Volume XXXII: The Conditioning of the Soul
October is followed by late autumn
This life is destined to be a farewell forever
I'm smiling for you
For you to keep singing at the end of the years
For you to walk through the four seasons with a scar
Look all over your smile
I've seen all of your past lives
One day, the sudden events of the past destroyed me in the cracks
I can't get over it
Can't escape
Since then
Give everything in your life
By the end of the century, the years were barren
I've long since become a white bone
Buried under deep ashes
We'll never see each other again
Atlante Crowd Source - East Wind Side: Nine Dust Mountain Zero Sword Sect
The sky is bright and flashes with azure light, the thick white light sways silently in the air, the birds have long been gone, the leaves have long been withered, only the spring that pours down from the top of the mountain is like a spring in the "boom", on the dark ground, from time to time a few unknown beasts come out of the mountains, licking the clean spring water lonely by the pond at the foot of the mountain.
There is not a single fallen leaf on the sword training field of the Zero Sword Sect, the white bricks and green pillars around it are magnificent, and there are some disciples gathered on the field, each holding a wooden sword in their hands.
On one side of the square, three figures stood sneakily.
"I didn't expect that these two people really passed the level by mistake, I was really angry!" Yang Li gritted his teeth and secretly clenched his fists!
"Second Senior Brother, don't worry, although they have entered our Zero Sword Sect, it is up to us whether he is dead or alive, and we can't mess with ourselves!"
"Xiaochuan, it's not me talking about you, you used to have a plan every time you were confident, and it worked, what's the matter lately, a few days ago you didn't succeed in intercepting Yang Huan halfway, and in the past few days, you have failed to take the demonic energy of the water monster and borrow a knife to kill people, why is your plan useless to this Yang Huan and Xu Fuhui?"
Min Chuan habitually brushed aside a strand of long red hair fluttering in front of his forehead, with a mysterious and mysterious look, which was unpredictable, and after thinking carefully for a long time, he explained to Yang Li: "Second Senior Brother, don't be angry, no matter how clever people are, there will be times when they miss, this Yang Huan and Xu Fuhui are definitely not good stubble, especially that Yang Huan, there is always a strange force around him to protect him from the invasion of divine magic, I have grown so big, it is the first time I have seen this kind of power." ”
Yang Li suddenly frowned, looked at Min Chuan suspiciously, and asked him tentatively: "Strange power? What do you mean by this? Could it be some kind of formation or amulet or something." ”
Min Chuan shook his head with a serious expression, and said word by word: " No, although I'm not good at divine power perception, but I can also be sure that it's not a formation or the amulet you said, arranging a formation around the body to protect yourself from the invasion of foreign magic, the first premise is that it takes a lot of magic power, and second, this person must be extremely sensitive and meticulous in the use of magic power, and if you can't do these two things, it is impossible to arrange an enchantment around the body, as for the amulet, it is even more impossible, no matter how powerful the amulet is, it can't resist the invasion of the water monster and the demonic energy, such a hairy boy, the magic power will definitely not reach the peak, and he has no amulet on his body, but he was able to block the intrusion of magic one after another, and I still can't understand how he did it!" Min Chuan said as he sighed and shook his head.
"Poof!" Xiao Wu, who was standing behind the two of them, spit out the blades of grass in his mouth, and said impatiently: "Second Senior Brother, you are thinking too much, if you want me to say, just take advantage of their rest at night, just make a knife and don't worry about anything!"
"No!" Min Chuansheng sternly interrupted Xiao Wu's words, and continued: "Xiao Wu, your method is too hasty, this method of assassination, we haven't tried it, and if the Zero Sword Sect has a human life, the master will definitely track it down, and we will be able to take the blame when the time comes, then again, it is really difficult to kill Yang Huan and Xu Fuhui unknowingly at night, then Xu Fuhui seems to be particularly keen on the use of divine power, and it is not easy to get close!"
"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, then you can't let them be so proud!"
Min Chuan let out a long breath and whispered in Yang Li's ear: "Second Senior Brother, listen to me, now we'd better calm down and deal with the two of them, a strong attack is definitely not a plan, we need to outwit!"
"I don't have that patience!" Yang Li finished speaking, and hurried in the direction of Yang Huan!
On the other side of the field, Yang Huan and Xu Fuhui were gesturing with wooden swords.
"Fuhui, how do you say you can see the book on the top pavilion?" Yang Huan asked Xu Fuhui in a low voice while gesturing the wooden sword in the air.
"I don't know, I just know that the status of that book in the Zero Sword Sect, and even on the wind side, is extremely important, and the master will definitely send someone to defend it strictly, so I can only take one step at a time!"
Yang Huan put down the wooden sword in his hand, approached Xu Fuhui's ear, and asked quietly: "What about the strong attack?
Xu Fuhui hurriedly shook his head, stretched out his hand and hurriedly blocked Yang Huan's mouth, looked around in a panic, and after confirming that no one was eavesdropping, he quietly answered Yang Huan's question: "Yang Huan, you must not be hot-headed to kill the top pavilion, how many masters there are in the Zero Sword Sect, we still don't know, just Senior Brother, Bai Zhou, his divine power can make people afraid of three points, so you must not act recklessly!"
Yang Huan looked reluctant: "Then let's just hold a broken wooden sword here every day, let's do something!" As he spoke, Yang Huan threw the wooden sword in his hand aside with a "clang", with an impatient face!
"Yang Huan, you have to know, how much we have endured since we took the exam to get to this point, how many risks and tribulations we have experienced, if you want to see the "Jiling Legend of the Blood", you can't just talk about it, you still need to take it step by step, see the move, if you can attack it, I would have killed the Zero Sword Sect a long time ago, you quickly pick up the sword, let others see it later, and you will definitely gossip behind your back and spread rumors for you!"
"Okay! I see!" Yang Huan took a few small steps as he spoke, squatting down to pick up the wooden sword on the ground, at the same moment, at the other end of the wooden sword, one foot stepped on the hilt of the sword tightly, Yang Huan looked up and saw that it was him!
"Hey, what do you mean!Lift my feet up, or I'll be rude to you!" Yang Huan looked with a look of forbearance of anger.
Yang Li, who stepped on the hilt of the sword, looked at Yang Huan who was squatting on the ground with a disdainful face, and said disdainfully: "What are you talking about?" I can't hear clearly, say it louder!"
"I'll tell you to take my feet away!" Yang Huan suddenly raised his voice, with an obviously unhappy expression on his face, and his other hand secretly clenched into a fist.
"What if I don't, what can you do to me? I'm the second senior brother of the Zero Sword Sect, it's okay if you don't bow when you see me, and you still have this attitude towards me, don't you want to stay in the Zero Sword Sect?" Yang Li smiled evilly.
Yang Huan didn't answer anything, and gave a crisp punch to his calf, Yang Li didn't stand still, and hurriedly took a few steps back, Yang Huan took advantage of the moment when Yang Li stumbled, pulled out the wooden sword quickly, reflexively shook his hand, and plunged the wooden sword deep into the soil of the flower garden on the side, and then stretched out his hand, posed and prepared to fight!
After Yang Li stood on his heels, he reacted, and quickly clenched his fists and rushed in the direction of Yang Huan.
On the sword training field, the disciples who originally took care of themselves and practiced swords heard the sound of fighting on Yang Huan's side, and gathered over one after another, as if they suddenly came out of the soil, and there were many people around them with a "hula", pointing and watching the excitement.
Yang Li and Yang Huan's four hands were tightly entangled, their eyes glared at each other fiercely, and neither of them would let go first!
"You let me go first!"
"You let me go!"
Yang Huan's forehead began to bead a lot of sweat, he was indignant in his heart, but he had nothing to do about this so-called second senior brother, his eyes were full of sadness and heartache, he complained that he had no backer, no ability, he could only let others bully him, but he was helpless!
Yang Li's face smiled sinisterly, this thorn in the flesh is a thorn in the flesh, it must be pulled out!
"This kid is really bold, he just entered the Zero Sword Sect and caused trouble everywhere, and he dared to provoke the second senior brother, he was really tired!"
"You're too extreme!"
"Let's stop meddling!"
A few words of gossip came scattered in the crowd, pointing at the immediate incidents, and the words of the visitors were the most hurtful!
Xu Fuhui on the side didn't have any words, he saw Yang Li behind him, and hurried to Min Chuan and Xiao Wu, he wanted to see what movement these three people could toss.
"What's going on!"
A stern reprimand came from behind the crowd of spectators: "You are all gathered here and don't practice swords, what kind of system!"
The crowd turned their heads one after another, and the smiles on their faces suddenly disappeared without a trace, all of them unanimously surrendered their hands and shouted in unison: "Master!"
Qing Yi walked through the crowd and saw Yang Huan and Yang Li fighting together, with an obviously unhappy expression on his face, and his voice was stern and frightening: "You two let me go!
Yang Huan and Yang Li withdrew their hands at the same time, but they still said "hum!" in unison, looking at each other with hatred.
"What happened to the two of you, gathering people to make trouble on the sword training ground!"
"Dad, you have to take a good look at whose fault it is today, I came over well, Yang Huan, this hairy boy, just didn't bow to me, and actually did it to me. I'm also the second senior brother of this Zero Sword Sect, you have to do justice for me!"
"Yes, Master, I can testify for the second senior brother!" Min Chuan came to Yang Li's side, looked at Qing Yi with a firm look, and in a blink of an eye, he glanced at Yang Huan, who was gritting his teeth, and said pretending to be upright: "I saw that the second senior brother came over and wanted to talk to them a few words, and it was Yang Huan who made the first move!"
"Hey, how can you reverse right and wrong!" Yang Huan was anxiously defending on the side, excitedly stretched out his finger and pointed at Yang Li, with a look of resentment, turned to look at the surrounding senior brothers who were watching the excitement, and said fiercely: "Can't you all see it? Why don't you speak!"
The surrounding crowd seemed to suddenly fall into a vacuum, there was no sound in the silence, no one spoke, no one stood up to say a word of justice, just watched the confrontation between the two people in front of them.
"Master, can you allow Fuhui to say a fair word?" Xu Fuhui on the side saluted to the teacher, and spoke softly, without losing everyone's demeanor at all.
Qing Yi didn't answer, just glanced at Xu Fuhui and nodded lightly.
"This matter started because of the second senior brother, and ended because of the second senior brother, Yang Huan has a neutral temperament, no one comes to provoke him, he will definitely not make a fuss about nothing, master, you are aware of everything, I believe that you will not favor anyone because of blood relationship!"
After listening to Xu Fuhui's words, the master thought carefully in his heart: This person doesn't talk much, but he is vicious!
"Master, I definitely didn't have nothing to do, causing trouble everywhere, today's incident, it is obvious that he deceived people too much!" Yang Huan looked at Shi Shang eagerly, stretched out his finger and pointed at Yang Li, his heart was in a hurry, the blood in his chest was pounding excitedly, the feeling of powerlessness was like a sharp knife, with a piercing cold, "bang" cut the backbone behind him.
The feeling of being empty behind me is that a cold glacier has suddenly descended on the world, the dark color is shrouded in a heavy shadow, and the feet seem to have suddenly fallen into a sticky quagmire, unable to extricate themselves, reaching out to grab something, but no one has come to pull themselves!
"What do you say?" Qingyi turned to ask the surrounding disciples who were watching the excitement.
"I seem to have seen Yang Huan hit the second senior brother's calf first. ”
"I really think it was Yang Huan who did it first. ”
"Yes, that's right. ”
The surrounding crowd said "fair words" like a pinprick, Yang Huan's heart suddenly seemed to have fallen into the black and white world, there was a fog in front of him, and the feeling of despair instantly poured through his body like heavy rain, Yang Huan secretly clenched his fists and gritted his teeth to look at everyone around him.
"Master, the truth is definitely not what they say......" Fu Hui was just about to defend Yang Huan, but was interrupted by his teacher's words.
"That's enough! Don't say it anymore!" The master said a stern reprimand to drown out the chaotic discussion of everyone: "Yang Huan, this master has punished you to go to the Forbidden Cultivation Pavilion to copy 300 books, when you realize your mistake and come out again, do you have any objections!" Qing Yi frowned tightly, and said sharply, not to be opposed!
"I ......!" Yang Huan was just about to argue again, when he felt the corner of his clothes being dragged by someone, he looked back, Xu Fuhui shook his head lightly behind him, he stretched out his hand and gently pulled the corner of his clothes, just like the first time he saw the enrollment notice of the Zero Sword Sect on the street that day, everything that was disputed with Min Chuan, or the mysterious figure behind him grabbed the corner of his clothes and stopped himself in time.
"Master, I am willing to be punished with Yang Huan. Please also ask for the teacher's permission!" Xu Fuhui said with a serious face, his categorical tone was not at all like the demeanor that a disciple should have, that kind of aura was like what a mature person should have after experiencing many ups and downs.
"Fulfilled your wishes!" Qing Yi turned his back angrily, flicked his sleeves, and walked away in the direction of Yunjin Palace.
The crowd of people watching the excitement dispersed.
"Look at it, look at it, and then look at it and gouge out your eyeballs!" Yang Li on the side smiled proudly, looking at Yang Huan's aggrieved eyes, and his heart was happy.
Xu Fuhui stepped forward, smiled politely, and said lightly: "Second senior brother, don't be too complacent, the days are still long, see who can fight whom!" After speaking, Xu Fuhui pulled Yang Huan to prepare to leave, Yang Huan looked reluctant, stubbornly looked at the proud Yang Li and Min Chuan, gritted his teeth and didn't say a word!
Xu Fuhui pulled Yang Huan, who was reluctant to leave, while gently persuading him: "Yang Huan, the big husband can bend and stretch, this little thing is not worth making such a big fuss, you listen to me, Yang Li's actions today are in my heart, it is not a good thing for a person to be brave for a while, too strong a sharp edge will only backfire!" Xu Fuhui whispered in Yang Huan's ear.
In the laughter behind him, Xu Fuhui pulled Yang Huan and walked heavily step by step in the direction of the Forbidden Cultivation Pavilion.
Yang Li and Min Chuan, who were standing in place, looked disdainful after listening to Xu Fuhui's words.
"What kind of thing are you, the coming day is long, then let's see who can beat whom!"
The Loss of Artest North: Pine Town
There is little rain in the lost land, but the trees on the ground are lush and lush, even in the late autumn now, the tall trees have no fallen leaves, and the air has always maintained a suitable temperature, but there is not a single bird in the middle age, which is a hundred years of puzzles in the lost land.
On the edge of Songling Town, he moved north, dressed in green clothes and black hair, and hurriedly walked to the place where Xizhao lived.
On the open ground, the small thatched hut still stood there quietly, in the house, Xizhao sat on the edge of the bed in plain clothes, holding a blue and white porcelain bowl, holding a soup spoon and feeding the decoction to the elderly father one by one.
"I'm afraid, ahem...... No...... Okay, the only thing I can't ..... with confidence is you!" The old man on the bed had a deeply wrinkled face, and his breath was unsteady.
"Dad, don't say that, your body will definitely get better!" Xizhao said eagerly with a porcelain bowl.
"My own body...... Ahem, I know it myself, you better don't comfort me!"
Xizhao was just about to speak, but was interrupted by the sound of the wooden door pushing open behind him, and he looked back and saw that it was him!
"Shaoxia, why are you?" Xizhao sat on the edge of the bed, holding a porcelain bowl holding half a bowl of decoction in his hand, and looked back at the person who pushed open the door and walked in in surprise.
"When I came back, I have something to ask you, I wonder if you have time?" Beiqian stood at the door with a serious expression, looking at the sunset on the edge of the bed, and many things flashed in his heart.
Xizhao's face was full of embarrassment, she turned her head to look at her father on the bed, and she was really relieved.
When he moved north, he saw that the sunset was sad, and his heart was clear, and he was ready to turn around and leave.
"Eh, wait a minute. Xizhao walked over, gently put the soup bowl in his hand on the table in front of the door, and as the north moved out of the door, the two of them stood in the courtyard one after the other.
Beiqian naturally hung his hands, looked at the sunset in front of him with a bewildered expression, and flashed scenes of the past in his heart, his lover seven hundred years ago, Lan Yue clearly looked the same as the woman in front of him, what is the cause and effect of this!
Xizhao lowered his head, lowered his eyes and stood behind Beiqian, he held his hands in front of his chest, behaved lightly, and asked him softly: "Shaoxia, what do you want to ask me?"
Beiqian turned around, his brows furrowed tightly, and asked her in a serious tone: "Xizhao, I have always had a question for you." ”
"Young man, please say it directly, Xizhao must know everything, and say everything!"
"Have you been living here all along? Is there anyone else in your house?"
Xizhao paused, opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he stopped talking and didn't say anything.
If you are embarrassed, you don't have to answer. Beiqian asked crisply, his cold voice like ice.
"No, it's not that it's embarrassing, it's that the little woman doesn't know. Xizhao hurriedly waved his hand and explained: "Since I can remember, I have lived in this Songling Town, and my father is the only one in the family, and I don't know how long it has been in this small thatched house, so I can't answer your question." ”
"Have you ever been hit hard before, or have you met any strange people?"
Xizhao didn't say anything more, just shook her head simply.
After listening to Xizhao's words, Beiqian didn't notice anything unusual, he turned around and thought carefully: Lan Yue had already been killed by the dust seven hundred years ago, if this person is really Lan Yue, whether it is a memory sealed by others or not, there will be more or less previous marks in his behavior, if it is not Lan Yue, how should this skin be explained......
When Beiqian was distracted and thinking, a crimson light suddenly flashed behind him, and Beiqian's pupils suddenly became like chaos, rushing around with black mist, the darkness was bottomless, and in an instant, it was as if his soul had been stripped away, and he fell to the ground in response, and his whole body stiffened without any movement.
The man behind him slowly walked out from behind the wall, dressed as a peddler, but his eyes were fiercely murderous, and his palms held a few mysterious rays of light, whirling and entwining.
"If I hadn't come in time, I'm afraid this mirror would have been snatched away!" said a man dressed as a peddler smirked as he walked over to himself.
The sunset on the side was frightened by all this in front of him, and hurriedly took a few steps back, looking at the person dressed as a hawker in front of him with frightened eyes, and asked in a panicked voice: "Who are you, don't you come over!"
"You said you, if it's a person, it's just a mirror, where does so much nonsense come from!" The person dressed as a peddler said with an evil attitude, while raising his hand to look at a few streamers in his hand, and said to himself: "If I really don't have the real strength, I can't beat you, but fortunately, I ...... quickly."
Before the peddler finished speaking, a few streamers in his hand were snatched away by a very fast figure that suddenly appeared, the figure stopped on the side of the courtyard, stretched out another hand and pointed at him, looking at the person dressed as a peddler with a proud face, and said to the peddler dressed with disdain: "What kind of thing are you! In terms of speed, I am the number one in the world!"
The peddler looked at the person who suddenly appeared in front of him, dressed in black and blue clothes, with upright facial features, and a fluttering white feather tied to him in a daze, looking at himself with a serious expression, and asked him: "You kid don't want to live and come to ruin my good deeds?
"Belong to the Zhou Wu family, Wu Qingyu!" As he spoke, he smashed a few streamers of light that he was holding tightly in his hand into Beiqian's body.
"You!" cried out the peddler anxiously.
Qingyu raised his eyebrows uninhibitedly and provoked him: "What are you, I kissed you so much, who are you!"
"Stab!"
Beiqian, who was lying on the ground, slowly came back to his senses, he stood up, looked at the two people who suddenly appeared around him, turned his head and questioned Qing Yu, and said sternly: "Are you attacking me behind your back!"
Qing Yu was shocked when he was obedient, and hurriedly waved his hand to explain: "Hey, why are you like this, I saved you, if you don't thank me, forget it, why do you still blame good people!"
Beiqian looked back at the hawker-like stabbing again, staring at him with sharp eyes, as if questioning him.
Ying Thorn immediately put on an innocent look, hurriedly hid to the side, and said weakly: "It's not me! Don't get me wrong, I didn't play a black hand behind your back!"
Qingyu on the side listened to Yingting's pretending to be innocent, impatiently stretched out his finger to Yingting, and said to him with a disdainful tone: "You are really upside down!"
Beiqian stretched out his hand and was about to shoot at Qingyu, but the frightened Xizhao ran over to stop Beiqian, and said anxiously: "Shaoxia, you misunderstood, it was he who saved you, it was the person who looked like a hawker who did a black hand on you behind your back!"
Hearing these words on Qing Yu's face, a happy expression suddenly appeared on his face: "Look, I'll just say it's not me, I don't want to be contaminated with such an evil magic technique that controls people's souls!"
Ying Thorn suddenly stood up, laughed loudly, walked in front of Beiqian, and said without scruples: "Since you have seen it, I have nothing to hide, you have said a little wrong, this soul restriction technique is not an ordinary magic technique, this is my Tianbing, soul constraint!"
Qing Yu suddenly smiled: "What kind of bullshit constraints, I want to see how capable you are of a villain who is good at disguise!"
"Wu Qingyu! I warn you! It's none of your business today, you'd better not meddle in your business!"
"I just can't get used to people who are poisoned behind other people's backs, if you want to fight, just fight openly, don't talk nonsense!"
The trees in the yard are still shaking in the late autumn temperature, and there is silence all around!
All the rain, all the sun
All the memories of late autumn are like a lifetime away
All the fallen leaves, all the rhizomes
All the dreams of lovesickness in the snow
All in this rain-upside-down world
Rushing to death
The wind blows from the future
Brought cold blood and hot scarlet
Seven hundred years of countless voices tearing
Seven hundred years of countless feelings collapsed
Countless tears were drowned in the sea
Continued decay and decay
Only those who are about to come
At the end of the years, it rings