The terrain of Xueyan Valley is well understood by Ma in the valley. It is true that the speed and endurance of Xun are excellent, but it cannot withstand the physical exertion of the ups and downs of the terrain. Wu Yuangui's horse is also a good horse. Even if there are thousands of horses, you can't pick one like this. Along a shallow trickle, the distance between him and Mu Wan gradually narrowed.
Xun suddenly turned around and rushed toward Wu Yuangui. His sword and its sharp tail scraped together, making a harsh sound like metal. They circled around the river bank, no one dismounting first.
"Hand over Yun Waijing." Wu Yuangui said expressionlessly, "You can still save a life."
"When Master was alive, he taught you how to betray your friends and how to survive in the world?"
Mu Wan held up the umbrella and said viciously. Wu Yuangui clenched the sword in his hand, gritted his teeth, and finally burst out into an unbearable cry.
"Liangqiu Muwan! I'm so disappointed in you!"
"Me too! I'm so disappointed!" She yelled back, "Disappointed in you, and disappointed in me. Disappointed that I even had a glimmer of hope for people like you. All I have left is disgusting now!"
"I won't talk nonsense to you. I know you came back with a mirror. If you don't give it to me, not only the few of you who came back will die! Aren't you the most loyal person? How many innocent people do you want to get involved with?" life?"
"I believe your bullshit! I knew you would kidnap my mother and Xie Hualing. Now you have the nerve to say that I let innocent people take their lives? Master is all innocent? Yan Muxue is all innocent? You can only follow that monster Can you learn such a dirty trick? Look at you, how can you still be like that now!"
Wu Yuangui was probably really angry. His temples were pounding on both sides, his hands were so angry that he couldn't hold the sword steady, his lips were trembling, and sparks could come out of his teeth. He tried hard to suppress his anger, but suddenly he laughed angrily and said abruptly:
"I don't have human appearance? Okay, okay, okay...very good, very good. According to you, from the moment Master She found me, I can no longer consider myself a human being? To tell you the truth, I was also the one who gave Yingyue Lord an opportunity to take advantage of him, cooperate inside and outside, and let him capture Master."
The night was extremely dark, and the light reflected by the surrounding snow was very weak. For some reason, Mu Wan's eyes were filled with white.
Also... the Xue Yan Sect is relatively secluded from the world, but it is by no means defenseless. How could there be no one in the sect who could stop the impermanence of the six paths? Yingyue Jun probably sneaked in and got a chance to get close to the leader, so he secretly acted. Otherwise, how could the master who dared to fight with Lord Shuangyue fail to fight to a draw with this child and be seriously injured...unless he was defenseless.
Mu Wan should have thought of it long ago. As long as the master disappears, the important responsibility will naturally fall on Wu Yuangui. And he also pretended to be seriously injured and ignored Yingyue Jun's actions. Anyone who came to save people would be beaten. Otherwise, even if it was just a gathering of people, Yingyue-Jun would not be able to come in and out so safely...
"Ah..." Mu Wan sighed unconsciously, "Yes, is that so... that's true."
Seeing that she was in a daze, Wu Yuangui took the opportunity to rush forward on his horse. A wall of ice suddenly appeared in front of Mu Wan, who seemed unprepared, rushing from the side. The sword penetrated the ice and stopped just in front of Mu Wan. Wu Yuangui was a little flustered and withdrew the sword with force, and the ice wall shattered.
The black Han Shui Ji was staring at this side of the river at some point. It's almost impossible to see its shadow clearly in this night. It stared at him alertly, not knowing whether it had been planning for a long time or had just appeared.
"When...forget it. You have grown up somewhat."
"Yes, thanks to you." Mu Wan said sadly.
"...I don't have to be like this." Wu Yuangui looked melancholy, "But it was the revenge of killing my father - you said that the master and senior sister you love are not innocent, so do the parents I love deserve to die?"
"I thought you felt Master's love, felt Master's love... But no. You always hold on to things in the past, and hold on to a small part of your life. I have tried very hard to understand you - —Just like what happened with my dad. I have been missing the days when he was with us. But, if none of this had happened, maybe I wouldn’t have come to Xue Yan Sect, and I wouldn’t have everything I have now. I insist Speaking of which, it’s better to just let nature take its own course if you can’t do anything about it. And you were taken advantage of by the monster.”
"I thought you had no conscience. Your father is so pitiful that you forgot him like this. Is your heart made of frost and snow?"
"I haven't forgotten that I also hate the imperial court. But that was what I thought when I was young. I still don't like it now, but I know the reason why those people are in charge of the imperial court. On the contrary, you, the master, are clearly repenting and redeeming, but you don't do anything at all. I can’t cover your heart.”
"Yes, I know. You want to say that he is young and ignorant, and my father is also ignorant. They are wrong, they are all wrong - our generation should not be implicated. If Yan Muxue is here, she knows These must be this set of rhetoric. I know you, I know you too well. She Ji told me since I was a child that I should never forget this hot blood feud for a moment. I have not forgotten it, not every moment, but it is too hot , I’m so hot that I don’t know what to do.”
"Well, yes, you have difficulties with..., right? You all have difficulties. I have nothing to say."
"But I clearly feel that - I also feel that our generation shouldn't be involved. I hate She Ji occasionally, you know? I hate why he told me the truth and made me suffer from him under hatred. At your mercy. If he hadn't appeared, I would have been able to fight with you sincerely without any pretense. Maybe I would have gone on with Yan Muxue instead of...killing her."
Mu Wan actually sneered sincerely. She shook her head to herself, raised her head and glanced at the night. The stars are so beautiful, one by one, so bright and yet so far away from each other. Although Senior Sister Yan is hot-blooded, she is also somewhat artistic. She once compared the stars to eyes, each twinkling was like blinking. But at that time, Mu Wan really didn't understand that the stars were so small and all alone, how could they be compared with the eyes. It would be too terrifying to imagine that the sky was filled with human eyes at night, and she couldn't figure it out.
But for some reason, she suddenly felt today that that metaphor couldn't be more appropriate. She felt that her senior sister, her master, her father, and the passers-by who had died in front of her eyes were all in the sky, and they were all staring at her with wide eyes and tenderness, blinking.
Seeing that Mu Wan remained silent, Wu Yuangui continued:
"I think you also liked me in the past."
"Are you trying to rely on old love to impress me and ask me to hand over Yun Waijing? This move is inappropriate and the abacus is not clear."
"Yun Waijing is not on you."
Wu Yuangui looked at her contemptuously, smiling slightly but not smiling at all. Mu Wan lowered her gaze and stared boldly into his eyes. She didn't panic or argue, she just stared at him blankly.
"I think you are probably stalling for time." Wu Yuangui continued, "The mirror may be at Taoist Master Lin's place... You may want to deliberately push me away. But it doesn't matter, the mirror is more dangerous at their place. In the end, I'm ready to laugh at how far you can go with what you like and what you want to protect."
Mu Wan let out a cold lament. She did not answer this sentence, but continued what she said before:
"When I was ignorant, I did like you. I even remember the time when Master joked about remembering the baby's kiss."
"Hmph...are you serious?"
"No longer taking it seriously."
Never take it seriously again.
The stars were still bright, but at a certain moment, they all extinguished in Mu Wan's heart. It was like those close relatives closed their eyes at the same time. But sparse snow slowly fell from the sky. Small, white, like the tears of stars.
Wu Yuangui's sneer turned into a bitter smile, and he shook his head and said, "In your eyes, I am no longer your senior brother, right?"
"No need. If I stop treating you as a human being, all this will become insignificant."
"Heh, whatever you say."
"I don't find it strange that inhuman things do inhuman things. It's just a pity that all the senior brothers and sisters in the whole valley - they don't have to cover their eyes with you."
"They... there are many terrible medicines in the Death Shadow Pavilion, which were used on your Senior Sister Yao. Even I don't know what they are. She Ji kept it secret from me, so I knew it. He helped me come up and get it. After all, everything is not in my hands. I'm afraid what he will do to Quan Gu's disciples, and all of this will happen to me sooner or later. If I want to give that day a name, probably call it retribution."
"...You'd better survive until that day."
Although the nature of these remarks was much more serious than before, after Mu Wan "looked away", he was no longer surprised. It was just a group of evil ghost Shura who aimed their swords at the Xue Yan Sect and their second home. This time, the fangs grew from the inside, breaking through the shiny outer skin. The teeth are dull, slow and painful, and full of dirty poison.
Through the light snowy sky, Wu Yuangui took a deep breath.
"If you want to have a fight with me, I will be with you at any time. In case I run into any trouble in the past, the monster will blame me again. I said before that I would let you go if I hand over the mirror. In my private heart, it is true. . Master She will not allow me to do this, nor will he allow others to go back alive. Therefore, it is just my wishful thinking. I remember the love between children in my childhood. Those things in my childhood - things that I have to give up. .”
Mu Wan held up his umbrella, his eyes as cold as dead stars.
"I used to have to choose between happiness and hatred and the love of my children. I always felt that I had to make a choice. Now I find that the two are basically the same thing... but I have to cut them off with my own hands."
"——If you think you can cut it off."
Han Shui Ji continuously molded the trickling water in the river into ice crystals, and blew them continuously towards Mu Wan. Those cold blue or pale fragments surrounded her and the umbrella, refracting the weak moonlight beautifully. They are slender and soft, yet cold and tough, like the prayers of frost and snow, freezing all the waves of emotions under every inch of sword light and in the sound of every blow. Snowflakes falling from the sky joined this queue one after another, as sincere and pious as some kind of blessing.
"able."
