In the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers, flowers and plants are sprouting.
Because of the unique extinct volcano landform, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth will naturally deposit when it flows above it. In this great time of spring when all things grow, sheets of white spiritual mist shroud the surrounding areas of the Valley of Flowers.
At this time, there happened to be a gust of spring breeze blowing, gently blowing away the line of white mist. Through the skylight, we could see several simple and elegant houses next to the large flower fields and medicinal gardens.
In the easternmost room, three people were sitting cross-legged around the tea table.
The normally quirky Zhang Shaoyao became particularly quiet and dignified today. He stood up and gave Huai Cao Shi a cup of herbal tea.
"Uncle Master, this is Eucommia herbal tea picked and made by my disciples. It is especially suitable for drinking in spring. Try it."
Huai Caoshi smiled and took a sip. He felt a warmth flow into his throat and then to his limbs. Most of the fatigue accumulated from running around for days was gone.
She sincerely praised: "Among the hundreds of herbs, Eucommia ulmoides is the most valuable, Eucommia ulmoides is superior and male flowers are the most respected. I am afraid that the art of making peony tea has caught up with your master's. It can not only retain the slight bitterness in it, but also have a good taste after entering the throat." The taste is sweet and refreshing, and the body's energy is replenished. Most of the fatigue in my uncle's body has gone away."
"Hehe." Zhang Shaoyao smiled and held up his chin, glancing at the master. The meaning in his eyes was to ask for credit.
The corners of Huaifenghua's lips curled up slightly and she said, "Senior Sister, after all, I'm the one who got the most out of this tea."
Huai Cao Shi said in surprise: "What's wrong?"
"Master!" Zhang Shaoyao's sweet plea for mercy was of no use at all. Huaifenghua smiled and explained directly: "My disciple prepared this for her brother. For this purpose, all the ingredients were used for training." Flower spirit.”
"No wonder!" Huai Cao Shi also laughed and said: "I said a cup of Eucommia ulmoides tea would not make me tired by half. It turns out that the little guy didn't know how to pity himself and resorted to the Wanhua Heart Sutra."
Mentioning the inheritance of their master's sect, the two senior sisters fell into a brief silence.
"Shaoyao, today the master wants to accompany your uncle to reminisce about old times. You can help the master take care of those medicine gardens, be good."
After Huaifenghua took away the peony lying beside her, her expression returned to calm.
She said seriously: "Senior sister, you brought Bai Jianwen to Ten Thousand Flowers Valley. I think Tianshou knows about it."
The sadness in Huai Cao Shi's eyes was covered by calmness, and she replied: "He is the only one who knows exactly what I am following. The one chasing us now is Geng Jian. I think it won't be that fast."
"Why--"
Huaifenghua looked at Senior Sister quietly, noticing the unconcealed sadness in the other person's expression, and complained slightly: "Senior Sister, it has been so many years, do you still have any attachment to that person?"
Huai Caoshi shook his head and said indifferently: "No, I just hate that I am too weak to kill him with my own hands."
Huaifenghua's eyes flashed as she recalled something, and said coldly: "None of the men are good. What the master said is right."
The confusion in Huai Cao Shi's thoughts flashed across his mind, and he smiled helplessly: "Stop talking about me, you must have had a hard time these years."
Huaifenghua smiles without saying a word, the past is like smoke and cannot be pondered.
Huai Caoshi lowered his head and said apologetically: "When I overheard the conspiracy between him and Bai Hao, I wanted to fly back immediately, but I didn't expect that my energy channels were directly blocked and I was put under house arrest..."
Huaifenghua's expression was indifferent, and her murderous intent appeared, "It's not my fault, senior sister. If it weren't for the white tyrant who hides in the inner city of Suzaku City every day, I would have killed him long ago."
Huai Cao Shi's eyes were filled with murderous intent, "I do know some of the details."
Seeing that her junior sister was still listening, she said slowly: "This thief used the high-level Iron Bone Body Refining Technique and the Mountain-Moving Mind Technique to bribe Lin Xiao's deputy commander of the bodyguard, and then called Tian Shou's group of traitors , taking advantage of the 100-day banquet held at the Lin family residence in the outer city when the defense was relaxed, he led thousands of rebels to kill them."
"At that time, Bai Hao's strength was almost the same as Lin Xiao's. They were both at the second level of cultivation, but all the masters in Tianshou had gone..."
When Huaifenghua heard this, she said softly: "It's all my fault. Master and senior sister could have left."
She lowered her head and straightened the hem of her white skirt, and crystal water drops fell silently.
Huai Caoshi recalled that when she was sad as a child, her master would always hold her in his arms and comfort her softly.
She imitated the master's posture and held Huaifenghua in her arms, and comforted her softly: "That is your compatriot sister. How can master and the others not save her?"
Thinking of Shimen, the sadness always becomes greater when we miss each other together.
Huai Caoshi's eyes fell into confusion, and he said: "I have been wandering around various places with Bai Jianwen and the others these years, and I always wonder if I can have the nerve to come back to pay homage to the master and them? I also understand that this is just my own selfishness, I can't pass this test in my heart. I am the sinner of our school. I never thought that the person I deeply loved and admired would lead Tianshou and send our school to a dead end..."
Huai Fenghua recalled that day, always feeling that his soul followed his master, sister, and him to death on that day.
She is called Huaifenghua now, but when she was Green Onion, her name was Whitefenghua.
Born into a royal family, there would have been no brother-sister harmony, but the two sisters who were born twins were completely different.
"风花雪月" has always been a word used to describe beautiful scenery in the Hibiscus Dynasty. Their parents met under the spring breeze planting flower trees and gave birth to them on a bright moonlit night in the winter snow, so they gave the two sisters the name "风花雪月". Beautiful name.
Originally "Fenghua" would be the name of her sister. When she was a child, she felt that she was more like a sister, so she took the name from her because of her stronger nature.
When she was a child, she seemed to be the better one in front of her elder sister, but when it came time, she still lost to her gentle and kind sister Xue Yue, with no chance of winning the game back.
Because she and her sister fell in love with the same man, but that man only had his sister in his eyes...
So she later left home to practice medicine and had the same surname as her master, so she didn't go to their wedding, so she wasn't involved in the civil strife that hit her family due to the change of power in the dynasty, and she didn't go to the Hundred Days Banquet that day.
She survived. Is this a blessing in misfortune?
In the first few years, her life was worse than death every day, until the arrival of the two little ones.
Thinking of this, Huaifenghua silently covered her chest. There was a piece of jade pendant that had been put together completely. The half that belonged to her sister had been wandering around, but after six years, it returned to her hands like a ghost.
Maybe it was really my sister and the others who had spirits in heaven, otherwise I wouldn't have gone out to collect herbs that day, let alone meet those people from Hidden Valley Spring Mansion. And if the two Shaoyao brothers didn't want to run away, they would not be encountered by him. Looking back on all the experiences they had, they still feel amazing. Maybe this is the faint connection between blood.
Huai Cao Shi watched her junior sister sinking into memories of the past, and found that the other party's mood gradually came out of her depression.
Only then did he cautiously ask the question that had been hidden in his heart: "Junior sister, in the sixth year of Tianshou, you became the fourth elder of Hidden Valley, and Wanhua Valley also became the line of medicine masters of Hidden Valley. Is there any hidden secret in this?"
Huaifenghua pursed her lips and smiled, and asked: "Senior sister, are you blaming me? Are you blaming me for failing to protect the inheritance of Wanhua Valley?"
Huai Caoshi replied seriously: "No, how can I blame you for betraying my disciple? Senior sister just wants to know how difficult it is for junior sister to support herself these years."
Huaifenghua broke away from senior sister's arms, stared into each other's eyes and said sincerely: "Senior sister actually didn't know that I came back to life that year."
Huai Caoshi pondered for a moment, and a flash of realization flashed in his eyes, "Is it because of that little guy Shaoyao? I remember she just said that she was Tian Shou who became your disciple in six years."
Huaifenghua said with a smile: "That's right."
Huai Caoshi looked at her junior sister's smile and expressed her worries: "Junior sister, are Shaoyao and her brother the orphans plundered by the Quan Mansion? Many of these things must not be too involved with Hidden Valley. .”
Huaifenghua asked coldly for the first time: "Senior sister, what do you mean?"
Huai Caoshi shook his head and said: "Junior sister, you may have misunderstood. I am not doubting Shaoyao and the others, but I am doubting Hidden Valley and the others, because they were also involved in the civil strife in Suzaku City."
The light in Huaifenghua's eyes flashed, and she asked calmly: "Are they from the Assassin lineage or the Quanfu lineage?"
"Yes." Huai Caoshi nodded and said, "I believe you have noticed it a long time ago when you were in it. Hidden Valley is no longer the assassin organization it used to be that made people fearful just by hearing its name."
"For those of us who are practicing, strength, power, wealth, there are too many desires in this world that will make the strong lose their way and fall. Hidden Valley has long lost its former cold-bloodedness, and has become slippery. Some of them will live It is more nourishing, but Hidden Valley will only slowly lose its own characteristics and finally fall apart. I am just saying these words now, I just hope that you, junior sister, will not get too involved in it."
Huaifenghua thought of all the recent events and couldn't help but feel that a shadow had enveloped the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers.
…
In the Tiannan Marsh Forest, fifty kilometers away from the Ten Thousand Flowers Valley, there is a towering cliff. On the cliff, there is a majestic palace with a dark surface and made entirely of marble. The tall green pines are just dwarf servants in front of it.
In the palace, there will be candles swaying even in the daytime. Because the owner of this palace doesn't like sunlight, there were no windows for sunlight to pass through when it was built.
At this time, Jiang Shangxiu, the great deacon of the Assassin lineage, stood tall and tall, and was quietly looking at the elder who was wearing a hooded black robe hidden on the black jade chair, waiting for the other party's answer.
A low-pitched voice like the friction of gold and stone slowly sounded in the hall: "You mean that kid may have broken through to the third level?"
Jiang Shangxiu replied calmly: "Although there is no specific information about that battle, it is certain that Cao Mo died and Geng Jian was poisoned, so I conclude that Mu Qing has reached the third level."
He paused for a moment before continuing to add: "And it seems that his third-level strength is quite strong."
"Ah--"
The old man hidden under the curtain sneered: "So what if his third-level cultivation is able to convert all the internal energy in the body into true energy? Why not use poison?"
Jiang Shangxiu did not refute, and said to himself: "I'm just worried that your plan will fail, elder. Letting Yue Jiu and Mu Qing collide may not have the expected effect."
Jiang Xingyuan looked at his adopted son and said slowly: "Two disobedient swords, I never care how many gaps there will be when they cut each other, even if they merge into one, I don't care."
He paused and asked his adopted son, "Tell me, what do I care about?"
Jiang Shangxiu lowered his head for the first time today and said slowly without changing his title: "What the elder cares about is when they become scrap iron and when they are melted and recast."
Jiang Xingyuan's narrow and cold eyes flashed with satisfaction, and he said softly: "As for what you just said about the possibility that Lu Fei, the deacon of Quan Mansion, has exposed his relationship with our assassin lineage, I will explain this to the fat man. Hidden Valley has been developing for many years, and it has long been common for several veins to get what they need and penetrate each other. This time it just penetrates deeper, so you don’t have to worry too much.”
Jiang Shangxiu hesitated and said: "Can our Assassin lineage really decide who the Assassins will be? My letter..."
Jiang Xingyuan raised his forearm lightly to stop Jiang Shangxiu from continuing, and replied coldly: "Hidden Valley rules, whether the assassin defectes or not, it is not our responsibility to control its fate. You know that, what else do you want to ask?"
Jiang Shangxiu thought of the terrifying Great Elder, and said after careful consideration: "Then aren't we breaking the rules?"
Jiang Xingyuan looked at him with slight disappointment and said, "Dead people never speak."
