When Shen Xi opened his eyes, the sky above was unobstructed, there was no end everywhere, a bare flat land, and a thick layer of leaves on the ground, he got up and leaned out, and found that he was lying on top of a flat boat, the width of the narrow stream on both sides was only for this leaf flat boat, seeing that he was about to pass through a valley gap, the gap was only on his knees, and he didn't know if the dream could pass, Shen Xi looked around, and wanted to jump off the flat boat and step on the land on both sides, who knew that the flat boat was getting more and more urgent, Shen Xi had not had time to jump, he was already almost at the mouth of the valley, he couldn't, so he had to lie down and follow the flat boat to temporarily pass through the gap in the valley。

The boat was about two or three lengths long, and the mouth of the valley suddenly opened up, and into the eyes was a large mottled tree, abruptly craggy, and under the rickety trunk there seemed to be a woman in black who was sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed.

The flat boat was stagnant in a ravine where fallen leaves were piled up.

The woman opened her eyes violently and saw Shen Xi on the boat, Shen Xi smiled gently and politely, and was very embarrassed in her heart, the woman also smiled, her eyes curved like crescents: "How did you find here?"

Shen Xi moved a little quickly when he turned over and got up, he didn't notice it for a while, he fell into the ravine, covered in mud, and said: "I don't know, I have no intention of breaking in, the girl is not strange." ”

The woman in black said: "Meeting is fate." Seeing that Shen Xi was still struggling with the soil, he flew towards Shen Xi with a light tap under his feet, Shen Xi suddenly felt that his back collar tightened, and the whole person was like a radish being carried out of the mud by this woman, although the movements were not so gentle, it was better than practical.

"Thank you, girl. Shen Xi thanked again and again.

The woman in black leaned down and looked at Shen Xi closely, her crescent-like eyes were full of curiosity, indescribably clear and pure: "You are a descendant of the Candle Dragon." Fu said "um" again, as if self-affirming.

Shen Xi nodded.

"But... Why don't you use spiritual power?" the woman wondered.

Ah, I actually have spiritual powers. Shen Xi thought. Then he shook his head: "Not really." ”

Shen Xi rubbed the mud in his hands, stomped on his feet, and completely forgot about the dirtiness behind him when he saw a little cleaner, but walked calmly in front of the woman in black, and saluted: "Ask my sister, how can I get out?"

The woman in black looked at him with a smile in her eyes, and said, "How to come and how to go." ”

There is no way out around, only this tree, the leaves under his feet, not yellow fallen leaves, but a very smooth surface, Shen Xi squatted down, picked up a fallen leaf, the touch was warm and cool, look carefully, the leaves do not seem to be the veins of ordinary leaves, just the rhizome forks, this vein... Faintly and vaguely, the woman in black suddenly spoke:

"What do you see?"

Shen Xi said casually: "Leaves." ”

"What kind of leaves?"

Shen Xi replied uncertainly: "It's like a leaf engraved with words?"

The woman in black seemed to have no expectation of his answer, and before she could react, Shen Xi had a few more leaves in her hand, and said excitedly: "Look, these leaves are engraved with words!"

In a quiet and empty place, a gust of wind was set off on the flat ground, whirring and blowing, the fallen leaves were flying all over the sky, the woman in black looked solemn, sitting cross-legged, her black clothes and hair were flying wildly, as if she was not disturbed by the wind leaves, she did not move at all and did not feel pain, looked directly at Shen Xi, Shen Xi was blown a little uncomfortable, the fallen leaves kept beating on her face, and the hair was already in knots, seeing that the woman didn't even blink her eyes, she had a bad heart attack, and wanted to remind her, she just opened her mouth but ate a mouth full of muddy fallen leaves, the wind blew more and more, and she didn't stop, so she had to squat down with her head in her hands, and she grabbed something with one hand in a daze, and she couldn't care about the stinging sensation in her hand。

Just then, the wind stopped.

The piles of fallen leaves are all gone.

Shen Xi waited for a while, and after making sure that the wind seemed to have stopped, he remembered to check his hand, "hiss", and the palm of his hand happened to be cut by the hardness that came out of the root of the tree.

The solemnity on the face of the woman in black was gone, and she regained her voice and smile when she first saw her, and said not far away, "Let me help you take a look?"

Shen Xi waved his hand again and again, he looked down at the root of the tree that pierced his palm, the root was thick and hard, but... The pile of fallen leaves was blown away, revealing the whole picture of the roots, and Shen Xi found that most of the roots were exposed, only a little in the soil, and he even suspected that if the wind just now was stronger, the tree might be about to fall.

The woman in black probably saw what Shen Xi was thinking, and said, "It won't fall," Shen Xi nodded, but heard the woman add with some distress: "For the time being." ”

“...”

Shen Xi turned to think of something, "Girl, are you okay?" The wind was so strong just now that I felt faintly about to fly. ”

The woman in black said, "I'm fine, but I don't know if you'll be okay!"

Shen Xi was taken aback: "How do you say this?"

The woman in black ignored Shen Xi's question and tilted her head, "Let me ask you, what's on the leaf?"

Shen Xi didn't know why, so he replied cautiously and cautiously: "Like words?"

The woman in black said: "It is often said that words are language, at this moment, is the words speaking, or the language speaking?"

Shen Xi felt that this question was a little grotesque: "I don't understand what you mean." ”

Sensing the expectant light in the eyes of the woman in black, Shen Xi was very encouraged, held the injured palm, and talked eloquently after a while: "Words are created for recording and communicating, or it is a kind of language expression and symbol transmission of images. ”

Shen Xi's words changed: "Then words are language, not so much that language is speaking, it is better to say that language is borrowing human words to speak, and human words are self-expression and self-continuation through language." ”

The woman in black continued, "So?"

"Huh?"

"So, how much do you know about languages?"

Shen Xi was even more dazed: "... I... I don't understand," the girl said that the preface did not match the afterword, Shen Xi could only bite the bullet, and generally fooled around on a macro level, wanting to quickly stop this unanswerable topic, so she said: "Everything in the world is worthy of respect, I believe that everything has its own power of faith, even if it is language, I believe that there is." ”

It's really difficult to answer this question, Shen Xi was helpless in his heart, only to see the woman in black jumping up and down in front of him, smiling a little proudly, and said, "From today on, you are the successor of the spirit of words!"

"What?"

The woman in black clapped her hands heartily and said, "Yan Ling has chosen you to be your heir!"

Shen Xi closed his eyes, alas, I can't understand what this girl is saying.

Seeing that Shen Xi was not so cooperative with her, the woman in black did not have a trace of joy and even showed helplessness, her eyes rolled: "Do you want to leave here?"

Shen Xi was wary of whether he had to pay anything, the matter of the heirs could not be said, not to mention worshipping the ancestors, what should I do if there were various requirements?

The woman in black saw Shen Xi's hesitation, and deliberately misinterpreted his silence: "If you don't want to go out, forget it, this place does not belong to the Five Continents Continent, this is a different space parallel to the Five Continents, and only the descendants of the spirit can go out..."

Shen Xi choked and said: "I can be this heir, I have requirements, I will not do anything that violates the justice of the five continents, I will not do anything that violates my heart, and I will not do anything that violates the moral foundation." ”

The woman in black hurriedly comforted: "Don't worry, you only need to remember your awe of all things in the world, believe in the power of language, and then express your thoughts and prayers through the terms composed of words, and then you can use the power of words and even the power of all things." ”

Shen Xi was puzzled: "This is the spirit of words?" Just because I casually said a word of respect for all things?

The smiling face of the woman in black finally showed a trace of loneliness: "Wuzhou only knows about the five gods, who will know the spirit of words, and how many people can be in awe of the spirit of words?"

Words give spiritual power, but I am afraid that it will make people more fearful than respectful.