Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Funan

As soon as the words came out, the bamboo forest abode fell into silence. Funan's face changed instantly, but he didn't say a word, his hand was tightly grasping the saber. Such a murderous sentence, like a sharp dagger, pried open the door of revenge that he had suppressed and closed for many years. He only felt that the countless murderous intent and hatred in his heart were surging after years of brewing. Come up. Like previous priests, Master Yunxi has two disciples: Liu Guang, the first disciple, and Funan, the second disciple.However, Priest Yunxi has a quirky temper, is domineering and has always been a loner, and has rarely taught these two disciples spells.Occasionally, when I think about it, I just sent them to the library of the temple to study by themselves, let alone teach them by precept and example.

Liu Guang is three years older than him, and he has been sensible since he was a child. Even if the master doesn't teach him, he will learn it consciously, and his spells will advance quickly. And he was very playful at that time, and he didn't know how great power those spell books symbolized. He only hoped that the master would never notice his existence, so that he could play around when he had time every day. The most visited place is the White Stone Palace of the leader Shenche. In that cold and silent moon palace, the adults did not care about each other, and there were few people of the same age.And the other goddess, Miubi, has an introverted personality, and only spends time in the library every day.So their two children of similar age became each other's only friends.

However, the good times did not last long.When he was ten years old, a Han girl suddenly came to the Moon Palace.The master loved the child in red so much that he deposed Shen Che without hesitation, and made the child named Tian Lai the leader. And there is a very strict rule in the religion - when the new leader succeeds, if the former leader is still alive, he must be imprisoned in the red lotus prison in the holy lake to prevent future troubles. He begged bitterly, but the master ignored him and walked away. He watched Ah Che being pushed into the ground of the holy lake, but he was powerless and did not dare to openly resist his master's decision.

The water dungeon was shut down abruptly, and since then he lost his only playmate, as well as his respect and love for his master. Uncharacteristically, he began to work hard to learn spells, locked himself in the temple, and studied the secrets of spells day and night—however, for some reason, his progress was very slow, and he almost went mad several times. "You have malicious intentions in your heart, how can you gain insight into the way of heaven?" On that day, when he fell into the devil and vomited blood because he forcibly comprehended the shadow tracing technique, Liu Guang once again rescued him and sighed sadly, "Actually... I also Same."

He froze for a moment, and couldn't help thinking: In fact, Liu Guang was probably also troubled by such a hopeless life, right?No matter how hard he works, he can't surpass his master in his lifetime. He hated his master more and more—that devil-like powerful and arbitrary man, haunting the hearts of the two teenagers like a nightmare.What's more frightening is that he knows that the master will not die unless he meets a stronger warlock. The depression and anger accumulated in his heart, he left Vulture Mountain angrily, and wandered aimlessly - he was afraid that if he stayed in the Moon Palace, he would uncontrollably attack his master rashly and seek his own death.

That kind of wandering life in southern Xinjiang lasted for a long time, but it was quite rewarding. Until that day when he suddenly received the new moon order, he was forced to return to Vulture Mountain urgently, and was summoned into the temple by the new leader in red—at that time, the reclusive master hadn’t shown up for nearly half a year. With a new round of retreat.And after retreating, that monster-like priest will become stronger again. That night, he and Liu Guang were summoned to the temple, where they met the girl leader in red and ten gray-haired elders beside her.Suddenly, the two of them were ambushed.

What a cold and bloody night it was... He still can't get it out of his mind. Many years later, on a night when manjusawa was in full bloom, the twenty-year-old him quietly stared at the girl who had returned from hell before him, and sighed silently—is this Ah Che?That Ah Che who was imprisoned in the red lotus prison? The light flickered, reflecting the face of the girl in white, Funan suddenly took a deep breath. Changed... totally changed. The eyes under the lamp are still clear, black and white, but they are no longer the innocent and innocent of the past.At first glance, it seems to be the shimmering holy lake under the clear sky, full of red lotuses transformed from undead, shining with a clear and indescribable evil spirit.

Shen Che looked at him with a smile: "Funan, I hate that little leaf! Help me kill her!" Saying such words, her expression was relaxed, as if life and death were just as easy as flipping the palm of your hand.There was light in those big eyes, and hatred and lightness were so strangely blended together. Funan didn't make a sound, and turned to look at the dark moon palace - he could understand Ah Che's hatred. Nearly ten years have passed since Shen Che was imprisoned underwater for so long, from a child who didn't know anything to the beautiful girl she is today.The best years of her life were spent in the dark, never seeing the light of day, never dying—how could she not hate the girl in red who took everything away?

But...but... As soon as he closed his eyes, the blood of that night spread all over the sky, making him unable to breathe. "No." In the end, he put his hand down from the hilt of the sword, shook his head slightly, and said in a cold voice, "I have sworn not to kill anyone again..." Shen Che was startled, and suddenly covered his mouth and laughed: "Oh? Don't kill him? You really don't look like Yun Xi's disciple..." As soon as the word "Yunxi" was uttered, Funan's body shook suddenly, as if someone had suddenly dug out the wound he didn't want to mention—he suddenly remembered the look in his master's eyes when he finally fell into the underwater prison.

Betrayed by the person he loves most, at the last moment, he and Tian Lai could be killed, why did the master stop again? Because of that narrow escape, over the years, every time he thinks about it, he can't help but tremble. The hatred he has had for his master since he was a child has disappeared.Today, since Shen Che has come out, the master should naturally be out of trouble, right? Thinking of this, I couldn't help but blurt out: "Master...where is he now?" "Hee, do you miss him very much?" Shen Che laughed, but raised his slender fingers silently, pointing to the sky above the night, "He should be there now—or," she turned her finger and pointed to the ground, " here."

died? At that moment, these two words appeared in Funan's mind, but he was speechless for a while. How is it possible... How is it possible?People like Master will die too? "Funan, are you willing to help me?" Before he could recover, Shen Che asked again. Her eyes shone like waves under the lamp, faintly revealing a strangeness. He shook his head very slowly. "Why?" Seeing him like this, Shen Che was obviously annoyed, he raised his head suddenly, his eyes were like knives, "I came to you first when I escaped from that ghostly place! You...you don't want to help me ?” Funan stared at the white-clothed girl under the lamp, but his eyes slowly became serious, and he said word by word: "Ache, tell me——was it you who killed Priest Yunxi?" She froze for a moment, not expecting the other party to ask such a question suddenly.After a long time, a smile slowly emerged from the corner of his mouth, and he nodded. "Where did you get your strength?" Funan stared at her with more serious eyes, "Tell me, where did you get your strength!" Shen Che stood up instantly as if being burned by fire, and said sharply, "Don't worry about it!" "You are possessed...Ache, you are possessed!" Looking at the hunched girl in white, Funan seemed to have fire burning in his eyes, and said sharply, "Tell me, what did you do to escape? You Where does the power come from!" The screeching sound was stopped by a lightning-like sword strike. As if completely enraged, Shen Che raised his right hand, a white light flashed from his sleeve, and he struck his head with a sword! Funan was already vigilant at the moment when the murderous look flashed in her eyes. At this moment, the toes touched the ground, drifted back instantly, and at the same time drew his sword like lightning.However, even though he retreated quickly, the oncoming breath still suffocated him - what kind of evil spirit and resentment is this? As soon as he retreated, he retreated out of the window and put his feet on the tall spinosa tree outside the courtyard. Yaya, who had just fallen asleep on the tree, was startled, screamed in panic, and flew around its owner rustlingly. "Go." Funan waved his hand to make the crow sit quietly on another tree, stroked his throat with his hand back, panting continuously - there, a little rice grain-sized blood had already appeared on the pale skin. Looking at the drop of blood on his fingertip, Funan's face changed slightly: What kind of sword is this!Obviously the sword glow hadn't touched his skin yet, but it seemed as if a ghost was biting his throat, sucking blood forcefully! "Good skill." Shen Che smiled at him, stepped lightly on the corner of the eaves with his stooped body, an unexpected light flashed in his eyes, and he smiled secretly, "It's clearly not the swordsmanship of the Moon Worship School... Where are you from?" The power you got?" The moonlight in July and a half was bright and clear. She looked up and smiled under the moonlight, and the moonlight shone on the "long sword" in her hand. ——Where is the sword? It's clearly a sharp white bone! "Actually, if you don't help me, I can still go to that goblin to settle the score." A smile appeared on the corner of Shen Che's mouth, he bent his body, looked at his own toes, and there was a hint of brisk malice in his voice, "I killed you After taking a breath, I walked out of the ground from the holy lake along the water veins, and unexpectedly I saw you at the first sight..." Her voice lowered, but her eyes were full of disappointment: "I, I thought that even after ten years, even if everyone left me alone - you will always help me." Funan stood on the branch of the spinosa tree, the long sword in his hand slowly drooping: "No, this won't work." After a pause, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "When I was expelled from the Moon Palace three years ago, I made a blood oath: I will never draw my sword against anyone in the sect in this life, otherwise..." This time the pause was as long as a lifetime, and finally he said it: "Otherwise, Liu Guang will die." Streamer?Shen Che froze for a moment, and after a long time, he found that vague shadow in his memory. Yes Yes.At that time, there was another boy in the Moon Palace.He is older than Funan and is the eldest disciple of Priest Yunxi.That young man was silent and gentle, obsessed with spells, and never came to play with her. He remembered that when she sank to the bottom of the lake, he was already thirteen years old and had considerable attainments in spells. "Liu Guang fell into the hands of that goblin?" She understood a little bit, but was surprised, "Then why are you doing well?" Such a question made Funan's body tremble suddenly, and he almost couldn't stand still. After that night three years ago, why didn't Liu Guang come back...and why is he still alive? "I am a cowardly person..." The shadow of the spinosa tree casts on the face, but Funan's eyes are shining in the shadow, muttering to himself, "I am afraid of pain, afraid of death... so I surrendered. I betrayed Master... I first lost Liu Guang, then, and then I lost you..." That night, as soon as he returned from wandering in the southern border, he and Liu Guang were summoned into the temple by the leader in red—then, without warning, ten respected elders joined forces to ambush the two teenagers! It turned out that cutting off Yu Xi's wings was their first step in dealing with the priest. It was an outnumbered battle. The two children who hadn't even really mastered the spell fought back with all their might, but what they were facing were the ten elders of the Senate and that weird red-clothed girl. In the end... How about the end?He looked at the bright moon in the sky, and suddenly broke into a low, wry smile. After being captured that time, he and Liu Guang suffered all kinds of torture. The girl in red used the condition of releasing Ah Che to lure him, making him turn against his master and assassinate his master. At the age of seventeen, he was afraid of death, and finally gave in to such conditions. . But Liu Guang didn't. That night, according to the plan, he went to lure Yun Xi into the trap, handed him the tea poisoned with dragon's blood, and watched the master drink it.In the end, he personally participated in the attack jointly launched by the ten elders, and watched with his own eyes the girl in red strangled Yun Xi's throat, smiled viciously, and pushed the priest to the bottom of the water. The red lotus prison suddenly opened, and then closed instantly. Countless undead roared under the water, excitedly biting everything that fell into the water. At that moment, he saw the girl in white clothes locked at the bottom of the dark water—the girl whom he hadn't seen for many years was raising her head in surprise, staring at the open prison door on the top, thinking that she would be free. He called her name and wanted to pull her out—but when his fingers touched the surface of the holy lake, he was frightened by the violent evil spirits and hesitated...just for a moment, as the last-breathing priest fell, The door of the secret room of Hell shuts with a bang. "I gave you a chance," the girl in red looked at him who was in a daze, and sneered at him mockingly, "You were the one who retreated, don't blame me...it's really useless." In that dark night, after all the bloodshed and killings were over, facing the empty lake and the cold moon in the sky, the seventeen-year-old sat down slumped, looking at his master's blood-stained hands, he suddenly felt sleepy. Roaring like a beast, tears streaming down his face - for his cowardice and incompetence, for the creed in his heart being trampled and shattered, and for those who left him one by one. He, who was once proud and arrogant, encountered the darkest moment in his life that night, and all his confidence and dignity were crushed to pieces.He already has nothing, is nothing. The next day he was expelled from the Moon Palace and left Vulture Mountain alone. The congregation were all surprised why the leader of Tianlai, who has always been ruthless, spared him, but they didn't know that in the eyes of the girl in red, this cowardly and incompetent boy was already a non-threatening waste-seeing the person who cared in front of his eyes. Purgatory, but dare not stretch out his hand, what else can such a person do? What's more, Liu Guang was still detained in the Moon Palace Temple, so he dared to do something. After that night three years ago, Liu Guang never came back...but he was still alive and well. Such a question from Shen Che caused severe pain in his heart, making him almost unable to stand and fall from the tree. "At that time, I kept telling myself that the reason I betrayed Master was only to save you..." Funan paused, sneered, and looked at the sword in his hand: "It was only later that I realized that I was deceiving myself! No, Not for you—just for myself. Che, I was terrified of dying...so I gave in." "It's like when I was ten years old and watched you being imprisoned in the Red Lotus Prison, but I didn't dare to jump out to resist the master. I kept telling myself that it was to save you... In fact, it was just to make myself feel at ease. .” Standing on the spinosa tree, staring at the full moon in July and a half, Funan sighed in a low voice: “So, at the last moment, I still don’t have the courage to pull you out of the red lotus hell.” He lowered his head, not daring to look at the deformed girl standing hunched over on the eaves: "I... am really a coward." "Okay... let's not talk about this." Shen Che didn't speak, but suddenly smiled after a while, jumped lightly, fell from the eaves to the top of the spinulus tree, looked at Funan, "I have something for you." "What?" Funan was a little confused by her surprise and joy—however, he was soon shocked by her again. "This, this is...!" Looking at the object in Shen Che's hand, he was speechless. It was a silver brow ring intertwined with patterns of manjusawa, engraved with intricate and intricate incantations, it was extremely exquisite - in the center of the brow ring, a fiery red gemstone was inlaid, shining brightly under the moonlight. This is clearly one of the three treasures of the teaching "Moon Soul"! "At the last moment, I tore this off Yun Xi—without it, no one would be able to be a priest!" Shen Che laughed triumphantly, stood on tiptoe at the moment Funan lost his mind, and gently lifted the forehead ring Putting it on his forehead, "Look, I'm back to be the leader—you will be my priest, okay?" As soon as the jeweled brow ring was put on his forehead, a strong spiritual power surged in, instantly making him in a trance. "No...no way." Funan staggered a bit, supported his body with his sword, and subconsciously pushed the brow ring with his other hand, resisting, "I can't...you will, you will..." His sanity was a little slack, but he tried his best, and finally tore off the forehead ring and threw it to the ground. "Why not!" As if stimulated, Shen Che's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he screamed sharply, pushing and shoving the boy who resisted him, "I don't want you to kill people anymore, now as long as you are a priest, why don't you listen! If you are disobedient, you treat me badly... If you treat me badly, I will kill you!" Funan tried his best to look up at her, the clear and joyful gaze from a moment ago had disappeared, replaced by a gloomy and crazy look, as if... He hesitated for a moment, searching in his memory.But what emerged in front of his eyes was the crazy smile of the girl in red at the moment Master Yun Xi fell into the dungeon three years ago. "I'm not a priest." He calmed down, leaned against the spinulus tree, closed his eyes, and replied lightly. "Why!" Without looking, he could also feel that the bone sword was aimed at his throat. "When you become a priest, you will become an immortal monster...I don't want that kind of life." A sad smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he shook his head, "Besides, Ah Che, you also put a puppet on your forehead ring Art! You, you actually want to manipulate me through puppet insects?" He spread his hand, and there was a transparent thing twisting slightly in the palm of his hand. Now that the words have come to this point, a breakup seems inevitable. "..." Shen Che was silent for a while, then laughed suddenly, and said in a soft voice, "Heh, you are very smart. I have dealt with you for so long, and you don't like hard and soft... You are really difficult to deal with." With such a tone, Funan, who closed his eyes and rested his mind, was shocked, and opened his eyes instantly! ——No, it's not right...it's not right at all!This is not Ah Che's tone!Who is that talking? Opening his eyes, he immediately met the gaze of the girl in white. And those eyes were completely unfamiliar, full of contempt and resentment, which seemed to have accumulated for hundreds of years. "Who are you? You're not Ah Che!" Shocked, he drew his sword backhand before he had time to think, but he didn't know where to stab. Ya Ya has been looking around for a long time, as if he has always harbored deep hostility towards this unexpected visitor, and he did not go up to talk to Shen Che uncharacteristically.At this moment, at the moment when the two of them were at war, suddenly, there was a scream, and a black shadow flew towards them like lightning. "Damn it!" Shen Che screamed, and his strikes were like lightning.Just hearing the scream of Gadi, the crow flew away from behind her. However, the clothes on her back were also pecked open by Yaya with her sharp beak! "Ah?!" Funan cried out in surprise, looking at the things on Shen Che's back. In the dark night, a large piece of clothes was torn off, revealing the snow-white skin on the back, but behind Shen Che's jet-black hair, there was a faint green light that slowly lit up, sneering at him—— There, on Shen Che's smooth back, was a baby sitting impressively! The baby was only one foot tall, with a curled up and withered body, riding on Shenche's back, holding Shenche's cervical spine and the back of his head with small hands like chicken feet, and firmly attached to his back! Such a small child, covered under the long hair, doesn't look very prominent - no wonder A Che looked like a deformed man suffering from rickets just now. "Ga————" Yaya suffered from pain, and kept spinning around the tree, making pitiful screams of different lengths. The crow has always had an amazing intuition for disasters, and now it has identified this ominous target, and screamed at it. The baby girl riding on her back raised her head and smiled at him, with a cold light in her one eye—that kind of gaze made Funan feel chills in his heart.This... what is this?I've searched through the classics of teaching methods, but I have never seen such a technique that absorbs on a person and controls a person through the spine and brain!