Chapter 44: As always
The Moon River Tower collapsed, and this long duel was finally over. With a sad face, Nie Wuxian kept wandering between the gaps where the huge stones fell and collapsed, and rescued Gu Sanqiu, who was seriously injured and about to die at the bottom.
There was a wind blowing in his face, Nie Wuxian's brows furrowed even tighter, he raised his head but didn't see anything strange, just saw Xiao Qianye, the master of the Heavenly Machine Pavilion, standing on top of the boulder ruins and slowly falling, and a figure fell to the ground, and then was crushed by the falling boulder and the flesh and blood were blurred.
Smoke and dust filled the sky.
In this flying dust, everything slowly fell silent, and the traces of those battles also turned into nothingness in the process of the collapse of the Moon River Tower.
The massive structure collapsed in an instant, and some of the people gathered near the tower survived, while others disappeared into the ruins with the traces of the previous battle, and they didn't even have time to make a sound.
Xiao Qianye's side was a purple-clothed swordsman - Li Zangjian, if it weren't for Xiao Qianye's means to push away the boulder with palm force, the seriously injured Li Zangjian would have been buried in the ruins, Xiao Qianye saved Li Zangjian, Li Zangjian's hand had a pitch-black sword, but this sword was dull at the moment, like scrap iron. Xiao Qianye looked at the ruins under his feet, then at the sword in Li Zangjian's hand, and finally let out a sigh. There is happiness, satisfaction, and regret in this sigh.
Xiao Qianye stretched out his hand to probe, and Li Zangjian felt a powerful force absorbing the black sword, and King's Landing fell into Xiao Qianye's hand again.
Xiao Qianye looked at Nie Wuxian again, Nie Wuxian nodded and said, "At this moment, even Da Luo Jinxian can't save him, and now under this ruin, I'm afraid that his body is no longer complete." ”
Xiao Qianye nodded, and after being silent for a long time, he said: "If he can endure it for a while, maybe this kind of duel will be a completely different result." ”
Nie Wuxian said, "He is certainly a genius...... No, to be exact, he and his partners are geniuses......"
Nie Wuxian said this, Li Zangjian recalled the confrontation with Li Nianyun, and couldn't help nodding.
"But Pavilion Master, if you stand in the way of you and me, whether you are a genius or a general, if you die, it is not worth a pity." Nie Wuxian regretted that he didn't complete the task and couldn't kill Ding Qiliang. In Nie Wuxian's opinion, the death of the shopkeeper would cause the disintegration of the inn, but the impression left on him by Ding Qiliang was too deep.
Where will the descendants of the Ding family go?
Li Zangjian was also thinking that Li Nianyun could do this for the shopkeeper Chen, but the shopkeeper finally died, what should Li Nianyun, who fled from here, do? Will the Desolate Moon Divine Sect, the Heavenly Machine Pavilion, be affected by the wrath of the nine major factions?
Xiao Qianye didn't think about this, he just looked at the sword and didn't speak.
For a long time, the sun no longer had any light shining on the King's Landing sword, Xiao Qianye began to laugh, his shoulders began to shake slowly, and then he laughed more and more arrogantly.
His laughter resounded throughout the Cult of the Desolate Moon, and then he used his palm as a blade and slammed into the body of King's Landing.
This famous sword that Yun Cangxuan said was as sharp as blowing snow, and suddenly broke.
Xiao Qianye said: "He is even more genius than I imagined, there should be another great martial artist in the Extreme Intention Realm in this world, but as Nie Senior said, the dead are not worth pity." ”
"And our time is coming!"
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Underground Palace.
Li Nianyun had never seen such a Chen Ling, and in his impression, this female sect master of the Demon Sect who intercepted the master of Tianji Pavilion outside the first floor of the world, with extremely strong strength and a cold and resolute personality, had never been so depressed at this moment, nor had she ever been so weak.
When he returned to the dungeon, all the people who were waiting did not interrogate the outcome of this battle, because among the people who came back, there were only two people, Li Nianyun and Chen Ling. And Li Nianyun's expression has already explained everything. Qing Miaoyue had never seen the sect master so vulnerable, even in the days after the fire in Qinzhou City, Chen Ling had never been so vulnerable.
"Where's Tang Xian?" Although her heart was full of foreboding, Qing Miaoyue still asked.
Chen Ling didn't react, just stared at something with empty eyes.
Li Nianyun shook his head and said, "Maybe I've fled, maybe I've ......"
He didn't say the rest of the words, he claimed to be the protagonist, serving as the head of the sect with the power to save the world, and had the most powerful self-healing ability in the world, but at this moment he realized that he was too weak. In the face of Xiao Qianye, he had already collapsed after only withstanding one sword, if he could fight again at that time, if he could defeat Li Zangjian earlier, the shopkeeper would not have been implanted with sword qi, maybe everything would have changed.
The boy has tears and doesn't flick. But at this time, Li Nianyun was still silently shedding tears. Drop by drop, holding his sword, he leaned against a corner in embarrassment and deplorment.
Qing Miaoyue didn't know what to say, because it was a complete failure.
Tianji Pavilion didn't use conspiracy, or used it, but there was no need to get to the point where the plan was exposed, because she didn't expect that the shopkeeper and the sect master would actually lose if they joined forces. Now she suddenly thought of the scholar, the person who always thought that this operation should not go, and now there is no whereabouts.
The people in the dungeon admired Chen Ling from the bottom of their hearts, even if they were defeated, it would not matter, but the former demon sect forces outside the dungeon would probably not be able to recover it.
Bai Beiming sighed heavily, this old man who was now the oldest in the Demon Sect, who had been by Chen Ling's side on weekdays, looked at Chen Ling with a look of pity, compared to Qing Miaoyue, he knew the sect master's intentions for the innkeeper better.
He regarded the sect master as the hope of the Star Sect, but he took care of Chen Ling like his own granddaughter.
This little girl who has joined the Xingchen Sect when she was a child, and wants to find the whereabouts of her biological father has impressed Bai Beiming because of her tenacity, he is the most aware of the loneliness in Chen Ling's heart over the years, Chen Ling has never thought about the personal affairs of her children, except for herself and Elder Qing, she has no friends.
She bears everything in the Star Sect alone.
When a strong enemy comes, she goes to kill. The rebellion arose, and she came to quell. The world regards the Xingchen Sect as the Demon Sect, and when the Demon Sect is going farther and farther away in the word Demon, she stands up alone, and brings the Xingchen Sect back to the right track little by little with absolute strength and undoubted domineering. But such a powerful girl would cry alone when no one was there after an operation outside Nansha City.
Then she consulted a lot of information, visited many tribes in Nanban, and went to the stronghold of Qinzhou City to ask the restaurants on Huailiu Street one by one, and finally got the answer she wanted.
Bai Beiming had never seen Chen Ling smile so joyfully, and the eyebrows and eyes of the characters outlined in the intelligence scroll in her hand were Chen Hui, who was her imaginary enemy since she was a child, but how could there be half hostility in that smile?
After the Tiankeng City incident, Bai Beiming felt that the sect master was changing little by little. In the final analysis, she is just a woman, although she has strong strength and heart, but how can she really not feel lonely and confused in her heart?
But perhaps it was in the deepest part of the underground of Tiankeng City, in that darkest place, that he saw the people who traveled with him, and after that, Bai Beiming could feel that the sect master's heart was no longer as heavy as before. He finally realized that the man who was supposed to be the suzerain's old enemy might indeed have a fateful bond with the suzerain...... But definitely not hostile.
As the wisest old man in the Star Sect, he had already seen that in the sect master's heart, the innkeeper had a considerable weight.
Such a gentle person broke into the sect master's heart, and Bai Beiming was very happy for Chen Ling. He didn't want to break the hearts of the two, because these things were supposed to go with the flow, but now, Bai Beiming couldn't stop feeling sorry.
Such an excellent person, a person who might be able to change the Star Sect and even the world like the sect master, died like this......
This child must be very, very sad in his heart.
He looked at Chen Ling's helpless appearance, looked at Chen Ling's empty eyes, and expected that this time, it would take a long, long time for this powerful Star Sect Sect Master to come out of that pain.
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Summer in the south is naturally not as cold as in the north.
But the public lost Liuli felt an unprecedented chill. Not long ago, Tang Xian returned to the inn with Zhong Yunxiu, and then Tang Xian didn't have time to say anything, so he left in a hurry and walked in the direction of the underground palace. In the past, at this time, Ding Qiliang should have already made tea, his brother should have discussed some interesting or uninteresting things with the shopkeeper, Sister Xiu would occasionally make jokes with a medical book, and the lively and laughing inn seemed extremely deserted at the moment, with only two women.
Gongyu Liuli didn't speak very sensibly, just hugged Zhong Yunxiu, who had been crying, Zhong Yunxiu cried silently, but he couldn't say half a word. She didn't know how to compare herself to the young and fragile Gong Ruri said that the inn may be gone, she can't say it.
But the public loses Liuli and already understands. She gently patted Zhong Yunxiu's back, her eyes red.
After a long time, Zhong Yunxiu finally stopped her tears and said softly: "Liuli, are you hungry?" My sister is going to get you something to eat. ”
Gong Ruri nodded, still not speaking.
Or maybe she didn't know what to say now. She was worried about her brother, she was worried about the shopkeeper, about the fun running hall that she didn't see much, and about the cook who had always been able to cook very good meals. But now that these people are gone, she doesn't know what's going on, but it's definitely not going to be a good thing, she wants to be sad and wants to kill people, but when she saw Zhong Yunxiu's appearance, she had a sense of mission for the first time.
All along, it was Zhong Yunxiu who took care of her and played with her, except for the scholar and the shopkeeper, in this inn, the little girl's favorite person was Zhong Yunxiu. Maybe the inn is no longer an inn, but that's just maybe, maybe something terrible will happen in the future, that's just maybe. She had heard the people in this inn say more than once that as long as she lived, she would wait for good things.
This is the most difficult time for the inn, at this time, as Zhong Yunxiu, who participated in that duel, he must be very painful in his heart, if he also collapses, it will be just a drag after all, if he still has to worry about Sister Xiu at this time, maybe the inn will really be gone.
So from beginning to end, the little girl didn't ask what happened, didn't talk about anything, just waited for Zhong Yunxiu to rest.
Zhong Yunxiu was very busy, and after Zhang Luo finished his meal, he moved his chopsticks a few times and put them down again, and began to tidy up the room in the inn.
She was looking for something to do, but she didn't stop or help, she remembered many years ago, the night Ming Lang died, and her brother was constantly looking for things to do at home. The more powerful a person is, the more he will try to keep himself busy and find a way to vent when he is on the verge of collapse.
Because there will be no choice to give up.
So be sure to calm yourself down through certain things. Because it seems to them that everything is not over yet.
Late at night.
Zhong Yunxiu finally fell to the ground tired, she had already become weak because of the Flowing Cloud Technique and the Great Heaven Creation Technique, and she tossed like this until the night, and finally lost the slightest strength and fell asleep.
When she woke up, Zhong Yunxiu slowly opened her eyes and felt the unstoppable soreness in her body, but she finally didn't have the despair she had yesterday.
Gongyi Ruri is by her side.
"Liuli ......," Zhong Yunxiu called softly.
Gong Ruli nodded, holding Zhong Yunxiu's hand with his small hand.
Zhong Yunxiu tried to calm himself down: "Brother Ding was taken away by the sword ghost, and the blessings and misfortunes are unpredictable. ”
"Hmm."
"Brother Feng Zhan's whereabouts are also unknown, I don't know what happened."
"Hmm."
"Sir...... Your brother may have a hard time getting to the north. ”
"Hmm."
"Inn, now we are the only ones left."
Gong Ruri didn't hear the whereabouts of the shopkeeper, but he had already guessed a result in his heart. She nodded, with a grit she had never seen before.
Zhong Yunxiu smiled with relief and said, "Are you afraid? ”
One night many years ago, someone asked himself this question, and he also asked others this question, if he could, he hoped that he would not answer such a question again in his life. Because she has only one answer.
Seeing Gong Yi Liuli shaking his head, Zhong Yunxiu looked at Gong Yi Liuli's little face lovingly, and said, "As long as you live, there is still hope." Liuli, you can control this inn, my sister wants you to drive it to Lianqing. ”
Gong Ruri nodded and said, "Is something big going to happen?" ”
Zhong Yunxiu was silent for a moment, and said with a smile: "Where there is something big, nothing happens, whether it is today, yesterday, tomorrow, this is the rivers and lakes, as always, it has never been." ”
Gong Ruri didn't understand the meaning of these words.
"We're going to wait for them to come back."
Gongyu Liuli asked expectantly, "...... them Will they all come back? ”
Zhong Yunxiu nodded and said, "No one in this world is more eager to live than them. I believe that they will all work hard to live, and before that, we must also work hard to live until the day we meet. ”
"Good!" Gong Ruri nodded vigorously.
"As long as you don't see it with your own eyes...... No, it won't be. Brother Ding will definitely come back, Brother Feng Zhan will definitely appear again, and your brother is the same, he must be thinking of a way at this moment......" Zhong Yunxiu did not finish this sentence.
She looked out the window, and it was a sunny summer day, as always,
The sun shone into the second floor of the Molou Inn, Zhong Yunxiu said softly and firmly:
"Shopkeeper...... Will definitely be back too! ”
(End of chapter)