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Jiang Xingque sat on the ground like that, Jiang Xingge didn't say much, after a long silence, a crisp slap broke the silence, the girl's face quickly became red and swollen, she finally raised her head and looked at Jiang Xingge with those godless eyes, but the other party just raised her hand again with a wooden face and slapped it hard.
The dawn was late, and the first rays of light appeared in the eastern sky, and it didn't take long for it to be cast into every corner of Yujing Peak, and there were still a few stars left in the sky, as if to remind Jiang Xingque that everything last night was not the nightmare she expected. Jiang Xingge wanted to ask her why she chose to shield Yan Yin like this, but when the words came to her mouth, she never came out, only saying that her reminders and advice might be worthless in the eyes of the other party.
When the two returned to the Jiang family's main house, the elder Jiang Yuzhi had been waiting in the main hall for a long time, and the people of the Jiang family knew that he had always been strict with the two young masters, so they all stood aside respectfully and did not dare to say anything.
"Just kneeling outside. Just as the two of them were about to step into the hall, Jiang Yuzhi's voice came from the inside, and the two of them withdrew their legs, which had already taken half a step, and knelt straight down in place without daring to say a word.
But the people inside seemed to be still dissatisfied, and spoke again: "Go and kneel at the bottom of the stairs." Jiang Xingge got up and retreated without stopping for much when he heard this, while Jiang Xingque was a little stunned, after all, for these children of the family, let alone kneeling at the bottom of the steps, even if they just stood at the bottom of the steps, it was a humiliation. However, she didn't dare to disobey the elders, and when she came to her senses, she honestly followed Jiang Xingge down the steps.
The ring ruler fell on Jiang Xingge and Jiang Xingque again and again, even if the two of them were beaten to the point that their skin was open, they just gritted their teeth and didn't say a word, Jiang Yuzhi knew the temper of the two children, and naturally he didn't plan to ask anything, but just ordered his subordinates not to stop until they fainted.
I don't know how long it took, Jiang Xingque's thoughts were already far away, and she was almost numb, so she couldn't help but recall her childhood. At that time, she also knelt in front of the hall, crying and shouting that she wanted to see her brother, but she was not as embarrassed as she is now, so she was not ordered to kneel at the bottom of the steps.
Everyone in the world says that the family is ruthless, especially the Kunlun Jiang clan, and among the Jiang clan, the most ruthless person is the elder Jiangyu in the eyes of Jiang Xingque. Back then, he didn't show any sadness for the death of his brother and nephew, but arranged the matter of separating the children of the family in an orderly manner, and now he naturally won't make a big fuss for just one Qin Shuangye.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xingque couldn't help but chuckle as if laughing at himself, thinking that it was probably the human heart that was colder than the ice and snow in winter.
By the swamp lake, Bai Qian quietly watched Bai Zhi standing on the water in the middle of the lake, everything was calm as if nothing had happened, only the girl had a pale face, bowed her head and pursed her lips.
The clear glass of the lake completely separated Bai Zhi from the Qin Shuangye who sank to the bottom of the lake, and she was still the same as before, stretching out her hand to Bai Zhi from afar, as if she could be rescued from the abyss with a light grip.
The light emitted by the green jade had gradually dissipated, leaving only a faint point, revealing it vaguely, and as Qin Shuangye's body fell to the bottom of the lake, the green jade floated up after a puff of smoke and dust. It seemed to be alive, and after circling around Qin Shuangye, it finally landed on her heart, like another heart.
As soon as the sky broke, Bai Zhi finally squinted her eyes by the dazzling morning light, and the surface of the lake was reflected in a dazzling light, and she couldn't see Qin Shuangye's face clearly. Bai Qi turned his head to look in the direction of the sunrise, and the glow of the sun rose from the edge of the cliff, gradually becoming dazzling and warm from a slight trace.
"Sister, let's go. There was no trace of emotion in his tone, calm and unwavering, different from Jiang Xingge's seriousness and indifference, Bai Qian was actually more like a puppet that didn't even exist indifferently, he always followed Bai Zhi's side, obeying Bai Zhi's orders, as if he was born just a shadow of the other party.
Chaoyang pulled out a long shadow behind Bai Zhi, which happened to spread in front of Bai Zhi's body, he looked down, as if the other party didn't hear his words, and he couldn't even see the slightest movement of the shadow. Bai Zhi waited and didn't say anything, he stood in the forest and naturally couldn't see the bottom of the lake, and he couldn't guess Bai Zhi's mood for the first time.
The breeze blew in gusts, rolling those pear blossoms to the surface of the lake in large pieces, and those shadows were distorted by the lake water and thrown onto Qin Shuangye's body, as the water waves continued to shake, Bai Zhi even felt that the girl at the bottom of the lake was dancing lightly.
On the way back, Gu Hai and Xia Huairuo were silent, and it wasn't until they reached the fork in the road that Gu Hai asked Xia Huairuo the question that had been holding in his heart, and he shouted at the other party's back: "Senior sister, is there really no way to save Senior Sister Qin?"
Xia Huairuo stopped when she heard this, she paused slightly, and then turned around and replied helplessly: "Maybe there is, but now we are not strong enough, only people who are strong enough can have the power called salvation." ”
After walking through a stone road, and then crossing a wooden bridge, there is a familiar small courtyard, Gu Haifang pushed open the courtyard door, and there was a gust of ginkgo biloba rolled up by the wind, and he walked into the courtyard that had been uninhabited for nearly half a month, and the ground was full of golden fallen leaves.
He took out the diary from the drawer in the room rarely, listened to the rustling of the ginkgo biloba outside the window, and wrote down the confusion in his heart on it, and when the last pen fell, he looked at the line of handwriting that was not very good, and read it softly as if asking himself: "What I desire to have is the power to defeat my opponent, or the power to save others?"
When the morning light and the stars converged, Gu Hai finally leaned down in front of the table and fell asleep, and he came to Kunlun for the first time in his dream. He stood beside the Ascending Immortal Pillar, looking at the stone steps that reached into the sky in front of him and let out more than one exclamation, countless familiar faces passing by him.
Then, a girl fell from the stone steps like a fluttering white butterfly, she seemed to be smiling very happily, but maybe it was because in the dream, everything slowed down, Gu Hai saw that there was no trace of pleasure in the other party's eyes.
In the blink of an eye, everything darkened, as if a violent wind was passing, and when he came back to his senses, there was only a thick fog left in front of Gu Hai's eyes, and in his ears was the crying and trembling shouts of the young man and the screams of the soul demons, what they were gnawing through the thick fog, Gu Hai thought for a while, yes, it was the sound of Yan Xin's soul being torn apart a little bit.
Later, those sharp and terrifying voices were replaced by the sound of the waves, and the fog in front of him also faded, Gu Hai watched the young man with the Changtian Sword on his back walking towards the ferry step by step, he wanted to step forward to stop it, but found that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make a sound, so the figure that was originally on the edge of the ferry was blown by the sea breeze, and fell towards the surging sea of clouds as he remembered.
The blood all over the ground covered the coldness of the Tianshui Ferry, Gu Hai looked around in horror, it turned out that behind him was the Heavenly Punishment Pillar, the girl who was crowned by a sword was hanging her head in front of the pillar at the moment, the broken Hanlan fell in a pool of blood, withered and bewitching, he suddenly heard clear footsteps behind him, and when he turned his head, he was already killed by Bai Zhen.
Gu Hai retreated step by step, and finally was cornered in front of a wall, he closed his eyes and screamed, and when he opened his eyes again, he found that he was dreaming, the sky outside the window was already bright, he was a little happy to think that Qin Shuangye's death was also a ridiculous dream, but as soon as he looked down, it was the question that he wrote in his diary by himself.
The young man leaned back and spread out on the bamboo chair, it turned out that he had unconsciously witnessed so much sadness for unknown reasons, as well as the inevitable parting of life and death, he stared at the ceiling in a daze and muttered: "Could it be that the cycle of cause and effect is really fixed?"