A week later, Beijing.
Zhou Hui sat in the ward, his naked upper body looked very strong in the morning light, but his muscles were covered with all kinds of large and small scars.
Some of those wounds have almost healed, and some are still cracking open in the air, and you can clearly see the bright red muscles and blood vessels under the skin. However, he didn't care, as if he didn't feel the pain at all, he just quietly looked at his open palm.
There is a jade egg on it.
The door of the ward was pushed open, and Yu Jingzhong walked in, gently placing the cigarette case in his hand on the bedside table, "Old Zhou."
Zhou Hui raised his eyebrows, his eyes filled with an undisguised haze: "Is it done?"
"Well, Wu Bei, Shenwan, and Jiuweihu have all returned from City H, and Long Jiu will be fully responsible for the local aftermath. At present, the defense circle of the capital and the Qiankun Array are temporarily handled by Situ Yingzhi, and Yan Lanyu can help a little. "
Zhou Hui nodded and said nothing, Yu Jingzhong hesitated before saying, "Old Zhou."
"what?"
"… What are you going to… do?"
When Yu Jingzhong finally asked this question, he suddenly felt a complicated sense of ease. However, the next moment he saw Zhou Hui's haggard and hostile face, and a heavier worry silently weighed on his heart.
"Me?" Zhou Hui said coldly, "Do you think I can return to the sixth group in this state?"
"I didn't mean that, it's just that you're so stuffy in the ward all day..."
"What's the problem?"
Yu Jingzhong choked for a moment, and was almost speechless. After being stunned for a while, he had to pull out the cigarette case to smoke. Who knew that just as he took out the lighter, Zhou Hui immediately stopped it, pointing to the egg in his hand: "—Phoenix is here!"
"..." Yu Jingzhong angrily stuffed the cigarette back into the cigarette case, "I heard that it will take many years to hatch, right?"
Zhou Hui did not answer.
"Old Zhou, are you going to do this hundreds of years ago? You are bored alone, find a corner to hide your eggs there, and if the eggs don't hatch, you will die first? If the eggs hatch, the Phoenix will not. What about you? You have to find something to do for yourself, you have to change your mood, and find the meaning of life. Although your life is longer than that of human beings... "
"Do you want to be beaten?" Zhou Hui interrupted.
"No, I'm doing this for your own good." Yu Jingzhong said bitterly: "Because your life is still very long, you must find a hope for yourself, so that you can support yourself and move forward in the years to come. There are two children, both of you and Phoenix's own..."
Zhou Hui slammed it on the bedside table, and the cabinet collapsed in response.
Yu Jingzhong immediately stopped talking.
After a moment of silence in the ward, Zhou Hui finally said dully, "I want to go out for a walk."
Yu Jingzhong was always ready to rush out the door, but when he heard this, he pulled his feet back and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Hell, Gray River, Buzhou Mountain, Liulitian Wanli City Wall, Xumi Mountain Glacier Temple, and the ruins where the King Kong Bell was shattered. There are many places to go, but more time, and there may be nowhere to go in the end, so come back Human world."
Zhou Hui laughed at himself and said, "Don't worry about losing contact, I will come back every ten or eight years. You will be old in a few ten or eight years. If you die, I will I'll take you to hell, I'm sure I can have a glass of wine down there and find a rich family to give you a good baby."
Yu Jingzhong glared at him for a while, "...Thank you so much."
"A group of things," Zhou Hui continued, "can be handed over to Garuda. This kid is stupid and eats less. He is born to be abused, and in terms of personality, there are some good things, very similar to Phoenix. …”
He paused and sighed.
"I don't know when the phoenix embryo will hatch. It's a year after a year. I used to live with the phoenix for thousands of years in an empty world other than the six realms. It's really a place with nothing but darkness. The family lived very happily, as if time flew by without knowing it. Back then was never like it is now, and when I think about the future, I feel like the years are too long…”
Yu Jingzhong was very upset when he heard it. He wanted to persuade him, but he didn't know what to say. He only felt that the base of his tongue was bitter and his nose was sore.
However, there was no pain or despair on Zhou Hui's face. He stroked the little egg in his hand and sighed silently for a long time.
The aftertaste of that tone seemed to carry something very heavy, and there was no trace at all, disappearing into the quiet air of the ward like a light smoke in an instant.
Yu Jingzhong finally took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, but it didn't light it, walked over and patted Zhou Hui on the shoulder.
"When are you going, tell your buddies and see you and Feng Si off."
Zhou Hui smiled and said nothing.
The morning was bright and osmanthus was fragrant outside, but this handsome man sat in the ward as if he was isolated from the world.
In his closed world, only him and the unconscious egg, as well as countless unforgettable, wonderful, and lost memories, whizzed away from the air like a tidal wave.
·
No one dared to disturb Zhou Hui for the first few days in the hospital. After Yu Jingzhong started, Yan Lanyu, Wu Bei, Situ Yingzhi, and Shen Wantiansi all went one after another.
The first few were all fine, but when God finished Tiansi, Zhou Hui probably remembered that he was picked up by Phoenix when he was a baby and was raised for a few days. You have something to do over there, ask Garuda for help, you know?"
Shen Wan nodded obediently, and his eyes drifted to the phoenix egg in Zhou Hui's hand from time to time, "Then... Then do you come back often?"
"talk later."
"..." Shen Wan blinked, "Oh."
He seemed very uncomfortable, but he should have been told by Wu Bei and Situ Yingzhi beforehand, so he tried his best to hide it. The emotion in Zhou Hui's eyes was actually invisible. The two remained silent for a moment before Zhou Hui patted his head and seemed to feel a little emotional: "You're such an old child, in a blink of an eye..."
·
Although everyone told Zhou Hui that they had to say hello before leaving, the day Zhou Hui left the human world, no one said anything.
He left the hospital in the middle of the night, walked through the neon-lit sky of the capital and the quiet and cold suburbs, slowly walked into the void, and walked towards the inconspicuous Human Boundary Monument standing on the distant horizon.
"Hello," said a voice behind him.
Zhou Hui paused in his footsteps.
"It's not your style to say goodbye without saying goodbye. If you don't have that temperament, don't be a stray little freshman. Go back and stay in the hospital for a few more days?"
"Hu Qing." Zhou Hui turned his head and said, "I have always had a question, since we may not see each other for ten or eight years, can you give me an accurate word..."
Behind him, Li Hu was wearing her almost iconic red tight skirt in recent years, her long hair was sultry, and she was full of aura.
"We really haven't slept," she said with a smile.
Zhou Hui said, "It's not that."
"I handed over all the nude photos of Phoenix, and I didn't hide them."
"It's not that."
"... I am willing to work with you in the Human World not to seduce Yu Jingzhong. Although I did seduce him in the early years, I was almost beaten up by a female ghost. Later, I felt a little embarrassed and didn't say it... "
"I know," Zhou Hui said, "Old Yu told me."
Li Hu tilted his head and was a little puzzled: "What do you want to know? I'm someone who is willing to report the post-mortem summary of the appointment to Phoenix. There shouldn't be any secrets, right?"
Zhou Hui looked at her up and down for a while, his eyes paused for a moment on the career line in front of her chest that wanted to compare with the Mariana Trench, and finally asked: "You are a male fox, and you are more suitable for men. Is it because Zhang Shun is easier to approach women?"
Li Hu glared at Zhou Hui, and didn't speak for a long time. After a while, his body suddenly changed, becoming a young man with pink clothes and shaggy hair, dragging nine snow-white tails.
"I've changed my mind, it's better for you to get out." He said blankly: "The debt is cheap, dear, why would Phoenix prefer to find you rather than come to sleep with me?"
Zhou Hui laughed and turned around, waving at him, the phoenix egg clenched in the palm of his hand streaks a brilliant soft light in the night wind.
He walked towards the Human Boundary Monument in the distance, and disappeared at the end of the night under the complex gaze of the Nine-Tailed Fox.
·
After Shakyamuni disappeared as a false Buddha, the righteous Buddha returned to his place, the colorless sky rose, and he summoned the Buddha’s decree to stop fighting and recuperate. After a breath.
The Asura tribe suffered heavy losses and was no longer the only overlord who ruled the four evil realms.
In the hell with a wide variety of creatures and rich mineral resources, Asura's control power continued to weaken, and monsters in many places broke away from their control. After regaining their freedom, they immediately returned to the Buzhou Mountain and Blood Sea areas, so that the scene here was once withered and broken. Immediately glowed with vigorous vitality.
The lowest level of the Thirty-Three Heavens, and the closest to hell, Liulitian, was once dead because of the war between gods and demons that lasted for thousands of years. The blue tiled city walls in the sky are towering, Zhou Hui walked up the stairs along the winding white jade stairs, pointed to the faint city tower in the distance, and said with a smile: "This is the place where I first proposed, Phoenix, at that time you almost put me Killed with one arrow, how dangerous are you?"
The white jade egg lay quietly in his warm palm, glowing with layers of soft light.
Zhou Hui stood for a while and continued to walk up.
At the bottom of his feet, the battlefield for thousands of years was desolate and silent, and the wind slowly passed by, making a long, dazed and desolate cry like a distant army rushing to kill.
Zhou Hui walked through the Thirty-Three Heavens layer by layer, until the ancient ice field under Mount Sumeru, where the snow covered in swan feathers whizzed away in the strong wind. He covered his eyes with his hands, and saw the towering and unclear Mount Sumeru at the end of the wind and snow, and muttered, "Is this the place to make great wishes?"
He looked at the egg and seemed to want to see the little phoenix lying quietly inside through the egg shell.
"Kow down one step at a time until you reach the Buddhist temple on the top of the mountain, and the vows made can be heard by all gods and Buddhas..." Zhou Hui put the egg back in his pocket and said to himself: "Che, what's the use of hearing it, our daughter-in-law is an ancient god, and Not subject to those gods and Buddhas."
Despite saying this, he took a step, knelt down and kowtowed with a perfunctory meaning, got up and took another step, and knelt down and kowtowed again.
The various fatal injuries he suffered during the battle with Sakyamuni have not yet been healed. Although his daily actions have not been affected, the long journey is still very difficult. Zhou Hui walked for a while, stopped for a while, dodged the limelight behind the rocks standing on the glacier, and then continued on; he crossed the foot of the mountain, climbed the mountainside, climbed over the huge steep ice cliff, and headed towards the summit of Xuebao Mountain at the top of Mount Sumeru. Marching, winding footsteps all the way, as if he is the last traveler left in the vast world.
Zhou Hui finally crossed the ice field, kowtowed all the way to the front of the Buddhist temple, stood up and patted the snow on his shoulders, chest, and legs. The monks on Mount Sumeru knew that he was coming, and all of them couldn’t avoid him, but they didn’t know. Therefore, there was no one in front of the cigarette-curled Buddhist hall; only Zhou Hui stood there, staring at the pure gold Buddha statue in the deepest part of the gate. moment.
"Did you make a wish here last time?" he asked Phoenix.
The egg was in his breast pocket, and there was no movement.
Zhou Hui shook his head and smiled, but did not make a wish. Under the gaze of the eighteen diamonds and the golden statues of various bodhisattvas and gods, he turned around and continued to kowtow one step at a time, but he walked towards a higher place, the Phoenix Temple on the top of Xuebao Mountain.
"I don't ask gods and Buddhas, I just ask you."
Zhou Hui's forehead touched the snow, leaving a deep trace. In front of him the shrine was towering, straight into the sky; behind him, a long series of footprints led to the distant glacier, which was gradually buried in the wind and snow.
"My dear Phoenix, even as I am dying, please let me see you one last time."
"The last moment when I disappear, I can see you born in the world."
Chapter 68 I'm sorry everyone
Zhou Hui lived in the temple on the top of the glacier for a while.
He may be the first hell demon who can live in the forbidden land of heaven and earth since the beginning of the world. I don't know if it was because the monks of the Heavenly Dao couldn't detect the situation in the temple, or if they knew they didn't have the guts. In short, no one came to disturb him, and no one chased him away. Everyone ignored the existence of the temple.
In the ancient and lonely plains of ice and snow, it is indeed easy for people to ignore the passage of time. The top of the head is the vast sky, and the foot is the snow peak that hovers away like a giant dragon. The galaxy stretches vertically and horizontally, emitting a brilliant light band.
Zhou Hui sat in the empty hall, watching the rows of silver-white floor tiles spread out into the distance.
"Is this where you lived?" Zhou Hui asked the egg in his arms.
"It's really lonely," he murmured.
The handsome hell demon passed through the snow-white stone pillars and stroked every inch of the cold wall. He felt smooth stone slits sliding across his fingertips. He imagined that phoenix had done the same way tens of thousands of years ago. He walked the same road and touched the same wall tiles in countless long nights, and that moment seemed to pass through time. The long river, and the young Phoenix Ming Wang looked at each other from a distance, and both eyes were full of confusion.
will you come back? Zhou Hui thought.
If time can go back, people can go back and forth, back to that moment when Phoenix asked him if he still wanted him, and answered yes, would the ending be different now
·
After staying in the temple for the fifth month, Venerable Badi returned to Mount Sumeru.
Venerable Ba Ti forcibly broke into Wushengtian, took away the soul of the true Buddha, exhausted all his mana to close the entrance of Wushitian, and imprisoned Sakyamuni inside for hundreds of years. After entrusting the soul of the true Buddha to Queen Fenghuang Ming, the Venerable's spiritual consciousness could no longer support it, so he passed away and went to the ruins outside the Thirty-Three Heavens.
After Zheng Buddha returned to the throne, he did not know what method to use to find Venerable Badi's soul from the returning ruins, reshaped the golden body, and sent it back to Mount Sumeru.
All the Vajra Bodhisattvas and Arhats regarded it as a grand event, and gathered outside the Buddhist hall to greet them. However, the Venerable did not climb back to the lotus seat surrounded by the believers, but avoided everyone, crossed the frozen Lake of Mirrors alone, and came to the Glacier Temple.
Zhou Hui stood on the nine steps, looked down at Venerable Ba Ti, and asked, "Are you here to win the phoenix jade embryo?"
Venerable Ba Ti folded his hands together and said warmly, "No, His Royal Highness Duke Ming knows, of course I want to stay by your side."
"Then you came to drive me away?"
"Ye Fei, you can come if you want, and leave if you want, who can stop you?"
Zhou Hui's expression softened a little, but he was still very gloomy.
"Then why did the venerable come here? If there is a way to make the phoenix jade embryo hatch ahead of time, you can stay and talk. If there is no big deal, please leave."
"The ancient divine bird is detached between heaven and earth. It can be speculated on non-heavenly Taoism and Buddhism. I don't know how to incubate the jade embryo in advance." Venerable Ba Ti chanted the Buddha's name and said apologetically: "But if you are willing to keep the jade embryo In the hot springs of Mount Sumeru, if we use geothermal heat to moisten the jade body, maybe... you can... "
Zhou Hui said coldly, "No, we'll go back to Hell Buzhou Mountain after a while."
He never looked at Venerable Badi again, turned around and walked towards the depths of the temple. The Venerable suddenly stopped him behind him: "Wait, Patron Zhou - you are so indifferent, because you still resent me for entrusting the real Buddha to His Royal Highness Prince Ming, which is the relationship between all this now?"
Zhou Hui paused in his footsteps and turned around after a while, with a terrifying scarlet glow in the depths of his pupils.
This should be a very terrifying and absurd scene. A hell demon sits high above the most noble Glacier Temple in Heaven, looking down at Venerable Bati, who has the same life as the Buddha, and his eyes are full of aloof and undisguised murderous intent.
"I thought that if you got a bargain, you should hold it tight and don't sell it. Since you don't understand this truth, it seems that you want me to teach you personally."
The wind blew across the steps, Venerable Ba Ti looked up at Zhou Hui's hazy eyes, and after a while, a chill suddenly rose from the depths of his heart: "Zhou Shizhu misunderstood, I didn't mean that."
The Venerable leaned over and said, "I just want to tell you, no matter what the reason is for His Royal Highness the Phoenix Ming to do all this, kill the fake Buddha, send the real Buddha back to his place, and do this at all costs of nirvana... Just for the sake of your survival, he is the one who changed the cause and effect of this world, and saved countless lives in the future, a very remarkable person."
"When I was in the colorless sky, the Buddha mentioned you. For the sacrifices you and the Phoenix Ming King have made in these hundreds of years, he is very impressed and..."
"No need," Zhou Hui interrupted him, "I didn't do this for him. Who is Buddha? I don't know. I only have an acquaintance named Zhang Shun."
Zhou Hui turned around and walked into the temple.
Under the steps behind him, Venerable Ba Ti was stunned and stood there for a long time with a complex and dazed expression.
·
Not long after this conversation happened, one evening, Zhou Hui walked across the snow field painted golden by the setting sun, with a phoenix egg in his pocket, and left Mount Sumeru alone.
Just like when he came, it was very quiet when he left. No one seemed to know or pay attention. The footprints in the wind and snow were quickly covered and disappeared into the vast world.
Many people in Tiandao thought that Venerable Bati visited the Glacier Temple privately that day, and with a few words, he suppressed the arrogant hell demons and left the sacred thirty-third heaven. The monks breathed a sigh of relief because of this. They knelt down in the continuous temples that descended from the mountain, and they all conveyed their confidence and respect to the Venerable with their eyes.
But no one knew that when Zhou Hui left, Venerable Bati chased him out of the Buddhist temple and stood on the cliff of the glacier, but it was too late.
There is only whiteness in the whole world, and the glaciers that traverse the snowfield reflect a large amount of light. Under the far-reaching view, there is a small gray dot in the far place, step by step, towards the farther horizon.
That's the way to hell.
·
Zhou Hui returned to the Four Evil Realms, crossed the Ten Thousand Miles of Tie Lun Mountain that separates the human world from hell, stepped through the turbulent sea of blood, and finally returned to Buzhou Mountain.
Thousands of years have brought great changes to the topography of Buzhou Mountain. The sea of fire when the phoenix nirvana almost burned the primitive jungle on the top of the mountain to the ground. Zhou Hui climbed to the top of the peak, stood on the cliff and looked down at the magic eye. When he turned back, he saw a mountain road in the distance spiraling upwards, and a huge rock jutting out abruptly, straddling the deep stream like a natural platform. above.
There was a charred ruin on the platform, completely collapsed, but the shape of what was once a house could barely be seen.
Zhou Hui's eyes were blurred, with a trace of nostalgia and disappointment that he didn't even notice.
—That was where he and Phoenix lived in Buzhou Mountain.
Zhou Hui spent a week cleaning up the scorched soil, cutting down towering trees to make logs, and rebuilding a hut on the ruins.
He sowed Shura flowers around, and carefully repaired the courtyard walls and fences. He paved a path with bluestone, and when he opened the door, there was a vast cliff outside, and further afield, the ginkgo forest of the devil world was lush and lush on the hillside, and it was impossible to see the end.
"This is our home," he said to Phoenix.
"Welcome home."
The egg lay in his warm hands, quietly, as if in a sweet sleep.
Zhou Hui carefully arranged his and Phoenix's hut, using high-quality logs for tables, chairs, and beds, and soft rabbit fur for mattresses. The Asura flowers he planted bloomed very quickly. Every day from the window of the hut, they were splashing bright red, swaying in the wind, as if they were always in a lively gathering.
Zhou Hui liked the scenery very much. He often took the phoenix eggs to water the yard, and sometimes he would go out and walk through the miasma-filled mountain trails to go for a walk around the magic eye in the deep stream.
Garuda came here once, when Zhou Hui went home from a walk one day, and saw his second son standing in front of the gate wall of the small courtyard, looking up at the hut inside, his expression full of surprise , when he saw him, he called out to his father: "This... This is what you built yourself?"
Zhou Hui asked, "How did you find it?"
"Maha was in the sea of blood, and he told me that day when he saw you haunting near the devil's eye."
"Why didn't he rush to death or live?" Zhou Hui asked.
"...He thought that his mother might be in your pocket, so he didn't act rashly."
As Garuda said, he could not stop looking at this slightly rough but peaceful and peaceful hut. He probably knew that his father, who drove a luxury car, lived in a villa, and smashed people to death with money, could actually build such a yard with his own hands. The fact is surprising.
"How is your mother?"
Zhou Hui was silent for a moment, shook his head, and said nothing.
Garuda actually knew in his heart that this was the result, and sighed softly.
"I'm just here... Let me tell you, there's nothing major in the human world, and everyone is fine. If you're in the mood, come to the human world for a walk. Everyone misses you very much, and the life span of mortals is not too long... "
Garuda briefly talked about some things in the human world, and it was indeed very plain. It seemed that with the passing of the false Buddha Sakyamuni, the entire six realms had calmed down, and they lived peacefully every day.
Zhou Hui was noncommittal after hearing this. He didn't say whether to go or not, and he didn't take the initiative to ask about the status of those companions in the Human World. Garuda was soon speechless, and he didn't stay for too long. He left some necessities brought from the human world and left.
"Can I come and see it occasionally?" Garuda asked before leaving, "You can tell me anything you need, and after reading you, I can drop by the sea of blood to visit Maha. It's about a few times a year, or not. would be too often…”
Zhou Hui stood in the courtyard gate, and Garuda stood outside the courtyard gate. The young man is more and more like an adult. From Zhou Hui's point of view, he can even find a shadow that overlaps with himself in some of his demeanor.
But his eyes are very calm, as if separated by an invisible barrier of indifference, and as if he is perceiving everything in this world all the time, clear indifference and bottomless.
Those are the eyes of the phoenix.
"...Whatever you want." After a long silence, Zhou Hui finally said, "Don't be too diligent."
Garuda breathed a sigh of relief and said, "No."
·
Garuda really didn't come too diligently. He didn't show up in the second month. In the third month, he only left some daily necessities and plant seeds at the door, and he didn't show up.
After receiving those seeds, Zhou Hui planted them, absent-mindedly looking forward to them blooming in hell next year, and then continued to take the phoenix to take a walk in the valley after lunch every day, and only returned in the evening.
This has almost become his fixed schedule. The years in the mountains are unknown, and sometimes he even has the idea that if it is like this all his life, it seems to be a good idea.
However, what Zhou Hui didn't expect was that just a few days before the second batch of seeds he planted was about to germinate, he discovered the re-established passage to the God Realm near the Demon Eye.
The timing of discovering all this was very accidental. At first, it was only the flow of air pressure and wind speed that made him feel that something was wrong. Zhou Hui thought it was his own illusion. Later, one day, he found that the magic eye was glowing late at night. When he checked it during the day, he found that the channel had already formed, just like when it was opened naturally. another dimension of .
Could it be that this is part of the re-repair of the colorless sky
Standing at the entrance of the passage, Zhou Hui became interested after a long absence, and after hesitating for a while, he finally took a few steps inside.
The next second, the dimension suddenly rolled over, and the space formed countless intricate angles. Zhou Hui was thrown into the void before he could stand firm!
"Hey!"
thump!
Zhou Hui seemed to be washed ashore by the tide, and fell heavily on the ground.
The world in front of you is also very familiar, the vast expanse of gold and white, the road under your feet extends to a towering building not far away, with golden and jade walls, carved beams and painted buildings, it is a huge Buddhist hall that was smashed into powder in the decisive battle.
… a colorless sky
It came up so easily? !
The corners of Zhou Hui's mouth twitched slightly, and after checking that the phoenix egg in his lower pocket was still there, he set his mind and walked towards the Buddhist temple. As a result, after a while, he heard the faint sound of music coming from the front. He thought he had heard it wrong, and after stepping up a few steps, he found that it turned out to be the ending song of a famous popular TV series in the human world that became more and more clear. It was so popular that it was played in the streets and alleys. Even Phoenix would hum a few words.
Zhou Hui: "…"
Zhou Hui walked to the front of the Buddhist hall, stood behind the high threshold and looked in.
A familiar figure was wearing a sea soul shirt, beach pants, and several circles of Buddhist beads around his neck. He leaned his head on a lotus seat and focused on watching a TV screen connected to a DVD player not far away. Two wires were dragged behind the TV and connected all the way to a small generator placed in the corner of the Buddhist temple, which was buzzing at the moment.
"..." The expression on Zhou Hui's face was indescribable:
"Zhang Shun...?!"
Zhang Ershao turned around and said stunnedly, "Zhou Sha... Zhou Hui?"
Inside and outside the threshold, the two looked at each other, and the atmosphere was extremely strange.
Five seconds later, Zhou Hui suddenly raised his leg and stepped in, and charged aggressively in front of Zhang Shun, kicking Zheng Buddha, who was too late to avoid, off the lotus seat: "I have worked hard for your vote, and I will die or live below. Waiting for Phoenix to break its shell, what the hell are you doing here, watching DVDs at home?!"
Zheng Buddha was in a hurry and got up with his hands and feet, only to be knocked down by Zhou Hui with a punch in the head. Then he turned to look at the TV and became even more angry: "Zhang Shun!