Autumn

Accompanied by a severe headache, Lu Li finally woke up from a deep coma, and vaguely heard someone calling his name.

"Jinser?"

"You finally woke up."

Jinse anxiously helped Lu Li up and hugged him tightly.

"I remember that Shen's house was on fire."

"I know. At first I thought we couldn't escape, but when the fire intensified, I felt the darkness in front of my eyes, and my body seemed to be dragged down desperately by something. Then, then I woke up."

Jinse gently let go of Lu Li, and looked anxiously into Lu Li's eyes.

"Then where are we now?"

"In the courtyard of nothing."

"What about the rest?"

"We're here." Yin Danlu patted Lu Li's shoulder and said, "It's strange, I actually went back in time. You should all go back too, right?"

"It is true that we have returned to the past, but...how did this happen?"

"There must be something weird about that secret room."

Luo Honglian frowned and looked in the direction of the secret room.

"Where's Meng Yue?"

"He seems a little uncomfortable..."

In fact, Meng Yue was the first to wake up. When he found that everyone was lying in the courtyard with nothing to live in, he discovered the problem.But at that time, his thoughts still stayed in that lingering memory.In a trance, he was already sitting in the flowing water pavilion, his body was shaking unceasingly, and his clothes were drenched in cold sweat.

"If everything goes back to the past, then Meng Yue... Forget it, let him stay quietly for a while." Lu Li guessed the reason for Meng Yue's discomfort, but he knew that no one could help Meng Yue in this matter. , "Yueying, can I trouble you to guard Meng Yue?"

"Okay, I'll watch him."

"what are you going to do?"

From Lu Li's appearance, it seemed that he had to go to the secret room again, but Jin Se hurriedly stopped him.

"I'm going to confirm, confirm that secret room..."

Under Lu Li's insistence, the three had no choice but to accompany him into the stone room again.But the strange thing was that this time, they couldn't find the entrance to the secret room anyway, as if the secret room had never appeared before.

"Is it a hallucination?"

"Impossible, obviously after entering the secret room, I went back to the past."

"too weird……"

Lu Li's eyes were flustered, and his breathing became disordered.

"I remember, I remember! Finally, when those flames rushed over, I heard Master's voice!"

"Lu Li?" Jinse tried to comfort the flustered Lu Li, but found that he couldn't hear what he was saying, "If it's really Sang Yu, maybe there is someone who can help us."

"Who?"

Lu Li's eyes were finally sober. He held Jinse's hand tightly, wanting to get the key to solve the mystery.

"Xuandu."

Bahuang is different from Kyushu. Although there will be rain, snow, storms, and sunny days, there are no four seasons.Plants all choose to germinate or wither according to their own preferences.The residents of Bahuang only decide their own seasons based on the withering and flourishing of those plants and the four seasons of Kyushu.But the sweet-scented osmanthus forest in Qingqiu is an accident. It seems that it is not affected by the seasons.

On this day, Xuandu inspected every peach tree as usual.But he stopped halfway, not because he heard anything, let alone because he saw something, but because he felt it.This feeling seems familiar, but a little strange.He knew that even without the shackles of the enchantment, it was still very difficult to set foot on the land of the Eight Desolation.Unless it's him... But I feel like telling myself that someone else is here.

This is indeed a bold and risky action, and it can even be said to be crazy.Not only because they crossed the four seas from Kyushu and set foot on the land of the eight wastes, but also because they stood so majestically in the courtyard of the Bai family in Qingqiu.

Bai Jinyan stared in astonishment at her sister whom she hadn't seen for a long time, at the blind young man she was holding tightly, and at the people behind her.

"Bai Jinse, should you explain to me?"

Bai Jinyan's tone was very severe, at least he felt so.But he had to, because as a descendant of the Bai family, his little sister brought back two mortals.And behind him are the young lady of Qingfeng Yue's family, the young master of Zhang'e Yin's family, and Luo Honglian of the Kunlun Luo family who was almost wiped out.In any case, it would never be a good thing for these people to appear at the same time.

"I'm sorry, second brother. I know, this matter makes you very embarrassed..."

"Why did you do this?" Bai Jinyan frowned and said, "Do you know that after you left the Eight Wastes, the whole family was in chaos. Your mother passed out on the spot, not to mention your father, who even threatened to find you. They must be severely punished, so as to serve as an example to others!"

"Daddy won't..."

Facing the aggressiveness of the second brother, Jinse's voice became extremely small.

"How do you know that father can't? Do you know that more monsters rushed out of the wilderness after you left. Some people say that it was because the young lady of Qingqiu Bai's family left, which gave them courage."

"How can they talk nonsense like that?"

Hearing this, Jinse cursed angrily.

"The mouth grows on other people. How can the Bai family control what they want to say? What's more, you did leave, and after the head of the Bai family issued the ban, the Bai family can't find a reason to refute it anyway. "

Bai Jinyan took a deep breath and glanced at the people in front of him.

"what is the problem?"

Seeing that the second brother's tone seemed to soften a bit, Jinse boldly told the whole story.

"So, you suspect that the disappearance of the enchantment is also related to Sang Yu?"

"Yes, but the person who knows Sangyu best, I think about it, is Xuandu."

"As a disciple of Sang Yu, don't you know him better?"

Bai Jinyan shifted his gaze to Lu Li.

"Master... never tells me anything about himself."

Bai Jinyan was a little surprised by Lu Li's answer.He had never met Sang Yu, and his understanding was limited to those enchantments.It is only known that he subdued the monsters that invaded Kyushu with his own power, and let them retreat to the eight wastelands.

"Why do you think Xuandu must know Sang Yu?"

"The only thing Master has told me is that he comes from all over the world."

Xuan Du was sitting idle on the bamboo couch in the osmanthus grove, with osmanthus wine in the white jar by his hand.Xuandu carefully poured out the wine from the jar and filled the white porcelain jug in his hand.

"It's all here, why don't you sit down and have a drink with me."

Bai Jinyan saw Xuandu from a distance, and filled the white porcelain wine cups in front of him one by one.

"You knew we were coming?"

"It's a feeling, feeling that you are coming."

Xuan Du raised his head, his eyes were on Lu Li.

"Shangxian of Xuandu, I am Sang Yu's disciple, Lu Li."

Sensing Xuandu's gaze, Lu Li frowned slightly.But still saluted respectfully.

"It turned out to be Sang Yu's disciple....Unexpectedly, he also accepted as a disciple."

Xuandu looked Lu Li up and down, and there was a hint of sadness in his eyes.Although Lu Li's figure was thin, he could still see the shadow of Sang Yu.After a while, he came back to his senses.

"I was just thinking, even if someone escorted me, it would be very difficult for me to cross the four seas from Kyushu, and set foot on the land of the eight wastelands. But if it is you, it will be different."

"Shangxian, how do you say this?"

"After all, he is Sang Yu's disciple. And...hehe, considering Sang Yu's personality, I must not have told you the truth."

Xuandu's words obviously had hidden meanings, but he refused to explain it, so Lu Li could only be depressed.

"All sit down."

After everyone sat down one by one, Xuandu just waved his wide sleeves, and the wine cups filled with wine landed firmly in front of everyone.

"Everyone in the world says this sweet-scented osmanthus wine is a fine wine. Although I don't like it very much, since everyone likes it, that's fine."

"Does Shangxian not like wine, or does he not like the name?"

Yin Danlu asked with a smile.

"The young master of the Yin family in Zhang'e," Xuan Du glanced at Yin Danlu, "What do you think I don't like?"

"It should be the name."

“How come you see?”

"No one entertains guests with things they don't like. As the saying goes, don't do to others what you don't want."

Xuan Du smiled, not the faint smile that Jinse was familiar with, but a big laugh.

"As expected of Yin Danlu, she is really extraordinary."

"I'm curious, what name did Shangxian give this wine?"

"Red rain."

Bai Jinyan's hand holding the wine cup trembled, and half of the glass of wine spilled on his ivory-white robe.Except for Jinse, everyone else looked at him suspiciously as he wiped his clothes in a panic, while Xuandu raised his head and drank the wine in his glass indifferently.

"The red rain is flying all over the sky. I don't believe that the east wind is biased here." For some reason, Xuandu chanted these two sentences, and saw him staring at the empty cup for a long time, and then said, "It's a pity that the red rain was blown away by the east wind. Didn't hold on to anything."

"Shangxian?"

"I know what you want to ask, but before that, maybe there is one thing you want to know."

Xuandu finally raised his head from the wine glass, looking at Bai Jinyan's astonished face.

"Could it be about Er Niangqin?"

Jinse asked cautiously, when she met Xuandu's eyes, her body shivered involuntarily, she guessed right.

"A few days ago, I went to Hong Yu's tomb. I didn't want to go there at first, but for some reason, I walked there unknowingly. I looked at her tomb, and suddenly a thought came to me, is she still alive? Same as before."

"You, you went to my mother's underground palace?"

Bai Jinyan asked with wide-eyed eyes, but Xuandu just nodded.

"I went. I know that you go to the underground palace to see her every year, but I only dare to be in front of the tomb every time. This time, I finally mustered up the courage to face a fact."

"Did you always know..."

"Yes, I know your mother doesn't love me, nor your father. It's just that I don't want to face this fact for so many years." Xuandu's face turned red because of drunkenness, "I saw you in the underground palace. After the red rain, she is still so handsome, just like the first time I saw her. But she is holding something tightly in her hand, it is a white jade pendant, I recognize it."

Xuandu looked up at the sky and let out a low sigh.

"I remember the pendant. It belonged to Sang Yu. He had been hanging around his waist. As expected, it appeared in Hong Yu's underground palace. What do you think it means?"

There was silence all around, and they didn't know what to say because they were shocked.In the end, it was Lu Li who broke the silence.

"Hong Yu...madam, how did you know Master?"

This is probably the question of everyone now, not only the relationship between Sang Yu and Hong Yu, but also the encounter between Xuandu and Hong Yu is also a mystery.Two are the Immortals of the Four Seas, and one is the Nine Tails of the Eight Desolation and Qingqiu. They are three people who can't be beaten by eight poles, and they met like this.

"You want to know?"

"Perhaps... Sang Yu's behavior after that has something to do with Madam's death."

Yue Ying took the mouth cautiously.

"Since you think this matter is related to everything now, it's okay to tell you, it's old anyway..."

Four Seas, as the name suggests, is formed by the connection of four sea areas.It is between Kyushu and Bahuang. The people living in Kyushu are mortals, and the Bahuang are mostly demons.Except for the gods above the nine heavens, the four seas are where the mortal gods live.Most of the gods in the four seas are cultivated by mortals, and they are distributed in the fairy islands above the four seas.Penglai in the East China Sea, Abbot in the South China Sea, Yingzhou in the West Sea, and Guixu in the North Sea.

From these four fairy islands, four sects were born.Sang Yu came from Penglai, and was the youngest disciple of Penglai Lingxu Zun.Sang Yu's background is a mystery, not to mention the whole world, even Penglai, no one knows his background.They only knew that Ling Xu brought back a child when Kyushu was still in the cold winter.This child has a pair of beautiful red phoenix eyes, but the eyes are rare double pupils, shining golden-brown brilliance.The long, supposedly jet-black hair was disheveled, even dirty.His pale face was smeared with some unidentifiable soot or other dirty things, his nose was straight, and he looked very delicate.Moderately thick lips, without the slightest color of blood.Perhaps because of perennial hunger, his thin chin looked sharp, and a worn and dirty singlet hung loosely on his bony body.

The child stood behind Ling Xu, holding Ling Xu's wide white sleeves tightly with both hands, a pair of dirty little feet protruding from Ling Xu's heels.With his double golden-brown pupils, he carefully scanned everyone's faces, and pressed his bloodless lips tightly.

"Yu'er, this will be your home from now on. I came to see my uncles and uncles, as well as all my brothers and sisters."

Ling Xu smiled gently, the child's nervous expression reflected in his black eyes.

"...Uncle, senior uncles...Hello senior brothers and sisters..."

The child timidly saluted and greeted everyone. Although his movements were still a little stiff, they were quite well-behaved.

"From now on, Sang Yu will be my disciple of Ling Xu."

"Brother, are you going to accept this child of unknown origin as a disciple?"

Xuanyu looked at her senior brother suspiciously.

"Why not? There are quite a few people who come to the four seas every year to seek the Tao. If the origin is unknown, there are still many people."

"But there are always traces to follow. Now this child...can you tell me where it came from?"

"As I said, I brought him back from Kyushu. His name is Sang Yu."

"This child is in Kyushu, I'm afraid he is a beggar living on the street."

Lingxu's senior brother Zihe suddenly spoke.

"It is indeed a beggar on the streets of Kyushu, I met outside Qingfeng City."

"Even so, if you want to become a disciple of Venerable Penglai, you can't be so casual."

Xuanyu frowned and said.

"I understand what you mean." Ling Xu glanced at Sang Yu and said, "Give me three years, and if Yu'er can enter the top three in the Martial Arts Competition three years later, you don't have any objections?"

Regarding Ling Xu's suggestion, everyone pondered for a long time.Finally Zihe spoke.

"Okay, let's discuss the Martial Arts Competition in three years' time."

The Four Seas Martial Arts Conference is held every five years. If one can win the leader at the conference, it means that one step closer to the position of the Supreme Master of one's sect.Therefore, every competition is very fierce, and those who can participate in the competition are all those who have passed five trials in their respective sects.Ling Xu said that he wanted Sang Yu to be among the top three in the conference, but everyone doubted whether Sang Yu could pass the Penglai test in three years.Since then, the whole of Penglai has been staring at Lingxu's Hall of Nothingness.

Beihai Guixu is not far from Penglai, only separated by a long and narrow strait.Mo Li is the disciple of Master Guixu, Wu Yan, who has been Master for a long time, and is the elder among the four masters of the world.Although Mo Li is an immortal from Guixu, he always loves to go to Penglai.Every time he would take his only disciple Xuandu to Penglai to look for Lingxu.Ling Xu once asked Xuandu's name, and Mo Li said that Xuandu had no name at all, but he saw it by chance in the osmanthus forest in Guixu, and brought him back to Liqing Hall to be his disciple.This story might sound random, but it really is.According to the logic, one should accept disciples after becoming an immortal, but Mo Li didn't like any of them.Once, Mo Li was wandering in the peach forest in Guixu, and saw a child standing under a peach tree, looking up at the peach blossoms flying down to the ground, the child was Xuandu.

The first time Xuandu met Sang Yu was in the second year when Sang Yu lived in the Hall of Nothingness.On that day, Sang Yu was wearing a white jade hair crown and a moon-white robe, sitting cross-legged in the room and reading.Suddenly he raised his head, and saw Xuandu standing outside the door with his long black hair hanging loose, wearing a duck-egg blue robe, and standing barefoot outside the door.Xuandu is about the same age as Sang Yu, but compared to them, Xuandu is more mischievous.His peach blossom eyes with upturned corners attracted more attention from Sang Yu.And Xuandu's dark eyes were also looking at Sang Yu curiously. The two looked at each other for a long time, and Xuandu finally spoke.

"You are Ling Xuzun's new disciple, called... Sang Yu?"

Xuan Du frowned and raised his head to think for a while, but he was still a little uncertain, although the master did say this name before he came.

"My name is Sang Yu, who are you?"

"I am Beihai Guixu, the disciple of the Immortal Moli, Xuandu."

"Xuandu?"

Sang Yu frowned.

"Master said that Xuandu is another name for Peach Blossom, because he found me under the peach blossom tree." When Xuandu laughed, his eyes were beautiful, "Why are you called Sangyu?"

"I don't know, since I can remember, people around me have called me Sang Yu."

"Xuandu, make good friends with Sang Yu."

Mo Li stood next to Xuan Du at some point, looking at his beloved disciple dotingly with smiling eyes.

"On weekdays, no one talks to Yu'er. Now that Xuandu is here, Yu'er should do his best as a landlord."

Ling Xu, who was standing aside, smiled slightly.

"But the book Master asked me to read has not been finished."

Sang Yu glanced at the thick scroll in his hand with some embarrassment.

"Let's read it tomorrow."

With Master's permission, Sang Yu put down his book and went to play with Xuandu.At Xuandu's request, Sang Yu took him to Master's Osmanthus Garden.At this time, the sweet-scented osmanthus has not yet opened, only many flower bones stand on the branches.

"Aren't you wearing shoes?"

Seeing Xuandu running barefoot in the sweet-scented osmanthus forest, Sang Yu asked curiously.

"It's very troublesome to put on shoes, and the master didn't say that you can't go barefoot."

Xuan replied very seriously.

"Do you often come to Penglai?"

"Since I can remember, Master has often brought me here. Elder Ling Xu will occasionally go to Guixu to find Master. You can also come together in the future. The peach blossoms in Guixu are so beautiful."

"it is good."

Sang Yu smiled, this was the first time he had smiled since arriving in Penglai, and that smile was not restrained in the slightest.Xuandu still remembers that smile. Although many people say that his peach blossom eyes are charming when he smiles, he always thinks that Sang Yu's red phoenix eyes look better when he smiles. The golden brown double pupils looked like autumn at that time. Warm sun in the afternoon.

"That's how Sang Yu and I got to know each other, and we became friends from then on. I remember that in that martial arts conference, even though I was scarred from fighting with him until the end, there were only two of us left in the end." A decisive battle. Heh, Sang Yu and I have fought against each other many times, it can be said that we know each other better than ourselves."

Xuan Du looked at the osmanthus petals floating in the wine cup, a little dazed.

"Then, who won?"

Luo Honglian couldn't help asking.

"Sang Yu. He won the final victory, and I and his strength are only a hair's breadth away. This is the final comment of those immortals and lords."

Sang Yu won the first prize in the Martial Arts Competition, which shocked the whole world. At the same time, he also became the closed disciple of Ling Xu, the Venerable Penglai.To become a disciple of the Immortals of the Four Seas or His Highness, the rights possessed by them are not available to ordinary sect disciples.One of them is to freely go in and out of the four seas, Kyushu and the eight wastelands, as long as you want to go.At that time, both Xuandu and Sang Yu became curious about Bahuang, and they wanted to take a look at the monsters in Bahuang, including those ancient monsters of course.

"You want to go to the Eight Wastelands?"

Ling Xu's hand holding the chess pieces stopped in mid-air, and Mo Li also looked away from the chessboard, looking at his disciple seriously.The two teenagers in front of them are almost taller than the master's shoulders, and their cultivation base is also the best in the world.

"It's not impossible..." The chess pieces in his hand made a crisp sound on the clean chessboard, "But don't cause trouble, let alone disturb those big families in the wilderness."

"Although they don't dare to provoke you, it doesn't mean that your strength is far superior to them, but because you are disciples of the Immortals of the Four Seas, and Sang Yu is a disciple of Venerable Penglai."

Following Ling Xu's words, Mo Li reminded with a solemn expression.

"Yes, the disciple respects the order of the teacher."

"That's how Sang Yu and I arrived in Bahuang. At first we just wandered around in Bahuang with a playful attitude."

Listening to Xuandu's tone of "we are just going on a trip", Jinse's face showed a dumbfounding expression.What kind of place is Bahuang? Who would hang out there if they have nothing to do?

"In those few days in Bahuang, nothing happened. It's just that I didn't expect to meet Hong Yu in Qingqiu. This is the beginning of everything."