"What do you say?"
Zheng Xiu didn't answer his question, but asked instead.
Ding Ning simply raised his eyebrows and didn't speak at all.
"People will always change." Zheng Xiu put his hand on the side of the cradle, tapped the cradle with his fingers, and said in a rare soft voice: "I want to find out what kind of person you are now."
Ding Ning still didn't reply, because he felt that such a conversation was unnecessary and boring.
Zheng Xiu looked at him, and continued: "You could have died because of the lives and deaths of some people in Changling, but if you are really such a person who does not hesitate to sacrifice yourself, can you die because of this baby? Or let me live?"
"I think you're fundamentally wrong."
Ding Ning sneered, looking at the other person's perfect face, but he couldn't think of any sweet things back then, only loathing: "There has never been anyone who is absolutely selfless and sacrifices himself for others without any choice. Any choice has nothing to do with oneself. I chose to fight to the death because of two reasons, one is that there is nothing more sad than death, and the other is that those people in the Bashan Sword Field are my confidantes who share life and death with me, and they are my brothers and sisters, so Even if I die, I still want them to live. However, although the mother and son in Yanjing are innocent, I didn't have a deep relationship with them before. You said that you want me to die for them. Forgive me for not being so selfless , if you must threaten me with their life and death, then you are also the culprit. I can only kill you to avenge them. And if you let people like you go, more innocent people like them will die because of you. Presumably she can understand."
Ding Ning's last words were addressed to that ordinary peasant woman.
Originally, this ordinary peasant woman was already frightened to the extreme, especially when Zheng Xiu's fingers tapped on the cradle, she trembled all over, and even couldn't help moving, but was stopped by Ding Ning's calm eyes.
Hearing Ding Ning's words at this moment, although the body of this ordinary peasant woman was still trembling slightly, there was suddenly some other meaning in her eyes, and she even nodded slightly to Ding Ning.
Zheng Xiu was silent for a long time, and then said slowly: "No one has ever really known the secret of Nine Dead Silkworms except you. Since no one knows except you, who can know that you are not intentionally sad, and you are not sure that you can die. After rebirth, become stronger?"
"Do I need it?" Ding Ning looked at her with the eyes of an idiot, and mocked: "I am already invincible, why do I have to die and rebuild, if it were you, you would give up what is at your fingertips, and then risk dying once and then rebuild ?"
"Just to make you feel more guilty? Does it make you feel more guilty?"
Looking at Zheng Xiu who fell silent again, Ding Ning added another sentence.
Zheng Xiu couldn't answer.
Because it really doesn't make sense.
"If you are still the same as the person before, then I can trust you. I can beg you... Please tell me the secret of the nine-dead silkworm, and I will let this pair of mother and child go." Zheng Xiu slowly raised his head , looking at Ding Ning, "Because I really want to know what the nine-dead silkworm is."
Ding Ning glanced at her lightly.
Then he nodded to the peasant woman behind Zheng Xiu, reached out and picked up the baby in the cradle, and handed it to the peasant woman.
The peasant woman didn't speak, her eyes were full of tears, she knelt down and kowtowed to Ding Ning, then quickly opened the door and left.
The sound of her footsteps grew further and further away, disappearing completely.
The farmhouse became absolutely quiet.
Zheng Xiu began to drink hot soup.
"If there is no example, no master to teach you, no one to try it, but you get a fragmented scripture, it is recorded in the scriptures, telling you that when you are about to die, you can perform according to the law, and you will be brought back to life. It is possible. You will try to cultivate, will you try to see if it really has this effect?" Ding Ning looked at her and asked.
Zheng Xiu paused.
The lips that had become bright again due to the heat stayed on the rough edge of the bowl.
She thought about it seriously, and then said: "It's possible, you can get a chance to rebuild."
Ding Ning shook his head: "So you are different from ordinary people. Even if I got the inheritance of Emperor You, I got the Nine Dead Silkworm, and even I have completely deliberated the practice method of Nine Dead Silkworm, but there is no precedent to follow, even Emperor You himself They are all dead and have not been reborn, so I don't believe in the resurrection of the nine-dead silkworm in my heart. How can I try it with my own body?"
Zheng Xiu said: "So you didn't tell me the nine-death silkworm back then, because you thought I was different from ordinary people. You were even worried that I had obtained this exercise, so you went to try it for real, for fear that you would lose me?"
Ding Ning glanced at her, but did not answer.
Zheng Xiu sneered, "Since you think I am ambitious and such a crazy person, why did you choose me?"
"I told you that no one is perfect." Ding Ning said calmly: "Even in the matter of the Li family and the merchants, you have almost touched my bottom line, but I met with you, and after I said it, you If you said you would change, I thought you would really change. However, it turns out that you didn't think so in your heart, so I was indeed wrong."
Zheng Xiu didn't speak for a long time.
Such a conversation made her think of many things.
However, like Ding Ning, she finally felt that these were meaningless.
Her face became indifferent again, and she said: "What is the Nine Dead Silkworm's technique itself? Why on earth are you burnt to ashes, but you can still be resurrected?"
"If you just talk about the truth, it's very simple."
Ding Ning didn't hesitate, and said directly: "This kind of exercise can let you cut off a section of qi and blood and seal it somewhere. When the practitioner's body dies, his spiritual will will be like a flying sword. Like a rune, it is transferred into that part of life energy and blood."
"Yuan Wu and I also thought that this might be the case, so we burned your blood with real fire, but we never thought that cutting off a piece of blood can be sealed somewhere outside the body, how can a living thing last forever?" " Zheng Xiu looked at Ding Ning and said, "There is no record of this in the classics of the world of practitioners. It is like fresh meat that has been aged for a long time, and it will naturally turn into rotten meat, which will remain unchanged for a long time.
"Blood life creatures, logically speaking, cannot live forever after being separated from the body. However, there are some special cases, such as freezing in extreme cold, and the survival time will become longer." Ding Ning said lightly: "The Emperor You has the Nine Nether King Sword .”
Zheng Xiu frowned, "How could your natal qi and blood be on the Nine Nether Hades Sword of Miss Gongsun's family?"
Ding Ning smiled with some emotion: "When she fell in love with me, I already had you. She was hurt by love, and when she left Changling, she asked me, if this life is too late, if there is an afterlife, will I Be with her. I gave her the Nine Nether Hades Sword."
Zheng Xiu said: "So when you gave the sword back then, a portion of life energy and blood was already sealed in the sword by you."
"I didn't believe that the nine-dead silkworm could really come back to life. Although I gave her the sword, I didn't tell her about the nine-dead silkworm at all, but I didn't expect that there would be an afterlife." Ding Ning said calmly: "Later, you and Yuan Wu used thunder to hide it from me. After destroying the Gongsun family, she thought it was my order and misunderstood me, but she never discarded the Nine Nether Hades Sword until I died in Changling, and she entered Changling with the Nine Nether Hades Sword. A miracle really happened , I live by it."
"It wasn't until she returned to Changling that you were born here?" Zheng Xiu's eyes flicked, and he heard the clue.
"Nine dead silkworms kept my thoughts lingering, and I was trapped in the place of death in battle. For me at that time, I didn't know where I was, and my perception was like being trapped in the dark underground, unable to escape, like always being in a silkworm chrysalis, unable to break through. It was not until she returned to Changling with her sword to avenge me, and came to pay homage to the place where I died in battle, that the qi and blood sealed in the sword of the Nine Nether Hades finally recovered and became one with consciousness." Ding Ning said lightly: "The qi and blood Quietly escaped from the Nine Nether Hades Sword, and the rebirth of flesh and blood quickly turned into a baby. It was just a matter of a few days by the river without people noticing. year."