Chapter 43 The protagonist dies and the series ends
At first glance, the disciple was actually quite ordinary. Mixed in with a bunch of Huanhua Palace disciples, he was timid and evasive.
The reason Shen Qingqiu noticed him was because his face was one color, his neck was another color, and his left and right hands were two different colors. Moreover, he neither drew his sword nor glared at them, but just kept bumping into the disciples of Huanhua Palace, like a pickpocket waiting for an opportunity to steal.
In Shen Qingqiu's opinion, there is only one kind of person who would behave like this.
Ming Fan asked anxiously, "Junior sister! Junior sister, what's wrong with you?"
Ning Yingying was stunned for a long time, as if she had been beaten stupidly, and then she finally reacted and fought back with her sword. Shen Qingqiu saw an old cat lazily curling up its tail to bask in the sun and lick its fur, so he picked it up and threw it into the wine shop.
The old cat was frightened and screamed, running back and forth between the two groups of people. Shen Qingqiu lowered his head and shouted, "Heizi, don't run!" and then stepped in. A person came in for no reason, and both sides were stunned. Ning Yingying was afraid of hurting innocent people, so she hesitated a little. The young palace mistress didn't care about that, she took back the whip and beat the old cat as she should. Shen Qingqiu chased the old cat all over the hall, shouting randomly, "Xiaohua", "Huihui" and a bunch of messy names were all given to the cat. In the chaos, Ning Yingying was clearly restrained and dared not make any random moves, but she always felt that her elbow was supported, and her shoulder was pushed, and the long sword was dancing brilliantly without her control. Suddenly, there were two "pa pa" sounds, extremely loud, and the young palace mistress covered her face, stunned and frozen.
Both groups of people saw Ning Yingying waving her arms and slapping her twice, and they stopped fighting at the same time.
Ming Fan cheered, "Junior sister, you fight well!"
Ning Yingying said weakly: "...No, actually...it wasn't me..."
Ming Fan encouraged, "Don't be afraid, just fight! Everyone knows that she was the first to attack. We are the Qingjing Peak of the Cangqiong Mountain Sect, so how can we be afraid of the Huanhua Palace?"
Ning Yingying: "No, it really wasn't me..."
Ming Fan: "If a disciple of Qingjing Peak is beaten, he must return it double!"
Shen Qingqiu cheered in his heart: Mingfan is such a promising kid, yes, yes, that’s what I mean!
Tears welled up in the young palace mistress's eyes. Shen Qingqiu dove into the crowd of Huanhua Palace disciples and finally caught the howling old cat. He stroked its fur and comforted it, "Be good, I caught you. Don't be afraid."
No matter how stupid you are, you should have noticed that something is wrong.
The young palace mistress held her face in her hands and stared at him with resentment: "Hey! Who on earth are you? How dare you tease me like this?"
The disciples of Huanhua Palace surrounded him and shouted, "The Palace Master is asking you!"
Shen Qingqiu bent down and let the cat go, then stood up and pointed at the sneaky disciple hiding at the end, saying, "Why don't you ask who he is?"
Everyone's eyes immediately focused on that person.
The young palace mistress only glanced at him at first, but the more she looked, the more she felt something was wrong. She could no longer care about Shen Qingqiu, so she turned her head away and asked suspiciously, "...Who are you? Why have I never seen you before?" She turned to her subordinates, "What about you? Who knows him?"
The disciple saw that the situation was not good, and shouted loudly, and everyone turned their spears and faced him. Shen Qingqiu took a breath and shouted: "Don't get close to him!" He picked up another green leaf in his hand and flicked it with his wrist.
This time, it wasn't just Ning Yingying who was stunned. Ming Fan was also stunned when he saw the leaf's momentum. The green leaf flew through the air with the sword energy of spiritual light, scraping the disciple's outer clothes and revealing the flesh inside.
Now, everyone looked as if they had seen a ghost. They retreated one after another, and some even jumped out of the tavern directly.
Scarlet skin!
This was exactly what Shen Qingqiu had guessed. In his opinion, there was only one kind of person who would behave like this.
A sower disguised as an ordinary person.
Only the exposed part of his body was painted with human skin color, but the rest of his body was not treated. Now that it was exposed, he simply threw away all hope, with bloodshot eyes, and rushed forward, as if he wanted to kill anyone he saw. Most of these disciples were young people, and they had only heard of this kind of monster but never seen it. When it really appeared before their eyes, everyone was terrified. Shen Qingqiu saw that the sower was about to pounce on a disciple of Qingjing Peak, so he dodged in front and kicked it in the chest, causing it to smash two tables and spurt blood.
Shen Qingqiu turned around and shouted, "Why don't you leave!"
Ning Yingying came up to him, crying and laughing: "Master, is it Master?"
No way, you can recognize me even with my beard pasted on like this? Although I was a little touched, I didn't leave decisively at this time, but stayed and called out his identity - I am really a bit stubborn!
Seeing that the sower was coming towards him again stubbornly, Shen Qingqiu sent Ning Yingying away with one hand as warm as spring, and with the other hand as cold as winter, he fired a fire spell at the enemy.
Missed.
No, it didn’t pop out!
Shen Qingqiu felt that the Lingxiao blood that had been lurking in his body for many years was stirring in his throat again.
There is no solution to this poison that likes to lose its chain at the critical moment. It's enough!
I snapped my fingers several times in a row, but not a single spark came out. It was like a lighter without oil, clicking and clicking, but no sparks came out.
Shen Qingqiu was so angry that the sower had already rushed over and hugged his thigh.
Shen Qingqiu: “…”
He subconsciously raised his right hand that had suffered so much. Sure enough, three red spots were happily taking root and sprouting.
It's not fair! Why does he get infected so quickly every time?
Perhaps it was the grief and anger that triggered the last snap of his fingers, and a ball of blazing flames finally ignited between his fingers. Shen Qingqiu kicked away the sower who was hugging his thigh, and chopped down with a blazing ball of fire!
The sower's body was engulfed in flames and screams. Ning Yingying and Ming Fan rushed over from both sides with tears in their eyes: "Master!"
There was no point in pretending now, Shen Qingqiu stretched out his hand and scratched his face randomly, restoring his original appearance, and said: "Is anyone infected?" Then he said earnestly what he had always wanted to say to others: "Take the medicine quickly, and don't stop taking it!"
A man and a woman cried in his ears, one loud and one soft, "Master, we finally found you. What's going on..."
Before Shen Qingqiu could reply, he suddenly felt a chill on his back. He pushed his two disciples aside, and the Xiu Ya Sword came out from his clothes. With a clang, it blocked the young palace mistress's fine iron whip.
If the young palace mistress was just angry for a moment in her quarrel with Qing Jingfeng, this time she really wanted to kill him. She used a short whip in her hand like a knife or an axe.
Shen Qingqiu asked a question he had wanted to ask for a long time: "What are you crazy about?"
The young palace mistress's face was covered with tears. She cried and shouted, "You traitor, give me your life! Give me back the lives of my brothers and sisters!"
Shen Qingqiu first thought that she was crying for the dead and injured disciples of Huanhua Palace at the Immortal Alliance Conference, but who knew that the next sentence, the young palace mistress screamed: "You killed Senior Brother Gongyi, I killed you!"
Shen Qingqiu's spirit flow swirled on his fingertips, and he clamped the tip of her whip with two fingers.
He was extremely shocked: "What did you say? Gong Yixiao died? When did it happen? Who did it?"
Even in the original work, the worst that happened to Gong Yi Xiao was that he was just sent to a remote branch of Huanhua Palace to make soy sauce, right?!
The young palace mistress asked, "Who did it? I'll ask you!"
The disciples of Huanhua Palace all gathered around him and said, "Thief, avenge the brothers and sisters who are guarding the water prison!"
Shen Qingqiu felt cold in his heart. The number of disciples guarding the water prison was probably close to a hundred. Could it be that they were all killed without missing a single one?
Ning Yingying said angrily, "There's no way I can explain it to a little girl like you. Didn't you see that Master doesn't know about this?" The disciples of Qingjing Peak immediately joined the melee.
Shen Qingqiu saw that swords and knives had no eyes, and there was no point in letting them continue fighting like this. Without time to think carefully, he turned over and jumped out of the tavern, saying lightly: "Come out!"
Sure enough, both sides ignored the fight and rushed out after him.
As soon as he stood on the street, Shen Qingqiu was speechless. On the whole street, a long line of monks in different uniforms were waiting in a serious manner.
After all, there was such a commotion in the bar just now, it would be unreasonable not to be attracted over here, right...
Shen Qingqiu tapped his feet, flew onto the roof, and stood steadily on the eaves. He took a deep breath and uttered from his dantian: "Liu-Qing-Ge!"
Someone stood up with a sword in hand, angrily scolding, "Shen Qingqiu, you have such a vicious heart. You deliberately fled here and lured all the people from various sects here, just to collude with the demons and catch them all here in one fell swoop, repeating the tragedy of the Immortal Alliance Conference?"
Anyway, it's not too much to put any hat on him now, right? ! Shen Qingqiu looked carefully. Isn't this the leader of the Tyrant Sect that he ordered to tear his clothes just now? Just when he wanted to communicate with him, a sharp sword energy came from the east. A man in white clothes holding a sword came at lightning speed. The momentum was too fierce, and a gust of wind was brought up for no reason, which directly knocked the man off his sword.
Liu Qingge stepped steadily on the Chengluan Sword and asked, "What's the matter?"
Liu Juju is so reliable!
Shen Qingqiu said sincerely: "Take me flying."
Liu Qingge: “…”
Shen Qingqiu said: "My poison has taken effect again, and I can't lift the Qi Sword. I can only fall from the sky with my sword."
Liu Qingge sighed and said, "Come up."
The crowd below kept criticizing them, saying things like "the Cangqiong Mountain Sect harbors filth" and "the Baizhan Peak and Qingjing Peak are in cahoots with each other", but the two pretended not to hear them. Riding the Luan Sword, they soared into the sky, with the sound of hunting winds in their ears, leaving behind more than a dozen people with the Yu Sword behind them.
Liu Qingge asked: "Where are we going?"
Shen Qingqiu said: "I have to go to the eaves of the tallest building in the city. I'll trouble you to help me block these people later."
Liu Qingge said: "What's wrong with you? It was you who went into the water prison, and it was you who escaped from the water prison."
Shen Qingqiu said: "...Nothing, just free time."
Suddenly, Liu Qingge shouted, "Jump."
沈清秋：“啥？還沒到呢。”
柳清歌：“有東西在朝這邊過來。”
沈清秋二話不說，立馬就跳，伏身定在一處屋檐上，柳清歌禦劍在半空來了個眼花缭亂的倒連翻，剎住了沖勁極強的乘鸾，凝神望向某處。沈清秋也跟着他去看。
卻聽身後傳來一聲嗤笑：“在看哪裏？”
沈清秋險些當場一個趔趄。
那句“你等着！”，居然不是說說而已。
也對，洛冰河什麽時候是“說說而已”的人過？
居然冒着被心魔劍反噬的風險也要來擒拿他……這是何等深重的怨念！
洛冰河看上去彷如一尊內裏裹着滔天怒火的冰雕，一點就開炸，一沾就結冰。
他死死盯着兩人，朝沈清秋緩緩伸出一只手，道：“跟我走。”
沈清秋輕聲道：“公儀蕭死了。”
洛冰河身體一僵。
沈清秋繼續道：“幻花宮水牢的守陣弟子也死了。”
洛冰河瞳孔中似乎有赤色一閃而過。
他冷冷地道：“反正我說什麽你也是不會信的。廢話少提，再問一次，你到底過不過來？”
他執拗地不肯收回那只手。沈清秋還未回答，四面忽然空降十餘人，禦劍将他們團團包圍在飛檐之上，為首的又是那名霸氣宗的男子。他這次下盤微沉，似在劍上紮了個馬步，防止又被掀下去，嚷嚷道：“沈清秋是我們的，其他人誰也別想動。交給我們霸氣……”
洛冰河猛地側首，喝道：“滾！”
他連劍都沒從劍鞘拔出，周身卻迸發出一層強勁的靈流，在場衆人耳內仿佛有哨聲尖鳴，這回，數十餘人無一例外，連人帶劍都被掀翻到數丈開外。
霸氣宗弟子們遇上了真正霸道蠻橫的氣勢，全軍覆沒。餘下觀望者無不悚然。
這黑衣青年修為如此了得，之前為何極少聽說他名號？
柳清歌一推沈清秋：“走！做你要做的事！”
沈清秋道：“不必。他交給我就行！”5:2啊5:2，這個數據他可沒忘，他叫柳清歌來只是想讓他幫個忙打打雜魚，順便以防萬一，可不讓他送死的！
可這兩個都絕對不是戰意沖天時肯好好聽人說話的角色，一言不合，不對，是一言未發，便大打出手。乘鸾劍勢如長虹，洛冰河卻沒拔劍，手中運集靈力，以掌為刃，直面應擊！
沈清秋知道他為何不能拔劍。高手對決容不得一絲松懈，這種時候最容易被趁虛而入。衆目睽睽之下魔氣侵腦、殺性大發，後果可不簡單。洛冰河身體裏其實有兩套修煉系統，一套靈氣，一套魔氣，因為混血混的夠成功，兩套系統互不幹擾，各自運作良好，必要時候還能左右手兩種不同攻擊方式合力發威。可現在第一，他不能拔劍，第二，他不便用魔氣，殺傷力未免打個折扣，是以居然和柳清歌戰成了平手。
飛檐上巨響震天，白虹共靈光齊爆炸，鬥得太厲害，下面各派修士都不敢貿然插入。
再沒見識沒眼色的菜鳥新手也能看出來，被這兩人的騰騰殺氣擦中一點，那可不是好玩兒的！
他們打得這麽激烈，沈清秋其實倒有些心癢，要不是無可解這小賤人發作的太不是時候，他也真想上去打一打。奈何眼下太不是時候了。他眯眼望天，算着時辰将至，飛身躍上最高那一層。高空中疾風呼嘯，仿佛能把他吹落一般。
洛冰河遠遠望着，忽然一陣焦躁，無心戀戰，眼底戾氣陡升，反手覆上背後長劍劍柄。
他居然敢在這裏拔劍？！
沈清秋道：“洛冰河，你別沖動！”
洛冰河厲聲道：“晚了！”手腕翻轉，心魔劍挾着一股肉眼可見的騰騰黑氣祭出！
乘鸾劍直刺而來，洛冰河在心魔劍那薄如蟬翼的劍刃上輕輕一彈，仿佛戰栗之意從中一波接一波漫出，乘鸾居然生生在半空中剎住。
柳清歌從來就沒有遇到過這種乘鸾不聽使喚的情況，一時間錯愕難掩。沈清秋卻知道事态嚴重了。
真要讓洛冰河現在被心魔反噬了，這些都不用活了，他自己也別當什麽男主了！
他拔出修雅劍，道：“洛冰河，你過來，今天是該做一個了斷了。”
洛冰河擡頭，陰沉沉望他一眼，下一刻，身形便閃現在他身前距離不到三尺處，再一舉手，化開一個結界，罩住整個屋檐上方，把其他人都隔絕開來。
見沈清秋退了一步，洛冰河神色扭曲地笑道：“了斷？你要如何了斷？你我二人，現在難道還斷得清？”
怎麽斷不清？
沈清秋輕吸一口氣，雖然握劍在手，卻沒有要交鋒的意思。事實上，他現在拿着這把劍也做不了什麽。
他道：“事到如今，我沒什麽好說的，只能說一句，果真，天命難違。”
天命=系統，系統→男主。
洛冰河嗤笑：“天命？天命是什麽？就是任一個四歲孩童被欺辱卻無人施以援手？讓一名無辜老婦被活活氣死餓死？”
他說一句，走近一步，咄咄逼人：“還是讓我跟一條狗搶東西吃？還是讓我真心付出、傾心相待的人欺騙我，抛棄我，背叛我，親手把我推下煉獄不如的地方？！”
他道：“師尊，你現在看我這樣，可你知道我在地下那三年是怎麽過來的嗎？”
“在無間深淵裏，三年之中，我每一時、每一刻，腦子裏想的都是師尊。”
“我了那麽久，終于想明白了。”
洛冰河笑容之中，竟有猙獰之意。
“天命，要麽根本就不存在，要麽，就是該被踐踏在腳底的東西！”
烈日當空，最後一絲雲氣也消散無蹤，陽光□□裸渡滿整座城池，輝光燦爛，仿佛赤金遍灑。
沈清秋把目光從天上收回。因為直視太陽，看起來竟有些淚光閃爍之感。
說起來，洛冰河走到今天這一步，他真是有很大責任。雖然是不得已而為之。
洛冰河見他神色忽然軟和下來，不由怔了怔。可同時，頭痛之感猛地劇烈起來。他咬牙攥緊了有掙脫之勢的心魔劍。
不行。至少不能在這裏，被它反噬！
沈清秋忽然柔聲道：“別讓它壓制過你。”
這一聲聽來，恍如尤置身當年清靜峰上。
洛冰河心神越發不穩，腦中似有利刃翻攪，心魔劍倏地黑焰大盛。這次來勢兇猛，洛冰河正劇痛難忍，忽然感覺被人輕輕環住了。
一股靈力如千裏之堤傾塌，洪水席卷般灌入洛冰河體內，霎時将他強制壓下的心魔戾氣撲熄，仿佛久旱之後的暴雨甘霖。
洛冰河氣息平順，運轉無誤，可心卻瞬間涼了。
自爆！
在下衆人有人已經駭然叫出了聲：“沈清秋自爆了！”
沈清秋放開洛冰河，慢慢往後退去，途中踉跄了一下。
修雅劍先墜了下去。主人已自爆靈力，人在劍在，半空中就已斷為數截。
沈清秋總有把血往肚子裏咽的習慣，此刻卻任由鮮血狂湧。
爆了靈力以後，他現在就是連普通人都不如的廢人一個，聲音輕飄飄的，被風吹去了大半。洛冰河卻依然聽得真切。
他說的是：“從前種種，今日一并還給你。”
算是最後做件好事吧。
然後，向後仰倒，從樓上墜了下去。
洛冰河原先只是呆呆看着，一切事物在他此刻的眼中，都被放慢了無數倍。連沈清秋下墜的那一瞬間都慢得一舉一動、清晰無比。在空中下落的軀體，仿佛一只染血的紙鳶。等到洛冰河身體自己先動了起來，搶在他落地之前将他接住時，他才發現，沈清秋的身體輕而薄，空蕩蕩的沒有一絲靈力，真的就像一只紙鳶，一撕就壞。
甚至不用撕，已經散了。
他還沒敢相信。
師尊不是憎惡他血統的嗎？
為什麽不惜自爆靈體也要幫他壓制住心魔劍的反噬？
四周似乎有人嚷嚷“魔頭伏誅”、“大義滅親”之類的東西。
洛冰河腦子裏混混沌沌，只是抱着沈清秋，喃喃叫道：“師尊？”
清靜峰弟子終于趕到，寧嬰嬰早已聽說洛冰河未死之時，乍見又驚又喜，可再看已平靜閉目的沈清秋。話到嘴頭拐了個彎兒，顫顫巍巍道：“阿洛……師尊……他怎麽了？”
柳清歌走來，唇邊還帶着血跡，沉着臉道：“死透了！”
衆弟子呆若木雞。
突然，明帆大叫道：“是誰殺的？！”
所有人目光都聚集在洛冰河身上。
雖然嚴格來說，不能算是洛冰河殺的，可沈清秋的确是在他面前自爆身亡的，這是實話。
明帆和身後一衆弟子拔劍就要送死，柳清歌道：“你們打不過他。”
明帆雙眼赤紅：“柳師叔，那柳師叔總能殺了他，為師尊報仇吧？！”
柳清歌淡淡地道：“我也打不過他。”
明帆噎住了。
柳清歌擦去血跡，道：“沈清秋也不是他殺的。”
“只是，雖非為他所殺，卻是為他而死。”柳清歌一字一句，猶如利劍出鞘：“此仇必報！”
Luo Binghe turned a deaf ear to him, and was in a state of confusion. He was at a loss as to what to do. He was still holding Shen Qingqiu's body, which was rapidly cooling down. He seemed to want to shout and shake him vigorously to wake him up, but he didn't dare to, as if he was afraid of being scolded. He said in a stammering voice, "Master?"
Ming Fan shouted, "Don't call me Master anymore. Qingjing Peak can't bear the responsibility! Junior brothers, let's go. If we can't defeat him, at most we will be beaten to death by him!"
Ning Yingying raised her hand to stop him. Mingfan was furious, thinking that Ning Yingying still remembered their old relationship, and scolded: "Junior sister, it's already happened now, why are you still confused?!"
Ning Yingying said, "Shut up. You are rushing to die like this. Does Master know? What would he say if he knew? Master would rather be infected than let us suffer and be bullied. Are you so desperate to die like this?"
She suddenly became tough. Mingfan was stunned. After a while, tears began to flow.
He burst into tears and said miserably, "But... if that's the case, Master is being wronged..."
"It was clearly not him who did it, but everyone said he was colluding with the demons and put him in a water dungeon... He didn't even have a chance to clear his name."
He choked up and said, "I obviously like this kid so much... After the Immortal Alliance Conference, he refused to return the Zhengyang Sword to Wanjian Peak and insisted on keeping it for himself and building a sword tomb in the back mountain... I was heartbroken for a long time... and in the end, he ended up like this!"
Luo Binghe listened in a daze, as if it were a dream or reality.
Is that so?
Master is actually also... very sad?
Ning Yingying took a step forward, her eyes red, but her tone was calm. She said, "A Luo, although we were not present at the Jinlan City incident, we have heard about it. I don't know why you didn't return to Cangqiong Mountain or Qingjing Peak even though you didn't die. I also don't know why you didn't speak up for Master, and I don't know what happened at the Immortal Alliance Conference. But Master's years of nurturing and cultivation are not fake."
After a pause, she continued, "If you feel that Master has treated you badly in the past, think about the day you lost the jade pendant. Senior brothers were inexplicably defeated, and you must have thought that something was wrong. Picking leaves and flying flowers can be used as weapons. A small punishment will be imposed, and there will be no second person on Qingjing Peak."
Picking leaves and flying flowers? Picking leaves and flying flowers?
Luo Binghe couldn't help but hug Shen Qingqiu tightly.
He whispered, "I was wrong, Master, I really...know I was wrong."
"I...I didn't mean to kill you..."
Ning Yingying said loudly: "That's all I have to say. Even if Master has done something wrong to you in the past and you really can't get over it, today I can finally repay you for it all, right? From now on, you..."
At this point, she couldn't bear it anymore and turned her head away: "Please... don't call him Master."
"Also"?
Yes. Master seemed to have said "return it to you" just now.
Could it be that... I threw him into the abyss in the past, and now I am throwing him off a tall building?
Luo Binghe panicked.
"I don't want you to return it. I... I'm just angry," he said to himself, "I'm just angry that you acted like you saw a ghost when you saw me. You talked and laughed with others, but you didn't even want to talk to me. You were always suspicious of me... I was wrong." He stuttered, wiping the blood off Shen Qingqiu's face as he spoke.
"You don't like me because I'm a demon, and you're a righteous person in the human world. I'm just afraid that if I go back to Cangqiong Mountain, you'll chase me out. I think if I can get the Huanhua Palace, I think that will make you happy..."
Luo Binghe trembled and said: "Master... I really..."
The author has something to say: Thank you minasuegn for the rocket launcher and Bao Mibai, three-inch sunlight, 16287268, jellyfish, fruit garden, unreliable pig, and 16291906gn for the mines.
I want to say sorry to everyone. The reason for the slow update is that I write slowly and there are a lot of typos. If I don't revise the text, it's almost unbearable to read, and I'm also afraid of poor quality. As for the plot, there is absolutely no intention to drag it out. If some gns think that the development is too slow, it's because I didn't grasp the rhythm well. If some gns think it's too hard to bear... or... let's grow fat?
Anyway, thank you all! I tried my best to make it thicker and longer today.