Beyond the Divine States

The windows were blown open by the wind, and the bamboo curtain showed the cold air from outside the city. The thin wind turned inside the house and quietly dispersed.

Ning long turned his head and looked at the light outside the bamboo curtain.

Shao Xiaoli was wrapped in a thick quilt, his body shrank in a corner, his face buried in his messy hair looked like a frightened cub.

After she finished, she also fell into silence. She was not even sure whether she was telling the real experience or just a nightmare.

She only felt that her body was very cold, like being in the snow, and the thick quilt didn't seem to be able to warm her.

"Why didn't you tell me these things before?" Ning long words pulled back her thoughts.

"I..." Shao Xiaoli shook his head slightly and said, "I can't remember anything before. I... maybe it's my dream talk."

Ning Changjiu continued to ask, "who bought your time?"

Shao Xiaoli said immediately: "he is a monster!"

"Well?" Ning long thought, isn't it all monsters outside the city?

Shao Xiaoli said: "I've seen him twice. Once he was a very handsome man. Er... Second only to the eldest, once he was a monster!"

Ning long asked: "what kind of monster?"

Shao Xiaoli closed his eyes, as if in pain, as if thinking of it, a headache.

"Monster... It's like a puppet. It's wrapped in thick white silk thread. Most importantly... It has no face!" Shao Xiaoli suddenly opened his eyes and said, "he has no face. His face is painted by himself!"

Ning long could not search for similar records in his mind.

He continued, "what do you trade time for?"

Shao Xiaoli said: "live on..."

Ning Changjiu said, "how long did you sell it?"

Shao Xiaoli recalled: "the price of everyone's time is different. Mine is already very valuable, but even so, I've sold it for nearly 30 years..."

"Thirty years?" Ning Changjiu asked: "but if he doesn't help you, you may have died. In your original life, you don't have a hundred years to go. What did he buy?"

Shao Xiaoli explained in a low voice: "I asked him this question, and he told me... As long as I have the possibility of living, my time after that will be valuable! And he's helping me find that possibility. "

"Sounds like a liar." Ning long said.

Shao Xiaoli nodded and said: "I thought so at first, but now in retrospect, when I just came back to the city, I met an accident in the art building. Someone killed people in an evil way. I saved Su Yanshu and became good friends with her. Originally, I thought it was a chance for me to live, but later I met the boss..."

Ning long captured a word from her words, fate.

Fate is an infinite possibility from birth to death. Once an old Taoist said that a day is divided into twelve hours, and the fate of babies born in the same year, on the same day and at the same time stage is similar.

And their region, geomancy and many other factors can build a more complete life theory model to predict their fate.

Nowadays, the models used by the people are all simplified versions. The real model of numerology is only based on the five principles, and the great practice with the ability of heavenly calculation can run the calculation without leakage. The objects involved in the model are extremely complicated, and the results they get are often with incredible accuracy.

This is what the second elder martial brother said to himself.

He had no interest in numerology.

He didn't believe in fate, but he was also afraid. If it was true, what should he do?

Everything has its own destiny. How hopeless it should be

Ning Changchang roughly understood that the monster living in the snow Valley might have some power over fate.

As for how he changed Shao Xiaoli's life, Ning long has several general conjectures. He may have directly changed the result of his fate into Shao Xiaoli's death three years later, and the rest of the "cause" is filled by his own fate. It is also possible that he found a glimmer of hope in Shao Xiaoli's fate, and then extracted these small probability things that were originally hidden in the crevice of fate, One by one, they are embedded on the right track and become the vitality of the main destiny.

But what does a God who has the power of fate do when he buys time?

Shao Xiaoli thought he didn't believe in himself when he saw that he didn't talk all the time. He said: "boss, I really didn't cheat you. I'll show you when I die three years later..."

"... no, I believe you." Ning long looked into her eyes and sighed, "what else did it say to you?"

"He said, he said... Ah!" Shao Xiaoli suddenly screams. She buries her head in the quilt, shakes it hard, and says with difficulty: "there seems to be... Ice residue in her head."

Ning Changchang quickly reaches out her hand and hits her eyebrows, which makes her confused consciousness disappear and return to order.

Shao Xiaoli's eyebrows twitched twice, and then he tilted to the bed.

With a slap, she buckled herself on the bed, and the quilt spread out, covering her snow-white body.

Ning Changchang tucked in the quilt of her lower edge and wrapped her cold feet. Ning Changchang's fingers pressed the center of her back through the quilt, introducing a trace of pure aura to warm her five internal organs and six lungs, making the remaining chill unable to continue to erode.

Jinwu flew out again and landed on his shoulder. He touched Jinwu's wings, cold.

Ning Changjiu sighed and scattered her clothes on the ground. She folded them neatly and put them at the head of the bed. Then she moved a chair and sat down beside the bed. She stayed all night.

He looked at the boundless night and did not know what secret was hidden in the city and the wilderness outside.

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Early in the morning, Shao Xiaoli wakes up as usual. She rubs her eyes. She can't remember when she fell asleep. She just has a headache.

She turned her head and found that she was lying on her stomach. Next, she found that Ning Changjiu, dressed in white, was sitting and sleeping by the bed.

"Boss..." Shao Xiaoli whispered, and then some regret.

Fortunately Ning didn't seem to wake up for a long time.

She quickly swished into the quilt and checked her body. Then she raised a strand of quilt and secretly touched the head of the bed with her little hand. She grabbed the clothes one by one into the quilt and put them on with great difficulty.

Ning long felt that he could not understand the little girl's character more and more.

"Boss, boss." Shao Xiaoli put on his clothes and then yelled two more words.

Ning long pretended to wake up, looked at her and said, "are you awake?"

Shao Xiaoli was wearing loose clothes and trousers, his hair was in disorder, and his plain face was a little tender.

"Boss, why are you sleeping here?" Shao Xiaoli asked.

Ning Changjiu also asked, "don't you remember last night?"

"Last night?" Shao Xiaoli was stunned, her face showed a look of surprise, and her face turned red. She clasped her fingers, bent her arms in front of her body, and twisted her thin waist slightly. She was very embarrassed and said: "last night... What happened last night? Are we... "

Holding the quilt, she carefully raised her head and put her eyes on Ning Changchang's good-looking side face. Her mind was full of wishful thinking.

It seems that I don't remember... Ning thought silently for a long time, is this the secret of heaven? If it wasn't for him to force him to sleep last night, Shao Xiaoli might have been insane and died of madness.

Obviously, Shao Xiaoli didn't realize that she had gone through the gate of death. She just blinked and looked at Ning Changjiu. She pressed her hand in front of her body on her heart and twisted it slightly. Her slender calf pressed under her body, presenting an eight character character character, trying to make herself look attractive.

Ning long looked back at her faintly and felt a bit like a duckling.

Shao Xiaoli looked into his eyes and thought that the boss was so cold. Could she say that... She thought of some knowledge that Su Yanshu's sister had told her, and her heart beat faster.

Ning long stood up in silence and turned to leave.

Shao Xiaoli looks at the boss's indifference and immediately reacts that he is wrong. How could the boss be so dignified? It must be

"Boss, last night, i... did I take the initiative to seduce you?" Shao Xiaoli asked tentatively, and then said to himself, "I'm 17 years old, and many people like me before. They came to propose to my mother, but I've always kept my guard... Now I see you, I..."

"Shut up! Go and cook. " It's better to drink for a long time.

"Oh." Shao Xiaoli's words were interrupted and he answered in a low voice.

After breakfast, Shao Xiaoli suddenly thought of the event of Biye. She broke her fingers and thought that if she didn't miscalculate, it would be today! Well... What time did it come?

Ning long looked at her face at a loss of expression, seems to know what she thought in the heart, opening a way: "noon."

"Oh..." Shao Xiaoli answered and said anxiously, "if we go out like this, we won't show up, will we?"

Ning Changjiu said, "don't worry, I won't embarrass you."

Shao Xiaoli a Leng, immediately in the heart secretly happy, know that he this implied meaning is to follow oneself outside.

As soon as he thinks that the boss at home should be obedient to himself outside, Shao Xiaoli is full of expectations for the battle of opening up the wilderness.

On this day, Ning long met the king of duanjie city for the first time.

It was on the square in the center of the royal family, and the people in the abyss were not standing neatly.

They wear armor or robes, carry weapons, and follow a semi spiritual life behind them. Those are the spirits after the contract. Ning Changjiu also follows Shao Xiaoli, with a cold look, and looks like a spiritual life without feelings.

Before long, the king came out of the deep palace.

In duanjie City, the king and the prime minister never have their own names. What gives them power is the two codes handed down from generation to generation. Therefore, the descendants of the king never have a fixed surname. They are all chosen by the children themselves on the stone tablet.

Shao Xiaoli's Shao character is her own grasp.

Ning long looked at the king on the stone steps.

He was wearing a yellow and black emperor's robe, embroidered with a strange looking dragon python, and on his head was an ancient crown, with beads falling down like a curtain.

His Dragon Robe is very close to the one worn by the headless statue on the stone wall at the end of Shiyuan corridor.

The king's appearance is flat, but when he walks out slowly, it gives people a sense of dignity and strength.

Ning long thought is not these.

He thought of the fierce ghost last night.

The Dragon Robe on that fierce ghost is just like this.

There was a chill in his heart.

Is it not that the deepest monster in the ghost prison is the king of the previous generation? The king did not know what he had gone through. He was polluted and became an ugly and evil ghost. Then he was kept in the depths of the earth until he died.

The king stood on the metal platform, made an impassioned speech, and then personally handed a bronze sword to everyone.

This bronze sword can absorb the blood of monsters, and each time it absorbs one, the color of the sword body will be darker, which is also a way to judge who kills the most monsters.

After the bronze swords were sent out, Shen Xiang gave everyone a blessing to protect their journey.

All this is going on in an orderly way.

Because Shao Xiaoli was in a hurry and didn't have time to make up and comb his hair, he used five fingers as a comb from time to time and stroked his hair from top to bottom.

Many times a year, the war of opening up the wilderness will be carried out. Most of them do not go deep into the ordinary new land, but reclaim the existing land and plant meager grain.

There is a huge temperature difference between day and night, so many plants are difficult to survive, so for exploring the unknown road, solving the problem of eating in the city is the most important thing in duanjie city.

After all, Shao Xiaoli and Ning Changjiu go out of the city.

Xingyuan is no more than 30 people. They can't be organized like the army, because their spirits are different in size. Some of them are giant toads carrying maidens, some of them are cannibal creatures, some of them have big mouths closed, some of them have vines dancing, and some of them have been split into half, and they still have a long sword in their hands

Shao Xiaoli's eyes swept around slowly, pretending to look at it once, but he still thought his boss was the best.

"Shao Xiaoli." Suddenly someone called her name.

Shao Xiaoli turned her head and found that it was a strange man. She said coldly, "what's the matter?"

Behind the man, there was a black foggy eye. The frequency of the eye blinking matched the man perfectly.

"Is this your spirit?" The name looked at the teenagers around her, laughing and pondering.

"Well?" Shao Xiaoli looked at him coldly and said, "do you have any opinions?"

The man looked at the girl's cold face and said with a smile, "I don't think you've found a spirit, but rather a little white face."

The rest of the people who heard the words also chuckled.

Far from ignoring them, Shao Xiaoli was secretly pleased.

Most of these Royal masters are those who have gone through many battles to open up the wild. They don't regard the monsters outside the city as fierce opponents. Every trip seems to be just an experience of sharpening Kendo, so they communicate with each other and joke with each other all the way.

Outside the gate from the king's city to the outer city, there is a spacious street specially built. Most of the haggard people stand on both sides of the road, watching them walk out of the city from a distance, shouting one after another.

Shao Xiaoli felt their eyes, and the accumulation of self-confidence in her heart for a long time faded away. She slowed down and leaned towards Ning Changjiu.

Ning long but did not understand the amorous feelings, the pace also slowed down a bit, keep a distance with her.

Under the high wall, the gate has been opened. This male city is like a cage. Hundreds of years ago, wild animals were outside, and human beings were locked in the cage. Now they are the real beasts that can shake the roaring mountain forest. They expand the territory a little bit, until they meet a new continent and lead all the people out of this barren city.

Outside the king's city is a vast expanse of barren valleys and mountains, showing a deep iron blue color. The rugged rocks crisscross and bend sharply, pointing straight to the sky, in which there is a faint figure of strange birds circling.

A man-made road is buried between the knee less weeds, leading to the distance. Along this road, there are several fortresses, which are small but solid, with beacon towers above.

"Is this outside the city?" The sword Sutra is so smart that it has been Ning's eyes for a long time. Looking at the rows of dangerous peaks and huge cliffs, the mountains are all very high. Each of them can be called a famous mountain outside. But looking around, the whole world is desolate, and there is no sign of life.

Ning Changchang said, "this place is a little strange."

The spirit of the sword Sutra asked, "what's so weird?"

In the broken sword, xueyujun yelled: "I've seen many famous mountains and rivers. Let me out and let me identify them."

Ning long no redundant action, just with heart God way: "help me remember those cliff rock fracture lines."

The spirit of Jian Jing didn't know what he was thinking, but answered.

After the whole team came to the open world outside, it spread out to both sides like a bird with open wings.

Although the outside of the city looks dead and desolate, it is mostly peaceful. After walking for a long time, there is no sign of the existence of the monster.

But after all, this peace is only a false appearance. Soon after, the bubble was flagrantly pierced.

When she reached a certain cliff, Shao Xiaoli slowed down. She stared at the cliff and got goose bumps.

On the precipice, there are a lot of creatures in the ghost prison. They are like mutated human beings, growing tails, and their four claws are attached to the high precipice, like geckos.

Even if Shao Xiaoli had been out of the city with the team, even if she had killed many monsters herself, it still makes people feel numb when they see such scenes.

"Rather long." Shao Xiaoli cold back, very confident to a low drink, call his name.

Ning long frowned, suddenly feel some not adapt, but still calm should a.

More than 30 practitioners with swords and swords, led by Kai Yuan, suddenly burst out like fireworks and turned into flowing shadows, shooting at the waiting demons. The sound of bone breaking was like a sickle cutting straw.

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Outside the palace, everyone is gone.

The king returned to the deep palace.

There are many palace lanterns in the palace, but now, these lanterns have not been lit, so the emperor's palace is particularly desolate.

The palace is built on the high mountain, which is also like a wave, as if it is going to topple the palace at any time.

The king walked quietly to the depths, and his throne was in the deepest place.

The throne is not gilded, carved and inlaid with jade like the outside world. The throne is only carved out of a whole piece of black jade. Some of it is long and looks more like a warm and quiet jade couch.

It's not that the king doesn't like luxury, but that the real owner of the chair doesn't like it.

Siming sat on the throne, her black skirt gently covered her graceful body, and her silver hair flowed down the curve of her body. Her whole body seemed to be in harmony with the ink and jade.

The king who should have been the most invincible king in duanjie City knelt down to her.

"You don't have to kneel to me." Siming's eyes are slightly open and his voice is light judo.

The king said piously: "the Lord of Si Ming is the God of heaven and the tomorrow of duanjie city. You have to kneel down."

Siming cherry petals lips slightly pursed, she leaned back in the chair, one hand supported jade gills, loose sleeves down, revealing a flawless white arm.

She calmly smile, soft way: "don't worry, as long as you listen to me, you won't be like the last monarch, degenerate into the devil."

The king thought of the ugly monster deep in the ghost prison and knelt down more devoutly.

Siming white wrist light lift, fingers like water floating petals, she said: "if you still have doubts in your heart, you can ask me at any time."

The king got up with her gesture and said, "no doubt."

Siming chuckled, her eyes narrowed, and said, "is there no doubt or dare not have doubt?"

The king bowed and said, "I only wish my people could leave this city one day."

In a quiet voice, simang said, "do you know that it is not this city that we are leaving?"

The king raised his head and said, "I don't know. I hope the commander will tell us the secret."

Siming looked at the dark top of the hall and seemed to be able to see the night sky outside. She continued: "do you know why we can't see the stars in the sky?"

The sun, moon and stars only exist in the book, and no one has ever seen them in the city.

"I don't know." The king is waiting for the answer.

Simang said slowly: "because they are far away from you... You are orphans abandoned by time. No matter how long you stay here, you can't find the source of everything."

"The goddess... Abandoned us?" The king trembled.

Simang smiles, her soft words with a slight mockery: "that goddess has already left, and I am your new God, I will break the curse of this city, lead everyone out, see the legendary sun, moon and stars."

"Sir, what are you asking for?" The king did not know what could satisfy her in this barren city.

Originally, simang was an ancient position in the Royal City, just like a witch, who was responsible for divination and prediction of misfortune. A few years ago, the last simang man died suddenly, and then the beautiful woman came to the city, directly took over the position of simang, and lived in seclusion in the palace.

The king was the strongest man in the city, but he was easily defeated by simang. After many repeated failures, he finally bowed to the throne. But even now, he doesn't dare to face this woman directly. Every time he sees such a beautiful face, he will light a fire in his heart. He will imagine that if this is not a god of high realm, but an ordinary Royal woman, then he can bring her into the room and play with her wantonly... This idea is an evil fire, which can't be concealed under the eyes of the commander, But she did not care, eyes quietly watching the scene of the evil fire in the beautiful fantasy, the corners of her mouth always hook a light and soft smile. She never wanted to be a man and a woman, which means nothing to her, because the real son of God must be perfect. Life in myth is always perfect, just like yourself. She looked at the creeping king and said her answer: "I want to return to my kingdom of God."