Chapter 134: Ten Years of Kunshan
Mingxi sat alone in the secret room, his face reflected that the spiritual fire in the wall was changing in an extremely complex way, and at the moment when the door was finally pushed open, his eyes looked at him sternly.
Xiao Qianye also looked at Mingxi at the same time, and a strange look flashed in his eyes - the person in front of him was no longer the weak prince who was ambitious and bent on overthrowing his father's regime, he had become more unfathomable, revealing an aura that made people have to be vigilant.
"Your Majesty. After a moment of distraction, he bowed slightly to the man who had become the new emperor, and carefully tucked his sword behind him.
"It's good that you're back, no need to be polite. Mingxi breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly unfolded a gentle smile, like ice and snow melting, and stretched out his hand to him, "Look at your face is very tired, you haven't rested, okay?"
"Thank you for your concern, for me, it's just a moment. Xiao Qianye lowered his eyebrows and whispered, Mingxi thought thoughtfully, as if he was talking to him, and it seemed to be a confirmatory reminder to another person in his body, "You once said that I would continue to serve as my military pavilion master, it should still count, right?"
Xiao Qianye was not moved at all, but kept looking down at the white sword spirit in his hand.
Mingxi just smiled, quietly withdrew his hand, and pointed to the room behind him: "She's inside, go quickly." ”
Xiao Qianye didn't reply, quickened his pace and couldn't wait to walk in, the room inside was full of fog, mixed with the familiar breath of the spirit phoenix, so that his vision was blurred for a while, the empty sword in his hand shook slightly, and the woman who was still unconscious on the ice bed also trembled, but she just exhaled a breath from her throat, and then frowned vigorously in the nightmare, the cold sweat on her forehead kept slipping, but the fixed body could not move, and even her ten fingers were nailed to the ice by thin silver needles.
"Ah Xiao......" Xiao Qianye rushed forward, her eyes trembling violently, she wanted to touch her, but she didn't dare to make a move easily, and she breathed with a burst of cramps in her heart.
Dense silver needles pierced her body, firmly pinning her whole body to the ice bed under her.
The water on the ice was cold to the bone marrow, with a kind of phantom pain of biting, which made his heart fall into the abyss little by little.
It was he who made Yun Xiao so worried that he didn't hesitate to use the Soul Splitting Dafa to hurt herself, if he could tell her everything honestly, if he could invite her to fight side by side, wouldn't she be so stupid and didn't have to pay such a huge sacrifice? It was her own concealment that made her unable to feel at ease, and it was her own self-righteousness that didn't want to affect her, which made things so irreversible today!
The eldest brother is right, he has always been the kind of person who doesn't like to trouble others, he has always been alone, and he has never trusted anyone around him, even this time he only planned to face it alone.
Xiao Qianye leaned down beside the ice bed, gently wiped the cold sweat off Yun Xiao's face, and saw that her lips and teeth were lightly closed, and she kept muttering something.
"I've never really ever really understood you. He smiled silently, memories of his youth churning through his mind.
At the gate of Kunlun Mountain, he saw for the first time the kind of palace luan built on the top of the clouds, the clouds and mist flowed quietly from the surroundings like smoke and water, beyond common sense, and it was a kind of grandeur that his young self could not understand at all.
The next moment, he suddenly saw the opposite of such majesty and solemnity—a girl with a pastry stuffed in her mouth and half of her head poked out to look at him curiously.
In the first year of entering the mountain gate, he was arranged by the master in the sword peak, and asked Yun Qiushui to take care of his daily life, Yun Qiushui has a young daughter, dressed in a light green clothes, very young with long black hair up to the waist, she is not a disciple of Kunlun, and she will not have any swordsmanship, she is always holding a bunch of four books and five classics under the cedar in the courtyard at a young age, and she can see the god under the cedar in the courtyard, and after her daily class, she will silently practice the sword beside her, she will occasionally raise her head and look at it without saying a word, and sometimes she will pick up the stones on the ground and smash it over.
After all, he was trained by his father as a successor since he was a child, and even if he went to Kunlun Mountain, he would be very strict with his daily life, but every day when it was time to sleep, this little girl who was idle during the day and was very energetic at night would come out like a ghost, obviously she had repeatedly checked and locked the doors and windows, she could still get in inexplicably, and suddenly appeared at the head of his bed with a night light and a female ghost.
What the hell does she want to do? Every time she sneaks in, there's nothing special about it, just pestering him to play, and she doesn't have a girl's reserve at all.
Before he came to Kunlun Mountain, he had studied in the school in the imperial capital, and he had seen many, many wealthy and well-informed young ladies, none of whom were as pestering as her, without a sense of secular etiquette, like a spoiled eldest lady, always appearing in front of his eyes at will.
That's it...... The ghost lingers, appearing every day of his young life.
In the second year of entry, after the disciple sword test conference, Yun Xiao recommended herself to Master Mao Sui, and finally obtained Yun Qiushui's consent, becoming her own fellow disciple.
She did it on purpose, Xiao Qianye closed her eyes, but the corners of her mouth were no longer as incomprehensible and disdainful as they were back then, but showed a relieved smile, and couldn't help but caress her face.
The moment the master nodded, Senior Brother Tianche stood next to him with a smile, and the girl turned around and stuck out her tongue at him with bad intentions and made a grimace, from then on, Xiao Qianye knew that the girl's purpose was not really to learn Kunlun's swordsmanship, but she unexpectedly got the favor of the sword spirit, obviously without any foundation, but she was able to resonate with the sword spirit when she entered the sword mound for the first time!
Xiao Qianye's eyes suddenly lit up, there are not many disciples who can resonate with the sword spirit, and not everyone in Kunlun can have their own sword spirit, although Yun Xiao finally chose the Qingmei Sword, but there are probably dozens of sword spirits that resonate that day!
In the third year of entry, he was forced to follow this little junior sister with him, after all, Uncle Qiushui specially instructed him to take care of her, and he had to wait for her at the door at the end of the school every day to return to Jianfeng together.
"Are you waiting for Senior Sister Xiao again?" the disciple of the same sect pushed and shouted, and teased him with bad intentions, "Why don't you go back first, we will personally send Senior Sister back to Jian Feng in a while, and ensure that not a single hair will be missing...... Hee-hee, don't you feel at ease?"
"No, I can't. He glared at his fellow door coldly, and spat out two words unceremoniously.
"Huh-look, I said he was reluctant...... a few people laughed, and suddenly a hand was on his shoulder, blowing softly in his ear, Yun Xiao's voice sounded softly, "Are you reluctant to me......"
"Hahaha, Senior Sister Xiao, don't make fun of him!
"Qianye won't be angry with me!" Yun Xiao grabbed his arm as if no one was around, giggling non-stop.
"It was your mother who asked me to wait for you to be with you! You are always left in the hall by the master, and the mountain road is dangerous when you go back late. Sure enough, he blushed by a few words, and justified his own words, but the laughter of the same door became more and more public, and in the end, he simply dragged him along, and several people talked and laughed back.
is completely different from what he imagined, Kunlun is not a place of pure desire, and the elders will not deliberately care about things like feelings, the life in Kunlun Mountain is really comfortable, there is no intrigue here, even if he usually likes to have fun with him, he is also treated sincerely.
Yun Xiao is not a material for learning swords, her physique is very poor, her abilities in all aspects are not as good as ordinary disciples of the class, and even a little luck will cause internal force disorders, but for some reason, the master takes special care of this little junior sister who seems to be unsuccessful, not only will she give guidance alone every time she comes back, but occasionally leave her alone to teach her some more advanced mental methods.
When I was young, I only thought that she was the daughter of Uncle Qiushui, and it was natural to be favored by the master in charge, but I would still avoid feeling irritated when I was waiting outside.
Then, he was inexplicably reprimanded by the master in charge - "You are a senior brother, you should also point her to her on weekdays." ”
After that, in order not to let this little junior sister drag his feet too much, he had no choice but to put away all the "Book of Songs" and "Zhou Yi" in her hand after returning to Jianfeng after class, and forced her to practice swords in the middle of the night and practice hard.
In the fourth year of entry, her cultivation in spiritual power has been thrown out of the same door, and she really has the demeanor of a disciple of the head of the family, her small figure reflects the moonlight, and she can even talk to the birds on the top of the mountain, and her face has taken off little by little, and she has become more and more beautiful, clear and quiet, as if she is not the person who should be in this world.
In the fifth year of entry, Yun Xiao participated in the disciple sword test conference for the first time, and defeated seven people in a row by relying on the sword formation alone, and the skills were shocking, such an amazing spiritual power explosion caused thousands of birds in Kunlun Mountain to scream, but she suddenly felt uncomfortable and fainted, and then was ordered by Uncle Qiushui to stop, and since then she has withdrawn from all subsequent sword trial conferences.
Introductory Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, In the ninth year, she is no longer the little girl who will appear at her bedside with a lamp, and she will no longer be left alone by the master for guidance because she can't keep up with the progress, she will secretly let the perched bird take her to some inaccessible places to play in her spare time, the Kunlun Mountains are really big and big, much bigger than the big snow mountain of the Enchanting Mountain, people are as small as a drop in the ocean, there are also other caves in the snow valley of Kunlun, there seem to be other immortal cultivation sects hidden here, some places are covered with snow into lakes, and I don't know who is in this kind of red plum tree that has gone all the way。
"I like this color, it's so beautiful. She pointed to the red plum behind her, her eyes clear.
Xiao Qianye looked at her fixedly, the lake was rippling in the back, and the girl's face was also very blurry, in fact, Yunxiao had been wearing a very light cyan dress since she was a child, which was unique to Kunlun, but at that time, she unexpectedly told him that the color of red plum was what she really liked.
Red...... Xiao Qianye was slightly stunned, and couldn't help but feel layers of chills in her heart, and a fiery red suddenly burned in front of her.
In the tenth year of entry, the sixteen-year-old girl was slim, tall and thin, she was like a diametrically opposed existence, her skin was obviously snow-white, and a mysterious flush was faintly revealed from the depths, and her demeanor was unique to the arrogance and coldness of a cultivator, and there was a faint, imperceptible aura of fire.
Xiao Qianye rubbed his eyes, and a wry smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth—why did he remember it so clearly? He hadn't thought about those things once, why was it so clear and clear like going back in time at this moment?
When did the little junior sister who once gave him a headache engraved in his heart, from upset to confused?
"You...... What's wrong with you?" In a trance, the woman on the ice bed opened her eyes for some time, looked at him stunned, and then the corners of her mouth hooked up a weak smile, "Why are you crying, and who is it...... you off?"
"Are you awake?" Xiao Qianye woke up from his memories, and the empty sword in his hand trembled slightly at this time, and the pure white soul finally woke up completely and merged into the crack in the sword body.
"I'm sorry...... I'm you off again. Yun Xiao's eyes were clearly extinguished, and she wanted to raise her hand, but found that she couldn't move.
Xiao Qianye's heart suddenly froze, pursed her lips, stroked her pale cheeks, and sighed gently: "There is something wrong, what do you apologize for? Don't apologize to me again in the future." ”
"Huh?" she was stunned for a moment, trying to adjust her inner breath, and as if she understood something, the corners of her mouth slowly overflowed with a clear smile, and she nodded and groaned, "Hmm." ”