After I was resurrected from the dead, I turned from an old man to a peerless beauty

Lin Mao's eyes paused for a moment on the empty window sill, his expression was still calm, but his eyes darkened.

"return."

After a while, Lin Mao said coldly.

It was very quiet outside the window, probably too quiet, through the wall Lin Mao could even faintly hear the soft whimpering of old man Bai's dog.

It was clearly broad daylight, but the old man and the dog were still hiding in their rooms and did not take half a step out of the door—it would be a lie if Lin Mao hadn't noticed the clues, but now that things have happened, he I couldn't bear it, so I had no choice but to pretend to be a fool, and forcibly confuse this matter.

Because this remote courtyard is indeed the only place he can stay now.

On the simple low bed behind Lin Mao, Chang Xiaoqing lay motionless, lying quietly like a sculpture. Lin Mao listened to his apprentice's calm and regular breathing, and after waiting for a while, he spoke again: "How dare you touch him?" try?"

This time his tone was much colder than before.

shuh...

A sound so soft that even if you listen carefully, you can easily ignore it, came from Chang Xiaoqing's bed.

When Lin Mao turned his head, he happened to see a scene where a withered yellow vine reluctantly pulled out from an inconspicuous fold of the quilt at the corner of Chang Xiaoqing's bed.

As if aware of Lin Mao's gaze, the vine froze in place for a moment, heard a few "swish swish", and then slid away along the gap in the earth wall with a speed that could not cover one's ears.

Lin Mao hurriedly stepped forward and lifted Chang Xiaoqing's quilt, and looked at his ankle. There was a slight red mark on the skin stretched over the bone, which had faded in the short moment Lin Mao observed.Obviously, Lin Mao opened his mouth in time, before the vine had time to attack Chang Xiaoqing.

But even so, there was no joy on Lin Mao's face.Even in such a simple earthen house, his face is still as beautiful as heaven, but looking at the expression on his face at this time, I can only feel that the corners of his eyes and brows are full of exhaustion and negativity, as if his whole body will fade away in the next second. It's like falling into the clouds and dissipating.

"Leave the cloth towel for me!"

Obviously there is no one in the room except Lin Mao and Chang Xiaoqing, but looking at his speech and behavior, it seems that there is another person in the room who is against him.

In fact... the master and apprentice are indeed not the only two in this room.

After Lin Mao finished speaking, he waited on the spot for a while, until his handsome face was covered with frost, and when he saw that he was really about to get angry, there was a slight sound on the beam, and some dust fell down. .

Like those vines before, the vines were withered yellow and seemed to be malnourished. The long vines were slowly hanging from the beams, and the curly vines were wrapped around a cloth towel, and Lin Mao carefully put them back in place.

Lin Mao glanced away, and the vine swung slightly in mid-air for a moment, and then retracted to the beam bit by bit.

"What's the point of you being like this all the time..."

Lin Mao looked strange, and he spoke slowly after a while.

After a while, a gentle voice replied from the beam: "I was born to follow you."

Lin Mao didn't need to raise his head to feel that the man on the beam was looking at him.The man's gaze was always focused, and when he looked at him, it was like two small awls, as if they could pierce a person's skin.

The old man Bai should be thankful that even though he has noticed that something is wrong in the small courtyard these days, he never thought of looking up at the top of the room when he entered Lin Mao's door - he has neglected cleaning for so many years. The beams covered with cobwebs and dust had already been rubbed clean and shiny by some kind of "creature" at this time.

Thick, python-like vines snaked over the wood, layers of dead branches and leaves were neutral, and a young man's head protruded abruptly.

It was still a bloodless and pale face, and it still had the strange appearance of neither human nor ghost.

Every time he was looked at by the other party like this, Lin Mao would feel an indescribable weirdness and awkwardness.He always uses his body to detect and feel the existence of that person unconsciously. The hair, skin and blood seem to be responding to his actions, and it is probably because of this that sometimes he does not even need to use his eyes at all. Looking at it, the man's every move was spontaneously imprinted in Lin Mao's heart, allowing him to know the other party's actions like the back of his hand.

"You scared the old man."

Lin Mao finally said another sentence, this time at the end of his words, there was obvious helplessness and compromise.

The animal-like vines surrounding the whole earthen house are of course the monk Jia Ruo who no longer knows whether to call it a human or a monster.

What the old man Bai said earlier to persuade Lin Mao to live in the city was indeed very reasonable, but Lin Mao just couldn't do that, and the reason was because of Jia Ruo who followed him and Chang Xiaoqing.

The old man Bai's yard is so remote, people can still find Jia Ruo's trace.If Lin Mao really went to live in the crowded Liucheng, I am afraid that within a few days, Jia Ruo would be treated as a monster and beaten to death (or Jia Ruo would have sucked the whole city away) clean).

As for why this Jiaruo and himself, who were clearly enemies but not friends, somehow began to walk together...the reason, even Lin Mao himself could not explain it clearly.

However, it is said that Xiaoqing came back to life outside Tianxian Pavilion that day but lost his soul again. Lin Mao almost vomited blood again in great joy and shock.

When he was extremely weak, Nagaruo spontaneously leaned over and helped Lin Mao take care of many martial artists who had evil intentions.

It was because of Jia Ruo that Lin Mao was able to lead Chang Xiaoqing back before the others realized something was wrong.

And it was just like this that Lin Mao discovered that he and Nagaruo did have some kind of extremely close connection.Jia Ruo held some kind of extremely intimacy and love for Lin Mao. According to what he said later, Lin Mao and him were originally twins...a flower tree.

When he first heard Jia Ruo say that he and he were a tree that could blossom, Lin Mao almost laughed out loud even in danger.

Counting his life and death, he has already passed two lifetimes. Over the years, he has heard outsiders call him "monster" or "heavenly man" many times, and some ignorant children once called him "Sister Fairy". Someone looked into his eyes and said seriously, he is a tree that can bloom.

A flowering tree that was supposed to grow deep in the mountains of southern Xinjiang, in a forbidden area where birds, beasts, humans and ghosts can't reach it.

Its name is... empty flower.

"I am an empty flower, and you are an empty flower."

Several days have passed, but Lin Mao still remembers the huge coldness and fear that slowly emerged from the deepest part of his body when he heard the word "Konghua".

Lin Mao naturally knows "Konghua" - although the people who mentioned these two words are no longer alive now.

It was a certain year when Lin Mao was just a silly young master.Brother Chang had a big fight with his master after returning from his experience in the world. His expression was gloomy, and his breath was so depressed that even Lin Mao, who was always fearless, felt a little terrified.Lin Mao has always loved his brother and master very much, and he is willing to mediate disputes for the two.But as soon as he asked why the two had a dispute, the face of the senior brother would be as scary as if he had eaten a ghost with green face and fangs.

As for the master... the master is just the opposite, he will look at Lin Mao and smile very gently, telling Lin Mao not to worry about these trivial matters, and he looks more amiable than before.

【"Your senior brother is getting older now, so it's inevitable that you will feel a little dissatisfied with a bad old man like me. Don't be afraid of Maoer, he will always figure it out."】

That's how Master persuaded Lin Mao back then.

Master's face has long been blurred in the long years, but Lin Mao still remembers that when he looked at Master's comfort and smile, he was more afraid than seeing Brother Chang's frozen face.

In the end, neither Senior Brother Chang nor Master told Lin Mao where the dispute between the two started.

So he secretly hid under the master's window behind his back, and secretly listened to the conversation between the two.

That night, Lin Mao heard the so-called rumors about Konghua.

It is said that it is a rare treasure in southern Xinjiang. It is called Konghua. It grows very beautifully and has a very charming fragrance. If you are lucky enough to eat the empty flower, you will be able to cure all diseases, bring the dead back to life, and live forever.

This kind of rumor is not to be said to be senior brother Chang, even Lin Mao, who was empty-headed and didn't understand anything back then, knew it was completely nonsense.But the strange thing is that the master, who has always been well-informed and claims to have the wisdom of a hundred dragons, insists as if possessed by an evil spirit that there really is the elixir of life called empty flowers in this world.

Lin Mao was confused when he heard it, and he seemed to hear his master mentioning himself in a vague way, and senior brother Chang suddenly lost his temper like a firecracker being ignited.

At that time, Lin Mao was taken aback by the angry senior brother Chang even though he was separated by the wall. He was afraid that senior brother Chang and his master would find out, so he hurriedly escaped by taking advantage of the confrontation between the two in the room.

And when he heard the word "konghua" again, it was the last time he saw his master.

At that time, Xiaoyaozi was almost out of shape, and when he raised his arms and legs, he could see black and foul-smelling dragon blood dripping down his cuffs.The eyebrows and facial features have been festered to the point of losing their shape, but what can be seen clearly is the white skull under the rotten skin.

At that time, Senior Brother Chang protected Lin Mao so much that he almost had a newborn cub, even in the last competition with Xiaoyaozi, Lin Mao was not allowed to come forward.It was Lin Mao who was worried that Senior Brother Chang would take the opportunity to escape from the siege of Senior Brother Chang's subordinates, so he reluctantly rushed to the back cliff of Wangyou Valley at the last minute.

"Chang Qing...hehe...Chang Qing...you will regret it...do you think you can monopolize this empty flower...you can save him?"

Because Xiaoyaozi's lips were all ulcerated at that time, his speech was extremely vague, and Lin Mao never heard clearly what he and Senior Brother Chang said in the end.