"Rumble——!

A low roar tumbled between the thick clouds, ominous shadows cast over the wind-swept Imperial City. In the roar of the puppet undead, I saw that the crack in the sky that had just had a slight tendency to converge suddenly seemed to have gained new strength and began to expand again.

"Oh no! If this continues, the ghost door will be opened!"

Jiang Yao was anxious when he saw this, but at this time, he couldn't do anything except stare dryly. The previous continuous outbursts had already eaten away the last of his strength, and he felt every inch of his muscles "crackling" when his qi was broken, and the pinprick pain stimulated every nerve in him, and now it was a miracle that he didn't faint.

"Hmm...... There are 'those two guys' on the opposite side for the time being, and they should be able to carry it for a while, but if you don't destroy the 'dragon bone key' as soon as possible, I'm afraid it will ......" gluttony said, glanced at the golden thunder that loomed in the 'giant eyes', and then looked at the man in the cloak on the altar, and after a moment of silence, he gently put down Jiang Yao and stood up.

"Stay here and don't move. ”

After a sentence of care, the glutton's figure flashed, and he jumped onto the altar on the verge of collapse again, while the figure of the blue bird still stood there, as if waiting for the arrival of the gluttony.

"I thought you and I should be on the same page, but it seems to be ...... It was me who was wrong. Blue Bird stared at the red-haired man in front of him and said slowly. "Why...... You're probably the one who hates humans the most. ”

"I didn't really like humans, or rather...... Hate humans for a long time, that's true. ”

Gluttony looked back at the blue eyes of the blue bird and walked forward step by step.

"As you said, a lot of human beings are greedy, narrow-minded, and unthankful...... I know this better than anyone else, and I've been as angry with the entire human race as you are...... However, it was this blind anger that made me make an unforgivable mistake and made me spend the rest of my endless long time in regret. ”

"......" Bluebird looked at the approaching gluttony expressionlessly, and did not speak.

"Your 'heart knot' is not actually an unfulfilled agreement, but the pain of knowing that you have made a mistake but having to go on, and the object of your so-called 'zeroing' is not the whole world, but yourself. ”

As he spoke, he stood still in front of the blue bird, but the blue bird remained silent, noncommittal.

"I have already noticed when I fought with you before, although this 'Soul Suppression Stone' in your hand temporarily replaces Neidan and allows you to recover your mana, but at the same time, it is also absorbing your Yuan Shen, which can be described as a 'double-edged sword', which is why you are so weak. It can be said that this 'soul stone' is not a 'salvation' for you, but a 'shackle' that binds you. ”

Gluttony moved his gaze to the golden object in the man's hand.

"I was thinking about why someone would easily lend you a magic stone with terrifying power like the 'Soul Suppression Stone', but now it seems that you yourself must have been regarded as a 'tribute' to this 'Soul Suppression Stone' by the other party, and the moment you accepted the 'Soul Suppression Stone', you couldn't get rid of the other party's control, and you couldn't help yourself...... And this is probably the real purpose of the guy who gave you the 'Soul Suppression Stone'. ”

"If you want to gain power, you have to pay a price, and I've been aware of that for a long time. The blue bird stared at the gluttony, and finally spoke. "It's useless to talk too much, if you want to stop me, then take action. ”

"If this is the 'liberation' you seek, I can satisfy you. As he spoke, the dark purple fireworks in his palms slowly ignited again. "But before I do, I want to know the guy who gave you the Soul Stone...... Who the hell is it?"

"If you want to know...... Beat me first. ”

As soon as the words fell, a pale golden light suddenly burst out from the blue bird's body, and under the gaze of the gloomy 'giant eye' in the sky, the sound of marble collapse came and went, and the figure of the blue bird stood on the crumbling altar, the expression on his face was obscured in the shadows.

"In this state, you're still squeezing your mana, and it seems that you really want to die. Gluttony dodged the golden chains that rushed at him, and gradually approached the blue bird. "Since you're not even afraid of death, why are you afraid to tell me the identity of that guy?"

"You...... I don't understand anything......"

The blue bird murmured softly, and its pale and almost transparent fingertips swept across the 'Soul Suppression Stone' that shimmered with a strange light, and the depths of its blue pupils were too thick to dissolve the ink. But just before the demonic power he had accumulated was about to explode, the blue bird's gaze seemed to flicker, and an anxious figure in the distance suddenly crossed his line of sight.

"Pound ——!"

The dazzling golden light collided with the crimson phantom, and the violent shock wave destroyed the entire altar in an instant with the scattered demonic energy. Under the impact, Jiang Yao, who was on the periphery of the altar, was suddenly overturned to the ground, and in the sound of scattered rubble, Jiang Yao seemed to vaguely hear a man's shout from far and near, coming from behind:

"Father-in-law——!! father-in-law, where are you!?"

"Road...... Lu Xingyue!?" Jiang Yao's eyes widened, and he looked at the man with different eyes who was almost supported by the toad ghost and stumbled over, but the latter didn't seem to notice Jiang Yao at all, and all the attention of the other party was focused on the dust-shrouded altar ruins in front of him.

"Father......!!Please...... Please don't leave me behind——!!"

Seeing the altar that had been reduced to ruins, Lu Xingyue's whole person almost collapsed, he shook off the hand of the frog and limped towards the direction of the ruins.

"Hey, where are you going! It's dangerous over there!" Quack, clucking......" Frog Frog shouted anxiously, and just wanted to catch up, but suddenly caught a glimpse of Si You, who was seriously injured and unconscious not far away, and suddenly stopped.

"Ah...... He is ......" Frog Stant looked at Si You, and then at Lu Xingyue in front of him, his face obviously hesitated. But soon, as if it had made up its mind, it hurriedly carried the spirit banner and ran in the direction of Si You, leaving Lu Xingyue to continue to run forward staggeringly.

"Father-in-law...... Stepfather...... Answer me, please......" Lu Xingyue cried out in despair, at this time only the ruins of the altar looming in the dust were left in his eyes, and the hope that had finally been ignited and the uneasiness that followed strongly shook his consciousness, and in a trance, he didn't even notice that a collapsing boulder was slowly pressing down on him next to him.

"Lu Xingyue! Be careful——!!"

Jiang Yao's exclamation instantly pulled Lu Xingyue's consciousness back, but it seemed to be too late. When Lu Xingyue raised her head, what caught her eye was the shadow of the boulder that was close at hand.

"Bang!!"

Jiang Yao's shout was drowned in the sound of the collapse of the boulder, and the dust that rose into the sky instantly buried Lu Xingyue's figure, and the stunned Jiang Yao suddenly came back to his senses, he didn't care about the pain of his body tearing, and staggered and rushed to the front of the boulder falling.

"Lu Xingyue ——!!"

"Hmm...... Ahem......" Lu Xingyue coughed lightly and opened her eyes slightly.

A familiar breath enveloped him, and a warm touch spread across his arm. He slowly raised his head, and what appeared in front of him was not a cold boulder, but a warm embrace, and a pair of gentle blue eyes.

"Righteousness...... Father ......" Lu Xingyue's eyes widened, he stared blankly at the man in the cloak who blocked the boulder for him, and under the ecstasy of the reunion and the inexplicable sadness, all the thousand words turned into two lines of tears.

"Xingyue, don't cry......" The blue bird gently wiped the tears from Lu Xingyue's face, the blood slowly soaked the blue bird's cloak, and in the broken "dragon bone key" and the debris of the boulder, the huge spatial crack in the sky also seemed to have lost its last support, and gradually disappeared into the dark purple sky.

"So he ...... Is that the father-in-law you've been looking for?" At this time, Jiang Yao finally rushed over, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he suddenly didn't know what to say.

"It seems that you made a choice at the last minute......

Another voice suddenly sounded, and I saw the gluttonous figure slowly walking out of the ruins. He looked at the man in the cloak covered in blood, and then at Lu Xingyue, who was crying in the man's arms, and sighed softly.

"It's said to be 'zero', but don't you still have things that you can't put down?"

"yes...... It's a pity...... I understood too late......"

The blue bird sighed, wisps of pale golden light scattered out from all around him, and in the bleak breeze, I saw that there was no trace of the 'soul stone' in the blue bird's hand, and at the same time, his figure became more and more transparent.

"Father-in-law!Father-in-law, what's wrong with you!?" Lu Xingyue was startled and suddenly nervous.

"Your 'Soul Stone'...... Gone?" Gluttony looked at the blue bird's empty hands, and suddenly realized something.

"Huh...... What you borrow, you have to pay back after all...... The moment I chose to betray the other party, the other party also chose to give up on me......"

The blue bird chuckled, raised his translucent hand, and gently brushed the red gold and silver eyes of Lu Xingyue. He remembered that dim rainy night many years ago, and remembered the swaddling clothes abandoned on the street corner, and the crying baby with different pupils in the swaddling clothes showed the warmest and most beautiful smile the moment he saw himself.

"Xingyue...... It looks like your stepfather is leaving you again...... Sorry ......"

"No, don't, I beg you, father-in-law, don't leave me——!!" Lu Xingyue hugged the man in front of her tightly and shouted in a hissed voice.

“…… The mistakes of the stepfather...... It's time to pay it back, it's the 'retribution......' I deserve," the blue bird said, moving his gaze to Jiang Yao, who was looking at Jiang Yao with a tangled face.

"I know what you want to ask, your friend Corpse Dove...... It was indeed my soul that I snatched, and it was I who prevented him from re-entering reincarnation......"

"You...... Why ......" Jiang Yao gritted his teeth, facing the enemy who killed Xiao Yuan, he really couldn't keep calm.

"I'm not going to make excuses for my mistakes...... But I can tell you at least one thing...... This is my final remedy for you......" Bluebird gasped, his voice getting softer and softer.

"The souls that were taken away by the 'Soul Stone' are all sealed inside the 'Soul Stone'...... And as long as you find the "Soul Suppression Stone" and release the soul sealed inside, those souls that have been taken away from you can re-enter the cycle of reincarnation...... Including the corpse dove. ”

"Then where is the ...... 'Soul Suppression Stone', and who did you get the 'Soul Suppression Stone' from?" Jiang Yao asked.

"Yes...... Hmm!!"

A strange black light streaked across the blue bird's chest, and at that moment, the blue bird's face showed a painful look, and his thin body began to dissipate sharply.

"It's ...... The preset 'curse of extinguishment'!?" Seeing the black light on the blue bird's chest, the gluttonous face suddenly changed. "It's not good, his primordial spirit is going to disperse!"

"No, don't......! Father!!"

Lu Xingyue shouted uncontrollably, but he couldn't stop the blue bird from dissipating. And just as the body of the blue bird was about to dissipate in the black light, he heard a sudden deafening roar from the sky, accompanied by staggered golden thunder and lightning and a fierce whirlwind, a black shadow fell from the sky.

Fluttering black hair, turquoise pupils, fluttering wings...... However, the other party's always indifferent face showed a kind of pathos and anger that had never been seen before.

I saw that what appeared in front of everyone was the Heavenly Divine Bird that had broken into the Netherworld Forbidden Land-the Three-legged Crow.