Snowflake Mountain in Shanxi.
"Third Senior Brother, do you think this design is good?" A beautiful woman with fair complexion handed over a piece of manuscript paper and asked softly. She stared at the manuscript paper with her big round eyes, her eyebrows slightly wrinkled, looking forward to her senior brother's opinion.
The middle-aged man in front of him is Zhang Zhaoguo, the third disciple of the Snowflake Sect. He is in his thirties, and his Chinese character face shows his meticulous character. He read the manuscript paper carefully, nodded from time to time, and said after reading, "Junior sister revised it very well, no problem."
On hearing this, the woman stretched her dark eyebrows, smiled slightly, and revealed two cute faces. With a small dimple, he said softly, "Then this is the initial decision, and we will make further modifications when the senior brothers return."
"They will be back in a day or two. These days, junior sister, you have worked hard." Zhang Zhaoguo I am very grateful to my junior sister for her help.
"Senior brother, if you have nothing else to do, I won't disturb you." After saying that, the woman walked away lightly.
After Zhang Zhaoguo watched his junior sister leave, he lowered his head and continued busy with the matter at hand.
Since receiving the letter from Guo Qiang, everyone in the Snowflake Sect has begun to repair the sect's palace. The disciples divided the work and cooperated, and started the work in full swing. The only female disciple of the Snowflake Sect, whose surname is Liu Mingbai, is a beautiful woman who was entrusted with the important task of planning and designing the new palace. Everyone gathered firewood and the fire was high. With everyone's tireless efforts, in just a few days, the tidying up work was coming to an end.
Early the next morning, Guo Qiang and others returned to Snowflake Sect.
In the hall, Zhang Zhaoguo reported in detail the progress of the repair work to Guo Qiang.
"Junior brothers and sisters, you have worked hard." Guo Qiang is very happy that everyone is enthusiastic about revitalizing the sect.
"Now we only need to organize the remaining books in Beishuge, and then we can start civil construction." Zhang Zhaoguo clarified the next task to everyone.
The disciples were speechless after hearing this, and no one wanted to recall the past six years ago.
Guo Qiang sighed secretly.
Beishuge was once the favorite place of the head Zhou Yujie. There are a collection of various books that Zhou Yujie likes. Since the leader disappeared, in order to protect Beishuge, Guo Qiang has prohibited his disciples from entering at will. Therefore, Beishuge is always empty. But one night six years ago, the lights suddenly lit up in Beishuge. Although the light was not on for long, it was still seen by a young disciple who happened to be passing by. At that time, Guo Qiang and others were not in the sect, and only a few young disciples stayed behind. Although they were very frightened by the sudden light, they still went together in groups with lanterns to find out. But when they first stepped into the book pavilion, something terrible happened. Since no one has been there for many years, the door frame of the bookstore is covered with spider webs, and there is still a lot of dust accumulated on the web. Under the dry weather, those thick spider webs will immediately ignite when exposed to an open fire, and the fire will spread quickly. Out of control. Fortunately, there was a heavy rain later that night and the efforts of several young disciples to save the Beishu Pavilion from burning down. However, almost all the books in the collection were destroyed.In the merciless flames. Although many people did not witness the scene at that time, everyone's hearts were equally heavy. Either because Guo Qiang and others are not in the sect because they have been looking for the leader all year round, or because everyone has an escape mentality and does not want to face the fact that the leader's favorite Beishu Pavilion was burned down. No one has been sorting it out, and the ashes of the books have been burned down. Still in place.
Nowadays, what you don’t want to face will eventually have to be faced.
In order to break the dull atmosphere, Guo Qiang talked to everyone about what he had seen and heard in Xiaoyao Sect these days.
"We should learn from it and not let the sect continue to decline." Guo Qiang concluded, "In the future, we must still put the search for the leader first, and let our senior brothers handle it. The sect The construction work depends on everyone's concerted efforts. The third junior brother has led everyone to do a very good job during this period."
"By the way, how is the recruitment of disciples going?" Chen Song asked.
Zhang Zhaoguo replied, "We have sent several junior brothers down the mountain to recruit, but there are not many people who signed up." He paused before continuing, "Not many."
Chen Song broke everyone's silence. He said, "Our Snowflake Sect is having a difficult time now, but as long as we unite as one, everything will gradually get better. The recruitment of disciples can be carried out slowly."
"Yes, as Xiaoyao Yixia said, our Unity is the most valuable thing. When times are tougher, we all get through it together and never give up. This is the spirit of our sect." Guo Qiang said.
The words of the two senior brothers aroused the fighting spirit of the disciples, and they believed that the revitalization of the sect was just around the corner.
"By the way, how is the situation with Elder Yu of the Beggar Clan?" Guo Qiang asked.
Zhang Zhaoguo frowned, shook his head, and replied, "Still unconscious."
"Well, let's go see him." Guo Qiang said, then joined Chen Song and others Went to visit Elder Yu.
In the afternoon, all the disciples stepped into the ruins of Beishu Pavilion to clean up.
Everyone cleaned very seriously and didn’t say anything.
Suddenly, the call of a junior brother broke the tranquility of Beishu Pavilion.
"Sir, there is something here," the junior brother shouted.
When the disciples heard this, they immediately gathered around.
I saw that the table in front of my junior brother was covered with dust, and there was a ring in the dust.
Guo Qiang recognized it at a glance and exclaimed "Snowflake Pendant"
Snowflake Pendant is a token of the Snowflake Sect leaders in the past.
"It's really a snowflake pendant." Chen Song also recognized it, "Shouldn't this be with the leader? How could it be possible that the leader has come back?"
Chen Song's words made everyone even more excited. for surprise.
"What is this?" Chen Song found that there seemed to be something next to the snowflake pendant, like a book. But when he reached for it, what he caught was a handful of paper dust.
Guo Qiang lowered his head and looked carefully. Under the thick dust was a burned book. Since it was not completely burned, the outline of the book was still vaguely visible and had not completely melted. For ashes. RanBut Chen Song stretched out his hand and touched it, but it was destroyed. Guo Qiang observed carefully and found that the pages of the book were completely burnt black and the contents could not be seen clearly. He flicked the ashes of the pages in disappointment, and was surprised to find that there were still some corners of the pages at the bottom.
"This turned out to be" Guo Qiang's surprise was beyond words.
It was extremely quiet in the hall.
Everyone is waiting for Senior Brother to speak.
After a long time, Guo Qiang finally said, "I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it. It turns out that the master came back six years ago." He picked up the snowflake pendant in his right hand and continued, "I think the master's intention is very clear. She wants to Pass on the position of master." Then, Guo Qiang picked up a few small pieces of browned pages in his left hand and said, "He also left the Snowflake Sword Manual to us." When he said this, he couldn't help but sigh slightly, "It's a pity that fate has a way with people." ”
Everyone lowered their heads sadly.
"We ran all over the world, blindly looking for the leader, but missed the leader's entrustment." Guo Qiang suddenly raised his voice, "This is God's will, God wants to temper us. Now, we are looking for With the return of Xuehua Pei, our Snowflake Sect can finally revive the sect, which is God's will."
The disciples raised their heads, as if they saw the hope of the sect again.
"As for the Snow Flower Sword Manual, it is a pity that it was burned. But this incident is enough to prove that the leader is still alive. As long as the leader is still there, we will definitely be able to find her, and then we can use the Snow Flower Sword Manual to It's not too late to carry it forward." Guo Qiang said, holding up the snowflake pendant and book pages, and shouted, "We will not give up."
Everyone's emotions were aroused. Not only did everyone's enthusiasm not diminish, but it became even more intense. high.
"Before rebuilding the sect, we should immediately elect a new leader." Guo Qiang suggested.
"Yes, a group of dragons cannot be leaderless. I think senior brother is a good candidate." Chen Song said.
Guo Qiang shook his head and refused, "I think the leader has already been selected. Second Junior Brother, do you still remember those years ago? Several of our fellow disciples followed the leader to Sanqing Mountain to pay homage to Taoist Master Ciyun. "Of course I remember, we met Junior Sister Liu on the way back from there." Even though so many years have passed, Chen Song still remembers it.
"I remember that the Taoist Priest told the leader at that time that our Snowflake Sect would be the female leader for many years until the Taoist Priest's demon disappeared." Guo Qiang said.
"Elder brother still remembers these details clearly" but Chen Song had forgotten a little.
"I still remember the words of the Taoist Master. What kind of ideal is it for the Taoist Master to eliminate demons?" Guo Qiang realized that he was going a bit far, so he paused and continued, "The Taoist Master's divination The technique became famous all over the world, but the leader laughed at the Taoist priest because there were no female disciples in our sect at that time. However, the Taoist priest insisted that only in this way could the evil sect be restrained. The next day, we had one. Junior Sister Liu."
As soon as Guo Qiang finished speaking, everyone looked at Liu Bai.
When everyone looked at her like this, Liu Bai's originally fair face immediately turned red.
"Haha" Seeing her shy look, Guo Qiang, Chen Song and others all laughed.
"I remember that the head teacher said when she was practicing that she would pass on the best techniques of Snowflake Sword Technique to her when she is seventeen years old." Guo Qiang said, "Do you still remember, junior sister?"< /p>
"I have no impression." Liu Bai shook his head.
“Junior sister was young at the time, so it’s not surprising that I don’t remember it, but I remember it very clearly. Everyone knows that the most superior mental method of our Snowflake Sword Art can only be learned by the masters of the past generations. I think at that time The headmaster already has his heart set on Junior Sister," Guo Qiang recalled.
"This is impossible, my martial arts skills are not good." Liu Bai shook his head in disbelief.
"No, I have heard the master praise me many times that my junior sister is very talented in learning martial arts, but she didn't have much chance to learn." Thinking that everyone has been busy looking for the master for so many years, Guo Qiang felt a little emotional. .
"But I don't understand anything." Liu Bai still shook his head.
"There are several senior brothers here, so what are you afraid of?" Guo Qiang said with a smile, his words full of doting on his little junior sister.
"But" Liu Bai still felt something was wrong.
"How old is Junior Sister this year?" Guo Qiang interrupted her.
"Twenty-three years old." Liu Bai wondered why the senior brother asked, didn't he know?
"Six years ago, junior sister was seventeen years old." Guo Qiang said Mysterious, "I have just checked that the day of the fire in Beishuge was the first day of the twelfth lunar month."
Liu Bai was shocked when he heard that the first day of the twelfth lunar month was not the day when the master adopted him, and was later regarded as On his birthday, his brothers and sisters celebrate his birthday on that day every year.
"In this way, the leader does intend to pass the throne to Junior Sister. Junior Sister, please don't refuse anymore," Chen Song said.
"Since it is the intention of the leader, junior sister, you can take over as the new leader," Guo Qiang insisted.
Liu Bai thought for a while and said, "If everyone insists on me being the new leader, I can't refuse, but I want to wait until I find the leader before taking over. Is that okay?"
"Junior sister, you still don't believe in the master's intentions. Then you can take over after you find the master. However, a group of dragons cannot be leaderless. Junior sister, you can take over as the leader for the time being." Guo Qiang walked up to Liu Bai. , put the snowflake on her finger, and said, "We, the brothers, will help you take care of the affairs of the sect, don't worry."
Liu Bai looked at the snowflake in her hand, and suddenly I feel a heavy weight on my shoulders.