Chapter 297: Into the Shadows

Ning Changchang and Lu marry: "......"

Si Ming looked back indifferently, looked at Mu Li's stunned Taoist companion on the spot, and said with a smile: "What's the matter?

Ning Chang, who came from both wind and snow, looked at Si Ming's beautiful face, was silent for a while, and asked, "When did you take office?"

"The original sect mainly sacrifices the living beings of the Manchu sect to become the underworld, and virtue is not matched, and it should not be in charge of the Nine Shadows Palace. Si Ming said quietly.

Ning Changjiu asked, "What about the elders in the sect, can the older generation obey you, or do you ......?"

Si Ming said lightly: "How could I do that thing of slaughtering the sect? ”

Lu married the general and asked, "Then why...... So quiet?"

Si Ming said: "Before I came, the eldest uncle of the Nine Shadows Hall and several surrounding halls had been killed by the Hades, their bodies were broken, their authority was taken away, and they became the nourishment of the Hades. That underworld is like a glutton, and it won't stop if you can't eat enough. ”

Ning Changjiu asked, "What about Xiaoling?"

"Ning Xiaoling......" Si Ming's figure stopped slightly, she withdrew her smile and sighed softly: "Come with me." ”

The formation of the Ancient Spirit Sect is still there, it is not like the blizzard outside, such as clouds and ice, the sky and the snow, several peaks stretch in, between the afterglow of the evening sun, there are green and yellow grass everywhere, the world is empty and lonely under the dusk, the peaks near the Nine Shadows Hall are not an inch of grass, on the cliff, the rich aura hangs high, turning into liquid flowing water and flying down.

The glow between the peaks of heaven and earth was like a fog.

Ning Changjiu and Lu Marry discussed many possible things along the way.

But when they really arrived, after looking at the cliff from afar, they found that this Divine Sect was so open and quiet.

"This is the spirit of the Imperial Spirit. Si Ming introduced: "The Ancient Spirit Sect has a total of ten veins, one of which is a peak. As far as I know, Ning Xiaoling was originally cultivating in this Imperial Spirit lineage. ”

"At the beginning?" Ning Chang's heart was shocked.

Si Ming bowed her head slightly, she waved her hand gently, the dusk mist shrouded in the Xiansuo suspension bridge was like a curtain opened, and the sea of clouds under the mountain peak was vast and churning, and at this moment it was all dyed by dusk, looking up like a fishy abyss.

Si Ming said bluntly: "Ning Xiaoling has suppressed the Hades. ”

Ning Changjiu and Lu married each other lightly, and the ominous premonitions and thoughts in their hearts were all realized at this moment.

Si Ming stood on the suspension bridge and said, "It's been almost a month since Ning Xiaoling fell into the underworld, if she really dies, it will be a foregone conclusion, and it's useless to be anxious." ”

Ning Changjiu hummed softly.

Si Ming said: "I have sorted out all the files about the underworld, and it is in the Nine Secluded Palace, if you are interested, you can come with me." ”

Ning Chang said: "Just tell me the conclusion directly." ”

Si Ming said: "Aren't you afraid that I will deliberately harm you?"

Lu married and said: "If my sister wants to harm us, why should she save us so many times along the way? When I first saw you wake up, I knew that my sister was kind-hearted. ”

Si Mingmei's eyes were quiet, she stretched out her fingers, gently poked Lu Married's forehead, and said: "When you need me, you are a sister, and when you don't need it, you are my mistress?" When I first saw you, I was still a kind silly girl, but I didn't expect to learn so badly now." ”

"I ...... I've always admired my sister.。 Lu Yao's eyes flashed, her words were sincere, and she said: "My sister also saved Xiaoling's life, and I think she is also quite favored for Xiaoling, right?"

Si Ming thought to himself, if I hadn't been bullied by you before, I would have really believed your poor appearance.

But Lu married and said that my sister was still very useful......

She said coldly, "You come with this sect master." ”

......

They didn't go to the Nine Shadows Palace, but went to the wooden hall of the Imperial Spirit Lineage.

"This is where Xiaoling used to learn. Si Ming led them to a wooden table, pointed to the word 'Ning' engraved on the table, and said: "These are her books, these are her notes, and the handwriting on the back is very sloppy, not like it was written by a person." ”

Ning Chang asked, "What are you bringing me here for?"

Si Ming said: "Don't worry, I know that you are eager to save people, but if you don't know your junior sister, how can you fish her soul out of the underworld?"

Ning Chang said: "I know Xiaoling. ”

"Really?" Si Ming smiled, "How long have you known each other?"

Ning was silent for a long time, and slowly spoke: "Six months." ”

Si Ming asked again, "How long have we been apart?"

Ning Chang said: "Two years and eight months. ”

Si Ming didn't ask any more questions, and everything was silent.

Lu Zaimari looked at the immature handwriting on the book, and couldn't help but think of the shadow of Ning Xiaoling's white dress. During the two years that he waited at the edge of the abyss of the Southern Wilderness, Xiao Ling often came to see him. She often tells herself some stories that happened in the four peaks, and tells herself every day how many buildings have been repaired in the peaks, and which one is being repaired recently......

Later, all the buildings were repaired, and Xiaoling's words became less and less, and his face was still innocent, but he seemed to have hidden his thoughts between his eyebrows.

She never asked, and she never took the initiative to talk about it.

Madame Bai's authority has always been in Xiao Ling's body...... Does Xiao Ling know about this matter herself?

Lu married and felt guilty in his heart.

Ning Changjiu sat down in Ning Xiaoling's seat and closed his eyes.

Si Ming said: "The person of the Imperial Spirit Lineage, I have been sent to his peak, now it is very quiet here, it is suitable to think, when have you figured it out, when will you come to the Nine Shadows Hall to find me." ”

Ning Chang bowed his head.

Lu Wedding also pulled the hem of her skirt along her legs and sat down on the chair next to her.

Si Ming grabbed her wrist and said, "You can come out too." ”

"Why?" asked Lu Marry softly.

Si Ming said: "Although you have the body of a divine soldier, you have no real authority, even if you cultivate to the fifth realm, you will die in the underworld, don't take risks, let alone be stupid." ”

Lu married and believed her words, she nodded lightly, folded her hands on the wooden table, pursed her lips and lowered her head, and said in a low voice: "Then I...... Sit for a while. ”

Si Ming was not reluctant, turned around silently, and pushed the door out.

Ning Changjiu and Lu Marry sat in the empty wooden hall, the dim light sprinkled all over the sleeves, they were like classmates sitting next to each other, closing their eyes to each other and saying nothing, as if they were guarding some secret in their hearts.

Ning Chang's mind sank little by little.

His spirit slowly unfolded in the sea of knowledge.

The entire wooden hall is clearly reflected in the spiritual world.

Since experiencing the Luo Shu incident, his understanding of spiritual power has also entered a new level. The spirit is like another pair of human eyes, it sees the world very real, and can even see itself in this world.

Ning felt the remnants of the breath in the wooden hall for a long time.

Half a year ago, Ning Xiaoling first came to the sect. She was assigned to the Wood Spirit Lineage and sat in this window seat. She always stared at the lectern without distraction, and no matter how beautiful the scenery outside the window was, it could not match Mr. Ling's lecture.

Her hand rested on the wooden table like this, and the notebook pressed under her left wrist. She holds a pen in her right hand.

Today, the book to her left was stacked high, as if to hide something.

She...... I opened the notebook, came to the first page, and began to draw......

This is well drawn...... Ning Changjiu opened the booklet and his eyes fell on the first page.

Although unrecognizable, she drew it for herself.

He flipped backwards.

Notes and diaries are interspersed, some places the handwriting is neat and delicate, and some places are messy, as if they are deliberately not recognized. He could only barely recognize some of those words.

He rolled to the back, his mind coming to a slight pause.

The back are all some questions and answers about the sword technique of the Heavenly Sect and the spiritual technique of the Ancient Spirit Sect.

These two spells are like puzzles.

Ning felt the edge of their fit for a long time, and gradually became obsessed.

He seemed to be a girl sitting here, looking at his notes and meditating.

Ning thought for a long time, and only then did he have some clues, and the chaotic and ugly words in the back were involved in the sea of knowledge.

Behind the word, there is half an iconic cat footprint.

Cat Ning was slightly startled for a long time, thinking that the Gu Ling Sect was so big, if there was a cat clan demon lurking in seclusion, it would not be strange to think about it.

If it's really a cat demon, it's a kind and cute cat. After all, the cat demons in this world are not all as ferocious as the fish king.

The notes slowly flipped through, and Ning Xiaoling's thoughts were also flowing in his sea of knowledge.

The evening sun always shone impartially on his side face.

Ning Changjiu closed the note, looked at the sea as his eyes, and slowly looked around.

In the spiritual world, the remnants of the surrounding disciples have been condensed into a complete image, and Zhihai simulates their appearance on weekdays, they come and go, talking, and the surroundings are no longer lonely.

There was a separate table at the end of the wooden hall, and that table looked very abrupt, with cat hair scattered on it, and there was still a demon's breath...... Well, somewhat familiar.

Do cats also have to accompany their disciples to class?

Ning Chang's gaze turned, and he looked to his side.

On the side, a girl wearing an apricot-colored precious silk skirt sat on her elbows, looked at Ning Xiaoling, who was writing seriously, and spoke softly. Ning Xiaoling responded from time to time, with an occasional smile on her pretty little face.

She should be a friend of the younger age.

The clues in the wooden hall were extracted little by little, and Ning Chang looked at the scene coming and going, and his spirit gradually peeled off the surface and went straight to the depths, looking at Ning Xiaoling who was sitting here from a new angle.

For they are forever united.

After a long time, in the twilight where day and night remained unchanged, Ning Changjiu finally opened his eyes.

When he opened his eyes, Lu Married was still sitting beside him, looking at him gently.

There were only two people in the wooden hall, and they looked at each other quietly, and no one looked away.

"Okay?" asked Lu Yuyu.

"Alright. Ning Changchang said.

Then, they came to Ning Xiaoling's room again.

The structure of the room was very familiar, similar to that of the original Sword Heavenly Sect.

Ning Chang sensed her comings and goings, and the remaining fragments slowly pieced together in his mind, outlining the appearance of Ning Xiaoling for two years.

"Let's go, it's time to take Xiaoling home. Ning Chang turned around and walked out of the house.

......

......

In the Nine Secluded Palace, Si Ming sat in front of the Hades, and in front of her was a dark case, and there was an ancient cow with an hourglass on the side of the case.

When Ning Changjiu and Lu got married, Si Ming was pouring tea.

She knelt on a bamboo mat with her bare slender legs resting behind her hips.

"Ready?" said Si Ming, drawing water into the cup and whispering.

Ning Chang said, "Okay." ”

Si Ming poured the tea, put his sleeves in front of his knees, and slowly spoke: "The Hades Mansion is the site of the Hades Monarch, and the bottom is also a spiritual world, but it is different from Luo Shulou. After the death of the Immortal, it becomes a purgatory, and all living beings who fall into it will suffer endless calamities, and those who are less willed will be lost there forever. ”

Ning listened quietly for a long time, and he asked, "What should I do?"

Si Ming gestured for him to sit down across from him.

Ning sat down for a long time, took a sip of tea.

Si Ming said: "The process is not difficult, you need to bear the authority of the Hades Monarch, and then go into the depths of hell to awaken her from purgatory." ”

"Hades Authority?" Ning Chang was slightly stunned, he took out the Nether Immortal Scroll from his arms and gently unfolded it.

Si Ming said: "There is only one copy of this immortal scroll, and you are the only one who enters the Hades Temple." ”

Ning Chang snorted.

Si Ming stroked the fox fur on her neck and smiled softly: "Of course, you also have to be mentally prepared. Now that a month has passed, it is very likely that your junior sister has been devoured by the underworld and turned into a ghost, or she has been lost in purgatory, turned into a lonely soul, and will never return to her body. In short, if you really can't do it, don't force it, otherwise if you can't come back, you will misunderstand that I hurt you. ”

Ning Changjiu's expression was calm, he drank all the tea that Si Ming had poured and said, "Don't worry, I have a sense of proportion." ”

Si Ming pressed down on the mechanism on the wall, and the precision mechanical mechanism progressed layer by layer. The gates of Hades opened, and ripples rippled on the curtain of light.

Ning Chang couldn't help but think of the time when he came to Broken Boundary City.

He took the Nether Scroll into his mouth, stretched out his hand, touched the light curtain, and then his body sank in.

Lu Married watched Ning Chang's figure disappear, she was silent, and she also knelt down by the desk, twisting her hands.

Si Ming looked at her and said with a smile: "I turned over the secret history of the sect, it is a coincidence, more than four hundred years ago, the sect master of the Ancient Spirit Sect and the sect master of the Sword Heavenly Sect were a pair of Taoist couples, but I didn't expect it to ...... after more than four hundred years."

Lu Marry raised her head, her eyes slightly resentful.

Si Ming poured tea for her, and said with a faint smile: "Pray that your husband can come back safely, otherwise history will repeat itself." ”

Lu grafted the teacup and took a sip of it tastelessly, worried.

"Worried?" asked Si Ming.

Lu Marrying nodded and said, "How can you not be worried?"

Si Ming's words seemed to prophesy: "Don't worry, even if he will die, he will not die here now." ”

Lu married and remembered that he was twenty-eight years old when he told himself.

His previous life ended at the age of twenty-eight, and outside the Broken City, Ye Ye also said that he could only live to be twenty-eight years old. There was one, beyond the cone of his fate, devastating eons.

Although it is still many years before that day. But the years of a monk always come in a flash.

She put down the teacup and said, "Thank you, sister." ”

Si Ming smiled and said, "Call me Sect Master." ”

Lu Zhenmari looked at Si Ming's beautiful face, and thought to himself, how could this person who had lived for thousands of years still be like this...... Lu Zhenmari thought like this, but he didn't realize that after thousands of years, Si Ming finally changed from an indifferent and ruthless priest to a living being.

"Got it, Sect Master. "Lu is very docile now without a husband to rely on.

Si Ming lifted the lid of the teapot, took out a pool of water with spiritual power, and then used the water as a pen to gently draw on the table.

At first, Lu thought she was drawing a chessboard, because she drew a square rectangle, and then dotted a little bit at each of the four corners.

Then, Si Ming drew dots in the rest of the place like a falling child.

"Is this Middle-earth?" Lu Marriage understood.

Where there are four seats, there are the four immortal towers of Middle-earth.

"Hmm. Si Ming's jade pointed to the Luo Shu Tower in the southwest, and then drew a straight line to the right along the Luo Shu Tower: "Along this line, there are the Dian Huan Sect, the Gu Ling Sect, and the Hanging Sea Tower." Isn't it strange that they're in a line?"

"Why is that?" asked Lu Marriage.

Si Ming said: "This is what I discovered recently, I found that some large buildings or sects, their locations seem to follow a certain pattern of patterns, huh...... It's very square, and I don't know the specific reason. After all, Middle-earth is very different from what I first saw. ”

"Difference, what difference?" Lu married, confused.

"Hmm. Si Ming said: "Not only Middle-earth, but this world seems to have a ...... I can't say anything about the change. ”

Lu married and said: "The fall of the six gods in the beginning has only been less than four thousand years, and in such a short period of time, the rise and fall have gone through countless times, and there are always a lot of secrets buried underground. ”

"Maybe. Si ordered to answer.

Lu Married remembered something and asked, "By the way, what happened in Broken Boundary City back then?"

Si Ming smiled and said, "What's the matter? Your husband is not here, and you want to expose him?"

Lu Zhenmari shook his head lightly and said, "No, I want to know, what happened to those gods about the gods back then, the headless gods and the like?"

Si Ming said: "My sister has also begun to care about these?"

Lu married and said: "You have to face it." ”

Si Ming thought for a while and said, "That's right." ”

As she spoke, she wiped the water marks on the case with her hand and said, "It's easy to say, seven hundred years ago, my Lord God was beheaded. The process of the collapse of the kingdom of God took a long time, and five hundred years ago, I wandered with the city of Broken Frontier, which was relegated to the kingdom of God. ”

"Divine Lord ......" Lu Married, even if he heard about it, he still felt terrible.

Si Ming said: "Well, it is one of the twelve, but since this incident happened, it has been an unknowable secret, and even my memory has been obscured...... Don't say it's me, and even the rest of the gods don't know about it. Alas, who was the one who killed the headless god, and how she did it, this is the most I want to know in my life. ”

The Kingdom of God is already the apex of power, except for the ethereal Heavenly Dao, what other power can overpower the Kingdom of God?

Si Ming couldn't think of an answer anyway.

Lu asked again: "What was the saint five hundred years ago? At that time, wasn't there also a god who fell?"

"Well, it's not the same as the headless god. The fall of this lord of the kingdom is an open secret among the high-ranking members of the kingdom of God. It's a pity that my kingdom of God has long since collapsed at that time......," Si Ming sighed, "But I still guessed it in the records of Luoshu. ”

Lu Zhan looked at her curiously.

Si Ming smiled, "I know you're curious about something. After experiencing Luo Shulou, you should also know that the last year of that war was the year of Lei Prison. Therefore, the lord of the country who fell five hundred years ago can only be a thunder prison. ”

Lu married and nodded slightly.

Si Ming said: "But if I guess correctly, Lei Prison is still alive." The god of death is someone else. ”

"Why?" Lu was puzzled: "The battle between the saint and the thunder prison is the first and last battle of the gods. If a god had died earlier, who had killed it? Or was Lei Gao a scapegoat? or was it the way of heaven......

"Shhhh Si Ming made a silent gesture and said, "Don't talk about the sky, the way of heaven is not really ethereal, it not only has eyes, but also a substitute for punishment who walks the world." ”

Lu married the mantis lightly and did not continue.

Si Ming said: "About the lord of the country...... When Ning Chang returns, I'll tell you all my conjectures. ”

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......

When Ning Chang fell into darkness, in the sea of knowledge, the golden crow had awakened and hissed loudly.

The golden crow symbolizes the light of the sun and is a divine bird entrenched in the sun. And what Hades refers to is an invisible darkness.

The Golden Crow is a natural enemy with the Origin Dispute.

Ning didn't suppress the golden crow for a long time, after he fell into the darkness, the golden crow flew out, and everywhere its figure passed, there were endless golden afterimages. These remnants are golden fireflies in the darkness, gnawing and devouring darkness into the light of the source.

The demons who had been screaming in their ears before avoided their figures in the golden fire of the Golden Crow.

He was like a golden meteor piercing Hades.

He traveled through the dark sea of eternal night to the temple of Hades.

In the temple where the rubble is suspended, the phosphorus fire is a candle.

The golden crow's continuous figure was like a knife, cutting a huge wound in the darkness...... That wound is slowly healing behind him.

Ning Chang looked at the gravel floating in the underworld, he chuckled in his heart, hesitated for a while, and then walked into the hall.

The eternal knot, which had been severed for many years, was like a young silkworm spitting out a thin silver thread, which was gently linked between them.

He knew that Ning Xiaoling was ahead.

His steps were a little slow.

This is not the cowardice of homesickness, but the worry of the unknown life and death.

He walked into the temple and looked ahead.

The footsteps came to a complete halt.

In the dark hall, the girl wore a plain white dress, sat upright on the stone steps, a dark red sword rested horizontally on her knees, and she sat upright, as if listening to a lecture in the hall.

Her face is still beautiful, but most of her childishness has faded, replaced by the elegance and beauty of a girl.

She sat quietly, not opening her eyes, not knowing that someone was coming.

But Ning Chang knew that she was waiting for herself when she was sitting here.

This wait has been a thousand days and months.

Ning Changjiu walked up to her, leaned down, gently hugged her soft body into his arms, and then hugged her like a little daughter.

Her soul had been away from her body for so long that her body had lost its temperature.

Ning Chang carried her to the throne.

He dragged the beautiful body of the Mother of Dragons from the throne and threw it to the bottom of the steps, and then he carefully wiped the throne well, took the girl's petite body, and placed her in the huge seat.

He looked softly at the maiden in the Nether Throne.

Ning Xiaoling sat upright in it, like a young gentleman who was pretending to sleep, and would wake up at any time.