Chapter 43: The Gift
The rune paper kept shaking in Xiang Cong's hand.
In a trance, he seemed to hear footsteps and someone walking in.
Sister is back?
Sure enough, this is a joke, this guy has worked hard in his schoolwork, and he can imitate the Great Sage Seal with fake and real things.
He turned around, but it was Cheng Li, who rarely put on a high-level robe.
Cheng Li held a face, his hands hanging down to his sides, staring deeply at the rune paper in his hand, Xiang Cong couldn't see the slightest content from his face.
Cheng Li's face was not good-looking, pale with a sickly ruddyness, and the spiritual flow around his body was disordered, sometimes urgent and sometimes slow, he should have suffered a lot of injuries in the battle that had just ended.
Xiang Cong didn't know what kind of mentality he had, so he hid the talisman behind him.
Cheng Li stepped in, approached him, stretched out his hand towards him, and stopped in front of him with his palm up. Xiang Cong has always been not afraid of the sky, but at this moment, he panicked, and the paper with the Great Sage Rune became hot, and he was tightly pulled in his hand, crumpled.
Cheng Li sighed softly, and his voice was a little hoarse: "Little Venerable Lord is still here." ”
Xiang Cong stared at him, lowered his head and pondered for a while, but returned the crumpled paper to Cheng Li, who turned around and sandwiched it in the spread out book again, carefully flattening it.
His hand stroked it over and over again, Xiang Cong's throat tightened, and his hands were tightly pulled together: "Uncle Li......" "Ah Xi is really as written on this paper, and he is gone, in the future, the little lord will treat it as if there is no such person." Cheng Li was busy with his back to Xiang Cong, unconsciously sorting out Cheng Zhaoxi's things.
Xiang Cong didn't know why, but he felt that there was no trace of turmoil in his heart. Obviously, he was full of excitement on the way here, there were many words to hold, and there were many interesting things to share; after a long time of not seeing, would she also find a lot of interesting and interesting things to share with him, would she complain to him about the more and more difficult schoolwork, and ask him what he had gained in the secret realm; in the future, there would be no one who was in a hurry to jump behind him when he was in trouble, but bothered to help him cover up......
There won't be any more.
He stared at the talisman again, so unreal, obviously a living person, how could a piece of paper decide that she no longer existed in this world.
The heart is empty.
He just stood here, recalling those past over and over again, the unreal and the real intertwined, making people a little vague and shaky.
Cheng Li touched Xiang Cong lightly: "It's time for the little lord to leave." ”
Xiang Cong came back to his senses from his vague and chaotic memory, and finally asked the somewhat cruel words: "Sister, she ...... Where are the bodies?"
Cheng Li's face suddenly turned into a fiasco, he stretched out his right hand to cover his chest, held down the heart rate that was frantic and uncontrollable from time to time because of the injury, and made a stop gesture with his left hand, and refused to Xiang Cong, who wanted to support him.
He sat down in his usual position, breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Xiang Cong, "Little Venerable Lord, sit down too." ”
He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he showed a rare expression of regret: "I originally wanted to wait for Uncle Yang to come back and then inform you, but I didn't expect to be seen by the little lord, I really don't want to say more about these things." ”
So he told Cheng Zhaoxi about going to southern Xinjiang.
"How did Zheng Dasheng make sure that his sister was indeed ...... It's really fallen?"
"One of Zheng Dasheng's apprentices is the Phoenix Demon Clan, I don't know the specific situation, anyway, Ah Xi and the little goblin of the Phoenix Demon Clan were chased and killed by the monks of the Cloud Realm, and they should be trapped in the cage-like secret realm used to raise 'Gu' in southern Xinjiang, which is called 'Imprisonment Cage' in Southern Xinjiang, once you fall into it, the cage ban is activated, and you can only get out if you break it from the outside.
"Ah Xi was unlucky, he fell into the cage used to raise the 'Demon Gu', the demon didn't know how to escape with the little goblin of the Phoenix Demon Clan, and when we found it, the little goblin was abandoned on the beach, Zheng Dasheng saw it from some of her remaining memory fragments...... Seeing Ah Xi, judging from the state, Ah Xi was indeed dead, and the primordial spirit was imprisoned in the transformation array, devoured inch by inch...... The Dao Alliance sent people to sneak into the place where the little goblin remembered to find Ah Xi's body, but unfortunately, the terrible 'Demon Gu' battle broke out, and the clear location of the body was never found. ”
The more Cheng Li spoke, the more remorseful he became, he couldn't leave his body and went to southern Xinjiang to look for it, and now he had missed the best time to find it. The destructive power of the "Demon Gu" was very powerful, almost all of them were razed to ruins everywhere they went, and they also caused serious pollution, and until they found an effective means, the monks of the Dao Alliance would not dare to easily step into the Cloud Realm.
The little goblin heard that the road was muddy, and the location of the fall was already very vague, and now it was not easy to find a strange terrain in the vast cloud realm that had lost its original appearance.
Although he hated Shen Tu She, who took Ah Xi to southern Xinjiang, he didn't know what to say when he heard that Shen Tu Shi was now like crazy and refused to leave the heavily polluted Cloud Realm, and was alone in the polluted area where "Demon Gu" was rampant, looking for Ah Xi's body.
He wanted to explain some things in the past two days and also went to southern Xinjiang.
If you don't try it, how do you know you can't find it......?
In case Ah Xi can live in other ways, Zangqiu Palace can hide her for another lifetime......
Xiang Cong looked at the spread book in a daze, "Does the ancestor know?"
Cheng Li kept covering his chest and was silent.
Other things can isolate time and space, the spirit lamp that symbolizes life is the most sensitive, how can Uncle Yang be unaware, he is alone in the dark moonlight, how sad and helpless should he be, the last time was that one of the two children disappeared, one died, he was going crazy, Ah Xi is still so young, close to him by blood, I am afraid that he will be even more crazy this time, I just hope that he can survive this painful period and return safely.
From the time he learned the news to the siege of the Northern Expeditionary Alliance, Cheng Li had been putting himself in a busy affair, hoping not to think about those peaceful pasts and add to the pain.
He didn't expect Xiang Cong to come.
Xiang Jianjun - No, now it's Xiang Jianzun, and he is really the most conscientious of all Uncle Yang's disciples.
After saying these things, he felt in vain that his heart was not so dull; perhaps because he had encountered too many things, Ah Xi's time with him was still too short, no matter how uncomfortable it was, he never felt heartache; the person he was most worried about and worried about the most was the person who brought him out of the quagmire.
"Little Venerable Lord, this is what Ah Xi prepared for you before she left. When Cheng Cong was immersed in the sad news of his friend's death, Cheng Li went to Chaoyang Palace and brought over the gift that Cheng Zhaoxi was going to attend Xiang Cong's fourteenth birthday.
The appearance of the dark and dumb square box is painted with a very good-looking dark gold rune, forming a seal pattern, the low-key dark light overflows, and it takes a lot of thought to combine the charm at a glance;
In his letters, he often complained that Cheng Zhaoxi had never given a single gift in the past few years since he returned to Dongshen, so he made nonsense, saying that he must give a gift on his fourteenth birthday, otherwise he would never see each other again.
In a word, we will never meet again.
After all, he is still a child, and at this moment, he can't help it anymore, holding the box and crying.
Cheng Li turned around and left the space to him.