chronicle of court survival

The Shangqing faction created the last peaceful place for the Mermaids. No one expected that one day they would be visited by the cavalry of officers and soldiers.

The village chief's expression changed: "Who are you?"

The leader at the head was wearing black armor with a ferocious expression on his face. He sneered and said, "Who are we? Can't you recognize the clothes? The Merman clan is now making the people panic all over the place. Dare to hide here and drag on? I don’t know how to live or die, come and arrest all these lowly slaves for me!"

Hundreds of officers and soldiers followed behind him, all holding torches and swords, and they all answered "yes" in unison.

The commander's words were full of insults, and the young and vigorous teenagers blushed, and wanted to take a step forward, but were stopped by the village chief.

The village chief took a deep breath and asked calmly, "Master, where are you going to arrest us?"

The commander's tone was cold: "Of course I'm going to jail. If you want me to say that the county magistrate is too merciful, you are a race that will only attract unknown people, so you should be shot and killed, and no one will be spared!"

The village head was leaning on a cane and didn't speak, his rickety shadow stretched long on the ground.

Seeing him hesitating, the boy next to him blushed, "No way! Village chief! We can't go with him!"

"Yes! Village chief, I don't want to go to jail! We might suffer some kind of torture if we go in!"

Will be rescued by the Shangqing Sect and come to this village. Everyone has suffered in the world and understands how cruel the outside world is to the Merman.

The teenagers were still full of pride and anger, and showed strong resistance with red eyes.The older middle-aged people all looked dull and said nothing.

A vein burst out on the village chief's forehead, he turned his head and gave the group of people a bitter look: "Shut up!"

The teenagers were terrified.

The village head took a deep breath, turned his head, tightly gripped his cane, and said softly in a hoarse voice: "Okay, sir, we'll wait for you to leave. You wait first, I'll go and call everyone in the village out." "

The leader smiled contemptuously: "Sure enough, older dogs are more sensible!"

"What did you say?!"

The village chief turned around and hit the young man who was about to curse back with his cane, his eyes were full of warning: "Feng Ming, go and call out everyone else."

Feng Ming looked at the village head in disbelief, gritted his teeth, but still clenched his fists, and swallowed back the words with red eyes: "Yes."

"Village..." Xia Qing frowned and wanted to say something, but the village chief took a deep look.

The old man's eyes were exhausted, numb, and begging.Ai is begging him not to be troublesome.

Xia Qing froze for a moment, then swallowed the words back.

He continued to touch the leaf, maybe he had held it for a long time, but the chill of Ananda's sword seemed to seep out from the severed veins, sticking to his soul.

The village head didn't want them to quarrel with the leader.

Yes, women and children accounted for half of the village, and behind the commander was the entire Chu State.

The commander sneered again, but he didn't attack.

Turning around, his eyes fell on Lingxi and the old man covered in blood.His face was unpredictable, and he hated endlessly: "This bastard bit my brothers and escaped from the city. I didn't kill him, but I just wanted to see where he came from. Run, can you escape?! Dead to death You know you're afraid right now? It's too late!"

The leader lied.

In fact, when the shark monsters were mad, they were brutal and invulnerable. They lost many brothers, and they all shivered and hid behind them. No one dared to rush up to provoke the monsters.He planned to wait for the Shark Demon to go crazy and die suddenly, and go up to collect the corpse.Unexpectedly, the old man whimpered and howled for a long time before he died, and then walked out of the city step by step.

They followed stealthily.

Before every crazy merman dies suddenly, there is a strange moment, like crying or roaring, bumping around aimlessly, but this is a sign of death.

The commander saw that the Shark Demon, who had scared the crap out of him, finally had no strength to resist, and the humiliation and anger in his heart reached their peak all of a sudden!

He pulled out his sword, and was about to stab the old man crawling on the ground with a "swish", his eyes were cold: "You little beast! You hurt so many brothers of mine! I won't get rid of my hatred if I don't crush you today!"

"don't want--!"

Lingxi heard the sound when he drew the sword, and his face turned pale instantly. He turned around and raised his immature hand to firmly hold the blade.

The blade pierced the boy's palm fiercely, and blood gushed out from between the fingers.

"Consonance!!" The villagers shouted.

Seeing that he was still resisting, the commander immediately became even more angry: "Okay, you little bastard, do you insist on protecting him, then I will kill you first today!"

After all, Lingxi was only five years old, his pupils shrank, his face was pale, and he was at a loss, but he still chose to close his eyes tightly and protect his grandfather with his body.

"Stop it—cough cough cough cough."

The village chief was so angry that he slammed his cane on the ground and roared angrily.But his health was not good, he was short of breath, and soon coughed violently.

How could the commander listen to him, the sword in his hand was about to stab Lingxi's fragile and white neck.

"grandfather……"

Lingxi was trembling with fear, hugged the old man tightly, tears seeped into the old man's hair.

Hot tears ran through the rough and dry hair, and the tears were also wet, flowing over the old man's face, washing the pale blue scales into a layer of blood.

The old man immersed in anxiety and mourning suddenly froze for a moment, and the cloudy and confused fog in his scarlet eyes slowly dispersed, revealing a gleam of light.He was looking for something before he died, and it became an obsession like a fallen leaf returning to its root, but he couldn't find it.

Now scalded by the boy's tears and blood, the eyes that were already blind seemed to be briefly illuminated again.

The leader doesn't think he is cruel, just like his companion was bitten by a poisonous snake, he is just taking revenge, no one will show mercy to a cold-blooded beast.

"Go to hell, little bastard!"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

"Ahhh my hand! My hand!"

In the blink of an eye, the old man who was protected by Lingxi roared suddenly, pushed Lingxi away, and bit off the commander's hand with a mouth full of fangs.

The action is bloody and crisp, as if it is a kind of viciousness that has penetrated into nature and become instinct.

"My hand, my hand..." The commander's face was pale, and he was sweating. He kicked the old man away, and the whole person fell into a state of extreme pain and extreme madness.

"Bitch! Bitch! You asked for it! You asked for it!"

His eyes were red and he roared suddenly.

"Kill them all!"

"Kill them all! The county magistrate said that you can kill them immediately when you encounter demonized sharks! This village is full of sharks! This village is full of demons! Kill them all!"

The leader shouted hoarsely.The soldiers behind him did not dare to resist the order, they answered "yes" in unison, and a dense group of people rushed up with weapons in an instant.

"No, sir! Don't—" The village chief's face was paler than ever before. He walked forward, but his crutches got caught by a stone and fell to the ground alive.

Angrily, the commander ordered someone to stop the bleeding. His nerves were already convulsed by the pain, but his body was supported by hatred. He insisted on watching the people of this village go to hell with his own eyes!

"Set it on fire! Burn this village down for us too! Bad luck! What a bad luck for Ge his mother!"

"grandfather."

Lingxi rushed over and firmly held the old man's hand.The old man was kicked to the ground and spat out another mouthful of blood, but the ferocity in his eyes did not dissipate, but he had no more strength when he was about to die.

Xia Qing closed his eyes, opened them again, and walked over to help the village chief up.

The firelight and moonlight shone on the young man's calm and dark eyes.Xia Qing said word by word: "Village chief, I can drive them out."

The village chief's hands were shaking, and he grinned when he heard his words, and black blood gushed out from between his teeth.

He looked so sad that he couldn't get rid of it. He seemed to be crying and laughing, and said softly: "Get out. And then. In the mainland of the sixteen states, there is a dead end for mermaids."

The village chief's old eyes were full of numbness, and his eyes were dry and unable to shed tears.

"There are so many old people and children in this village. Young people can escape, but what about children..."

"They are members of the imperial court. If you kill them, you are against the entire Chu court."

The old man said: "There are so many of them, no one can escape."

Xia Qing felt that the edge of the leaf was too sharp, bit by bit between his palm, he asked: "If you can't escape, you are waiting here to die."

When the soldiers surrounded him.The villagers have been forced to scatter by swords, guns, swords and halberds, screaming and fleeing for a moment resounded through the night.

The village chief leaned over and coughed violently. He stared at a burning place, and muttered to himself with chapped lips: "Aren't the mermaids just waiting to die now... Back then, they turned their backs on the gods. Trying to go ashore in delusion is now full of retribution."

This is the sentence again.

His ears were calloused.

Xia Qing stopped talking to him.

Standing up, looking at the fire burning everywhere, looking at the people fleeing in panic.

He said quietly: "You all have no reincarnation, where is the retribution coming from?"

"Who are you?" The commander's eyes, blinded by hatred, shrank suddenly when they fell on Xia Qing.

The soldier next to him said: "He seems to be a person?!"

Commander: "Human?! Why do you want to stay with the beasts of the shark clan? Forget it! It's not a good thing to stay with beasts! Kill! Kill them all!"

Xia Qing ignored them.

A pregnant woman is caught by soldiers and holds her belly

The son knelt on the ground and wept bitterly.

In the distance, a child jumped into the field ridge, and was pulled out by the scalp, crying loudly.

The flames are terrified, hell on earth.

Xia Qing suppressed her inner resistance.

He took a deep breath, trembling his hands, and finally crushed the leaves in his palm.

The moment the leaves shattered, Xia Qing heard a very crisp sound, which rang in his ears, like a crane chirping or a broken jade, like a stick drinking his head.

A cold light overflowed from the palm of the palm, blue, floating into the air with thousands of particles broken into by the leaves, and the long starlight turned into a sea of ​​streamer light.

A faint blue light illuminated the night sky all day long.

When Ananda came out, Xia Qing smelled the familiar fragrance, and he was slightly stunned.

The sword was taken out of the Jingu by Song Guichen, and perhaps it was also contaminated with the smell of the tomb at the end of Tongtianhai.

The cold and desolate taste, with the deep cold and dampness of the sea, is gentle and sad.

The violent and crazy Shark Demon who had been sobbing and roaring suddenly stopped moving. The old man couldn't even hear the consonant voice, and raised his head stiffly bit by bit, his blood-colored eyes staring in Xia Qing's direction.

Ananda.

Xia Qing finally saw what Anandajian looked like.

This No. [-] sword in the world... has no sheath, and the sun, moon, stars, and dust can all be transformed into a sheath.The sword body is bright and shiny, the hilt is the pitch black of ancient wood, other than that there is no decoration.

The soldiers were all stunned, terrified.

"what is this?!

After the commander was shocked, his eyes were about to split: "You want to help these beasts deal with us?!"

The moment Xia Qing held the sword, his robe and black hair were flying in the flames. He slowly closed his eyes and then opened them.

The commander laughed back angrily: "Pretentious! Kill him!"

Xia Qing finally understood what Xue Fuguang meant, that the Taishang Wangqing Dao is not affected by the cycle of life and death.

The moment he held the sword, all the hard work of sitting and practicing for a hundred years came to his mind, and along with it came the pain like tearing his soul.

Xia Qing lowered his eyes, did not speak, and stabbed the commander straight with his sword, his movement was as fast as a gust of wind.

Black hair brushed across the boy's eyebrows, as cold as frost.

The sword energy is vast and abyss, carrying the chill of heaven, earth, mountains, rivers, vegetation, and directly sweeps the commander and the people around him ten meters away.

Before the commander and the people around him could react, they had already fallen to the ground and spit out several mouthfuls of blood, but they had no time to speak out in anger. A gust of wind blew by, and their faces instantly turned pale. Call.

"Ahhhh-!"

It's a very strange feeling.

Wherever the sword light passed, no matter how gentle the moonlight or how gentle the wind was, it became an extremely thin steel rope, tightly clinging to their throats.

The air is the blade, the wind and the moon are the knife, and the vegetation is the needle.

All beings in the world are murderous everywhere.

The ground they knelt on seemed to be sharp and ready to explode.

"You, you, you..." The commander had never experienced such a feeling before, his eyes narrowed a little, trembling with fright, he actually peed on his pants.

As soon as Xia Qing swung this sword, he already felt that his internal organs were burning, his seven orifices were in severe pain, and he couldn't exert any more strength.Ananda clung to his palm intimately, as if he had finally returned to his place after a hundred years.

"Get out."

Xia Qing's face was pale, but his lips were bright red. He stared at the group of people and said.

It was so painful that he felt that his consciousness was shaking.

Xue Fuguang didn't say that it was the first time he had to suffer this kind of crime to inherit Anandajian.

"Okay, let's get out, let's get out, the immortals don't kill us. Let's get out!" The commander had tears and snot running down his nose, broke an arm, and crawled back.

At the same time, he did not forget to order loudly: "Did you hear that! Stop it!"

"Go! Let's go!"

The soldiers who were still catching the villagers excitedly killing them all obeyed the order at once, let go of their hands in horror, and ran outside.

"We can't let them go!!"

Feng Ming ran over from the other side of the village road. He had just witnessed the killing of the villagers, and his eyes were already filled with anger, blood red.

Feng Ming had a sudden attack and bit the throat of a soldier who was about to run away!

The humiliation, hatred, and displacement of the Merman clan for a hundred years seemed to be contained in this bite——

Before the human soldier could react, his eyes widened all of a sudden, blood spattered three feet, and he died instantly.

When Xia Qing heard the blood splatter, some confusion came into his eyes, and he turned his head in the air for a moment, but he couldn't see the scene in front of him clearly.

Fire and blood mingle.

The coldness of the deserted mound carried by Anandajian was like a dangerous signal, outlining the blood-deep nature of the sharks in the entire village after experiencing the humiliation and slaughter that night.

"We can't let them go!"

"It's them! It's them who killed my parents! I want their blood to pay!"

Fengming's eyes were full of tears, and his mouth was dripping with blood.

The redness on the whites of the eyes had spread to the center of the pupil little by little, and strange lines appeared on the face little by little, like fish scales growing, washed away one by one by tears.

Not only him, but also many people in the village.

Men, women and children sat on the ground and wept in despair and mourning after the shock and grief.

Scenes of the past emerged.I thought of what happened here, the relatives who were brutally killed, and the humiliation and torture day and night.

After leaving Tongtianhai, Yuren has no home in the Sixteen States.They can only live in this only paradise, living secretly, pretending that "the years are quiet"...

But now it has also been discovered here.

No matter whether they let this group of people go or not, their last pure land is gone, and they will soon face a life of running around and living in a precarious situation.

Men are slaves, women are prostitutes, and life is like nothing in troubled times.

"I didn't have anything. My child was snatched by a group of people. They sold me into the worst brothel. They didn't give me anything. I almost starved to death. I didn't have anything."

A woman covered her face and wept, muttering to herself.

Xia Qing heard the voices of many people——

Maybe it's a confused murmur, maybe a desperate cry, maybe a desperate roar.

This village looks plain, happy and stable... In fact, it is all fake, everything is fake.But a group of lonely and lonely people gathered together, suppressed the deep-seated hatred and pain in their hearts, and put on smiles to live their lives.

Now this night of blood is tearing apart all peace.

"Don't let them go!"

"If I die, I will drag humans back!"

After crying, a middle-aged man suddenly stood up with a frenzied expression on his face: "Let's die together! Let's die together!"

Xia Qing's soul was burned by the fire.A hundred years later, Anandajian only had the sword soul left, and when he sensed the sadness of his master, he obediently dispersed into a breeze, pouring into every line of his palm.

His light brown eyes moved forward: "They..."

The irrational Yuren also regarded Xia Qing as an enemy, but because of the familiar aura about him, he didn't choose to deal with him first.But in the blood red eyes, the hatred was obvious.

Xia Qing took a step back, crumbling, someone grabbed her waist, and fell into a cold embrace.

Lou Guanxue's familiar voice sounded above his head: "Do you still like to watch the fun?"

Xia Qing didn't move, the moment he used the Ananda sword to inherit the memory already made him tremble with pain all over his body.

He no longer had the strength to move, nor the strength to speak.

Watching the soldiers who were bitten back by the merman break the cans and shattered, they started fighting with them.

The torches were randomly thrown on the ground, burning the thatched cottage.

It's on fire.

But no one cares.

Many mermen died, and many soldiers also died.

Xia Qing didn't know what to say for a moment.

My mind was in a daze, wondering if he was going to persuade him.But who should I advise?Who is the pure good guy and who is the pure bad guy?

Who would have thought that this night would end like this.

Lou Guanxue said, "Everyone in this village is going to die."

Xia Qing turned pale and looked at him all of a sudden, with a blank tone: "Why?"

Lou Guanxue raised her hand and gently touched his trembling eyelashes.

The frost and coldness between the young man's eyebrows and eyes still persisted, but his eyelashes were pale and fragile like fluttering butterflies.

Lou Guanxue rubbed her hands, and wanted to teach him a lesson by watching from the sidelines, but in the end she couldn't bear it, and lowered her eyes and said, "It's not your fault, it's their own choice."

"The mermaids were the overlords of the sea back then, and they were cruel and reckless by nature. They were ambitious and wanted to plunder everything from human beings and conquer the continent. But because of the existence of gods, they were not allowed to leave Tongtian Sea or go ashore."

Xia Qing was stunned for a moment, wondering why Lou Guanxue was telling him this.

Lou Guanxue gently wiped away the blood splashed on his face, and said in an understated tone, "So, a hundred years ago, the Mermaids chose to let the Humans attack the Shrine."

Xia Qing tightened her fingers.

Lou Guanxue said: "They guessed right, the mermaids can't leave Tongtianhai because of God's imprisonment. But they forgot that all the power of the mermaids also comes from God's gift to the servants."

Xia Qing was so tired, she closed her eyes and leaned into Lou Guanxue's arms in panic.

Lou Guanxue said: "The gods and souls in the pagoda are becoming more and more irritable day by day. The mermaids born in Tongtianhai are already susceptible to influence. The more emotionally broken, the easier it is to go crazy."

Xia Qing didn't really want to faint, so he struggled to open his eyes: "Are they sure to die?"

Lou Guanxue said indifferently: "Leaving Tongtianhai, the mermaids will die if they awaken their power. However, no one forces them, they are all voluntary."

Voluntarily awaken, voluntarily die, voluntarily end this ridiculous, humiliating and disordered life, even though there is no reincarnation, even though there is no way back.

"grandfather……"

Lingxi half knelt on the ground, crying to see the old man take his last breath.

Before his sadness dissipated, he turned around and was already terrified by the scene in front of him.

The whole village was burned in the fire, and the familiar partners and adults all turned into monsters, as in the rumors, with red eyes, fangs, and blue fish scales on their faces, irrational and thinking, catching the soldiers of the human race Just bite like crazy.

Flesh and blood fly, hell on earth.

Lingxi felt that someone was sitting next to him, and turned his head to find that it was the village chief.

Now in the whole village, they are the only ones who are not demonized.

Lingxi asked anxiously: "Village chief, what happened to them?"

The village chief's eyes were blank, and he said numbly: "They are almost dead."

Consonance: "What?"

The village chief sat in the sea of ​​corpses at the entrance of the village, looked at the blazing light in the village, and said softly as if in a dream: "Yes, 100 years, it's only been 100 years, why I forgot, the mermaid was Like that. It's just that at that time... no one will get lost."

Consonance: "What?"

The village chief was silent for a long time, then suddenly he turned his head, and with his old hand, he tore a leaf for Lingxi. His voice was soft and outrageous: "Lingxi, do you still remember the song you used to play on the ridge of the field?" The village chief said, "Now I'll blow it with you."

Lingxi and Ye Zi were stunned and said incoherently: "No, village chief. Brother Fengming and the others are now..."

The village chief said: "Consonance, be obedient."

Lingxi pinched the leaves with scarred hands, stiff for a long time, wiped away tears with his arms, and nodded: "Okay."

The low and mournful leaves bend intermittently, coming from the sparks of the ruins, like a burst of moist rain gently and slowly dissipating the heat.

Xia Qing's limbs were aching, and when he heard the music, he raised his head subconsciously.

He was hugged by Lou Guanxue, his eyes, which were confused because of the pain, were slowly awakened by the firelight, and the light brown eyes looked forward, staring blankly at the sky and the earth.

The whole village was burning in the flames, and there were corpses everywhere under their feet. The awakened mermen realized that the time of death was approaching.

All the sorrows, loves and hates in my life turned into smoke and dust, and now there is only one thought in my heart, to go back...

Just where to go back, no one has an answer.

They looked around in place, but they couldn't find their way at all, their brutal and bloody eyes were only confused, and the mermaids began to growl and howl like trapped animals.

Lingxi was a little scared watching this scene, but the village chief accompanied him in an orderly manner, so he could only suck his nose, suppress the sourness, and continue to bury his head in blowing.

Never thought that one day, playing this piece of music would make him so sad.

The leaves are melodious, flowing over the scorched earth ruins and the blood of the loess.Even with the lingering cold fragrance in the air, it calmed the tyrannical hearts of the sharks little by little.

Mermaids will have a period of blindness before death, and their vision is dim.

The village was on fire. The fire should be orange, but in a daze, what they saw was ice blue.

Faint and unreal, burning on the sea.

The tense expressions of the sharks gradually eased, showing a relaxed look, no longer irritable, and even breathed a sigh of relief, and started to move forward.

One by one, they walked towards the fire.

The last one to go in was the young man named Feng Ming. At the last moment he went in, he seemed to look back.

Lingxi was so frightened that the leaves trembled.

But when his voice stopped, he realized that there had been no voice beside him.

The village chief still held the leaf in his hand, but leaned against a tree and closed his eyes peacefully...he didn't breathe anymore.

Finally, Feng Ming also walked into the fire.

Whoa-! ! !

The fire in the village suddenly became more aggressive, destroying everything and lighting up the long night.

Lingxi couldn't bear it anymore, sobbing and crying.

Only the sizzle of the fire and the cry of the boy remained in Xia Qing's ears.Accompanied by the breeze and bright moon, distant and blurred.

It was so blurred that he even heard the sharp siren and noise.Outside the yellow critical line, everyone gathered in a group, pointing at the corpse covered with white cloth, talking to each other.

The memory flashed back to that bloody afternoon in the setting sun, the wall covered with creepers, the man who jumped from the unfinished building.

The bells and drums rang together, and the purple air came from the east.The man seemed to have really looked at him before jumping off the building, he was dull and stiff.

The reinforced concrete building corresponds to the fire that night.The memory is confused, as if on the opening day, there should be a song "Lingwei" blown out of leaves floating on the street, which is booming and joyful.

Between the mountains and the sea, the words of the old man are still like a drum in the evening and a bell in the morning, deafening to the ears.

"The sea of ​​bitterness is surging, and karma is self-inflicted."

Xia Qing closed his eyes, and before he fell into a coma, he finally understood all the troubles about him.

No wonder he always forgets to put things down.

No wonder he subconsciously stared quietly at people.

The first form of Taishang Wangqing is the majesty of heaven and earth, and the second form is the sorrow and joy of all living beings.The incomprehensible old man hummed, and taught him the practice method, which is to see and comprehend by himself.

Look at every grass and tree, heaven, earth, sun and moon; look at all living beings, birth, old age, sickness and death.

It turns out that they are all practices.