Soochow.

Ying hugged the moon and looked at the stars above her head.

It was the name of the country she would never forget.

Only a few people in this world know that Soochow is the possible hometown of Lin Baoyue, the official birthplace of the young priest who is unknown.

More than 20 years ago, Dasi Ming Lin Shubai picked her up in the forest at the junction of Southern Chu and Eastern Wu.

Based on the direction of the footprints on the ground, the master judged that the person who came with the child might have come from Soochow, and speculated that she was most likely born in Soochow.

Of course, she has no parents and no one to prove this speculation for her. This so-called hometown can only exist forever in speculation.

Nanchu is famous for the great priest Lin Shubai, and now the Eastern Wu ...... But the people of the whole country are said to be offering a reward for chasing and killing Shao Si.

What's really going on......

Thinking of the terrifying aura on the man wearing the bronze mask just now, Ying Baoyue was in a complicated mood.

It's really fortunate that her breath is an ordinary person now, and she no longer has the breath of Shao Si Ming, otherwise I really don't know what the two people will do when they find out just now.

Are you from Soochow......

After she was picked up by her master, she was taken to live in Southern Chu, and then went around with her to fight and finally returned to the former Qin capital, as for Eastern Wu...... There really wasn't much in her memory.

It's just strange that she obviously doesn't have the memory of living in Soochow, but she has the impression of Soochow accent. Even she thought this was incredible, so she asked Ji Jiashu for advice.

I didn't expect it to be true, what the hell is all this............

"Teng Snake? What happened to you? Could it be that you met the people of Soochow? The call of the young man on the other side of the tree interrupted Ying Baoyue's thoughts.

"It's nothing," Ying Baoyue smiled as she came back to her senses, "It's just that I suddenly remembered that some memories are too long ago and I will occasionally recall them." ”

After all, the gods have been alive for a long time, Ji Jiashu nodded in agreement on the other side, "You were busy with your previous business so quickly?" ”

Ji Jiashu had already held the consciousness of standing alone under the tree in the back mountain all night, but he didn't expect to hear the woman's voice again an hour later.

Well, although he is alone now......

But the moment I heard her voice was a pleasant surprise.

"It's not like I'm done," Ying Baoyue reached out and touched the twinkling stars above her head, not knowing if she looked like the eyes of the young man who had never known her. In front of her eyes, the short-lived hole that disappeared without a trace under the broken peak remnant wall appeared, and her heart was like a heavy stone.

The hole appeared, and it was so close that it disappeared again in the earthquake.

She just, once again, lost her chance.

But she didn't get nothing that night.

Ying Baoyue looked at the dark red scar on her wrist like a maggot on her wrist, and the man's assertion echoed in her ears.

She was given a deadline.

It's time to decide.

Ji Jiashu's voice faded away in his ears, and Ying Baoyue said goodbye to him and left the giant spirit wood.

……

……

After that, she sat alone on the mountain all night.

The slender figure of the girl sat alone on the boulder that had witnessed her and the boy's efforts, motionless.

Blood-colored moonlight flowed down her body like blood.

Ying Baoyue sat quietly like this.

It was a long night.

No one knows what she was thinking that night.

The blood moon dissipated, and she stood up as the first rays of dawn broke through the foliage and hit the girl's thin shoulders.

Standing on the boulder at the top of the mountain, looking at the village below the mountain, Ying Baoyue took a deep breath.

Her choice has been made.

"What do you want, as long as you are willing to be obedient, someone will bring it to you, what are you not satisfied with?" The old voice rang in her ears again, like the devil's whisper.

"Don't underestimate those means," this was the voice of the young man who got along with her day and night, "but that great priest ruined our country by means of a woman's harem. ”

"It will take at least ten years for a natural cultivator to become a third-tier capital," the man in the bronze mask under the blood-colored moonlight looked at her coldly, "and you will only live for a year at most." ”

"The path your master took is not right, and he will eventually suffer the consequences, why do you need to learn from her?!"

In the noisy and chaotic voice, Yinghuyue opened her eyes wide and looked at the middle-aged woman who turned back and smiled at her at the end of her sight.

"Life, people decide what kind of person they become by their own choices."

At dawn, the girl stood up straight.

The dawn of dawn shone on her face. Ying Baoyue muttered, "I know, Master." ”

"Right or wrong is not up to you." Facing the old voice in his mind that hated iron but not steel, Ying Baoyue spoke quietly.

In this life, it is her own choice.

"I want to be a practitioner."

Become a practitioner, unravel the curse with your own hands, and find Master and her enemies.

Even if she lives another life, she will still choose this most thankless path.

"Master", Ying Baoyue said in a low voice, "You look at me." ”

Whether it is a saint or a demon girl, she wants to use her own hands to open up a path that has never been seen before or since.

Because she is a young master.

She is the apprentice of the Great Priest.

Less Si Ming.

……

……

Since you have made a decision, it means parting.

Ying Baoyue tied the strip of cloth to her wrist and watched the morning light envelop the people at the foot of the mountain.

Next, according to the plan she had conceived last night, she was ready to go to Nanchu first.

Although the path to becoming a cultivator is still unclear, as far as she knows now, at least Nanchu's Beginner Ceremony is a place for human-level cultivators to upgrade, maybe she can find a way to become a cultivator on the way and obtain the qualification to participate in the Beginner Ceremony, no matter how many cultivators there are, the possibility of finding a way to become a cultivator is definitely greater.

As for how to get there, of course, it's best to stay incognito.

It is most convenient for her to hide her identity and go alone. There is not much time left for her, she travels the fastest by herself, and she doesn't bother others.

Ying hugged her wrist and looked at the whip marks on the stone.

Guichen still has enough time to lay a solid foundation and hone it slowly, and his mother and sister can't do without him in a short time.

Ying Baoyue touched the arrow in her ear.

The period of time in the courtyard of returning home is one of the few times for her to become an ordinary person.

We went up the mountain together, barbecued meat together, watched the brother and sister bickering, and listened to the gentle and loving mother say to her, "This is your eternal home." ”

And now.

"It's time to leave."

It's time to wake up from the dream.

She's slept long enough.

She couldn't go back.

Standing on the boulder, Ying Baoyue took one last look at the village below the mountain, and a lonely smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Hopefully, the gentle woman will have a happy ending, the boy will fulfill his dream, and the little girl will be less sharp in the face of everything.

But this is not something that she, a person with only a year to live, can participate too much.

"Goodbye."

Under the morning light, Ying Baoyue opened her mouth softly and turned around quietly.

The next moment, however, her steps suddenly stopped.

fire, with the smell of blood.

Ying Baoyue turned her head suddenly, looked at the foot of the mountain, and her pupils shrank.

Black smoke billowed into the sky, and the otherwise peaceful village burned.

And the place where the fire started.

It was the little courtyard she was familiar with.