Sword Spirit became Bai Yueguang after going offline

The firefly lantern plant slowly swayed on the cave wall to form a blurred halo. The visitor bent his body, his long hair was hanging down, and the dim but focused light in his eyes could be vaguely seen on the smooth and graceful profile of his face.

His face gradually moved closer until the tip of his nose was only an inch away from the boy.

"Tingxue..." Gu Lingxiao called silently.

If the encounter yesterday only made him doubtful, then when "Qi Ran" appeared with the sword tonight, there was no hesitation in his heart.

It is his Tingxue.He is still in this world.Also has a body.

Gu Lingxiao raised his fingertips and traced the boy's eyebrows from the air, trying his best to restrain his urge to get close to him.

His chest seemed to be devoured by thousands of ants, and his heart was burned by flames.

Gu Lingxiao actually saw it very clearly. Tingxue's behavior in the past two days was clearly telling him that he just wanted to be a stranger to his former master, and from now on, bridges return to bridges, roads return to roads, and don't have anything to do with them.

Did the whole 20 years of getting along with each other not leave a trace of reluctance in Tingxue's heart?And I don't have a trace of cuteness, worthy of his nostalgia?

Gu Lingxiao clenched his lips, and the chaotic thoughts in his mind changed countless times, and finally his eyelashes drooped slightly, and he stayed on the spirit boat yesterday, "Qi Ran" took the initiative to come over and ask him that question.

What kind of person do you like?

He heard it clearly at that time, but he still didn't dare to fully confirm Tingxue's identity.Thinking about it now... Tingxue still cares about him?He didn't deliberately control his expression at that time, Tingxue took care of him so many times, he should have found that he was about to be poisoned, so he was concerned about whether he had someone to detoxify?

Although he doesn't want to have anything to do with him, he won't just sit idly by and ignore his own safety.

Gu Lingxiao slowly retracted the hand that had stopped in mid-air, and finally suppressed the urge to lock Tingxue back to her side now.

Is it the bottom of the cold pond... Gu Lingxiao recalled the conversation he heard at the entrance of the cave.It just so happens that it is a very suitable place to spread love and poison.

In the early morning of the next day, the mist in the mountains was still there, and there was no ripple on the pool sleeping in the forest. It was like a mirror shrouded in light veil, slowly revealing the reflection of a young man leaning on a monster.

In Lin Linger's mouth, this place is called the Cold Pool Battlefield. It is said that a certain disciple of the Sword Sect died in a bloody battle here, and there are still many traces of messy sword energy left.

When Qi Ran approached, he knew that this was the place where the second senior brother An Rushu fell.

When Ye Qi Ran died on Zhan Tianya, he only saw the last face of Master Yun Deng, and never said goodbye to his brothers and sisters—— Qi Ran stretched out his hand and slowly helped over the sword marks on the broken tree.

An Rushu has always been gentle and kind. When Daoist Yundeng pointed him out, he often sighed that his sword intent was too benevolent and lacked a bit of sharpness. However, the traces of this sword intent remain at this moment, and the gentleness has become the only remaining background color. , in the intention of each sword, it is clearly the deep-rooted hatred that will not rest until death.

"Woo..." Xiao Bai whimpered under Qi Ran.

Xiaobai's Master Baihu is An Rushu's good friend.Back then, An Rushu traveled thousands of miles to the territory of the demon cultivator. In order to invite the big demon Baihu to teach Xiaobai, an ordinary rural puppy, to practice, he even helped Baihu do a hand-to-hand fight, but at this moment, Qi Ran and Xiaobai... Bai, but he doesn't even know who killed An Rushu.

It was difficult even to save them both themselves.

Qi Ran took a deep breath, patted Xiaobai's back, and said in a hoarse voice: "Let's go down and worship them first."

The cold pool looks calm, but it is actually a pool of flowing water. Down the underground river, there is a hidden stalactite cave. When Qi Ran and Xiao Bai were having fun on the mountain when they were young, they chased big fish and entered by mistake. Joyfully shared it with all the brothers and sisters.

Qi Ran made a trick to avoid water, and led Xiao Bai into the water.

There is no light source in the cave hidden deep at the bottom of the pool, Qi Ran climbed in and took out a bunch of lantern grass to illuminate the field of vision.

"Tick-tock, tick-tock." The stalagmites above the head dripped water slowly, and in the narrow cave with a radius of about [-] feet, nine stone-carved swords stood quietly on the small grave mound, lined up in the shape of a character, and only the last one There was a space left in the row, like a place reserved for himself by the builder of the tomb.

There are no words, but Qi Ran knows that the stone sword engraved with cloud patterns on the front is the real master Yundeng, followed by several uncles who had been retreating all the year round, and the pair of mandarin duck swords in the center are the elder brother Qin Qian and the master. Eldest sister Xu Susu, they are Taoist couples, childhood sweethearts, and even the natal spirit sword is in the shape of complementing each other.

The handle on the far left that looks like a small page is An Rushu, and the plain long sword on the far right is Qi Ran himself, because he hadn't had time to cultivate his sword heart back then.

The empty space in the middle was probably reserved by Shen Songyue for herself.

Qi Ran knelt in front of the tomb of Master Yundeng, kowtowed, kowtowed again.

The ticking sound of the stalagmites echoed in the silent tomb. In the nightmare that Qi Ran has lingered for more than [-] years, countless uncontained skeletons appeared. The monk in front was chopping the bones to vent his anger. The raging fire and the chaotic shadows of swords and swords blurred the pain of his death, but the hatred and sorrow became more and more vivid in the scouring of memories again and again.

Qi Ran knelt in front of each tomb, rubbed the sword stele lightly with his fingers, and bid farewell to them.

At last he came to his own grave.

"Wow...Wow?" Xiao Bai carefully squeezed over, put his claws on the stone sword, looked at Qi Ran with black bean-like eyes, and pushed two.

Qi Ran smiled at Xiaobai, and pulled out the stone sword himself.

The stone sword was polished by hand, and there was no smell left on it. Qi Ran wiped it and put it in the storage bag. He planned to tell him that this sword can be kept until after he dies again after he finds Shen Songyue. continue to use.

There are also some old small objects of Qi Ran in the small tomb bag. Qi Ran doesn’t know when Shen Songyue put them away secretly. There are even several deciduous teeth that he replaced. It's embarrassing, they all quietly got up in the middle of the night and threw them into the ravine.

Qi Ran watched, and the tears rolled down again unconsciously, causing Xiao Bai to whine next to him anxiously.

"It's okay..." Qi Ran touched Xiaobai, "I was just thinking, when that guy Shen Songyue sees me again, he will cry ten times more stupidly than me!"

"Wow woo woo~"

"I don't know how he escaped the hunt that night," Qi Ran said softly, "These relics are too clean, and there is no trace of breath left on them. Will wipe the breath so clean."

"Huh?" Xiaobai tilted his head.

"Stupid dog!" Qi Ran patted it on the head, "Let's go, go ashore. After going to the warehouse, let's find a three-way zone to stay for a while, and see if there is any way to get rid of the evil spirit on your body." After Xiaobai was infected with demonic energy, his realm was inflated, reaching the limit at the golden core stage, he might be completely insane today or tomorrow, and he couldn't be saved even if he was rescued.

"Oh good! Baibai... Be good..." Xiao Bai wagged his tail and carried Qi Ran on his body.

Submerging into the water again, floating towards the twilight of the water surface, Qi Ran's gradually brightening vision was already shimmering with moonlight.

It turned out that they had been in the tomb for a whole day without knowing it.

The moment it surfaced, the matchmaker system in Qi Ran's Consciousness Sea suddenly went online, speaking quickly and authentically: "Host host! Help the rivers and lakes! Do you want to accept the reward mission?!"

"What?" Qi Ran was stunned for a moment, "A reward task?"

The voice of the matchmaker system sounded very anxious: "Yes! This task is related to the main storyline, but I have only one system online in this world, so I sent it to me at this moment..."

After Xiaobai jumped out of the water, he turned his head to identify the position below, and then stepped forward with his calves to take Qi Ran back to the cave.

"Tell me what the mission is first?" Qi Ran asked in the sea of ​​consciousness.

"Immediately!" The matchmaker system panicked, "Let your Xiaobai stop first! Don't run away!"

"...Okay." Qi Ran then grabbed Xiaobai's ears and stopped on the top of a dense old tree by the pool. "Tell me, what is the task content?"

"Uh," the matchmaker system was in a hurry, but she didn't seem very confident. After a moment of delay, she said, "The task is to help the protagonist Gu Lingxiao get through this poisoning."

"..." Qi Ran put his hand on Xiaobai's ear again, ready to run away immediately.

The matchmaker system stopped him loudly: "The rewards for the reward task are very, very special! Listen to me before you leave!"

Qi Ran sighed: "Matchmaker system, really, I can understand your conscientious attitude towards work, Gu Lingxiao's vicious love affair, I am indeed familiar with taking care of it... But today is different from the past, Tingxue should have Disappeared in the world, if I take care of it again this time, what identity will I use to deal with myself?"

"What's so difficult about this!" The matchmaker system is very skillful, "You can just take Qi Ran's identity! You have been pretending that you don't know him these two days, if he really treats you as Tingxue, just deny it Oh! There is no evidence left, as long as you don't admit it, you are not!"

Qi Ran was unable to refute, "...No, that's not the point! The point is that I don't want to have anything to do with him anymore."

"Then you can finish this time before running away!" The matchmaker system tempted, "Do you want to hear about the reward? The main god system has specially run a customized program, and this time the reward is a bottle of marrow washing drink, just right It's enough for your Xiaobai."

Marrow washing drink? "What it is?"

"It can gently change the blood of monsters without side effects, wash the marrow and cut bones. Simply put, after drinking it, your Xiaobai can gradually have the pure blood of ancient gods and beasts, which greatly increases the upper limit of talent," said Matchmaker System The salesman said, "Isn't it very fragrant? With the blood of the divine beast, you will be loved by the aura of heaven and earth. Although it will take some effort to get rid of Xiaobai's demonic energy, the risk of becoming possessed is completely gone!"

Qi Ran pinched Xiaobai's furry ears and rubbed them back and forth, hesitating.

This quest reward, not having the risk of becoming obsessed, is just the most basic benefit at the moment. After the bloodline is gradually changed, such as the enlightenment of understanding, the growth of spiritual wisdom, the increase of the upper limit of cultivation, etc., Xiaobai will never use it in his life.

It's good for Xiaobai to be ignorant of happiness forever, Qi Ran is willing to take care of it until the last moment of his life, but——Qi Ran remembered last night, Xiaobai foolishly guarded the moonlight lotus for him, but if he came a year late, The only thing I will see again is its remains after it was butchered by people like Lin Linger.

"Xiaobai?" Qi Ran lowered his head and asked it gently, "Do you want to become a powerful monster?"

"Wow?" Xiaobai raised his head to look at him, his round eyes sparkled, "I want to! Huh, awesome... Huhu protect you..."

The matchmaker system seized the opportunity to add a sentence: "Host, the Marrow Cleansing Drink is a customized reward for this reward mission. If you miss it, there will be no more! How about it? Take it!"

Just at this time, Qi Ran saw Gu Lingxiao's figure appearing beside the cold pool, and saw him step by step into the cool pool water, his crow-gray robe slowly floating with the ripples, his face was as pale as Yes he is dead.

He knew that Tingxue was no longer by his side, but he still didn't want others to get close to him, and would rather walk into the cold pool of water to relieve the pain in vain.

"Actually, I have thought about it in the past two days," Qi Ran said slowly, "If Gu Lingxiao is really such a dead-headed person, then I will find a woman for him and throw him over when he is poisonous. Anyway, now the mountains and plains are full of admiration for him woman, it doesn’t matter if he likes it or not, it’s fine if others like it.”

"Su, master host! Put away your dangerous thoughts!" The matchmaker system tremblingly said, "You will die!"

"Yeah... people will die." Qi Ran sighed, "I'll take it."

"Okay!" The matchmaker system responded immediately, "Then I will go offline first! Call me when you are all right!"

Qi Ran choked up, and before he had time to ask him if he had some strange misunderstanding, he heard a voice with a dull tone: "The matchmaker system is offline, and it will automatically restart after the task is completed, thank you!"

"?" So I'm still afraid that he will regret it after accepting the task?

Qi Ran rolled over from Xiaobai's body, patted it on the head and said: "Xiaobai go back to sleep first, the person soaked in the water below is going to die, I'll go get him."

"Aww?" Xiaobai tilted his head.

Qi Ran turned his head, "Kids, don't ask too many questions, go back quickly, be good!"

"Wow!" Xiao Bai then rubbed Qi Ran's cheek, and obediently went back.

Qi Ran jumped down from the treetops, and slowly approached the cold pool under the night sky, which was becoming more and more icy cold.

At this moment, Gu Lingxiao frowned and closed his eyes, immersed in the water like rootless duckweed, his whole body was already soaked.

He seemed to have wiped his face just now, and his black wet hair was messily stuck to his cheeks. His deep and beautiful features had lost the cold arc of the past due to pain. Under the silvery moonlight, he revealed an indescribable sense of fragility.