No matter how much Tang Lin asked, Kong Liu still refused to tell him the specific content of the contract, and only warned him that he must not let his blood get on Xiao Zibai's body. Tang Lin guessed that the contract made now was only one-way, and if his blood was stained on Xiao Zibai's body, the contract would become two-way; In other words, the current contract is not fully established, and the contract will not be fully completed until Xiao Zibai is stained with his blood.

-- This made Tang Lin feel more or less relieved.

Ever since he realized that the plot when Xiao Zibai was eight years old still happened and he hadn't been able to change anything, the ending of "Xiuzhen One Sword Annihilation" has been pressing on his heart like a heavy stone, and he is a little out of breath.

In between cultivating the method of transforming people, Tang Lin always couldn't help but think, why did Xiao Zibai in the ending fight to protect a pet?

Even if that pet is very cute, very smart, and gives him a lot of comfort, but Xiao Zibai is not the only one in his life? He still has a master who loves him, a senior uncle who loves him, and many classmates, maybe it is the author who compensated Xiao Zibai for his painful childhood, his life in the Lingshan Sword Sect can be said to be relatively simple and happy.

What made him abandon this hard-won warmth, and resolutely chose to use his life to protect a chick that had not learned to fly for hundreds of years?

- Unless for Xiao Zibai, it's not just a pet, or even more than a bird.

The relevant descriptions in the novel were recalled in an instant, and the scenes pierced into Tang Lin's heart like sharp needles.

“…… The chick whispered in his arms, and pecked his fingers with his beak in attachment, a strange feeling of admiration arose in his heart, Xiao Zibai reached out and rubbed the soft short hair on the top of the chick's head, and the corners of his lips were gently hooked......"

“…… Sensing what Xiao Zibai was thinking, Mao Tuanzi couldn't help but 'chirp' in frustration, turned his head and lay directly in the crook of his arm, burying his face deeply, and only facing him with his short tail feathers. Xiao Zibai smiled and coaxed it to say......"

“…… Ah Xuan sensed his frustration, flapped his short wings hard in Xiao Zibai's arms, and rubbed his chin with his furry head......"

That "Ah Xuan" will comfort the protagonist from time to time, pretend to be cute and make him laugh when the protagonist is frustrated, and even the protagonist doesn't even need a look to make it understand what he means. originally thought that these were just the reasons why "Ah Xuan" was smart and clever, but now that I think about it, those cute passages made Tang Lin feel a chill seeping in his bones.

Tang Lin raised his hand and touched his heart, and the love that belonged to Xiao Zibai was still quietly surging there.

I thought it was a gold finger that crossed over, but it turned out to be ...... It's just a contract. The original "Ah Xuan" in the book probably signed the same contract as Xiao Zibai?

Thinking of this, Tang Lin's eyes sank: he never wanted to follow the old path of that "Ah Xuan".

All the leads to the tragic ending of Xiao Zibai's tragic death and the destruction of the world by the "Demon of Destroying the World": the identity of the "Demon of Destroying the World", the divination of the sect master of Tianyan Sect, and what kind of contract is this...... All of them are contaminated with the shadow of the way of heaven. Thinking of this, and looking at the unfinished contract on his body, Tang Lin, who had read the online articles extensively, suddenly smelled an aura of conspiracy.

The white-cloud-shaped magic weapon under his feet was urged by Kong Liu to fly all the way in the direction of Xiaojia Village, Tang Lin raised his head, looked in the direction where Xiao Zibai was, and muttered to himself: "Don't worry, I will never let things develop as Heaven wishes." ”

Outside Xiaojia Village, Xiao Zibai, who was firmly bound, half-tilted his head, and his eyes were blazing firelight. The frenzied crowd set up a high fire around him, cheering and cheering slowly from the outer circle inward, lighting the thick dry wood in turn. Under the scorching firelight, Xiao Zibai's face became more and more pale, as cold as ice jade.

"I can't die right now." Xiao Zibai thought quietly: "I haven't had time to see Tuanzi again. ”

The handmade gifts have not yet been delivered, and the planned trip together has not yet been able to take place. I have only lived with Tuanzi for such a short and short period of years, and I have only left traces of the life of the two of them in the small mountain field not far from Xiaojia Village, and I only have a few memories that I can't help but smile when I think about it...... How can you be willing, how can you be willing.

His body shuddered violently suddenly.

The next moment, Xiao Zibai turned his gaze to the villagers in front of him, although he was tilting his head at the moment, it gave people the feeling that he was actually looking down.

Outside the boiling crowd, the corners of Xiao Zibai's eyes and eyebrows were full of gloomy.

"I've always wondered, what did I do wrong?" He asked suddenly, his voice was soft, but it sounded so clear in the night wind that the frenzied crowd fell silent for a moment.

"What am I doing wrong? So much so that all of you treat me like that? Am I hurting anyone? Whose house have you collapsed, whose chickens have you killed? Why do you all beat me, scold me, and bully me...... That...... Kill me? He blinked, and the skin under his long eyelashes was so white that it was almost transparent, as if it was carved from frozen jade, but such a delicate face was deeply sunk in shadows, and the villagers in the firelight could not see the expression on his face at all.

Perhaps it was because his voice was so calm, and soon some bold villagers raised their heads and shouted, "You are monsters, we are human!" It is only natural for people to kill monsters! ”

His words caused a low echo in the crowd, "Justified", "Justified", these four words drilled into Xiao Zibai's ears over and over again. He thought he would be sad, but in fact, his heart did not fluctuate at the moment, and under an inexplicable impulse, he even raised the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a sneer similar to sarcasm: "Monster? Why do you say I'm a youkai? Is it because I'm different from you? ”

He lowered his eyes and said expressionlessly: "Why have you never thought that in addition to you, there is a different ...... in this world from you?"

"Immortals."

With a soft sound of "ding", the rope that bound Xiao Zibai split in an instant, falling to the ground and turning into broken ice, Xiao Zibai stood up from the raging fire, and an innocent smile suddenly appeared on his blood-like clear lips, and before the villagers could let out the exclamation in their throats, he calmly stretched out his hand and gently touched towards the void.

Layers of frost spread out of the void in an instant, spreading rapidly along the spot of his finger, burning flames, crowds, firewood, and trees...... In an instant, it solidified into eternity, and everything was covered with an ominous layer of hoarfrost, and the flames of the few torches that were thrown were frozen, and they kept flying downward, falling to the ground and falling into fine pieces of ice powder.

The wind blew from nowhere, raising many small snowflakes. Xiao Zibai looked against the wind towards the center of the wind and snow, and faintly saw that there was a young man in the depths of the frost and snow who looked like his eyebrows.

The figure of the young man was extremely illusory, and the shadow seemed to disappear at any time, Xiao Zibai pursed his lips and ran towards him quickly, the white frost spread like ripples from the soles of his feet, and the ice layer that was frozen became thicker at a speed visible to the naked eye. The sound of his footsteps echoed monotonously across the ice, and the world fell silent.

…… No, it's not a dead silence, in this world that has become icy and snowy, in addition to Xiao Zibai, there is also a living thing.

Xiao Zibai slowed down his pace.

He stopped in front of the young man, slowly raised his head, and looked at the young man's eyes with his own eyes that were still a little ignorant. The young man bowed down, cautiously stretched out his almost phantom hand, touched the top of Xiao Zibai's hair, and asked him softly in a soft voice, "Are you afraid?" ”

His expression was gentle and determined, and although there was still an indelible chill in his voice, it had a strange soothing power.

Xiao Zibai bit his lower lip, and subconsciously wanted to look back at the frozen crowd, but he stopped his movements abruptly, and finally shook his head and said, "Don't be afraid." ”

"You can't be afraid." The young man said to Xiao Zibai gently but firmly: "In the future, you will encounter many, many difficulties, and there will be more people who want to kill you and harm you than there are people in this village. But you can't be afraid, you must not be afraid, if you want to protect someone, you have to make yourself strong and indestructible, so that you can really protect him, live with him, and do what you want to do. ”

Xiao Zibai didn't really understand the young man's words, but this did not prevent him from trying to write down these words that he didn't understand: just like just now he wrote down the words that the young man told him word by word, and then turned to say them to the villagers. Although those words came from the mouth of the stranger in front of him, he was the one! I can feel that the other party is credible, but there is still some slight confusion:

"Why did you show up all of a sudden? And...... And none of the torches thrown by those people can touch you? ”

Xiao Zibai's words are actually not quite right, the torch is not "untouchable" to the youth, but directly "through" the young man's body, the young man squatted down with a wry smile, put his hand on his shoulder, and looked more and more like an ethereal phantom.

"Probably because I'm dead." The young man said bitterly: "I am not strong enough, and I am not resolute enough, so I ended up like that, obviously I wanted to protect it, and I tried my best, but in the end I failed." I was even mistaken about the reason for my failure, and there was no hope of success from the beginning......"

Xiao Zibai's expression was even more confused, he was still just a child after all, and he couldn't understand the sadness and despair in the young man's words.

Seeing the confused look in his eyes, the young man couldn't help but sigh softly: "I used to be you, but I hope you don't want to be me." He rubbed the top of Xiao Zibai's hair again, smiled and said to him: "Okay, I won't have time, you will naturally know about the future." ”

Then he raised his finger and pointed it straight at Xiao Zibai's eyebrows.

An extremely pure white spiritual power pierced straight into the depths of Xiao Zi's white spirit sea, and the young man's already illusory figure fluctuated and slowly dissipated. Xiao Zibai stood in place and shook for a moment, and then fell down suddenly, and the young man quickly held him up and carefully laid him flat on the ground. Looking at his ankles that were slowly dissipating, the young man sighed and sighed to Xiao Zibai: "You are lucky, if I had such luck as you at the beginning, I would not have ...... in the end Hey? Why does it seem that there is a demon cultivator? ”

His face changed dramatically, and he turned away and looked at the horizon in the distance. With just one glance, the young man flipped his palm without hesitation and grasped a long sword that was also shadowy.

The moment he held the hilt of the sword, the temperament on the young man's body completely changed, and his lazy eyebrows became sharp and sharp in an instant. He pursed his lips, his left leg bent slightly inward, the muscles of his right hand tensed, and then he twisted his body violently and drew his sword, slashing towards the sky.

An inaudible thud struck the young man's ear.

The young man's figure was illusory for a moment, and when he reappeared, the lower half of his waist turned into nothingness, and even Xiao Zibai, who was unconscious on the side, also showed a painful look. The young man clutched his chest and coughed violently, purple-black blood overflowed from the corners of his mouth, and dissipated before he could hit the ground, and the long sword he held in his hand fell silently to the ground, shattering into thousands of pieces, and when it was blown by the wind, it was scattered into dust.

The young man wiped a handful of blood from the corner of his lips with the back of his hand, and whispered hatefully: "...... Heaven. ”

Seeing those demon corrections gradually flying closer, and looking at Xiao Zibai, who was still unconscious, the young man gritted his teeth and reached out to hit his eyebrows. The remaining half of his body immediately dissipated quickly from the bottom to the top, and as the young man's figure gradually disappeared, Xiao Zibai's body was gradually covered with a thin layer of ice.

He took one last look at Xiao Zibai and muttered to him, "Goodbye, another me...... Good luck, at least better than mine. ”

As the last note of the word "luck" landed, the last strand of the young man's hair completely dissipated in the wind, and at the moment when the remaining body of the young man completely dissolved into nothingness, the frost in the entire village quietly disappeared, leaving only the piece of cold ice that wrapped Xiao Zibai in front of the village entrance. The villagers who thawed from the ice gradually became active, talking about Xiao Zibai's "miracles" in a daze, they didn't notice at all, at this moment, several demons wrapped in black robes flew in the sky not far away.

Above the clouds, Tang Lin suddenly looked in shock at the direction of Xiaojia Village, where Xiao Zibai was.

Kong Liu, who was on the side, noticed that his expression was wrong, his heart tightened, and he turned sideways and asked casually, "What's wrong with you?" Why is the expression so ugly? ”

Tang Lin subconsciously curled his toes—a habit he had developed as a bird—and said in a little panic, "I suddenly ...... just now Suddenly I couldn't feel him anymore. ”

"I don't feel anyone...... The Terrans? Kong Liu reacted quickly, he frowned, and asked straight to the point: "Where did you last sense his direction?" What was his love at that time? ”

Tang Lin racked his brains and tried to recall: "When I finally sensed him, he was in the direction of Xiaojia Village and did not change, as for the love xù ......" He thought about it and couldn't help frowning: "...... It's hard to tell. Originally, Zibai's love xù has always been like that, and there hasn't been much change, but the moment before the induction disappeared, his love xù suddenly messed up, and I was really a little worried. ”

He turned his head to look at Kong Liu: "Why did the connection between me and him suddenly break off?" Is it something that happened to him? ”

"I've never been in a situation like this." Kong Liu turned his head and didn't say the words, "Of course the other party can't feel it if it's dead." With a wave of his robe sleeves, he pushed the speed of the magic weapon that was already close to the limit faster, turned his face sideways to look at Tang Lin, who was not in his mind, and comforted him: "It's okay, we will be there soon, don't worry." ”

Tang Lin smiled at him reluctantly, but his heart became more and more anxious. After secretly calculating the time, he was extremely worried and found that if the plot of "the villagers burned Xiao Zibai" did happen as he felt, then it was almost time for the demon cultivator to appear.

Knowing that Xiao Zibai might be in danger now, he can only stand here as if he doesn't know, this is really not very pleasant. Tang Lin quietly estimated the time required for the whole process of "Demon Cultivation to kill the people of the village, refine Wu Zhu, and take away Xiao Zibai", and estimated the distance between them and Xiaojia Village at this time, and finally he had to admit in frustration that by the time they arrived, it was likely to be too late.

In the original text of "Xiuzhen One Sword Annihilation", Demon Xiu did just take Xiao Zibai away and did not make any dangerous moves against him, but what if this time it was different? Tang Lin didn't dare to imagine the possibilities of those "different", and he wholeheartedly hoped that the plot could develop according to the original text.

Kong Liu had already urged the speed of the magic weapon to Cheng Dù, which Tang Lin did not dare to imagine, but when they arrived at Xiaojia Village, they still only saw a broken wall: messy firewood and burning materials were still piled up at the entrance of the village, the soil on the ground had not dried, and there were faint traces of burning under the leafy old trees, but there was no one in the entire village, not even a living thing.

As soon as he landed on the ground, Tang Lin couldn't help but purse his lips: he felt a disgusting force remaining in the air. It was bloodthirsty, chaotic, brutal and mad, powerful on its own, but mixed with a lot of negativity.

Tang Lin tried to communicate the spiritual power of heaven and earth, and saw a large area of thick black between the villages that had not yet dispersed, and only there was a faint familiarity and abnormal coldness in the corners.

"Demon Cultivator." Kong Liu took a handful of loose dirt, the tip of his nose moved, and he said with a slight disgust. He shook the dirt away from his hand in disgust, twisted his fingers, pulled out a fine silk silk and wiped his hand carefully. Even though there was barely any dirt on his hands, he carefully wiped each finger several times, and then shook the silk silk and turned it into nothingness.

He raised his head to look for Tang Lin, but saw the latter walking straight towards the big tree at the entrance of the village, looking stunned, as if he had fallen into a demon.

Kong Liu was startled, his subordinates carried the exercises of clearing the heart and calming the mind, and walked forward to stop him, but saw that Tang Lin had already stopped.

"I've seen it here." Tang Lin muttered, he squatted down and touched the old bark of the big tree at the entrance of the village. At this moment, there was actually no temperature on the bark of the tree, but he seemed to be able to feel the scorching heat of the flames and the slight coolness of Xiao Zi's white skin.

He stood up and glanced at the hemp rope scattered on the ground, and was worried to find that the hemp rope had become torn apart by the moment. Under the pressure of the ominous speculation surging in his heart, Tang Lin turned his head and said to Kong Liu: "I have seen here, when I saw Xiao Zibai tied here-" He stretched out his hand and pointed to the trunk of the tree: "-There is fire around him." ”

Tang Lin fell silent, his delicate and bewitching face after turning into a human form looked extremely pale in the moonlight at this moment, and even a little fragile.

"Don't worry too much." Kong Liu frowned, reached out and rubbed the top of Tang Lin's hair. Tang Lin glanced up at him in slight surprise, Kong Liu coughed dryly, quickly withdrew his hand, pretended that nothing had happened, and changed the topic and said: "Your friend of the human race has a very good talent, and he is the top physique for cultivating ice law decisions, you can rest assured, this kind of mortal fire can't kill him." ”

Tang Lin didn't expect that Kong Liu, who looked extremely cold, would take the initiative to comfort him, but he couldn't think of how to respond for a while. In the moment he was stunned, Kong Liu had already quickly withdrawn his hand and changed the topic lightly.

Looking at Kong Liu half gratefully and half helplessly, Tang Lin smiled bitterly and followed his words: "I'm not very worried that he will be burned, I'm just afraid that he will be tied up here too conspicuously, after all, there will be a demon cultivator ...... later."

Tang Lin shut up when he said this, but Kong Liu already understood the unfinished meaning of his words. After pondering for a while, Kong Liu took out a token from his arms.

In Tang Lin's puzzled eyes, Kong Liu sent the token to him, shook the token at him, and said, "Stick it on your forehead, thinking about the appearance of your Terran friend." Remember, think carefully. ”

Tang Lin took the token in a daze, and found that the token was very much like bone, with cold tentacles and a faint coercion. The front of the token is engraved with the word "Tian" in the font of the Xiuzhen world, and the back is engraved with a peacock pattern by a few knives, and the four corners of the token are carved with rough patterns, the style is simple and atmospheric, and it is obviously an antiquity of some years.

Thinking about the general age of people in the cultivation realm, Tang Lin no longer had the apprehension of holding an antique in his hand, and pasted the token on his forehead according to his words, carefully recalling Xiao Zibai's appearance.

After a while, Kong Liu, who was playing with the silver dagger, asked Tang Lin without raising his head, "Have you thought about it?" ”

“…… I think it's been thought about. "I don't know what "good" is, Tang Lin said uncertainly.

Kong Liu stopped and turned his hand on the dagger, walked over and took the token in Tang Lin's hand, probed his spiritual sense into it, and said in a deep voice: "It's really good." ”

Then he held up the token, staring at it for a moment, then flicked his fingers.

Obviously, Kong Liu's bullet did not make any sound, but Tang Lin felt a "buzzing" sound in his mind, and then a vast and incomparably vast idea surged, squeezed into his mind violently, and left in a hurry, leaving only a message in his primordial spirit: searching for Xiao Zibai.

This message was very simple, but it caused Tang Lin to have an unprovoked urge to "do it immediately", as if it was an order that had to be done. Xiao Zibai's appearance was still attached to the message, which was almost no different from the image that Tang Lin had just recalled in his mind. Thinking of the demon clan's ability to drive and command beasts, Tang Lin easily knew the usefulness of the token, he looked at Kong Liu in front of him, and said solemnly: "Thank you." ”

Kong Liu wiped the dagger carelessly, leaned lazily against the trunk of the tree and said, "Thank you, you are my junior, I naturally want to take care of you." ”

Tang Lin smiled and didn't say anything more. If you thank you, it is enough to say it once, if you really want to thank Kong Liu, it is better to express it with action. He closed his eyes lightly, communicated with the spiritual power of heaven and earth, and began to search for Xiao Zibai's traces together.

Although Tang Lin's "Heaven and Earth Spiritual Power Search Method" is almost pervasive, the range that can be explored is very small, almost only a dozen miles around the body. This distance seems to be large enough, but in the Xiuzhen world, which is full of "towering peaks" and "rivers dozens of miles wide", finding people is like searching for a thin needle in the sea through a one-square-meter window.

The content of the novels he had read was also useless here: the author had never written about the specific location of the Demon Cultivation Sect at all! Tang Lin could only use a stupid method to communicate with his spiritual power to find clues, and then relied on clues to find Xiao Zibai's traces.

It's not hopeless, but it's a bit hopeless. And if you want to use external forces, with Tang Lin's current status as a demon clan, it is more than enough to scare a rabbit to death, but if you want those beasts to do things for him, Tang Lin is obviously far from being able to do it now.

In comparison, Kong Liu, who used the token, was particularly efficient in finding people. Birds, animals, flowers, grasses, insects, fish...... Anyone who had a chance to become a demon was following the token's order to find it, and the efficiency was ten times higher than that of Tang Lin alone. It didn't take long for Kong Liu to put away the dagger in his hand and walked towards Tang Lin and said: "Two pieces of news, the first one, Xiao Zibai has been found, he was indeed taken away by the demon cultivator, and I happen to know where the sect of the demon cultivator is." ”

Tang Lin heard the news, and before he had time to show his joy, Kong Liu continued: "But the second news is that Xiao Zibai is no longer there now. ”