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The rain was so heavy that the waves had already risen high in front of people's eyes, and people saw this terrible giant.

"Catch it! Don't leave. Once you leave, go to the state capital. If you can't wait for anyone, you can continue to live there—" Facing the huge waves, Du Yingying said decisively. She had already prepared for the worst. planned.

Time was running out, and there was no time to say goodbye. The Du family held each other's hands tightly, tied ropes around their bodies, and did everything they could to fix them.

They hugged each other.

It was too late, but at the moment when Lao Du's family was waiting to be submerged by the waves like other villagers around, a sword light came from behind them. The speed of the sword light was too fast, and they only saw a dazzling white light. But the next second—the heavy rain that had been raining for four days and five nights suddenly stopped.

No, take a closer look, it didn't stop the rain, but the rain was... cut off?

At that moment, time seemed to stand still. The heavy rain was divided into two sections, one above and one below, but there was no rain in the middle.

And right there, a person stood in the air at this moment.

Wearing an ordinary blue dress of coarse cloth, with high bristling hair, holding a sword in his left hand and kneading in his right hand, but who is Master Xiaolin who has been talking and laughing with them in the village all this time and helping them with farm work? !

The people in the village were in a daze, when the interrupted heavy rain immediately fell again, and it was about to cover people's sight again. Mrs. Xiaolin moved again. This time, people could clearly see her actions——Jian Guang With a slash in the opposite direction, she cut off the heavy rain with the sword in her hand!

Then people once again saw the weird scene where the heavy rain was divided into upper and lower sections.

But in this way, for the first time, people can clearly see the terrifying huge wave that is about to rush - water drops from the tip of the nose, and there is no trace of a smile in the pair of eyes that love to laugh at the moment, staring at the more and more As the waves approached, Mr. Xiao Lin said to everyone without turning his head: "I will try my best to stop the waves. According to my spiritual power, I can delay the time for a stick of incense at most. During this period, everyone should find a safe place to take refuge as soon as possible." Bar!"

After finishing speaking, she swung her sword again to cut off the rain, and when the rain broke this time, the wave was already in front of her eyes.

In the next second, Master Kobayashi was overwhelmed.

I don't know what she did in the huge wave. The head of the wave seemed to be pulled by her, and it actually stayed there. I was anxious, scared, and worried. Many people couldn't move, or The village chief yelled on the roof of her house: "What are you all doing? Don't waste the time Mr. Xiao Lin gave us to procrastinate! Run away! Run up the mountain!"

This voice woke everyone up. At this time, the water had already flooded to the roof. Although the roof was flooded, it was not far from the water surface. I don’t know which Xinglang thought of it first, but they suddenly fell down. Falling between the two roofs, two or three branches of Xinglang trees were entangled together. They actually used themselves to form a bridge, connecting the roofs together.

The people were stunned, but Xinglang didn't give them time to be dazed at all, and stretched out extra hands, they dragged the people towards him, motioning for them to step on him.

"You...you...hey!" The people sighed and shouted again: "Hurry up, everyone, the Xinglangs will get up after we pass by!"

Then the villagers quickly crossed the "bridge", and they did not forget to say to Xinglang at the foot of the bridge: "Hurry up! We will pass right away, once we pass you have to follow up! Qian Don't fall behind!"

The Xinglangs all gestured with their hands that they heard it.

Xinglang's body is thick and thin, because the trunk is slippery due to being soaked in water, and people are in a panic. In a hurry, many people accidentally fell down when crossing the "bridge". Then use the branches to weave a net, and throw them up to the roof with a flick.

Look carefully, what is the difference between this and Xinglang's skills when they wash clothes by the river and take care of their children?Seeing the Xinglangs weaving nets with tree roots while washing clothes, and picking up the children and throwing them on the shore when they saw the children falling into the water, many adults are still envious!He said that Xinglang at that time did not know this skill, if one day he could experience the feeling of being caught, it would be great.

At that time they were just talking for fun, but now—the person who was picked up got up with a grunt, and quickly returned to the team while wiping the rainwater from his face and tears.

Dang Gui also fell down, Xing Lang from someone's family picked him up, and then threw him back to Lao Du's house, Zhu Zixuan quickly grabbed him.

Others may not know it, but he knows it best: his Xinglang is the first Xinglang to lay down and make a bridge.

The moment he fell down and built the bridge, he put him on his body, signaling them to run for their lives, but Da Xinglang didn't leave. Their house was in the middle, and people from other families wanted to pass him.

His face was pale, and Dang Gui's steps were a little staggering, so Du Yuhan simply carried him on his back, and the family quickly ran up the mountain.

No one consoled him, not even a word.

At this moment, everyone's hearts were flustered, not only Angelica's Xinglang stayed behind, but all their Xinglangs were behind them now.

The best thing they can do is not to waste the time that Master Xiaolin and Xinglang have bought for them, find a safe place to hide as soon as possible, and then pray that Master Xiaolin and Xinglang will return safely.

They ran quickly on the roof in panic, and swam through a section of water. They went up the mountain at the fastest speed. Although the mountain in Tuwei Village is not high, it is also the highest point nearby. The last person in the village ran to escape. When it was time to burn, the time for a stick of incense just arrived.

Looking down from a high height, the scene in the sky ahead is very clear. People can see the waves at the entrance of the village are still beating one after another, but they are resolved one by one by Mr. Xiaolin with his sword. It is as neat as her usual work. Mr. Xiaolin's movement of breaking up the huge waves The end is neat and sharp.At this time, the Xinglangs were already rushing over here.

People breathed a sigh of relief, and they were thinking that Mr. Xiaolin could stop the wave. They didn't know who was the first to discover it. From a distance, they saw a huge monster several times the size and height of the current wave. The distance takes shape.

It was a huge wave of water that could almost drown the mountain they were on.

Is this... still hairy?

The faces are ashen, and people's minds are blank.

The rapier slashed towards the huge waves, and Master Xiaolin slashed the sharpest sword in his life.

However—the wave was too huge, and she couldn't stop it.

At this moment, no one thought she was defeated.

It's just that she didn't stop it, she had tried her best.

Putting hands together, people prayed for Mr. Kobayashi who was washed away by the huge waves.

Maybe still praying for their Xinglang, praying for their village, praying for their own family.

Da Xinglang, who was rushing up the mountain, glanced at the huge waves, then at the people on the mountain, and suddenly stopped.

Not only him, but all Xinglang stopped.

come here quickly!Don't stop!Standing on the top of the mountain and seeing clearly, people are anxious.

However, the Xinglangs not only stopped, they also gathered towards each other.

They stood at the foot of the mountain.

They stood side by side in a row, and then opened their hands.

Their hands usually do the most work of holding the children. When the children are older, they don’t need them to hold them. They just support the children. At first, they used the hands to wrap around the chests of the dolls, wrapping them around and helping them. To learn to walk, when the little dolls have stronger legs and feet, they will support them with a branch, only one hand is needed, and the little hands will hold the branch, and the dolls will walk steadily day by day.

Most of Xinglang are good at weaving. For the children of this generation, everyone's weaving enlightenment is done by Xinglang.

Because of these functions, the branches of Xinglang's hands are often hanging down, twisted, and flexible, and they are rarely stretched out, but now, those branches are all unfolded.

Up, left, and right, the branches of the apricots spread out in all directions, holding each other tightly, and forming countless knots; their roots are also deeply rooted in the ground, connecting each other , making a more spectacular net underground than on the ground.And it seemed that the web they wove was not tight enough, and they actually started to sprout.

The branches quickly pulled out the buds, the buds bloomed into young leaves, and then the leaves quickly branched up, filling the last gap in the intertwined network of branches and hands, and they were like this, holding their heads high, silent and firm, Waiting for the big wave to come.

Then, while the Xinglangs were waiting quietly and the people were crying, the huge wave that could submerge the Rabbit Ear Mountain finally came, and it hit the tree wall formed by the Xinglangs with overwhelming momentum!

Mind went blank, Du Nan saw Xinglang and the others... stopped the huge wave?

Although a lot of branches were broken, they did stop the huge wave!

Tears slid down, Du Nan had a smile on his lips just now, but the next second he was horrified to see that a new huge wave rushed over again...

How could this be?

He was stunned.

In the cold rain, he suddenly felt a bit of warmth, raised his head and looked up, only to see that Angelica's eyes were wide open, with red eye sockets.

Is he... crying?

However, the rain was still heavy, raging on his face, drowning his tears.

In silence, they could only watch as the Xinglangs worked together again to block another huge wave for them. This time, the canopies of many Xinglang trees were broken.

Du Nan heard heart-piercing cries from several nearby families.

Then, he saw a third big wave was brewing.

Bigger than the previous two waves, the third wave has arrived.

Then—under everyone's almost strangely calm gaze, the rain suddenly stopped.

If you look closely, it is still the same as Master Kobayashi at that time, the rain has been cut into two sections, one half is on the top and the other half is on the bottom.

Master Kobayashi?is she all right?Up against the big waves again?People just thought so, but they saw another person in the place where Master Lin had stood before.

A man, dressed in white, holds a sword in his right hand.

The range of rain he cut off was much larger than that of Mr. Kobayashi, and it almost made people feel that the rain had stopped, and people could hardly see the rain in their field of vision.

Facing the huge wave, the man waved the sword with his right hand lightly—the wave was cut into several pieces in an instant, and the tip of the sword was twisted and lifted. The next moment, the water wave that was cut into several pieces twisted around his sword tip. Move it until it turns into a huge vortex, the man's sword tip points upwards, and the vortex breaks away from his sword tip and flies into the air.

"To control water with fire." Between heaven and earth, the man just said softly.

Then, the thin sword in his hand suddenly turned into a flaming sword, and suddenly stretched forward hundreds of feet or even farther. Wherever the flame touched, whether it was the water vortex in the sky, the rain, or even the rain on the ground, Everything quickly turned into water vapor, but before people could feel the heat of the water vapor, the man let out another soft voice.

"wind."

Then, the fire on the sword flew out like a fire dragon, swirling the hot air from the ground and sky and flew forward quickly. People watched the fire dragon sweeping around, getting stronger and stronger, until the water in all directions was evaporated into air, and then circled Flying towards the sky, the fire dragon let out a roar when it broke through the clouds. After a while, the cloud was pierced through a big hole, and after it disappeared, the long-lost sun appeared from the hole. After that, the thick rain clouds parted, the blue sky appeared, and the sun shone on the earth!

On the earth, people's cheers came from all directions.

The people of Rabbit Ear Village ran down the mountain quickly to their Xinglang. They hugged the tree trunk and cried loudly, expecting Xinglang to respond to them as before.

However—the only remaining leaves were shaken by them, and the apricots were silent.

They stand there like real trees.

Like everyone else in the village, Dang Gui stood in front of his Da Xinglang.

He didn't cry, he just stared at him blankly.

Da Xinglang also broke.

It was more tragic than the other Xinglang, the thick trunk was broken in the middle.

Standing at the center of all the apricots, the big apricot let the roots of the other apricots wrap around him tightly. He was the first to germinate and grow leaves, and he was the one who grew the most leaves to resist the huge waves.

When the huge waves hit, he was the one who bore the brunt of the most powerful attack.

He broke violently, not only the horizontal part was broken, but the vertical part was also broken.

And, the rift continues.

In front of Dang Gui and Lao Du's family, Da Xinglang's only remaining tree trunk was broken into pieces and fell apart in front of them.

Seeing that it was about to crack the part below the ground, the cracking stopped suddenly.

With tears in his eyes, the old Du's family finally saw Xiao Xinglang who had hooped himself into a circle, firmly enclosing the tree trunk at the root of Da Xinglang.

It turned out that when the huge waves hit, Xiao Xinglang was too young to participate in other Xinglang, so he looked around, and finally surrounded himself with Da Xinglang, and because of his limited size, He could only circle Da Xinglang once, so he chose the most important position close to the root.

It was precisely because he surrounded this position that Da Xinglang's roots were preserved.

The most important tree roots.

Standing on the ground ignorantly, Xiao Xinglang stared at Da Xinglang's broken tree trunk in a daze. The next second, he and Da Xinglang were hugged by the old Du's family.

The joy of the rest of the life after the catastrophe, the sorrow of the important Xinglang who were severely injured, the Tuer Village was finally drowned in crying.

The immortal who ended this disaster came without a sound, and left without a sound.

However, the fluttering figure of that person in white clothes and that shocking sword were imprinted in people's hearts and could never be erased.

Mrs. Xiaolin was not dead, and after she walked back from the mountain with her sword in hand, she ate a big pot of rice, and she regained some strength, and then went outside to inquire about news.

According to the reliable news she inquired, this flood was not an ordinary natural disaster, but caused by immortal cultivators.

"The rogue cultivator outside forcibly crossed the boundary, and there was a hole in the sky. It took a long time for Miaoling Palace to catch the rogue cultivator." She said to the crowd.

"But it seems that the one who repaired the hole in the sky was the uncle who rushed to our place."

"I don't know which uncle it is, no, it's so powerful, it's probably some ancestor in Miaoling Palace, who is more powerful than my master!" she said again.

Master Xiaolin is still very down-to-earth now, but after seeing the scene of her resisting the huge waves with a sword alone, the people in the village have more respect for her besides being affectionate, especially the children in the village, and the immortal cultivator is also Immortal cultivators, especially sword cultivators, have suddenly become the most admired profession by the children in the village. Now if you ask the children what they want to do in the future, they all want to be sword cultivators.

Xinglang still stood at the foot of the mountain, maintaining the protective posture at that time, standing there like a city wall, even though their heights were not neat, and some of them were even disconnected, they still stood there.

Some people's Xinglang came back to life, "woke up" from among their companions, and went back to their homes in the village, while more Xinglang continued to stand there silently, as if they were really just a tree.

"I'm afraid they have to slow down, but according to the tradition here, if they continue like this, I'm afraid they will grow up with other Xinglang, and they will really grow into trees..."

Then I can't wake up again, and I can only go to their branch to invite a new Xinglang in the future.

Master Xiaolin didn't say this, but everyone in the village could guess it.

"Immortal cultivators who major in wood aura may have a solution, and the heaven, material and earth treasures with related attributes may be fine, but I am just a poor sword cultivator, and the wood spirit root in the fairy root is poor, so I have no way for the time being." Scratching his head, Master Kobayashi looked guilty.

The villagers have already thanked her very much.

Most of the current apricots at the foot of the mountain are still alive. Although it may take a long time to recover, and they may always be a tree, they are still alive.

And the old Xinglang in the village...

Not intertwined together to collectively resist natural disasters like the current apricots, their trunks are all broken.The trunk was broken into pieces, floating everywhere, and no one could tell which piece of wood was whose family's Xinglang.

Yet their roots are all there!

The water was so strong that the soil on the ground rolled by the huge waves ran away, and the roots in the soil were exposed. Only then did people discover that these apricot trees that appeared to grow in different people's yards were actually roots in the ground. The roots of the trees were entwined and connected together. These roots firmly grasped the land below and entangled with the house. When the flood passed, the walls of their own courtyard were almost gone, but the house was basically there!Although there are missing bricks, tiles and even the roof, the general structure of the house is still there!

If the current apricots formed a tree wall to save people's lives, then these former apricots protected people's homes!

They protected their and human homes!

The same thing happened in the villages near Baiyu Town. The hole seemed to be in the sky above their heads, so they were the first to bear the brunt of this disaster. Originally, Miaoling Palace wanted to compensate the nearby residents and move them to a place with more aura. more land for them, so that they can live better.

But it was rejected by most people.

"The apricots are used to the soil here, and now many apricots are still resting in the soil, we can't go by ourselves!" People refused.

The soil was dug to refill the ground in the village, the fence was erected again, the house was repaired, and the fields were cleared again. They have started a new life again.

The same is true for Lao Du's family.

It's just that without Da Xinglang, they were a little slow.

It took a month to rebuild the house. On the day the house was erected, Lao Du's family had a good meal for the first time in a month.

Da Xinglang was dug back by them, and now it grows quietly in the yard of her house, with only a short stump left.

After finishing the meal in silence, when Zhu Zixuan was about to get up to pack the dishes, Danggui suddenly stood up first.

Leaving the dining table, he bent his knees and knelt heavily on the ground. After paying a big salute to Du Yingying and the others, he straightened his upper body and said to the crowd: "Grandma, mother, father, Du Nan, Xinglang—" Called it again.

"I want to cultivate immortality." With firm eyes, he stated his plan.

"It's not the kind of cultivating immortals before. I want to go to the place where Miaoling Xianmen is located, and formally cultivate immortals."