mountains and rivers dream

Chapter 21 Chilling Heart Gu, the heart is dead but the body is not dead
Ji Xing's voice was full of anger, shaking in the small tree house with an undeniable power.Lin Keqing's soul was unstable, and he let out a painful sound, and fled out in a hurry, while Xiao Yu was so frightened that he fell off the bed and fell to the ground.

She squinted her eyes and watched Lin Keqing turn into an afterimage and escape, worrying about how she should "roll over", when a virtual mirror that was as tall as her appeared on the ground beside her, Xiao Yu poked her head out and saw There is candlelight shining on the other side of the gate of the virtual mirror, which is the Taoist altar leading to the pole star.

"Come!"

Ji Xing's voice came from the virtual mirror again, as if urging her.Xiao Yu gritted her teeth, endured the pain in her back, rolled on the ground, and rolled into the boundary gate.

The boundary gate leads to the Taoist altar, and with the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground from the Taoist altar, Xiao Yu fell from midair and landed heavily on Jixing's feet.

She looked up, and today's Pole Star is wearing a pure white robe, with pictures and texts made of spiritual power dotted on the edge of the robe, adding a little fairy air. apprentice.

Xiao Yu was so frightened by Ji Xing's eyes that he quickly rolled off the ground and knelt right in front of him.

She looked up at Ji Xing's face, and felt that Ji Xing seemed much haggard after sleeping for so many days.

The person in front of him is the master who has accompanied Xiao Liu for 60 years day and night, and is also Xiao Liu's only relative in this world.

Boom, boom, don't know if it's Xiao Liu's heart or Xiao Yu's own that is beating wildly at this moment, because she thought of Xiao Liu's memory that she accidentally retrieved when she was in Hesheng Temple.

If it was Xiao Yu's own heartbeat, it was probably because of her fear of Jixing's coercion; if it was Xiao Liu's heartbeat, based on that memory, Xiao Yu had some bold guesses...

This 19-year-old girl fell in love with her master at the last stage of her life.

Presumably, Xiao Liu was wrapped up in conflicts for a long time before the master and apprentice quarreled.She fell in love with Jixing, but was afraid of ethics, so she didn't confess for a long time.This kind of contradiction has become her obsession over the years.And this obsession later became a physical memory.

So, now Xiao Yu is kneeling in front of Ji Xing, under the candlelight is Ji Xing's angry but still handsome face, Xiao Liu's obsession is once again secretly revealed through his heartbeat.

This heartbeat full of reluctance and reluctance caused Xiao Yu's heart to feel inexplicable pain, and a tear rolled down Xiao Yu's cheek, but she quickly wiped it away.

"woke up……?"

Jixing lowered his head and asked, with some anger remaining on his face, but more worry.

"Wake up, wake up..."

Xiao Yu paused.

Her eyes glowed faintly under the candlelight, she suddenly mustered up her courage, and with a smile on her face, she said a word to Ji Xing.

"Master, I really miss you during this time."

Ji Xing was stunned for a long time by Xiao Yu's words, but he quickly recovered his normal expression, and complex emotions flashed in his eyes for a moment.Xiao Yu didn't know how he felt at the moment, but at least she felt a little less guilty towards Xiao Liu.

"This is the last time Master asks you, do you have anything to tell Master?"

The two masters and apprentices, one standing and the other kneeling, looked at each other for a long time without saying a word.After a while, Xiao Yu still shook his head.

Seeing this, Jixing's face gradually turned pale, and there was some regret in his eyes.

"Forget it, I asked you a few times and didn't say anything, so let your secrets be buried deep in my heart forever."

Jixing said softly, and then a small medicine bottle appeared in his hand.Jixing opened the cork, and a familiar smell wafted in, the aroma of fruitless fruit.

The bottle was held in Ji Xing's hand, and his hands, mind and power gathered together, and the medicine refined from the fruit in the bottle instantly turned into mist and surrounded Xiao Yu.In the mist, Xiao Yu felt that his pain was slowly disappearing, and even the heat poison on his body was fading away, replaced by an extremely refreshing coldness.

Ji Xing heaved a sigh of relief seeing Xiao Yu's complexion gradually improving.

"This is a medicinal solution made from Wuyu fruit and the northern ten thousand years of cold ice. It removes stasis and stasis, and specializes in heat and poison. But... you have been planted with chilling Gu in your body by Gu Ying. It will gradually get better."

Ji Xing gently pointed at Xiao Yu's heart with his hand, and said solemnly.

"Han... what Gu?"

Xiao Yu didn't seem to hear clearly, and asked immediately.She recalled the scene when she suddenly felt cold and fainted in the Hesheng Palace. She didn't know what happened to her at first, but now she finally understands that she was actually bewitched.

"There are tens of thousands of types of Gu, the most powerful of which is the Heart Gu. There are three types known to masters in this world. From weak to strong, they are the Burning Heart Gu, the Heart-eating Gu, and the Chilling Heart Gu..."

Saying that, Ji Xing looked at Xiao Yu.

"The Chilling Heart Gu is planted on your body. As far as I know, there are only three of them in the world today, and one of them is on your body."

After hearing Ji Xing's words, Xiao Yu's hairs stood on end, and a look of fear appeared on his face.

"Master, am I going to die?" Xiao Yu asked in a trembling voice.

"The reason why the Heart Gu is powerful is not because of how lethal it is. You will not die now. The Heart Gu affects the human nature. For example, the Chilling Gu on your heart, every year, your heart will become colder." The thinner it is, the longer it takes... People will become ignorant of their relatives, cold as ice, and eventually die of despair and chilling..."

Having said this, Jixing cast a distressed look at Xiao Yu, and there were some complicated emotions in that look, which was elusive.

"It's the heart that dies...but the body never dies, right?"

As if he understood Ji Xing's words, Xiao Yu raised his head and confirmed.

"I guess..." Ji Xing didn't understand why his apprentice asked such a question, but he also gave a sincere answer.

"It turned out to be like this. It scared me to death... Fortunately, people are still alive." Xiao Yu said while groping his chest with his hands, as if to comfort himself.

The performance of the apprentice made Ji Xing inexplicably feel distressed, because he knew his apprentice's heart better than anyone else. On the surface, he was careless, but in fact he was very thoughtful.

Presumably she must be very uncomfortable at the moment.

Under such sadness, Ji Xing stretched out his hand unconsciously, and patted her on the head.

"But having said that, if you want to cultivate the Yuanfa of Weaving Realm to the peak in the future, I'm afraid you will need such a thing to help you control your mind after you reach the peak. Even if it is not Chilling Heart Gu, there must be other things to replace her. Plant it earlier , It may not be all bad things, but you will suffer a lot because of this thing in the future."

"Aunt Ying chose to plant Chilling Gu on you at this time. It must be a last resort. She probably foresaw something. The Empress Huo has some relationship with you, but it's just a bad fate, not a good one. People have been blinded by hatred, this Chilling Heart Gu can protect you from her ultimate move, but you have to be very careful, if you see her again before you break through to Dacheng, you should stay away!"

"As for the fate between you, Master will tell you when the time comes. She is also a poor person."

Ji Xingyu spoke earnestly, sighed softly, and spoke slowly.

Although this remark made Xiao Yu a little puzzled, after all, the Empress Dowager Huo was only at the late stage of Yuancheng's cultivation, but Ji Xing naturally had his reasons for saying this, so Xiao Yu saluted with both hands without hesitation, and nodded in agreement.

As for the relationship between Huohou and Xiaoliu... If Jixing wanted to say it, he would have already said it, so why bother to keep it so close.Therefore, Xiao Yu chose to keep silent and wait for the follow-up opportunity.

Then, she looked at Ji Xing with piercing eyes.

"Master, please teach me attack spells!"

Xiao Yu's firm voice echoed in the empty dojo, causing the surrounding candles to shake a few times.Ji Xing showed doubts on his face, as if he was thinking about something.

"Do you have any plans?" Ji Xing noticed that Xiao Yuyan seemed to have thoughts, and asked softly.

"Tu'er was chased and killed by the queen of fire in the soulless state, and was rescued by a benefactor when he was on the verge of death. Now I know that the benefactor is in the realm of the demon tribe in the south, so...Tu'er wants to go to the south to find him and repay his kindness."

"……go alone."

Xiao Yu clasped his hands together and made a solemn request.

Ji Xing sighed softly, he had expected such a day in his heart that the apprentice would leave sooner or later when he grew up, although he was mentally prepared, it was still a bit uncomfortable.

"Then we will have a period of one month. In this month, the teacher will take you to the cold land, teach you killing spells, and sharpen your swordsmanship. If you can break through to the late Yuancheng period, the teacher will allow you to go to the south, Otherwise, nothing will be discussed!"

"This……"

Xiao Yu hesitated for a long time, hesitating in his heart.

She said that she wanted to repay her kindness, but in fact, she wanted to find Lu Wentian, and wanted to know the real mystery of the opponent's spells. She also held other lucky hopes, hoping that she could go back, and Xiao Liu could also come back.

She hoped that her and Xiao Liu's fates would return to their own tracks.

The scene of Xiaoliu being tortured to death after being burned by the fire once again appeared in his mind, and he remembered that even those little ghosts in his palace could not be dealt with. Let alone whether the monster race excludes foreigners from entering the country, with her current cultivation base, It is unknown whether he can survive to the border of the endless forest under the thought of the fire queen.

Immediately, she felt that she was oversimplifying the matter of finding Lu Wentian, so she cast a grateful look at Jixing, bowed her hands, bent down and bowed deeply in front of Jixing.

"It's a one-month period, please master teach me!"

Xiao Yu knelt on the futon and bowed to her for a long time this time.For Xiao Liu, even for himself.

Before the last twilight of the evening light disappeared, Xiao Yu walked out of Jixing's altar hut, and bowed respectfully at the door.

Xiao Yu once again stood on the cliff, with a burning cloud above her head, the last ray of light struggled in from the mouth of the valley before the sun set, as if she was shining down on the cliff for her.

Looking along the last few meters of the place where the sun shines, Xiao Yu saw the red figure of Hu Taoer who was still wandering by the mirror lake, but at this time there was a big gray beside her, and she was flickering on the mirror lake. Flickering cyan ghost.

Seeing Xiao Yu standing on the cliff again, Hu Tao'er was the first to spot her, and quickly called Da Hui and Lin Keqing to come over and watch.

But this time, Xiao Yu didn't follow her wish, but stepped down a little, avoiding the mirror lake and flew towards the edge of the lake, and finally landed firmly on the grass at the bottom of the valley.

Hu Tao'er looked disappointed, feeling that life lacked a great joy, she curled her lips at Xiao Yu, and went back to the fire, playing with the rabbit in the fire.

"Just last night, a big event happened in Yandu!"

Hu Tao'er fiddled with the fire while muttering.She picked up a rabbit and shook it towards Da Hui, and Da Hui came to her side drooling, bit off the head of the rabbit, and began to chew it in his mouth.

At this time, Lin Keqing, who was floating on the mirror lake, also joined in the fun, but she was a little farther away from the fire.Xiao Yu found that Lin Keqing's soul body had become more stable than before, and the color had deepened a lot.

She looked at the blue spiritual power permeating the mirror lake, and although she had doubts in her heart, she had more guesses about the sticky spiritual power at the bottom of the lake.

Xiao Yu came to the fire, this time she didn't take the roasted rabbit, but took the pot to wake up, and then reached out to Hu Tao'er casually.

"beans."

Hu Tao'er gave her a blank look, took out a bean and handed it to Xiao Yu.Xiao Yu quickly ate it, picked it up but couldn't wake up, and drank heartily.

Lin Keqing looked eagerly at the side, desperately eager for someone to notice that there was a "person" here, and this look also turned into a cloudy wind, blowing towards Xiao Yu.

"hiss……"

Xiao Yu shuddered as the cold air passed over his body.She looked towards Lin Keqing and found that he was staring at the wine jar on the ground
"Can you drink too?" Xiao Yu asked.

"I can drink it, but with my current cultivation, I can't open the lid."

Hoo hoo... Lin Keqing said with some embarrassment as another dark wind blew by.

Hearing what she said, both Xiao Yu and Hu Tao'er became interested. Hu Tao'er opened the jar of "Wake Up" and pushed it in front of Lin Keqing.

The aroma of wine was pervasive at the bottom of the lake. At this time, Lin Keqing approached the wine jar and sucked the wine suddenly. A white breath came out from the jar. Afterwards, Lin Keqing hiccupped, and there was some pain on his extremely pale face. red cloud.

Xiao Yu and Hu Tao'er looked at the wine jar, and found that there was not a drop of wine in it.Xiao Yu picked it up and smelled it, and found that the smell of alcohol in it was much less, so she turned the corners of her mouth down and made an expression of "so it is like this".

"Although my spiritual power is very weak now, I can also feel that there is a place in Yandu that is full of scorched death energy..."

Lin Keqing floated a little drunk beside Xiao Yu, and suddenly spoke.

Hu Tao'er also took out something from her body, and put it on the ground. There were some things written on it densely. Xiao Yu took a look at the general content, probably looking for capable people to treat her family, but a few of them But the words made Xiao Yu's eyes shine.

"500 million gold?" Xiao Yu shouted in disbelief.

Hearing Xiao Yu's call, Hu Tao'er immediately rolled her eyes, despising Xiao Yu's worthlessness.

"You only saw 500 million, and you didn't see anything else? The only daughter of the Mei family, Mei Yu'er, is suffering from a strange disease and is looking for a capable person to cure her illness. The reward is 500 million!"

As she said that, Hu Taoer tore off a piece of rabbit meat and chewed vigorously in her mouth. Her eyes never left the word 500 million from the beginning to the end.

"Mei Yuer... The Mei family, did I hear correctly?"

Xiao Yu stopped his movements, wanting to make sure if he heard it wrong.

"You heard me right, that unpleasant smell of death comes from the Mei family compound, and I am quite familiar with Yandu."

Lin Keqing said firmly, then looked at Xiao Yu who was silent.

The reason why Xiao Yu was silent was because she knew who Mei Yuer was in her heart better than anyone else.Outside the Baiyue Tower, they had a one-sided relationship, which allowed Mei Yuer to save her life, and it was because of Mei Yuer that she had the chance to meet Qin Lin, even though she did not have the opportunity to meet Qin Lin at the time. Really get out of trouble.

But even so, Mei Yuer was always her savior.

Now that she is suffering from a strange disease, Xiao Yu doesn't know if he will have the chance to repay this kindness, because there is a lair of the queen of fire in Yandu, if he goes to Mei's house, let alone whether he can save people, I am afraid that he will die. If you don't make it right, it will hurt her even more.

So she unconsciously looked towards the cliff to the north, her heart was in a mess, and she was very entangled in her heart whether to seek the pole star or not.But she just asked her master to teach her spells, if she asks again, it will be too much.

Maybe... after breaking through the late stage of Yuancheng as soon as possible, I have the power to fight, maybe I can try it secretly...

Thinking so, after a long silence, Xiao Yu said goodbye to the two and returned to his tree house.

On the old futon in the tree house, she sat down cross-legged, quickly settled down, and began to meditate according to the method in Xiao Liu's memory.

This night, Xiao Yu and Xiu Xiu were companions, without sleep or speech.

In the early morning of the next day, Ji Xing appeared outside Xiao Yu's tree house before dawn, and gently knocked on her door.To Xiao Yu's surprise, Hu Taoer, Dahui and Lin Keqing also followed behind Jixing.

"Master, are they...going with us?" Xiao Yu asked suspiciously.

"Ah."

Ji Xing, who only said one word, stretched his hand forward, and a huge virtual mirror gate appeared in front of everyone. This gate was three feet high and wide, emitting orchid light, which was enough for these people to pass through.

As for the size of the virtual mirror summoned by Jixing, Xiao Yu also knew a little bit from Xiaoliu's memory. Jixing is not a person who uses spells indiscriminately. Such a large virtual mirror shows that Jixing is in a good mood at the moment.

Ji Xing walked in first, followed by Hu Taoer riding Big Hui, striding into the boundary gate with a valiant look, only Lin Keqing was still floating behind Xiao Yu with a smile on his face.

"Um……?"

Xiao Yu was puzzled, asked questions, and looked back at Lin Keqing, trying to confirm whether he had heard it wrong.

"My master was saying just now...is that right?" Xiao Yu confirmed again.

"Yes." Lin Keqing replied with a smile.

"what happened?"

Xiao Yu did not give up and continued to ask Lin Keqing, hoping to get some answers.But Lin Keqing just stretched out his hand, gestured a "three" and a "eight" to Xiao Yu, and then gestured a "shh" to her.

"Sanba? Why are you... swearing at people for no reason?" Xiao Yu's voice gradually became weaker, and finally became his own muttering.

Afterwards, Lin Keqing ignored her and drifted into the gate of the realm.Xiao Yu had no choice but to follow in.

When the gate opened again, a group of people had already appeared in the cold area.Xiao Yu also finally knew why Jixing chose to set off before dawn in Kongkonggu.

Because what awaits them is probably the most beautiful thing they have ever seen in this life.

Xiao Yu was the last one to come out of the boundary gate. She looked up, and the sky was pitch black. She only felt pain from countless flying snow hitting her face, but she couldn't see anything.

Her feet creaked and creaked on the thick snow in the cold place, and the sound continued to spread outwards, but did not touch any obstacles, and the place was extremely open.

It was pitch black all around, and no one could see each other with their naked eyes. They could only distinguish each other's positions by filling their senses with spiritual power.

Under such endless darkness, Xiao Yu listened to the sounds around her. Apart from the sound of stepping on the snow, it was Da Hui's excited humming. She could hear Da Hui playing happily in the snow.

At this moment, a faint light suddenly flashed in the east, as if the sun, which had been trapped under the earth for a long time, finally tore a gap, and got out of a corner with difficulty.

Gradually, with the rising of the sun, the uninhabited northern cold land, its panorama hidden between the heaven and the earth also gradually revealed its prototype under the sunshine.

(End of this chapter)