1

Many years later, I will fantasize from time to time that if I hadn't met Li Xiaoqian when I first went down to Yandang Mountain, if I hadn't met Bai Jingxing, if I wouldn't have saved Zhao Gou that night in the town outside Lin'an Mansion, if I flatly refused to be the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance, if I hadn't met Yu Shisan

If it was true, would I have lived a more ordinary life? Wouldn't I have to go through so much pain and live my life in peace?

However, it is these speculations that make the least sense in a person's life. Because, what has already happened is simply not going to start from scratch.

Fantasy only makes people feel more and more painful.

2

By the time I walked out of this snake-infested path, it was approaching noon. What appeared in front of us was a flat and wide mountain road, and at the end of this mountain road was connected to a vast forest, and there was still no shadow of the Black Snake Gang.

Along the way, the Bloody Sword once again showed me its powerful, alluring power. Once upon a time, I only knew that it would drive the sword-wielding man crazy, but I never knew that it would make the enemy so afraid.

Even if the enemy is a seemingly invincible swarm of poisonous snakes.

Yu Shisan kept staring at the bloody sword, and it wasn't until he walked out of the path full of poisonous snakes that he let out a heartfelt sigh, "This sword is so powerful. ”

It's really powerful. When I hold it in my hand, I feel the madness it brings me all the time. It's almost irresistibly crazy.

I hid the Blood Sword in its scabbard and said, "It's powerful, but it's an evil sword." ”

"Evil sword?" Yu Shisan was puzzled, then smiled indifferently and said, "I have never known that people are good or bad, but this is the first time I have heard that there are good and evil swords. ”

I smiled and said, "There's a lot more you don't know in this world. When you're my age, you'll know a lot more. ”

Yu 13 was quite disdainful, and said, "At least I won't use pig manure as a panacea." With that, he continued without looking back.

The wind blew and stirred the placket, and the disgusting stench entered my nostrils again.

That damn old man.

This damn stinky boy.

3

Snake Head Mountain is indeed full of dangers.

As soon as I got out of the snake-infested path, I thought that I would be able to walk up Snakehead Mountain and enter the Black Snake Gang. However, I didn't expect that there were countless traps hidden in this seemingly unremarkable mountain road.

Yu Thirteen had just taken a few steps away when he exclaimed, and his body fell, sinking out of my field of vision.

What was originally flat ground suddenly appeared a hole about a foot in diameter. I hurried over to see that the hole was as deep as a well.

I shouted Yu Thirteen's name, and a groan of pain came from the bottom of the cave.

I asked, "How are you?"

Yu Thirteen shouted

"My legs, my legs!"

I was shocked, thinking to myself, could it be that there was some deadly hidden weapon in the cave, so I anxiously asked, "What's wrong with your leg?"

Yu 13 said, "The hole is too narrow, and my legs can't be straightened." ”

This stinky boy. I breathed a sigh of relief and looked around, just in time to see a long branch lying on the ground not far away.

I said, "Wait, I'll bring you up." ”

With that, I ran quickly towards the branch, but after a few steps, I suddenly felt that my feet were empty, and my body fell uncontrollably.

Another trap!

I hurriedly kicked the wall of the cave, stopped the fall, and used light power to circle and jump out of the hole. After falling to the ground, I looked at the branches that were only a few dozen meters away from me, but I didn't dare to take a step forward.

"No, not good!"

Yu Shisan screamed from the hole behind me, and I hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

Yu 13 shouted anxiously, "It's all a swamp down there, I, I'm sinking." ”

I have mixed feelings. In front of him is an unpredictable trap, and behind him is Yu Thirteen, who is already in danger. Suddenly, I remembered that Li Xiaoqian once told me a description of light work.

He said, "Light power is also called cool running, and its secret is to jump high, jump far, run fast, and fall steadily." As long as you eliminate all distractions and look ahead, you can ride the wind and fly away. If you are always thinking about the difficulties and obstacles in front of you, even if the place you want to go is close at hand, it will always be a distant place that you cannot reach. ”

Get rid of all distractions, look ahead, and forget about the difficulties and obstacles in front of you!

I clenched my teeth, stared straight at the branch, and leaped to my feet, walking briskly, and the wind in my ears suddenly sounded.

In the blink of an eye, I was leaping in front of the branch.

However, the most unexpected thing in this world, and the most annoying thing for you, is that the goal you fly to with your determination and courage to overcome all the difficulties and dangers is a pit!

I fell into that pit.

Fortunately, I reacted very quickly, and then made the light gong go up and jump out of the hole. I didn't dare to hesitate for half a minute after encountering the trap twice, and I performed light skills one after another, returning to the cave where Yu Thirteen fell.

Yu Thirteen's voice came out of the hole again: "I've already sunk half of my body!"

I hurriedly put the branch into the hole and shouted, "Hold it!" Soon, there was a strong pull from under the branch, and I grabbed the other end of the branch and pulled it upwards with great force.

It took a lot of effort, and finally Yu Thirteen's face returned to my field of vision.

He narrowly escaped death, and his face was especially panicked. After all, he is still a teenager, and it is impossible for him to always maintain that indifference and fearlessness.

I patted him on the shoulder and asked, "Are you alright?" ”

Yu 13 said softly, "I owe you another life." He shook the purple-black mud off his leg and continued, "I'll definitely give it back to you." ”

I said, "I didn't save you so you could pay me back. ”

Yu Thirteen didn't say anything more, but I could tell that he was adamant between his eyebrows. He took a step and wanted to continue up the mountain, but I hurriedly stopped him and said, "I can't go any further!"

Yu 13 asked, "Why?"

I pointed to the two traps I had just fallen into and said, "This road is full of traps, and if you go any further, you will definitely die." ”

Yu 13 said, "Are you afraid that you will die, do you have to give up?

I looked at the wide, flat mountain road in front of me, and my heart was also anxious. After all, the road of Snake Head Mountain is not only related to Yu Qing'er's life, but also to Shu Yao's clue.

Yu 13 suddenly shouted, "I have a way!"

I asked, "What's the solution?"

Yu 13 picked up the branch from the ground, picked up another stone, tore off a strip of cloth from his body, tied the stone to the strip of cloth, and shouted excitedly at me with the branch, "Let's go!"

Walk?

I couldn't understand what he was going to do, and I asked, "What's the use of that?"

Yu Thirteen threw the branch forward, about a meter away. The stone hit the ground with a "bang" sound, Yu 13 smiled slightly, jumped to the side of the stone, and landed firmly on the ground.

There is solid ground and there are no traps.

What a smart teenager.

I sighed, in his body, I inexplicably saw Li Xiaoqian's shadow. Many years ago, when I was faced with a problem, he always came up with all kinds of clever ways to solve it one by one.

Sometimes, though, those methods don't work very well.

I jumped in front of Yu Thirteen, who smiled excitedly at me, as if a little proud. He lifted the branch again and threw it out. Suddenly, the ground where the stone hit it collapsed with a "boom", revealing a hole.

Yu Thirteen firmly grasped the other end of the branch, dragged the stone back, and threw it to another place

4

In this way, we approached the Black Snake Gang step by step. It took more than two hours for me to get out of this mountain road full of traps with difficulty.

Across the horizon is a large dense forest, surrounded by dense trees, tightly clinging, ancient trees towering, verdant and straight, lush foliage, shading the sun tightly. The depths of the dense forest were damp and dark, and the miasma was thick, and I only felt as if I was covered with a white veil in front of me, and I could only see things a meter or two away.

Yu Thirteen threw away his "masterpiece", the stone fell to the ground, smashed open a trap, and sank completely into the bottomless pit after completing its mission.

Yu 13 looked at me in a daze, and suddenly said to me, "Did I save your life?"

I was stunned and asked, "What?"

Yu 13 said, "Such a dangerous mountain road, if you go by yourself, I am afraid that you have already fallen into the trap." I helped you here. ”

I'm still puzzled

and ask, "What exactly are you going to say?"

Yu 13 continued, "You just saved my life, and I helped you pass this mountain road, is it even if I repay your life-saving grace?"

That's what he meant.

I couldn't help but feel funny and said, "I didn't mean to give you back." ”

Yu 13 said, "But I have to pay it back." ”

I asked, "Why?"

Yu 13 said: "My mother never let me owe anything to others. He looked at me and said very seriously, "Especially if you owe someone a favor, even if you use your life, you have to pay it back." ”

I looked at this strange boy, and he had indeed said more than once that he did not want to owe a favor to others. However, how could he know that there are many things in this world that cannot be repaid with his life.

It is a deep dense forest, filled with miasma, and the surrounding foliage blocks out the sunlight. The deeper we walked, the more unpredictable we felt, as if something could fly out of every book at any time and take our lives unconsciously.

I was still quite strange, the Black Snake Gang has been doing a lot of evil in the rivers and lakes for so many years, even if they bribe the government and go to heaven, is there really no benevolent and righteous person to stop it?

But now it seems that even if anyone really wants to wipe out the Black Snake Gang, I am afraid that it will be difficult to pass through this danger after another.

In such a deep dense forest, there are no poisonous snakes and beasts. There was only a trace of "rustling" around him, and Yu Thirteen shouted softly into the diffuse miasma, but the voice did not enter the dense forest, and there was no response.

I bent down, trying to find my way out of this dense forest through some of the clues left by people passing by. But this dense forest seems to have never been set foot in, on the soft soil, there is no footprint, where can you find a way out?

A deep fear arose. Perhaps, it was I who underestimated the horror of the Black Snake Gang from the beginning, so I went deep unprepared, and before I knew it, I had fallen into an unknown dense forest, surrounded by miasma, lush forests, unable to see the light of day, unable to discern the direction. I looked up and saw that the trees around me were green and straight, and the trunks were straight and round, and there were no branches sticking out, so I couldn't climb up at all.

An hour passed, and Yu Shisan, I and I walked around in this dense forest, not to mention the way up the mountain, and we couldn't even find the way we came. Those footprints left by us along the way seem to have been deliberately erased by someone, and we can't even see the slightest.

"Bang la, bla blah"

The sound of the water came to my ears, and I was overjoyed, thinking that there must be a way out ahead, and hurriedly ran along with the sound of the water.

Yu 13 was not as smart as me, he followed me and asked eagerly, "Where are you going?"

I said, "Come with me, there's the sound of water ahead." ”

After running about 100 meters, I saw that the fog gradually thinned, and a piece of light came into view

The color suddenly brightened. Inexplicably, but I came to a bamboo forest. The bamboo trees in front of him are dense and lush, but they are not as dense as the dense forest behind them. The bamboo in the forest has thousands of postures, some are straight and straight, straight to the sky, and some are not long born, but they are also slim. The sunlight slanted into the forest, casting dappled spots of light on the ground, and it was pleasant to look at from afar. Another stream meandered and flowed, and the water struck the rocks in the riverbed, making various sounds, sometimes like the murmur of a hollow valley, sometimes like a muffled bell.

After more than ten hours of running, at this time I was feeling dry mouth, seeing the clear water in front of me, my heart was overjoyed, and I was about to step forward to hold a handful of clear and quench my thirst.

"Wow!"

Suddenly, the sound of the water was loud, and I saw that the rushing stream suddenly rose upwards and went straight to the sky, forming a huge curtain of water in front of me.

Vision!

It's a vision I've never seen before!

Over the years, I have traveled in the rivers and lakes, and I have seen and heard a lot of strange things, but such visions are unheard of. Even when I followed Master Bamao to the rivers and lakes in the past, I listened to him tell all kinds of strange things on the rivers and lakes, but I had never heard such a strange scene.

I felt chills on my body for a while, and I thought, could it be that there is really some strange person in this river and lake who has never been born, and with what wonderful martial arts, he has raised a whole stream?

"Who?" I shouted as I watched as I flew into the air, "Get out of here!

There was no response around, and the stream was even more urgent, and the water curtain rose higher and higher, almost hiding the entire bamboo forest under a water curtain.

Yu Shisan's expression was solemn, and his eyebrows were also full of doubts, and he said, "What is this all about?"

I shook my head and said, "I don't know either." ”

The curtain of water was still roaring upwards into the sky, higher and higher, and the top was no longer visible, but there was nothing unusual around it.

"It's not an option, I'll give it a try. Yu 13 suddenly pulled out a dagger from his waist, and threw the dagger at the water curtain with a "whoosh", and the dagger spun rapidly in the air, flying towards the water curtain with a "whoosh" sound.

"Whoosh"

However, the dagger flew over and flew into the water like a mud cow into the sea, and there was no trace of it. And the curtain of water was still flowing in the air, without the slightest change.

"Yikes!"

Yu Thirteen shouted, and the figure flashed, suddenly rising from the ground and flying towards the water curtain.

"Come back soon!" I was shocked, I never expected that the mountain would act so rashly under the uncertainty of the situation. I wanted to reach out and grab it, but Yu Thirteen moved extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, he was already in front of the water curtain.

"Huh?"

Yu 13 was surprised, and at this time he was a stone's throw away from the water curtain. He looked back at me with a blank look on his face and said, "This, this water is fake!"

Fake?

I quickly ran to Yu Thirteen, the water curtain was right in front of me, but I couldn't feel any water vapor, and there was a splash near the water curtain

Splashing, hitting my face, I didn't feel the slightest feeling, and when I touched it with my hand, my face was extremely dry, and there was not a drop of water.

I punched into the water curtain, and the water curtain seemed to not exist, and my hand was in the water, without the coolness of the stream, and the sleeves of my coat were immersed in the water curtain, and they were not wet. I withdrew my fist, feeling more and more amazed, determined to try again, and stepped one foot gently into it, only to see a rushing stream, and the ground under my feet was indeed solid.

"Strange!" I said, "this water curtain is really fake!"

Yu 13 looked at me blankly and asked, "Is it true or fake?" ”

I said, "Fake." ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as I finished speaking. Yu Thirteen actually jumped forward, and the whole person passed by. I was so frightened that I hurriedly reached out to pull him. However, he had already crossed the water curtain.

The water curtain separated me from Yu Shisan, and I shouted at the water curtain, "Boy, you are too reckless!"

"Come here, here"

Yu Thirteen's surprised voice came from the other side of the water curtain, and suddenly stopped abruptly. I felt a pang in my heart, and I didn't have time to think about it, so I rushed to the water curtain and jumped over.

When I walked through the water curtain, the clothes on my body were not dripping, and I was about to be surprised, but I saw Yu Thirteen standing aside in a daze, his eyes wide and round, and his expression was terrified.

I followed Yu Thirteen's eyes and looked forward, and my hair stood on end. I saw a verdant bamboo forest in front of me, a sky-high water curtain in front of me, a few green bamboos swaying slightly, and a few bamboo leaves falling sporadically, which were exactly the same as the scene just now.

Only, a dagger was stuck diagonally on the ground a meter away

(End of chapter)

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