12. Chapter XII

Tang Lin, who had already walked out of the room, had no idea about the conversation that was taking place in the room, and he was now waiting wholeheartedly for the method of cultivating people.

He didn't want Xiao Zibai to wait any longer.

Tang Lin could clearly feel that Xiao Zibai's heart was already covered with a dark cloud, sad, anxious, regretful, regretful...... All kinds of negative feelings churned wildly in the bottom of Xiao Zibai's heart, and finally brewed into a hazy despair, which was so thick that Tang Lin's heart trembled.

Involuntarily, he remembered the plot he had seen at the beginning and revisited in the Heart Magic Realm not long ago: when Xiao Zibai was eight years old, Wu Zhubud's village was about to have a great disaster, and Xiao Zibai must be burned to death in order to extinguish the catastrophe. The fanatical villagers obediently tied up Xiao Zibai and burned him, but he failed to burn him, and the fire that burned him attracted the demon cultivator, who killed all the villagers and brought Xiao Zibai back to the sect, but unexpectedly met the Lingshan Sword Sect who came to destroy the demon......

As soon as he thought of the time when this plot took place, Tang Lin felt a chill coming out of his bones.

…… Xiao Zibai was eight years old.

Eight, years, that, years.

When Tang Lin and Xiao Zibai first met, Xiao Zibai was six and a half years old, and they lived together for about two years.

Tang Lin originally felt that with his own presence, he should be able to avoid this plot, so he deliberately took Xiao Zibai to live outside the village, trying to avoid contact between the people of Xiaojia Village and Xiao Zibai. If it weren't for the fact that he was too small to carry Xiao Zibai, Tang Lin would have taken the child thousands of miles away early, instead of just finding a place to live in seclusion.

He never expected that he would be packed and taken away by Kong Liu and them without warning.

If Xiao Zibai had any contact with the people of Xiaojia Village in order to find him, the people of Xiaojia Village happened to make that damn "divination" again......

Tang Lin didn't dare to think about it anymore, the despair that came from Xiao Zibai's heart was like a tide, gradually spreading and infecting, making him a little flustered and even at a loss for a while. But he can't be flustered and even more overwhelmed, if he wants to help Xiao Zibai, he has to return to Xiao Zibai as quickly as possible, and in order to go back, he must do his best to learn to transform into a person.

Tang Lin took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his heart, hardened his heart not to touch Xiao Zibai's love, and looked up at the black-clothed young man Xuanning:

"How do you turn a human?"

Xuan Ning clapped his hands, took away the seven tails that swaggered behind him, touched them in the storage bag, and threw him a piece of jade slip casually: "Take a look for yourself." Looking at Tang Lin who still seemed puzzled, he made a gesture of sticking the jade slip on his forehead again, Tang Lin suddenly learned that he would probe his mind into the jade slip to check.

At first glance, Tang Lin couldn't help but feel a little bitter in his mouth: the method of transforming people was much more difficult than he had imagined at the beginning.

He originally thought that the so-called "turning into a person" was at most just a magic decision to restrain demonic energy, but he didn't expect that it contained a series of large and small spells, covering all aspects, such as converging demonic energy, changing appearance, and hiding demon pills...... It even includes forging spiritual roots and gold pills.

Yes, not only does Tang Lin not have a spiritual root, but there will be no golden pill in the future, instead of a demon pill, even if he cultivates to the end, there will be no Yuanying Yuanshen, so he has to disguise it with a cultivation method; He also doesn't have a spiritual root, and the manipulation of spiritual power relies on racial talent, which is much more handy than that of cultivators, and he doesn't even have to use the corresponding magic decisions. But in order not to reveal his identity, Tang Lin still had to memorize a large number of mantras and gestures, so as not to be discovered that he could call the wind and rain with just his thoughts......

This is really a very difficult project, Tang Lin was stunned for a moment under the massive amount of information, and then couldn't help but say, "I thought I had turned into a human form. ”

Xuan Ning took out a handful of melon seeds from his storage bag, and sneered at him while snorting: "You ate the transformation grass, not the transformation of the human grass, you also know that you are just the transformation of the human form." Nowadays, the cultivators are more refined than the other, and if you think that you will not be discovered if you only make an appearance, then you can just go down the mountain. ”

Tang Lin was silent, he knew that this kind of thought was too lucky, rather than expecting himself to be lucky not to be discovered, it was better to cultivate these laws in front of him. He gripped the jade slip tightly, pressed it to his forehead, and probed his spiritual sense, and in an instant, the sea of words completely submerged him.

Child, be sure to wait for me. Tang Lin thought, he blinked, and faintly could see a golden red streamer flashing from his eyes.

On the old tree trunk at the entrance of Xiaojia Village, Xiao Zibai, who was firmly bound, suddenly turned his head and dodged a torch thrown by the crowd. He turned his face away, but the blazing torch still hit his right shoulder, and the torch rolled down his slippery clothes, failing to ignite the grease on his body, but gradually extinguished under Xiao Zibai's gaze, and the raging flames turned into a puff of green smoke.

This almost strange situation silenced the angry crowd for a moment, but soon, there was a high and low discussion in the crowd:

"It's already three, and I still can't light ......"

"Youkai, he's really a youkai......"

"No wonder you want to be burned to death, how can such a monster stay in the world......"

"Fire, light more fire......

"Just burn him to death quickly......"

All sorts of whispers eventually turned into a rolling wave of unanimous voices:

"Burn him!" "Burn him!" "Burn him!"

The red-faced villagers stomped their feet rhythmically and roared loudly over and over again, each of them with an expression of excitement on their faces, as if it was a fun activity to burn an eight-year-old child in public.

Xiao Zibai ignored the hateful eyes of the same enemy in the crowd, and raised his head to look at the sky, but now it was the turn of summer and autumn, the canopy above his head was still dense, and the sky was getting dark, no matter how hard he tried, he still couldn't see the figure he wanted to see.

"Tuanzi, where are you now...... Xiao Zibai thought silently. He made up his mind to come to Xiaojia Village that day, originally wanting to hire a few people to help him find Tang Lin. In his mind, he had been away from Xiaojia Village for some time, and because of his good life, his appearance had changed more or less than before, and his clothes, shoes and socks were also exquisite, and he looked no different from ordinary rich children, and no one should associate him with the missing "monster".

He never expected that as soon as he entered the village, he bumped into his father and mother.

"Daddy, look, doesn't that person look like you?" As soon as his mother saw him, her eyes lit up suddenly, and she reached out and poked his father's waist. Swept away by his father's sight, the hairs on the back of Xiao Zibai's neck stood up all of a sudden, and he had a bad instinct, so he turned around quietly and wanted to leave, but was rudely pulled at the back of his clothes.

"What are you going to do?" Xiao Zibai shouted loudly, he struggled to get out, but how could an eight-year-old child earn more than a seven-foot-tall Angzang man. His sturdy father only tugged lightly, and he was unstable on his footing, and he was pulled straight up, and then his father reached out and tore off his shirt directly.

At that moment, Xiao Zibai felt that the blood on his body was cold.

On his chest, there is an ice crystal lotus flower tattoo.

He stiffened, watched his father "ha" at his mother, and shouted triumphantly: "Caught!" That little brute got it! ”

Thinking of this, Xiao Zibai couldn't help but close his eyes. He didn't want to see the crowd in front of him, the excited faces of the crowd, each one exactly like his father and motherβ€”the father and mother who tied him up with his own hands, doused with grease and tied them under the tree. The father and mother only gave him beatings and abuse, and when he thought that they were now in front of him, Xiao Zibai missed Tuanzi very much: the only Tuanzi who gave him warmth.

I may die here, before I die, will the dango come?

Xiao Zibai didn't know, he was a little afraid that he would come, and some hoped that he would come.

If Dango comes, and these people find out that Dango is also a youkai, they will burn Dango as if they wanted to burn him. Xiao Zibai thought, he didn't know that Tang Lin was not afraid of fire, he was just worried that Tuanzi would be injured or even die after he came: if there was anything terrible for him, it was probably not death, but the loss of Tuanzi.

Another torch was thrown at the agitated crowd, followed by another, and another...... Xiao Zibai hung his head, letting those torches be thrown one after another, and then rolled to the ground one by one and extinguished silently.

It's probably a good thing that the dumplings don't come. Xiao Zibai tried hard to comfort himself.

…… But he was still unwilling, unwilling, unwilling.

How can you be willing? He doesn't know if Dango is okay yet, and he doesn't even know if Dango is still alive! If Dango can come, just let him take a look and let him know that Dango is doing well, even if it's dead...... Even if it's dead......

The pyre was erected, more torches were lit, Xiao Zibai raised his head slightly, and there was a flickering fire under his eyes.

There was a crisp sound of "pop", and the blue and white jade slip was dropped to the ground by Tang Lin's hand. Xuan Ning raised his head when he heard the sound, glanced at Tang Lin, and reminded him kindly: "Don't panic, this jade slip is sturdy, and it won't be broken if it falls lightly." ”

Tang Lin smiled reluctantly, thanked him for his kindness, lowered his head and picked up the unscathed jade slip, Tang Lin's face showed a worried look.

Just now, he suddenly had an extremely ominous premonition in his heart, which came for no reason, but made him feel strongly uneasy. Holding the jade slip tightly in his hand, a flickering firelight seemed to appear in front of Tang Lin's eyes, and in the center of the firelight was Xiao Zibai's pale and almost bloodless face.

"Xiao Zibai has an accident", this idea grew like a weed as soon as it was born. He rubbed the jade slip in his hand repeatedly, and stopped talking several times, but finally gritted his teeth, lowered his head and desperately practiced the law of transforming into a person.

Tang Lin had never studied so hard in his life, even when he was rushing to take the exam in the third year of high school. For three whole days, he didn't eat, drink, sleep, and gnawed down the vast content of the jade slip. Thanks to his powerful primordial spirit as a traverser, and thanks to his strong physique as a demon clan, he exerted his unimaginable potential, and mastered the method of transforming into a human at an astonishing speed, but even if he had exerted his unimaginable potential, it took three full days to learn the content in the jade slip.

In the original text, the time when Xiao Zibai was burned was three days and three nights.

Thinking of what might happen to Xiao Zibai, Tang Lin couldn't help but feel anxious, and only had time to confess to Kong Liu, so he hurriedly rushed out of the door to take a look at Xiaojia Village, but was stopped by Kong Liu as soon as he raised his foot.

"Stop." Kong Liu strode from behind him and shouted unceremoniously, "How do you have a long brain?" Are you going to leave just like that?! Do you know where you are now? Where are you looking for? Do you plan to walk on your feet? Don't forget that you're a human now, but you don't have wings! ”

Tang Lin was stunned by these consecutive questions, and only after reacting did he answer: "Although I don't know where I am, I can feel where that person is......

Before he finished speaking, he found that Kong Liu's beautiful eyebrows were slowly raised, showing an expression that looked like anger and surprise, Tang Lin subconsciously closed his mouth and looked at Kong Liu with a little doubt.

"You just said, can you feel where that person is?" Kong Liu stared at him and asked slowly, word by word. Tang Lin replied "yes" inexplicably, and saw Kong Liu's thin lips pursed into a cold and hard straight line.

Kong Liu looked at him, his eyes were full of anger that he tried his best to suppress, and even his voice trembled slightly: "...... Can you still feel the ups and downs of his love? ”

Tang Lin saw that Kong Liu's reaction was wrong, but he didn't want to deceive him, so he replied honestly: "Yes." ”

Kong Liu stubbornly stepped on the bluestone floor tiles under his feet into a pile of gravel powder.

"When did you feel the ups and downs of his affection?" Kong Liu asked in a sullen voice, Tang Lin thought about it, and replied hesitantly: "It should be that I just broke the shell not long ......ago" Kong Liu interrupted him and asked him bluntly: "Is it after you met?" Did you ever have his blood on you? ”

Tang Lin recalled the frozen blood in the cave, and said cautiously, "Yes." ”

Kong Liu slowly closed his eyes.

"You made a pact with him." After being silent for a long time, Kong Liufang said dryly, his eyes looking at Tang Lin were very strange, so strange that Tang Lin was a little creepy: "You and his soul are attracted to each other, and they are stained with his blood......"

Kong Liu suddenly smiled coldly, and said to himself: "I thought you were just a cub and wouldn't get involved in those messy things, but I forgot that I had just broken out of my shell at the beginning......" He gradually lowered his voice, and Tang Lin couldn't hear the words clearly, only faintly heard two words: "Heavenly Dao".

Tang Lin couldn't help but be shocked.

Heaven? What is the Way of Heaven? Heavenly Dao is the super boss hidden in the Xiuzhen text. The protagonist in Xiuzhenwen is either a son of the Heavenly Dao, with deep luck, able to perceive the truth of heaven and earth, and everything he does is not in line with the heart of the Heavenly Dao; Either they go against the sky, regard the way of heaven as a shackle, form a world of their own in the body, and grow up with difficulty under the layers of the way of heaven, and even the thunder tribulation will be ten times more violent than others.

Is Xiao Zibai the kind of son of heaven who is favored by heaven? Don't be kidding, he was killed so badly by the golden finger when he was a child, and finally died at the bottom of the abyss, which heavenly darling would be so abused, it was born by his stepmother at all.

Is Xiao Zibai the kind of anti-heaven cultivator who is suppressed by the Heavenly Dao? Tang Lin thought about this child's bitter childhood, tragic ending, and forced BE...... I suddenly realized that this is really very possible......

Tang Lin suddenly became vigilant. Don't say anything else, let's just talk about this "contract", although I can feel Xiao Zibai's position and mental activity through this, it seems to be very good, but what if there is a pit in it that he doesn't know? Thinking about Xiao Zibai's final ending, Tang Lin couldn't help but ask, "What kind of contract is it?" What is the effect of this contract? ”

Kong Liu glanced at him lightly and did not speak.