Kevin, but he is a male mother in Xingtie with little Ai Li

Following the direction of the old and lonely voice, one can easily see a figure walking out of a courtyard somewhere - it is an old fox man, the fur on his ears has faded to gray like his hair, and the tail behind him is in a state of limpness and drooping, as if he had suffered some unimaginable blow.

Compared to the Xianzhou people who are nearly a thousand years old and will not be taken away by the judge and declared dead until the devil's Yin body appears, the lifespan of the fox people is only three hundred years or so. However, in theory, they will not age. Instead, they will suddenly die due to cell failure at the end of their lifespan, but they will not look so old.

"Hey, this old man, who are you......?"

The strange environment in the rift and the truth that he had just learned made Qingque more alert. Then he hid his vigilance in his heart and looked at the other party with a slightly kind face.

"Me? I used to be a Cloud Rider, but I don't know whether it was luck or misfortune that I survived the war against the Fengrao people. However, I also got a chronic illness because of it, and even taking care of these children in this compound is so difficult for me."

The old fox man shook his head and introduced himself, his eyes unable to hide the sadness. It was not until he looked up at Kevin again that he asked hopefully, "Excuse me...are you also a member of the Medicine King's secret teachings?"

It was obvious that the old man had been hiding in the dark and witnessed the whole process when Kevin killed the spirit beast, otherwise he would not be so kind at this moment.

"No." Kevin shook his head.

Hearing this, the old fox's eyes dimmed immediately, and he asked in a low voice: "So, the purpose of your coming here is actually to remove the roots of Jianmu here?"

Even though he hid it very well, and even though most people would think that such an old guy would not be intimidating, Kevin still felt the other party's intention very clearly - if he expressed such a tendency, he would definitely reveal his murderous intent without mercy, even if he would never be his opponent.

But don't underestimate him. After all, he is a warrior who was able to survive that brutal war. He is not an old man with no deterrent power.

"At least at this moment, I still don't have such intention."

However, Kevin had no inclination to give in or hide anything, because he didn't need to do so.

"I'm here just to find the two girls who entered it a while ago, that's all."

Chapter 114: Boss Kevin! Woo woo woo...

"Girls...Oh, girls? Yes, there are two girls here..."

It was not until this moment that Qingque was suddenly shocked to find that the old man in front of him seemed to be strange not only in appearance but also in his mental state when speaking - as if he was being controlled by something from a distance, and everything he said was in an extremely trance.

"Those two girls... they are both very kind people, and they are even willing to do something for these children. It would be great if there were more people like them... Come with me... Please."

After Kevin's affirmative answer, the old man's state completely fell from the lucidity just now to this trance state. However, he still turned around and took Kevin and the other person step by step towards the deeper level of the rift.

This person clearly looks like an old lady who is nearing the end of her life, but she walks even more briskly than Qingque... Even though her short legs are not really that long, they can't be slower than a normal old lady, right?

In just a few minutes, the other party brought Kevin and the others to a magnificent hall. Kevin didn't even need to deliberately sense the nearby dimensional levels. Just from the fact that there were countless more roots wrapped around this building than in other places, he was able to accurately distinguish it from other places.

However, not all vines come out from here, but those thick branches all regard this place as their final foothold. In short, this is the "top" where "it" blooms and bears fruit.

Other people might not be able to tell the difference between these two things that look almost the same, but in Kevin's eyes, there is nothing difficult to tell the difference.

"We're here. This is it... The girl you're looking for is inside... The others are inside too..."

As this strange fox-man stood in front of the hall, the branches wrapped around the door seemed to have sensed his arrival and began to move away little by little, creating a path just big enough for the few people to pass through.

"What's in here?!"

As the tightly closed door was opened, bright golden light instantly shone on the faces of several people, scaring Qingque so much that his eyes widened immediately.

After getting used to the light, they could see the situation inside the hall very clearly - unlike the lifeless roots outside, the spreading branches inside not only grew lush green leaves, but were also covered with plump golden flower buds. The light they felt at this moment came from here.

The buildings and plants in the hall converge together. Instead of looking messy or weird, it gives people a very fresh and fairyland-like illusion.

But this seemingly beautiful scene could not evoke any good emotions in Qingque. Instead, it made her face full of doubt: "No way... Jianmu, Jianmu is really going to be resurrected??!"

Of course, she had seen the blooming Jianmu tree in various books before, and the pictures in the books were almost exactly the same as what she saw before her eyes.

The revival of Jianmu... is not a good thing at all for the Immortal Boat. Not only will it cause unrest in the Immortal Boat itself, it will also make many people who covet immortality and have ill intentions target the Immortal Boat. Just thinking about it will give you an idea of ​​how terrifying that is.

"Is that old man back? Hey... that, that's... Boss Kevin!!!"

Before the people who stepped into the hall took a few steps, they saw a figure walking out from the side, and then rushed towards Kevin quickly as if they had seen a relative they hadn't seen for a long time.

She was even tactful enough not to hug him directly, but instead hugged Kevin's arm and cried, "Wow, Kevin, you finally came to save us. This place is really not a place for people to stay! There are monsters everywhere outside that can't be killed. I once thought I would never see you again."

"Besides, the children here all look so pitiful... Not only do they have no relatives, but many of them also have physical defects. They are even locked in this yard and cannot go out for decades... Shouldn't we find a way to help them?"

After crying a little about her miserable situation, Paddo immediately shifted her focus to the children in the orphanage... Perhaps in Paddo's own opinion, nothing really happened to her after all, and of course those poor children were more important.

"What...what a coincidence?"

Kevin first looked up and forward, then nodded to Xing who was waving at him with an awkward smile, and then he turned his attention back to little Pardo beside him.

It was easy to understand that the immortal boat people had created more than one spirit beast with Jianmu. Even though they only encountered one for some reason, it seemed that Paduo's situation was not much better. If Xing hadn't been there, he would have been injured.

Before Kevin could continue speaking, Padu loosened his arms and scratched his head, saying a little embarrassedly, "We found that those people who received the secret teachings from the King of Medicine are not that bad. They are also doing good things?"

"Although we still don't know exactly what Jianmu is, but I heard from this old man that as long as we can let the children here who suffer from 'Tianque' eat the fruit born from Jianmu, their bodies can be restored to their original state, and there are no hidden dangers at all!"

"Although those monsters seem to prevent us from approaching the fruit, this is where it will bloom and bear fruit. We just need to stay here quietly and wait for these branches to bloom and bear fruit."

According to historical records, the ancestors of the Xianzhou people ate the fruit produced by Jianmu, which gave them the "infinite life" that would never age. This even blessed their descendants, making the Xianzhou people completely immortal.

Well, it is only natural that Jianmu, which possesses such great power, should have its fruit able to restore the "defect in the sky" caused by Jianmu to normal.

But Kevin was not as naive as Pado, who thought that the purpose of the Medicine King's secret teachings was simply to restore the health of these children. He was a little skeptical that they just wanted to restore the Immortal Boat to the period of "abundance" thousands of years ago.

"Since they have all been arranged... let's go, Padu, what's happening here has nothing to do with us."

"Hey, but why?!"

Chapter 115: How many men have ever returned from the battles in history?

Kevin is not from Xianzhou, and he doesn't know much about its history... He doesn't know why Xianzhou hates "Abundance" so much, and it is impossible for him to judge from an outsider's perspective whether the Xianzhou with Jianmu is better or the Xianzhou without Jianmu is stronger.

But at least now it seems that no matter the Secret Teachings of the King of Medicine or the officials of the Immortal Boat, they are all people belonging to the same civilization after all. Kevin can judge the inferiority, but he cannot interfere in this internal war as an outsider.

Just like he thought that Xianzhou's constant launching of external wars was not a good thing. But he also knew that the immortality of the people of Xianzhou was extremely attractive to countless short-lived species. If they were not strong enough, there would be more people who would launch wars against Xianzhou.

War is such a sad but helpless thing... You can't persuade the powerful Xianzhou to stop claiming its sovereignty. Then when those Fengrao people think that Xianzhou is weak and actively invade, will you come forward to be responsible for those who died as a result?

No, you can't... Even Kevin himself believes that he can never be held responsible for the loss of any life.

Choose the cleaner of two evils... Haha, this is what Kevin dislikes the most, but it is also the reality he has been choosing from the beginning to the end, and it is the choice that best faces the truth of this world.

Maybe Xianzhou’s current choice is the one that can minimize the grief, or maybe there are other better options, but you can’t find him, and you can’t hold anyone responsible for it.

As mentioned earlier, everything has two sides, and one-sided judgment does not have any legitimate meaning...

Therefore, these children who were trapped in tragedy because of Xianzhou's foreign wars, and the Xianzhou people who chose to join the secret teachings of the King of Medicine because of this or other reasons... As the ones who were sacrificed in grief under such a choice, they have the right to question such a world and civilization, and even Kevin is not qualified to take away their power to resist fate.

"We don't belong to this civilization, Paddo."

Seeing his companion's puzzled look, Kevin explained softly, "You can change the situation of one or two people, but as long as the Immortal Boat remains like this, there will still be countless people who will suffer tragedies because of it... Can you guarantee that you can save all of them?"

"This...I..."

Kevin's words instantly made Paddo fall into a state of confusion. It was true that she was kind-hearted when it came to children, but how could her ambitions be so big?

Even a fool could have guessed that there were still countless children in the world who lived in misery for various reasons, but how could she really save all of them? She couldn't even take care of herself most of the time.

Pado did indeed begin to hesitate at this moment.

Indeed, according to the current situation, the flower buds here will mature soon, and the children will be able to successfully eat the fruits and restore their health. There is no need for her to stay here any longer. She cannot take good care of everyone.

"No! You absolutely cannot leave now!!!"

Before Paduo could really make a decision for herself, the old fox man suddenly seemed to be triggered by some key words. He broke out of his trance and roared with a very ferocious face.

"Ah? Grandpa, what's wrong with you?"

Paduo was about to step forward to ask something, but Kevin pulled her back abruptly. He shook his head at her and said, "Judging from his physical condition, he didn't have much time left. Now under the dual erosion of the Rift and Jianmu... He may have completely fallen into the devil's body under the influence of obsession."

Before this, in fact, even Kevin himself thought that was a state only a person on the Immortal Boat would fall into...but the old fox man in front of him taught him a lesson face to face.

Maybe even when Paddo first saw him, the old man was still in a completely normal and kind state of mind and body. It's just a pity... when Kevin saw him, he was completely hopeless.

Things in the world change so quickly and so...unpredictably.

"Ah, but how is it possible..."

Padu wanted to explain something, but the old man in front of him could no longer maintain his spirit. He covered his head and shouted in pain: "As long as you go out, you will definitely tell others what happened here, right? Everyone thinks they are right... Why do everyone think they are right! "

"Those Xianzhou people outside who believe in 'hunting' and war don't care at all... The children here, you know... the war, because of the war, they lost their parents and support and were abandoned here, and there are very few people willing to pay attention to them... But do you know what the most tragic thing is?"

When talking about the children, his crazy and turbid eyes even eased a little, but were completely devoured by hatred the next second: "Their parents died in the war, but there are still some surviving comrades who are willing to take care of them. They are the only ones willing to accept them..."

"They opened their hearts to them, just like real family... But as long as the war continues, they will have to go to the battlefield again and again!"

"Time and again! Year after year! Fewer and fewer people are able to come back! These children... they just got their new families, but they have to fall into the grief of losing their families again. Why? Why!!!"

The old man himself is a survivor of the war. The reason he came here is naturally because there are many children whose parents were his comrades-in-arms.

The other comrades who had entrusted their lives to each other would naturally not forget to visit the orphans of the deceased, but as time went by, they had to participate in one war after another... Sooner or later, luck would be exhausted, and even if only one person was killed in a team of one hundred, they would not always be the lucky ninety-nine.

Yes, the lifespan of the immortal boat people is a thousand years. So how many years of war does a cloud rider have to go through before he can retire gloriously after he steps on the battlefield when he is over two hundred years old?

Don’t laugh at me sleeping drunk on the battlefield. How many men have ever returned from the battles throughout history?

Chapter 116: Discipline cannot fill the abyss

"I hate war... I hate the Immortal Boat... Why do such a powerful civilization have to bear the consequences for these innocent children?!"

"This kind of place should have been destroyed long ago!!!"

The crazy roar was so heartbreaking. It was obvious that the old fox man was still completely eroded by hatred and another strange energy. Although his appearance still looked normal at the moment, Kevin could feel that his mind had long been distorted into an indescribable state.

Not to mention him, even if Abonia, who is the best at this, was here, he might not be able to bring the opponent's condition back to normal level.

The mental distortion soon affected the physical level... It seems that the fox people's bloodline does not have the same influence left by Jianmu as the bodies of the Xianzhou people. The thing that caused them to transform into the immortal species was probably not comparable to Jianmu of the Xianzhou.

But just as his body gradually showed signs of changing into a 'beast' form, the roots around him suddenly began to rapidly climb towards his body, and the imaginary energy in the rift also began to pour into his body.

It felt as if they were deliberately trying to shape it into a terrifying monster...

"Kai, Boss Kevin, what should we do now... Can you help this old man?"

In Padu's impression, the image of this old fox man was obviously still exactly the same as when she first met him - although Kevin didn't know much about him, he thought that an old man who was willing to guard those children for so many years could not be a bad person.

"..."

"Stand back, Paddo."

Kevin did not make any promise to Pado that he would be able to save the other person. After all, even in his perception, the real old man might have died before he arrived. The erosion of living things by things like the rift is not limited to the physical shell.

For an old man who was almost imprisoned, he had no resistance to such things at all, let alone other levels of torture such as the evil spirit and Jianmu.

Oh, this is really...

boom--!

As Kevin's figure flashed, the thick Jianmu roots wrapped around the old man were all easily smashed by a punch, and then the almost completely unrecognizable body inside was revealed -

It still retains some of the characteristics of a fox man, but most of its body is completely covered by branches, making it look like a strange combination of human, animal and plant.

"You damn guys...how could you understand!!!"

I don’t know what kind of persistence has made him never forget the hatred in his heart even though he has become like this... Kevin has no doubt that if he is really released, he may even launch indiscriminate attacks on all the people in the Immortal Boat?

"I don't understand what kind of hatred you have in your heart, but... I think the real you is dead. What is left here is just a shell supported by hatred under the influence of the Rift."

Kevin didn't know whether the man could understand what he said now, so after he finished speaking, the huge ice crystal instantly froze the nearby roots and the man's body, leaving only the head, the only part of the body that could still be called a "human", exposed.

Even though he knew that it might not be possible to achieve any effective changes, Kevin still gently stretched out his hand and applied the "discipline" that he had just mastered not long ago to the other person.

The first of the precepts is that you must not forget the basics of being a human being.

The second precept is that you must not be anxious or irritable.

The third of the 'Precepts' is...

Perhaps it was because of the influence of Aponia in the past, so that the "Discipline" used by Kevin inevitably carried some of her feelings...but fortunately, this would not affect his use of the "Discipline", on the contrary, it might even improve it.

Finally, under the constant restraint of one commandment after another, the opponent stopped roaring bit by bit. The only pity was that... the body that had been infected had not changed at all.