Non-delivery

Nuo Da's empty inner hall was so quiet that it was almost dead silent.

Qingfu seemed to have a lot to say, and was still muttering, making a cute look and looking up at Sheng Liuyu: "Your Highness, what did you write in the letter? No one in the world knows who His Highness's mother is, could it be Your Highness, long-lost family member!"

Sheng Liuyu was standing with the backlight, he was still just looking, but he could not help clenching the hand holding the letter paper.

Qingfu said to herself: "I'm so touched, I'm so touched. Can I show the letter that I kept 18 years ago? I won't tell the master!"

After a while, Sheng Liuyu seemed to have finished reading the letter. He lowered his head and asked softly, "Zhao Shiming, over the years, you have tried countless times how to open this letter, right?"

Zhao Shiming is a businessman, but he is not honest. Instead, he will try to exploit the loopholes in the transaction to get more.

A letter sent to the little Changming bird 18 years later, he really wanted to know what was written in it.

It seems that this is just a simple letter without any protection, but there is a forbidden spell on it.It can only be opened if the conditions of the caster are met.It is not impossible to force it to read, but the cultivation base must be two realms higher than the person who wrote the letter.

This is impossible, unless you are a land god.

Qingfu’s exaggerated expression paused for a moment, but he quickly recovered, leaned over, and said angrily, “How could that be! Master is the best Jinyi Pavilion master, and will try his best to fulfill every employer’s request. How can you insult Master? !"

Sheng Liuyu lowered his eyes halfway, his expression was indifferent and cold, he couldn't see any difference from before, it seemed that he was just tired of the noisy green gnats, and said slyly: "The letter has been delivered, why don't you leave?"

He still held that letter in his hand, without letting up for a moment.

The green clam laughed, shaking its wooden head, and said happily: "Your Highness, the master told me that if His Highness wants to ask him to help you with any business, no matter what it is, the master will definitely accept it."

After finishing speaking, it took out a blood-stained copper coin from its stomach and threw it on the table with a crisp sound.

Sheng Liuyu didn't speak any more.

The green clam jumped off the table and ran to the window on the side of the ship in a funny way. When passing by the fat cat, it gave it a vicious look, as if it had some deep-seated hatred, and wanted to eat the cat alive. The last sentence before leaving The words are: "I really want to be His Highness's cat, and dogs are fine too. But the little slave is going back to his master now."

Trembling with cat anger, how could there be such a shameless ugly thing in the world!

Without the invisible formation, it jumped to the owner's side in twos and threes, wanting to come over and take a look at what was written on the letter.Although it hates Xie Changming, it has to remember some evidence, and then hurt Xie Changming severely to make a small report and teach those things that make the master unhappy.

The letter paper was folded.Can't see anything.

The cat raised its head and looked at him with round eyes.

The master's face is so white, even whiter than its hair, like the snow that has accumulated on the flowers in winter, it looks so icy.

Is it too cold?

Cats occasionally behave well and want to warm their owners with their thick fur.

Sheng Liuyu walked to the other side.It was a small table with a golden screen lantern placed on it, it was exquisitely made, otherwise it wouldn't be suitable to be placed in the inner hall of the little Changming bird.When there is light inside, the lampshade outside will rotate slowly, the clouds and mist on the painting screen will flow misty, and the emerald mountains will be hidden, the lights will be heavy, and the jumping candles will flicker like a water-sleeved fairy about to ascend.Sheng Liuyu still likes it, occasionally fiddles with it, and uses it to make up an illusion to trick cats.The cat’s instinct is to chase bright and shining things, so Sheng Liuyu teases it with a lamp, but sometimes the candlelight is fake, and sometimes the flowing screen is fake, and it’s hard to tell the real from the fake. One moment is false, and the next moment is real , Sheng Liuyu's illusion is so perfect that it is more than enough to fool a silly cat.

The cat often jumps to nothing before realizing that it has been cheated, and jumps angrily.

Rarely, cats at this time hope to be tricked.

It wants to see the owner waving to itself, and they can play together.

but.

Sheng Liuyu just picked up the lampshade, revealing most of the candle inside.He bent down, touched lightly with his fingertips, and the fire of the candle wick burst into clusters.

He raised his hand, the thin paper seemed to be extremely heavy, and he tried a second time before lifting the letter paper to the candlelight.

I don't know what material the letter paper is made of, but it burns badly when it encounters a fire. The burning fire rushes towards his face, and Sheng Liuyu feels the scalding heat, as if he is about to be set on fire.

At that moment, Sheng Liuyu remembered the dream he had before.

Not too long, not a good dream, forgotten quickly.

Thinking about it now, the shock and sadness at that time were not fake.

What the guy was saying was, "There's never been a better time in your life than it is now."

Not long after waking up, Xie Changming went bankrupt and gave him the unparalleled Cui Chenshan. He felt that the dream was really unbelievable.

But at this moment, after all, nothing good has happened.Just like holding the lamp dripping with candle tears after waking up from a dream, he is also willing to be burned by the fire, and the pain makes him wake up.

Don't take an illusory dream seriously, and don't believe an unfounded letter.

The way was clear in the past, and it will be so in the future.

When feeling pain, Sheng Liuyu misses Xie Changming very much, and Xiaoniao will instinctively attach to someone who can protect him.

Ordinary fire couldn't hurt Sheng Liuyu, but the cat beside him was scared to death. While trying to get the owner out of the fire, he felt that he might be beaten to death by Xie Changming.

Fortunately, Sheng Liuyu was already awake. He straightened up, glanced at the trembling cat, and with a wave of his hand, the burnt ashes disappeared into the vast sea of ​​clouds.

The boat sailed for a few more hours.Sheng Liuyu didn't chat with people in the past, because he was not interested in other people, and he didn't have any sustenance for them. Today, he suddenly became interested, saying that he was bored, and found someone with a flexible mind to play chess with him to pass the time.

It was windy outside and the sun was shining again. Sheng Liuyu held an umbrella, looked around, and picked out the one that looked more stable.

The guard unloaded the magic weapon, and followed Sheng Liuyu to the front hall with joy.

Sheng Liuyu learned chess from Xie Changming, and only played with Xie Changming. It seems that he didn't learn very well, and he didn't play well. He often regretted chess. .After a long time, Sheng Liuyu didn't know what his own level was, but he never thought of asking others to make him inferior. If he lost, he would lose too.

Playing with Xie Changming, regretting chess is also a kind of fun.

Sheng Liuyu asked casually: "What's your name?"

For example, when communicating with immortal cultivators in the world, one needs to ask where their names came from, where their teachers were from, and when they practiced.

What the birds of Xiaochongshan want to ask is which mountain and what clan they come from, and if they ask about their age, they almost know everything.

The man answered them all.

Zou Xing, two hundred years old, came from Lingbi Mountain in the south of Xiaochong Mountain. Sheng Liuyu had a good memory. He still remembered seeing this group when he searched the genealogy.

The fairy ship was sailing above the sky, very close to the sun. It was already early summer, and the chessboard happened to be placed on the side facing the sun, and it was getting more and more sun-drenched.

Zou Xing raised his head slightly, and looked at the opposite person a little presumptuously.This His Highness is nothing but, he is very young, he just broke his shell not long ago, and he doesn't show up often, hiding in the deep palace.He wore a snow-white gauze gown without a trace of variegation or blemish, his long hair was casually tied, and a jade hairpin was inserted. Apart from that, there was no other burden hanging around his body, but his appearance was beyond words.Zou Xing once heard people say that His Highness suffered from eye disease since he was a child and could not see things. Later, thanks to the blessing of the gods, he was cured and could not see strong light.At this moment, his eyes were half downcast, and his brows were slightly frowned, as if he was very distressed by the scorching sun shining in.

Before that, although he was a guard, his position was not high, and he had never seen these golden eyes.

With a thought, Zou Xing stood up, his hands used to holding swords could do some illusions, and there were more delicate wooden lattices on the wide open windows.

The room suddenly went dark.

Slight light shines through the mullion windows, thin and long one by one,

Sheng Liuyu turned his head to look at it, but he was still indifferent, neither saying yes nor bad.

After playing chess for a while, what I didn't expect was that Sheng Liuyu might play pretty well, but Zou Xing was already at a loss and couldn't continue, leaving only the last bit of space left. He is not the kind of person who wants to give way .It is to be courteous, to let the chess and lose, but also to lose with proportion and to look good.

Sheng Liuyu paused for a moment, then asked again: "In the past, I didn't live in Chonghua Palace, what's going on in the palace now?"

Xiaozhongshan is different from ordinary cultivating families, they are connected by blood, but they are strictly hierarchical.Changming Bird is a divine bird, among the birds in Xiaochong Mountain, it is like an emperor in the world, but its control is not so strict.All ethnic groups only need to offer a small number of spiritual stone treasures every year, far less than they live in the mountains and forests, which take up a lot of spiritual power.Sheng Baiyun didn't have to pay anything, as long as he was still alive and could open the altar to convey the will of the gods, Xiaochongshan would have endless blessings.

There can only be two divine birds in the world.After the death of the divine bird in the past dynasties, the body was buried under the altar, and the blood was stored separately and given to the subjects of Xiaochongshan.After the Eternal Bird's blood is integrated into the body, it can improve one's aptitude. Although it cannot be passed on to future generations, it is extremely beneficial to one's practice.

Therefore, the thin-blooded bird in Xiaochong Mountain aspires to serve as an errand in Chonghua Palace and become an elder in the future, which is another shortcut.

Zou Xing is one of them.

But there are so many guards and servants, Sheng Baiyun doesn't seem to be greedy for power, he lives in seclusion all year round, has no wives and concubines, and entrusts all important matters to the elders.

Sheng Liuyu suddenly wanted to ask, and Zou Xing thought about what this young highness meant, picked out some known and uncommon ones, and told him all of them, it was always more useful than others.

Sheng Liuyu used to be a deaf and blind little boy, who stayed alone, resting on the undead tree all day long, eating bigu pills, drinking dew, and for the next three years, he was imprisoned in the altar for three years without seeing the sun. So I went back to Lulin Academy to look for Xie Changming. If I really knew about Xiaochongshan, I didn't even know a rough idea.

Zou Xing then talked about the operation of various places in the palace, and tried again: "Your Majesty's cultivation is unfathomable, and his whereabouts are uncertain. The guardian guards used to be the most important, but now they are the most loose."

After hearing this, Sheng Liuyu casually commented: "Then father is really careless."

He was at odds with Sheng Baiyun, and everyone in Chonghua Palace knew it.

When it was just an egg, it didn't have a decent mother, and it didn't know where it hatched from. If it weren't for a pair of golden eyes that couldn't be faked, I wouldn't dare to recognize him as the next evergreen bird.After being raised in the palace for more than ten years, Sheng Baiyun has never visited him, and the only few times he has seen him is still unavoidable.

On the other hand, Sheng Baiyun was disheartened and lazy. It had been more than a hundred years since he had no interest in life. Only then did Sheng Liuyu save someone in the academy. Even the elders said that such a long-sighted bird can be regarded as saving the world from crisis and not falling into the name of a divine bird .

Zou Xing may have thought that Sheng Liuyu was getting older and had always been at odds with Sheng Baiyun, and that it was time to fight for power, and now it was time to show his loyalty: "No matter what your Highness wants to do when you return from this trip, this subordinate is willing to serve His Highness like a dog and a horse." work."

He also felt that His Royal Highness was very successful, his cultivation base and age were not very important. In Xiaochongshan, the most important thing was the favor of the gods.

The Centennial Ceremony will be held soon.

Sheng Liuyu had a smile on her eyebrows, twisted a sunspot with her fingertips, pushed it on the chessboard, and said softly: "Okay, I always want to go back to Xiaochongshan."

Zou Xingshuo suffered a crushing defeat, but he was willing and happy.

A plate is over.

After Zou Xing went out, the sun gradually dimmed and the four days fell.

It was dusk again.

Sheng Liuyu was a little tired, he was lying on the bed of the beauty, his long hair drooped along the carved wood, like shiny silk, like a fine curtain.

He thought about something in a daze, and remembered what he wrote to Xie Changming before leaving.The paper bird carried his letter and flew towards its master.Things made of paper looked so fragile, Sheng Liuyu suspected that if they were exposed to wind and rain, they would not be able to fly if they got wet, so he attached a bird feather with the letter to avoid accidents.

He didn't think about it that much at the time, but now it seemed that it was convenient for him to recall the letter.

I have to write a new one, but I don't know what to write.

The cat sneaked over from the other table, still unable to let go of what happened today.

In fact, it is only a few years old, a real cub, and of course illiterate.Xie Changming regarded it as a gadget to make Sheng Liuyu happy, and didn't take it too seriously, but considering that it was only Pili, at least it was a little smart, so it's better to confess to it, if something really happened, he could tell him with a paper bird.

You only need to print paw prints on the wings of the paper bird, and then dot the eyes. It is very simple, and an illiterate cat can also complete it.

The cat pretended to be naughty, jumped up and down on the table, and stole a paper bird with its paw.Leaning at Sheng Liuyu, seeing that he was still thinking, guilty, he acted for a while before he stopped.

Unexpectedly, someone grabbed the back of the neck and picked up the whole cat: "Want to sue him?"

The cat meowed pitifully, pretending to be innocent.

Sheng Liuyu smiled, without much mercy, pulled out the crumpled paper bird from under the cat's curled up belly, and said slowly, "If you want to do something bad, today's dinner will be confiscated."

He took up his pen and thought about it for a while. There were many dissatisfied things, the sun was too hot, the cat was too naughty, and the most complained was why Xie Changming didn't come back.He was getting impatient with the wait.

A few days later, the letter was delivered to Xie Changming.

It was slightly delayed than before, but it was reasonable, Xie Changming had been to too many places recently, and the paper bird couldn't keep up.

This time something almost went wrong.

Coincidentally, Xie Changming knocked out a guard and pretended to be a yamen servant in the prison on earth, following a team of people, interrogating the criminals locked in the prison.

The guilty subject was severely punished, two bones were broken, blood was stained on the wall, and even the dry straw was soaked in blood.

Under the heavy shadow of the lamp, the paper bird flapped its wings, rushed into the dungeon held by Yan Jia, and hit Xie Changming's palm.

All the people at the scene couldn't stand the slightest fright, and drew their knives one after another, thinking that someone was coming to rob the prison.

Xie Changming lowered his voice and asked suspiciously, "Is it a moth?"

After all, there was no one, only the leader of the cell said in surprise: "How can there be moths in such a deep dungeon?"

Left and right didn't think about other places, the world is so big, there are no surprises.

There was another rigorous interrogation session, and several tortures were carried out. The criminal was so tough that he couldn't ask any questions. The cell boss sighed: "How should I explain this to my superiors? I can only..."

Before he finished speaking, these incomprehensible yamen servants couldn't understand, the cell head opened the cell door, went out first, stood aside, waited for everyone else to come out, and locked the lock with his own hands.

There was one person still inside, but the cell boss turned a blind eye.

The criminal raised his head tremblingly, his face was unkempt, his lips were chapped, and only a pair of eyes were still bright. His voice was old, and he said, "It's not a moth."

Xie Changming squatted down and looked at him.This crown prince and grand tutor intended to commit treason, the crime is unforgivable, and he will be executed at some point. Before he died, those people wanted him to bite more people.

When he saw Xie Changming's face, he actually smiled and asked, "You people, oh, you are not human, what are you doing here, what are you doing here? Don't you think there are not enough bloodshed? !"

In the north of Dongzhou, Wangjin, the capital city of the Yuan Dynasty at the junction of Yunzhou, is a corner of the map left by Shi Xi.

Under the palace on the outskirts of Wangjin, there is indeed something similar to the Forest of Resentful Ghosts, and it extends in all directions within the territory of Dayuan. I don't know how many there are.But no matter how tightly hidden it is, it will be difficult to escape Xie Changming's perception.

It's different than ever.The first time in Wutou Town, the Grudge Forest was just a small forest. Not long ago, the small town was planning to massacre the city to nourish the Grudge after the war broke out.Xie Changming found Bai Xiaosheng, and used his magic to detect the surrounding living things. From the eyes of a gray deer, he saw that this place had existed for more than [-] years.Bai Xiaosheng was almost blinded by the stabbing.

It is not difficult to destroy this place, but the difficult thing is that this is the evidence pointed out by Shi Xi, and he is the person behind the scenes with traces.Xie Changming went to the palace. The emperor was obsessed with cultivating immortals. It seemed that he would not live long, but his face was healthy and rosy. What was even more bizarre was that he had a strict forbidden spell on him, making it difficult for ordinary cultivators to approach.Xie Changming took a closer look, and found that there were more marks on the soul, and the method of searching for the soul could not be used.

Thinking about it this way, the matter of the Ghost Forest has a long history.But in recent years, perhaps because of the increased appetite of that thing, or perhaps for some other reason, there have been more places that are not yet fully prepared and are ready to catch fish.

Xie Changming planned to ask.

Those things that cannot be said do not mean that no one can detect the clues, and it does not mean that no one resists.

The guilty minister in front of me was the youngest Tanhualang since the founding of the Yuan Dynasty 30 years ago, and since then he has risen steadily and served as the prince and tutor.Unfortunately, the prince has been dead for two years.

Xie Changming turned a deaf ear to his sarcasm, and just asked: "When the incident broke out, you said that your Majesty was crazy, and the world has collapsed. How did he go crazy?"

The man didn't answer.

Xie Changming said: "As a rule, you should not interfere with human affairs, good or bad. But this matter is definitely not a human disaster."

Therefore, it is difficult to reverse it with human power.

The criminal Chen Xun, who had both knees broken, recalled the past 30 years.

Now Emperor Kangqian ascended the throne 22 years ago. He had six or seven brothers. Five of them died in order to seize the throne. .

Chen Xun said: "There are some people in the world who don't want the present, but want to live forever. It's not like there were no emperors in the past."

However, Emperor Kanggan may be congenitally deficient and paranoid by nature, so he is more stubborn than others.

After taking office, he first overhauled the mausoleum, and then strengthened the city wall, and he was forced to perform corvee once a year.It was only at the beginning that I didn't realize that it was weird, but later I realized that something was wrong. Even if it was hard labor, too many people died.

Although Emperor Kang Qian was ill and didn't care much about government affairs, he knew how to employ people, and all the people he used were his most loyal dogs.He wants money, he has to give money, he wants people, he has to give people, he has no feelings, if he can't give it, he will be kicked into the mire.

Until later, more and more people died, and the laws became stricter, as if forcing people to commit crimes, and border wars broke out everywhere. Emperor Kang Qian didn't care whether he won or not, but only how many people died.He used gold and silver treasures to build the Tower of Picking Stars, and sincerely begged the heavens, wishing to attain Taoism and live forever.

The prince was brought up by Chen Xun, and he didn't believe in ghosts and gods. He didn't understand why the emperor built a towering star picking tower, and he didn't understand that the emperor would rather rot the grain in the warehouse than allocate it to the soldiers.

Chen Xundao: "The prince told me, Master, I want to go and write the letter again. Father is not an ignorant person."

That night, Emperor Kanggan called the prince, who had been kneeling for more than a dozen hours, to the Star Picking Tower, where there was an alchemy furnace with a little smoke, and the prince kowtowed a few more times.

The emperor asked him if he had a heart of loyalty and filial piety.

The prince is willing to repay the king's kindness with his body.

Emperor Kang Qian dug out his heart, put it into the alchemy furnace, and said: "Since I gave birth to you and raised you to such a great age, I should do something for my road to immortality."

The prince's bones were thrown into the pool in the palace, and when he died, he was nothing but a tomb.

The little eunuch who was serving at the side was frightened crazy. Afterwards, Chen Xun checked many ways and asked for a long time, and guessed the result.

How dare Chen Xun believe it, how can he believe it?

Dayuan lost three battles in a row and lost eleven or two cities. Emperor Kanggan said that he was powerless.

Ling Tailang of Qin Tianjian wrote about watching the world at night, and wrote the motto: "If you are tempted to commit a crime, you cannot win a battle. Foreign generals will fight to the death, and the master will die in one day. If the fire violates the heart, the son of heaven and the king will die." (Note)

His head was beheaded and his body is nowhere to be found.

Those secrets hidden in the dark are gradually revealed in the light of day. Countless people who died unjustly, those who lived to pray for longevity, and those who have changed their appearance in the past 20 years have led this dynasty to its demise.

Emperor Kang Qian was by no means stupid. He believed in longevity because he realized that there is indeed longevity in this world.The more you give, the more you receive.

No wonder the hungry ghosts in the abyss are inexhaustible. Over the years, the outbreaks have become more and more frequent. On these four continents, I don’t know how many resentful ghost forests have changed their appearance. What support the abyss are the flesh and soul of mortals, who are on the verge of death All the resentment, pain, and sorrow in the past disappeared in the end, turned into sludge in the pond, and squeezed into one by one, hungry ghosts who could only feel hungry and kept devouring.

Chen Xun thought, if you always fight hard, there is no reason for people to live and wait for death.He tried it, pushed open the door, the emperor slept inside, and just ate the treasure pill, without any precautions, sleeping soundly.And that person, perhaps something that cannot be called a human being, slaughtered thousands of imperial guards with just one finger.

In the dogma of the world, one cannot simply judge good or bad. It engulfs some people like a torrent, but it also allows people to survive and make this dynasty run.And when the secular world's ethics are completely broken, when people who do not belong to this dogma do something, the superficial peace is torn up, everything is crazy, everything is destroyed, there is no ship, every ordinary person in the dynasty, only one is cut off. The end of the road is death.

Chen Xun could see clearly that he didn't believe in the so-called gods and Buddhas, and he was forced to believe in them, but he also knew that the gods and Buddhas were not blessings, but worse, more vicious, and less moral and human than ordinary people in the world.

Chen Xun's voice trembled: "That's why he's so crazy. How long can he last with the luck filled by human lives? Can you save this world?"

Xie Changming looked at him, his expression didn't change much, he just said: "I can't care about the affairs of the world."

Chen Xun felt like he was dying.

Xie Changming continued: "But this one is related to the world of cultivating immortals. The pool will be filled, and things that should not be in the world will not stay."

There are too many sufferings in the world, Xie Changming has known it since he can remember.He has lived three lives, and he has never been a good person in one life.But what is promised will be done.He will find the evidence left by the people behind the scenes. The things of the secular world, people like dew, can no longer be affected by the world of cultivating immortals.

Xie Changming fed Chen Xun a pill and told him, "Play another show."

It rained non-stop all night outside, the jailer drank a cup of strong tea, made up nonsense under the lamp, just wanted to deal with his superiors, and the yamen servants on duty secretly drank dirty wine. As an errand job, if you are lucky, you can save the lives of yourself and your loved ones, but you have to watch people die.

The oracle of the Dao of Heaven said that the evil of all evils will hide in the world, and the Dao will perish.

Although immortal cultivators are not allowed to interfere with the secular world, if even the world of cultivating immortals is in turmoil, the human world will be like a lonely boat in a storm, and it is not known where it will sail.

Ordinary people are weak, and the changes in the way of heaven, the slightest disturbance, will be a disaster of extinction.

When he decided to cultivate immortality, Xie Changming didn't think too much about it. Achievement, fame, immortality, attainment of Taoism and ascension are all trivial matters.He wants to be someone who can control his own destiny.

A simple sentence is more difficult than anything else.

Even though Xie Changming's cultivation in his previous life was already invincible, he had to bow his head because of that bird who didn't know where it was.

However, Xie Changming never thought that the so-called evil was a fruit that he didn't know when to swallow.

Xie Changming walked out of the dungeon and found a roof to shelter from the rain. The place was fairly bright, so he dried his hands before opening the letter.

The author has something to say:

"If you are invincible, you will be invincible. Foreign generals will fight to death, and the master will perish in one day. Fire will destroy your heart, and the emperor and king will die." ——From "Yisi Zhan·Ying Huo Ru Lie Su Zhan" by Li Chunfeng