"Hmm~ Well, is that so?"

Lu Yuan finally persuaded Ling'er to get rid of him, but the girl still stubbornly grabbed his sleeve and didn't let go no matter what. His eyes were even more unblinking, staring at Lu Yuan, as if the master would disappear from front of him as soon as he closed his eyes. Lu Dongbin didn't want to know about other people's private affairs, so he casually found an excuse to leave. The girl sat next to Lu Yuan on a small bench, telling the story of the past few years of getting along.

Lu Yuan listened with a smile, occasionally reaching out and patting the girl's hair. Since a year or two ago, Zhao Ling'er began to resist Master's action of treating her as a child, and every time she pouted and shook her head and ran away. But now, when I was gently caressed by the big hand that Master was familiar with, I actually felt like I was in tears.

Ling'er said that the three people overthrew the Lock Demon Tower, arrived at Nanzhao, and then when visiting the stone statue of Ling'er's mother, they went back to ten years ago with the help of the "Dream Returning Immortal Jue......

"You, you don't have to worry about being taken back by the Lunatic Cult when you were a child." Lu Yuan's fingers flicked lightly on Ling'er's forehead, and he was punished recklessly. Obviously, today is the first time the two have met, but Lu Yuan did it very naturally, and Ling'er pouted and shook her head, and she didn't feel the slightest rustiness.

"Hmph, Master is eccentric!" Ling'er pouted and said coquettishly, "I couldn't understand Brother Xiaoyao's swordsmanship when I was a child, but it should actually be extremely powerful!" It's just that I'm not good at group battles, but it's more than enough to protect me and my grandmother when I was a child. ”

"Well, you can see that, there's progress." Lu Yuan nodded approvingly.

Knowing the cause and effect, of course he understood...... He should adopt a pampered version of Zhao Ling'er's teaching method. The realm has improved rapidly, but it is lacking in actual combat; And Li Xiaoyao naturally adopts a hard version of the teaching method...... Through constant blows and grinding. Turn the characteristics of Dugu Jiujian into a habit of the body. However, Xiao Lizi's version came first, and once he formed his own style in actual combat, he would immediately enter the country for a long time, and it was inevitable that he would come from behind.

However, Lu Yuan is still very confident in his future self, and he will be 100% partial to the little female apprentice! The theory described above only works for a world with an upper limit. If you want to step into an infinite world. In fact, the realm is far more important than actual combat. Because the opportunity to improve the realm is rare and hard to find, but there are battles all the time.

"I know you want to know where I've been. But before I tell you the answer, Ling'er. Can I ask you a question? Seeing Ling'er nodding, she looked at him expectantly. Lao Lu was a little embarrassed, but still asked, "You...... Why do you have to follow me? I'm not the person I was ten years later. But I can also know what I was thinking at the time. You're out of school. The next step is to pursue your own happiness and path. Master or something, after all, it's just a passerby who accompanies you at a stage of your life, isn't it? ”

"No," Ling'er argued loudly, "Master and apprentice, shouldn't they be together forever!" ”

Lu Yuan was dumbfounded, why did I suddenly feel that what she said made sense?

"Master, don't leave Ling'er behind, let Ling'er stay with you forever, okay?" The girl held his hand. Kneel in front of his wheelchair and rest your head on his knees. "Ling'er when she was a child. It was the master who accompanied Ling'er to play and teach Ling'er knowledge. Now that Ling'er has grown up, she also has to shield her from the wind and rain for her master, and fan her to relieve her boredom. Even if you have gray hair one day, there are apprentices who will always be with you, and you will not feel lonely and lonely. ”

Lu Yuan's eyes were tearful, Ling'er, although what you said moved me very much, but where did you come from the fantasy that Master and I are orphaned, and the evening is bleak......

"Ling'er, you know the story of the shattered void. Master, I have transcended this realm, immortal and immortal! Lu Yuan knocked the little apprentice's head fiercely, "I won't be old when you get old!" You want to send me to the end, the strength is not enough for the class! ”

"Really?!" Zhao Ling'er didn't mind having his hair messed up at all, but was very interested in breaking the void or something. "I thought it was all Master, you fooling me! How? Is it good for Master to teach me? ”

Lu Yuan touched her head and sighed. He already understood why he was so resolute ten years later...... Because I wiped my ass ten years ago.

"Ling'er, promise Master......" He groaned slightly, dragging Ling'er's hand and letting her stand in front of him. Reaching out and pulling out the "Qingyang" flying sword she hung from her waist, put it into Ling'er's palm, and then used her own hand to wrap Ling'er's hand and the hilt of the sword. "Live this life well, and be good to the people around you...... Also look for your own happiness. If one day, you feel that you have no worries in this life, then ...... Let's use this sword to find Master! ”

Lu Yuan held Ling'er's hand, guided her spiritual power, and swung a sword towards the southwest.

Under the bright sword light, the mountains shattered, the clouds parted, and a cyan sword mark stretching for thousands of miles was left in the sky......

******

Zhao Ling'er was at a loss.

She didn't expect that she had carved a deep obsession in her young heart, making her want to go back ten years ago to find out who had slashed the sword, but it turned out that the master had cast it with her own hands? Fate came here, and it seemed to draw a wonderful circle, which she couldn't figure out. If you want to really figure out this problem, you may have to wait until the day when her Nuwa bloodline can master the "Dream Returning Immortal Formula".

However, she still firmly remembered the operation of the spiritual power of that sword and the sending and receiving of sword qi in her heart!

Zhao Ling'er left reluctantly with doubts, because another familiar stranger appeared at the end of Yuhang Town, and Li Xiaoyao ten years later...... Ling'er secretly followed behind him without him, going back to ten years ago, so she didn't want to meet him.

Xiao Lizi didn't notice that Zhao Ling'er was also there, he was a little absent-minded now.

After handing over the juvenile version of Zhao Ling'er and his grandmother to the Lingyue Fairy, he walked into the familiar and unfamiliar Yuhang Town ten years ago alone. He saw the young version of Sister Xianglan, and also had a face-to-face with Aunt Li, who was still very young, and even exchanged the wooden sword for the water spirit bead from his young self...... Everything was new and unfamiliar, which made him both happy and a little apprehensive.

Until, he saw a young man smiling at him, sitting under the eaves...... Just as he will never change for the next ten years.

"Brother Lu!"

"Little Plum ......"

Hearing Lu Yuan's title, Li Xiaoyao's face showed an expression that he didn't know whether to be happy or want to cry, and said in a very tangled manner, "You, you really know that I am me!" So, you taught me that Dugu Jiujian was premeditated? ”

"Of course," Lu Yuan bared his teeth and made an evil look. "Boy, I see that your Yin Hall is black and covered with dark clouds, you must have practiced the wrong martial arts! I can't say that I will go mad and break my meridians in a moment. I have a martial arts cheat book here - "Dugu Nine Swords Complete Edition", which can save your little life, and sell it to you for twenty yuan! ”

"Huh? The previous book is obviously only ten texts! ”

"It's cheap and it's not good, so I'll go crazy when I practice."

"Poof~" The two of them laughed together, leaning forward and back, beating their chests and feet. Laughing weakly all the time, Li Xiaoyao simply walked to Lu Yuan's side, "Originally, there were still a lot of things I wanted to ask you, but suddenly I didn't want to ask." Brother, let me sit next to you for a while. ”

"Well, was it hard along the way?"

"It's fine."

The two of them sat silently under the eaves, looking at the clear sky together. After a while, Li Xiaoyao was very surprised to find something, "That's not right!" On this day...... How is it sunny?! I remember that since I remember, it has been raining in Yuhang. ”

"It's raining?" Lu Yuan touched his chin. He raised his right hand, and at some point, there was an extra aqua blue bead in his hand! Seeing the bead, Li was stunned for a moment, and then touched his pocket. Sure enough, the water spirit bead in his arms had disappeared. He smiled bitterly, if it was something else, it would be okay, the water spirit bead was very important to the next Nanzhao prayer for rain, and he could only get it back.

Who knows that Lu Yuan said to himself, "It's good to rain." After saying that, he held the hand of the water spirit bead and waved it to the sky. I saw a gust of wind blowing, and a large area of dark clouds poured out from the direction of Shilipo, and in a blink of an eye, the raindrops the size of beans crackled and fell.

"Brother Lu, you ...... How did you do that? Are you an immortal?! Xiao Lizi was stunned again, but Brother Lu, whom he was familiar with, had been refreshing his cognition.

"It's time to return to the Dream Immortal Technique, so go back." Lu Yuan didn't answer his question, but instead slapped his hand with a smile and put the water spirit bead in his hand. "The water monster is transformed by the spiritual power of heaven and earth, and it is difficult to kill some of them, but it is still far from being immortal and immortal! Of course, it's pretty much the same for you. Now this rain will continue to draw its power for ten years! So when you go back ten years, you'll find out that you killed that animal...... It won't be more troublesome than killing a chicken. ”

"So you know everything, Brother Lu...... Thank you! ”

Li Xiaoyao smiled, but his body gradually began to be illusory, and the time for the Dream Immortal Technique had finally arrived. He seemed to have entered a mirror, and when he looked at Lu Yuan again, he seemed to be vaguely separated by a layer of glass. But he could still hear Lu Yuan knocking on the armrest of his wheelchair and reciting a song, which was the poem "Youth Xing" that Lu Yuan had taught him at the beginning.

“…… The naked heart is exhausted as a confidant, and the gold does not hesitate to plant peaches and plums. Peach and plum are planted several times in spring, and the flowers fall and the flowers fall again. The prefectures and counties are all guests, and the princes are all level friends. A man is a hundred years old and happy, so why should he be poor and sick. A man is a hundred years old and honorable, why should he be frugal and sweet......"

The voice gradually faded away until he was gone, Li Xiaoyao's two lines of tears fell unconsciously, and he suddenly had a feeling that he would never see Brother Lu again from now on.

******

Outside Yuhang Town, on the green peak, there is a female song that says:

Outside the long pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is green. The evening breeze blows the willow flute, and the sunset is outside the mountain.

The end of the sky, the corner of the earth, the acquaintance is half scattered, a pot of turbidity is sprinkled with all the joy, don't dream cold tonight.

The voice is tactful and wandering, curling like a fairy, and it spreads far away in the rain.

(End of Sword and Fairy Scroll)

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PS: Lao Lei began to prepare the next volume. (To be continued.) )