Bright Moon and Cold Thousand Mountains

In the shade of the Huai River, the lights in the middle of the night look lonely.

A figure flashed behind the tree, and then he tiptoed, and landed silently on the blue-tiled roof, carefully bent down, and held his breath to eavesdrop on the movement inside.The light was dim, and only his hazy silhouette was illuminated.

Several tall horses in the yard snorted impatiently, Xuan Huang sat on the porch, playing a dice in his hand boredly, completely oblivious to the fact that someone had already entered the room.

A visitor arrives tonight with frightening news.

Gong Qianying sat at the end of the room, looking at her nose, nose and mouth, as if she didn't exist, but her ears were quietly pricked up.In the lobby, two people were sitting upright, and several men in black were standing. The bamboo hats blocked most of their faces, so they couldn't see their faces.

"Zuo Nian is dead?" One of the people sitting upright is wearing a jade ring finger. If you look carefully, you will find patterns of red roses inlaid in it. He said slowly, "The news has already reached our ears, Your Excellency It's too unsightly. Is it the only thing that called us from Ludi in the middle of the night?"

"Isn't this enough work for you to go?" A male voice rang out hoarsely, with inexplicable contempt, "Or... the Beichuan school is now flourishing, and they are going to kick their allies away?"

With a flicker of candlelight, the man in black on the beam stopped breathing. He leaned his ears even lower, and heard the man who had spoken earlier snorted coldly, and said again: "Allies? We and your faction each take what we need. When did you form an alliance? Now that the expectation has been achieved, the head of the sect still has something for me to bring to your Excellency."

"My honored guest, please speak."

"Since Zuo Nian is dead and you got what you asked for, we have repaid each other. In the future, I will take my Yangguan Road, and you will pass your single-plank bridge. I also hope that Your Excellency will not go back on what you said and violate the morals of the world."

The man laughed loudly: "Haha, honorable guest, I was joking, how could I have any morals! Shang Zihuai taught you this? I think it must be Xi Lanyu, who has a ghost in his heart. When the other side agrees to clean up the two from now on, within seven days he will definitely kill him—you go back and tell Xi Lanyu that I will hold on to his old background tightly, and tell him to hang on to it first."

The guest became angry from embarrassment, and stopped talking to him, threw something on the table, and said coldly: "I will convey your words truthfully, the country will not change, and the future will last forever!"

The man brought up the bag he had thrown away, which contained neat snowflake silver. He picked up an ingot, looked at it carefully, and said: "Don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, so that you can do something wrong... Qianying, see off the guest. "

Gong Qianying stood up in response, opened the main hall door, and said with a half-smile: "Several, please."

There was the sound of messy footsteps, followed by a clatter of horseshoes.Gong Qianying stood on the porch and watched them disappear into the dark night, turned back to the house, and was about to ask a question, when she suddenly received a hint from her eyes, she nodded calmly, removed the jingling jade pendant around her waist, and went out again.

Xuanhuang had already started to doze off, Gong Qianying glanced at him resentfully, raised one hand, and immediately got up lightly, rushed straight to the roof, and then swung the long whip at the man in black——

As the wind blew, Xuanhuang in the corridor suddenly woke up. Before he could stand up, two people fell from the roof one behind the other.Gong Qianying took the soft whip back into her hand, and a piece of rag was slightly rolled up in the whip, while the other person turned his head sideways and pressed his hand on the weapon at his waist, the atmosphere was so tense that it was about to explode.

Gong Qianying sneered: "I haven't been found after following us these days. I'm good at light work, Xie Xingzhou."

Xuanhuang jumped up from the stool: "Xie Xingzhou?!"

The man didn't stop when he heard the words, and the judge's pen circled his fingertips for a circle, and his brows were clearly revealed under the moonlight: "Don't say these words to compliment the young master. Didn't you deliberately bury your whereabouts? Are you only now discovering? I think it's either You're not good at learning, or Sheng Tianya has something to say to me. Since I'm here, I'm not afraid of him."

Gong Qianying smiled contemptuously, the long whip made a sharp wind sound in the air, and then retracted it to her waist like flowing clouds and flowing water.He cupped his hands to the side: "Master, please tell the truth, do you dare?"

Xie Xingzhou was different from Feng Tingyun, he couldn't bear to be provoked, so he immediately frowned: "Why don't you dare!"

As soon as the words fell, a person stood awe-inspiring inside the wide open door——looking at a middle-aged man in his forties, he had a good temperament, and he didn't have a beard like many people in the world, so he looked younger. It can be concluded that he was once a handsome man.Without a weapon at his side, the man just took two steps forward.

In a narrow courtyard, there is only one person who can invite Beichuan Xuemen and disturb Mochizuki Island without saying a word.

He strolled in the courtyard, and stopped when he saw Xie Xingzhou in the courtyard.The man put his hands behind his back, and when he spoke, his tone was almost nostalgic: "I haven't seen you for several years, Xing Zhou, you are still so reckless in your words and actions. But it's better to be a young man, like a child who doesn't grow up."

Xie Xingzhou's expression of a little bit of displeasure suddenly subsided after hearing this sentence, he pressed the judge's pen without moving, and raised his eyebrows: "Oh, Sheng Tianya."

The tone was even frivolous, and Gong Qianying became angry when she heard it, she immediately unsheathed the dagger an inch, and warned: "Xie Xingzhou, this is your uncle, show some respect!"

Xie Xingzhou laughed: "Oh, it's hard for you to talk about your fellowship at this time. Wangyue Island has rules, and those who leave without permission are regarded as betraying the sect, and they will have nothing to do with it from then on. If you hurt your master, younger sister or nephew, you will be punished." In order to escape with the secret book given by the master...why should I treat this kind of person as a master?"

"You!" Gong Qianying was suddenly out of breath, and was about to make a move when someone stopped her suddenly.

After hearing these words, Sheng Tianya wasn't annoyed at all, he walked forward with his hands behind his back, and said in a deep voice, "It's not inappropriate. I've been away for so many years, and it's been so hard for you to find me. How is Junior Sister?"

Xie Xingzhou: "Don't worry about it! She will be better off after you die!"

Sheng Tianya said slowly: "This is biased. She may not feel better if I die. What do you know? You and Feng Tingyun are doing well this time, and you were able to track it down to this place. It really should be three days after the farewell." He looked at him with admiration. Feng Tingyun was ignorant this time, and actually asked his junior to be the outpost..."

"You don't need to teach him! There's so much nonsense, what's the point?" Xie Xingzhou's tone was very aggressive, but his mind turned flexibly. He guessed that Sheng Tianya might not know that the two of them were acting separately.

Sheng Tianya laughed loudly: "You have lost your style, you should be scolded!"

Xie Xingzhou couldn't figure out what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, he hesitated for a moment, blinked his eyes in doubt, and just about to ask a question, the next moment Sheng Tianya suddenly moved in front of him!He was so fast that even Gong Qianying next to him didn't notice the clue. He had already locked Xie Xingzhou's throat with five fingers, and there was still a smile on his face.

Xie Xingzhou was caught off guard. He held Sheng Tianya's wrist with one hand and twisted it in the opposite direction, resisting his shortness of breath. The man was only loosened a little by him. slapped him on the chest—

"Dare to meet me, but really think that I won't attack you? Xie Xingzhou, you are so brave."

"Ahem..." Xie Xingzhou's two dead points were locked and he could hardly move.He touched back with one hand, and the cold metal hidden weapon was already grasped in the palm of his hand, but he had no strength at all.

His sanity was unprecedentedly clear, and he tried his best to breathe calmly, his handsome face did not become more red as the other party expected, but the blood faded away.Xie Xingzhou held his breath with difficulty, and several veins popped on his forehead. Just as he was about to exhaust himself, Sheng Tianya's fingers loosened again.

The icy air rushed in, and Xie Xingzhou immediately coughed until the sky became dark.

"But you already know this place, so what's the use of keeping you?" Before Sheng Tianya finished speaking, he had already slapped Xie Xingzhou on the back of his neck heavily, and he wrapped his arms around the man's softened body with one hand. , adding the second half of the sentence, "I want to ask you to say a few words, but I didn't promise not to kill you—"

Sheng Tianya touched Xie Xingzhou's waist with his spare hand, found a note, and threw it to Gong Qianying.He lifted the clothes at the back of Xie Xingzhou's neck, and heard Gong Qianying say: "He promised to meet Tingyun in Yuhang two months later, and I'm afraid he will go back to find his uncle. If she knew that Xingzhou was missing, would she guess? Show your intention?"

"Give me the knife." After Sheng Tianya finished speaking briefly, Gong Qianying drew out the dagger and handed it to him.

Weighing the dagger, which was heavier than ordinary daggers, Sheng Tianya put it away abruptly after he untied Xingzhou, let go of his hand, and said to Gong Qianying: "Forget it, tie it up, he Still useful to us."

Gong Qianying was taken aback for a moment: "What?"

Sheng Tianya said: "This letter has turned yellow, it may have been some time. It seems that Feng Tingyun is not nearby, maybe he is still far away. We are very close to Yuhang, let's set off sometime."

Gong Qianying pretended to be clever and said, "Master wants Xuanhuang to pretend to be him and meet Feng Tingyun?"

Sheng Tianya gave him a sad look, turned around and went back to his room without saying a word.

Gong Qianying froze in place, not knowing where to say the wrong thing.Xuan Huang, who had been in the air for a long time, judged the situation, and said carefully: "Uncle Shi values ​​friendship, killing her disciple rashly will cause a complete fallout, and it will not help Master's great cause at that time. If I am a master, I will save Xie Xingzhou first, so that I Threatening her in the future. Brother, what do you think?"

In terms of martial arts, ten Xuanhuangs are not as good as Gong Qianying's one finger, but in terms of strategy, Xuanhuang is better than Gong Qianying in Sheng Tianya.As the saying goes, good and bad complement each other. When Sheng Tianya chose him from Xuanhuang and Xie Xingzhou, he was not useless.

After he said that, Gong Qianying thought about it carefully, nodded and said: "That makes sense. Junior brother, you are the best, and you can see why Master is trapped at a glance."

Xuan Huang opened his eyes, and accepted his compliment with a guilty conscience, only thinking that one day the senior brother would be unhappy, which would become his reason for finding fault again.He consciously set up Xie Xingzhou, tied it into a rice dumpling, and then dragged him to lock him up.

The night was like water, after one after another the guests settled down, the small courtyard finally returned to calm after half a night of hustle and bustle.

In Tongguan, hundreds of miles away, Liu Shiqi lay on the couch and didn't close his eyes all night.

Ever since he left Xixiu Mountain, he often had nightmares. The scene of that day was replayed over and over again. Zuo Nian's eyes were wide open and his body was covered in blood, even dangling in front of him as soon as he closed his eyes, disturbing him so much that he hardly dared to sleep.At first, he panicked for a few days, then Liu Shiqi calmed down, leaning against the wall to adjust his breath as soon as the lights were turned off.

Entering concentration can make him calm faster and stay away from the impetuousness of the day.Liu Shiqi had just forcibly broken through the first layer of Liuyang Palm, before his realm was consolidated, he got Feng Tingyun's acquiescence, and he practiced with half the effort.

But this night, after adjusting the breathing for a long time, the true qi returned to the life and death orifice, but Liu Shiqi suddenly felt palpitations for no reason.He frowned and thought for a while, pressing his eyelids that had been twitching for a long time, he really didn't understand why.

He took out a piccolo from his pocket, held it in his hand and looked at it over and over, trying to regain his composure.When he passed by Xuanwu Town, he saw someone peddling it, so he bought it impulsively. He just thought it looked exactly like the Wendi one, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.Feng Tingyun saw it and didn't say anything.

The piccolo was just made of ordinary bamboo, Liu Shiqi didn't know how to play it, he pressed the flute hole on it, and murmured in a low voice: "The geese return to Xiguan, the willows are broken to wash away the dust... Liu Wendi..."

In the memory, Wendi smiled lightly, said to him, "That's really happy", and then fell... an inexplicable kiss.Liu Shiqi was flustered, and suddenly lost his breath, coughing wildly.

His torment directly woke up Feng Tingyun, who was resting on the other bed, and the other party got up and asked, "Seventeen, what's wrong? Are you having nightmares again?"

Before Liu Shiqi could answer, Feng Tingyun poured him a glass of water, and comforted him earnestly: "I said earlier that nightmares are your wild thoughts during the day. I know, it is really unacceptable for you to be left alone." Nian is your father-killer and enemy, but the matter is over. You have been away from Xixiu Mountain for so many years, it is already very self-restraining not to hate him...Come on, drink it up."

Liu Shiqi obediently held his cup and drank it down, Feng Tingyun said again: "There is also the matter of Wendi, you want to open it up, there are not so many coincidences in the world, did he enter the twelfth floor just to find you?" ? If you are not on the twelfth floor, he will still try to seek revenge from Zuo Nian, and this matter has nothing to do with you. It is a chance for you to recognize each other. Don't think about it, it will only increase your troubles. "

"Senior brother, I understand the truth." Liu Shiqi muffled, "But I'm not for him."

Feng Tingyun stood in the room barefoot with his hair loose. He was annoyed at being woken up, but most of his anger died after hearing this.

"I've always said one thing, Xiao Shiqi, don't be unhappy when you hear it. I'm relieved that Wen Di, he doesn't want anything for you, but he...I don't have a good impression of him. This person has a heart Shen Shen, if he stands against you in the future, he will become a living confidant—he doesn't know anything about you!"

When he heard what he meant, Liu Shiqi looked at him in surprise, and wanted to refute Xie Xingzhou's previous rebuttal: "Brother Di won't, he's not harmful..."

Halfway through the words, he was swallowed by himself.Liu Shiqi saw Feng Tingyun's expression read "That's really the case", he lost his confidence for a moment, and after thinking about it before, he couldn't continue to speak, he grabbed the corner of the quilt, and finally said "Ugh".

Feng Tingyun: "You don't put our words in your ears, but senior brother is someone who has experienced it, so he has seen more than you. Have you heard about Sheng Tianya from master? How can you be sure that Wendi will not become the second Sheng Tianya? "

He knew this person, Liu Shiqi buried his head, his eyes adapted to the darkness and he could see the rough embroidery on the quilt.

Sheng Tianya, Wangyue Island's former senior brother, was personally cultivated by Wang Qian'an to become a person like Zhilan Yushu.Then from the master to the nephew, he bought people's hearts once, and everyone was calculated by him. With a purpose that no one knows, he stole Wang Qian'an's life's hard work, and fled in the Central Plains Wulin - he became a hang in the moon. A sharp knife on the stability of the island.

He is like a dark side that cannot be touched, how glorious he was once, how shameful he is now.

Liu Shiqi hesitated for a moment, and tentatively said: "But senior brother, none of you know his purpose, so you can only confront him face to face. Brother Di is different, he will get his revenge, so he won't do anything else, besides..."

With the deciphering volumes of "Heaven and Earth Kungfu" and "Folding Flower Hands" in hand, he doesn't have that much obsession with martial arts.

Liu Shiqi realized to his surprise that he was still willing to think about Wendi for the better.

Everyone thought his 14 years of painstaking efforts were terrible, only Liu Shiqi felt sorry for him being alone.

"Besides what?" Feng Tingyun asked.

Liu Shiqi: "...It's okay. I know how he is. He really treats me as his own brother. Senior brother, don't you want to rest for a while? It will be dawn again soon, and the time when Senior Brother Xie will make an appointment with you is not far away. We still have to hurry."

These words hit Feng Tingyun's sore spot precisely and unmistakably. Whenever he thought of Xie Xingzhou, he had a headache, and he couldn't see him anymore!At this moment, he had no choice but to slap Liu Shiqi on the forehead, and then lay back on his couch.

Hearing the breathing over there gradually stabilized, Liu Shiqizhong calmed down again.

The starry sky hangs high, and after the Little Week ends, he feels warm in his dantian, and after sneaking in the power, the six yang zhenqi has no sense of aggression, and obediently lies between his life and death orifices.After three or five breaths, Liu Shiqi dissipated a wave of true energy, and his limbs and bones felt like warm sun. Then he lay down and adjusted his breathing rate according to the formula in memory.

Yi Chunqiu taught him that the secret of "turning stars and moving stars" is not "receiving", but "letting go".Only by putting it in the right way, can the cycle go on and on in order to be endless and endless.

The next day Liu Shiqi and Feng Tingyun set off together.

He walked this road once when he was 13 years old, and it was also with Feng Tingyun. He sat in the carriage, anxiously avoiding the first wave of bloody storm when he first entered the rivers and lakes.He has reached the championship this year, but his mentality is still like that of a young man, with no sign of maturity at all.

"I haven't made any progress at all. If this continues, I can't even control myself." Liu Shiqi shook the reins feebly, and the horse rushed forward to chase Feng Tingyun's mount.

"By the way," Feng Tingyun sat on the horse, and suddenly said to him, "When I corresponded with Master before, she told you that if you go back this trip without any danger, she will teach you Liuyang Palm in person. But that day in Xixiu Mountain , I see that you have mastered the 'Daguang' style, and you just rely on boating to teach you the general outline?"

Liu Shiqi didn't know why he asked this suddenly, nodded subconsciously, and corrected: "Senior Brother Xie didn't teach me, I wrote it down when he was reciting it."

The child's pride, he thought that Feng Tingyun would praise him a few words, but he didn't know that the other party curled his lips with a half-smile, and changed the subject: "That's fine, save the master from teaching you the method of tapping, I will do it for you .”

Liu Shiqi heard that Feng Tingyun had something important to tell him, so he immediately straightened his back.

"The six yang palms control the six yang meridians. It is for the true energy of the three channels to gather at the life and death orifice, wash the yin into yang, and then use it to send out..." Feng Tingyun talked eloquently, explaining the pros and cons of it, and then changed the subject , "The key lies in 'leading but not issuing'. Here, the master has not practiced Liuyang Palm. I have seen masters who have mastered it so far. Except for the master Wang Qian'an, it is Sheng Tianya—the sailing is almost impossible."

Liu Shiqi blinked: "Brother, haven't you practiced?"

Feng Tingyun: "I was born with three yin pulses, and the ordinary pure yang mental method is fine, but you can't practice Liuyang palm rashly, otherwise you will be like Zuo Nian... because of the imbalance of yin and yang, you will go crazy. Master taught me Beiming sword, I also forged the Dust Cleansing Sword to suppress it for me, and now I have achieved great success, so there is no need to do more useless work."

Liu Shiqi understood the general idea, and was inexplicably distracted by the chess game in Little Penglai, and asked, "Is the maze on Wangyue Island from the ice room to the breeze pavilion set up by Master?"

"Then it's not." Feng Tingyun thought for a moment, "I was very close with Shizu Wang when I was young. At that time, the tree of Mizhen had already grown very big. I think it would have been completed when Shizu was young. Well—don't always call it 'Mizhen' or 'Mizhen', formations also have names."

Liu Shiqi: "What's your name?"

Feng Tingyun was unaware of the change in his younger brother's tone, and proudly said: "It's called 'Penglai Secret Realm', isn't it? Wangyue Island is located in the East China Sea, and it's not much different from the legendary Penglai Immortal Island."

He didn't notice that Liu Shiqi's face turned pale in an instant. He urged the horse to take a few steps forward, then turned his head and said, "But when you mentioned it like this, I remembered an old thing. When I was young, I was almost lost in the In the secret realm, the master took me out and joked, 'I have walked the same path as you before, but unfortunately the person who rescued me is no longer there!'"

Liu Shiqi: "Huh?"

Feng Tingyun: "I asked him, 'Who is the person who saved you?', he said, 'Of course it is my master, Wangyue Island's situation today is all thanks to him'... Don't look at Yuedao's otherworldly people. In fact, it has only been passed down to the master for three generations. The master of the master should be the master of the ancestors, and his name is—”

The name that was about to come out was stuck in his throat, Feng Tingyun opened his mouth, was stunned for a while, and sighed: "I suddenly can't remember, it's strange... I mentioned this person not long ago... But it's okay, you If you are really curious, we can ask Master when we go back."

Liu Shiqiyi was suddenly lost for a moment: "Oh."

The topic spread in an instant, Feng Tingyun saw his expression, thought for a long time, and said abruptly without beginning or end: "Seventeen, senior brother asked you one thing - just a hypothesis - if you suddenly find out one day that you thought you left The righteous way is a crooked sect in the eyes of everyone, what should you do?"

This question was quite mysterious, after Feng Tingyun finished speaking, he became nervous on his own.

Liu Shiqi slightly raised his head and glanced at him. He had Zhang Fuzhou lips, and the corners of his lips were naturally curved, but he was not very happy when he looked at him without a smile, as if he was troubled at any time.At this moment, the innocent look in those eyes was even more indifferent, which made Feng Tingyun uneasy, and almost immediately regretted asking this question.

After a long while, Liu Shiqi said: "You people are really strange. One asked me what to do if my benefactor is an enemy, and the other asked me how to deal with a cult. Enmity is an established fact, but who writes the rules of righteousness and evil?" ? I go my own way, what do others think of me?"

This answer is full of youthful madness, although it is said slowly, it is full of flamboyance.Feng Tingyun laughed loudly when he heard the words, said "Okay" three times in a row, made a whistle in his mouth, and shouted softly: "Drive——"

Liu Shiqi urged the horse to follow, Feng Tingyun slapped him on the head when the two riders were side by side: "Master is right!"

"I didn't see the wrong person." Liu Shiqi added silently in his heart.

As soon as these words came out, he laughed for no reason, as if on this official road, when the two of them were far away from each other, he was stunned because these few crazy words that he said casually pointed out the confusion he had been having for a long time:

Walking in the rivers and lakes itself is to escape the restraint of etiquette and live a life of freedom. If you look forward and look backward and care about what others say, how can it be called willful?I do what I want, and I believe whoever I trust!

Just like hearing the flute will not harm me, I would like to believe him.