【Xue Xiao】Desolate City Crossing

In the darkness, Xiao Xingchen felt suffocated.

He couldn't see the light because his eyes were covered with layers of bandages, so he could only guess from the cold feeling around his body and the voice above his head that he was floating in the sea, unable to control his direction.

"Daoist..."

A distant call from the bottom of the sea, the voice is sweet and full of infinite bewitchment.

As soon as he stretched out his hand, another hand caught him. At the same time, countless vines entangled his body, making him unable to move. He could only follow the owner of the other hand and sink into the deep sea.

The illusory consciousness drifted away gradually, and he suddenly couldn't tell whether it was him who was being dragged down, or he was the one welcoming the white clothes to sink to the bottom of the sea.

As if from another person's perspective, he could gradually see himself clearly, with his eyes blindfolded, his lips moved, and he called out with a smile:

"Alan—"

A pseudonym, like a poisonous sharp knife, has always been pierced in his heart.

The time and space of the dream was once distorted, and it jumped to some broken memory images: in Yicheng, in the dense fog, Zichen showed an expression of abhorrence for Xue Yang, and he struck out with the snow in his hand, fighting with his Shuanghua, The moves are deadly, just like the masters holding swords hate each other.

In the blurred dream, Xiao Xingchen finally realized what was wrong.

He and Zichen have fought against each other many times, but even in Yicheng, at the end of their lives, they have never faced such a desperate confrontation.

Where do these broken memories from another perspective come from?

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"Taoist? Xiao Xingchen? Wake up!"

Xue Yang stepped into the water, trying to wake up the people sleeping on the beach.

"Xiao Xingchen, if you don't get up, you will be submerged in the sea!"

The eyelashes of the sleeping person moved slightly, and when they opened their eyes, they saw a familiar face in front of the blue sky background. The facial features on that face inexplicably gave people a sense of thick and colorful, wild and vivid, making people unforgettable , showing two canine teeth from time to time while talking, which is very similar to the face that often appears in dreams without clear facial features.

"Xiao Xingchen, why are you crazy, why are you sleeping in the water?"

After he reminded, Xiao Xingchen felt cold all over his body, and the sea water hit his body in waves, soaking through his clothes.

Last night, after breaking up with Zichen, Xiao Xingchen came to the seaside to practice sword practice to exhaustion, and then fell asleep lying on the beach. When the sea tide rose in the morning, he was almost completely soaked and lay in the water.

Xue Yang said unceremoniously, "You don't think you want to commit suicide because you heard something about being hit?"

Xiao Xingchen sat up and wiped the sea water splashed on his face, lowered his eyes, with a dull expression: "Now, is there anything else that can shock me even more?"

Xue Yang said: "That's not necessarily the case. No matter how bad things are, the word 'more' may be added in front of them to make things worse."

Xiao Xingchen finally raised his eyes to look at the speaker.

"This is your philosophy of life? Prepare for the worst in everything? So when I woke up after my rebirth, you confessed all your evil deeds to Zichen and A-Qing, and there are obviously other low-key ways to realize the Lantern Festival. , but you want to give dreams to the whole town, let the rumors of the 'Broken Arm Evil' spread wildly, so that I can't hide your existence from Zichen?"

"Yes," Xue Yang said calmly, "I was fully prepared that you would come and slash me with the Fuxue sword surnamed Song, but I found you sleeping on the beach early in the morning, almost drowned by the sea water ! What about Song?"

Xiao Xingchen sat still in the water, lost and said, "Zichen is gone."

Xue Yang raised his eyebrows, and had a guess, which made him unable to restrain his ecstasy: "Could it be that you guys had a disagreement, and the one named Song broke with you again in a fit of anger?"

Seeing that Xiao Xingchen didn't refute, Xue Yang knew he had guessed right, so he slapped his legs and burst out laughing.

"Ha! Haha! Hahaha! My good Daoist!!!"

Xiao Xingchen felt that there must be no good intentions in this laughter, and a thin layer of anger floated on his face.

"Do you know what Zichen left for? He was looking for Wei Wuxian, looking for a way to make you lose your soul!"

However, as if Xue Yang didn't hear this sentence at all, he rolled and fell into the sand, laughing wantonly and wildly.

After laughing for a long time, it stopped abruptly. Xue Yang turned over and got up and approached Xiao Xingchen, staring at that face and asking seriously:

"Daoist, why didn't you go with your good friend? Why didn't you bring Fuxue to kill me? You should know that in the middle of the night, all ghosts are at their peak, but it's when I'm most vulnerable, and Fuxue is a high-ranking immortal." Qi, if you also want to destroy me, is it worth a try?"

Xue Yang didn't smile, and accidentally exposed the burning sincerity in his eyes.Xiao Xingchen lost his mind for a moment under the staring gaze of those pitch-black eyes, and couldn't come up with a high-sounding reason to prevaricate him.

After a while, Xiao Xingchen asked an irrelevant question: "Xue Yang, have you ever entrusted me with a dream?"

"Ah? No, it's not like you can't hear me, so why did I entrust you with a dream." As he spoke, Xue Yang showed a smirk again, "Why, did you dream of me?"

Xiao Xingchen ignored it, thinking to himself, and further determined where those strange dreams and memory images from his perspective did not come from.

It turns out that there is another person's three-point soul in the spiritual consciousness, and it will also inherit the memory of that person.

But he took the initiative to think out of thin air and couldn't remember anything. It seemed that only when the relevant things reappeared in front of him would the corresponding memory fragment be triggered.The old fairy's search for Xue Yang, and the fight between Zichen and Xue Yang, all recalled in similar situations.

It seemed that he was destined not to be able to get rid of Xue Yang easily, so he had to face it.

"Xue Yang, have you ever done evil again after becoming a dead soul?"

"No."

"Really do not have?"

"Daoist, I've said it all. Do you think that the undead are not exhausted in killing people? I still have to save my energy to deal with the backlash every night. I don't have any extra energy. Besides, after killing people, I will form an invincible ghost, haunting me endlessly." , do I think there are not enough ghosts who come to seek revenge on me every night?"

Xiao Xingchen thought for a moment, thinking that in the Yue Zhai, Xue Yang told the six newly formed souls that they were all murdered by homicide. In this way, if any of the six souls really turned into ghosts, they would recognize Xue Yang as the ghost. The murderer will not bother Xiaojie anymore.

I haven't seen him in ten years, maybe because of death and bitter experience, Xue Yang is indeed different from before, this is not an illusion.

Xiao Xingchen said expressionlessly, "Didn't you ask me to pay you a partner?"

"What? Are you going to pay me for yourself?"

"As long as you stop doing evil, I can walk with your companion."

"Companion? I think you are here to supervise me?"

Xiao Xingchen looked sideways: "Isn't it possible?"

"Yes, yes! That's great!" Xue Yang smiled, "Then you have to be optimistic about me? Don't give up or give up?"

Xiao Xingchen was afraid that Xue Yang might have misunderstood something, so he immediately explained: "Xue Yang, let me make it clear, I'm just for..."

Xue Yang waved his hand: "Okay, okay, I know you're just here to supervise me, there's no other meaning, but the future is long! Hehe~"

Xiao Xingchen deliberately didn't think about what Xue Yang was referring to, and turned his head aside indifferently: "There is no such thing as a future, and when Zichen finds Wei Wuxian, maybe he will discuss a way to destroy your soul. I told Zichen that if he makes a move, I won't stop him."

Xue Yang said, "I know you won't stop me, but I'm not that easy to kill."

Xiao Xingchen said solemnly, "But I will never allow you to hurt Zichen."

Xue Yang's face darkened, his eyes flashed with gloom, but he soon recovered, and he showed his sharp canine teeth again:

"Okay, then my ghost life is not long, Taoist priest, you have to treat me better, I also have a lot of last wishes! Maybe when I fulfill my last wish, I don't need someone to destroy me, and I will disappear in smoke?"

Xiao Xingchen actually thought about it seriously, and felt that this method is feasible: "Then what is your last wish?"

"Daozhang, do you really want me to perish as soon as possible?" Xue Yang was dissatisfied, "Why don't you persuade me to enter reincarnation like you persuaded Xiaojie?"

"Sin karma is hard to get rid of, and your three souls and seven souls are incomplete, so you cannot enter reincarnation."

"Not to mention anything else, but the fact that the three souls and seven souls are not complete, if it is raised for decades or a hundred years, is it possible to raise it?"

"It's possible if you live in peace, but you suffer backlash every night, so you can't take care of yourself well. If it goes on for a long time, you will either perish or..."

"Either you become a demon, stay in the world with sorcery, and gradually be swallowed up by the demon nature, and sooner or later you will harm the world, right?"

Xiao Xingchen nodded: "Yes."

"Master Daoist, why don't you believe that I can walk out of the third way, neither perish nor be enchanted?"

After all, the soul can only exist in the world with a little obsession. Even with the blessing of spiritual power in life, when the obsession and spiritual power weaken, even if it feels too exhausted to exist in the world for a moment, the soul may perish.Many evil spirits, even at the cost of losing their minds, concentrate their spiritual knowledge and remember only one thought, and they can only exist for a maximum of 20 years, and it is extremely rare to be more than 30 years.If Xue Yang wanted to raise his soul well, it would take at least a hundred years, not to mention that he still retained a clear consciousness, so it would be even more impossible.

Xiao Xingchen shook his head: "No soul can survive the century-long backlash purely by obsession."

Xue Yang was disdainful: "Let's wait and see, I'll bet on how long the Taoist priest is willing to accompany me, and how long I can exist."

Xiao Xingchen: "Let's talk about your last wish."

"Okay," Xue Yang cleared his throat, "The most regrettable thing about my life is that I didn't get to go around. My last wish is to see all the beautiful scenery in the world, eat all the delicacies in the world, especially the desserts—of course, I have to go with the Taoist priest. You go together, it's autumn now, let's go northwest, go to Jade Ridge to enjoy the red leaves, and then continue north, I heard that the snow in the extremely cold place is waistless, I don't believe it, unless I verify it myself, and there It is the habitat of the mythical beast Xue Lingzi, maybe you can meet one or two, it will open your eyes, it would be even better if you can catch one to play with, ah yes - you also have to taste delicious food from all over the world, since you are no longer a Taoist priest , there is no need to be taboo, that's just right... hey, Daoist, listen to me! Do you want to help me realize my last wish!"

Xiao Xingchen was speechless, and walked into the forest, ready to gather firewood to bake clothes.

It would take at least several years for Xue Yang's so-called last wishes to come true, and he did not believe that Xue Yang had such a taste for traveling. It would be more credible to say that Xue Yang's last wish was to kill more people and avenge him. But with Xue Yang as the leader, there must be no enemies who can survive in this world.

After being disturbed by Xue Yang like this, my mood seemed not as heavy and depressed as last night.Originally Xiao Xingchen was hesitant to know how to deal with Xue Yang, but it was Zichen's determination that made him passively make a choice in advance.He wanted to figure out how to interpret Xue Yang's memory in his spiritual consciousness, and what kind of past would be interpreted?Will it be another Jay?

Before Xue Yang could be executed, Xue Yang could not be allowed to do whatever he wanted, so he could only supervise him temporarily.

Xiao Xingchen persuaded himself, since the direction has been chosen, it is better to let go of the inner struggle temporarily, whether it is wrong or right, and walk like this for a while before talking.

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