Chapter 25: Farewell
That night, Ning Wushu dragged his tired body back to the small courtyard, and lay down on the bed as usual, but he couldn't fall asleep.
Today, when she was having trouble assembling a small mechanism in a small valley, she raised her head and called for Xuanyuan and Luan, but she never got a response. She searched for the cabin, only to find Xuanyuan and Luan slumped to the ground with pale faces, covered in sweat, and Ning Wushu pinched her several times before waking up.
Afterwards, Xuanyuan and Luan still finished a day's course for Ning Wushu, but then admitted that they were not feeling well, and soon returned to the wooden house to rest.
Although Ning Wushu didn't want to admit it in her heart, she knew that in the past few months, Xuanyuan and Luan's health had become worse and worse, as she herself said, both physically and mentally had run out of oil, and now she was only teaching Ning Wushu with her last life with a sense of responsibility, otherwise she would have gone with Chu Fangyu.
Thinking of this, Ning Wushu couldn't help but shed a tear in the corner of his eyes. She didn't wipe it off, just closed her eyes, shrunk her head into the quilt, and curled up in a ball. The night is quiet, and the girl is sleepless.
That night, heavy snow fell on Mirror Lake, turning the entire Black Mountain archipelago into ice and snow.
Ning Wushu was wearing a thick jacket, and the big plush collar buried half of her face, and the girl's face was red from the cold winter wind. Early in the morning, Ning Wushu took a few deep breaths of cold air, pulled out the ordinary arrow that had just been shot at the target, put away the wooden bow, and walked towards the small courtyard.
In the small courtyard, Xiaoqin and Xiaoya packed two lunch boxes on the table, and when they saw Ning Wushu coming, Xiaoqin beckoned and shouted, "Miss, it's all packed!"
Ning Wushu put the bow and arrows on the table with a "snap", and asked, "Are there fish and shrimp today?" and Xiao Ya on the side had already picked up the bow and arrows and walked towards the house.
"Yes," Xiaoqin replied crisply, "Miss yesterday, you ordered it, early this morning we went to the fisherman on the nearby island to ask for it, today is the freshest fish and shrimp!"
"That's good!" Ning Wushu touched Xiaoqin's head with a smile, reached out to pick up the lunch box, and took an oil-paper umbrella handed by Xiaoya, and said, "You guys eat well, I'll come back in the evening!"
Ning Wushu got on the boat on the shore of the island with an umbrella, and gradually disappeared into the lake with goose feathers and heavy snow. Xiaoqin looked at Ning Wushu's back and muttered, "Miss has been visiting friends again, and in recent times, Miss has been visiting friends for a longer time." ”
Xiaoya listened to it and said with a smile on the side: "It's a good thing that Miss has a lot of friends, let's just do our thing." ”
Xiaoqin sighed, turned around and was about to walk to the kitchen, who expected Xiaoya to suddenly throw a snowball at her, which was smashing Xiaoqin's neck, Xiaoqin screamed, and after reacting, she pounced on it with a wow, and the two little girls frolicked in the snow......
Somewhere in the Stygian Water Peak, Ning Wushu twisted a few mechanisms on a mountain wall, and the mountain wall suddenly moved away and turned into a stone gate. After the girl flashed sideways into the stone gate, the stone door slammed shut again, turning back into the mountain wall, and there was not a trace of a gap in it.
There was not much distance from here to the small valley, and Ning Wushu walked for a short time to arrive. Unlike the ice and snow outside, the small valley is located in the middle of the mountain, which is almost unaffected by the outside temperature, and it is also isolated from the wind and snow outside the mountain, and the temperature is much higher. Ning Wushu walked all the way, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. She carried the lunch box and thought to herself, Sister Xuanyuan would definitely be very happy to eat her favorite Jinghu drunken shrimp and white fish today.
Soon, Ning Wushu came to the front of the cabin, and there was a figure standing in front of the cabin, it was the machine soldier who almost killed her that day. In recent months, Xuanyuan and Luan often used Yanbing as an example to teach Ning Wushu, and Ning Wushu also practiced a lot of hands on this organ person, and after a few months, although this organ man is still far from recovering the strength of a thousand years ago, many places have been re-polished, and his body has become a lot more flexible.
However, Ning Wushu always felt that the green eyes made of its night pearls were too scary, and there was no real use for it anyway, so he took it and took two ordinary small stones and put them in, making this mechanism person look not terrifying at all, but stupid.
At this moment, Xuanyuan and Luan did not wait for Ning Wushu outside the wooden house as usual, presumably resting in the house, Ning Wushu did not pay attention to the Yanbing standing aside, but began to call for Xuanyuan and Luan to come out to eat.
But after shouting a few times, there was no response.
Ning Wushu remembered that Xuanyuan and Luan were unwell yesterday, and he was a little panicked, so he asked Yanbing to take the lunch box and go around the cabin by himself, but he didn't find Xuanyuan and Luan.
"It's strange, where did Sister Xuanyuan go?"
Ning Wushu looked puzzled and a little worried, but instead of walking around, she honestly began to fiddle with the usual wooden mechanisms outside the wooden house, she knew that Xuanyuan and Luan knew in their hearts, no matter where they went, they would definitely come back here, there was no need to look everywhere, it was better to wait quietly for her to come back.
But waiting left and right, the food was cold and didn't wait, Ning Wushu was still a little uncertain in the end, so he subconsciously asked Yanbing: "Wooden man, do you know where my sister went?"
On weekdays, the Yanbing did not react to her questioning, and under the transformation of Xuanyuan and Luan, the Yanbing now has no function of guarding, but only exists as a helper on weekdays, and only listens to Xuanyuan and Luan's orders. Unexpectedly, Ning Wushu asked, but Yan Bing suddenly stepped forward, opened his mouth, and spit out an envelope.
Ning Wushu was startled, then reacted and took out the envelope, only to see a few words written on the envelope, but it was "Ning Wushu Qi".
Xuanyuan and Luan have been asleep for a thousand years, originally they didn't know how to write the characters of this era, they could only write ancient seal scripts, but later Ning Wushu taught her some, originally Chinese characters are the same, Xuanyuan and Luan are geniuses of the sky, and they quickly learned. In the letter left at this time, every word can be understood by Ning Wushu.
"There is no book to open in person, and it is like meeting a letter. I have been sleeping for a thousand years, only to know the great changes in the world, looking around blankly, there are no relatives and friends in the world, although I am in my hometown, but I am like a child who travels far away. However, when I first woke up this time, I was able to meet my sister without books, which is a strange fate for you and me, and it is also a great luck in my life. In the past few months, there have been no books day and night, although you and I do not have the name of Jinlan, but we are better than Jinlan. Yesterday night, I looked at the meridians and five organs, only to know that it had reached the time when the oil ran out of lamps, and I would go with the master in a few days, I lived for a thousand years, and did not survive with the world, it was a great pity. If Sister Wushu sees this letter and does not see me, it is that I deliberately avoid it, and I treat me like a sister, and I can't bear to leave alone, and I can't bear to see my death in person, so I am good at advocating, and I hope that Sister Wushu will not mind. After today, the cabin is the resting place of my Xuanyuan and Luan Suishi, and the Yanbing will guard here, and if there is nothing else to do, there is no need to come here in the future, so as not to be sad. ”
A tear fell on the paper, and immediately spread the ink of a few words on the letterhead, Ning Wushu hurriedly wiped away the tears on his face, but more tears kept pouring out. She gritted her teeth and held the letter higher so that the tears would not drip onto it. Behind this paper, there is another piece of paper, but the words are much more vernacular.
"The size of Shenzhou and the vastness of heaven and earth, I used to hear teachers talk about it, and I was very envious, but I grew up in the Spirit Mirror Gate, but I have never experienced it. Wushu you told me about your wishes, you said that you hope to be able to avenge your mother, if one day the revenge is successful, you have to go to the rivers and lakes to break through the world and become a peerless heroine. I can't see these things, sister, but when I fall asleep at night recently, I can often see these scenes you describe, and my sister believes that you will be able to do it in the future. Before leaving, I don't have much to say to you, but I remember that Master told me that he had done countless things, big and small, for decades, and the only thing he regretted was treating his father the way he did after his mother's death. He said that if he had matured at that time, his father would not have died with hatred. Therefore, he warned me that the most important thing in walking the rivers and lakes is to think twice before acting, and to distinguish right from wrong before making a decision. Sister Wushu, my sister's limit has arrived, and my only wish is that you can remember your sister and walk the world for me in the future to see the great rivers and mountains. ”
With a "plop", Ning Wushu sat down on the grass, tears sliding down her face, but she bit her lip stubbornly and didn't cry. She was holding the two pieces of paper, but her eyes were blurry enough to make out any words.
The Yan soldiers on the side held the drunken shrimp and white fish brought by Ning Wushu in their hands, and stood there stupidly, motionless, like a statue.
On the top of the Stygian Water Peak, the immortal pond was already frozen with a thin layer of ice at this time. In the cold-sleeved pavilion on the side, there was a slender figure, which was Lin Wangshu, the master of the Lingjing Gate. There was a lot of snow on the top of the mountain, and Lin Wangshu was also wearing a thick cloak. He looked down at the Black Mountain Islands from the top of the mountain, not knowing what he was thinking.
Suddenly, another figure appeared next to the cold sleeve pavilion, this figure was thinly dressed, barefoot, long black hair draped around the waist, and the color of his face was enough to make the scenery of heaven and earth eclipsed, it was that Xuanyuan and Luan.
Lin Wangshu didn't look back, just asked lightly, "I've been observing you for a long time...... Who are you, why do you know where the tomb of the First Ancestor is, and what do you want to do to Wushu? Why are you hiding in front of me again today?"
Xuanyuan and Luan smiled and didn't answer him, but said, "It turns out that you know that the mausoleum exists, which is not surprising. It's just that I'm also curious, you are the master of the contemporary Spirit Mirror Gate, how detached your identity is, why do you care so much about a little girl like Sister Wushu? Also, why do you have to lay an ambush around me and wait for me with such a powerful master?"
Lin Wangshu's eyes narrowed, but he shook his head with a smile. As he shook his head, he saw two people walking out from the top of the Stygian Water Peak, one was still shaking a feather fan in the heavy snow, and his clothes were hunting in the wind and snow, it was Yun Feiyu, and the other was wearing a Taoist robe, with a snow-white whisk in the crook of his arm, it was Bai Zhiyi.
Bai Zhiyi stroked his long beard, and surprisingly didn't speak, but Yun Feiyu, with his hands behind his back, looked at Xuanyuan and Luan and said: "You are the world's three pillars of peerless learning, you come and go freely in the Spirit Mirror Gate, and you know the great secret of my door, such a dangerous person, even if the Lord of the Seven Islands surrounds you, it is not a shame, right?"
Xuanyuan and Luan turned around and glanced at Yun Feiyu, nodded approvingly, and said: "Your talent is so strong, you only practice martial arts when you become an adult, but you can reach this level, no wonder Sister Wushu has a lot of complaints about you in private, but she still admits that she admires your ability." She changed her tone and said, "However, you are ambushing me here, I'm afraid it's because your sect master is not in good health, right?"
Yun Feiyu smiled and asked, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Xuanyuan and Luan played with their long hair and said, "Don't hide it. Sister Wushu's martial arts practice is all over the world, and the meridians should be clean, but I see that there is a lot of power left in her dantian, and she must have practiced it by herself without guidance. In this case, it is impossible for her to live until now, someone must have used the Yin and Yang Qi Technique, and spent a lot of mental effort to stabilize the violent energy in her body, and also reconciled this energy with the meridians of Sister Wushu, so that she could continue to practice all over the world. This kind of ability is definitely something that no one else can have, and even I may not be able to do it. Among the current Spirit Mirror Gates, I am afraid that only the world's number one door master in front of him can do it. However, the Yin and Yang Qi Technique is a saving technique to seize heaven and earth, and to save multiple injuries, you have to pay multiple prices, Lord Lin Gate, you pulled Sister Wushu back from the Ghost Gate, you must have walked around the Ghost Gate, right?"
"Hehe, the girl really knows everything about the Lingjing Gate. Lin Wangshu finally turned around, and from his face, there was no trace of abnormality. He said slowly: "Since you and I both have doubts, but we have no ill will towards Ning Wushu, why don't you be open and honest?"
Xuanyuan and Luan smiled sadly and asked the three people around them, "I'm going to tell a story, do you listen to it?"
The corners of Lin Wangshu's mouth gradually hooked, and he smiled: "I...... There is also a story that can be told with the girl. ”