The arrow in his hand plunged into the white lion's thick mane, but the arrow failed to sink into the flesh and blood as Yu Shiqi expected. Instead, it hit some extremely hard object.

The wooden arrow body could not withstand the force exerted by both sides, and broke with a crisp sound. The frightened beast waved its front paw, and Yu Shiqi flew out like a kite with a broken string.

The beast's palm was like a battering ram. Yu Shiqi flew backwards and saw the blood spurting from his mouth forming intermittent arcs in the air.

He didn't know how many ribs he had broken, two? Three? Maybe more. His internal organs ached violently like burning. Before landing, he had been thinking in confusion in his mind about the arrow in his hand at that moment.

What exactly was stabbed?

There is no doubt that it feels like an iron wall and is definitely not the skin and flesh of an ordinary animal.

With a "plop", his back fell into the warm spring water. The water surface was almost submerged up to his ears. It seemed that he was slapped by the beast into the shallow water of the spring.

Yu Shiqi felt that it was not a bad idea to just close his eyes and wait for death. He had already done the hard work he needed to do. Just like most efforts in this world were in vain, his fate was no longer under his control at this moment.

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Lying on his back in the water, unable to move due to the severe pain all over his body, Yu Shiqi's eyes were facing the gap above the mountain. The moonlight tonight was beautiful.

In fact, thinking about it this way, my luck is not bad. I found the legendary fairy spring, saw the mesmerizing moonlight, and met the white bird... It's a pity that this picturesque fairyland...

The fountain will be defiled by his own blood.

Yu Shiqi slowly closed his eyes, and the surging spring water flowed through him, just like the hands that often gently caressed his head when he was a child in his memory.

Whenever that person's palm caressed the top of his head, he would feel inexplicably relieved and even want to doze off. Thinking of these past memories, the pain on his body seemed to have subsided a lot, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Smiling, I planned to sleep like this.

But the sound of bells getting closer and clearer in his ears kept him from falling into dreamland as he wished. As the sound got closer, his heart became more and more nervous.

Yu Shiqi had never felt that his eyelids were so heavy, and it took all his strength to open his eyes. He tried his best to open his eyes just a tiny gap, and in a trance he saw a slim figure standing in the water.

In front of the stone platform on the side.

The returning girl lowered her head and looked at the scroll spread out on the stone platform. She stared at the white bird in the middle of the scroll that was half out of the water and spreading its wings, and murmured something softly.

"A sanctimonious bastard."

She said it very softly, but Yu Shiqi actually heard it.

For some reason, he suddenly wanted to laugh, but there was blood in his throat, and he couldn't laugh. He could only cough.

The girl walked in front of him, stepped into the water, and looked down. The white lion followed her step by step, with an indescribably respectful attitude.

Compared with the white lion's mountain-like figure, the girl looks even more petite.

She looked at Yu Shiqi lying in the water, noticed that he still held the broken half of the arrow shaft in his hand, and snorted: "You are not overestimating your own capabilities."

"It turns out that it was raised by a girl..." Yu Shiqi made a labored voice, and it suddenly occurred to him that the arrow just hit might be the iron ring under its neck.

The girl didn't answer. She turned around and glanced at the white lion behind her. A translucent blade more than a foot long and as thin as a cicada's wing slipped out of her sleeve and was held in her hand.

"What are you going to do, girl?"

"Of course I'll give you justice. This beast hurt you, and I'll punish it on your behalf." She said and walked towards the white lion with her knife.

There was fear in the white lion's copper bell-sized eyes. It lowered its body and lay down. Even so, the girl's figure was only just higher than its back.

"Beast, don't blame me." She raised the knife.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Yu Shiqi from behind made a voice.

The girl turned around hesitantly and saw him half-sitting in the water with his hands propped up, his expression enduring pain.

"Since I am being raised by you, I will discipline you well from now on. Now, could you please help me get the medicine from my bag..."

The girl looked at him and grinned: "Miss? Your Excellency?"

"To be able to raise such a strange beast, your status must be extraordinary." Yu Shiqi lowered his head and did not look at her.

"I can tell that you are more afraid of me than this beast."

Yu Shiqi did not deny it, but lowered his eyes: "After all, even it is afraid of you."

"Then you still dare to ask me to get you medicine?" she asked jokingly.

Yu Shiqi was speechless. He didn't dare to say that he didn't really want her to help get the medicine. He just saw the lion begging for mercy from her, and he felt compassion for her and found an excuse to ask her to stop.

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He gritted his teeth. Although his body was still in pain, he had recovered a little. It was not impossible to get the medicine by himself.

"Stay there and don't move." The girl ordered in a cold tone, and then walked towards his luggage placed beside the stone platform.

With a flick of her wrist, the translucent blade, which was very dangerous in Yu Shiqi's eyes, disappeared.

"It should be in the inner compartment..." he prompted.

The girl rummaged through his luggage with an impatient expression, and suddenly found something interesting.

"Yu, Shiqi." She looked at the seal in her hand and smiled: "Is this your name? Who gave it to you?"

"That's a stage name...for painting."

"This name doesn't sound like a master at all. Most famous people are called Mr. So-and-so, or laymen." The girl teased him.

"I have no name to begin with."

"Then what's your real name?" she asked with interest.

Yu Shiqi hesitated for a moment, struggling in his mind whether to answer honestly.

Before he could make up his mind, he suddenly heard the girl laugh twice: "Before asking others, you should tell yourself first, right? My name is Xiling Yue, which means not the month of the moon, but the legendary orb named Yue.

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"Yu Yanzhi..." He paused, "The Yu who is cheating on me."

Xiling Yue smiled: "Does anyone really introduce their name like this? You can say that you are safe and sound."

"Sorry, I don't have these four words in my life yet." He smiled wryly at himself.

Xilingyue frowned slightly, continued to rummage in his luggage, and soon found a medicine bottle.

"Yuzhenhuashang Pill?" She opened the cork of the bottle and checked it before walking towards Yu Shiqi, squatting down beside him and handing the medicine to him.

"Thank you."

"As far as I know, this is not a kind of medicine that ordinary people can afford." Xilingyue's tone turned evil again, "You can't buy a painting for ten days and a half a month's worth of food.

Bar."

Yu Shiqi nodded, but did not explain more to her.

"I just found two interesting things. What do you think they are?"

The palms of the left and right hands.

When Yu Shiqi saw these two things, there were some emotional fluctuations in his eyes.

"Give it back to me." He said and stretched out his hand, but the girl stepped back smartly and held the two small objects firmly in her hands.

"These two things have words and patterns engraved on them. What do they mean?" Xilingyue asked, squinting her eyes.

The copper pillar pendant is engraved with "Ninety Thousand Miles", and the fine steel seal is a pattern of a sword penetrating the cloud pattern. There is also the small character "Seventeen", but the word "Seventeen" is somehow changed.

The sharp blade passed through it, leaving a deep mark.

"Please give them back to me."

"What? Don't you want to say it? The ninety-thousand-mile copper pillar pendant is the token of Tongfeng Sect. And this steel seal is the identity certificate of the Yunzhongjian team under the Desolate Sect. You are a member of the Yunzhongjian Ranger Sword Team.

Number seventeen." Xi Lingyue sneered, "Am I right?"

Yu Shiqi glanced at her incomprehensively: "Since you already know it, why bother asking me."

The next second the thin translucent blade appeared in front of him, the blade facing the tip of his nose.

"The young knight from Tongfeng Sect and the swordsman from Yunzhongjian, I don't like either of these two people." She paused and then changed her words: "No, I should say they are very annoying."

"Your Excellency, if you say so, does it mean that you have some quarrel with Tongfeng Sect or Huangwu Sect?"

"No, but now I have." Her blade touched Yu Shiqi's cheek, cutting a red line on the skin under his left eye.

Yu Shiqi didn't say a word.

"Have you been practicing for a long time to pretend to be a painter? No wonder, the way you stabbed the beast with an arrow looked like some kind of swordsmanship."

"I am really a painter." He replied in a deep voice, full of confidence.

Xilingyue stared into his eyes, and after a long time asked, "Why did Yunzhongjian send you to Kunlun? To be honest, I'll give you a good time."

"Whether you believe it or not, it has been two years since I left the Sword Team, and three years since I left the Tongfeng Sect." He said helplessly, "In the past two years, I have been traveling around the South, traveling through mountains and rivers, painting and selling paintings. Other than that,

Nothing else to do."

"Those who defect from the Cloud Sword team will be hunted to the ends of the earth. How can you be your wandering painter after leaving?"

"Because I'm not defecting from the team."

"oh?"

"There was a senior who insisted that I was not suitable to be the Sword in the Clouds and removed me from the team," he said.

"Then why don't you go back to Tongfengmen?" Xilingyue was doubtful.
Chapter completed!