CHAPTER XXIV
Zhang Xun turned around in horror, and swung the Zhan Lu sword in his hand, and the red sword qi pointed directly at the owner of the voice.
But when he saw the person clearly, he immediately put away his sword, and his body trembled slightly with excitement. Standing in front of him were the three of Su Ye, Xiang Nu, and Ying Long!
His buddies!
All three were injured to varying degrees. Ying Long was the most seriously injured, his clothes were almost all stained red with blood, and there seemed to be traces left on his waist after the wound had just healed. Suya and Xiangnu's skin was also stained with blood.
He stepped forward to support Ying Long, who was weak, and carefully looked at the scars on the sturdy young man's body, and said, "Big brother...... How could it hurt like this? ”
Ying Long opened his eyes slightly, and smiled at Zhang Xuncanran: "What's wrong?" Virtuous brother. Don't look like a mother-in-law and mother-in-law, how can a man not have a little wound on his body? ”
Xiangnu interjected, "Big brother defeated that Shadow Hunt." In order to win against him, the eldest brother did not hesitate to use ......"
"Hey, Shanu, are you healed? Where do you get so many words? Ying Long hurriedly interrupted the girl's words, and turned to Zhang Xundao. Don't worry about me, Brother Xian, it's just a little flesh wound, and it will be fine soon. ”
"But...... But it's for my business......" Zhang Xun looked around at everyone, and the sour feeling couldn't help but come to his heart. "For my sake, you are putting your lives at risk...... I ......"
He could barely speak, afraid that he would cry if he continued.
"What, little brother, you are really narcissistic." Xiangnu pouted and said disapprovingly. "I'm not here for you, I'm just bored to play with you everywhere, and it just so happens ......"
Looking at Xiangnu's insincere look, Ying Long laughed. The laughter tugged at the wound, causing him to frown in pain.
"Okay, Brother Xian, now that all the dust on the Tianhe Loom Stone has been dispersed, the Divine Stone can already resurrect two lives. What are you waiting for, go! ”
Ying Long pushed him with his hand, and the young man staggered towards the Divine Stone, while taking out the shrunken crystal coffin from his arms, and looking at the constantly shining Tianhe Loom Stone with a slightly empty look.
When hope was really in front of him, he began to be a little skeptical.
"What...... The three-faced ghost and the shadow hunt are both ......" In the dungeon, the emperor's voice sounded extremely surprised.
"The old minister is ashamed of the king. It's all the old minister's fault. not only did not complete the king's entrustment, but also made the king lose his love...... The old minister is really embarrassed. The old man in the cloak wept and knelt down in front of the emperor's desk.
The emperor sighed, put his hands on the chair, and leaned back weakly: "Old Dazai doesn't have to blame himself, all this is due to the will of heaven, the will of heaven." ”
"Nope! What providence? The king's meaning is the will of heaven! The old man suddenly got up from the ground excitedly and said. Your Majesty, we have successfully made the world and the Song Dynasty deviate from morality, the ghost door has been opened, the demons have been under the command of the monarch, and the mechanical beast of the old minister is about to be completed. Although the gossip of heaven has not yet been completely overturned, if we can disrupt the two worlds of man and god, we can also re-establish a new order in this world! ”
"Old Dazai...... Actually, in fact, you also know that I want you to find the Tianhe Loom Stone, not all for the things of the world......"
Hearing the emperor's sigh, the old man couldn't help but bow his head and said: "The old minister understands that the king is also to make the mother ......."
The emperor stretched out his big hand to stop the old man's words: "These things, there is no need to say any more. It's also my fault, although I have the heart to reincarnate her, I can't get out of this underground palace, so I can only rely on you for everything. However, if I can realize my ideal world, I believe she will definitely smile under the nine springs. ”
"Yes! The old minister will go all out to realize his long-cherished wish for the king! The old man kowtowed deeply. Your Majesty, the old minister is now going to finish assembling the last parts of the mechanical behemoth. When this machine is completed, Lao Chen will order it to attack the upper realm directly! ”
"Old Dazai said very much. The Upper Realm has now become a pot of gruel. They're busy eating dogs, and it's time to take advantage of the fire! ”
The figure in the black cloak slowly walked out of the corner of the main hall.
"Mirror, you're back? How, the mission to disrupt the Upper Realm has been successful, right? The old man asked.
"Of course. This kind of little thing can be easily done with just a few fingers of my fingers. Jing Yu sneered. These people all have their own intentions in their hearts, and I just let them see what will happen in the future, and they jump into the trap right away. Then he jumped out of a magic rut halfway and imprisoned the Heavenly Palace Venerable Lord. Now the two sides are fighting lively. ”
"What? Jing Chao, you just said that the Demon Rut imprisoned the Heavenly Palace Venerable? The emperor was shocked when he heard this, and stood up from his chair.
The old man couldn't help but secretly wonder: "Your Majesty, is the lord of the Heavenly Palace that man?" ”
The emperor nodded, sat down slowly, as if in deep thought: "I also know the devil, although he is strong and ambitious, he can never be that man's opponent. How did you ......?"
The old man said happily: "Your Majesty, if this is true, it is really a godsend. With that man here, Lao Chen really didn't dare to say that he was very sure, but since he had been imprisoned, the matter of attacking the upper realm must be nine out of ten. ”
The emperor said in a deep voice: "Now that the Shadow Hunt is gone, there are only three generals left in the Five Heavens, in order to prevent the affairs of the upper realm from changing, I immediately ordered the tarsus to go to the upper realm to help ensure that this matter is foolproof." ”
"Yes! Obey Your Majesty's will! The old man and Jingfu both bowed their heads and slowly exited the main hall.
The emperor looked at the empty hall. Loneliness and fatigue slowly hit me. Although he knew that things would not go as smoothly as he imagined, he did not expect so many things to happen. In particular, the failure to capture the Tianhe Loom Stone made him lose the right-hand man of Kagekari.
"I'm sorry, Kageri. I hurt you. ”
He sighed, and the figure of the woman appeared in front of him again, vague, and seemed to be getting farther and farther away from him.
"Madame...... I'm sorry, I can't get you back...... However, I will do my best to make the world back to the way we started. ”
The boy took out the bodies of his parents from the crystal coffin and gently placed them on the disc in the center of the Tianhe loom stone.
Then he stood in the Kun hexagram position of the Divine Stone, facing the two cold corpses, turning the Divine Stone, the huge stone slab roared and turned, the patterns of the Bagua direction lit up one after another, and a huge and pure spiritual power slowly seeped in from the ice and snow on the top of the cave, and floated gently above the Divine Stone like mist.
The divine stone walked with knife-like grooves, extending from each hexagram to the tray in the center, until the entire blood line of the divine stone was filled. At that time, the powerful aura of Kunlun Mountain for more than 5,000 years will cover the divine stone and resurrect the dead.
But the boy stood for a long time, but the blood line under his feet showed no signs of turning red.
The divine stone kept whistling and idling, but the Zhang butcher and his wife in the center of the tray showed no signs of waking up. However, a hazy image suddenly slowly blurred on the tray, and a long-haired man in black and a beautiful woman in palace clothes in the middle flashed and disappeared quickly......
Everyone was looking forward to Zhang Xun's family reunion, but there was no movement for a long time at the moment, and they began to look at each other for unknown reasons.
Suddenly, the Divine Stone slowed down its rotation and gradually stopped. The green aura that filled the air was also absorbed into the ice and snow on the roof of the cave. Everything is back to the way it was before. Zhang Xun stood on the sacred stone in a daze, not knowing what to say or do for a while.
"What's going on? Why doesn't this broken stone work? In a fit of rage, Shannu rushed up and kicked the stone.
Su Ye grabbed her: "Sister, don't get excited." Is there any mystery that has not been understood? ”
Ying Long coughed violently twice, and wiped away the blood stains that overflowed from the corners of his mouth without a trace: "Su Ye, you are the smartest, think about what Bai Ze's predecessors have explained, is there anything missing?" ”
Su Ye frowned, thought for a moment, and shook his head: "What Childe did was indeed explained by Bai Ze's seniors, and there was no mistake, what went wrong?" Her gaze fell on the couple in the ice coffin, and the blood line was ...... A bold thought flashed through her mind, and she exclaimed unconsciously because it was so terrifying.
"What? What did you find in the night? ”
She covered her mouth and shook her head, and took a few steps back: "This is impossible...... No way...... How could Childe not be their child......."
By the end of her voice, her voice was very quiet, but all three people in the cave could hear it clearly.
This sentence was like a thunderbolt from the sky, and like a stone thrown into the calm water of a lake, it caused a huge shock in the hearts of everyone.
Zhang Xun couldn't believe that he had been searching for so long, experienced a lot of tears and pain, and finally thought that he could find the answer, but he returned to the original point in an instant. He slowly knelt on the ground with a limp body, muttering like a dream: "How is it possible...... How could it be ......"
Ying Long felt that this sudden conjecture was too bold: "But if it wasn't...... No, I still think it's a little incredible, how can it be......"
Xiangnu said: "Then why do I smell exactly the same smell as these two people." Did I smell it wrong? ”
"Then who is my real father? Where the hell are they? "The teenager couldn't stand the pressure anymore. The pain in his body may be able to resist it, but the pain in his heart, the feeling of finally finding himself but being denied makes him unable to support it. He grabbed his hair with both hands and kept talking. "Why? Why? Have I been abandoned more than once? Am I that uncomfortable? They're going to throw me away again and again! Who the hell am I? Who the hell am I? ”
Ying Long and the others looked at him like this, speechless. At this time, perhaps the best way is to let him vent to his heart's content.
There was no difference between the way down and up, and they were all so preoccupied that they didn't talk to each other.
Because speaking at this moment, I'm afraid it will bring up more memories and sad things, so it's better not to say it.
The road that could have been walked in half an hour when I went up the mountain is now only half the way after walking for two hours. When he was halfway up the mountain, Ying Long suddenly spoke.
"It's so lifeless, it doesn't look like us at all."
"What? Big brother, what did you say? Zhang Xun raised his head blankly as if he hadn't heard his words.
"I said we look like the walking dead now!" Ying Long suddenly roared, his voice drowned out the roar of the wind and snow, causing an echo in the hollow valley. "What is this? It's sad not to find your parents, but are you ready to live with this pain for the rest of your life? Are you the only one in the world without a father or a mother? Who didn't I, the incense slave, and the night not suffer many disasters and carry it alone? Don't forget that we still have important things to do......"
"Say no more! Eldest brother! Zhang Xun suddenly interrupted him. Stop it...... I don't want to worry about that anymore...... That shouldn't have been something I could have changed. Why are you working so hard, why do you want to bring misfortune to the people around you! ”
"Brother Xian, what kind of stupid thing are you talking about!" Ying Long rushed to Zhang Xun's side, grabbed his shoulders and shook him desperately. "Have you forgotten Marshal Yue's legacy? Didn't we make an appointment to carry out the righteousness from beginning to end, and use the weapons in our hands to create a new peaceful and prosperous era for the people of the world? Have you forgotten? ”
"I haven't forgotten! But so what. Even the people around us can't protect us, what kind of world do we talk about! ”
It was the first time that such a fierce quarrel broke out between the two, which made the night and Xiangnu next to them feel a lot of headaches.
Su Ye inserted between the two of them and forcibly separated them, and said, "Big brother, son, now is not the time to quarrel, why don't we go down the mountain first, and then find a place to rest, and then think about it in the long run?" ”
"Think long-term! How do you think about it in the long run? Ying Long looked at Zhang Xun's appearance, and couldn't help but say angrily. Brother Xian, I have always respected you as a hot-blooded man who dares to do things, why are you also short of heroes in front of this child's love today. Am I looking at the wrong person? ”
Zhang Xun muttered: "I'm not a hero in the first place. Big brother, you hold me up too highly. I can't bear it, and neither can you. ”
"You! You've disappointed me! Ying Long said, he turned his face to the side angrily.
"Big brother, childe, you all don't have to say a word, now is not the time to be vindictive." The night was torn between the two.
"Well, after we go down the mountain, let's separate!" Ying Long was silent for a long time, and suddenly such a sentence came out.
"Big brother, what do you say. You are noisy, but don't say such hurtful things. He was busy persuading all night.
"Big brother, don't scare Xiangnu, don't part with you." Xiangnu's round eyes were immediately filled with tears.
Ying Long looked very resolute, waved his hand and said, "No need to say more." The so-called Tao is not the same. My brother and I got together because we were like-minded, but now we have a big difference of opinion and we can't understand each other. In order not to spoil the feelings between our brothers, only a temporary separation is the best option. Virtuous brother, for my brother to implement the righteousness advocated by Marshal Yue, I will find a way to find out the secret behind the old man in black. At that time, if you can come to your senses and fight side by side with your brother, you will be very welcome as your brother. For the rest, I don't want to say much about it. I have made up my mind, and you don't need to persuade me anymore. ”
Seeing that he was so resolute, Zhang Xun also aroused his stubbornness, and replied: "The eldest brother cares about the world, how can the younger brother be compared with it." The younger brother just wants to find a quiet place to live in seclusion, but in this life, he has no regrets. Then the big things for the world and all the people, let's leave it to the eldest brother to do. ”
"Hmph, okay. Then hurry down the mountain. There is only one way for you and me to walk together as brothers. ”
As he spoke, Ying Long took a loud step and walked briskly down the mountain.
After walking for a while, they came to a snowy field on the edge of a cliff, and the group stopped for a while. Ying Long and Zhang Xun were deliberately far apart, and the two of them turned their backs to each other, ignoring each other, and they were already strangers.
Accompanied by Zhang Xun all night, Xiangnu was next to Ying Long, and the girls frequently exchanged glances, but they were helpless for a while.
Ying Long sat for a while, suddenly frowned, and his body slowly turned around.
He suddenly shouted, "Hurry up!" Virtuous brother! Then he threw himself in the direction where Zhang Xun was.
Zhang Xun only had time to raise his head and turn around, and Ying Long had already reached his rear, only to hear a "whoosh", and a black shadow passed through his body, making him let out a dull, painful roar.
It was Shadow Hunt, who was covered in blood and panting, who carried out this attack!
Zhang Xun shouted sadly: "Big brother! ”
Ying Long waved his hand at him, signaling him not to lean over, and at this moment, Su Ye lost his voice and shouted: "Xiangnu! ”
Only then did Zhang Xun notice that there was a figure behind Ying Long, who was sliding towards the snow little by little.
It turned out to be a chanu!
At the moment when Ying Long got up to block the attack for Zhang Xun, the Xiangnu who was closest to Ying Long noticed his movements, took a step faster than him, and blocked him in front of him with his thin body.
Ying Long grabbed Shadow Hunt's hand tightly with his hand, endured the pain of the shadow piercing into his body little by little, and gasped heavily, "You...... You're not dead yet! ”
Kageri sneered: "I didn't expect you to have a confidante who is willing to die for you." As soon as he exerted his strength, Xiangnu was thrown aside heavily, and the blood instantly stained the snow beneath her red.
The incense slave lying on the ground was already dying, and the blood could not stop gushing out of her mouth, and she rushed over desperately at night, and used a spell to temporarily stop the bleeding for her.
"Sister Shuye, in fact, I have always envied you....... you have sacrificed so much for your little brother, I am afraid that my little brother will never forget you in this life....... it's a pity, the big brother is so strong, I can't do anything for him......."
I kept wiping the blood stains on the corners of her mouth for her all night, a silk handkerchief was soon dyed red, her tears kept pouring out, she couldn't wipe it clean, she didn't want to see the appearance of Xiangnu clearly.
"Big brother......" Xiangnu turned his head with difficulty to look at Ying Long, who was fighting with Shadow Hunt, "I know you have someone you like in your heart, if only I could meet you earlier, ...... earlier than her" After saying this, Xiangnu was completely silent.
Shadow Hunter sighed: "You said that I am very similar to you, you are luckier than me, there is such a girl who is willing to die for you, but it's a pity that you met me, I exchanged fifty percent of my cultivation for a chance to resurrect." Besides, I won't just die if I don't finish my mission......"
Seeing that Xiangnu was losing his vitality little by little in front of his eyes, Ying Long could no longer feel the pain in his body, he grabbed Shadow Hunt's hand again and rushed his body forward desperately, the shadow slid through his wound, making him almost suffocate in pain. His hands wrapped powerfully around Kagegar's body, and with a shout, he rushed towards the cliff next to him!
"Bastard! Do you want to die! Shadow Hunter desperately tried to withdraw the hand that was firmly clenched by Ying Long, but the other party's arms were like iron pincers, compressing all the muscles and bones of his body tightly in a small space, so that he could not exert any strength.
"Even if you die, you have to die together! Come on, Kagehunt, let's die again together! Ying Long let out a loud shout, jumped his body high, and clasped Kageri's body with his feet in the air. The two of them are entangled with each other and fall quickly into the abyss!
Everything happened between lightning and flint, and the teenager didn't have time to react at all. By the time he came to his senses, Ying Long had already rushed towards the cliff with Shadow Hunt. He hurried forward, and when he fell to the ground and stuck his head out of the cliff, he saw only that in the gray clouds and mist, the figures of Ying Long and Kageri turned into a small black dot.
But the deep voice of the sturdy young man still came through the dense clouds.
"Brother Xian, take the first step for your brother! The rest is up to you! ”
The voice gradually drifted down, and there was no trace. The whimper of the wind came from the hollow valley, muffling the soft sobs of the night.
But the boy did not shed tears. Not because he doesn't grieve but because his grief is beyond the capacity of his heart. In a short period of time, the two companions left from their side one after another, and the quarrel with the eldest brother just now, the road that was claimed to be the last one as brothers, became a fork in the road between their life and death.
And the one who survives is the most useless self.
"Big Brother ......"
Su Ye suddenly remembered the green pill on his body. She took out the medicine from the placket of her clothes and studied it carefully in the palm of her hand, without even blinking her eyes. After thinking for a while, she whispered to Zhang Xun.
"Childe, this is an elixir given to me by the ancestors of the immortals before we went to Zhiwen Valley to leave, saying that it can continue the spiritual power, so that I can take it for you when you become a Shura, and I can help you recover your original state. I think it might be able to save Sister Xiangnu, but whether to use it or not, it's all in the meaning of Childe. ”
She gently pulled away Zhang Xun's clenched five fingers, put the pill in Zhang Xun's hand, and then gently held the five fingers back.
Zhang Xun didn't hesitate for a moment, and immediately picked up Xiangnu's head and gently fed the pill into her mouth.
The pill quickly took effect. A faint fragrance suddenly emanated from the body of the incense slave, as if it was the fragrance of flowers. The scent was very special, it seemed to have a shape, condensed into a cloud of pink smoke in the air, and after a while, the incense slave lying on the ground snorted leisurely. The body begins to undergo drastic changes. After a while, it turned into a small fragrant deer.
The little fragrant deer stood up from the ground, probably with a numb leg, and almost fell to the ground when his feet were weak. Fortunately, it immediately stood firm again, and found the young man who was watching it with concerned eyes, and quickly leaned over, gently rubbed the young man's body with his body, and then stretched out his small tongue and slowly licked the young man's hands hanging on both sides of his body.
"Is it really you, Sister Xiangnu?" Su Ye slowly approached and crouched down. When the little deer saw her, he ran over happily, put his head to her face, and pressed it affectionately.
"It's really you, it's really you......" Zhang Xun took the deer with his hand and wrapped his arms around her neck, tears wetting her face and the soft fur of the deer. I'm sorry, it's all my fault...... If I hadn't taken you away from Immortal Mountain, it wouldn't have been like this......"
The little Xiangzhang stretched out her tongue and licked the tears on his face, she twisted her neck desperately to look in the direction of the cliff, Zhang Xun immediately understood what she meant, he hugged the little Xiangzhang to the cliff, and kept saying in her ear: "It's all my fault, you and the eldest brother are all ....... for me"
The little fragrant deer made a "whine" sound from its mouth, as if it was crying, and a drop of crystal tears oozed from the corner of its eye, sliding down and falling straight into the cliff that Ying Long fell into.
Su Ye walked to Zhang Xun's side, put his arm around his shoulder, and said softly: "Childe, the wind and snow are too big, let's go." ”
yes, get out of here...... Zhang Xun also thought so, and quickly left this place, this kind of sad and desperate place, he didn't want to stay even for a second.
Zhang Xun is no longer able to think about the future. He clawed at the rock wall with both hands, the rubble sinking into his nails, his fingers cut into a bloody blur, and his eyes focused on the gray mist where he couldn't see anything, as if he wanted to find the last trace of his memory......