Chu He stared at Zhou Hui blankly, as if he didn't realize what he was saying.
"But..." he murmured after a while, his expression dazed and dazed: "but how can you... how can you... "
- How can you not want me
He had been armed for a long time, he had been wrapped in ice, he had been weighed down by countless secrets until his back was stiff and would break if he bent a little, all of which suddenly disappeared at this moment.
The deeply hidden, lonely, lonely little phoenix longing for a little warmth and faith, in the weakest part of his soul, weeping in despair.
The rocks collapsed in large chunks, the soil slipped like a torrent, the underground river completely collapsed, and the shaking of the earth made the rocks beside them tremble. In the chaos, the gravel hit Phoenix's forehead, but he didn't hide or even react.
In the darkness, blood ran down his cheeks along his temples. Zhou Hui shivered and stretched out his hand to wipe away the blood, only to see that Phoenix suddenly seemed to have found the last straw in a desperate situation, and suddenly grabbed him: "But if you don't want me anymore... Where can I go? If I come back, if I come back alive… Where else can I go?…”
The screams of thousands of evil ghosts came from the roar in the distance. It was the Dharma image of the Demon Venerable, struggling to stand up from under the pile of rocks.
"Phoenix, tell me," Zhou Hui put his blood-stained hand on his cold and beautiful side face, staring into Phoenix's eyes: "-Tell me, what are you going to do? I'll help you block the robbery, it doesn't matter, this is what I am willing to do, even if you want to become a Buddha, it doesn't matter, as long as you tell me and let me know..."
However, Phoenix looked at him in despair and shook his head.
"I can't... Zhou Hui, I can't tell you..."
"You are a great demon, some things I do may not necessarily die, but if you know... then... you will surely die..."
The earth produced cobweb-like cracks in the shock, which then converged into cracks, and shattered into several pieces with a terrifying creaking sound.
Countless rubble and clods fell into the abyss, and the whole mountain was about to collapse.
"If I come back alive, I will definitely find you... It's useless for you to drive me away, I will always follow you..." Fenghuang gasped violently, and the excessive pressure made his words even a little unclear: "— I'll definitely be back, if I can..."
He staggered to his feet and stood in the middle of the cracked earth with his Buddha bone sword on his back, his expression blank as if he had been abandoned.
That look suddenly reminded Zhou Hui of the moment in the memory of the little phoenix watching Sakyamuni walking towards the lotus seat in the Buddhist hall; that was the first time he was left behind, and he cried so sadly, even thousands of years later. Zhou Hui, who was watching in the void, felt a deep sadness.
—However, the painful crying and tears are not comparable to this moment.
It couldn't compare to that moment, Phoenix's tears were dry, and his face was blank and confused.
"...You're doing this for Shakyamuni, right?" Zhou Hui finally couldn't help it and asked desperately, "You're doing this for that Shakyamuni, right?!"
Phoenix, however, seemed to have suddenly woken up from a nightmare, looked at him, and nodded slowly after a long time.
"…Yes," he said hoarsely, his voice weak and firm:
"I'm going… "
The last few words were drowned in the earth-shattering shaking sound, but Zhou Hui saw the mouth shape.
He was stunned for a moment, not even believing his eyes.
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The ground shook suddenly, and then again. In the smoke filled with dust, I saw the Demon Venerable Dharma like a giant, standing up from countless piles of stones, and walking with bloody footsteps.
The Phoenix's knife smashed the gate of hell, and the damage to the magician's dharma was not light. In the smoke of the gunpowder, I saw that his giant face was intertwined with flesh and blood, and he was carrying the blood-soaked Wu Bei-Wu Bei's body shape. He is strong, but compared with the huge Asura King Fa of Demon Venerable, it is like a chick.
"Is the lyrical expression finished? It's time to leave." The Demon Venerable said coldly, "I listened to the lesson last time and came to greet you in person. There are still many things waiting for us in the Four Evil Realms—"
Chu He finally gave Zhou Hui a deep look.
There were indescribable emotions and helpless separation in those eyes, and he closed his eyes for a while, all weakness and attachment disappeared without a trace at that moment.
The fully-armed and flawless him returned to the never-ending battlefield.
Chu He turned to face the Demon Venerable, took a step forward, and Zhou Hui roared, "Phoenix!"
However, in the next second, Demon Venerable's charred hand opened in the air, and the hurricane formed a vortex and turned into a black hole.
Zhou Hui roared: "Stop—" Then he rushed forward!
"Ah, I forgot." At this moment, Mozun looked at Wu Bei in his hand and wrote lightly.
He grabbed Wu Bei's hands and stretched them out in the opposite direction, like a beast tearing at a prey without resistance. With a violent force, Wu Bei was about to be easily torn in half—
Zhou Hui's complexion changed drastically, and he rushed forward like lightning, but Chu He, who was closer to the lightning bolt, was faster, and in the blink of an eye, he jumped in front of the Demon Venerable!
Before the Demon Venerable had time to dodge, the phoenix turned his wrists and slashed horizontally, and the Buddha's bone knife emitted dazzling golden light, slashing directly in front of him!
Demon Venerable retreated in the strong energy hurricane, his heavy footsteps caused vibrations, and then shrank back to human form. The sharp fan-shaped golden light rubbed the top of his head and flew over, and cut off countless boulders one after another, and the speed did not decrease, and instantly fell into the mountain wall!
Wu Bei fell from the air, was caught by Phoenix, and then turned around and left.
- He must have done it on purpose. Aside from Wu Bei's direction, there was a pile of sharp boulders. If no one caught it, it was estimated that his body would be directly smashed into several pieces.
Zhou Hui didn't have time to react, he disappeared in place, and appeared in front of the boulders the next moment, "Bang!" A loud voice blocked Wu Bei's body from free fall!
Immediately after he raised his head, Chu He turned around in the gust of wind and walked towards the crack in the space.
"Phoenix!"
That voice seemed to resound deep in his soul, and Chu He's heart seemed to be grabbed by an invisible giant hand and twisted into a pool of hideous flesh and blood.
He gasped, his fingers spasmed, and tremblingly grabbed the Buddha's bone knife and slashed back with his wrist.
-boom!
The golden light pierced the void, smashed countless mountains and rocks into powder, poured down, and instantly blocked Zhou Hui's footsteps!
"The mountain is about to collapse..." Phoenix didn't turn his head, and said softly, "Go back... I love you."
Zhou Hui's pupils tightened, trembling slightly, and his limbs were almost paralyzed.
Phoenix took a step forward and was swallowed into the endless darkness.
- This is actually such a similar scene. When the six groups encircled the Hell Realm, Phoenix also betrayed him like this, left him, only looked back at him one last time, and decided to leave with Demon Venerable Fanluo.
There seemed to be a lot of words hidden in that last gaze, and it seemed that he was just looking at him simply and meaninglessly. That scene had appeared in Zhou Hui's nightmares thousands of times, causing him to toss and turn in pain; he searched for the possible footprints of the phoenix in the vast sea of people countless times, trying to follow the impossible words in his eyes, but no matter the ends of the earth , The mountains are heavy and the water is restored, but I can't find the light and light answer in Midnight Dream.
Now he finally knows.
That's just saying, go back, I love you.
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Wangjia Snow Mountain let out a long and sharp cry, and then collapsed in the silence.
At that moment, the radius of a hundred miles shook violently, the ground cracked, the snow tide landed, and the frozen soil shattered into countless pieces; thousands of kilograms of rock fell into the abyss, making a whistle-like whistle in the strong wind.
The magical forbidden barrier supported Zhou Hui and Wu Bei soaring upward, through the chaotic earth, and came to the gray sky filled with smoke and dust.
Zhou Hui clung to the edge of the barrier and looked down at the ground, watching the black cave entrance was crushed and filled up, and dozens of miles of land sank. Blue veins appeared on his hands due to excessive force. If anyone saw his face at this time, it must be very scary.
- He knew it was too late.
The door of Demon Venerable Fanluo's space was closed. Presumably at this time, Phoenix had reached the end of the handover between the human world and hell.
Zhou Hui took a deep, trembling breath, feeling that his lungs were filled with air mixed with blood, dust, and rust. It was so hot that he tightly clutched his flesh-and-blood chest, as if all his internal organs were curled up in excruciating pain. into a group.
He should hate Phoenix. The man left him again, without saying a word, and left with other men in front of him.
But as long as Zhou Hui closed his eyes, the deepest thing in his heart was not hatred, but the phoenix standing there blankly, as if standing in a chaotic and absurd nightmare, separated by the chaotic situation and the overturned earth. Looking at him, the words he said silently—
Yes, it is because of Shakyamuni.
I have to go... kill him.
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In the void, at the junction of the human world and hell.
The Human World Monument is like a smooth gray stone tower, standing quietly in the center of the six passages. Phoenix stepped forward and looked up at it, and stopped a few meters away.
Behind him still belongs to the human world, and in front of him is hell.
The air was filled with the sickening smell of scorched flesh, and the shuffling, indistinct cries of ghosts in the distance. Phoenix stood motionless, his eyes were slightly blank, his beautiful and pale face had no expression at all, and he couldn't tell what he was thinking at all.
Demon Venerable Fanluo's footsteps came from behind and stopped behind Phoenix for a while.
"—Why, standing here to remember Zhou Hui?"
Phoenix withdrew his gaze and did not answer.
"I see that you were quite sad just now, and you didn't care about my feeling of taking the order. Why did you return to the frosty mode in a blink of an eye? Hey, I don't know if you should be jealous or not, so in the end you still... "
"Stop pretending, Fan Luo." Phoenix said softly, "You need me in your plan to attack the Human World, that's all."
Demon Venerable's complexion changed, and his eyes narrowed instantly.
However, before he could say anything, he just listened to Fenghuang: "Back off."
"… what did you say—"
"Backing up, the golden ring lock on my spine will blow my body to pieces the moment I cross the Human Boundary Monument, leaving only my soul to go to hell."
The Demon Venerable stopped in surprise.
Phoenix took a deep breath and stepped forward slowly.
I don't know if it was an illusion or other reasons, but he felt the golden ring lock on the lumbar spine that penetrated the bone marrow faintly hurt again, as if it silently foreshadowed the tragic scene that would happen next. In fact, the pain should have disappeared a long time ago, but it was really uncomfortable when he wore it in the first place. He still remembered that when he was just caught in H City, Zhou Hui locked him in the barrier, and forced him in regardless of resistance. With this lock on his spine, the severe pain that spreads all over the nerves of his whole body made him almost scream and bite off his own hand even if he was crushed by Zhou Hui...
But the pain disappeared soon, probably because that part of the nerve was paralyzed. Instead, whenever it was cloudy or late at night, the place where the bone marrow and the golden ring were close together always felt cold, which made him shiver in his sleep, and unconsciously approached Zhou Hui's body, which radiated heat, so much so that every morning he felt cold. He woke up curled up tightly in the man's arms.
If you're in a soul state, you shouldn't feel cold...
Phoenix closed his eyes.
It must be because it was too cold, and even the tears were frozen, and not a drop could flow out.
He walked to the side of the Human Boundary Monument, stopped for a while, and stood there to slowly spit out the air from his lungs, as if to completely expel all the chills and fears from his body. Then he raised his foot again and stepped over the Human Boundary Monument—
At the moment of landing, the explosion did not sound.
At the same time, a shining arc of light flew out from under the collar of his chest - it turned out to be a ring hanging around his neck!
The diamond on the ring emits a dazzling silver light, and the micro-carving inside is reflected, and a dazzling phoenix with wings ready to fly is reflected in the air!
- Immediately afterwards, Qing Xiao sounded from all directions in the void, and the phoenix light and shadow seemed to be given life in an instant.
Demon Venerable said stunned: "This... this is?!"
The light and shadow of the phoenix descended slowly around Chu He's body, and the thousands of tail feathers were like gentle waves in a sea of light, draping together one by one, as if spreading out a splendid galaxy that fell for nine days.
In the next second, the light and shadow sharply shrank and brightened, turning into the phoenix shape carved inside the ring lock. The feathers and wings were exactly the same, and then they were accurately sucked into the golden ring lock behind the spine.
-In an instant, the original phoenix pattern in the lock and the light and shadow of the phoenix thrown into it completely overlapped, as if the key was precisely aligned with the lock cylinder, the golden ring lock made a crisp cracking sound, pulled out from the bone marrow, and fell to the ground with blood stains. !
Demon Venerable said in amazement, "Why is this?!"
Phoenix's expression was indescribable, he looked down at the ring on his chest, raised his hand and held it for a while.
Turns out this...
It turns out that this is the key to the golden ring lock!
—Phoenix clenched the ring deeply and tightly in the palm of his hand, his teeth clenched so tightly that his face was a little stiff. He thought of the permafrost under the stars, and the wedding ring Zhou Hui gave when he knelt down on one knee. It turned out that at that moment, he had already handed over the key to unlock the golden ring lock to himself!
"I'll... I'll be back..."
Phoenix thought over and over again, the voice in his mind was trembling and clear, as if he wanted to deeply sink this thought into his heart.
"Even if I'm burnt to ashes by the fire, I... will definitely come back to you..."
Volume Four The Frozen Night