Chapter 35 Section Fourteen

In the winter, an elite branch of the feather army, Lieyi, was lured into the depths of the grassland by the Hanzhou army.When the heavy snow fell, the Hanzhou iron cavalry charged, trampling the Yu army, flying flesh and blood, and buried them under the ice and snow.This battle became the turning point of the war. One month later, Lanzhou Jinbei army counterattacked. Taking advantage of the wind direction change, they set fire to the forest and wiped out tens of thousands of Yu clan. The rest fled to the edge of Tiantuo Gorge. After three days of massacre, the blood stained Tiantuo Dajiang.

The dynasty was shaken, and civil strife suddenly arose.Although the Jiankong Edict made Yu's army stronger and stronger, it made the people in Yu Kingdom resentful, and the Yu people of all levels were hostile to each other and fought against each other.Yi Zaitian understood in his heart that the general situation was over, and he had to work hard to support the situation.He sent sergeants to force the three-winged and wingless people to work, manufacture weapons, and collect military rations, but their hearts were scattered, large escapes happened every day, and the population of the capital was only half left.

That night, outside the city of Qingdu, the camps of the Lower Three Wings and the Wingless People stretched for tens of miles.The north wind was howling and the fine snow was falling, but they had no tree house to hide from. They could only light a fire and huddle tightly together.Every day, Yu tribe warriors would come here to arrest labor. If they were found to be Wingless people, they would be sold as slaves.But they had nowhere to go. Many escaped from here, but most of them froze to death or were shot on the road. Alien Wing leaned against the remnant wall of the filthy untouchable camp, clutching a piece of brilliant blue ice.He looked up at the sky and stars for a long time.

"What right do you have to be with her? She is the purest white wing soaring high into the sky, but you can't even fly!" "Look, his wings, the wings he condensed are deformed! He It's a monster." "This... this kind of wings... kills him... can't let him fly into the sky..." Xiang Yiyi suddenly opened his eyes, and found that he was sweating profusely, and the boundless loneliness and desolation in his dream still wrapped him tightly.All around, everything is the same, beside the fire, the untouchables are whispering, stretching out their hands for a little warmth, thinking that being by the fire is enough happiness.

Suddenly there was a scream, and a group of three-winged soldiers descended from the sky and landed in the camp. They must have escaped slaves, and they were short of manpower. They came to find reinforcements. The crowd was full of old and weak women and children. The soldiers walked past the fire and pulled people who seemed to have a little strength, but there was no chaos in the camp. The people seemed to have lost their strength to struggle and just sat numbly by the fire.A little girl who was only in her teens was pulled up. She didn't cry or shout, anyway, there was no difference between freezing to death and exhaustion.Her mother looked haggard, she couldn't even shed tears, she just stretched out her hand in a daze, as if waiting for the child to throw herself back into her arms, until the child was taken away, she still maintained that posture, the cold wind The heavy snow pounced on her chest, and she gradually froze there.

Xiang Yiyi opened his eyes, seeing those soldiers coming in front of him, he simply stood up voluntarily.Escaping or being taken obediently seems to be a dead end.The world is so big, but there is nowhere to go. He raised his eyes and looked at the sky.In the pitch-black sky, countless tiny snowflakes rush towards our faces. The earth is so cold and silent. Why do they still come to the world, just to be trampled into slush? The sergeant looked at him: "Which wing are you from? Where is the wing mark?" According to his rank, the sergeant will decide what kind of hard labor he will be taken to, or he will be taken directly to the slave market to be sold with livestock.

Xiang Yiyi reached into his bosom to touch it, and found a cold little badge.With a pain in his heart, he smiled wryly: "No." "That's the Wingless People?" The sergeant smiled coldly. They can always get some money from the slave trade, and they often take away the wing marks of the Wingmen and sell them as Wingless People.He stretched out his hand and said, "Get over here!" Xiang Yiyi staggered, his clothes were torn crookedly, and a shiny little thing fell out.As soon as the sergeant's eyes lit up, he was about to pick it up, but he rushed towards Yiyi, fell on the snow, and held the thing tightly.The sergeant was annoyed, kicked him fiercely, grabbed him again, and punched him twice, Xiang Yiyi felt as if his internal organs were about to be shattered, curled up on the ground, and the salty blood kept gushing out from his mouth and nose , but his hands still held on to the thing tightly.

The sergeant stretched out his hand to pry off the fingers of the different wings, but he couldn't pry them open. Angrily, he drew his waist knife and cut it.With a scream to Different Wings, the shiny thing fell to the ground with a bloody finger, and rolled to Different Wings in pain.The sergeant happily picked up the object and looked at it, and the surrounding sergeants rushed to see what good gold and silver he had got, but suddenly their faces seemed to be frozen in an instant! That's Hexue's badge!What Feng Lingxue stuffed to Yiyi was her own badge of Hexue. With the status of He Xueshi, above the ninth rank, naturally there is no wing mark.

Those sergeants felt as if the blood had been sucked out of their bodies, they couldn't help feeling cold, but they were sweating profusely. It was the leading sergeant who realized first, this young man was black, thin and dirty, how could he be a crane snowman, he must have stolen it. "Bold." He picked up Yiyi, "Where did you steal the Hexue badge? This is a crime of immediate execution." "It's mine!" roared to Alien Wing, and the severe pain of the severed finger made him burn all over. "Your?" The sergeant laughed loudly, "You are Hexue? Then you fly up and let me see?"

Xiang Yiyi suddenly calmed down, and slowly stretched out his bleeding hand: "Give it back to me." "You are about to condense your wings and fly now, so I will return it to you, otherwise...I will be killed immediately." "Are you going to kill me?" Xiang Yiyi sighed, "It seems that I can't hide after all. Feng Lingxue, you think this badge can help me survive, you are so naive." The snow became more violent, and the soldiers drew out their knives and raised them high in the heavy snow. "Do you really want to see me fly?" He suddenly heard the boy say coldly.

By the fire, the untouchables are huddling together, singing a song "Winter Clothes Tune" in a low voice: "No wings, no clothes, no grass, no fields, no intention, no heart, no bounds... The snow is boundless, who will warm me, the hometown of the folks, don't go to the home..." Suddenly someone stood up, looked at a place in shock, and slowly raised his hand: "Look... there..." More and more people stood up and looked there, a kind of light reflected in their eyes, as if the sun had risen at midnight. That night, Yi Zaitian convened a palace meeting, but no one came.He walked out of the hall, and saw a blood red rising gradually in the distance, filling the sky. A song circulating among the Lower Three Wings is being sung by countless voices: "No wings, no clothes, no grass, no fields, no intention, no heart, no bounds... The snow is boundless, who will warm my feet, the hometown of the folks, don't go to the hometown... Cutting wood for salary, breaking bones and pillars, heaven is divided into nine vaults, how can there be High and low, there is light and there is fire, there is death and there is life, there is blood and there is life, there is brother and brother!" Yi Zaitian nodded and sighed: "Good song!" Suddenly, as if he could no longer stand up, he sat down on the stone steps wearily. A flying feather warrior landed in front of the hall and reported to him the news of the Lower Three Wings' rebellion and what made them muster up their determination to resist. "A miracle? A pair of wings that suddenly condensed when no one could take off?" Yi Zaitian frowned. Feng Lingxue was sent to the front of the hall, only Yi Zaitian stood there in the empty hall, and everyone else rushed to suppress the rebels, the palace looked extremely desolate. "I want you to kill someone," Yi Zaitian said, "I'm afraid no one can kill him now except you." Qingdu City is like in flames.The lower three-winged people raised their torches high, shouted and rushed towards the palace.Aomori giant tree, turned into a sky-burning torch. Most of them can't fly today, and the warriors on the upper three wings fly across the sky, rise and fall on the branches, and shoot sharp arrows at the crowd below.Every now and then someone fell to the ground. The people of the Lower Three Wings lacked bows and arrows, so they began to climb up the tree, trying to drive away the archers on the tree, but the climbers became the targets of the archers and fell down one after another. But there seemed to be a force pushing them forward, and they rushed forward with shouts, towards the location of the Yu Clan's royal palace—the palace in the canopy of the seven towering giant trees. Feng Lingxue flew across the sky in the flames, and landed in the camp of the Wingless People. The place was empty, and there were traces of riots and fighting everywhere. The wind blew the embers of the flames, and the boy's figure could not be seen anywhere. "To Aliens!" she yelled, and she seldom yelled that loudly.But at this moment, the voice seemed so weak that it was instantly swallowed by the night. She stood quietly in the snow for a while, then flew back to Yuwang Palace. Below, the rebels on the lower three wings were attacking the foundation of the giant tree, and the furious people began to set fire to the giant tree that symbolized the authority of the royal family.The royal palace above the high crown was silent at this moment, with rare lights, as if it was the only sleeping place in this fiery burning city. Feng Lingxue fell on the square in front of the hall, and saw Yi Zaitian sitting on the steps, like a dead log. She walked towards him gently. "Did you kill him?" The dead wood-like body made a deep voice. "I didn't find him." "Forget it...it doesn't matter anymore. The Shengyi Camp and the Zhiyi Camp have turned against each other, and the nobles of the upper three wings are going to turn against me...they also want to be the King of Feathers...soon the master of this dynasty will come again It will be replaced by someone else, and a new leader of Hexue will be born... But Feng Lingxue...all of this has nothing to do with you, right? You will always be you, no matter how the dynasty changes, the winner and loser will always rotate, you will not Would you care... what kind of heart is it that can look at the world so indifferently?" Like a chronically ill man, Yi Zaitian slowly raised the wine jug and wine glass beside him: "I have been drinking by myself for so many years. For the sake of the throne, I exiled my brother, deposed my father, and assassinated my allies. Beheading loyal ministers everywhere...I have been drinking myself for so many years, because I am the only one who will not poison myself... Sometimes I wake up from a nightmare in the middle of the night, covered in cold sweat, but there is no one around me who can comfort me, listen to me Telling about my inner fears...all these years I've been plotting, waiting, worrying...I've devoted my whole life to my cause...but...but..." Wing jumped up in the sky, ran wildly in front of the hall, then knelt down facing the burning Qingdu, grabbed his hair, almost went mad, and suddenly shouted to the sky: "My Yuzu, my homeland! ..." He kowtowed frantically, knocking on the stone slab in front of the hall with a muffled sound, and soon the ground was stained red with blood. Feng Lingxue stepped forward to hold him back. Yi Zaitian suddenly hugged Feng Lingxue like a child: "Why? Why is this the fate of our Yu clan? I don't want them to be slaves, and I don't want them to be bullied by the clans, but they hate me! They all hate me!" This Yu Wang, who was always so cold and frightening, started to sob at this moment, and he turned back into that seventeen-year-old child again.Feng Lingxue reached out and stroked his hair, she didn't know why she did this.Perhaps, this has nothing to do with love and hate, but an instinct, a female instinct.But when she cried bitterly back then, Master did not caress her like this, and when she woke up from a nightmare, no one, no one listened to her. She suddenly felt that she had learned to hate, and she began to hate a person, a person who averted her eyes when she saw her, and always turned and ran away from her.She wanted to shoot an arrow through his heart, and then hold him in her arms, so that he would not run away, and could listen to her quietly, and let her say what she had said for more than ten years.People say that Feng Lingxue is silent, but who has listened by her side? She was thinking wildly, but Yi Zaitian gradually calmed down, he straightened up, his breathing became steady again, he stroked his hair, and then silently poured a glass of wine. "Feng Lingxue, before I die, have a drink with me." Feng Lingxue slowly raised her wine glass, she knew that wine was the scariest thing, and she had seen her master who would never make a mistake be so fragile and ridiculous after drinking, but now she felt that none of this was important, Her heart was empty, like the chaotic ruins of the Wingless civilian camp.That man doesn't talk to her, doesn't look at her, but he's always by her side.But now, in such a vast world, where can I find someone?If he disappears like this, she will continue to live on as a lonely myth who is number one in the world.In the end, one day she will not be able to fly anymore, and she will no longer be able to draw the bowstring. At that time, where can she stay and who can she take refuge with? She drank down the glass of wine. Feng Lingxue didn't know that the taste of wine was like this. It was like a raging fire, burning her tongue, penetrating into her confidantes, burning all over her blood. It flowed out.At this time, a pair of hands suddenly embraced her, locking her tightly like an iron chain, his hot face pressed against her ears, the man's body wrapped her tightly, she was like a piece of ice between hot hands, wine Seeping from those fingers, she began to melt.She didn't know why this happened, and she couldn't think.Until Yi Zaitian tore off her skirt, she instinctively raised her hand, twisted his arm, and threw him out. Yi Zaitian stared at her in a daze: "What's wrong with you? What are you afraid of? You should be my wife! I obeyed your wish and let you stay in Hexue. I think you are the bright moon in the sky, untouchable , but now I don't care about anything! Feng Lingxue, come with me. We can go together, there is no such thing as Yu Wang, and there is no such thing as Hexue. It is too late to change all this. Yes, we are still so young. There is no fate, why can't you change? Why can't I give up this struggle? There is still time for everything..." "No," said a voice. Yi Zaitian jumped up in shock, looking at the shadow in front of the hall: "You?" "You can't change..." The shadow slowly approached, "As long as you have a chance, you will want to return to the position of Yuwang, and then you will give up everything you have without hesitation .You know for yourself that you won't change for anyone..." Yi Zaitian looked at the man in astonishment, the cold wind gradually sobered him up: "Yes...you are right...I will not give up my lifelong dream for a woman. It seems that I was drunk just now...I didn't I thought of it, I really didn't think of it." Yi Zaitian laughed loudly, "I was defeated by you. You are the miracle of the Three Wings camp, inspiring them to rise up and overthrow my dynasty! Who are you? ? What is your background?" Feng Lingxue also stared at that person, not understanding how he could get to the Yuwang Palace that can only be reached by spreading his wings.But behind him, a more bizarre scene suddenly appeared. At this moment, the sky suddenly turned into a huge door, slowly moved away, and a huge gray shadow pushed out from the sky.It was dim, but nothing could be seen, and it was so close to the earth that the undulating ravines on the planet could be seen, but there was no life at all, just a vast expanse of dead ashes. "Dark Moon Day?" Yi Zai Tian cried out and retreated, "After seven years, it finally came again..." Standing in front of the giant moon, Xiang Yiyi sighed: "This is my take-off day." Seven years ago, the voice of the people in Tsing Yi was still in my ears. "What the dark moon projects into this world is hatred and destruction. Therefore, when you can fly high, it must be when disaster befalls the world. When your wings are raised, everything around you will be engulfed in blood and fire— —The flesh and blood are separated, the love is separated, the hegemony is ruined, and everything is gone. At that time...do you still want to fly?" Turned to Alien Wing and stared at the dark moon. "If I don't fly... who would take pity on the fate of a wingless people? It was the world that abandoned me first." "Yes... seven years ago... it was also because of you... more than a dozen Beiyu people in Wanning Prefecture were unable to fly with feathers, and were all killed by the sea. In the following years, the beach was all red, and the blood stains were everywhere. Even the tides can't rush away!" Yi Zaitian roared, "Because you are a clan of dark feathers, because you can condense your wings only when the dark moon sprinkles hatred and war on the world. Your pure black wings are A symbol of disaster. And now... are you going to destroy the dynasty of the Yu clan again? Because of you, the Yu clan once again lost the power to surpass the sky... My great cause, my heroic army! Because of you! We will lose In this war... tens of millions of Yuzu will die!" He bowed his head to the different wings and remained silent.Behind his wings is the fire and shouts of killing in Qingdu City. Countless people will die this night, and after this night, the flames of the chaotic world will spread even more unscrupulously.And all of this will be the price for spreading his wings?If disaster could be prevented without spreading his wings, he would rather never fly.However, he understood that all of this had nothing to do with his will, just like falling leaves did not bring frost. In the bloody flames, people saw the giant shadow of the dark moon breaking out of the sky and approaching the earth.That night, just like the seaside seven years ago, all the Yuzu could no longer fly.The soldiers of the Yu clan fell from the sky, and the boundary between the winged people and the wingless people lost the boundary. The giant trees on the upper three wings were cut down, and they fell into the dust and were torn to pieces by the angry mob. "Can't you fly? Fly, fly!" The rioters holding stones and sticks yelled wildly, and bloody corpses were hung everywhere in the forest.If the glory and prosperity brought by the bright moon cannot be shared by all, then the dark moon will distribute the hatred and pain to everyone fairly. This eternal law of heaven has been repeated countless times in history. The Black Wing is watching the world from a height, and the fire is flowing on the earth, it will roll in all directions, and push the world into chaos. Xiang Yiyi raised his head and suddenly let out a long sigh. "Seven years ago... why the Beilu Yu tribe was massacred, you, as Prince Nanyu's Highness Yi, should know best. Even if some of them can fly across the sea and go to Donglu, what fate awaits them? ?” Looking closely at Yi Zaitian, the wind blows his clothes and hair.Feng Lingxue stared at him blankly, unable to believe her eyes. Yi Zaitian suddenly fell silent. After a long time, he raised his head and sneered again: "It is my true wish to unify the northern and southern feather clans and become a truly powerful country. For this day, I will do whatever it takes! If I will now abolish the Jiankong Edict, and then seek peace from the various tribes, so I can keep my throne... Yes... But, I won't do that..." Yi Zaitian is like supporting a person that does not belong to him body, struggling to move forward, "What I want to do is no longer possible. What do I need this king's seat for... Do you think I'm really greedy for this throne? Yu Clan If it is ruined, my life is meaningless.” "The Yu clan has not been destroyed," Xiang Yichi said, "No one can defeat the Yu clan in the ten thousand hectare forest in Ningzhou, foreign enemies will eventually be repelled, and the Yu clan will always be the Yu clan." "Yes...the Yu clan is not destroyed, I will be the only one who will be destroyed...but..." Yi Zaitian pointed at Yi Zhi, "You will only become another Yi Zaitian when you sit in this position. That's all!" "You're right." Xiang Yiyi bowed his head, "When a person is alone at the highest point and can see the life and death of others, he can no longer live for himself. Such a person... is very pitiful Bar." "Everyone in the world wants to kill me...but the one who kills me is definitely not you..." Yi Zaitian showed a strange smile, as if tasting the sweetness of poisoned wine, "If she doesn't kill me, I will live, Live until the day when I return to Qingdu, live until the day when I see the Yuzu become the lord of the world! One day, they will miss the era when my wings were in the sky, the era when the majesty of the Yuzu made the world look up ! Feng Lingxue, let your arrows decide!" Wing screamed in the sky, waved his cloak, and jumped straight to the treetops. Startled, Feng Lingxue drew out the bow and arrow, aimed at the shadow, but did not shoot it. Until the shadow disappeared into the sky reddened by flames, she still maintained the posture of raising the arrow, aiming at nothingness. Xiang Yiyi slowly walked in front of her: "I thought... Feng Lingxue would never hesitate when she shot an arrow." Feng Lingxue turned to look at him: "You..." Xiang Yiyi smiled at her: "I turned around and left that day, and found that you were destined not to follow me. You were born for Hexue, but I couldn't fly with you. I thought about it for a long time that night, and decided to use another There is a way to be with you." His smile disappeared, "From now on, I want you to belong to me only, and only obey my orders, and what I paid for it... is this life... and will never be the same again. The boy you remember." As soon as Xiang Yiyi turned around, two beams of crimson light burst out behind him, and a pair of huge black wings slowly rose from behind him, and with a sudden shake, he flew into the sky. The depths of the sky are so blue, no amount of flames can dye it red, like the depths of the human heart, there are always secrets that people don't want to touch.That innocent and shy boy at the beginning will eventually become like a star, getting farther and farther away in Feng Lingxue's sight. That year, when Xiang Yiyi finally soared in the sky, he knew that his height was unique and unmatched by anyone, but he was still afraid of being alone.