"These days, as long as I close my eyes, I will think of the prophecy of the patriarch, it is a raging flame, I toss and turn, I can't sleep, I will go to see the baby in the swaddling clothes from time to time, generally speaking, babies will be a little ugly, their bodies are bloated, their skin is wrinkled, they cry all day long, but he is different, in the prophecy of the patriarch, he is the son of the devil."

Prophecy ...... It's a prophecy again, that day, I went to the dead city, it was my friend Jing Yezi for my divination, when I first met Jing Yezi a few decades ago, he was still a poor Jianghu monk, although he often compared himself to Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang, but he couldn't calculate accurately, often nine out of ten, if I hadn't helped him many times, he would have died of hunger and poverty. But over the years, he has become richer and richer, and when I see him again, he wears a high Taoist crown and a rhinoceros jade belt, and the supporters around him are all high-ranking officials and nobles. ”

"The world said that he was born with the Dharma, that he was born with the Dharma, that he was the reincarnation of the Buddha, and that he knew the past and the future, and I also asked him, why are you so skilled, and he said vaguely, saying that he was in retreat and learned, and had an epiphany on a snowy day, when he was about to die. I know, he didn't tell me the truth. ”

"Two months ago, Jing Yezi found me and asked me to go to that famous city, I asked him why, and he didn't say it, but told me the truth about the past."

"He said that he used to be just a charlatan, only understand some superficial and easy to reason, one day, he was as usual in the street stall cheating, a rich man suddenly got interested, found him, let him help calculate, he told the hexagram truthfully, in the evening when he closed the stall, the rich man with a group of people came over, he thought that he had caused some trouble by talking nonsense, turned around and was about to flee, who knew that the rich man bowed his head and called him a fairy."

Then he found that his calculations were surprisingly accurate, and he was so accurate that he was frightened. He remembered many ancestral teachings that revealed the Heavenly Machine's Divine Curse, but greed overrode fear, and he began to accumulate a lot of wealth, and no longer compared himself to Li Yuan, he felt that he had completely surpassed all his ancestors. ”

"But when he came to me two months ago, he was very spine, and he took my hand and said that he was scared, because he found that he had barely deviated from it. I asked, shouldn't you be happy, why are you afraid? He replied that if fortune-telling is accurate enough, doesn't it mean that the future of the world is solidifying, and people are falling into the quagmire of inescapable fate? ”

"'The world in the past was not like this' he said, at that time he tried to spy on numerology from Zhou Yi, turtle shells, palm prints, and celestial phenomena, but now, the world is changing earth-shaking places that people can't see, and a huge 'demon' was born, which is in charge of everything in the future, can calculate all the choices of everyone, and it will make its fate public, and the Taoist priest is its mouthpiece."

"He told me that he was going to live in seclusion after that, and I thought he was going to retire completely, but he said that he would continue to count until he figured out the ultimate mystery of the world, and he said this with red eyes and gritted his teeth, like a real madman."

"Two months later, I picked up the child in the dead city, I pried open his mouth and saw the black scales, 'The evil dragon is reincarnated as a human, and the mouth is against the scales, and it will be a disaster for the common people', and the brief prophecy of the patriarch's secret circulation exploded in my heart."

"I have the ability to decide the life and death of this child, but I don't have the slightest pleasure of dominating fate, on the contrary, I put myself in Jing Yezi's shoes, and I know that from the moment I have the ability to decide the direction of fate, I have also become a slave of fate."

“……”

The sky outside is dark, the lamp in Gong Yu's palm is getting brighter and brighter, and the words on the booklet seem to be beating with the flame of the lamp, revealing a sense of distortion and strangeness, and there are not many new things recorded in it, but the desperate sense of fate has passed through the back of the paper, infecting the people who are watching.

Xiao He also stood behind Lin Shouxi, watching the notes with him, she couldn't help but think of the fortune teller she met that day, she gave him Lin Shouxi's eight characters, but the fortune teller didn't seem to be proficient, and he didn't calculate it correctly.

After reading this note, Lin Shouxi realized that the rumors that were once prevalent in the sect when he was a child had such a long history.

Here are the first few pages of the note, and it's well-written.

"Frozen fate...... Lin Shouxi murmured softly, "How is this possible, if fate really exists, then isn't the freedom that human beings think they think is a joke?" ”

"Years ago, I was aware of this."

Gong Yu's red lips opened slightly, and said: "But this kind of calculation is usually only for mortals, most mortals live in one place all their lives, and the highest parents and officials who can be contacted are only county orders, and the real major events in their lives are nothing more than weddings and funerals, many people, even if they don't understand numerology, can easily see through the life of a cowherd baby, because most of their life trajectories are too simple, but the life of a cultivator is unpredictable, and a wise monk may be able to calculate a few major events that must be passed through in their lives, but they can't assert their lives, so." …… Don't be too afraid. ”

Lin Shouxi and Xiao He listened, and there was no ease on their faces.

"Could it be that Fang Shi is not clever enough?" Xiao He asked softly.

Gong Yu couldn't answer this doubt, she was silent for a while, and asked Lin Shouxi: "Do you want to continue to look down?" ”

"Look." Lin Shouxi said.

Gong Yu continued to turn the pages.

The booklet was flipped back, and on the yellowed paper, the handwriting was clear, and Lin Shouxi could even imagine what the old master would look like when he wrote these words.

"Daomen also picked up a baby, it is foreseeable that it will also be a peerless genius, the death of the city has greatly damaged the vitality of Daomen, but if I am stubborn and kill him, then in the future, the power of the Demon Dao will be completely unbalanced, and the vision inherited by the ancestor will not be realized. I'm really confused, such a simple truth was actually told to me by my junior brother. ”

"I have never grasped his life and death, it is my destiny to pick him up and raise him."

"There is a saying in the Tao Te Ching, knowing that the male guards the female as the world's stream, so call him to guard the stream."

"There are too many people in the world who want to kill him, and since then, the Demon Gate no longer recruits disciples."

After that, the time span was very long, and most of the things recorded in the books were trivial and miscellaneous things and his thoughts.

In the next few years, he raised Lin Shouxi to grow up, during which he had many, many murderous intentions, not that he really wanted to kill Lin Shouxi, but that he latentically believed that killing Lin Shouxi was equivalent to fighting against fate, which was extremely tempting.

Especially later, a door master descended from the heavens.

This sect master has brought despair and panic to the Demon Sect that has lasted for several years, and this sect, which was once thriving and almost became a martial arts master, is irreversibly declining.

Seeing the two sects disappear but are powerless, as the master of the sect, he bears the pain and pressure can be imagined, during the period, many older generations left the sect, secluded in the mountains and forests, and took refuge in advance, and there were also many disciples who couldn't bear this lifeless days of cultivation, sneaked out of the black cliff, and switched to other sects, he knew it all, but he didn't want to stop it.

Lin Shouxi also learned today that the seemingly amiable master had been hesitating to kill him for countless nights, and when he was seven years old, the master stood behind him, and once had a real murderous intention, and even hung his palm behind his neck, but when he turned around, when the master looked at his pink face, he touched his head and said with emotion: "It's all grown so big." ”

'He's a child of the Demon Gate,' the old master wrote in his notebook.

After that, the old master also recorded an inconsequential matter, one day he heard Lin Shouxi chatting with his senior brothers and sisters, and the senior brothers and sisters teased him and asked him, what do you want to do in the future.

"I want to revitalize the sect." Lin Shouxi said.

The senior brothers and sisters were overjoyed after hearing this, and asked, "Do you want to revitalize the Demon Gate in the future?" ”

"I want to revitalize the Hehuan Sect." The young Lin Shouxi replied with ideals.

“……”

Seeing this, the people inside and outside the book fell silent.

"Okay, I didn't expect our Lin Gongzi to have such a big ambition since he was a child." Xiao He's chuckle was a little chilly, and her slender little white hand put on Lin Shouxi's shoulder, gently stroking her upper neck along her shoulder, and her movements were as gentle as breath.

Lin Shouxi's back was slightly cold, and he defended weakly: "Tong Yan is unscrupulous, this is ...... It's just a joke. ”

"Really?" Xiao He climbed his little hand, touched his ear, pinched it, and asked, "Aren't you going to revitalize the sect, why are you worshipping under the Daomen now?" ”

After asking this question, Xiao He herself was stunned, and then, she showed a look of sudden realization, grabbed Lin Shouxi's ears, and said, "I understand, the way you revitalize the sect is to break into the inside of the sect!" No wonder you not only met Sister Mu, but also seduced Sister Chu...... Lin Shouxi, you really don't forget your original intention. ”

"I ......" Lin Shouxi was speechless, and the old master was full of ironclad evidence, and he didn't know how to refute it, and he was hesitant for a while.

"Your tactics are insidious, but they're pretty well executed." Xiao He became more and more energetic the more she spoke, she narrowed her eyes, and asked curiously: "You are so obedient to the vine, layer by layer, in the end, should you even ...... the master?"

"Ahem."

Gong Yu stood aside and coughed coldly.

Xiao He's delicate body trembled, and then she woke up, she knew that she was speechless, and couldn't help but cover her lips with her palms, and looked at her master carefully. Although the true qi of Gong Yu was lost, Yu Wei was still there, and the immortal who was as cold as an iceberg saw Xiao He's heart tighten, and she obediently defended: "I...... I'm also joking. ”

Gong Yu hummed faintly and flipped the note to the next page.

On the next page, the span of the notes is directly three years:

"Recently, I was flustered and couldn't sleep, in the Qianji Cave of Guigu Mountain, I saw my old friend Jing Yezi again, when I went, he had asked Xiao Daotong to prepare a table of dishes, he said, he knew I would come today. I also met another old friend of mine in the Qianji Cave, he was the sect master of the True Sect, Jing Yezi said that he would die at the hands of the Daomen master, he didn't believe it. ”

"We had dinner together, and the Sect Master of the True Sect said to me when he was leaving, if one day the Daomen Master attacked the Black Cliff, I would not come to save you, I didn't want to die in her hands. I didn't say anything, I didn't want him to come, and besides, it was useless for anyone to come. I asked Jing Yezi if he had calculated anything important, Jing Yezi hesitated for a long time before he came to my ear, lowered his voice and said: I have seen the destiny of heaven, although it is only the tip of the iceberg. ”

"He also said that the luck of the world's scholars, he monopolized the eight buckets, and in the future, even if the scholars have a clever plan, it will be impossible for them to reach his level."

"I didn't understand what he meant, and asked him about the so-called Mandate of Heaven. I know that such alchemists usually like to play dumb riddles on the grounds that the mandate of heaven cannot be revealed, so I didn't have much hope for the answer at first, but who knew that Jing Yezi not only gave me the answer, but also gave it very clearly. ”

"He dipped his finger in the water and wrote two words on the stone table in front of me, Doom."

"Does...... I thought this was talking about the dead city where the true qi originated, but Jing Yezi shook his head and said, according to the results of the divination, this city should be in the extreme north, located in the depths of ice and snow, that city is very ancient, it has existed before the birth of human beings, and it is the entrance to a secret realm. As for what's inside, Jing Yezi doesn't know, he said, that's the place he dreams of the most, because there is the ultimate of numerology hidden, but he can't go, he's not a cultivator, and he can't survive that kind of ice and snow. ”

The notes that followed spanned another two years.

"It's been a long time since I put pen to paper...... Jing Yezi is a messenger of the devil, and he has bewitched me. ”

"I want to go to the north, to find that city of doom, I'm not sure, whether I want to escape, or really want to face the truth of the world, but my body is getting old, and it reminds me every day, saying that you are dying, you are dying of nothing."

"When I was young, I liked arithmetic, astronomy, music theory, poetry, wine, singing and dancing, and I felt that as long as I rode my beloved horse and carried my beloved woman, there was no place in the world that I couldn't go. When people get old, their sharpness is really worn out unconsciously, and I now talk about the overall situation all day long, but the situation is getting more and more chaotic...... You shouldn't die with regret and become a dry bone in the grave. ”

"I'm heading to Ercheng."

The rest of the story is very monotonous, and it tells the preparations he made when he set off for the city of Doom, which is very detailed and complete, taking into account various circumstances.

When reading this, Mo said that Lin Shouxi and Xiao He, even if it was Gong Yu, there was a trace of nervousness in their pupils.

They knew that no matter how detailed these preparations were, they were still useless, because the place he was going to was unknown.

"Did he tell you about it?" Gong Yu asked.

"Master didn't tell me." Lin Shouxi shook his head.

In his memory, when he was twelve years old, Master did disappear for a while, and at that time, Master said that he had gone to retreat, and today he realized that he was going to the ice and snow city of the far north.

Gong Yu nodded lightly, and was about to turn to the next page, when suddenly, the night wind blew the window open.

The flame shook violently and then went out, and a thin wisp of white smoke floated up, causing people's hearts to cool slightly.

Gong Yu closed the window, re-lit the candle, and then continued to turn the page backwards.

Then, they were all taken aback.

Many of the following pages were crossed out with ink pens, and they were so clean that they couldn't read a single word.

"This ......" Lin Shouxi frowned.

It stands to reason that this passage should be the process of the Master's departure for the city of Doom, which is something of great importance, but it has now been wiped clean...... Is there a secret hidden in it that Master doesn't want us to know?

Keep turning and turning and turning the same number of pages in the back until the last page, and the handwriting on the note becomes clear again:

"It's been three months since I came back from the city, and every time I think back on this experience, I'm not sure if it's true, and if I'm really free from my fate? Or is it my life...... Forget it, there's no point in thinking about that. This black-purple line is getting deeper and deeper, and my life is coming to an end, and I won't live long. ”

"Shouxi has grown up, I believe that he will one day become the number one master in the world, and I ......"

"Damn."

The note came to an abrupt end.

……

"If only I had seen this note earlier."

After a long time, Gong Yu extinguished the candle flame and said quietly.

She remembered the manuscript left by her mother, which recorded a place called Makoku, which was in the far north of another world, and might be related to this city of doom, but no matter how interested she was in this city, with her current body, it was impossible to reach it.

Gong Yu closed the note, saved it again, and then took the initiative to push Lin Shouxi, walked out of the lifeless study, and came to the cool night of the autumn breeze.

The waning moon hung high, the clouds fluttered, and the palace towered into a black shadow in the night, and there was no sound except for the wheelchair running over the ground.

"I want to talk to Lin Shouxi alone."

Gong Yu stopped and said to Xiao He.

Xiao He has always respected his master, and he has no objections or suspicions, so he snorted, turned around obediently, and cleaned up the house.

After Xiao He left, Lin Shouxi asked respectfully, "What does the ancestor want to say to the apprentice?" ”

Gong Yu slowly pushed the wooden wheelchair and asked softly, "Do you hate me?" ”

"......" Lin Shouxi didn't expect her to ask like this, he thought about it and replied: "I hated before, but I don't hate now." ”

Gong Yu lowered his head, looked at the young man who was seriously injured in the wheelchair and couldn't move, and said softer, "Thinking about the past recently, I always feel that I have done a lot of things wrong. ”

"Doing a lot of things wrong?" Lin Shouxi asked rhetorically.

"Well, I used to be too arrogant."

Gong Yu nodded lightly, as if he was immimicking his own edict, and after a slight pause, a slightly ethereal voice floated out of his lips: "I have been in this world for many years, but I have never really put this world in my eyes, in the past, it was easy for me to dominate the Dao Gate and even dominate the world, and I did this, the purpose is only to make the cultivation continue, after breaking through the Demon Gate, I did not touch anything here, not a pity, but I think that these mortals regard the classics as treasures, which are of no use to me, I missed this note because of this, I have also heard the name of Jing Yezi, just as a charlatan, it is not enough, even if the sect master of the Nazhen Sect defeated me by half a point in Taiji, I didn't really take it seriously, but felt pity for him who spent his whole life to surpass me a little bit in a certain way...... I have always been an arrogant person in my bones, even vain arrogance, I obviously don't care about the world, but I want to prove my strength to the whole world, from childhood to adulthood. ”

Gong Yu's voice was heavy and not in the past, Lin Shouxi didn't understand why the master wanted to say this, and why he had to say it to him alone, he could hear the tiredness in the heavy tone of the master and couldn't help but get nervous in pity.

After saying this, Gong Yu was silent.

There is no mosquito interference in the autumn night, there is no fluttering fireflies, there is no grass on the top of the black cliff, so there are no birds to perch, and it is extremely quiet.

The night was silent, and Lin Shouxi didn't know how to respond to her words, so he had to choose to be silent with the night.

After a long time, Gong Yu's red lips moved slightly, and he took the initiative to ask: "Lin Shouxi, in your eyes...... What kind of person is a teacher? ”

"Hmm...... When I didn't know Shizu before, I thought Shizu was a powerful and mysterious enemy, but later I found out that Shizu was very beautiful and had an imperceptible softness. Lin Shouxi summed it up seriously, he originally said 'Qing Ao', but his ancestors had already criticized it before, so he didn't say it again.

"The appearance was given to me by my parents, and I was born beautiful and not worthy of pride, in the same way, my talent was also given by my parents, they are all great monks of the human god realm, and I am their only daughter, which can be regarded as the right time, I was born with gold and silver mountains in my arms, but I have not been enterprising for a long time, if it is not for the teacher to lead me into the right track, I don't know when I will be able to cheer up." Gong Yu pushed the wheelchair and walked in the cool night like water, saying so.

"Didn't Master Ancestor say before that you practiced very hard when you were a child?" Lin Shouxi asked suspiciously.

"That's a lie, I was lazy and playful when I was a kid."

Gong Yu recalled the past and smiled self-deprecatingly, she walked in the night wind, saying things that she would never say in the past: "But for a long time, I was confused by myself, and I was paranoid that I grabbed all this with my hands, but is it really like this, it's not......"

"Why should the master be arrogant, if he continues to say this, it is overkill...... Master Ancestor should be tired, let's rest early. Lin Shouxi said softly.

"Nope." Gong Yu shook his head and continued, stubborn and serious: "There are many people in the world who are strong by nature, they will imitate the daily life or mantra of the strong, take it as a trend, and feel that everything the strong do makes sense, even if they fail, they are as tragic as having their ideals shattered...... I'm the same person, and unlike them, I love myself. I admired my own strength, and I saw the perfection of the realm as the perfection of the mind, and I did a lot of wrong things, but I didn't know it at the time...... For example, Shi Jing and Chu Chu, they worship me as a teacher, respect me and love me, but I don't do my best to teach them well...... I actually like them, especially Chu Chu, every time I see her, I think of when her mother was young, but the more so, the more I want to bully her...... Oh, it's like she's angry with her mother. ”

Gong Yu smiled softly, as if she was self-examining, and as if she was watching coldly, telling herself what she was unwilling to admit in the past.

"I often say that the seven priestesses of the Holy Shrine are sick, but ...... I seem to have some symptoms, too. Gong Yu pushed him to the edge of the cliff, looked at the night like a sea of ink, and said.

"It's cold in high places, and if the ancestor stays at the peak of the world for a long time, it will inevitably be infected with wind and cold, and it doesn't hurt." Lin Shouxi comforted.

"You can talk." Gong Yu rubbed his hair and said, "You might as well say that I fell into the mortal dust and didn't adapt to the water and soil." ”

Lin Shouxi couldn't help but smile when he heard this.

Gong Yu let go of the hand holding the handle of the wheelchair and walked in front of him, her legs bent slightly, leaned down a little, and after folding a lock of hair behind her ear, the long eyes of the faint autumn water met Lin Shouxi's eyes, as if she was expecting some response, and after a while, she said softly: "It would be good if my master was still alive." ”

Lin Shouxi was shocked, and vaguely, he caught a trace of familiarity in her eyes, but this familiarity came from no reason.

He straightened his face and said in a serious tone: "You know that you are wrong, why pin your hopes of correction on others? Do you still have to complain about these mistakes, 'It's all because the master left early and didn't teach me well'? Shizu ...... Don't look outward. ”

“……”

Gong Yu's eyes flashed, she smiled, and said, "Well, you're right, that'...... What do you think I should do? ”

"Well......" Lin Shouxi thought for a while and said, "It's very simple, you write everything you think is wrong on a piece of paper, cross out every item you correct, and blame yourself every time you commit it again." ”

"Okay." Gong Yu smiled and nodded, and his words were a little well-behaved.

The night was getting deeper.

She pushed Lin Shouxi back to his original room.

knocked on the door, and Xiao He hugged him back.

After Lin Shouxi left, she looked at the empty moonlight alone, and turned back into the Taoist fairy who was proud and beautiful, and did not eat the fireworks of the world.

It's just that when I look at Lin Shouxi's wing, there will always be a shallow stream like light flowing through my eyes.

She stood gracefully in the night, smiled, and said to herself: "Yes, I blame the master for leaving early and not teaching Xiaoyu well." ”

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