Dressed as a male protagonist

The night is thick.

In the library of Zaowang Peak, an invisible shadow is watching the movement inside.And the owner of Zuowang Peak was rummaging through the dense collection of books unconsciously, until he came across the same book of Strange Beasts as usual, he paused for a moment.

The weak and short candlelight is not enough to illuminate the entire room, let alone the facial expression of the owner of Zawang Peak.

But that small pause is enough to explain everything.

The peepers in the dark disappeared silently.

To the north of Taiming Mountain and south of Yun'e Mountain, the canyon is deep and long, running through the east and west.The Ruthless Valley is located here. For thousands of years, the tide has ebbed and flowed, and its inheritance has never been cut off, nor has it reached the peak.

The only thing that is praised by fellow practitioners is that there are many female disciples, and all of them are beautiful.

Lu Wuchen and Fei Le came with congratulatory gifts, received by Gu Zhong's disciple Hao Sheng, and arranged them in the guest's residence.

On the evening of the second day, Lin Mo, the owner of the valley, left the customs.

Ruthless Valley's status in the world of cultivating immortals is average. In terms of strength, it is not as good as the three surrounding fairy islands and Tianbo City; in terms of resources, it is not as good as the Silent Forest and Wanzongmen; ; In terms of sect disciples, their number and aptitude cannot compare with any power in the world of cultivating immortals.

Therefore, there were less than ten people who would really come to congratulate Lin Mo for leaving the customs.

Seven or eight of them are all because of their in-laws.

This is the embarrassing situation of Ruthless Valley.

In the evening, Ruthless Valley hosted a banquet for all fellow Taoists who came to congratulate.Although Lu Wuchen and Fei Le had the lowest seniority among all the people, because they were the first direct disciples of Zuowang Peak of Wan Zongmen, they were arranged to sit in the first and second positions from the left after Lin Mo.The others took their seats after the two of them.

Sitting opposite Fei Le and Lu Wuchen on the right seat are Wuqinggu's first disciple Lixun Fairy and fourth disciple Shen Lingxue.

Fairy Lixun is the eldest disciple of Wuqing Valley, so there is nothing wrong with sitting on the right chief.

As for Shen Lingxue... something is wrong.

Although she is the fiancée who sits at the top of Wangfeng Peak, she has not been officially married after all, and she should abide by the dignity and inferiority in the teacher's school, ranking fourth, but now she is hinted by Lin Mo that she is in the second place, which is obviously intended to please .

Not only to please Shen Lingxue, but also to please Fei Le, Lu Wuchen, and the teachers behind them.

Everyone here is not a fool, they are like a mirror in their hearts, seeing that the limelight is being robbed by the two juniors, they make a few jokes between cups and cups.

Lu Wuchen and Fei Le had never encountered such an embarrassing situation, and for a while, they had no intention of having a feast except for answering with a smile.

After a quarter of an hour, Lu Wuchen couldn't sit still, and quietly got up to leave the banquet.

"You don't like my master's arrangement?"

A voice as cold as snow entered the eardrums, and Lu Wuchen turned around to look.

With bright eyes and white teeth, eyebrows like Qingdai, coupled with a delicate face shape and fair skin, she is as cool and beautiful as a fairy in the moon palace.

"Fairy Shen is joking. Master Lin is an elder. The elder's arrangement is only suitable or not. There is no like or dislike." Lu Wuchen smiled and pushed the question back calmly.

"So, you think my master's arrangement is inappropriate?"

"I don't mean that." The courtyard was quiet and cold, with the sound of running water surging in the air, Lu Wuchen whispered, "Master said that everything in the world has a cause and effect. If you want the fruit, then it means that you have planted the right cause.”

Shen Lingxue nodded lightly: "You are not very old, so you can think clearly."

"That's not the case with Fairy Shen."

Shen Lingxue's eyes changed, but she didn't say anything after all.On the contrary, Lu Wuchen tilted his head and looked at her carefully.

"Fairy Shen has something on her mind."

Shen Lingxue glanced at him, his eyes seemed to be mixed with ice knives and snow swords in the twelfth lunar month of winter, and just one look at him made people feel chilly and sharp.

"No."

"It's like a drunk person who always says he's not drunk. Fairy Shen is really not good at concealing her thoughts." Lu Wuchen was a little less gentle and courteous, and a little more probing and aggressive.

"So what?" Shen Lingxue's expression remained unchanged, "In other words, what does it have to do with you?"

Lu Wuchen laughed.

"Perhaps I can guess what Fairy Shen is thinking, and at the same time, I can relieve Fairy Shen's worries." He didn't know when there was a small bead in his hand, and he was playing with it, "Fairy Shen doesn't like the way Master Lin does things, and more I don't like to be bound by the status of 'the fiancée of the peak master of Zuowang Peak'. It's a pity, as someone else's disciple, I was born to be like a puppet, who told me to go east, to marry a chicken, to marry a chicken."

"You call your master a 'chicken'?"

"Of course not. This is just a metaphor." Lu Wuchen smiled, "Is the fairy changing the subject?"

Shen Lingxue didn't answer, but her attitude of turning her eyes away indifferently already showed her attitude.

"It seems that Fairy Shen doesn't need my help anymore." Lu Wuchen tilted his head and smiled, and took out a half-foot-square wooden box from the storage bag, "This is a gift from Master and me to Fairy, Fairy Since you want to play harmony with my master, then this gift must be accepted."

Specially emphasizing the words "my master", Lu Wuchen handed the box to Shen Lingxue, turned his head and left.

Shen Lingxue didn't want to understand the meaning of Lu Wuchen's last sentence.

She lowered her eyes and looked at the ordinary box in her hand. Although she kept a calm face, her heart was like boiling sea water, turbulent, roaring and tormenting.

Lu Wuchen was right.

She didn't want to marry, let alone be forced to marry.

But what can she do?

Master treats her kindly, has always left her with the best resources in the sect, and has never made her feel wronged.If it wasn't for Wei Ling who happened to meet Wan Zongmen 17 years ago...

"Ash."

Shen Lingxue withdrew her gaze, calmed down, and turned to look at the senior sister she had found.

"Sister."

"Yeah." Zhang Wanyu stepped forward, brushing Shen Lingxue's wind-blown hair back behind her ears, and said softly, "Unhappy?"

Shen Lingxue shook her head, not knowing how to reply.

Zhang Wanyu and Shen Lingxue have a close relationship, and she understands many things without saying anything, so instead of asking, she looked at the box in Shen Lingxue's hand and said, "Sent from Siwangfeng?"

Shen Lingxue nodded.

Zhang Wanyu said: "Let me keep it for you." Knowing Shen Lingxue's mind, Zhang Wanyu didn't want her to be hurt by seeing things, so he took the initiative to speak.

Shen Lingxue agreed, and handed the box to Zhang Wanyu without hesitation.

Zhang Wanyu didn't open it to look at the items inside, and put it directly into the storage bag, saying: "The little disciple at Zuowang Peak is not a fellow, so don't have too much contact with him."

Shen Lingxue asked suspiciously: "What do you think, Senior Sister?" Although she also felt that Lu Wuchen was a bit evil, she didn't have such a big prejudice against him.

"What did he tell you just now?"

Shen Lingxue thought for a moment, and told Zhang Wanyu about the conversation between the two, and then continued: "There are indeed some strange things about him, but I don't think there should be much malice."

"Maliciousness never manifests where the eyes can see." Zhang Wanyu replied to her, and did not intend to continue, but let her return to the banquet with him.

On the second day after the banquet, Lu Wuchen faintly felt that someone was spying on him, but when he really checked carefully, he found nothing.

He knew that this was the result of yesterday's temptation, so he pretended not to notice anything, and played around in the Valley of Heartlessness with Fila.

On the third day, Lu Wuchen reminded Fei Le that it was time to return to the sect.Fei Le originally wanted to play for a while longer, but couldn't bear Lu Wuchen's pressure on him with his teacher's order, and felt helpless, so he had to make some preparations, planning to bid farewell to Lin Mo the next day.

The accident happened during this day and night.

When Shen Lingxue met Lu Wuchen, she only had time to express her intentions roughly, but she was frightened by the shaking of the mountain so that her face turned pale.

She knew that Lu Wuchen and Fei Le were going back to Wanzongmen the next day, and after thinking about it, she decided to ask whether the cooperation Lu Wuchen said before was true.After all, this is a major event in her life, if there is a chance to return, she doesn't want to miss it.

But now this sudden change has shattered her mind in an instant.

Not far behind the two of them, the ground suddenly split open, and the soaring flames shone across the sky in an instant.And in the flames, a slender figure fell powerlessly, and was caught in the palm of a ferocious and huge claw.

"Senior Sister!!" Shen Lingxue uttered a shrill and fearful voice, and she rushed towards the fire without hesitation, completely forgetting about Lu Wuchen next to her, let alone going back to the teacher's gate to report the letter.

Lu Wuchen squinted his eyes, but did not move.

He didn't remember that this matter had anything to do with Zhang Wanyu. Although he wanted to get rid of this woman for no reason, he wanted to get rid of Shen Lingxue more.

So this plan was always aimed at Shen Lingxue, not Zhang Wanyu who suddenly appeared.

Of course, it would be best if they could be removed together.

Shen Lingxue fell from mid-air. The feeling of weightlessness not only dislocated her internal organs and six lungs, but also caused her heart to arrest suddenly, as if her body and soul had been separated.

The boiling magma sprayed and rolled below, and the sulfur-like smell was conveyed into the brain from the back, from the nose and mouth, and from all the senses that could be perceived.

Death is coming.

A slender but steady arm crossed her waist, hugging her tightly.

"Senior Sister..." Shen Lingxue thought she was hallucinating, and she was even speechless for a moment.

Zhang Wanyu didn't respond to her call, and the silver thread in his hand moved slightly, leading Shen Lingxue from bottom to top, brushing past the magma, and returning to the cave next to the rock wall above.

"Where is this place?" Shen Lingxue finally came to her senses, the exhaustion of her spiritual power caused her meridians to ache and swell, and she couldn't even stand up.

She vaguely remembered that she kept running along with the flaming giant until she was exhausted, when the monster suddenly found her and grabbed her.

The terrifying flames left scorched marks on her skin, and the smell of cooked meat filled her nostrils. She seemed to be in hell, but also seemed to return to chaos, merging with heaven and earth.

Until the feeling of weightlessness struck, Zhang Wanyu rescued her.

Thinking of this, she lowered her head to check her injuries, but she couldn't find any traces of burns.

"It's the Hell Balrog." Zhang Wanyu took out the pill and gave it to Shen Lingxue, and told her, "The flame of the Hell Balrog directly acts on the soul, you must never let it get close."

Shen Lingxue heard the meaning behind the words, and hurriedly said: "Let's wait here together, the master will definitely come to save us if we don't see us, and..." Shen Lingxue sat down against the rock wall beside her, and the steaming heat and flames in the air The smell made her whole body burn, and she couldn't help panting, "Martial nephew Lu of Wan Zongmen saw that we were arrested, he will definitely tell Master..."

Zhang Wanyu glanced at Shen Lingxue with a very indifferent expression, and didn't explain, nor did he intend to explain.

She pulled off the storage bag, stuffed it into Shen Lingxue's hand, turned and walked outside.

"Senior sister!" Shen Lingxue was terrified, and hurried forward to grab her sleeve, "What are you doing?"

Zhang Wanyu tilted his head and looked down: "The Hell Balrog will not let us wait."

As if to verify Zhang Wanyu's words, a tentacle with flames attached to it, which was full of flames from the inside to the outside, suddenly swept in from the hole.

The tentacles were as thick as the legs of an adult man, and the flames on them were extremely destructive and had barbs attached. Shen Lingxue couldn't imagine what it would be like to be hit by it.

Zhang Wanyu protected Shen Lingxue and retreated quickly, until the small cave bottomed out, and Shen Lingxue's back was on the rock wall, and finally stopped.

"No matter what, don't come out!"

After Zhang Wanyu finished speaking, he rushed forward with his sword in hand.

Her body is light and agile; at the moment when she is about to touch the tentacles, she touches the ground with her toes, jumps quickly from the rock wall on one side, and uses her strength to slash towards the joints that are visible to the naked eye of the tentacles.

And the tentacle is not to be outdone, its flexibility is not much worse than Zhang Wanyu's, and at the moment Zhang Wanyu's long sword is about to hit, it bends suddenly, reaching an "S"-shaped curve, which can barely avoid Zhang Wanyu's attack. A sword with all the strength of the fish.

And what surprised Zhang Wanyu the most was that the barbs on the tentacles could squirm!

Like the sharp teeth of a monster, these barbs gleamed sharply on its tentacles, biting each other, constantly tentatively approaching Zhang Wanyu's body.

Shen Lingxue watched with bated breath, not daring to make a sound to distract her senior sister, but the sinister move really made her terrified and dizzy.

After playing around again, Zhang Wanyu finally tricked the tentacle with a feint, and the long sword went straight to the tentacle's joint.

The long sword touched the tentacles and made a clanging sound, as if it had been struck on steel and gold bricks.

Zhang Wanyu's mouth was numb from the shock, and it took a long time for his wrist to regain strength, and he was circling with the tentacle in the narrow cave again.

At this time, Shen Lingxue finally regained some physical strength.Immediately, he stood upright, drew his long sword out of its sheath, and planned to step forward to help.

The tentacle seemed to have sensed something, and before Shen Lingxue could make a move, it quickly withdrew the tentacle and disappeared at the entrance of the cave.

Zhang Wanyu fell from the top of the cave, landed on his left knee, leaned on the sword in his right hand, and lowered his head, unable to respond to Shen Lingxue's call for a long time.

Shen Lingxue hurriedly took out the elixir from the storage bag, fed it to Zhang Wanyu, and said anxiously, "Where is the injury, Senior Sister? Let me see!"

Zhang Wanyu didn't respond, but just put away his sword and slowly stood up from the ground.

Shen Lingxue fell silent for a moment.

On Zhang Wanyu's slender right abdomen, there was a palm-length wound.It was the shape left by the sharp teeth, and the blood had dried up, with a burnt smell and the color of precipitation.

Grim and ugly.

Shen Lingxue's eyes turned red immediately, and she wanted to reach out and touch the wound.

Zhang Wanyu took a step back, frowned and said, "Don't touch it." Seeing Shen Lingxue's painful expression, Zhang Wanyu calmed down again, and said softly, "I'm fine. The hell flame demon won't come again for a while gone."

Although Shen Lingxue didn't understand why Zhang Wanyu was so sure, she didn't ask any more questions, but helped Zhang Wanyu to sit aside and help her heal.

The healing time didn't last long, and the Hell Balrog made a comeback.

The Hell Balrog has an extremely wide body, two or three feet high, standing up like a tower. Looking from the cave, only half of its palm can be seen at the entrance of the cave.

So it reached into the tentacles this time.

Zhang Wanyu was surprised at first, and then turned to look at Shen Lingxue: "Apart from the storage bag, what else do you have with you?"

Shen Lingxue shook her head: "Nothing. I only brought a storage bag."

Zhang Wanyu drew his sword and stood up, blocking Shen Lingxue behind, and said anxiously: "Except for the pill, all other items are thrown away."

Shen Lingxue hastily followed suit.Strange to say, after the tentacle touched the storage bag thrown by Shen Lingxue, it only hesitated for a moment before retreating.

Shen Lingxue immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's going on here?" Shen Lingxue vaguely guessed the reason, but couldn't figure it out.

"The Hell Flame Demon has been sleeping in Taiming Mountain for hundreds of years. It is impossible to wake up for no reason, and come to attack us as soon as he wakes up." Zhang Wanyu explained slowly, he already had calculations in his heart, but he didn't want Shen Lingxue to be contaminated by these messy things He said, "At the beginning, the patriarch of my faction negotiated with the Hell Flame Demon, but if my faction did not fail, it would not be able to come to the territory of my faction to cause trouble. Today it suddenly broke into my faction and took you and me away. It shows that we have something it wants very much."

"What is it?"

"I don't know. But it's definitely not a good thing." Zhang Wanyu's tone was slightly cold, his face seemed to be soaked in the ice water of winter, even in the cave where the magma was rolling, it made people feel chills.

Shen Lingxue thought about it, but she really didn't know when something strange appeared on her body.

Zhang Wanyu said: "Don't think about it. It's more important to find a way to leave now."

The moment Zhang Wanyu finished speaking, Shen Lingxue suddenly turned pale, trying to understand the joints.

"The person I have been in contact with the most recently, apart from my senior sister, is the disciple named Lu of Wan Zongmen." Shen Lingxue didn't want to doubt anyone casually, but at the moment the most suspicious person is indeed only Lu Wuchen, "If it is really him..."

"If it was really him, he would not have notified Master." Zhang Wanyu said coldly, with a cold look in his eyes, "Whether it is true or not, we will know later."