Chapter 8: Emotional Wounds
The eerie aura, accompanied by a heat wave, echoed in this empty space in waves. The fire dragon had fangs and claws, and its appearance was hideous, but it did not continue to expand, as if it was already its limit. Rao is like this, under the blazing heat, even the hard surface began to show signs of cracking, but the seemingly dilapidated brazier was unharmed.
The flames were blazing, reflected in the eyes of the beast god, as if his eyes were also burning.
On the other side of the flame, the woman's voice smiled faintly, and said, "Is your mana really not working, or is it deliberately lying to me?" Although it is said that this magic circle was not activated by the Xuanhuo Jian and was destroyed when you were resurrected, but the power is by no means more than that. β
There was no fluctuation on the beast god's handsome face, and he said calmly: "Since you are so wary of me, I don't know a little, why do you want to save me again?"
The woman snorted and said, "Didn't I tell you a long time ago, first, I came for the strange array handed down by the ancient witch clan, and the other is that I didn't like the pretending old man Yun in the Incense Valley." β
The beast god smiled slightly, and didn't seem to take the woman's words to heart, and said: "Although Yun Yilan has broken the contract, I haven't really believed him, and if I win the battle of Qingyun Mountain, he will definitely not dare to do this." Isn't it the work of the majority of people who fell into the well?"
The woman said, "It's a pity that he still doesn't know, you are different from me, and you can't be killed." β
The beast god's gaze was deep, and he slowly stared at the darkness behind the firelight, the raging flames, but it still didn't seem to shine into that place.
"How do you know that I can't be killed, and if I sue you now, I'm already ready to be killed, what would you think?"
He stared at the darkness, but there seemed to be a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he was a little provocative, as if he was a little tempting, and said slowly.
The woman suddenly stopped talking, and the whole cave seemed to be filled with only the sound of the fire burning, but somehow, it seemed to be more dead and silent than when there was nothing.
I don't know how long it took, the beast god suddenly said, "How many years have we known each other until now?"
After a long time, the woman said lightly: "I can't remember, not long after I attained the Dao, I came here by mistake, speaking of which, why did you look at me differently in the first place?"
The beast god smiled, slowly lowered his head, the tiredness on his face seemed to be even thicker, and said, "Although I wasn't human at that time, I couldn't stand the loneliness. β
The woman was silent for a while, as if she was also a little surprised, and after a while, she said, "Why do you look a little different today? β
The beast god's shoulders trembled, and he let out two violent coughs, but there was still a faint smile on his face, as if in his eyes, he didn't care about anything: "Have you ever seen someone who is dying, can it be the same as usual?"
Almost immediately, the woman continued, "But you're not human!"
"How do you know I'm not human?"
......
The flames in the brazier suddenly rose up, like a silent roar of a fire dragon, and then slowly fell, and the eight mysterious patterns of fierce gods around them also slowly fell, and the light dimmed, gradually disappearing into the darkness. The fire dragon gradually melted into the flames, turning into ordinary firelight, and the surroundings darkened one by one, only there was some light around the brazier.
"What have you done to yourself?" the woman asked softly after a long time.
The beast god did not answer, nor did he speak, he looked as if he was getting more and more tired, and slowly raised his hand. In the firelight, the skin on his right wrist seemed to have lost its luster, and there was a dark red sè vein hidden in the wrist muscle.
The beast god looked at the qi vein for a moment, shook his head, and lightly scratched his wrist with his hand, and after a while, a hole slowly appeared on his wrist, and then slowly spilled a drop of blood.
Blood!
Red sè blood!
"How is it possible......" The woman in the darkness seemed to be so surprised that she couldn't even speak, and after a while, she seemed to come back to her senses and said in amazement: "You...... You've become chΓ©ngrΓ©n!"
The beast god didn't speak, just smiled, such a silent smile, no one knew whether it was a bitter smile or a relieved smile.
"No wonder, I've always wondered in my heart, you were born from the aura of heaven and earth, and you should be immortal, how could you be under the sword of the immortals at the head of Qingyun Mountain, and suffer from this great injury. It turns out that you have become the person you have always hated? hahaha......ha
The woman didn't know if she thought it was too ridiculous, or if she couldn't control herself, but she laughed.
The eyes of the beast god stared at the red blood on his wrist, but the complex emotions that flashed in his eyes were indescribable, like joy and sadness.
"I've never hated people...... "I can come to this world, and I have my mind, isn't it also the work of people?"
The woman was stunned and said, "What did you say?"
The beast god slowly raised his head and looked at the flames burning in the brazier, and his voice, in this place where darkness and light flickered alternately, seemed to return to the long old days.
"The first time I became conscious, I saw her, and at that time I didn't even have a body, but in a trance, the woman seemed to be looking at me. It's just that as time passed, I gradually took shape, and finally knew that she was a human being, a witch of the witch generation, and her name was Linglong. β
Gluttony beside the beast god, he let out a low roar.
The beast god reached out and stroked its head twice, and the gluttony fell silent. The woman didn't say anything at all, as if she knew some secret that had been sealed in the past for countless years, and she was about to uncover it.
In the eyes of the beast god, gentleness slowly took all the place, and his eyes also looked into the distant dark depths, the far side of the cave, where there may also be a former soul, quietly listening.
"It was Linglong who used witchcraft and secret techniques to collect the aura of heaven and earth here in southern Xinjiang, and refined jΔ«ng hua from it to create me. β
The beast god said lightly, this secret that has been confusing for thousands of years, no one has ever known his origin, "Those so-called heroes of the witch clan, following Linglong must put me to death, if they know that I am actually the mother they respect to create zΓ o by themselves, I really don't know what their mood will be!"
He smiled slightly, the killing and anger in the past never seemed to have existed in his body, and all he had at the moment was just a memory.
"I've asked Linglong many times why she made me, but she never said. But then I finally realized that she was just for two words. β
The woman couldn't help but ask, "What?"
The beast god said lightly: "Immortal!"
The woman's voice was slightly surprised, "Immortal?"
The beast god nodded and said, "Yes, you think it's ridiculous too, right? At that time, Linglong's sorcery was far more than that of the ancients, and she was almost invincible in the world, and among the witch clan, everyone was in awe of her like a god. When she is bored, what she does is to find another goal for herself. This sounds similar to those cultivators in Middle-earth today, but the mystery of immortality is originally the way of heaven, and although she is a peerless and intelligent woman, she has never been able to solve it. Finally, one day, she thought of an inhuman way. β
"Inhuman ......"
"There is a limit to the life span of a person, and even if he is successful in cultivating, he will not live for a few hundred more years. However, non-human things often have a longer lifespan, and the creation of heaven and earth, yΔ«n yang qi, etc., are immortal since the opening of heaven and earth. Since she thought of this, she studied carefully, and finally she created a me in that lifelessness. β
"She's amazing...... woman said quietly.
"Hey, hey. The beast god smiled faintly and said, "Yes, she is really a wonderful woman. When I came into the world, the first thing I saw was her. Then I don't know how many years have passed, and she is the only one in my world. Slowly, I began to take shape, and because my body was born of the aura of heaven and earth, since I had divine consciousness, I naturally began to absorb the aura around me and gradually became stronger. β
However, she seemed a little uneasy, and looked at me in the eyes that gradually became less kind, and when my strength finally began to rival her, she never smiled at me from that day on. β
"I was very confused, I didn't know why, I didn't know why, my strength was growing so fast, but what was the meaning of strength to me! I just wanted to ...... with her. I just want to be with her. β
"You can sue her, won't she know?" said the woman.
"I've said it, I've said it many times, and now that I think about it, it's probably similar to a child being coquettish to his mother!" a faint smile appeared on the corner of the beast god's mouth, but it disappeared again, "However, she never believed it!"
The woman was silent, not speaking for a long time, and the beast god was silent, as if immersed in a memory.
The flames, still burning in the brazier, shook gently in mid-air, and seemed to be wheezing.
Time seems to have stopped in this dark place, listen to it!
The past years are the ice that freezes the memory, melting bit by bit, and then slowly disappearing.
Who can redeem it?
Is it you or me? Or are we all actually the people who gasp and run in the light, but after all, they can't catch up with time, they grow old, and disappear into the shadow of yΔ«n......
"Finally, one day, I stopped wanting to stay in the room where she was the only one all the time, and I wanted to go out and see. That day, she had been away for a long time and had not returned, so I broke the ban she had placed, opened the door of her house, and walked out. β
"There are many, many, many people...... But when everyone saw me, they screamed in terror and ran for their lives. Somehow, I was panicked at first, then angry, and finally, I felt a rush of anger in my heart. It was at this time that a dozen warriors who heard the wind began to shoot at me, I parried and retreated, I didn't want to do anything with them, I regretted it, I just wanted to be with my Linglong, I just wanted to come out and take a look......"
"I tried my best to say, I tried my best to explain, but no one listened, until I killed the first person by mistake......"
There was a long silence.
"The young warrior fell backwards in my hands, slowly drooping his head, and bright red blood flowed from his body. I froze, and the others froze, and then they rushed more fiercely, and in their shouting and scolding, I clearly heard crying in the distance, it was the soldier's relatives crying! I don't know, but from the time I first saw the blood, my body has changed, and that kind of killing-like ** is like crazy haunting me, I don't want to kill, but I can't control it, so I do it, I kill. β
"I've killed a lot of people, many, many people ......" the beast god lowered his head, but his voice continued.
"I stood in a pool of blood, I don't know how long, I slowly came to my senses, and then, I saw in the distance, surrounded by countless people, Linglong came back. She looked at me, unblinking, and her face was pale. I don't know why, I was scared, I felt like I was really wrong, but I didn't know, I really didn't know what I did wrong......"
"Then, Linglong did it, and she did it to me herself. I refused to fight back, I wanted to explain to her, I wanted to tell her, I would never dare to come out again, I just had to stay in that room, and from now on I would be alone with her, and I would be satisfied. I said this countless times, but she didn't hear it once. β
"Her witchcraft is not comparable to those ordinary warriors, and soon my body was beaten with a thousand holes, but every time these wounds are injured, it will suck the surrounding anger to recover, and even I can feel that every time Linglong hits me, my strength grows faster. In the end, Linglong also discovered this, and her face seemed to be dead and gray, as if in despair. β
The beast god was still smiling, reminiscing, but there was a little more pain on his face after all: "I slowly began to feel that Linglong really hated me, she was crazy and used all kinds of witchcraft against me, although my body was immortal and immortal, but my heart was really uncomfortable, so later, I ran away by myself." On the way to escape, all the people I met were frightened by me, and it wasn't until later that I realized that the way I was at that time was really scary in the eyes of those ordinary people. β
He gently patted the evil beast gluttony lying beside him, and said, "The way I looked at that time was much uglier than it. β
"After leaving Linglong, I fled into the 100,000 Great Mountain, and soon after, I found this cave and stayed here for a while. But what I want to go back to, I wholeheartedly, in fact, I just want to be with Linglong. So I finally went back, but it was this circle that greeted me. β
The flames in the brazier, with a crackling sound, seemed to respond to the words of the beast god.
"I never thought that there could be such a terrifying power in this world, Linglong used the power of Xuanhuo to lay down the Eight Fierce Xuanhuo Array, and summoned the Eight Desolation Fire Dragons, under the blazing flames that burned all things in heaven and earth, even though I was an immortal and immortal body, I was also greatly injured by the burning vitality, and my body was completely destroyed. β
"I tried my best to tell SΓΉ Linglong, I didn't want to do anything else, I just wanted to be with her, but she didn't seem to listen at all, so she wanted to burn me to death. Eventually, I ran away and fled back to the cave. I don't know why, Linglong wants to do this to me, but I'm not reconciled, I really want to be with her. β
"After returning here, with the help of the ferocious aura of heaven and earth unique to the 100,000 Great Mountains, I replied quickly, and just when I was about to quietly look for her again, she had already chased after her. She took seven so-called warriors and chased them to this ancient cave, came in herself, and found me. β
"I'm not surprised, because I was originally created by her, if there is someone in the world who can deal with me and understand me, who else but her? But I really don't understand, why did she do this to me, I said so many things to her, why didn't she listen at all! But this time, Linglong she actually answered me, she said, in fact, it was all her fault, and it was her mistake to create such a monster as me. Because I was born of the anger of heaven and earth, and I was born with the opportunity to kill, if I were allowed to live in this world, I was afraid that all living beings in the world would be miserable. β
"I tried my best to explain to her, saying that I wouldn't, that I just wanted to be with her, and that I didn't want anything else. But she just smiled sadly and bitterly, saying that she believed me, in fact, she didn't want to be with me, but, but...... What if she's dead?"
In the ancient cave, in the distance, it seems that someone is sighing in the dark, for the scene thousands of years ago, but I don't know the tears that fell back then, but does anyone still remember?
"I froze, my heart was blank, I knew that I was immortal, but I never thought that Linglong would die. I still remember so clearly, but in her pale smile, tears fell from her pale smile. Then, she once again launched the Eight Fierce Xuanhuo Array, trapped me in it, and burned my body again, but she couldn't extinguish the aura I turned into. β
"After the magic circle, she was already very injured, but I made it by her, and in the flames, I still asked her, why did you treat me like this......"
This time, she didn't say anything. β
"She set up the magic circle in this ancient cave, restrained me, and burned it at night, as long as my anger recovered slightly, this blazing flame would burn that bit of anger. At the end, she looked at me in a daze and suddenly asked me what else I wanted.
The beast god chuckled lowly and said, "What can I wish for? All my wish is to be with her." So I asked her, why can't I be with her? Linglong lowered her head and said slowly, because I am not a human being, not even a living being, and we are destined not to be together. β
"I was in that raging flame, facing her, and said loudly: Then you, let me be a man!"
His voice suddenly raised his head, and he shouted loudly towards the dome of the cave.
"Let me be a man......"
"Boom", the four walls shook together, and the rocks fell one after another, the sound was like a drum, deafening.
In the dust, the beast god slowly lowered his head.
"What happened?" said the woman in the dark.
β...... She seemed to froze, and after a long time, she did not move. I endured the flames of my life, and all my thoughts were lost. However, she suddenly stood up, stopped the circle, and walked over to me. I looked at her blankly, not knowing what she wanted to do. β
She whispered to me that she was sorry for me. Then, she ...... "At this point, the beast god's voice suddenly began to tremble slightly, for some reason," she began to chant a lengthy witchcraft spell, slowly drew her knife, and began to ...... Cut yourself off with a knife ......"
"What?" exclaimed the woman in the dark.
"I was stunned, no, I was scared, I was really stupid, I didn't know what she was doing. Slowly, Linglong used her own flesh and blood, and even her own white bones, to build a skeleton of her body on the ground, and then, she placed me on this skeleton, as her spell became more and more urgent, I gradually merged into this body, and even my consciousness began to slowly blur. β
I heard her voice getting lower and lower, but she was still saying to me, this is the last thing she can do for me, as long as someone finds five holy weapons and places them in this skeleton, I can come back from the dead, but after resurrection, although the demonic power is still there, the body is already a person, since it is a human being, it is no longer an immortal and immortal body. β
She said that she was bent on pursuing immortality, offended the way of heaven, and created a monster like me, but there was an indecent relationship, which was even more wrong, and because of me, she killed countless lives, and caused a catastrophe for the common people in the world. And she hurt me with her own hands, but it was ...... Speaking of this, she didn't say anything more, and my consciousness gradually disappeared, and in a trance, I only heard her last words: I will always be with you......"
I never understood this sentence.
It wasn't until I, thousands of years later, came back from the dead and stood at the entrance of the ancient cave again.
That one, beaten by the wind, frost, rain and snow, and tempered by the cold of the moon, but still staring deeply at the figure in the depths of this ancient cave.
I hugged her.
I understand.
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