The stars in the sky are gone, and the dawn is always the darkest.

There is a row of lanterns in the General's Mansion that winds from the west towards the south, and to the south is where the gate of the General's Mansion is located. The lantern stopped at the gate, and in the light a man could be seen walking out of the door, pausing for a moment in the darkness, and then striding away into the darkness.

There was no one in the General's Mansion to follow, and the sergeants guarding the General's Mansion did not stop or follow, obviously they had been ordered.

Jin Xiangdi saw the whole process in his eyes, and the movements of the entire general's mansion were in his senses, whether it was the dissatisfaction of the generals' wives and concubines or the muttering of the subordinates in the dark corner, he could hear it clearly, including the old lady's thin murmur that vibrated like mosquito wings.

"What does that soup taste like?" Jin Xiangdi asked suddenly.

"It's the best soup I've ever had in my life. Hyacinth said.

"Aren't you sad?" asked Jin Xiangdi.

"Why should I be sad?" said Hyacinth.

"They make soup for you to drink, so that you will die. Jin Xiangdi still said in that unchanged tone, lukewarm, revealing a smell of being thousands of miles away. And to say such things at this time, there is a sense of cruelty.

Hyacinth was silent for a moment and said, "I know. ”

Jin Xiangdi was also silent for a while, when he crossed countless mountains with an ignorant emotion and throbbing to the human world, at that time he knew nothing about the human world, with yearning and fear.

In the end, he met the old master and met Huiyan.

Unfortunately, they are all gone. Jin Xiangdi suddenly felt that he had broken off his relationship with the human world, and he was back to the way before, even colder. However, today's scene touched his heartstrings, some of which he hated and some that he was surprised, and secretly thought, is this human?

"If they hadn't stewed that bowl of soup and I hadn't, would you have gone?" asked the golden elephant.

Hyacinth walked unhurriedly with a lantern in her hand, Jin Xiangdi and Xiao Jiu were silent in the dark, just like when they went out of the General's Mansion with Hyacinth before, no one noticed them, and there was no figure under the light.

After a while, Hyacinth said, "I don't know. ”

"Then why go now?"

"They treated me as a relative, so I treated them as a relative, so I went, and you're already here, and I know it's okay to go. Hyacinth said.

Jin Xiangdi said again: "I remember that you called me Master Huiyan before, did you worship the national teacher as a teacher?"

"The national teacher said that he couldn't accept apprentices, and he wanted to take me to see Huiyan Zhenren. However, I think that even if Huiyan Zhenren agrees to accept me, I will call him my ancestor. ”

"Why?"

"Because my master is a national teacher, it is he who has brightened my life and made my eyes see the path to freedom. Hyacinth walked forward against the wind, and in the darkness, the golden elephant's eyes could clearly see a flush on her face.

In the midst of their conversation, the dawn passed quietly, and a glimmer of light appeared in the sky.

Xiao Jiu walked with his head bored and didn't say a word, and Jin Xiangdi suddenly said, "Are you human beings so complicated?"

As soon as Jin Xiangdi's words came out, Hyacinth's body slammed, and she looked at Jin Xiangdi in shock, her face pale.

"What did you just say?" Hyacinth's voice trembled, and anyone could feel the fear in her.

Jin Xiangdi turned around, looked at Hyacinth flatly, and said, "You humans are really complicated, you have heard clearly, but you still don't want to believe your ears. ”

"You're not human?" Hyacinth asked, looking tentatively at the golden elephant.

"I'm a demon. Jin Xiangdi said lightly, his voice as clear and striking as the light of dawn.

"What, what demon?" asked Hyacinth, as if unrelenting.

"The Basilisk. Jin Xiangdi said.

Although his voice had been so lukewarm from the beginning, when Jin Xiangdi said the word snake demon, the voice seemed to have turned into a needle and pierced her body, and the lantern in her hand fell to the ground with a snap, and fell, and the fire inside ignited, burning the lantern.

She looked at Jin Xiangdi with horror in her eyes, and Jin Xiangdi also looked at her and said, "You seem to be afraid of me?"

Hyacinth's whole body trembled, after all, she was still a girl under the age of fifteen, no matter how enlightened and enlightened she was, it was still just the beginning, she hurriedly said: "I, I'm not afraid of you, I'm afraid of monsters?"

"Why are you afraid of youkai?" asked the golden elephant.

Hyacinth couldn't answer for a while, but Jin Xiangdi looked at it calmly, this kind of calm was a heavy oppression for Hyacinth, Xiao Jiu next to him moved his body, Hyacinth looked over, only felt that the fierce light in Xiao Jiu's eyes was like a beast, and he was more and more afraid.

"Didn't you say that the light of your life was ignited? Why, you are still afraid of youkai, and you don't know why you are afraid, which also makes your eyes see the way to freedom? ”

Jin Xiangdi's voice was still so flat, and there was even a hint of seriousness, and there was a hint of sarcasm.

Hyacinth's face turned pale and red, and said, "The reason why I'm afraid of monsters is because I've heard since I was a child that monsters love to eat people's hearts, and monsters are cruel and easy to kill, so I'm afraid." ”

"Humans are eaten by the heart is nothing more than death, the same death, and the death at the hands of youkai is definitely much less than the death at the hands of you humans yourself. Why aren't you afraid of humans, not afraid of your relatives who decided to send you to the mysteries to die, but afraid of youkai. Jin Xiangdi said slowly.

Hyacinth couldn't answer for a while, Jin Xiangdi turned around and left, the speed was not fast, as before, Xiao Jiu followed, Hyacinth looked at the back of the two of them gradually drifting apart, after a long time, she seemed to suddenly figure it out, strode after it, but still not as close as before. However, as soon as she got closer, she heard Jin Xiangdi's voice again: "Senior Brother Huiyan is my enlightener, he once said something to me, do you want to hear it?"

"Yes. Hyacinth replied immediately.

"No matter what kind of creature it is, the circle of thought formed since childhood is the most difficult to break. However, when he struggled to break it, thinking that the world was in his heart from now on, there was a circle slowly formed in a place he didn't know. Jin Xiangdi said, "Do you understand the meaning?"

Hyacinth munched silently, and after a while said, "I don't understand what it means. ”

Jin Xiangdi explained: "You think monsters are terrible, this is a kind of consciousness, the circle of consciousness formed since childhood, you have to break many of these small circles of consciousness, it can be regarded as the first step of enlightenment." ”

"So how do I break it?" asked Hyacinth.

"You always keep in mind that human beings are just one of the creatures in this heaven and earth, all beings have thoughts, they are all the same life, do not see humans as human beings, do not regard demons as demons, when you have this feeling, you break this circle of imprisonment. ”

After the golden elephant finished speaking, Hyacinth silently recited it again.

The sky has dawned, the hour is approaching, and it is not far from the Xuanji Temple, the golden elephant stopped moving, and said to Hyacinth: "You go to the Xuanji Temple first, and everything is at his command." ”

Hyacinth answered, heading towards the mystery. Jin Xiangdi watched her enter the mystical view, the morning breeze blew his dark golden robe, and there were many pedestrians on the street, walking in a hurry.

At this time, Xiao Jiu suddenly asked, "Are you trying to introduce her into the Lingtai Sect?"

Jin Xiangdi wondered why Xiao Jiu asked like this, and said, "I've never thought about it like this. ”

"I see that you asked her so many things, thinking that you were testing her heart and preparing to introduce her to the Lingtai Sect. Xiao Jiu said.

Jin Xiangdi shook his head, but he was thinking about whether to introduce her into the Lingtai Sect, before he asked Hyacinth so many words, just because he was inexplicably touched by what happened in the General's Mansion.

"Since you don't want to, why do you keep enlightening her?" Xiao Jiu asked.

"Because she is a boy collected by Huiyanshi's brothers. Jin Xiangdi said.

"I heard that Senior Brother Huiyan is actually preparing to start a sect, and the disciples have received a lot. Xiao Jiu looked at Jin Xiangdi and said.

Jin Xiangdi knew that he meant to take care of Huiyan's disciples by himself, but he couldn't speak rashly, he knew that his mana was not high, but just a primordial transformation, and his knowledge and wisdom were far worse than Huiyan's senior brothers, so he didn't dare to teach his disciples. He thought of Senior Brother Zhitong and Tsing Yi who were crossed into the Spirit Mountain, his thoughts extended, and after a while, he took a deep breath, took everything back, and said, "Let's save Senior Brother's disciples first." ”

"Why don't we just save it and kill that wood spirit again?" Xiao Jiu asked.

"Zhengyuan was said to be a monster by the wood spirit, and I must make him no longer misunderstood by humans. Jin Xiangdi said.

Xiao Jiu nodded after thinking about it, his life was saved by Hui Yan, so he was extremely concerned about Hui Yan's affairs, and he still had prejudices against Jin Xiangdi.

"Human beings pay attention to gratitude and gratitude, and monsters must also repay kindness, and at the same time, they must repay their kindness, let's go, let's go drink a bowl of corn porridge, so that this Tianyuan Kingdom will not owe me anything." ”

Jin Xiangdi said, walking towards a shop not far away, where the fragrance of corn porridge was wafting out.

The décor in this corn porridge shop is not elegant, it is full of simple flavors, and it looks like it has been open for a long time. People in twos and threes entered the corn porridge shop, all talking about the upcoming festival to the heavens.

Sacrificing to the sky is a big deal, not to mention using the blood of the former national teacher to sacrifice, after they entered the porridge shop, although they saw Xiao Jiu's occasionally raised eyes piercing with cold light, they still couldn't suppress the discussion of this matter in their hearts, and talked in a low voice.

Jin Xiangdi drank the corn porridge one by one, occasionally taking a bite of the porridge dishes on the table.

Compared to when he didn't arrive at Fangcun Mountain eight years ago, he was already very different. It's just that although his body has transformed into a human, his heart has never felt that he is a human, because there are many things that are difficult for him to accept.