From the strait into Tian'a, it took three or five days to fly northwest before arriving at the royal court of the country of grass and trees.

These grass and tree demons were very polite to them, but they were secretly vigilant in their politeness.

The yellow-clothed banshee who greeted them, named Huang Shao, was a flower demon.

She can represent the lord of the country, and she is also an extraordinary identity in Tian'a.

When she pointed to a mountain range below and called it the royal court, Lingyu saw the woman who was surrounded by many demon cultivators.

Familiar faces, unfamiliar majesty.

Fang Xinyan, Senior Sister Fang.

The reunion after more than two hundred years was very peaceful.

After Fang Xinyan met with many Great Wilderness Demon Cultivators, she came to her: "Senior Sister Cheng, I haven't seen you for many years, I didn't expect us to have a reunion day." ”

The other party was so polite, Lingyu also smiled back: "Senior Sister Fang, don't come to harm?" ”

Fang Xinyan smiled: "TOEFL, it's not bad." She paused, her divine sense lingered on Lingyu's body for a moment, and said, "Are your injuries all healed?" ”

Lingyu said lightly: "It's okay." ”

When Dayan City was farewell, Fang Xinyan returned to Tian'a to be her young master, but Lingyu was a broken dantian, and she didn't know where the road ahead was.

When it came to this, there was nothing to say.

Fang Xinyan smiled: "Since you are here to my God, you are a distinguished guest, Senior Sister Cheng, please." ”

Lingyu was not polite and sat down on the guest seat.

Listening to Fang Xinyan greet them with long sleeves and good dancing, her mood was very complicated, this Fang Xinyan was both familiar to her and unfamiliar to her.

What is familiar is that the original Fang Xinyan is so long-sleeved and good at dancing. Strange is. She hadn't had such a flying look before.

Finally. After she and the merchant praised each other, she instructed her subordinates to settle them, and the merchant ran to her in a hurry.

"I really didn't expect that the young master of Tian'a looks like this!" Samshang's eyes lit up, "I've never seen such a beautiful skin." You say that she is so beautiful, why is it not good, she has to be the young master of heaven? ”

Lingyu reminded: "Pay attention to the image, saliva is flowing out!" ”

The merchant hurriedly reached out and wiped it - of course not. Lingyu lied to him.

Lingyu was very curious: "I said, young master of business, you are not yet an adult, and you know how to read women?" You have that...... What? ”

Seeing her gaze downward, the merchant said angrily, "What do you mean? ”

Lingyu looked at him and smiled evilly: "Isn't what I said wrong?" Or would you prove it with facts? ”

"......" Shen Shang was so choked by her that he couldn't speak, and his face was red for a long time, "You...... You're not afraid of long needle eyes! ”

Lingyu smiled: "Just your little Ding Ding, what am I afraid of?" ”

"You, you—" The dignified young master of the wilderness, his little face turned red. "Are you a woman or not? Isn't it said that you human women are very conservative? ”

Lingyu stretched out her fingers and flicked the door of his head and gave him a disdainful look: "I'm a woman." But are you a man? Children's homes, what adults pretend! ”

The merchant was bullied to the point that he had nothing to say.

It took him a moment before he thought of what to say, "I have to state something to you." ”

"What?"

"The young master of Tian'a was born, just a little earlier than me, and the grass and trees grow more slowly, why does she look like an adult?"

This question......

Lingyu touched her chin and glanced at the counselor: "What do you want to say?" ”

"I want to say, I look small now, not because I'm a kid!" He emphasized, "Born spirits! ”

Speaking of this, Lingyu was stunned. When I met Fang Xinyan in Xingluohai, she was an adult woman, and at that time, she was only in her twenties. In his twenties, it is impossible for the demon of grass and trees to grow that big.

Does it mean that natural spirits are born adults?

If Fang Xinyan is, what about participating in business? He didn't take shape until he was more than 200 years old, why did he look like a boy?

"What's wrong with you?" Lingyu didn't speak for a long time, and the counselor poked her.

Lingyu came back to his senses and asked him: "To be honest, you can't transform into a shape, and your spiritual wisdom hasn't been opened for a long time, are you bound by something?" ”

The merchant was taken aback when he heard this: "How do you know? ”

"Don't forget, I taught you for years before you transformed!" Lingyu said, "At that time, I thought, is it the internal or external cause that binds you. There are also internal causes, and external causes ...... I think there should be. ”

The internal cause was that his cultivation method was not on the right path, and the external cause, she only faintly felt it, and did not find any exact clues.

The merchant was silent for a long time, and then said to her: "I can't tell you about this matter in detail, but I don't deny your speculation. ”

Lingyu nodded, indicating that she understood. In other words, the reason why the participants maintain the appearance of boys is influenced by external factors.

"There's something I don't know if I should tell you......"

It was rare to see Lingyu so strict, and the participants were also serious: "What's the matter?" ”

"You Dongming, do you have a saying that if you bear the mandate of heaven, you will definitely bear the disaster?"

Shen Shang frowned: "What do you mean?" ”

Lingyu's face was a little confused: "I don't know if it's my illusion, I always feel that this destiny is not simple...... I once told you that we in Ximing also have a person who is recognized as the Mandate of Heaven. ”

Shen Shang nodded: "Yes, you also said that his elders gave him a stand-in." It's really strange that the mandate of heaven can be borne by a stand-in? Isn't that a deception of Destiny? How is this possible? ”

Lingyu was silent, if Zhaoming Sword Monarch thought the same, he wouldn't have done such a thing.

She said: "I didn't make it clear to you before, in fact, I suspect that the stand-in is the real man of destiny." ”

The "......" participants were confused.

Lingyu briefly told him about Xu Wei, of course, without saying their true relationship.

Before, when she exchanged news with the merchants, she only said the origin of the Son of Destiny, which was not so clear.

After Lingyu finished speaking, the merchant looked at her thoughtfully.

"What's wrong?" Lingyu felt that his eyes were a little strange.

The merchant said, "Have you thought about it, maybe the cause and effect of this matter are simply reversed." ”

"What?" Lingyu didn't understand what he meant.

The merchant said, "According to your words." The prophecy of Dayan City's predecessors is the cause. He became a stand-in is a fruit. But if he is truly a man of destiny. Isn't this cause and effect reversed? Because he was a man of destiny, the senior prophesied and made him a stand-in. ”

This statement reminded Lingyu of the hexagram of Shuangchengbu, and she and Xu Cheng also thought about it back then, but they didn't say it so thoroughly.

"Cause and ......effect," she muttered, "can the Mandate of Heaven do this?" ”

Shen Shang frowned: "No, I think it's more like artificial." ”

"Artificial?"

I can't explain it. just said: "It's just such a feeling, you just listen to it." ”

His words reminded Lingyu of another aspect.

"Do you know what I was trying to say?"

"Say what?"

Lingyu took a deep breath: "I originally wanted to say that carrying the mandate of heaven seems to be more unlucky. The one I'm talking about has become someone else's stand-in, and you're restricted from being able to transform into a ......"

Shen Shang's face suddenly turned ugly, and he stared at her: "What about you?" ”

Lingyu said: "I'm not as unlucky as you, but ......" She thought of the disaster of the broken dantian. thought of Jian Zhenjun's assassination. I didn't think it was like it before, but now I think about it. It always felt like something wasn't right.

After a while, the counselor said, "If you want to verify this, there is another example in front of you." ”

Lingyu nodded, knowing that he was talking about Fang Xinyan.

If this is verified from Fang Xinyan, then their so-called destiny is really not simple.

……

At sunset, Lingyu saw Fang Xinyan standing on a cliff by the sea, looking at the sunset in the distance.

No, she should be looking at the lonely island in the setting sun, where a towering tree grows, and the setting sun drags the shadow of a long tree on the sea.

Looking at it, Fang Xinyan suddenly turned around: "Senior Sister Cheng." ”

Lingyu hesitated for a moment and walked over.

Fang Xinyan pointed to the tree and asked, "What do you think of this tree?" ”

Lingyu didn't understand what she meant, but still replied, "This is the largest tree I've ever seen except for the Fuso Tree." ”

"Don't you think it's alive?"

Lingyu nodded. From such a distance, I can't really see it, I just feel that the tree is verdant.

"Do you want to know what it really looks like?" Fang Xinyan said, staring at her with burning eyes.

Lingyu didn't speak, feeling that something was wrong with Fang Xinyan in front of her.

Fang Xinyan smiled, her sleeves moved, and she wrapped herself in aura: "Let's go, let's take a look." ”

With that, she turned into a light and flew away.

Lingyu was helpless and followed.

After flying for a while, Lingyu noticed that there was an abyss aura nearby.

"This is Mingyuan?" She asked.

Fang Xinyan responded.

Lingyu asked, "Why did you set up the royal court near Mingyuan?" Isn't that dangerous? ”

Fang Xinyan said with a smile: "The royal court was not here, but I set the royal court here. ”

"Why?" Lingyu blurted out.

Fang Xinyan didn't answer.

The aura of the Ming Abyss became thicker and thicker, and when they saw the Qi of the Ming Abyss condensed into clouds, surging and rolling, it was already the time of the Ming Abyss.

This giant tree actually grows on the side of the abyss.

Lingyu suddenly felt that something was wrong, went around in a half-circle, and suddenly stopped.

From the cliff, the tree is vibrant and green. But that's only half of it.

Near this half of the abyss, the tree was as black as death, with bare branches and a few leaves hanging on the ground.

"How could it be ......," Lingyu muttered.

"Didn't you think that this half of such a bright tree would rot like death?"

Without waiting for Lingyu to answer, Fang Xinyan continued: "Such a contradictory two, stored in the same body, it's weird, right?" ”

Nature...... Yes. Lingyu turned her head and looked at Fang Xinyan, the strange feeling became even more obvious.

"Senior Sister Cheng, can I ask you a question?"

Lingyu nodded lightly: "Excuse me." ”

"If," Fang Xinyan pointed to the tree, "what would you do if you were this tree?" ”

What is the problem?

Lingyu frowned and did not answer.

"Half like life, half like death." Fang Xinyan's burning eyes stared at her, "No matter how hard you try, you can't save the side that wants to die, what will you do?" ”

Lingyu didn't understand why she was asking such a question, let alone why she seemed so cautious. After thinking about it, she pointed to the lush branches and leaves on the other side: "But this side is still alive, isn't it?" (To be continued......)