It's Not Easy Being a Master

"I, I..." Duan Yuan stammered for a while, but he couldn't come up with anything.

He really wanted to say without hesitation, "I'm here for the reason why the senior brother came here", but when he met Shang Lianqin's eyes, Duan Yuan was discouraged again: "I just walked around casually, don't you?" Be careful and come in..."

Lian Qin looked as if she wanted to hit him with the piano, but in the end she held back her anger and said in a calm voice, "How many times have I told you, do what you can, don't risk yourself..."

Lian Qin didn't dare to think that if they hadn't happened to come in today, Duan Yuan, who can even calculate the tear demon, would have been gnawed here and no one would have known!

He shouldn't be let out to practice alone!

"I know, I know, I have grown up, I know it myself." Duan Yuan muttered in a low voice, "Master, you can rest assured that I will come out..."

Lian Qin realized that she had spoken the second half of the words in her heart.He pursed his lips, as if he wanted to say something, then paused, and said softly after a while: "Forget it, follow."

He slightly apologized to Shen Zhixian and the others: "Junior brother is naughty and messed up in the secret realm, please bear with me."

Xue Ci naturally smiled and said it's okay, and casually took out a few panacea and presented them to Duan Yuanfu's eyes.

Duan Yuan pinned the xun to his waist, thanked him happily, took the panacea and crushed it, and applied it on his eyelids.The medicine master of the Medicine Sect is of course high-quality medicine, and the medicine works very quickly. As soon as he applied it, he felt a cool and refreshing feeling, and the discomfort disappeared a lot, and there was a slight itching.

Just as Duan Yuan was about to rub, Lianqin came over and stuffed the stringless piano into his arms.

Duan Yuan was caught off guard and hugged Qin in a hurry. Before he could say anything, he felt warm fingers pressing on his eyelids, and Lian Qin's cold voice said, "Close your eyes."

"Oh." Duan Yuan never dared to disobey Lianqin's words, closed his eyes obediently, hugged Qin, raised his head slightly, and let Lianqin rub his eyes for him.

The gentle spiritual power was transmitted from Lianqin's fingertips, rubbing the medicinal effect into the skin.

The cold feeling dissipated, and was replaced by a slight fever. I don't know if it was due to the effect of the medicine, or the temperature of Lianqin's fingertips.

Others were waiting, and it was not easy to rub the piano for too long. Seeing that the swelling had almost subsided, they withdrew their hands.

Duan Yuan blinked and whispered, "Thank you, brother."

Lian Qin didn't respond to him, she hugged Qin back and turned her head indifferently.

Duan Yuan seemed accustomed to Lian Qin's indifferent attitude, and obediently followed him.Shen Zhixian happened to be walking beside him, and looked at him calmly.

The boy who met once two or three years ago has grown into a healthy young man, his straightforward temperament has not changed much, and his eyes are still clear. I think he has experienced well in the past few years.

Sensing Shen Zhixian's gaze, Duan Yuan turned his head to look, and grinned, revealing a slightly shy smile.

He didn't recognize Shen Zhixian, but looking at Shen Zhixian, he couldn't help but think of Sui Jian, who met by chance more than two years ago and walked together for a while...

Their appearances are different, but they look equally pleasing to the eye. In terms of temperament, Sui Jian is more free and easy, and Shen Zhixian is more expensive. They are obviously two completely different people, but he can't help but think of them together.

Duan Yuan was offended that he had such thoughts, and smiled at Shen Zhixian again in embarrassment.

With that smile, he suddenly saw Chen Yan, who was said to be from the hermit clan in Mingzhou, turn his head and look at him.

Without any emotion, indifferently, and even vaguely disgusted, he glanced at him.

Duan Yuan: "..."

Why is this look so familiar? When he was talking to Brother Sui, he was often stared at by Brother Yan...

Duan Yuan withdrew his gaze, and quietly moved closer to Lian Qin, regaining a little sense of security.

Although the senior brother is also indifferent to him and always doesn't like his appearance, but at least it is his senior brother.

Duan Yuan seems to have been here for a long time, but when he asked, he was still a little dazed: "I came here by mistake after chasing a monster, probably three or four days?" He was not sure, here Flickering and dimming, illusion and reality intertwined, there is no way to distinguish the passage of time, he can only roughly calculate from his own physical energy consumption.

"I've been walking around here for the past few days. No matter which door I go out from, or what I have experienced on that small road, I will come back here in the end." Duan Yuan recalled, "Every small road is different. I will encounter things that I am afraid of, and sometimes I will be chased and beaten by monsters."

Shen Zhixian asked abruptly: "Did you see anything scary?"

Duan Yuan subconsciously said: "I broke the strings of the senior brother, and the senior brother chased me to beat..."

Halfway through his speech, he realized something, stopped, scratched his head in embarrassment, and carefully glanced at Lianqin. The latter's expression remained unchanged, but he didn't know if it was his illusion. He seemed to see a trace of helplessness in his senior brother's eyes. .

Is it because the senior brother broke the strings of the piano when he was a child, so the senior brother didn't like himself later?

Duan Yuan couldn't help but think a little bit wrongly. During the days when he was raised as a girl in the master's school, Lian Qin was the only senior brother who knew him as a man besides the master. The brothers and sisters were reckless together - only Lianqin.

He is only close to Lianqin, because Lianqin knows his identity and has no scruples in getting along with him.

It's a pity that after he broke the senior brother's strings, the senior brother began to treat him coldly, as if gradually, he didn't like him anymore.

"...Have you ever pushed open the door at the end of the path?"

Duan Yuan's wild thinking was interrupted, and he said: "Push it away."

"Have you ever gone in to see it?"

"Go in."

Lian Qin glanced at him and motioned for him to continue talking.

Duan Yuan said: "It's very difficult to pass through that door - it's not that there are any monsters blocking it, but that the closer you get to the door, the less you want to go in. For no reason, you don't want to go in, you just want to go back. I later crippled a lot Only then can I barely take a step forward.”

Fortunately, after taking a step, most of the inexplicable resistance dissipated. Duan Yuan also stepped over with the other foot, and with a wrong eye, he found that he seemed to be in Taoyuan.

The singing of birds and insects, the greenery everywhere, the blooming flowers, the beautiful scenery full of spring.

It's as good as an illusion, but Duan Yuan reaches out and touches every branch, leaf and flower, and he can feel the vitality hidden in it.

That is real, surging vitality.

It’s just that time here seems to pass quickly. Duan Yuan only walked a short distance, and the flowers began to wither gradually, the grass and trees withered and yellow, and the surrounding colors gradually changed from warm to cold white—it was snowing.

Snowflakes hit the face, and the cold wind froze the bones.Even though Duan Yuan protected himself with spiritual power, he was shivering from the cold. He took a few steps shiveringly, and suddenly saw a dividing line not far away.

On one side of the dividing line is the cold winter, on the other side it is dark, blurry, and cannot be seen clearly.

Duan Yuan instinctively felt that there was mystery on the other side. If this place was an illusion, then the real world might be beyond the dividing line... He made up his mind to go to that dividing line.

However, the further you go there, the colder the wind will be, and the snow and ice will hit you in lumps, hurting you through the protective barrier. Being pushed by the wind and snow, he involuntarily backed away.

"Then I was pushed back and back, and back here again." Duan Yuan spread his hands and said helplessly.

Seven doors, the distance is evenly distributed around.

Everyone split up and opened the remaining three doors, revealing three almost identical paths.

Shen Zhixian pondered and said: "Apart from these few roads, it seems that there is no other choice. Then let's choose a road to go in?"

Lian Qin asked, "Separate or go together?"

Here Xue Ci is the oldest and has the most experience. Everyone looked over, and Xue Ci touched his chin: "Let's go together, read the description in the short paragraph, it probably requires us to work together to make a breakthrough—in case we get separated, we will be separated later." Return here for further discussion."

After a preliminary consensus was reached, the question of which door to choose followed.

Every door looks the same, and Duan Yuan can't remember which door he went in and out of before, so everyone just picked one at random and went in one by one.

This time there was no accident, the group was mentally prepared and easily passed through Shimen, but this time the purpose of entering was not the spring that Duan Yuan said, but a barren hill with withered grass and trees.

Skeletons of monsters and beasts can be seen everywhere, scattered in the haystacks under the trees, all white.

Duan Yuan let out an ah, subconsciously going to look at it, but was stopped by Lian Qin.

Lian Qin's expression was tense, a little forbearing and seemed to be on guard against something, although he looked calm and didn't care much about Duan Yuan, but if you look closely, you will find that most of his attention is on Duan Yuan.

With so many people here, he was too careful with Duan Yuan.

It was as if Duan Yuan was a fragile porcelain doll.

But everyone only thought that he was nervous about his little junior, and they didn't think too much about it, they walked forward slowly while looking around.

If it is said that what Duan Yuan saw before was the harsh winter scene, then what they saw now is the bleak scene in late autumn.

Shen Zhixian released the little grass bud, the little grass bud wandered around, and flew back disgusted, stood firmly on Shen Zhixian's shoulder, chirped and shook the leaves.

Shen Zhixian said in a low voice: "These plants are all real, but their vitality is weak and fading away..." A cool wind blew and stirred his clothes, and he raised his eyes to stare at the sky: "It's getting dark."

It was indeed dark.

A large piece of dark cloud came from the sky, dark and low, and floated over the heads of the people. There were so many ghosts and ghosts hidden in the shadows above, and then there was a muffled thunder, and the dark cloud suddenly dispersed, and the things above fell down with a crash.

Translucent shadow monsters, slimy monsters, and many tear monsters I have just seen, all kinds of monsters jumped down from the dark clouds with joy.

The dark clouds dispersed, and it seemed like a playground for demons and ghosts.

The shadow monsters were playing hide-and-seek in the dry grass, the monsters were sticky picking up bones and gnawing, the tear monsters were bouncing back and forth, and after bumping into each other, they gurgled and rolled away separately.However, one of the tear demons accidentally bumped into a headless demon.

The headless demon was a dismantled skeleton with an empty neck. It was hit hard by the tear demon, and turned around stiffly and creakingly, as if very angry.

The tear demon sensed something was wrong, and hurriedly bounced away, but the headless demon looked very stiff when he turned around, but the movement of catching the tear demon was very fast, and the movement of catching a handful of crushing was even quicker.

Tick-tock drops of water fell on the ground and quickly melted into the soil.

This scene is really weird.

Duan Yuan picked up a dead branch and shook it in front of a shadow monster. As if he had never heard of it, the shadow monster plunged his head into the haystack, sticking out his translucent buttocks and shaking.

Duan Yuan poked its buttocks, the picture in front of his eyes shook slightly, rippling a circle of water patterns, the dead branch did not touch the shadow monster - there was a transparent barrier separating them from the demons and ghosts.

Duan Yuan threw away the dead branch casually, retracted his hand and touched his nose: "I can't touch it."

Shen Zhixian turned around and looked, the stone gate they came from was gone, and a withered yellow mountain stood silently behind them, and it was also covered with all kinds of monsters.

Looking from a distance, it is a little hazy.

Yan Jin bent down to pick up a fist-sized stone and tossed it lightly.

He seemed to just throw it casually, and when the stone was thrown out, it suddenly broke into dozens of pieces of gravel and scattered in all directions.

The surrounding scene was like countless ripples on the surface of the water, and it returned to normal after a while. The monsters on the other side of the barrier didn't seem to know that the noise was still there, but Shen Zhixian and the others could see clearly that they were surrounded by a closed barrier.

If they don't break this barrier, they will be trapped here and cannot get out. If they break this barrier, they will be surrounded by the dark monsters and ghosts outside.

This seemed like a difficult choice, but everyone smiled knowingly at the same time—they came here to wipe out this group of monsters.

The outside world of the secret realm doesn't know what's going on. Frost's return to Sword Spirit won't fix the secret realm for too long, so they have to fight quickly.

It's just that there are still a lot of demons and ghosts outside, they have to find a way to break through the barrier quietly and frighten the demons in one fell swoop.

The barrier is not difficult to break, but how to break it quietly is a problem.

Shen Zhixian and Yan Jin's weapon is a sword, Xue Ci's weapon is a medicine pestle, Lian Qin's weapon is...a qin to smash, and Duan Yuan's weapon is...maybe also a smashing Xun.

It seems that whichever one is used is earth-shattering.

Duan Yuan held the Xun in his hand, and was eager to try: "I can try to shatter the barrier with the sound of the Xun."

Seeing that there was no objection from the crowd, he pressed the xun to his lips and took a light breath.

The deep Xun sound rang out, and it sounded a little desolate. Duan Yuan's robe drummed without wind, and it moved, and the spiritual power scattered with the sound, which was actually extraordinary.

Shen Zhixian has only heard Duan Yuan's Xun music once, it was the requiem song that Duan Yuan played for the chef ghost when they were traveling together.

The Requiem for the Soul is gentle and peaceful, and has no lethality. Recently, he watched Lianqin smashing the qin and Duan Yuan smashing the xun. He forgot in a trance that musical instruments should be used to play music. Le, can also kill.

The barrier was silently covered with cracks, and the monsters outside seemed to be falling apart.

Shen Zhixian and the others were all ready to attack as soon as the barrier was broken, using the fastest and fiercest moves to quickly frighten the demons and ghosts outside.

Only Lianqin frowned slightly, and an ominous premonition suddenly appeared in her heart.He leaned closer to Duan Yuan, holding the piano with one hand, and flicked the other hand on the body of the piano, five ice silk strings condensed by spiritual power emerged, and he pressed lightly on one of them, as if he was about to toggle.

There were more and more cracks on the barrier, and the noises from the demons and ghosts outside became louder and louder. Amidst the noise, there was a faint sound, like ice floes touching lightly, or thick snow melting.

Yinxiu is very sensitive to sound, and Lian Qin has been paying attention to the surroundings all the time. When he heard this sound, he didn't know what he remembered, his expression changed drastically, and he almost shouted sharply: "Duan Yuan stop!"

He went to snatch Duan Yuan's xun with his hands - Yinxiu was most afraid of being snatched when he cast spells with music, ranging from minor injuries to half-mutilated, but even the piano couldn't even care about it!

However, he was still one step too late. Duan Yuan had already finished blowing the last note, and the sound of floating ice and shattering snow suddenly became clear. When Duan Yuan came back to his senses, he felt a chill rising from his feet and a slight vibration .

Immediately afterwards, the bodies of the people fell suddenly, and the soil that was originally full of withered grass was suddenly frozen. The ice layer was so thin that it could not bear the weight of the people. Amid the crisp sound of crushing ice, it suddenly shattered, revealing the huge pit underneath. .

Goose feather snow fell from the sky, and countless icicles were flying from all directions.

The tip of the ice cone exudes murderous intent and biting coldness, with a wisp of devilish energy curling up, vowing to turn everyone into hedgehogs.

Shen Zhixian drew his sword and blocked it, facing Yan Jin back to back, dancing the light of the sword tightly, cutting off countless ice cones.

The surrounding ice walls were too far away to be able to climb up, and a huge oppressive force fell from the sky, trying to push them into the bottom of the pit.They could only be cautious and cautious, connecting their toes on the ice pick that had been cut off but still remaining undiminished, slowing down the momentum of their fall.

There were too many ice picks and they were too fierce, as if they were endless, several people were scattered, Shen Zhixian and Yan Jin were on one side, Xue Ci was on one side alone, Lian Qin and Duan Yuan were on the other side.

Lianqin's face was a bit colder than the ice and snow in the sky, he pressed his lips tightly, and plucked the strings with his fingers, and the sound of the piano turned into invisible energy, smashing the ice cones attacking him and Duan Yuan .

Perhaps the secret realm sensed that Duan Yuan was the one who broke the barrier, intending to take revenge. In the snow-white sky, countless small ice cones gathered together and condensed into an extraordinarily thick and large ice cone. Charge towards Duan Yuan!

It took a little effort for Duan Yuan to blow the xun just now to break through the barrier. Although he can still protect himself now, it is only limited to self-protection. The movements are somewhat hasty, and he may not be able to retreat completely.

Just when Duan Yuan sighed to himself that he would be half-crippled if he didn't die this time, Lianqin shattered a large piece of ice cone. When he turned his head and saw this scene, he kicked Duan Yuan away without thinking. He plucked fiercely on the strings, with such great force that the five strings broke in response, bursting out with majestic spiritual power, resisting the big ice cone.

The spiritual power collided with the big ice cone, making a piercing sound.The big ice cone was specially condensed by the secret realm to take revenge on Duan Yuan, how could it be so easy to resist, Duan Yuan was staggered by the kick, and immediately reacted after standing still, blew the Xun sound, and cooperated with Lianqin to resist.

In the end, the ice pick couldn't withstand the joint efforts of the two of them, and it soon shattered into countless small ice picks again, but it seemed unwilling to do so, and rebounded the spiritual power of the two of them back.

Duan Yuan only felt that he was punched in the chest, felt stuffy and painful, and felt dizzy before his eyes. He instinctively smashed the small ice picks all over his body, and then managed to open his eyes.

Then he saw, after the big ice pick was shattered, the only remaining small ice pick, taking advantage of Lianqin's full strength to resist the rebound of spiritual power, had no time to take care of it, and pierced Lianqin's chest fiercely!

Blood splashed in an instant, staining Duan Yuan's eyes red, and he was so frightened that he almost lost his wits, almost threw away his xun, and rushed towards Lianqin regardless of his chest that was so painful that it was about to burst.

Countless ice picks passed by, but he didn't care to resist, only thinking about saving Lianqin.

Cold sweat fell off Lianqin's forehead in an instant. Panting, he stretched out his hand to hold the ice pick on his chest, and pulled it out almost without pausing and resolutely!

Immediately afterwards, he used his last strength to crush the ice pick.

The wind and snow all over the sky suddenly disappeared, and the small ice cones in the midair suddenly lost their momentum and turned into cold rain, falling down in a patter.

After Lian Qin crushed the ice cone, she couldn't even hold Gu Qin anymore, and fell down weakly, only to be caught by Duan Yuan who rushed over desperately.

Duan Yuan was also very embarrassed at this time, his clothes were stained red with blood, there was his own blood, and there was also Lianqin's blood.

His eyes were tearing apart, and when he fell to the ground with the piano in his arms, he almost couldn't stand still, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Senior brother!"

Lianqin's face was like gold paper, she closed her eyes slightly, gasped for breath, and after a while, choked out a mouthful of blood.

A black jade fell from his arms and broke into two halves.

The author has something to say: the next one is more likely to be Monday.

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