Chapter 23
Hua Tingxuan watched "himself" in plain disciple uniform, pushed open the door and looked down at Chu Danfeng: "I'll give you one last chance to hand it over. Otherwise... I'll take you out and let her see."
Look at you disheveled and ready to be whipped and punished, what will she think of you?"
"No, don't!" Chu Danfeng's face suddenly turned pale as paper, and he looked at Hua Tingxuan pleadingly, "Xuan'er, no, Sixth Junior Brother, I brought you up after all. There is no credit but hard work, please.
, please...save me some face."
"Then hand over the Lao Shi Zi beads!" Hua Tingxuan gritted his teeth and said, "Do you know, that thing will kill you!"
Chu Danfeng bit her lip and said nothing.
"You like her that much? You like her so much that... you risk your life... Okay! I won't let you get what you want."
Hua Tingxuan watched "himself" pick up Chu Danfeng, kicked open the door, and walked away.
‘No, no, stop!’ Hua Tingxuan was deeply impressed by the development that followed, which was the inner demon that had tortured him for nearly a hundred years.
And then, Hua Tingxuan felt a warmth in his arms...the little senior brother was being held by him. He and the "self" in Chu Danfeng's memory became one.
The old voice suddenly sounded in his mind again, coaxing: "Hua Tingxuan, are you willing to let him get hurt again? Do you want to see him disappointed in you again? Let him go and untie the rope that binds him."
Let him go?
That voice was right, he never wanted to hurt his senior brother again, but...
This is a memory that really happened. If it is disturbed, the two of them will be trapped in it forever and never get out.
Such are the rules of the inner demon realm.
Hua Tingxuan held Chu Danfeng stiffly, letting his body drive his soul, binding him with his own hands, stripping off his shirt with his own hands, and whipping his trousers to pieces with a long whip.
Hua Tingxuan almost didn't dare to look at Chu Danfeng's expression, but couldn't help but look away. She saw her senior brother's long eyelashes drooping, his pale lips pursed to endure the pain, and large beads of sweat on his forehead.
From the beginning to the end, Chu Danfeng never looked at him again, and Hua Tingxuan felt like his heart was twisting in a knife.
What happened next made him feel as if all his internal organs had been drained out - he once again watched Chu Danfeng explode and die in front of his eyes.
Hua Tingxuan smashed the palms of her hands before she could resist the urge to stop all this.
A burst of white light flashed, and a new scene appeared before his eyes.
This is another memory, it should be the first time they met in the previous life.
Hua Tingxuan turned into a five-year-old baby again. In front of him was Chu Danfeng, who was wearing a black robe. His skin tone became paler. When Fang Qingya handed her over to him, Chu Danfeng looked pale and looked very uncomfortable.
Easy to get along with.
Xiao Hua Tingxuan used to hang out in the fields and streets all day, being chased by wild dogs, chased by some ferocious beasts that ordinary people could not see, and beaten by urchins in the village. She was frightened to death. But now she has just stepped into the fairy mountain and saw that this senior brother is very cold.
The little body shrank back involuntarily.
However, as soon as Senior Brother Fang walked away, Chu Danfeng dropped his pretentious expression and asked him with a smile if he was hungry. Would he like to eat preserved fruit or preserved meat?
"The preserved fruit is sweeter, but the rouge goose breast is braised by me. It's not your fifth senior brother or me who is bragging. Even the best restaurants in Huayang Town at the foot of the mountain don't have this skill!"
Hua Tingxuan was stunned.
Is senior brother actually... so lively? His memory of the age of five has been blurry. He only remembers Chu Danfeng's silence and forbearance in his previous life, and his Buddhist indifference in this life.
He had obviously worked hard all his life, wanting to restore his cultivation and gain recognition from the world, but in this life, he suddenly had nothing to fight for. Is it because of himself that the little senior brother is like this?
He still remembered overhearing what Chu Danfeng confided to Huang Changtian: "The greatest pain is the hostility of one's closest relatives."
Seeing that Xiaotuanzi didn't answer, Chu Danfeng continued to inspire: "Senior brother's craftsmanship is unique and cannot be bought outside."
Hua Tingxuan heard herself whisper: "Then eat rouge goose breast."
Chu Danfeng immediately showed a sullen expression, "You are very knowledgeable", and then raised her chin to watch him eat.
The taste of preserved goose meat is still familiar. The senior brother is right. This craftsmanship is unique. He never tasted it again in the hundreds of years since he walked alone.
"Is it tasty?"
Hua Tingxuan nodded desperately.
"Eat slowly, don't choke." Chu Danfeng rubbed his head, "Little guy, I know you have suffered a lot in the past, but it has passed. In the future, with my senior brother here, you don't have to be afraid of anything."
"With senior brother here, there is nothing to be afraid of." It turned out that when they first met, senior brother had given him such a warm promise. However, he ruined the promise with his own hands and lost senior brother with his own hands.
Hua Tingxuan's eyes were sore, but she didn't dare to shed tears for fear of ruining this memory.
Chu Danfeng's memories are detailed, but most of them revolve around him. Hua Tingxuan always thought that Chu Danfeng spent most of his time practicing hard in order to restore his golden elixir cultivation, but he was shocked after seeing it with his own eyes.
Spend some time on yourself.
Raising a child is not an easy task.
He bathed and cooked for him, took him down the mountain to travel, and taught him how to introduce Qi into his body. He was obviously a half-grown child, and his housework was messy. Because his cultivation was ruined, the most basic water purification spells often went wrong. The child
Although he was stumbling around, he still tried his best to take care of him.
The little senior brother was always cold and silent towards outsiders, not very lovable. He seemed to have given him all his patience and tenderness.
The master always retreats, and the other senior brothers don't like Chu Danfeng either. Except for the second senior sister who will take care of them when she comes back from Yunyou, only the two senior brothers depend on each other, and their life is miserable but also enjoyable.
But as the junior sister gradually matured and became more beautiful, their conflicts arose.
During that time, he noticed his younger brother's admiration for Lin Shu'er. Hua Tingxuan didn't know it was because he liked his brother - the kind of love that meant he wanted to become a Taoist couple - but he felt that Lin Shu'er had taken away his brother, and his brother had changed.
, so he became angry and ignored others.
That day, when Chu Danfeng approached him cautiously and asked him to help find Yao Lang Fu Jin Cao, the young Hua Tingxuan was so happy and excited that he almost immediately stopped the one-sided cold war and reconciled with his senior brother.
But just as he was about to agree, Chu Danfeng said sweetly and hopefully: "If I can form elixirs, I can go to the grand competition with my junior sister."
Hua Tingxuan was so angry that he left a lot of harsh words to ridicule him and walked away. He remembered this part, but he didn't know that a few days later, he was injured in the sect competition.
The wound medicine that came was actually refined by Chu Danfeng himself.
Chu Danfeng was sitting outside the bamboo house, making medicine and saying to himself: "System, you said he is so capable, why did he get hurt?"
The word "system" was automatically blocked, but Hua Tingxuan didn't have any trouble listening to it. He was used to it. The younger brother seemed to like talking to himself when no one was around.
When there is no "self" in his memory, Hua Tingxuan will resume his identity as a bystander.
Just listen to the little senior brother asking and answering: "Well, I'm in an unstable mood. Hey, maybe he still remembers the fact that I like the little junior sister. This kid, no wonder, he and the little junior sister are about the same age. They are childhood sweethearts. Of course, their friendship is
My 'old father' is incomparable... Tsk, I made him grow up by pooping and peeing. What's wrong with calling myself an 'old father'? But when the child got older and he got a wife, he forgot about his father."
"How many points do I still have? Change to a more expensive item, add a bonus to this medicine, something that can cure the disease. After all, I am a child I raised. Can I not feel bad if I am injured?"
"..."
Hua Tingxuan remembered that he had lost the medicine after all. He was disgusted with his junior sister. He was just trying to make Chu Danfeng angry with her. How could he really accept the medicine from her... It turned out that the medicine turned out to be the junior senior brother's.
He didn't hold any grudge against me when I said harsh words to him, but he still cared about me so much.
Looking back at myself, what kind of white-eyed wolf is he? What kind of stupid bastard is he? He obviously wants to love him, but he breaks his senior brother's heart in the most sharp and cruel way.
His throat was dry and his heart was filled with soreness. If he hadn't been afraid that his senior brother would be trapped in the realm of inner demons and couldn't get out, he would have wanted to rush forward with his sword and kill his former self.
Due to frequent mood swings, a faint black magic pattern appeared between Hua Tingxuan's eyebrows. He suppressed it forcibly and continued to watch the memory:
After the sect competition, he rarely met his junior senior brother, and now most of them are Chu Danfeng's single memories.
He was angry and couldn't see Chu Danfeng, and Chu Danfeng seemed to be avoiding him intentionally. This was the longest and final cold war.
Chu Danfeng became more and more withdrawn, and spent less time practicing swordsmanship. He often took advantage of Lixu Peak when no one was around, pulled up a wicker chair, and stared at the prosperous and colorful peach blossom forest.
"That kid hasn't been seen for almost half a year." He pinched a smooth and restrained spirit bead and said wistfully, "I don't have much time left, and I don't know if I can see him again before I die."
The aura of that bead is compelling, but it also has a strong evil aura. It is the number one rare treasure in the world of cultivation, the "Soul Bead". It is an opportunity that the junior sister occasionally gets. Unfortunately, the rare treasure is not easy to control. The backlash will inevitably lead to blood. Senior brother is because
He died after blocking the backlash for Lin Shuer.
It seemed that he was ready to die generously at this time.
"What? Let me take the initiative to find him? Forget it, forget it. Why should I care about a child? Anyway, I don't care about Lin Shuer anymore... I thought, I am going to die, so why not let him continue like this?
It's good to hate me. If you go to connect with me at this time, when I kick my legs off, the kid will be more or less sad, right? Why bother making him sad."
"Who says he won't be sad? I still understand the child I raised. Tingxuan is not bad in nature. It's just that it's hard to describe love. It's probably because he loves his little junior sister too much. How can he not hate me?
Are you a wicked person who interfered?"
"..."
In the blink of an eye, time advanced to the time when Chu Danfeng exploded and died. Hua Tingxuan re-attached himself to his body, letting his body drive his soul, and imprisoned Chu Danfeng into the small dark room with his own hands.
Chu Danfeng looked at him in disbelief, her peach blossom eyes that should have been affectionate and tender were filled with shock and disappointment: "When are you going to shut me down?"
Hua Tingxuan heard himself say coldly: "When will you figure it out? Give me the bead, otherwise... you will never see the sun again."
He added: "Don't try to play tricks. Master is in seclusion. Now in the entire Lixu Peak, I am the only one who follows my lead. Even Senior Brother does not dare to comment on my decision."
The door was locked, and Chu Danfeng's spiritual energy was restrained by the immortal rope, leaving him unable to fight back. He sat on the small bed, staring blankly and helplessly at the small window on the high wall.
When the little senior brother was left alone, he began to "talk to himself" again.
He said anxiously: "This is very wrong. He shouldn't have trapped me. Find out what's going on!"
As the day and night passed, he wondered: "How could Tingxuan treat me like this? He... hates me so much."
On the third day, he said dejectedly: "**(System), will he let me out?"
I don’t know how many more days and nights, Chu Danfeng became obviously sluggish, even talking to himself bleakly: "You are right, even if I die, he will not be sad for even a second. This bastard...
There is no heart at all.”
Although the tone of his voice was smooth, Hua Tingxuan could hear the sadness in his heart.
He, what did he do in the past?
Hua Tingxuan was so distressed that she couldn't bear to deal with it. She wished she could be crushed to pieces, but the next moment, she was back in her own body.
My hand went to push the door uncontrollably, but he forced it down.
Once he pushes it away, it will be the scene when he first entered the inner demon state. If things develop, he will see the tragic scene of his senior brother exploding to death again.
No, he doesn't want to look anymore. How long will this demonic state torture him? If he stays, will he be able to change everything and make his senior brother no longer...
The old voice sounded at the right time: "You can change everything. As long as you make the right choice, senior brother will love you and only you."
"You only love me?" Hua Tingxuan murmured, his expression gradually yearning, and the black and magic lines between his eyebrows also appeared and deepened.
Seeing this, the voice continued to confuse him: "You don't have to go through such torture, watching him hate you and leave you over and over again."
"Don't you have to go through torture?" Hua Tingxuan looked at his hand that was stagnant in mid-air, and slowly raised the corners of his mouth, revealing a happy and dull smile.
'You don't have to go through torture.' He repeated unconsciously, slowly lowering his hand.
But just when his hand was about to be completely withdrawn, Hua Tingxuan's expression suddenly became ferocious, and the magic lines between his eyebrows boiled like boiling water. However, they did not dissipate, but became more clear, as if taking root and engraved into the skin, as thick as dyed ink, and black.
The air is lingering.
"Not going through torture?" He suddenly laughed wildly, "No, I deserve to go through such torture!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Hua Tingxuan raised his hand and pushed open the bamboo door.
I thought it would be another reincarnation, but I didn't expect that a white light bloomed in front of me, and all the memory fragments disappeared. Hua Tingxuan was in the endless void, thinking blankly:
It turns out that the senior brother has also been reborn, which explains many things.
No wonder he rejected me so much when they first met in this life.
No wonder his temperament changed drastically and he had no desires or desires. It was because he was heartbroken by himself.
But...but, he finally accepted himself, didn't he? His senior brother finally allowed himself to stay by his side, so did he, did he still have a glimmer of hope?
I don’t know how long it took, but I returned to consciousness and heard the old voice saying unwillingly: "Misstep, misstep! I wanted to trigger your inner demons and lure you into submission, but I didn’t expect that your obsession with him would be so deep, and you would be willing to do so.
Punishing yourself to atone for your sins, hitting the right one wrongly, but actually helping you escape, wrong move, wrong move!"
Hua Tingxuan had just escaped from Chu Danfeng's memory and was still in a daze. After hearing these words, he gradually regained his composure and calmly suppressed the demonic energy.
"Is the inner demon more difficult to control? I have said before that if you help him seize the treasure, you will do great harm to yourself. The inner demon will only become more and more difficult to suppress, and sooner or later it will devour your mind. You are playing with fire and burning yourself.
.”
"I don't need you to worry about my affairs." Hua Tingxuan said solemnly, "Is this already broken?"
"It's not that easy," the voice said. "You have passed the test, but he has not. Do you want to help?"
Hua Tingxuan: "Naturally!"
Compared with Hua Tingxuan's 'Inner Demon Realm' which was so complicated and lengthy that it almost took up a lifetime, Chu Danfeng's test was ridiculously simple, without even a decent scene.
He was still wearing the same cassock that was torn by the jagged rocks today, sitting in the vast void, holding his chin, listening carefully to something.
After Hua Tingxuan fell into meditation, he actually heard the same voice: "As long as you are willing to stay, I can give you whatever you want."
Chu Danfeng blinked his eyes and asked confusedly: "What do I want? I don't even know." He just wanted to enjoy his retirement life, and he really had no desires or desires.
That voice: "Of course I know. I will give you a perfect world with boundless beauty and all kinds of delicious food."
When Chu Danfeng heard "delicious food", he obviously swallowed his saliva, and his voice also brought a smile: "What's more important is that there are no people who hurt you, bully you, or wrong you, such as..."
It paused and continued: "For example, Hua Tingxuan."
Hua Tingxuan's heart suddenly sank, and his fingertips were numb with nervousness. He glanced at Chu Danfeng for a moment. Chu Danfeng was still holding his chin, frowning slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.
After the voice paused maliciously, it continued: "Everyone who stays here respects you and loves you, such as the Second Senior Sister, such as the Little Junior Sister——"
"No!" Chu Danfeng suddenly interrupted.
Hua Tingxuan was shocked, and looked at his senior brother expectantly and anxiously. Will he refuse? Will he... say, 'There is no need to let Hua Tingxuan disappear'?
I saw Chu Danfeng waving his hands repeatedly: "No, no, I don't want my junior sister. I don't want to steal another woman from him."
He thought very broadly. The world of cultivation was not the original world for him anyway. How would it be different to live in old age?
Chapter completed!