Jiang Xuehe's situation is somewhat special.
He knew that he had a junior brother and a little junior sister who was led into the mountain gate by the master at the age of ten. But he has been dealing with his personal affairs outside and has never met his junior brothers and sisters.
The second junior brother traveled far and wide for his own reasons. The only one who truly grew up under the master's knees was Tiying.
Jiang Xuehe often heard the name of his junior sister from the paper cranes sent by his master.
When he occasionally had free time, he also thought that after he finished his own things, he would always go back and see his junior sister.
Unexpectedly, before her affairs were settled, something happened to her sect, and Tiying was left to wander this mortal world alone.
Master knew Jiang Xuehe's situation and never thought of letting Jiang Xuehe take care of Tiying. The master sent a letter to another of his disciples, asking that person to pick up Tiying; however, if Jiang Xuehe was nearby, he might as well take care of Tiying before his junior brother arrived.
The master's family was in decline, and it was difficult for the master to withdraw. He was only worried that Tiying would be wronged.
But the master probably doesn’t know that the junior sister wants to join another sect.
At this time, the night rain was a bit thick. Jiang Xuehe's eyes passed through the ghostly faces in the cave and the monsters hiding in the cold night outside the cave, and fell on the invisible sky.
The girl sleeping on his lap breathed evenly, and Jiang Xuehe moved.
He traced his fingers gently in mid-air, and his talisman drawing was far more skillful than Tiying's three-legged cat kung fu. He didn't even need talisman paper, he just wrote in the void, and in a moment, a "paper crane" glowing with green light was drawn.
The "paper crane" quickly took his words and flew up to the sky, flew out of the Five Poison Forest, and told the master that he had met the junior sister. The master just wanted to concentrate on handling the affairs of the master's sect and no longer had to worry about the junior sister.
Before his junior brother arrives to pick up his junior sister, Jiang Xuehe will definitely take good care of his little junior sister.
After doing this, Jiang Xuehe lowered his head slightly, and his eyes fell on the girl through the hood gauze curtain.
He was quiet for a long time.
For a moment, he wanted to take off his hood so he could get a closer look at her.
But the young man's hand on his knee moved slightly, and the grimace in mid-air tried to rush over to stop him - fortunately, Jiang Xuehe only moved his fingers, and he did nothing.
Jiang Xuehe raised his eyes slightly and looked at the "ghost face" in mid-air.
After a while, he said gently: "She is so afraid of you that she dare not open her eyes."
The ghostly face in mid-air showed a sad expression of crying.
Jiang Xuehe said again: "You are loyal."
But he said nothing more.
He had never spent a day in the teacher's sect, but he knew that the teachers' teachings were very complex. Tiying can draw the talisman to summon ghosts, so she must have a talent for this.
Before the junior sister is picked up, he should be able to give some guidance on her practice.
--
Jiang Xuehe thought too wonderfully.
At dawn the next day, he showed curiosity about Tiying's magic. The little girl who was rubbing her eyes in confusion after falling asleep said to him:
"You and I met on a narrow road. Do you think that if I call you 'senior brother', I am a fool and will be deceived of all my abilities? The last person who tried to trick me is already in the grave!"
Jiang Xuehe asked: "Did anyone want to deceive Junior Sister along the way?"
Tiying boasted: "How is it possible! I'm so smart and capable. Did you see the spirit last night? I became so powerful that I could summon seven or eight at once! I don't do evil, it's because I'm kind! "
Jiang Xuehe: "..."
He noticed that she was young, and when she woke up one night, her face was swollen, like a fat snow dumpling. It can be seen that yesterday's ghost-summoning technique greatly drained her spiritual energy. But with her messy hair and wide eyes threatening herself, she was really mean.
Jiang Xuehe lowered his eyes: The master's sect is at the junction of Dongzhou and Zhongzhou, and the Yujing Gate is in the middle of Dongzhou. Tiying escaped from the master's sect and must have suffered a lot. It's normal to meet some evil people who deceive her.
He had nothing to say about it.
When walking in this world, people's hearts are treacherous and demons dominate. This is how it is.
Jiang Xuehe said after a while: "From yesterday's experience, we can see that the big monster in the forest does not dare to come out openly during the day. You and I can go on our way."
Tiying rubbed her sleepy eyes and let out a sigh.
But before getting up, Tiying suddenly thought of something and grabbed Jiang Xuehe's sleeve.
Jiang Xuehe looked at her.
Tiying lowered her furry head and fiddled with her fingers: "Is that, that... spirit from last night still behind me?"
Jiang Xuehe looked up at the empty air behind her and said honestly: "No more."
Tiying immediately relaxed.
Jiang Xuehe: "Junior sister, the spiritual beings you summoned will not appear in the daytime under normal circumstances."
Tiying glanced at him in disgust.
She thought pitifully: What a pitiful country bumpkin, so ignorant.
She said: "My spells are much more powerful than others. I can do what others can't do in the daytime."
Jiang Xuehe: "That's it."
Tiying was surprised: "You don't believe me?"
She reacted as if she didn't believe she was guilty of a mortal sin.
Jiang Xuehe was stunned: "How could I ever have any doubts?"
Tiying: "You speak in a calm tone and don't blink. You clearly don't believe my words and look down on me. Do you dare to look down on me? In this fight, wasn't it me who was the one leading the charge?
"I support you! I..."
After she had been fussing for a long time, Jiang Xuehe gently interrupted: "I'm just thinking that if Junior Sister is so capable, we won't be afraid of leaving this cave. As long as Junior Sister summons the spiritual creature from last night to help us patrol around, we can't say anything today. Can get out of the Five Poison Forest."
Tiying shut up immediately.
Jiang Xuehe: "Junior sister?"
Through the hood, Jiang Xuehe could feel Tiying rolling her eyes at him.
She was very confident: "I'm super powerful! I don't need to summon a spiritual creature to take you out."
She has already assumed that Jiang Xuehe is just an embroidered pillow and has no abilities.
Jiang Xuehe did not refute.
--
Tiying hesitated for a long time, but decided to follow Jiang Xuehe and find a way out of the Five Poison Forest.
She couldn't always hide in the cave.
She came here to learn from her master, and she couldn't be defeated by Xiao Wu Du Lin.
But she would never summon the spiritual creature from yesterday again... She would never summon it if she could in this life!
Thinking of the terrifying look on his face last night, Tiying was so frightened that he shivered.
Before following Jiang Xuehe out of the cave, Tiying said with a straight face, "Wait a minute."
Jiang Xuehe turned around and waited patiently for this little junior sister who was too hesitant to go out.
After seeing Ti Ying struggling for a moment, he took out three sticks of incense from his arms and lit them with virtual fire. Tiying placed three incense sticks on the wet ground, held the seal and kowtowed three times.
The scent of smoke flows outward in the wind, vaguely implicating cause and effect. Jiang Xuehe looked confused.
He thought he was well-informed, but he had never seen such a weird and decent spell.
He had only seen similar methods of worship in witchcraft...
Worried that the junior sister would go astray, Jiang Xuehe knew that she would be angry, so he still asked: "Junior sister has been privately accepted as a disciple by an elder before she has entered the Yujing Sect. Do you want to become a disciple in advance?"
Tiying did not flatten her mouth this time.
Her little snow-white face faced the three incense sticks, respectfully and piously.
She was very well-behaved: "No. I am severing ties with my former master and worshiping my former master for the last time. When I walk out of the Five Poison Forest today and participate in the disciple selection of the Yujing Sect, I will forget about my past. Master and disciple."
Jiang Xuehe was quiet for a moment.
Tiying half-turned her face: "The Yujing sect accepts Wuji as a disciple and doesn't care whether the disciple has been to another sect before! I'm not afraid if you go and tell the truth! But you'd better not tell the truth - humph, offend me, You’re done!”
She had a stinky face, but because she was busy kowtowing, she didn't show any teeth or claws.
The girl kneeling under the shadow of the cave has slender eyelashes and black eyes as round as ink jade. This clever look on Yuxue's face allowed Jiang Xuehe to finally overlap the description of herself with her master's letter.
In Tiying's eyes, this young man in black clothes who refused to take off his hood could not be said to have a bad temper.
He laughed through the hood.
The laughter was hoarse, a little breathtaking in the damp and cold wind.
He said slowly in an unpleasant voice: "Since you still miss your old sect, why do you want to worship a new sect?"
Tiying turned her face: "Humph!"
She won't tell him——
The former sect has provoked a powerful character, the former master is in trouble, and she is being hunted.
She and her former master combined couldn't beat him!
Tiying knew that she was weak and could not help her former master. She wanted to worship a powerful sect like Yujingmen and learn a good skill so that she could go back and help her former master solve problems.
Although her former master was not very capable, he was pretty good to her. When she becomes the most powerful monk in the world, she can spread the water and take care of the former sect.
--
However, the trial of Wudu Forest is not that easy.
Under the hazy gray sky, Tiying, who had made bold promises to go out today, and Jiang Xuehe walked around the forest for a long time, but could not walk in the right direction.
It was raining intermittently during the day, and Jiang Xuehe watched helplessly as his little junior sister's face fell down little by little.
He thought: She is going to be unhappy again.
Tiying awkwardly and clumsily used magic to deal with an attacking Little Demon Queen, and was so angry that she kicked the tree next to her several times.
The sky is getting darker and darker, I can't go forward and I can't bear to go back. The monsters that attacked them seemed to be getting stronger and stronger, and it became increasingly difficult for Tiying to deal with them.
It was difficult for her to cope, and her face became more and more depressed, but she would rather kick a tree a few times than say anything to Jiang Xuehe behind her.
She was furious.
When her emotions were overwhelming and she had nowhere to vent, a cowhide bag was handed to her from behind: "Junior sister, do you want some water?"
Tiying bit her lip, trying to hold back the curse words that rushed to her mouth.
She endured it until her face turned pale.
Jiang Xuehe observed her.
Before she exploded, he quickly reached out and pinched her chin, forced her to open her mouth, and gave her a sip of water.
After the water with the calming spell entered her throat, Tiying raised her face and stared at him with wide eyes, forgetting to get angry.
Jiang Xuehe said: "The evil spirit in the forest is getting stronger and stronger. I am afraid that the magic power of the hidden demon is getting stronger and stronger, which is not good for us."
Tiying: "Humph!"
Jiang Xuehe: "It seems that we can't go out today. We should find a place to spend the night where the monsters can't be found. Also, junior sister, I remember that before departure, the Yujing Gate gave you a jade ultimatum to introduce the monster. Maybe you can get it tonight Come out, you and I can discuss this."
Tiying was stunned for a moment before she remembered this.
She didn't like to read, and she never took out the jade ultimatum she received from Yujingmen. Jiang Xuehe reminded her then, and she remembered.
Tiying's voice became much softer: "Humph."
Jiang Xuehe thought to himself: ...What a hum monster.
--
The Five Poison Forest tonight is much scarier than last night.
The cold wind felt on the back of her neck, and Tiying walked tremblingly, just because she didn't want to show her timidity.
This doesn't seem to be her illusion——
It was getting dark and the rain had stopped.
In the woods, there were faint will-o'-the-wisps.
From time to time, invisible shadows floated quickly around.
It seemed like someone was taking a deep breath, someone was sighing, and someone was blowing into her ears behind her, singing a distant and vague ballad.
The air was damp and sticky, and Tiying stammered: "Master, master, senior brother, is there, is there... a spirit coming?"
Jiang Xuehe, who was walking behind her, had already seen the ghostly aura around her that was so strong that it was about to take form. They surrounded the girl, stacked one on top of the other, lighting up the fire in the forest.
Jiang Xuehe's expression remained unchanged: "It's useless. But if junior sister is afraid, we can just go back."
Tiying retorted: "No!"
Tiying asked after a while: "Senior brother, have you heard anyone singing?"
Jiang Xuehe: "Junior sister, you are too scared and are hallucinating."
Tiying pretended not to hear.
After a while, Tiying said: "Senior brother, are you still there?"
Jiang Xuehe: "Don't look back."
Tiying asked: "You order me?"
A hand reached out and held her.
After Tiying was stunned for a moment, she really listened to his words and didn't look back: He was so kind, he held her hand. But his hands are even more...well, "old-fashioned" than those of his former master.
After a while, Tiying twisted: "Senior brother..."
The young man said gently: "I'm here."
--
As Tiying walked and asked questions, she could hear Jiang Xuehe's responses.
His voice had always been unpleasant, and she wasn't used to it, but on this night, it gave her comfort.
After stumbling around, Tiying finally found a cave where she could rest. As long as she draws the talisman and arranges it, she will be safe tonight.
She breathed a sigh of relief.
She was about to call Jiang Xuehe when she heard a hoarse voice behind her: "I'm here."
Tiying's blood suddenly froze.
After a moment, the hoarse voice repeated flatly again: "I'm here."
Tiying lowered her head and looked at the hand she was holding - where the hand was, it was thick bark!
No matter how ugly the strange senior brother looks, no matter how bad his skin is, no matter how ugly his voice is, his hands should not be bark.
The distant song pressed against her ears, allowing her to hear the words clearly——
"Red embroidered shoes, bloody wedding dress, crying father and mother. Riding in the sedan chair, bumpy and bumpy, the mountain road is rugged and the night is long, the bride must not look back..."
Tiying's panicked round eyes reflected the wild trees and forests, filled with evil aura.
She shivered, touched the hot talisman that had been drawn in her arms, and formed the ghost-killing seal on her hand - "The gods summon the generals, subjugate the demons!"
The girl's fingertips ignited an open flame, and she turned around and threw it behind her. The burning talisman immobilized the monster for a moment. At the same time, she rolled forward, embarrassingly avoiding the attack of the monster behind her.
