How Immortals and Demons Fall in Love Through Different Paths
Chapter 21 Long Night
--"On-The Change of the Long Night"--
Tong Shu grabbed the tenant and tightened his hands involuntarily.Similar to the mood of holding on to a life-saving straw, he wanted to hear from others about Xin Wu's whereabouts and the performance of Xin Wu's return.
The tenant noticed something different, and when he saw Shang Tongshu's oppressive gaze, his hair stood on end, and he couldn't speak fluently: "Young master, you are in a hurry to find your brother, so don't drag me."
Tong Shu repeated blankly: "Where is my fifth brother?"
Fear rose in the tenant's heart, and he tried to recall: "Your fifth brother is a tall, thin, very handsome boy in a gray shirt?"
Tong Shu nodded.
"I saw him walking out in a strange way covered in water, and he seemed to have seen a ghost when he asked him something out of good intentions. It's so fierce. Go to the counter and ask."
Tong Shu immediately let him go and walked downstairs quickly.
Only then did the tenant change his face, and whispered behind his back: "Who is this, what is so fierce."
Tong Shu went downstairs, but there was no one at the counter. Just as he was about to ask someone, Xiao Er hurried in from the outer hall.Tong Shu greeted him and asked first, "Why are you panicking?"
Xiao Er wiped off his cold sweat and said, "A major incident happened, not only in my store, but also in other stores. There are several stores!"
Tong Shu said, "Where are they all?"
Xiao Er said: "The inn on the street, and the big store on the next street, both have accidents."
Tong Shu said, "Neighboring street? That grand shop with four rows of lanterns?"
Xiao Er nodded, took the things in a hurry, and left again.
Tong Shu pulled him back and asked, "Where's my fifth brother?"
Xiao Er was in a hurry to leave, but when he heard his question, he looked relieved, stopped and said, "Are you two reconciled? Your fifth brother is on the roof."
As soon as the stone in his heart fell, Tong Shu's eyes lost that dazed look, and light was reborn.
Of course he and Xin Wu did not reconcile. Under Xiaoer's probing eyes, he dealt with it wholeheartedly, thinking: Of course I want to reconcile, but now I don't care.
When he met the last two enemies who were going to demolish the building, Xiaoer still wanted to say a few more words. Seeing Tong Shuri's gentle brows and eyes, he boldly said: "There is no overnight feud between the two brothers. See if you are angry with him. I bought a dozen of wine here, I'm afraid he'll be so drunk that he'll pass out, so go and see him."
"Overnight Qiu Na was talking about husband and wife, right?" Tong Shu scoffed at him, and then said, "My fifth brother actually drank?"
"Oh, the husband and wife are very close, and they are close." Xiaoer replied, "Go and have a look. I saw that his face was frighteningly cold at that time, and the water on his body was about to freeze. Others saw him buying wine. Give him a word of advice, and being stared at by him, you almost pee your pants in fright."
Xiaoer still needs to talk about it, there was an accident in the store, and he saw Tong Shu walking out in a daze, so he scratched his hair and said to himself, "These two brothers have such a good relationship", then guarded the counter, anxiously watching the people rushing about go.
Tong Shu jumped up to the roof, but saw no one, only a row of wine jars on the ridge of the roof, there were ten jars in total.
Tong Shu was taken aback. Xin Wu's cultivation had already reached the level of bigu. At this time, it is most important to abstain from eating and drinking. Food and wine can easily seduce the desire of the mouth and make the Dao heart chaotic. Xin Wu is usually very restrained in eating, Tong Shu only When I met Xin Wu for the first time, I saw him take a few sips. After that, I rarely saw Xin Wu touch food again. Why did he still drink wine?And there are so many?
When I picked up the wine jar, I was even more surprised!
After checking all the wine jars, although these wine jars were all unsealed, they were all full of wine.
After taking the wine, and it has been opened, but you don't drink it, is it to satisfy your eyesight?
This question was just a thought, Tong Shu touched the wine jars that had been slapped away, and suddenly understood.
How can people who don't drink alcohol use alcohol to drown their sorrows before they reach the pain point?
I wish I could get drunk, but when I was about to kick the door, I warned myself "that's not something you can do", and pulled myself back to the original position, and endured cruelly and soberly.
Just like the countless days when he was tortured by needles at the foot of Jiewang Mountain, every time he wanted to bend over, he told himself "you can't", and endured it for fifty years.
Furthermore, not all sorrows can be resolved by external objects.He remembered a sentence that Ling Xuelou, who loves wine very much, understands wine very well, and is very good at brewing wine - "If you are not in trouble, you will not be greedy for a glass of wine. But if you have extreme sorrow, it will be difficult to solve a thousand cups."
People may be different, but people with the same mind have some surprisingly consistent ideas.
Tong Shu understood why Xin Wu didn't drink the wine after buying it, but he still didn't know what Xin Wu was worried about.
He only vaguely knew that he had done something extremely wrong.
Tong Shu never did anything unclear, but this time, even though he was confused and specious, he felt that he should apologize sincerely.
After making up his mind, he knelt down and tied the wine into a bundle. When he lifted it up, he saw a row of lighted windows from his position.
From this position, the window of their guest room could be seen.
Xin Wu didn't go far away before, he has been sitting here.
Keep looking at yourself.
There was a strange emotion that blocked Tong Shu's head, his throat constricted, and it was difficult to breathe.
Chewing these details over and over again in my mind, it's always like looking at the flowers and the moon in the fog, and I can't see it clearly.
While he was in a daze, he suddenly heard a sound of piercing through the sky in the distance, and looked around in response to the sound, only to see silver light splitting the blue net, and under the moon, a figure galloped away like lightning.
Tong Shu shouted, "Fifth brother!"
Xin Wu only made a stop gesture to him from a distance, without even looking back, he jumped up and disappeared.
Tong Shu understood that Xin Wu was chasing someone, and told him to stay where he was, but he didn't follow to make trouble, and turned back to the inn to check the scene.
The shopkeeper also had bad luck that night. First, the building was demolished, and then a murder case occurred. He tossed about most of the night, and his face was more bitter than a bitter gourd.But he had to keep up his spirits, arrange people to surround the guest room where the accident happened, and block the crowd of onlookers outside the door. In order to prevent the situation from expanding, he himself sat at the door of the house, sighing and guarding.
Tong Shu rushed to the door, and when he was about to go in, he was stopped by the man next to him. The shopkeeper turned his head and saw that it was him, and his old face was painfully entangled. He looked behind him to see that Xin Wu was not there, so he lowered his face and was angry. Chu Lai said: "Young master, don't come here to cause trouble, go back and count the damaged items in your guest room first."
Tong Shu glanced at the men who surrounded him. These people were not even half-baked monks, and they were not useful at all. He rolled his eyes and said with a smile, "Okay."
Seeing his straightforward answer, the shopkeeper couldn't help but look at him more.Tong Shu took advantage of the situation and asked, "Who died here?"
The shopkeeper replied: "A son of Xiaozong in the city."
Tong Shu wondered, "A person from the Taoist sect?"
The shopkeeper said: "Barely count it. There was a golden core monk in the ancestors, and the next few generations are no more than mediocre."
Tong Shu said: "If a person dies, if it's an ordinary matter, it's handed over to the government; if it's a Taoist matter, it's handed over to Jing Xingzong. Why is the shopkeeper so worried?"
The shopkeeper let out a long sigh, patted his thigh and said, "This is the only son of their clan. He died in my shop. How can I explain it?"
Saying that, he waved his hands sadly and said, "Young master, if you still want my shop to continue, then you and your elder brother will calculate the loss and pay it to the small shop. I'm afraid the small shop will have to spend a lot of money to compensate others. !"
"I will pay, I will pay." Tong Shu had an empty pocket, but he answered confidently, and asked, "Do you know who the missing woman is?"
Hearing that he was so straightforward, the shopkeeper took a better attitude towards him, and replied: "A female cultivator from elsewhere, who has passed the foundation establishment, has a bit of style."
Tong Shu looked inside again, and the shopkeeper saw that his handsome little face was a little sickly pale, with a worried look on his face. He was afraid that he might do something wrong here again, so he tried weakly to persuade him: "Young master, don't you Look again, you are so delicate, if you get scared and do something wrong, and later your brother comes to trouble the shop, I'll just close the shop!"
"Me? Delicate?" Tong Shu was so offended by this sentence that he opened his mouth and was speechless for a long time.
The shopkeeper really had no energy to talk to him, so he waved his hands repeatedly.
Tong Shu digested that sentence with difficulty, stuck out his tongue, turned around and took a few steps, slipping in and out of the crowd.
I don't know what kind of tricks he used to hide his eyes. When he entered the house again, he walked in swaggeringly, and no one could see him.
This is a long east-west wing room. There is still wine on the table at the main entrance. The wine glasses are not dry. It splashed all over the ground.
There were two footprints extending from the tub, and finally stopped under the bed.
The water on the bed was still wet, the bedding was messy, and the smell of sexual intercourse between men and women hadn't dissipated, but there was only one naked person left on the bed and in the second room.
The appearance of this person's death was horrific, with scratches all over his face and limbs, and each claw penetrated into the flesh and blood.What's even more frightening is that there is a huge blood hole on the chest, which was taken away by someone digging out the heart and lungs, even the internal organs, and the empty shell dripped a bed of blood, which was mixed with those unknown water spots, A large swath of red.
Blood can dissolve in water, so it should have flowed out while he was still breathing, and it was excruciatingly painful.The throat is bruised and purple, and it is very likely that he will not be able to scream when he dies. His five fingers are convulsively grasping into a hook, as if trying to pursue something, his eyeballs protrude violently, as if he has been frightened by something, and there is also strong resentment, and his whole face is distorted. fear.
Tong Shu looked at those bloodshot dead eyes for a moment, then turned his eyes away. It was the first time for him in Lu Guimen to see such a horrific way of death. He felt chills in his heart and whispered, "Cat Brother, what have you discovered?"
A black shadow slipped out from under the bed, it was the lynx, biting a transparent thing at the corner of its mouth.
Tong Shu took it and saw that it was indeed the thin wings of the six-winged soul cicada.
Tong Shu turned out of the room without anyone noticing, and found the Xiao Er who had asked the question at the counter and asked, "You said that this happened elsewhere?"
"Why is the young master here again?" Xiao Er saw that it was him again, "I went to see it, and they all died in the same way. The man died on the bed, and the woman disappeared."
Tong Shu confirmed: "They are all from the Taoist sect?"
"Most of them are from small sects and sects. They are not serious monks, and they have fallen into some sorcery. They have all suffered tonight. Really, why did you choose our small town? We haven't been out of this city for many years." Something happened." Xiaoer said, thinking of something, and suddenly said, "Our store is better, but we will suffer from the big store across the street, where the third son of the Li family died."
Tong Shu's heart trembled, and he said, "Mr. Li?"
Xiaoer said: "Yes! The Li family is considered a respectable sect in our city. The owner of the shop is in a difficult situation after this incident. The Li family has already approached the door, and they are there to show off their power. They heard that they disappeared. The woman of the house is the youngest daughter of the He family. Although their sect is not good, the first eight elder sisters are all married well. Two of them have come here, and they are scolding with the Li family there. This is really a crime."
Tong Shu said clearly, "Li Sanlang, He Jiumei?"
Xiao Er wondered: "Why, the young master knows?"
Tong Shu was already thinking about it, and sighed again.
The previous time we met, I felt that He Jiumei was in a different mood, but I didn't think about it at the time, I just thought it was a conflict between lovers.No, it was so.
--- "The Persuasion of Mid-Long Night" ---
Back in the house, Bobcat was lying on the bed waiting for him.
Tong Shu saw it stretched out, finally smiled a little, and said, "You're clever, when Fifth Brother is around, you admit it; when Fifth Brother is away, you go to bed and become the master?"
When Shan Mao heard Xin Wu's name, he shook his ears vigorously, obviously afraid of even hearing the name, and gave Tong Shu a long meow.
But when it came to Xin Wu, Tong Shu stopped laughing, paused, and said, "Do you think Brother Wu will come back?"
Shanmao raised his eyelids, saw that he was not enlightened, shook his hair a little angrily, jumped out of bed and bit the corner of his trousers.
Tong Shu said, "You said that if I'm here, he will come back?"
Lynx nodded.
Tong Shu said, "You really think highly of me..."
"..." Shanmao glanced at him helplessly, probably because he felt that cats were unreasonable with people, so he simply crawled under his feet and rubbed against his legs.
Tong Shu was itchy from being rubbed by him, and the knot in his heart loosened a little.He sat at the table, opened the bag of snacks, and ate a piece. It was more delicious than he had imagined. While eating, he thought about it and said, "Brother Cat, now I feel that Brother Wu is not behind the scenes."
In fact, he didn't need anyone to respond to him. He continued on his own: "Sword cultivators are solitary, and rarely surrender to anyone. Fifth Brother has a temperament like that, and he can't tolerate sand in his eyes. He can't Who are you working your life for, and no one can hire a sword cultivator of his level."
"But he's too young. If he hadn't been supported by someone, how could he set up such a battle? It would take a lot of material and spiritual energy to set up a battle just to get my soul reborn. With his qualifications, It is absolutely impossible. Not to mention that he still has a lot of information, even some of my secret techniques are well known."
"If you say harm me, it doesn't look like it now. If you say help me, why?"
"Perhaps, there is one thing that only I can do, so he came to me."
"So, what's going to happen?"
"Since I was reborn, this six-winged soul cicada has always been haunted, why did it find me again?"
"Secretly, someone must have used it to lure me out, and Fifth Brother has been looking for this six-winged soul cicada all the way. What does he want me to see and what to solve?"
Tong Shu talked to himself for a while, then slowly raised the cicada wing, staring at him and said, "Is there something that I have to do all over again to solve it?"
Tong Shu closed his eyes, his thoughts turned like lightning, and he opened them suddenly. His face turned pale suddenly, he moved his lips, and said in a low voice, "Brother Cat, do you feel that Fifth Brother is a bit like... Jing Xingzong's people?"
After saying this, he himself felt inconceivable, thought for a while, and then shook his head again.
Jing Xingzong enforced the law and talked about Taoism, abstaining from the golden rules and iron laws. Jing's family regarded Taoism as more important than himself, and he definitely could not guard against self-stealing.
When Jing Xingzong sentenced him to life imprisonment, he could not afford to miss a moment.The Jing family set an example for generations to build the Cangcang Jiewang Mountain, and the bones of several generations were used to invite the Nisi sword. It is impossible for him to corrupt the thousand-year law.
It was precisely because of this that he would hand over his life to Jing Xingzong.
But besides Jing Xingzong, who in this world is so obsessed with unraveling the truth of evil?Which faction has such material resources and manpower?
Tong Shu's head hurt from thinking about it, and he unknowingly ate a large bag of snacks, and when he picked it up again, Shanmao meowed.
Tong Shu paused, looked down, smiled and said, "I'm sorry, there are only a few yuan left, let Brother Mao have a taste?"
Shanmao won the permission, jumped on the table and licked off all the scum, and then nestled outside Tong Shu's arms, one person and one cat stared at each other for a moment, Shanmao Yuemo felt that he really couldn't help, so he squinted his eyes and fell asleep .
Tong Shu stared blankly at the door, unable to tell what he was waiting for.
Suddenly hearing a deep sound, Shanmao jumped up in a jerk, and jumped to the window vigilantly. Tong Shu followed Shanmao's line of sight and saw a bronze meteor passing high in the night sky.
It was the people from Jing Xingzong who came.
And the meteor rocket was bronze in color, which showed that the person who came was Jingui, and that it was Jian Guzun who had arrived.
As soon as he thought that it was Jing Zhao who came, Tong Shu thought of the strange concern of the other party, and suddenly felt uncomfortable.
After thinking about it again, Jing Xingzong's disciples have a strict hierarchy, and there are "walkers" who go out to investigate cases, and they usually come to the suzerain in person if they can't work.He couldn't help thinking: "After all, Jing Xingzong was listening to the movement in Zha Shanmao's ears, and suddenly screamed in panic, and fled away.
"Hey, why are you running! With me, is there anything shameful?" Tong Shu was helpless, and when he finished speaking, his heart flashed, and his heart stopped for a while, which made Shanmao so afraid , only Xin Wu, it is Xin Wu who is back.
Shanmao Fang jumped out of the window over there, and Tong Shu heard footsteps in the corridor outside the door.
Opening the door and looking around, I saw Xin Wu and Jing Zhao coming side by side.
Xin Wu noticed him immediately, and their eyes met. Xin Wu's eyes were indifferent, showing no emotion, while Tong Shu felt his heart beating suddenly. He looked away awkwardly and turned his head back.
Hide outside the door and take a long breath, waiting for the feeling of beating the drum to pass.
It took a long time to finally calm down, but he became uneasy again.
Listening to the movement, Jing Zhao and Xin Wu were talking in a low voice outside, and they didn't intend to enter the door for a moment.
Tong Shu couldn't hear what he said, he really didn't want to have too much contact with Jing Zhao, and wanted to take the initiative to find Xin Wu, but also had inexplicable anxiety, so he just left the door open and sat in the room waiting.
Unexpectedly, Jing Zhao and Xin Wu came in together.
Seeing Jing Zhao, Tong Shu stood up almost out of habit.
When Jing Zhao saw Tong Shu, he hid the heavy expression on his face, tried to put on a gentle look and said, "How is Mr. Tong?"
"Very good." Tong Shu couldn't get used to Jing Zhao's special friendliness to him, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Is Jian Guzun here to investigate this strange incident?"
Jing Zhaodao: "This series of incidents always happened suddenly, and we were unprepared. Jing Xingzong is one step too late, what can Mr. Tong gain?"
The attitude seemed certain that he must know something.
The last time Tong Shu mentioned the six-winged soul cicada, Jing Xingzong had expected that there would be some involvement in the future, and was not surprised by Jing Zhao's questioning of him. He took out the cicada wing he found tonight and handed it over, saying, "There are also cicada wings at the scene today. one slice."
When Jing Zhao saw this thing, his complexion became heavy, and he said, "The first time we found this thing was a few years ago, and we couldn't find it for a long time afterward. It appears frequently. There are only a few times in total, and there are ten out of ten that Mr. Tong encounters by coincidence, so pay more attention."
His words were a reminder, and his good intentions could not be ignored. Tong Shu resisted Jing Zhao's concerned gaze, and replied, "Thank you Jian Guzun for reminding you."
He said thank you, but his expression was evasive. Jing Zhao looked at him helplessly for a moment. Before he could speak, Tong Shu said, "Jian Guzun came here in a hurry, so I don't bother you to delay at my place. You Get busy first."
Sure enough, such a refusal did not make Jing Zhao leave.
It was the same in the past, no matter how impatient Tong Shu was, Jing Zhao had a way to forcibly carry on with every communication. This may be a common problem of Jing Xingzong people. They are inherited in one continuous line, do their own way, and it is difficult to be influenced by anyone. Jing Zhao said again: " I heard you two had a fight?"
Tong Shu was taken aback, why did Jing Xingzong even care about this matter? !Jing Xingzong also knew about what happened for just a moment? !
He stared at Jing Zhao with wide eyes, completely unable to understand what Jing Zhao meant.
Jing Zhao, on the other hand, glanced at Tong Shu calmly, then at Xin Wu, then turned back and said to Tong Shu, "Young people should get along well, fighting and fighting will hurt your friendship."
It has been many years, and no one has spoken to Tong Shu in such an elder tone.
Jing Zhao's status is high. In fact, speaking of seniority and Tong Shu's generation, he is not too old, but years of power made everyone ignore the fact that Jing Zhao is still a middle-aged generation.
He is the suzerain of Jing Xingzong, and almost no one dares to object to anyone who wants to teach him a lesson, but Tong Shu has never been afraid of him. When he suddenly heard such inappropriate words from the strict and rigid Jian Guzun outside, he was very surprised, and suddenly opened his eyes. His eyes widened, and his whole body seemed to be struck by lightning, thinking: How did Jing Zhao manage to take care of his private affairs so naturally?
But after Jing Zhao finished talking about Tong Shu, he said to Xin Wu calmly, "You can't bully him just because you are better than him."
Xin Wu also didn't expect Jing Zhao to say this, and was taken aback for a moment.
Jing Zhao continued to speak calmly and endlessly: "You have to be nice to Mr. Tong."
Xin Wu's shoulders stiffened slightly, and he looked at Jing Zhao with a complicated expression.
Jing Zhao still said desperately: "If you have something to say, don't hurt him."
Xin Wu stared at him incomprehensibly, and frowned slightly.
Jing Zhao actually added another sentence: "Don't want to hurt people's hearts."
Although this sentence was addressed to Xin Wu, it seemed to hit Tong Shu's heart. A few simple words nailed Tong Shu to the ground.
While the two were stunned, Jing Zhao strolled out.
It took a while for Tong Shu to come back to his senses, and he said in a daze, "When did you become so familiar with Jian Guzun?"
Xin Wu seemed to be still pondering Jing Zhao's words, he couldn't hear what Tong Shu said for a while, and raised his eyes in a daze.
This gaze seemed to be dazed and bewildered, but for a very short moment, it suddenly wiped away all the small, inexplicable grievances that Tong Shu had felt throughout the night.
He waved his hand in front of Xin Wu's eyes, and said with a smile, "Hey, Brother Wu, what are you thinking, you're back to your senses."
Xin Wu froze for a moment, his eyes turned to Qingming, and then to deep, he looked at him probingly and said, he opened his lips, wanting to ask something, but his eyes flickered but he held back.
But Tong Shu guessed what Xin Wu was thinking, he felt his heart was hit hard by something, and he convulsed for a while, solemnly waited for the pain to pass, and said with a smile: "Fifth Brother, don't worry about Jian Guzun. If so, you are very good, you are the best to me!"
Xin Wu stared at his face for a long time, and finally lowered his eyes slowly, staring blankly at the ground, not knowing what he was thinking.
Tong Shu had never seen Xin Wu in such a mood, as if he was sad and introspective after being criticized by his elders.
For the first time, he had the mentality of admiration and admiration that normal people should have towards the suzerain of Jingxingzong - he was able to teach the cold and innocent Xin Wu like this, he really deserves to be a Taoist in the fairy world.
If it was usual, Tong Shu would definitely be teasing Xin Wu at this time, but he didn't know where to start with a mess of words, he just wanted to pick up nice things to coax Xin Wu quickly.
However, only during his momentary hesitation, Xin Wu returned to his usual indifference, with an invulnerable look, and a pair of bottomless pupils, which seemed to penetrate everything when looking at people.
Seen by his gaze, Tong Shu couldn't help but take a step back.
Seeing him, Xin Wu backed away, silently looking away.
At this step, the two of them seemed to be far away.
Tong Shu's heart felt empty.
Tong Shu had never coaxed anyone before.
He is a noble young master in Furong Mountain. Although his father doesn't dote on him, but with his status, others have to respect him.
He is very clear about closeness and closeness, he is easy to talk to people in the clan, but he is clear about outsiders, and he refuses to accept anyone.Even when I met Ling Xuelou later, I didn't admit my love, and I was more and more frustrated by Ling Xuelou. I fell behind today, and I will compare tomorrow, until Ling Xuelou waved to him one time and said, "I won't beat you, and I won't beat you later. teach you".
Tong Shuzhen didn't underestimate anyone, and he didn't have any experience in coaxing people.
But in front of Xin Wu, the king of Hades, he has tried to curry favor with Xin Wu more than once. To coax the other party, so that the other party will not keep a cold face. For example, at this time, Tong Shu especially wanted to make Xin Wu happy, wanted to admit and apologize to Xin Wu sincerely, and wanted to ask the other party in a gentle way why he drank so much. .
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-- "Next - Memory of the Long Night" --
Xin Wu spoke first.
"Since Lu Lan's death, the dragons in Furong Mountain have no leader." After speaking, he paused, waiting for Tong Shu's response.
Tong Shu blinked, and then realized that Xin Wu fulfilled the promise he said in the bookstore today that he would tell him about Mount Furong.
This is actually not a good start to the conversation, because the problem of the two people's quarrel is still there, but Xin Wu took the initiative to avoid the quarrel, and Tong Shu didn't know where to start.
Seeing that Xin Wu was still waiting for his response, he quickly nodded and signaled Xin Wu to continue.
What followed, Xin Wu said concisely, but Lu Shu was terrified when he heard it.
After the dragons in Furong Mountain had no leader, Liu Tang presided over the sect as a big disciple.At that time, Lu Shu was already in prison, and anyone who had a feud with Lu Shu in the ways of immortality and magic, wanted to find an outlet, and they all went to Furong Mountain to find bad luck.
Hearing this, Lu Shu gritted his teeth: When he entered the magic way, he had already severed his friendship with Furong Shanen. He was a homeless dog who was kicked out. , The wall fell down and everyone pushed it.
Blessings never come, but misfortunes never come singly.There are constant external troubles, but there are also internal troubles.After all, Liu Tang's surname is not Lu, and there are elders in the sect who are dissatisfied and often have difficulties. Although Liu Tang is in charge of the patriarch's orders, it is difficult to follow them.Liu Tang once agreed to find a new family member of the Lu family's children, but the Lu family's offshoots have been suppressed by Lu Lan all year round, and most of them are useless.
Seeing that the situation is not right, some branches simply hold on to the cripples, occupy the branch peaks of Furong Mountain, and set up their own sects. They no longer listen to Liu Tang's suzerain orders.
The Furong mountain fell, causing Xiao Qiang to fall.
Even if the Lu family's children are like this, some small sects who are attached to the Lu family are even more unlikely to have a long relationship, and they all betrayed their faith and left, either looking for new backers or abducting some of the Lu family's spiritual resources to find another way of life.
When the tree falls and the monkeys scatter, everyone takes advantage of the fire to rob!
In the chaos, only Mrs. Fu, who has managed Lu's spiritual materials for several generations, has always stood by Liu Tang's side.
It was also the luck of the Fu family that was at the top of the list, the Patriarch of the Fu family followed Liu Tang all the way to the sky, not only revived the Fu family's sect, but also collected a lot of Lu's spiritual resources along the way, and established itself.
On the contrary, Liu Tang is far away from her. I don't know if she has encountered a bottleneck in her practice, or she has practiced some shady techniques, but she is getting more and more weird. The only Lu family's spiritual resources in his hand were entrusted to Fu's family, and he only focused on practicing Lu's unique skill - the nineteen swords of Furong.
Everyone said that Liu Tang defeated the Lu family.
But Tong Shu could understand Liu Tang. If a sect didn't have the skills and abilities to resist outsiders, it would be impossible to gain a foothold. If it barely guarded those dead things, sooner or later it would be a disaster.
His elder brother has no one to rely on, so it is not wrong to choose to be self-reliant.
However, what he didn't expect was that Xin Wu told him that Liu Tang had disappeared afterwards.
Tong Shu subconsciously didn't want to believe it, and asked, "Those people are still scolding my elder brother, if everyone disappeared, who would they scold?"
Xin Wudao: "There are often some weird scenes where Liu Tang's mark appears, and everyone says that Liu Tang did it."
Tong Shu said, "Besides that, is there any evidence?"
Xin Wu shook his head.
Tong Shu said firmly: "I don't believe that my elder brother did it. First, my elder brother is not such a person. Second, with the thinking of a normal person, if you want the world to know what you do, why hide your whereabouts, but If you don’t want people to know, there’s no need to leave a mark. This matter is too contradictory, there must be something wrong.”
Xin Wu looked at him and said, "You trust Liu Tang."Not a question, but an affirmative.
Tong Shu resolutely said: "If even my senior brother can't trust me, who should I trust?"
Xin Wu frowned lightly, paused, examined him for a while, and slowly said something that surprised Tong Shu: "Liu Tang has been refusing to hand over the patriarch's decree for a reason. He said that Furong Mountain It belongs to Lu Shu, waiting for you to go back."
Tong Shu was stunned for a moment, and then said after a while, "Really?"
Xin Wu nodded.
Tong Shu was silent.
Xin Wu looked away in due course.
Tong Shu had mixed feelings in his heart. His senior brother insisted on waiting for him to go back.
He knew that the senior brother would wait for him, but he didn't expect it to be this far.
But he couldn't go back.
Because of the Furongshan massacre that year.
The formation was designed by him back then, and he also arranged it himself. Every flag and every spell in the formation was made by him.Those were all familiar operations, and they were a sure thing. When he started the battle, he confidently pointed at Lu Lan to ask the other party to admit his mistake.
Of course, Lu Lan refused, and then the battle started as expected, and then there was a lot of grief.
After all the flowers died that day, Mount Furong, and Lu Lan, who stood above the hall and cursed him with a sword, became his last memories of Mount Furong.
How about later?Naturally, everyone shouted and beat Lu Shu, and everyone scolded him for being ungrateful, bullying his father and destroying his ancestors.
All the evidence points to Lu Shu, and even jumping into the Yellow River can't clear up Lu Shu's suspicion. No one in the Lu clan is willing to believe Lu Shu, so they jointly removed Lu Shu from the family tree.
It's not that Lu Shu didn't want to prove himself, but he couldn't find out what went wrong after repeated calculations, and there was no evidence after searching for a long time.The evidence that was spread out was cruelly telling him that it was because of your self-willedness and arrogance of your talents that you made the mistake.
It's all your fault!You should be doomed forever and never be reborn!
But things didn't stop there. Although Lu Shu tried his best to save him, things still went in the worst direction.
Until the news of Lu Lan's death came, and the fellow disciples in the Furong Mountain battle died one after another without exception.
Lu Shu finally couldn't help doubting himself.
But when a catastrophe happened and more than 100 people died, someone should be held accountable.
It's not that he didn't think about dying to thank the world, the reason why he kept a glimmer of life is because he still has a little doubt - why a good formation will suddenly mutate.
Even if all the evidence is convincing, there is still a missing link in the chain of evidence.
Entering Jiewangshan is his only and best choice.
Although Jing Xingzong is ruthless and not easy to speak, he will never make judgments and guesses, and will not be influenced by words. They do not recognize their relatives, but only verify evidence.
Jiewangshan is suffering, but Jiewangshan can stop everyone's mouth, whether it is right or wrong, and can give him an end.
It's ridiculous to say that he has always disliked Jing Xingzong, whose eyes are higher than the top; he has always been at odds with Daoist Xichen and always fights, but at the end of his life, he wants to find a trustworthy person who will tell him what he knows. The people were eliminated one by one, and there was only one person left—Jing Jue, the immortal envoy.
This is really extremely ironic. The cold-faced, iron-blooded Jing Jue who couldn't tolerate sand in his eyes that he couldn't get used to became his last and only trust.
So he stretched out his hands to Jing Jue, surrendering his life and innocence.
When Jing Jue put the shackles on him, it meant that it would be difficult for him to leave Mount Jiewang for the rest of his life.The people detained in Jiewang Mountain were all people whose criminal responsibilities had already been determined or who were extremely suspected. According to the records of immortality, no one had ever escaped alive.
That's it, he also admitted.
Even the worst outcome - Jing Xingzong couldn't find out the truth, and he was sentenced to "beheading the immortal" - he would admit it.
It is difficult to have a perfect plan in this world, and no one can guarantee that it will be perfect. If it is really caused by his slightest mistake, he is willing to die a hundred times.
People say that when the "cutting the celestial guillotine" of Jiewang Mountain is cut down, the roots of the immortals will be cut off, and the world will be wiped out.It was said that it was excruciatingly painful, but in Tong Shu's view, that was the cleanest way to die, a complete relief.
With one slash down, the ends of the body and head are washed away, and the sins are washed away, and then start all over again.
To the surprise of the whole world, Jing Xingzong did not sentence him to "decapitate the immortals" because of insufficient evidence.
Although he had expected it, Lu Shu was still surprised when he heard the result.
Jing Xingzong is worthy of being a man of Taoism. Jing Xingzong dares to believe in things that no one in the world believes in; Jing Xingzong dares not to believe in things that everyone in the world believes in.
After 50 years of imprisonment and 50 years of introspection, some obstacles have been figured out, and some truths have been calculated clearly.In the darkness behind Tong Shu's bars, he settled his accounts clearly, and he paid almost what was due, and he refused to pay any more.Those delayed things must be restarted; he can't allow others to interfere with what should be done.
In fact, he was not much better than Jing Jue's Wuchen, and he also couldn't accept unclear things.
Tong Shu slowly sketched out these past events in his memory. When it happened back then, the situation was turbulent and the situation changed. Looking back now, it was only a short time.
Thinking of these things again, he can lift the weight as lightly as if reading a piece of his own fairy history, what happened to the devil in the history book, and those pointing fingers poking at the spine are not important.
Because, now he is very clear about what he should do.
Time is a better teacher.
Tong Shu chuckled in relief.
His smile broke the silence.
He silently fell into the memory, and Xin Wu had been waiting for him quietly.Hearing his laughter, Xin Wu looked up.
Tong Shu met Xin Wu's gaze with a smile.he actually
Tong Shu grabbed the tenant and tightened his hands involuntarily.Similar to the mood of holding on to a life-saving straw, he wanted to hear from others about Xin Wu's whereabouts and the performance of Xin Wu's return.
The tenant noticed something different, and when he saw Shang Tongshu's oppressive gaze, his hair stood on end, and he couldn't speak fluently: "Young master, you are in a hurry to find your brother, so don't drag me."
Tong Shu repeated blankly: "Where is my fifth brother?"
Fear rose in the tenant's heart, and he tried to recall: "Your fifth brother is a tall, thin, very handsome boy in a gray shirt?"
Tong Shu nodded.
"I saw him walking out in a strange way covered in water, and he seemed to have seen a ghost when he asked him something out of good intentions. It's so fierce. Go to the counter and ask."
Tong Shu immediately let him go and walked downstairs quickly.
Only then did the tenant change his face, and whispered behind his back: "Who is this, what is so fierce."
Tong Shu went downstairs, but there was no one at the counter. Just as he was about to ask someone, Xiao Er hurried in from the outer hall.Tong Shu greeted him and asked first, "Why are you panicking?"
Xiao Er wiped off his cold sweat and said, "A major incident happened, not only in my store, but also in other stores. There are several stores!"
Tong Shu said, "Where are they all?"
Xiao Er said: "The inn on the street, and the big store on the next street, both have accidents."
Tong Shu said, "Neighboring street? That grand shop with four rows of lanterns?"
Xiao Er nodded, took the things in a hurry, and left again.
Tong Shu pulled him back and asked, "Where's my fifth brother?"
Xiao Er was in a hurry to leave, but when he heard his question, he looked relieved, stopped and said, "Are you two reconciled? Your fifth brother is on the roof."
As soon as the stone in his heart fell, Tong Shu's eyes lost that dazed look, and light was reborn.
Of course he and Xin Wu did not reconcile. Under Xiaoer's probing eyes, he dealt with it wholeheartedly, thinking: Of course I want to reconcile, but now I don't care.
When he met the last two enemies who were going to demolish the building, Xiaoer still wanted to say a few more words. Seeing Tong Shuri's gentle brows and eyes, he boldly said: "There is no overnight feud between the two brothers. See if you are angry with him. I bought a dozen of wine here, I'm afraid he'll be so drunk that he'll pass out, so go and see him."
"Overnight Qiu Na was talking about husband and wife, right?" Tong Shu scoffed at him, and then said, "My fifth brother actually drank?"
"Oh, the husband and wife are very close, and they are close." Xiaoer replied, "Go and have a look. I saw that his face was frighteningly cold at that time, and the water on his body was about to freeze. Others saw him buying wine. Give him a word of advice, and being stared at by him, you almost pee your pants in fright."
Xiaoer still needs to talk about it, there was an accident in the store, and he saw Tong Shu walking out in a daze, so he scratched his hair and said to himself, "These two brothers have such a good relationship", then guarded the counter, anxiously watching the people rushing about go.
Tong Shu jumped up to the roof, but saw no one, only a row of wine jars on the ridge of the roof, there were ten jars in total.
Tong Shu was taken aback. Xin Wu's cultivation had already reached the level of bigu. At this time, it is most important to abstain from eating and drinking. Food and wine can easily seduce the desire of the mouth and make the Dao heart chaotic. Xin Wu is usually very restrained in eating, Tong Shu only When I met Xin Wu for the first time, I saw him take a few sips. After that, I rarely saw Xin Wu touch food again. Why did he still drink wine?And there are so many?
When I picked up the wine jar, I was even more surprised!
After checking all the wine jars, although these wine jars were all unsealed, they were all full of wine.
After taking the wine, and it has been opened, but you don't drink it, is it to satisfy your eyesight?
This question was just a thought, Tong Shu touched the wine jars that had been slapped away, and suddenly understood.
How can people who don't drink alcohol use alcohol to drown their sorrows before they reach the pain point?
I wish I could get drunk, but when I was about to kick the door, I warned myself "that's not something you can do", and pulled myself back to the original position, and endured cruelly and soberly.
Just like the countless days when he was tortured by needles at the foot of Jiewang Mountain, every time he wanted to bend over, he told himself "you can't", and endured it for fifty years.
Furthermore, not all sorrows can be resolved by external objects.He remembered a sentence that Ling Xuelou, who loves wine very much, understands wine very well, and is very good at brewing wine - "If you are not in trouble, you will not be greedy for a glass of wine. But if you have extreme sorrow, it will be difficult to solve a thousand cups."
People may be different, but people with the same mind have some surprisingly consistent ideas.
Tong Shu understood why Xin Wu didn't drink the wine after buying it, but he still didn't know what Xin Wu was worried about.
He only vaguely knew that he had done something extremely wrong.
Tong Shu never did anything unclear, but this time, even though he was confused and specious, he felt that he should apologize sincerely.
After making up his mind, he knelt down and tied the wine into a bundle. When he lifted it up, he saw a row of lighted windows from his position.
From this position, the window of their guest room could be seen.
Xin Wu didn't go far away before, he has been sitting here.
Keep looking at yourself.
There was a strange emotion that blocked Tong Shu's head, his throat constricted, and it was difficult to breathe.
Chewing these details over and over again in my mind, it's always like looking at the flowers and the moon in the fog, and I can't see it clearly.
While he was in a daze, he suddenly heard a sound of piercing through the sky in the distance, and looked around in response to the sound, only to see silver light splitting the blue net, and under the moon, a figure galloped away like lightning.
Tong Shu shouted, "Fifth brother!"
Xin Wu only made a stop gesture to him from a distance, without even looking back, he jumped up and disappeared.
Tong Shu understood that Xin Wu was chasing someone, and told him to stay where he was, but he didn't follow to make trouble, and turned back to the inn to check the scene.
The shopkeeper also had bad luck that night. First, the building was demolished, and then a murder case occurred. He tossed about most of the night, and his face was more bitter than a bitter gourd.But he had to keep up his spirits, arrange people to surround the guest room where the accident happened, and block the crowd of onlookers outside the door. In order to prevent the situation from expanding, he himself sat at the door of the house, sighing and guarding.
Tong Shu rushed to the door, and when he was about to go in, he was stopped by the man next to him. The shopkeeper turned his head and saw that it was him, and his old face was painfully entangled. He looked behind him to see that Xin Wu was not there, so he lowered his face and was angry. Chu Lai said: "Young master, don't come here to cause trouble, go back and count the damaged items in your guest room first."
Tong Shu glanced at the men who surrounded him. These people were not even half-baked monks, and they were not useful at all. He rolled his eyes and said with a smile, "Okay."
Seeing his straightforward answer, the shopkeeper couldn't help but look at him more.Tong Shu took advantage of the situation and asked, "Who died here?"
The shopkeeper replied: "A son of Xiaozong in the city."
Tong Shu wondered, "A person from the Taoist sect?"
The shopkeeper said: "Barely count it. There was a golden core monk in the ancestors, and the next few generations are no more than mediocre."
Tong Shu said: "If a person dies, if it's an ordinary matter, it's handed over to the government; if it's a Taoist matter, it's handed over to Jing Xingzong. Why is the shopkeeper so worried?"
The shopkeeper let out a long sigh, patted his thigh and said, "This is the only son of their clan. He died in my shop. How can I explain it?"
Saying that, he waved his hands sadly and said, "Young master, if you still want my shop to continue, then you and your elder brother will calculate the loss and pay it to the small shop. I'm afraid the small shop will have to spend a lot of money to compensate others. !"
"I will pay, I will pay." Tong Shu had an empty pocket, but he answered confidently, and asked, "Do you know who the missing woman is?"
Hearing that he was so straightforward, the shopkeeper took a better attitude towards him, and replied: "A female cultivator from elsewhere, who has passed the foundation establishment, has a bit of style."
Tong Shu looked inside again, and the shopkeeper saw that his handsome little face was a little sickly pale, with a worried look on his face. He was afraid that he might do something wrong here again, so he tried weakly to persuade him: "Young master, don't you Look again, you are so delicate, if you get scared and do something wrong, and later your brother comes to trouble the shop, I'll just close the shop!"
"Me? Delicate?" Tong Shu was so offended by this sentence that he opened his mouth and was speechless for a long time.
The shopkeeper really had no energy to talk to him, so he waved his hands repeatedly.
Tong Shu digested that sentence with difficulty, stuck out his tongue, turned around and took a few steps, slipping in and out of the crowd.
I don't know what kind of tricks he used to hide his eyes. When he entered the house again, he walked in swaggeringly, and no one could see him.
This is a long east-west wing room. There is still wine on the table at the main entrance. The wine glasses are not dry. It splashed all over the ground.
There were two footprints extending from the tub, and finally stopped under the bed.
The water on the bed was still wet, the bedding was messy, and the smell of sexual intercourse between men and women hadn't dissipated, but there was only one naked person left on the bed and in the second room.
The appearance of this person's death was horrific, with scratches all over his face and limbs, and each claw penetrated into the flesh and blood.What's even more frightening is that there is a huge blood hole on the chest, which was taken away by someone digging out the heart and lungs, even the internal organs, and the empty shell dripped a bed of blood, which was mixed with those unknown water spots, A large swath of red.
Blood can dissolve in water, so it should have flowed out while he was still breathing, and it was excruciatingly painful.The throat is bruised and purple, and it is very likely that he will not be able to scream when he dies. His five fingers are convulsively grasping into a hook, as if trying to pursue something, his eyeballs protrude violently, as if he has been frightened by something, and there is also strong resentment, and his whole face is distorted. fear.
Tong Shu looked at those bloodshot dead eyes for a moment, then turned his eyes away. It was the first time for him in Lu Guimen to see such a horrific way of death. He felt chills in his heart and whispered, "Cat Brother, what have you discovered?"
A black shadow slipped out from under the bed, it was the lynx, biting a transparent thing at the corner of its mouth.
Tong Shu took it and saw that it was indeed the thin wings of the six-winged soul cicada.
Tong Shu turned out of the room without anyone noticing, and found the Xiao Er who had asked the question at the counter and asked, "You said that this happened elsewhere?"
"Why is the young master here again?" Xiao Er saw that it was him again, "I went to see it, and they all died in the same way. The man died on the bed, and the woman disappeared."
Tong Shu confirmed: "They are all from the Taoist sect?"
"Most of them are from small sects and sects. They are not serious monks, and they have fallen into some sorcery. They have all suffered tonight. Really, why did you choose our small town? We haven't been out of this city for many years." Something happened." Xiaoer said, thinking of something, and suddenly said, "Our store is better, but we will suffer from the big store across the street, where the third son of the Li family died."
Tong Shu's heart trembled, and he said, "Mr. Li?"
Xiaoer said: "Yes! The Li family is considered a respectable sect in our city. The owner of the shop is in a difficult situation after this incident. The Li family has already approached the door, and they are there to show off their power. They heard that they disappeared. The woman of the house is the youngest daughter of the He family. Although their sect is not good, the first eight elder sisters are all married well. Two of them have come here, and they are scolding with the Li family there. This is really a crime."
Tong Shu said clearly, "Li Sanlang, He Jiumei?"
Xiao Er wondered: "Why, the young master knows?"
Tong Shu was already thinking about it, and sighed again.
The previous time we met, I felt that He Jiumei was in a different mood, but I didn't think about it at the time, I just thought it was a conflict between lovers.No, it was so.
--- "The Persuasion of Mid-Long Night" ---
Back in the house, Bobcat was lying on the bed waiting for him.
Tong Shu saw it stretched out, finally smiled a little, and said, "You're clever, when Fifth Brother is around, you admit it; when Fifth Brother is away, you go to bed and become the master?"
When Shan Mao heard Xin Wu's name, he shook his ears vigorously, obviously afraid of even hearing the name, and gave Tong Shu a long meow.
But when it came to Xin Wu, Tong Shu stopped laughing, paused, and said, "Do you think Brother Wu will come back?"
Shanmao raised his eyelids, saw that he was not enlightened, shook his hair a little angrily, jumped out of bed and bit the corner of his trousers.
Tong Shu said, "You said that if I'm here, he will come back?"
Lynx nodded.
Tong Shu said, "You really think highly of me..."
"..." Shanmao glanced at him helplessly, probably because he felt that cats were unreasonable with people, so he simply crawled under his feet and rubbed against his legs.
Tong Shu was itchy from being rubbed by him, and the knot in his heart loosened a little.He sat at the table, opened the bag of snacks, and ate a piece. It was more delicious than he had imagined. While eating, he thought about it and said, "Brother Cat, now I feel that Brother Wu is not behind the scenes."
In fact, he didn't need anyone to respond to him. He continued on his own: "Sword cultivators are solitary, and rarely surrender to anyone. Fifth Brother has a temperament like that, and he can't tolerate sand in his eyes. He can't Who are you working your life for, and no one can hire a sword cultivator of his level."
"But he's too young. If he hadn't been supported by someone, how could he set up such a battle? It would take a lot of material and spiritual energy to set up a battle just to get my soul reborn. With his qualifications, It is absolutely impossible. Not to mention that he still has a lot of information, even some of my secret techniques are well known."
"If you say harm me, it doesn't look like it now. If you say help me, why?"
"Perhaps, there is one thing that only I can do, so he came to me."
"So, what's going to happen?"
"Since I was reborn, this six-winged soul cicada has always been haunted, why did it find me again?"
"Secretly, someone must have used it to lure me out, and Fifth Brother has been looking for this six-winged soul cicada all the way. What does he want me to see and what to solve?"
Tong Shu talked to himself for a while, then slowly raised the cicada wing, staring at him and said, "Is there something that I have to do all over again to solve it?"
Tong Shu closed his eyes, his thoughts turned like lightning, and he opened them suddenly. His face turned pale suddenly, he moved his lips, and said in a low voice, "Brother Cat, do you feel that Fifth Brother is a bit like... Jing Xingzong's people?"
After saying this, he himself felt inconceivable, thought for a while, and then shook his head again.
Jing Xingzong enforced the law and talked about Taoism, abstaining from the golden rules and iron laws. Jing's family regarded Taoism as more important than himself, and he definitely could not guard against self-stealing.
When Jing Xingzong sentenced him to life imprisonment, he could not afford to miss a moment.The Jing family set an example for generations to build the Cangcang Jiewang Mountain, and the bones of several generations were used to invite the Nisi sword. It is impossible for him to corrupt the thousand-year law.
It was precisely because of this that he would hand over his life to Jing Xingzong.
But besides Jing Xingzong, who in this world is so obsessed with unraveling the truth of evil?Which faction has such material resources and manpower?
Tong Shu's head hurt from thinking about it, and he unknowingly ate a large bag of snacks, and when he picked it up again, Shanmao meowed.
Tong Shu paused, looked down, smiled and said, "I'm sorry, there are only a few yuan left, let Brother Mao have a taste?"
Shanmao won the permission, jumped on the table and licked off all the scum, and then nestled outside Tong Shu's arms, one person and one cat stared at each other for a moment, Shanmao Yuemo felt that he really couldn't help, so he squinted his eyes and fell asleep .
Tong Shu stared blankly at the door, unable to tell what he was waiting for.
Suddenly hearing a deep sound, Shanmao jumped up in a jerk, and jumped to the window vigilantly. Tong Shu followed Shanmao's line of sight and saw a bronze meteor passing high in the night sky.
It was the people from Jing Xingzong who came.
And the meteor rocket was bronze in color, which showed that the person who came was Jingui, and that it was Jian Guzun who had arrived.
As soon as he thought that it was Jing Zhao who came, Tong Shu thought of the strange concern of the other party, and suddenly felt uncomfortable.
After thinking about it again, Jing Xingzong's disciples have a strict hierarchy, and there are "walkers" who go out to investigate cases, and they usually come to the suzerain in person if they can't work.He couldn't help thinking: "After all, Jing Xingzong was listening to the movement in Zha Shanmao's ears, and suddenly screamed in panic, and fled away.
"Hey, why are you running! With me, is there anything shameful?" Tong Shu was helpless, and when he finished speaking, his heart flashed, and his heart stopped for a while, which made Shanmao so afraid , only Xin Wu, it is Xin Wu who is back.
Shanmao Fang jumped out of the window over there, and Tong Shu heard footsteps in the corridor outside the door.
Opening the door and looking around, I saw Xin Wu and Jing Zhao coming side by side.
Xin Wu noticed him immediately, and their eyes met. Xin Wu's eyes were indifferent, showing no emotion, while Tong Shu felt his heart beating suddenly. He looked away awkwardly and turned his head back.
Hide outside the door and take a long breath, waiting for the feeling of beating the drum to pass.
It took a long time to finally calm down, but he became uneasy again.
Listening to the movement, Jing Zhao and Xin Wu were talking in a low voice outside, and they didn't intend to enter the door for a moment.
Tong Shu couldn't hear what he said, he really didn't want to have too much contact with Jing Zhao, and wanted to take the initiative to find Xin Wu, but also had inexplicable anxiety, so he just left the door open and sat in the room waiting.
Unexpectedly, Jing Zhao and Xin Wu came in together.
Seeing Jing Zhao, Tong Shu stood up almost out of habit.
When Jing Zhao saw Tong Shu, he hid the heavy expression on his face, tried to put on a gentle look and said, "How is Mr. Tong?"
"Very good." Tong Shu couldn't get used to Jing Zhao's special friendliness to him, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Is Jian Guzun here to investigate this strange incident?"
Jing Zhaodao: "This series of incidents always happened suddenly, and we were unprepared. Jing Xingzong is one step too late, what can Mr. Tong gain?"
The attitude seemed certain that he must know something.
The last time Tong Shu mentioned the six-winged soul cicada, Jing Xingzong had expected that there would be some involvement in the future, and was not surprised by Jing Zhao's questioning of him. He took out the cicada wing he found tonight and handed it over, saying, "There are also cicada wings at the scene today. one slice."
When Jing Zhao saw this thing, his complexion became heavy, and he said, "The first time we found this thing was a few years ago, and we couldn't find it for a long time afterward. It appears frequently. There are only a few times in total, and there are ten out of ten that Mr. Tong encounters by coincidence, so pay more attention."
His words were a reminder, and his good intentions could not be ignored. Tong Shu resisted Jing Zhao's concerned gaze, and replied, "Thank you Jian Guzun for reminding you."
He said thank you, but his expression was evasive. Jing Zhao looked at him helplessly for a moment. Before he could speak, Tong Shu said, "Jian Guzun came here in a hurry, so I don't bother you to delay at my place. You Get busy first."
Sure enough, such a refusal did not make Jing Zhao leave.
It was the same in the past, no matter how impatient Tong Shu was, Jing Zhao had a way to forcibly carry on with every communication. This may be a common problem of Jing Xingzong people. They are inherited in one continuous line, do their own way, and it is difficult to be influenced by anyone. Jing Zhao said again: " I heard you two had a fight?"
Tong Shu was taken aback, why did Jing Xingzong even care about this matter? !Jing Xingzong also knew about what happened for just a moment? !
He stared at Jing Zhao with wide eyes, completely unable to understand what Jing Zhao meant.
Jing Zhao, on the other hand, glanced at Tong Shu calmly, then at Xin Wu, then turned back and said to Tong Shu, "Young people should get along well, fighting and fighting will hurt your friendship."
It has been many years, and no one has spoken to Tong Shu in such an elder tone.
Jing Zhao's status is high. In fact, speaking of seniority and Tong Shu's generation, he is not too old, but years of power made everyone ignore the fact that Jing Zhao is still a middle-aged generation.
He is the suzerain of Jing Xingzong, and almost no one dares to object to anyone who wants to teach him a lesson, but Tong Shu has never been afraid of him. When he suddenly heard such inappropriate words from the strict and rigid Jian Guzun outside, he was very surprised, and suddenly opened his eyes. His eyes widened, and his whole body seemed to be struck by lightning, thinking: How did Jing Zhao manage to take care of his private affairs so naturally?
But after Jing Zhao finished talking about Tong Shu, he said to Xin Wu calmly, "You can't bully him just because you are better than him."
Xin Wu also didn't expect Jing Zhao to say this, and was taken aback for a moment.
Jing Zhao continued to speak calmly and endlessly: "You have to be nice to Mr. Tong."
Xin Wu's shoulders stiffened slightly, and he looked at Jing Zhao with a complicated expression.
Jing Zhao still said desperately: "If you have something to say, don't hurt him."
Xin Wu stared at him incomprehensibly, and frowned slightly.
Jing Zhao actually added another sentence: "Don't want to hurt people's hearts."
Although this sentence was addressed to Xin Wu, it seemed to hit Tong Shu's heart. A few simple words nailed Tong Shu to the ground.
While the two were stunned, Jing Zhao strolled out.
It took a while for Tong Shu to come back to his senses, and he said in a daze, "When did you become so familiar with Jian Guzun?"
Xin Wu seemed to be still pondering Jing Zhao's words, he couldn't hear what Tong Shu said for a while, and raised his eyes in a daze.
This gaze seemed to be dazed and bewildered, but for a very short moment, it suddenly wiped away all the small, inexplicable grievances that Tong Shu had felt throughout the night.
He waved his hand in front of Xin Wu's eyes, and said with a smile, "Hey, Brother Wu, what are you thinking, you're back to your senses."
Xin Wu froze for a moment, his eyes turned to Qingming, and then to deep, he looked at him probingly and said, he opened his lips, wanting to ask something, but his eyes flickered but he held back.
But Tong Shu guessed what Xin Wu was thinking, he felt his heart was hit hard by something, and he convulsed for a while, solemnly waited for the pain to pass, and said with a smile: "Fifth Brother, don't worry about Jian Guzun. If so, you are very good, you are the best to me!"
Xin Wu stared at his face for a long time, and finally lowered his eyes slowly, staring blankly at the ground, not knowing what he was thinking.
Tong Shu had never seen Xin Wu in such a mood, as if he was sad and introspective after being criticized by his elders.
For the first time, he had the mentality of admiration and admiration that normal people should have towards the suzerain of Jingxingzong - he was able to teach the cold and innocent Xin Wu like this, he really deserves to be a Taoist in the fairy world.
If it was usual, Tong Shu would definitely be teasing Xin Wu at this time, but he didn't know where to start with a mess of words, he just wanted to pick up nice things to coax Xin Wu quickly.
However, only during his momentary hesitation, Xin Wu returned to his usual indifference, with an invulnerable look, and a pair of bottomless pupils, which seemed to penetrate everything when looking at people.
Seen by his gaze, Tong Shu couldn't help but take a step back.
Seeing him, Xin Wu backed away, silently looking away.
At this step, the two of them seemed to be far away.
Tong Shu's heart felt empty.
Tong Shu had never coaxed anyone before.
He is a noble young master in Furong Mountain. Although his father doesn't dote on him, but with his status, others have to respect him.
He is very clear about closeness and closeness, he is easy to talk to people in the clan, but he is clear about outsiders, and he refuses to accept anyone.Even when I met Ling Xuelou later, I didn't admit my love, and I was more and more frustrated by Ling Xuelou. I fell behind today, and I will compare tomorrow, until Ling Xuelou waved to him one time and said, "I won't beat you, and I won't beat you later. teach you".
Tong Shuzhen didn't underestimate anyone, and he didn't have any experience in coaxing people.
But in front of Xin Wu, the king of Hades, he has tried to curry favor with Xin Wu more than once. To coax the other party, so that the other party will not keep a cold face. For example, at this time, Tong Shu especially wanted to make Xin Wu happy, wanted to admit and apologize to Xin Wu sincerely, and wanted to ask the other party in a gentle way why he drank so much. .
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-- "Next - Memory of the Long Night" --
Xin Wu spoke first.
"Since Lu Lan's death, the dragons in Furong Mountain have no leader." After speaking, he paused, waiting for Tong Shu's response.
Tong Shu blinked, and then realized that Xin Wu fulfilled the promise he said in the bookstore today that he would tell him about Mount Furong.
This is actually not a good start to the conversation, because the problem of the two people's quarrel is still there, but Xin Wu took the initiative to avoid the quarrel, and Tong Shu didn't know where to start.
Seeing that Xin Wu was still waiting for his response, he quickly nodded and signaled Xin Wu to continue.
What followed, Xin Wu said concisely, but Lu Shu was terrified when he heard it.
After the dragons in Furong Mountain had no leader, Liu Tang presided over the sect as a big disciple.At that time, Lu Shu was already in prison, and anyone who had a feud with Lu Shu in the ways of immortality and magic, wanted to find an outlet, and they all went to Furong Mountain to find bad luck.
Hearing this, Lu Shu gritted his teeth: When he entered the magic way, he had already severed his friendship with Furong Shanen. He was a homeless dog who was kicked out. , The wall fell down and everyone pushed it.
Blessings never come, but misfortunes never come singly.There are constant external troubles, but there are also internal troubles.After all, Liu Tang's surname is not Lu, and there are elders in the sect who are dissatisfied and often have difficulties. Although Liu Tang is in charge of the patriarch's orders, it is difficult to follow them.Liu Tang once agreed to find a new family member of the Lu family's children, but the Lu family's offshoots have been suppressed by Lu Lan all year round, and most of them are useless.
Seeing that the situation is not right, some branches simply hold on to the cripples, occupy the branch peaks of Furong Mountain, and set up their own sects. They no longer listen to Liu Tang's suzerain orders.
The Furong mountain fell, causing Xiao Qiang to fall.
Even if the Lu family's children are like this, some small sects who are attached to the Lu family are even more unlikely to have a long relationship, and they all betrayed their faith and left, either looking for new backers or abducting some of the Lu family's spiritual resources to find another way of life.
When the tree falls and the monkeys scatter, everyone takes advantage of the fire to rob!
In the chaos, only Mrs. Fu, who has managed Lu's spiritual materials for several generations, has always stood by Liu Tang's side.
It was also the luck of the Fu family that was at the top of the list, the Patriarch of the Fu family followed Liu Tang all the way to the sky, not only revived the Fu family's sect, but also collected a lot of Lu's spiritual resources along the way, and established itself.
On the contrary, Liu Tang is far away from her. I don't know if she has encountered a bottleneck in her practice, or she has practiced some shady techniques, but she is getting more and more weird. The only Lu family's spiritual resources in his hand were entrusted to Fu's family, and he only focused on practicing Lu's unique skill - the nineteen swords of Furong.
Everyone said that Liu Tang defeated the Lu family.
But Tong Shu could understand Liu Tang. If a sect didn't have the skills and abilities to resist outsiders, it would be impossible to gain a foothold. If it barely guarded those dead things, sooner or later it would be a disaster.
His elder brother has no one to rely on, so it is not wrong to choose to be self-reliant.
However, what he didn't expect was that Xin Wu told him that Liu Tang had disappeared afterwards.
Tong Shu subconsciously didn't want to believe it, and asked, "Those people are still scolding my elder brother, if everyone disappeared, who would they scold?"
Xin Wudao: "There are often some weird scenes where Liu Tang's mark appears, and everyone says that Liu Tang did it."
Tong Shu said, "Besides that, is there any evidence?"
Xin Wu shook his head.
Tong Shu said firmly: "I don't believe that my elder brother did it. First, my elder brother is not such a person. Second, with the thinking of a normal person, if you want the world to know what you do, why hide your whereabouts, but If you don’t want people to know, there’s no need to leave a mark. This matter is too contradictory, there must be something wrong.”
Xin Wu looked at him and said, "You trust Liu Tang."Not a question, but an affirmative.
Tong Shu resolutely said: "If even my senior brother can't trust me, who should I trust?"
Xin Wu frowned lightly, paused, examined him for a while, and slowly said something that surprised Tong Shu: "Liu Tang has been refusing to hand over the patriarch's decree for a reason. He said that Furong Mountain It belongs to Lu Shu, waiting for you to go back."
Tong Shu was stunned for a moment, and then said after a while, "Really?"
Xin Wu nodded.
Tong Shu was silent.
Xin Wu looked away in due course.
Tong Shu had mixed feelings in his heart. His senior brother insisted on waiting for him to go back.
He knew that the senior brother would wait for him, but he didn't expect it to be this far.
But he couldn't go back.
Because of the Furongshan massacre that year.
The formation was designed by him back then, and he also arranged it himself. Every flag and every spell in the formation was made by him.Those were all familiar operations, and they were a sure thing. When he started the battle, he confidently pointed at Lu Lan to ask the other party to admit his mistake.
Of course, Lu Lan refused, and then the battle started as expected, and then there was a lot of grief.
After all the flowers died that day, Mount Furong, and Lu Lan, who stood above the hall and cursed him with a sword, became his last memories of Mount Furong.
How about later?Naturally, everyone shouted and beat Lu Shu, and everyone scolded him for being ungrateful, bullying his father and destroying his ancestors.
All the evidence points to Lu Shu, and even jumping into the Yellow River can't clear up Lu Shu's suspicion. No one in the Lu clan is willing to believe Lu Shu, so they jointly removed Lu Shu from the family tree.
It's not that Lu Shu didn't want to prove himself, but he couldn't find out what went wrong after repeated calculations, and there was no evidence after searching for a long time.The evidence that was spread out was cruelly telling him that it was because of your self-willedness and arrogance of your talents that you made the mistake.
It's all your fault!You should be doomed forever and never be reborn!
But things didn't stop there. Although Lu Shu tried his best to save him, things still went in the worst direction.
Until the news of Lu Lan's death came, and the fellow disciples in the Furong Mountain battle died one after another without exception.
Lu Shu finally couldn't help doubting himself.
But when a catastrophe happened and more than 100 people died, someone should be held accountable.
It's not that he didn't think about dying to thank the world, the reason why he kept a glimmer of life is because he still has a little doubt - why a good formation will suddenly mutate.
Even if all the evidence is convincing, there is still a missing link in the chain of evidence.
Entering Jiewangshan is his only and best choice.
Although Jing Xingzong is ruthless and not easy to speak, he will never make judgments and guesses, and will not be influenced by words. They do not recognize their relatives, but only verify evidence.
Jiewangshan is suffering, but Jiewangshan can stop everyone's mouth, whether it is right or wrong, and can give him an end.
It's ridiculous to say that he has always disliked Jing Xingzong, whose eyes are higher than the top; he has always been at odds with Daoist Xichen and always fights, but at the end of his life, he wants to find a trustworthy person who will tell him what he knows. The people were eliminated one by one, and there was only one person left—Jing Jue, the immortal envoy.
This is really extremely ironic. The cold-faced, iron-blooded Jing Jue who couldn't tolerate sand in his eyes that he couldn't get used to became his last and only trust.
So he stretched out his hands to Jing Jue, surrendering his life and innocence.
When Jing Jue put the shackles on him, it meant that it would be difficult for him to leave Mount Jiewang for the rest of his life.The people detained in Jiewang Mountain were all people whose criminal responsibilities had already been determined or who were extremely suspected. According to the records of immortality, no one had ever escaped alive.
That's it, he also admitted.
Even the worst outcome - Jing Xingzong couldn't find out the truth, and he was sentenced to "beheading the immortal" - he would admit it.
It is difficult to have a perfect plan in this world, and no one can guarantee that it will be perfect. If it is really caused by his slightest mistake, he is willing to die a hundred times.
People say that when the "cutting the celestial guillotine" of Jiewang Mountain is cut down, the roots of the immortals will be cut off, and the world will be wiped out.It was said that it was excruciatingly painful, but in Tong Shu's view, that was the cleanest way to die, a complete relief.
With one slash down, the ends of the body and head are washed away, and the sins are washed away, and then start all over again.
To the surprise of the whole world, Jing Xingzong did not sentence him to "decapitate the immortals" because of insufficient evidence.
Although he had expected it, Lu Shu was still surprised when he heard the result.
Jing Xingzong is worthy of being a man of Taoism. Jing Xingzong dares to believe in things that no one in the world believes in; Jing Xingzong dares not to believe in things that everyone in the world believes in.
After 50 years of imprisonment and 50 years of introspection, some obstacles have been figured out, and some truths have been calculated clearly.In the darkness behind Tong Shu's bars, he settled his accounts clearly, and he paid almost what was due, and he refused to pay any more.Those delayed things must be restarted; he can't allow others to interfere with what should be done.
In fact, he was not much better than Jing Jue's Wuchen, and he also couldn't accept unclear things.
Tong Shu slowly sketched out these past events in his memory. When it happened back then, the situation was turbulent and the situation changed. Looking back now, it was only a short time.
Thinking of these things again, he can lift the weight as lightly as if reading a piece of his own fairy history, what happened to the devil in the history book, and those pointing fingers poking at the spine are not important.
Because, now he is very clear about what he should do.
Time is a better teacher.
Tong Shu chuckled in relief.
His smile broke the silence.
He silently fell into the memory, and Xin Wu had been waiting for him quietly.Hearing his laughter, Xin Wu looked up.
Tong Shu met Xin Wu's gaze with a smile.he actually
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