Chapter 374 Looking Back

Pei Ye didn't have much time to waste. The wound on his body was still in pain. He walked through the forest and swept the mountain, far away from the old man. When he reached the top of the mountain, he looked back and saw that the rice-like figure was still falling in the broken forest. Pei Ye Liquid stood still and stared for one last time, then turned his head and leaned down.

Go straight back to the law enforcement hall.

As Wudong said, the masters of the Kongtong peaks have all arrived one after another. The news of the death of the two Yuanwu true disciples has obviously spread. Dai Shangyu, with a gloomy face, gathered with several other Xuanmen in the small house of Xu Chang and his son. Before the hospital.

Pei Ye didn't see any familiar faces here. While he was hesitating, Gan Zifeng walked over from the letter hall with his head lowered, his brows still furrowed. Pei Ye exchanged the latest news with him and went inside. Zhang Jingbi was still silent but peacefully sitting in the courtyard. Pei Ye breathed a sigh of relief and handed the blue bird pendant and the book paper to Xu Shang who was looking at him.

"Senior Zhang's bones were buried at the bottom of Jinyuzhai Lake. This is his final note."

Pei Ye looked at the woman's stunned expression and whispered: "Senior is a brave man. What he did back then helped me a lot. I will also complete his unfinished business."

After saying this, he pursed his lips and looked at the woman's eyes that were starting to turn red. In the end, he just cupped his fists and saluted, then turned around and left.

"Young Master Pei!" Zhang Jingbi suddenly stood up, "Is there anything you can help me with - I'll go with you!"

Pei Ye looked at the pale young man and felt a little dazed for a moment. He smiled and waved: "Thank you. You need to heal your injury first."

Turning around and going out, he made it clear to the peak masters that after confirming that Da Si Mountain had no immediate plans to attack, Pei Ye and Gan Zifeng returned to the Sutra Storage Building.

In front of the mountain in the fog, a huge and lonely building loomed. The two went straight to the top floor and came to the Hidden Sword Pavilion again.

The traces of the fierce fight are still very fresh. This ancient pavilion, which no one has set foot on for many years, is now messy and broken, with papers flying everywhere. Pei Ye rearranges the order of these chaotic books on the wall to read one by one those that can still be identified. name.

However, even though he was impaired in reading, Pei Ye could still recognize that most of them were recently used books on the second path of arrays. The traces of reading on them were subtle and the annotations were solid. The young man himself was gradually learning to read, but he often stared at it. I have been thinking about a page for a long time, and it is rare to be so down-to-earth and serious.

I had known that Dasishan lived alone in an ancient building, but now the loneliness and quietness he felt day after day was conveyed through the paper.

"I can't see anything." Gan Zifeng stood aside and flipped through two volumes, then folded them together and frowned, "We have to find those pens and inks from ten years ago."

Ten years ago, Bai Tianqu went into retreat in the mountains. Another thing Pei Ye knew was that this year Qu Zhu took Huanshenglou to the Valley of Hushan and took away the [Xiting Heart] that had been sleeping there for thousands of years.

Gan Zifeng frowned and stood quietly for a moment, then suddenly moved: "Come on."

Pei Ye followed him, and they actually left the Hidden Sword Pavilion. After turning around a few times, a small room appeared in front of them.

"Uncle Chi complained to us before he became Da Si Shan that there wasn't even a chair in the Sutra Collection Building and his back hurt from standing. If he moved in, he would definitely install a bed." Gan Zifeng chuckled and looked at Looking inside, "Wu Hejianming is a stranger to me, and he is very accurate in his judgment of the people in our sect. He said that people like Pei Shaoxia and Uncle Chi will never act as a swindler."

".Just take a look."

This small room is indeed very small. It is a space squeezed out from two book cabinets. As soon as the eyes turn, a large number of books and papers are accumulated beside the bed, organized neatly by a shelf.

There is no need to go through the review of Zhang Meiqing's notes. This time it is easy to distinguish the old and new pens and inks.

Gan Zifeng was obviously much more familiar with it than Xu Changjiao. Facing the unfamiliar bookcase, he took out a handwritten book in just a few moments, brushed away the miscellaneous books, and placed it on the table.

As soon as he opened it, Pei Ye immediately felt familiar - Zhang Meiqing's habits and methods of recording events, and even the code words he used to catalog his books, turned out to come from this Da Si Shan.

There are only eight characters on the front page: "It is declining, a book of old age."

Looking at the exhibition book, the old man's notes are very concise and clear, with almost no idle strokes, and few dense strokes. Most of them are important events that happened a few days and a half months apart. Looking at it now, almost all of them are worthless.

Until you turn to the middle, the pen and ink suddenly become denser.

"Tomorrow Tianqu will come to talk about the 'Sword Hidden'. Remember to make some preparations. He prefers the way of understanding. Help him think of a way and don't make him unhappy."

The line couldn't be described as sensitive, but Pei Ye and Gan Zifeng both looked at it.

Because the old man wrote a rare signature below - "At the end of the year, the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month."

"This is it. The sect master went into seclusion in March of the following year." Gan Zifeng whispered.

Looking back, we can see that these writings started from this time. In the following days, the old man's notes began to be completely filled with the "Sword Hidden" incident. Bai Tianqu continued to visit, and the only interspersed one or two was Zhang Meiqing's visit. Ask for advice.

The two of them carefully read page after page. Only when they devoted themselves wholeheartedly, they would unconsciously sort out their thoughts. Pei Ye could see that it was not a simple visit and discussion. Bai Tianqu was trying his best to persuade Looking at the old man, the atmosphere even began to become tense.

After their first meeting, the old man wrote in a relaxed and helpless manner: "That formation is indeed a miracle, and the 'Sword Hidden' can be arranged neatly in it. But the essence is the same as the stack of seventeen sword scriptures. There is no difference at all - we all know that there are some common patterns in it, but the important thing is that it is buried too deep, and the "Sword Hidden" has been digging for two hundred years. "

"I'll look through the boxes and cabinets tomorrow and explain it to Tianqu."

"The amber pendant Tianqu gave me seems very interesting. I'll study it when I have time."

This view lasted for five meetings. Pei Ye didn't know what kind of arguments took place in these five meetings, and how much effort Bai Tianqu put in. Anyway, in the record after this meeting, the old man wrote a long and serious paragraph.

"'The order array comes alive'.'The body of a living being is always self-consistent'."

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".But it still needs to be proved that people can realize that kind of spirituality from it. And it's not right. How can there be such a thing in the world? What kind of people does Tianqu know?"

Then there were face-to-face arguments again and again. The old man began to list the books to be read in the notebook. During those days, he was visibly immersed in the conversation with Bai Tianqu.

"No." Chi Jianzong finally wrote again, with a firm pen.

"It still doesn't work. No one can have this kind of experience in the [Sword Calling Chapter], and it is still not the depth that humans can reach - in fact, I think the link of 'integration' cannot be completed in the human heart. 'One' must be integrated from them first before people can feel it."

"Tianqu has gone astray." He wrote very seriously.

There was a lot less writing afterwards, but from the simple few lines, it can still be seen that Chi Jianzong is not no longer concerned about this matter, but he has almost no energy and mood to record it. The heavy depression is conveyed through the pen.

"It's rare to see Tianqu get so angry with me, but I really can't agree with him."

"People get sad easily when they get old."

A record about Zhang Meiqing was suddenly inserted in the middle, as if it was a moment of relief - "Meiqing asked me to design a bird for him. What a good relationship, haha."

"I don't have time recently. I'll draw the picture in ten days."

But just five days later, a letter was sandwiched in this notebook.

From Bai Tianqu

"Uncle Chi, the 'Kongtong Sword' in our dreams is like the real gold under the sea. Although we know it must exist, it is dark and murky in the water, and no one can touch it. Now, the landscape sword formation is an upward leap for the 'Sword Collection', and the 'Activity' of the landscape sword formation is another clear emergence. However, you still don't want to believe that it is already at a depth that can be touched by people.

I thought about it for a long time and decided to tell you my most sincere words here for the first and last time.

You are right.

It just changed from a scattered mess without any connection to a hazy mass, and we still can't see it clearly.

But, we still have a chance to make it clearer and reborn.

No one agrees, but I want to tell you.

Because your rest of your life is for the Sword Collection, and so is mine.

Don't let anyone know, please go to the back cliff of the 'Hanging Sky Curtain' tonight."

Tear up a large piece.

The thick and messy ink marks must have soaked several pages of paper. I don't know what kind of news can make a Xuanmen lose his composure, but what is certain is that Bai Tianqu still failed to convince him.

After revealing the final plan to him, the old man became more fiercely resistant and angry than ever before, but at the same time, he was at a loss and panic. He didn't know how to deal with it for a while until the last short note arrived.

"Then goodbye. Uncle Chi. Don't worry, we will do everything well."

There is still nearly half of the space in the notebook, but it is all blank.

Obviously, it was not after that year that the old man lost this habit, but since then, the old man who needed to take notes all the time has been gone.

The room was silent for a long time, and Pei Ye suddenly felt a chill and turned to the cabinet full of letters next to him.

There was a button left. Zhang Meiqing asked Chi Jianzong to refine a weapon once. In order to show off to his wife that he had completed it independently, he did it very quietly. This matter was also not spread to the ears of the six!

The "Grand Sishan" who replaced Chi Jianzong should reveal his flaws when facing Zhang Meiqing who came to bring up the matter again!

The old man and the younger generation communicated verbally, and the imposter would not know what Zhang Meiqing wanted at all!

In his gaze, Pei Ye turned out a short note from Zhang Meiqing.

It was a thank-you note, which was sent ten days after the request was made and three days after Bai Tianqu sent the last sentence.

"Uncle Chi is still so good! I am really grateful - don't tell others, I will bring you something good next time!"

The easy-going and amiable old man seemed to have not changed at all, and the man's joy was beyond words.

Even three years later, he did not realize that the senior he admired had changed.