Candle [Rebirth]

The two clasped hands together and were speechless, the saint at the side sat down beside Xiao Yang silently, her voice was slightly choked up: "If we do a full set of dramas, you and I will not be able to escape completely, God..."

She raised her eyes and looked at Lingzhen: "The son of the two of us has to be taken care of by God."

Lingzhen closed his eyes and said solemnly: "Don't worry, I will regard your son as my own son. Even if I die in this battle, Ah Lian and my child will do our best to protect him."

He let go, gestured again, and bowed solemnly to Xiao Yang: "Heavenly punishment is an oath."

The gods saluted people, a few thunderstorms rumbled down outside the window, and then it rained heavily. Xiao Yang and the saint left quietly in the heavy rain, but left the child here.

The little baby was wrapped in the spell cast by Lingzhen and fell asleep, very peacefully.

Holding the baby in her arms, Gu Lian approached a little closer, her eyes softly touched the group of spiritual power: "You sealed his age, do you want our child to grow up and take care of him?"

Lingzhen gave a low laugh, and replied, "Not only."

He turned his head to look directly at Gu Lian, and said seriously: "I lied just now."

Gu Lian said: "I know."

Lingzhen continued to look at her carefully, and said, "I have no chance of surviving this battle. I will die with my own body... I have no other choice."

Gu Lian smiled: "I know."

Lingzhen stretched out her hand to pin the hair from her sideburns behind her ears: "So sealing his age is just because I don't want you to work too hard. After all, I can't help you."

"After this battle, you take the two of them out of Chang'an, find a place to live in seclusion, and stay away from Mingling Mountain. After you get the governor of A Ling, you will tell him everything."

He leaned over and kissed each other on the forehead: "Being a god is not necessarily a good thing. I don't want my child to have no choice like me. If he wants to be a god or a man, let him decide for himself."

But Gu Lian said: "A Ling and I will definitely protect his two sons. Few people in the world know that you and I are Taoist couples. They only know that A Ling is my blood, but the whole world knows about the two of them. It's going to be a little more dangerous."

Lingzhen didn't know what to say for a while, and after a long silence, he said: "When we parted, we will be silent... If I had known that this was a poem of parting..."

"So what if you know?" Gu Lian carefully placed the child in her arms on the bed, turned her head and glared at him, although there were tears in her eyes, she still put on her usual innocent expression, "I know you also……"

Lingzhen reached out and hugged her into his arms, and said in a hoarse voice: "I will fall in love with you too if I know."

Gu Ling stared blankly at the scenes that seemed to be hallucinations. He saw the saintess and Xiao Yang die, saw Lingzhen die in the final battle of Chang'an, and restored the peace and tranquility of the world, and saw his mother take him with him. He and Xiao Ning escaped from Chang'an and hid in Tibet to raise them until they can remember.

After Shi Ling's death in battle, the two tribes of demons and demons had no leader, and soon aimed their guns at each other, and started a tug-of-war for many years.Everyone in the demon clan knew that Gu Lian was not dead, and also knew that she had the blood of a demon clan member in her hands, so they arrested the entire cat demon clan and forced her to hand them over.

In fact, if Gu Lian knew that Xiao Ning would be handed over at this time, she would be able to keep her entire clan safe. The clan is all her relatives and friends, and it is the last thing in the world that cannot be given up.Lingzhen and Xiao Yang are dead, and the oath of Heavenly Punishment is gone, even if she doesn't keep her promise, it won't matter.

Just... the son of an old friend.

A promise is worth a thousand dollars.

Gu Ling vaguely recalled that on the day he broke the matter of Xie Qingjiang, he saw such a scene - A Niang hid him and Xiao Ning in a certain snow cave in Mingling Mountain, and left in a cloak of snow. Did not come back either.

The long dirge resounded all over the mountain.

"Hey... I will give away the soul of the king, and return it to the great sky; I will live as a spirit and die as a ghost, and I will be entangled and buried in Tianling!"

In order not to cause harm to the innocent people of the tribe, and not to betray the son of the old man, she sacrificed herself to the Yaozu, and was executed in Mingling Mountain. Before she died, she didn't even have time to tell Gu Ling about his life experience.

Gu Ling and Xiao Ning were well hidden by her, and she only told the most trusted sisters of the Yaozu about Xiao Ning's life experience, and asked her to take them back after her death, and find a safe place to raise them up. big.

It turns out that this is the person A Niang said "will come to pick you up".

But when Gu Ling saw this person, he felt that his blood was cold in an instant, and he almost shrank himself in the illusory space.He saw Fan Luohua's hypocritical caring, and saw her unfurled eyebrows after her death.

Fortunately, my mother kept an eye out and didn't tell her where the two were.

After that... He already knew what happened after that.

He and Xiao Ning were brought back to Mount Sui by Xie Qingjiang, all memories were sealed, they didn't know each other for a long period of time, and they tortured each other for a longer period of time, until they both lost.

Fan Luohua is a loyal supporter of Shi Ling, even though she had ambiguous feelings for Xie Qingjiang and Zuo Wanshan, she did not reveal Xiao Ning's identity to them, but pushed him out of Zhongsui Mountain to come Respect the demons.

No wonder the first time he went down the mountain, he and Xiao Ning's sword became so close...

No wonder that even though I have died many times, I still want to pull him back from the abyss endlessly.

But after suffering so much, the old friend's covenant...has he really not paid it off?

Gu Ling laughed softly in the white light, tears flowed down his cheeks and down his neck.The illusion quickly dissipated in front of him, but he did not return to Fengdu, his body was covered in chaotic mist, he looked around in a daze, but saw a white light in front of him gradually breaking through the surrounding mist.

He saw that Lingzhen was still dressed in plain white robes, walking towards him step by step, his body was light and floating, like a phantom, Gu Ling looked up at him dully, only to see him smiling and stroking his head : "A Ling."

"Father...Father..." Gu Ling knelt down in front of him, crying bitterly, "Father..."

I don't know if it's because of sadness, grievance, longing, or because of other emotions, Gu Ling tightly grasped the hem of his clothes, crying so hard that he could hardly speak, fearing that he would disappear in a second.Lingzhen squatted down in front of him, with a look of compassion on his face: "Don't cry, child."

Although he had never seen it before, the heavy pressure from the gods still made Gu Ling feel his chest was heavy. He knelt upright and kowtowed a few times. Lingzhen stretched out his hand to help him up, and his sigh was like a nine-day Sanskrit voice: "You have suffered."

"Back when I sealed your bloodline, I wanted you to live more freely. I didn't want you to suffer for so many years. I told your mother to tell you about your bloodline. On the day you know everything, I will Naturally, I will come to see you... But she suffered an accident, which made you helpless for so long, and it is me and your mother who are sorry for you."

Gu Ling hugged his arm like a wronged child and shook his head. As far as he could remember, he grew up on Mount Sui. At six o'clock, I still feel envious: "Father...the battle in Chang'an ended many years ago, didn't you already...why did you show up here today?"

Lingzhen patted him on the shoulder reassuringly, took his hand and walked towards the chaos in front of him, explaining as he walked, "A Ling, do you know what the god is?"

Gu Ling thought about it for a while, and then replied: "The Dao is derived from gods and immortals. Those who hear the Dao and worship the virtues are immortals, and the gods are..."

Seeing that he hadn't spoken for a long time, Lingzhen chuckled and continued: "Ordinary people practice Taoism and respect virtue, and cultivate to perfection, and they can ascend to immortality after a thousand calamities, but gods are different."

Gu Ling saw Lingzhen throw a seed at his feet, but without mobilizing his spiritual power, the seed took root and sprouted freely, and immediately grew into a big tree with luxuriant branches and leaves: "The ancients had ignorant Worship of gods, because gods come from all things, come from the way of heaven and earth, and they are invisible and shadowless in life, leaving no trace, and the same when they go away."

"It's the same when you go..." Gu Ling repeated in astonishment, "So—"

Lingzhen smiled. He looked at the tree in front of him, and his voice was erratic: "The gods are invisible and invisible, and they are immortal."

As soon as he finished speaking, the big tree in front of him quickly withered and decomposed at a speed visible to the naked eye, fell back into the soil, and disappeared without a trace.

"All things live and die, so do gods, demons, and ghosts."

Lingzhen waved his white sleeves, and it was as if a big curtain had opened in front of the two of them, showing all kinds of human beings. Gu Ling heard his voice: "A Ling, look at this world, what do you see?" ?”

"I..." Gu Ling lowered his eyes to look, and said after a while, "People, things, things, there are just a few things in the world."

He looked sideways at Lingzhen: "Father asked me to read these, what does it mean?"

Lingzhen didn't answer his question: "A Ling, close your eyes."

Gu Ling closed his eyes as he said, and Lingzhen stretched out a finger to point on his forehead. Gu Ling felt his finger was cold: "Then what do you see now?"

"I didn't see anything." Gu Ling replied honestly.

He heard Lingzhen's laughter: "The sky and the earth are originally chaotic and dark, full of emptiness. You don't have to open your eyes to see the way of heaven."

Gu Ling suddenly felt that his spiritual altar was clear. He opened his eyes, and there was still chaos in front of him. Lingzhen supported his shoulders from behind him, and whispered: "The gods are immortal, they exist above all things, and the ancients The gods have already hidden in the wilderness and do not want to intervene in the disputes of the world. It is because in their eyes, everything in the world is like the tree just now. It lives and dies, and it is nothingness in the end. The ancient gods did not perish, but... …Gods don’t save people.”

Gu Ling stared at Chaos in front of him in ecstasy: "Then why does father exist?"

"Because I'm different from them... I just think nothingness is precious."

"I came from the Great Desolation, and after I died in the world, I will naturally return to the Great Desolation. During my lifetime, as a god, I naturally have to bear the disasters of the heavens and the Dao, and save all things from fire and water. Even if I want to enjoy an ordinary life, I can't help it."

"But you, my boy, I hope you have a choice—"

Lingzhen's cold fingers touched the cinnabar mole on his lips from behind: "I will try my best to give you a choice. Although the world is changing, I don't know how the world is going, but if you look at the sky, you can know that disaster is coming—are you willing to stay forever?" Seal the blood of the gods and be an ordinary person, or just leave with me and never ask troubles in the world again?"

"Or, are you willing to break the seal and save the world alone, even though you die...with no regrets?"

The author has something to say: Ah Mao: dbq, my father is a philosopher, I am ashamed of my father

ps: In the scene where Ah Mao and his mother parted ways when they were young, I forgot to give directions and review Chapter 43

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Guanshan Kezi Road, Hualiu Emperor City.

When one of them broke up, they cared for each other silently.

——Lu Zhaolin "Send the Second Brother to Shu"