When Mo Xi woke up from the dizziness, he found himself in darkness.
He opened his eyes, the dull pain in his chest seemed to have a sharp cone piercing his heart, and in front of him was Gu Mang's face at the last moment, stained with blood and tears, but looked at him with a smile.
He closed his eyes, hot tears streaming down his cheeks.
- However, his business is not over yet. Gu Mang had sacrificed all his flesh and bones in order to open up this path. Now that Gu Mang has passed away, he has to fulfill this unfulfilled wish for his lover.
Even if he was already in pain.
His throat twitched, swallowing infinite bitterness, and slowly, he sat up from the ground.
Yes, it's not over, it's not the last.
Gu Mang was gone, but Chonghua still had him, and Jiuzhou still had him. As long as he was still alive, Gu Mang would not leave completely. He will take over Gu Mang's embers until he is also buried on this road.
He looked around slowly with red eyes. There is no limit to the heaven and the earth, and this place is like the chaos when Pangu did not open Hongmeng. The place where he lay was like the surface of water, but it would not sink, like the surface of ice, but there were always ripples.
He lowered his head and saw his own reflection in the lake water, but it was very strange. There were a few violet-black broken lights floating around his reflection. Those black lights kept drifting from his heart, but quickly disappeared. In addition, there is a huge, fuzzy silver-white light and shadow moving.
He couldn't see what it was, only that it was extremely huge, and it looked a bit like his divine martial arts swallowing the sky.
"That is indeed your weapon, Shenwu swallowing the sky."
Suddenly, a majestic and solemn voice sounded behind him. Mo Xi turned his head abruptly and saw a man in white clothes fluttering at the end of the darkness. The man was handsome and tall, with a dignified and inviolable temperament, surrounded by elegant fairy mist, which made his face blurred, only vaguely could see that his facial features were deep and his skin was as cold as jade, and he was a very heroic man. .
Mo Xi was startled, wondering why he was able to see through his own mind.
He couldn't help asking, "Who are you?"
The man does not answer.
Mo Xi got up and walked towards him, only to find that no matter how many steps he took, the man would always keep the distance from him at this moment, and it seemed that he could never get close.
Mo Xi's mood was gloomy, and he didn't want to dwell on it, so he stopped again and asked, "Where is this?"
This time, the man answered. He said, "You are in this reversal stone. The universe within this stone has nothing to do with the six realms, it is another world."
Mo Xi closed his eyes, he suppressed the sudden pain in the corner of his forehead, and gritted his teeth: "Are you the god in charge of this stone?"
"Forget it, you don't have to ask about my identity. I'm just a ray of spiritual power of the true god, stationed in this reversal stone. Who is my true body, this means nothing to you."
There is a god in here.
But Mo Xi made this accident and has no reverence for the gods, so he faced the god of the reversal stone and just said coldly: "I have nothing to say to you, let me go back."
The god shook his head and said, "You still can't go out."
Mo Xi was extremely sad and angry, and said sternly, "What else do you want?!"
He collided like this, but the spiritual power of the gods didn't mind, it just seemed to be looking at him a little sadly, and he didn't seem to have much emotion. After a long while, he opened his mouth and said, "Mo Xi, you don't have to hate me so much, your destiny is not under my control, and I am just the spiritual power left in the stone by the true god. After you have completed the destiny of reversing the stone, I also There is an explanation, you are actually kind to me."
"You have kindness..." The two words stopped between his teeth, and finally rolled into a sneer. Mo Xi's eyes were red and bloodshot, and he said hoarsely, "Okay. Repay your kindness and stop all this. Gu Mang is fine, Lu Zhanxing. Well, there are those unknown soldiers who are not remembered by anyone... There are too many people who have died in the past few hundred years."
He looked at the vague phantom of the god: "If you were a god, you should have seen it long ago."
"… Yes."
"Then why not end it!! What's the difference between you and the devil!!"
The spirit of the gods closed his eyes and seemed unwilling to answer at first, but after being silent for a while, he still said: "Mo Xi, the gods cannot save people, they can only save themselves by lighting the lamp. And I am calling you to this reversal stone at this time. In heaven and earth, I want to tell you that all this is about to end. Only the last step is left."
"Hua Po An has lived in the world for hundreds of years. He has been fused with demons and is no longer a living person. I went back to the past to destroy the power of blood demon beasts, but in the end, he told me that there is no such thing as reversal stone. Function - tell me, how should we save ourselves?"
He pressed him step by step, and the gods listened to every word.
Finally, this piece of God's spiritual power sighed and said, "I know you have resentment and hatred in your heart, so I won't advise you much, but..."
He paused and said to Mo Xi, "Hua Po'an is not invincible, his ability is tied to the blood beast, and I'm calling you here to tell you the way to decipher the power of his beast. "
Mo Xi was silent, gritted his teeth and endured his endless anger: "...Okay. Say it."
"The way," said the god, "is that you need to know what happened in your own past."
Mo Xi was stunned: "My own past?"
The god flicked his sleeves lightly, pointed to the windless but lined lake, and said, "Yes. The reversal stone can illuminate a person's soul. Your body is like a container, carrying the sufferings you have suffered in your life. All the ups and downs, all the love and hate you've had—here, right under your feet, everything is reflected."
Mo Xi looked down again.
Reflection, meaning himself.
Whale Phantom, representing his most powerful weapon.
But what are those black qi that spilled out of the chest and disappeared in an instant
"That's the magic that Murong Chen planted in your body before."
After he said that, Mo Xi remembered that this should be the manipulation Gu that Mengze managed to remove. On the day when the palace was forced into the Golden Palace, Murong Mengze once said that when she was rescuing Mo Xi who was seriously injured by Gu Mang in the Dongting water battle, she discovered this curse and secretly pulled it out with Murong Chen on her back.
For this reason, her spiritual core was damaged, and she could no longer cast any more powerful spells.
His thoughts and thoughts seemed to be projected into the eyes of the gods word for word.
The god said: "You are wrong. The devil was never removed by Murong Mengze."
Mo Xi suddenly raised his head: "What?"
The Spirit of God repeated: "The devil was never removed by Murong Mengze."
"… "
"The person who really took out the Gu for you, he dissected your chest cavity and solved your curse. But he was in the enemy camp at the time, and Murong Chen couldn't let him find out that he did such a thing. Second, he He can't stay alone with you for too long under the eyes of the people from Liao Kingdom, so he can only do this, discuss it with Murong Mengze, and ask her to keep it a secret."
Mo Xi felt the blood all over his body pouring into his head. There was a buzzing sound in his head, his fingers were shaking, and he murmured, "What did you say... What?"
"Dongting water battle, Gu Mang stabbed you in the chest, it's not for no reason."
"!!"
"In the process of stalking the secret agent, he realized that Murong Chen had played a black hand on you, so he deliberately led you to the battleship during that battle, and stabbed you to the point of being seriously injured and unconscious."
"When you woke up, what you saw was Murong Mengze who came to help and took you back to the military camp, and healed your wounds at the expense of her spiritual core cracking. But the truth is..." Shen Ming paused and said. "After you fell unconscious, it was Gu Mang who took you to the darkroom of the battleship to remove the poison for you. It was he who deliberately let Murong Mengze enter the siege—and handed you into her hands."
Mo Xi's face was as pale as snow, and his blood was frozen into ice.
what…
"Gu Mang knows very well what kind of person Murong Mengze is. She has never been simple, ambitious, and powerful. Although she is also a cold-blooded and ruthless emperor, she is at least not as crazy as her brother. Gu Mang also knows, You are a great help to Murong Mengze, she can't wait to find any way to win you over, so she will accept this kindness given to her in vain, even if it is dangerous."
Mo Xi felt that his throat was frozen, and after a long time he heard a very hoarse voice speaking, the voice was so unfamiliar that for a moment, he did not realize that the person who spoke was himself.
He asked, "So... the so-called life-saving grace... has never... never been Meng Ze... Gu Mang asked her to replace...?"
"He had to do this." God said, "He wants to get your hatred, wants you to be protected by Murong Mengze, and wants you not to be controlled by Murong Chen in the future. He has no other way."
"... So Meng Ze... Her spiritual core has never been... "
"Yes. She has never been injured. She is a medicine repairer and the head of Shennongtai. It is easy for her to fake a weak illusion. In this world, there are only two people who know her secrets, one is herself. One is Gu Mang." Shen Ming said calmly, "This is why she saw Gu Mang's memory about to recover, so she sent Zhou He to secretly use evil methods during the interrogation, trying to prevent Gu Mang from regaining his memories."
Mo Xi was even more shocked: "Zhou He was also instructed by her?!"
"Yes, Zhou He is Mengze's henchman and her friend. You are right. The person who has been trying to obstruct Gu Mang's recovery is Murong Mengze."
"… "
"She knows that your gratitude is an important pawn to her, and she is not sure if Gu Mang will tell you the truth after thinking about the past because of the passage of time, so she is eager to stimulate Gu Mang and make him go berserk. Lost his mind again. As long as he's stupid, no one else in the world will know her secret to saving your life."
Mo Xi murmured, "Impossible... She... She obviously has so many opportunities to start... But she has been patiently taking care of Gu Mang, and even gave me directions, and told me to go to Lin'an to find a major repair... "
"Guide the way?" The Spirit of God sneered, "You are innocent at heart. You don't know that the Yue family incident actually saved Gu Mang once. Because of Murong Mengze's original plan, Gu Mang's mind will be After you find the 'overhaul', it will be completely destroyed."
"!"
Looking at Shang Mo Xi's stunned eyes, the god said calmly, "Mo Xi, do you think she will cause an accident to Gu Mang while she is taking care of him?"
"Murong Mengze made several moves before and after. The first time was to assassinate Murong Lian, and the second time was to tell Gu Mang the truth about the oath of calamity when he was recuperating in the treatment room. In the second plan, She caused Gu Mang to collapse and run wild, and almost succeeded, but your presence prevented Gu Mang from falling further. If she was in a hurry at this time, and Gu Mang fell ill in her hands, would you? Is it possible to suspect her?"
"… "
"So..." Mo Xi's heart was suffocated. At this time, it was not anger, but endless cold and exhaustion. He muttered, "If we go to the deep suburbs of Lin'an, we will not be able to find a real major repair..."
"Yes. There will only be a monk disguised as herself, waiting for you to fall into the trap."
Hearing this, Mo Xi was stunned for a moment, then raised his head and smiled bitterly.
Meng Ze... Meng Ze... She... She actually has her own game of chess
It turned out that the emperor's power, the disputes between nobles, and the intrigues. Looking back half a lifetime, everyone has their own plans, and everything is fake.
A throne, a hand of power, is it really that important? It is worth taking a lifetime of effort and the sincerity of everyone into account.
He suddenly felt that all this was so ridiculous.
The faces around him, how many have he really seen clearly over the years
Is it really worth living a life like this...
"Mo Xi, you shouldn't think so. What is not worthwhile to you is worthwhile to Murong Chen and Murong Mengze." The god said, "You are too honest and straight, while Gu Mang is A person who is too ideal, people like you are easy to be holy, but not easy to be kings."
Mo Xi closed his eyes and murmured wearily, "Murong Mengze wants to be your king..."
"No. She wants far more things than being a Chonghua lord, but if God doesn't order her, she will take it by herself. Since ancient times, there are few pure and clean people who have been kings. She is indeed cruel. , but—" he paused, "for a monarch, the most important thing is whether he can govern the country in a proper way, and other things are not so important. It is cruel to say this, and it will feel injustice, but there are thousands of people. Each has their own strengths, right or wrong, what I can say is that if this person controls a country, he will be much more suitable than Murong Chen, Murong Lian, Gu Mang, and you."
"… "
The god paused for a moment again, and then said: "Okay, now you know all about it..." He brushed his shirt lightly, looking at him through the misty cold mist, "Mo Xi, after you go back, you want to find Does she seek revenge?"
Three years ago, five years ago, everything in Mo Xi's heart was black and white, and his likes and dislikes were clear. It seems that all things in the world can have a fair ending that is right or wrong.
But now, he knows that there are actually many unsatisfactory things in this world, and the good and evil are unknown.
But at the same time, his senior brother Gu also guided him, telling him that no matter how others are, whether fate is unfair or not, what people need to be worthy of is their own heart.
Even if it is severe cold, frost and snow, and all things are silent, there are also cold plums fighting the snow, and pines and cypresses facing the wind.
Fame, suffering, eternal night and even death do not change their minds, this is the way to achieve oneself.
The god waited for a while, and seeing that Mo Xi did not answer, he did not ask any further questions, but pointed to the lake again—
"If you don't think about it, you don't have to answer me. Whether you want to take revenge or not, you will go back to Chonghua. After seeing her, you will have a decision yourself. I will tell you the second key thing."
"… what?"
"Look at the swallowing sky in this lake, your reflection casts the shadow of swallowing the sky, do you feel strange?"
Mo Xi said, "Swallowing the sky is my divine martial art, so naturally I can take care of it..."
"Then why didn't Shuran appear?"
Mo Xi was startled when he heard the words, and raised his eyes.
The spirit of the gods said indifferently: "Have you ever thought about why Tuntian has such an ability to move mountains and fill the sea, even more violent than ordinary Shenwu?"
"… "
Seeing that Mo Xi didn't answer, the god said, "Actually, swallowing the sky is not an ordinary martial art."
Mo Xi opened his eyes wide: "!"
"You already know that your former monarch of Chonghua wanted to follow the forbidden technique left by Shen Tang to create an immortal beast that could fight against the blood beasts—everyone thought he had failed, and so did the old lord himself. But that's not the truth."
Shen He said, "The people who participated in the smelting of immortal beasts, Murong Lian's father, Zhou He's father... Some of them have always been on the same side as Lao Jun, and some of them have seen the old man. In front of the black magic law, Your Majesty, in fact, the power of self-control is gradually being eroded, and one of them is your father."
Mo Xi was shocked!
"At that time, the holy beast was actually successfully refined, but it has a spirit, and it only shows its power in front of those who agree with it, so other people think that they have failed to smelt. That's not true, it's just that they didn't pass the fairy beast. Peeping, I don't know that it has been successfully bred into a pearl. And your father Mo Qingchi... He is the only person who has been recognized by the fairy beast."
"The fairy beast appeared only before him, and recognized him as the master. And he had sadly and honestly prophesied to its master that he would be sacrificed in a battle that would soon follow, and his family would be in chaos—and the only one who could protect His son is not bullied, but only the most powerful mana—itself."
Mo Xi couldn't help but take a step back: "What..."
"I know you will be surprised. But that's the truth. Mo Xi, after your father learned that he was going to die soon, he sealed the fairy beast spirit bead in your body and made it recognize you as its master. Protect you to grow up safely. Otherwise, why are you born with such an extraordinary talent and powerful strength? Your ability is far above the genius of the sky, which is fundamentally abnormal."
Mo Xi trembled slightly, recalling the past, as well as the killing ability of the corpse that he had been suppressing, his fingertips became colder and colder.
"You think that swallowing the sky is the divine martial art you summoned after your enlightenment, no." The god said, "That is the soul of the fairy beast left to you by Mo Qingchi. Your powerful spiritual power is also the source of it. "
The god stared at Mo Xi's eyes and said word by word:
"The holy beast has been sealed in your body."
"!!"
"So the only person in the world who can completely eliminate blood beasts... is you."
There was no more blood on Mo Xi's face.
He opened his eyes wide and looked at the god of the reversal stone. After the god said this, the surrounding fairy mist became more and more hazy, soaking his body more blurred, and his voice became empty and distant, as if separated by a distance. Mountains, rivers, lakes and seas.
"Mo Xi... It's no accident that the reversal stone chose you. Next, I will unlock the seal of swallowing the heavens in your body, and you will completely possess the power of a holy fairy beast, which can rival the power of a blood beast."
"And you, you will also have two choices - after you go out, you can choose to seek revenge on Murong Mengze, you have the spirit body of a fairy beast by your side, kill her, hold the city as your king, and then use the swallowing enchantment to protect you. Living in Chonghua City, the blood of the blood beasts will swallow up the entire Kyushu, but it will not bring disaster to Chonghua City.
"However, you can also choose to dive into the depths of the sea of blood after awakening the swallowing sky. There, you will sense the heart of the blood beast there. As long as you offset your spiritual power with it, you can destroy it, blood pool. It will turn into ordinary lake water, and Hua Po An will also lose its source of strength and become an ordinary person who can defeat. Kyushu will be protected, but…”
Shen Ming paused for a moment, and said in a loud voice:
"You will perish with the blood beasts, and you will never be reincarnated outside of reincarnation."
Mo Xi listened, it was such a cruel thing, but he didn't feel it was too heavy.
He was someone who had just cracked Gu Mang's soul, and had gone through such ups and downs again. At this time, it seemed to him that nothing in the past was more painful.
The immortal mist around the god made it difficult for people to see his expression. After a while, he seemed to sigh lightly, and then said to Mo Xi: "These two paths... no one is forcing you. I said that the gods will not save people, but only turn on the lamp, and people will save themselves. In the same way, The gods will not force you to make a choice. Which way to go, you choose..."
After he finished speaking, he disappeared in the cold fog. Immediately afterward, a powerful repulsive force pushed Mo Xi violently, and the darkness in this space suddenly disintegrated, shattering into countless chaotic fragments, which fluttered and fell in front of Mo Xi's eyes.
He saw the past thirty years of his time glittering in these fragments, and when he saw the Moqing Pond standing under the laurel tree when he was a child, his father's armoured hand stretched out to him, smiled and said to him: "Little Fireball, why did you come here?"
He saw that the first time he saw Jiang Yexue, the docile and modest child was standing quietly by the queer platform, talking to his mother. After being instructed by his mother, Jiang Yexue turned around and said to him: "Hello, my name is Yue Yexue, are you the young master of the Mo residence?"
He saw Murong Lian bullying Gu Mang in every possible way in the academy, but he didn't know that deep down in Murong Lian's heart, in addition to his jealousy towards Gu Mang, he still had a little bloody concern.
He saw Murong Chuyi walking coldly under the veranda, and thought that this person was really as ruthless as the rumors said, but only later did he realize that Murong Chuyi's heart was actually hiding a tenderness like rivers, lakes and seas.
Then, he saw that on the day he broke with Gu Mang, on the deck of the water battle in Dongting, Gu Mang, dressed in black, clinging to the bayonet and falcon, walked towards him in the scorching flames.
At that time, Gu Mang was wearing the Chonghua heroic towel taken from the dead body on his forehead. He thought it was Gu Mang's humiliation of the martyrs, but he didn't know that it was Gu Mang's reluctance to give up Chonghua.
At that time, Gu Mang's thin lips parted, and Sen Sen said to him coldly, "When you are a general and a soldier, and you are born as a human being, you can't be too fond of the past."
But he later learned that Gu Mang never forgot the 70,000 steles, 30,000 people, one country, and Kyushu city at every moment in Liao Kingdom.
He once resented Gu Mang's cold-blooded ruthlessness and refused to look back.
In fact, Gu Mang had never betrayed them and went to another path. He just walked alone, going forward to cut thorns and thorns for those who came later, and open a bloody path.
He thought that Gu Mang cut his heart and Mengze saved his life, but it turned out...
Mo Xi slowly closed his eyes, bitterness and sadness burned like wildfire in his chest, burning to the core of his heart, and his eyes were red. The entire world of the reversal stone has collapsed, and the voices and smiles of countless old friends, intrigue and self-deception are like a torrent of world-annihilation oppressing him, and he is pushed out of this world by this huge force.
The words of the God of Reversal Stone were still in his ears.
Is revenge to hold the city, or plunge into the sea of blood.
- "These two paths, you choose yourself..."
Through the thin closed eyelids, Mo Xi could feel that the sky was gradually lighting up. He didn't open his eyes, but he could hear the cries of women and children in the city, the soldiers cheering each other, the sound of soldiers fighting, the tide. ll…
He understood that he was back, and returned to the battlefield six years later.
He even heard someone shouting from a distance: "Transfer the soldiers of the Zuoying camp to reinforce Jiang Yaoshi!"
"Hua Po An is crazy!!"
He knew that Jiang Fuli had already gone to fight Hua Po An. Although Jiang Fuli insisted that he was not Shen Tang, he carried all Shen Tang's memories and thoughts like yesterday, and once again came to the war against Liao Guo. Before.
Gu Mang said that everyone has something to accomplish.
Those things may seem very difficult, cruel, meaningless, and worth the loss, or it may seem that someone else can replace them, and they don't have to charge themselves, they can steal their lives and stay safe.
There are many people who will think, forget it, my life is like a mayfly, I just want to be cool and happy, and no one wants to be a hero.
But there will always be someone to stand up and let go of those personal grievances and hatreds, think about it, forget it, my life is like a mayfly, but as long as I can do something to make this world, this country, and this street more peaceful , that is also good.
Gu Mang, Murong Chuyi, Jiang Fuli, Mo Qingchi...
They have all chosen this narrow path which may be derided as foolishness.
At this moment, Mo Xi knew that they were all waiting for his return at the end of the road.
He opened his eyes.
The lingering illusion in front of him disappeared, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and he found that he had returned to the warm pavilion where he was before, and Jiang Fuli was indeed no longer here.
Outside the window, another dawn has come, and the clouds are as majestic as blood. He raised his eyes and saw that Chonghua's soldiers in the distance once again refused to accept their fate and fought with the iron army of the Liao Kingdom in the middle of the clouds. And the river of blood demons, where Gu Mang died, had already been forced under the palace's warm pavilion.
He walked out of the pavilion, facing the dazzling Xiahui, standing in the nascent rising sun.
His slender fingers caressed the carved fence, he stood by the wind, looking at the shattered and chaotic river and mountains, he suddenly understood the so-called destiny - that destiny is not destined, but destiny is destined to give people countless trials, hatred, Confused, misunderstood... Few people can swim to the other side they originally expected.
He looked down at the billowing blood, and finally dropped the exhausted reversal stone, and said in a low voice, "Senior brother, I will choose the same path as you."
"Wait for me, I'll come with you."