After making arrangements for the night vigil, the four of them took turns in the middle of the night as usual.
Tantai Mingyue took out the poem left by Li Xiuyuan, opened it slowly on the table, smelled the faint fragrance emanating from the lines, and thought to herself, could it be that you hid those petals in the ink?
The night was getting deeper, but she still couldn't sleep.
So he took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone and spread it out on the table, rubbed a pool of pine ink, pinched the wolf hair, and tried to copy Li Xiuyuan's handwriting.
The oil lamp in the living room illuminated the girl's serious face. After a while, Tantai Mingyue sighed. Even though she had practiced calligraphy since childhood, she could not write the same handwriting as that guy.
Li Xiuyuan stood under the peach tree and looked at the girl in the living room silently. He first picked up a pen and started writing, then frowned after a while and couldn't help but smile.
Only someone like me, who is almost a second generation person, can fuse two different handwritings together and evolve it into a unique font of my own.
Last night, just on a whim, I gave her a sentence that the girl accidentally remembered. Unexpectedly, this guy actually started to be stupid and tried to copy his handwriting.
Smelling the fragrance of flowers in the garden, when I was thinking about whether to go in and ask for a cup of spiritual tea, I saw Murong Zhilan, who couldn't sleep, opened the door and went to the living room.
He shouted from a distance: "Sister, I'm hungry again..."
Li Xiuyuan smiled slightly when he heard this and thought to himself, are you really a foodie?
Just when Tantai Mingyue put down the wolf hair in her hand and the two girls started laughing, the young man under the peach tree gradually disappeared.
Li Xiuyuan returned to the ruined stone house. As soon as he entered the door, he lay down on the bamboo chair and wrapped himself tightly in the animal skin.
After a big battle during the day, I should be able to have a good sleep tonight.
In the jade dish space, the old man was sitting in front of the house making tea, and the stars in the sky above his head were shining quietly on the old man.
Beside him lay a little black horse, which Li Xiuyuan mistakenly thought was a little black horse that had sneaked away.
It was the night before Li Xiuyuan was about to arrive at Tag Snow Mountain that he was taken into the world in the jade plate by the old man.
One was because he thought the horse was psychic, and the other was because he didn't know how long Li Xiuyuan would stay in the ruins.
After all, just like the jungle, the grassland is a world where the weak eat the strong.
If a horse has no ability to protect itself, it will either become a herdsman's mount or be dragged away by wild wolves in the wilderness.
Since the little dark horse entered here, he has been shocked by everything here and runs wildly every day.
The grass on the grassy slopes was growing wildly, and there was no shortage of food.
In addition, the old man feeds it a magical medicine from time to time, which makes it happy.
The little black horse lying at the old man's feet also entered his dream, humming from time to time, just like a child.
In front of the old man, it looked extremely docile, even a little quiet, as if telling the old man, give me another elixir soon, and I will become a human.
The old man stretched out his hand and gently stroked the little black horse's neck, and said calmly: "I didn't expect you to be so impatient. Look at the fish in the river, you can't wait any longer..."
The little black horse opened his eyes and glanced towards the river, thinking to himself, how can that silly fish be as smart as me?
Seeing its unconvinced look, the old man couldn't help but laugh and said: "You mean, you are smarter than that fish, so you are not afraid that one day she will jump out and order you around?"
The little black horse snorted softly, using silence as a symbol of protest.
At this moment, the fish hiding under the water plants jumped out of the water with a splash. With its round eyes open, it looked at this fool under the stars and thought, why don't you change your body and show me?
The little black horse was startled and snorted quickly, trying to get up and go into the water.
The old man held it down and said, "Remember, you are not allowed to bully her in the future. If you have anything to say, wait until you grow up."
The fish in the river nodded to the old man in the air and glanced at the little black horse with disgust. There was a thud and the fish that fell back into the river disappeared instantly.
There was a look of reluctance in the little black horse's round eyes, which clearly meant that you should give me more elixirs?
Ever since it was discovered in the elixir garden, it has wanted to sneak in from time to time, but unfortunately there is a magic circle set up by the old Taoist priest there, and it can't break into it no matter how hard it tries.
However, after the old man discovered its behavior, he fed it two elixirs out of sympathy.
Unexpectedly, this idiot was addicted to it. From time to time, he looked at the vibrant medicine garden, dreaming that one day he could sneak in and have a big meal.
The old man closed his eyes and murmured to himself: "Your little master is pretty good. He actually knows how to borrow strength from the sky. Even the guy who was about to break through to the Fusion Realm was chopped down by his sword... "
When the little black horse heard this, he was so frightened that he quickly closed his eyes. The old man didn't need to tell him that his master was so powerful. He had already seen how ferocious that guy was.
"I don't know in which life you were lucky enough to be met by him... Do you know that your master is a legend who wants to conquer all the worlds... "
The old man has witnessed the young man's growth in the struggle of life and death time and time again. In his opinion, perhaps by the time Li Xiuyuan leaves the Xuanwu Continent, he will at least be at the fifth level of Phoenix Nirvana.
If the women in Phoenix Valley knew about it, no one would dare to believe it?
...
After losing a capable disciple again, the Great Elder Wang Changchun did not make any plans.
Even when his disciple Wang Mingjun asked, he just found an excuse to pass it by.
In his opinion, since you want to kill people, you must be prepared to be killed in return.
How can a person wander around the world without getting stabbed?
Ever since the divine thunder struck from the sky, Lantian Town has become quiet. Everyone is making final preparations, waiting for the moment when the ruins are opened.
Because Ouyang Chongming corrected the time of entry with the elders of the major holy places and big families in the city, it was not two full days as mentioned before.
It only took two short hours from the opening to closing of the ruins.
As for when the ruins will be closed, even Ouyang Chongming, the elder of Snowfield Saint Snow, does not know. He only told everyone that it might be three months or half a year.
So, on a sunny morning, a group of people who had prepared from winter to spring followed the elders and disciples of the Snowfield Holy Land in a mighty manner and left Lantian Town with unlimited expectations.
What was different from when they came was that no one was riding horses this time. All the horses were fostered in the town and were guarded by disciples sent by Snowfield Shengxue.
Li Xiuyuan followed Yuwen brother and sister quietly through the thin morning mist.
Although he used the invisibility charm, he still followed Yuwen Liuli to prevent accidents. At this time, it was safest to be by her side.
No matter whether they are the elders or disciples of the Four Holy Lands, they dare not come over to find out.
All the way up, everyone began to climb the mountain. After persisting for an hour, the group finally felt the horror of the volcano.
When you are in Lantian Town, you can still feel the warmth and sunshine of spring, which makes you feel like you are in hell.
The mountain wind howled with the cold air, and there was only one color in sight, and that was burnt black!
The lifeless blackness is because the ash erupted from the volcano fell, destroying almost all the plants here. The strange-shaped volcanic rocks are like evil ghosts in hell.
Yuwen Liuli, who was following his brother, was talking to himself from time to time. He didn't know whether he was complaining about the terrible things in front of him or complaining to the black-clothed guards behind him.
Looking in the eyes of Murong Zhilan who was not far away from her, she felt a little weird.
I couldn't help but ask Tantai Mingyue beside me: "Senior sister, is Sister Liuli frightened and talking to herself there?"
Tantai Mingyue followed her gaze and looked over. She also felt something strange, but she couldn't explain it, so she could only reply: "She may be complaining to her brother."
The mountain road was rugged and difficult, and the team of more than a hundred people was not very fast. Bailiyun behind him said softly: "Sister, at this speed, I'm afraid we won't be able to arrive until after noon."
Tantai Mingyue glanced back and forth and found no sign of Li Xiuyuan. With complicated emotions, she replied to the junior sister behind her: "Don't worry, aren't we all the same?"
Yuwen Liuli, who was following her brother, didn't seem bored at all, but kept thinking nonstop along the way.
Hearing this, Yu Wenjie wanted to laugh, so he turned back to look at her and said, "Sister, if you continue like this, everyone will think you are crazy."
Yuwen Liuli, who was talking to the person behind him, raised his head and looked at him with a gentle smile and said, "I'm too lazy to care about them. I'm just crazy."
Yu Wenjie turned around and saw Tantai Mingyue and his group not far away. He nodded and said, "Sister, look back. Your sisters are all laughing at you."
After Yuwen Liuli turned to say hello to Murong Zhilan, she continued to murmur softly.
Said: "This mountain road is too difficult to walk. Look at the rocks that look like ghosts..."
"That's not an ordinary stone, it's magma from a volcano...Have you ever seen a devil?"
Yuwen Liuli was startled when he heard this, and then chuckled: "I have never seen a bandit, how can I see a devil? How about after entering the ruins, can you transform into one for me to play with?"
"After I get in, I'm going to hide. You have to stay with your brother and protect yourself..."
"Oh, look at Sister Mingyue's unhappy face. She must be because she didn't see you. Do you want me to talk to her later and you follow me?"
Yuwen Liuli was particularly happy today, because the bald boy, who had never seen the dragon before its end, followed her obediently, as if he was afraid of getting separated from her.
"Before you go in, don't make any extraneous matters... If you have anything to say, let's talk about it after we go in."
Yuwen Liuli looked at the snow on the top of the mountain and murmured: "I don't know how long we have to go...How about you accompany us to have a barbecue tonight, and I want to drink a glass of that wine."
"Okay, today is the first night of entry, I will accompany you..."
Hearing this, even Yu Wenjie couldn't help but turn around, looked at her and said quietly: "I said, how much wine do you have left? Can you give me two jars?"
"You think so. It depends on the situation. Maybe I can brew some for you in the ruins..."
"Well, if that's the case, I owe you an extra favor!" Yu Wenjie was in a good mood. He looked at Yu Wen Liuli and asked, "Sister, do you want me to pull you away?"
...
Amid everyone's puzzled looks, a team of more than a hundred people arrived at a ruins on Tag Snow Mountain after spending two hours climbing and crossing.
Looking around, the so-called ruins are in front of a gray-black volcano.
The volcano had erupted as early as winter. After a winter of cooling, there was finally no hot air coming out. What was displayed in front of everyone was a black hole as huge as a sinkhole.
The trees around the volcano were all destroyed, but some wild flowers were blooming silently, swaying gently in the wind.
Looking at these wild flowers with such tenacious vitality, everyone present sighed.
After all, what you see is either gray-black or brown-red rocks, both of which are products of volcanic eruptions.
Even if there is no mud, these flowers can take root, sprout and bloom from the rock cracks under the nourishment of spring rain, waiting for the arrival of the summer sunshine to complete the continuation of their lives...
