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On the way back to Xiaochongshan, it rained for several days, the huge sails were blown up by the wind, the windows were covered with rain, and the boat was covered with fog.

Sheng Liuyu was holding an umbrella. He didn't sleep well these days. When he was free, he listened to the sound of rain falling outside.

Zou Xing was wearing a silver-gray armor, with rain dripping from it, as if he had just come from his shift.He has made up his mind to follow Sheng Liuyu.What's more, in the past few days, the boat is much more lively than before. Sheng Liuyu consulted several respected elders and asked a lot about the upcoming ceremony.

Everything was as he expected.

Zou walked over, wanting to hold an umbrella for Sheng Liuyu, and when he walked three steps away from him, the highness turned his head, with snow-white cheeks, black temples, and some misty rain on his eyelashes, looking very indifferent, he Didn't go any further, just stopped there.

After a while, he heard Sheng Liuyu say: "Don't get too close, I don't like it."

The rain didn't stop until dusk, but Xie Changming's paper bird was very strong and durable, its wings were soaked in water, it was limp, and it couldn't seem to flutter, yet it actually flew onto the fairy ship in the sky and sent the letter to To Sheng Liuyu's hands.

The cat came over and wanted to see it too.

The letter said that Xie Changming was supposed to go back, but something went wrong and it would take some time.It is also said that Wangjin City is a prosperous ancient capital. Every fifteenth day, when the moon is at its fullest, there will be floating boats carrying iron trees and silver flowers on the old lake in the city. It is very famous, but I have no time to see it. Next time I will go with Shengliuyu.

Sheng Liuyu read the letter twice, folded it, and put it in the box.

Not angry, but a little relaxed in my heart.

He misses Xie Changming very much, and when the owner is around, he can be asked to do this, do that, anything.I was also afraid that Xie Changming would really come back and break through his lies, knowing that he was not in the academy, and went back to Xiaochongshan.

It was not intended to hide it from him.

The letter written 18 years ago was groundless, but Xie Changming was indeed involved, and Sheng Liuyu wanted to find out clearly.

No one can escape the weakness of human beings and the weakness of birds.

A maid came towards the door and only whispered outside: "Your Highness, the boat is about to stop."

Not long after, the boat shook violently, and then pitched back and forth. Sheng Liuyu leaned against the wall of the boat, and could feel herself sinking slowly with the boat.

Xiaozhongshan has arrived.

When it came to a steady stop, there were many footsteps of varying degrees of severity not far away, ranging from fragmented to regular. Sheng Liuyu hugged the cat and walked out slowly.

The maid stood by the door and drew the curtain when she heard the movement.

Someone called Sheng Liuyu: "Your Highness."

It was Haishi at this time, but the outside was brightly lit, as bright as day.

Xiaochongshan stretches for thousands of miles, and there is also a distance of thousands of miles from the mountain gate to the Chonghua Palace in the depths.Every fifty miles on the road, there is a teleportation circle, and there are special personnel to maintain and repair it, in case something suddenly fails.

From the ladder for disembarking to the teleportation array leading to Chonghua Palace, there are only a few hundred steps, and there are countless people standing densely, all holding lamps, kneeling on the ground.

The elder walked up to Sheng Liuyu, took a few steps behind, and said meaningfully: "Your Highness, you used to have hearing problems, and you were young, so you didn't know anything. In fact, you are the one chosen by the gods."

The pearls strung on the curtain swayed.

Sheng Liuyu was in a trance for a moment, and heard the words "Oh", he didn't feel much touched by the situation, the fat cat was really heavy, it took a lot of effort to move it behind his right arm, and he took the lamp from the maid, without using it. The waiter of others went down.

Sheng Baiyun has always been ignorant of ordinary things, except for the great sacrifice once in a hundred years, it is difficult to talk to him at other times.Because of this, the power of the elders is actually much greater than before. There was Qin Ji before, but now Zhou Zhu.

Zhou Zhu took care of all the cumbersome parts of the grand sacrifice ceremony, and there must be no omissions.

Sheng Liuyu doesn't care about this, he wants to read a book.

Books on practicing spells that are rarely seen outside can be seen everywhere here, and the things accumulated over the years are vast.

It is not quite right to say that it is reading.More precisely, it is looking for an old event 200 years ago.All the things and records of Xiaozhongshan are stored here.Ordinary people do not have the authority to see these, of course, to Sheng Liuyu, there is nothing to dislike.

When he was studying in the academy, Sheng Liuyu was not a good student. He had never been to the Library Pavilion of the academy. He only heard Xie Changming describe it. He used to help there, sorting books into categories, and moved them out to dry when the sun was sunny.Xie Changming said that Sheng Liuyu couldn't do this, he was still a little unconvinced, feeling that he was underestimated.Xie Changming told him that where there are books, there are bookworms, even if it is a place for cultivating immortals, no matter how noble it sounds, it cannot be avoided.

The little long-sighted bird hates bugs.

The sandalwood bookshelf more than ten feet high rises from the ground, standing on the shining, cold and hard floor like a sky and covering the sun, casting a long and huge shadow. Countless volumes are tightly packed together, only revealing The words on the spine.

Sheng Liuyu stopped at a certain place, walked up the ladder step by step, took out one of the books, sat on the steps, and read slowly by the light in the crack.

200 years is not a long period of time in the world of cultivating immortals. After retreating and meditating, 100 years will pass in the blink of an eye.But to specify a certain day in Xiaozhongshan, it is necessary to screen countless things that happened.

What's more, Sheng Liuyu didn't know his birthday, he only vaguely knew that he was born 200 years ago and broke his shell 18 years ago.

Taking a year as a point, one hundred years before and after, it is necessary to check the past year by year.

A bookworm fell out of a certain page of an old book, Sheng Liuyu's hand stopped and stopped in mid-air, and the eight-legged worm hurriedly scrambled away.

The little Changming Bird frowned, and just stopped there for a long while before turning the page, pretending to be nonchalant.

After a long time, after I finished reading the book and washed my hands again, I took out a pen and paper and wrote a few lines.He wanted to argue with Xie Changming, what Xie Changming said before was wrong, and it's not like he couldn't sort out the books, and it's no big deal if he meets bookworms.However, I still have to add one last sentence, it is better to let Xie Changming choose for himself in the future.

In short, no matter what happens, the owner seems to be inseparable. Sheng Liuyu's self-willedness, coquettishness, and various bad tempers are vividly reflected in these small things.

Sheng Liuyu read the books day and night for several days, and the elder also said that if there is anything you want to know, just ask, but Sheng Liuyu only said that the practice is hindered, and he needs to read the book to calm his mind, so he sent it away.

For more than two hundred years, the records of Xiaozhongshan seem to be perfect.But there will always be gaps in those who bother to cover up.It will be easier if you already know the result and then deliberately prove it.

It is easier for a person to prove something than to find the truth.

Compared with ordinary cultivators, most of the birds in Xiaochongshan lived longer and their cultivation was more stable.The qualifications of a human being are difficult to identify, but the qualifications of a bird depend on blood.Therefore, if there is no accident, the transfer of personnel in the Chonghua Palace will not be frequent, and the elders are selected based on their cultivation and reputation. It is difficult to select one, and it is not easy to withdraw one.

210 Three years ago, Sheng Baiyun was attacked and seriously injured. One hundred and six guards who protected Sheng Baiyun died.In addition, plus those who retired due to illness the following year, lacked cultivation, and colluded with the outside world, a total of 71 people were retired.There are a total of 200 personal guardian guards, each of whom is above Yuanying, and can be a group of elders outside, but with so many people, almost the entire army was wiped out within two years.

This was originally impossible.

There were originally 54 elders, 24 of them came from the eight major clans, and the remaining 200 came from remote small clans, and one of them was from Qin.Although Qin Ji died, his prestige had reached the extreme before his death, almost to the point where he could stand up to Sheng Baiyun. Even the last time he went to Lulin Academy to monitor Sheng Liuyu, he didn't need Sheng Baiyun's consent.And 54 years ago, among the [-] elders, he was just an unknown one, from an unknown clan, and only a name was recorded in the records.

But just like the guardian guards, the elders' house also encountered a sudden cleansing, and Qin Ji held power from then on.

Sheng Liuyu didn't know what the person who was embellishing this past was thinking, so many died, rather than making up so many excuses that would be missing at first glance, it would be better to say that there was a sudden epidemic of bird plague in Xiaozhong Mountain, and they all died cleanly , maybe he can believe a little more.

What happened in those two years?

Sheng Liuyu frowned, looking as calm as ever.Or to be more precise, what did Sheng Baiyun and Xiao Chongshan pay for his birth?

He doesn't know yet, he's just thinking.

After returning to Xiaochong Mountain, Zou Xing felt that everything was going well.

On the way home, although His Highness also called several other guards, he was the one who valued him the most and still asked him to do things.Some of those instructions were thoughtless, as if they cut a section in the middle for themselves, and others did the rest.Zou Xing is a smart person, after careful consideration, he realized that he shouldn't ask too many questions in the first place.

What's more, he can also detect some clues, which are more than 200 years ago, an old thing that can't be mentioned.At that time, Zou Xing was born not long ago and had just been able to take shape.The mother was married from another race, and her blood was even thinner, but she was very beautiful and outstanding, and she was cautious and intelligent.With her bloodline, if she cultivated to the Golden Core in this life, it has come to an end, no matter how hard she tries, she won't make any progress.Unlike the human race who cultivated immortality, the human race is born with poor aptitude, and can rely on acquired hard work, or epiphany breakthroughs-this is the reason why fools realize the Tao.It is much easier for the birds of Xiaochongshan to practice, but how many bloodlines of Changming Birds they inherit, the level of practice can only be so.There is no one in a million who can break through the bloodline imprisonment, so he can only accept his fate.So the mother put her mind on other things early on-making a future for her only child.Among the clan elders in the clan, one is an elder in Chonghua Palace.Mother has a very good relationship with that clan's hometown, and has already decided to send Zou Xing to be a guardian guard, which is a good place.But her plan failed to come true, and the healthy and extremely high-cultivated clan elder died of illness suddenly.

Is there such an emergency in the world?People in the clan came and went, lamenting and mourning, probably because they felt that the future was uncertain.

His mother hugged him and told him gently that something terrible had happened in Chonghua Palace, and it was not a good place to go after thinking about it carefully.The Eternal Bright Bird is like the sun on a small mountain. If it is too close, it can borrow the light, but it is also easy to get burned.She hoped he was safe.

Zou Xing thought she was the best mother in the world.

Yet she is dead.When she died, she had white hair and pale face, she was too old to look good, no amount of pills could save her.It's her lifespan.The mother is 50 years younger than the father. When the father took human form, he was still a young man. He also married other women and hatched other eggs.

My mother said a lot when she was dying. She said when she was young: "When your father wanted to marry me, I was very happy. I really liked him, and I felt that I was married. Unlike other sisters, my destiny would change."

Among the ethnic groups in Xiaochongshan, there are very few intermarriages, because the blood of both parents determines the aptitude of the child.When the father married the mother, he must have worked hard to convince the elders to agree.

"Later you were born, came out of the shell, such a small bird, I was afraid that the wind would blow you away, and I didn't even dare to open the window, and your father even laughed at me. Others said behind my back, my You don’t have a good background, so you won’t…”

She paused, not even wanting to repeat other people's words belittling her own child, but continued: "At that time, I really just wanted you to stand up, stand out, and not be underestimated. The clan elder suddenly had an accident, and you are still young, probably not I remember. I secretly thought that no bird in this small mountain can escape the shackles of blood, and Changming Bird is no exception."

Zou Xing knelt in front of her bed, forced a smile and said, "Mother, I'm not old now."

Mother wanted to hug him like before, but she was so thin that she couldn't hold his shoulders anymore.She took a breath: "Looking in the mirror, when I saw myself getting old, I also thought that it would be great if I were a real bird. Birds are very loyal animals, people are not good, and we are not just birds. But Thinking, if it’s really just a bird, I have to run around every day to fill my stomach, I’m not so busy in my life, and it’s not good to be a bird without sanity.”

Zou Xing's tears flowed onto his mother's wrinkled skin.

Mother raised her hand and touched his hair: "Your father can live to be a thousand years old, but my life span is only here. It's too short. In my opinion, you are still a little bird."

Zou Xing was not his father's only son, but his mother's only child. He hoped that he would become famous, so even if he couldn't be a guardian guard, he still came to Chonghua Palace.

Just like now, he was favored by Chang Mingniao, and those elders who had never met before suggested that he was lucky and asked him to serve that Highness well.

That His Highness wanted to find out what happened 200 years ago, but Zou Xing never disclosed it to the second person.

On the way to Zangshu Pavilion, Zou Xing thought a lot. After standing still, he opened the door and walked along the light. Sheng Liuyu sat on the steps with his knees bent, holding a book in his hands.

Zou Xing really wanted to make progress, but it was hard for him to figure out what this young highness wanted.

Everything he was told to do had the same weight in Sheng Liuyu's heart.

Sheng Liuyu lowered his head, and the hem of his clothes that fell on the steps swayed. The densely woven fabric had very complicated hidden patterns, flowing with abundant spiritual power, meticulously protecting his master.

Zou Xing stood below and reported all the things he had found before. He was investigating an ethnic group that had disappeared in Xiaochongshan.

The light of dusk reflected on the ancient palace of thousands of years, it was as red as blood-stained, Shengliuyu was immersed in the afterglow of the setting sun, it looked very calm, just listening.

He was silent for a while, then said softly: "It's only been 200 years, so it's not like they're all dead, right?"

In fact, Zou Xing didn't hear clearly.

Sheng Liuyu waved his hand and let him go out.

Hearing the sound of the door closing, Sheng Liuyu buried her head in her knees slowly, without raising it for a long time.