Jade clear

In front of the stone pier under the willow tree at the entrance of the village, there are a group of children who are still sneezing and sucking.

On the stone pier sat an old man shaking a cooling fan.

The old man asked with a voice that sounded hoarse due to the vicissitudes of life: "What stories do you want to hear today?"

"Hmm...Grandpa, I want to hear the legend of the extermination of the world before Zhuli's arrival!"

"Huh? There used to be many gods in the sky!" the little girl whirling around with the windmill asked curiously.

"I want to hear it~ I want to hear it!" "I want to hear it too!"

"Okay, okay, don't make trouble, old man, let me tell you."

The old man leaned against the tree trunk and said slowly: "You should all know that there is a prophecy circulating in the world that the gods are separated, but there are gods who are separated. When the gods were in power, people didn't understand what it meant until one day."

"That day, I drove my old ox to the river to drink water. When I looked up from a distance, I saw that the sky had turned into a crimson fire cloud, which was redder than your little cheeks in winter... I saw the cloud overflowing The ground covered half the sky, and everything was scorching, alas, the furnace in the blacksmith shop of Old Li's house is not that hot!"

"And then!"

The old man closed his eyes, trembling slightly, and said: "After that, a raging fire fell from the sky and melted the Kunlun snowfield. The earth was scorched and no grass grew, and the statues of gods in the temple collapsed one by one. The gods died and no one heard people anymore. prayed, and Zhuli woke up after hearing the grief, and descended from Tianshui to protect the common people."

"Where did it go?"

"No one knows, maybe it went to the sky, or maybe it went to Kunlun."

"That's not true, someone knows where it is." A little boy at the end said timidly.

"Oh?"

"A few days ago, a few big brothers who looked like gods stayed at my house to rest. They were able to come out of Death Nian City alive. I heard them say that they want to find Zhuli..."

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Among the vast sea of ​​clouds, the distant mountains are hidden and visible, the men, women and children who go up the mountain to pray for blessings are chatting and laughing in an endless stream, and the deep bells are faintly ringing in the mountains and forests.

Across the curling green smoke, Yue Qingran stood in front of the statue, watching Zhu Li who bared his teeth and danced his claws but looked majestic.

This is the god who is worshiped by all the gods and is the last god in the world.

The temple is majestic, with white jade beams and pillars, and constant incense, but it is silently worshiped by thousands of people as if it was sealed in a stone statue.

With a low sigh, he threw a few copper coins into the incense burner, pulled the thin futon by his feet, and knelt on it with his palms folded.

"You are very grand now." Yue Qingran put his hands on his forehead and bowed deeply, then got up and only stared deeply at the god statue and said: "Finally, I am no longer a trapped beast."

He thanked the waiter for handing over the prayer book, and wrote his name neatly and sharply.

"You...you are Venerable Ze Che?!" The waiter asked in surprise when he caught a glimpse of the very eye-catching name.

Yue Qingran made a silent gesture to him, signaling to keep quiet.

"This junior is... an outer disciple of Tianshui Sect. He was sent here to guard the temple ten years ago. It is a great honor to meet the Venerable!" the waiter whispered while covering his mouth.

"Silly boy, what's wrong with me, I'm just a mortal body." Yue Qingran stood up and patted the dust on his knees, and handed the notebook back to the little servant.

"No, no, your lord is the strongest person in the world, everyone in the Tianshui sect admires you very much!"

"Is that so..." Yue Qingran rubbed his nose and laughed dryly, secretly admiring Ali's propaganda work was really refreshing!Even if he is doing nothing all day long, he can still make people look up to him? !

"Okay, okay, I have to go ahead, you are busy, you are busy, don't send it, don't send it!"

Leaving the gate of the palace leisurely, he saw Lu Chaoling standing alone under the tree, his mind was wandering and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Where did Ali go?"

"It should be to arrange matters in the hall. After all, Tianshuizong is so big that he has to worry about everything."

"...For such a trivial matter, Ali, with his extraordinary talent, can naturally handle it!"

"You don't have back pain when you stand and talk. If you can learn to share, then I don't have to be so 'innately talented'." Cheng Qingli walked down the steps and said in a deep voice.

"Yo, you're done with your work, are you tired~ I'll take you to have a good massage, and then soak in the hot spring of the Xiaoyin Pavilion~"

"Yue Qingran, do you know that you don't even look like a cultivator at all?"

"Pedantic! Who stipulates that people who practice must have the appearance of being immortal! I practice the way of freedom and freedom, how can you understand..."

Cheng Qingli didn't want to continue with him on this meaningless topic, and said while walking: "Every temple of Tianshui Sect has sent people to guard it, and the offerings are definitely enough, I think Zhu Li's divine power should also be slowly recovering. "

"When we see it again, it would be great if it wasn't as ugly as before... You said gods are all extremely beautiful, why is Zhuli an exception? It's a skill to be so ugly!" Yue Qingran kicked his feet. The scattered stones around were aimed at Cheng Qingli in front of him.

"Because Zhuli's appearance is its true body, and it is the only god who has not chosen a physical body." Lu Chaoling replied abruptly from the side.

"What do you mean?"

"Those fallen gods, those statues that were enshrined in the temples in the past are not themselves." Lu Chaoling added jokingly: "They choose a beautiful appearance that suits them in the world, and those designated mortals voluntarily put The body is sacrificed to the gods."

"In order to obtain another meaning of eternal life."

"How did you know this kind of thing? Even the Tianshui Sect didn't know about it." Cheng Qingli stopped and asked with a frown.

Lu Chaoling smiled nonchalantly and said, "Anyway, I'm also the nominal patriarch of the Lu family in Yunzhong, so it shouldn't be surprising that I know some secrets."

"It seems that the water in the Lu family in your cloud is not as deep as usual."After finishing speaking, Cheng Qingli's expression was rather displeased.

Lu Chaoling smiled without saying a word.

Pressing his temples, Yue Qingran looked wearily at the two people who never said a few words and would make the atmosphere extremely strange, wondering if the mode of getting along with talking in order to block each other is really pleasant!

"Okay, I understand. It's because we Zhuli are simple and unpretentious, and we don't engage in those fancy appearances, so we can be so ugly and calm, isn't that right!?"

"If Zhuli really has a spirit, I hope you won't be trampled by it when you see it again," Cheng Qingli said.

"In addition, there is another thing that you may not know. Tu Zhihuan sent me a secret report in the capital yesterday. Someone has seen Song Qingyan." Lu Chaoling paused, and solemnly repeated: "Song Qingyan is alive."

The two people who were still arguing just now suddenly fell into a deadly silence, and each saw the disbelief in each other's eyes.

It was Yue Qingran who came back to his senses first, showing an expression that seemed to be crying but not smiling: "It's absolutely impossible, no one can escape that catastrophe, I saw it with my own eyes..."

Cheng Qingli didn't know what he thought of, he looked up at the majestic temple, and murmured: "Maybe, Zhu Li really has a spirit, maybe, brother Yan is really still there..."

"I guess it's reincarnation, never-ending reincarnation." Lu Chaoling said.

Yue Qingran's face became horribly pale in an instant, and he knew what that meant.

People who are wiped out will never have a soul to live in.