Xilan will return to Yunlang Country regularly every month for a few days, accompanying Xiao Ran as a watchman, and sometimes she will also teach the children in the neighboring villages to read and play the piano, although Xiao Ran always feels that Xilan is hard and does not let her go back and forth like this, but Xilan is willing to do this: compared to the torment of missing day and night, what is the hardship of the road?

Most of the time they don't talk to each other, they just listen to the tinkling river, look at the blue sky and white clouds, sit next to each other, and dazzle for an afternoon. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Xiao Ran likes to bury her head in Xilan's hair, which always has a faint fragrance of flowers, rubbing it gently, and then taking out a wooden comb to comb her hair after rubbing her long hair.

"Xilan's hair is so beautiful." Xiao Ran held her waterfall-like hair with one hand and gently combed it with the other.

Whenever I see Xiao Ran concentrating on combing her hair in the reflection of Xiaohe, Xilan's heart will always be inexplicably moved.

They thought they would live a peaceful and happy life like this forever, until one day, the iron hooves of the Red Dome Kingdom invaded the Yunlang Kingdom, their peace was broken, and their lives were completely changed......

The Red Dome Kingdom invaded the Yunlang Kingdom and took many Yunlang villages and towns in a few days. Everywhere their troops went, they left nothing but death and desolation.

Finally, when several commandos from the Red Dome Kingdom approached Xiao Ran's village and temple, Xiao Ran was forced to make a choice: to protect the temple's abyss or to protect the villagers. His duty is to guard the temple and suppress the abyss, and in recent days, there have been frequent changes in this abyss...... But without his help, the unarmed villagers of the village would not be able to put up any resistance to the slaughter of the Red Dome. After some struggle, he chose to continue his duty as a watchman with a heavy heart. In any case, these evil spirits must not be born!

On that day, all the other monks of the temple rushed to the surrounding villages to help, and Xiao Ran left alone to guard this seal, and with him, the Red Dome army that tried to seize the power of the abyss was all killed. However, when he returned to the village a day later, he found that it had fallen and turned into a devastated cemetery. When he saw the bodies of his family, he fell to his knees with a "plop" and was full of self-blame and remorse. Looking at the tragic family and villagers who died, he suddenly had doubts about the faith he had once been so proud of, was this the result of unwavering adherence to his mission? In the end, I couldn't even protect my family......

Xiao Ran was extremely desperate and sad and knelt all the time, from evening to night, and then to sunrise. If it weren't for the wind blowing a strand of Xiao Ran's hair in front of his eyes, he wouldn't have known that his head turned white overnight, and his once black hair was now snow-white. He struggled to stand up, but his numb, red, swollen knees made it impossible for him to stand, and it took a long time for him to slowly bury his family. Looking at his family's humble tombstones, endless hatred ignited in his heart.

He vows to slaughter every Red Dome invader, but first he needs to have more power, and despite having "Forgiveness" in his hands, his ability is still far from enough. Then he turned to look in the direction of the temple, his hands clenched into fists, and secretly made that devastating determination.

Xiao Ran turned back to the place where he had sacrificed everything to protect. When he came to the apse and looked at a huge black iron cover covered with carved seals, he knew that there was the terrible abyss below. He lifted the chains with runes on the cover, and forcefully moved the very heavy iron cover, the pitch-black abyss made people feel frightened, and after a while, black and purple flames suddenly emerged from the mouth of the abyss, the flames seemed to have life, with a strange and piercing sound, as if they wanted to break out of the abyss. Xiao Ran clenched his bow and arrow and moved closer to the flames, and the black-purple flames instantly burst out as if they were about to devour Xiao Ran, encircling him.

"Ah!!h The pain of every inch of skin on his body being burned made Xiao Ran almost unbearable, and he fell to the ground struggling in pain. There was also a sense of fear and evil brought about by this fire.

After an unknown amount of time, the flames gradually weakened, and they all seemed to merge into Xiao Ran's body. At this time, Xiao Ran was already the same as before: the black and purple vine-like hair spread from the feet and hands to the body, the original wheat-colored skin had turned cyan, the once bright and black eyes had become cloudy, the pupils had contracted sharply and become smaller, and the whites of the eyes covered with red blood had occupied almost all the eyeballs.

The pain of the burn gradually faded, only the killing intent in his heart became clearer and more profound, and at the same time, he felt the vicious energy melt into his skin. Xiao Ran took out the wooden comb that had combed Xilan's hair, threw it on the ground, and then left without looking back, he was determined to cut off his relationship with Xilan and go alone to find all the Red Dome people related to that invasion to take revenge.

At that time, Xilan was on the front line of the battlefield in the eastern part of Yunlang Kingdom, and she learned medical skills with Yiqing Daoist since she was a child, and saved the lives of many soldiers and friendly soldiers in this war.

Under the pressure of Xizhao reinforcements, the Red Dome Army temporarily withdrew from the territory of Yunlang State a few days later and adjusted it for later combat arrangements.

After finishing the treatment of the wounded, Xilan couldn't wait to rush to Xiao Ran's village to reunite with him. When Xilan arrived, he saw a ruined village that had been persecuted by war, as well as the graves of the villagers, including Xiao Ran's family. Xilan's heart was cold, and a bad premonition came to her mind, she immediately rushed to the temple, but she didn't see any trace of Xiao Ran. Finally she stopped in the apse of the temple and saw the abyssal seal that had been opened, and the wooden comb on the ground.

Since then, Xilan has been looking for Xiao Ran all day long, but after several months, there is still no news of him.

One day Xilan heard the news that the border camp of the Red Dome Country was attacked, she guessed that it might be related to Xiao Ran, so she immediately rushed to the attacked camp, although there was still no trace of Xiao Ran, but she saw the arrow wound of the corpse, and she was even more sure that Xiao Ran must have come to seek revenge from the Red Dome Country.

Xilan guessed that Xiao Ran should continue to attack these camps of the Red Dome Kingdom outside the city, especially those generals who had participated in the war of the Yunlang Kingdom, and after many inquiries, she knew the location of several other Red Dome Country military camps.

Finally, when she rushed to one of the camps, she saw Xiao Ran, who was wantonly killing the soldiers of the Red Dome Country. Although the Xiao Ran in front of her was very different from before: a terrifying and unfamiliar appearance, eyes full of hatred, cruel and crazy killing methods, and a faint black and purple flame around her, she was still sure that this was her Xiao Ran.

Xilan stepped forward to pull Xiao Ran and wanted to stop him, but he was thrown to the ground by Xiao Ran, he didn't seem to know Xilan, his eyes did not have the slightest warmth in the past, instead of strangeness and fierceness. Xiao Ran aimed at Xilan who fell to the ground and pulled up his bow and arrow, and seeing that the arrow was about to be released, the wooden comb fell out of Xilan's sleeve. Seeing the wooden comb, Xiao Ran covered his head and struggled in pain as if he was stimulated, and muttered, "No! I can't hurt her, you guys stop..."

Seeing this, several soldiers of the Red Dome Kingdom who were still alive immediately fled away, Xilan stood up and wanted to step forward to support Xiao Ran, but Xiao Ran shouted in pain: "Don't come here!" Don't come near me! ”

Xilan watched. Xiao Ran, who was in pain, took a step back, took the guqin behind her back, and began to play a piece of music that Xiao Ran loved her to play at the beginning.

Miraculously, after hearing this melody, Xiao Ran gradually settled down, and muttered in his mouth: "Yiyan drinks, grow old with your son." Qin Se is in the palace, don't be quiet......" The black-purple flames on his body began to slowly fade, and his face was no longer so hideous.

When Xiao Ran returned to normal, he told Xilan everything.

"The evil fire within me can give me unimaginable power, but it is also gradually controlling my thoughts and emotions, and when I lose my mind, I will kill anyone. Despite my best efforts to fight it with my mind, I found that I was becoming more and more unable to fight it, just like just now, if it wasn't for the wooden comb that came out and stimulated me, I was really afraid that I would..."

Xilan silently wept and reached out to stroke his bluish skin.

Xiao Ran was silent for a long time, slowly stood up, and Xilan grabbed her, "Where are you going?" ”

"I will kill all the Red Dome people who have participated in the war of Yunlang before I am completely consumed by this vicious energy. I'm sorry, Xilan, I promised you to take care of you for the rest of my life, and now I'm going to break my promise. You... Forget about me. Xiao Ran didn't look at Xilan's warm eyes anymore, and turned away.

Xilan looked at Xiao Ran's back and decided to find a way to save him from the "abyss" of sin.

"Whatever you become, I will be with you until death."