More than 20 days later.

Maozhou, more than 30 miles west of Jiangzhou City, Qingyuan Mountain.

Meandering deeper into the mountain for more than ten miles, I saw a small spring sliding down from a low cliff to the waterhole below.

A white-walled and blue-tiled courtyard lies quietly next to a waterhole, and the bluestone slabs in the courtyard are overgrown with weeds and dead leaves, apparently uninhabited for a long time.

This was built by Du Juan a few years ago with the money she earned from Tianxiang Tower.

In order to one day, I can spend this life in peace with my sweetheart in this quiet and secluded place.

At this time, two figures, a man and a woman, appeared on the mountain path leading to this courtyard.

Su Wangting and Du Juan.

In the more than 20 days since he got out of Tieshan Temple, the medicinal properties of the cuckoo child who took the abstinence have long since dissipated.

But she was still glazed and silent.

Su Wangting saw it in his eyes, but he couldn't comfort him.

He really didn't know how to comfort him.

When she was pushed to the enemy's blade by Nie Yunfei, her heart was already broken.

But who would have expected to be used by Nie Yunfei again.

You must know that when he Nie Yunfei deceived Bai Yupian away, he could have taken her away.

But she was abandoned like garbage.

This is tantamount to another stab on the unhealed knife in Du Juan'er's heart!

Her heart must be bleeding.

Su Wangting deeply understood her feelings at this time.

This reminded him of Liu Ruoling.

The person who once occupied your heart, no matter how he failed you, and even persecuted you, there is still him in your wounded and broken heart.

Are you cheap, or are you sinful?

Who can tell.

When the courtyard appeared in Su Wangting's sight, an old man in ragged clothes squatting next to the waterhole also appeared in his sight.

Du Juan was slightly stunned, and said softly: "How can anyone appear in such a remote place?" Isn't my yard uninhabited for a long time and occupied by beggars? ”

Su Wangting patted her jade shoulder and comforted, "It shouldn't be." You go clean up first, and I'll ask the man how he is. ”

Du Juan answered lightly with a gloomy face, pushed open the courtyard door and walked in.

Su Wangting walked slowly to the old man's side.

"Hehe, old man, what about fishing?"

"Yes." The old man didn't look back, still squatting with a bamboo pole, staring at the water.

Su Wangting also squatted down beside him and said with a smile: "Old man, there is no line on your bamboo pole, how can you catch a fish?" ”

The old man replied with a smile: "Those who wish will take the bait." ”

"You don't even have a line, where did you get the hook?"

The old man was still staring at the water, and said leisurely: "In the next life, not you can see through everything. Although there is no wireless on my rod, how do you know that I have no hook under the water? ”

Su Wangting laughed and said: "Even if you throw the fish hook down, but it is connected to the bamboo pole wirelessly, won't the fish hook sink to the bottom of the pool?" ”

The old man glanced at Su Wangting and said nothing with a smile.

At this time, a circle of ripples suddenly rippled on the surface of the water below the bamboo pole.

"Huh?" Su Wangting's brows furrowed.

Ripples rippled round and round and round.

The old man smiled: "Look at it, the next generation." ”

I saw the old man lift the bamboo pole violently, and a grass carp jumped out of the water!

Su Wangting took a closer look, only to see a fish hook in the fish's mouth, as if there was an invisible line connecting the hook to the bamboo pole, and the grass carp that was biting the hook was shaking left and right with the shaking of the bamboo pole!!

Su Wangting's eyes contracted violently!!

He squatted and sat on the ground!

Immediately, cold sweat slid down his forehead and down his face.

This kind of panic should not have happened to him.

"No, it can't be!!" Su Wangting stretched out his hand and pointed to the bamboo pole, "Even if you use gas, it is impossible to control an object for a long time!" No matter how strong the qi is, it is also instantaneous, and it is impossible to control the hook for a long time as a line!! ”

The old man took the grass carp and put it beside him, ignoring Su Wangting's surprise at all.

Su Wangting got up with a bone, spread his hands and shouted, "This doesn't make sense!" In reality, this will never happen, no matter how high the cultivation is, you can't do it!! You... Who is it!? ”

The old man washed his hands in the pool without hurry, then took out a dry cigarette and lit it, and took a few puffs before he slowly spoke: "You are walking in this world, and you have only opened two innate veins around your body, and you have not met an opponent, are you bored?" ”

"You!!" Su Wangting's brain buzzed, and he staggered back a few steps, "How did you know that I have an innate vein!" ”

Knocking on the cigarette stick on the bluestone, the old man smiled again: "The innate Hao pulse is extremely rare. And even if you have an innate vein, it is not the power of this world that can awaken it. ”

Su Wangting's chest rose and fell violently, and his face gradually turned pale.

The old man continued: "But your innate Hao veins have been awakened, and they are still awakened by the eight veins. Isn't it strange? ”

"You... Who are you!! ”

The old man turned to stare at the waterhole and did not answer.

After a while, I heard him suddenly ask, "Why didn't you jump off the cliff with Qin Ruowei at the beginning!?" ”

Su Wangting's eyes darkened when he heard this, and he almost fell.

"You... How did you find out about Ruowei!! And why do you know that she jumped off the cliff back then!! ”

The old man suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, and nodded his finger at Su Wangting repeatedly: "You, you...... It seems that Qin Ruowei is still too confident, she really thought that you would jump off the cliff with her desperately, hehehe, wasted her hard work!! ”

Su Wangting gritted his teeth and shouted angrily: "What do you mean by these words!! Who are you!! ”

"Do you still want to see her?" The old man asked suddenly.

Su Wangting was stunned when he heard this, and said in a lost voice: "But she has ......"

The old man put his hands behind his back, looked up to the sky and said: "Peep into the sky to achieve great success, and hold nine chapters to reach the Xuan Realm!" Hehe, but for you, you don't have to rely on the Nine Chapters of Heavenly Machines to reach the Xuan Realm, but you missed the opportunity and wasted Qin Ruowei's hard work. ”

These are the words engraved on the white stone tablet in the desert!!

How did this old man know!??

Su Wangting's mind was in chaos, and he saw him holding his head in his hands, kneeling on the ground and crumbling and shouting, "You... Who are you? What is the Arrival Realm? Why are you asking me if I still want to see Ruowei, but she's dead!! ”

"Heaven must not be revealed, in the afterlife, I have told you enough. The ninth chapter of Tianji is your last chance, and the old man just can't bear to miss your good material, so he showed up rashly. ”

Su Wangting raised his head sharply.

The old man is gone.

"The ninth chapter of the heavenly machine is my last chance?? Ruowei wasted all her hard work?? What does it mean to reach the Xuan Realm? Also, there are ......" Su Wangting tore his hair in pain, "What did he mean by these words!" ”

"Click, click, click......"

The grass carp kept wagging its tail on the ground, struggling.

Su Wangting slowly raised his head, got up and walked towards the grass carp.

I saw something shiny hanging from the grass carp's constantly opening and closing mouth, and it seemed that the hook had not been removed.

Su Wangting caught the grass fish, removed the hook, and threw the fish back into the pool.

Look down at your hands.

"Uh-huh!??" Su Wangting gasped!

Where is this what a fish hook is.

It's a sterling silver earring!!

It's Qin Ruowei's earrings!

And this earring, when she jumped off the cliff with her!!

"What the hell is this ......"

Su Wangting's eyes were dark, and he fell to the ground.

……

"Ruowei !!"

Su Wangting opened his eyes sharply and grabbed the jade hand that was caressing his forehead.

"What's wrong with you, how can you pass out by the pool?"

Su Wangting fixed his eyes and saw that it was Du Juan'er.

He was looking at him with concern on his face.

Su Wangting sighed lightly and hurriedly let go of her hand.

"You carried me into the room? How long have I been unconscious? ”

Du Juan said softly: "I finished cleaning the yard and saw that you hadn't come in yet, so I went out to look and found you lying on the edge of the pool." It had been two hours, and it was already dark. ”

"Hey!!" Su Wangting covered his face with his hands and wiped the cold sweat on his face, "My brain is a little messy, you go and rest and don't care about me." There's something to talk about tomorrow. ”

The cuckoo answered softly, took the candlestick, and left the room.

Outside the courtyard, the moon was empty.

The white moonlight shines through the branches and leaves of the mountains, and the quiet courtyard is dappled.

Su Wangting slowly walked out of the courtyard, came to the edge of the pool, and looked at the crescent moon reflected on the water surface stupidly.

He was thinking back to every word the old man had said.

He's trying to piece it together and analyze.

recalled that at the bottom of the cliff that was thousands of feet deep, he searched for several days, but he did not find Qin Ruowei's body.

In the end, it was determined that it was taken by a wild beast.

But the old man, not only asked himself if he wanted to see Qin Ruowei again, but also left her earrings!

It doesn't make sense!!

Su Wangting paced back and forth by the pool, and kept asking himself why.

Eventually, all the thoughts in his mind pointed to the desert.

That white stone tablet in the desert!

Recalling the nine small holes on the stone stele, Su Wangting secretly said, do you collect all the nine white jade pieces of the Nine Chapters of the Heavenly Machine, and then put them into those small holes one by one, will the truth be revealed?

Is it really as the old man said, he can still see Qin Ruowei??

Even if it has been separated by yin and yang??

No!!

The old man's meaning was clearly implying that she was not dead!!

But this... What's going on??

"Is it really only by collecting the nine chapters of the Heavenly Machine that you can solve the puzzle?" Su Wangting looked up at the bright moon, "At this time, Nie Yunfei, has he obtained the "Book of People" through the moonlight?" ”

In my ears, there were bursts of cicadas.

It's early summer.

……

Early in the morning of the second day.

As soon as Su Wangting walked out of the house, he saw the unpowdered cuckoo sitting in the courtyard in a daze.

"It's better to live your life than to be sad secretly." Su Wangting said softly.

The cuckoo looked up at him violently, her eyes bloodshot, and it was obvious that she had not slept all night.

"Master Su, you say, will Nie Yunfei change his mind about me!!"

Su Wangting was stunned when he heard this, and then shook his head again and again.

He didn't know how to answer.

"Yes!! I'm cheap!! I'm cheap!! Even though he sees me as nothing, I still think about him!! ”

Su Wangting grabbed the pair of jade hands that were frantically tearing his hair, and said softly: "This is not cheap, this is human nature." What distinguishes humans from animals is that they have a variety of incomprehensible feelings. The reason why Nie Yunfei has become like this is because of me, I shouldn't have given him that white jade piece, it was I who pushed him into the abyss who was hovering on the edge of losing control. ”

Du Juan raised her teary eyes and sobbed, "I... I'm not blaming you...... You're a rare nice person......"

Su Wangting let go of Du Juan'er's hand and asked softly, "Can you promise me not to think nonsense anymore and live here for the time being?" ”

"For the time being... For the nonce? ”

Su Wangting bowed slightly, and slowly walked towards the courtyard gate: "If you promise me, then I will promise you to bring back the Nie Yunfei in your heart!" ”

The cuckoo stood up violently, looking at the back that always reassured him with teary eyes.

"Su Gongzi... I ......"

"You said yes?"

Du Juan bit her lip lightly and nodded silently.

"Very well, then I will be relieved." Su Wangting pushed open the courtyard door.

Du Juan took two steps forward: "Where are you going?" ”

"Jianghu." Su Wangting turned his head and showed a warm smile, "Go and go back." ”

After speaking, the slender figure swept up and disappeared into the mountains.