Chapter 132

Perhaps half a lifetime of happiness cannot compare to this.

Xie Tingyun half-knelt on the ground slowly, he closed his eyes and lowered his head to rest it on Ning Chen's hand.

Tears and blood mixed together and fell to the ground, but fortunately Ning Chen couldn't see it.

Thanks to Ning Chen's continuous searching, he now had an extra thumb among the fingers he could move, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Compared with the situation where he couldn't move anything, Ning Chen's bottom line for this broken puppet kept lowering, and now it has reached the point where even having one more usable finger would be great.

At least Ning Chen can use two fingers now. When he only had one finger, he could only nod and shake his head with it, but now that he has two fingers, he can do some simple movements.

He can even snap his fingers.

Ning Shen felt the soft touch of his hand, was silent for a moment, and then slowly raised his hand to touch the red corners of Xie Tingyun's eyes.

However, she never expected that this action would make the warm tears in the corners of her eyes more and more. Ning Chen's hands froze in place, and she was in a dilemma.

Xie Tingyun rubbed Ning Chen's hand fondly, slightly curved his eyes, and said in a hoarse voice, "...It's okay. As long as you are alive, that's enough."

Daoming was shocked to see Ning Chen, who could only move two fingers, and then he looked at Xie Tingyun, who was unable to get up. He stuttered for a long while and was unable to speak.

However, the only thing that is certain now is that Mr. Ning’s soul is still there.

Although Ning Shen's soul still looked a little weak and was able to hide in the clone puppet he had used before, for some reason only two of his fingers could move.

But Ning Xiaoyou is still alive.

That's enough.

Daoming suddenly came back to his senses, and hurriedly picked up the spiritual message to send a message to the endless spiritual spirit, with some excitement that was difficult to suppress.

The tightly tied string in Xie Tingyun's mind completely broke, and after he breathed a sigh of relief, he inexplicably couldn't get up again.

He curled up beside the rattan chair, his cheek resting against Ning Shen's only movable hand, and he had reached his limit.

But Xie Tingyun still couldn't bear to leave, and couldn't bear to let his soul, which had been holding on for many days, rest in peace.

He had been praying for this moment for too long, praying almost all the time that none of this had ever happened, praying that Ning Shen would still be safe and sound.

Now... it has come true.

Xie Tingyun silently tilted his eyes at this moment, but he was choked with sobs and could not speak.

Daoming saw this and knew that if he continued to stay here, he would only disturb the two people who had been separated by life and death, so he placed the medicine carefully next to Xie Tingyun and then walked out. When he passed by Bu Nian who was pinned to the ground, Bu Nian pitifully stretched out his red-gold sword tassel and hooked it.

Daoming had spent a long time watching it before and couldn't understand what was going on, but this time he understood it without any instruction.

He understood and took action to disperse the spiritual energy on Bu Nian's sword. He was even kind enough to give Bu Nian a ride and used his spiritual power to send it silently to the two of them.

After doing all this, Daoming quietly left Yunfeng Pavilion and closed the door.

Although he was still a little worried about Xie Tingyun's injuries, since the soul of Mr. Ning was still here, Tingyun would no longer think of committing suicide for love and should take better care of himself.

At worst, we still have our friend Ning.

I was so moved that I didn't have to go through so much trouble to find my way to the two masters.

Bunian and Chengfeng each came to the side of their master, stretched out their sword tassels and wrapped them around him, finally feeling satisfied.

Xie Tingyun couldn't help but smile, but his tears fell even harder.

Ning Chen gently tapped Xie Tingyun's cheek with his hand.

Xie Tingyun was stunned and asked in a hoarse voice, "What's wrong?"

“…”

Ning Chen's only movable hand left the rattan chair and pointed downwards based on his intuition.

Xie Tingyun looked down along his hand and saw his palm oozing with blood.

He smiled, raised his other uninjured hand, clasped it into Ning Chen's palm, and said softly, "It's okay. It's just a minor injury."

Ning Chen instantly grabbed a piece of flesh on the back of Xie Tingyun's hand and squeezed it threateningly.

Xie Tingyun: "..."

No matter how sad Xie Tingyun was, he couldn't help himself when he saw such a non-threatening threat.

But Xie Tingyun had been too tense, and now that he suddenly relaxed, he felt a little exhausted.

In fact, he wanted to just curl up in Ning Shen's arms, but Xie Tingyun didn't have the strength to get up at the moment. Even if he could get up, his body was too dirty.

Xie Tingyun didn't want to get any new or old bloodstains on Ning Chen.

Xie Tingyun smiled silently, clasped their hands tightly, and whispered, "You can't move now, listen to me."

"I'm really fine."

Ning Chen: “…”

Ning Chen only hated that this broken puppet was too difficult to use. If he were free now, he would definitely suppress Xie Tingyun and treat his injuries.

But now he is in Xie Tingyun's hands. Not only can he not control Xie Tingyun, but he is also being controlled by Xie Tingyun.

How can this be possible!

Ning Chen angrily twisted the puppet string wildly in the sea of ​​consciousness.

The only two fingers that could move hooked around Xie Tingyun's fingers and rubbed them to relieve her anger, which made Xie Tingyun smile.

Xie Tingyun said with a smile: "Do you know that it's really funny when you only have two fingers that can move?"

Ning Chen rejected this assessment and pinched the back of Xie Tingyun's hand.

It didn't hurt anyway, so Xie Tingyun just let him go.

Xie Tingyun followed Ning Chen's hand and reached into his spiritual consciousness, carefully examining Ning Chen's soul.

The complete death of his body still had a significant impact on Ning Chen. His soul was forced into the weakness after the turmoil, and his body sank into the endless abyss, affected by the cold, and continued to be consumed.

If this continues, it will be difficult to restore the peaceful soul.

Ning Chen's body must be picked up as soon as possible.

But fortunately, the soul is still intact, and apart from negative effects such as weakness, there are no fatal defects.

Fortunately... Fortunately.

Xie Tingyun paused for a moment and asked softly, "Are you sleepy? Do you want to take a nap?"

Ning Chen: How do you know?

But he couldn't express such an abstract sentence with just two fingers. After gesturing for a long time, Xie Tingyun still didn't understand, so he gave up in anger.

He turned to ask Hai Sao to harass Bunian. Bunian received the news and gestured to Chengfeng with joy.

These two idiots were created by the same person, and they probably used the same language system, so Chengfeng understood it immediately and turned around to compare and draw with Xie Tingyun.

Xie Tingyun understood: "You are weak in spirit and easily tired. You are not as good as before. You definitely need to rest."

Bu Nian began to draw the red-gold sword tassel again.

Xie Tingyun frowned and confirmed, "Are you really not going to sleep for a while?"

Ning Chen shook her head with her fingers, then hooked Xie Tingyun's fingers stubbornly.

Xie Tingyun smiled.

He took Ning Chen's hand down, raised it to his lips, and then kissed Ning Chen's fingertips.

Ning Chen's fingertips trembled: "..."

Ning Chen still had his eyes closed at this time. It was pitch black in front of him, so he could only rely on other senses to perceive the outside world.

After a while, Ning Chen heard the slight rustling sound of clothes, and then someone leaned over and touched his brow.

After a moment, Ning Chen suddenly felt an inexplicably gentle force falling on Ning Chen's soul, gently and slowly leading him out.

Ning Chen: “?!”

Xie Tingyun said softly, "Come and let me know the sea, okay?"

Ning Chen was shocked: "This... can we just go in? What can we do after we go in?"

Ning Chen forgot that Xie Tingyun couldn't hear him, and just wanted to grab Bu Nian to translate for him, but Xie Tingyun seemed to have guessed what he was saying and said, "Just follow the lead. After you come, Bu Nian won't need to translate for you anymore."

Ning Chen responded with an "oh oh" and followed Xie Tingyun's lead very obediently.

The dark scene in front of him suddenly turned, Ning Shen's eyes blurred, and his vision suddenly widened.

Xie Tingyun's sea of ​​consciousness was bright and vast, with a pavilion in the center that opened on all sides. A thin white veil was floating around it, and in the middle was a translucent spirit sitting cross-legged.

Outside the pavilion is a vast expanse of white land. Ning Chen is standing here at this moment, and the touch under his feet feels real and soft.

The translucent spirit in the pavilion is Xie Tingyun's soul.

Ning Shen sighed.

He subconsciously looked down at himself. He was still wearing the same black robe that hadn't changed for thousands of years, with gold scattered randomly on it. It looked messy but surprisingly pleasing to the eye.

Ning Chen's soul is an adult, but why is Xie Tingyun's soul a juvenile?

He took two steps at a time and reached the side of Xie Tingyun's soul.

Xie Tingyun's voice echoed in the sea of ​​consciousness: "This is a normal phenomenon. If you stay in your own sea of ​​consciousness, your soul will also be a shrunken version. Moreover, you have just experienced death, and the close connection between your soul and body has been completely severed. Your soul will naturally be the same as when you died."

"Being in ecstasy means that you have to reconnect with your body and establish a new close connection. This process may be difficult, so be prepared."

"I've died before, why would I be afraid of this? Don't worry." Ning Chen stretched out his hand curiously and touched the young body of Xie Tingyun with an itchy look.

That ball of translucent spirit was simply a miniature version of Xie Tingyun. It was exactly the same as the young Xie Tingyun that Ning Chen had seen in the Fantasy Demon Secret Realm. They were two balls of ice and snow that were completely carved from the same mold.

The ice and snow ball was touched, then he opened his eyes, turned his head and looked at Ning Chen silently.

Wherever Ning Chen went, the miniature version of Xie Tingyun's eyes followed him. He looked so obedient that Ning Chen couldn't help himself and grabbed the ice ball into his arms and rubbed it. Xie Tingyun's soul didn't even resist and just let Ning Chen grab it and play with it.

Fun and playful.

Ning Chen raised his hand again and gently touched Xie Tingyun's soul, and asked curiously: "Don't you feel anything? Why don't you react?"

"..." The snowball in Ning Chen's arms suddenly seemed to have taken up residence in his soul. He reluctantly pulled away Ning Chen's claws and said, "If I say there is, can you just not touch it?"

Ning Chen said: "That's not the case."

Xie Tingyun said: "That's it."

Ning Chen: “…” That makes sense.

The shrunken version of Xie Tingyun's soul was really small. When Ning Shen held him in his arms, Xie Tingyun had nowhere to run.

After Xie Tingyun put Ning Chen into the sea of ​​consciousness, he seemed to go to the outside world to do other things. After saying that sentence, he obviously retreated from the sea of ​​consciousness.

Therefore, the snow ball in Ning's heart returned to its silent state and became very well-behaved.

Ning Chen suddenly sat up straight. He pulled the snowball's shoulders and made him face him.

After staring at Little Tingyun for a long while, Ning Shen sighed silently, grabbed the ice ball into his arms again, and said, "Thank you, Tingyun."

"Um."

The person in his arms responded.

Souls can touch souls. Ning Chen pinched Xie Tingyun's face and said, "Were you like this when you were little?"

Xie Tingyun turned his eyes, looked at him and said, "Haven't you seen it before?"

Ning Chen also laughed.

"Indeed, I have seen it." Ning Chen said slowly, "Xie Wan has taken really good care of you."

When Xie Wan was mentioned, Xie Tingyun's expression softened. He didn't realize that Ning Chen had more to say. He narrowed his eyes and said, "That's right. My mother is the best mother in the world."

“…”

Ning Chen leaned against the back of Xie Tingyun's neck, his voice was a little hoarse for some reason, and he said, "Yeah."

Xie Tingyun was startled for some reason when he heard Ning Shen's voice. He wanted to turn around and asked, "What's wrong?"

Ning Shen closed his eyes and changed the subject: "Xie Tingyun, what on earth are you doing out there?"

"..." Xie Tingyun said helplessly: "I...I'll change my clothes."

"Just changing clothes?" Ning Chen's eyes moved, "Then why did you ignore me for so long?"

Xie Tingyun: "..."

The icy ball in her arms turned around, sighed softly, and gently kissed her quiet cheek, saying, "I didn't mean to ignore you. Are you angry?"

"I didn't." Ning Shen denied.

Outside the sea of ​​consciousness, Xie Tingyun half-knelt on the ground with a pale face, his eyelashes soaked with cold sweat, and the blood in his throat could not be suppressed and flowed silently from between his fingers.

His situation was a bit bad, and he didn't handle it well for a while, so he missed something.

Chengfeng and Bunian were frantic, but Xie Tingyun raised his eyes soaked with cold sweat, raised his index finger to his lips, and silently made a silencing gesture to the sword and knife, with a silent pleading in his eyes.

Xie Tingyun was afraid that Bunian didn't understand what he meant, so he asked Chengfeng to help convey his message.

Xie Tingyun thought about using his spiritual energy to suppress Bu Nian and prevent it from spreading the news, but the contract between Bu Nian and Ning Chen was imprinted deep in his soul and could not be easily blocked by external forces.

He sealed off his five senses and said to Bunian, "Telling him will only make him more anxious. Ning Chen has no body now, only his spirit. Do you want to see your master anxious but unable to do anything?"

"..."Bu Nian was stunned.

Xie Tingyun coughed softly, slowed down his breathing, and said, "No, I won't miss you. I just overdrew my energy for a while, and a little spirit-replenishing pill will heal me. Why should your master worry about such a minor injury? His body just died, and his spirit is agitated and weak. He shouldn't be emotionally violent."

The red-gold sword tassel drooped limply, looking somewhat pitiful.

However, Xie Tingyun in the Sea of ​​Consciousness did not show any abnormality at all. He even stretched his body lazily in Ning Shen's arms, completely relaxed and nestled into Ning Shen's arms, and said softly, "I wanted to do this just now, but my old clothes are dirty, and I don't want to dirty you."

“…”

Ning Shen uttered an "oh" and lowered her head to hug Xie Tingyun tightly.

He lowered his eyes and said in his mind: "No."

Without thinking, he let out a cry and stood up hastily and guiltily.

"Where's Chengfeng?"

Bu Nian passed the contract and gestured to Ning Chen with his hands and feet: "Beside."

Ning Chen groaned and said, "Stick to Cheng Feng's back, and when you're done, tell me when you feel a vibration. Then stand in front of Xie Tingyun and don't let him get hurt."

After Bu Nian did as he was told, the blade made a slight humming sound.

Then, the puppet nestled in the rattan chair moved its fingers, broke off the wooden middle finger of its same hand, and then silently flicked it towards the place where the sound came from.

With an extremely light click, the splinter of wood hit Chengfeng's sword precisely.

Chengfeng was attacked suddenly when he was relaxing. The whole sword almost jumped up in surprise. The sword instinctively released sword energy to protect the body, but in the next moment he realized that this was Yunfeng Pavilion and suppressed the remaining sword energy instinct in time.

Xie Tingyun suddenly opened his eyes.

Several sword energies shot out in the direction where the wood chips came from, and the next moment were bounced away by the protective shield that suddenly rose above the rattan chair, embedding deeply into the floor, and luckily triggered the hidden mechanism inside.

Hidden weapons were flying everywhere in Yunfeng Pavilion for a while. Bu Nian followed Ning Chen's words and stood in front of Xie Tingyun. The flying hidden weapons hit Bu Nian with clanging sounds. The remaining hidden weapons that escaped were caught by the protective shield held up by Bu Nian. Xie Tingyun behind him was still safe and sound.

Chengfeng was caught off guard and suffered a terrible fate. He was suddenly hit by some wood chips, and the next moment, a lot of hidden weapons were thrown at him. Although those hidden weapons could not cause any harm to Chengfeng, the feeling of being constantly beaten still made Chengfeng cry out with tears in his eyes.

Xie Tingyun's pupils shrank slightly, the control center suddenly shut down, and all the devices in the house stopped at once.

However, with such a big commotion in Yunfeng Pavilion, the disciples outside had already noticed something was wrong. Their faces changed and they rushed in without caring about etiquette: "Big Brother?!"

"Uncle Daoming! What happened in there?"

"Is there an accident? Is Senior Brother injured?"

"There is an invasion by foreign enemies! Emergency alert! Save our eldest brother first!"

With a bang, Daoming kicked the door of Yunfeng Pavilion open. He saw Xie Tingyun covered in blood and his face was pale. He felt terrible: "Tingyun!"

This all happened too fast. By the time Xie Tingyun realized he had been tricked, the disciples outside the Yunfeng Pavilion had already rushed in. Seeing Xie Tingyun like this, they burst into tears again on the spot: "Senior Brother..."

Among the disciples who rushed in happened to be those who came from the medical school. They quickly pushed aside the people in front of them, forcibly held down Xie Tingyun, and treated the wound on his palm that was still bleeding on the spot, while urgently giving him various high-quality elixirs to replenish his spiritual power.

Xie Tingyun struggled and said, "You, you guys calm down! I can't die..."

Another junior fellow held onto Xie Tingyun's uninjured arm and cried loudly: "Big Senior Brother... Big Senior Brother, you can't be so desperate to seek death! If the Demon Lord knew about this, he would be so sad!"

Xie Tingyun: "..."

Xie Tingyun was simply at a loss for words. He said weakly, "I'm not seeking death. I don't want to seek death at all now..."

However, his words were drowned out by the chatter of worry and crying, and no one listened to him.

In the sea of ​​consciousness, Xie Tingyun suddenly raised his head and met Ning's deep eyes.

Ning Chen stared at him for a while, then lowered his voice and said, "Well, if the Demon Lord knew, how sad he would be."

Xie Tingyun: "..."

Ning Chen cleared his throat and said, "Don't worry, I'll pay for it. Chengfeng... I'll comfort Chengfeng."

Ning Chen felt very guilty at first, but then he changed his mind and realized that it was Xie Tingyun who didn't take his injury seriously, not him. Shouldn't Xie Tingyun be the one who should feel guilty?

Xie Tingyun took a deep breath and whispered, "How do you know? There's no way Bunian would tell you."

He even sealed his five senses and sea of ​​consciousness. Ning Shen could not hear any sounds from the outside world, nor could he see any images from the outside world. Logically, it should have been seamless.

"...You just think that Bu Nian is a knife and you don't understand the human race's injuries," Ning Chen laughed after hearing this: "Xie Tingyun, how dare you collude with Bu Nian to hide this from me?"

Xie Tingyun was at a loss: "?"

Ning Chen said, "Yes, Bu Nian didn't say anything. When I asked you what happened, it said nothing, absolutely nothing."

Xie Tingyun: "..."

He said nothing, yet it seemed as if he had said everything.

How come this knife is dumber than its owner...

Can't stand it!

Ning Chen snorted and said, "First, you secretly concealed your injury from me and passively treated it. You seem to be quite justified? Your crime is even more serious."

Xie Tingyun: "..."

"Secondly," Ning Chen lowered his eyes and spoke word by word, "Xie Tingyun, when will you understand that when I call myself a fool, it doesn't mean I really am one."

Xie Tingyun: “…………”

"By the way, Xie Tingyun," Ning Chen suddenly seemed to have thought of something and said, "If you treat me like a fool, do you have any reward?"

Before Xie Tingyun could open his mouth to defend himself, Ning Chen lowered his eyes and looked at Xie Tingyun, who had a wooden face, and said, "If you say no, I will really be angry."

"..." Xie Tingyun simply gave up and said negatively: "Then tell me, what do you want from me?"

Ning Chen was silent for a while after hearing this, and then lowered his voice: "Live well. No matter who dies, it's not worth giving up."

After this incident, Xie Tingyun couldn't bear to hear the words "live well" the most.

He sighed and said slowly, "Okay. Now everything is over. As long as we can find a way to get your body out, no one will die and everyone can live well."

Ning Chen turned his head away and said, "Don't play dumb. You know what I mean."

Xie Tingyun said: "But you also know I won't listen."

Ning Chen: “…”

Damn!

Ning Chen rubbed Xie Tingyun's face angrily.

“Hmm…”

It was only then that Xie Tingyun realized the weakness of his juvenile body. He was now being held in the arms of the adult Ning Chen, who was rubbing him. He had no way of resisting, as Ning Chen could suppress all his resistance with just one hand.

Xie Tingyun finally broke free from Ning Chen's clutches, frowned, and switched his soul form to the adult form, only then was he finally satisfied.

At least I won't be suppressed by Ning Chen's hand.

However, when Xie Tingyun turned into an adult, Ning Chen stared at him for a long time, and then for some reason he rushed up again and bit Xie Tingyun on the shoulder.

The force was neither light nor heavy and could not hurt Xie Tingyun at all, but because it acted directly on his soul, Xie Tingyun found it particularly unbearable.

He took a deep breath, shook his head violently, and said, "What are you doing!"

Ning Chen faced the miniature version of Xie Tingyun and was reluctant to say any harsh words. His only way of venting his anger was to rub the dumpling hard.

Still the type that is reluctant to use too much force.

But when he faced Xie Tingyun directly, things were different.

When he was young, Xie Tingyun would just silently let Ning Chen rub and flatten him. He was so well behaved that people couldn't bear to bully him.

But it is much worse for adults to experience Xie Tingyun.

This guy, just relying on his inability to see anything, didn't treat injuries, didn't call for help, Daoming was clearly outside, Xie Tingyun was almost fainted, but he refused to say a word, and he was looking for death after his Taoist partner died, and he even questioned him with a righteous indignation! !

Ning Chen was very angry.

Ning Chen said coldly: "It's yours."

Xie Tingyun stared at him for a long while, then bit back unwillingly.

It was not until Ning Shen's own soul was bitten that he began to understand why Xie Tingyun's reaction was so abnormally intense.

Neither of them dared to bite hard, but the perception of their soul seemed to be sharper than that of their body, and it brought with it a very strange feeling, not painful, but a little numb, not unpleasant, but very novel.

Ning Chen felt it once and his whole body trembled. He quickly held Xie Tingyun down and refused to let him take a second bite.

Xie Tingyun crashed into his arms and stopped talking.

Ning Chen followed suit and tightened his arm, sighed, and said, "Okay."

“…”

Xie Tingyun closed his eyes and released his five closed senses.

The moment he unlocked it, Ning Chen suddenly discovered that he could actually feel the outside world through Xie Tingyun's five senses.

He shared Xie Tingyun's vision, hearing and touch. Through Xie Tingyun's eyes, he saw that no one listened to Xie Tingyun's explanations, and he was helplessly held down throughout the treatment.

Ning Chen originally wanted to gloat over Xie Tingyun's misfortune, but when Xie Tingyun's gaze inadvertently passed over him, Ning Chen could no longer laugh.

He recognized the outfit.

This was the outfit Xie Tingyun was wearing on the day he died.

For so many days, Xie Tingyun had not dealt with the blood on his body at all. Large patches of dried brown devil blood were splattered on Xie Tingyun's silver-white clothes, which was shocking to the eyes. One could not help but wonder what kind of injury could have caused such bloodstains.

It's like a kind of silent self-abuse.

However, the clothes were now stained with fresh blood, and the amount of bleeding was also not to be underestimated. Ning Chen was furious and sad when he saw it, and he wanted to hold Xie Tingyun down and bite him a few more times on the spot.

Xie Tingyun seemed to have realized that he had seen something he shouldn't have, and then his eyes fell on Daoming and the other disciples who were chattering beside him, and he no longer glanced at himself.

“…”

Ning was silent for a while, and hugged the person in his arms tightly.

He lowered his head and leaned on Xie Tingyun's shoulder, and said in a low voice: "Xie Tingyun."

Xie Tingyun turned his head, looked at Ning Chen's profile, and said softly, "Yeah."

"...Xie Tingyun."

"Um."

Ning Chen groped for Xie Tingyun's hand.

Xie Tingyun realized his intention and came to him on his own initiative, so he didn't have to look for her for too long.

Ning Chen recalled what Xie Tingyun had done before, and covered the back of Xie Tingyun's hand and clasped his five fingers.

Ning Chen rested his head on Xie Tingyun's shoulder, just in time to meet Xie Tingyun's downcast eyes.

"Xie Tingyun. I'm still here, I'm still alive, and I won't die." Ning Chen said almost silently.

Xie Tingyun felt a sudden softening in his heart.

He leaned down slightly, kissed the corner of Ning Chen's lips, and said with gentle eyes, "Okay."

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