Chapter 85
Chapter 85
After Wan Fangyuan finished speaking, he sat opposite Zhong Wan for a long time, both of them were speechless, only the birds outside the window were singing carefree.
After a long time, Wan Fangyuan sighed: "I've told you everything you want to know. Ah Wan, you don't have to pay attention to the grievances between me and He Lianjing, but if something unexpected happens, the anniversary of Kong San's death every year is still I have to ask you to burn a stick of incense for her and sweep the grave for me."
Zhong Wan said: "How could I ignore it? Master, it's really the second master...he, he..."
Wan Fangyuan shook his head and said: "I don't understand, saying that I am a close friend with him, but he turned his back on it and allowed the elder Kunlun to take Kong San's life; but if it is said that he regards Kunlun as more important than anyone else...he never Leaked half of the fact that I am familiar with Zhen Gen. I don't understand him."
Hearing what he said, Zhong Wan suddenly felt that the second master who used to be gentle, gentle and smiling was strange, but he was an outsider after all, so he persuaded him: "Master, what Shen Lin did was to drive a wedge between the two of you." .You are breaking up with him now, isn't it right in the arms of Beidou Villa? Their sinister intentions..."
In the middle of his speech, he suddenly remembered that Shen Chen was also from Beidou Villa, so he was a little bit speechless.He and Shen Chen haven't seen each other since that day, but the look of Shen Shen standing on the stone steps with his sleeves hanging down, was like a scar carved on his heart, which he would always remember.
Wan Fangyuan smiled wryly, reached for the wine jar at hand, and drank the last two sips of wine: "You Shuang really gave birth to an amazing son, who is not at all similar to him. But both of them know that in this game, I'm definitely going to jump in."
He couldn't bear to be deceived, couldn't bear to be betrayed, compared to these, any fame, fortune, and moral responsibility were out of his sight.
Seeing what Zhong Wan wanted to say, he suddenly smiled heartily, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "My good disciple, don't try to persuade me any more."
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When Zhong Wan woke up again, there was a piece of wet ground under his body.He tried his best to squint his eyes, and saw light spots falling in a line through the lush branches and leaves, as if the sky was covered with a piece of oil paper with holes.
Wan Fangyuan was meditating beside him, and when he saw that he had woken up, he gave a "tsk" and said, "Back then Liang Congzhi cured the poison in your body well, but now even this ordinary drug can knock you down for five years. God."
Zhong Wan saw the scars all over his face and body, and his qi was very unstable, so he knew that his two masters must have had a very ugly fight in the past few days after he passed out.Sure enough, Wan Fangyuan said: "I have nothing to do with Kunlun. But if you want to go back and find He Lianjing and Fan Zhiyun, it's okay. He Lianjing doesn't want to see me, but he is very close to you."
Although he said this, Zhong Wan knew that if he turned around and went to Kunlun, it would be difficult to meet Wan Fangyuan in his life.But Kunlun is famous after all, if he still follows Wan Fangyuan, it will be difficult for him to enter the world safely, and he has to live in seclusion in the mountains for half his life.
Seeing his hesitation, Wan Fangyuan said again: "But I brought something back from Kunlun." He took out a thin book from his pocket, with a stone-blue cover, which looked ordinary: "I will read Kong I brought San's Zhenzi book. From now on, for the rest of my life, I will thoroughly study Zhen Gen's second book for her."
Zhong Wan only felt dizzy for a while, but after being shocked, the trembling words in front of him didn't disappear.He claimed to be a person who has seen big winds and waves, but this time he spoke with a trembling voice: "Master, are you not afraid that Kunlun will kill you? They can kill a powerful Qianyuan like Kong San, so they can't kill you?"
"They can't find out," Wan Fangyuan smiled smugly, but his complexion was not good at this time, and he seemed reluctant, "I will return it when my anger subsides."
Zhong Wan didn't know when he would calm down, and he was about to laugh at him: "Okay, even so, if something goes wrong in your practice, are you going to rot in this deep mountain and old forest?"
Wan Fangyuan said: "People are mortal, so it doesn't matter if you die here, but it's not good to be afraid of going crazy and going out to harm the world."
He said "going crazy" as lightly as "stirring vegetables and cooking", as if he had never heard of those examples of bleeding from the seven orifices, broken bones, and loss of true energy.Zhong Wan knew that he had made up his mind, so if he wanted to persuade him now, it would be better to kill him.He sighed a long time, looked up at the flickering spots of light in the forest, and asked, "Master, where is this place?"
"Yilin." Wan Fangyuan said, "'Lonely and lonely, I can't see the sun, and I'm reclusive in Yilin.' The rumored place of refuge, I found it by mistake."
Zhong Wan smiled, and put his arm behind his head: "Why don't you go back to Muzhao Island? I heard that Peach Blossom Girl is sad for a Qianyuan, and she has already gone back."
Wan Fangyuan froze, and said in a low voice: "A Tao committed a lot of crimes because of Qianyuan, I don't want to see her again. Forget it, I'm alone, let me be alone."
He got up, and regardless of Zhong Wan's still weak legs, he limped towards the depths of the forest.Zhong Wan stood up abruptly and shouted, "Wan Fangyuan, do you really want to do this?"
I don't know if it's because of regaining his roots, Wan Fangyuan's brows and eyes are filled with a faint hostility, coupled with half of his blood-spattered face, he looks like a rakshasa.Ever since he had a discussion with Shen Lin in Tianxuan Tower, he has been worrying about the old things. Now that he has broken with his only friend for many years, he is even more disheartened and doesn't care about things.
Zhong Wan's chest heaved violently. Seeing that Wan Fangyuan had gradually disappeared into the deep forest, he breathed a sigh of relief and finally said, "Master, let me accompany you."
Wan Fangyuan seemed a little bit taken aback, he had practiced in Muzhao Island before, but Zhong Wan was used to seeing the world of flowers and flowers, so he must have been unable to bear the loneliness of being born.Zhong Wan caught up with him, and said: "Master brought me up and taught me peerless martial arts. I should repay him with springs, but I still have concerns in the world, so I have devoted all my life to learning." , Come and return Master for five years."
"Master, give me half a day to cut off the attachment. As for what happens in five years... I will think about it myself."
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The five-year agreement is easy to say, but it is far from being as simple as chopping firewood and cooking every day.Wan Fangyuan is determined to read the shocking book thoroughly, but the "Eight Turns of Life and Death" can be read as soon as he can read it. Even if he is a natural genius, he often goes astray, and accidentally destroys the achievements of several months .
Zhong Wan has her own troubles.In the past, he teased Shen Shen, saying that he could be as light as a swallow after taking the magical medicine "Flying catkins", but in fact, "Flying catkins" is not a medicine, but a deadly poison; step.Back then, Wan Fangyuan and He Lianjing searched all over the famous doctors and managed to get rid of the poison, but they left a scar on his shoulder.However, Yilin was haunted by miasma all the year round, and "Catkin Flying Flowers" had been silent for many years, and unexpectedly it was ready to move again.
Fortunately, he had studied medicine with Ah Shui before. Although he was not good at it, it was still enough to get some medicine for his serious illness.Yilin is like a small world, he doesn't know the sun and the moon outside, he is always groggy after drinking the medicine, sometimes when he wakes up in the middle of the night, he feels that he has forgotten many things.
But there are some things that he never dared to deliberately think about, but they always come back to his dreams in the middle of the night, lingering in his mind, as if they will haunt him for the rest of his life, and he will never forget them.
Occasionally, the rainy season would still come, and once it happened, he would learn from before and run to the temple on the mountain and shut himself up for ten and a half months. After he could barely suppress the strangeness, he went back to see if Wan Fangyuan had caused any trouble again— ——Just like Kong San many years ago, he hardly ate, drank or slept while reading, got up from time to time to practice a move and a half, if he succeeded, he would dance with his hands and feet, and if he went astray, Zhong Wan would be there Hold him aside, open up the meridians for him, straighten out his true energy, and start all over again.
Occasionally, he felt that he had forgotten too much, so he walked out of Yilin, sat on the mountain path, and pieced together the memories of the past.It was at this time that he learned the news that He Lianjing was seriously injured by the demon monk of the Western Regions.
That was the only time the master and apprentice stepped out of Yilin together in the past few years, and it was also the last time Wan Fangyuan came to Kunlun.
When all the affairs of He Lianjing were over and He Lianjue inherited the throne, he accompanied Wan Fangyuan for a walk along the Pingjiang River. Looking at the surface of the Pingjiang River for a long time, I don't know if he recalled the first Pingjiang night banquet in his life.He went to countless banquets as Master Wan, but only that time, he really went as Wan Fangyuan.At that time, he was young and vigorous, Helian Jing was in full bloom, Shen Youshuang was full of vigor, and Kong Qing was in the prime of her youth, with a red-topped rose pinned to her ear, and a pair of beautiful eyes full of affection.
However, decades have passed, and the vicissitudes have changed, and he is the only one with gray hair left on Pingjiang.
Zhong Wan hung behind him not too far away, wanted to step forward to comfort him, but didn't know how to speak, so he heard Wan Fangyuan say from the front: "Ah Wan, I have hidden the Zhenzi book among thousands of green bamboos. .If one day, I go crazy and cannot be cured...you can kill me with a single sword."
His words became a prophecy.In Yilin's fourth year, when he practiced the last form of Gen Ziben, his true energy reversed to the point where even Zhong Wan couldn't recognize him.Zhong Wan exhausted all she had learned in her life and beat him until she was in the dark. She wanted to touch his acupuncture points to make him faint like before, but Wan Fangyuan held his hand for a moment of clarity, regardless of the blood in his mouth. , He gritted his teeth and said word by word: "Good apprentice... kill me, kill me!"
Zhong Wan was taken aback for a moment, and in the next moment, the Qiushui sword passed through Wan Fangyuan's chest.
The teacher's blood splashed on his face, dripping down again, scalding hot and smelly.The master of a generation, Wan Fangyuan, died contentedly under the sword of his apprentice.
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The next chapter should switch back to the present time, the old story of Zhong Wan and Wan Fangyuan, after talking for a long time, finally finished.Compared with Zhong Wan, Wan Fangyuan's memories here are more complete. When I finished writing, I felt like I had experienced his ups and downs in his life. I was a little emotional
Thank you for reading~
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