I haven't done this job for a long time, and my craftsmanship is rusty.

By the time the sun set at dusk, I had finally cut a yellow black wood into a wooden scabbard. The surface of the scabbard is a simple carved pattern, and it takes a lot of time to carve it beautifully, so I'll get here today.

I picked up the sleeping master at my feet, put it on my head, and came to Kiyohime to put her in a new scabbard, the right size, but a blue sword and a yellow wood scabbard always looked a little mismatched.

She said dissatisfiedly: "You cleaned up these meaningless things today, did you find a way to try the sword competition?" ”

"How can there be no point in making a scabbard." I deliberately digressed the subject: "It's for you." ”

"The sword is not out of the sheath, what is the use of the sheath."

"Chopping wood, the firewood knife still needs a knife bag, and of course the firewood sword also needs a sheath."

I seemed to her off again, and she suddenly came out of the scabbard and struck me the hilt of my sword, and suddenly my nose was sore and tears flowed out. What a stingy and big-name sword.

Master woke up and asked me curiously in his head, "Ah Yi, who are you talking to?" ”

I held up Kiyohime, "She." ”

"Oh, we can communicate." It shook its tail and said, "I'm hungry for the teacher, go back and cook." ”

"Okay!"

This night, the five masters and apprentices of Shuijing Peak ate together as before, I don't know if I sharpened the scabbard for Qing Ji, or if the old man in charge said something to the senior brother, anyway, the senior brother looked at me with a very unfriendly look. Under the table, where no one else could see, I kicked him and I kicked each other for a long time, until my sister shouted impatiently, "Can't you have a good meal?!" "We just put away the crazy attack, but we still kicked the opponent from time to time.

The broken foot of my bed was replaced by two bricks, and I could barely continue sleeping. In the middle of the night, I woke up to find Kiyohime's spirit coming out of the sword again, and I don't know how long I was sitting at my desk reading quietly. She didn't beat me up for talking nonsense during the day, and I couldn't sleep when I woke up, so I lay in bed and watched her in a daze.

Qing Ji is most dissatisfied with me, probably because I didn't think of a way to get her back to Hongying. But I didn't want to have a stiff relationship with Kiyohime, so in order to break this awkward atmosphere, I asked her, "Speaking of which, what is your relationship with Hongying?" ”

She ignored me and continued to flip through the book in her hand.

"Isn't it the kind of relationship where you watch her grow up and be as close as a relative?"

“......”

"So dear, why didn't you recognize her as your sword master?"

She finally replied to me this time, "If you talk again, I'll cut out your tongue." ”

...... It's so boring to myself, I put on the quilt and go to sleep.

For three days in a row, my daily life was to carve patterns on the scabbard in the yard during the day, and at night I watched Kiyohime read a book and saw myself asleep. I never mentioned the sword trial meeting, and Kiyohime saw that I didn't have the heart to go to Hongying, and was angry with me and stopped talking to me. Sometimes I would take the initiative to tease her for a word or two, but there was no response. Occasionally, he plotted against each other with his senior brother, and the ratio of wins and losses was still the same as before, and he often suffered more losses. Yanagi came again, and we had a good chat, and although his friendly attitude towards me made me a little worried, he was a good person and was able to make friends. And Qian Guanzi, who hasn't seen her in the past few days, is estimated to have been locked up by Elder Xiang and can't slip out.

By the fourth day after I woke up, my body had recovered a lot, and I felt it was time to go back to that place.

Taking advantage of the fact that the senior brother didn't know what to do when he went to other peaks, I called the junior brother and asked him to accompany me down the mountain, so as not to be ambushed by the senior brother again. Although the little junior brother didn't want me to drag this body that had not fully recovered down the mountain, he naturally couldn't resist me as a child.

By the time we got down the hill, it was getting a little bad. The younger brother told me to go back to the mountain, but I insisted on going down. Soon the rain still fell, and it was very light. Fortunately, Xiao Zhengtai was well prepared and brought an oil umbrella, and the two of us reluctantly came to Xiaoshitan.

In the dim drizzle, the small stone pond seemed to lack vitality.

The little junior brother held an umbrella for me, looked around the area, and asked me, "Second senior brother, is there anything special here?" Why do you have to come here? ”

"Senior brother, I missed the appointment, and I felt a little sorry for others, so I wanted to come and have a look."

"Missed an appointment? With whom? ”

"A she-fox."

"Huh?"

The red tree has already left, and it makes no sense for me to insist on coming here at this time, and it seems to be a bit stupid. It's just that my king has always loved to do stupid things, where does it come from so much meaningless, stupid or stupid.

The red tree likes to sit on the big rock by the pond and kick the water and kick it on me. I thought of the big rock by the pond and sat for a while, but the stone was already wet, and if I wanted to sit, I would inevitably get my butt wet. But when I looked closer, I saw that the surface of the stone was carved with two lines of words that I had never seen before. This place is secret, except for Hongying and me, plus Uncle Yan, no one else will come here, so it is natural to see who carved this word.

I hurriedly braved the rain to take a closer look, and saw these two lines of words engraved with sharp objects, which read:

The sky is gray and rainy, and I am waiting for you

After the rain, the sky is clear, and the future is clear

The little junior brother caught up and covered me from the rain: "Senior brother, don't get drenched." ”

I have all kinds of feelings in my heart, it also rained on the day when the red tree was waiting for me, will it be like the rain here now?

Standing up and looking at the drizzle on this day, I guess the red tree didn't bring an oil umbrella that day, maybe it was still drenched. She believed that I would come and wait until the rain cleared, but I let her down that day.

I was a little depressed, took out the moon bell from my clothes and looked at it, this is a very important thing for the red tree, will there be a chance to return it to her?

The little junior brother immediately shouted beside me: "By the way, second senior brother, a few days before you were injured, this bell often rang by itself, which is amazing, and then it stopped ringing." Master has always wanted it, but I remember that it seemed to care about this bell to the second senior brother, so I didn't give it to Master, and kept it next to your pillow. ”

It turns out that she has been with me all this time.

I have carried the moon bell with me for the past few days, it has not sounded, and I did not dare to shake it, for fear that I will shake the moon bell, and now the moon bell on the red tree will also ring with me, so that she remembers that I did not go to see her as agreed that day.

I touched my little brother's head and said, "Well done", if I lose this bell, the next time we meet, the red tree will definitely kill me.

Well, definitely meet again.

No matter what, I must see her again and return it to her. Not for anything else, just to explain to her the reason why I couldn't come that day, even if she didn't believe me at that time, hated me and scolded me, I would admit it. I can't live up to a girl's belief in me.

"Hachu!"

The little junior brother sneezed.

I can't stay here any longer, even if I don't care about the rain, I can't make my little brother sick.

Finally, I glanced at the big stone, still the two lines on it, and I said to the little brother, "Go home." ”

"Hmm."

When I got back to the mountain, I was soaking wet.

The little junior brother really caught a cold, and I was jointly reprimanded by the master, the senior brother, and the junior sister.

I also felt guilty, after watching my sister feed the little brother medicine, I went back to the room alone and looked out the window at the desk in a daze, and sat down until late at night.

This time, I have made up my mind to see the red tree. It's been less than a month since the sword test conference, and now I only know that I can only see her at that meeting. After thinking about it, the best way is to directly participate in the sword trial competition, but my level is not at all. The only hope is Kiyohime.

I took her from my desk and placed her on the table.

"I want to participate in the sword trial tournament and participate in it in a dignified manner." I'll get straight to the point.

Kiyohime is a divine sword, and she has extraordinary power, or she can help me improve my strength at once.

Instead of denying the ability to improve my strength, she asked, "Didn't you even refuse to participate in the fight before?" ”

"All of a sudden, I wanted to participate."

"Why?"

"I want to explain something to her."

I didn't expect her to understand what I meant, but she didn't really want to ask me why. After a moment of silence, she emerged from her sword and floated in mid-air looking down at me.

"Help you, I will make a spiritual contract with you, and temporarily recognize you as my sword master, even if you only have the Qi refining period, as long as you use the know-how, even the monks in the Jindan period have the strength to fight, and it is enough to participate in the sword trial conference. But I only help you participate in the sword trial competition, and when you meet Ying, our relationship will end. ”

She seemed to have expected to come this far, and it was thanks to her willingness to recognize me as the sword master, although only temporarily, but it also made me feel that it was a very great concession from her.

"No problem, you and I will go our separate ways after completing the purpose!"

I know where my level goes, and I don't dare to expect to get a place, just seeing the red tree is enough.

The deal was reached, and Qing Ji waved the sword body and flew to her hand in an instant, and suddenly Qing Ji's sword body and spirit body appeared, and the whole room was filled with blue energy, and many strange runes emerged from the sword body, floating in the air and constantly rotating. She held her sword in front of me and said from above, "It takes a drop of your blood to make a spiritual pact." ”

"Is it okay to use hair? I'm afraid of pain. ”

Kiyohime didn't talk nonsense with me, and stabbed my sword at my forehead. I screamed in pain, but luckily it was just right enough to break the skin, but the blood was not as simple as a drop, it all flowed like a stream to the tip of my nose and dripped down.

I opened the drawer and turned over the wound on my forehead with a Band-Aid before I was ready to make a spiritual contract with Kiyohime. However, Kiyohime was already holding the sword and chanting the incantation vigorously, and the room grew brighter and brighter, and the aura formed a small vortex, and the runes shuttled and changed between us. I noticed that the aura on my body was quickly withdrawn, and all of them were sucked into Kiyohime's sword body, and my body quickly became dry, and I even felt that even my own vitality was being drained away.

"Hey, I think something is wrong...... Stop, stop, hey! ”

I beckoned to Kiyohime, but she didn't respond to me with a frown.

Something happened!

I knew it wasn't going to go that way, and while I didn't know what was going on, it wasn't a good place to stay long.

I hurriedly got up and tried to walk towards the door, but my whole body was weak and I immediately fell to the ground. I tried to crawl out of the doorway, but when I saw that my outstretched hand was rapidly thinning, even my face felt sunken.

I rub-

This is the rhythm of turning into a dry corpse!

"Save ...... Help ......"

I desperately crawled towards the door, and after less than half a meter of climbing, my consciousness was gradually blurred.