In the past life, Gong Wei was known among the people for being cheerful and good-tempered, and his mood has never been so complicated as it is now.
What's worse than being stabbed to death by an enemy's sword? After death you were slaughtered by your old enemy, and the whole world knew you were slaughtered.
What's worse than being slaughtered? After the slaughter was over, the old enemy went to the ghost wall and Huangquan himself, and wanted to take out your soul and toss it again; until he was sure that you were completely destroyed, and you couldn't even reincarnate, he went home with peace of mind...
Xu Shuangce turned his back to him, unable to see his expression.
He was silent for a moment before opening his mouth. For some reason, his final voice was a little hoarse: "I'm looking for a total of 28 people who have died in Linjiang for half a month. I have something to ask them. Where is the soul?"
Unexpectedly, the ghost judge was stunned: "Linjiang City? Has there been any casualties in Linjiang City in the past two weeks?"
Gong Weixin said that the judge was afraid that the ghost's head was too hot. Sure enough, Xu Shuangce didn't bother to talk nonsense with it, and only ordered: "Don't say more, bring the book of life and death."
The ghost judge hurriedly ordered the skeleton: "Don't hurry up!"
Twelve Guiyuan Houses, each house has a ghost judge, who is on duty at the entrance of Huangquan every month, and is a transit point for souls leading to death. The last time Xu Shuangce swept the twelve mansions, it was fair and fair, and no one was late and no one was left behind; this time, the ghost judge in front of him was even more miserable, facing Cangyang Mountain Xu Sect Master alone. Got blood mold.
After a while, the skeleton rushed back, holding a thick yellow paper book. The ghost judge laboriously took out his staff from his huge body, and pointed at the book: "Open!"
Ninety-nine-eighty-one majestic golden scrolls spread out from the void and fell down, forming eighty-one splendid waterfalls!
Going through the ghost wall is detrimental to Shouyuan, Gong Wei did not hesitate to take the risk and secretly came down with Xu Shuang, just for this moment - to find the soul of the little charming monster through the book of life and death. If you haven't crossed the Naihe Bridge, you will find a way to pull the little Charming Monster back to its original body. If it has been reincarnated, at least you need to know where the other party has cast, and will it not be a good life.
However, when he took a closer look, the whole person was stunned.
- The eighty-one scrolls are empty, not a single word.
No one lives, no one dies, the underworld records for the past half month are blank!
"..." Xu Shuangce frowned, "What's going on?"
The ghost judge asked inexplicably: "Xianjun, what's going on?"
"Why is the book of life and death blank?"
The ghost judge said with certainty: "A blank space means that no one lives or dies, and the record will not be wrong!"
Xu Shuangce's brows furrowed even more, and he said after a while, "When I went to Huangquan sixteen years ago to look for the soul of Fahua Xianzun, you said that the deceased was not in the book of life and death, which means that his spirit and soul were destroyed, and he would not enter the reincarnation. All the deceased in the whole world will not be able to enter into reincarnation, will they not be reincarnated?"
The ghost judge defended: "But the book of life and death can't go wrong..."
An ominous premonition suddenly appeared in Gong Wei's heart.
Xu Shuangce obviously thought of the same thing, and immediately interrupted him: "Take out all the records from sixteen years ago to the present, go!"
The skeleton ran back in a hurry and creaking, and came back with a pile of yellow paper books staggering for a while. The ghost judge took out his staff a little more, and all of a sudden the golden scroll unfolded in the sky, which was extremely solemn and spectacular—
However, Gong Wei's pupils shrank in disbelief.
The records of all births and deaths in the world came to an abrupt end at the beginning of the twenty-eighth year of Taiyi.
Since 16 years ago, to be precise, since the day he died under the sword of helplessness—no one was born or died on the Guigaki book of life and death!
If it was just a chill in the heart just now, then it is a real shudder at this moment. Gong Wei subconsciously looked at Xu Shuangce, only to see his thin lips pursed tightly, his face pale, the muscles in the hand clenched reluctantly bulging, and after a while he finally said, "There are thousands of living beings in the world, how could it be possible that no one has lived in the past sixteen years? , and no one died?"
The ghost judge said with certainty: "There is neither life nor death, the book of life and death will not go wrong!"
"you… "
"Neither life nor death, the book of life and death will not make mistakes!" The ghost judge emphasized, repeating it several times, laughing: "There is neither life nor death, the book of life and death is Can't go wrong-"
Its expression has obviously begun to go wrong, as if all the sanity is enough to support it to ask questions normally, only the audience sings in unison: "Life and death are on the books, there is no wrong-"
"Life and death are on the books, there is never a mistake—"
The sound waves converged into a torrent, surging down the Santu River, washing the dark and desolate boulders on both sides of the Wangchuan River. Jackdaws jumped in fright, and fluttering ridges covered the hazy blood-grey sky, shrouding Huangquan in darkness.
"Life and death are on the books, there is never a mistake—"
The echoes rose and fell one after another, going straight to the sky, and the earth shook violently in a terrifying resonance.
"Life and death are on the books, there is never a mistake—"
Skeletons with large teeth and bones, all ghosts are intoxicated. The ghost judge seemed to have completely forgotten everything, Chi Chi fell backwards, the yin fire like the sea swayed and flickered, and suddenly turned into countless crimson petals, which rose up like a huge wave.
—It was the peach blossom that appeared when the souls of the twenty-eight deceased in the mortuary disappeared!
It was clearly a spectacle filled with red clouds, but at the moment it was full of indescribable paradox and gloom. The next moment, the peach blossoms set off a huge wave that swallowed the sky, and the wave was more ferocious and vast than the last wave, and it swallowed the entire ghost wall!
Gong Wei grabbed the rock in front of him, but to no avail. It was as if he had been punched in the face, his eardrums roared in front of him, and he suddenly fell backwards, the hurricane whistled past his ears—
thump!
He knelt down on the hard ground, his knees hurt so badly, the world was spinning in front of his eyes, and the desire to vomit went straight to his brain, and suddenly he heard a nightmarish voice from above his head:
"Who is there?"
Gong Wei's thin back straightened, and he slowly raised his head.
Sure enough, the mortuary of the hospital has been restored to the dark, and the twenty-eight coffins are still open and parked there. Not far away, Xu Shuangce stared at him from top to bottom and said, "Come out."
"… "
The air seemed to freeze.
Gong Wei took two steps forward on his knees, his face was as pale as paper, his lips were trembling: "Zong, sect master, forgive me, I only, I just..." Then he retched with a wow!
This performance is at least five points true - Gong Wei's body has always been very skinny, and this should be replaced by a three-day tour of the underworld without breathing. But the physique of the little Charming Monster was too weak, and when the spirit was pulled away from the ghost wall, it was inevitable that he would be bumped. The close approach made his heart twitch sharply, and because he couldn't breathe, his eyes turned black.
In fact, he couldn't spit out anything, only his throat spasmed and retched, and suddenly his throat became cold, and his chin was lifted by the sword hilt reluctantly.
Xu Shuang leaned down strategically, Gong Wei was forced to look up at his cold black eyes, and all the desire to vomit suddenly disappeared.
—Xu Shuangce has a habit of cleanliness and is extremely strict.
If he dared to vomit on the helpless scabbard, the little Charming Monster's body could die in ten thousand pieces today.
"Xiang Xiaoyuan." Xu Shuangce said word by word.
Gong Wei maintained this position, and the platinum scabbard reflected his slightly widened eyes in horror.
"What is the ghost chasing after you?" Xu Shuangce stared at his pupils and asked slowly, "If it is the Fahua Xianzun, who are you?"
"... Zong, Sect Master spare your life..." "Xiang Xiaoyuan" sounded ignorantly, with a trembling cry: "I didn't mean it, I don't dare anymore, Sect Master spare my life..."
There were hurried footsteps outside the door, but Xu Shuangce ignored it and narrowed his eyes and asked, "Did you go down the ghost wall with me just now?"
"I... I... I have nothing..."
Xu Shuangce increased his tone: "What did you see just now?!"
boom!
The door was pushed open, Yuchixiao quickly stepped over the threshold, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he said, "Sect Master Xu, spare your life! Xiang Xiaoyuan has an injury on his shoulder and it is difficult to move, so I was negligent and left behind just now, isn't it? Deliberately disobeying you! Please raise your hand from the sect master!"
- The tense atmosphere was suddenly broken.
Xu Shuangce glanced at Yuchixiao inexplicably, finally took a deep breath, straightened up and released the restraint on "Xiang Xiaoyuan".
Gong Wei didn't care about anything, and immediately jumped at Yuchixiao, the wound was bloody and shivering, which startled Yuchixiao, and hurriedly winked to signal him to hide behind him.
Xu Shuangce asked, "What's the matter with you?"
Yu Chixiao actually found the little Charming Monster halfway down the road and found it, but he didn't dare to mention it again, so he had to quickly find a way to distract Xu Shuangce: "Report... Sect Master, this junior heard the ghost cry, Guess it was Sect Master Xu who opened the gate of the Yellow Springs, so he came in a hurry, I don’t know if Sect Master found anything in the ghost wall…”
"No."
"what?"
Xu Shuangce said lightly, "I didn't find anything."
Yuchixiao bit his head and said: "Really? It seems that it is not a day's work to find out this matter. That junior... junior will retire first?"
Xu Shuangce didn't even answer.
Yuchixiao was afraid of making him unhappy, so he quickly pulled Gong Wei and dragged him out of the house.
Gong Wei stumbled across the threshold, and the sky was bright outside the enchantment of the mortuary. He was lifted by Yuchixiao's back collar, turned his head to look in the door, Xu Shuangce was standing surrounded by rows of coffins, his silhouette was straight and solitary like a sword.
"Gong Wei," he said suddenly.
Gong Wei's heart tightened, but he saw Xu Shuangce staring at the dark, condensed air in front of him, as if speaking to a ghost that did not exist in the void, every word was extremely calm and clear:
"If you lie to me again, I will make you regret that you dared to die back then."
The carved door closed with a click, leaving the mortuary in the thick darkness.
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"What do you think? Why don't you come out and stay in that room? So you want to die?" Yu Chixiao reprimanded with Gong Wei's back leader.
Gong Wei covered his head weakly: "I'm injured, I can't walk fast, and you ran first and didn't wait for me... Ouch!"
Yuchixiao knocked him out, "I really don't care about you anymore! You dare to disobey the orders of Sect Master Xu? You're tired of living, aren't you?"
The two returned to the inn, and it was already evening. Gong Wei was thirsty and tired, so he wanted to talk back and say that he didn't dare to expect you to cover me, Young Master, seeing you covered me so badly that my whole body was hurt; but after thinking about it, he pointed at Young Master Yuchi to kiss him Uncle Jianzong summoned him to save his life from the claws of Sect Master Xu, so he immediately changed his face shamefully, and said with emotion: "You are really a good person, young man, don't let me be such an inhuman thing. Care about, you are my love and righteous rebirth parents..."
Yuchixiao got goosebumps because of his gratitude: "Shut up! It's too fake!"
Gong Wei: "Hey! Pick and choose!"
Yuchixiao suddenly stopped, and a tall figure was blocking the corridor of the inn. After glancing at no one around, he said solemnly, "I have something I haven't had time to ask you."
"what?"
"How did you control 'Su Qing' when you were fighting against that ghost correction face outside the Linjiang Prince's Mansion?"
Gong Wei pretended to be confused: "What is Su Qing?"
"One sect, two honors, three sects and four sages. Among the younger generation's disciples of famous families, I am in the top three in terms of combat power. Below me is Sect Master Xu's outer sect disciple Wen Xiuyang, and below Wen Xiuyang is Meng Yunfei. Yunfei's" Although the Su Qing' sword is not as powerful as his Shunxian Guqin, it is also one of the most famous fairy swords in the world. How did you, a little charm demon who just established a foundation, snatch the Su Qing sword from him?"
Yuchixiao was at least a head taller than Gong Wei, with thick eyebrows and eyes like cold stars, staring straight at him with a slight frown.
"… "
Gong Wei was silent for a moment, then closed his eyes and said, "You are wrong."
Yuchixiao frowned and said, "What the hell is going on behind your back? I can't see—"
His voice stopped abruptly, only to see Gong Wei open his eyes, his right eye was as red as blood!
"You're wrong," Gong Wei said softly.
Sound, light, and consciousness were all quickly pulled away. Yuchi Xiao suddenly fell into an endless abyss. The fall made his mind blank. Only the boundless wind swept past his ears. Gong Wei's smiling, beautiful face. The faces were farther and farther overhead, until there was a silent thud—
Bang!
Yuchixiao stumbled suddenly, and was supported by Gong Wei with one hand: "Master? What's wrong with you?"
There was still the corridor of the inn in front of him. It was dinner time, and the sound of Xiao Er running the hall came from downstairs. Just a few steps away was Gong Wei's concerned eyes, his eyes were black and white.
Yuchixiao's mind was slightly dazed, as if he had lost something suddenly, but nothing seemed to happen; he had completely forgotten what happened at the gate of Linjiang Prince's Mansion, and subconsciously closed his eyes with force, and when he opened it again, he saw Gong Wei smiling. When he got up, the young man was gentle and lightly dressed, and his face was completely unlike anything that could be seen in the mortal world.
He joked: "Master, be careful."
Yuchixiao's heart was beating like a drum, he suddenly struggled and took a half step back, unable to speak for a while.
"—you," he said hastily, "what are you doing so close to!"
The distance between the two was pulled apart, and Gong Wei didn't mind, and put up his hands innocently: "Help you."
When he stopped, there was a faint fragrance wafting from the sleeves of his robe, like the first ray of spring dawn in the world. But Yuchixiao wasn't sure if it was his own delusion, so he could only subconsciously force himself to look away and waved hastily, "I'm back in the house, you should go back and rest."
Gong Wei responded with a smile.
Yuchixiao turned around and walked away. After taking two steps, he remembered something. He turned back and deliberately stared at the ground, and said with a stern voice, "—If you don't want to die, don't provoke Sect Master Xu!"
Gong Wei: "Hey, I got it!"
Before he could finish speaking, Yuchixiao rushed back to the room, as if running away, and slammed the door shut.
"?" Gong Wei shrugged: "Strange."
·
After finally dismissing Shaoxia Yuchi, Gong Wei's mouth was dry and his whole body ached. He rubbed the back of his neck and went back to his room. First, he poured a large glass of water, and then fell on the couch, feeling a long relief. tone.
When Yuchixiao first came, he rejected the proposal to stay in the Linjiang Palace or the local Xiuxian sect, and spent his wallet in a secluded inn. This move can be said to be wise, at least it can avoid the constant visits and close-ups of the local small sects and small scattered cultivators. As soon as the door is closed, it will be quiet, and no noise can be heard.
Gong Wei looked at the ceiling of the inn, and had already thrown the strange eldest son of Yuchi's family into the clouds. Numerous distractions were running through his mind. For a while, he thought about the strange book of life and death that had been blank for the past sixteen years. For a while, he thought about how Xu Shuangce swept away the ghosts with one sword. From the Twelve Houses, I wondered for a while who would use his sword to kill people in his name... After thinking about it for a long time, he finally calmed down, and an irresistible thought popped up:
Have I lied to Xu Shuangce
But 20 years ago, he himself wanted to enter the world of thousand-degree mirrors. What happened in the fantasy world, how could it be called a lie
Gong Wei felt wronged in the bottom of his heart, and turned over on the bed, thinking that when he first met Xu Shuangce, this person was obviously good-natured, and not as ruthless as he later became. He had just been picked up by Ying Kai from the Cangyang Mountain Peach Forest. For some reason, Xu Shuangce often came to Xianmeng Punishment Shu Palace as a guest. Every time he was a guest, he brought him snacks, picture books, and taught him to write. I gave him a small suona to play with.
That should be the most harmonious years between them.
However, the good times did not last long. Later, he gradually grew up, and his many "special and inhuman" expressions did not gradually fade with time, but became more and more abrupt and obvious. He still likes to eat flowers and likes to imitate the behavior of the people around him. His blood-red right pupil always appears from time to time; Xu Shuangce seems to have a keen sense of something, and his attitude towards him gradually becomes cold and alienated, and many subtle cracks also emerge quietly. on the water.
But Gong Wei didn't take it to heart.
Gong Wei has been very curious and good-natured since he was a child, and he is full of curiosity, kindness and tolerance for everyone he sees, as if nothing in this world can make him really angry. He was especially close to Xu Shuangce. Although he never understood why he offended Sect Master Xu, he never felt dissatisfied because of the indifference of the other party. At most, he felt puzzled.
—until that accident happened later.
Gong Wei was assassinated for some reason, Ying Kai was outraged and decided to fight against the wrongdoings of various families, so he ordered the world to establish a large punishment institute and appointed Gong Wei as the head of punishment.
At that time, Gong Wei's mind was not mature at all, and it was not bad to be able to take care of himself, let alone to take care of other people's children. Therefore, Ying Kai's original intention was to personally supervise the Punishment and Punishment Institute, but let Gong Wei follow him to learn various matters, so that when he contacts the children of various famous families in the future, at least he has an identity that people do not dare to offend, so that he will not suffer a secret loss. .
The idea itself is good, but I didn't expect that this decision was firmly opposed by Sect Master Xu.
That day, Xu Shuangce came to the Immortal League, and a fierce dispute broke out with Ying Kai in the Punishment Shu Palace. It just so happened that Gong Wei happily came to Xu Shuangce to offer the treasure, and listened to the dispute between the two without saying a word, including Xu Shuangce's extremely hurtful words that he had never said in front of him.
Gong Wei was angry for the first time in his life.
That was the first conflict between him and Xu Shuangce.
·
This conflict came and went quickly, because the always tough Sect Master Xu gave in rarely - he walked away without saying a word, and he didn't even fight back.
Fortunately, he did not fight back, and the conflict did not immediately develop to the point of tit-for-tat from the very beginning.
In the following years, the Cangyang Sect and Gong Wei kept rubbing against each other, and all kinds of unpleasantness were frequently provoked. No matter how much Ying Kai adjusted, it was useless.
·
-If there is no thousand-degree mirror world, perhaps this state of no major contradictions and constant small frictions will continue forever, and the opportunity that will make them inseparable from now on will not appear in the future.
But unfortunately, Sect Master Xu should have this disaster.
Twenty years ago, in order to break through the middle stage of Mahayana, Xu Shuangce had to enter the illusion world of the Thousand Degrees Mirror Realm to break barriers, in order to advance to the later stage of Mahayana.
In the whole world, only Gong Wei can completely control the ancient artifact of the Thousand Degrees Mirror Realm, so Ying Kai had no choice but to instruct him a thousand times and strictly order Gong Wei to escort him throughout the whole process without any loss:
"... Sect Master Cangyang hits many killing obstacles, and if you do not remove the killing obstacles, it may be difficult to ascend, and on the contrary, it may hurt innocent lives... When the illusion of Qiandu Mirror World is extremely strong, it can make people reincarnated, reincarnated, born, old, sick, and died. A hundred years of fantasy world is not reality. So you let the Cangyang Sect Master enter the fantasy world, and you will be reborn as a general or a generation of heroes. When you kill more than 10,000 enemies on the battlefield, you will be able to complete your merits, and then you will be able to kill all obstacles and return to the world..."
It is not a secret that Xu Shuangce hits many obstacles. Some people say that if it weren't for this, he would have already attained the ascendant.
For immortal cultivators to become the Great Dao, they must break all kinds of obstacles—some are emotional obstacles, some are mental obstacles, and the most difficult to overcome is killing obstacles. Most of the immortal cultivators with killing obstacles are strong and powerful, but since ancient times, very few have got good endings, because most of them went into trouble when the killing obstacles came. Twisted, and slowly reduced to a demon of the annihilation of emotions and desires.
In order to suppress the killing obstacles, Xu Shuangce cultivated the ruthless way since he was a child. But if he doesn't want to solve the killing obstacle completely, he will never be able to ascend. What's more terrifying is that the higher the cultivation level, the more difficult it is to break through the obstacle.
Of course, Ying Kai couldn't let him start killing in this world, he could only send him into the world of thousand-degree mirrors, and under the guidance and protection of the illusion, he could vent the terrifying desire to kill in his heart.
"I did solve his killing obstacle." Gong Wei leaned on his hand and thought in a daze: "I followed him in the fantasy world and worked hard to run back and forth, but as soon as he returned to the world, he copied the No choice but to yell at me and kill me, and tell me to pay for my life—how could it be my fault?”
He yawned, closed his eyelids unconsciously, and his consciousness gradually darkened.
·
This sleep was very unsteady, and it seemed that I had a lot of dreams in a trance, all of which were fragmentary pieces. He saw that the battlefield was full of blood and smoke, the layers of dead bodies piled up into hills, a young general in silver and white armor curled up under the trenches, tightly covering his eyes with one hand, blood was constantly winding down from the palm of his hand down his arm, his shoulders because of Trembling with pain.
Gong Wei stood on tiptoe carefully in the flesh and blood on the ground, walked to the general, bent down and looked at it for a while, and touched the other's protruding fingers, which was very interesting, and couldn't help but chuckle.
The general leaned back vigilantly: "Who?"
The wind and sand, wrapped in rust and blood, swept away to the chaotic sky in the distance, otherwise it was silent.
"..." After a long time, the general's dry and cracked lips barely moved, and he said hoarsely: "Are you... the ghost here?"
In the blink of an eye, there are green mountains and green waters, the smoke from cooking smokes, and chickens and dogs in the farmyard can hear each other. The rope on the well creaked, and a bucket full of water was hoisted out, and Gong Wei splashed it out, leaving only half of the bucket. He tore off a piece of cloth and wiped the general's bare chest with water.
He didn't care, he splashed the water and wanted to pick it again, but his wrist was suddenly clasped.
There was a rustling voice, and it was the blindfolded man in front of him who untied a gold ring from his right wrist, and then gropedly buckled it above the elbow of his left arm.
The shape of the golden ring is very rare. It consists of three wavy spirals connected end to end, in an irregular ring shape. It is engraved with dense and intricate spells and seal characters.
"—I've been wearing it for as long as I can remember, and I've forgotten where it came from." The man's voice was very low, but mellow and pleasant, and said, "Thank you for saving my life."
Gong Wei tilted his head to look at him, and then looked at the golden ring on his arm, which seemed to be very novel, and smiled with a frown.
Time brought the picture to change again, and he seemed to be ups and downs in his sleep, seeing the stars move, the sudden change, and the red pillars shining brightly and the blood flashing.
What finally collapsed the fantasy world was a majestic sword light, such as flames penetrating the cold night, lightning breaking through the fog, and the sword edge of Senhan came to the front in an instant; Sect Master Xu's angry face appeared behind the sword light, and every word was full of words. Killing intent:
"If you dare to kill my wife, I will let you pay for it today, Gong Wei!!"
Gong Wei suddenly opened his eyes, sweating in cold sweat and soaking through his heavy clothes.
The sky was bright outside the window, and it was noon the next day.
Tuktuktuk, there was a knock on the door outside the house, and a clear and gentle voice sounded: "Xiang Young Master? Are you okay?"
It was Meng Yunfei.
"..." Gong Wei didn't know what was going on for a moment, so he sat for a while, until Meng Yunfei called out a few times in response, and the door slammed hurriedly, and he woke up like a dream: "It's okay, I..."
The door slammed, Meng Yunfei broke through the door with a livid face, and met Gong Weihao sitting upright on the bed, his tense expression suddenly relaxed: "Offensive! I thought—"
Fortunately, he swallowed the words "I thought you were in trouble".
Gong Wei only wore a snow-white t-shirt, with a mess of black hair, holding the quilt and looking at him with a bewildered face. Meng Yunfei couldn't help but feel a little hot, coughed and asked, "Is Young Master Xiang alright, is he ill?"
The author has something to say:
Although he seems to be very innocent from Gong Wei's standpoint, the plot experienced by the bitter master Xu Shuangce is not like this 2333
Brother Yunfei is very pitiful, because the gentle attack in this article has no future, so the opening is cannon fodder.