At the same time, in the mountains and woods behind the hanging clouds, far from the crowds.

The pouring rain soaked the girl's broken dress scorched by the fire, and her thin body shivered in the cold wind.

She looked at the sudden change of scenery in front of her in disbelief, and slowly raised her hands to examine it carefully, as if to confirm whether the qiē in front of her was real or illusory.

Obviously he was still in the fire a moment ago, why ...... now?

"Shumo?" Eyelashes trembled slightly, and he muttered in disbelief.

Suddenly, a painful feeling of grief that almost suffocated her heart welled up, and as soon as her legs went weak, she fell straight to her knees in the mud, but the cold touch could not stir up a ripple in her stagnant despair at the moment. Her white and slender palms were deeply embedded in the mud, her fingertips were digging at the ground, and the tears that came out of her eyes mixed with the rain flowed down and dripped a warm heat on the back of her hand......

"Nope! It won't be like this! She didn't believe it to death, "Shumo! You come out! You come out......" Forced to get up from the ground with her crumbling body, but the figure of the white-clothed fairy could no longer be found as far as her eyes could see, and she fell to the ground again, "It won't be like this, how can you ...... How can you ...... "For the first time in my life, I felt such a heartache, and for the first time I felt what it was like to live rather than die."

Suddenly, there was a sound of broken footsteps from the sound of the drizzling rain, but she no longer had the strength to look up, the boundless pain put her on the verge of collapse, but a figure holding an umbrella appeared in her blurred vision. I couldn't hold it anymore, and suddenly there was a strong feeling of dizziness, and then my consciousness sank into darkness.

"Heh, what did I find?" An ethereal, ethereal, male and female voice sounded.

In the wind and rain, the black clothes were as elegant as a phoenix butterfly, and the gorgeous red lips led a hint of a playful smile, and it was in vain that he was going around around here, it was really the emperor who lived up to his wishes, and he knew that this woman would not die so lightly. Looking at the girl lying on the ground covered in mud and unconscious, Phantom chuckled and leaned down to pick her up.

"Actually, I don't want to do this to you," he sighed, his dark eyes gradually dimmed, and his delicate face wet with rain actually showed a trace of pain, "but do you know? Giving hope to those who were born into darkness is tantamount to pushing them into an even greater abyss......"

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"Shumo! Don't leave! Don't leave me ......"

Waking up in a nightmare, Chaolu bounced off the bed sweating profusely, and subconsciously covered her sore chest.

A faint sigh sounded in the dim room, and then a pair of soft and slender little hands came up and tightly held Chaolu's trembling hands at the moment, "Chaolu ......"

"Qinglan?"

Looking blankly at the backlit face in front of him, Chaolu grabbed the other party's hand as if he had finally grabbed a life-saving straw, and cried out with suppressed grief: "Where is this?" I'm going to find Shumo-" He must still be there waiting for him, he's so powerful, he'll be fine!"

Qinglan was stunned, although she began to hate the other party because of Brother Fengxian's matter, but seeing that Chaolu, who had never flinched no matter what difficulties she encountered, was now like this, as if she was so fragile that she could no longer withstand the touch, she suddenly softened her heart. So he patted the other party's shrinking shoulder comfortingly, and said softly: "Don't be too sad, things don't have to be as bad as you think!" ”

"Why? Why is this happening? Unable to relax at all, the grief of the moment was so suppressed that she had a splitting headache, and her mind was constantly roaring, so she could only helplessly hug her knees and bury her face between her legs, letting her tears wet her clothes.

"Chaolu ......" Qinglan hugged the other party's trembling body while hesitating to pick up the porcelain bowl on the coffee table at the bedside, "Come, this is a decoction to calm the nerves." "I'm sorry, Asaka, I really don't want to do this......

She raised her head in a daze, looked at the small bowl handed over by Qinglan with teary eyes, shook her head and said in a choked voice: "Thank you, thank you, but I really can't eat it now." ”

"Obedient, let's drink a little first!" Qinglan bit her lower lip and looked at Chaolu persistently, scooped up a spoonful of decoction and leaned it against her mouth to blow cold, "Otherwise, how can you find Shumo Gongzi like this?" ”

"Hmmm......"

She didn't shirk anymore, her body was showing signs of collapse due to excessive grief and made it difficult for her to even speak, so she could only let Qinglan feed her spoonful by spoonful and drink the calming decoction. For some reason, although there was a glimmer of hope that Shumo would not have an accident, tears still overflowed uncontrollably and flowed down his eyes, and he didn't even notice what the decoction in his mouth tasted like, and the only thing he tasted was the bitter taste of tears that occasionally slipped into the corners of his mouth.

"Let's sleep again, okay?"

After comforting Chaolu and lying down on the bed again, Qinglan walked out of the room with a bowl with a sad face.

Chaolu, I'm really sorry, from the moment I fell in love with Brother Fengxian, and Brother Fengxian fell in love with you, I lost my qualification to be friends with you!

As soon as he turned a corner, he saw Phantom Yin, who was already standing in the shadows waiting, Qinglan's original expression of apology quickly cooled down, and stuffed the medicine bowl into Phantom Yin's hand, Liu Mei clenched her teeth and said: "I have already let her drink this medicine, now I have to hurry back to the palace, and you can solve the rest of the matter yourself!" ”

Watching Qinglan leave in a hurry, a trace of gloom floated in the dark pupils of the phantom sound, and the red lips opened and whispered to himself: "Sad, you and I are the same, the most pathetic people in the world......" sighed and turned around, the black veil as thin as cicada wings fluttered in the wind behind him.

He walked to the room, gently picked up the sleeping girl, and walked to the carriage that was already waiting outside.

"Is that her?" The five big and three rough coachmen glanced suspiciously, and saw that although the sleeping girl was pale, her facial features were delicate and very lovable.

"Yes." Phantom nodded indifferently, put Chaolu into the carriage, and then turned to leave.

Gu Chaolu, if you go over there, don't come back!

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Mount Meru back.

Two novices with brooms chatting while sweeping the gravel-paved path.

"Senior Brother Mingjing, why didn't Master let us go behind that wood?" The slightly shorter little novice held the broom handle and touched his bare head while looking curiously at the entrance of the deep forest opposite, "I really want to go and see~ The last time I cleaned this neighborhood, I saw a very beautiful little roe deer running in the forest......"

Ming Jing, who was a little older, hurriedly covered her junior brother Ming Ruo's mouth, and said nervously: "What nonsense! Behind the woods is a forbidden place! ”

"What's in the forbidden land?" Ming Ruo asked without giving up, "Senior brother, can we go and have a look?" ”

"Of course not!" Ming Jing shook his head resolutely, although he didn't know what was in the forbidden land behind the woods, but the master said that he was not allowed to go, then he must not go.

"Why don't we go to the forbidden land, but just go to the woods and have a look?" Ming Ruo was not happy, the morning bell and dusk drum on the mountain were really boring for a child who was not yet twelve years old, and he had been wanting to go to the woods since the last time he saw the cute little roe deer.

Ming Jing looked at her junior brother very embarrassed, although as long as she didn't go to the forbidden land, it would not be considered disobeying her master's orders, but ......

"Senior brother!" Ming Ruo unrelentingly grabbed the sleeve of his senior brother who was half a head taller than him, and pleaded.

"W-Oh well!" Unable to withstand the repeated requests of her junior brother, Ming Jing had no choice but to nod, "Let's talk about it first, at most, I can only go to the woods to have a look, and I will be back soon!" ”

"Hmm~mm!" Ming Ruo smiled again.

So the two novices cautiously walked into the woods. Ming Ruo was so excited that he jumped up and ran in front, while Ming Jing was always in a worried mood, a lot of big things have happened in the martial arts recently, and the master and uncles are very busy, Ming Ruo is still young, but he really doesn't want to make trouble at such a critical juncture......

"Senior brother, I, let's go back!" Ming Jing saw that she had already walked into the depths of the woods, and she was quite uneasy, so she hurriedly stopped Ming Ruo, "Look, there is nothing unusual in this woods......"

"No way!" Ming Ruo stubbornly turned his head, he was just about to leave, he was not reconciled, "Senior Brother Ming Jing, look over there-" Suddenly seeing a slight light in the place at the end of the path that was covered by layers of trees, Ming Ruo ran over in surprise and let Ming Jing follow behind and shouted and refused to turn back.

Finally, the two of them saw a bright eye, and they actually walked through the woods to a mountain wall.

"Wow!"

Mingruo was shocked to look at the steep cliffs and the misty peaks not far away, and after walking a few steps, he saw the cave near the cliff......

"No, you can't!" Seeing that Ming Ruo's eyes widened and his feet were about to walk towards the cave, he vaguely realized that he might have come to the forbidden place, Ming Jing was so nervous that he was sweating profusely, and hurriedly took his junior brother's hand and walked in the direction he came, "We should go back!" ”

However, Ming Ruo shook it off and Ming Jing shouted eagerly: "Oh, we're all here, and when it's Ming'er's turn to clean up the back mountain, there will be no chance to come!" After saying that, he turned around and ran to the cave, maybe his little roe deer lived there~ "Senior Brother Mingruo! Unable to stop it, Ming Jing had no choice but to chase after him.

However, when Ming Ruo ran to the deep entrance of the cave, he instantly felt a cold wind coming towards him, and he couldn't help but shiver. After taking a few steps, and as his eyes adjusted to the dim light of the cave, he saw a vague figure sitting cross-legged at the end of the cave.

"Senior brother, there are people here!" Mingruo screamed in surprise.

I saw that the ragged man with black hair slowly opened his eyes, the obsidian-like beautiful and deep pupils were full of coldness, and the pale and somewhat transparent skin seemed to flow with brilliance, although his hands and feet were imprisoned by heavy shackles and nailed to the stone wall with iron chains, but he could not hide the peerless and arrogant temperament of the person in front of him.

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