Chapter 34: Treading the Snow (2)

I exhaled another breath of miscellaneous air, and my heart was full of worries about the current situation, and I was sure to find the snow to tread.

The muscles of his whole body were tense, and even his fists were clenched and forced. The courage to hold on all the way disappeared, and the fear was like a dark rat that had seen food, jumping out of nowhere, and suddenly jumped all over the body.

After staying in the dark for a long time, my eyes have adapted to the faint light. Her eyesight gradually recovered, and Sang Ling could see that she was in an open space.

Looking around, the interior is still in the shape of a hollow pagoda, rotating in a circle, step by step.

I don't know if it's because of her lack of eyesight, or the limitations of the nine-story tower, she can only see the distance of two or three floors, and then mobilize all the aura into her eyes, and when she looks out, she can only vaguely see the outline of the four or five floors.

The environment is empty, with occasional echoes of crying and roaring.

Sang Ling barely stood up from the ground, closer to the candle flame light source in the center.

only to find that her walls were surrounded by iron cages that were divided, and there were some black shadows lying on their stomachs.

The dark shadow is quiet, don't say movement, even the breathing is shallow and inaudible.

Everything seemed to fall into an eerie calm, like the calm before the storm.

It was so quiet that Sang Ling could hear her own noisy heartbeat.

One time, two times......

Sang Ling observed the time of a cup of tea vigilantly, and those dark shadows did not move, and everything was calm.

After making sure that she could really be safe for a short time, she dared to sit down in a dark corner, leaning her back against the wooden post, seemingly relaxed, and her limbs were still in a state of preparation.

As soon as I sat down, the overwhelming pain immediately spread out from my bones.

Sang Ling couldn't help but snort, and immediately mobilized her heart to entangle her heart, trying her best to use the cold aura she had grabbed to impact and repair the broken wounds, meridians, and the bone slag that was squeezed into flesh and blood and shattered into tofu.

Compared to the first time he was injured and repaired in the foggy forest of Bishan Mountain, at this time, the head of the heart mantra seemed to be unwilling to directly offer the spiritual energy, and Sang Ling was very hard, like a deep well to draw water, every time he had to use all his strength to pull.

Xie Hanzhou was reluctant to provide her with aura anymore, even if her injuries this time were already so serious.

Clenched her fists, she had a pair of wooden eyes, and used ten percent of her mental strength, and she was ruthless.

The rapid repair of the injury and the visible improvement of the naked eye will inevitably bring the unbearable tingling and swelling of ordinary people.

Sang Ling stuffed the sleeves of her raged clothes into her mouth, and her teeth were tightly clasped before she dared to let out a muffled cry of pain.

Like a bee sting, like an ant devouring, like a wolf bite, layer after layer of pain struck, drowning her, and finally, her eyelids closed slightly, and she fell into a semi-comatose state of pain.

The whole body slowly slipped off the wooden pillar, lay on his side on the ground, and completely fainted......

And yet at this very moment!

A roar sounded from inside the tower, and countless black shadows around were awakened, slamming into the iron fence in pain, shouting and biting outside one after another.

The crumbling iron fence seems to be unable to withstand the impact force accumulated over time, and it will be broken in the next second, letting go of those demons who have lost their minds!

Sleeping in the corner of the middle clearing, in the center of the iron fence gate, the black shadow rushed out of the fence and the first victim-

Sang Ling, unconscious and defenseless in a coma.

......

Three hundred years ago, the Heavenly Dao Sect.

Late at night, it was more dewy and silent. Xie Jufeng lived in isolation, and only a cold and solitary loneliness remained.

The moon hung high in the air, and the moonlight shining on the bed was cold.

Xie Hanzhou woke up by chance, pushed away the cold and hard bedding, and got dressed and walked out of the yard. The holographic lights in the next room indicate that the owner of the house is asleep.

His movements were quiet and unalarmed, and his footsteps did not stop, and he descended the path of Xie Jufeng until he reached the scorching spring in another mountain.

Wutong night moon, no one will come to wash at this time. Near the hot springs, there was no one around.

Under the corridor, the hanging lantern of the vermilion bird shines quietly, stepping on a path paved with goose warm stones, turning a flower tree, and arriving at the scorching spring.

When I stepped up the stone steps in front of the hot spring, I stumbled slightly.

The wound in the back was pulled and the flesh was torn apart. The wet blood melted from under the white robe, revealing layers of bound bandages, and a large piece of wet was shocking.

A fishy smell wafted out, and the injury expanded.

His pale face still had no expression, cold and hard like pebbles on the ground, hard and pestle, like a widower with a dead wife, and his diaphragm should be ugly.

Steady on your feet and lift your feet up the stairs.

Bypassing a screen, the warm humidity of the scorching spring spread out in front of my eyes, and the mist entered my eyes, bringing out a bit of dampness.

raised his sleeve to take the handkerchief, but inadvertently brought out a red jade bead from the storage bag.

It was the red jade bead he had returned from the forbidden zone, tiny, like a red bean, and like the cuckoo crying blood.

Originally, it was supposed to be buried in a forbidden place with Lin Ling, but the ghost sent it to the gods, but Xie Hanzhou picked it up and put it in a storage bag.

The hot spring pool in front of you is the same as before, as if it was still the original. But now it was empty, and there was no longer the clumsy and intimate smile of the girl.

Xie Hanzhou frowned slightly, if it was, when the master made that request, it would be good to immediately take Lin Ling away from the Heavenly Dao Sect regardless of everything.

This thought came to his heart in vain.

This thought is very strange, he has always been a person who looks forward and never regrets.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt uncontrollable in his heart, and kept repeating this thought-

If you had ...... Don't believe in the bottom line of the master so much, don't be so determined to soar, immediately take her away and fly high, at least she ...... now can still live peacefully.

The throbbing pain in his heart suddenly became intense, and Xie Hanzhou was only a little abrupt until this time, Sang Ling was really dead, and it was impossible to come back, and even the corpse, the corpse itself, could not be buried for her.

The red jade beads were not as bright as they were at first sight, they were handed by the girl on the tender white palm flesh, and at this time, the blood stains and dust were wrapped in pulp, and the ash was extremely dull.

He looked down, I don't know what he was thinking, for a long time, he pinched his sleeve to wipe it, once, twice, the mud stain was too thick and too long, but he was reluctant to work hard, and it was just useless to do it.

There was a noise behind him.

Lu Chaoyan followed in from outside the screen, and his footsteps were chaotic, breaking the dullness of the room.

At a glance, she saw Xie Hanzhou's figure standing facing the hot spring, and she only thought that Xie Hanzhou was a demon who loved cleanliness and was preparing to bathe and wash regardless of his injuries.

She wanted to stop her, but gently persuaded:

"Han Zhou, if it weren't for the patrol disciples seeing you, I don't know when I would be looking for you. How did you get here? Your wound is not yet healed and you can't get into the water. If you are really uncomfortable after lying in bed for many days, just get some water and scrub it first. ”

Xie Hanzhou covered the red bean bead in the palm of his hand, hung down his sleeves, and did not answer.

Xie Hanzhou kept his back to him, Lu Chaoyan didn't notice his movements, he just thought that Xie Hanzhou was still angry because of the things in the forbidden land-

One day after Sang Ling sacrificed to the forbidden land, Xie Hanzhou suddenly left the Heavenly Dao Sect and was never heard from. The master left her in the sect and took her cronies and disciples to look for her.

Unexpectedly, he stole the forbidden place and wanted to snatch Lin Ling's body!

In the face of the sect's questioning and obstruction, he refused to repent, was unwilling to leave, and injured countless disciples when he resisted.

Their master, the head of the Heavenly Dao Sect, Tiandaozi, has always loved Xie Hanzhou, and that time he was furious and used coercive means to bring Xie Hanzhou back.

The master and apprentice had a secret talk, and after he came out, Xie Hanzhou had already been punished by Tiandaozi, and at the same time set a mandatory rule that he could not go down the mountain if he had nothing to do.

The penalties are not severe.

The skin on his back was open, the injury was serious, and he was not allowed to use the aura to heal the injury, so he just lay in bed and recuperated for more than half a month.

Lu Chaoyan cleared his complicated thoughts, walked to his side, and continued to ask:

"Han Zhou, why did you come to the Burning Spring in the middle of the night, isn't this a place for the disciples of Zhuji to bathe? Are your wounds better? Does it still hurt? ”

The hand in Xie Hanzhou's sleeve was clenched into a fist, squeezed it tightly, and the blunt pain in his palm entered his heart, as if this was the only way to suppress the cold blood hole in his heart.

He maintained his apparent calm, and said in a deep voice:

"Okay, fine."

The hot spring was shrouded in wet mist, covering his eyes, and he couldn't see Xie Hanzhou's side face clearly.

Lu Chaoyan's face changed slightly, and he lost color from the coldness in his tone.

I felt that the firelight in the hanging lights of the vermilion birds around me was fluttering, and the quiet and hazy light came from afar, lining Xie Hanzhou more and more like the cold of the world.

After thinking about it, Lu Chaoyan sorted out the panic in his heart, and only carefully explained vaguely:

"Hanzhou, the matter of the forbidden land is that I didn't stop the master, so that you were punished so severely after returning to the master's gate. I'm to blame for all this, don't you get angry anymore, okay? ”

He turned around and quietly looked back at Lu Chaoyan, who came to the front and showed concern, and was silent.

The woman's gentle tone used to be the most accustomed to Xie Hanzhou, and it was also the most acceptable. This kind of appearance should be the template of the world's female cultivators.

However, I met such a vivid and vivid person, and the life surrounded by a lonely cold was also lit up by this scorching spark.

The spark vanishes and returns to the cold......

In my memory, in my nightmare, it was full of the overwhelming yellow sand, blood, evil monsters, and the woman who was sad and tearful, covering her sword wounds......

Xie Hanzhou suddenly paused, and at this moment, he was like being beaten up, as if he suddenly realized something.

"Lin Ling is dead......"

"What?"

Xie Hanzhou repeated it again, the excessively severe pain in his heart made his face pale, and his eyes were as clear as frost and snow, and suddenly they were full of red bloodshots:

"Lin Ling, when she died, she died in a forbidden place, becoming a living stake, and her death was miserable."

The tone is vain.

The corners of Lu Chaoyan's eyes and eyebrows were full of worry and uneasiness-

This kind of Xie Hanzhou is like a trapped beast, which she has never seen before. In her memory, the person who was always calm and dignified was already the same as the two of them.

After thinking about it, she comforted softly:

"Hanzhou, do you think she died too miserably? If your conscience is really troubled, we can erect a tomb for her. ”

Xie Hanzhou was very clear about Lu Chaoyan's unspoken doubts-

Did Lin Ling's death really have such a big impact on him?

He hasn't always been cold to Lin Ling, and even humiliation and embarrassment have not happened a lot.

Before, Lin Ling drilled here to burn the spring, and it was he who pulled the alarm bell and called the patrol guards to catch Lin Ling, intending to humiliate and reject her intentions......

Why is it that this time, Lin Ling is dead, and he will not come over to bother again, but he finds it difficult to accept it?

The thoughts in his heart are complicated, and every frame of the past is impacting his mind, smiles, words, actions, objects, emotions that were not noticed and noticed before, are put to the maximum at this moment.

The heart fluctuates strongly, like the torture of digging out the heart and cutting out the liver...... He was unwilling to be suppressed with aura and let himself bear it.

Xie Hanzhou's whole body was tense, covering his heart, and his uncontrollable back bent down before he managed to maintain the calmness of his tone.

"She won't like it, such a hypocritical approach is just to calm the hearts of the living."

Lu Chaoyan's eyebrows furrowed, he raised his feet and took a step closer, looking at the tall, cold man in front of him, his eyes were complicated. Was he rejecting her suggestion, or was he concerned about her hypocrisy?

The two fell silent for a moment.

After a long time, Xie Hanzhou regained his temporary calm, or forcibly suppressed the pain with his aura.

Suddenly, I heard him speak:

"Yesterday, Master opened his mouth to hold a double cultivation ceremony for you and me."

"Well, Hanzhou, what do you ......think?"

These words were so bold that Lu Chaoyan felt that his cheeks were about to turn crimson. Lowering his eyes, when the autumn water is cross-rippling, there is a clear trace of firmness in his eyes.

The matter of forming a Taoist couple, Tian Daozi mentioned it to her a few days ago, and she also acquiesced in this matter. Unexpectedly, Tiandaozi went to find Xie Hanzhou so quickly, so Xie Hanzhou came to ask her meaning?