The sect is full of evildoers, but I am the eldest brother.

"It doesn't matter if you don't acknowledge me. After all, I didn't do this for you."

Emperor Yan returned to his previous inhuman expression.

But I don’t know why.

After learning all the truth, Xi Zhaozhao seemed a little pitiful.

"Ancestor Yan Huang, there is..."

Xi Zhaozhao swallowed and said, "Has anyone ever told you that you have a bad personality?"

Although I don't understand why the little guy suddenly changed his mind.

But the Flame Emperor still replied with one word: "Yes."

Sometimes the Emperor Yan’s answers were really simple, summing it up in one or two words. But the key point was his expression, which looked as if he couldn’t even handle an avalanche, and it was really easy to be misunderstood!

Xi Zhaozhao gradually realized her mistake, looking like she was about to cry but couldn't. "Well, has anyone ever told me that you're really, really bad at expressing yourself?"

"often."

The ancestor Yan Huang actually admitted it!

And the answer was still two words, just as he said when the Lord of the Black Demon Hall finished speaking.

so......

In fact, the moment the conversation ended, the ancestor Yan Huang was ready to send the other party back to his hometown. Was it her who was so tactless as to suddenly speak and angrily criticized the ancestor for inaction?

Xi Zhaozhao was stunned and just stood there in a daze.

Except for the young novice monk, everyone else had a look of astonishment on their faces, and it took them a long time to come back to their senses. But in fact, the young novice monk was also a little surprised.

After all, the Emperor Yan actually had the patience to take the initiative to explain the whole story to a human descendant in the future who pointed at his big nose.

This would have been unthinkable a hundred thousand years ago!

“Hahahaha, hahahaha…”

The Lord of Greed laughed so heartily that he even felt like his tears were about to dry up from laughing. He felt both amused and fresh in his heart.

"Now while no one is paying attention to us."

Yun Ji took stock of the current situation and whispered, "Let's go."

"Do not."

Kuang Langsheng actually refused. He replied, "Wait a little longer!"

"Are you crazy?"

Yun Ji was anxious, "If you stay, you will die!"

“No one is not afraid of death.”

Kuang Langsheng looked at the Dark Demon Hall Master, who was possessed by the Lord of Greed, standing in the distance. His eyes were remarkably firm. "But if you give up the ideals you've pursued so hard, and everything you've worked so hard for, because you're afraid of death, then you won't be the one who survives."

"You idiot!"

Yun Ji was furious: "You only have one life. If you lose it, you lose everything!"

“As the ancients said, you can’t get a tiger cub without entering the tiger’s den.”

Kuang Langsheng had already made the decision in his heart and said, "In life, there are always some things more important than life, and there are always some things we have to do."

"What the hell are you talking about!!!"

"Yun Ji, if you can't even understand this..."

Kuang Langsheng glanced at Yun Ji, feeling somewhat disappointed, but still replied: "Think about the reason why we are standing here."

After saying that, Yun Ji opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

After that, he no longer tried to persuade Kuang Langsheng to evacuate.

One of them stood there, not knowing what he was thinking about, and did not speak for a long time.

“Good awareness.”

The Lord of Greed was thinking about what Kuang Langsheng said in his mind, and his admiration for him increased. He lowered his head and looked down at his palm, no, it should be said that he was looking at his current body, or rather, he was looking through this body at the loser who had taken over his position.

Afterwards, he slowly raised his eyes and met the gaze of Kuang Langsheng who was staring at him.

Kuang Langsheng did not retreat at all. Even though he knew that the person looking at him was someone with an unspeakable taboo, he still remained calm and looked at the Lord of Greed bravely.

The Lord of Greed slowly curled up his lips into a smile, "Interesting..."

"An existence beyond 'immortal'..."

"I hope you won't let me down..."

After saying this, the Lord of Greed suddenly seemed to sense something and looked up at the sky.

Behind the quietly gathering clouds, a greater terror is coming...

"Grandfather, yes, I'm sorry."

Xi Zhaozhao said coyly, looking embarrassed: "Just now, I said a lot of unpleasant things when I didn't know anything."

"Do not blame you."

Yan Huang shook his head slightly.

He first glanced coldly at the little monk who was scratching his cheek and smirking, then turned his gaze to Old Eight and said lightly, "Do you want to put an end to that guy yourself?"

That guy...

Greed...

Seeing that Lao Ba hesitated, Yan Huang spoke again: "Can't bear to attack the traitor?"

Traitor? Could it be...

Lao Ba's pupils shrank slightly, and he looked at Yan Huang in surprise.

"My Nanga clan perished at the hands of an evil tribe from outside our domain, and that has become an obsession within me. It is this obsession that has kept me dormant until now, and it has never dissipated after tens of thousands of years."

The Flame Emperor had long since died in battle along with the Nanga tribe. Now standing before everyone, he was nothing more than a lingering obsession that had been lingering in their hearts for a full 100,000 years and was unwilling to dissipate.

"I have no sympathy for you foreigners... Logically, if we meet again, I should expel you all to honor the spirits of my Nanga people."

"But, I saw a whole new world that didn't belong here, filled with all sorts of wonderful colors. I also saw a knight who protected the people behind him until his death."

"The little girl who lives on the moon has begged me for a long time to fulfill your wish so that your soul can rest in peace. However, I would like to hear your opinion on this matter."

I remember that Emperor Yan once told Lao Ba that he would not bother with a dead person. This was not a threat, but a statement of a fact before him.

The old monk in Baoliantian also said that Lao Ba had never left his hometown...

The results are already obvious.

Lao Ba agreed without much thought.

But just as he was about to speak, Yan Huang suddenly raised his palm, interrupting Lao Ba's action, and continued: "I don't like Xuan Zang, but sometimes I have to admire him. He can violate the Buddhist rules and regulations many times in order to uphold his own morality..."

"I won't beat around the bush. If you're willing to give up everything you once had and start over, I can rebuild a body for you, allowing you to become a real person and live a completely different life as 'Lee Armstrong Thunder Gaba'."

"The premise is that you are really willing to give up everything you once had."

Emperor Yan remained calm when he said this.

He even accurately called out the difficult-to-pronounce name that Lao Ba had made up at random.

Even the old monk couldn't call out the name in one breath.

He actually made the Flame Emperor, whom he had never met before, shout out when they met for the first time?

Faced with the promise made by Yan Huang himself, Lao Ba was stunned for a moment, and the words that were about to come out were stuck in his throat. He didn't understand why Yan Huang would do this for him, but he also heard the words from Yan Huang's mouth, "The little girl on the moon has been begging me for a long time."

The light of dawn never really shines on Lao Ba.

But every night, the moonlight always accompanies him quietly like a shadow.

The goddess never leaves, "she" is always there.

I have been watching him silently, accompanying him, and protecting him...

Lao Ba raised his head involuntarily.

But the sky was covered with dark clouds.

It blocked the moonlight and blocked his view of the goddess.

Lady Goddess, do you also want your loyal believers to live a completely new and different life? So since you came to this world, you have only given choices but never interfered with the lives of your believers?

Lao Ba looks back on his experiences over the years.

I couldn't help but start reflecting on myself.

If the goddess had always been there, she could have given him an oracle at the beginning of his arrival, allowing him to fulfill his mission and develop silently until he killed the heretic and fulfilled his mission.

But the kind goddess didn't do that. "She" just built a body for Lao Ba that could grow with time, left a sword dance book, and quietly ran away to the moon...

"She" has never left, and has always been with me silently...

Perhaps the master is right, life is like a long journey.

The best arrangements are often not those we painstakingly create, but rather the surprises that life quietly presents to us when we follow nature and take things as they come.

Now... is the best arrangement!

"no need."

Lao Ba placed the glory that reappeared on the back of his hand before his eyes. Staring at it, he suddenly smiled with relief and said, "I've experienced a completely different life."

“But this kind of life does not belong to me.”

"Senior brother..."

After what happened recently, Xi Zhaozhao has guessed that Lao Ba's true identity is actually very important. He is actually an alien visitor similar to the alien gods in ancient times.

But there is a saying that goes, "It is hard to meet and hard to part."

What's more, this may be a farewell forever. How can Xi Zhaozhao accept this?

She clutched the corner of Old Eight's clothes tightly with both hands, unwilling to let go. She turned around and tried to bargain with the Flame Emperor: "Old Ancestor Flame Emperor, is there no solution that can satisfy both parties?"

"I know it might be a little inappropriate to say this, but rebuilding my brother's body and helping him settle his former enemies aren't contradictory, right?"

"Why do I have to choose just one? The memories of the past were so beautiful. Even if I choose to start over, I have to forget them all!"

What Emperor Yan said just now has completely revealed Lao Ba's other identity.

Lao Ba doesn't belong here.

He came from a whole new world full of all kinds of wonderful colors.

Moreover, he has died in battle to protect the people behind him!

Xi Zhaozhao didn't quite understand the meaning of these words, but she roughly heard that if her eighth senior brother insisted on making peace with his former enemy, his soul would rest in peace.

The soul rests in peace, which, to put it bluntly, is just death?

Yan Huang looked up at the sky, intentionally or unintentionally, muttering to himself, "It's coming." Then he turned to look at Xi Zhaozhao and asked, "Do you want to see his past?"

"I......"

Xi Zhaozhao lowered her head silently and said weakly, "I don't want to."

She was afraid, she was uneasy...

She was worried that after seeing her former senior brother, her hand holding the corner of his clothes would involuntarily loosen.

"Brother, please don't go. Please don't go..."

Xi Zhaozhao's delicate body trembled, and tears as big as beans fell to the ground with a "pat pat". She begged in a sobbing voice: "Please stay. I have already lost my senior brother. I don't want to lose you again..."

Seeing Xi Zhaozhao like this, Lao Ba felt a little reluctant.

But at this moment, a few words suddenly flashed through his mind. Those were the words the little monk said when he first met him: Time will dilute everything, but memory can always cause waves. How can people who have been living in the past welcome a new life?

Perhaps Lao Ba can take this opportunity to break away from the past and usher in a new life.

But he can't.

He is not only the eighth disciple of Taiyi, he is also a holy knight of the empire. His comrades, relatives, friends... all died in the expedition against the Lord of Sin.

He couldn't abandon his comrades, the people of the kingdom who trusted him, and the beautiful memories he once had, and live alone in a foreign country.

I can't do it no matter what!

Since he has chosen this path, he will grit his teeth and keep going no matter how difficult it is!

Because this is the promise he made to his former friend!

Even if you die in battle, it is an honor.

Because dying in battle is the highest honor for a knight!

Born to ride, fight to the end!

"Zhao Zhao, bless me."

Lao Ba caressed Xi Zhaozhao's head with a doting look in his eyes. "This is my mission in life. It's the meaning I've been trying to find. I must do this."

"But Zhao Zhao, promise me, even if I'm gone, you must keep going forward bravely and optimistically. I will become a star in the sky, silently guarding and blessing you."

"Wuwu...Brother, but I really can't bear to leave you..."

Xi Zhaozhao threw herself into Lao Ba's arms, crying bitterly: "Why are you all leaving? How can you be so cruel? I want to accompany you more, but you all gave me this chance..."

The eldest senior brother is gone, and senior sister Wen is also gone.

Senior Brother Gu returned to the Gu family, and Senior Sister Yan became an evil cultivator.

In order to persuade Senior Sister Yan to come back, Senior Sister Bai left and never returned.

Although they could still meet, Senior Brother Nangong was the first disciple to leave the sect. He even dared not show his true face because he had too many potential enemies, and he could not return home.

Except for Senior Brother Xiao who is also from the Zhengmeng and occasionally comes back to visit the sect.

After practicing every day, Xi Zhaozhao would squat on the steps alone, hoping to see a familiar figure coming back, but in the end, she also chose to leave and join the Zhengmeng.

The once bustling Taiyi Gate is now covered with cobwebs and has fallen into disrepair.

But at this moment, another senior brother chose to abandon Xi Zhaozhao and leave...

In just five years, the sect, which already had a sparse population, became deserted.

Some have passed away, and some are missing...

Some have found their home, while others persist in upholding morality...

But some are willing to degenerate...

"Zhao Zhao, don't be sad."

Lao Ba stroked Xi Zhaozhao's hair and comforted her softly, "If you come from somewhere, you will naturally return. This is my journey home. I believe that in the near future, everyone in the sect will also embark on their journey home. Then we can all live happily and without worries..."