Qing Xuan sat alone at the stone table and played a game. It was as if he had never had so much time to do what he wanted to do, as if he had become an old man.

In fact, he was already the age of an old man, but because he was born from the heart, he looked very young. He had already experienced something that others might not have experienced in their lifetime, and now he sat at the table playing chess, so quiet that he seemed to be able to die at any moment.

The scene outside was as beautiful as ever, but he couldn't get out, isolated himself from the outside world, quiet and concentrated, as if the only thing left between heaven and earth was this game of chess in his eyes, and nothing else was in his care.

Who knows when he's going to get better? Hurt one after another, his heart has been depressed, and he has been suppressing his injuries, as if he doesn't want to get better soon. He felt that he was really like a Taoist priest who didn't care about the world, but he was missing a dust whisk or a peachwood sword.

A shadow suddenly fell on the chessboard, and someone walked in from outside. He didn't raise his head, let the man approach, and said, "Zhenzhen, I don't want to drink medicine today." ”

"Now you don't even have defense, can't you tell the difference between demonic qi and evil qi?"

The person who came, dressed in red and covered with a black cloth over his eyes, flicked his sleeves and sat down on the empty stone bench in front of him, and asked softly.

Qing Xuan still didn't look at him, but the hand holding the chess piece paused. The crystal clear sunspot fell from his fingertips and slammed into the chessboard and a pile of chess pieces with a crisp sound.

"What am I going to do on guard, what's the use of me being on guard?" he said nonchalantly: "I can't even raise my own sword, how can I guard against it?"

Hou Qing then stretched out his hand to push the black seed away, took another white seed, and tapped it lightly on the chessboard, as if thinking about something. His eyes were covered with a black cloth, which covered most of his expression, making it unpredictable.

After a long time, he slowly spoke: "Who do you guess I went out to meet before?"

"I don't want to guess. ”

"You're going to be interested. I met your apprentice Shendi, and Yin Luo. ”

Qing Xuan couldn't maintain his previous indifferent look any longer, and suddenly raised his head, his eyes were cold. His hand holding the sunspot began to tremble slightly, but it was quickly suppressed, but he didn't know that Hou Qing took all his expression into his eyes.

But he understood that no matter what he said or did now, it would not have any effect on the madman in front of him, so he slowly lowered the sunspot in his hand: "Shen Tu is no longer my apprentice. ”

Qing Xuan didn't know about the marriage contract between Shen Tu and Yin Luo, but he had been wondering if Yin Luo was Yun Yi or not. Now that he knows that he is staying with Yin Luo, this thought came out uncontrollably, and the hideous scar that has been hidden in his heart seems to have been gently stroked by a hand, and it has become less obvious.

After all, he felt that the most sorry person in this life was Yun Xian, this little girl did nothing wrong, and she was only seven years old when she died.

"It doesn't matter," Hou Qing didn't seem to care about the title between them at all, and only said, "I told him about Yu Lei." ”

Qing Xuan asked rhetorically, "What's the matter?"

Only then did he realize that Qing Xuan didn't know that the previous ghost king was not a god, but Yu Lei. Just because the appearance of these two brothers is exactly the same, Yu Lei always reports the name of the god when he treats people, no wonder others are not suspicious. He pondered for a moment, and then told the story of what had happened, but skimmed out some of the irrelevant parts.

The more Qing Xuan listened, the more frightened he became. He was sure that what he had seen before was Shen Di, but he never thought that Yu Lei had also lived in this world! When he heard that Shen Di had brought Hou Qing back to the underworld for the second half of the letter, he was furious in his heart, and he stood up directly and swept all the chessboard pieces on the table to the ground. This sweep also made Hou Qing startled, only to see that the chessboard was shaken into two by the spiritual power that he suddenly burst out, and the black and white children were jumping around on the ground, crackling and rolling everywhere like a torrential rain, and they were torn apart, leaving only the white child that Hou Qing had been holding in his hand was still intact.

Qing Xuan was extremely angry, pointed at him and scolded tremblingly: "You are simply despicable! Yu Lei left you this letter, did you use it to blackmail him?!"

He had just exerted too much strength, and for a while he couldn't slow down, he coughed a few times, and his face turned pale.

"Otherwise?" Hou Qing smiled instead: "That letter is in my hand, it must be of some use." If I can't think of any use for it—it's not that I won't give it, but I just don't know how long it will go."

Because Shen Tu was taught by the underworld and stayed by Qingxuan's side for a while, his temperament seemed to be very different from the word "ghost king". His character is kind and ordinary, compared to the second twin ghost kings who died of fratricide, his biggest weakness is that he has too many emotions. He has too many people in his heart, and Yu Lei is his weakness. But if he throws one of these people away, I'm afraid that no one in the Six Realms will say that he is "pure and good" anymore.

Hou Qing smiled again: "You don't admit that you are his master, what are you doing with such a big fire?...... I understand, although the two of you don't recognize each other now, Yin Luo is your apprentice, you may not know it? ”

Qing Xuan didn't react for a while, but his eyes were dyed red. The red marks on each of his pieces became brighter and brighter, and seemed to make him feel very painful, so he could only hold his head and slowly crouch down.

"Yin Luo is the cloud at will, Yin Luo is the cloud at will......"

A tear fell from his eyes, but his expression seemed to cry rather than cry, and he seemed to laugh rather than laugh.

Are Yin Luo and Shen Di going to get married? Does she know that she is Yun Shu? In her impression, she has always been a little girl......

He should be happy, but for some reason he doesn't seem to be so happy, and what is repeated in his mind is the karmic fire that rushed to the sky in the "chaotic building" that day, and the heavy snow that was blowing after the fire was extinguished.

Hou Qing then squatted down in front of him and looked at him with interest.

The red mark between Qing Xuan's eyebrows, no one knew how it came about, and when it came, but he just knew. It was the result of a backlash when he sealed himself in Jingmo's body. At that time, although Qing Xuan's mind was firm, it had already been hit hard, and a trace of undetectable evil qi easily invaded his body. It's just that this trace of evil aura is too faint to be noticed in normal times, and it can only be manifested when he is very stimulated. It wasn't common before, but it's really becoming more frequent lately.

"You, you madman......" Qing Xuan gritted his teeth and said, but his eyes were always so powerful and stared at him all the time. Hou Qing understood that even if he had already killed Zhi Dan, it would definitely not be easy to destroy him, so he stood up again and shook his head as if he didn't care: "You all say I'm a madman...... Isn't it good to be a madman? At least I can always do what I want to do, like lock you up here. ”

He looked around the cave and seemed to feel a little dissatisfied. This cave is a place to absorb aura, aura and evil qi are naturally repulsive, he feels uncomfortable every time he comes here, but he has to come every few days to provoke him, as if this can make him happier. Now he made a very bold move—he flicked his hand and removed the prohibition that had been standing at the door!

Qing Xuan didn't notice what he was doing, and he didn't want to look at him, he just kept his head down and shrank in the corner, so that his extremely disordered mind calmed down a little, and when he raised his head, he found that Hou Qing was gone.

Suddenly, several maids walked in outside the door, all of whom were extremely beautiful. They didn't care about Qing Xuan's stunned gaze, they didn't say a word, they just squatted down very obediently to clean up the mess of chess pieces in this place. One of them took out a new chessboard and put it on for him, saluted, and went out slowly.

They...... How did you get in?

Qing Xuan hurriedly stood up, stretched out his hand and carefully touched the place where it was connected to the outside world. Originally, there had always been an invisible barrier there, but now his hand was so gently and delicately stretched out!

There is no doubt that Hou Qing took the barrier away. But he also believed that Qing Xuan had no spiritual power and cultivation, so he would not be able to go far, and it was best for the people of the Heavenly Court to die in the hands of Hou Qing, and he would not save him so stupidly and leave easily. He slowly walked down the stone steps, and the sun outside was so warm that he couldn't open his eyes for a while. He looked around a little blankly, like a blind man who had seen the light for the first time.

There is nothing wrong with this Sumire Mountain, but it is not a place he usually visits. He stretched out his hand and rubbed his brow, trying to stop the dull pain a little, and raised his foot and walked haphazardly into the woods.

He didn't get lost, he just walked by his own feelings, as if it didn't matter if he was lost. Gradually, it seemed to come to a glade. This clearing seems to be located halfway up the mountain, and there is no shelter on all sides, so you can easily see the rolling mountains. He looked into the distance, and suddenly felt as if he had seen some familiar scenery, and suddenly turned his head—

On the mountain in the distance, the building complex hidden between the trees, isn't it Ling Xuguan?!

Qing Xuan had never thought that Ling Xuguan could be so close to him, it turned out that he had lived here for so many days, and he had been staying around Ling Xuguan.

He just stared in that direction, as if there was something over there that he longed for, but couldn't reach. In the end, he just shook his head and slowly walked down the hill step by step.