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"I really admire that you would make such a choice, or in other words, I am really grateful that you would make such a choice."
When Lin Yi and the Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty said that they would rush back to the Southern Dynasty soon, in a parked carriage on a hill not far from Tianwuchuan, Achaizhen glanced at the calm outside Tianwuchuan.
The sky, then Bai Yuelu, who was sitting opposite him in the carriage, said seriously.
In fact, on the plain outside Tianwuchuan, it was easy to guess the hidden meaning of Lin Yi and the Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Time waits for no one, he must make a breakthrough in his practice as soon as possible, or have some means to limit the power of the Demon Sect as soon as possible.
For information about Bai Yuelu and the survivors of the Northern Wei Dynasty, we have to ask the Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Just as Yuan Yan guessed, no battle broke out between the survivors of the Northern Wei Dynasty and Achaizhen. Just like Achaizhen's words of thanks at this time were indeed because of Bai Yuelu's choice.
The northern survivors had been seriously injured in the previous battle with the original Taoist people. After discovering that they had been heavily surrounded by Achaizhen's army, Bai Yuelu quickly made a decision to take herself as a hostage in exchange for the safety of the northern survivors.
choice.
Achai Chen was indeed somewhat grateful for this.
He knew very well that the reason why he was able to negotiate terms with He was because of the power he had in his hands.
Practitioners have a role as practitioners, and the army also has an irreplaceable role.
Of course he cherishes the army he has.
No matter how badly injured the northern survivors are, if Bai Yuelu had to make a life-and-death choice, given the strength of the northern survivors, the army and practitioners he had, there would be many casualties.
After losing so many troops and practitioners, it is unknown whether he is still qualified to talk to descendants like Emperor You.
"I knew you were very ambitious and smart when I was in Dangxiang, so I'm very glad that you can accept my proposal." Bai Yuelu looked at Achaizhen calmly and said, "It's just that I didn't know you would accept it."
What choices will you make next?"
Achaizhen smiled.
As early as when he was in Dangxiang, he already knew that Bai Yuelu was like the military advisor of the Tiece Army, and he understood that this young female cultivator was not simple. When Bai Yuelu's identity changed again, she became a survivor of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
As the successor, he did not dare to look down upon this young female cultivator.
He and Bai Yuelu were enemies, but Bai Yuelu's behavior made him appreciate each other more and more.
"There are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests. I appreciate your approach, and no one is born to be enemies with others. To be honest, I have no real grudges against you and General Lin. So in the final analysis, what I pursue is
Yes, I still deserve some benefits. I have been operating in Tuyuhun for many years. If it were not for Tie Cejun to join the party, I would have become the actual controller of Tuyuhun in a year or two at the latest. But I also know the world very well.
Impermanence, this world is always a world that only the strong can control, so of course I don’t have any unexplainable hatred for you and General Lin."
He looked at Bai Yuelu and said sincerely without concealing his thoughts: "I chose to cooperate with Mo Zong at first because he is the controller of Mobei and he can decide many things about Dangxiang and Tuyuhun. But now, even if
The current battle situation in Tianwuchuan seems to be extremely unfavorable to the descendants of You Emperor, and it is somewhat impossible for me to turn around and join the Demon Sect."
"Of course I feel that if purely in terms of victory, the Guanlong He family lost to the Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty in this war, and then they may not have much chance of victory against the Demon Sect, but since the Demon Sect has never
Many things that happened after the Northern Wei Dynasty defected and returned to the Southern Dynasty have made it clear to me that when the Demon Sect walks in the world, he no longer needs to rely on others. He is the real lone wolf in the snowy field. He once spent his own efforts to cultivate it.
All the power he has will be given up by him without any heartache. I am afraid that even he himself will not care whether he can fulfill the things he promised."
Achai Chen laughed at himself, "As he becomes more powerful now, and is so powerful that he can use his power to solve anything, he will no longer need to exchange interests with others."
Bai Yuelu nodded and said: "So even though you know that the situation of Emperor You Emperor's descendants is not good, you still want to cooperate with them for the time being."
"I also need to wait."
Achaizhen glanced at her and said seriously: "So I should thank you even more, because your choice at least preserved the hope for me to talk to you and General Lin."
Bai Yuelu smiled slightly and said, "Until the situation becomes clear, you must not let anything happen to me. You should know why."
Achai Chen laughed at himself again and said: "Of course I understand that a man who kills the prince of the Southern Dynasty for the sake of ordinary soldiers in the army...who would be as crazy as him."
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The merchant ship has docked.
When the people on the boat thought of the man who often sat on the bow, and when their eyes fell on the bow again, they were surprised to find that the man had disappeared.
The demon sect walked through the busy streets.
He seemed a little lazy.
This laziness comes from the inside out, and everything about him seems slower than before.
Before going overseas to hunt down Shen Nian, he had no free time at all. His time was more precious than anyone else's.
He won't give himself any time to rest, and he even wishes he could do many things at the same time.
The more this happened, the more he felt that time was passing quickly.
However, I was unable to move on that island, and after meeting the shepherdess, time seemed to slow down suddenly.
But now that he was back on land, he felt even more free.
For the first time, he felt as if there was nothing urgent to do.
Of course he understands why.
In the past many years, he has always had powerful enemies. As long as he slacks off, he may be killed at any time.
He must keep getting stronger.
Even before he went to chase Shen Nian, he didn't know what kind of enemies he would encounter on the sea and what kind of threats were waiting for him.
But now, even though Shen Nian is not dead yet, he is sure that Shen Nian is too far away from him.
He also has a powerful killing weapon like the Nine Netherworld King Sword, and he is sure that he is truly invincible in the world.
No one is above him anymore.
He doesn't need to chase anyone anymore.
Behind him were only his pursuers.
So it's natural for him to feel like there's nothing to do.
Especially when he felt that his junior sister from the Guangming Holy Sect had passed away. After he set foot on land again, even if he was walking in such a bustling street, the warm atmosphere that hit him made him feel even more...
Become a stranger.
This world doesn't seem to have much to do with him.
It seemed far away from him, not very real, and not very interesting.
He began to admit and realize that in this world, there seemed to be no one he really cared about, and no one seemed to really care about him.
But his junior sister Wu Guzhi should be one.
It turned out that he had never been able to bear the thought of killing his junior sister because as the years passed, his subconscious became more and more aware that his junior sister wanted him to repent one day.
To this day, he still feels that his junior sister is too naive.
But she can really be regarded as his relative and someone who truly cares about him.
Because if you don't care, you won't care whether he changes or not, or what path he takes.
Of course, the easiest thing to do is to kill people you don't want to see.
She is also completely different from the ascetics in Mobei.
The ascetics in Mobei enthusiastically dedicated their lives to him just because he was their legend.
And she wanted him to wake up one day, because she wanted him to return to the Holy Sect of Light and become her senior brother again.
After she passed away from this world, he began to realize and admit these things in his heart, but these things became the past overnight.
Right or wrong has no meaning anymore.
His master back then and this junior sister could no longer see what he would become in the future.
I can no longer argue with him about right or wrong.
In this world, no one expects what kind of person he will become, and no one cares about what kind of person he will become.
Everyone in this world, looking at him and talking about him, will only know that he is a demon sect.
He has no other identity.
He was in a trance.
Several porters carrying heavy loads coming from the opposite side of him shouted, and they were about to hit him. Two of them even yelled and cursed in a hurry.
But the porters were so shocked that they almost knocked each other down in the next moment.
Because there was suddenly no trace of this man in front of them.
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Mo Zong sat down on the roof of a shop.
The roof of this shop is all covered with flowering wormwood. Some are from last year and are as dry as firewood, while some are newly grown from the roof tiles and are full of vitality.
He suddenly wanted to stop.
Even at this time, that familiar aura appeared in his perception.
That kind of breath was like some kind of whispering voice that was constantly provoking him, lingering around his body, asking him to quickly catch up with the young man who escaped in the sea and solve this problem.
This kind of whispering sound was so loud that if he didn't listen, it would keep making noise in his ears, annoying him to death.
However, he sat among the wormwood intertwined with decay and rebirth, and he just wanted to stop.
Over the years, he has been moving forward desperately, never stopping.
On the battlefield over at Guanlong, there was also a man who had never stopped in recent years, or even kept rushing, and was rushing even faster than him.
After the battle there, the man named Lin Yi figured out Shen Yue's story.
At this time, he thought about his story seriously.
He thought about it for a long time.
Then I suddenly wanted to go back to Nanchao to have a look.
He no longer paid attention to the aura that kept appearing and provoking him.
His figure disappeared on the roof of this shop, and when he reappeared, he was already on the road heading south.
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A long time passed.
A figure that seemed to be much faster than the Demon Sect appeared on an official road.
When he appeared, he was already standing at the front of a speeding carriage.
The horses dragging the carriage didn't notice much difference, but the driver on the front of the carriage was suddenly startled and unconsciously exerted force with his hands, causing the carriage to slow down.
Chen Ziyun paid no attention to the driver next to him.
He just nodded to Lin Wangbei in the carriage, then looked at Shen Nian opposite Lin Wangbei with an extremely cold expression, and asked, "Who are you?"
The carriage then continued towards the northern border of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
When it disappeared in the smoke and dust into a mountain gorge at the next road turn, He Batayue's figure also appeared outside a teahouse on the roadside in the distance.
He frowned deeply as he looked at the disappearing carriages.
At this time, he was sure that there had been a big surprise in the battle at Guanlong. Even the Qi of the Big Dipper had appeared and then completely disappeared.
This means that Yu Wenkui has also passed away.
Of course, Yu Wenkui was not his ally in his plan and had to leave this world.
But to be killed in this battle was completely beyond his imagination.
Of course, what he found most absurd and puzzling was that the Demon Sect did not arrive.
As winter turns to spring, any qi mechanism has fixed rules for its evolution.
Even the stars in the sky and the tides of the sea are no exception.
How could someone like Mo Zong refuse to pick the sweetest fruit?
Since killing Shen Nian was his last step to truly ascend to the top of the human world, why did he strangely not take this last step?
"Are you crazy, or has this world suddenly gone crazy?"
He Boyue laughed, but his face became a little pale and his lips were strangely blood red, "I can't understand it at all."
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Because he wanted to stop for a moment, or even look back, the Demon Sect walked in no hurry.
Soon he had a horse.
This horse carried him all the way south, because the farther south it became, the warmer it became, the closer it was to spring, and the more tender grass sprouts were emerging from the soil. Therefore, this horse originally retreated from the battlefield and was sold by a horse dealer. In the market, the old horse, which may have to spend its last life in the process of carrying heavy loads like ordinary mules, becomes more and more happy.
There were many stab wounds and arrow marks on its body, but as it continued walking south, it gradually forgot those things on the battlefield.
This very casual and unorganized journey seemed to restore more vitality to it.
But when walking on some of the mountain roads going up, the injuries it suffered still made it feel difficult.
Halfway up a mountain, Demon Sect stepped down from its back.
He patted it on the back.
Some pure vitality poured into its body, and the old horse's cloudy eyes lit up.
It licked the back of Mo Zong's hand very humanely. Seeing that Mo Zong didn't want to ride him again, it naturally followed behind Mo Zong.
This mountain is not high.
The further south you go, the less mountains there are.
But the mountains are endless.
It and the Demon Sect stayed in the mountains all night. When it was close to noon the next day, it and the Demon Sect arrived at the top of a mountain.
The shady side of the mountains are all covered with bamboo forests and some wild tea trees. Those tea trees are in relatively low and humid places, where the water vapor is lingering and the light is obviously insufficient. The tea leaves do not show that kind of emerald green or dark green color, and the leaves are a little dull. Strange purple color.
On the other side of the mountain facing the sun, in addition to some towering cedars, there are also many peach trees and wild cherry trees.
At this time, there were just tiny flower buds on the peach trees, but the wild cherry trees were already blooming all over the mountains and plains.
The flowers of those wild cherry trees are very small, and the color is also very single purple-red. Looking at one tree alone seems to be unattractive, but there are such wild cherry trees all over the mountains and plains. When you come into view, it gives people an unusual feeling.
A magnificent feeling.
The old horse walked slowly, nibbling the buds in the mountains.
Almost no one comes to this kind of barren mountain, and even the wild grass seems to grow in the wilderness, and it seems that it is not as fresh and tender as the green grass in the fields and roads outside. Of course, it cannot understand why the Demon Sect would come to such a place.
There are many smooth stone flats on the hillside shaded by wild cherry blossoms. There are many potholes on them. There are rotten wooden piles and scorch marks in the potholes.
He stood on a small stone flat, looked at a creek in front of him, and then looked across the creek to a stone flat not far away on the opposite side.
The place where he is standing now was Wu Guzhi's residence when he was practicing in Guangming Holy Sect. There was originally a very exquisite wooden building on this stone flat.
And the stone flat he was looking at right now was where he lived before.
Wu Guzhi's wooden building was originally empty, but one day when he returned here from outside the mountain, he found that he had an additional junior sister.
Later, the Guangming Holy Sect was destroyed in his hands, or to be more precise, it was destroyed under the control of the practitioner named Yuwen Lie and the forces behind him. After he left here, he kept fighting with various people.
All kinds of people were fighting and walking towards higher ground all the time. He had indeed forgotten many things that happened here.
It wasn't until he wanted to stop that he returned here for the first time in many years.
As he stood here, he began to think of some things from that year.
When he discovered that he had an extra junior sister here, he felt that his junior sister was not as lively and active as other junior sisters in other sects, and she did not seem to be the kind of person with extremely outstanding talents that made people feel amazing.
kind of existence.
She also seems to be very average looking.
I don't like to talk either.
What he said the most was the two words he used to call him when he was eating.
He had always felt that his junior sister was a bit weak, a bit too childish, and a bit too ordinary.
He was undoubtedly the most talented disciple in the Guangming Holy Sect back then, and was undoubtedly the most valued by the teachers of the Guangming Holy Sect. It would behoove him to become the strongest among the disciples of the Guangming Holy Sect in this generation.
So many times when he looked at her that was a bit weak and childish, when he put down his job and looked at her after eating, he couldn't help but think that for a junior sister who couldn't do this, he might be the only senior brother to take care of her in the future.
Some, protect her more.
That was indeed what I thought at the time.
However, after leaving here, he had already forgotten these things and ignored them.
Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't kill him?
It wasn't until he was standing on this stone flat that he remembered those episodes from back then.
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Mo Zong went to the mountains to hunt some hares, skinned them and washed them clean in the stream. Then he lit a fire in the place where he used to eat and roasted the hares until they were golden.
He kept a roasted hare, ate the rest, slept one night on the stone flat where he lived, and then led the horse and continued south.
After leaving here, he was a little aimless, and he didn't even think about where he was going at first.
However, as he walked, he found that he was heading towards Jiankang.