When Ning Jiujiu walked out of the house, the snow in this world began to melt.
It's spring now, and the snow is not real snow at all, just the coldness dancing in her mind.
"Why did you kill me?"
Outside the increasingly thin snowflakes, there was spring light shining through, and a voice slowly sounded through the wind and snow. It was impossible to determine the specific direction from which it came.
That was the shout from the fox demon seed.
In the Heart Demon Tribulation, the realm has nothing to do with the state, only the character of the mind, so the demon once thought of killing Ning Xiaoling when Ning Jiujiu put his finger between his eyebrows.
But in the end they didn't take action.
Because it probed Ning Jiujiu's consciousness, it only saw a seemingly bottomless darkness, and all the light of thought that fell there was swallowed up without a trace.
It has never seen such a sea of consciousness. The sea of consciousness no longer seems to be a sea, but a deep and invisible real starry sky.
It is not sure what kind of existence this boy is. If he is really possessed by a demon, how strong he must have been in his previous life. If he is possessed by a god, then the god has been indifferent since ancient times, so why would he treat this person who should have no family ties? Is the girl so good
But it still doesn't think the other party can find it.
In this inner demon tribulation, it can transform into anything according to its own magical power. It can be a fisherman, a porter, a soldier, a businessman hawking, a singer with dancing sleeves...
Ning ignored the shout for a long time, let alone investigated its origin, because he knew it was just disturbing him and wanting to waste some of his time.
"Junior sister, look at the sword." Ning Jiujiu put one hand behind his back and spread his palm flat in front of him. When Ning Xiaoling followed the sound, a peach wood sword was pulled by the energy and flew into his palm with a whoosh.
Somewhere in the city, a waiter who was serving food looked dull when he saw the sword box of the old Taoist sitting alone at the table that suddenly became empty.
Ning Changjiu slowly stroked the sword body with his two fingers together, and the peach wood sword actually made a real sound of metal and stone.
When the palm of his hand turned over, the peach wood sword came out of his palm and turned into a stream of light and a shadow, traveling between the sky and the earth.
Then, the people walking in the city were penetrated by the sword like a candied haws, and before they had time to react, they were shattered like fireworks.
The demon's voice sounded in shock: "You want to kill everyone in the city?"
With everyone dead, the demon fox has no carrier to hide in, so naturally it can only appear to face him.
Ning didn't answer for a long time, and the sword light continued.
The demon's voice was like iron that had been burned by the fire, and it was filled with bone-chilling coldness: "You are indeed a devil, a devil who kills without blinking an eye... They died in front of your eyes, don't you have any compassion at all?" Although it is an illusion of inner demons, the people in this illusion feel that they are alive... "
Ning Changjiu's voice was calm and indifferent: "You and I know very well that the people in this city are all illusions. How can they die if they have never lived? I will not think about those philosophical questions, because it is meaningless. "
The ice and snow melted, and the spring light was bright. However, many figures shattered and disappeared at the first sight of the spring light. Only the flowers with pink branches like newborn babies innocently looked at the world.
This is a city of killing, a city of killing without blood.
The demon sneered and said: "You are a cruel executioner after all. There is a ghost living in your heart. Sooner or later, it will come out and devour you. You seem to be calm and rational at the moment, but the ghost in your heart is still sleeping."
Ning Jiujiu responded: "You want to test my origins and then open the gap in my state of mind, but unfortunately you can't do it because I don't know where I come from..."
How could the demon believe his words? He just said coldly: "If one day you kill all the living people in the city to save the world, will you kill them or not?"
Ning Jiujiu seemed to have thought about this problem for a long time, and answered without hesitation: "I don't want to face such a dilemma, so I will try my best to kill you at this moment."
If the monster was allowed to exit the inner demon tribulation unharmed, when Ning Xiaoling wakes up, it would be a disaster that would destroy the city and destroy the country.
The last piece of snow in the city fell on his shoulders. He dusted it off as gently as dust and sighed: "I didn't kill anyone, but I was saving people all over the city. How can I feel ashamed? And you..."
He paused for a moment and did not continue, because the city was getting quieter and quieter.
That kind of silence is deathly silent, like war and plague sweeping through, or just like the silence in the dead of night.
Therefore, in this dead silence, any sound will appear extremely clear.
"Rouge Pavilion, Jinxiu Garden, pear trees piled with snow and peach blossoms blooming. Looking at the lantern banquet in the small building tonight, it is full of beautiful people..."
The singing continued in the attic.
The strings of the piano vibrate sadly and gracefully as they are played by those delicate hands.
The seats were full and empty, with no clothes left.
The woman did not raise her head, but just played the piano through the gauze. The bright lights in the building seemed to never go out.
"When I wait for the baby, the jade toad hangs in the sky, and then I go to Baiyun Temple..."
The midnight hour has long passed, and the bright morning glow has already appeared on the horizon.
A small mahogany sword came like an arrow and pierced between her eyebrows.
The woman slowly raised her head, touched the blood hole between her eyebrows, and blew gently, and the blood on her fingers turned into butterflies one after another.
The woman's skin gradually dissipated, revealing a snow-white demon fox with four tails.
Its demonic claws are still pressing on the strings, vibrating the lingering sound.
The wooden sword pierced the center of her eyebrows, then left and returned.
The demon fox's tail shook and scattered the wooden sword.
"Then let me experience your true ability."
There was no emotion in Xue Hu's words. The next moment, the long street where Ning Changjiu and Ning Xiaoling were was completely shattered. All the houses were torn away and razed to the ground. An old fox with a height of several dozen feet stood on the ruins. Among them, scarlet eyes stared indifferently at the ant-like man and woman.
Ning Xiaoling looked at the snow-white figure, and she knew that it was the mutation after the fusion of her innate spirit and the demon species.
That pitiful little fox with its tail cut off has now become so tall and arrogant. Its body is shaking like snowflakes, like a creature made of holy fire.
Ning Xiaoling instinctively took two steps back, with an innate fear in her heart.
Xue Hu stared at them and said: "Perhaps I should have taken action a long time ago. Now that I have killed people all over the city, my sword power is at its peak, which makes me a little scared."
Ning Jiujiu shook his head calmly: "That sword is nothing at all?"
"It's nothing?" Xuehu's eyes became slender and he asked, "Do you also have a sword in your heart?"
The Tribulation of the Heart Demon is a matter of asking the heart, regardless of the realm. How big the heart is, how high the sky is, and how bright the sword intention in the heart is, how bright the world is.
Ning Xiaoling suddenly felt that her back became very warm, and that warmth slowly melted the frost and snow in her heart and eliminated her fear.
She turned around and felt an orange halo covering her cheeks.
The light was like a fire close to her cheek. She covered her forehead with her hands and looked along the gaps between her fingers. Only then could she vaguely see the pale red sun with its magnificent orange light rising from the horizon. It breaks out and embraces the whole world in its soft light.
In that pure and huge light, the snow fox that was dozens of feet tall was actually eclipsed.
It looked at the big sun in horror, not sure what it was.
Above the nine heavens, the ice-covered eyes of the girl who looked like a jade sculpture were also illuminated fiery red by the big sun. She frowned and stretched out her hand. All the light retreated sadly when it passed by her side. She looked Looking at the young man in the city, his eyes flashed with shock and uncertainty, and he looked at him carefully.
"This is impossible..." She bit her lower lip lightly and said, "I have obviously never seen him... How could I forget the person I have met, even if he is the reincarnation of a strong man who has entered the five realms? , I will never admit my mistake... Who is this person?"
Ning Jiujiu breathed out softly. At this moment, in the inner demon tribulation, his body was just consciousness and had no weight. However, at this moment, his consciousness was actually connected with the great sun, and the two complemented each other, bursting out with thousands of rays of light.
There is indeed a sword buried in his heart.
In the memory of the previous life, on a full-moon night, the sky was filled with lanterns, and all the brothers and sisters from the same sect gathered together. Starting from the eldest sister, one person and one sword cut through the moonlight to form a path, pierced the sky and soared.
He also has the awe-inspiring aura that has been accumulated for twenty-four years in his heart.
Twelve years of practicing Taoism and twelve years of studying swordsmanship.
I was supposed to cut out the sword in my heart that night and fly to the Immortal Palace, but I forgot about the sword.
But when he was about to draw his sword, he felt connected and looked back one more time.
That glance made him slow down for half a moment in drawing out his sword, and he never had the chance to strike out with the soaring sword.
Only after that, he saw a more powerful sword light, and in front of that sword, he didn't even have any room to resist.
How bright is the bright moon...
Ning closed his eyes for a long time and recalled the increasingly blurry face and sword shadow in his memory. It was the moonlight hidden in the depths of his eyes.
That was also the soaring sword that he couldn't get enough of.
Snow Fox couldn't see it, but he could feel that the tip of the sword was pointing at his chest. It had the thought of being unable to avoid and escape, as if the next moment, his body and even this huge city would be destroyed. It was split in two.
At the top of the inner demon realm, a sigh sounded softly.
"You really love to cause trouble." The girl complained and pointed her finger at the big sun.
It seems that a tengu swallowed the sun, and day and night changed. The light of the whole world turned into darkness like the passing water, and the position where the sun was originally turned into a pale full moon, without a trace of lines, only simple Extremely white.
Ning Jiujiu looked sideways.
The world stood still, and both Ning Xiaoling and Xue Hu remained in a motionless posture.
Because behind him, with the full moon as the background, a little girl's figure shrouded in clouds and mist appeared.
"Enough is enough." The little girl said angrily: "Although the lion fights the fox with all his strength, this sword cuts here, and I won't clean up the mess for you."
Ning smiled for a long time, but did not extinguish the sword fire between his fingers.
The little girl glanced at his finger and said, "Tell me about your origin."
Ning Jiujiu said: "I'm not sure. If you know something, you can tell me."
The little girl's eyes widened and she was amazed: "Who did you learn from, this empty-handed wolf?"
Ning smiled innocently and said, "I really didn't lie to you."
The little girl sighed and said, "Then let me believe you... There is a big secret hidden in you, a secret that even I can't see clearly."
Ning Jiujiu asked: "How old is it?"
The little girl's expression was surprisingly calm. She looked at him intently for a while, and finally sighed: "I don't dare to speak nonsense, but now you are too weak and it is not good to know too much."
Ning didn't ask further questions for a long time, pointed at the snow fox and asked, "What should I do with it?"
The little girl said confidently: "Leave it to me. My achievements in the state of mind are unparalleled in the world, except for the shopkeeper."
As he spoke, the snow fox that seemed to be frozen in the river of time showed a look of pain and struggle, but that expression lasted only a moment and quickly disappeared. It closed its eyes and its body rose and fell slightly, as if it had entered a deep state. sleep.
The little girl said: "If you want to completely erase it, it will be extremely harmful to your junior sister. Now that the priority has been replaced, it is your junior sister's turn to take the lead, and it is sleeping deep in the consciousness. As long as there is no huge stimulation from the outside world, it will not survive." Will wake up, and how to solve this problem next is your business."
Ning bowed for a long time: "Thank you."
"What about junior sister's realm..." Ning Jiujiu asked again.
The little girl said: "Of course he fell asleep with the fox."
She glanced at the pure full moon behind her and said, "The time has come. I look forward to meeting you next time. I hope you won't make me wait too long."
Ningjiu nodded.
The full moon closed, and the world became pitch black. Everything under my feet seemed to be cracking, but my body did not fall. Instead, my consciousness was raised high, rising towards a certain luminous anchor point.
Suddenly, the little girl's expression changed slightly.
The snow fox that should have been sleeping suddenly opened its eyes.
It growled low, hissing its sharp fangs, and squeezed out a difficult smile between its teeth: "You want me to die? Hehe...hehe..."
The little girl said in disbelief: "It's strange, why does it have such a strong spiritual will? Has this little fox also been to the Five Realms?"
The demon species is connected with Ning Xiaoling's innate spirit. In a sense, the two are one body.
"Fetus, death, soul, loss..." Xuehu said word by word.
This is the art of living and dying together.
The inner demon calamity is collapsing, and even she, the master of this domain, has a hard time interrupting it.
Ning Xiaoling's eyelids suddenly trembled, "Brother, I'm so sleepy..."
Under the influence of the snow fox, she seemed to fall into a death sleep together, and it would take who knows how many years to wake up.
The way to interrupt this soul-death curse is very simple, which is to wake up Ning Xiaoling in the real world. But now that Ning Changjiu is also in the inner demon tribulation, who will wake her up
Xuehu stared at Ning Jiujiu's face, hoping to see his surprise, collapse and helpless frustration, even if he had to pay a huge price.
But it only saw a faint smile on Ning Changjiu's face.
Dimly, they suddenly heard a bell.
The sound of the bell was majestic and loud, simple and long-lasting. At this moment, the inner demons were about to be broken, and they were between reality and illusion, so they could naturally hear the sound of the bell.
That's the temple bell, which rings every hour to scare away the ghosts in the city.
Today in the imperial city, I have thought about such bells many times.
Now that they are in the temple, they can naturally hear it more clearly.
It's the time of Haishi at this moment.
At the sound of the bell, Ning Xiaoling's eyelids trembled, and she slowly opened her eyes, and light poured in.
At the last moment when the inner demon collapsed, Xuehu stared into his eyes: "Is this a coincidence or... you have even calculated this..."
Ning Changjiu's voice seemed to be comforting: "It's just a coincidence."
Heaven and earth collapsed.
On the desk of the ancient temple, the sandalwood had just burned out.
In the lingering sound of the bell, both the boy and the girl woke up slowly, and over the temple, the rolling thunderclouds seemed to be drawn by something, and they rushed towards this place, accumulating thicker and thicker, like a lake about to burst its banks.
Ning Xiaoling struggled to tear apart the white cocoon that wrapped her around. Everything that happened in the inner demon tribulation stung her brain. She was in a daze, but she still knew that those thunders were aimed at her. She fearfully He shrank back, knowing that his strength at the moment could only wait for the kill.
She looked at Ning for a long time, and after a while, she couldn't help but said: "Senior brother... your clothes are so dirty."
After Ning Jiujiu heard the voice of senior brother, he felt relieved.
"It's not you who beat me." Ning complained for a long time, but without saying anything more, he opened the door bolt, pushed the door open and walked out.
Above the sky, tribulation thunder struck the city.
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(Thanks to book friend Mosha123 for the reward~)