A month later, everyone returned to Mount Emei exhausted.

For a whole month, they searched every inch of Wudang Mountain.

Nothing was found.

The giant snake and Zi Ling all disappeared out of thin air. It seems that all this is just a dream of Wen Yuan.

Bingyang was nowhere to be found.

From the mouths of the Wudang locals, they learned that there is indeed a thousand-year-old snake in the Wudang Mountain, called Bu Yi, which is extremely poisonous. Although this snake has never been able to hide deeply, once it hurts someone, it will never survive.

The hope in everyone's hearts is getting slimmer and fame.

Yingzong is surprisingly calm.

Most of the time, he just sat blankly, with no sadness or joy on his face.

Bu Fan and Fei Hong felt a little worried.

Sure enough, three days after returning to Mount Emei, Yingzong said goodbye without saying goodbye.

For a while, the atmosphere of sadness spread in Emei.

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Quyang, a small town not far from the Han River.

There are not many residents in the town, and most of them make a living from farming. Although it is not rich and expensive, it is also rich and rich, and it is happy.

Under the warm afternoon sun, the residents sat together in a row, basking in the sun, and cheering for homely cooking.

No one paid attention to a stranger coming from the entrance of the town.

This person is tall and has a handsome face, but his expression is blank, and it is difficult to hide the haggard between his eyebrows.

He walked aimlessly on the only stone road in town, his steps a little heavy.

In the past month, he has traveled to hundreds of villages and towns.

An old woman selling on the side of the road attracted his attention.

"What kind of bread are you, old woman?" he asked.

The old woman who bought the bread couldn't help but look at this strange man.

He was dressed in black, with an extraordinary bearing, and the strangest thing was that he was holding a purple long sword in his hand.

The old woman looked at him and said, "Sauerkraut cake." ”

When the man in black heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, thinking of the girl who liked to eat sauerkraut, and his heart couldn't help but hurt.

He said to the old woman in an astringent voice, "Mother-in-law, sell me all the sauerkraut cakes you have left." ”

When the old woman heard this, she smiled, and the furrow on her face revealed the vicissitudes of life. She shuddered and took out a piece of oiled paper and wrapped the sauerkraut cake, but only one remained.

The man in black was a little strange, and couldn't help asking, "Mother-in-law, why did you leave one?"

The old woman smiled and said, "I can't sell this to you, I have to leave it to a guest." She came every day to buy my sauerkraut cakes. ”

"Come and buy your sauerkraut cake every day?" the man in black groaned, he suddenly grabbed the old woman's hand, and said in a trembling voice, "Mother-in-law, that guest, is it a man or a woman?"

The old woman was startled by him, and replied tremblingly, "Woman." ”

The eyes of the man in black suddenly emitted a strange brilliance, and he said eagerly to the old woman, "Mother-in-law, when will she come?

So, in order to sell this bread, the old woman waited from the afternoon until dusk.

And beside her, there was the man in black standing. He looked left and right, as if he was anxiously waiting for someone.

The customer who bought the cake finally appeared.

It turned out to be a middle-aged aunt.

The aunt paid, and the old woman who sold the bread grabbed her and said mysteriously, "Aunt Zhang, this young man has been waiting for you all afternoon." ”

Aunt Zhang glanced at the man in black standing beside the old woman strangely and asked, "Do I know you?"

The man in black didn't answer, but suddenly like a balloon deflated, he was a little unsteady on his feet. He turned slowly and walked forward blankly.

Aunt Zhang felt even more strange, so she hurriedly caught up, grabbed the man in black, and asked, "Young man, you won't be sick, will you?" ”

The man in black shook his head silently, unable to hide the painful expression of disappointment.

Aunt Zhang is an old-fashioned and warm-hearted person. She still grabbed the man in black, and said as she walked, "Young man, let's go, go to my house, and my aunt will invite you to dinner." What is difficult, as long as you are full, you will not be sad. ”

The man in black looked depressed, was dragged by Aunt Zhang, and staggered forward.

Aunt Zhang lives on a hillside on the edge of town. Two thatched huts, two acres of thin fields, and a spinning wheel in front of the thatched huts.

Aunt Zhang and the man in black walked all the way to the hut facing the slanting sun, and she said as she walked: "Actually, my old man died early, and his daughters all married to other villages. Usually I live alone. But there's a patient living in the house lately, so you won't mind. ”

"Patient?" the man in black finally spoke, as if awakened.

"Yes, a poor man, at a young age, got such a sickness. Aunt Zhang sighed lightly: "She likes to eat sauerkraut, so I buy her a sauerkraut cake every day." ”

"She likes to eat sauerkraut?" The man in black suddenly stopped, looked at Aunt Zhang fixedly, and his voice was a little choked.

"That's right. Aunt Zhang thought it was strange.

The man in black suddenly shook off Aunt Zhang's hand and ran towards the hut quickly.

The Wangwu sword in his hand actually let out a buzzing sound.

The man in black pushed open the door of the hut, his eyes already full of tears.

"Bingyang!" a man sitting in the room suddenly exclaimed when he saw someone push the door in.

The man was wrapped in a gray linen coat, and his whole body was covered tightly, including his head and face.

Bingyang's tears had already fallen, he trembled, slowly walked over to this person, and said softly, "Ziling!"

But the man ran out of the house in desperation.

Bingyang was shocked and hurriedly chased out.

The man had just run outside the house and was grabbed by Bingyang.

She suddenly shouted angrily: "I'm not Ziling, you recognize the wrong person!" Her voice was hoarse and extremely ugly.

Bingyang still grabbed her stiffly: "You are Ziling, you turn to ashes, I also recognize you." ”

The man suddenly sneered, "You know me? I don't even know myself." ”

With that, she tore off her linen coat.

Bingyang was stunned.

The person in front of him had gray hair, and his face and hands were full of dark green scars, which looked hideous and terrifying.

The man said coldly, "Do you still recognize me now?"

At this time, Bingyang hugged her and cried bitterly: "No matter what you become, I know you." ”

Wangwu Sword also let out a mournful roar, flew into the air, and circled around this ugly-looking woman.

The woman wanted to push Bingyang away, but Bingyang hugged her so tightly.

Bingyang choked up and said, "Ziling, I'm so scared, I thought I'd never see you again." ”

Zi Ling said softly, "Why did you show up, wouldn't it be better for me to finish this last stretch of the road alone?"

Bingyang finally let go of Zi Ling, he stared at Zi Ling's eyes tightly, and said, "No matter what path you want to take, let me accompany you, okay?"

Zi Ling's heart felt sour, she looked at Bingyang's serious appearance and nodded lightly.

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Looking at Zi Ling's face, Bing Yang sighed heavily.

Zi Ling told Bing Yang that she was almost killed by the big snake after the entrance to the snake cave collapsed that day.

The big snake wrapped around Zi Ling with its huge snake body and dragged her into the depths of the cave. Fortunately, at the critical moment, Wangwu Sword tried his best to stab the big snake. Under the pain and struggle, the big snake actually fell into the gap of the cave with Zi Ling. The crevice was so hidden that it wasn't easy to find. Underneath the gap was a dark river, and the water was turbulent, quickly washing away Zi Ling and the big snake.

By the time Ziling woke up from his coma, he was no longer within the scope of Wudang Mountain.

But Zi Ling found that he was highly poisonous, and what was even more terrifying was that his face had been completely ruined!

Her skin was eroded by snake venom, festering and blackening, and she was in pain.

Ziling lay on the river beach for two days and two nights before she could barely walk.

At this time, she is no longer like a human being, and a ghost is not like a ghost.

Wangwu's sword had been lost, his internal strength was completely gone, and his body was highly poisonous, and Zi Ling felt that he was going to die.

But even if he died, Zi Ling didn't want to die in Emei.

The people she loved, and the people who loved her, she didn't want to see them. To be precise, she didn't want them to see her like this.

She wanted to die quietly like this.

At this moment, Aunt Zhang found Zi Ling who was dying.

The kind-hearted Aunt Zhang thought that Ziling was seriously ill and took her back to her hut.

After lying in Aunt Zhang's hut for more than ten days, the wound on Ziling's skin healed and turned into a dark green scar, which looked even more hideous and terrifying.

To make matters worse, snake venom gradually penetrates deep into the bone marrow. Every time the snake venom attacked, Zi Ling would be in pain, as if she was cutting out her heart.

Until the ice sun appeared.

Bingyang used his pure internal strength to suppress Ziling's snake venom. Although the snake venom could not be excreted from the body, Zi Ling's pain was reduced a lot.

Aunt Zhang's thatched hut began to be filled with the endless smell of sauerkraut.

Sauerkraut cake, sauerkraut porridge, sauerkraut stewed pork, sauerkraut fish.

Aunt Zhang was very strange where Bingyang got so much sauerkraut.

Bingyang also made a purple cloak for Ziling. Zi Ling no longer had to hide in a gray linen coat, and could also go out in the sun in a cloak and ice sun.

Bingyang even got a guqin from the town and played it with a tinkling dong. Zi Ling felt that it was hard to play. Bingyang insisted that he had obtained the true inheritance of Master Tan Miao.

Life suddenly becomes bland and monotonous.

However, people are always fascinated by such days.

Bingyang was sometimes in a trance, and he even wished that time would be frozen at this moment, and go on like this for a long time.

The night in Quyang is warm and quiet.

Ziling and Bingyang sat on the hillside, looking up at the stars.

Bingyang fiddled with the dog's tail grass in his hand and made a delicate grass dragonfly.

He handed the grass dragonfly to Zi Ling.

Zi Ling was stunned for a moment, then took it and looked at it carefully: "This grass dragonfly is very familiar. ”

Bingyang looked at Ziling and smiled slightly: "I'll tell you a story." ”