest: "Okay, everyone come to my room." ”

"Wait a minute." Lu Fenfang stopped Wu Yingshao, she hadn't had time to tell Wu Yingshao that she wanted to go to Yaoshan together, but it didn't seem to be appropriate right now, "I...... I have something else to tell you. ”

"What's wrong?"

Cheng Ling saw that Lu Fenfang was delaying time here again, and finally couldn't hold his breath and said: "Lu Fenfang, we still have important things to discuss, we send the Buddha to the west, can't you stop for a while?" ”

Tiaohua glared at Cheng Ling and motioned for her to shut up. Lu Fenfang said, "I'll just say one word. The trip to Yaoshan, I want to go with you. ”

When Lu Fenfang said this, several people were stunned. In the silence, Cheng Ling suddenly burst out with a sneer: "Heh! We're here to fight real monsters, what is nine deaths and one life, what is Longtan Tiger's Den, do you know? Ignorant mortals! ”

Wu Yingshao glanced at Cheng Ling, and Tiao Hua hurriedly pulled Cheng Ling's sleeve, but Cheng Ling didn't know why, and he still looked frivolous. Lu Fenfang understood, Wu Yingshao's mother was a mortal girl, and it seemed that Tiaohua also knew.

"Nope." Wu Yingshao had no choice but to be categorical, "Yaoshan is dangerous, you can rest assured that you can be here." ”

"But I—"

"Okay, let's not talk about it, you can go back to your room and rest."

Lu Fenfang originally prepared hundreds of reasons why she could go to Yaoshan, but she didn't want Wu Yingshao to be so resolute that she didn't even give her a chance to argue. But the matter of the relics of the sea is closely related to Lu Fenfang's fate, how can she let go of such a good opportunity? Lu Fenfang chased after him and said: "Let's go to Yaoshan together, I really have an unspeakable reason, Uncle Xiao, you can take me there!" I'm not going to bother you! ”

Lu Fenfang had never relied on Wu Yingshao's preference to ask him for anything, and he opened his mouth once by chance, which made Wu Yingshao embarrassed. Cheng Ling sneered: "Heh, haven't you given us enough trouble? Do you want a few of us to accompany you to die in Yaoshan, so that you are willing? ”

"Alright." Tiaohua pulled Cheng Ling behind her and didn't allow her to speak again. She bowed her hand to Wu Yingshao and said, "Uncle Junior, although there are strange beasts and demon spirits in Yaoshan, it is a fairy resort, not to mention mortal people, even our monks are rare to come once in their lives." The Great Demon had only been here once decades ago, so how could he have met him again this time. Since Sister Lu wants to go, let's take her with us, with the skills of a few of us, we will never let Sister Lu have any problems. ”

"Senior Sister Tiaohua!" Cheng Ling was so angry that she stomped her feet, she had seen enough of her and Wu Yingshao on the way, if she took her to Yaoshan again, she would really be half angry. Tiaohua glanced at Cheng Ling, took Fragrant Fragrance's hand and said to Wu Yingshao: "I am a sister with Fragrant Love, and I am willing to live and die with her, doesn't Uncle Xiao still trust me?" ”

"Okay, okay, don't say anything about life or death, it's not so strict." Wu Yingshao waved his hand and said, "Let's go with Fragrance." Let's talk about tomorrow's itinerary first. ”

Lu Fenfang held Xia Yuanhua's hand, so excited that she didn't know what to say. Xia Yuanhua winked at her and whispered, "My father said that Yaoshan is actually not that dangerous, otherwise he would not have sent our young disciples there." You don't blame Uncle Junior, he is also thinking about your safety. ”

Lu Fenfang nodded, and then looked up at Wu Yingshao patiently explaining the terrain of Yao Mountain to a few of them, and felt that when he was strict and serious, he actually had a wise and martial temperament.

According to the news sent back by Jiao Yingzheng, Zhang Ade, the leader of the treasure dealers, confessed that the last time the Zhuqiu Dan furnace appeared was in the area of the Yaoshan Shuichun River, and they searched in the Shuichun River valley and may be able to find clues. Wu Yingshao set to go down the river from Shuichun Gorge, first go to a wave, sunset spring, if there is no clue, and then go south to the area of Chaoyang Town, Zhangjiang.

Seeing Wu Yingshao's arrangement, Lu Fenfang couldn't help but be speechless, Jiao Yingzheng sent back too few clues, and such a carpet search, I am afraid that there will be no results for a year and a half. Cheng Ling and Ning Zhen were also generally depressed, and Wu Yingshao comforted that there were also many spirit stone herbs in Qiannan, such as the Soul Returning Water Leek, Purple Spot Dipper Orchid, Hanyin Wind Orchid, etc., all of which were rare materials for alchemy medicine, and if they could pick some back, it would be in vain to make the trip, and everyone was excited again.

Hearing this, Lu Fenfang whispered with her heart and asked thoughtfully: "Rejuvenating water leek, purple dotted dipper orchid, and cold sound wind orchid, what kind of plants are they and what are they used for?" ”

"Leeks are swamp plants, as the name suggests, they are grasses that grow in shallow ponds and ravines, and their leaves are like leeks. There are many monsters in Yaoshan Mountain, and there are many demon corpses buried under the silt, and the water leek that has been nourished by the demon flesh will absorb the evil power in it, and it is said that if ordinary people take this leek within a moment of death, they will have to come back to life. Bu Zhou said.

"Brought back to life?" Lu Fenfang said suspiciously, "You just said that the leek absorbs the evil power in the demon corpse, shouldn't it make people reborn and become monsters?" ”