Chapter Eight Winds Rise

In the early morning of this day, Ji Ruochen came to the rope bridge early, looking refreshed, and the hidden worries between his eyebrows had already been swept away. However, a moment has passed according to the agreed time, and the head of the cloud wind road still has not appeared.

Ji Ruochen was puzzled, and suddenly saw a light mist rising from the morning mist, which shrouded Taichang Palace, wafting towards this side. He looked intently, and then he saw that the fog was actually coming with smoke. He couldn't help but be a little strange, how could the smoke of Danyuan Palace appear in Taichang Palace at this very early hour?

Hanyan is still wearing a plain long skirt, no powder, no gold and jade, smoke under the feet, if you step on the waves. She held several ancient books in her arms, walked straight to Ji Ruochen, and then gave a shallow salute and said softly: "Senior Brother Ruochen, are you waiting for the Yunfeng Dao Chief?"

Ji Ruochen hurriedly returned the salute and said, "Yes, without the head of Yunfeng Road, I can't cross the rope bridge myself." ”

Hanyan smiled indifferently and said, "My palace ancestor Yuxuan Zhenren and Ziyang Zhenren have been talking for a whole night, and it is not over yet. Daoist Yunfeng wants to accompany the two real people, and I am about to go back to the Taishang Daode Palace, so Yuxuan Zhenren sent me to escort you across the rope bridge. ”

In the previous two lectures in the same class, although Ji Ruochen and Hanyan sat close, every time he was in a very agitated mood, and Hanyan seemed to be hidden in a faint smoke all day long, so he couldn't remember her appearance clearly. Ji Ruochen only remembered that when she made every move, there were rippling water waves coming to her face, which would always completely submerge him.

At this time, the sky was dawning, and the wisps of morning light shone on Hanyan's body, which made the water-colored smoke waves around her disappear a lot. At this moment, Ji Ruochen clearly saw her appearance.

She was like a river full of smoky spring water, and this indifferent smile at this moment is the moment when the clouds open and the sun rises.

Ji Ruochen was stunned for a moment, staring at Hanyan, unable to speak anymore.

"Senior Brother Ruochen, Senior Brother Ruochen?" Hanyan called several times in succession before he brought Ji Ruochen back to his senses. Ji Ruochen also seemed to know that he was out of shape, laughed dryly, didn't dare to look at Hanyan anymore, turned around and walked towards the rope bridge, looking at the panicked demeanor of leaving, as if he was not a beautiful woman standing in the water-colored smoke behind him, but an old creditor who had reunited after a long absence.

Looking at the rickety and embarrassed figure on the rope bridge, he stood there with smoke, and a glimmer of loneliness flashed in his blurry eyes. In the past few years, it is extremely rare for the young disciples in the Daode Palace to see her for the first time without losing their souls and losing their temper, in comparison, Ji Ruochen's reaction at this time is actually nothing.

It's just that......

She suddenly remembered Yu Xuanzhen's solemn advice, her left hand quietly clenched into a fist, and before she knew it, a piece of nail had already cut through the palm of her hand, and a wisp of warm blood quietly seeped out from between her fingers and dripped to the ground.

She didn't realize it.

Seeing that Ji Ruochen had already walked more than ten zhang on the rope bridge, Hanyan finally walked towards the rope bridge. If he goes farther, if he stumbles, he will not be able to help.

Originally, Zhen Yuan, who had just entered the door with Ji Ruochen, thought about crossing this rope bridge, and if he didn't fall down a hundred times, he would have to have seventy or eighty times. But today, somehow, he walked staggeringly, dancing like a duck, as if he would plunge into the bottomless abyss at any moment, and even the smoke was a little shocking, but seeing that the end of the rope bridge had appeared in the clouds ahead, he did not stumble once.

I don't know if Ji Ruochen is really wise and foolish, he really has extraordinary skills, or if he is so lucky that it is really incredible.

Seeing that Ji Ruochen was getting closer and closer to the end of the rope bridge, Hanyan finally couldn't help it. She bit her lower lip lightly, her toes touched the rope bridge slightly, and a thin wave quickly walked along the iron cable, catching up with Ji Ruochen in a blink of an eye. Ji Ruochen exclaimed, and finally fell into the abyss!

Smoke flies forward, if a swallow skims the water, it flies diagonally downward. She hooked the iron cable on her toes, reached out with her slender hand, and already grabbed Ji Ruochen's hand, and then with a slight force, she took him into the air and landed lightly on the iron cable bridge.

Ji Ruochen only felt that the palm of his left hand was cold and greasy, and the taste was really indescribable, as if holding a ball of unmelted snow. It wasn't until the two of them stood still at the head of the chain bridge that he retracted his mind, looked up, and met the pair of eyes with thousands of smoke waves.

For a moment, he stayed where he was again, just staring at the smoke.

Hanyan saw that the two of them had already stood firm, so he gently pulled his hand back, but he didn't expect Ji Ruochen to hold it quite tightly and didn't pull it back. She pumped back again, with a little more force. Unexpectedly, Ji Ruochen also clenched it accordingly, and Hanyan still failed to withdraw his hand this time.

She simply stopped withdrawing her hand, raised her head slightly, met Ji Ruochen's gaze, her eyebrows tightened, and she shouted: "Senior Brother Ruochen......" Although there was a strict training from Yuxuan Zhenren, there was already a wisp of cold air in his smoky tone.

Ji Ruochen just stared at her, and his hand was clenched a little tighter.

At this time, a sneer suddenly came: "It's not early at this time, why are you still so kind of me, and I'm not afraid that the Taoist elders will see it and cause people to talk about it!"

The sound is clear and crisp, like a chime knocking Ji Ruochen awake. He seemed to realize that he was still holding on to the cigarette's hand, and hurriedly let go of his hand and took two steps back. But he still stared at Hanyan for a fierce look, and then turned to the source of the voice.

At this time, a tall girl walked out of the faint morning mist, it was Zhang Yinyin. Her face was frosty, the corners of her mouth were full of ridicule and sneer, her left hand clutched the wooden sword at her waist, and the knuckles of her slender ten fingers were pale, as if she wanted to break the hilt of the wooden sword. It's just that the wooden sword she wears today is extraordinary, it is made of thousand-year-old iron and wood produced in the Western Wilderness Cloud Mountain, which is stronger than stainless steel, not to mention that Zhang Yinyin is just a little girl who has just entered the path, even a cultivator who has more than ten years of true yuan, and there is nothing to do with this wooden sword.

Seeing that it was Zhang Yinyin, Hanyan showed a slight surprise and asked, "Senior Sister Yin Yin is waiting here so early, is there something wrong?"

Zhang Yinyin sneered: "Of course there is something! But I am not looking for your ......."

As she spoke, she pointed to Ji Ruochen and said, "What I'm looking for is this guts pervert!"

Hanyan smiled faintly and said, "That is the case, I also sent Senior Brother Ruochen across the rope bridge and said goodbye." Without waiting for Ji Ruochen to answer, he floated away like a hookah.

Hanyan put his hands in his sleeves, walking slowly, but secretly wiping his right hand with a piece of white silk, just thinking in his heart: "It turns out that all men in the world are the same! Master said that Ji Ruochen is the body of an immortal, and there is hope for flying in this life...... But now it seems that he ...... What's the difference between his appearance and other womanizers?"

Until Hanyan walked away, Ji Ruochen was still frowning, staring at her back endlessly. Zhang Yinyin waited for a long time, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, and sneered on the side: "Ji Ruochen, I really didn't see that you still have such a great ability, it has only been half a year since you entered the Taishang Daode Palace, and you actually hooked the most famous smoke in Danyuan Palace." It seems that she is not always rejecting people thousands of miles away as rumored! Now that she is gone, what else do you want to see? If you want to see it, go to a place where no one ......" Speaking of this, although Zhang Yinyin was furious, he couldn't say this after all, so he had to stop halfway.

Ji Ruochen turned his head in astonishment, as if he had only noticed Zhang Yinyin at this time, and said, "Miss Yin Yin, Hanyan and I are not as you said, she ...... Alas!"

Zhang Yinyin said coldly: "Why doesn't she talk about it? But you should protect her." ”

Ji Ruochen was stunned again, and said: "Don't talk nonsense! I need someone to protect me to cross the rope bridge, this morning Yunfeng Dao has something to do, so Yuxuan Zhencai sent me across the bridge with a cigarette." ”

Zhang Yinyin snorted and said, "Three hundred disciples of Taichang Palace, if not two hundred, can send you across the bridge, but also one hundred." If there is something wrong with the head of Yunfeng Dao, will the others die, and they want the help of the disciples of Danyuan Palace? Not to mention that if you cross the bridge, you will cross the bridge, this bridge has obviously been crossed, and you are still holding hands at the bridge! Do you want to hide this kind of little lie from me?"

Ji Ruochen smiled bitterly and said helplessly: "Yes, yes! Miss Zhang is clear and decisive, and she is like a god." I just don't know what Miss Zhang is looking for me?"

Zhang Yinyin's face was like frost, and he gritted his teeth and spit out two words: "Sword competition!"

Ji Ruochen was taken aback. He thought that he had saved Zhang Yinyin from the disaster of seven days of Qing cultivation, she was grateful for this friendship, and she was embarrassed to come to trouble again, but she didn't expect her to compete with swords!

Zhang Yinyin slapped the wooden sword in his waist and shouted: "Last time my wooden sword was not of good quality, I let you succeed in a sneak attack! This time, my father gave me a new thousand-year-old ironwood sword, let's compare it again! Tonight, I am waiting for you at the sword casting platform in the back mountain, and tell you, you have to come, and you have to come if you don't come!"

Ji Ruochen shook his head and said, "If you don't go, you have to rely on more to win!"

Zhang Yinyin surprisingly didn't have a seizure this time, but said: "Don't worry, I'm the only one." ”

"That's not going either. ”

Zhang Yinyin suddenly laughed instead of being angry, the wooden sword groaned softly, and it was already unsheathed in his hand, and said with a smile: "Then we will compare here!"

Ji Ruochen was taken aback, and hurriedly shouted: "The disciple is fighting privately, and the Taoist chief knows about it, but he has to think about it for seven hundred and forty-nine days!"

How did she know that his threat this time had no effect on Zhang Yinyin at all, she smiled slightly, and the wooden sword together had stabbed Ji Ruochen's throat like lightning and thunder!

"Even after thinking about it for a year, I admit it!"

Ji Ruochen was taken aback, she never expected that she would do it desperately, but fortunately, the Great Five Elements Sword Technique Jing Xiao Zhenren had also taught her, and her feet slipped at the moment, and she was able to let Zhang Yinyin take Wan Jun's sword, and hurriedly shouted: "Stop, stop!"

Zhang Yinyin really put away his sword and didn't attack, but just stood in place and asked, "Are you willing to compete this time?"

What can Ji Ruochen say to this extremely stubborn Miss Zhang? He could only smile bitterly: "Let's compare, I will definitely go to the sword casting platform tonight." But if I lose this time, can Miss Zhang let me go?"

"Let's talk about it. Zhang Yinyin coldly threw down such a sentence, that is, he turned around and left, and disappeared in the faint morning mist in a blink of an eye.

Ji Ruochen watched her leave, shook his head, and sighed again, he really didn't know how to get rid of this lingering big trouble and live a quiet life for a few days. When the time comes, it won't be long before the little Taoist priest with a clear heart should be released, and I don't know what kind of entanglement there will be at that time.

Ji Ruochen thought about it, and involuntarily looked in the direction where Hanyan left.

Just now, for some reason, when he was looking at Hanyan, he suddenly felt that the endless hookah in her eyes had spread, and it had filled the sky and earth in an instant. At that moment, he couldn't tell if it was the ripples of water rippling in Hanyan's eyes, or if his own consciousness had been sucked into her eyes.

In the blink of an eye, he had rushed into the vast smoke clouds, and saw the thousands of water waves hidden under the smoke clouds. The endless waves suddenly parted in both directions, revealing a huge, slippery, and hard reef underneath! The boulder had been washed by the undercurrent for an unknown amount of time, but it was still angular. In the waves, large and small fish were swept by the current, and their bodies collided with the reef, and then their tails turned up on the surface of the water, and then they were swept underwater by the next wave.

Ji Ruochen looked at this silent and cold reef in a daze, and felt a chill for a while, and was a little stunned. He suddenly found that the huge reef was getting bigger and bigger, and then he realized that he was being pushed by a huge wave, and he couldn't help but fall towards the huge rock! Ji Ruochen wanted to scream, but he couldn't make any sound at all. He wanted to run away again, but the huge waves behind him were infinitely powerful, where could he escape?

It wasn't until Zhang Yinyin's clear sarcasm came into his ears that the silence in the smoke wave was broken. For a moment, the vast smoke waves, the cold reefs, and the thousands of dead and undead fish all disappeared cleanly.

Ji Ruochen noticed that his body could move, and immediately took two steps back, wanting to stay away from Hanyan.

At this time, he looked at the morning fog that was still lingering, and the horror just now still echoed in his heart, and the cold scene was really difficult to associate with the smoke.

Could it be that Ji Ruochen suddenly thought that this girl who was caged in the clouds of water and smoke all day long actually had a cold and hard heart?

No matter what, at this moment, Ji Ruochen had a deep fear of this water-colored and stone-hearted woman, in addition to his heartbeat. This is the first person who has made him fearful since Ji Ruochen entered the Daode Sect.

After a short time, the morning mist that shrouded the peak of Xixuan Mountain was finally dispelled by the morning sun.

On Taichang Peak, Ziyang Zhenren accompanied Yuxuan Zhenren to talk and laugh all the way to the edge of the rope bridge. The two real people sat all night and talked about it, which was obviously quite rewarding. Unlike his vein real person, Ziyang real person has no shelf, and this time he sent him off, and there was no disciple to serve by his side.

The two real people talked for a while on the side of the rope bridge, and Yuxuan Zhenren finally saluted and said goodbye, rose up, and flew slowly towards Danyuan Palace.

It wasn't until Yuxuan Zhenren completely disappeared into the distant clouds and mist that Ziyang Zhenren turned around and walked towards Taichang Palace. After taking two steps, he suddenly stopped, leaned over the ground, picked up a stone, and examined it carefully.

The stone is loosely textured, and it is dotted with a small drop of blood. The blood spread along the stone pattern, and at this moment, it looked like a burning cloud.

Ziyang Zhenren stared at this small blood cloud, pinched his fingers with his left hand and secretly counted them, and then looked in the direction of Danyuan Peak.

He sighed lightly, and with a flick of his fingers, this small stone flew out far away and fell into the bottomless deep cliff outside Taichang Peak.