In the past, Qiao's dart game was on Taoxi Road, and the back was Liu Gongzan's Dragon King Temple. But this street was destroyed before Weicheng was destroyed—because of the fierce battle in which Li Yunxin took away the Ninth Prince.

At that time, people should have thought that it was just a rare demon battle, but they didn't realize that it was the beginning of the fall of a heroic city, and it was also the beginning of the drastic changes in the world.

But today's reconstruction of Xiaoweicheng is probably also carried out according to the streets of Weicheng in the past. This should have something to do with Qiao Jiaxin's nostalgia.

The purpose of Li Yunxin's trip was to save Liu Gongzan and the Ninth Prince, and it was also to break some things on land. Some people want to stay here, and he has to take care of them. He just wanted to go to the Netherworld alone. Because knowing so clearly the dangers of the earth should be unimaginable—even in the realm of the ether.

As he thought about it, he walked along the road and saw some familiar sights. Some of the houses were built according to the way they used to be. Although it cannot be compared with the wealthy Weicheng dwellings before the destruction, the location and shape are roughly similar. Even trees were transplanted. But I couldn't tell if I had survived, I only saw the snow on the branches, as if I was afraid of the cold.

After walking a dozen steps forward, I turned a street corner and saw an old locust tree. It's supposed to be a new port, but judging from where it's located...... It should have been the one he saw that night—

After seeing Ling Kongzi's Baohua Hui leave, he saw Bai Yanjun come out of this tree and pass on his method of defeating the dragon clan.

So he realized that the black and white Yan Jun should also be in the realm of the Taisu. Because the two of them can incarnate thousands and bind the souls of the dead in this world, this is not a means that the Taishang can do. Li Yunxin didn't know how to achieve this, and he thought it would take some skills.

Taishang and below...... It's a lot like when the technology level of his world was not so developed. With enough time and energy, a person can comprehend and master many things on his own. can advance to the Taishang, and the vast world will unfold in front of you. There are many things that cannot be self-taught by a person - for example, many researchers at his time had to spend their lives trying to specialize in a certain field.

It's a lot like "promotion and job transfer". He thought to himself.

Then he realized that even the Black Yama Monarch of the Taishang Realm had died in the Netherworld. That kind of place is definitely not something that Lao Liu and Jiu Gongzi can handle. That is not a problem that can be solved with courage and resourcefulness alone.

The road ahead is uncertain, and he wants to go first.

Hitting the old locust tree here to the former Qiao house, Li Yunxin walked for a quarter of an hour, and saw three small vendors on the way. But he should not do good deeds like the sour soup seller, but barter. The three stall owners have different appearances, but they can all tell that they are not people. The goods sold were all similar - pasta in the form of a human.

For the first time, Li Yunxin saw the demon like a human, honestly sitting in the snow behind the stall and waiting for the customer to come to the door, so he changed into a chicken leg and came out, only changing into a small noodle person. The thing was the size of a palm, and it looked lifelike on the outside—not the kind of face that was as round as a mourning doll, but it did pinch out the nose, the arch of the eyebrows, and the eye sockets, and it looked like food and a work of art.

The pheasant is right—the demons in this city have all been tamed by him.

The noodle man has been outside for a long time, and it has been frozen hard, so his stomach has cracks. Li Yunxin sniffed lightly and smelled some fishy smell. Then he broke the belly of the noodle man—

Look, it's bloody inside. Only then did I realize that the noodles on the outside were not cooked. The things in the stomach are also delicately arranged. He could even vaguely tell which ones were the heart and which were the intestines. It should be made from the internal organs of fish or some other small animal.

So he smiled, not knowing what to say for a while.

It is said that these demons do not change their dead nature and still want to eat people, but this is indeed pasta and animal flesh and blood. Saying that they are no different from human habits, and no one would make such a perverted thing. He casually threw this thing in the snowdrift on the side of the road, and saw the Qiao family's mansion from a distance.

Different from the surrounding buildings that were only similar in location and shape, the Qiao family's mansion was exactly the same as the mansion in his impression. But once you use the demonic power to look at it, you will know that this is all a trick. The compound has not been rebuilt and is still in ruins. Someone has changed its appearance.

He gathered his mind and took a few more steps. Stop in front of the door for a moment, raise your hand and push the door open.

I've been to this house a few times before, and I'm familiar with it. Passing through a moon gate and a corridor, there is the back house. Once upon a time, Sanhua gathered four little demons and a wandering spirit to preach here, and they were in this back house.

When he turned the flower door again, he saw the girl.

The girl was dressed in white, but it was not an ordinary dress like him, but a filial piety dress. It's slightly larger, and it's not pretty. He was sitting on a stone bench in the middle of the court, facing an iron lump on the stone table. The lumps of iron were grayish-black, mixed with some gold or silver, and some gravel stones.

What kind of iron must have been melted and condensed to become what it is today?

She is called "plain lady", probably because of this.

The winter sun shines brightly on the courtyard, reflecting the snow. But the two people in the courtyard couldn't get out of the fog. Li Yunxin paused for a while, stepped on the snow and sat down opposite her, feeling that the girl seemed to be the same as in his memory.

In the past, he had to forget what Qiao Jiaxin was like. So now it's just "seeming", and everything except for physiognomy is completely different.

In just over two months, it will be the season when I saw her last year. She was human at that time, and he was human too. She had a smile on her face and was carefree. Because of the sight of a beautiful young man, my heart bloomed, and I boldly thought about the days to come.

But I don't know that there will be no "back" after that.

Now her appearance has not changed, but the whole person is silent and lonely. When he saw Li Yunxin, he only raised his head and stared at him. After looking at it for a long time, I said, "I forgot what you look like." ”

Li Yunxin reached out and touched the iron bump on the table: "What is this?"

Qiao Jiaxin was silent for a while: "It's my father's knife." Stay at home. ”

"You remember a lot of things. ”

Qiao Jiaxin only looked at him: "I...... Then...... How did you die?"

Li Yunxin put his hand on the table, tapped his fingers lightly, and said, "I was about to continue to escape with you, but the swordsman caught up." I knew I couldn't outrun him, so I stopped. That's when you turn around and rush back, and you're being delivered to him. ”

Qiao Jiaxin opened her mouth after a while, and said abruptly, "Ah...... I see. ”

"That'...... Why didn't you save us then?"

"Before I met you, two swordsmen came to me. At that time, I had no experience in dealing with cultivators, and they sealed the sea of snow mountains and qi with a talisman written by a real person. He never said these words except to Lao Liu. Now that I think about it, I just feel like a world away, "Later, I chased and escaped and finally got rid of them." I want to go to a crowded place and hide, and I'll meet you on the way. At that time, my qi sea was sealed, and I was only considered to be strong and healthy. But the sword service overdrafted the pills of the Ling Xuan Sword Sect, and also made their internal strength as strong as me at that time. Jianghu martial artists study swordsmanship, my skills are not as good as others, I can't save it. ”

Li Yunxin paused, and then said: "Asking the swordsman to rob and kill your swordsman is the same door chasing my two swordsmen, in order to survive the robbery." Looking back now, if you want to talk about karma, it was I who harmed you. It's reasonable for you to blame me. ”

Qiao Jiaxin was silent for a while and said, "I don't blame you. You still wanted to save me. He also said a lot of things to comfort me. It's our life. ”

Li Yunxin sighed lowly: "Is there anything you want? I can do many things." ”

Qiao Jiaxin lowered her head: "I just want to live." ”

Li Yun thought for a while: "Do you want to live, or do you want to live when you are alive?"

There was a confused light in the girl's eyes. She pondered Li Yunxin's words carefully for a while before she said, "I...... I...... I don't know. ”

"I just don't like it now. I don't want any supernatural powers...... I don't want to do anything. I just want ...... I didn't meet you like that before. ”

Her words made Li Yunxin's heart beat slightly.

He's seen a lot of people, a lot of demons. But the ones he'd seen liked to change—at least the ones who were still alive and around him.

The pheasant who has been transformed into the peak of the realm and is about to reach the true realm will not like the days when he was a bird in the past, and the sheriff who should still be alive will not like the days when he was a beast.

The ninth prince will not like the days of being a dragon in the transformation realm, and Liu Gongzan will not like the days of living in the temple. The red lady will not like the days when she was bound to her father to be a salted fish in the past, and Yu Meng will not like the days when she was an ignorant and unconscious sword saint in the past.

Even the vendor who sells sour soup will love the days when he used to walk the streets and alleys in Weicheng alone.

Only Qiao Jiaxin, who is no longer a human being at the moment, told him that when he likes to be a person, when he didn't meet her, when he was walking on the willow bank in spring.

Many words about the world's major events, the rise and fall of humanity, and the realm of cultivation came to Li Yunxin's mouth, but he swallowed it. After a few breaths, he sighed softly: "If you want to go back to the past, it may not be impossible. But you will lose your current supernatural cultivation, and you will also lose your current memory. In the future, if you are a mortal, you will be born, old, sick and die. may not be able to find Ruyi Langjun, or his life may have suffered an accident and he has no food and clothing. ”

"What's more, you're going to lose a lot of freedom of choice. Unlike now, it was even possible to control the fate of some others. If you want to regret it, you don't have a chance again – would you like to?"

Qiao Jiaxin's eyes glowed with joy and brilliance that Li Yunxin had seen for the first time since he saw her.

"I do. Without hesitation, she said, "I would like both." ”

So Li Yunxin took out the Emperor's Opinion Sutra and unfolded it on the table. Then he took out the chart of the Nine Seas and put it on it. Without seeing him make any moves, the Nine Seas Chart slowly disappeared into the picture below, as if it had merged in.

In fact, it is.

This map of the Emperor was originally only marked with the geography of the thirty kingdoms of the Middle Continent, and the outside was a white expanse. But now on the east side of the map, there are details of the Nine Seas and even the East China Sea Kingdom. And in this part of the Nine Seas, it is indeed full of spiritual power, not just "marking the direction".

Li Yunxin fused the two between changing hands.

He stopped, looked at the girl in front of him, and said seriously: "Last year, I painted Weicheng and the world around Weicheng into my fan. ”

"At that time, I used the power of the Yin Soul to temporarily reach the cultivation of the Xuan Realm. I've done this once, and I still have the flow of qi around here in my head, and it's very simple to do it again. Now that I am a supreme cultivator, I will do better. ”

"I can record Weicheng and the surrounding heaven and earth into this picture. In the future, a wider world may be added. Inside...... It should be lifelike. When you are in it, you don't realize that you are in a painting. ”

"If you want the life you used to have, I can rebuild your family. In this painting, they will be what you remember – like you are dreaming, and your consciousness constructs everything around you. You don't feel anything wrong with your dreams, in your own thoughts. ”

Li Yunxin was silent for a moment, and then sighed lightly: "This is my method." Only take your ghost cultivator's soul, draw it into the painting, and shape the body. You're going to be an ordinary person—the same normal person before you met me. But maybe live in your own dreams for the rest of your life – would you do it?"

"So...... What about the others?" Qiao Jiaxin asked in a low voice, "Do I live with my family in an isolated city?"

"There will be others. Li Yunxin said patiently and slowly, "But it is also an illusion in your mind." But you don't realize it. The people who appear in front of you, the people you have seen, are what you believe. You won't feel like they're unreal. ”

"I want to ...... too Find someone to keep you company. But drawing people is both easy and difficult. It is easy because for mortals, the qi is very similar between people. The difference between them may be only one in a billion. But it's also because of this - everyone's differences are different, and there are too many people in the world. Figuring out these differences is not something that can be done in hundreds or thousands of years. ”

"If you only have a few hundred or thousands of people to accompany you, they will soon realize that the world is limited. If you call them like you, the world between you will clash and eventually become chaos. ”

He paused: "But...... Maybe in the future, I'll really record real people. But I don't know exactly how much later. ”

Qiao Jiaxin's eyes shone with some brilliance again. But then he asked, "So do you mean...... Where I don't see it, it's nobody's? Or is it ...... Empty city?"

Li Yunxin smiled: "What does the place you didn't see have to do with you?"

Qiao Jiaxin sighed: "Yes." ”

"Would you still like it?"

She slowly stood up and tilted her head. Li Yunxin could see the fluff on her cheeks and neck, which became transparent in the sun.

"I do. ”

So Li Yunxin also stood up.

He walked up behind the girl and raised his hand over her head.

There was no temperature in her body, and her hair was cold. It looks like a corpse, or made of ice and snow.

Li Yunxin withdrew his hand. There was a misty green mist in his palm.

Qiao Jiaxin's body fell to the ground. It first turns into flesh, then into a streamer, and finally dissipates into sunlight.

He walked back and sat down. Hand this misty green mist into his left hand, and then use his right hand to sketch on the volume of "Huangyu Jingtiantu". Weicheng is only an inconspicuous speck in this picture, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will think it is a speck of dust.

He used his magic skills in this square inch, such as carving the hair of an angel on the tip of a needle. The appearance of Weicheng before the catastrophe, and the appearance of the surrounding heaven, earth, forests, mountains, rivers and rivers, were slowly injected into this picture scroll by him. Even the places that were closer to here, and which he had traveled along the way, were recorded by him in passing.

So in addition to the area of the Nine Seas, a thin stream of spiritual power appeared in the hinterland of the Middle Continent in this map.

This "copying" took him half an hour. When he reached the middle of the high heaven on a bleak winter day, Li Yunxin stopped. Then he punched the blue mist in his palm into the painting.

After all this, the courtyard fell silent.

He stood still for a quarter of an hour, staring at the long scroll on the table, with no expression on his face.

But clouds appeared in the sky, obscuring the sun. The clouds grew thicker, and a fine snow began to fall. In such silence, there was a sound of snow falling. It did not fall on the long scroll, but slowly covered his shoulders.

Li Yunxin's figure flashed and disappeared.

The next moment, he was under a weeping willow.

Now...... It's spring. There is a gentle breeze and a warm sun. Behind him was the Willow River, which would flow forward and into the city of Wei.

The road in front of him was covered with fine white sand, and the middle of the road was slightly bulging where it was not often run over by the passing wheels, and occasionally a grass or two grew up.

He took a deep breath in silence and saw a convoy coming from afar.

As the carts approached, they saw a man on horseback. The cars behind were laden with goods and covered with canvas. His gaze moved back again, and he saw a girl of thirteen or fourteen sitting on the side of the cart, boredly winding around the thin willow branches of her fingertips. The hanging feet shook slightly, and the two pompoms on the toes jumped gently. He looked up and said something to the young man who was driving the car, and seemed to be happy, so he covered his mouth and smiled.

The man on horseback passed him slowly, looked at him warily, and stationed his horse with the reins. After thinking about it, he asked, "My friend wants a ride?"

Li Yunxin smiled at him: "No." Waiting for an old man. ”

"In the lower Joe Duanhong. Weicheng Hongfu Dart Bureau Qiao Duanhong. The man arched his hand, "What friend are you waiting for?"

Li Yunxin smiled and nodded: "Wait for the temple blessing of the Dragon King Temple on Taoxi Road in Weicheng, mixed Yuanzi." I am his nephew. ”

"Oh...... So. The man's face became calm, "So bothered." ”

Li Yunxin bowed slightly, and he rode his horse on. And so the cart passed by him slowly and rumblingly.

The girl saw him and stared curiously. Li Yunxin smiled at her, so the girl blushed slightly and turned her head.

After waiting for the cart to move forward for a while, she turned her face to look behind her again.

But the boy was gone.

Weeping willows and white sand shore, good scenery in spring.