After confirming that the Demon Sect entered the city from the south gate of Jiankang City, someone soon arrived at the Lake Heart Jingyuan.
When the Demon Sect left Nantian Courtyard, the fourth group of people had already arrived at Huxinjing Courtyard.
All these people came to Huxin Jingyuan with only one purpose, and that was to persuade Xiao Yan to leave Huxin Jingyuan for a while.
Without exception, these four groups of people were all former subordinates and important ministers who were extremely loyal to Xiao Yan. They had a close relationship with Xiao Yan, but their requests were rejected by Xiao Yan without exception.
After these people tried to remonstrate to no avail, they did not stay away from the Huxin Jingyuan. They all thought that if the Demon Sect appeared here and really killed Xiao Yan in the Huxin Jingyuan, then all of them would be killed.
Leave this world with Xiao Yan.
Soon after the news of the Demon Sect's appearance in Nantianyuan was conveyed here, the old horse and the Demon Sect appeared in their sights without any warning.
An old minister got the strength from nowhere, jumped out of the carriage, and wanted to rush in front of the Demon Sect, but he just took the first step and couldn't move.
There seemed to be wind pouring into his open mouth, and he couldn't curse even if he wanted to.
At the next moment, the old horse walked towards the lake, and the Demon Sect had already arrived in front of the Jingyuan in the center of the lake.
Looking at this scene that jumped in their eyes, looking at the old minister who looked like he was petrified but with no abnormality in his body, all the practitioners outside the Lake Center Jingyuan felt like they couldn't breathe at all.
They knew that the Demon Sect that appeared in this city again was much stronger than the last time it appeared.
If they want to die, I'm afraid they won't even feel heroic here.
The Demon Sect disappeared in front of Huxin Jingyuan.
He appeared in front of Xiao Yan.
The mood of Mo Zong at this time was very different from that of all the times in his life. However, the moment he saw Xiao Yan clearly for the first time, he still couldn't help but fall into astonishment.
He almost suspected that he had seen the wrong person.
The former Xiao Yan was as powerful and majestic as the Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
However, Xiao Yan, who was sitting quietly in front of him at this time, looked like an old monk.
He looked at Xiao Yan in astonishment, at the extremely simple furnishings in this quiet room, and then at the basin with food in front of Xiao Yan. The first thought in his mind was that Tie Cejun deliberately abused the emperor.
thoughts, but then he forced himself to put aside such thoughts.
"Why are you so masochistic?"
His brows furrowed. He sensed the qi in Xiao Yan's body and determined that the true energy in this once powerful practitioner's qi sea was about to dry up. An even weirder feeling arose in his heart.
He felt that maybe Xiao Yan had been hit too hard and was really going crazy.
However, looking at Xiao Yan's calm expression at this time, looking at the clear light in his eyes, for some reason, he even felt a little dazzling.
Hearing Mo Zong's voice, Xiao Yan raised his head. He looked at Mo Zong and did not answer his question. Instead, he asked: "Then why are you here?"
Mo Zong's frown deepened, and he said in a slightly cold voice: "If you don't leave even after I'm here, aren't you afraid that I'll kill you?"
Xiao Yan looked at him and said, "I'm afraid in your opinion, I am more miserable than death."
Mo Zong looked at him and said nothing for a moment.
He was sure that Xiao Yan was not pretending and that Xiao Yan was not crazy, so he sat down opposite Xiao Yan.
"Have you eaten?"
Xiao Yan nodded at the food basin in front of him and said, "If you haven't eaten yet, there is a piece of dry biscuit here."
Mo Zong looked at the piece of dry flour cake, remained silent for another breath, and said, "It's interesting."
After saying these four words, he reached out and took the piece of dry bread in his hand, and then ate it slowly.
He really hasn't eaten anything since last night.
"Why don't you seem angry when you see me?" He slowly ate the dry flour cake and asked seriously.
"Then why do you have no murderous intentions when you see me? Even after you have been walking in this city for so long, you don't have any murderous intentions?" Xiao Yan looked at him and asked quietly.
"I actually don't like killing people very much." Mo Zong said.
There was no one else around at this time.
If other people heard his words like this, they might find it ridiculous.
But Xiao Yan felt that what he said was true.
Xiao Yan didn't find it funny.
"Do you also feel a little boring?"
He didn't even look at Mo Zong's face anymore. He just looked at the empty food bowl and said slowly: "I feel that this world is really meaningless."
Demon Sect quietly finished the cake in his hand, then nodded and continued this very strange conversation, "How could this happen?"
"Because although the world is big, my heart has nowhere to go."
Xiao Yan said: "If your heart has no place to go, the world is not your world."
Demon Sect's expression did not change much, but the tone of his words did not sound like a superior Demon King, but rather like a student who was seriously studying knowledge. He looked at Xiao Yan, who had his head slightly lowered, and continued: "This is what you are here for."
Buddhism studied in retreat?”
Xiao Yan shook his head, "It's just that I was just like you at the time."
"At that time?" Mo Zong said: "Then it is different now?"
Xiao Yan raised his head and glanced at him, as if answering his question but not like an answer, "You are walking faster than me. You seem to have felt that this is a matter of your own choice, and I have been in pain and resentment for a long time.
, I was awakened by someone, and I felt that the reason for this was because of my fault."
Demon Sect frowned, "Is that all?"
Xiao Yan said: "Actually, it's simple. When you are angry and want to destroy the world, the world will be full of anger. When you have no goodwill towards the world, the world will also have no goodwill towards you. Especially when no one in the world who cares about you is alive.
, naturally you feel that this world is not the world you want, and you naturally feel that you want to stay away."
Mo Zong thought for a moment quietly and said, "The news from the Northern Wei Dynasty has been sent back. Do you know that my junior sister Wu Guzhi is dead?"
Xiao Yan shook his head, "Not so fast. I didn't know that your junior sister was dead, but now that I think about it, she is already considered the person who really cares about you in this world? Then you will indeed feel lifeless."
Mo Zong felt that there was some truth in what he said.
"Perhaps you are really a little pitiful. In your life, when you left the Guangming Holy Sect, you were constantly pushed to become a pitiful cultivation idiot. Your only goal and pursuit in life is to continue to obtain stronger cultivation skills.
For peace and strength.”
Xiao Yan's voice then sounded quietly, "But in fact, gaining stronger strength and cultivation is just a process. But over the years, this process seems to have become your only pleasure and the meaning of life.
"
"So what you are saying is that those descendants of Emperor You really deserve to be killed. It was they who turned me into a person who turned the process into the pursuit of life. They made me only know how to climb mountains, but when I climbed to the top of the mountain, I felt disgusted.
This mountain and all the scenery below it." Mo Zong said: "You think that I should think about what I really want after climbing to the top of the mountain?"
Xiao Yan shook his head and said: "I think you will still misunderstand what I mean. What I mean is that if you think about others, you will never be able to find and solve your own problems. No matter how powerful the power is, it can destroy the entire world, but
But it can’t destroy the endless joy in my heart.”
Mo Zong laughed.
His smile contains countless indescribable emotions.
He looked at Xiao Yan with a smile and said: "Do you think this person is cheap? When you spend countless efforts to get what you want, it will become boring?"
"No matter how beautiful the flowers are, there must be someone who knows how to appreciate them as well as you." Xiao Yan looked at him and said calmly, "Otherwise you have clearly seen the most beautiful flowers in the world, and you feel extremely amazing, but every one who walks by you
People who see the flower are indifferent, and no one even thinks the flower is beautiful, so you will naturally find it boring."
The Demon Sect remained silent.
He seemed to see Wu Guzhi, who was still a little girl when she first entered the profession.
He seemed to see Wu Guzhi and his master standing in front of the flower Xiao Yan mentioned. They looked at the beautiful flower in amazement and hoped that he who was walking by them could stop and appreciate it.
That beautiful flower, however, he was indifferent to it. He even thought that the flower looked stupid and childish.
Later, his master disappeared and his junior sister also disappeared.
The flower also disappeared.
He later saw a flower, but he thought it was the most beautiful flower in the world that he finally found, but it was not at all what he imagined and expected.
And no one expected him anymore.
"People are really mean."
He looked at Xiao Yan and said slowly: "You are right, no one's theory can solve one's own problems. But at least what I said to you made me understand that there is at least something that can be done. Since it is those
The so-called descendants of Emperor You have turned me into a person who only understands the process but does not care about the meaning. No matter how boring it is, I must at least kill these people. As for other people, I can really figure out what I am.
Let’s talk about what we want to do on the top of the mountain.”
"Do you really feel better like this than when you were the emperor of the Southern Dynasty?"
Mo Zong stood up. Before leaving, he thought for a while and said, "If you want... I can let you sit back on the throne again, and I guarantee that no one can touch you."
Such words coming from his mouth naturally have unimaginable weight.
However, Xiao Yan's expression did not change at all.
He shook his head and said: "True happiness lies in one's heart, not where one sits."
"interesting."
Mo Zong slowly said these three words, and then his figure disappeared from the quiet courtyard in the middle of the lake.
Like some still pictures, his figure appeared next to the old horse by the lake, then he got on the horse and left.
The officials and generals who were almost going crazy from the extremely anxious and tense waiting rushed towards the Lake Heart Jingyuan.
"I'm fine."
In the quiet courtyard in the middle of the lake, Xiao Yan's voice clearly reached their ears.
It was only then that a look of surprise appeared in the depths of Xiao Yan's eyes in the quiet room.
He was also a little surprised by himself, and he was also surprised by the Demon Sect.
Of course he felt that he would hate the Demon Sect, but when the Demon Sect appeared in front of him today, he was really in a very peaceful mood.
This peace largely comes from the changes in the Demon Sect itself.
Obviously, today's Demon Sect is different from the Demon Sect he was familiar with in the past.
Before that, the Demon Sect and the so-called descendants of Emperor You were the biggest enemies in the world.
He knew that both the Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty and Lin Yi from the Southern Dynasty were constantly preparing for the final decisive battle with the Demon Sect. However, what no one expected was that the female instructor from Nantianyuan played the most critical role.
effect.
The death of this female instructor from Nantianyuan seemed to forcefully turn the Demon Sect to another path.
Today, what he felt most from the Demon Sect was fatigue and separation.
At this time, he vaguely felt that maybe it was true as the Demon Sect said, that he would kill those descendants of Emperor You who turned him into the Demon Sect. After that, the Demon Sect gave him a feeling of more possibility.
He suddenly retreated into seclusion and disappeared from the world.
Of course, things in the world have changed too much, and people like Demon Sect may suddenly change their minds at any time due to some things. Therefore, even though he feels that Demon Sect has undergone huge changes today, he still feels that Demon Sect is still extremely dangerous.
But what made him feel a little emotional was that both the female instructor from Nantianyuan and his conversation with the Demon Sect today seemed to buy a lot of time for those who truly love the world.
For some reason, he felt the scent of Mo Zong and the old horse leaving, and he really hoped that Mo Zong would never become an enemy in the world again.
He really hopes that the Demon Sect can integrate into the human world and have a good destiny.
A person's life is originally about making constant mistakes. Some people go further and further on the road of making constant mistakes, while some people are constantly making mistakes, constantly looking back, and constantly correcting some of the mistakes they have made.
mistake.
At least today, he felt that the Demon Sect was no longer a demon, but had the aura of the human world.
…
A city is full of various atmospheres.
Countless breaths appeared in the Demon Sect's perception, but were ignored by him.
He entered through the south gate of Jiankang City and exited through the north gate.
As he approached the North Gate and was about to truly leave this city that he might never come back to, he sensed a very faint qi but enough for him to sense it seriously.
The energy was well hidden, but he still sensed it.
He was in a daze, so he took some time to stop and think about it.
He woke up.
In the Meishan area, he met some outstanding young practitioners, and he offered them tempting fruits.
He knew that most of them would quickly sink and then become many unknown factors that disrupted the Southern Dynasty, which would bring more opportunities to the subsequent campaigns of the Northern Wei and Southern Dynasties. And a small number of them might become outliers, and some
People may be able to become his tribe, and some people may become fruits picked by him.
In his opinion, those outstanding but too young practitioners, after acquiring his kind of skills, no matter what kind of monster they become, are unlikely to remain silent for a long time and disappear into the world of practitioners.
As the war got out of control, all those people should have died long ago. He really didn't expect that he would still sense such a young man in this city.
This young man is actually living a good life.
And it doesn't seem to have turned into the kind of monster that only knows how to kill and devour.
This young man's aura seemed calm, tenacious and powerful.
He was really surprised, even more surprised than when he first saw Xiao Yan and the change in Xiao Yan.
The moment he figured it out, he wanted to find the young man and take a look.
But for some reason, he thought about what he would do after finding out that young man?
What's the significance?
He thought about this question and couldn't help but laugh to himself, feeling that that strange young man seemed to have become a rare connection between him and this city.
It's considered fate.
So he stretched out his hand.
Some dark sword light appeared on his fingertips.
These sword lights fell on the hard city wall.
Dozens of shallow lines appeared on the city wall.
He looked at these lines and smiled with satisfaction.
This can be regarded as a gift to the young man who is destined.
Then he patted the old horse's butt, left the city, and headed north.
…
"Leave, just leave like this?"
Qi Zhuji, who was hiding in a carriage with lead plates inside, opened his eyes wide when he heard the news. He couldn't understand it at all.
"Don't let anyone near that wall."
But he understood that the sword marks left by the Demon Sect before leaving naturally had a unique meaning. (To be continued)