Chapter 2: Atonement
readx;?“ Patriarchs, elders, just now, the Everbright Stone used by Yun Hao's descendants has been extinguished" At this moment, in the Kunlun Mountains in the northwest, in an ancient family hall, a middle-aged man stood in the center of the hall with his fists folded and said to the three old men sitting in the hall. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
"What I was worried about, it still happened," the middle-aged man's words made the white-haired old man sitting on the side frown slightly.
"Yun Xin, you send someone to inquire to see who did it, and also, this jade pendant on the picture, you must find it" The white-haired old man sitting in the middle of the three old men, with a wave of his sleeves, a piece of vitality formed a drawing in the hall, floating in front of the middle-aged man.
"Yes, patriarch, I'll take someone here" respectfully took the drawings floating in the air, clenched his fists again, and the middle-aged man walked towards the door of the main hall.
"The ancestor shouldn't have handed over this treasure to that waste back then—" The middle-aged man had just walked out of the door of the main hall, and the old man sitting on the other side couldn't bear it, and said angrily.
"Alas, who can disobey the decision of the ancestors, the matter has come to this point, it is the will of heaven" Before the old man's words were finished, the patriarch waved his words to interrupt his words, he knew in his heart that the decision of the ancestors was also carefully considered, and he could only sigh and obey the will of heaven.
Outside Fengyang City, the snow-white ground decorates the scenery extraordinarily depressing, the dim sky, there is no trace of sunlight, and the creek ten miles away from Fengyang City is also covered with thick ice by this cold weather at this moment.
"It's so far away, they shouldn't be able to catch up" Located thirty miles east of Fengyang City, the woman in the red jacket held the baby in her arms, panting and squatting in the snow nest, looking back at the city wall of Fengyang City that had long been out of sight, and breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
The face of the woman in the red jacket was not very good, the cold weather had made her cheeks red from the cold, her thirsty lips had turned white, and she wiped the sweat from her forehead, and the couple in the red jacket grabbed a handful of white snow on the snow-white ground with their hands and stuffed it into their mouths.
Looking down at the sleeping baby again, the baby's face seemed to turn pale, and the newborn baby, wrapped in a bedding that was not very thick, then slowly frowned.
"If it goes on like this, the child can't stand it" Looking at the baby's changes, she also began to get anxious, in the cold winter, some of the surrounding inns have long been closed, and there is a distance from another city, according to this, the baby is afraid that it will die here.
But just as the woman was getting anxious, a whistling wind blew through the ground, raising a snowflake that fell on the baby and the woman's body.
"Who" The first reaction of the woman in the red jacket hurriedly protected the baby in her arms, looked around, and in front of her, a man wrapped in a black hat stood there.
"The child in your arms is the son of Yun Zhihong," the man in the hat asked softly with his back to the woman in the red jacket.
"What, what Yun Zhihong, I don't know, this, this is my child, I want to go back to my mother's house" The words of the man in the hat made the woman in the red jacket instantly stunned, and she could also guess that this must be the person who came to kill the baby, and in a panic, she made up something casually.
"Hmph, your child, this child has just been born, and you can walk on the ground?" The woman in the red jacket was naturally a person who had never experienced the world, and the words she made up in the panic were recognized by the other party.
Seeing that she could no longer excuse herself, the woman in the red jacket glanced at the man in the hat who was standing with her back to her again, and slowly got up from the ground, wanting to use the other party's back to her to quickly escape from this place.
"I want to run!" "Cultivators, how can they be teased by mortals, every move of the woman in the red jacket is in the perception of the man in the hat, seeing that the woman in the red jacket wants to escape, the man in the hat palms, and a long sword with a whole body blue appears in his hand, and he turns around and swords it, directly piercing the body of the woman in the red jacket.
The woman in the red jacket who was pierced through her body slowly flowed out of her mouth with a pool of blood, her eyes were also round, and her body slowly fell to the snow-white snow, and the bright red blood continued to flow out of her sword hole, staining the white snow on the ground.
"Wow" the woman in the red jacket was killed, the baby was thrown on the snowdrift, and the sleeping baby suddenly cried, twisting its young body, trying to break free from the swaddling clothes.
"I can only blame your own bad life, I'll send you to see your father"
In Fengyang City, the originally deserted streets, but at this time it has become extraordinarily lively, mainly gathered in the courtyard burning in the east of the city, the owner of this courtyard is quite powerful in the city, at this time the fire in the courtyard will attract countless people to watch, and the reason is also a matter of opinion.
At the top of the city's bell tower, two men in black hats stood there, as if waiting for someone, their eyes fixed on the east side of the city.
"Two elders, I'm back" It didn't take long for a black shadow to cross the sky and land on the top of the clock tower, holding a black cloth bag in his hand, and clenching his fists at the other two.
And the three of them are none other than the three of Elder Guo.
"Ning Tao, is the matter done?" Elder Guo asked as he looked at the black cloth bag that Ning Tao was carrying in his hand, and from time to time a few drops of blood were dripping.
"Sure enough, someone ran away with the baby, and I have already killed him," Ning Tao replied as he handed the black cloth bag to Elder Guo.
"Well, yes, you are ruthless enough, and the baby doesn't leave a whole corpse, haha, go back and praise you to the head of your sect" took the black cloth bag, opened it and saw that only the baby's bloody head remained, and Elder Guo's face also showed a smile, leaving no remnants of sins, which was the best thing for them.
"Thank you, Elder Guo" Ning Tao also forced a smile on his face and thanked Elder Guo.
"Let's go back and talk about it, it's not good to stay here for a long time, if you are recognized, it will be bad for us after all" Politely waving his hand to Ning Tao, Elder Guo said to the two, and then his feet were in the air, and a long sword appeared at his feet, ready to leave here.
"Elder Guo, if I want to go back to the sect to deal with some things first, I won't go to Longquanmen with you" Ning Tao also summoned the long sword at the same time, stood on top of the long sword, and said to Elder Guo and the two.
"Okay, if there are other tasks, I will send a message to you" Elder Guo nodded, it really didn't make sense for Ning Tao to go to Longquan Gate with them, after all, he was not in the same door, as soon as the words fell, two black shadows crossed the sky and disappeared into Ning Tao's field of vision.
At this moment, Ning Tao's eyes looked at the east of Fengyang City again, and headed towards the sword in that direction.
"This Ning Tao, you have to pay more attention in the future" On the way back to Longquanmen between Elder Guo and Jiang Kuo, Jiang Kuo said to Elder Guo with a cold gaze.
"Do you think I can't see it? It's not the same person, fortunately he still did what he needs to do today, otherwise, even he would have been killed" Jiang Kuo's words were naturally what Elder Guo had in mind.
If Ning Tao hesitated for a moment, Ning Tao might have been in a different place at this time, after all, what they did today was an apostasy, if they were known by others, they would not only be tried by the righteous path, but also hunted down by the righteous people, the reason why they did not kill Ning Tao was because Ning Tao had been dragged into the water by the two of them when he killed the people of the Yun family.
In an abandoned inn thirty miles east of Fengyang City, a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes kept eating his fingers and making a snorting sound, presumably, he was also hungry.
On the side, a man in a black hat, looking at this scene, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were full of self-blame, "At least, I saved your life"
The man in the black hat was Ning Tao who had said goodbye to Elder Guo before, and the baby lying on the table in front of him was the son of Yun Zhihong who he was going to kill before.
He then hid the baby in the inn, and went to the village not far ahead, where he stole a baby boy and killed him, saving the baby's life by pretending to be true.
But Ning Tao blamed himself in his heart, and he still had to shoot at the baby.
Not wanting to think so much, Ning Tao picked up the baby on the table, and Edgeworth flew towards the place where he lived, looking at the baby in his arms in the air, "Child, I'm sorry, I can't keep your family peaceful, but I will use my life to make up for the mistakes I made"
In Fengyang City, the Yun family's house has been burned to black charcoal by the fire, and no one has come to deal with the corpses inside, and the local government does not dare to inquire about this matter, and they naturally will not ask about the disputes between these cultivators.
It was already dark, and the surrounding neighbors had already returned to their respective homes, and dozens of people were killed in a row, and they mortals naturally did not dare to go out at this time, but in the burned mansion of the Yun family, there was a figure of a man standing, and the sky was snowing again.
"Brother Yun, I'm still a step too late" Looking at the charred corpses in the courtyard, which were gently annihilated by the snow, the man slowly stepped forward and walked towards the corpse lying at the door of the house, although the corpse had been burned beyond recognition by the fire, but the red sword in the corpse's hand could indicate the identity of this person.
The man picked up the red sword, tore off his coat with all his might, wrapped the red sword inside, and carried it behind his back.
The house behind him had collapsed, and to the man's surprise, in the entire courtyard, no figure of Yun Zhihong's child was found.
"Could it be that he is still alive?" The bold thought made the man frown slightly, he learned in Brother Yun's letter that those righteous hunting groups were coming for children, and it was indeed a little unlikely that the children were still alive.
The man activated the vitality in his body, wrapped the two corpses in the house and the door, and leaped into the air, flying towards a mountain peak in the distance.
After sinking the two bodies into the ground, the man found a piece of marble and engraved the names of the husband and wife, and failed to save Yun Zhihong, which may be the regret of his life.
The man took out the flask and muttered in his mouth
"Raise a glass and sing to the wine,
But it is already separated by yin and yang;
A few degrees, red dust comes and goes,
This life is already a long memory"