The years I was in the human world

"You hated the human race so much when you were a child. Why do you seem to have changed your mind now?" Xiao Fengzhuo folded his arms and looked at Yu Zhao. The latter's father was not around when she was young, and her mother regarded her as an enemy. Because her bloodline was polluted, her bloodline relatives also hated her so much.

When he was young, he was bullied by fellow human cultivators. When he was on the run, he was helped by Xiao Fengzhuo, who came out of the mountains to handle important matters. At that time, he had a transcendent status in the demon clan, so protecting a half-blood phoenix was naturally a piece of cake. This was the origin of their acquaintance.

Later, Yu Zhao inherited the Phoenix Tempering, but he didn't know how to control it and his spiritual power went out of control, and he almost died. Xiao Fengzhuo didn't know how to do it either. He was saved by the help of Lin Xiyang, who was out for training and happened to have learned the Phoenix Tempering from a secret realm. Later, Baili Changqing accepted him as his last disciple, and this is how the Phoenix Lord Yu Zhao came into being.

Because of her childhood experiences, Yu Zhao, who was taken in by Xiao Fengzhuo, hated the human race very much and rejected the human blood in herself. Even after she became a disciple of Baili Changqing, this view did not change. Now a hundred years have passed, Yu Zhao is dead, but Xiao Fengzhuo never knew that this girl had such a view.

"Uncle Xiao, the human race is very complicated." Yu Zhao sighed, "They are extremely xenophobic, but extremely tolerant of those who are accepted. They are even willing to die for the survival of a group. They use a word to describe this behavior, called 'righteousness'."

"I did hate them to the core in the past, but people are all made of flesh and blood, and I am half their blood." Yu Zhao looked at Xiao Fengzhuo, his eyes serious and firm, with a burning passion in them, "No matter what, I cannot deny that without the human race, there would be no Yu Zhao today."

"They hurt me deeply, but Yunzhou also saved my life that year, allowing me to escape." Yu Zhao didn't know why she suddenly said so much to Xiao Fengzhuo. She just had an inexplicable feeling. If she didn't say it today, perhaps she would have no one to tell her thoughts to. "Master is very good. He taught me swordsmanship, taught me how to be a good person, and taught me to dare to love and hate. My senior brother betrayed the sect because of a crime, but he treated me with the same sincerity. Because of the saying that an elder brother is like a father, he gave me the love of a father and a brother that I had never experienced before."

"They are all human cultivators. I did have resentment in the past, but I cannot confuse right and wrong." Yu Zhao said, without a trace of gloom in her eyes. Because she had been moved and redeemed, she was still chivalrous and brave at this moment, doing her best to defend Dongshan. "Master Xiao, I am grateful to you, and I am also grateful to them. I am willing to distinguish. No race is completely bad."

"So you didn't return to Zhongting, but stayed in Dongshan. Ye Yunzhou and Ye Jin were fine, but you didn't care about your daughter Kongqing?" Yu Zhao said a lot and felt deeply. Xiao Fengzhuo never knew that she thought like this. However, after listening to Yu Zhao's words, he just felt it was not worth it. Everyone knew what happened in Dongshan in the end. The kind and brave Yu Zhao was eventually burned to death in the flames along with her fiery heart and soul, and summoned Lu Zhouxue who was equally ignorant of the world.

"What will they do if I go back?" Yu Zhao said softly, "Master Xiao is well-informed as always. I heard that after the battle with Wuxiang Kingdom, you returned to the demon tribe to recuperate and even knew about my situation. Now you are out again, but have you recovered from your injuries?"

"Whether you can take good care of yourself or not, you can't rest anymore, so you can go out for a walk." Xiao Fengzhuo dealt with Yu Zhao casually without mentioning that his demon core had been dissected, which meant he could no longer be taken care of. As for Yu Zhao's saying that he was well-informed, he was the head of intelligence after all, and no matter how embarrassed he was, he still had some background.

However, no matter how well-informed he was, he was still unable to stop the Phoenix's rebirth. When he finally arrived, he saw a different Lu Zhouxue.

"You came out for a walk and picked up another child to raise?" Yu Zhao teased, "Uncle Xiao, I'm afraid the pillars of the demon clan today were all picked up by you."

"How can it be that exaggerated." Xiao Fengzhuo pinched his nose, but did not deny it. He came to Zhongting to see Yuzhao. He should have left immediately after he was late. However, he did not expect to see a beautiful woman sitting barefoot on the eaves. She looked lonely and longed for company. Xiao Fengzhuo, who was used to spoiling children, pestered her for some unknown reason. "How do you know that he is not my little husband?"

Xiao Fengzhuo was still somewhat unwilling that his performance was exposed so quickly.

"Uncle Xiao, I'm really not a fool." Yu Zhao sighed helplessly for the third time, "I recognize the look of affection between the two. You cherish him, but you are not in love with him; the child does rely on you, but he is not in love with you either. To put it more deeply, the child looks worried, maybe he already has someone in his heart."

Yu Zhao had a sharp eye, and was definitely not as casual as she appeared to be. She saw through the true situation of the two people's relationship at a glance. She sighed, and then laughed: "I think he is also a mixed-blood. The demon race has always looked down on mixed blood. You have always been generous."

"It's just something I did on the spur of the moment." Xiao Fengzhuo said indifferently. He picked up the strategic deployment that Yu Zhao had drawn up and glanced at it casually, saying, "You only have 10,000 men under your command now. If the evil ghost comes again next time, how can you stop it?"

"Yunzhou has returned to Zhongting to ask for help for me." Yu Zhao took back the strategic deployment document from Xiao Fengzhuo and put it back on the desk. "They don't want to meddle in other people's business anymore, but if Dongshan is breached, Zhongting will also be implicated. It's not good to stay out of it."

"Ye Yunzhou? You trust that kid." Xiao Fengzhuo's tone was a little strange, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Yu Zhao seemed to be a disappointment. The disaster in Dongshan was finally determined to be Yu Zhao's collusion with evil spirits, and Ye Yunzhou and Yaoguang tried their best to resist. Now it seems like a joke.

"I know you don't like him, but Yunzhou is very good." Yu Zhao said helplessly. Xiao Fengzhuo was very good at judging people. He had met Ye Yunzhou once in the past when he was traveling between the two tribes. At that time, he made the comment that "this boy has outstanding talent, but he may not care about his conscience after achieving success." As a result, Baili Changqing and Lin Xiyang looked down on Ye Yunzhou.

"Now that his child and I have grown up, he should have been unable to hide it long ago." Yu Zhao looked at Xiao Fengzhuo sincerely. Now that her master was in seclusion and her senior brother was missing, the only person she could be considered close to was Xiao Fengzhuo, whom she only saw once every eight hundred years, except for Ye Yunzhou. "Now, the only one who cares about Yu Zhao, besides my child, is Master Xiao. Perhaps you can try to accept Yunzhou a little more."

Xiao Fengzhuo had nothing to say. He was the elder, and Yu Zhao was always a little girl in front of him. She wanted him to accept her lover, and he wanted to do the same. But after the Dongshan case, Yu Zhao got into trouble. At that time, he had no time to take care of him because his demon pill was dissected. When he finally had time to spare, everything had changed.

He hadn't found out what happened back then, but seeing that Ye Yunzhou married Yaoguang and that the Ye father and son ignored Kongqing, he could guess that Ye Yunzhou was not a good match. But how could he tell Yu Zhao, who was now just a remnant of the past? What could he change even if he told Yu Zhao about something that had already happened?

"I don't care about your own business." Xiao Fengzhuo waved his hand in annoyance, and simply didn't think too much about these things. He was never a person who was fussy about trivial matters or sentimental. "Where did you take my beauty? I have to go find her."

"Let You Rong take you there." Yu Zhao laughed, "Master Xiao has never been so concerned about Ke Rou."

"Ke Rou is not as cute as him." Xiao Fengzhuo had already left the tent, and only his voice came through.

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"This is it." You Rong brought Xiao Fengzhuo to Lu Zhouxue's tent with a stern face and was about to leave. Xiao Fengzhuo stopped him and said, "Why are you in such a hurry to leave? Don't you want to have a cup of tea?"

"No, the general has important things to do." You Rong stiffly rejected Xiao Fengzhuo's invitation with a stiff face. After a pause, he added, "The general hid the tea with great difficulty, and the general couldn't even drink it."

After saying that, Lu Zhouxue walked away quickly, opened the curtain of the tent and walked out. She glanced at Xiao Fengzhuo with a smile and said, "He told you not to ruin things."

"This boy is totally devoted to Yu Zhao." Xiao Fengzhuo also chuckled. He turned around and saw that Lu Zhouxue's face was still pale. He immediately put away his nonchalant attitude, took Lu Zhouxue's arm and walked into the tent, whispering, "If you are not feeling well, why don't you take a good rest?"

"Rest is not a big deal. It's better to leave the secret realm as soon as possible." Lu Zhouxue explained. The pain in his internal organs was caused by the fact that he killed "Xiao Yueheng" with a sword. It was a heart disease and could not be cured by resting. Instead of dragging Xiao Fengzhuo down and sinking into the secret realm of the beautiful ghost, it would be better to find a way to get out as soon as possible.

"I haven't heard you mention before that Azhuo and my previous incarnation are old acquaintances?" Lu Zhouxue asked.

"Yes." Xiao Fengzhuo did not hide it and briefly explained the origins of his relationship with Yu Zhao. At the end, he said with a sigh and regret, "I was not very close to that girl, but she was a young demon after all, so we had some friendship. It was pitiful that she ended up like that."

"So Ah Zhuo came to Zhongting because of Yu Zhao?" Lu Zhouxue looked at Xiao Fengzhuo with some sadness and frustration in her eyes, but after all, she was not as sharp as she was in front of Baili Changqing. Her tone of voice was calm as it should be.

Although he was somewhat disappointed, he could accept it. He was no longer the same age as before and could no longer care about these perhaps harmless things. Xiao Fengzhuo had never treated him as anyone, and he could not stand the appearance of another Xiao Yueheng.

Xiao Fengzhuo didn't answer him, but reached out and touched his head: "Don't think too much."

The two looked at each other in silence for a moment. Xiao Fengzhuo understood Lu Zhouxue's thoughts. He wanted to explain, but was afraid that he would make things worse by explaining himself. Lu Zhouxue didn't want to delve into it. No matter what, the person was dead after all, whether it was Yu Zhao or the previous Xiao Xueci. Why should he bother with a "dead person"?

"It's time to eat." You Rong, who always had a cold face, brought food to the two of them, put the tray on the only low table in the tent, and said unhappily, "Just leave the dishes and chopsticks there after you finish eating. Someone will come to clean them up."

The meal was just simple brown rice and two vegetarian dishes. It didn't look appetizing. Lu Zhouxue didn't need to eat, and Xiao Fengzhuo only ate to satisfy his appetite. Naturally, he wouldn't force himself to eat such food, so he said, "We're not hungry. You can take it down."

You Rong didn't know the relationship between Xiao Fengzhuo and Yu Zhao. He just thought that they were prostitutes who ran away from the brothel. They were used to eating and drinking well and looked down on the rough food in the army. He snorted coldly and said, "Sometimes even the general may not be able to eat well. You two are so precious!"

You Rong was a border boy who only knew how to fight and kill, so naturally all kinds of emotions showed on his face. Seeing this, Lu Zhouxue felt helpless. He poked Xiao Fengzhuo's waist and motioned him to explain.

Xiao Fengzhuo grabbed Lu Zhouxue's fingers and teased him with a low laugh, "I told you not to touch a man's waist without permission." Then he looked at You Rong, with a smile in his eyes, looking romantic and amorous. You Rong curled his lips and whispered, "Show off!"

Xiao Fengzhuo was not deaf, so he could hear clearly. He was taller, so he hooked his arm around the young guard's shoulder like a good brother and said with his head lowered, "You Rong, right? I remember that I have never offended you, so why are you so cold and rude to me?"

"Stay away from me!" You Rong took a few steps back as if avoiding a flood or a beast, staring at him with wide eyes and vigilantly, saying in a difficult tone, "You are a man of seven feet tall, why do you do this, do this..." He couldn't say the rest of the words, and turned his head away awkwardly, his ears red.

"What?" Xiao Feng had evil intentions and deliberately moved closer to You Rong, determined to play a trick on this overly serious guard.

"He thinks you are violating moral standards." Yu Zhao came in from outside the tent with a loud laugh. He pointed at the food on the table and said to You Rong, "Take it. You don't have to send it anymore. They don't need it."

You Rong was stunned for a moment, then he understood something and realized that he had misunderstood. His face turned even redder and he hurriedly put the food away. Because he was too embarrassed and angry, he tripped over his left foot and almost fell when he walked out of the tent.

"Pfft." Xiao Fengzhuo laughed out loud without giving any face. Yu Zhao looked at him helplessly: "He was kind enough to bring you food, why did you tease him?"

"That kid is interesting." Xiao Fengzhuo laughed so hard that his body shook with laughter. Even Lu Zhouxue couldn't help but be infected by him and her mood unexpectedly improved.

"Uncle, look at him. He is so childish even at his age." Yu Zhao looked at Lu Zhouxue with a smile, complaining about his uncle in person. He handed a hairpin with a red feather on the end to Lu Zhouxue, "As a junior, I don't have any good things, just a hairpin. Please don't despise it, uncle."

Lu Zhouxue looked at Xiao Fengzhuo with a questioning look, but Yu Zhao said, "Uncle, why do you have to look at him? The things are for you, what does it have to do with him?"

"Thank you very much." Lu Zhouxue took it off and put it into his spiritual sea. He looked at the beautiful woman in front of him and recalled the scene in his memory where she disappeared in the flames. He turned around and saw the regret in Xiao Fengzhuo's eyes.

Baili Changqing's self-blame, Gu Yin's regret, and Kong Qing's sadness flashed through Lu Zhouxue's mind one by one. He thought that gods really shouldn't have extra emotions. But he selfishly planted a fragment of the sad red mirror in Yu Zhao's eyes.

If the truth of that year could be made public, at least it would not disappoint so many people's persistence. Lu Zhouxue sighed. Maybe he was wrong before. How could Yu Zhao not be loved? It was obvious that so many people were thinking about her.