Chapter 63: Past Life Causes (IV) You are indeed my senior brother in my past life...
The second snow of winter fell for a day and a night.
Xie Rangchen stood in front of a red plum tree and raised his hand to catch the paper crane that carried the message from thousands of miles away.
"Brother, Master sent a message saying he's taken in a new junior sister down the mountain. He also said she's born with a sword bone, just like you, and is a great candidate for swordsmanship! They'll be back up the mountain in two days."
[We are all busy preparing a gift for our junior sister. When will you be back, senior brother?]
He replied: [It will arrive in two days.]
"Are you leaving?"
The young man turned around to see his friend tapping a red plum blossom bud with his folding fan. The flower, originally destined to remain closed, blossomed magnificently under his guidance.
"When will you come to my place for a cup of tea again?"
Xie Rangchen: "I will be in seclusion after the spring."
Retreat to break through the realm and ascend to the upper realm.
"What a shame! The plum blossoms will surely bloom even better next year."
His friend looked dejected. Xie Rangchen thought for a moment and said, "Yun Er and Yu San will come."
"Guan Si and Yue Wu don't like going down the mountain, so Ying Liu will definitely come and join in the fun."
The friend laughed and said, "Ying Liu? Then I have to be careful, he has too many bad intentions."
Xie Rangchen said nothing and picked a branch of red plum blossom.
"Look, my good friend, who's never been romantic and doesn't care about anyone, actually picked a flower?" his friend teased. "I really don't understand. The Path of Ruthlessness is clearly best suited for you, yet you're practicing the Path of Inquiry. If you were practicing the Path of Ruthlessness, you should have ascended to heaven three years ago."
His gaze paused, resting on the red plum blossom: "Could it be that you already have someone in your heart? Are you picking my plum blossoms to please the girl?"
"It's a long trip, a thousand miles, and it's so troublesome. Next year, ask Yu San to bring her here. Plum Island welcomes her anytime."
Xie Rangchen twisted the plum branch, giving it a layer of spiritual power to ensure that it would always remain at its most beautiful appearance.
As for his friend's wild fantasy based on the fact that he picked flowers, he gave up his ruthless way for a girl and traveled thousands of miles to pick flowers for her... This is really a bit too much nonsense.
"I started practicing the Heart-Searching Dao because I wanted to find my destined marriage, but she hasn't shown up yet, and I can't wait for her any longer." He's going into seclusion at the beginning of spring, so even if she comes up the mountain in two days, they won't see each other much. How could he possibly be tempted by this?
"Besides, this flower is my gift to my junior sister."
"What a pity! I thought there would always be someone in this world who could pull you, the moon in the sky, down to earth." The friend looked quite regretful.
No matter how hard a person who is naturally cold and indifferent pretends to be gentle and friendly, he is still cold and ruthless at heart.
If only his destined marriage had appeared ten years earlier.
*
Two days later, Xie Rangchen met his destined marriage - a thin girl - on the top of Huaijiang Mountain.
The girl felt very uneasy in the face of the enthusiastic hospitality of her fellow disciples. Apart from thanking them quietly and introducing her name as "Zhu Ciying", she didn't say anything else.
After her fellow disciples left, the top of the mountain became quiet, and the little sister started to build a snowman out of boredom.
She used her nimble fingers to pinch out the snowman's nose and eyes, and stuffed stones into its round belly.
She looked at the snowman alone for a while, then suddenly squatted on the ground and buried her head in her arms.
Snowflakes fell on her head and shoulders.
After observing her for a long time, Xie Rangchen picked up a dead branch and came to her.
Just as he inserted the dry branch into the snowman's body, the girl suddenly looked up and met his eyes.
Eyes like black gemstones.
Very special.
It's also very dazzling.
"Hello, little genius."
He stroked her prickly hair and said, "This is a gift from my senior brother."
The junior sister carefully caught Hongmei with both hands.
"Time is short and there is no time to prepare. If I have time in the future, I will give you a gift that suits your taste."
"By the way, what's your name?"
The girl was startled, lowered her head and whispered, "Zhu Ciying."
"It's a nice name," he said.
"Your second brother is still waiting to duel with me, so I'll leave first."
As he turned around, someone grabbed the white jade with dragon pattern on his waist.
"Senior Brother——" Zhu Ciying called him.
Do you still remember the old lady selling candy at the foot of the mountain? Do you still remember... me, the one you rescued from the sea of fire?
"What's wrong?" Xie Rangchen asked in confusion.
The words were on the tip of her tongue, but Zhu Ciying couldn't bring herself to speak them in the face of his unfamiliar gaze. She swallowed down the thousands of words she had accumulated over a thousand days and nights, her fingers trembling slightly as she curled them back. She let go of the White Dragon Jade, shook her head, and said to him, "Brother, be careful during the sword fight."
The young man paid no attention to her inappropriate behavior and said politely and distantly, "Thank you for the reminder, Junior Sister."
The girl watched him go away, a bitter smile slowly appearing on the corner of her mouth.
The belated heartache made her break down and cry.
She could never have imagined that the person who took her to light lanterns, to watch the stars, to wish her all her wishes come true, and who helped her taste the sweetness from colorless and tasteless candies, would be a stranger to her when they met again.
We haven't seen each other for three years, and you actually forgot about me.
*
Xie Rangchen planned to go into seclusion after the spring.
There is still a month before the Chinese New Year. During this period, he stayed in the sect every day and never went down the mountain.
Since the master was busy refining spiritual weapons, he gave Zhu Ciying the task of teaching him the Sixteen Swords of Yaoyue.
The junior sister has a foundation in swordsmanship and learns very quickly.
Not only does he learn sword quickly, he is also very hardworking.
At night she always invited him to teach her sword.
Every night the girl would hold a lamp and stand at the sword-training platform, waiting for him quietly.
His junior sister was the most talented swordsman he had ever met in his life, except for his master.
Watching her practice swordplay is a visual feast.
Every move and every style of hers has his shadow.
"Brother, come quickly!"
In the dim light, Zhu Ciying stood on the sword-practicing platform and waved at him.
Xie Rangchen's gaze froze, and he subconsciously quickened his pace.
"What sword technique do you want to learn today?"
"No sword practice today." Zhu Ciying pointed to the food box on the table and opened the lid. "Tonight is a full moon. How about you accompany me to watch the night scenery?"
There was a plate of sweet cakes and a small bowl of egg drop soup in the food box.
Sweet cake… His Adam’s apple moved: “Okay.”
"The stars tonight look bigger than usual, as if I could grab them with my hand." Zhu Ciying said after taking a sip of egg drop soup.
Xie Rangchen took a piece of sweet cake, lifted his robe and sat down next to her: "If you want to see more clearly, you can fly up on your own sword."
He finished one piece of sweet cake, still not satisfied, and reached for the second piece. Zhu Ciying rested her chin on one hand, but smiled without saying a word.
"Don't tell me you can't fly with a sword?"
The girl shook her head, looked at the moon in the sky and said, "It's so boring to pick stars by yourself."
She lowered her eyes, her eyeballs slightly turned, and her gaze swept over the scabbard in his hand that was as black as the night.
Where he couldn't see, she curled the corners of her lips.
No one else in the world would know except her.
The Jade Phoenix Sword was once unsheathed to make her happy.
*
New Year’s Eve is the busiest day of the year in Huaijiang Mountain.
"Aying, Aying, it's time to receive the red envelope!"
"Thank you, Senior Sister."
The red envelope that Yu Feifei gave to Zhu Ciying was big and thick, very exaggerated, and showed her wealth.
She winked at Zhu Ciying playfully and said in a low voice, "The red envelope that Senior Sister gave you is much thicker than the one your junior brother gave you."
Zhu Ciying didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Is this really okay? Junior Brother will cry."
Yu Feifei didn't care: "It's okay, let him ask Yun Cangyu for it."
"What a good way to shift the blame!" Coincidentally, the person involved, Yun Cangyu, overheard their conversation.
The two had just had an argument a few days ago over guiding Zhu Ciying in her cultivation. When they met, they disliked each other and turned their heads away, as if they were about to spit at each other if they looked at each other for even one more moment.
"Hey, brother, look, the couple is arguing again." Zhu Ciying turned around when she heard the voice and saw the sixth brother walking towards them with his arm around the fifth brother's neck.
Sixth Senior Brother Ying Sihong had a look of excitement on his face: "Everyone knows that you two quarrel at the head of the bed and make up at the foot of the bed."
"Sixth Junior Brother! Be careful with your words!" Yu Feifei's face turned red with anger.
"Who, who is married to her!" Yun Cangyu's ears blushed.
"Hmm? Am I wrong?" Ying Sihong rubbed his chin and smacked his lips. "One of you is wearing a red robe, and the other is wearing a red skirt. If someone didn't know, they would think you two were getting married today! Do you have any wedding candy?"
Yu Feifei: "I wear a red dress just to celebrate the New Year! Besides, I usually like to wear blue!"
Yun Cangyu: "Who, who wants to marry her?"
Ying Sihong turned a deaf ear to their explanations and turned to Zhu Ciying, "Look at them. One is blushing with embarrassment, and the other is so nervous that he can't even speak clearly. Junior Sister, please judge for yourself."
Zhu Ciying smiled at him and chose to remain silent to protect herself.
The young man sighed repeatedly: "Ah, Junior Sister is good in every way, but she is too smart and hard to deceive."
"Brother, tell me."
Zhu Ciying's fifth and sixth senior brothers were originally twins, one took his father's surname and the other took his mother's surname.
The fifth senior brother Yue Guming, as his name suggests, has an arrogant and cold personality and finds it difficult to get along with strangers.
Yue Guming: "Yeah."
"Listen, everyone, listen, my brother admits that you two are a real couple!"
"Fifth Junior Brother, even you..." Yu Feifei stamped her feet in shame and anger. She couldn't stay in this place for even a quarter of an hour!
The girl turned around, leaving her back to everyone, and quickly used the wind control technique to escape from the scene.
"Senior Sister..." Zhu Ciying didn't even catch a corner of her clothes.
"Your wife ran away, aren't you going to chase her?" Ying Sihong turned and came to Yun Cangyu's side, "Second Senior Brother, seize the opportunity. Aren't you afraid that one day my Third Senior Sister will fall in love with someone else?"
The young man in red suddenly tensed up.
It is Yu Feifei's freedom to choose whoever she likes. What reason and identity can he have to interfere... As her senior brother?
He is no longer the second young master of the Yun family who was once so powerful. Yu Feifei is so pampered that she must be raised by a wealthy family in the world of cultivation.
Besides, the Yun family's dirty deeds would only eat her up until not even a bone was left.
Regardless of whether he has that identity or not, Yun Cangyu knows in his heart that he is not a good match for her at the moment.
"Forget it, she'll just get angrier if she sees me."
The young man looked lonely and had lost all fighting spirit.
Ying Sihong gritted his teeth, feeling very disappointed with his friend.
Yue Guming said coldly, "Not necessarily."
Yun Cangyu looked up in confusion.
Yue Guming never gives unnecessary explanations.
Zhu Ciying pondered for a while and came up with something that Yun Cangyu might like to hear: "Second Senior Brother, you and Third Senior Sister have the best relationship in the entire Qingwei Sect. How could she really be angry with you? Go find her now and explain things to her. She will definitely make peace with you."
"Really?" Yun Cangyu was half-believing and half-doubting, and was coaxed into chasing Yu Feifei to apologize.
Before leaving, he didn't forget to give Zhu Ciying a red envelope: "Yu Feifei has already given you a red envelope. As the second senior brother, if I don't give you one, it would seem that I am very narrow-minded. You can keep it."
Halfway through the journey, he suddenly regained consciousness and realized that he had been fooled by his sixth junior brother and younger junior sister again.
Why should he apologize to Yu Feifei!
The young man turned around angrily, but before he could take a step, he changed his mind and thought, I'll just apologize. After today, all the anger I have will be saved for next year!
On New Year's Eve, the disciples of the Qingwei Sect gathered on the top of the mountain to release sky lanterns.
Everyone was busy writing their wishes on lantern paper.
Zhu Ciying, Xie Rangchen, Yun Cangyu, Yu Feifei, Guan Zhaotang, Yue Guming and Ying Sihong sat around a table and wrote down their wishes.
Yu Feifei: [I hope to marry my ideal husband next year!]
Yun Cangyu, who accidentally saw her wish, gritted his teeth, dipped his pen in ink, and quickly wrote: [She likes one, I'll chase her away!]
The two of them released the sky lanterns at the same time, but unexpectedly the lanterns collided with each other halfway through their flight, and the candlelight ignited the lantern paper, which burned in the air.
Yu Feifei: "Yun Cangyu, you did this on purpose!"
Yun Cangyu: "Whoever did it on purpose is a dog!"
Ying Sihong watched the two people quarreling and silently released his own sky lantern: [Second Senior Sister and Third Senior Brother, I hope you get married soon. I want to eat some wedding candy.]
Zhu Ciying finished writing her wish carefully. When she looked up, she saw her fourth senior sister Guan Zhaotang and fifth senior brother Yue Guming staring at each other.
My senior sister has a paralyzed face all year round, and she looks down on everyone.
My senior brother is aloof and arrogant, and he won't be nice to anyone who comes.
Whenever the two met, there was always a strange reaction. In Ying Sihong's words, their eyes were so bright and sparkling that even a fly would fly around them.
After so many years, the disciples of Qingwei Sect have become accustomed to it.
Zhu Ciying glanced sideways at Xie Rangchen. There was a sky lantern in front of the young man, but he had no intention of picking up a pen to write down his wish.
"Brother, shall we light the lanterns together?"
Xie Rangchen's eyes moved, and he stood up with the lamp: "Okay."
"Brother, don't you have any wishes?" Zhu Ciying loosened his hands, and the sky lantern was blown slowly into the sky by the wind.
"Not this year." In previous years, he would write "Qingwei An", but next year he will ascend to heaven, so the wish will lose its meaning.
Zhu Ciying had a lot to say to him, but Xie Rangchen was sent away from the top of the mountain by his master.
The back mountain of Qingwei Sect.
"When are you planning to go into seclusion?" Jiang Zunyue asked.
【The beginning of spring.】
The young man stood in the snow in silence.
The answer was right on the tip of his tongue, but he couldn't help but recall the scene when he wrote his wish on the top of the mountain.
He was tall and was standing next to the junior sister, so he could naturally see clearly what she wrote.
[I hope that my senior brother will continue to teach me swordsmanship next year.]
This was the first time in his life, no, to be precise, the second time, that he intuitively felt the feeling of being needed.
Zhu Ciying's lantern flew up into the night sky, and his heart followed it far away. He then broke the words "spring" into pieces, chewed them, and swallowed them.
"Not next year." He replied to Jiang Zunyue.
"Why?"
Why?
Xie Rangchen was also asking himself, why did something unexpected happen when there was no room for maneuver?
Scenes flashed through his mind, finally settling on a young girl. The girl was holding a lantern and a sweet cake, looking at him eagerly, as if she really needed him.
Many times, he stood in the dark, hesitating whether to tell her about his retreat in the spring, but every time he saw her expectant eyes, he couldn't help but move closer to her, closer and closer.
That's all.
He thought capriciously:
That is what she wants, and what I want too.
Stay with her for one more year, and ascend to heaven one year later.
When she learns all the sword techniques next year, she probably won't need him anymore.
*
Zhu Ciying's eleventh senior brother is a remarkable man who specializes in matters of love between men and women. He often takes time out on a fixed day every week to impart his experience to the disciples of Qingwei Sect.
Including how to kiss your partner, how to have sex...
Zhu Ciying and her junior brother were forbidden to participate because of their young age.
But she had heard her junior brother summarize the learning outcomes of this course.
First of all, the last ones are undoubtedly Guan Zhaotang and Yue Guming, who are tied for last place.
One has a blank expression, the other is aloof. This course is very profound and too difficult for them to understand.
Yu Feifei's results ranked among the top ten.
Zhu Ciying would never have thought that Xie Rangchen could understand this course, which sounded not very serious, so quickly and apply it to other situations, and thus rank among the best.
Is this my handsome senior brother?
You can't judge a person by his appearance.
Her second senior brother Yun Cangyu also surprised her.
He is second.
This person's explanation was: "I have to be better than my senior brother in one aspect!" Whoever is always second will suffer!
It should be like Hong No. 3.
Well, that's expected.
In the spring of the first year that Zhu Ciying joined Qingwei Sect, Xie Rangchen, Yun Cangyu and Yu Feifei went down the mountain to eliminate monsters. Jiang Zunyue ordered them to bring Zhu Ciying along, saying that it was to test her learning results.
The demon that was causing trouble was extremely formidable, far more powerful than any other demon king. Yun Cangyu and him battled for a whole day and night, but neither gained anything and both suffered heavy losses.
"You can't beat him but you still insist on showing off. Isn't my senior brother here? If you asked my senior brother for help, the monster would have died long ago." After treating his external injuries, Yu Feifei opened her third eye to help him see his internal injuries.
Yun Cangyu was indignant and raised his hands in protest: "It's like he wasn't injured. I didn't lose to him!"
Yu Feifei slapped his hand away: "Shut up!"
Xie Rangchen listened helplessly to the two people bickering.
The next moment, the demon who had fallen to the ground and pretended to be seriously injured and unconscious suddenly flew into the air, grabbed Zhu Ciying, and retreated to the edge of the cliff.
The demon said viciously: "Let me go, or I will kill your junior sister!"
“Yun Cangyu—” Yu Feifei panicked and hit Yun Cangyu’s still bleeding wound. “Look at what you’ve done! If you dare to let A Ying get into any accident tonight, I will definitely kill you!”
Yun Cangyu: “…” He was in so much pain that he couldn’t speak.
"I, I'll trade with my junior sister. You release Aying!" Yu Feifei said, looking at the demon on the edge of the cliff. "Don't hurt her."
"Oh? Since she is so important to you, I can't let her go." The demon sneered cunningly and took another half step back behind the cliff.
"Big Brother..." She was about to ask Xie Rangchen for help when her eye caught a glimpse of a moon-white piece of clothing.
"Junior sister, do you believe me?" Xie Rangchen said to Zhu Ciying with a calm face.
"letter."
With one word, Xie Rangchen drew out the Jade Phoenix Sword without hesitation, and with a casual wave of his hand, the sharp sword energy approached her head-on at the speed of the wind in an instant.
Zhu Ciying looked calm, staring at the powerful sword energy coming towards him without blinking.
The moment the demon sensed something was wrong, he pushed the hostage out to shield himself from the sword: "Hahahaha, one's own people killing one's own people, how many times have we seen this kind of fratricide..."
His voice stopped abruptly, and the girl's intact figure was still reflected in his pupils that were suddenly closed with fear and pain.
He was very confused.
Why? Why did that earth-shattering sword energy that had so terrified him shatter into pieces the moment it met the girl, transforming into a gentle spring breeze that brushed the hair by her ear?
"Senior Brother." Zhu Ciying was safe and sound, not even a hair was missing.
"I'm glad that Aying is okay." This was the first time Xie Rangchen called her by this name, and Zhu Ciying smiled at him happily.
The night wind in early spring was cold, and Yu Feifei and Yun Cangyu looked at each other in bewilderment.
After a while, Yu Feifei regained her voice: "Am I seeing correctly? The Jade Phoenix Sword is unsheathed?"
Yun Cangyu rubbed his eyes and double-checked the sword in Xie Rangchen's hand: "Yes, the Jade Phoenix was unsheathed just like that?" Damn, he didn't get this treatment when he dueled with his senior brother! Ah Ying was too lucky!
Because their behavior was too strange that day, after returning to the sect, Zhu Ciying captured the two of them and asked about the situation.
Yu Feifei thought about it again and again and said, "It's better for Ah Ying not to know."
"Senior Sister, I want to listen." She said firmly.
Yun Cangyu coaxed and lied: "After hearing this, Ah Ying might change her opinion of Brother, and might even start to dislike him."
Zhu Ciying insisted: "I want to listen."
"Okay then." Yu Feifei couldn't resist her stubborn little expression.
"Big Brother was actually a child picked up by our Master. Just a few days after he was born, his parents abandoned him in the mountains, leaving him to fend for himself..."
Xie Rangchen, an orphan, was lucky enough to meet the wandering Jiang Zunyue, who took him to Huaijiang Mountain and raised him.
Because he was born with sword bones, his cultivation increased rapidly. He formed the golden elixir at the age of seven and broke through to the Nascent Soul stage at the age of eleven.
But even though he has a high talent for cultivation, his character flaws are exposed as he grows older.
Jiang Zunyue discovered that he was born heartless and desireless, cold and distant, and no one had ever truly entered his heart.
He is free and unrestrained, and there is nothing in this world that can trap him.
Logically speaking, this kind of person is most suitable for practicing the way of ruthlessness.
But somewhere in the dark, there is someone who is destined to be entangled with him for life and drag him into the mundane world.
The twelve-year-old Xie Rangchen was filled with murderous aura, and even demons didn't dare to approach him.
In the same year, Jiang Zunyue took him to travel around the world, let him see the suffering of all living beings, and advised him to restrain his murderous aura and treat others kindly.
Xie Rangchen seriously corrected himself and tried hard to learn to be gentle and docile.
At the age of seventeen, he was already able to perfectly disguise himself as a bright and gentle young man, and no one could find any fault with him.
He can deceive many people, but he still can't change his inherent indifference and alienation.
Only when he met Zhu Ciying did he break his principles again and again and couldn't help but give in to her.
He postponed his retreat time, practiced sword skills with her every night, ate cakes and watched the stars together... He even angrily ordered the Jade Phoenix to unsheathe and kill the monster when she was in danger.
Doesn’t this still look like the moon in the sky, so high and mighty, oblivious to the world around it?
The moonlight shines on every corner of the world, but when it falls on people, although it is bright, it is always cold.
That night, Xie Rangchen arrived at the appointment on time.
A bowl of salty soup and a plate of sweet cake.
Nothing had changed between him and her, yet it seemed as if a tremendous change had already taken place.
"Junior sister, why are you smiling so happily?"
“I’m thinking of turning myself into a little sun.”
"The sun?" Xie Rangchen bit the sweet cake, not quite understanding.
"Um."
"Warm the moon with the sun's light."
I don’t want the bright moon to shine on me alone.
I will cover him with the brightness of the sun.
*
In May, Jiang Zunyue observed unusual movements in the Demon Realm, predicting a catastrophe for the Three Realms. He ordered Xie Rangchen to immediately retreat and break through the Tribulation Crossing Stage.
The two had a brief conversation the day before the retreat.
Jiang Zunyue asked with a smile: "How do you feel about your destined marriage?"
Xie Rangchen was slightly stunned as he watched Zhu Ciying fighting with Yun Cangyu. In the past six months, she had grown a lot taller, gained some flesh on her face, and her skin had become whiter.
He said calmly, "Master, Ah Ying and I are ten years apart in age. In my heart, I only regard her as a child. Wouldn't it be an animalistic act to fall in love with her?"
Jiang Zunyue looked at him deeply and said earnestly, "But one day, she will grow up. In these long years of living together day and night, can you guarantee that you won't be moved by her from beginning to end? Even for a moment?"
Xie Rangchen: "That's for the future."
For the first time, he avoided his master's question.
But his conscience will not be false.
At that moment, the answer he wanted to say was: Yes.
He was sure that if he gave Zhu Ciying more time, he would definitely fall hopelessly in love with her.
God never gave him a chance.
He watched his junior sister die in his arms, and he couldn't save her.
I listened helplessly to her final words:
"Brother... I used to hate my sword bone because it caused me to lose one loved one after another. Later, I was very glad that I had the sword bone because it allowed me to be noticed by Master and enter the Qingwei Sect and become your junior sister."
"Brother, when you ascend to the upper realm, don't forget that you once had a little sister. Her name is Zhu Ciying."
Aying, how can I forget you?
In my two lifetimes combined, you are all I have.
*
Zhu Ciying had no idea what happened in the illusion. Ever since she was sucked into the Huoyang Ding, she had been surrounded by demons.
After killing dozens of demons, the sword bone on her back suddenly grew without any warning. At this moment, the sword bone merged with her spiritual power, forcing her to sense the spiritual sword.
But she never learned swordsmanship in her life, and her only sword, Yansheng, was left to her master Xiangyue.
Where could she find a sword? Sword… A thought suddenly flashed through Zhu Ciying’s mind. Xie Tiantian was a sword cultivator, so he must have a natal spirit sword!
They had formed a spiritual bond, and he had said that all his spiritual power, including his magical weapons, were at her disposal.
In other words, she can summon his natal spirit sword through the soul contract.
Zhu Ciying acted immediately and activated the soul contract.
*
On a mountain thousands of miles away, an old woman with white hair was picking herbs with her grandson.
"Grandma, this mountain looks like the hilt of a sword."
"Really?" the old man said, his back hunched. He looked up at the towering mountain and said, "This mountain was originally a volcano. It's said that three hundred years ago, a powerful demon and an ascended sword immortal battled here. The demon was no match for the sword immortal, so he cunningly caused the volcano to erupt and took the opportunity to escape."
"A volcano erupted, and boiling magma flowed out in all directions. The sword immortal couldn't bear to see the lives of the people destroyed, so he threw his sword into the mountain to suppress the volcano."
"Later, after a hundred years of exposure to wind and sun, the mountain slowly changed its shape and became like a sword handle."
"Look, there are words left by the Sword Immortal on that stone tablet."
"Grandma, let me go and take a look!" The grandson ran to see.
He had barely reached halfway when the silent volcano suddenly shook violently. A huge rock tumbled down the hillside, and before it could hit the child, it was cut in two by a long sword as white as frost.
The old man protected his grandson and stared at the mountains in a daze.
At the same time, a sentence flashed through my mind - the flowing words engraved on the stone tablet:
Hide the sword to comfort old friends, and unsheath it to suppress evil spirits.
*
I sensed it!
Inside the Huoyang Ding, a meteor streaked across the sky.
Zhu Ciying stretched out her hand towards the flying sword, and the sword turned around obediently, facing her drastically changed gaze and landed steadily in her palm.
The long sword is as white as frost and snow reflecting the bright moon.
Zhu Ciying's breathing stagnated, and her five fingers trembled several times before slowly closing together. Her heart was hanging high in the air, unable to let go.
Just because of the sword in front of her, she will never forget it until her death.
"Jade Phoenix Sword..."
She muttered to herself, her head buzzing.
"How could it be the Jade Phoenix Sword..."
"Oh……"
She cried with joy, her eyes instantly wet.
Thank you Tiantian.
Thanks Rangchen.
You really are my senior brother in my previous life.
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The author has something to say: Xie Tiantian: "How did I get caught?"
Jade Phoenix Sword: “…” Your wife is calling me!
The love between the senior and junior brothers in the previous life ended in a hazy regret
The sweetness of this life is full of openness and generosity
About the character of the elder brother:
Initially, I was designing a gentle, motherly character, but I later felt that it was too thin, lacking in depth and depth. No one is naturally gentle, kind, or caring; it must be something they've experienced that shapes their personality. So, I used his life experiences to infer his character and refine his true nature. He's essentially a cold and heartless person, and his gentleness is just a facade he puts on others. (Hence, the Big Tail Wolf [Cai Gou] disguised as a Big Dog.)
No one is perfect and everyone has shortcomings. Even those who seem gentle may have a side that is unknown to others.
My senior brother is naturally indifferent and distant to people and things. No one can enter his inner world. Even if he is kind to someone and moves others, it cannot touch his own heart.
But he is very lucky, and Manman is willing to be the little sun to warm him.
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