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Su Qiyu said: "I can't beat you, if you want to kill me, I have nothing else to say, death by your hands is quite worth it."

Xiao Mo looked down at him, feeling a little distressed. From the standpoint of a friend, he knew the toughness in Su Qiyu's bones. This person's self-esteem was higher than anyone else's, but his sense of inferiority could never be erased.

"Why should I kill you?" Xiao Mo withdrew his hand and asked him, "Could it be that you are responsible for the current appearance of this Wanzhang Cave?"

"Of course not!" Su Qiyu retorted subconsciously, and suddenly felt that this rebuttal was too weak, and then asked: "I said no, do you believe it?"

"I believe it." Xiao Mo said and stretched out a hand towards Su Qiyu, "Get up first."

Su Qiyu didn't hold that hand, he smiled, half of the corners of his mouth were a little happy, but the other half was filled with dead silence, he thought, Xiao Moxin, that's enough, even if he had expected that person to go far away No matter what kind of remarks will be spread by the queen of the cave, no matter how the world criticizes his name, but Xiao Mo knows that it has nothing to do with him, so he feels extremely at ease.

The dense white bones rattled because of the bending of the support, Su Qiyu adjusted the position of the forehand bone and stood a little further away.

"Qiyu, what happened?"

Xiao Mo was entangled in the mist, but he couldn't even find anyone who could point him in the right direction, but it was undeniable that he believed in Su Qiyu, and this trust had existed for a long time, even though the distance between the two had become increasingly Yuan: Half of it is because of the alienation in the past, and the other half is because of Su Qiyu's deliberation, just like he avoided his hand just now.

Su Qiyu put the cloak on her head again, and the half of her rotten and broken face was hastily hidden: "Do you remember the grandfather who went to the Northwest with me back then?"

"Yeah." The old man in my memory seemed to be very old, with a rickety back, it was difficult to walk, and, moreover, he seemed to be dumb.

"He's not my grandfather. His name is Su Huizhang. He adopted me and is my godfather." Su Qiyu looked at Xiao Mo after speaking, waiting for his reaction.

Xiao Mo repeated this somewhat familiar name, and the pages of the book flew in front of his eyes, flipping to the end of the last page—compiler: Su Huizhang.

"Su Huizhang? The author of "Atlas of Spiritual Beasts"?"

Su Qiyu sneered, not knowing who he was talking about: "It's just a thief."

"He suffers from a rare disease, premature aging, lack of aura and can't practice. It is said that he was born with this condition, and he may not live past the age of 20. He is a person who is so afraid of death, so he began to visit spiritual herb masters all over the mainland to treat him. illness, and then he really found it." Su Qiyu couldn't help raising his head when he said this, in the dimness, under the cloak, he could vaguely find the pair of shining eyes, which were like frost, with a coolness, he He seemed to smile, and said, "That person is Xiao Annian."

Xiao Mo's eyes widened: "Third Uncle?"

"Yeah, otherwise, why would we go to the sparsely populated Northwest?" Su Qiyu paused when he said this, the wind and sand in the sky and the cries of vultures echoed in his ears, and his shadow followed step by step on the Gobi Desert where there were no bones left Looking at the sun, but the moment the sun sinks into the desert, it also drifts away.

Su Qiyu closed his eyes, and sat down along the stone wall scalded by the magma: "One, it was to find Xiao Annian, Su Huizhang thought he was not dead at all, and he faked his death just to get rid of Su Huizhang's burden, so He must go to the Northwest to see if it is true or not. Second, he heard that someone once saw a phoenix on the way to the Northwest, so he once believed that the fourth city building order was also brought to the Northwest."

"So my third uncle is really not dead?" Xiao Mo also doubted, but since Xiao Annian left home many years ago, he has never heard from him, even the things he once taught at Xuanwu College It was not long ago that I heard that Xiao Annian was an outlier in the Xiao family, as my grandfather often said.

Su Qiyu shook his head: "There was no trace of him going back in the northwest, and Su Huizhang couldn't tell whether he was dead or alive, but if he was still alive, where could he be hiding? South, East, Xuanwu Academy, University In the northwest, Su Huizhang has searched even Wanzhang Grotto, but if he finds nothing, he must be dead."

The glimmer of hope that Xiao Mo had just surged up was shattered. In the memory of the man holding him and telling stories, his appearance became more and more blurred, but the wanton laughter and the sound of lulling people to sleep have never been so clear.

"Little Momo, when you grow up, you will know that this continent is small, but the world is so big that you can't imagine." It was Xiao Annian's voice, and Xiao Mo suddenly understood, even though he was very familiar with the three Uncle's memory can't be better, but he can recall every sentence accurately, as if it was specially engraved in his mind.

Su Qiyu told Xiao Mo everything he knew, about his life experience, about Su Huizhang and Xiao Annian, about the mythical beast and the legendary rebirth.

"Xiao Annian died, and Su Huizhang fell ill again. Now he only hopes to find the divine beast and find a way to live forever, so that he can survive."

"Third Uncle, why doesn't he give him any treatment anymore?"

"I've said it before, Su Huizhang is too greedy."

The two quieted down, each thinking about their own thoughts, Xiao Mo felt a mess, but knew that there must be a knot in his hand, but he couldn't touch it now.

Su Qiyu, on the other hand, has never lived a happy life, no longer burdened with fear and secrets, and no longer betrayed his heart in order to repay his favor. In this claustrophobic cave, his body was heated by the billowing magma.He stretched out his limbs, his eyes slowly extended to the center of the altar, the magma was like boiling water bubbling up and down, bursting like fireworks,

Su Qiyu thought, there was still one reason missing, one reason to convince himself to give up.

So he said, "Xiao Mo, why are you here?"

"The dean said that Wu Xing might be here."

"Do you know its real body?"

"...I am not sure."

Su Qiyu smiled and asked him: "Wu Xing is the divine beast phoenix. What is there to be uncertain about? Xiao Mo, he is your spirit beast. You already have him. I have followed Su Huizhang for so many years. Than you don’t know how much you know, as long as you take him away, he can tell you the location of the city building order, and you can sit on a great city.”

Xiao Mo felt that Su Qiyu's words were weird, but he still told him with his inner thoughts: "I never thought of sitting on a city, and I never wanted to control a beast. I only want my star, and that small one Black and ugly stars."

"Oh." Su Qiyu turned his head away, and responded lightly, his eyes only staring at the center of the cauldron that was boiling more and more.

Xiao Mo glanced at him, and suddenly he couldn't turn his eyes away. A strong premonition arose again, and the enthusiasm belonging to another person in his blood was being released rapidly. The spiritual fit forced him to lift his legs, one step at a time, step up. on the altar.

A white egg slowly floated up.

"This is..." There was a layer of blush around Baidan, pink and bright, which instantly melted the anxiety in Xiao Mo's eyes.

"Don't move, he needs to break his shell, you can't help him." Su Qiyu stopped him.

"Inside, is it, the stars?" Xiao Mo didn't know where to put his hand. At this moment, he seemed like an old father with a son, and the joy in his eyes couldn't be concealed.

"I don't know, maybe it's the mythical beast Phoenix." Su Qiyu teased, showing another slightly mischievous look, if the unsmiling person before could be considered his true character.

"Then how long do I have to wait?" Xiao Mo lost his mind and didn't know what to do.

"It won't be long, just wait." After Su Qiyu finished speaking, he crossed his legs, lowered his head as if resting, and didn't plan to say the rest of the sentence.

Only when the old shell is broken can a new life be born.

But Su Qiyu expected that Su Huizhang would never be able to wait.

It was night, the outside world had entered darkness, and the bottom of the valley was still warm. In this place where time and existence could not be felt, Su Qiyu went to carefully count his heartbeats for the first time.

Not far away, Xiao Mo stood upright and kept guarding the ups and downs of the egg. Every time it sank, Xiao Mo could not hide the panic on his face until the white patch appeared again. .

Su Qiyu thought that he had failed enough, but at least he knew Xiao Mo earlier than Wu Xing, so it wasn't an ugly loss.

"Crack-"

Su Qiyu straightened his back and looked over.

I saw that the magma in the furnace suddenly rotated upwards, burst and splashed, and the white egg floated in the middle also rotated with it. At the same time, fine lines began to appear on the eggshell one after another. The sound peeled off, and the colorful body curled up inside could finally move freely. It twisted uncomfortably, stretched out its wings to touch the eggshells around the body, as if wondering why it suddenly felt cold.

Xiao Mo took a step back, the corners of his lips pursed into a straight line finally relaxed when he saw the familiar ball, and slowly bent into a comfortable arc with the corners of his eyes.

"Wu Xing?" Xiao Mo shouted, "I'm here to pick you up."

Wu Xing had a very long dream, and there were chattering voices in his ears from time to time, but he couldn't hear them clearly. Later, he woke up because the pressure around him suddenly dissipated, and he was wrapped tightly and safely. The feeling disappeared in an instant, which made him a little flustered.

But when he timidly opened his eyes, the same face that always appeared in his dreams appeared in front of his eyes. At that moment, his longing and grievances were flooded, boiling even more than the magma beneath him, and his body had long been out of control. Immediately rushed over: "Woooooooo——Xiao Mo—you big villain! Are you scolding me——"

Xiao Mo was first thrown into his arms by the little guy who turned into a child in an instant, and his desire to touch his head was interrupted by this crying question: "What?"

"Don't think I didn't hear you, you said I'm small, ugly and dark, woo woo Xiao Mo, how can you say that to someone~" Wu Xing snotted his nose and burst into tears, but he slammed into Xiao Mo's neck Lush.

Xiao Mo didn't know whether to laugh or cry, poked the little guy's head and said, "Can't you listen to the whole sentence?"

The two people here were talking about the old days affectionately, but Su Qiyu interrupted them: "Why, this eggshell will be broken?"

Yes, after Wu Xing broke out of the shell, the pure white egg shell instantly shattered into more than a dozen pieces, and was swallowed up by the sinking magma.

But the two halves of the eggshells were intact, floating on the magma.

Wu Xing was a little guilty. He had already accepted the memory of the original beast in the eggshell. In fact, when the beast was born, the eggshell was annihilated. Only after the beast died, a new eggshell would appear, waiting for the beast to be reborn. return.

However, this rule has gone a little bit wrong with Wu Xing. In fact, the original beast should have died in the Spirit Beast Village, so a half eggshell will appear under the Wanzhang Cave to summon the beast back. However, the dead beast did not He was summoned back to the Wanzhang Cave by time and space, but the soul of Wu Xing who entered by mistake occupied his body.

It's like a bug in the game, so the two halves of the eggshell can only stay there, because it doesn't know whether it should wait for its body or not.

But this time, Wu Xing was reborn by time and space because of Qiu Lu's accident, so this is a new body of a divine beast, a body that truly always has the power of a divine beast.

"Maybe it's the eggshell from before. I was born again. How can I remember the memories from so long ago?" Wu Xing was busy throwing the blame away.

Su Qiyu was still in deep thought, and Wu Xing took the opportunity to ask another question: "Hey, that Su Huizhang, what exactly does he want to do?"

Su Qiyu said: "He thinks that you can make alchemy with your eggshell, so he will definitely find a quiet place, and he will spare no effort to find the fourth city building token."

"That's a madman." Xiao Mo commented.

But Wu Xing smiled sarcastically: "Just him? Hehehe, it is impossible for him to find the building order in his life, so he might as well give up as soon as possible, idiot."

Su Qiyu knew that the beast had been guarding the building order. Although he was not interested in it, out of curiosity about the biggest mystery on the continent, he asked, "Where are you hiding?"

"Hiding?" Wu Xing was cunning: "I never do those sneaky things. The building decree has been basking in the sun openly, but it can only be opened by me."

As soon as these words came out, even Xiao Mo couldn't help being curious: "Huh?"

You know, at that time, people on the mainland searched almost every corner.

Wu Xing was a little shy, but in fact it wasn't his real self who did this at the time, it was the dead one, okay, so he pretended to cough and said, "Momo, do you still remember that you were lost in the desert? "

Xiao Mo was stunned.

Wu Xing leaned on Xiao Mo's shoulder and shyly said, "At that time, Xiao Annian and I were considered friends. Back then he was busy researching spirit herbs in various places, and we got to know each other when he entered here by accident. After that, he would come to visit for about half a year. Me once, but then he suddenly stopped coming, and I waited for him at first, but after waiting for several years, I got scared, so I sneaked out. Well, it turned out to be seen."

Xiao Mo could already imagine the sensation at that time, no wonder there are still people who swear by rumors that the beast is in the Wanzhang Cave, saying that they have seen it before.

"I heard Xiao Annian say that his home is on the edge of the desert in the northwest, so I kept flying to the west, but I never found him." Wu Xing raised his head when he said this, with scorching eyes shining on his fleshy face With a smile: "Then I saw you, a little you."

The little man is almost crawling forward, but his head is still held high and looking into the distance, it seems that he is born stubborn, and the tenacity in his bones refuses to bend even in this windy, sandy and rocky place.

Fenghuang followed this villain for a long time, and finally saw him buried in the desolation like a withered grass in the dust. Maybe it won't be long before there will be another bone on this dry land, crying and howling in the night wind. wandering between.

Fenghuang felt bored thinking about it, but just as he was about to continue flying westward, he caught a glimpse and saw his face that was always covered by a piece of sackcloth.

An immature but resolute face, like Xiao Annian who put away his cynicism.

Moreover, it is not difficult to see how beautiful this child will grow up in the future.

The phoenix hovered for a while, but still waved its wings and landed.

Dressed in a bright red glow, he came from the horizon, showing the child the way forward with the blood from his calf cut by gritted teeth.

Fenghuang did not find Xiao Annian, he knew that if that person wanted to hide, no one would be able to find him, and he would not be able to return to Wanzhang Cave.

If you go back, you will be followed to find the entrance, but underneath is the source of disaster, the undercurrent of terror, and the precursor of destruction.

The only way is to die.

But if he died, he would forget Xiao Annian and all his memories now. Looking at the unconscious child who was still greedily sucking his own blood, Fenghuang took out the things he had kept for so many years without any hesitation, and held them in the wind. Caught a seed that came out of nowhere.

Perfect print.

"It's your fate. You keep this thing for me. Today you drank my blood. In the future, I will get it back twice."

Wu Xing briefly explained the process in his own tone, but he didn't mention that he was hunted and killed later, and then got into the spirit beast village. He spent too much spiritual power and could barely maintain the primary form, but was dragged to death because of a dead leg .

But who would have thought that after going around for nearly ten years, at the moment when his soul was reborn, it would be Xiao Mo who caught him.

reincarnation cause and effect.

After Wu Xing finished speaking, he grabbed Xiao Mo's face and rubbed: "So, I've already given it to you."

Both Xiao Mo and Su Qiyu were almost frozen in this moment.

At the beginning, Xiao Mo stood on the hillside, pointed to the red all over the field and said to another person: "This is my most precious thing, and I will give it to you."

Later, he said: "Since you never cared about it, then I will take it all back."

In this weird silence, it was Su Qiyu who looked up to the sky and laughed out loud, almost spitting out all the air in his lungs, laughing heartily with a posture of immortality.

He wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and a voice that didn't resemble him came out of his throat: "I lost, I don't complain."

Wu Xing had already given the reason he wanted.

The last trace of Su Qiyu's paranoia was finally shattered on the empty land thousands of miles away, shattered in the desert seabuckthorn known as the flower of death.

"You guys, it's time to go."

Accompanied by the dim light, his voice was completely annihilated under the cover of the cloak.

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