On this night, the border gate ushered in the first rain after the beginning of spring.

This spring rain came very suddenly, and it fell on the border land, mixed with wind and lightning.

The night was getting deeper and there were thunderstorms.

On the outskirts of Suzaku City, a bolt of lightning as thick as a giant python swept across the sky, illuminating the entire sky in an instant, and then landing on the ancient tree between the ancient temples.

The towering ancient willow was struck by this thunderbolt, and many lush branches instantly ignited a raging fire.

"What should come will come!"

A sigh came from the ancient temple, and the old man paced out, looking at the ink-black sky, his expression was calm and he couldn't see joy or anger, and said softly.

Immediately, he stepped out, but he was floating in the air and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Vermilion Bird City, on the Overseer's Mansion, although it was the middle of the night, the courtyard was still lit, and a team of guards wrapped in cold iron armor patrolled the Overseer's Mansion in an orderly manner.

This is the Flame Iron Cavalry who once followed Jiang Yao to fight in the barren grassland and broke into a prestigious reputation, and he is the elite of the tens of thousands of border troops in the border area, and the cultivation he has exercised in the battlefield is extraordinary.

It's just that even the elites of these border armies are not aware at all, and there is an additional figure on the roof of the main hall of the Overseer's Mansion.

The figure landed silently in the Overseer's Mansion like the wind, avoiding the patrolling guards and heading towards the backyard.

"Daddy,...... You're here!"

With this soft voice, the figure finally stopped and looked at the person in front of him.

Lin Mei stood in the backyard with an oil-paper umbrella, with a shallow smile on the corner of her mouth, but there was worry and worry hidden between her eyebrows and eyes.

The other hand, holding the little man who fell asleep soundly and was not affected by the thunderstorm in the slightest.

"Well, I'm leaving, I'm coming to see you!"

The figure was silent for a while, responded softly, and walked out of the darkness, it turned out to be the old man who had been guarding the ancient temple for five years and was called Liu Bo by Lin Mei.

"Look at my little grandson again!"

Taking the little barbarian from Liu Mei's hand, the old man smiled lightly, with softness and kindness: "I really want to watch our little barbarian grow up, it seems that there is no such opportunity!"

Stretched out his hand and gently rubbed it on Xiao Man'er's delicate face, and muttered in a low voice as if talking to himself: "In the past, I was greedy for the Nirvana Gong of the Jiang clan of Great Xia, and I wanted to use this to make a breakthrough before the fifth decline of heaven and man came, and the Wood Demon Clan of Protector I could prosper for another thousand years!"

"But I didn't want to get to the end, because my greed made my clan, which had a prominent position in the demon clan in the past, end up with the clan, although I was lucky to survive for many years with my crippled body, but I didn't even recognize my most beloved daughter and grandson by my side. ”

"Come to think of it, this is God's punishment for my greedy little demon!"

"Daddy......"

The old man waved his hand, interrupting Lin Mei's words that she wanted to say.

"Originally, I just wanted to take a look at you and Xiao Man'er and leave, but I didn't expect this thunderstorm to come so quickly!"

Feeling the coldness of this slightly chilly spring rain hitting his body, the old man chuckled helplessly: "This damn thunder tribulation has cut me off too much of my cultivation, but I didn't expect it to be a good thing." ”

"If it weren't for this thunderstorm that cut off Daddy's cultivation, loosened the seal that Daddy set up to protect me, and remembered the memories that were erased by you, would Daddy really plan to never recognize me again?"

Lin Mei stood in front of the old man, her voice trembling slightly, letting the rain slide down her cheeks, she couldn't tell whether it was the rain or her own tears on her face.

In the past, a woman who had lost her memory could not move an inch in the Great Xia Imperial City, if it weren't for Jiang Yao, who had returned from hunting, Lin Mei didn't know what she would be like now?

Looking at the old man in front of her, who once loved her the most and regarded her as the pearl of her palm, the feeling of helplessness after losing her memory in Lin Mei's heart once again gushed out, like the tide of the sea, and her shoulders trembled slightly.

Lin Mei lowered her head slightly, not noticing that behind Xiao Man'er, the pair of big hands supporting his body glowed with pale cyan light at this moment, and with this light, a majestic aura poured into Xiao Man'er's body.

"It's so comfortable!" Although she was asleep, Xiao Man'er murmured softly like a dream at this time.

"Mei'er, you...... Hate Daddy?"

The old man hugged the little man'er in his arms, looked at his grandson, who had been by his side for many years but did not recognize him, with kindness in his eyes, and a touch of indescribable pain flashed, and asked softly.

Hate?

Maybe I want to hate, but when the memories that Lin Mei has been trying to find back all these years reappeared in my mind.

She couldn't hate it.

In the south of the earth, north of the North Sea, there is a country, and the name belongs to the ruins.

The people in the country are all demons, through yin and yang, they know how to create and understand human ethics, they have the art of cultivating immortals, and their longevity can be ten thousand years, and there are even more strong people who live with heaven and earth, immortal and immortal.

There is a wood demon clan, which is subordinate to the Liu clan, one of the five demon emperors.

Liu's family, returning to the north of the country, 80,000 miles longitudinal and subordinate.

That year, she became the county lord of the Guixu Liu clan.

That year, the old man in front of him was revered by all demons in the Guixu Country and was called the Willow Emperor!

Crackling!

Another thunderbolt exploded in the inky sky, falling like a writhing snake, and the direction was the ancient temple outside the city.

The old willow trees between the temples finally failed, and the dragon-like main branches could no longer bear it, and burned for a while.

"Humph!"

In the Overseer's Mansion, the old man snorted, his body unstable, and he nearly fell.

"Daddy!"

Lin Mei exclaimed in surprise and was about to step forward to help.

"Heh, I'm not a good father, but I'm still my precious daughter after all!"

did not fall, the old man stabilized his mind and laughed softly, relieved and sad.

His thoughts gradually blurred, and he knew that he would not last long.

That thunder and lightning is a heavenly catastrophe descended from the heavens, even if he cultivates like him, he can't hide it, and he doesn't want to hide anymore.

"You take this bracelet, the token inside is for your father, it's not a treasure, but at least it's a thought. ”

took out a cyan bracelet from his bosom and stuffed it into Lin Mei's hand, and the old man said in a kind voice: "As for the other bottle of elixir, it is considered a bride price I gave to the Jiang family boy, speaking of which, when you got married as a father, you couldn't personally send you a kiss." ”

"Even if the kid of the Jiang family has a heart, he has treated you as the same all these years, but he has a heart for his father. ”

"Don't say it! Please don't say it, you'll be fine! Daddy will be fine!" Lin Mei couldn't hold back any longer, stepped forward and hugged the old man in front of her, collapsed in his arms, and said in a trembling voice: "Daddy's Gong Shen Creation, he is the five demon emperors of the Guixu Country, and he is the peerless supreme of my Mu clan for five thousand years, and that day calamity can't help your ......!"

"If your mother doesn't cry, the barbarian will feel distressed!"

In the old man's arms, although Xiao Man'er hadn't woken up, he seemed to have a feeling, and he actually stretched out his little hand to wipe away the tears on Lin Mei's face.

"Silly Nizi, whether it is a human or a demon, the five decays of heaven and earth cannot be crossed, and they will eventually return to heaven and earth!"

Although he said this, the old man's eyes gradually turned red at some point.

In the end, even if you live too long and think you look down on everything, you still can't avoid vulgarity.

"No, the three generations of Holy Emperors of the Great Xia Dynasty have already passed the five decays of heaven and man, and they can't kill Daddy, Daddy will definitely be fine!"

"Old man, tell me it's not true! It's a trick you want me to forgive you, tell me it's not true!

finally couldn't help crying, Lin Mei let the rain hit her face, wanting to hear the old man say to herself that it was just a joke, not true.

Just like many years ago, in the Kingdom of Returning Ruins, the old man always called for death to force him to cultivate hard.

However, the voice was filled with desperation.

Thunder and lightning fell from outside the city, and she knew what it meant.

Tianwei, don't disobey!

Recovering her past memories, she understood that the ancient willow outside Vermilion Bird City was the body of the old man holding her in her arms now, and she knew that if another thunderbolt fell, from now on, there would be no emperor of the Wood Demon Clan in the Ruins Country in the past.

And she will also lose the closest people in the world except for Xiao Man'er and Jiang Yao!

"My good daughter!"

The old man reached out and touched Lin Mei's head, and said softly as he did when he returned to the Ruins Country many years ago: "Death does not mean that it does not exist, and you and Xiao Man'er, you are the continuation of my life! As long as you and Xiao Man'er live happily and happily, nothing can make me not exist!"

"That bracelet contains the inheritance of our Liu clan, and after the bloodline belonging to his father's clan in Xiao Man'er's body awakens, you will hand over the inheritance of our clan to him!"

"Although I know that you have long memorized those inheritances, who taught you to be so lazy and didn't have to learn them well, in the end, your father will not be at ease!"

finally suppressed the rising emotions, the corner of the old man's mouth pulled out a not good-looking smile, looked at the still sleeping little man'er and told Lin Mei, this is the last thing he wants to say, and the most important one!

"The wood in the five elements of heaven and earth is a sharp weapon to help the fire burn, and my grandson has inherited the bloodline of the two clans, and has a natural opportunity. In the future, they will definitely surpass me, and surpass any generation of ancestors of their Great Xia Jiang clan. ”

After all, the last thunderbolt still fell from the sky, and landed on the old willow tree in the ancient temple with endless heavenly might.

"I really want to watch our little barbarian grow up!" The old man smiled and spoke, his body gradually faded, he reached out and wanted to touch Xiao Man'er's face again, but his arm passed through Xiao Man'er's cheek, and finally stretched it back, and wanted to help Lin Mei wipe away the tears that fell on his face, but he paused, and smiled helplessly: "Take care of yourself, don't be too strict with Xiao Man'er, it's a pity...... Pity...... I can't wait......"

In the ancient temple, the once towering ancient willow, at the moment when this thunder and lightning fell, the thick trunk could no longer support it, and fell down with a "bang".

The figure of the old man became more and more blurred, until finally it turned into a green light and disappeared completely, completely disappearing into the heavens and the earth, as if it had never appeared.

"Daddy!"

Looking at the place where the old man disappeared, Lin Mei stretched out her hand to grab something, but in the end she only grabbed a handful of air, and it seemed that there was still the breath that the old man had left.

"Man'er, my little man'er, from now on, my mother really doesn't have a father anymore!"

Let go of her hand and sit there on her knees all of a sudden, Lin Mei hugged the little man in her arms tightly as if she had lost her soul, she knew that the person who loved her the most had really left!

The rain stopped, but there were still droplets of water falling on the ground, with a hint of coldness.

The sun finally rose, and a ray of smoothness broke through the sky.

The people of Vermilion Bird City, even many years later, still remember that on this morning, there were catkins flying in the sky, especially in the sky above the Overseer Mansion of Vermilion Bird City. Sometimes it rises, sometimes it falls, and from time to time it whirls and shuddering and falls on people's faces, shoulders, hair, and finally disappears into the wind and is buried in the dust.

A gentleman who has read the books of sages and knows yin and yang said that this flying catkins are mixed with thoughts.