At the beginning of the morning, Tang Lin came out of the forest in a trance, his beautiful slender tail feathers stained with some dew and mud, but he seemed to have no notice at all, and only staggered uncontrollably, and accidentally bumped into a tree.

"Hey! You! I don't know how to look when I walk. Tang Lin muttered like a complaint above his head, mixed with the "rustle" sound made by the shaking of leaves, Tang Lin subconsciously apologized again and again, but when he raised his head, he saw a bumpy and undulating human face on the trunk, so frightened that he opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of fire.

"Why are you like this, you demon! Just hit the tree, and breathe fire! The face on the trunk complained quietly, and then he shook his body, and the leaves on Tang Lin's head shook violently, and a large handful of dew tilted on Tang Lin's head, pouring the small incandescent fire that Tang Lin spewed out into a puff of green smoke, and by the way, Tang Lin's entire bird was poured out.

Tang Lin looked at the tree with a wet bird face expressionlessly.

The tree was slightly embarrassed, and the human face on the trunk sank slightly, as if he was lowering his head to avoid Tang Lin's eyes: "...... That,I didn't control my strength.,Forgive me,Forgive me......" When he spoke, several branches on his head that were far away were still bending and touching each other, as if he was learning to pair his fingers, but because the branches were too long, he couldn't do it after trying several times, but rubbed off a few green leaves.

――It happened to fall on Tang Lin.

Tang Lin was silent for a moment, waved his wings and slapped off the leaves on his head and body, took a few steps back, walked out of the shade of the tree, shook his feathers, shook the water on his body, and then carefully spewed out a fire, shook his head and tail and jumped in to wash himself. As a result, he washed and washed, and the tree behind him muttered a little: "Isn't it good to take a bath in front of others?" ”

“…… You shut up. Tang Lin couldn't bear to say unbearably, probably because he was full of fire at the moment, and it was indeed very intimidating in the eyes of a tree, and his face closed quietly. But before it could be closed for a while, the tree spoke again, "Seriously, don't you think it's not good to set fire in front of a tree?" Although I believe that you will not burn me, I will still be afraid, this is the foundation of a tree! Yes, Ben! Can you know what? It is deeply ingrained in the blood, and it is difficult to change it for a while......"

Tang Lin extinguished the fire with a flap of his wings.

"Now the fire is gone." Tang Lin said coldly.

The tree was stunned, hesitated, and said, "...... Oh. ”

The atmosphere fell into an awkward silence for a moment.

In this silence, the heavy thoughts that had just been interrupted by the sudden appearance of the tree returned to Tang Lin's body, he looked at the tree, looked around again, and found that he could no longer tell where he was. Tang Lin knew that he could fly directly to the sky to determine the direction, but he was completely too lazy to wave his wings now, thinking about it, he simply walked slowly to a faceless tree and lay down quietly.

Tang Lin actually wanted to curl himself up, but all he could do was bury his head in his wings; He tried to imagine himself being embraced, but the only thing that surrounded him was his own wings, but the cold air.

He missed Xiao Zibai's embrace a little, although it was colder than the air many times.

He closed his eyes and buried his head and neck as deep as he could.

Suddenly, Tang Lin heard the rustling of branches and leaves above his head. "Probably the wind," he thought indifferently, but then, Tang Lin felt that the rustling sound was constantly getting louder and louder, and there were faint branches and leaves falling on him one after another. Tang Lin raised his wings suspiciously, tilted his head and looked out, and then he was horrified to find that the face on the tree next to him appeared on the tree he was leaning on!

Tang Lin: =Mouth=!!

"What are you going to do?" Tang Lin vigilantly ran out three feet away, and only turned around to look at a treeless clearing, but saw the familiar face turning around on the trunk, and the branches and leaves of the tree were "booming" and straightening: "I just feel that you are not very happy, and I want to comfort you......" The face seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then whispered: "But my hands are too short, so I can't touch you." ”

Tang Lin glanced at the broken branches and leaves on the ground, and the vigilance in his eyes subsided slightly, but he still asked, "Who are you?" ”

"What do you want to ask me about?" The face said indifferently, making the leaves above his head rattle: "I used to be a tree, but now I'm just a wood spirit, and my body is dead, so I can only live on other trees." As he spoke, the face suddenly disappeared from the trunk of the tree in front of Tang Lin, and appeared on another tree, shaking the branches and leaves at Tang Lin: "Look, like this." ”

"Your body...... He's dead? Tang Lin said in surprise, but soon he reacted and hurriedly added: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked......"

"It's okay, it's been a long time anyway." The wood spirit happily waved the trunk of the tree, frowned and thought for a while, and finally the branch shook and said, "It's been too long, I can't remember exactly what it was, but I remember that there was a lot of fire that day, and there was blood and screams everywhere......"

He was silent for a moment before he continued, "I just remember that my father and mother died that day. ”

Tang Lin deeply regretted why he had to mention this, he looked up at the face of the wood spirit, and wanted to go over and touch the trunk, but he doubted whether it would be useful to touch the trunk. In his hesitation, Mu Ling had already raised his face and smiled: "It was Uncle Huang who rescued me, and I am very grateful to him." No matter what, it's always better to live than to die, and if I live for a day, I can still remember my father and mother for a day, so that everyone won't forget about them. ”

"Uncle Huang brings me to pay tribute to them every once in a while, and I still miss my father and mother, but I am not so sad anymore."

He slapped a few branches and leaves together, as if he had slapped his hands, and said with relief: "Look, everything will pass, and the things that made me so sad at the beginning are still in the past, so don't be sad, huh?" ”

Tang Lin never expected that Mu Ling would finally come to such a turn, the dark clouds that had been shrouding his heart before were suddenly dispelled, his eyes revealed a little smile, flapped his wings and flew to the tree where Mu Ling was, picked a branch and stood, and responded in a low voice: "Hmm." ”

The breeze gently blew the branches and leaves of the tree, making a small and broken sound, and the faint morning light was slanted through the branches and leaves, shining on Tang Lin's feathers, and for a time it was brilliant, so gorgeous that it was incomprehensible.

Mu Ling tried hard to raise his face to look at Tang Lin, but he couldn't lift it to a suitable position, if he wanted to change to another tree, he was reluctant, hesitated for a while, he finally shook the branch where Tang Lin was standing, and asked Tang Lin curiously: "Why were you so sad just now, was it Xuan Ning who bullied you?" ”

"No, no, no, it's none of my business." Tang Lin hurriedly said, he imagined Kong Liu's appearance when he knew that Xuan Ning was forcibly carrying the black cauldron, and couldn't help but shudder slightly, and explained to Mu Ling: "I'm sad because of another person. ”

"People?" Mu Ling's eyes widened with curiosity, and Tang Lin realized that he had made a mistake: in the Imperial Beast Sect, in the heaven and earth where Mu Ling was located, all creatures were not human races. He was stunned for a moment, but finally did not change his words, but nodded and said, "Yes, it's a person." ”

Although Mu Ling was curious, he couldn't bear to continue asking, but Tang Lin couldn't help but continue: "Since the first day I came to this world, I have already met him. ”

Then, little by little, he told the whole story.

He talked about his first encounter with Xiao Zibai, the plain and happy life in those years, the sudden separation, the reunion and parting...... He told a lot, and even told some stories that he had seen as a reader, including those ignorant villagers in Xiaojia Village and the so-called prophecy, and as he spoke, Tang Lin suddenly fell silent, and he asked Mu Ling abruptly: "Do you believe in the prophecy?" ”

"Prophecy?" Mu Ling repeated strangely, his expression looking peculiar, with a little bit of rare resentment and disgust.

"Big bird, do you know, many, many years ago, there was a fight between the human race and the demon race." Mu Ling said that although he didn't have a real tongue and mouth, for some reason, Tang Lin always felt that Mu Ling's voice was a little strange and hoarse at this moment: "Do you know why they are fighting? ”

"--Because, ah, a bastard made such a prophecy."

Mu Ling told Tang Lin that many, many years ago, the Demon Clan had a powerful soothsayer, who controlled the power of time and space, and could peek into the past and the future. The soothsayer can predict every flood, every drought, and even the death of the great demon and the birth of a new bloodline, and every demon clan is in awe and trust the soothsayer, they believe every prophecy made by the soothsayer, and even if he divides the demons that the sun will fall tomorrow, the demon clan will not have any doubts, but will go to the worried discussion "what to do if the sun falls", and no one thinks that his divination will fail.

Yes, such a powerful and prestigious soothsayer.

Then, on an ordinary day, this powerful and famous soothsayer suddenly made a prophecy concerning the fortune of the whole clan.

"The demon race will be destroyed, and the human race should be prosperous." He muttered this, and then presented this prophecy to the Demon Emperor at that time for the first time.

The emperor of the demon clan at that time was a jaw, thirsty and aggressive, so happy, with a pride in his bones. After receiving such a prophecy, he did not hesitate to give the order, preparing to exterminate the entire human race. It just so happened that the Terran side also got a somewhat similar prophecy, with only four simple words: "The demon clan kills." ”

The war was in full swing at an unprecedented speed, a large number of mixed living demon races were killed, the three thousand worlds were divided into two major races, and all the foreign races that crossed the border were killed, and this stalemate lasted for about ten years, and finally broke out like a flood.

Mu Ling said that the sky was blood-colored in his memory of that time, and no matter where he went, he could see broken corpses from time to time. The number of human races and demon races is getting smaller and smaller, and in the end, a large part of the three thousand worlds is even completely vacant, because neither humans nor demons have enough troops to control them: but even so, the two races still fight like red eyes, and even completely forget what the original intention of this war was.

The great demon of the demon clan is dead, the power of the human race is dead, and even the demon emperor Jairus who started this war is dead, but the soothsayer who made that prediction is still alive, has been alive, and is prophesying the victory of this war to those demon clans every day, and everyone is convinced that they will continue to fight to the death with the human race.

Until one day, the soothsayer suddenly disappeared.

Before his disappearance, he left one last prophecy.

"The demon clan should be destroyed."

"You ask me if I believe in prophecy? Do you think I should believe it? Mu Ling asked Tang Lin rhetorically, Tang Lin was silent for a moment, stretched out his wings and gently put them on the trunk of the tree, he thought for a while, and said, "The prophecy is made by people after all. ”

The branches and leaves of the big tree drooped down in an instant, and Mu Ling sighed softly: "...... And I really believed it at the time. ”

He lost his mind for a while, and then finally remembered something, and cheered up and asked Tang Lindao, "So, what's next in your story?" Why on earth are you so sad? ”

"Ah......" Tang Lin was stunned, and after thinking for a long time before remembering the previous topic, he said vaguely to Mu Ling: "You know, one of me and him is a human being, and the other is a demon ......."

Mu Ling looked at him with a crooked face for a moment, and then concluded, "I know, you must like him." ”

"Nope! I don't like him, I just ...... Just treat him like my nephew! Tang Lin said decisively, but his paws unconsciously grasped the branches under his feet.

"Treat him as a nephew? But according to you, you and he should be about the same age? Are you even a little younger than him? Mu Ling continued to ask with a crooked face, Tang Lin didn't know how to answer for a while, he hesitated for a while, but Mu Ling had already changed the topic: "Hey, whether you like him or not, you should treat him as a very important person." ”

"Yes." Tang Lin breathed a sigh of relief, he lowered his head, and the toes of the left paw unconsciously tapped the tree trunk: "So I don't want him to know the facts, I don't want to lose his ......"

"I always feel that in your heart, you subconsciously feel that if you say it, you will definitely lose him." Mu Ling said briskly, he shook a branch and leaf and shook it, and pointed out to Tang Lin pointedly: "You actually don't trust him enough. ”

"......" Tang Lin was speechless for a moment, he was silent for a moment, and reluctantly said, "I just don't want to take risks." ”