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"Hey, wait a minute!"

Before Ruoye had time to see Haotian's appearance, Changli ran out without saying a word. She was worried about accidents, so she had no choice but to catch up.

Just after leaving the main hall, the heavy iron-cut giant gate slowly closed behind her. She was startled into a cold sweat, and she exclaimed luckily, thinking: This temple obviously only recognizes the token. If I slow down, I'm afraid It's about to be locked in.Seeing that the white dress in front of her disappeared behind another door in a flash, she didn't bother to complain, and hurriedly followed. Before going in, she found that Chang Li had left the token outside. She couldn't help being very surprised, and said: What happened to her, why did she suddenly lose her soul?

After catching the token that was about to fall on the ground, she stepped into the stone hall that was similar in appearance to the previous one, but half smaller.

The light in the hall is a bit dim, without the treasures piled up like mountains in Haotian Hall, it looks empty, and there is also a statue of Kunlun Jade standing in the middle, but it is far less magnificent than Haotian Statue, standing on a square platform more than one foot high, The stature is about the same as that of an ordinary person, and she looks like a woman in her clothes, holding a long sword also carved from Kunlun jade in her hand.

And Changli stopped in front of the statue, and slowly stretched out his hand.

Ruoye thought she was going to touch the sword, but she gently stroked the fingertips protruding from under the sword, then turned her hand and held the back of the statue's hand, as if she was going to hold that hand .

"Changli... ah!" Originally, Ruoye's attention was on Changli, but only then did he notice the statue's face, and suddenly let out an exclamation.

That woman looks exactly like Chang Li.

Except that there is no cinnabar mole on the forehead, both the face and body shape are exactly the same as Changli.

If Changli wasn't there, Ruoye might think that she was turned into this jade sculpture by some magic after entering the house.

"Who is she? Why does she look exactly like you, or is this you?" She stared at the statue and asked repeatedly. She didn't know this beforehand, so it was hard to restrain her curiosity after seeing the statue.

But Changli didn't seem to hear her words, he looked up at the statue, his dark eyes fluctuated, and finally fixed into a touch of emotion, as if he had passed through thousands of years, he murmured: "Zhuoguang..."

The voice trembled slightly, and one could detect the huge emotions hidden in it just by listening.

Ruoye frowned, she had never seen Changli like this, even when Zhong Mingzhu was mentioned, she would not be so shaken.

When you are lonely and sad, your emotions are also light.

As for the Chang Li in front of him, although his appearance and voice were familiar to Ruoye, his expression and demeanor looked like another person.

"Who are you!" There was a flash of vigilance in her eyes, she quietly held the Bahuang Mirror in her hand, and reached for Changli's shoulder with the other hand, but before touching it, Changli suddenly bent his body, and with one hand He tremblingly covered the center of his brows, revealing a look of pain.

Ruoye was shocked again, not knowing what to do for a moment, he hesitated for a moment, Changli had already knelt down on the ground, although she tried her best to clenched her teeth, she couldn't help but let out a low cry of pain, her clenched knuckles turned white, Soon, he couldn't even kneel down, his body collapsed and curled up weakly, and all the bones in his body began to rattle.

Seeing her tightly covering the center of her brows, as if she wanted to press a hole there, Ruoye remembered that Zhong Mingzhu had mentioned that Changli had suffered from headaches since he was a child, so he immediately realized that he would straighten her up and break her apart. hand, and then silently recited the formula, fingertips carried a little water-colored spiritual light, and touched her forehead.

The mermaids are good at illusion, and they are also good at calming restless creatures. She heard from Zhong Mingzhu that there is no cure for Changli yet, so she uses the secret technique of the family at this time, just to make Changli feel less uncomfortable.

The next moment, she was shocked to feel a sword energy swimming in Changli's body, and the seal formed by the seven black ice needles had cracks, and then she discovered that the sword energy overflowed from Changli's spiritual sea , and it is still spreading, as the sword energy increases, the cracks on the seal become deeper and deeper, and in the depths of her spiritual sea, it seems that something is about to come out.

Ruoye tried to suppress the sword aura, but when the strength she used to test touched the sword aura, it instantly turned into nothingness, unable to stir up any waves.

She had never seen such an awe-inspiring sword intent before, she couldn't help opening her eyes wide, and felt that the spiritual power around her was starting to fluctuate, and the seal was about to be broken, so she ran away from Changli without hesitation, holding the Eight Desolation Mirror with both hands and moving forward push.

In an instant, he felt the sword energy sweeping towards him, unstoppable, if there was no Eight Desolation Mirror to protect him, Ruoye felt that he would be broken into thousands of pieces in the blink of an eye.

But even so, she can only support for a while, in front of the power that overrides everything, her little resistance is so insignificant, the arm holding the Eight Desolation Mirror is slowly bent, and it won't be long before, The mirror is about to come out.

What should I do, is I going to die here today?

Just when she was at a loss what to do, the inscription on the Eight Desolation Mirror suddenly flickered, and water rippled in the mirror. Because Chang Li was at the foot of the statue, the shadow of the statue was also reflected in the Eight Desolation Mirror.

Afterwards, Ruoye felt a sudden change in the spiritual power in the Bahuang mirror. After a while, a blurry shadow jumped out of the mirror. The next moment, Ruoye felt light in his hand, and the frenzied sword energy unexpectedly Calm down.

Ruoye leaned against the wall with lingering fear in his heart, gasping for breath, his hands and feet felt weak when he moved, and it was difficult to even stand up.

It's not like she never had a time when her life was hanging by a thread, but the sum of all the dangers before was not as great as the oppression that the sword energy gave her just now.From the outbreak to the end, in fact, she didn't even have a cup of tea, but she felt that she had been wandering by the Santu River for several years, and she was only a hair away from coming back.

"This, what's going on here..." After her breath calmed down a little, her mind, which was frightened, managed to regain some sense. She looked at the Eight Desolation Mirror, and found that the inscription on it had darkened, and the mirror surface was also darkened. It returned to pitch black, without any light in it, and the water pattern reflecting the statue seemed to have never appeared before.

Then, her eyes fell to the distance, and seeing Chang Li lying on the ground with her eyes closed, she hurried over and shouted: "Chang Li! Chang Li! How are you doing?"

She yelled a few times, but Chang Li didn't respond at all, her heart tightened, and she quickly used her spiritual power to check Chang Li's situation, and found that the other party's breath was still there, but she just passed out, so she breathed a sigh of relief, Holding the Eight Desolation Mirror, he slowly sat down next to Changli, his eyes turned around in the hall, and finally fell on the statue nearby.

I saw her expression was peaceful, the corners of her lips were slightly raised, she had a slight smile, and her eyes were slightly lowered. At first glance, she was looking at the long sword in her hand calmly, but when she looked carefully, her eyes did not fall on the sword, but through the sword. Long sword, thrown to a very distant place.

When she saw the statue for the first time, she thought it was exactly the same as Changli, but after taking a closer look, she felt that it was not so similar.

Chang Li was indifferent, and always looked distant and indifferent, but the woman looked very gentle, and her smile was like a spring breeze.

"It's not Changli..." Ruoye said to himself, seeing the sword in the woman's hand, he suddenly recalled the shadow that jumped out of the Eight Desolation Mirror just before the sword energy subsided.

Although it was very vague, the woman's figure could be vaguely seen, holding a long and thin object in her hand, most likely a sword, the shadow raised the sword lightly, and then the coercion disappeared.

"Just now, it was you?" Ruoye's eyes were a little dazed. At this moment, she caught a glimpse of several lines of inscriptions on the square platform at the foot of the statue, and a little bit of surprise flashed across her face.

It turned out that there was nothing there.After thinking about it for a while, she suddenly realized that someone must have used a blinding technique to hide it after engraving it. The technique was destroyed by the sword energy just now, so the hidden inscription was revealed.

Could it be that there is some secret hidden here?While thinking about it, she looked at the inscription, and after reading a few lines, she couldn't help but let out an "ah" and showed an expression of disbelief again.

"The way of heaven wants this world to return to chaos, and no one can stop it, no matter whether it is a human being or a god."

Changli heard the man's sigh, followed by a woman's voice: "Heaven is ruthless, but it is not ruthless. How can the world be destroyed? There will always be a way."

There was a smile in that voice, it was soft, as if it could contain everything.

After that, there was a long silence like tens of thousands of years, and the man's voice sounded again, no longer in high spirits, becoming old and tired, with no sadness or joy in his tone, only nostalgia:

"I still remember that in April, the peach blossoms were like rain..."

With a long sigh, the darkness receded a little, and Changli found herself sitting in a pitch-black attic with thousands of sharp swords hanging from the walls and the top. blood.

As soon as her heart moved, she stretched out her hand, wanting to hold something, but the next moment, she saw a flower blooming in the corner of the wall.

The white petals opened slowly and swayed gently. She stared at the flower, and countless scrolls flashed in front of her eyes. Stars and moons, lakes, deer walking in the forest...

She heard someone say: "The lingering lamp means to make promises to Sansheng, but I only want to put it on now."

—and your present moment.

Following that voice, countless sparks floating in the river appeared in front of her eyes, she reached out her hand to grab one of them, but before she touched it, everything disappeared.

When the darkness came again, she saw a pair of eyes slowly opened, and the bloodthirsty light flashed in the coquettish purple under the eyes.

Those eyes always hinted at a bit of mockery, as if mocking the world, and mocking her——

Ruoye looked at the inscription over and over again, and suddenly remembered what Zhong Mingzhu wanted him to investigate in Jiuyi Mountain. Resist the cinnabar between her brows.

Not long after, she let out an exclamation, looked at the statue again with complicated eyes, and muttered in her mouth: "Changli should be more than 670 years old this year, which happens to be about the same time, so all of these are related..."

At this time, she suddenly heard a slight noise, but it was Chang Li who woke up.I saw her face turned pale, her body trembling slightly as she stroked her chest, her eyes stared straight ahead, as if she hadn't escaped from the nightmare.Seeing this, Ruoye immediately asked concerned: "Are you okay? Are you still in pain?" At the same time, he stretched out his hand to help Changli, but in the next moment, he saw the sword light coming towards him, and Changli took out the sword without any explanation, but This time, she had lost the sharpness she had before, Ruoye avoided the sword and grabbed Chang Li's hand, her voice was tinged with anger: "What's wrong with you, I didn't provoke you!"

At this time, Chang Li seemed to have noticed that it was her, and his eyes settled on her face, with a bit of confusion in his eyes: "You are Ruoye...Why are you here..."

Ruoye stared, and was about to make trouble, when he suddenly remembered the seal that was on the verge of breaking before the sword energy erupted, and said with a clear understanding: She remembered.So he waved his hand and opened the seal.Enveloped by her spiritual power, Changli's body softened immediately, and Ruoye quickly supported her with his eyesight.

Chang Li still looked straight ahead, the emotion in her dark eyes gradually receded and became unreasonable, but the sockets of her eyes gradually turned red, she was holding the sword tightly in her right hand, almost crushing the hilt, while her left hand was clenched into pieces. Fist, the fingertips plunged into the palm of the hand and the blood was drawn there, the lips trembled as if they wanted to say something, but in the end they didn't say a word, but bit their lower lip so that they could not make any sound, not long There was a faint tinge of blood between the lips.

Ruoye stared at her intently, the more silent Changli was, the more worried she became, while complaining and thinking: Why am I so unlucky, what if she finds me to vent her anger?On the one hand, she was secretly distressed. The first time she saw Chang Li's emotions was when she accidentally called Po Zhong Mingzhu's name not long ago. At that time, Chang Li's anger shocked her. At this time, although she looked His expression was calm and he didn't say a word, but Ruoye saw in those black eyes more turbulent emotions than the waves of the tsunami.

At that time, Ruoye felt her disappointment and anger, but now it was indescribable grief and despair, even she, a bystander, couldn't help but feel a dull ache in her heart.

She didn't even dare to touch Chang Li, for fear that with a light touch, the other party would be broken into pieces like fallen porcelain.

"Changli..." She continued to cast spells to try to calm down Changli, and at the same time comforted him carefully, "Don't think too much, calm down first, okay?"

She was afraid that Changli would lose control of her emotions, so she didn't mention Zhong Mingzhu a word, but Changli said slowly: "She lied to me once, twice, and now, it's the third time."

Every word was trembling faintly, as if all the strength was exhausted to be able to say it, and then, without waiting for Ruoye's reaction, he brushed away her supporting hand, got up and was about to leave.

"Wait!" Ruoye quickly grabbed her, pointed at the statue and said, "Do you know this person?"

Chang Li glanced at the statue, and the words that rang in his ears when he was in a daze suddenly appeared in his mind, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, but she quickly suppressed it, and said: "I don't know."

"When I came here, I heard you call her Zhuoguang." Ruoye said, "Why don't you know her?"

"I..." Changli frowned. She only remembered that her mind was muddled at that time, and her body seemed to be running over uncontrollably. As for why, she couldn't figure it out, just like her headache, when she heard Like those voices, as if she was born with it, but she didn't know the reason.

It seems like this has always been the case, she has always been the one kept in the dark - thinking of this, she suddenly felt a little annoyed in her heart, she shook off Ruoye's hand, and said coldly: "I don't know, maybe it's because Tell me about the sword."

The emperor's sword shines, and the world knows it.

But she knew in her heart that she didn't even look at the sword. As soon as she entered the door, her eyes were fixed on the statue, and she didn't leave it for a moment.

I'm here to find her, but who is she?

She recalled those voices that she had never heard before but somehow felt familiar, her face was in a trance, and she suddenly remembered that in Qiaoming Mountain, after seeing the vision of this woman, Zhong Mingzhu uncharacteristically lost control, and if she lost control after calming down. With a thoughtful expression, her voice became colder and colder: "You should ask her, she probably knows."

——You clearly saw something early in the morning, but pretended not to know.While claiming that he would not hurt me, he deliberately used me to set up the situation.

Thinking of those assurances and oaths still lingering in her ears, a flash of pain flashed in Chang Li's eyes, she looked at the sword in her hand, her hands tightened and then loosened, and after a while, those pains and regrets turned into determination.

Ruoye sighed softly, and said, "The facts may not be what you think—" But before she finished speaking, she met Chang Li's eyes.

Those eyes were as cold as a sharp sword drawn out of its sheath. Ruoye immediately didn't dare to distinguish Zhong Mingzhu, worried that he would make a careless word, so Chang Li would fight her desperately first.She gave a wry smile, and said in her heart: Fortunately, that guy is not here, otherwise I might not have a chance to speak if I don't get a hole in my chest.

She didn't want to anger Chang Li, so she didn't try to pull her any more, but stopped in front of her, saying: "Zhuo Guang is not the name of the sword, but the name of a person, the name of the statue."

Zhuoguang Mountain was originally an unnamed mountain in Shuoyuan. When the world was destroyed, Haotian took the breath of the candle dragon to cast the emperor's sword Zhuoguang. Later, Huozheng's family moved to this mountain. They wanted to name it after the sword, but it is said that jade is easy to break. , so the word was changed, because the mountain is adjacent to the water of the sky, and the water is taken as the bank, so it is named Zhuoguang.

This is what Li Yang said about the origin of Mount Zhuoguang.

But Ruoye said that Zhuoguang was a woman's name.

Chang Li frowned, and after a long time, he finally gave up and walked away, asking: "How do you know?"

Ruoye pointed to the square platform and said, "There are a few lines of inscriptions engraved on it, which recorded her name and life, her name is Zhuoguang, is she a mortal swordsmith, or..." She paused, her eyes revealed Suspicious, as if he didn't believe it, and his voice was a bit vague: "It's still Haotian's wife."

After finishing speaking, she said to herself: "I know this sounds incredible, but I read it several times, and I didn't get it wrong, and—" She pointed to the middle row, "It says that she bears the curse of the family alone After she died, Haotian searched for medicine and rescued her. Didn’t Mr. Zhu say that the prescription for saving Ayun was discovered by his master in Hexu Mountain? It has the effect of bringing the dead back to life, maybe it’s this.”

Seeing that Changli lowered his eyes and said nothing, Ruoye continued to tell her the contents of the inscription one by one.

Zhuoguang was born in Jiuyi Mountain. Her ancestors rebelled and got their immortal bones picked out. As a result, the whole family was cursed and unable to practice immortal arts. She was born good at swords. At that time, disasters had been raging in the world for hundreds of years. She walked around the world with a sword in her hands. After being taught by Bai Ze, he was trapped in an illusion in Kunlun, suffering from the samsara of thousands of generations, comprehended the secrets of heaven with a mortal body, and broke through the illusion with a single sword.That sword startled Haotian, and he became acquainted with her in the form of a mortal man, and fell in love with her not long after. After she died and broke the curse of the family, he refined the magic medicine to rescue her.

"Although she has a mortal body, her swordsmanship is superior to all living beings. When Haotian went north to fight against Chongxiao, the monster clan in the southwest made troubles, and she alone forced them all back."

"It turned out to be her..." Changli murmured, thinking of the emptiness on Suo Xingyuan, she couldn't help but look down at her fingertips a few times.

At that time, her hand had indeed protruded out of the boundary, but it did not disappear from then on as Baili Ningqing said.

Is it because I am related to her?

She thought to herself, looking at the statue again thoughtfully.

"Haotian originally wanted to recast the fairy bone for her, but at that time the battle between him and Chongxiao was at a critical moment, and he had no time to be distracted. He was ordered by the sky to forge the sword with the fire of the sky, but it could not last for a long time." Ruoye looked at In the last few lines, the voice gradually lowered and took on an unbearable tone, "After that... Zhuo Guang..."

"She knew the fate, she jumped off the sword stove, and the Emperor Sword became..." Chang Li said in a daze, as if she knew the ending long ago.

Chong Xiao killed half of the people in the world, and forged an invincible sword with their blood.And Zhuo Guang comprehends the way of heaven, and forges a sword with his body, which is the sword of the way of heaven.

Ruoye was sure that Changli had something to do with Zhuoguang, so he didn't show any surprise when he heard her words. After thinking for a while, he said: "I thought you were her reincarnation. But since she forged a sword with her body, she must have lost her soul. She can't be reincarnated, and the above said that the price of her resurrection is to break the cycle of reincarnation."

"Break reincarnation." Chang Li looked at the face that looked exactly the same as himself but was completely different, and said softly, "But who am I?"

"You were also born near Jiuyi Mountain, right?" Ruoye asked suddenly, seeing Changli nodded, she asked again: "How long did you live?"

Chang Li didn't know why she asked this, but he still said truthfully: "670 three."

Ruoye frowned more and more, and said: "You know, almost when you were born, some members of my tribe used the power of the Eight Desolation Mirror to divert water and destroy a mortal city under Jiuyi Mountain. No one in the city was spared, and those few Because of this heinous crime, a clansman was punished by heaven, but his bones were buried in Jiuyi Mountain and hidden by magic."

"I don't know." Changli's eyes showed confusion again, "Why did they destroy that city?"

Ruoye hesitated for a while before softly saying: "Maybe, it's for you..." Then she quickly said: "The Liuhe Pagoda that has trapped you for many generations was built long before you were born. Most of the inscriptions in the pagoda were engraved by my people. It’s just that they died later, someone else must have put the Eight Desolation Mirror back into the tower.”

"It's Fairy Yuyuan." Changli said, her voice trembled when she thought of the temptation Zhong Mingzhu said not long ago, "I can help her break through the realm and ascend."

"But even if you have achieved great success, you are still ascending by yourself. How can you help her? Can you give her the Tao you have realized?" Ruoye asked in doubt. , "Could it be more than 2000 years ago..."

But before she could finish speaking, the ground suddenly shook violently, and the whole hall seemed to be turned upside down in an instant.

"Oops, could it be that the power of the artifact is out of control again?" She exclaimed, seeing the gravel falling from the top, she didn't dare to stay for a long time, pulled away from the trance, and ran out.

In her haste, she didn't bother to distinguish the direction at all. She took out the token and moved the giant iron gate blocking the way, only to find out that it came out from the other end.

The heat wave hit her face, burning her skin a little bit. In front of her eyes was a scorching sea of ​​fire. The ground was torn apart and floating in the fire, like driftwood in the water. On the sloping stone pillar, there was a very familiar figure.

There were bloodstains on the white robe, and she had suffered many injuries, but her expression was still so arrogant. She was stepping on a person, clasped the sword hand of the person with both hands, turned the sword over, and smiled Push the tip of the sword towards the man's chest little by little.