The sea of ​​suffering is boundless, it is me who turns back

32.

How long has it been, in the desert, in the wind and snow, under the shadow of swords, lights and swords of mountains and tsunamis, walking alone.

Every time I am exhausted and come back to this small courtyard, what I long for is the simplest greeting: "You are back." or "Are you okay?"

In the past hundred years, Gu Zhizhou has imagined such a scene countless times.As soon as the door was pushed open, the younger brother poked his head out of the room with a smile, and said to him with infinite dependence: "Zhizhou, why did you come back." Nothing has changed, those life and death are just a ridiculous dream .

But in this life, Gu Zhizhou never had any good dreams.

When he really walked in, there was only a cold and empty room waiting for him, and he imagined that his junior and junior would shatter at the touch of one touch.

Birth and separation are real, and death and separation are also real.

Caught off guard, Fu Ziqiu's smiling face came into sight, and the greeting he dreamed of was blown into his ears with the gentle wind. All the unreachable dreams gradually became clear amidst the illusion and bubbles, and finally became within reach.

Gu Zhizhou's heart tightened, like a traveler returning home from a long journey, he had truly tasted what it means to be "cowardly with a feeling of being close to home", and the sense of unreality brought about by fulfilling his wish made it difficult for him to move forward.

"Gu Zhizhou?" Hearing no response, and no approaching footsteps, Fu Ziqiu tilted his head: "Yue Lin, why are you responsible for Mr. Xue?"

Gu Zhizhou settled down, but his steps were rarely brisk.

When he got closer, he saw three bloodstains on the back of Fu Ziqiu's hand, and Yue Lin was applying medicine to him.

Gu Zhizhou aimed at the culprit, frowning: "Where did the cat come from?"

"Your Majesty..." Yue Lin's hands trembled, "That one, I picked it up on the way here."

"How could there be wild cats in Xu Yufeng?" Gu Zhizhou's tone became more severe, and he sneered, "Okay, someone dares to secretly raise cats in Jianmen, isn't it itchy? Check it out for me, I have to find out this black sheep !"

"Hey, it's just a kitten, why do you say it's heinous?" Fu Ziqiu held the cat in both hands, and raised it to Gu Zhizhou: "Look at it, how cute it is."

Gu Zhizhou has always been indifferent to these fluffy creatures, almost subconsciously wanting to back away.But Fu Ziqiu seemed to have expected his action, and when he let go of his hand, the kitten was stuffed into Gu Zhizhou's arms.

"You like it when you hug it."

"Hey!" Gu Zhizhou lifted the cat helplessly, he didn't know how to hug it at all, and his hands didn't feel proper, as if he was hugging a hot potato: "I warn you, if you dare to scratch me... I'll chop you up and make soup! "

Very bloody and violent.

Fu Ziqiu blew on the wound on the back of his hand: "The uncivilized little creature has a wild temper, and the way it stretches its teeth and claws is quite similar to you."

"Can you talk!" Gu Zhizhou was displeased, and kicked on the rattan chair: "You are like a cat, or a tabby cat, lazy and annoying!"

Fu Ziqiu shrugged, and said to Yue Lin: "Take this little thing back, find the master, don't worry, Mr. Xuexue won't cause trouble."

Gu Zhizhou raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Why! Is it yours or mine?"

Fu Ziqiu ignored him directly and encouraged Yue Lin: "Go, it's fine."

Yue Lin snatched the cat back from Gu Zhizhou's hand, and ran away without a trace.

Gu Zhizhou was furious, grabbed Fu Ziqiu by the front, and said viciously: "Fu, you broke my rules!"

"Rules are meant to be broken." Fu Ziqiu squeezed the back of Gu Zhizhou's hand: "I've seen it before, it's just an ordinary creature, it's hard to say whether it can take shape or not, it's not dangerous."

"Who told you this? You are openly challenging my authority. It spread, saying that Gu Zhizhou changed the rules after listening to Master Mozun's words. How can I rule in the future?"

Fu Ziqiu didn't take it seriously: "You think too much. People will only think that you owe Xue Junguang's kindness and kindness. It's too late to be happy." As he said, he suddenly stretched his neck and looked towards Gu Zhizhou. He smelled it on his body: "Are you drinking again?"

"A dog?" Gu Zhizhou let go of him, grabbed his collar and sniffed hard: "Can you smell such a light smell?"

"Tch." Fu Ziqiu stood up from the rattan chair, and walked into the room familiarly: "I thought the fairy world was so pure, upright and elegant, but it's not just a waste of time and money."

"Who is drinking and drinking?" Gu Zhizhou was charged with a crime for no reason, and he was speechless.He chased after him: "Can the Emperor of Heaven pull me to drink? It's not what I want to drink myself."

Entering the room, Fu Ziqiu ignored him, but there was a neat string of round red pearls on the table.

"Why are you grinding so much?"

Fu Ziqiu sat by the bed: "I'm going to make a bracelet, don't you feel bad about it?"

"Am I that stingy?" Gu Zhizhou was speechless, "Are you hungry? What do you want for dinner?"

Fu Ziqiu thought for a while: "I don't have much appetite, just get something light."

Gu Zhizhou decided to send a message, calling for someone to bring over some food.Walking to Fu Ziqiu's side and staring at his eyes: "Are your eyes better? Have you changed your medicine today?"

"Yue Lin changed it for me."

Gu Zhizhou nodded, and stretched out his hands to raise Fu Ziqiu's face: "Let me see."

As soon as they met, the pair of phoenix eyes, which were always playful and frivolous, were still covered with a thin layer of mist, and because of being out of focus, they lost a little water, and looked very gloomy.

Fu Ziqiu obediently let Gu Zhizhou watch, the dark world gave him a lot of confidence when facing such careful gaze.He asked softly: "How, do you see anything?"

Gu Zhizhou replied honestly: "I can't see it."

Fu Ziqiu smiled, and suddenly grabbed his wrist: "Zhizhou."

Gu Zhizhou was most afraid of Fu Ziqiu calling him like that, which made his bones brittle and his heart weak: "...what?"

"Did your sweetheart lie to me?"

"..."

Gu Zhizhou was stunned, who would have thought that Fu Ziqiu would ask this.

"Did you really lie to me?" Fu Ziqiu caught the strange dullness in the air, and his dull eyes met Gu Zhizhou, as if he was looking at him.

Gu Zhizhou said, "What did I lie to you? It's just nonsense, you have to take it seriously." He let go of his hand, thinking that his family was neglected here, but Fu Ziqiu's place had some eight songs and nine songs, with a bad tone: "Besides, who I like and who I don't have anything to do with you, I want you to take care of it."

Fu Ziqiu chuckled twice. Compared with Gu Zhizhou's anger and embarrassment, he seemed to be suddenly much lighter, and even his shoulder blades relaxed.

The sky darkened inch by inch, and the Wuyue Pavilion was brightly lit for the first time in a century, but unfortunately its other owner could not be seen now.

Under the warm candlelight, Gu Zhizhou and Fu Ziqiu sat facing each other. The hot porridge and side dishes softened the whole room. The small room that had been lonely for many years finally gained popularity, and the world was overshadowed.

"In the letter from Yingwuzhou, Lian Sheng confessed that he had never met Yanniang, and he had always communicated through his spiritual consciousness. After we entered the ruins, Lian Sheng got in touch with Yanniang. He didn't know that you were also there. , only said to trap me or simply kill me, in short, you can’t let me out. So in the beginning of the romance, I was originally alone, and there was no imaginary bride to marry me, so naturally I couldn’t get out.”

But Lian Sheng had calculated everything, and he never thought that Fu Ziqiu would go in with Gu Zhizhou, and they would break the "wind, flower, snow and moon" together.Yan Niang has been trapped in the Death Terrace for 800 years, full of love and resentment, and has no place to express it, so she happened to be bumped into by them.This Yanniang was also too confident, relying on the evil spirit under her buttocks to do her best, halfway through the conversation, she remembered that Lian Sheng asked her to kill, so she did it.In the end, people didn't solve it, but put themselves in it instead.

Fu Ziqiu was a little scared after thinking about it, if he hadn't followed, wouldn't Gu Zhizhou have been trapped there for the rest of his life?

He quickly sipped the hot porridge to suppress his shock.

"This Yanniang has three great curses on her body, and she can still live on the stage of death, but she can't do it if she is far away. So generally speaking with Lian Sheng is basically to give orders, at most two or three sentences can't last, otherwise Look at her, she doesn't even know the world outside." Gu Zhizhou sighed: "But no matter how much Lian Sheng is there, he can't explain why, he is just a pawn being used by others, what is that 'it' He doesn't know what the thing looks like. But...he has felt the power of 'it', and it is said to be very powerful, and it is because of this that he agreed to do things for them."

"What is certain now is that Yanniang absorbed a lot of monster energy in the demon world through Lian Sheng's hand, in order to feed 'it'. And the wraiths in the human world... are probably also released by 'it', And the Volcanic Dragon King was captured." Gu Zhizhou pondered: "But... I always feel that there is something wrong."

Demon spirit, resentment?

Resentment, evil spirit...

"Could it be said that 'it' grows itself by absorbing the spirit energy of demon spirits and the resentment of ghosts? What about the human's emotions? Greed, anger, obsession? All hatred can be used by 'it'?"

"Oh, did you hear what I said?" Gu Zhizhou put down his chopsticks: "Don't just eat, give me some response!"

Fu Ziqiu swallowed the porridge in his mouth: "I'm listening to your analysis, it's not easy to interrupt."

"Then do you think it is, is there any reason?"

Fu Ziqiu was full, touched his stomach and pursed his lips: "It's not unreasonable, but if 'it' really feeds off of cannibalism and various bad emotions, it would be too perverted. No matter human monsters, you gods have already If you are pure-hearted and ascetic enough, you will have your own delusions, right? How can it be possible to have nothing and no complaints in one lifetime? Just forget that those little bald heads in Chenzhou can do it. What you said is so interesting, but it is almost Where... I don't know now."

"Then what if 'it' is bound by someone?"

Fu Ziqiu paused: "What do you mean?"

Gu Zhizhou said: "If 'it' is trapped or sealed like Yanniang. It is restricted by the spell and cannot recover without any scruples. This method can only be used to make up for it bit by bit. Woolen cloth?"

"Relying on the seven emotions and six desires of mortals, the resentment and aura of demons and ghosts, and the obsession and delusion of immortals to repair one's body, what kind of monster is so against the sky?"

"Yes." Gu Zhizhou's eyes darkened, his thin lips parted slightly, and he uttered two words: "Demon."

Fu Ziqiu's heart trembled suddenly, and a strange resonance swept through his whole body.He suddenly thought of a name that Yan Niang blurted out while looking at Gu Zhizhou at the stage of death.A little bit of chill came out of his blood, and before he could react, he covered his palms with sweat.

Except for Yanniang, for thousands of years, it has never been heard that there is a god or demon who can separate the demon from the body.However, it is a fact that the inner demon will be drawn by various emotions, and it will be sucked into one's body unconsciously. Otherwise, after so many years, there would not be so many demons who were killed by the inner demon, and finally became cruel and sexless, and the six relatives would not recognize it.

But as soon as Gu Zhizhou's words came out, it couldn't be clearer who he was targeting.

Fu Ziqiu stabilized his emotions: "Didn't you say that Yanniang was talking nonsense? Why did I start to doubt myself?"

"Yanniang's words are unbelievable, but with her precedent, others are not impossible. There is no impenetrable wall in the world. Since there is such a saying, there must be some clues." Gu Zhizhou leaned into the chair: " I can't find anything else, but there are quite a few records of the Heavenly Demon War, I'll go to Qinghuanzhou tomorrow to have a look."

Fu Ziqiu could hear the hidden worry and inconspicuous fatigue in his voice, and persuaded: "None of us have ever seen what a cultivating inner demon looks like, how can you be sure that the Yanniang we saw is not Yanniang herself? , but her demon? There is no rush, so you can relax."

Gu Zhizhou felt that what Fu Ziqiu said was also reasonable, but he was still in a hurry, pinching his brows wearily: "If you don't worry about it, you will be overthrown. I found that one or two of you are big-hearted. The Emperor of Heaven is not in a hurry, just feel free Am I in a hurry?"

"Soldiers come to block the water and cover it with earth. The power of the Three Realms has been placed here for so many years, and ordinary people can't overthrow the sky." Fu Ziqiu supported the edge of the table and walked to Gu Zhizhou's side: "Are you tired? Go to sleep."

Gu Zhizhou yawned cooperatively, and his eyes were filled with water marks instantly.He was really sleepy. He didn't know how good his energy was at this time in the past, and he didn't necessarily feel sleepy after spending two or three hours.

"Okay, I'll clean up here."

Gu Zhizhou handled the tableware in a hurry, twisted a hot cloth towel and threw it to Fu Ziqiu: "Wipe your face."

Fu Ziqiu put the cloth towel on his face and wiped it carefully.

Gu Zhizhou couldn't stand it anymore, he came over and snatched the cloth towel away, and wiped Fu Ziqiu's face vigorously: "I found that you have really changed, you have made yourself beautiful, and your face is lighter than a little girl's. You What's this face made of? It's rolled out of flour, and it will break if you touch it?"

Fu Ziqiu's face turned red after being rubbed by Gu Zhizhou, and he frowned and pushed him: "Is there anyone like you? I'll wipe my face, what are you messing with..."

"I can't stand your hypocrisy!" Gu Zhizhou flicked Fu Ziqiu's forehead with two fingers: "What else do you need to say quickly, I'm almost sleepy."

Fu Ziqiu held his forehead and sucked, he was going to annoy this man to death.

"No more! Get out of here!"

Gu Zhizhou snorted softly, turned the cloth towel and walked out: "Then I'm going to the next door, if you need anything, just call me."