Chapter 7 Hometown

At the foot of Qingyun Mountain.

The sky was high and the clouds were light. Standing at the foot of the mountain and looking up, I saw that it was blue, and the gentle breeze was blowing, which was refreshing.

Lu Xueqi looked at it for a while. There was no one around, and naturally no one would find that there was such a beautiful woman watching the sky quietly at the foot of the secluded mountain. When the breeze blew, her shawl hair fluttered gently, brushing her slightly thin face.

Master Shuiyue's warnings echoed in her ears:

"In those years, from the dialogue between Brother Daoxuan and Brother Wan, we knew that the real person in charge of Qingyunmen in all dynasties would tell this secret to the next generation of disciples who would pass on the throne when they were still awake, and the will be handed down by the ancestors of the past dynasties was for the reputation of As a last resort, the disciples can kill the teacher...

"This time, Brother Daoxuan didn't know why he didn't tell Xiao Yicai this secret. In my estimation, there are no more than two reasons. First, before Brother Daoxuan made up his mind to tell Xiao Yicai this secret, he had been devoured by the demon of the ancient sword of the Jade Dynasty; second, Brother Daoxuan was In the previous fierce battle, he used the Jade Immortal Sword Array but did not see the heart demon devouring, so he thought that he could also resist the past this time. When the real demon devoured his body, it was too late.

"It's just that although this has happened, as the children of Qingyun, we can't stay out of the matter in any case. Tian is not easy to disappear, and Sister Su is in chaos. Only I can make this difficult decision. I just hope that everything will end on the mountain, and you don't have to participate in it, but if you really find them at the foot of the mountain, you should also do your best to take on this responsibility. The ancestors of Qingyun have the spirit, and they will definitely protect you and my disciples!"

Lu Xueqi slowly opened her eyes and took a deep breath.

Turn your head and look at the towering mountains and rivers behind you, which are handsome and straight, and the distant mountains are undulating. Looking closely, the dangerous rocks are abrupt, and there are scenery everywhere.

towering into the clouds, surpassing the world.

is for Qingyun!

A faint and warm smile slowly appeared at the corners of her mouth. This mountain range is after all the place where she grew up. There are her respected teachers, close sisters, and what she once had... Memories.

She turned around and walked away. Her white clothes were like snow, fluttering and moving. The heaven and the earth were as big as Xu, and the sky was infinite. Even if it was a peerless face and a world-class hero, maybe it was just a drop in the sea.

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It was also the first time that I was ordered to go down the mountain by the teacher, but there was no clear place to go. Although I have a heavy responsibility, I don't know where to complete this task. It's a little ridiculous to think about it.

Tianya held it quietly in her hand, but there was no familiar feeling. It should be said that it had already become a part of the body. The faint blue light has also converged in the scabbard. One person, one sword, walking by step.

Where should I go?

The world is as big as it is!

In front of her was a fork in the road. Lu Xueqi stopped, but it was not that she did not know the way. Among the disciples of Qingyunmen, she was a person who went down the mountain more frequently. There was a flat road in front of her, and she had walked countless times. It was the most convenient way out of Qingyun Mountain

And another fork in the road has been abandoned for a long time, and the weeds are rampant, and only a section near the fork is faintly visible. Looking into it from a distance, it has long been submerged by the weed grass.

In fact, I don't know how many of this kind of path comes down from Qingyun Mountain. There are many paths for villagers living in villages near the foot of Qingyun Mountain. In order to make a living, they go up the mountain to cut firewood or pick wild fruits. There are also many roads. For various reasons, the years have become this kind of

Who knows where this road leads, and who will remember who has walked through it?

Lu Xueqi shook her head slightly and smiled bitterly in her heart. After returning from southern Xinjiang, she has been separated from that person. Since then, her mood has really changed a lot.

She shook her head gently. If she wanted to put aside the idea, she had to go back on the road. At this time, the villagers who came from the other side of the road were old and young. They looked at their clothes, mostly with axes, hemp ropes and poles. It seemed that they were all woodcutters who wanted to go up the mountain to cut firewood in the nearby village.

When they got close, these woodcutters saw Lu Xueqi, and they all stepped away sideways, showing a respectful look on their faces. The disciples of Qingyunmen were originally respected within hundreds of miles of this circle. What's more, Lu Xueqi's peerless face, floating like an immortal, was even more unsightly.

Lu Xueqi stopped, nodded to them slightly, returned the salute, and then planned to leave. At this moment, one of them suddenly saw the old woodcutter who was already white but still energetic. He seemed to be very enthusiastic and said with a smile, "Girl, don't you know the way?"

Lu Xueqi paused slightly, stopped, and her eyes flowed. She looked at the old woodcutter, hesitated for a moment, and shook her head gently, but before she could speak, the enthusiastic old woodcutter had already said, "I know you immortals in Qingyunmen. Most of the time, you fly around, but you have to Speaking of the road under these feet, sometimes it is not familiar to us countrymen.

Several woodcutters next to her laughed when they heard the words. Lu Xueqi looked at their kind faces. Somehow, her heart suddenly warmed up. The steps she was about to take stopped again.

The old woodcutter laughed and said, "The road in front of you leads to Heyang City in the south, which is the busiest place in a hundred miles nearby. When you get there, it's much easier to go to other places." With that, he pointed to the abandoned path and said, "Don't go that road. It was a lively village many years ago, but now it's ruined and there is no one."

Lu Xueqi smiled and said, "I understand. Thank you, father-in-law."

The old woodcutter waved his hand, laughed twice, and continued to walk towards Qingyun Mountain with others. At the same time, a woodcutter who was slightly younger than him sighed and said, "Originally, there was a temple in that village. I heard that it was very spiritual. More than ten years ago, my wife and I went there to Yes, it's a pity that it's gone now.

The old woodcutter nodded and said, "Yes, I also remember that it's a pity that the temple is gone..."

The words gradually lowered, and their figures gradually disappeared into the mountains and forests. In the breeze blowing in the distance, there seemed to be their cheerful and bold laughter. Lu Xueqi turned around, and the smile on her face was still there. Somehow, her mood seemed to be much better.

smiled. She looked up and walked towards the road.

Her footsteps were originally brisk, but somehow, her pace suddenly slowed down. Her delicate eyebrows wrinkled slightly. In the depths of her heart, it seemed that she had suddenly swept over something important, but she didn't catch it for a while.

In the depths of the memory, there seemed to be something, quietly woke up...

She stood still and motionless. The picture just now was quickly repeated from her mind, and the woodcutter's words echoed again:

"Don't go to that road. Many years ago, it was also a lively village, but now it's ruined, and there's no one..."

"There used to be a temple in that village, but I heard that it was quite clever..."

Lu Xueqi's whole body suddenly shook. After a moment, she slowly turned around and looked at the path overgrown with barren grass, as if it had been annirled in the shadow of the years...

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How many things can be changed in ten years?

Face, mood, or hatred?

No one can understand others, and sometimes even can't really understand themselves. But this is the only way that has really changed.

Because there is no way here.

The dense growth of weeds, year after year, hides the past history and witnesses the ruthlessness of time. Until a white lonely figure quietly approached the dusty place.

In the weeds, you can also faintly see the broken walls. In the oncoming breeze, there is no bloody smell, but only the slightly green fragrance of weeds.

Passed through one broken door after another and looked at the stone steps wall that were quietly covered by moss. Those smiles and joys that had before their lives and the happiness they once had all dissipated with the wind?

Lu Xueqi's face was slightly pale, and her slender and delicate hands also held Tian Yan tighter. In this abandoned village, there seemed to be someone's eyes, quietly staring at her.

She even has a feeling that she can't breathe.

But she never stopped. She walked quietly and walked through every house. Once upon a time, who remembered the people here?

Until she saw the ruined temple.

Unlike the surrounding environment, around the already dilapidated temple, I don't know why there is no grass. It is said to be a room. In fact, it is more appropriate than a few pillars, but it fell to the ground on the remaining three or three taels of broken stones, and according to the appearance of a rare statue, you can see where .

Lu Xueqi walked over slowly.

Without weeds and moss, everything here seems to be out of place with the surroundings. I don't know what it is for. Even the weeds that grow so tenaciously don't want to enter here.

Or, the resentment and resentment of the past are gathered in this place?

So in the dead of night, will there be someone crying and whispering and telling the past?

Lu Xueqi suddenly turned around. I don't know when there were tears in her eyes.

Caomiao Village!

This is a place that has long been annihilated...

She sat down quietly in the corner, motionless, as if she was quietly listening to something or feeling something.

There was a wind blowing in the distance, blowing her black hair and gently fluttering on her temples.

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The sun rises and the moon sets, the morning and evening, the morning and evening, the stars change.

The white clouds in the sky are like dogs, disappear like meteors, and time is like water. After all, they go like this and never stay for anyone.

In the weeds in the distance, the sound of insects came from nowhere. In addition to the wind, this is the most alive sound here. Maybe in another ten years, this place will become a prosperous place again?

Or, it's still the same.

Who cares?

For three days, Lu Xueqi sat quietly in this remote place for three days. The world was constrained and held heavy responsibilities, but it turned out that only in such a place did she have a place to breathe and escape.

Quietly, just think of it as indulgence and hide yourself.

It's just that she still has to leave after all.

The white clothes shook and came quietly. Lu Xueqi's figure reappeared, left the dilapidated temple, and walked through the door of the hut under the ruins again. Somehow, her eyes here seemed to contain the deep affection of reluctance.

In the distant sky, the clouds are floating, and the clouds are faint, as if blown by the wind, and a white line quietly crossed the sky. Lu Xueqi finally took a look at the houses, turned around and left, and never looked back. The figure in white quietly walked away in the barren grass.

Above the sky, the white clouds are still silent.

Just from the clouds, a rapid shimmer suddenly came out, came silently and quickly, with a few traces of lingering white clouds on the clouds, scattered in the air. Soon, the light fell in this abandoned village.

"Squeak, squeak..."

The familiar monkey's cry, the three-eyed gray-haired monkey jumped to the ground and looked around. Obviously, it came to this wild place, which was far more pleasant than being in the belly of Huqi Mountain. After a while, the monkey jumped away by himself, got into the thick weeds, and didn't know where to play.

Ghost, standing silently in the center of the village, expressionless.

Except for the tiredness and pain that can't be concealed in the eyes.

He looked at everything around him and slowly turned around. In the once familiar place, everything slowly came to his mind, and even the wind blowing in the distance had a familiar smell.

The fragrance of the land of my hometown...

And in the distance behind him, behind the dense weeds, the white and slightly lonely figure finally disappeared into the distance.

He walked slowly, and the things that had been printed into Lu Xueqi's eyes also appeared in front of him, with broken walls, moss stone steps, and finally, the ruined temple.

It's just that he didn't walk over. He just looked at the small temple from afar and was stunned. It was there that he changed the life of a teenager!

He stood and watched for a long time, but he didn't go after all. After a long time, he turned around, stepped on the weeds on the ground, and walked on the path where he could barely tell the distance between the houses. He walked slowly, as if every step was extremely heavy, until he stopped in front of the third cabin in the second row.

This is a house that is no different from other dilapidated houses. The same doors and windows fall off, the same desolate and abandoned, and even the moss on the stone steps seem to be more than other houses.

Ghost's lips began to tremble gently. For the first time in many years, he could not suppress tears in his eyes. Slowly, he knelt down in front of the hut and buried his head deeply in the land in front of the hut, in the weeds.

What came faintly in the wind was a choking and struggling whisper:

"Dad, mother..."

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Heyang City.

After the beast demon catastrophe, the city of Heyang was greatly damaged, with countless deaths and injuries, but after the disaster, the days always had to pass. People who entered the city from all directions, as well as those who fled home, made the ancient city gradually lively.

In the busiest street, the best restaurant in Quanheyang City is still the Shanhai Garden where Zhang Xiaofan lived when he first went down the mountain. Although because of the disaster, the sound is much more deserted than ten years ago. After all, it is rare for people to escape from death, and it is rare for people to come here to eat and drink .

However, on this day, a strange guest came to Shanhaiyuan. This person is a young woman. It looks beautiful, but it's okay. However, under this beautiful face, with a smile, there is a thrilling and strange feeling, as if as long as the woman's eyes are swept away like water, the men's bones around will be three points soft.

It is the nine-tailed sky fox - Xiaobai, who was lost with Gui Li and Lu Xueqi after the great change in southern Xinjiang.

She walked into the Shanhaiyuan restaurant so generously and charmingly. For a moment, from the shopkeeper to the sophomore, including the only two tables of guests, she was stunned, and no one came up to greet her. Fortunately, Xiaobai seemed to be used to this scene for a long time, and he was not angry. He just smiled and said, "Isn't there anyone to entertain you?"

He woke up the dreamer with a word. After all, the shopkeeper was old and barely had a little determination. He quickly calmed down, and then hit the back of the head of the store who stood aside in a daze and said angrily, "The guest is here. Why don't you say hello?"

The shopkeeper staggered. I don't know if there was a ghost in his heart. Aiai came up and dared not be Xiaobai. He smiled and said, "Girl, do you want to eat or stay in the restaurant?"

Xiaobai thought for a moment and said, "Let's eat something first. Do you have a good seat here?"

Xiao Er of the store nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, there is, please go upstairs."

Xiaobai nodded, walked upstairs, and said, "Find me a quiet place by the window."

Xiao Er of the store smiled and said, "Girl, don't worry, you are the only one in the elegant seat upstairs. I can give you any position you want, and it is guaranteed to be quiet, and no one will disturb you."

Xiaobai was slightly stunned and said, "How come there is no one? I heard that the business here used to be good?"

The shopkeeper had already walked upstairs at this time and said with a wry smile, "Who said no? At the beginning, the business was good. People in Heyang City were happy to eat wine here. But God killed me. I made trouble with the beast demon a few days ago, which made people panic. In the end, there were countless deaths and injuries. At this time, not many people will want to come here.

Xiao Bai nodded slowly, sighed gently, and said, "So that's it. No wonder."

At this time, Xiao Er of the store had taken Xiaobai upstairs to a table by the window and sat down, wiping the table with a rag he brought with him. Xiao Bai sat in his seat and looked out of the window. He saw pedestrians coming and going on the street, which was quite lively, but most people rarely smiled, but there were more people with sad faces.

Xiaobai looked at it silently for a moment, and suddenly asked Xiao Er in the store, "Xiao Er, I want to ask you something, and you answer me honestly."

The shopkeeper nodded and said, "Girl, may I ask."

Xiaobai hesitated for a moment and said, "All the people in Heyang City, of course, including you, hate the beast demon in their hearts?"

The shopkeeper snorted, and his face immediately showed resentment. He shouted, "Of course, in the disaster of the beast demon disaster in Heyang City, there are ten rooms and nine empty. You go to the street to find someone to ask. I guarantee that he will definitely have relatives dead under the claws of the beast demon. Poor us ordinary people are unarmed and can't resist, but fortunately, there are immortals on Qingyun Mountain, who show mercy, show their power, and drive away the beast demons killed that day, which makes us live a human life again.

Xiaobai looked at the excited look of the shopkeeper and smiled bitterly in his heart. Somehow, he passed the figure of the man who survived under the fire in the depths of the magic cave in Nanjiang Town.

Who can make it clear that this world is right or wrong?

The shopkeeper also seemed to find that he had some gaffes. His face turned red, he took a step back, and whispered, "This, I'm just saying this. Girl, don't take it seriously. Do you want to order some food?"

Xiaobai smiled and said, "Okay, but you don't have to order any dishes. Go down and tell the shopkeeper to cook three or four plates of your specialty dishes. In addition, you can bring ten more pots of good wine."

The shopkeeper was stunned and said in astonishment, "Ten pots?"

Xiao Bai took a look at him and nodded and said, "Ten pots."

The shopkeeper suffocated for a while, then hesitated for a long time, and whispered, "Girl, do you have any friends to come? If there are any, I can add some bowls and chopsticks early."

Xiaobai smiled and said, "Don't think too much. I'm the only one, and I need ten pots of wine. You bring it up quickly, and don't ask anything else."

The shopkeeper retreated, but there was obviously an unbelievable look in his eyes. In fact, he can't be blamed. Ordinary people are the most powerful, and the amount of alcohol is only one or two pots. The large number of people who can drink four or five pots are not wine fairies but alcoholics, but this charming and People.

Because there were not many guests, soon, the shopkeeper had already brought up the dishes of Xiaobai and put them on the table, and the wine pots of Shanhaiyuan were engraved on the outside of the ten pots. In a short time, they were neatly placed at the other end of the wine table.

Fortunately, this is also a time when the business of a restaurant is light. Otherwise, if it is lively, I'm afraid it won't attract the guests of the whole restaurant? But even so, I'm afraid Xiaobai won't care.

The second child of the store went down soon, and there was only Xiao Bai left in the elegant seat. She drank by herself, and soon, a pot of wine had seen the bottom, and on her cheeks, but a faint pink color appeared slightly, which did not show any wine, but added a little charm.

"Alas...

She suddenly sighed so gently.

The wine is as pure as amber and as thin as a thread. It pours into the glass from the mouth of the pot and splashes a little splashes. Xiao Bai stared at the glass in front of him and looked at the faint reflection of himself gently shaking on the water.

Then she smiled, with a trace of bitterness in her smile. She picked up the glass and drank it all.

On the street outside the window, people make all kinds of voices, hustle and bustle, and those sounds sound very far away, as if they were in another world.

She put aside the sixth empty wine jug.

The gentle red on her cheeks reflects her eternal beauty, and her eyes are still clear.

I've never been drunk, not drunk!

Her bright teeth gently bit her lower lip. She smiled in a low voice, then shook her head and raised her hand to pour wine.

On the street outside the window, somehow, it seemed that the noise suddenly became a little louder. Xiao Bai frowned, moved to the window and looked at the street. At this glance, she was suddenly stunned. She saw a woman in white slowly coming from the street downstairs. She looked beautiful and fluttered like a fairy, but who was Lu Xueqi?

The people around seemed to be attracted by Lu Xueqi's peerless face, but they were indulred by her cold temperament. They didn't dare to go forward directly. They gathered far away to watch and talk about it, but this is the reason. Xiao Bai looked at Lu Xueqi's figure, and a smile slowly appeared at the corners of his mouth.

"Life is really where we meet everywhere..." She said to herself with such a smile, and then stood up and looked that she wanted to take the initiative to say hello to Lu Xueqi, but she stood up. Suddenly, she was stunned. In a blink of an eye, she left Lu Xueqi under the street and floated to a remote corner in Heyang City.

A familiar black figure flashed very quickly, and then sank into another dark corner, and just a moment later, another gray figure, who was not strange to her, chased after her.

Xiaobai stared at the corner for a while, and then a sarcastic smile appeared at the corners of his mouth: "Today is really a coincidence. If you don't join in the fun, I'm really sorry for myself, let alone the old Shangguan ghost, hey hey, hey hey..."

In the sneer, her figure suddenly disappeared from the elegant seat upstairs of Shanhaiyuan. After a long time, the shopkeeper came up to clean up and only saw an ingot of silver on the table, six empty wine pots, and four pots, but they had disappeared.

And on the street, Lu Xueqi's figure suddenly disappeared from the street.