Twilight War

05

Zichen is still asleep, and Lu Shu is beside him.

The boy was lying on his side on the bed, with his right hand resting on the edge of the bed, and the white sleeves were hanging down from the bed, as if the bed had also been covered with a layer of first snow, and the boy was lying in the white snow.

The seriously ill boy looked thinner than usual, with long plain white hair tied between black hair.

Lu Shu looked at the boy and suddenly felt a little distressed.

She still remembers the first time she met the teenager.

At that time, she had not yet joined the Huangxuan family.

She was dressed in black walking clothes, wandering in the streets and markets of Jinling.She wants to come to Jinling to kill someone.

At the Jiuxun Festival that year, the bronze Hongzhong and Lu Qiming, the witch danced with a feather fan on the altar, and everyone could drink the Huadiao wine that flowed down the Qinhuai River.

The grandeur is like a thousand-year event.

And at the last ceremony of the Jiuxun Festival that year, she saw the boy.

The young man was sitting on the mat in a scarlet brocade robe embroidered with the Phoenix bird.

She walked between the crowd, and the boy lowered his eyes.

The boy is still young, but there is a bit of inborn nobleness and alienation in his eyebrows and eyes.

Everyone said that the boy was Donghuang's Divine Phoenix Bird, and he would bring peace to the world.

How could she think at that time?

He was but a child.

What's more, that young man looks so weak.

At that time, she thought that this boy must have been born in the Jinxiu pile.

A teenager should have thousands of pampering and arrogance.

But later she found out that was not the case.

Lu Shu was thinking, but Zichen opened his eyes and looked at her.

The boy's eyes are like white mountains and black waters, and the clouds are chaotic.

Seeing Zichen woke up, Lu Shu stood up and walked outside the door. "I'll call the young master of the Si family over."

"Little Jin, are you awake?" Si Tianming hurried over when he heard that Zichen had woken up.

"En." Zichen nodded.

"Why did you faint suddenly?" He told the rest of the Huangxuan family that Zichen was too tired recently, but he knew that there was something wrong with Zichen's illness.

Zichen shook his head, "Maybe it's just too tired recently."

"Then why don't you hurry back to bed!" Si Tianming frowned.

"Is there any news from the imperial court?" Zichen asked.

"The imperial court asked us to abandon the Taiyi. After breaking through the encirclement, we will cross the 36 countries in the Western Regions by land. People from the imperial court will set off from Chang'an to pick us up at the border of the 36 countries." Si Tianming said with a frown.

"We are not too far away from the land in the west land now. Taiyi is too easy to be found. Even if we break through the encirclement and successfully cross this sea area, it is too difficult. It is better to divide the army into several groups and cross the desert by land. A good idea."

Zichen nodded.

Si Tianming glanced at Zichen, and felt that there was something wrong with Zichen's expression, "What? Do you think there's something wrong?"

"Isn't there an order from ancient times that the Huangxuan family is not allowed to bring troops into the capital? It is said that the spirit of killing and attacking easily disturbs the spirit of the emperor in the capital. How can the court allow the Huangxuan family to bring troops into the capital this time?"

"After all, it is an extraordinary period." Si Tianming said.

Zichen felt that something was wrong, but after thinking about it, he shook his head, "It's nothing, I just think it's a pity that I can't go back to Jiangnan to see the peach blossoms."

"Peach blossoms don't have to be seen this year, and it will be the same next year. I haven't seen how much you like peach blossoms in the past ten years, but this time you are suddenly so interested in these things?"

"It's nothing... I just feel... If I don't watch it this time, I won't be able to watch it again in the future." Zichen said.

"What do you say, you will be the head of the Huangxuan family in the future, stationed in the south of the Yangtze River, defending the family and the country, the peach blossoms in the south of the Yangtze River are not enough for you to see, I am afraid that the emperor will not let you go if you get tired of seeing them." Si Tianming shook his head.

"Well, I know." Zichen said.

"After returning to Donghuang, the emperor will marry the princess to you. Do you like her?" Si Tianming said.

"I haven't met the princess a few times, and I was still young at that time, so I don't like it or not." Zichen said.

"Zichen..."

"But I heard that Princess Yingluo is a very good girl, maybe I will like her when I see her." Zichen looked at Si Tianming and said.

The young man smiled softly, but Si Tianming felt that the young man's smile was too sad.

Si Tianming looked at Zichen and sighed.

"Alright, then I'll go first."

Si Tianming shook his head, smiled lightly, halfway through the laugh, the smile on Si Tianming's face suddenly froze, and he suddenly grabbed Zichen's right hand.

"You've used Chi You's mad blood, haven't you?"

On the ring finger of Zichen's right hand, there is a strange red line, like a flame made of blood.

In the past, this weird pattern would appear every time he burned Chi You's mad blood, and it would disappear after an hour.

But this time I don't know what happened, this pattern appeared inexplicably a long time ago, and it never disappeared.It's just that the color of the veins is very light, and you can't see it if you don't pay attention.

When this pattern is at its brightest, it is as bright as cinnabar, as if it is blood seeping from the bone marrow.

Zichen closed his eyes and nodded.

"Do you know what Chi You's mad blood is!" Si Tianming roared almost angrily, he has always been gentle and good-tempered, this is the first time Zichen saw Si Tianming so angry.

"I know." Zichen said.

"Then how dare you!" Si Tianming's fingers were almost trembling.

Zichen lowered his head and said nothing.

"You fucking know! You fucking don't know!" Si Tianming grabbed Zichen's collar, "None of the heads of Patriarch Huangxuan who used the soul-killing technique lived past thirty! They didn't die for anything else. They didn’t die on the battlefield! They all committed suicide.”

"Thirty is enough." Zichen said, how could he not know the fate of those Patriarch Huangxuan who had used the forbidden technique.

In the sixth year of Quanbao, Huang Xuanmo, the head of the sixth generation of Huangxuan, armed with the sword Chunjun, was besieged by six tribes in Shuobei during the Battle of Lemashi in Shuobei. He beheaded the leaders of the six tribes by himself.However, in the second year after returning to the south of the Yangtze River, he killed himself in the sword mound of Huangxuan's family, and his blood sank into the weak pool, like the color of blood sinking into a jade, which can still be seen today.

In the third year of enlightenment, the No. 20 Patriarch of Huangxuan, Huangxuan Chuhen, is equipped with a sword Chipan.Japanese Japanese pirates from Dongying colluded with the court officials and burned all the food and grass in the military tents of Huangxuan's family. In the midst of the fire, Huangxuan Chuhen stood up and defended Jiangnan alone.However, before the imperial court's reward came down, Huangxuan Chuhen's blood was splashed in the ashes and ruins after the fire that day.

……

Those are all endless legends and stories that the storyteller can't finish telling. Once the storyteller makes a decision, he will be eight hundred miles away from the imperial palace.

Everyone applauds, the play ends, and everyone sighs that he is really a hero!

But only the members of the Huangxuan family knew about the blood dripping inside, and everything in the world had a price.Chi You's mad blood, killing too much, even heroes like Huangxuanmo and Huangxuan Chuhen can't bear the backlash it brings.

Then in the ninth year of Guibao, Huangxuan Xilian, the patriarch of the sixth generation of Huangxuan, armed with a sword to pity the living, led a thousand Huangxuan dead soldiers into the yellow sands of Mobei, but in the end he was the only one left to walk on the road. The new wind in Mobei returned, blood dripped from the Mercy Sword, and a thick layer of coagulated blood completely covered the Mercy Sword, which was originally as bright as autumn water.

Huangxuan Xilian was originally the most generous and benevolent patriarch of Huangxuan in the past, but after returning from that battle, her temperament changed drastically, she was violent and suspicious, and never mentioned a single word about that battle.

Half a year later, he listed Chi You's mad blood as a forbidden technique of the Huangxuan family, and no one was allowed to use it. Most of the files related to Chi You's mad blood were burned overnight by him.

In the end, his blood splattered the ancient books burning in the fire, and the last blood shed on the mercy sword was his own blood.

Since Huangxuan cherished the lotus, no one in Huangxuan's family has had the blood of Chi You's mad blood for a long time, but now this young man...

"How many times have you used it?" Si Tianming looked at Zichen.

"Twice, once to kill Aegeus, and once in front of the Holy Rosary Cross Church in Wellings." Zichen replied honestly.

Si Tianming shook as if he couldn't bear it, almost fell down and hurriedly supported the table next to him, "Huangxuan Zichen, let me tell you, if you don't stop quickly, you will end up with your ancestors sooner or later!"

"I know, but no matter what the outcome is, I'm willing to bear it." Zichen looked at Si Tianming without any hesitation in his eyes.

"What the hell do you know!" Si Tianming shook his head, "No one can withstand the backlash of Chi You's mad blood. The heads of the Huangxuan family in the past are not first-class heroes, and which ones are not sharp-edged without blinking an eye. , They all felt that they could bear it, and which one survived three years in the end? Huang Xuanmo, what a hero, finally committed suicide in the sword mound of Huangxuan's family. A hero for a lifetime, finally died by his own sword."

"The power of Chi You's mad blood will only become stronger and stronger, and the backlash will also become stronger. The pain, piercing through the bones, can't be overstated, but the most painful thing is that people can't tell at all." Si Tianming said, "I know you hate Vaner, and I know that you have never been able to care about it. But are you fucking going to kill those Vaner officials alone? Are you the only one in the Huangxuan family?"

Zichen didn't speak.

Si Tianming sighed, "Zichen, why are you so stupid? Do you know that you are different from your ancestors?"

"You were sent to Weichen Temple since you were five years old to wash away the Chi You's crazy blood in your blood. Your mother wanted you to be a normal person. In fact, your Chi You's crazy blood was almost washed away. If you It’s not that you escaped from the temple at the age of 13, it should have been washed away by now. But what about you now, you are trying to use Chi You’s mad blood again, like getting back something pawned years ago from a pawn shop. "

"Can you take it back? Even if you can, you have to peel off layers of skin." Si Tianming felt his hands trembling, and he looked at the boy who didn't speak but straightened his back.

"Why bother?" Si Tianming shook his head.

"Uncle, I remember you told me that I belong to Donghuang's Shenhuang bird." Zichen said suddenly, holding a cup in his hand and lowering his eyes.

"Yes." Si Tianming looked at the boy.

"The Divine Phoenix Bird, seeing it will bring peace to the world. It is not because the world is peaceful that the Divine Phoenix Bird came into the world...but the Divine Phoenix Bird wants to bring prosperity to the world."

Zichen put down his cup and looked up at Si Tianming.