"What do you say?"

Zheng Sleeve did not answer his question, but asked rhetorically.

Ding Ning raised his eyebrows very simply, and did not speak at all.

"People are always changing. Zheng Sleeve's hand was placed on the edge of the cradle, his fingers tapped the cradle, and he said in a rare soft voice: "I want to find out what kind of person you are now." ”

Ding Ning still didn't reply, because he felt that such a conversation was unnecessary and boring.

Zheng Sleeve looked at him, and continued: "You could have died by yourself because of the life and death of some people in Changling, so if you are really such a person who does not hesitate to sacrifice yourself, can you die because of this baby, or let me live?"

"I think you're fundamentally wrong. ”

Ding Ning sneered, looking at the other party's perfect face, but he couldn't think of any sweet things back then, only disgust: "There has never been a person who is absolutely selfless and can sacrifice himself without choice for others." Any choice is related to my love and hatred, I chose to die in battle back then, just because of two reasons, one is that the mourning is greater than the death of the heart, and the other is that those people in the Bashan Sword Field are themselves confidants who share life and death with me, and they are my siblings, so even if I die, I want them to live. However, now this pair of mother and son in Yanjing, although innocent, but I didn't have a deep relationship with them before, you said that you want me to die for them, forgive me for not being so selfless, if you must threaten me with their life and death, then you are also the culprit, I can only kill you to avenge them. And let people like you go, and more innocent people like them will die because of you. Presumably she can understand that, too. ”

Ding Ning's last sentence was said to the ordinary peasant woman.

Originally, this ordinary peasant woman was already terrified to the extreme, especially when Zheng Sleeve's fingers tapped lightly on the cradle, she trembled all over, and even couldn't help but move, but was stopped by Ding Ning's calm gaze.

Hearing Ding Ning's words at this time, although the ordinary peasant woman's body was still trembling slightly, there were suddenly more other meanings in her eyes, and she even nodded slightly at Ding Ning.

Zheng Sleeve was silent for a long time, and then said slowly: "Except for you, no one has ever really known the secret of the Nine Dead Silkworms, since no one knows it except you, then who can know that you are not deliberately sad, not sure that you can be reborn after death and become stronger?"

"Do I need it?" Ding Ning looked at her with an idiot gaze, and mocked: "I'm already invincible, why do I have to die and rebuild, if it were for you, would you give up what you could get at your fingertips, and then risk dying once and then rebuilding?"

"Just to make you feel more guilty? Do you feel more guilty about it, does that make sense?"

Looking at Zheng Sleeve, who fell into silence again, Ding Ning added.

Zheng Sleeve couldn't answer.

Because it really doesn't make sense.

"If you're still like the man before, then I can trust you. I can beg you... Please tell me the secret of the Nine Dead Silkworms, and I will spare this mother and son. Zheng Sleeve slowly raised his head and looked at Ding Ning, "Because I really want to know what the Nine Dead Silkworms are." ”

Ding Ning glanced at her lightly.

Then he nodded to the peasant woman behind Zheng Sleeve, and then reached out to pick up the baby in the cradle and handed it to the peasant woman.

The peasant woman didn't speak, her eyes were full of tears, she knelt down and kowtowed to Ding Ning, and then quickly pushed the door and went out to leave.

Her footsteps grew farther and farther away, disappearing completely.

The farmhouse became absolutely silent.

Zheng Sleeve began to drink hot soup.

"If there are no examples, no master to teach you, no one has tried, but you get a fragment of a text, which records that tells you that this exercise can be performed according to the law when you are about to die, and then you have the possibility of resurrection. Will you try to cultivate, will you try to see if it really has this effect?" Ding Ning looked at her and asked.

Zheng Sleeve paused.

The lips, which had become bright again from the heat, stayed on the rough edge of the bowl.

She thought about it seriously, and then said, "It's possible, you can get the opportunity to retake." ”

Ding Ning shook his head: "So you are different from ordinary people, even if I get the inheritance of the Emperor You, get the Nine Dead Silkworms, and even I have completely deduced the cultivation method of the Nine Dead Silkworms, but there is no precedent to follow, even the Emperor You himself is dead and has not been reborn, so I don't believe in the resurrection of the Nine Dead Silkworms at all in my heart." How can you try it by yourself?"

Zheng Sleeve said: "So you didn't tell me about the Nine Dead Silkworms back then, because you thought I was different from ordinary people, and you were even worried that I had obtained this exercise, so you went to really try it, for fear that you would lose me?"

Ding Ning glanced at her and did not answer.

Zheng Sleeve sneered, "Since you think I'm ambitious and such a crazy person, why do you choose me?"

"I told you that no one is perfect. Ding Ning said calmly: "Even in the matter of the Li family and the business, you have almost touched my bottom line, but I will meet with you, after I said it, you said that you would change, and I thought you would really change." But it turns out that you don't think so, and that's really my mistake. ”

Zheng Sleeve didn't speak for a long time.

This conversation made her think about a lot of things.

However, in the end, like Ding Ning, she felt that these things were indeed meaningless.

Her face became cold again, and then she said, "What is the Nine Dead Silkworm Technique itself, why did you burn yourself to ashes, but you can still come back to life?"

"If it's just a reason, it's very simple. ”

Ding Ning did not hesitate, and said directly: "This kind of exercise, like cultivating a natal object, allows you to intercept a piece of qi and blood and seal it somewhere." When the cultivator's body dies, the spiritual will is transferred to that period of natal qi and blood like a flying sword rune. ”

"Yuan Wu and I also thought that this might be the case, so we used real fire to burn your qi and blood, but we didn't think that intercepting a piece of qi and blood could be sealed somewhere outside the body, how could it last forever?" Zheng Sleeve looked at Ding Ning and said, "There is no record of this in the classics of the cultivator world, just like fresh meat for a long time, it will naturally become rotten meat, and it will remain unchanged for a long time, which makes no sense." ”

"Qi and blood creatures are indeed unable to live long after leaving their bodies, but there will be some exceptions, such as freezing under extreme cold, and the survival time will become long. Ding Ning said lightly: "The Emperor of the Dark Emperor has nine Nether King Swords. ”

Zheng Sleeve frowned, "How could your natal qi and blood be on the Nine Nether King Sword of the eldest lady of the Gongsun family?"

Ding Ning laughed with some emotion: "When she fell in love with me, I already had you, she was hurt by love, and when she left Changling, she asked me, if it is too late in this life, if there is a future life, will I be with her." I gave her the Nine Nether Sword. ”

Zheng Sleeve said: "So when you gave the sword at that time, a piece of natal qi and blood has been sealed in the sword by you. ”

"I didn't believe that the Nine Dead Silkworms could really come back from the dead, and although I gave her the sword, I didn't tell her anything about the Nine Dead Silkworms at all, but I didn't expect that there would really be an afterlife. Ding Ning said calmly: "Later, you and Yuan Wu used thunderous means to hide from me and destroy the Gongsun family, she thought that I instructed me and misunderstood me, but she never discarded the Nine Netherworld King Sword, until I died in Changling, she took the Nine Nether King Sword into Changling. A miracle did happen, and I was born out of it. ”

"It wasn't until she returned to Changling that you were born from this?" Zheng Sleeve's eyes jumped, and he heard the clue.

For me at that time, I didn't know where I was, and my perception was like always being trapped in the dark underground, unable to get out, just like always being in the silkworm chrysalis, unable to break out of the cocoon. It wasn't until she returned to Changling with the sword to avenge me and come to the place where I died in battle to pay respects, that the qi and blood sealed in the sword of the Nine Nether Kings finally revived and merged with consciousness. Ding Ning said lightly: "Qi and blood quietly separated from the sword of the Nine Nether King, and the flesh and blood were reborn and quickly turned into a baby, just a matter of a few days on the bank of the river that people did not notice, but when I regained consciousness and went back to inquire about the time, Yuan Wu had already ascended the throne to the fourth year." ”