Chapter 28 Chapter 17 Returning Together

"Guguang, I owe you." It was already dusk, standing in the ruins of the Moon God Temple, touching the huge stone pillars that fell sideways with his fingers, slowly telling the cause and effect of this huge change to the allies, listening to the expression on the master Xue's face A little sad, "I can't give you what you want." The close disciples have been asked to help the distraught leader into the White Stone House to rest, and at the same time, the disciples who have temporarily moved to the Banshan Hotel are ordered not to enter the Moon Palace. Everything here is relatively isolated—before that, they must do a good job It was a catastrophic cleanup.

The Warlock in Tsing Yi stood in the temple, holding a piece of jade inlaid with sapphires between his fingers - it was a fragment of the moon wheel in the heart of the sky. Now the moon is sinking on the Vulture Mountain, the palace is falling, the temple is collapsing, and the holy lake is drying up. Everything seems to be the end of the world scene. Gu Guang's eyes were a little dazed, looking at the piles of white bones in the lake, there was even a sense of pity: it turned out that Priest Jiaruo sacrificed himself and paid the price of being permanently closed underground, in order to seal these evil spirits forever.The High Priest who has always thought that he is the master of evil forces and manipulating southern borders with insidious magic has such a wish...

When the gods are powerless, it is the magic crossing sentient beings. He had seen that sentence on a shrine in the high priest's study, and only now did he understand the deep meaning in it.Even if he turns into a demon, he still has to save all sentient beings—Jia Ruo, or Qing Lan, actually has such a secret and firm desire in his heart. He was in a trance by himself, so he was a little dazed for a while after listening to Louzhu Xue's words.His eyes were still looking towards the bottom of the lake, and he subconsciously asked, "...what do I want?" "All the spiritual power of Priest Jiaruo will be permanently locked underground with the group of evil spirits - even if you eat his body, you will not be able to inherit his power." Looking at the holy lake of bones, Xiao Yiqing's voice For the first time, there was a sense of blankness and emptiness, "I can't do what I promised you."

"Oh." As if remembering the secret agreement he had made with Xiao Yiqing at this moment, Gu Guang's expression froze slightly, and he blurted out a reply, with a look of disappointment or joy floating in his eyes. "But I must try to make it up—what else do you want, as long as Xuelou can do it, and Xiao will do his best." The first time he couldn't keep his promise, there was apology in the tone of Xuelou's master, and he made a promise. such a promise. However, Gu Guang didn't seem to have any big reaction to this sentence, and he didn't expect how much power such a sentence could bring to him - he just kept looking at the figure at the bottom of the holy lake in the distance, and suddenly smiled Laugh: "In particular, I should thank you - what I got now has exceeded my original expectations."

Xiao Yiqing was slightly taken aback, followed his gaze, and saw the figures of several women under the holy lake: crimson clothes, blue shirts, and red skirts, all of which were particularly beautiful among the pale and dull bones. The woman in scarlet clothes still rested her head on the 10,000-jin boulder, and did not move for a whole day, like a solidified stone statue.Beside her are the two female disciples who entered the Moon Palace later - Ye Huo and Ruo Shui. However, Yehuo, who was originally calm, rushed here with his senior sister, and saw the boy's head rolled to the ground - the memory in the rock village suddenly came to life, the red shirt girl picked up the head and stared at it for a while, collapsed Wept bitterly.Ruoshui next to him didn't know why, and he couldn't persuade him for a long time, so he could only stay by the side blankly, watching the usually quiet junior sister let out a sad cry, and then turned his head to look at the face next to him, who was ashen ashes Miss Jing glanced at her.Finally not knowing what to do, Ruoshui subconsciously looked towards Gu Guang, as if asking for help.

In the misery all over the place, only the eyes of the girl in blue are clear. They are the eyes of a baby who has never experienced true disillusionment and resurrection. They are as pure as that dreamy epiphyllum. "What is unique in the world and supreme spiritual power? Even if you have these, so what? Such a life of disdain, and finally that day is not inevitable - Jia Ruo is the best proof." Looking at this heartbreaking scene However, the Tsing Yi warlock's eyes were calm, as if he had realized the supreme meaning, "Can control all things but not one heart, can subdue heaven and earth but not protect one person - all of these are not determined by the level of power."

Gu Guang smiled slightly, his usual gloom and coldness melted like ice and snow, he raised his hand and pointed to the blue shirt under the holy lake, as if making an oath, he said softly to Tingxue Louzhu next to him: "I will try my best." All the strength I have in this life is to make her never be like those two girls around me." Xiao Yiqing's eyes suddenly darkened slightly, and a bleak smile appeared on the corners of her bloodless lips: "What a luxurious wish." "Don't think that I can't do what you and Jiaruo can't do." The Tsing Yi Warlock looked at him sideways, his eyes were calm, confident, and there was also a touch of compassion, "Lord Xiao, actually, In this "heaven-destroying catastrophe", the one who was really destroyed was not Priest Jiaruo, but the dragon and phoenix between the two of you."

Those plain words made Xuezhu's finger tremble, but after a long silence, watching the bloody sunset, Xiao Yiqing's voice was bleak: "It never started, what is the end?" He looked at the woman in scarlet clothes sitting indifferently in front of the stone gate, at the blood streaming down her forehead, at the gate standing like iron at the end of the lake, suddenly coughed, and asked, "What happened to Master Minghe? " "It's over too." Gu Guang's answer was indifferent and simple, "She lost her soul." "Oh..." Louzhu Xue coughed, looked at the gate that separated yin and yang, his eyes changed complicatedly, and suddenly sighed softly, "If she is like this, Jia Ruo's painstaking efforts will be in vain—— After a pause, as if she had made up her mind, Xiao Yiqing turned her head and slowly said to the Moon Worship Sect Zuo Guardian beside her: "Please pass this sentence on to your leader—"

"Tell her that Jiaruo is really afraid of himself. "Although it is his long-cherished wish to seal those vicious forces forever, it is not the reason why he has adopted such a tragic plan—he is afraid of the recovery and erosion of Qing Lan's memory and feelings in his heart... He actually can't distinguish between himself and the outside world. He was afraid of going on like this, but he couldn't control it—however, Minghe was protected by him with all his life, and he was afraid that such an involuntary change in the end would eventually become the biggest irreparable harm to her.

"So before the memory of 'Qing Lan' completely eroded his heart, he chose to permanently close the ground. "That was the last and only 'protection' he could do. "I also have to admire him...Although he is almost the strongest opponent I have encountered so far. However, his inner spiritual power is so strong that he is merciless to himself, but I am willing to bow down." Listening to the owner of Xuelou speaking slowly, his tone was calm and light--this person who is the strongest opponent of Yijiaruo, but what he said at this moment seemed to be his only confidant in his life.Looking at Gu Guang's shocked eyes, a pitiful smile appeared on the corner of Xiao Yiqing's lips, and she nodded slightly: "Go and tell your leader these words—tell her, how much Jiaruo hopes that she can live happily without any worries. ——If you understand the reason why he abandoned her and shut her underground forever, she should live well."

"Actually, he has tried his best—but unexpectedly, he still can't protect Minghe completely. Gu Guang, I hope you can be better than us, and you can protect the people you need to protect." While talking, the landlord listened to the snow and walked slowly. Walking down the steps of the ruins of the temple, the breeze blowing from the distant mountain brushed his hair, looking at the scarlet robe among the bones at the bottom of the holy lake, his eyes showed unspeakable grief. However, the owner of Xuelou just told Bi Luo who was standing on the side of the steps: "Have you sent a message to Mr. Zhong? Ask them not to leave the camp first, and we will return to Luoyang with them tonight." .” "Two people? What about Miss Jing?" Bi Luo was stunned and blurted out. "She won't go back with us." Xiao Yiqing's eyes showed a trace of pain, but it was immediately concealed in front of his subordinates, and he just said lightly, "Let her stay in southern Xinjiang alone. After all, Ruoshui and Yehuo are not Disciples, it is up to them to decide when they want to leave—Moon Worship Sect will not embarrass them. Let us go on our own." "...Yes." Shocked by the host's calmness at the moment, Bi Luo hesitated for a moment before answering. When twilight shrouded the earth, the bottom of the holy lake was full of fire, like a red lotus in full bloom. "Sorry, I can't identify Lingtang's bones, so we can only be cremated together." Gathering all the bones together, they built tower-shaped battlements. Gu Guang looked at the master in white holding on to the torch, bent down and lit it. Timber under the bones.The fire burned fiercely, and penetrated from bottom to top, engulfing the piles of skeletons. In the night, those fires are like lotus blossoms.Burn the evil red lotus flames of the Three Realms. Yehuo hadn't recovered from the grief, but Ruoshui had already rushed over, stood by the fire, and silently recited the scriptures for salvation. Xiao Yiqing was dressed in white clothes like snow, his pale and delicate face was reflected by the flickering torch, but the look on the eyebrows of Xuezhuzhu was complicated and could not see the end, staring blankly at the piles of bones burned to ashes in the fire.The night wind blew and swirled around the fire, flakes of fly ash were blown onto people's faces, like ashes of a catastrophe flashing away. ——Among them, is there any soul of the mother who seems to have passed away forever and annihilated into reincarnation? It turned out that everything was nothing more than that...it was nothing more than that! "It's all over. Let's go." Throwing the torch into the last pile of bones, Xiao Yiqing never looked at the dead bones again, and greeted Bi Luo with cold eyes, "Don't let Mr. Wait." "Really... really don't want to go with Miss Jing?" Bi Luo couldn't bear it after all, and asked again.However, seeing that these words made the poster's eyes as cold as snow, Xiao Yi turned around and walked away without saying a word.Hearing that Xuelou Great Protector secretly sighed, he had no choice but to turn away. The words fell firmly, Xiao Yiqing took a last look at the scarlet robe in the night, finally couldn't help but walked over gently, stood beside the woman, and looked at her quietly. Ah Jing still didn't look up at him, she had already calmed down, no longer crying or shouting - but such deathly silence made him, who knew her so well, secretly startled.Pressing her hand on the boulder, it was already cold.But it seems to stubbornly want to perceive the message of the soul on the yin and yang side through this thick stone, and refuses to let go of it. "I'm leaving." After a moment of silence, he finally bent down and said lightly, "You take care of yourself." She still didn't speak, and she didn't look up. "If you want to kill me for revenge in the future, come to the main building in Luoyang—you know where my secret room is, and when I get sick." Listening to Xue Louzhu's eyebrows, filled with indescribable bleakness and coldness , but the words were surprisingly calm, "I don't have much time, I hope you can come early while I'm alive." The woman in scarlet clothes put her forehead against the icy boulder, and the scriptures and charms densely carved on it were imprinted into her smooth forehead, mixed with blood, and looked terrifying.A drop of hot blood flowed down from the forehead, and it flowed for a long time before it passed across her clear and pale cheeks and settled on her cheeks, condensing like ice. Xiao Yiqing looked down at her for a long time, there seemed to be countless voices screaming in his chest, trying to break free from the restraint and shout out, but he still didn't say anything, just raised his hand and gently brushed her face, fingers on her face Stained that drop of blood, put it in his mouth and licked it off——it was so slightly bitter. Then, without looking at her again, he turned and left. "I have Dream Epiphyllum here." However, when watching Xiao Yiqing walk by, Gu Guang suddenly said something without beginning and ending, and silently spread his hands-in the palm of his hand was a small bag of magic power. Condensed flower seeds—the dream epiphyllum that blooms from the memory of people's hearts. "Don't let the events of the past few days become a deep gap between you that will never be bridged - it's a pity that people will shatter the myth of dragon and phoenix." The Tsing Yi Warlock's eyes were erratic and confused, watching Xiao Yiqing's expression move, he stopped Footsteps, "I also want to know, is the flower that blooms in the heart of such a woman a bloody rose?" Xiao Yiqing's eyes were also a little erratic, looking at the bag of flower seeds, he hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't help reaching out to pick it up. "Forget it all... For her, it's best to forget. If such a cruel memory is remembered all the time in one's life, it would indeed be worse than death." Although Gu Guang's expression was gloomy, his eyes still held There's a hint of sincerity, "Come and make it feel like it never happened, how?—now with the power." His eyes turned to the figure in the scarlet robe not far away. Xiao Yi didn't answer, the expression in his eyes changed complicatedly and violently, after a moment of contemplation, his fingers suddenly increased his strength, and with just one rub, the flower seeds condensed by phantom power were crushed to pieces! "No." Hearing Xuezhu let out a long breath, he turned his head coldly, "Qing Lan thought that life and death are the same, Jiaruo devotes all her life - that is simply the love of heaven, mortals are like me, I am afraid that it will last forever It can’t be done. How can you use these techniques to gently erase all of this and pretend it didn’t happen? How can you pretend it didn’t happen!” "Ah Jing would rather die than allow others to do this—although she will never forgive, at least I hope that she will not despise me." Dressed in white like snow, listening to the master of the snow walk away, leaving only such decisive words still in my ears.The Warlock in Tsing Yi was a little surprised and a little dazed, looking at the leaving dragon among people, he couldn't help but a smile appeared on his lips. "Oh! Lord Xiao! You, please try to persuade Miss Jing...don't go!" Before finishing reading Chao Du's scriptures, Ruoshui couldn't help crying anymore when he saw such a farewell scene, and ran Come over and grab Gu Guang's sleeve, shaking it hastily, "You persuade them too! Don't, don't let the two of them separate like this!—" "Hey, don't pull it, don't pull it!... My sleeves are going to be torn." Gu Guang sighed, carefully pulled out the sleeves of his cassock from the girl's grasping fingers, and looked at the person walking away, but there was something in his eyes. With a touch of respect, he nodded, "If he just accepted my one-and-done arrangement, I don't plan to use this really hopeful solution to the problem..." "Ah? Do you really have a solution?" Ruoshui jumped up in surprise, grabbed his sleeve again and wanted to ask, but Gu Guang pulled his sleeve away first, "I know you will definitely find a way! You How wonderful!" The Warlock in Tsing Yi turned his head to the side, looked at the bright smile of the girl in blue in the light of the night fire, his heart suddenly brightened, and he smiled. "I hope this method can work." Taking out the moon soul, known as one of the three treasures of the Moon Worship Sect, from his sleeve, holding it in his hand, Gu Guang murmured, and the ruby ​​was like blood in the flames. Shining, strange and mysterious, "This piece of moon soul has accompanied Priest Jiaruo for many years, and it should have condensed the priest's mind—" Looking down at the piece of moon soul in the palm of his hand, the left protector of the Moon Worship Sect slowly clenched his fingers, closed his eyes, as if seeing the illusion coming from the palm of his hand: "I will try to read out the 'memory' in it and show it to you. Shu Jingrong looked at it. I hope she can know Jia Ruo's last true wish and the reason for Xiaozhu's knife." "Well, Miss Jing is a very reasonable person! I won't blame Xiao Zhu anymore." Ruoshui looked at him hopefully, nodded vigorously, but his eyes were still worried: "But how good is your leader... She is so pitiful. After listening to what you told me, although she is willing to eat, her eyes... the eyes seem to be hollow, and she looks terrible." "There's no other way... I'm lost, how can I find a solution?" Gu Guang sighed, and stroked Ruoshui's hair helplessly, "—Girl, do you think I really have the power to bring the dead back to life?" Ruoshui bit his finger, but suddenly his eyes lit up: "Jia Ruo only has a body, Qing Lan only has a head...if—!" The blue-shirted girl hesitated to speak, lowered her head, and frowned hesitantly: "Oh, what a strange idea!... Master will definitely scold me when he finds out, saying that I'm going to enter the magic way." Startled for a moment, Gu Guang suddenly understood the meaning in the girl's eyes, and was taken aback, but his eyes brightened instantly, and he blurted out: "Yes!——Why didn't I think of it? Although it can't bring the dead back to life, it's immortal I still have a lot of ways...well, that's it!" "Hee. I didn't tell you this!" Ruoshui saw that Gu Guang already understood, smiled happily, and clapped his hands, "You came up with the idea yourself! Master won't blame me." "Shui'er." Seeing her smile, Gu Guang suddenly narrowed his eyes and called out. "Huh?" Unaware of the change of the other party's address, as if hearing it naturally, Ruoshui responded and looked at him questioningly. Gu Guang's expression was dignified, looking at the flickering fire in the night, he suddenly asked slowly: "If your master says I'm an evil monster, what should I do?" "But you're not a bad person..." Ruoshui was startled, and his expression darkened.He lowered his eyes, thought for a while, but answered like this, firm as iron, "Then the master is wrong." There is no hesitation between the choices.No wonder that dream epiphyllum blooms in the same color as snow. Gu Guang nodded and laughed, patted her on the shoulder, raised his finger, brushed the hair hanging from her forehead, and slowly moved it up.Suddenly smiling, he bent down and kissed her lightly on her smooth forehead. "Oh." The blue-shirted girl jumped away like a frightened deer, her cheeks flushed instantly, "You villain!" "Lord, are you really leaving?" All the men and horses from Luoyang this time have already finished their outfits and set off from the foot of Lingjiu Mountain. Listen to the Snow Lord. Xiao Yiqing was still coughing uncontrollably—however, to Doctor Mo's surprise, even after going through a life-and-death struggle, the returned landlord's condition was actually better than before.But when the doctor saw the expression in the landlord's eyes, he couldn't help shivering -- the gloomy and depressing tone in the depths of the eyes turned out to be as heavy and cold as iron. "Let's go." Turning the horse's head, listening to the landlord Xue's cold order, the horse's hooves sounded, and the horses set off. Leave Vulture Mountain.Leave Southern Border.Leave the chaotic past under the blue sky. However, when he led the team away without looking back, there was a deep pain in his heart, as if some invisible thread tied his heart here, and every time he rode away, he felt a pain. It was torn apart bloody. "Steep to the high hill, your sword clangs. "Tracing back to the deep source, the grass and fields are pale and yellow. "The one who calls up is blue, and the one who bows down is reckless. "Where does your soul go? The vast wilderness!" "..." Vaguely, I heard the voice of singing coming from the clouds and mists on the top of Vulture Mountain. It was sad and desolate, like an echo, which was indistinct and elusive, blowing into my ears with the wind one after another.Xiao Yiqing reined in her horse abruptly, turned her head to look at the Moon Palace hidden in the clouds—that is... that is the disciple of the Moon Worship Sect, singing an elegy for Jiaruo? "Hubijiaruo, the sound is loud and clear. "Thinking that his limbs are dry, everything is hot and cool. "The end of the year is over, and the end of the day is over. "I love my love, how long will it last?" "..." really.Sure enough, it was Jia Ruo's funeral, right?It's just that the lyrics are deeply sad and desolate, and who wrote them?That rose, the spindle of fate? ——However, that person is so heartbroken that he should still be unable to think and act at present, so how can he write such an elegy again... Thinking of this, he could hardly hold the rein with his hands, and sadly rode his horse back north amidst the mighty wind, the voice of chanting in his ears was endless: "The water-colored deep pupils have been restrained and hidden. "Calling the soul does not come, and it is mysterious and yellow. "If you look up, you will be green; if you look down, you will be reckless. "The years are overwhelmed, and I lost my Kalang! "The years are overwhelmed, and I lost my Jialang!" Losing the one I love forever... However, death is far more cruel than life, and who knows which one is more cruel? Xiao Yiqing went back north with the people in the building - thinking about it, it happened to be the season when Luoyang flowers were in full bloom, but in his opinion, such flowers and prosperity were already ashes. In southern Xinjiang, the sky is high and the clouds are light, the blue sky is like washing, revealing a strange bright blue color, and there are falling flowers and singing in the wind. He rode back slowly. The high priest of the Moon Worship Sect died, the temple was destroyed, the holy lake dried up, his bones were turned into ashes, and his birth mother was freed... All his intentions for going out to fight had been fulfilled, and everything seemed to be complete.However, who can know what he lost here? What he wanted to protect all his life ended up falling away without a trace like quicksand between his fingers. "Xi Lv Lv..." When he was in a daze, there was a sound of reining in the horse ahead, and he felt that the team stopped suddenly, as if they had encountered some obstacles and stopped moving forward.Xiao Yiqing's brows couldn't help but slightly frowned, and the control rein stepped forward to check: "Why did it stop?" "Lord..." The disciples moved away one after another, but for the first time, they were not afraid of his gaze, and there was a smile in their eyes.Even Bi Luo, who was leading the team in front, opened his eyebrows that had been locked up for the past few days because of the dying of the world of mortals. Looking at him, he smiled slightly, and turned his horse's head around to make way for him: "Lord, Someone is blocking the way." "Who?" He rode his horse over and came to the front of the team, and before he could finish a sentence, he suddenly froze—— In front of him, on the sloping path down from Vulture Mountain, was a scarlet robe like blood.The woman sat on the horse, holding the reins with one hand, and blocked the road ahead of the team. There was no expression on her pale and haggard face, she just looked at this side lightly, her eyes were filled with happiness and sadness, so deep that she couldn't see to the end. At that moment, he suddenly felt unable to breathe. "Congratulations to the landlord and Miss Jing for pacifying Southern Xinjiang, and we will go and return together!" In the moment of silence, in order to break the stagnant atmosphere, Bi Luo suddenly dismounted, knelt down on one knee, and congratulated loudly. His words were echoed by all the disciples of Tingxuelou, all of them got off their horses one after another, drew their knives and stood there, congratulating in unison: "Congratulations to Miss Jing, the landlord, for pacifying southern Xinjiang, and we will go and return together!" Amid such congratulations, Xiao Yiqing closed her eyes for a moment, as if she was calming down the intense emotion in her heart.In the end, he just rode his horse silently and walked towards her slowly.Yes, no matter what happened in the middle, but the beginning and the end, they go and return together... Anyway, at least, they are still together now. The woman in scarlet clothes glanced at him and didn't say a word. She just reined in the horse's head when he came to her side, silently walked side by side with him in the bridle, and returned north together. The Lancang River is not far ahead, after crossing Lancang, and then going north, it is the Central Plains, which is Luoyang. The flowers are blooming like a brocade, and the prosperity is like a dream. Life and death follow each other, go and return together - in the rumors of martial arts, in the eyes of those children, this should be another good story among people. But who knows, even though they returned together, in the hearts of the two of them, there are some things that will remain in Nanjiang forever, and they will never come back.