Chapter 256 Choose one: I die or the world perishes
"Brother Xiong Xiong."
Ajiu's exclamation brought Xiao Yu back from his momentary trance.
Her little face was full of panic. She wanted to reach out to help him but was afraid of touching the wound on his chest.
"Brother Xiongxiong, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me."
"I'm fine."
Xiao Yu took a deep breath, used his sword to support his body, and slowly stood up.
He stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears on Jiu's face, but halfway through, he felt a sense of weakness in his arm and it dropped down again.
"You still say you're fine?" Jiu's tears fell like beads from a broken string. "You're bleeding. A lot of blood."
She pointed at the corner of Xiao Yu's mouth, where a trickle of golden blood was slowly dripping.
"It's just a minor injury," Xiao Yu forced out a smile that was uglier than crying. He raised his hand with all his strength and gently wiped away the tears on her face. "Don't cry, or you'll turn into a little cat."
"I don't want to," Ah Jiu shook her head vigorously. She grabbed Xiao Yu's sleeve and said, "Let's go find the master. He must have a way. He is so powerful, he will definitely be able to solve this ghost thing."
"it's useless."
Xiao Yu shook his head bitterly.
"It's not poison, nor is it an injury. It's... a curse."
"At the cost of one's soul, a death curse connected to the laws of heaven and earth..."
"I don't believe it," Ah Jiu said a little excitedly, "I don't believe there's any curse that can't be broken. That bad guy must have tricked you. Let's go now. We'll leave it alone and let the adults figure it out."
"It's too late."
Xiao Yu raised his head and looked towards the capital.
Under the erosion of the Yin energy, the light of the golden light shield began to flicker, and even tiny cracks appeared on the surface.
Chu Xuanyi's "Ten Thousand Lights Demon-Suppressing Array" is about to collapse.
Once the formation is broken, millions of lives in the capital will be completely swallowed up by the tide of evil soldiers and ghosts in an instant.
And the root of all this is the door in the sky.
As long as the door is not closed, this catastrophe will never end.
"Ajiu, listen to me." Xiao Yu looked into her eyes, his expression more serious than ever before.
"I don't want to listen, I don't want to listen." Ajiu covered her ears. She had a premonition of what Xiao Yu was going to say next, and her body trembled slightly with fear.
Xiao Yu was silent for a moment, then reached out and gently pulled down her hands that were covering her ears.
"The high priest didn't lie to me."
"He cursed me with his own soul. My life is now connected to that door in heaven."
"As long as the gate to the underworld closes, my life will end."
Ajiu was completely stunned.
Her lips moved, but no sound came out.
how so.
Why is this happening.
It took a long time before she found her voice again.
"Then...then we won't close it."
She said.
"We don't care anymore. We're leaving now, to a place so far away that no one can find us. We don't care about this world or this capital anymore."
She doesn't care about the people of the world or the common people.
She only cares about the person in front of her.
As long as he can survive, it doesn't matter if the whole world is buried with him.
Hearing this, Xiao Yu's heart seemed to be stabbed by something.
He looked at Ajiu's purple eyes that were filled with pleading and determination, and endless sadness and guilt surged in his heart.
He wanted to too.
How could I not want to be selfish just for once, take her away and live a life like a fairy couple.
But he can't.
He is the regent of the Great Zhou and the guardian of this land.
Behind him are tens of millions of people who rely on him.
He has carried this responsibility since the moment he was born. It has long been integrated into his bones and blood and cannot be separated.
"Ajiu," he shook his head slowly, his eyes filled with pain and struggle, "I'm sorry."
"Why."
Ajiu's body shook.
"Why does it have to be this way? Is there no other way? There must be, there must be another way."
"No more." Xiao Yu's voice extinguished her last shred of fantasy. "This is... the only way."
He raised his head and looked at the hideous black crack.
That is his destiny and his...destination.
"No……"
Ajiu let out a whimper that was almost unbearable.
She released her grip on Xiao Yu's sleeve and stepped back step by step.
"I don't want you to die... I don't want you to die..."
Her tears welled up again.
This time, Xiao Yu did not help her wipe it.
He looked at her quietly, engraving her current appearance deeply into his soul.
All around, there were ghost soldiers and generals charging and roaring tirelessly.
In the distance, there was the mournful cry of the capital's shield about to break.
I don’t know how long it took.
Ajiu's crying gradually stopped.
She stopped walking back and just stood there quietly, letting the tears run down her cheeks.
"Brother Xiongxiong," she began, her voice unusually hoarse, "You've made up your mind, haven't you?"
Xiao Yu nodded silently.
"For this world."
"Um."
"For those...irrelevant people."
"They are not irrelevant people." Xiao Yu said softly, "They are our people."
Ajiu looked at him and suddenly smiled.
"Okay," she said, "I understand."
She turned around and looked up at the gate to the underworld in the sky.
"You said," she said softly, "that you would go to heaven with me."
Xiao Yu's heart trembled suddenly.
"Ajiu, you..."
And at this moment, something strange happened.
The huge gate to the underworld in the sky suddenly trembled violently.
A low growl came from behind the door.
"roar."
Inside and outside the imperial mausoleum, all the ghost soldiers stopped in unison and knelt down in the direction of the Netherworld Gate.
Behind the dark crack, a pair of eyes larger than lanterns, burning with faint blue flames, slowly opened.
Just by looking at each other, Jiu felt as if his soul was frozen.
"Buzz."
A golden light shot out from the direction of the capital, and a golden paper crane made of talisman paper flew straight in front of Ajiu and circled there.
Chu Xuanyi's voice, so urgent that it changed its tone, came out from the thousand paper cranes.
"Ajiu, listen."
"The shield of the capital city has cracked. It can only hold out for half an incense stick of time at most."
"The aura above the imperial mausoleum has changed. That thing... is about to emerge. Once it descends, the entire world will be transformed into a ghostly land, and there will be no way to save the world."
"Ajiu, I know this is cruel, but for the sake of the people of the world, and for the sake of what the prince has guarded his entire life... the gate must be closed immediately."
"Do it, now, immediately, right away."
"This is... the only hope."
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