The night is boundless water, and the dawn spreads and drains it bit by bit. The light shines directly from a distant place, the sparks are diluted, and the regular tiles light up. Looking into the light, you can see the ridge lines of the trees leaning on the mountain peaks. They have a clear boundary with the sky, undulating in a dark way.
At dawn, when the world first wakes up, half of the world is bathed in light and half is soaked in shadow.
Ning Chang walked to the window in white clothes and looked out.
The moon in the sky has faded, leaving only a faint, fuzzy shadow.
Lu Marian opened her sleepy eyes and looked at the young man's back, suddenly feeling lonely.
She covered her breasts with a brocade quilt, and the curve of her back was gracefully traced. Under the thin shoulders that supported her hair, her collarbone was lonely. She looked at the young man's figure, and she didn't know what she thought of. She squeezed the brocade quilt a little harder, and the soft lines overflowed.
"You've only slept for an hour and you woke up?" Lu Marian said softly, slightly displeased.
Ning Jiujiu turned his head gently and saw Lu Marry opening the curtain with her jade hand, her spiritual eyes looking at her. The fire at night had left embers, so there was a slight lingering in her hair and cheeks.
Ning Jiujiu said apologetically: "Did I wake you up?"
Lu Marry said with a smile: "I woke up from a dream and found that the person beside my pillow left without saying goodbye... If this happens too many times, it will be difficult to sleep peacefully."
What she was ridiculing was that Ning Jiujiu took advantage of her sleep to go to the three-year appointment, and that he left without saying goodbye three months ago. When she woke up, the warmth on her pillow had gone cold, and all she saw was Siming staring at her with a smile.
Ning Changjiu walked back to the window, sat down, held her hand, and said softly: "If possible, I would love to sleep with you for eternity. By then, the trees planted when I was young will be old, and we will still be there." young."
Lu Marian was not used to his words, so she just muttered: "What if? Since I followed you, I have never been able to live in peace and quiet for a moment."
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said: "It's not because you wanted to repay your kindness and insisted on accepting me as your disciple. You will reap the consequences."
Lu Marry was slightly annoyed, and immediately thought of that rainy day, when she was still in the state of longevity and ran into the yard, just like a scarred beast fell at the hunter's door.
When she woke up, her mask was taken off and her clothes were changed, so she couldn't protest... Well, this is the root of all evil.
Lu Married said: "Huh, how could I have imagined at that time that there are still disciples in this world who want to eat their master all day long? They have ulterior motives and should be punished!"
Ning Jiujiu asked: "Master didn't want to eat his disciple in the first place?"
"I don't want to at all." Lu Marion said firmly.
Ning Jiujiu said: "Then why is Master waiting at the edge of the abyss?"
Lu Marry said calmly: "What does my marriage to Qingxiu have to do with you? Don't be sentimental."
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said: "So I misunderstood Master and tainted Master's innocence?"
If Lu Marianqian hadn't been dressed yet, she would have attacked with a sword.
The two of them had a symbolic fight beside the couch for a while.
The sun is getting brighter outside, and the flowers that have been sleeping all night in the courtyard are beginning to bloom.
"Aren't you going to see Si Ming?" Lu Marian asked suddenly while lying on the collapse.
Ning Jiujiu said: "What do you want her to do?"
Lu Marian asked: "Then why did you get up so early? Or should I pretend to be asleep and not drink you up?"
Ning Jiujiu said: "I'm just... a little worried."
"What are you worried about?" Lu Married asked.
Ning thought for a long time and said truthfully: "I have seen evil."
Lu Marry was slightly shocked. She originally wanted to ask where she saw the evil, but thinking that every word she said might be known by some unknown existence, she did not ask in detail and just said: "Since This saves a lot of trouble. Hmm... What's next?"
Ning Changjiu said: "When Xiaoling's affairs are settled, I will go to the City of Ten Thousand Demons."
"Are you leaving again?" Lu Married asked.
Ning Jiujiu nodded and said: "People should always do something when they know the determined outcome, right?"
Lu Marian said: "I will accompany you when the time comes."
Ning Changjiu said: "Swords cannot enter the City of Ten Thousand Demons."
Lu Marian said: "Isn't it okay if you don't bring a sword?"
Ning Changjiu said: "Marriage itself is a sword."
Lu Marian pursed her lips and said, "What should we do?"
Ning Changjiu said: "Just don't bring yourself."
Lu Marian's eyes were unkind, and she said quietly: "Hey, when will the days of so many gatherings and separations come to an end?"
Ning Jiujiu raised his head and looked at the ceiling, as if looking through it to the higher sky.
"Perhaps after meeting Master, I will know many answers." Ning Jiujiu said.
Lu Marry didn't speak any more.
The light outside the window is getting brighter and brighter.
Counting from the time of rebirth, many years have passed in the blink of an eye. Looking back on these past events, they are as blurry as if they were covered by a veil, let alone the past life earlier, which seemed like a cloud of smoke.
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"Do you know anything about Ten Thousand Demons City?"
In Jiuyou Palace, Si Ming looked at Ning Changjiu and asked with a frown.
Since he didn't escape yesterday, Si Ming didn't leave either. He planned to stay and be the final protector of Ning Xiaoling, the little traitor.
Ning Jiujiu shook his head gently: "According to what I know, the City of Ten Thousand Demons has been closed for many years and isolated from the world. Even the most powerful people in Middle-earth probably know little about the City of Ten Thousand Demons."
Siming said: "The City of Ten Thousand Monsters... can be regarded as the last pure land of monsters under the protection of saints."
Ning Jiujiu asked: "Do you know anything about Ten Thousand Demons City?"
"I don't know." Siming said: "That catastrophe happened five hundred years ago, and my country perished seven hundred years ago. But... among the great monsters that have survived to this day, there may be existences that I know about. .”
Ning thought for a long time and asked tentatively: "How long can the saint survive?"
"He may die at any time." Siming said: "When the king leaves his own kingdom, he is like a fish stranded on the beach. Even if he is as strong as a saint, he cannot withstand the passage of time."
Ning Jiujiu said: "If the saint dies and the City of Ten Thousand Demons loses its protection, won't it be completely destroyed?"
It is conceivable that the huge city that dominates the northeast will usher in what great disasters and madness when it is on the verge of destruction.
"Yes." Siming seemed to tell a secret indifferently: "Five hundred years ago, humans and monsters tried to betray the way of heaven and tried to destroy it. But after the failure, the way of liquidation for the world was decided. But it is different. Heaven is far more tolerant to humans than monsters."
Ning Jiujiu asked: "Why?"
Siming couldn't answer, and said calmly: "Think for yourself."
Ning Jiujiu knew that this involved some secrets, so he didn't ask further.
In Jiuyou Palace, the two were silent for a while, and Ning Changjiu suddenly asked: "You...recognize me?"
"You can recognize it even if it turns into ashes." Si Ming was slightly startled, looking at Ning Changjiu in confusion, and said: "No, why are you asking this, and what have you done to harm the world?"
Ning Jiujiu laughed dumbly and said, "That's not what I meant."
In Broken Boundary City, Siming once mentioned his past life with words of remembrance. He always remembers.
Siming gently flicked his sleeves and said, "I'm not sure if you are him, but... if I really recognize you, it wouldn't be a good thing."
Ning Jiujiu asked: "Why?"
Siming said: "Because I can recognize you, it means that every year, at least three high-ranking beings can recognize you."
What she was talking about was the king, priest, and heavenly king of each year.
Ning thought for a long time and said, "Not necessarily."
Siming frowned: "Why?"
Ning looked into her eyes for a long time and said seriously: "Maybe it's because... you have seen me before."
Siming didn't know what he thought of, but suddenly there was a heavy snow in her eyes, her silver hair was not moving in the wind, and her beautiful face was suddenly indifferent, and then suddenly moved.
She stretched out a finger and immediately touched Ning Changjiu's lips.
Siming glanced out the window to confirm that there was no movement in the world, then she glanced at Ning Changjiu faintly, retracted her finger, and said, "Misfortune comes from the mouth."
Ning Jiujiu nodded solemnly.
Si Ming wanted to sit down, but her figure froze in mid-step. She stood up slowly, stood still again, and said with her usual expression: "When I first saw you in Duanjie City, I never thought that I would actually be with you. You cooperate.”
Ning Jiujiu said: "Well, at that time I just wanted to kill you."
"Oh, you didn't mean to kill me at that time." Siming talked about the past.
Ning Jiujiu rubbed his forehead and asked curiously: "Then what did I say?"
"You said you wanted to make me feel humiliation, pain, and despair day and night, and that you wanted to knock me into the dust and make me miserable." When Si Ming talked about these things, his words were calm and calm.
"How do you remember it so clearly?" Ning Jiujiu was confused.
Siming smiled and said, "Your ambition is so inspiring that it's hard to forget."
Ning thought for a long time and said with a smile: "Then I will never forget my original intention."
"Um?!"
Si Ming looked stern and was about to get angry when he saw Ning Xiaoling running in and jumping on Si Ming's shoulders out of habit. She scratched her with her fox tail and rubbed her little paws. Si Ming was originally fierce. Baba's face softened a lot. She glared at Ning Xiaoling and said, "Your senior brother can't protect you forever."
Ning Xiaoling said flatteringly: "If senior brother can't protect me anymore, won't he still have a sister?"
Si Ming allowed the little fox to act coquettishly on his shoulder, feeling quite helpless and wondering if he was too kind. This was... not at all the same as his original self.
"Xiaoling, it's been a hundred days." Ning looked at her carefree face for a long time, intending to give her a sense of crisis.
Ning Xiaoling was even happier: "It's only been a hundred days, and the authority has been almost collected. There are still two hundred days left... Senior brother and sister are really a match made in heaven!"
The hall was quiet for a moment.
Ning Xiaoling's words seemed to offend two people at the same time.
She realized something was wrong and explained weakly: "I...I just said that senior brother and sister work well together."
"Little vixen." Si Ming scolded her and walked out of the house.
Ning Xiaoling lay on her shoulder, looking at the curve of her hair, thinking silently, don't think Xiaoling doesn't know, aren't you also a big vixen now
Of course, she only dared to think about it. If she said it out loud, she was not sure whether her senior brother could protect herself.
"Senior brother." Ning Xiaoling waved to him: "Senior brother, let's go out and play together."
Ning Jiujiu smiled faintly. He temporarily suppressed the many distracting thoughts in his heart and walked to Siming's side.
Not long after, Lu Marry also walked out of the house with a sword. She looked at the two people walking side by side with a resentful expression, and then walked between them without saying a word, separating them.
Ning Xiaoling also sized up the situation and jumped on Master's shoulders, rubbing his shoulders and carrying the Master on his back.
The three of them walked across the long chain bridge on the cliff.
Under the long bridge, the surface of Youyue Lake swayed with tiny pieces of light.
The three of them walked to Youyue Lake while chatting about some boring topics.
Beside Youyue Lake, the Fish King was sitting in front of a large tank. The salted fish in the tank were piled up like a hill. Just smelling it made the fish smell pungent.
The Fish King had a look of despair on his face.
Seeing Ning Jiujiu coming back, its dead fish-like eyes suddenly lit up, and it looked at Ning Jiujiu as if asking for help.
Ning Jiujiu asked: "What are you doing?"
Siming said: "When it finishes eating this fish mountain, it can be free."
"This is Fengxian County?" Ning Jiujiu was shocked: "Our General Diting from the Ancient Spirit Sect eats this all day long, how unbecoming he is!"
Siming said calmly: "It's not because it usually plays tricks by the lake and defrauds the disciples of their fishery. It deserves to be punished for getting something for nothing, cheating and abducting."
"But this punishment is unavoidable..." Ning Changyu couldn't bear it.
The fish king's eyes lit up.
Siming asked: "Do you have any opinions?"
Ning looked at the Fish King for a long time, then looked at the tank full of salted fish, and said silently: "Sect Master, you really have clear rewards and punishments."
The Fish King thought to himself, he shouldn't have placed his hopes on you, a beast who only has eyes for women!
"Meow!" the Fish King cried out, weakly protesting.
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The disciples were still practicing in the wooden hall, and Youyue Lake was exceptionally calm.
They walked along the lake embankment and walked out of the sect unknowingly.
Flowers bloom in the suburbs, and Clothes Street is also colorful, full of prosperity.
Lu Marian was in a good mood today. Under the instigation of Ning Jiujiu and Si Ming, she also planned to take off her eternal white clothes and try some exquisite makeup.
"Does this look good?" Lu Jianjiao ordered some red and green makeup on the recommendation of the woman in the makeup store.
Ning Changjiu smiled sincerely and said, "No matter how you marry, you will look good."
"Senior brother is a liar!" Ning Xiaoling relied on telepathy to expose him ruthlessly.
When Lu Marry went to change her makeup, Ning Jiujiu and Si Ming were waiting outside, and the two of them smiled and chatted.
"If I were you, I wouldn't waste my free time shopping when I knew I was destined to die soon." Siming mocked.
Ning Changjiu said: "Reuniting after a long separation and walking with your wife is also a great joy in life. What do you know?"
"You two are really deeply in love as husband and wife." Siming said, "Then if you were to accompany me, would you still be happy?"
Ning Changjiu kept a straight face and made a metaphor: "It's different from walking under a dark cloud on a sunny day."
Ning Xiaoling wagged her tail and exposed him again: "Senior brother is obviously very happy in his heart!"
Lu Yuanjian came out after changing her makeup, and the three of them went for a walk by the lake embankment where they had watched the fireworks. In early spring, the willows are still hanging, and the thousands of hanging willow branches sprout tender yellow leaves, like the stamens of flowers.
"That's..." Ning Xiaoling looked at the sky.
"Paper kite." Siming said: "A kind of, um... absurd toy for children in the world."
Lu Marian said: "The paper kite was also used to send messages in the past. It is said that it can convey the thoughts of the human world to the sky."
Ning Jiujiu asked: "Shall we try too?"
Siming said coldly: "Childish."
Ning Jiujiu looked at Ning Xiaoling, and Ning Xiaoling said innocently: "Sister Siming and I don't have the same mind, look at what I do!"
Siming said: "That's all, I reluctantly accompany you to have a look."
Outside the countryside, the spring breeze blows the grass into undulating waves. On the top of the waves, the fragrance floats from a distance, either from the peach and plum forest or from the rose bushes. Among the green grass, the sound of the spring stream is as soft as a whisper, and it flows with the sound of the wind.
Lu Marian bought a paper kite with money. The kite looked like a fire sparrow decorated with lace. Everyone picked up their pens and wrote their names on it.
It’s just that none of the three of them had any experience in flying paper kites.
So these peerless practitioners watched the child's operations from a distance for a while, nodding their heads one after another, each with their own insights.
Ning Jiujiu held the coil, while Lu Marry held the thin bamboo strips on the wings of the paper kite. The two ran on the grass. Ning Jiujiu let go of the thin thread in his hands and tried to send it to the sky against the wind.
As a result, the kite swayed to the ground not long after flying. Si Ming stood with his arms folded on his chest and sneered lightly.
"Priest, would you like to try it?" Ning Jiujiu handed over the coil, somewhat unconvinced.
"Since you begged me, I'll give it a try." Siming took the cylindrical piece of wood with the thread wrapped around it, and she and Lu Jieyou started trying it on the grass.
After several attempts, the kite finally flew into the wind.
Siming breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Ning Jiujiu proudly, as if waiting for admiration and praise, but saw Ning Jiujiu looking at her with a smile. Si Mingmei's mood was a little gloomy, and she always felt that she had been cheated again.
She was too lazy to look at him and continued to look up, watching her kite rising high into the sky.
Siming stood expressionless for a while, and finally laughed.
Her eyelashes and lips fluttered in the light, as bright as spring itself.
Smiling, Siming found that Ning Jiujiu, Lu Jiaoyuan and Xiao Hu were looking at her. She restrained her expression and threw the thread to Ning Jiujiu, saying, 'I know that this kind of boring thing can easily make people tired.' expression.
Ning Jiujiu took the line.
The paper kite flies higher and higher.
"How far can it fly?" Ning Xiaoling asked.
Ning Jiujiu said: "This is determined by the length of the line."
Ning Xiaoling asked again: "Then if the line is long enough, can it fly out of the sky?"
Siming said: "The paper kite can fly because there is wind supporting it, but there is no wind in the air layers near the Xuhai. What's more, the real Suzaku is not completely free, so how can we talk about a human toy? How far is the sky?"
Lu Marian sighed: "Sister, I really disgrace the scenery."
Siming looked at the bright sky, which seemed to be opening its arms to them, and said, "This is the reality."
Ning Xiaoling jumped onto the grass, swished to her senior brother's side, jumped on his shoulders, and watched the kite fly high together.
Snap.
High above, the mighty wind finally tore the thin thread off.
The lace edges of the kite's wings kept shaking as it flew higher.
Ning looked at the thread in his hand for a long time, smiled apologetically and said, "Do you want me to use the sword to catch it back?"
"No need." Siming said: "Let it go to farther places on our behalf to see the truth."
Ning Xiaoling nodded and once again expressed Ning Jiujiu's true thoughts: "Well, senior brother is just talking anyway, he doesn't really want to pursue..."
Ning sighed for a long time and wanted to stuff the ball into his junior sister's mouth.
Lu Marry watched the kite fly away, but she felt very distressed. After all...you are spending your own money.
The kite flew farther and farther away until it was no longer visible.
The three of them finally looked away and returned from the outing hand in hand. This time, Ning stood in the middle for a long time.
An ordinary spring day.
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The next half month was particularly peaceful.
In addition to accompanying them on sightseeing tours, Lu Marianjian practiced sword practice as always.
The five bottlenecks stretched across the main road, and she could already see it, but the gap was sometimes far and sometimes close, like an elusive cloud. You couldn't tell whether what you saw was the whole picture or just the whole thing. The tip of the iceberg of it.
Lu Marry vaguely felt that this bottleneck should be cut open with a sword.
But she hasn't found the sword yet.
Ning Jiujiu has never been slack in cultivating the Tao. The battle with True Lord Bai He made his perception of the Tao realm clearer. He also felt that there was some aura left in his body.
That kind of smell... is very similar to Xiang'er's.
Is it because I miss you too much? Or is she protecting herself secretly
Ning Jiujiu is not sure.
Si Ming has also restrained himself a lot these days. Although he occasionally makes sarcastic remarks, he no longer dares to bully Lu Jianjian and Xiao Ling. However, Ning Jiujiu still picked some thorns and took the opportunity to punish her several times. These light punishments This fell into the eyes of Lu Marian, making this bright-faced mistress frown. She only felt that Ning Jiujiu was close to having the words "ulterior motives" written on his face.
Ning Xiaoling silently absorbed the authority. In the past half month, two more sects came to return their authority.
Ning Jiujiu witnessed Ning Xiaoling pretending to be a ghost behind the curtain and suppressed a smile.
"The authority should be generally complete now, right?"
After the others left, Si Ming, who was wearing black divine robes, walked up to Ning Xiaoling and mercilessly pulled the Reserve Lord into his neck.
Ning Xiaoling felt it and said: "It seems... there is still a lot to be desired."
Ning Jiujiu frowned and said, "How is that possible? Is there something missing?"
Siming said: "No, I checked and there are only the last two left."
"How much is the difference?" Ning Changjiu asked.
Ning Xiaoling thought for a while, then gestured with her paws, and said: "About... so many."
Ning Jiujiu looked at her serious gestures, was silent for a while, and then understood her meaning through a heart-to-heart connection.
"How can it be so different?" Ning Jiujiu was a little uneasy: "The last two together may not be enough."
Siming asked: "Xiao Ling, can you sense the position of complete authority?"
Ning Xiaoling was not sure and said: "I'll give it a try!"
Siming said: "Well, I will also use the star spirit divination technique to calculate it."
Ning Jiujiu narrowed his eyes and looked to the north, vaguely guessing where the remaining authority lay.
The next day, Ning Xiaoling and Siming confirmed his idea.
City of Ten Thousand Demons.
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On the same day, in the fragrant Three Thousand Worlds, Zhao Xiang'er put on a floor-length red dress and walked out of the pavilion covered by clouds and fog. Her long dress with golden phoenixes flowed through the white clouds and the sea, her beautiful and elegant figure It is the most beautiful scenery in the three thousand worlds.
Her long hair vertically reached her waist, and the jet-black hair held the queen's unique fire crown, burning illusively.
Shi Yu and Xue Yuan followed her with their heads lowered.
Today is her trial day, and it is also the greatest opportunity prepared by the Suzaku God for her to enter the Five Paths.
Shi Yu looked at her pale cheeks and knew that the strength she had lost in saving Ning Jiujiu half a month ago had not yet been fully recovered.
She sighed inwardly, wondering what her sister saw in him.
In the center of the Three Thousand Worlds, a huge fire wheel slowly emerged, like an open eye.
Shi Yu looked worried, and Xue Yuan looked jealous.
Zhao Xiang'er could distinguish their emotions, but didn't care.
She walked into it.
She was not sure whether she could survive the trial, but she had no fear in her heart. She suddenly thought of Ning Jiujiu.
She knew that above her and his heads, behind the bright curtain, there was a huge terror. It was something beyond life itself, and it was an existence that they would definitely face together.
This tacit fate is an invisible thread. It does not begin with Yue Lao, nor does it end with Meng Po. It is born from fate, and only eternal death can break it apart.
Zhao Xiang'er's figure was swallowed up in the fire.
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Not impressive.
Under the curtain of the Golden Buddha, in the middle of the lotus and candle water, the master of the temple sits quietly in Taoist robes.
There was no water curtain in front of her, but a paper kite that looked like a fire sparrow.
The paper kite uses bamboo strips as its bones and is thin and fragile.
The viewer looked at the name of the kite, slowly extended his finger, touched the water surface, and dipped the water in to add a name on the silk surface of the kite.
That's her name.
"Is it time to meet again?"
The viewer spoke like this, and ripples appeared on the surface of the water.
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(Thank you to the book friend Xue Yugu for the reward ~ Thank you to the book friend for your support! Mmm)