The Melancholy of the National Teacher

To the north of Daxue Mountain is an abyss that winds for thousands of miles, and the world calls it the Sea of ​​Ice.

But this is not a real sea. Maybe thousands of years later, there will be seawater pouring into the ever-spreading ice sea rift valley, but it is not yet.This thousand-mile rift valley is the only dark place in Sanliu where the sun cannot shine, but for some reason, no monsters have ever been willing to stay in the rift valley.

On the back mountain of Daxue Mountain, billowing ice and snow collapsed from the mountain peak, shaking the earth with an indomitable momentum, carrying all the traces of that struggle, galloping up and down a distance of tens of miles, and falling into the rift valley together.

How flustered Daxue Mountain was after that, how many hours after that struggle, at the bottom of the deep, dark rift valley, Helian Yu's eyelashes trembled as he was buried in the ice and snow, and it took a long time to open his eyes .

...Where is Le Dao?

Helian thought in a daze.

What he could see in front of his eyes was only the gray ice and snow with a shimmer, as if his brain was frozen by the cold, especially inflexible. It took Helian Yu a long time to slowly recall what happened before.Then it took a long time to move his wrist slowly.

Dawu tried to find Le Dao with his almost unconscious fingers. He remembered that he and Le Dao were hugged together at the beginning, and then he bumped into a rock when he rolled down. At that time, he seemed to let go of his hand... No, it was that time Loosen your hand?Or was it blown away by the wind during the volley?Did he let go?

He tried to touch, but the only thing his fingers could convey to him was cold, cold, cold, nothing else... huh?

Numb fingers touched a heat source.

This surprise discovery made Helian Yu feel a surge of strength, and the cold, weak and exhausted all disappeared in an instant. The big witch looked for a light source and dug upwards. He was lucky that he was not buried deep in the snow, and he was only a few meters away from the snow surface. Ruler, before running out of strength, he successfully dug himself out with his hands.

The fresh air saved Helian Yu's lungs. He gasped, and without looking at his bloody fingers, he looked for the direction where he touched the heat source just now, and knelt down in the snow to dig there.

In the end, only a fire jade was dug out from under the snow.

A few years ago, Helian Yu had just returned to the imperial capital from Daxue Mountain.At that time, there was something wrong between him and Le Dao because of the Northern Expedition to the Grassland. At the same time, Helian Yu, who had just received the Sun Gold Medal, was very weak because of the backlash of the Sun Gold Medal. After lying in bed for more than a month, Le Dao sent this fire jade as a congratulatory gift after he recovered from his illness.

When going out this time, Helian Yu also took it with him because he considered that he was going through a cold place.

The big witch held the fiery red jade bead carved with twelve-petal lotus patterns on its surface, stood up in a daze for a moment.

The heavy brocade shirt that was put on for the ceremony had turned into strips of cloth at this moment, and the middle coat inside was half stained with blood. There was not much wind at the bottom of the valley, but the chill could get in through the openings in the clothes, tightly clinging to Helian. Depressed skin.When the wind blows, these strips of cloth and black hair, which can't protect against the cold at all, flutter with the wind, so light that Helian Yu feels like a ghost.

He was walking at the bottom of the valley in a daze, not knowing which direction he was going.

There were large chunks of snow rolled down by the avalanche at the bottom of the valley. He Lianyu looked left and right, and the first thing he found was Xue Manpo's body.

The heir to the national teacher who was highly praised in the star platform in the past is nothing more than a corpse after death, and the great witch has an extra star, nothing else.

He Lianyu took a look at his senior brother, made sure that he was too dead, held the fire jade, rubbed out a small fireball with the little spiritual power he had finally recovered, and set the corpse on fire.

The fireball seemed to have landed on a piece of fat, and it boiled loudly, accompanied by black smoke and the stench peculiar to corpses, burning this thing, whether it was a human or a demon, into a pile of ashes.As for Helian Yu himself, he had already left the fire.

The second thing the big witch found was the corpse of the leader of the ghost guard, who died of fractures, blood loss and frostbite.

No matter why he betrayed Le Dao, Helian Yu didn't want to know anymore, he didn't even bother to give this guy a fireball, he just glanced at it and passed by as if he hadn't seen it.

This is not quite like Helian Yu's usual behavior, but no one can find Helian Yu's abnormality at this moment.

He continued to walk forward, leaving footprints on the soft snow with his bare feet that were bruised from the cold. At the top of the rift valley, the stars in the sky watched him from afar, with misty and cold eyes.

In the end, Helian Yu found Le Dao.

The emperor of Da'an seemed to have been awake for a while, and he dug a hole on the top of his head, otherwise, Le Dao's death method might be to be suffocated to death in the snow.But just digging a hole is far from enough to survive. Untreated wounds, plus frostbite caused by the cold, are consuming Le Dao's life.

In fact, the still dazed Helian Yu knelt on the snow, touching Le Dao's breath with his hand full of wounds.

He waited for a while, but nothing happened.

"Le Dao..."

The big witch brushed aside the messy forehead hair on that handsome face in a daze, and put the hot fire jade on Le Dao's forehead, and then continued to dig the snow. Take the dagger that pierces the chest and heal its wounds.During the treatment, Le Dao's collar was pulled away, revealing the thick chest of a martial artist.After confirming that the wound was no longer bleeding, Helian Yu leaned down and pressed his numb and aching ears and cheeks against it.

When pasting it, he found a cold wetness on Le Dao's chest.

It took a while for Helian Yu to realize that it wasn't snow that had melted somewhere, but tears that slid from his eyes.

The stars are silent, the wind blows under the rift, and the whine sounds like someone is whimpering.

Helian Yu waited, but he didn't get the heartbeat he wanted to wait for.

The whimpering and wind stopped, and there was nothing but silence at the bottom of the valley tens of miles away from the ground.

***

Le Dao opened his eyes and saw the hoarfrost all over the place.

It took him a while to realize that it wasn't hoarfrost, but a icy light that was exactly the opposite of the sun's scorching brilliance.Le Dao raised his head, and found that the vast darkness surrounded him, he was in the white reeds swaying in the wind, and a river that could not see where it came from and where it went, and could not see the opposite bank was rushing forward beside him.The water flow was roaring and rushing, as if countless silver dragons were roaring and rising and falling. What illuminated these silver dragons was...

Hey, this is the first time he has seen such a star shaped like a sickle.

Moreover, this star is too fucking big, isn't it?Le Dao thought.

On the side of the source of the river water, a huge crescent moon that occupies almost a quarter of the sky hangs on the dark sky. Its lower end has been submerged in the surging river water, and its upper end has sprinkled large swaths of undulating silver scales on the river surface.

Le Dao stared at this strange star, for some reason he felt that there was something familiar to him on it.

"Your Majesty, that is the moon, called the moon."

Someone said behind Le Dao.

The emperor of Da'an turned his head and found that standing behind him was a young man.

The man's face is ordinary and inconspicuous. His black hair is tied into braids and hangs down on his chest. He is wearing a leather jacket and a brocade jacket from Qinglu people. The leather jacket is worn with one sleeve and the other is tied around the waist and hangs down, revealing Comes in brightly colored undershirts.There is a first ring knife on his waist, and leather boots on his feet, both of which are from Qinglu.

The man showed a smile to Le Dao, his smile was like the spring breeze on the grassland in April.

"He Wendu?" Le Dao asked.

"It seems that Ulun looks quite like me." He Wendu touched his nose.

"No," Le Dao sized up the man who got Qinglu Nu Khan into his hands, and had to admit that this guy looked like an ordinary person, "something like his uncle."

"A child's appearance comes from his parents." Speaking of this topic, He Wendu's face and facial features were extremely gentle, "It should be very similar to Na Ren."

In fact, Le Dao only met that woman from a distance when he rescued Helian Yu from the execution ground many years ago, and he couldn't deny it.His Majesty the Emperor looked at the man who had been dead for many years, and at the river beside him, and asked, "So, is Zhen dead?"

There is no doubt about this answer, Le Dao didn't want He Wen to answer, he looked at the tumbling river, touched his chin and said: "I have heard that if you can cross from one end of the Styx River to the other, you will be able to regain your life." Return to the world."

"There is such a rumor," He Wendu said, "But I have been wandering by the river for many years, and I have never seen anyone succeed."

"That means there are quite a lot of people trying?" Le Dao began to undress, "I'm going to try it too."

"—However," He Wendu interrupted him, "there are also such rumors that as long as one is contaminated with the water of the Styx River, there is no way to return to the mortal world."

Le Dao turned his head, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Brother-in-law, do you know any other ways to return to the mortal world?"

The title of brother-in-law made He Wen choke. Looking at the familiar emperor, he could only smile wryly, "If I knew this method, how could I still stay by the Styx River?"

"That's right." Le Dao nodded. He is an eight-foot man, and he has already taken off his whole body with only a pair of obscene trousers. He is doing preparations before entering the water in the reeds. It seems that He Wendu is not too cryptic. Persuasion could not dispel the emperor's idea of ​​crossing the Styx at all.

Being stared at and punched with his breasts exposed, Le Dao was not at all embarrassed, but he didn't want to chat with He Wendu either. The atmosphere between this pair of brothers-in-law with very different identities was a little weird.

When Le Dao withdrew his fist, He Wendu suddenly spoke again.

"Your Majesty has a deep affection for His Royal Highness Zhao Natu."

"Well?"

"Not everyone has the courage to cross the River Styx." He Wendu's eyes tried to cross the boundless water, but failed. "Most of the people who come here are cowards."

"Oh, this?" Le Dao said indifferently, "I just can't bear to do nothing, being trapped in a predicament, maybe there is still a way out, but if I stop, I will be really caught so sleepy."

After warming up, Le Dao walked towards Styx.

"Wait." He Wendu called him suddenly.

Le Dao turned around, he didn't seem to be surprised at being called suddenly, He Wen even looked into his deep amber eyes, the unchanging calmness in them made the Qinglu man realize that he was facing the overlord of the world, He is a king followed by thousands of people. Such a person, no matter how careless he is on weekdays, actually has a heart that is sensitive to the subtleties.

...Maybe his concealment has been discovered long ago, he thought.

"The opposite side of the Styx River is the place where the real dead should go," He Wendu said, "And those who stay on this side of the river, if they are not too obsessed and cannot cross the river without liberation, or there is still a mouthful in their bodies. The anger has not dissipated, and there is the possibility of reincarnation, or someone like you, who has both."

He Wen has been wandering around for so long, and he hasn't seen many people who can procrastinate their vitality by relying on their obsession.

He twitched the corner of his mouth, trying to show a smile.

"If His Majesty dies, His Highness Zhao Natu will probably not live alone, and His Highness, if he completes the moon and stars, and completes the path of the sun's ascension, Naren can also come to the Styx River and meet me... That's what I originally thought... ..."

This time it was Le Dao who interrupted him, "What's the matter with fulfilling Yuexing? Isn't the promotion ceremony already successful?"

"It's better for His Highness Zhaonatu to tell you about this kind of thing." He Wendu smiled and shook his head, "The night is almost over and you don't have much time. Your Majesty, please walk towards the moon. As long as you can Arrive before the moon sinks..."

Before he finished speaking, the emperor of Da'an had already split the reeds with a gust of wind, and ran towards the source of the River Styx.

He Wen touched his nose, his figure gradually became bleak and thin in the wind, and his sighs were barely audible.

"How many years do I have to wait, Khan."

***

Ice Rift.

Dawn is coming, and the moon, which first appeared in the sky of Sanliu, is about to disappear with the stars.

The trajectory of the moon seems to be slightly different from that of the sun. This rift valley, which has never been illuminated by the sun, can have moonlight slanting through the narrow line of sky, which happens to fall on Helian Yu.

The big witch didn't realize that he was squeezing his spiritual power, using the fire spirit in the fire jade to warm up Le Dao's body, trying to create the illusion that Le Dao's body was hot and soft as if he was still alive.

Even if he didn't believe it was an illusion, Helian Yu's gradually recovering rationality was driving away the hope in his heart. He pressed his cheek against Le Dao's chest again. When he raised his head, he thought in a daze, his chest seemed to tremble just now?

...Wait, a shock?

Fumbling and leaning down again, this time unmistakably after a long wait, he heard the thump of his heart beating.

He Lianyu, who didn't know that her eye circles were red again, raised her head, and the faint moonlight happened to disappear at this moment, and the big witch didn't notice.

All he noticed was the pair of amber eyes that opened their eyes and looked at him.

The big witch showed a smile to the awake Le Dao.

The wind seemed a little strong, he thought while wiping away his tears.