Chapter 284: A Thousand Mountains and Twilight Snow
The starry sky is shining.
Si Duxue walked along the Milky Way, and the stars in the sky were like candles in her palm, which could never be traced.
The drizzle in the sky turned to snow, and the scenery along the way changed several rounds, and she walked for a long, long time, and her heart was scarred.
But instead of repairing, her injuries worsened, and the culprit for all this was none other than another soul in her heart. There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, before they had a common enemy, and the oppression of the outside world made them one, and if the day was empty, the rift between them began to appear.
These days, she walks through the dense forest like a real fox, and when she approaches the county seat, she even has an instinctive fear as if there are hunters hiding there.
She didn't even dare to sleep, because she was sure that she would be able to wake up, and she was not sure if it would be her who would wake up.
"You let me out, you let me out!"
Inside, the soul began to scream hysterically again.
"You let me out, I want to kill, I want to drink blood, I want to be happy, I want to be free, you let me out, don't let my body suffer with you anymore, you are a tyrannical thing!"
"You let me out! You are submissive in front of Lin Shouxi, but you are so cruel to me! I am the one who carried you and let you be conceived in my body for a hundred years, you should have died a long time ago, without me, you would have been doomed! β
"Let me out!
I don't want to die with you! This is my body, and you are not qualified to imprison me! β
It was like a baby's cry coming from under a deep well, turning into countless terrifying hands, tearing at her consciousness.
Si Duxue walked barefoot in the snow, her skin was also covered with a layer of cold frost, and the cry in the depths of her soul lasted for I don't know how long, from high-pitched and loud to begging, humble, painful begging......
Si Duxue walked alone, as if she had lost her soul, she couldn't feel the flow of blood, the blood was so cold, so cold that it could precipitate ice slag from it.
"Let's reconcile......" The voice in the body was crying, extremely thin, like a little girl whose family was ruined.
Si Duxue stopped her numb steps.
The last red tail shook in the cold wind, like fluttering fireworks.
"Don't you understand, demon cultivation never gained power out of thin air, and when you decided to swallow the blood of the gods, it doomed you to death."
Si Duxue smiled sadly.
She fell on her side in the ice and snow, except for her invulnerable clothes, whether it was jade legs, red hair, eyelashes, and cherry lips, all covered with a layer of white, this layer of white was like a cloth woven from ice crystals, draped over her body, sealing her forever.
The heart slows and breathing weakens.
At the end of her consciousness, Si Duxue vaguely heard a distant woman's voice:
"How can there be people here? Dress so little...... Is this a concubine who escaped from any family...... Still alive? β
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"Uh-huh...... Help me...... I was wrong, don't fight anymore, spare me, I don't dare anymore...... Your Majesty, Your Majestyβ"
Si Duxue woke up from the nightmare, she straightened up from the bed, opened her eyes in horror, and subconsciously reached out to push, the sound of the bowl breaking and the girl's exclamation sounded at the same time.
Si Duxue came back to her senses and realized that it was just a dream.
Lin Shouxi's whipping was an indelible scar for her, in her dreams, he was like an invincible demon, even if she got a great opportunity, even if she got the curling of the gods, the young man in white always stood on top of her head, stepping her into the mud over and over again.
After waking up from the dream, Si Duxue did not have a sense of happiness in a false alarm, she gave birth to the nine-tails before, and she was high-spirited, but she was not even qualified to regard Lin Shouxi as an opponent.
Si Duxue looked at the frightened girl in front of her, and realized that she had saved herself, and at this moment, she ...... She must be feeding her medicine.
"I'm sorry." Si Duxue said.
She thought hard about who it was who woke up, whether it was the fox ancestor or the goddess, but she couldn't tell it herself...... But this little girl in front of me is a little inexplicably familiar, and I always feel that I have seen it somewhere.
The little girl stood not far away, looking at the debris on the ground, distressed, but she didn't dare to pick it up, this sister's previous fierce demeanor frightened her.
Si Duxue got off the wooden couch.
Lifting the broken cotton quilt, Si Duxue found that she had changed into linen clothes, the little girl saw her suspicious look, and was so frightened that she hurriedly pointed out the door, Si Duxue looked in the direction she was pointing and saw her wearing underwear, and the bear on her clothes was very cute, full of smiles.
The little girl thought she was leaving, but she didn't expect her to lean down and help her pick up the pieces of the bowl.
The girl watched blankly from the sidelines, and her heart was at war.
"Thank you for saving your life, what's your name, is there anything you'd like to ask me?" Si Duxue took the initiative to speak.
"I ...... My name is Autumn Seedling, the seedling of seedlings. The girl said softly.
Si Duxue didn't like this word, because it would make her think of Wu Youhe, she quietly waited for the girl to continue to ask, and after a while, the little girl asked slowly: "You...... Are you a goblin? β
"Yes." Si Duxue nodded frankly.
"And will you eat people?" Qiu Yang asked.
"No goblins cannibalize people." Si Duxue scared her.
"Then you ......" Qiu Yang's body shook.
"Don't worry, I'm not hungry right now." After Si Duxue finished speaking, there was a pain in her lower abdomen, a pain of hunger.
Qiu Yang still didn't dare to approach.
"You know I'm a youkai, why do you want to save me?" Si Duxue asked.
"Because your clothes are cute, I don't think anyone who wears them like this should be a bad monster." Qiu Yang said.
"Have you ever seen a good youkai?" Si Duxue asked.
"Yes." Autumn Seedling nodded affirmatively.
The restrained girl gradually opened the conversation, she said, when she was young, her mother died, and on the day of her mother's burial, there were a lot of foxes on the grave, led by a red fox, the red fox spit out to the moon, reciting Buddhist scriptures, and exceedingly for her mother.
"Red fox?" Si Duxue was shocked, and subconsciously stroked her long hair,
- At the moment when she was unconscious, she wrapped herself in the last piece of foxtail and changed her description, at this moment she was not a red-haired goddess, just a beautiful ordinary girl.
"Well, my mother said that she fed a group of foxes when she was young, and they must have remembered it and came back to repay it." Qiu Yang said.
"What about your father?" Si Duxue asked.
"My father worshiped the cultivation of the entry sect, but he was poisoned by the true qi and died." Qiu Yang said.
"I'm sorry."
"It was a few years ago." Qiu Yangyun said lightly, but in fact, she looked like she was only fifteen or sixteen years old.
After confirming that this goblin didn't want to harm people, Qiu Yang was much more relieved, at noon, she cooked rice for Si Duxue to eat, and there were a few pickles pressed on the white rice, which was very simple, but Si Duxue still ate it all.
"You monster doesn't look young, but it shouldn't have been long since you cultivated into a human form." Qiu Yang even got up step by step: "I have just cultivated to a human form for a few years, I still have to hibernate when I hibernat, the human body is not as cold as the demon body, and it is easy to freeze to death in the wild if I don't cultivate enough...... Hey, are you listening? β
"yes, got it." Si Duxue nodded.
She ate a meal from this little girl, and the bowl was naturally washed by her, and she brought water and washed the bowl with her own hands.
Since the death of Qiu Yang's father, Qiu Yang has been living alone, Qiu Yang looks delicate, she should not worry about getting married, Si Duxue doesn't understand why she is so old and alone.
Qiu Yang said that when her father died, the sect lost a lot of money, and the amount was not small, and she had to keep the money well, and she couldn't let people share it.
Having said that, Qiu Yan was afraid that she would freeze, so she still invited her to the town to buy cotton clothes.
On the way to buy cotton clothes, many people saw the strange woman beside Qiu Yang.
"Qiu Yang, you miss your mother so much, so you kidnapped your mother back from outside?"
Qiu Yang did not speak, she continued to walk forward, and when she passed a group of village children, the children scattered together, and they circled around Qiu Yang, shouting, "The madman is coming, the madman is coming." β
Qiu Yan had a cold face and ignored them.
"You're really a good youkai, aren't you?" When Qiu Yang took out the money bag and paid, he hesitated.
Si Duxue laughed miserably in her heart, she couldn't tell whether she was good or bad, but in the face of Qiu Yang's expectant eyes, she finally nodded: "I'm a good goblin." β
When she was very young, Si Duxue had taken a family class, she knew that clothes could not exude heat, it could only lock in warmth, and her cultivation did not need cotton clothes, but when the thick clothes were draped on her body, she felt a rare steadfastness.
On the way back, Si Duxue asked the doubts in her heart: "Why do they say you are crazy?" β
In Si Duxue's eyes, the girl in front of her was not only not sick, but also very good and kind.
"Because they say I don't have a mother, I don't believe it." As soon as Qiu Yang spoke, his eyes turned red.
"What?" Si Duxue was puzzled.
"They say that I am an orphan picked up from outside, and I have never had a mother, and that my mother is something I imagined and never existed, and I don't believe it." Qiu Yang lowered her head and said: "My mother is a very good person, I also went fishing with my mother when I was a child, and on the day my mother died of illness, she took my hand and hummed a little ballad, which I still remember." β
"I was brought up by my mother, and I remember everything clearly, but they insist on saying that I am an orphan, that my mother never existed...... It's clear that they're crazy. Qiu Yang said angrily.
"What about your father, does your father remember her?" Si Duxue asked.
Qiu Yang was silent for a while, shook his head, and said: "My father doesn't remember either, but he said that he felt that there was something missing around him, but he couldn't remember it, and his father was in pain, so he gave up farming, joined the Immortal Sect, began to practice, and then ......"
Then the sad news of her father's violent death reached the family, and she did not even see the body.
Si Duxue frowned, vaguely feeling that something was wrong, and after a while, she stared at the girl named Qiu Yang, her eyes were like torches, and asked, "What song did your mother sing before she died?" β
"I didn't hear too clearly, maybe I remember wrong." Qiu Yang read it out, "The grasshopper is frightened, what year is the long dream, when the yellow sorghum wakes up, Qianqiu doesn't have to sleep......"
After reading the poem, the gentle water town woman died in the cold spring season.
Si Duxue was shocked when she heard this.
She had heard this poem......
At the beginning, her sister Si Duyan was imprisoned in the prison for many years, and when she was released from prison, she looked at the cold wind and slowly recited this little poem, which was not bad.
Si Duxue looked at Qiu Yan's delicate face, and finally understood where that familiarity came from.
My sister really dreamed of this world, in the dream, she gave birth to this daughter and spent an ordinary life, but she never really came to this world, and the autumn seedlings were the fresh flesh and blood born in her will, and it was the only proof that she had come to this world.
It turned out that this was his niece......
Si Duxue leaned down, hugged Qiu Yan, and hugged her tightly in her arms.
Qiu Yang was surprised and wanted to say something, but she heard this sister crying, crying very sadly.
In the next few days, Si Duxue was with Qiu Yang, she helped the girl take care of the housework, helped her make pasta together, and pushed it to the street to sell, as a goddess, she also personally collected firewood, cracked wood, made a fire to cook, Qiu Yang taught her how to use her fingers to determine the amount of water to cook rice.
Si Duxue went to see her mother's tomb, a tomb and a stele, and there was no word on the stele.
"Sister, what kind of monster are you?" After Qiu Yang got acquainted with her, he began to inquire about her origins.
"I'm a fox demon." Si Duxue said.
"My sister is actually a vixen?" Autumn Seedling was taken aback.
"What's wrong?" Si Duxue felt that the fox spirit should be a common species, and she didn't understand why Qiu Seedling was so surprised.
"If my sister is a vixen, why is she so cold? I read the book and said that the fox spirits are all looking back and smiling, and the legendary nine-tailed fox ancestor has attracted the whole country and broken the national ancestry, my sister wants to set an example with her......" Qiu Yang is very concerned about her sister's future, she said: "I heard that there is a place called Qingqiu, which specializes in cultivating fox spirits, do you want to go to further study?" β
"Where's Qingqiu?" Si Duxue asked.
"I don't know...... I never left the village or town since I was a child. Qiu Yang said ashamedly.
But Qiu Yang quickly cheered up and said that she could teach her sister how to charm people.
Si Duxue did not refuse.
In the days with Qiu Yang, Si Duxue also went to many places, she went to the Buddhist hall, went to the Taoist temple, and went to see many sects, she wanted to find an answer, but the world had no way to give her an answer.
Under the careful teaching of Qiu Yang, Si Duxue's smile was revivid.
She used the last foxtail to change her face, and she was no longer in the past, but her smile was still extremely beautiful, like the light refracted in a gem.
She gave the bear dress to Qiu Yang, who was tall enough to wear it as a dress.
"Sister, are you going to go to the capital after you finish your studies to charm His Majesty the Emperor, if that's the case, can you not go, I don't want to fight......" One night, Qiu Yang pulled Si Duxue's sleeve and said.
"I'm not going to the capital." Si Duxue said.
"Where is my sister going in the future? Now that there are a lot of demons, my sister had better go to the government to get Zhang Liang's demon certificate as soon as possible, otherwise she may be accidentally injured by the stinky cow's nose. Qiu Yang reminded seriously.
Si Duxue didn't know what to do in the future.
It's just that when she heard Qiu Yang say the word 'emperor' before, she was stunned for a moment, she found that the word emperor didn't seem to be so sacred in her heart, and she didn't know if her heart was worn out by wind, frost, rain and snow, or because the word His Majesty the Emperor was defiled by Lin Shouxi, or for other reasons......
"Don't worry, my sister used to be very powerful." Si Duxue smiled.
"I used to ......" Qiu Yan didn't believe it, but she didn't hit her, and only said silently: "It's a good demon who doesn't mention the courage of the year." β
Si Duxue smiled, she looked at the non-stop snow outside, stunned.
The days didn't go on like this.
One night, there was movement outside, and it was the sound of horses' hooves, like thunder.
Qiu Yang was startled when she heard this, and she told Si Duxue that it was the robbers from the mountains who came.
The robbers from the mountains often come to ransack the village, and these robbers are extremely fierce, and there are even a few monks among them, and the villagers see them as rice ready to be harvested.
At night, all the villagers were driven to a clearing in the middle of the village, where a dozen robbers on horseback surrounded them with knives, and the villagers took out a part of the rice noodles and offered them respectfully.
The robbers are not satisfied with the rice, and they want to rob the woman to go back to be a daughter-in-law, and the robbers choose the woman, only by looking at the figure, and do not care whether she has a husband or not, if there is, she will soon become a widow.
"You, come out and come with us." At the signal of the leader, the robber pointed a knife at Si Duxue.
Si Duxue walked out of the crowd.
The robbers picked up her jaw with a long knife, looked at her delicate face, laughed heartily, and shouted that they had picked up the treasure, and several robbers had begun to coax, asking the eldest brother if he could reward them for fun after he was tired of playing. The leader of the robbers, dressed in a black robe, could not see his face clearly, gloomy and gloomy, and did not say a word, he pressed the knife, and only occasionally let out a few sneers.
Qiu Yang stopped in front of Si Duxue, "You are not allowed to take my sister away!" β
When the robbers saw her, their eyes lit up, she was short, she had been hiding in the crowd before, she almost missed it, and she never thought that she had been sent to the door.
"Young, or sisters, among these dozen villages, you two sisters are the most beautiful, and today's trip is really worth it." The robber burst into laughter, with an expression of longing to die on the woman's belly, and he brandished his knife, which shone with a cold light.
Qiu Yang was frightened, she wanted her sister to run away quickly, but this was obviously nonsense, at the moment they were surrounded by robbers, where could they escape?
Being caught as a lady is almost a sure thing.
"You bastards!" Qiu Yang didn't want to bear the humiliation, she clenched her fists and threw it at the tall robber.
The robbers didn't bother to look at her, and directly smashed her lightly with the back of the knife, trying to knock her unconscious and drag her away.
The back of the knife failed to smash down.
Si Duxue pinched his knife, so that the knife could not advance an inch.
"Sister......" Qiu Yang was frightened when she saw this scene, and hurriedly grabbed her arm and begged: "Sister, don't annoy them, they will kill you." β
Si Duxue gently stroked her head and said, "Have you forgotten, my sister told you that my sister used to be very powerful." β
"That was before......"
"It's not bad now, at least it's ......" Si Duxue raised her head and looked at the frightened robber: "At least it's more than enough to kill these stinky fish and shrimp." β
As soon as the hand was exerted, the iron knife suddenly shattered and broke into seven pieces.
Si Duxue tapped her fingertips, and the blade hovered in the air by her will.
Si Duxue's blade was like a flying sword, and between her fingers, the blades shot out one after another, piercing the robbers' throats with precision, and the robbers fell off their horses, and the blood in their throats bloomed, killing them instantly.
The horses were exhausted and walked away, rushing into the villagers, Si Duxue punched in the air, the fist kept exploding, the heads of those horses were smashed crookedly, the neck bones were directly shattered, and they hung down weakly.
Si Duxue retracted her fist, turned her palm, and pressed down a horse in front of her that wanted to escape, her five fingers were exhausted, and she fell with her arm, and the horse was overturned to the ground, screaming non-stop.
Her petite body moved and stepped on the horse's chest, and the horse's heart exploded with a twist of her toes.
Qiu Yang looked at the scene in front of her and was stupid, "Sister, you ......"
Seeing this, the surviving robbers were already frightened, and they knelt on the ground one after another, handed over the previously seized things, and begged Si Duxue to spare their lives.
A little robber with a sharp beak had another idea, and he found that the boss was sitting on horseback, still calm...... I think the boss must have a way to deal with it.
He secretly tugged at the boss's robe.
The leader of the robbers fell directly from his horse, slammed into the ground with a thud, and when he lifted his black robe, he saw that a steel knife had been stuck in his neck at some point.
The little robber with the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks was directly frightened.
When Si Duxue wanted to take his life, he used his last courage to say, "Don't kill me, there are people above us, you can't afford to mess with me!" β
Si Duxue really stopped, she pointed to the sky, and said, "Go and call the people above you, you have been tricked by the Gu, if you dare to leave without permission, you will rot and die." β
The robbers in this place did rely on something, and after a while, another group of people also came, and then there were more than a dozen corpses in the snow.
Kill the small ones and the big ones, and kill the big ones and the old ones.
In the village tonight, such a drama is happening step by step.
Everyone who came, with great fame, was ruthless enough to make children stop crying, and when those fierce and vicious villains came with huge weapons, all the villagers sweated.
Only autumn seedlings are not afraid.
She felt that her sister's petite body could shield her from all the wind and rain in the world.
Sure enough, those ruthless sensations that are usually famous and earth-shattering have become fingers that can be broken with a poke tonight, and Si Duxue is like a demon god who has awakened, launching a bloody and merciless slaughter here.
After a few rounds of killing, the elders of the Immortal Gate came.
"Bold and wicked, dare to do anything wrong in the territory of the Immortal Gate, tonight, this seat will definitely refine you into this treasure gourd!" A big elder with a yellow face and thin muscles held a gourd bottle and rode a spirit beast to arrive.
"It's you......" Qiu Yang looked at the hungry old man who looked like a mountain ghost, and said in a daze.
The Great Elder looked at her and was overjoyed, "Autumn ...... Autumn seedlings? Is that right? Hahaha, I didn't expect you to grow so big in a blink of an eye, very good, very good! β
"Do you recognize him?" Si Duxue asked.
"Hmm...... He was the one who came to relay the news of my father's death. Qiu Yang said: "He also gave me a sum of money. β
"Hahahaha, the little girl has a good memory, do you know why I want to give you money?" The Great Elder asked himself and replied: "Because your father is a rare living pill, I refined him into a pill, ate it, and it has risen for ten years of cultivation, my father is like this, my daughter must be more delicious, I was afraid that you would starve to death, so I gave you a large sum of money, and kept you in this village, tsk, I almost forgot about it, my daughter grew up, it should be slaughtered, it should be slaughtered......"
"Daddy......" Qiu Yan opened his mouth, only to feel cold all over his body.
She always thought that her father had gone mad in cultivation and died, but today she realized that he had been brutally refined into a living pill......
Autumn seedlings burst into tears.
Si Duxue leaned down, wiped her tears for her, and asked, "How do you want him to die?" β
"A thousand cuts." Qiu Yan said word by word.
It was the harshest punishment she could think of.
When the Great Elder heard this, he laughed, he held the treasure gourd high, aimed at Si Duxue, and shouted, "Collect!" β
The gourd shone with golden light, enveloping Si Duxue, but it couldn't hurt her in the slightest, but reflected her like a goddess.
The Great Elder was easily defeated and hung in the air with True Qi, Si Duxue handed the knife to the robber with the sharp mouth and cheeks, and asked him to carry out the punishment, the Great Elder was full of heart and gall, and kept begging for mercy, but to no avail, his Taoist robe was stripped off, and the knife scraped the sound of the piano against his bones, slicing the flesh off, and the blood was dripping.
The Great Elder's terrible screams resounded through the snowy night.
The whole village witnessed this harsh punishment, and the old fairy in their eyes was cut by a thousand knives in this way, and only the bones were removed.
The punishment lasted one night, and the sun rose.
The robber who had completed the execution of the sentence offered credit with a sickly and cruel smile, and was then killed by Si Duxue with a sword.
Si Duxue has regained her true appearance.
The early morning sun shines through.
The goddess's red hair fell down, and her sackcloth was like snow.
For a long time, there was no sound of autumn seedlings behind him.
Si Duxue turned around and found Qiu Yan looking at her, pursing her lips and bursting into tears.
"Snow ...... Cher? Qiu Yang opened her mouth in a daze, as if she 'recognized' her.
Si Duxue was stunned.
In just a stunned effort, Qiu Yang's figure became a lake, Si Duxue's heart sank, and she hurriedly opened her arms to hug her, but she only hugged the little bear clothes, and the clothes were empty.
Si Duxue asked the villagers, but no one remembered Qiu Yang, as if she had never appeared.
When Huang Liang wakes up, Qianqiu doesn't have to sleep.
Si Duxue looked at the corpses all over the field, hugged the bear clothes, slowly got up, and walked step by step to the tomb without inscriptions, she dug up the tomb with her own hands, and there were no bones in the tomb.
She buried the garment in it and made a mound of clothes.
The sun was shining brightly and almost falsely.
She returned to Qiu Yang's house, pushed open the door, looked around, and locked the door.
Dust and light are locked inside.
After that, Si Duxue began to travel north.
She knew that there was a city in the far north, the city of Doom, which was where the Heavenly Dao was.
The Golden Buddha is dead.
The manifestation of the Heavenly Dao is waiting for nothing.
Once again, she saw her fate clearly.
But she is not a servant of the Heavenly Dao, it is just a step, she wants to be her own emperor.
She walked northward, her steps becoming more and more determined, only occasionally, she would hear the voice of Qiu Yang, and she would call her 'sister' behind her, which was crisp and beautiful.
Si Duxue looked back.
There was no one behind him, only a thousand mountains of twilight snow.
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