When the master and apprentice returned outside their residence, they heard the voice of another person talking in the cave.
Nangong Ruyu looked at Li Ye nervously and said softly: "Master, there are bad guys!"
Li Ye glanced at her and said with a smile: "If he was a bad guy, your sister would have beaten him out long ago. Go in and have a look."
"Oh!" Nangong Ruyu thought about it and followed him towards the cave.
But before Xia Wutong in the cave could introduce him, Li Ye was already standing in the cave, stunned and speechless.
Nangong Ruyu, who was standing behind him, heard only two words and was stunned for an instant.
"master!"
Although it was just two undisguised words, everyone in front of them could see that when they heard these two words from Li Ye's mouth, both Xia Wutong and Nangong Ruyu were somewhat shocked.
"Why, it's been so long since we last met, and you already feel strange?"
The man sitting opposite Xia Wutong, holding a cup of hot tea in his hand, looked at him and said with a smile.
"It's really incredible to see the master in this ghost place, especially in this season, even the monsters are hiding."
Li Ye looked at the man in front of him and murmured.
"So, I am a little more powerful than the monster? It seems that you don't welcome me as a master?"
The middle-aged man looked at him and laughed.
"How is it possible? Yu'er came here and called the master. This is your master Ouyang Dongli, my sword-making master!" Li Ye pulled Nangong Ruyu who was hiding behind him, pointed at the man in front of him and laughed.
Knowing from his master that the man in front of him turned out to be his master, Nangong Ruyu was as shocked as he was when he discovered the huge cave just now.
"Master, are you my master's master? Why has Yu'er never seen you?"
Nangong Ruyu didn't believe it and looked at the two of them blankly.
"You just haven't seen him before. From now on, you have a new master."
Li Ye looked at her and smiled and said, "All the masters from Xuantian Guan are gone. You only have this master for the time being."
Nangong Ruyu tilted her head slightly, looked at Ouyang Dongli, and then timidly called out: "Hello, Master, I am Nangong Ruyu."
Although she was shocked, Nangong Ruyu couldn't be fooled by anyone. She sat down next to Xia Wutong, showed a lazy expression, and shouted: "Yu'er is starving to death, sister, hurry up and cook."
Xia Wutong looked at her and smiled: "Where have you two been? You will be hungry when you come back."
"Master, how come you are living here on the Tianshan Mountains in such freezing weather?" Li Ye smiled and poured a glass of water for himself and Nangong Ruyu.
Ouyang Dongli looked at him and smiled: "You all dare to come up, what am I afraid of alone?"
Nangong Ruyu shook her head like a rattle and said with a smile: "I'm not afraid, Master, Yu'er has never been afraid either!"
Li Ye thought for a moment, looked at Xia Wutong and said, "Let's cook and eat. Let's change places tomorrow."
When Ouyang Dongli heard this, he looked at him and asked, "Have you found a better place?"
Looking at Ouyang Dongli's calm eyes, Li Ye said with a smile: "Today I went hiking with Yu'er, looking for the Tianshan Snow Lotus, and ended up finding a big cave."
"Is it better than here? Is it further?" Upon hearing this, Xia Wutong looked at the two of them in surprise.
Nangong Ruyu looked at her and nodded, smiling: "It's so big, Yu'er has never seen such a big cave before!"
Li Ye looked at her and sighed, and said, "It's really big. There are things I need inside. There's also an outdoor hot spring where you and Yu'er can temper their bodies. It's a good place!"
At this time, Xia Wutong was happy and asked: "Then you can make swords?"
Li Ye glanced at Ouyang Dongli in front of him and replied, "Yes."
Ouyang Dongli looked at Li Ye seriously and asked in a deep voice: "I have been searching for a year or two in the Tianshan Mountains, but I have never seen a place with earth fire. How did you find it? It seems that you are destined to the Tianshan Mountains. Not shallow."
Li Ye looked at him and said, "It was just an accident. I have been looking for it for a long time and only found it today."
Nangong Ruyu curled her lips, obviously disdainful of Li Ye's words, looked at the two of them and said: "Master and Yu'er spent a lot of effort, carrying Yu'er on the cliff for more than an hour, and Yu'er regretted it. , just found it.”
Xia Wutong said next to him: "So, you can start making swords next?"
Ouyang Dongli was a little confused about this sentence. Didn't his disciples already forge several swords? Why did you come up to Tianshan Mountain to make swords?
"Are you still making swords? Do you have the materials?"
He knew that before leaving Xuantian Temple, Li Ye had run out of materials for making swords.
Li Ye looked at him and nodded, and said: "By chance, my disciple got another piece of metal on Tianshan Mountain. My mother and master wife also have a friend... I owe more favors."
Suddenly, Li Ye seemed to have become a master swordsmith overnight, followed by countless debt collectors.
However, Ouyang Dongli was still as before, not annoyed at all, and said: "Now that I have found the earth fire, I will accompany you to forge the sword. It just so happens that I don't have many days to stay here."
Li Ye's brows furrowed at this time and asked: "Master, what's going on? Could it be that you also want to leave the Five Realms? Master Qingxu and Master Sachi from Xuantianguan have already left."
When Ouyang Dongli heard this, he asked in surprise: "The old Taoist priest has also left. How is this possible? Can he let go of that Taoist temple?"
At this time, Li Ye looked at him and said, "If he doesn't leave, we can't keep them here."
Ouyang Dongli frowned and murmured: "Me too, I guess I'll survive until spring."
"Master, we just met and we have to separate!" Li Ye asked unwillingly.
Ouyang Dongli sighed and replied: "I can't help it. No one can predict this situation. Didn't your husband teach you? Where is he now?"
Li Ye sighed, looked at him and said, "Sir and Mistress, we are all in the Imperial City now."
"This guy isn't looking at you either. Do you have any wine? I've been craving for it for a long time."
Ouyang Dongli looked at him and laughed, thinking that when he was at Xuantian Temple, he and his husband never lacked wine because Li Hongxiu was there.
Thinking about what happened at Xuantian Temple, Li Ye suddenly laughed and replied: "It's hard to see the master, how can we not have wine? Princess Wutong will cook for a while, and I will process the wolf meat. Barbecuing and drinking wine in the evening.”
Seeing what Li Ye said, Nangong Ruyu also laughed and said, "Master, do you want to give Yu'er another sip?"
"You really want to be a little drunkard!"
Xia Wutong squeezed her little hand gently.
Li Ye glanced at her and felt a little dizzy, thinking that he would be Tang Qiuyu again in the future.
"Master, sit here for a while, and I'll marinate the meat." Although Nangong Ruyu liked to play around with him, but if you think about it carefully, you didn't get used to it.
"Master, I'm going to help you. Oh, wait for me."
Nangong Ruyu shouted from behind and ran out of the cave entrance with him.
In such icy and snowy weather, the snowflakes outside the cave serve as a natural freezing warehouse. Even wild animals hide. The meat placed at the entrance of the cave will not rot even if it is left until spring.
Even he did not expect that on this snowy Tianshan Mountain, he would meet Ouyang Dongli who was about to break through the void and ascend.
Carrying a leg of marinated wolf meat, Li Ye led Nangong Ruyu to the cave, where Xia Wutong had already raised the fire.
"Master, didn't you say it would take a few more years to break through? Why are you leaving so soon?" Li Ye asked while grilling the marinated meat, looking at Ouyang Dongli.
Ouyang Dongli glanced at him and said with a smile: "A few years have passed in a blink of an eye, and I have also had some encounters on this Tianshan Mountain, so it doesn't take ten years... This can be regarded as God taking pity on me, right?" "
Li Ye nodded.
After not seeing each other for several years, the two masters met again. Ouyang Dongli was in a good mood and inevitably drank two more drinks, Li Yedi drank two more drinks, and Xia Wutong followed suit.
Like a kitten, Nangong Ruyu took a sip before Li Ye drank, then hugged Xia Wutong and laughed strangely.
Xia Wutong glared at her and said with a smile: "You will be a drunk cat when you grow up!"
As soon as she said the words, she suddenly thought of her master. Looking at Li Ye in front of her, she couldn't help but blush.
"It doesn't matter. Don't make it too difficult for yourself while you are alive." Ouyang Dongli looked at the three people in front of him and laughed.
After taking a sip of wine, Li Ye looked at him and said, "Master, what adventure did you have on Tianshan Mountain that made your practice suddenly reach this level?"
Ouyang Dongli looked at him and said slightly angrily: "These things have passed, and my memory is not good. It's good to remember that I have a disciple like you!"
Li Ye looked at him and smiled: "Master, can't you remember the way down the mountain, so you stay on the Tianshan Mountain all the time? How did you survive in this deep mountain and old forest, and there is no alcohol?"
When Ouyang Dongli heard this, he felt a little dizzy and said calmly: "I brought a lot of wine with me when I went up the mountain, and I kept drinking it sparingly. I didn't expect that I would stay here for several years, and I won't be able to go back if I think about it anymore."
Li Ye sighed and said, "In a blink of an eye, each of my masters has left the Five Domains. Master, aren't you going to say goodbye to your husband?"
"Master, the wine my master makes is the best wine in the five regions. My master is a wine addict."
After taking a sip of wine, Nangong Ruyu, whose face turned red, became angry.
"Haha, that's right. When making swords, you met me, a sword addict! When making wine, you met that guy who is an alcoholic. I don't know where you got all this good luck?"
Pouring another glass of wine into his mouth, Ouyang Dongli burst out laughing.
"But, Master, Master didn't even give Yu'er a sword, so he just threw this sword to me."
After saying that, Nangong Ruyu took out his sword iron and handed it to Ouyang Dongli.
Ouyang Dongli took it and looked at it carefully for a while, then said thoughtfully: "It looks like this is the sword of the Tianshan Sword Sect. Where have you been?"
"Where did we go up the mountain from? Master Nalan's son is my eldest brother."
Li Ye ignored Nangong Ruyu's complaint, looked at Ouyang Dongli and replied softly.
"This sword is indeed not very good. It's just that they don't have good materials and good earth fire. It's rare to be able to make such a sword."
Ouyang Dongli returned the iron sword in his hand to Nangong Ruyu, looked at her and said with a smile: "Yu'er is too young. When you reach the Golden Core realm, the master will forge a better sword for you."
"Master, is it true? Yu'er is so happy!"
Nangong Ruyu held his hand and shook it vigorously. While shaking it, she made a face to Li Ye, which meant that if the master didn't give it to Yu'er, Yu'er would ask the master for it.
"Yu'er, stop making trouble and let me talk to your master."
Xia Wutong frowned. She understood that Li Ye would definitely give the little guy a treasure, but the time was just not right.
Li Ye looked at the three of them and smiled lightly: "When I started practicing swordsmanship, I used bamboo swords. It was not until last year that I changed to iron swords. Can't I practice without a sword?"
When Ouyang Dongli heard this, he couldn't help but frowned, looked at him and said: "You are a freak, don't compare Yu'er with you, my child, if you can, make a good sword for her, and I will return it by chance." There are some materials, let’s wait until they are moved there, and I, my disciple, will be included.”
He never expected that when he was about to ascend and leave, he would receive a disciple. How could he be willing to say harsh words to her?
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