Fu Luan

Seven days after returning to Xiaoyao Mountain, Le Wuyan has been in a coma. The Phoenix True Spirit has temporarily protected his soul, but that's all. If it can't be repaired as soon as possible, his soul will eventually collapse.

When he was drowsy, Le Wuyan vaguely noticed a dazzling flash of light in front of him, opened his eyes, and suddenly found that they had arrived at the foot of Xiaoyao Mountain, and Xu Youming had just broken the restriction of Xiaoyao Mountain.

Le Wuyan's eyelids drooped again, his pale cheeks were almost transparent under the sunlight, and he whispered: "Come back here, they will definitely come looking for you."

Xu Youming: "Let's talk when we come, don't talk, go to sleep."

After that, he closed the restraint again, and went up the mountain with Le Wuyan in his arms.

Le Wuyan still had a severe headache, but he couldn't sleep when he came back to Xiaoyao Mountain. He didn't make a sound immediately after reaching the top of the mountain, wanting to see what Xu Youming would do.

Xu Youming carried him straight to the back mountain, where his parents used to be in the cave.

"Why here?" Le Wuyan asked softly in his arms.

Xu Youming lowered his eyes, Le Wuyan was exhausted, and forced a smile from the corner of his mouth: "Why are you here?"

Xu Youming: "Stop talking."

He pushed open the stone gate of the cave with spiritual power, went in with Le Wuyan in his arms, turned around and restored the stone gate to its original shape, and then walked to the pool deep in the cave, and quickly found the eye stone in it, breaking through the phantom formation below.

Le Wuyan watched his movements: "...you really know this place."

"Well." Xu Youming didn't say anything else, took him down, and then restored the upper part.

Finally, there was the deep hole under the stone platform. When the hole appeared, Le Wuyan subconsciously clenched his fist, and Xu Youming reminded him, "Close your eyes."

Le Wuyan stared at him blankly.

Xu Youming said again: "Close your eyes and be obedient."

After staring at each other silently for a moment, Le Wuyan finally slowly closed his eyes.

Xu Youming pressed his head into his arms, hugged him tightly, and jumped into the bottomless black hole without hesitation.

Le Wuyan heard the sound of the wind in his ears, it was very subtle, and it seemed that there was some kind of power born from the depths of the ground, constantly dragging them down.

It was a bit uncomfortable at first, but it seemed to gradually get used to it later on. I don't know how long it took, until Le Wuyan thought that they would never fall to the bottom, the dragging force finally stopped, and they also stopped falling.

Le Wuyan's eyelashes trembled, and he slowly opened his eyes.

What I saw was still darkness, and the only light was a cluster of purple aura emanating from the ground in front of me, which was strange and eerie, like a ghostly fire.

That's an eye.

Xu Youming immediately began to cast spells, and the seal on the formation eyes was lifted in a few breaths.

Le Wuyan watched intently, and suddenly realized that his headache had eased a little, and he seemed to understand something for a moment: "...is this the Soul Gathering Formation?"

"Well," Xu Youming didn't explain much, and motioned him, "Don't talk yet."

He sat down with Le Wuyan in his arms, and let Le Wuyan's back face him, his palm wrapped around the spiritual power and rested on the handle of the dagger behind Le Wuyan: "It will be a little uncomfortable, bear with it."

Le Wuyan took a deep breath: "Come on."

Xu Youming's eyes darkened slightly, but without hesitation, his spiritual power slowly pulled the dagger out of Le Wuyan's body.

Le Wuyan clenched his teeth, he didn't expect it to hurt so much, not only physically, but even the soul was rapidly disintegrating with the movement of the dagger.

In just one or two breaths, Le Wuyan was covered in cold sweat and his body was shaking, Xu Youming reminded him: "Hold on, hold on for a while."

The moment the dagger finally came out of his body, Le Wuyan spat out a mouthful of blood and fell backwards.

Xu Youming caught the man, Le Wuyan looked up, there was a phantom in front of him, Xu Youming's anxious eyes were blurred in it, and then he closed his eyes completely.

When consciousness came back again, Le Wuyan realized that he had entered a dream, which was the same dream that he had repeated over and over again when he was asleep a few days ago.

The blurry dream became very clear this time, Le Wuyan looked around, and suddenly remembered that this place was the cave on the top of Suxiao Peak.

Why do you dream of being here?

He couldn't figure it out, but when he heard the movement, he turned around and saw Xu Youming coming in with his eyes closed, and put him on a stone bed in the middle of the cave.

Le Wuyan approached and looked at him on the stone bed. It was not so much him, but a body without a soul.

After staring blankly for a long time, he looked up again, and Xu Youming had released his soul from the soul-raising bag.

His primordial spirit was completely scattered, and his soul was broken into thousands of pieces, which were forcibly pieced together again, riddled with holes.

Xu Youming opened his eyes, and looked at the soul floating in mid-air with him, his eyes were bottomless.

Le Wuyan's heart was shocked, and there was also a formation under the soul, which was driven by Xu Youming's own blood, and his barely gathered soul was raised in it.

One year, two years... For 18 years, Xu Youming nourished his soul day after day with essence and blood.

For 18 years, bring him back to the world.

I don't know how long after waking up, Le Wuyan opened his eyes, met Xu Youming's black eyes staring at him for a moment, stared blankly, regained his senses and wanted to sit up, when he moved a little, his chest was pulled and hurt sharp.Looking down, his wound has healed, but the soul in his body is still light, and there is always a feeling that it can't be realized.

"Don't move," Xu Youming held him down, "How do you feel?"

"It's okay," Le Wuyan coughed and asked in a hoarse voice, "How many days have I slept?"

"Ten days." Xu Youming said.

Le Wuyan closed his eyes and opened them again, and told the truth: "Is my primordial spirit unstable? I feel a little uncomfortable. If I didn't have the protection of the Phoenix True Spirit, would my primordial spirit collapse and my soul fly away?"

Xu Youming took his arm and tightened it slightly: "...It's all right now."

Le Wuyan thought it was so, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "In the end, I was tricked by that villain, that dagger..."

Xu Youming handed him the drawn dagger, Le Wuyan took it, rubbed the handle of the dagger lightly, and sighed for a while.

This is a soul-breaking blade, his mother said not to use it lightly at the beginning, but it was used on him in the end.

"Is it because of this soul-gathering array? That's why my primordial spirit was saved?" Le Wuyan looked at Xu Youming, "What exactly is this place?"

Xu Youming: "This is the center of the earth."

Le Wuyan was taken aback: "The center of the earth?"

Xu Youming explained: "The soul-gathering formation borrowed the devilish energy from the entire demon world to refine it into an evil formation. When the soul-gathering formation fell from the heavens and landed here, the formation closed on its own, but the devilish energy in the formation continued to overflow, so it was The demon energy on Xiaoyao Mountain is lingering."

"This is the only place where you can escape from the heavens."

Le Wuyan was stunned: "Here...is it okay?"

"Yes," Xu Youming lowered his voice, and under Le Wuyan's unbelievable eyes, he called him softly, "Wuyan."

Le Wuyan's eyes slowly turned red: "...what did you call me?"

Xu Youming: "Wuyan."

Xu Youming has called these two words thousands of times. When he was in the formation of Beiyuan Secret Realm, he also blurted out. At that time, Le Wuyan thought he called the wrong person, but he was not. , Who is he calling.

As he said, he has never failed to recognize Le Wuyan.

Le Wuyan suppressed his emotions and asked him: "You discovered the soul-gathering array here, and you started it again before taking people to Xiaoyao Mountain?"

Xu Youming: "Yes."

Le Wuyan: "Why do you have to bring so many people?"

Xu Youming: "Only by letting you die in full view, can you deceive the world and the way of heaven."

Le Wuyan: "What happened next?"

Xu Youming stroked his sweaty temple hair, and said softly: "When the Soul Gathering Formation gathers your soul, it will reshape your physical body with the phoenix king bone on your body."

Le Wuyan: "Reshape the physical body?"

Xu Youming: "Yes."

Le Wuyan subconsciously raised his hand and pressed his heart, seemingly unbelievable, and then realized that his dantian fire can burn everything, but the Phoenix King's bone is hard to burn. After his body was turned into ashes, the only thing left was The only thing left is the phoenix king bone in his heart.

Xu Youming knew this early on, so he planned all this.

It turned out that those dreams were real.

Le Wuyan: "...What happened after that? What else did you do after that?"

Xu Youming: "Bring your physical body and reunited soul back to Taiyi Immortal Sect, and in the cave on Suxiao Peak, I will help you nourish your soul in the name of retreat. In 18 years, you have thoroughly cultivated your soul. Send you back to your physical body, and send you to the Sifang Gate before your heavenly soul returns to your body, so as to distract you and follow you until you are sent back."

Le Wuyan stared at him blankly, and only after a while did he find his voice: "Why do I have no memory of these 18 years?"

Xu Youming seemed to be sighing: "Heavenly soul has not returned to the body, so naturally he has no memory. Three souls and seven souls, the heavenly soul is the most difficult to return to the body, and it is also the last to return to the body. Since your soul returned to the body, I will let you try it." Then start to practice again, so your physical body has the cultivation level of the peak of Qi refining from the very beginning."

Le Wuyan was completely speechless, closed his eyes, and many chaotic images flashed through his mind, and finally fixed on the day when he first arrived at the bank of Luoshui, Xu Youming came on a cloud and landed in front of him, looking down at him. His scene.

In fact, from the beginning to the end, this person has been by his side.

Le Wuyan raised his hand and put his arm in front of his eyes, covering those complicated and unspeakable emotions.

"... No wonder I felt familiar when I entered your cave for the first time. It turns out that I have been hiding there for 18 years."

Xu Youming: "Yes."

Le Wuyan: "Looking back in time, everything started again, because of fighting against the law of heaven, did you win?"

Xu Youming: "We won."

Le Wuyan: "When did you go back?"

Xu Youming: "You picked me up at the foot of the mountain. We can only go back to that time when the fate of our lives began."

Le Wuyan had countless questions to ask him, but at the end there was only one sentence: "...Is it difficult?"

"It's okay." Xu Youming wrote lightly.

It was clearly a difficult matter, yet only these two words came out of his mouth.Le Wuyan felt that the pain in his chest began to hurt again, and he didn't know whether the wound hurt or his heart ached.

"It's hard to say, is it good to be misunderstood and hated by me?"

Being stared at by Le Wuyan, Xu Youming was silent for a while, and answered him: "It's not a misunderstanding, I did kill you with my own hands, I can't think of any other way, I can only do this, you don't like me making decisions for you , I know, but I can't discuss this matter with you in advance."

Le Wuyan felt more and more sad, buried her head in Xu Youming's arms, and didn't move for a while.

Xu Youming reminded him in a low voice: "Your soul has just been severely injured, so you can't get excited."

Le Wuyan raised his red eyes: "What about the fairy world, why did you fall, and how did I fall into Xiaoyao Mountain?"

Xu Youming: "It's the same as what you saw in the illusion of Beiyuan Secret Realm. If you want to elaborate, it's hard to explain clearly in a few words. Now is not the time to talk about these things. We have to decide what to do next. Although your primordial spirit is restored Yes, but it needs to be taken care of thoroughly, at least three or two years, this place is not absolutely safe, they will definitely find Xiaoyao Mountain, maybe they will find it here, we can’t hide here forever.”

Le Wuyan: "...Then what should we do? Other places are not as good as here? There are Taoist monks everywhere, where can we hide?"

Xu Youming said: "There is a place that they may not have thought of."

Le Wuyan: "Where?"

Xu Youming: "The Western Continent, the common world."

Northland.

After landing on the shore, Qin Ziyu went on for three more days. After traveling day and night for more than half a month, he was exhausted and couldn't hold on anymore. That night, he chose to stop in a small town passing by, intending to rest overnight and continue his journey at dawn. .

There was only one inn in the town, and when I walked in, I heard monks passing by drinking and chatting, talking about the appalling tragedy that happened in Baiyang Valley half a month ago.

"Three thousand monks entered the realm of half-immortals, and not one out of ten survived. The devil's head was exposed in public, and then the demon cultivators came out in droves. Although there were tens of thousands of monks in Baiyang Valley, those demon cultivators came prepared. In the three days of the battle, more than half of the Taoist monks were killed or injured, and several Mahayana elders present also fell."

"After this incident, the vitality of Xuanmen was seriously injured. For the past half month, there have been news of evil cultivators making troubles everywhere. I am afraid that the world will be in chaos."

"At that time, the demon cultivators who took the lead in Baiyang Valley were those city lords of Qin City. Almost all the tens of thousands of monks in Qin City became demon cultivators. The adopted son of the city lord of Qin City was still Ming... the disciples of the two demon heads, obviously The whole of Qincheng has colluded with the devil and the others."

"I said a long time ago that demon cultivators are not trustworthy at all. One hundred thousand years earlier, how could demon cultivators have the status they have today? Demons and demons are the same. That is, I waited too generously to let these demon cultivators have what they are today. , who would have thought that not only are they ignorant of gratitude, but they also collude with demon cultivators, which is really hateful."

Qin Ziyu lowered the curtain and strode upstairs.

When he opened the door and entered the room, he was a little absent-minded, and it was too late when he noticed the fluctuation of spiritual power behind him.

A familiar figure in black clothes and a black robe appeared in front of his eyes, and Xie Shigu had a dark expression on his face that he had never seen before: "Where are they?"

Qin Ziyu: "...I don't know."

Xie Shigu took a step forward and asked again: "Where are they?"

Qin Ziyu lowered his head and insisted, "I don't know."

Xie Shigu stretched out his hand, grabbed his jaw forcefully, and forced him to look up at himself: "You really want to fight against me?"

Qin Ziyu was out of breath soon, his eyes were red, and he stared at him.

After a stalemate for a while, Xie Shigu said in a cold voice, "Then follow me", and let go.

Without waiting for Qin Ziyu to say "no", Xie Shigu forcibly took him captive, and his figure quickly disappeared into the night.