The candlelight flickered, flickering back and forth on Fang Xingdan's face, and the reflection in his tear-filled eyes was even more crystal clear.
"You are so stupid. You clearly knew that I was on the mountain. Just because you said when you were angry, 'I will never set foot on Qixing Cliff again in this life,' you left me alone to guard the withered lamp. How can you be so heartless?" Fang Xingdan shouted angrily. Tao, with a touch of tenderness in the reproach.
Lu Chuan lowered his head, then raised it and said, "I admit that I am cowardly. I have hesitated and wandered, but I still could not make up my mind to go up the mountain to find you. You and I could have left smoothly at the beginning, but it was because your master pretended to commit suicide and you went back for treatment. I couldn't bear to leave you, but I was trapped by the Seven-Star Sword Formation. In the end, I was defeated and they broke my legs and threw me from the top of the mountain. I managed to survive by a narrow escape. I couldn't hold back the urge to go up the mountain several times. And I'm afraid that those old witches would kill them in a fit of rage when they saw them. After all, they are your master and uncle, and that would make you even more sad."
Fang Xingdan said guiltily: "I was the one who harmed you. Most of the masters passed away back then. Now only the masters, Masters Tianji Peak and Kaiyang Peak are the Yang generation, and the remaining masters from all the peaks are our Xing generation. I After the master passed away, I also took over as the master of Tianxuan Peak. The first thing I did was to send a disciple to take the jade pendant you gave me to the Four Kings Valley to inquire about your whereabouts. I never expected that she did not find you but lost the jade pendant. Let me Heartache."
"But this?" Lu Chuan smiled and took out the jade pendant.
Fang Xingdan was surprised, grabbed the jade pendant and looked at it carefully: "Impossible? How could it come back to you?"
Lu Chuan said thankfully: "It's fate between you and me. God is also helping. By chance, my new little friend was sent back."
"Why, he is really not your disciple?" Fang Xingdan was puzzled.
Lu Chuan nodded, "You also know the rules of the Four Kings Valley. To avoid trouble in the future, I will not accept any disciples."
"You sent someone up the mountain tonight. I thought it was a flower picker. Later, when I saw that he could use the 'Nine Sky Blue Palm', I knew that it was related to you. I was so anxious that I almost fainted, so I let him go in desperation. Followed here." Fang Xingdan explained, she was full of emotions: "God's will, this is God's will!" She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and continued: "I have actually been to this place, I thought it was a new vegetable garden opened by some farmer. , I was afraid of disturbing others, so I left quietly. If I had known it was you, I would have waited until death."
Lu Chuan put on the jade pendant for Fang Xingdan and stroked her face. The two couldn't help but hug each other. For a long time, Lu Chuan remembered that there were two people waiting outside. He opened the door and saw Gu Shengchao and Ding Ying standing under the tree.
Ancient Sage trotted over: "Senior, what are your orders?"
"It's getting late, you go and have a rest first." He glanced at Fang Xingdan behind him, who was a little shy, and said to Ding Ying: "Your master and I haven't seen each other for many years. Let's catch up on old times tonight. You don't have to take care of us. We can all go our own way." Get some rest and we’ll talk about it tomorrow if you have anything to do.”
Gu Shengchao and Ding Ying nodded in agreement.
"There are three thatched cottages here, one for seniors, one for me, and the other is a woodshed for cooking." Seeing that Lu Chuan had closed the door, Gu Shengchao led Ding Ying to his house. He lit the candlestick and said, "You'll just have to make do with me here tonight. I'm sorry for you."
"Where do you sleep?" Ding Ying asked with concern.
Gu Shengchao smiled and said, "The firewood in the firewood shed is thick, so I can handle it for one night without any problem. No matter how bad the conditions are, it is still better than being in the Luoya Bay Cave."
Ding Ying felt sorry and gave the mattress to Gu Shengchao: "I have a thin quilt, which is enough. The firewood is too hard. You can put this under your body!"
"Okay!" Ancient Sage hugged the mat happily, but was reluctant to leave. The two chatted for a while, and Ding Ying introduced the situation of the peaks of Qixingya.
It wasn't until late at night that Gu Shengchao went back to the woodshed to sleep.
When he woke up the next morning, he went outside the house and saw that the door of Lu Chuan and Ding Ying's room was closed. In order not to disturb their rest, he went to the bottom of the valley to tend the rice fields and picked some vegetables to cook porridge. The porridge has been cooked, but the door is still closed and no one comes out. The ancient sage was very surprised that Lu Chuan was already doing morning exercises at this time on weekdays and had no habit of sleeping in.
He first came to the door of Ding Ying's room and knocked gently: "Miss Ding, get up and eat porridge." He called three times but no one answered. He pushed the door gently and the door opened in response. He carefully walked in, but there was no one inside. There was a piece of paper left on the table with only the word "treasure" written on it. The font is beautiful and clearly belongs to a girl.
Gu Shengchao suddenly felt that something was not good. He quickly opened the door of Lu Chuan's room. The people inside had disappeared long ago. There was also a note on the table: Little friend Shengchao, we left without saying goodbye and were in the world. You are by no means a thing in the pool. , given time, they will surely soar into the sky. If we are destined to meet again, we will meet again in the future.
It's Lu Chuan's style of writing.
Holding the note left by Lu Chuan, Gu Shengchao was at a loss as to what to do.
His parents died and were displaced when he was young, and he has only one belief in his heart, and that is "revenge." No matter what kind of hardships and tribulations I encountered, I gritted my teeth and got through it, just for that persistence. After his great revenge was avenged without any worries, he fortunately met Ding Ying. In the process of helping each other, the longing for a better life in his heart made him regain his desire for the future. Lu Chuan rescued him. Although he insisted not to accept him as his disciple, his fatherly care and concern was like being reborn.
But now, that fatherly love and beautiful desire have left him, and the newly ignited expectation for a new life seems to have been instantly extinguished by cold water and dropped to freezing point.
The ancient sage was very depressed, sitting under the tree in front of his hut, thinking wildly, staring into the distance in a daze without eating or drinking. Even if it was a sudden strong wind and rain in the valley in the afternoon, he was indifferent to it. Even after he was soaked in water, he still ignored it, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him.
Rain comes and goes quickly. In a blink of an eye, the sky clears up and the sun shines in the sky. He brushed away the rainwater from his hair and wiped his face with his wet sleeve, recalling a similar experience when he was a child.
At that time, he was lonely and helpless. Under such cold rain, he had no food in his belly and was even more hungry and cold. Later, he huddled in a corner of the street with a high fever. If someone hadn't seen him throwing a few vegetable dumplings out of pity, he might have died long ago. Even in such difficult days, he persisted and never gave up. Now that he had no worries about food and clothing and had regained his inner strength, how could he be so decadent?
Gu Shengchao slapped himself twice and blamed himself: "Cheer up, you will make other people laugh if you don't want to make progress. If you see Senior Lu again, you will definitely be laughed at by him, and his good intentions will be in vain. You It is by no means a thing in the pond, and given time, it will surely soar into the sky." The message on Lu Chuan's note also gave him courage and strength.
He sat cross-legged and used the "Five Soul Array" instead of his Dantian to assist in Qi training. The Qi circulated through the meridians in his body for a week, and he suddenly felt refreshed and his wet clothes were drying unconsciously. It was getting late now and the sun was starting to set in the west.
Gu Shengchao didn't eat for a day, so he went to the woodshed to eat some cold porridge that had not been touched early in the morning. He made up his mind to leave here tomorrow morning and travel around the world to find a new life. Although it was his last meal here, he still cleaned the pots and dishes, tidied the woodshed, and then went to the bottom of the valley to take care of the rice fields and vegetable gardens. This place may become deserted in the future, but he felt extremely fulfilled in the process of cleaning up the waste, loosening the soil, and fertilizing.
During the time he and Lu Chuan had been together, he had regarded this place as his home. It felt like he was about to leave home. No one else would be willing to leave home, so he naturally cherished every plant and tree here.
The mountains in the canyon were so towering that the sun was blocked early, and it was already dark before the hour.
Gu Shengchao returned to the hut and carefully put the notes left by Lu Chuan and Ding Ying in his arms. He found a package on Lu Chuan's bed. He lost his mind and ignored it in the early morning. The package contained a few pieces of clean clothes and some broken silver. It was Ding Ying who gave it to him when he carried Ding Ying up the mountain. Gu Shengchao couldn't help but be grateful and silently wished Lu Chuan and the others a safe journey.
After finishing everything, he went back to the house to rest. He didn't know when he fell asleep, but Gu Shengchao vaguely heard the sound of firewood burning and popping. He thought it was an illusion. He opened his eyes and looked. In the dark night, the roof actually flickered with fire. The raging fire actually turned the thatch on the roof. A hole was burned, and the unburned ashes fell and jumped on the ground.
"There's a fire!" Gu Shengchao was shocked and grabbed the clothes beside the bed and ran out.
He just ran out of the door and seemed to trip on a rope. He fell out and fell. As he was about to get up, he was wrapped in a large net. Gu Shengchao struggled to get away, but several swords pierced him with cold light, making him unable to move.
"Be honest, don't move!" A woman shouted sharply at the moment, and Gu Shengchao recognized it through the light of the torch. This person was Sister Miao who had forced herself to fall off the cliff.
Several female disciples came forward and tied up Gu Shengchao. Sister Miao asked, "Tell me, who else is in the room? Where is that little bitch Ding Ying?"
Gu Shengchao glared at her, spat on the ground and remained silent. Sister Miao stretched out her hand and slapped Gu Shengchao several times, and angrily said: "If you keep talking harshly even when you are about to die, you will feel better soon."
The three huts were blazing with fire at the moment. An elderly woman raised her sword and checked one after another. No trace of anyone else was found. Then she returned to Gu Shengchao and asked: "Did Fang Xingdan spend the night here last night? Are they now?" where?"
Gu Shengchao still remained silent. One of his disciples found the note left by Lu Chuan and Ding Ying from his clothes and handed it to the woman: "The master has reviewed it."
Ding Ying said that the head of Qixing Cliff is Jin Yangyi, who is also Fang Xingdan’s uncle.
After seeing it, Jin Yang cursed: "This couple of bitches are really inseparable, and they eloped after all." Then he tore the note into pieces and fluttered it into the wind. She glanced at Gu Shengchao and ordered: "Put him up the mountain first and keep him under strict guard. We will interrogate him tomorrow."
Gu Shengchao was pushed up the mountain. In the center of Tianquan Peak's martial arts training ground, Sister Miao tore off the ropes tied to Gu Shengchao's body, tied him to both wrists and hung him up. Several female disciples held swords. Stay below. Gu Shengchao secretly complained. He was not sure whether he could break the rope with his internal strength. Even if he happened to break free, the sword tip of the female disciple below would prick him like a hedgehog.
After a night of hard work, Gu Shengchao was exhausted both physically and mentally. The female disciples below him also changed classes. Head Jin Yangyi led many of his disciples to gather around him. All the female disciples pointed at Gu Shengchao with very contemptuous expressions.
