Soul knot

Tan Wenqing never trusted Ye Liujing, not for a single minute.

This distrust was not because Ye Liujing changed his appearance in the setback, nor was it because Ye Liujing showed any flaws.

All this is just because of too much trust.

He knew that in the face of the choice between right and wrong, black and white, the apprentice who would rather feel guilty for a lifetime than go against the belief in his heart to be selfish once, would not be able to compromise easily.

She is not afraid of pain, let alone loss, and only wants to seek justice for the Yaozu.

Because of this, from the day Ye Liujing came back, he secretly checked the condition of her spiritual veins.

There are indeed two things hidden in Ye Liujing's body.

One is a spiritual power that can penetrate the power of the nether world and destroy the spirit that protects his body.The second is a curse seal that he is extremely familiar with - the soul-scattering curse.

Ye Liujing wanted to kill him, he shouldn't have been surprised, but he just couldn't resist the chill that hit his heart.

Sometimes he also wonders if he really did something wrong.

But looking at the world today, isn't it exactly what he wants?

"Because I hurt some goblins, so? So I was wrong, right?" Tan Wenqing sat up with force, holding Ye Liujing's trembling wrist tightly, but the confusion in his eyes was fleeting.

He shouldn't be at a loss, he should be the most determined person.

Such a firm gaze, such an unrepentant question, was like a knife stabbing deeply into Ye Liujing's heart.

How respectful I used to be, how disappointed I am now.

"In your eyes, is the dignity, freedom, and life of a goblin really so insignificant?" Ye Liujing gritted his teeth and looked at Tan Wenqing, as if the pain from the previous moment had turned into endless coldness at this moment. Liang, "What have you ever... said to me?"

He said that people are divided into good and bad, and so are demons.

He said that whether it is a human or a demon, right and wrong, good and evil are all in one thought, and it is absolutely impossible to discriminate and hate in general.

He said that the mission of the demon hunter is not to drive out all the goblins, but to protect ordinary human beings from being harmed by goblins, so that the two races can coexist peacefully in the same world.

"I respect you and respect you. I take everything you said into my heart and keep it firmly in mind... But now, what have you become? Why do you still ask me, whether I think you are wrong... ...How do you want me to answer you? How to answer you...Master?"

A word of master, with sobs.

Tan Wenqing quietly looked at his apprentice whose face was covered in tears.

Just a few minutes ago, she was crying bitterly because he was "going to die", but at this moment, his deception broke her heart again.

Yong Zhou always said that those who are concerned are full of weaknesses.

That's a good thing to say.

No matter how hard he tried to protect his weakness, there was still an unstoppable moment when he was shaken by Ye Liujing.

He originally thought that he didn't need to understand, just like those people who have achieved success by stepping on mountains of corpses and seas of blood, it was enough to get everything he wanted.

But at this moment, he really wanted her understanding, even if understanding didn't mean forgiveness.

"Xiaojing, if I don't do some things, other people won't do them?" Tan Wenqing said softly, "There have always been fighters among the monster catchers. It's not like you don't know."

"That shouldn't be you either!" Ye Liujing struggled to break free from Tan Wenqing's palm, staggered back two steps, his body was so stiff that he seemed to have lost himself.

It shouldn't be him at all, should it?In front of a bottom line, even if there are thousands of reasons, it is wrong to be wrong!

"The current world, isn't it good? Isn't the condition that humans offer to goblins today, isn't it good? Think about it carefully, if there is no polar night, would there be today?"

Ye Liujing couldn't help but become confused.

The demon race still living in the city has more freedom, and the direction of employment has been relaxed. In the near future, they will receive support and subsidies from the human government. Life has gone astray.

But all of this, isn't it a temporary compromise made in fear of even greater turmoil caused by the demon clan in Shennongjia?

"You are not joking. This sentence has existed since ancient times. Once the regulations are formed, it is very difficult to revise them. This is a revolution, and the revolution will always involve bloodshed and sacrifice. As long as the final result can be achieved, so what ?" Tan Wenqing smiled wryly, "Xiaojing, you don't understand, the world is never black and white."

Ye Liujing gritted his teeth and took a few steps back, shaking his head and roaring: "You are whitewashing your crimes! You tell so many high-sounding lies, do you believe it yourself! You have benefited from longevity, strength, and power. There are so many people, and you only started to pretend to be a good person until now, do you think anyone will believe it!"

"Power is to change the status quo! Power is to maintain power! Longevity is to protect what is hard-won!" Tan Wenqing frowned and said, "Jiye is already strong enough. When the leader of the rebels dies, I will not care about it." There are demon clans who have surrendered before, they will get what they want, they will embrace more freedom and return to society, and return to the place where they used to live! And I will protect everything they have for a long time. No one will be allowed to break this new rule for a lifetime."

"Has all this deviated from my original intention? Never, I have always been very clear about what I want and how to get it! I firmly believe that this is the right path. On this path, there are Inevitable sacrifice, I have tried my best to keep the sacrifice to a minimum..."

"For this reason, I can do all despicable and shameful things, so what if I bear the infamy? Time will prove that I am right."

"You..." Ye Liujing knelt down in pain, covered his ears, and cried, "You liar! Stop talking! I don't believe you, not even a word!"

The small room suddenly became quiet.

It was so quiet that only the girl's sobs remained.

Tan Wenqing closed his eyes and adjusted his breath for a long time, then opened his eyes and called Yong Zhou.

"What's going on?" he asked in a low voice.

On the other end of the phone, Yong Zhou was silent for a long time, gritted his teeth weakly and replied: "Your spirit-locking spell for catching demon masters... is really unreliable... It was rushed away by a seriously injured guy. I'm doing a sneak attack..."

Tan Wenqing took a deep breath, but did not have an attack.

Yong Zhou: "To save this kid's life is to do it to oneself."

Tan Wenqing: "Don't kill him."

Yong Zhou said angrily: "You don't need to teach me how to do things, I've already dealt with it... It just takes a while to recuperate." After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone.

Tan Wenqing frowned.

He knew that Yong Zhou lied to him.

No matter how powerful a goblin is under the spirit-locking spell, they can't break through it on their own, let alone Yan Zhaomu who has already been seriously injured?

A person who doesn't like to talk doesn't mean he can't tell lies. Yong Zhou was deceived by that guy.

Sure enough, both humans and monsters have weaknesses, and the goblin who ridiculed him for his weaknesses, didn't he fall for it?

Tan Wenqing pressed his heart tightly, took several deep breaths, and then asked softly: "Xiaojing, do you still remember... the year I adopted you?"

Ye Liujing sat down on the ground, bent his knees, and tightly covered his ears, as if he wanted to block all sounds from the outside world, just to keep everything he firmly believed in his heart.

But all of that is now full of cracks, like a crumbling hundred-foot dangerous building, as if it could collapse instantly when the wind blows.

Tan Wenqing's voice finally broke into her anxious heart from between her fingers.

"Xiaojing, there are some things that Master has never told you...Master told you to let go of your hatred. Apart from the so-called great principles, you still have a lot of selfishness. One is that you don't want you to grow up in hatred, and the other is...to harm you. The goblin who killed your parents was once Master's best friend."

"Most of the main fighters have hatred or great prejudice against goblins. As long as they catch a little bit of trouble, they can't wait to eradicate them completely. But that friend of Master, he made a small mistake, and was killed by that group of people." Forced into a corner."

"The master at that time was nothing, and he couldn't protect him at all... During his escape, in order to survive, he had to take your parents as hostages. Don't care about human lives."

That day, Tan Wenqing watched helplessly as a couple and his close friend were killed by the so-called "human guardians" without discrimination.

He had no strength, and no time to save any of them.

Later, Tan Wenqing heard from his colleagues that the human couple had a seven or eight-year-old daughter. After thinking about it, he couldn't feel relieved. He went around and asked around, and finally found the girl named Ye Liujing in the orphanage.

He wants to give that child a home and give her the best care, which can be regarded as compensation and atonement for the powerless sin in his heart-even though, that is not the responsibility he should bear at all.

It's just that the country has a child adoption policy, and Tan Wenqing's age and his own conditions at the time were not enough to go through the adoption procedures for a young girl.

What a coincidence, Ye Liujing was a child with an innate spiritual vein.

In order to bring Ye Liujing out of it, Tan Wenqing used her aptitude as an excuse to go through a lot of troublesome procedures with the organization, and finally brought the child who lost her parents out of the orphanage.

"Why...why...I don't want to hear this, what's the use of telling me this..." Ye Liujing sobbed softly.

"Humans will harm goblins, and goblins will rebel against humans. One day, conflicts will be intensified and peace will cease to exist." Tan Wenqing said in a low voice, "I want to change this world so much, but I can spend my whole life with only my strength. , it is impossible to do it. I can only take advantage of the ambition of a group of people to achieve what I want..."

Does the process matter?

It may be important, but it is not worth mentioning in the face of an absolutely important result.

"You are a smart child. How many talents do you have that no one can envy? I regard you as my own. I wish you to be an upright and kind person. And you are indeed brave and resolute. No matter what happens, you will stick to it. with your own kindness."

"For this reason, I will try my best to do all the despicable, dirty and shady things by myself. If you didn't accidentally get involved in it, I don't want to use you as a last resort."

"Over the years, I have done too many unforgivable mistakes, but I have never regretted it. Only hurting Jiang Fang has made me regret it until now, because I should have avoided all my plans from your side , but I am greedy... I want to keep you by my side, and I want you to live for a long time. So, whether you complain or hate, I have nothing to explain."

Over the years, apart from his growing affection for that child, he also harbored an unspeakable regret and guilt.

It is precisely because of this regret and guilt that he has carefully reserved enough escape routes for that use.

Jiang Yao is a well-behaved child, clean and without any thoughts.

The enslaved goblin received the brainwashing instruction of "do everything you can to obey and protect your master." If Shu Li didn't form a soul bond with someone, it would be difficult for him to order her to do something.

Tan Wenqing knew that Ye Liujing cared about July, so he thought that Shu Li had left a way out, let her bond with a child who didn't understand anything, and if he used that child as an excuse to coerce her, she would obediently do things for him .

And in the future, when everything subsides, she will have more freedom than those goblins who bonded with the catcher.

"Successful? Thousands of bones are dead. Changing an era requires too many sacrifices. As long as you can reach the final light, no matter how painful it is, it is worth it."

"After all, where wildfire burns, new shoots will eventually sprout."

After staying in the dark for a long time, some people will get used to the darkness, while others will yearn for the light.

Too many people died in the darkness.

Someone lit a torch, trying to light a way out, but was eventually eradicated as heresy.

Only when countless people stand up, hold up the torches in their hands without fear of death, find each other, and embrace each other, can a long night be truly illuminated.

The long night is hard to see, and it will eventually be bright. As long as people endure the long night by the fire, when the sky lights up inch by inch, it will replace those dim lights that have been extinguished, and guard the world that was once shrouded in darkness.

"I have hurt many demons now, but I will eventually reach the peak and become the god of this world. When I control everything, humans and demons will truly usher in a world of peaceful coexistence."

Tan Wenqing said that he will guard the world until he dies.

But this person used to be full of lies, and Ye Liujing didn't know whether to believe it or not.

"How can I believe you..." She asked tremblingly, "Those demon slaves who were abused and domesticated, and those elves who were expelled and killed, which one is not innocent?"

"Why do you think so many goblins are willing to cooperate with Ji Ye? Are they not afraid of death? No... innocent, they can't save anyone's life, just like kindness can't save anyone." Tan Wenqing sighed, "They are now The sacrifice is only for the future, so that more Yaozu can live in peace."

"You have your ideals, but should their lifetimes be ruined by your ideals?"

"This is not my ideal alone!" Tan Wenqing said, "After that day comes, the injustice between my friend and your parents will never happen again..."

Ye Liujing shook his head and said, "But they can't see that day coming, can they?"

From the very beginning, they were forced to become victims, and they had no right to choose themselves.

What to say, they are sacrificing themselves for the future, for the sake of righteousness, and for the survival of the group, but no matter how noble they are, they ignore one point.

Those goblins who were sacrificed may yearn for the light, but they are also willing to live a peaceful life in the dark.

At least, live to look forward to the dawn.No one wants to die for the dawn that will never come, unless the end is really coming.

If Tan Wenqing said everything was true, Ye Liujing would not know how to face everything.

In fact, in her heart, she was willing to believe in Tan Wenqing.

It's just that no matter whether she believes or understands, she can't approve or forgive.

Even if the world is not black and white, even if not everything can be judged as right or wrong...

She is in pain, she is at a loss, and she has more than enough energy.

She would rather she never knew the truth.

After a long silence, Ye Liujing curled himself up completely, leaned against the TV cabinet, and murmured absentmindedly: "I don't believe you, I hate you..."

She thought, if she grew up in an orphanage, if she could be like an ordinary human being, she would be ignorant of everything.It should be better than it is now, in a dilemma, stuck in the quagmire? struggling painfully.

Tan Wenqing didn't respond, but just looked at her quietly.

After a long time, he reluctantly stood up and walked to Ye Liujing's side step by step: "I told you that only with absolute power can you make rules and change the world."

The guardian, after all, guarded the ideal world in his heart with his blood-stained hands.

For this reason, he is completely contrary to his former self.

"So? For these... you have abandoned everything... Right and wrong, good and evil, as well as conscience, are all unimportant..." Ye Liujing tried to calm himself down, and asked in a low voice, "Is this really what you want? ?”

"Yes and no." After Tan Wenqing finished speaking, he couldn't help being silent for a long time, and finally lowered his head to meet Ye Liujing's gaze, and said softly, "In this world, the essence of survival has never changed since ancient times. It is nothing more than natural selection. The strong are respected...Fairness is earned by oneself. The weak cannot fight for fairness, and they always expect the strong to stand up for them. But in this world, how can one person bleed and thousands of people be safe and happy? When the strong participate Among them, at the moment when the war really started, they were implicated and sacrificed, which is nothing more than a normal thing, and there is nothing to complain about."

He has always insisted on his persistence, but there is a trace of undue wavering in his heart.

"But if you don't accept it, I'm willing to give you a chance." Tan Wenqing said, "I can fight that girl openly. The winner lives and the loser dies. Now that I'm seriously injured, it doesn't count as bullying that little girl." Girl. Of course, if you don’t believe me, you can go with me to see Yong Zhou, and then ask her if she dares to fight this battle.”

Now that he was seriously injured because of Yong Zhou, it would be fair to face that little girl.

He said, this is called natural selection, and the strong are respected.

After this battle, those left behind are qualified to use their own power to decide how to change the world.

If you win, you will win the hearts of the world.

If you lose, you don't care about what's behind you.

He only gave Ye Liujing this opportunity, because she was his only weakness after going nowhere.

The author has something to say: I am resurrected with full blood, and I will be back for daily updates, little angels have been waiting for a long time.In the future, one or two chapters will be updated every day, and each chapter will collectively send a red envelope before the next chapter is updated, so let’s treat it as a punishment for breaking the addiction.

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Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: Xiao Li is unreasonable;

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Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!