A dark valley, a quiet bamboo forest, a bonfire, and four people.
The roar of thunder was endless, and lightning kept streaking across the night sky, illuminating Jiang Yuebai who was immersed in peeling bamboo again and again.
Xie Jingshan frowned and looked around, unable to imagine how Jiang Yuebai managed to survive here.
Yun Shang looked at Jiang Yuebai with distressed eyes. Ge Yuchan felt slightly uncomfortable. Her eyesight and ears had been specially trained, and the thunder and lightning made her uncomfortable.
Jiang Yuebai cut four bamboo cups, and each person poured a cup of green-glowing wine.
The three of them looked at each other, doubting whether the wine was still drinkable.
"Drink, I brewed it myself, it's not poisonous, you see."
Jiang Yuebai raised her head, drinking wine in her mouth, and her whole face instantly became unpleasant.
Gudong!
Swallowing the wine with difficulty, Jiang Yuebai smiled awkwardly and said, "This wine may have been stored for too long..."
Both Yun Shang and Ge Yuchan's cups were taken away by Jiang Yuebai, while Xie Jingshan ducked aside.
"I want to see how bad it tastes."
Xie Jingshan almost squirted out after a suffocating mouthful. He covered his mouth with force and held his neck to swallow.
Anyway, when at home, he and his father always swallowed the soup made by his mother directly, so they were used to it.
Xie Jingshan turned around and saw Jiang Yuebai dumbfounded. His face turned slightly red and he stammered: "It's... not bad... it's not that bad."
Jiang Yue rolled her eyes. If she hadn't tasted it herself, she would have believed Xie Jingshan!
"Xiao Bai, you were so young at that time. Aren't you afraid of living here alone?"
Yun Shang held Jiang Yuebai's arm and asked distressedly.
Jiang Yuebai smiled and nodded, "Of course I'm afraid, so I make myself very busy, non-stop for twelve hours a day, so I don't have time to be afraid."
Ge Yuchan looked at the bonfire, "I was alone in the outside world, and it was the same with unfamiliar places. As long as I was busy, I had no time to think."
Yun Shang sighed, "Although I have lived alone in the mountain stream of the Spirit Beast Valley since I was a child, I still have those spirit beasts with me."
Yun Shang has had a similar experience and is very thoughtful. She can especially understand Jiang Yuebai's feelings back then.
Xie Jingshan looked at the three people with a blank look on his face. He remembered that at that age, he was running around with Song Zhiang, Shen Huaixi and the others in the sect, except for bumping into the hands of Jindan Zhenren and Yuanying Zhenjun. Apart from the punishment, there seemed to be nothing that made him feel uncomfortable.
Jiang Yuebai smiled carelessly, "I may have felt bitter, scared and lonely at the time, worried that I would not live up to expectations, and could not see the future. But after I really got through it, I realized that every day I spent here was not in vain." , without the five years of cultivation here, I wouldn’t be where I am today.”
The night wind is cold and the bonfire is roaring.
The three of them told each other about their childhood experiences. Yun Shang even jokingly talked about how she cried all night because she missed her parents. Ge Yuchan also said the words of those in the outer sect who ridiculed her without caring.
Jiang Yuebai smiled and said, "... Just ask others to throw mud at me, and I will use the mud to plant lotus flowers!"
"Grow lotus roots and sell them as money flowers." Yun Shang continued.
Ge Yuchan also laughed, "Haha, you can laugh when you have money."
"Hahaha……"
The three people were swaying with laughter, their laughter dispelling the loneliness of the dark night.
….
Just smiling and laughing, the three of them had a little tear in their eyes. Thinking back to the time when the three of them were unknown, and looking at today, the three of them have become direct disciples. The hardships along the way cannot be explained to outsiders.
Xie Jingshan looked at them laughing, but he couldn't laugh at all. He just felt that his journey along the way was really smooth. Except for the time when he was attacked by two people from the Tianling Realm and almost died, he had never experienced any crisis or crisis. suffering.
In this way, he complains all day long that his family is too rich. His father only cares about his mother, who only knows how to live outside, and his grandfather will only use money to solve problems. Compared with what the three of them have experienced, these things are not a setback at all. .
late at night.
Ge Yuchan and Yun Shang both went to Jiang Yuebai's small bamboo house
Rest and prepare to enter Leize early tomorrow morning.
Jiang Yuebai walked out of the bamboo house and couldn't find Xiaolu anywhere. She didn't know where it went.
She strolled to the edge of the cliff and saw Xie Jingshan sitting there alone, with a very deep back.
Jiang Yuebai sat next to Xie Jingshan and looked at Lei Ze in the distance.
The black sea of clouds is boundless, and thousands of silver dragons are galloping and roaring.
She was twelve years old when she left here, and now she is thirty-two years old, exactly twenty years.
In twenty years, neither Leize nor this valley seems to have changed at all.
The only thing that has changed is her.
"I am very happy today. Twenty years ago, I dreamed that if someone could accompany me here, all the suffering would no longer be suffering, and it would be full of joy and laughter like it is today. I am very grateful for this place and this time. Those little shortcomings were all made up today.”
Jiang Yuebai could feel that her Taoist heart was more perfect.
Xie Jingshan looked heavy and turned to look at Jiang Yuebai.
"Actually, if you wanted to stay back then, Lu Nanzhi and I could have kept you."
Jiang Yuebai shook his head, "If you let me choose again, all my choices will remain the same. Even if some of my choices are irrational and not in line with the optimal solution, I will never regret it."
Xie Jingshan sighed, looked at the turbulent sea of clouds, and asked, "Did you really get blinded and paralyzed by lightning here and lie still for a month? Aren't you bragging?"
Jiang Yuebai suddenly laughed, "It was my own fault back then. Why didn't I practice the Edge Technique here? If it hadn't been for the mountain-protecting formation here, I might have died on the spot. But now..."
Jiang Yuebai raised his hand, and a golden light burst out from his fingertips.
Katcha!
A bolt of silver thunder thundered down from above his head. Xie Jingshan raised his hand to block the dazzling silver light. He watched in horror as the thunderbolt hit Jiang Yuebai, but was pushed away by her protective aura and turned into tiny arcs of electricity that sputtered away.
Jiang Yuebai smiled, "Even if there is no mountain protection formation, even a mere thunder can't hurt me."
Xie Jingshan rolled his eyes, "This is the ordinary thunder at the edge of Lei Ze. If you go deep into Lei Ze and try Jianggong Lei and Guishui Lei, the Nascent Soul Lord will tremble even if he touches them."
Jiang Yuebai took out a few pieces of talisman paper, a box of talisman sand and a dragon-hair talisman pen. The talisman paper floated in front of him, and he casually drew a few earth escape talismans.
"It's a long night. Master Xie, are you interested in accompanying me to the mine?"
The Earth Escape Talisman was pushed in front of Xie Jingshan. Xie Jingshan looked through it curiously, "How does this thing work?"
Jiang Yuebai stood up and said in surprise, "You haven't even used the Earth Escape Talisman?"
….
"It's hard to master the earth escape distance with this thing. I have a more accurate escape bead. What do you need this for?"
Jiang Yuebai rolled his eyes, "If you can't keep up with me, don't come!"
After saying that, Jiang Yuebai activated the earth escape talisman, turning into a ray of yellow light and disappearing into the ground.
Not to be outdone, Xie Jingshan said, "Can't keep up? Impossible! I, Xie Jingshan, will not only ascend in front of you in this life, but I will die in front of you even if I die!"
Boom!
Xie Jingshan shuddered at the sound of thunder and hurriedly activated the Earth Escape Talisman to follow.
After the pulling feeling disappeared, Xie Jingshan's chest sank and he found that half of his body was outside and half of his body was stuck in the mountain wall, unable to move.
[In view of the general environment,
Xie Jingshan:…………
He just said, this piece of shit is too random and not easy to use at all!
"Hey, Master Xie is stuck?"
Jiang Yuebai emerged from the nearby mine tunnel and laughed without hesitation.
Xie Jingshan twisted his body and forced himself out of the mountain wall with the gravel, "I am not skilled at it. Give me two more and I will become proficient after using it."
Jiang Yuebai took a few pictures of the Earth Escape Talisman for Xie Jingshan, and scanned the surroundings. There were traces of digging on the mountain wall, and there were no spiritual stones or dregs left.
Jixiang and the chipmunk poked their heads out from Jiang Yuebai's waist. The two rats' noses twitched, but they didn't smell anything good, so they retracted and continued to sleep together.
Jiang Yuebai used the earth escape talisman to go all the way down, walking past the place where he once fought with his life, and saw that the elixir he had pulled out had sprouted seedlings again, and the fleeing pangolin came back and gave birth to cubs.
There were also resentful spirits and evil corpses in some mines, which she easily dealt with.
The past events are vivid in my mind, and the green and immature shadows in my memory are erased from the mine, returning to my mature body and soul at this time.
Xie Jingshan silently followed Jiang Yuebai and got stuck on the mountain wall again. He accidentally discovered the small mark left by Jiang Yuebai.
A small crescent moon with the word '正' drawn on the back, each time less and less. It seems to be recording how many people or monsters she killed, and how many times she came.
Behind the crescent moon in the last row, there is an ugly smiling face.
Xie Jingshan smiled knowingly, as if he saw the young Jiang Yuebai holding a spear and covered in blood standing in the middle of the corpse of the monster, laughing happily.
Xie Jingshan suddenly remembered a narrative in "Wangshu's Notes",
[Three advances and three retreats, and the fourth time I fight against the poisonous fire spiders alone, slaughter them all, and kill the Spider King. 】
At this moment, he gradually understood the sadness, pain and joy behind the straightforward narratives in "Wangshu's Notes".
He only saw Jiang Yuebai's achievements and saw her walking in front of him time and time again, but he never saw how bumpy the road under her feet was.
"Little Green? Where did you run to?"
Jiang Yuebai's voice came from the front. Xie Jingshan squeezed out from the mountain wall and saw Xiao Lu hitting Jiang Yuebai's face. There were three words on the lantern.
[Discovered]
Qingfu Sanren
