XXXIX. Moral Conduct
On the third day of the first month of the end of the French calendar (799), Emperor Qiandi died in the Yangxin Palace, and Emperor Jia was in power.
"Chi Yan, Chi Yan, where is Brother Lingyun?"
Xiao Huo Xing suddenly appeared in front of Chi Yan like lightning, a gust of dust wind rolled up on the dense grass, and the green robe on his body was slightly messy, as if he was dressed casually in a panic, Xiao Huo's expression was serious and serious, but his eyes were full of joy that he was about to see his relatives.
"Wash up in the backyard and get ready to enter the ...... of the Morning and Dusk Illusion Array. ”
Before Chi Yan could finish speaking, Xiao Huo's figure flickered in place, leaving only an afterimage.
"Hey~?Xiaohuo is here, is there anything important?" Zhang Lingyun hadn't seen Xiaohuo for half a month, and he had an ominous premonition in his heart about his sudden visit, so he took the towel handed by Poison Yan and wiped the water stains on his face and looked at him quietly.
"Brother Lingyun, don't be angry, since I returned to the Taiping Palace, they have locked me up, restricted my activities, and put a lot of rune paper on me, I ....... Xiaohuo didn't dare to look at Zhang Lingyun directly, buried his head in his chest, his voice was low, and he said aggrievedly about what he had encountered during this time, and the more he talked, the more aggrieved he became, and tears fell unconsciously.
"Okay, okay, I didn't say anything," Zhang Lingyun couldn't stand this situation the most, and suddenly panicked and touched his body for a long time without finding a hand towel, and finally had no choice but to grab his towel, pull up his little red face, and gently wipe away his tears.
"How old a person is, it's not a shame to cry and lose your nose,"
Chiyan knife mouthed tofu heart, silently handed a handkerchief and stuffed it into Zhang Lingyun's hand, the poisonous flame centipede felt the breath of Chiyan approaching, and had already hidden its body into a totem and attached to Zhang Lingyun's calf.
"They shouldn't put you under house arrest, I apologize for them, can you dissipate your anger," Zhang Lingyun's voice was soft, hoping to appease the humiliated Xiaohuo.
"Where did you know what you were capable of before, I don't know how to fight back," Chi Yan recalled that when he was training Xiaohuo in those days, he was tossed by this bear child, and a feeling of grief and anger and hatred of iron and steel arose.
"They just restricted my freedom, and everything else was fine. ”
"These stupid roe deer don't know what kind of powerful existence they have imprisoned. ”
Chiyan has also lost his freedom, if Xiaohuo is really crazy and crazy, he is better than himself, and the sudden cage life can make people almost crazy, if it is not for the powerful intention to suppress, with Xiaohuo's violent instinct of the first transformation, the Taiping Palace is afraid that it will usher in a baptism of blood and rain.
"I'm very well-behaved, I know that those are the people that Brother Lingyun cares about the most, and I won't hurt them. ”
Xiaohuo's firm and serious expression made Zhang Lingyun recall the helpless feeling when he forced himself to compromise and drink people's blood in order to survive, and he suddenly felt distressed.
"I know, Xiaohuo is the most sensible. ”
"I ...... Xiao Huo only noticed his messy hair at this time, wearing a casual robe, and hurriedly got up to tidy up, he remembered that Brother Lingyun hated sloppiness the most.
"If you don't know your strong strength, you still think you're being strong...... ,”
"Ahem, ahem...... Zhang Lingyun felt that Chiyan was about to speak ill of him, and hurriedly signaled him to stop.
"Okay, I'll just stop talking, be careful to cough up the liver later. ”
"I know you must be so flustered when you encounter something urgent, I don't mean to blame you, it's okay," Zhang Lingyun saw that Xiaohuo's mood had calmed down, and hurriedly defended his previous words, not wanting the two to have unnecessary misunderstandings.
"Well, Xiaohuo knows that Brother Lingyun has always been a kind and gentle person. ”
"Stinky boy, don't play around there, say something quickly," Chiyan recently observed the sky at night, and vaguely sensed that there would be some earth-shaking changes in the human world, but because of his lack of knowledge, he could not calculate the direction and cause of the development of the situation.
"There's a war out there...... Xiao Huo dressed his robe neatly and sat upright before speaking.
"What kind of foreign aid and hard shell did the Hualian Sect find and the imperial court?" The battle between the Hualian Sect and the imperial court has existed for a long time, and Zhang Lingyun really can't make any waves in his heart.
"This time, someone from the imperial court said that he was going to fight with foreigners carrying guns and cannons. ”
Xiaohuo lowered his head like a child who had made a mistake, not daring to face the sharp gaze of his parents, compared to such a powerful and shocking news, the two did not notice Xiaohuo's low and guilty look, nor did they notice his lost and melancholy mentality, they were already stunned and shocked on the spot.
"Where did the Fanbang barbarians dare to invade the Qing Dynasty, I let them smash them and there is no return," Chiyan, as the guardian of this continent, had no patience for the shameless behavior of outsiders stepping on the boundary, and immediately became angry and wanted to kill them and destroy them.
"Calm down, calm down first, listen to Xiaohuo," Zhang Lingyun, as an immortal cultivator, is already out of the world and should not interfere in all trivial matters in the mortal world, but he has an obsession with national sovereignty.
"It's the envoy of the imperial court who came to make a holy decree, to fight those Fanbangs who can shoot through Yang and shoot stones and drink feathers in a hundred steps, and they also have many capable people and strange people holding divine weapons, which can summon powerful and brave monsters, and kill people to take their heads and fight people unscathed," Xiaohuo's simple description made the two of them look cold and gloomy, and their hearts became more and more heavy.
"Chi Yan, do you know about the demons and monsters of the foreign countries?" Zhang Lingyun pondered and meditated to no avail, and turned his head to look at the more than 3,000-year-old Protoss dragon beside him.
"Hehe, my Qing Dynasty is a great country with vast landforms, outstanding people and ...... spirits. ”
"Stop, stop, I see,"
Zhang Lingyun raised his forehead and sighed lightly, Chiyan's words were obviously his own information occlusion and he didn't know anything, and he didn't want to admit that he didn't know about Fanbang immortal cultivators, Zhang Lingyun had completely fallen into a state of confusion, and now the opponent's situation was like a flower in a fog mirror in the water, the depth was unfathomable, and I didn't know if the people in the Crossing God Linglong Pagoda could provide some useful clues, but unfortunately they couldn't be summoned now, so they could only wait for the news to be explored later.
"Xiaohuo, how did you know that such a big thing happened in the outside world?" Chi Yan was stunned by Zhang Lingyun, and turned his head to look at Xiaohuo to know the accuracy of the information.
"About a month ago, there were often visits from the bottom of the mountain, and when I heard this from Ling Shuang's mouth yesterday, I found a person who was deserted and escaped. ”
"Lingyun, let's go out of the mountain, I really can't tolerate outsiders bullying me to spread wilderness at my doorstep," Chi Yan was filled with righteous indignation, and he had the pride and ambition to fight the heroes on his own.
"Our Divine Dragon, when will I regain the power of total victory, why don't I know?"
"You...... , Nanhu autumn water is smokeless at night, Nai Ke can ride the stream and go straight to the sky, what kind of ability is it to bully me, "Chiyan has relied on the blessing of Zhang Lingyun's essence and blood in the past few years, and his cultivation has recovered a lot, but he has only recovered to forty and a half percent of his cultivation during the period of total victory, he really shouldn't be so arrogant, but Chiyan, who is proud in his heart, must not bear to be ridiculed.
"Your words are very meaningful, but it's a pity that my cultivation realm is not enough now, I'm afraid I will have to let the Red Flame God wait a little longer," Zhang Lingyun heard the meaning of the Red Flame poem, (Why don't you go to heaven?) Not to be outdone, he pointed out.
"Hmph~, my Shenlong clan has a long lifespan, and I'm afraid you won't make it?"
"Brother Lingyun, I don't want to go back, it's really uncomfortable to be restricted from freedom, I want to follow you to do chivalrous righteousness and save the common people," Xiao Huo was slightly afraid and resistant to returning to the Taiping Palace.
"Walk the way of heaven and earth, embrace the righteousness of chivalry, save the common people and suffering, and do not waste this life," Zhang Lingyun received the ideological education of supporting justice and helping the weak since he was a child, and he couldn't watch outsiders slaughter and mutilate ordinary people, but he hid and lived alone in the world.
"What a 'moral trip', if you have any good ideas, I will do my best to cooperate," Chi Yan's pure divine dragon bloodline, noble and cold, not to be blasphemed, and he has no regrets about what he thinks is right, even if he is broken.
"I don't know what national righteousness is, Brother Lingyun thinks that Xiao Huo supports everything that is right to the end," Xiao Huo is very firm in his beliefs, even if he is imprisoned again for this.
"This time down the mountain, Xiaohuo will appear in this human image, at this time, the mountain gate is mixed with people, and it should not be easily debunked," Zhang Lingyun will not let Xiaohuo take unnecessary responsibility for his beliefs and suffer from unjustified disasters.
"Brother Lingyun is really good, Xiaohuo likes Brother Lingyun the most," Xiaohuo is simple-minded, and it is easy to be happy because the other party cares about his actions, and he dances to celebrate.
"The young man doesn't know what it's like to be sad, it's really enviable and jealous," Chi Yan picked up the cold tea and drank it all.
"Chi Yan, if I have an accident, you will be fine, right?" Zhang Lingyun connected to Chi Yan's divine sense through his spiritual sense to communicate, not wanting these conversations to be known by the young Xiaohuo.
"Hehe, you're just a contractor of the master, and you really think you're a character. ”
Chi Yan did not tell the truth and discernment, the so-called alliance contract, based on the equality of the same level, in line with the concept of mutual benefit and win-win, so that 1+1 equals infinity, greatly shortening the long process and difficulty of demon cultivation, its biggest hidden advantage is that when they ascend, they only need to bear the ordinary tribulation of the human monks, which is as simple as playing for the powerful demon clan.
Such a mutually beneficial contract against the sky has a fatal weakness, that is, if one of the contractors is seriously injured, the other party will temporarily lose the post-contract cultivation until the injured person is healed before recovery, if the contractor dies, the other party will be permanently sealed and cultivated to sit and wait for death to come, and there is no hope of flying to the upper realm and finding higher achievements in life.
"That's very good, if I really need to, I can act recklessly and without any worries," Receiving the answer that Chiyan would not be affected in any way, Zhang Lingyun's whole person relaxed, revealing a sincere smile that he had not seen for a long time.
"I'll clean up and go back to the Taiping Palace with you tomorrow," Chi Yan took Xiao Huo and left first, letting Zhang Lingyun think of countermeasures in a quiet environment.