Lie Huo Jiao Chou

"Oh," Sheng Lingyuan picked up the robe and put it on loosely, like a porcelain figure that was so smooth that no water would stick to it. The blood stains on his body slipped off, leaving no trace on his skin, and it was dazzlingly white. What a coincidence."

Xuan Ji—Jian Ling quickly chased him out, but he found that he could no longer get within three feet of Sheng Lingyuan, and even touched the wall several times, Jian Ling was aroused, and rushed towards Sheng Lingyuan with all his strength, and then Bounced away by the invisible barrier.He took a few steps back and fell under the osmanthus tree in the courtyard of Jianlu Palace. A branch passed through him and fell to the ground. Jian Ling looked up in astonishment, and saw that the osmanthus that had just bloomed had withered and died after Sheng Lingyuan passed by.

Danli was imprisoned in the sky prison. Outsiders thought he was under house arrest, but in fact he was nailed to a pool of blood by the emperor for more than a year.

As the ancestral halls and statues of the sacred bird Suzaku fell down one by one, Dan Li was exhausted bit by bit. He had always shown others with a mask, but now he will be stripped off. Only the eyes are still intact on his face. His face was full of marks from the fire, and the flesh on his body had almost been boiled dry. A piece of loose human skin wrapped around the bones, like a frightening starving man.

The smell in the dungeon was overwhelming, but Sheng Lingyuan didn't care at all, calmly, he came to see his teacher for the last time.

The sword spirit who was chasing after him could only watch with fear.

But that's...Dan Li.

When the Heavenly Demon first formed, the demon energy was unstable. Even if it had become a demon body, the childish body was too young. At that time, the Heavenly Demon Sword could not refine the resentment collected by Chi Yuan. The two of them seemed to rely on each other. The little animals who keep warm together have suffered a lot and struggled to live.Because of the prophecy, the demon king has always wanted Lingyuan's life, and they have been on the run with their nominal mother, Empress Chen.

It is Danli who protects Lingyuan and flees to the end of the world.

Danli is the one who protects him, takes care of him, and teaches him, and at the same time plays the triple role of Sheng Lingyuan's father, mother, and teacher. The name "Lingyuan" was given by him. The way Lingyuan speaks and the way he does things all have the shadow of that man.There was even one time when he was walking with Danli in casual clothes, and the guards who came behind him mistook Ren Huang.

Although this master-student relationship started with a lie and ended with a breakup, it is not a lie that Sheng Lingyuan kept his three sentences inseparable from "the teacher said" when he was young.

Jian Ling knew that at this point, Sheng Lingyuan didn't want to see Danli, and didn't even want others to mention it. Seeing him made him sad.

After Dan Li was imprisoned in the prison, he only came to see him once, did not communicate with him, took a look outside the prison, and fled in a hurry.

But at this moment, Sheng Lingyuan seemed to have unloaded some heavy burden. He walked briskly, talking and laughing happily in the dungeon, without any burden at all.It seemed that what was nailed in the pool of blood was just an irrelevant and strange enemy who came to show off his power and victory.

Jian Ling was afraid that he would be sad, but even more afraid that he would not be sad.

This Sheng Lingyuan who won't be sad is strange and far away, and his popularity is so faint that he can't smell it.

"What do you mean by 'removing the blood'?" Jian Ling asked urgently, "What do you mean by 'severing the emotions and desires, and the sense of sight and taste'? Sheng Lingyuan... Sheng Xiao!"

However, Sheng Lingyuan didn't look at him, and after talking to Dan Li, he turned and left.

In the huge sky prison, only Danli's panting sounded like a bellows breaking.The guards were all Sheng Lingyuan's confidantes. The mixed-race guard sent Ren Huang away, and looked back at Dan Li in the prison. Dan Li suddenly raised his blood corpse-like head, and a pair of "blood holes" shot sharp eyes at him. The guard was shocked, cursed something in a low voice, and left.

Dan Li twitched in the pool of blood for a while as if he couldn't breathe, and he calmed down after a while, then he suddenly said naturally to himself: "I... the end is coming..."

Sword Spirit came back to his senses, followed his voice, and looked around for figures: "Who are you talking to?"

But there is no second living thing in this gloomy blood prison, and even insects and ants dare not approach.

"I know you're here...I also know you're not dead..." Dan Li's voice was vague, as if every word required all his strength, "You are... the sword spirit endowed with life, Suzaku... Cough, the body of Suzaku is endowed with life, that is, birth, old age, sickness and death coincidentally, and the last descendant of Suzaku is responsible for suppressing demons... You are not an ordinary sword spirit."

Jian Ling was stunned, and then his face changed slightly, and he said coldly: "No matter what you say, I won't believe it."

Sword spirit was connected with Sheng Lingyuan since he was born, especially when he was young, the joy, anger, sorrow and joy of one person and one sword would affect each other. Lingyuan's admiration for this man was shared with little sword spirit.Lingyuan remembered all his teachings, and Jianling remembered the sweetness in his hands—even in the years of exile, Danli always managed to get some snacks to coax His Highness, and sometimes they collected them from nowhere The nectar is sometimes a piece of burnt yellow wild bee nest. When hiding on the plains from the monster race's pursuit, he carried a murderous sword in front of him. ...It's really sweet.

Sword Spirit will never forget that back view in his life.

Dan Li choked and coughed: "I know, you won't believe me anymore after this happened."

Sword Spirit opened his eyes wide: "Can you hear me?"

"I can't see you, and I can't hear you, but I can probably guess what you will say."

That's right, whoever Danli is, you can know ten by hearing it.When he was young, as long as he listened to Huatou, he would know which sentence was said by Ling Yuan and which sentence was said by Jian Ling through Ling Yuan's mouth.

The sword spirit became disappointed, and sneered: "You have no plan, why didn't you count your end?"

"I knew there would be such a day," Dan Li said calmly, "We were all born in response to catastrophe, lived because of troubled times, and died because of troubled times. Lingyuan and I... have no resentment towards each other. What he did I taught him everything... I won't blame him. If I could be like a mortal, beheading with a single knife would be the end of it all. Presumably Lingyuan would also be willing to give me a good time. It won't be like this... Today I am exhausted , in the future, he may also be crushed and ashes, it is doomed."

Sword Spirit felt uncomfortable hearing it at first, but when he heard the last sentence, he blew up on the spot: "You are the one who is ashamed!"

Dan Li laughed softly: "Little Sword Spirit, did you scold me?"

The sword spirit was guessed by him again, and he shut his mouth tightly angrily.

"You..." Dan Li sighed, "You monster race, your mind is late blooming, and he still protects you in every possible way."

Jian Ling gritted his teeth, looked at "Hungry" in the blood pool with a complicated expression, and finally couldn't help asking: "Teacher, why?"

"In the battle against the Demon City, the Heavenly Demon Sword was drawn out of its sheath, stirring up millions of vengeful spirits in Chiyuan, beheading a thousand demon kings, and shouting Long Live Sifang Mountain, but... looking back later, there must be fear. Your Majesty...he is too young to Suppressing the Quartet's wrists, as long as everyone is a robe who was born and died with him, he can't bear to call himself a lonely widow... However, the fire in Chiyuan is still alive, and all races are united during the war, and changes will inevitably occur after the war. There must be a place of catharsis, where all the birds are hidden in the bow...Little sword spirit, Lianggong's fate has always been like this, when I was young, I talked to Lingyuan about ancient times, and you never listened carefully, did you?"

Hearing all kinds of depression, Jian Ling held his breath for a while. After a long time, he closed his eyes fiercely: "Stop fooling people with such high-sounding nonsense, you just want to create an opportunity for your own ambition to kill all non-human races. Lingyuan just killed the Gaoshan people!"

"All things are born in the heaven and earth, and die in the heaven and earth. Kunpeng goes to the sky, and sharks enter the sea..." Dan Li said slowly, "The seasons change, the cold comes and the summer goes, the fittest survives, and the downcast has no place. The ancient hundred and eight gods and beasts , whereabouts have disappeared so far... everything is going on, now it is the turn of the non-human race, the sword spirit, this is the choice of heaven, it is the general trend, people... How can you go against it, how dare you go against it? Lingyuan... He has learned to turn clouds and rain, but he has not learned to follow the trend And why, he removed his Suzaku bloodline, and took over Chiyuan in place of the survivors of the divine bird, even if he could really put out the fire right now... He didn’t want to think about his body as a demon, what would happen in the future if he didn’t have that bit of Suzaku bloodline to suppress him?”

Sword Spirit hurriedly asked: "What will happen?"

"He will be cut off from all emotions, and he will become a ruthless monster... Now that the world is under his control, no one can restrain him anymore, he will be violent and unrestrained, and do whatever he wants..."

"You're talking nonsense!" Sword Spirit yelled angrily, feeling harsh.

But Dan couldn't hear it.

"What's more, the demons are immortal, ten years old is okay, what about a hundred years, 500 years, or a thousand years?" In a few words, Dan Li seemed to have weakened a lot, and his voice became almost inaudible, "He can't end, he will change Become the next demon king... At that time, there will be... chaos in the Kyushu, how long can his little Suzaku blood be able to seal Chi Yuan... Tong..."

The sword spirit was disturbed by his calling.

Dan Li suddenly gasped in shock, with a "clack" sound from his throat, his body seemed to be dead, as if he was dying.

"You are...Suzaku...Tianling, the divine bird...the last descendant of the divine bird...you save him one more time...I...I can't hear you, let me say..."

A language that the sword spirit has never heard suddenly came out of Danli's mouth. It was extremely complicated. After listening to it, it made people doubt how people could make such a sound, but it was inexplicable. The sword spirit understood it as soon as it heard it, just like Something innate, Dan Li read it back and forth three times, and it was engraved in his mind verbatim.

"This is... the secret language of the Suzaku clan... Suzaku is able to communicate with demons, Tong...you are the orphan of Suzaku, the body of a heavenly spirit, you live because of him, can you...can you protect that bloodline for him, I... ..."

Dan Li's voice was cut off, his eyes had already been nailed with long nails, just at the position of the irises, two points of light emerged from the blurred flesh and blood, like eyes, still frightening.

Jian Ling heard his silence for a while, realized something, couldn't help but get closer, and then froze.

He found that there were only two spots of light left in Danli's eye sockets.

"Teacher..." The sword spirit couldn't help stretching out his hand, only to hear a soft sound, and the person in the blood pool suddenly cracked like a piece of wood, and then it was out of control.

He shattered into countless pieces and melted into the pool of blood.

He was once a god worshiped by all peoples and enjoyed endless incense. Over time, he gave birth to gods and spirits.

But there is no free incense in the world, and the shrine is to replace the creator of the gods and satisfy the demons.

He opened his eyes in the sea of ​​blood, filled with greed and hatred, born to extinguish the fires of the earth, he was exhausted, and his body was smashed to pieces.

It seems to be a good omen of peace in the world.

Sword Spirit looked at the debris in the pool of blood for a long time, knelt down and kowtowed, thought for a while, kowtowed again for Lingyuan, and floated out of the prison.

He watched as Sheng Lingyuan ordered people to dig out 36 pieces of Suzaku keel, carved the seals with his own hands, nailed them into Chiyuan with 36 midnights, and finally the small porcelain bottle containing his Suzaku blood.

The moment the blood condensed bead left Sheng Lingyuan, the long-awaited sword spirit rushed over and put it in his mouth. The sword spirit was shocked to find that he could touch this thing, and even through the bead, he could feel the spirit Yuan's heartbeat.

The bead felt very familiar to him.

After the blade broke, he was in a daze for a while, and he didn't remember anything for a long time, but he was attracted by something somewhere, and chased after Sheng Lingyuan. It turned out that it was the blood of Suzaku that attracted him.

The bead held in his mouth took him to the altar, the sword spirit didn't have time to think about it, and quickly recited the secret words of Suzaku that Dan Li left him.

The blood bead was alive, and when he read it for the third time, he seemed to hear his long-lost heartbeat, and it merged with the bead.

Without being taught by anyone, the sword spirit established a connection with that bloodline bead logically.

He became the protective cover of that bloodline bead.

On New Year's Eve of the sixth year of Qizheng, the ceremony to seal Chiyuan is about to be completed. The old patriarch of Bifang personally presides over the ceremony. The sword spirit returns to Duling Palace and sees that person for the last time.

He "covered" Sheng Lingyuan's Suzaku bloodline with himself, and the demon body seemed to mistake him for a part of himself. This time, the barrier three feet away from Sheng Lingyuan finally did not reject him... that was the only sword spirit in his life. One escapade.

He is going to spend his life with this longing that will never see the light of day, until the bone of Suzaku is destroyed and the seal becomes invalid again.

Although that kiss wasn't real at all.

Sheng Lingyuan pushed Xuan Ji away violently, and staggered back half a step. On Xuan Ji's neck, the small wound bitten by him healed quickly, leaving only a bright red mark on his lips.

Xuan Ji raised a hand just now, as if he wanted to hug Sheng Lingyuan's back, but he didn't touch that person, and just held it in mid-air.At this time, Shan Feng took advantage of the gap to slip between the two of them, his hands were empty, so he curled his fingers and covered the side of his neck.

"I didn't expect that when you..." Xuan Ji seemed unwilling to mention the words "jumping off the Chiyuan", deliberately vague, "you also carried the fragments of the sword body with you, and the ground fire melted the sword body, Wrapped on the Suzaku bone, I have a body."

One life and one death, all by accident.

The conditions for the re-smelting of the Heavenly Demon Sword that Weiyun had concealed and did not dare to say were realized in Chiyuan, and His Majesty jumped into the "Sword Furnace" by himself.

"After the Chiyuan fire was extinguished, I traveled around the world, bringing..."

With the blood and corpses you abandoned, we walked the old road that we fled all the way and regained the lost land all the way.I finally touched the world by myself, not attached to your senses.

No more wars, the population gradually increased, those humanoid races became no different from ordinary people after Chiyuan fire was extinguished, they lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the monster races also kept a low profile.Smoke billows from the kitchens in the village, chickens and dogs are leisurely, and farmers go home from the fields to eat.The official road has been built, and there are endless fields on both sides, and there are endless pedestrians.

The witch grave in Dongchuan was sealed up. I stood at the foot of the mountain, recalling the plants and trees here... my memory is a little fuzzy.

Maybe it's because the sun is too scorching for ten miles.

The road is the old road, and people are not old friends.

At that time, I realized that I was wrong. The false intimacy I stole during the snowy night on New Year's Eve was not enough to comfort this long... and long life.

"After Danli's death, the Emperor's Mansion was stolen by you, and all the items were put into the inner treasury. I sneaked into your nephew's womb and took away his belongings." Xuan Ji said softly, "The Thousand Monsters Illustrated Book, There are also some other notes, he should have taught them, but I didn’t listen carefully when I was a child, and I learned it again later. I found a secret method for refining the Nirvana Stone in the back of the Thousand Monsters Illustrated Book, which is... a A cowardly trick."

"It is said that the past and present lives can be sealed, and only the 'useful' things are kept, and the rest are cleaned up, just like 'Nirvana'. It was handwritten, and it should have been added later. I doubt he has already guessed something."

"I've been worthless since I was a child," Xuan Ji smiled at him, "In the end, I can only rely on external forces... I'm sorry, Lingyuan..."