Chapter 60
When his consciousness completely returned to his body, the fierce sword wind was already approaching.
Gu An didn't even have time to see who was holding the sword. His body instinctively retreated three steps. With a flip of his wrist, a short black iron blade appeared out of thin air and with a clang, it cut the long sword apart.
Sparks from the clash of weapons flew in the dim light.
He raised his eyes and met Shen Qi's surprised and doubtful gaze.
"It's you?" The sword in Shen Qi's hand trembled slightly, and his tone was full of disbelief and temptation.
Gu An didn't answer, his lips tightly pursed.
He pointed his toes and his figure approached again like a ghost. The short blade in his hand danced with cold light, and his moves were fierce. He fought with his life in a way that completely disregarded defense.
Shen Qi was forced to raise his sword to meet the attack, his heart full of doubts. During the exchange, he felt the familiar way the opponent's spiritual power was circulating and the exact rhythm of the battle, especially the occasional flash of cold eyes that he would never mistake...
"Gu An! Are you back?!" Shen Qige launched a heavy attack and took the opportunity to shout.
In response to him, Gu An's more violent attack was like a tireless martial arts fanatic, or a desperate person eager to pour out all his strength. He forced out all the remaining spiritual power in this already exhausted body without regard for the consequences.
Gu An's face turned as pale as paper at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his breathing became disordered.
Chen Qi's heart was shaken. He suddenly withdrew his sword and returned to defense. His bare hands turned into claws. The shadow of snow-colored dragon scales flashed across his palms. He headed to meet Gu An's almost uncontrollable full-strength attack.
"boom!!!"
Amidst the loud bang, dust and smoke rose up.
The heavy hammer in Gu An's hand, which was condensed from spiritual power, shattered into pieces like glass the moment it came into contact with Shen Qilong's claws, turning into countless twinkling stars and dissipating into the air.
The huge backlash force caused Gu An to feel severe pain in his chest, a sweet taste in his throat, and a mouthful of blood gushed out uncontrollably, revealing a breathtakingly bright color on his snow-white face.
“Xiaobao!!!”
Chen Qi was so frightened that he leaped forward and just managed to catch Gu An's falling body.
It was the first time that Gu An saw someone's eyes filled with such emotions. Those eyes, which seemed to not care about anything in the world, would actually be like this for him.
He curled the corners of his lips, and the blood at the corners of his mouth added a touch of breathtaking beauty to his snow-white face.
This kind of beauty is fragile and pitiful.
The Immortal Lord Qinglian, who once reached the Ninth Heaven alone, leaving a blood mark with every step, finally showed the fragility of his fading life like an ordinary mortal.
Warm liquid dripped uncontrollably into the corners of Gu An's eyes. Chen Qi hurriedly hugged him tightly, and pure spiritual power poured into Gu An's body like crazy as if it were free.
"Hold on..."
"I'll take you away right now..."
"Hold on..."
Shen Qi's voice trembled uncontrollably.
However, the decaying spiritual palace was like completely cracked land. No matter how much spiritual power was poured into it, it was like a drop in the ocean, disappearing in an instant.
Gu An knew better than anyone that this body was already at the end of its strength, not to mention that it had been...
etc.
Su He?!
Gu An shuddered, took a deep breath, and unexpectedly broke free from Shen Qi's arms. He stood up unsteadily, his eyes as sharp as a hawk, scanning the surroundings: "Be careful! The enemy is not eliminated!"
Gu An didn't know whether Su He was dead or alive, but he knew that although Shen Qi was an immortal, he could not resist conspiracy and time. In his heart, Shen Qi could die, but not now, and not because of such a villain.
Shen Qi also instantly became alert, and his backs were against Gu An's, looking around with a sharp gaze: "I found that something was wrong with you when I woke up, so I took action to test you."
"That is Su He, the descendant of Su Chengyue." Gu An said briefly. Now was definitely not the time to explain the whole story.
Just then—
A gust of fishy wind blew past without warning, and on a small hill not far away, Su Chengyue's figure quietly emerged, with a strange smile on her face that was a mixture of obsession and madness.
Almost at the same moment he appeared, the long whip wrapped with thick blood and resentment, like a long-dormant poisonous snake, tore through the air and bit straight towards Gu An's heart.
"Master! Come back with me!!"
Chen Qi reacted even faster. He moved his body and stood in front of Gu An as if teleporting. He did not dodge or evade, but grabbed the strange long whip with his bare hands. At the moment of contact, white light flashed in his palm, and dragon scales appeared faintly. He actually grasped the whip tip that contained terrifying power tightly.
"laugh--"
The blood on the whip collided violently with the green light protecting Shen Qi's body, making a teeth-grinding corrosion sound.
"You're such a scoundrel who hides his head and shows his tail!"
Shen Qi’s eyes were cold and his words were full of contempt.
Seeing this, Su Chengyue's face was completely distorted. With a sharp roar, he jumped up. The long whip caught by Shen Qi suddenly exploded and turned into a foul-smelling blood rain that covered the sky.
Gu An quickly retreated half a step, and forced himself to gather the last bit of spiritual power. He drew an airtight arc in front of him with the short blade. Although his spiritual power was exhausted, his sword moves were still exquisite, blocking all the blood rain that was attacking him.
And Chen Qi was like a golden lightning, rushing straight towards Su Chengyue on the hillside. He was surrounded by a bright golden light and had the might of a dragon. It was obvious that he was really angry and ready to kill with one blow.
"Chen Qi! Don't fight hard!!"
Gu An's heart tightened and he reminded in a hoarse voice.
However, it was still too late.
boom--
The two figures collided violently in the most violent manner, and the dazzling golden light and the filthy blood light entangled and shot up into the sky, as if the end of the world had come. The terrifying energy shock wave spread wildly in all directions, shaking the mountains, rocks and trees within a hundred feet radius to pieces and turning them into dust.
When the devastating light faded a little, Gu An staggered forward and saw this scene.
Shen Qi knelt on one knee, breathing slightly, his right hand dripping with blood, holding a heart that was still beating slightly.
Su Chengyue, who was sitting opposite him, had a terrifying hole in his heart, and his face was frozen with extreme shock and unwillingness.
"Goodbye, I won't see you off." Shen Qi's voice was hoarse, but a trickle of light purple blood couldn't help but flow out from the corner of his mouth.
Just as Gu An was about to breathe a sigh of relief, something strange happened again.
Su Chengyue, who should have been dead, suddenly had an extremely solid black shadow rushing out from the top of his head. It was Su He's soul. At this moment, the soul and Su Chengyue, one small and one big, were intertwined together. With lightning speed, it was like the last poisonous arrow, shooting directly at Shen Qimianmen.
Gu An's pupils suddenly shrank, and without even thinking, he used up his last bit of strength to throw himself forward, trying to block Shen Qi!
In a flash.
“Puff!”
The two people's spirits did not turn around, but with the ruthlessness of dying together, they directly penetrated Shen Qi's chest.
Shen Qi's body shook violently, and the dazzling golden light around him suddenly went out like a candle in the wind.
Almost at the same time, Gu An felt a sudden heat in his heart, and a gentle yet powerful warm current instantly gushed out, forming an invisible protective shield that quietly dissipated the final recoil force of the soul explosion.
"ah--"
The souls of Su He and Su Chengyue completely disappeared with shrill and unwilling screams.
The dust has finally settled.
Shen Qi's tall and majestic body slowly fell backwards and was caught tightly in the arms of Gu An who rushed over.
"Xiaobao..." Chen Qi raised his hand with difficulty and gently wiped the blood splattered on Gu An's cheek with his fingertips. His eyes were as gentle as before, "Fortunately... you are okay."
Gu An was horrified to find that Shen Qi's chest had been completely pierced, and a hideous hole was clearly visible. Light purple blood was gushing out of the wound, and no amount of pressure could stop it.
He suddenly remembered the strange warmth he had felt in his heart, and his voice trembled uncontrollably: "When...when did you give me the Heart Scale?"
Chen Qi looked at him, straining to force a faint smile, his eyes somewhat unfocused: "At that time... you were not there, it was Tang An... that kid who took it in."
Gu An bit his lower lip so hard that he could almost taste blood. "If it were me, I would never accept it."
"Yeah..." Shen Qi's breath became weaker and weaker, and his voice was almost inaudible. "That child... is different from you..."
His eyes began to lose focus, but he still looked at Gu An stubbornly, as if he wanted to carve his appearance into eternity.
"Collect my blood... and live... a little longer..."
He raised his head, looked at the sky where they once stood side by side, and murmured as if in a dream.
“Mung bean cake…delicious.”
"Xiaobao, you...are..."
The hand that tried to touch Gu An's cheek again finally fell down weakly. The eyes that were always filled with warmth and tolerance slowly closed and would never open again.
Gu An held the gradually cooling body tightly in his arms and sat motionless all night on the hillside where the setting sun was blood-red and the wind was cold.
The next day, he buried Shen Qi with his own hands on a sunny hilltop covered with nameless wild flowers.
There is no monument, no inscription, only a young green pine planted beside the grave.
Just as Chen Qi said so casually before his death, pine and cypress are evergreen, so why leave a name behind?
When he turned around and prepared to leave this sad place alone, a little fox with fiery red fur timidly emerged from the woods and followed him closely.
Perhaps it was the memories and kindness of Tang An that remained in this body that made Gu An look at those clear and ignorant eyes and ultimately did not drive them away.
In the next two years, Gu An traveled around the world with the little fox.
They have seen the misty rain in March in the south of the Yangtze River, walked across the yellow sand of the northern frontier, heard the biting wind on the top of the snow-capped mountains, and also felt the sound of the tide on the coast of the South China Sea.
Whenever he arrived at a place with beautiful scenery, Gu An would always stop and carefully describe the scene in front of him to the empty side, as if he was telling it in detail to an invisible person.
The little fox always squatted quietly aside, tilting its head, occasionally making a low whimper or two, as if responding clumsily.
In the late autumn of the following year, Gu An brought the little fox back to the hill covered with wild flowers and towering pines and cypresses.
The moon is as bright as a mirror, and its light is everywhere.
Gu An sat leaning against the lush green pine tree, and smiled at the little fox nestled at his feet, with a smile of relief and calmness.
"His blood can only buy me two years..."
The little fox seemed to understand and rubbed the back of his cold hand gently with its furry head, tears in its eyes.
Gu An slowly closed his eyes, with a faint curve still on the corner of his mouth.
The bright moonlight gently fell on his already frosty hair. In a trance, it was as if he had returned to the distant past, back to the human world.
The mountains and rivers are silent, and the years are silent.
Old friends will eventually meet again in another world.
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