The fire demon finished the story, and it was already ugly. The people of the village had long since fallen asleep, and only the soldiers patrolling outside the village carried torches, and the sparks moved across the land.

"It turns out that so many things have happened in the past, and this demon is also born because of people. Yan Che sighed.

"Knowing the truth of the matter, will you still help mankind? With your grinding character, it is okay to hide in the mountains and not ask about the world. If you kindly saved someone today, the person you saved the next day may blame you for why you didn't save more people, and even ask you to pass on the ability to save people. Man's desires are endless and will never be satisfied, which is the consequence of their unauthorized eating of the fruit of desire. ”

Yan Che sat on the steps and thought deeply, stroking the ring in his hand. All the pictures of today kept flashing in his mind, among which Fu Qinggu's clear and pure heart he could see at a glance, and he heard from his heart that there were still people who were worth guarding. Just like Nuwa would not reinvent everyone because some people were degenerate, she still hoped that they could face themselves squarely and lead the big with the small.

Yan Demon thought in his heart that he naturally did not approve of human beings, and today he also heard that the descendants of the female snail had disappeared from the world, and he even felt that he was as weak as the female snail, if he had destroyed the whole world like Gonggong and recreated the world, the world would not have been peaceful for three thousand years. The Flame Demon watched as Yan Che was playing with the ring on his finger, which had once been his Horcrux before being transferred to the Demon Sword. That ring contains a universe and is not to be underestimated.

I thought that Yan Che would give up the idea of this, but I never thought that Yan Che would be more determined. He stood up and said to the Flame Demon, "Ancestor, I will continue to do it. Sometimes it is not because there is hope that we act, but because we act, there is hope. If you let humans go, they won't be able to change the situation, and your and Nuwa's hard work will be in vain. I want to do it another way. ”

"In what way?"

Yan Che smiled but didn't answer, and said, "Let's wait and see." ”

In the early morning, a crisp rooster crows, and the bright sun shines into the house. Fu Qinggu slowly opened his eyes, and woke up to find that he was not sleeping in his own bed. She struggled to remember what happened last night, only remembering that she fell asleep next to Yan Che, and she didn't remember what happened next. She looked at her body and clothes, and there seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary. She got up and opened the door, and saw that Yan Qinghou was already reorganizing the soldiers and horses and preparing to return to the court. And Yan Che and the others happened to pass by the house, and the village chief was sending them to the entrance of the village, when they saw their daughter standing at the door and called her over, Fu Qinggu hurriedly ran over.

"Zhang Gongzi said that you slept last night, so he put you in his room, and he himself was outside the house all night. Why are you so rude to let the benefactor of the village be treated like this. The village chief blamed his daughter, Fu Qinggu just lowered his head, and then looked at Yan Che and said, "Is Zhang Gongzi leaving?"

Yan Che said: "Well, General Yan invited me to go to the capital of Jiang Guoguo, and I regarded it as a trip. I haven't seen this world yet, and a different place may be an eye-opener. Seeing that Fu Qinggu didn't reply, he left.

Yan Qinghou prepared a few carriages for Yan Che and his party to ride, but the attendants did not get into the carriage, only Yan Che and Yan Tiege sat on it. When he got into the carriage, Yan Che kept looking out of the carriage and saw Fu Qinggu in the crowd. Yan Tiege asked him, "What's wrong?"

Yan Che said, "It's nothing, I just think that woman has something to say to me, but she hasn't said it." ”

Yan Tiege took out the Book of Eternity, opened the book cover, and said, "If she is embarrassed to say, you might as well ask directly." I don't know when I'll come back when I go to Jiang Guo this time, it seems that I have a fate with you here, let's go. Yan Che flew behind Fu Qinggu in an instant, at this time Fu Qinggu didn't know that Yan Che was behind her, and when she turned around, she found that Yan Che, who had just gotten into the carriage, was already in front of her.

Yan Che said: "Miss Fu, just say it directly, I saw that you wanted to talk and stopped, I don't know when we will meet next time I leave this time." ”

Fu Qinggu finally mustered up the courage and said, "Please be sure to help King Jiang and help the people of our Jiang country." Jiang was originally a rich and powerful country, and King Jiang was kind and loved the people. If it weren't for those bastard princes and traitorous villains, Jiang Guo would not have fallen to the point where he is today. ”

I didn't expect that this little human in front of me was worried a lot, and I didn't expect Yan Che to have a sharp answer.

"I refuse. ”

When Fu Qinggu heard this answer, he thought that he had misheard, but Yan Che's answer was very affirmative.

"I refuse. My mother taught me that helping others is not the same as letting others get something for nothing, but just helping others in their endeavors. If a person does not work hard and only wants to live on the relief of others, such a person is taking advantage of the kindness of others and does not deserve help. You Jiang Guo are managing the country by yourself, and you are also pushing the country to the brink of destruction in your own hands. Now you should do it yourself, why bother others. ”

These words left Fu Qinggu speechless. Seeing that Fu Qinggu had nothing to say, Yan Che prepared to leave. Suddenly, Fu Qinggu called out to him: "That's not the case! We also want to do our part, but we don't have this opportunity." If you don't even have a chance, what kind of effort is there to talk about. ”

Yan Che recalled that yesterday when Fu Qinggu was taken hostage by Qi Jun, she was able to take the lead in leading everyone out of the predicament by herself, and survived the Jedi, with the righteousness of sacrificing her life and the mercy of the weak. Maybe she really thinks what she said, the country is not managed by this group of mortals, and it is they who suffer the destruction of the country in the end.

"Let me ask you, what if the Qi army attacks you again?" Yan Che asked.

was suddenly asked about this topic, but Fu Qinggu could answer immediately: "Even if the enemy is outnumbered, we must face it head-on." ”

"Hahaha. Yan Che smiled, "You group of old, weak, sick and disabled, where do you come to face the head-on, you are all hitting stones with eggs." ”

"The moth knows whether it will die or fly up if it pounces on the flames, and if it does nothing and waits for death, it is better to fight for its life. ”

Fu Qinggu's eyes were very firm, and at the same time, they also showed the fragility of human abilities. Yan Che looked at Fu Qinggu's eyes, remembering that his mother said that when looking at a woman, you must not be deceived by beauty, people's eyes will not lie, and people with clear eyes are the most beautiful. Yan Che said: "If next time, all of you people in the village can survive and fight by your own efforts, I promise you to help Jiang Guo pacify the world." “

A smile appeared on Fu Qinggu's face and he nodded affirmatively. Yan Che also knew that they needed help, and took off the ring from her hand and put it on her. Fu Qinggu didn't know what it meant to give a ring, and he didn't dare to accept such valuable things. Yan Che tells her that the ring will appear to help you when she wants to help, even if it is to shake the tree, you must have weapons to fight the enemy.

Fu Qinggu accepted the ring, looked up and disappeared again.

Yan Che returned to the carriage, and Yan Tiege asked, "The matter is settled?"

"Solved. Many times people still have to rely on their own efforts, and too much extravagance will make people comfortable to death. “

"Well, we don't know anything about Jiang Guo here, what I know is the world a hundred years ago, let's let the people who live in the world introduce us to the pattern of the world, so as to pave the way for the future. Yan Tiege said.

"Well, that's what Uncle said. General Yan fought in the south and in the north, and he should be familiar with it. Hide, you go and ask General Xia Yan. After hearing the order, Yin disappeared from Yan Che's shadow and came to the shadow under Yan Qinghou's horse. He walked out of the shadows and came to Yan Qinghou's side. Yan Qinghou just got on the horse, and was really startled when he saw the hidden appearance that suddenly appeared, and felt that this Zhang Shaoxia was not only extraordinary, but also had a lot of talents under him.

Yin said to Yan Qinghou: "The young master asked the general to go to the carriage to talk." “

Yan Qinghou calmed down and said, "I know, I'll go now." But Yin stopped him and said to him, "Don't be so troublesome, please come with me." Then he grabbed Yan Qinghou and dragged him into his shadow. When the soldiers saw it, they all rushed over, Yan Qinghou told everyone not to be nervous, and the troops continued to move forward, and finally disappeared into the shadows. The shadow crawled on the ground and returned to the carriage in which Yan Che was sitting. Yan Qinghou poked his head out of the shadow and saw that he had come to Yan Che's carriage, and Yan Che's uncle and nephew were sitting opposite. He saluted and said, "What's the matter with Zhang Shaoxia?"

Yan Tiege asked Yan Qinghou to sit first, and then expressed his intentions, and Yan Qinghou began to introduce the current pattern:

A hundred years ago, the six worlds of people, gods and demons lived together in the world, with the end of the war between gods and demons, the demons fled back to the demon world, the Nuwa clan disappeared from the world, the gods returned to the Haotian universe, and the Jiao clan sank into the deep sea. The Terran forces were entrenched and disputes continued, and then more than a dozen countries were slowly annexed and destroyed, forming a situation of six powers. The west of the Six Kingdoms is isolated by the Poison Swamp Dense Forest and the Final Yan Giant Peak, and the west is the Demon Clan. Jiang is located on the east side of the poisonous swamp forest, and further east is the Qi country. The north of Jiang Country is a cool country, with ice and snow all year round. To the south of Jiang is Yongguo, and to the south of Yongguo is the Void Desert. On the east side of Yongguo and on the south side of Qi is Yunguo. There is an archipelago overseas on the east side of the Qi country, which is the country of Lai.

Yan Qinghou took out the map, and Yan Che saw it at a glance. Yan Tiege looked at the book, there were no words on the book, but the words appeared on the paper one by one.

Yan Qinghou continued: "The Jiang Kingdom declined decades ago, and most of the land was lost. To the east is the realm of the demon clan, and Jiang Guo has no room to retreat. ”

"Without General Yan all these years, I'm afraid that Jiang Guoyi will no longer exist. Yan Che said.

"Zhang Shaoxia lifted Yan, Yan was lonely, and sometimes he was really lacking in skills. Thinking of the many people who have been displaced in foreign countries, it is still difficult to sleep and eat. ”

Yan Che looked at the map and found that the world was so big, and there was an endless ocean. At that time, his mother was only the tip of the iceberg after half her life, and it seems that he has a long way to go. Then he asked Yin to send Yan Qinghou away, and discussed with Yan Tiege and the two in the car.

Yan Che said, "Uncle, humans don't believe that demons will come out to maintain world peace, right?"

"Back then, they would rather believe that the privet people of Pudu were accomplices in helping demons and abuse, and naturally they would not believe that the demons could have any good intentions. If you don't tell the human general who you really are, it means that you have other plans. ”

"Yes, I will tell the world that in the future what they think is God is not the real God, and that they will not be able to help the cowardly, and that the world as they think it will always be unworthy. ”

After hearing this, Yan Tiege just smiled and said nothing, turning the book of eternity. From time to time, he sighed: "Tens of thousands of years ago, people did not have the concept of a country, and every tribe lived in harmony. In the extremely cold land of the north, cattle and sheep have no forage to eat, and people from other places will bring tender green forage. People in the south have been short of water for many years, and people in the east have diverted water from rivers to deserts, but now the continent has fallen apart, from one piece in the past to five pieces now, and people have built their own countries because of interests, and there is only intrigue between countries. ”

Seeing what Yan Tiege said with relish, Yan Che was curious about the book in his hand and asked how he got it. Yan Tiege replied that this book was sent by Ghost Shili, which surprised Yan Che. Yan Tiege felt that he was not easy to explain, so he asked Ghost Shili to come by himself and call Ghost Shili into the carriage.

After getting into the carriage, Oni Shili heard the question and smiled ashamedly. He said: "At that time, Gonggong defeated the sky with the Yuan Shen and turned his soul into a nine-day dragon, Nuwa used the Yuan Shen to make up for the loopholes in the sky and his soul lodged in the descendants of the female snails, the Fire God was the current fire demon, and Yan Che knew about it, and Yama always regretted that he was busy managing the rebellion of the undead in the underworld at that time, and did not help at that time. Later, he decided to let go of management, and turned into countless ghost officials and ghost envoys with his own original spirit, managing everything in the underworld instead of him, and leaving a soul in the world to check the world left by Nuwa and Zhurong. That soul is the old man, and the old man's body is the main body of the primordial god of Yama. It's a shame to say that for thousands of years, I only know how to wander in the world and do nothing. At that time, the first war between man and demon, I was just waiting and watching, and when I saw that the leader of the demon clan, Chi You, was defeated by the Yellow Emperor, I planned to sleep in the extremely cold place, and I didn't want to watch the farce of the world anymore. But later, Zhu Rong's primordial spirit was passed on to Emperor Yan, and the Yan Demon clan was established, and continued to grow in the world, until the Second War of Humans and Demons, I identified myself to the former Demon King and the Prime Minister, and participated in the Second War. The book of eternity is a book that only Yama can read, and everyone else sees it without words, and he doesn't want the prime minister to be worthy of being ten thousand demons, he can actually see the words on the book. Books can automatically record important things that happen in the world, and they are all conveyed to books by ghosts and officials from all over the world. When I saw that the prime minister had a relationship with books, I gave them to him. But the book was still jet-lagged, and what happened at that time wouldn't appear in the book until a year later. For a day on earth is equal to a year in Hades. ”

Yan Che was also shocked, he didn't expect that the old gentleman who had been by his side for so many years was actually Yama, one of the four primordial gods. It's just that Ghost Shili asked Yan Che not to taboo his identity, he has long since failed to regard himself as a god, and he prefers that others will call him an old immortal.

Yan Tiege and Yan Demon had asked Yan Che before, whether it was worth it to help humans, and Yan Che also threw this question to Ghost Shili. Ghost Shili thought about it carefully, whether it was worth it or not, after all, it was up to him to decide. He remembered a story that was often told about a man who had nothing at first and found a handful of sesame seeds on the road. Later, I met a watermelon on the road and lost the sesame seeds. When he came home, he found that the watermelon was rotten and inedible, and in the end the man was still left. He asked Yan Che rhetorically, is what this person did meaningful?

Yan Che smiled slightly and replied, "Maybe the result is nothing, at least this person has been happy all the time in the process." If, because of frustration, the person feels that it is not worth living anymore, that God and fate are against him, he will immediately know his life, and if this person sees hope, that there will be food to be picked up tomorrow, and that he will learn the lessons of today, then he will fall asleep happily and feel that the world is worth waking up tomorrow. ”

Hearing Yan Che's answer, Yan Tiege laughed happily, and Ghost Shili also touched his beard, seemingly satisfied with Yan Che's answer.

"Then according to what my nephew said, whether the world is worth it or not, look at their own human creation. ”

The three of them heard laughter from time to time in the carriage, and slowly headed to the capital of Jiang Kingdom.