The smile on Zhibai's face disappeared a little, and he was silent and did not speak.

His heart is indeed in turmoil, and it is so chaotic that there is no possibility of peace.

The reason why Zhibai appeared here is because he knows that the earth-shattering game he planned this time is the last chance in his life, and he has always been using the weak to seek strength, this is the one with the greatest chance of success, and it is also the one that gambles all his net worth and life.

So he came to Chang'an City, sat on the Taibai Building, and always quietly felt the changes that had taken place in Chang'an City, which was a plan for all his efforts.

The whole world is included in it, and there will never be such a huge scene in the future.

All the chess pieces that can be used, all the forces that can be calculated have been moved to the table, and this is the last fight.

If it succeeds, the desolate people will be able to take advantage of the situation and take a big step, and they can get out of the city as they can enter the city, and no one can help it.

If it fails, then no matter where it is, there is no possibility of starting from scratch, and the Tang Kingdom, which has been reborn from the ashes and has no civil strife, will only become stronger in the future, and will never leave anyone with a chance to take advantage of it.

So he's the same result no matter where he is.

For Zhibai, if there is no chance to lead the desolate people to a better life in the future, it is not much different from death.

So he chose to walk into Chang'an City, climb the Taibai Tower and quietly watch all this happen.

Waiting for the finale and the results to emerge.

Winning everything will be a foregone conclusion, and the future of the desolate man will change completely.

If you lose, you will stay here for a long time, and never see the troubled world again.

This is the last chance, and the only chance, once you fail, you can't start over, and if you don't have hope to accomplish something, it's better to die happily.

Li Xiu took a sip of tea, a good red robe, he liked this taste very much: "It seems that this time, you lost completely." ”

Zhibai looked out the window, the disturbing falling snow and the wanton and cheerful shouts of the Tang people were endless, and he always had a smile on his face: "Did I really lose?"

Li Wenxuan is an unplanned thing, something that no one has ever considered, but Zhibai has considered it, but he can't do it because of the queen, and that kind of possibility is not high in his opinion, but it is this not high possibility that it spoils his business at the most critical moment.

He underestimated the Dons.

"It's really nice to be able to live in a country like this. ”

He was a little emotional, with hope in his eyes, this was the place he dreamed of, this was the place he had always dreamed of bringing the desolate people to.

It's just that from now on, this possibility is destined to be gone.

Li Xiu nodded, Datang is naturally a very good country, and this does not need to be affirmed by others.

Zhibai withdrew his gaze from the window, looked at Li Xiu and asked, "Do you remember the first time we met?"

Li Xiu said: "At that time, the Three Ancient Lands were shattered, and I was randomly teleported to the Southern Snow Plains by the chaotic spatial power, so I met you. ”

Zhibai said: "If you hadn't killed all the desolate people in our village, I wouldn't have met you." ”

Li Xiu looked at him and emphasized: "If it weren't for your desolate people who invaded my border and plundered the Tang people, I wouldn't have killed them all." ”

Zhibai smiled, and did not argue, purely from the point of view of right and wrong, the side that initiated the war was naturally wrong, but from the standpoint of both sides, in order to let the desolate tribe get out of that barren land, in order for future generations to live a life with flowers and green mountains, this is undoubtedly a necessary thing.

That's right, in fact, the desolate people don't want much, just flowers and green mountains, and a clear spring in the mountains is enough.

But they don't want to fit into the Tang Dynasty, and this is irreconcilable differences.

So war became inevitable.

Zhibai took a sip of tea and swallowed it with some enjoyment: "If it hadn't been for your sudden appearance, maybe I would have broken Xiaonanqiao a long time ago." ”

It was because Li Xiu's appearance was aware of his conspiracy, coupled with Zifei's sudden breakthrough in the end, that it led to the failure of the desolate people to attack Xiaonanqiao.

Li Xiu was silent for a while and said: "Some things are destined by God, and there are no ifs in the world. ”

Zhibai laughed, and said with some amazement: "Yes, there is everything in the world, but there is no if." ”

Neither of them spoke, and they had been-for-tat with each other for years.

From Xiaonanqiao to Huangzhou and finally to Tang Guo, every time it was a game set up by Zhibai in advance, but every time it was successfully broken by Li Xiu.

"The desolate man lost, but I didn't lose, Datang won, but you didn't. ”

Zhibai's fingers tapped lightly on the table and spoke.

This is his game, but Li Xiu, as his opponent, does not have the strength to break the game, and the last person to break the game is Li Wenxuan.

The overall strength of the desolate people is not as good as that of the Tang Kingdom, but as far as chess is concerned, this time it is Zhibai who wins.

Mo Qinghuan opened his mouth to refute, but Li Xiu raised his hand to stop him, because the two of them knew that what they said was not wrong.

"Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood. ”

Li Xiu said softly.

Zhibai looked at him with interest and said, "Why don't you say this to yourself?"

Li Xiu replied, "Because I don't understand this sentence." ”

Zhibai leaned back in his chair, and the white gas of hot tea rose from the tabletop, blocking the gap between the two like a smoke screen.

He opened his mouth and said: "You don't understand this sentence, so you know that you can't break the situation or return to Chang'an City to wait for death, Zifei can't understand this sentence, so he knows that stopping the trace of heaven will die in the hands of the third senior brother, but he still stopped it, and I don't understand this sentence, so I sat in this Taibai Building." ”

"To be honest, this is the first time I have come to this Taibai Building, and it is also the first time I have come to the Tang Kingdom. ”

The previous Taibai Building was never open, he sneaked in, although no one found out, but he sat down again for nearly a month, which was very boring.

"What are you going to do next?" Zhibai asked after a moment of silence.

Li Xiu said: "Go to Xuzhou City." ”

Zhibai looked at him and didn't speak, obviously his question didn't mean that.

Li Xiu was also silent, and said after a while: "I don't know." ”

What should I do after I get rid of the Wild Man and Snow Country?

He doesn't know in his heart that no one can see the future clearly, all he can do is take a step by step.

Zhibai grinned and said, "Can you serve a few dishes?"

Li Xiu looked at him: "How many do you want?"

Zhibai rubbed his palms, seemingly a little embarrassed, but when he thought that this was the last meal he had eaten in his life, the only embarrassment in his heart also retreated: "I heard that the condemned prisoners of the Tang Dynasty have to eat a good meal before they die, I think I have to eat better than them as I am." ”

Li Xiu nodded, raised his hand and pressed the bell on the side of the table.

After a while, the shopkeeper hurriedly ran up, respectfully handed over a page in his hand, and then waited beside him.

Li Xiu raised his hand and kept pointing on the paper, the light curtains flickered, and after a while, he handed it back to the shopkeeper and said, "That's all." ”

The little second brother stretched out his hand and took a look, the smile on his face stiffened slightly, he wanted to say something but didn't dare, so he could only run downstairs with his head bored, and after a while, he ran up again, picked up a table from the side and pasted it on their table, then picked up a towel and wiped his sweat and said: "Your Highness has ordered a lot of dishes, I'm afraid I can't fit a table, I guess you don't want to go to this big box, put the two tables together for the time being, do you think it's okay?"

Li Xiu nodded, not minding.

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "The person who can make His Royal Highness the Prince order so many dishes to entertain must be your good friend." ”

Zhibai looked at Li Xiu.

Li Xiu was silent for a long time and said, "It's a good friend." ”

The shopkeeper didn't bother anymore, and after saying that he must be carefully entertained, he trotted downstairs.

Zhibai's eyes lit up a little, and he said in surprise: "It seems that Tang Guo is really kind enough to the people before he died, not only did he order two tables of dishes on the first floor of the world, but he also had the honor of becoming a good friend of His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Li Xiu turned his head to look out the window and said softly: "If it weren't for each other's positions, maybe we would really be good friends." ”

The smile on Zhibai's face gradually disappeared, and he was also looking out the window, never speaking.

The world is impermanent, and the way of heaven is impermanent.

Even two people with similar temperaments can become hostile people for various reasons.

Both men fell silent, and the emotion of sympathy would be particularly clear and profound before one of them died.

Mo Qinghuan got up and sat on a chair not far away, took out a xylophone and played, the soothing rhythm made the two of them seem quieter, closed their eyes and listened, and did not speak.

The little second brother served the dishes one after another, and when he saw that he was interested in the scene, he didn't make a sound to disturb, and after putting down the food, he left here, and the two tables were full of dishes, full of sixty or seventy dishes.

All of them are the best and most expensive dishes.

The food tasted good, and there was a stove on one side of the table with a jar of good wine on it.

The best embroidered spring breeze.

Zhibai opened his eyes and looked at the dazzling array of food for a moment, then picked up the scalded embroidered spring breeze and poured a full cup for himself and Li Xiu, and then filled another bowl of rice, bowed his head and feasted on it.

The dishes in Taibai Lou are good dishes.

Embroidered spring breeze is also a good wine.

Good wine and good food are the things that can make people linger the most.

Zhibai's eating appearance was not good-looking, he even stood up and walked back and forth around the two tables with a bowl, eating two bites of each dish, and from time to time he made a sound of admiration, praising the color of this dish is very good, and the taste of that dish is a must.

Then drink a big sip of embroidered spring breeze and breathe a sigh of comfort.

"Your Tang people's things are delicious, I have eaten them on the snow field now that I think about it, but the things in Huangzhou are also good, and the food of Datang has its own merits, and they are all delicious, but this wine is still your good. ”

He picked up the flask and shook it, poured himself another glass, took a pleasant sip, and then asked, "What is this wine?"

Li Xiu raised his wine glass and said, "Embroider the spring breeze." ”

Zhibai raised his hand and touched his glass with him, and nodded: "It's a good name, by the way, I remember that your brother's name seems to be Drunken Chunfeng, and he is still in the virtual realm, right?"

Li Xiu said: "Yes." ”

Zhibai said: "Senior brother is also in the virtual realm, in fact, he can come out a long time ago, this time after receiving the news of the destruction of the desolate people, he should not continue to stay inside." ”

Li Xiu looked up at him, not understanding what he meant.

In terms of strength, Mr. Big is of course superb, better than the people of the Tang Dynasty, but compared with Mr. Three, it is still a little worse, if you want to bring out a character to compare, Mr. Big's strength should be at the same level as Fuyu.

Now the only one who can win against Mr. Big in the Tang Kingdom is Emperor Tang, Xue Hongyi and Zifei.

But even if his strength was high enough, he would not be able to pose any threat to the Tang Kingdom.

Zhibai explained: "Senior Brother is a very pure person, and pure people tend to walk more smoothly on the path of cultivation. ”

This time Li Xiu understood what he meant: "Are you saying that Mr. Big may break through the Six Realms?"

After the monk broke through the Six Realms, he was able to choose to leave this world or stay in this world, Xiao Boru chose to leave at the beginning, because there was nothing worthy of his nostalgia in the Tang Dynasty, and his Idler's House had not gone for many years, and he didn't know where, even this Tang Kingdom crisis was in danger of overturning, and the rest of the Idler's House did not appear.

Zhibai nodded: "Senior Brother is very pure, even I can't control his thoughts, so what he will do when he leaves the Void Realm, and what he will do even I can't guess." ”

He put down the dishes and chopsticks, burped and said to Li Xiu, "You should be careful." ”

Mo Qinghuan continued to play the piano, and the faint sound of the piano surrounded the entire fifth floor.

Zhibai drank the last bit of wine in the pot, patted his stomach with satisfaction, walked to the window and looked down at the window, standing on a high place and looking at the whole Chang'an City is a very spectacular thing, just thinking about it makes me feel excited, although the five-story building is not particularly high, and the scenery that can be seen is also limited, but it is enough for Zhibai.

He took a deep breath, raised his hand to catch a falling snowflake, and said to himself: "I grew up in the snow field, and I have long been tired of seeing things like snow, and even full of boredom, in fact, the reason why I came here is because this is the last hope, why not I want to be farther away from the snow field, and I can bury a good place after death, and see more spring, summer, autumn and winter, just like the fourth senior brother, the fourth senior brother has seen all the snow, and he should have been very tired of it." ”

The snowflake did not melt when it fell in his palm, he raised his hand and gently pressed the snow on his forehead, feeling the snowflakes slowly melt with his body temperature, he said softly: "But I thought about it, it is better to bury me in the snow field after death, and I am bothering you to send my body back to the North Snow Field, and let the master bury me with his own hands, if." ”

His voice paused, and it became much lower: "If the master and the senior brothers are dead, then it will trouble you to bury us together." ”

"It's a pity. He looked up at the scenery in the distance and muttered, "It's a pity that the fourth senior brother is too lonely alone in the Wasteland. ”

Li Xiu looked at his back and said, "Mr. Fourth may not be lonely, there is a girl who likes him very much to accompany him." ”

Zhibai turned his head and raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Really?"

Li Xiu nodded: "Really." ”

Zhibai smacked his lips and said with emotion: "I really couldn't see it before, he still has such a ability." ”

Neither of them spoke anymore, the food on the table was already cold, and the embroidered spring knife in the wine jug had been drunk.

Only Mo Qinghuan's piano sound was still in their ears, and they all knew in their hearts that it was time to go on the road.

A sword appeared in Li Xiu's hand.

His strength is much stronger than Zhibai, and it doesn't matter if he uses a sword or not, but he still takes the sword out because it is respect.

Zhibai is not his opponent, but if he wants to escape, Li Xiu really can't kill him with that small seal, but he knows that he can't escape far, not to mention that he doesn't want to escape.

The moment the city guard was broken, he had already seen his end and the future of the desolate man, and dying here now might be the best decision.

The desolate people who lost the guidance of Zhibai and Congpu and others will collapse into an army, and many people will die under the trampling of the iron hooves of the Tang Dynasty, but after all, they can still live, and some of the people who survive will hide on the snow field and live the same life as before, and will no longer have the ability to attack the Tang Kingdom.

If he doesn't die, the Tang people know that he may come back in the future, so they will keep chasing and killing, and maybe the desolate people will really become extinct.

Therefore, death is the best destination for Zhibai.

He turned his back to Li Xiu and never looked back.

The faint light of the sword flickered in the air, and it was even less striking than the falling snowflakes.

The constant sound of the piano stopped for a moment, and then resumed its original state.

Li Xiu put away his sword.

Zhibai sat back in his chair, he grinned, and said softly: "No matter how much the dispute between the desolate people and the Tang Kingdom is, after all, it is the world's own business, the people in the sky are very annoying, I know that you have always been preparing for the people in the sky, I only hope you are ready." ”

Li Xiu said silently: "In the affairs of the world, it is not the turn of heaven to intervene. ”

Zhibai nodded, leaned back in the chair and slowly closed his eyes: "That's good." ”

Li Xiu stood there, looking at the table full of wine and food, and suddenly didn't know what it felt like in his heart.

Mo Qinghuan put down the piano, walked up to him and grabbed his hand.

Li Xiu withdrew his hand.

Gathered Zhibai's body, turned around and walked downstairs.

Mo Qinghuan was silent for a while, and walked behind him.

When I went downstairs, I happened to meet the little second brother who came up with wine, and met Li Xiu hurriedly stopped, and said, "Your Highness has finished eating?" The shopkeeper was worried that a pot of embroidered spring breeze was not enough, so he specially ordered me to bring an extra pot up. ”

Li Xiu stretched out his hand and took the wine jug, so he drank it directly: "After eating, you go up and clean it up, the account is in the Chenliu Palace, and you can go to the door to ask for it in a few days." ”

The shopkeeper nodded, and immediately glanced at him and Mo Qinghuan, wondering where the rest of the person had gone?

But he also knew what to ask and what not to ask, so he nodded and turned sideways to get out of the way.

Li Xiu and Mo Qinghuan went downstairs.

When they arrived downstairs, they happened to meet Qi Qin, and Chen Yanyan and Ding Yi walked out of the box.

The three of them were all stunned when they saw Li Xiu, obviously surprised why he appeared here.

"Why are you here?"

Ding Yi looked at him and asked with a frown.

Li Xiu took a sip of wine and said, "Come and kill someone." ”

Hearing this, Ding Yi and Chen Yanyan looked back at Qi Qin at the same time.

Qi Qin's face turned dark, and he was a little angry.

Li Xiu ignored the three of them, turned back to Mo Qinghuan and said, "Go to the academy and wait for me, after solving the matter in Xuzhou City, I will go back to the academy for a while." ”

Mo Qinghuan nodded and snorted.

Li Xiu walked out of the Taibai Building with the wine jug, and walked towards the outside of the city gate, the matter in Chang'an City has been completely resolved, and the next thing to go is Xuzhou City, and at the same time send someone to find out if there is any rumor about what happened on the snow fields in the north and south.

Whoever will win in the end.

After Zifei stopped the trace of the sky, could he still beat Mr. Three?

He walked in the snow, his long hair was tied behind him casually, carrying a wine jug, dressed in green clothes, and he was a little lonely.

Chen Yanyan turned his head to look at Mo Qinghuan, frowned and asked, "Who is he here to kill?"

Mo Qinghuan lowered his head and said softly: "Zhibai." ”

The three of them were shocked when they heard this.

"Mr. Six knows the truth?"

"Hmm. ”

"Did you kill it?"

"Killed. ”

The three of them were all a little excited, even Taiwei Qi Qin took a deep breath: "Zhibai is a big trouble for Datang, if he dies, he will be able to worry about the southern border in the future, this is a good thing." ”

They didn't ask why Zhibai appeared in Taibai Building, because that didn't matter, what mattered was the result.

Mo Qinghuan looked at Li Xiu's distant back and muttered, "It's a good thing for us, but maybe there's nothing worse for him." ”

There was still a long distance from Taibai Tower to the outside of the city gate, and Li Xiu walked for two hours before coming to the city gate, and he needed this time to calm down.

Standing outside the city gate, he did not continue to walk, nor did he ask the soldiers guarding the city to bring a good horse for him, but stood quietly five miles away in front of the city gate, and the wine jug in his hand was also drinking one after another.

Until the last sip of wine was drunk, the flask was thrown into the snow.

Mr. Chan appeared beside him.

Li Xiu glanced at him: "The academy should have more people to manage this matter. ”

Mr. Chan said, "The current college is different from before. ”

Li Xiu knew this, so he didn't refute it, but asked, "Where did the dean go?"

Mr. Chen shook his head: "I don't know." ”

"Not in the sky?"

"No. ”

The dean was a mysterious man, he hadn't been seen for many years, and no one knew where he had gone.

Li Xiu asked again: "Is there any news from the North and South Snow Plains?"

Mr. Chen replied, "The South Snow Field did not, the North Snow Field won." ”

"Who won?"

"The Snow Emperor is dead, the Snow Maiden is dead, all the Grandmasters of the Snow Country have died in battle, and we have won. ”

Li Xiu frowned slightly: "Will the Snow Emperor die?"

He was a little hard to believe, because the Snow Emperor was very difficult to kill.

Mr. Chen nodded: "The chess demon destroyed the great array, the ancestral god sacrificed himself and severely injured the Snow Emperor, and the dragon in the back mountain rushed over, and the Snow Emperor died." ”

Li Xiu suddenly wanted to ask again.

Mr. Chen saw his thoughts and said directly: "Fuyu, Qingjingliu, it's hard to die in battle, Liu Ran and Second Master Wei are still alive." ”

Li Xiu was silent and did not speak again.