The moat outside the city is not stagnant water, but from the Yunzhou water system to lead over, more than 600 zhang long, about 10 zhang wide, from the northwest to the southeast, the spring and summer flood period flow rate is turbulent, although the autumn and winter dry period has slowed down, but it is not a pool of stagnant water, the people with poor water quality fall into it, it is difficult to climb up again.

Although Xue Hongbi was born in the south, his water nature cannot be compared with those white stripes in the waves, but he practiced "Intercepting the Heavens", and his internal and external breathing can be converted freely, and he is no different from a fish in the water.

When Fang Huaiyuan sent people to salvage and search along the coast, Xue Hongbi had already climbed ashore, ignoring the cold wind blowing and the bitter cold, raising his eyes to look around, and found that this place happened to be a three-way crossing, leading to the official road to the left, and entering the mountains through the trail to the right.

However, the twisting gravel road in the middle leads to Hulu Mountain.

Fu Yuanyu stayed here for three days before entering the city, and now those people are busy arresting themselves, and they will not be able to take care of this small Taoist temple for a while, but if he escapes, he will inevitably dig three feet into the ground for a hundred miles in this radius with the style of listening to the rain pavilion, although there are not many people who have married Fu Yuanyu and Bu Hanying on the top of the gourd mountain, but it is not nothing, if they get the letterhead first, Xue Hongbi is afraid that he will never have the opportunity to see this old devil again in his life.

What's more, Fu Yuanyu's death was so sudden, he hadn't even explained to Xue Hongbi a single star, whether it was a secret agent in the court or a man in the rivers and lakes, they wanted to dig out the secret from his mouth, who would believe that he didn't know anything at all now?

From Nanyang City to Jiangcheng, from thirteen to fourteen years old, Xue Hongbi has escaped long enough, Fu Yuanyu has been in exile for twelve years, and he still knows the direction of the road, but Xue Hongbi doesn't know where he should go.

In that case, it's better to go.

Xue Hongbi laughed self-deprecatingly, and walked towards the gravel road, this road was cold and awkward, and the more he went up, the more rugged the road became, but he never stopped or looked back.

The wind and snow are gradually rising, and the sun is tilting into dusk.

Xue Hongbi finally climbed to the top of the mountain, panting with her hands on her knees, beads of sweat falling from her forehead, and freezing when she fell into the snow.

A short figure was sweeping the snow in front of the door, it was the little Taoist priest who was wandering around with Xue Hongbi that day, he was clumsily waving a broom, while reciting the newly learned scriptures, he saw a person appear in front of him, and thought that he saw a mountain ghost, and he was so frightened that he was about to fall and squat when he sat back, but fortunately, he was grabbed by the other party's arm in time and held it steadily.

"Happiness is immeasurable...... Oops, it's you! The little Taoist priest recognized the person, and the panic on his face dissipated, and he smiled innocently.

Xue Hongbi let go of his hand, he took the initiative to come over, looked around, and wondered: "Eh, on such a cold day, why did you come here dressed like this?" ”

Without waiting for Xue Hongbi to answer, the little Taoist priest took the initiative to take his hand and walked to the temple, and said, "Come in first, I'll find you a set of thick clothes, don't freeze it, my master often says that wind and cold entering the body is evil paralysis......"

Xue Hongbi lowered his head, and the palm holding him was small and soft, so fragile that it could be easily broken by him, but it had a warm power, and the heat belonging to the living person was transmitted from the place where the fingers interlocked, from the surface to the inside, and into the cracks of his bones, which was warm and itchy.

He smiled, broke free of the little Taoist priest's hand with some nostalgia, and said, "No need, I have some urgent matters to see the master, please ask the little Taoist to take me there." ”

The old contemplator is holding a sign under the blessing tree.

Last time Fu Yuanyu came, the old master found that many of the signs on the tree had become dirty, and the red cloth strips were also rotten, so he simply took a few disciples to take off these signs, and the really tattered ones were put into the box, and the rest were wiped and repaired, and then replaced with new cloth strips, and hung back on the tree one by one.

This work is not heavy but cumbersome, it can only be done after four days, when Xue Hongbi followed the little Taoist priest into the courtyard, he saw the old master stepping on the ladder to hang the last wooden plaque.

He is old, his eyes are a little dizzy, his body is still strong, standing on the ladder and leaning out half of his body, he can hang the wooden sign on a branch an arm's length away, Xue Hongbi has good eyesight, and sees the name of a strange man and woman written on the sign, praying for eternal marriage and growing old together.

In life, sometimes it is a simple and difficult idea to fulfill.

When the old master got off the ladder, Xue Hongbi bent down and saluted, and said, "Master, the junior came back to get the trust as promised." ”

The old master was stunned when he heard this, turned to look at Xue Hongbi, and looked at him carefully for a while before recognizing him, with a sad face: "Little blessed master, poor Taoist view, you have a bad complexion and a depressed expression, what happened to you?" ”

Xue Hongbi was silent and said, "The world is impermanent, don't say it." ”

When the fourteen-year-old boy said these eight words, the old man's face was even more worried, but he didn't want to ask again, so he could only sigh and beckon him to follow.

Xue Hongbi worshiped the main hall, followed the old master into the apse quiet hall, and saw the old master take out a volume of "Nanhua Zhenjing", and when he opened it, he saw the folded envelope, he didn't look at it, only hesitated when he handed it to Xue Hongbi, and asked softly: "Little blessed master, the layman who came with you last time...... Why didn't you see anyone this time? ”

Hearing this, Xue Hongbi's fingers were burned by the corners of the envelope, and after a while, he bent the corners of his mouth and said with a smile: "My father-in-law has gone home, and if I see him when I turn back, I will convey greetings to him." ”

When the old viewer heard this, he finally had a smile on his face, handed the letter out, and said, "Okay, if you have the opportunity, Poor Dao still wants to talk to him." ”

Xue Hongbi deliberately said a few witty words to amuse him, and politely rejected the old viewer's kindness to let him stay overnight, only drank a bowl of hot ginger soup to warm his body, and walked out of the Taoist temple with the letter.

When I came, there were few people in the mountains, and at this moment the sky was dark, but there was a man in black holding a linoleum umbrella at the door of the Taoist temple.

This person looks like he is not in the prime of his life, his face is like jade, his hair is like splashing ink, his complexion is handsome, and the silver ribbon with a wide palm is used as a waist seal, and there is a rope with dark light wrapped around it three turns, but Xue Hongbi saw at a glance that there was a black tip hanging out from the bottom of the left side of the rope, like a snake head that wanted to devour.

Xue Hongbi's footsteps paused, and before the old master noticed the abnormality, he had already raised a smile and said, "It's getting late, and the cold road is difficult to walk, please stay with the master, my brother has already come to pick it up." ”

With that, he took the initiative to step forward and walked towards the man.

The old viewer raised his eyes and could only see two figures, one large and one small, walking side by side, feeling a little calmer, secretly shaking his head and smiling, and returning to the temple with his hands behind his back.

The door was closed, the wind was howling, and the old viewer could not hear the words mixed with the wind.

"I've heard that you're bold for a long time, and when I saw you today, I didn't expect you to have a good heart."

The flying snow fell on the umbrella, the corners of Zhou Jiangyun's lips slowly rose, the pace under his feet was not slow, and he walked on the rugged snow road like a leisurely walk, but when Xue Hongbi looked back, there were only his own footprints along the way.

Zhou Jiangyun is like a powerful ghost living in the world.

Xue Hongbi's fingers slowly clenched, and he said in a dumb voice: "This Taoist temple is full of outsiders who don't know anything, you should do good deeds and accumulate virtue, let them go." ”

Zhou Jiangyun lowered his eyes to him with interest: "Are you begging me?" ”

"Yes, I beg you to spare them."

"What if I don't say yes?" Zhou Jiangyun looked back at the old Taoist temple, his eyes were dim, "Others don't know, I know that this place is of great significance to my master, and now that his old man is going to Huangquan alone, I will burn this place to him for a funeral, and it is not in vain that the love of master and apprentice is not in vain." ”

"If that's the case, wouldn't you be a sect master, wouldn't it be more in line with your identity to just be the robber who killed people and set fires?"

"Haha." Zhou Jiangyun smiled loudly, and his gaze fell back on him, "You have sharp teeth and sharp mouth, and you dare to mock me when you die, aren't you afraid that I will break your teeth and cut your tongue to drink?" ”

"I'm just afraid that Sect Master Zhou will be reluctant." Xue Hongbi's tone was very calm, "After all, the tongue is gone, how can you say what you want to know?" ”

Zhou Jiangyun's casual smile finally brought three points of sincerity, he looked at Xue Hongbi again, and suddenly sighed: "It's a pity, if you had worshiped under my master earlier, we should be very compatible...... It's just a trivial matter, just a meeting gift for my junior brother. ”

He said it so lightly, as if a Taoist temple and three or five lives were really not worth mentioning.

They did not go down the mountain, bypassed the Taoist temple and walked to the dangerous peak at the highest point of Hulu Mountain, Xue Hongbi looked at the miserable white stone tablet standing under the Panasonic, which was engraved with three words: Dengxian Cliff.

The Taoist priest passed away is called "feathering", Qingxu Guan is located in this kind of place, the Taoist priest in the view is more than a fatherless and motherless orphan, there is no condition to build a tower and erect a monument or bury back to the ancestral grave, then the body will be cremated after doing the yin and yang law, choose a good time, come here with the columbarium held by the viewer himself, wait until the breeze blows, raise his hand to raise the ashes, a body of skin was born in the world, and also in the nature of heaven and earth, after which the breeze and the moon are all old people, it can be regarded as a feather ascending immortal.

It's very high here, standing on the edge of the cliff and looking down, I saw that the fog didn't see the mountains and rivers, Zhou Jiangyun kicked a stone down, Xue Hongbi counted twelve times silently, and then vaguely heard the sound of the stone falling to the ground.

"There are no rivers down here, and there are no old trees enough to support a person, if you fall from here, not only will you die, but you will also fall to pieces, and you will not be able to fight in front of the king of Hades."

The momentum of the wind and snow was a little less, Zhou Jiangyun put away the linoleum umbrella, turned to face Xue Hongbi, and smiled at him: "The letter is about to be caught by you, don't you read it?" ”

Xue Hongbi lowered his head and opened the crumpled envelope, which contained only three pages of stationery.

As he expected, the first two pages indicate the beginning and end of the incident in Jiangcheng, this old demon really knew that his fate was short, and he didn't want to shrink into a corner and wait for death, so he took the initiative to expose his whereabouts and came here, just to write the ending of his life-

【…… I am already half a hundred bodies, this life to the end, not to be worthy, too much is greater than the merit, so friends and relatives are scattered, the grand plan has become empty. Now the deadline is approaching, the viscera has decayed, the flesh and bones are decayed, even if it is lingering, but a remnant body is sloppy to live, recalling the past eventful years, unbearable green mountains and white heads. 】

[Looking back on the old dream, Yunzhou Jiangcheng is the place where the origin began, and now he will die, and he will also return here to perish, the world hates me and fears me like an evil ghost, I should try my best to repay it, if I defeat the heroes, although I am still glorious in death. 】

【…… The regret of the rest of his life, the only person is not seen, a sword is not paid, and the mountains and seas can not be leveled all over the world, only to borrow a stick of fragrance to worship God and Buddha. If the heavens are merciful, the old man comes by stepping on the snow, and a sword is life and death to break the enmity, and the wish is sufficient, and there is no need to sacrifice me. 】

At the end of the second page of the letter, Nongniang's name was written, it turned out that Fu Yuanyu was planning to entrust Xue Hongbi to Nong Niang, although she had already voted for Zhou Jiangyun, but she was still loyal to him, Jiangcheng was her territory for many years, and it was not difficult to take advantage of the chaos to save Xue Hongbi and hide, but Fu Yuanyu mentioned that Yu Wufang was afraid that he would reappear in the rivers and lakes, so that Nong Niang would escape with Xue Hongbi, but unfortunately it was still a step too slow, before they arrived in Jiangcheng, Yu Wufang had already thrown herself into Tingyu Pavilion, and it was difficult for Nong Niang, who took over her power back then, to hide, was eliminated first, which also made Fu Yuanyu's arrangement come to naught.

Xue Hongbi looked at it word by word, unconsciously tears were in his eyes, and the handwriting in front of him was blurred, he reached out and wiped it, and took out the last page of the letter, but he was stunned on the spot.

On this last page of letterhead, the tenth secret of "Intercepting the Sky" was written.

Regardless of the Yin and Yang volumes, the formula of "Intercepting the Heavens" stops at the ninth level, and the legend about the tenth level is quite ethereal, no one has achieved it except for the ancestor of the mountain, even if Fu Yuanyu only glimpses the doorway, half a foot is still outside the realm, he spent half his life cultivating this skill, and finally broke through the mystery - "Intercepting the Heavens" is not a lone exercise, although the practitioner can cultivate both yin and yang, but can not take care of both ends, you must choose another person to practice this skill with yourself, one yin and one yang, go hand in hand, and so the two of them together to the ninth level, You can seize each other's skills for your own use, the defeated will undoubtedly die, and the living will be yin and yang, so that you can break through the nine poles and enter one yuan and achieve the supreme realm!

There was very little handwriting on this piece of paper, but Xue Hongbi was chilled when he saw it.

At this moment, one hand snatched away the three pages of the letter, and Zhou Jiangyun glanced at ten lines, until the last word was read, his expression was still faint and difficult to distinguish between joy and anger.

"I thought the master had written something important, but it turned out ...... It's these old sesame rotten grains. Disappointed, he crumpled the letter and threw it off the cliff.

Xue Hongbi watched the paper ball disappear into the clouds, and suddenly asked, "Twelve years ago, the reason why you betrayed him was because of this?" ”

Fu Yuanyu taught the jade flawless yin book on behalf of his father when the realm was still shallow, and he didn't know the secrets, and when he was in a high position to investigate the mystery, the jade flawless is not only his right-hand man, but also his closest relatives and trust, although he forced her to do what he didn't want, but he would not kill her because of martial arts, so after finding that Zhou Jiangyun's roots and bones matched, he decided to accept him as a disciple, and personally passed on the Yin book of "Intercepting the Sky", just to make up for his own shortcomings, but people are not as good as the sky, and finally raise tigers.

"There are many reasons, but this is the most important one." Zhou Jiangyun smiled, "I cherish my life, I'm afraid of dying very much, once I know that Shizun has raised me all these years to one day practice with me, I won't be able to sleep well." ”

"How did you know this secret?"

Zhou Jiangyun looked a little stunned, and sighed after a long time: "Because the older he gets, the softer he becomes, and later he really regards me as an apprentice and wants to pass on the Mending Heaven Sect to me." ”

"Then you ......"

"You have been with him for less than a year, but I have been with him for ten years, he is a man...... The most amorous and the most ruthless. Zhou Jiangyun's eyes looked into the distance, as if he was looking at the figures scattered in the world, "Brothers who were born and died, subordinates who have followed for many years, women who know and love each other...... He had all the envy of all that he had and was discarded by himself, and I asked myself, how can I believe that he is genuine to me, if I can't compare with them? Even if he made a promise to me, I was afraid that he would regret it, and that as soon as he lived in the world, I would fantasize that I would be drained of my power and turned into a pile of skin and bones, which would be scattered all over the ground with a light kick, and any dog would come up with a full meal. ”

Everyone in the rivers and lakes knows that Zhou Jiangyun, the current master of the Heaven Replenishing Heaven Sect, is a ruthless evil ghost, and there are countless people who have died in his hands, because of the tragedy he has caused, no one can imagine that he will be afraid, and he will talk about the past with a new person on this snowy cliff.

Xue Hongbi knew what a terrible person he was, but he could also hear that none of these words were adulterated.

Fu Yuanyu and Zhou Jiangyun, the master and apprentice, started from calculation and finally sinned, both of them are people who would rather die than look back, no matter how sincere they were in the middle, no matter who had ever thought about it, now they have become a robbery.

He didn't have the right to put his beak in his mouth, and he didn't have to think about it.

Zhou Jiangyun's rare weakness is only for a moment after all.

“…… That's all for now, the coming days are long. He stretched out his hand to Xue Hongbi, the corners of his lips were like a crescent moon, "Listening to the rain pavilion, I will not let you go, the only person in the world who can save you is me." ”

Xue Hongbi raised his head: "Save me?" ”

"Put away your little tricks, I am reluctant to cut your tongue, and it is still okay to cut off one of your hands." Zhou Jiangyun glanced at Xue Hongbi's left hand, "You go back with me, tell me everything you know, and then join the Heaven Mending Sect, and at the same time cooperate with Tingyu Pavilion to track down the remnants of the Nine Palaces, I will guarantee that you will not die." ”

When Xue Hongbi left the Taoist temple, he stole a carving knife from Jingtang, which was hidden in the palm of his left hand at this time, he was silent for a moment, did not drop the carving knife, nor did he rashly attack Zhou Jiangyun, but showed it generously.

He looked at Zhou Jiangyun for a while, and laughed slowly: "I believe in you, but I don't want to go with you." ”

"Why?"

"You saved me because my father-in-law died, and you need another person who has practiced the ninth level of the Yang Book to make the furnace ding, and I am the only person in the world who knows the Yang Book exercises." Xue Hongbi stared at his eyes fearlessly, "When that day comes, I will die worse than falling into the hands of Tingyu Pavilion, since it will be difficult to escape sooner or later, why should I go against my heart to harm others?" ”

Zhou Jiangyun smiled: "You can learn from me, maybe you will win at that time?" Little junior brother, senior brother taught you the first truth - stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood, and it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years. ”

"Impossible." Xue Hongbi sneered suddenly, "I can't be a person like you and my stepfather in my life." ”

Young men and women will always look forward to the future, obviously they don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, and they first think that they will one day stand up to the sky and the earth, but unfortunately most of the facts are cruel, the more they look forward to something, the easier it is to drift away.

Xue Hongbi couldn't imagine what he would become if he grew up, only at this moment he realized his true heart, and he didn't want to be the person who broke off his love, even if he was killed and killed, after all, everyone betrayed his relatives and left, and even looked down on himself.

Zhou Jiangyun was stunned, looked at Xue Hongbi's still young face, and had the illusion of a streamer in a trance, and muttered, "This is really ...... It's a pity. ”

As soon as the last half of the sentence came out, the wind and snow were howling, the figure flashed, Xue Hongbi hadn't seen it clearly, Zhou Jiangyun had already bullied him, disdainful of using the snake whip, and only covered the five fingers with bent claws, he subconsciously dodged to the right side, and the five fingers grazed his left arm, directly torn into the flesh, and scraped out five shocking blood marks!

didn't have time to think about it, Xue Hongbi lifted the internal force, staggered his arms to support Zhou Jiangyun's right hand, leaned back, flew up and kicked the opponent's lower abdomen, and was caught by the ankle without accident, but when he heard the "click", his left ankle was almost broken, Xue Hongbi's face was pale in pain, but he didn't hesitate at all, he suddenly let go of his hand to support the ground, and his right foot, which had been gathering momentum for a long time, came out of the gap, and was in the middle of Zhou Jiangyun's qi sea hole.

Zhou Jiangyun is cultivating the Yin Book, Ren Mai is the most important thing, and the sea of qi is one of the key points, although Xue Hongbi has no ability to break his true qi to protect his body, but this time he tried his best to kick his qi surging, and subconsciously took a step back.

This is the difference between life and death.

Xue Hongbi did not chase after him, but turned around and rushed forward, Zhou Jiangyunfu immediately raised his head as soon as he stood firm, and his eyes were stung by a cold light, and there were dots of blood wrapped in the wind and snow, and hit him in the face.

With a "ding" sound, the blood-stained carving knife fell to the ground, and the young man stepped into the air, like a kite with a broken string, falling from the Dengxian Cliff.

Zhou Jiangyun instinctively wanted to swing the Xuan Snake Whip, but he knew it was too late.

Ten dead and lifeless Dengxian Cliff, not to mention Xue Hongbi's mind has been decided, this son is so fierce, he actually stabbed his backhand into the chest and pulled it out fiercely before falling, his blood was full of blood, and blood gushed out.

At this moment, Xue Hongbi saw that the sky and clouds and shadows were flying away in front of him, as if the whole world was soaring from the ground, and he was the only one who fell to the Yellow Spring.

The wind and snow gathered from all directions, freezing the wound on his chest cold and numb, and it didn't seem to hurt so much, Xue Hongbi's vision became more and more blurred, and he saw many figures appear above in a trance, one was Fu Yuanyu, the other was Du Sanniang, and the remaining two He didn't know each other, but he felt very cordial.

They all stretched out their hands to Xue Hongbi, he smiled, shook it back with the last bit of strength, and then closed his eyes.

Zhou Jiangyun stood on the edge of the Dengxian Cliff, the wind, snow and fog obscured his vision, and only the sound of flesh and bone falling to the ground and shattering came up with the wind and into his ears.

Who lives and dies lightly, but regards it as home.