The wind is gentle and the sun is beautiful, and the clouds are rolling and relaxing.
The sky was so sunny.
Inside the Ghost Valley.
Guiguzi Wang Xu, wearing a dark blue robe, stood with his hands behind his back near the small bridge and the flowing water, quietly watching the open space not far away.
At this moment.
Disciples Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang, two senior brothers, each hold an exquisite wooden sword and are sparring with each other.
Hone your respective vertical and horizontal sword techniques.
"The three-year period is approaching, and the first vertical and horizontal trial between Nie'er and Xiaozhuang is about to begin." Guiguzi Wang Xu watched quietly, with a calm expression and constant thoughts in his mind: "The qualifications of the two of them are no less than before.
Su Qin and Zhang Yi."
"The first vertical and horizontal trial must not be too ordinary."
“What should be the best setting?”
Standing alone near the small bridge and flowing water, Wang Xu meditated quietly.
The sound of gurgling water came to my ears, and the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers came from the surrounding mountains and forests. Everything seemed so harmonious and natural.
Suddenly, I recalled in my mind that a month ago, I heard a strange roar of a tiger in the distance.
Guiguzi couldn't help but look thoughtful in his eyes.
"Nie'er and Xiaozhuang's first vertical and horizontal trial may be set up in this mode..."
In silence.
A gentle breeze blew by, and Gui Guzi, who was hunting with white hair and shawl, suddenly disappeared and drifted away in the wind.
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Great dreams, great changes, great changes.
The long years have passed by, and the ancient vicissitudes of life have passed by in a blink of an eye.
Inside the cave.
Si Yuan, whose body and limbs were in the shape of a tiger lying down and curled up, slowly opened a pair of eyes that were different from ordinary people, but those eyes were like a female black tiger that had just woken up from sleep.
Vigilant, cautious, with a hint of instinctive precaution.
And when he turned his head slightly and looked at the four black tiger cubs curled up around his body.
The eyes then became soft, intimate and gentle.
"This is my cub!"
Si Yuan opened his mouth, stuck out his tongue, and subconsciously licked the black tiger cub that was taking a nap with its eyes closed.
Suddenly I felt something wasn't right about the touch on my tongue.
"wrong!"
"It seems that I haven't given birth to a baby yet, and that's not right. This is my baby..."
"Then why does it taste different?"
He subconsciously shrugged his nose and sniffed the residual scent on the bodies of the four little black tiger cubs.
Instead, I became more and more confused.
"The smell is the same, but why the taste is different?"
But Si Yuan just licked it with his tongue and woke up the black tiger cub.
The little guy opened his big, clear eyes and instinctively called out "meow". But to Si Yuan's ears, this sound was the little guy crying out that he was hungry.
"Zai Zai is hungry, let's eat milk."
Si Yuan turned sideways to the ground and took the initiative to expose his chest.
With soft eyes, he looked at the black tiger cub, indicating that his little cub was ready to eat. His gentle eyes were full of doting.
"Meow?!"
The black tiger cub called softly, his voice full of doubts.
A pair of clear, big eyes were filled with confusion.
"Huh? Why doesn't Zaizai eat?" Seeing this, Si Yuan was a little confused. But it didn't matter. He raised his right hand, with his five fingers in the shape of tiger claws.
He pinched the soft flesh of the black tiger cub's neck with one paw and pulled it into his arms a few times.
"Hurry up and eat the milk...!"
"Meow!"
The little guy felt himself being suffocated by the strong chest muscles and couldn't help but cry softly.
It struggled hard with its four little paws, trying to raise its head. But with its current weak body, it didn't have much strength at all.
He could never break free from the hand holding his neck.
"This bastard, why don't you eat it?"
"You should eat it...!"
Looking at the black tiger cub that was always struggling instinctively, Si Yuan's eyes were full of confusion, and he couldn't understand why it didn't eat.
He held its little head with his right hand and subconsciously rubbed it against his chest.
When the other three black tiger cubs saw the appearance of the little black tiger, they were all frightened and kept shrinking back.
Three pairs of clear, big eyes widened.
He curled up and hid in a corner, peeking cautiously, not daring to take a breath.
"Why don't you eat today Zaizai?"
The five fingers of Si Yuan's right hand were shaped like tiger claws, and he picked up the little guy that he had just forced into his arms.
Stare at it with wide eyes.
After a while.
He shook his head suddenly, threw away the black tiger cub in his hand, and then held his head in his hands, blue veins suddenly appeared on the back of his hands.
The expression on his face was somewhat ferocious and twisted.
"I...I am Si Yuan, a nine-year-old human being!"
"wrong!"
"I'm not a human, I'm a female black tiger...!"
"I have neither a tail nor the special skin of a black tiger. I am definitely not a female black tiger. But...but there are other lines on my body..."
"Who am I...?"
"Is it a human named Si Yuan? Or a female Xuanhu who just gave birth to four children?"
…
Si Yuan raised his head and suddenly let out a loud roar.
The sound was like the roar of a black tiger.
His expression was distorted, with a confused and ferocious face, and he turned around and rushed towards the entrance of the cave.
"boom……!"
The huge stone blocking the entrance of the cave was knocked away by him sideways.
With a strong and muscular body, he ran quickly among the lush primeval forests, his nose instinctively sniffed and sensed the moisture and humidity in the air.
Quickly find the location of water sources inside the forest.
When he came to the river, he looked into the water, stared at his reflection carefully, and looked at it carefully.
The face of Si Yuan in the memory of his mind and the face of the female black tiger gradually overlapped and blurred, and his self-recognition probably had a direction.
"I...seem to be a person?!"
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In the dimly lit primitive woods.
The figure of Guiguzi Wang Xu was like a strange ghost, erratic inside the woods.
The many footprints left by the two adult black tigers are still distinguishable even though they are not very clear now.
"It's Xuan Hu, heading in that direction."
He turned his head slightly and looked in the direction of the river.
He quickly jumped up and arrived at the river bank, then lowered his head to look down at the traces left on the ground and observed carefully.
Restore what happened here in your mind.
"The two mysterious tigers had a fierce fight here with a sword master, and she was also a woman."
"In the end, only one black tiger was left alive."
"But...!" Guiguzi squatted down, reached out and gently touched the remaining traces on the ground, observed carefully, and was full of doubts in his heart: "Where is the body of the other black tiger?"
"There are no traces of corpses on the ground, and they were not eaten."
"Based on the traces left by the swordsman, the woman was seriously injured and she was alone when she left."
"The body of another black tiger was not taken away."
How did the body of another black tiger disappear out of thin air? Guiguzi still couldn't understand this.