Three days later.
On the banks of the river.
Mu Qing and others stood in front of a pile of newly erected tombs and said their final farewells.
Mu Qing said to Xichuan: "I thought you would take them out."
Xichuan's sleeves moved slightly, and he collected the water from the Xichuan river into his sleeves. Hearing this, he shook his head gently and said solemnly: "Xichuan City is everyone's ideal hometown. If you take it out, you will die in a foreign land. Since Qianqiu and the others specially reminded you By leaving it to me to take care of their funerals, this choice has been confirmed."
Mu Qing nodded lightly and glanced at the people around him. He didn't want the sadness to linger around everyone. He looked up at the sky and asked: "Really saying goodbye to the past does not mean never seeing each other again. Maybe we will come back again in the future." Check it out here, but it’s time to say goodbye.”
"The sky is clear today, who will open it?"
Zhong Ling'er sat on the Xinghua Clock with her eyes wide open, looking particularly interested.
Xichuan pondered for a moment and said: "Qingyu and I have never thought that the realm of Jue Ling outside is actually a buffer zone. I can feel the vague space barrier, but I can't directly break the space barrier and return to the outside world. .”
Mu Qing took out an orb, handed it to Xichuan, and said, "If the anchor point from the outside world is still there, activating this Kun bead should be able to directly sense the space barrier closest to the outside world."
Xichuan is a great person in practicing the way of the soul. Even Meng Zhang once said that Xichuan can block the connection between him and Mu Qing, which shows that his attainments in the way of soul are extraordinary.
Kunzhu was pushed to the limit in Xichuan's hands, flying above everyone's heads, spreading out bursts of blue ripples. After a moment, everyone on the streamside heard a trembling sound, and a ripple rose into the sky and shot towards Don't know where to go.
Xichuan looked at Mu Qing and said, "Can sense the outside world."
Mu Qing frowned slightly, and Ye Qingyu asked curiously: "What is my brother worried about?"
Mu Qing said: "We decided to leave three days ago. The reason why we didn't let my brother-in-law find out about the outside world was because I always had a bad feeling and didn't want those people to prepare early."
Ye Qingyu's eyes moved slightly and he understood what Mu Qing meant, "You mean there might be someone waiting for us outside?"
Mu Qing and Ye Yun looked at each other, held Ye Yun's hand, and said, "The method of setting anchor points was actually first invented by the Gu family. When Uncle Feng was exploring the secret realm, the Gu family had been destroying the anchor points near the ruins."
Ye Qingyu nodded and agreed with Mu Qing's guess: "Xiaoyun was swept into Xichuan City by the black storm, so Xichuan City's position in the outside world should be the focus of attention. The anchor point still exists, so there is indeed a problem. "
Xichuan took the Kun bead back into his hand and said calmly: "I used a secret method to activate the bead. Even if the descendants of the Gu family were alert, they would not be able to detect it. However, if the space barrier is forcibly broken, there will definitely be trouble."
"I will stop them when the time comes, and you can leave first with the help of Little Sect Leader Ling'er."
Zhong Ling'er stood on the Xinghua Bell, patted her small chest and said, "Hold me, I may not be able to fight, but it's okay to take everyone away."
Xichuan knew Zhong Ling'er's origins and agreed with the little girl's words. He smiled and said, "Then please trouble me, little sect leader Ling'er. Qingyu and I agree to your previous invitation."
Zhong Ling'er has been encouraging Xichuan and the others to join her Dairi Sect these days, as long as they become guest ministers. Unexpectedly, Xichuan agreed at this time, looking extremely happy, with his eyes bent into crescents, and he waved his little hand in an unusually grand manner. He said: "Don't worry, I'll pack your future magic weapons for you!"
Xichuan smiled indifferently and looked at Ye Qingyu, "Madam, let us leave here with one heart and one sword."
Ye Qingyu glared at Xichuan, handed the Yunhua Sword to Xichuan, and ducked into the Yunhua Sword. Although she is extremely diligent in practicing the way of the soul, her current state is not suitable for traveling through space barriers.
In the northern wasteland, Bai Qingyi held the face towel blown away by the cold wind in his hand and squinted at the undulating frozen wasteland in the distance.
It has passed early winter, and the Northern Wasteland has become a real wasteland. There is a thin layer of ice on the ground. Looking from a distance in the cold wind, the undulating frozen soil looks like shiny fish scales.
Bai Qingyi took off the wine bag from her waist and took a sip of strong wine. When the blush spread on her face, she tied the face towel again, handed the wine gourd aside, and said, "We
Have you entered the big formation now? "
Gu Yuan's eyes swept across Bai Qingyi's face, he took the wine bag and drank the rest of the wine, frowned slightly, looked at the low-pressed black sky, and said: Li. "
Bai Qingyi's eyes moved slightly, and he frowned and said: "With that ruin as the center, all the wasteland in the square is in the formation. How powerful can this formation be?"
Gu Yuan pinned the wine bag to his waist and said with a sullen face: "You have seen the Chutian Yin Yuan Formation in the Guiyuan Secret Realm. Holding the sacred weapon of our Witch Clan, a scum like Gu Tong has been directly raised to a higher level."
Bai Qingyi looked thoughtful: "Beihuang is different from the Guiyuan secret realm, and the original secret realm only looked wide. How many resources will the Gu family consume this time if they want to set up a large formation in this harsh environment?"
Gu Yuan squinted and said: "In the barren land of the Northern Wasteland, compared to the resources, you should ask how many people from the Gu family have come. I don't know who is the leader of the formation, but as the center of the formation, the Presbyterian Council There should be a lot of people coming.”
Bai Qingyi's heart sank. The people in the Gu Patriarch's Association were all powerful transformed into mortals. Even though her current strength was barely able to compete with the early stage of transforming into mortals, who could resist the extra people.
Bai Qingyi's eyes fell on Gu Yuan.
Gu Yuan seemed to know what Bai Qingyi was thinking, and said with a straight face: "The most likely situation is that we were killed by the second elder before we could reach the public view. You should have listened to me from the beginning and went to resuscitate Find the great elder in the land, count the time, we will have seen him by this time."
Bai Qingyi shook his head gently, did not engage in unnecessary quarrels, looked in the direction of the ruins of Xichuan City, and said: "Is a chaotic energy worthy of such a large battle by a force ranked among the top ten?"
Gu Yuan looked at Bai Qingyi's weak voice and lowered his eyes slightly: "Even if you give the energy of chaos to my father now, Mu Qing probably won't survive."
Bai Qingyi raised his chin and sneered: "It seems that there are not a few people in the Gu family who think that you will never be able to defeat Mu Qing. In fact, this has always been the approach of big forces like you. There are many cultivation geniuses, as long as you regard them as potential The threat will be neutralized."
Gu Yuan said: "That's the sign of a weak person. Although I hate Mu Qing, I just want him to die in an upright battle with me. Gu Tong and the others want to kill him, but they actually want to hinder my practice."
When Bai Qingyi heard this, she turned around with a half-smile and said a heart-wrenching sentence: "If you think like this, you will never win against him."
Gu Yuan frowned and looked at Bai Qingyi seriously: "Why?"
Bai Qingyi raised her jaw and said, "Because Mu Qing has never regarded you as an opponent. He came to Beihuang to save his woman. Why did you fight with him? To prove your strength?"
"In fact, in your heart, Mu Qing has always been better than you, right?"
Gu Yuan looked at Bai Qingyi steadily, his face as stiff as a sculpture.
During these days together, Gu Yuan was quite honest. For the first time, Bai Qingyi felt that he was a little pitiful now. She turned sideways and sighed: "Everyone will be burdened with something that we cannot decide, whether it is hatred, honor, or... It is the expectation of the elders. In order to be able to do this, we started to practice."
Bai Qingyi touched her eyebrows lightly with her fingertips and said quietly: "But it wasn't until recently that I discovered that some things shouldn't be like this."
"The true practice is to give yourself the right to choose to follow your heart, instead of being trapped in a certain emotion and living only for that one thing."
Gu Yuan was a little moved and asked expectantly: "So you will let go of your hatred for the Gu family?"
"Of course not." Bai Qingyi raised his eyebrows and said, "I feel pity for you and tell you that if you persist in a certain emotion, you will never make real progress. If your practice is always dominated by one emotion, you will only go astray. A dead end.”
Gu Yuan looked deeply at Bai Qingyi and said slowly: "I admit that what you said makes some sense. But you must have misunderstood me. Defeating Mu Qing is only the goal of a certain stage of my practice, not the whole goal."
"But you are so earnestly advising me because you don't want me to be an enemy of Mu Qing? So when you say following your heart, does that mean you put revenge second and Mu Qing first?"
Bai Qingyi's slender eyebrows were slightly condensed, and she looked at Gu Yuan without giving in. Suddenly she laughed and said, "You have always wanted to confirm my relationship with him here."
Tie? Are you interested in me? "
Gu Yuan turned around expressionlessly and said: "When I left Beihuang and went south to Zhuque City, I met Ye Yun, and then I met Murong Jing and Liu Weirui in Suzaku City. The three of them are very beautiful and excellent. Women, but I don’t understand why they can live together peacefully for Mu Qing?”
Bai Qingyi's eyes moved slightly, a trace of fatigue flashed deep in his eyes, and he said, "Maybe Mu Qing values them more than himself? I don't know, but none of this is important."
Gu Yuan said: "Then what is the most important? You use your own life to save him, and then you die. He grieves for a while, and then takes Ye Yun back to their home."
Bai Qingyi pursed her lips, her chest rose and fell slightly, and she said coldly: "That may be the case, but it would be great if I could save him. After spending so many days together, you should understand my determination. The most important thing you should do now is to save him." Worry about your own life instead of talking nonsense."
Bai Qingyi continued to walk forward.
The two of them had already entered Chutian's Yuan-inducing formation. After waiting for so long, no one came to trouble them. Bai Qingyi was absolutely sure that Gutian would not appear in front of her and Gu Yuan before Mu Qing appeared.
Gu Yuan stood there, staring blankly at the thin figure of Ye Yun who seemed to be falling down at any time in the cold wind. The alcohol in his chest slowly turned into bitterness.
This was the first time he defeated Bai Qingyi in a verbal confrontation, but Gu Yuan was in a very bad mood.
Gu Yuan discovered that he was jealous of Mu Qing.
