Chapter 698: Death of Hongxiu

Zhijie, on the grassland covered with fog.

Mu You carried the little boy in one hand and ran across the grassland at lightning speed.

A rumble spread in the distance, and the surrounding scene began to become blurred, as if the surface of the water blown by the wind was rippling.

The static objects and characters in the surrounding space began to become distorted, as if they were not in the real world, but in a dream.

Mu You knew that this was a sign that Zhijie was about to collapse.

There was no time to think about it, he could only increase his horsepower and push Chi Xiao to the limit. The whole person turned into a red lightning and ran towards the mountains ahead.

Under the full-scale running, it took nearly an hour to walk here, and it took only a few minutes to run back.

A moment later, Mu You rushed into the stone gate opened by the Chuangjie Mountain like the wind, sprinted in the maze-like corridors in the mountain, and soon found the cave where the altar was placed.

Mu You had just rushed into the cave for a few seconds when the sense of collapse of the world reached its limit. The still images around him were like broken mirrors, shattering at a speed visible to the naked eye, and energy storms began to blow in the cave.

Mu You blocked the storm with one hand and threw the unconscious boy to the center of the formation with the other hand.

The next moment, the space-time storm swept in and completely submerged the two.

…

When Mu You stepped on the ground again, the ground under his feet became soft.

When he opened his eyes, the little boy fell not far from him. The night was hazy around him, and the cool breeze blew. They were no longer in the cave of the Creation Mountain, but standing in a desert.

Judging from the location, they should have successfully returned to the future, but the Creation Mountain had passed the present time, so they were kicked out of the mountain and fell into the original desert.

There was a sound of footsteps in the distance, and Mu You looked back and saw that the person coming was Lin Xue.

"You're back."

Lin Xue hurried over and saw that Mu You was safe and sound. The big stone in her heart finally fell and she breathed a sigh of relief.

"How long have we been away?" Mu You asked.

"From the time we disappeared from the Creation Mountain to the time you appeared, it was about an hour..."

One hour...

Mu You was stunned. This delay time was almost the same as the time they stayed in that piece of Zhijie. It can be basically considered that this time that disappeared out of thin air was consumed in the past.

While the two were talking, Hong Xiu came silently from another direction, walked to the unconscious boy, picked him up, and fed him a bottle of potion.

"Ahem..."

The little boy was quickly awakened by choking. Looking at the familiar night and desert around him, he was stunned for a few seconds, then jumped out of Hong Xiu's arms and looked at Mu You with wide eyes.

"Why did you bring me back... How could it be... If we just come back like this, everything will be back to square one..."

The little boy knelt on the ground in annoyance, grabbing his hair madly. Thinking of the previous things, his eyes quickly turned red.

He had gone through so much hardship to return to the past, but nothing changed. More than a thousand years of hard work turned into nothing overnight.

More importantly, he also learned the reality that made him collapse in the past: it was all just a lie, everyone was lying to him, even his most beloved teacher had lied to him, treating him as a tool and playing with him for so many years...

"Calm down, it's over." Mu You said.

"End? No, I can't accept it!"

The little boy regretted it, and a flash of hatred and anger flashed in his eyes: "Why should my efforts and hard work be so abused by them, why should my life be reduced to a transmission tool..."

"..."

Mu You didn't know how to persuade him for a while.

This man's experience is indeed tragic. He was deceived by the person he trusted the most, and more than a thousand years of hard work turned into nothing. Most people probably can't accept it.

However, at least he survived and has the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of the future fool's victory.

The teachers who paved the way for him had died for the sake of the race. From this point of view, it was hard to compare who had made the greater sacrifice.

"No! I want to go back!" The little boy suddenly spoke, his eyes becoming firm.

"Go back?"

"Yes! I want to find a way to create a boundary anchor point again, go back to the past, and remind my past self that I can no longer be deceived by you..."

"All this now is not the reality I want... I must change the past..." The little boy said to himself and got up from the ground.

Mu You frowned. He felt a little sympathetic to the little boy, but that didn't mean he would allow the little guy to continue to use divine power to mess around.

Mu You immediately wanted to control the little boy.

But before he could make a move, he was shocked by the scene in front of him.

"Quick, Hongxiu, take me away! Hongxiu..."

The little boy obviously knew that Mu You would stop him. To continue to complete his plan, the first thing to do was to escape from here.

He obviously couldn't do this by himself. He was still wrapped in Mu You's Heavenly Power and couldn't open the world. He could only ask Hong Xiu for help.

The little boy instinctively gave Hong Xiu an order, just like he had done countless times before.

But this time, he felt a sharp pain in his chest.

"Puff!"

The little boy lowered his head and looked at the death hook that pierced through his chest in disbelief. He turned his head with difficulty, but what he saw was Hong Xiu's cold face.

"You... cough..."

"Enough. Stop talking to me with this face and this voice. You don't deserve it." Hongxiu held the death chain and looked at the little boy expressionlessly.

At this moment, in the boy's eyes, he was no longer the hardworking and kind mother, but a ghost who had just walked out of hell and was asking for his life.

"Hongxiu, you are crazy... You are looking for death... If you attack me, you will die..." The little boy's face was pale and he spoke with difficulty. The vitality in his body was quickly dissipating.

"I have said long ago that I am the descendant of the god of death. If you dare to lie to me, I will definitely make you die!"

Hongxiu looked at the boy with the eyes of a dead person, and waved her right arm and pulled out the chain.

The chain was detached from the little boy's body, but his soul was also taken out.

The little boy was shocked when he saw the part of the blue soul dragged out from his back. He didn't care about the severe pain in his body, covered his chest and got up, stumbling away.

Unfortunately, his soul had been hooked by the chain. As the boy escaped, more and more of his soul was dragged out of his body, stretching like plasticine.

Until a certain moment, the soul was pulled to the end, and finally could not bear the pulling force and broke from the little boy.

A complete human soul phantom appeared in the air and was pulled back by the chain.

At the other end, the phantom of the god of death had condensed on Hongxiu's body. The soul flew over and fell directly into the mouth of the god of death and disappeared.

At the same time, the boy who was running away on the opposite side fell to the ground with a plop, and his eyes quickly became dull.

Mu You and Lin Xue watched this scene from a distance, looked at each other, and did not make a move to stop it. After all, this was a personal grudge between the two.

Until everything was settled, Hongxiu stepped forward and picked up the boy's body from the ground.

Looking at the terrified child in her arms, Hongxiu realized it later and felt a huge sadness.

Unfortunately, she couldn't cry. The tear gland system had long been numb in the nightmare experience during this period.

"It shouldn't have been like this..."

"When did it start to change..."

Hongxiu recalled the night a year ago.

At that time, she was just an ordinary woman. She had just graduated from college and got pregnant before marriage. She encountered setbacks in the workplace, worked like a cow, earned a meager income, and lived a life with no future.

Until that night, she and her boyfriend quarreled over trivial matters like usual.

A man covered in black appeared at their window and threw an olive branch to them.

"Do you want to make a name for yourself?"

"If you don't want to continue living your current life, sign this contract and become my disciple."

"I will let you gain power that ordinary people can't achieve, and let your children become the best in the future, and no longer have to endure the suffering you have endured..."

I don't know if it was really for the future children, or if she had a longing for the black-clothed man's pie, or if it was just a simple impulse.

In short, she followed her boyfriend and agreed to it in a daze, and signed the blood contract.

Little did they know that this was the devil's temptation.

It was from that moment that their family was doomed to the tragedy of today...

"Cough..."

Hongxiu came back to her senses from her distant thoughts, and suddenly her throat felt sweet and she coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Along with the blood, her hair quickly turned from black to white, and wrinkles began to appear on the skin on her face.

Lin Xue was startled. She could clearly feel that the vitality in Hongxiu's body was rapidly fading.

Hongxiu was not surprised by the changes in her body. In the blood contract they signed with Zuoqiu, there was a "symbiotic" contract, which was a clause designed by Zuoqiu for self-protection: the two could not attack him, otherwise they would suffer backlash and die.

In just a dozen seconds, Hongxiu's originally young appearance quickly turned into an old man with wrinkles on his face.

Feeling that her life was about to come to an end, Hongxiu looked up at Lin Xue.

"Thank you..."

"..."

Lin Xue knew that the other party was thanking her for not stopping her revenge just now.

Hongxiu had actually been captured by Lin Xue before. If it wasn't for Lin Xue's acquiescence, she wouldn't have had the chance to settle the feud herself.

After thanking Lin Xue, Hongxiu moved her old arm and tremblingly took out a piece of white paper from her body.

Her finger touched the paper, and as energy surged, a map quietly emerged on the white paper.

Hongxiu picked up the white paper and looked at Mu You: "This is... the hiding place of the Time God's Remains..."

The white paper floated over, and Mu You took it and took a look. There was a hand-drawn map on the paper. The lines were relatively rough, but the basic directions were clearly marked, so it shouldn't be difficult to find.

"I have only one request."

The old Hongxiu looked at Mu You and said, "If you master the divine power of time in the future, no matter what ability you develop to go back to the past, or go to other parallel time and space... In short, if you have the opportunity to see the young and ignorant me, please help me wake her up... Don't let her repeat my tragedy..."

Mu You exhaled, put away the white paper, and nodded: "Okay, I promise, within my ability, I will try my best to help you complete it... But the premise is that there is such an opportunity..."

Hongxiu smiled with relief, even though she knew that this kind of thing had little hope and was almost impossible to accomplish. Even if it was accomplished, it would no longer be her who was changed, but another person.

Even so, she still hopes to see her in a parallel world where she can stay away from these disputes and live an ordinary life with her husband and children. This is enough.

Hong Xiu died with a relieved smile.

Under the clear light of the moonlight, mother and son lay in the sand, facing each other, both lifeless.

The moment Hongxiu died completely, a ball of death energy surged out of her body and penetrated into Lin Xue's body.

Lin Xue's godly skin was a shadow on her body, and her missing left arm quickly grew back, returning to the full form of the God of Death.

At the same time, along with the power of death, there were two special divine powers that poured into Lin Xue's body.

Mind reading, and obstacle crossing.

These two abilities were obtained by Hongxiu using divine bones during this period. They should have dissipated with her death, because the divine bones that have been fused by humans can no longer be condensed into divine bones again.

But Lin Xue gained the power of Suture God because she mastered the power of Suture and Death at the same time.

At this moment, feeling the two divine powers in his body that were about to dissipate, he hurriedly sewed them into the two ordinary divine bones that he had fused, thus retaining these two abilities.

It should have been a happy event to gain two kinds of divine power in a row, and the missing inheritance of the God of Death was restored to integrity, but when Lin Xue looked at the corpses of Hongxiu mother and son not far away, she really couldn't laugh, instead she felt a touch of sadness.

In a sense, she and Hongxiu are like two sides of the same coin. They come from the same origin and have many similarities. However, due to their different origins and experiences, they eventually took two completely opposite paths.

Lin Xue sighed, stepped forward and picked up the death chain that Hong Xiu had dropped from the sand.

But when she picked up the chain, she was suddenly startled and felt something strange inside the chain.

"What? She's still there?" Seeing Lin Xue's expression, Mu You thought that Hongxiu's soul had not completely dissipated, and that part of it was entangled in the chains.

"No……"

Lin Xue shook her head: "It's just a remaining obsession, it will disappear on its own after a while..."

Lin Xue had already acquired the ability to read minds at this time, and could read the intention of this obsession: he just wanted to follow them for a period of time from the perspective of a weapon spirit, hoping to witness the day when they fulfilled their promise...

"Then let's go."

Mu You nodded and whistled, and the magic carpet taxi flew from the darkness in the distance and hovered in front of the two of them.

Before leaving, Mu You took Hong Xiu and the little boy's body away with him.

Zuoqiu may have made many mistakes over the years, but what he did is indeed an indispensable part of the Fools' collective. Even if the merits and demerits are equal, there is still hard work without credit, at least now they should be The body was brought back to earth and buried in its native land.

A week later, the two returned to Earth.

As soon as Mu You returned, he found several administrators through the causal line and informed them about what happened in this industry.

The two people's trip seemed to be in vain, but in fact, he got some very precious information from the first-generation leader, and this information was enough to change the Fool's next policy in facing the God-Eating Beast. (End of chapter)