From Lin Manlu's eyes, Qu Wuming saw her ignorance about him, and also saw the silent affection between her and senior brother Lu Mao, and understood that the reunion he had been waiting for for three hundred years was probably just a matter of time. It could be a mirror image.
She is back, but she is no longer her.
Qu Wuming had fantasized about what it would be like to reunite with her countless times, and this ending was one of them.
Moreover, it is the most likely one.
But when this scene actually happened, Qu Wuming was still a little hard to accept it.
His heart seemed to be hollowed out all of a sudden, and then he felt loss, hesitation, sadness... Various complex emotions suddenly surged into his heart, tugging at him repeatedly, almost tearing Qu Wuming's heart into pieces. .
After all, in the past fantasy, even if there was a sad ending, it was not the real ending after all, and there was always a glimmer of hope left in the future.
At this moment, the last glimmer of hope had disappeared in Lin Manlu's smile just now...
Qu Ming stands silently.
Then he turned around and left as if he was lost.
He even forgot to refill the Lin family's clear frost sword with his own mana and spiritual power.
This relationship is over.
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"Worship heaven and earth!"
The voice of the master of ceremonies sounded, and the newlyweds stood up again, each holding the two ends of a red silk, and bowed down.
"Two thanks to Gaotang!"
Lin Manlu turned around, bowed deeply to her master and father who were sitting in the hall, and turned around to stand again.
"Couple greetings!"
the master of ceremonies shouted with joy.
At this moment, Lin Manlu suddenly turned her head to look at the guests again, but the lonely figure just now was no longer there.
"Why is he missing?" Lin Manlu's heart suddenly hurt, as if she had lost something extremely precious. She hurriedly took off her hijab, revealing her beautiful face underneath, just to be able to see it more clearly.
"What's wrong with you? Why did you lift the hijab?" Lin Zhennan asked in a low voice.
"Man Lu, what's going on? How can you unveil yourself during a wedding?!" Lin Man Lu's master said with a displeased look on his face.
"Who are you looking for?" Lu Mao, the groom's official, who was still short of a gift, looked unhappy and looked around the crowd.
"Where are the others? Why are they missing?" Lin Manlu felt her heart twitching, and she searched anxiously among the crowd. If it weren't for senior brother Lu Mao who kept holding one of her hands and couldn't get rid of it, Lin Manlu would have wanted to fly there. Go outside and chase that man back and ask him face to face who he is!
"Junior sister! What's wrong with you?! Put the hijab on quickly, we haven't finished the ceremony yet!" Lu Mao pulled Lin Manlu to his side, picked up the red gauze on the ground and tried to cover her.
But before his hand touched Lin Manlu's hair, his expression suddenly changed and he stopped in the air.
Because between Lin Manlu's eyebrows, a sword-shaped mark appeared at this moment, and then a dazzling white light bloomed.
A wave of air suddenly surged out with Lin Manlu as the center. Senior Brother Lu Mao and the wedding officiant who were closest were hit directly in the chest by the air wave, and the two of them spat out a mouthful of blood and flew backwards.
The rolling air waves blew away all the furnishings in the front hall, and even the large open doors and windows flew far away during the rolling air waves, causing many guests to scream.
In an instant, the front yard of Fuwei Escort Agency was filled with smoke and dust.
When the smoke and dust dissipated, the guests either covered their mouths and noses or coughed and gathered around again, only to see that Lin Manlu had fallen into the arms of her father Lin Zhennan, with a milky white mark still shining between her eyebrows.
Moreover, the mark seemed to be changing shape rapidly, sometimes it was an exquisite small sword, sometimes it was a strange beast with dragon horns, which made all the guests marvel.
But the Lin family father and son shouted in panic, go and find the doctor quickly...
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A few days later, Lin Manlu was wearing an elegant outfit, a black cloak with a hood, a large bamboo hat on her head, and a veil on her face to cover her beautiful face.
Lin Manlu tightened the package behind her, lowered her head and silently led the horse, turned around and stopped at the door of Fuwei Escort Agency, clasped her fists to her father and brother and said, "You can stay."
"Manlu..." Lin Zhennan had tears in his eyes, half reluctant and half worried. He was about to say something, but was interrupted by Lin Manlu.
"Father, father." Lin Manlu's father's voice seemed a little forced, "When I find him, I will come back to see you."
When Lin Zhennan heard this, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and said in a trembling voice: "Thank you so much for calling me father... The mountains are high and the rivers are long, you have to pay more attention to your safety!"
"Don't worry, I will."
Lin Manlu was silent for a moment, a trace of sadness that did not belong to her flashed in her eyes, and she said in a deep voice: "I know that this matter is indeed a bit unpleasant for you. But she is my reincarnation, but I can't choose it. Now. , her memory has become my memory, but I am still just me after all. From now on, you should still call me Lin Wanqing..."
After saying this, Lin Wanqing got on her horse and drove away with her whip raised. A long sword hung at her waist bumped up and down as the horses ran, and the scabbard was also engraved with two simple yet powerful words: Qingshuang.
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At this moment, Qu Wuming was driving the shuttle hidden in the sky, flying rapidly towards the north.
Behind the shuttle, a long and narrow milky white cloud was dragged out in the distance, which could not be dispersed in the sky for a long time.
The final destination of Qu Wuming's trip was Youdu Mountain, a special mountain range in the northern ocean of the Eastern Continent.
The far north of the Eastern Continent is a vast continent inhabited by monsters. However, beyond the vast world of monsters, there is a magical ocean called Xuanshui.
Xuan Shui is like ink, and the feathers cannot float.
It is said that there is a fairy island in Xuanshui, which appears every seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and disappears into the void again after seven or forty-nine days.
There is a mountain on the island called Youdu Mountain.
The mountain of Youdu is tens of thousands of miles wide, where the yin energy gathers, ghosts and monsters are rampant, and the sky is dark all day long.
In this mountain of Youdu, there is a special place called Jiuquan Mountain.
There is Linghu Lake on Jiuquan Mountain, with a radius of ten miles, which is called Minghu Lake. All the Yin Qi on the Youdu Mountain evaporates from the Underworld Lake - because the Underworld Lake is not just a pool of water, but a passage connecting the Underworld Realm and the Ten Directions Realm.
The Underworld Breaking Talisman that Lu Ling gave to Qu Wuming is the only tool used to open a passage on the Underworld Lake and go to the Underworld.
Nowadays, although there is still a long time before the Youdu Mountain appears, the journey is far away, but Qu Wuming does not dare to delay.
What's more, along the way, he would pass by the vast and dangerous area of the Far North, and Qu Wuming did not dare to neglect it.
Because the power of the monsters hidden in that far north land is so powerful that even people in the Void Refining Stage dare not set foot there easily.
The reason why it is said that only people in the Void Refining Stage are qualified to enter the Underworld is not only because the Underworld itself is full of dangers, but a larger part of the reason is because of this extremely northern land - only people in the Void Refining Stage can walk along it. Several special routes make it easier to pass safely. As for those with low cultivation levels, stepping into the far north may mean that life may end at any time.
Snowy City in the Northern Territory is the place where Qu Wuming must stay before setting foot in the far north.
Even though he was flying the shuttle almost nonstop, it took Qu Wuming more than twenty days to finally approach the northern border.
Although the Northern Territory is not as populous and dotted with cities as other parts of Middle-earth, it is not desolate.
If someone can look at the Eastern Continent from space, they will find that the shape of the Eastern Continent is like an irregular, huge gourd. This big "gourd" is large in the south and small in the north. There is a line of mountains in the middle to the north. There is a continuous high snow-capped mountain range running from east to west, seeming to divide the entire "gourd" into two halves.
That snow-capped mountain range also has a domineering name - Hengduan Mountains because of its special direction and majestic momentum.
The so-called Northern Territory refers to all the vast territory south of the Hengduan Mountains in the "Gourd" slim waist area.
Although it is above the slender waist of "Gourd", this area is still vast. In the entire Northern Territory, there have been eighteen large cities vaguely arranged in three rows from west to east since ancient times. Each of them governs a large area. Even the smallest city among them has an area comparable to that of a medium-sized country in the south.
These eighteen cities are not independent cities.
But a position.
A position that protects the entire human race in the Eastern Continent.
Every few years to decades, a large number of monsters will form a tide and try to cross the three low mountain passes of the Hengduan Mountains and rush towards the areas where humans live together, devouring the flesh and blood of ordinary humans and hunting for human beings. Cultivators, if these eighteen cities did not stick to the line of the Hengduan Mountains, most of the Eastern Continent might become a paradise for monsters to wreak havoc.
The far north on the north side of the Hengduan Mountains is not all ice and snow. On the contrary, the farther you get away from the Hengduan Mountains, the more diverse the landforms and climates there will become——
There are barren deserts and gloomy swamps, as well as vast forests and rolling mountains, filled with poisonous insects and beasts;
There are vast expanses of wilderness and rolling hills, as well as running rivers and dotted lakes. There are herds of wild deer, galloping wild horses, flying birds, and numerous fish and shrimps;
There are no less than a hundred large and small volcanoes there, some of which are filled with lava and poisonous smoke all year round...
More importantly, the spiritual energy there is very abundant.
If there is a lot of aura in the Eastern Continent, then at least six percent of it is in the far north.
Therefore, it has been a paradise for monsters since ancient times.
Whenever the number of monsters in the Far North begins to become a little "crowded" and food becomes scarce, many monster kings will appear and gather their blood and descendants into a huge tide of beasts, flooding into the Eastern Region. To the south of the continent, hunt for human food.
If most parts of the Hengduan Mountains were not covered with thousands of snow-capped mountains, making it difficult for birds to cross, and if humans had not built eighteen cities in succession near the three mountain passes to resist the beast tide, I am afraid that there would not be a prosperous human society in the Eastern Continent today. .
Of course, it is not that the powerful cultivators among humans have never tried to take the initiative and go deep into the far north to eliminate all those monsters. It's just that all attempts have failed in the end.
Snowy City in Northern Xinjiang is the first barrier built by humans in front of the largest mountain pass in the Hengduan Mountains.
Although it is located at the forefront of defense against beast tides in the Far North, and has been one of the most intense places to fight against the beast tides, the population of Snowy City in Northern Xinjiang is one of the eighteen cities in Northern Xinjiang. most.
The reason is simply that this is the most dangerous front line, and it is also the most rewarding place to obtain monster materials and demon pills, as well as go to the far north to hunt for treasures and explore.
If there are huge benefits to attract, people who like adventure will gather.
Over the years, Snowy City in Northern Xinjiang has gradually become the largest city in Northern Xinjiang. There are more than 300,000 ordinary people among the permanent residents alone, and the garrison here far exceeds that of the eighteen cities in Northern Xinjiang. Any city.
The huge population means that there is an active market here, whether it is for ordinary people's daily necessities, or for monks in various trading shops, auction houses, elixir shops, weapon refining shops, and business in the snowy city of Northern Xinjiang. All very hot.
Qu Wuming, as a casual cultivator, would often travel around for spiritual stones and treasures, so the Snowy City of Northern Xinjiang was naturally a place he used to come to.
At this time, when he returned to Snowy City in Northern Xinjiang, Qu Wuming felt as if he was going home and headed straight to the west of the city...
