"You were so scary that day," Yuchi Rui said, holding up his fishing rod attentively and looking at the buoy in the water.
In the water pool outside the Jingshu Palace, Gong Wei took off his shoes and bare feet, sitting cross-legged on a rock covered with moss, fishing with one hand and resting on his cheeks, and said lazily, "I'm avenging you and my senior brother, do you know that? Anyhow?"
"Then you can't drink his blood." Yu Chi Rui said dissatisfied, "How disgusting, what do you think?"
What do you think
Gong Wei paused, as if he didn't know how to answer. After a long while, he rolled his eyes and said affectionately, "I didn't think much of it, I just thought this would shock other Xiaoxiao, anyway, no one can hurt senior brother in front of me!"
Yu Chi Rui was so shocked that he almost lost his fishing rod: "You dog has such a conscience?"
Gong Wei held his cheeks with a smile.
It just so happened that a huge chariot passed by high in the sky, and the driver was a four-headed giant bird, with a long platinum tail light pounced in the direction of the Punishment Palace in the distance, Gong Wei immediately jumped up barefoot: " Ah, the blood river cart! Xu Bai is here!"
He waded to the shore and ran to the shore, hurriedly putting on his shoes to slip. Yu Chi Rui couldn't stop it, and saw the fat fish that were about to take the bait rushing away, and his heart ached on the spot: "Bastard! Where are you going?!"
"Xu Bai hasn't seen my sword yet!"
"Xu Bai will have to kill you one day!" Yuchi Rui turned back and roared, only to see the dust and smoke curling up on the shore, and Gong Wei had already slipped away happily.
Gong Wei held his sword and swept across the corridor like the wind. The disciples of the Punishment Shu Palace who passed by in the distance all stopped with respect and fear, and watched him go away with complicated expressions.
Gong Wei didn't notice the subtle changes in other people's attitudes during this time, or he didn't care much when he saw it. He sprinted to the door of the study, deliberately keeping his footsteps and holding his breath, gently pushing the door to surprise Xu Shuangce, but he didn't expect a bang in the study, the sound of a teacup stomping on the table , Xu Shuangce said coldly:
"I disagree."
what are they talking about
Gong Wei's hand that pushed the door paused and looked in through the crack of the door. I saw Ying Kai and Xu Shuangce standing face to face. For some reason, there was a hint of tension in the air. Ying Kai said unhappily, "What's the point of disagreeing?"
"On the surface, the assassination was Fu Guimen's revenge against Gong Wei, but in fact, you and I know what happened. Why did Gong Wei accompany me on the stage to worship? Why did the assassin sneak into the heavily guarded Shengxiantai, and why afterwards? Strict investigation but no clues? Huangquan's highly poisonous, yin and yang magic spells are all things of the ghost gate, but all the twelve dead men have destroyed their corpses with life-changing formations, why do you do this?"
"Because this is inextricably linked with the famous families!" Ying Kai said word by word, "All the great masters are trying their best to support their children, and the treasures of heaven and earth, and the cultivation methods are all on the younger generation of the direct line. On the body, only the aristocratic family can produce masters, and the masters only protect their own family. The name of Juzong has been passed on for three generations by the Sun family, the chief of Julu City, and the name of Jianzong has also been passed down for two generations in the Yuchi family of Ye Jinmen, so this is still a family tradition. Inheritance is more decent - other families plan to rule, compete for resources, all kinds of selfish actions, and the poor family can only rely on their subordinates, otherwise there will be no success! Interests will naturally be hated by their collectives, and even without their participation in this assassination, they must have obtained their acquiescence! If things go on like this, what will be fair?”
However, Xu Shuangce said calmly, "For mortals in this world, it is common sense to protect the children and grandchildren for the elders. Human nature is both good and evil, just let it go. Why do you have to rebel against it from the beginning?"
Ying Kai was so choked that he couldn't speak, and after a while he said, "Do you disagree with me in setting up the Punishment and Punishment Institute, or do you disagree with me appointing Gong Wei as the dean?!"
Brother, do you want me to be the dean
Gong Wei immediately opened his eyes in novelty.
"… "
Xu Shuangce fell silent, and he couldn't see his expression from the angle with his back to him.
Ying Kai frowned and said, "What do you mean? Of course, I personally supervise the Punishment and Punishment Institute, and the appointment of Gong Wei is just a name. I just want to have this name, he can learn and experience various affairs with me, and get in touch with more Having many children of the same age and making friends with three or five confidants is only good for his mental growth..."
"He shouldn't grow any longer." Xu Shuangce suddenly interrupted Ying Kai.
After a pause, he said again: "Don't let Gong Wei come into contact with anyone again."
Judging from Ying Kai's expression, he seemed to feel that something was wrong with his ears: "What are you talking about?"
Xu Shuangce did not answer.
"Gong Wei's talent is more than that. As long as he is guided well, his future cultivation may not be under you and me. Do you still want to lock him up and see no one for the rest of his life?"
The last sentence was obviously a rhetorical question, but Xu Shuangce didn't answer, just stared straight at him.
Gong Wei held his breath.
He still couldn't see Xu Shuangce's face, but he knew that Xu Shuangce's expression must be showing something, because Ying Kai's eyes gradually became very shocked, and after a while he said softly in disbelief: "...Xu Bai, you are crazy."
Ying Kai is a very polite person, rarely addressing any of his peers by his first name.
Xu Shuangce turned a deaf ear: "Don't you think his talent is terrible?"
"..." Ying Kai said with difficulty, "Xu Bai, you just created the elixir and caused the nine-day thunder calamity that you haven't seen in a hundred years. When my Dingshan Haijian was unsheathed for the first time, the mountains and seas resonated, and no one said we were terrible."
"Do you really think you can guide him well?"
"Of course. Gong Wei is naive and pure, he is just a..."
Xu Shuangce asked back for the third time, with a hint of sneer in his tone: "Do you really think his nature is naive and pure?"
Gong Wei seemed to have fallen into an absurd and terrifying fantasy. He didn't understand what was happening in front of him, but an instinctive stinging pain suddenly rose from the bottom of his heart and pierced his throat.
Don't say it, he was breathing hard.
Say no more, Xu Bai.
"Gong Zhengyu can never be a human." Xu Shuangce said with his back to the doorway, his voice without any emotion: "I know what you think. Even if a demon and an evil creature takes the form of a human, it will not be able to cultivate three souls and seven souls. The person who possesses the seventh soul must be a human being. If it is not a human being, it can only be an existence higher than you and me, more illusory, or closer to the 'Dao of Heaven' itself."
"Do you think Gong Zhengyu might be such an existence."
Ying Kai stood silently, neither affirming nor denying.
"But Ying Kai, you think the Tao of heaven is the best, but I think it is chaotic. The Tao of heaven may not be kind to immortal cultivators like you and me. Gong Zhengyu treats people in every possible way, and that's because of the people he can get in touch with right now. Treat him in every possible way. If you want to maintain the status quo, you have to seal his spiritual veins and keep him in a forbidden area. No one is allowed to see except you and me and Yuchi Rui. In the future, when Yuchi Rui grows up, he will also be isolated. outer."
"If you can't do this, Ying Kai." Xu Shuangce said, "Remember what I said, Gong Zhengyu is as sweet as a dream now, and will be as evil as a dream in the future. You will regret it one day."
Gong Wei's pupils tightened sharply due to the stinging pain.
As the angle changed, he finally saw Xu Shuangce's profile, that handsome face had never been so cold and ruthless, as if what he was talking about was not a familiar person, but some kind of strange, ominous, urgent need Heresies purged from the feet.
Negative emotions roared in from all directions, overwhelmed like a tidal wave.
The last few traces of closeness to Xu Shuangce made him want to control himself, but a stronger nature prevailed. The exact same hostility rose from the heart, as if poisonous flames burned the internal organs, and even the bone marrow was sizzling with severe pain.
Say no more, he thought in the confusion.
I'm really hurt, you don't say anymore-
Ying Kai was provoked, he was accusing something in a hurry, his tone was stern and full of anger. Xu Shuangce was unshakable, and the quarrel became louder and more intense. In the end, Ying Kai slapped the paperweight on the table: "Xu Shuangce! I think you're the one who got caught!"
"That year, what we picked up from the peach forest in Cangyang Mountain was not a person at all, it was just a heresy of the Tao of Heaven." Xu Shuangce's words were clear and piercing: "We picked up this heresy, and one day it will bring destruction to the world. Everyone in this world!"
With a click the door was pushed open.
The two turned back at the same time, Gong Wei was standing outside the door, staring straight at Xu Shuangce.
Ying Kai lost his voice: "Gong Wei..."
In an instant, Xu Shuangce's expression was actually very strange. He seemed to force himself to look half an inch away, but then paused again, raised his head slightly, took a breath, and stood there calmly.
"Don't you like me, Xu Bai?" Gong Wei asked softly.
Xu Shuangce did not answer.
Ying Kai almost forced himself to squeeze two words out of his tight throat: "Gong Wei..."
Gong Wei asked stubbornly, "Will you always hate me in the future?"
No one saw Xu Shuangce's shoulders and arms stretched extremely tightly, the tips of his fingers pierced deeply into the muscles of his palms, and a trace of warm liquid was slowly overflowing along the lines of his palms.
He opened his mouth and seemed to want to say something, but after a long silence, he closed his mouth tightly and walked out without saying a word.
Ying Kai said urgently, "Xu..."
Before he finished speaking, Xu Shuangce's arm tightened. It turned out that he was in the wrong body and was grabbed by Gong Wei in an instant. The boy raised his head and looked straight at him.
- Killing him, the innate consciousness deep in the primordial spirit resounded clearly again.
"... Gong Wei," Xu Shuangce said hoarsely, "I said don't use these inhuman tricks on me."
A trace of scarlet appeared in the boy's right pupil, like a strange flower blooming in another world.
Xu Shuang tactically pulled his hand slightly: "Gong Wei!"
Xu Bai must die.
Xu Bai must die first.
Not one can go. Xu Bai died first.
Gong Wei closed his eyes and opened them suddenly, his right pupil had turned into a rich and pure blood red!
Xu Shuangce's expression changed slightly, and he dodged, but it was too late in an instant. Prefect Bai came out of the sheath in a shocking manner, and came face-to-face with a huge amount of energy, his spiritual energy swept in a ring in all directions, the floor burst into ten million cracks in an instant, and the doors and windows shattered into ashes!
- Clang!
The impact of gold and stone is deafening.
Xu Shuangce pressed back the hilt of the sword with resignation, and only the scabbard blocked this murderous sword, and the metal friction made a terrible screeching sound!
Prefect Bai Xue Liang's sword body reflected Gong Wei's eyes at close range, and a gleam of light flickered at the tip of his eyes.
He stared so hard at Xu Shuangce who was close at hand, his eyes widened, as if he could hold back the glimmer of light into his eyes. But it still failed in the end, and a line of water marks rolled down, and slapped the sword's edge where the killing intent was still alive, and was instantly cut into countless tiny water lights.
"… "
Xu Shuangce let go of the hilt of his sword, reached out and wiped the water on Gong Wei's cheek, and asked in a low voice, "Want to kill me?"
The palm can cover half of the boy's side face, and the breath blends in an instant, seemingly without gaps.
He leaned slightly beside Gong Wei's ear and said, "You won't have this opportunity again."
At this moment, "Qiang!" was heard loudly behind him, and Ying Kai drew his sword and shouted sharply, "Shuangce!"
Xu Shuangce stood up straight, withdrew his sword, stopped talking, and walked out.
But just as he stepped out of the threshold, Gong Wei suddenly turned around and swung his sword, the sword light broke through the void all the way, Xu Shuangce blocked it with a backhand, and the sleeves of the robe were torn apart!
The blood in his palm finally splattered out, throwing a dotted arc on the ground.
But Xu Shuangce didn't look back, he stepped over the threshold steadily and walked out.
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The huge movement has alarmed most of the Punishment Shu Palace, and the disciples rushed to hear the sound, but they did not dare to approach, and hid far away under the white jade high platform in front of the main hall. As if Xu Shuangce didn't see it, he walked through the corridor with his hands behind his back. The wind swept in from the end of the world, and the torn sleeves of the robe were raised behind him. It was in this place a few years ago that the late spring sun passed through the heavy rain. Feisha, a thin and young figure suddenly emerged from the wall, looking at the two small gold coins shaking in his hand, his wide eyes were full of curiosity.
Jingle, Jingle.
Xu Shuangce did not stop.
He saw the young man in the void jump down, snatched the small gold coin with a whimper at the moment of passing by, and held it tightly in Xiabai's hand, as if he was afraid that he might lose it accidentally, his clothes were flowing like a stream. The clouds disappeared in the depths of the corridor.
The wind blew in my ears.
Jingle, Jingle.
The ruthless top of the Tao should be the heart of the Tao, but the secret throbbing does not know where it comes from, like layers of fine silk, layer upon layer wrapping the heart that has long been cold as iron in the chest.
It must be because of the bewitching eye, he thought.
Xu Shuangce's fingers pierced deeply into the flesh and blood of his palm, and he raised his head to walk towards the rolling hills, as if he could get out of that beautiful and sweet dream as long as he didn't look back, and out of the time that was deeply addictive like the flowing water at the end of the spring.
In the eighteenth year of Taiyi, the long wind swept across the overlapping palace eaves, and the sky was filled with peach snow.
The Cangyang Sect Master carried his sword behind his back and walked down the magnificent long steps of Daishan Mountain alone, leaving behind the clanging sound that was getting farther and farther in the void, and walked step by step toward the distant future of red candles and blood.
Volume II Soldier's Betrayal