Twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Jialan has gradually grown up.

It was getting late, the stars in the distant sky were twinkling, the temperature in the mountains was rapidly dropping, and the cold wind carried the breath of sunshine through the entire mountain forest, urging the mountain ghosts in the forest to hang up the jade lanterns.

Jialan looked up at the sky, and three or two birds were flying eastward, and after a while, they disappeared into the treetops. She let out a cold breath and rubbed her frozen fingers to repair a spiritual spring.

Under his fingers, the turbid spring water gushed up from the ground, and merged into a small pool in the low-lying place, and the cold light flashed slightly, and the spring water quickly froze, and the ice surface was white and cold. Jialan followed the method taught by Jing Mojun and purified the spiritual spring with the gentle spiritual power in her body. When the ice is lifted, the gushing water returns to clarity with transparent ice crystals.

Jialan hurriedly stuffed her hand into her cuffs to keep warm, and a shallow smile bloomed on her face. Over the years, she has repaired more than 100 spiritual springs, and it will not be long before she can try to repair the main spiritual vein.

It's not that she didn't notice her abnormality, but she simply thought that as a mountain god, this was normal, so she didn't pay much attention to it.

She knew that Jing Mojun's expectations for herself became higher and higher with the restoration of the spiritual spring, but Jing Mojun himself had little time to go, and he was about to return to the mountains and forests. In recent years, Jing Mojun has slowly handed over the affairs of the clan to Mu Qing and Lan Jun to manage, and she herself has retreated to the Youquan Deep Courtyard to cultivate her body.

Jialan and Jing Mojun have been together for a long time, and they also have some feelings, knowing that Jing Mojun's time is running out, she thinks that repairing a few more spiritual springs can make her happier. In the past two months, Jialan has repaired three spiritual springs in a row, and her physical strength has become more and more exhausted, and Jialan only feels that her divine body is becoming more and more afraid of cold.

Twenty years, Jialan's body has become more and more afraid of cold, although Tianworm and Ziling don't know why Jialan became like this, but when they first came into contact with her, they noticed that Jialan's own spiritual power is cold, and from this point of view, the last thing she is afraid of is cold. However, Jialan's spiritual power has become more and more gentle, and there are more and more spiritual veins repaired, and in a few years, he can enter the underground palace to repair the main spiritual veins. And now, Jialan is no longer able to repair the spiritual veins in winter, and can only repair some spiritual springs that have been polluted by mandrills.

Tianworm was dressed in green clothes, Ziling was dressed in white, and a god and a servant waited quietly not far behind Jialan, and the towering ancient trees almost obscured the sky. The white jade lamps hanging from the trees emit a soft fluorescence to illuminate their figures.

There was a thick black cloak on the crook of the insect's arm, and he kept looking at Jialan's back, not noticing Ziling's inquiring gaze.

Ziling was wrapped in a pot of hot soup in her sleeve and slowly boiled with spiritual power. This is for Jialan to warm up and restore spiritual power, and every time Jialan repairs the spiritual spring, she must drink a cup.

Ziling noticed the strangeness of the heavenly insects in the past few days. He found that the time of the Celestial Worm looking at the mountain god was getting longer and longer, and his gaze was complicated, he didn't know what was hidden in the Celestial Worm's heart, and he didn't understand why the Celestial Worm's gaze was like that, so he couldn't understand it.

"Heavenly Worm, what are you thinking about lately?" Ziling turned her head to look at Heavenly Worm. Since he couldn't understand it, he asked directly, even though he knew that the Celestial Worm might not be able to say.

The insects couldn't take their eyes off it, and their voices were cold.

"I don't have any minds. ”

It was getting dark quickly, and the soft light of the white jade lamps around it spread out, becoming brighter and brighter as night fell. The cold wind blew, bringing up their wide sleeves and flying back, and the high bundles of black hair fluttered in the wind like cold silk.

The Celestial Worm lowered his eyes and looked away from Jialan.

His strange appearance did not start recently, and Ziling only found out now that he could know that the Heavenly Worm's actions had indeed overstepped.

"There are many things hidden in your eyes. We grew up together, and I can see your strangeness. ”

"I'm fine, you're at ease. Tianworm turned his head to look at Ziling and smiled slightly, his tone relaxed.

Such a smile is clearly meant to hide something. Ziling was still not at ease, thinking about it, something related to the mountain god...... It can only be soft.

"Heavenly Worm, do you miss Roujia?" Ziling thought that Heavenly Insect was like this because she missed her only sister, after all, Roujia was banned under the stone cliff in order to help Heavenly Insect steal medicine.

"Missing?" Tianzhu was a little puzzled, he looked at Ziling and said, "Roujia made a mistake, and repentance is the punishment she deserves." When I finish my sentence in a hundred years, I will personally pick her up, so why should I miss her?"

Ziling was silent. The Heavenly Worm looked straight ahead with a firm attitude when he spoke, and Ziling looked at him like this, as if he didn't know what the reason for Rou Jia to steal the mountain elixir was.

"Rou Jia her...... If you can, you might as well go and check it out, after all, you are the only relative to her now. Ziling couldn't bear to see Rou Jia lonely and helpless, staying alone under the stone cliff. Since the death of their parents, Roujia has regarded the Celestial Worm as her everything, and is willing to do anything for the Celestial Worm, just because it is her only brother. Ziling has always understood better than the insects, although Roujia has a high spirit, but she is the most emotional, the insects are sick, she naturally wants to get the medicine at all costs.

The medicine of the mountain god must pass through the hands of the mountain lord and the patriarch, and there is a fixed amount every day, no more and no less. It's not easy to get it.

The heavenly insect didn't say a word about his cold disease, and Rou Jia only saw him attack by chance, she knew that her brother would never ask the mountain god for elixir, she thought that he must have endured it like this because this disease could not be said to the mountain lord and the patriarch.

However, Rou Jia thought about it, and the heavenly insect didn't say that she didn't want to, but she couldn't. The mountain lord also told him that if he told the mountain god about this, it would shake the mountain god's heart. Although the Celestial Worm didn't know why his injuries could shake the heart of the mountain god, he knew that the mountain lord would not deceive him. What's more, he didn't intend to say it to the mountain gods or other mountain ghosts.

Later, Rou Jia discussed with Zi Ling, if it wasn't for what Rou Jia saw with her own eyes, Zi Ling couldn't believe that the insects had such a strange disease. Although Ziling didn't know what kind of elixir was needed for the cold disease of the heavenly insects, she knew that there were a large number of Buddha flame flowers in the elixir that the mountain god soaked every day. The mountain god's body is cold, so he thought that since they are all cold, the Buddha Flame Flower may be able to give it a try.

He originally wanted to find a suitable opportunity to talk to the insects, and then find the mountain lord or the mountain god together to ask for the Buddha Flame Flower, the mountain god has always favored the insects, and it is very likely to give.

Rou Jia acted impulsively, Ziling never expected that she would steal the Buddha Flame Flower and soak it in fruit wine for the Heavenly Worm to drink on the second night. The elixir has always been under the care of Elder Mu Qing, and Elder Mu Qing's disciples are guarding and stealing it, and it is still the medicine of the mountain god that is stolen, which is a big crime.

Ziling sighed deeply, such an ending could have been avoided.

The heavenly worm rejected Ziling's kindness. For him, it has to be what it should be. When Rou Jia made a mistake, he never asked her a word, and he didn't want to know what her reason was. It is a fact that Rou Jia stole the things of the mountain gods, and that is enough.

Their brother and sister had been separated since childhood, and when he was only 100 years old, he was sent to Tianzhixi, who specialized in raising god servants, and every day they taught him how to be a good mountain god attendant, and no one told him how to get along with his sister. The long separation from his parents and sister diluted his affection for them, and he didn't even know what to say to them during the annual visits.

From the moment he left home, his parents regarded him as a servant of the gods, and they were very respectful and polite to him when they got together, and only his sister Roujia would say a few sincere words to him and bring him some brewed fruit wine to taste.

After the death of her parents, Rou Jia became a disciple of Elder Mu Qing, who was the most promising elder in the clan to become the next patriarch, and Rou Jia would only get better and better with him.

On the day of Roujia's arrest, he stood by the side of the god and watched the heavy chains put on Roujia's body. Mu Qing held the chain to stop the other mountain ghosts from stepping forward, and when he questioned Elder Ming Yi in a deep voice, he didn't move, just watched. There was still the breath of elixir in Rou Jia's room, and a small piece of elixir residue was found in the talisman bag, Rou Jia lowered her head and said nothing, Elder Mu Qing frowned and watched Rou Jia gradually let go of her hand. He still didn't move, just watched.

Rou Jia suddenly raised her head at this time, her eyes did not fall on him, she lowered her head, as if she didn't want him to see her expression, she whispered, "Take care of yourself." ”

Roujia was dragged away by the mountain ghost.

Jialan turned her head sideways and asked him, "Do you know her?"

His throat rolled, and he only felt that his eyes were dry and very uncomfortable, "That's my sister." ”

It seems that even he himself does not realize that he has called himself "I" before God.

Jialan didn't say another word, but stopped Jing Mojun when he wanted to expel Roujia from Tongshan, and the final outcome was a hundred years of imprisonment under the stone cliff.

"Ziling, God seems to have grown up a little more. The indifferent gaze of the heavenly insect looked at the thin figure in front of him, and a smile flashed in his eyes that he didn't even notice himself, but it disappeared again in an instant, but there was a faint sadness between his eyebrows.

Ziling turned her head along with his words, the height of the mountain god was no more than his ribs before, and when he squatted down, he was like an ordinary mountain ghost child, fragile and soft. And now, just looking at her back as she crouched down, his back would consciously straighten, which was an innate respect for God. Jialan was now in his chest, and the aura on her body was getting closer and closer to them, and their god was really starting to grow.

Ziling smiled softly, the corners of her mouth were raised, and her eyes flashed with hope. "Yes, God has grown up, and he has grown up very quickly, and Tongshan has been saved. ”

But God Himself knows nothing. ”

"Huh?" Tianworm's voice was too soft, and Ziling didn't hear it clearly.

The heavenly insect glanced at Ziling faintly and said, "It's okay." ”

Even Ziling, who was a servant of God, did not notice that God was powerless. No, maybe he noticed, but didn't pay much attention to it. The mountain ghosts take it for granted that the gods are powerful and will not weaken until the final moment of destruction. In their eyes, Jialan is a new god, and his spiritual power will only grow slowly but not weaken, and his divine body will only grow stronger and stronger instead of withering day by day.

On the night of the mandrill night attack more than 20 years ago, the mountain god used his spiritual power to heal him, and although the extremely cold spiritual power made him recover faster than other attendants, it remained in his body and could not be relieved. On the third night, the symptoms began to appear, and the cold slowly froze his whole body along the flow of blood, and he could not breathe, ask for help, and die. At the beginning, he couldn't stand the cold air that destroyed all his spiritual power.

He didn't remember how good he was, and when he woke up, his spiritual power was not a lot, and the pain of the previous night was like a nightmare. When he began to forget about it as a nightmare, the same thing began to happen again. The spiritual power of the mountain god will not kill him, it will only make him miserable, and everything will be the same after the night.

Jing Mojun once warned them that they must not let the mountain god heal the mountain ghosts for a hundred years. It turned out that this was the consequence, since the spiritual power of the gods could not heal them, on the occasion of that year's ceremony, why did Jing Mojun say to the mountain ghosts of the whole clan that the spiritual power of the mountain gods could heal the wounds attacked by the mandrills.

A hundred years is a time limit, and the attributes of the spirit cannot be changed, so what will be the difference between the mountain gods after a hundred years?

Now, the heavenly insect is gradually beginning to understand that all the good things in the future of Tongshan will come at the cost of the mountain god.

"The restoration of the spiritual spring is almost complete, you have to move faster. The worm looked down and looked at his cuffs to remind him.

"Hmm. Ziling nodded, took out a porcelain pot from her sleeve, added a flavor of medicine, put it in again, and continued to cook the soup.

Jialan straightened up and exhaled a white breath, and the repair was finished. When Ziling Tianworm saw it, she hurriedly came to her to serve.

Ziling served Jialan with a jade bowl and drank the hot soup, suppressing the cold in her body.

The carriage that sent them back was waiting a hundred meters away, and when Jialan's body warmed up, they could go back immediately.

Ziling took the black and blue swallow feather cloak from the hand of the heavenly insect and put it on for her, looked at her worriedly, and said softly: "Is God good?"

"It's good. Jialan smiled and tightened her cloak to wrap herself tightly.

"Celestial insects. Jialan beckoned, motioning for him to come to her.

Hearing this, the heavenly insect walked up to Jialan and saluted her, hanging his head slightly, and folding his hands in front of his abdomen.

"My God. ”

Jialan held an object in her hand and stretched out her hand in front of the celestial insect, opened her fingers, and there was a clean white jade lying on the palm of her hand, and there was a red arc-shaped trace around the jade, like blood sealed inside the jade.

The heavenly insect was stunned for a moment, and before he could say anything, he heard Jialan's voice with a smile: "This stone is very compatible with you, give it to you." ”

The insect's mouth opened, and its hands trembled in shock. "This ......"

Ziling was also shocked by this scene, this piece of jade is the sub-vein raised by the sub-spiritual vein, once the sub-vein is separated from the sub-spiritual vein, it means that the sub-vein will have to transform and cultivate in another hundred years, and then become the next spiritual vein to raise the mountain.

However, this also means that the spiritual veins are about to wither, and before the sub-veins are fully formed, the mountain god must use his spiritual power to raise Tong Shan. It's just that they don't know, can the mountain god really grow into a god in his own right before that time comes?

There is also the sub-vein...... Just like this, Ziling's gentle smile froze on her face.

Under Ziling's shocked gaze, the heavenly insect shook his hand to take Zimai, his gaze stayed on Jia's blue and white side face, and quickly moved away.

"Thank you. Holding the warm veins in his hand, the heavenly insect actually felt that his face was hot, and his heartbeat was chaotic.

At this time, Jialan was concentrating on lowering her head to tie the strap of her cloak, and she didn't notice that the ears of the insects were quietly red. Ziling stood on the right side of Jialan with hot soup in her eyes, the water vapor was thick, Ziling raised her eyes and glanced at the insects.

The lantern in front of the car, which was yellowed by candlelight, fluttered in the wind, and the mountain ghost standing in front of the car saw the mountain god walking slowly and took off the lantern and stepped forward to guide the mountain god. Walking to the front of the car, Ziling helped Jialan into the carriage, and the heavenly insect sat next to Jialan after him.

After settling down the mountain god, Ziling took the reins in the hands of the mountain ghost and sat outside, with a soft drink, the carriage started slowly, and the fireflies lit up all around, surrounding the carriage in all directions, leading the mountain god frame forward in the misty night.