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The atmosphere in the cave suddenly became quiet, except for the crisp sound of water dripping on the rocks, echoing around the two of them.

Qi Zhong's face was serious, and he asked seriously: "I've always wanted to ask you, why did you ignore me inexplicably since the Chengming meeting, and you never took the initiative to say a word to me all the way after that..."

The tone was soft, but Mu Yun's mind became entangled.

Seeing people's silent thoughts, Qi Zhong couldn't help but say it to the end: "If there is no mutual support along the way, I will almost feel that you are disgusted with me."

"There is absolutely no such thing!" Mu Yun rushed to deny, with a slightly flustered expression.

"Then, why do you..."

Sighing lightly, Mu Yun dodged his eyes, refused to face each other, hesitantly said: "I... have a reason that I can't tell."

"Even I can't tell?"

Qi Zhong was unwilling to continue asking, but he saw that his silent expression became more serious.

In the end, he sighed helplessly, stretched out his hand and patted Mu Yun's shoulder, and he compromised: "Hey, forget it. Don't talk about it, but no matter what unpleasantness we had before, you have to promise me, after you go back ,We will then……"

Halfway through the conversation, he hesitated to speak.

Mu Yun looked at him puzzled, but saw the other party looking at him in a daze, not knowing what to think.

Qi Zhong swallowed his throat, and said weakly: "Let's... make up."

Mu Yun hesitated for a moment, forced to forget the content of Shanting's conversation, and nodded solemnly: "Yes."

……

At nightfall, according to the original plan, the two met the Suzaku who was looking for it halfway, and cooperated tacitly to lead it to the wide and dark swamp.

Seeing that the flames of killing had spread for thousands of miles, the flames soared into the sky, burning the trees around the swamp fiercely, and the battle situation had reached its peak.

Qi Zhong raised his sword to move quickly, and continued to divert Suzaku's attention.Seeing this, Mu Yun turned from attack to defense, retreated thousands of miles away, lightly landed on the swamp open space, condensed his breath and pierced the sword, piercing the center of the earth for several feet, suddenly the swamp pulse surged, and the sound of dark water flowed.

Regardless of his own physical injury, Mu Yun concentrated his attention, raised all his energy, and concentrated his mind into an array.In an instant, there were three thousand sword shadows around, and they fell into the ground to freeze frost.The dark water in the depths of the swamp, gurgling and rushing, accompanied by the bitter cold air, finally broke through the ground and gushed out.

The abundant water vapor, combined with the extremely cold sword array that has been deployed, breaks through the sky and meets the fire in an instant, extinguishing the evil flames, forming cold water mist in all directions, and freezing the hot atmosphere of the environment.

After fighting for a long time, Suzaku finally felt cheated and wanted to fly away.Seeing this, Qi Zhong injected the power of the illusion and tricked him to a place with abundant water.

Mu Yunyao saw him coming in a vertical flight, two shadows held swords, and headed towards each other, weaving a killing net together with Qi Zhong, with a wrong look, two ruthless sword lights pierced Suzaku's soul body.Immediately, it was difficult to fly with fluttering wings, and Suzaku fell heavily in the water vapor, dying.

At this time, a trace of disintegrated evil spirits emerged viciously from Suzaku's body, and rushed straight to the Southwest Heavenly Realm.

Seeing this, Mu Yun knew that the direction of the exit had been revealed, and said in a low voice, "Hurry up."

After one sound, no one responded.

Mu Yun paused, turned around, and found that Qi Zhong was still lingering in the swamp, his eyes wandering, as if he was still looking for something valuable.

"Brother Qi..."

He was eager to step forward to persuade people not to look for him, the importance of not missing the opportunity was obvious at this moment.

"found it."

A piece of rough jade in the grass exudes a cool luster.Qi Zhong secretly sighed a word of luck, just when he turned his body, he caught a glimpse of a jade light falling from Mu Yun's side from the corner of his eye. He thought it was an illusion, but he didn't expect that something important was really lost.

Thinking about it, he bent down to pick up the meaningful jade pendant, and was about to return it to Mu Yun, when he suddenly felt a burning sensation behind his back.

Qi Zhong turned around and looked back, only to see Suzaku who was dying just now, with all his strength, he spewed out the last wisp of evil fire, and rushed towards him.

There was no way for him to hide, and the fire was already raging.With the last bit of ability to think back, he turned around and wanted to throw the jade pendant into the man's hand, but he was greeted with an embrace, surrounding him.

The two fell to the ground again and again, but Qi Zhong could clearly see the lingering fire burning behind Mu Yun, while he himself was not injured at all, only a little wet in the mud.

"Uh……"

Accompanied by the loosening of the man's embrace, a low moan awakened Qi Zhong from his bewilderment.

Looking up again, I saw Mu Yun was sweating profusely, frowning in pain, half lying on the ground.Qi Zhong was in chaos, almost slurring his words: "You, don't scare me..."

Mu Yun's breath was cloudy, his eyes were full of anger, and he said in a rare tone: "You! What are you doing running back?"

Qi Zhong blamed himself even more, and spread out the uncut jade tightly in his palm before Mu Yun's eyes, and said hoarsely, "I, I'll pick it up for you."

Such a word made Mu Yun even more furious. He tried to hold back a mouthful of bad blood but failed. He tilted his head and vomited, but he became weaker and weaker.

"One, a dead thing, why do you..."

The voice was weak to silent, and Qi Zhong saw that he was once again in danger of dying, and there were short bursts of pain in his heart.

"Mu Yun, Mu Yun, I'm sorry, I..."

He hastily stepped forward, helped him up, checked his pulse, and immediately felt disheartened, this evil injury was more powerful than the last time's wound from fighting.There is a sense of mourning all over the body. If there is no rescue, the person will really be gone.

Self-blame and remorse have been silently dripping dust along with tears.Following the southwest sky, Qi Zhong carried him on his back and chased him wildly, trying to win back every second with the god of death and save a life.

……

Dawn has dawned in the east, like the dawn of hope, but those who run in the forest are looking in the opposite direction.

The sky is bright, and there is no way out to distinguish.Qi Zhong was still unwilling to give up and ran to the southwest persistently.But the feeling of exhaustion continued to increase. He faintly felt a breath of death constantly hindering his steps, and his sweat-drenched eyes gradually became unable to see the road ahead clearly.

He knelt down on one knee weakly, breathed heavily, and cried in despair.

My mind suddenly recalled the question that Mu Yun asked him not long ago: "...After a person dies, will he meet his living relatives in Xianshan?"

Suddenly, there was a feeling of suffocation in his heart, and Qi Zhong suppressed and cried: "Damn idiot, why are you so crow-mouthed! If you say you will die, you will die!"

Complaining, also can not get a little response.Qi Zhong's consciousness was gradually wandering on the verge of collapse, and at this moment, a glittering golden attic in the sky appeared in the sky, floating across the sky above the two of them, Qi Zhong looked up, but saw that the door of the attic was gradually It transformed into a series of pure white cloud steps, and circled to his feet.

He was a little confused at the moment, and said with a wry smile: "Hey, idiot, am I going to report to Xianshan Office with you?"

Despair is followed by peace of mind.

Qi finally moved his strength, carried Mu Yun on his back again, and walked up to the attic step by step.As he approached the door, he saw the words "Ruyifang" on the signboard in the attic, and suddenly changed his mind: it turned out to be a shop.

Qi finally turned his head, and felt that the building in front of him was somewhat familiar, and suddenly recalled the fragmentary stories he had read in the storybook, and was shocked to realize the origin of the store under his feet.

He muttered: "Could this be the Tiandi specialty store where you can even buy wishes?"

After the words fell, the wooden door swung open, and a gust of cloud and wind gently sent him into the house.

With a sudden light on his back, Qi Zhong turned around and found that Mu Yun was lying on a bed next to him at some point, and was about to pass by, when a dry old voice came: "Wait a minute, young man."

Qi Zhong heard the prestige and looked over, and found that there was a hunchbacked, slow-moving old woman in front of her, standing at the edge of the counter, knocking on the abacus to keep accounts.

"I, am I dreaming?" He tried to pinch himself and found it hurt.

The old woman smiled and said, "Ruyifang only accepts predestined traders. God wants you to come here to sell you a chance to make your wishes come true, not just a dream."

Qi Zhong is in a state of confusion now, and he doesn't care if the dream is real, even if it is a dream, he still wants to save people.

Taking a step forward, he said nervously, "Then can you help me save someone?"

The old woman shook her head: "I am not a doctor. But I can make a deal with you to achieve what you want."

"Then, how much do you want? I'll go back and collect it for you. If I collect enough, I'll send it to you."

The old woman sighed, then continued to shake her head: "This person has a special fate. He is a rare twin. He is destined to die young. If you want to save him, you must give a generous exchange price, but it is not the stink of money in your world."

Qi Zhong was quite dissatisfied in his heart: The hateful old woman actually cursed her to shorten her life.But there is still confusion on the face: "What are twin lives?"

"You don't need to know this, you just need to know that his life is already doomed today, if you want to save him by changing his life, it will definitely change his future life, can you make a choice for him?"

The more Qi Zhong listened, the more tired he became: "What choice?"

"A word of destiny." The old woman said slowly, moving her fingers to calculate, "What he lost in this life was the fate of immortality, and what he opened in his other life was the fate of Buddha. Both lives bear double responsibilities, and now they are contradictory. He must stop it." Cut off the arrival of one of the lives."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Qi Zhong felt ridiculous and snorted coldly, "I don't care if he becomes a fairy or a Buddha in the future. Now, I only want him to live! You should find a way!"

"You really can't decide the future path for him."

When the old woman spoke leisurely, Qi Zhong suddenly felt angry at being fooled, "Then what are you talking nonsense about? Hurry up and save me."

As he spoke, he put the sword on the table neatly as a threat.

The old woman did not change her face, and slowly took out the four treasures of the study from the cabinet: "I have a treasure here called 'this life deed'. As long as you sign the paper and write the name of the beneficiary, it will be fine." Get the equivalent of everything you want."

"Equivalent? Do I want to trade my life for him?" Qi Zhong hesitated to ask.

"No. You are a person with two hearts, you only need one heart."

"Double hearts... what are they? Should I cut them out for you now?" The more he listened, the more absurd he became, almost distrusting the strange old woman in front of him.

"No need. When the time comes, someone will come and take it. But you have to know that there used to be a god, for your heart, who was willing to pay the price of dust for the whole world. It's not yours, and you have to pay it back, so in this life, There are many people and things involved in your heart..."

Qi Zhong sighed helplessly, half-believing, and grabbed the pen and paper: "It doesn't matter. Sign it for me."

After writing the word "Yun" neatly, the moment Qi Zhong stopped writing, the original ordinary paper suddenly became bright, and the words were dazzling.

The old woman took the piece of paper and said with relief: "The deed has been made, and there will be no regrets forever."

"Then Mu Yun...uh."

Qi Zhong didn't finish his anxious words, but his limbs became weak, his mind was dizzy, and he looked at the blurry bedside not far away, and fell into a dizziness.