Thirty years!
In the past thirty years... Cao Yunfeng has actually been looking for traces of Qin Ruoxuan.
That beautiful figure in the corpse-raising ground of Guzhangping Hall in Xiangxi in 1907 has long been deeply imprinted in his mind.
Unfortunately, when they met again, he could no longer approach her as young and energetic as he had been thirty years ago, and talk to her eagerly without any worries.
Cao Yunfeng, who is nearly fifty, has become mature and steady. I also truly realized the distance and estrangement between each other.
Qin Ruoxuan responded to him with a smile.
"Yes, long time no see. In these years, when I traveled around the world, I occasionally heard of your reputation. The little guy back then already had a little apprentice. Judging from his age, he is the same as you were when you were raising corpses in Xiangxi Roughly the same?"
Cao Yunfeng quickly pulled the apprentice next to him and said.
"Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and see the fairy! She is your master and my savior."
oh oh……
Cao Zhen quickly bowed his hands.
"Junior Cao Zhen has met Qin Xiangu. Master often thinks of Xiangu and says Xiangu, you..."
"Ahem! Don't talk nonsense, you bastard. No one will think you are mute."
Cao Yunfeng's old face blushed slightly involuntarily.
Qin Ruoxuan just nodded and smiled and didn't say much.
The two did not talk privately for too long, and a Taoist meeting about saving the nation began. As one of the leaders of Xuanmen, Qin Ruoxuan is busy with affairs and does not have much private time.
After all, in 1937, China had reached a very critical moment...
Soon, the Battle of Songhu broke out!
The world only knows about this huge and tragic battle, in which a million troops were invested.
But in fact, in places invisible to the world, the battles belonging to the Xuanmen Jianghu are also very fierce.
Onmyoji, priests, and witches from Japan, as well as some foreigners from the Western world who wanted to fish in troubled waters, fought fiercely with practitioners of Xuanmen in China in Shanghai and its surrounding areas!
It is a pity that although the Chinese practitioners had a slight upper hand, they lost the secular war...
Cao Yunfeng killed no less than twenty enemy practitioners in this battle, but he was also seriously injured. And Qin Ruoxuan gave him another pill, so he didn't suffer too serious sequelae.
Although the Battle of Songhu only lasted for more than three months, the battle for practitioners lasted until the winter of the next year and then gradually ceased.
At this time, the land of China is already at war!
Then their temporarily formed Taoist alliance was declared disbanded, and the practitioners left each other.
Cao Yunfeng also took Cao Zhen with him, and continued to travel around the world, subduing demons and slaying demons. At the same time, we will attack those enemy cultivators who are doing evil on the land of China...
Time passes year by year.
By the time Cao Yunfeng saw Qin Ruoxuan again, it was already the early spring of 1949!
The place where we met was Peking.
The heads and elders of various sects of Buddhism and Taoism, as well as the powerful bosses of various dharma lines in the world, and even the slightly famous practitioners... all gathered in Beiping City!
Because, that year, China was about to gain new life.
At this time, Cao Yunfeng was already sixty years old.
Even his apprentice Cao Zhen had already accepted a 7-year-old apprentice the previous year, that is, in the autumn of 1948. His name is Cao Chengfeng, who I now know as "Old Cao".
That time was also the first time that Lao Cao met my master.
At that time, he was only eight years old. Following Master Cao Zhen and Master Cao Yunfeng, I met Qin Ruoxuan at a banquet in Peking...
Cao Yunfeng has half-white hair and a half-foot-long white beard, and he looks highly virtuous.
At a glance, he saw Qin Ruoxuan in the crowd, like a star holding the moon.
Obviously, Qin Ruoxuan didn't like this kind of situation very much. After dealing with it, he stayed alone in the corner. Cao Yunfeng hurried over to meet him.
Both sides felt a little sad.
He has grown old, but the other person is still the same as before, and his beautiful appearance has not changed at all.
It seems that neither time nor time can leave any trace on her body.
Cao Yunfeng knew that some powerful people who practiced extremely advanced methods could possess this ability of "eternal youth". It's a pity that neither the coffin bearer nor the paper master, this kind of folk magic lineage, has such ability...
He and Cao Zhen saluted respectfully. The 8-year-old Cao next to him was very puzzled - he didn't understand why his sixty-year-old master and his thirty-year-old master saluted this young and beautiful elder sister who looked twenty years old. , and call yourself a junior?
Qin Ruoxuan looked at Cao Yunfeng and joked with a smile.
"Xiao Yunfeng, when we first met in the corpse raising ground in western Hunan, you were only eighteen years old. The second time in Shanghai, you already had an apprentice. This time in Peking, you even have apprentices and grandchildren. This Although the little guy is a bit less talented, his energy and energy are pretty good.”
She glanced at Lao Cao and made a casual comment.
8-year-old Cao was still a child and felt a little unconvinced when he was told that he had "poor talent". I really wanted to refute, but I didn't dare.
After all, he is not stupid. Even his master is in such awe of him that he cannot be rude to him!
After hearing Qin Ruoxuan's words, Cao Yunfeng stroked his beard with some complicated emotions in his eyes.
"Yes, I am already old, but Xiangu, you are still so young... Over the years, sometimes in my dreams, I feel like I have returned to the Guzhangping Hall back then."
"Okay, don't be sad about spring and autumn. Just be young at heart. You see, I'm much older than you. I'm tired of traveling all over the world these years, so I want to settle down and get along with young people."
oh?
Cao Yunfeng didn't understand what the other party meant.
Qin Ruoxuan smiled and explained that she had already accepted the invitation and planned to serve as a professor in the Department of Physics and Department of Biological Science and Technology of a famous university.
Department of Physics?
Bioscience and technology?
Cao Yunfeng has probably heard of these two words, but they feel a little strange.
He did not go to school much and his educational level was not high.
But he remembered that when they were fighting against enemy practitioners in Shanghai, he heard Qin Ruoxuan talk about it in his free time. She had studied abroad when she was young.
Although he is a practitioner of Xuanmen Jianghu, his cultural level is also very high!
Qin Ruoxuan also said that the era of practitioners has actually ended long ago...
Although the practitioners still have considerable influence and power that ordinary people cannot imagine. But as an era, it has come to an end.
The future is actually an era that belongs to science and technology and ordinary people.
Cao Yunfeng didn't quite understand this.
But he only knew that what the fairy said must be right!
In Peiping in the early spring of 1949, that was the last time Cao Yunfeng saw Qin Ruoxuan...
Since then we have not seen each other again.
In the days that followed, Cao Yunfeng only vaguely heard that Qin Ruoxuan resigned from his position after serving as a university professor for several years. I began to travel without a trace again.
Until 1960, Cao Yunfeng was already recuperating in his old age in Lianghe Town and had not been out for several years. Suddenly he left a letter to his apprentice Cao Zhen and his disciple Cao Chengfeng and left without saying goodbye!
The letter said that he had recently learned about a way to rejuvenate his youth and was going to Kunlun Mountain to find it. If successful, you will return to Two Rivers Town.
But if it doesn't work...
The letter didn't say anything specific, but Cao Zhen and Cao Chengfeng actually understood what it meant.
In the end, the cruel fact is that Cao Zhen did not wait for his master to return until his death, and died in depression.
Instead, twenty-six years later, it was a rainy night.
Forty-five-year-old Cao Chengfeng, also known as Lao Cao, saw a beautiful woman soaked through her body crossing the threshold of the coffin shop and walking into the house.
she asked.
"Is this a coffin shop run by the Cao family of coffin bearers in eastern Sichuan?"
With the dim light inside the house and the bright lightning flashing outside the house from time to time, Lao Cao was horrified to find this beautiful woman...
It was Qin Ruoxuan that his master, Cao Yunfeng, often thought of!
When I was eight years old, I saw her once in Peking!
Her appearance has not changed in any way from before.
But what shocked Lao Cao even more was that she looked very embarrassed.
Not only was his whole body soaked by the rain, his hair was wet and stuck to his face. There was also a faint trace of blood on the hands and hair - even if it was washed away by the heavy rain, there was still a smell of blood.
Moreover, her whole body felt depressed, her breath was disordered, and she was obviously very seriously injured.
Lao Cao is not stupid either. At the age of eight, he did not understand Qin Ruoxuan's identity, but at the age of 45, he knew that this "Qin Fairy" was definitely a super big shot with magical powers and incredible cultivation!
And what kind of person could hurt her like this?
Are the enemies hunting her?
If the coffin shop accepts her...will she suffer a disaster?
Qin Ruoxuan seemed to see through Lao Cao's hesitation at a glance and said softly.
"If it's inconvenient, I..."
thump!
Lao Cao knelt down on one knee, cupped his fists with his hands and held them in his hands.
"No wonder, Fairy Girl, I did hesitate just now. But if Master and Master were still alive and knew that Cao Chengfeng had not accepted Fairy Girl, he would definitely expel me from the master. I am not qualified enough to be exposed to the grievances of Fairy Girl at this level. But also Absolutely not afraid. Please feel free to stay, Fairy Lady!"
"good."
Qin Ruoxuan didn't hesitate, went directly into the coffin shop, and then moved into the second floor.
She asked Lao Cao to collect various elixirs and materials, and rested on the upper floor of the coffin shop for about two months without leaving the house.
Then he moved out of the coffin shop and lived in the mountains outside the town.
In this way, two or three years later, she told Lao Cao that she planned to walk into the mountains again, and left the vicinity of Lianghe Town...
Obviously, that's when she arrived in Wujiacun! Only then came a series of stories about how I got to know you...
…
After Lao Cao finished telling his story, I fell into silence, feeling extremely shocked inside!
At the same time, I also understood, no wonder Lao Cao was so respectful to my master.
Among them, there is actually a century-old fate between her and the Cao family of coffin bearers in eastern Sichuan.
"In 1907... that was almost a hundred years ago! The master had the same appearance as he does now, and was powerful enough to fight the Corpse King head-on and kill him completely! So if the master now is In an uninjured state, how strong is her peak cultivation level?"
Even though I had already expected Master to be very powerful, this was once again beyond my expectations.
and……
From Lao Cao's narration, even a fool can feel it. His master, that is, Cao Yunfeng, obviously treats my master as more than just a savior and a senior Xuanmen person.
Obviously, Cao Yunfeng also admires my master in his heart!
But of course I'm not jealous.
After all, he is also an old-timer.
What's more, this is normal.
From the previous conversation between Zhu Qihan, the leader of Bagua Guan, and his master before the battle, it can be heard that that guy probably also admired his master when he was young.
It's just that unlike Cao Yunfeng's righteousness, the master should have already noticed that Zhu Qihan's intentions were evil, and didn't even want to pay attention to him, or even want to have any contact with him...
That made that guy angry and finally joined others in plotting to kill the master.
Seeing that I didn't speak for a long time, Lao Cao gently patted my shoulder and sighed.
"Xiao Wu, you see, Fairy Girl is such a magical figure. So no matter what you think in your heart, you want to be able to come into contact with her world in the future and fight side by side with her. There are still other bolder ones. Ideas. The difficulty is very high."
I nodded.
"Understood. However, I still want to give it a try. By the way, Lao Cao, after so many years, there is still no news about your master?"
Lao Cao was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile.
"No. Master, he has been away from Lianghe Town for forty-one years. He was already seventy-one years old when he left. If he were still alive now... he would be one hundred and twelve years old. The coffin bearer and The Yinzhi master’s inheritance does not have any method to prolong life, so it is unlikely that he will live for such a long time.”
"And what's more..."
He hesitated for a moment and then expressed his guess.
"Actually, over the years, I have been thinking about the method of rejuvenation that Master said. Master and I have both traveled extensively and seen a lot. But we have never heard of similar methods and spiritual objects. Until recently, There was a black plant incident in Xiaowan Village.”
really!
Lao Cao and I guessed something similar.
It is very possible that the "method of rejuvenating youth" mentioned by Cao Yunfeng is the effect of some kind of mysterious black phantom!
After all, his cultivation level is definitely higher than that of his apprentice Cao Zhen and his disciple Sun Lao Cao, and he also knows more secrets.
Maybe, I just wanted to look for it after hearing news about some kind of mysterious black phantom...
Although Cao Yunfeng is powerful, from what Lao Cao told him, he probably wasn't as good as Zhu Qihan at his peak. So the probability of success is not high.
If nothing else, he should be no longer alive.
Lao Cao finished smoking the tobacco leaves in his dry pipe, lightly knocked the ashes on the ground, and said.
"Okay, Xiao Wu, I've said that much. That's all I know about the fairy aunt. Most of them were told by my master and master. My own contact with the fairy aunt, that is, She was in Peiping when she was a child, and more than ten years ago she was suddenly injured and came to Lianghe Town to live for a while."
"Thank you, Lao Cao."
I took a deep breath and solemnly expressed my gratitude.
At least, this gave me a little more understanding of Master’s past and experiences!
Lao Cao waved his hand.
"There is no need to be too polite in our relationship."
Madoka, that stupid bird, also started calling out.
"I'm hungry! I'm hungry! I want to eat, I want to eat fish. Xiaohu, are there any live fish in the water tank in the kitchen at the back? Let's make some midnight snacks."
Wang Hu smiled and rubbed his hands.
"Okay, then I'm going to make a midnight snack."
Soon, the aroma of the food filled the coffin shop late at night...
