The blue light of the leylines exudes black energy, and Chen Xing's body exudes light, lying on the ocean-like blood. The lines of the earth veins all around extend toward the center, and in the sea of blood, he is alone, like a lonely sacrifice.
"Beside me, you won't be taken away by the Heavenly Vessel, go and enter the reincarnation." A voice said: "Next, you can rest assured."
Fu Jian was covered in armor, also carrying a big sword, sitting on the edge of the sea of blood carelessly.
Chen Xing immediately sat up, floating and sinking in the sea of blood, looking at Fu Jian nervously.
Fu Jian's eyes had turned red, but there was a sinister smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Where is this?" Chen Xing asked cautiously.
"Illusory Demon Palace." Fu Jian replied, and looked at Chen Xing in a state of soul without restraint, his eyes fell on his right hand, "Sure enough, it seems familiar, you must have used Dinghaizhu to go back in time?"
"Who are you?" Chen Xing asked again, "You are not Fu Jian."
Fu Jian showed a strange expression, and that face was actually similar to Kalusha, Jiankang, and even Chiyou who was transformed into the sea!
"You are... Chi You?!" Chen Xing said in a trembling voice.
Fu Jian replied, "Let's talk about it, what happened three years ago?"
Chen Xing held the sea with one hand and floated on the sea of blood. Fu Jian said again: "If you don't talk about it, it must be similar to Gusuo's guess. Want to see where you are?"
As he said that, Fu Jian made a gesture, and the scene of the Magic Palace suddenly receded, revealing the Chang'an Palace shrouded in haze, and the two appeared on a platform, facing the grand campus outside the Weiyang Palace. On the school grounds, there was a black army of Qin troops who could not see their heads.
Chen Xing: "…"
The heart lamp was still in Chen Xing's body, and the moment he left the ley lines, the light returned to his three souls and seven souls.
"Look in front of you," said Fu Jian, "this is the foundation of loneliness, which will last forever..."
Chen Xing took a half step back and looked at Fu Jian's back. In fact, he had become a soul, like the Prince Ye of the past, ready to fly away and escape at any time.
He tried to ignite the heart lamp, but thousands of miles away, separated by mountains and seas, a weak force suddenly responded to him.
In an instant, Chen Xing saw the study of the Exorcist Division! The co-firing of mana begins to echo Xiangshu!
"Don't try to escape," Fu Jian said solemnly, "Once you leave Gu's side, you will be sucked away by the Heaven and Earth Meridian and go to reincarnation."
"If the soul leaves, the heart lamp will stay, right?" Chen Xing asked back, "Isn't this exactly what you want?"
Fu Jian smiled coldly and said solemnly, "You are very calm."
Chen Xing looked at Fu Jian, and vaguely guessed part of Xiangshu's plan—the key information hidden between the two worlds, intentionally or unintentionally, scattered in the corners.
Chi You once also planned to choose the center lamp as the new body.
After Xiang Shu's identity as Ding Haizhu was revealed, Chi You decided to abandon Chen Xing and instead fell in love with Xiang Shu's magical body transformed from the magic weapon. When he couldn't get it in the end, he retreated and chose Fu Jian. In this way, for Chi You, the best host is Xiang Shu first, then Chen Xing himself, and finally Fu Jian.
But the demon king in front of him was different from the Chi You he knew. Some changes must have occurred somewhere. What was the change
"Your companions," Fu Jian didn't look back, but felt the flow of spiritual power when Chen Xing burned his mana, and said slowly, "I must have tried to rescue you."
As he said that, Fu Jian just raised his hand, and there was a hazy scene in the distance. It was the Exorcist Division in Jiankang. He was actually monitoring the movement of the Exorcist Division through the surging of the ley lines! Chen Xing was instantly shocked, that is to say, no matter what they did before, their every move was under Chiyou's surveillance.
But the exorcists seemed to have already made sufficient preparations. A hazy light shrouded the Sizhong building, blocking Chiyou's prying eyes.
Xiang Shu had already anticipated it in advance and made a proper arrangement. He must have fully discussed it with Xie An. No wonder! Chen Xing remembered that Xie An blocked the aura from entering the Exorcism Division, which caused a large area of Dongshan to become depleted of aura. At first, he only regarded it as a magic circle set up by Xie An for the convenience of management. Now that I think about it, the most important thing is to shield Chi You from prying eyes!
Perhaps from the moment when he encountered Chiyou at sea, Xiang Shu had been vigilant.
"Spiritual forbidden area." Fu Jian said, "Guess what they are discussing?"
Chen Xing did not speak.
Thousands of miles away, Jiankang, the Division of Exorcism.
Xiang Shu, with the golden light burning with mana, suddenly closed his eyes and opened his eyes in the bookstore.
Xie An, Feng Qianjun, Xiao Shan, Tuoba Yan, Xin Yuanping, and Wen Che were all sitting, staring at Xiang Shu.
"The Magic Palace is in Chang'an," Xiang Shu said in a deep voice, "I can barely see, but I can't feel what Chen Xing wants to say. Besides, there are nearly 400,000 troops who are gathering, presumably as sacrifices. ."
Aragaki explained: "Combination of mana can make you and the Great Exorcist establish a connection in mind, and the so-called 'common sense' is exactly that."
Xiang Shu frowned and said, "But I've never felt it, but Chen Xing can occasionally know what I'm thinking."
"There is still a small change in the plan," Xie An frowned. "Why is the younger brother arrested? That's not right."
"Very reasonable." Wen Che said, "Even if you were Ding Haizhu, you are useless to Chi You at this time."
Xiang Shu couldn't believe it. The plan they made earlier should be that Xiang Shu himself was captured by Chi You, and Chen Xing stayed in the Exorcism Department. The so-called Heaven and Earth Vessel will correct this statement in a given direction, that is to say, when Xiang Shu came to Chi You once before, this time it should have the same situation for the second time, why is there a deviation here
Feng Qianjun said: "Tianchi's soul has been captured, so don't hold him accountable. What do you do next? Everyone has to prepare immediately."
Xiang Shu frowned deeply. Originally, what they had discussed was that when Xiang Shu was taken away by Chiyou, he still had nine runes on his body, so in the state of his soul, he might not be able to restrain him.
The last time when Chi You was launching the Eternal Tide Array, he forcibly moved his soul, causing Xiang Shu to be extremely painful, but in his heart, there was still the seed of the Heart Lamp, which was helping him to keep his mind. Now that after obtaining the mana co-firing, Xiang Shu has runes in his hand, and maybe he can even take the initiative to fight Chi You in the state of soul, reducing his power.
As for Chen Xing, with the assistance of Xinyuan Ping and others, he went to smelt his sword, and gathered Jiangnan exorcists to fight against Chiyou to cut off the source of his grievances. Finally, on the battlefield, he rendezvous with Xiang Shu and took back the rune. Give him the final blow in his Weak Soul state.
The reason why Chen Xing was concealed was precisely because Xiang Shu was afraid that Chen Xing would not let him take risks. And once the two were separated, Chen Xing could still use the mana to burn together, to detect Xiang Shu's thoughts across thousands of miles.
After all, it is because of reason and reason that Chiyou captures Xiang Shu in order to prevent the final result of the recasting of the divine sword. Chen Xing has a heart lamp, and Chiyou must be afraid of it instinctively.
Xiang Shu said solemnly, "Get ready to smelt your sword."
Everyone set off one after another, while the rest of Xinyuan was at peacetime, Xiang Shu pondered for a moment, and finally couldn't help but said, "Why? Why do I always have a rift with Xing'er when I co-fire with mana?"
"Because you didn't really do it, live and die together." Aragaki flatly said, "In your heart, there is always a thought, even if you sacrifice yourself, you must let the Great Exorcist live."
Wen Che casually flipped through the many orphan books in the next bookstore. Chen Xing had read and annotated a fragment of a page that fell out. Above are the stories and legends that record his and Aragaki's deeds.
"Chen Xing can feel your many thoughts," Wen Che said lightly, "Yeah, because he has experienced so much, he is truly relieved. He is not afraid of his own death, nor is he afraid of you dying for him. The other party decides to face it calmly, follow each other in life and death, and surrender to each other completely and completely, that’s how it is.”
"The four characters of 'life and death' are not easy to say. The world only thinks that it is difficult, and the difficulty lies in abandoning oneself." Wen Che reminded again, with a smile on his lips, "This is really hard to see, the real difficulty. , instead of giving up life for righteousness, but also believe that 'he' is also willing to use his life to fulfill each other. You see, you have been a Dharma protector for a long time, and it doesn't matter if you die. Facing his death, you can't help your mother-in-law and your mother-in-law. Does that make sense?"
Xiang Shu was silent, standing quietly in the bookstore.
Xin Yuanping smiled: "So he is no longer afraid. To put it another way, is it you going to the danger today, or he is going to the danger, to live together, or to die together, what's the difference?"
At this time, Tuoba Yan came again, bringing the news from the north that had just arrived today.
"Murong Chong lost." Tuoba Yan said, "But thanks to Shi Mokun's arrival in time, Princess Qinghe evacuated safely and confronted Fu Jian in Youzhou. Murong Chong and the Pingyang Army were defeated and captured."
Inside the Chang'an Palace.
Under the gloomy sky, there was flying snow, and there was a smell of blood. Fu Jian sat high in the hall, and there were many officers and generals under his command. Murong Chong was covered in blood and knelt in the hall.
On Fu Jian's side, Yu Wenxin, the commander of the Forbidden Army with a gray face, stood on the right, and on the left, after Wang Ziye left, a middle-aged man appeared again. The generals and civil servants of all ethnic groups stared at the middle-aged scribe with horrified eyes.
That was Wang Meng, who came back to life from the dead, who was a hero who established half of the northern half of the country for Da Qin.
Chen Xing walked around the hall and found that the living people could not see him. The only people who could detect his existence were Wang Meng, Fu Jian who was possessed by Chi You, and Yu Wenxin who was transformed by the blood of the devil.
"Chong'er," Fu Jian's eyes faded from the blood, and he said solemnly, "What exactly do I owe you?"
There was blood on Murong Chong's head and face. Under Fu Jian's iron cavalry army, the Pingyang Army suffered a disastrous defeat, and more than ten thousand people were wiped out, and the rest were all captured.
Fu Jian swept away the last obstacle to the southern expedition, ignored Princess Qinghe, and decided that after severely punishing Murong Chong today, he would set off with his army to pacify Dajin.
Chen Xing walked around the hall, first observing Murong Chui, and then making a face in front of Fu Rong.
Wang Meng: "..."
The hall was silent, and everyone was guessing how Fu Jian would deal with Murong Chong. In this tense atmosphere, Chen Xing walked to Murong Chong's side again, leaned into his ear and said, "Get up, I'll help you, let's stab him to death!"
Murong Chong's ears seemed to be just a small breeze.
"You're a ghost, he can't hear you."
The voice sounded, Chen Xing was stunned, looked up at the heights, saw Wang Meng expressionless, crossed ten steps away, and looked at Chen Xing, he had turned into a scorpion, his lips did not move, but Chen Xing could hear him the sound of.
"Hmm." Chen Xing nodded thoughtfully, he just wanted to find something to do and play a prank.
But Murong Chong suddenly raised his head and stared at Fu Jian.
"You are not Your Majesty," Murong Chong murmured, "Your Majesty is possessed by evil spirits, who are you?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the hall was immediately shocked. This is also the past few years, since the Dadan Yu Shulukong quelled the chaos in Chang'an, Qin Ting's officials secretly speculated that Murong Chong was in front of everyone. So tell the truth.
There was no sound, and there was obvious fear on the faces of the ministers. Murong Chong used to be Fu Jian's closest person. Under his identification, an atmosphere of panic suddenly filled the hall.
Fu Jian got up from the throne, walked slowly to Murong Chong, and looked down at him. At this moment, Chen Xing sat cross-legged beside Murong Chong, then raised his head and looked at Fu Jian suspiciously.
At that moment, there was a familiar look in Fu Jian's eyes. Not only Murong Chong, but even Chen Xing had seen those eyes! Where is it
However, before he could think about it, Fu Jian said, "Take him to the harem and send someone to guard him at all times."
"Who are you?" Chen Xing asked with a frown.
But Fu Jian didn't answer, he only said solemnly: "From the early morning of tomorrow, the army will set off and go to Luoyang. After checking the food and grass, prepare to go to the south to fight."
The ministers were terrified and dispersed. Fu Jian also turned and left, while Wang Meng stood quietly in the hall.
In the past few days, Chen Xing tried several times and found that he could still temporarily leave Fu Jian's side. There seemed to be a power around him, covering the entire Chang'an Palace. . But if you leave to a certain distance, you can clearly feel the suction of Tianmai.
This distance, according to Chen Xing's judgment, is about a mile in a radius, and that is the power of the devil that Fu Jian unleashed.
"Who are you?" Chen Xing walked into the study like a gust of wind and said to Fu Jian.
Fu Jian is sitting in the imperial study. If he didn't know in advance that he has become Chi You's temporary body, Chen Xing sees it this way, he is not much different from the usual Fu Jian, the only change is that it looks a little deeper. .
"What do you think? Heart lamp is in charge," Fu Jian said solemnly, "Who do you think I look like?"
Chen Xing frowned: "What do you want to do?"
Fu Jian's eyes slowly turned blood red again, he looked at Chen Xing recklessly, and said, "You are not a lonely creature, if King Ming and Dingguang Burning Lamp are here today, I can't say a few more words. You are just a thing, and for me, it cannot be more ordinary than the magic weapon of the divine state. How dare you to question the devil?"
When he heard this, Chen Xing knew that it must be Chi You. The soldier's consciousness had already controlled Fu Jian and used him as a host, but the heart he had seen had disappeared. The container that carries Chi You's two souls, where is it now
Chen Xing suddenly had a bold guess, but under Chi You's gaze, he didn't say any more.
"You want a heart lamp, don't you?" Chen Xing said solemnly, "Then why don't you do it now?"
Fu Jian sneered: "Wait, don't worry too much, little thing."
At this moment, Murong Chui knocked on the door and pushed in. Chen Xing turned his head, the blood in Fu Jian's eyes faded, and he regained the appearance of the emperor on earth.
Murong Chui began to report on the march and baggage, etc. Chen Xing listened for a while, but could not hear any secrets, so he passed through the imperial study through the wall, thinking that this would be very convenient, and he could just pass through the wall.
Murong Chong was lying in the dormitory, his armor scattered all over the floor, his upper body was naked, his hair was disheveled, he developed a high fever, and he also had injuries from the battle.
"Father... Mother..." Murong Chong babbled and murmured, "Sister..."
"Murong Chong!" Chen Xing said anxiously, "Phoenix! Wake up!"
Murong Chong pursed his lips tightly, and his face was bloodless. Chen Xingsheng was afraid that he would also drink the blood of the devil and wanted to shake him, but his palm went through his body.
"He can't feel it." Wang Meng said behind Chen Xing again, "You forgot what Master taught you during his lifetime?"
Chen Xing immediately turned around and looked at Wang Meng.
Wang Meng added: "Sometimes the living, the dead have boundaries, I am the dead, so I can talk to the soul, and I want to meet Murong Chong, it is not impossible, but at least now, no matter what he says, he can't hear it."
"You..." Chen Xing remembered the last time he saw Wang Meng. It was in the Honglu under the Yi Que, and he was in a hurry. At that time, he and the exorcists also took away the white tiger banner in Wang Meng's hand.
Then, after hearing what Xiang Shu said, he went to Huashan and went to Chen Xingshimen to investigate Suixing, and he also met Wang Meng. At that time, Chi Youling Wang Meng came to speak, and proposed his deal to let Xiang Shu go to the Magic Palace. What did Xiang Shu say when they met that day
"Senior brother?" Chen Xing said in surprise, "You...are you not controlled by Chiyou?"
Wang Meng sat down beside Murong Chong's couch, turned his head to look at Chen Xing, and said, "I completely lost my mind and became a puppet like Yu Wenxin? If this is done, who is going to advise the King of Qin and the Communist Party of the North to prepare for this event. What about war?"
Chen Xing immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Great, you... you're fine. You're still awake."
Wang Meng looked at Chen Xing, thought about it, and said, "Compared to the last time I saw you, junior brother, you have grown up a lot. I have wanted to say this for a long time."
Chen Xing had mixed feelings for a while, and he couldn't help but feel sad and remembered the days when he was studying art in the teacher's school.
"Why didn't you... leave?" Chen Xing said, "You can obviously come to us, Senior Brother!"
Wang Meng said calmly: "Daqin is my home, so what are you going to do in the south? Before I was alive, in order to repay Fu Jian's kindness and help him recover the north, countless compatriots died at my hands... Now that I think about it, I can't live in peace after death. It's the reward of my life, and it's not unusual."
Chen Xing was silent, his brows furrowed. Wang Meng said: "You must be very careful when you speak and act here. At present, his consciousness is scattered into the earth veins, and he is one with Shenzhou. His attention is limited, and he has no time to take care of you and me for a while. But as long as he starts to send troops, I am afraid that he will We will soon find out what we are conspiring."
"In order to prove to the ministers that I am not a loser, I will not be able to completely refine me for a while, but you may not, and you may be locked up by him."
Chen Xing said, "I don't know why, but I always feel that Fu Jian is still there, and that the soldier has not fully controlled him."
Wang Meng said: "Chiyou now, there are only two souls left in the world, and the third soul is missing, think about it with your ingenuity, Junior Brother, after possessing Fu Jian's body, who is the third soul that remains? of?"
Chen Xing understood immediately, Chi You assimilated Fu Jian, restrained his heavenly soul, that is, let his "self" fall asleep. Secondly, it devoured the soul of the earth and obtained all the memories of Fu Jian during his lifetime. As for the third soul, he inherited it unreservedly. Once Fu Jian's joys and sorrows, love and hatred, he also gained Fu Jian's love for Murong Chong!
"Then he must be a little annoyed." From this point, Chen Xing seemed to have glimpsed a certain weakness of Chi You. "The soldier leader has become a human being from an emotional point of view."
Wang Meng nodded, and Chen Xing couldn't help but remember what Xiang Shu told him about what happened in the Magic Palace in the last moment of Xiang Shu. In this way, Chiyou doesn't seem to have lied to Xiang Shu. He who lacks the third soul, after devouring Xiang Shu and taking everything he has for himself, naturally he also gains Xiang Shu's love for him.
This feeling cannot be abandoned. For a demon god, it is a big obstacle, but for Chen Xing, it also means that even if Chi You gains the powerful power of Ding Haizhu, he will still not hurt him in the end. In the past, he is also considered a description, and maybe he will fulfill his promises.
Wang Meng said: "The time is running out. What other plans do you have? I believe that with Xie An there, it is impossible to imagine that this is a trap for the soldier. Unless you have resources, you will not be caught here."
Chen Xing said: "I really didn't know anything about it in advance, but I trust my friends. Brother, what does the soldier want to do now?"
"He needs grievances." Wang Meng replied, "Tianluo Fan was taken away by Wang Hai and fell into your hands, and together with the grievances collected before, they will be dispelled. Soldiers are eager to kill and die. If he provides enough resentment, he will be able to successfully refine you on the battlefield and gain your heart lamp."
Chen Xing said, "But he already has a body!"
"This is far from enough for him." Wang Meng said, and then he stretched out his finger and placed a little on the back of Chen Xing's hand, saying, "Also, pay attention to this, haven't you discovered it yet?"
Chen Xing raised his hand subconsciously and saw the gleaming thumbwheel on the ring finger of his left hand.
Chen Xing: "This..."
Wang Meng said, "I've observed him several times, and I can see that he always pays attention to your hand, but he doesn't mention it. I don't want you to notice it. Is this thumbwheel something very important to him?"
Chen Xing lowered his head and looked at the wheel of the tide in his hand. He remembered that Xiang Shu told him that at the last moment three years ago, after the Dinghaizhu was broken, he pushed the ring in the bead into Chen Xing's hand, but after returning to the past, Chen Xing never found it.
And now, in the state of the soul, it finally appeared.
"Why didn't he just grab it?" Chen Xing asked.
"You are a ghost now," Wang Ziye said, "he can't directly interfere with you. Only when he releases two souls, and both of them are in the state of souls, can they snatch them. However, once Chiyou's soul leaves the body, there is no such thing as this. If necessary, as long as he devours you, he can obtain the heart lamp and this thumbwheel at the same time."
"I don't know how to use it," Chen Xing frowned, "but it's really important."
"So." Wang Meng said, "you have to do your best to protect yourself."
"I have only three souls and seven souls left," Chen Xing couldn't help laughing and crying. "I don't even have a physical body, how can I protect it? I wanted to try to wake up Murong Chong... Wait! Brother, you have a way to make him hear me. sound?"
Wang Meng replied, "How do ghosts meet the living, and I have learned so long that I forgot about it?" He drew a rune with his fingers.
Chen Xing said with a smile: "To dream!"
Wang Meng was about to press the rune on Chen Xing's forehead, but Chen Xing said, "Senior brother, you will be willing to help me, won't you?"
Wang Meng replied: "Promise me, in the end, you must expel the soldier from Fu Jian."
Chen Xing was startled, and Wang Meng said seriously: "Even if he wants to die, a generation of emperors should die in an upright manner. If he is my majesty one day, he will always be my majesty."
As he said that, Wang Meng slapped Chen Xing's forehead, and Chen Xing, who was in a state of soul, instantly fell and fell into Murong Chong's body.
It was snowing heavily in the sky and the earth. Murong Chong stood under the Chile River, without tents or herdsmen, and looked up at the white Yinshan Mountains.
"Murong Chong?!" Chen Xing shouted in the snow, "Murong Chong!"
In the dark night, Chen Xing was carrying a lamp in his hand, and the heart lamp appeared again, dispelling the boundless darkness, and behind him, there were endless blooming peach blossoms, with Chen Xing running all the way, the peach blossom forest continued. As it expands, the snow line of Chilechuan quickly retreats, forming a clear boundary between spring day and winter night.
"Chen Xing?" Murong Chong turned his head, saw Chen Xing, and said, "I... I'm not far from death? Is this a dream?"
"Yes," Chen Xing said, "I have become a ghost, but my body is not dead, it doesn't matter... My brother used the magic of dreaming, and I want to tell you a few words, you have to wake up and go back, Xiang Saying that they are already gathering troops and preparing to fight against Fu Jian, I need you to do me a favor, this is very important!"
Murong Chong turned around and stared at Chen Xing. Chen Xing frowned, thought for a moment, and said to him, "Find the whereabouts of that demon heart for me."
Murong Chong replied, "I... I try my best. I'm afraid he won't..."
Standing in the warm sunshine, Chen Xing said earnestly to Murong Chong in the snow: "It must be possible, his feelings for you have never disappeared."
Murong Chong turned his head away, and nodded with pain.
"Go back," Chen Xing said. "Wake up quickly."
Chen Xing lifted the lamp in his hand, and the lamp in his heart suddenly spread. Under the power of the lamp, Murong Chong's dreams turned into flying flakes and shattered one after another. Murong Chong blocked the strong light with his arm, and his figure turned into flying snow flakes. , was swept away by the wind and disappeared.
Chen Xing looked around, put away his heart lamp, his dream is still there, how do I get out
But at this moment, a man came from the dream. The man was half-naked, with a long green dress embroidered with gold talismans dragging the floor. He walked barefoot through the peach blossom forest and looked at Chen Xing.
"You..." Chen Xing was dumbfounded and said, "Aren't you the one... What are you doing here? Why are you here?!"
"Kong Xuan."
That man was the big monster who had sealed Chiyou's third soul, whom he saw in a dream on the Sword Casting Stage. He frowned and said, "Your memory is really bad."
Chen Xing: "Aren't you hiding in your dreams?"
"Isn't this a dream?" Kong Xuan said coldly, "It's strange?"
Chen Xing said: "You are from Yuan Kun's dream..."
Kong Xuan nodded and replied, "I came to your dream."
Chen Xing suddenly became nervous and said, "You have to hide it, Chi You wants to find you no matter what."
"It's okay." Kong Xuan said, "The decisive battle is about to begin? Has your magic weapon been cast?"
Chen Xing didn't know what was going on with Xiang Shu, so he could only shake his head.
Kong Xuan added: "You must never let him use resentment to refine your heart lamp. This will be the last fire left in the world. Once the heart lamp goes out, there will be no hope."
Chen Xing nodded and said, "You also protect yourself."
Kong Xuan said: "I can no longer hide, you must return to your body as soon as possible, I will wait for the right time, leave the dream, and help you. Remember, no matter what happens, don't be afraid of him, just go. "
Speaking, Kong Xuan clasped his finger and flicked Chen Xing's forehead. Chen Xing shouted and was ejected from the dream.