For the peace of the fairy world

It took Fang Huai a lot of effort to pick up Xu Rongsheng who fell into the water.

"well enough?"

The sea water was bone-chillingly cold, and Xu Rongsheng chattered his teeth, "Nothing..."

Fang Huai checked him up and down, and saw that he was not seriously injured. Although he was very sympathetic, he also wanted to laugh, and said with a smile, "Go back first, after all, you are still a mortal body, and it will be bad if you get cold."

Although Xu Rongsheng was reluctant, he still wanted to build the canoe for Fang Huai before leaving, but Fang Huai tried to persuade him to go back.

After Xu Rongsheng left, Fang Huai and the man cut wood, tied it up with vines, and finally made a crude wooden boat and came out.After peeling two more wooden pulps, the wooden boat was sent to the surface of the sea, and the two sat on it.

There was dense fog everywhere on the sea, thick fog in some places, shallow fog in other places, Fang Huai told the man the route that Yan Gu told him, and the latter nodded his head to express his understanding.

Even so, some low-level sea-monsters still sprang out from the dense fog from time to time, trying to overturn the canoe. Fang Huai and the man sat at both ends of the canoe, focusing on repelling the monsters that wanted to climb onto the canoe.

Although Fang Huai has reached the golden core stage, he is not proficient in using spiritual power. It took a lot of effort to gradually learn how to guide and use the spiritual power in his body, and he was a little tired after a lot of tossing.

After walking on the wooden boat for more than an hour, Fang Huai was staring intently at the surface of the water when someone pulled the hem of his clothes suddenly and turned around. The man sat behind him and carved a light mark on the wooden boat with his fingertips: "You rest!" .”

Fang Huai was stunned and said, "No need. You still have injuries on your body, how can I call you..."

The man pulled the corner of his clothes again, with a very firm attitude.

Fang Huai had no choice but to sit cross-legged, the man sat cross-legged beside him, stretched out his fingers and tapped a few times, the sea-monster with its head out of the water didn't even have time to make a cry, it turned into a cloud of blood mist underwater.

Fang Huai watched, feeling a little envious in his heart.This gap...is too big.

He watched for a while, then closed his eyes and adjusted his breath.The golden core in the dantian slowly turned and began to practice.

After entering the meditation, mobilize the aura to wander in the body according to Taoism, from the twelve orthodox meridians to the eight extraordinary meridians, the place where the primordial spirit is located is like a small universe, with faint lights flickering from time to time. familiar.

But when he was about to melt the aura into the golden elixir as usual, he suddenly felt something scalding in his heart, which almost made his whole heart and lungs burn.

Fang Huai's primordial spirit was startled by this blazing intent, and when he went to look at the "universe", it suddenly turned into a raging fire.

This is... obsession.Fang Huai was shocked in his heart. At some point, his primordial spirit ceased to be a little conscious, and evolved into a body with hands and feet, heavy flesh and blood, and he could even feel the terrifying tongues of fire licking at his skin.

Fang Huai turned around again. Surrounded by the fire, there was only one road that hadn't been engulfed by the flames. He didn't have time to think if it was a trap.Immediately ran to the only way out.

run, run, run.

He seemed to be in a huge flame like the universe, devouring everything and cleaning everything.

Fang Huai ran as hard as he could, with only one thought in mind.

Can't die.

——Then what is the meaning of living?

The meaning of living is...

Fang Huai had thousands of words to answer, but when he was about to speak, he couldn't utter a single word. He looked down at his chest and found a big hole in his heart.His heart is gone.

——The heart is gone, how can you still live?

Fang Huai didn't know when he stopped. He bent down and panted heavily, and reached out to touch the position of his heart, but couldn't find anything.

Why not?Why not?

He clearly remembered that he should have something else, something waiting for him ahead, perhaps a house, or a well, allowing him to escape the fire.

He raised his head, and found a quiet small courtyard looming amidst the billowing smoke of the flames. The lights were like beans, and the shadows of people were projected on the window paper. Compared with the raging fire, it seemed like a paradise to escape all pain.

Flames chased after him, and he ran again.He felt that the empty place in his heart seemed to be filled with something. Although it was not the "heart", it might be "salvation" that could support him to escape from everything.

This time his body was finally no longer as heavy as being in chains, his legs became lighter, and he passed through the thick smoke without even smelling the smell of gunpowder.

The terrible crackling and burning sound, like the hoarse laugh of a ghost, was finally forgotten by him.

Fang Huai ran, even knowing that there was a fire in front of him, he also strode over, for what seemed like "salvation", he even forgot the pain.

At last he reached the courtyard gate.At this time, he felt timid, and it seemed that the "salvation" he had confirmed became vacillating again.

He became cautious, tightened his whole body muscles, stepped up the steps step by step, did not dare to push the courtyard door, and slid in sideways, holding his breath, and approached step by step the window paper of the shaking figure in the room, the small lights.

As he got closer, murmurs could be heard in the room. He didn't knock on the door, and he just walked through the fire, but now he shuddered, folded his arms tightly, and squatted under the eaves of the window with warm lights.

There was something new beating in his empty heart, but it was not "heart" but "fear".

The whispers of the people in the room also became clear at this time.

"...In a few months, it will be completed..."

"Golden core...appears..."

"Cut out..."

He folded his arms tightly, stared at the ground with wide eyes, then stood up abruptly, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

The conversation in the room came abruptly, and the door creaked open.

Only then did he realize that there was no figure in the room at all, but a raging fire!The snarling black smoke scrambled out from the door of the house, which was hundreds of times more terrifying than the previous fire!

And at this time, the fire outside the courtyard rushed into the courtyard like a thousand troops.

He just stood there, there was nowhere to escape, and he didn't want to run away again.He himself is a well that has been exhausted, and he stares at the sky with his eyes open without words.

When countless human-shaped flames surrounded him, there was a sudden thunder from the sky, followed by a "cracking" downpour of rain, pouring down on his face.

Fang Huai suddenly opened his eyes.

As far as the eye can see is the mist that flows and changes in depth and depth, as well as the man's firm chin and lips.

He sat up at once, only to realize that he was actually lying on someone's lap.

With his eyes open, he hadn't recovered from the dream for a while, and he felt embarrassed when he saw the stranger's face in his eyes: "Ah——I was practicing and practicing, and I fell asleep." People's thighs as pillows? !

The man looked at him silently, then suddenly reached out and stroked his face.

Fang Huai subconsciously leaned back to hide.

The man's hand stopped in the air, and then he stroked the wooden boat lightly with his index finger: "You are crying."

As soon as Fang Huai touched his face, he felt that his hands were cold and his face was covered with cold tears.

It turns out that the last heavy rain in Mengmeng was his own tears?

The man wrote again on the crossbar of the canoe: "You continue to rest." Then he turned around and continued to kill the monsters clinging to the sides of the canoe.

Fang Huai looked at his back and wiped away his tears with his sleeve.Then meditate.But I couldn't get rid of distracting thoughts and entered meditation.

The dream just now should be Yu Xiao's personal experience in the original novel - the experience of being betrayed by Elder Lou and "Fang Huai".To be precise, it should be the image of that experience.The fire was exactly the person and event that drove Yu Xiao to a dead end, and he was playing Yu Xiao himself in the dream.

And why would he have such a dream?Or is it a nightmare caused by overthinking, or is it caused by some external force?

Obviously everything is different.

He sighed for a long time, looking at the endless thick fog, his skin seemed to feel the pain of being burned by the flames.

There were people with high cultivation and strength walking together, within ten days, Fang Huai and the man stepped on the inhabited land of Yingzhou. After passing through several remote fishing villages, they arrived at Yanwu, the largest city in Yingzhou. Set Que.

This city is connected with the port of Yunlu on the other side of the sea from Yingzhou.Fang Huai and the man came to the city together and sat down in a teahouse. Fang Huai said conveniently, "I'm in a hurry to cross the sea and go back. How about you, brother?"

The man stretched out his finger and wrote on the table: "Me too."

Fang Huai said: "Then..." He didn't say it, but the man had already written: "Let's go together."

Fang Huai raised his eyebrows and said, "Okay. Then, after all, I have been a companion along the way, dare to ask your brother's name?"

The man raised his finger slightly, but paused, and wrote: "Lian Shu."

Fang Huai didn't care if it was a name he made up temporarily, so he smiled and said, "Brother Lian."

At this time Xiao Er came up to serve tea, Fang Huai asked while he was pouring the tea, "May I ask if 'Mirage' is here now or has it gone to Yunlu? When is the next sailing?"

Xiaoer said: "Guest officer, are you going to cross the sea? Oh, that's unfortunate, the next boat will be in two months."

Fang Huai frowned slightly and said, "Isn't 'Mirage' back and forth every 23 days? Why do we have to wait for two months?"

Xiaoer said: "Guest officer, you live in a remote place, so you don't know about a big event eight years ago."

nine years ago?Fang Huai raised his eyebrows and said, "What's the big deal?"

Xiaoer said: "Eight years ago, the young master of the Xu family in Yunlu City came to Yingzhou for business, but when he returned by boat, he suddenly disappeared inexplicably, and the Xu family made a big fuss from Yunlu to Yingzhou because of this." The world was turned upside down. 'Mirage' stopped sailing for a whole year, and it was dedicated to looking for that Young Master Xu. In the end, he still couldn't find it."

"Later, the 'Mirage' was not carrying people for two or three months every year, and it was only used for the Xu family to search for the traces of Young Master Xu at sea. Guest officer, you came at an unfortunate time, just happened to meet the Xu family and borrowed the boat gone."

Master Xu is missing?Fang Huai thought for a moment, then asked Xiaoer, "On which day and month did Eldest Master Xu disappear eight years ago?"

"Well, let me think about it..." Xiao Er raised his head and recalled for a while, and reported a date, "It should be right around this day, just a day or two after 'Mirage' left the port."

Fang Huai frowned even deeper.This is strange, the date reported by Xiao Er happened to be no more than one day before and after the day he and Xu's brothers and sisters came to the island eight years ago.At that time, Young Master Xu and his younger sister had parted ways with him and took another road on the island, so how could he disappear on the 'mirage' that had sailed out of Yingzhou?

It seemed that this trip back to the Demon Realm was far from smooth as he had imagined.Moreover, as the Xu family is one of the immortal cultivating families, he has to be careful about all kinds of abnormalities and doubts, and he must report them to his grandfather and mother in the future.

After Xiao Er finished speaking, he backed off.Fang Huai took a sip of tea, and said to the person in front of him: "Brother Lian, since I can't leave Yingzhou for a while, maybe I have something to do..."

Still haven't finished speaking, the other party has already written: "Together."

Fang Huai smiled, but looking at this man, he felt a little doubt in his heart.