[Sword III] Seeking Wings

"I want to make big wings that never need to land, take me to the place where the white clouds and starry sky are, and I can stay as long as I want."

The girl's voice was as clear as a falling star breaking the silence of the night.

She didn't look at Chi Xiao who was standing in the open space, but faced the other direction, answering to the empty tree shadow.

——That was where the passer-by stood at that time.

A passer-by asked her why she was clearly the young lady of Tangjiabao and the pillar of the school who would inherit the title of successor in the future, but she stayed here during the most important period of training when she was supposed to be in the rivers and lakes and hone her martial arts, and she was obsessed with this organ wing that logically had nothing to do with her. Experiment, she replied.

"Miss Xiaoyi has been experimenting here for two years." Chi Xiao heard the "past self" add.

He remembered the faint sparkle in the eyes of passers-by when they heard the words.

——There was envy and sorrow, as if she wanted to persuade her to do what a future elite assassin should do, and she seemed to suddenly start to feel sorry for herself, her focused eyes swept over the intertwined scars on her body, and the scars on her waist, which represented one party's friendship, The jade keepsake representing the hatred of the other party, and the long knife that has many gaps, and the old blood is like red sand.

——In the end, the man just looked at the clouds drifting in the sky and the twinkling stars, then reached out and patted the heads of the two children, saluted, bid farewell, and left.

"If I met her now, what would I do...?" Chi Xiao thought as he watched Tang Xiaoyi return the gift to passers-by with the demureness and elegance that only a lady from the family could do.

Just like that passer-by hero, he also knows Tangmen very well.

Tang Sect's big wings are the most exquisite mechanism in the world, but it will never be possible to fly as high as the starry sky, let alone never land, allowing people to wander in the sky.

— because it is a weapon.

The only reason for it to soar in the wind is to dive faster and better, in order to complete the most accurate and ruthless perfect assassination that leaves the target with no way out.

——Tang Xiaoyi is indeed using the best time of her life to do something that is worthless to her family, martial arts, and even chivalry.

What's more, with her terrible, untalented mechanism skills, how could it be possible to make a new type of mechanism wing that is completely different from the conventional ones.

…Except for day after day, hundreds of times of loss of control and falls, I have never had any gains.

At this moment, Chi Xiao's association was interrupted by the phantom man's voice.

"Miss Xiaoyi, if you still haven't made it until the end of the training period, will you find a chance to come back and continue?"

"Past self" handed the materials to the girl Tang Xiaoyi and asked her this question at the same time.

***

On the other side of the illusion, Tang Xiaoyi and Modin stood under the narrow cliff.

"I know this place... know how to get out."

Tang Xiaoyi looked up at the dark brown cliff towering into the sky around him, as if forming a cage, and at the highest point of the cliff, the shadow of maple leaves reflected by a ray of skylight. Try to get to the top of the mountain, stay where you are, and when I get there, I will use flying claws to pull you up."

For some reason, she just had a strong intuition—or it could be called a subconscious cognition, which was unreasonable and undeniable, which made her firmly believe that this place was Ziyuan Mountain.

——Even if she failed thousands of flight tests back then, fell and climbed all the cliffs in the area, she can still confirm that there has never been such a weird landform at the foot of Ziyuan Mountain.

——Especially the narrow space that is sealed on all sides, the structure is as neat as a poured vertical cliff, and the colorful strange stones in the shape of blades on the cliff are not like the real terrain at all.

However, this does not prevent her from climbing the unknown steepness, just like she has done countless times in the past.

——Same as knowing that this place must be Ziyuan Mountain, Tang Xiaoyi also has an intuition that this illusion is constructed by his subconscious mind.

The image of the cliff blocking the road in her mind, according to her memory, the dream interpretation method that Chunyang's little brother once said-often represents the barrier of the land master's heart.

——So, if she can climb over it, it will not only be an opportunity to release the illusion, but she may even surpass herself and obtain the power that is sealed by reason but always hidden in the heart.

Due to the narrow space, it was impossible to deploy the mechanism wings. After a brief observation of the geology, Tang Xiaoyi rolled up his sleeves and jumped directly onto the rocks.

Then it fell with a bang.

With Modin's support, she pressed her bleeding forehead and stood up, looking at the rock wall she stepped on just now.

——The granite, which was obviously strong enough to bear the weight of several people, was completely shattered the moment one stepped on it.

——The objects in the state of mind obviously do not apply to the geological laws of reality.

It seems that every step of climbing requires a little bit of carpet testing to find out where to stay.

Tang Xiaoyi shook off the bloodstains on his hands, and jumped up for the second time.

Then fell a second time.

This time the position was not so coincidental. When she landed, her knee hit a sharp rock. In the narrow and quiet space, the crisp sound of fracture could be heard clearly.

If it wasn't for the presence of Modin beside her, she would almost scream out.

Seeing Tang Xiaoyi lying motionless on the ground covered in cold sweat, the blood from the wound on his leg had quickly gathered into a small puddle, Modin hurriedly searched for the emergency medicine on his body, but was panicked for a moment, and couldn't get his hand into his pocket inside.

Just when he finally grabbed all the things in his pockets with trembling hands and ran all the way, Tang Xiaoyi stretched out his hands to support the rock wall and sat up slowly.

"...It's okay, little brother, I have no broken bones." She said in a weak voice, and moved her legs carefully, "The illusion here comes from my consciousness. As the master of the realm, although I still suffer from pain and bleeding, It won't really hurt."

After resting for a while, Tang Xiaoyi was able to stand up again and continue to deal with the cliff.

She frowned at the broken rock marks on the wall, flicked her toes, and kicked the debris into the rushing phantom stream.

——Tang Xiaoyi knew very well that on this stone platform just now, if his lightness kungfu was good enough, he could use his strength to jump to a higher place at the moment the rock was broken.

"...Hehe, I don't have mechanism wings, so I can't do light work." She raised her eyebrows in self-deprecating manner.

After the experience in Ziyuan Mountain was over, Tang Xiaoyi did not continue the experiment that was already known to be impractical and would never succeed, but still liked flying very much.

Now, she has been able to control the Tangjiabao standard organ wing to a high degree of proficiency, relying on it to become a elusive, never-defeated top assassin——

So much so that I never noticed my unarmed lightness skill level, which was as bad as when I was a young girl.

——even, because she would no longer crash the plane and fall down the mountain like she did back then, and she was completely unfamiliar with the anti-fall tips that she had summed up with blood and sweat at that time.

"It's okay, if you forget, practice again." Tang Xiaoyi nodded, adjusted the flying claw rope in the sleeve that can be used as a fall buffer again, and jumped up.

***

After half an hour, after nearly a hundred failures, Tang Xiaoyi groped for a way to reach a height of tens of feet above the ground.

——The clothes are already stained with blood.

Physical strength also began to be difficult to support. Now, after each failure, it takes a long time to adjust the breath before continuing the next attempt.

And the height of the cliff in front is nearly a hundred feet.

"Nv Xia Tang, you'd better lie down for a while, the wound on your hand hasn't stopped bleeding..."

Although he knew that this was an illusion, no matter how many injuries he suffered would not affect the reality, Modin couldn't bear to look at Tang Xiaoyi's pale face dripping with cold sweat, so he lowered his head and tugged at her sleeve, "Didn't you just say that you can feel it?" Since Taoist Priest is also in this illusion, and is breaking the illusion on the peak, why don't we just rest here and wait for him to come up with a solution?"

"No, I don't want to wait and pin all my hopes on others." Tang Xiaoyi endured the severe pain of broken nails, and still put back the metal finger gloves used for rock climbing.She patted Modin on the head, trying to stand up again.

"But this section of the road..." Modin looked up at the middle of the cliff, full of edge-shaped colorful rocks, and still didn't let go.

After successfully crossing the lower part of the cliff, Tang Xiaoyi has now arrived at this rock formation called a knife array.

All the rocks here are almost as sharp as gold, even if her Tangmen uniform has the most sophisticated metal armor, it still cannot protect her from retreating even once on any rock.

Even the knife array is movable.

Touching any one of the rocks may cause a blade from another nearby area to burst out.

——And just like the protection mechanism of this illusionary realm for the Landlord, once there are too many wounds on his body, or if he is hit in a vital point, Tang Xiaoyi will fall directly to the ground from a high place, and then he can only wait for recovery and start all over again.

Therefore, after reaching this section for two full hours, she failed hundreds of times, but she didn't even make an inch of progress.

Moreover, there is no rule to find, no key to break through.

——In other words, the law is "not letting you pass", and the key is "must give up".

"Nvxia Tang, you also said that you are the master of the realm, and you can intuitively feel that it is impossible to cross this section." Seeing that Tang Xiaoyi still wanted to stand up, Modin tugged on her sleeve more tightly to persuade, "Since So, let's wait here for the Taoist priest, okay? I'm afraid that you will really be hurt like this."

"No." Tang Xiaoyi replied.

"Little brother, my rationality also tells me that there is no way Ziyuan Mountain has such a terrain." She gently broke away from Modin's hand, and stood up while leaning on the wall, "But this illusion is really Ziyuan. Mountain, the top of the mountain is really an opportunity for us to get out of trouble, I know."

"So, nothing is impossible.

If it doesn't work, try again, and if it doesn't work, try again.

That's all. "

The figure in black leaped towards the height again, and the metal fingertips that were still oozing blood streaked across the air, bringing a trail of reddish light, shining like a shooting star.

***

On the other side, the top of Mirage Mountain.

"Little brother, of course I will come back.

If it doesn't work, try again, and if it doesn't work, try again.

must. "

Tang Xiaoyi, the girl who was part of the phantom, answered the young Chi Xiao's question in this way.

"Don't worry, when I go home, I will work hard to become a teacher, and then I will be able to walk freely in the rivers and lakes, and come back here freely." The girl continued, "So, before I become an adult, I will concentrate on training at home. coming."

"I have recently realized something in my heart, and I have obtained Xuan Jing again. I will go back to retreat and practice, and I will leave on the same day as you." The voice of the young Chi Xiao, "But we... will definitely see each other here."

"Well, I promise you that we will meet again here ten years later." The girl stretched out her finger.

"A promise with you." The boy also stretched out his hand.

The fingertips of the two lightly hooked.

A maple leaf lightly brushed over their staggered sleeves, riding the night wind all the way to Chi Xiao who was watching, and quietly stopped at the tip of his hair blown by the wind.

Chi Xiao happened to break off a branch, and ran forward with the other hand holding on to the sword formula. The maple leaf in his hair fell to the ground with the movement, and was carried away by the wind.

He seemed to be aware of it and turned around, but he couldn't see it anymore.

***

under the cliff.

There were too many failures to count, and it was impossible to estimate how much time had passed.

Only the knife array on the phantom stone wall was gradually stained red by the blood of the land master.

Until within a radius of hundreds of feet, every sharp edge was soaked with blood, and the originally opaque rocks began to reflect the crystal clear brilliance like the red jade in Maple Valley. turning point.

The author has something to say: 1. The Taoist priest is doing tasks for the npc on the map, and sister Pao is jumping mountains in the dungeon