"Why don't you go into the valley?" asked Mu Xingqiu.

"I'm afraid to see him die. Shou Que has grown a little older, and her emotional out-of-control has affected her remnant soul, which is directly revealed in her appearance, "I'm afraid that I can't help but eat his soul." ”

"You like him?"

Shou Que blinked his eyes full of tears, "Is this like? I don't know, I'm just ...... I just want to listen to him, be assigned by him, and then we all work together. He has what I am most lacking. ”

"A complete soul?"

"No, your soul smells more delicious than his, he has ...... Faith, the strongest faith I have ever seen, and I hope to be as strong as him. Don't you think so? I think that the two of us are in sympathy, and everyone else knows what we are living for, and we rejoice in it, and we are sad and afraid of it, and you and I have nothing. Others are down-to-earth, we are floating in the air, others are awake, only the two of us are still in a dream, but why are we redundant? You say, is this a dream? Whose dream is it?"

Shou Que stared at Mu Xingqiu, as if he regarded him as General Mu, hoping to get something firm from him.

This is exactly what Mu Xingqiu can't give her, "You're right, the two of us are the same, this is the punishment for losing your memory." ”

Mu Xingqiu walked towards the valley, cried again without looking, waited for a while, and followed him into the valley from a distance.

It was only natural for the two men to drift towards the only solid land.

The sound of whispering spread from the middle of the valley to the surroundings, like a group of green silkworms gnawing on mulberry leaves, due to the damage to the inner dan, Mu Xingqiu's heavenly eyes were not as sharp as before, and in the night he could only see a shadowy crowd, some were chatting in a low voice, and some were praying intently.

Most people had idols in their hands, and this was not something that General Mu had conjured up with a spell. Rather, they made it out of dirt and wood, and it looked even rougher, and some of them were just a branch.

"The ancient gods blessed General Mu with immortality, let me replace him, it doesn't matter how much a useless old guy like me dies, General Mu doesn't deserve to die." The old woman held her little grandson's hand tightly in one hand and the idol in the other, and begged the old god in a low voice.

The little grandson's eyes rolled, but he didn't dare to squeak until he saw someone approaching him. I couldn't help but gasp, but I still didn't dare to speak, and kept shaking my grandmother's arm.

The old woman opened her faint eyes and looked at it by the light of the stars and the moon, and was also surprised, "This is not ...... You're not ......."

Mu Xingqiu's appearance caused many misunderstandings, and the crowd rushed back and forth, because this "General Mu" was different from the other, not only with shorter hair and more tattered clothes. There was not so much compassion on the expression, but a kind of transcendent indifference, and even so, the mortals in front of them still gave way.

There was a circle of people kneeling around the earthen platform. They were all the original followers of General Mu, and when they heard the noise behind them, they turned around and saw Mu Xingqiu coming over. They were also taken aback, they originally forbade others to approach General Mu, but at this time, they automatically got out of the way.

General Mu sat on the earthen platform. It didn't seem to be seriously injured, but his face was frighteningly white, and when he saw Mu Xingqiu, a smile appeared on his face, "When I heard about the loss of memory, I guessed that it would be you." ”

"Do you recognize me?" Mu Xingqiu walked closer.

General Mu nodded, and said to the guards who followed: "Please set up a ban, I want to talk to him alone." ”

Shou Vacant set up nine prohibitions one after another, all of them were mental illusions, and they were still unfinished, so they repaired it for a while, thought about it, withdrew from the ban, and gave up the place.

More and more mortals gathered around, they could see two "General Mu" who looked almost identical, but they couldn't hear their words, the people who arrived later didn't see Mu Xingqiu coming before, and thought that this was General Mu's spell, so they inevitably asked everywhere, so the sound in the valley changed from a group of silkworms chewing leaves to rain hitting bananas, and there was a sound.

"My name is Jin Tuan, you are the real General Mu, do you want to hear about your past?"

"I'm still ...... It's better not to listen. Zuo Liuying once reminded Mu Xingqiu that it was best to know less about his own affairs, although Mu Xingqiu didn't like this point-pointing Taoist priest at all, he felt that there was some truth in his words, and his mind that was too full might have trouble accepting the lost memories.

"Would you like to hear about my past?"

"Hmm. ”

"I am not a descendant of the demon clan, my mother is a brocade-tailed horse in Pangshan, my father is from Yelin Town, is an ordinary jujube red horse, it has some relationship with you, so when I turned into a demon, I unconsciously became your appearance, other than that, we have nothing to do with each other, you and I are not brothers. I used to be the king of spirits and demons, and even before I turned into demons, I could compete with the king of horses. I believe that I am a natural king, this is my belief, so wherever I go, I will consciously and voluntarily shoulder the heaviest responsibility, and everyone is willing to follow me, because the places I walk into are always dangerous. ”

"That's why you came to the Imperial Palace, did you expect that there would be a catastrophe of the five elements?"

"No, I didn't know anything about this catastrophe before I came, I wanted to challenge my abilities, the former king was too easy, I took advantage of the fear and expectation of the demons, and easily gained support, which made me more and more arrogant, thinking that I was different, but the facts proved that I was just an ordinary demon clan, or even worse, because of arrogance, I refused to correct my own problems. So I walked into the territory of the human race, and I came to the Imperial Capital, because this is the most unlikely place to accept me, and I think that if I can get support here, I can be regarded as a real king. ”

"I see. Mu Xingqiu felt Jin Tuo's frankness, and also understood why he had to talk in private, these words were not very pleasant to mortals, "What's the matter with the way of the weak?

Jin Tuan shook his head, a mysterious smile on his face, "The way of the weak exists, but it's not what you or others see. ”

"Is the spell you taught me wrong?" Mu Xingqiu was a little confused, Zhao Chuye and the others thought that Jin Tuan was a liar, but he believed in "General Mu" as much as Shou Que.

"Spell is true, but it's not the way of the weak is intended. After a pause, Jin Tuan began to tell his story of enlightenment in the forest.

Mu Xingqiu listened silently, and found that he more and more agreed with Zhao Chuye's point of view, "Don't you think you have been deceived? The old man Hong Futian and the group of women who stopped in the state were probably all magical. Lie to you to accept the so-called 'way of the weak'. ”

"It is said that when children are sick, parents will make up lies to trick them into taking medicine. In the forest, I was the sick child, who knew that medicine was a good thing, but refused to take it because he was afraid of suffering, so he took a roundabout way to get me to take it. ”

"Who is he?"

Brocade pulled open its collar to reveal the tree on its chest, it had grown a little more, but it was still a small tree, "Have you ever heard of the sacred tree in the state of stopping?" I've heard about it, and you don't remember it. It used to be the source of all the cultivation methods in the world, and was later killed by the Taoist system and the demons. ”

"You got the soul of the Sacred Tree?"

"The sacred tree has no soul, it is itself, the outer form is indistinguishable from the inner quality, and there is no place for such a thing as a soul. Let me ask you, what happens when a tree dies?"

Mu Xingqiu was stunned for a moment, "It will rot, and then ...... Let's become food for insects and other plants and trees. ”

"What happens after death?"

"It's like a tree. ”

"What about the Sacred Tree?"

Mu Xingqiu realized something and pondered for a moment. "It's about nourishing new trees...... You're the new tree?"

"I'm not, I'm a little bug at best, eating a part of the sacred tree and spreading it. ”

"I don't understand. When the sacred tree is dead, why can it still change into old men and women, and why can it still choose you?"

"It didn't choose me, it chose him. Jintu's eyes lit up as he was about to get to the heart of the way of the weak. "There are things that only come to the seeker, such as a puzzling puzzle, a new practice, such as your memory. They will not be recognized, even if they appear in the eyes of unrelated people. In the forest, I was sick, looking for a cure, and so it appeared. You know? It's there, but I found it. If anyone has deceived me, it is myself, I have deceived myself into taking the bitter medicine and comprehending the way of the weak. ”

Mu Xingqiu seemed to understand something, but after thinking about it carefully, he was even more confused, "Then what is the way of the weak?"

"The way of the weak is the vanity and ambition of the strong, there are many people like me in this world, allow me to reveal a little, in the past, you were also like me, you were born to be a leader, and you are even willing to go into a dangerous place for this, because only a dangerous place can have more opportunities to get ahead. The weak and the strong are not two creatures that are completely separated, there are many things that bind them together, the weak attract the strong to throw their heads and spill their blood, and in this process, power is only a means. Even the most indifferent Taoist priests are actually unwittingly used by the weak, and the competition, fighting, and fear between them have cut down big trees one by one, so that the grass below can also see the sun. ”

"Even so?" Mu Xingqiu pointed to the ruined scene around him, the damage caused by the Five Elements Tribulation was in front of him, and there was not one in a hundred mortals who survived.

"This is just the beginning, and only after you see the results will you know who wins and who loses between the strong and the weak. Kun Chao is the biggest powerhouse, so it is also the biggest scourge, he has already provoked the anger of the public, and it will be him who will fall in the end. ”

"And what's the point of what you're doing now?"

"It's all about satisfying my own vanity, and I've been satisfied, Mu Xingqiu, it's time for you to continue. ”

"Me?"

"I borrowed your face and name, and from that point we are indeed brothers, and I suspect that even my vanity and ambition have been learned from you, so you should go on. There is no need to gather mortals together, once the wind is calm, they will soon be divided, let them be, the more scattered the better, they will spread the way of the weak to the world, and inspire more vanity and ambition. ”

Jin Tuan stood up, came to Mu Xingqiu, and motioned for him to walk out of the prohibition together.

Nearly 10,000 mortals looked at the earth platform, and they saw that Mu Feidian had fallen, and General Mu had walked out alone.

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