Chapter 51: Xijiang Yue
Xiao He opened his eyes slightly and looked at the sky in confusion.
Her eyes were like deep pools, bearing the rain falling from the sky.
Lin Shouxi hugged her, she also wrapped her around his neck, the danger did not recede, it was changed from Yun Zhenren to a fairy in white, still approaching.
But Xiao He didn't feel any nervousness anymore.
She even felt that even if she died like this, she would not have too many regrets.
She tilted her head slightly, looked at Lin Shouxi's face, and let the rain drift into her eyes without blinking.
Lin Shouxi's heart was still beating at a high speed, killing Yun Zhenren had almost exhausted his means, and he was no longer capable of dealing with a woman of unknown origin.
The two of them walked around the winding alleys for a while, both tired.
"She's from Mount Kinabalu." Xiao He said.
"How do you know?"
"Because she looks down on everything here, including us." Xiao He remembered her eyes from afar, and said, "Most of the people in the Divine Mountain are like this. ”
"Why is she here?"
"Xu is the matter of the Succession God Ceremony was leaked, Xu is to hunt down and kill Yun Zhenren, the remnants of the Divine Mountain, Xu is for ...... Grand Prince. Xiao He said: "In short, she will never be a friend." ”
Lin Shouxi nodded, he also felt the same way.
He looked around, not sure if the fairy in white was chasing after him, but the injury was no longer able to be suppressed, and the first to emerge from the cracks in the bones, stuck there like thorns.
"I'll get down and walk by myself." Xiao He said thoughtfully.
She recovered slightly.
Lin Shouxi shook his head, insisted on holding her, and walked into a half-destroyed building.
The rain is not as heavy as it used to be, but the temperature is getting colder.
Lin Shouxi wanted to use a cold spell, but he couldn't spare any extra strength.
Suddenly, Xiao He said, "Someone died." ”
Lin Shouxi stopped, and he looked at a small dilapidated building, where there was a discordant smell of blood.
Lin Shouxi walked into the small building with the girl in his arms.
As far as the eye could see, there was blood all over the ground.
The blood had not yet fully congealed, and a corpse lay in between.
He and Xiao He were stunned at the same time - the person who died was Wang Erguan!
Lin Shouxi put down Xiao He and let her rest against the door, and he cautiously walked in front of the corpse.
Wang Erguan was dead, and there was a bloody hole in his neck.
He had been stabbed in the neck and died, and when the man stabbed him with his sword, he seemed to try to block it, but he couldn't.
Wang Erguan's realm cultivation was by no means weak, but he didn't have the strength to fight back.
Who killed Wang Erguan?
His first reaction was Ji Luoyang, but is Ji Luoyang so strong...... Or is there still a hidden master in the witch family?
Then he looked up and saw a black corpse.
The head of his body had been smashed and glued to the damp wall, and his severed arm and black robe showed his identity - Yun Zhenren.
How did his body get here?
Lin Shouxi soon realized that he might have used his inner demons to deceive himself before, but for some reason, Yun Zhenren, who had finally escaped death, unfortunately died here.
What's really going on here......
Wang Erguan is dead, and it stands to reason that it is impossible to complete the Succession Ceremony smoothly.
Lin Shouxi didn't covet the power of the god of guarding, but was a little worried about Xiao He.
Xiao He leaned against the door, her eyes also turned to this place, she was obviously aware of this, but there was no disappointment in her eyes.
"If you don't want the power of the god of guarding, you don't want it." Xiao He smiled weakly: "The inheritance of the gods and the elixir are all temporary, and time is the best magic weapon for cultivation." ”
"Hmm."
Lin Shouxi nodded and said softly, "If we can all live, we can use this magic weapon together in the future." ”
The smile on Xiao He's cheeks trembled in the wind.
The smile swayed softly, and then faded away quickly.
Footsteps rang out from outside the house.
Here she comes.
She wouldn't have made footsteps, which were meant to be heard.
Lin Shouxi and Xiao He glanced at each other, and before they could make any moves, the slender figure in the white dress had already appeared outside the door.
The fairy looked very young, too young to tell her age, her cheeks covered with a white veil, and the fairy was blurry and unfamiliar.
For Lin Shouxi, the dead city is like a lingering nightmare, and the scene of Mu Shijing's white skirt and sword chasing and killing from the wind and rain has reappeared, and he is seriously injured and desperate.
But this time it seemed even more desperate than it was then.
At that time, he was alone, and he had nothing to lose, so he could fight with Mu Shijing recklessly and fight everything.
But now......
He looked at Xiao He's petite figure curled up under the wooden wall, her eyes were misty, and she tried to squeeze a smile out of herself.
Cham Gong whispered in the sheath.
Lin Shouxi pulled it out again, and the blade of the sword clearly reflected his face, which made him a little unfamiliar.
He clenched the blade of his sword, and he hallucinated......
Faintly, a scene appeared in his mind, it was a hazy wooden hall, there were countless famous swords in the hall, these swords did not know whether they were really old or deliberately old, and the picture was mottled, a girl who looked like she was only six or seven years old kneeling in the center, she was wearing palace clothes, and she looked very well-behaved.
There was a sword in front of her, and the little girl was staring at it in a daze.
This...... What is it?
This hallucination came to mind almost out of thin air, and Lin Shouxi didn't know what it was or what it meant.
Maybe it's just an illusion......
The fairy in white slowly raised his hand, the long sword in his hand shimmered, and the glimmer turned into the appearance of a crane, and the soft man flew, but it fell into his eyes but was shocked, forcibly interrupting his hallucinatory consciousness.
She walked in, glancing around.
The house was in ruins, the corpses were cold, blood was flowing all over the ground, and rotten bones were stinking...... And two dying people.
She stood here, out of place with the environment here, like the shadow of a cloud passing in a muddy pond, it seemed to meet the mud pond, but the reflection was only a reflection, it was far above the sky, transcendent from the dust, without a trace of dirt.
She glanced at the sword in Lin Shouxi's hand, and then fell on Xiao He's body.
"Did you kill him?"
The words of the fairy in white were quiet, but Lin Shouxi and Xiao He both felt the indifference and contempt in it, the world often said that the fairy had ice muscles and jade bones, which was not unreasonable, because this kind of almost arrogant indifference was originally cast in the flesh and bones.
Xiao He stared at the white-clothed fairy in front of him and replied calmly, "It's me." ”
"The person who killed the Immortal Tower, have you ever thought about the consequences?" The fairy in white asked.
"The consequences? What do you have to do with the consequences? He is a member of the Wu family, this is our family matter, and Wuzhu Lake is also outside the mountain, and it is not restricted by your laws! Xiao He responded coldly.
The fairy in white ignored her cynicism, she looked down at the snow-haired girl in front of her, and continued: "After the real immortal is involved, killing you is the best choice. ”
Xiao He looked at her, but there was no fear in his pupils.
The fairy in white had seen many people who regarded death as home, and she didn't find it new, but said lightly: "I can see that you have a good blood, if you think that I will let you go because of this, it is wrong." ”
"You immortals, you are really more arrogant than the other......"
Xiao He listened to her words, mocking her pride and arrogance, in her opinion, these immortals who kept saying that all living beings were equal all day long had already ignored all living beings into the dust.
This is them, and it is also the imagination of many mortals to immortals.
In comparison, Yun Zhenren is closer to the truth, perhaps this is why he calls himself a real person.
The fairy in white ignored her taunts, her eyes were cold, as if she didn't care about everything.
Her hand sank into Xiao He's snow hair, grabbed her one hand, and twisted the sword lightly with the other hand, swiping it horizontally.
Of course, Lin Shouxi will not sit idly by and watch all this happen.
He had just been calming and accumulating strength, and the black pill completely drained the true qi of his body, turning it into killing intent and pouring into the sheath of the Zhan Palace, and the Zhan Palace roared, in tune with his heart, and the moment the white-clothed fairy was about to make a move, his sword was also rushed like lightning.
But how could such a sword threaten her?
It was almost out of respect for the other party's dying sword that she turned back to block it, and the sword shook him away.
The killing intent that Lin Shouxi had finally gathered was torn apart in an instant, and with a bang, he flew out upside down, smashed directly through the house, and fell into the rain outside from that side.
The Zhangong sword also came out of his hand and plunged diagonally into the dirt on one side.
This woman is very powerful, stronger than Yun Zhenren.
The worst thing is that he and Xiao He have run out of oil, and they have no means to deal with her.
"Cham Palace ......"
Lin Shouxi called the sword lightly.
The sword rose out of thin air, stabbed her in the back, and then came to a steady halt.
The fairy in white stretched out her hand, and Zhan Gong was caught in her hand in the air, and the blade of the sword vibrated wildly, like a fish that kept struggling after being caught, but to no avail, it couldn't escape from her palm at all.
She seemed to be a little interested in the sword, and she watched for a moment, then bounced back on her fingers.
The sword flew in an arc, and with a bang, it was inserted into Lin Shouxi's cheek, cutting off several strands of black hair.
The fairy was unmoved by his struggle.
None of this made sense to her.
She raised her sword again.
Xiao He closed his eyes and waited for death to come.
She was not afraid at all, the only regret was that she was going to be separated from him, and she hated separation. The girl's consciousness flashed the shadow of her aunt flying to the sky, if there really is a kingdom of dead people in the world, then they are about to meet again...... This is the only fortunate thing.
Lin Shouxi struggled to get up, he stared at the fairy back, and there was only strong hatred in his eyes.
He didn't believe that Xiao He would die.
He still didn't know that Xiao He had never foreseen the Spirit Root, so he stubbornly believed that in four years, they would really be together.
Now that they are in a dead end, Lin Shouxi can't think of any way to break the situation, but he feels that there will always be, and at the point where fate intersects, there will be a glimmer of vitality that will sprout and break through......
"Don't hide, get out!!"
Lin Shouxi looked at the empty sky and let out a hoarse roar.
He didn't know what he was calling for.
The white-clothed fairy took out the sword slightly.
She actually took the initiative to put down Xiao He and looked back.
That was the direction of Lin Shouxi.
But instead of looking at Lin Shouxi, she looked at the sky behind him.
Lin Shouxi felt the cold silence, the coldness of his body and the silence of heaven and earth.
A gray robe floated above the Wu family, hanging in the air like a rag frozen there.
"How...... She? ”
……
Floating in the air was an old woman, who would come to bring them food every day when she was in the ancient court.
Today, instead of holding her trademark cane, she floats in the air, like a rag doll hanging under the eaves.
Lin Shouxi was also shocked.
How could this old woman come? She...... Who is it?
In the past, when she was in the ancient court, Xiao He didn't lie, the mother-in-law was serving the maid of the Wu family all her life, she was dead, even if she didn't die, there was only one breath left, and the wooden crutch gave birth to spirituality, and she walked around with the old woman every day, pretending that she was okay.
If the Wu family knew that she was dead, they would definitely burn her......
Her judgment in the past was not wrong, it was just ......
"Evil spirits?"
The fairy in the white dress was surprised, "There are still evil spirits here?" ”
Evil spirits!
Lin Shouxi and Xiao He understood at the same time - it was the evil spirit in the dark secret room who woke up!
Xiao He didn't know that the evil spirit had used means to get together enough twenty corpses, but Lin Shouxi, who accidentally caught a glimpse of the cyan ghost that day, immediately understood.
The evil spirit should have applied some kind of spell to Yun Zhenren.
This spell took effect when Yun Zhenren died, and he became one of the corpses of the ceremony......
As for the other corpse, it is most likely the headless spirit.
It sacrificed its own guards to the fullest!
The evil spirit infiltrated the witch's house and attached itself to the old woman's body, so as to hide itself, and no one else was aware of it, except for the crutch closest to the old woman, who realized that it had escaped from the old woman's body and fled overnight.
Lin Shouxi felt that this scene was familiar.
At the most desperate moment, the evil spirit, known as the mortal enemy, suddenly appeared, shaking this death situation out of a crack!
The cultivator encounters evil and kills evil, and the woman in the white dress, as a disciple of Xianlou, will certainly not let go of this evil spirit.
She didn't plan to kill the girl directly, it was about the ancient true immortals, so it was naturally the safest to hand it over to the master, she had just blatantly taken out the sword, and she just wanted to scare her out of something.
Unexpectedly, this little sister was determined, but the evil spirit was the first to lose her breath.
"Prison."
The woman in the white dress silently recited the incantation, spit out a word at Xiao He, then pulled her sword and fell into the rain.
……
Before leaving, she cast the art of imprisoning Xiao He, but the spell did not take effect, Xiao He cut off her voice at the critical moment, and the woman in the white dress walked too fast and didn't even notice it.
Lin Shouxi struggled to get up, raised his head, and looked at the sky.
The evil spirit hidden in the old woman's body revealed its true face, the slender veins on its cheeks protruded, and gradually changed into the appearance of the evil spirit in the dark river stone room, and the tattered lower robe also puffed up in the wind, and countless thick tentacles poked out of it, like vines growing wildly in the water, dancing in the storm.
A spiritual ripple spread out in the sky above the Wu family in a ripple shape.
Spiritual ripples crashed into his mind, and Lin Shouxi, who had finally managed to get up, almost fell to the ground again.
He kept reciting the Pure Heart Mantra as a way to counter this force.
The Pure Heart Mantra has an inexplicable miraculous effect, it is like an anchor point, temporarily imprisoning the erratic consciousness.
Lin Shouxi returned to the building with this moment of clarity.
Xiao He was still leaning against the wall, his snow hair was messy, and his eyebrows were faintly red, which was a dangerous bright color.
Lin Shouxi crossed some true qi for her, Xiao He snorted lightly, and her complexion recovered a little.
"You take a break."
Lin Shouxi touched Xiao He's forehead and said softly.
Xiao He's sharpness disappeared when she faced the fairy in the white dress before, she was much weaker, and nodded obediently.
Lin Shouxi quickly calmed down, and he went to grope for a while on Wang Erguan's corpse.
"What are you looking for?" Xiao He asked.
"A book." Lin Shouxi said.
"Books?" Xiao He asked, "Is it very important?" ”
"It's very important, it's something that Master left me." Lin Shouxi said.
He learned about Luo Shu's whereabouts from Wang Erguan's mouth before, but before he could get to the bottom of it, the second son suddenly appeared and accidentally exposed Yun Zhenren's conspiracy, Xiao He's safety was far more important than Luo Shu, so he didn't think about it at that time, and went straight to Xiao He's bedroom.
He searched for a while, but couldn't find it, and endured his nausea to search among Yun Zhenren's robes, trying to find some elixirs, but he groped for a while, and only found the useless mantra stone.
After a quick search to no avail, Lin Shouxi immediately made a decision and picked up Xiao He again, "I'll take you away first." ”
"Hmm."
Lin Shouxi picked up the weak Xiao He, and as soon as he stepped out of the door with his front feet, the strong spiritual pressure from the sky would make him unstable, kneeling on one knee, difficult to support.
Xiao He's petite body rolled to the ground, she covered her head, and endless hallucinations poured into her consciousness.
The evil spirits are all leaders in the spiritual power level, and this evil spirit is obviously much stronger than the headless evil spirit in the dark room, it has reached the level of a little evil god, even if the fairy in the white dress is already an immortal in the god realm, it is like a great enemy.
Lin Shouxi and Xiao He were seriously injured, and it was difficult for them to resist the endless spiritual pressure.
They felt a lot of terrible fantasies.
For example, the whole world was slowly turned upside down, the houses slid along the street, rushing straight towards them, in the huge visual impact, many elixirs were born from the void, Lin Shouxi subconsciously opened his mouth, he and the so-called elixir were immediately reversed, and a big mouth appeared behind him, as if he was going to swallow him in the next moment.
The five senses are confused, the vision is upside down, they both fell in the rain, dizzy, Xiao He bit her lip, struggling to stay awake, she grabbed Lin Shouxi's hand, helped him up, and the two stumbled away from the rain-soaked street.
Finally leaving the center of the spiritual pressure at its peak, Lin Shouxi and her were both relieved, but the ripples of the spirit continued to spread, if they couldn't resist this power, they would be driven crazy sooner or later.
"Come with me."
Xiao He grabbed his hand tightly, "The Wu family has a secret passage, which can go straight to the bottom of Wuzhu Lake!" ”
The Divine Court is about to open, and it may be the safest place for the current situation!
"Okay."
Lin Shouxi couldn't tell the direction, but he was pulled by Xiao He and ran forward.
The two crossed a few damp roads hand in hand, and Xiao He led him to a black hall, behind which there was a well, and the word town guard was engraved on the well.
Town Guard......
Lin Shouxi suddenly felt that the meaning of these two words seemed to be bad to him.
didn't have time to think so much, Xiao He directly pulled him and jumped into the well.
There was no water in the well, and they fell smoothly to the ground, and the spiritual pressure released by the evil spirit was much lighter.
Xiao He leaned against the wall of the well, closed his eyes, and was so tired that he wanted to sleep directly.
Lin Shouxi also rested against the wall for a while, and the girl's cry of pain sounded in his ears, and he realized that he had squeezed her hand too tightly.
Lin Shouxi hurriedly let go of his hand.
Xiao He shrunk her little hand into her sleeve, she settled down, and began to grope among the black clothes.
"Looking for what?" Lin Shouxi asked.
"Key...... The key to the underground tunnel. Xiao He said.
Lin Shouxi lowered his body and walked along the passage of the well for a while, and there was indeed a door in front of him, he pushed the door, turned around and said, "The door is not closed." ”
Xiao He was stunned for a moment and followed, she looked at the stone door that showed a crack, frowned, and said, "Could it be that someone has already gone in?" ”
"Maybe."
The Wu family suffered a great chaos, and it is not impossible for others to take the lead in escaping from this dark passage.
It's good that the door is open.
Lin Shouxi and Xiao He pushed open the stone door and walked in.
After passing through the stone gate, the spiritual pressure was almost gone, and they felt more relaxed than ever.
"There are ten roads here, only one leads to the shrine at the bottom of the lake, and the others lead to the cliff cave on the lake wall."
Xiao He stretched out his hand and said, "Follow me, I know the way." ”
Lin Shouxi held her soft and slightly cool hand again.
The two walked hand in hand in the stone path.
Although the Great Ceremony of Succession has been destroyed, the Divine Court seems to be the only place where you can hide from the pursuit.
"In our hometown, today is a good holiday." Lin Shouxi said suddenly.
"Hometown?"
"Well, it's a far away place, and we call this day the Mid-Autumn Festival." Lin Shouxi's words were gentle.
"Mid-Autumn Festival ......" Xiao He repeated softly, and then asked, "What will you do on this day?" ”
"I will see the moon, I will eat a delicious cake, I will be with ...... Loved ones are reunited. ”
Speaking of this, the two fell silent at the same time, and Lin Shouxi held his hand tighter, as if to tell Xiao He that at least he was by her side.
Xiao He lowered his little face in the slightly messy snow hair, and was silent for a moment, but his eyes were red.
"What's wrong?" Lin Shouxi noticed her abnormality.
Xiao He shook his head, looking at the sword in his hand, she vaguely felt that this sword was a little hostile to herself, she stretched out her hand, stroked the scabbard, and asked, "Where did this sword come from?" It...... It's beautiful. ”
The sword seemed to have a spirit, and when it heard Xiao He's praise, it let out a soft sound, dissolving the faint hostility.
"Hmm...... What is taken in the Sword Pavilion is a rare and good sword. Lin Shouxi didn't know how to explain it.
The sword did not sound, and there was no committal to this answer.
The two stopped talking, just walked hand in hand, drawing a precious sense of warmth from the silence.
After walking for a while, Xiao He gently rubbed his palm and asked, "You actually pushed the door open just now, right?"
"What?" Lin Shouxi was stunned.
"You're the key, aren't you?" Xiao He asked.
"I'm not." Lin Shouxi said, "This door is open."
"I don't think there's anything to hide." Xiao He said.
"Why do you think it's me?" Lin Shouxi was puzzled.
"Yun Zhenren asked everyone with the mantra stone, and the others were not, only you were still in a coma at that time." Xiao He said seriously: "The stone door of the evil pool cannot be pushed open by manpower, it must be the key that has played a role."
"Aren't the others......" Lin Shouxi also felt strange, and soon, he thought of a possibility: "The key is a fake cloud real person, not everyone was present at the time, and the owner of the key may have other names for it."
"Not everyone ......is there," Xiao He thought about this sentence, lowering his head in thought.
Among the survivors, only Ji Luoyang, Wang Erguan and Xiao Qi were not present.
Key...... Lin Shouxi's expression suddenly became in a trance, and he thought about the door of the dark room that had just opened, and he felt a sense of familiarity.
He felt like he had been through something similar! Is it in ......
Dead City!
He reacted quickly - when he came to the dead city, the gate of the dead city was also strangely open, and the locks and chains of the door were broken and fell to the ground!
Then, a terrible thought ghostly came to me: Was the gate of the Dead City really opened for itself?
Or did someone enter the dead city before him, and that person was ...... Key!
If there is a man in the dead city, where is he hiding?
It was like thunder and lightning poured into his brain, and the details that had been ignored in the past were revealed at this moment - he opened the door of Guanyin Pavilion, and it just so happened that the door was not bolted!
The chill soaked through his body, and at the same time, in the dark and narrow tunnel, Lin Shouxi heard the sound of the machine strings cracking.
That killer in Fog Alley!
He and Xiao He were both seriously injured, and their strength was not one in ten, they came to a safe place, and their heartstrings were only a little relaxed, but the killer who had been hidden for a long time suddenly appeared.
The crossbow bolts are coming!
"Xiao He!"
Lin Shouxi shouted, stepped forward, grabbed her arm, pulled her into his arms, spun around, and pressed her against the stone wall with her back as a shield.
The sharp wind swept through his back, tearing flesh and tearing his clothes, and then plunging diagonally into the stone wall.
Lin Shouxi and Xiao He glanced at each other tacitly, separated their bodies, quickly drew their swords, and stood on both sides, each guarding one side, while searching for suitable cover, while preparing to intercept the arrow at any time.
But no more arrows came in the darkness.
Did the killer give up?
Xiao He knew he didn't, because her sound spirit root could detect the subtle sound ahead, and the man stood in the corner of the darkness, as if wearing down their patience.
Lin Shouxi wanted to attack.
Suddenly, the sound of torches lit sounded, and the darkness ahead shone an inch of light, and a long shadow dragged to the ground, peeking out from the corner, like a trail of water slowly flowing. Then, Xiao He heard the man's voice, which was lonely and leisurely, as if he was reciting a poem.
It was a speech she didn't understand.
Xiao He glanced at Lin Shouxi, but found that Lin Shouxi's face was pale and trembling all over.
"What's wrong? What is the spell? Xiao He hurriedly asked.
Lin Shouxi shook his head.
He can understand this poem, and he has also heard this poem, Su Zi's Xi Jiangyue.
"The world is a big dream, life is cool in autumn several times, the wind leaves have been singing in the corridor at night, look at the ...... on the eyebrows and temples"
The comer chanted, the voice was lonely and ethereal, like a cloud floating over the canyon, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, he is also reading the Mid-Autumn Festival, he holds the lamp, walks out of the corner, and begins to read the second half of the que:
"The wine is often sad that there are few guests, the moon is mostly disturbed by the clouds, who is lonely with the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the lamp is ...... Looking north. ”
Lin Shouxi stared ahead without blinking.
Around the corner, a young man also dressed in black walked out with long hair, he read this poem that had been widely circulated in the past world, slowly raised his head, looked at Lin Shouxi, and the lights illuminated his face.
Ji Luoyang.
Those words and smiles were washed away on his cheeks on weekdays, and he seemed to have returned to the first rainy night, as cold as a lonely mountain rock.
Lin Shouxi looked at him for a long time before asking, "Are you...... Who the hell is it? ”
Ji Luoyang smiled at him, polite, like a noble son, he hung his sword, looked at the young man in the dark, straightened his clothes, looked solemn, and finally began to introduce himself:
"My name is not Ji Luoyang, my name is Ji Luoyang, the Ji of Wang Ji, the Luoyang of Luoshui Yang...... Luoyang is my hometown. ”
Seeing the poor dagger, it was like a sword piercing through the clothes, revealing a magnificent edge!
"I'm Ji Luoyang...... I am ......" he took a deep breath and said word by word:
"Heaven-Down-Three!"