Even in Tianxiang Academy, after June entered, the temperature became increasingly hot, and the originally green leaves drooped like eggplants beaten by frost.

The fire outside the wooden house in the back mountain became more and more intense.

However, it failed to make Li Xiuyuan realize a trace of the power of fire. At this time, he was so anxious that he took off his gown and ran to the big lake of the academy to float for a whole day without landing.

Even the usually diligent students in the academy hid one after another. They only showed up occasionally at night and waved their swords by the lake, disturbing Li Xiuyuan who was trying to meditate on the mountain behind.

Only at night and early in the morning before the sun comes out, the hut on the mountain will be quiet and cool for a while, and only with a hint of cool breeze blowing from the distance can Li Xiuyuan sleep peacefully for a while.

He felt like he was about to become the pieces of monster meat on the grill in the academy.

Youruo found a large piece of ice from nowhere, and brought some fruits soaked in well water. She put some cold dishes on the table and shouted that she wanted to have a drink with Li Xiuyuan.

Youruo, who was wearing a blue silk gown, also had a trace of sweat on her forehead, so she had to put the silk scarf on the ice to wet it before wiping it off her face.

After pouring two glasses of wine, Li Xiuyuan looked at her sadly and said, "You Ruo, are you trying to fight fire with fire when you drink at this time? Are you stupid?"

Picking up the wine glass in front of you, Youruo looked at him and smiled: "What is fighting fire with fire?"

Li Xiuyuan was breaking a small piece of ice, putting it in his mouth and holding it in his mouth. Hearing her question made him even more troubled.

He said with a grimace: "It's just like me right now, guarding a big stove and wanting to drink another glass of strong liquor like burning a knife. Isn't this fighting fire with fire?"

Youruo laughed when he heard this, glared at him, and said: "No one here forces you to do this. You can go down the mountain and stay in the guesthouse. Master, you won't be bored in such a hot valley.

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"This is a boring thing in the first place. If the power of fire is so easy to understand, everyone in this world will want to practice it. Then do you need to be roasted on the fire every day like me?"

Li Xiuyuan replied: "I have very little time, and I am almost running out of it... If I can't comprehend this power of fire anymore, I will kill with my body... I want to live a long time."

No matter how boring it is, you still have to suffer."

After saying this, he knocked another small piece of ice and threw it into the glass, then picked up a chopstick and took a sip of wine with the ice cube. His whole body was suddenly refreshed, and then he felt a trace of excitement

Coolness.

Then he saw Youruo's incredible gaze, and then he laughed proudly.

He murmured to himself: "I finally created an interesting thing about drinking. You can try it, but I discovered this exclusive right... Hahahaha..."

Looking at the proud look on his face, Youruo couldn't help but try to break a small piece of ice and throw it into the wine glass. Then she imitated Li Xiuyuan and giggled... covering her lips with her little hand.

But he couldn't hide a trace of joy.

It wasn't until she ate some food and drank the wine mixed with ice that Youruo smiled and said, "Go back and try with Xun'er, and let her see how powerful Youruo is. These useless guys..."

Li Xiuyuan put down the wine glass in his hand, looked at her and said, "You can go down the mountain and show off."

Youruo raised his head and took a look, frowned and asked: "Master, do you have any other treasures on you? Can you give Youruo a defense? What if I encounter a bad guy and can't defeat him?"

Li Xiuyuan was stunned, looked at her and said in a daze: "I only have spirit stones on me, and the iron sword was given to me by Sister Yu from Yuqiong Pavilion. It is just an ordinary sword."

"I don't care, I am your disciple, you have to find a way to protect me from being bullied by bad people in the future." After drinking a few glasses of wine, Youruo started to act like a baby.

Li Xiuyuan looked at her and sighed, and had to take out several different runes and put them on the table, and explained them to her one by one. It was not until the sunset that he said: "My master gave this to me. Don't ask me if I have it in the future."

It’s baby.”

Youruo nodded with satisfaction, took out a brocade bag and carefully put away these talismans.

He clapped his little hands, put away the food box on the table, looked at him and said with a smile: "Youruo won't come to see the master tomorrow. I'm going to play with Xun'er and show her how the master drinks."

Li Xiuyuan shook his head, took a jar of wine and handed it to her, smiling: "Be careful when going down the mountain. Don't run up the mountain all the time. I am practicing here, not on vacation."

"I know, Master, you are so long-winded!" Youruo put away the wine jar and walked down the mountain with the empty food box in hand.

Thousands of sunsets shone on Youruo's back, like an elf above the nine heavens, which made Li Xiuyuan sitting in front of the house dumbfounded.

Neither You Ruo nor Li Xiuyuan expected that this separation would mean that they would be separated in heaven and earth, and there would be no news about each other.

Just like the blood-vomiting poem Li Xiuyuan wrote to Feng Ruyu:

Ten years of life and death are blurred, without thinking and unforgettable...

...

In the back hill of Tianxiang Academy, it was darkest and coolest before dawn. Li Xiu spread a bamboo mat in front of the door of the wooden house. Taking advantage of this short period of the coolest time, he fell into a deep sleep, trying to make up for the losses of yesterday.

Some people in the academy were not asleep.

In the darkest night, someone quietly left the academy, like a ghost coming towards the back mountain.

The entire academy and thousands of students, taking advantage of the cool night breeze, whether it was the tired teachers or the dogs that barked all night, fell into a sweet sleep, and the entire academy has not yet woken up.

Just a faint sound of footsteps stepping on the bluestone suddenly sounded, and then gradually faded away until it disappeared.

The faint light of the lantern in front of the academy's welcoming building shone on the ground two feet in front of it, shaking gently and uneasily.

This masked black figure was about five feet tall. It floated from the back of the mountain like a ghost. It stopped when it reached the intersection dozens of feet away from the wooden house. It listened quietly and felt that it was lying in front of the wooden house.

Li Xiuyuan on the bamboo mat.

The man in black squatted on the ground and felt his pulse. At the same time, he released his spiritual consciousness to sense Li Xiuyuan's breathing. He wanted to find out whether Li Xiuyuan was sleeping deeply or lightly...

It wasn't until he confirmed that the young man in front of him had fallen into a deep sleep that he quietly moved forward with his feet.

The long knife was wrapped under the black coat. It was the most ordinary knife. He planned to throw it into the bottomless abyss in front of him after using it.

He threw away the black night clothes he was wearing. He didn't want to attract the attention of anyone who wanted to go down the mountain. He believed in his ability.

Today he wanted to wipe out the life of the young man in front of him because his master didn't like the young man in front of him. For the sake of his master's happiness, he wanted to do it himself.

The morning light had not yet arrived, and the view in the mountains was blurry. Only the stars in the sky that were gradually sinking were glowing. The man in black approached the edge of the wooden house in front of the cliff.

From a distance of five feet, he looked at the mat spread on the ground on the bluestone in front of the house, looked at the young man lying on it, paused for a moment, and then gently pulled out the long knife in his hand.

"Buzz!" A golden light rose, blocking the sword of the man in black!

In the ten thousandth chance of life or death, the protective talisman array Li Xiuyuan placed in front of the wooden house worked, keeping the man in black within two feet of him.

In a blink of an eye, the fire stick ignited and a lamp was lit. The thin Li Xiuyuan turned over and sat on the bamboo mat, holding the fire stick in his left hand and an oil lamp in his right hand.

Calm looked at the man in black in front of him, and a faint sadness suddenly appeared on his thin cheeks.

He said softly: "I don't remember offending anyone in Tianxiang Academy, and I have never had a single meal in the academy."

The so-called hatred should have a source and a reason.

The man in black stood two feet away and said nothing.

"On such a hot summer night, you couldn't sleep in the academy but came to the back mountain. You must have come to kill me." Li Xiuyuan looked at him and said quietly.

The man in black clenched the long knife in his hand and looked at the young man sitting on the bamboo mat quietly. He was calculating the angle and force of the next attack.

What shocked him was that he didn't expect that the inconspicuous young man in front of him would actually place a rune restriction on the place where he rested, thus interrupting his assassination.

He had to turn the assassination into an open killing, which was not something he liked.

However, for the sake of his master, even if he doesn't like him, he must solve the immediate trouble as soon as possible.

Li Xiuyuan did not expect that he had already been very careful not to provoke a group of students from Tianxiang Academy.

The vigilance I had developed from No. 147 on Tianjie was finally confirmed at this moment. Fortunately, I had set up a protective rune ban after arriving here, otherwise the body would have been missing.

Looking at the few stars left in the sky, after a moment of silence, he looked at the man in black in front of him and asked: "Then let's be more direct. I want to know that I offended the great god of Tianxiang Academy, so that God sent you

Is such a killer coming to the back mountain?"

The man in black frowned slightly, not expecting that the boy he was going to kill tonight would actually guess his purpose.

After a moment of silence, he said: "Of course it has something to do with certain people and certain things. Otherwise, I should be sleeping at home at this time. Why would I bother to come to the back mountain to kill you?"

"I should not be the first person you have killed." He looked at the man in black and asked, "Your master must have asked you to kill many students in the academy because of his dislike."

Li Xiuyuan silently observed the opponent's skills and the movements around him, knowing that he could not defeat the Yuanying monk in front of him who was about to transform into an evolutionary god. He could not do it with a sword, so he had to use talisman arrows.

The man in black laughed out loud, shook his head and said: "Do you know why you want to die? All the ants who have ideas about the little princess will die in Tianxiang Mountain, let alone you, an ant at the foundation level...

..”

The man in black also measured it carefully. This rune restriction was just for protection. It would not be a problem for him, a master who was about to cross over to the realm of evolutionary gods. This was no longer an assassination, but a frontal killing.

He is just a young foundation-building monk who looks thin and weak and deals with Qin Dao all day long. What does he have to be afraid of?

Just in the blink of an eye, Li Xiuyuan thought about many possibilities, even the most impossible ones. He looked at the other party and asked: "Are you a killer sent by Wen Jianyi? Since the dean agreed to me, he will do it."

I would never make such a decisive decision."

"Why not? The master is already on his way to Mount Sumeru. Even if I kill you, neither the dean nor the elders in the academy will be able to suspect the master..."

The man in black looked at Li Xiuyuan with a smile and said, "Now that I'm here, how do you want to die? Why don't you jump off this endless abyss to save me the trouble!"

Li Xiuyuan frowned and his body became stiff, knowing that he had encountered the most impossible possibility and that he had no way out.

At this moment, he couldn't help but think about the conversation he had with the Master in the back of the academy, where he should not reveal all his trump cards to others, but should leave some words to save his life at critical moments.

He was analyzing the situation in front of him. The two of them were too close and the rune arrows did not have enough shooting range. It seemed that the runes could not kill the opponent within a distance of two feet, and it was even less possible for his own long sword.

Being too low-level is his fatal weakness.

The opponent himself is the ultimate killer, and the only thing he has to do is to save his life.
Chapter completed!