newbobooks Chapter 448
Chapter 448
As Yu Xi grabbed the bell string, Yue Bai's demonic energy burned and covered her entire body. Wherever she touched, demonic fire ignited, burning through the boundary between memory and reality, and she stepped out of the burning ashes out of thin air.
Chu Xiao saw Yu Xi suddenly appear, and he was not human yet. After a brief shock, greed immediately appeared in his eyes:
"Half-demon?"
Yu Xi moved her eyes, one red and one white, and looked at him quietly.
She let out a long, slow breath, and in the instant that time seemed to stand still, the entire tower was suddenly ignited, and a demonic fire roared and burned.
"roll."
she said.
As soon as she finished speaking, Chu Xiao was suddenly set on fire like a paper man, with flames all over his body.
He screamed and tried to put out the fire on his body, but the fire grew stronger instead of weaker. He wanted to attack Yu Xi, but as soon as he raised his hand, his entire hand was burned.
Qingxin watched in horror as Yu Xi acted so recklessly in the Huixin Secret Realm, not understanding how she did it.
But Yu Xi could act recklessly in the Huixin Secret Realm, but she couldn't. She couldn't extinguish the fire in Chu Xiao and could only watch her mentor wailing as he burned to death in front of her.
"Yu Xi!"
She roared and wanted to attack Yu Xi, but was bounced away before she got close to Yu Xi. Then she saw that Qingzheng Qinglian's body was also on fire.
Qingxin once again watched his fellow apprentices die tragically in front of him. Regardless of how devastated he was, Yu Xi had already focused all his attention on Zhong Xian.
Zhong Xian showed no reaction to anything in the outside world.
Even though she held Zhong Xian's hand tightly, even though there was a raging fire all around, Zhong Xian still leaned against the window, immersed in his own consciousness.
In order to let him witness the sea of blood in Qiuluo City, Chu Xiao "kindly" used a medicine man to recast his eyes, allowing him to take a good look at what Qiuluo City looks like now.
But he could not see anything at this moment. The foggy darkness enveloped his consciousness, and the scene of him raising a knife and hurting people kept replaying.
He knew every person who fell under the knife.
There was the merman who warmly entertained him, there was Old Liu, the butcher who had been slaughtering pigs for generations at the city gate, there was the child who sweetly called him "Lord City Lord" as soon as he learned to speak, and there was also...
"You didn't kill that person!"
Someone's voice suddenly came.
Zhong Xian only then realized that his hand was being squeezed so hard that it hurt and burned.
He moved his eyes and could vaguely see a little girl sitting in front of him. She had long and thick fox ears, which was very cute.
"monster?"
He murmured hesitantly.
Suddenly, both sides of his face were slapped hard. With a crisp sound, he saw the little girl approaching him, holding his face with both hands and saying:
"What a monster! Are you awake now? I'm Yu Xi, Xiao Xi'er, your sister!"
Xiao Xier?
Zhong Xian's eyelids trembled twice quickly, and the darkness in his vision slowly faded away, but he still couldn't see Yu Xi's appearance clearly.
"...Xiao Xi'er."
He had clearly never heard of this name, but he felt it was incredibly familiar.
Seeing that Zhong Xian was finally able to respond, Yu Xi didn't care about anything else and said quickly:
"Brother, you didn't kill him. You've been deceived all along! The Immortal Sect took advantage of you being a mortal and unable to detect their magic, and created false memories for you. I'll show you the truth!"
Yu Xi gets angry when talking about this.
Chu Xiao is a cultivator in the Spirit Severing Realm. He created false memories for a mortal, and he still has the nerve to act so high and mighty. He has done all kinds of dirty and despicable things, and he doesn't have the virtues of an immortal at all!
As she spoke, Yu Xi's white eyes were filled with demonic power. She closed her eyes, pressed her forehead against Zhong Xian's, and showed him all the memories she had seen.
False memories collapse, and the real past emerges.
Zhong Xian opened his eyes slightly. The obsession and hatred towards himself that had been suppressed for hundreds of years, as well as the inferiority complex that was engraved deep in his soul and made him think that he was not worthy of being a human being, finally began to crack.
The light from the sky slanted down from the cracks, and he saw Yu Xi clearly in the firelight.
The vision is clear with Yu Xi as the center.
"Xiao Xi'er."
He called out, and the mist began to thicken in front of his eyes again.
Without waiting for Yu Xi to speak, he slowly reached out, tightened his arms little by little, and hugged Yu Xi tightly with all his strength.
"It turns out I wasn't the one who killed him. It turns out I didn't betray Qiu Luocheng until the end."
He choked up and said, "It's my fault that I didn't protect them well. I'm useless. I finally saw the truth now, and I actually still thought they hated me..."
If it weren't for Xiao Xier, he might never see the truth until his death.
Zhong Xian never hated the people of Qiuluo City. He only hated himself. He killed the people he was supposed to protect. He didn't deserve to live. This had become his obsession.
If Qingxin and the others had not forged their memories and had directly killed Qiuluocheng's people, he would have been filled with hatred and would have tried his best to survive and seek revenge.
But asking him to kill everyone would directly cause his faith to collapse.
To a certain extent, Qingxin and others can be said to have insight into people's hearts.
Now that we know that he did not harm the people of Qiuluo City, the Secret Realm of the Heart naturally cannot trap him this time.
Yu Xi was a little breathless in Zhong Xian's embrace. She tried to stick her head out, hugged Zhong Xian back, patted him and said, "This is not your fault, brother. You have tried your best."
Zhong Xian shook his head. As the city lord, he was responsible for not being able to protect the people of Qiuluo City.
But at this moment, the people who should be hated the most are Chu Xiao and his ilk!
Zhong Xian gritted his teeth and said, "They died too easily!"
If he had known this earlier, he would have tortured Qingzheng and Qinglian severely and made them suffer from eternal damnation!
Fortunately, Chu Xiao's soul was still imprisoned by him, so he had plenty of opportunities to torture him.
Zhong Xian thought viciously.
After all, he is no longer the soft-hearted Zhong Wenyu of the past.
Now he can no longer live without Xiao Xier's bell strings.
At the same time, the Huixin Secret Realm was disappearing little by little, and a passage to leave appeared in the pure white.
Zhong Xian picked up Yu Xi and was about to leave when a barrier suddenly appeared in front of the passage, and Qingxin appeared behind the barrier.
Qingxin hated Yu Xi very much.
She looked crazy, staring at Yu Xi's white pupils, and said sharply:
"Even if your soul has taken away Hui Xin Yan, it doesn't matter. The Hui Xin Yan in my body has not been taken away! As long as I am here, you will never leave! Under the thunder tribulation, we will die together!"
She pronounced the last few words with particular pride.
Zhong Xian frowned and was about to attack, but Yu Xi stopped him and said first:
"Qingxin, you claim to be a righteous person and believe you can't lose, but a hundred years ago, you lost to your mortal brother, lost to the ordinary people of Qiuluo City, lost to the demon clan, and lost to the conservative monks. How dare you use your mind to turn back?"
Qingxin's face twisted for a moment, and he immediately hit back:
"So what? We are the ones who survived in the end! Everyone else died, their deaths were meaningless. We are the winners!"
"Winner?"
Yu Xi sneered: “No, you are the losers because they succeeded.
"They are no longer with us, but they planted a seed hundreds of years ago. Hundreds of years later, the seed took root and sprouted. In this secret place, they finally rescued the people they wanted to save. They succeeded."