South City has been in turmoil recently.
The snake demon hovering on the top of Qishan Mountain has been doing evil and killing more than a dozen men, women, old and young.
The people in the city are in a state of panic. The city lord, who has always been a stingy person, gritted his teeth and spent a huge amount of money to issue a bounty order, attracting many cultivators to come and eliminate the demon.
Lu Wanxing is one of them.
Since the battle of Tianhe, many sects have taken a fancy to her talent and have offered olive branches to her, wanting to recruit her.
But who is she? A person of good family background in the desert, she has been used to running wild since she was a child. How could she be willing to be trapped by the rules and regulations of the sect?
So, after returning the relics in the storage bag to the major sects one by one, Miss Lu became a free and easy cultivator.
Because of what happened to her father and brother, her mother suffered from heart disease in her early years and her health has not been very good.
When everything was revealed and her injustice was vindicated, her mother's heart disease was cured. She received a lot of elixirs from the sects for some recuperation. Now she is in good health and eats everything she wants. Not long after moving to Nancheng, she also met her second spring of love.
In fact, the subsidies sent by the major immortal sects are enough for the mother and daughter to lie down and enjoy wealth and glory, and have no worries about food and clothing, but Lu Wanxing is a person who can't sit still. Almost without hesitation, she decided to meet the snake demon.
Although there is a high probability that she can't beat it, she can just run away.
Because of the man-eating python, Qishan is deserted.
Although she chose to climb the mountain at noon, the lush branches and leaves that blocked out the sun swallowed up the sunlight, leaving only a few spots. Those few tiny rays of light scattered pitifully, not only did not make her feel at ease, but instead surrounded the surroundings with a layer of strange silence.
Lu Wanxing was very brave and rushed up the mountain in one go.
She didn't know how long she had walked, when there was suddenly a bloody smell in the air around her, and she keenly sensed a wave of spiritual power.
Then, without warning, a deafening howl rang in her ears.
- Help, help, help! The python whose eyes were bigger than her whole body...
it suddenly broke through the barrier formed by layers of trees and rushed towards her!
Lu Wanxing was frightened by the pair of cold vertical pupils, but fortunately, her years of desert exploration experience had accumulated enough escape tips for her. She quickly suppressed her fear, immediately moved sideways, and gathered strength in her palms.
She wanted to fight back.
But in the next moment, she heard a melodious female voice: "It went over there... There's a girl there!"
Lu Wanxing realized that the reason why the giant python rushed towards her was not to catch prey, but to flee in panic.
Someone was chasing it.
This thought flashed through her mind, and in an instant, the spiritual power she felt before suddenly approached.
Lu Wanxing saw a slim and slender female figure, and the fresh aroma of spiritual herbs filled her nose.
The person protected her and made a move. The spiritual power hit the giant python hard, causing the monster to let out a heart-wrenching wail.
"Are you okay?"
The woman looked back at her, then raised her voice to her companions, "I hit it!"
"I know."
This was the first gentle voice Lu Wanxing heard, with a little laziness, and a faint smile: "Leave it to me."
As soon as the voice fell, the talisman light was shining, falling like rain, and each strike was like a knife, piercing into the flesh of the giant python.
Accompanied by a piercing scream that made her ears ache, blood mist flew everywhere for a while, and the beast that the whole city had been talking about finally suddenly stopped and fell heavily to the ground.
"Are you okay?"
In the aftermath of the loud noise, the woman who was protecting her coughed softly, her voice was very gentle, completely different from the fierce momentum of the attack just now: "Miss, are you also a monk who came to exorcise monsters?"
Lu Wanxing only then realized that this was an overly beautiful sister.
She seemed to be in poor health, her face was as cold and white as snow, her eyebrows were like spring mountains, her eyes were like autumn water, and she smiled at her slightly, like a distant mountain covered with mist, so beautiful that it was shocking.
Lu Wanxing was just a rookie, how could she have the nerve to admit that she was here to exorcise demons? She was stunned for a long time because of the beauty, and then she replied in a daze: "I just came to take a look, nothing else."
"You haven't heard about this giant python?"
Another young talisman cultivator came from not far away, and smiled when he heard the words: "Be careful, little sister."
The one who just spoke was also beautiful.
She was completely different from the other sister. She was wearing a red dress, with bright and bold features. Even if she stood there without makeup and without saying a word, she could attract everyone's attention effortlessly like the shining sun.
What's more, they are still very strong.
Who doesn't love beautiful sisters?
Lu Wanxing quietly said "wow" in her heart.
"The one standing on the treetop," the red-dressed woman raised her eyebrows, her voice was as lazy as ever, "Can you come down now?"
... The one standing on the treetop?
Is there someone else in this forest?
Lu Wanxing's cultivation was not high, and it was difficult for him to detect the surging breath in the jungle. He only knew that the moment the words fell, a burst of coolness suddenly passed by his ears.
——It was a deliberately restrained sword breath, as clear as the wind, carrying a cold chill.
"Since the two of you discovered it first, there is no reason for me to fight for it."
The white shadow jumped down from the forest, his voice was very light.
However, unlike the cold and beautiful iceberg beauty that Lu Wanxing imagined, this sword cultivator actually had a "soft" face, with no offensive features, giving the impression of being a weak willow in the wind.
"Senior, you have a high level of cultivation, so I'm sure you won't compete with us for the chance to catch such a little demon."
The red-clothed woman smiled again and said, "Thank you for the sword energy that saved me from danger before."
The sword cultivator shook his head.
Lu Wanxing roughly figured out the relationship between the three people. The two talisman cultivator sisters were partners who came together. The sword cultivator was the strongest and had secretly helped the two people before.
It seemed that many people were attracted by the bounty order.
It wasn't long before she heard a familiar girl's voice again: "There's a strong smell of blood here... Hey, isn't that the body of the giant python?"
Lu Wanxing's heart moved, and she looked in the direction of the voice, and indeed she saw that familiar face.
"Miss Ningning!"
"Miss Ningning."
One of the words was said by her.
The other person who spoke -
Lu Wanxing turned her head in surprise, and met the same curious gaze of the woman in red.
This was not the most incredible development.
She would never have thought that the serious swordsman would frown and say in confusion: "You... all know her?"
What a wonderful luck and fate.
Ning Ning was the most surprised. She scanned the faces of the people present one by one and couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Miss Lu, Miss Meng, Miss Song - and Elder Jinghe, why are you all here?"
Jinghe, the youngest elder
of the Wanjian Sect according to legend, a sword genius who uses a sword with his left hand. And the idol that Lu Wanxing worshipped.
Lu Wanxing suppressed her pounding heart and looked up at the other person with a reserved look. She felt as if a sword suddenly shot into her heart, and she was so excited that she almost fainted.
"I traveled with Xian Ning and happened to pass by Nancheng. When we heard about the snake demon, we decided to go up the mountain to try to get rid of it."
Meng Tingzhou said, "What a coincidence, I just ran into these two people next to me."
As soon as Jing Hefu saw Ningning, the coldness in her eyes faded, and she smiled gently: "I am the same."
She paused and moved her eyes horizontally, passing the little girl and coming to the tall figure of the black-clothed boy behind her: "Are you two going down the mountain to experience together?"
Ningning nodded: "Yes!"
She told Pei Ji that she was going down the mountain to experience, but it would be better to say that she was traveling around with public funds, drawing her sword to help when she saw injustice, and seeing the scenery and getting rid of demons along the way, which was very comfortable.
This time, she finally came to Nancheng, but she didn't expect her luck to burst out and meet four old friends at once.
Meng Tingzhou and Song Xianning from Luancheng, Lu Wanxing from Pingchuan, and
Jinghe from Wanjian Sect—or rather, Zhou Yimei from the Buddha Realm of the Demon Refining Tower who had given up her original name.
This elder traveled around the mountains most of the time, and even the disciples of Wanjian Sect rarely saw her in a year.
Ningning got to know her because one day she went to Wanjian Sect as a guest with the elders. When Zhenxiao Sword Master heard that Jinghe had returned to the sect, he was like a wild chicken that was only good at fighting, and he shouted for a sword duel for half an hour in front of the door.
Then Elder Jinghe pushed the door open impatiently, and Ningning had the honor of having a meal with her.
"It's been a long time since we last met."
The swordsman holding the sword in his left hand smiled warmly: "Meeting is fate. Since everyone knows Ningning, why don't we go down the mountain and get together?"
Elder Jinghe was so gentle! He even invited her to stay together!
Lu Wanxing was so excited that she cried: "Great!"
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Pei Ji walked alone on the quiet and dim path.
The invitation initiated by Elder Jinghe was more like a gathering between close friends. If he went, it would only add to the embarrassment, so he did not go.
It was already night, and he had just come out of the Nancheng market with a piece of paper in his hand.
It was a house deed.
He and Ningning had a habit of buying a house when they saw a scene they liked during their travels, and then living there comfortably for a few days when they were interested.
- Unlike other fellow disciples who spent money lavishly, Pei Ji had accumulated a considerable amount of spirit stones in the past few years, and he was definitely not short of money.
The yard they bought in South City was located in the suburbs, next to a clear green pond. Ningning said that if she lived there, she would definitely be able to see flocks of fat and round yellow ducks.
She always remembered what he said.
...I don't know if her friends' gathering has ended at this moment.
Tonight is exceptionally quiet, the gathering dark clouds are like floating cotton in the sky, covering most of the incomplete moon.
Pei Ji slightly raised his head, looking around, all was pitch black, reflected in his pupils, becoming thick ink that could not be dissolved.
There was something cold in his eyes.
The memories buried deep in his heart emerged bit by bit. This was the road Pei Ji had walked.
At that time, he was helpless, penniless, and was called a monster of the demon clan. No matter where he went, he would be wantonly humiliated and abused.
By then he had grown up and knew how to raise his fists to fight back, so he rarely had a stable day, and his body was covered with wounds in successive fights.
Pei Ji took this path when he left South City.
With scars all over his body and an endless fear of darkness, every step he took was filled with fear.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh at himself.
That was a long time ago, and he really shouldn't be so obsessed with it.
Pei Ji continued to move forward, the lights in the market gradually faded, the dark color in front of his eyes gradually darkened, and he opened his arms to embrace him completely.
Almost reflexively, he felt upset and hesitated for a moment.
Pei Ji hated the darkness.
But he had to go through the darkness and get to the other side for someone.
So he never stopped.
Suddenly, without any warning, the slender figure in black was slightly stunned.
There should have been no light ahead, but at this moment, a white light flashed silently, like a stream of stars falling, bright and long, swaying leisurely, passing through the eternal silence and coming to his side.
This is a sword energy.
Pei Ji instantly recognized its owner.
The sword energy belonging to Ning Ning was deliberately suppressed to be very soft, almost without power, as if the night wind was flowing beside him.
The white light was not dazzling, like a piece of fireflies connected together, lighting up the dark night around, and when it touched his skin, it would rub it slowly like a smug and coquettish manner.
It felt like being hit by cotton on the chest.
... How could something as cold and hard as sword energy be used like she did.
Although he thought so in his heart, his body honestly released a more intense sword aura, and he carefully suppressed the top of Ningning's sword aura, as if teasing her, and instinctively overlapped and entangled with it.
In this way, the sword aura that was originally hurtful unconsciously had a bit of lingering meaning, silent and most seductive.
If the master knew, he would probably be so angry that he would turn into a swollen pufferfish.
Thinking of this, Pei Ji's eyes showed a helpless smile, as if he felt something in his heart, and he looked up along the white light.
Not far away, on the top of a tall tree, sat the girl he had been thinking about.
Sword energy spread from her fingertips, drawing out a galaxy brighter than the dome, guiding him on his way forward. The white light illuminated her almond eyes, revealing a quiet and clear light silver-gray, just like a lake and mountain washed by the autumn moon, clear and charming.
Ningning was in the halo of white light, and the moment her eyes met his, her eyebrows curved and her lips raised in a smile.
No one would not be moved by such a scene.
Pei Ji saw her lightly leap down and run towards him, like a gust of brisk wind.
"Welcome home."
A warm and soft body broke into his arms. Ningning rubbed her head against his neck, her voice a little tired: "I've been waiting for you for a long time."
She chuckled and continued against his chest: "I'm so sleepy."
There was a sly hint in this smile, as if it had a deeper meaning.
"Yeah."
The sword energy had not yet subsided. When Pei Ji raised his hand and touched the back of her head, a long and soft light came out from his fingertips.
Pei Ji hugged her as if he was hugging the shining moon: "Go home and go to sleep."
He could already pronounce the word very smoothly.
The unspeakable hardship, bitterness, confusion and timidity in his youth all dissipated suddenly because of this white light, and now it is completely different from before.
Someone is willing to light a beam of light for him from afar, dispel the endless darkness, and then run towards him without looking back, just like tonight.
For him, "home" is not a house, some furniture, or a corner of the world.
Ningning is his home.
Because of her existence, the night that was once unbearable has become so beautiful. The night is no longer the end of everything, but the harbinger of the dawn.
He loves her so deeply.
Dusk is all around, the forest is sparse, and the dark night outlines two shadows walking side by side.
Ningning yawned, and heard the vague barking of dogs in the distance. In a trance, she smelled the fragrance of wild flowers falling from the branches.
Destiny, she thought.
In hundreds of reincarnations and changing time and space, among billions of intertwined souls, although they were separated by such a long distance, she finally met Pei Ji with a probability close to zero.
And she was happy to do it, holding on to this probability approaching zero, getting closer to him little by little.
Then it became 100% for Ning Ning and Pei Ji's future.
It makes people happy just thinking about it.
Pei Ji must have caught a glimpse of the smile on her lips, lowered his eyes and asked in a low voice: "What are you thinking about?"
"I'm thinking--"
His fingertips lightly hooked, causing the sword energy to sway slightly, and followed the cold breath he released straight into the sea of consciousness.
It was like soft cat paws caressing the whole body in an instant, causing tremors everywhere.
As a result, the blood and meridians in his body trembled uncontrollably.
The boy's breathing suddenly became chaotic, but his fingertips were hooked by her hand, unable to escape the gentle shackles. The two sword auras merged quietly, and their consciousnesses slowly touched.
Ningning pinched his fingertips and glanced at the red on Pei Ji's earlobe. The sound of laughter and the sound of the wind rang at the same time: "I like you the most."