Li Yishan obviously didn't want to talk about this topic, and turned his head and led the three to the twelve gates in Chang'an City. These twelve city gates are located in the east, west, north and south, three gates respectively, layer upon layer surrounding the entire city. Chang'an City is located on a small hill, and the terrain in the city will gradually rise a little after each gate. Finally, when you come to the military affairs office at the highest point, you can get a bird's-eye view of the whole city from the high point of the military affairs office.
However, the Military Affairs Office is a forbidden area for ordinary people, and Li Yishan will not bring the three of them into it, but it is also possible to bring them to the last four inner city gates. Li Yishan introduced them to the first eight gates one by one, and Xie Xuanyang listened with a smile, treating himself as a real ordinary tourist until they came to the last four gates.
The last four inner city gates of Chang'an City are named after the four elephants of Qinglong, Baihu, Xuanwu and Suzaku. Inside the gates are the residences of the major generals of the Northwest Army, and after a short walk in the market is the Central Military Affairs Office.
Xie Xuanyang suddenly understood something when he saw the general's mansion inside the door. He turned and looked up at the Xuanwu Gate in front of him for a while, and said with a long sigh, "Four constellations, guarding the Quartet, good meaning!"
Then he turned and looked down. Although these last four gates are not the commanding heights of Chang'an City, they can already see most of the city's scenery. Passers-by are bustling, and there are countless shops in the Eighth Street and Nine Streets, which is an image of singing and dancing.
It's just too prosperous. Xie Xuanyang lowered his eyes and looked at the crowd of people on the street. They stood so far away that they could not see the expressions on the faces of the people passing by, but it was not difficult for Xie Xuanyang to imagine the overflowing happiness that they were visiting the city with Li Yishan. A face I've never seen before.
However, people have joys, sorrows and sorrows, and even if life is peaceful, not everyone will be so happy all the time.
Xie Xuanyang looked at Li Yishan, and after a long silence, he seemed to finally make up his mind and said, "Do you think it's good for the people to be so happy?"
Li Yishan asked back, "Why is it bad for the people to live and work in peace and contentment?" He looked at Xie Xuanyang with puzzled eyes, and could not understand what he meant by this question at all. He said again, "Do you think it is a good thing to be trapped in troubled times when you become a Taoist master?"
Xie Xuanyang shook his head and said nonsense.
He stopped looking at Li Yishan. Under the warm sunlight, there was no shadow on the streets in the city. The angle of the sun in the sky has not changed, it is exactly the same as when the three of them first came here, but they have obviously been traveling with Li Yishan in the city for a while.
After a long time, he said again, "The troubled times are not good, but it is not good in this city now."
Li Yishan was stunned, the expression on his face became strange, it looked a little stiff, and the smile was not like a smile, and anyone could see the bitterness in it. His throat was a little dry, and he said hoarsely, "Why not?"
Xie Xuanyang looked at him again, Li Yishan's face was pale, and the hands hanging by his side were clenched into fists and trembled slightly, as if he was holding back something. Xie Xuanyang said, "Because it's not real."
Li Yishan's body trembled violently, and when he raised his head again, his eyes were already scarlet, as if washed by blood. Apart from these strange red eyes, Li Yishan's face no longer had the bitter expression on his face, as if he was wearing a mask calmly. But often this lack of expression is the saddest.
Xie Xuanyang knew this truth, sighed softly, and said, "Actually, you have always known that the real Chang'an City is long gone."
Li Yishan pointed to his feet and said, "It's still here, right here." His tone was firm, but the three people present knew that what Xie Xuanyang said was the truth, and Li Yishan also knew this fact.
"In the 4th year of Longqi, Emperor Yun's enemy country poisoned the city's Zhongyuan River, and the Chang'an City was poisoned with water. The defenders were powerless to fight the enemy, but they would rather die than surrender. After starvation, the entire army was almost wiped out. The citizens of Chang'an stunned the remaining defenders with medicine, and ordered the old and weak Confucian women to take them out of the city through secret passages. The men used themselves as bait to stay in the city. "Xie Xuanyang recounted in a very slow voice, every time he said a point, the devilish energy in Li Yishan increased by one point.
Li Yishan gritted his teeth and said, "Shut up."
Xie Xuanyang just took a few breaths, looked at the man in his prime, and said slowly, "That year, you were twelve, and you were stationed in Chang'an."
Li Yishan's voice was choked up, his lips trembled, "You, shut up!"
Xie Xuanyang took a step forward and stared straight into Li Yishan's eyes, "Do you still remember why you became a demon? Chang'an fell, and you have been on countless battlefields in your life. This is your first and only defeat. You can remember why Later, you were obsessed with attacking that enemy country? Why did you go crazy and destroy all the countries that threatened Yundi around you? Why were you treated as a murderous devil by the people of the other countries? Why... established the Eastern Capital? "
Li Yishan took a step back abruptly and closed his eyes in pain, as if something was blocking his chest, making his every breath heavy and burning. He closed his eyes, and the city of Chang'an, where only the ruins and scorched bones were left, appeared in front of him again. He still remembered how dazzlingly the land had been dyed with blood at that time, and he could hear how many souls wailed in the fire that engulfed the whole city.
He opened his eyes, and his heart had returned to peace, as if the hatred that had been piling up for thousands of years was no longer rolling. He said solemnly, "Do you know what I was thinking at that time?"
Li Yishan's question was a bit inexplicable, but Xie Xuanyang understood what he said was when Chang'an City was destroyed. Xie Xuanyang shook his head, "I don't know."
"I'm thinking, I'm all trying to defend the city with the heart to die, why did I survive?" Li Yishan stretched out his hand to cover his raised face, as if trying to catch the warm sunlight. The sunlight fell into his eyes through his fingers, piercing his eyes and making his eyes red.
Xie Xuanyang couldn't tell whether Li Yishan wanted to cry or was just stabbed by the sun. Li Yishan said again, "They told me, don't cry, they will turn into ghosts after they die, they will follow me, and follow me to recover all the lost rivers and mountains."
He paused, put the back of his hand closer, completely covering his eyes, Xie Xuanyang saw something slipping down his cheek. Li Yishan suddenly fell silent, and after a while of silence, he continued, "I just thought, okay, then I'll take it back. Not only do I take it back, but I also want to make the mountains and rivers bigger, and double the number of bastards who swallowed our country's soil. Give it back! What if you are called a villain? What if you become the public enemy of all other countries? I want them to know that no one can invade my country and my home!"
Xie Xuanyang said, "So, you became a demon."
Li Yishan said, "So I became a demon, so all the people here who bear the same burden as me have become demons."
Only then did Xie Xuanyang really understand his father, the Demon Lord that all demons longed for, the Emperor Linwu who was held on the altar by the people of Dongdu even after a thousand years.
Xie Xuanyang understood Li Yishan, Liu Zhou understood Li Yishan, and Qing Xiao also understood.
He not only understands Demon Venerable, but also understands the entire Eastern Capital. Qing Xiao kills demons and destroys demons, killing demons who do all evil. He has never known why there are thousands of demons in Dongdu, but he rarely sees demons doing evil, and he doesn't know why the wild magic energy has restrained its nature in Dongdu. The Great Demonic Daoist is willing to become a member of the Eastern Capital Dynasty.
He looked at Li Yishan with bright eyes, and suddenly an indescribable feeling surged in his heart, either respect or reverence. He said, "You are demons, but you are not demons either."
Li Yishan said, "To the people of the country, we are demons, blood-devouring demons. But to our own family, we are just ordinary people."
He put down his hand and looked at Chang'an City under his feet, "You are right, I do know that this Chang'an City is fake. The real Chang'an has neither the Inner City General's Mansion nor the Northwest Military Affairs Office. I just can't put it down here, Thinking that if they are here, if this city is the main station of the Northwest Army, it may not be destroyed."
He laughed a few more times and said, "But it's obviously impossible, it's just a delusion. What should come will be returned, and what should have been destroyed will be destroyed. The cycle of cause and effect is like this. The place where Chang'an is located is rich in the northwest. It's definitely more dangerous."
He suddenly rubbed Xie Xuanyang's head, "You are very smart, you led me to bring you here from the beginning. You have realized that I don't belong here since you saw me?"
Xie Xuanyang smiled and said, "Yeah, after all, you became a demon before you were an adult, but when we met, we didn't see that you were half demonic. I know you are not good at hiding it, if you don't, it can only mean that you are here. Dreams you can control, you treat yourself as yourself before you become a demon."
Li Yishan smiled and said, "It's a dream, the dream that Zhiqiu gave me."
Zhiqiu is the word of Zixu Xianjun, and Li Yishan always likes to use this name for him.
Li Yishan said again, "I am Li Yishan, but not him."
Xie Xuanyang was not surprised to hear it, and said, "I know that you are actually his inner demon."
Li Yishan said, "You are indeed my son."
Xie Xuanyang raised his eyebrows and said, "You really know my relationship with you."
Li Yishan said, "Of course, although I haven't been out here for a thousand years, it is impossible for me not to recognize the bloodline of myself and Zhiqiu. Is your name Chang'an?"
Xie Xuanyang smiled and shook his head, "Brother's name is Chang'an, I am Yong'an."
Li Yishan laughed when he heard Fushang, "Yongan Yongan, such a good Yongan. Changan Yongan! Good boy."
As he said that, he turned his hand and sacrificed a spirit bead, and the spirit bead floated on his palm with a soft white light. He said, "I know what you want. This is the key to destroying this place, and it is also the most important thing in the entire private library. Precious things, take them."
Xie Xuanyang was stunned when he heard the words, "Destroy this place?"
Li Yishan waved to him and said, "I've had a thousand-year dream here, and it's time to go back. Go, it's in the center of the Military Affairs Office."
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