long night walk

Chapter 706
Penglai Mountain, located in the South China Sea, is like the shore of water.

Penglai is different from Kunlun, the sacred mountain that traverses heaven and earth in the wind and snow.

Compared with the land covered with snow all the year round, like the sand of the vast sea without borders, Mount Penglai is a fairy land of evergreens all the year round.

The clouds are made of brocade, and the eyes are green mountains.

Walking to the water and listening to the wind and lotus, sweeping the fallen flowers with the immortals, riding the waves and sailing boats, drifting with the water, as a guest in the world of mortals.

In the gloomy and luxuriant sea and mountains, there are endless Penglai abbots.

Although Penglai is located in the world, it is not a mortal, a fairy in the mountains, or an islander.

Anyone outside the mountain, whether human or immortal, has express regulations on climbing Penglai.

It is necessary to climb the mountain on foot, not to use the sword, not to fly, not to escape, so respect and respect.

Not to mention Yun Rong, who is the Thirteen Swords of Tianxie, even if the three heads of righteousness in the world come here, they must abide by the rules, put away their swords and walk up the mountain.

Green boats and bamboo rafts go south by water, and the paddles lightly hit the spring stones to reach the other shore.

Yun Rong, who was dozing under the sun, was awakened by the people around her, and when she opened her eyes, she saw the legendary Penglai Fairy Mountain.

A thick fog rises from the sea, caged in mountains and caged in water.

Bypassing a yellow sand shoal, stepping into the ancient mountain forest, there are a large number of Fusu flowers and trees in the mountain, surrounded by strands of grass and trees.

The mountain branches lightly tug at the woman's belt, the wind blows, and the chirping of birds is lively and sweet, forming a melody in the gaps between the leaves.

In a corner deep in the mountain forest, there are wild deer hanging their necks to drink the stream, the mountain stream is lingering, and the breeze allows itself.

Penglai is extremely far away and the mountains are extremely high.

If you don't use spiritual power to climb the mountain, this mountain path may take a long time.

Both Yun Rong and Bai Li'an are people who observe etiquette, so they will not break the rules of this mountain indiscriminately.

After walking for a full hour, halfway up the mountain, the evening bell rang, the afterglow of the clouds dispersed, the sun sank to the west mountain, and the night was about to rise.

The sky became more and more misty, the sky began to drizzle, and the soaked wild flowers and plants became deeper and deeper.

Bai Lian suddenly stopped, opened the paper umbrella, and handed it to Yunrong.

Yun Rong was looking at the shadows of Luo Tuo and the two of them in the mountain path, seeing him reaching for the umbrella without saying a word, subconsciously took it: "Junior Brother?"

There are three thousand lanterns hanging in the mountain, in the dim light, the young young master Tianxi stepped down two steps, squatted down, and smiled at her: "Senior sister, shall I carry you up the mountain?"

Yun Rong looked at half of his shoulder that was wet by the drizzle, and was slightly startled.

Although the two of them have been married for many years, the only difference is that she moved from her Tingjian Tower to his Dongli Xiaozhu.

In addition, the two always guard Zongshan, strictly discipline themselves, get up in the morning to class, and copy scriptures in a daze, which is not much different from their pre-marriage life.

The suzerain's family style is extremely strict. As the young master of Tianxi, he was born and grew up in the book pavilion since he was a child, and was rarely arranged by the suzerain to go down the mountain.

Although Yun Rong is not under the education and control of the suzerain, the things he does down the mountain are mainly to eliminate demons and help the way.

Like today, it was the first time in their life that the two of them traveled together to see the five lakes and nine states by boat.

The rule of climbing Penglai is to return to the world to look at the world, and to bring a body of mortals into the world to refine one's heart.

Unlike in the past, when Yun Rong went to the countries of the world, no matter how far away he was, Yu Jian escaped, it was only a short period of time.

She has been a fairy for a hundred years, when will she be carried up the mountain.

For a moment, Yun Rong only felt a little strange that after coming back to the legendary fairy mountain ancient land, he became a mortal again.

Her husband, the young master of the family, has an upright and clean temperament. Although Yunrong knows that she is married, but by his side, day after day, it is always difficult to miss the wind and the moon.

So even now, she didn't have any shame, and she lay down on the ground generously.

The temperature was just right when the rain fell on the mountain and the wind was blowing. The light rain, like fine powder, fell on the surface of the paper umbrella without making any sound.

Bai Lian was not walking fast, a paper umbrella, overlapping mottled figures, and two rows of deep and shallow footprints on the ground soaked in green rain gradually drifted away.

The Xuexue sword was carried behind Yunrong, the light blue tassels of the sword hung down from her shoulders, and the soft tassels fell on his ears.

Bai Lian seemed to feel some itch, and his ears kept moving.

This little move fell into Yunrong's eyes, and she also found it a little interesting, but she didn't expect his ears to be as sensitive as cat ears.

"Brother." She called softly.

"Yes." Bai Lian replied.

"Junior Brother's Coronation Ceremony is coming soon. I should have gone to Zhongyou to pick up my empress first, but because of my imprinting of the sword spirit, I have delayed such an important matter. I am afraid that my empress will blame you."

Bai Lian smiled: "No, my mother once said in a letter that she is not in good health this year, so she doesn't need to travel far to Tianxie. Since she told me so, it must be useless for me to pick it up."

Seeing that he seemed sad in his mind, Yun Rong guessed that there might be another rift between the Suzerain and Empress Ying Ji.

The couple, since their marriage, have been very affectionate for the first year. As the years passed, and some sect prejudices in the world, the two also gradually backed away from each other and drifted farther and farther apart.

She remembered that on the eve of her wedding with her junior brother, Lady Ying Ji rushed to work all night to embroider a pair of wedding gowns by herself when she received the good news, and came to White Camel Mountain one day in advance.

But before she arrived at Dongli Xiaozhu, she met the suzerain first.

Before the two had even exchanged a few words of greeting, they started arguing fiercely.

In a rage, the Sovereign burned the pair of dresses and left in a huff.

Yun Rong didn't know what happened afterwards, but only knew that on the day of marriage, the empress was not in the auditorium of Tianxi Sword Sect, and even if they were married, there was only the suzerain.

The arms around his neck tightened a little, and she said softly: "It's okay, after the junior brother's coronation ceremony is over, it's the same for you and me to visit the empress in Zhongyou."

Bai Lian looked at her sideways, his eyes treacherous: "I whispered to my senior sister, my mother said, after the matter with your sword spirit is over, let me take you to Zhongyou for a short stay.

She will prepare a crown ceremony for me that is different from that of White Camel Mountain. Let's go quietly so that my father will not know. "

Yun Rong rubbed his fluttering ears, pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Okay, but junior brother, don't expect too much from me, even though Penglai has thousands of spirit beasts, it is the most extensive place for spirit beasts in the world, but I may not be able to successfully refine the sword spirit."

"But Junior Brother, don't worry, no matter whether you succeed or not, I will follow you to Zhongyou and accompany you to attend the Zhongyou Crown Ceremony."

Bai Lian let her pinch her ears: "Senior sister is born with sword bones and extraordinary talents. Even if you can't inscribe the sword spirit, you don't need to be too persistent. Whether you succeed or not, just follow your heart."

Yun Rong was surprised, he didn't expect him to say such a thing.

Not to mention the vast number of monks in the world, even the immortals in the Nine Heavens, they all value Qi Lingyi very much.

Those who cultivate swords must cultivate sword spirits, and those who cultivate swords also have sword spirits.

Whether it is defense or offense, most of a true monk has a weapon spirit of his own.

Looking at the entire Celestial Seal Thirteen Swords, she, Yunrong, was the only one who had not been able to imprint the sword spirit for a long time.

As Bai Li'an said, she was born with sword bones, and was highly valued by the sword master Yu.

But all the thirteen swords have passed the catastrophe and become immortals, but she alone has never had a sword spirit of her own.

If a sword cultivator without a sword spirit, no matter how talented she is, the road to success will be much narrower than other people of the same generation, and it will not last long.

Therefore, Sword Master Yu spared no expense to ask the Penglai Immortal to search for beasts to help her complete the mission of the sword spirit.

It can be seen that the sword master attaches great importance to this matter.

The younger brother, who had always been respectful and respectful to her father, actually told her that there is no need to force the sword spirit, and respect is immediate.

No one has ever said such a thing to Yunrong, she blinked and said: "If I follow my junior brother's suggestion, what should I do if the suzerain blames me?"

A sentence that seemed to be scared, but from Yun Rong's mouth, it was flat, without the slightest fear, but simply wanted to see his reaction.

Her junior brother, who has always been calm and indifferent, even when encountering the evil spirits in the soul enlightenment realm, he is calm and fearless.

If there is anything in this world that can scare him, it must be the Suzerain.

Yun Rong knew that Bai Lian grew up under the strict whip of the suzerain, and it was not because he was playful when he was young.

It's just that the suzerain treats his excellent only son very harshly, and if his schoolwork is not perfect, he just reprimands and beats him.

Although he is the young master and deserves to be honored, but all the way up to now, Yunrong only knows the hardships of being a son of man in recent years.

"If the father blames it..." Bai Lian looked up at the green leaf stickers on the paper umbrella, smiled, and said: "Then he is unreasonable. If he is unreasonable, I will not want the sword spirit next year. Let's see if he dares to get angry and curse at others."

Listen to his half-joking and serious speech

It seemed that something was tugging at the tip of Yunrong's heart.

Before she could come to her senses, what kind of feeling was that, and it disappeared quickly without a trace.

Although the mountain road was long and endless, when Bai Lian arrived at Tianhen Peak in Penglai with her on his back, the rain had stopped.

After Yun Rong put away the paper umbrella, he saw two emissaries from the mountain fairy came to meet him with lamps.

Because Sword Master Yu had greeted him well in advance, apart from not breaking the rules in the mountains, Tianxi Sword Sect and Penglai could be regarded as having a good relationship all year round.

Since Yun Rong and Bai Li'an came here to observe the etiquette, naturally Penglai would not neglect the guests.

Under the guidance of the fairy envoy, after the two had dinner with spirit fruit in the mountain, the mountain fairy envoy was very hospitable to the guests and took them to a natural warm water spiritual spring in the territory.

That spiritual spring was conceived and born from the spiritual energy of the earth, fire, and sky. It has existed since the day of the creation of the fairy world, and it is very precious.

If it is not a distinguished guest, it is rare to receive it with this spring.

The area of ​​the hot spring is not large, only more than ten meters wide. The spring is a living spring with endless life. Even though the spring is small, it contains tens of thousands of living creatures and plants in the mountain.

After the guiding fairy retreated, Yunrong looked at the hot spring pool piled up with snow jade and fell into deep thought.

Although she and Bai Lian have been married for three years, they often sleep together at night.

It's just that she has a sword in her heart, and she has never fulfilled her duties as a wife, but she is somewhat bullying her younger brother 'young and ignorant'.

Since he was born as a child, he has rarely left Dongli Xiaozhu, and spent most of his time with the Book Pavilion every day. Even if he is about to reach the crown, this routine of life has never changed.

Tianxi Sword Sect focuses on pure cultivation, although the suzerain never restricts the disciples, but he himself is self-disciplined and austere.

Therefore, Bai Li'an, who is the young master, has not been around since childhood, like other nobles of the sect, who has a maid who serves tea and takes care of him.

At most, it was just Yun Rong giving some advice on swordsmanship from time to time.

As for the book pavilion, there are all obscure and profound Taoism, Buddhism, and patriarchal sword scriptures. They have never even had a storybook in the world, let alone want to learn about men and women from them.

He inherited his father's fine traditions, and he has a humble temperament since he was a child. He never needs others to take care of him when he takes a bath and changes his clothes.

Yun Rong also didn't focus on the way of serving, three years have passed, although they have an official marriage between them, three matchmakers and six hires, but they are living like a fake couple.

It was not until today when looking at this hot spring that Yun Rong subtly felt that this way of getting along seemed to be against the way of husband and wife.

How did the two little fairy envoys who led the way know the tricks between the young master of Tianxi Sword Sect and his wife.

I just know that this spiritual spring is precious, and there are rules of access control in the mountain.

Then he thought that it was only natural for the husband and wife to bathe in the same pool, and it was not a big deal.

Yunrong had a severe headache for a moment and didn't know how to speak.

Bai Lian didn't notice her trouble, and looked at the hot spring with curious eyes for a moment.

He bent down and took off his boots and socks without any extra thoughts, and without too many taboos, arranged them neatly under the snowstone, took off his outer shirt, took off his hair crown, and went to the spring to try it first Test temperature.

Yun Rong thought for a while, and said: "Junior Brother, you should take a bath here alone, it's getting late, I don't want to soak my hair, so I won't go into the water today."

Bai Lian was surprised and said: "Senior Sister always likes to be clean. This time I took a boat to Penglai to bathe in the rainy festival wind. I was somewhat contaminated with some wind and dust. Why don't I wash it? The temperature of this spring is just right, and it can drive away the cold of the night rain."

Yun Rong thought to herself, as her wife, it is against the rules to evade conflict after all.

Not to mention taking a bath together, it is not too much to perform the ceremony of husband and wife under the cover of night.

Since she is married to him, why bother to imitate those cold fairies who are not in the world of mortals, putting on airs to be annoying.

Yun Rong didn't do what he thought, walked to the edge of the spring pool, imitating Bai Li'an's actions just now, took off his boots, socks and outer robe, and entered the hot spring wearing only a snow-white singlet.

Once in the water, her slender figure looks even slimmer with the thin clothes, and her slender shoulders and well-defined back, ironing out a perfect and seductive skeleton.

Fortunately, Bai Lian didn't ask to take off the thin shirt on his body, which made Yun Rong secretly heave a sigh of relief.

But after she breathed a sigh of relief, she couldn't help but feel a little helpless and ridiculous for her state of mind.

She has practiced Taoism for hundreds of years, and she claims that the world is romantic, and the secular etiquette has nothing to do with the original heart. Her body is like a cloud, and her heart is like flowing water.

But the state of mind at the moment is telling her that she is just an ordinary woman after all, so she would also feel nervous when she is in front of a man of the opposite sex, taking a close bath and sharing the water.

Bai Lian looked at her wet hair in the water, and said in a warm voice, "It's fine if it gets wet. I'll use spells to dry my senior sister after I get back."

Yun Rong hummed, and wanted to obediently take off the hair crown and wash her hair.

Unexpectedly, Bai Lian suddenly committed himself, reached out into the water, and groped towards her.

As soon as the toes were touched by his fingertips, Yun Rong shrank her legs subconsciously, looked at him puzzled, tilted her head and asked, "What are you doing, junior brother?"

Bai Lian was squatting in the hot spring, with extremely handsome and good-looking eyebrows, which were dazzled by the spring water, and looked very obedient:

"Senior sister is not good at physical training. I walked for a long time on the mountain road today. I saw you secretly rubbing your legs several times. You must be tired from walking. I will rub it for you to relieve fatigue. Otherwise, when you wake up tomorrow, you will feel exhausted. , I'm afraid I'm going to suffer a lot.

Tomorrow, Senior Sister will go to Fengzhi Island to choose spirit beasts. There will be a hard fight, and my father only asked for a place to enter the island, so I must not be able to accompany her. "

After hearing this, Yun Rong couldn't help feeling a little ashamed.

After being married to him for so long, don't say that she didn't take care of his daily life as a wife.

Now, instead, he is taking care of them tenderly and considerately. It seems that the identities of the two of them have switched positions.

Bearing the name of the young master's wife, enjoying the treatment of the young master...

No matter how big Yun Rong's heart is, she won't be so shameless.

Just as she was about to refuse, Bai Lian saw her hesitation.

He bowed his head and chuckled, reached out his hand gently, and held her pair of beautiful feet in the palm of his hand.

She put her feet on her thighs with a bit of cherishment and care.

"Since I am the husband of my senior sister, it's fine if I can't take care of my wife like Su Zongzhu. If I don't take care of such a trivial matter, it is really useless."

Yun Rongwan didn't expect that he would have such self-questioning thoughts, he frowned and said: "Since the younger brother got married, the younger brother has made me suffer for a day, and he hasn't said a harsh word to me, how can he know himself?" Pain is not enough."

Bai Li'an shook his head, his eyelashes drooping slightly, and there was something on his mind that only he knew about in his deep eyes. He looked up at Yunrong, and said seriously: "It's not enough, Senior Sister married me, it's very hard."

Yunrong also felt that it was bitter for him to marry such a woman who was neither gentle nor considerate.

She thought that getting married was a very unfree thing.

But after marrying him, the things he once had have not changed for a moment, and he can give her what he never had.

Just like in the past, if she was sore and tired from practicing swordsman, no one would be willing to rub her shoulders and legs to relieve her fatigue.

There is nothing wrong with that.

Seeing his serious expression, Yun Rong couldn't help but smile, stretched out her wet fingers, and pinched his cheek: "I have never felt bitter to be able to discuss swords with my junior until dawn every night."

Bai Lian lowered his head and kneaded and massaged her seriously, his voice was slow but solemn: "I am willing to discuss the sword of a lifetime with my senior sister."

His voice was light, like a light feather, and Yun Rong heard the words, and for some reason, he felt the strange feeling of gently pulling his heart when he heard the word "Lifetime".

Bai Lian's kneading technique was gentle and powerful, which made her feel very comfortable. He rubbed away the soreness in her ankles, making people gradually relax, and leaning on the spring stone, she gradually fell asleep.

Afterwards, Yun Rong was steamed to dry clothes and hair, and she put on a clean robe without knowing it.

Holding her little socks and soft boots in his hand, Bai Lian carried her out of the hot spring, and made a gesture of silence to the two fairy women who had been waiting for a long time.

Finally, under the envious eyes of the two angels, they carried her all the way back to the room.

(End of this chapter)