Yu Hongchen

The clouds are surging, blowing the robes and hunting, but they can't blow the anxiously searching heart.

He shuttled through all kinds of illusions, searching for Shang Lixing's figure hard for several days and nights.

He didn't know how long he searched for it, but he pushed through a layer of dark clouds and saw Shang Lixing sitting cross-legged in it.

At that moment, he was so happy that he didn't even notice that the Xiuming Sword fell from his hand.

Xie Liuchen shouted in surprise, "Senior Brother Shang!"

He ran and rushed over, because he searched for too long and rushed so hard that his legs became weak for a moment, and he knelt down in front of Shang Lixing.

Shang Lixing sat firmly among the floating clouds, his body was as straight as a pine and cypress, his eyes were closed, his face was peaceful, but his lips were extremely pale.

Xie Liuchen shook him vigorously: "Senior Brother Shang, Senior Brother Shang, wake up!"

"Heh—" Under his violent shaking, Shang Lixing let out a deep and long moan, and then slowly opened his eyelids, looking over him calmly.

The hands holding his arms froze.

Xie Liuchen was startled.

He had never seen his eyes like that, so cold and dead, as if looking at a stranger.

Even if he said he had no feelings for him at the time, Shang Lixing never looked at him with such eyes.

Xie Liuchen stretched out his hands and stroked his face tremblingly: "Senior Brother Shang, what's wrong with you?"

What exactly did Fu Changning do to him, what illusion caused him to become so indifferent.

Like a changed person.

Shang Lixing's eyes remained unchanged, Xie Liuchen gritted his teeth and said, "Fu Changning is so hateful, I really want to kill him right now!"

He bent down and made a gesture to carry Shang Lixing on his back, but Shang Lixing's static movement suddenly changed, and he ruthlessly pushed him away.

Xie Liuchen raised his head in a daze: "Senior Brother Shang?"

There was a cold touch on his neck. It was the Qiushui sword that was pinching on his neck. Xie Liuchen was a little at a loss: "You want to kill me?"

The sword light of Autumn Water is bright and cold, printing Shang Lixing's face as silent as stagnant water.

Xie Liuchen swallowed a mouthful of body fluid, and looked at him intently: "Senior Brother Shang, how much consciousness do you still have?" He reached out to hold Qiushuijian Jianfeng: "Do you really want to kill me?"

Shang Lixing met his eyes, and the pain in his eyes flashed past. Xie Liuchen caught it keenly, and shouted happily: "Senior Brother Shang, wake up quickly! Don't be fooled by the bad guys!"

Shang Lixing looked dazed, his sword hand shaking uncontrollably.

Xie Liuchen pressed on step by step: "If you were awake and you shot a sword at me, I wouldn't even hide, because I know I owe you too much, and you want to attack me, I also admit it, but now You were bewitched by Fu Changning, you didn't even know what you were doing, if you killed me, you will be the one who suffers after waking up."

He suddenly shouted: "Senior Brother Shang, wake up quickly!"

Shang Lixing's expression loosened, his pupils shrank sharply, and then he withdrew his Qiushui sword, closed his eyes and fell down.

"Senior brother Shang!" Xie Liuchen rushed over, supported him in time, and left with Shang on his back, rushing out of the illusion.

The stench returned to their nostrils, and they fell into the cave under the tomb again, Xie Liuchen carried Shang Lixing on his back, and ran towards the Qiushui Gate.

Fu Changning did not come out to stop him.

He couldn't figure it out, did Fu Changning kindly let them go, or did he have other plans?

What did Shang Lixing see in the illusion?So abnormal?

But for him now, it's not the time to think about these at all.

His heart was beating like a drum, he was out of breath, and he returned to Qiushuimen as if fleeing for his life. When he didn't see the figure of Sanxiu, he yelled first: "Sister Bai, come and take a look!"

Qiushuimen Sanxiu heard his call and rushed out of the door, and there was a commotion, and they were welcomed in.

The horse fell on his back, and Bai Xuan, with her belly outstretched, hurried over with the support of He Suowu.

Xie Liuchen carried Shang Lixing back into the room, and after putting him down, he said to Bai Xuan in a panic: "Sister Bai, Senior Brother Shang has suffered from the illusion technique, please save him quickly."

Bai Xuan said softly: "Don't worry, let me take a look." Feeling Shang Lixing's pulse, she called again tentatively: "Master?"

Shang Lixing frowned, his eyelids were closed, as if he couldn't hear anything.

Bai Xuan checked him for a while, then suddenly said, "Junior Brother Xie, you should go out first."

Xie Liuchen asked nervously, "What's wrong?"

He was so frightened that he grabbed Shang Lixing's hand and refused to let go.

Bai Xuan shook her head: "It's not that scary, don't worry, just go out."

Xie Liuchen had no choice but to face He Suowu's cold gaze and walked out of the room with him.When Ji Qing heard about it, he rushed over and asked, "What's wrong? What happened to the sect master?"

He Suowu shook his head by the door, pointed at Xie Liuchen with a hostile expression, "Ask him."

Xie Liuchen lowered his eyes and said, "We went to Zhoujia Village and met Fu Changning who destroyed the terrain of Central Continent. In order to protect me, Brother Shang was killed by Fu Changning and entered the realm of illusion."

He Suowu's face darkened, showing an expression of "I knew it was related to you again".

Ji Qing couldn't understand what he heard, and wanted to ask again, but seeing Xie Liuchen's expression lost, he swallowed his words again, and comforted him softly: "Don't worry, the sect master has always been resourceful and good at turning adversity into victory. He didn't It's so easy to go wrong."

Hearing his comforting voice, Xie Liuchen felt even more embarrassed, lowered his head and said, "Every time something happens, Senior Brother Shang is involved in danger for me. You can scold me, really."

Ji Qing sighed lowly: "The master of the sect is willing to save you, how can we as disciples have the right to intervene?"

Xie Liuchen paused, bit his lip, shook his head and said, "Actually, I'm sorry to you for more than this, but I can't say it yet."

He Suowu snorted coldly.

Ji Qing was speechless: "This, fellow daoist Xie, is just joking."

The three of them remained silent until Bai Xuan pushed the door out with an inscrutable expression on her face.

The three gathered around: "What's the matter?"

Bai Xuan looked around the three of them, and finally stopped on Xie Liuchen: "Junior brother Xie, the sect master will take care of you during this time."

Xie Liuchen panicked, "Is he still awake?"

"When the sect master wakes up depends on his own mind," Bai Xuan said with a smile, "As for the rest, you don't have to worry about it. The evil star who has been hiding for 50 years is coming, and the war is coming. He and I Suo Wu is going to deal with the affairs of the sect, so excuse me."

Bai Xuan pulled He Suowu and walked towards the courtyard gate.He Suowu looked at her a few times, and was dragged away by her without any resistance.

Xie Liuchen had rushed into the room the moment they left, and stood by Shang Lixing's side.

Ji Qing stood alone in the courtyard for a while, and then said to himself, "Well, I should go in and take a look."

In the room, Shang Lixing sat cross-legged on the bed, except that his eyes were closed and his face was a little pale, he was no different from ordinary people.

Ji Qing walked in and sat beside Xie Liuchen.

The two of them didn't speak, they both stared at Shang Lixing.

Xie Liuchen recollected what Bai Xuan said before he left, and stared intently at Shang Lixing. As he watched, the corners of his mouth suddenly curled up.

As if he had seen through something, he no longer worried about Shang Lixing's situation, but turned his head and said to Ji Qing with great interest: "I went back to Qiushuimen some time ago, and I didn't see you."

Ji Qing was startled when he heard his homely words, and then smiled wryly, "I just came back yesterday."

He spoke very naturally, but smiled very reluctantly, Xie Liuchen noticed it all at once, and asked with concern: "Do you have something on your mind, why is your face so much worse than before?"

Ji Qing caressed his face in a daze: "Really?"

Xie Liuchen said: "Yes," turning his gaze back to Shang Lixing, "Senior Brother Shang's face is not as pale as yours."

Ji Qing still said dryly: "Really?"

With his face lowered, he said sadly, "I just dreamed of my little sister again last night."

Xie Liuchen said: "Don't be sad, although you have no relatives, you still have Senior Brother Shang and them."

Ji Qing shook his head and sighed inexplicably.

Xie Liuchen really couldn't figure out his slender thoughts like a woman, so he asked strangely: "Why, isn't Senior Brother Shang okay?"

Ji Qing said: "Okay, but—" He thought to himself: "It's different, it's different after all."

Seeing him lowering his head, Xie Liuchen suddenly realized that he was missing his younger sister, and said in an envious tone, "You two have such a good relationship."

Ji Qing lowered his head and said, "Little sister is my only relative in this world."

Xie Liuchen thought for a while with his arms propped up, and said, "It's nice to have brothers and sisters. I also have an older sister. According to blood relationship, that person should be my older sister, but I've never seen her before."

Ji Qing sighed: "Your relatives are the only bond you have in this world, where you have relatives is your home."

Xie Liuchen nodded and said, "That's true."

Ji Qing sat with him for a while, said a few casual words, and walked out of the yard.

With his head lowered, he walked slowly to the small bridge by the river by himself, walked up the stairs, and a young man in a blue shirt came to meet him.

Ji Qing quickly covered his face and turned to leave.

The man stopped him from behind: "Ji Qing, don't go, I saw you."

Ji Qing had no choice but to stop, turned to the man with a dry smile and said, "What a coincidence."

He wanted to act, Qu Kongqing also pretended not to know, walked over and said: "Yes, what a coincidence, every time I come to Nanling, you just go out."

Ji Qing was silent, Qu Kongqing stared at him, and said with a big grin: "Haha, look at you, you just don't know how to lie, and you don't act thoroughly. You obviously just avoid me, so I had to go back and forth. I deliberately came back to block you."

Ji Qing grabbed the corner of his clothes and subconsciously argued: "No, no, I didn't hide from you." The knuckles pinching the corners of the clothes turned white, "Hug, I'm sorry..."

Qu Kongqing suppressed her smile: "What are you apologizing for? What do you mean?"

Ji Qing plucked up his courage, raised his head slightly, looked at Qu Kongqing's smiling face close at hand, and sighed in his heart that after hiding for 50 years, he still couldn't hide, and finally he had to speak clearly.He said: "In these years, you have been coming to Qiushuimen every six months. I know your reason for coming, and I am very grateful for your kindness to me, but I can't see you."

Qu Kongqing raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why?"

Ji Qing said: "When I see you, I will think of my sister back then. I can't pass this test in my heart."

Qu Kongqing suddenly realized: "So you're doing it for Ji Rou..." He looked at Ji Qing strangely, and murmured, "I thought, I thought, it's been 50 years, and you've already let go..."

Ji Qing showed an expression that seemed to be crying but not crying: "Don't talk about 50 years, even if it is another 500 years, I can't think about it! She died in my hands and told me before she died, 'Brother, I am in pain, please kill me .' You know what I was thinking?"

He smiled miserably at Qu Kongqing, tears rolled down like broken threads: "My sister is dead, and I can only hold her helplessly, watching her slowly stop breathing in my arms, I wish I could I followed her too—"

Qu Kongqing hugged him immediately: "Ji Qing, calm down."

Ji Qing was hugged tightly by him, years of forbearance and longing turned into sour tears.

Crying silently, but it is particularly distressing.

After crying for a long time, his mood recovered a little, he gently pushed Qu Kongqing away, wiped the tears on his face: "Sorry, I can't forget Xiaorou, I can't accept you."

Qu Kongqing frowned and said: "The dead are gone, do you want to live in the memory of losing your sister for the rest of your life? Learn to let go and let us start again."

Ji Qing lowered his head and said: "It's impossible, we can't be together anymore, please don't come to Qiushuimen again in the future."

He took one last look at Qu Kongqing, gritted his teeth, turned around and trotted down the bridge, but Qu Kongqing didn't catch up and said loudly behind him: "I won't give up, I will come again."