"It's back. As soon as Li Wu pushed open the door, what he saw was Ning Po's solemn face.

"Help him in. Ning Po frowned and glanced at Shan Xing, who was a flesh-and-blood model on his arm, and said to Li Wu.

Li Wu glanced at Ning Po deeply, did not speak, just carried Shan Xing into the room. Thinking that he went to Beicheng with Ding Ming today, he had the idea that Ning Po and Huaiyan were at home, and Shan Xing would not make a mess, so he told Ning Po and told her to protect Shan Xing. After all, with Ning Po's unfathomable strength, Li Wu believed that even the so-called cultivators from the small half of the northern city came, and Ning Po could also protect that Shan Xing steadily, who would have come up with such a fork.

If you can't protect it, you don't want to protect it. Thinking of this, Li Wu frowned shallowly, and looked at Ning Po with a little more meaning in his eyes. However, Ning Po is an elder to him, and there is no reason to brush her face in front of people.

Li Wu didn't speak, just looked back at Ding Ming, who was worried, arched his hand and said, "Master, you take the Qingling liquid back to the army to resume your life, and Shan Xing will hand it over to the apprentice here." ”

"This ......" Ding Ming was obviously a little hesitant, but it was indeed time for him to return to the camp when the sky was getting darker, but this Shan Xing, Ding Ming frowned slightly, and looked at Shan Xing again. Although the damage to the flesh and skin seems to be quite bluffing, it is obvious that it has not hurt the lungs, and it should be fine for a few months of recuperation.

"Okay, I'll go back first, Shan Xing will bother you to take care of it. Ding Ming said, looking at Ning Po, who didn't say a word. Even though he is five big and three coarse, and he speaks less than his brain, today's incident still makes him suspicious. But now that Shan Xing still has to entrust Ning Po, he can't say much, in case it causes her mother-in-law to be dissatisfied, this Shan Xing has nowhere to go.

Ning Po nodded, her old eyes were as calm as Gu Tan, Ding Ming didn't say anything more, and left the courtyard after saying a word.

"Let's go. Ning Po's words did not fluctuate, and Rao is Li Wu could not understand what Ning Po was thinking now. could only silently help Shan Xing, who was almost fainting, into the house.

This is Shan Xing's room, but the layout in this room is very different from the previous one. The originally thick quilt was much thinner, and even the curtain that sheltered the wind on weekdays was removed, leaving only a bare lonely window that shook in the autumn wind. The window that had been confined in the past was now wide open, and the wind howled into the room, adding to the gloom.

Li Wu was even more puzzled in his heart, did Ning Po really dislike Shan Xing to such a state? What should be the explanation for all the caring actions in the past? Although Ning Po did not show the slightest joy at Shan Xing's arrival, but when Shan Xing first came, his body was weak and he could not bear the cold and high fever, and it was Ning Po who waited all night to recuperate carefully to have Shan Xing today.

No matter how many doubts he had, Li Wu still carried Shan Xing into the house. I don't know that the cold wind in the room is not as imagined to the bones, but it makes people feel warm all over the body, and the cold wind that enters the house is also a little warmer, but it makes people feel like a spring breeze.

Li Wu glanced around the room but saw that there was an extra box in the corner of the wall, and there was a red light flashing in it, so he thought a little more in his heart.

"Don't worry, you can't freeze him. Ning Po looked at Li Wu and snorted coldly, "If there is not much cool breeze coming in and being stuffy all day long, this kid will really have a festering wound and die." ”

"This is the Spring Warm Pearl?" said Li Wu, looking at the box in the corner.

"It's a bit insightful. The corners of Ning Po's mouth raised slightly, "Don't care what it is, let's place Shan Xing first." ”

When Li Wu heard this, he gently put Shan Xing'an on the bed, trying to avoid the bloody wound from touching the bedding, and then let go.

But in the end, Shan Xing had too many wounds and serious skin and flesh damage, and when he was next to the bed, he was already sweating profusely, and his thin limbs were even more convulsive. Ning Po gently stroked her hand on his thin back and sighed imperceptibly. The slightly withered hands trembled a little, but they quickly returned to normal, if she was beside someone else at this time, she naturally couldn't see the flaws, but next to her was Li Wu, and after a few years of getting along, she didn't know what she was thinking.

"You can't bear it?" Li Wu looked at Ning Po's eyes shallowly. "Then why didn't you save him and let him be humiliated?"

"This is what he should bear, and we can't protect him for the rest of his life. Ning Po's face was calm, but she deliberately avoided Li Wu's gaze.

"Even if it should, it's just a lesson, why bother to let him fall to this devastated state? Wu'er really didn't understand. Li Wu shook his head.

"Let me ask you, what is the lesson?" Ning Po's gaze no longer dodged, and went straight to meet the gaze cast by Li Wu.

The lesson is for him to completely get out of his original state and get out of the shackles of limitations. Ning Po said, and glanced at Li Wu deeply, "If the lesson is not enough, not only is it not enough for him to be reborn and the phoenix to nirvana, but it will be empty and the scars will not be able to heal." Shan Xing will always be the cowardly him, the eternal weakling who needs to hide behind others and can never stand alone. ”

Ning Po paused and continued, "You should know that the weak will never be able to survive independently in this continent that follows the law of the jungle. ”

Li Wu knew that what Ning Po said was right, in this Xuanying Continent, on the surface, it is a faction of harmony, but behind the scenes, the struggle between the various family sects has never stopped, this world has always been respected by the strong, and most of the weak are servants and slaves and have no place to stand, if the strong want him to die, it is the fish on the chopping board that can only be slaughtered. Shan Xing was originally a weak person, and weakness was his original sin. What's more, talking about his identity as a half-beast man, to put it mildly, is even more humble, and extremely low. As Ning Po said, if he doesn't stand up himself, he will never be able to get out of the current predicament.

"Wu'er understands. Li Wu said nothing, he didn't speak again, he couldn't refute it, what Ning Po said was the truth, and it was a fact that he couldn't refute. In his previous life, he was too well protected by the master and the Enlightenment Sect, and he was rich in wealth, where could a carefree person in a high place see the darkness and reality of this world.

Now that his cultivation is difficult and he has fallen from the clouds into the mud, he really realized that he was simply ridiculous in the past. The world is sinister, survival is not easy, and even now it is only the tip of the iceberg, and the whole picture is unknown.

"Well, you go out. Ning Po retracted her gaze at Li Wu, "Huaiyan is in my room, you go and release the confinement on her." ”

"Yes. Li Wu didn't say much, quietly retreated, and finally glanced back before gently closing the door. I hope that the next time Shan Xing pushes open this door and walks out, it will be a completely different him.

The sky has gradually dyed with ink, and the smoke is even more sad. I have no news, and I am imprisoned here, and I don't know what is the situation of Shan Xing outside? In the end, I am useless, and I have never had the opportunity to make my own decisions. Huaiyan's slender hand clenched the armrest of the wooden chair, and his jade fingers were red.

The door in front of him opened, and the bright light in the courtyard vaguely shone in through the gap, and Huaiyan's beautiful eyes were slightly raised, and she saw that Li Wu's side face was hidden in the light shadow, and Li Wu waved his hand, and Huaiyan was already able to move. Unless this imprisonment is higher than the use of the person, only others can solve it.

"Brother Wu, how is he?" asked Huaiyan, his voice trembling slightly. In the end, they grew up together, if Shan Xing really died today, and she didn't do anything, how could her heart be stable?

"It's okay, you don't have to blame yourself too much. Li Wu said, raised his hand and touched the green silk with the cigarette. "Ning Po also has her own thoughts, Yan'er don't blame her, in the end, whether I am you or him, you should grow up slowly, and it is always good to have more experience. ”

"But she called me, and I watched Shan Xing being taken away by those people. Huaiyan looked at Li Wu's cheeks, and tears were dotted in his clear pupils, "If it's you, Brother Wu, who is captured, and I can't do anything, I ........."

"At all times, you just need to protect yourself, and you don't have to worry about others. Hearing Huaiyan's name for Ning Po, Li Wu's face turned a little colder, "If you can't save yourself, you will be like Shan Xing dragging others down, so not only should we not blame Ning Po, but we should be grateful to her." Besides, Yan'er, she is your master. I have been teaching you for many years. ”

"I see. He smuttered and did not speak again.

The night was unusually long in autumn, and the small courtyard was full of blood, lingering for a long time. Just as the doubts about Ning Po lingered in Li Wu's heart, why did he live here with such a cultivation and even a lot of medical skills? Li Wu didn't think about it anymore, he only wanted to believe that all this was arranged by God.

The next day's sun illuminated the courtyard, and Li Wu and Huaiyan didn't have the heart to exercise in the morning, only to see that it was dawn, and Ning Po came out of Shan Xing's house, and the old man's back was a little more desolate.

Half a month has passed, and another wave of people have died, but Yucun has been a lot quieter.

It's just that the Beicheng City Lord's Mansion is not quiet.

"Where are the cultivators in Yu Village that day?" sat a middle-aged man on the good mahogany chair, his face was peaceful but unnecessary, and his elegance was very heavy, and there was a faint sandalwood on the table, which was quite leisurely and quiet, and the man's hand gently turned the Buddha beads in his hand, and asked the man who was looking down.

"The city lord of Qiqi is still in Yucun. "Yucun is remote, and kneeling on the ground is the monk who fought with Li Wu that day.

"Oh, according to what you said, that person is very different from the people of Yu Village?" The man on the mahogany chair was Yun Tanyue, the city lord of Beicheng, Yun Tanyue said, stopped the movement of his hand, but there was a little more smile on his face. "Yu Village, Yu Zhi, is really stupid, he doesn't know how to grasp the life-saving straw, but regards him as a heretical beast. ”

"It's ridiculous. Yun Tanyue shook his head and gently put the Buddha beads on the table, "Go ahead, tell them that in just one or two months, the matter of Yucun should be over, Amitabha, remember, there is no one left." Yun Tanyue said, his fingers slowly rubbing the lines of the Buddha beads.

"Yes, obey the Lord's command. The monk shuddered when he heard this, but among the monks in the city lord's mansion, which one did not sign the contract of life and death, and which one did not know the heart of the city lord, but Yun Tanyue, the city lord, was still a living Buddha praised by everyone in this northern city, and his reputation was prominent.