June 19th, the summer heat.
The upper realm stipulates that Li Xiaoyao can only visit Ling'er for one day every year. As for when the dam breaks on this day, you can choose as you like. So he chose a hot day this year. Looking at Zhao Ling'er's eyes staring at the sky, Li Xiaoyao sighed quietly and turned aside to let the sunlight from the entrance of the cave.
As the sun shone on her face, Zhao Ling'er smiled softly and closed her eyes, as if feeling the warmth of that precious light.
But a moment later, a sword-like purple energy suddenly appeared between her eyebrows, and then disappeared in a flash! If Li Xiaoyao hadn't been standing in front of Zhao Ling'er, and he had also learned Lu Yuan's swordsmanship, he might not have been able to see even the slightest clue! But at this moment, he had no other choice but to sigh...
Zhao Ling'er has a special physique, which is the body of the innate Nuwa. Therefore, both in cultivation and enlightenment, she is far superior to ordinary people and can make great strides with each passing day. For this reason, all her exercises are tailor-made by her master Lu Yuan and are most suitable for her. But at this moment, her actions are all fettered, all meridians are locked, and the four major entrances are cut off. Any spiritual power and vitality that are growing in her body will be plundered by the sacred tree without hesitation - whether it is a human or a god. , at this moment, you should despair - or you can only wait for someone to save you.
But Zhao Ling'er wouldn't do that!
This is a secret that only she and Li Xiaoyao know - Zhao Ling'er kept her eyes closed and motionless during the first three years after being imprisoned! Everyone thought that she was heartbroken and had given up hope. Only Li Xiaoyao knew that she was not that kind of person...
Li Xiaoyao has always felt that his talent is indeed worse than Zhao Ling'er. After all, he is an ordinary person and Ling'er is a descendant of Nuwa, but he works harder than Zhao Ling'er. However, after seeing Ling'er's concentration, he vaguely felt that the "hard work" item might not be so reliable anymore.
As expected! Three years later, Zhao Ling'er created the "Twenty-four Solar Terms Invisible Sword" - a sword wielded purely with spirit!
Who would have known before that it was precisely because he was deprived of his skill, spiritual power, vitality, and even without the support of Nuwa's special physique that Zhao Linger found the essence of the sword! Otherwise, Zhao Ling'er's qualifications are simply evil. The "Twenty-four Solar Terms Invisible Sword" is the real sword of heaven and earth that she deduced from Lu Yuan's "Scar of the Sky". From then on, Li Xiaoyao could only visit during solar terms, just so that Zhao Ling'er could collect the energy of heaven and earth on that day...
Zhao Ling'er has been imprisoned in the cracks of the sacred tree for twenty years. Except for the three years of enlightenment, she has accumulated seventeen invisible sword energies!
Twenty-four years to forge a sword! When this sword is swung, the world is truly turned upside down!
Even though Zhao Ling'er talks about her master, she sounds like a child who can't live without her parents - in fact, Lu Yuan is just her confidence, and Zhao Ling'er is not a disciple who only relies on his master!
Li Xiaoyao stood blankly at the entrance of the cave, feeling deeply confused. He knew that this tree hole could no longer trap Ling'er. In another seven years, Zhao Ling'er would become a master of swordsmanship! When the time comes, the first sword she swings will definitely cut off the sacred tree behind her and break out of the prison! And Shushan, which grows on this main root, is destined to suffer disaster... Shushan or Ling'er? Li Xiaoyao seemed to have returned to the dilemma he was in twenty years ago.
Zhao Ling'er knew his hesitation, but she chose to close her eyes, neither trying to convince him nor tempting him with the secret love in his heart. Zhao Ling'er said everything she said to Li Xiaoyao from the beginning - "Brother Xiaoyao, you never know what you should cherish."
That's all she had to say...
A lot happened twenty years ago.
Ling'er's devilish master thought that the arrangement was very clever - let Zhao Ling'er understand all the causes and consequences first. With Ling'er's pride, she would definitely not compete with Lin Yueru for Li Xiaoyao, even though that was her nature. Not only that, she would even take the initiative to help those two people become a couple. From then on, Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru lived happily together. As long as Ling'er had a master, it was enough, right?
(Ahem~, shut up!)
But the human heart is the most difficult puzzle in the world.
Lin Yueru did fall in love with the handsome young hero Li Xiaoyao, but Li Xiaoyao had a secret crush on the dashing eldest sister Zhao Ling'er, and Zhao Ling'er had been promoting the two of them... It turned out to be a love triangle! The blood was poured out one basin after another!
Looking for their mother in Nanzhao, Zhao Ling'er and Li Xiaoyao both went back to the past through the dream-returning magic and met Zhao Ling'er's mother, Lin Qing'er and Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan used magic to extract the power of the water monster and turned it into Yu Hang's ten-year rain. After Li Xiaoyao returned to reality, although he fought hard, he actually killed the combined monster of the Water Monster and the Moon Worshiping Cult Leader with his sword! Then something happened in Nanzhao. Zhao Ling'er refused to inherit the throne of Nanzhao and left the Nanzhao matter to the black and white Miao people to decide on their own, and then left with her mother's stone statue.
Li Xiaoyao took Lin Yueru back to Shushan, but he didn't know that Dugu Yuyun wanted him to become a Taoist priest and inherit the position of head of Shushan in the future! Of course Li Xiaoyao was determined not to do it, but Lin Yueru also strongly opposed it, so the matter was settled. The two of them stayed in Shushan for several months, traveling around and enjoying themselves. Dugu Yuyun and Zui Taoist both looked at each other with smiles and had no intention of forcing Li Xiaoyao...
Just when Li Xiaoyao finally put his heart into his stomach, he didn't know that the situation suddenly changed - the leader Dugu and the drunk Taoist priest retreated to practice the Shushan Supreme Heavenly Sword. As a result, they both went crazy and lost all their skills! But at this time, the demons united to besiege Shushan. At the critical moment when Shu Mountain was about to collapse, Li Xiaoyao had no choice but to accept the order, put on a Taoist robe, took over as the leader of Shu Mountain, and presided over the formation to protect the mountain...
This is the first meaning of what Zhao Ling'er said, "You never know what you should cherish."
Li Xiaoyao is very chivalrous - he can fight thousands of miles and go deep into Nanzhao for the girl he just met; he will also draw his sword with courage for the smallest injustice on the road! However, most of the time, Li Xiaoyao chose to sacrifice himself for the sake of his "chivalrous" son, and occasionally someone close to him - Dugu Yuyun spotted this weakness of his and dug such a hole for him to jump into! Sure enough, between preserving Shushan and preserving his "beautiful little life", Li Xiaoyao chose Shushan without hesitation, because this was his "chivalrous" path!
Li Xiaoyao put on his Taoist robe, Lin Yueru walked down the mountain angrily, Dugu Yuyun and Zui Taoist twirled their beards and smiled - it's a pity that they were happy too early! They knew Li Xiaoyao, but they obviously didn't understand Lin Yueru's character... The next day, Lin Yueru went up the mountain wearing Taoist robes... went up the mountain! Then Li Xiaoyao happily took Lin Yueru in! What did you say? Elder Dugu Taishang and Elder Zui collectively opposed Lin Yueru becoming a Shushan disciple?
I! talent! yes! Palm! Door!
By the way, the person yelling was Lin Yueru...
In the end, Dugu Yuyun and Zui Taoist could only hold their noses and admit it, watching the two of them stick together all day long. Lin Yueru's father is Dugu Yuyun's sworn brother, and he is embarrassed to do too much. Just when everyone thought the world was peaceful and nothing would happen, a violent earthquake suddenly occurred in Shushan - they saw a bright green light penetrating the sky and the earth, and it was Zhao Ling'er who struck the main root of the sacred tree with his sword!
Lu Yuan and Li Xiaoyao are both hard-working geniuses. But it's obvious that they don't understand how perverted a true genius is!
The "Tianzhihen" sword that Lu Yuan passed on to Zhao Ling'er was partly from Li Yu's "Tianzhihenfushen Sword" and mostly from his own insights. After entering the world of Shushan, he went a step further and derived the sword of "Two Strait Flowers" from the "Hen of the Sky" sword, which is a dilemma between life and death. Lu Yuan's climb was step by step, layer by layer. His fourth sword had actually transcended the category of "sword" and entered the palace of "Tao".
But what Lu Yuan didn't know was that his little disciple, who was alone with his random thoughts, actually found the method of "life" from the "marks in the sky"!
With no one assisting him, Zhao Ling'er used the "Hen of Heaven" sword with all his strength and almost cut off most of the main root of the sacred tree with one sword stroke! And drew great vitality from it, resurrecting his mother Lin Qing'er from the stone statue! Because Lin Qing'er is a descendant of Nuwa, the conditions for resurrection are ten thousand times more difficult than ordinary people. However, the sacred tree grew from Pangu's heart and has the same bloodline as Nuwa. This can be used to resurrect Zhao Ling'er's mother...
This is the reason why Zhao Linger cut down the sacred tree, which then triggered a series of consequences such as the war between gods and men.
"Auntie asked me to bring this to you." Li Xiaoyao said to Zhao Ling'er. He took out a small bamboo basket. In addition to a few small pieces of snacks made by Lin Qing'er, most of them contained various herbs that could increase vitality or relieve pain. These medicinal herbs come from all over the world, which shows how hard Lin Qing'er has been traveling this year. But Zhao Ling'er smiled happily when she saw the little basket. Family, aren't you doing it for me and me doing it for you?
Maybe many people thought that after Lin Qing'er was resurrected, she would return to Nanzhao to continue leading the black and white Miao descendants and become a selfless saint again. Unexpectedly, Lin Qinger said decisively at that time, "What I owe you has been paid with my life, and what I owe my daughter will take my whole life to pay back," and then left without caring.
However, no outsiders are allowed to enter the Shushan forbidden area. Moreover, after Lin Qing'er was resurrected, she found out that Dugu Yuyun had stopped Li Xiaoyao from saving his daughter. Out of anger, she immediately cut off her relationship with Dugu Yuyun! (About the story of Lin Qing'er and Dugu Yuyun, don't waste words, please search by yourself) He even vowed not to step foot in Shushan for the rest of his life - when he later found out that his daughter was trapped under Shushan, it was too late to regret.
Lin Qing'er once commented that "all the people in Shushan are ruthless and unrighteous people!" This really made the three generations of Shushan, old, middle and young, laugh bitterly.
Zhao Ling'er cut down the sacred tree to save her mother, and was punished to use her own body to mend the sacred tree. This became the most touching scene in the past twenty years...
Some people may say that Zhao Ling'er shouldn't be like this——
Shouldn't she be a tragic girl whose parents have died, her beloved grandmother and Shuiyue Palace Master have died successively, and Li Xiaoyao, who she could have relied on, has lost her memory?
Shouldn't she be a girl who is so kind that she can be bullied, and so gentle that she is weak? Shouldn't she be a girl who hides herself despite being greatly wronged and cries secretly at night in order not to trouble others? Shouldn't she be a girl who would rather leave a foreign country or even give up her lover in order to fulfill others? Shouldn't she be the girl who sacrificed herself for the sake of the unfamiliar Nanzhao Miao people, in order to defeat the water monster and the leader of the Moon Worshiping Cult, and even left only a little brilliance for people to remember in the end?
Zhao Ling'er, who is so sadistic, is the Zhao Ling'er we are familiar with! What the hell are you now, a woman as flexible as a steel wire, a woman who gets stronger after repeated training and never gives up? ! Give me back the real Zhao Linger!
In fact... there is a saying that goes well, "A child with a mother is like a treasure, and a child without a mother is like a grass."
In the original work, Zhao Ling'er's parents died, and her relatives passed away one after another, leaving her alone and struggling in the world. The only one I could rely on was Li Xiaoyao. At that time, he was still an immature boy who was full of chivalry and righteousness. He was still wavering between two women who liked him! In the end, the only person who really needed her was the black and white Miao people she had never met - even though she needed to die like her mother...
So in the end, it is not difficult to understand that Zhao Ling'er chose to sacrifice her "irrelevant self" in exchange for "everyone's happiness." Because Zhao Ling'er is always the lonely and "extra" one.
But Zhao Linger in this world is completely different!
She grew up in a happy family - although her parents are still dead, she has a grandmother who loves her, the Shuiyue Palace Master who takes the role of mother, and the master Lu Yuan who takes the role of her father - such a Ling'er is happy, and her heart Full and powerful, even a little proud. What's more, the various powerful and invincible images left by her master Lu Yuan made her establish the domineering belief that "my master is Li Gang" since she was a child!
That's why she is like a stubborn child, gritting her teeth and not crying even if she is beaten - sooner or later I will knock you over! Even if I can't defeat him, my master will avenge me!
"Lu Yan! What do you mean?!"
The two Lu Dongbins separated to the left and right in the sky. Lu Dongbin, a Confucian robe from this world, stood with a sword, unscathed; but Lu Dongbin, a Taoist robe from the Shushan world, was dripping with blood at this moment, and a huge tear almost penetrated his right side! However, Lu Dongbin in Taoist robe just covered his wound and remained silent, while Lu Dongbin in Confucian robe was furious!
"Why do I, Lu Dongbin, need you to give in?! Since you and I have said that we will fight to the death, we should try our best! You and I are exactly the same in strength. Since we fight to the death, I will have no regrets even if I die in your hands! But you If you let me, then even if I win, I won’t be able to show my face!" Confucian Lu Dongbin said angrily. He had just cut through the opponent's chest with one sword, and it was clear that the other party could also cut off his left arm with one sword! This was originally a tactic of exchanging injuries for injuries.
Unexpectedly, at the last moment, Taoist Lu Dongbin's sword actually slowed down, which made him feel extremely insulted!
"No...ahem~...I didn't let you."
Lu Dongbin, a Taoist priest, coughed up blood and said, raising his right hand. I saw that his right hand turned "lighter in color" like glass. "You, what's going on with you?" Confucian Lu Dongbin asked in confusion. At this moment, Taoist Lu Dongbin actually gave him the feeling of "slowly melting". But that was a god, not a spirit of water or wood, so how could it melt? !
"One piece of good news and one piece of bad news," Taoist Lu Dongbin coughed up blood and his clothes were dripping with blood, but he smiled happily, and the three long strands of beard under his chin were trembling. "The good news is that my world seems to have undergone some changes that I expected, and now the world is pulling me back - that is to say, you don't have to worry about me challenging you every day, I'm leaving soon..."
"What about the bad news?"
"Bad news," Lu Dongbin's figure became increasingly faint, "The person you fear most is coming back!"
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ps: I know you are all waiting for Lu Yuan to appear, so I cleverly delayed another chapter.
ps2: Don’t hit me, there are still others today. The new volume opens with a smooth flow of ideas. (To be continued.)
