Hujiang regained the piece of jade and wore it on his body every day, of course, in order to show his sincerity, he found a piece of fine divine jade again and gave it to Shaodian (of course, the jade is still King Anting's). Shaodian didn't say anything more, and accepted it safely. In the past 20 years, Hujiang has been able to see Shaodian only a handful of times, if he hadn't come to Tongshan this time, he would still have been able to look at the distant astrology hall bell tower and miss Shaodian.

Because of the two days of getting along, Hujiang obviously felt that he had narrowed the distance with Shaodian, which he had been looking forward to. Although Shaodian has been busy transporting the mountain god's body and taking care of the comatose Xumo, his heart is still full of hope for their future. However, what has troubled him recently is that after returning to the royal city, how will he see Shaodian? Once he returns to the royal city, one of them will be locked up in the palace, and the other will stay in the astrology hall day and night, and it will be difficult for Hujiang to see Shaodian again.

He thought about how to meet Shaodian when he returned to the city, and before he knew it, he walked to the lake. In the distance, Shaodian was leading Xumo, who had just woken up and was not conscious, to take a walk on the shore, and it seemed that he had not found Hujiang.

Hujiang was overjoyed when he saw Shaodian, and the light in his eyes dimmed again after seeing Xumo in a blink of an eye. He crouched down quickly, slowly moving behind in the grass, following the two in front of him to see what they were going to do.

Shaodian had already discovered Hujiang, and knew that he had no malicious intent, so he didn't see it, and continued to take Xumo for a walk.

Xumo's symptoms this time were more serious than before, and even if he was sent back to the camp and immediately repaired with the body of the Shou Dannu, it couldn't stop his soul from getting out of control. Shaodian vaguely guessed the reason for his situation this time, but she didn't know if it was a bad thing or a good thing.

Shaodian has always regarded Xumo as a younger brother, and although Xumo is sometimes perverse and violent, his attitude towards Shaodian is the best. Maybe it's the heart-to-heart sympathy between the gods and puppets, Xumo treats Shao as the same kind and has been taking care of her secretly consciously or unconsciously. She too, she knows what Xumo is, and she has been paying attention to him for this. One of them is the only god puppet refined by the human race, and the other is the only demigod puppet, and the attraction between them is incomprehensible to others.

Five hundred years ago, Shaodian became the first god puppet refined by the human race, and it was two hundred years later that she was really conscious and had a memory, which happened to be the time when the human race was preparing to refine the next batch of god puppets.

But for hundreds of years, the human race has been unable to refine the god puppet, and the strange thing is that the materials they refine every time are clearly exactly the same, and the astrology hall is helpless to do anything about it, although it is puzzled.

The second batch of puppets after Shaodian all failed to refine and became dolls, and Xumo was the third batch.

Shaodian can be said to have watched the divine body of Xumo being refined since he was conscious. The newly awakened god puppet is like a human child, even if the god body is like a girl for a hundred years, but the immaturity of the soul makes her full of curiosity about everything.

She had secretly seen the children who were locked up in the dungeon to refine the soul, and she knew that the soul that would eventually enter the divine body would be one of these children, so she wanted to see the faces of those children and wonder what those children looked like, but the dungeon was too dark for her to see anything clearly, and she could only faintly hear the faint sobbing sound inside.

She had been removed from the Xiudan Monastery and placed in the Xuanji Monastery since she had her memories, and Shaodian was still in the observation period, and the elders of the temple had conducted various tests on her to figure out what she was best at. Later, the Xiudan Academy began to prepare for refining the divine soul of the divine puppet, and the elders in the hall attached great importance to this and focused all their energy on this matter, so that Shaodian was able to have a lot of free time to satisfy his curiosity.

One night, after waiting for the maid in the room to retreat, she quietly sneaked into the secret room where the body of the god puppet was placed with the Night Pearl alone.

The secret room was located in the basement of the Shudan Temple, and she was already familiar with the mechanism in it, so she could easily enter it.

Through the long tunnel, she came to a small space that was only wide enough for two people to pass side by side, and at the end of the space stood a long square box. Shaodian knew as soon as she looked at the black box that it must contain the puppet exorcism, and she ran over quickly holding the Night Pearl.

The square box was constructed like a coffin that had been erected, and Shaodian opened it with a light lift, revealing a glass container that glowed with yellow-green light inside. The container was so tall that even if Shaodian stood on tiptoe and stretched out his hand to reach it, he could only reach two-thirds of it. The container is filled with a transparent potion that protects the shell, and at the bottom of it are placed a number of night pearls, which is why it always glows.

Shaodian lay on the glass wall and looked at the blurred figure inside with wide eyes, and the potion inside seemed to be constantly flowing up and down, driving the long hair of the body to float up and down. She knocked on the glass wall and leaned up again to watch, as if calling it to wake up. However, she continued to knock for an hour, and the body in the container remained motionless, as if isolated from the world, and fell asleep alone.

Shaodian had a foggy memory at the time, and she didn't know why she did it, she just instinctively wanted to wake it up.

Time passed slowly, and Shaodian was finally discovered by the puppets patrolling the Crucible Pavilion, and was forcibly taken out of the secret room by the elders of the Xiudan Academy. The wooden lid was re-covered, and the stone door of the secret room slowly fell, kicking up a puff of dust. At this moment, the body in the glass container shook slightly, and the hair fluttered lightly, and fell again.

The elders in the hall didn't take Shaodian's night visit to the secret room to heart, they just regarded this as an attraction between the gods and puppets, and after locking Shaodian for a few days, they let her run around the courtyards.

Later, she went to the dungeon a few more times, and the guards of the dungeon were a few unconsciousness dolls, and Shaodian's level was much higher than theirs, and every time they went, they would leave on their own to make room for Shaodian. But no matter how many hours she stood there, she still couldn't see the children clearly, but what she didn't know was that although she couldn't see them, the children in the dark could see her clearly.

On the day that the Xiudan Academy began refining the Divine Soul, she happened to be studying stargazing on the top floor of the Nianji Pavilion.

There are only three walls on the top floor of the Nianji Pavilion, and the right side of the wallless wall is facing the most prosperous street of the royal city and the royal palace in the center, and as long as you stand on the edge, you can feel the cool wind blowing across her cheeks, blowing her hair messy.

Although you can't see the whole city of the royal city from the bell tower, you can see the entire astrological hall and the royal palace behind the astrological hall.

There is an enchantment on the top floor, so that those inside can clearly see the outside, but those on the outside cannot see inside. The top floor of the Nianji Pavilion seemed to be hidden among a red wall and green tile, and no one could find it outside.

One by one, the children in the dungeon walked out of the dungeon and walked barefoot on the stone path of the temple with their heads bowed and barefoot. Shaodian sat on the edge, his feet dangling in the air, and under his feet were tiny bushes and slow-moving guards. Her eyesight was good, and she could clearly see the unkempt and dirty children. Their hands and feet were chained, and each of them wore an iron ring around his neck to facilitate the extraction of blood. They are not noisy or noisy, they are numb.

The torch lit on the tower in the distance flickered brightly, and Shaodian looked at this scene with an empty heart. The group of children, who looked like the oldest was ten years old and the youngest was no more than three years old, entered the Hearthh Pavilion one by one, and none of them looked up as if they had accepted their imminent death.

This is how the puppet is refined. Shaodian thought. So did he be like them before, being dragged step by step towards the hot copper furnace with chains, and then jumping into the pungent potion...... I got a new lease of life, but what about the others?

"What are you looking at?" a boy of six or seven years old leaned over to her and followed her gaze.

"Looking at them. Shaodian was still looking down, and there was a blindfolded boy in the crowd who was staggering and being pulled by the person in front of him.

The boy couldn't see clearly, but he knew what was going on there. "What do they have to offer?" he pulled out the astrological book and placed it on the ground beside Shaodian, "Father said you should read this book today." ”

The boy has been studying with Shaodian for a year, and every day they will stay together for a while, and he will follow what Shaodian learns. The boy's name is Fu Heng, and he is the youngest son of the elder of the Astrology Palace, and he is also specially selected by the elder to accompany Shaodian to study together.

"Fu Heng, look, that person is looking at me. Shaodian pointed to the blindfolded boy and said.

"No way. Fu Heng said firmly without raising his eyes. Not to mention that people outside can't see the top floor at all, and it is quite difficult to find someone in this huge top floor at such a distance. "People outside couldn't see us. ”

Shaodian pursed his lips, not obsessed with this question. She looked at the boy closely, lost in thought. Why can he see her without eyes?

"Shaodian, hurry up, my father is going to check our homework in the afternoon. Fu Heng couldn't wait any longer, he got up and walked to the chair behind him and sat down, and began to read the book. After looking at it for a while, he raised his head and found that Shaodian was still sitting motionless.

What's wrong with Shaodian today? Is there something wrong? Fu Heng didn't understand in his heart, but after reading it for a while, he immediately threw himself into the book and didn't care about her anymore.

The boy had already entered the pavilion, but Shaodian was still looking in that direction. It dawned on her that the boy was different, and that he was not a Terran. What the hell was he?, she thought.

"Floating Heng. She called out to him suddenly.

"What?" Fu Heng looked up from his book.

"Is it really possible to train a divine soul with a human soul?"

Fu Heng was surprised, isn't this question obvious? Shaodian herself has been trained with many human souls? But for some reason, the answer that was originally clear in her heart hesitated when she was about to say it, and he stumbled and said a few words, and his voice became smaller and smaller. "Should...... Should...... bar. ”

"Since human souls can become divine souls, then why does the Heavenly Dao still distinguish between humans and gods, and why does it have to specially formulate the rule that the gods cannot kill?"

Fu Heng is still young, although he has studied with Shaodian and his father for a few years, he is a little precocious, but he is still a child in essence, and he was stunned when he suddenly encountered this kind of question that he had never heard before, and he didn't know how to answer.

"Uh...... This ......"

"Heaven and earth are the same wide, the way of heaven can make people become gods, and God can help people become immortals, but people have always been passive, and people can't take the initiative to take what heaven and God can give. So, they ...... Is it really human?" Shaodian turned her head with her back to him, the sun was rising outside, and the sun was shining, and her side face was covered with a layer of golden light, and her puzzled eyes looked very misty under the flying bangs.

Fu Heng was shocked in his heart, why did Shaodian know this, father, they didn't let them read the relevant books at all.

"Shaodian......" Fu Heng put down the book and walked to her, even though he was still young, he knew that such a Shaodian was not the normal "god puppet" that his father expected.

All the children went in, and there was not a single one left. Pale golden smoke floated from the long chimney of the Hearthh Pavilion, which seemed so insignificant in the golden sunlight.

"Let's go inside. Shaodian turned sideways and said to Fu Heng: "It's time to read." ”

In the evening, Fu Heng told his father the truth about the morning to the Han Palace. Han Gong is a rookie in the hundred years after the change of the Nianji Pavilion, but at the age of seventy, he became the second elder of the Nianji Pavilion, and this time the body of the god puppet was refined by him.

"Did she really say that those children weren't Terrans?" Han Gong sat behind the desk, the pen in his hand not stopping for a moment.

Although she didn't say it directly, she had questions about the identity of the children. Father, aren't those children really Terran?" According to the internal narrative of the royal family, those children were bought from displaced people from all over the world, and each child volunteered to dedicate himself, and the young Fu Heng has always believed in this statement.

Han Gong paused to lift the pen, raised his head from the scroll and looked at Fu Heng, frowned and said, "These are not what you need to know now. After speaking, he lowered his head and sketched on the paper, and said: "If you want to know the truth, you can observe it yourself, but remember that you can only ask these questions openly if you become an elder in this courtyard, otherwise you will have to pretend not to see it until you die, understand?"

"I understand Father. Fu Heng nodded. Han Gong waved at him and motioned for him to stand down.

Fu Heng was just about to retreat, when the Han Palace suddenly stopped him, he paused and said, "Don't tell anyone about Shaodian, even the king of people." ”

Fu Heng was stunned for a moment, then nodded and retreated.

As soon as Fu Heng came out of the Nian Ji Pavilion, he saw a white afterimage jumping quickly in front of him, Fu Heng looked at it, wasn't that Shaodian? He hurriedly followed.

Shaodian was rushing towards the Earthh Pavilion at an extremely fast speed, and the Earthhearth Pavilion had just exploded.

Shaodian felt that something was wrong when she read the machine pavilion, so she immediately set off to rush to the earthh pavilion, but when she arrived at the door of the earthh pavilion, she felt the shaking of the earth, although there was the protection of the enchantment, she still heard a dull blasting sound.

This time, there were a total of twelve bronze tripod furnaces, each of which could only refine one divine soul, but it required fifty children to be thrown. Each furnace is placed in a different room, each room is protected by an enchantment, and the room number is arranged by twelve earth branches. And this explosion was the Ding furnace in the Chen room.

When Shaodian entered the Chen room, it had been scorched black by the fire in the Ding furnace, and several puppets responsible for guarding the furnace fire had long since left only a pair of black and gray skeletons, and as soon as Shaodian stepped into the room, those skeletons were shattered because they couldn't bear the pressure, and they were scattered on the ground. After the explosion of the Ding furnace, the remaining limbs and bodies in the furnace were scattered everywhere due to the squeezing of the blast.

Shaodian is a god puppet, her eyes are different from the human race, she clearly sees what kind of race those limbs belong to, this ability is innate, and does not need to be learned.

At her feet were black and red minced flesh, bones of various shapes. However, only one-third of them belonged to the human race, and the rest were various mountain spirits and tree spirits.

The temperature in the room was still very high, and Fu Heng could only stay outside, he was afraid that something would happen to Shaodian, so he hurriedly called her name loudly.

The people from the Xiudan Academy were coming one after another, and after the morning's incident, Fu Heng had been afraid that others would find out about Shaodian's abnormality, so he had to take Shaodian away before the other elders arrived.

Just when Fu Heng was sweating profusely, Shaodian walked out of the enchantment safely. Fu Heng hurriedly went up and pulled her to a place far away from the Chen room.

After coming out, Shaodian's white clothes were covered with black carbon ash, and even his face was stained with a lot of black ash. Fu Heng took out a handkerchief and wiped her face clean, and said a little unhappily while wiping it: "You can't do that in the future, the Earth Furnace Pavilion is not something that ordinary people can enter, what if the elders find out?"

Shaodian didn't seem to listen to his words, she hung her head down, and the hairband was already scattered and wrapped around her hand. The hair on both sides covered her cheeks, hiding all her expressions in the dark. "Floating Heng. She grabbed his wiping hand and whispered to him.

Only then did Fu Heng shift his gaze to her eyes, and there was a faint flicker of fire in her dark eyes. He was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had misread it, and the next second he was sure that he had not misread it. Shaodian was angry, her eyes turned red, and although her expression remained the same, those changed eyes already revealed a message of anger.

"I saw it. ”

"What do you see?" Fu Heng swallowed his saliva and asked carefully.

Shaodian pulled his hand down and turned his back to him. Not far away, the elders of the Xiudan Monastery came one after another and worked together to open the barrier. Suddenly, a hot wind swept around. The strong wind blew, Fu Heng hurriedly closed his eyes and covered them with his hands, and when he opened his eyes again, he suddenly smelled a smell similar to burnt meat, and after the burnt smell was a cool fragrance. He was stunned for a moment, and looked around, as if to see where it was coming from.

Shaodian's loose hair was blown messy by the wind, and when he looked at her back through the faint light of the lamp, he felt very sad.

"Shaodian ......" Fu Heng couldn't help but call her, Shaodian had never been like this before, and he was a little scared. "Are you crying?" he asked.

"Cry?" Shaodian looked back at him, tears welling up in her eyes, tears pouring out of her cheeks and dripping onto her collar.

"What's crying?" she asked. As if sensing something, she raised her hand to touch her cheek tentatively, and spread it out with tears on it. She looked up at Fu Heng, panicked, and asked in a trembling voice, "Fu Heng, am I leaking?"

Fu Heng was also shocked when he saw her tears, he looked at her with wide eyes, his mouth open but he couldn't speak. The most he has been in contact with since he was a child is dolls, dolls rarely speak, and there are basically no facial expressions, Shaodian is the most human-like puppet he has seen in more than ten years. His father and the elders called her a puppet, and he knew that she was different, but he still didn't think that she had the same emotions as the human race, and once he knew that Shaodian had this emotion, he would no longer be able to see her as a human puppet.