hell in disguise

Yan Fei returned to the empty world where he couldn't tell whether it was the earth or the sky. In front of him, the boulder bound by the magic circle looked at him silently. It was obviously lifeless, but it exuded a kind of fateful cruelty. and majestic.Yan Fei felt that his body could not move, as if he was being bound by invisible chains, and the endless irritability and anxiety burned between his internal organs like blazing firewood, constantly urging him.

He needs to pass, he needs to cross those magic circles, to touch that stubborn stone.That most primitive call is like the instinct that leads fishes to swim regardless of everything even at the tragic risk of being stranded and dead, like the migratory instinct of wild geese who don't sleep even if they get lost and die in vain, like worker bees. The instinct to sacrifice their lives to protect the hive queens even if they themselves cannot leave any offspring.Unreasonable, irrational, and clueless powerful forces urged him to break that stubborn stone.

But he resisted.He couldn't break that stone, and he didn't want to break that stone.If he did that, the happiness he wanted would never be realized again.

The boulder confronted him, seeming a little lonely and sad.It seems to be accusing, why he gave up.

It seems to be asking him: Have you forgotten your responsibility and your mission?

Yan Fei wanted to yell, he is just an ordinary human being, why should he bear the things that are inexplicably added to him?

But, even without this stone, can he really be happy...

Does he really have the ability to heal the deep wounds of Master's past layer upon layer and give Master happiness?

He didn't even have the strength to protect himself.Not to mention Heavenly Soldiers, he was helpless like a child in front of the slightly stronger Qinghong Wuchang.His identity has now been known by Tianting, and Tianting is the ruler of the six realms, even if they escape, where can they escape?

And...if the master knows his life experience...

He shivered, and his resistance grew stronger.The boulder also seemed to become anxious, and the characters engraved on the stone flickered more and more hastily, and the light became stronger and stronger.And the circles of complex formations on the ground suddenly began to rotate, which had never happened before.Accompanied by the movement of the magic circle, the silence pervading the heaven and earth was gradually broken. The wind from nowhere stirred Yan Fei's long hair and robe, and a trace of coolness penetrated into the bone marrow through the pores.The originally clear sky was gradually filled with low-hanging clouds, suppressing layers of coercion, and the mirror-like earth also became equally dark, full of unknown and sinister atmosphere.

The wind tore at Yan Fei's skin, as painful as if a knife were cutting it.The memory after drinking the obsession wine before was laid out again in his mind, the more he thought about it, the more details became, and those fragments seemed to involve more fragments.He didn't want to recall, and he couldn't control his thoughts, allowing them to run amok.There was a severe pain in his head, as if a soldering iron was burning, and it was as if a copper hammer was hitting him.

It was so painful... Yan Fei wanted to yell, but couldn't make a sound.He was sweating all over his body, and the sweat soaked his red clothes.He felt like he was fighting something, but he couldn't see where the enemy was.All kinds of tormented feelings almost drove him crazy.He felt that something originally compatible in his body was falling apart little by little, as if his body was about to be torn apart by an invisible force from within.

His whole body trembled suddenly, and he opened his eyes.Sweating profusely and panting.

There was silence everywhere, only some distant and silent voices came from the darkness in all directions.

They were still underwater, hiding in those air bubbles under the turtle's feet.

He fell asleep unknowingly, probably because he was too tired?Turning around quickly, he was relieved to see that the master next to him was also sleeping peacefully.

"What did you dream about?" The sudden voice startled him, and then he realized that Liu Yusheng was here too.

Yan Fei didn't answer, but just listened to the ancient song from the depths of the sea outside the bubble, "It's so quiet, is it true that the heavenly soldiers have already retreated?"

Liu Yusheng said, "It's possible. Now that the immortal has gone to the Asura Realm, most of the other disciples will not stay. Penglai Island may have been abandoned. It's just that the Heavenly Soldiers will probably leave some people to guard the island. So We still have to be careful."

Yan Fei pursed his lips sullenly, and turned to check on Master's condition.

Tan Yangzi slept soundly, showing no signs of waking up.

Strange, the master is always very alert, usually as long as he makes a little movement, he will wake up immediately.

"Why isn't he awake yet?"

"Maybe it's due to exhaustion, after all, that collar..."

Yan Fei frowned tightly.

The master said that he didn't want him to go into danger again, but every minute and every second of that thing on the master's body was a great torment for the master, how could he really ignore it?

"Yan Fei, aren't you going to tell him?" Liu Yusheng asked quietly.

Yan Fei shook his body, and said in a rough voice, "That's my business, don't worry about it if you don't."

"Even if you don't say it, I'm afraid he already has doubts."

"..."

"In the future when you two flee, if he doesn't know your identity..."

"Of course you want him to know!" Yan Fei lowered his anger and said, "This way...he will leave me!"

Liu Yusheng lowered his head, looking sad, "He values ​​you so much, maybe he won't suffer as you think."

"Isn't it?" Yan Fei's eyes seemed to be burning with fire, and he gritted his teeth, "My master has such a submissive temperament, he has endured so much suffering, and he has never held grudges against anyone, but there is only one person he hates to the bone. But I But... how could he forgive me?! How could he pretend that nothing happened?!"

Liu Yusheng stared at him for a while, then sighed, "I've learned a truth in the past year. Once a lie is uttered, if you want to get it back, you have to say more panic, which becomes more chaotic and more difficult to understand. In the end , there is really no way to solve it. Yan Fei, are you really sure that you can lie to him forever?"

Yan Fei naturally knew this truth.But... there are some lies, but I have to say...

"Right now... I just think that one day is one day..."

But at this moment, Tan Yangzi turned over, and the two of them quickly stopped talking.Yan Fei turned around and raised his still bright smile, but his words were a little nervous, "Master, you're awake! How do you feel?"

Tan Yangzi's eyes were still perplexed, and he said, "I'm fine, but I'm a little tired. What time is it now?"

"I don't know either. But it's so quiet outside, maybe you can go out and have a look." Yan Fei said, "Master, you wait for me here, I'll go and have a look."

"No, I'll go with you." Tan Yangzi said.

"But Master, in your current situation, it is too dangerous to go out rashly. I will come back soon."

Tan Yangzi seemed displeased, "Are you afraid that I will drag you down?"

Yan Fei was shocked, "Of course not! I'm just afraid that something will happen to you!"

Only then did Tan Yangzi calm down a little, stood up slowly, and stretched his body, "Don't worry, I still have the ability to protect myself."

Yan Fei felt more and more that something was wrong with Master.Although the master was tough in the past, he didn't know that he couldn't do it but still had to be brave, and he wouldn't be so easily irritated.

Could it be that the Immortal Doctor did something to Master's body?

It's just a pity that now because of the collar, I can't even use the empathy technique.Otherwise, he would be able to feel for himself whether something went wrong.

But the more important thing now is to escape from here first.He had no choice but to agree to go ashore with Master and Liu Yusheng to find out the situation.

Drilling out of the sea, I saw that the tortoise seemed to have been severely injured, languid and dying, with limbs drooping limply.They followed the hind foot of the deep wound that was cut several feet long by an unknown force, and found that the magic circle that originally covered the island was gone, and the luxuriant forest covering the rolling hills on the island was also gone. It seemed to have experienced the baptism of fire, and instantly turned into countless charred corpses that were still stubborn and refused to fall down.Those water pavilions and pavilions that were originally shrouded in the holy light of the colorful clouds also experienced a tragic death overnight. The towers collapsed, and the colorful pavilions turned into ashes, leaving only the bony skeletons standing in the charred forest where the fairy spirit was once lingering.

But other than that, the island was empty and dead silent.It seems that everyone in the Immortal Medicine Sect has fled in all directions, and the heavenly soldiers have also withdrawn. They have no interest in this decayed fairy island of the past.

Facing the devastation everywhere, Liu Yusheng seemed to have some tears in his eyes.This has been the holy land of the Immortal Medicine Sect for 300 years, but now it has been destroyed overnight, and even the tortoise is likely to die soon.

Those Heavenly Soldiers are really merciless...

Knowing that it was all because of him, Yan Fei felt uncomfortable.He saw Liu Yusheng's clenched fists, his eyebrows were tightly frowned, and he was no longer as graceful as before. He wanted to comfort him, but he felt that everything he said seemed so pale.

But even so, Liu Yusheng was not too immersed in the pain.He led them to a former palace, touched a certain mechanism, and saw a unicorn statue moved aside, revealing a tunnel.They walked into it along the long steps and closed the mechanism again. In the darkness, countless faint light spots suddenly lit up. Looking carefully, they were many orbs that could emit light by themselves, silently like fireflies. Generally lights up an entire dark space.

This is a retreat room, empty, only the walls are carved with many celestial incantations.There is only one futon in the middle of the hall, and it seems that someone has been sitting on it for many years.

"Xianjun used to meditate here for several years, and this place is very hidden. You are hiding here now. I will go and see if there are any boats left so that we can go to sea." Liu Yusheng went out alone after finishing speaking.

Yan Fei finally had the opportunity to be alone with his master, but for some reason, his heart ached.

He wanted to ease the atmosphere, so he smiled and said, "It's the underground palace again, Master, do you still remember the last time we were trapped in the underground palace?"

Tan Yangzi glanced at him, and said in a flat tone, "Of course I remember."

Yan Fei's heart skipped a beat with such an ordinary tone...

Master might feel melancholy, might get angry, might give him a glare, but shouldn't it be such a bland reaction?

After all, the experience of the underground palace is so unforgettable.After that was their first separation, separation in the true sense.

Yan Fei stared at Master cautiously, "Master, the way you were angry at that time really scared me to death."

Tan Yangzi seemed a little uncomfortable, and he said after a while, "It's all in the past."

"Master, do you remember my name back then?"

Tan Yangzi was taken aback, as if he couldn't remember, "It's been so long, I can't remember clearly, is it a trick?"

Yan Fei's heart sank, and he felt a little wary, "Yang Jue? Master, are you sure?"

Unexpectedly, Tan Yangzi suddenly became irritable, and stared at him with somewhat intimidating eyes, "Yan Fei, are you testing me?"

Being suddenly exposed, Yan Fei was a little embarrassed. Before he could say anything, Tan Yangzi got up abruptly and glared at him angrily, "You don't believe me? Do you suspect that Master is with them?!"

The skepticism that had just arisen immediately took a back seat in front of Master's anger and accusations, Yan Fei hurriedly stood up and explained, "No, I just think that Master, you seem a little..."

"Something?!"

"Some... strange... I'm afraid it's because you've been in that cat's body for too long..."

Tan Yangzi stared at him in disbelief, with a hint of sadness on his face.Yan Fei's heart was immediately swallowed by guilt, he blamed himself for doubting something, Master had suffered so much and experienced so many things, how could it be possible to remember a pseudonym he casually picked up so clearly?Yangjue and Ganda are both his aliases, so it's normal to get them confused, not to mention that it was so long ago...

Maybe I was thinking too much... Master has suffered so much for me, so I really shouldn't be suspicious...

Tan Yangzi's expression suddenly turned cold again, "If you talk about testing, I should be asking you. Yan Fei, what are you hiding from me?"

Yan Fei was stunned.

"I actually heard the conversation between you and Liu Yusheng before." Tan Yangzi approached him a few steps, a ghostly yellow light flashed in his cold eyes, "You said there is something I know I will never forgive you, and said that this matter is related to the person I hate the most..."

Yan Fei swallowed his saliva, his mind was completely confused, "I..."

"After I left, what did Asu Yun tell you? Why do you have no life soul? What does this... have to do with Bo Xun?" Tan Yangzi had already walked in front of him at this moment.Although he was half a head taller than Yan Fei, even if he lost all his skills, he was still full of oppressive and intimidating power.His soul-piercing gaze seemed to tear apart all of Yan Fei's whitewashing of lies and dig out the most terrifying secret.

"Yan Fei," Tan Yangzi said without a word, "You know, I hate people lying to me the most."

Yan Fei was forced to practice retreat, like a trapped animal with nowhere to escape.He bit his lips, "Master... I can't say..."

"tell me!"

"If you know, you will definitely leave me!"

"If you don't tell me, I won't do it?"

Yan Feiru was struck by lightning, and stared at Master in disbelief, "But...but you said before that we were going to go far away, didn't you! Is the truth so important!"

Tan Yangzi stopped in his tracks, and lowered his head a little dejectedly, "It's fine if it's something else, but if it's related to that person... I must know!"

Yan Fei was almost begging, and knelt down straight in front of Tan Yangzi, with sad eyes, "Master, I beg you, don't ask about this matter again. Am I not as important as that Bo Xun?"

Seeing him like this, Tan Yangzi could not bear it, but he did not let go.

Yan Fei felt as if his heart had been torn into countless petals bit by bit, and the pain and numbness traveled along the meridians to his limbs bit by bit.The light in his eyes disappeared, he lowered his head and said, "I understand...is it between me and Shiva, or Shiva is more important...isn't it?"

Tan Yangzi squatted down, and gently stroked Yan Fei's cheek with his callused but very warm hand. It was just the temperature that was once reassuring, but now Yan Fei was like falling into an ice bank.He heard Tan Yangzi say, "Yan Fei, after all these years, don't you understand that Shiva can never be replaced. Even you can't..."

This sentence, like a lore, a fiery thunderbolt, a poisonous knife, pierced straight into Yan Fei's heart.

He knew, he always knew.It's just that he has been deceiving himself and has been unwilling to face such a choice.

Himself, or Shiva.

He thought that he didn't need to give Master this choice, that he could accept that he would never be the one Master loved the most.But now... now this choice has become a bloody reality.But he has already lost completely.

After all, Shiva has been with Master for thousands of years, while he has only a meager ten years.

Perhaps in Master's heart, I was just a pet from beginning to end, a substitute for loneliness... That's why in my nightmares, I always imagined Shiva as very close to me.He was afraid, afraid that he was just a fake that could be discarded at any time.

Yan Fei sat on the ground slumped, tears overflowing his eyes.

"Okay... I'll tell you."

Then, Yan Fei narrated all the nightmares that Axu Yun had told him.He didn't dare to look at the change of Master's expression, but locked his eyes on a certain speck of dust on the ground.

What I thought was difficult to explain clearly, I didn't expect to explain clearly so quickly, and said that there was nothing to say.

As soon as his voice stopped, he realized how quiet it was, so quiet that it was scary.

Finally, Tan Yangzi stood up slowly, turned around and walked towards the steps where they came.

Yan Fei hastily wiped away the tears on his face with the back of his hand, and stood up hurriedly, "Master! Where are you going!"

Tan Yangzi turned his back to him and said, "Get out of here."

"Liu Yusheng will be back in a while, it's not very safe outside..."

Tan Yangzi turned his head slightly and gave him a look.

It was a look of extreme disgust that froze the blood of the whole body.

As if a nightmare had come true, Yan Fei's body seemed to have turned into a rock, unable to move even if he wanted to.

"Staying with you for a moment longer makes me sick!" Tan Yangzi's voice was filled with endless malice. Yan Fei never knew that Master's deep and flat voice, which concealed endless tenderness, could hurt people like this.

Is this still the master he knew?

"Don't let me see you again, otherwise, don't blame me for being merciless." After Tan Yangzi finished speaking coldly, he left without looking back.Yan Fei, who was bitten by lightning, was left behind.

Yan Fei felt that his whole mind was in a daze, everything in front of him was illusory, as if everything was just a nightmare.

By the time he realized it, the master had disappeared.He hastily rushed forward, it was too dangerous now, and Master had no ability to protect himself...

And when Dan Zhu crawled out from the ground, he felt very uncomfortable.

Originally, he planned to wait until he left the island to act in this play, but he didn't expect Yan Fei to notice something was wrong so soon.In order to prevent suspicion from continuing to breed, he had to plan ahead.

It seems that even if Yao Xian taught him how to deal with various possible situations, even if he practiced so many times, even if he memorized so many things, it is still too difficult to play one of the two people who already have a tacit understanding .But in one day, it was almost worn out.

Before Yan Fei fell asleep, he had already eaten the Transformation Pill, but if Yan Fei had to look at his ghost body, he would still be able to find a flaw.

Now the problem has been solved temporarily, but when he saw Yan Fei's bright eyes filled with pain, panic and despair, his heart was also throbbing.It feels so good to be hugged by Yan Fei, and his heart beats so fast, what if he is really the master of this body?

He didn't want to hurt Yan Fei, but only in this way could Dayuan be saved, and he would have a chance...to replace that green scale ghost, as his original self.

According to the plan, he needs to "die" in front of Yan Fei.

Of course he won't really die, the Immortal Medicine Sect will arrange for someone to pretend to be a heavenly soldier to kill him.He just needs to get out of this body a moment before being pierced.If ghosts die in the human world, especially when they die under the weapons of heavenly soldiers, they will be burnt to death immediately.And their green and red impermanence without life and soul can't even find the dregs.

It's just that now he has no choice but to advance the plan, and he must find a way to inform them as soon as possible.

Thinking like this, he suddenly felt strongly that there was something hot and ominous rushing behind him.He only had time to turn around when he felt something burning and hot piercing his chest suddenly.

He opened his eyes suddenly.

how come!

"Master!!!!!!" The shrill cry was that Yan Fei, who had just rushed out of the wreckage of the palace, happened to see this extremely cruel scene.

What pierced through his body was not the magical weapon of the Immortal Medicine Sect, but a genuine sacred object of the Trayastrim Heavenly King of Wei Tuo—the single-strand vajra.And the one holding this thing in his hand and staring at him with a disdainful expression like looking at an annoying bedbug is none other than the god Wei Tuo!

How could that incomparably holy and hot vajra be able to tolerate such a dirty thing as a ghost, the tip of the blade ignited a monstrous fire of samadhi, and quickly spread across Danzhu's ghost.He let out a scream, and the moment he left his body, a scarlet fire was already burning in the city. Yan Fei only had time to see that the blue body had just risen into the air, and was instantly swallowed up by the flames, not even a single white hair was left. Down.In the end there was only a jingle, and a golden collar fell to the ground.

Everything that belonged to the ghost was burnt out, and what was left was only a broken human body and the collar of Lihentian...

Yan Fei only felt a sharp buzzing in his head swallowing all the sounds and colors around him.

That's really Master...

Master... is dead?