In January of the 42nd year of the Altino calendar, the mountain behind the White Deer Cave in the middle capital of Altino

Not every disciple of the White Deer Cave knows what is hidden in the forbidden place of the back mountain, where all disciples are forbidden to set foot in. The White Deer Cave is a place where many secrets are hidden, and the more you know, the more dangerous it is, and those who can survive in the White Deer Cave for a long time know how to properly control their curiosity.

Lu You, the highest authority in the White Deer Cave, only a few or so people know about the cultivation in the Eternal Ice Cave in the back mountain, but only Gong Jin is allowed to contact the back mountain, and even the three elders of the old hall do not approach as much as possible, so as not to have any accidental conflicts.

More than a year ago, Lu You began to go into retreat, and Gong Jin was ordered to go out on a mission, and since then, there have been almost no visits here, and it has become a completely silent and quiet space. When the situation in the outside world changed in a series of ways, and countless people were wondering what the Moon Sage thought about the series of struggles in the White Deer Cave, there was always silence here, especially at this moment when the snow was falling from the sky, even if it was extremely difficult to feel a little more vitality from here.

But in this dead silence and silence, there are some things that are unusually weird.

Large pieces of snowflakes scattered from the air, one by one falling on the ground rocks, turning the earth into a silver-white world, however, in this large area of snow and silver, there is a place where the ground is still dry, that is the entrance of the ice cave where Lu You practiced, all the snowflakes that fell down, as if affected by some inexplicable force, as soon as they fell within ten feet of the entrance, the whole slowed down, and slowly drifted in a form that was almost immovable.

Under the influence of this strange force, the first snow that fell this winter has not yet fallen to the ground, and the ground is still dry. If you look closely, there are even some insect corpses that are frozen there, and when they crawl into the area of the entrance of the ice cave, their whole movement speed is almost eternally slow, but their bodies still need nutrients, so none of them can escape and die in the barrier.

If there are magicians or immortal Taoists who are proficient in magic, they will sense that the scope of influence of this power is not only the entrance, but also the entire ice cave, and they will even sense that although this power is powerful, it is extremely evil, and the dark and cold demon miasma is spreading invisibly, gradually covering the entire ice cave, blocking all the vitality inside.

If anyone sees it, if someone comes, they will notice that something is wrong here, but the people who set up the magic barrier, and the people who are still sleeping in the barrier, are very sure that it is impossible for anyone to enter this sealed forbidden place at such a time, and even if there is, that man was killed by the "master" who he couldn't see clearly more than a month ago and was expelled from the place.

At present, in the White Deer Cave, no one has the leisure to find out about this matter, and the attention of all the disciples is attracted to the Zhongdu City not far from the mountain, a group of Guiyi clan masters who broke into the Zhongdu Assassination are being besieged by the elders, and the battle has entered the final moment.

General Gongjin, who entered the city in the cheers of the people, was suddenly held hostage by the Guiyi rebels, and suddenly attacked the elders of Bailu Cave, the whole thing changed so quickly that the officers and soldiers present and the children of Bailu Cave were dazzled, and no one could clearly say what happened, however, the orthodox official answer soon came out, it turned out that all this was the annihilation plan of the Guiyi clan, and they used some kind of trickery, disguised as General Gongjin, waiting for an opportunity to sneak attack, but where was the authentic Zhou Gongjin, this Bailu Cave couldn't answer for a while.

In order to give a reasonable explanation for the chaos in a short period of time, Su Laotang really tried his best to lie, and in order to prevent future troubles, after surrounding the enemy, they began to shout and demand the surrender of the head of the traitor who pretended to be General Gongjin.

From the point of view of Su Laotang, although Yan Ning and Xiao Qiao have threatening surnames, they are always women's bodies, and it is difficult to become a big weapon, but Zhou Gongjin is different, a sword on the short pine gang that day actually killed him without dying, which shows that his qualifications and explosive power are strong, and he is worthy of being one of Lu You's most proud disciples, if he doesn't get rid of him as soon as possible, maybe it won't be long before he has the opportunity to break through the wall of talent for thousands of years and enter the heavenly position.

However, Zhou Gongjin, Tao Yanning, and Xiao Qiao are all masters, and the three of them joined forces to fight back to the death, and the two elders did not have the confidence that they could not be lost, so they adopted such psychological warfare, asking the enemy to coax and behead Zhou Gongjin's head to surrender, as long as the most tricky character dies, the rest of the people are not a threat, even if they really spare their lives, it doesn't matter much.

This strategy is indeed vicious, and when the two elders of the present and future ordered the troops around them to throw and tear down the house with eagle claws, preparing to make the rebels in the house have nothing to hide, the effect of this strategy has already appeared in the house.

From the moment the old hall shouted threatening words, the whole atmosphere in the room began to change. The pressure of choosing between life and death, so powerful that it can distort everything, Xiao Qiao, who bears everyone's gaze, is stunned but clearly grasps the meaning of every look.

"Alliance leader, please do it!"

"We can't break out, as long as we kill this traitor, we have a chance to live!"

"This traitor deceived us so badly before, Alliance Leader, kill him!"

"As long as you kill him, you can avenge thousands of our compatriots, alliance leader, don't forget your identity!"

Many eyes, finally turned into actual sentences, began to echo in the room, urging Xiao Qiao to move. Yan Ning witnessed this process from the sidelines, she didn't say a word, she was tired and seriously injured, and now she just wanted to fall to the ground and faint, and she didn't have the strength to do anything at all, so she chose to remain silent and only watch how Xiao Qiao made a choice, and then acted.

Xiao Qiao made a move, she tried to explain to the people around her, she really didn't understand in her heart, what Gong Jin did was obviously obvious to everyone here, if there was no adventure rescue from him, everyone wouldn't even be able to survive to this moment, why did the people here refuse to admit this fact, and continue to hate and hate the dying benefactor?

There are many very complex parts of the world that are difficult to understand, but if you want to explain it, one sentence is enough. The companions continued to scold, so that Xiao Qiao, who was involved and affected, couldn't understand where his mistakes were, but when a companion knelt down, he cried with tears in his eyes and said, "Alliance, alliance leader, I ...... I don't want to die......" Little Joe finally understood the problem.

The pressure of life and death decisions is too great.

There are very few people who can face the moment of life and death and still do not change, and most people can even become a complete stranger when they can choose their own life and death. When he saw those companions who boasted of their martial arts and swore to kill Zhou Gongjin, the enemy of the Guiyi before leaving, pointed at themselves one by one and scolded, saying that they colluded with human thieves, forgot their ancestors, and were not worthy of being a ghost, Xiao Qiao didn't feel angry, but just felt lost...... and deep sorrow.

"Do what you have to do, little Joe, maybe you came to Zhongdu this time to finish this here. ”

Gong Jin, who was holding his bloodied body and leaning against the corner of the room, trying not to lose consciousness, spoke in a weak voice. He was hit by two elders and two major artifacts, and his injuries were worse than anyone here, and his strength was almost exhausted just by speaking, however, hearing the sound of the roof tiles peeling, and knowing that the enemy was preparing to tear down the house and assault, Gong Jin knew that he should tell Xiao Qiao something while he could still speak.

"We are doomed this time, although we have tried to resist fate, but since we have failed, it is time to accept our fate decisively. You are our leader, and if you sacrifice some of your members to keep most of them alive, you can't hesitate, because it's a duty you can't shirk. ”

"Chop off my head and give it to Su Laotang, and Yan Ning will know what to say to them. Although they may not be willing to keep their word, and will even let you and Yan Ning each cut off one of their right hands, as long as Yan Ning says what you need to say, then Su Lao Tang will let you leave safely. Because the two elders still need a certain degree of enemy threat to avoid turning against the wall too early. ”

Barely saying this, Gong Jin coughed twice and stabbed into the ribs of his lungs, causing him to cough up the blood that spurted out, spilling the placket of his clothes red. But even with such pain, Gong Jin's weak eyes were still sober, letting Xiao Qiao know that every word he said was said in a normal state of his sanity.

"Don't blame the people around you, they are not wrong, I am the great enemy of the Oni Clan, even now, I still hate this cursed race, if I am given the opportunity, I will still try to exterminate it, so that there is no more half of the Oniyi people left in the world. The reason why I am asked to pay for the Oniyi is only because I want you to have a good time, so if I want to die, I hope I die at your hands and don't let me be beheaded by the Oniyi. ”

Gong Jin's sincere words caused a burst of scolding from the surrounding ghosts, and they all asked Xiao Qiao to take action and kill this public enemy of the ghosts.

After barely finishing speaking, Gong Jin didn't have half of his strength left, leaning against the corner tiredly, and saw Xiao Qiao coming over slowly, slowly after being stuffed with a long sword.

Hundreds of years of life, compared with ordinary people, can not be considered short, in the past, I never felt that there was anything worth remembering in my life, no matter when I was sacrificed in the task, it didn't seem to matter, but this feeling, at this moment, there seems to be a small change, I do feel that if it is Xiao Qiao to end his life, then these six hundred years of life ...... It can be regarded as a worthwhile life.

Filled with an incredible sense of happiness in his heart, Gong Jin just smiled and watched Xiao Qiao come over step by step, the long sword dragging on the ground, making a sharp hiss.

“...... Do what you have to do! ”

Dragging the long sword, he walked towards the man, Xiao Qiao's mind was white, and he only felt like he was falling into an unsolvable nightmare, wanting to cry, but he couldn't make a sound.

The whole heart trembles with the fear of death, he really doesn't want to die, he really wants to live, from this point of view, he is the same as the people around him, he is not particularly great, but why do he have to kill this man?

In order to do great things and take on the heavy responsibility of leadership, many times it is necessary to kill, but is there anything to die for this man? From beginning to end, he has thought about himself and contributed to the peaceful ideals of the Guiyi tribe, and even if he is lying there in blood now, it is because he wants to save himself from the encirclement.

If he was really a cold-blooded murderer, he would have died a long time ago, how could he still drag his long sword like he is now, and want to cut off his head?

The peeling sound of the roof tile siding and the sharp sound of the long sword dragging on the ground seemed to urge Xiao Qiao to hurry up, but she just stared ahead, looking at the man who was smiling at her, his feet so heavy that he couldn't lift them anymore.

Although Kublai Khan's eldest brother said that in order to realize his dreams, he must sacrifice some human lives, but he must sacrifice him in order to realize his ideals? For the sake of a bleak ideal that is gradually fading and peeling away......

“...... Do what you have to do! ”

Or is it just because he is the leader of the alliance? Because he is sitting in the position of the leader of the alliance, he has to cut this sword for the survival of everyone?

What about Little Joe? What about this girl named Little Joe? Everyone is desperately thinking about her and sacrificing for her, doesn't anyone care what she really thinks in her heart?

“...... Brother Yu, thank you for your long care. ”

The long sword turned into a bright rainbow of light, and when the sword light fell on Gong Jin's neck with the cold air, Gong Jin closed his eyes and accepted his due fate.

But what fell was only the sword light, and the actual blade missed by a fraction of a millimeter, and it rose up with the momentum, slashing back at Xiao Qiao's left palm, drawing a bright bead of blood.

"Guys, before I do that, there are a few things I want you to know. ”

No one realized what was happening in front of them, but before anyone could make a move, the blood on Xiao Qiao's hands quickly turned into runes, spreading quickly along the white arm, but quickly turned dim.

"Shirubal!"

Except for Gong Jin, no one present knew what Xiao Qiao was doing, and Gong Jin, the only one who knew the facts, was no longer capable of doing anything, so after Xiao Qiao's singing, everyone seemed to have hallucinations in front of their eyes, and saw that Xiao Qiao's appearance had changed, and the horns on his forehead and the markings on his skin all disappeared quickly like the ebb of the tide.

In the blink of an eye, the girl in the green dress who stood in front of Gong Jin, as if guarding him with a sword, completely changed her appearance, and when the roof tile siding fell and spread out in all directions, the cold wind blew in with the heavy snow, and only a human girl was left in the sight of everyone with snowflakes.

“...... Yes, I'm sorry, I deceived everyone, and like this man, I'm also human!"

Let the tears flow, Xiao Qiao just tried to bend down and apologize to the stunned comrades in front of her, the blood ran down her palm, and little by little it stained the green dress that had long been invisible, she didn't realize it, and said the words that had been suppressed for a long time with all her heart.

"I'm a human being, but I really want to help the Oni people, so that humans and the Oni people can coexist peacefully, stop hating and killing, and make everyone's lives better and the world better. I deceived everyone, if Brother Yu is guilty, I am also guilty of infiltrating the Ghost Yi Clan, I, I am not qualified to attack him!

Saying these words hoarsely, although the ice and snow falling on his body were so cold, Xiao Qiao's heart was still hot, hoping that some miracle would appear, even if only one person was moved by himself, these efforts in the rebels would be in vain.

However, as devout as the maiden's prayers were, what was returned to her was disappointing. As she finished speaking, she raised her eyes to look around at the crowd, a stone struck her in the forehead, blood burst out, and she fell backwards with her feet weak.

"Shameless slut, you and Zhou Gongjin are the same dog!"

"You two are the same thing, you humans don't have a good thing!"

"Despicable, shameless, you have lied to us for so long, what are you pretending to be a true genius, you are simply a annihilation sent by the White Deer Cave!"

As if feeling hopeless of survival, more than 30 ghosts roared as if they were going crazy, and they picked up what they could throw at hand and threw them at the pair of dogs and men in front of them, eager to beat the pair of human traitors to death before the enemy could make a move. Ironically, none of them realized that the reason why they still had the strength to take things and throw people was because of Gong Jin and Xiao Qiao's best efforts to cover them before, resulting in their injuries being relatively light.

If Gong Jin still had half the strength, he would have pushed away everything that smashed at Xiao Qiao, but now he could only catch Xiao Qiao's weak body, turn his body as far as he could, and catch the heavy objects that were smashed for her.

Leaning sideways, Gong Jin came into contact with Yan Ning's eyes, there were tears in her eyes, but she seemed to be laughing, if she could still raise her hands, she would use the hands that were shot through the wrist bones by a hard crossbow to applaud the girl's courage and sacrifice; Xiao Qiao's true face is certainly surprising, but Yan Ning will not change her original attitude because of this.

But not everyone is like Yan Ning. The little infighting staged here is a big joke in the eyes of the Eltino army who are surrounding this place and preparing to charge, and the leader of the rebel army, who has repeatedly defeated friendly forces and led the ghosts to raise his eyebrows for a year, is actually a human being! Is there anything more ironic and ridiculous in the world?

As for why Xiao Qiao entered the Ghost Yi Clan, no one cares about this, anyway, since the day she entered the Ghost Yi Clan, she has been the public enemy of all human beings, and a traitor in the eyes of human beings, even if she is treated badly by the Ghost Yi Clan now. Since she is a traitor, then death is her only way out, and dying with this group of ghosts is the natural fate of traitors.

"Hahahaha~~~ You two big traitors, the human race sees you and wants to kill, the ghosts see you want to kill, you are now the big traitor of all races, do you really think that you can fight against the anger of everyone on this continent? I really want to see, who else can save you? Don't be a human in the next life, be two beasts!"

I don't know which of the two elders let out such a rampant ridicule, when Xiao Qiao and Gong Jin raised their heads together, they only saw the sky full of locusts and arrows, cutting through the clean snowflakes, rushing towards this side, all they heard and heard in their ears were the sound of plucking strings and breaking the wind in all directions, as if the whole world was exuding cold malice.

Being able to be hostile to the entire Wind Continent should be considered remarkable!As the old man said, Gong Jin and Xiao Qiao also felt that their lives should be like this, they really couldn't think of anyone else who could help them in such a desperate situation.

“...... Me!"

It wasn't until a long time later that the future old man still regretted his rampant speech at that time, when he heard the low cold drink in the midst of thousands of arrows, he knew that things had changed, but he didn't expect to see that scene when he raised his head.

Countless sword qi slashed through the air, mixed with the feather arrows breaking the wind, shining cold, just before each arrow hit the target, one step ahead of the interception, faster, more accurate, more vicious hit each feather arrow, all the arrows into drifting smoke and dust, in the blink of an eye, thousands of indiscriminate feather arrows were not spared, all were destroyed.

Just when everyone still couldn't figure out what was happening, a little bit of sword rain suddenly increased the brightness, and shot towards the surrounding people and horses in all directions, people only felt a cold and biting cold wind, a scorching hot air, staggered by the side, the body was hot and cold, very uncomfortable, and when they tried to open their eyes, they found that all the archers' bowstrings had been cut, and all the knights' horses also suffered the same fate, screaming and falling off their horses, and the whole army was in chaos.

(Who made the shot?)

The same question arises between the enemy and the enemy. This kind of peerless sword technique, Gong Jin has not only never seen it, but has never even heard of it, although Master Lu You is the best in the world in martial arts, but Gong Jin is not sure whether Master has practiced such accurate and fast sword skills.

The person who secretly shot out is at least enough to be on par with the Moon Sage, with the legendary celestial power, and the appearance of such a person is indeed enough to suppress the whole audience, and even make enemies of the entire Wind Continent, repeating the chaos of Amakusa Shiro back then, the question is ...... Who is that?

"Who is the master? Please show up and speak!"

In the shouts of the two elders, the person who should show his face finally appeared. Different from the astonishing swordsmanship of his hand, the one who appeared on a roof was just a short old man like a monkey, with more wrinkles on his face than the two old men combined, and it looked like a withered old wood, with no sense of power or oppression in his whole body, and from a distance, he looked like an old man sweeping the floor far more than a master of swordsmanship.

Seeing that it was such a person, the two elders were a little surprised, and they were very suspicious that the person who shot just now was really this person? Gong Jin at the bottom was no less surprised than them, although he had long known that the strange old man in the martial arts hall was very unusual, but he didn't guess that he had such an amazing sword skill that was not inferior to Lu You.

In today's world, there are only a handful of warriors with the power of the heavenly position. Recalling the strange old man's usual words and actions, Gong Jin's mind suddenly flashed a name, that is a person who founded the Big Snow Mountain Killer Group, which made people in the rivers and lakes smell different, and now he is listed as one of the three great swords along with Lu You, could it be ......

"Listen to the boys below, Lao Tzu is the head of the 'Go to Death Brigade', the Taoist is called Mestre Yoda, and he is very unpleasant to your behavior of bullying widows with the public, and now Lao Tzu has announced that he will take this boy away, who is not convinced, just come up and try!"

The arrogant tone is more domineering than that of the two elders of Shicai, Xiao Qiao's side is certainly surprised and happy, I don't know how he can be so lucky, a savior fell from the sky, but the White Deer Cave side is both shocked and angry, angry that someone came out to interfere at this juncture, but the two elders who vaguely guessed this person's identity did not dare to start a conflict lightly.

If a war breaks out, it will not only be a problem between the White Deer Cave and the Great Snow Mountain, just the obscene old man in front of him will be enough to turn the entire middle capital into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. In view of this, they patiently went to negotiate with their surnames, and raised Lu You's name, thinking that since the other party did not use his real name, he must be afraid of Lu You's existence, and since he was unwilling to tear his face, there was a lot of room for negotiation.

Unexpectedly, the other party was so unconvinced.

"Use Lu Lao'er's name to scare Lao Tzu? You two unfashionable little ghosts, it seems that you still can't figure it out, when Lao Tzu is in a good mood, he never takes the release of Weng Boy in his eyes; when Lao Tzu is in a bad mood, even Lao Tzu's Lao Tzu is correct. No matter how famous the Moon Sage is, he can only be the overlord of the earth in the White Deer Cave, and if he dares to bluff people in front of Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will pick your White Deer Cave casually!"

The tone is completely different from when he was in the martial arts hall, and the strange old man who keeps calling himself Lao Tzu is full of fire in his words at this time, and he seems to want to provoke trouble immediately and kill a river of blood here. The two elders finally realized this, and they were full of anger, promising to spare the people here, and stop the attack today.

However, they did make a mistake, if Lu You was here, it would remind them that the other party was not only arrogant, but also a very inch-inching person.

"Oh, the two little ghosts are so obedient, are the White Deer Caves all raised by the mothers? Then Lao Tzu will tell you again, pass the word for Lao Tzu, from now on, the net worth and surname of this man and woman are safe, all recorded in Lao Tzu's account, as long as they are no longer involved in the great cause of the military state, no one is allowed to shoot at them, no matter what clan he is or what kind of grandmother, someone dares to take this as the wind in his ears, Lao Tzu will kill his whole family!"

"Sinan, you're so arrogant! Look whose land this is!"

Ping said that in the White Deer Cave, when did the two elders receive such bird energy? Now the old man couldn't bear it at first, and with all his strength, he flew up and shot at the old man on the roof with his palm.

The difference between victory and defeat was not surprising at all, but the cold electric sword light that the strange old man slashed out at that moment left a very deep impression on Gong Jin. He had never seen a short, thin body that was more agile than an ape in an instant, and he turned over backwards, fired a sword with his backhand, and slashed the old man back to the ground with a single sword.

The power of the heavenly position is unparalleled in the world, and the strange old man can easily kill everyone on the scene as long as he flicks a finger, and he doesn't even have to raise his hand to move, but he is purely with the speed and ingenuity of his sword moves, and he can defeat the invincible old man with one move, as if to show fairness, and as if he is conveying something to Gong Jin.

But for White Deer Cave, such a threat is enough. When the old man is now lying on the ground and wailing, there is a wound on his right shoulder that has cut most of his body, bleeding nonstop, no one is still in the mood to fight, after all, the situation is stronger than people, there is no point in holding the façade at this time, if you don't learn to bow your head, the White Deer Cave may indeed be completely destroyed today.

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