Yu Hongchen

Xie Liuchen shook his head subconsciously: "No, I haven't seen anyone."

Shang Lixing looked at him deeply for a while, then Fang turned his gaze to the calm Sihai Sea, and said, "Junior Brother Xie, do you know how much our progress was delayed due to your mistake?"

Xie Liuchen said: "I will try my best to overcome the lack of sword intent, and I won't drag you back any longer," he looked at Shang Lixing sadly, then lowered his head, grabbed Shang Lixing's sleeve and said , "Don't force me anymore, Senior Brother Shang, okay..."

"I'm not forcing you, it's you who are forcing me." Shang Lixing gently grabbed his hand, stroked his chest, and said warmly, "Listen, my heart is talking, what it wants to tell you is What I am saying now, thank you junior brother, do you dare to let me listen to your heart?"

Hearing this, Xie Liuchen's body trembled, and he suddenly took a few steps back, "Senior Brother Shang, I..."

Shang Lixing said again: "Now that Silu is in turmoil, you and I are not sure when Fu Changning will secretly kill him. Brother Xie, you don't want to kill Fu Changning, restore peace to Silu, and save your master." ?"

"I..." Xie Liuchen muttered.

"Tell me, how long do you want to hide from me?"

Xie Liuchen's lips were tightly pressed into a line, and he said in a trembling voice, "Then...then I told you, don't hate me."

Shang Lixing said indifferently: "Let's talk."

Xie Liuchen took a deep breath, closed his eyes deeply, and said in a voice that almost covered the flow of Sihai: "Qi Huan, Qi Huan was killed by me... Also, I saw Feng Guiyun in Beilu, he, He died too, he died to save me..."

He plucked up the courage to speak the words that had been hidden in his heart for many years, but after blurting out, his heart was full of despair, the wind stopped in his ears, and he could only hear the rustling sound of the Sihai Sea in front of him.

His eyelids fluttered open, looking at the person in front of him.Shang Lixing's expression was more indifferent than he had imagined, and even the compassionate eyes did not change a bit.

Xie Liuchen understood at this time, he closed his eyes sadly again, even his voice was trembling: "You actually guessed it a long time ago..."

After a long time, unexpectedly heard Shang Lixing's inaudible wry smile, Xie Liuchen opened his eyes anxiously, and heard him say: "Is this the truth that you painstakingly hid from me?"

"Yes……"

"That's why you didn't dare to go back to Qiushuimen but went to Zhoujia Village?"

"Yes……"

Shang Lixing took a step back with a complex and unspeakable expression.

Xie Liuchen panicked and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Senior Brother Shang...everything is my fault, you can beat me and scold me, but don't hate me, okay?"

Shang Lixing looked at him: "Since you returned to Qiushuimen that day, I have a vague feeling that you hide too many secrets that I can't see through, but I never expected that you would—"

As he spoke, his voice became more and more agitated, as if he hadn't caught his breath, he lowered his head and coughed violently a few times, in a shrill voice, as if he wanted to cough up his heart and liver all at once.

Xie Liuchen was startled for a moment, hurriedly stepped forward to support him, and said at a loss, "Senior Brother Shang!"

After Shang Lixing coughed a few times, he broke free hard, and laughed lowly to himself, blood began to ooze from the corner of his mouth.But he didn't reach out to wipe it, and he didn't allow Xie Liuchen to come close.

Xie Liuchen was about to cry from his fright. He thought about Shang Lixing's reaction when he learned the truth countless times, and thought that Shang Lixing was angry or sad, or wanted to kill him before he was quick, but he didn't expect Shang Lixing to be angry for a while Blood hit the heart, and a touch of blood flowed out.

How much does he hate?How hard was he hit?

Shang Lixing bowed slightly, lowered his head and said nothing, quietly waiting for the turbulent air in his body to subside slowly, then slowly wiped the blood from his lips, and said in a deep voice: "Tell me what happened that day Tell me, don't hide a word!"

Xie Liuchen was heartbroken for a while, and he no longer dared to hide it, and told one by one about the accidental killing of Qi Huan that day, his fall into the sea of ​​sorrow, and his encounter with wind and clouds.

During the whole conversation, Shang Lixing didn't look at him, his eyes flickered slightly when he talked about Qi Huan holding the Xiuming sword; and when he was finally brought out of the sea of ​​sorrow by Feng Guiyun, but was attacked by sea beasts, His expression finally relaxed.

After Xie Liuchen finished speaking, he secretly glanced at Shang Lixing, seeing that he didn't respond, he shrunk his neck in horror.

The wind passed silently, and there was a moment of silence.

"You said Qi Huan took the initiative and asked you to kill him?" After a long time, Shang Lixing asked in a hoarse voice.

Xie Liuchen said dejectedly: "Yes, Senior Brother Shang, I dare not lie to you anymore. At that time, Qi Huan seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit, and suddenly stabbed at the edge of my sword. I couldn't react at all. In the days that followed, I thought a lot about it." Maybe, but I can't figure out why."

Shang Lixing took a deep breath, and asked again: "Then what happened to Feng Guiyun leading you to be attacked by sea beasts?"

Xie Liuchen said in a low voice: "The magic dragon was bitten by a sea beast, and after that, it didn't know the direction, and took us to the sea area full of whirlpools in the past. We narrowly escaped the attack of the sea beast and returned to the Sea of ​​Sorrow. He got so angry that he wanted to eat me, Feng Guiyun was seriously injured to protect me, and also to protect it..."

When Shang Lixing heard this, his expression changed, and suddenly he flicked his long sleeves, turned around and walked back.

Xie Liuchen was frightened by him: "Senior Brother Shang!"

He kept calling a few times, but he didn't dare to stretch out his hand to grab his sleeve, and watched him walk away, towards Qiushuimen.

Xie Liuchen's heart was ashamed.

His whole body was cold, and he stood by the Sihai Sea like a fool, thinking in his mind: "What is he going to do? He left suddenly, is he going to find someone to deal with me, or is he going to drive me away? Could it be," he thought again Said: "Could it be that he intends to throw me here and never talk to me again?"

He felt as if he had been struck by lightning for a moment. He calmed down and hurried back to the Qiushui Gate. After entering the gate, he didn't care about the casual cultivators around him, and shouted: "Senior Brother Shang, Senior Brother Shang! I know I was wrong. , I dare not lie to you anymore, don’t leave me behind! Brother Shang!”

The casual cultivator at the door looked at him blankly, how could Xie Liuchen have the mood to talk to them, he was so anxious that he didn't dare to rush in directly, he just stood outside the door and kept calling "Senior Brother Shang".

He yelled for a while, but Shang Lixing didn't come out to pay attention to him.He was even more desperate: "He doesn't want me? Does he really want me?"

Several casual cultivators walked over and kindly persuaded: "Brother Xie, the master of the door hurried into the study just now, as if he was looking for something, you might as well go in and look for him, maybe he didn't hear it in the room... ..."

Xie Liuchen squatted by the door, shook his head lightly and said, "I dare not..."

Although the casual cultivators felt strange, they were not interested in asking more questions, and dispersed separately.Not long after the crowd dispersed, a corner of black clothes was in front of his eyes.

He didn't dare to look up, but he could clearly feel Shang Lixing looking down at him.Not long after, Shang Lixing walked past him, went straight around him, and walked out of Qiushuimen: "Let's go to Beilu and take me to the place where Qi Huan's body is buried."

Xie Liuchen let out a choked voice: "Yes."

……

That night, Shang Lixing took him and used the teleportation talisman to teleport him to Beilu, a hundred thousand miles away.

The Floating Dream Building, which was full of pavilions and terraces in the past, was washed away into ruins and rotten wood in the monstrous flood that year, and was submerged in a white ocean.Compared with the austere and prosperous 50 years ago, it has more sense of vicissitudes.

Xie Liuchen kept his head down, and led Shang Lixing all the way to the ruins of Fumenglou. Because they came late at night and concealed their whereabouts, no one on the Northland Demon Race side noticed their arrival.

They kept walking, and after a while, they stopped in the open space in front of Wang Yang.

"Right here?" Shang Lixing asked.

Xie Liuchen whispered: "Well, it's right here. Back then he died by my sword and was buried in a clam shell in the lake."

"Well, it's better to collect it when it's isolated by water. Let's go into the water to have a look." Shang Lixing replied calmly, then lifted the corner of his clothes, ready to swim.

Xie Liuchen was half hesitant, half puzzled, pulled him back, and said, "Senior Brother Shang, I...he...he has been dead for 50 years, I can't find...the body..."

Shang Lixing turned his back to him and said, "Qi Huan was born in the Qi family of Yingzhou, and he practiced the esoteric art of 'gathering souls' passed down by his family. I found the method of summoning that he left in the door. , to awaken his soul."

Xie Liuchen raised his head suddenly, his eyes were full of light: "What, what? He, he, he, can he live?"

Once the worries and fears that had haunted his heart for a long time disintegrated, he suddenly realized: "So you left suddenly during the day to find something in the study, didn't...you don't want me..." He almost cried with joy, and couldn't help but rejoice Said: "Great, great..."

Shang Lixing said in a deep voice: "Yingzhou Qi's practice of 'gathering soul' is to fake death, to deceive family enemies, it may not be effective for the soul that has been separated from the body for 50 years, I am not sure that I can summon his soul, you You don’t have to be lucky, you have to bear it, and you can’t escape it.”

When Xie Liuchen heard that Qi Huan had a chance to save his life, his heart was filled with joy and his spirits were greatly lifted. Even if he was warned by Shang Lixing in such an indifferent tone, he had no worries and nodded vigorously: "Yes."

The two dived into the vast ocean, swam and stopped along the ruins of the former Fumenglou, and went deep into the water.

Most of the pavilions of Fumenglou are submerged in the water. They have been eroded by seawater for many years, exuding an unspeakable smell of decay, which makes the seawater turbid. In addition, the underwater light is not very good. Their movements are hindered and they swim to the depths. , the greater the pressure of the water flow, the slower the speed.

Xie Liuchen was anxious to find Qi Huan's wreckage, so he didn't care about rest, and swam to the deep waters according to his old memories.

Shang Lixing followed closely behind him, not saying a word all along the way.

After searching for a long time, I finally saw the lake area in the backyard of Fumenglou in the dark sea. Xie Liuchen was overjoyed, and without squinting, he took the lead to swim to the lake where the backyard was located.

The light in front of them was getting darker and darker. In the middle of the night, they stepped on the mud at the bottom of the lake and glanced at the mud at the bottom of the water. They could vaguely see a few pieces of black and rotten giant clam remnants.

"Senior Brother Shang, it's probably here." Xie Liuchen said.

Shang Lixing also fell behind him: "Okay."

He took out a strange copper lamp from his pocket. The lampshade was a transparent film emitting orange light.Shang Lixing explained: "This is a long-lived lamp, which can summon Qi Huan whose soul has been torn apart."

He held the longevity lamp in his hand, put it on the muddy ground, and shouted: "Qi Huan, Qi Huan, come out..."

After calling like this for a while, the waves in the water vibrated suddenly, and there was a humming sound beside his ears.

A familiar and mournful voice sounded faintly behind them: "Brother..."

Xie Liuchen trembled all over.