little cotton

Fragments of memory pieced together bit by bit.

Everything was not as pure and beautiful as she remembered.

The loneliness of life never broke her down. It was the destruction of Xiquan Mountain, the withering of the sacred tree, and the birth of the demon that made her desperate.

However, Lin Shuang thousands of years ago, in order to fight against the demon, used the forbidden technique to summon the god and summon the demon at any cost, just to conclude a blood contract with him, and fight with the demon to die together.

It seems that God made a joke, this kind of forbidden technique did not summon gods and demons, only summoned her from the future.

A weak cotton.

You can't help others, and you can't save yourself.

She remembered that when she saw Lin Shuang for the first time, Lin Shuang's eyes were full of confusion and hesitation.

The fingertip that made the blood contract lightly tapped on her forehead, but because she unconsciously shivered and curled up, she stopped in a daze just before the blood contract was made.

If Lin Shuang hadn't stopped at that moment, then her freedom, life and death were all in Lin Shuang's thought.

She has been ignorant of this.

With red eyes, Yu Ling quietly looked at Lin Shuang in front of her.

Want to say something, but can't control the memory and the body outside of time and space.

"Are you blaming me?" She heard her voice choked up, "Lin Shuang, you are blaming me."

She didn't get an answer from Lin Shuang.

She stood beside Lin Shuang, stubbornly waiting for an answer.

She waited from noon to dusk, and the wind blew over and over again in the wilderness, until she finally let out a sigh.

"That's it." Lin Shuang stood up, wiped away the tears from the corners of Yu Ling's eyes, and rubbed Yu Ling's hair indiscriminately.

At the end, he looked up to the distance of the desolate battlefield.

"Going in this direction is the city of humans. You follow them to escape, and then go south, it is a place that the demons can't invade for the time being."

She said that the bustling and lively place there is much better than the deep mountains and wild forests where only they are accompanied by each other.

She also said that they can go their own way in the future, she did not sign a blood contract with her, and their life and death have nothing to do with each other.

After all, the fox left.

Stepping on the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood along the way, he walked step by step towards the path he believed in, with great firmness.

Yu Ling looked at that figure, unable to recover for a long time.

In her life, she has never been treated kindly by anyone.

The fox was the first one who was kind to her, even with a purpose and a ridiculous expectation, he was still the only one who was kind to her.

She thought she had found her home.

She is willing to travel all over the world with this home, no matter how hard or tired she is.

Running all the way, she has suffered all kinds of hardships, but she doesn't want to remember, but firmly engraves every bit of sweetness in her heart, never forgetting a single bit of it.

When Lin Shuang was no longer within her reach, she couldn't help but feel a strong sense of loss in her heart.

The fox who wanted to use her protected her all the way across thousands of rivers and mountains, but left her behind at the last moment.

"Because I'm not strong enough, I'm not worthy to go on the road with you, am I?"

Little Mianmian murmured softly, knelt down little by little, hugged her knees and curled up into a small ball.

We promised to stay together forever.

Even if the fox wants to lie to Cotton, it should be cheated for a lifetime, right?

Why do you want to prove to her that you are just the one who is not needed no matter where you are when she thinks that she has grasped a good thing.

……

The setting sun twisted like being sucked into a vortex, and the scene in front of him became chaotic.

Suddenly, Yu Ling came to the human city.

She followed the people who fled due to the war all the way south.

There is famine everywhere in the world, a small child is as cheap as a bag of millet, and dead bodies are scattered all over the place, causing a terrible plague.

She was afraid of such a scene, as if she was afraid of recalling the scene after scene of Xiquan Mountain being reduced to the magic land.

But no matter how scared she was, she was just a little demon with no abilities.

She raised her eyes to look in the direction she came from, and a demonic energy invisible to humans filled the entire sky.

That day, Lin Shuangyi went to the place without hesitation, and there was no good news.

While resting by the rubble, a harpy found her.

"Mianhua, are you also a fairy who escaped from the mountains?"

"Um……"

"So am I. I can't stay in the mountains anymore. My clansmen say to flee with humans. Humans have an army, and there are many monks. Maybe I can last for a while. But my clansmen are either dead or scattered." As the little bird said, it landed on her shoulder, "The heavenly demon will destroy this world, maybe we won't be able to escape for long."

Yu Ling lowered her eyebrows, as if she was asking the bird, but also herself: "Then what are you going to do?"

The little bird flapped its wings twice on her shoulder: "What else can I do? Escape every day, right? You can only escape if you have a cultivation base that can transform into a human form. How can I do anything else?"

"Is there really no other way?"

"I heard that just a few days ago, the last nine-tailed fox of the fox clan defended the city until the last moment. If it wasn't for that, we wouldn't be able to escape here safely... It's just that she was caught by the demon puppet of the same clan. Sooner or later, they will be made into puppets..."

"Nine-tailed fox..."

"That's right, the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan is born powerful, and such powerful monsters have become puppets at the fingertips of the Heavenly Demon. Is the power of human beings really enough to stop the monster puppets manipulated by the Heavenly Demon?"

As Xiaoniao said, he suddenly saw the demon standing up and looking backward at the fleeing crowd.

"What are you looking at?"

Yu Ling blinked her eyes blurred by tears, and let a tear fall from the side of her face.

Lin Shuang, is your dissatisfaction all about hatred?What is worth protecting in this world?

Lin Shuang, you don't have nothing in your heart except hatred, do you?

Lin Shuang, you know, you can't escape, so drive me away, right?

"I want to go back."

She said goodbye to the little bird.

She saw that the little bird's eyes were full of surprise, and looking at her was like looking at a lunatic with moths flying into a flame.

Yu Ling couldn't understand why she made such a decision.

No matter how much time passed, even today, she still couldn't understand why she was able to run so resolutely towards the desperate situation that everyone was fleeing.

She only knows that when there is wind, she turns into cotton and rides the wind.When there was no wind, she turned into a human form and stepped on the magic soil under her feet.

Everything, just to run towards that fox.

At the end of her life, she could come here because she heard the call of the fox.

If, as the fox said, the forbidden technique is the existence of summoning gods and demons, then her arrival should not be just an accident.

Is there a possibility, even if it is only a one in ten thousand possibility.

She can really become the god summoned by the fox, fulfilling the fox's original wish when casting the forbidden spell.

Even... even if he was smashed to pieces.

……

She kept running, heading towards the direction that might just be a hopeless situation.

Suddenly, everything around him changed.

She stopped and realized that she had never moved an inch.

What he was stepping on was still the blood-stained Xiquan Mountain.

——Shouldn’t I ask you this question?

——Aren't all disasters caused by the blasphemy of this world?

——Gods who have pity for mortal things fall into the world, which is obviously a kind of charity, but they don't get the slightest kindness. Why do they get your protection?

——Today, in such a situation, it is clear that you woke me up, and I also tried my best to save you.

The voice of the demon, with a little sarcasm, lingered beside her.

Yu Ling raised her head and looked at the withered sacred tree, as if she had seen herself under the wind and rain for thousands of years, fulfilling the wish of a little demon more than 500 years ago.

The little demon gave birth to a "child".

With low spiritual power, she could give it a monster-like figure, but she couldn't give it the life of a demon spirit.

It is destined to be just an ordinary plant of cotton like a weed, and its life will be too short to be worth mentioning.

The little cotton, falling into the dust and mud, gently shakes the white flocs that it has produced since birth in the breeze.

Its mother was sleeping under the sacred tree, her cheeks were stained with tears.

She almost lost all of her, how she wanted to hear her child call her mother... But she didn't even have the power to give it wisdom.

A soft white aura quietly flashed from her side.

The little cotton struggled to "jump" out of the soil.

It jumped onto the mother's fingertips, and like a white elf, it floated to the mother's shoulder mischievously and lightly.

The seemingly weak little Mian Mian can learn everything very quickly.

Recognition is fast, memorization is fast, and practice is fast.

The speed of transforming into a human form is also much faster than other fairies of the same generation.

As little cotton grows up day by day, the sacred tree also shows signs of withering day by day.

The mother and daughter, who had no status in the Mu clan, gradually became unknown existences in the mouths of many demon spirits in the mountains.

But despite this, she still hoped that all the clansmen, and even all the demon spirits in the mountain would be well.

Even if one develops spiritual intelligence and cultivates a human form, the lifespan of a cotton flower is not as long as that of other wood tribes.

With the departure of her mother, little Cotton lost her last support.

All the exclusion and insults intensified after that.

She stood under the sacred tree countless times, shouting crazily in her heart - if all this can't get better, why not end it quickly?

The thousands of kind thoughts in her heart failed to stop the trace of resentment that took root in her heart.

The monster clan in Xiquan Mountain still don't know that they have expelled their guardians.

The sacred tree with intertwined roots in this piece of heaven and earth, unknowingly, drew the resentment floating in every corner of the world to countless grass and tree creatures thousands of miles away.

is her……

For countless days and nights, she pretended to be the most innocent person, and bit by bit awakened the heavenly demon who was determined to destroy the world.

But she was supposed to guard this place...

——They do not deserve your protection and mercy.

—Come with me and give me your strength.

——From then on, nothing in this world can bind you, and no one can hurt you anymore.

She looked at the cloudy sky, and finally remembered everything.

Looking at the suffering she had caused by herself, she stepped forward slowly, caressing the withered body that she once had.

Decide for the last time, choose to scatter all your strength, and make up for all the mistakes you have made.

Heavenly demons must never step into the world.

At that moment, the soft spiritual light seemed to penetrate the dark clouds in the sky.

The ancient tree that covered the sky and the sun revived again, and the pure white flowers bloomed among the resentment—that was the last bloom before burning out this life.

A few days later, heavy rain overnight extinguished the wildfire.

The cloud cleared, and the demon was gone.

The newly born vegetation buried the bones that had no place to bury, and the withered demon spirit body turned into nourishment for new life.

The aura of heaven and earth once gathered in Xiquan Mountain then scattered into the heaven and earth inch by inch.

The body of the huge ancient tree dissipated slowly like smoke, as if it had never existed in this world.

……

All the memories gradually came to life bit by bit as she ran towards that promise.

She should go with the wind, but she was awakened by someone.

The hope in the eyes of the fox woman, as well as that weak body, may be the catastrophe she cannot escape in this life.

Regardless of whether the blood contract was concluded or not, she was summoned from the place where her own dead soul died, and she should have fulfilled the wish of the person who performed the spell.

Even if there is no promise, even if there is no duty in this world that she should fulfill.

And even if...

Just because that fox had treated her sincerely for a long time.

Looking at the familiar demonic energy in the distance, she slowed down.

The heavenly demon in front of her has committed countless murders and gained too much resentment from the world, far stronger than she has ever seen.

Her footsteps are still extremely firm.

After the disaster, the scorched land sprouted new branches bathed in the aura of her feet.

This time, not for responsibility.

He only made up a lie for that fox, but at the last step, he avoided all the pain and cruelty by an inch of her.

She thought, she wanted to rush to her side and smash her body to pieces.

Because this time, she is no one's god.

She was just the little Cotton that was rescued from a faraway world by the fox dripping blood and taking the curse.