In Xuanji’s heart, Linglong has always been a good sister. Although she was always shouting and fighting, she was actually not annoying at all.
She never imagined that one day she would become like a wooden doll, being led by someone and sitting there without moving. No matter what is said to her, her eyes no longer change. The two souls and six bodies were taken away from the person, in fact, it is the same as dead people.
Xuanji did not want to believe this, in fact she does not know how to believe it. The person is still alive, breathing, lying quietly on the bed, eyes still blinking, as if at any time will jump up and shout her name, and then hug her tightly, twisting to ask her where she has been these days, and why hadn’t she gone to find her.
“I … I looked for …” she murmured, trying to touch Linglong’s rosy cheeks but the person in front of her scattered like smoke. The real Linglong is still lying in the same place, her eyelids have not moved a bit.
The pain in Xuanji’s eyes was so intense that tears fell down on Linglong’s pale face. She gently wiped them dry with her fingers and whispered: “Linglong …… you don’t want to die …… I will bring you back to life ……”.
The morning light outside the window is slightly blue, this heartbreaking night, finally passed slowly. Xuanji looked at Linglong’s white face in the morning light, and finally raised her hand to dry the tears on her face and took a breath and got up and pushed open the door – no matter what her father said, she must go to Buzhou Mountain to bring Linglong’s soul back.
The doorway blocked four Fuyu Island disciples, when they saw her push out the door they looked somewhat awkward, one after another clasped their fists to salute and one of them said, “Miss Chu is going where? We can lead the way for you.”
Xuanji looked at them with a rounded a pair of red eyes, like a small rabbit, can not figure this out, “I …… I know the way ah, why should you lead the way?”
The several disciples are in a difficult position, can only laugh: “Master has commanded, these days no matter where Miss Chu is to go, we have to accompany. Now it is almost dawn, Miss Chu is going to have breakfast?”
Xuanji is not a fool, if she doesn’t react even at this time, that would be truly foolish. She blushed and said in a low voice, “What is this? Am I a prisoner? Am I a criminal?”
Those disciples seeing that she was angry, hastily laughed and said, “Miss Chu is joking. Only yesterday there was a tresspasser in the island who injured the dungeon guard disciples and killed the key criminal, it has not yet been investigated clearly who did it. Miss Chu is a guest from afar, so the master ordered us to come to take care of ……”
Xuanji lightly said: “All are excuses. I am not a three-year-old child, what do I need to take care of. I have four people following me everywhere I go, is that funny? I’m going to the toilet and you’re going to follow me there too?”
The four disciples, including the male disciples, blushed at her rebuttal, but they didn’t dare to disobey the orders of the Sect Leader, and seeing Xuanji step out of the room, they had to follow even if she really wanted to go to the toilet.
When Xuanji saw that they were really following her, she was annoyed and depressed. Then she thought of what they said about the tresspassers coming in last night to assassinate the key suspect, she immediately thought of Zhong Minyan’s “wound” problem. No wonder Sifeng was stammering last night, it was them who did it and actually killed Brother Ouyang. …… Again, they knew everything, and only she was kept in the dark, this kind of feeling of being excluded, she had tasted it many years ago, and it was very unpleasant, but now she had to experience it again.
The four disciples behind her also stopped in a hurry. Xuanji looked back at them and felt so angry that she wanted to draw her sword and drive them away.
But then she heard someone calling her from behind, “Xuanji, what are you doing?”
It turned out to be Zhong Minyan and the others. Xuanji was about to go over and complain to Yu Sifeng, but she saw that there were several disciples of the Fuyu Island behind each of them, and they were all staring at each other in embarrassment, not knowing what to say.
“So…… you are here also ……,” Zhong Minyan helplessly rubbed his forehead, his voice with a thick nasal sound, sounding exhausted beyond compare. He also did not sleep all night, his eyes were bloodshot, she does not know if he had secretly cried.
Yu Sifeng sighed, “Probably afraid that we would run to Buzhou Mountain on impulse, actually sent someone to watch … really did not expect this.”
When Ruo’Yu saw that they were just standing around in the courtyard which didn’t seem like a good idea, so he said, “Let’s go in and see Linglong, shall we?”
Xuanji silently opened the door, and Zhong Minyan was stunned at the door for a long time, and finally walked in slowly. The other three had a tacit agreement and closed the door behind him. The three stood at the door and looked at each other and the other disciples, staring at each other with wide eyes.
The subversion that Zhong Minyan suffered in the past two days was more than the past ten years, and he was a bit overwhelmed, as if many things had been added to his shoulders, and he could not breathe.
He has always deeply trusted and proud, but something in that night was gently shattered. The treasure that he had always loved so much that he could not hurt it, was lost inadvertently.
Now he seems to have lost everything, he seems to have nothing, and his existence seems to have become meaningless.
The room is a bit dark, on the bed is lying a girl in red clothes, half covered with an old silk quilt on her body, dark long hair scattered on the bed, glittering in the daylight.
Zhong Minyan slowly walked over to her, his eyes staring at her in a daze. His heart seems to be scraped with a knife blade, so painful that he slowly kneeled down and held her hand tightly, as if in this way he could get some courage.
After a long, long time, his hoarse voice rang out in the quiet room, “Linglong …… all my fault ……”
He shouldn’t have left her alone in Gao’s Mountain. The last thing he should have done is to give up the search and run to Fuyu Island.
The memory of that flowery girl, the dark eyes seemingly angry and happy to look at him, the face with a red blush at first, finally teeth gritted in anger, “Zhong Minyan, you give me an explanation!”
Yes, he hadn’t told her how much he liked her. He had imagined long ago that he would spend his whole life with her in the future. He should have told her long ago, grabbed her hand, no matter how she struggled, but also whispered and firmly told her that he liked her and would never leave her in this life. In the future, when they get married, they will have many children, and he wanted girls who look like her.
The long fingers brushed the girl’s blank face, a few drops of water fell lightly on her clothes and soon blurred.
“Linglong, wait for me. We will meet again soon.”
Zhong Minyan took a breath, got up and puled open the door. The three of them were still waiting at the door and had no intention of leaving.
“Come in and talk.” He said in a low voice and looked up at the disciples of the Fuyu Island.
The four of them walked into the room together and closed the door behind them. When Yu Sifeng saw that he still had tears on his face, he patted him on the shoulder without words, not knowing what to say.
Zhong Minyan said in a deep voice: “This will not work, someone will follow us every day until we leave the Fuyu Island. I think the master will not let us continue the training, will certainly be escorted back to Shaoyang Peak. We have to think of a way to get rid of these people.”
Xuanji already had a lot of anger in her stomach, and immediately said, “Let’s just kill them!”
Yu Si Feng held her down, “Calm down, you can’t be violent at this time. In any case, this is also the good intention of the sect leaders, afraid that we will die for nothing, and it is not good to turn this into a stalemate. I think, these people can not follow us all day, there is always neglect during shift change. We’ll wait until it’s late at night and they’re tired, then sneak off the island.”
“What if they are not negligent all the time? We just wait?” Xuanji had recently become very angry with all these things and it made her a little more reckless like Linglong.
“Xuanji.” Yu Sifeng called out to her and did not say anything else, only looked at her quietly.
She hung her head for a while before she whispered: “I …… know. I will hold back.”
Yu Sifeng helplessly touched her head, “Good girl. Many things when done impatiently do not work well. We stay in the room for a long time, they will certainly also be more alert, why not go out for a walk.”
Ruo’Yu nodded, “Indeed, save them from the idea that we discussed a plan of escape. By the way, by the way …… who knows where Buzhou Mountain[1] is? I’ve only heard of it, but never been there.”
The group all shake their heads, it seems that all have heard of the great name of the Buzhou Mountain, but nothing else about the place.
“I have a map.” Xuanji hurriedly took out the map and laid it on the ground, the four of them looked at the map for half a day and almost became cross-eyed, but they could not find the three words “Bu Zhou Mountain” on the map.
Ruo’Yu rubbed his forehead and sighed: “In the ancient mythology, the water god Gong Gong was not able to compete with the fire god Zhu Rong and knocked down the Bu Zhou Mountain, so the world was flooded. The mountain must be a very majestic mountain range since it can top the sky, how come it is not on the map.”
“You …… are talking about a myth. Could it be …… that there is no Mount Bu Zhou? Or …… it’s not called Bu Zhou Mountain anymore?” Xuanji is still searching on the map little by little.
Yu Sifeng said, “The place is said to be connected to the underworld, and there are two gods guarding the door to the underworld. Although the legend can not be fully believed, but it will not be completely baseless. I heard from my master that the Buzhou Mountain is near the great wasteland in the west, so let’s travel west and inquire about it then.”
After the discussion, they opened the door and went out. The disciples of Fuyu Island had been waiting impatiently for a long time and when they came out, they rushed to meet them and said with a smile, “Do you want to have breakfast?”
Zhong Minyan gave an old-fashioned hmm, and added: “The purple rice porridge we ate last time is good, please help us to get it. Oh, also, that small Fuyu Island pickled dish tastes good.”
Those people look at each other, thinking that we are not their subordinates. However, the Master’s orders they dare not disobey and had to agree to get it.
Xuanji saw them leave with a sullen look on her face and couldn’t help but snicker as Zhong Minyan released a sigh of relief. The two people at the side, Yu Sifeng and Ruo’Yu could only shake their heads with an awkward smile.
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[1]: Mount Buzhou was an ancient Chinese mythological mountain which, according to old texts, lay to the northwest of the Kunlun Mountains, in a location today referred to as the Pamir Mountains. It is the mountain said to have supported the heavens, against which the Chinese water god Gonggong smashed his head in a fit of anger, requiring the goddess Nüwa to repair the sky. Nevertheless, once the spacer between the Earth and Sky was damaged, the land of China was permanently tilted to the southeast, causing all the rivers to flow in that same direction.
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