Among the seven spouts of the leylines, one of the leyline arrays in the northwest of Luoyang made a loud noise and collapsed.
"Hong Jun!" The carp demon yelled wildly, and rushed forward, the Tongtian Pagoda collapsed step by step, disintegrated in all directions, scattered, and the beam of light disappeared in an instant.
Standing on the top of the Praise Monument, Lu Xu suddenly turned his head and saw the scene where the Tongtian Buddha fell.
In front of Dingding Gate, Artest turned his head instantly.
On the Tianjin Bridge, Trundeau was manipulating the magic circle, tremblingly said: "What's wrong?!"
"Hong Jun!" Ashina Qiong shouted immediately.
On the altar of offering sacrifices to heaven in Mingtang, the strong light rolled back and burned Li Jinglong's whole body. Li Jinglong controlled Anlu Mountain with his left hand, and held a sword in his right hand. The sword couldn't go through, and he felt that his consciousness was being pulled away from his body bit by bit. . He had lost control over the trance, and the god had actually left his body, looking down at Li Jinglong from a height.
Li Jinglong's soul was under the scrutiny of the burning lamp. Immediately afterwards, His left hand formed a lamp seal, and his right hand stretched out to penetrate into Li Jinglong's heart. Just as the hand of the gods entered his body—
— On Li Jinglong's chest, the peacock seal suddenly glowed, resisting his invasion!
In this stalemate, Li Jinglong was in great pain.
"Why..." Li Jinglong trembled, "Why... what..."
The raging energy in the distance spread rapidly, and the earth vein arrays collapsed one after another, and quickly spread to the heights of the Mingtang! The blue light was suddenly retracted, and it was withdrawn to the ground in an instant amidst the loud noise, and the spiritual power of the burning lamp disappeared. Li Jinglong felt that all the energy was sucked away, and then his eyes went dark, and he fell from a height of nearly ten feet!
With a long hiss, the snake spread its wings and flew up!
Anlu Mountain was buried in the rubble, and all the blue veins of light were dimmed, and once again, they disappeared completely. In the distance, all the Big Dipper arrays disappeared, buildings collapsed one after another, and the exorcists fled separately.
When the Tongtian Pagoda collapsed, the heavens and the earth were shaken, and the flying dust raised heavy clouds and scattered all the buildings in all directions.
"Hong Jun!" The carp demon shouted in panic.
Hongjun was crushed in the ruins, unconscious, Xiangyu rushed to move the beams and bricks away.
"Your Highness!" Xiangyu shouted.
Lu Xu rushed to the front and shouted: "What happened?!"
The carp demon stammered to describe, Lu Xu carried Hong Jun out from the ruins, but Xiangyu turned around instantly and stood in front of the two of them.
After the Tongtian Pagoda collapsed, the smoke cleared away, and hundreds of monsters appeared in all directions, all staring at them in front of the ruins.
Liang Danhuo walked over first, blood fog filled his body.
"Go." Xiangyu whispered.
Lu Xu: "..."
"Take Your Highness away." Xiangyu whispered, "Don't tell him."
After finishing speaking, Xiangyu walked slowly towards Liang Danhuo. She was dressed in a white robe and her long skirt was scattered on the snow, as if she was the same color as the white snow.
The swarm of snakes screamed and rushed across the sky. Accompanied by the roar of Anlu Mountain's death, the swarm of snakes flew over Luoyang City along the north. The fierce wind swept the most violent cold wave after the beginning of winter, and it moved southward with lightning speed. Wherever it passed, rivers, lakes and seas instantly turned into ice.
In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, on the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month, the city of Luoyang was completely occupied. The Exorcist of the Tang Dynasty fell short in his mission of eliminating demons, and fled Luoyang in a hurry.
The cold north wind, like the countless flying knives of the God of Creation, came all the way south and fell from the sky, shooting at every town and every village in the land of Shenzhou. Black smoke filled the air, and the flames of war devoured lives and tore apart hopes. On Hebei Road and Henan Road, the 200,000 Tang troops were defeated immediately after the battle, and Fan Yang's rebels were like wolves in a herd of sheep.
The land of the Central Plains is ten rooms and nine empty, hungry and dead everywhere, gluttonous dogs are in groups, and the north and south of the Yellow River are all scorched earth.
In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, on the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month.
With a slight movement of Hong Jun's fingers, he suddenly woke up from his deep sleep and let out a difficult gasp. He shivered from the cold, as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
He had a splitting headache, and when he lowered his head, he found that his whole body was stripped naked, with bruises all over his body, and he couldn't stop the pain when he moved a little. His whole body was hot, as if he had a fever, and his clothes were folded on the table beside the couch.
"Is anyone there?" Hong Jun moaned.
He saw water on the table, he reached out to take it and drank it, the water was very cold, after pouring down a large bowl, he finally felt better, got up, put on his clothes and came out, just when he got down on the bed, he staggered, when he suddenly heard a noise outside. Hong Jun was pushing open the door, and the cold breath poured in, making his throat constricted and unable to speak.
Outside the room, Lu Xu was chopping firewood. Hearing the noise, he hurried in. The two stared at each other for a moment.
"You're awake." Lu Xu was a little nervous.
"Where is this?" Hong Jun's head started to hurt again, and the last scene in his memory was an accident that happened in the magic circle.
"Northwest of Shan County." Lu Xu hurriedly helped Hong Jun in, and said, "You have a fever, take a rest, Big Wolf went up the mountain to find medicine for you."
Hong Jun nodded and looked at Lu Xu again.
"You know what I want to ask." Hong Jun said.
"Li Jinglong is fine." Lu Xu asked Hongjun to lie back on the bed, glanced at him, and said, "I was injured a little bit, and I'm recuperating. I just fell asleep, so don't wake him up."
Knowing that Lu Xu never lied to him, Hong Jun nodded, lay down again, and moaned, "I'm so uncomfortable..."
Lu Xu frowned deeply, and touched Hongjun's forehead.
"Did it work?" Hong Jun asked.
"Failed." Lu Xu whispered, "but fortunately, everyone is still alive."
When Hong Jun heard this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and fell asleep again exhausted.
This sleep seemed to be longer than before when he was in a coma. Hong Jun vaguely heard Mo Zhigen and Lu Xu talking again. Lu Xu said: "He woke up once..."
Mo Zhigen: "It will be fine after drinking this medicine... Tell him to get up and drink the medicine, and then eat something."
Hong Jun opened his eyes in a daze, Mo Zhigen supported him, Lu Xu fed him medicine with a bowl, and the two cooperated tacitly. After a while, Hong Jun finished drinking the medicine, and the voice of the carp demon asked again: "Is Hong Jun awake?"
"Hush." Lu Xu said, "Let him sleep for a while, and put his food here."
The carp demon said: "The other side..."
"Keep your voice down." Mo Zhigen whispered.
Hong Junfu lay down again powerless, while Mo Zhigen got up and left.
After drinking the medicine, Hong Jun was sweating all over, the fever gradually subsided, and he felt a little weak. Lu Xu made a bed on the side and fell asleep. Hong Jun opened his eyes, woke up a little, and got up to eat lightly.
On the table is a bowl of egg porridge made by the carp demon.
"Li Jinglong is next door." Lu Xu turned over and said, "Okay, go and accompany him."
Hong Jun said "um", put away the bowls and chopsticks, walked out of the bedroom, and found that this place is a private house, the north wind howls at night, the world is pitch black, you can't see the stars or the moon, there are only two rooms, and a lot of blood is still splashed on the walls .
He stayed in front of the bloodstain for a short while, went to the next room, and knocked lightly on the door. Mo Zhigen came out with his upper body bare and opened the door.
"Okay?" Mo Zhigen asked in a low voice, but he didn't let Hong Jun in. Hong Jun looked inside, and Mo Zhigen wanted to say something, but he asked inside, "Is it Hong Jun?"
"Jing Long!" Hong Jun hurriedly passed by Mo Zhigen, and rushed in like a gust of wind. Mo Zhigen turned around and went out, closing the door behind him.
Hong Jun lit the lamp, and the oil lamp illuminated the room dimly. This room was much colder than his and Lu Xu's room. It seemed that all the firewood was taken to the next door for use. It was damp and cold in snowy days. Li Jinglong was lying on the couch, turning his head to look at him in a daze.
Hong Jun rushed to the couch and touched Li Jinglong's forehead, Li Jinglong smiled wearily.
"Sorry, I failed again." Li Jinglong said.
Hong Jun didn't speak, but reached into the quilt and held Li Jinglong's hand. Li Jinglong's hand only moved slightly, as if he had exhausted all his strength in lifting his fingers. Hong Jun followed the palm of his hand to the pulse gate on his wrist, and pressed it lightly. Li Jinglong turned his head with difficulty, looked at Hong Jun, and his breath was very weak.
They didn't say anything, just kept silent, but Hong Jun already knew this cruel fact——
— Li Jinglong is useless.
His meridians were completely destroyed by the energy of the earth's veins, and his martial arts were gone. After that, he could only lie in bed all day long, becoming a disabled person who could not live independently.
"Can you sit up?" Hong Jun whispered, "Let me see?"
He lifted Li Jinglong's quilt, and saw that his upper body was bare, with a splint on his shoulder.
"I've taken the medicine." Li Jinglong said, "Lu Xu found it in your medicine bag."
"If you eat too much, the effect will be bad." Hong Jun said, "This is the second time you have eaten Huozhuandan."
Li Jinglong smiled wryly: "I ate it all."
Li Jinglong's scapula, ribs, left thigh, and right calf were all broken. When he was rescued by the snake, he still suffered from severe internal bleeding. Lu Xu and Mo Zhigen tried their best to cure him. Hong Jun touched Li Jinglong's body. Mo Zhigen's bone grafting technique was too hard, because he was not familiar with medicine, and several ribs were not connected properly.
But it has been fixed, and if you want to reconnect, you have to break it and try again. Hong Jun will not let Li Jinglong suffer this again anyway, so he said: "You will be fine."
He had everything in his medicine bag except the anesthetic. When An Lushan broke down the city, Hong Jun ran out of anesthetic to save the soldiers. When thinking of Mo Zhigen hard-fixing Li Jinglong's broken leg bone, Hong Jun's heart ached.
"I can't feel the power of the heart lamp." Li Jinglong said calmly, "I'm afraid I won't be able to protect you in the future."
Hong Jun said: "Is it gone?"
"It's gone." Li Jinglong replied, "It's strange, I don't know where I went."
Hong Jun resisted the urge to bury himself in front of Li Jinglong and cry, forced a smile, and pulled the corners of his mouth hard.
Li Jinglong looked at Hong Jun, staring blankly, with a look in his eyes that Hong Jun had never seen before, which was despair.
"It's still there." Hong Jun said, "It's just that now... your meridian is destroyed, so you can't feel it."
"You try it?" Li Jinglong had a little hope again.
Hong Jun shook his head. At this time, once he injects the five-color divine light into Li Jinglong's body whose meridians have been cut off, it will cause him great pain.
Li Jinglong said to himself: "It's my fault, I'm sorry, Hong Jun, I also lost the heart lamp you brought."
Hearing this, Hong Jun finally couldn't bear it any longer. He hugged Li Jinglong, tears streaming down his face. He gritted his teeth and held back, tremblingly said: "It's good that you are fine, what are you talking about?"
It was snowing like goose feathers outside the window.
Lu Xu and Mo Zhigen lay on the couch, covered with quilts, and Mo Zhigen said, "It's really warm in your room."
Lu Xu turned over, faced the wall, and whispered, "What are they going to do?"
Mo Zhigen didn't speak.
Lu Xu said again: "After the Exorcist... what should I do?"
Mo Zhigen said: "It will get better."
Lu Xudao: "The enchantment of the heart lamp has disappeared. The nightmare in Hongjun's body is nourishing his demon seeds. In the past few days, I have become more and more unable to control him..."
Mo Zhigen turned around and hugged Lu Xu from behind.
Lu Xu: "..."
Mo Zhigen: "..."
Lu Xu: "It's about this time! You're still in the mood..."
"It's out of control!" Mo Zhigen said, "I can't help it, I've held it in for too long."
Mo Zhigen's object touched Lu Xu, Lu Xu couldn't laugh or cry, Mo Zhigen asked: "What will happen?"
"Becoming a demon." Lu Xu said, "From now on, the demon seeds in Hongjun's body will start to grow, returning to the situation before Dunhuang, and the hostility in the world will gather towards his body. The species will grow stronger..."
Mo Zhigen "hush" and told Lu Xu to stop talking.
"When I was young, Shakana told me a story." Mo Zhigen said, "There was a man who was chased by a pack of wolves at night."
Lu Xu was silent, and Mo Zhigen said in his ear: "Do you know how to drive wolves away in the desert?"
"Use fire." Lu Xu replied.
Mo Zhigen said: "In the wilderness, there is only one dead tree. So he set fire to the dead tree. The fire shone all over the field, and the wolves retreated. But this dead tree has been decayed for many years and can only support For a little while. Soon, the flame is getting smaller and smaller, and only a little flame is left."
Lu Xu said, "Can he wait until dawn?"
Mo Zhigen's deep and hoarse voice said in Lu Xu's ear: "The night sky is full of dark clouds, and the moon cannot be seen. He doesn't know when dawn will come. The flames are getting smaller and smaller. Through the darkness, he sees more wolves, wolves everywhere."
Lu Xu said: "So he stood in front of the flames that were about to go out, waiting for the dawn. Once the flames went out, the wolves would tear him to pieces."
Mo Zhigen made a "hmm" sound, and said, "He started to look for everything that could be burned, but he burned one and lost one. He doesn't know if he can survive the night."
"What about the end?" Lu Xu asked.
"This story has no end." Mo Zhigen said, "It depends on what you believe. The dawn may come first, and the flame may be extinguished first. But tell me, what was that person thinking when he was warming up?"
Lu Xu: "Family?"
Mo Zhigen didn't answer, Lu Xu said again: "Want to live?"
Mo Zhigen still didn't answer, Lu Xu guessed again: "I want to go home."
Mo Zhigen said: "He was thinking, this flame is really warm." With a little effort in his arms, he hugged Lu Xu tightly, and said, "Go to sleep. They can survive it. It's better if the fire burns out first. Dawn It doesn't matter if you come first, it's a matter of fate, when you are warming up, you should warm up carefully, don't think so much."
Lu Xu closed his eyes and said nothing.