Kokonoe

Mo Xuan woke up, but his head was still in a daze.

Seeing a person sitting next to him from the corner of his eye, Mo Xuan subconsciously called softly: "Muya."

The man smiled, and his broad chest was pressed against him unexpectedly. The cool touch of the cloth made Mo Xuan shudder.

"Cang Ming?" Mo Xuan rubbed his eyes, happily looking at the magnified handsome face in front of him.

Some people say that love is a kind of addiction. When you try your best to stay away from it, it will keep getting closer and closer; when you try your best to want more, it will always stay away.

But for Cang Ming, Mo Xuan is the antidote.

Unraveling the loneliness of the long years, the boy's every move affects his heart, his smile, his pain, his strength and his loss.

Untied the exorcism shell that was burned by the flames of war, so far, someone finally pulled him down from the altar, and told this overlord who once dominated one side, you are just an ordinary person.

Also untied, now powerless yearning.

Cang Ming's eyes were full of tenderness, he half hugged the young man, and stroked the young man's thin spine. The touch in his hand was not very good, he was too thin, and the abrupt frame was no matter how Cang Ming traced it, but he could never imagine how it looked. The fragile body can withstand several times the coercion and is unwilling to bow its head.

Cang Ming felt distressed, yet relieved.

The boy he fancy is not a porcelain doll, but a man who will grow into a man who can stand side by side with him.

And Cang Ming, willingly accompanied him to witness the arrival of that day.

Mo Xuan sniffed the man's scent, sighed contentedly, and then secretly smiled.

"What are you laughing at?" Cang Ming's voice came from his chest, magnified several times, passed into Mo Xuan's ears, and reached his heart.

Mo Xuan stuck out his tongue and was caught.

"Cang Ming, you were the one who helped me pass the ladder, right?" Mo Xuan straightened up and put his arms around Cang Ming's neck, his eyes burning.

Cang Ming lowered his body to match Mo Xuan's posture, and asked without answering, "What do you think?"

Mo Xuan smiled and rolled his eyes, buried his head in Cang Ming's shoulder and rubbed it: "I knew it, Cang Ming is the best."

He didn't feel slighted by others, and Mo Xuan couldn't figure out why, but he was obviously happy. It seemed that he felt very good as a person Cang Ming always cared about. No, he only cared about me. It feels good.

Mo Xuan didn't know that this feeling was called possessiveness.

But Cang Ming practiced the word possessiveness. He pinched Mo Xuan's plump earlobe and smiled, "I'm not a good person. I told you this sentence a long time ago."

But yes, only for you.

Mo Xuan didn't take it seriously, and laughed again.

in space.

Kun: My view of the world has been impacted. That person is really that adult, right?

Mo Yi: New here, what worldview do you have, your whole world belongs to my master now!

Tuantuan: The master doesn't hold up Tuantuan anymore, I'm so happy.

Taotie: Hungry, hungry, hungry. . . .

Mo Xuan, who was nestled in Cang Ming's arms and enjoying the fruit-feeding service, couldn't be more satisfied. He looked up at Cang Ming's drooping eyebrows and the curvature of his chin, thinking how tempting it was, and really wanted to take a bite.

Mo Xuan, who was shocked by his own thoughts, trembled, what was I thinking?take a bite?Oh no, why would you think so. . . .

Cang Ming didn't notice the strangeness of Mo Xuan, so he missed the best opportunity to seduce the little white rabbit, he peeled a grape and put it near Mo Xuan's mouth.

Mo Xuan held the grape in his mouth guiltily, but because he was distracted, he also held a small finger of Cang Ming.

Both were silent for an instant.

Mo Xuan swallowed the grapes in a hurry, and spit out Cang Ming's finger: "Ah...I'm sorry...hehe..."

Cang Ming closed his eyes slightly, and raised his voice: "Huh?"

Mo Xuan sneaked a glance at him from the corner of his eye, didn't think there was any problem, so he calmed down and changed the subject: "Well, Cang Ming, how do you know that something happened to me on the Tongtian Ladder?"

Cang Ming thought to himself that you changed the subject a bit bluntly, so he only asked now.But this question really needs to be discussed.

Cang Ming picked up the handkerchief and wiped his hands, and smiled meaningfully when he wiped that finger.

"I should ask you first, why did you run into it?" Cang Ming hugged Mo Xuan from behind, wrapping his big hand around his small hand, playing with his fingers one by one.

Mo Xuan said: "I didn't run in by myself. Aren't we going to participate in the trials of the temple? This is the first level. It's that Qianmian who bet me to climb the ladder."

Mo Xuan picked himself up completely, you see, I am completely passive, not because I insist on doing dangerous things.

Cang Ming nodded, and rubbed with another finger.

"Do you know where that is?"

Mo Xuan suddenly asked with some uncertainty: "Qianji Pavilion?"

Cang Ming let out another chuckle from the chest resting on the back of Mo Xuan's head, muffled: "Sure enough, I changed my name."

Mo Xuan looked up at him, and heard him continue: "Mo Xuan, that tower is called Futu Pagoda. There is a ladder on the twelfth floor, and an infinite stone on the ladder. That tower is used by Tianyu to select loyalists. Tool of."

Mo Xuan was startled, he almost walked the way of Tianyu?No, this tower is clearly controlled by Qianmian now.

Cang Ming said: "Everyone who wants to advance to the Ninth Layer Heaven Realm must first go to the tower, and only those who are finally approved by the Infinite Stone will be considered passed."

Mo Xuan was thinking wildly while listening, Qian Mian passed this tower, didn't he?Then why would he condescend to be a left protector in the temple, shouldn't he be a high-ranking person?

Cang Ming flicked Mo Xuan's head: "What are you thinking about?"

Mo Xuan shook his head, but still couldn't help asking: "Then, how many people have broken through this tower?"

Cang Ming chuckled: "In the beginning, many people were trying to get in, but gradually, not many people dared to go in."

The Buddha Pagoda can illuminate the most sinister places in people's hearts.

"Except for the seniors with the oldest qualifications in Tianyu, there are not many others." Cang Ming said, "There are beasts that you can't imagine, illusions that you can easily sink into, and barriers that cross the interface." There are organs that have no rules to follow. Mo Xuan, the real pagoda, will die."

Hearing Cang Ming's description, Mo Xuan sweated even if he hadn't experienced it.If so, Qian Mian did show mercy, leaving only an illusion.

"But, how do you know this?" Mo Xuan was puzzled, this is something from Tianyu, isn't it?Or. . .

Cang Ming stared at him intently, with his mouth slightly opened, Mo Xuan was startled and wanted to stop his words with his hand, but his hand was pulled, Cang Ming just looked at the terrified Mo Xuan and said it.

"I've been in."

He said it. . .Mo Xuan was stunned, not knowing how to react.

Cang Ming rested his chin on his little head, comforting him while saying: "Mo Xuan, don't be afraid, it's all over."

"Have you been there?" The small voice said, "How did you go there?"

Cang Ming sighed: "Ah, probably because of being young and frivolous."

At that time, he had not long since become the hegemon, and he had heard about Tianyu, and he was also full of curiosity about this pagoda.So he swaggered in with his illusioned appearance, and then he climbed for unknown years.

Fortunately, he broke through, but he also buried his youthful and frivolous.

During those days, the experiences in the Pagoda gradually opened up the state of mind of a true overlord. Cang Ming was purified and gained new strength, but he also lost the most basic emotions, such as youthful arrogance, great joy, and great sorrow. , he learned to hide and began to close his heart.

Until Mo Xuan appeared.

"Besides, I wasn't very strong at that time, so naturally it took more effort." Cang Ming said.

Mo Xuan nodded, but he was still not in a high mood.

Cang Ming thought it was frightening the little guy: "What? Don't worry, I am also a person who cherishes my life."

Mo Xuan gave a muffled hum, turned his head and buried himself in Cang Ming's arms.

What makes him uncomfortable is not this, but. . . .He suddenly discovered that there was a huge gap between him and Cang Ming, not only in strength, but also in experience.

Before they met, Cang Ming was completely alone, so he had rebelled, fearless, and even the rebellion that shocked the world, but none of this seemed to have anything to do with him, Mo Xuan.He is now only listening to Cang Ming's past life as an understatement as a listener, but if he misses it, he misses it. Cang Ming's joys, anger, sorrows, and frivolity, whether he is frivolous or calm, Mo Xuan will never forget. will not really feel it.

For the first time, Mo Xuan felt inferior to the ruthlessness of time and the age gap.

Cang Ming's big hand was extremely warm, caressing Mo Xuan's back.

Mo Xuan suddenly felt relieved, so what about the gap?So from now on, let me participate in your life again, let's be fair, and I will let you participate in my life, so that we will not miss each other.

Noticing that the little guy's mood has improved a lot, Cang Ming laughed inwardly, it's so cute.So he conjured up something and showed it to Mo Xuan.

Mo Xuan looked at the stone in Cang Ming's hand, and asked in confusion, "What is this?"

"Immeasurable Stone." Cang Ming smiled slyly.

Mo Xuan opened his mouth wide: "You you you... took it out?"

Cang Ming shook the stone in his hands: "I wanted to do this a long time ago."

Mo Xuan took it over and over again but didn't see the pattern: "How did you take it out?"

Cang Ming raised the corners of his lips: "Violent suppression."

Well. . .Mo Xuan blinked and decided to ignore the process.

"Immeasurable Stone? What's the use?" Mo Xuan asked.

Cang Ming raised his hand and put it on it to slowly press.

Mo Xuan looked at the words emerging from the stone in surprise: "What is this?"

"Passing the Stairway to Heaven will touch the Immeasurable Stone. This is also the last step to enter the Heaven Realm. Let go of your obsession." Cang Ming spread out the words, and Mo Xuan slowly read: "Boundless—abandon your wife and not return to the world of mortals .”

Mo Xuan didn't understand the meaning, Cang Ming explained: "Wujiu is the current master of the seventh layer of the Nine Heavens. I heard that he had married a wife and had children in the lower realm before he came to power, so he was abandoned here."

The so-called letting go of obsessions is to let go of the most important things in your life, so as to be loyal to Tianyu and abide by the way of heaven.

Mo Xuan looked at the lines of words that flashed in front of him like a horse watching flowers, different names, different obsessions, but they were so sad when put together.

"Is it worth it?" Mo Xuan couldn't bear to ask.

Cang Ming remained expressionless, a little cold: "Maybe they think it's worth it."

Mo Xuan nodded, and the two were silent, looking at the words that were still changing.

Suddenly, a familiar name came into view.

Mo Xuan pressed the Infinite Stone abruptly, and looked at the words on it in amazement.

"Thousands of faces—my obsession? Oh, then take my life away. No way! I don't allow it! Qian Xiao can only be mine!! I can't let it go..."

It was as if a floodgate had opened in his heart, and everything was flooded with turbulent sadness and stubbornness. Mo Xuan let go of his hand, feeling a little dazed. This feeling of peeking into other people's privacy was not very good, but even more stressful.

Cang Ming raised his eyebrows: "Interesting, someone actually rejected the Immeasurable Stone."

The people who come here are already one in a million. Wuliangshi will try his best to lure people to let go of their obsessions, but this Qianmian is so firm, I have never heard of it.

"No wonder he didn't go to Tianyu." Mo Xuan murmured.

Cang Ming squinted his eyes and leaned over to look at him: "Mo Xuan is very interested in him?"

Mo Xuan wanted to nod subconsciously, but suddenly he felt bad and shook his head: "No..."

Not guilty at all.

Cang Ming scratched his nose, full of jealousy: "As long as you are interested in me."

Mo Xuan suppressed a smile and obediently nodded and said yes.

At this time, the door was knocked, and Mu Ya's voice came: "Xiao Xuanxuan, is it alright?"

Mo Xuan and Cang Ming looked at each other, Cang Ming chuckled and kissed him on the forehead before disappearing.

Mo Xuan coughed and rubbed his forehead a little shyly, but there was another voice from outside the door, but it was just two people.

The door was pushed open, and Mu Ya froze in place when he blocked him, but the person who pushed the door was not at all embarrassed.

"What?" Mo Xuan asked.

Mu Ya turned around: "Ah...Xiao Xuanxuan, you're awake..." He blinked and gestured to the side.

Mo Xuan also discovered the identity of another person, those eyes seemed to penetrate into his heart: "It's you."

Qian Mian was dressed as a middle-aged man this time, when he saw Mo Xuan standing up, he pushed Mu Ya out politely: "I have something to say with Miss Mo."

At this time, Miss Mo clearly looked like a man in men's clothing.

What Mu Ya wanted to say was shut outside the door.

Qianmian sat down generously: "Should I say congratulations?"

Mo Xuan got up and got out of bed and sat down together, poured a cup of tea and pushed it over: "I should thank you."

Qianmian smiled lightly and asked, "How did you get out?"

According to Mo Xuan's current strength, it is not so easy.

Mo Xuan naturally couldn't mention Cang Ming, so he said without exaggeration: "Of course I came out by myself."

"Is that so..." Qian Mian seemed a little melancholy, he stroked his teacup and drank it down in one gulp.

Mo Xuan felt that Qianmian was a little different today, as if he was here to verify something.

"Want to chat with me?" Mo Xuan added more tea: "You said you would give me a chance to listen to you."

Qianmian's fingertips touched the table: "Really? Did I say that?"

Asking and answering by himself, Qian Mian seemed to need someone to listen to him, so he acquiesced to Mo Xuan's words: "Then let's talk about it."

It's a very vulgar story, that's how Qian Mian described it.

"His name is Qian Xiao? You..." Mo Xuan wasn't sure.

Qian Mian's eyes turned cold at first, and then he suddenly figured it out: "Have you seen the Immeasurable Stone?"

Mo Xuan felt so guilty, he couldn't say that he had not only seen me but also showed it.

Qian Mian didn't care anymore: "We are brothers, we can be considered brothers..." He was not sure either.

Qian Xiao is actually the child of Qian Mian's father and another woman, and then Qian Mian's mother killed that woman in order to fight for the position of mistress, but took Qian Xiao home.

Qian Xiao has always been resentful, everyone knows it, but everyone doesn't say it.

Qianmian longed for someone to play with him, but Qian Xiao didn't want to see him, so Qianmian thought of a way, he transformed into a girl, and approached his nominal brother openly.

Then things got far out of hand.

Qian Mian fell in love with Qian Xiao, but Qian Xiao liked the girl Qian Mian transformed into.

"I would even be jealous of myself at that time." Qianmian's eyes were shining, mottled.

Later, when the Qian family elected an heir, Qian Mian gave up and allowed Qian Xiao to assume the position, and even allowed him to plot to kill his own mother. In fact, he didn't like that woman either, and he only used her as a tool. There is no other family relationship, if you can make Qian Xiao happy, you will die.

But as long as it is a lie, no matter how well-rounded it is, it will be completely broken one day.

Qianmian's identity was discovered, and Qian Xiao threw him into the pagoda. He said, as long as you can come out, I will give you a chance to explain.

"I've been away for two years." Qian Mian said with a smile, "Isn't it special perseverance?"

Mo Xuan nodded and looked at him sadly.

Qian Mian Zhi Le: "Don't look at me like that, I will think you sympathize with me."

Mo Xuan left the beginning, sympathy, these two words should not appear in Qian Mian's life.

Qianmian went on to say: "I didn't know where the Futu Pagoda was at first, but he told me to go, so I'll just go. But do you know what the scariest thing is?"

It's not the strange and weird scene inside, it's not the fierce beast that suddenly rushes out, but you will meet other people, other people who also approached the pagoda.

"But you don't know whether they are real or imaginary. There are so many illusions, you can't tell the difference. So I can only kill them all. I always remind myself that they are all fake, but sometimes I go to see their blood. It’s hot, you know the moment you die, the blood is the hottest at that time, and then it’s completely cold.”

Qian Mian smiled and talked about the scene at that time, now he is no longer afraid, because when he is most afraid, he is already used to it.

"Is it worth it?" Mo Xuan asked him.

Qian Mian let out a low "Ah—" and smiled instead of answering.

Who knows?Or he knows it's not worth it, so what?There is no turning back, just bumping into him head-on, whether he is stupid or stupid, for so many years, the word Qian Xiao is enough to be engraved on his heart, if one day you insist on erasing these two words, you will be What is about to disappear is the heart with thousands of faces.

Two years, enough to change what?

When Qian Mian walked out of the Pagoda, what he saw was a man called the Hall Master, who was even more indifferent and arrogant, and there was no possibility of approaching him at all.

Qian Mian chose to be silent, he followed the man to do his duty as a Dharma protector, he walked around in front of the man every day, trying to find the unpleasantness of the things around the man, but from the beginning to the end, the man didn't take it seriously. Words, no half sullen.

"It took you only one month to get out of the Tongtian Ladder, but it took me a full year." Qian Mian's eyes dimmed instantly, like the moment of desolation after the bustling end, without life.

"You win this game, I will keep your identity a secret, you can rest assured." Qian Mian finished drinking the tea in front of him, waved his sleeves and turned to leave, leaving a sense of loss.

The wooden cliff outside the door stealthily clawed at the door frame, but was thrown to the ground by Qian Mian's sudden opening of the door.

Mu Ya stuck out her tongue and watched Qian Mian leave, and immediately ran into the room and looked at Mo Xuan worriedly: "How is it? What did he say? Did he bother you?"

Mo Xuan waved his hand: "Nothing."

Mu Ya was still worried: "Qian Mian is a weird person, what can he do if he plays tricks behind his back?"

Mo Xuan smiled, assuring that he was fine, but sighed in his heart, how can a person who wears a mask all day long be so bad?

Qian Mian walked slowly along the familiar corridor, looking at the main hall not far away.

Suddenly, tired.

Thinking about it, I have been running around like this for more than ten years, and I am no longer young. If he deceives others by changing his appearance every day, isn't he deceiving himself?Thinking of the scars of the real appearance, and touching the smooth and tender face now, it is really, sad.

What do you see when you open that door?That man sat on it arrogantly, and two or three beautiful boys and girls lined up at his feet waiting for his luck, and then he would compete with those children every time like a jealous wife, but he got nothing.

And what if he has feelings for him?Can I satisfy him by myself?Do you have to act like a stranger every time you are in love with him?Qian Mian felt that he was a complete fool, because of one person, he lost everything.

Suddenly, there was no place to stand firm in the huge temple.

Qian Mian tidied up her clothes, and pushed open the hall door with unhurried steps.

The man closed his eyes, and a person beside him was beating his legs.

Qian Mian approached with a smile and knelt down slowly: "Report to Palace Master, the first round of the selection competition has ended, and the selected contestants are waiting at the inn, and the second round of competition can begin."

It took Qian Xiao a long time before he said: "I heard that someone broke into Qianji Pavilion?"

Qianmian replied: "Yes, it only took a month, and the strength is very high."

Qian Xiao said indifferently: "Go on, the second round of the competition will be arranged monthly."

Qian Mian looked at the man's face and smiled slightly: "Yes."

He stood up cleanly, his usual pair of extremely charming eyes were only quiet now, and even the traces of the corners of the eyes were much lighter.

Qian Mian turned around, one step, two steps, and slowly walked out of this majestic but cold hall.

It only took Mo Xuan a month to walk out, only one month.Then what are you?The obsession that he was once proud of now makes him in a trance. Does he still have as much love for Qian Xiao as before?Is it because of this kind of obsession that I blocked my footsteps?In the end is to persevere or not to ask for it?Qianmian thought, he needs to calm down and think carefully.

The door of the temple was slowly closed, but the man who was originally seated slowly opened his eyes, looking in the direction of the door, he seemed to be thinking about something.

The boy next to his legs rubbed against his lower body intentionally or unintentionally, Qian Xiao's eyes were slightly cold: "Get down!"

The two retreated one after another, the man rubbed his temples, his indifferent eyes were somewhat complicated.

Outside the gate of the hall, Qianmian looked up at the scorching sun in the sky, and said to himself: "It's boring, why don't you go to other places to see, ah, where is it better?"

Behind the pillar, Yue came out to look at him, surprised that the pig was not punished today.

"Where do you want to go?" Yue asked coldly.

Qian Mian didn't look at him, but only said vigorously: "Where is it good? Oh, it's so tangled."

Yuedao: "The Palace Master will be angry if you leave."

Qianmian suddenly rejoiced and said: "Ah! Lingshan! Mo Xuan seems to be from there, so go there and have a look."

Yuezhi just stood there watching him quietly, Qianmian shook his head and hummed a little song, and was about to leave when he suddenly turned his head and made a face: "Don't worry, I'll be back in the second round, and I have to play Make a bet!"

After saying that, he waved his hand and shook his head and left.

Yue frowned and looked at his back, then looked at the closed palace door beside him, not knowing who it was for, and sighed lightly.