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The scenes of the past are like dreams and illusions, like smoke and fog, and are not very clear.

Seven hundred years ago, the celestial phenomena changed and the yin and yang were out of balance. The ancient evil demon Chi You, who was beheaded by Emperor Xuanyuan, was inspired by the solar eclipse and the yin energy. His head turned into the most ferocious and evil monster - Taotie, causing harm to the world. Taotie

Addicted to food, it will devour all creatures, be they immortals or demons, without sparing any living thing. The god general Cangming, under the order of heaven, went to the lower world to kill Taotie. After a fierce battle for three days and three nights, Cangming finally killed the Taotie.

The ancient ferocious beast was beheaded by the sword. When Taotie was about to die, his body was shattered into pieces and turned into dark fire. Chaotic flames fell from the sky to China, causing raging flames.

Cangming was a demon-killing general, not a rain god who moved clouds and brought rain. But when he saw the sky filled with fire, birds flying in fright, beasts fleeing in terror, and countless creatures screaming in the sea of ​​fire, he couldn't bear it, so he activated his divine power to attract the surrounding people.

Rivers and lakes gathered in the sky, and it rained heavily. Cangming, who had already consumed most of his divine power due to the fierce battle, was also counterattacked by the forbidden law after casting this heaven-defying rain. He lost all his divine power and fell into the mortal world.

Cangming, who was seriously injured, fell into a bamboo forest in Bashu. At that time, the Taotie fire had not been completely extinguished. Cangming was in a sea of ​​fire, with all his air and energy exhausted. He saw the flames steaming, swallowing the earth, and birds and beasts fleeing in panic.

When he looked at Ben Zhang's tongue of fire and laughed at himself, he suddenly felt a slight movement on his side. Cangming turned his head and saw that it was a black and white, fluffy little ball, biting his shirt.

He held his armor and dragged him out with great effort, trying to pull him out of the sea of ​​fire.

As if aware of his sight, the little guy was slightly delayed. It raised its round head and glanced at him with a pair of dark circles. The bamboo leaves that were devoured by the tongues of fire turned into sparks all over the sky, and the flying ashes were splashed again.

A heavy rain hit the ground. The little dumpling was soaked all over, and its fur was dyed a gray color by the gray water. At this moment, the evil dark fire, like a flash of light, suddenly jumped up to a foot high, frightening

The furry dumpling trembled all over. It opened its mouth in a daze and jumped out a few inches on its hands and feet.

But in the end, it did not follow its instinct and flee away like an ordinary beast, but turned back. The fur ball lowered its head and bit Cang Ming's clothes again. It clung to the mud with two claws,

As if using all his strength, he moved him out inch by inch, escaping from the tongue of fire that was approaching step by step.

Spirituality. Cangming could tell at a glance that this little panda in the mountains had an otherworldly aura. However, without Cangming's previous movement of clouds and rain to extinguish the dark fire in the secluded area, this compassionate little dumpling would have

He paid the price for his good intentions and ended up in a sea of ​​fire. If he let it go, one day, this little guy would be killed by his own good intentions.

Just as Cangming was thinking about this, the sea of ​​​​flames could not withstand the downpour. The fire became lighter and lighter, and was finally extinguished in the heavy rain. The hairy dumpling seemed to be relieved, and with a "pop", the two

A fluffy arm jumped forward, and his whole body fell into the water, sticking out his tongue and gasping for air.

When he was in the heaven, the gods performed their duties and rarely met each other. As a military commander guarding the sky, Cangming carried the ancient black iron sword on his back all day long and stood proudly in the clouds. He rarely talked to others.

He had endured thousands of years of loneliness in silence. However, at this moment, the taciturn man opened his mouth inexplicably and whispered: "Hey, come here."

The black-and-white furry dumpling seemed to realize that the other party was calling it. It straightened up stupidly, sat on the dirt with its chubby butt, tilted its head, and looked at him doubtfully. Its silly look,

Let Cangming raise the corners of his lips slightly. The general, who had lost all his power after a bloody battle, struggled to stand up and sit under a green bamboo. He took out the jade gourd filled with spirits from his waist and drank it with his head held high.

Next bite.

Seemingly seeing how happily he was drinking, the hairy dumpling tilted his head to the other side and watched his movements curiously.

"What? You also want to take a sip?" Cangming laughed and threw the jade gourd over.

The furry dumpling raised its two chubby arms and was putting the gourd into its palms. Then, it imitated Cangming's example and picked up the wine gourd with its two paws, raised its head and took a big sip. Then, the little dumpling looked like

As if it was frightened, it stuck out its tongue and spit out the gourd with a "pop, pop", and hurriedly threw the gourd on the ground. But after a moment, it wiped its mouth with its paws, and then picked up the wine gourd again and raised its two paws.

, and took another small sip. After about a while of touching the cup of tea, Mao Tuanzi couldn't sit still anymore. It climbed up gracefully, crawled out a crooked diagonal line on the muddy ground, and then bumped into Cangming's thigh.

She fell down next to him again, her plush head resting on Cangming's lap.

"Ha, you little guy has the same taste as me," Cangming laughed. He stretched out his hand to rub Xiaotuanzi's head, thought for a moment, and then smiled, "Since you and I are destined, I will help you. In the future, I will help you."

A drinking buddy."

After that, Cangming took out the immortal magic weapon Yunshengjing from his arms, cut his arm with an ancient sword, condensed a red thread with his own god's blood, and tied Yunshengjing around the neck of the little panda.

After Cangming recovered from his injury, although he returned to heaven to revive, he would go down to the mortal world every now and then to have a drink with this drinking buddy and call him "Little Black and White". And with the help of the Yunsheng Mirror, a treasure from heaven, the red panda

Absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, his cultivation has greatly improved. At the same time, thanks to the blessing of the bloodline, not to mention the beasts in the mountains, not even the demons can get close to him, so his life is safe. It only took thirty years, little black and white

He could speak human language and talk freely with Cang Ming. Two hundred years later, Xiao Hei Bai finally cultivated his human form and transformed into a scholar with black hair and white clothes. He called himself "Mo Bai" and officially lived in Duanyun Mountain, reading ancient books from all over the world.

Cultivate your character.

The past events hundreds of years ago are like a smokey dream. Cangming remembers the sight of the black and white ball rolling around on the floor when they met for the first time in a hundred years, stealing wine, and also remembers the man who has practiced Taoism for thousands of years with the help of Yunsheng Mirror.

The handsome scholar smiled and said, "Friend, I won't be polite to you." He just took his jade gourd and refused to return it.

Cangming also remembered that nineteen years ago, his close friend who had been with him for hundreds of years held a wine jar and smiled at him about the promise of "ascension", but he disappeared from the world without a trace.

That night, on Duanyun Mountain, there was a full moon in the sky, and the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. The two of them drank in front of the moon, mostly talking about interesting things in the mountains and fields, such as whose fox became a spirit and whose locust tree

The tree has condensed gossips about monsters and the like. For Cangming, these old news about little monsters are not interesting at all, but he has long been accustomed to the sound of friends holding wine jars and chattering - this is

His only companion in thousands of years of loneliness.

"...Then the little demon was really fooled by that man. He really thought that spitting on him would kill him, and he carried the man back home! Ha, the demon was tricked by someone. You think it's funny.

Not funny…burp!”

Mo Bai, who was drunk and hazy, suddenly burped while talking. White smoke was seen rising, turning the handsome scholar who was drunk and singing wildly into a chubby panda. He was so drunk that he didn't understand the situation yet.

, just stupidly holding the wine jar, looking at his friend with his big black eyes, and said in a daze: "Friend, when did you develop your three heads and six arms?"

Cangming glanced coldly and took in the cute look of his friend. He slashed with a knife, snatched the wine jar from Mo Bai's arms, and said coldly: "I have been practicing for thousands of years, but I can't even control my shape, little one."

Black and white, I think your practice is in vain."

"Ha, my friend is here, drinking from the moon, why should I control my form?" Mo Bai laughed. Not only was he not embarrassed, but he opened his two chubby arms and lay down softly on the ground.

His fur rubbed against the green grass. With his dark eyes, he looked at the bright jade plate in the night sky and said with a smile: "Actually, it's good to be a wild beast in the mountains. You don't have to worry about spiritual practice or ethics.

, you don’t have to worry about the divisions and unions of the world, the rise and fall of the world, and you have no worries in your heart. When you are full, you sleep, and when you are full, you eat. Wouldn’t that be satisfying?”

"I think you were born in the wrong child in your life," Cangming glanced at him coldly and said, "I think you shouldn't be a panda, but a pig."

"Haha, actually it's a difficult question whether to be happy as a human, happy as an immortal, or happy as a pig." Mo Bai laughed out loud. He straightened up and turned back into a young man sitting cross-legged.

He looked at his friend, raised the corners of his lips, and smiled softly: "But, a panda who keeps his word like me will definitely become an immortal and ascend to heaven, so he can go to heaven to drink with his friends. With the help of Yun Shengjing, in my opinion

, in another half month, I will be able to practice to perfection. My friend, don’t forget to go to Nantianmen to greet me then."

Cangming knew that Mo Bai had always kept his word. However, half a month later, when he waited for his friend at Nantianmen as agreed, his friend was nowhere to be seen. Cangming, who felt something was wrong, immediately went down to Duanyun Mountain, but he couldn't feel it.

Get half of the spirit of your friends.

Mo Bai suddenly disappeared without a trace. Cangming searched the three realms for more than ten years, but still could not find his friend's whereabouts. He even began to wonder if his friend had caused some trouble and was beaten to death.

While Cangming was investigating everywhere, piecing together the truth behind his friend's death, and trying to find the real culprit to avenge him, one day half a year ago, he suddenly noticed a fluctuation in spiritual energy, and Mo Bai reappeared in the world.

So, in Baihe Town, Cangming transformed into a scholar selling Iron Beast dolls, and met his old friend again. At that time, Mo Bai fell into the spell of the four factions of the Demon-Slaying Alliance to bind armor and become a god. All his magic power was sealed and turned into a

A mute panda was lying on the shoulder of a girl. Cangming saw at a glance that the jade gourd he had given to him back then was tied around the girl's waist. It turned out that Mo Bai had been using that gourd for the past nineteen years.

The emerald gourd set up a barrier so that the divine power could not be found. It was not until Mo Bai's magic power was blocked that the barrier showed some flaws, and Cangming also noticed the aura of his friend.

When old friends reunited, Mo Bai turned around and ran away when he saw him. But how could he, with no magic power, outrun the gods in heaven? On the outskirts of Baihe Town, the dejected little panda revealed the truth.

He said it out loud: It turned out that just the night before Mo Bai was about to complete his spiritual practice and ascend to immortality, he picked up a newborn baby girl in the bamboo forest under the moon...

Cangming remained silent, with a pair of icy eyes, looking coldly at the girl in front of him. Due to fate and the unpredictable nature of the world, Mo Bai, who was supposed to enter the heaven and no longer have earthly concerns, encountered a bond that he could not abandon. From then on, he

He fell into the abyss of destiny. He raised his half-son and half-disciple Xiaozhu, and was involved in disputes in the human world due to Yun Shengjing. He was pressed by the four factions of the Demon-Slaying Alliance step by step until Yinglong returned to the world and finally died in Burning.

In the midst of wild fire...

Yinglong came to this world and Shenzhou was in trouble, which was a disaster destined by heaven. As a god general in the heaven, Cangming could not go against the will of heaven, could not fight against Yinglong, and save his friends. He could only watch helplessly, in the roaring sky.

On top of the huge waves, in the blazing fire, my friends were completely shattered into ashes and smoke.

In the sky and on earth, his only friend - Mo Bai, followed his heart's desire and did things that went against the will of heaven and changed his destiny. Even if his life and soul were destroyed, he never regretted it at all. Just like the stupid and slow man when they first met.

The panda knew that the flames were raging in the sky and the danger was imminent, but he still foolishly came forward and never flinched.

As for Cangming, the only thing he could do for his friends was to sacrifice half his life's divine power to protect Mo Bai's scattered soul and send it into the emerald gourd.

A silent sigh escaped from his lips. Cangming looked at his friend's only disciple and slowly said, "Do you want to see your master again?"

Xiaozhu's eyes widened in astonishment, and the tears she had held back filled her eyes again. Her big, watery eyes flashed with light. She couldn't help but reach out and grab Cangming's clothes, and said eagerly: "You, you have a way.

Save Master?"

Cangming nodded slightly and said calmly: "Your master and I are close friends. When he was a wild panda in the mountains, I lent him the Yunsheng Mirror to help him practice and become an immortal. This jade gourd was originally my wine flask.

Later, he was tricked by him. During the battle with Yinglong, I couldn't take action, so I could only secretly put his soul into the gourd..."

Hearing what he said, Xiaozhu hurriedly took off the jade gourd from his waist, handed it to Cangming's hand, and prayed hoarsely: "Thank you Xianjun for helping me, please save Master!"

As she said that, she knelt on her knees and kowtowed in thanks. Cangming turned aside, caressing the jade gourd in his palm with his thumb, and said in a cold voice: "Wait a minute. Although Mo Bai's soul is still there, it is not necessary for it to reunite and condense.

It is an easy task and requires the help of four magic weapons. Otherwise, even if I reshape his physical body for him and lose my mind, I will only be a walking corpse."

When she heard that her master had been rescued, Xiaozhu was overjoyed. She grabbed the hem of Cangming's battle armor and begged: "Which four magic weapons are these, please tell me clearly. As long as I can save my master, Xiaozhu will go up the mountain of swords and the sea of ​​fire."

Complain!”

"Okay! I guess his love for you was not in vain," Cangming said in a deep voice, "These four magic weapons are the treasures of the four factions of the Demon-Slaying Alliance. You have already seen the 'Soul-fixing Pearl' of the Sin-Dushing Valley.

In addition, there are also the 'Purple Night Sword' of the Tianxuan Sect, the 'Qiankun Cauldron' of the Red Cloud Tower, and the 'Peeping Heaven Banner' of the Shifang Palace. It is inconvenient for me to intervene in human disputes, let alone bully the weak with magical powers.

Take by force. Therefore, whether you can collect all these magic weapons depends on your ability."

"Don't worry," Xiaozhu clenched his fists, his eyes flashing with determination, "Even if I risk my life, I will collect these four magic weapons and save the master!"

Hearing her heartfelt words, Cangming actually sneered, with a hint of sarcasm in his smile: "He saves you, you save him, what's the point of rescuing people and repaying them again and again? The world is chaotic, and the world is so sophisticated.
To be continued...