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【17】

Zhongzhou fell.

The barbarians invaded the land of Zhongzhou, and several neighboring states were also caught in the flames of war for a while, and the world was filled with grief.

The family of the Immortal Sect is not allowed to interfere with the imperial power in the world, so the Immortal Sect is still stable—even though there are exiles who have rushed to the nearby Immortal Family, hoping to join the Immortal Sect at this time to gain some vitality.

The emperor of Zhongzhou went to Bailu with his royal relatives and nobles, and wanted to ask the Bailu family to tolerate the royal family and avoid disaster.

The son of heaven on earth, with the spirit of a dragon.Even though people from Xianmen could not participate in the change of imperial power, they did not say that they could not accept the emperor who came to the door on his own initiative.

For a moment, the sourness of envy and hatred of the Bailu family from several big families was enough to overwhelm Zhongzhou.

——But the Bailu family refused.

The Patriarch of the White Deer is the elder brother, and no one understands what the elder brother does better than the people on Jinghong Peak.

The Xianmen family turned around and scolded the Bailu family for being ignorant of good and evil, but behind the scenes, everyone was praying that the next emperor would come to his family.

But soon no one paid attention to the Son of Heaven.

——Princess Fengyu appeared.

In Ji Ling's retelling of my words, the second senior sister was wearing armor, one person and one cavalry appeared on the battlefield, and only one person stopped thousands of barbarian troops.

I think the description of "thousands of troops and horses" is not true, but I think the second senior sister can afford it.

Immediately afterwards, the Bailu Family was the first to stand up and support Princess Fengyu.

This is not called the replacement of imperial power, this is called guarding the territory.Patriarch Bailu said so.

It is not that the dynasty did not have a female emperor.Patriarch Bailu refused the emperor to take refuge in front of him, and turned around to help Princess Fengyu, his heart was clear.

But which side will the aristocrats lean towards, a brave young princess and a cowardly old emperor?

Ji Ling said that the current situation is still unclear, and it is impossible to tell the result until the barbarians are all repelled.

But I am no longer interested in conquests by these forces, as long as I know that the senior brother and the second senior sister are meeting again, it is enough.

Master's last battle with Cangming Mountain Lord was earth-shattering. After the battle, both sides were injured, and both of them are still retreating.

The little junior waits in the master's yard every day.It turned out that at some point, the little junior brother was able to freely enter and exit the barrier of the master.

Ji Ling told me that tomorrow there will be a celebration in the town below the mountain, so I can go to the town first.He has important things to do, but he must come by evening at the latest.

I agreed, but before I left, I felt that sneaking down the mountain during the day was too conspicuous, so I'd better wait until the evening before going there.

In the clear sky and daylight, the main peak of Cangming Mountain suddenly rang the bell.

I have never heard this voice before, but the master suddenly closed the enchantment of retreat, and his expression is so solemn that I have never seen before.

The junior brother followed closely behind him, his expression was also very ugly, but I intuitively felt that he did not know the meaning of the bell just like me.

"Xianyuan, Chongzhao, follow me to the main peak."

My junior brother and I followed Master to the main peak, and a lot of people had already gathered in the square of the main hall.The disciples of all the peaks were all at a loss, only a few peak masters looked worried and their eyes were wary.

And the highest position in the hall, the head of the hall has not yet appeared.

Someone shouted from the foot of the mountain.

The voice of the visitor resounded through Cangming Mountain: "Thanks to the grace of Cangming Mountain, the first gate of the immortal sect, for the many years of nurturing, we, the domain masters of the Demon Race, are here to welcome the return of the Demon Lord."

Afterwards, the demons raised their arms and shouted, the sound of the demons shook, and many young disciples in the hall couldn't bear the stimulation and fell to the ground.

Magic sound, I am no stranger to it.

Even the voice of the person shouting is quite familiar to me.

I must have looked very ugly, because I knew whose voice it was.

It's Ji Ling.

I can also guess the identity of the Demon Lord.

With a sound of clang, the master drew his sword out of its sheath, and tapped it on the heart of the younger brother.

The little junior didn't resist, he looked at the master with a half-crying and half-smiling expression.

His voice trembled: "You don't believe me? Are you going to kill me?"

The master couldn't hold the sword steadily, and the snow-white sword tip swiped a few times, and soon the little brother's heart was stained with a layer of deep red.

The magic sound and the bell are contending, and there seems to be the sound of swords fighting and killing in a distant place.I stood there, feeling dizzy.

Ji Ling is a demon clan, and the younger brother is a demon king.

The Ji family's past is all about the grievances of the demon clan.

That Ji Ling planned so many things for the younger brother... Am I also part of the plan to invite the devil back to his throne?

Ji Ling was still yelling: "Please also ask Cangming Mountain to let the Demon King return to his throne, after all..."

I heard an exclamation around me, and I slowly raised my head with the crowd.

The Cangming Mountain Lord, who has not been seen for a long time, is being imprisoned by the demons.

The junior brother was picked up by the demons.

The master of Cangming Mountain was also released.

No one noticed my distraught. After all, everyone was panicked and overwhelmed.

The junior brother is gone, and the master doesn't know where he went.At this moment, I am alone in Jinghong Peak.

I walked to the bamboo grove behind the junior brother's house, to the place where I had sleepwalked, and reached out to explore the ground——

It's too weak to be noticed, but it does leave traces of spiritual power.

It's a matrix.

But even though it was made by me, I have no idea what it is for.

I went to the door of the junior brother's room again, this time there was no formation, I tried to do the grasping movement again, suddenly as if struck by lightning——

Xuan Tsingyi's hand gesture to gather the spider silk back then was very similar to this movement.

No, it's exactly the same.

So I didn't go to the little junior's courtyard because I missed Ji Ling to the point of madness.

I closed my eyes in pain.

Undead endowment, silk puppet.

I've seen the first and experienced the second.

And the little junior brother made a mistake and was also harmed by me.

In the evening I went to the small town at the foot of the mountain.

Only at this moment did I feel that I was really like a puppet on a thread, and that I couldn't control my own will in every move.For example, I don't want to go down the mountain at the moment, but I can't help coming to Ji Ling.

I don't want to look at him, but I still have a question to ask: "Junior brother was taken back to the Demon Realm? Will he be the Demon Lord above all demons?"

"Well, your master has also followed."

"He'll be fine with his junior brother around."

"That depends on your little brother."

Then I still believe in the little junior brother, although the devil may not have sincerity.

"...do you have anything else to ask?"

Seeing that I didn't speak, Ji Ling became anxious.

"..." I gritted my teeth and clenched my fist several times, finally I had the courage to say: "I have nothing to ask, but I do have something to do."

"what?"

"Kill you, or let you kill me, can it be done?"

"..."

"Puppet art." I was finally able to say the word, gritted my teeth and said, "I've checked, people are used as puppets, and they can be used even thousands of miles away. How many things have you... used me to do?"

Puppets are unconscious when controlled.If Ji Ling doesn't tell me, I will never know.

Puppetry not only manipulates the body, but also confuses the mind.I am most afraid that even my relationship will be programmed from beginning to end.

Ji Ling was silent.

The longer he was silent, the colder my heart became.

In the end, all my thoughts were lost, and I just wanted to go back to Cangming Mountain and confess my guilt.Just as I was about to turn around, my legs didn't listen.

I turned back to look at him stiffly, but saw silver threads flickering between his ten fingers under the blood-red sunset, and countless threads were connected to my body.

It's really like spider silk.

"It turns out that the person in Pingyang Lake is you..."

When the tears fell, I realized that the puppet technique cannot manipulate the subtle expressions of tears.

He opened his mouth to speak, but stopped again.He suddenly stepped forward and hugged me, so that I couldn't see his expression, I could only hear him say with difficulty: "Stay with me for a while...just a while."

The puppet silk entangled me, and I couldn't move.

Every inch of his skin felt like it was burning.

I can't break free, every moment of embracing him is suffering.

But he suddenly relaxed again.

——I suddenly discovered that Ji Ling's body was gradually becoming transparent.

"you?!"

What's going on here? !

Ji Ling moved closer to me, as if about to give me a kiss, but it never fell within me.

"Xiaoyuan, some things are predestined, don't be sad..."

I scolded him, how could I feel sorry for you, I hate you for being too late.

"It's okay to hate me."

These were his last words before disappearing.

From a vivid form to countless light spots, it only took a blink of an eye.

The puppet threads fell to the ground, and at the end of all the threads, there was a seed the size of a finger.

——that's where all the puppet threads come from.Ji Ling is dead, and the puppets have no master, so these puppets are useless.

I just sat there and didn't react until the tear stains dried up. I summoned the fire formula and burned these silk threads.

The puppet thread was burnt out, leaving a field of black ash.

Ashes and ashes all over the ground miss me.

Ji Ling is indeed ruthless enough, he did all the bad things and then died in front of me, making me unable to take revenge.

And I don't even know how he died.

My love is born of him, and my hate is born of him.

But all the love and hatred born of him have ended without a problem so far.

【18】

Ji Ling lied to me again, the junior brother refused to see the master after he arrived in the Demon Realm.Master had a fight with several domain masters, and then he returned to Jinghong Peak with new wounds.

Master is obviously exhausted physically and mentally, but I, a traitor, have to make up for it.

I knelt down in front of Master and told the story of my experiences over the years.

I don't know how many things Ji Ling manipulated me, but it must have something to do with the change of Cangming Mountain.

I hope that there are more crimes on my body, and I am completely ashamed.

Master doesn't blame me.

He said wearily that he was to blame for today's disaster.Back then, the previous demon king died in civil strife, and the powers of the demon clan continued to strife. The newly born weak demon king was coveted by all parties.The master came here to slay demons, but at a moment of soft-heartedness, he snatched the demon king from the hands of all demons, thinking that he could suppress the demon's heart and lead the demon king into the right path, so he brought the little brother back to Jinghong Peak.

Since then it has been the seed of disaster.

I was puzzled: "Qingheng Ridge...could there originally be a family of immortals named Ji there?"

Master said: "There is no family. Qingheng Ridge has always been a place for demons. For example, Ji Fenglan, the previous demon king, was there from birth to death."

It turns out that the "family" is true, and the "crusade" is also true, but it's a pity that Ji Ling changed the world, this story is wrong from the root.

Master finally said that the puppetry incident was not my fault.But Cangming Mountain is no longer the fairy gate that went out of the world in the past. He asked me to stay as long as I wanted in the name of master, and then set off to go to the Demon Realm.

I am the only one left in Jinghong Peak again, I think this separation will be very long.

The flames of war in Zhongzhou continued, and the reputations of Princess Fengyu and Patriarch Bailu became increasingly louder and louder.

I want to go to them.

I turned around and glanced at Jinghong Peak for the last time. The mountains and rivers remained the same, and the houses remained the same, but the buildings were empty.

【19】

When later generations talked about the battle of retreating barbarians, three people contributed a lot.

One is Princess Fengyu, the other is Patriarch Bailu, and the third is Unknown Warlock.

Both of the first two are well-known, only the third person does not know where he came from, nor where he went after the war.

Others only know that where this sorcerer is present, the White Feather Army relied on a strange formation to win by surprise, and in the most exaggerated case, they even won a complete victory without a single soldier.

After the war, a new dynasty was established, and Princess Fengyu was acclaimed as empress, but Patriarch Bailu had an ambiguous relationship with her, but he still refused to accept the title of "Wang Husband".

Just when everyone was joking about the wedding date of the empress and Patriarch Bailu, the unknown warlock left quietly just as he had come quietly.

After the second senior sister ascended the throne, there are still a lot of trivial matters to be dealt with in the court.After all, this pile of affairs has nothing to do with me. Seeing that the overall situation has been settled, I found a reason to leave.

I just found a secluded place with beautiful mountains and rivers to live in, when my junior brother whom I hadn't seen for many years suddenly appeared in front of me.

I smiled and said, "The devil?"

He wasn't in the mood to tease me, but he still replied feebly: "The Unknown Warlock."

"Do me a favor and get paid well."

After years of not seeing each other, it seems that the younger brother is no longer taciturn.

"what's up?"

"--kill me."

I couldn't hold back, and blurted out: "What's wrong with you? Or do you want to use Master's hand to harm me?"

But the little junior brother said: "How could he harm you. You clean up his house and give Jinghongfeng a good name... Master will not blame you."

I became more and more convinced that he was going to cheat me.

However, before I could refuse, he turned around and told me another thing: "I have a brother—or companion, have you heard of it?"

My heart skipped a beat.

I heard my voice trembling, almost out of tune: "You mean Ji Ling?"

The little junior nodded and briefly explained Fan Jiling's origins to me.

The birthplace of the Demon Lord——Qingheng Ridge, Qingzhou.

There is a unique plant in Qingheng Ridge called Jiyou Grass. When the Demon Lord was born, the demon energy was too full, which easily caused chaos in the world, so the excess magic energy would be absorbed by the Jiyou Grass.

Ji Ling transformed from Jiyoucao.

The junior junior student was taken away by the master from Qingheng Ridge not long after.And the demon clan loses the demon king, just like the human dynasty loses the emperor. When several big demons are fighting for power, there are also those who want to find the demon king back.

Ji Ling was born because of the Demon Lord, and the Demon Lord gave him life, so he consciously wanted to find the Demon Lord, even at the risk of death.He planned many things, and puppetry was just one of them.

But after calculations and calculations, something went wrong when kidnapping Cangming Mountain Master.

The younger brother told me that the original plan was for Ji Ling to manipulate me through the puppet thread to untie the Cangmingshan Mountain Protector Formation—because I do have some talent in formation techniques, but that talent is definitely not enough for me to be backlashed by the Mountain Protector Formation ——Ji Ling was shaken, so he tore a rift by himself and fought with the seriously injured Cangming Mountain Master.

This fight caused him to lose his form and spirit the next day.

After I listened dumbly, I thought that my junior brother really didn't have the talent for telling stories.

"So you told me about Ji Ling... to plead for your brother in front of me?"

I don't think my junior brother and I have gotten to know each other well enough, not to mention that Ji Ling has been dead for several years, so I have to learn to let go.

He shook his head: "I want you to be the new Demon Lord."

Sure enough, he also felt that he was not familiar with me, so he thought of throwing the identity of Demon Lord to me.

"I want to get rid of the identity of the devil. Besides, Ji Lingcheng was born with the breath of the devil, so it is not so easy to die. If a new devil is born, he will definitely be reborn."

——Ji Ling can come back to life.I just listened to this sentence.

Something in my heart was faltering, and I forced a smile: "Then what do you do?"

The junior brother said: "I will give you the demon heart to help you become the next demon king, and then use the method of reincarnation to completely get rid of the demon king."

Seeing my hesitation, the younger brother added: "Do you know why Ji Ling chose you to be his puppet? Because you had a deep obsession back then, and you only had one thought to become a demon and cultivate immortality."

——All fallen demons are deeply obsessed and give birth to demons.

But what am I obsessed with?

It's been so long that I can't remember.

The younger brother couldn't remember what Ji Ling said, after all, he heard it from several demon realm masters.At the end of the story, I just asked me if I would like it or not.

Of course I... I would.

After all, Ji Ling died too easily.

It wasn't until I stabbed my junior brother to death in the thick grass of Jiyou in Qinghengling that I didn't know that he didn't warn the master about this matter.

I was engulfed by the magic breath and dragged into the depths of the grass. The last thing I saw before I fell into the deep darkness was my little junior closing his eyes and smiling in relief.

He was free, but I felt like my life was hanging by a thread.Only then did I realize that there were two demon kings in succession, how could Master be happy? I'm afraid something will happen out of anger?

I just hope that Master will finish me off with a sword as soon as I open my eyes.

The green Jiyou grass swayed, and someone woke up before me.

He sniffed at me first, then squeezed my arms and legs, and finally fell side by side with me, fingers interlocked.

I couldn't help it: "You still treat me like a puppet?"

Ji Ling said, "It's just a novelty."

"Where's the novelty?"

"For example... you became the new Demon Lord? Where is Lin Chongzhao?"

"I don't know, I'm reincarnated, I hope Master can find him soon."

Seemingly aware that my attitude was too loose, Ji Ling came back to his senses and asked me, "Aren't you complaining?"

I asked him back, "What did you do with puppetry?"

He replied: "When I told you to go to Qingzhou, one was to use formations to hide the demon's breath when the demon king awakened, and the other was to use puppet strings to pull you to help unlock your master's seal on the demon's heart."

I waited for him to say more, but the conversation stopped here.

I felt incredible: "Is this gone?"

Ji Ling nodded, and hesitated a moment later: "On the day I died, did it count as binding you with puppet strings and not wanting you to go?"

"……I know this."

I don't think it's necessary for him to lie to me once he died and died, but I still find it really unbelievable.

I even feel that I can do even more terrible things by changing places.

Ji Ling said: "I have feelings for you, this statement is true."

The feeling that once made me envious is really incredible.

I looked up an old incident: "I once broke into the miasma of monsters. At that time, I thought you saved my life."

"Leaving the messenger talisman was an unintentional act. I didn't expect you to follow it to find it. Later, I followed the trend and let me get close to you."

Get close to me, and then awaken the demon heart of the little junior brother.

"You are honest now." I sneered, "Then I have saved your life now, and the two are settled."

"...Xiaoyuan?" He hesitated, shaking the hand that was still clasped with me.

"I'm leaving." I shook off him, patted the grass on my body, and stood up.

"Where are you going?" He followed me up nervously.

"The capital of Zhongzhou. The second senior sister is now the empress. Although I don't know if she wants to control the demons, I think I have to say hello to her."

I walked forward without looking back.But when I heard the grass rustling behind me, Ji Ling must have followed.