The strange breath, accompanied by heat waves, echoed in this empty space wave after wave. The fire dragon opened its teeth and danced its claws, with a ferocious appearance, but it did not continue to expand. It seemed that its current appearance was its limit. Even so, under the scorching flames, even the hard surface began to show signs of cracks, but the seemingly dilapidated and clumsy brazier was safe and sound.
The blazing fire was reflected in the eyes of the beast god, as if his eyes were also burning.
On the other side of the flame, the woman's voice smiled faintly, and said: "Is your magic power really dead, or did you lie to me on purpose? It was destroyed again at the time, but its power is definitely not limited to this."
There was no fluctuation on the handsome face of the beast god, and he said calmly: "Since you are so wary of me, I am a little confused. Why did you come to rescue me again?"
The woman snorted and said, "Didn't I tell you a long time ago, I came here for the strange formation passed down by the ancient witch clan, and the other is because I saw the pretentious cloud in Fenxiang Valley?" The old man is not pleasing to the eye."
The Beast God smiled slightly, as if he didn't take the woman's words to heart, and said: "Although Yun Yilan broke the contract, speaking of it, I never really believed him. If I won the battle at Qingyun Mountain that day, he would definitely Don’t dare to be like this. Isn’t it just what the majority of people do when they fall into trouble?”
The woman said: "It's a pity that he still doesn't know that you are different from me and cannot be killed."
The Beast God's gaze was deep, and he slowly stared at the darkness behind the firelight. The raging flames still seemed unable to shine into that place.
"How do you know that I can't be killed? If I tell you now that I can already be killed, what would you think?"
He stared at the dark place, but there seemed to be a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, as if provocative and seductive, he said slowly.
The woman suddenly stopped talking. In the whole cave, there seemed to be only the sound of the flame burning, but for some reason, it seemed to be even more dead silent than when there was nothing.
After an unknown amount of time, the Beast God suddenly said, "How many years have we known each other?"
After a long time, the woman said indifferently: "I don't remember. Not long after I attained the Tao, I came here by mistake. Speaking of which, why did you treat me differently at the beginning?"
The Beast God smiled, slowly lowered his head, his face seemed to be more tired, and said: "Although I was not a human being at that time, I couldn't stand loneliness."
The woman was silent for a while, as if she was also a little surprised, and after a while said: "Why do you look a little different today? You never said such things before."
The beast god's shoulders trembled and he let out two violent coughs, but he still had a faint smile on his face, as if he didn't care about anything in his eyes: "You have seen people who are dying, can you be with them?" Is it the same as usual?"
The woman continued almost immediately: "But you are not human!"
"How do you know I'm not human?"
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The flame in the brazier suddenly rose up, like a silent roar of a fire dragon, and then slowly fell, and the eight mysterious patterns of fierce gods around it also slowly fell, the light was dim, and gradually disappeared into the darkness. The fire dragon gradually merged into the flames and turned into an ordinary flame, and the surroundings darkened one by one, only the area around the brazier was still bright.
"What did you do to yourself?" After a long time, the woman asked softly.
The Beast God didn't answer or speak. He looked more and more tired, and slowly raised his hand. In the firelight, the skin on his right wrist seemed to have lost its luster and was gray, faintly, and there was a dark red vein hidden in the wrist muscles.
The Beast God looked at the Qi vein for a moment, shook his head, and stroked his wrist lightly. After a while, a gash slowly appeared on the wrist, and then a drop of blood slowly spilled out.
blood!
Red blood!
"How is it possible..." The woman in the dark seemed so surprised that she couldn't even speak anymore. After a long while, she seemed to come back to her senses, and said in amazement: "You...you have turned into a human!"
The Beast God didn't speak, just smiled, such a silent smile, no one knew whether it was a wry smile or a gratified smile.
"No wonder, I've always wondered in my heart. You were originally born of the hostility of heaven and earth, and you were supposed to be a place of immortality. How could you suffer such a great injury under the sword of killing immortals at the top of Qingyun Mountain? So you don't know what Time, have you become the person you always hate? Hahaha, hahahahaha... "
The woman didn't know whether she felt that it was too absurd, or because she couldn't control herself, but she actually laughed.
The eyes of the beast god stared at the drop of red blood on his wrist, but there were indescribable complex emotions flickering in his eyes, like joy, like sadness.
"I've never hated people before..." He smiled wearily, "I was able to come to this world with my sanity, isn't it because of people?"
The woman was startled and said, "What did you say?"
The Beast God slowly raised his head and looked at the flames burning in the brazier. His voice, in this place where darkness and light flickered alternately, seemed to have returned to the long past.
"When I was conscious for the first time, I saw her. At that time, I didn't even have a body, but in a trance, that woman seemed to be watching me. But as time passed, I gradually took shape, and finally I found out that she is a human being, a witch from the generation of the witch clan, and her name is Linglong."
Taotie let out a low growl beside the Beast God.
The Beast God reached out and stroked its head twice, Taotie fell silent. The woman didn't make a sound at all, as if she knew a certain secret that had been sealed in the dust for countless years in the past, and she was about to reveal it.
In the eyes of the beast god, gentleness gradually took over the entire position, and his eyes also looked at the distant dark depths, the far side of the cave, where there may be a former soul listening quietly.
"It was Linglong who used witchcraft and secret techniques to absorb the hostility of the world here in southern Xinjiang, and extracted the essence from it to create me."
The Beast God said calmly, no one has ever known the origin of this secret that has fascinated thousands of years, "Those so-called heroes of the witch clan who follow Linglong will definitely put me to death. If they find out that I am actually them If the respected lady created it with her own hands, I really don't know how they will feel!"
He smiled slightly, the killing and hostility in the past seemed to have never existed on him, and what he had at this moment was nothing but a memory.
"I have asked Linglong many times why she created me, but she never said it. But I finally understood, in fact, she was only doing it for two words."
The woman couldn't help asking: "What?"
The beast god said indifferently: "Longevity!"
The woman's voice was slightly surprised: "Longevity?"
The Beast God nodded and said, "That's right, you also think it's ridiculous, right? But back then, she did it for this purpose. At that time, Linglong's sorcery attainments far surpassed that of the ancients, and she was almost invincible in the world. Among the witch clan, everyone respects her like a god. When she is bored, what she does is to find another target for herself. This sounds similar to those cultivators in Middle-earth today, but The mystery of longevity is originally the way of heaven, although she is a woman of peerless intelligence, she has never been able to solve it. Finally one day, she thought of an inhuman method."
"Inhuman..."
"Human life is limited. Even if you are successful in cultivating the Tao, you can only live for a few hundred years. But non-human things tend to live longer, and the good fortune of heaven and earth, yin and yang hostility, etc. Since the creation of the world, it has been eternal. Since she thought of this, she studied it carefully, and finally she created me out of the inanimate life."
"She is really amazing..." the woman said faintly.
"Hehe." The Beast God smiled faintly, and said, "Yes! She is really an amazing woman. Since I came to this world, the first thing I saw when I woke up was her. I don't know how much time has passed since then. In the past few years, she was the only one in my world. Slowly, I began to take shape, and because my body was born of the hostility of heaven and earth, since I have divine consciousness, I naturally began to absorb the hostility around me , gradually getting stronger."
"It's just that she seemed a little uneasy. The way she looked at me gradually became less friendly. When my strength finally began to rival hers, she never showed any kindness to her since that day. I laughed."
"I was very confused at the time. I didn't know why. In fact, I didn't know why. My strength grew so fast, but to me, what's the point of strength! I just want to be with her... want to be with her She's just together."
"You can tell her, won't she know?" the woman couldn't help but said.
"I've said it many times. Now that I think about it, it's probably the same as a child acting like a baby to his mother!" A faint smile appeared on the corner of Beast God's mouth, but it disappeared again. "But she never believed it!"
The woman was silent for a long time, and the beast god was also silent, as if immersed in memories.
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The flame, still burning in the brazier, trembled slightly in mid-air, as if it was also panting.
Time seems to have stopped in this dark place, listen, listen!
The past years are the ice that freezes the memory, melts bit by bit, and then slowly disappears.
Who can save it
is it you or me? Or we are all people who are panting and running in the time, but we can't catch up with the time after all, getting old and disappearing in the shadow...
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"Finally, one day, I no longer wanted to stay in the room with only her, I wanted to go out and have a look. That day, she left for a long time and never came back. I broke the restriction and opened her room door, and walked out."
"There were a lot, a lot, a lot of people... But when everyone saw me, they screamed in panic and ran for their lives. For some reason, I was very panicked at that time, and then I was angry. Finally, I felt a hostility in my heart. I rushed forward. At this time, a dozen soldiers who heard the news started to kill me. I backed up while parrying. I didn’t want to fight them. I regretted it. I just wanted to be with my Linglong. I just wanted to come out and have a look... ”
"I tried my best to speak and explain, but no one listened until I killed the first person by mistake..."
There was a long silence.
"The young soldier hung upside down in my hand, slowly lowered his head, and blood flowed from his body. I was stunned, and the others were also stunned, and then they charged more ferociously. Amidst the scolding, I could clearly hear cries in the distance. It must be the relatives of the soldier who were crying! I don’t know, but my body has changed since the first time I saw the blood , The desire to kill haunted me like crazy, I didn't want to kill, but I couldn't control it, so I did it, I killed."
"I killed many people, many, many people..." Beast God lowered his head, but his voice continued.
"I stood in a pool of blood. I didn't know how long I stood there. I slowly came to my senses. Then, I saw in the distance, surrounded by countless people, Linglong came back. She looked at me without blinking. Looking at me, I couldn't get any more pale. I don't know why, I'm scared, I feel like I'm really wrong, but I don't know, I really don't know what I did wrong... "
"Then, Linglong made a move, and she attacked me herself. I refused to fight back. I wanted to explain to her, and I wanted to tell her that I would never dare to come out again. I just wanted to stay in that room and from now on As long as I am alone with her, I am satisfied. I have said this countless times, but she never listened to it once. "
"Her witchcraft is not comparable to that of ordinary fighters. Soon my body was riddled with holes, but every time I was injured, it would absorb the hostility around it to heal itself, and even I can feel that every time Linglong hits me, my strength grows faster. In the end, Linglong also discovered this, her face was ashen, as if she was in despair."
The Beast God was still smiling, remembering, but there was a bit more pain on his face after all: "I gradually began to feel that Linglong really hated me, and she used all kinds of witchcraft to deal with me like crazy, Although my body is immortal, my heart is really uncomfortable, so I ran away by myself. On the way to escape, all the people I met were frightened by me, and I didn't know until later , it turns out that my appearance at that time was really scary in the eyes of ordinary people."
He lightly patted the evil beast Taotie lying beside him, and said: "My appearance at that time was much uglier than it."
"Leaving Linglong, I fled into the Shiwanda Mountain. Not long after, I found this cave and stayed here temporarily. But I wanted to go back. I wanted to go back with all my heart. In fact, I just wanted to be with Linglong. So I finally I went back, but what greeted me was this magic circle."
The flame in the brazier made a crackling sound, as if responding to the beast god's words.
"I never thought that there could be such a terrifying power in this world. Linglong used the power of the mysterious fire to set up the eight fierce mysterious fire circles, and summoned the eight wild fire dragons. Now, even though I am an immortal body, my vitality was severely injured by the fire, and my body was completely destroyed."
"I desperately told Linglong that I don't want to do anything else, I just want to be with her, but she didn't seem to listen at all, and wanted to burn me to death. In the end, I ran away and fled back to this cave. I don't know why, Linglong wants to treat me like this, but I'm not reconciled, I really want to be with her."
"After returning here, with the help of the fierce spirit of heaven and earth that is unique to Shiwan Dashan, I responded quickly. Just when I was about to find her quietly again, she had already chased her. She brought seven The so-called warriors chased after this ancient cave, entered in person, and found me."
"I'm not surprised, because I was originally created by her. If there is anyone in the world who can deal with me and understand me, who else but her? But I really don't understand why she treats me like this. I said to her Why didn’t she listen to me at all! But this time, Linglong actually answered me. She said that everything was actually her fault, and it was her big mistake to create a monster like me. Because I was born of the hostility of heaven and earth, and I was born with the opportunity to kill, if I were allowed to live in this world, I am afraid that the common people in the world will suffer a catastrophe."
"I tried my best to explain to her, saying that I won't, I just want to be with her, and I don't want anything else. But she just smiled bitterly and said that she believed in me. In fact, she is willing to be with me Together, but, but... What if she dies?"
In the ancient cave, far away, it seems that someone is sighing in the dark, for the scene thousands of years ago, but I don’t know the tears that fell that year, but does anyone still remember
"I was stunned, and my heart was blank. I knew that I was immortal, but I never thought that Linglong would die. I still remember it so clearly. In Linglong's pale smile, there was Tears fell. Then, she activated the Eight Violent Black Fire Circle again, trapped me in it, and burned my body once again, but she couldn't destroy the hostile essence that I turned into. "
"After the magic circle, she was already seriously injured, but I was created by her. In the flames, I still asked her, why did you treat me like this..."
"This time, she didn't say anything."
"She spread the magic circle in this ancient cave, restrained me, and burned it day and night. As long as I recovered a little bit of hostility, the flames would burn that bit of hostility. At the end, she stared at me blankly, and suddenly asked if I still What wish do you have?"
The Beast God laughed softly and said: "Wish, what wish can I have? All my wish is just to be with her. So I asked her, why can't I be with her? Linglong bowed her head Head, speak slowly, because I am not a human being, not even a creature, so we are destined not to be together."
"In the raging flames, I faced her and said loudly: Then you, let me be a human being!"
His voice was suddenly high-pitched, he raised his head suddenly, and shouted loudly towards the dome of the cave.
"Let me be a man!..."
"Boom", the walls shook together, rocks fell one after another, the sound was like a drum, deafening.
Amidst the flying dust, the Beast God slowly lowered his head.
"Later, what happened?" said the woman in the darkness.
"... She seemed to be in a daze. After a long time, she didn't move. I endured the pain of being burned by the flames, and all thoughts were lost. However, she suddenly stood up, stopped the magic circle, and walked to my side. I was numb. Looking at her, not knowing what she was trying to do."
"She said to me in a low voice that she was sorry for me. Then, she..." At this point, the voice of the beast god suddenly began to tremble slightly for some reason, "she began to chant a long witchcraft secret spell, Slowly pulled out the knife, and then began...cutting myself one by one... "
"What?" The woman in the darkness exclaimed.
"I was also stunned. No, I was scared and stupid. I was really stupid. I didn't know what she was doing. Slowly, Linglong used her own flesh and blood, and even her own bones, to build a building on the ground. The skeleton of the secondary body came out, and then she put me on the skeleton, and as her spells became more and more urgent, I gradually merged into this body, and even my consciousness gradually became blurred."
"I heard her voice getting lower and lower, but she was still telling me that this is the last thing she can do for me. In the future, as long as someone finds five holy artifacts and puts them in this skeleton, I can die And resurrection, but after resurrection, although the demon power is still there, the body is already a human being, since it is a human being, it is no longer an immortal body."
"She said that she wholeheartedly pursued longevity, offended the way of heaven, and created a monster like me, but she had unethical feelings, which made her mistakes even worse; and because of me, she killed countless lives and caused catastrophe to the world. Heavy. And she killed me with her own hands, but it's... Speaking of which, she didn't say anything, and my consciousness gradually disappeared. In a trance, I only heard her last sentence: I will always be with you …”
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I have never understood this sentence.
Until I, thousands of years later, came back from the dead and stood at the entrance of the ancient cave again.
That one, being beaten by wind, frost, rain and snow, and honed by the sun and the moon, still stares deeply at the portrait deep in the ancient cave.
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I hold her.
I see.