Yu Hongchen

In the dark night, Shang Lixing carried the lunatic Yanzong back to Qiushuimen.Bai Xuan He Suowu was waiting in the conference hall, when he saw his figure, she stood up and said, "Master, Cui Mingruo is gone."

Shang Lixing was startled: "Isn't she used to staying in the door?"

Bai Xuan shook her head and said, "She left a letter saying that she hasn't returned to Nanling for hundreds of years, but now she's returning to Qiushuimen and wants to spend some time in Nanling."

Shang Lixing groaned, knowing what Cui Mingruo said, but in fact, she had been away from Nanling for 300 years, and her personnel and affairs were totally different. In addition, during the day, the seven sects came to her door to propose the alliance, which brought her a change in mood He couldn't force him to stay, so he just said: "Forget it, let her go out to relax, and when she thinks it through, she will come back naturally."

Bai Xuan said: "Yes, I thought so too, so I didn't send anyone to chase my sister back." After a pause, she added: "Before she left, she also gave me the roster of casual practitioners."

Shang Lixing remembered that Qi Huan had stolen the roster of casual cultivators in the sect, and he had reported this to Cui Mingruo afterwards, asking her to pay close attention to the danger of her identity being leaked.Then he asked, "Did she get it from Qi Huan?"

Bai Xuan shook her head and said, "I don't know about that, she didn't say anything." Looking at the man on his shoulder, she asked, "Master, have you found someone?"

Shang Lixing said: "Exactly. Fortunately, Beilu's guards are not strict, so this trip went very smoothly."

He put down the unconscious Tianyan Sect disciple on his shoulder, and was about to ask Bai Xuan to heal him, when a few casual cultivators rushed in outside the door, and said, "Sect master, the seven gates sent sea north, and encountered sea beasts on the sea. attack, they sent a message to Shumizu, asking for help."

He Suowu frowned and said, "How shameless!"

Bai Xuan said: "Sect Master, these people are too self-righteous. Before Qiushuimen didn't want to take action, they secretly slandered us. Now something happened and they want our help."

He Suowu nodded and said, "Yes, don't save them!"

Shang Lixing put the lunatic aside, sighed, and said: "Forget it, after all, we are both monks, we can't see that death will not save them, I will go to sea again and rescue them."

After saying that, he summoned a hundred casual cultivators to go to the border with him, and asked Bai Xuan to heal that Tianyan Sect disciple before leaving.

It was already three o'clock when all the people were summoned. Under his leadership, a group of people hurried to the border.On the way, the casual cultivator who summoned the messenger reported the specific situation: "Master Xue, Guanzhu and the others led thousands of disciples across the sea to the north by boat. At night, when they reached a place three thousand miles away from the sea, they were suddenly attacked by hundreds of sea beasts. The ship was capsized, and more than half of the cultivators were killed or injured. , and are still struggling to resist.”

Shang Lixing said: "Did the casual cultivators on the border also go to help?"

Nasan monk said: "Go, but this time the sea beasts are coming in a very large number, and they are crazy. The monks are subject to many restrictions on the sea and cannot resist with all their strength. Therefore, they accepted our border casual cultivator's suggestion and asked Qiushui door assistance."

After a pause, he said again: "This time the Seven Gates sent out to cross the sea, originally they were extremely unwilling to help our casual cultivators. Our casual cultivators obeyed the orders of the sect master and did not stop them, but they were worried about the danger of sea beasts, so they sent people on the shore. As expected, they saw their masts and white sails falling one after another from a distance last night, and rushed to rescue. If Guanzhu Xue and the others hadn’t seen too many disciples dying, they might not be so easy to accept the rescue of casual cultivators. Sect master, I think they insist on going their own way. If you were rescued by our Qiushuimen, you will not accept our love."

Shang Lixing hummed, and without further words, Yujian volleyed in the air, urging forward, and the group finally reached the border at dawn.The casual cultivators stationed at the border welcomed them to the boats they had prepared, set sail, and headed for the sea of ​​[-] miles.

The boats took advantage of the wind and arrived at the accident site in less than three hours.Nearly a hundred miles of sea surface was dyed bloody red, and there were nearly a hundred floating corpses on the sea surface, including monks and sea beasts, colliding with the wreckage of the floating board, and drifting away with the waves.

At the beginning of tomorrow, thousands of rays of light broke through the clouds on the sea, bright red like blood, the monks of the seven sects gathered the remaining ships together, held sharp knives in their hands, and fought desperately with the sea beasts all around. Ten Qiushuimen loose cultivators were driving a small boat, swinging in the sound of the waves, helping to fight against the sea beast.

Shang Lixing gave an order, and all the casual cultivators who came with him from afar responded in unison, sent off the boats under him, divided them into east and west lines, and galloped head-on towards the group of sea beasts and the monks of the seven sects. The sea beasts are surrounded.

"It's the merchant master and they are here!"

Seeing the arrival of the reinforcements, everyone felt confident, and their actions became more and more handy. Qiushuimen casual cultivators were on the periphery, and monks from the seven sects were in the center.

When the sky was completely dark, they finally slaughtered all the sea beasts.Everyone was so exhausted that they couldn't even speak, let alone cross the sea and go north to raid the demons.Several leaders also felt that it was a bad start, this trip to the sea was really close to death, and they should not go on their own way. In order to prevent the other sea beasts from smelling blood from attacking again, the group rested for a while, and hurried back to Nanling by boat.

After landing on the shore, it was early morning the next day, and all the people returned to the border casual repair camp in disgrace, their legs were almost weak.Shang Lihang and a headmaster led several disciples to count the number of disciples, and found that there were only more than 300 disciples left among the thousands of disciples. Bending down to Qiushuimen scattered cultivators stationed in the camp, taking the opportunity to recuperate and heal his injuries.

While healing everyone, a casual cultivator came over and said to Shang Lixing: "Sect Master, Master Xue of Taiqing Temple was bitten by a sea beast... so far... so far... still unconscious..." He hesitated, There was a hint of confusion on his face.

Shang Lixing was startled: "Is this a serious injury from being bitten? Take me to have a look."

Under the leadership of the casual cultivator, he entered a tent, and saw Xue Yunqing lying motionless on the couch with a pale complexion.The wound on his leg was less than five or six inches, not deep, and had already been bandaged to stop the bleeding. Logically speaking, he shouldn't be still in a coma.

Shang Lixing probed his breath and felt his pulse, but he couldn't find out the reason, and felt that it was unbelievable, so he shook his head in bewilderment.

The casual cultivator thought about it and said: "Master Xue, could it be that Guanzhu Xue was bitten and dragged the old troubles in his body, causing the true energy to flow backward?"

Shang Lixing pondered for a while, and said: "Reverse flow of true qi often manifests certain symptoms on the outside, such as hot and cold, or face like gold paper, I see Guanzhu Xue's complexion is very normal, it really doesn't look like a reverse flow of true qi like."

Then asked: "Did the doctor come to see Master Xue? What should I say?"

The casual cultivator shook his head and said, "There are too many injured people this time, and there are only two medical practitioners stationed at the border, so it's too busy. Besides, Guanzhu Xue's condition is too abnormal, I'm afraid ordinary medical practitioners won't be able to see anything, how about," He suggested, "Ask Miss Bai Xuan to take a look?"

Shang Lixing said: "Well, since that's the case, you stay at the border to recuperate well. If he still doesn't wake up by noon, I'll consider bringing Guanzhu Xue back to Qiushuimen and ask Bai Xuan to have a look."

The catastrophe encountered during the sea trip this time, although there were many casualties, most of them were members of the seven sects. Other sects or disciples of the remaining sects rushed over after hearing the news, and took the injured disciples back to their own sect. Once less, the pressure of the casual cultivators dropped sharply, and the camp became much quieter.Xue Yunqing's Taiqing Temple was far away from the border road, and his disciples arrived late, and did not arrive at the border until the afternoon of the same day.At that time, Shang Lixing had already set off first, and brought him back to Qiushuimen.His disciples had no choice but to take the injured disciples back to the sect first, leaving some of them to go to Qiushuimen to pick up their own temple masters.

After Shang Li brought Xue Yunqing back to Qiushui Gate, he immediately called Bai Xuan over. He still remembered the matter of the astrolabe, and asked Bai Xuan, "What happened to the disciple of Tianyan Sect?"

Bai Xuan said: "Bai Xuan pierced 49 needles on his life veins and acupoints separately to help him clear his mind. Whether he can recover his mind depends on tonight."

Shang Lixing said: "It's fine, you can take a look for Xue Guanzhu first, and see why he can't wake up until now."

Bai Xuan said, "Yes."

Not long after, the disciples of Taiqing Temple also came to Qiushuimen and asked to take their master back to the sect. Bai Xuan said: "I haven't found the reason for Master Xue's coma. Please rest at Qiushuimen for a while, and wait for Master Xue to wake up. , I don’t know if it’s okay for you to bring him back again?”

The disciples of the Taiqing Temple were very puzzled when they heard that Xue Yunqing hadn't woken up yet, but once they thought of Bai Xuan's reputation, if even she couldn't save her, there was no one else in the Nanling Continent who could save their own temple master. That is to say, he agreed and temporarily lived in Qiushuimen.

That night, Bai Xuan sent someone to tell Shang Lixing that after the injection of the needle, the Tianyan Sect disciple regained his sanity, except for his speech being slow and his thinking a little confused, everything was no different from ordinary people.

Shang Lixing was overjoyed, and took the engraved copy of the astrolabe left by Wu Nian, and went to the room where the Yanzong disciples were staying that day.

The matter of the astrolabe was very important, he didn't want others to know too much, so he went to see that disciple alone.He entered the room, closed the door, turned around and saw the disciple sitting on the bedside under the candlelight, and when he heard the sound of the door, he raised his head in surprise, his eyes were clear, and he was no longer as crazy as he saw yesterday state.

Shang took a step closer and saw him shrugging his shoulders and shaking non-stop, so he had to stop and said softly, "Don't be afraid, I didn't come to hurt you."

Before he came in, he heard from Bai Xuan that although the mind of this Tianyan Sect disciple had recovered, he might have been abused by the demons for hundreds of years, and he had too many painful memories in his sea of ​​consciousness. people.

Afraid of scaring this disciple, Shang Lixing stopped in place and said, "Do you know who I am?"

The disciple curled up beside the bed, shaking his head with tears in his eyes.

Shang Lixing said: "I am the sect master of Qiushuimen, and I am also the sworn brother of your sect's elder brother. I brought you back to Nanling. Do you still remember Wu Nian, the eldest disciple of Tianyanzong?"

The disciple whimpered and huddled his head between his knees, did not answer his question, and did not respond to the word "no thought".

Shang Lixing was a little disappointed. He thought that he had worked so hard to solve the mystery of the Wunian astrolabe. First he went to Xiya Mountain, and then to Beilu, but both times he returned without success. He was dismayed. Ran said: "Then how much do you remember about the Diffraction Technique?"

That day, the Yanzong disciple just shook his head and didn't answer his question at all.

Although Shang Lixing shook his head when he saw him, he obviously understood what he said.He made up his mind, put the engraved astrolabe behind him, walked over slowly, and asked: "When Wu Nian left Tianyan Sect 300 years ago, he once said that people who practice Yanshu are very sensitive and believe in illusory fate too much. It is said, but your sect has cultivated Yanshu for so many years, you should know that the world is impermanent, no matter how much you count, you will not be able to count the final result after all."

Accompanied by the disciple's repeated "I don't know, I don't know...", he walked up to the disciple and said, "Although the demons are powerful in battle, it is impossible to occupy Nanling in just a few years." It's not that easy, the so-called 300-year catastrophe, until the last moment, there is no way to talk about who wins and who loses. The way of heaven may not really be unchangeable, is it?"

The disciple let out an "ah" and threw his arms around his head.

Seeing that he was emotional, Shang Lixing obviously listened to what he said, but he was deluding himself and refused to admit that he understood, and continued: "Tell me, why did the Tianyan sect surrender to the demons back then? What did you get out of divination?" Calamity? What are you Tian Yanzong afraid of? What are you trying to hide from the world?"

He took out the engraved copy of the astrolabe behind him, and said: "As long as you figure out the secrets on the astrolabe for me, not to mention avenging your fellow sect, even rebuilding the Tianyan Sect for you is not too difficult, just look up!" Finally, It seemed to be drinking from the throat, and the tone was extremely severe.

The disciple suddenly raised his head, glanced at the astrolabe in his hand, a look of pain flashed in his eyes, and then let out a frenzied roar, hitting his abdomen like crazy: "Ahhhh——"

Shang Lixing was hit by him so that his ribs hurt, and he became angry immediately. He did not stop doing anything, put a restraint on people, and stayed where he was.That day, the Yanzong disciple curled up on the ground, still whimpering.

Shang Lixing was completely unfamiliar with this disciple of Tianyan Sect, in fact, he was not gentle at all, and he tried to persuade him earlier because he was the last person in the world who could solve the mystery of the astrolabe.Seeing that this person is on the verge of mental breakdown, Xin Dao might be a good time to question him.Ignoring his horrified and painful expression, he opened the engraved astrolabe completely, handed it to him, and said, "Speak, how to crack it?"

The disciple's eyes were avoiding, and he didn't dare to look at the astrolabe at all.He trembled all over and said in a trembling voice: "I don't know, I don't know..."

"you--"

He grabbed the disciple's chin again and forced him to look at the astrolabe in his hand: "Tell me, how to solve the mystery of the astrolabe?"

The disciple's eyes glistened with tears, and he screamed miserably, returning to his usual insane state.

"I do not know I do not know!"

Seeing how pitiful this person was, Shang Lixing suddenly came to his senses, thinking that it was a little too much for him to bully a lunatic like this.He shook his head helplessly, released the person's restraint, and left the room.

After walking dozens of steps, I could still hear the frightened and mournful sobbing.

He walked to the door sadly, and ordered the casual cultivators at the door: "Ask Bai Xuan to come back and show him."

Looking at the gurgling water not far away, he said to himself, "I'm too impatient."

After hearing the news, Bai Xuan rushed over and walked to the door. Before she could say hello to him, she hurried into the room where the disciple was.

He thought to himself that maybe he shouldn't be too eager to unlock the astrolabe. He sighed and was about to leave when Bai Xuan's terrified cry came from the room: "Master, that lunatic bit his tongue and committed suicide!"