In August, there were many more graves in Qingshan.
Some graves have swords stuck in them, while others are empty, just a raised earth bag.
Lu Xiaoer has lost a lot of weight, maybe only sixty or seventy pounds. At a glance, it always makes people think that he will be dragged down by the sword in his hand.
The little boy was standing there, resting against a rock. Not far away is a grave that has just been filled with soil, and there are some writings on the newly erected wooden boards.
Lingnan, Xiaojiufeng Sword Sect, the tomb of Sword One Thousand Three Hundred and Forty Six.
The young boy himself actually didn't remember whether this number was correct or not.
But he didn't look back, he just stayed alone in the green mountains in silence, digging bit by bit.
In fact, this place is not very far from Tianya Sword Sect.
If the young boy drives the sword wind and goes that way, it probably won't take long, maybe a quarter of an hour, maybe half a quarter of an hour, before he can see such a very familiar green mountain.
It’s just that Lu Xiaoer didn’t.
In fact, he reached such a distance a few days ago.
But after the young boy buried a grave there, he changed the direction and continued to search for the body in those green mountains.
Sometimes Lu Xiaoer would have a very strange thought - it is clear that the mountain is full of dead people, but there is such a wandering ghost like him.
Lu Xiaoer sat there and rested silently. After a long time, he stood up and planned to change directions and look for other corpses.
After leaving Tingfeng River, the bodies of those sword cultivators became less and less.
Sometimes young people need to climb several mountains before they can find something.
Lingnan Sword Sect is of course very big.
When the army approached, the main battlefield was probably over Tingfeng Creek.
Here are just some scattered battlefields.
As for going further west, it probably doesn't make sense.
From there, you will probably only see the faint yellow mountain range lying in the southwest of the world.
That's the end of the world.
The young boy looked to the west silently, and then turned back. As soon as he started to look back, the young boy's expression became solemn.
In the direction behind him, a Taoist priest stood at an unknown time and looked at him quietly for an unknown amount of time.
Behind such a dead green mountain, anyone who suddenly saw a Taoist would probably be frightened.
Of course Lu Xiaoer is no exception.
The young boy clenched the Xiwu Sword in his hand, his breathing became extremely heavy, and he looked warily at the Taoist standing quietly among the miscanthus in the distance.
The Taoist is very young, and there is no Taoist charm on his body, but the young boy does not know what realm he is.
The two stood there and stared at each other for a long time, but the Taoist smiled slightly and said, "Lu Xiaoer?"
Lu Xiaoer didn't say anything, turned around and ran towards Tianya Sword Sect.
The Taoist didn't make any move, he just stood there quietly, watching the frightened Lingnan little sword cultivator who walked away.
Of course Lu Xiaoer had to run.
The moment the Taoist spoke, the young boy faintly heard the sound of the waves coming from the divine sea.
Facing such a mysterious Taoist, what else could the young boy do if he didn't run away?
The Taoist watched there quietly, then took steps towards the other side calmly.
...
The mountain path of Tianya Sword Sect has been destroyed.
Although Wu Dalong thought at the beginning that the new year would bring a new atmosphere and road construction would make the Jianzong look more impressive.
But he probably didn't expect that the entire Lingnan would suffer such a heavy blow.
So in a later story, the stone steps on the mountain path were dug out again by the young boys, and they were all filled in such a sword-throwing pond.
Even though Lu Xiaoer had thought that the Tianya Sword Sect might no longer be as intact as before, when he passed through the mountain gate and saw the messy mountain roads, he fell silent.
From the stone strips that were turned over and discarded aside, we can actually see the haste of such a story.
Lu Xiaoer was silent for a while, but his steps did not stop and he continued to move upward.
Those small blue buildings that used to be there have been burned down, and I don’t know who made the suggestion. In short, when Lu Xiaoer came to the Tianya Sword Sect, it was already in ruins.
Lu Xiaoer didn't think too much and just headed towards the sword throwing pond behind the autumn forest of Tianya Sword Sect.
Only when Lu Xiaoer rushed there, he was extremely shocked to find that the pool had already been sealed by a rock.
This shattered the young boy's idea of trying to enter Tianshang Town from here.
Lu Xiaoer didn't know if the Taoist had caught up with him. He didn't even know who that Taoist was, why he appeared here, and he couldn't even tell his name.
But all this may represent a crisis in itself.
Lu Xiaoer did not hesitate, held the Xiwu Sword, turned around and left the sword throwing pool, and continued to go higher.
After all, among the Tianya Sword Sect, there have always been two roads leading to Tianya Town.
One place is the Sword Throwing Pond, and the second place is the high mountain cliff that passes through the canyon and continues back.
The mountains are so peaceful.
When Lu Xiaoer was in the mountains of Lingnan, he actually thought about many scenarios of him returning to the Tianya Sword Sect.
Maybe it's bleak, low, and full of sadness.
Maybe it was a surprise.
I just probably never thought that it would be full of shock.
But when the little boy climbed up the canyon panting, his eyes suddenly opened wide.
The Taoist who was in Qingshan at that time had appeared in front of the small building that had been sealed for a long time. He was bending over and looking at a very prosperous peach blossom growing in a wooden vat.
Perhaps due to lack of care, the wall of the wooden tank was already covered with dust and some moss had grown on it.
But the peach blossoms were still there, countless petals were blown off by the wind, and fell all over the open space in front of the building.
Lu Xiaoer held the Xiwu Sword tightly and stood at the last step of the mountain road, looking at the Taoist in silence.
It's been a long time.
The Taoist watched the autumn wind blowing the peach blossoms all over the cliff. He stood up straight, turned around, and said softly: "So it was here that my master killed my plum blossoms outside the pass with one sword?"
Lu Xiaoer stood there solemnly, remained silent for a while, and said slowly: "I don't know what you are talking about?"
The Taoist smiled slightly, looked at the young boy and said, "I'm talking about my master, your uncle, the one who likes to play the piano."
Lu Xiaoer subconsciously looked at the wind corridor of the small building.
It's a pity that the little red building is empty. There will probably no longer be such a young uncle sitting there, talking about eating fish, talking about the sword in the heart, and talking about hot pot.
The Taoist slowly walked to the edge of the cliff and stood there, overlooking the lonely autumn mountains.
"Of course, you may have guessed something. For example, the person named Le Chaotian is a major Taoist cultivator. Maybe he is also the master of a Taoist temple with a bad reputation in the world."
Lu Xiaoer stood there in silence, then walked up the last stone step, stood on the flat ground outside the canyon, looked at the Taoist and said slowly: "So you are the Mountain and River Guan Li Shi ?”
This Taoist, who everyone thought was in Huaidu but didn't know when he came to the south of the world, nodded sincerely.
"Yes."
Lu Xiaoer said nothing more, just held the Xiwu Sword and looked at the Taoist for a long time.
He really couldn't imagine why this Taoist appeared here.
The Taoist didn't know why, but he sighed, looked at the world with sighs, and said softly: "I'm sorry for making Lingnan become what it is now."
When the young boy heard such words, he clenched the Xiwu Sword in his hand.
The Taoist didn't seem to notice it. He just stood on the edge of the cliff and continued talking to himself: "We thought that Qing Xiang would rebel, but we never thought that Lingnan would not give way until death - this is something that will make the whole world... It’s something that everyone feels sorry for.”
Lu Xiaoer was silent for a long time and said slowly: "So?"
Li Shi stood there quietly, raised his hand to catch a piece of peach blossom, and said softly: "There is no reason. Wrong things done are often irreversible. There is nothing we can do except say how sorry we are."
"Then what are you doing here?"
Li Shi turned around, looked at the vigilant young man, and said sincerely: "Lingnan is too deserted, I would like to invite you to sit outside the pass."
Lu Xiaoer was silent and glanced in the direction of the canyon. He was really not sure that he could escape to such a high mountain cliff under the nose of this Taoist.
But the next moment, the young boy suddenly turned back and looked in the direction he came from.
Li Shi also narrowed his eyes and looked there.
Someone is walking peacefully there.
Because he was so tall, the mountain road beside the stream seemed a bit cramped and crowded.
The mountain is quiet, with only the sound of running water.
After a long time, the Taoist's rather melancholy voice broke the tranquility.
"Prison Master is really annoying."
Liu Qinghe smiled slightly and said: "Aren't you two feet nine away from your destiny? Shouldn't such a thing be calculated?"
Li Shi said melancholy: "Huaidu Liu Baiyuan has a mighty sword spirit. How dare I count against someone like you?"
Ever since Liu Qinghe broke the sword intention left by Chen Yunxi twice in Huaidu, the Taoist has become much more at ease when facing Liu Qinghe.
Liu Qinghe raised his eyebrows and said: "Excluding people like me, how can you abolish the avenue?"
Li Shi said softly: "Of course the prison master has seen it. We always have to do some sneaky things to be as powerful as Zhang Xiaoyu who lit the mountain fire."
Liu Qinghe chuckled softly and said, "So behind every junior brother who appears in front of everyone, there is a diligent and dedicated senior brother?"
Li Shi didn't know why, but he looked at Liu Qinghe thoughtfully for a long time.
Lu Xiaoer had no idea who this man in black robes was, but he vaguely felt that this figure was familiar, and then he remembered that the night Qing Xiang died, it seemed that such a person went to the destroyed mountain and moon. In the city.
Liu Qinghe did not look at Li Shi anymore, but turned to look at Lu Xiaoer, who was standing there silently holding a sword, and said in amazement: "You erected the thousands of tombs in Lingnan?"
Lu Xiaoer was silent for a while and said softly: "Yes."
Liu Qinghe looked at the little boy covered in dust and mud with great emotion. This was probably indeed a touching thing.
After all, it is always sad to hear that a little sword cultivator who knew the water realm plunged into the green mountains and silently dug a grave with the sword in his hand.
So Liu Qinghe walked to Lu Xiaoer's side, raised his hand to sweep away some dirt from the young boy's eyebrows, and said with regret, "This matter is Huaidu's fault."
Lu Xiaoer was silent for a while and said, "Shouldn't it be the fault of those who disturb the human world?"
Liu Qinghe glanced at Li Shi calmly and said slowly: "They don't feel that they are wrong, they just think that their fate is not good enough. Whatever bad people do will not be wrong for them, only good." People do wrong things.”
Li Shi smiled softly and said: "It's just that our positions are different, why do you need to talk about us in such a bad way?"
Liu Qinghe calmly concluded: "Being in the world and talking about positions is just a way to excuse yourself. There is no right or wrong in this land, but there cannot be no right and wrong in the world. What is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong. , this can be seen by the world.”
Li Shi sighed and said: "For another person, maybe these principles will be more sincere. What we do is not inspired by Heavenly Prison? You want to kill the people on the twelfth floor, we want to kill Those who break the road. Could it be that the blood on whose hands is cleaner?"
Liu Qinghe said calmly: "Ours does need to be cleaner."
Li Shi raised his eyebrows, probably not expecting Liu Qinghe to say such a sentence so confidently.
"Because there is no chaos in the world?"
"Because there is no chaos in the world."
"That makes sense."
Silence fell on the small building and cliff.
After a long time, Liu Qinghe turned to look at this young boy who was actually not that outstanding except for his good looks, and said softly: "I'm very curious as to why you took him outside the customs."
Li Shi said melancholy: "It's just some trivial principles. People in the world sometimes do such things - I said before, this is a sneaky thing."
Liu Qinghe seemed to understand something, looking at such a green mountain place in the world.
Later, a certain young man under the umbrella would often take the name Lingnan Tianya Sword Sect Sword Cultivator as his identity when walking in the world.
The Lord of Heavenly Hell was silent for a long time, then looked at the Taoist and said slowly: "It is really the most simple way."
Li Shi chuckled softly and said: "In terms of the concept of destiny that is missing a door, the world is just two doors. One is called a missing door, and the other is called a full door, which is the Dayan Gate. Of course, the great road is the ultimate door. Jane’s.”
Lu Xiaoer stood there with his brows furrowed and listened for a long time, but he couldn't understand what the two of them were talking about.
Liu Qinghe probably saw the young man's doubts, sighed and said: "To put it bluntly, he wants your uncle Nandao to go outside the pass, but your uncle has an umbrella and his level is not low. He Some of them didn't dare to go, so after thinking about it, they decided to come and kidnap you, and take the mistress hostage to order the princes."
"..."
Lu Xiaoer was speechless.
The Taoist stood on the edge of the cliff, looking at Liu Qinghe and Lu Xiaoer quietly, and said softly: "But I don't understand why the prison master came to the Tianya Sword Sect at this time."
Liu Qinghe smiled slightly and said: "I actually didn't expect you to be here, it's just..."
It's just like what I said to Yun Hu in Xuanxu Courtyard.
How to enter such a heaven and earth world? Naturally, you can only ask people who have been there.
Then Liu Qinghe thought of a young boy digging graves in Lingnan.
So maybe fate, after all, is just two words: coincidence and miss.
If you happen to meet one, you will sigh that fate is really wonderful.
If you leave by mistake, you will regret that this is life.
In ordinary times, who would think of the word destiny?
"Man's calculation is not as good as God's calculation, and God's calculation is worse than nothing. Li Shi, you are indeed not very lucky."
Li Shi sighed, said nothing more, threw the peach blossom in his hand to the world, and disappeared into the wind.
Lu Xiaoer slowly let go of the sword in his hand, looked back at Liu Qinghe, and said in confusion: "Why did you let him go?"
Liu Qinghe said calmly: "Because I can't keep him."
Of course it's not that Li Shi can't keep him.
It's just that there is a white-haired sword cultivator in the world, and his realm is too high.
No one wanted to force him to take action.
Lu Xiaoer was silent for a long time, thinking about the stories that had happened in the past year, and said softly: "Then let him walk around like this?"
Liu Qinghe smiled slightly and said, "Things like grasshoppers are always very active in spring and summer."
The Lord of Hell walked towards the edge of the cliff, looked at the peach blossom that was thrown down by the Taoist, raised his hand to catch another one blown by the autumn wind, held it in his hand and threw it out, but it hit it right on top.
The peach blossom split into two, some blood fell, and then fell together.
"It's autumn now..."
Liu Qinghe turned around, looked at the lush cluster of peach branches growing in the wooden vat, and said softly.
"Where is the peach blossom that will never wither?"
It's just that it hasn't faded yet.
Liu Qinghe said nothing more and turned to look at the young boy who was silently watching everything about the Tianya Sword Sect.
"I want to visit Tianya Town."
Lu Xiaoer raised his head in surprise and clenched the sword in his hand again.
There was nothing he could do when facing Li Shi, let alone Liu Qinghe.
The big ape from Sophora City smiled gently.
"I'm not interested in the swordsmanship of the Tianya Sword Sect. It's just that sometimes, we have to take a look at the things left by some people in the sky."
The young boy just stood there silently and said softly: "How can I trust you?"
Liu Qinghe just calmly raised a hand, his sword intent surging all over his body, and he was wearing a black robe and swaggering between the cliffs.
Lu Xiaoer didn't know what this man wanted to do, but the next moment, the Lingnan little sword cultivator's expression changed drastically.
He could feel that there was a prototype of a certain sword in his divine sea, being held in someone's hand.
That was what Cao Weiying taught him back then, the best sword in the world.
Fortunately, the next moment, Manya's sword intent faded away.
It was just that extremely brief moment, but it left an indelible shock in the young boy's heart.
This was probably the first time Lu Xiaoer had encountered such a thing, pulling out another person's sword from the divine sea.
Lu Xiaoer looked up blankly at the man who looked like a dark mountain.
The latter just looked at him with a smile.
"Do you believe it now?"
