As a child, the boy felt that he would succeed.

As for asking why, there is nothing special.

It is nothing more than a pair of good parents who praise it, some relatives who are willing to echo it, friends and sisters who are willing to give them a look of amazement and admiration.

And they all know very well that a successful person needs to believe in himself and then let others believe in it.

So they are not stingy with praise, and it just so happens that the boy himself is quite competitive, whether it is Xi Wen or martial arts, he is the upper class, although it is not the best, but it is also a precedent for local private schools.

So when the boy grew up, he was always very confident.

When you see the flames, you feel like you can put them out.

When I see the flow of water, I feel like I can cut it off.

Seeing that there are great monks who can fly to the sky and the earth, they also think that they can do such things in the future.

Why do you think so, why do you have this confidence...... The boy didn't know why, but he always felt he could.

After all......

[If everyone else can, then why can't I?] 】

Of course, it was all when I was a kid.

Because when he grew up, the boy found out that he was a waste.

Maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but he's really just an ordinary person.

An ordinary person who can't do anything in the face of calamity.

- Age of Gods and Demons, eighty-nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-five autumn.

The Middle Continent was in turmoil, and the Zhengyang Kingdom and the Kun Demon fought in Dongyuan State.

In order to eliminate the large army of Kun Demon from Xuanhai to invade Dongyuan Prefecture, Nan Zhengkai, the leader of Zhengyang Kingdom, summoned seventeen land real people and set up a large array of 'Desolate Heaven and Tearing Earth', directly shattering the leylines of Dongyuan Prefecture and Jinye Prefecture, confusing the spiritual opportunities of heaven and earth, and creating spiritual energy chaos areas and major catastrophes.

Although this move cut off most of the Kun Demon's march route, it also caused the displacement of billions of people, and hundreds of millions of people in the two states died directly.

The boy who has become a teenager, and his parents are among them.

He remembers it well. In the autumn harvest of that year, the rice ears were all over the field, the uncles in the township were busy threshing and threshing, and the water mill was about to start to prepare for operation.

His hands are a little clumsy, not as clever as Fa Xiao, he can use straw to weave a very fine doll to make his sister happy, but he doesn't mind, after all, this kind of thing, he feels that as long as he learns slowly, he can always learn.

If someone else can do it, he can do it, at most he just doesn't take it seriously.

But at this moment, suddenly the sky thundered, and dark clouds appeared out of thin air, and the earth and the air shook together, creating ripples like water waves.

In an instant, the mountain behind the mountain not far away collapsed, and it was extremely majestic, and the incredible earthly vein aura erupted from it as a source point, like a volcanic eruption. The sudden torrential rain mixed with the crumbling mountain, turning into a rolling mudslide that pressed towards the calm town below.

The mudflow was unstoppable, and as soon as it erupted, it was like an army of thousands of horses, roaring and drowning everything and destroying everything in its path.

Everywhere they passed, the hundred-year-old trees were broken, the forest huts collapsed, the rivers and the small city walls were swallowed up without hindrance, and the people who had just returned from the mountain and wanted to enter the mountain were silent after a terrible scream.

In the sky, the aura transforms into a rainbow, into an aurora, and the brilliant glow shines on the clouds, endless across the sky, and the thunder lasts for a long time - this is a catastrophe that affects tens of thousands of miles in the two states.

Help - help me!

This kind of words, he didn't even have time to say it, because the boy was so shocked that he forgot how to make a sound, and in a trance, he felt several figures rushing from the door of the house, and then himself, Fa Xiao and his sister were led towards the entrance of the town.

But how can manpower match the speed of a mudflow caused by the collapse of a mountain peak? In the midst of fear and panic, the boy only felt that he had been changed hands, and there was an extremely earnest and sad 'Please'.

Then he felt himself flying—and there were quite a few people flying at the same time, mostly young children.

With a spiritual shock, coupled with a mental shock, he fainted.

By the time I woke up, the town was already submerged.

On the side of the young man, only his sister was still small, and his sister was still holding the straw doll in her hand.

After a long time, the three of them, who had been wandering for a long time, vaguely guessed that when the earth fell apart that day, it was their parents who arrived as fast as possible, but they lacked strength, and finally had to ask the village gentleman.

And the gentleman used the last trace of spiritual power in his body to send several young children in the village to the fields ten miles away with the method of 'condensing qi and resisting things'.

Ten miles wasn't long, but it was the last thing he could do.

The catastrophe in the two prefectures of Jinye Dongyuan eroded nearly 100,000 li, and millions of people were displaced just in the surrounding towns and towns.

The grain for the autumn harvest has not yet been harvested, and the livestock has not been slaughtered, and for a while, many people dig up tree roots, eat insects, and catch birds, just to fill their stomachs.

The three of them, to be precise, were the teenagers and the young ones who took care of their young sister, struggling to survive all the way, they had eaten ants, pulled out tree bark, and even the mushrooms that grew on the clothes of human corpses that they didn't know were poisonous or not.

Even, even the corpses......

"Zhengde, I, I feel that I can't live anymore......"

Occasionally, I didn't find anything to eat for days, and I didn't dare to meet anyone else in the wilderness - after all, for hungry adults, children's meat is always a little tenderer.

After going through several such days, he has always been a little weak and shy, but he has some special hair in Xiwen's dexterity, and occasionally cries in despair at night: "Can we live?" ”

"Someone who can live."

And at that time, no matter how confused and desperate he was in his heart, the boy would always answer so firmly.

My sister was on the side, holding her straw doll and falling asleep, stroking her sister's hair, his eyes were like hungry falcons, firm, fierce, and with a stubbornness that would never be admitted: "I will definitely live!" ”

As for why...... Of course, it's because of the way of the world.

Hundreds of millions of Lebanese people are struggling in a sea of suffering, and countless people have lost their loved ones, friends, and everything around them.

The dead are many, but so are the living.

[If everyone else can, then why can't I?] 】

The wandering life in the mountains lasted for several years.

The two teenagers became young people, during which the little sister also grew up, and they could weave baskets and straw sandals, and the three of them worked together, and they had a little talent for cultivation, and they were not afraid of ordinary bandits, so they went out of the mountains to find a livelihood, and were finally taken in by a partial army belonging to the Zhengyang Kingdom, as a servant and miscellaneous servant.

The work in the army is hard, getting up early every day and being greedy for darkness is just a meal that has been deducted, and the laborers are more tired than hunting and foraging in the mountains, but this is also better than a hungry meal in the mountains, a full meal, and more stable, and there is no need to worry about encountering monsters and demons.

But one day, the accident happened.

may be because of malnutrition since childhood, plus the fatigue and hardship in the army, and many years of wilderness life, there is already a dark disease.

People with fever are very hot, but at the end of the day, they slowly get cooler. The emaciated girl muttered nonsense in the feverish dreams brought on by her illness, and held tightly in her hands the shapeless straw figure that had long since decayed.

If it weren't for the young man's careful care all along, maybe that villain would have rotted down a long time ago.

Not much sadness, just pure dazed, Fa Xiao was hurriedly boiling water and decocting medicine outside, inside the tent, the young man held his sister's hand that gradually became cold and weak, and his heart was gradually getting cold, he suddenly felt that he was not very clear whether he could live, this world is like grass, who knows what the future holds, how should he move forward?

And at this moment, maybe it was a return to the light, or maybe it was finally waking up from a dream, I don't know how long I was tormented by the disease, but the girl who just kept her mouth shut suddenly opened her eyes.

She clenched the straw doll in her hand, her eyes were bright, and she whispered something in her mouth, which made her sad and joyful, and the young man, who thought that there was a chance for a turnaround, hurried forward to listen to the faint voice.

Then he heard it.

"Live," she said. ”

"Brother, live."

When Fa Xiao hurriedly arrived with the medicinal juice, all he could see was the scene of the young man sitting calmly beside the girl, reaching out to close his eyes for her.

"Zhengde...... Little sister she ......"

"Cangsong, I won't die."

Before he could finish his whisper of grief, he was interrupted by the young man's calm and direct statement.

He stood up and covered the girl's body with a rudimentary straw mat: "There are so many people who have lost family and friends, they can persevere, and so can I." ”

"I can live."

The death of his sister due to overwork and illness has, to a certain extent, accelerated the process of the young man becoming a part of the regular army, and he no longer has any worries or worries, so he can naturally take more risks and win merit.

Life in the army is boring and dangerous.

As the partial army of Zhengyang State, they may not need to face most of the Kun Demons, but they often have to exterminate a large number of rebel armies, rebels and bandits in the country, and it is not uncommon for dead people to die.

It is normal for military salaries to be deducted, and it is normal that there are no good materials, and some of the swords and soldiers in their hands are rusty, and some are pure pieces of paper.

After more than ten years of fighting, the young man has become a man, and in these more than ten years of military exploits and career, even a man with no background has become a hundred households with him, leading the team to fight on the front line.

There were dangers, injuries, and near-death, but in the end, by supporting each other and taking care of each other, they survived.

However, just as they gradually adapted to such a life, the decisive battle between the Heavenly Yuan Realm and the Kun Demon began.

This time it is the survival of the human race, the battle for the survival of all the people in the middle continent, not to mention the partial army, even the bandits, rebels and even the rebel army, all contributed to this decisive battle.

This war is extremely tragic, the Kun Demon is a huge insect spirit form, they are inexhaustible, fierce and abnormal, ordinary troops can only form a formation to resist, passive counterattack, to ** drag the pace of the Kun Demon, really want to exterminate, need the cultivator troops in the army to come and kill.

The army where the man belonged was placed at the forefront, obviously, as cannon fodder to resist the onslaught of the Kun Demon.

However, it is not as excessive as cannon fodder, and the high-level officials of Zhengyang ordered that as long as the resistance time of each ministry exceeds a certain time limit and the plan is completed, all departments are allowed to retreat and repair, and there is a big reward.

In this case, there are a lot fewer people complaining, after all, it is for the Terran and the Central Continent to fight, and if you can't stop the Kun Demon, everyone will die in the future, in this case, why can't you fight for your life?

The man and the hair are small and think the same way.

But until the end, they did not wait for the order to retreat.

The sky flashed with the red light of spiritual power, and the terrifying spiritual magic pressed against the battle array of the Kun Demon with a force that shook the heavens and the earth, setting off a violent wind and thunder.

In the distance, in the depths of the Xuanhai Sea, many land real people and Kun demon gods are fighting fiercely, and they can't tell the winner for a long time, and in front, the Kun army's ant soldiers have long been staggered with the army on the front line, and it is difficult to distinguish between you and me.

As a cultivator at the peak of the human level and close to the ground level, the man has been leading the team to resist the Kun Demon in front of the formation, but the ant soldiers are endless, but the physical strength of the person is exhausted, as his comrades die one after another, the remaining people are even more tired, and he is no exception.

A gust of fishy wind blows, the blazing breath of the Kun demon rushes from the side, and the mantis-like knife arm dances, the man who noticed this looked sideways in shock, and found that the soldiers on his side were still all in different places, or they were devoured, and he was already alone except for the hair behind him.

At the moment when it was too late to exclaim, it was Fa Xiaobo who exerted his last spiritual power, and dragged the man away from the front line with a rare condensation method, and threw it towards the position that had begun to rout in the distance.

At that moment, he seemed to return to his childhood—the same moment of life and death, the same moment when it was too late to exclaim, the same hazy gust of wind, and he was out of danger with the help of others.

But this time, he didn't pass out, and the man saw it, and he looked at him with a wry smile, and his mouth seemed to be saying something.

He can read it.

He said, "I'm sorry. ”

"Zhengde, live."

Then, the figure was overwhelmed by the Kun demon. The chewing of flesh sounded.

——In the 830,000 and 7th year of the Gods and Demons, the Zhengyang Kingdom defeated the Kun Demon in the Xuanhai Sea and killed countless enemies.

Two years later, Zhengyang was founded, unifying the central continent and setting the first year of the calendar.

Because of the rout of the formation, the soldiers in this partial army had no rewards and no glory, and even sacrifices were not counted.

All of this is just a fluttering sentence in the official records of the Zhengyang Kingdom: 'Countless enemies have been killed'.

How many people have died on their own side...... Who knows?

But all this is at least a relief for men.

The Kun Demon was defeated, and the continent was unified, although the process was full of endless blood and tears, but at least ...... At the very least, it's all over.

The three-thousand-year-old Warring States Period was ended, the human race was established, and the Kun Demon was repulsed.

Peace is coming.

But the man who was about to retire to the countryside got such news in the end.

——Since the beginning of the Warring States Period, gods and demons that have only appeared less than ten times in 3,000 years suddenly appeared, and made a treaty with Zhengyang State, occupying the five most important leyline nodes in the Central Continent.

The immortals from above the Tianyuan Realm, the [Immortal Heavenly God Realm] occupied the three nodes in the northwest, and the demon gods from the [Nine Shadows Demon Land] from below the Tianyuan Realm also occupied two in the southeast.

Unlike the ancient gods and demons in the ancient legends, who coerced sentient beings in order to obtain blood food, the gods and demons who appeared this time did not ask for offerings, and asked all races to become their vassals, which was funny.

But now, with the help of the high-level of the Zhengyang Kingdom, they have officially eliminated all local cultivation methods in the human world, and implemented the cultivation methods they have launched to manipulate people's hearts and minds.

The promotion of the "Most Holy Way" and the "Great Freedom Mind Method", with the cooperation of the gods and demons and the Zhengyang Kingdom, spread all over the country in an instant.

The man who wanted to return to his hometown to farm watched the gods and demons descend into the world in a daze.

The light of the gods of the heavens flickered, pressing across the heavens, and the people were nothing more than their pasture playthings, chess pieces, and chips.

They no longer fought each other in person, but they fought secretly, using the beings of the Heavenly Yuan Realm as a chessboard, and began the [Great Dao Battle] that was not the same as the previous life-and-death struggle, but was equally fierce

Disillusionment, despair.

For men, that's it.

A lifetime of struggle, a lifetime of struggle, a lifetime of survival, is just to make a wedding dress for gods and demons.

Sacrificing many strong people to fight against the Kun Demon Clan, the casualties in the mortal realm are not counted, it only makes the rule of gods and demons more convenient.

I'm afraid the top leaders of Zhengyang Kingdom have been corrupted a long time ago, right?

But even so......

"I'm still going to live."

"After all...... There are so many people alive, and so can I. ”

In the first life, the man died in the thirty-third year after the death of the gods and demons, and his life was seventy-one, and the cause of death was the end of his life.

The thin old man covered in dark wounds, when his farmhouse was discovered, he didn't even rot, he should have died of qi and blood decay caused by secret injuries, but he lived to the end of ** and soul with incredible willpower.

On the dried corpse, the flesh and blood were all squeezed dry, and when touched, it was as hard as the meat that had been dried for decades, without the slightest blood and moisture.

There was only a tear that flowed for some unknown reason, soaking in the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes.

Sad?

Just unwilling.

So, the golden light flickered.

It's like a dream.

When the man begins his second life, when he goes back to the time when he was just born, his soul doesn't even react, thinking that it is just a pre-death hallucination.

But soon, he reacted that he was indeed still a baby, just born, and still the child of his parents!

So, because of this, ecstasy, hope.

"I thought that I would be like this, lonely all my life, achieving nothing, and finally returning to dust."

"Unexpectedly, Heaven has mercy and gives me the opportunity to start over again!"

"I swear, in this life, I must make up for all the regrets and pains!"

In this life, men begin to practice from an early age to prepare for future disasters.

Although there were some stumbles, with some intimidation and deception, as well as acting as a magic stick in the name of supernatural powers, he did lead the entire township to leave the danger zone and escape before the catastrophe began.

Everyone in the entire township survived, although the resources needed were greater, but the resources that could be found were also more, plus the man had moved a lot of supplies to safety at the beginning and left them in preparation, so there was actually not much loss.

The division of labor and cooperation, digging up the buried village to store food, hunting the surrounding mountain beasts, and immediately began to plant some quick-harvest crops, which can be regarded as supporting a few years, barely rebuilding the village.

Both parents are there, relatives and friends exist, my sister is very healthy, and Fa Xiao also read out of the hall under the teaching of Mr. and became a disciple of the other party.

Everything was perfect.

But men understand very well that if they don't join the army in this world, they will be chaotic people after all, and the army is the most dangerous place in troubled times, but at least there is still the possibility of struggle, and the chaotic people without background will only be oppressed, exploited, and become dry bones.

And with a serious identity, rather than an outcast, he naturally didn't have to do too long of servant work, and he soon became a member of the reserve army.

With his familiarity with the battle and his understanding of the Kun Demon, the man smoothly mixed into the founding of the Zhengyang Kingdom, and his cultivation also broke through the ground level, and he became a well-known general who had a clever plan against the Kun Demon.

For the gods and demons, he is really a little disheartened and can't lift his energy, anyway, as long as he can keep his relatives alive, there is nothing wrong with being ruled by gods and demons.

- If others can be ruled, why can't I?

I just want to live well.

This is his life credo.

In this way, a few more years passed, and the man who thought he had calmed down and could enjoy life with peace of mind was ordered to go to one of the five leylines occupied by gods and demons to garrison in a certain covert operation.

Several Heavenly Rank powerhouses were stationed here with them, and even a real man from the land and several strange strangers entered the leylines to explore.

A few days later, with bursts of violent leyline aura vibrations and roars, the real land man flew out of the leylines with those strange inhumans.

"I didn't expect that the main leyline of the mortal realm was so strong...... It's comparable to my high-level Heavenly Vein Immortal God! ”

The alien stood high in the sky, and he exclaimed: "And it is so strong, and it is integrated with the entire Tianyuan Realm, no wonder when the Heavenly Emperor was still in the past, he did not take away the spirit of the main vein and cut off the steps to ascend to the sky!" ”

And the land real person on the side smiled charmingly: "Your Excellency, what should we do next?" ”

"They don't know the meaning of the news, but it's best not to have an accident."

Hearing this, the man was stunned, and heard the indifferent voice: "Within a radius of thousands of miles, kill them all." ”

"Obey the decree of God!"

Immediately afterward, the man heard the incomparably respectful tone of the real man on the land.

So, in the next moment, an incomparable wave of aura came, carrying the sound of rolling thunder.

"Why?!" When he arrived, the man was shocked and angry, but he was powerless to resist in the face of a real man on land.

Like the tide of the sea, it swept over him and plunged him into darkness.

III.

Sixty years old, avoiding the inexplicable leyline event, but died from the impact of the gods and demons.

Fourth.

Because of the accident, he failed to persuade the villagers to evacuate, and only one family survived alone, becoming a general, and after the founding of Zhengyang State, he died in the civil and military disputes within the court.

Fifth, Sixth......

They died from an accidental robber breath when they were young, and they were too powerful in the final battle and were killed by a Kun Demon God.

Then there are those who were betrayed by their own subordinates, betrayed by the high-level of Zhengyang Kingdom, trampled to death by gods and demons as ants, and deceived by the mysterious people's hearts......

I don't know why, I've been reborn all the time.

The man himself could not understand why every time he died, he would return to the time when he was born.

But the more he was reborn, the more desperate he became.

He is desperate for Zhengyang Kingdom, for this world, for gods and demons, and even for all things in heaven and earth.

"Zhengyang Kingdom is so corrupt, it is basically a servant of gods and demons, whether it is the people's livelihood or the administration, it is all perverse, knocking out the bones and sucking the marrow of all the ordinary people, and doing everything possible to exploit it!"

"But if you don't rely on the Zhengyang Kingdom, there is no other force that can resist the invasion of the Kun Demon - it is the gods and demons who have supported the group of high-level people in the Zhengyang Kingdom, so they have the strength to fight against the Kun Demon ......"

"Under the rule of Zhengyang Kingdom, I can't make my relatives happy at all, and I have to be careful."

"They can't save the human race at all, they can't save the beings in the Tianyuan Realm, they are just lackeys of the gods and demons, and they are the tools of the nobles and royal families of the former countries!"

Men are reborn dozens of times, and each time they do not die well, and there is no good result.

Even the most insensitive people can know that as long as the Zhengyang Kingdom still exists, this world will never be able to make people happy.

Reborn again and again, the man feels that the Zhengyang Kingdom is a dead end at all, if you want to get a truly perfect ending, everyone can live happily, then you must break away from the Zhengyang Kingdom and take another path in order to save the entire Tianyuan Realm and save the people around you!

"I just want to live...... Live well! ”

There was no one to share this feeling, he could only encourage himself.

"Come on, Ming Zhengde, others can, so can you."

"Anyone else can ......"

comforted himself like this, but halfway through the comfort, the man named Ming Zhengde suddenly fell silent and stopped speaking.

Because he found.

Already, there is no 'other'.

The Zhengyang Kingdom was the only major force at the end of the Warring States Period, and the others were nothing more than the rebel armies of the small countries, bandits, and the rebel armies within the Zhengyang Kingdom.

If you want to change something, what do you want to achieve...... He had to try a new path.

He has no other object to learn, only himself can learn - himself again and again.

Use your own death as a material to let yourself move forward step by step.

Take a path that can defeat the Kun Demon, level the Zhengyang Kingdom, and block the path of the gods and demons affecting the world!

- When I was a child, the newborn calf was not afraid of the tiger boy and thought that he would be successful, after all, everyone else could do it, and so could he himself.

When he grew up, Ming Zhengde, who knew that he was small, understood that everything in the world was far from being so simple.

Because sometimes, on a dark and lonely road, there is no one else to imitate and learn from.

You can only go to the blood and sweat and 'open up' yourself.

So, since then, men have been looking for such a path.

For this reason, constantly reborn, constantly reborn.

- When a person is beheaded, he needs to suffer once.

- Piercing both eyes, needing to suffer twice.

- Cutting off limbs is painful four times.

- Tearing apart all the nails of a man's hands and feet with a hammer is twenty painful times.

- It takes more than 200 pains to break every bone in a person's body.

- The punishment of a thousand swords and the death penalty ranges from hundreds, a thousand to three thousand painful times.

And Ming Zhengde, using various methods, died 10,000 times, 20,000 times...... 30,000 times.

And the number of pains may be incalculable.

Struggling, struggling.

He felt that he was really just an ordinary person.

There is no great talent, no quick reflexes, no wisdom to see through people's hearts, no inspiration and sensitivity to find the right path.

He just used his own experience of death to pave a path to a long, dark and distant land.

Use your own bones as a foundation and your own blood scabs as pavement. That's all for life.

- When exactly will it end? Such a rebirth?

- Where do I get there? And what exactly do you want to do?

Occasionally, I feel hesitant.

——Eight hundred and thirty-three thousand years of the Age of Gods and Demons——

——The first year of the new calendar——

In the new capital, in the palace, the young man sitting in the main seat of the study opened his eyes, and his eyes were deep.

Ming Zhengde, who is already the pinnacle of real people on land, can sweep his eyes over the entire national capital, and even all the people in it.

Now, his parents are both happy in the palace.

His sister was the lord of the court, and she was happy and did not suffer.

Before the first rebirth, the straw doll that my sister died and never forgot never existed in the first place.

After all, he has practiced diligently since he was a child and studied hard, lest he lack strength and not go far enough, how can he waste time and play any trick games? And if you want toys, why use straw.

As for his own hair Xiao Cangsong, that is the only right-hand man he can trust, so he naturally cultivates his character and teaches cultivation from an early age.

So the young man who was a little shy and clever in his eyes and hands has also become his current Shang Shuling, who has been deep in the city since he was a child, unpredictable, and loyal.

Truly.

The younger sister who used to be extremely dependent on herself and liked to sleep on his lap in the wilderness is now a lady who whispers to the royal brother.

The little playmate who will hook up with him and is willing to fight for his life is now also a loyal minister who meets and calls His Majesty.

Ming Zhengde didn't know if this was good...... But at least, everyone survived happily.

He led less than 1,000 relatives and friends in a township, cultivated a Manchu Dynasty civil and military general, invincible all the way, conquered everything, suppressed the Kun Demon, defeated Zhengyang, negotiated with the gods and demons, and created a new country, which can be called a miracle in a miracle, an incredible in the incredible.

Even the gods and demons were amazed, calling him the one who was most likely to achieve the new gods and demons—both the Immortal Heavens and the Nine Shadows were courting him, expecting him to join their side.

Holy Emperor.

A saint of the world.

Gods and demons of the future.

These are all words of praise from him.

Even, Ming Zhengde formulated a plan, a plan to expel the gods and demons from the mortal realm and expel the Tianyuan realm.

"Your Majesty, there is hope for this plan!"

During the private exchange, Cang Song said so excitedly: "With the power of the central leyline of Tianyuan, get rid of the influence of the Nine Shades of the Immortal Heaven, Jedi Tiantong!" ”

"In this way, the gods and demons can no longer descend to the world at will and interfere in the affairs of the mortal world, and we and the human race can settle down and enjoy peace!"

- Hope?

There was never hope.

It was all I struggled out with my life, filled with blood.

Recalling the conversation in the past, Ming Zhengde closed his eyes.

He'd heard it thousands of times.

And every time the plan is implemented, the result of failure is unacceptable, at least once, tens of billions of people die because of it, and the new country is bound to be destroyed, turning into a bottomless pit.

Countless deaths, endless repetitions, made him feel a deep tiredness in his heart.

- Why can't I kill myself when I'm young and have a happy childhood all over again?

- Why do you have to struggle to live for so long every time, to the end of despair, and then to be reborn?

Occasionally, occasionally, in Ming Zhengde's heart, such thoughts always come to mind.

On several occasions, when he was in pain with the gods and demons, maintaining balance, promoting new internal affairs, and implementing those secret plans, he had already taken out his divine sword and planned to die happily for himself.

However, every time at this time, he would always recall those two sentences.

In the first life, when my sister died, the hand that gradually became cold, and the sentence 'live'.

In the first life, when Cang Song rescued him, the voice that could not be heard on the battlefield, but it went straight to the heart of 'live'.

- Stay alive.

Yes.

Because, I can't bear it

Because, you can't give up

Because, I really can't be reconciled.

You can only live - the longer you live, the better, and it is best to live forever and ever.

So again and again.

Over and over.

Again and again.

Until now.

Ming Zhengde.

Gods and Demons, born in 829,971 years.

He was forty-two years old.

30,000 times.

The founding monarch of the new country, a natural saint, and the holy emperor of the five virtues.

There is no one who has a way forward.

"Your Majesty!"

Suddenly, the door of the study was pushed open with great disrespect, and a figure approached, and the guards on the side could not stop it with all their might.

A white-faced, bearded young official walked into the study with an angry face, waving a piece of paperwork in his hand.

Xinguo Shangshu Ling Cangsong, obviously confused by anger and doubt at this moment, he came directly to Ming Zhengde's desk who had raised his head, and then took a deep breath, calmed down for a while, and then handed over the paperwork, and said in a deep voice: "Why do you want to go to Linmo Mansion in Qinglin Prefecture?" The side of Northridge City has just been subjugated by gods and demons, and it is extremely dangerous! ”

"Although the gods and demons have made a covenant with us, as long as there is no turmoil in the new kingdom and they help spread the lineage, they will never make a move in the mortal realm if there is no accident...... However, this time, the God Emperor and the Heavenly Demon Lord descended together, which proved that there was something they were bound to get there, and they would not hesitate to break the contract! ”

Speaking of this, Cang Song's tone also changed to pleading: "Please Your Majesty take back your destiny - the gods and demons are moody, if there is an accident, they will fight to break through the turbulence of the two realms and be injured and kill you...... The Holy Lord is fortunate not to take advantage of the danger! ”

Speaking of this, Cangsong thought that Ming Zhengde would know the danger, and as in the past, he would propose a compromise and a perfect answer that would be acceptable to both parties.

However, he heard a word that shocked him.

"Then let them kill."

Slowly put down the fold in his hand, and the monarch wearing the jade crown said calmly.

Ming Zhengde has phoenix eyes and sword eyebrows, dignified appearance, does not act in a hurry or slowly, and has spare strength - this is after tens of thousands of times as the king of a country. Summed up the best posture.

But now, the man completely disregarded his dignified posture, he got up directly and came to Cangsong's side, and straightened the other party who was bent over and asked for his life.

He said earnestly to his former friend, now his most trusted courtier: "This action has this value!" ”

"What is the value of this, and what can it ......?"

Naturally, how could Cang Song understand this, he was shocked and forgot to continue to ask for his life - once the founding monarch of the country, the holy emperor of the world, said that one thing was more important than his life, which made it impossible for him to understand the new country and the hegemony of Ming Zhengde?

But at this time, the man had already raised his head and looked far northeast, which was located between Qinglin Prefecture and Baishan Prefecture.

"Yes...... That's the value. ”

Ming Zhengde whispered to himself, and in his eyes, there was a faint golden brilliance.

The Holy Emperor, who had been through 30,000 tribulations, sensed something that had never happened before.

- What kind of thing is that, what kind of existence is it?

- Why is it or he, where is it this time?

- Is he good or evil?

- Is it a god or a mortal?

"An existence that has never been seen in 30,000 rebirths, and as soon as it appears, it triggers the changes of the contemporary God Emperor and the Demon Lord......"

There was endless doubt and expectation in his tone.

and, since countless desperate rebirths, it has not been felt in a long, long time......

Wish.

"The anomaly of this long time......"

"What kind of existence are you?"

At this moment, Ming Zhengde muttered like this.

And at the same time.

Xinguo, Qinglin Prefecture, Linmo Mansion.

Northridge City.

Facing the clouds and wind and thunder rolling in the distance, as well as the thoughts of gods and demons that were lodged in the wind, thunder and wind, a young man stood high in the sky, in front of several towns around Northridge City.

"It's probably for me, isn't it?"

He snorted, with a hint of anger in his tone: "These gods and demons are really unscrupulous. ”

In the city below, the heavy tone of the local Taishou was announcing the urgent news.

[On October 17 of the first year of the new calendar, Qintian watched the wind rise in the northern desert, the night was like day, the stars turned into a thousand pupils, the divine light descended from the sky, and it was suspected that there were gods and demons coming to the world. 】

[The gods and demons sent their thoughts, there will be a catastrophe, so they ordered Beiling City to be closed, and all the residents of the surrounding townships and counties gathered in the city to resist the impact. 】

Unlike at the end of the dynasty, the new kingdom had just been founded, and the prestige of the government was at its peak, and the announcement of the Qin Tianjian relayed by the local Taishou caused the whole city to shake as soon as it was issued.

What's more, no one was puzzled by these news, at most they were shocked and panicked.

Because, everyone knows the horror of the 'gods and demons'.

"Yesterday, the thunder in the northwest was like daylight, and I thought it was a Heavenly Rank senior who intended to break through the real people of the land...... Didn't you expect it to be the thoughts of gods and demons?! ”

"What happened, it didn't appear for hundreds of years at the end of the Warring States Period, if there is peace today, there will still be gods and demons...... Why is it happening next to us? ”

"Don't talk nonsense, go home and hide, don't you want to be hit by the gods and demons and become demented?!"

Just hearing the word god and demon, the faces of the millions of people in the entire Northridge City changed suddenly and they were terrified.

Whether it was a street vendor or a hawker who was discussing a stronger situation, all of them looked frightened, and then they all stopped their work and began to pack up their things and prepare to go home.

The woman with the child directly picked up the child and ran back to her house quickly, while the cultivator who was drinking and talking in the restaurant also changed color slightly, got up worriedly, and looked out the window to the northwest.

"Gods and demons...... I didn't expect that I still have this luck! ”

A ground-level martial artist stood on the edge of the window, he swallowed nervously, and looked at the direction of the thunder that suddenly rose yesterday, and now it was full of clouds: "According to ancient records, the impact of gods and demons, if it is in the city, it is fine, but if it is in the wilderness, there may not be any living creatures within a radius of thousands of miles!" ”

Although this horse-faced warrior is strong, even if he joins the army, it is easy to be a thousand-family family.

But this is only strong for the mortal world.

For the gods and demons who transcend the mortal world and live in the Nine Shadows of the Immortal Heaven, even if they are real people on land, they are still 'human', let alone a mere earth-level cultivator, it is really inferior to ants.

A single thought can be erased.

The gods and demons descended, and their nerves did not disappear for a long time. Even the slightest remnant of their will can be like a living thing, spontaneously operating a certain law to accomplish what they want to accomplish.

Together, the heart is the wind and rain thunder, and the mountains and rivers are shaking.

In the distant past, many gods and demons were even able to rely on their own thoughts to form a great network of heaven and earth that dominated the heavens and the earth, controlling all the heaven and earth aura in this world, and only human beings who had been rewarded by them could practice and become their vassals, pets, and among them, the extremely lucky ones could also become new gods and demons.

Although for some reason, the gods and demons left the mortal world and gave up their domination over the mortal world...... However, they also took away all the 'opportunities' that could become gods and demons.

And this time, what is the purpose of the gods and demons...... It's not clear to everyone.

That's why I'm afraid.

In Northridge City, the residents hurriedly returned home, and many transcendents led by local officials rose up one after another and began to travel to the nodes of the Great Array in various places, sending spiritual power to activate them.

"When gods and demons descend to thought, there will be natural disasters."

"It is even possible to make a city of nearly a million people directly close the city, so that the residents of the surrounding towns and villages can directly withdraw into the city to resist the impact."

Muttering to himself, above the sky, Su Sun, who was looking into the distance, immediately understood what was going on: "It's the law that has its own spirit!" ”

Just as Su Sun can control the thunder with a single thought and generate an incarnation, the gods and demons in this realm must have similar powers.

One of their thoughts can be transformed into some kind of long-lasting aura structure, and even after they are no longer paying attention, they will still automatically run the Dharma that has been prepared long ago.

And before, the reason why those powerful gods and demons came to the world was precisely to search for his traces.

Before, they didn't really just probe and retreat when they found nothing—the thoughts they had left behind were still working, and they were still making up spells......

And, it's coming soon!

"Sure enough, it's aimed at me."

His brows furrowed, Su Yan was not very sensitive to this because he had been targeted by them from the beginning.

Now that I think about it, if the gods and demons really care about the dragon and snake bloodline, then how can it really just be that the gods scan it and stop paying attention?

At the very least, there will be a backhand.

At this time, looking up, the young man looked in the direction from which he had come.

It was a nameless hill hundreds of miles northwest of Northridge City.

There, two invisible thoughts were being born.

[——Search for traces of all the dragons, snakes, and scales within a radius of 10,000 miles——]

[——Search for traces of all true dragon blood descendants within a radius of 8,000 miles——]

The thoughts of the gods and demons originating from the Nine Shadows of the Immortal Heaven, in the place where the cross-border comers first came, automatically searched carefully for several hours.

Although for some reason, the sudden appearance of the outsider's aura dissipated without a trace, and no matter how much I analyzed it, I couldn't find it.

However, they did find that incomparably faint trace of the Origin Dragon Snake aura!

[Sure enough, the Origin True Dragon appeared...... Remember this breath. 】

I felt the feedback of this divine thought.

Far away from time and space, the order is given.

So, instantly.

The long-dormant seed of gods, demons, and divine thoughts suddenly exploded!

Rumble!

In an instant, around the mountains where Su Sun had descended, the mountains shook, the earth surged, and pillars of dust rose up one after another, straight into the sky.

For a moment, all living beings within a radius of thousands of miles felt the weight as if the sky had collapsed.

An invisible divine thought, turning into a ring-like spiritual fluctuation, it carried the rolling thunderclouds, and began to spread in all directions, detecting the breath of all life in the place it passed in every detail!

Ga –

The invisible spiritual waves swept by, and a flock of birds flying in the sky suddenly fell in unison, falling like rain, although their ** was still trembling, and their wings were still fluttering, but their smart eyes had been scattered, obviously dead.

The spiritual waves swept by, and along the way, whether it was bears, tigers, jackals, or birds, fish, and small beasts, all of them were killed on the spot, and only ** was still twitching.

- If it is a dragon snake, it will be lodged in the spirit node to track, and if it is not a dragon snake, it will be brutally searched for its memory to find out if there is a relevant breath induction!

As for life and death? Sequela? Or is it the consequence of some other mess?

If they are willing, they can naturally restrain a little when the thoughts of gods sweep the world, so that the living beings will not be destroyed.

But the gods and demons don't care.

Bang!

Rolling thunder roared.

In Beiling City, Beiling Taishou Wang Haitian's face was looking into the distance at the head of the city at the moment, and this Heavenly Rank cultivator with the face of Fang Zhengguo had already activated the Great Protective Array of Beiling City, and his heart was already a little at ease.

But when he looked up and saw that the clouds in the sky had suddenly risen, covering the sky in an instant, turning the morning into darkness, and when he looked down again, he saw that many people in the towns and villages not far away were dragging their families and fleeing towards Beiling City in a hurry, this Taishou could only let out a breath slowly, and his face was extremely heavy.

"It's too late...... If only Qin Tianjian could have been earlier......"

muttered in his heart, Beiling Taishou knew very well that Qin Tianjian was already very fast, from sensing a distant vision, to determining that it was indeed a god and a demon, not a real person on land, it took a few hours to determine so many matters, it was really unimaginably fast.

But...... In just a few hours, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of lives!

Following the Holy Emperor and raising troops, fighting all the way, from a small soldier to the current position of Taishou, he may not have learned anything else, but the Holy Emperor's heart that wants to protect all living beings, make the world peaceful, and have no rest, he firmly remembers.

It's near—the thoughts of gods and demons are sweeping through the sky, and it is approaching the perimeter of Northridge City.

However, just when the Taishou of Northridge City couldn't bear to look at it directly, all the surrounding township residents were swept away by the thoughts of gods and demons.

Suddenly, he heard a phoenix chirping.

"Whew...... Boom! ”

- Phoenix Yu Fei, and Ming Qiang.

I have to say that this is a very strange phoenix song, it is as jerky as if it has never been opened since birth, and it is even mixed with the long moans of other creatures in the middle, not the song of a divine bird.

Although it was strange, it was quickly corrected by the owner of the voice, and it made a rather orthodox phoenix sound.

Then, there was a dazzling divine light, which lit up from the sky.

When the Taishou of Beiling City looked up in shock, he saw that a ball of blue-golden light suddenly burst out between the heaven and earth filled with dark clouds, turning into a scorching ball of brilliant light.

This ball of light is three hundred zhang longitudinal and horizontal, releasing a dazzling spiritual light like the sun in the sky, and the four different awakening spiritual powers of wind, water, thunder and fire are staggered, and then turned into a crown of Dao light, condensed into roots and wings.

——The golden base, the blue as the pattern, the wings formed by the feathers that are like the iron of the gods are smoothly combined, and the combination of the vigorous body, it turns into a majestic and powerful bird.

Different from the ordinary light and elegant, singing divine bird, the wings of this divine bird are like two divine knives, and the chest muscles are high and bulging, as if they can burst out with the divine power of destroying mountains and mountains, and there is even an extremely eye-catching golden crystal on it to release the light of the sun.

And the four feathers on his tail are even more extraordinary, different from the style of ordinary divine birds hanging firmly behind him, the blue, purple, and red four-colored feathers detach from the tail from time to time, floating on the side of the majestic and somewhat excessive divine bird, oscillating in mid-air with layers of light patterns that span dozens of miles.

With the appearance of this divine bird, the dark clouds were directly dispelled, and the light of the morning light returned to the world.

Majestic, robust, powerful.

- But Phoenix doesn't seem to be like that?

For a while, Northridge City was too guarded, and there was only this one thought in his heart.

And in the next moment, in the face of the rolling thoughts of the gods and demons, this sturdy and obviously somewhat excessive divine bird swooped down towards the clouds and thunder in the distance directly after a long roar!

The blue-gold streamer broke through the atmosphere and sped high in the air, and just as he was about to confront the thoughts of gods and demons, he stopped as if there was no reaction force, and then spread his wings!

Whoosh! Countless feathers burst out of their wings, spraying spiritual power light streams with the vector spout of the tail, and the golden phoenix feathers, which accelerated to more than ten times the speed of sound, directly formed a round of golden triangles in mid-air, like a large array like gears!

The defensive shield that fused with the 'Sacred Geometry Sacred Triangle' and 'Six Paths of Reincarnation Tribulation True Method' and other inherited secret methods immediately created a ring-shaped golden shield in the stick control.

It directly blocked the incoming gods and demons, and then smashed the other party directly like a reef on the coast!

Rumble!

A thunderclap! The thoughts of the gods and demons suddenly parted and rushed to the sides.

With the Divine Bird as the source point, a huge blank cone-shaped space enveloped all the towns and villages behind it, including Northridge City.

All the clouds and thunder, as well as the terrifying impact of spiritual power, were blocked by that layer of huge gear magic circles formed by golden feathers and spanning dozens of miles around.

But this also means that within this range, all those invisible spiritual impacts will pour into the body of that blue-gold divine bird!

At first, he didn't seem to care.

But soon, when he noticed something, he let out a somewhat hurried phoenix roar, and then his body swayed, as if he had been hurt by some great injury, and his breath suddenly fell, a little wilted.

There were even a few feathers falling from this sacred bird...... Then it exploded in mid-air, exploding hundreds of meters in length and width, and the terrifying spiritual power exploded brightly!

"This, what kind of divine bird is this?!"

Staring at all this, Northridge City Taishou rubbed his eyes and made sure that he was not mistaken: "The body of this bird is a bit like a Chongming bird, the voice is a little weird, there is a bit of a snake bird, and the wings are indeed phoenixes...... But that feather, and the shape of the head......"

"And feathers, how can the feathers of the phoenix explode?!"

But that's not what matters.

The important thing is that the thoughts of gods and demons are blocked!

"It's really a virtuous divine bird with phoenix blood!"

Seeing that those people from the surrounding towns and villages who had successfully come to the vicinity of Beiling City under the protection of the Divine Bird, Taishou immediately ordered Kaicheng to pick up the people-then, he looked at the sky in the distance with some worry, the Divine Bird that was trembling all over his body and constantly shedding his hair: "But it seems that this Divine Bird Senior can't stop this god and demon thought......

Originally, Tai Shou thought that if the senior of the divine bird in the distance couldn't support it, then even if he fought for his life, he would have to go over to help the other party.

But the strange thing is that the thoughts of gods and demons swept for more than ten minutes, although the divine bird trembled at the beginning, lost its hair, and even made a phoenix cry as if it was screaming, but it has been supported well, and there is no further statement.

Even, until the end, the thoughts of gods and demons dissipated, and the voice of Feng Ming, the predecessor of this divine bird, was still quite neutral.

And I lost so much hair, and I didn't see any missing wings on the other party......

But either way, the danger is over.

As the thoughts of gods and demons dissipated, the clouds receded, and the thunder disappeared with them.

The blue-gold bird stopped chirping, and it gathered its wings, allowing all the countless feathers that formed the circle to return to its wings, looking quite energetic.

The Taishou of Northridge City saw that after this divine bird was sure that there would be no more thoughts of gods and demons in the distance, he nodded and turned around and flew towards Northridge City.

Or rather...... Straight for him.

After a few breaths, the huge divine bird floated above the walls of Northridge City with a scorching divine light.

The glow of the sun, which made many officials around feel uncomfortable, was spreading in the city.

Sensing this, the blue-gold divine bird nodded suddenly, and then turned off the golden glowing crystal on its chest and no longer emitted light.

- Huh? Can this light still be turned off?

Taishou was stunned for a moment, but quickly suppressed his thoughts and bent down respectfully: "Meet...... Meet ......"

In the face of this strong man who is at least the upper level of the land real person and takes the initiative to protect one side, only the Taishou who is a heaven-level cultivator is naturally a junior salute.

However, halfway through his words, he didn't know what to call the other party good-the Divine Bird family has always respected good manners, if he said the wrong source of the other party's pedigree, this is rude, it is better to keep silent.

And just as he was struggling, Taishou heard a rather young and peaceful voice.

"Candlelight."

He said this, pronouncing his name for the first time in the world.

"Just call me Candlelight."