Chapter 8 Youlan Chenmu stood alone under the moonlight, her silver hair like a waterfall...
“Senior Brother!”
The body was suddenly embraced, and the next moment spiritual power continued to flow into the body.
Gu Congxing turned around and saw Zhong Ming's anxious and painful look.
"Junior Brother..."
"Brother, stop talking. It's important to heal your wounds first!"
Zhong Ming helped Gu Congxing steady himself and channeled spiritual energy through his veins. He had previously practiced the healing techniques of the wood spiritual root, and today, they finally came in handy.
At this moment, several streams of water rose from the air, transforming into sharp blades that struck the blood demon's vital points. The blood demon hurriedly retreated, but he didn't notice that a sword light had silently condensed behind him and pierced his abdomen directly while he was off guard!
“Ahhh!!”
Chong Yuan let out a cry of pain, looked around with murderous eyes, and spat out another mouthful of blood.
"Damn it! I'll definitely take your heads off from now on!"
Chong Yuan, who was injured one after another, uttered some harsh words, then quickly recited a spell, and his body suddenly turned into a bloody mist.
Lan Jue reacted immediately and threw his sword, but it pierced through the blood mist and stabbed into the tree.
"The blood demon...their method of escaping is quite unique."
Lan Jue's expression remained unchanged. After thinking for a moment, he recalled his sword and looked at his two junior brothers on the ground.
Gu Congxing looked at him, with all kinds of thoughts surging in his heart, but at this moment they looked at each other in silence.
Senior brother, Lan Jue.
That’s great, he is a living senior brother, a lively senior brother.
It was not the pale and haggard swordsman in the last memory, but the gentleman Jian Lan Jue who was as dignified as jade and unique in his beauty.
The man still had an elegant and extraordinary appearance, and his gentle smile was still there when he looked at him.
Yes, just like now——
"What's wrong? Did he get beaten silly by that blood demon?"
Slender fingers reached out and gently stroked the cheek.
Feeling the warmth on his face, Gu Congxing suddenly came back to his senses.
"No! No! I'm fine, brother."
Gu Congxing quickly turned his head away from Lan Jue's fingers, and his ears turned slightly red.
But the next moment, another hand covered his lips and rubbed them hard, as if as a punishment.
"Junior brother?!" Gu Congxing looked at Zhong Ming in surprise when he suddenly moved.
Zhong Ming's expression remained unchanged, and there was even a smile on the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were a little dim.
"There's blood on Second Brother's lips. Let me wipe it off for you."
Lan Jue stared at Zhong Ming's movements, blinking in surprise. He observed Zhong Ming's expression, then looked at Cong Xing's face, revealing a particularly meaningful smile.
"I never thought that in less than half a year, the relationship between Second Junior Brother and Young Junior Brother would become so close."
This sounded very strange. Gu Congxing was about to open his mouth to refute, but Zhong Ming grabbed his wrist.
Zhong Ming raised his head at the right moment, revealing his usual shy smile: "Big Brother, it's been a long time since we last met."
Lan Jue smiled and nodded.
Gu Congxing was helped to stand by Zhong Ming and asked, "I heard that Senior Brother went to the border of Donglaizhou to deal with the corpse Gu. Did the trip go smoothly?"
"That's right. Now that the corpse insect has been removed, we just need to report the details to Master and the Sect Leader." Lan Jue no longer had the solemn murderous aura he had just had during the battle. His temperament was clear and his voice was soft.
In fact, before asking this question, Gu Congxing already had the answer in his mind.
After all, Senior Brother Lan Jue is a leading figure among the younger generation in the current world of cultivation.
When he was young, he was known as a child prodigy in the world. Because of his excellent talent and understanding, he was accepted as the first disciple by Zhuoguang Jianzun. After joining the sect, his cultivation progress was also very rapid. He formed a golden elixir before he was twenty years old. Now he has reached the great perfection of the golden elixir, surpassing his peers from other families and sects.
Lan Jue was different from Gu Congxing and Zhong Ming. He was taken care of by Zhuoguang Jianzun when he was less than ten years old, so he had the longest teaching time and learned a lot from his master.
Although he looks like a gentle and harmless young man, everyone knows that he has extraordinary combat power and has never been defeated in cross-border battles - just like the battle he just faced against the Nascent Soul stage demon cultivator.
"Big Brother wants to report to Master? Could it be that Master has already come out of seclusion?" Zhong Ming asked.
Gu Congxing's heartbeat suddenly became panic.
Lan Jue patted Zhong Ming's head, seeming quite pleased.
"Yes, Master has sent me a message saying that he will be out of seclusion soon. Junior brother has already established his foundation in such a short time. Master will definitely be very happy to see this."
"Let's set off back to the sect now."
***
Since returning to the sect, Gu Congxing released the monster cubs and raised them in the back mountain of his own villa.
After many treatments by his junior brother, Chi is now smooth and agile, and his steps are strong. It is obvious that he has recovered a lot.
Gu Congxing looked at its soft silver hair and couldn't help but reach out to touch it, but after the injury healed, Chi always growled and bared his teeth, unwilling to get close to people.
"Hey, your demon beast was saved by my senior brother at the cost of millions of spirit stones, why are you still so mean to him?"
Zhong Ming squatted in front of Chi. Unlike his gentle tone, his eyes were full of cold disgust.
But when he turned to Gu Congxing, he looked pitiful, as if changing his face through magic tricks.
"Brother, you've been practicing swordsmanship with me much less these days."
"Oh... now that you mention it, it's true that I was negligent." Gu Congxing lowered his eyes and said, "Starting tomorrow, we will practice sparring as usual."
Gu Congxing knew that his junior brother didn't like the monster cub, but he had been a little absent-minded recently, so he couldn't really blame it all on Chi.
He has been thinking about Master a lot recently.
Thinking that his master was about to come out of seclusion, Gu Congxing couldn't help but tremble all over.
In his previous life, he had never even seen the corpse of his master. After that, he embarked on a journey of no return and was even surrounded and killed. He also did not get to see the master's resurrection with his own eyes.
Now that he had to face his living master, he actually felt a little homesick.
——Want to get close, but also want to escape.
"Brother, are you thinking about forming a pact with this demon beast?"
Seeing that Gu Congxing was lost in thought again, Zhong Ming asked softly.
Even Chi, who was curled up in a ball and pretending to sleep, quietly opened one eye and looked at Gu Congxing with his red animal pupils.
“…No, I will not form a bond with it.”
“Why?!”
Zhong Ming was extremely surprised, and Lian Chi also stood up and took two steps forward.
Gu Congxing calmly met Chi's gaze and spoke slowly, "I've heard that if an ancient demon beast has a high level of cultivation, it can conceal its spiritual contract, or even completely erase all traces of the contract, so as not to implicate the contract master in times of crisis. However, generally speaking, the contract master's cultivation is far superior to that of the demon beast, so such situations rarely occur."
However, the companion beast is a mature demon beast that has signed a contract with a newborn baby, so its cultivation level is naturally higher than that of its master.
"But even if the outside world can't detect any traces of the contract, this spiritual contract derived from blood won't disappear, right?"
"!roar--"
Upon hearing this, Chi changed his lazy and casual self, his eyes widened with anger, he let out a long roar, and demonic power surged around him -
"Don't worry, I will let you go back to your master."
A cold remark interrupted Chi's spellcasting, leaving him stunned on the spot.
"Senior Brother? You?!"
Zhong Ming couldn't suppress his surprise and wonder, "You spent millions of spirit stones and nearly died fighting the blood demon, all just to set it free?"
This is really ridiculous.
"It already has a destination, so why force it to stay here?"
Hearing this question, Zhong Ming fell into silence for a moment.
"...Brother, did you know from the beginning that he had an owner?" Zhong Ming looked at Gu Congxing, his tone somewhat anxious for some reason. "Could it be that you did this for its owner?"
Gu Congxing was speechless for a moment.
I have to say, sometimes my junior brother's intuition is really sharp.
He should have denied it immediately. After all, according to this life's timeline, he and Si Junjian hadn't met yet. But perhaps because he had told too many lies in his previous life, or perhaps because the look on his face was too sincere, Gu Congxing was silent for a moment before finally nodding in agreement.
"Who is it?"
Zhong Ming strode up to Gu Congxing and looked directly into his senior brother's eyes at a very close distance, not wanting to miss any changes in his facial expression.
But Gu Congxing still had a face without any sadness or joy, and just said softly:
"Just an old friend."
He rubbed Zhong Ming's head, and the young man immediately restrained his momentum and moved closer to him.
"Consider this monster as my return to him. From now on, I will have nothing to do with him anymore."
That’s right, in this life, he and Si Junjian will never have any intersection again.
There were too many grievances and entanglements in the previous life, and there had been some tender times, but in the end, there was no mutual understanding between them, and they ended up drawing swords against each other.
Who is right and who is wrong? Who can tell?
Gu Congxing thought that after his death, the Sword of Evil Slayer would return to his former life of glory. Perhaps he would be praised by the world for revealing that this devil had practiced forbidden techniques. Perhaps he would achieve enlightenment and ascend to heaven by personally severing his worldly ties...
In this life, it is better not to start those bad relationships.
Zhong Ming seemed to want to ask more, but after opening his mouth, he held back.
Well, since his senior brother doesn't want to say, he doesn't need to ask anymore.
What's more, it was me who was accompanying my senior brother now, not the old friend who had caused him so much sadness...
"Both of my junior brothers are here."
A gentle voice came from behind them, and Gu Congxing and Zhong Ming both turned around.
Lan Jue came to their side and said, "Master is about to come out of retreat. Let's go to his cave now."
He left with just this sentence, and Zhong Ming's expression brightened, and he immediately followed him.
Gu Congxing took a deep breath and followed the two of them.
Venerable Zhuoguang was in seclusion outside the cave.
A powerful person in the Spirit Transformation Stage is about to be born, and the heaven and earth are in chaos with lightning and thunder.
Three disciples under Master Zhuoguang stood outside the cave, all of them untouched by the wind and frost, looking eagerly at the cave gate.
A hundred meters behind them were the many disciples from the main peak, Wendao Peak. They received daily instruction in swordsmanship from the elders on the main peak. Although they were not close to Sword Master Chen Mu, they had heard of him for a long time and could not help but admire him.
"boom--"
A white light suddenly exploded, splitting the rock of the cave gate. Then, surging spiritual power was released, freezing everything it touched, turning it into a world of ice and snow.
The disciples who have not yet established their foundation had their breath turn into ice and their hair covered with frost, but they remained motionless, just hoping to catch a glimpse of the elegance of Sword Master Zhuoguang.
"Master!" Lan Jue called out and took a step forward.
Gu Congxing's heart was pounding, and he stared intently at the figure that slowly walked out.
The man with silver hair like a waterfall, icy skin and bones, holding a long sword, looked up indifferently, and the figures of the three disciples were reflected in his ice-blue pupils.
The sky was clear and a bright moon hung in the sky. He stood alone beneath the moonlight, his whole body a pure speck of ice and snow. He felt truly ethereal, holy and mysterious, as if surrounded by a halo.
The disciples could not help but hold their breath and remain silent, feeling that this world seemed to no longer belong to the human world.
However, just when everyone was stunned, three sword lights, carrying a chilling chill, suddenly attacked Lan Jue and the other two!
Lan Jue reacted as soon as the sword light began to condense. He immediately resisted with the sword and shattered the sword intent that was like ten thousand years of ice!
Gu Congxing also suddenly came back to his senses, summoned the Whale-Slaying Sword and connected with the sword intent, and pointed the sword intent behind him. Wherever the flying sword light reached, a mountain collapsed.
Zhong Ming originally wanted to resist with his sword, but when he felt the pressing cold air, he turned around and retreated, his steps as slow as dancing waves, and he brushed past the sword light.
The disciples behind him had never expected that Zhong Ming would not confront him head-on, but instead dodged. Facing the incoming sword intent, they quickly formed a sword formation to fight back, and with the strength of several people, they barely resolved it.
——As expected of the Sword Master, his first action after coming out of seclusion was to attack his direct disciple!
When Shen Mu first came out of seclusion, the beautiful dream-like scene was still in front of him, but everyone's mood changed drastically, and they looked at the silver figure with fear and admiration.
"Fine."
The man opened his lips slightly and nodded.
The author has something to say:
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Chen Mu: Cool.
The description of Master's appearance is adapted from "The Moon" by Master Hongyi Li Shutong. The following is the original poem:
Look up to the clear blue sky, the bright moon hangs in the heavens. Gaze down at the world below, a world of chaos, where worldly desires obscure the path! May the light of God spread everywhere, cleansing the filth and spreading the fragrance. Vast and boundless, holy and mysterious, may the light of God always be looked up to!
Looking up, the blue sky is bright, the moon hangs in the clear sky. Looking down, the world is dark, and the world is full of sorrow and sighs! I only wish that the spiritual light would spread everywhere, dispelling all suffering and spreading coolness. The vast and boundless, holy and mysterious, the spiritual light is always sought.
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