Gu Meizhi

The Tianxiang Palace was so quiet that a needle could be heard, and Jiang Bie's body was lying soundlessly in the center of the hall.His face was pale, his limbs were already stiff, and his dead pupils were still staring straight ahead.

Most of the Kunlun disciples who died before had their hearts cut open and bled out.There were no conspicuous wounds on Jiang Bie's body, but his face was pale, his chest was deeply sunken, almost out of human form——

As the head disciple of Tianxiang Yifeng, Jiang Bie's skill is far from comparable to Lin Niaoyou's generation.The Chaos demon method sucked up all the essence of his cultivation for many years, causing his internal organs to wither away, and he must have suffered heart-breaking pain until the last moment before he died.

Ling Yu stared at the corpse without blinking.He stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to touch Jiang Bie's face, but in the end he just put it on the front of his sable fur feebly.

The dark sable fur is mottled and stained with dark marks, which is blood. The dried blood has condensed into hard clots, and the tentacles are cold.

Ling Yu recalled that he had seen Jiang Bie cough and vomit blood more than once. He watched his health go from bad to worse, but in the end he couldn't save his face and settle the previous dispute.

In the end it was too late.

There were messy footsteps outside the main hall, and several Tianfu Peak disciples dragged Wei Di in and threw him to the ground.

Jiang Bie's corpse was too horrifying, Wei Di turned pale with horror after just one glance, and scrambled towards Ning Ziyan, hissing: "It's not me! It's not me!

"——Senior Brother Ning! Even if I have the guts to kill someone with my meager skills, how can I kill Senior Brother Jiangbie?! It can only be him!!"

Ling Yu didn't say a word, and didn't even bother to cast his eyes on Wei Di.In the huge Tianxiang Palace, only Wei Di's hoarse voice echoed.

"—Master once had a strict order not to leave Tianshu Peak after nightfall, but at dusk yesterday, I saw Ling Yu stealthily leaving the peak with his sword. I became suspicious, so I followed quietly. He noticed that I was following In the end, he threatened me and threatened Senior Brother Jiang as soon as I left!

"... He, he and Senior Brother Jiang have known each other for many years. I never thought that it was all fake, all fake..."

Before that, everyone thought that Wei Di was biting and slandering, but it was true that his cultivation was far inferior to Jiang Bie's, and now they gradually became dubious.

Ning Ziqian took a step forward and looked at Ling Yu who said nothing: "Junior Brother Ling, why are you at Tianxiang Peak?"

The surroundings fell silent for a moment, only Wei Di's panting voice remained, and everyone turned their attention to Ling Yu who was beside the corpse.

Ling Yu stared at Jiang Bie's empty eyes without moving, and said for a long time, "I followed Jiang Bie."

The crowd was in an uproar.

The sudden noisy discussion seemed to have nothing to do with him, Ling Yu didn't hear it, and continued to speak slowly: "Last night at Xushi, I finished my tour in Tiantong Peak, and when I returned to Tianshu Peak, I happened to see Jiang Bie holding his sword alone. Go to Tianxiang Peak.

"...He seldom leaves Tianxiang Palace in recent days, and I don't feel relieved if things go wrong."

Ning Zizhen frowned: "Why?"

After a while of silence, Ling Yu said, "His time is numbered."

Ling Yu spoke very slowly, every word he uttered in a hoarse throat weighed more than a thousand ounces, and it was so sad and painful that it was impossible to express it.

Since leaving the Great Wilderness, Jiang Bie has been personally treated by Elder Tianliang in retreat, and has lived in seclusion since then, except for his close fellow disciples, he hardly sees anyone else.When everyone heard this, they couldn't help being surprised.

At this moment, a figure in the corner moved slightly.

Sitting blankly in the corner were a few disciples of Tianxiang Peak, all of them were juniors brought up by Jiang Bie, and Wan Qichang was among them, and they were the ones who moved Jiang Bie's body into Tianxiang Palace.

Even though the noise around them turned upside down, they stayed silent all the time, and they even forgot to cry, just like a few clay sculptures and wood carvings, almost everyone didn't pay attention.

Until then, Wan Qichang slowly raised his head.

He wanted to stand up, but he couldn't stand firmly. His feet wobbled and he fell down, his knees slamming heavily on the hard bluestone floor tiles.

However, as if he didn't know the pain at all, he just stared at Ling Yu so straightly, and said word by word: "My senior brother won't live long, isn't it what you wish for?"

Ling Yu cast his eyes on him: "What do you mean by that?"

Wan Tengchang's eyes were bloodshot, he pointed at Jiang Bie's body suddenly, and said in grief and indignation: "You have forgotten what you said to my senior brother, but I still remember it clearly! You killed innocent people in Tianxiang Peak , I insulted my master, and my brother just reprimanded you a few words, and you became angry and held a grudge! —— Pooh!

"My senior brother is indeed seriously injured, but if you just act like this, you will make the teachers believe your nonsense, you are dreaming!"

He spat hard on Ling Yu's face with a mouthful of saliva, Ling Yu didn't even move, and the saliva landed on his side cheek impartially.

There was no sound in the surroundings, Ling Yu looked directly at Wan Qichang's red eyes, his hands and ten fingers were slowly clenched into fists under the sleeves, the Qian Kun gold on his waist sometimes boiled hot and sometimes cold according to the sword master's state of mind, and outsiders could not know the violent wind and waves in it .

Time passed bit by bit, Ling Yu still didn't move, and the warm and sticky side of his face gradually dried up, becoming stiff and dry.

After a while, he said slowly, "I didn't kill Jiang Bie."

Among the disciples of the Kunlun Peaks, Ling Yu had always been known for his rebelliousness, never had he ever suffered such a shameful humiliation in front of the public.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing whether he was acting guilty or if there was another reason for this matter.

At this moment, a timid voice suddenly said: "I have seen him too."

That is Tianxiang Peak's youngest disciple, only 12 years old this year, innocent and childish.

He hid behind his senior brother, pointed to Ling Yu and said, "When I went out to relieve myself several times at night, I saw him outside Tianxiang Palace. He stared at Senior Brother Jiang's bedroom, but didn't go in."

Although the disciples under Tianxiang Peak's cultivation level are mediocre, they are all taught by Jiang Bie himself, and what they say is naturally more credible than Wei Di.It's like getting started.The crowd looked at each other in blank dismay, and suddenly they all started talking one by one.

"There are always two people on tour in the mountains, and he claims to be superior to others, and he often goes out of his way, and he doesn't know where he has gone."

"He was ruthless. When he went down the mountain to eliminate demons last winter, two juniors were poisoned by demons and suffered all kinds of tortures, but he insisted that they would also mutate into monsters! In the end, those two juniors died for no apparent reason. It must be him The poisonous hand!"

"He often utters nonsense, saying that all the peaks in Kunlun are inferior to Tianshu Peak."

"Master Tiantong is merciful, but it's a pity that he picked up an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf!..."

Wei Di threw himself on Ning Ziyan's feet on knees, grabbed a corner of his clothes, and cried bitterly on the ground: "Senior Brother Ning! This disciple knows his mistakes, but you can't let the real culprit go unpunished! I have never killed anyone, this disciple dares to bet the lives of the whole family, and I swear here!"

Wen Yansheng stood far away, and said softly: "Senior brother Ling, you shouldn't be so domineering on weekdays."

Ling Yu was silent, and he turned his eyes away from everyone one by one.

There was a lot of noise, he couldn't hear what they were saying, he only saw the lips opening and closing, spitting out words like snake saliva and scorpion venom.

In front of him is his junior from the same school, and his old acquaintance who defended against the enemy side by side. Usually, there are many flattering and flattering words, but now, everything has changed.

Throughout the Kunlun Mountains, the only person who can tell him harsh words, the only person who can openly talk to him, has already been lying here silently, dying with regret.

Ling Yu stretched out his hand.The dead man's skin was as cold as ice, his fingertips touched Jiang Bie's forehead, and gently closed his eyes for him.

He slowly stood up from Jiang Bie's corpse, and glanced at the sights of his surroundings one by one, with a sense of loneliness and arrogance that looked down on the world for no reason, and when he opened his mouth, every word sounded loudly.

"I didn't kill him. It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. I am upright and have a clear conscience."

"--it is good!"

There was a sudden applause from outside the hall, the voice was deep and deep, and it was so loud that it made everyone's ears buzzing.Ling Yu glanced sideways and called out to Master.

When everyone watched, except for the elder Tianfu who was sick in bed, all the peak masters were present, presumably they all came after seeing the fireworks message.

Elder Tianxiang staggered, relying on the support of Elder Tianji beside him to prevent him from falling, he entered the hall without caring about other things, and immediately leaned over to check Jiang Bie's body.

Elder Tianshu stood still on the spot with a solemn expression, staring at Ling Yu without blinking.

"There is a saying that I never believed as a teacher in the past. Today, I need to ask you."

Ling Yu stood with his hands down, and met Elder Tianshu's eyes frankly.

"—Gong Xiyi once told me that you murdered Mei Qingjian in the Great Desolate Abyss. Is that true?"

Mei Qing raised her head awe-inspiring.

This sentence really shocked everyone, like adding fuel to the fire, causing everyone present to change their colors in horror.

Mei Qing gradually couldn't care about the strange eyes cast on him from left and right, let alone the chattering noises around him, he subconsciously looked at Ling Yu, and at this moment, Ling Yu also turned his gaze to him at the same time. .

He had never seen Ling Yu's eyes like this.A proud son of heaven like him has always been clean-eyed, and he hardly takes a straight look at himself.

However, at this moment, Mei Qing gradually saw Ling Yu's fleeting embarrassment clearly. When he met his gaze, the turbulent emotion in Ling Yu's eyes was like a sudden stormy sea. With a sharp and decisive edge, with a reckless magnanimity and relief, he fixed Mei Qingjian's gaze.

In this flash of lightning, Mei Qingjian seemed to have passed countless past years before her eyes.

Ling Yu's face was so familiar to him that it had even appeared in his childhood nightmares countless times.Mei Qing was afraid of him when she was young, and then hated him. From the beginning to the end, she couldn't struggle out of the shadow cast by him.

He remembered that he had held his sword in the snow of Jixia Academy until dawn, drenched and frozen, and walked back to his residence step by step; "The Tomb of Biru"; he recalled the intense suffocation when the five senses were stripped away in the formation at the bottom of the Great Desolation Abyss; he recalled the back view of Ling Yu leaving behind the wind at the dawn of Lin Lingyu's death.

The ugly centipede-like scar on his forehead was still aching.Thinking carefully about the miserable situation he encountered in his life, more than half of it was thanks to Ling Yu.

But he also remembered, yesterday evening, that lonely figure pacing back and forth under Tianxiang Peak.Jiang Bie's voice seemed to still echo in his ears, "Ling Yu is rebellious and flirtatious, but his heart is not very bad."

Mei Qingjian suddenly felt chills all over her body.

He was caught in Ling Yu's sharp eyes and couldn't take his eyes off, he suddenly realized what he was going to say for no reason, he wanted to admit that he had murderous intentions in the Great Desolate Abyss.

The person standing in front of him seems to be a scarred and trapped beast, defenseless and desperate. Facing the framing of someone with a heart, and the siege of gossip, he still refuses to give up the last sliver of pride—and his last pride, It's just waiting to die frankly.

Most of the Kunlun disciples who surrounded them looked indifferent, and the mediocre people only knew how to go along with them. This was true when they were treating him, and it was also the same when they were treating Ling Yu.

They judge right and wrong based on their own likes and dislikes, and what's more, they judge right and wrong based on what others say.

And Mei Qingjian knows better than anyone else that tongue can kill.

Some scars never heal for a lifetime.Mei Qing gradually disdained to be kind to Ling Yu, and disdained him to repay him.He just didn't want to be grouped with mediocre people, didn't want to be sorry to Jiang Bie, and didn't want to be sorry for his own conscience.

These turbulent moods are only in a flash.Mei Qingjian had no idea how he took a step forward and stopped Ling Yu.

He heard his own voice, ringing in his ears very clearly.

"and many more."