Candle [Rebirth]

The three of them followed Xie Qingjiang into the Danxin Pavilion. As soon as they sat down, Xie Qingjiang mobilized his spiritual power to pour tea for them. Only then did Gu Ling notice that there was not a single disciple in the Danxin Pavilion today.Xie Qingjiang covered the teacup with his slender fingers, showing a faint smile: "Don't tell me about the travel, why did you bring Miss Qiongnian back?"

"Ah, Master, did Miss Qiongnian come to look for you too?" Gu Ling tried hard to suppress the feeling of uneasiness in his heart, and said obediently as usual, "Did you know that the person Miss Qiongnian is looking for is actually my third junior brother?" How is the third junior brother recently? Is your health any better..."

The expression on Xie Qingjiang's face didn't change at all. He took a sip of the tea in his hand, and said neither salty nor weak: "Really?"

Xiao Ning also seemed to have sensed something was wrong, he took out the red box from his bosom, and interjected: "Master... We have also recovered Miss Hua Chao's soul, I don't know how Zhao Wu... how is it doing?"

Xie Qingjiang put down the teacup in his hand and flicked his sleeves. He was always unhurried: "Very well, you have done a lot of things this trip down the mountain... But Miss Qiongnian wants to see Liangyan , I’m afraid we’ll have to wait a while.”

Qiongnian tightly held the sword in his hand, and asked anxiously, "Why?"

"It's a coincidence that Liang Yan's health has improved a little these days. I took him to the Green Jade Pond for retreat, and I'm healing him personally," Xie Qingjiang covered his sleeves, as if he was trying to hide something, and he coughed a few more times Hearing, the body seems to be worse than before they went down the mountain, "It's still a few days before we can come out, this healing is unusual, we can't interrupt it halfway, otherwise all previous efforts may be wasted... I'm also to blame, the girl Qiongnian came to us before Many times, I didn't realize who you were looking for at that time... Cough, cough."

Qiongnian didn't doubt that there was him, she stood up and saluted, and said with tears in her eyes: "Thank you Qingjiang Xianzun, since that's the case, I'll just wait."

"Don't be too polite," Xie Qingjiang smiled slightly, and after listening to her, he suddenly ordered, "Xiao Jiu, take Miss Qiongnian to rest first, and ask your sixth brother to prepare a guest room for her. Xiao Er, you Stay, I have something to tell you."

They came in a hurry, Xiao Ning even held the cat in his arms.After hearing this, Xiao Ning put the red box in his hand on the table, obediently got up and saluted, glanced at Gu Ling, and said: "Then the master and brother are here, I will go down first."

Gu Ling's Adam's apple rolled up and down, maybe he was too sensitive today, he always felt that every word of the master had some unusual meaning.For example, on weekdays, matters such as arranging guests and preparing guest rooms are all done by senior brothers, why did the master suddenly change his mind today?

"Master..." Gu Ling sat on the chair, took several deep breaths, and then made up his mind to say, "I have many doubts when I go down the mountain this time, and I want to ask Master..."

Xie Qingjiang turned around, and the bamboo green robe brushed in front of him. He lowered his eyes indifferently and did not speak. Gu Ling was restless, so he had to call out again: "Master..."

Before he finished speaking, Xie Qingjiang suddenly fell straight towards him!

"Master!" Gu Ling was startled, subconsciously knelt down and helped him up, "You..."

Xie Qingjiang tremblingly supported his arm and coughed heavily. Just as Gu Ling wanted to continue talking, he felt something warm flowing down his fingers.

is blood.

The bright red blood followed Xie Qingjiang's cough and sprinkled mouthfuls on his blue robe. The blood stains were gorgeous, and the bamboo green was indifferent, making his face paler.Gu Ling felt that Xie Qingjiang's arm was shaking violently as he was holding him. He seemed to be in extreme pain, and even his normally peaceful brows shrank into a ball.After a while, Gu Ling heard the master whisper: "Xiaoer, something happened to your elder brother..."

The voice was trembling with pain, and Gu Ling's mind was buzzing, and he froze on the spot, only to hear Xie Qingjiang continue to say: "Not long after you went down the mountain, he... entered the forbidden room of Guiyuan Pavilion, and was arrested that day. Disciple Sansao found out that it was not a big deal at all, but he killed four people in a row and wanted to escape down the mountain... It was Wan Shan who rushed over after hearing about it, and managed to catch him."

Guiyuan Pavilion, forbidden room, killing four people in a row.

"What?" Gu Ling's eyes went dark, and the hand supporting Xie Qingjiang trembled a little. He knelt on the ground blankly, his mind was full of the scene he recalled in his mind when he went down the mountain with senior brother Yu.

late!It's still too late!

He didn't have time to do anything, the things from his previous life were still repeated in front of him, so that he didn't even have a chance to reach out to save him!

Gu Ling suddenly recalled the elder brother's always clear and cold eyes. He was arrogant as a young man, and he was extremely talented. No matter how he looked at him, he was a transcendent figure praised by everyone in the cultivation world. How and why would he do such a thing?

"I have been retreating for the past few days to heal your third junior brother." Xie Qingjiang took a deep breath, his thin body trembling lightly, "It was already too late when I came out, I believe Ziheng would not do it This kind of thing, but when I went to see him, he actually hurt me... I didn't tell Wan Shan, but I really can't figure it out, why is he, why is he..."

"Master, don't worry!" Gu Ling helped him sit back on the chair, and took a handkerchief to wipe away the blood from the corner of his mouth.Xie Qingjiang shook his head with tired eyes closed, and said: "I tried my best to save him and imprison him in Danxin Peak... Xiaoer, Yishan can't ask anything, you go, you go and replace me at night Ask him why... If he has any difficulties, Master will definitely not sit idly by... Ziheng is not a bad boy, Master must..."

Before he finished speaking, he broke out into a heavy cough again. Gu Ling knelt in front of him, all kinds of thoughts came to his mind at the same time, so that he didn't know what to say for a while, and finally he could only say in confusion: "Okay, Alright, don't worry, master, I will ask the senior brother..."

Xie Qingjiang stroked his chest and calmed down for a while, before he said: "Xiao Er, you just said you have something to ask me, what do you want to ask?"

Gu Ling came back to his senses, hesitated again and again, and finally said honestly: "Master, when I went down the mountain, I met Mr. Qiuhe, and he said..."

"You met Qiu He?" Xie Qingjiang was startled, then smiled wryly, "What did he say...he has superb medical skills, I think he discovered something..."

Gu Ling bit his lip, raised his head to look at him, and said in a deep voice, "He said... I'm not a human race."

Xie Qingjiang lowered his long and narrow eyes, was silent for a while, and then said hoarsely: "You know?"

Gu Ling stared at him blankly, Xie Qingjiang took the handkerchief he had just wiped at the corner of his mouth twice, and then casually threw it aside.He reached out and touched Gu Ling's head, closed his eyes after a long time, and said softly: "Back then... I went to Mingling Mountain to get rid of evil spirits, and the mountain was covered by heavy snow. I finished my work and was about to leave when I smelled the air. The smell of blood."

Gu Ling was startled, and only heard him continue: "I thought it was some racial infighting, but I didn't expect to get closer and found out that it was you and Xiaojiu. At that time, you lost a lot of blood, which was no different from death... I saved it. The two of you discovered the blood in your body."

"The spiritual blood of the Nine-Life Cat Clan is nourishing and repairing. You have no one to protect you. Sooner or later you will die in the lair of the demon clan, not to mention you still brought Xiao Jiu... At that time, the second demon clan had not yet repaired, so you took him with you." Undoubtedly, I will turn myself into a living target, I thought for a long time, and sealed the blood of the two of you, just as if you were children from the human world raised in the Mount of Ending Sui, and when you were old enough, I took you under my door."

"Xiao Jiu was in the cold for too long, and you were seriously injured. You stayed in bed for a long time, and almost forgot everything... Don't blame Master for not telling you, it's really... Those self-proclaimed decent people in the cultivation world People are jealous of evil, and they definitely can't tolerate the blood of the demon race. If you knew it when you were young, you might hate yourself too, so it's better not to let you know."

Looking at Xie Qingjiang's still sick face, Gu Ling felt that he had been thinking wildly and speculating these days, which was really heartless.He knelt in front of Xie Qingjiang, kowtowed, and said, "Master..."

Xie Qingjiang frowned, and said gently: "Is there anything else you want to ask?"

Gu Ling straightened up, thought for a while, and then said: "Miss Qiongnian said that she was saved by the third junior brother during the battle at Queyang Mountain, and you were the one who rescued the two of them..."

"If I was the one who went to save them, how could your third junior brother have been injured so badly since that year, and he still can't take care of him well now," Xie Qingjiang interrupted him, and said in a shy voice, "Queyang Mountain... at that time... During the great battle, your third junior brother traveled alone down the mountain, and I don’t even know where he went. If you hadn’t brought Qiong for a long time, I wouldn’t even know that he was injured in Queyang Mountain.”

"At the beginning, I found out that his voice transmission was different, and before he had time to go, he was thrown to the mountain gate with bruises..." Xie Qingjiang's eyes flashed with pain, as if he was talking about his own sadness, "I am in vain Master, I can't even find out who hurt him... I can only tell you that he was injured by me and hanged his life for so many years with spiritual power..."

For so many years, apart from suffering from illnesses, hiding their backgrounds, worrying about the lives of their apprentices, and being seriously injured by people they are proud of... Gu Ling couldn't even imagine what the master had to bear.

And he actually misunderstood Master because of some pretentious things, it's really hateful!

"Xiaoer, get up," Xie Qingjiang helped him up, and picked up the red box on the table with his pale hands, "You shouldn't have known these things, but since you asked, I have nothing to hide your."

Gu Ling nodded vigorously, and watched him open the box, but his calm face just now changed suddenly, and he couldn't help asking: "Master, what's wrong?"

As if Xie Qingjiang had never heard of it, a cloud of blue aura gathered in his left hand, and fell into the red box along the two fingers that were closed together.After a while, he withdrew his hand and muttered to himself, "This is impossible..."

Gu Ling hurriedly asked: "What's wrong with Hua Chao's soul?"

Xie Qingjiang shook his head solemnly, and said: "There is no big problem with the soul, but she... Xiaoer, have you heard of a secret technique of the demons called 'Qingyan Jue'?"

"Qing Yan Jue?" Gu Ling read it again, and felt that the name was indescribably familiar, but he had no clue at all, "I don't seem to have heard of it before."

"This is an ancient spell. It was originally made by the two gods of the oath to not betray the oath. It is equivalent to the last curse of the gods left by the gods who no longer exist in the world." Xie Qingjiang brushed the strange-shaped patterns on the box with his fingers , "Later, it became a kind of silence technique. The subject of this technique will be manipulated by the caster to keep all the secrets that the caster wants him to keep. Even if the technique is strong, breaking through this spell and revealing the secrets will not be easy. will be severely punished."

Gu Ling suddenly realized that it was no wonder that Hua Chao couldn't speak directly when she asked for help, and she hesitated when she was rescued a few days ago. It turned out that it was this kind of magic that imprisoned her.

"And this punishment is," Xie Qingjiang paused for a moment, raised his head to stare at Gu Ling, and said word by word, "Deprivation of reincarnation, crushing the soul to death, neither body nor soul will be allowed to, Six, said—"

As soon as he finished speaking, a person hurried in from the main entrance of Danxin Pavilion.

Gu Ling looked back and found that it was the Wanshan Immortal Venerable whom he hadn't seen for a long time.Zuo Wanshan was also taken aback when he saw him, but he didn't seem to be able to control it anymore, he said in an anxious tone that Gu Ling had never heard before: "Qingjiang, the barrier is broken!"

Xie Qingjiang pushed Gu Ling away, took two steps forward in a gaffe, and said in surprise: "What did you say? Which barrier is broken?"

Zuo Wanshan has always been stern and unkind, and loves to talk, and has been pushed as the most disliked fairy by Manshan disciples many times, but at this time Gu Ling felt that his voice was trembling: "It's... all broken! Self-constant, Liangyan, and the ghost of Qingyuchi..."

Before he finished speaking, Xie Qingjiang pushed him away and stumbled towards the door.

Gu Ling hurriedly followed, the fog had cleared a bit, but the surroundings were still gray, presumably the weather was gloomy and it was going to rain.He had just caught up with Xie Qingjiang, and before he had walked a few steps, he heard a shrill scream, a female voice: "No——"

The bamboo leaves were startled and rattled, swaying in the fresh wind and echoing in a bleak way.