Penglai delusion

When Jiangtan was about to leave Gusen, he did some calculations and found that there was still more than a month before the completion of the Nine Fields Map.I thought maybe I could just walk all the way back.Because he probably won't have the chance to come again in the future, he wants to take a good look at the scenery here.

After all, under this sky, the sun, moon and stars were once born.

At this time, his spiritual veins were unobstructed, and he closed the ten-day pass with Tantaizi, learned some spells, and was able to cross the border without company, so he declined Tantaixiu's companions, and took the little spirit pouch he gave him alone hit the road.

Jiangtan had confirmed with Tantaixiu before that the tribal site of the ancient mirage tribe was in the northeast of Baishahai.As long as you walk along the white thorns beside the cold water, pass through the Luoxing Beach, detour through the field of falling sand, until you see the golden Populus euphratica forest, the reflection of the mirage city is in the big nao in the forest.

The air around Goosen was becoming increasingly humid.When we reached the cold water berth, there was still a vein of leaves breathing quietly at the nose of the river pool.This smell should make the long-distance traveler intoxicated, but his heart is clear, and he has no nostalgia.

In a blink of an eye, he caught a glimpse of a person in the chilly dawn.

Originally, Jiang Tan shouldn't have been so surprised, but when he saw clearly that the young man in the world was Xi Mo, he couldn't help but stop.

He was so familiar with this figure that he had the illusion of going back in time for a while.

Now Xi Mo is exactly what he looks like before and after his hair is tied up. When he looks at his reflection in the water, his brows are as clear as new leaves, and his body is as tough as a spring branch.He heard rustling footsteps, but in the blink of an eye, he seemed to be taken aback by the river pool, took half a step back, and stepped into the mud on the lake bank.

Jiang Tan didn't expect Xi Mo to react like this.After a pause, he suddenly felt that the killing intent smoldering in his heart was no longer the same.I don't know if his thoughts shifted after returning to the pulse, or if his heart condensed and felt something else. In short, when he looked at the dirty young man in front of him, he felt that no matter how sharp the knife was in his arms, it seemed that there was no need to draw it out.

When Jiang Tan was in a trance, Xi Mo kept looking at him from a distance, his backlit face was dark, as if hesitating how to speak, but also as if he was waiting for him to speak.

Jiang Tan thought it over and planned to keep silent, but when he turned slightly to make a detour, Xi Mo still spoke out.

"Am I late?" The young man's puffy cheeks were covered with dust, and his big eyes were watery, too bright. "Master, have you married someone else yet?"

"……No."

"I just said, if master dares to marry someone else, why doesn't he dare wait for me." Xi Mo laughed, his teeth were so white that they shook, "After all, I am your only apprentice, and it is too much to not even reserve a seat." Can't say enough."

Jiang Tan was at a time when he was calm, and he didn't want to get angry with him.After walking back to the lake for a few steps, someone caught up with him.

"Master." Xi Mo panted slightly, and coquettishly said to him, "Master, I feel bad, there is a fire burning in my body."

Xi Mo said so before.Jiang Tan thought, he didn't know the truth in the past, but now it should be true.After all, he planted the seed of the soul fire, and now he is reaping the fruit of the fire.

So Jiang Tan nodded, expressing his understanding.

"Master doesn't know, I'm going to die of pain these few days, you can't do this anymore." Xi Mo rubbed the tip of his nose with the back of his hand, "If I do this again, I will keep going crazy. Once I get mad, I won't be able to come back completely. "

"Xi Mo, I can't cure your madness now. You can take care of yourself."

"How can Master not be able to cure it? Master is my medicine." Xi Mo leaned towards him, drooping his eyes and wiping his hands with dirt.Unconsciously, the whole face was blurred by himself, and it became more and more difficult to distinguish the true face.

Jiang Tan stood still quietly, twirling the star shuttle in his sleeve with his fingertips, thinking that although it would be okay to just leave like this, but he couldn't change his mind just because he met Xi Mo.

Xi Mo stopped in front of him and looked up at him, "I always knew that I was sick, and I couldn't get better. I couldn't get better. But if I stay with Master, I will feel better. Even if I die, I won't get better. It will hurt so much."

"That's because of the Qianmu Spirit Vein."

Before Jiang Tan answered the next sentence, Xi Mo shook his head and said, "No."

After saying that, he looked seriously at Jiangtan, his eyes smiling like crescent moons.

"Master said he wouldn't want me, didn't he? I know Master always keeps his word, if he wants to leave me, at least he should go out together."

As he spoke, he felt aggrieved again, "I have never been to the desert before, and I will die without Master. Does Master really have the heart for me to die?"

For now, Jiang Tan doesn't want to care about him, nor does he want to pay attention to him.Although Xi Mo looks innocent now, Jiang Tan doesn't think that he is really that well-behaved 15-year-old boy.

Jiang Tan took a step away and walked straight forward.

Sure enough, Xi Mo took it as a tacit consent, and followed step by step.But he behaved well, and he was not as crazy as he used to be when he caught someone, so Jiang Tan could ignore it for the time being.

However, as he was walking, the person began to whisper, "Master, please slow down, I can't keep up."

Faintly crying.

"I have been driving for half a month without stopping for a moment, because I am afraid of missing the good things of Master. Just now, it seems that I have arrived at the place. I wanted to take a shower before going to see you, but you suddenly appeared , I was terrified and forgot about it all.”

Jiang Tan paused, "Go and wash."

"I dare not." Xi Moli said bluntly, "This place is full of monsters. I had a hard time walking all the way. It is safest to follow Master."

"..."

"Master is with me, even if you don't go into the water together, you still have to watch me." Xi Mo frowned and said, "There are water monsters in the lake, I can't beat them now, they will be eaten."

Eat it up.Thinking about it, Jiang Tan unfolded the map again to make sure, "We will pass Luoxing Beach around noon, let's wash there while eating."

"But I didn't even eat breakfast." Xi Mo grabbed his sleeve and tugged gently, "I've been hungry for several days, and now my feet are soft. If this continues, even Bigu can't survive it."

Looking at the corners of those red eyes, Jiang Tan always felt that something was wrong.

"Xi Mo, have you kowtowed enough?"

"It's not just the head, it's knocked everywhere." Xi Mo's eyes sparkled, "I'm in pain, hungry, tired and sleepy...Master, I'm really uncomfortable."

"En." Jiang Tan took the map, took out a piece of baked cake from the spirit bag, and handed it a pot of sea buckthorn juice.

Xi Mo shook the wooden pot and swallowed it unpreparedly. His eyes and nose were wrinkled with soreness. After a while, he said, "I forgot...Master? Master wait for me!"

Jiang Tan walked quickly, but as before, he couldn't get rid of this little tail no matter what.

After chasing and chasing so calmly, the sun exploded rings of dazzling halos above his head like fireworks.

As long as there is a certain distance from Jiangtan, Xi Mo will feel that he will be scorched by the unquenchable flame in his soul again.He chased people and trekked through the wasteland for several hours. At this moment, he seemed to hear the pulsating sound of water. He couldn't help cheering up, and called hoarsely, "Master, are you going to Luoxing Beach?"

He seemed to hear Jiang Tan's "hmm".

"Master... ah!"

Xi Mo let out a short exclamation, which didn't attract Jiang Tan's turning back, but in an instant, with only one eye buried in the sand, he saw that the man in front seemed to be running faster.

Jiang Tan walked to the river beach full of round stones in one breath, took a breath, slowed down his pace, and looked at the long flowing river in front of him. He did not expect the water to be so strong.

Even if there is no demon house inside, wading in the water so rashly to take a bath will probably be washed away.

Thinking this way, I looked back, but there was no sign of Xi Mo.

There was a sudden alert in his heart.Could it be that there was an ambush?But thinking about this time and this place, no matter how troublesome this person is, he can't threaten him, and he figured out something is wrong.

... got separated?

He remembered the exclamation he heard last, and hesitated a bit.Afterwards, a fire was lit, a branch was strung up, and loose rolls were skewered, and they were grilled on the fire.

The aroma of pork, pine nuts and mushroom flowers splashes out with sparks.Jiang Tan watched the skin of the pine roll gradually burnt yellow by the oil, and remembered what Tan Taixiu said - if there are white cracks on the rolling stone here, if you chisel it, or the milk of the stone will come out, it is clear and sweet.

He took out the copper dagger, touched the big stone nearby, selected a wide slit and chiseled it a few times, and as expected, clear milk flowed out of the slit.

He took a full water bag, walked back to the fire, and found that the loose rolls that should have been sizzling were gone.

Startled for a moment, he said softly, "Drink water?"

"Drink." Xi Mo came out from behind him, his cheeks bulging with chewing, took the water bag in his hand and unscrewed it as a matter of course, and took a full mouthful, "This is still delicious."

Jiang Tan: ...

Xi Mo's clothes were even more rotten, with a few big seams torn, and a few bloodstains on his face.

Seeing Jiang Tan staring at him, Xi Mo couldn't help but scratched his face, and hissed again in pain, "I was just dragged away by a wheel spider, and I almost couldn't come back."

Jiang Tan was a little unbelievable.When crossing the wasteland, he obeyed Tantai Xiu's advice, and always held some coercion as if there was nothing, just to prevent the unsightly monsters from accidentally bumping into the door and causing unhappiness in vain.Xi Mo has been following not far away. Although he is not in the area where Lingwei spreads, he can be regarded as a clear-eyed person, but he will be attacked and dragged away under his nose.

Xi Mo seemed to see his doubts, and shrugged nonchalantly, "Because the master has been ignoring me, they probably think that killing my master will not bother them. When it's time for lunch, let's do it."

And it is.If Xi Mo hadn't crawled back by himself, Jiang Tan would never have taken the initiative to find him.

Jiang Tan had nothing to say, so he sat back to his original place silently, and started to skewer another loose roll.

Xi Mo curled up opposite him, "Master, return Shi Pei to me. Even if I die, you can still see my dead body."

Jiang Tan thought, that Pei was obviously useless, and he didn't know what Xi Mo was stubborn about.

But even so, he wouldn't give it out like this.

Thinking about it, he got up, looked around for a while, saw a suitable stone, and walked forward to knock on the white seam like no one else.

"Master, I will get angry if you always treat me like this." Xi Mo poked on the top of the boulder behind him and said sadly, "Why, do you think I can't imprint you anymore?"

Jiang Tan remembered Tantai Xiu's words, and knew that if he had practiced the ghost way, he could also control the soul seal that existed as a mirror image in Xi Mo's body before he unlocked it, and he would not unilaterally suppress it.

However, he doesn't want to discuss this matter with Xi Mo at all now.

"Xi Mo, stop pretending to be crazy. You should know that this seal has been released, and there is no possibility of reunion."

"Oh, since master understands so well, he should know the effect of this seal." Xi Mo swung his right leg and said calmly, "You just trust me too much. In fact, from the beginning to the end, how do you want to kill me? You can kill me any way you want. Like now, you can do it too."

This sounded too casual, Jiang Tan ignored it, and just drank a piece of the newly received stone milk in his hand.

The fruit is cool and sweet, instantly dispelling the frowning in the throat.

"Aren't you going to do it?" Xi Mo put his jaw on one hand and stared at his back, "Then what will I do in the future, won't you do it?"