I have only met Liu Yi's mother a few times, but it was because Grandpa Bai personally came to the door to ask someone to propose marriage, which made me quite embarrassed.

What made me even more embarrassed was that in front of the Mo family, Liu Yi's mother said directly: "It's just that I wasn't decisive enough at the beginning and didn't agree to your marriage with Xiao Yi at the first time, even if I have this heart now, it is difficult to handle it." ”

Grandpa Mo coughed dryly beside him, although he didn't speak, but it was also a reminder that some words could not be said unscrupulously.

Liu Yi's mother was stunned: "The snake clan is unstable at the moment, but those fleas can't make big waves, the golden seal has already been held in Xiao Yi's hands, and in the future, he will be the patriarch of the snake clan." ”

"He's up to the task." I replied.

Liu Yi's mother shook her head: "Xiao Yi is still very immature, but with us to help him, he will grow up soon." ”

"Tomorrow is the second dragon of February, in previous years, several of us went to worship separately, but this year is not as good as in previous years, I also want to see, will we hold this sacrifice together this year?"

When she said this, I was relieved that the snake clan was finally willing to relent.

Huang Zhigao also said on the side: "I also have this intention, it seems that everyone coincides." ”

This was what we hoped for before, but at this time, Grandpa Mo did not directly agree, but said: "This year is indeed different from previous years, the dragon head incense is related to the dragon vein and luck of this Changbai Mountain, this incense must be good and stable, otherwise it is easy to have an accident." ”

"It's rare for everyone to want to worship and sacrifice together, but not everyone can participate, if someone with a heart mixes in and disrupts the whole process, I'm afraid there will be more trouble."

"If we had discussed this earlier, of course we would have liked to see it happen, but now there is only one day left, and it will not be easy to integrate immediately, so ......"

Grandpa Mo didn't speak directly, but everyone understands that for the sake of safety, as in previous years, each family can worship by themselves.

Although it is easy to offend the two families by doing this, Grandpa Mo's decision is well thought out, the civil strife of the snake clan has not completely subsided, and the Huangxian clan is now the dog that has lost its family, and it is indeed very dangerous to worship with them at this time.

Huang Zhigao immediately said: "We will participate with the second child and I here, and we won't do anything." ”

Liu Yi's mother said with a smile: "Our snake and fox clans have been friends for many years, doesn't Mo Lao believe in the sincerity of the snake clan, or do you think that I am unworthy of the responsibility?" ”

"Rufeng, your qualifications and abilities are obvious to all in the entire Changbai Mountain, since you said that there is no problem, then everything will come according to what you say." Grandpa Mo immediately made a decision, which can be regarded as giving Liu Rufeng enough face.

Liu Rufeng changed her words: "But I'm not alone in this worship, I will bring all the members of our branch to participate, okay?" ”

There are many branches of the snake clan, and the distribution is also the most extensive among the five immortals, not to mention Changbai Mountain, there are members of the snake clan in the major rivers and lakes and even in the southernmost part.

And the branch where Liu Rufeng is located is the main branch of the entire snake clan, and the power of the main branch is the largest, but it is all concentrated here in Changbai Mountain.

There are many side branches, there are advantages and disadvantages, there are many people who covet the main throne, and as soon as the patriarch dies, it will be chaotic immediately.

The golden seal is in Liu Yi's hands, Liu Rufeng is also suffering from the enemy now, and part of the reason why she came to Grandpa Mo was to seek the help of the fox clan and gain a firm foothold.

But the key is that the timing she chose is too sensitive, if she brings the entire main branch of the snake clan to worship the dragon head incense, those side branches will definitely not let go of this opportunity to create turmoil.

Grandpa Mo hesitated again, but Mo Ziyu on the side said: "Rufeng has this heart, it's good to worship together." ”

Everyone didn't expect Mo Ziyu to say this, after all, anyone can imagine what the consequences of agreeing to Liu Rufeng will bring, more things are better than less, but she is the saintess of the fox clan after all, and her words still carry a lot of weight.

Liu Rufeng smiled at Mo Ziyu, according to the seniority, Mo Ziyu is still Liu Rufeng's elder.

Jiu Gu also said: "If someone really wants to make trouble, no matter how we prevent it, we can't prevent it, it's better to let them make a lot of trouble generously, clean it up at once, and save the future trouble." ”

"That's exactly what happened." Jiu Gu's words can be regarded as reaching Liu Rufeng's heart.

I glanced at Jiu Gu, in fact, I understood in my heart that Jiu Gu's move was not just as simple as she said, what she was thinking about in her heart was more for Mo Xianye, right?

The second dragon raised its head in February, such an important day, we pay attention to it, will Mo Yanping not pay attention to it?

At night, I couldn't figure out why Mo Yanping was so abnormal this time, and now I finally understand that he was waiting for this big day!

Regardless of whether we cooperate with others or not, Mo Yanping will definitely come tomorrow, and once there is chaos, how many others can sit still?

Impossible.

Therefore, instead of waiting until that time to make a fuss, it is better to seize the time to sit down and discuss the cooperation plan now, and then there will be no rush.

Grandpa Mo touched his beard and muttered for a long time, and finally made a final decision: "Since everyone supports our families to worship together, let's go together." ”

As he spoke, he looked at Mo Xianzhen and said, "Ah Zhen, go and invite the principals of the other two families." ”

Mo Xianzhen went immediately, and Grandpa Mo said politely: "It's still early, I asked the kitchen to prepare a breakfast dinner, everyone will move to the restaurant first, and when the other two principals arrive, let's sit down and talk slowly." ”

The group of people stood up and went to the restaurant, I deliberately left behind, approached Jiugu and asked, "Jiugu, did you say that Mo Yanping will bring Mo Xian to the night tomorrow?" ”

"Come, and you will come." Jiu Gu is very determined, "He has been preparing for the sacrifice for a while now, and he has already made plans." ”

And Mo Xianye became his sacrificial sacrifice.

Tomorrow, Mo Xianye will be more than auspicious, and the reason why Jiugu wants to pull the snake clan in is mostly to be able to gather everyone's strength to protect Mo Xianye.

Mo Yanping doesn't force me in words, but in action, he forces me into a corner, this guy has always been scheming.

"I'm going to Shouxiang tonight, do you want to come with me?" Jiu Gu suddenly asked.

Ordinary people will not take the initiative to touch the dragon head incense, the dragon head incense is vigorous, and if it moves, it is likely to be a catastrophe.

But almost every year around February 2, Longtou incense will send special people to guard the incense, this is tradition, and I am afraid that there are outlaws who are not afraid of death, and they will stick their lives against you.

This year is so special, keeping incense is the top priority, Jiugu goes, I will definitely go with it.

"Go, I'll accompany you."

Jiu Gu smiled and let me walk forward with her shoulder.

"Jiugu, you should really smile more, you are charming when you smile." I'll be honest.

She glared at me, "Don't be poor, the restaurant is here." ”

……

Changbai Mountain has not been so united for a long time, the heads of the five immortal families gathered together, and talked patiently for most of the day, where to gather at what time tomorrow, how many people from each family, how many people are guarding the periphery, what is the whole process of worship, if there is an accident, how to deal with it, if it is lost, how to retreat to reduce the casualties to the lowest point......

Everything has been discussed many times, and everyone has cooperated like never before, Grandpa Mo is strategizing and directing the country, and even Mo Ziyu and Liu Rufeng have nothing to pick on.

After dinner, I went to Tianchi with Jiugu.

There are a lot of people from the fox clan around Tianchi, and there are special people guarding the foot of the incense burner of the dragon's head incense.

"Bai Li, are you afraid?" After turning around, Jiugu and I found a stone and sat down, and she asked me.

"I'm afraid, I'm not afraid." I replied, "It's nature to be afraid, anyone who encounters such a grim situation will be a little worried, but not afraid, it is my confidence, only by head-on, can we really solve the problem." ”

Jiu Gu looked up at the sky, and the crooked moon hung obliquely on the edge of the sky, with a cold light, and the hearts of Qin were cold.

"How are you feeling lately?" Jiugu asked me.

"It's fine." I said, "It's a lot better than when I first suffered the sinister aura. ”

"To tell you the truth, it's also the cruelest thing for you." Jiu Gu turned her face sideways, looked at me with pity and said, "Tomorrow, it will be Ah Ye's calamity, and it will also be your calamity." ”

"Mo Yanping will definitely use Mo Xianye to force me, I have long been mentally prepared." I said, "To tell you the truth, in fact, I was eager to hope that the Seven Tricks Exquisite Heart could be formed as soon as possible, the Seven Tricks Exquisite Heart is a double-edged sword, as long as it can be controlled well, I believe it will help us." ”

Jiu Gu smiled bitterly: "How can it be so easy to control." ”

Then he said, "Bai Li, let me tell you a story." ”

As soon as Jiu Gu said this, I faintly had expectations in my heart, and I always felt that what she was going to say should reveal a secret that had been haunting my heart.

"A long, long time ago, there was a huge turmoil within the Three Realms and Six Realms, the people of the Demon Realm led their troops to attack the Underworld, wanting to annex the Yin and Yang Realms and compete with the sky, it was an unprecedented catastrophe, and the entire Underworld was in chaos."

"If the underworld is defeated, the demon world will soon occupy the world, and then the yin and yang will be chaotic, the people will not be able to make a living, there will be no peace in this world, and seeing that the underworld is about to be broken, a person bravely stood up and took the initiative to ask Ying to go deep into the demon world and fight a bloody way for the army of the underworld."

"The man went, didn't bring anyone, only took his mount, and rushed into the army of tens of millions of demons, but the demon realm is not a vegetarian, and soon the man will not be able to support it, but he knows that he can't lose, and at the last moment, he integrated a wisp of his soul into his mount's body, controlled the mount, and rushed directly into the hinterland of the demon realm, self-destructing with the demon king, reversing the whole situation."

"After that war, the entire underworld is in tatters, order needs to be re-established, the wandering spirits wandering in the world need to be recaptured, and the spies within the underworld need to be investigated one by one, everyone is busy, so busy that everyone seems to have forgotten that there was once such an elf mount disappeared."

"I know, I've seen it all." The level of shock in my heart at that time was indescribable, and I anxiously wanted to share it with Jiugu, "Not long ago, I didn't know if I was hallucinating or dreaming, and I saw the scene you said. ”

"It was a phoenix, rushing into the midst of the dense monsters, and a huge explosion sounded, destroying everything."

It turns out that all this is true!

This memory should belong to the phoenix soul hidden in my body!

And it is the mount of the cloaked man, so who the cloaked man is, Jiugu is clear in her heart.

I couldn't help but ask her: "Jiugu, the hero who stood up at the critical moment is the one from the ghost gate, isn't it?" ”

This time, Jiu Gu didn't hide it anymore and nodded.

In fact, I can understand her feelings, after all, after tomorrow, we don't know if there is a future, and there are some things that cannot be said.

"Yes, it's him." Jiu Gu looked at the sky in a daze and muttered, "The phoenix fell, there are only two results, one disappears, and the other, the phoenix Nirvana is reborn and reborn, but Nirvana also needs great chances." ”

"Bai Li, do you understand? You are the great opportunity of the phoenix elf, and it wants to be reborn with the help of the seven exquisite hearts in your body, that is, the phoenix gall nirvana. ”

I was speechless in shock, it turned out to be so, no wonder even its owner, the man in the cloak, would not come out of my body when he met it again, it had greater ambitions.

Can...... The phoenix is the king of birds, the king of the elves, so existing, but willing to be a mount for others, can control its existence, what is its noble identity?

I've never doubted how high the Cloaked Man is in the underworld, I'm just not sure how high his status is.

It's even so high that Jiugu San is silent, you can't say it, and you can't delusionally climb high!

I was still hesitating to take advantage of Jiu Gu's willingness to say now, ask a little more about the man in the cloak, and even confirm his identity, but over there, Jiu Gu opened her mouth again.

"At the same time as the phoenix fell, his soul was stripped out, and he hid for many years, until that year, the year I went to report on behalf of my sister......"

"That year, I was also terrified, afraid of being recognized, afraid of being found out to be a fake, and just the time I went on a mission to the edge of the underworld, I picked him up by the Blackwater River."

"He crawled out of the river drenched and grabbed me by the ankle, and I thought he was a monster and almost didn't kill him."

"Later, I took him to hide, and finally succeeded in bringing him back to the Xuanji Pavilion, but I didn't expect that he would soon be discovered, and he was taken away by the pavilion master, I thought we were all finished, and I was terrified for a long time, goodbye him, he has become my boss."

"Life, it's so dramatic, you can never guess how the plot will develop in the next moment, and it is precisely because of this that people have expectations."

When Jiugu recalled this paragraph, the emotions in her eyes were very complicated, the kind that she couldn't see through at a glance.

If I had suffered all this, I would have been like Jiugu.

"The only one who can afford the survival of the underworld is the Hades King, right?" In the end, I said tentatively, just to find out the tone of the ninth aunt.

Jiu Gu turned her head to look at me suddenly, with surprise and panic in her eyes, and a tangle that she was eager to hide but couldn't find an excuse.

I just had to look into her eyes to be sure I guessed right.

However, this is not true.

"Jiugu, don't tell me, he is really the King of Hades." I denied myself, "A family can't be without an owner for a day, a country can't be without a king for a day, if there was no Hades in the underworld for so many years, it would have been a mess of porridge, right?" If the one you saved is the king of Hades, then who is the one in the underworld who is sitting in the position of the king of Hades now? ”

Jiu Gu lowered her head and covered her face with her hands, I knew that I was overdistance, so I patted her on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, you don't have to answer me, let's not mention it." ”

Jiugu's sadness, Jiugu's inferiority, Jiugu's forbearance and dedication, at this moment, I fully understand.

She fell in love with someone who couldn't love and couldn't give her a future, and after everything was calm in the future, they each wanted to return to their own life tracks, they ...... After all, it is impossible to stay together.

However, love is love, and the purest emotion in this world is love itself, but most people live a lifetime and don't understand what true love is.

If you fall in love with such a person, you have to understand that if you can't control your heart, you have to refine your heart into iron, cast it into steel, isolate it from the approach of others, and also restrain it from jumping out on its own initiative.

Can't control it......

If you can't control that, there's no way, just endure the pain by yourself, and endure the pain yourself.

I suddenly felt so sorry for Jiugu, I reached out and hugged her shoulder, I always thought that Mo Xian and I were in love hard enough, but I didn't expect that Jiugu, who seemed to be the most ruthless and least likely to be trapped by love, was the one with the deepest affection.

The night was getting deeper, and the temperature around me was getting lower and lower, and Jiu Gu and I sat silently for a long time, and no one said a word again.

In the direction of Shengsendai, the burning part of the dragon's head incense is lit up with a red light, which is like a signal tower, guiding the direction.

I just don't know, this time, this dragon head incense can show its spirit, point out the direction for Changbai Mountain, for the fox clan, and for all of us innocent people who are struggling in suffering.

……

The night was calm, Jiugu and I went around every once in a while, and those who guarded the incense did not dare to relax for a moment, and there was indeed no movement.

At about three o'clock in the morning, I couldn't help it anymore and asked, "Jiugu, is Mo Yanping trying to attack from the periphery and surround us into a turtle in an urn and then catch us all?" Does he have that much power? ”

"Even if he controls the entire elf clan, he doesn't have such a big ability, not to mention that the elf clan is not all wine bags and rice bags, he really makes it out of line, someone will clean him up." Jiugu said.

What she means is that those elves who report within the Three Realms and Six Realms will not watch Mo Yanping come here, and what Mo Yanping can mobilize is just those small roles within the elf clan.

If this is really the case, then how could Mo Yanping be so calm?

I looked around again, and suddenly realized a question: "There is Mo Yanping's accomplice in the underworld, he can mobilize the underworld beasts and some demons and monsters, will they rush up from under the cliff tomorrow?" ”

"No, under the cliff, it's not their territory anymore." Jiugu denied my idea.

Also, didn't the cloaked man still want to hide me at the bottom of that cliff and let the hair demon accompany me to cultivate?

It's already the realm of the cloaked man.

"Unless ......" Jiu Gu said coldly, with a solemn face.

I wondered, "Unless what?" ”

"Unless Mo Yanping has already attracted other forces, Bai Li, let's go back." As she spoke, she lifted her foot and walked in the direction of the fox clan.

I followed behind her, thinking about her words in my head, Mo Yanping didn't need the power of the elf clan, whose power could he win over?

……

After Jiu Gu went back, she went to find Grandpa Mo, and I was called by Grandpa Bai.

This time to worship the dragon head incense, Grandpa Bai can't go to the main thing together, his legs can't stand the cold, and he can't stand for too long, and he can't be worshiped by others, he's in a wheelchair, right?

So he had already decided that when we went to worship the dragon's head incense, he would burn incense and pray in the small Buddha hall of the fox clan.

When he called me over, he had already washed up, and he was wearing a white robe, and the hem of the robe was embroidered with a circle of foxes of various colors, of different sizes, and the fox worshipped.

This robe is never worn in ordinary times, and he will not even take it out for the New Year, but on the second day of February every year, Grandpa Bai will definitely wear this one, which is the awe of the dragon's head incense.

He sat on the futon in the small Buddha hall and waited for me to walk over, and I knelt down on the futon opposite him and looked at him.

He coughed and asked me, "I haven't slept all night, I'm tired, right?" ”

I shook my head: "I've been nervous, I don't feel sleepy." ”

He nodded, looked at me with reluctance in his eyes, and then stretched out his hand, touched my hair, and said: "Twelve o'clock at noon is the auspicious time to worship the dragon's head incense, but now at this point, all families in Changbai Mountain should be busy, and it is still unknown whether this day can be spent safely. ”

"I will protect myself, Grandpa Bai, don't worry, wait for me to come back safely to report the good news to you." I assured with a forced smile.

"I'll wait for you, just here waiting for my glass girl to come back." Grandpa Bai smiled, smiled kindly, and I also smiled slightly.

Until he coughed again, covered his mouth with a handkerchief, and wrapped it hard, but did not unfold the handkerchief, and stuffed it directly into the sleeve.

My face changed at that time, Grandpa Bai is this......

Grandpa Bai took out a palm-sized box from behind him and handed it to me: "Glass girl, Grandpa Bai can't go with you to worship the dragon's head incense today, this brocade box is specially prepared for you by Grandpa Bai, remember, you can only open it to save your life in a critical moment." ”

"What's inside?" I couldn't help but ask.

"I can't say it for the time being, you promise me not to open it casually." Grandpa Bai said solemnly.

I promised, "Well, I promise you that I will never open it until I have to." ”