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Looking around, this is a pavilion, surrounded by willows, the lake in front of it is rippling with waves, and there are three vigorous characters on the plaque above, "Wen Shui Pavilion".

From Amao's vague words, he knew that there seemed to be something extraordinary by the lake.

"Speaking of the lakeside, it is said that Wang Yuanwai's nephew once proposed to his family to withdraw from the marriage, clamoring for his sweetheart, and when he asked, he said that he was a stunning beauty by the lakeside, and no one even knew her name. But there was a commotion It stopped after a few days, and everyone didn't take it seriously." Before leaving, the innkeeper casually told him a small rumor.

In this way, it was really a female ghost who took her life.

I heard that recently there have been people passing out by the lake, and then sleeping for a long time, and even eventually dying in their sleep.

The government also invited experts to cast spells, both to worship the heavens and to exorcise evil spirits, but after tossing for a long time, they couldn't find anything.

I don't know if it's a custom or a festival. People in twos and threes are holding lanterns on the shore, chatting and walking, looking peaceful and harmonious, and there is nothing unusual about it.

Xie Yan was wearing a crimson gown, with a snow-white flute pinned to his waist, black hair, and peach blossom eyes with a smile at the end, like a handsome young man.He has an outstanding appearance, even if he was leaning on the tree by the lake with his arms crossed in boredom, he received a lot of ominous glances, but he just pretended not to see them.

It's strange, obviously these women have turned their heads to look at him, but he can't see each other's face clearly.

When the moon was fully out, I suddenly saw a chaotic fluctuation of spiritual power near the bridge in the center of the lake.

Xie Yan narrowed his eyes and sneered.

It's time to come.

Even though he was walking fast, he didn't have a sword on his body, and he couldn't fly with the sword. It took a lot of time to cross the entire lake. When he arrived, there was no one near the broken bridge.

Blessed to the soul, he narrowed his eyes and sat leisurely on the low railing of the broken bridge.

After waiting for a while, he felt a wave of monster approaching behind him, and he raised his lips without looking back, nor was he on guard.

There are really few demons and ghosts that can hurt him.

A cold hand clapped his shoulder.

Xie Yan turned his head, and when he saw it, his eyes suddenly widened. He was so startled that he almost fell into the water, but luckily he stabilized himself in time.

When he saw Lanyue standing behind him, he looked at him with disgust: "How did you make yourself like this?"

The face, voice, and tone are all exactly the same.

Seeing that he didn't respond, Lan Yueshi raised her pretty face, sat down next to him, and waved her hand in front of him: "Stupid?" Say it.

It took Xie Yan a long time to find his voice. He lowered his head and played with the broken ice on his waist: "Who are you?"

He didn't even notice that his hands were trembling slightly.

His eyes stopped on the broken ice, and the expression on "Lanyue Shi"'s face froze for a while, and he looked at him dissatisfied: "You are the first one who will not be confused by so many people."

"I'll take it as a compliment." Xie Yan smiled wryly.

After the little demon beside her changed several times, she finally changed back to her own appearance. She was only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, wearing a veil with a pomegranate red background and a brocade pattern. His long hair was simply tied with a ribbon, and he was looking at him curiously with his face in his hands, inadvertently looking at Sheng Guang: "How did you see that?"

"First, why do you want to kill so many people?" Xie Yan patted her on the head calmly, and suddenly felt a strong resentment rushing straight to the top of her head.

However, the female ghost also seemed to be frightened, and took two steps back and looked at him in horror: "Will you kill me? Even if I didn't do anything at all," the female ghost's face turned fierce, "They deserve it!"

Raising his eyebrows, Xie Yan didn't speak.

The female ghost continued: "I just became the person in their hearts. They have ghosts in their hearts, and they don't want to wake up, so they were pulled out of their souls and lost their lives. Like the scholar surnamed Wang last time. , the family has a sick and weak wife, and worked hard to make money for him to go to Beijing to take the exam, but after high school, he abandoned his wife and married the daughter of a rich family, which made that poor woman die of depression; that day he came over and saw me turned into that woman He was so frightened that he was out of his wits. Shouldn't such a person deserve to die?"

Extract the living soul?Xie Yan couldn't help but gasp, the act of changing fate against the sky, is this crazy? "Little girl, Buddhists often say that karma is retribution, why do you bother?"

The female ghost looked at him in disbelief: "Do you also believe the words of the great monks in the temple?" Then she opened a pair of watery eyes and looked at him strangely, "Aren't you the same kind as me? As long as you don't die, Where does the reincarnation of cause and effect come from?"

"I..." Xie Yan suddenly felt that he couldn't argue.

In fact, I am much more advanced than you, Xie Yan cursed.

Like him, who has always been fearless, yet he is reborn as a human being.

"How did you know that I was fake?" The female ghost covered her head in distress, "I don't think I've made any mistakes."

"It's not you—" Xie Yan bit his lip, and said helplessly, "Probably because——I don't have any demons anymore."

Lan Yueshi was indeed his inner demon, because he was ashamed of her, and the feeling of guilt will be hidden in his heart for a lifetime, and it will follow him like a shadow, and he can inadvertently remember that he once felt sorry for someone, and he can never make up for it.However, this kind of guilt will disappear with the departure of that person. Even if you feel guilty, what is the use?

Otherwise, what is there to lose for a man who has died once?

"Lanyue time—my cousin, she died a long time ago."

"She is my last relative in this world."

"She died at my hands, and I—killed her with my own hands."

In fact, it's not that difficult to say.

Just thinking about it, the sticky feeling of fishy sweet warm blood on my hands seems to be impossible to wash off.

Xie Yan rubbed his hands subconsciously, the dark red in his eyes deepened further.

As soon as the words fell, there was a loud noise not far away, like the sound of a mirror shattering.

Indistinctly, even a tall and straight silhouette can be seen from the sparkling lake.

"It's him again! The ghost lingers!" the female ghost cursed secretly, gnashing her teeth.

Xie Yan looked curiously at the little female ghost who had become angry from embarrassment, and teased: "Could it be because of you."

"No, no, I can't afford to offend you. After all, my heart is weak and I can't stand his sword." The female ghost taunted.

...How do you listen to this, something is not quite right?

"Thank you!"

"what?"

Xie Yan was still thinking about when he revealed his name, when suddenly a fragrant wind passed by his ears, and the person had long since disappeared, but he could still hear the girl's crisp laughter in a daze.

"I'm lucky, we've seen each other..."

Beauty who are you?Xie Yan was still at a loss.

But he didn't have time to think, so he stopped in place with the last sound of broken mirrors in the void beside him.

The visitor was bathed in the frosty moonlight, dressed in a moon-white robe, holding a long sword in his hand, he could not see the blade of the sword but could see the shadow of the blade in the moonlight. Everything.

Under the moonlight, one can see the man's smooth and fair face, with handsome features, eyes like glass, and a head of silver hair that attracts attention, like a white plum blossoming in the first snow in the twelfth lunar month of winter. , There was a lingering chill covering his face.

Xie Yan felt a cold snort of disdain from a woman in his ear, so he raised his eyes and met the man's gaze, only to realize that he had been looking at him quietly.

He approached unhurriedly, and the light from the crushed ice in Xie Yan's hand became more intense.

So what should come, still has to come.

Jian Suyu remained silent, and Xie Yan was still stunned by his white hair.

For a while, he was relatively speechless.

"Are you real?"

After a long time, Jian Suyu spoke coldly.

Xie Yan just woke up like a dream, and immediately shook his head vigorously to clear the relationship: "It's fake."

Just kidding, he has a strong desire to survive, okay?Besides, the real one, wasn't he stabbed to death by your sword a long time ago?

I don't know if I read it wrong, I always felt that Jian Suyu's eyes were a little sad after hearing the words, and then she immediately rubbed her eyes. Sure enough, seeing the person in front of her was still so cold-faced and careless, Xie Yan laughed at herself inwardly. Still not great.

Hearing this, Jian Suyu remained expressionless.

"Look, son, this person is always like this. Every time he sees me, he always asks this question tirelessly." A voice of fate suddenly came from his ear.

Xie Yan's heart trembled, Jian Suyu hated herself so much, she was so angry that she could see him even in the phantom.If both sides try their best at the peak period, they can still fight.But now his physical and spiritual strength has not yet recovered, he thinks for a moment in his mind, it seems that he has lost the best period, and Jian Suyu can't escape at all...

Never mind, let's try, he suddenly turned around, just about to run back, but saw Jian Suyu, who was obviously behind, had already moved in front of him, and held Xiao Lian tightly.

Xie Yan secretly mobilized the remaining cultivation in his body to fight the battle, only heard two sounds of swords and dragons chant in mid-air, he was surprised and had to raise the object in his hand that could resist the attack to protect himself.

Unexpectedly, it has been a long time since I saw Jian Suyu, Jian Suyu's swordsmanship has improved a lot, and she is indeed a rare genius in the school for a century.

After thanking the banquet, he touched his left chest in fear, but fortunately, the heart was still there.

"Ah——" the girl next to her suddenly appeared, clutching her shoulders in pain, staring at Jian Suyu, and provocatively said, "What? You are finally willing to attack me and abolish my cultivation?"

Jian Suyu acted as if she hadn't heard of it, she just stared fixedly at Xie Yan's hand with burning eyes, as if she wanted to fix his palm on a hole, and murmured: "It turned out to be true..."

Seeing his scorching eyes fall on the crushed ice, Xie Yan hid his hands behind his back, opened his eyes and said nonsense: "This is my family heirloom."

Jian Suyu frowned as expected, and said, "Crush the ice."

Hearing his master's call, Broken Bing struggled to fly into his master's hand.Xie Yan did not let go even if he was beaten to death, raised his eyebrows, and said coldly, "This is a token of love from someone else! I can't give it to you even if I am killed."

"Oh." Long accustomed to his nonsense, Jian Suyu responded coldly, and threw Xiao Lian back into the scabbard.

Xie Yan breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that he didn't intend to kill him on the spot, but the next moment—the soles of his feet were cold, and before he could react, his feet were frozen to the ground.

Broken flute!Xie Yan felt annoyed.If you say you are against the water, you are against the water?

"My lord!" Seeing that Xie Yan was restrained, he was in a hurry, but the cold air entered his body, and he couldn't lift his breath up and down.

As if feeling his annoyance, the broken ice meaning lighted up for a moment and then completely darkened.

Jian Suyu stood opposite him, looking away indifferently, but the words were directed at him.

"Come back with me." The voice was cold and low, and it could tremble in people's hearts when they got close.

Xie Yan's face froze, and his heart sank completely like the light of shattered ice. If he wanted to take him back to Lingshan, it would be better to give him a good time now, he said angrily: "Dream!"

These two words were like a loud slap in the face, breaking the calmness on Jian Suyu's face, no matter how well-bred she was, her face would crack for a moment.

Without a saber, he had to use his spiritual power forcefully, and a burst of flames rose from the soles of his feet, slowly melting the ice on his legs.

However, it was all in vain. As soon as the ice melted, new ice condensed again. His spiritual power had not been fully recovered, and he felt powerless after a while.

Seeing that he kept resisting, Jian Suyu frowned, and sealed his big holes with her hands.

Then Xie Yan suddenly found a bloody cut between his wrists and ankles. It turned out that Jian Suyu had temporarily cut off his meridians to prevent him from using his magic power.

"You just kill me." In despair, Xie Yan fell to the ground and gave up resisting, "It's not like you haven't killed before, anyway, I've been possessed again, and now I have no last words, I just want to be straightforward."

Hearing this, Jian Suyu seemed to be struck by lightning, her lips moved a few times as if she wanted to speak, she was a bit at a loss.

Xie Yan raised his head and roared viciously, his eyes were bloodshot with anger: "I deviated from the orthodoxy, and I have to blame myself, isn't that what you said?"

The person who looked like a banished fairy was stunned, squatted down, lowered his proud head, his snow-white hair was flying around in the wind, his thick eyelashes cast a shadow under his eyes, but he held him tightly, and hit his hand. Sleeping hole, said in a low voice but firmly: "Don't make trouble, let's go back."

"Young Master! How are you, Young Master? Jian Suyu, why are you crazy?"

Dimly, he felt that this person's face looked much gentler under the moonlight, as if he had been bewitched, Xie Yan nodded.