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When the sky is about to dawn, the earth is still gray, and the distant mountains are sleeping in the gray gas. The charcoal fire that has been burned to ashes is dotted with red stars. Occasionally, there is a light crackling sound, which wakes people up from fatigue one after another.

Xiao Mo straightened up from the outside of the tent, but his arms were empty.He rubbed his slightly sore neck from lying flat in the wilderness, looked around away from the fire, and finally saw Wu Xing sitting on the top of the collapsed pillar and looking up.

Facing the slightly cold morning wind with her small body, the skirt of her clothes was blown up behind her back, but her star-like eyes had never been so calm.

Wu Xing slowly moved his gaze from the gray horizon to Xiao Mo's face who was a few heads shorter than him, and slowly evoked a resolute smile: "Xiao Mo, we should go."

"Where?"

"Northwest Territory."

In nature, in order to adapt to the natural environment, animals will have an instinct named migration. They travel in groups and travel across mountains and rivers, all the way to the other side favored by nature, day and night.In humans, however, this instinct remains the same.When everyone gathered together and turned over the rocky hillside, standing on the top of the hill overlooking the ruins, the thought of no longer homeland tore in everyone's mind.

Xiao Mo stood at the front with Wu Xing in his arms. Not far away, the valley that belonged to the Wanzhang Grottoes could not be seen now, only the tremors of the earth had not stopped, and the green poisonous ivy ravaged the entire Xuanwu Academy overnight. Open your teeth and claws to declare the territory.

For the first time, Ji Xiaoze reached out and took off his hat. He stood up straight, his gray and white intertwined hair glowed with silver light, and he bowed his head deeply against the late morning glow.

He said, "Farewell, boys."

140 The seven people were all silent, and the suppressed sobs whimpered in the wind, and disappeared with the wind.

This building that has stood here for thousands of years seems to have evaporated on the spot, and will be buried under the cover of green and purple vine leaves in a short time.

Ji Xiaoze patted the hat and put it back on. Ji Baiwei, who had already woken up, stepped forward to hold his hand. The father and daughter glanced at each other quietly, without saying anything, but there was no hesitation in the steps they took. .

Xiao Mo turned to face the northwest, which was the direction from which the wind and sand were blowing: "Let's go!"

The subsidence of the Huiling River caused a huge rift to appear on the periphery of Xuanwu College. Xiao Mo didn't take any risks, so he took a detour to the Spirit Beast Village and planned to cross the village and go straight to the northwest.However, after a group of people stumbled and walked to the area of ​​Lingshou Village, they found that the place was already beyond recognition: the towering and thick ancient trees were broken in the middle, and the twisted roots brought out the wet red soil, and cracks appeared on the surface. The fertile red soil underground is like the fresh and tender skin that has been cut open, revealing mottled bloodstains, which is shocking.

And here, Xiao Mo was also surprised to find another team that fled from the southern border but lingered here.

Wu Xing was not surprised to see Shen Chaorui and Shen Nanxing here. After all, Xuanxing City has the lowest terrain, the ground is sinking, and the sea is rising. It will be a matter of time before they can survive.Just looking at the disheveled looks of the two of them, it seems that the situation is more serious.

Sure enough, Shen Chaorui shook his head, and only said: "The city is gone."

Shen Nanxing's face was pale, and the previous arrogance and fierceness seemed to be shattered along with the city wall being sucked into the deep sea. He said that at the beginning, the people in the city were still stubbornly resisting and insisting on saving themselves, but then the spirit beasts suddenly rioted , almost made the internal and external troubles worse, and finally he had to order everyone to give up their belongings and evacuate.

And just yesterday, the person in charge of reconnaissance of the terrain reported to him that Xuanxing City had sunk, and the south is now a vast ocean.

"How long have you been here?" Tang Xiu patted Shen Chaorui's shoulder, full of worry.

"I don't remember," Shen Chaorui pointed backwards to the people who barely made camp with the trees in the Spirit Beast Village and said, "They hardly ate anything these two days. It's okay to say that the ones with high spiritual power are those children..."

Ji Xiaoze and Ji Baiwei were distributing food to the children in Xuanxing City, but they didn't bring much themselves, so they could only fill the children's stomachs first.

Xiao Mo suddenly said: "Since the rioting spirit beast can't be controlled, what are you doing?"

Tang Yi was the first to react, the radiance on his face became brighter, he raised his hand and shouted at Qiu Lu, "Hey boy! Do you dare to compete? If we don't fight this time, we will compete with whoever catches the spirit beast how much?"

Qiu Lu spat out the small wooden stick in his mouth, pulled the corner of his mouth, patted his clothes and stood up: "Am I afraid of you?"

The two people looked at each other, and in the next second, they rushed into the spirit beast village past everyone.

Wei Sifeng was still worried about the danger, but Wu Xing said, "Don't worry, I just explored it, and there are only small spirit beasts still struggling inside, and the remaining highest-level spirit beasts are only defensive spirit beasts, so nothing will happen. .”

With Tang Yi and Qiu Lu taking the lead, the remaining children of Xuanwu Academy also became active, forming groups of twos and threes for comparison tests, and plunged into the woods one after another.

The assessment that was forced to be terminated seems to be connected here.

The dead land was revitalized, and the noisy frolic and fighting sounds came from all directions, but it gave people a sense of peace of mind.

Xiao Mo walked in slowly with Wu Xing in his arms, picking up available firewood while talking and planning to start a fire and barbecue.Wu Xing looked at the forest that had lost the shade of the canopy in front of him, and couldn't hold back the sadness that things were changing.

That day, he woke up here, and started to know this continent from here. Today, he stayed here to bid farewell to the past of this continent.

Thinking of this, he unconsciously rubbed his arms around Xiao Mo's neck, which warmed his heart.

"Chirp, chirp, chirp~" A faint voice came from the side.

Wu Xing's heart trembled, and his eyes widened suddenly.

"Chirp~"

Wu Xing let go of his hand in a hurry, broke free from Xiao Mo's embrace and jumped to the ground, involuntarily running towards the direction of those screams.

Xiao Mo immediately caught up with the firewood in his hand.

Wu Xing suppressed his voice and ran to the place where the four ancient trees folded and folded, and shouted, "Little furball? Is that you, little furball?"

The sound was weaker, and there was nothing.

Wu Xing was so anxious that he shouted a few more times, but there was still no response.He had a flash of inspiration and suddenly closed his eyes.

Xiao Mo, who was chasing after him, watched helplessly as the delicate white doll transformed into a small briquette the size of a palm, and let out a few familiar chirping calls.

And this time, there was a response from under the branch: "Chirp?"

Wu Xing happily jumped up and down on the spot, and turned to look up at Xiao Mo. Before he could speak, Xiao Mo strode forward to carry the thick and entwined tree trunks.

The four trees overlapped and fell down, and the abrupt branches seemed to be tied in knots. It took Xiao Mo a lot of effort to move a small gap.And under this gap, a trembling little fur ball curled up and raised its head, its bewildered eyes flashed across Xiao Mo's face, and only then did it lighten up when it fell on the long-lost little black coal ball.

"He's injured." Xiao Mo stood up holding the little fur ball, and found that the little guy's wings had been cut, the blood-stained wings were dirty, the hair was glued together, and some withered grass and leaves had fallen.

Wu Xing's body zoomed in extremely quickly, and he returned to his childish appearance, carefully looking at the little thing in Xiao Mo's hand: "Is it serious?"

"Fortunately, it should be no problem to let Sifeng bandage and clean the wound."

So the two people who came out to collect firewood didn't bring back any firewood, but instead brought back a frail little fur ball.

Wei Sifeng had just finished applying the medicine to Ji Baiwei, when he turned his head and saw a small fur ball being held in front of his eyes, he was stunned for a moment before he discovered its wound, and turned around to get the medicine without asking much.

Wu Xing followed step by step: "Mr. Wei, is he alright?"

Wei Sifeng looked at it carefully and shook his head: "Fortunately, it's just too weak. I guess I haven't eaten for a long time."

As soon as the words fell, two black shadows flew out of the forest, one behind the other, the hemp rope in their hands was twisted into a strand, and several dying spirit beasts were dragged out from behind.

Tang Yi and Qiu Lu snorted coldly at each other, and with a flick of the rope, they split up to find a place to light a fire. Xiao Mo followed Tang Yi and turned to Wu Xing, saying, "Look at it, I'll go and grill some meat."

Wu Xing caressed the little thing in the palm of his hand, his tongue filled with astringent taste, he murmured: "Natural selection, fighting is so terrible."

After half a stick of incense, the students in the forest came out one after another with their prey. They lit a fire and sat among the citizens of Xuanxing City, leaning on each other and watching Xiao Mo who was handling the prey with a knife by the fire.

Xiao Mo's face reflected the sparks, and it was red, but it was far darker than the blood stained on his hands.

The little guy in Wu Xing's palm woke up smelling the scent, and wanted to flap his wings but was held down by Wu Xing: "Don't move, I just took the medicine."

The little guy turned his eyes and looked at him timidly. Wu Xing nodded his mouth and said, "Don't remember me? I'm Xiao Hei, the lame one in Spirit Beast Village."

The little fur ball blinked, tilted its head to look at him, and suddenly chirped and chirped in surprise.

Wu Xing stroked its fur and asked, "What happened? Why is the Spirit Beast Village implicated in this way? Where are the spirit beasts in the forest?"

As a divine beast, his spiritual sense can inform the danger immediately, and he can also identify the spirit beasts within a few miles. However, there should be many high-level spirit beasts lurking here, except for a few defensive spirit pets. , and the rest are only small spirit beasts that have not opened their minds like little furballs.

The little furball fluttered its wings and said, "One person took them all away."

"Human? What's it like?"

"It was terrible. The village was shaking when he came, and everyone didn't know where to go, so he gave everyone something to eat, and everyone left."

Wu Xing suddenly remembered his two halves of eggshells. Although they didn't have the effect of immortality, the abundant aura on them was enough to make spirit beasts flock to them.

"What did he say?"

The little furball said softly: "He said that he would take everyone to find a new home."

Wu Xing got up suddenly, his heart was pounding, he looked up at Xiao Mo who was smiling and calling him to eat, and ran forward in three steps at a time.

"Xiao Mo!" Wu Xing's voice trembled.

Xiao Mo put down the half-roasted meat in his hand, and wanted to get him something cooler, but his fingers were firmly grabbed. He turned his head in confusion, and heard Wu Xing's voice coming from time to time: "Su Hui Zhang took away the high-ranking spirit beasts from the spirit beast village, fearing that he was going to the northwest region to seize the city."

The meat in Xiao Mo's hand rolled to the ground and was sucked in by the tongue of fire. There were oil stains and crackling noises in an instant, and it shrank into a ball of hard black charcoal in a short time.

In the Northwest Territory where spiritual energy is scarce, plants are rare, and spirit beasts are nowhere to be found. There are very few people who can own a spirit beast there. How to resist this mighty army of spirit beasts?It was a dry land, without solid walls, and without filled lakes. Survival was difficult, so how could we talk about defense against foreign invasion?

Xiao Mo picked up Wu Xing and approached Ji Xiaoze and Shen Nanxing who were resting with a sullen face through the feasting crowd.

"We're going right away," he said.

Shen Nanxing disagreed and said: "The Northwest Territory is not a good place for large-scale migration. The conditions there are harsh, and everyone can't bear it on the way. Moreover, He Wangchuan and Zhou Jueming haven't heard the news yet. If the East Territory is not affected too much, we You can take refuge elsewhere temporarily."

Wu Xing hurried ahead of Xiao Mo and said, "Naive! You don't think this is a natural disaster, do you? Will it stop by itself? Let me tell you, it's not just you."

Wu Xing shouted loudly until he ensured that his voice was heard by everyone hanging above the silent air: "And you! You should all know that this is the omen of doom in Xuanwu's prophecy! Wanzhang Grottoes are a part of this continent The wound, but because of the knot seal placed by Xuanwu, it has been safe and sound. Now, the knot seal is broken, and the aura of this continent is slowly flowing away from this opening. The current appearance of the southern border is the last appearance of this continent. The bottom of the sea is a matter of time!"

"Everything grows and grows endlessly. Rise and fall are common. If this gap was caused by greed, Xuanwu would definitely abandon it, but it was because it was a hidden danger left by himself, so he left it after thinking about it. The fourth city building order was issued in order to let you bravely find a way out and hope after the disaster. I warn you in the name of the beast, the city building order is the last chance, and the day it opens is the opening of the northern gate At that time, there was a basalt stone formed by condensing the spiritual energy of the whole body after Xuanwu's death, which would help us seal the gap in the Wanzhang Cave. Now, this only chance of life has been taken first, Su Huizhang, he has now led the spirit The spirit beast from Beast Village goes to the Northwest Territory. Once he finds the city building order, we must bow to him and even go to the city gate to see his face! Is it a blessing?!"

There was silence all around, and the smell of barbecue was still lingering around his nose. Wu Xing tightened his mouth and held Xiao Mo's equally nervous hand, his patience gradually dissipated as the sun went down.

One person stood up and ate the last bite of meat with a smile.Tang Yi said: "My junior brother cooks and barbecues first-rate, I can go anywhere, but the right way is to make sure I'm not hungry!"

Qiu Lu also stood up together: "Ah, our competition is not over yet, you can't run away, so where can I find you in the future?"

The people of Xuanwu Academy stood up one by one. In the end, it was Shen Chaorui. He glanced at Shen Nanxing and said, "Northwest is much better than the southern border."

No one knew Xiao Mo's current mood, but Wu Xing felt sticky sweat when he let go of the hands they held.

Xiao Mo whispered, "Thank you, Xing Xing."

Wu Xing smiled, and his tone was quite calm: "Thank you, isn't that also my family?"

After a quarter of an hour, everyone gathered and went straight to the Northwest Desert through the Spirit Beast Village.

Little Fuqiu bid farewell to Wu Xing, and rejected the request to go with him. A delicate voice came softly: "I'm not going anywhere. This is my home, and I want to guard it."

Just like when he told Wu Xing unswervingly: "One day I will go out of the Spirit Beast Village to see the world outside my mother."

But on this day, he turned his head willingly.

Shen Nanxing was dragged by the crowd to follow the team, and the news from the Eastern Realm that he had been hoping to hear by chance also came when he set foot on the Northwest Territory.

Xuanchuan City sank earlier. He Wangchuan led the crowd to Xuanming City but encountered a riot of spirit beasts in the city. After several twists and turns, the people and horses of the two cities abandoned the city. Now, they have crossed the Duanling in the middle of the mainland and followed closely behind Behind Xiao Mo and the others.

Shen Nanxing's last hope was completely gone, so he had no choice but to accept this reality, and began to examine the gray rock formations that were different from the fertile red soil in the southern border.

"Three cities migrated at the same time, how much can the Northwest Territory hold?" he worried.

I don't know who brought this sentence to Xiao Mo's ear.

Xiao Mo climbed up a mound, and the scenery under his feet changed suddenly.

The endless sand and gravel are rolled up with the hurricane, stepping from the plain into the swamp and crossing the hills, and finally saw the long-lost desolate desert.

The hot air rising from the soles of the feet envelops the dry smell of the earth and stones, which is so overwhelming to the senses. However, in this inhuman territory, Xiao Mo smiled, and his gray robes rose up one after another, making a clanking sound.

Xiao Mo turned around with Wu Xing in his arms, looked at the dark heads behind him and Wang Yang who was thousands of miles away, and said in a deep voice: "I am in the northwest, with a vast land spanning thousands of miles."