Mortal bone

"Sister Lingyue, what's wrong with this?"

Seeing Fairy Lingyue being so surprised, Xu Taiping was a little apprehensive for a while, and slowly rolled up the portrait of the Snowy Ghost Lord.

After returning from Xuanhuang Pagoda, because time was too short, Xu Taiping had not had time to tell Fairy Lingyue one by one about the treasures presented by Xuanhuang Pagoda.

"It's more than inappropriate? If I didn't know your life experience, I would have some doubts whether you are the reincarnation of the illegitimate son left behind by Emperor Xuanhuang."

Fairy Lingyue looked at Xu Taiping suspiciously.

"what?"

Xu Taiping looked confused.

"You first open the portrait of the snowy ghost master."

Fairy Lingyue pointed to the painting on the table.

Xu Taiping then unfolded the portrait of the Snowy Ghost Lord again.

"Although most of the ghosts in the Xuanhuang Tower are transformed by the Xuanhuang Tower using the fear of the dead souls in the tower, most of the ghosts at the level of ghost kings are Jiuyuan monsters sealed in the tower by the Emperor Xuanhuang. .”

Fairy Lingyue paused at this point in the explanation, and then tapped her finger on the portrait before continuing to explain:

"As for the Ghost Lord of the Snowy Land, according to our speculation, he should be Yang Ling, the strongest Demon Emperor in Jiuyuan during the period of the Five Emperors. We call him Di Yang."

"When the five emperors conquered Jiuyuan, Diyang was the last demon emperor that Jiuyuan resisted. If he hadn't insisted on asking the sword with Emperor Zhenwu in the end, with the power of his original demon seed, even Emperor Xuanhuang could do nothing about it. Seal him in the Xuanhuang Tower."

"For so many years, Jiuyuan has tried every means to attack Xuanhuangtian, one of the reasons is to save Diyang."

When she said this, Fairy Lingyue looked at Xu Taiping with a serious expression and said: "The Xuanhuang Pagoda can entrust him to you, so you can imagine how much it trusts and values ​​you."

After hearing Fairy Lingyue's explanation, Xu Taiping's heart sank.

"Sister Lingyue, after hearing what you said, why do I feel that Emperor Xuanhuang threw a piece of hot potato over?"

Xu Taiping smiled wryly.

"It's not wrong to say that it's a hot potato. Now that Xuanhuangtian is waiting to be done, it's true that I don't have so much energy to take care of this Diyang's demon seed."

"Fairy Lingyue smiled first, and then said seriously:

"But with the restriction imposed by Emperor Xuanhuang, Jiuyuan will never suspect you for at least ten years. That is to say, within these ten years, you can borrow the power of Diyang."

Xu Taiping nodded upon hearing this.

He temporarily helped Xuanhuangtian take over this hot potato, and the Xuanhuang Tower gave him the qualification to use Diyang's power. Generally speaking, this deal is fair.

"However, when Ta Ling gave me these three portraits, he said that if he wanted to use the power of the demon seed in the portraits, he had to pay the corresponding amount of gold."

Xu Taiping muttered while looking at the portrait of Di Yang in front of him.

As he spoke, he tried to lightly touch the portrait with his finger.

The next moment, Di Yang in the portrait, who was originally motionless and lowered his head to read a book, suddenly raised his head, looked at Xu Taiping through the scroll and said:

"Are you the little monk Xu Taiping that Ta Ling said?"

Xu Taiping's heart skipped a beat, and then he tentatively asked Di Yang on the scroll, "You don't know me?"

Hearing the words, Di Yang in the scroll looked deeply at Xu Taiping, that gaze seemed to be able to see through all the thoughts in Xu Taiping's heart.

Xu Taiping's heart trembled when he saw this gaze, he had to concentrate all his mind to meet his gaze.

"I understand, Xuanhuang sealed part of my memory, you and I should know each other, and we met in Xuanhuang Pagoda."

"The reason why Emperor Xuanhuang did this is to protect you."

After a while, Di Yang looked at Xu Taiping with a smile on his lips.

As soon as these words came out, the hairs on Xu Taiping's body stood on end.

He didn't expect that Di Yang could infer so much just based on his previous question.

And what shocked Xu Taiping even more was Diyang's next sentence——

"Is there someone standing beside you? This person's aura is not weak, but his body has been destroyed and suffered a lot of damage. Now that he can recover to this level, no accident, it should be because he got the Ksitigarbha Fruit?"

Xu Taiping never expected that this Di Yang not only sensed the existence of Fairy Lingyue, but also guessed that he possessed the earth fruit.

One must know that this Ksitigarbha Fruit is Xu Taiping's greatest secret.

"I didn't expect that when the Yangling Demon Emperor, who once dominated the Upper Purity Realm, would be reduced to the point where he would use words to frighten me, a junior?"

After forcefully suppressing the panic in his heart, Xu Taiping raised his head, his eyes met Di Yang's gaze and looked over.

"I found out the biggest secret to rely on in practice, isn't it uncomfortable?"

Di Yang asked with a smile across the scroll.

"The avenue is at your feet. Take a boat when you see the water, open a road in every mountain, and draw your sword when you encounter evil. There has never been an eternal reliance, and there is no secret that no one knows."

Xu Taiping's eyes became clear again.

Seeing this, Lingyue Fairy at the side secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking:

"That's right, Taiping, there has never been anything you can rely on forever, and there is no secret that no one knows."

Diyang's questioning of Xu Taiping today is actually a question that Fairy Lingyue has been worrying about all along.

The reason why she was worried was because she knew better than anyone else that with the improvement of Xu Taiping's cultivation base, one day she would touch those existences that had nearly brought her down.

In front of those people, she and Diguo's breath could not be hidden at all.

Just like when they faced Di Yang today.

And this was why Chu Lingyue was eager to improve herself.

"It's good to take a boat when you see the water, open a way when you encounter mountains, and draw your sword when you bump into evil."

After quietly watching Xu Taiping for a long time, Di Yang in the picture scroll suddenly smiled heartily.

"Although I don't know what Xuan Huang bet on you, and why he erased the memory of my contact with you, but you are a little bit interesting, little monk, and the next ten years should not be too much. too boring."

Di Yang in the picture scroll put away the book in his hand, stood up from the chair, then raised his arms and stretched.

"Ten years?"

Xu Taiping heard something in Diyang's words.

"I promised Xuanhuang to protect the law for you, but the condition is that I can go out with you for a period of ten years. Once ten years pass, my demon seed and primordial spirit will be completely sealed in this picture scroll. When you arrive It’s time to send me back to the Xuanhuang Pagoda.”

While explaining to Xu Taiping, Di Yang picked a leaf from the tree in the painting and put it in his mouth, chewing it relish.

"Senior Diyang, why did you tell me this? If I hadn't sent this painting back to the Xuanhuang Pagoda in time, Jiuyuan's monster might be able to rescue you from the painting."

Xu Taiping pointedly pointed out the contradictions in Diyang's words.

"Xuanhuang didn't even tell you this?"

Di Yang looked at Xu Taiping from the painting with a look of surprise.

"what?"

Xu Taiping also looked puzzled.