Chapter Seventy-Seven: A Moment of Thought
The stage in the east of the city was smashed out of a bottomless hole, and bursts of cold air poured out from the mouth of the hole, Xiao Qianye jumped in, and the bone wings behind him instinctively fanned again, and he was surprised to find that the terrifying changes in his body were compared to eight years ago, when they only grew scales and fur similar to animal claws, this time they even grew bone wings and horns!
At a certain moment just now, he felt that he had completely lost his mind, and it was so exciting and pleasant to unload Lao Suo's arm with his bare hands and chase down the strange monster in front of him.
Xiao Qianye pressed his forehead hard and gritted his teeth - the instinct of the fierce beast became more and more obvious, and he couldn't even control it at all, at that moment, he didn't think about Yun Xiao's situation at all, he just wanted to tear the monster in front of him to pieces.
This hole is very deep, and according to his speed, it must be at least more than two thousand zhang! After approaching the bottom, there was a sound of turbulent water, and Xiao Qianye stepped into the ground with one foot, and the bone wings behind him and the horns on his head broke and fell to the ground in unison.
These things...... It seems to disappear when his mood returns to normal.
It was too late to care about her abnormality, Xiao Qianye's icy blue eyes keenly noticed Yun Xiao who fell into the water in the pitch black, her body was frozen with a thick layer of ice, and the underground undercurrent rushed through the ice and spread to both banks, making the already wet soil even more muddy.
"Ah Xiao!" he exclaimed, but he found that he couldn't take a single step, and a huge horror rose in his heart, and he didn't dare to take a step forward - if he fell down from such a high place, even if he fell into the undercurrent, he might die directly, right?
"Ah Xiao......" He leaned over with difficulty holding his breath, stretched out his hand tremblingly, and his mind went blank.
She's dead......? She lay quietly on the ice, letting the icy undercurrent wash over her body, and it was the ice that protected her and cushioned the force of the fall.
Still alive! Xiao Qianye suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and his face couldn't hide the joy, he jumped directly into the water, carefully helped Yun Xiao on the ice, saw her closed eyelids move slightly, and then let out a breath, and smiled lightly the moment he saw him.
"You, why are you still laughing?" Xiao Qianye endured his emotions, not knowing whether to blame or be happy, he wanted to pick her up and go to the land next to him first, leaned over and picked her up for a moment, her face froze, her body was full of bright red blood, flowing out of the torn skin, the entire placket was wet and had begun to freeze a layer of thin ice, he carefully pressed Yun Xiao's legs with his hands, and then checked her arms, and trembled: "The bones are broken...... You, you've fallen like this, and the bones of your whole body ......."
At this point, Xiao Qianye's face sank, and he carefully pressed his back, spine and chest, Yun Xiao shook his head: "When I fell, it was the Frost Sky Phoenix who caught me, these injuries ...... It was left behind when it was smashed to the ground, and at that time, I, I could only try to protect my body, and other places...... It's too late. ”
"Frost ......" Xiao Qianye muttered, no wonder ice suddenly appeared in this underground undercurrent! He continued, "Isn't that bird able to heal you? Where is it?"
"Frost Heaven just suppresses the breath of the Spirit Phoenix, it can't heal the wounds...... Yun Xiao smiled bitterly, only to see a layer of ice mist gushing out of her body, and then seeping into the skin little by little, "It's in my body, I'll let it use Frost Sky Snow to stick the broken bones first, and ...... for the time being." Can't let it out of my body anymore. ”
"Sticky broken bones?" Xiao Qianye repeated her words incredulously, reaching out again to press Yun Xiao's legs, and sure enough, the bones that had just broken into pieces seemed to be really reconnected!
What an unbelievable thing that transcends common sense!
"Get out of here first. Yun Xiao stretched out her hand to wrap her arms around his shoulder, and wanted to stand up by herself, Xiao Qianye shook her head, hugged her directly, and scolded, "Don't move, bones, bones won't pick up by themselves, I'll take you to Syracuse City to find a doctor." ”
"Isn't it self-defeating to go to Syracuse now?" Yun Xiao hurriedly stopped him and turned his arm slightly, "You take out the wind god in my sleeve and use the sword technique to go out first, your eldest brother should be nearby...... However, the wind god has no entity and is not very easy to control, so you can go to him yourself, and I will wait for you here. ”
"No, I can't leave you alone. Xiao Qianye refused, staring around vigilantly, "There is only one main river in Jialuo, but there are many tributaries, and at present, this underground undercurrent is also one of the tributaries of the glacier, but I didn't expect that there would be an underground river in such a deep place, this place looks like it was dug artificially, and I don't know what it is used for, it is too dangerous to leave you here alone." ”
"Ah...... You don't have to worry about that. Yun Xiao smiled, and a flame ignited from her fingertips to illuminate the surroundings, "The Earth Binding Spirit has said, this was a town where the Immortal Python clan lived before, and this abyss was used by them to change skin, you see there is still a thick snake skin under your feet!"
Xiao Qianye noticed that he was stepping on a piece of molten snake skin, and couldn't help frowning, he walked over to the side against the wall with Yun Xiao in his arms, and swept the ground with his feet, these skins were very thick, he kicked for a while and found that the snakeskin was still snakeskin, I don't know how thick it was, so he had to give up.
"Let's make a fire with these snakeskins to keep warm. Yun Xiao motioned for him to put himself down first, put the snake skin into a pile and light it with a spiritual fire, "But the snake skin is not resistant to burning, and there will be some unpleasant smells, so let's just take a moment." ”
"Hmm. Xiao Qianye sat down against her, felt the cold on her for the first time, and lowered her eyes and asked, "Are you cold?"
"Hmm...... It's a little cold. Yun Xiao nodded, in fact, since she was a child, even in a place like Kunlun Mountain, she has never felt cold, and the flames in her body have been burning endlessly, but now, I don't know if it was affected by poison or because of the heavy blow to her body, she really felt a trace of cold to the bone, which made her shiver.
"Lean on me. Xiao Qianye stretched out his hand to hug her, Yun Xiao looked at his actions in surprise, this wooden lump actually opened up?
However, the next moment, she felt a deeper cold on Xiao Qianye's body, it seemed to seep out from the depths of her bone marrow, even colder than the frost and snow in her body!
Yun Xiao didn't make a sound, carefully observing his expression, he didn't seem to notice the abnormality of his body, just stared at the flames in front of him motionlessly.
"Hey, this ......" Yun Xiao's eyes shrank, leaned over and hugged his face to look carefully, there was a small, oval mark on his forehead, like a wound left after the coffee was removed, and suddenly remembered the half-beast form Xiao Qianye that Bi Luohai had seen before, Yun Xiao hurriedly reached out to check his back, and sure enough, there was a hole in the clothes behind him, and the same mark was left on his bare skin!
"Qianye, are you ...... again? Is that what you're like that again?" she asked cautiously, only to see a bone wing and black gold horn fall from the snakeskin not far away.
Xiao Qianye didn't speak, just followed her gaze and looked over again, although those things would directly penetrate the skin when they grew, they would not make him feel the slightest pain, and they would not even leave scars when they fell off.
"Great. Yun Xiao saw his thoughts, grabbed his hand and comforted, "You see that you can recover on your own, you don't need me to harm yourself anymore to save you, isn't it?"
"You ......" Xiao Qianye's hand clenched subconsciously, and looked at Yun Xiao in shock, "Aren't you afraid of me at all Chinese?"
"Why are you afraid?" Yun Xiao blinked, pulled up her sleeves, and there were still a few fiery phoenix feathers on her exposed arms, "Look, don't I have something strange on me, aren't you afraid of me?"
"It's different. Xiao Qianye bowed slightly, didn't dare to look into her eyes, and muttered to herself, "I can't control my strength, and I will even lose my mind because of it, as if ...... It's like a real monster, when the eldest brother slaughtered the Tianzheng Mansion out of control, it must be the same situation, right? Ah Xiao, I'm scared, I'm really scared, you were smashed into this abyss by a monster, my first reaction was not to save you, but, but to chase and kill that monster!"
"Hmm...... But you're here anyway, and that's enough. Yun Xiao laughed silently and reached out to cover his eyes, "Come, you close your eyes first." ”
"What are you doing?" Xiao Qianye asked strangely, and when she took her hand away again, she saw Yun Xiao face to face with him, almost against his face, staring at her eyes seriously, she sighed softly, blew his face, and said with a smile, "Your ice blue eyes are so beautiful, I don't think it's scary at all." ”
"Good, good-looking?" Xiao Qianye looked at her hesitantly, and didn't notice for a moment that her face was already crimson, and her ice-blue eyes were the characteristics of the fierce beast, and everyone who had seen these eyes showed a look of horror without exception, why did she think it was good-looking?
"I can't control myself sometimes, didn't Lord Feng Ji say that I might lose control and be burned to death by the breath of the spirit phoenix on my body, so ...... We're still very similar, aren't we?" Yun Xiao sighed silently after Fang Cai's words, pressed his chest strangely, and suddenly asked, "The breath of the spirit phoenix doesn't seem to be as strong as before, and I don't know if it's the frost and snow that work, or the poison that binds the king's water prison works, speaking of which, is the poison on your body okay?"
"Hmm. Xiao Qianye nodded and smiled bitterly, "At the moment when I lost my mind...... The poison seems to have failed, my body is really strange, the ants that burrowed into my body before did not play a role, but these poisons are completely resistant, and now they will disappear inexplicably. ”
Yun Xiao pondered his words and guessed: "Those ants seem to be a bit like the Gu insect technique of the Central Plains Miao Jiang, which is a kind of witchcraft that uses ants as bait to control people, I guess it is Qi Qi's body is much stronger than the ants with Gu magic, so he can't control you, right? But the poison itself and witchcraft are two different things, didn't you say that the poison of the King Binding Water Hell has been tested on countless people and aliens, and there must be some very rare aliens, right?"
"I don't really know, but the Water Hell is not actually within my purview. Xiao Qianye shook his head, "You said that Qi Qi's body is strong, but I have repeatedly planted on strange spells, and it may not be useful every time." ”
"You don't study hard yourself, and now you can't complain about others. Yun Xiao reminded in a whisper, and grinned, "You worship me as a teacher, I can teach you, huh...... Come, call Master, I'll teach you the Spiritual Fire Technique now!"
"Don't move. Xiao Qianye frowned and scolded, picked up a piece of snake skin and continued to throw it into the fire in front of him, and said in a deep voice, "Ah Xiao, I know that you are optimistic, and you are injured like this, and you are still pretending to be okay for fear that I will be worried, but the appearance I just now has been seen by the Earth Bound Spirit, and it will definitely be reported to Your Majesty soon, and at that time, it may not be the secret arrest of me like now, Ah Xiao, I think...... No, not thinking, it is necessary, I have to send you back to Kunlun. ”
"I don't want to!" Yun Xiao didn't think about refusing, and Xiao Qianye couldn't help but say, "This matter is not negotiable, it is only a matter of time before I am wanted by the whole territory, you can't stay......"
"I don't want to go back!" Yun Xiao interrupted him, turned his face away from unhappiness, and muttered in a low voice, "If you want me to go back, then you must also go together, even if you are wanted in the whole territory, you will definitely not be able to control the Central Plains, if you go back with me, I don't believe that they can still go to Kunlun Mountain to arrest you!"
"No, I can't. Xiao Qianye shook his head with a complicated expression, "There are still many guards of the military pavilion in the four realms, if I leave, they will definitely all be executed, I can't be so selfish and don't care about the lives of others." ”
"Then you're just so selfish and don't care about me...... My ......" Yun Xiao answered angrily, I don't know if it was a violent fluctuation in mood, and a line of blood was left in his mouth, Xiao Qianye was startled, only to see Yun Xiao covering his mouth, wanting to cough but unable to breathe, but the blood kept pouring out, he panicked and said busily, "Don't be angry, I'm ...... I'm not going to send you back, don't be angry, calm down. ”
Although Yun Xiao couldn't breathe, she still felt funny when she saw his nervous appearance, so she simply threw herself into his arms and hugged him and never let go.
"Ah Xiao......" Xiao Qianye silently hugged the woman in her arms, but her eyes became dim little by little, "I don't deserve you like this, since the day I left Kunlun, I have never thought of going back, and I have never ...... I've never wanted others to know about your existence, if you didn't come to Feiyuan to find me, maybe in a few years, I would just find a suitable woman to start a family, hehe...... But I still have to tell you, Feiyuan is a xenophobic land, and I myself am a teacher of Kunlun, and I can't let others know that the person I like in my heart is also a woman from the Central Plains......"
"So what?" Yun Xiao asked silently, feeling his body tremble suddenly, and it took a long time to calm down, "So I never write to you, and I never let Mrs. Ming Qi bring you a message, I thought that as long as I didn't care, I would be very angry with your temperament, and you wouldn't want to pay attention to me anymore?"
"It's so selfish...... Yun Xiao complained in a low voice, Xiao Qianye smiled lightly, touched her head, and continued, "Well, I have always been a very selfish person, in order to consolidate the status of Tianzheng Mansion, I don't want Feiyuan to know that I like a Central Plains woman, maybe I shouldn't have resisted the decree and refused to marry back then, if I really married the fifth princess, I can not only get close to the royal family, but also break your heart to come back to me, how good it is to kill two birds with one stone...... But why did I refuse? I don't remember it myself, but I resisted it, and I didn't hesitate to think about anything, so I just refused. ”
"If you don't refuse to get married, maybe you ...... now How old are the children, right?" Yun Xiao raised her head and teased, and sure enough, seeing his face flushing quickly, she couldn't help but laugh, "I'm very angry, but I've been angry for a long time and wanted to come to you to settle accounts, but my mother didn't allow it, she didn't let me come to Feiyuan." ”
Thinking of her mother-in-law, Yun Xiao's heart trembled violently, the play that the eldest princess deliberately played for her before was the truth of the year, right?
"I'm sorry. Xiao Qianye buried her head, hugged her tightly and didn't want to let go, her mouth made a dream-like sound, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry......"
Yun Xiao just hugged him silently, not daring to speak easily - a man's collapse is often in an instant, after knowing each other for so many years, it was the first time she saw such a helpless Xiao Qianye, holding back her crying, and repeating "I'm sorry".
In the past eight years of no news, he must have had a very hard time, right?
"I'm sorry. Xiao Qianye repeated it again, this time he seriously held Yun Xiao's face, looked into her eyes and said word by word, "I won't have this kind of selfish stupid idea anymore, one day I will let everyone know that I like a Central Plains woman, a mixed-race descendant of the Lingfeng clan, I don't care about her identity, and I don't care how many strange ...... she has."
"Hmm. Yun Xiao looked at him with a smile, waiting for him to continue, "Until just now, I didn't really plan to assist Prince Mingxi, in my eyes he was just a politician who was obsessed with power, I was just forced to have no choice but to stand on his side, and even for Feng Ji's request, it was just to save you, but, but now, I don't think so." ”
His eyes finally lit up, which was a color that made Yun Xiao a little shocked, and continued: "In the education I received since I was a child, aliens are not humans, they are originally inferior beasts, plants and trees, and I have always looked down on all aliens as a matter of course, and I feel that all their persecution is nothing...... Oh, until now I've become one of those aliens myself. ”
He clenched his hands hard and gritted his teeth: "What's the difference? They are also flesh and blood, and they are even more affectionate and righteous than indifferent humans, it's really ridiculous, Ah Xiao, when I think about these things now, I will feel that I am a very ridiculous person, I have worked hard for the imperial capital for eight years, and the Tianzheng Mansion has guarded it for hundreds of years, and in the end, I can't compete with the alien blood that is hated by others...... As long as you carry these bloodlines, you will never be able to survive on this land. ”
"Thousand Nights......" Yun Xiao clenched his hand nervously, and for some reason felt uneasy in her heart.
"If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can keep the agreement with Feng Ji, I will assist him until he takes over the world, if he also breaks his promise......" Xiao Qianye snorted coldly, but an intriguing smile appeared on his face, "Then I will make everyone pay the price they deserve." ”
Yun Xiao was shocked and silent, at this moment she felt a completely strange aura on Xiao Qianye's body, as if it was another completely strange soul who said these amazing words through his mouth!