Ning Jingchen felt like he had been stabbed by a needle in his heart at that moment.

His gaze was deep, slowly falling on her.

He stepped forward and took her in his arms.

He's saying—

"Like smoke, no matter what happens, I'm here. Believe me. ”

Discarded like smoke in that moment, his head buzzed empty.

However, her heart was full.

She knew, it turned out that there was really a former her living in her body.

But she also understood what he was probably doing these days.

She knew what he wanted.

So, satisfied.

The wind came in through the curtain, and there was a slight coolness on her body, but it was slowly ironed by his body temperature, and gradually turned into a slight warmth in her arms, which made her feel at ease.

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In the middle of the night of the same day, in the hall of the Hades King in the closed underworld, a lamp was shining next to the table.

Uncle Liu's figure was dragged by this light for a long time, and he was already a little rickety.

Li Sheng stood opposite him, locked his scrutinizing gaze on Uncle Liu's body, and finally opened his mouth and asked-

"Uncle Liu, why does Yu Wuhuan want to hunt you down again and again? Is it related to smoke? ”

Uncle Liu turned sideways vigilantly, lowered his head and said with a flickering gaze: "This matter has nothing to do with Xiao Yan'er." It's purely a grudge between me and Yu Wuhuan. ”

"Uncle Liu, how long are you going to hide it from me?"

Li Sheng frowned, couldn't help but raise his tone a little, and was pressed back by his sigh, only to hear him say again in a pleading tone: "A few days ago, when Ruyan's body was poisoned by blood hexagrams, I saw her shadow. ”

Li Sheng set his eyes on Uncle Liu, without the slightest intention of giving up the question.

"That doesn't mean anything."

A trace of surprise swept away in Uncle Liu's eyes, but he quickly calmed down and replied calmly.

"What if Ruyan would memorize all the heavenly books? And the rumor that Ruyan is a goddess? And what about the resurrection of evil spirits? Doesn't it still mean anything? Uncle Liu, you know my heart for Ruyan. If it weren't for her, I wouldn't be in the Soul Prison like that......"

Li Sheng begged Uncle Liu sincerely, with deep eagerness and helplessness in his eyes.

A small wooden skewer that Uncle Liu was holding tightly in his hand snapped and broke.

His lips trembled, and a deep hesitation flashed in his eyes, but he remained silent.

Seeing that he was a little shaken, Li Sheng walked up to him and said sincerely: "Uncle Liu, I know that you have been following Ruyan, and I don't worry about her." Then you must also know why I insisted on opening the soul prison at that time...... You should know what I'm talking about. ”

Uncle Liu was silent for a long time before he finally opened his mouth slowly and said-

"The world is known as the King of Hades, who is competitive and deeply scheming, and has ambitions in these six realms. And I know that you are not only doing this for the sake of the world, but also for the sake of Xiaoyan'er. Since you have known about the resurrection of the Celestial Maiden and the evil spirits, why do you still ask me? You know that the world thinks that it was the Heavenly Maiden who came down to cause the resurrection of evil spirits......"

"So, you have been running between the five continents and the six realms, and you would rather be a storyteller, and would rather be incognito for so many years than correct the name of the Heavenly Maiden?"

A trace of reluctance and admiration swept between Li Sheng's sword eyebrows.

After all, he is already an old man who has been displaced for nearly half a hundred years......

"No, I'm not trying to make a name for the goddess, I'm just trying to make Xiaoyan'er safe......"

Uncle Liu sighed deeply, shook his head helplessly, and said, "I never thought that I, who was once so obsessed with the Heavenly Book and Heavenly Maiden, would one day live like this in order to protect my own daughter......

"You knew from the beginning that Ruyan was a celestial maiden?"

A trace of surprise flashed through Li Sheng's eyes, and he asked puzzledly.

"Xiao Yan'er is not exactly a goddess. However, I knew from the beginning that her identity was not simple. ”

"At that time, I was young and competitive, and I prided myself on being extraordinary. In order to fight with his senior brother Tianji Daoren and prove that he was right, he took Xiao Yan'er in a bad mood. And what he received was the famous white turnip that moved the world. ”

"The white turnip is the supreme yang side of the Heavenly Maiden, and the smoke is the supreme yin side of the Heavenly Maiden, if the two are combined, it is the Heavenly Maiden. But one of them, it will disappear......"

"According to the usual laws of the past dynasties, it is the supreme yang that replaces the supreme yin, and there has never been an exception."

"At first, I thought that my senior brother was deliberately making things difficult for me, and I made a hundred-year covenant just to see me admit defeat, but later, in the slow contact with Xiao Yan'er, I gradually treated her as my own daughter. I don't want her to be a bet, and I don't want her to be a sacrifice to the world. I just want her to grow up in peace and grow up happily......"

When Uncle Liu said this, the old tears were rampant, full of wrinkles, and his face was no longer young, and there was a father's helplessness and love.

"So...... You've been hiding her, hiding with her, and you'd rather live incognito and beg for a living? ”

Li Sheng's eyes moved slightly, and his face was already moved.

"It's nothing...... It's a pity that Xiao Yan'er's natural physique needs medicine to restrain her in order to protect her well from being discovered by anyone...... However, these drugs are too expensive, and the money we have to calculate the fortune is not enough...... So, every time I went to the cliffs while she was asleep. ”

"When I was younger, I was better, and my body was more moving. As I get older, my legs and feet begin to deteriorate...... Several times she fell off the cliff and limped back, and she could only lie that she was beaten by a miscalculation......"

"That boy believed ...... too"

Uncle Liu wiped a handful of tears, laughed and cried, and finally couldn't cry in a patient whimper, an old man who was nearly half a hundred years old cried like a child.

"Uncle Liu...... I'm starting to understand why you didn't want me and Ning Jingchen to approach her in the first place...... Because, you have seen this scene today. For us, it's just an encounter, but for you, it's a life. ”

Li Sheng squatted down silently and looked at Uncle Liu respectfully.

"It's more than that...... She's going to die...... She's going to die!! How can you tell me to bear to see her die!! How do you tell me to give up!! Even if I fight for my life, even if I am chased and killed by someone, I will always protect her and protect her!! She's my life......"

Uncle Liu cried like a child in front of Li Sheng, his face was full of helpless wrinkles and tears.

He held out for too long, and he couldn't afford that.

As a father, he humbly begged for mercy from heaven, and in the best way he could, he protected his daughter from harm.

However, all this, perhaps, will only be in vain in the end.

How can the old man not be sad.