The Villain's White Lotus Halo

In the bleak autumn season, leaves are flying in Yunyang City.

A few gentlemen in the academy were going to take the students on an autumn excursion, and they were going through the Hall of Diligence and walked out of the gate of the residence.A little boy in red with a drooping hair, holding a few volumes of books, walked through the corridor and the hanging flower gate, and came to the courtyard full of locust trees.The boy held the book to the gentleman who was leaning on the rattan chair, and seeing several volumes of sword manuals after opening it, he remembered something and became curious.Suddenly he asked, "I heard that the Juggernaut and Mister are best friends?"

After blurting out, I couldn't help but feel annoyed, even if my husband is gentle and generous, I shouldn't inquire about such things.

But Li Tugen didn't feel offended.

"There's no such thing as a close friend." He drank tea under the locust tree, his eyes were indifferent, "It's just that we've known each other for a long time."

The boy didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he bowed and retreated, so he was left alone in the empty courtyard, and the cold west wind blew up the fallen leaves.Li Tugen never thought he needed any close friends.I felt that Wei Jingfeng was probably the same.He saw the wrinkles at the end of the eyes and the star-white temples from the fluctuation of the tea soup, and thought he was really old.

But what about Wei Jingfeng?Wei Jingfeng will not grow old.Always a teenager, always full of enthusiasm and high spirits.With an unrestrained temperament and unparalleled swordsmanship, there is always injustice in his eyes.There is no second one in the world.

It can be seen that aging has nothing to do with the age of the face.When you get old, you will miss the past. Speaking of it this way, you really miss Wei Jingfeng a little bit.

They were still young at that time, and the school did not have a library, it was just a small private school forcibly involved.The Juggernaut had no eaves to step on, so he had to stand on the gray tiles of the courtyard wall, and said condescendingly, "Li Tugen, a group of people want to kill me."

He was dusty, his hair was in a mess, and his cuffs were stained with solidified black blood.Described as a mess, but his brows and eyes are as bright as ever.It is also a strange thing that if one's life is in danger, he does not go to the teacher's door for help, but diverts to Zhonglu, and comes to Lanyuan private school.

Li Tugen was standing in front of the window writing, and frowned when he heard the words, "There is no one like you. I haven't seen you for three years, and you ask me to kill people as soon as we meet?" Even though he said so, he didn't stop, put the book back on the shelf, After pouring water to wash the pen, he took the array plate and walked out the door.

Wei Jingfeng raised his eyebrows, "Then I should pick a good day to deliver the invitation, sit down and have a cup of tea, and then ask you to kill someone?"

The two said they had left the yard.

"Where are those people?"

"A hundred miles away from the outskirts of Yunyang city tonight."

"You came late, if it was yesterday, I would have been able to deploy in Yunling."

"..."

There are many kinds of friends in this world. There is a kind of friend who is close to you on weekdays, and abandons you in times of crisis; there is also a kind of friend who will not contact you when you have nothing to do, and go to him when you have something big to do. Or burn the lamp to read at night, throw down the wine glass, put aside the books, and the mountains of swords and fires will follow you.

After crossing the catastrophe, old friends are still there, and strangers share grievances and enemies with swords.

It's a pity that the Juggernaut and Mr. Zhangyuan are not so heroic and chivalrous.When they were young, they fought against the enemy and advanced and retreated together, but it was out of habit, a habit formed from childhood.Both of them thought it was just because they were not strong enough when they were young.

When there was no sword master in the world, and there was no gentleman in Yunyang City, there was a village called Xihe Village in the easternmost part of Donglu—because there was a river to the west of the village.Women are fetching water upstream, and monkey-like children are playing water fights downstream.The whole village doesn't have any concept of education, and children depend on free-range like poultry.

There were only two kids who didn't go to water fights and never played with anyone else.The older one, Li Tugen, stayed in the house reading every day. His mother thought he was wasting lamp oil, so she drove him out of the house, and he ran to the Wei's house next door to read.The younger one, Wei Jingfeng, was born in the only literate family in the village, so he has a good and elegant name. The "convulsive wind" of "the pen falling convulses the wind and rain" is full of ink and ink.It's a pity that he never studied. When he was six years old, he passed by a blacksmith shop and determined to be an apprentice.

The age difference between the two is only three months, which is a little strange.The other children disliked them, and the relatives at home didn't bother to talk to them. Logically, the two should have the same illness and sympathy for each other, but they never talked speculatively.

Neighbors can't see each other when they look up, especially Li Tugen often goes to Wei's house to borrow books.

Wei Jingfeng was sitting in the courtyard sharpening a wooden sword, squinting at him, "You are a scholar who is useless."

Li Tugen thought to himself, "A gentleman doesn't argue with a barking dog...but he still wants to beat him, what should I do!"

The only thing the two have in common is their curiosity about the outside world.Behind the village is a continuous mountain, full of rare treasures and ferocious beasts, no one dares to climb it on weekdays.Wei Jingfeng touched it quietly, and met Li Tugen who was staring at the map in a daze.

I thought to myself what are the flowers and plants to see, this person is probably sick.

At first they hated each other, but later they ran into each other in the mountains and were chased by wild boars for their lives together, so they developed a little friendship.Shallow enough to pull the opponent when fleeing for his life, but turn around and run away if he can't pull up.

The locust trees all over the village are older than the village, covering the sky in summer and falling leaves in autumn.The days passed without knowing the age, there was no difference between five years and ten years.When they were 16 years old, Li Tugen's ideal in life was to be a tutor in private school, while Wei Jingfeng had already stayed in the blacksmith's shop all day long.

They all think that the future is the sweat in the fields, the lamp oil added at night, and the heat wave by the iron stove.

When something life-changing happens, no one knows how it's going to be different from the thousands of other normal days in the past.Li Tugen regretted going up the mountain today. According to the stars and moon last night, it shouldn't be raining now.The ground shook outside, as if the cave would collapse in the next moment.

Then there was a black shadow running from the entrance of the cave, lightning flashed, illuminating the man's face, it was Wei Jingfeng.

Wei Jingfeng also saw him.There was thunder and lightning, and neither of them spoke.

The earth trembled violently, and the stone chips in the cave rustled. After a loud noise, the light suddenly dimmed.Wei Jingfeng groaned and fell to the ground.Li Tugen took a look, and it turned out that falling rocks blocked the entrance of the cave.He smelled a faint smell of blood again, and thought that this kid was able to sit so obediently now, probably because of his injuries.Either because of gravel and miscellaneous branches, or because of birds and animals.

The sound of thunder and heavy rain came faintly through the boulders.The clearest thing was the breathing of the two of them.

At this moment, there is nothing to do but to wait. I don't know how long it has passed, and the wind, rain and earthquake have gradually subsided.Li Tugen was so dizzy that he couldn't keep silently counting the time, Wei Jingfeng supported the stone wall and stood up.They all went to push the boulder together, but the entrance of the cave was stuck to death. The strength of the two of them was like a mud cow entering the sea, and the gnats shook the tree until they were exhausted and starved and cold.

"If this goes on, we're all going to die."

"The more you toss, the faster you die."

Wei Jingfeng suddenly asked, "If I die first, what will you do?"

This is the first formal conversation between them since they met in the womb.

Li Tugen rolled his eyes, "I buried you."

Wei Jingfeng thought for a while, "You'd better eat me, don't waste it."

Li Tugen was stunned for a moment, "It makes sense, if I die first, you will eat me too. If you live a few more days, maybe you can wait for your parents to bring someone to save your life."

I don't know whether it's because they are young and ignorant, or they are born different from ordinary people. They have an incomprehensible outlook on life and death.Having said this, there is nothing more to say.

Until the third day after the earthquake and heavy rain, a ray of morning light came in through the cracks in the cave entrance, and the situation did not improve at all. Li Tugen guessed that something might have happened in the village.Although they are not likable, it is not impossible for no one to look for them.On the fourth day, even the flowers and plants in the cave were eaten up.Water is not lacking, just hungry dizzy.On the sixth day, Li Tugen touched the last grass from the stone wall, which was purple in green, and the roots on his lower body were astonishingly long.He used it to share with Wei Jingfeng.

"Why did you leave the leaves to me?"

"The roots are generally not poisonous."

Wei Jingfeng said angrily, "Are you trying to poison me to death for eating meat?"

Li Tugen looked at him with an expression of 'you are stupid', "If you are poisoned to death, the meat is also poisonous."

Then they shared the 'Bi Liu Guang' like a cow chewing peonies.

It's really a 'biliuguang', without the earth-shattering, luxuriant and luminous appearance imagined by countless practitioners.It grew quietly in an ordinary cave, and even though it contained the energy of the galaxy and the universe, there was no aura flowing out from the outside.

As soon as he entered his stomach, Li Tugen felt a cold current rushing up from his stomach to his limbs, and the severe pain wanted to explode him.From the corner of his eye, he saw Wei Jingfeng's eyes were in pain, but he didn't even have the strength to shout, so he could only whimper from his throat.

He thought desperately, "I made a mistake. It turns out that the leaves and roots are poisonous."

Many years later, Li Tugen read all the classics, and he was glad that he shared the food with others, otherwise the meridians that had never been used to draw qi into the body would burst due to the forcible infusion of the essence of aura accumulated over a million years.But at this moment, they don't know why, after the long pain is over, things become extremely simple.Wei Jingfeng's wounds healed as before, he pushed away the boulder with one hand and walked out.

The long-lost sunlight fell on him.The mountains and plains are in a mess, the trees are broken, and the rocks are blocked.The torrential rain damaged most of the pagoda trees, but the houses and fields in the village were unharmed, and the cocks and dogs continued to bark.

But no one.

Suddenly Wei Jingfeng raised his head and asked, "Who are you?"

An old man in a dark blue Taoist robe stood on the tree, looking at them like a torch, making people extremely uncomfortable.

"A team of demon cultivators came here to search for rare treasures. After hearing the news, the poor came to inform them in advance. Now that the demon cultivators have returned without success, I am afraid they will come again in the future."

Li Tugen asked, "So everyone left?"

The old Taoist didn't answer, but his expression said it all.

Wei Jingfeng asked, "Dare to ask what they are looking for?"

"Bi Liuguang, commonly known as 'Chengxiancao'. There are people in the Qiong Palace who are good at divination, and it is here."

The old man frowned slightly, as if he felt that he had said too much.After hearing this, the two of them were a little stunned, but they didn't feel the ecstasy of eating a strange treasure by mistake, or the grief of being abandoned by relatives and friends.This made the roaming casual cultivator take a high look at them. He didn't expect that the villagers in the mountains had such a mind, so he moved his mind, "You two have taken the fairy grass, and have entered the realm of cultivation since then. I'm afraid there is no one to rely on. You don't live long, so would you like to worship me as your teacher?"

For someone else, a series of shocking accidents happened, and the first time I came into contact with the traces of another world, I am afraid that I would be overjoyed.

But Wei Jingfeng said, "I don't want to."

Then Li Tugen saluted, "Thank you senior, I don't want to either."

Fortunately, this Taoist practiced natural Taoism, and Shouyuan will do his best to look down on everything.I just wanted to make some blessings for the reincarnation, and I didn't force it at this time. I said, "It's okay, each has its own fate." After leaving two books, he waved his sleeves and left.One "A Preliminary Exploration of Sword Jue" and one "Gua Yao".Both are the most basic practice introductory books.In this way, it was in the hands of two people.

After Li Tugen saw the person disappeared, he turned his head and asked, "Why don't you want to be a teacher?"

He felt that Wei Jingfeng, a reckless man who likes to dance with guns and swords, should be Lin Xia's rebirth that he readily accepted.

"Why are you?"

Li Tugen said, "Things happened suddenly, I can't trust others, I'm afraid there may be fraud. Are you too?"

I didn't expect you to have a little brain.

Wei Jingfeng said, "No, it's just that he said he wanted to recruit disciples, and he said it like a charity, I'm not happy."

"..."

Li Tugen felt from the bottom of his heart, why did he enter the world of cultivation? Sooner or later, something would happen to this kid.

The two took out all their family savings, Wei Jingfeng was carrying an iron sword, and Li Tugen picked up a shoulder-load of books, and they were about to see the outside world.

When he walked out of the village, Li Tugen put down his pole and bowed three times to the entrance of the village.Wei Jingfeng sneered.Turn around and leave.

The outside world is really big, with mountains, rivers, and crowded shops.Each has its own beauty, and each town has its own style.Facing the same power born out of thin air, Wei Jingfeng actively explored how to use it to improve, but Li Tugen has been working hard to control it.Different routes lead to the same goal, but by accident, they have all passed the washing scriptures and cutting the marrow.

Originally, everything would be fine if things continued like this, but seeing that the world is getting bigger, in fact, I still practice copying books to make a living, practice swords and study to live, and add one more groping practice.But the fact that they had eaten 'Bi Liu Guang' was still spread after all.

It was a medical cultivator who saw the clue first, and somehow it reached the ears of the disciples of the Zodiac Palace, so before they got out of Donglu, troubles followed one after another.There are even many rumors out of thin air, saying that the aura of 'Bi Liuguang' has merged into the flesh and blood of the two of them, and if they can be refined and taken by the two of them, they will get fifty-six out of ten medicinal effects.Even if many demon cultivators of the Zodiac do not believe such a bizarre statement, they still want to see the difference between people who ate the legendary fairy grass.

So Wei Jingfeng and Li Tugen began to flee all the way, from the first time they joined hands to kill each other, to being ambushed continuously, and killing others again.He narrowly escaped death many times and made a breakthrough.I dare not seek medical treatment to heal my injuries, relying on the medicinal property of 'Bi Liu Guang' to heal myself.Finally, he got into the merchant ship crossing the sea and fled to Zhonglu.

This bloody experience, many years later, when the Sword Master talked about it with Yin Biyue, he just said lightly, "If you can count it, avoid it, if you can't count it, kill him together."

Most of the demon cultivators didn't dare, or didn't want to leave Donglu. The two deliberately hid their tracks, and no one found them after crossing the sea.Li Tugen's handwriting is good, elegant and graceful.I rented a thatched hut in Yunyang City to copy and write letters for others. A few neighborhood children who couldn't afford to go to an academy were sent to him to learn a few words.

Wei Jingfeng got a headache every day when he heard them read those "Zhihuzhe Ye", so he left with his iron sword on his back.

Li Tugen looked honest and polite, Shu Xiu received very little.The reputation spread, and the number of children studying gradually increased. A year later, he bought a small courtyard and opened a private school.

On the day when the private school was completed, the New Year's Eve in Zhonglu was approaching, there was a snowfall, and the weather was bone-chillingly cold.

Wei Jingfeng's letter arrived with the fluttering first snow, and the letter said that he had worshiped the master and was going to practice.In the future, if there is no food to teach in Yunyang City, come to Cangya Mountain to find him.Cangya Mountain seems to be in the west land, quite far away, Li Tugen thought about it and named the private school Lanyuan.

Teaching is the most stable profession. It is easy to have nothing to eat when you are a swordsman.

Li Tugen likes reading and computing.Reading does not require a threshold, it only needs hard work and dedication. As the years go by, he has read all the books that can be found in the entire Donglu.

Calculating for a long time requires a strong spiritual consciousness to support him, so he began to practice deliberately.But he has never been obsessed with the improvement of his own strength. In his opinion, practice is just an auxiliary tool for calculation.There is a scholar with profound cultivation, and the reputation of Lanyuan Private School is getting better and better. Many students come to study here from across the ocean, and everyone starts to call him 'Mr.'.

Only in Wei Jingfeng's letter, he was still called 'Li Tugen'.

The private school was expanded into a school, magnificent and grand, like a city within a city.He planted locust trees in his backyard.

It was born with magic, and it will grow luxuriantly in a few months.

Later, there were more students, and it gradually became a force. There were big families in China who threatened and lured him, wanting to make him submit.After expressly refusing, all the strong priests from the great family came out to the school in the dark.That night, Wei Jingfeng stood on the cornice of the library with his sword in hand, and did not move for a whole night.At dawn, the dark and powerful enemy retreated quietly.

Compared with this, Wei Jingfeng had more troubles, and when he encountered something he couldn't handle, he came to find Li Tugen to go with him.As their state and status get higher and higher, and there are fewer and fewer people and things they can't handle, they start not to contact each other for many years.Wei Jingfeng is still alone, alone, but Mr. Zhang seems to have many friends.Practitioners pay more attention to the mysteries of life counting, and often big figures come here especially to ask him to take a divination.

Later, they also became big shots, big shots that the world would not dare to talk about.

Until one day when Li Tugen was so excited, he went to Minghu Lake to drink at night, raised his eyes to gaze at the stars, and fell into a mysterious state of epiphany. He saw the sky beyond the sky that night.

He asked Wei Jingfeng to come to Yunyang City for a drink.On a cold and snowy night, when the fire was raging and the wine drenched his guts, he showed him the two stars.

"Life and death are the same, you see it."

Wei Jingfeng glanced at him, but said nothing.

When the restaurant was supposed to close, the wine was gone, and the Juggernaut slapped the table and cursed, "Don't worry about this! You are a scholar who is useless!"

After scolding, I went downstairs, and the drink money was not settled.Li Tugen knew that the other party didn't want him to intervene, because spying on the way of heaven to such an extent would cost a lot.What's more, Wei Jingfeng didn't believe in fate.

He stood upstairs, leaning on the railing to sober up, the cold air of the snowy day made people sober, and the heavy snow fell on his shoulders, which would not melt for a long time.Condescending, he saw Wei Jingfeng pick up a child outside the school and go back.About six or seven years old, so thin that only a handful of bones remain.He took a closer look and saw that he was a nice kid.

Because of the final choice, the greatest disaster in their lives came as expected.Wei Jingfeng went to Jianzhong alone, and he was trapped in Yunyang City to resist the demon army.He could probably guess the situation in the Sword Tomb. If Wei Jingfeng wanted to draw out the sword energy there, he would have to bear the consequences of firing thousands of swords.And he was not healed from his serious injury, and he forced out blood to activate the formation, so he was not ready to live.

It doesn't matter, I have seen a lot in this life and learned a lot from the best.Although I have never been happy with my grievances, I have no regrets in my life.But he survived in the end.Bi Liuguang's medicinal properties were far stronger than he had imagined, and this time it completely disappeared after saving his life.As for Wu Wang, he said that he can no longer practice, only a long life is left.He doesn't care, he still reads and writes, just like he did a hundred years ago.

Another year of bleak autumn wind.

The tea was completely cold, and the book in his hand hadn't read a single page. After recalling these things, the old gentleman felt that Wei Jingfeng was different from him.Although he has no friends, at least Wei Jingfeng has an apprentice. When many people thought that he would not come back, they heard that Jun Yu was still waiting.

Looking at the white walls and gray tiles, he was in a daze for a moment, as if that person would suddenly appear on the wall and call his name condescendingly.

"Li Tugen."

Someone really called his name, and the voice was unfamiliar.There was no one on the walls, nor on the cornices of the library.

Only someone came in from the back door of the academy, his footsteps were flimsy, and his breath was exposed. He stood up in surprise, recognized the visitor at a glance, and couldn't regain his senses for a long time.

After thinking about it, he felt funny, but raised his eyebrows slightly, pretending to be puzzled, "How did you become like this?" Without waiting for the other party to answer, he imitated the person's usual tone, "That's right, the beauty is just a skin, You will never care about such things..."

The Juggernaut has already accepted the reality along the way, and now he only said coldly, "The old man has at least half of his cultivation left, so what do you have left?"

Mr. Zhang Yuan was not angry, "I still have one life left..." Then he frowned and guessed, "Bi Liuguang has reshaped your bones and flesh, is it not enough to support you to return to your original appearance?"

"..."

"It can only be reshaped to be weaker, can it grow again? Or is it finalized?"

Wei Jingfeng really wanted to draw his sword, but he never shot at ordinary people without cultivation.

At this time, they could only endure it, so that the two bickered like mediocre people in the market, "What nonsense! After 18 years, the old man is a good man again!"

If he was still a juvenile sword master, when he got angry, it would be enough to make Mr. Zhang not dare to speak too much.However, he is now a cute child of Yuxue, and he speaks in a childish voice.

So Mr. Zhang laughed directly, "Hey, don't be angry, come, uncle hug."

Wei Jingfeng turned around and left, "I'm going to sleep, you write a letter and ask someone to pick me up."

He couldn't really draw his sword and kill Li Tugen, so what's the point of saying more.He didn't mention who to write the letter to, or who should pick it up.He turned around and walked into the wing room, closing the door with a bang.

Mr. Zhang understood what he meant, smiled more happily, and wrote the letter with a few strokes.He summoned the deputy director and passed it to Xi Huafeng, specifying that the name and surname were sent to Jun Yu.

The rest of the matter is left to those in Cangya Mountain to worry about.