It seemed that Kong Ju was confronting the red-robed leader.

Shangguan Yuzhou raised his sword-like eyebrows, drew his sword and rushed over, standing with Kong Ju in the air, and asked solemnly: "What's wrong?"

Zaifu Qiaoqiao also followed closely behind Shangguan Yuzhou, looking at the old man in the moonlight with a look of surprise and doubt.

Apparently, neither of them reacted and wondered why Kong Ju was so frightened.

Kong Ju pursed his lips slightly, without saying much, and comforted the two of them: "It's okay! Just wait for me here."

As he said this, he took a deep breath and flew towards Gexia again.

With Ge Xia's level of cultivation, there was no chance for me to escape if I tried to take action.

It seems obvious that he is in a very weak condition right now, so it would be better for him to be more open and honest.

Kong Ju stopped more than a hundred feet in front of Ge Xia, looked at the fading spiritual light from the latter, and whispered softly: "Are you... not able to do it anymore?"

"As you can see, even Yin Ling despises me in my current state." Ge Xia stretched out his gradually transparent palm and took a look, then smiled at himself, his expression calm.

Kong Ju couldn't tell what he felt at the moment. Looking at the old man who had once been a powerful figure in Wudong, he just said in a low voice: "You still lack my promise to help you once."

"Hehe!" Ge Xia laughed, and you can tell that his smile came from the heart.

He did not respond to Kong Ju, but looked towards the distant mountain shadows. White light was already appearing there, and the sun was about to rise.

Seeing this, Ge Xia just turned around and asked Kong Ju in a calm voice, "Would you like to give me a ride?"

Kong Ju glanced at Shangguan Yuzhou and Zaifu Qiaoqiao behind him, then looked at the dawn in the sky, and said softly, "Okay!"

As soon as Kong Ju nodded, he felt a flash before his eyes and a beam of blood-red light enveloped him.

Then he was dragged up by a gentle force.

Before he could react, the next moment Ge Xia had already rushed with him towards the east where the sun was rising.

Shangguan Yuzhou and Zai Fuqiao looked at each other. The latter subconsciously wanted to follow, but Shangguan Yuzhou raised his hand and grabbed his shoulder.

Shangguan Yuzhou glanced at the direction where Kong Ju and Ge Xia left and smiled calmly: "Let him go. My junior brother knows his limits."

Wrapped in the bloody light, Kong Ju only felt that the mountains and rivers under his feet were moving rapidly backwards.

Seeing the extreme speed, his eyes sparkled, and he said with emotion: "As expected of a master."

As he spoke, Kong Ju turned his head to glance at Ge Xia who was walking side by side with him.

It was obvious that this old fox had deceived me, saying that I no longer had the strength to fight back, and that I could not resist this one move.

I said so much before just to dispel his doubts and trick myself into sending him on this journey.

At least Ge Xia had consulted Kong Ju's opinion and did not take him away by force, which made Kong Ju slightly dispel some of his fear of Ge Xia.

Looking closely, the red spiritual power that was haunting Ge Xia was rapidly dissipating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

I'm afraid it won't be long before it is annihilated between heaven and earth.

"He's really dying." Kong Ju clenched his teeth, his expression complicated, and he couldn't tell what he was feeling.

No matter what Ge Xia's previous style of doing things was, no matter how notorious he was in Wudong.

He never showed any vicious side when getting along with me, and treated me quite well. Before he died, he even left himself a way to save his life in the Soul-Calming Bell.

Moreover, his alchemy skills were also inherited from him, so he could be considered his guide in alchemy.

It just couldn't be done, which caught Kong Ju off guard.

I can’t say I’m sad, but I do feel a little regretful.

"If he had not come into contact with the blood refining method in the first place, with his aptitude, it would have been difficult for him to achieve the peak of the ascension wheel, but he would have no problem at all."

"You won't end up like this with only a broken soul left, with no relatives around, and needing me to see you off before you die. That's extremely miserable."

Ge Xia was calm and didn't even look at Kong Ju's expression. He just stared in the direction of the rising sun and kept on walking.

The two of them traveled quickly all the way, passing countless cities below.

Ge Xia seemed to be searching for something. Every time he passed by a densely populated mortal city or county, he would pause for a while and then continue on his way.

We walked forward for about an incense stick of time.

Ge Xia finally landed with Kong Ju in front of a small town in the mountains.

They entered a simple thatched cottage of a farmer.

This family is going through a special period right now.

Inside the house, a woman dressed as a farmer was lying on a simple wooden bed, wailing and sweating profusely.

"It hurts so much, I can't take it anymore!"

"It's coming out soon, harder!"

A woman who looked quite old kept comforting the woman in a soft voice while pushing her bulging belly.

Outside the house, the male owner of the household, a simple-looking man, was so anxious when he heard the wailing from inside the house, but he didn't dare to go in.

Ge Xia and Kong Ju stood in the corner of the room, watching the scene quietly.

Even if Ge Xia did not take action, these mortals would not be able to find them, not to mention that Ge Xia was determined to hide, and this ordinary family was not aware of the existence of their two visitors at all.

Watching others deliver a baby is indeed somewhat humiliating. Kong Ju did not watch this scene, but glanced at Ge Xia's face out of the corner of his eye.

He looked at it seriously with a calm gaze. He didn't look like a dying man at all. He was calm and composed.

Kong Ju was very curious about why he brought her here, but since Ge Xia didn't say anything, she could only wait silently.

All I can say is that they came at the right time.

With the midwife's skillful movements, a baby's head was revealed.

The process went quite smoothly.

Finally, after a hard fight, the midwife's surprised voice came from inside the house: "It's finally out."

However, the midwife only uttered these five words, and soon her expression changed. She stood there holding the newborn baby.

Kong Ju immediately looked between the midwife's hands.

The baby's entire body was purple-red, his eyes were closed, and he was no longer making any sound.

Kong Ju looked with his virtual soul vision and saw that the vitality in the baby's body was rapidly depleting, and his blood was so viscous that it was almost temperatureless.

"It's a dead baby." Kong Ju shook his head regretfully.

He had just finished speaking.

Ge Xia beside him took action. He opened his mouth and slowly spit out a blood-red ball of light.

Kong Ju recognized the ball of light; it was Han Dong'er's soul.

Before, Ge Xia swallowed Han Dong'er's soul into his stomach after her death.

I didn't expect that Ge Xia would spit it out now.

Compared to the dimness when it was just swallowed by Gexia, this ball of light is undoubtedly much brighter now, bursting with vitality.

"So that's how it is." Seeing this scene, Kong Ju completely understood why Ge Xia suddenly said it was not possible.

Han Dong'er's soul is the source that devoured Ge Xia's soul.

Strictly speaking, it was not that Ge Xia's soul was devoured by her, but that Ge Xia took the initiative to use his own soul to nourish Han Dong'er's soul.

The moment the ball of light came out, Kong Ju could see that the spiritual power flowing through Ge Xia's body had dimmed to the extreme, like a candle in the wind that could go out at any time.

Ge Xia didn't care about this, but carefully pushed Han Dong'er's soul to the dead baby on the midwife's body.

At the moment when the soul comes into contact with the dead baby.

The bright morning light shone through the open window at the right time, shining on the newborn baby.

"It's alive, it's a girl!" The midwife's surprised voice came from the house.

Kong Ju looked at Ge Xia with complicated eyes, and understood everything the old man had done before, and asked softly, "Is it worth it?"

A great and powerful person who is in charge of life is willing to use his own cultivation and life to exchange for the reincarnation of his descendant.

"If I think it's worth it, then it's worth it." When Ge Xia answered this, his eyes did not move away from the baby girl, and there was a doting smile in his eyes.

That smile was just like the first time he picked up Han Dong'er from Han Xi's hands.

After doing all this, Ge Xia could hardly maintain his appearance, and his entire face had completely turned into that of the witch cultivator.

Holding on to his last bit of strength, Ge Xia took Kong Jue out of the farmhouse and came to the highest mountain in the town.

The old man faced the morning light, the morning sun shone on his face, and the red glow on his body had almost disappeared.

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The rising sun was reflected in his pupils, and he recalled the day when he walked to his master's tomb with the blood refining method.

After that day, the boy's fate changed completely.

It was also from that day that Huode Sect sowed the seeds of its destruction.

“It all started with me.”

The old man spoke in a low voice, with no emotion in his voice.

"It should end with me."

As he spoke, the old man pointed to the nameless low hill under his feet and smiled at Kong Ju.

"This is a good place to be buried."

Kong Ju could no longer see any trace of Ge Xia's soul. This old man might disappear in the wind at any time.

He forgot to glance at the farmhouse they came out of and asked softly, "What about Han Dong'er?"

"Let her make her own choice in this life." Ge Xia seemed to have thought of this a long time ago, and replied softly: "It would be good for her to live a peaceful life in this mountain, just like an ordinary person."

"It's better to meet your own opportunity and embark on the path of cultivation again."

"It's up to her to decide."

"I just want to give her a complete life."

As he spoke, the last trace of blood in Ge Xia's eyes faded away in the morning light.

Bang! Without the support of Gexia's power, the body of the Gujiang Wuxiu fell straight into the mud.

Ge Xia's last words after his death echoed in Kong Ju's ears.

"The Endless Sea contains many of my treasured recipes for elixirs, as well as the elixirs I made in my spare time. My alchemy heritage is all there."

"You know where it is. Go get it when you get a chance. It's all yours."

The sound stopped abruptly.

Without the obstruction of Ge Gorge, the warm light in front shone on Kong Jue's green dress, making her feel indescribably warm.

He calmly stared at the fallen body of the witch for a long time, then straightened his clothes, bowed deeply to him, and performed the etiquette of a disciple.

After doing all this, Kong Ju quietly put away the body of the witch cultivator, and looked up at the mountains that were shining golden in the morning light.

He said, "It is indeed a good burial place."

As he spoke, Kong Ju picked up a piece of rock, used his hands as a knife to carve out a tombstone, and inserted it at the place where Gexia disappeared.

There were a few vigorous words written on the tombstone.

"Huo De Zong, Gexia's Tomb."

The great and powerful Zhang Sheng was left without even a piece of clothing, and only the tombstone placed by Kong Jue on the top of the mountain was left.

After doing all this, Kong Ju disappeared from the spot in a flash.

He appeared again in the farmhouse where he and Ge Xia had just stayed.

Inside the house, the man was holding his baby girl and laughing happily.

The baby girl didn't cry or make a fuss. Her pure eyes looked curiously at the man in front of her and this strange world.

Kong Ju originally wanted to test whether the baby girl had the qualifications to practice.

The steps that had just been taken paused in the air for a long time without falling.

He laughed at himself and said to himself in a voice as thin as a mosquito's whistle: "It's me who is meddling."

After saying this, he took one last look at the baby girl and soared into the sky.

As Ge Xia said, it all started with him.

Since he is already dead, everything should end here.

The names Ge Xia and Han Dong'er no longer exist, and this baby girl should have her own life.

Even though Ge Xia and Kong Ju only flew for one stick of incense, Kong Ju himself flew for nearly an hour to get to the location where he killed Zhou and Feng.

At this time, the red sun was already high in the sky, illuminating the autumn atmosphere all over the mountains and fields.

Kong Ju saw from afar Shangguan Yuzhou and Zaifu Qiaoqiao landing on a mountainside waiting for him.

The bodies of Zhou and Feng under their feet had not moved, and it was obvious that they were waiting for Kong Ju to come back and deal with them.

As soon as Kong Ju landed, Shangguan Yuzhou approached him, looking around behind him, but he didn't see the old man in red. He subconsciously asked, "Junior Brother Kong, where is the old senior?"

Kong Ju didn't explain too much, just replied with two words: "Gone!"

Shangguan Yuzhou had a clear distinction between love and hate. Upon hearing the news of Ge Xia's departure, he shook his head with regret: "Alas, I haven't thanked him for saving my life yet."

"It doesn't matter. We may meet again in the future." Kong Ju smiled and perfunctorily replied to Shangguan Yuzhou.

After saying that, he walked straight towards the bodies of Zhou and Feng, waved his hand and put them into the Qiankun bag.

The corpse of a half-step palm-born being is undoubtedly an excellent material for refining puppets.

Moreover, he had not had time to check the storage bag on Zhou Yufeng's waist. He believed that there must be a lot of good things in it, and these should be kept well.

"I hope I can make up for the value of my elixir of spring." Kong Ju thought with a greedy look.

Of course, now is not the time to count the harvest.

We made some noise when we killed Zhou and Feng just now. This is not a place to stay for long.

Kong Ju asked Shangguan Yuzhou to take Zaifu Qiaoqiao away first.

"Sir, aren't you going back to the imperial city with us?" Zai Fu Qiaoqiao looked at Kong Ju in front of her, her eyes full of confusion. She seemed to want to ask the reason, but thinking about her identity, she didn't dare to speak.

"No, there are still some things that need to be dealt with. You go back first, I will be back in a few days." As he spoke, Kong Ju turned his head and looked towards the foot of the mountain.

As far as Xupo's vision could reach, he could vaguely see a figure wrapped in black clothes, hidden in the dense bushes.

The clothes on its chest bulged high, as if it was holding something.

It was the puppet that Xianyu Yanhe was refining, and holding in front of his chest was the green egg of Dapeng.

Because Kong Ju had intended to ambush and kill Zhou and Feng before, it was inconvenient to carry this puppet with him, so he placed it on the way to the imperial city early.

After killing Zhou and Feng, Kong Ju used his magic to control the puppets and drove them over.

The reason why Kong Ju did not return to the imperial city was, of course, because of Da Peng. (End of this chapter)