The afterglow of dusk fell on Qi Yao's body, giving her pale face a touch of beauty. But her tone was extremely low, and there was an indescribable emotion that was so complicated that people couldn't distinguish it. The two people's eyes were looking forward unconsciously. There was a trampled path in front of them, winding to an unknown direction.
Gu Shuo didn't know how to answer the other party's words. He was not familiar with Qi Yao, and the other party was a woman, a female elder. After a moment of silence, Gu Shuo remembered Drunk Sword Immortal:
"Where's Senior Drunken Sword Immortal?"
"He... was taken back for treatment."
"and you?"
Qi Yao's body suddenly tilted and leaned on Gu Shuo's shoulder. This shocked Gu Shuo, and when he looked down, he saw Qi Yao's mouth was bleeding gurglingly, and she had already passed out.
"Senior, senior, senior Qi Yao..." Gu Shuo called out twice, but Qi Yao couldn't open his eyes and just hummed twice.
Gu Shuo hurriedly stretched out a hand and placed it on Qi Yao's wrist. His brows gradually furrowed, and finally he relaxed a little.
Qi Yao's injury was very serious. He should have been injured while fighting with those nearly 40-meter-long bamboo insects. Fortunately, he was not bitten by the bamboo insect, so he was not poisoned, and the spiritual power in his body showed no tendency to dissipate.
This is the reason why Gu Shuo relaxed. As for internal injuries, Gu Shuo still has a way. After all, the opponent is only a Nascent Soul. The healing pill he obtained from the White Bone Sect can treat Nascent Soul monks. He took out a healing pill from the storage ring, pried open Qi Yao's lips, and stuffed the pill into her mouth. The elixir melts in your mouth and goes down your throat.
In about half a quarter of an hour, Qi Yao woke up from the coma under the effect of the elixir, then sat upright and began to perform exercises to heal his injuries. Gu Shuo sat aside to protect her.
His heart was full of vigilance. Originally, he had not encountered any danger these days, which made him relax a lot. Now that he saw Qi Yao's injury, he became alert. A great monk in the late Nascent Soul stage was beaten like this. As a little golden elixir, I couldn't be too careful on Deadwood Island.
At this time, Gu Shuo also guessed Qi Yao's behavior. The reason why Qi Yao did not return to Tianmeng with Drunken Sword Immortal was because of a knot in her heart.
Xu Qingmeng’s heart knot!
She doesn't love Xu Qingmeng, she loves Drunken Sword Immortal. But Xu Qingmeng lured the bamboo insect away in order to save her. It would be fine if Xu Qingmeng died. But she didn't die. This became a knot in her heart, and probably also the knot in Drunk Sword Immortal's heart. If this knot is not resolved, inner demons may arise between the two of them, making it difficult for them to make any progress in their cultivation in the future, or even going astray.
Therefore, Qi Yao still went deep into Deadwood Island, just to find Xu Qingmeng and settle the matter. As for what this ending looks like...
Qi Yao dies, or Xu Qingmeng dies, or both die, or neither...
she does not know.
You can only take one step at a time.
Half an hour later, Qi Yao finished practicing, looked at Gu Shuo and said, "Thank you."
"You're welcome!"
"Longmen Swordsman, haha...how did you get such a name?"
Gu Shuo said calmly: "How could I have chosen it? It's just that my colleagues in the world gave me this name out of love."
"Kekeke..."
Qi Yao couldn't help but laugh out loud again, and she couldn't help but laugh. She even clenched her fist and hammered the ground twice. It took a long time to hold back the laughter, but when I looked up and saw Gu Shuo's dark face, I couldn't help but laugh again.
After a while, Qi Yao held back her laughter again, but there was a trace of emotion in her eyes:
“I haven’t laughed so freely in a long time!”
"Writing a joke that I was born just for you?" Gu Shuo's face was dark and he thought to himself, but he didn't dare to say it out loud. Afraid that this woman would go crazy. I really can't beat her.
"In any case, I have to meet Senior Brother Xu, and I don't know what the outcome will be. At the worst possible death, it can be regarded as repaying Senior Brother Xu's favor."
At this point, her tone became full of disinterest: "The three of us have been entangled for so many years, and now that Senior Brother Xu is like this, I guess there will be no results between Bu Huan and me. Gu Shuo, don't you think so?"
Gu Shuo thought for a while, and finally nodded: "I don't know much about what happened between you, but guessing that Xu Qingmeng is the key. And now Xu Qingmeng's appearance is completely unsolvable."
Seeing Gu Shuo say this, Qi Yao smiled, but the smile was full of bitterness.
"Ask what love is in the world, and teach you how to make love between life and death. We fly together from all over the world, and the old wings have experienced the cold and heat several times. It has been a hundred years, and I am tired of chasing it."
Gu Shuo was stunned: "Are you...going to give up?"
"So what if I don't give up? You just said that Senior Brother Xu has no solution. If I die, please take care of Bu Huan more."
As soon as the words fell, Qi Yao's figure soared into the sky, her toes tapped on the leaves, and then disappeared without a trace.
Gu Shuo sat under the tree in a daze for three breaths, then exhaled a heavy breath and stood up.
No matter how involved these three people are, it has nothing to do with you, right?
And even if he wanted to, he couldn't.
I went to persuade Drunken Sword Immortal to let go. Can Drunken Sword Immortal let go?
Do you deserve to persuade me?
Let's go find Ku Chan.
Gu Shuo randomly chose a direction and rushed away.
Three days later.
He found that he was lost. He tried many times but could not get out of the forest. He stopped and looked around. Although he didn't understand the formation, he knew that he was trapped in the formation. I just don’t know whether this formation is artificially arranged or generated naturally.
He frowned slightly, as if he heard something. He listened carefully and raised his eyebrows, as if he heard the sound of cicadas faintly.
He walked in the direction of the sound of cicadas. This time, using the sound as his direction, he walked straight in that direction. When he encounters a big tree, he doesn't go around it, but cuts it off with his sword and goes straight forward. Finally, his eyes widened and he walked out of the forest. In front of him was the mouth of a valley. The chirping of cicadas had become very loud at this time, coming from the mouth of the valley.
Gu Shuo stepped into the entrance of the valley and then stopped. I got goosebumps all over my body.
The valley is large and there are many trees in it. But there was no tree in sight, because the trees were covered with cicadas, as if they were wearing a layer of clothes on the ancient trees.
In fact, if these cicadas don't scream and just lie there quietly, Gu Shuo has a high chance of not discovering these cicadas. Because these cicadas are all yellow and green, just like tree bark, you can't tell them at all. Just because they are chirping now, and during the chirping process, the body will vibrate. Countless cicadas screamed and vibrated together, as if the trees were alive and squirming, making people's scalp numb.
Two questions arose in Gu Shuo's mind.
The first question is, are these cicadas?
According to Qi Yao's description, shouldn't the cicada be yellow?
But the colors of the cicadas in front of me are yellow and green.
Is this a dead cicada?
In fact, regardless of whether it is a dead cicada or not, Gu Shuo doesn't mind catching some and studying it when he goes back.
but……
There were so many cicadas in front of him, and each cicada was the size of an adult's fist. Gu Shuo felt that if he was swarmed by these cicadas, he would soon be chewed down to nothing but a pile of bones.
He stared into the valley. There were too many trees and he couldn't see the end. He looked back again, and finally decided to risk entering the valley, because there was the formation behind him, and if he retreated and entered the formation again, he would not be able to get out. Even if I came out again, I would still listen to the chirping of cicadas, so the place I came out must still be here.
Therefore, his only way out is here, passing through this valley, maybe the end of the valley is the way out. Or maybe this is not a valley at all, but a canyon.
Looking at the cicadas in the valley again, he decided not to provoke them. As long as I can get through safely, I will be thankful.
There is always some preparation to do.
He picked out the top-quality cassocks from the storage ring and put them on, and wore several layers of them. Boots for a high-grade magic weapon, gloves for a top-grade magic weapon, and a helmet for a top-grade magic weapon. That is to say, there is no magic weapon such as a hood, so except for one face that cannot be protected, the rest of Gu Shuo's body is tightly protected.
Then, holding a long sword, he quietly sneaked into the valley.
"Ming Ming Ming..."
The chirping of cicadas in the valley came and went, and together they were very loud. And the deeper you go, the more cicadas there are and the louder the sound becomes. Gu Shuo felt as if he was being held upside down inside a big bell. Someone outside was constantly hitting the big bell, which made him feel a little irritable.
He walked very slowly, fearing that if he walked too fast, he would bring a gust of wind and disturb the cicadas. You must know that the trees in this valley are relatively dense, and the tree trunks are covered with cicadas. Gu Shuo kept walking between two big trees, his body almost touching the cicadas.
It can be said that I walked with fear, as if walking on thin ice.
After walking for half an hour, this valley or canyon was too deep, and Gu Shuo still couldn't see the end.
Suddenly, Gu Shuo's expression changed and he suddenly turned his head. Then I saw the cicadas chirping loudly, then rising into the sky like a green and yellow smoke, and then swooping down. There are countless cicadas. Then there was the sound of swords, shouts, and the roar of Taoism.
About two thousand meters away from Gushuo, a fierce battle broke out.
Gu Shuo could not help but curse in a low voice. Someone must have entered the valley again and disturbed the cicadas. Then Gu Shuo discovered even more helplessly that the cicadas in the valley were startled, flying up layer by layer from far to near, like layers of smoke.
Soon, the flying cicadas spread around Gu Shuo layer by layer.
When Gu Shuo started to fly from the cicadas in the distance, he stopped, motionless, and gathered his breath. Hoping that these cicadas would not discover themselves, they rushed towards the monks who were discovered. In this way, when all the cicadas around him fly away, he can escape deep into the valley.
but……
Reality is much crueler than thought.
The cicadas around Gu Shuo noticed him and rushed towards Gu Shuo. Gu Shuo could clearly see their mouthparts, layer by layer, densely packed.
Hee hee hee…
A series of wind blades were generated around Gu Shuo's body, circling around Gu Shuo's body, crushing the cicadas that rushed towards him one by one. Gu Shuo's eyes moved. Anyway, these cicadas have been alarmed. If we don't catch some, wouldn't it be a loss?
These minced cicadas would definitely not work, he needed whole cicadas.
He used the soul-catching bell.
As soon as the Soul Seizing Bell was launched, it became as big as a bell in the air.
when……
Wow…
Countless cicadas fell from the sky like rain, and everything around Gushuo was empty. He stretched out his hand to take a photo, and the cicadas on the ground were captured in front of him, gathered into a big ball, and then put into a storage bag. At the same time, his spiritual consciousness also spread to the distance. Having given birth to the Sea Lotus, his spiritual consciousness quickly spread to two thousand meters away, and he saw the five people fighting.
It was a small team, with a total of five people, three men and two women.
Then he frowned and realized that one of the women was Jian Yingying. But he didn't know the other four monks. One of the four monks is Nascent Soul, and the other three are probably all born with Sea of Consciousness Lotus. Even if not, they should be in the late stage of liquid transformation.
I don’t know him, but with this kind of cultivation, he looks like an old disciple at first glance.
But why is Jian Yingying hanging out with these old disciples?
It should be his classmate, right?
Taiqing Sect is one of the four major sects. It is not surprising that there are old disciples of Taiqing Sect in Tianmeng.
This is the benefit of large sects.
Gu Shuo couldn't help but feel envious. He rang the soul-catching bell again and collected the cicada's body while trying to take back his spiritual consciousness. Since Jian Yingying has teammates, she doesn't have to worry about it.
However, his expression suddenly changed, and his spiritual consciousness saw those old disciples beginning to retreat out of the valley. But he didn't take Jian Yingying with him.
In fact, the four monks took no one with them, and each of them fled out of the valley relying on their own abilities. But with their cultivation, they were still not far from the entrance of the valley, so they could still escape.
But Jian Yingying was just a virtual elixir. Under the intensive attack of cicadas, she was already stretched thin, and she really couldn't escape from the valley with her own strength.
"Senior brother..." Jian Yingying started to panic.
But the four monks seemed to have not heard Jian Yingying's cry for help and rushed out of the valley crazily.
Gu Shuo sighed, and he also saw that the four monks did not have magic weapons, and they did not have his soul-catching bell, which was very capable of restraining cicadas. It was impossible to persist in this valley for a long time.
Carrying Jian Yingying, who is a dragster, does increase the risk.
But he was still unhappy about leaving Jian Yingying behind.
What's more, he promised Jian Shanhong that he would take care of Jian Yingying when he was able.
He kept ringing the soul-catching bell and rushed towards Jian Yingying.
He was already very fast, but when he saw Jian Yingying, there were already three cicadas on Jian Yingying's body, but she had no time to swat them because her hands had to fight against more cicadas that were attacking, and her steps were already staggering. , the figure was already shaking, and another cicada pounced on her. Her body trembled, and more cicadas took the opportunity to pass through the gaps in the sword curtain and pounce towards her.
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