CHAPTER XXI
It's the height of summer again, and the summer of Yaoxu Hill is extraordinarily beautiful, almost transparent, and there are a few white clouds floating faintly in the sky, layer by layer, like a light veil. Xin Ziling climbed a small hill and sat on the ground looking into the distance. A little farther away was once the home of the fire phoenix, Yaoxu Hill is as beautiful as a painting, what kind of scenery is there?
There was a slight sound of chattering, and she turned her head to look back and didn't get up: "Your Excellency is coming up, come and sit." As he spoke, he patted the grass beside him.
It's been five years, and she's very casual. Mu Dinghua walked over and sat down a step away from her, seeing her looking back at him and smiling, he also smiled faintly, and there was a burst of warmth between his eyebrows: "You know I'm here." ”
She frowned slightly, and her nose furrowed: "I can smell you before you get close." ”
He laughed, "What does it taste like?"
She leaned sideways, the sun shining on his eyelashes and casting a heavy shadow under his eyelids, and she looked at his side face and felt reassured: "You have the scent of a dream flower on you." ”
Mu Dinghua reached out and took out a brocade bag from his wide sleeve, gently opened it and took out a pendant from it. Under a chain made of white filaments fell a silver pear-shaped pearl entwined with silver light: "For you." ”
Zi Ling looked at the pendant blankly and was a little embarrassed: "It's so beautiful, you gave me something again, how can I pay you back?"
He didn't speak, smiled and half-knelt down to tie the pendant around her neck. Xin Ziling didn't refuse, looking at his slightly closer face, his cold eyebrows and sighed sincerely: "Your eyelashes are so long." ”
The corners of Mu Dinghua's mouth curved a lot, and he smiled happier and more casually than every time before: "Can you just say one thing when you say one thing, this ability to skip the topic really makes me unreachable." ”
She couldn't help but laugh when he said this: "You still don't want to learn from me, I'm so stupid." Zi Ling lowered her head and stroked the pendant on her chest, and the silver filaments on the openwork pendant swirled between her fingers and soaked into her body.
"It feels so precious, you still have to bring something delicious as when you came in the past, this ......" Xin Ziling wanted to untie the pendant but was stopped by Mu Dinghua.
"It's not been peaceful outside lately, but you don't know that you live in this Yaoxu Hill, and this can keep you safe. Mu Dinghua withdrew his hand and put it on his lap: "There are traces of aphid crickets everywhere, but fortunately, I have seen this kind of insect that can manipulate the host as soon as it is parasitic, so everything is still under control." ”
"Aphid Cricket......" Xin Ziling muttered, "Isn't that a lot of living beings dead......
Mu Dinghua nodded: "It's dead, you've heard of this parasite?"
"Yes...... So what are you going to do now?" Xin Ziling brought the words over, she didn't want to mention those things related to Chi Qianxi, let alone remember them.
"I want you to take this pendant with you now, and don't take it off. It's the result of my own spiritual power, and it can save your life at a critical time, so you just have to promise me not to take it off now. Mu Dinghua tilted his head to look at her, and his black hair ran down his shoulders.
She had known that the Void Realm would not give up as soon as she made a move, but she didn't expect that the time would be so long, so long that she would forget that the Void Realm had once attacked the Mu family and the Chi family. And this time, maybe they won't stop so easily, and the Nine Heavens Divine Domain doesn't know if it will change again.
I heard that Mu Dinghua lost his parents in the last battle with the Void Realm, but this incident didn't seem to have any effect on him. She looked at him secretly, and when Mu Dinghua didn't speak, there was a coldness that rejected people thousands of miles away, and it was and still is.
Yes, no one will forget these pains. She thought for a while, and reached out to take out a white hosta from her cuff: "I still keep this well, I cherish it." She wanted him to know that there were still people in this world who really cared about him, and that she could be the one he could befriend him.
"This ......" Mu Dinghua was slightly stunned: "This is ......"
He actually forgot that he had given her such a gift, and it seemed like a long time had passed when she was still in love with him. "This was given to me when you first took me to Puluo Caoling," she said jokingly, "and you still put it in my hair." ”
Mu Dinghua thought about it for a while, his smile faded a little, and he reached out to take the hairpin in Ziling's hand and looked at the handiwork, as if it was from Zixian's hand: "Yes...... But this ......"
"No, this has been making me happy for a long time. Don't lose the jade pendant I gave you. She thought about it, stretched out the tips of her fingers and twisted it, and the sky and the earth conjured up a sky full of phoenix tails, flying red all over the sky: "Look, you changed into the phoenix flowers you showed me at that time." ”
Mu Dinghua silently recited a sentence in his heart, and there were more phoenix flowers in the air with a little mental power, all of which looked like fire phoenixes flapping their wings. Xin Ziling was stunned for a moment, and then waved vigorously with his hand, and all the flowers in the air turned into ashes, and the black ashes floated in the air and were scattered by a few wisps of light wind.
Xin Ziling stood up and said with an extremely cold expression: "I don't like phoenix flowers. He seemed to find that he was a little rude, turned around and tried very hard to pull the corners of his mouth and smile, but he couldn't laugh: "That hairpin is still a gift from a friend, you can return it to me." ”
"Do you think the sky on the Grass Ridge is beautiful or the grass on Yaoxu Hill is beautiful?" Mu Dinghua stood up and put the white hosta in her hand.
Xin Ziling finally pulled the corners of her mouth and smiled after unremitting efforts: "Your ability to skip questions is only higher than me, not lower than me, why do you ask this, both sides are beautiful." She looked up at the wisps of white clouds in the sky, and the grass crumbs between her fingers fell to the ground.
"Then go to the Perched Woods, you've been in Yaoxu Hill for so many years. Mu Dinghua looked at Xin Ziling, his tone was as gentle as his eyes.
She chewed on this sentence and thought for a while, and felt that Mu Dinghua was worried that she was stuffy, so she shook her head: "I have a spell that I can't practice well, and Elder Xin may not agree." ”
Under the shining sun, Mu Dinghua's slender fingers revealed some shining light, and the emotions in his eyes she didn't know if she didn't understand or didn't want to understand, so more than five years, but she still couldn't knock on her heart, the heart that she wanted to give to him. He asked, "What kind of spell is it?"
"The only thing that remains here is the magic of this clan, yes, it is a double fire. Purple fire, blue fire. In fact, for some reason, I can't always grasp this blue fire. She frowned: "But I heard that my mother couldn't master this blue fire back then." ”
In fact, even Xin Zhihuanting can't practice this kind ......of technique, this technique is too vicious and not easy to practice, but now Xin Zhiyu Pavilion wants Xin Ziling to practice this technique.
If it is practiced, what does Xin Zhihuanting want to do? Use Xin Ziling to snatch back the Fire Phoenix Territory! Mu Dinghua lowered his eyes slightly, this old man really still had a monstrous hatred in his heart.
"What's wrong?" Xin Ziling wondered, "Is there something wrong?"
"This spell will scorch the soul and body but leave the soul to die in endless pain, you also want to practice such a spell?" Mu Dinghua said in a solemn tone.
She didn't know what to do for a moment, she didn't know what to do now except practice this spell that might never work. She didn't dare to stop, and it meant she should get back to the answer she had been looking for.
"Why did your mother die, does Wan Tingjun already know?" Mu Dinghua was a little worried, if the old man wanted Xin Ziling to practice this technique to deal with Qingmutian, then this kind of result would undoubtedly be a desperate abyss for Xin Ziling, and if she jumped, it would be difficult to turn back.
She nodded and shook her head: "I know that I died to save me, that's all." "How can she say that her father is going to sacrifice her?
"I see, I'm not going to say anything. You think about going to the woods. Mu Dinghua watched the five-colored flowers on this grassy slope bloom happily in the sun, and the blue sky, white clouds, flowers and grass Yaoxu Hill didn't know how long it could be safe. There are only a hundred or so people left in the Fire Phoenix clan, and if the war breaks out again, it may be difficult to survive again.
Xin Ziling seriously considered Mu Dinghua's proposal, she did want to go to the perched wood forest. Huofeng seemed to have been hiding in Yaoxu Hill for many years, but if there was chaos outside, she was a little worried about how long this pure land sheltered by the Red Dragon Clan would last.
The matter of this aphid cricket was a little troublesome, and what a terrifying place the Void Realm was, she had some points in her heart. She thought that her mother would not want to see the fire phoenix come back to trouble, and if she could do her best, she would be willing.
She thought about these things for a long time, and it was not until the little boy brought some fresh fruit that she came to her senses. Her grandmother came to her every night, either to ask her how she practiced her sword that day or to ask her how she practiced her spells that day, but it was rare to give her some fruit or something like today.
I don't know what Mu Dinghua said to her grandmother, probably asking her grandmother to treat her well. After all, after more than five years, Xin Zhihuanting still won't call her by her name, and she is only allowed to call herself Xin Lao. In fact, even if she is so estranged, she has to be much calmer in her heart.
But after receiving so much kindness from Mu Dinghua, she felt heavy, and sighed that fate was so arranged, it was really painful. She felt that he had treated her so differently, that the kindness she owed him snowballed. This kindness has been matched with the sky, but she has nothing to repay.
She would even think that Mu Dinghua might not be worthy of such a good person in this world, and she felt a little sorry for him when she thought that he would be lonely for the rest of his life. She thought about it for a long time and couldn't think of how to repay him by being a cow and a horse, and when she was a little tired, she blew out the candle flame and lay down in the quilt, and a stream of warmth came out of the pendant and shrouded her body, and her belly began to feel a little hot.
Gradually, she felt like a pot of boiling water, she was very uncomfortable, and the feeling gradually subsided when she tossed and turned and couldn't stabilize her hair, and only the warmth left around her body made people drowsy. She slept well, but a faint voice called to her in her sleep, and she tried to follow it, only to see the darkness ahead of her scattered with sparkling shards like stars.
Each fragment seemed to call out to her: Seed Feather...... Seed Feather ...... Seed Feather ......