Candle [Rebirth]

Before Gu Ling could react, he heard a "bang", Zhou Ziheng put on a cold face, and nailed the Tongfeng in his hand hard to the ground. Yu Yishan glanced at him, but didn't stop him, only said softly: "Ziheng, don't be angry."

"These quack priests are full of benevolence and morality, but they can't do a serious thing," Zhou Ziheng sneered. "This matter shouldn't have ended like this, if they didn't have no conscience at all..."

Yu Yishan lowered his eyes, and rarely jumped: "Senior brother Zhou, you don't go down the mountain too often. What you say is like a princess raised in a palace... Those scattered ways are also based on catching these lonely ghosts and ghosts. The little mountain demons come to make money and improve their cultivation, if not, they have no way to survive..."

"Then they shouldn't be like this! Talking nonsense, disregarding human life, how can a cultivator do it?" Zhou Ziheng yelled at him, and then sneered, "I don't understand human suffering, so I have to tolerate evil? What's the point of this?"

He said, drew the sword on the ground and left angrily.Gu Ling was very helpless, while Xiao Ning kept his head down and remained silent. Yu Yishan sighed, and said to Zhao Wu who had just regained his sanity on the tree: "Don't pay attention to him, he is just like this, he is very stubborn. But …Shouldn’t you be a ghost after you die, why are you trapped here?”

Zhao Wu opened his mouth, and floated down from the tree leisurely, his eyes were already bright, but he was still a little confused after being trapped for too long: "He trapped me here, I can't find her... ..."

Xiao Ning had already got up from the ground, and whispered next to Gu Ling: "The one in the well is just an ordinary enchantment. Someone cast a spell in the well water to trap him. As for those fingerprints... I'm afraid It was when he regained his sanity that he tried to escape but was in vain, so he stayed behind."

Yu Yishan glanced at Xiao Ning approvingly, and then asked softly: "Is that man with the bamboo hat trapped you here?"

Zhao Wu nodded: "Yes."

"Why did he trap you?"

"He..." A tangled look flashed across Zhao Wu's face, and he tried hard to say word for word, "He said he couldn't look down on the world's loving people, so he had to turn lovers into bitter lovers..."

"He said he trapped me here, and told me to see if the person I gave my life for would come back desperately to save me..."

"It's so perverted!" Gu Ling got goosebumps all over his body, and said in surprise, "What kind of stimulation has this person been? I'm afraid he's crazy."

"She hasn't come to save you so far, so do you regret it?" Yu Yishan said in a rare and gentle tone, "Do you still believe that she didn't come to you because of other reasons, or do you no longer believe..."

"I, believe, believe..." Without any hesitation, Zhaowu interrupted him, and said firmly, "Never...never regret it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Ling suddenly felt dizzy. .

He thought it was the "kindness of love" attack again, the pain caused him to take a step back, but it was still Xiao Ning who was the closest to him, and asked a little nervously: "Senior brother?"

Brother...

Brother.

Who is calling me?

In the old year, there was a boy in white kneeling on the back of a certain mountain.Unlike previous sporadic memory fragments, Gu Ling actually recalled clearly this time that this person was himself.

He remembered that he knelt for a long time, his legs were numb as if they didn't exist anymore.The wind blows through the silent and empty back mountain, bringing only the rustling of bamboo leaves.

He felt that there seemed to be some kind of wound on his shoulder and neck, and the pain caused him to gasp for air. His fingers were firmly pressed against the ground, which had been worn away by the rough sand, and even a dark red mark was stained on the ground.

The wounds exposed to the air, coupled with the familiar internal pain of being backlashed by the "kind of heart", had already made him delirious, but under such circumstances, he heard himself muttering to himself language, as if only by saying something can I sustain myself.

"Do not……"

"No regrets……"

"I believe... never regret it!"

It seemed that someone was calling him: "Brother..."

The memory was gradually withdrawn, and Gu Ling saw himself kneeling on the ground raised his head, his complexion was pale, his hair was messed up, his lips were stained with blood, and he looked very embarrassed.He showed a hopeful smile towards a void in the air, with a gentle and tender tone, as if he was calling for his lover.

"Little Nine..."

Gu Ling was so frightened that he shivered and woke up almost immediately.

The "kindness of love" did not break out, at this moment, apart from his confused thoughts, his whole body was still not in pain.Xiao Ning helped him by the side, very confused: "What's wrong with you?"

Gu Ling stared straight at him, feeling that he was in a cold sweat.

He knew that he had lost many memories of his previous life after his rebirth, but what happened to the scene just now?No matter how much he forgets, there are some things that are so unforgettable that it is impossible to forget them.For example, he and Xiao Ning used to be mortal enemies, he ruined Xiao Ning's reputation, Xiao Ning took his life to avenge his hatred, entangled with grievances, never ending, how could it be——

How could he call him so tenderly, how could he still think of him under such circumstances, and that senior brother, when did he call himself senior brother?

Wrong, all wrong.

Gu Ling realized with some panic that the things stored in his memory might not be real.

But how can these sporadic fragments be sure to be real?

He looked at Xiao Ning, and a thought suddenly popped up in his mind.

Maybe... I was never a bad person?

This thought startled himself again, and he shook his head vigorously, trying to get rid of all these messy things.Seeing him swaying and talking to himself, Yu Yishan was puzzled, and called again: "A Ling?"

"It's nothing..." Gu Ling came back to his senses, and subconsciously pushed away Xiao Ning's hand that was supporting him.

Xiao Ning's eyes darkened, and he lowered his eyes immediately, and retracted his hands subconsciously.But Yu Yishan turned his head nonchalantly, not knowing whether he was speaking to Zhao Wu or himself: "You don't regret it...you really shouldn't regret it."

Zhaowu raised his eyes to look at him, with doubts in his eyes.Yu Yishan looked up at him, and said very carefully: "She never gave up on you, but she didn't know what was imprisoned by herself, so she didn't come to you."

Gu Ling was puzzled: "How do you know?"

Xiao Ning suddenly opened his mouth and answered him: "Bluestone."

Gu Ling was even more confused: "Huh?"

"The painting on the bluestone board," Xiao Ning replied calmly, "is the same as the painting made with blood that we... met in the north shop in Xiahe Town that day."

"It's in vain that you, Xiao Jiu's senior brother, didn't even notice this."

Zhou Ziheng suddenly appeared from nowhere, still with a cold face, but said in his mouth: "Xiao Jiu told me about the painting when she woke up that day, and just now I went to the town gate to look at the painting on the ground. "

Yu Yishan said with a smile: "Oh, Brother Ziheng didn't say it earlier, I thought you were angry with me..."

Zhou Ziheng rolled his eyes at him, and said coldly, "Didn't you already know?"

Yu Yishan smiled unabated: "Oh?"

"The day we met you, you clamored to recycle old benches at the head of the village," Zhou Ziheng stared straight at him, and said, "You should have seen it a long time ago—there are pictures on the bluestone slabs paving the floor. Because it was originally a wall somewhere, and after it was demolished, it was used as stone and laid on the ground."

"And the paintings on the ground are not complete," Xiao Ning said, "If the discarded stones are not used as building materials, they may be moved back home by the people in the town, and they will be used in various ways. I'm afraid I can't find it if I look for it, and I can only get the tables, chairs and benches made of stone, and I may find a little bit of clues."

Yu Yishan let out an "oops", turned around and patted Gu Ling on the shoulder: "You little junior brother, you can be said to be extremely smart..."

"So, what's on the bluestone board?" Gu Ling turned his head to look at Xiao Ning, and then at Yu Yishan.

"The bluestone slab tells a very old story," Zhou Ziheng replied, "It is estimated that before the Hunyuan period in the cultivation world, there was a woman who sold her appearance to the demons in order to save her seriously ill husband. When I was done, I ran away screaming when I saw her... What's next?"

"Behind? Actually, I didn't receive many benches..." Yu Yishan smiled and gave him a wink before saying seriously, "But I saw everything when I went to save A Ling and Xiao Jiu that day. The woman thought that her husband disliked her appearance, so she threw herself into the lake, her soul became a ghost, and was driven by some evil spirits to seek revenge from her husband. Later, she found that her husband did not dislike her appearance, but went out to find a Taoist priest , I want to bear it on her behalf. It's a pity... this woman was driven, she couldn't help herself, and she was still alive..."

Yu Yishan showed some unbearable expression on his face: "Shengsheng ate her husband, and I have become an evil ghost since then."

Gu Ling shuddered, but followed him and said, "Just now you said you shouldn't regret it, could it be that these paintings..."

Zhou Ziheng said coldly: "Miss Hua Chao has been manipulated by others, but she still doesn't want to be like a story..."

He paused and continued: "She used blood as a painting. I'm afraid she felt the aura of the two of you that day and wanted to ask you for help."

Gu Ling frowned and said, "But why didn't she just leave a text to ask for help? Such a call for help, if one is not careful, it will be ignored..."

Zhou Ziheng looked at Yu Yishan, who was playing with Chu Kuang with a half-smile, and frowned even deeper. Yu Yishan sighed, walked closer, and said: "I have traveled all over Xiahe Town these days, and I have never found any The soul of Guo Huachao. This matter is very strange, and I am afraid that only a few of us juniors can solve it... I suggest that you take Zhao Wu's soul and go back to Mount Longui first."

Zhou Ziheng was taken aback: "What about you?"

Yu Yishan looked at him inexplicably: "Of course I went back with you. I told you earlier that I came to Zhongsui Mountain for dinner."

Ran Yu woke up in a daze at this time, and just woke up, he heard the word "Cengfan": "Cengfan, what is it, is it time for dinner?"

Gu Ling covered his face, feeling very ashamed: "What's the meal, get up quickly! We're getting ready, and we're going back to the mountain tomorrow!"