As the smoke cleared, my eyes widened to see who was still there.

One is a genius who was born as the head of the young family by the Jiang family, and he has been a man who has been in the limelight since he was a child.

And the other is from a poor background, working hard, and finally being the strongest man since the founding of Taoism.

I don't know why, it's obvious that two people I know are fighting, but I have a hint of happiness in my heart. I'm glad I saw the battle, and even after many years, I can tell people that I saw a battle like this. Because I know that as long as there are no accidents, these two people will definitely stand at the peak of Taoism in the future.

The smoke finally cleared, and I saw the man still standing. I couldn't help but be dumbfounded. Of course, I was blown away by any of them standing alone.

Jiang Erqian.

His long hair hung down, obscuring his eyes, and his neat suit was a little torn. At this point he stretched out his hand with slender fingers. Brushed his long hair.

Suddenly, he smiled and straightened his spine. And Dongfang Qingyun was lying on the ground panting, he wanted to grasp the barrenness, but he had no strength.

"This fight. Although it is a little unfair, I will always remember ......" Jiang Erqian began to smile again, "Dongfang Qingyun, you and I are about the same age, but it's a pity that you have passed away for a while." Although now you are back from hell. But just coming back and facing failure, I'm afraid it will make you very unwilling. In fact, I also want to know if I can beat you if you haven't passed away during this time and are still trying to improve. But...... Who knows? ”

Who...... Clear?

I can't tell myself. How long has Dongfang Qingyun been dead?

Trimester? Four months?

Jiang Erqian won by a narrow margin, but if Dongfang Qingyun was still improving during this time, who should win in the end, no one really could say clearly.

But now, he's defeated.

Jiang Erqian clenched his fists and stretched his waist very hard, as if he was proving himself to the sky. He patted himself on the chest and walked over to me. When he walked up to me, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and shook his body, but he managed to stand still.

"The yin qi here, the resentment is too heavy, and it is not suitable for Jiang Ying to use......" Jiang Erqian patted me on the shoulder, and he said softly, "I'll go back to the Dao Fa Sect first, if you have anything to say to him, just talk about it at this time." This fight, it's really a good fight......"

I hummed in a complicated mood, and Jiang Erqian also left. I thought he would turn back, but he didn't, until his figure disappeared into the night, and I didn't see him look back at his opponent.

He is still so chic, as if he does not eat the fireworks of the world.

"Brother Qingyun."

I hurriedly walked towards Dongfang Qingyun, wanting to see the injuries on his body, but I just moved my steps. Dongfang Qingyun, who was lying on the ground, suddenly roared: "Don't come here." ”

I subconsciously walked and didn't understand what Dongfang Qingyun meant. He struggled to hold on to the barrenness, sat up on his feet, and looked at me with hazy eyes.

I don't know why, I think Dongfang Qingyun's expression is a little lonely. This is very different from the previous him. I even suspect that this is not the domineering Dongfang Qingyun.

I swallowed my saliva and said comfortingly: "Brother Qingyun, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, although you lost this time, it doesn't mean that you are inferior to Jiang Erqian, does it?" It was true that you hadn't cultivated for three or four months, and if he won you, it was a narrow victory, if you were still cultivating, maybe you could get a tie, and it might even be that you narrowly defeated him. ”

I know it very well in my heart.

Actually, these two people. It should be described as incompatible. And this battle, for Dongfang Qingyun, is really a little unfair.

He was silent for a while, and then said softly, "Jiang Cheng, what do you think...... Do I care about this fight? ”

I subconsciously shook my head. If Dongfang Qingyun cares about this battle very much, then it is not the domineering and free Dongfang Qingyun. In my impression, he is a man who is only interested in his family and Dongfang Yanyue, and everything else seems to have nothing to do with him.

I looked at the lonely Dongfang Qingyun and didn't know what to say for a while. Suddenly, he asked me if I had any cigarettes. I hurriedly threw the cigarette and lighter at Dongfang Qingyun, he reached out to catch it, and then pulled out one and lit it, but coughed twice.

"Don't come here," he muttered...... "I have been ordered to kill the intruder, and if you come near, I will only kill you." Jiang Cheng, I don't want to kill you, and you still need someone to take care of you. ”

I nodded lightly and said in a low and ashamed voice, "Brother Qingyun, I'm sorry, I couldn't protect Sister Yanyue." In fact...... I really didn't know how to protect her. ”

"Her level, it's not something you can protect......" Dongfang Qingyun smiled bitterly, "Jiang Cheng, I see it very thoroughly. Before I killed myself, I knew where they would end. Whether it's Yu'er or Yue'er, they haven't been taken care of by the Dongfang family, right? ”

I nodded heavily, it was.

He smoked quietly, his expression becoming more and more lonely.

"When I was very young, I always thought that only when I became stronger could I protect the people I cared about......" Dongfang Qingyun looked at the sky, he muttered, "I worked very hard to make myself better, and with the improvement of my family's status, I told myself every day that I had to work harder, but what about the result?" ”

He snuffed out his cigarette ≡ mocked: "As a result, my mother died, not to protect us, not because of how tangled things were, but because I didn't want the white-haired people to send the black-haired people." She was a good woman, and when I was illiterate, she tried very hard to teach me to read the Tao, and when she met someone she didn't know, she went to look it up in the dictionary. Sometimes the dictionary can't be found, so she goes to ask the second uncle next door. At that time, the second uncle always laughed at her for thinking too much, and she would smile awkwardly. He said that he just wanted his children to learn more. She is a good woman, and at the last time, she also let her children do their filial piety. After all, a white-haired person sending a black-haired person is the most unfilial thing for children, right? ”

I didn't dare to answer Dongfang Qingyun's words, but I could hear the meaning of his words.

That sense of failure, that sense of loneliness, that sense of ...... The feeling of being alone.

"My sister who cares about the most, I promised to protect her for the rest of my life, but she still turned into Cinderella in the end, a marriage thing, if I am still alive, who would dare to bully her? If I were still with her, who would dare to point fingers at her? And the woman I love the most...... It's gone, it's all gone. ”

He suddenly looked up at me, his expression full of sadness, and slowly withdrew the desolation from its scabbard.

I felt uncomfortable tightness in my chest, and whispered, "Brother Qingyun, let's cry once, maybe I will make myself feel better." ”

"Cry once?"

Dongfang Qingyun grabbed the barrenness and stood up, his figure was a little shaky, as if he was weak and couldn't help the wind. No one would have thought that Dongfang Qingyun would look so haggard.

"If it were me, I might have cried once. But now...... I have a mighty body, but I am the humblest of souls. People used to say. That was the strongest Dongfang Qingyun since the founding of Taoism, and now? ”

He clenched his teeth and muttered, "Now people will say that it is Dongfang Qingyun, who has been reduced to slavery. Jiang Cheng, this is different from what you think. This is different from what you experienced, I really want to cry once, but now I am no longer qualified to do so. When the soul is already full of servility, even if it has emotions, in fact, in the end, it is just an excellent walking corpse. ”

Dongfang Qingyun threw away the desolation, and the desolation suddenly disappeared out of thin air, and he turned around and walked in the other direction. In the darkness of the night, his figure gradually blurred.

"I saw Yu'er. Don't tell her I'm alive. She said that her brother was the pride of her life, and that I was her regret after I died. But if you see me like this, then I will collapse...... It's her whole world. ”

He only left one such sentence and disappeared into the night. I looked at the gray land, and I couldn't breathe out the melancholy breath in my heart.

When pride becomes the capital of slaves. Who remembers that he was in his prime?