Hongjun was silent, Chongming waited for a while, but he didn't hear his voice, and said in a low voice: "Why did you die?"
"In your heart, you know best." Hong Jun whispered, "In order to separate the demon seed in my father's body, let him go to the world, find a girl, and give birth to me... right?"
When he said this, Hong Jun's voice trembled. Chongming suddenly opened his eyes wide, thinking that Hongjun was going to tell him the details of what happened, but he never expected to find out the old case many years ago!
"Who told you?" Chongming's voice changed.
"Really?" Hong Jun panted, "You answer me!"
"Presumptuous!" Chongming suddenly stood up, and the powerful force immediately made Hongjun take a step back, "If it weren't for that, how could we have you today?!"
Chongming's reaction confirmed Hong Jun's guess. All the worries and fears along the way finally exploded at this moment. He could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, and shouted: "You killed my mother! What am I?! I What is it! Answer me!"
"You are Kong Xuan's son." Chongming said coldly.
"I'm just a sacrifice..." Hong Jun trembled, backed away, and said in a trembling voice, "I'm just a sacrifice you made to separate the demon seeds."
"That's right." Chongming stared at Hongjun and said slowly, "If your father hadn't died, it wouldn't be your turn to stand in front of me now."
In an instant, Hongjun was spinning and had trouble breathing. Chongming looked at his appearance and said, "The first day Qingxiong took you to Yaojin Palace, I didn't want to spare your life."
Hongjun: "..."
"But I have a guilty conscience." Chongming said again, "Kong Xuan died because of me, and only then did I take you in."
"No... no..." Hong Jun stared at Chong Ming in a daze.
"Isn't this what you think in your heart?" Chongming said coldly, "Isn't it the reality you are most afraid of? Isn't it the voice that reappears in your heart?!"
"What is your mother? I don't care, so what are you? I don't care even more. Kong Xuan, that trash, would ignore his own life to protect you. This is what I really care about..."
"...the ones who killed your mother were me, Qingxiong, and your father himself!" Chongming said angrily, "But it is also because of this that you can see this world, you have to thank us, now How dare you accuse me of guilt?!"
A chill surged from Hong Jun's back, straight to his scalp.
"Then why...adopt me?!" Hong Jun felt that his soul was being shattered under these words, and he ruthlessly told the inside story that he didn't dare to think about, and followed him sentence by sentence, dissecting the truth Open, as if tearing all the memories of Yaojin Palace in front of him to pieces!
Chongming sneered: "Xie prison vainly wants to devour you and turn into a dragon to rule China, how can I do what he wants?!"
"No." Hong Jun trembled, "It's not like this..."
Hongjun took another half step back, but Chongming said coldly: "Where do you want to go? I have given you a choice, but now you want to come back yourself!"
Just as Hong Jun was about to leave, thousands of bright orange-red lights burst out from Chongming's hands, wrapping around his whole body. Hong Jun roared angrily, "Let me go!"
Chongming surrounded Hongjun with a strong light, strangled his throat, and pushed him to the corner of the hall, his eyes glowed with golden light, and his voice became deep and trembling like a heavenly tone.
"You should have been solved long ago, and there will be endless troubles."
That sound was the last sentence Hong Jun heard before losing consciousness, and in an instant, boundless darkness rushed over and enveloped him.
He curled up in the corner of the main hall, and Chongming watched his figure quietly until the sun rose in the early morning. When he turned his head sideways, he saw a roc wearing a golden light flying over among the mountains—
In the early morning, Li Jinglong woke up to the melodious sound of birdsong, and walked out of the room in a daze, only to see the clouds and mist, spreading into the Yaojin Palace, and the sycamore forest outside has become a sea of clouds and mist, which is magnificent.
Chongming came from outside the phoenix tree, and all the birds behind him were singing towards the phoenix.
"Mortal, I have something to tell you." Chongming's voice came from afar.
Li Jinglong hurried in, changed his clothes and came out, feeling nervous for no reason, not to reaffirm his special status, but because he was Hong Jun's adoptive father.
The clouds and mist cleared, and Chongming and Qingxiong stood in the forest. Qingxiong gave Li Jinglong a set of boxing techniques back then, he remembered it, and hurriedly bowed to the two of them. When he raised his eyes to look at Chongming, he saw that there seemed to be anger on his face, and Qingxiong also obviously looked unhappy. When Li Jinglong didn't see Hongjun, he thought in his heart that there might be trouble.
Sure enough, Chongming looked at Li Jinglong and said in a deep voice, "The heart lamp was not for you."
Li Jinglong was stunned when he heard the words, but his brain moved faster than Chongming, and replied: "The child of the Chen family has not yet grown up, how can he control the heart lamp? Since you need the power of the heart lamp to dispel the demonic energy on Hongjun, temporarily What's the problem if I keep and drive it?"
Chongming didn't expect to be blocked by Li Jinglong's words, and the atmosphere was immediately very awkward.
"When I die someday." Li Jinglong looked at Qingxiong again, and said slowly, "Of course I will return it."
Qingxiong looked at Chongming, but Chongming said coldly: "No need, you just go down the mountain. From now on, you will have nothing to do with Yaojin Palace."
Li Jinglong: "!!!"
Not seeing Hong Jun coming, Li Jinglong secretly thought that something was wrong, unexpectedly Chongming issued the order to evict the guest so straightforwardly.
"Where is Hong Jun?" Li Jinglong said immediately, "I want to see him, let me leave as soon as I see him."
"Don't toast, don't eat fine wine." Chongming's words were a little more threatening, "This is not your Chang'an on earth, you are just one of hundreds of millions of ants, don't think that you can take a piece of trash you picked up With a useless sword, how dare you talk to me like this?!"
While talking, Chongming didn't see his hands, but his whole body exuded momentum, surrounded by flames, Li Jinglong retreated subconsciously, raised his heart lamp naturally, and poked his right hand behind him!
With a "buzz", the Wisdom Sword seemed to have sensed it, and shot through the window, falling into his hands, and the flames also arrived in front of him! Li Jinglong held the sword to block, but the high temperature hit suddenly, like a meteor hitting the Wisdom Sword. Amidst the loud noise, Li Jinglong let go of the long sword before he could make a move. Under the impact of this force, the heart lamp was covered like a paper cover. Incinerate!
"Be merciful!" Qingxiong shouted instantly.
Li Jinglong's chest felt tight, and he fell backwards, and fell firmly in the corridor. He was in a state of embarrassment for a while, and struggled to get up.
Chongming stared at Li Jinglong silently. After being hit like this, Li Jinglong felt that the cultivation bases of the two were so different that there was almost no possibility of fighting back.
"Get off the mountain." Chong Ming said, "Hong Jun has already told you everything, and he won't see you again."
Li Jinglong raised his head, but Chongming had already passed by his side and left the garden.
Qingxiong looked at Li Jinglong, and after a long time, he sighed.
"Let's go." Qingxiong replied, "Go back to Chang'an and continue to be your exorcist."
Li Jinglong raised his head and looked at Qingxiong in a daze, only to see Qingxiong raised his hand, and the light "buzzed" around Li Jinglong's body, followed by a flash of white light, the surrounding scenery changed rapidly, and Li Jinglong had appeared at the foot of the mountain nearly a hundred miles away place.
The Wisdom Sword swirled down from the sky and was nailed to the ground with a "Zheng".
Li Jinglong: "..."
In Yaojin Palace, Chongming sat silently on the throne.
Qingxiong walked into the main hall and looked at Chongming.
"It doesn't have to be like this." Qingxiong said.
"It doesn't have to be like this?" Chongming said in a deep voice, "It was you who insisted on making him go down the mountain at the beginning because the person who tied the bell was needed to untie the bell. Now that the demonic energy has not been removed, it has become even heavier! Gong Lai, full of hostility!"
Qingxiong replied: "You can hide it from him for a while, but you can't hide it from him forever."
Chongming seemed to be furious: "Who promised me again that a mortal can suppress the demon seeds in his body?! Even I can't take one move, it's a waste!"
"Who would have expected you to use the real fire of the phoenix to try your tricks?!" Qingxiong was also angry, and shouted, "The heart lamp shines brightly, it is not a technique of slaughter, you still don't understand?!"
Chongming was even more irritable, shouting: "I will not let him leave Yaojin Palace for half a step!"
Qingxiong took a step forward, not giving in at all, and said in a deep voice: "The black flood dragon separated its own soul and produced a substitute for the demon seed. Now the world does not know how many are there! Do you think Hongjun is protected in Yaojin Palace? , wouldn’t the Heavenly Demon come back to life?!”
"It's none of my business that the demons come back to life again?" Chongming stood up, stepped off the throne, and walked straight to Qingxiong, almost touching the bridge of his nose, staring at him indifferently.
"Brother, do you want to fight?" Qingxiong sized Chongming up, and suddenly smiled, "It's been many years since I've fought, go out and fight?"
Chongming finally dispelled this idea, and pushed Qingxiong away fiercely, Qingxiong stepped back a few steps, Chongming said again: "How much regret is needed to redeem the crime committed by a single thought? When the demon comes back to life, I will die Day, so I am finally worthy of you and Kong Xuan."
Qingxiong pondered for a long time, but when he was about to leave, Chongming stared at the mountains outside the hall, and said slowly: "Seal his memory, let him stay in Yaojin Palace, after I go, I will leave this place to you." He is gone. Now I only worry that he will sit alone in this temple in the future, it is too lonely to be alone."
"I'll try my best." Qingxiong sighed, and replied, "The demons are rampant, and after going down the mountain, they have experienced so many things, I'm afraid they can't be sealed."
Chongming: "Then let him continue to hate me."
Hong Jun woke up on the top of a lonely peak, and suddenly found himself in a pavilion. There is water and food around, and the pavilion stands on the top of the peak, with a radius of only ten feet. A thin chain was tied to the left ankle, and it rattled. His five-color divine light and Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife were all confiscated, and he wanted to use the flame spell, but a pain spread from his back.
He grabbed the cup, poured the water in it on the ground, looked sideways, and in the center of the back of his bare shoulders, a phoenix rune was painted with gold powder mixed with cinnabar. Whenever he mobilized the mana in the meridians, the phoenix rune would light up, restraining his spells.
He wanted to reach out to wipe it, but the charm was right in the center of his vest, where his hands couldn't touch it no matter what. He struggled to get onto the pillars in the hall, turned around and rubbed his back against the pillars, which was scorching and painful, but the runes could not be rubbed off.
"Father..." Hong Jun was helpless, and subconsciously wanted to call Chongming for help, but realized that it was Chongming who locked him here.
He dragged the chain and looked out of the isolated peak. The Yaojin Palace in the distance became a small black spot, while the mountain below was covered by a sea of clouds, and the mountain peak that trapped him was like a stone pillar. Compared with Yaojin Palace, the two places seem to be about the same height, even if there is no chain to tie them, they can't escape at all, if they jump off forcefully, they will only be smashed to pieces.
"Li Jinglong!" Hong Jun shouted towards Yaojin Palace.
Without any answer, Hong Jun had to lean against the pillar, unable to sit down.
In the evening, Li Jinglong washed his face by the stream and looked at himself in the stream.
In the Taihang Mountains, it was raining coldly, and there was still a little snow on the ground. He drank some water, rested for a while, ate some dry food to replenish his strength, and looked up to identify the mountains that looked almost indistinguishable.
With the Sword of Wisdom on his back, he walked on foot in front of the narrow path overgrown with thorns, and noticed a bird in the tree. He turned his head and looked around, with black eyes facing him.
Birds hopped over the branches and leaped to another tree, and several more birds flapped their wings and flew into the woods.
Li Jinglong sighed, recognized the way he and Hong Jun came, and walked towards the cliffs of the canyon.
Chongming stood by the pool of Yaojin Palace, and Qingxiong looked down at the pool.
"That's all." Chongming said coldly, turned and left.
Qingxiong turned into a golden-winged roc, spread his wings and flew into the air, circled and threw it to the west.
Hong Jun heard the birdsong in the pavilion on the top of the peak, suddenly raised his head, and shouted: "Qingxiong! Qingxiong!"
The golden-winged roc flew in, its head was three feet high, and with a spread of its wings, it immediately enveloped the pavilion. When a strong wind blew, Hong Jun kept pulling the iron chain, fearing that the golden-winged roc would not see him, and shouted: "I'm here!"
With a flash of light, the roc bird's body gathered and turned into a green and majestic body. When it fell, it stepped onto the railing of the pavilion, bowed and squatted down, and looked at Hong Jun intently, with pity in his eyes.
"Take me out of here!" Hong Jun said, "Qingxiong!"
Qingxiong didn't answer. Hong Jun knew that he must have learned the cause and effect from Chongming, and his heart turned cold in an instant, and he said, "Chongming told you everything?"
Qingxiong lowered his head, nodded, stretched out his hand, touched Hongjun's cheek lightly, and then covered his side face with his palm.
"Suffer in the world." Qingxiong's tone was unusually calm.
Hong Jun stared at Qingxiong in a daze, then shook his head. Qingxiong sat on the railing with his legs slightly apart, still looking down at him with his head down, while Hong Jun leaned his back against the opposite fence and let out a weary cry.
"As you told me before, the world is very good." Hong Jun replied, "But what's so good about it is different from what you said."
"The reason why the world is good," Qingxiong replied, "I think it's because of the people there. In contrast, Yaojin Palace is like a cage. Now you should understand why I always don't want to come back."
Hong Jun still remembered Li Jinglong asking himself last night if he would accompany him back to Chang'an, but he replied without thinking, "Yes."
"Yeah." Hong Jun nodded.
While speaking, Qingxiong sighed again, and said, "Chongming has been alone for too long, don't hate him."
Hong Jun asked back: "Where is Li Jinglong?"
"Let's go." Qingxiong said, "We told him not to wait for you any longer and go back to Chang'an."
Hong Jun raised his eyes suddenly, looked at Qingxiong, Qingxiong said again: "Do you regret going to the world?"
Hong Jun replied: "I don't regret it."
The wind and clouds dispersed, the setting sun shone in the west, and the sea of clouds pushed away, revealing the land of China.
Qingxiong whispered: "Hong Jun, you actually understand better than anyone else, don't you?"
"Did I know Li Jinglong when I was young?" Hong Jun asked back.
Qingxiong looked at Hongjun carefully, asked each other and answered each other, without even needing to say it, he understood everything by heart.
After a long time, Qingxiong nodded with a dignified expression, his eyes full of unbearable look.
Along the way, Hong Jun got almost all the answers he wanted, and one answer after another completely shattered his hopes.
"Qingxiong." Hong Jun was very calm, and whispered, "It was you who sealed my memory back then, right?"
Li Jinglong, Di Renjie, the abandoned exorcist... After that nightmare of family ruin, it was Qingxiong who arrived at the first time.
Hongjun still had a vague memory of Qingxiong knelt down on one knee, stared into his eyes, said something, pressed his palm up, and then a white light flashed, and he forgot the pain he had suffered.
"Yes." Qingxiong didn't hide it from him anymore, and said, "The memories of you and Li Jinglong are all sealed by me... because I don't want you to live in pain anymore. The heart lamp was given to me by God Kun, and he When I said, "The person who tied the bell still needs to be untied", I had a vague premonition. Maybe when you return to Chang'an, you will meet Li Jinglong. But I didn't expect that the heart lamp would enter his body by mistake."
Hong Jun said: "I didn't expect your seal to disappear."
"It was an accident." Qingxiong pondered for a moment, and then replied, "The seal is a spell, a poem I taught you to read when you were young... After smelling the Lihun pollen, this sentence is the most important to you , was forgotten by you, and the memories of the past gradually emerged."
Hong Jun remained silent, staring at Qingxiong's eyes, his eyes were red.
Qingxiong said again: "Forget it, stay in Yaojin Palace, life is alive, there is only pain."
Hong Jun's breathing was suddenly suffocated, and Qingxiong raised his left palm, which emitted a warm white light.
"Wait..." Hong Jun tremblingly said, "I still have something to ask you, Qingxiong."
Qingxiong looked at Hongjun, who trembled all over his body, and said, "Qingxiong, you couldn't have rescued me until the last moment...why didn't you come earlier? Did you know all this earlier... just want to ...you want to wait for me to die under their hands before taking my father...back to Yaojin Palace?"
Qingxiong turned his head to avoid Hongjun's gaze, tears streaming down his face, and choked up, "Hongjun... I'm sorry."
Hongjun: "..."
In an instant, Hong Jun got the last answer, and the grief and indignation in his heart gushed out like a flood that burst a bank!
However, Qingxiong's left hand has been thrown away suddenly, pressing on his eyes!
"The living are passers-by, and the dead are returnees."
"Heaven and earth travel against each other, and we mourn the eternal dust... seal!"
In an instant, a memory flashed in Hong Jun's mind.
"What do you mean?" Xiao Hongjun asked.
"This is a curse." Qingxiong explained, "Remember, don't forget."
Star Cliff Jade Bi, Qingxiong was lying on the smooth sloping wall, and Xiao Hongjun was lying on Qingxiong's body, looking at the brilliant starry sky together.
"The hostile energy between the heavens and the earth does not dissipate, and when it exceeds the limit that the veins of heaven and earth can bear, it disperses into the world, accumulating resentment and turning into demons." Qingxiong said.
"What is hostility?" Xiao Hongjun asked again.
Qingxiong: "It's obsession."
Xiao Hongjun: "What obsession?"
"Thousands of obsessions are born, nothing more than life and death." Qingxiong murmured, "Whether it's a demon or a human being, the souls of all beings are just passers-by in this vast world. Scenery. After the investigation of life and death, there will be no obsessions, and there will be no demons. The demons will not arise, and the demons will not appear. Remember?"
"Remember." Xiao Hongjun said to himself, then turned around, lay on Qingxiong's chest, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
On the top of the solitary peak, Qingxiong spread out his wings covering the sky behind his back, and shook away with a "Hula" overwhelmingly. The white light and airflow around him swirled rapidly, and Hongjun yelled in pain.
"Let me go!" Hong Jun kept struggling, but Qingxiong's left palm was full of light. White light followed his forehead and flowed rapidly all over his body towards his naked upper body and waist. Hong Jun raised his hands and grasped them tightly. Hold Qingxiong's wrist.
"You're all lying to me—" Hong Jun's voice became hoarse and strange, black air spewed out from his eyes, and his black wings were instantly shaken behind his back. Qingxiong was overwhelmed by the black air and couldn't stand it anymore, roaring angrily: "Seal me!"
Seeing that Hong Jun was about to break through Qingxiong's curse, the phoenix rune on his back shone brightly.
In the main hall of Yaojin Palace, Chongming suddenly opened his eyes wide.
Sooner or later, the pillars on the Gufeng Pavilion collapsed under the impact of the demonic energy in Qingxiong and Hongjun's bodies, bricks and tiles flew everywhere, and the demonic energy continued to spread along Qingxiong's arms, rolling towards his neck .
The demonic energy was like thorns, criss-crossing, making Qingxiong's body splatter with gold and blood. Hongjun's eyes spewed raging black fire, and roared in a strange voice: "I want to kill you!"
In an instant, a flying fire rolled from behind, and the phoenix appeared in the golden fire. With a long cry, Chongming shook off the wings of the phoenix that could almost cover the sky, and shouted: "Break!" Immediately, he led the fire feather with both hands, and retracted it towards the center , All the fire feathers stuck to Hongjun's body, burned into a fireball, and forced all the devilish energy back into his body!
With a loud bang, the pavilion on the mountain collapsed, and Hong Jun fell into a coma again and fell down.
Qingxiong couldn't help panting, Chongming knelt down on one knee, pressed the rune on Hongjun's back with one hand, and said in a deep voice: "The demons have not been so rampant in the past, we must not let him go to the world again."