Tianmen closes.
The cold wind howled, passing over the vast ice field in the extreme north, and disappearing at the end of the horizon wrapped in fluttering snowflakes. The four divine birds pulled the long cart to break through the cold clouds, and landed at the foot of the glacier with a bang, and immediately splashed the sky with snow and mist, and rushed in all directions.
As soon as the car door opened, Yuchixiao was pushed back several steps by the strong wind, gritted his teeth and asked, "What the hell are we doing here?"
There was no answer from behind.
When Yuchixiao turned his head, he saw Xu Shuangce staring at Gong Wei in his arms. After a long time, he leaned over to place a kiss between his eyebrows, and then gently brushed his temple hair behind his ears, letting him sleep on the cushion behind the desk. , and then got up and stepped out of the giant car, and the doors closed one after another behind him.
"..." Yu Chixiao looked at Sect Master Cangyang's indifferent profile, and finally couldn't help asking: "You must be very happy to see me uncomfortable, Sect Master Xu?"
Xu Shuangce said calmly, "Nephew, you think too much."
He looked around and saw the vast and continuous ice field reflected in his eyes. After a while, he finally pointed in the direction of the cold wind: "Over there."
The blood river cart could not get close to the area where the spiritual power was too thin. The two of them trekked all the way for more than 400 miles, and the two long footprints behind them were soon covered by wind and snow.
When the sky is about to dawn, the traces of the last fierce battle finally began to appear along the way. The glaciers that had been sawed off in half by the gods and axe stood abruptly under the sky, and the vast snowfields were riddled with knives and axes. Yuchixiao couldn't help but stop, the magnificent scene in front of him made him dizzy: "This... is this the place where you destroyed the world-destroying soldiers last time?"
Xu Shuangce stopped, "Yes."
Yuchixiao was stunned: "Here is the hidden way back to the world?!"
"Exactly, not a road, but a person."
Yuchixiao was full of doubts, but Xu Shuangce turned his head slightly and asked for no reason: "Have you ever thought about where the souls of monks who have 'died' like Changsun Chengfeng over the years have gone?"
Yuchixiao was stunned, and then suddenly reacted: "—they were not killed by the realm master himself, so they can't return to the world..."
"Yes. They are still alive in this world, but unfortunately they died in the dream world. Their souls can only be temporarily stored in the corner between the world and the dream world, and they can't go anywhere. This does not mean that they can escape the disaster. If When the dream collapses, they will be ashes as we are; on the contrary, if we end the dream and return to the world, they can also come back with us."
"Except for one soul... He's not so well-behaved." Xu Shuangce's words changed, and there was a hint of mockery in his eyes: "This person is well versed in the secrets of ghost cultivation, and he knows that he is in a dream, and he is extremely unwilling when he is about to die. There is ability and reason, so it is very likely that the soul has not gone anywhere and is still attached to its own bones."
Yuchixiao lost his voice and asked, "Who?"
Xu Shuangce's gaze moved down, staring at the ground under his feet condescendingly, and spit out three words: "Du Kaixun."
Suddenly, Yu Chixiao remembered who this person was, and saw Xu Shuangce pressing his hands down suddenly, his spiritual power roared out, and the ground collapsed with a bang!
The permafrost under his feet was forcibly dug out by spiritual power, and the hard boulders were lifted and thrown into the distance. The ground shook and the glaciers roared. Yuchixiao was forced to retreat a few steps. Xu Shuangce flicked his sleeves and lifted up the black frozen rock as large as a small hill. A thousand-foot-deep crater.
Boom!
Xu Shuangce stopped and exhaled, Yuchixiao immediately stepped forward against the ice and snow, and said loudly, "Sect Master Xu! You only have half a golden core left, so it's better to temporarily save your strength! Let the juniors dig, at least it can be faster. !"
"… "
Xu Shuangce turned his head to look at the young master of Ye Jinmen, looked him up and down for a moment, then turned slightly sideways and said happily: "My nephew has filial piety, so it is very good."
Yuchixiao then stepped forward and stood at the edge of the deep pit. He did his part to pull up his sleeves, and suddenly poured spiritual power into the deep pit under his feet, shouting: "Ha-"
The spiritual power continued to increase, and the profound stone that had been frozen for thousands of years at the bottom of the pit was finally shaken slightly. After a few breaths, finally a rock about the size of half a room was barely pried open, staggered and lifted into the air, followed by a boom!
The rock fell back to the bottom of the pit, spattering a large cloud of soot, and never moved again.
Yuchixiao was panting like a cow, leaning on his knees and staring at the pit, before slowly turning his head to look at Xu Shuangce, his pupils trembled.
Xu Shuangce said, "The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is thin here, and both you and I have been suppressed. It is normal to have only two or three points left in ten minutes."
"… "
"But nephew still needs to study hard and practice hard." After a pause, Xu Shuangce added the second half of the sentence kindly.
The entire ice field was shaking constantly, and after a few hours, a huge black pit was dug out of the originally concave basin. Xu Shuang raised his hand and pried out the massive rock from the bottom of the pit to remove it. A thunderous sound suddenly erupted from the depths of his feet.
Finally got dug through!
The bottom of the giant pit directly penetrates the deep underground stream where the soldiers who destroyed the world were buried, and further down the deep stream is the lava core. An almost condensed dark air spewed out, like a black dragon, rushing straight into the sky, and half the incense was dissipated, revealing the bottomless true face.
Xu Shuangce pressed his palm to the ground and said solemnly, "Guiyuan doesn't look back, death and life are like morning and evening. Get up!"
This is the second time Yuchixiao heard Xu Shuangce recite this spell to summon the undead. The first time was in the mortuary of twenty-eight beautiful corpses in Linjiang Capital. Compared with that time, it has long been a different person.
He didn't care about the sentimentality, and saw that the situation was the same as in the mortuary last time, as if there was an invisible rope hanging the bones in the abyss, and a figure in gray robes burst out of the ground with the billowing Yin Qi, and then slowly raised his head, Showing a pale face.
At that moment, Yuchixiao blurted out: "Master Juzong?!"
Immediately afterwards, he realized that he was wrong - although the handsome features are quite similar, the face in front of him is obviously deeper and the expression is more sinister, and there is a faint light of madness and paranoia in the depths of his eyes.
Xu Shuangce stood up against the wind and said word by word: "Degree, open, Xun."
"… "
The gray-robed hooded dead soul laughed, and his voice was even lower than Changsun Chengfeng: "I've waited for you for a long time, and I thought you wouldn't come... worthy of being Sect Master Xu."
Du Kaixun actually stayed here and didn't leave!
Yuchixiao was shocked and froze in place.
"Finally, one day I can see Sect Master Cangyang in such an embarrassed state. It really makes me feel full of emotion." Du Kaixun looked at the two living people up and down and said with a smile, "You are finally willing to make a deal with me. Is it, Sect Master Xu?"
Yuchixiao subconsciously said, "What, what deal?"
Xu Shuangce didn't answer him, looked directly at Du Kaixun directly above, and said, "Back then, you were the only person in this dream who had some residual memories of this world."
Du Kaixun said calmly, "I am."
"Because the mana of the Butterfly Death and Dreaming of Life has some immunity to you."
"Yes."
Xu Shuangce asked, "Why?"
Du Kaixun's smile deepened, and he said slowly: "Because no one knows, I also tried to steal Gong Wei's right eye in this world. Although I also lost my hand, but at that time, I encountered a trace of oozing from his eyes. , pale golden blood..."
From the first year of Taiyi to the twenty-eighth year of Taiyi, the dream is basically a repeat of the present world - Du Kaixun in the dream was sent to the Xianmeng for mistreatment of Bai Xun, and Du Kaixun in the present world also did the same thing.
It's just that Du Kaixun in the present world is locked up in the Punishment Palace, where he meets Gong Wei, who has just come to the world, behaves in a mysterious way, and is hostile and repelled by everyone. He found that Gong Wei's bewitching right pupil seemed very unusual, so he boldly wanted to steal it, but of course it was blasted out by Gong Wei's palm.
Coincidentally, at that moment, the tip of the knife smashed Gong Wei's eye socket, and a tiny trace of pale golden blood stained on Du Kaixun's fingertips. Du Kaixun himself was shaken and his fingers cracked and blood dripped, and when he ran away, he made a smooth move - licked the blood on his fingertips together with Gong Wei's blood.
No one expected that the divine power contained in Gong Wei's trace of blood would later make Du Kaixun the only lucky bump in the dream.
"You have inadvertently become the only link between the present world and the dream world." Xu Shuangce stared at Du Kaixun, his tone was steady and a statement: "So your soul can travel freely between the present world and the dream world."
Du Kaixun said: "Yes, but it is only a soul, and cannot return to the body of this world."
"What happens when you return to your body?"
"As long as my body moves, the time in this world will immediately begin to flow again. The mirror fairy on Shengxiantai was reluctantly passed through the heart, and the dream suddenly collapsed, and all of you are completely helpless."
Xu Shuangce was silent for a moment, and Du Kaixun's soul looked at him with pity in the air: "So I can't help you to pull out the reluctance that was inserted in Jingxian's heart on Shengxiantai with my hands."
The cold wind whizzed past the two of them, like a sharp cry, and disappeared into the distance.
"… "
After an unknown amount of time, Xu Shuangce finally moved from the shadows, revealing reddish and calm eyes: "Then can your soul help me bring back a spell to bring me to the Shengxiantai in this world?"
Yuchixiao's suspicious gaze moved back and forth between the two of them—a spell
He didn't understand at all what kind of riddle the two were playing, but there was a dignified and desolate aura in the air, pressing him down there, and he didn't even dare to make a sound when he breathed.
"Sect Master Xu," Du Kaixun smiled, with a faint sadness in that smile, as if he had already expected Xu Shuangce's choice today: "The reason why my soul has been waiting here is to know that when the situation is too bad When you save it, you will think of sending that spell to the Shengxiantai in this world..."
After a pause, he took a deep breath, as if he had finally made up his mind: "In exchange, I need you to help me draw the same set of spells."
Xu Shuangce was not surprised: "One for you, one for whom?"
Du Kaixun seemed to tremble even in his soul: "... the eldest grandson Chengfeng."
As the name came out, extremely complex light flashed in his eyes, mixed with deep resentment, unwillingness, and sorrow, but in the end, it all turned into a heavy helplessness.
He said hoarsely: "Changsun Chengfeng was stabbed in the chest by Jingxian on the Ascension Stage, and he only had his last breath left. After returning to this world, he will surely die. If he dies, Bai Hao will not be able to live anymore."
Xu Shuangce did not speak, and looked at him quietly. Du Kaixun's soul is wrapped in a gray robe, he seems to have never been happy, like a lone soul that comes and goes in the sky and no one cares, even talking to himself is hoarse: "I hate Bai Bai. Shota. I really hate him. But what can I do? He was the only thing in the world that was totally mine, once even his heart was mine."
He opened his mouth and trembled: "...I really hate him."
Xu Shuangce stepped forward and pressed his sleeves in Du Kaixun's open palm. The spiritual power immediately condensed into two golden talismans, one with "eldest grandson" written on it, which directly melted into Du Kaixun's soul and disappeared; , was held tightly by him.
Xu Shuangce said, "Just stick it on your brother's body and heart."
Du Kaixun asked, "What about yours?"
Xu Shuangce lowered his eyes and flicked his sleeves again—one of the two talismans condensed from the spiritual energy was written "Xu", which also fell into Du Kaixun's hand; the other was directly attached to the back of Xu Shuangce's right hand, a A little fox drawn by cinnabar.
The few strokes are vivid and naive, as if every stroke that describes it is full of love that has never been put into words, and instantly disappears into Xu Shuangce's flesh and blood.
"—Wait," Yuchixiao seemed to have a premonition, and suddenly stepped forward and asked in a trembling voice, "What kind of talisman are you going to send back to the world? What does this talisman do? Could it be..."
Xu Shuangce just glanced at him, did not answer, turned to Kai Xun and said, "This talisman is a one-time use, only effective for fatal damage. If it fails once, there will be no chance to come back again."
Du Kaixun closed his eyes and nodded.
No one made a sound, only the cold wind whimpered, brushing Xu Shuangce's hair and robe sleeves. After a while, Du Kaixun opened his eyes in midair, looked at him and smiled, and said, "Sect Master Xu, I never thought that you and I would finally have this day of heart-to-heart."
Xu Shuangce took a half step back with a calm face: "Brother Du, this is time to cherish."
The soul of Du Kaixun gave him a deep salute, turned and disappeared into the vast world.
"... Sect Master Xu?" Yuchixiao finally heard his own voice, and a deep and ominous premonition gripped his heart tightly: "What the hell are you doing? What is that talisman for? What does it mean to only work on fatal injuries? ?you… "
"Yuchi Yuanju," Xu Shuangce said.
Yuchixiao froze in place as if his throat had been strangled.
"People will always make mistakes in their lives, some harm themselves, some harm others, and some harm the people they love. Now that the harm has been done, it's just empty talk, we can only do everything we can to bear it."
Xu Shuangce turned around with his hands behind his back. Yuchixiao is already very tall, but the Cangyang Sect Master is still two points higher. When it is so relative to each other, there is a kind of calmness and indisputable expression of the superior person: "Even if you pay the price of your life."
"..." Yuchixiao stared at Xu Shuangce, his pupils trembled slightly, and squeezed out a few words from his clenched teeth: "What's the name of that talisman?"
boom—
The extreme arctic icefield kept shaking, the sky seemed to be torn apart suddenly, a black hole collapsed, and a strong hurricane from the world swept the earth in an instant!
Yuchixiao saw Xu Shuangce open his mouth, the words were submerged in the roar, but the mouth shape was clearly reflected in his eyes.
In an instant, Yuchixiao's pupils dilated sharply, and the last trace of blood on his face faded away.
The earth collapsed, the sky collapsed, and the torrent of world destruction was overwhelming, creating a magnificent scene on the vast ice field.
The final moment has finally come.
Xu Shuangce walked up the cliff step by step against the wind and snow. Gong Wei didn't know when he had woken up. He was standing at the highest point at the end of the front. The layers of soft crimson halo spread to the heaven and the earth with him as the center. The process of world destruction.
He is like the last sea-fixing needle under the sky, but that back looks so lonely, so unreachable.
Yuchixiao's eyes were slightly red, he stopped more than ten feet away, and didn't look away.
Xu Shuangce stepped forward and stopped by Gong Wei's side, only to see him turn his head and smile, his blood-red eyes pure and gentle: "I'm going to send you off."
In front of him was the boundless gray-white land and the snow-covered sky. Xu Shuangce stared at the god in front of him, as if to engrave the soft tail of his eyelashes and the curved corners of his lips into his soul. , will never disappear due to reincarnation and years.
"... Gong Wei," he finally asked hoarsely, "does it hurt when you're being pierced through your heart?"
Gong Wei thought about it and said, "Maybe it was painful at the time. But it doesn't matter, I have forgotten it."
Xu Shuangce's tone contained a faint trembling: "Why did you forget it?"
"Maybe it's because the sweet dreams before death always make people happy!" Gong Wei looked at the roaring world under his feet, and the smile in his eyes deepened: "And it doesn't hurt to see you by your side for the last time. ."
— He always gave forgiveness so easily, like a dream that was too sweet to be true, wrapping the world softly. Only good things can happen in dreams, and any sadness, disappointment, pain and disaster are shielded by his gentle and powerful power.
He is like the supreme blessing bestowed on the world by heaven.
The sky above the extreme north finally couldn't hold it anymore, and collapsed in a muffled thunderous roar. Then, like a defeated soldier, the sky rumbled and fell like countless gray slabs, large and small, and the black hole stretched for thousands of miles, from the end of the horizon. It swept over here quickly.
The crimson halo that filled the world gradually disappeared, Gong Wei finally stopped making the last effort, raised his hand to hold the hilt of Bai Taishou's sword, and his robe sleeves rose in the wind and snow.
His voice was calm and calm: "I want to say goodbye to you, Xu Bai."
Xu Shuangce stared at his god, nodded for a while, and smiled with a trembling: "... Gong Wei."
"Um?"
Gong Wei raised his head to look at him, and was immediately hugged into a white sandalwood-scented embrace, with such force that he seemed to rub his entire body into his bones and blood. Xu Shuangce put an arm around the back of his head, stroked the hair on his forehead with force, and shuddered in his ear:
"sorry."
Gong Wei opened his eyes.
The next moment, severe pain pierced into his right eye like lightning, and a bloody arrow flew out.
"...Xu Bai?" Gong Wei suddenly burst out two words, and then roared through the universe: "Xu Bai!"
The world's largest, most magnificent, most tragic and bizarre illusion - Butterfly Death Dreaming of Life, was lifted at this moment.
The blizzard poured back into the sky, the earth collapsed, time and space were suspended and torn apart by the invisible giant hand, turning into an overwhelming hurricane-like debris.
Tens of thousands of spiritual lights rose from the ground, and it was the souls of the monks in the world who were involved in the vast void, and everyone escaped from the dream at the same time—
After forty-four years of solidification, the flow suddenly resumed.
In the present world, Shengxiantai.
The two hanging lancet blades fell to the ground, and Mu Duozhu was caught off guard and fell to his knees with a bang;
The stiff Yu Chi Rui twitched like a convulsion, and suddenly spit out a large mouthful of blood with shredded flesh, and collapsed heavily on the ground;
Bai Yujing went down to the underground palace, Ying Kai appeared beside the remaining magic formation on Tongtian Avenue, and the shock in his eyes had not disappeared.
The eldest grandson, Chengfeng, who was dying beside the golden pillar, let out his last breath. No one noticed that there was a talisman with the word "degree" written on his chest at some point. The dazzling golden light flashed away, and the sword wound that penetrated his chest disappeared immediately, leaving no trace.
"... Bai... Bai Hao?" He gasped, staggered to his feet, his mind went blank amid the violent choking, and instinctively looked around eagerly: "Bai Hao!"
- Thousands of miles away, in Julu City. Bai Hao's distant soul has not yet returned, and his body is standing quietly in front of the eldest grandson's family courtyard.
He could not see the gray-white and transparent Du Kaixun in midair, nor could he see that a sword wound suddenly appeared on Du Kaixun's chest, running through the front and back, neatly and fatally, and then the soul began to annihilate into ashes inch by inch.
"I hate you so... so much," Du Kaixun said hoarsely, and for the last time he squeezed Bai Hao's still body into his arms for the last time, hot tears fell from his cheeks and swept into Bai Hao's hair, but no one could feel it.
"You will always live with my hatred and forget that a person named Du Kaixun once appeared in your life..."
“… so that you can live a life free from pain and fear.”
Where no one could see, the curse mark flashed in Bai Hao's heart, which was the last command the soldier received from the master.
The soul came by the wind, Bai Hao's still body suddenly trembled, he suddenly took a long breath, and instinctively raised his eyes.
"Second son?" He looked to the left and right subconsciously, and he always felt that he heard a familiar voice in his ears just now, but then the movement stopped again, and there was a sudden confusion in his heart for no reason.
Who is the second son
The eldest grandson's family... Is there a second son
Bai Hao's heart suddenly throbbed, as if he had forgotten something important. But he didn't know what he had forgotten, and he raised a hand tremblingly, holding the heart chamber.
In the void above his head, Du Kaixun closed his eyes.
The soul was annihilated into countless shimmers, and the wind took away the last trace of his remaining warmth in the world.
The wind swept across the heaven and the earth like a tidal wave, bringing all souls back to the present world after a long absence, until it covered every corner of the earth.
Hundreds of Xuanmen schools, every major sect, every monk suddenly recovered from a static state, some are at a loss, some are wrong, some are unbelievable. It was not until after a few breaths that the screams of tears of joy erupted from the sky:
"I'm back!" "Really, really back!" "I'm not dead, not dead!"
…
The noise gathered into a torrent and spread out in all directions. On the Ascension Platform, Gong Wei suddenly opened his eyes in disbelief.
The next moment, the chest cavity was suddenly cold, and he had no choice but to follow the inertia and come out through the chest!
"… "
Gong Wei gasped and lowered his head, only to see that the bloody sword body was pulled out of his chest cavity with force, and then the wound closed without healing; the chest that was supposed to be penetrated back and forth flashed a golden character, which was very familiar, and it was - Xu.
Immediately afterwards, the little fox sketched by cinnabar flashed on the back of Xu Shuangce's right hand.
Dang!
But He Jian let go, Xu Shuangce knelt down in front of Gong Wei, gurgling blood soaked through the layered robes, and quickly accumulated blood pools on the ground below his knees.
"..." Gong Wei opened his mouth, but there was a roar in his ears, and he couldn't even hear his own voice: "Xu Bai...?"
Xu Shuangce stared at him, panted violently and smiled: "...Is it so painful?"
Gong Wei closed his eyes and opened them again, as if he had fallen into an absurd nightmare. He wanted to say how could you always go down without authorization to represent your talisman, how could you die without saying hello, how could you put Qu Xie and Beiyuan back in the world, the Great Way of Heaven has not been completely destroyed, and the war of world destruction is imminent , Who in this world will stop the ambition of the ghost prince... But countless thoughts are chaotic, and the sour heat blocked the throat.
He only spit out two words tremblingly: "...Xu Bai..."
Xu Shuangce's icy hand pressed down on the back of Gong Wei's neck, pressing him hard into his blood-filled arms.
"I'm sorry," his voice was hoarsely slowed by the pain, "a man cannot lose his god, no matter the cost... no matter the cost."
Suddenly Gong Wei felt something, and his pupils tightened: "Don't—"
But it's too late.
With a squeak of flesh and blood, Xu Shuangce reached into his chest with his right hand, and a large amount of blood spurted out. The unimaginable pain caused his whole body to convulse sharply, but there was no hesitation in his movements. A shining pearl.
- That's his golden pill.
Immediately, he raised his palm and smashed the most powerful golden core in the world!
The endless spiritual power descended instantly, and the light flowed through Gong Wei's scarred body like a spring. The countless wounds left before, large and small, healed immediately, the pain disappeared, the extremely weak Yuanshen quickly recovered, and returned to the peak in an instant!
"I've always loved you like a mortal blasphemous in my heart..."
Xu Shuangce knelt on the ground and leaned into Gong Wei's arms, his voice gradually weakened, and as the cold wind swept across Gong Wei's pale and cold profile, he whistled into the distance:
"I'm sorry, if only you never understood what that feeling was."
Xu Shuangce's forehead gently rested on Gong Wei's shoulder and stopped breathing.
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I don't know how long it took, and it seemed like a moment and a thousand years, Gong Wei Yiyi slowly raised his hand and hugged Xu Shuangce's icy body.
"...too late," he said hoarsely, "I already understand."
Layers of powerful and terrifying blood-red halos erupted from him, and the divine power roared through the clouds, as if a hurricane had set off a hurricane on Shengxiantai, and countless cracks were centered on him, "Crack!" The whole place was covered in an instant. High platform and wide ground.
In the distance, Mu Duo Zhu Ju panted and turned his head, Liu Xuzhi opened his eyes wide, Yu Chi Rui barely squeezed out his voice: "... Gong Wei?"
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Gong Wei raised his hand and shook the mountains with a loud roar: "Prefect Bai—"
The red star in the sky flashed.
At the same time, in the depths of the underground palace, the face of the ghost prince Qu Xie in front of the heaven-penetrating magic formation changed slightly. I saw Prefect Bai in his hand clanging out of the sheath, and a splash of blood was drawn from his palm, turning into a blood-red meteor and flying up to Shengxiantai.
With a clear snap, the Divine Sword came out of the sky, and was firmly held in Gong Wei's palm, and then he slashed with a backhand.
Boom-long!
The unprecedented shocking sword arc went along the ground, destroyed the city and pulled out the village. During the earthquake, the entire Shengxiantai was cut in half, and the boulders poured down.
"Qu Xie came out to die for me—"
In the underground palace, the prince of ghosts raised his head, and the angry swordsman of the White Prefect suddenly appeared in his eyes!