His hand did not touch her, but passed around her waist, enveloping her whole body with his aura. Hua Xiangwan could not help but look back.

According to her understanding, Xie Changji has always disliked touching people, but since their reunion, he didn't seem to mind physical contact too much.

I think after not seeing each other for 200 years, people must have changed a bit.

"Gone?"

Xie Changji saw her look and pretended not to know. Hua Xiangwan nodded and patted Xiaobai: "Xiaobai, let's go..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Xiaobai suddenly jumped out. This jump was so sudden that Hua Xiangwan fell backwards and bumped into Xie Changji's chest. Xie Changji seemed to be afraid that she would fall, so he put one hand on her waist, then leaned over slightly and pressed on Hua Xiangwan's back.

This is what most spirit beasts do when they are fast, but this makes the two of them almost stick together. Hua Xiangwan was stunned for a moment. Xie Changji noticed her movement, turned his head and looked at her, and said calmly: "What's wrong?"

Hearing this, Hua Xiangwan turned around silently.

Xie Changji doesn't mind, so why would she care?

"Nothing," Hua Xiangwan said honestly, "I just feel that you are very different from before."

“People change.”

"So do you think you have become better or worse?"

Hua Xiangwan was curious, but Xie Changji did not answer.

Hua Xiangwan felt bored and didn't say much.

Xiaobai had been running wildly for a whole day, and Hua Xiangwan felt tired halfway through the journey. Thinking of Xie Changji, she simply lay down on the white tiger and fell asleep.

At night, Xie Changji saw Hua Xiangwan sleeping soundly on the white tiger. He thought about it, found a nearby city, and took Hua Xiangwan to find an inn to rest.

Hua Xiangwan felt dazedly that someone was picking her up. She opened her eyes and saw Xie Changji carrying her up.

She was still a little dazed, but she vaguely realized that she was no longer in the forest. There seemed to be a small courtyard around her. Xie Changji took her upstairs, walked into the innermost room, pushed the door open, and gently put her on the bed.

Hua Xiangwan slowed down at this time and watched Xie Changji half-kneeling in front of her to take off her shoes. She was startled and subconsciously shrank back. Xie Changji grabbed her wrist, stopped her impulse to step back, calmly took off her shoes, and then stood up: "You go to sleep first."

Realizing that Xie Changji just wanted to take off his shoes, Hua Xiangwan patted herself not to be too startled, turned around and looked around, wondering, "Where is this?"

"Inn."

Xie Changji walked into the clean room, and a voice came from inside: "Your body is not as good as that of ordinary monks. You need to rest."

"oh."

Hua Xiangwan nodded, understanding what Xie Changji meant. Although she didn't care much about her own body, she thought that Xie Changji was also injured. Now that Yu Gu had not sent any news, they could save a lot of time by directly walking through the territory of Hehuan Palace, so they were not in a hurry.

She took off her coat and lay down on the bed, listening to the sound of water in the bathroom. After a while, she found that the bed seemed a little different tonight than usual.

After thinking it over, she realized that after what happened with Xie Changji last night, she had felt the comfort of her body when the spiritual power was always maintaining it. So when she went to bed alone, she felt a little cold.

People are like this. If they have never had something, they won’t feel anything. But if they have gotten something better and then take what belongs to them, they will feel dissatisfied.

She couldn't figure out exactly whether the comfort she felt last night was due to the company of someone or because her veins were filled with spiritual energy.

If it's the latter, it's fine. If it's the former...

So after Xie Changji left, she had to find someone to sleep with.

I don’t know if I’ll have a chance to join the Tianjian Sect by then, or if other sects are as warm.

She closed her eyes and pondered, and after a while, she heard Xie Changji walking out of the meditation room.

He seemed to be going to the table as usual, but after a while, Hua Xiangwan heard the sound of him opening the cabinet to look for something. She was a little curious, so she turned her head and saw Xie Changji wearing a single shirt and taking a blanket from the cabinet.

Xie Changji noticed Hua Xiangwan's gaze and looked over. After a moment's hesitation, he explained, "Xiaobai's sleeping surface on the floor is too hard."

Hua Xiangwan was stunned for a moment. Xie Changji ignored her gaze and walked over with a furry blanket in his arms. He folded the blanket on the ground and made a circle. He then carefully carried Xiaobai, who had become the size of a cat, into his arms.

Xiaobai entered the new nest and kicked his feet a little uneasily.

Xie Changji touched its head, and Xiaobai soon relaxed and started snoring.

When he did this, he lost a bit of his usual coldness and became more welcoming.

It was as if the gods and Buddhas enshrined in high places walked on lotus flowers and entered the world of mortals.

Hua Xiangwan looked at him curiously. When she saw Xie Changji standing up, she smiled and said, "I didn't realize you liked these little things so much before."

“I’ve always liked it.”

Xie Changji said calmly, "But when I was young, I was afraid that it would interfere with my cultivation, so I didn't dare to approach him."

Hua Xiangwan didn't ask any more questions and just nodded.

I think Xie Changji should have mastered the Sword of Self-Reflection by now, so his love for cats and dogs doesn't affect him much.

Seeing that she had no other questions, Xie Changji turned and walked towards the table. Hua Xiangwan saw that he had no intention of getting into bed. Thinking of the contrast between the cold bed just now and last night, she couldn't help but shout, "That..."

Xie Changji turned around and looked over. Hua Xiangwan asked hesitantly, "Are you okay with your injury?"

After asking this question, Hua Xiangwan felt that her intention was a little too obvious. She touched her nose and turned her head away awkwardly: "I just want to help you..."

Halfway through her words, she felt that she was being too insincere. She clearly just wanted someone to warm her bed, but she was doing it under the guise of helping.

There was nothing to be embarrassed about. She simply turned her head and looked over, and said frankly: "Do you want to go to bed?"

Xie Changji's body froze. Hua Xiangwan was afraid that he might misunderstand her, so she quickly explained, "I have a cold constitution and have suffered from many diseases over the years. I felt very comfortable exchanging spiritual power with you last night. If you don't mind..."

Before he finished speaking, the candle went out.

Hua Xiangwan was stunned. The night was so quiet that even Xie Changji's breathing could not be heard.

She couldn't see his expression clearly, and couldn't tell what he was feeling, so she coughed and explained, "I'm not asking you to do this, I just think this is good for both of us, don't force yourself if you don't want to."

Xie Changji didn't say anything. He just stood not far away, not moving forward but not moving either.

After Hua Xiangwan finished speaking for a long time, he finally said hoarsely, "I am willing."

As he said this, he walked to the bed as usual, calmly lifted the quilt, and got into bed.

Perhaps it was because he had been in the realm of life and death for too long, and he himself made people feel as cold as ice and snow. But when he reached out and held her in his arms, he would feel a refreshing comfort welling up, as if he was soaking in hot spring water, warm and making people completely relax.

She rested her head on his arm and began to practice her own mental skills.

His clothes seemed to be scattered, and his chest was pressed against her back. Spiritual power came from the place where they were pressed together, entered his tendons and veins, then entered his golden elixir, circulated around his body, and returned to his body.

The spiritual power was endless. Hua Xiangwan lay in his arms and soon fell asleep because she was too comfortable.

Feeling the breathing of the person in his arms becoming even and listening to Xiaobai's snoring behind him, Xie Changji quietly looked at the moonlight falling on the bed in front of him.

He felt something filling up in his chest, felt his heartbeat.

He felt a happiness and vitality that he had not experienced in two hundred years; it was rising and pulsating in his heart.

However, when he recognized this feeling, he inexplicably developed a fear that he might lose it at any time.

"Hua Xiangwan," he lowered his head, looked at her sleeping face, and couldn't help asking, "From now on, I will always keep you warm at night, okay?"

"Um……"

Hua Xiangwan heard him calling in a daze and responded vaguely.

When Xie Changji heard her response, he felt that the uneasiness in the dark night was somewhat dispelled.

He lowered his head and tightened his hands, allowing her to fit closely against him without any gap.

He had an impulse to merge everything about her into himself, to make everything about her his.

Her flesh and blood, her bones, her golden elixir, her spiritual power, her soul...

Everything he had belonged to her, and everything she had was his.

In this way, perhaps they will never be separated.

But such thoughts...

Xie Changji closed his eyes.

They felt the moonlight leaving the bed inch by inch, leaving them in complete darkness.

Hua Xiangwan slept well all night and felt much more comfortable.

Xie Changji rarely overslept, so when he opened his eyes, he saw him lying next to him.

He closed his eyes, and his usually handsome face looked somewhat docile in the morning light. Hua Xiangwan stared at him for a moment and couldn't help but admire his God-given looks.

After a "tsk" sound, the other party slowly opened his eyes.

He looked ahead in a daze, as if he was distracted. After a moment, he raised his eyes and looked at Hua Xiangwan.

Hua Xiangwan sat cross-legged on the bed, looked down at him, and smiled: "Are you awake?"

Xie Changji was stunned for a moment, looking a little dazed. Hua Xiangwan laughed out loud, stood up, stepped over him and jumped down: "Let's go."

The two packed up their things and quickly set off.

Over the next few days, they found a city to stay in every night, and Xie Changji would go to bed obediently without her telling him to.

One night he even went to bed early and warmed her up waiting for her, doing this task with due diligence.

As she fell asleep, Hua Xiangwan began to regret why she had not discovered before that it was so comfortable to have someone warm the bed. She had really treated herself too badly before.

We walked and rested along the way, gradually approaching Yunsheng City.

Yunsheng City is located at the foot of the snow-capped mountains. Hua Xiangwan saw a towering snow-capped mountain from a distance. The two of them were sitting on Xiaobai. Hua Xiangwan looked down at the geography book she bought on the road and felt the coldness of the snow-capped mountains in the distance coming with the wind.

"Goddess Mountain is where Dingli Sea and Qingle Palace meet. It is said that there is a lineage of the Snow Clan on the Goddess Mountain. The Snow Clan has only one descendant from generation to generation, and all of them are women. They reach adulthood at the age of 200. Before adulthood, they walk in the world like ordinary people. After 200 years old, they will gain powerful divine power and become the new goddess after the previous goddess dies. The people of Yunsheng City worship the goddess of Goddess Mountain all year round, and the goddess will also protect the people. This companionship has lasted for nearly 5,000 years."

Hua Xiangwan said, somewhat puzzled: "There is only one person in each generation, and she becomes a goddess when she reaches adulthood. How do they have the next generation?"

"Get married while traveling and return to the mountains with your children."

Xie Changji expressed his conjecture. Hua Xiangwan felt that what he said sounded so familiar that she couldn't help but turn around and asked, "Do you guys ask Xinjian if he also does this?"

Xie Changji looked at her helplessly and said, "We don't need blood inheritance, we just need to accept disciples."

"Too."

Hua Xiangwan nodded, thinking back to the previous sword masters of the Wenxin Sword. It seemed that most of them were widows whose families were destroyed, who had no parents and had been orphaned since childhood.

One is poorer than the other, and one is more miserable than the other.

The names are more desolate than the last, such as Xie Cheqing, Xie Gutang, Xie Yunting, Xie Changji...

I have never seen any names as vibrant as Xie Xiangyang and Xie Chaosheng.

As Hua Xiangwan was thinking, a kingfisher flew over and circled in the sky chirping.

Hua Xiangwan raised her hand and the kingfisher landed on her hand.

"Ah Wan," Yu Gu's voice rang out, "I checked all the abnormal situations in the west, and the most suspicious one is still Yunsheng City."

Hua Xiangwan had expected this. She tilted her head and asked, "What do you mean?"

"This happened three days ago. The people of Yunsheng City suddenly aged overnight. Shennv Mountain was sealed off, and ordinary people could not go up the mountain. They asked for help from Dao Zong, the sect in charge of Yunsheng City. Dao Zong has sent people over, but there is no other news yet. You can go to Yunsheng City first to see the situation."

"good."

Hua Xiangwan touched the kingfisher's head, raised her hand, and the kingfisher flapped its wings and flew away.

"If there is any other situation, please inform me immediately."

Hua Xiangwan turned around and patted Xiaobai on the head, saying, "Yunshengcheng, run faster."

After hearing Xiaobai's words, they immediately increased their speed. By the afternoon, the two men and the tiger had already appeared outside the gate of Yunsheng City.

For ordinary people, the two men's appearances were too conspicuous, so they used disguise magic, put Xiaobai into the spirit beast bag, and walked towards the city gate.

There were few people at the city gate, and it looked very desolate. Several old soldiers were guarding the gate, and they looked very tired.

Hua Xiangwan and Xie Changji walked over together. When the old soldiers saw them, they immediately became alert. When the two of them reached the door, the soldier at the edge shouted, "What are you doing?"

"We have relatives in the city, and my husband and I are passing by and want to visit them."

Hua Xiangwan gave the most acceptable reason. Hearing that she was visiting relatives, the soldiers relaxed a little and let Hua Xiangwan take the document, muttering: "You came at an unfortunate time. Something big happened in the city. If you can't find your relatives in the city, go to the foot of Shennv Mountain to look for them."

"Why go to the foot of the Goddess Mountain?"

Hua Xiangwan was curious. The soldier smiled bitterly. He looked up at Hua Xiangwan and said, "Madam, how old do you think I am?"

"Excuse me," Hua Xiangwan tentatively guessed, "She should be... in her sixties, right?"

Hearing this, the soldier's eyes dimmed and he shook his head: "Madam, you guessed wrong. I am only 31 years old."

Hearing this, Hua Xiangwan glanced at Xie Changji. The man in front of him looked like an old man not only in appearance but also in his aura and energy. This situation clearly showed that his vitality had been taken away by someone.

In other words, your life is being borrowed.

"Is this the case throughout the city?"

Hua Xiangwan confirmed it again, and the soldier nodded: "Yes, so everyone who has time should go to the Goddess Mountain to ask for mercy from the Goddess. We have the order from the city lord and have to stay here."

"Thanks for letting me know."

Hua Xiangwan nodded after hearing this.

The soldier said nothing more, "Go in."

The two of them entered the city together. The city was already very desolate. Hua Xiangwan strolled through the city, sensing her surroundings, and clearly noticed that the distribution of spiritual energy was wrong.

All the spiritual energy gathered underground. She looked down and could vaguely see a red magic circle spreading underground.

These magic array patterns are invisible to ordinary people, even ordinary cultivators cannot see them. Hua Xiangwan followed the patterns and walked towards the center of the array.

After walking for a long time, she arrived at the center of the formation and saw a dilapidated mansion standing in front of her.

The mansion looked dilapidated and seemed uninhabited. A seal that seemed to have just been affixed was affixed to the withered red door, and on the plaque covered with spider webs were the words "Lin Mansion" written on it.

"It should be Lin Lu's house."

Xie Changji stood beside Hua Xiangwan, looking at the rising resentment, and spoke calmly: "The resentment is so deep that some people have died suddenly."

"To take away one's family and heart is of course to die violently."

Hua Xiangwan said as she walked forward, wanting to go in and take a look. However, as soon as she stepped onto the stairs, she heard a loud shout from behind: "What do you want to do?!"

Hua Xiangwan heard this and turned around to see a group of veterans. When they saw Hua Xiangwan, they immediately drew their swords and said, "Come over here. You are not allowed to enter here."

"Put the knife down."

Xie Changji looked at the tip of the knife pointing at Hua Xiangwan with a cold tone.

"Sir," Hua Xiangwan smiled after hearing what Xie Changji said. Everyone here is a mortal, and she didn't want to cause any trouble, so she walked down the steps, took out the spirit stone from her sleeve, and handed it to the old soldier opposite. "We are just curious, and we don't mean any harm. Please be flexible, Sir."

Seeing the spirit stone, the old soldier became furious. He slapped the spirit stone away and scolded it.

"You are in the same group as those people a few days ago, right?! It was you who angered the goddess and brought down heavenly punishment. The last lesson was not enough. You still want to go to the Lin Mansion. Do you want to kill us?!"

"A gang?"

Hua Xiangwan didn't care about the knocked-down spirit stone. She caught the other person's words and asked curiously, "Has anyone else been here?"

"Still playing dumb?"

The old soldier gritted his teeth and said, "Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you know some magic. You can't go in here. Get out of here. If you want to go in, you'll kill us all!"

Hearing this, Hua Xiangwan felt a little headache. She was just thinking about how to deal with it when she suddenly heard the footsteps of many people coming from the side.

When she looked back, she saw many elderly people rushing out of the alley carrying hoes, machetes, and clubs, and surrounding them tightly.

“That’s them!”

Someone shouted, "They must have angered the goddess. They are in cahoots with those people! Tie them up and make them pay for their crimes!"

"Hey wait!"

Hua Xiangwan was quite panicked when she saw the old, weak, sick and disabled people gathered together shouting and yelling for war.

Qin Yunyi couldn't scare her, but these mortals could. After all, these mortals who were almost dead were too fragile. She could kill them with just one slap.

When a cultivator kills a mortal, that is a cause and effect that is absolutely not allowed by Heaven, and she doesn't want to be in trouble with Heaven.

And there is Xie Changji behind her. According to Xie Changji's temperament, if he sees her attacking a mortal, the two of them will definitely quarrel.

She quickly explained: "It's a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding, we won't go..."

However, the crowd was so angry that they could no longer hear her voice. An old man hit her with a club. Xie Changji's eyes turned cold and he was about to attack when Hua Xiangwan grabbed his wrist and jumped up high: "Run!"

Xie Changji was stunned, and was dragged by Hua Xiangwan to run out of the city from the roof.

The use of magic is prohibited in the city. This is a rule that Western monks must abide by in every city.

Besides, it's not worth it to deal with a group of mortals.

Hua Xiangwan grabbed Xie Changji and ran wildly, and the people below chased them closely. Some climbed onto the roof and chased them, and some threw things up there, trying to knock them down.

Hua Xiangwan grabbed Xie Changji and dodged flexibly, but the people in the whole city seemed to be rushing over. Although they were old, they were very energetic and chased them from both sides. When they were about to reach the city gate, an old man threw Hua Xiangwan from the side. Hua Xiangwan saw that he was about to fall down, so she grabbed him and advised: "Master, don't do such things when you are old."

As she said this, she was afraid that if they continued to chase her like this, she didn't take any action. These old people would kill themselves doing some difficult moves. Anyway, they had to reach the city gate soon. She grabbed Xie Changji, jumped onto a small stall next to her, and rushed forward.

There were few people ahead, so Hua Xiangwan and Xie Changji dodged all the way. When the city gate was just around the corner, an old soldier shouted and ran towards Hua Xiangwan with a spear in hand.

Hua Xiangwan didn't notice the spear that came at him stealthily. Xie Changji glanced at it coldly and was about to take action when a dust whisk suddenly came down, swept the spear and threw it away.

Then a cold young man shouted, "Back off!"

Everyone was stunned. Hua Xiangwan turned around and saw a young Taoist priest with a green lotus jade crown on his head, a blue robe, a sword on his back, and a whisk in his hand standing in front of her and Xie Changji.

All the people stared at him in amazement. The young man raised his hand and showed a token: "I am Yun Qingxu, a disciple of Dao Sect. I have come to investigate the matter of Goddess Mountain in the name of the sect."

“It’s Dao Zong!”

When they heard the young man announce his name, they became excited and looked at each other: "Dao Zong is here to take care of us!"

The people's words softened the young man's expression. Although he still looked cold and aloof, his expression was kind.

"When the sect heard the news from the city lord of your noble city, they immediately sent me here. The rest of the disciples are still on the way. You don't have to worry. The Dao Sect will never abandon any of its people. I hope you all stay calm."

As the young man spoke, Hua Xiangwan watched him with interest.

He was handsome, with the unique Taoist style of purity and simplicity, but perhaps because of his young age, he was also a little childish.

Hua Xiangwan waited for a while and saw that Yun Qingxu was talking to the people next to him. She walked up to him and saluted: "Master Yun."

Yun Qingxu listened to her words and turned around, his clear and steady eyes fell on Hua Xiangwan.

Hua Xiangwan was born with a stunning appearance. No matter where in the western part of Yunlai, most people who saw her for the first time would be attracted by her and look at her a few more times.

Even with disguise, she is still much prettier than ordinary women.

However, Yun Qingxu looked at her as if she were someone else, and bowed slightly: "Miss."

"Thank you for your help just now." Hua Xiangwan thanked him, "Master Yun, are you here to solve the issue of Shennv Mountain?"

"If I don't do anything, the girl should be fine."

Yun Qingxu couldn't tell the cultivation level of Hua Xiangwan and Xie Changji, but as soon as he saw their appearance, he knew they must be cultivators.

He thought for a moment and said softly, "If you two are here for the matter of Goddess Mountain, you might as well go directly into the mountain. The people in the city are all ordinary people. Some time ago, many cultivators came here for the Demon Lord's Blood Order. Later, something happened in Goddess Mountain. The people are very wary of this kind of cultivators. I hope you two will not disturb them too much."

"I see."

When Hua Xiangwan heard what Yun Qingxu said, she knew where the people's resentment came from.

It seems that someone had already arrived in Yunsheng City before them, found the Lin Mansion based on Lin Lu's identity, and then entered the Goddess Mountain, and then something happened.

These common people probably don’t know more about what happened in the Lin Mansion. In the end, they all went to the Goddess Mountain, which shows that the answer should be there.

Hua Xiangwan smiled and said gently, "Thank you for your guidance, Taoist. We'll meet again later."

"Go on, girl."

Hua Xiangwan nodded, turned and walked towards Xie Changji. After taking two steps, she suddenly remembered something and turned to look at Yun Qingxu: "Yun Daojun."

Yun Qingxu turned around, walked towards Hua Xiangwan, and handed him a talisman paper: "It is still a little dangerous for Daojun to come alone. I will give you a defensive talisman. If you have any problems, I hope I can help you."

Yun Qingxu was a little surprised when he heard this. He looked down at the talisman and could clearly see that it was a defensive talisman of Yuanying level or above.

He thought about it, hesitated for a moment, and finally took the talisman from Hua Xiangwan and said respectfully, "Thank you, senior."

Seeing Yun Qingxu accept the talisman, Hua Xiangwan finally felt relieved and walked back to Xie Changji's side and said outside: "Let's go, we will go directly to Shennv Mountain."

Xie Changji didn't say anything, he just followed her.

As he walked out of the city gate, he couldn't help but look back at the young Taoist priest in the city.

He was indeed good-looking, handsome and steady, and had a bit of the youthful vigor.

Just like Shen Xiuwen, Xie Wushuang... and when he was young, it was all like this.

He silently withdrew his gaze, feeling something drilling into his heart. That thing was very small, but it had sharp teeth and bit him bite by bite, bringing waves of fine and sharp pain.

His face was calm as he walked beside Hua Xiangwan and said calmly, "You seem to like him very much."

"Not bad," Hua Xiangwan smiled, and turned to look at Xie Changji: "The breeze is clear and the moon is bright, the gentleman is like jade, and there is also a little gentleness. Who wouldn't like such a young Taoist priest?"

Xie Changji said nothing. He paused slightly, and Hua Xiangwan swung the Qiankun bag and walked forward humming a little tune.

He looked at her back, his expression gloomy in the dark night.

The memory of their first meeting suddenly emerged in his mind. She pretended to be saved by him and gave him this talisman when she left.

"Master, you saved me. I have no way to repay you. This is a defensive talisman I drew with my own hands. I hope I can help you in the future."

And not long after that, something happened to him.

His identity as a disciple of Wenxin Sword was discovered, and those people wanted to capture him and use his body to enter the realm of life and death.

His eyes were damaged by the poison. As he staggered away, he heard the girl's surprised and somewhat delighted voice: "Little Taoist priest?"

Thinking of this title, Xie Changji turned around and glanced at the city gate.

Little... Taoist priest?