【Shuangxuan】Self-knowledge

"Wudu, I know what you are worried about. Qingxuan is a good seedling, and you love him so much, it would be a pity if he stopped in Zhongtianting."

"...Emperor..."

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"Brother—! I did it! I ascended!"

"Hahaha... I'm telling you! The new wind master is my younger brother! It's my younger brother Shi Qingxuan!"

"...It's really gratifying..."

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"I don't want that fan anymore!...I don't want to stay in the Heavenly Court anymore, I don't want to be a fairy anymore!..."

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"Shui Hengtian is really a noble person who forgets things. Back then, you searched through the birthdays and rosters of so many people in the world, and found me as the only one after a lot of hard work. Why, within a few hundred years, you forgot how old I am. What's up?"

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"Brother! Brother! Let's choose the first one, the first one..."

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"Qingxuan, brother, take a step first, I'm waiting for you below! Hahahahaha..."

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Countless images and sounds from the past hundreds of years suddenly flashed, and finally fell into darkness with a sharp pain.

When consciousness returned, Shi Wudu was lying on the cold ground.After sitting up on his knees, he didn't have time to think about where he was, the first thing he did was to raise his hand to touch his head—it was still firmly attached to his neck.But this is wrong, Shi Wudu remembers clearly, he was clearly given by that He Xuan at that time...

"Hmph, are you awake?"

A cold sound came from behind.Shi Wudu's scalp exploded, and when he looked back, there was a figure standing five steps away, it was the black water mysterious ghost.He took a little look at the environment, and recognized at a glance that this was the room where He Xuan had imprisoned the two brothers.He also noticed that there was a torture rack behind He Xuan, and many torture instruments were hung on the wall next to him.

Shi Wudu calmed down, stood up and asked in a deep voice: "Didn't you kill me already?"

He Xuan stood with his hands down, staring at him with gloomy eyes: "I have already killed you, and you are not a living thing now."

Hearing this, Shi Wudu didn't show much fear, he just looked down at his hands.He was bloodless and extremely pale; he put two fingers together on the side of his neck, it was cold and he had no pulse.He knew that he was probably refined by He Xuan now, and the immortal soul became a ghost body.

"You black crazy ghost", Shi Wudu stared at him, "Why don't you completely destroy my soul, and make me look like this?"

"Do you think that I will really be fooled by you, and give you a good time in a fit of anger, or let your brother go?" Heishui's words were full of sarcasm.

Hearing the last sentence, Shi Wudu's expression changed suddenly: "Qingxuan...? What did you do to Qingxuan?"

He Xuan raised his chin: "What do you think I can do to treat my old enemy's blood feud?"

Shi Wudu was about to rush towards He Xuan when he mentioned his mana, but found that his mana seemed to be imprisoned by something and couldn't be used; after only two steps forward, he was bounced back by a powerful spiritual force.

"He Xuan! What did you do?" Shi Wudu scolded and asked.

"It's nothing. It's just sealing your spiritual power and setting up a barrier. You can't use any mana, and you can't take a step out of this barrier."

Hearing this, Shi Wudu couldn't help looking at the wall of torture tools behind He Xuan, and became even more frightened: He thought that these punishments were for He Xuan to use on himself.But if he was trapped in this enchantment and couldn't get close to the execution platform, who else could this punishment be imposed on?

As if seeing through Shi Wudu's mind, He Xuan sneered, and the psychic gave an order: "Bring it up."

As soon as the words fell, the door of the room was opened, and two ghost envoys dragged one of them in.Shi Wudu recognized at a glance that the person who was dragged into the room with shackles on his hands and feet was Shi Qingxuan.

"Qingxuan!" Shi Wudu called his brother's name over and over again, but Shi Qingxuan didn't respond to these calls at all, and his eyes were empty, as if he had suffered some stimulation, and no one recognized half of it .Shi Wudu's teeth were shaking.He wanted to rush forward to stop them several times, but was blocked by the invisible barrier.He could only kneel on the ground next to the enchantment, watching Shi Qingxuan being dragged to the torture rack, and his hands and feet were tied to it.The unprecedented sense of powerlessness, like swords transformed from cold, kept piercing through his heart.

"Shui Hengtian, don't you want to know why I didn't drive you to death, but also turned you into a ghost body?" He Xuan took a step closer, squatting down outside the barrier, only a few feet away from Shi Wudu, " Because I see you are so angry now, so painful, so hateful, you are about to grit your teeth, but you still can't save your relatives, you are just a ghost in the gutter, no matter how much you jump, there is no harm. Use!——You said these words, and I will return them to you intact now. I will make you my younger brother who is the apple of my eye, and suffer all the torture and pain that I have suffered and that I have suffered with my parents, wife and sister. Last time, and you, you can only watch here, unable to do anything!"

He Xuan stood up again, and looked down at the water priest who once turned his hands over clouds and rain: "Look at the end, is it still you who win?"

"What kind of punishment do you have to come at me! I want to kill or cut everything up to you!! Heishui, you let Qingxuan go!" Shi Wudu knew that he must not provoke He Xuan again.What he said to Heishui before was to save Qingxuan, but he didn't expect that it would make the other party's situation even more miserable at this moment.Shi Qingxuan is the only relative he cherishes in this world, and his nature is like a piece of pure and flawless jade, but now he will suffer a great crime because of his own mistakes, how can he not regret and not be afraid?

"Aren't you willing to give him a way out before? I'll let him do it now, and I'll let him wipe me to pieces! You let him go, you come at me..."

But He Xuan didn't seem to hear his words at all, and gave the order without looking back: "Go to the punishment!" Two sets of fingers caught Shi Qingxuan's white onion-like hands.The ghost envoy tightened the rope, and the person bound on the rack let out a mournful cry, and the slender and white fingers instantly changed color.

Although he knew that the person being tortured was not the real Shi Qingxuan at all, but when He Xuan heard the voice and looked at the tragic scene again, his heart felt as if it was being crushed.Shi Wudu was even more jealous, he didn't even bother to care about the expression of the Heishui Ghost King, he just ran into the barrier again like crazy.After being bounced back to the ground for an unknown number of times, Shi Wudu knew that his actions were futile, so he knelt down towards He Xuan, closed his eyes and kowtowed.No matter before or after the ascension, Shi Wudu only knelt down to the parents of heaven and earth; he had a manly arrogance, but he was crushed under his knees in front of He Xuan twice in succession.But he didn't care about those anymore; for Shi Wudu, life and dignity were nothing compared to his brother's safety.

"He Xuan! You already know that changing your fate is my own idea, and it's all my fault. Why bother to torture him again! I was wrong, I was wrong...you let him go..."

Seeing Shi Wudu like this, He Xuan didn't show any sign of being moved, and still extinguished the little hope in Shi Wudu's heart with his indifferent voice: "Didn't you say before that such a thing as remorse is Have you never had Shui Hengtian?" Without waiting for Shi Wudu to say anything, he ordered the ghost envoy: "Additional punishment."

"Yes." The ghost envoy obeyed the order, tied the rope of the finger cot to the torture frame, tightened it, took a whip from the wall, and lashed at Shi Qingxuan.There was a deep bloodstain on that delicate face and the exposed neck in an instant.

"Qingxuan——!!!"

Shi Wudu screamed.If it wasn't for being a ghost body, I'm afraid she would have already shed tears.A few more whips were lashed at the people on the rack, and Shi Wudu felt that each lash was on his heart.He glared at He Xuan, and a voice full of resentment burst out from his clenched teeth:

"Heishui! You know how my younger brother treats you with such sincerity! You actually have the heart to abuse him like this. How can you be so cruel?!"

"Do you have the face to say that I am cruel?" He Xuanhe's expression and tone finally changed slightly, but this change was more dangerous than before, "You only see how well Qingxuan treats me, but you don't know my parents, wife and sister Treat me better! You only said that I spoiled Qingxuan, how could you have the heart to spoil my relatives back then!"

The sound of whipping and screams echoed in the huge room.Shi Wudu's heart was like a drop of blood, and he wanted to speak again, but he was wronged and couldn't say anything.He Xuan paused, and continued word by word:

"It was you two brothers who caused me to fall into such a situation. Why can't I hate you? My family, including myself, have lost five lives in your hands. It is only natural for me to take revenge now. Your brother suffered like this Trash is your retribution!"

Shi Wudu was stunned by He Xuan's words, looked in the direction of the torture frame for a while, and suddenly grabbed the ground with his head fiercely.

"Don't bump into it," He Xuan just looked at him coldly, "It's not so easy to commit suicide after becoming a ghost."

Hearing this, Shi Wudu froze there, and it took him a long time to move again, his clenched hands smashed to the ground again and again.

"...Qingxuan...it was my brother who harmed you..."

The flesh on his hand had already been torn, but what flowed out of the wound was not blood, but strands of black smoke.Low-level ghosts don't have enough magic power to add to their bodies, and even if they take human form, they still can't create all kinds of physical signs of living people.But the senses are still the same, and there will still be pain after being injured.

"You also know that you harmed Qingxuan." He Xuan's voice was as cold as ever, "Shi Wudu, today's results are all earned by your own ability, you are here by yourself, enjoy it .”

After all, ignoring the heart-wrenching sound from the torture rack, He Xuan walked out of the room without looking back, letting Shi Wudu call Shi Qingxuan's name heartbreakingly.

After leaving the torture room, He Xuan returned to the bedroom, sat on the couch and closed his eyes to adjust his breath, while the mournful voice still lingered in his ears for a long time.He closed his eyes, and began to imagine involuntarily: If the person tied to the torture rack is really Shi Qingxuan... But as soon as a blurred image appeared in his mind, his heart began to ache .

Ever since the eve of the cold dew hundreds of years ago, He Xuan is no longer that kind scholar.A wisp of a lonely soul turned into a fierce ghost, with hatred as its obsession, went to the copper furnace to suffer, and finally became the king of ghosts in a desperate situation.After years of lurking and investigating in the Heavenly Court, he finally found his enemy, and he wanted to hate and kill him.However, the person who took his fate had a bright face and a kind heart, and his gestures were all lovely and graceful. Whenever he had free time, he would stick to his side and refused to leave, and he didn't know anything about it... Such a good wind master My lord, teach He Xuan that he can't even hate him completely.

As for the instigator of the life-changing, Shui Hengtian, He Xuan is also fully capable of letting him truly bear the pain of bereavement, but in the end, he is still reluctant to attack Shi Qingxuan himself, and can only face a counterfeit with a fake appearance. The goods are tortured.And he didn't even want to take a second look at the injured appearance.

Starting from the pain, the pain still ushered in after reaching the end. This revenge seems to have become an endless loop, a painful parting that must be carried on no matter what.But in these hundreds of years of facing each other day and night, He Xuan can no longer draw the line between what he hates and what he loves. At some point, a certain hard-to-heal scar on his heart has quietly turned into a little bit of cinnabar.

Hate is fatal, love is unspeakable.The two emotions were intertwined like vines, strangling his heart to the point of breaking.