Ninety thousand miles of wind

After walking for another day, I finally arrived at the foot of Daqing Mountain.Ye Xiu asked the herdsmen along the way, and there were always people who had heard of the "blacksmith". Ye Xiu was relieved, and took Zhou Zekai to search all the way, and finally saw a bustling market. The people who went to the market only said that the blacksmith In the nearby village, he pointed out the way and said that riding a horse was only half a day.The two of them cheered up, and rushed over immediately, only to see that there was a village gathered around the temple. Although the scale was small, it was really lively.

Ye Xiu and Zhou Zekai led the horses to look for it all the way, and they saw a blacksmith's shop at the head of the village - inside there was a guy working on a blast furnace, and another apprentice was lighting something on it.Ye Xiu then asked, "Is Master Guan at home?"

The apprentice didn't raise his head: "Master doesn't see outsiders."

"Hey, we came here all the way from Central China, how can we say that if we don't see it, we won't see it?" Ye Xiu said with a smile, "Go and tell him that Ye Xiu is visiting."

"Let's not talk about night rest, even day rest." The apprentice rattled the iron plate in his hand, but still didn't lift his head.

"If you bring the essence of condensed green, you won't see it?"

When these four words came out, the little apprentice suddenly raised his head: "What did you say?"

"The Essence of the Western Regions Condensed Green."

Ye Xiu spoke with confidence, but before he could finish his sentence, he saw a person rushing out of the shop - he looked like a scholar, and he grabbed Ye Xiu's hand, "I knew you could bring me something new. Stuff. Come in."

Ye Xiu seemed to have been prepared for a long time, so he was dragged in by that person, and he didn't forget to say hello: "Xiao Zhou is here too."

Zhou Zekai was a little confused about the situation, but he followed in.The three of them walked through the shop and arrived at the backyard. The man pulled Ye Xiu all the way into the main room and pressed him on a chair, asking, "Where's the stuff?"

Ye Xiu took out a small gray box from his pocket: "Here."

The man took it with his hand, opened it carefully, and pulled out a piece of emerald crystal - this was the first time Zhou Zekai had heard the name "The Essence of Condensed Green", and he also stared at it: the small spar is like being sealed into the emerald. The jade liquid is generally smooth, flowing freely with the turning of fingers.

Ye Xiu asked, "But really?"

"You can make it?" The man Bai Yexiu glanced at it, then turned to the window, facing the light, turned the spar in his hand over and over to look at it, he couldn't stop admiring it.Ye Xiu sighed, and said to Zhou Zekai: "This man is called Guan Rongfei, a disciple of the Kunlun Artifact Refining line. He used to work in Excellent Era, but unfortunately he always felt that Tao Xuan's hands were not generous, so he came to the Northland to find materials by himself. Among other things, smelting skills are really first-class—it’s a pity that people are a little weird." After he finished speaking here, he asked, "How, have you found the 'Eternal Freezing Fire'?"

Over there, Guan Rongfei was just playing with the condensed green essence in his hand, and when he heard the question, he just sneered: "If I can't find it, who else can find it." After saying that, he turned around to look for the map, only then did he find the house. Among them was Zhou Zekai, who was so frightened that he almost threw the Ningbi essence to the ground: "Who is this person?!"

"My friend, no matter how ignorant you are, you have always heard the name of Zhou Zekai, the lord of Samsara, right?" Ye Xiu laughed.

Guan Rongfei's eyes lit up, and he almost threw himself on Zhou Zekai: "Wildfire! You brought it? Show me quickly—"

Zhou Zekai shook his head hastily.

"The wildfire is gone, we came to you, and we also want to find the Xiangruo weapon."

"It's easy to say." Guan Rongfei became displeased when he heard that, "It's the masterpiece of my fellow disciple. You said it looks like an ordinary sword. What 'similar weapon' is there? I told you, One way of the sword must be done with all one's heart, and one sword in ten years is still rare; I have studied a lot of miscellaneous knowledge here, and the sword cannot be forged well--"

He wanted to keep talking, but Zhou Zekai rarely interrupted him: "Sir, do you know Tong Lin?"

"He's my classmate..." Guan Rongfei turned his head to Zhou Zekai, his expression became serious, "The wildfire is broken? But how?"

Zhou Zekai briefly talked about the situation at that time.Guan Rongfei thought for a while, then sighed: "It stands to reason that this kind of magical weapon cannot be destroyed so easily... In the situation like that at that time, I'm afraid it was when Tong Lin cast wild fire, he added a blind grass."

Ye Xiu was also surprised when he heard this: "'Yingshen Grass'? Is it a legendary thing that can ward off disasters?"

"That's right. In other words, City Lord Zhou was actually in danger of his life at the time, so the wildfire ended on its own, and it was only for you to prevent this catastrophe." After Guan Rongfei finished speaking, seeing Zhou Zekai's expression moved, He also sighed, "—that's all. You come with me." Then he stepped out of the room again.Zhou Zekai followed him to the courtyard first, saw Guan Rongfei lift the lid of the cellar and climb down, and shouted from inside: "What are you waiting for, come down!"

Zhou Zekai also climbed down.But they found that the inside was not the cellar as imagined, but a deep corridor.Guan Rongfei stretched his hands a few times before saying: "This is the tomb of a certain prince, but I have taken over the magpie's nest. ——Go this way."

As he said that, he led Zhou Zekai forward. During the period, the road was complicated, and it seemed that there were traps. Zhou Zekai also felt that it was wrong, and just followed Guan Rongfei, not remembering the road at all.At the end, Guan Rongfei pushed open the door of a stone room and said, "This is it."

Zhou Zekai followed Guan Rongfei in, and felt a chill hit his face as soon as he entered the room.Looking carefully, he saw a long white sword made of frost sticking out on the stone platform in the room——Zhou Zekai felt unfamiliar when he saw it, and turned to look at Guan Rongfei.

"You try it?" Guan Rongfei said.

Zhou Zekai nodded, stepped forward to hold the sword in his hand, and twisted two sword flowers——this function taught him to open his eyes even more, and said: "——similar to wild fire."

Guan Rongfei nodded: "You can recognize weapons, so the fire is not in vain. That's right, this sword was also forged by my fellow disciple Tong Lin, and it will stay with me after it is forged."

"Tong Lin now—" Zhou Zekai asked hurriedly.

"He went to look for materials by himself and looked at the swords in the world. I don't know where he found it." Guan Rongfei said, "This sword was also forged by his sword intent from observing the snow-capped mountains, although it is stronger and stronger than wild fire. Li, but there is also a fatal flaw——does City Lord Zhou feel it?"

Only now did Zhou Zekai realize that the cold air on the sword was too strong, and his fingers were numb from the cold.Guan Rongfei sighed, and said: "This sword is forged from a thousand-year-old meteorite on the top of the snow mountain. Once it is forged, the cold air cannot be driven away... Although Tong Lin intended to forge this sword for the city lord, unexpectedly With such a mistake, he had no choice but to send it here."

Zhou Zekai was silent for a while, then said: "——The name of the sword?"

"Shattered Frost."

Zhou Zekai nodded: "I will take it away."

Unexpectedly, Guan Rongfei insisted: "No. This sword is too cold. If it is used for a long time, it will cause the cold air to enter the body and damage the meridians. As a caster, I will never allow the city lord to just take it away.— — What's more, maybe I couldn't do anything about this cold air before, but now I have the essence of condensed green, as long as I exercise it, this cold air can be restrained."

Zhou Zekai asked again: "—how?"

"This still needs to be studied." Guan Rongfei said, and brought Zhou Zekai back to the ground.But Ye Xiuxiu was sitting in the middle of the hall, with a map spread out on his lap, and he greeted the two of them when they came back: "I told you that you must have a sword here. How about it?" The last sentence was for Zhou Zekai.

Zhou Zekai nodded and said, "Good sword."

"But there is a flaw—" Guan Rongfei was just saying, Ye Xiu got up and took the sword from Zhou Zekai's hand, just looked at it for a while, then frowned and said: "—the cold air is too strong."

"That's right, you have to listen to me." Guan Rongfei explained, "Breaking frost, and the triple transformation of the Thousand Manifestation Umbrella in your hand, all landed on this condensed green essence. This spar is the The qi of Jiayi wood is born, but it is also born in the fire side of the Western Region. It is the most warm and can harmonize the breath of all directions. If the essence of condensed green can be separated out and dissolved on the two weapons, all problems will naturally be solved."

"It's just that you don't know what fire to use to dissolve the condensed green essence." Ye Xiu said.

It was also rare for Guan Rongfei to remain silent, and after a while he said, "It's also the first time I've seen this thing, and I still need to think about it carefully."

Ye Xiu nodded, and said, "We are guests from afar, and I brought you this good thing. You must find us a place to live, right?"

"Of course." Guan Rongfei said, and called the apprentices from the front yard over to arrange a place for Zhou Ye and the two of them.While cleaning the guest room, the little apprentice asked Ye Xiu, "How did you get such a thing as the condensed green essence?"

Ye Xiu smiled and replied, "It was given by someone else."

"You don't think I'm young, so you can lie to me with your mouth." The little apprentice was upset, "—such a valuable thing, who will give it away?"

"It's useless to keep that person, so naturally he gave it to me."

Seeing that Ye Xiu answered with certainty, the little apprentice finally half-believed and said, "Really?——Then you are really lucky."

However, Zhou Zekai understood a little bit, leaned closer to Ye Xiu and asked, "Tao Xuan?"

Ye Xiu nodded: "That's a good guess. This condensed green essence is worth ten years in my Excellent Era."

Zhou Zekai frowned, and said indignantly, "It's not worth it."

Ye Xiu smiled and said nothing more.

In this way, the two stayed at Guan Rongfei's house for three days, Guan Rongfei studied the secret scripts in various ways and studied according to the essence of Ningbi, but he still couldn't make a decision.On the night of the third day, Ye Xiu said, "Old Guan, we have come all the way here, but there is still a lot of chores behind us, you have to give us time to go back all the way?"

Guan Rongfei rolled his eyes at him: "If you're impatient, go beg someone else?" But even though he said that, he frowned, obviously the progress was not going well.

Ye Xiu asked again: "—but still want to freeze to death forever?"

Guan Rongfei shook his head: "Wait, wait, wait."

Zhou Zekai was a little concerned when he heard this, but he woke up suddenly the next morning, only to find that Ye Xiu's Myriad Manifestation Umbrella, which he never left, had been placed on the table in his house at some point.With a jolt, he got up, grabbed the Myriad Manifestation Umbrella, and knocked on the door of Rongfei's room.

Guan Rongfei fell into a drowsy sleep, and said, "Call for mourning?!"

Zhou Zekai was in a hurry and knocked on the door.Guan Rongfei finally couldn't bear the knocking anymore, got up completely and opened the door, and when he opened the door, he saw Zhou Zekai holding the Thousand Manifestation Umbrella in his hand.He just said: "——what's going on?" Then he suddenly realized, "——as expected, that guy went to find Yong Frozen by himself."

Zhou Zekai stared at him closely and asked, "Where?"

Guan Rongfei didn't care that he didn't wear a coat, he dragged him to the main room, "I'm going to find a map." At this time, it was almost dawn, he lit the candles in the room, rummaged through the racks, and finally found a map ,"--here."

Zhou Zekai stared intently, and saw that various nearby mountain peaks were carefully drawn on a piece of sheepskin, and a mark was made under the highest peak.Guan Rongfei also explained: "This is when Tong Lin and I went to the mountain to look for meteorites, and we saw a faint shadow on the north side of the mountain, but that side is full of cliffs, neither of us is good at martial arts, so we can't Climb down."

Zhou Zekai nodded, grabbed the sheepskin and was about to leave—but was stopped by Guan Rongfei: "Wait! I have something for you."

Ye Xiu really entered the mountain alone.Although Guan Rongfei didn't say anything, he also guessed that the other party couldn't find a suitable fire: after all, the essence of condensed green is condensed by wood energy. He talked with Guan Rongfei before, and he said that he must find the coldest fire in the world to smelt it. ——Thinking of it this way, apart from the "eternal freezing fire" that I saw by chance on the snow mountain, there is no other fire to use.Before he saw the map in Guan Rongfei's room, he made up his mind to take a risk no matter what - after all, there are so many things going on now, he can't wait, and neither can Zhou Zekai.

So Ye Xiu started his lightness kung fu and climbed towards the peak all the way.He climbed up from the south slope, after all, it was fairly gentle, and by the time the sun was rising, he had already reached the top of the mountain—on the snowy mountain, the sun was covered by snow, and the whiteness was lying. Eyes, carefully look at the terrain on the north side.But I saw the rock wall on the north side falling straight down like a knife, but I saw a faint silver-red light at about four feet away.Ye Xiu thought that it was indeed here, so he carefully exercised his inner strength and used the gecko wall-swimming skill to climb down the cliff.After all, he was behind the back of his internal strength, and he was also very skilled and daring, and he reached that depression not long after.Looking carefully, there is indeed a mass of ice inside, sealing a branch of coral, and a mass of red fire is secretly burning on it.

Ye Xiu heaved a sigh of relief, stuck the gap with one hand, took the short knife from his pocket with the other, and went to cut the ice cubes on the edge.It's just that the ice was extremely hard, and he had to use a lot of strength to chisel it out with ice and fire—but it was only the size of a fist.He was overjoyed in his heart, put the ice cube into his bosom, and was about to climb up, when suddenly he felt a pain in his right hand—he was startled, and saw a small snow-white snake jumping out at no time, biting tightly His right hand.

Ye Xiu knew it wasn't right, so he ran over the snake to death with his backhand - but he was in mid-air now, and he couldn't seal the acupuncture point, let alone how poisonous the snake was - in just a short while, his fingers felt numb , but at this time, he used his whole body's internal strength to attach to the rock wall, which made the poison swim faster.He tried his best to hold on for a moment, but finally he couldn't hold on to the edge of the rock wall anymore, and he just fell into the abyss below the mountain.

It’s over.

Just as Ye Xiu thought about it, he suddenly heard a shout: "—Ye Xiu!"

The voice belonged to Zhou Zekai.He looked up, only to see that the young man had already stepped off the cliff—he used his strength to speed up and jumped off.

Ye Xiu was shocked, but the snake venom even made his tongue numb, so he couldn't make a sound.Seeing Zhou Zekai leaping vertically over the rock wall, he jumped after he got close, and hugged him—these light-handed efforts were extremely terrifying, but now Ye Xiu didn't have time to think, Just as he was in a hurry, he saw that Zhou Zekai was looking for something, he pulled it hard, and heard a "swell" sound, and a big cowhide umbrella ran out from behind him, catching the wind, and the two of them were thrown upwards. With a pull, the rapid downward momentum stopped.Ye Xiu couldn't speak, he just blinked, meaning where did you find this thing?

Zhou Zekai didn't answer, but hugged Ye Xiu tightly with his arms, his eyes were red when he saw it.Ye Xiu was also suffocated, but after all, he was poisoned by the snake and couldn't speak. He just floated around like this, and finally fell to the ground after a while—the umbrella was caught by a tall pine tree at the foot of the mountain, and Zhou Zekai cut it off with his fingers. The belt fell to the ground with Ye Xiu in his arms, and without saying anything, he lowered his head to suck the wound on Ye Xiu's hand, sucked out two mouthfuls of black blood, and then took out all kinds of talisman papers from his bosom, and pasted them on like money.

Ye Xiu caught a glimpse of the detoxifying talisman inside, heaved a sigh of relief, and knew that the poison was not serious—although the snake venom was quick to act, it was not fatal at all—but he couldn't wait for him to speak, and was posted again. Put up two first aid thousand gold charms.

Ye Xiu thinks that you simply don't take Fang Minghua's painstaking efforts seriously - but the effect is indeed immediate, and the numbness subsides soon.He coughed and called hoarsely: "Xiao Zhou...it's all right."

Only then did Zhou Zekai look up at him, and there was something dark in his eyes, which Ye Xiu couldn't understand for a moment, so he just tightened his heart, and stretched out his hand to hold Zhou Zekai's: "Don't panic."

"Senior." Zhou Zekai said in a low voice, his fingers were still trembling slightly when held by Ye Xiu - what kind of person is the Lord of Samsara, and the hand holding the sword is the most stable, when did it tremble like this?Ye Xiu's heart tightened again for no reason, but Zhou Zekai suddenly grabbed him with his backhand and said, "That day, you told me to cherish the person in front of you. I didn't understand it at the time, but now I understand it."

Just as Ye Xiu was stunned, he saw Zhou Zekai leaned over and kissed him—even with a bit of bitterness.Ye Xiu's eyes widened, his mind went blank - he never expected it to be this development.

The kiss was instant, Zhou Zekai didn't seem to know what to do, he stepped back a little, only holding Ye Xiu's hand tightly, but stared straight at Ye Xiu, and didn't back down.

Ye Xiu blinked his eyes, and said after a long while: "...Xiao Zhou?" But he called out as usual, but he didn't know what to say next, so the two stood in the valley forest, holding hands tightly, But no one said a word.

After a while, Zhou Zekai lowered his eyes, let go of Ye Xiu's hand, turned around and walked back.Ye Xiu was stunned for a while, and then started to catch up - but in the end he didn't know what to say, so the two walked back in silence.

When they arrived in the village, they found Guan Rongfei circling around the door of the shop like ants in a hot pot. They were relieved to see that they came back intact, and asked again, "Did you use that umbrella?" Seeing Zhou Zekai nod, he asked. , "—Brought back by dead fire?"

Ye Xiu nodded, took out dead fire from his bosom and handed it to him.Now Guan Rongfei didn't care about condolences anymore, grabbed the dead fire and ran into the backyard, leaving the two of them in the backyard.

Ye Xiu looked at his back, pretending to be relaxed and said: "—Hey, just wait now."

Zhou Zekai remained silent and nodded his head.

Ye Xiu felt a little nervous again.But tell him what to say, he really doesn't know what to say.The two stood at the door of the shop for a while, then went in awkwardly, and each went back to the guest room. They didn't see each other until they were called out by the apprentice for dinner—but they still didn't know what to say.

The little apprentice held the bowl and looked at Ye Xiu: "What's the matter with you, you can't stop talking about meals, but today you're dumb."

"Cut, why do you have so many things to do as a child?" Ye Xiu finished, and picked up the rice with chopsticks in suspense.But after a while, Zhou Zekai stood up, nodded, and went back to the room.Ye Xiu only looked at his back—but was stabbed secretly by the little apprentice: "—Hey, did you two quarrel?"

"No way."

"No noise? It turns out that the two of you look like honey, why are you so stiff today?"

"Hey, you haven't learned Chinese well enough. Is this how you use honey to adjust oil?" Ye Xiu almost lost his temper.

"How to use it? I think I use it very well." The elementary school apprentice said, "This big city lord looks like he can't beat a fart with three sticks, so he is willing to talk to you a few more words; you are not too annoying, there is He always talks a lot, sometimes you don’t need to say anything, he just takes a look at you and you can continue—you said you are not honeyed?”

"Go, go, what are you talking about? It's too rough. Memorize the dictionary first." Ye Xiu poked him with his chopsticks, but he didn't want to eat. Back to the house."

As a result, when I returned to the house, I still couldn't sleep.Originally, he went up the mountain and jumped off the cliff today, so he should be quite tired, but when Ye Xiu lay down on the bed, he only remembered the moment when he was held by Zhou Zekai in the air——slowly, the anxious face he saw with the young man in the forest With a smile on his face, he slowly merged into one.As he thought about it, he actually remembered what he said to Zhou Zekai that night:

——In this life, sooner or later, you will meet that person all your life. When you meet him, you will not be afraid of what you can say, what you can’t say, and what you have to weigh before you say it. You can say it.

He stared blankly at the roof for a long while, then suddenly a carp jumped up, ran out of the house a few steps across the courtyard to Zhou Zekai's house, and called, "Xiao Zhou?"

Not long after, Zhou Zekai came out to open the door, and was obviously taken aback when he saw the expression on Ye Xiu's face.

Ye Xiuxiu was about to say something, when Guan Rongfei pushed open the cellar door with ecstasy and came out: "It's done, it's done! Come and see!" But he saw the two of them turned to him, their expressions were "happy" The two words couldn't match each other, and he blinked, "——why, you are still worried that my subordinates can't make good things? You really underestimate me——"

"How is it possible?" Ye Xiu said, "We are absolutely looking forward to it with all our heart. Look at our sincere eyes."

Guan Rongfei didn't bother to talk to him, and said, "Come here." Then he turned around and walked on.Ye Xiu glanced at Zhou Zekai, said "Come here", took Zhou Zekai's hand, and walked towards the cellar door.

Zhou Zekai's eyes widened, and his hands shrank slightly, but Ye Xiu clenched them tightly.So he followed Ye Xiu forward, but his face turned red little by little.

Fortunately it was night.As Zhou Zekai thought about it, he squeezed Ye Xiu's hand with his fingers.