The jade slips could not be taken out of the Penglai Hall. Wei Shiqi found a quiet room and memorized the soul-catching formula in his mind word for word. After confirming that it was correct, he returned the jade slips, bid farewell to Elder He and Wei Rongniang, and left Xianyun Peak. .
I walked alone along the mountain road to the foot of Tiandu Peak. My brothers and sisters were all there. I hadn’t seen each other for many years. When we first talked, we felt a little strange to each other. Unknowingly, the gazes they cast on Wei Shiqi had turned into looking up at him, and they couldn't even speak in the same intimate tone as before. But in retrospect, had they ever been intimate? Wei Shiqi's words and deeds have always been polite but indifferent. He is a bystander, looking at the world calmly from a distance.
The only person who can be intimate with him is his junior sister Qin Zhen. But Qin Zhen was not at the foot of Tiandu Peak. The brothers and sisters only knew that she was practicing hard at Tiandu Peak. She went down the mountain once half a month ago and disappeared after that.
After chatting for a while, Wei Shiqi said goodbye and left, leaving behind Yue Zhilan and the Song brothers. Song Qi couldn't help but muttered, "Senior brother, he comes in a hurry and leaves in a hurry..." When he said this, he was envious. How many of his trial disciples could be as comfortable as he was.
To be free from dust and worry, is to be at ease.
Wei Shiqi climbed Tiandu Peak leisurely. The sky was full of snow, flying like rain. He was the only one walking steadily among the cliffs.
He was not in a hurry. He looked at the bleak snow scene along the way and walked slowly. He was accustomed to walking on the mountain road. He knew where to stop and where to turn when he closed his eyes. Wei Shiqi felt that his legs and feet were light and strong. There was no sound when it landed, and there was an illusion that it was riding on the wind.
Two hours later, he arrived at Kuji Spring.
There is no one at Kuji Spring. In such bad weather, even the most diligent disciples will not fight against the wind and snow. They will practice at Tiandu Peak for an hour and then fight against the wind. Go down the mountain through the snow.
Wei Shiqi flicked the warm spring water, leaned over and drank a few sips of water. Feeling hungry, he went for a walk in the mountains and forests. Without moving, he carried a bunch of brocade. Wen Shu returned to Kuji Spring, washed his skin cleanly, found a ravine sheltered from the wind, and picked up some dead branches to make a fire and barbecue.
The wind and snow gradually stopped, the surrounding fields were silent, and the air was crisp and clean. The grease dripping from the rat meat fell into the fire, sending up a string of sparks. Wei Shiqi buried his head and internal organs in the ashes, added a few dead branches to the fire, stood up and came to a high place, curled his thumb and index finger, and whistled twice loudly in his mouth.
The whistle echoed in the winter mountains and forests for a long time.
After waiting for a while, there was no reply. Wei Shiqi jumped down the ravine, slowly ate the roasted rat meat, stuffed a few balls of snow into his mouth, put out the fire, and set off for the boiling water. spring.
Boiling Spring is located in a mountain valley a hundred miles east of Kuji Spring. The pungent smell of sulfur can be smelled from a distance. The familiar smell reminded Wei Shiqi of Xu Li and Xin Laoyao. They had a fight by the boiling spring. Junior sister Xiao fell into the boiling spring. Her clothes were soaked through and she was wrapped tightly around her body., like an easy-to-push little lolita.
Those not-so-distant past events, in retrospect, seem like a dream and become less real.
Wei Shiqi climbed up to the high place again, blew the whistle twice, and listened, but there was still no response. He was a little worried. Could it be that junior sister Xiao went to Yin Yang Ridge? With her temperament, this is possible.
Then let’s go to Yin Yang Ridge and have a look.
Just as they were about to set off, a series of fishy bubbles suddenly emerged from the depths of the boiling spring, and the bottom of the bag started to churn. After a while, the water surface dropped sharply, revealing large pieces of wet rocks.
What is this situation? Wei Shiqi smelled some kind of uneasy atmosphere, took a few steps back, and became alert.
The spring water became less and less, and finally dried up. Where the original spring was, there was only a dark hole in the ground, with hot steam coming out.
A pale hand suddenly stretched out of the hole and grabbed the slippery rock. The fingers were long and slender, with bulging veins. It was obviously a woman's hand, but it was a bit rough. Then, a woman with disheveled hair poked her head out, her face hidden in her hair, her shoulder blades raised high, she was naked and skinny.
Wei Shiqi put his hand on the sword pouch, and suddenly thought of junior sister Xiao, and felt that her name should not be named "Zhen".
"Hehehe, fresh human flesh, I can smell your scent..." The woman laughed dryly a few times, slowly raised her head, her long hair slid to both sides, revealing a thin face, eyebrows Very pale, with red phoenix eyes, protruding nose bridge and cheekbones, and no trace of color on her lips.
She looked very tired. She lay down at the entrance of the cave for a while, and then she got the strength to jump out naked. Thin, really thin, skin and bones, his chest is like two bags, his ribs are clearly visible, the skin of his hands and feet hangs down, and he is swaying, just like a skeleton covered with a layer of skin.
"Fresh human flesh!" The woman stared at Wei Shiqi, stretched out her tongue and licked her lips, a series of thunders sounded in her belly, "I'm so hungry, I haven't eaten meat in many years. , blood, internal organs, bones, hehe..."
Wei Shiqi asked calmly: "Are you a human? Are you a demon?"
The woman patted her withered belly. , her wrinkled skin swayed, and she sneered: "This body is human, but inside it is a demon!" She bent down, put her hands on the ground, exerted force on her limbs, and jumped up high, facing Wei Shiqi Pounced head on.