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There is a stone statue of the ancestor in the Mingxin Temple, which is carved so lifelike that it is the place where Tianji disciples reflect on their mistakes and repent. Since the second leader Qingying entered the temple, no one else has come here.
Tian Rong was captured and brought back to Tianji. After being tried by the Discipline Hall, Mu Hengtian allowed her to see her master for the last time before executing her.
Now she was kneeling outside the Mingxin Temple in the moonlight. Through the doors and windows, she could vaguely see the candlelight in the house and a slender figure kneeling there.
Tian Rong hasn't seen her master for more than ten years.
Ever since Senior Brother Qingshun was imprisoned in the Saha world, all her practice had been guided by her master through the door of Mingxin Temple. After she was able to enter the world, the Second Sect Leader never responded to any of her words again.
Now she has taken the same path as this senior brother, disappointing her master.
Tian Rong was still young at that time and didn't know why her master and senior brother Qingshun turned against each other. She only understood it now.
It is difficult to give up and let go for the people you care about, so even if you are against the cultivation world, you must protect the other party's safety.
Back then, her Senior Brother Qingshun was a famous sword cultivator in the cultivation world, the champion of the Jinluan Pool Banquet, the direct disciple of the Second Master of Tianji, and he also had an even more famous Shenwu Sword:
The broken soul from Shangwujian.
At that time, Qingshun was a child of destiny, but he was arrogant and eccentric. He was also a person who liked to ignore the rules and gave his elders a headache.
Normally, Qingshun would be more restrained in Tianji because he had his master to control him. But after he entered the secular world, he could no longer control his temper when walking in the mortal world. He ignored the rules agreed upon by the two worlds and interfered in human affairs as a cultivator.
Qing Shun became good friends with the son of King Nanping. When King Nanping rebelled and was convicted of a rebellion and his entire clan was executed, Qing Shun broke into the prison and took away his friend and his sister, which caused conflicts between the human world and the cultivation world, and he was wanted by the Three Sects of Religion.
Conflicts arose during the arrest of the Three Archbishops, and the killing of the Three Archbishops' followers led to greater conflicts.
During the days when he was being hunted by the two worlds, everyone said that Qingshun was wrong and asked him to repent. But Qingshun believed that he was not wrong. He was a cultivator, but he was also a good friend of Prince Nanping. He did not think there was anything wrong in protecting his friend.
Moreover, this rebellion did not exist in the first place. It was just that he was too successful and offended the political parties in the court, so he was framed and abandoned.
He didn't know that there were also people who were jealous of the fact that Prince Nanping was too close to the powerful people in the cultivation world and had such a good relationship with them, so they deliberately watched him die without helping him.
There could be many reasons, but human hearts are complex and difficult to discern.
Qingshun hid with the two homeless little ones, but was eventually found by a master of the Three Divisions Sect. Qingshun was injured in the battle, and the Prince of Nanping died trying to save him. His last words were that he felt very guilty for getting him into trouble, and he asked Qingshun to take good care of his only sister.
Princess Nanping couldn't bear to implicate him any further, so she said to Qingshun: "You are my brother's friend. Now that my brother is gone, you don't have to protect me anymore. Qingshun, you have done enough. I will walk the rest of the way by myself. You should go back to Tianji. You still have your master. She will protect you, and the court can't do anything to you..."
Before he could finish his words, Qingshun picked him up with a dark face and flew away on a sword.
After sunset, Qingshun was found by his master.
He was still defeated and unwilling to fight to the death with his master. He was covered in wounds and his last bit of spiritual power was exhausted. He knelt in front of his master and begged him to let the girl behind him go.
The second leader said, "I promise you, I will keep her safe. You will follow me back to Tianji to accept the punishment and I will not interfere in this matter anymore."
Qing Shun then smiled, and with difficulty reached out his hand to touch the cheek of the crying girl, and said to her: "Don't worry, my master is a very good person."
He returned to Tianji and was punished with water torture. He was protected by the second sect leader, and the grudge with the three sect leaders was resolved. He was confined to the mountain for three years and was not allowed to leave.
Qingshun was already covered in wounds, and after being tortured with water, he took half a year to recover.
He tried to meet Princess Nanping several times but was rejected every time. Finally, he found the Second Sect Leader, knelt down and said humbly, "I just want to see her once to see if she is doing well."
The Second Sect Leader turned his back to him and said calmly, "Let's talk about it after you are released from the confinement."
The more this happened, the harder it was for Qingshun to convince himself, so he rushed down the mountain and entered the human world, only to learn that Princess Nanping had long been captured and brought back to the court to be tried, and then exiled to the border to be a military prostitute, where she died within a month.
Qingshun was simply in disbelief, he rushed to the border, fought his way into the military camp, and inquired about the whole story, only to find out that the person he had tried so hard to protect had already been killed.
Unable to suppress his murderous intent, he went on a killing spree in the military camp and tried to break into the imperial city, but was blocked by many parties. From being an admired son of heaven, he became an evil cultivator wanted by both worlds. In order to seek revenge, he did not hesitate to cooperate with the devil.
At that time, Qingshun had already stepped half a foot into the realm of magic cultivation, but he still did not allow himself to be possessed by the devil. He killed many people, including his fellow brothers and elders who came to stop him. In the end, the three leaders of Tianji came out to bring him back to Tianji.
The second leader knelt down and begged for mercy on behalf of his disciple, and was spared the death penalty. He was imprisoned in the Saha world to suffer, but his life was worse than death.
Now that he has been released, he has turned into a demon to settle the unresolved grudges of the past.
Tian Rong was still reminiscing about the past when she suddenly heard a warning sound that resounded throughout the sky. Just as she was surprised, a demon with black flames descended from the sky into the courtyard of Mingxin Temple.
Her senior brother Qingshun held a long sword full of cracks in his hand, stared at the figure in the door with dark red eyes and said: "Disciple Qingshun, please teach me, Master."
The woman inside the door lowered her head slightly, and a tear rolled down her cheek.
The second leader of Tianji came out of retreat to fight with her possessed disciple. The spiritual power and demonic energy swept across the night, attracting everyone's attention.
When the head elders all rushed to Mingxin Temple, Lingluo arrived at Qingshifang without any obstruction.
The stars were dazzling, and the red torii gates were stacked layer upon layer. She walked up step by step, just like when Yun Shouxi held her hand and walked step by step from the torii gate to the mirage.
Every scene and object here left a deep impression on her. Lingluo once thought that everything recorded here were warm and unforgettable memories, but in the end, what impressed her the most was the scene of being trapped underwater in a mirage.
The water of the mirage connects to the sea at the bottom of the mountain. Dongdao Tianji is called the Fairy Mountain. The Fairy Mountain is so big and high, and she is trapped in the deep sea under the Fairy Mountain, looking at the unreachable exit from afar.
Lingluo walked onto the suspension bridge and headed towards the center of the mirage. The paintings hanging on every door and window were made by Yun Shouxi himself.
Her master is good at painting, and his paintings are very beautiful and lifelike.
In the dark room on the bottom floor of the mirage, there is a painting made by Yun Shouxi himself. That is the beginning of everything.
As soon as Lingluo got off the suspension bridge, she heard someone behind her calling her, "Where are you going?"
She looked back and saw her senior brother Chu Yi standing on the suspension bridge, looking down at her. Chu Yi had one hand on the sword at his waist. When he saw Ling Luo looking back, he was furious and said through gritted teeth, "How dare you come back? Didn't you leave so easily before? You just waved your hand and said you were the Death Mist Sect to show that you were so powerful, didn't you?"
Ling Luo: "I am also very powerful without the Death Mist Gate."
Chu Yi was so angry that he walked down the suspension bridge and glared at her coldly: "Am I praising you? Can't we discuss such a big thing before making a decision? Can't you give a warning in advance when you become a demon? Isn't he the head of Nanshan Xuehe? If the sword can't kill him, can't you curse or poison him? Do you have to become a demon and fight him with a sword? Are you sick in your brain?"
"You are so fucking stupid, yet others still say you are my junior sister. It's so embarrassing!"
Ling Luo was scolded by him and couldn't stand it anymore, she said: "I opened the Death Mist Gate to leave because I was afraid that I couldn't control my evil nature and killed you with a sword! Do you honestly think you can beat me?!"
Chu Yi sneered: "You can't run away if you can't win? Kill one and let me see?"
Ling Luo: “…”
Chu Yi pointed out her disgustedly: "I think you ran so fast because of that unlucky Holy Sword Sect disciple who fell in love with you!"
"Brother." Ling Luo's eyes twitched fiercely, "I'm possessed by the devil. If you provoke me again, don't blame me for turning hostile if I can't control my devilish nature."
Chu Yi was quite angry at first about Ling Luo's possession of the devil. This junior sister was really getting bolder and bolder, and more and more arrogant. She even killed the leader of Nanshan Xuehe in front of so many people!
How is this going to end? Even if the master is the head of Tianji, he can't protect her!
Later, after learning the whole story and the entanglement between Lingluo and the Feng family, Chu Yi felt that it was not worth it for his junior sister to become a demon in order to kill Feng Yunhong. Couldn't she find another way to kill him? Why did she have to fight with swords?
From the initial anger to the later disappointment.
Chu Yi sneered: "Do you think I'm afraid?"
Lingluo didn't say much to him and walked towards Mirage angrily. Chu Yi followed and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Let's go underground." Lingluo said, and suddenly narrowed her eyes, "Brother, are you sure you want to go with me?"
"Where in the mirage can I not go?" Chu Yi was confused by what she said.
Ling Luo snorted with a strange look on her face, and led Chu Yi all the way to the bottom of the mirage.
Chu Yi watched her find the mechanism and open the secret passage with ease, and asked with a twitch in the corner of his eye: "Who did it?"
"The Mirage belongs to Master, so this darkroom naturally belongs to Master as well." Ling Luo walked into the corridor. The corridor was spacious and bright, with hanging lights on the walls on both sides.
Chu Yi had never been here before, so he looked at Ling Luo who was walking in front of him suspiciously: "How do you know?"
Lingluo: “I’ve been here in my previous life.”
Chu Yi: “…”
Ling Luo felt the cold gaze coming from behind. She shrugged and changed the subject: "I came here in a dream."
Chu Yi could no longer bear it: "If you keep talking nonsense I will draw my sword. You are a demon now, and it is only natural for me to kill you."
Ling Luo snorted. The passage was not long. She walked to the end and pushed open the colorful sliding door. There was plenty of light inside. In the middle was a pool with red lotuses planted on the surface of the water, blooming brightly.
Chu Yi frowned and looked around. The jade carved pillars, the spiritual beads, the red lotus in the pond and the painted doors and windows were indeed the style and work of his master.
But he didn't think there was anything wrong. This darkroom, which looked gorgeous and depressing, might be the place built by his master for him to concentrate on painting, because there were many paint baskets next to the sink, and the papers on the table and the floor were covered with brilliant colors.
Lingluo stood in front of the curtain of the easel but did not go in. She said, "Brother, there is a painting inside. Please help me get it."
Chu Yi glanced at her. There was a smile on her face when she said this, a smile that was cold.
"What painting?" He walked forward calmly, and when he opened the curtain, he heard Lingluo say, "The one that you fell in love with at first sight."
Chu Yi was just about to ask her to explain clearly when he was attracted by a painting behind the easel.
The main color of the portrait reflected in the dark pupils is a beautiful azure. It is the sea that Chu Yi is very familiar with, and the beautiful scenery that can be seen from the top of the mirage.
In the painting, there is a dark reef under the moonlit sea. A woman in a blue dress is sitting on the reef, looking at the people outside the painting with beautiful eyes and a charming smile.
The long, smooth black hair was styled in a style he couldn't name, but it was extremely familiar to him.
Even the strand of black hair hanging from the temples and the small red knot at the end of the hair were exactly the same. One year, he even gave Lingluo this red knot as a birthday gift because he often saw her wearing it.
When Lingluo smiles, she looks very similar to the woman in the painting.
Chu Yi was used to Ling Luo's arrogant and spoiled appearance, and was also familiar with her well-behaved and docile appearance in front of her master, but the woman in the painting looked more docile.
Not only is it docile, but the smile also shows some tenderness and love.
It’s like looking back at your lover under the moon.
"Brother." Ling Luo said outside, "That's a painting made by Master. You should be able to recognize it."
Chu Yi stood in front of the easel, his eyes changing from shock at first to obscurity.
He was aware of his master's special treatment of Lingluo, but because that was Yun Shouxi, he was unwilling to doubt or speculate anything. Lingluo was his junior sister, so it was nothing that she was more favored.
But as time went by, sometimes with an unintentional glance, she would find that in places where Lingluo couldn't see, the way her master looked at her became more and more complicated, and he cared more and more about her.
This year Chu Yi was going to talk to Ling Luo about this matter, but an accident happened before he could open his mouth.
"There are many crazy people in the world who devote their entire lives and time to pursuing what they want in their hearts, such as those cultivators who are looking for Shang Wujian." Ling Luo said in a calm voice while standing in front of the curtain, "There is Mr. Huaben in the world who traveled across mountains and rivers, explored in person, and sacrificed his life for witnessing fairies and ghosts with his own eyes."
"Brother, let me tell you a secret. Several decades ago, a child from a wealthy family went to a coastal village for a trip. When the large ship was out at sea, it was accidentally attacked by a sea monster. The cultivators on the ship were defeated and the ship capsized."
"The waves rolled over, but only returned the young master, who was still a young man with little cultivation, back to the human world. He was sent back to the beach by the waves, and people rescued him. After he woke up, he told his parents that it was a woman with a human body and a fish tail who saved him."
"People say it's a siren, but sirens don't look like this. Although they have a fish tail, they don't look like humans. This young master is also convinced that it's not a siren, and he's obsessed with it, searching for it in many places."
"He was very talented, and his parents sent him to practice in the immortal sect. He saw a wider world, but he could not forget the scene under the sea. Later, he consulted a venerable and learned that there was a monster in the deep sea called the mermaid, with a human body and a fish tail. The mermaid clan was famous for its beauty and good music, and was very mysterious."
"So the young master went into the deep sea to look for the mermaid."
At that time, he was already the head of a sect with profound cultivation. He went into the deep sea on a full moon night. When the sea was covered with fog, he heard an ethereal and beautiful singing. Following the singing, he went into the sea and saw the monster with a human body and a fish tail.
The soft and slightly curly black hair floated in the sea water. The woman was breathtakingly beautiful, with glowing deep blue eyes gazing at him gently. The ears hidden under her hair were transparent and shaped like fish fins with a hint of light blue, and there were scales on the small area of skin nearby.
The woman has a beautiful tail, the light of which is slightly refracted by its scales in the sea water.
He found a monster living under the deep sea, a mermaid with a human body and a fish tail.
The mermaid sang a sad and beautiful song, luring him to fall into the deep sea.
Lingluo said: "The young master spent many years and went through a lot of hardships to find the mermaid, but he killed it instead."
Chu Yi looked at the woman in the scroll, slowly looking down from that beautiful face. Under the deep sea hidden by her dress, the woman in the painting had a long tail, but it was not like a fish tail. The scales were smooth and beautiful, reflecting golden light.
Not a fish, more like a dragon.
"When the young master returned to land, the venerable asked him if he could find what he wanted. The young master said no, what he wanted in his heart was a woman with no fins or scales on her face, no deep blue eyes, and no fish tail."
"The young master said that the ugly, lowly mermaid was a million miles away from what he had imagined and could not be compared."
"So the young master practiced his painting skills and wrote down everything he thought of, stroke by stroke. When he showed the painting to the venerable, the venerable sighed and told him to let go of his obsession, saying that there was nothing in this world that he was pursuing."
"The young master didn't believe it and searched persistently in the world. Finally one day, he found a face similar to the one in the painting. He was ecstatic and thought he had found it."
So he patiently fed, taught, and planned.
As long as you have this face, you can do anything.
Yun Shouxi collected all the sirens' tails, and looked through all the spells and pharmacopoeias, and exchanged her spiritual veins with those of the siren. Only then did he successfully transform his legs into a beautiful long tail covered with golden scales, trapping her in the deep sea, staring into her desperate eyes all day long.
He once looked at Lingluo's face in fascination and whispered: "You exist because of what I want. We are a perfect match."
"Brother." Ling Luo smiled softly, "Doesn't the woman in the painting look a lot like me?"
Chu Yi stared at the portrait, his Adam's apple moved slightly, and he said hoarsely, "Not at all."
Ling Luo raised her hand, spiritual power surged, and Li Feng lifted the curtain and took the scroll in her hand.
She glanced at the entrance where the footsteps came from, thinking that Yun Shouxi had arrived, so she drew a barrier, hid Chu Yi behind the curtain, and smiled, "I wonder what Master will think, is it similar or not."
Lingluo looked towards the entrance, and after the person pushed open the sliding door, she saw another face.
The Holy Sword Sect disciple, carrying a sword on his back, looked at her coldly.
Ling Luo was stunned. Chu Yi behind the curtain said, "I forgot to tell you that he was the one who told me that you returned to Tianji."
"You should have told me this when you saw me!" Lingluo looked back angrily.
Seeing her angry look, the light in Yue Liangze's eyes dimmed even more. He walked towards Lingluo: "Don't you really want to see me?"
"No!" Ling Luo immediately retorted, "The person I want to see most is you, but I don't want to see you here."
Because she didn't want Yue Liangze to know that she had been imprisoned like a plaything.
After hearing this, Yue Liangze instantly appeared in front of Lingluo, and stretched out his hand to hold her in his arms, but behind him came a sound of breaking through the air, the sharp whistling of a sword, a deadly move.
The timing was accurate and fast. Even if Yue Liangze was hurt by the sword intent, he would still grab Lingluo. In order to prevent him from getting hurt, Lingluo took the initiative to pull him over, but the two fell into the pool together.
Chu Yi was trapped behind the curtain by Ling Luo and couldn't get out. Hearing the sound of falling into the water, he raised his hand and pinched his brows.
The sword intent of the god of crossing, the master is coming.
Yue Liangze grabbed Lingluo's waist and held her tightly in his arms, then he avoided the sword intent and jumped out of the water.
He saw the scrolls scattered on the ground, and the appearance of the people in the paintings came into his sight. Yue Liangze tightened his hold on Lingluo and looked slowly and coldly at the person standing in front of the sliding door.
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