It was getting late, and it was approaching the unitary hour.

The self-deprecating tea stall owner who named 'Irisha' has now closed the stall and returned to the dilapidated wooden house in the village.

This is the ancestral house of his own family for four generations, except for the occasional visit to his wife's village, where he lives for a day or two. But as he had a physical accident, he went to his wife's side less and less.

Thinking about it carefully, he hasn't been to the village in Jixiang for almost two years recently.

As soon as he returned to the wooden house, the middle-aged man felt that he was exhausted, because now he was so weak that he would feel overwhelmed even if he walked such a distance empty-handed. So, he could only sit down in the chair and rest for a while, and then go to cook himself the to-day dinner, but as soon as he sat down, he heard a crisp ticking sound in his ears.

He closed his eyes and listened to these familiar sounds, and knew that it was the sound of falling rain, but after a while, these sounds of falling rain, which were still a little rhythmic, turned into endless noises, which continued.

Torrential downpour poured down from the sky.

In an instant, it was full of mountains, rivers and fields in the entire Qiulu Township.

The middle-aged man leaned back in his chair, tilted his head and closed his eyes, as if he had fallen asleep, but then, he was directly hit by a raindrop that seeped in from the old tiles, and was instantly awakened.

"The roof leak happened to rain overnight. ”

The middle-aged man smiled bitterly, and let the raindrops that splashed at the center of his brow explode into a pile of broken beads, and then down the dry folds that he had formed from his growing emaciation, and when the droplets ran down the sides of the bridge of his nose, it looked like two faint tear stains.

It's a pity that at his age, he will no longer be sad because of a little worldly triviality, and at the same time, he can't be moved by a little bit between people, and burst into tears.

"I really hate the rain!" the middle-aged man couldn't help but sigh.

Only he knew that he hated the rain not because he hated the rainy weather, but because when it rained, the rain would penetrate his old wooden house, which was already in need of renovation. However, he himself did not have the ability to repair the house for a long time.

As for asking someone from the village to help with the repairs?

He never thought of this, first, because he did not have enough money to pay for the wages, and secondly, even if the people of the village did not accept his money out of affection, he did not want to owe them anything, because he knew that his time was numbered after all, and he would never have a chance to repay them.

"I don't know if those two scholars have crossed the river smoothly now. ”

The middle-aged man raised his head slightly, looked at the rain curtain in the patio, and couldn't help but think in his heart. But then, a familiar feeling of dizziness took over all consciousness in his mind again.

It is difficult to describe in specific words, what kind of feeling this is, it is like a gust of wind, blowing his heart swaying, and he can no longer carry out any mental thinking, and it also makes his whole person seem to be in a fog, and at the same time, his heart is gradually sinking, cooling......

Originally, this dizziness would only occur once every two months, but after countless repetitions over the past ten years, he now basically occurs twice a day.

The middle-aged man was in a daze, just sitting on the chair and suffering a completely uncontrollable miserable experience, until in the past, after almost a cup of tea, this dizziness gradually had the meaning of subsidence, but before he waited until he regained his calm as usual, a tingling sensation from the nerves suddenly rose in his body and spread.

"Ahh

The middle-aged man finally couldn't bear the pain that was similar to a needle piercing his body, and screamed bitterly, he reached out to cover his head, but he couldn't stop trembling all over, and he himself hesitated after the dizziness just now, and he couldn't have any strength in his body.

Therefore, his state at the moment is like a drowning person, trying to grasp the projection on the water, but in the end he finds that it is just a duckweed, which cannot support him to rise to the surface.

The pain continued, and the middle-aged man's terrible screams resounded in the wooden house, but no matter how terrible his screams were, no one would hear him in his wooden house, which was already isolated on the edge of the village, because his voice was directly drowned out in the sound of the galloping rainstorm.

Bang!

Under a violent struggle.

The middle-aged man, along with the seat under his buttocks, finally fell to the ground.

The floor of the house was smashed out of the earth hammer and was also very damp, and the reason for this situation was not only the continuous splashing of water vapor from the patio, but also the rainwater seeping in from the roof, and now it was like a stream that had shrunk countless times and filled the scarred ground from all corners.

The middle-aged man fell to the ground and only rolled for a moment, and the whole person turned into a clay figure that seemed to have fallen into a pile of mud, which couldn't help but make him look even more miserable.

However, compared to what happened outside his body, there was no doubt that the pain inside his body was much more intense.

The veins on his forehead were constantly moving, and if anyone could see what was going on with him at the moment, they would find that there seemed to be reptiles passing through the meridians on both sides of his forehead, and these two reptiles were still crawling towards his eyes.

"Ahh

The middle-aged man continued to let out a miserable scream, and his weak hands were directly grasping the moving position in his meridians, and he turned his fingers into claws, trying to dig out the monster swimming in the meridians, but unfortunately, he didn't have the slightest strength at all, and he couldn't break through his own skin.

So, he could only feel the two reptiles in his consciousness, gradually approaching his eyes, and desperately waiting for the catastrophe to come, but at this moment, in despair, he suddenly remembered the elixir that the scholar gave him at noon.

He wasn't sure if this pill would really have any effect on his illness as the other party said, because over the years, he had not only spent all his savings in order to seek medical treatment, but also experienced countless disappointments, because the final result was that without exception, those Lang Zhong were helpless against his illness, or even had no idea what to do about it.

The middle-aged man took out the pill given to him by Xu Yan from his arms with trembling hands, and the eyes that looked like they were dripping blood, just glanced at it, and then no longer had any hesitation, and swallowed the pill into his mouth.

Dead horses become live horse doctors, this is his only choice at the moment.

The pill melted in his mouth, and he didn't even need to swallow it, and then in the middle-aged man's stunned state, the medicinal power had completely poured into his body.

Immediately afterwards, a sharp pain rose from his chest without warning, as if someone was taking a knife and cutting through his body, which couldn't help but make the middle-aged man's already on the verge of collapse even worse.

"Poof!"

After the pain lasted for a cup of tea, the middle-aged man directly spit out a mouthful of blood as black as ink, and when this blood blew on the ground and met with water vapor, it also made a "bang" sound, like the sound of a charcoal thrown into cold water, but obviously, with his current state, he has long been unable to care about this inconsequential phenomenon.

The pain in his body lasted for almost half a quarter of an hour, which made him, who was already about to hold on, die of pain several times, but he was immediately awakened again, and in the process of repeating, the black blood spit out of his mouth was as big as an ordinary porcelain bowl.

The pain was finally about to fade, but at this moment, the middle-aged man was lying flat on the ground, his eyes were already full of malaise, and he didn't even know whether he was alive or dead.

His tired eyelids were slightly open, and he stared blankly ahead, but he could not see anything, for in his sight there was only a vague grayish white, but there was no sight, and after the pain in his body had only ceased for a moment, he felt that a new pain seemed to be spreading from his mind.

When the middle-aged man noticed this scene, his hideous and pale face couldn't help but show a trace of deep fear.

However, fear was only an emotion that belonged to him in his heart, and it did not help him in the slightest.

The next moment, the middle-aged man who seemed to be dying again let out a painful cry from his mouth, but the sound was not loud, or it would be more accurate to describe it as a whimper, but after this pain, he finally stopped spitting out jet-black blood, but spit out two extremely disgusting corpses of reptiles the size of a little thumb, which made him almost unbelievable.

The middle-aged man looked at the insect on the ground extremely weakly, and couldn't help but think in his heart, "What is this?"

......

Hearing the sudden sound of the piano in the bamboo forest, Xu Yan and the others only paused slightly, and turned their heads to glance at the bamboo house and continued to walk in front of the bamboo forest.

However, before Xu Yan walked out a few steps, a very delicate and sweet voice came into his ears, only to hear a woman say to him: "Since it is pouring rain in the sky, why don't this son come to the bamboo house to take shelter from the rain first, and wait for the rain to listen before leaving?"

After Xu Yan heard the voice, he replied in a calm tone: "Thank you for the girl's kindness, but my brothers and sisters still want to cross the stream while the water level is not rising, so I won't bother the girl." ”

The beautiful woman who was playing the piano, when she heard Xu Yan call her a girl, she couldn't help but smile, but she didn't care about anything, she didn't stop the guqin she was playing in her hand, but while playing the piano, she continued: "This son said that he laughed, where is there a stream in front of you, you have to see it clearly." ”

Hearing what the other party said, Xu Yan's heart couldn't help but be slightly shocked, and then he withdrew his gaze and glanced at the front of the bamboo forest, and then he saw that sure enough, as the other party said, not far in front of him, the previous bamboo forest had completely disappeared, replaced by a misty cliff.

When Xu Yan saw this scene, he sneered in his heart, and immediately ran his long Bible, blocking his ears and isolating the other party's piano sound.

After a few moments, when the sound of the piano stopped reaching his ears, the scenery before him returned to its original appearance.

Xu Yan said in an indifferent tone: "If the girl wants to use this lame illusion to keep me, it will be too underestimated, if you have no other means, you will leave first." ”

The stunning woman in the bamboo house, seeing that Xu Yan had seen through her methods so quickly, couldn't help but feel cold in her heart, but her face was still not annoyed and angry, instead of tearing her face, she smiled at Xu Yan and said: "It seems that Gongzi is really a cultivation genius as rumored outside, but you can easily see through my illusion, but the senior sister of the same sect who is dressed as a man behind you doesn't seem to be able to." ”

When Xu Yan heard the other party say this, his heart immediately froze, he turned his head to look at Gu Xueqing behind him, and found that the other party was already embarrassed, like a puppet.

"Senior Sister Gu!"

Seeing her like this, Xu Yan immediately shouted in the wind and rain, but the result was obvious, she didn't react at all.

So, Xu Yan had no choice but to tear off a piece of cloth from his body and divide it into two, then roll it into two small balls and stuff it into the other party's ears.

The stunning woman in the bamboo house saw Xu Yan doing this, and did not make any resistance, and even stopped playing the piano, and then, she got up and walked to the door of the bamboo house, and said to Xu Yan with a smile: "It's too late to think of insulating her now?"

After Xu Yan heard this, he no longer wasted his efforts, and immediately stopped what he was doing, he turned to face her, and then asked in a calm tone: "You really can't let us go, you have to be someone else's eagle dog?"

The beautiful woman was never annoyed or angry, laughing and not saying a word, but then, she shook her head gently.

When Xu Yan saw that this was the result, he didn't want to bother more, so he directly began to walk slowly towards the bamboo house opposite.

The woman in front of the bamboo house saw the other party walking towards her, her face was not shocked, but in fact, at the moment when Xu Yan raised her foot, her snow-white right hand behind her was already clenched with her fingers, and when Xu Yan approached to the point that she was only about ten zhang away, her clenched fingers suddenly opened quietly.

As a result, there was a strong breath that suddenly rose from the woman's body.

Immediately after, I saw that the sleeves of her coat studded with red and yellow colored text suddenly fluttered and floated, and then her five fingers became claws, as if she was grabbing something in the air, and waved it vigorously in the direction of Xu Yan.

"Whoosh!"

After a bang.

There was a very sharp green bamboo that had been sharpened by a firewood knife, and it burst out from the bamboo house, and the target was directly aimed at Xu Yan who was ushered in in the front.

Xu Yan saw this green bamboo flying towards him, his face became unshocked, and even when the green bamboo was completely close to his chest, only about a zhang left, he suddenly stretched out his right hand, and also clenched his fingers into claws, firmly blocking this green bamboo the size of a bowl, but like a giant sword galloping.

The woman standing in front of the bamboo house saw that the other party easily took her move with a hand, and her beautiful eyes couldn't help but smile, because this result was completely different from what she expected.

She looked coldly at Xu Yan, who was holding the bamboo pole with one hand, and said bluntly: "I didn't expect you to be so young, but your cultivation is already so deep. ”

After Xu Yan heard this, his face was expressionless and he didn't say anything, but his right hand that held the bamboo tightly made a force, and the entire bamboo pole in his hand was pinched and exploded, making it into countless bamboo threads, and then, without waiting for these bamboo threads to fall from the rain-filled mid-air to the ground, he waved his sleeves again, and at the same time rolled up thousands of drops of rain in the air, he also burst out with a majestic sword intent that was stronger than the other party.

At this moment, the bamboo threads in the sky all turned into fierce sword qi.

Like rain falling in mid-air.

swept away towards the beautiful woman in front of the bamboo house.

After seeing this scene, the latter's face could no longer maintain its original composure, and she directly swept into the bamboo house, and at the same time, the moment her figure entered the house, the two doors that were originally open were also immediately closed tightly.

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

An extremely explosive sound resounded in this bamboo forest.

Then the wooden door that was used as a shield by the woman, after successfully blocking Xu Yan's hundreds of sword qi, was finally overwhelmed and was directly blasted into pieces.

Xu Yan saw that the other party had dissolved his sword with skillful borrowing, so he didn't care, but just stretched out his palm again, and gently held it in the rain with his palm up.

The rain that fell from the sky, after he made this simple action of lifting, was all suspended in mid-air to form crystal clear water droplets.

Then string it together in a thread.

Converge into a sword.

Xu Yan flicked his fingers one of the water droplets closest to him.

"Smack" with a crisp sound!

This water droplet directly penetrated all the remaining water droplets suspended in mid-air, and formed a water sword, smashing towards the bamboo house in the distance, which had no gate.

A sword intent rose out of thin air.

The water sword let out a long roar like a green dragon when it went out to sea.

Xu Yan's eyes were fixed on the sword qi he used, and he could already clearly feel that at this moment, he could be regarded as having Zhao Bailian's romantic freehand of breaking the lamppost at the beginning, although it was generally only similar to the shape rather than the god, but as long as he practiced every day, then one day he could reach the same level as the latter, using the sword intent of the sword qi record to the peak.

The water sword slammed into the bamboo house in the blink of an eye.

The tip of the sword is pointed directly at the left chest of the beautiful woman.

If the latter was stabbed head-on by Xu Yan's sword, then there was no doubt that she would be directly smashed in her heart, and she would die.

So, the beautiful woman saw that the water sword in the air was constantly approaching her, and immediately sat back in her original position with a cold face, and then saw her stretch out her left hand and press the strings above, and her right hand suddenly swept the strings.