In the wooden thatched cottage, the light floats elusively, and layers of silk condensed from spiritual energy are wrapped around Shao Xiaoli's body. She has closed her eyes, her face is quiet, and her red skirt is tight to her body, as if she is sealed in a crystal coffin. middle.
In the sky above the thatched cottage, thunderclouds gathered, covering up the moonlight, and the last light in the house disappeared.
The rumble of thunder rang in my ears, like an urging.
Ning Jiujiu felt that this scene was somewhat familiar. Many years ago, in the Imperial City of Zhao Kingdom, he had entered Ning Xiaoling's dream with the help of a purple gold talisman.
Now he didn't need anything.
Ning Jiujiu picked up the girl wrapped in cocoon clothes, placed her on the bed, and sat cross-legged next to her. His mind was divided into two, the yang part stayed in the body, and the yin part connected to Shao Xiaoli's sea of consciousness.
As his thoughts moved slightly, his consciousness was like a man standing on the edge of a lake, leaping forward, and suddenly sinking into the vast sea of consciousness.
He fell from the height of the sea of consciousness, and finally stopped in a palace. The cry of the baby girl filled the night.
Ning Jiujiu turned his head and saw busy figures, heard cries and congratulations, lanterns were swinging under the eaves of the door, people were coming in and out, and there was even a person with an imperial crown among them.
All of this was packed into this small house.
Ning watched all this happen quietly for a long time.
The baby was born successfully, and everyone was very happy. It had nothing to do with male or female. The birth of any child with royal blood was something worth celebrating.
Only the mother's eyes always had a look of worry that couldn't be resolved.
Ning Jiujiu knew that Shao Xiaoli was not the emperor's biological daughter, but the illegitimate daughter of her mother and someone else. This was a nightmare for both mother and daughter. Although Shao Xiaoli was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she herself As soon as he became sensible, he faced the danger of death when his identity was revealed.
As the night pushed forward, the number of people in the house gradually became sparse, and the baby's cry sounded intermittently in the house.
There are no distinct four seasons in Broken Boundary City, and the perception of the four seasons is only based on warmth and coldness. Time flows very fast in dreams, cold and warm alternate on the skin, and a year has passed inadvertently.
The baby girl has grown into a beautiful little girl. The fortune teller said that she lacks fire in the five elements, so she wears red clothes every day.
She spent her childhood in this house and grounds.
Shao Xiaoli knew that she was not the emperor's daughter, but an illegitimate daughter of a royal family without blood, not long after she became an adult. At that time, she did not realize the seriousness of the matter and was happy that she had two fathers.
Later, she gradually discovered the difference between herself and other royal families, and felt out of place. She became increasingly panicked and understood the meaning of 'death'. Finally, when she was six years old, she was anxious and found an opportunity to steal a precious fire elixir at a heaven-sacrifice banquet.
She gained the ability to control small flames, which made her overjoyed. She began to practice this ability forcefully, making others mistakenly think that it was the result of royal blood.
She didn't tell anyone about this, not even her mother. In order to secretly practice the control of flames, she took the initiative to cook when she was only six years old. She went in with a white face every day and came out with a black face. It was then that she began to hone her cooking skills.
Ning looked at the little girl who was nervous all day and felt ridiculous and pitiful.
Her fate was retold when she was dead. When she was seven years old, she initially mastered the skills of Taoism and entered the realm of metaphysics.
The road in between was bumpy. Ning Jiujiu watched her attend many activities of young people from the royal family, and she developed a dignified temperament at a young age. When others took the initiative to show off the abilities of the royal bloodline, she sat quietly and dignifiedly, all of them The revelation of her abilities was inadvertent, and although she was also made trouble for, it still saved her a lot of trouble.
Ning Jiujiu witnessed all this in fleeting moments.
The picture gradually slowed down.
He saw the little girl's eyes getting clearer and clearer, and gradually felt relieved.
Now Shao Xiaoli is enough to complete this inner demon calamity on his own, and he doesn't need to worry about anything else. He needs to find 'poetry'.
In the kitchen, Shao Xiaoli stood on tiptoes, holding a spoon and pounding the iron pot to mix the fragrant fragrance together. There were still rabbit hairs on her clothes.
Ning Jiujiu glanced at her for the last time and was about to turn around when the little girl's voice suddenly sounded loud and clear.
"Brother." Shao Xiaoli waved to him.
Ning Jiujiu was slightly surprised, "Can you see me?"
Shao Xiaoli smiled softly and said, "Brother, do you want to stay for dinner?"
Ning Jiujiu said: "No, brother still has important things to do."
Shao Xiaoli was a little disappointed. She clenched her hands behind her back, and her petite body swayed like a willow. The hot breath from cooking hit her face and turned into sweat beads, making her look even more tired and weak. feel.
"Wait a moment." Shao Xiaoli said.
"Huh?" Ning stopped for a long time.
Shao Xiaoli walked up to her with a small cloth in his arms, and freed up his hands that were clenched behind him. She opened her arms and smiled sweetly at Ning Changjiu: "I want a hug."
She is now a seven-year-old little girl, the perfect age for acting like a spoiled child.
Ning Jiujiu looked into her clear eyes and understood, "So you are already awake."
"Are you awake? You don't understand..." Shao Xiaoli refused, "Brother, give me a hug."
Ning Jiujiu smiled, opened his arms, picked her up, and hugged her. Shao Xiaoli leaned against his ear, lightly touched his cheek with her lips, and left with just one touch.
"A little girl's kiss is simple and pure, without any unnecessary thoughts." Shao Xiaoli commented on the kiss.
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said: "Yes, I understand."
He put Shao Xiaoli down and the two said goodbye to each other. After Ning Changjiu left, Shao Xiaoli stood leaning against the door for a while, then her nose twitched and she was stunned.
Burnt!
She immediately turned around and rushed back to the kitchen, throwing dozens of different fire control techniques overlapping.
Ning Changjiu arrived at the highest point of Duanjie City in the blink of an eye.
He looked at the sky and said calmly: "Watch the lantern banquet in the small building tonight."
This was the secret code he had agreed upon with Shi.
The last time he recited the code, Shi's knife pierced his back.
This time too.
The sky was silent for a moment, and then a dazzling light lit up. The sharp energy was like a rope binding the murderous intent into an arrow. The arched sky was like a big bow, shooting out the murderous intent that was condensed in an instant, and stabbing it straight down. Come and disappear in a flash.
Ning Jiujiu's Taiyin Eyes clearly captured it.
He could even clearly see the figure of the girl wrapped in the sharp light.
He turned around, stretched out his fingers, and accurately clamped the blade before it approached.
The white blade's forward push encountered resistance and trembled at high speed. Ning Jiujiu tightened his fingers and instantly calmed down the trembling, turning it into a moan from his fingertips.
Ning Jiujiu slowly raised his head and looked upward along the blade.
Everything slowly became clear in his pupils.
The little girl in the inner demon tribulation revealed her face.
Ning stared at her for a long time. The first time I saw her was in Ning Xiaoling's inner demon tribulation fantasy world. After many years, there was no sign of growth on her face, and she was still as young as a girl.
Ning Jiujiu already knew her identity from her master.
She is part of the Seventh God, and together with evil, she forms the complete Seventh God.
He originally guessed that the 'shopkeeper' in her mouth was the god of that year, but after he walked through the heavenly list, he found that he couldn't convey some important information to him clearly, and could only use metaphors in the form of stories. . He was almost certain that Evil and Poetry were directly supervised by the Dark Master.
For the Dark Lord, the Seventh God may be the most difficult existence.
It has the same name as this star and is closely related to it, so it cannot be killed directly. But it also possesses infinite power, and will be a hidden danger if left behind.
In the end, they were split into boys and girls. The stronger boy was detained in Tianbang, while the weaker girl had her mind modified and imprisoned in the inner demon tribulation, using the lives of countless people in the world to continue to confuse her. Dissolve her.
Shi stared at the knife in her hand, her eyes struggling. She tried her best to push the blade, but she couldn't make it move forward at all.
Ning looked at the little girl's dreamy face for a long time and said, "I have met your brother, and your brother is very worried about you."
Shi's eyes were dark and she didn't pay attention to what he said.
Ning thought for a long time, recalling the three thousand avenues he saw in the "Dust", then pointed out a finger, merged them with his fingertips, and slowly lowered them to the center of Shi's eyebrows.
Both touch.
Countless streams of black and white light surged out instantly, overflowing from the fingers, dispersed by the strong wind, and flowed into the hair.
Shi's eyes widened, a gurgling sound came from her throat, her body trembled stiffly, and her miraculous cheeks felt as if someone had wiped away the dust on the mirror with tissue paper, making it shine again.
After a long time, Ning Jiujiu retracted his finger.
He gritted his teeth, looked at his fingertips that were soaked in black, and felt the pain as if an iron nail had penetrated his bones.
Is this the power of the Dark Lord...
Ning Jiujiu had the illusion that as long as he was not careful, this darkness would instantly spread throughout his body and swallow him up.
The Golden Crow flew out at the right time and condensed on the fingertips. Light and darkness were fighting against each other, like two rough mirrors constantly rubbing against each other.
Ning Jiujiu finally eliminated this influence, and his fingers became as smooth as jade again.
"Who are you? I, I seem to have seen you before." Shi stared at Ning Jiujiu and asked.
Ning Jiujiu nodded, unable to hide his tiredness.
The poem was suspended in the air, the skirt was like clouds, and the ribbon was fluttering. She tried hard to recall it for a while, then looked at the knife in her hand and murmured: "Look at the lantern banquet in the small building tonight, all the beautiful people... I, I'm going to kill you!"
"Well." Ning didn't reminisce with her for a long time. He said straightforwardly: "It was your shopkeeper who wanted to kill me. It was not a good person. You were killed by it. You are not complete now. I have seen your brother. He said to me, if I can find you, I will tell you the truth.”
"What are you talking about? The truth? What truth?"
"The truth about your origins."
Shi hesitated, "Who are you? Although I have some impression of you, you are the person appointed by the shopkeeper to kill without mercy. Why should I trust you?"
Ning looked into her eyes for a long time and said sincerely: "I can save you."
…
Shao Xiaoli lives in a fleeting time. She encountered a great disaster when she was twelve years old: her biological father murdered the emperor.
The biological father failed. Before he died, he went crazy. He pointed at Shao Xiaoli and said that this was his daughter. She had no royal blood at all.
He had been angry and resentful about this matter for a long time, and wanted the mother and daughter to be buried with him.
At the beginning, Shao Xiaoli was at a loss. She endured countless abuses and suspicions, and after going through many difficulties, she regained the emperor's trust.
But now it's the inner demon tribulation, and Shao Xiaoli is already awake.
She looked at her biological father's face and sighed, "My daughter has always been filial, so she can give her father a ride."
The man's eyes were filled with tears.
The emperor watching from a distance was even more stunned.
Shao Xiaoli raised her hand, her palm like a knife. She hovered for a while, but the blood and fire in her eyes gradually faded away.
Her hand that was supposed to be chopped off cleanly turned into a waving sleeve and did not fall after all.
The emperor came to his senses after being stunned, became furious and ordered to behead him.
The guards rushed forward, and her mother cried to stop her. Shao Xiaoli did not run away. She turned quietly in the chaotic crowd and walked towards the throne.
She became a silhouette walking towards the throne.
Until she turned seventeen.
Seventeen years old was the biggest disaster in her life.
That was the year she met Ning Jiujiu. Ye Chu and Si Mingtu met each other unexpectedly. The battle in the Snow Gorge was full of dangers. She and Ning Jiujiu fled across the snowy field and lived in another tribe for a while, and then Lord Sui arrived. , the life and death of Duanjie City is precarious.
The Heart Demon Tribulation cannot manifest an existence at the level of a God Lord or a Priest and Heavenly Lord, so it sets the final point of the Heart Demon experience on the day when she summons the spirit at the age of seventeen.
Now in the inner demon tribulation, she has accidentally become the empress, so this should not be considered a catastrophe.
But at the moment, the manager of the Heart Demon Tribulation was probably having a heart-to-heart talk with the boss and had no time to make changes. She didn’t want to cause trouble to them, so she wrote an edict, saying that if she couldn’t summon the spirit and couldn’t prove her royal bloodline, she would do it in front of everyone. In front of him, he cut himself to death.
The logic of the inner demon calamity is back to normal.
She looked at the familiar scenery outside Broken Boundary City, imagining the lake that was now submerged in water. Even though it had only been a few years, she always felt as if she was a world away.
Seventeen years old has finally arrived.
Wearing a lush skirt and the empress's crown, she came to the Soul-Calling Hall. She raised her skirt and bent her knees.
The maid on the side stopped her and told her that Her Majesty the Empress did not need to kneel before the spirit.
She smiled faintly and did not answer. She still knelt down Yingying, clasped her hands together, and waited quietly.
The flow of time slowed down.
The sky of Duanjie City gradually turned from slightly bright to blazing white. After the blazing white reached its peak, it gradually dimmed, changing from dim yellow to crimson.
…
"Are these...all true?"
Shi opened his eyes, gritted his teeth, and spoke tenderly.
Ning Jiujiu directly embodied evil's appearance to her, and roughly told her past. This process took a lot of time. Fortunately, Shi came back to her senses in ignorance, like a person who had been deceived for many years. The girl finally understood.
"Well, if you have any questions, just tell me. There is not much time, and I will try my best to convince you." Ning Jiujiu said.
Shi shook his head and said, "I believe you, you don't look like a liar."
“…”
Ning Jiujiu raised his head and found that the demon calamity made no difference in this regard.
His guess was correct. The dark master spent most of his energy on guarding evil, and did not take much precautions against this little girl.
"I already believe you, what should I do next? Are we going to save the world together and rescue my brother?" Shi Shi looked forward to it.
Ning smiled helplessly for a long time and said: "I disappoint you. I don't know how to save the world yet. This is why I came to you. You were once the mother goddess of the world. In you, maybe I can save the world." Seeing some clues and hope.”
"Mother Goddess?" Shi pursed her lips and shook her head. She was a little uncomfortable with this title. She said, "Then what can I do to help you?"
Ning Jiujiu said: "Anything is fine. You can tell me some things, such as about the shopkeeper, or something older, and I will judge the content myself."
Shi's body floated lightly in the air. She bit her fingers and thought hard for a while, then said a little apologetically: "When I think of the shopkeeper, my head hurts a little. I, I can't describe it."
Ning Jiujiu nodded, which was expected.
"It doesn't matter, don't be impatient, just tell me everything you can think of." Ning said for a long time.
The poem said: "I can't think of anything useful... How about you come to me next time and let me think about it for a year."
Ning Changjiu said: "After the Quanfu Nian, I'm afraid I will harm you if I come to you in the future. Moreover, after I leave, you can use magic to forget these words of mine. This is a secret and cannot be discovered."
"okay."
"It doesn't have to be something useful. I want it to be just a clue, not a conclusion."
"Well, I'll try to think about it."
Ning Jiujiu did not urge him.
Shi thought hard for a while and said: "This is all I can think of. If it's useful, just take it. If it's not, don't blame me."
"Well, thank you." Ning Jiujiu said.
Shi raised her palm, and Ning Jiujiu pressed it, and she directly transferred the scene in her memory.
It is an ordinary picture, with weeds undulating in the wind, waves drifting and rising, mountains rising high, and hidden details hidden under their appearance. In the eyes of poetry, the world is a cross-section. It would rather be long. See the slices of layers of the earth's crust, the direction of the veins and the rolling magma underneath.
The world breathes gently in his sea of consciousness.
Shi let go of her palm and conveyed everything she remembered to him.
Ning Jiujiu didn't know the use of these memories for the time being, so he just buried them deep in the sea of consciousness.
"That's all, nothing to hide." Shi said.
Ning Jiujiu nodded and said, "Well, I will try my best to help you, your brother, and your world."
Shi looked at Ning Changjiu and said, "Then am I being imprisoned here now?"
"yes."
"Then you must remember to save me."
"must."
"Well, it's agreed! By the way, the inner demon tribulation is almost over. That sister seems to be waiting for you. You should go back quickly."
Ning looked at the Broken Boundary City below for a long time.
As night fell, Shao Xiaoli still knelt in front of the light curtain, waiting quietly without any anxiety.
Finally, when the inner demon tribulation was about to pass, the light curtain began to shake.
Shao Xiaoli opened his eyes and looked at the shaking light curtain. The white robe seemed to be rising from the water.
She saw Ning Changjiu's peaceful and delicate face.
Ning Jiujiu stretched out his hand to her, "I've been waiting for a long time."
"Why did you come here? My legs are numb." Shao Xiaoli complained with a smile.
Ning Jiujiu also smiled and said, "Get up, it's time to go home."
But Shao Xiaoli refused to get up. She stretched out her hand like she did when she was seven years old, blinked and said, "I want to hug him."
…
In the thatched cottage, the cocoon silk on Shao Xiaoli's body gradually faded away. Her jade bone fragrance had experienced the new rain in the empty mountain and became especially dusty. When she opened her eyes, Ning Jiujiu was already watching her, and there was a dense sound coming from outside. The thunder made her gradually find herself again.
"Boss, it's thundering outside, Xiaoli is afraid." Shao Xiaoli sat up, hugged his knees, and said confidently.
Ning Jiujiu asked calmly: "Want to hug?"
Shao Xiaoli's eyes lit up and he said, "Is that okay?"
As she spoke, she opened her arms. Ning Jiujiu grabbed her arm, pulled her in front of her, and pressed her on her knees with her backhand. Shao Xiaoli was shocked and quickly begged for mercy: "Okay, Xiaoli is obedient. Xiaoli will do it now." To overcome the tribulation.”
Ning Jiujiu let her go.
Shao Xiaoli packed up his clothes and walked out facing the thunderstorms in the sky outside.
Tribulation Thunder may seem scary, but Shao Xiaoli's breakthrough is based on accumulated experience. As soon as he entered the Purple Court, he has already reached the peak of the third floor and will break through at any time. The following floors can also be foreseen to be smooth sailing.
This calamity thunder poses no threat to her at all.
Shao Xiaoli walked out of the house, his eyes gradually becoming colder, and he turned into an indifferent girl on the snowy field wielding a sword to slay a giant dragon.
She jumped up and threw her body into the rolling thunder before the lightning struck down.
The sky thunder was furious and let out a violent roar. The thunder exploded in the sky with flashes of light. The rolling thunder fragments were like a storm sweeping through the clouds, mixing light and darkness.
Ning looked at the flickering window lattice for a long time, and the violent thunder in his ears became smaller and smaller.
In the end, the thunder was like a giant beast being wounded and escaping, and soon became quiet.
When Shao Xiaoli came back, her red dress was not stained with dust.
"How is Xiaoli doing?" Shao Xiaoli felt the new realm and was in a good mood.
Ning Jiujiu praised stingily: "Not bad."
Shao Xiaoli was not upset. She sat in front of the mirror, combed her hair, and said, "Don't worry, I will practice hard. When disaster strikes again in the future, I won't hold you back."
Ning Jiujiu said: "I will also try my best to protect you."
Shao Xiaoli remembered something and suddenly asked: "By the way, boss, after you left, the one who saw Lu Married first was Zhao Xianger."
"..." Ning sighed for a long time: "Why do you all have to ask this question again?"
Shao Xiaoli's eyes were sly, "Let's confirm who is the eldest sister."
Ning didn't want to answer this question for a long time.
Shao Xiaoli had the answer in his mind and did not ask any further questions.
She tied her hair with her hands, turned her head to the side, looked out the window, looked in the direction of the lake, and suddenly said with emotion: "The entire Broken Boundary City is now flooded, and there will be no way back in the future..."
Ning Jiujiu said: "We can still go back if we use a trick to avoid water."
"Don't make excuses, I'm feeling sad." Shao Xiaoli said slightly annoyed: "What I mean is that my family is gone, so the boss has to give me a family."
Ning Jiujiu was a bit vindictive after being tricked by her earlier, so he didn't talk to Shao Xiaoli at the moment.
Shao Xiaoli had an idea and said, "Boss, as long as he marries me, he can inherit my family property. Don't you feel tempted at all?"
Ning was unmoved for a long time, but was a little curious, "My house has been flooded, what property do you have left?"
Shao Xiaoli bit her fingertips with her teeth. After thinking for a while, she stood up, went to the corner of the thatched cottage, rummaged through the cabinets and took out a box, saying: "Here, this is the only one left. Don't dislike it, boss."
Ning glanced at it casually for a long time and felt that it looked familiar.
He glanced at it again, thought about it, and suddenly recalled what was in the box. An incredible look suddenly appeared in his eyes, and he said in shock:
"You actually still keep this?!"