"Are you alright?"

"Of course I'm good, too good. So, please don't associate me with the noble Yun Lou clan again. ”

Finally getting impatient, the girl's disgusted voice came: "You can go back, the mud outside is not for you." If you want to be a white lotus, you should stay in the pond of clear water. ”

Yunlou Chaoyue's expression dimmed, "But you are ...... after all"

"I'm nothing!"

Bai Xi's voice raised and interrupted her words, full of disgust: "I am a wild child without a father and a mother, I don't know what Yunlou City is, and I have nothing to do with the noble Yunlou Clan. There is the trouble of 'Her Royal Highness the Princess'.

Now that I'm going home, you can go too. ”

“......”

Chaoyue was silent, lowered her head gloomily, and whispered after a long time: "Thank you for saving me, if it weren't for 'Trickling', I might have died here today." ”

"I said please leave, don't you understand the Oriental dialect?"

Yunlou Chaoyue's shoulders trembled, and after a long time, he nodded:

"That'...... I'm leaving, be careful. ”

She reached out and stroked the walls of the high wall as if to caress the girl's cheek, and after a long time, turned away.

In the long silence, the alleys were silent.

Only the embers of the looting slowly dissipated in the wind.

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Behind the high wall, Bai Xi silently listened to the footsteps of Yunlou Chaoyue and left.

It wasn't until the silence finally fell back that she fell to her knees tiredly, as if out of strength.

It was as if her blood was boiling, and on her bare hands and cheeks, purple-red veins burst out, and she could vaguely feel the blood flowing like lava.

In her nasal cavity, scarlet sweet blood flowed out bit by bit. Some drops of blood seemed to boil, and when they fell to the ground, they burned the slate red. Some have a biting chill.

Other droplets of blood were purple-black, and when they fell to the ground, they snorted, leaving traces of corrosion.

Beside her, a handsome young man with waist-high blond hair held his cane, watching in silence from beginning to end.

Seeing her painful look, he handed the handkerchief with pity, but there was no sympathy in his green eyes—not coldness, but some kind of recognition that transcended pity.

On the back of his hand, the two snakes intertwined, tearing each other to form a black totem.

It was Hermes.

"Above all the noise, overwhelm the demons of the Three Realms...... Is that the 'Taiyi'?"

Hermes sighed softly: "Sure enough, it is the supreme power in the blood of the dragon vein. ”

In the East, the blood of the dragon vein is the symbol of the strong, precisely because of the natural power contained in it. The so-called 'Taiyi' is the best of them.

No matter where she is, once Yunlou Chaoyue makes a sound, her voice is above all voices. The Aether would only obey her call, ignoring any other sounds.

Like the emperor's orders, it is supreme.

Because of this, she was able to easily disperse the music of others, even if the strength of the three of them was equal to her own. But in the end, the introduction that prompted "Da Shao" was not her power...... It's from the white tide that is close at hand.

"What a blessing to be able to see 'Taiyi' and the ...... 'Trick' at the same time in one day. ”

"Don't compare me to that kind of winding doll. ”

In the silence, Bai Xi stood up with his body propped up, gasping for breath.

Hermes handed over a tube of healing potions, which the girl impatiently patted away, but his potions stubbornly moved back.

"It's better not to hold on, you know better than me the sequelae of 'swagger', right?" Hermes showed full patience and comforted: "Just take advantage of it, don't take advantage of it." Anyway, I have too much money to spend. ”

"Are you telling a joke?" Bai Xi's expression was disgusted: "You sent me a letter to come here just to let me take advantage?"

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Twenty minutes ago, after sending Ye Qingxuan to the infirmary, Bai Xi received a letter with two short sentences written on it, stamped with the seal of Hermes:

[I know your relationship with the Yun Lou clan, I am waiting for you in the alley outside the south gate of the academy. 】

"Actually, I just wanted to see the swagger. ”

Hermes shrugged: "Aren't you also a loss? and saved someone's life, in the words of the East, it is better than building a nine-story watchtower." ”

"Now you've seen it and you're satisfied?"

"Don't say that, I'll never have a grudge against beautiful girls. I'm still your boss after all, and you have to think of me better. ”

"Huh. ”

Hermes was sighing sadly, Bai Xi sneered twice, and turned to leave. Hermes sighed and reached out to hold her shoulder.

"Wait a ......"

Syllable!

In an instant, as if he had violated some realm, a fiery arc of lightning jumped from Bai Xi's shoulder! The electric light pumped on Hermes's fingers, burning them into a charred black mass and cracking his nails. In the stench, the flesh is scorched.

Bai Xi's footsteps staggered, and he turned his head to look at him angrily.

"And so it was. ”

Hermes looked down at his injured finger and muttered something softly, and the wound healed in no time.

He narrowed his eyes, staring at the turbulent aether that was wrapping around the girl, and finally determined:

The backlash of the light has gone deep into the bone marrow. ”

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In the inheritor of the blood of the dragon vein, there is always a talent that is innate. Some people say that talent is a gift from God, but it is not, it is a curse of God......

This is an extremely powerful talent in the blood of the dragon vein.

Once awakened, it will single-handedly stir up a riot in the ether.

At that time, the place where Bai Xi is located will be transformed into a black zone of aether madness, and all aether will be completely out of control and no longer tame to the manipulation of others.

And with its blessing, even the simplest note can increase its lethality tenfold and hundredfold...... It is so strong that it is not divided between friend and foe, and crushes everything that is within reach!

Including the caster himself.

"You can't control it anymore. ”

Hermes looked down, staring at the bulging purple-blue veins on the girl's wrists, which were pulsating with rage beneath the almost transparent skin, and the sound of blood flowing was like a tidal wave.

This is one of the after-effects of using talent, the mildest one.

"I just wanted to talk to you. Why run away, Bai Xi?"

Hermes sighed, "If 'Taiyi' is the emperor, then 'Stirring' is the people of the wildfires. You can't control it, and you can't suppress it. ”

"I can control it!" Bai Xi interrupted him.

"I've found another thing you and Little Leaf have in common: you both like to lie to yourself......"

Hermes laughed softly, and that laughter seemed to mock the innocence of a child: "It's useless, Bai Xi, don't you feel it?"

Even if you pretend to forget it, it's impossible for it to disappear. The more repressive it is, the more furious it becomes. Each time it awakens, it becomes more violent and stronger.

If you can't handle it, it will take your life and grow like a tumor...... Until the day you are dragged down by your own strength.

You're seventeen years old, aren't you? Two of your most precious years have already been taken away from it, and it will take more ......"

"You don't have to worry about it. ”

Bai Xi looked at him coldly, raised his hand, and wiped the nosebleed from his cheek with his sleeve.

She no longer looked weak, she was the little girl like a hedgehog again, her eyes were unruly and indifferent: "I'm sorry, I don't need you to take care of my affairs, and I don't have room for you to intervene."

Now, if I don't mind, please disappear from my presence quickly and don't delay my time any longer. I still have classes to attend in the evening. ”

"Class?"

Hermes laughed, as if he had heard a joke, "Your Highness, who else in Avalon is qualified to teach you? Abraham? A retired executioner?"

"Give up, Abraham can't teach you, but ......"

He stared at Bai Xi, and there was a frenzied fire in his narrowed eyes. It wasn't greed, it was more like a craftsman looking at the jade in the stone, so he saw that he was happy:

"—I can. ”

Bai Xi was stunned.

She didn't expect that this mysterious boss with a weird feminine aura called herself here for this. She was ready to die in the net, but now she felt so weird.

Being able to control the light swing and be able to live freely is something she has always dreamed of, but now, she feels that reality has played a bad joke on her, and she can't laugh at all.

"Why?"

"Why? Haha, maybe that's fate, right?"

As the night wore on, Hermes looked back at the fog that had regained over the streets, and his eyes mocked, as if mocking something.

"Because something is going to change, someone or something is going to come to me, and I'm not sure if the consequences will be as I expected.

Either something was cut off, or I was cut off. ”

Hermes raised his hand and dispelled the obsessive fog, his eyes focused and deep, "Before that, I want to find a student who will at least pass on some things." ”

It's hard to believe. ”

"yes, I think it's ridiculous, don't I?" Hermes shrugged his shoulders without self-deprecation, "How about doing it the way I do best?"

There are a lot of people who call me a trader because I'm too lazy to hide it. Since the world likes to put a price on a lot of things, you might as well treat it as a deal.

I get a student, and you get a new path to freedom. ”

In Bai Xi's silence, this gentleman-like guy saluted exaggeratedly. It was like meeting a noble and great emperor, his tone was solemn and playful, and his eyes were deep, as if he was peeking into her future.

"—Your Highness Princess, what do you think?"

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Late at night, Ye Qingxuan woke up from his sleep and found that he had been squeezed to the bedside.

He reluctantly looked back and saw the little girl occupying the center of the bed, and couldn't help but sigh and carefully pluck her feet off his neck.

Bai Xi woke up, glared at him, turned over and continued to sleep.

"Where did you go?"

Ye Qingxuan sighed: "I'm only coming back now." ”

"Didn't go anywhere. ”

Bai Xi replied in a sullen voice, as if he was unhappy: "I'm sleepy, I want to sleep, don't pay attention to me." ”

“...... Why don't you go to your own bed and run to the hospital to grab my bed?"

"Thunder, scared. ”

Ye Qingxuan looked up at the window, the stars were shining brightly, and the night sky was cloudless......

Forget it, thunder will thunder.

He sighed, closed his eyes, and curled up in the little corner that the little girl had let out. In the silence, his fingers were only a line away from Bai Xi's cheeks.

"Bai Xi?"

"Huh?"

"The next time you cry, don't wipe your snot on my face. ”

"Oh......"