Chapter 3 Chapter Three

Xuan Feng didn't know what to say, he looked at Huai Ren in a daze, but his eyes turned from contempt to passion, he took a step forward, and blurted out: "Senior! Let's go together! Let's fight out from here together!" "Huh?" Huai Ren was slightly startled, but subconsciously looked at the child in his arms. "The people of Youguo need you, senior! We are about to rebel, and we have already gone to the deserted mountain to unleash the God of Destruction!" Seeing the hesitant expression of the senior, the boy in black shouted eagerly, his golden eyes released fighting spirit and passion. Murderous, "How many battles will we fight with the Ice Kingdom next? How happy the survivors will be if they see you back! Taishifu—that is, the senior's junior sister and female sword saint Mei Er, who has independently supported the division all these years, has been I will never forget you..."

"Mei Er..." Huai Ren's eyes flickered for a moment, but he didn't answer, just lowered his eyes to look at the child in his arms. However, there was no expression in his pitch-black eyes, Chuangshishen slightly raised his eyes and glanced at the swordsman beside him, without expressing any expression. "Are you concerned about your family?" Xuan Feng was a little anxious when he saw the other party's expressionless expression. Kill your family!" "What?" This time the swordsman could no longer remain silent, and exclaimed, "Impossible!"

"It's true!" Xuan Feng also argued unyieldingly, acknowledging this cruel fact, "The Bingguo Elder's House has long ordered the killing of all your family members! The heads have been on display in Yunhuang for several months! " "No... no!" Huairen's golden eyes flashed a cold light, almost murderous, "Nonsense! That song "The Ruins"...the song "The Ruins" that only Bi Ling can play, until I heard it today!" Such an affirmative tone and the sudden flash of murderous intent made Xuan Feng suffocate for a moment, not understanding what the other party meant, he looked at Huai Ren dully.

Huairen pressed his hand on the hilt of the sword, but looked at the broken door blankly: "Over the past few decades, Bi Ling has been forced by them to play this song outside the heavy door every day. It is a good time to remind me, never Have two hearts..." "No!" Xuan Feng interrupted him because of surprise at that moment, "When I entered the Nine Layers Gate just now, I didn't see anyone playing the flute at all! I didn't even hear the music!" "What?" Huai Ren's body shook suddenly, "That's impossible. Didn't you hear? Didn't you hear? Bi Ling was playing the song "Xuan" outside the door!" Unable to bear it any longer, the swordsman took a step involuntarily To that high broken gate of white jade—the one he had never stepped on in fifty years.

"Huai Ren." Suddenly, a thin voice stopped him, the child's small hand pointed out in the air, and in the blink of an eye, a new door reappeared in the original place, blocking everything. "Don't look at it." Slowly retracting her right hand, the child of the Creation God had an expression of disproportionate compassion on her face, looking at the swordsman who accompanied her, "Everyone, including your sister Bi Ling, did die forty-seven years ago. already dead." "God, what did you say?" The arm holding the child suddenly became weak, Huai Ren blurted out in shock, and even forgot to use the honorific "you".While loosening her arms, the girl floated in the air, quietly looked at the swordsman, and nodded: "It's dead. I was killed by the sixth elder long ago—although I can't kill you, I want to kill the sword master." It is also very troublesome, but there must be an account to the world, so the Senate decided to kill you all over the family, as a respectful example."

"But, but that song "The Ruins"...?" Huai Ren blurted out in a daze, but still insisted, "Only Bi Ling can comprehend that song "Ruins." "That's just a phantom sound." The child's dark eyes were expressionless, and he explained quietly, but his voice was so cold that it was almost ruthless, "—you must know that although the Sixth Elder has not been taught by me in terms of magic, he still uses it. The 'mirror' creates a phantom sound that only you can hear, and it can still be done." Such a calm analysis sentence by sentence gradually shattered the firm confidence of the swordsman in front of him step by step.

"God..." Feeling something collapse in his heart, he subconsciously blurted out a low voice, Huai Ren suddenly covered his face and knelt down on the white ground powerlessly.After fifty years of ascetic life in the dry well, a sharp knife suddenly pierced his heart. The sharp pain was far away and strong. Before he could react, hot tears had flowed down from his eyes. "Huairen." The child's voice came, close to his ears.The god floating beside him saw an expression he had never seen in fifty years on this person's face, sighed softly, and stretched out his left hand: "Huai Ren."

The pale little hands were stained with hot tears, but the eyes of the Chuangshi God were compassionate. "God, you, you already knew it, didn't you?" The hand that touched his cheek had a strange stabilizing power, which made the swordsman finally able to speak, but his voice was still choked up, "Why didn't you tell me? Why?" "It's not time yet, telling you it's just an annoyance." God's eyes were so dark that he couldn't see to the end, but his childlike face had a solemn expression, "You can't do anything in this Litian Palace inside the nine-fold gate. You are just a hostage."

Huai Ren was silent for a long time, when Xuan Feng couldn't help but want to speak, the swordsman suddenly clenched the sword of light in his hand, and uttered a sentence: "I want to go out." Those four words lifted the spirit of the black-clothed boy and blurted out cheers. "Huai Ren." God looked at him with dark eyes, but did not show any approval or disapproval. "I want to go back to You Country." Huai Ren held his sword and stood up, and the iron armor made an ear-piercing rubbing sound, "Huai Ren Kong is full of swordsmanship and illusion, but his family members are dead, and his clan and fellow sects are all in the flames of war——I always want to do something."

After a pause, looking into the all-black eyes of the Chuangshi God, the swordsman quietly asked, "Please allow God." "If..." There was a strange smile on the child's face, "I say no?" "Then ask God to take back everything that was bestowed on Huai Ren." Without hesitation, Huai Ren replied, holding the sword of light upside down and raising it above his head, "Including everything that has been taught in the past fifty years—and this life." "Senior! Are you crazy?" Xuan Feng exclaimed suddenly, and rushed forward to grab the sword back, "At most, I will fight her! No matter whether he is godly or not, how can he allow the slaughter!"

As soon as the figure of the same door moved, Huai Ren frowned, but snapped his fingers without looking back, and uttered a whisper, a transparent ice wall suddenly condensed in front of Xuan Feng out of thin air.Xuan Feng was stunned by such skills, he never thought that Senior Huai Ren, who came from the sect of the Sword Master, would be able to use such exquisite skills! "God." Huai Ren knelt motionlessly in front of the god's throne, raising his sword above his head, "Please forgive my fellow disciple's reckless behavior." "..." In the pure white courtyard, the girl floating in the air looked down at him and said nothing for a long time.However, Huai Ren knew that even the thought that flashed in his mind could not escape the eyes of God.In the silence, the air seemed to be condensed. The corner of Chuangshi Shen's mouth moved suddenly, and there was a light flashing in his pure black eyes, "Give me freedom or give me death? People are like this..." Suddenly his right hand stretched out from his sleeve again, and pressed on Huairen's shoulder armor. Even though he knew that the hand of God did not have the power to kill, the swordsman couldn't help shaking his whole body at that moment, but he heard a soft "cha" sound in his ears, and the armor suddenly emitted a faint golden light-just for a moment, the hand of God He actually strengthened the mithril armor on his body and turned it into a golden armor that can withstand spells and sword attacks! "God?!" The swordsman blurted out in shock, looking up at Chuangshi Shen. However, with a sudden light in his hand, the right hand of God picked up his long sword.Where the small hand touched, accompanied by a low chant, the lightning-like traces on the sword of light suddenly shone with dazzling light, and the whole sword disappeared out of thin air! ——Just a blink of an eye, and the long sword reappeared in the right hand of God. However, that sword is no longer the sword of the original Juggernaut, but a spiritual sword between colorless! "This is the real 'Sword of Light'." Shen looked down at the long sword he had transformed, smiled slightly, put the sword into Huai Ren's hand, and with a touch of his right hand, the white jade gate burst open, "Let's go." "..." Huai Ren was speechless, and for some reason suddenly didn't dare to look directly into those dark pupils, "Thank God." The golden armor was as light as nothing, and he stood up briskly, but felt that his steps were heavy.After chanting the incantation of unblocking, the ice wall suddenly melted, Xuan Feng rushed out staggeringly, he went to grab the fellow disciple, and turned around silently.The black-clothed boy Youzi stared at the girl with resentment, followed Huairen to the door unwillingly, and suddenly whispered: "Senior... let's kill God together!" Huai Ren raised his eyes abruptly, his cold eyes pierced his body like a knife's edge, causing Xuan Feng to shut up immediately. "Let's go." Huai Ren pulled the same door and walked towards the open white jade gate—it was the ninth gate of Litian Palace, and he fell under this gate when he was exhausted in the bloody battle fifty years ago.In the following decades, I never stepped out of this door. "That's just the god of Ice Country!" the young assassin said angrily when Leng Ran pulled Xuan Feng out. Huai Ren's complexion changed complicatedly, and lightning flashed across his golden eyes, but he dragged his unconvinced colleague straight to the door without hesitation, and at the moment when he was about to step out of the door, he said in a low voice: "But, it's also my god." — When he said that, he knew God would hear. "...!" Xuan Feng was startled suddenly, Huai Ren had already dragged him through the door in an instant. "You don't understand." The swordsman whispered as he let go of his fellow disciples, at that moment Xuan Feng saw a faint light flickering in his golden eyes - how could he understand?How could this passionate teenage boy, who was desperate for his faith, know what he had suffered in the past fifty years?Just like a sword that is invincible after being sharpened, it has not been bent, recast, experienced the cruelty of burning, the pain of breaking bones and tendons, how can it become soft around the fingers reborn. ——At that time, why did God save himself from the sixth elder? ——But now, why does God give himself strength, but let himself return to the cloud? ——And the God of Creation...why does that God's right hand, who has the power to transform all things, always stand on the side of the Ice Kingdom?Is it true that it has been enshrined in the luxurious Litian Palace for a long time, and the high gods have long since abandoned the survivors of the other six kingdoms? ——God gave him life, strength, and freedom; saved him and built him up, but in the end, he wanted to be his enemy?Could it be that one day in the future, when he and his clan entered the imperial capital of the Ice Country, Garan City, would he have to fight God?The sword handed over to him will still be swung at the person who made it in the end? "God!" Finally unable to bear it anymore, the swordsman stopped outside the door, turned around and knelt down on one knee, "Why did you stay in Litian Palace? You don't know what's going on with Yunhuang now, do you? It's harsh! Is that what you hoped to see when you created Yunhuang?" "Huairen." On the jade seat inside the door, the child-like God of Creation smiled, as if it wasn't surprising that the swordsman left and returned.His eyes were dark and expressionless, deep and bottomless, "What do you want to say?" "God please leave Litian Palace and go to the deserted mountain together to prevent the resurrection of the God of Destruction!" After a pause, the swordsman finally said, "Huai Ren dare not expect God to bless the survivors, but please God at least love the people of the world, so that we can be with us." The Ice Kingdom competes fairly with Yunhuang!" "Huairen, you are very good at talking." For a long time, Chuangshishen smiled, but replied with irrelevant words. "God." Not understanding the thoughts behind those pitch-black eyes, Huai Ren held his sword and whispered. "'Icelanders are harsher than Gods of Destruction now'—that's right." After a moment of silence, the girl tapped the chessboard with her hand, picked up the "king" and looked at it carefully, "Ha, don't you humans think that Everything will be fine if I seal my brother? From then on, I can enjoy endless prosperity—as long as I keep creating everything to support people?" Holding that illusory chess piece in his hand, with a slight movement of his right hand, it turned into a blood-dripping sword! "Wrong. Heaven and earth have their own delicate balance of growth and destruction—absolute prosperity will only bring more destruction and killing," the bloody long sword hovered at the tip of the god's right finger, and there was a gleam in the child's pure black eyes. Bing Yuxue's expression, that kind of tone above all things, this is the first time Huai Ren, who has been with him for many years, heard, "You seven countries joined forces to seal my brother back then, so you thought you were enjoying wealth and wealth—unexpectedly, in the end, the people of Ice Country But he himself became a god of destruction. You can’t blame anyone for the consequences caused by your own hands.” "But didn't the God of Destruction also imprison you back then? That's why the Seven Kingdoms teamed up to fight against him!" Xuan Feng shouted, not convinced, "Later, Emperor Yufeng didn't use your power to seal it. God of Destruction? Don't push it like nothing is the same!" "Xuan Feng!" Huai Ren scolded his fellow disciples in a low voice, but God laughed lightly: "Isn't it even more eloquent - the disciples of the Sword Master, why do they all look like debaters?" Paused, before Huai Ren could open his mouth, Chuang Shi Shen twisted his fingers, and the sword and chess disappeared together. "Brother's ambition is inflated, imprisoning me, and trying to destroy everything in the world - that's wrong. The balance of the world cannot be broken, no matter whether it is a god or a demon." The girl replied coldly, her dark pupils suddenly glowed coldly, Flying across the air, the blank courtyard instantly came back to life, "So, I accepted Yufeng's request and helped him defeat my brother—but I just wanted to restore balance. However, the Seven Kingdoms were afraid that my brother would destroy Yunhuang again. , actually set up an enchantment on the empty mountain without authorization, and sealed my brother!" "How is it possible?" Huai Ren murmured incredulously, "Emperor Yufeng dared to go against God's will?" "The gap between man and God is not insurmountable." God smiled, and looked meaningfully at Huai Ren, who was wearing a golden armor and sword, "At that time, my brother and I were exhausted after the battle—and Yufeng... Yufeng, I Gave him too much power - more than a 'man' should have." Speaking of this, the girl had a strange smile on her pale face, and said in a low voice, "Huairen, will you become the second Yufeng?" The swordsman was shocked, but before he could answer, the god continued indifferently: "The seal of the God of Destruction used the power of the world. I was weak at that time and was temporarily unable to open the seal made by gathering the power of the world. Yu Fengxiong Cai Weilue, relying on the power I gave him to unify the cloud and the barren. In fact, this may not be a good thing..." "What?!" Thinking of what happened to the survivors after the Bing Kingdom unified the world, Xuan Feng raised his eyebrows, his anger was uncontrollable. "Don't be in a hurry to refute—" Shen Leng asked the assassin, "Let me ask you, when Emperor Yufeng was in power, did he ever treat the people of the six kingdoms in the slightest?" "..." Xuan Feng, who was about to speak, was speechless for a moment when he was asked back. Although he hated the people of the Bing Kingdom, no matter what, according to the old sayings, it is true that the first emperor of Yunhuang never treated the survivors of the six kingdoms badly and treated the world equally.During the decades of the founding emperor's reign, unprecedented prosperity appeared in the land of Yunhuang. Not only the people of Ice Country, but also the survivors of the Six Kingdoms lived with ample food and clothing. "But after the death of Emperor Yufeng and the establishment of that damned Senate, we haven't had a good day!" Xuanfeng paused, but still called out in disbelief, "It's been more than two hundred years! How many times have we been suppressed?" And massacre? Didn’t you, Chuangshi God, see the blood? You were enshrined in this high place, so you can’t even hear those cries?” "As I said, the forces of 'birth' and 'destruction' must always be balanced between heaven and earth. My brother is sealed, so there must be another force to complete the destruction." However, such passionate questioning did not make God any less Moved, the girl stated coldly and calmly, retracted her fingers, and in an instant, Liuhe became a blank piece of paper again, "Back then, you people from the Seven Kingdoms were greedy for prosperity and comfort, and ignored my warning to seal your brother—this is the consequence." "God, are you going to punish the world?" With such an indifferent tone, Huai Ren couldn't help but tremble a bit, raised his head, and suddenly threw out all his doubts, expressing his long-standing suspicion in one breath, "—but then Living in this Heavenly Palace for many years, even though there are countless people serving and worshiping...you may not be happy, right? You create day and night to make up for the increasing disasters caused by the Ice Kingdom. You consume too much power, so The appearance has always remained the same as that of a girl today - looking at the current Yunhuang, do you really think it doesn't matter?" The swordsman's words made the girl's dark eyes suddenly gleam coldly, and the God of Creation raised his eyebrows, and suddenly sneered: "You are so bold...how dare you to pry into God's mind? Huai Ren, have you taught me all these years? Too many?" Huai Ren didn't dare to answer, but just lowered his head: "God, please change this Yun Huang!" Chuangshi Shen didn't answer, and the space in the Litian Palace was so spacious that it was almost terrifying. There was an indescribable pressure in the absolute silence.For some reason, it was quiet outside the Jiuzhong Gate, and none of the elders came with their guards.The blood of the guards was still in the air, and broken walls and doors were piled up on the ground. "Without me, can't you turn this world around?" Suddenly, the girl's thin voice sounded, she put her hand on the swordsman's shoulder, and put the other right hand on his forehead, "Fifty years , I have taught you so much—almost more than I taught Yufeng back then...what he can do, you will not be unable to do it." "God?" Huai Ren raised his head in shock, but met those dark eyes, "You let me... let me..." "The world has its own process. Divided for a long time, it must be united, and the long-term union must be divided - the matter of the Seven Kingdoms is up to you to solve." The God of Creation has a profound expression like a wise man, and his pale hand covers the high forehead of the swordsman. There was a pale golden hexagram brand on her face, with a smile on the corner of her lips, "It's time... Huai Ren, I've kept you for so long, and everything I can give you has already been given to you—your strength, It is the limit of 'humanity'. Do what you want...don't go against my will like Yufeng." "God, do you want Huai Ren to be the emperor?!" Xuan Feng stared blankly, but suddenly understood at this moment, and shouted bluntly, with joyful eyes, "You imprinted that mark on his forehead—that's the same as Yu Feng's. The mark on the emperor's forehead is exactly the same! You mean that Huai Ren's strength is enough to be the emperor of Yun Huang?" A smile flashed across Chuangshi Shen's face, and he put away his right hand: "I just gave him back his power." "Senior! Let's go to the deserted mountain!" Xuanfeng jumped up joyfully, and then grabbed Huairen's hand, impatiently, "Go and tell the good news to the survivors of the Six Kingdoms! God said that the people of You Kingdom will become the new emperors." ! This Yun Huang... this Yun Huang, even the Sixth Elder is no match for you!" Pulled up by the same door, but the golden armored swordsman did not leave, suddenly turned around, hesitantly worried: "God, I went to the empty mountain, what do you want me... What do you want me to do? You want me to open the seal and release the God of Destruction What? But with your current strength, can you compete with the God of Destruction?" "My brother has been sealed for three hundred years, so he should be extremely weak..." The girl suddenly had an incomprehensible sadness on her face, "I think, with the exhaustion of his strength, he may have shrunk to the point where he can't even maintain his 'body' ? I'm not afraid of him." Huai Ren let out a long sigh of relief, turned around with his sword in his hand, and made a final salute: "Everything is as God wished." "Go." The little hand stretched out lightly, pointing to the faintly visible sky outside the gate of Chongchong Palace, "The six elders have all rushed to the deserted mountain—if you arrive late, I am afraid that the elites of the six kingdoms have already been wiped out. " "What?!" Xuan Feng and Huai Ren blurted out at the same time, and in an instant, they both understood why the guards at the Nine Layers Gate were so weak today, and why the Sixth Elder hadn't appeared for so long.The black-clothed assassin was even more shocked: "The Sixth Elder went to the Deserted Mountain long ago? They, how would they know!" "Why don't they know?" Chuangshishen smiled, his eyes blind, "Although the Sixth Elder doesn't have the insight like me——but the world has its own rules. There will be no traitors among the remnants. Not every Everyone is like you and Huai Ren." "But... since the Senate learned of this 'breaking the sky' plan, why did Xuan Feng still break into this place?" At the moment when he first heard the bad news, Huai Ren was more sober than Xuan Feng—maybe, it was just years of estrangement , Let him have a little calmness to watch the clansmen and survivors, "Shouldn't Litian Palace also have corresponding precautions?" "Of course there is." Chuangshishen smiled, pointed out his finger, and pointed at the young assassin, "However, if I want to protect someone, no matter how many guards the elders have deployed, they will be vulnerable." "God!" Huai Ren suddenly understood how Xuan Feng broke through the Nine Layers Gate, and blurted out, not knowing what to say. "I've been waiting." The black pupils were divided, but they couldn't see the end, "The time may have come." "Senior, let's go!" Such words made Xuan Feng's heart feel like falling into an ice cave, he pulled his arms and turned around to leave. Huairen and Tongmen ran towards the door, and within a few steps they rushed outside the Baiyu Gate—but in an instant, he felt pain on his forehead as if it was split open, as if some barrier had been melted instantly, and strange sounds and images surged in his mind out.He vaguely heard a person talking, felt that person's emotions, and countless memories poured out like a tide. That's... what's that?What are those? ! "Senior?" Sensing Huai Ren's hesitation, Xuan Feng looked up at him in surprise, and suddenly exclaimed, "On your forehead! That imprint, that imprint is glowing! Are you alright?" "God!" However, Huai Ren didn't pay attention to the exclamation of his fellow disciples, just stood still at the door, suddenly turned around and looked at the girl with black eyes on the jade throne, his expression changed instantly, "God?" "Heh..." For some reason, a strange smile flashed across the Chuangshi God's face at the same time, "What do you remember?" "God!" Suddenly the golden wind swept across the empty courtyard, and before Xuan Feng could react, Huai Ren had already pounced in front of the jade seat, and picked up the girl, with a dazed expression, no longer caring about using the honorific title, " I'll take you away! Don't stay in this Heavenly Palace...leave with me!" "You know that I can't leave here." Xuan Feng was dumbfounded, but Chuangshi Shen didn't have the slightest surprise, and just replied calmly, "You also know what makes me unable to leave." "Forgive me...forgive me!" Huai Ren suddenly held his head and knelt down before God, with the light of the brand mark on his forehead shining through his fingers, and he remembered everything in that instant, the surging memory He almost lost his voice, "God, forgive me." "I forgive you." The girl smiled, put her hands on the swordsman's shoulders, and said quietly, "I have forgiven you a long time ago—it's just that you can't forgive yourself, Yufeng?...so how many lives Now, come back here." Such a soft title spit out like a dream, and at the moment when the hand that transformed everything was pressed on his shoulder, countless fragments of memories gushed out from the bottom of his hidden heart along with the raging torrent—how many years ago were those dusty memories?If the seal on his forehead hadn't been opened again, he would never have remembered it again... Everything finally became clear. Back then when he was exhausted from the bloody battle and collapsed outside the ninth gate, he saw the dark eyes of the child on the jade throne inside the gate, why was he so shocked for an instant; And the God of Creation—the god who indifferently overrides the changes of the cloud and the wilderness, why would he intervene in the human world and save a mere assassin from the You Kingdom from the Sixth Elder; Or, during such a long period of confinement, why did I never feel irritated or desperate in my heart, but just calm and peaceful, and even felt secretly joyful and satisfied in the calm. Everything, it turned out to be like this - he is Emperor Yufeng.It was he who imprisoned the God of Creation. And keeping God in Litian Palace was his desperate wish in his previous life.