I will bury the gods

Chapter 246 Xiaoyu's crime has been ordered
"These days, as long as I close my eyes, I will think of the prophecy of the patriarch. It is a blazing flame, which makes me toss and turn, unable to sleep. From time to time, I will go to see the child in the swaddle. Generally speaking, the baby will be a little ugly. They have bloated bodies, wrinkled skin, and cry all day long, but he is different, according to the prophecy of the patriarch, he is the offspring of the devil."

"A prophecy...a prophecy again. On that day, when I went to the dead city, it was my good friend Jing Yezi who predicted it for me. When I first met Jing Yezi decades ago, he was still a poor alchemist. I often compare myself to Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang, but my calculations are inaccurate. If I hadn’t helped him many times, he would have died of starvation and poverty. But these years, he has become richer and richer. When I saw him again, He wears a high Taoist crown and a rhinoceros jade belt, and the fans around him are all dignitaries."

"People in the world pass him on like a god, saying that he was born with dharma, he is the reincarnation of the Buddha, and he knows the past and future. I also asked him why you have become so skilled. In a windy and snowy day, he had an epiphany when he was dying. I know, he didn't tell me the truth."

"Two months ago, Jing Yezi found me and asked me to go to that famous city. I asked him why, but he didn't tell me, but told me the truth about the past."

"He said that he was just a charlatan in the past, and he only knew simple things. One day, as usual, he set up a stall on the street to cheat. A rich man suddenly found him and asked him to help him do the calculations. He told the hexagrams truthfully. When he closed his stall in the evening, the rich man surrounded him with a group of people. He thought that his nonsense caused some trouble, so he turned around and was about to run away. Unexpectedly, the rich man bowed down and called out He's a god."

"After that, he found that his calculations were unexpectedly accurate, which made him feel scared. He remembered many ancestral teachings of those who leaked the secrets, but greed overwhelmed fear, and he began to accumulate a lot of money, and Don't compare yourself to Li Yuan, he feels that he has completely surpassed all his predecessors."

"But two months ago, when he found me, he was completely out of shape. He held my hand and said that he was very scared because he found that his calculations had almost no deviation. I asked, shouldn't you feel Are you happy, why are you afraid? He replied, if the fortune-telling is accurate enough, doesn’t it mean that the future of the world is freezing and people are falling into the quagmire of inescapable fate?”

"'The world was not like this in the past' he said. At that time, he tried to pry numerology from Zhouyi, turtle shells, palm prints, and celestial phenomena, but found nothing. But now, the world is undergoing earth-shaking changes where people can't see it. , a huge 'demon' was born, it is in charge of everything in the future, it can account for all the choices of everyone, it will make the fate public, and wandering Taoist priests are its mouthpiece."

"He told me that he planned to live in seclusion in the future. I thought he was going to retire completely, but he said that he would keep counting until the ultimate mystery of the world was settled. When he said this, his eyes were red and his teeth were gritted, like a real madman."

"Two months later, I picked up this child in the dead city. I pried open his mouth and saw the black scales. 'The evil dragon was reincarnated as a human, with the reverse scale in his mouth, to bring disaster to the common people', the patriarch secretly passed on My brief prophecy exploded in my heart."

"I have the ability to decide the life and death of this child, but I don't have the slightest joy of being in charge of fate. On the contrary, I feel Jing Yezi's fear in my place. I know that from the moment I have the ability to decide the direction of fate, I will also become Slaves to fate."

"..."

The sky outside was getting dark, and the light on Gongyu's palm was getting brighter and brighter. The words on the booklet seemed to be dancing with the flames, showing a sense of distortion and strangeness. There were not many new things recorded in it, but it was hopeless However, the sense of fate has passed through the back of the paper, infecting the viewer.

Xiaohe also stood behind Lin Shouxi and watched the notes with him. She couldn't help but think of the fortune teller she met that day. She gave him Lin Shouxi's horoscope. Right.

After reading this note, Lin Shouxi realized that the rumors that were once widely circulated in the sect when he was a child have such a long history.

Here are the first few pages of the notes, in correct handwriting.

"Frozen fate..." Lin Shouxi murmured softly, "How is this possible? If fate really exists, wouldn't human beings' self-righteous freedom become a joke?"

"I also noticed this many years ago."

Gong Yu parted his red lips slightly, and said: "But this kind of calculation is usually only for mortals. Most mortals live in one place all their lives, and the highest parental official they can come into contact with is only the county magistrate. The real big event in life is nothing but marriage and funeral. Marriage, many people, even if they don't understand numerology, can easily see through the life of a cowherd boy, because most of their life trajectories are too simple, but the life of a monk is unpredictable. They can calculate the major events that they must go through in their lives, but they can’t make certainty about their lives, so... don’t be too afraid.”

After Lin Shouxi and Xiaohe heard this, there was no relief on their faces.

"Could it be that the alchemist is not smart enough?" Xiaohe asked softly.

Gong Yu couldn't answer this doubt, she was silent for a while, and asked Lin Shouxi: "Do you want to continue reading?"

"Look." Lin Shouxi said.

Gong Yu continued to turn the pages of the book.

The booklet was flipped back, and the handwriting was clear on the yellowed paper. Lin Shouxi could even imagine the appearance of the old sect master when he wrote these words.

"The Taoist school also picked up a baby, and it can be predicted that it will also be a peerless genius. The death of the city will seriously damage the vitality of the Taoist school, but if I insist on my own opinion and kill him, then the power of the devil will be completely out of balance in the future. Patriarch The vision that has been passed down will also be impossible to realize. I am really confused, such a simple truth was actually told to me by my younger brother."

"I have never controlled his life and death. It is my destiny to pick him up and raise him."

"There is a saying in the Tao Te Ching, if you know that the male guards the female, it is the stream under heaven, so let him guard the stream."

"There are too many people in the world who want to kill him. Since then, the Demon Sect has stopped recruiting disciples."

After that, the time span was very long, and what was recorded in the books were mostly trivial matters and his thoughts.

In the next few years, he raised Lin Shouxi to grow up. During this period, he tried to kill Lin Shouxi many times, not because he really wanted to kill Lin Shouxi, but because he subtly believed that killing Lin Shouxi was equivalent to fighting against fate. , which is very tempting.

Especially later, a sect master descended from the heavens of the Taoist sect.

This sect master has brought despair and fear to Momen for several years. This once thriving sect, which almost became the leader of the martial arts, is irreversibly declining.

Watching the two sects ebb and flow but powerless, one can imagine the pain and pressure he endured as the master of one sect. Taking refuge, there were also many disciples who couldn't bear the lifeless days of cultivation and sneaked out of the black cliff to join other sects. He knew all about it, but he didn't intend to stop it.

Lin Shouxi only found out today that the seemingly amiable master had been hesitant to kill him for countless nights, but when he was seven years old, the master stood behind him and once had a real murderous intention, even They had already hung their palms behind his neck, but when he turned his head, when the master looked at his powder-carved face, he touched his head and said with emotion: "It's so big! what."

'He is a child of the Demon Sect' the old Sect Master wrote in his notes.

After that, the old sect master also recorded an unimportant incident. One day he heard Lin Shouxi chatting with his senior brothers and sisters. The senior brothers and sisters teased him and asked him, what do you want to do in the future.

"I want to revitalize the sect." Lin Shouxi said.

The brothers and sisters were overjoyed after hearing this, and asked, "Are you going to revitalize the Demon Sect in the future?"

"I want to revitalize the Hehuan Sect." The young Lin Shouxi replied ideally.

"..."

Seeing this, everyone inside and outside the book fell silent.

"Okay, I didn't expect our Mr. Lin to have such a big ambition since he was a child." Xiaohe's chuckle was a bit chilly, and her slender little hands put Lin Shouxi's shoulders, and lightly touched Lin Shouxi's shoulders along the shoulders. Gently stroking the upper neck, the movement is as gentle as breathing.

Lin Shouxi's back felt a little chilled, and he argued weakly, "Tong Yan Wuji, this...is just a joke."

"Really?" Xiaohe raised her hand, touched his ear, squeezed it, and asked, "Aren't you going to revive the sect, why are you worshiping under the Taoist sect instead?"

After asking this question, Xiaohe herself was also taken aback. Then, she showed a look of sudden realization, squeezed Lin Shouxi's ears tightly, and said: "I understand, the way you revitalize the sect is to break into the inside of the sect! No wonder You not only got acquainted with Sister Mu, but also seduced Sister Chu... Lin Shouxi, you really don't forget your original intention."

"I..." Lin Shouxi was rendered speechless, and the old sect master's evidence was solid in black and white, and he didn't know how to refute it, so he faltered for a while.

"Although your tactic is insidious, it's executed quite well." Xiaohe said more and more vigorously, she squinted her eyes, and asked curiously: "You follow the clues like this, and you go deep into the layers. In the end, will you not even touch the master?" Adults also want to..."

"cough."

Gong Yu stood aside and coughed coldly.

Xiaohe's delicate body trembled, and she just woke up. She knew that she had slipped her words, so she couldn't help covering her lips with her palm, and carefully looked at Master.Although Gong Yu's true energy is lost, the remaining prestige is still there, Xiaohe's heart tightens when the ice-cold Xiandi sees it, she obediently argues: "I...I was also joking."

Gong Yu hummed lightly, and turned the notes to the next page.

On the following page, the span of the notes is directly three years:

"Recently, I was flustered and couldn't sleep. In the Qianji Cave in Guigu Mountain, I saw my old friend Jing Yezi again. When I went, he had Xiaodaotong prepare a table of dishes. He said, He knew that I would come today. I also met another old friend of mine in Qianji Cave, he is the suzerain of Zhenzong, Jing Yezi said that he would die at the hands of the Taoist sect master, but he didn’t believe it.”

"We had dinner together. When we were parting, the lord of Zhenzong told me that if one day the lord of Daomen attacked the black cliff, I would not come to save you. I didn't want to die in her hands. I didn't say anything. I don't want him to come, and under the general situation, it is useless for anyone to come. I asked Jing Yezi if he had figured out anything important. Jing Yezi hesitated for a long time before leaning into my ear. He lowered his voice and said: I have seen the destiny, although it is only the tip of the iceberg."

"He also said that he monopolizes the eight buckets of luck for the alchemists in the world. From now on, alchemists will never be able to reach his level even if they have magical calculations."

"I didn't understand what he meant, so I asked him about the so-called destiny. I know that such alchemists usually like to play riddles with mysteries on the grounds that the destiny cannot be revealed, so I didn't have any hope for the answer at first, who knew Jing Yezi Not only did he give me the answer, but it was also very clear.”

"He dipped his finger in the water and wrote two words on the stone table in front of me, Echeng."

"E city... I thought this was referring to the dead city where the true energy originated, but Jing Yezi shook his head and said, according to the results of divination, this city should be in the extreme north, located in the deep ice and snow. The city is very ancient, it existed before human beings were born, and it is the entrance to a secret realm. As for what is inside, Jing Yezi does not know, he said, it is what he dreams of the most The place, because the ultimate of numerology is hidden there, but he can't go there, he is not a practitioner, and he can't survive that kind of ice and snow."

Subsequent notes span another two years.

"It's been a long time since I started writing...Jing Yezi is the messenger for the devil, and he bewitched me."

"I want to go to the north, to find the city of calamity. I'm not sure whether I want to escape or really want to face the truth of the world, but my body is getting old, and it reminds me every day , say you're dying, you're dying for nothing."

"When I was young, I liked arithmetic, astronomy, music theory, poetry, wine, singing and dancing. I thought that as long as I rode my beloved horse and picked up my beloved woman, there would be nowhere in the world that I couldn't go to. When you are old, you will be more energetic. It really got worn out unconsciously, and now I'm talking about putting the overall situation first, but the situation is getting more and more chaotic... I shouldn't die with regrets and become a dead bone in the grave."

"I'm going to Echeng."

The following content is very monotonous. It tells about the preparations he made when he left for Echeng. The preparations are very detailed and complete, taking into account various situations.

When reading this, not to mention Lin Shouxi and Xiaohe, even in Gongyu, there was a trace of nervousness in their pupils.

They knew that no matter how detailed these preparations were, they were still useless, because he was going to an unknown place.

"Has he told you about this?" Gong Yu asked.

"Master never told me." Lin Shouxi shook his head.

In his memory, when he was 12 years old, the master did disappear for a while. At that time, the master said that he was going to retreat. Today he found out that he was going to the snowy city of the extreme north.

Gong Yu nodded slightly, and was about to turn to the next page, when suddenly, a strong night wind blew the window open.

After the lamp flame shook violently, it went out, and a slender wisp of white smoke floated up, chilling people's hearts.

Gong Yu closed the window, lit the candles again, and then continued to turn the pages.

Then, they were all taken aback.

Many of the following pages have been crossed out with ink pens, and the strokes are so clean that not a single word can be read clearly.

"This..." Lin Shouxi frowned.

Logically speaking, this content should be the process of Master leaving for Echeng, which is a very important thing, but it has been completely wiped out now... Is there any secret hidden in it that Master does not want us to know?
Keep turning, keep turning, the same is true for the following pages, until the last page, the handwriting on the notes became clear again:

"It's been the third month since I came back from Echeng. Every time I think about this experience, I'm not sure if it's real. Have I really got rid of my fate? Or is it my own Fate... Forget it, it’s meaningless to think about it. This black and purple line is getting deeper and deeper, and my lifespan is coming to an end, I won’t live long.”

"Shouxi has grown up, I believe that one day he will become the best player in the world, and I..."

"Damn it."

The notes stopped abruptly.

……

"I wish I had seen this note sooner."

After a long time, Gong Yu extinguished the candle and said quietly.

She remembered the manuscript left by her mother, which recorded a place called Zhenguo, which was in the extreme north of another world, and might be related to this Evil City, but no matter how interested she was in this Evil City, With her current body, she couldn't reach it at all.

Gong Yu closed the notebook, saved it again, and then took the initiative to push Lin Shouxi out of this lifeless study, into the cool autumn night.

The waning moon was hanging high, the clouds were floating, and the temple towered into black shadows in the night. Except for the wheelchair running over the ground, there was no sound at all.

"I want to talk to Lin Shouxi alone."

Gong Yu stopped and said to Xiaohe.

Xiaohe has always respected the master, and has no objection or suspicion, so she hummed, turned around obediently, and went to clean up the house.

After Xiaohe left, Lin Shouxi asked respectfully: "What does the master want to say to the apprentice?"

Gong Yu slowly pushed the wooden wheelchair and asked softly, "Do you hate me?"

"..." Lin Shouxi didn't expect her to ask such a question. He thought for a while and replied, "I hated it before, but I don't hate it now."

Gong Yu lowered his head, looked at the severely injured boy in the wheelchair, and spoke softer, "Thinking about the past recently, I always feel that I did a lot of things wrong."

"Did you do many things wrong?" Lin Shouxi asked back.

"Well, I was too proud in the past."

Gong Yu nodded lightly, as if imitating his own edict, after a slight pause, a slightly ethereal voice floated from his lips: "I have been in this world for many years, but I have never really put this world in my eyes , In the past, it was easy for me to rule the Taoist sect and even the world, and the purpose of my doing this was to keep my practice uninterrupted. After I broke through the magic gate, I didn't touch anything here. I feel that these ancient books that ordinary people regard as treasures are of no use to me, so I missed this note. The master of Zhenzong beat me by half a point in Taiji, and I didn't really take it seriously. Instead, I felt pity for him spending his whole life to slightly surpass me in a certain way... I have always been an arrogant person in my bones, even vain arrogance , I obviously don’t care about world affairs, but I want to prove my strength to the whole world, and I have been like this since I was a child.”

The voice of Gongyu was so heavy that it was not in the past. Lin Shouxi didn't understand why the master said this, and why he had to say it to him alone. He could hear the exhaustion in the heavy tone of the master, and he couldn't help feeling nervous .

After saying this, Gong Yu remained silent.

In the autumn night, there is no mosquito interference, no fireflies flying, and no grass grows on the top of the black cliff, so there are no birds to inhabit, so it is extremely quiet.

The night was silent, Lin Shouxi didn't know how to respond to her words, so he had to choose to be silent with the night.

After a long time, Gong Yu's red lips moved slightly, and he took the initiative to ask: "Lin Shouxi, in your eyes... what kind of person is a teacher?"

"Hmm... When I didn't know Shizu before, I thought Shizu was a powerful and mysterious enemy. Later, I found that Shizu is very beautiful, with an imperceptible softness." Lin Shouxi summarized it seriously. He originally said "Qingao" , but the master had criticized it before, so he didn't say it again.

"My appearance was given to me by my parents. Natural beauty is not something to be proud of. Similarly, my talent is also given to me by my parents. They are all great monks in the realm of human gods, and I am their only daughter, so I was born in response to the times." Yes, I was born with gold and silver in my arms, but for a long time, I didn’t think about making progress. If I hadn’t met a mentor who led me to the right track, I don’t know when I would be able to cheer up.” Gong Yu pushed the wheelchair and walked in the cool night like water, so Say.

"Didn't the master say before that you practiced deeply when you were young?" Lin Shouxi asked suspiciously.

"That's a lie. I was lazy and playful when I was young."

Gong Yu recalled the past and smiled self-deprecatingly. She walked in the night wind and said words that she would never say in the past: "But for a long time, I was confused by myself. I paranoidly thought that all this was I grabbed it with both hands, but is that really the case, it's not..."

"Master, why do you want to belittle yourself? If you continue to talk like this, it's an overkill... Master should be tired. Let's rest earlier." Lin Shouxi said softly.

"No." Gong Yu shook his head and continued, stubbornly and earnestly: "There are many people in the world who are naturally attracted to the strong. They will imitate the daily life and travel or catchphrases of the strong, and take it as a trend. They will think that everything the strong does is worthless. It makes sense, even if I fail, I still feel as tragic as my ideals are disillusioned... I am also such a person, and what is different from them is that I admire myself. I admire my own strength, and I regard the perfection of the realm as the state of mind. I did a lot of wrong things, but I didn't know it at the time... For example, Shi Jing and Chu Chu, they worshiped me as their teacher, respected me and loved me, but I didn't try my best to teach them well... I actually liked it Theirs, especially Chuchu, every time I see her, I will think of her mother when she was young, but the more so, the more I want to bully her... Heh, it's like being angry with her mother."

Gong Yu smiled softly, she seemed to be reviewing herself, but also seemed to be watching with cold eyes, telling herself what she was unwilling to admit in the past.

"I often say that the seven sinful ring goddesses in the Holy Soil Temple are sick, but... I seem to have some sickness too." Gong Yu pushed him to the edge of the cliff, looked at the night like a sea of ​​ink, and said.

"It's extremely cold at high places. Master has been at the peak of the world for a long time, so it's inevitable that he will catch the wind and cold. It's harmless." Lin Shouxi said comfortingly.

"You can talk." Gong Yu rubbed his hair, and said, "You might as well say that I fell into the mundane world and was not acclimatized."

Lin Shouxi couldn't help smiling when he heard this.

Gong Yu let go of the hand holding the handle of the wheelchair, and walked in front of him. Her legs bent slightly, and she bent down a little. After folding a lock of hair behind her ears, her deep autumn eyes came to him. She met Lin Shouxi's eyes, as if expecting some response, after a while, she said softly, "It would be great if my master was still alive."

Lin Shouxi was startled, and vaguely, he caught a trace of familiarity in her eyes, but this familiarity had no reason.

He straightened his expression, and said in a serious tone: "You know that you have made mistakes, so why put your hope of correcting them on others? Could it be that after knowing these mistakes, you still have to complain, 'it's all because Master left early and didn't take care of me. Teach me well? Master... don't ask outside."

"..."

Gong Yu's eyes flickered, she smiled and said, "Well, you are right, then... what do you think I should do?"

"Hmm..." Lin Shouxi thought for a while, and said, "It's very simple. You write down everything you think is wrong on paper, cross out every time you correct something, and reflect on yourself every time you make a mistake again."

"Okay." Gong Yu nodded with a smile, and his words were somewhat cute.

The night was getting darker.

She pushed Lin Shouxi back to his original room.

Knocking on the door, Xiaohe hugged him back.

After Lin Shouxi left, she faced the bright moonlight alone, and turned back into that proud, beautiful, and unworldly Taoist fairy.

It's just that when looking at Lin Shouxi's wing, there will always be a shallow stream of light flowing through the bottom of his eyes.

She stood gracefully in the night, smiling, and said to herself: "Yes, I blame Master for leaving early and not teaching Xiaoyu well."

　Bigger failure, useless sword qwq, but everyone can draw prizes twice!

　　Thanks to the rudder master who rewarded Xiao Yizhi~ Thank you book friends for your support~ Meme~
　　
　
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