Awakening of Rebirth

A nationwide blockade and search order was issued from Talan to every city, big and small. Jiang Zheng had just left Teba and entered the Wodo land not long ago. When he looked back from a distance, he saw that the gate of Teba City had been tightly sealed. Mixed feelings.

She has been to Wodo twice, whether it is the first time or the last time, the vibrant Wodo is like a fairyland in her heart.

Boundless and dense forests, winding springs, and the most beautiful race she has ever seen...

But now, all this has disappeared.

When she was sent to Teba City by Laki, the first time she opened her eyes, she saw the gray sky of Teba City and smelled the pungent scorching smell.

It turned out that the fire in Vodo had been burning for nearly half a year, and no one dared to stop it from spreading. More than a dozen heavy rains failed to extinguish it, and it was not completely extinguished until half a month ago.The billowing thick smoke covered the entire Wodo, and filled the sky of four or five cities including Teba City. Although efforts have been made to strengthen greening, it still has not dissipated, seriously affecting the living environment of local residents. .

This fire, which spread so widely, undoubtedly burned most of the Waldo Mountains.At this moment, Jiang Zheng relied on the power of the phoenix to resist the choking and pungent harmful breath, and walked aimlessly in this gray and barren land that had been burned by the fire.

The fog that once guarded this mountain range is gone. After the fog, the maze of trees with luxuriant branches and leaves covering the sky and the sun is gone. The strange flowers and grasses everywhere are gone.

Relying on her vague memory, Jiang Zheng spent more than ten days finding the place where the elves lived together. As she expected, those unique tree houses were only charred and incomplete shells. The elves who once lived here, Gone.

"My life...is it really more important than the tens of millions of creatures here?"

Jiang Zheng looked at everything that had been beautiful in the past but was completely burned in the end, and the feeling of helplessness spread in every inch of blood.

Qianye Liusha, Wodo's immortal guardian for thousands of years, a person who is so powerful that he seems like a god, how can he die when he dies?

In this world besides Qianye Quicksand, is there another person who knows how to tear apart the rift in time and space?Jiang Zheng looked at the gray sky in confusion, feeling that she had lost her way.

At this moment, she suddenly heard footsteps approaching behind her, and she turned around as if she had grasped a life-saving straw, only to see a pair of tired eyes staring at her, looking at each other, with mixed feelings in silence.

"My people and I have been waiting for you."

***

Half a year ago, on the day the black dragon was resurrected, the raging fire that Voldo ignited was a nightmare that the remaining elves would never forget in their entire lives.

At that time, the elders and spiritual daughters of the three major families had gathered under the tree of life, waiting to assist the priest to destroy the dragon bone with all their strength, but unexpectedly, the altar could not be opened without the most important sacrifice in that sacrifice.Gradually, the tree of life could no longer suppress the black dragon whose bones had been completely assembled. During a period of anxious waiting, the elves ushered in the despair that was closest to the dawn in thousands of years.

Black Dragon, resurrected.

The demon god from hell was astonishingly powerful, as if there was no power in the world that could compete with him, he lightly breathed out and set the forest on fire, easily destroying the giant barrier that had guarded Wodo for thousands of years. The prepared demon soldiers, led by the demon princess, came over the mountains from the east of Wodo.

For a time, Wodo, who had been peaceful for thousands of years, was only left with endless killing and scorching flames.

The resistance with no chance of winning lasted for four days and three nights, and most of the clansmen had been slaughtered or dispersed. Qianye Liusha silently looked at the tree of life that was almost withered, as if no one could draw any power from it, A decision is made.

After she put up the last barrier for the clansmen who were still fighting beside her, she passed all her remaining strength to Feng Ling, whispered something in her ear, and then, across the sea of ​​flames, walked to the condescending place alone. black dragon.

"priest!"

"I lost." She stopped, her eyes did not fluctuate, her tone was indifferent, as if the victory or loss that almost determined the survival of the elves was meaningless to her.

"You have guarded this broken seal for so long, but I still came out." The black dragon hovered in the air, looking at the pale elf in the sea of ​​flames with red eyes, his eyes were full of sarcasm: "I'm very curious about what you are doing at this moment. Mood."

"What kind of mood do you think you should be in? Sadness, anger, or pain and despair?" Qianye Liusha smiled, "No matter how powerful you are, you can't take anything away from a person who has nothing."

Heilong couldn't help being sullen. For more than 2000 years, this woman has opposed him time and time again, and she has never been bewitched by him, as if she had no intention of doing so.At this moment, the whole of Wodo was about to be destroyed, but she was still so calm, so calm that he couldn't feel the joy of victory.

"You don't care if Waldo lives or dies?"

"I have been guarding Wodo all my life, and for this I have sacrificed almost nothing. If it is destined that Wodo can only go as far as today, then all my responsibilities should come to an end. Why do I care?" Qianye Liusha said with a smile: "Do you think that my attitude makes you very angry, but you don't know how to punish a person who no longer cares about anything?"

Heilong didn't speak, just watched Qianye Liusha quietly.

"Do you dare to make a bet with me?"

"What do you want to bet on?"

Qianye Liusha hesitated for a while, closed his eyes and said, "I bet you will die at the hands of Jiang Zheng within a year."

The black dragon was silent for a moment, and after recovering, he couldn't help laughing, and the laughter echoed in the sky and earth filled with fireworks.

Suddenly, the black dragon swooped in front of Qianye Liusha, and the moment it landed, a gust of wind swept up ashes all over the sky, and the ground trembled.

Standing in the raging fire, he looked at the frail and small elf in front of him, who looked like an ant, and asked with great interest: "What do you use as a bargaining chip? Didn't you say that you have nothing?"

"Don't you want to see me in pain? I'll give you my weakness. It's a gamble for a year, and the outcome will determine their lives." Qianye Quicksand pointed to the number in the fragile barrier under the tree of life. Ten clansmen.

If she wins, there will be no more black dragons in the world,

"Your weakness? This bargaining chip is very interesting, but if you want me to keep them alive for a year, you don't think I came back to this world to do good deeds?"

"I passed on the method of manipulating Jiang Zheng's power to that girl named Feng Ling."

There is a mysterious power in Jiang Zheng's body. There was a similar power in Hilda's body back then, but what he could feel in the seal was extremely vague, and he couldn't understand what this power was. The only certainty is, It is that it seems capable of interfering with the past and the future.

He once saw a scene in Chang Sheng's mind that never happened. The child Chang Sheng's hatred for him all came from that scene that never really happened, because it was a memory, that memory point , not the past, but the future.

That child came back to change her destiny... In fact, she did make what happened in that memory disappear from history.

If such power can be used by him...

"Jiang Zheng only knows that she has such power in her body, but she doesn't know how to use it. Now she is no longer the body of the soul. If no one helps her, it is almost impossible for that power to reappear."

The black dragon's eyes unconsciously turned to the wind chimes in the distance, and a strange expression flashed in his eyes.

"That girl hates you deeply. If you come hard, she would rather die than surrender." Qianye Liusha took two steps forward and said seriously: "But if you keep the agreement, if I lose in a year, she will be willing." Tell you."

"It's been a long time since anyone dared to bargain with me."

"You've been buried in the ground for too long." Qianye Liusha smiled lightly.

Instead of being angry, the black dragon smiled: "Tell me, what is your weakness?"

Qianye Liusha didn't speak, just closed her eyes, suddenly there was an extremely faint aura, rising from the center of her eyebrows, flowing from top to bottom, flowing through the heart, and finally flowing to the slowly raised right palm, staying for a few seconds and then disappearing. Floating into the air, drifting towards the black dragon, and finally—dissipated like smoke.

The black dragon was silent for a long time, and his mind seemed to drift far away. When he came back to his senses, he just laughed loudly, turned around and took off in the sky billowing with smoke, and roared a few times towards the place where he had been imprisoned for 3000 years. Leading countless magic soldiers away.

***

"The black dragon didn't kill the priest? What about her?" Jiang Zheng couldn't help asking.

Feng Ling shook her head: "It's gone."

"what?"

"2000 years, how long... how many people come and go, how many things are remembered and forgotten. The priest once said that the people or things she loved and cherished in her life have long since disappeared with the years, and they couldn't stay at first. In the end, what she could not leave behind was more and more blurred memories, and in the end, she lost even the feeling of powerlessness and sadness that could not be left behind... The long time allowed her to see everything clearly , but it also made her heart colder and colder until she was ruthless like grass, guarding a place that was no longer worthy of nostalgia for her day after day."

"She has long looked down on other people and her own life and death, shouldn't a person like her have no weaknesses?" Feng Ling couldn't help smiling wryly as she said.

Jiang Zheng frowned: "What did she give the black dragon?"

"A memory."

That memory is her obsession, the only reason that has supported her to live for 2000 years.

Qianye Liusha's memory is so bad that all the love and hatred in his heart change from strong to light in the passage of time, until finally disappear without a trace.But she has a very good memory, and she can be relieved by forgetting everything, but she only needs to remember that there was once a person who told her to live to redeem her sins, and kept her immortal in pain, loneliness and self-blame. , Eternal tormented atonement.

She kept all the vicious curses of that person in her heart, and she was happy for it, treating it as the only treasure in her heart for 2000 years, as the whole reason for living, and she dared not violate it at all.

But now, she takes that obsession as a bargaining chip to save her people, just like she did 2000 years ago, and she has let down both herself and her who was blurred in her memory.

After the black dragon left, Qianye Liusha fell into a long sleep.

Fengling said that the people of the tribe peeped into Qianye Liusha's memories and dreams when she was unconscious, and found that in her vague memory of more than 2000 years, there is no longer the woman who cursed her for eternal life.

She could have regarded this as a kind of "relief" and would no longer torture herself, but from the day of "relief", she brought herself into another desperate situation-an endless nightmare, repeated again and again Watching the scene of the dearest relatives and loved ones leaving, repeating the nightmare of being alone for thousands of years after losing everything.

She has been like this all the time, unwilling to wake up, and unwilling to die, as if she wants to continue to fulfill the curse that that person placed on her in her dream.

Because of that disappointment back then, Phoenix gave her the sin of eternal life, and she really never let herself go...

After an unknown amount of time, some members of the tribe couldn't stand it anymore and proposed to give her a relief.

Finally, everyone burned her body and ended the nightmare for her.

As Fengling said, she had brought Jiang Zheng to the withered tree of life. She stopped and said to Jiang Zheng: "We scattered the priest's ashes here. I heard that when the phoenix still existed, every 500 years Then you will come to this Nirvana once, your body will be reduced to ashes, and the past will become a cloud of smoke... When you are reborn again, all the pain will pass..."

Jiang Zheng couldn't help frowning, she suddenly remembered that once upon a time, a figure in the flames said to her when she was about to disappear:

——I entrust my power to you, and you can protect her.

— But you have to promise me one thing.

"Why did she die?" Jiang Zheng murmured in a low voice.

—give her a word for me.

"Phoenix asked me to tell her..." Jiang Zheng couldn't stop her eyes from turning red, and slowly looked around the desolate surroundings. After a long silence, she suddenly shouted to the world: "I forgive you, You forgive yourself too!"

Did you hear it?Can you still...can you hear me?