The spring is bright, shining on all things, the breeze in the mountains is coming, the lake is rippling, and a flat boat is floating in the lake.

The two people on the boat lay down and sat down, and the woman in red lay on the bow of the boat with her eyes closed and leaned into the water with one hand.

The black-clothed young man sat cross-legged, his hands folded on the dantian, his eyes closed. In the sea of his consciousness, a cloud of purple qi like smoke melted into his divine consciousness, and his divine consciousness emitted the light of the primordial god.

After a while, Chu Xiqing opened his eyes, exhaled, and said with a smile: "It can be regarded as the beginning of the prototype of the primordial spirit, and the nourishing god lotus is worthy of being the great medicine of the primordial spirit, and a lotus petal has such an effect." ”

He looked at Chen Xueyue and asked, "Master, where are you going next?" ”

"Keep traveling, but we're going to cut down on those fights and kills, and return to tranquility." Chen Xueyue said.

Chu Xiqing nodded, and then glanced at Chen Xueyue in surprise.

The water roared, and the wooden boat broke away from the water and rose in the air, rushing into the distance at a very fast speed.

First, he flew arrogantly not far from the Biyun Sect, and then flew out of Dongfeng County without stopping. In the next half month, Chen Xueyue took Chu Xiqing to visit the famous rivers and mountains, walking in the fireworks of the world, occasionally encountering one or two small sects, she showed some of her strength and was regarded as a distinguished guest, Chu Xiqing took this opportunity to communicate with the disciples of the sect and verify what she had learned.

In the past half a month, Chu Xiqing has cultivated and comprehended the Qilin imprint, practiced swordsmanship in the stone, and his strength has improved by leaps and bounds.

Sometimes he feels that Chen Xueyue beside him is faintly sad.

Half a month later, they returned to Jiangjun, passing through Hanjiang County, and Chu Xiqing suddenly wanted to go back and have a look.

Chu Xiqing quietly returned to Chu's house, he didn't have the key, and no one responded after shouting twice, so he had to jump up and turn over the door.

After entering, Chu Xiqing found that Chu Mu and Chen Jin were not at home, the house was dusty, and it seemed that no one lived there for a while.

Chu Xiqing was a little panicked, where else could Chu Mu and Chen Jin go if they weren't at home? He called the master twice, and Chen Xueyue quickly appeared at the Chu family and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Chu Xiqing said worriedly: "My mother is gone, master, is there any way you can find them?" ”

Chen Xueyue comforted: "Don't be in a hurry, I have a way." ”

She showed a Dao method that could reproduce the scene of the past, going back to more than half a month ago, the scene was a little blurry, Chen Xueyue said solemnly: "There is a qi practitioner who is not weak. ”

Hearing this, Chu Xiqing was even more worried, and that day, Chu Mu saw that vague person's mood fluctuated a lot, crying and laughing, and finally followed that person.

Chen Xueyue frowned and said, "This person has a magic weapon to cover his qi, but I can't even perceive it. But judging from your mother's reaction, you should know that person, and the relationship should not be shallow. ”

Chu Xiqing was a little relieved after hearing this, and somehow, when he saw that vague person, a strange feeling rose in his heart.

"Can my mother have this reaction......" he thought, and an absurd answer appeared in his heart.

On the way back, Chen Xueyue did not use the wooden boat, but walked with Chu Xiqing.

Walking to the path where Chen Xueyue and Chu Xiqing met for the first time, there were still few people walking from this path, but this time there was a family of three walking behind them.

Chen Xueyue quipped: "Apprentice, remember, you saved me here again." ”

Chu Xiqing said embarrassedly: "How did I know that the master was so powerful at that time, I only thought about saving people." ”

He was still a naïve teenager at the time.

Chen Xueyue suddenly asked, "If it were now, would you kill those three bandits?" ”

Chu Xiqing didn't expect Chen Xueyue to suddenly ask this question, and said thoughtfully: "Probably not, after all, they didn't really cause harm." ”

Chen Xueyue's face was gloomy, and she replied, "Hmm".

They didn't go far, and suddenly heard an exclamation from behind them, Chu Xiqing turned around suspiciously, and saw the three thieves again, they were shaking the big knives in their hands, and they were grabbing their father in a family of three.

Chu Xi smiled angrily, and was about to educate the three thieves well, when he saw that the father struggled to resist, but he was slashed to the chest, and blood gushed like a spring. The expression on Chu Xiqing's face changed to shock, then anger.

He wanted to lift his feet, but found that he couldn't move, and turned his head to look at Chen Xueyue in disbelief, he couldn't see Chen Xueyue's expression, but heard her voice hoarse: "You should kill them." ”

"What ......", his face was ugly, and he laughed miserably: "Master, what are you doing, they are killing people, how can there be a reason not to save them when they die." ”

Chen Xueyue raised her eyes to look at him, her eyes were indifferent that Chu Xiqing had never seen before, as if she was a god overlooking the world, she said calmly: "The real danger is always in the place you can't see, because of your negligence at the beginning, a family of three was killed today, in a way, you hurt them." ”

Chu Xiqing roared like crazy: "You are crazy, let me go!" ”

The mother cried out, "Ah! You brutes! She pounced on her husband to avenge her, but she was greeted by a knife.

The boy was so frightened that he ran back, and as he fled, he did not forget to look back at his dead parents, and his face was full of tears, and the three thieves chased after him with a smirk.

At this time, Chu Xiqing almost pleaded: "Master, let me go, I will definitely not be soft-hearted in the future." He suddenly felt that the idea of convincing himself in the ruined temple that night was as childish as a joke.

When the bandit's knife was about to slash at the boy, Chu Xiqing suddenly found that he could move, and he burst out with the fastest speed of refining qi so far, wanting to save the boy.

However, just as he reached out to save the boy, the sharp blade slashed through the boy's neck, blood splattered and hit Chu Xiqing's face, and the boy fell in front of him. Chu Xiqing's eyes were split, and he trembled, "Ah! A punch slammed into the bandit's body, and the bandit's chest was dented, and he fell to the ground bleeding profusely, and soon died of exhaustion.

The other two thieves still wanted to run, but Chu Xiqing's sword around him swirled, gathered into a sword, and stabbed at the two fleeing bandits, piercing their bodies one after another.

Chu Xiqing was paralyzed on the ground, lost his soul. Chen Xueyue still stood in place, without saying a word, and then turned to leave.

As the sun sank, Chu Xiqing's eyes were hollow, and he numbly dug a few pits and buried the bodies of several dead people in them, and his black clothes were stained with blood, but he couldn't see it.

After doing all this, Chu Xiqing was at a loss, he didn't know where to go, he might not want to go back to the Snow Moon Hall for a long time.

He walked aimlessly to a town market, where there were few people on the streets, and there were occasionally people in a few stalls.

"A pound of pork."

"Okay." A pork stall welcomed guests.

Chu Xiqing walked past the butcher's board, he glanced at it, couldn't help but stop, stunned for a while, then pushed away the guest in front of the pork stall, stared at the butcher with wide eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "Were you a thief before?" Remember me? ”

The butcher had a scar on his face, which looked very scary, and he looked at the young man in front of him strangely, and then remembered it, and shouted, "Immortal Master! It turned out to be an immortal master, of course the villain remembered, the villain strictly followed the teachings of the immortal master, and now he didn't dare to be a bandit, so he changed his career to be a butcher,"

Chu Xiqing was like being struck by lightning, stayed for a while, and rushed out regardless of the scolding of the person and the butcher's compliments that he pushed away.

Running all the way to the Snow Moon Palace, the journey of dozens of miles arrived in less than half an hour.

Panting, he pushed open the door, and when he entered, he shouted, "Master, are you there?" ”

However, no one answered him, and he anxiously searched around, and finally found a letter and a round mirror on the table in the lobby.

Chu Xiqing opened the envelope, and the letter was written with beautiful handwriting in aura.

"Chu Xiqing, in the future, you and I will be commensurate with Daoyou, after all, my master is really unqualified. You've always wanted to learn the Dao, but I haven't taught you, there are many Dao Fa left in the temple, I hope you have enough understanding. That round mirror, named Taiqing, is a magic weapon I gave you, it is extremely powerful, and it can also be used to store utensils, and you only need to inject spiritual energy to refine it for your own use.

Do you think this one-and-a-half-month experience is bizarre, I think the same way, but the time is too short, will you remember it?

I want to leave some traces on your unformed Dao heart, and have a clear understanding of some truths in the world, but not lose hope, so that you can face the world calmly in the future, and not cause the Dao heart to collapse and be miserable. But this is not enough time to be subtle, so I can only end up being ruthless, it may be a little painful, but I guess you won't hate me.

It is a great blessing in the world that you can maintain a good will towards the world. Everyone in the world has a fairy fate, remember? Let's work hard to cultivate for this reason, boy.

Don't deliberately look for me, if you have fate, you can see each other in the future. Don't lose hope, the future will be wonderful.

By the way, Chu Daoyou, you are very cute when you are young.

By the way, I'll take the Divine Lotus away, just as your return gift. ”

Chu Xiqing didn't move for a long time after reading the letter, and after a long time, he breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed the letter in his hand and sat on the couch, his eyes were confused, and he muttered: "What should I do if you leave?" ”

I don't know how long it took, the aura on the paper dissipated, Chu Xiqing folded it into his sleeve, he picked up the round mirror Taiqing, and his face in the mirror was very clear.

He mobilized his aura to inject into it, and instantly felt that Taiqing was in touch with his own mind, without any rejection. He hung Taiqing around his waist, very chic.

Chu Xiqing's mind moved, and all the scriptures and books that recorded the Taoism were included in Taiqing, and he also collected all the elixirs and the bookcases that he hadn't touched for a long time.

He walked out of the Snow Moon Palace, looked back, and saw that the Snow Moon Hall was like smoke and dust in the wind, and he was in a trance, like a dream, and a month and a half of time, as if he was in another world.

Chu Xiqing embarked on the road back to Hanjiang County, and he planned to go back to the capital to find his brother after packing up first.

Like water and moonlight, the young man's figure is a little thin. There were strange birds chirping and wolves howling in the wild, but the boy didn't care. A path gradually appeared in his mind, the road ahead was pitch black, there was nothing on the road that could help him, he himself was the light on the road, and he was firmly moving towards the unknown future.

Back in Hanjiang County, Chu Xiqing keenly found that there were very powerful aura fluctuations in one direction in the county, he quietly groped the past, and was surprised to find that it was the Wang family of a large family, and his friend Ji Lingze's father was the housekeeper of the Wang family.

[A stage has passed.] 】