The style is different [Comprehensive]

Xie Linyun had some guesses in her heart, after a moment of hesitation, she held back and didn't ask Hua Baifeng, who are you talking about with a bad temper?

As for Hua Baifeng, after she stood there and babbled a few words, she couldn't help raising her head to glance at the person in front of her again.

"I..." Hua Baifeng scratched her face with an embarrassed expression, "Since I misunderstood, then... then I will apologize to you."

Xie Linyun wasn't angry at first, but when she saw the young lady of the Devil's Cult coming to her door with all her teeth and claws, and apologized awkwardly, she wanted to tease her a bit.

"Oh? How are you going to make amends to me?" Xie Linyun asked, raising his eyebrows.

Hua Baifeng's eyes widened immediately. To her, what she said just now was already an apology, but Dongting Lake Master actually felt that it was not enough?

She thought for a while, bit her lip and said, "How do you want me to apologize?"

Xie Linyun: "I think you will make amends as you please?"

In normal times, if someone talked to him with such an attitude and tone, Hua Baifeng would have already whipped him up.

But Xie Linyun stood there, even if her status in the martial arts world was ignored, no one would have any desire to compete with her.

So were all the martial arts in the Central Plains blind?Hua Baifeng thought, let Lin Xian'er's beauty come from behind and take the title of the number one beauty?

Seeing her staring at him without blinking, Xie Linyun thought she was struggling, so she couldn't help but pursed her lips and said, "Why aren't you talking?"

Hua Baifeng: "...so how do you want me to make amends?"

This is what Xie Linyun meant by asking casually.

Such a temperament of distinguishing between love and hate and discussing the matter is actually quite to Xie Linyun's appetite.

So Xie Linyun waved his hand and said with a smile: "No need, it was just a misunderstanding."

Hua Baifeng was stunned for a moment, and wanted to say something more, but only saw a golden and red shadow flashing in front of him.

In the next moment, Xie Linyun, who stepped on the water and skimmed the tall buildings on the island, spoke in the wind, and his clear voice was sent to Hua Baifeng's ears.

Xie Linyun said: "But even if there is nothing between me and Bai Baiyu, that kid is not a good match. You should listen to your brother and go home."

Hua Baifeng stood where she was, wrinkled her nose and curled her lips, thinking that it doesn't matter if it's a good match, she just likes him.

Thinking of this, she simply withdrew her gaze and prepared to go back to the city before it was dark.

When she returned to the inn she was staying in at dusk, she recognized the person sitting in the corner of the inn lobby.

The man was drinking, in the same position and posture as in the morning, as if he hadn't moved all day.

Hua Baifeng walked over, knocked on his table, sat down opposite him, and didn't ask if he minded.

The other party didn't even raise their eyelids, and kept drinking by themselves.

Hua Baifeng could only take the initiative to say: "I have been to Dongting."

He didn't respond.

"You really hit the spot. Lake Master Xie told me personally that there is nothing between her and Bai Baiyu."

Still no response.

"But how did you know?" Hua Baifeng was really curious, "Could it be that you asked her too?"

This time, he finally raised his eyes, but still didn't speak.

When Hua Baifeng ran into this person in this lobby in the morning, she thought he had a weird temper, so she is not surprised now.

She ran here from outside the customs alone. In order not to let her family know her whereabouts, she didn't bring any entourage with her. Because she was unfamiliar with the place, she specially inquired for several days in this inn where there were many people coming and going.

Yueyang City is so close to Dongting, so it is naturally the place where Xie Bai and Xie Bai talked most vigorously.

Hua Baifeng inquired and inquired, only felt that the statement here was more exaggerated and shocking than other places.

Because of this, she looked sad, and when she was out of her mind, she overturned the wine that Xiao Er gave to the guest at the table next to her.

The other party was dressed in Tsing Yi and carried a sword with him, looking very difficult to mess with, she thought about it, and offered to pay him a pot.

In the end, he didn't want it, but glanced at her, and said, "You have been inquiring about the Dongting Lake Master and the Master of the Sword Hall."

Hua Baifeng didn't hide it in the first place, and she wasn't embarrassed at all when she was pointed out. She simply nodded and said: "What's the matter with asking? The whole martial arts world is talking, so why can't I be curious?"

"You know the Master of the Divine Sword Hall." He said very firmly.

Hua Baifeng was taken aback: "How do you know?"

The man didn't explain, but continued softly: "Don't worry, Xie Linyun doesn't like him like that."

Hua Baifeng: "???"

She really wanted the person in front of her to speak clearly, but no matter how she asked afterward, the other party didn't say a word to her again.

Finally, she hesitated for a moment, got up and went to Dongting.

Now that she came back after seeing Xie Linyun, she found that the strange man was right, and it happened that the strange man was still there, so her curiosity came up again.

"Or...do you know Lake Master Xie?" Hua Baifeng guessed again, "I remember you called her name directly in the morning."

The people in Yueyang City, whoever mentioned Xie Linyun, respectfully respected the Lake Lord, even when talking about her and Bai Baiyu.

It's a pity that just like after saying "don't worry" in the morning, she asked for a long time, but he still didn't reveal a word.

When she talked, he drank, and in the end she had nothing to say, and the wine on his table was also finished.

Seeing that he got up and was about to go out, Hua Baifeng finally stopped talking.

Outside the inn door, the last twilight of the evening light had disappeared.

Sitting there, Hua Baifeng watched the cyan shadow step into the night, and once again sighed in her heart, this person is really weird.

……

On the other hand, after Xie Linyun returned to Lianhuan Island, he followed Wuming who had been informed and hurried over to check the situation and told what was going on.

nameless:"……"

He has become less afraid of her recently, and after listening to her story, he said seriously: "So, those rumors outside are actually true."

Xie Linyun: "Huh?"

Wuming: "Didn't everyone outside say Hall Master Bai is the reincarnation of a demon concubine?"

Xie Linyun: "..." That's all right, don't talk about it, let this matter go quickly.

Perhaps she was so sincere in her expectations that God was moved. The next day, everyone in Dongting stopped talking about this crap.

Because Huo Tianqing and Dugu Qiubai finally came back from Jiangnan, everyone's focus turned to their trip to Jiangnan.

Xie Linyun briefly explained that Dugu Yihe had come to the door, and then let Huo Tianqing and Wuming figure it out for themselves.

As for her, she never got involved in this account.

She went to find Dugu Qiubai, ready to fulfill the agreement he made before he left.

Dugu Qiubai was not polite to her, and drew his sword without saying a word.

The two haven't fought each other for a while, but they are not unfamiliar with each other's moves.

In fact, Xie Linyun seldom hits so recklessly, so after three moves, she unconsciously smiled at Jian Feng in front of her.

Gun shadows and sword lights intertwined in the peach blossom forest, and the air was filled with excited chirping of eagles, wrapped in the strong wind that should not have appeared on such a clear summer day.

Xie Linyun looked at his opponent and praised sincerely: "Your sword is really more and more like my Uncle Lang."

Dugu Qiubai is probably the only person in the world who knows who she is talking about. He laughed loudly and admitted generously: "I really learned a lot from his sword."

"But his sword is just a glimpse to me." Dugu Qiubai slashed his sword, and the second half of the sentence followed, "The thing that really made me practice to where I am now is the Lake Lord's spear .”

Xie Linyun has already fired more than 50 shots, his movements are as fast as lightning, and his whole body is like a phantom, only his voice is clear as before.

Had anyone been there, one could have clearly heard her laughing.

And amidst such laughter, she fired a shot that she had never used since coming here.

The tip of the spear collided with the edge of the sword!

In an instant, the sword shadow in front of him shattered into tens of thousands, the wind stopped, and the surrounding peach trees also stopped shaking.

The subtle sound of the lake's ebb and flow broke into her ears, which shocked her, as if she had touched some extremely mysterious method at that moment.

Before he moved his mind, the gun in his hand had already moved first.

It was the move following Cai Cai's move just now, with the head and the tail connected together, flowing like clouds and flowing water, and restrained the original offensive that was almost destroying the world.

It didn't take a breath to turn from fierceness to calmness.

After the two stopped fighting, Xie Linyun was still a little dazed. She had practiced Liaoyuan marksmanship countless times, and she had seen how the real master of this marksmanship used it.

But all the previous experience has never told her that those two moves can be used like this.

Seeing this, Dugu Qiubai rationally did not disturb her.

They just stood under the peach tree by the water, silent for a long time.

After Xie Linyun got out of the previous state, Dugu Qiubai said: "Congratulations to the master of the lake, one step closer to returning to the teacher's school."

Xie Linyun actually didn't even have time to think in this direction, so when he heard his words, his expression was inevitably stunned.

Seeing this, Dugu Qiubai pursed his lips and said with a smile, "When the Lake Master fired his last shot just now, it was almost the same as what I saw in my dream."

Although one of the people in his dream used a sword and the other didn't use any weapons at all, and their moves were completely different from Xie Linyun's, but they were all appearances.

Xie Linyun understood what he meant, and was even more dazed for a while.

She has always known that the purpose of practicing martial arts to the end is to penetrate the essence of power and then shatter the void, but she knows nothing about what shattering the void is like, and she has never thought about it.

Now Dugu Qiubai said that she was close to that state?

What a joke, although her marksmanship has improved, it still hasn't surpassed Li Ruohai!

Li Ruohai even said that he was still far away from the Shattered Void, but she was actually close to success?

Xie Linyun was puzzled, and seeing Dugu Qiubai's determined face, he couldn't help asking out his doubts.

Dugu Qiubai heard the words, thought for a moment, and said: "Perhaps in different worlds, the conditions for leaving from the shattered void are different."

"You mean, it's easier to comprehend the Broken Void here than I was there?" Xie Linyun asked.

"If what the Lord of the Lake has just said is true, that's how it should be," he said.

What Xie Linyun told him just now was the fact that his marksmanship was not as good as Li Ruohai's, and farther away from Lang Fanyun.

"When I first got into the theory of shattering the void, I thought about such a possibility." Dugu Qiubai said again, "Since the shattering is because there is a sky beyond the sky, then this sky beyond the sky should be a place where martial arts are generally higher than this world. .”

"Ah..." Xie Linyun probably understood that if everyone's martial arts were quantified, the average martial strength in the world with the Nujiao Gang and the Xieyimen was far greater than the place she traveled through for the second time.

Since the average values ​​are different, the critical value of breaking through the world limit must be different, so she obviously has not caught up with her master in martial arts, but she has faint signs of breaking the void.

Thinking of this, Xie Linyun was happier than ever.

Although she failed to fully grasp the mysterious and indescribable state when she fought against Dugu Qiubai, she has reached the threshold anyway.

She felt that she must be able to go back.

Dugu Qiubai has known her for so long, and this is the first time seeing her so happy, he couldn't help sighing: "It seems that the master of the lake has a deep affection for Shimen."

Xie Linyun did not refute: "I still have important things to do, and it would be great if I could go back and finish them."

In the following days, in order to reproduce this state, so as to experience more, Xie Linyun returned to the sandbar for a long time to retreat.

Before retreating, she told Wuming and Huo Tianqing a few words to let them take care of the business. Everything can be discussed and directly decided by the two of them. If there is something that can't be dealt with, it's not too late to come to her again.

Huo Tianqing was confused when he heard it, but Wuming immediately understood it.

"Don't worry about it," he said. "I like my life very much."

As soon as these words came out, Xie Linyun knew that Wuming had guessed what she was doing in seclusion.

That would be really reassuring, she thought.

It's a pity that in the next two months, she studied hard on the sandbar alone, but she couldn't understand the feeling of that day again.

In mid-August, the osmanthus trees on the sandbar bloomed, and the fragrance was so overbearing that no one could ignore it.

Xie Linyun was a little irritable because he couldn't think hard, and this almost annoying fragrance accompanied him day and night, so he couldn't stay any longer.

She decided to go to Dugu Qiubai to fight again, maybe that would be more useful than random comprehension alone.

But to her disappointment, this time from the shot to the finish, everything was ordinary and normal.

Dugu Qiubai persuaded her: "The master of the lake's martial arts and marksmanship, in my opinion, are all perfect, since that's the case, you might as well let nature take its course."

"Perhaps it will be easier after the Lake Lord is no longer so eager."

Xie Linyun didn't realize how eager he was at first, but he suddenly realized that he had spent almost every day in anticipation and anxiety during this time.

She wanted to go back so much that when she saw a glimmer of hope, she rushed forward and tried to catch it, but in the end it was completely futile.

Looking at her expression, Dugu Qiubai knew that she had listened to his persuasion, and continued: "That day when I came back from Jiangnan, the lake master came to look for me, not like today, he came purely for the broken void."

Xie Linyun: "...How could I have thought so much at that time."

Dugu Qiubai: "Then what was the owner of the lake thinking at that time?"

After a moment of silence, Xie Linyun shook his head.

"I didn't think about anything." She said, "Before the first shot, I thought that I would pay you back after this fight, but after the shot, I didn't think about anything else."

After the two met, Dugu Qiubai's swordsmanship has been improving.

When Xie Linyun faced him, even if he knew that he could win, he would never dare to push him too hard.

The most important thing is that she knows that only when she puts her heart and soul into the competition can she respect Dugu Qiubai's sword; only when she respects Dugu Qiubai's sword can the agreement be truly fulfilled.

"That's right." Dugu Qiubai became more and more sure that he had persuaded him in the right direction, "Only when you have no distractions can you swim thousands of feet and shatter the void."

"Then... let's try again?" Xie Linyun asked.

Dugu asked for defeat but rejected her: "The Lake Master has been thinking about this matter all the time, and I'm afraid it won't get any better if I try again."

Xie Linyun: "..." Why is Broken Void so troublesome? !

She was so angry that she had no other choice.

Dugu Qiubai suggested that she put this matter aside for the time being and do something else, maybe after she doesn't take it to heart, her mood will be clearer.

With the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, Xie Linyun had no choice but to agree, and did not go back to the Shazhou for retreat.

Since practicing martial arts desperately has no effect, then she can relax for a few days and do something else.

The first thing she thought of was Dugu Yihe's two handsome apprentices, but they followed her master back to the Emei sect when she was in retreat.

When asking Wuming about it, Wuming even laughed at her: "Didn't the Lake Lord tell you before going into closed-door training? If you run into something that really can't be handled, then go to you. It's not difficult for Dugu Yihe to take his apprentice away. The amount owed is supposed to go away."

Xie Linyun: "..." Does this person fall in love with her now or what?

Probably because she was afraid that she would be unhappy, Huo Tianqing on the side hurriedly made amends: "Before Miss Ma and Miss Sun left, they asked me about the lake owner. They must be very sorry for not being able to say goodbye to the lake owner in person."

Xie Linyun didn't regret it at first, but when he said that, and recalled the days when he took two little girls to catch crabs and pick lotus seeds, he felt a little bit reluctant.

In fact, it's not just Ma Xiuzhen and Sun Xiuqing who she doesn't want to part with.

These two people just stayed here for a short period of time, and they were not the ones who were really facing her day and night.

When the joy of being able to go back overwhelmed everything else, she naturally ignored these reluctances, but now that the joy was interrupted, these reluctances naturally rushed to show their heads.

It turned out that it was much more difficult to say goodbye than she had imagined.

So is this also the reason why she couldn't shatter the void immediately?

Thinking of this, Xie Linyun unconsciously let out a long sigh.

Seeing this, Wuming simply talked about something else.

"By the way, during the two months you have been in seclusion, the Shendao Hall replied to the letter. And the capital, the emperor also commended Dongting."

"Why did you suddenly remember to commend me?" Xie Linyun guessed casually, "Could it be good news from the border?"

"We have won several battles." Wuming said, "With a few more wins, the situation between us and the Jinren may be completely reversed."

This is indeed a good thing, Xie Linyun was also happy when he heard it, and said: "I only hope that the court can maintain this momentum."

A few days later, new news came from the border, saying that the Jin people had taken the initiative to ask for peace and were willing to pay an annual tribute to cease the war.

When the news spread to Yueyang, the city was full of joy and excitement.

Xie Linyun lived an unprecedentedly leisurely life after not retreating, so he took this opportunity to go out for a stroll around the lake.

Carrying the old wine brought out from the sandbar, she walked through the streets and alleys with people coming and going, listening to the cheers and discussions around her, she felt unreal.

When the wine was about to run dry, the number of pedestrians on the street gradually decreased.

She walked slowly towards the city gate, ready to go back to rest.

The boat stopped at the same place on the shore, she jumped on it, half-closed her eyes, and didn't row too seriously, and finally floated on the lake for more than half an hour, and even floated directly to the other side of Junshan Island.

That is the place where the black eagle usually inhabits, and there are many snakes raised, but no one has ever gone there.

Xie Linyun was too lazy to continue rowing, so he got off the boat and walked towards the crowded side on the soft leaves.

It was probably because she didn't deliberately restrain her movements, and before she walked out of this place, the black eagle, who was supposed to be resting, noticed it and flew over in the dark.

Xie Linyun turned back and stroked its fur, asking why it wasn't asleep yet.

It groaned, and was actually more excited than usual when eating.

"So happy?" She stopped, "Did you eat a lot today?"

Naturally, the black eagle couldn't answer her directly, but as a clever divine eagle, it had its own way of communicating with people.

And Xie Linyun has been with it for so long, and he is already very familiar with its emotions.

After one person and one eagle stayed in the forest for a while, she stood on tiptoe and patted it on the head to make it stop following.

"Hey, I'll come to play with you again tomorrow."

Hei Diao refused, and wailed several times, then lowered his head, bit the clothes on her shoulders, and led her in another direction.

Xie Linyun: "You want me to go with you? Where?"

While asking, she has followed.

When Hei Diao faced her, he didn't dare to catch her with his claws like he did to other people, and he paced the whole time, so obedient.

Xie Linyun followed behind it, all the way to the mountain behind.

Over the hill is the boundary of Dongting.

When she stood at the highest point, she saw the fire light outside the boundary, flashing and flashing, like a meteor falling to the ground.

Beside the shooting star was a figure who had been away from her for a long time.

Xie Linyun never expected that Hei Diao had been tossing and tossing for so long just to bring her to see this person.

This scene is almost the same as the meeting at the beginning of the year, the only difference is that it was separated by a river then, and now it is separated by a mound.

She has seen almost all of Dongting in the past few days, so that after she leaves in the future, she can still remember as much as possible these people who have lived with her for so long.

The more she saw, the more she knew that no matter how determined she was to go back, she was still reluctant to part with the people here.

This reluctance could not change her decision to go back, and similarly, the decision to go back could not change her reluctance, and even intensified it.

And what about the person who is lighting a fire in the mountains and forests outside the border at this moment?Is she also reluctant?

The answer is about to come out.

Xie Linyun looked up at the moon in the sky, then looked down at the flames below.

For a moment, she almost moved down, but in the end she didn't.

She put the wine jar in her hand in front of Hei Diao, and said softly: "When I first met him, he invited me to drink."

"Then this time, let me invite you back. Ah Diao, can you help me bring this to him?"

The black eagle flapped its wings, rarely making any sound, its last claw hooked up the string hanging from the mouth of the wine jar, and flew down with it.

The night is cold as water.

Xie Linyun turned around and walked down the road up the mountain.

Goodbye this time, she thought, fortunately, after the previous two exercises, she was able to calmly deal with it in the most appropriate way.