After I died, the cold beauty fell from the altar

Thousands of lush trees are intertwined in the barren woods, the ground is transparent like water, and layers of tree shadows are reflected in it. You can also clearly see the dense rhizomes underground. Below the rhizomes are blue-green light spots like phosphorus fire. The lotus patterns covering the sky communicate with each other, forming a huge cage.

The hem of the man's clothes was rolled up, and he knelt on the ground weakly, his hands were hung by the soul-binding ropes on both sides, and the bloody wounds on his wrists showed that he had struggled violently, and the blood on this pale cheek had dried up , leaving behind a gorgeous and shocking remnant.

His face was ashen and haggard, with gloomy eyebrows and eyes, and a few strands of black hair intertwined in front of his forehead, making him look a bit pitiful, like a beautiful butterfly trapped.

It wasn't until the Taoist priest in the pale ivory robe and the elder in the deer-pattern crepe robe appeared that he lazily lifted his heavy eyelids, revealing his bloodshot green eyes, all the gloomy aura in his body was covered, and he looked at him eagerly. The man said in a weak voice: "Master, it's all because the disciples' Dao heart is not righteous. They failed to control this dragon's nature to do evil. They were stunned for a while, acted recklessly, and committed heinous crimes..."

Listening to his self-reflection, Lord Qing Xiao didn't show any emotion on his face, he just looked down at him from a high position without saying a word.

Yue Zhi on the side sighed again and again, wrinkles piled up between his brows, and his face full of signs of age was a little more unbearable.

The body of the person in the lotus pattern leaned forward, and the soul-binding ropes on both sides also shook slightly. His dark eyelashes covered his blue eyes, his chin was drooping, and he looked very gentle and harmless. , his thin lips moved slowly: "I have come to this point today, I know that I have betrayed the innocent, and even if I want to make up for it, it is too late to regret it. Learn from past mistakes and avoid future ones, save yourself and restrain yourself.”

After saying these words, he coughed twice, and wanted to curl up his body, but his wrists were tightened by the soul-binding rope, so he had to maintain a kneeling posture.

"Your Majesty, Hexuan is now a human soul and a dragon body, and his uncontrollable temperament is not what he thinks. Besides, he has already reflected on himself from the bottom of his heart. His intention is sincere, and he is willing to take the blame. I also ask you to be lenient." Fall."

Yue Zhi couldn't see him like this, so he immediately bowed and saluted to plead for the poor-looking person in the formation.

Lord Qingxiao's expression did not change, his face was still tense, and his voice was like a bell when he spoke, dull and oppressive: "If self-examination in the barren woods is a heavy punishment, then according to what Elder Yue saw, what is the meaning of a lenient sentence? ?”

Knowing that he had made a slip of the tongue, Yue Zhi hurriedly bowed his head and said, "It's Yue who said too much."

"Elder Yue feels sorry for Hexuan, and can't bear to see him suffer. It's human nature, but the theory of human soul and beast body is against the sky. Since Hexuan can't control his dragon nature, he must be pure-hearted and ascetic. Sincerity," he frowned and stared at the man in the middle of the formation, sternly speaking, "If you are sincere and self-reflecting, you don't need to express your feelings with the cold stick of the sun. Day, since you left the forbidden area."

Unexpectedly, when the words fell, the soul-binding rope made a violent sound, and the man who had lowered his brows suddenly raised his face when he heard the words, his green pupils were ignited with blood like an open fire, but that face showed a frightening ashes, He looked like he was laughing, but also like a wolf gaping open, his fangs were white and sharp, and he was shining with a fierce light: "Want to become a fairy? Do you want him to become a fairy? Why do you want him to become a fairy!"

"Hexuan!"

Seeing that the originally pitiful man suddenly turned into a mad dog, Yue Zhi immediately stopped him, so as not to make Zunjun angry again.

Unexpectedly, Lord Qingxiao is not surprised when he sees it, as if he understands the deep hatred between his two apprentices: "Zhexuan has acted in Wuzhou in the name of Lord Qingheng all these years, and my heart is like a mirror. You once Asked in front of the mountain gate: I know that Zhexuan is alive, why didn't I take him back to Nanhua Dao? As He Lao said in the past, Taoism is like a barrier to him, and he can live more freely if he leaves Taoism. That day in Chizhou, I I have noticed that his yang spirit is full, and his body is like Taixu, an image that is always bright day and night. He is about to cultivate the Dao, and after that he will forget his past and be separated from the world. I will never let him be fettered again."

"It's no wonder Master would go to Chizhou himself. In the final analysis, he was still afraid that I would hinder him from attaining the Dao." His hidden gloom showed edges, tilted his head, and twisted his slightly sore neck, "But Master, you guessed it right, I really don't want Zhe Xuan to become a fairy."

As soon as the last words came out, the expressions of the two people outside the formation changed.

Yue Zhisheng was afraid that his master and apprentice would confront each other again because of this, so he hurriedly persuaded him: "The crane is hanging, the pearls are turning, and the generations have passed by. Now that everything is back to the right track, what kind of hatred is there that cannot be let go?"

Lord Qingxiao's eyes became colder, and there was still no expression on his face: "No matter how much Zhexuan owed you, he has already paid it off with his life. It is you who are trapped by obsession and refuse to let go of the past."

Xu Qingyi was silent for a moment, then suddenly let out a sneer, he curled up his red lips, and his face was a little gloomy: "You think I hate him? Because I plotted against him and killed him in Baiji God Realm, right? ?”

His thin body leaned back feebly, as if he was a little tired, and let the two soul-binding ropes tightly hook the flesh of his wrists, the blood slid down his arms, staining layers of red on his elbows The sleeve of the ministry: "Master, you said earlier that everything is as I wish, why do you think I want to be the head of Nanhua Dao? I just don't want to be reconciled, so I want to show you that I am no worse than Tianhuo Linggen , at least in the past, I thought so."

His eyes flickered slightly, his eyes were full of desire, and a strange and crazy look appeared on his gray face: "I have lived in a daze for hundreds of years, only now do I know what I really want, Master, once he ascends to the I will forget the past, including me, but I don't want him to forget me, I want him, I want to be with him, I want him to become a Taoist partner with me, I want to practice double cultivation with him..."

"Hexuan! You, what are you talking about!"

Yue Zhi, who was standing by the formation, changed his expression drastically when he heard the words, and hurriedly interrupted him.

Xu Qingyi turned a deaf ear to his scolding, pulled the soul-binding rope that locked his hands, looked up at the people outside the formation, and returned to his previous pitiful appearance: "Master, don't lock me here, okay? I am willing to go to the Shensi Hall to be punished, you can punish me any way you want, as long as you save my life and let me go to see Zhexuan, I miss Zhexuan, I want to see him..."

"It's shameless and depraved!"

The moment the angry reprimand sounded, Lord Qingxiao's face was livid, and he rarely got angry this time. He used his true energy to make a palm in the air, and hit the chest of the person in the formation hard, making him feel angry. He spat out a mouthful of blood.

He arched his back from the pain, his body trembled slightly, his sickly white face was like a piece of thin paper stained with blood, the glaring red around his lips slowly trickled down and soaked into the snow-colored skirt of his clothes, but he grinned ferociously with his bloody mouth He smiled and said: "In the eyes of Master, I was mediocre and lowly, and I was not worthy of your high-caliber disciple. Now I have become a dirty dragon, but I try to tarnish the white crane in the cloud, but so what? As long as I can stay By Zhexuan's side, I can be mean and shameless, scornful of ethics and reason, even if you want me to be his spirit beast, or even his furnace cauldron!"

The expression on Xu Qingyi's face was almost crazy, his eyes were scorching, blood was constantly overflowing from his mouth, soaking through the hem of his plain white clothes, and his blood-red eyeballs were staring at the front in a daze, the pain was mixed with extreme paranoia and madness: "He is Mine, mine, let me out! Don't keep me here! Let me go!"

"Your Majesty!"

Seeing him struggling to break free from the soul-binding rope again, the flesh on his wrist has been worn down to the bone, Yue Zhi really couldn't bear it.

Obsessed with him so obsessively, King Qingxiao's face was clouded with clouds, and then the iron chain formed by the water waves strangled his neck and body. The portrait seemed to have been sucked out of all its anger, its head hung down half-dead, and its tightly curled fingers were weakly loosened.

"This... Your Majesty, why don't I go in and look at his injuries for him."

Although Yue Zhi understood that Zunjun's move would not hurt Hexuan's life, it must have made him miserable.

"Don't worry about him."

After leaving these words coldly, Lord Qing Xiao shook his sleeves and left.

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"Who would have thought that He Xuan would rather trample on himself than destroy Zhe Xuan at all costs."

The small pavilion is built on the lotus pond, and only round leaves like jasper plates grow in the pond, which is full of emerald green as far as the eye can see.

"Did he really say that?"

Li Xiyuan's astonishment was on his face, and after thinking about it, his elder brother really had such a naughty temperament, so he wasn't surprised at all.

He was just a little worried: because the person his elder brother really hated had died long ago.

"It's rare for the emperor to do this. He not only let Zhexuan go free, but also accepted the fact that Hexuan became Zhenlin, and still regarded him as the leader of Nanhua Dao. As long as Hexuan let go of his hatred for Zhexuan, everything will be fine. It's as expected, but why is Hexuan so stubborn?"

Since Yue Zhi entered the Huayan Palace, he has been sighing for a long time, even if he doesn't say his melancholy, sooner or later he will overflow from the sigh.

Li Xiyuan naturally knew that it was not easy for his master to achieve this step, but unfortunately the master didn't even know that the original fifth brother was dead, so he wanted to help the "fifth brother" quickly cultivate to a positive result, so as to escape from this world of mortals.

When he was in a trance, Yue Zhi asked again: "Could it be related to his transformation into Zhenlin?"

"Elder Yue guessed that senior brother couldn't accept that he became Zhenlin, and because of the past, he hated fifth senior brother so much, so he wanted to use this dragon body to destroy fifth senior brother?"

"From what I've seen of his recent condition, it's indeed a bit like a hysterical upper body..."

"That's all right. I'll go see the elder brother another day to see if I can untangle him."

"That's very good. By the way, the disciples in the sect are all clear about Hexuan being a dragon?"

"My Daoist disciples are all sensible, coupled with the obvious attitude of respecting the emperor, this matter did not cause much disturbance. In fact, no matter how senior is a dragon or a man, it will not change his position in our hearts."

Li Xiyuan walked to the edge of the pavilion, and when he looked down, he saw the wind beating Helu, "As for the resurrection of the fifth senior brother, except for the master and the elders, the rest of the people don't know, presumably they will never leak the news."

Speaking of Zhexuan, Yue Zhi did not forget to remind him: "Hexuan is currently locked up in the barren woods to reflect, but he can't guarantee that something will happen one day. He hates Zhexuan to the bone. Just in case, if you can see When it comes to Zhexuan, it's better to tell him to be more on guard against Hexuan, and don't really be tricked by him."

"I never thought that one day, I could hear words of concern for the fifth senior brother from the mouth of Elder Yue."

Li Xiyuan turned his head from the side of the pavilion, and couldn't help smiling: Although Elder Yue didn't show his dislike for his fifth senior brother like Elder Meng did, he always favored senior senior brother in his heart.

"After all, ice silkworms don't know the cold, and Polygonum worms don't know suffering. If Mr. He is still around, he will definitely tease me like you do."

Yue Zhi waved his hands, and walked slowly out of the pavilion.

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"Father! Come with me and Auntie to release paper kites, okay?"

The immature child's voice wafted in the yard, and the little girl with a double ring bun poked her head out from the window of the study, looking at the middle-aged man sitting on the desk with a pen and writing, her watery eyes blinked.

"it is good."

The man agreed without even thinking about it, put the pen on the pen mountain, picked up the little girl from the window and hugged her in his arms, and walked happily into the courtyard while teasing her.

The woman in the sapphire blue silk satin pomegranate dress was standing by the moon hole with a paper kite, waiting for his father and daughter with a smile. With the scenery in the courtyard as a backdrop, it looked as quiet and beautiful as a painting.

"Sect Master!"

A little disciple in gray hurriedly stepped into the gate of the courtyard, breaking the warmth of the three-person room.

"What's the matter?"

The man poked the round cheek of the little girl who was making a face at him, and his gentle eyes fell on the visitor.

"A little brother came to the door and said that someone asked me to give you something."

"Just accept it, why are you so flustered?"

The little disciple looked distressed, and honestly explained:

"Because what he wants to hand over to you... is the sword manual, moreover, it is the sword manual of the Xuanyin Sword Art."

"what?!"

Hearing this, the man's face became serious, he could only look at his wife with apology, and then patted the little girl in his arms, "You go to play with my mother first, my father has some things to do, I'll talk to you later Come and find you."

"Hey, Xiaotao, come to Aniang."

Hearing her mother calling her tenderly, the little girl nodded: "Then Father, come to us soon after you are done with your work."

"Good good."

The man nodded again and again, his tone was full of affection and helplessness, and then hurriedly followed the little disciple to the outer hall.

The outer hall is relatively empty, with all kinds of swords on the weapon racks on both sides, and a spiritual platform hanging high in the middle, with the word "Mentor" engraved on them.

The boy with the sword on his back was holding a sword book in his hand, and was standing in the hall, looking around curiously.

"You want to give me the sword manual?"

He didn't look away until the voice full of anger came, and saw the man in the soft silver Ruyi satin-patterned deep coat enter the hall, and hurriedly saluted: "I have seen the Ningmen master."

After receiving the sword manual from the young man, the man only glanced at it, and the memories of the past flooded in uncontrollably. down.

"Little brother, may I ask who asked you to hand over this sword manual to me?"

He vaguely knew the answer in his heart, but he still wanted to ask.

"The expert didn't tell me his name, but only asked me to pass this sword manual on to you. Also, he said that this sword manual was left to him by his third senior brother."

The hand holding the sword manual trembled slightly, and even though several years had passed, when he thought of the past, he still couldn't help but have reddened eyes.

"He also asked me to bring you a sentence." The young man paused, thinking about what he said, "He said, he has seen every move and style you practiced."

That day, he was about to send a letter home for Chen Wang, the words he said to him before leaving rang in his ears again.

"The disciple originally thought that if the palace master went, he would be able to see how well the disciple's Xuanyin swordsmanship has been practiced."

"No problem, when you come back, let me practice again."

I thought it was a lifelong regret, but it turns out that Daojun has never forgotten him.

He clenched the sword manual tightly, turned to look at the newly grown vine leaves beside the blue tiles, and when he raised his hand to brush the ends of the hair that blocked his sight, he wiped away the eye that was about to fall with his fingertips without leaving any traces. teardrops.

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The barren land was extremely quiet, so quiet that one could hear the rustling of tree roots growing underground.

The person trapped in the lotus pattern formation was lifeless, his wrists were still tightly bound by the soul-binding rope, the blood around his wrist had solidified, but the jade string with silver bamboo knots was as clean as ever.

After the blood that flowed from the wound dried up, several red marks were left on the two snow-white arms. It was shocking to look at, not to mention how embarrassing his white clothes were stained with blood.

"Brother."

The flat tone is in the ear, and there is a trace of imperceptible worry in it.

The soul-binding rope swayed slightly, and the man with his head down slowly raised his face. The two sunken eye sockets were covered with blue-grey, and the eyes were a gloomy green. The red blood was all over his chin and front, which should be scarred. But that face was extremely beautiful, like a shattered jade, still dazzling in the light.

He half-closed his eyes, put away his sinister look, and bent his brows and eyes flatteringly: "Yu Qing, can you let me out, it's cold and dark here, I don't want to stay here, you Just take pity on me..."

"Senior Brother," Li Xiyuan interrupted him, and said seriously, "I can let you out, but you have to promise me that you will never pester Fifth Senior Brother again forever."

After hearing what he said, Xu Qingyi's dark eyes darkened, and his long and thin fingers unconsciously gathered into his palms. The smile on his face collapsed for a moment, and then calmly returned to normal, pulling the corners of his lips and saying: "As long as you let go If I go out, I promise you."

"it is good."

Li Xiyuan responded quickly, and took out a pill from his sleeve and threw it in front of him, "This pill is made from Yueyin Wuyou grass. I don't need to say more, I think the brother knows its effect. To prevent you from going back on your word, once you take this elixir and seal all your past memories, I will release you immediately."

Looking at the elixir that rolled down to the hem of his clothes, Xu Qingyi's expression was gloomy, but there were blades hidden in his eyes, which only softened when he was about to raise his eyes, and asked back with hooked lips: "If you don't untie the soul-binding rope, How can I pick up this pill?"

"There is no need to untie the soul rope."

Li Xiyuan smiled without smiling, he activated the invisible force outside the formation, causing the elixir on the ground to float, and sent it straight to the mouth of the man in white.

Xu Qingyi's eyes immediately turned cold, he gritted his teeth and turned his head away, his eyes were sharp, as if he wished to split the people on the sidelines in half, and said viciously, "I won't go out."

Li Xiyuan could clearly see the hatred in his eyes. In fact, he just wanted to defraud him, because there was no second elixir made from Yueyin Wuyoucao, otherwise Master and the others wouldn't The matter was such a headache that in the end, he, the senior brother, would rather be trapped here forever than let go of his obsession with the fifth senior brother.

The pill turned into nothingness in the air, Li Xiyuan thought about it, and couldn't help sighing: "Senior brother, why are you bothering? I hinted to you before that the current fifth senior brother is not the one who breaks your spirit at all." Root, the person who caused you to suffer from cold and poison, the person you really hate is already dead."

He wasn't sure if telling him the truth about the man's death would relieve him or break him even more, but now it seemed he had no choice.

To his surprise, Xu Qingyi was very calm after listening to it, and he couldn't find even the slightest wave on his face. He looked at him quietly, as if he didn't understand what he meant by telling him, and then his lips moved. Moved, said calmly: "I know."

Xu Qingyi's face was calm, but Li Xiyuan's eyes widened in astonishment after hearing this: "You know?"

All the thoughts in his mind flowed rapidly, and in the end he was even more puzzled: "Brother, I really don't understand. Since you know, why do you still hate him so much? Even now, you are still thinking of using yourself to destroy him!"

"I don't hate him."

After kneeling for a long time, Xu Qingyi's legs were numb to the point of unconsciousness. He stared at the jade string hanging on his wrist and murmured, "I just want to be with him. I don't understand why. You all think that I hate him, if it is hating him to prevent him from attaining enlightenment, then I probably hate him."

He seemed to be unable to distinguish between love and hate, so there was some confusion in his dull eyes.

Li Xiyuan didn't understand the meaning of his words for a moment. He frowned and thought for a long time, and there was always a specious feeling in his heart: "Brother, since you don't hate him and want to be with him, why do you prefer to be with him?" To destroy him?"

"I don't want to destroy him either." There was deep despair in his eyes, as if he was muttering to himself, "but if I don't destroy him, he will abandon me and never come back."

Li Xiyuan pondered for a moment, and then slowly said: "Brother, maybe you have never thought that you have spent so much effort to pester Fifth Senior Brother, but in the end you will only end up with endless pain, so in the final analysis, it is because Fifth Senior Brother is the destined person in this life. It's not you at all."

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The weather was not beautiful, and it began to drizzle.

The rain hit the surface of the water, causing the lake to slosh, making the few raindrops on the lotus leaves tremble.

The young man was dressed in a loose golden silk and white pattern robe, sitting lazily under the eaves, squinting his eyes to see the raindrops being blown to and fro by the wind, which was rare and comfortable.

"Master Dao!"

The man in black and strong clothes imitated the actor who sang "Yi Yi Ya Ya" on the stage, with his toes on the ground, his body as light as a swallow, through the drizzle, and landed beside the young man.

"You have a really good dog's nose."

Disturbed from enjoying the rain, the young man raised his eyelids and glanced at him, with a smile clearly hanging from the corners of his eyes and brows.

"Mr. Dao, you don't know, since the True Monarch Hexuan left, I can see that everything is bright,"

Xue Mastiff sat down cross-legged beside him, his body was restless, always swaying, or he leaned into his ear and asked, "By the way, then Zhenjun Hexuan probably won't come back again?"

Su Wan's eyes drifted in the rain for a long time, but he couldn't find a foothold, probably because he suddenly remembered that person's appearance like a jade-colored god in front of the main hall, so he lowered his eyebrows and said, "No way."

"That's good, but Daojun, what are you looking at?"

Xue Mastiff seemed to have fleas growing on his body, moving around non-stop, seeing that he was fascinated by it, he also followed his line of sight, except for the rain, it was still rain.

"I'm looking at the dog meat shop thirty miles to the west."

"..."

The dog next to him tensed up after hearing this, and finally obediently stopped moving.

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感谢在2022-09-1922:48:40-2022-09-2123:50:02期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦——

Thanks to the little angel who threw mines: ice1;

Thanks to the little angel of irrigation nutrient solution: 30 bottles of Junyao;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!