old grace

At night, the wilderness is dark.

The plain clothes Fu Chuan wore were never dyed, only pure gray, in the field full of weeds, it almost blended with the earth.

After he separated from Xie Qinghe, he didn't go back directly to the old man's settlement. He flew towards the place he came from for a while, and after confirming that the elder brother couldn't keep up with his own pace, Fu Chuan quickly changed his direction. , turned to the mountains to the south, and flew nearly half a hundred miles in one breath.

"You also know that senior brother is looking for something." Fu Chuan said to the invisible "thing" in the void, "give it to me quickly."

Soon, a snowy figure appeared in the darkness, she looked like a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old, with black hair and white clothes, and a lovely face, with an aura of jewels on her body.She frowned slightly, bit her red lips lightly, and said pitifully: "I have been raising my sacred bones for less than three hours..."

Fu Chuan didn't buy her pitiful gesture at all: "You quickly take back this false appearance! I've seen your ghostly appearance!"

Aside from the fact that other people might show sympathy to the pitiful female ghost in front of them, Fu Chuan has been honed in the field of female sex since he came down from the cold mountain.When he was in a daze, he was coaxed into the water by the third lady Mo Qiangwei in Yangliuhe Manor, and he was involved in the case of Miementu's family, which made him covered in embarrassment. After that, he met Shi Bufan who was disguised as a woman while walking in the rivers and lakes. After several years of tossing, I didn't get away.

Most importantly, he also took in a beautiful and beautiful maid, An An, by his side.After any man has experienced the company of a good-looking, stable, and loyal girl like An An for several years, the possibility of being tricked by China and the United States will infinitely approach zero.

The female ghost's appearance changed abruptly, and she replaced it with the appearance of Gebusu's long-haired maidservant.She was not very good-looking, with a thin face and a trace of sadness between her brows. There was a thin round wound in the neck fossa in the middle of her throat, like a blood mole.

It was Lianggu, the female ghost who attacked Xie Qinghe and Fuchuan at Zhan's house.

She looked at Fu Chuan dryly, and said in a low voice: "Can't you say you can't find it? Shaojun said just now, if you find it, take it back, if you can't find it, forget it. With Shaojun's love and trust in Master, Master To be honest, I searched all over and found no clues, and Shaojun would not ask again if he wanted to."

Fu Chuan's face became less gentle, he frowned and ordered: "Bring it."

"It's not that the slave wants to argue with the master. This sacred bone is of great use to ghosts, but to humans, it is just an ordinary bone. When the young master wanted to ask about this thing, he just said it casually. He didn't necessarily want to find it either! Ever since he practiced with the master, the slave's soul is insignificant, and he often suffers from the scorching sun and strong wind... The cowardice of the ghost is too painful, I beg the master to be sympathetic."

Lianggu said it very pitifully, and bowed her knees in front of Fu Chuan, begging bitterly: "If you can live in the sacred bone to nourish your soul, all sufferings will be relieved."

When the female ghost deliberately turned into a young girl to pretend to be pitiful, Fu Chuan didn't eat at all.Now she has turned into a normal ghost to admit her suffering. Fu Chuan has an easily moved temperament and can understand the pain of others. Hearing this, he paused for a while before saying: "You have been with me for several months, and I have taught you some practices. You also let me drive you, and tried a lot of ghost cultivation methods for me, even though humans and ghosts have different paths, I also recognize you as a friend."

Liang Gu raised her head slowly, feeling that his sudden words were not good: "Master, why did you say that?"

"If you want to take the bone, take it."

Fu Chuan pulled out a dim light from the Purple Mansion, and before Liang Gu could stop it, Fu Chuan tore it off.

At the same time, Fu Chuan took a step back, and a ghostly aura escaped from his body to the ground.Lianggu's ghost image also took a few steps back, as if it had lost its foundation on the ground, the shadow floated up vaguely, she shot out a ghostly aura, and the figure was nailed to the ground, no longer being blown by the evening wind run.

Blood flowed from Liang Gu's neck, and her thin face showed panic and distress: "Master, calm down! This servant girl will return the sacred bone to Master! Please don't drive this servant girl away!"

"This has nothing to do with the bones. You have to leave tonight if you don't get the bones back." Fu said.

He pointed to the darkness and desolation in all directions, and gestured: "Didn't you notice that I was going astray? It's still far, far away."

Lianggu cherished that thin coccygeal bone too much, when she heard Fu Chuan's words, she was eager to reach out to return the bone to Fu Chuan, but at this moment she couldn't help but squeeze the bone tightly, and asked blankly, "Why?" ? Because the slave family is greedy, did you ask the master for this holy bone?"

"You're right. This thing is useless to people. Even if it falls into the hands of the senior brother, it will probably be hidden in a box. It may not be used for decades. I will show it to you when the time comes, senior brother." I won’t bother to ask. It’s just that we took it one step earlier.” Fu said.

"Eldest brother has become suspicious."

"I was going to take this bone back and explain to the senior brother..." Fu Chuan took a look at Lianggu who pinned himself to the ground with a ghostly aura, "If you need it so much, I'll make the decision for you. From now on, hope You are good at practicing, don’t do bad karma, and get to the heavenly path.”

Liang Gu was dumbfounded, and asked pitifully, "Isn't it okay for the slave to return the sacred bone to the master?"

"Even if the young gentleman is suspicious, he is also suspicious of the sacred bone. He doesn't know that the slave is staying with the master. The master first took the sacred bone to the young gentleman and explained that it was found from those wild men. The young gentleman got the sacred bone." , Get rid of the suspicion, and the matter will be settled. After the wind has passed, and the young master doesn’t remember this sacred bone anymore, the master will secretly give it to the servant.”

Liang Gu assured Fu Chuan: "My family will never urge the master. I am used to the scorching sun and strong wind, and my family can afford to wait for three to five years!"

Fu Chuan amused her, waved his hand and said, "Let's go, don't be silly."

Liang Gu was not reconciled, and stared at Fu Chuan indifferently, exuding a ghostly aura.

Ever since Fu Chuan cut off contact with her, the radiant and lovely luster on her body has disappeared, leaving only the cold ghosts in the Yin realm, which is chilling to watch.

Fu Chuan didn't force him to get together with her.

He is an orthodox monk of the Hanjiang Sword Sect. It is normal for Liang Gu to want to attach himself to him in practice, so it is natural that he is not willing to be terminated from the contract suddenly.

Since Liang Gu refused to leave, he had to go back.In order to take Liang Gu away from the elder brother, he ran fifty or sixty miles away from the direction, and it would take some time to go back.On the way, I still have to think about how to tell the elder brother about this matter... Fu Chuan's figure leaped into the sky.

Longgu is a ghost.

Ghosts are a stream of qi, a wisp of smoke, and it happens that yang qi is rarely seen on a moonlit night, so they are very friendly to ghosts, so Long Gu easily follows them.

Fu Chuan turned over and pressed the head of the cloud, landed in the dark grass, and ordered: "Don't follow!"

Liang Gu didn't speak, but followed him eeriely, making up her mind not to leave him.

"Eldest brother forbids me to keep ghosts. I listened to his orders to let you go. Suddenly, your ghosts collapsed, crying blood and pleading. Lord, do you think you are very smart, I don't know that you deliberately lost your soul to deceive me?" Fu Chuan said suddenly.

Liang Gu's expression remained unchanged, but she took a step back slowly, as if she was afraid of Fu Chuan's sudden attack.

"I know that when I disobeyed the senior brother's order to save you and left you to cultivate your soul by my side, half of it was because you were too hot-tempered and either left or collapsed immediately, and half of it was because of my deep feelings for ghost cultivators. Interested, I want to keep you."

"But, I know it's useless. Senior brother doesn't know."

"If he knows that you tricked me into not listening to him and keeping you by his side, what will happen to you?"

"Do you think I called you out after running so far in the middle of the night to break the contract because of itchy feet? If I don't put you farther away, it's just two steps away from the senior brother. You won't see tomorrow night moon."

After Fu Chuan said harsh words, he stepped forward to comfort Liang Gu again: "Lang Gu, the fate is over, goodbye."

Lianggu sighed slightly, and said: "I always don't understand. The master doesn't mention the slave family, so how can the young master know the existence of the slave family? The master doesn't talk about the past, how can the young master know that the slave family has self-harmed and asked for help? Think It's the master who got the cloud-climbing celestial technique, so I don't need the slave family to travel eight hundred miles at night to find out news for the master, the slave family is already a useless ghost..."

The words were already offensive, Fu Chuan was unhappy, but he was not angry, and said, "Don't follow me any more."

Lianggu bowed her knees and bowed down: "I always want to thank my master for saving my life and guiding me. I wish my master a smooth life and endless prosperity."

Fu Chuan didn't turn his head back, turned back into the clouds, and flew in the direction of going back.

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Xie Qinghe didn't sleep well, and could hear the wolves around him.

Fu Chuan knows how to tame books, so Xie Qinghe naturally knows too.

It's just that there is no cultivation base blessing, and I haven't practiced much during this period of time. After coming and going, I am much stranger than my junior brother.

Lying on the ground now, Xie Qinghe could not sleep well. Xie Qinghe could hear a male wolf looking for a wolf in the wolf pack, which probably meant that he didn't understand why he stayed here and wanted to hunt in the dark.The alpha wolf comforted the male wolves who were close, and severely suppressed the male wolves who were not close...

There is a clear concept of hierarchy in the pack of wolves, and the alpha wolf also has confidantes to help maintain the rule, which makes Xie Qinghe very interesting.

When he was living in seclusion in the mountains, his neighbors were a group of monkeys. Among the monkeys, there was also a monkey king who could command the whole group of monkeys to come and go. Tribute?

Anyway, he couldn't sleep well, Xie Qinghe was pondering the interesting things about animals living in groups, when he suddenly felt a surge of ghostly aura.

The pack of wolves reacted quickly. The alpha wolf led the healthy and young male wolves in a circle, enclosing the invisible objects in the void. The alpha wolf whimpered slowly.

Xie Qinghe immediately realized that it was a very good ghost, and it had murderous intentions towards him.

The wind rolled.

This ghost wants to possess himself.

Chen Cong is a non-cultivator, and when he encounters an upright and domineering ghost, he is easily tricked.

Xie Qinghe didn't have time to dig out the talisman paper bag under the pillow, so he had to forcefully reveal his majestic soul, and directly knocked out the ghost trying to possess him.His primordial soul is not only majestic and majestic, but also full of purple brilliance. The ghost trying to possess him was captured by the brilliance, making a shrill devil cry, and his whole body began to dissolve and burn.

Xie Qinghe saw clearly the true face of this female ghost in the underworld.

The female ghost who was intimidated by Xie Qinghe's original soul did not completely collapse. On her weak soul body, there were twelve bright and pure soul-suppressing nails, connected into a cipher text, representing "solid" and "penetrating".This is the life-saving secret technique of the Hanjiang Sword Sect.

Xie Qinghe put away the Yuanhun, the female ghost had been scorched to death, her spirit turned into muddy water.

Only the body wrapped by the twelve soul-suppressing nails barely maintained its shape, maintaining her weak ghost.

"You are the maidservant of my uncle's family," Xie Qinghe thought for a while, "Lianggu?"

At this moment, a pure white human bone fell from the "body" of the female ghost who was completely unable to maintain her shape.

Xie Qinghe was not afraid of the dying female ghost, so he took two steps forward, bent down and picked up the bone.It is the human coccyx, with a point on the tip, very short.That is, the "point" that disappeared in the old man's bone curtain.

"Is the soul-suppressing nail on your body given by Chen Jun?" Xie Qinghe asked.

Liang Gu covered her heart with her remaining half arm, and looked at Xie Qinghe weakly: "I see."

She didn't answer Xie Qinghe's question at all, and murmured in a low voice: "It turns out that your original soul is so huge and fierce, no wonder he is afraid of you..."

Xie Qinghe knew who this "he" was.

However, he was not happy to hear the word "fear".Why are you afraid of me?Afraid that I dare to raise ghosts?

Xie Qinghe discovered that Lianggu was wearing Fuchuan's soul-suppressing nail, and originally thought that he should show some affection to his junior brother no matter what.The old man is a family that raises ghosts, and Jian is a sacred object for raising ghosts. If Longgu speaks well, he might not be able to give Jian to Longgu to heal his injuries.

Now, Xie Qinghe wiped the tip that fell on the ground in the palm of his hand, and put it into his sleeve with a cold expression.

Liang Gu's murderous intent towards him was not fake, if Xie Qinghe's original soul hadn't been strong, Liang Gu had already taken away his body, and during the time before Fu Chuan came back, this female ghost could make him die like a flower.Based on this alone, Xie Qinghe has every reason to execute the female ghost.

However, it's still for the sake of the twelve soul-suppressing nails on Longgu's body.

A sword energy flew out of Xie Qinghe's purple mansion, silently cutting off the connection between the female ghost and the ground, and Lianggu immediately floated up.

"You won't kill me?" Long Gu was surprised.

With a wave of Xie Qinghe's hand, Liang Gu flew higher and higher, and soon disappeared into the sky.

After Lianggu disappeared, the ghost aura around him also gradually dissipated. Xie Qinghe summoned the head wolf and gave him a few words of advice. The head wolf's IQ is only like that of a three or five-year-old child. What just happened?What just happened?

——It is indeed difficult for the wolf to understand what a ghost is.

Xie Qinghe patted the wolf on the head, and gave it some hard jerky from a small bag.

The leading wolf ate two pieces of jerky, and shared the rest with his confidant male wolf and beloved female wolf. After eating the jerky, the wolves began to squat around the perimeter again, keeping vigil for Xie Qinghe.

Xie Qinghe spread the crumpled fur skin again, lay back, and looked up at the sky.

After a while, Xie Qinghe pulled out his sleeve again and took out the tip.

Xie Qinghe didn't intend to tell Fu Chuan about Lianggu's attack and killing, so the sharps she left had to be hidden.

After all, this thing is a sacred object for raising ghosts, so it's not easy to throw it around, and hide it close to your body without worrying that the younger brother will find it.The two of them have been together for decades, and they are used to sleeping together, and the younger brother is very attentive to take care of daily life. As long as the two live together, Fu Chuan will take care of Xie Qinghe's clothes. If you hide things in the sleeves, the younger brother will definitely find out .

After thinking about it, Xie Qinghe opened the cloth pouch containing the fried rice noodles, stuffed the tip into the depth, patted it for a while, and then put it back.

After half an hour.

Fu Chuan swirled down from the sky and landed far away, presumably he didn't want to disturb the sleeping Xie Qinghe.

The sound of his approaching footsteps was also very light, and with his cultivation base, it was very easy not to disturb anyone.Just getting close, he heard Xie Qinghe's steady and even breathing, which meant that the elder brother was not asleep at all.

"Eldest senior brother, I'm back." Fu Chuan stopped sprinting on the grass and returned to his normal gait.

Xie Qinghe turned over and sat up, just in time to see the pack of wolves separating from the middle and walking towards Fu Chuan.

The night was dark, Xie Qinghe couldn't see Fu Chuan's expression clearly, only the young pupil's immature eyes reflected the only ray of light in the night sky.It wasn't until Fu Chuan got close to the bonfire of Quhan and Wild Things that Xie Qinghe realized that there was a little nervousness and haste on his face.

"Eldest brother hasn't rested all this time, are you waiting for me to come back?" Fu Chuan sat down on his knees next to Xie Qinghe, but only his knees touched the fur skin.

Xie Qinghe knew that this was to test his attitude.

If Liang Gu hadn't attacked and killed him, he had some thoughts in his mind, and he could completely ignore them.Now that Liang Gu has come, as Fu Chuan's senior brother, he can't keep pretending to be stupid: "I'm waiting for you."

"I'm late." Fu Chuan said immediately.

"It's not too late. I walked quite a distance in the afternoon, and I have to check carefully when I go back and forth. I think you may come back at dawn." Xie Qinghe said.

If Xie Qinghe didn't know anything, there would be nothing wrong with saying this.But Xie Qinghe has admitted that he is waiting for Fu Chuan to "return", that means he has doubts about the whereabouts of Jian, and he also said this plan that would be carried out according to common sense, which seems a bit weird.

Fu Chuan had never been ridiculed by the elder brother before, so he blushed when he was squeezed out, and said in a low voice: "I didn't go back to the man's residence to search, the human bone that the elder brother was looking for, I knew where it was in the afternoon - yes I went one step ahead and hid it."

Knowing that the senior brother probably already knew the truth, and was blushed by the stabbing of the senior senior brother, Fu Chuan still answered with a correct attitude.

"When senior brother asks about this matter, I should tell senior senior brother the whereabouts of the bones." Fu Chuan bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

"It's just that the bone was taken by a ghost slave raised for me. Senior brother repeatedly warned me not to keep ghosts. I... didn't obey senior senior brother's orders, and raised a ghost slave in private. It's hard to explain to senior senior brother. Deliberately lied to Senior Brother once."

"That bone," Fu Chuan saw how pitifully generous Lianggu had given him, and now he was tongue-tied at Xie Qinghe, "I should get back what the senior brother asked for. I'm not doing my job well, please punish the senior senior brother. "

Seeing that Fu Chuan lowered his head and buried his face, Xie Qinghe was not angry when he humbly confessed his mistakes and made amends.

In fact, such an honest child as Fu Chuan is rare.

Xie Qinghe became suspicious of Jian's whereabouts, but there was no evidence, and it was even more impossible to investigate the younger brother just to catch wind and worry.As long as Fu Chuan insisted that he couldn't find the tip, or just took it back, the matter would be over.

Fu Chuan did not abuse Xie Qinghe's trust in him.If Xie Qinghe didn't ask about Jian's whereabouts, Fu Chuan wouldn't say anything either.Since Xie Qinghe asked, Fu Chuan would rather expose the matter of raising ghosts than lie to Xie Qinghe.

Not daring to prevaricate or lie, this made Xie Qinghe feel at ease.It's normal for children to sneak around and do something, and it's okay if they can ask the truth.

The only thing Xie Qinghe couldn't figure out was, why did the junior brother go out for a while before coming back to confess?Is it for the ownership of the tip?Junior Brother wanted to give Jian to Longgu but was worried that he would not agree, so after letting Lianggu take Jian away, Junior Brother ran back and turned himself in?

"How far did you run?" Xie Qinghe asked suddenly.

Fu Chuan lowered his head and waited for the elder brother to reprimand and question him about raising ghosts and taking the tip, but he didn't know that the elder brother didn't speak for a long time, but asked how far he ran?

Both of them are too familiar with each other, Fu Chuan immediately realized the seriousness of the problem: "Just...five...ten, forty miles."

Before Xie Qinghe could speak, Fu Chuan had already leaned over and explained: "I just...know, in the eyes of the senior brother, I am very obedient and obedient, and I will definitely not disobey the orders of the senior brother. But, senior brother, this matter , raising ghosts... I want to raise them. If I don't want to, she can't force her to stay by my side. "

Xie Qinghe thought of the twelve soul-suppressing nails on Liang Gu's body, and understood what Fu Chuan meant.

It turned out that what the junior brother was worried about was not the ownership of the tip, but Longgu's ghost life.

Xie Qinghe was also very strange at the beginning. When he left Zhan's house, Lianggu's ghost was still normal, and could even protect him from the wind and snow. How could he be so weak that he needed Fu Chuan to hold him with a soul-suppressing nail?Now I finally figured out the cause and effect.In order to stay by Junior Brother's side, Long Gu resorted to tricks to force Junior Brother to "save his life", and naturally wasted away.

Xie Qinghe patted Fu Chuan's head, the younger brother felt that he was too defensive and would blame Lianggu for the "crime" of raising ghosts, so he ran forty or fifty miles away to let Lianggu go away - anyway, that It was a distance that he couldn't catch up with his footsteps.

"When you think about it, senior brother is so unreasonable?" Xie Qinghe smiled instead.

"I think senior brother is not unreasonable. It's just that senior brother's heart is partial to me." Fu Chuan said very firmly.The lesson from the past is still there, and Fu Chuan didn't have much sweetness when he talked about it, but Xie Qinghe couldn't hear it at all.

Xie Qinghe was amused by his eccentricity. Seeing that the younger brother was still carefully rubbing against the edge of the burden, he reached out and lifted the younger brother to his side. The two of them lay down together, Xie Qinghe hugged Fu Chuan into his arms, He closed his eyes with his hands: "Okay, go to sleep."

Fu Chuan closed his eyes for a moment, and finally struggled to sit up: "Elder brother, I raised a ghost, and even gave the ghost the tip. I didn't tell you the truth this afternoon, and I even ran fifty miles away to release the ghost...don't you ask?" me?!"

"I asked. You said everything." Xie Qinghe patted the position next to him, "Go to sleep, it's almost dawn."

"Just say it?" Fu Chuan was thinking "drowning" "drowning" "drowning"... countless drownings, "I know that big brother will not punish me if he hurts me, isn't that... also have to Tell me a few more words?"

He got down on his knees and looked closely at Xie Qinghe's eyes: "Are you mad at me and don't want to talk to me anymore?"

"It's not a wrong thing to raise a ghost, it's just not good, and I don't want you to get in touch with it. You have your own ideas, and you can raise them if you like them. I told you today that one Xie Qinghe is enough in this world. You don't have to." Everything is under my arrangement. That sharp thing...you are a little bit bad, and you took the things first without telling me, which made me think about it for a long time. However, you didn't do it on purpose, it's not like raising ghosts Did the incident scare you?" Xie Qinghe stroked the vest of the little junior comfortingly, and coaxed him to lie in his arms, "Go to sleep, be good."

Fu Chuan lay dizzily on his arms, and the two slept together, breathing on each other's faces.

"When I left Lianggu behind, I thought about today." Fu Chuan murmured in a low voice, "Senior brother taught me not to get close to ghosts several times, and I refused to obey orders, so I still keep ghost slaves by my side. Eldest brother is reluctant to beat me and punish me, but he also wants me to kneel down and listen to the training."

He hugged Xie Qinghe's arm: "I never thought it would be like this."

"Eldest brother," Fu Chuan thought suddenly, "Then can I get Liang Gu back?"

Xie Qinghe paused while stroking his vest hand: "No."