In the courtyard of Ouyang's ancient mansion, Ouyang Yong was sitting on a rattan chair sipping tea, he had just taught Xia Qiu a set of the most basic knife techniques a few days ago, and now he was watching her in practice.

She has more aura than he imagined, and he can remember the movements in his heart after teaching her once, but the determination and strength when he came out of the knife are slightly insufficient, but as a human being, this is a normal thing, because he was also a human so he can understand it very well. Unlike humans, who are accustomed to reacting after thinking, demons rely more on the subconscious and intuition, and the more powerful the enemy, the more deadly it is, and the slightest pause in thinking can have fatal consequences.

"Now that you know the moves, don't hesitate, and don't care if you can use power with every blow, because you won't have time to think in actual combat!" Ouyang Yong reminded.

Xia Qiu was very aware of Ouyang Yong's requirements for her, but she couldn't help but pause every time she took out the knife, she felt that she must look like a puppet, and she couldn't make such a few simple movements coherently after practicing for a few days, which made her feel very annoyed, and then she became extremely impatient.

"No, why did you miss a move!"

Ouyang Yong, who is usually kind, is like a completely different person during training, showing no mercy to Xia Qiu's mistakes, and his tone is serious and tough.

Although Xia Qiu's physical strength and various senses have improved a lot after the Blood Alliance, the long hours of horizontal slashes, vertical slashes, diagonal slashes and thrusts still made her sweat profusely. She could hear herself breathing heavily, and the sweat-soaked clothes that clung to her body made her movements less stretchy. But she didn't want to stop at all, because she had promised Ouyang Xiaoleng that she would become a qualified blood alliance contractor, so she had to have the strength to protect herself in the shortest possible time, otherwise she would only become his burden, and where could she be his pillar and partner.

"Xia Qiu, let's practice here today, you can rest! Next time, in addition to adding some new moves, let's use the dummy to practice the results of the past few days of training! ”

"Okay, I'll practice a little longer!"

Xia Qiu couldn't let herself stop like this, she wished that she could turn her day into a hundred hours, so that she could have more time to train every day besides school. After Ouyang Xiaoleng left, it was only a few days that made her feel powerless, and the overly high-intensity training made her feel like a walking corpse in school during the day. But she was happy with this almost cruel rush, because as soon as she stopped, she would miss Ouyang Xiaoleng frantically, guessing whether he had arrived in Dongyao safely, and whether he had succeeded in getting the support of the Amber Dragon King, and what she missed most was his return date.

The demon world Dongyao is also known as the city of the water system, also known as the Pearl Island. Surrounded by water, it is only accessible by boat, and the whole island is like a little dew on a lotus leaf.

The lord of Dongyao City, the Amber Dragon King, was once a god clan, and was later canceled by the gods because of his love with a human woman, and when he was down, he met with the lord of the demon world at that time, that is, Xiao Leng's grandfather, and met at first sight, not only was knighted but also given Dongyao Water City. The grace of knowing each other made the Amber Dragon King loyal to the two generations of demon kings Huli and Ouyang Xueye, and the countless battles they experienced side by side also made them each other's most trusted partners.

But since the battle of Yongchuan sixteen years ago, he has never stepped out of Dongyao City for half a step, because the royal power of the demon world has been shaken since then, and he does not want to get involved in the struggle for power, and the only masters he recognizes are Li and Ouyang Xueye; Moreover, he was tired of fighting for thousands of years, especially after the death of his wife, he seemed to lose his soul and grew old for a moment, and his former ambition and pride were in vain.

After Ouyang Xiaoleng left the royal city of Yongchuan with Ouyang Hongye and Mochizuki, he headed all the way to the east to set the demon horse, arriving at the ferry outside Dongyao City earlier than expected. This was the first time Ouyang Xiaoleng had arrived at a place so far from the Demon Realm and the Royal City, and the bleak and depressed scene of the Demon Realm along the way made him difficult to let go. In his eyes, although Yongchuan was not as prosperous as before the war as Ouyang Hongye and the others said, it still maintained the order of the past. But outside the city, it was very different, and here it was a miserable situation of the jungle and the strong, and the ghosts and spirits vied each other by killing their own kind, making the already barren ruins even darker, with ruins and broken walls, dead plants and trees, and ghosts and wild ghosts floating around.

Because it was late at night, they finally found an empty house not far from the city that was still intact to rest, and as soon as they laid out a simple mat and sat down, Mochizuki took out the wine jug from his arms and drank it alone.

"You stole the old man's wine again, didn't you?" Ouyang Hongye also found a place to sit down and looked at Mochizuki and shook his head, then took out the cigarette bag and pot from his pocket, took out a small bag and put some tobacco in it, knocked a few times on the stone next to him, snapped his fingers, and the cigarette pouch was magically ignited.

"Whoever let him save so much fine wine doesn't see him drink much, and for some reason, the wine that has been transformed by demon magic is not as good as the wine made by these humans in any way. Although the taste is almost the same, and even the demon wine is better, the feeling of drinking it is just wrong. Mochizuki took another sip, then handed the wine jug to Ouyang Xiaoleng, "Come on, come on, you can taste it too!" Good wine! ”

"What kind of wine do children drink?" Ouyang Hongye said, snatched the wine jug and drank it himself.

"I'm not a kid anymore." Ouyang Xiaoleng next to him was a little unconvinced, as a descendant of the demon king fox, he felt depressed after seeing the depressed scene of the demon city, and just wanted to take a few sips to vent his emotions. He took the wine jug from Ouyang Hongye's hand and raised his head to drink.

"That is, for us demons, twelve or thirteen years old is already considered an adult." Mochizuki unceremoniously snatched Ouyang Hongye's cigarette pouch, took a deep breath, then spit out a smoke ring, and then spit out a male lion stepping over the circle, like a circus lion jumping into a circle of fire.

"Spicy!"

Ouyang Xiaoleng had never drunk such strong wine, and after just two sips, the burning sensation rushed up from his stomach down his throat to the top of his head, choking him so much that tears were about to flow out. What followed was a warmth from the inside out, he took two more sips, remembered the decaying scene outside the broken house, and suddenly sighed infinitely in his heart, "I really didn't expect it to be like this outside the royal city!" ”

"Don't take it too seriously, I prefer the reality outside the city to the vanity on the surface of the royal city, what about you?" Mochizuki turned to Ouyang Hongye.

"For me, it doesn't matter what kind of human world and demon world it is, the key is who you are with! Back then, I wandered around with Snow Night and Tingyue, young and frivolous, fearless, and constantly challenging powerful monsters, which was really a great escape. ”

"If only Snowy Night and my brother were still around." Mochizuki was brought into memory by Ouyang Hongye's words.

"Speaking of which, how can you and Tingyue be brothers? Both the looks and personalities are very different! Ouyang Hongye knew that he had aroused Mochizuki's melancholy, and was busy with a joke.

"Yes, my brother's eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to yours!"

"Really?" Ouyang Xiaoleng was interested, because Tingyue was not only the father of the snow rabbit but also his father's best friend, but as a prince, he did not leave a portrait during his lifetime, and no one ever mentioned what he looked like.

"Like, people often say that he and I are like brothers." Ouyang Hongye smiled faintly.

"My brother was born to be a person who values love and righteousness, and he is tired of love all his life, if he doesn't regard love as more important than anything else, he should live more freely."

"But this is exactly what you have in common with him, just look at how much you pet the snow rabbit!"

"That kid is too simple, it's always reassuring."

Mochizuki suddenly remembered the appearance of the snow rabbit and couldn't help but smile, the snow rabbit was born a few months later than Xiao Leng, and was the daughter of his brother Tingyue and the snow girl Miao Xueyu. For Mochizuki, she is a testament to his brother's existence in this world, and the bond that still binds him to his brother. Although she is the blood and blood of Tingyue, her personality is more like a copy of herself, naughty and active, full of curiosity about everything, thinking of her without a father before she was born, how can Mochizuki not love her doubly.

Drunkenness gradually swept through Ouyang Xiaoleng's whole body, although he was still unfinished with the topic of listening to the moon, he couldn't help but lean on the ruins behind him and fell asleep. Ouyang Hongye saw that he took the wine jug he was still holding in his hand and handed it back to Mochizuki, and then untied the cloak on his body and put it on Ouyang Xiaoleng. He sat back down beside Mochizuki and took two more puffs of his cigarette with his shoulder against him, watching the smoke dissipate through the air. Mochizuki and the two of them didn't speak, but they each leaned on each other thoughtfully, and there were many things in those conversations just now that were worth remembering.

At night, it was very deep and deep, and there was silence all around.

Suddenly, the air was mixed with the breath that did not belong to the three of them, and from that breath, there should be two people within a hundred meters of the broken house. Ouyang Hongye was the first to notice and patted Mochizuki vigilantly. Mochizuki, who also felt something strange, immediately exchanged glances with him, tiptoed to the back of the broken door, and looked out through the crack in the door to observe the direction from which the two breaths were coming.

The strange aura slowly approached them, but when they reached the dilapidated house, they stopped again, and they did not move for a while. Ouyang Hongye was still hesitating whether to take the initiative to attack, but Mochizuki on the side had already broken through the door with a loud shout like an arrow from the string, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but want to follow him and rush outside.

In the darkness of the night, they made a closer look, and the two black shadows were hiding behind a broken wall and confronting them, seeing them approaching but quickly retreating in the opposite direction. Although there was a thought, Ouyang Hongye felt that this was like a trap, and the two of them seemed to deliberately lure them away, but looking at the back of Mochizuki, who was chasing after the tiger and the tiger, he followed as if he was reflexive, and he didn't care about identifying the direction and ran far away in one breath.

Half-asleep and half-awake, Ouyang Xiaoleng, who was asleep leaning against the wall, felt a sharp cold light pointing at him. He woke up from his dream and saw a man in black with a bronze mask standing in front of him, and from his left arm a strange bow and arrow grew out of his left arm, and pointed the crossbow at his heart with his right hand, and he realized that the cold light he felt when he was half-asleep was the purple light emitted by the arrow.

"You were sent by Qingyun?"

Ouyang Xiaoleng asked and looked around, Ouyang Hongye and Mochizuki had disappeared, and his intuition told him that the person didn't want to kill him, first, he didn't feel the killing intent, and second, if he really had the idea of killing him, then it was the best time when he was asleep just now. And this person was able to suppress his breath all the time and not let himself find out, which showed that his strength was extraordinary, Ouyang Xiaoleng thought about how to get out.

"I don't know any Qingyun!"

Just as Ouyang Xiaoleng was thinking for a moment, the man in black spoke, and his voice sounded very young, probably about the same age as him.

"What is your purpose? And where are my companions? What did you do to them?! Ouyang Xiaoleng wondered if he was a robber waiting for an opportunity to rob passers-by since he was not Qingyun's subordinate. He still had some bad premonitions, if this person could hide his aura, Ouyang Hongye and Mochizuki would have encountered an accident.

"My men have led them away, and they won't be back for a while. Don't worry, I don't mean to hurt you, I just want to compete with you in a dignified way, the loser must unconditionally promise the winner one thing, how about it? The man in black said defiantly.

"How could someone who wants to compete in a decent way choose to sneak attack at night?" Listening to the words of the man in black, Ouyang Xiaoleng was even more puzzled, the purpose of such a night attack sounded a bit like a joke anyway.

"You should have realized that if I really came here to take your life, I would have done it a long time ago! Don't waste time, if you are really the descendant of the demon king fox, then let me see your strength, let's go out and have a good fight!. The man in black let go of his right hand holding the bow and arrow, and without looking, turned and walked out of the broken house.

Ouyang Xiaoleng heard that this person had already known that they would come to visit Dongyao, and had already waited for them in ambush here beforehand. But he still couldn't guess his true identity, judging from his familiarity with their itinerary, maybe he was someone who had close contacts with Wang Cheng, but he couldn't care so much anymore.

Whether he was friend or foe, Ouyang Hongye and Mochizuki were in his hands, and he had to settle the battle with him as soon as possible, and then ask him to let them go.

After thinking about it, Ouyang Xiaoleng followed the man in black to the outside of the broken house, and walked through a ruined wall to a small empty field. The man in black raised his bow and arrows and threw several arrows around him and Ouyang Xiaoleng, and those arrows swooped into the ground, forming a circle around them, and each arrow lit up a purple flame to illuminate the area of the competition.

"The wind stops blazing."

Ouyang Xiaoleng summoned Shen Bing to prepare for the battle, and exerted his demonic power at the same time as the man in black, instantly forming two huge cyclones that entwined with each other and rose up and rushed straight into the air. He found that the demonic power of the person in front of him was obviously not under him, and the lonely souls and wild ghosts who had been wandering here quickly dodged in panic as soon as they saw their rapidly expanding demonic power.

Seeing that the demonic power of the two sides was still stalemate, the man in black flew into the air and shot an arrow at Ouyang Xiaoleng coldly, and the arrow, together with the powerful aura it brought, penetrated Ouyang Xiaoleng's demonic power protection, and he was busy resisting it in the form of a divine fox slash.

Unexpectedly, just after blocking an arrow, several arrows followed, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he jumped into the air between moving and dodging. He swung his sword and slashed at the man in black, and when the man in black saw the move, he easily dodged, looking confident. At the moment when he hesitated slightly, the man in black released another arrow in his direction, this arrow slashed through his left shoulder, and the pain instantly eroded the left half of his body, although there was no blood to be seen, but the wound had a cold and piercing feeling that made him fall to the ground irresistibly.

"Defeated me so easily?"

The man in black laughed a little arrogantly, but he was also distracted by it. Ouyang Xiaoleng gritted his teeth, seized the opportunity to stand up and concentrate his demon power to launch a fierce attack on the man in black. This time, both in terms of strength and speed, the man in black was caught off guard and overwhelmed, and his left arm was also cut. And at the moment when he wavered, Ouyang Xiaoleng's demonic power cyclone took the upper hand, and the man in black was full of loopholes, Ouyang Xiaoleng quickly approached and stabbed forward lightly, and this sudden lightning sword was hitting the chest of the man in black. This was clearly a move to kill the soul, but on the contrary, when the sharp blade was about to penetrate his chest, Ouyang Xiaoliang put away the blade.

"Interesting, hehe!"

The man in black looked at his left arm, which was already oozing blood, and continued to sneer, obviously he had lost to the other party, but he was not convinced, he concentrated his demonic power again, and this time the cyclone looked more and more powerful than before.

At this moment, the sky suddenly began to rain with smoke, and the raindrops mixed with the smell of decay on the ruins, turned into clouds of mist and floated in the air. The man in black hid the bow and arrow in his left hand, and he stretched out his right hand to gather the rain and mist from all directions, forming a rapidly rotating water ball on the palm of his hand.

"Borrow a hydrator."

The water balloon in the black-clad man's hand turned into a crystal clear knife in response.

The two fought with swords again, falling into a stalemate, and the demonic power was also entwined, one green and one white like two dragons, inhibiting each other and killing each other. This is the first time Ouyang Xiaoleng has fought head-on with such a powerful opponent, because of his lack of actual combat experience, and the power of the Silver Fox Divine Monarch in his body has just begun, after a few rounds of confrontation, there is a trace of fatigue, only gritting his teeth and shaking his fighting spirit, because once the demonic power is weakened, he will be easily hit hard by the other party.

And after a long time of back and forth, the rhythm of the black-clothed man's attack began to slow down, Ouyang Xiaoleng clearly knew that if he wanted to defeat the opponent, he had to seize this only opportunity, because if he dragged on, it would be difficult for him to win. He put aside all distractions and let go, mobilizing all his strength to attack the man in black continuously, leaving no room for himself and the other party.

It was obviously in the drizzle, but the man in black had a hallucination, Ouyang Xiaoleng's movements were like wind blowing snow, he had never seen such a beautiful move, he couldn't help but sigh that each of his swords seemed to be gentle but had a chance to kill him, and he deliberately left room not to hurt his own vital point.

He knew that he was completely defeated, so he gave up his resistance and let the opponent's demonic power and sword qi suddenly explode and eject him from a distance. He sat down weakly on the ground, and Ouyang Xiaoleng's sword was once again pressed against his chest.

"You've lost." Ouyang Xiaoleng said softly with an expressionless face, neither ostentatious nor excited.

"Hmmm! Then why don't you kill me? The man in black was a little disappointed, but more puzzled.

"First, because you are a rare opponent; Second, you didn't kill me during the sneak attack, and this time it's back to you, and the two of us will be even. ”

"Don't you take advantage of the current time to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, and you are not afraid that I will be your enemy in the future?" Although the opponent's words were cold but frank, they made the people in black admire, and he raised his head to look at Ouyang Xiaoleng and asked.

"I'm more afraid of losing a good opponent."

Through the copper mask, Ouyang Xiaoleng noticed the pair of amber pupils hidden behind him, he put away the Divine Ice in his hand as he spoke, and stretched out his right hand towards the man in black.

"Haha, interesting!" The man in black smiled, reached out and took the hand he handed over, allowing him to pull himself back to his feet.

"It doesn't matter what you hurt, right?"

"It's not a small injury, but you're okay with my fire bow, right?"

"I don't feel anything anymore! What about my companions? ”

"They'll be back soon as I'm gone, so I'll leave it at that, we'll have a date later!"

The man in black turned and leapt up and quickly disappeared into the night sky, and as he left, the rain cleared, and the flaming arrows on the ground were extinguished.

Ouyang Xiaoleng thought to himself that this person was also refreshing, although he didn't know where he came from, but judging from the situation he had just fought with himself, his shots were bright and straightforward, and there were no dark moves in his moves. It's just a little arrogant and unwilling to admit defeat, which is very similar to the self in his bones.

On the other side, when Ouyang Hongye and Mochizuki came back to their senses, they found that they were trapped in the maze created by the other party at some point, and then they suddenly realized that they had fallen into the trap set by the two men in black.

"Oops, oops! It seems that their real goal is Xiao Leng! Ouyang Hongye was shocked.

"Damn! It's all my fault for being too impatient! How to call a few little cubs to fool around! Mochizuki also regretted himself again and again.

"Hey, don't underestimate them, there must be a master behind them, judging from this maze, the demon law that made it should be quite high, if it weren't for his willingness to let us out, I'm afraid it would take a long time to find the exit." Ouyang Hongye touched the wall on the side of the maze path with his hand and corrected him.

"What else are you looking for? Watch me rip it straight away! Two crescent-shaped scimitars immediately appeared in Mochizuki's hands, "My Moon Shadow Knife is not a vegetarian!" ”

He crossed the two knives in his hand across the wall in front of him, the blades rubbing together to cause sparks to burn and fall in the darkness, but the wall in front of him seemed to be motionless.

"We'll have to wait." Ouyang Hongye sat down helplessly against the wall, took out the cigarette pouch in his arms, lit it to himself, and took a few puffs.

"You're so calm!" Mochizuki sighed and put away the Moon Shadow Knife.

"Otherwise, let's wait and see. Since they designed this maze to trap us, they won't be able to do it like this. I think there should be a follow-up to see what they plan to do next. ”

Ouyang Hongye is calm on the surface, but his heart is several times more anxious than Mochizuki, he has encountered such a thing before he arrives in Dongyao, he understands that although Xiao Leng has strength but lacks actual combat experience, if he really encounters a master who wants to harm him, with his current ability, I am afraid that it will be more than lucky.

As time passed, his heart became more and more bottomless, until the walls of the maze were shattered like mirrors and disappeared, seeing this scene, he and Mochizuki did not dare to slack off, and quickly turned back to the dilapidated house along the same path.

"Xiao Leng?!" Ouyang Hongye rushed in first, and at first glance, he saw Ouyang Xiaoleng sitting against the wall, and saw that he was safe and sound, so he put down his anxious heart and let out a long breath, "You're not hurt, are you?" Mochizuki and I were led away by two people and trapped in a maze, and by the time we reacted, we couldn't get out. ”

He approached Ouyang Xiaoleng and saw the scratch on his left arm's clothes, and stretched out his hand to see his injuries, but he blocked them.

"It doesn't matter if it's a little hurt!"

"As I expected, the other party really came prepared, deliberately luring me and Mochizuki away, because you are their main target." Ouyang Hongye said annoyedly.

"Blame me, blame me, I couldn't hold my breath and rushed out first, fortunately you didn't suffer any serious injuries, otherwise don't say that Red Leaves and Yong-sama have to ask me, even the girl of the snow rabbit can't spare me!" Mochizuki on the side also walked over and saw that Ouyang Xiaoleng's injury was okay before relieving himself.

"Just now after you were lured away, an interesting person appeared, he led you away just so that you could compete with me alone, not to hurt my life, you say it's strange! The man's left arm can give birth to a bow and arrow, and there will be a strange pain where his arrow hurts, and the most strange thing is that he can call the wind and rain, and then use the rain to transform into a knife, that move seems to be called a water borrower. Ouyang Xiaoleng described the man in black who had just competed with him.

"Oh? Sure enough, it's a strange person! You can use water to transform into weapons, who do you think of Mochizuki? Ouyang Hongye seemed to have an answer in his heart.

"You mean the Amber Dragon King? At his age, he shouldn't have such a leisure to compete with children, right? Mochizuki was a little hard to believe.

"That's right, but it's really interesting to listen to Xiao Leng's description, this person is definitely not Qingyun's subordinate, he trapped us just so that we could compete with Xiao Leng, and we were released after the competition." A smile appeared at the corner of Ouyang Hongye's mouth.

"Although he is wearing a mask and can't see his face, it feels like he should be a young man, and his demonic power is not below me." Ouyang Xiaoleng added again.

"Who is this person, I think I will know when I enter Dongyao early tomorrow morning, you can rest, I will guard it tonight!"

Ouyang Hongye had long known that the Amber Dragon King had a son, who was about the same age as Ouyang Xiaoleng, because he was deeply favored by his father and was stubborn by nature, but he was talented and intelligent, and he inherited his father's ability, presumably this mysterious man in black belonged to him.

After drinking the liquor and experiencing the battle just now, Ouyang Xiaoleng was already exhausted at this time, and he didn't even have the strength to respond to Ouyang Hongye's arrangement, so he nodded silently and fell asleep.

That night, Ouyang Xiaoleng had a dream, in which he met the back of a woman with her hair raised high and coiled into a bun, and saw her wearing a half-length dress embroidered with a pale lotus pattern on a white background, standing under the plum blossom tree with buds full of branches, dressed in a simple and elegant manner, but the plum blossom on her hairpin was a bright red. He felt that the back was so familiar, it looked very similar to Xia Qiu, and he whispered her name as he approached her.

"Summer and Autumn!"

The woman turned her head and smiled, although it was not summer and autumn, but her temperament was amazing. She is so dignified and beautiful, not mixed with any bewitching freshness and refinement, it is a refreshing and pure beauty.

"Who are you?" Ouyang Xiaoleng felt that this smile was indescribably kind, as if just looking at it could melt his whole heart, he must have seen her somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

The woman didn't answer, she still looked at Ouyang Xiaoleng with a smile, her face was kind and bright, and her eyes were full of tenderness. He vaguely realized that the woman in front of him was none other than his mother Ran Susu, although he had only seen his mother's face in photos and portraits, but he had seen this gaze and smile with his own eyes, as early as when he was a baby, the memory of her had been integrated into his blood.

"Mom!" He called out and pounced on her.

Ran Susu stretched out her arms and held him in her arms with pity, Ouyang Xiaoleng felt as if she had suddenly become a child, or even a baby, just letting her mother stroke her hair and pat her back, and her heart suddenly had a long-lost sense of happiness.

After a long time, Ran Susu let go of her hands, and looked him up and down carefully for a while, and then she turned around, and another man's figure appeared under the tree. Ouyang Xiaoleng knew that the man in white who was very similar to himself was his father Ouyang Xueye, and his father was also there smiling silently and nodding to him, he looked at him, his eyes were full of expectation.

Then the parents held each other's hands and staggered away, and disappeared before his eyes, and he tried to catch up with them, but his feet could not move in any way, and he stretched out his hand to shout for them to stop, but he could not make any sound, and he was left standing alone under the plum tree, with endless desolation and sorrow, and his nose was sour and his tears were falling down.

I don't know whose hand was on his back, so warm it was like untying the acupoints on his body, and he was able to move again all of a sudden, turning his head Xia Qiu was standing quietly behind him. The strange thing was that she was wearing the same clothes as her mother had just wore, and with the same plum hairpin on her head, she looked at him with the same gentle gaze, and at once took most of the pain in his heart that he had just been separated from his parents. He wrapped his head around her shoulders, and I don't know if it was the faint fragrance of plum blossoms or the faint smell of her body, which warmly took away the remaining part of the sadness in his heart......

In the classroom, Xia Qiu counted the days when Ouyang Xiaoleng left, and the geometry teacher's voice became so distant. Distractions in class were once insulating to her, but now they are commonplace, and she can't help but worry about the approaching midterm exams.

In addition, she has often come home late since the start of school, and although her grandparents didn't say much, she knew that they must be worried about her. and Liu Lingmei, who was very busy this time, and was estranged from her because of this, although Liu Lingmei's face was still sunny when she saw her every day, but she couldn't hide that little bit of awkwardness. Xia Qiu felt that her life seemed to be peaceful, but it seemed to be hiding one small pimple after another, but she was powerless on how to untie them now.

Whenever she inadvertently looked at the empty position behind her, her heart would always feel a tingling feeling, and she would unconsciously climb up to the roof and stand on the place where Ouyang Xiaoleng had stood. As soon as she sees Teacher Dong Muya, she will look forward to it, will she bring their news, or their return date? She knew clearly in her heart that Xiao Leng had only been away for a few days, but for her, it was as long as a year. At one point, she would suddenly lose sight of him, and at other times she would have all sorts of speculations, such as that he would never appear again, and that her memories of him would fade away little by little, a feeling that was painful and terrifying to her.

Her world seems as calm as yesterday, but his world is shrouded in a great crisis that threatens to swallow her world as well. If that meant they would all cease to exist, it would be a permanent separation, the last thing she was willing to accept. Every second she wanted to be by his side more than the last, and together she would cut off the fate that might be separated, which was Ouyang Xiaoleng's more and more intense thoughts after she left.

During the lunch break, Xia Qiu unconsciously walked on the rooftop, wanting to breathe fresh air, the sky was so blue and clear, but the sun was slightly dazzling. Footsteps suddenly came from behind her, and for a moment she wondered if it was her hallucination: Did Xiao Leng come back? But she soon realized that it was the continuous clatter of high heels.

"You're here, this place is really good!" Dong Muya pushed the door and walked up, gasping slightly

"Teacher Dong!"

Xia Qiu guessed if she had brought Xiao Leng their news.

"Xiao Leng, they have successfully arrived in Dongyao, and it is estimated that they will be able to return to the royal city soon after meeting the Amber Dragon King." Dong Muya had already seen why the little girl in front of her was uneasy.

"Really?! That's great! Xia Qiu breathed a sigh of relief.

"Miss that kid, right?" Dong Muya took out a pack of cigarettes from her pocket, took out one and lit it, took a puff, and spit out a beautiful smoke ring.

"Hmm!"

I don't know why Xia Qiu didn't want to hide it at all, in fact, she had been a little afraid of teachers since she was a child, but since the moment she bumped into Dong Muya in Ouyang Ancient Mansion, her feelings for her have changed, they seem to have more layers of peer relationship in addition to teachers and students, and her personality is like a big sister.

"That's great!"

The corners of Dong Muya's mouth rose slightly, because she also liked someone at this age in Xia Qiu, and it was still the case, although sweetness and bitterness were always intertwined, but guarding that obsession was the happiest time in her life.

"Oh, by the way, Xia Qiu, don't you have a mobile phone?" Dong Muya wandered for a moment before remembering her main purpose.

"Yes, there is, but because it is not allowed at school, I rarely bring it with me."

"Give me your number, and I can send you a message or call you directly in the future, and that guy Momiji often doesn't remember to look at his phone."

After school, Xia Qiu still went to Ouyang Ancient Mansion to learn knife techniques with Ouyang Yong, and the difficulty of kung fu has increased a lot in just a few days. Those dummies were all transformed by Ouyang Yong with flower petals, and although they would not feel pain when they hit them, the petals would melt into their clothes, leaving red marks. Ouyang Yong specially prepared an all-white light suit for Xia Qiu, so that he could more intuitively see her vulnerable parts and strengthen training.

The changes brought by the Blood Alliance to Xia Qiu were beyond Ouyang Yong's expectations, her movements had both strength and flexibility, and her reaction was also faster than before, and she was no longer so hesitant to make moves after a few days of training, and her sword was much more decisive and crisp, and she was able to deal with three petal-shaped dummies at the same time.

The sight of a girl in white wielding a plum blade in one of those dummies was so beautiful that Thorn couldn't remember how many times he had been stunned. During the time that Ouyang Xiaoleng left, she had been protected by the thorns around Xia Qiu, although he was shy by nature and said little, he still became friends with Xia Qiu. Every time she escorted Xia Qiu, it was actually her duty, but she was always full of gratitude, smiling and saying thank you over and over again, which made Thorn's heart warm, which he rarely felt in the cold demon world.