Chapter 226: Memories of Past Lives
Zhang Yunxian stood in front of Xu Xuan's portrait with a smile on his face, looking at his eyes fixedly.
Following Shen Yi's prompt, he unfolded endless speculation and imagination in his mind, what happened to make a person show such a warm smile?
From childhood to adulthood, he really felt that almost all the happy days were spent with Liu Xiaomei.
In addition, as an orphan and withdrawn in nature, he never felt that there was any joy in life.
Therefore, his instinctive reaction was to feel that Xu Xuan showed such a smile, and he must have something to do with his beloved.
Although folklore is not equivalent to historical facts, the so-called storyline of Zhang Yunxian must be an exaggerated or deified interpretation based on factual experience.
Therefore, to guess the real memory behind Xu Xuan's smile, the only thing he can do is to quickly recall in his mind some beautiful episodes of the husband and wife in "The Legend of the White Snake".
The first time I saw the broken bridge?
West Lake in the same boat?
Newlywed Yan'er?
……
As the minutes ticked by, the image on the black stone didn't react at all.
Zhang Yunxian couldn't help but be a little discouraged, thinking to himself, could it be that something went wrong with his thinking?
Looking up at Xu Xuan's smile again, he couldn't help but feel a little irritable in his heart, quite a kind of absurd association in a high school class where the Chinese teacher asked the students to analyze the author's mental activities at that time by reading a certain paragraph.
"Alas!"
Zhang Yunxian subconsciously stretched out his right hand, gently rubbed it along the lines of the portrait carved on the black stone, and muttered to himself: "Xu Xuan, Xu Xuan, why should you embarrass yourself? Have you ever thought that one day I will stand here helpless?"
Suddenly, he felt a slight *, an indescribably strange emotion rise in his fingertips.
He saw that Xu Xuan's eyes seemed to come to life, becoming black and white, and they were extremely smart.
In the slightly brown pupils, a white figure was reflected.
It's not Zhang Yunxian, it's a beautiful woman who has captivated the country and the city, dressed in white, with black hair draped over her shoulders like a waterfall, sitting in front of the dresser and grooming her temples.
It's Bai Suzhen!
Zhang Yunxian has no doubts at all, this person has no fireworks on her body at all, she is simply a beautiful woman like a fairy, who else can it be besides Bai Suzhen?
There was a faint sunlight on the dresser, shining in the bronze mirror, reflecting Bai Suzhen's beautiful and breathtaking peerless face.
This picture, Zhang Yun made up for it, it should be early in the morning, when the sun was just rising, Bai Suzhen got up and dressed up, looking at the visual presentation of the picture, Xu Xuan should have sat not far behind her and watched it, maybe it should be lying on the bed, the moment when she just opened her eyes, right?
In a trance, Zhang Yunxian's mind flashed a series of pictures related to this picture, the sun rises and sets, the years are like a shuttle, I can't count how many such mornings, every day, when I wake up from the bed, the first thing I see is this same scene.
Warm!
Happiness!
Satisfy!
A faint smile emerged from Zhang Yunxian's face, which was exactly the same as Xu Xuan's expression on the black stone.
"Whew!" There was a soft sound, and the carving in the black stone strip suddenly turned into a little starlight, and all of them penetrated into Zhang Yunxian's eyebrows.
At the same time, in Zhang Yunxian's spirit platform, in addition to his own spirit body, one of the eight figures that was originally vague and indistinct, a faint light lit up on his body, and it disappeared in a flash.
Zhang Yunxian looked inside and found that this figure had become clearer than before.
He vaguely understood that the twelve portraits left by Xu Xuan had preserved a beautiful memory of Bai Suzhen through the black stone, and this memory was a good medicine for his awakening for the spirit that belonged to Xu Xuan in his mind.
After thinking about this, the images in the back are relatively familiar to Zhang Yunxian.
He concocted the same method, his right hand gently touched Xu Xuan's face on the black stone, and looked at him, just by using his heart to experience, he could read the relevant memory information from his pupils.
Zhang Yunxian did not guess wrong, these memories left by Xu Xuan are all about Bai Suzhen.
Twelve pictures, twelve different emotions, almost encapsulate all the mutual affection of the two of them in the sixty years of their husbands and wives, as well as the hardships and hardships of the two of them who are almost the enemies of the whole world.
Bai Suzhen is a snake demon, it is easy to get sleepy every winter, and she is always without energy, Xu Xuan's favorite thing to do is to hold her on the rocking chair, find a sunniest position in the courtyard, gently shake the rocking chair, and watch her sleep like a child.
Although Bai Suzhen is more than 1,700 years old, her heart is still a little simple, many times she does things completely based on her personal likes and dislikes, but she has caused a lot of trouble for Xu Xuan, every time she encounters something that she can't see, she can't help but have a grievance, punish the evil and promote the good, although her cultivation is much higher than Xu Xuan at that time, but every time she helps her deal with the aftermath, it is Xu Xuan.
Xu Xuan herself is a Confucian scholar, and afterwards she will inevitably chant benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith in Bai Suzhen's ear, where can Bai Suzhen listen to it, whenever this happens, she always puts her hands on her cheeks, stares at a pair of affectionate eyes, and makes an innocent expression, which makes Xu Xuan cry and laugh.
On a certain day in a certain year, someone suddenly spread in the streets and alleys that Xu Xuan was the 'apocalypse' who brought disaster to the country and the people.
The ancients were ignorant, and for a while, when everyone saw Xu Xuan, they were afraid to avoid it.
Xu Xuan didn't care much, but Bai Suzhen was not angry in her heart, thinking that ignorant people must be treated with ignorant methods, so she cast a spell to dream to the people in Hangzhou, saying that Xu Xuan is a heavenly official, and this time it is to relieve the people of Li from fire and water.
But I didn't want to, this dream was told to the king in the court by a certain heavenly master of the dynasty as a disobedient proverb.
The king was furious and ordered the prefect of Hangzhou to arrest Xu Xuan, where was Bai Suzhen willing to let Xu Xuan suffer a little grievance, and turned a group of officers and soldiers on their backs and fled.
Xu Xuan knew that the imperial court would definitely not give up, so he had to take Bai Suzhen away from home, wanting to find a paradise far away from the world, firstly to avoid disaster, and secondly, because he was already a high-level cultivator of the sage at that time, and wanted to find a quiet place where he could retreat for a long time, to see if he could break through the realm of the sage.
The husband and wife traveled all the way to the mountains and rivers, but they were also at ease.
They have watched the sea of clouds on the Yellow Mountain, watched the sunrise on the top of Emei Jinding, and also went to Wudang to sit and discuss with Zhang Sanfeng, and even went to Lishan to find the 'old mother of Lishan'......
Happy times are always short-lived.
No matter where they are, the two of them can't stay for long, and those heavenly masters sent by the imperial court, whose noses are as sensitive as dogs, can always track the whereabouts of the two of them.
I don't know how many fights I've fought and how many times I've escaped.
Xu Xuan's cultivation at that time, compared with the Heavenly Master Sages, naturally there is still a certain gap, no matter how powerful Bai Suzhen is, it is impossible to defeat ten with one, in general, the two of them lose more and win less, and most of the time they are fleeing for their lives.
Later, Xu Xuan was seriously injured, and Bai Suzhen went to Jinshan Temple for medical treatment, and this part of the memory is not much different from the record that Yao Bi read in the book just now.
Fahai and the mages of Jinshan Temple knew that Xu Xuan was the Apocalypse, and they wanted to get the so-called 'Apocalypse Inheritance' from him, but unfortunately Xu Xuan himself did not awaken, how could he know what the hell it was.
Bai Suzhen visited Jinshan Temple at night, saw Xu Xuan being tortured by Fahai, was furious, burned most of the temple with a fire, and stole all the pills in the medicine warehouse in the chaos, and finally saved Xu Xuan's life.
Since then, the escape journey of the two has become more difficult.
The celestial masters of the imperial court, plus the mages of Jinshan Temple, and almost the entire sages of the Great Song Dynasty at that time, participated in this feast of hunting the 'Apocalypse'.
Since these images are fragments of memory, and there are many incoherent places in the middle, the last piece of content that Zhang Yunxian read was that Xu Xuan was sealed by Bai Suzhen's breath, and his whole body fell stiffly behind the bushes, watching Bai Suzhen being captured by Fahai and several other bald thieves, but he couldn't shout a single sound.
When all these memories were read by Zhang Yunxian, the pictures on the stone strips also disappeared cleanly, and all the images were spent as a little spiritual power, and they merged into his spiritual platform, which belonged to Xu Xuan's spiritual body.
Except that the face was still blurry, the spirit was basically exactly the same as a normal person.
Zhang Yunxian recalled these memories that suddenly appeared in his mind, and for a while all kinds of complex emotions came to his heart, joy, anger, sorrow, sadness and panic, all intertwined, these memories were so vivid and real, that he was a little unclear whether he was Zhang Yunxian or Xu Xuan.
Regarding what happened after Bai Suzhen was arrested, Xu Xuan did not mention it in his memory.
Zhang Yunxian is very good at reasoning and guessing, and he quickly sorted out the context of the events behind him in combination with what Meng Ying said before.
Bai Suzhen was captured by Fahai, and Xu Xuan escaped because of Bai Suzhen's imprisonment.
In order to save Bai Suzhen from Fahai, he cultivated desperately, hoping to impact the Sage Realm, so that he could have the strength to fight.
Meng Ying's statement was that he had reached the critical juncture of advancing at that time.
In order to force him to come forward, Fahai must have used Bai Suzhen to do something provocative that made him angry, maybe Bai Suzhen's death was Fahai's most vicious method, right?
So much so that Xu Xuan completely lost his mind, and was about to enter the sainthood, but he couldn't bear it for a moment, and he was no longer willing to wait, so he made the decision to go to Fahai desperately.
He obviously went with the heart of death, he must have thought that Bai Suzhen really died in the hands of Fahai, and he inevitably had no desperate thoughts of seeking his own death and following Bai Suzhen.
And on this Anti Mountain, Bai Suzhen's tomb, I am afraid that it was also at that time, he came to the demon clan to set it up with his own hands.
This may be the last thing he thought of before he begged to die, the only thing he could do for his beloved.
As for the twelve images he left behind, representing twelve emotions, he should have adopted a technique similar to peeling off, and sealed them all in the black stone.
There are twelve emotions, there are joys and sorrows, sweet and bitter, but there is only one missing.
Hate!
He left all the good and sad memories to Bai Suzhen, and when he went on the road, all he took away was hatred, a monstrous hatred for Fahai and the group of heavenly masters!
He went only for revenge, only to die!
In the end, he naturally got what he wanted, if it wasn't for Meng Ying finally risking death to save him and snatching back his body, Zhang Yunxian didn't even dare to imagine whether Xu Xuan would be reincarnated after being refined into some magic medicine by Fahai.
Perhaps, he, the ninth-generation Apocalypse, will never appear in this world again, right?