Qingyun Mountain, Xiaozhu Peak.

The night was deep, the sky was frozen like deep ink, and I could only vaguely see the thick dark clouds moving slowly in the sky, and from the boundless black sè, the rain fell silently. Farther away, there was a faint rumbling thunder, and I wondered if there would be more violent wind and rain coming.

The disciples of Qingyunmen who went to southern Xinjiang have already come back to count, among them, Lu Xueqi returned to Xiaozhufeng after meeting the elders of the sect, and never appeared again, and even the undercurrent in Qingyunmen caused by the mysterious disappearance of Daoxuan Zhenren and Tian Buyi, it seems that she has never paid attention to it.

The steep and beautiful small bamboo peaks are still as calm as they have been in the past thousands of years, and the bamboo cultivation all over the mountains is still whispering the sound of rustling bamboo waves on this stormy night, silently staring at the people on the mountain.

The cottage is green and the candles are like a glow.

The door closed lightly, but the window was still half open, and the wind and rain in the mountains came quietly, and the rain powder flew into the house from time to time, wetting the window sill made of bamboo, slowly condensing into water droplets, and quietly sliding down, leaving water marks. The wind blowing from afar gently shook the window, making a soft 'squeak' sound in this silent rainy night.

The candle flame on the table in the room shook and flickered, and it seemed that it was about to be blown out several times, but it was always struggling, and it persevered until the mountain wind weakened, and slowly regained its sight and brightened again.

In the night, there was no other light, and a little away from this candle flame was shrouded in a shadow.

Lu Xueqi sat under the lamp and silently looked at the candle flame.

Green light, red face, in such a night, it seems that the melancholy that cannot be condensed is silently engraved in the light, but I don't know, how much time can be kept?

Outside the door, there were light footsteps in the distance, and Lu Xueqi's head moved slightly. A gust of mountain wind blew from the window, the candle flame on the table flickered and faded, and her sideburns and hair fluttered gently with the wind.

The door, with a low thud, was pushed open. The wind and rain outside the house suddenly became louder, as if the wind instantly became stronger, and was about to rush into the house, but fortunately, after that moment, the person who came had already entered the house, turned around and closed the door, and also cut off the wind and rain outside, giving the house a sense of tranquility.

Lu Xueqi stood up, bowed her head slightly, and said, "Senior sister, why are you here?"

The person who came was Wen Min, she glanced at Lu Xueqi, walked to the table, and sighed slightly: "Since you returned to the mountain, it has been rare to see you out of this room, if I don't come to see you again, I'm afraid I don't know what happened to you now?"

Lu Xueqi looked up at Wen Min, and saw a smile on the corner of her senior sister's mouth, her eyes were soft, and she was clearly full of care.

She smiled under her voice and said, "What could I do, thank you for your concern." ’

Wen Min looked at her for a long time, and saw that Lu Xueqi's face was a little pale, and her spirit was as usual, so she slowly relaxed her heart, and then said: "Senior sister, it's okay if you're fine, but as a sister, seeing you become like this, I feel really distressed in my heart." Also, after you returned to the mountain, you only saw Master once, and then you shut yourself up in this hut and never went to see her old man again, no matter what, you can't blame Master in your heart, you know, we were all raised by her old man. ’

Lu Xueqi shook her head and said, "Senior sister, what do you say, I definitely don't dare to blame the master in the slightest, I don't dare to go to see the master, I just know that I am not good, and I am afraid that I will make the master angry and sad." ’

Wen Min was stunned for a moment, looked at Lu Xueqi, and after a while, his face was complicated, and he stopped talking, only sighed in a low voice and stood up.

At this moment, in the distance of the sky, suddenly a lightning bolt swept by, followed by a thunderclap, Huo Ran up, the sound was like a cracked silk, but it seemed to echo above the head, and the echo lingered for a long time.

The wind outside the house seemed to be a little tighter.

Wen Min frowned, walked to the window, glanced outside, and said, "Look at this day, it seems that this rain is going to be heavy again." ’

Lu Xueqi stood up, slowly walked to the window, stood beside Wen Min, and looked out, in the night, two slender figures, standing side by side, staring at the dark night and endless wind and rain.

In the distance, the rustling of bamboos and the sound of rain hitting bamboo leaves are faintly heard. For a while, I don't know whether they were quiet in this tranquility, and both of them were speechless.

After a long time, Wen Min took a deep breath, smiled slightly, and said, "Speaking of which, we haven't rained like this for a long time, right?"

A smile appeared at the corner of Lu Xueqi's mouth, and said: "Yes, in fact, I also remember that when I went up the mountain as a child, you took care of me at the beginning, senior sister, and I was not sensible at that time, and every time there was a stormy night and the thunder roared, I was very afraid. ’

She turned her head slowly, her eyes were soft, and she whispered, "Every time, Senior Sister, you take me to sit by the window and watch the rain together, and tell me that I don't have to be afraid." ’

Wen Min shook his head and smiled, stretched out his hand and gently stroked the long soft hair on Lu Xueqi's shoulder, and suddenly let out a sigh, saying, "In a blink of an eye, you have grown up. ’

Lu Xueqi felt Wen Min's palm and gently patted her shoulder, as if from there, there was a bit of warmth.

After being silent for a moment, Lu Xueqi looked at her senior sister and said, "Senior sister, if you have anything to say, just tell me!"

Wen Min was slightly stunned for a moment, and finally smiled slightly bitterly, and said, "I know that you have never been smart and can't hide anything from you......

She paused for a moment and said, "Senior sister, in fact, with your intelligence, you are far better than me as a sister, but why can't you see through it, can't understand it, and suffer yourself in vain?"

The smile on the corner of Lu Xueqi's mouth slowly disappeared, replaced by a familiar indifferent expression, but in the face of Wen Min, she no longer had that cold feeling.

'I'm not bitter!' Lu Xueqi stared out the window at night, so quietly.

Wen Min was stunned, Lu Xueqi's gaze drifted away, and she didn't know where to look in this deep night, but the tone of her words couldn't be clearer: "I've never been bitter, senior sister." We have always preached from our teachers to be free from worries, to be at ease with our minds, to understand and create, and to seek eternal life, isn't it?'

Wen Min nodded and said, "Yes, in fact, in terms of cultivation, we Taoists and Buddhism have some similarities. ’

Lu Xueqi gently supported the bamboo handle on the windowsill, a gust of cold wind blew, she seemed to be a little chilly, her body shrank a little, but she still stood, and the crystal water droplets quickly condensed on her white palms.

'But what am I going to do with immortality?'

Wen Min's mouth opened slightly, and his brows furrowed.

'I know that these teachings handed down by the ancestors of Qingyunmen for thousands of years are absolutely not wrong, and we mortals must get rid of reincarnation and practice in this way, or we can achieve long-term rebirth. In the past, I thought the same way, so I devoted myself to cultivation. It's just that now...... Lu Xueqi smiled in a low voice, as if she was deep in her heart, and said: "If I want to be ruthless and loveless all my life, and if I want my heart to be like a blank sheet of paper and become an immortal, then how can I want to live forever and be so immortal!"

Wen Min shouted, "Senior sister, what are you, what are you talking about?"

As if she hadn't heard Wen Min's words, Lu Xueqi said to herself: "I know what you're thinking, senior sister, most of you are scolding me for not knowing what to do, not knowing the difficulties and dangers of this world, and what I want in my heart is difficult to achieve results." Actually, I don't know that if I say that my heart is bitter, I have indeed suffered for it. It's just that now, I want to open it, people say that the world is intolerable and unforgivable, and I can't be like him after all, breaking the door and becoming a monk. But even so, I only want to have someone in my heart who can be lovesick, and I also know that he also has me in his heart, as long as this is the case, I will be satisfied. ’

Wen Min snorted and said, "Don't you know that you won't have results after all?"

Lu Xueqi's face changed for the first time, as if that deep gloom passed quietly, and after a while, she whispered: "Of course I care, if possible, who doesn't want to stay together, who doesn't want to stay together for a long time? ’

Wen Min looked deeply at the beautiful woman in front of her, in the night, she was as beautiful and elegant as a lily, blooming in loneliness.

She sighed softly and said, "Anyway, I knew I wouldn't be able to persuade you, so go see Master early in the morning!"

Lu Xueqi was stunned for a moment, turned her head, and said, "Although I don't want to see Master, it's just that if I go, most of them will make her old man angry." ’

Wen Min shook his head and said, "Today, the master asked me to come and call you in private, and what I did was the right thing, you can rest assured." ’

Lu Xueqi hesitated for a moment and said, "The trip to Southern Xinjiang, the beast god has been destroyed, and the henchmen of the righteous path have gone, is there anything else?"

Wen Min hesitated for a moment and said, "It's the resurgence of the Demon Sect. ’

Lu Xueqi's body shook, but at the same time, a complicated and incomprehensible look flashed in her eyes, and she said, "What?"

Seeing Lu Xueqi's strange expression in his eyes, Wen Min sighed in his heart, but he still said calmly: "There are rumors that when the demon thieves who were destroyed in the hands of the beast god in the beast demon catastrophe still have remnants, it seems that they have the intention of making a comeback. And our Qingyunmen is worried about internal and external troubles at the moment, Master, she seems to be worried, you know that her old man has always valued you the most, and most of them called you over for this matter. ’

Lu Xueqi was silent for a long time, nodded and said, "Yes, then I will go to see Master early in the morning." ’

Wen Min nodded and said, "Then you should rest early, I'll go." ’

Lu Xueqi didn't stay long, and when she was sent to the door, Wen Min suddenly paused, turned to look at Lu Xueqi, and said: "Senior sister, if you have something in the future, you must not hold it in your heart. ’

Lu Xueqi nodded slowly and said in a low voice: "Yes, senior sister, I know. ’

Wen Min looked at her expression, and expected that although she agreed, with Lu Xueqi's xìng, most of them would have some hardships, and they would not say anything. At that moment, he had to smile bitterly and turned to leave.

Lu Xueqi leaned against the door and watched Wen Min walk away.

She slowly retracted her gaze, only to see that the night was like ink, the wind and rain were bleak, and the world was silent, as if there was a sense of gloom.

She was stunned for a while, and for a long time, as if she had just woken up from a dream, she turned around silently and closed the door gently.

The wind and rain of heaven and earth are also closed out.

Just like the news that Qingyunmen secretly obtained, Huqi Mountain, which was thousands of miles away, was suddenly lively here. A large number of Demon Sect disciples returned to the Ghost King Sect's station, the once sealed organs were opened one by one, and the abandoned checkpoints were also restored one by one under the orderly command.

On a clear day, the last branch of the Demon Sect, and the most powerful faction at the moment, the Ghost King Sect, under the leadership of the Ghost King, returned to Middle-earth.

Large and small packages, endless queues at a glance, as if a group of ants returning to the nest from afar, and in this team, the most striking thing is that every dozens of zhang, there will be hundreds of Demon Sect disciples escorting a certain behemoth, all covered with heavy gray cloth outside, showing a huge square shape, and under the curtain, from time to time there is a frightening low roar, the roar is full of fierce anger, but somehow, it sounds, mostly lack of energy, it seems to be some kind of monster that is extremely tired.

This huge and mysterious thing was quickly transported by these Demon Sect disciples who seemed to be familiar with the road into the huge cave operated by the Ghost King Sect of Huqi Mountain for generations, and in the air, only the wailing roar of an unknown monster that gradually disappeared and echoed in a low voice, and at the same time, somehow in the wind, a strange bloody breath gradually rose from the surroundings and drifted in the wind.

The Ghost King stood on the side of the cave with his hands in his hands, watching the last mysterious giant being transported into the depths of the cave, his face expressionless.

At a glance, he didn't seem to have changed anything, except for the sideburns in his hair, and the hair that was once gray for his daughter.

Behind him, there were two figures, one was Youhime, who was still masked in the black veil, silent, and the other was shrouded in a black shadow, it was Mr. Ghost.

When almost all the disciples of the Demon Sect entered this cave, soon several people ran forward and whispered to the Ghost King, the Ghost King listened silently, and did not say anything, just nodded slowly, and those people in the Demon Sect quickly dispersed, and under the silent order, the boulder mechanism at the entrance of the cave slowly fell, blocking the light from the outside world.

The Ghost King exhaled softly in the darkness. This familiar, cave taste.

In the deep cave passage, the light slowly lit up, and it was the Demon Sect disciples who lit the torches hanging above the passage one by one, and under the familiar dim firelight, the shadows also began to shake.

Behind him, Yu Ji slowly took a step forward and said softly, "Sect Master, do you want to go and see Ghost Li?"

The ghost king's eyes seemed to flash, and he said, "After I came back, I haven't seen him yet, where is the other person?"

Yuhime whispered, "He's always been with Baguio. ’

The Ghost King was about to take a step forward, paused, and after a moment, said, "I'll go over, you don't have to come with me." ’

Yuhime answered, and watched the ghost king walk into the distance until the back disappeared.

She turned around, but was suddenly startled that the mysterious shadow beside her had disappeared at some point. Under the black veil, Yuhime's two willow eyebrows slowly wrinkled, and a complicated expression flashed in her eyes.

Outside the cold stone chamber in the depths of the mountain cave, it is completely different from the bustle outside, there is no hustle and bustle here, it is still as quiet as before, maybe in the eyes of some people, it should be more lonely here!

The Ghost King stood outside the door of the cold stone chamber for a long time, facing the stone door, for some reason, he never reached out to open it, the heavy stone door lay in front of him, but his gaze seemed to have penetrated the seemingly indestructible stone.

Behind the stone gate, where the cold air is, is the daughter still lying peacefully?

Will a strong character like him also have a moment of weakness and be unwilling to face his daughter?

I don't know how long it took, time passed quietly, the ghost king's body moved, slowly stretched out his hand, lifted the mechanism, a low roar came, and the stone door was in front of him, slowly opened.

A cold air came from behind the stone door, and there was a faint trace of white gas, wafting in the stone room.

The Ghost King stepped inside, and the stone door closed behind him.

One qiē, nothing has changed. The figure lying calmly even included the man who had been sitting on the side in his memory.

Ghost Li didn't look back, even if he glanced at it, he still just looked at Baguio, and the ghost king didn't say anything, silently walked to the other side of the cold ice stone platform, staring at his daughter.

Baguio was still so calm with a satisfied smile on her face, lying quietly, between the crossed hands in front of her, the magical Demon Cult Treasure Acacia Bell was quietly stopping in the palm of her hand.

The faint, golden brilliance seems to fold out of the body of the Hehuan bell, emitting a light of different lengths. In the silent stone room, somehow, there is always an illusion, as if there is a low echoing and crisp bell from somewhere, but if you listen carefully, you can always find no trace, only the faint light on the bell body that is always flickering, as if it is gentle eyes, looking at the men in the two stone rooms.

"I'm not here, is she okay?" said the Ghost King lightly, his gaze had been on his daughter's body since he entered the stone room.

Ghost Li slowly raised his head and looked at the Ghost King, who also withdrew his gaze from Baguio and looked at Ghost Li.

The eyes of the two men met in mid-air, as if there was a silent wind and thunder.

Between them, in Baguio's hands, the light on the acacia bell flowed gently.

She's fine. Ghost Li stood up and said lightly.

The Ghost King nodded and said, "I'm relieved to have you here." ’

He paused for a moment, and then said, "You went to the southern Xinjiang this time, did you find some news of the soul restoration magic?"

A hint of gloom flashed across Ghost Li's face, and he shook his head. The ghost king was silent, glanced down at Baguio, and sighed softly. In fact, this time the ghost went to southern Xinjiang, and the main thing he did was naturally to track down the beast god and be ordered by the ghost king to capture the strange beasts around the beast god, but at this moment, the two of them seemed to have forgotten about it.

In the stone room, there was silence again.

At the end, the ghost king's face turned grim, and he said lightly: "I still have something to tell you, but it's not appropriate here, let's go out!"

Ghost Li nodded, didn't say much, and took one last look at Baguio, for some reason, a trace of guilt flashed in his eyes, and then turned around and walked out. The ghost king followed him and walked out of the stone gate, the heavy stone gate slowly fell, once again intercepting the silence, leaving only the faint light of the empty and flowing acacia bell in the huge cold stone room.

The two men walked side by side in the spacious corridor, and along the way, the disciples of the Demon Sect who met each other retreated to both sides, bowed their heads and saluted, and the sound of footsteps echoed gently.

After a few corners, the two came to the residence where Ghost Li lived, the Ghost King glanced at Ghost Li, as if he felt something, Ghost Li frowned slightly, but he didn't look at the Ghost King, but after a slight hesitation, he reached out and opened the door.

Two men walked in.

'Squeak, squeak, squeak......'

'Roar ......'

In the familiar cry of the monkey Xiao Ash, there were also a few strange roars, which used to be the strange beast gluttony that followed the beast god, and was lying on the ground in the ghost room at the moment, but it seemed that the jīng god was very sluggish, lazy, with its big eyes like copper bells, lying motionless on the ground.

However, the monkey Xiao Gray is still like a jīng god, jumping around the gluttony, touching it left and hitting it right, pulling the gluttonous tail for a while, patting the gluttonous head for a while, and what's more, occasionally reaching out to the gluttonous blood basin mouth, pulling the gluttonous mouth, and looking inside with a bit of curiosity.

Looking at Xiao Ash's appearance, it seems that he wants to make Gluttony Jīng get up and play together, but it obviously has no effect on Gluttony.

After the ghost king and ghost Li walked in, the gluttony turned a blind eye, and still lay on the ground with a lazy appearance, and the monkey Xiao Ash let out a cry of joy, jumped on the ghost Li two or three times, and lay on the shoulder of the master.

Ghost Li touched Xiao Ash's head, and said lightly to the Ghost King: "That's it." ’

The ghost king didn't speak, just stared at the gluttony lying on the ground. At the corner of his mouth, a faint smile slowly appeared, but there was a hint of unfathomable meaning in the smile.

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