Transforming into a stunningly beautiful fox spirit, leaving a scar on the heart of a prodigy.

The wind in Ghost Cry Valley has stopped.

The scattered rocks on the ground had been burned to a glassy color by the fire, giving off an eerie glow.

Above the two piles of ash mixed together.

A phantom figure slowly emerged.

That's a monk.

He was wearing a faded scholar's robe, holding a book in his hand, and the broken token of their love hanging from his waist.

He looked very young, just like when he first entered the capital to take the imperial examination three hundred years ago.

Beside him stood a woman in red.

The Imperial Advisor was not wearing a mask.

She held the monk's hand, her eyes crinkling with laughter, like a carefree little fox.

The two exchanged a glance, said nothing, and simply gazed silently in the direction of the capital.

The monk raised his hand.

A faint white light shone from his fingertips.

That was his last moment of clarity, and also his final statement to the nation as the founding emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

He flicked his finger.

The white light transformed into a crane, flapping its wings, and vanished into the sky in an instant.

After doing all this.

The monk turned his head and looked at the woman in red beside him.

"Let's go."

"it is good."

The two figures faded further and further, finally turning into two wisps of green smoke and disappearing into the depths of the earth.

That place is the dragon vein of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

It was also the place where they first met.

……

The ruins of Zuixianju in the capital city.

Gu Xiang suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood and collapsed into Su Qing's arms.

His hair had turned completely white.

That exquisitely sensitive heart beat extremely slowly, each beat seeming to exhaust all its strength.

"Gu Xiang!"

Su Qing was so anxious that tears streamed down her face.

She desperately poured demonic power into Gu Xiang's body, but the demonic power seemed to have entered a bottomless pit, without any reaction.

Just then.

A white crane flew in from the west.

It passed through the flames of war and the golden light of the Nine Cauldrons Formation, and landed steadily on Gu Xiang's shoulder.

The crane transformed into a streak of light and entered Gu Xiang's mind.

Gu Xiang's body stiffened abruptly.

A scene appeared in his mind.

That's a monk.

The monk stood in the void, looking at him with the expectation of an elder.

"Young man, listen up."

The monk's voice echoed in Gu Xiang's mind.

"The union of phoenixes is not a stroke of luck, but a fatal calamity."

"The phoenix represents yang, and the female phoenix represents yin."

"When the phoenix is ​​born, the huang dies; when the huang is born, the phoenix perishes

"This is a destiny passed down from ancient times, and no one can escape it."

Gu Xiang's heart sank to the bottom.

He looked at the monk in his mind's eye, wanting to ask a question, but found that he couldn't make a sound.

"I know what you want to ask."

The monk smiled, but there was a hint of bitterness in his smile.

"Back then, Ajiu forcibly fused with phoenix blood to save me, hoping to shield me from this calamity."

"As a result, she became the phoenix, and I became the female phoenix."

"We fought for three hundred years, hid for three hundred years, and in the end we still ended up dying together."

The monk's figure began to disappear.

"If you want to save that little fox, you have to break this fate."

"Let's go to Luofeng Slope."

"Beneath the sacred tree lies the last seed of rebirth."

"That was the only chance of survival left behind by the Phoenix Emperor and Empress."

"Only by obtaining it can you truly become one, without distinction between you."

"Remember, you don't have much time left."

"Although we weakened that 'Phoenix,' he didn't die."

"He will come back."

The image is shattered.

Gu Xiang suddenly opened his eyes.

His eyes were bloodshot, yet they shone with an unprecedented determination.

"Su Qing".

Gu Xiang grabbed Su Qing's hand with surprising strength.

"Let's go to Luofeng Slope."

Su Qing was taken aback.

"Now?"

"We haven't finished killing all the monsters in the city, and there's still war in the North. Should we leave now..."

"We have to go."

Gu Xiang stood up, his body still swaying, but his spine was very straight.

"This is to be handled by Li Yu and Bi Yao."

"We need to get that Nirvana Seed."

He looked up at the crack in the sky that was healing.

Although the cracks have shrunk considerably, the chilling aura still lingers.

The monster was watching them from the shadows.

"it is good."

Su Qing didn't ask any more questions.

She knew Gu Xiang's personality; this simpleton was usually timid, but when it came to making a decision, no one could persuade him otherwise.

She revealed her true form.

A giant nine-tailed red fox appeared on the ruins.

Gu Xiang flipped over and mounted the fox's back.

"Li Yu!"

Gu Xiang shouted loudly in the direction of the palace.

"I'm entrusting God to you!"

"If I come back and find the city lost, I'll tear your palace down!"

At the entrance of the palace.

Li Yuzheng slashed down a monster with a single blow.

He heard the sound and turned around to look.

He saw the red fox soaring into the sky.

"Get out!"

Li Yu wiped the blood from his face and laughed heartily.

"This empire belongs to me, and I cannot lose it!"

The red fox leaped into the air, transforming into a streak of red light, and rushed out of the capital city.

outside the city.

Those monstrous creatures were still surging wildly.

But Su Qing completely ignored them. Her nine tails were like nine fiery knives, and wherever they passed, the monsters were all reduced to ashes.

Gu Xiang lay on the fox's back.

He felt the wind whistling past his ears, stinging his face.

He took the red veil out of his pocket.

The veil has been torn.

He held it tightly in his hand.

"Su Qing".

"Um?"

"Once we obtain the Nirvana Seed, we'll hold our wedding ceremony again."

"it is good."

"This time I'm going to invite the whole world to my wedding banquet."

"Okay, as long as you can afford it."

Su Qing's voice carried a hint of laughter, but also a barely perceptible tremor.

She could feel that Gu Xiang's body was very cold.

His life is still slipping away.

That clever and insightful mind is working overtime.

"Idiot, wake up!"

Su Qing gave her instructions.

"I'm not sleeping."

Gu Xiang closed her eyes and felt her heartbeat.

"I'm going to draw your eyebrows too."

The carriage sped across the wasteland.

Behind them, in the capital city, the flames of war still raged.

But at this moment.

In this endless darkness.

These two people became each other's only support.

……

Ghost Cry Valley.

Next to that pile of ashes.

A black crow landed.

It tilted its head, looking at the ashes on the ground, a glint of greed in its eyes.

It opened its mouth, trying to peck at the ashes.

boom!

A crimson flame burst forth from the ashes.

The crow didn't even have time to let out a cry before it turned into a wisp of black smoke.

The ashes stirred slightly.

Indistinctly.

A furious roar seemed to come from deep underground.

"The Seed of Nirvana..."

"be mine……"

His voice was hoarse, carrying an aura of despair and death.

The wind swirled up the ashes.

It pieced together a blurry shape in the air.

It was a winged monster.

It looked north.

Look towards the direction of Luofengpo.

then.

It disappeared.

It blended into the night.

【The Phoenix Hairpin - Parting Words of Advice】

Red silk shatters, heart's blood spills, three hundred years of hatred must finally be resolved.

The wind is bleak, and people are scattered.

A heart full of sorrow, years of separation.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Words from the book, a fire in my heart; I will never betray my promise of love in this life.

Beneath the sacred tree, life is locked.

The seed of Nirvana remains, and the old alliance is hard to break.

Fruit, fruit, fruit.