Years of ignorance of wine and dipped lips

"Oh, what happened to Bai Shaohan?"

Xu Jin said helplessly: "Master is really forgetful. Didn't you just talk about the crossing industry meeting last month? The one who won the first place was Junior Brother Bai. After returning, he didn't think about tea and food, and he didn't want to be here again. Alchemy has been done on Xigen Peak, and I am going to practice the ruthless way under Elder Xunfeng's seat."

"It's strange, looking at the entire comprehension continent, there are very few people who have cultivated the ruthless way. There are many people who spend their whole lives on it. Let him think about it."

"Brother Kebai has made up his mind, and he won't practice swords with us anymore."

"Is there any reason for this? His wings are hardened, and he feels that staying at my peak is humiliating him?"

Because Xuan Ning couldn't go down the mountain, she was depressed in her heart and lacked an outlet to vent, so she immediately went out of the secret place to find someone, and the rest of the disciples looked at each other in blank dismay.

She rummaged through eight peaks but found nothing. Finally, on the steps outside the mountain gate, she found the gate boy who had collapsed drunk and showed the original shape of a crane. There is also a wine gourd hanging from his waist.

People get stolen goods.

She shouted: "Bo Shaohan! Stop!"

The young man turned his head and pulled out his long clip vigilantly. The setting sun shone on the scarlet sword, which was even brighter than the setting sun, but it couldn't warm the frost in his eyes.

Calculating the time, this should be Bai Shaohan nearly 20 years ago. At that time, he was not the ruthless and unpredictable Bai Palace Master, and he did not cover his face. Although his eyes were a little aloof and arrogant, they definitely did not look like they were separated by gauze. So creepy.

After he saw who was coming, he put away his sword, and without saluting, he just nodded lightly and said: "Master, why are you here?"

"If I didn't come, wouldn't you just go down the mountain without authorization?"

Although Xuan Ning had a serious face, grass blades were still stained on her bare insteps, so she looked out of place, and Bai Shaohan didn't bother to reason with her. "Whether you come or not, I will go down the mountain."

"Where are you going? Why didn't you report to me?" She was really angry at the moment, and a spiritual fire had condensed in her palm, ready to go. "Today I have to teach you what it means to respect a teacher! Quickly draw your sword, I want to see how capable you are."

Bai Shaohan's hand did not grasp the scabbard for a long time, he only asked quietly: "Master, have you ever gone down the mountain?"

Xuan Ning thought she was going to steal her to the temple fair to make an issue, so she denied it, "No."

He didn't answer, but continued: "When I say downhill, I don't just refer to Tianyi City, but also to the farther and vaster land. Master, you also know that there has been a famine outside the city recently, and the night's rest has appeared again. I have to go have a look."

"Didn't Zongmen already send someone with blood storage beads to rescue those plagued people?"

"No, Yexi won't appear in this world for no reason, it must be caused by the demon cultivator." Bai Shaohan lowered his eyes and said: "To be honest, the one who was taken away by the demon cultivator with me back then, and my brother who was dependent on each other, is still alive today. Life and death are uncertain, maybe this trip can find clues."

"It's been a long time since I became the furnace of the demon cultivator. I'm afraid my life is in danger."

"I know it, but I still don't want to give up." He faced the fiery sunset, "I joined the sect not because I wanted to ascend to the immortal life as soon as possible, but to save those who have suffered from the devastation of monsters like me, as ordinary people. Impossible things, knowing things that ordinary people can't know, this is what a cultivator should do, isn't it?"

Xuan Ning looked thoughtfully at the young man with firm eyes, put out the spiritual fire, clasped his hands together and said, "In that case, I will go with you."

"But everyone said that you must stay in the sect."

"Hmph, they don't care. I sneak to the temple fair every year, and I still hide it from everyone?"

After finishing speaking, Xuan Ning realized that she had slipped her mouth, and smiled flatteringly: "You will keep it secret for me, right?"

The unsmiling young man only glanced at her coolly: "Master, you haven't wiped off the sugar stains on your face."

She was so surprised that she reached out and touched it, and it was true.

Bai Shaohan said seriously: "In fact, everyone knows about your going to the temple fair, but Tianyi City is still under the jurisdiction of Xianmen, so it's okay. But not now, Master, you will violate the rules set by the sect in the past, you Have you figured it out?"

"Think about it, and you won't regret it."

As she said, she had already used her lightness kung fu to set off first, and Bai Shaohan followed closely behind.

They flew for about half an hour before arriving at their destination - a remote small village. During the cautious period, both of them performed invisibility before landing.

It stands to reason that the villages are all chosen in a place close to mountains and rivers, so that they can reclaim the fields, grow some crops and raise some livestock for self-sufficiency, but here, let alone the barren fields, even the grass roots and bark have been planed clean, leaving only The leaves escaped unharmed.The sun had just set, and it was time to drive the cattle back to the shed, but every household had already locked the doors and turned off the lights, the cowshed was empty, and everything was silent, except for the strong sweet smell of nightshade, which was still alive and wafting into the mouth and nose.

"Strange, don't people who are infected with Night's Rest only eat the flesh and blood of living people?"

"Master has lived in the sect for a long time, and he has only heard of Yexi, but he doesn't know that it is like this during the famine. After eating everything that can be eaten, there is no way to choose. If you go to the back mountain again, you will find that even the tombs The corpses have been dug up." It seems that this is not the first time Bai Shaohan has been to this kind of place, he calmly said: "Split up and act separately, if you find any traces of the demon cultivator, send a voice report."

Xuan Ning tentatively knocked on the doors of several houses but received no response. She had never seen any mortals, but she only knew that their bodies were extremely fragile. and innocent?

While thinking about countermeasures, she saw a person stumbling over not far away. She was overjoyed and showed her figure. She was about to go over to inquire, when she heard him scream, and his head suddenly burst into flames. He was already weak, so he fell to the ground only After a few rolls, it stopped moving.

The scent of fat added to the sweet air.

Spontaneous combustion?Is it a magic spell?

She approached suspiciously, but found that this was not the case. A scrawny woman jumped down from the tree. She couldn't wait to eat the corpse, drink the blood, and bit the bone in a hurry, making a screeching sound like grinding teeth.

Xuan Ning had never seen such a barbaric scene, and immediately shouted: "Shut up!"

Startled, the woman stepped back, and flints and twigs fell from her.

It turned out that it was not a demon cultivator, but a village woman infected with nocturnal rest. She was so hungry that she had to choose the hunting method of sitting on the sidelines and waiting for rabbits.

When people are cornered, they are no less cruel than monsters.

Xuan Ning had no choice but to cut her fingertips and give her a few drops of blood. The village woman finally regained her sanity. She stared at her flawless face and asked, "Girl, are you a fairy?"

"I'm Elder Xuan Ning of Wuyun Sect."

The village woman looked dull and didn't understand.

"Haven't you heard of me? Didn't Wu Yunzong send someone to give you the blood to cure Yexi?"

The other party still didn't respond.

She felt that something was wrong, and obviously blood was taken every month, and the disciples who came back reported that all the affected people had been treated.

Zongmen's affairs are usually impeccable, how could there be any omissions?

The village woman reacted for a long time, and finally understood the word "cure".Kneeling down in front of her with a plop, tremblingly unbuttoned the skirt of his shirt.

There was a baby in his arms, dying, he could only suck instinctively, but there was no blood left.

"Fairy, please save my son, even if you just take him away, he won't be able to live with me, please..."

She kowtowed and bowed again, Xuan Ning hurriedly took the baby, the village woman smiled as if relieved, the next step was to clenched her hands into a fist and forced it into her mouth, the piercing sound of chewing bones sounded again, Xuan Ning's pupils After a shock, the woman screamed strangely and ran back to the tree.

She regained her senses and wanted to chase after it, but she felt a tingling pain. She looked down and saw the under-month-old baby biting her bleeding finger.On his immature gums, two rows of adult-like complete teeth emerged.

Xuan Ning finally collapsed, covering her eyes with her hands.

The baby did not fall to the ground, but was caught by Bai Shaohan who rushed over.

Seeing Xuan Ning's absent-minded appearance, he seemed to be expecting it, and said: "Master, this baby and her mother must have been infected with night's sleep for quite some time, the poisoning is too deep, a small amount of blood is useless."

Xuan Ning's soft eyelashes trembled behind her fingers, and said: "Then let's take him back for treatment."

"No, Master, you have to choose." He held Xuan Ning's wrist and pulled her hand that blocked her view. "Only by choosing those with milder illnesses can more people be saved."

"What do you mean?"

"Look up and look at the tree."

She opened her teary eyes, and found that the clusters on the branches were not leaf crowns at all, but dark people.

All were villagers who were dying of nocturnal sleep disease, and hundreds of pairs of eyes were watching her in the dark with fear and longing.

"How could this be... Isn't it said that there is enough blood..."

The number of infected people in just one village far exceeds the dozens reported.

"Yexi is raging rampantly, even if your blood is exhausted, it will not be enough." Bai Shaohan said, "But the master has tried his best, and the master did not let him go down the mountain because he was afraid that you would not be able to bear it after knowing the truth."

He looked at the way he had come. "Let's go back to the mountain, master, if the master is held accountable, he will say that I lied to you."

Xuan Ning didn't move, she just silently helped the young man wrap the sick baby in swaddling clothes, then held his hand back, saying: "I haven't tried my best enough."

The boy was stunned, and for the first time there was some warmth in his eyes. "Master is indeed a person who will not go back on his word."

"Well, let's go."

She wiped away her tears and followed Bai Shaohan to leave this desperate village.

That night, Xuan Ning finally woke up from the dream of Peach Blossom Land that she had woven for many years, and her heart also drifted to the outside world.

Since then, the two have often gone down the mountain together, going to one epidemic place after another, looking for the whereabouts of the demon cultivator while treating the people.They also gradually became familiar with each other, Bai Shaohan no longer mentioned the matter of transferring to Xunfeng Peak, but he was still practicing the way of ruthlessness.

It's just that it hasn't been completed yet.

Xuan Ning always asked him: "Why do you have to cultivate the way of ruthlessness?"

"If it is cultivated successfully, the realm will be transcendent, which cannot be compared with other ways."

He always answered like this.

What an idiot, Xuan Ning muttered.Obviously, in the entire Qigen Peak, his cultivation was second only to his own, and it was more than enough to deal with ordinary demon cultivation.

Bai Shaohan only smiled, and took out the candied apples he bought from the mountain from behind his back as if conjuring to coax her.

The sound of water murmured, and shadows overlapped. The girl fell asleep with her pillow on the boy's shoulder.

But they are close, others are always watching, and Xuan Ning's eyes are a little unnatural when he looks at his apprentice.

She struggled again and again, and finally couldn't help asking one day: "You can't cultivate the way of ruthlessness, but your heart is not stable, and you already have a crush?"

"The disciple is dull, it's just that he hasn't realized it yet." Bai Shaohan lowered his eyes.

"Stupid? I think you are very smart, but you are just pretending to be confused. In your heart, I will naturally be ranked behind in practice, right?"

Bai Shaohan, who was pierced, didn't look up, and the hand holding the sword trembled slightly. "Master is the reincarnation of an immortal, and he lives the same life as the sky. I am only a mortal body, and I will eventually go to the earth. How dare I think so?"

The lonely young man full of ambitions to help the world, at this moment, lowered his heart in the dust. Unfortunately, he was as innocent as Xuan Ning, and he couldn't see through it. He only felt that he was abnormal, and he must be perfunctory. "I'll ask you again, do you have someone in mind?"

Bai Shaohan wanted to quit, but he didn't dare to answer, so he left in a hurry.

But Xuan Ning wanted to know the answer. She heard in the market that there is a prophet who knows everything, so she went to visit.

Memories are fragmented, and the pictures are jumpy. We didn't know the face of the prophet, but we only saw Xuan Ning came back with the five plague towers.According to the prophet's order, she took down the scorpion of the winter plague envoy in the relief and hid it under Bai Shaohan's pillow. At night, the relief turned into a snow-white bone-tailed scorpion and listened to the voice in his sea of ​​consciousness.