Someone once said that the hardest place to go back to is called hometown. One day, a wanderer will find himself farther and farther away from home, and he will not be able to find his way home. No matter how long you wander, there are always times when you are tired, and your loved ones at home are always waiting for you to return before dinner and help you make your bed before going to bed at night.

Jiang Mengsheng didn't say a word about his memories of exploring the past, just sat quietly in the carriage. Li Jing's snake venom had been cleared, and he sat in front of the carriage with Hua Rui, and Yan Che and Jiang Mengsheng were sitting in the car.

Yan Che didn't ask Jiang Mengsheng either, he didn't want to disturb her, he could see Jiang Mengsheng with a happy smile and a satisfied expression on his face. They drove to Shunzhou City in the north, and according to Yan Qinghou's travel speed, it was estimated that they had arrived in Shunzhou.

Boredom along the way, Li Jing couldn't stay idle and chatted with Hua Rui.

"Listening to what that snake queen said, it seems that you used to be from the country of ten thousand snakes?"

"No, that's their own name, and it has nothing to do with us. It's just that my ancestors used to live there, that's all. ”

"So did they steal your territory?"

"It's not a robbery, it's a pick-up. Almost all of our ancestors left there, the tiger was not at home, the monkey was the king, and they naturally said that it was their territory. ”

"Why did you get out of there in the first place?"

"How can there be so many whys, it has to be asked to the people of the past. It's better to leave, if you know that you live with that kind of superficial creature, you might as well stay in the demon world. ”

"What kind of place is the Demon Realm?"

"Do you want to go, you can go to the demons, anyway, you're useless as a person, why don't you go to the demon world and try it?"

Li Jing thought to himself that this flower stamen usually doesn't talk much, and sure enough, there is a reason, and he can talk to death with a casual sentence, making it impossible for people to continue to communicate. If you can become stronger yourself, Li Jing also wants to try. This kind of thought would never have been had in the past, he often regarded himself as a princess guard, and he was the best of the human race, until the arrival of the demon made him realize his insignificance. If you can become stronger, if you can protect the princess, it doesn't matter if you become a demon.

Jiang Mengsheng came back to his senses in the carriage and saw that Yan Che had been staring at him, so he must have had a lot of things to ask.

"If the Demon King has anything to say, just ask, Mengsheng will tell you everything. ”

"Don't worry, I see that your mood is very relaxed, I guess your past must be good, I don't want to disturb you. It would be nice if everyone had such a satisfied smile...... All struggles are born from greed and desire, and they will never satisfy their short life and limited time, but will only fight against their destiny in vain and do useless things. ”

"In the past, it was not perfect, but I was happy to learn that someone was forging ahead and making the future bright for future generations. I looked through the roots of the trees at the bottom of the forest, and relied on the memories of the trees to recall the events that had happened in the forest. I had already thought back to what happened to me here sixteen years ago, and I couldn't help but continue to explore, and before I knew it, it had taken so long. ”

"What happened sixteen years ago?"

Jiang Mengsheng smiled slightly and began to tell the past.

At that time, the Sleeping Forest was very peaceful, undisturbed by the outside world, and everything was alive here. A pair of staggered feet, unshoeed, stepped on the bark of the forest. The plants in the forest all have spirits, and report the situation to the patrolling guards. The guards were a group of orcs, and following the guidance of the forest, they found the intruder. It was a woman with partial scaly wounds, hunched over and holding a swaddling piece in her arms. She had an arrow stuck in her back and was in danger. The woman saw the orc, and she actually let go of the swaddling clothes in her hand, allowing the orcs to see a fragile but strong life in the swaddling clothes. The woman handed the child in her hand to the orcs and said to them, "Once upon a time, she belonged here. The woman spoke, leaving the child behind, and went back in the opposite direction. The forest sent another message to the guards that a group of people had invaded the forest, apparently to find the mother and daughter. The orc didn't know what to do with the child, and he followed in the woman's footsteps to see what happened to her.

The woman ended up with the group. The woman's eyes were full of kindness, and she looked at the fierce face of the other party without the slightest fear, like looking at her own rebellious child. The butcher's knife came at her, and she didn't even dodge, she lay down in this forest, merging with this forest. The humans didn't see the child, and they had to find the child and continue to walk into the forest, so they ran into the group of orcs. Seeing the child in the hands of the orc, the human demanded that the orc hand over the child. For some reason, the orc hesitated at this moment, although he had not known how to deal with the child before, after seeing what happened to his mother, she had said "this child belongs here", the leader of the orcs did not report to his superiors and decided to protect the child. Even though the orcs and humans were incompatible at that time, he had no resentment towards this young life.

The two sides fought, and all humans were killed. The orc looked at his bloody hands, not daring to touch the clean swaddling clothes, he remembered his wife who had just given birth at home, the innocent child who had just come out of his house, and whose smile was exactly the same as hers. Happiness knows no race. But he can't break the rules, this forest does not allow any outsiders to stay, and the ancient precepts left behind thousands of years ago make them only kill intruders. If he brought the child back, his family would be implicated and he would start to find difficult choices again.

The other orcs waited for his answer, and finally, after thinking about it for a long time, the orcs wiped their hands, took the child in their arms, and walked into the forest. The orcs beside him were warning him that he had broken the rules of the forest. The orcs just reported the child and remained silent. It wasn't until he came to the bottom of a big tree that the orc put down the child in his hand and placed it on the root of the big tree. He told the other orcs that if this child could survive in this forest, we would not be in a position to deprive her of the right to live. Her mother traded her life for her safety, and I would help that woman even if she was human. This child can't be destroyed in my hands, let the forest decide whether she can live here or not, and just to verify what the woman said, to see if this child belongs here. The orc left the place, as if he had never seen the child.

Forests are colorful and dangerous. A long time ago, an illusory beast fell from the sky, and it inhabited this forest, bringing foreboding and fear. With every breath the phantom beast breathes, it spits out a deadly poisonous mist, and every once in a while, the forest is periodically filled with poisonous gas. The day the little girl was placed under the big tree was at the height of the poisonous fog in the forest. A gust of wind blew, and a purple mist slowly struck towards the child. No one knew what was going to happen to the child, not even the child who had just opened his eyes did not know that danger was approaching him. Just when the poisonous mist was about to drown the child, a pair of invisible hands pushed away the mist.

It is the soul of the child's mother. The mother gave up the opportunity to be reincarnated and warmed the child with the residual warmth of her soul. The poisonous fog could not hurt the child, and the child survived. Life is always difficult, and there will be fierce beasts coveting the child, staring at this unguarded belly, but the mother consumes soul power and uses the impact of the soul to drive away the beast. The child was crying, and she could see her dead mother with tears in her eyes. The dead mother, unable to breastfeed her child, prayed to the tree beside her, asking the tree that had gone through the vicissitudes of life to give the child a small help. The tree responded to her by dripping a drop of dew from the leaves of the branch, which fell right into the child's mouth, and the child sucked the dew with a satisfied face. It is not just dew, it is the water of life condensed by the tree with its own life. In this way, the mother guarded the child, day after day, and finally, her soul was also exhausted and disappeared from this world.

The orcs on patrol remembered the child they had discarded earlier, and it had been several days since they had passed, and they didn't know what the fate of this child was. He secretly left the group and came to the tree where the children were kept. As expected, this kid really belongs here. The orc approached, and the child looked at him with a smile on his face, as if he had seen an acquaintance. The child was healthy, and the danger of the forest did not affect her in the slightest, and the orcs felt incredible, they had never seen such a tenacious life. He looked at the tree above him, but found that the leaves had begun to turn yellow and the bark had fallen off a lot. The great tree was willing to use its own life to continue the child's future, which moved the hearts of the orcs. He wants her to live!

At this moment, he sensed that a group of people had entered the forest, and it was a lot of people. He put the child down and went to check.

It was a group of troops, and the word "Jiang" was written on the flag, and it seemed that they were from Jiang country. The leading general rode a horse, and one of the soldiers called him "General Zhao". Soon the other orc guards arrived, and they all walked out to stop the army. It turned out that this group of troops was here to deal with the orcs, and a few days ago, a group of soldiers entered the forest, but none of them came out, and they were killed, and this group of troops came to destroy them. The two sides began to fight, and in the battle, the alien orcs were at a disadvantage, that General Zhao was not bad, he was a cultivator, and several alien orcs were not his opponents. Just when the orcs were about to be defeated, General Zhao's wife suddenly had a seizure, and it seemed that she had been poisoned by inhaling the poisonous mist in the forest. The woman was still holding a child in her arms, and her body was purple from a distance, and it seemed that she was also poisoned. These people are more or less poisoned, and after staying in this forest for a short time, the orcs are ready to retreat. At that moment, the orc suddenly thought of the baby girl in the forest, and perhaps the human general could take her in. He flew over and snatched the child from the woman's hand, and the general, seeing that his child had been captured, hurriedly chased after the orc. The orcs kept dodging, deliberately leading the general towards the big tree.

Seeing that the distance was sufficient, the orc sold a flaw, let the general snatch the child in his hand, and then disappeared into the woods. The general was holding his child, happy and sad at the same time, and was about to leave here, but on the way back, he saw a swaddling child wrapped under a large tree. The general looked at the healthy child in swaddling clothes, and without thinking about it, he also brought the orphan to the army. The orc hid in the shadows and observed, and when he saw the child being taken away by the general, he also disappeared.

The general returned to the carriage, and the child he had picked up miraculously cured the poisoned child. What happened next is what we have experienced in the past few days.

Jiang Mengsheng still wanted to explore the past of the forest, but time did not allow it, and when Jiang Mengsheng seemed to know what happened three thousand years ago, there were many trees in the forest that knew about things, but they all kept silent.

After listening to Jiang Mengsheng's story, Yan Che missed his mother and came to his heart, but he didn't want Jiang Mengsheng to see his fragile side, so he asked Jiang Mengsheng how he felt.

Jiang Mengsheng replied: "You know, there is a pair of invisible hands on your head all the time to shield yourself from the wind and rain, and you will understand that being alone is sometimes not alone." This is my hometown, but I also know that my hometown is this whole continent. I had stayed in the palace for so long that I had forgotten that my mother had kept me alive and that I had been on a mission. ”

Yan Che and Jiang Mengsheng looked at each other and smiled.

In Shunzhou City in Liangguo, Yan Qinghou came to the city gate with his wife and daughter. The guards at the city gate looked at Yan Qinghou's face and were about to interrogate, but one of the guards seemed to recognize Yan Qinghou and immediately invited him into the city and reported the matter to the whole city.

Yan Qinghou entered the city, and the people of Liangguo did not look at him with malicious eyes, but they were all looking forward to it for a long time, as if you had finally come. I heard that Yan Qinghou came to Shunzhou, and there were already thousands of empty alleys, and the crowd crowded the streets, just to take a look at Yan Qinghou.

"Father, why are they all staring at us?"

"Maybe they've waited too long, and the transition from skepticism to belief is a bit unbearable. ”

"Who are they waiting for?"

"Wait for someone who can take them home. ”

Shunzhou City has been divided into dozens of squares, I haven't seen it for more than ten years, this place has changed, and Yan Qinghou doesn't know the way home. A workshop owner came out and spoke an authentic Jiang Guohua, and Yan Qinghou understood the identity of the other party. The owner took Yan Qinghou to a courtyard, which was short, dilapidated, and incompatible with the surrounding houses, but the façade was quickly tidy and cleaned. These people were all from Shunzhou City and Jiang Guo, and they were all looking forward to returning to Jiang Guo's embrace one day. It wasn't until a few days ago that they knew that Jiang Guo had been occupied by demons, and when they saw Yan Qinghou appear, they pinned their hopes on him, expecting him to descend to the earth, solve the common people, and expel the demons. However, Yan Qinghou really just went home to take a look this time.

Yan Qinghou pushed open the door and stroked everything in the room, the rusty hoe, the scratched pillar, and the leaky roof, the past is vivid. Yan Muran was very novel, playing in this courtyard, she had never been in such a place. She walked around and walked into Yan Qinghou's bedroom, and after a while she walked out of it and said to Yan Qinghou: "Father, there is a sister inside calling you in." ”

There were actually people in this room, and Yan Qinghou didn't notice it. Yan Qinghou immediately picked up his child and handed it to his wife, and then he held the hilt of his sword and walked towards the back room. The moment he pushed open the door, he drew his iron sword, but a familiar face made him silently withdraw it.

That person was Mo Feixue.

"Why are you here?" asked Yan Qinghou.

"I came back a little earlier than you, I heard that you came to Shunzhou, I think you will definitely come here to have a look, just waiting for you here." ”

"So you just came back, what's the matter, it's not a good time outside?"

"It was very unpleasant. ”

"Where are you, I have barely heard from you since I fought you ten years ago. ”

"Of course you don't have any news of me, I disguised myself to collect intelligence in various countries, and I guess you didn't even find out when I was in Jiang Country. I have half a year to move around in the country of Qi. ”

"What are you doing in Qi Kingdom?" Yan Qinghou asked in surprise.

"What else can you do? Could it be to unite with the Qi Kingdom and destroy your Jiang Kingdom together? Oh, I seem to have heard that the Jiang Kingdom is indeed no longer here, right?" Hearing this, Yan Qinghou's face was gloomy, and he didn't answer, in fact, he had already acquiesced.

"I'm kidding, my purpose in the Kingdom of Qi is to assassinate the King of Qi. ”

"Did it work?"

"If I succeed, I won't come back, at that time I was only ten steps away from King Qi's imperial study, and the Golden Six Saints were transferred away from the mountain by me, and I had a stick of incense to kill King Qi, but I didn't expect two people I had never seen before to suddenly appear and interrupt my plan. Those two people have high mana, and they can actually tear through the space and move freely in it, and I only have three contacts with the other party to know that I am not an opponent. As a result, the other party also came to King Qi, I thought to myself that I was doing this in a broken boat, and the other party was confident, so I left and gave them the opportunity. However, after I left the Qi Kingdom, I did not hear the news of the assassination of the King of Qi, but the Qi Kingdom was going to war with the Yan Kingdom, and the Yan Kingdom was actually renamed from the Jiang Kingdom occupied by the demons. So I understood that the two people who came into contact outside King Qi's imperial study at that time were demons, and they had horns on their heads and didn't pay attention to it when it was dark, and now I want to ...... I'm really scared. I've never seen the face of a demon person.,But when I really saw it, I didn't know that the other party was a demon.。 ”

"You should be glad you weren't against them at the time, because I know that we can't match their level. ”

"Are you giving the demon a long face? I heard that when the demon occupied the palace, as the biggest general of the Jiang country, you actually didn't make a move, and watched the demon trample on the dignity of the Jiang country, is that so?"

Yan Qinghou felt ashamed at the moment and didn't dare to look at Mo Feixue. Mo Feixue took off the mask on her face, revealing her entire face.

"Look at me, I want to ask you, you must answer me honestly: Are you a human being, or a lackey of the demon race?"