A strange wind whistled by, like the howl of a night owl, and the sound was piercing.

No one responded to him.

We fell into a brief silence with our own thoughts.

I walked straight to a large rock scattered around the garden. There is a thin layer of ash on the stone, which is hazy and hazy in the light of the "lantern".

"Chen Qiu, I have a question, can you answer me now?" I brushed the dust off the stone and sat down slowly.

"Okay, you ask." She stared into my eyes.

"You cast a spell on the spirit stone, and the person who made the contract should be visible on the spirit stone, why can't we see it?"

"Well, in general, it should see." She sighed, "However, the situation is special now. ”

"What's the special situation?" Chang Qing interjected and asked.

"Golden Silkworm Shadow!" Her voice was soft, as if she was afraid of waking something up.

We're all one.

"The wizards who have been passed down from generation to generation of our gluttonous clan are all very pure and virtuous people who have the courage to dedicate and sacrifice." Her tone was respectful and sad, "Do you know why? The reason is that only in this way can the innate greed of the gluttonous divine beast be suppressed, so that the spirit stone can bless our entire clan. ”

"However, about a few centuries ago, one of the wizards of our clan had an accident when he took over the inheritance!" Her expression became very heavy.

"What accident?" I, Chang Qing and Qi Zhen asked in unison.

"As I said before, our family has had wizards for generations. He, he is the most talented of the generations of my family, and he can use the power of spirit stones at the age of fourteen. So at the age of fifteen, he was ready to take over the lineage. The night before the lineage, he met someone who wasn't supposed to be. That's - his brother! His brother, who was sent away at birth, never met. The corners of her mouth turned bitter, "The next day, the inheritance ceremony went on as usual. But at the last step to conclude the contract, he suddenly struck and killed the former wizard and the patriarch! ”

"Ahh Chang Qing and I couldn't help but exclaim, "Why? ”

"It's not easy! Isn't it necessary to conclude a contract with two corpses? Qi Zhen said coldly.

"Nope! Forming a soul contract requires two corpses that died naturally, and you can't use a corpse that dies horizontally! Not to mention killing people casually! Chen Qiu's expression was solemn, "Although we believe in gluttony, we are not a cult, every wizard in the clan will go to two old people who have just died before the inheritance, and after obtaining the consent of their children, their corpses will be preserved by witchcraft for the purpose of concluding a contract when the inheritance is made." ”

"If that's the case, how could he do that? Could it be that he suddenly lost his memory and forgot the correct way to conclude the contract? Or is he not at all the kind of person you call him by nature? Qi Zhen asked lukewarmly, his words sharp.

Chen Qiu's face was pale but he didn't refute, and continued to narrate: "Everyone present is stupid! Because...... The former wizard was his real father! There are only two possibilities for him to do this, either he suddenly falls into evil or he is not him at all! ”

"Well, he's the ...... That his brother! Chang Qing blurted out, and immediately, he shook his head again and again, "It's not right!" His brother shouldn't have killed his own father! ”

I vaguely guessed a few points, my heart was cold, and my eyes were even more desolate.

"You guessed it! It was his ...... who appeared during the lineage ceremony Brothers! Chen Qiu sighed deeply, "His brother is an accident!" ”

"What do you mean?"

"Because of the soul contract, our family has a thin balance for generations, and if there are two or more children in a generation, then whether it is the wizard of the inheritance, or his brothers and sisters, it will ...... The lifespan is short. So, in the end, it almost maintained a single pass. But he and his brother were born together......"

"Twin brothers?"

"It's not! The two of them were born at the same time, and they could not tell in that order. Because they are connected shoulder to shoulder, they are conjoined brothers. There was helplessness in her voice, "Our clan believes that twin brothers are already ominous, and the conjoined ones are even more ominous, because they share the same soul, and when they are divided into two, one must be the most true and good, and the other will be the most evil and fierce. It was meant to kill one and keep one. But because they couldn't find the difference, the patriarch and the wizard at that time decided to let Lingshi choose one child and send the other away. ”

"Where?" I asked.

“…… I didn't know at the time. Because it was given to a medicinal herb dealer who passed by our village, that person traveled all over the world and had no fixed place to live. However, after the inheritance ceremony, we learned that because we wanted to buy a rare medicinal herb, the herb dealer took the child to a remote village in southern Fujian a year later. However, there he inexplicably contracted the epidemic and died. The child who stayed, we will call him "brother", and the one who was sent away, we will call him "brother". As soon as the herb dealer died, his younger brother was adopted by an elderly Gu magician in that village. Like his older brother, he has shown great talent since he was a child, and he has been successful in Gu art since he was a teenager. He accidentally learned about his background from the Gu magician who adopted him, so he had the evil intention to replace him. Maybe it's really destined, the brother who stayed behind is pure by nature, and the younger brother who was sent away is vicious, the two have the same appearance, but they are good and evil.

The night before the lineage, he sneaked into the room. For the first time in their lives, the two brothers faced each other, two identical faces, like shadows in a mirror. The elder brother was stunned, and the younger brother took the opportunity to cast a Gu. As a result, there was the next day's fish-eyed confusion and killing the father and killing the teacher. ”

"So, he made the soul contract?" Chang Qing asked.

"Hmm. He learned the method of concluding a contract from his brother's memory, and combined with his own Gu technique, he brutally killed the patriarch and his father, and forcibly concluded the contract! Her voice was muffled.

"And then what? The golden silkworm shadow appeared? Qi Zhen asked in a mocking tone.

"It's not! Although he made a contract, because of the plausible method used, the spirit stone refused to be controlled by him for a long time. Just then, his brother finally arrived. As soon as he saw that the situation was critical, he didn't have time to think about it, and he immediately used a spell to conclude a contract! ”

"Both make a contract?" Chang Qing and I were amazed.

"That's right! Lingshi made a contract with two people at the same time! In fact, it should be said that it is a contract with two good and evil halves who have the same soul at the same time! ”

"This ......" my face also turned pale.

"The spirit stone was at a loss because there were two masters who were clear about good and evil and uncompromising at the same time, and finally it was split into two and split into the mother stone and the child stone!" Chen Qiu smiled bitterly, "My brother kept the mother stone, and my brother snatched the Zishi." My brother was inexplicably sad and angry, he was originally the most talented wizard in our clan, but because of a moment of carelessness, he fell into his own brother's Gu magic, so that even the patriarch and his father died tragically, and the spirit stone was split, and from then on, the strength of our clan's wizard will be much worse than before. Therefore, when his younger brother snatched Zishi, he did it with all his strength and performed the 'extermination technique' on Zishi. ”

"Extermination? Killing his brother with witchcraft? Chang Qing asked.

"Well, he originally wanted to solve this matter once and for all, and destroy his brother's body and soul together." Chen Qiu sighed again, his expression was extremely bitter, "It's a pity, God always doesn't obey people's wishes!" Blessings are incomparable, but disasters are not singular. He never expected that his witchcraft would instead achieve the extremely vicious 'Golden Silkworm Shadow'! ”

"How ......"

"The younger brother saw that his brother had performed a spell, and the Zishi he had stolen couldn't be used, so he hated it in his heart, so he simply tried his best to put Gu on the Zishi. In this way, the witch Gu was united, and with the power of the soul contract, the 'Golden Silkworm Shadow' was refined by mistake. ”

Chang Qing and I glanced at each other, and we couldn't imagine that this was how the vicious thing could be done. I unexpectedly remembered Yun Tengjiao's words, and my heart was very heavy, as far as the "Golden Silkworm Shadow" is concerned, good and evil have played the same role here, and it can't help but say that it is creation and making people!

"And what happened?" Qi Zhen, who had been listening quietly, asked.

"And then there was — a string of deaths." She said faintly, "My brother's witchcraft is extremely powerful, and the mother stone is the source of strength. And he used it against others, and many of his people died. ”

"Since the golden silkworm shadow does not have to stay nearby, the younger brother always hides in a secret place to secretly plot, and every day the clansmen die silently! The elder brother finally made up his mind to eradicate the younger brother at any cost. Her voice hardened, "In my clan's witchcraft, there is a powerful spell that can use the same bloodline to cast spells and break the soul contract, thus destroying the Golden Silkworm Shadow. However, this kind of spell uses blood as a medium, which is the art of two injuries. The contract was broken, and the Golden Silkworm Shadow was destroyed, but at the same time, the two brothers were also counterattacked by the spirit stone! ”

"What have they become?" I asked.

All three of them looked at me with strange expressions, and I had to smile bitterly in return.

"All of them grew horribly old all at once." Chen Qiu said simply, "My brother eliminated the Golden Silkworm Shadow, and my younger brother fled back to southern Fujian with Zishi." ”

It turns out that the mother stone and the child stone are hidden in two places in this way. I shook my head secretly.

"Didn't that stone come back?" Chang Qing asked.

"It's not. More than a hundred years later, the last three wizards took Zishi back from southern Fujian. She said calmly, "However, there are already countless souls of the dead floating on the Zishi, and they have been refined by Gu magicians, and it is difficult to suppress the greedy nature of the gluttonous divine beasts, so no one in the successor wizards after this dares to risk using it again, so they have to hide it deeply." ”

“…… Did the same accident happen 60 years ago? I sighed. I'm sighing more tonight than I've sighed in more than a decade combined.

"Hmm. That time it was even more serious! My great-grandmother's sorcery was far inferior to that of her ancestors, the ...... who snatched the spirit stones. People suddenly plotted against her, and she was attacked first, not only old, but also old and ugly......"

"Oh, no wonder I saw your great-grandmother look ...... Uh, that ...... So weird! I suddenly said, "That woman must be your great-grandmother's sister!" ”

"Hmm. She was my great-grandmother's...... Twin sister! She seemed reluctant to admit the relationship.

"You can do this spell too?" Qi Zhen suddenly asked a question that was not related to the current topic.

“…… I? I'm not a wizard, how can I use this spell? Her eyes were choppy and complex.

"What spell?" Evergreen was a little confused.

"It's a spell to break the contract and destroy the Golden Silkworm Shadow." I answered for her.

"That's it...... Oh no! Qi Zhen's mouth was saying that it was not good, but the cold light in his eyes flickered, and a sneer mixed with ridicule and hatred slowly appeared on his originally stupid face.

"Qi Zhen you...... What happened to you? Chang Qing noticed his abnormal expression and gasped and asked.

"He's not Qi Zhen anymore!" I said in a low voice.

Chen Qiu looked at me when he heard this, and he didn't know whether it was sadness or emotion in his eyes. I silently lowered my eyes, avoiding her gaze.

"He's not Qi Zhen? …… So who is he? Chang Qing was shocked and couldn't stop looking at him.

"He is......" I looked up, and in front of me was the big eyes that I had seen in my dreams countless times, bright, sincere, and gentle, staring at me as they had been in the past. My heart was sour, and my throat was like a big lump choked, and I couldn't say anything more.

"Who am I?" He muttered and repeated, his expression turning painful, as if remembering.

"Who are you?" Chen Qiu's face turned pale, as if he was trying his best to save something.

"Are you not standing in my garden right now? Who else am I? He tugged at the corners of his mouth and replied in an indifferent tone.

"You're the skeleton!" Chang Qing blurted out, and immediately realized that this title really shouldn't be used, and it would provoke his painful memories of the past.

"Skeleton ......" his gaze became fierce, and his hands unconsciously clenched into fists, "Yes, I am living in this abandoned garden...... Skeleton! ”

"It's not! …… You're not a skeleton! …… It's all gone......" I shook my head again and again, and screamed urgently, but the choked sound was poignant.

"It's useless! …… The trajectory of fate has long been predestined and cannot be changed! Chen Qiu Yangtian smiled bitterly, then straightened up and said to him coldly, "Since this is the case, then let's go to the end!" With a wave of her hand, the "lantern" disappeared, and a large cloud of silver light rolled silently over her shoulder, growing larger and brighter.

"Humph! It's just you who come to the end! His eyebrows furrowed slightly, and a familiar, dark, and terrifying murderous aura swept over him abruptly.

"Golden Silkworm Shadow!" Evergreen screamed in panic.

I looked up, and above the ruined garden with white light swaying, an arrogant golden phantom slowly appeared.

Everything around us, along with us, quickly faded.

His pale face, his gray clothes, and even the wild flowers on the ground turned gray.

Only him, nothing has changed!

I looked at him in a daze, looking sad. Yes, it was from this point two days ago that I finally affirmed that he was not Qi Zhen but ...... Sun Anning!

But I still can't believe that he will be the owner of this "Golden Silkworm Shadow"! Ding Zhongheng, Ye Xiaoyun, Wang Kai, Shu Fangfang, forensic doctors, and those policemen...... So many innocent people died silently under the shadow of the golden silkworm, and the murderer turned out to be him?!

Why? How could he become a cold-blooded and cruel murderer with his handsome face, gentle eyes, and sincere kindness in his memory? Became her mortal enemy?

"Slow down!" Chang Qing stood in front of Chen Qiu and shouted at him, "What about Qi Zhen? If you're not Qi Zhen, then where is he? His face was pale, his back stiffened, and he was both afraid and angry.

"He? Here he is. There was not a ripple in his dark eyes, and he replied lightly.

Chang Qing's eyes almost burst into flames: "Is there anyone else here?" ”

His eyebrows raised: "Hehe! Under the shadow of the golden silkworm, you still have the leisure to manage others, but you are worthy of being a person who learns the Tao. ”

"You...... It was when you destroyed the dragons that you made a contract? I asked as I stepped closer to him.

He bowed slightly: "Yes." At that time, you already sensed the abnormality of the spirit stone, and I could only forcibly conclude a contract. ”

But at that time he ...... Qi Zhen is still there, you don't have ...... Body, how to tie it up? "My voice was dry.

"I entered his body and controlled his soul, so strictly speaking, I should have made a contract with him at the same time!" He smiled, and his tone was gentle.

The gold seemed to flicker boringly.

"What? Didn't Qi Zhen's soul still stay on the spirit stone? Chang Qing asked.

"Wrong! His soul is here, but unfortunately you can't see it! He replied with a slight teasing.

My body was shaking.

Yes! I have seen Qi Zhen more than once in this alley where the abandoned garden is located, and it turns out that ...... It's all his soul!

But why is it only me who can see it?

There was a chill on my wrists.

Dark strings of beads swirl to convey the message of existence.

I was stunned.

My three souls are often attached to the Soul Splitting Bead, and it must be my soul that sees Qi Zhen.

"So, what about your soul? Why isn't it on the Spirit Stone either? Chen Qiu stroked the severed finger of his right hand and looked at him with a strange expression.

"Humph! You won't know why! He twisted his eyebrows, and his murderous intent was abrupt.

The golden silkworm shadow shook a little.

A talisman flew out of Changqing's hand, and the talisman turned into a golden sword in the air, roaring towards the golden silkworm shadow.