Chapter 105: Sword Light and Blade Shadow ②
On the vast desert, a large and a small person were walking side by side.
The large one was in a green robe with long sleeves, and he stood as tall as a bamboo in the wind, and his appearance was unrestrained. The small one was staggering, and his lips were pale, and his fingertips were stained with the blood of burying his father.
Yu Lin had walked for a period of time, and he would stop and ask him, “Do you need me to carry you? Do you need treatment?”
Li Zhan was pressing his lips together tightly, and he just followed behind him without a word, and he would always shake his head. “No need.”
The little villain was very stubborn when he was young, and he had a faint shadow of his paranoid self in the future.
Now, Yu Lin did not know what to say, and he let out a light sigh. “Okay. I’ll take you to Xie Zhuoyu.”
Unexpectedly, at this time, when he had said this name, a fierce light had suddenly burst out in Li Zhan’s lifeless eyes. He clenched his fists and let out a cold laugh. “Okay.”
Yu Lin sensed that his mood was not right, and he frowned slightly. “You don’t like him?” This was not in line with what was written in the plot. In the martial arts rumors, Li Zhan’s later superb swordsmanship should have been learned from Xie Zhuoyu.
Their styles were too similar, and they had a fatherly connection. Yu Lin guessed that in the original plot, it should have been Xie Zhuoyu who had saved Li Zhan later, but Xie Zhuoyu had not found the direction so quickly, and when he had arrived, the swordsman was already dead, and Li Zhan’s situation would not have been good either.
Yu Lin guessed that it was this kind of experience that had impacted the little villain’s personality.
But what had happened later, and what was the entanglement between Li Zhan and Xie Zhuoyu, Yu Lin had not picked up any related martial arts rumor paper slips, so he did not know.
He also had no intention of analyzing these, because after he had heard his words, Li Zhan had quickly let out a cold laugh, and his eyes were actually full of deep hatred. Yu Lin felt that something was more and more wrong. “What’s wrong with you?”
Li Zhan gritted his teeth, and he suddenly looked at him with red eyes. “Do you want me to like the enemy who has destroyed my family? That’s right. You are his friend. How is it? Now that you know I hate him, are you going to kill me?”
Yu Lin: “…What do you mean by the enemy who has killed my father?”
Yu Lin felt that this sentence had a lot of information. The little villain actually thought that Xie Zhuoyu was his enemy, but according to the plot, he had been raised by Xie Zhuoyu.
Yu Lin felt that this matter had become complicated.
Li Zhan said coldly, “Isn’t it? If it weren’t for him being so arrogant when he was young, and he had made so many enemies, and he had let my father clean up the mess for him, why would our family have been displaced for years, and have ended up like this today?”
… So that’s what he thought. Yu Lin was speechless. Although it was a little extreme, it had to be said that in this martial world where people were killed at the drop of a hat, Xie Zhuoyu, as the protagonist of the series, did indeed have a bloody and stormy constitution.
From a certain point of view, the little villain’s logic was not wrong.
Yu Lin felt that things had become tricky.
Li Zhan clenched his fists and asked with red eyes, “Where is Xie Zhuoyu?” He looked as if he were going to stab him to death in the next second.
“…” Yu Lin had to say, “He has something to do, and he has entrusted you to me. I’ll take you to a safe place first.”
Li Zhan’s body was actually already overwhelmed, and his internal injuries were serious. Yu Lin had taken him, who had not said a word after he had thrown a tantrum, to a nearby town, and he had gone to several clinics in the middle, and the doctors had all said that it was not possible.
A child’s bones were tender, and after such a serious injury, even if he had survived, he would have been basically crippled in the future. Not to mention practicing martial arts, he might not even be able to lift heavy objects.
This was undoubtedly a major blow to a talented young swordsman. Li Zhan had heard it too many times, and in these few days, it had entered his heart. He would always sit under the eaves alone without a sound, and his expression was placid, and he didn’t know what he was thinking, and he didn’t even hide when it rained.
Yu Lin stood in a corner and looked at him. In these few days, he had gone out to inquire again, and after he had come back, he had patted his head. “Let’s go. To the Qianjin Valley.”
The Qianjin Valley was a place where a group of divine doctors gathered. It was said that the Shaolin guardian divine doctors had superb medical skills, and there was no incurable disease in the world that they could not treat, but they had strange tempers, and they had set up many traps, and outsiders did not dare to approach.
Li Zhan had not expected that Yu Lin, a person he had just met, would be willing to go and beg the Qianjin Valley for him. He was stunned for a long time before he asked in a low voice, “Why are you doing this?”
He did not understand, and his dark eyes were staring at Yu Lin. “Is it because of Xie Zhuoyu?”
“No.” Yu Lin said, and his eyes were very quiet as he looked at him. “Your father entrusted you to me.” He added, “Then I am your master. I will not send you to Xie Zhuoyu. You can live with me in the future.”
After a pause, he said again, “But I still have to find someone. It may be a little hard.”
Yu Lin’s voice was a little soft, but Li Zhan’s lifeless eyes lit up bit by bit.
“I’m not afraid.” he said, and perhaps he really hated Xie Zhuoyu. He stood up, and with a thud, he knelt down to Yu Lin. “Master.”
The eaves above his head were reflecting the daylight, and the accumulated night rain was falling from the corners of the eaves, and it was echoing with a crisp sound in the world. He was lying on the ground, and he had kowtowed heavily.
***
A child’s life could not be delayed. Yu Lin had taken his new little disciple and had rushed to the Qianjin Valley. The Qianjin Valley was as isolated from the world as the rumors said, and it was impassable. But a doctor’s heart was benevolent, and with sincerity, he could always move people.
Yu Lin would bring Li Zhan to visit every day, and he would also bring Li Zhan to help the villagers in the surrounding villages. After a long time of asking, he had finally moved the doctors in the valley, and the other party was willing to treat Li Zhan.
The treatment process was very long and very painful. Li Zhan was tormented by pain every day, but he had not made a sound.
When the leaves in the valley had turned from green to yellow, and the child had gradually grown up, and Li Zhan’s body had improved, the two of them had bid farewell to the Qianjin Valley.
“Master.” The young Li Zhan already had the shadow of the Moon-bright Lad of the future, and he was quite beautiful.
He was carrying a long saber on his back, and because he still had something on his mind, his elegant features had a hint of a fierce aura. His gaze turned to Yu Lin, and then he quieted down, and he asked respectfully and softly, “Where is the person you are looking for? I will accompany you.”
“…” Yu Lin also did not know. Chen Shizhou was too good at hiding in this world.
Li Zhan did not know what he had thought of, but he actually had a look of deep empathy, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly. “It’s fine. We can look for them slowly. They must be living very well in some corner.”
“They?” Yu Lin looked at him with confusion.
“En.” He nodded, and his gaze softened. “My mother and sister… were taken away and hidden by my uncle. My dad said that we should not disturb them. They must be living in some corner…”
He was smiling, and he had clearly thought of his family, which had made him feel a little warm. But before he could finish, his head had been patted by Yu Lin. “Okay.”
Yu Lin patted his head. “You don’t have to say any more.” Mainly, don’t just casually set up this kind of flag.
Li Zhan did not understand, but he still agreed. “Okay.”
From the moment they had left the Qianjin Valley, the big and the small had been homeless, and they had begun to wander the martial world, and they were aimlessly looking for the person in their hearts.
Xie Zhuoyu had written to him several times.
At that time, he had been a step too late and had not been able to save his friend. After that, he had come to the swordsman’s old residence, and based on the ruins, he had restored the tragic state of the swordsman’s family, and since then, his heart had been full of hatred.
Xie Zhuoyu was not a person who did not care about friendship. On the contrary, his kindness and enmity were strong, so in a fit of impulse, he had rushed into the enemy’s lair with one man and one sword. Although he had tried his best to kill the person, he had also been seriously injured and was on the verge of death.
Yu Lin had to settle Li Zhan down and had traveled a thousand miles to get him.
Fortunately, Xie Zhuoyu had more connections than Yu Lin. After he had been saved, he had found a place to heal his wounds and had saved his life.
Looking at it this way, the reason why Xie Zhuoyu had disappeared in the original plot a few years later was probably because he had died avenging the swordsman. Because he was dead, there was no more news.
It was just that he did not know what the entanglement was between him and the original Li Zhan.
But in the current plotline, Xie Zhuoyu had survived, and his body had recovered quite well, so he was eager to see the child that the swordsman had left behind.
To this, Li Zhan just let out a cold laugh. “I’m not seeing him.”
Although Xie Zhuoyu had avenged his father, he still had no good feelings for Xie Zhuoyu, who had tricked their family.
Yu Lin had truthfully informed Xie Zhuoyu of the situation, and Xie Zhuoyu had replied after a long time, saying “okay.”
The world-renowned and unrestrained Jade-carving Lad had suddenly become silent.
Yu Lin and Li Zhan had no destination, and they had walked through the north and south of Jiangnan. The big and the small, they had punished the strong and had helped the weak, and their appearance was unparalleled, and they were as bright as gods. They had quickly made a name for themselves in the martial world.
Even so, Chen Shizhou had still not come to find him… On a light boat in Jiangnan, Yu Lin was looking at the river, and he was very confused about this.
He was unknown in this world, but now that he was so famous, and Chen Shizhou had still not come to find him, it seemed that he was not very concerned about the rumors in the martial world either.
He was really confused about where Chen Shizhou was hiding in this world.
It was not until he had come to the vicinity of the evil sect, the Liujin Altar, which was avoided by everyone in the martial world, that Yu Lin had thought of what Li Zhan had done decades later. After some thought, and he had felt that there was an inside story, he had still taken Li Zhan in to investigate.
At this time, the Liujin Altar was at its peak, and it was not as decadent as it would be more than ten years later.
As a large killer organization, the Liujin Altar had the nature of an evil sect. Its main duty was to take in orphans from all over the country, and then to brainwash them with words, and to make them recognize the teachings of the Liujin Altar, and in the end, to become active killing machines.
At this time, it was the time when the Liujin Altar was at its peak. The guards in the altar were strict, and as soon as they had entered, there had been batches of patrolling people. Yu Lin and Li Zhan had been hiding, and they had searched the inside, but they had not found anything wrong.
It was not until the two of them were about to leave that they had found a movement in a small corner in the southeast.
That was the place where the Liujin Altar punished those who had made mistakes. The punishments were cruel and made people’s hearts tremble.
It had been quiet inside, and it did not look like there was anyone locked up. It was when Li Zhan was passing by that he had felt a strong palpitation, and it just so happened that a faint movement had come from inside, and only then had the two of them gone in.
The winding space was like a dark room, and it was pitch-black.
In the very center was an altar with a burning candle. A girl was locked in it, a little younger than Li Zhan. She was sitting on the altar, and her appearance was beautiful, and her gaze was cold.
Hearing the movement, her hand was quietly behind her back, and she was hiding a dagger, and at the same time, she said with vigilance, “Who is it?”
Li Zhan looked at her, and he was stunned for a long time, and his expression was not an exaggeration to say that it was a devastation.
He opened his mouth very, very lightly, as if he did not dare to make a sound, and he called out, “A’Yan?”
It was also the first time Li Yan had heard this name in two years. She was still young when she had been abducted by the Liujin Altar. After that, she had been forced to become the holy maiden, Lin Yan’er. Besides her master, no one had called her by her name for a long time.
The brother and sister looked at each other, and their noses were both sore, and tears fell. The taste of it was indescribable.
The candlelight was swaying, and the brother and sister were gathered together and were talking about their experiences over the years.
Yu Lin was guarding in a corner, and he blinked lightly, and he looked at the man who had appeared silently by his side.
The man was taciturn, and he was in a black robe, and his ponytail was hanging low. He had a good appearance, but he was very cold.
He frowned, and he glanced at Li Yan, who had suddenly recognized her brother. He seemed to be a little puzzled, but in fact, his peripheral vision couldn’t help but always fall on Yu Lin, who was by his side.
I don’t know him, but I like him. I want to get close.
The number one killer in the martial world, Dian Qingyan, would not care about what others thought, just as he had only felt that Lin Yan’er was pleasing to the eye, and he had saved her in her tragic cries, and he had protected her to live in the crisis-ridden Liujin Altar.
Just as he liked the person by his side, he had appeared from the shadows and had come over to be close.
“Do we know each other?” In the flickering lights, he had opened his mouth, and his voice was placid, and his face was serious, and he was awkwardly starting a conversation.
“What do you think?” Yu Lin looked at him, and he had laughed when he had heard this.