South City has been in turmoil recently.
The snake demon hovering on the top of Qishan Mountain committed all kinds of evil and killed more than ten people, including men, women, old and young.
The people in the city were in a state of panic. The city lord, who had always been stingy, gritted his teeth and spent a huge amount of money to issue a bounty, which attracted many monks to come and eliminate the monster.
Lu Wanxing is one of them.
After the battle at Tianhe, many sects noticed her talent and extended olive branches to her, wanting to recruit her as their disciple.
But who is she? She is a native of the desert with a good family background. 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 has always been in poor health.
After everything was revealed and the injustice was vindicated, my mother's worries were relieved. She received a lot of miraculous medicines from the sects for recuperation. Now she is in good health and enjoys everything she eats. Not long after moving to South City, she found her second love.
In fact, the subsidies given by the major immortal sects were enough for the mother and daughter to enjoy wealth and prosperity without worries about food and clothing, but Lu Wanxing was a person who could not sit still, and she decided to meet the snake demon almost without hesitation.
Although there is a high probability that you cannot win, just run away if you cannot win.
Because of the man-eating giant python, Qishan Mountain is deserted and uninhabited.
Although she chose to go up the mountain at noon, the lush branches and leaves that blocked out the sun completely swallowed up the sunlight, leaving only a few spots. Those few dim lights dispersed pathetically, and instead of making her feel at ease, they cast an eerie silence over the surroundings.
Lu Wanxing was very brave and rushed up the mountain in one go.
She didn't know how long she had been walking until the air suddenly smelled of blood and she keenly sensed a fluctuation of spiritual power.
Then, without any warning, a deafening howl rang in my ears.
——Help, help, help! The python whose eyes were bigger than her entire body...
It suddenly broke through the barrier formed by layers of trees and pounced towards her!
Lu Wanxing was frightened by the pair of cold vertical pupils and her whole body went numb. Fortunately, her years of experience in desert exploration had accumulated enough escape secrets for her. She quickly suppressed the fear in her heart, immediately dodged to the side, and secretly gathered strength in her palms.
She wanted to fight back.
But in the next moment, I heard a melodious female voice: "It went over there... There's a girl over there!"
Only then did Lu Wanxing realize that the reason the giant python rushed towards her was not to capture prey, but to escape in panic.
Someone is chasing it.
This thought flashed through his mind quickly, and in an instant, the spiritual power that he had felt before suddenly approached.
Lu Wanxing saw the slim figure of a woman, and his nose was filled with the fragrance of fresh spiritual herbs.
The man protected her in front of her and made a hand gesture. His spiritual power hit the giant python's vital point hard, causing the monster to let out a heart-wrenching howl.
"Are you okay?"
The woman looked back at her, then raised her voice to her companion: "I hit it!"
"I know."
This was the first graceful voice Lu Wanxing heard, with a hint of laziness, and she smiled faintly: "Leave it to me."
As soon as he finished speaking, talisman light appeared, falling like rain, and each strike was as sharp as a knife, piercing into the flesh of the giant python.
Accompanied by a shrill scream that made the ears hurt, a blood mist flew everywhere, and the ferocious beast that was so secretive to the people of the whole city finally stopped suddenly and fell heavily to the ground.
"Are you okay?"
In the aftermath of the loud noise, the woman protecting her coughed lightly. Her voice was extremely gentle, completely different from the fierce force of her previous attack. "Young lady, are you also a cultivator who came here to exorcise demons?"
Only then did Lu Wanxing realize that this was an overly beautiful sister.
She seemed to be in poor health. Her face was as cold and pale as snow, her eyebrows were like spring mountains, and her eyes were like autumn water. She smiled at her, 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 by the beauty, and then she replied in a daze: "Yes, I came to take a look, I didn't think of anything else."
"You haven't heard about this giant python?"
Another young Fu Xiu came over from not far away and chuckled when he heard this: "Be careful, little sister."
The person who just spoke is also good-looking.
She is completely different from her other sister in beauty. She wears a red dress and has bright and bold facial features. Even if she stands there without makeup and without saying a word, she can attract everyone's attention effortlessly like the shining sun.
What's more, they are very strong.
Who doesn’t love a beautiful sister?
Lu Wanxing quietly exclaimed "Wow" in her heart.
"The one standing on the treetop," the red-dressed woman raised her eyebrows, her voice 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 very high, so it was difficult for him to detect the undercurrent of energy in the jungle. He only knew that the moment the words fell, a chill suddenly passed by his ears.
——It was a sword aura that was deliberately restrained, as clear as the flowing wind, carrying a chill.
"Since you two discovered it first, there is no reason for me to fight for it."
A white shadow leaped down from the woods, his voice very faint.
However, unlike the cold-looking icy beauty that Lu Wanxing had imagined, this sword cultivator actually had a face that could be described as "gentle and beautiful". There was no trace of aggression in his facial features, giving the illusion of being somewhat fragile and weak.
"The senior has a high level of cultivation, so he will surely not snatch the opportunity of this little demon from us."
The red-dressed woman smiled again and said, "Thank you for the sword energy that saved me from danger earlier."
The swordsman shook his head.
Lu Wanxing roughly figured out the relationship between the three people. The two talisman cultivators were companions who came together. The sword cultivator was the strongest and had secretly helped the two before.
It seems that a lot of people were attracted by the bounty.
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 corpse of the giant python?"
Lu Wanxing's heart moved, and he looked in the direction of the voice, and sure enough, he saw that familiar face.
"Miss Ningning!"
"Miss Ningning."
One of the sentences was said by her.
The other person who spoke up—
Lu Wanxing turned his head in surprise and met the equally curious gaze of the woman in red.
This is not the most surprising development.
She would never have thought that the serious swordsman would frown and ask in confusion: "You... all know her?"
What a wonderful luck and fate this is.
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, rumored to be the youngest elder of the Wanjian Sect, is a sword genius who wields the sword with his left hand.
And the idol that Lu Wanxing worships.
Lu Wanxing suppressed her pounding heart and looked up at the other person with pretended reserve. She felt as if a sword had suddenly shot into her heart and she was so excited that she almost fainted.
"Xian Ning and I traveled around the world and happened to pass by South City. When we heard about the snake demon causing trouble, we decided to go up the mountain and try to get rid of the demon."
Meng Tingzhou said: "What a coincidence, I just happened to run into these two people next to me."
As soon as Jinghefu saw Ningning, the coldness in his eyes faded away, and he smiled warmly: "I feel the same way."
She paused as she spoke, her eyes moving horizontally backwards, passing the little girl, and coming to the tall figure of the young man in black behind her: "You two, are you going down the mountain to train together?"
Ning Ning nodded: "Yes!"
She told Pei Ji that she was going down the mountain to gain 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, enjoying the scenery and fighting monsters along the way, which was extremely comfortable.
I finally made the trip to South City this time, and unexpectedly my luck hit me, meeting four old friends at once.
Meng Tingzhou and Song Xianning from Luancheng, Lu Wanxing from Pingchuan, and Jinghe from Wanjian Sect—
Or in other words, Zhou Yimei from the Buddha Realm of the Demon Refining Tower who abandoned her original name.
This elder spends most of her time traveling in the mountains. Even the disciples of the Wanjian Sect rarely see her in a year.
The reason why Ningning knew her was that one day she went to visit Wanjian Sect with the elders. When Zhenxiao Sword Master heard that Jinghe had returned to the sect, he was like a fighting pheasant and shouted for a sword fight in front of the sect for half an hour.
Then Elder Jinghe pushed the door open impatiently, and Ningning had the honor of having a meal with her.
"I haven't seen you for a long time."
The sword cultivator holding the sword in his left hand smiled warmly: "Meeting is fate. Since everyone knows Ningning, why don't you go down the mountain and get together."
Elder Jinghe is so gentle! And invited her to stay together!
Lu Wanxing was so excited that he crowed: "Great!"
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Pei Ji walked alone on the quiet and dark path.
The invitation initiated by Elder Jinghe was more like a gathering among close friends. His going would only add to the embarrassment, so he did not go.
It was already night, and he had just come out of the South City Market with a piece of paper in his hand.
That's a title deed.
He and Ningning had a habit. When they were traveling around, if they came across a scene they liked, they would buy a house in that place, and later when they became interested, they would live comfortably in the house for a few days.
——Unlike other fellow disciples who spent money lavishly, Pei Ji had accumulated a considerable amount of spirit stones over the past few years and 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 here, she would definitely be able to see flocks of fat, round, big yellow ducks.
She always remembered what he said.
...I don’t know if her boudoir party has ended at this moment.
It was exceptionally quiet tonight, and the gathering dark clouds were like floating catkins in the sky, covering most of the incomplete moon.
Pei Ji raised his head slightly and looked around, seeing only darkness, which reflected in his pupils like thick ink that could not be dissolved.
There was something cold in his eyes.
The memories buried deep in the heart emerged bit by bit. This was the path Pei Ji once walked.
Back then, he was helpless, penniless, and labeled a demon monster. No matter where he went, he would be humiliated and abused.
By then he had grown up and knew how to fight back with his fists, so he rarely had a peaceful day and was covered in bruises from the constant fights.
Pei Ji took this path when he left South City.
With scars all over his body and endless fear of the darkness, every step he took was filled with trepidation.
When he thought of this, he couldn't help but laugh at himself.
That happened a long time ago, so I really shouldn't dwell on it.
Pei Ji continued to move forward, the lights in the market gradually faded away, the dark color in front of his eyes became darker, and he opened his arms to embrace him completely.
Almost reflexively, he felt upset and hesitated for a moment.
Pei Ji was tired of the darkness.
But he must go through the darkness and get to the other side for someone.
So he never stopped.
Suddenly, without any warning, the tall figure in black froze for a moment.
There should have been no light ahead, but at this moment a white light flashed silently, like a ray of starry sky pouring down, bright and long, drifting slowly, passing through the eternal silence and coming to his side.
This is a sword energy.
Pei Ji instantly identified its owner.
The sword energy belonging to Ningning was deliberately suppressed to be very soft, with almost no strength, as if the night wind was flowing beside him.
The white light was not dazzling, but like a group of fireflies, lighting up the dark night around them. When it touched his skin, it rubbed it slowly, proudly and coquettishly.
It feels like cotton hitting your heart.
...How could something as cold and hard as sword energy be used the way she did?
Although he thought so in his mind, his body honestly released a more intense sword aura, carefully pressing down on the tip of Ningning's sword energy, as if teasing it, and instinctively overlapping and entangled with it.
In this way, the sword energy that was originally intended to hurt people unconsciously took on a hint of lingering and sad meaning, silently and most alluringly.
If Master knew this, he would probably be so angry that he would turn into a bloated pufferfish.
Thinking of this, a helpless smile appeared in Pei Ji's eyes. As if he felt something in his heart, he looked up in the direction of the white light.
Not far away, on a tall treetop, sat the girl he had been thinking about.
Sword energy spread from her fingertips, drawing out a galaxy brighter than the dome, guiding his way forward. The white light illuminates the almond-shaped eyes, revealing a quiet and clear light silver-gray color, just like the lake and mountains washed by the autumn moon, clear and charming.
Ningning was surrounded by a bright white halo. The moment her eyes met his, her eyebrows curved and she smiled.
No one would not be moved by such a scene.
Pei Ji saw her jump down lightly and run towards him like a gust of brisk wind.
"Welcome home."
A warm and soft body came 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 as she spoke, then continued against his chest, "I'm so sleepy."
There was a hint of cunning in that smile, as if it had some other meaning.
"Um."
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 hugging the shining moon: "Go home and sleep."
He could already pronounce that word very smoothly.
The unspeakable hardships, bitterness, confusion and timidity in my youth all disappeared suddenly because of this white light, and now everything is completely different from before.
Someone is willing to light a light for him from afar to dispel the endless darkness, and then run towards him without hesitation 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 once unbearable night has become so beautiful. The night is no longer the end of everything, but the harbinger of the coming dawn.
He loved her so deeply.
As dusk fell, the woods were sparse and the dark night outlined two shadows walking side by side.
Ningning yawned and heard the faint barking of a dog in the distance. In a trance, she smelled the fragrance of wild flowers falling from the branches.
Fate, she thought.
In the changing time and space of hundreds of reincarnations, 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 and getting closer to him little by little.
Then it becomes 100% the future that belongs to Ningning and Pei Ji.
It makes me happy just thinking about it.
Pei Ji must have caught a glimpse of the smile on her lips, he lowered his eyes and asked in a low voice: "What are you thinking about?"
"I was wondering—"
With a slight hook of his fingertips, the sword energy shook slightly and followed the cold breath he released straight into his sea of consciousness.
It was like a soft cat's paw caressing my entire body in an instant, causing me to tremble all over.
As a result, the blood and meridians all over the body trembled uncontrollably.
The boy's breathing suddenly became disordered, but her hand hooked his fingertips, and he could not escape the gentle shackles. The two sword auras merged quietly, and the spiritual consciousness slowly touched.
Ning Ning pinched his fingertips and caught a glimpse of the red on Pei Ji's earlobe. Her laughter and the sound of the wind rang out at the same time: "I like you the most."
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