Cathay, the country.
The Steel Temple under the Royal Palace.
The crazy glow burned, burning everyone's eyes, and also illuminated the unconcealable mottled hair on Bai Heng's hair.
In the pure white that people were proud of that day, even the slightest bit of dimness was so annoying.
So... confusing.
"anyway."
Bai Heng shook his head and sighed: "For so long, I have followed my own will, acted against my will, and made many people curious: Do I have some secret that is not bound by the blood of heaven and man?"
Facing the astonished expressions of Prince Dong and Yunlou Qingshu, Bai Heng smiled happily.
"Yes, I do."
He nodded and said seriously:
"—Because I can't even be considered a heavenly being."
Prince Dong's expression was indifferent, without the slightest hint of anger or gloom, as if he accepted this point lightly, with countless rainbow lights flashing in his pupils, looking for a way to break the situation.
But Yunlou Qingshu can hardly be as inhuman as the natural disaster.
The expression is full of excitement.
First he was shocked, then he was confused, and finally he was uncontrollably furious, with his face ashen and his teeth gritted.
The orthodoxy of heaven and man, which I have always wanted to control, is actually held in my hand by such a thing!
"you this… "
"Ah, I have kept this secret in my heart for many years."
Bai Heng showed an "embarrassed" and "shy" look, "I am actually the child of my mother who had an affair with a groom. I was born with only half the blood of a human being. She tried her best to hide this. Although I His father later discovered that he was wearing a particularly large green iron helmet, but after all, it was a family scandal and should not be made public, and at least it could be used as a scapegoat and thrown to the imperial capital to die. After all, as long as he didn't tell it... who knows? ? Back then, everyone knew that the young patriarch of the Bai family was the best at painting, but I just wanted to find some paint in the palace to dye my hair... I'm really sorry for not living up to everyone's expectations."
"wrong!"
Yunlou Qingshu finally came to his senses and stared at him: "Dragon Vein Blessing! What's the matter with Dragon Vein Blessing!"
"Because the marrow has been changed."
Bai Heng answered matter-of-factly, and casually opened his clothes, showing off his skinny body: "More than that, you see, this heart belongs to my fourth brother, and the liver belongs to my cousin, and was later replaced by the third brother's. , and here, you see... You have to cut it from here, insert a tube, and then cut open the lungs... Fortunately, there is a life-support capsule at home that can hold the body. I just put it together and used it. A year and a half. After taking too much painkillers, they no longer work. Later, I finally became a duke recognized by Dragon Vein, but there was no foundation from the beginning. At best, I can only be regarded as a 'semi-finished product' ?”
No matter who it was, they would take a breath of air when they saw Bai Heng's chest.
It was no longer a scar, but after countless incisions and stitches, it was completely reduced to pieces.
No one thought that Bai Heng, who was the regent, was wrapped in such a tragic and ferocious shriveled body under his solemn robe.
Showing his ugliest appearance like this, Bai Heng's eyes were so proud, and he grinned, revealing the grooves on his teeth.
The medicine in it has already penetrated into the intestines and stomach as the saliva melts, and flows through the limbs and bones along with the blood.
"Look, you have to take injections to prevent rejection on a regular basis, endure the consequences including blood in the urine and periodic exacerbations, all kinds of inconvenience and pain... All these things you get in exchange can be completely destroyed with just one 'bad blood medicine' .Not even as good as the bumpkin next to you."
Being a fake.
Yet so complacent.
This is Bai Heng's strongest weapon.
Thanks to this, he can win the trust of the Yuan family, the Changsun family and the Liu family... He is the only fake who can destroy the dragon veins.
Now, after taking a piece of scurvy medicine to relieve his immunity to radiation, Bai Heng's body was already "riddled with holes" in such a high-intensity radiation in an instant.
Destruction down to the cellular level has soaked him in it.
He looked so alive now, but that was just an illusion formed by the accumulation of gravel. Festering and death have emerged from every cell, spreading unstoppably.
In other words, he was dead.
But relying on his own insignificant death, he overwhelmed the power of natural disasters on the scale.
"Congratulations, Prince Dong, your plan has failed."
He said softly: "He was defeated by me, a mortal who is not even a musician, and a semi-finished product that is not even a celestial being."
Before he could finish his words, the roaring sound suddenly stopped.
For a moment, everyone had the illusion of falling into an abyss.
Because the world is falling apart.
Toward the center of the entire Steel Temple.
The gravity seemed to be distorted, and countless rainbow lights emerged from the ocean of ether, and then merged into the huge and blurry whirlpool amidst the thunder.
swirl.
An unprecedented gathering of power, and a hole seemed to have been drilled out of the world under the crushing force.
But in the musician's perception, this world riddled with holes seemed to be filled with endless brilliance.
Something is coming.
From the higher dimensions, all the power of ether is gathered, the source of all miracles, the starting point of all power, the prototype of all things... emerges in this palace.
But it's so far away.
Even if it is close at hand, it is difficult to touch.
It was so huge that it turned the whole world into dust, and it was so beautiful that it eclipsed all things - after running through time, space and other trivial things, something called the "Great Source" emerged.
Taking the existence of Chaoyue and Bai Xi as containers, they descended here under the guidance of "Taiyi" and "Zhao**".
However, human eyes cannot observe its existence at all, and can only infer its arrival based on the traces left in the past.
—That is the projection of the sacred cauldron.
An artifact created by humans in the past when they rewritten the Great Source.
At this moment, its shadow emerged from the fierce light, shrouding the bodies of Chaoyue and Bai Xi, revealing traces of ancient times.
So, everything is ready.
For hundreds of years, countless musicians have dreamed of an opportunity.
But the central core remains silent.
Without Bai's bloodline certification, he rigidly refused all orders.
Everyone could only watch this opportunity pass by, feeling anxious and painful. Watching the short time pass by.
After this short-term manifestation is over, it will disappear again into the deepest part of the etheric world, a dimension that is difficult for humans to reach...
"It's so sad, isn't it?"
Bai Heng stared at Dong Wang's face with a mocking smile: "'Dayuan' has arrived, it must not feel good to just watch, right? Why don't I tell you a joke..."
Before he finished speaking, hoarse laughter rang out.
It's Yunlou Qingshu.
"Hahahahaha!!!"
After witnessing the end of this calculation and conspiracy, Yunlou Qingshu burst out laughing uncontrollably: "It's so interesting, so funny, so ironic! The Regent is indeed a rare person in a generation, and he can do this. … It’s really beyond my expectation, I admire you, I admire you!”
"It's easy to talk about."
One of Bai Heng's hands was handcuffed on the chair, and he could only reluctantly make a gesture of cupping his hands, and said in a pleasant tone: "Master Yun Lou, a good bird, is not ready to choose the right wood to roost again, right?"
"Let's just choose a tree to live on. As the saying goes, a gentleman keeps improving himself. Now, I'm tired of living under other people's trees. No matter how big the backing is, what's the point of oneself?"
Yunlou Qingshu smiled and used some method to pry open the shackles on his left hand. He stood up from the iron chair, looked around the hall, and finally stood with his hands behind his back:
"It's a pity that His Majesty and the Regent plotted against each other, and the crane and the clam were fighting, but I was given the opportunity to benefit from it."
"oops?"
Bai Heng seemed shocked, "Aren't you passionate about resurrecting your beloved wife?"
"Just talk, don't take it seriously."
Yunlou Qingshu waved his hand lightly: "If Mr. Heng likes beauties, I will burn a few for you after I get the treasure from my lower body."
"Are you planning to become the Nine-Five Master now?"
Bai Heng burst out laughing: "It's a pity that a bumpkin is just a bumpkin, and he can't even call himself a loner."
Even at this level, Bai Heng still kept the word bumpkin on his lips.
As a result, Yunlou Qingshu's smile turned gloomy.
Being called a bumpkin by today's fakes is ten times more derisive than before.
He narrowed his eyes, took one last look at Bai Heng, and waved:
"—Chaoyue, kill him."
At that moment, in the center of the hall, the sleeping Yunlou Chaoyue suddenly started to tremble.
Under the command of Yunlou Qingshu, Yunlou Chaoyue, who had been in a trance, was forced to wake up from the deepest part of the source, and his pupils slowly opened.
But those eyes were empty.
It seems to be enough to encompass the entire magnificent world.
In the great source that emerged in the form of a sacred cauldron, a vague figure slowly emerged, and cold murderous intent emerged from it.
Deeply eerie.
But Bai Heng still smiled.
"Where did I just say that? By the way, a joke."
He patted his knees and said enthusiastically: "The joke is this. Once upon a time, there was an ambitious country bumpkin who thought he was born extraordinary and coveted the throne of the emperor without overestimating his abilities. Then..."
Before he finished speaking, the harsh screech of steel friction erupted out of thin air.
Blood spurted out.
Dyeing a sad red.
"-he died."
Bai Heng said so.
Yunlou Qingshu's smile stiffened.
Lowering his head, he saw the big hole in his chest, which was empty, and wisps of flames were burning on the wound, using the blood as fuel, spreading to the internal organs, swallowing it bit by bit. .
He looked back in surprise.
I saw the phantom emerging from the projection of the great source.
That huge power used Chaoyue and Bai Xi as containers and descended to the material world. The two talents of "Taiyi" and "Zhao**" were so strong that they were almost foul. The most perfect posture appears.
It was a distant and erratic figure.
Chaoyue and Bai Xi, who had been divided into two since they were born, merged into one, forming a slightly unfamiliar face, but they looked so familiar.
That was the face that was engraved in the deepest part of their consciousness from the moment they were born, the source of blood and inheritance.
She is also the sister and wife of Yunlou Qingshu...
— Yunlou Qingxue!
In just an instant, the overwhelming power crushed Yunlou Qingshu's heart and lungs, ignited him, and cruelly and deliberately gave him the most cruel death sentence.
Little by little ashes in this flame.
"how come?"
Yunlou Qingshu stared blankly at those eyes, catching a glimpse of the deep-seated hatred in them. He whined in the flames, fell to the ground, twitching with difficulty, and watched helplessly as his limbs were charred by the burning fire. Broken into ashes.
This is a long death.
"This joke is over, is it funny?"
Bai Heng looked down at his miserable situation with pity in his eyes: "You idiot... you have never understood how precious your daughter is."
At this moment, Chaoyue and Bai Xi serve as the containers of the Great Source at the same time, almost equivalent to overlapping one another.
When Chaoyue wakes up, Bai Xi's will will naturally return.
The two are originally one.
What's more, at this moment, relying on the resonance of Dayuan and Dragon Vein, it is even closer than ever.
Even if that consciousness can only last for a moment in that endless power.
And Chaoyue, who was deliberately cultivated by Yunlou Qingshu into a puppet, was unable to control the rising Bai Xi.
At that moment, after getting rid of the suppression of the dragon's blood, Bai Xi was finally able to take revenge on his biological father by assuming the face and posture of his mother.
It's a pity that no matter how tragic the death is, it can't vent the anger in her heart for so many years.
Regarding Yunlou Qingshu's tragic end, Bai Heng watched with cold eyes from beginning to end, neither adding insult to injury nor being stupid enough to lend a helping hand.
He just gave his final evaluation indifferently.
"Idiot."
Yunlou Qingshu is an idiot.
Right from the beginning.
He rebelled halfway, killed his father, and forced his brother away. This was worthy of being despised, but this was not the reason why Bai Heng looked down on him.
Bai Heng himself did this.
The reason he looked down on Yunlou Qingshu was that he had nothing but ambition.
Even rebellion can't be done well.
But apart from a title, he didn't get any inheritance, and couldn't even keep a title.
If he had just a little bit of patience and a chance to understand the inheritance of heavenly beings, he wouldn't be in this situation.
He simply doesn't understand: How precious his daughter is!
No one knows how furious and regretful Bai Heng was when he learned about Bai Xi's existence from Hermes. He wanted to tear this bastard Yunlou Qingshu into pieces!
It’s simply, it’s simply... a squandering of natural resources!
Such a talented person was strangled and destroyed by him in his mother's womb, just because he was afraid of the risk of premature death, and in order to exchange a living legitimate heir for a useless title!
He is actually still complacent about this
Go to hell, you idiot, you have no idea what you did!
It is a blessing to have such once-in-a-millennium and unprecedented talents as "Taiyi" and "Zhao**" appear in one of them, let alone appear in a child at the same time.
The dual talents, which are mutually positive and negative, but actually one body, are not only unprecedented, Bai Heng can even conclude that they are absolutely unprecedented!
Even after they were separated, their qualifications were still terrifying enough to become the vessels of Dayuan.
If it is complete, it will definitely be the closest to perfect individual since the birth of the Nine Surnames of Dragon Vein!
In other words, the inheritance of the nine surnames of Dragon Vein exists to create existences like Chaoyue and Bai Xi!
For hundreds of years, in order to completely control the ether and to avoid interrupting the continuation of personal death, human beings have not hesitated to implant music theory into their blood, passing it on, maintaining and continuing it from generation to generation.
Finally, through internal mixing, a true "son of the dragon's veins" is created!
Compared with the Sons of the Dragon Vein, all musicians are nothing more than inferior mass-produced goods.
He is not a musician who uses and communicates with the ether, nor is he a hub and bridge between humans and the ether—but a person who possesses the dual characteristics of both humans and ether, possesses the ether, and can truly integrate into the ether!
This is the method created by the first generation of Dragon Vein Nine Surnames in order to avoid being "betrayed by tools".
—If the tool will betray you, then let the tool become yourself and merge into one!
And when all of this was closest to success, it was turned into a half-finished product by a fool who thought he was smart... What a huge irony!
Bai Heng could almost imagine how heartbroken those long-dead ghosts would be if there really were so-called "spirits in the sky"!
"But although Yunlou Qingshu is stupid, he at least helped me a favor."
As Bai Heng spoke, he pulled out a piece of wire from the root of his hair, quickly pried open the lock, and moved his body. As the searing phantom pain dissipated, the body seemed to return to its original state.
But this is just a flashback.
The vitality of being a human being has been cut off from the lowest level.
It's not like cutting down trees, but every branch, every leaf, and every inch of the trunk has lost its vitality. Even if it can still maintain the integrity of its body according to inertia, it can be foreseen that it will turn into a ball of rotten flesh in a few days.
But now, he looked as if he was radiant.
Extremely good.
With a casual kick, Bai Heng kicked aside Yunlou Qingshu, who was about to burn out. Bai Heng walked towards the emperor: "If he hadn't jumped out first, I wouldn't have been sure whether Duke Dongwang was here... I guess he is now Just to invade the central core and take control by force is already beyond our capabilities, right?"
In the silence, the person on the throne opened his eyes. They were no longer indifferent and cold, but filled with human colors again.
It's like waking up from a big dream.
"Is it Bai Heng?"
she asked.
"Well, it's me." Bai Heng nodded, walked to her, bent down, and looked at her face: "I have met your majesty."
The emperor laughed tiredly: "Where is Yunlou Qingshu?"
Bai Heng pointed casually, "It's still hot over there. Is there something wrong, Your Majesty?"
"Does it seem like you won? That's fine."
The emperor looked at Bai Heng and chuckled tiredly: "You have worked so hard just to be the emperor?"
Bai Heng shook his head and smiled.
"I don't want the throne, Your Majesty, why don't you understand until now?" His eyes looked regretful, "If I wanted that chair, you wouldn't have any chance at all. I just want you to start from this Just walked out of the cage."
"Don't you understand? For so many years, you have been driven by natural disasters and think that I am your biggest enemy. But it is not me who imprisons you, but everything you have... "
Bai Heng reached out and stroked her white hair, and finally looked at her blank pupils.
"Don't worry, I won't let you die."
He said:
"—I want you to live."
Really, live like a human being!
Along with his words, after the fierce light, a faint alchemical matrix lit up on Bai Xi's body - it was the lock forged by Hermes.
At this moment, under Bai Heng's call, the matrix wrapped around Bai Xi's body was activated - the matrix that had grown together with muscles, bones, internal organs and flesh and blood actually fell off on its own at this moment.
Like fallen leaves falling from the branches.
The matrix, which was so huge and complex that it resembled the nervous system, was now subtly and subtly extracted from Bai Xi's body without any pain.
She no longer needs anything to seal her talent.
At this moment, the matrix was flying in the air, absorbing the ether, and began to multiply on its own.
If the original matrix is like a whole nervous system, then at the end of the nervous system, there are countless music theories and matrices flowing.
It's unfolding.
Restore original appearance.
It's like a miracle that spreads out from the dust and swallows the whole world.
The peerless art of alchemy is repeated here.
In the end, thousands of threads of thought stretched out from the end of the huge matrix and connected to every ganglion of the empress, causing her to fall into a trance in an instant.
"What's this?"
In front of her, Bai Heng smiled and guided the matrix to increase its value, as if he had practiced it thousands of times, skillfully and carefully:
"Fifteen years ago, the emperor turned you into a machine of Cathay, a puppet who lived only for his mission. For so many years, I have been trying to think of ways to change you back to your original self. Unfortunately, with my meager talent, , after all, it is difficult to compete with natural disasters... Fortunately, as long as there is a will, there is always a way."
At that moment, countless matrices were gathered in his hands, turned into a thread, and aimed at the empress's heart.
"Do not be afraid."
He said softly:
"—The art of human transformation of Hermes is hidden here."
At that moment, the endless alchemical matrix accompanied Bai Heng's movements and penetrated the Queen from the throne.
Wails erupted.
It seemed like a sad cry that was fifteen years late.
Crying out in agony.
Countless forgotten memories surged out from the darkness, and in the end, they were frozen in the last warm moment.
The old emperor cut open her chest and implanted the lingering ghost into her body.
"From now on—"
The dying old man's eyes flashed with fanaticism: "You are the new emperor."
The memory stopped abruptly, and then shattered in a roar.
It's the Duke of the East.
After penetrating through layers of firewalls, Dongwanggong, who was only one step away from the finish line, roared.
He is truly like a virtuous "man", roaring and shouting with the anger and unwillingness that only a human being can have:
"Bai Heng!!!"
"Yes, it's me."
Bai Heng smiled, and penetrated the alchemy matrix inch by inch into the emperor's body: "Taste the pain, this is a precious experience that only human beings have. Wail and roar like a human being."
He said goodbye coldly:
"This is the gift Hermes gave you before he died!"
At that moment, a fierce light shot into the sky.
In the long dream, Ye Qingxuan opened his eyes.