Sword Spirit became Bai Yueguang after going offline

Qi Ran was really stunned at this moment, turned his head and smiled to himself for a while, then raised his glass to Gu Lingxiao's cup wall: "Okay, thank you... take me home, Gu Lingxiao."

The rim of the light blue cup collided, making a light "ding" sound, Qi Ran took a sip, and the sweet taste of alcohol surged up, warming his heart.

"I haven't had a drink for more than 20 years... A glass of sake is actually a bit high." Qi Ran rubbed his temples with one hand, lifted the wine pot with the other, filled the glass again, and said with a smile, "Come on, I'll toast you for the second glass. "

"Huh?" Gu Lingxiao picked up the wine glass, turned it gently in his hand, and looked at Qi Ran with a smile.

Qi Ran put his finger on the tip of his nose and coughed lightly: "I misunderstood you before, I apologize first! But you have to apologize to me later - you know how to lock me up every day, and you keep talking over and over again. Two or three sentences, that pot really does not belong to me alone!"

Hearing this, Gu Lingxiao's eyelashes, which were as thick as crow feathers, drooped slightly, "I'm just dumb..."

Qi Ran was dumbfounded, and said with a headache: "Okay, okay, blame me for teaching you how to speak!"

Gu Lingxiao is not really a mute, but his speech is indeed taught by Qi Ran.

20 years ago, when Qi Ran first became a sword spirit, he still hadn't recovered from the shadow of his master's sect being destroyed. He had been working as Tingxue for more than two months——Gu Lingxiao connected the aura of heaven and earth while practicing sword, When Gu Lingxiao was fighting, he took the initiative to burst out with sword intent—only to realize suddenly that it seemed that his master had never said a word?

Qi Ran went to ask the tool man system, the system checked for a long time and only said: The protagonist is a high-cold character, and it is still before the beginning of the story, why don't you ask him yourself?

So Qi Ran asked.

Picking a full moon night when no one was around, when Gu Lingxiao was sitting alone in front of the court wiping his sword, he tentatively asked in his sea of ​​consciousness: "Are you dumb?"

At that time, Gu Lingxiao was the only one, although because of his late development, the whole person looked childish, but his indifferent demeanor had already become [-]% and he didn't give Qi Ran the slightest reaction at all.

Qi Ran recalled the observation of Gu Lingxiao's situation in the past two months. Before the protagonist officially embarked on the road of "upgrading Shuangwen", he actually had a miserable life. The indifference and numbness seems to be the nature brought out of the mother's womb-according to the practice of swordsmanship. According to the gossip that Shi Shun heard, Gu Lingxiao was brought into the Shangxuanzong as a genius seedling at the age of three, with a single spiritual root of the mutated ice type, and a one-in-a-million aptitude.Originally attracted much attention, but when he was enlightened, he seemed to have some innate shortcomings, he neither spoke nor spoke all day, and his face was expressionless, no matter how good-looking he looked, he was no different from a doll.

She has an unpleasant personality and is not very strong in cultivation.His progress in cultivation was very slow, and soon he became the tail of the inner disciples. Every year, someone proposed that he should be demoted to the outer sect, but he stayed in the inner sect because there was no such precedent.But in fact, it is better to go to the outer door, from the food and clothing to the monthly supply of spirit stones, not to mention the layers of exploitation, and you will be ridiculed and bullied all day long.

But everything in the outside world seems to be the same to Gu Lingxiao.He is really like a puppet who has come to life for some reason, without emotions, but he is not ready to die, he just lives for the sake of life.

Qi Ran is not a delicate person, but he always can't see kittens and puppies in the wind and snow. When he was a child, even if he was in danger, he couldn't help but want to stretch out his little hand to put the frozen puppy into his arms Covering it, it is obvious that the two little guys together may not survive three days, and they feel that at least they have an extra companion.

So ever since he recovered from the pain, Qi Ran couldn't help poking Gu Lingxiao every now and then.

For half a year, he didn't receive any response from Gu Lingxiao, but because he didn't seem to be rejected, he persisted happily.

Until one day, Qi Ran still remembered that it was also the night of the full moon, and when he was wiping his sword, he said: "The moon is the circle of my hometown... Hey! But my hometown is gone."

Gu Lingxiao asked him abruptly in the sea of ​​consciousness: "Where... are you from?"

"From... ah!" Qi Ran reacted suddenly, "You answered me!"

Gu Lingxiao was silent again.

That night, Qi Ran harassed him for half the night, but he didn't get a second word, but the clam shell opened a gap, and it was easy to talk about it next.

Gradually, there can be a response to the last sentence in the ten sentences, and it accumulates over time, which is "communication".

"...So, since you can talk to me in the sea of ​​consciousness, there should be no problem expressing it, so you shouldn't be dumb?"

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"Then you try to make a sound?"

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"Isn't it? How about I teach you?"

"it is good."

"Okay! Then you learn from me, start with my name? Listen—Xue—"

After a long while, Gu Lingxiao opened his mouth lightly, and two extremely hoarse words came out of his throat: "...Listen...Xue."

Qi Ran was very happy, "Yes, yes, yes! Awesome! It sounds great!"

Gu Lingxiao didn't answer, at a place that Qi Ran couldn't see, he slightly raised the corners of his lips, as if he felt pleasure for the first time because of this simple compliment.

After drinking a few more glasses of sake, Qi Ran's cheeks were flushed, and he was a little drunk.

He recalled the past, and said to Gu Lingxiao: "Speaking of which, since when did you become so articulate? The sum of what you said that night... I'm afraid it's more than you have said in your entire life!"

Gu Lingxiao refilled his drink slowly, and said, "It is indeed."

Qi Ran laughed, propped his chin with one hand and said, "Okay, I deserve it."

"Of course," Gu Lingxiao handed him a wine glass and said calmly, "Only you are worth it."

After Qi Ran raised his head and drank it down, he handed the wine glass back with his arms slightly shaking, and muttered: "Only me? Now it's only me... When you become a Taoist partner, you should drive me out of the house... Sigh It's okay! I know, no matter how good brothers are, they will eventually have their own families!"

Qi Ran tilted his head as he spoke, as if he had thought of a good idea, and said with a smile: "I see! If I don't want to be kicked out by you and Shang Guanran...then I'll find a like-minded one too Girl! When the time comes, we will hold a wedding ceremony together... and none of us will be homeless!"

Gu Lingxiao looked at him fixedly: "What are you talking about?"

Qi Ran didn't drink a few times at all, he was completely drunk, and he was still laughing silly: "Is this method very good? I'm so smart!"

"Oh, yes," Gu Lingxiao smiled, the smile in his eyes had changed, "Very good."

The wine in his hand was stained dark red along with the broken cup wall, Gu Lingxiao melted away the residue as if nothing had happened, and replaced it with a new one.

Qi Ran is still talking nonsense to the "girl he likes" here, but someone already wants to be his wingman over there.

After Murong Huan and Shangguan Ran left the other courtyard, they arrived at the residence arranged by Shang Xuanzong for the contestants.

They came here two days earlier, and there was no one living in the guest house at the moment, so the journey was very quiet.

After Murong Huan sent Shangguan Ran to the door of the room, he couldn't help it anymore: "What the hell is going on with that Qi Ran! Unexpectedly, he can be treated like Ling Xiaojun!"

Shangguan Ran opened the door and comforted him with a smile: "It's just dirty water thrown by someone with a heart."

"It's true that Ling Xiaojun treats him too differently!" Murong Huan said angrily, "It's hard to guarantee that he really has other thoughts about Ling Xiaojun!"

"I don't think so," Shangguan Ran put down his luggage, sat down and made a pot of tea for Murong Huan, "If you really don't want to rest assured, why don't you try him?"

Murong Huan was taken aback, and said, "How do I try? Although we have already formed a team, we will have a lot of dealings with him in the future..."

"Didn't Mo Qianxun always joke with you, quickly introduce her to her Taoist companion?" Warm white steam rose from the tea, Shangguan Ran's eyes were clear, "She is a casual cultivator who was famous in the Beast Sect, said Maybe we have a common language with Qi Ran."

"This..." Murong Huan said in embarrassment, "Qi Ran is only in the middle stage of foundation establishment, am I cheating on her!"

"It's normal for her to look down on Qi Ran, but after I got in touch with Qi Ran today, I think... With his temperament, he will probably get along with her," Shangguan Ran said with a smile, "As long as he has a little If you are tempted, can't you prove that the word 'seduce' is purely slander?"

"It makes sense!" Murong Huan slapped his thigh vigorously, "As long as he doesn't have a wrong mind, everything will be easy to talk about! After all... Ling Xiaojun can't be the one who covets him!"

The more Murong Huan thought about it, the more he felt that this idea was effective and feasible. After saying goodbye to Shang Guanran, he planned to contact his casual cultivator friend and heroine Mo Qianxun as soon as possible, so that he could explain to her.

And Shangguan Ran sat alone in the room, and when the tea had completely cooled down, he was still thinking about something.

As the dusk sinks to the west, the sunset glow in the sky gradually turns blue, and the bright moon quietly hangs over the tops of the crabapple.

"Qi Ran?" Gu Lingxiao patted the drunk young man on the stone table lightly, and asked, "Gone?"

The only answer to him was an even breath.

Xiaobai was awakened by a start. After visiting the garden, he ran back and fell asleep on his stomach in front of the pavilion.

Seeing that Gu Lingxiao wanted to wake Qi Ran up, Xiao Bai volunteered to push him onto the stone table, and pressed his nose against Qi Ran's flushed cheeks.

There was no response at all, apparently completely dead asleep.

"Wow——" Xiaobai howled at Gu Lingxiao, "Hoo... catch a cold... sick!"

Gu Lingxiao touched Xiaobai's head and showed his most sincere smile: "Then let me help you carry the master back to the room, shall we?"

Xiaobai tilted his head, looked at Gu Lingxiao with wet black eyes, and thought for a while with the intuition of a puppy, "Howl—"

Gu Lingxiao walked to Qi Ran's side, looked at Qi Ran's body rising and falling slightly with his breathing, and finally stretched out his hand after a while.

Without any spiritual power, he hugged Qi Ran by the waist.