The ministers who were kneeling at the edge of the huge pit may not have heard much of what was going on there, but Lu Jiaou had been practicing Taoism for many years and had sharp ears and eyes. The slight sound of fighting coming from there was very clear, and her amber-clear ears There was a slight blush in the sunlight. After hesitating for a while, she walked over against the light and held the sword.
Ning Xiaoling held the golden crow in her hands and was very happy after seeing Lu Jianwen. She hurriedly greeted him and saluted, "Xiaoling pays homage to the master whom I haven't seen for a long time."
Lu Marian rubbed her head, her face was soft, and her expression could not conceal her relief and joy. She smiled and said: "As long as everything is alright, Xiaoling is alright. This month... what happened in the city, how did you spend your time? of?"
A few days ago, Yujian Tianzong reopened its peak. Disciples who had returned to their hometowns for the New Year were returning to the peak one after another, but Ning Changjiu and Ning Xiaoling had not yet returned.
Lu Yuanbai originally sent people to the imperial city to look for them, but she learned that the empress of Zhao had also disappeared for a month. She felt vaguely uneasy and asked Lu Yuanbai where he had sent them that day. Then she learned that they The Linhe City that we went to was a remote small town on the border of Zhao State, and this Linhe City was evil and haunted, and the fact that the city was isolated by a barrier had been widely spread in many places, and because Lu Jiaojie had been in seclusion, so at this moment Just got the news.
She arrived overnight, only to find that the city's barrier was far stronger than she had imagined. She fired hundreds of swords but was unable to cut through the darkness that was holding the city upside down.
In anxiety and powerlessness, she and many others waited outside the city for three days. Until half an hour ago, a light suddenly appeared in the abyss-like darkness and penetrated the sky above the city. The light did not look like a sword light. , and like the narrow lightning frozen in the ink-like clouds, Lu Marian's originally gloomy mood was also torn open by this thunder and lightning.
Then everything happened very quickly. The darkness showed cracks like eggshells and collapsed in an instant. The city's barrier collapsed in just a few breaths. Although the winter sun had no temperature, it was bright enough. It shone into this lifeless city. In the city, it is so dazzling that it makes people want to cry.
And in this city, those undead souls had already been eaten away by the soul worms when Madam Bai finally fought to the death to become a god, and only one or two hundred people survived relying on raw rice.
They were all sallow and thin, and the cramps in their stomachs that were difficult to digest raw rice tortured them day by day. Until today, they witnessed the flowing fire falling from the sky and the lightning that cut through the sky, and watched the sun shine in and cover the earth.
But many people are still huddled in the house in fear, feeling that the sunshine outside is not only unreal, but also filled with fear that penetrates their souls. At this moment, they can't even tell whether they are living people or ghosts, for fear that they will disappear as soon as they see the sunshine. .
The singer who became a soul-walker after death walked out of the continuous shadows in the attic. She was a dead soul. She walked into the light, and the light pierced her body like a sword.
She is an insignificant role in this city. Before the Fengdu Divine Kingdom could not be truly established and could not absorb the souls of the entire Nanzhou, her influence on Fengdu was even less than that of the Bull Head and Horse Face, so no one paid attention to this war from beginning to end. She, and she was hiding in a deserted corner, afraid of both light and darkness, and it was only at this moment that she finally woke up from her dream.
She remembered the day she fell from the building a month ago. The **like pain when the dagger pierced her lower abdomen made her feel a trace of regret. However, the courage to die finally overcame her. At this moment, the despair of all thoughts also gave rise to another feeling in her. A kind of courage, she hummed softly and walked forward with a graceful gait.
"The winter wind blows and I drink on the velvet boat, and half of the boat is covered with ice and snow. The dusk is like water washing makeup red. I dreamed of the old country, and who shared the hatred..."
She sang lightly, and the fragrance disappeared in the wind.
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In the name of healing, Lu Marry took away the unconscious Ning Changjiu and Zhao Xiang'er, and led the way back to the old house where they had lived for a month.
The aftermath of Madam Bai's city-destroying sword happened to spread to the street in front of the house. The houses and courtyard walls in front of the house collapsed one after another like wheat crushed by wheels. Most of them had been ground into powder. At this moment, in the sunshine, there were still You can clearly see the thin waves of dust rolling on the ground.
Walking into the yard, Lu Marry put the two of them down and reminded them loudly: "There is no one else around, so stop pretending."
After a while, Ning Changjiu and Zhao Xiang'er opened their eyes. They looked at each other, and then quickly looked away. Especially Zhao Xiang'er, whose pretty face was tense and the anger in her eyes was almost gushing out. Out.
Ning Jiujiu still felt a sharp stabbing pain in his head. He rubbed his eyebrows and thought about everything that had just happened. He felt that what he had done was indeed a little out of line and felt very guilty. He opened his mouth, words of apology swirling around his lips. After a while, but seeing Zhao Xiang'er's cold face, she swallowed it again.
He bowed to Lu Marry and said, "I've met Master."
Lu Marian looked him up and down, frowning and said, "Your clothes..."
Only then did Ning Jiujiu remember that he was still wearing a white dress at this moment. He recalled the domineering scene where he summoned the innate spirit. That scene suddenly seemed quite strange when paired with this white dress.
Although Zhao Xiang'er also wears men's clothing, her men's clothing is quite heroic and beautiful, which is definitely not the same as her women's clothing.
He sighed silently in his heart, thinking that if he was not forced by the situation, he would never agree to such a plan. But now, after the war, before he could change his clothes, his appearance was noticed by many people. In the eyes.
He tugged on a corner of his white skirt and lowered his head helplessly.
"It's pretty." Lu Marian didn't know what to say, so she praised him.
Ning Jiujiu wished he could crawl into the ground and escape. He held his forehead and did not answer.
Lu Marian looked at him with complicated thoughts. She didn't know what exactly happened, but she thought again of the scene where Jiu Yu covered them just now, and felt even more strange.
She looked at Zhao Xiang'er and said, "How about Miss Zhao go back to your room to rest first, and I will come to take care of you later and recuperate your injuries."
Zhao Xianger said coldly: "No need."
After saying that, she pursed her lips tightly and turned around to leave without even looking at Ning Changjiu.
Lu Marian sighed, looked at the young man in a white dress with a slightly guilty look on his face, and asked, "What on earth is going on?"
Ning thought for a while and said: "Master misunderstood. In fact, we really didn't do anything just now. At that time, under the Nine Feathers, we celebrated the killing of Mrs. Bai by... high-fiving! These clothes are also... "
Lu Marry closed her eyes, not wanting to listen to his poor explanation, she reached out and pushed open the door, and said angrily: "Come here."
Ning Changjiu and Ning Xiaoling followed in. Ning Xiaoling pulled his senior brother's sleeves, glared at him angrily, lowered his voice and said, "Don't make Master angry anymore!"
After entering the house, Lu Marry's face softened a lot. Perhaps it was because of the month of seclusion. At this moment, Lu Marry looked thinner, and the long wait outside the city added to her beautiful face. There are many feelings of exhaustion, as if the orchids in the valley of the world are stained with the smoke and dust of the human world.
Lu Marian looked at them, her heart pounding, and her expression showed rare peace of mind.
She looked at the three-legged golden crow in Ning Xiaoling's arms, let out a light sigh, and asked, "This is..."
Only then did Ning Xiaoling realize that she was still holding the bird. She quickly said: "This is senior brother's bird!"
As she spoke, she tossed the bird, and the golden crow flapped its wings and flew back to Ning Changjiu's shoulder.
"..." Ning Changjiu caressed the thin golden wings of the Golden Crow and said, "This is my innate spirit."
Lu Marry said in surprise: "An innate spirit?"
Ning Jiujiu nodded and said, "I have entered the mysteries."
That was not what Lu Jiaoyuan cared about. She looked at the bird and felt that the bird was very lifelike. However, the innate spirit should only have a skin. Everything displayed was also the control of human consciousness and the influence of human potential animality. It should never be so lifelike. That's it.
Ning Jiujiu saw the doubt in her heart. He shook his head and said, "I don't know what kind of existence it is."
Lu Marry stared at the Golden Crow and asked: "The innate spirit is incomplete at birth and needs practice to slowly make up for it. Where is it... incomplete?"
Lu Marry looked at it and felt that it was almost indistinguishable from the three-legged golden crow in mythology.
Ning looked at the bird on his shoulder for a long time, recalling its appearance in the previous life. After thinking about it for a while, he said, "Maybe this bird is not big enough?"
Lu Marion's Qiushui eyes narrowed slightly, and there was a fleeting chill. She hummed softly. Although there was a lot of confusion in her heart, she seemed not to want to continue this topic.
She asked: "What happened in this city this month?"
Ning Jiujiu told her roughly what happened this month, while Ning Xiaoling kept interrupting to add some details, such as the scene when Ning Jiujiu was beaten, so Lu Jianjiu's nervous look occasionally flashed With a smile or two, after listening to him talk about his battle of wits and courage with Mrs. Bai, Lu Marry sighed softly.
"Is it so dangerous again?" Lu Jiaojiao said.
Ning Jiujiu said: "If Madam Bai succeeds in building a kingdom of gods, she can suddenly join the five realms. If she builds ten complete Yama halls as she originally envisioned, she may even reach the legendary three. A parallel realm, pointing directly to ascension."
Lu Marry also felt that everything was a little unreal, and she asked: "You said that Madam Bai's body is one of the broken corpses of a certain god?"
Ning Jiujiu replied: "This is indeed the case in the picture scroll that showed the mythological logic at that time. It's just that her first mythological logic was wrong, which caused the subsequent success of the Kingdom of God to fall short."
Lu Marry thought for a while and said, "A bone demon crawling out of the southern wasteland?"
Ning Jiujiu nodded and said, "Master also understands?"
Lu Marry recalled: "I heard something from my master before, and there are also some records in the sect's classics, but I don't know much. I only heard that there is an abyss in the center of the Southern Wilderness, and that abyss is called the Burial Ground. In the Land of Bones, there is an endless stream of black waterfalls on the edge of the abyss. It is said that if a person jumps into the abyss and keeps falling, he will eventually return to the shore... No one knows what is hidden inside."
Ning Changjiu knew very little about the wild land in Nanzhou and said, "Did Madam Bai climb out of the abyss?"
Lu Married said: "If the record is true, then the walls of the abyss should be extremely difficult to walk on. How could she possibly climb out?"
Ning Jiujiu didn't know. He felt a chill down his spine and said, "The monster turned into just a part of the corpse is so powerful. So what kind of existence should that divine bone be like before it was alive?"
Lu Marry said: "The kings of the Twelve Kingdoms are immortal, and the owner of the divine bone should be second only to the Lord of the Kingdom of God."
Ning Jiujiu recalled the records in the classics. It was said that in the Kingdom of God, in addition to the king, there were priests. The two most powerful priests were called the Divine Envoy and the Heavenly King, because the Lord of the Kingdom of God could not leave his own Kingdom. , so they must rely on these priests or their own projections to influence the human world, and the realms of divine angels and heavenly kings are said to be the legendary three realms that are close to the apex of the human world.
But if they are really the priests of a certain Kingdom of God, and their power is so powerful, who can kill them except the Lord of the Kingdom of God
What happened when the gods fell five hundred years ago
Ning let out a long and long breath, thinking that these things are not something he can deal with now. Although his Zifu Qihai and spiritual veins have been restored, the cultivation of the realm is still a long process, even in the previous life. , he also practiced Taoism for twenty-four years.
Ning Jiujiu asked: "Who's turn will it be to guard the world this year?"
Lu Jiaojiu said: "Now is the Year of Konglie, and soon it will be the month of God's Abandonment. When the month of God's Abandonment passes, the next Year of Sin Lord will begin."
Ning Xiaoling was listening, frightened and curious at the same time. She couldn't help but ask: "What are Kong Lie and Zui Jun?"
These are the knowledge that can only be obtained from the books in some inner peaks and high pavilions by cultivating to the highest level. This knowledge itself is not a secret, but because it involves the most powerful existence in the world, many practitioners are afraid of some mysterious people. There is little talk about this taboo in China.
Now Ning Xiaoling asked, Lu Jianjian explained: "These are the honorary names of the two lords of the kingdom of God. According to legend, the twelve lords of the kingdom will guard the world in a fixed order every year, and the twelve will reincarnate. It is said that there will be a one-month gap between each of them. In that month, the number of ghosts and evil spirits in the entire world will double, so it is called the month of abandonment by gods. In that month, all The sects will all put down their fights and peacefully conquer demons and demons in the world."
Ning Xiaoling had heard something about the Moon Abandoned by the Gods before, but now she really understood it and said, "Why is there this one-month gap?"
Lu Marry shook her head and said: "This is one of the established laws of heaven and earth. I don't know the specific reason. For example, this year's month of abandonment by gods is April, next year it will be May, and the year after that will be June."
Ning Jiujiu thought of the things he had ignored in the past and said, "In other words, it will actually take thirteen years for the twelve lords of the Kingdom of God to guard the world?"
Lu Marion nodded and said, "That's true."
A flash of light flashed in Ning Jiujiu's mind. He vaguely felt that he had touched something, but he could not think of the specific direction.
Ning Xiaoling smiled and said: "Perhaps the month when the gods are away is a test for us cultivators!"
Lu Marry also laughed: "This year's God's Abandonment Month, Xiao Ling must perform well. Whoever kills the most evil spirits every year will receive a reward jointly awarded by the four peaks."
Ning Xiaoling thought of the years when mountain ghosts attacked the city, and nodded vigorously: "Conquering demons and eliminating them is the duty of Taoists."
Lu Marry smiled happily.
Ning Jiujiu asked: "Master, how is the retreat going for this month?"
Lu Marian's smile faded slightly, but she did not hide it: "The Tao realm has improved enough, but the cultivation level has not improved enough."
Ning looked at the golden crow on his shoulder for a long time and said uncertainly: "I may have a way."
Ning Xiaoling also suddenly remembered that her injury was cured by this beautiful golden bird. At that time, she only felt that something warm was wrapped around her, as if she was in a wasteland watching a big tree. Same as sunset.
She quickly said: "Perhaps Senior Brother's little bird can help Master Marry to heal his injuries!"
After finishing speaking, she looked at them excitedly, but found that for some reason, her senior brother and master looked a little strange.
Ning Jiujiu took the lead and smiled, breaking the embarrassment and said: "Junior sister, let me introduce you to this golden bird. It's called the Three-Legged Golden Crow."
"Golden Crow..." Ning Xiaoling thought thoughtfully: "I've heard of it, Golden Crow Cangjiao... Hey, Cangjiao... Why is senior brother's innate spirit so strange?"
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Lu Jianjian is the most aware of her physical condition. The blow to the back of the red-tailed old man that day was too deep, and the two acupoints in Yunqi Baifu were almost completely destroyed. If she hadn't had a special constitution of the same body as the sword spirit , if it were any other ordinary ascetic, not only would his lifelong path of asceticism be ruined, but he would also most likely die.
Because she was too aware of her body's condition, she became more and more desperate. She roughly calculated that it would take at least three to five years to recover at the current speed, which would be the time for those who practice Taoism. It's affordable, but if the succession ceremony of the sect leader is carried out in advance...
She didn't have much expectations for Ning Changjiu's words, and sighed: "Go and see Miss Zhao first, she seems to be very angry."
Ning Jiujiu pursed his lips, nodded and said, "Okay."
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When there was a knock on the door, Zhao Xianger was sitting on the couch meditating to heal her injuries.
The old red umbrella beside her was now in tatters, and almost half of its surface was burned by the red lotus hellfire. If it was held up when it rained, it would definitely leak water all over.
And her physical condition was also a little bad. This was the second time she was exhausted, much more serious than the one a month ago. When she raised her umbrella to resist the blow from Madam Bai with her body sword, she only felt like The entire city was pressing on her body, and all her bones were stretched to the limit in an instant. As long as Mrs. Bai exerted more force, she would die from that sword.
And after she had paid so much, Ning Jiujiu still teased her like this... Although she beat him to pieces every day, it was also for the overall good. How could he be so petty
He was so honest and honest when he was beaten at that time, why is he like this now that he has an innate spirit
She groped her itchy lips, thinking about the strange dream she had just had, and then thought about the scene next to Jiu Yu. How could Ning Changjiu be such a scoundrel, and dare... She cursed in her heart, and her body was burning with pain. She was even more interested. She took a deep breath and stopped thinking about it. Then she lowered her head and found that this white men's clothing that didn't fit was also Ning Changjiu's.
Looking at this outfit, she felt even more tight in her chest. She reached her hands behind her head, combed her dark hair like a dark cloud, and then began to untie her clothes, planning to change into a new one.
There was a knock on the door.
Zhao Xiang'er was holding the skirt of her clothes with her hands. She didn't even raise her head and said, "Get out!"
Ning Jiujiu said: "I have something to do with His Highness."
Zhao Xiang'er asked: "What's the matter?"
Ning thought for a long time and asked tentatively: "Change clothes?"
Zhao Xiang'er couldn't bear it anymore. Her spiritual power recovered a little, and her figure suddenly moved. The door of the house opened in an instant. Ning Changjiu felt that a strong wind was coming towards her face, and then she punched her face.
This time, he didn't even get through a punch, and was pushed to the ground by Zhao Xiang'er. She sat on his body with her legs spread apart, punched him downwards, and beat him severely.
Ning Jiujiu knew that she wanted to vent her anger, so she only resisted symbolically. Just to prevent Lu Marion and Ning Xiaoling from hearing, he tried his best not to make a sound and begged for mercy. In the end, he crawled off the ground with a bruised nose and face. When she got up, Zhao Xiang'er rubbed her fists, dripping with sweat, but her anger didn't seem to go away. She said, "Go back and change yourself. Who wants to wear the clothes you wore?"
With that said, she slammed the door again, leaving Ning Changjiu alone outside.
Ning Jiujiu was helpless. He used his spiritual power to wipe away his wounds and returned home.
He walked into the study, and after a while, Ning Xiaoling came in quietly and asked, "How is senior brother?"
Ning Jiujiu sighed: "Why don't you go and say something nice to my senior brother?"
Ning Xiaoling curled her lips and said, "Sister Xiang'er is so fierce now, I don't dare to go."
Ning was silent for a long time, took the pen and ink, spread out a piece of paper, and started writing.
Ning Xiaoling continued to ask: "How did Senior Brother make Sister Xiang'er angry? What were you doing under Jiuyu? Well... I obviously heard that it was a very happy thing, why did Sister Xiang'er react so fiercely? , Senior brother, is this your problem?"
"..." Ning Jiujiu lamented: "Junior sister, have you been taken away by some monster? Why do you speak so hurtfully?"
Ning Xiaoling said: "Sister Xiang'er is your fiancée, and she is me... Senior brother, of course I am worried for you."
Ning Jiujiu thought about it for a long time and finished writing a paragraph. He blew it dry and folded it, and said: "You yellow-haired girl, why are you so anxious? Listen carefully to your master's words about marrying and practice with peace of mind."
Ning Xiaoling listened to this set of clichés and was not excited at all. She asked: "Brother, what are you writing?"
Ning Jiujiu said calmly: "That Zhao Xiang'er has gone too far to bully others. I am issuing a challenge to her, inviting her to fight to avenge her previous humiliation."
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Late at night, Zhao Xianger, who was meditating and adjusting her breath, was disturbed again by a knock on the door.
She raised her thin eyebrows. She had already lost most of her anger, but now she saw that he still dared to visit late at night. She must have bad intentions and said angrily: "Are you looking for death again?"
This time the other party seemed to be very aware of the current situation and just slipped a note through the crack of the door.
Zhao Xiang'er walked to the door, leaned over and picked it up. She originally wanted to burn it directly, but after thinking for a while, she opened it and took a look. She narrowed her eyes slightly and read out the words on the paper softly. : "A letter of apology?"
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(Zongheng is undergoing maintenance today, so I can’t comment, there is only one update)