It's Not Easy Being a Master

In the dark, there is silence.

Sui Jian's spiritual consciousness was released, and he didn't notice any living things around him. The spiritual power gathered around his eyes, and he couldn't see the surrounding scene clearly.

He pondered for a moment, and decided to deal with Xiao Yanjin first.

This time, he sealed the panacea even more meticulously, and finally left a ray of spiritual power in Xiao Yanjin's body, which might protect him in a critical moment.

After doing all this, Xiao Yanjin is still not awake, but her breathing has become much calmer.

Sui Jian picked him up, put his arms around his neck, held the sword in one hand, and carefully identified the direction.

However, he couldn't make out anything, the complete darkness can blind people's perception, Su Jian could only vaguely judge the direction when he came, and tentatively walked back bit by bit.

But I don't know where it is. After walking for half an hour, I didn't see any light, let alone find a way out.

The little hand around her neck moved slightly, Xiao Yanjin probably woke up.

Sui Jian noticed it, and he called out, "Ah Jin?"

Xiao Yanjin's breathing became short of breath, and after a while, she hummed softly, with a deep, nasal sound.

Su Jian felt that his hands around his neck tightened, and then his shoulders sank slightly, and Xiao Yanjin leaned her head on his shoulders.

Slight dampness penetrated the thin clothes.

Sui Jian sighed silently, put away his sword, patted his back, and asked softly, "Does your body feel uncomfortable?"

Xiao Yanjin answered vaguely again.

Sui Jian said: "Then why are you crying so well?"

Little Yanjin sobbed softly, with a hint of despair in her helplessness: "Brother Sui Jian, in fact, I... When I was very young, someone told my fortune, saying that I was a born disaster star, and the people in the village were afraid that I would overpower you." They chased me away..."

He choked up and said, "I'm always hurting you, throw me away, I don't want to hurt you anymore..."

Sui Jian pursed his lips, stopped, and put him down.

Can't see each other's faces clearly in the dark, Sui Jian squatted down, groped and wiped his tears gently, and said seriously: "Children will become bald if they think too much. Our Jin is very good, not a disaster star , and it didn’t hurt me, don’t talk nonsense about whether to throw it away or not.”

"But……"

"Ajin, do you remember that I told you about going to Qingyunzong? In fact, my master has not accepted you as an apprentice for a long time, maybe I won't accept you as an apprentice again..." Feeling the breathing of the person in front of me They were all suffocated for a moment, and Sui Jian spoke faster: "But I can still take it! I have made you a year longer, if you don't mind, you can also ask me to be your teacher."

Little Yanjin even breathed a little lighter, he seemed to be stunned, and hesitated for a long time before asking: "Brother Suijian wants... to be my master?"

"Yes, although I have no experience in accepting apprentices yet, it doesn't matter, the people in our master's school are very nice..."

He intentionally enlightened Xiao Yanjin, deliberately picked some easy things to say, and felt that Xiao Yanjin seemed to relax a little bit, he said with a smile: "Otherwise, you should get used to it earlier, call me master?"

Xiao Yanjin muttered for a long time, and finally called softly: "Master."

Sui Jian responded contentedly, not to mention Xiao Yanjin, it was the first time he heard someone call him that, and he also found it very novel.Su Jian pinched little Yanjin's cheeks, held her hand and stood up: "Okay, good girl Jin. Let's go."

It was too dark here, and he was afraid that little Yanjin would be afraid, so he pinched out a small white glow.

The little white glow exuded soft light, turning into a fish for a while, then a rabbit for a while, changing back and forth, and finally turning into a majestic little wolf, floating in front of little Yanjin, rushing He flicked his tail.

This darkness seemed to be able to swallow the light, no matter how bright the white light was, it could only illuminate his small palm.But this at least reassured little Yanjin, he stretched out his hand, and the little wolf sat obediently in his palm, opened its mouth, as if calling.

"Wow." Baimang couldn't make a sound, but Xiao Yanjin subconsciously wailed for it, softly.

Sui Jian suppressed a smile, curled the corners of his lips, and led the man forward.

However, this black area seemed endless. The two walked for a long time, but they couldn't find a way out. Xiao Yanjin was very tired from walking, but he gritted his teeth and endured it until his legs were sore and he accidentally staggered. See Perception.

"tired?"

"No……"

"Take a break."

Sui Jian pulled him to sit down, keeping a wisp of consciousness out, still paying attention to whether there was any movement around him.Xiao Yanjin pursed her lips, stopped talking, and carefully sat down beside him, without letting go of Sui Jian's hand.

The situation is unknown, so it's not good to stay for a long time, Xiao Yanjin took a breath, and the two continued to leave.This time, after walking not far away, there was a faint movement from the surroundings.

It was like the sound of the wind blowing a pile of dead leaves, the sound of a little stone rubbing against the ground, and some whimpering sounds like a baby crying, which was a bit weird.

In the darkness, something cold seemed to pass by.Xiao Yanjin felt apprehensive, and subconsciously shrank towards Sui Jian's side. She held Sui Jian's hand hard for a moment, and a thin layer of sweat leaked out of her palm because she was too nervous.

Sui Jian noticed his uneasiness, thought for a while, turned his wrist, and a long hair tie appeared on his palm.

"Ajin, wait a minute."

He squatted down halfway, wrapped the two ends of the hair band around their wrists respectively, tied them tightly, and said: "This way, even if you accidentally let go of your hands, you won't get lost."

Little Yanjin held the little wolf that was emitting a faint light, and under the faint light, one could see the flowing cloud pattern embroidered with a slightly golden white thread on the hairband, which was smooth and delicate.

He once saw Sui Jian used this hair tie to tie his hair, and it looked very chic.

Xiao Yanjin pursed her lips, and cherished the flowing moire on her head, her heart settled down slightly.

The movement around is not an illusion, the further you walk, the more obvious the inhuman aura becomes. At first, there were only a few weaker demons and ghosts carefully probing, but gradually, more and more demons were swaying in the darkness.

Sui Jian drew his sword and killed seven or eight demons in a row, at least some of them were deterred.

But there are really countless ghosts and monsters in the darkness. They must have been trapped here for a long time, swallowed up by the darkness, and only flinched for a moment before gathering together in groups.

The screams of roaring ghosts can be heard endlessly, and the sword light is cold and cold, and the sword energy is bitter, killing countless demons along the way, stepping on the foul-smelling slime transformed by demons and advancing hard all the way.

Individually speaking, these monsters are not very powerful, the difficulty is that they always appear in groups, a fly is not in the way, but a group of flies is very annoying.

I don't know how long I walked, how many demons I killed, some were strong and some were weak, even the Shuanghui sword spirit who was controlled by Sui Jian was a little tired, and after another fierce battle, he retracted into the sword body to rest.

Little Yanjin couldn't hold on anymore, lying on Sui Jian's back in a semi-conscious state. Hunger and fatigue almost took over all his consciousness. This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that there is no water here.

Sui Jian gave him some spiritual energy.The spiritual veins of ordinary people have never been tempered, and they can't bear too much spiritual power. Sui Jian has no choice but to transfer a little to him. Fortunately, Xiao Yanjin is born with a demon body, and her endurance is stronger than ordinary people. Nothing happened.

But this is not the way to go in the long run.

The warm spiritual power circulated in Xiao Yanjin's body, and Xiao Yanjin barely regained a little consciousness, laying on Sui Jian's back in a daze, the arms around his neck moved, and the hairband tied on it also swayed shaken.

With a hoarse voice, little Yanjin called Sui Jian brother.

Her throat seemed to be glued together, and she was almost speechless. Xiao Yanjin coughed a few times, and a faint smell of rust came up.He tilted his head slightly, and whispered intermittently in Sui Jian's ear, "...leave me here."

"I... just a bad boy, no... not worth it..."

Her eyes were so dry that she couldn't even seep them out, Xiao Yanjin blinked weakly, her hands and feet felt cold, and she instinctively rubbed Sui Jian's cheeks to get a little warmth.

Little Yanjin thought sadly, forget it, let it be like this, Sui Jian's elder brother has treated him very well, and he has not given up on him even to this point.It was his destiny.It is not a pity for him to die, Sui sees a powerful man like his brother, without his burden, he will definitely be able to leave here safely.

Sui Jian shouldn't be here with him.

He opened his mouth, still wanting to speak, his lips felt warm, but a little warm liquid flowed into his mouth.

Xiao Yanjin was stunned for a moment. In the case of extreme thirst, the instinct of his body made him unable to help sucking and swallowing the liquid.

His throat was moistened slightly, and a gentle spiritual force fell into his abdominal cavity along with the liquid, which greatly relieved his pain.

Little Yanjin tasted the strong smell of blood slowly, and exclaimed in shock: "See you, brother!"

"Hush. Don't talk." Sui Jian's voice was also a little hoarse. He withdrew his hand and put it on his lips to lick it to remove a little bloody smell.

They had been trapped in this weird place for an unknown number of days. During the days without water, he could only feed little Yanjin a little blood from time to time.

Shuanghui Sword Spirit was also very tired after fighting for a long time. In this place surrounded by demonic energy, if he moved the sword body slightly, the Sword Spirit would be startled. .

The wound has been repeatedly opened too many times, each time in a different position. Over time, a small piece of scab has formed, which is uneven to the touch, which seems hideous, but Sui Jian doesn't care, as long as Xiao Yanjin is fine.

Little Yanjin struggled to land, but his hands and feet were weak and his whole body was weak. The so-called struggle was only a weak movement.

Sui Jian held his buttocks with one hand, and patted his buttocks twice: "Don't move." He said lightly, "Don't forget, you are my apprentice, there is no reason for the master to leave the apprentice alone. .”

His tone was very calm, as if he was saying that the weather is good today. Xiao Yanjin's heart felt hot and painful when he read these words, his hands trembled slightly, and his voice was hoarse: "Master..." Suddenly After a pause, he called out again: "Sui see brother..."

"Well, be good. I'll buy you pig steamed buns when I go out. I didn't eat them last time. I'll eat enough this time when I go out. There are any shapes you want..."

Xiao Yanjin's nose was sore, and he hummed heavily with a strong nasal voice.

The two encouraged each other like this, and walked for a long time.The number of monsters is gradually decreasing, and there seems to be a glimmer of light not far away.

Sui Jian's spirit was lifted: "A Jin, look, there is light over there."

Little Yanjin didn't respond, and he passed out again, breathing weakly.

Sui Jian gritted his teeth and walked over quickly. The light not far away was very faint, occasionally a little bit brighter, like... the moonlight falling on the water?

Staying in the dark for too long, even a little bit of light hurts the eyes.Sui Jian couldn't help but close his eyes after only looking at it for a while. He circulated his spiritual power around the eyes for a while, and then opened them again.

This place is barren, only monsters have no aura, his spiritual power has been consumed a lot, and there is really not so much spiritual power to squander.

After a little getting used to the light, he walked over quickly.

Seeing the light, he thought he had reached the edge of the black area, but after a closer look, he realized that in front of them was a...

Calm waters.

It may not be accurate to say that it is the sea, but looking as far as the eye can see, I haven't seen the end of this vast ocean.There is no wind here, and the water surface is calm and calm like stagnant water, sinking and bottomless.

A half-round waning moon hangs slantingly above this sea area, only illuminating a ten-foot area on the shore. The icy-cold moonlight reveals a sense of darkness, hidden in the junction of light and darkness. Heaped there, shadowy and indistinct.

There were a few small white stones at his feet, of different sizes and lengths. Sui Jian didn't think too much about it, and kicked them down with a thump. Ripples swayed in circles, dark and dark.

Sui Jian was worried for a while.

There is no turning back, and there is a boundless sea in front of us.

Before he could figure out why, the surface of the water suddenly vibrated, and circles of ripples swayed away from the distance, colliding with the shore, and there was no wind in the distance, and the waves rose, and a ball of water splashed up, gurgling, panning With a dangerous breath.

Sui Jian watched vigilantly, and took two steps back cautiously.

The big ball of water exploded quickly, and a ferocious four-clawed dragon rushed out from the bottom of the water. With a roar, it shook seven or eight water jets, and fell with a splash, the ground under its feet seemed to shake a few times. .

His expression changed slightly over the years.

The four-clawed evil dragon, a monster beast of the twelfth rank, was almost three ranks higher than him.

He carried little Yanjin on his back, and quietly wanted to disappear back into the darkness, but the evil dragon hovered on the water for a while, then suddenly snorted, as if sensing something, turned his head suddenly, and saw it at a glance Sui Jian, who hadn't had time to hide yet.

Its round pupils suddenly narrowed, sharp as needles, and the voice was dull: "Food?"

With a flick of its tail, it made splashes of water, and it flew over quickly. It looked very excited, and its vertical pupils were full of greed: "Delicious..."

Sui Jian only had time to put Xiao Yanjin down, and Shuang came back out of the sheath, and in the light of the calcium carbide fire, he collided fiercely with the evil dragon's sharp claws!

The evil dragon didn't expect that the seemingly weak little Xianxiu could stop its claws, roared angrily, twisted its body, and swung its tail towards Sui Jian!

This flick was full of the power of a thirteenth-order monster, enough to shatter an ordinary person into flying smoke.

Sui Jian didn't dare to underestimate it, and mobilized the little spiritual power left, trying to lead it away from where little Yan Jin was.

Sui Jian has never been so embarrassed.

He is talented, intelligent and amazingly gifted. He has been a highly-anticipated genius since he was a child in the teacher's school. If he has the help of a god in his cultivation, he will make rapid progress and is almost unmatched among his peers.

After coming out to experience, in order to improve, he has also stepped up to challenge high-level monsters, and he has also struggled to the death, but he has never tried anything like this time...

There was little hope of victory.

Reason told him that he should avoid the battle, even if he was in his heyday, he might not be able to retreat from the claws of this evil dragon, let alone the self who was almost exhausted at this time.

But he can't retreat.

He withdrew, what would Xiao Yanjin do?

The elixir in the body was running crazily, squeezing the last spiritual power from the bloodline spiritual roots, and the pain was like tarsal maggots gnawing at every inch of bone.The pain spread rapidly all over his body, Sui Jian's hand holding Shuanghui was trembling, and it was only with strong willpower that he stayed awake and fought against the evil dragon.

The evil dragon is considered strong here, used to dominance, and has not had a serious fight for many years. At this time, it was blocked by Suijian several times, and it was furious: "I won't eat you! Stop it!" What am I doing!"

Immortal cultivator stinks, it has never liked to eat it, and it will only think about it when it is forced to. Right now, it only wants to eat the gadget with the natural devil body on the shore. The natural devil body is rare for thousands of years. If you eat it him, it becomes stronger.

It's so powerful... Maybe it can break free and leave this broken place where it has been trapped for hundreds of years!

Sui Jian gritted his teeth, desperately trying not to let it hurt little Yanjin.He collided with the evil dragon several times. Although he used skills to relieve a little force, but in the face of powerful strength, his skills were insignificant and not worth mentioning. One, a mouthful of blood spewed out.

"...This ancient secret method can instantly increase the cultivation base, but its effect is short-lived, and there will be endless troubles. I must never use it."

The words that the master said a few years ago suddenly resounded in his mind, the blood in front of Sui Jian was blurred, he couldn't see anything clearly, but his mind became clearer.

Sober enough that he can type out the formulas of the secret technique without any problems.

When the last tactic came down, he felt hot all over his body, his tendons were forcibly expanded in an instant, the elixir was running until it almost turned into a phantom, and his spiritual power rushed out of the sea of ​​spiritual power. In the extreme pain, Sui Jian I feel like my long-standing barrier has been shattered——

He has been promoted!

Tenth order—eleventh order—twelfth order—

He can still fight even after crossing three levels!

Sui Jian was about to become one with Shuang, the long sword let out a clear howl, and thousands of sword qi condensed murderous aura, forming a huge sword, stabbing at the evil dragon!

The evil dragon sensed the danger, soared to dodge, and wanted to hide back to the bottom of the sea, but it couldn't get enough of the old sword energy, and only had time to avoid the vital point, the huge sword suddenly penetrated its tail, and exploded a stinky blood flower!

Sui Jian had a thought, after the blow of the giant sword, the remaining power was still there, and he slashed back, unexpectedly cutting off one of the claws of the evil dragon!

"Ow—ah—"

The evil dragon was in pain, and rolled back and forth on the water, causing huge waves. It was so angry that it didn't want to hide anymore. Seeing the giant sword dissipate, it rushed to the surface of the water again. Staring closely at Sui Jian, full of resentment: "If I don't kill you, I won't get rid of the hatred in my heart!"

After Sui Jian slashed, most of the strength in his body was emptied, he panted violently, stopped in front of the evil dragon, and stared at it.

Blood was gurgling from the broken claw of the evil dragon, it ignored it completely, and its hoarse voice was full of malice: "I was born with a devil body, and food is a great tonic. The half-demon I ate a while ago made me sick. Kill you and then eat him—who dares to touch my food!"

The huge head suddenly turned to the side, the intersection of light and darkness was vaguely visible, something crawled out, and suddenly jumped on the defenseless little Yan Jin who was in a coma!

——It is a cold white bone.

——The piles are all leftover demon bones eaten by the evil dragon, and that white bone is one of them.

A cloud of black air lingered between the bones, controlling the bones, and strangled little Yanjin's neck stiffly!

Sui Jian's heart trembled violently, he turned back without even thinking about it, a sword came out and the sword aura was born, the sharp sword aura lifted the bones flying.The white bones fell not far away, and suddenly shattered into bones.

But Sui Jian finally exhausted his last strength, his feet were weak, and he could no longer support himself and knelt down on the ground, holding his sword so he barely fell down.

Seeing this, the evil Jiao actually ignored him, and just took the opportunity to flick his tail to whip up water splashes, a stream of water suddenly rolled up Xiao Yanjin, and was about to take him into the sea.

Sui Jian's eyes turned black, and he almost couldn't see clearly. Relying on instinct, when Xiao Yanjin was rolled past him, he hugged him tightly and held him tightly in his arms.

The water flowed into the bottom of the sea with him.

There was a sound of splashing into the water, the eardrums swelled, and huge pressure came in instantly. The Shuanghui Sword Spirit set up a thin barrier around them, barely protecting the two of them.

But Shuanghui Sword Spirit and Sui Jian were one body, Sui Jian was seriously injured, and Shuanghui Sword Spirit was also greatly affected. The barrier only lasted for a short while before it suddenly shattered.

Water poured in from all directions, and the cold moonlight gradually moved away. They were sinking continuously, about to sink into the icy underwater purgatory——Sui Jian held Xiao Yanjin in one hand, and swam desperately, with only the last thing left in his chest. With one breath, the suffocation almost made him collapse.

Xiao Yanjin's breath was also getting weaker and weaker, Sui Jian turned his head slightly, groped to fix Xiao Yanjin's face, covered his cold lips without hesitation, and passed the breath.

With the sound of splashing water, Sui Jian finally surfaced before he collapsed completely. He panted heavily, resisted his exhaustion, and waved his hands that were almost immobile, sending Xiao Yanjin to the shore.

Little Yanjin had landed on the shore, but he clung to the shore by himself, gasping for breath, but he didn't have the strength to climb up.

The dangerous aura suddenly approached, the Shuang Hui sword made a long ringing sound, the sword spirit protector was eager, burst out with the last strength, and slashed fiercely towards the source of the danger!

As soon as the evil dragon's claw pierced into Sui Jian's chest, it was cut off again immediately. It was so angry that it opened its mouth and wanted to swallow Sui Jian whole without hesitation!

Between the calcium carbide flames, the darkness not far away was suddenly cut open, dazzling light poured in, and a familiar figure appeared in a hurry. With his arms all over his body, Sui Jian was picked up from the water.

"See you in old age! Disciple!"

Sui Jian was so delirious from the pain that he almost fainted. He heard the familiar voice of his master, and his heart was relieved for a moment. The next moment, his fingers twitched and grabbed Sect Master Wen's sleeve: "Master, Ah Jin... ...Bring...bring together...A Jin..."

Blood gushed out from his lips, he was in a panic all over his body, his chest was almost pierced by the evil dragon, and the blood stained most of his body red, he only uttered a few words vaguely, and then he was coughed violently by the blood When he got up, his face was like gold paper, and his breath was dying.

Sect Master Wen was so anxious that he couldn't hear what he was talking about. He tapped a few big acupuncture points with his fingertips, but it was useless. He was choked up with blood.

His eyes were red, he picked up Sui Jian who was almost fainted, turned around and was about to leave, in a hurry, he didn't notice that there was still a child lying at his feet who didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

Not to mention, on the white bones he was stepping on just now, a cloud of icy black air quietly climbed up to Sui Jian's ankles, and along the way, under the cover of blood and darkness, He plunged into the bloody wound.

Sui Jian's hand that was holding onto Sect Master Wen's sleeve froze suddenly, then lost all strength in the next moment, and slid down softly.

The author has something to say: ah ah ah ah it's not past 12 o'clock!

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Thank you Xiaokuoai for the 2 grenades of the old man in the mountains;

Thank you Xiaokuo for your mines: "Blank", Ziye Demon City, wahx1;

Thank you Xiaokuo Aimu Yihua for the 60 bottles of nutrient solution;

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