Traveling through the starry sky just for you, I was a koi in ancient times

The night wind was howling, carrying the smell of blood with it. Wang Jinyi held on to the branch tightly to steady himself.

The tree trunk beneath him was swaying left and right due to the wind, which made Wang Jinyi, who had no one to rely on, feel nervous.

There was no bottom in sight, it was pitch black, and the mountain wind blew in, making a whimpering sound.

Looking up at the top of the cliff, there are only wild grasses clinging tenaciously to the bare rocks.

Further up, torches flickered,

"Running to the Pure Land Temple!" someone shouted in the firelight.

Ding Yi, wearing Wang Jinyi's cloak, staggered in front, leading the torches behind him to surround him.

"Catch him alive! Pass the order! Catch him alive!" someone shouted again.

The figure in front of the torch kept a distance from the pursuers all the way. If the one behind was chasing faster, the one in front would run faster. If the one behind was slow, the one in front would stop to rest.

The surrounding flames went towards the Pure Land Temple on the top of the mountain, getting farther and farther away from him!

Suddenly, a thin figure approached, chasing the person with a torch in front. Ding Yi, who was wearing a silver-red cloak in front, stopped and saw that it was Yuqing rushing towards him. He turned around, drew the soft sword at his waist and killed him back.

"We've been tricked! Keep searching the mountain!"

"There! Over there..."

Someone roared. The torches scattered, and another person was surrounded. Suddenly, the forest erupted in the sound of weapons clashing.

Wang Jinyi squinted and vaguely saw a familiar navy blue figure, with a long whip swung in a silver arc under the torch - it was Sister Feng!

"There's a woman here!"

Before she finished shouting, she wrapped her long whip around a person and pulled him down the slope with her backhand. But then a crossbow arrow shot towards her. When she staggered to dodge, her body paused and was hit by an arrow in the shoulder.

Several people appeared out of nowhere in the forest, quickly approached her, and quickly disappeared into the depths of the forest.

Wang Jinyi remembered Ding Yi's words - there was a house under the cliff where the guards had lived, so she had to try to leave here.

I don’t know if I strained my arm when I fell, but now my arm is sore and weak and I can’t lift it up.

She endured the pain, gritted her teeth, took out the dagger, and unbuttoned her torn coat. The fabric tore open with a "hiss", revealing the bleeding scratches inside.

She took off her coat and connected the strips of cloth into a rope. She shook her arms and cold sweat ran down her forehead.

Taking advantage of the dawn glow in the sky, she carefully observed the cliff. The rocks were smooth, with only a few shallow cracks, which could not support her body at all.

My heart sank little by little, and I could hardly hold the rope in my hand.

Wang Jinyi could only cheer herself up.

"Sister Yu Qingfeng and the others are trying their best to help you escape. Think again, think of a way..."

Suddenly, there was a "crack" sound above my head, which was the sound of a branch being stepped on.

As the branches and leaves swayed, several dark figures holding torches leaned over to look at the bottom of the cliff.

"The bottom of the cliff is quite deep, there's no way there's anyone there!"

"Will he fall to his death?"

Wang Jinyi looked up, and the shaking torch shone on the tokens on their waists, which were exactly the same as those of the people who had chased him before!

She subconsciously shrank back into the cliff, stepped on the horizontal tree trunk, inserted the dagger into the crevice of the rock, and held it tightly.

His body pressed tightly against the cold rock, and he was shaking uncontrollably, perhaps because of the cold or nervousness, causing the tree trunk under his feet to sway.

Time became very slow, the people above were discussing,

"Go down with a rope! Check out the situation below!" someone on the cliff gave the order.

"The rope is coming!" After a while, another person responded, and the rope was lowered "rustlingly", getting closer and closer to her, and the shadow swayed on the cliff.

Wang Jinyi took action without stopping.

She quickly pulled out the dagger and bit it in her mouth, then slid down the cliff wall and sat on the tree trunk. She wrapped the rope made of clothes around the trunk, held on tightly with both hands, and slowly slid down the trunk.

The rope was tightened, hanging the man in the air. He slowly loosened his right hand, inserted the dagger into the crack of the cliff and held it tightly to stabilize his body and reduce the feeling of falling.

She held her breath and listened to the sounds coming from above.

There was a sound of gravel falling overhead, and the sound was getting closer and closer. I couldn't wait any longer!

She prayed secretly, pulled out the dagger and put it away, gritted her teeth and counted "one, two, three!" and resolutely loosened the rope.

Everything went black before my eyes, and I fell rapidly into the valley.

With a "splash", the cold river water woke Wang Jinyi up instantly.

The river water, mixed with mud and sand, rushed into Wang Jinyi's mouth and nose, and he emerged from the water with a violent cough.

After breathing in the fresh air, I didn't have time to rest and started paddling quickly.

The wound on her left arm was stimulated by the cold water, and the pain made her vision go black. She could only slap the water surface with her right arm.

Drifting several feet downstream, her fingertips suddenly touched a floating log. She clung to it like a lifeline.

Wang Jinyi did not dare to delay. He used a broken log as leverage, curled up his body and swam downstream.

The rushing water hit her back, pushing her against the rocks from time to time. She groaned in pain, but she could only grit her teeth and go downstream.

Wang Jinyi didn't know how long he had been drifting, but the sky was completely bright, the river channel gradually widened, and the water flow slowed down.

She used her last bit of strength to get closer to the shore, but the dense reeds consumed her remaining strength.

There was a rustling sound on the shore.

Wang Jinyi tensed up instantly, took out the dagger from his arms, parted the reeds, and revealed an old woman carrying a medicine basket on her back and a bamboo basket in her hand. When she saw the person in the water, she was so scared that she almost sat on the ground.

"Girl...what are you doing?" the old woman asked in a trembling voice.

Wang Jinyi saw the other person's clothes clearly and her throat moved: "Grandma, save me..."

Before he could finish his words, his vision went dark and he completely lost consciousness.

When she woke up again, she was lying on a brick bed covered with hay, covered with a patched coarse quilt. Her left arm had been bandaged, and the pain from the wound had eased a lot.

"woke up?"

The old woman came in with a ceramic bowl filled with steaming rice soup.

"You're lucky, girl. Falling into a river in the middle of winter could easily lead to death!"

Wang Jinyi propped herself up and sat up, only to find that her wet clothes had been replaced with a gray, coarse cloth. It didn't fit her but it was warm and dry.

"Thank you for your help, Grandma. I don't know where this is..."

"This is Hewan Village, not far from the Pure Land Temple."

Not far? Wang Jinyi was immediately alerted by fear and asked curiously:

"Yes, how far away?"

The old woman looked relaxed. "It's probably only about thirty or forty miles! But it's not far if you take a shortcut..."

The old woman handed the bowl over and said, "Drink it while it's hot. You have a fever."

As the warm rice soup entered her throat, Wang Jinyi's heart warmed.

"I wonder how long I've been asleep?"

Before I could answer, I suddenly heard a dog barking in the yard, mixed with the sound of someone banging on the door.

"Open the door! Open the door quickly and search!"

The old woman was startled and hurriedly tried to help Wang Jinyi lie down.

"Just lie down and have a good sleep, and you'll be fine tomorrow."

Wang Jinyi grabbed the old man's arm.

"Where are my things?"

"I've washed your clothes and hung them out in the yard. Your jade token is under your pillow, and the dagger you brought is on the table. Lie down while I go see who's here."

Wang Jinyi knew without thinking that the person outside might be related to him.

"You go ahead, I'll sit down."