Chapter 52: Take a Break
Everyone walked out of the tunnel and finally returned to the outside world again. This trip to the ancient tomb took most of the day, and at this moment the outside world was already dark and full of stars, and the grass and insects were chirping, and it was quiet and peaceful. Suddenly returning to this world of flowers from that ghostly tomb makes people feel like they are human beings in two lives.
Jiang Jianqiu gently placed Ling'er on the grass on the side and said to Ling Shengxue, "Senior sister, it's already midnight, I think it's better to rest here and wait for dawn to make plans." β
Yue Mingxin said on the side: "According to what the Divine Tree said before, the Sanssouci Valley is located less than twenty miles west of here, and it should be in an instant. β
Ling Shengxue thought for a while and said, "It's okay, it's really necessary to recover for now." There's still a fierce battle waiting for us on the other side of Sanssouci Valley. I'll put a seal in this tunnel to prevent the ghosts from escaping out again. Wait for the dawn to find a way to seal the hole. β
Jiang Jianqiu nodded in agreement and said, "Then I'll be on duty in the first half of the night, and the nerds will be on duty in the second half of the night, and the others will rest in this mountain col." β
Yue Mingxin heard this and hurriedly said, "Brother Jiang, you were injured a lot in the previous battle, so it's better to replace me for a better value." β
Jiang Jianqiu smiled and said, "This kind of vigil is something that is on duty, let's let me and the nerd do it." And you have consumed a lot in the previous battles, so it's better to go and rest quickly. Tomorrow Sanssouci Valley will also be indispensable for your strength. β
Yue Mingxin saw that Jiang Jianqiu was extremely persistent, so he had to give up. Everyone was lying on the ground and in their clothes, Yue Ling'er had fallen asleep in the underground palace before, and was sleeping sweetly on the grass at the moment. After Mo Danfeng fell, he fell into a deep sleep within a moment, he had fought with the demon sword in the ancient tomb before, and later abandoned the dantian to seal the demon sword, and the consumption of spirit and body was also extremely huge.
Yue Mingxin sat beside Ling'er and meditated cross-legged, exercising and pranayama, and after the spiritual power was running for a week, she only felt tiredness, and she was indescribably tired, and she also lowered her head and fell asleep after a while.
Jiang Jianqiu sat at the exit of the mountain pass, looking at the gloomy mountain range in the distance, Ling Shengxue was still busy embedding spirit crystals into the stone wall in the cave behind him at the moment, arranging the formation.
Suddenly, a sound of footsteps sounded from behind him, and Jiang Jianqiu looked back, but it was Tianlao who walked over on crutches. He couldn't help but ask with some surprise: "Old man, I couldn't breathe when I saw you tired in the dungeon before, why didn't you go to rest here." Is it because the grass is too hard to sleep on?"
Tian Lao smiled and shook his head, slowly walked to Jiang Jianqiu's side, and said, "The old man originally felt that he was too little, but when he came out to blow the wind, he suddenly became refreshed. β
The old man stood there on crutches, his snow-white beard fluttering slightly in the night breeze, and his eyes looked at the stars in the sky, faintly flickering. After a while, he turned to look at Jiang Jianqiu and said, "Boy, who taught you this deadly fighting style, Ling Nanzi, the old man's usual fairy style and Dao bones, how can he not teach an apprentice like you?"
Jiang Jianqiu was stunned for a moment and asked, "Old man, have you seen my master yet?"
Tianlao nodded and said, "Thirty years ago, he hadn't started a mountain at that time. β
Jiang Jianqiu nodded when he heard this, the Huaishan Sect was created by Ling Nanzi twenty years ago. Before that, he rarely mentioned to his apprentices where the master was and what he had done.
Jiang Jianqiu touched his head and smiled: "I was an orphan when I was a child, and I was taken in by the master as an apprentice since I was a child, and the master has a life-saving grace for me." The master said that now I can only consolidate the foundation and refine the sword qi, and I must wait until I break through the Purple Yuan Realm before I can personally pass on my supernatural powers. β
Tian Lao heard the "huh" and said, "Although monks generally start to master supernatural powers when they reach the Ziyuan Realm, with your talents, it's not too early to learn a few life-saving supernatural powers now. Ling Nanzi's old man pressed a lot of things at the bottom of the box, could he still be stingy with these few spells. β
He looked at Jiang Jianqiu, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, he took another step forward, leaned in front of Jiang Jianqiu, and said with a smile: "Boy, the moon is sparse tonight, and the old man is in a good mood, so let me show you what it looks like?"
Jiang Jianqiu was stunned for a moment, this old man had shown Yue Mingxin a photo in the Qinghua Building before, and said a lot of things that were out of the blue. He doesn't believe in physiognomy, especially this old man's mouth is full of nonsense, which makes people feel very unreliable. But it's a long night right now, and there's nothing to do anyway, even if it's to pass the time.
Jiang Jianqiu smiled, stretched out his left hand in front of Tian Lao, and said, "Okay, old man, you can help me take a look, I will have the destiny to become an immortal in the future?"
Tian Lao shook his head and said, "This path to immortality is inevitably illusory. As the so-called fate is determined by heaven, the phase is born from the heart, although the appearance is a small art, the great one needs to check the heavens and know the land, the people in the middle, and all things are derived, so that they can get a glimpse of reincarnation and understand the ...... of life and death."
Jiang Jianqiu snorted, interrupted the endless clichΓ© of the old man, and said, "Old man, don't recite this set of hypnotic spells anymore! β
Tian Lao paused for a moment, and said with a smile: "I have made this old mistake again, haha." After that, he raised Jiang Jianqiu's left hand, and looked closely, only to see that the palm pattern on this hand had a clear texture, and it was pure, and the Dao palm pattern was like a sharp sword, and there was no intersection between them.
Tian Lao looked at this palm print, and his eyes also showed a look of shock, and he whispered, "Sword intent...... I didn't expect to be found by him!"
He raised his head and looked at Jiang Jianqiu and said, "Ling Nanzi is a good master, you should be right to listen to him." After that, he continued to look down at his palm, and after a long time, the old man's voice was a little heavy: "Your life is the fate of the Great Wilderness, destined to be separated from relatives and friends, and a lonely sword as a companion." β
Jiang Jianqiu smiled when he heard it and said, "I was originally an orphan, so it's not wrong to say so." β
Tian Lao slowly shook his head: "You will have to go through many hardships in your future life, and it seems that you have a lot of fate with the desolate world...... Huh!" Jiang Jianqiu sounded as if he had fallen into the clouds, this old man said inexplicably every time he looked at his face, what was that desolate world? But before he could ask, Tian Lao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he held his hand to examine it carefully, as if he had seen some rare treasure, and said while looking at it: "Strange...... It's amazing. This marriage line is exactly the same as the girl surnamed Yue. There is such a coincidence in the world. You and her deserve to be married for a lifetime!"
Jiang Jianqiu couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, this old man's words became more and more unreliable. He smiled bitterly and said, "Old man, you can't talk nonsense. Miss Yue is the eldest lady of Fengming City, and I am a disciple of the Huaishan Small Sect, and we are two unrelated people. β
Tian Lao stroked his beard and said, "What are you anxious about, see that I will make you like this as soon as I mention marriage." I didn't say that it must be this life, maybe it's other reincarnations. But this seems a little strange, both like this world, but also seems not to be this life, weird and strange. β
The old man shook his head and muttered for a long time, and finally shook his hand angrily and said, "Forget it." Seeing your appearance makes me feel bad, and I went to sleep!" After speaking, he turned around and wanted to leave, and as soon as he took two steps, he seemed to remember something, and turned back to Jiang Jianqiu and said: "Boy, there is nothing wrong with liking swords, but there are more than 10 million swords in the world, don't lose your life for this life." After saying that, he walked to the col on crutches and found a leeward position, lay down and slept.
Jiang Jianqiu looked at the old man's distant back, not knowing whether to cry or laugh. This old man is crazy, and he really doesn't match his words when he speaks. Fortunately, at this moment, Yue Mingxin and the others have already fallen asleep, otherwise they would not have been embarrassed to get along with each other out of thin air.
However, the last few words of the old man still made his heart tremble, and he gently stroked the Netherworld Sword on his waist, Jiang Jianqiu remembered the dangerous moments when he was absorbed by this sword several times before, and he was also a little uneasy in his heart. After a long time, he sighed, anyway, there are no other blades around him at the moment, so he can only use this Netherworld Sword first, and then bring this sword back to the master's door after a while, and then ask the master to help deal with it.
Jiang Jianqiu sat there thoughtfully, but he didn't notice that in the shadow of the mountain col behind him, Ling Shengxue was standing quietly. I don't know when she has already set up the sealing formation in the cave and walked out. The night wind blew her hair, swaying gently in the darkness, Ling Shengxue stood in the dark, looking at Jiang Jianqiu with a pair of bright eyes, just silently motionless, like a statue.
"I Marriage ......"