Hell, sea of blood.
An emerald green flame spanned the sky, and the high temperature instantly evaporated the stormy waves into white steam, forming a ribbon with a magnificent halo.
Immediately afterwards, the end of the extension of the light belt was blasted open by the pure blue long arrow, and the arrow cut through the wind and waves like a meteor, and instantly knocked the Maha at the other end of the sky away!
The phoenix flew across the sky, with a speed that was almost a phantom, and then grabbed Maha with a palm, pressing him down against the frenzied airflow. The two figures fell sharply from the sky, and then fell into the sea of blood with a bang!
Zhou Hui followed, only to see the sea water swept away from Maha's side like life, and receded violently. Chu He pressed his chest firmly with one hand, and the two of them quickly fell to the bottom of the sea from the magnificent water wall, and then crashed into the depths of the sea, a piece of flat ground that was exposed.
Zhou Hui didn't even think about it, he rushed down with his legs, but then only heard Chu He sternly: "Don't come here!"
"you… "
"Don't come here," Chu He said lightly. He half-knelt on the ground and looked directly at Maha who was under his feet: "... This is a matter between me and Da Mao."
Zhou Hui hesitated and stopped.
Under the huge pressure of the two great kings of Ming, all the monsters in the blood sea quickly fled to the distance, and the sea water was pushed to both sides by the invisible giant force, forming an endless, spectacular and empty water wall.
Maha lay motionless on the ground and said coldly, "Zhou Hui wants to kill me, mother."
Chu He said softly, "He didn't."
"Why were you indifferent when he killed me, and I will be stopped if I fight back?"
"He didn't really want to kill you."
Maha's eyes moved and finally looked at Phoenix.
Peacock Ming Wang's face is very similar to his mother's, but even a silhouette can tell the difference. Maha's eyes are slightly raised, and his eyelashes are always habitually squinted, looking very sharp and a little neurotic; he is very casual with his gestures, and his tone is always mocking when he speaks, even if he doesn't say anything and doesn't move. , just sitting there casually, with a hostile aura radiating from the inside out.
Only when facing the phoenix did his anxious feeling subside a little.
"He may have had this idea, but he didn't really do it." Chu He paused and said, "So I hope your idea is just an idea... Some things can't be changed, but don't put them into practice for the rest of your life. Just act."
Maha sarcastically said, "I thought you've been working on restoring harmony to this family. So you admit that some things cannot be changed?"
Chu He was silent for a moment.
"It's my fault." He said after a long while, "I wanted to change things that should have been like this from the very beginning, and that led to the result today."
He let go of Maha, sat down on the ground, put his hands on his bent knees at will, and looked at the majestic water wall in the distance.
The tense atmosphere suddenly disappeared, and Maha was a little uncomfortable. He lay on the ground and blinked for a while before slowly getting up and sitting in front of Chu He, staring at his mother vigilantly.
"… what are you trying to say?"
"When you were condemned," Chu He said slowly, "I also think Zhou Hui really wanted you to die."
Maha was stunned.
"That was the time when I hated Zhou Hui the most in my life. I thought he should have saved you, but he stood by and even prevented me from taking the punishment for you... In a sense, he was the executioner who wanted to kill you. Because of this incident, my anger and hatred for him have reached an unprecedented level, and I even thought of breaking up, even the snow mountain goddess who was in the 33rd heaven..."
Maha listened intently, but Chu He suddenly stopped.
—Even the goddess of the snow-capped mountains did not make me ignite such a clear and profound resentment.
But he didn't say it in front of Maha.
"But as time went on... I slowly realized that my anger towards Zhou Hui actually stemmed more from empathy and self-deception. During the hundreds of years you were sealed in the underground grotto of H City, I really The one who resents is actually yourself - the one who has no way to protect you and watch your child fall into the quagmire..."
"It's not like that at all!" Mo He suddenly retorted: "It has nothing to do with you! If you haven't been there since childhood—"
"That's it." Phoenix interrupted him calmly, "I made too many wrong decisions in the process of educating you, and it was precisely because I couldn't face myself who harmed my children that I transferred all my resentment to Zhou. Hui. 'Why didn't you help Maha? Why did you stop me from taking the punishment for Maha?' - In fact, I know deep down in my heart. If I replace you in person from the first thunder of the curse, I insist The soul will be wiped out before the last blow, and Zhou Hui's ending is unlikely to be any better."
Maha was silent for a long time.
"And there's nothing wrong with Zhou Hui's decision. It's not so much that he chooses to sacrifice you, it's better that he chooses to bear the price of being resented, but also to keep me..."
Phoenix's tone was slightly complicated.
"Many years ago, I thought that children were the most important thing, and you and Garuda, who are connected by blood, are the most unlikely to abandon each other. But as the years passed, I gradually discovered that this is actually a very selfish Idea. The supreme importance is determined by blood alone, and where do you place the sincerity and love of others?"
"In a long life, you can always find a person who has the same heart as you. You can give him your feelings, and you can ask him to accompany you to the end of your life with the same feelings. However, this person will not be your descendant, Children do not bear the responsibility of their parents' excessive emotional needs, and relative parents have no obligation to sacrifice everything for their children. Zhou Hui was very clear about this from the beginning, but I only realized it at the last moment. "
"...I understand what you mean." Maha took a breath and said in a low voice, "But I still don't want to change my mind..."
He crossed his legs, slender white fingers resting on his ankles, his eyes fixed on the ground, and his long silver hair flowed down from the side of his cheeks.
Chu He looked at him.
When Maha was a little peacock, he was used to sitting cross-legged like this, playing with his feathers in a corner by himself.
At that time, he was suffering from the torment of nightmares. He was confused between terrifying illusions and reality every day. He was manic, restless, and neurotic. Only when he was alone would he calm down a little.
"It's okay." After a while, Chu He sighed.
"… "
"I just want to explain to you what your father did during the scourge... But you're right, some things can't be changed."
They sat opposite each other, and the sound of sea waves in the distance came from under the dark sky.
"Let's discuss something," Chu He said suddenly.
Maha raised his head.
"Zhou Hui's lifespan as a hell demon is limited. It is estimated that there are still so many years." Chu He compared a number: "And your symptoms of the five declines of heaven and man have eased in the sea of blood, so it should be no problem until then."
"Are you saying that I can make the last cut before he dies?" Maha asked hopelessly.
"No. What I mean is that if you only go back and forth between the two worlds of gods and demons, and don't enter the human world, after Zhou Hui's death, I will give you my godhead."
Chu He's expression was very calm, and he didn't even pause at the speed of his speech. It sounded the same as "be good from now on" or "my inheritance will still be inherited by you".
However, these words were like a bomb in Maha's ears, and he was stunned on the spot.
"… you're not kidding?"
Chu He nodded seriously and said, "No."
The corners of Maha's lips were tightly pursed, his face was a little pale, and he stared at his mother in disbelief.
Phoenix also said the same thing before ascending to the colorless sky to kill the Buddha, but in the context at that time, it was understood by Maha as a joke.
This kind of thing is completely beyond his comprehension, and he can't imagine that one day it will actually happen!
Not far behind him, Zhou Hui originally took a straw stick and squatted on the ground to draw a circle, but his movements suddenly stopped.
"...I thought..." Maha's voice was unstable, and the ending trembled a little when he listened carefully: "I thought you were going to grab a godhead for your father... or something..."
"The godhead is Chinese cabbage, can you grab it if you snatch it?" Chu He asked back, "Besides, there are too few godheads that fit in with the hell demons, so we can't go to the Asura tribe to engage in massacres, or else go and rob Garuda. ?"
Maha was speechless, the only feeling was absurd: "But if this is the case, your life will soon be..."
"I know. But that's the way things are, and there's no single path that leads to both ends."
They looked at each other for a moment, and Chu He smiled slightly.
"Maha, gods like you and me live almost as long as heaven and earth, so all the choices you and I make are destined to be short-lived passers-by in life. It's like the person who runs an inn, watching the travelers come and go. , one day you will meet someone who wants to close the shop and pack up and go with him."
"For me, your father would only occupy a certain period of time in my life, but for him, I occupy an infinite amount of his limited life. This is an unfair game in itself, I just It's just trying to change this inequality."
There was a buzzing sound in Maha's mind, and his intuition wanted to refute, but Chu He had already stood up.
"Okay, don't go to the human world again, just stay in the sea of blood - the sword in your hand is Susanoo's Amazumi Yun. After he was born, he was indeed reprimanded by his father because he missed his mother too much. But At that time, his mother was already dead, and I wasn't dead yet, so it's better for you to have less trouble."
"..." Maha embarrassed: "I didn't just because of this sword..."
Chu He raised his hand and patted his head.
Although this action is condescending, his voice is very soft: "You will find someone who will accompany you in place of your parents, and only this person can accompany you to the end. It was my idea that was wrong in the past, and it will not be from now on. I will."
Chu He turned around, walked through the towering water wall, and walked towards Zhou Hui on the other side of the sea of blood.
Maha looked back at him. At that moment, the anger and anxiety around King Peacock Ming seemed to have disappeared, but his eyes were a little lost.
Zhou Hui stood up and Chu He walked in front of him.
"Go back, it's not over yet."
Zhou Hui nodded with a thoughtful expression, still holding the grass root in his mouth.
Chu He just pretended not to see it, and walked towards the endless Tie Lun Mountain under the gray sky in the distance. Zhou Hui followed behind him step by step, and after a long while he opened his mouth in a whisper, "Well, if one day..."
"Um?"
"...if I die..."
Chu He stared ahead without making a sound.
Zhou Hui's tongue suddenly knotted, and his words became: "Where do you think it's better to bury me?"
"..." Chu He was silent for a moment, then said slowly, "Buzhou Mountain."
"why?"
"The place is big, you and I can bury it."
The wind was blowing from his face, and the ends of his hair and the placket of his clothes were instantly raised backwards, reflected in Zhou Hui's deep eyes.
Chu He didn't turn his head back, he just pulled Zhou Hui back. The two of them crossed their fingers and pressed their palms to each other. Zhou Hui took two steps to come to him, and saw a luminous passage of time and space slowly cracking in the sky on the top of Tie Lun Mountain not far away. A pure white monument flashed in the passage.
It was the entrance to hell for the newly dead souls of the human world to come to hell every day.
From there you can return to the Human World, where they came from.
"Hey," Zhou Hui looked straight at the sky, and finally said, "About Shakti, I actually have something to say..."
Chu He said flatly: "Don't say it."
"No no, these words have been in my heart for a long time. Do you know that she is in a demon now, in fact, it will be much better for her to let go of herself after her incarnation. It was really too pretentious back then. I'm not the kind of person who gossips behind people's backs, Besides, I don't want to keep telling my stupid past, but if you mind..."
"I do not mind."
"No, no, it doesn't matter if you mind. What I want to say is that everything has a process of development, just like Shakti has changed from perpetually pretending to letting himself go in thousands of years. I was just a new transfiguration. , A monster with a slightly higher IQ, who is often still in a state of stubbornness. In retrospect, I should wait until I am a little more mature and then come to you, but when my mind is hot... Sometimes I will be a fool... "
"Don't say it," Chu He said unbearably, "I didn't care about her at all back then, okay?"
Zhou Hui stared at him with a broken-hearted expression.
"I just care about whether you will be like Sakyamuni!" Chu He said, "I had already begun to doubt him at that time, and I was afraid that you would have the same two faces behind him! As for the Snow Mountain Goddess herself, I have never I didn't care. If I'm really confused, what kind of ghosts and goddesses have died a thousand times earlier, so it's not as simple as burning her house? So what you want to explain is not important at all, I will find my concern from other and more aspects the answer, understand?"
Zhou Hui looked at him distrustfully, and asked for a while, "...Then what was the fear you saw in Shakti's mirror?"
"You slaughtered the peacock pot," Chu He said casually.
Just as Zhou Hui was about to ruthlessly expose his lies, he suddenly saw Chu He standing halfway up the mountain, squinting and looking up: "Huh?"
"You don't want to transfer—"
"No," Chu He pointed to the space-time tunnel in mid-air, and asked in surprise, "Isn't that Yan Xiaoge?"
Zhou Hui's only reaction was that you don't want to change the subject, but when he looked back, he was stunned.
I saw thousands of souls forming a torrent, passing through the Human Realm Monument, and rushing towards hell from the time and space tunnel. In the gray translucent current, there is a soul caught in it, shining like a tiny star in a huge school of fish; if you look closely, it is because a pentagram is flashing in the chest of this soul, and the light is just right Slowly weakened at a speed visible to the naked eye.
- I saw that it was Yan Lanyu's soul of the world.
"Wait!" Zhou Hui suddenly said: "And Lao Yu!"
Chu He took a closer look and saw Yan Lanyu's soul facing the direction of the human world, as if he was still reluctant to leave; and not far in front of him, another gray-white and transparent soul was passing through the torrent, trying its best to reach him. Reaching out his hand, it turned out to be Yu Jingzhong!
"—Catch them!" Zhou Hui became furious in an instant: "What's going on here, why are both souls floating in hell?!"
Chu He jumped up to follow Zhou Hui, and the brilliant Buddha light of the Phoenix Ming King erupted from his side. Wherever the light went, countless souls immediately soared, fluttering away from the shackles of hell, and flew towards the human world and the thirty-third heaven.
For a while, the sky was filled with souls, and Yan Lanyu's soul of Yang Shi was about to disperse in midair, and was held down by Chu He. The illusory soul was grasped by him in the palm of his hand as if it were real. Looking back, he saw that Zhou Hui had also caught Yu Jingzhong not far away, and with a snap, he directly inserted his five fingers into the soul's brain.
"How the hell did you get here?! Are you dead? How did you die?!"
Yu Jingzhong's soul was swayed from side to side, staring at Zhou Hui blankly, obviously there were signs that he was about to drift away.
"Return to the Human Realm!" Chu He made an immediate decision, flew over to grab Zhou Hui, and dragged him directly into the time-space tunnel: "Their bodies haven't completely died! There is still help when they go back!"
Zhou Hui grabbed Chu He with his backhand, and the two held the souls of Yu Fu and Yan Lanyu respectively, and were sucked into the time-space tunnel by the recoil force.
In the next second, Ise Mountain in the Human World, Zhou Hui and Chu He both "thumped!" and fell on the rough ground.
Zhou Hui was padded underneath, and with a dismal face, he got up and looked, and saw a huge dirt pit in front of him, Yan Lanyu's body was lying quietly at the bottom of the pit. And Yu Jingzhong was leaning beside him, one hand was clasped with him, the other was still maintaining a climbing posture, obviously trying to take Yan Lanyu to escape at the last moment.
This gesture was actually tragic to the point of absurdity. Zhou Hui looked back at Yu Jingzhong's dumbfounded soul, and immediately became angry and dragged him down the dirt pit. Violently kicked back into Yu Fu's body!
Om - When the soul enters the body, it is like a metal vibration, echoing for a long time.
Immediately afterwards, Yu Jingzhong's fingers moved, and then again. His whole body suddenly convulsed, he covered his chest, arched up, and let out a violent cough!
"Cough, cough, cough, cough!..."
Yu Jingzhong shivered and got up, then the sky was spinning, and he fell down again. After falling like this for two or three times, Zhou Hui finally grabbed his back collar with great compassion, and lifted Yu Jingzhong, who was very embarrassed, from the ground.
"Yan... cough cough! Yan Lanyu... he... cough cough cough!... "
Zhou Hui slapped him with a slap on his head: "How old are you and you are still playing with love! Isn't that Yan Lanyu?!"
Yu Fu gasped violently, and managed to stop the cough that almost broke his ribs in his chest cavity, and barely looked up.
I saw Yang Shi's soul floating above Yan Lanyu's body - it is now just an ordinary translucent soul, and the brilliance of the pentagram has completely disappeared without a trace.
And Chu He knelt on one knee on the side, muttering something, and holding Yang Shihun's heart with one hand.
His palm seemed to be covered with a warm halo, completely enveloping his soul, and after a few minutes, he gently pressed it back into Yan Lanyu's already cold body.
Yu Fulian rushed over and rushed over: "Lan Yu!"
The halo had not yet dissipated, and Yan Lanyu's pale cheeks seemed to be stained with a slight blood color. Yu Jingzhong grabbed his hand tightly, and suddenly felt his fingers move in a hurry.
- That's the pulse from the wrist.
Yan Lanyu slowly opened her eyes, and after a few seconds, her dilated pupils gradually focused and turned to Yu Jingzhong.
"… "
His mouth moved slightly, but he didn't make a sound, and it took a long while for a very tired smile to emerge.
Yu Jingzhong breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had finally unloaded a heavy burden, his body swayed a few times, unable to hold it any longer, and fell to the ground with a thud.