twenty-eight
It was close to nine o'clock in the evening when Xia Huairuo took Gu Hai out of the alley, she calculated the time and seemed to be able to return to Kunlun before the morning bell, she originally planned to find an open place nearby to set off, but when she thought about it, his parents didn't seem to be there when she went to Gu Hai's house today, so she asked casually: "Your parents should get off work, do you want to go back and have a look?"
Hearing this, the young man in front of him obviously showed a little joy in his eyes, and he jumped on the spot excitedly and asked, "Really!" As if he felt that he was too excited, he kicked the air a few more times as if to hide it. Xia Huairuo nodded: "Well, let's go, lead the way." ”
Gu Hai's father is a researcher, and his mother is a teacher, and the two are especially fond of collecting old and ancient books. Xia Huairuo said that he was not very good at dealing with his parents, so he waited at the staircase alone, watched Gu Hai go upstairs in three steps and two steps, and then came the sound of joy and reunion of the family after a long absence along the stairs.
On the coffee table in the living room, there were a lot of new books collected by Gu Hai's parents, one of which was particularly conspicuous, it was different from the surrounding volumes, exuding an imperceptible strange atmosphere. Gu Hai picked it up and took a cursory look at it, this seemed to be an ancient book of strange fragrance that existed thousands of years ago, for some reason, Gu Hai inexplicably felt that it might come in handy, so he asked his father before parting, and hurriedly put it in the small backpack that his mother stuffed into him.
When she drove downstairs, Xia Huairuo had already summoned the bird out, this time she didn't let this rare thing wander around the community openly, she honestly cast an invisibility spell on the bird, and pretended to be empty behind her to sit on the bench next to the street lamp, and only got up and moved when she saw Gu Hai coming.
This is the second time Gu Hai has taken a cattlefish to Kunlun, and his mood is no different from the first time, still a novel and excited look. Unlike when it came, the flamour began to burn golden flames from its forehead as it passed through the thick clouds, until the last feather on its tail tip was licked by the flames. Although the speed was extremely fast, in Gu Hai's eyes, it seemed to be a slow motion that lasted for a long time, and he watched those incomparably gorgeous feathers be covered with a layer of golden light that was difficult to describe in words after the baptism of flames, dazzling and at the same time indescribably noble and sacred.
Even if it was the second time he saw such a scene, Gu Hai still couldn't suppress the surprise in his heart, he had thought of showing Xia Huairuo the ancient books he had brought out of his home, but at this moment he had forgotten about it.
When the morning bell rang, Gu Hai happened to arrive in front of the Tai Chi Palace, Jiang Xingge looked at him wearing a flower shirt with a small earthy yellow schoolbag, and couldn't help frowning, but fortunately, Su Zi appeared in time before he spoke, he dragged Gu Hai and said, "Senior brother, I'm sorry, he was stupid to rest yesterday, I'll take him back to change clothes." As he spoke, he prepared to slip away.
"Let's go to class first, don't be late for morning class. I don't know if Jiang Xingge is really stupid to rest, or if he is in a particularly good mood today, he actually called the two of them for the first time, and it was rare that he didn't blame, and he was so shocked that Su Zi didn't react. Seeing this situation, Gu Hai hurriedly seized the opportunity to take Su Zi away, for fear that Jiang Xingge would regret it and ask them to hand over his sword and punish him.
When the two of them came to the Sword Peak, the swordsmanship class happened to start not long ago, Bai Qi was demonstrating the third chapter of the "Dao Sword Collection", and Gu Hai and Su Zi read it with rare seriousness because they knew that they could draw the route of the deserted city during their travels over the years. Different from Xie Boyu's one-move sword method in the story, Xu is because Bai Qi was born in Kunlun Bai, so his swordsmanship is more elegant and flexible, although it seems more difficult to learn, but Gu Hai and Su Zi prefer this kind of ranger-like moves****** when the disciples practiced, Gu Hai knew that Bai Qi was the most easygoing, so he was a little embarrassed to tell Bai Qi that his sword was still in the courtyard and could not be brought out. The other party was not annoyed, but only lent his sword to Gu Hai for the time being, and helped him adjust his posture again.
Bai Qi felt a trace of the aura of the sword spirit the moment he touched Gu Hai, he felt very interesting and asked in a low voice: "Have you already come into contact with any spirit sword with a sword spirit?" Gu Hai's hands trembled in shock after hearing this question, and he almost didn't throw Bai Qian's sword out, he wanted to lie to cover it up, but before he could speak, Bai Qi said again: "That sword is related to you, if you have the opportunity to get it, don't miss it." He smiled and patted Gu Hai's shoulder, and walked towards the other disciples without saying anything more.
Xu is seeing that Bai Qi was gone, Su Zi sneakily came to Gu Hai's side while gesturing, he didn't ask Gu Hai where he went yesterday but said straight to the point: "Ah Gu, guess what I saw when I came back last night!" Gu Hai just turned his head and threw him a look, and he immediately continued: "I saw Senior Sister Bai and Senior Sister Qin in Lilin again!"
In order to prevent others from discovering that they were whispering, the two danced their swords back and forth and compared two moves, until the sword blades intersected, Su Zi leaned into Gu Hai's ear and whispered: "I don't think Senior Sister Bai is as simple as losing her soul, I'm afraid it's not that she has been devoured!"
Speaking of this, Su Zi put a force on his wrist to pull the two apart, Gu Hai saw this and glanced at Bai Qi, who was standing not far away, and swept each disciple's Bai Qi with his eyes, and sure enough, it happened to meet his gaze. Gu Hai then made a blind gesture in the same place before attacking in the direction of Suzi again.
"What did you just say about Soul Eater?" Gu Hai asked as soon as the sword body swept behind Su Zi. And Su Zi leaned over to avoid Gu Hai's move unhurriedly, and only replied when he picked up the opponent's sword with his backhand: "The lost soul is only a temporary loss of the soul, if someone summons it, it can return to the original main body completely." Soul Eater, on the other hand, is when the soul is taken by the person who casts the spell, and it can never be retrieved unless someone exchanges their own soul or kills the spellcaster. ”
Gu Hai was obviously shocked by this statement, he had already been taken advantage of by Su Zi without paying attention, the other party smirked and picked his sword away from his hand as if the plan had succeeded, and then said with joy on his face: "I won!" It happened that it was time for the end of class, and Bai Qi ordered each group of disciples to report the victory and then let them leave the Sword Peak.
Gu Su and the others saw that there was still some time before the start of the next class, so they hit it off and decided to go to the swamp lake to have a look. The road from Pear Blossom Forest all the way to the Swamp Lake didn't seem to be unusual, but Gu Hai and Su Zi still felt that the closer they got to the Swamp Lake, the more inexplicably depressed they became.
Unlike the previous two visits, the lake was unusually calm, but the two of them did not dare to act rashly, but only observed from a slightly distant position from the shore. The clear water of the lake constantly emitted a cyan light, and under the refraction of the lake water, the pool of stagnant water seemed to be particularly rippling. The two curious teenagers got a little closer and looked carefully at the light source, it was the first time they had seen Qingyu: "Shouldn't this jade be in Senior Sister Bai's hands?" Gu Hai said with some doubts.
"No, the last time we saw Senior Sister Bai and Senior Sister Qin, Senior Sister Qin meant that the jade admiration was divided into two halves. Su Zi pondered for a moment when he said this, and then said: "I'm afraid that Senior Sister Bai's soul devouring is related to these two halves of jade pendants." ”
Without waiting for the two of them to study in detail, a large dark cloud was enveloped over the pear forest, Gu Hai and Su Zi saw that the heavy rain was coming, so they had to go back to class for the time being, keep an eye on it for a while, and come back to investigate the clues in the future.