The fire phoenix dissipated in the night sky.

The lanterns were also burned out, and only a pile of black iron shelves remained.

Lin Shouxi walked out of the ruins, followed by a young girl.

The girl's glass is her eyes, and the phoenix fire is her skirt, she is more petite than Si Duxue, but her curves are impeccable, the girl's white skin is like a pasted porcelain piece, glowing with a faint gold, and there is also a golden ring around her neck, like a collar, and it is also like some kind of prohibition.

She is like the weakest little girl.

But no one dared to be disrespectful to her.

She looked up, her glass eyes glowing, and all the known colors of the world burst out in her eyes.

She looked at everyone.

Everyone looked at her.

The night of a thousand lights has ended, people have dispersed one after another, and it is deserted under the big lanterns that everyone has been looking forward to.

"Welcome back Your Majesty." Si Duxue was the first to speak, her voice soft.

"I'm not dead." The Girl Emperor said to Si Duxue.

"Of course, Your Majesty lives forever, how can he die?" Si Duxue said.

"I don't die, you will never be able to steal the throne." The empress said.

A simple sentence seemed to poke at Si Duxue's deepest heart, the ten fingers on her sleeves were clenched into fists, the smile on her face stiffened slightly, and she was puzzled: "Duxue has always been loyal to Your Majesty, how can she have the heart to steal, Your Majesty ......"

The Empress walked up to her and looked at her calmly.

In an instant, an illusory picture unfolded in the back of Si Duxue's head-

In the city, Si Duxue swallowed the Netherworld Dao Fruit, she knelt on the ice, and one after another snow-white fox tails spread out behind her buttocks.

"Congratulations to the goddess realm to the next level, you are very strong, far stronger than I was back then." Fox Ancestor's voice rang out.

There was no joy on Si Duxue's face.

"Why are you upset?" Fox Zu asked.

Si Duxue didn't know what picture she saw, so she only said to herself, "I see...... The Emperor is dying, and she has brought me here in order to make me a bridge to the underworld and bring her back down to earth. ”

"Really? Was this also the emperor's arrangement? Fox Zu smiled.

"Hmm."

"But...... Shouldn't you be glorified, my little goddess, that the emperor has chosen you? Or ......" Fox Ancestor's voice was full of banter: "Or is it that you have inherited the sword for a hundred years and cultivated all your life, and you are no longer willing to become a vassal of any existence?" ”

Si Duxue closed her lips and was silent, and her snow-white fox tail fluttered in the wind.

"It's better to kill her, kill the emperor, and you will become the new emperor." Fox Zu's voice was full of temptation.

"Your Majesty can't be killed." Si Duxue said softly.

"How do you know if you don't try? Moreover...... Oh, it doesn't matter if you can't be ruthless, you continue to be your obedient goddess, I'll be this wicked person, anyway, I have a lot of experience in killing the emperor, but the one I killed back then was a faint king, and I can't compare with this one. Fox Zu said lazily, "I'll lead her to Huangquan." ”

Si Duxue was silent for a long time.

The people who saw this scene were also silent for a long time.

Because in people's eyes, there is no distinction between the two souls of Fox Ancestor and Si Duxue, and from beginning to end, Si Duxue is talking to herself.

"There's no Fox Ancestor, it's you who want to kill me." The empress's voice was devoid of the slightest emotion.

"No, it can't be, I hear her, I hear her." Si Duxue said sharply.

"That's not Fox Ancestor, it's jealousy." The Empress said, "You have been eaten by the Sword of the Rings of Sin. ”

Si Duxue's pupils shrank suddenly, like waking up from a dream.

Is it jealousy......

The 'jealousy' of admiring Excalibur's seal eroded her.

She was jealous of Lin Shouxi's chance, jealous of the strength of Gong Yu, and jealous of everything more perfect than her...... The emperor is the most perfect existence in her heart, and as a result, she has become the thickest shadow standing at the end.

She was jealous of the emperor.

This is the alienation of the Sin Ring Excalibur to her, she can hide it, but she can't get rid of it.

The so-called fox ancestor was just an excuse she had found for herself, and when she buried the bear robe in the soil, the two souls in her body were already indistinguishable from each other—she was always in dialogue with her jealousy.

With her current strength, how could she not stop Mu Shijing and Lin Shouxi? She danced on the tall building, just to cover the three-flowered cat into the lantern.

After all, she didn't dare to really disobey His Majesty, so she pinned her hopes on Lin Shouxi and Mu Shijing, hoping that this pair of young girls who had created many miracles could surprise her again.

Pity......

The emperor is the emperor, and her dark mind is as childish and ridiculous in the eyes of the emperor as a child piling sand.

She tried to use the Netherworld power to lure the Emperor elsewhere, even into her own body, but she failed. She was just a bridge, a bridge for the emperor to pass through, and the idea of a bridge didn't mean anything to the walker, all she had to do was to kneel down and let the empress walk on her back.

"It is the fate of the sword bearer to be devoured." Si Duxue said.

"Fate is also an excuse." The empress said.

Si Duxue smiled miserably.

The empress is right, people are miserable when they encounter disasters, but once they accept their fate, once they give birth to the idea that 'this is my fate', this pain will be ridiculously alleviated.

"Is Your Majesty going to kill me?" Si Duxue asked.

"No, it won't." The empress said.

No matter how dark and distorted Si Duxue's thoughts were, she didn't care.

The malice of ants can never kill people.

She is willing to be tolerant of the filthy world, let alone an ant?

"But you fail, and the loser must always be punished." The Empress said, "I will give you as a slave to the first person who will see me." ”

Si Duxue lowered her head, as if she had experienced something more humiliating than death, her delicate body trembling in her seductive dress.

The empress didn't look at her anymore and walked to the next person.

Lin Qiuyi.

Lin Qiuyi was already a gray-haired old man, he looked at the emperor, like an old minister with a humerus meeting the monarch, and there were only vicissitudes in his eyes.

Lin Qiuyi opened his mouth, as if he had a thousand words to say, but in the end he just asked:

"Is it Your Majesty who has returned?"

"Yes." The Empress replied.

"That's good." Lin Qiuyi said.

"Good work." The Empress responded.

Lin Shouxi listened to their conversation, stared at Lin Qiuyi, and asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Before Lin Qiuyi could speak, the empress had already spoken.

"A thousand years ago, the god of tide knowledge broke through the seal, and although I returned it to the sea, it was also polluted."

Thousands of years ago, there was a protracted and shocking battle on the ice sea, which was also called the battle of the human race in the history books, and the empress did not say much about the details of the battle, she only told everyone the end of the battle:

When the god of the tide was about to be suppressed back to the ice ocean, she launched a counterattack with all her might, she was swallowed into the body by the evil god, although she escaped with a sword to cut its body, but it was also planted with the tide of the demon seed, which is the demon seed of the three evil gods, even if she is the emperor, she can't get rid of it, in order to resist the tide of the demon seed, she fell into a long sleep.

In the long sleep, the demon seed awakened another consciousness in her heart, and some people in the world with keen spiritual sense even sensed this consciousness and called it the Black Emperor.

This idea was originally just speculation by many, and today, the emperor himself confirmed it.

In the past thousand years, the Black Emperor's erosion of her has become heavier and heavier, and there was even a period of time when the Black Emperor's consciousness occupied the magpie's nest, replaced her to wake up, and gave orders.

The empress knew that although the seed of tide awareness could not kill her, if she continued like this, she would become an evil god sooner or later.

So, three hundred years ago, the empress made a decision.

"I'm going to refine myself." The empress said.

Since she can't pull the demon seed out of her body, then she will purify herself from the demon seed.

She chose the place of rebirth in the world on the other side, and in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, she also chose Lin Qiuyi, the god guarding mountain master, to be her protector.

Lin Qiuyi received the holy decree and prepared everything according to the emperor's arrangement.

Of course, the birth of Lin Shouxi and Mu Shijing was unplanned.

Lin Qiuyi was afraid that this would affect the emperor's rebirth, and at first he was reluctant to go to the dead city, but his friend Jing Yezi pushed this cause and effect in front of him.

He raised Lin Shouxi.

In order to truly avoid future troubles, Lin Qiuyi arrived in the city of Doom and swallowed the reincarnation Dao fruit - in this way, he would not die again, at least not before the plan was completed.

As for the keys......

The key was originally a sacred relic sealed in the Holy Soil Temple, and the reason why the holy relics of the Holy Soil Temple were stolen was very simple - the thief who stole the key was the Emperor himself.

This key was destined to be delivered to the red dragon after several twists and turns, and she was to open the sealed door at the bottom of the East China Sea.

The emperor has already written the history of the future.

"The Lord of the Black Scales killed me, but it was because of its fangs and teeth that I was able to break free from the cage of my shell and enter this world...... Therefore, what was really killed by its dragon breath was the Black Emperor who remained in his body. ”

The Empress walked forward and picked up the half of the female corpse that had fallen to the ground, which was exactly the same as her except for the description of charred black.

The bright girl hugged the corpse tightly, like holding a doll.

She kissed the corpse's forehead and said goodbye to her old self.

"What about the god of the tide? What's going on with its awakening? Lin Shouxi asked.

"I ordered the Priestess of the Guilty Ring to tell the world the news of my death, and I was also announcing the god of the tide in disguise. At that time, the Seed of Tide Awareness had been destroyed by the Lord of the Black Scales, so the God of Tide Awareness was not sure whether I was dead or alive, and could only get clues from its dependents.

The grand funeral was an empty plan for the god of the tide, and I lured it ashore with death, and the god of the tide guessed that I was tempting it, but it thought that it was precisely because I was half-dead and too weak that I put on this huge funeral to scare it. It was a gamble, and it chose to wake up again to kill me once and for all. ”

The empress slowly told the truth, and the coffin was conclusive: "Thousands of years ago, the seal failed, and the cut heir of the time and space demon god died, and the god of tide awareness has long been the dog of the end of the road, if it can't devour me, then sooner or later, it will be devoured by two other awakened evil gods." It will definitely bet. ”

The law of the jungle still exists among the gods.

This life-and-death battle, which should have been decided thousands of years ago, is coming to a real end.

"What about my ancestor? Did you give the order to kill her? Lin Shouxi asked.

"It's the Black Emperor." The Empress replied, "It was the Black Emperor who bewitched Si Duxue and gave the order when the Lord of the Black Scales fought me in a decisive battle. ”

"Why did the Black Emperor kill Shizu?" Lin Shouxi continued to ask.

"The gods have something to fear." The empress said: "In those days, the Fusang tree caused the catastrophe of destroying the world, and countless gods fell in the catastrophe, and now, its seed has reappeared in the world, and it is necessary to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots." ”

Hibiscus Tree Species......

It turns out that the flower of calamity in their mouth is the flower of the Fuso tree!

"You also want to kill the ancestor?" Lin Shouxi said vigilantly.

"I don't care." The empress said.

"And what do you care about?" Lin Shouxi finally asked.

The Empress did not give an answer.

After a brief moment of silence, the Empress's glazed eyes turned to the three-flowered cat.

The three-flowered cat subconsciously retreated.

The Empress leaned towards its front armpit and took it in her arms.

"O king of the blue...... 'Empress' tone became long, and she asked, "Do you remember me?" ”

The three-flowered cat clamped its tail and did not dare to speak.

The empress's voice was soft, like the wind blowing from heaven to the earth: "At that time, I had just opened my eyes, I was riding on your back, you spread your wings, and flew towards the sky, the former peaks have not yet been broken, they are the pillars of the gods connecting the heavens and the earth, we are coiled between the peaks, and the dragons are dancing behind us." ”

The empress's language became softer and softer because of the poetry.

The three-flowered cat pricked up its ears and shook its head.

It's just a simple cat and can't remember anything.

"You'll remember." The Empress made a prophecy.

The three-flowered cat trembled, her wish was simple and unpretentious, she only hoped that His Majesty the Emperor would not suddenly point at its eyebrows and make the book it secretly wrote in her mind public.

In the end, the empress walked towards Mu Shijing.

Mu Shijing had black hair and a black dress, hanging a death certificate, and quietly looked at this girl with glass-eyed eyes.

There was also a sense of familiarity in her heart.

It seems that they have known each other hundreds of millions of years ago.

In this world, the gods have no friends, only old friends.

"Take me away." The empress stretched out her hand to Mu Shijing: "Just like at the beginning." ”

……

Snow fell again in Chang'an City.

Snowflakes are reflected red by the lanterns that have not been extinguished.

Mu Shijing stood in place, looking at the immature hand handed by the empress, and felt that this scene was extremely familiar.

She moved her hand in her sleeve, but asked, "You...... Recognize me? ”

"You still can't remember anything?" The Empress asked.

"What should I remember?" Mu Shijing also asked.

The empress didn't answer, she waited for a while, gently lowered her hand, and a faint look of loss flashed in her glassy eyes.

"Then go back." The empress's voice was as calm as ever: "Follow me to kill the god of the tide." ”

She walked towards the outside of the Imperial City.

Lin Qiuyi and Si Duxue wanted to follow, but were stopped by the empress, "It's enough for them to go back with me." ”

Yesterday evening, Lin Shouxi, Mu Shijing, and Sanhua Cat walked into Chang'an City.

Today's dawn, the two of them went out of the city with a cat, and there was a perfect girl by their side.

The maiden looked like a person made of ice and snow, but she wore a long dress woven of flames, and a golden crown pressed against her hair, symbolizing her dignity.

Mu Shijing thought that if a newborn emperor opened the way, she would be able to feel the magic power of traveling in the twilight of the Beihai Sea once, but no, the girl emperor seemed to be stepping into the world for the first time, walking very slowly and carefully.

At first, Mu Shijing was very restrained, but she found that the legendary emperor was not only harmless to humans and animals, but also had no personality and no emotions, like a well-dressed doll.

But I don't know if it's because he has been asleep for thousands of years, the emperor is full of curiosity about the world, like a newborn baby's curiosity about the world.

Early in the morning, the empress came to the first town.

In this town, they saw a rich family doing a happy event, the groom was in his fifties, this was the seventh concubine of his Na, Mu Shijing saw this scene, couldn't help but ridicule Lin Shouxi, and asked Lin Shouxi if this was the morally corrupt life he dreamed of.

The empress spoke for the first time: "What is morality? ”

Mu Shijing was slightly stunned and did not answer.

"Morality is a law made up by man, it is something that hangs high above his head, it shapes man from top to bottom, morality does not care about what man wants, he just wants to shape man into what morality wants, this is a high discipline, a kind of deception in the name of nobility."

The empress said: "The big reason why immortals can't be huge is that they are too strict with human morality, even to the point of harshness, for example, many immortals only have one pair of partners for life. This is human morality, it should not be immortals, immortals should keep marrying, keep breeding, so that immortals are more than mortals, until they replace all mortals, and let people's races reach a new level, this is what immortals should do. ”

Mu Shijing didn't expect such words to come out of the emperor's mouth, she always felt that what the emperor said was crooked, but she didn't know how to refute it.

What the emperor said is indeed right, morality is domesticating people from the sky, if the world that the emperor envisioned is realized, then at that time, the immortals who will stay together for a lifetime will be considered immoral.

This...... Is this a really good world?

Mu Shijing couldn't answer, but the picture of everyone becoming an immortal made her heart shake a little.

"If that's the case, won't the world be chaotic?" Mu Shijing asked.

"No, it won't." The empress said, "It is up to me to define morality." ”

Mu Shijing pursed her lips, she didn't think much about the emperor's words, but glanced at Lin Shouxi and asked coldly, "What are you thinking?" ”

"I'm not thinking about three wives and four concubines." Lin Shouxi explained.

Mu Shijing was even more annoyed after hearing this.

At noon, they came to a pool of water and saw a fisherman and a farmer discussing spiritual practice.

The farmer said that life is nothing more than rice between the ridges of the field, spring and autumn harvest, and cultivation is just a futile struggle for people to resist reincarnation, which will only make people more desperate, and the fisherman said that everyone's luck is the same, and cultivation is just overdrawing the luck of the next life, and every cultivator is an evil ghost in the next three lives.

The Empress listened quietly.

Mu Shijing looked at her and wanted to hear what His Majesty had to say.

"The meaning of practice is simple." The empress said, "The purpose of cultivation is to fly to the sky." ”

"Ascension?"

"No, it is like a goshawk that flies to the sky, and only by flying to the sky can the earth be conquered." The empress said: "There is no point in ascending, but flying from one nothingness to another, and the bowing of the subjects is the meaning of existence." ”

Mu Shijing always felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't say it.

Night.

They came to the East China Sea.

Strange to say, they walked very slowly, and in just one day, they unknowingly walked the road in three days.

Night.

The sea is like an abyss.

This mysterious emperor is another abyss.

Lin Shouxi and Mu Shijing stared at her back.

When the boy and girl gaze into the abyss, the abyss is looking up at the starry sky.

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