Two young men, a man and a woman, stood side by side, looking up at the names engraved on it, but neither of them seemed to be focusing on it.
On the surface, the boy looked at the name on the stone tablet with a solemn expression, as if he was remembering the martyrs. In fact, the corner of his eye was always on the girl next to him. Whenever she came closer to him, he immediately moved to the side.
One minute distance.
"I, was I really that fierce yesterday?"
Linglong gritted her teeth and asked angrily for a long time.
"Very fierce!"
Lu Ming nodded with certainty.
"But I'm not fierce anymore!"
Holding the corner of her clothes, Linglong was so angry that she threw her foot into the water, and water splashed towards Lu Ming.
Lu Ming did not dodge or dodge, letting the water wet his clothes without changing his expression, "I'm afraid you will suddenly eat me. From now on, I must guard you to the death!"
Thinking of what happened yesterday, Lu Ming is still a little scared.
After Linglong transformed into the God Lord, she felt as if she was suddenly stimulated, and when she spoke to him, she was also yin and yang, as if he was flirting with others.
He was obviously a single man, someone who was not on the same level as Linglong Eighty Cents, but Linglong actually relied on the relationship between the Lord and the Lord to scold him and discipline him like a girlfriend sulking.
What the hell does this mean?
Wu Yuan next to him suffered an unreasonable disaster, and the bones were crushed and turned into powder that flew in the wind. Even if he saw those powders, Lu Ming would not give up even if he was beaten to death.
This girl actually asked to sleep with me at night.
Since when did he, Lu Ming, become such a casual person?
That's definitely not the case!
Fortunately, the next day, the girl who had slept all night returned to her original form, and she was a cute and innocent little girl again. However, the memory of yesterday was still fresh in her mind, and Lu Ming was very doubtful that Linglong could control the transformation by herself.
The so-called saying that she can transform after she is injured is completely a lie to deceive others.
"Lu Ming, ah, ah, I'm going to kill you!"
Linglong bent down and stretched out her delicate little hands to fumble in the water for a long time. Finally, she picked up a stone and hit it hard with Lu Ming aiming at it.
How abominable!
He actually said she was scary!
"Find two more."
Lu Ming did not dodge or evade, stretched out his hand to catch the stone steadily, and did not forget to remind him.
Linglong, who doesn't transform, can still be easily controlled by his own strength.
"snort!"
Several stones were thrown and water splashed several times. Lu Ming did not dodge or dodge. Linglong also lost a lot of her anger. However, as soon as she saw him passing by, Lu Ming stepped back a distance and became angry again.
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"We are leaving, can't you be nice to me in front of my people?"
As she spoke, Linglong pursed her lips at the person next to her.
In the forest, the clan leader and Huo Tu Xin and several members of the Fire Zhizhi tribe gathered together, discussing something in low voices. During the conversation, Huo Tu Xin's eyes occasionally glanced here, looking at the cute and cute Linglong, and again
Smile pitifully.
When his eyes moved to Lu Ming, he subconsciously frowned slightly.
"Then, you can't go too far!"
Lu Ming glanced at the people next to him, hesitated slightly, thought for a while, and nodded slightly.
As he spoke, Lu Ming controlled his thoughts of running away at any time.
Should I say it or not, I still have to rely on girls when I go back to the capital.
"That's right."
As soon as he got closer, Linglong hung on Lu Ming like a koala, his eyes slightly narrowed, and he smiled again.
"Holy shit, why are you pulling me?"
Feeling the almost substantial murderous aura rising from the woods nearby, Lu Ming anxiously stretched out his hand to pull away this cute little thing hanging on his body like a koala.
"Come down quickly."
"I don't. Come down and you ignore me again."
"I'm not ignoring you. Your father is here. If you keep doing this, you want me to die here."
"ah?"
Linglong reacted and glanced sideways at Huo Tu Xin. She was a little impulsive. Her face suddenly turned red. She guiltily let go of her hands and clasped them behind her back.
"I just think you smell good."
"You are really hopeless. I haven't taken a shower in several days."
Lu Ming patted his forehead speechlessly, feeling more and more that Linglong was a bit outrageous, her IQ was getting lower and lower, and she didn't look like a seventeen-year-old girl at all.
"Boy!"
Huo Tu Xin's eyes showed murderous intent. After discussing the matter with the clan leader and the others, he walked to the center of the pool at some point, holding the fire tooth pestle on his body, as if he might fight at any time.
"Uncle, misunderstanding, this is really a misunderstanding!"
Lu Ming ran to Linglong without hesitation, pressing the girl's shoulders to use as a shield for himself.
"Tch." She glanced behind her and saw a fawning and frightened look. Linglong curled her lips in disdain, then immediately pulled her father's shoulders and shook her hard, "Dad, we are joking."
"...It's none of your business. Girl, please go ahead and I'll talk to him alone." Huo Tuxin first touched Linglong's head lovingly, then pulled her away and turned to look at Lu Ming.
"Dad, you're not serious about coming, are you?"
Linglong looked at her father with a serious expression, which was really rare. Even if she pretended to be serious in the past, as soon as she acted coquettishly, he would immediately lose control.
Today, on the other hand, it was very formal and serious.
"We, we are really..."
Before Linglong could finish speaking, Lu Ming interrupted: "Linglong, please go over first. I just have something I want to talk to your father about."
The two of them were about to leave Zhihuo, and Lu Ming felt that he really needed to explain certain things clearly to Huo Tu Xin, both in public and private matters. He had to make others feel at ease, right?
Linglong looked at the two of them for a while, and saw that both of them were insisting. After a long time, she nodded dissatisfied, stepped on the water with her feet and walked to the side.
Huo Tuxin watched his daughter walk away, and after confirming that he would not hear the two talking, he turned to look at the Glory Stone, his eyes slightly solemn, and asked in a deep voice: "Do you know what this place represents?"
"The Yanxi Wall is supported by the flesh and blood made by the bodies of each generation of Zhihuo. It is inheritance, and it is also the ancestors of Zhihuo who tell Zhihuo people to understand the preciousness of life."
Lu Ming looked at the Glory Stone, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he said softly: "Every one of you fireweavers is worthy of respect."
The intensity of the underground fire is ever-changing. It is here today, where it will be tomorrow, a small fire today, a big fire tomorrow. If it were not for the fire weavers guarding this land all year round, specializing in the work of surveying and extinguishing the underground fire, the underground fire would have been there long ago.
A massive eruption occurred years ago.
The earth fire annihilated the entire continent of Suchuan, and except for a few living creatures, it was impossible for any living creatures to exist.
“Linglong, did you even tell you this?”
"……Yes."
"When you grow up, you should tell outsiders any secrets you have."
Huo Tuxin sighed, and then looked at Lu Ming with sharp eyes, "Are you Lord Suchuan, the master of those outside?"
Lu Ming nodded slightly and said softly: "In name, yes."
After receiving a positive answer, Huo Tu Xin fell silent for a moment. When he looked at Lu Ming again, his eyes were slightly complicated. He didn't know what he was thinking of, and continued to ask: "Then Linglong is following you, can you protect her?"
"No!" Lu Ming shook his head without hesitation, looked at Huo Tu Xin who frowned slightly, and said calmly: "You also learned a lot about the actual situation yesterday. She is stronger than me, and she can suppress you all by herself.
The bones of hundreds of people in Zhihuo were just waved after Linglong transformed, so it would be a bit false to say that I protect her."
"It is recorded in the royal family's classics that the God Lord controls the power that transcends all sentient beings in the world and is the source of power for all things. Your Majesty is just a key, the key to unlocking the source of communication power between the God Lord. Her power has always been in herself, not in me.
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"I didn't believe these records before, and even thought they were tricks compiled by my ancestors to trick the common people and use them to consolidate their political status. However, I have changed my view in the past two days. As you can see, the facts are more accurate than what is recorded.
It’s an exaggeration.”
Huo Tu Xin was silent for a moment, thinking of the fire demon fluttering in the wind inside the Yanxi Wall, and the men of Marquis Pingjiang who came from the outside yesterday, and the bones and food that controlled him so that he had no power to backfire, even ants in front of Linglong.
None of them count.
Huo Tu Xin suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. The look in Lu Ming's eyes no longer held the ferocious threat before. The other person's frankness made him let down some of his guard, "I know everything you said, but I still want to hear your opinion."
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"If she is not the Lord of God, if...she loses the power in her body, what will you do?"
"She is Linglong, that's all." Lu Ming: "Actually, I don't like having a divine lord over my throne. That means everything I have is given by others, but the current situation is that I really need it.
she."
"As for her, if all the power in her body disappears, it doesn't matter. I am still me, the Lord, and Lu Ming, and she is still her and Linglong."
After a pause, Lu Ming pointed to his chest, "Maybe you don't believe it, but I want to say that we should never give up!"
"As for the future, I always don't like to interfere with other decisions. When she has truly stabilized her power and will not be affected by the outside world, whether she stays in the royal capital or leaves to return to Dao Fireweaver, this is her idea."
"I will respect and understand her."
Huo Tuxin looked at Lu Ming for a long time, listening to his slow words. His voice was always so gentle. He never made a firm oath or promised anything. Everything seemed to be telling simple facts smoothly.
"You are a selfish person." After a long silence, Huo Tuxin said: "If everything is resolved, whether it is your edict or Marquis Pingjiang, remember to ask her to come back and see me."
Speaking of the latter part, Huo Tu Xin's mouth had a hint of bitterness, "I feel like once you come, Linglong no longer sees me as her father. She really suspects that she will forget me one day."
"Haha." Lu Ming couldn't help laughing.
"why are you laughing?"
Huo Tu Xin recovered from his sadness and looked at Lu Ming with a frown.
"It's nothing," Lu Ming stopped laughing, looked at him and said, "I just feel like you are a father and your daughter is not gone forever, so why do you treat her as if you are parting from life or death?"
Without waiting for his rebuttal, Lu Ming continued: "I will definitely bring Linglong back to see this glory stone and carve her name on it, so that she will be respected like the fire-weaver ancestor."
Huo Tuxin looked at him sideways, couldn't help but nod slightly, smiled, and said: "There is another thing, Linglong has always wanted to know about her mother, but I have never told her, except because of her young age.
In fact, I don’t know much about it either.”
"Have a little knowledge?" Lu Ming was a little surprised. Doesn't his wife even understand it clearly?
Are all these fire weavers so pure?
It seems that Linglong's character is somewhat inherited from her father.
"Don't look at me with that look." Huo Tuxin frowned and continued: "We Zhihuo people are so simple. That day, Linglong's mother came to Zhihuo and I met her by chance. She looked pale and seemed to be sick.
Normally, I would take him home and take care of him, and we would go back and forth... and we would be together.
After we got together, she never talked about the past, and I didn't want to ask about it. I only knew that she was my wife and the mother of my daughter, and that was enough."
"What happened next?"
Lu Ming couldn't help but ask,
"She said she was going to look for something in the forbidden area of the Yanxi Wall. It was called tears. She couldn't explain it. I couldn't resist her, so I took it with me. Then...she left something behind, one of which was the Linglong Belt.
The necklace on the chest was taken from the Abyss of Earth and Fire.
Also, she is from Pingting."
Huo Tuxin looked at Yan Xiqiang, as if he was looking at his wife with whom he had been together for many years, "I also thought about going to Pingting, but Linglong was still young and I didn't dare to take the risk. I was afraid of what happened next.
I was afraid that Linglong would become like that, and the fear surrounded me, so much so that I even took the initiative to move outside the town."
"I understand, I will go to Pingting!" Lu Ming nodded and promised, looking at Huo Tu Xin and said: "Pingjiang Marquis is also in Pingting, that is his capital."
Pingjiang Marquis is the largest prince in Suchuan. If you want the throne to have real power instead of being a mascot, this is someone who must be eliminated.
So even if there was no problem like Huo Tu Xin, Lu Ming would still go to Pingjiang Marquis to trouble him. The reason why he said it was just like before. When they were leaving, he wanted to deceive the father who cared about his daughter.
"I understand, but you will go because of Linglong, right?" Huo Tu Xin asked.
"meeting!"
Lu Ming nodded affirmatively.
Huo Tu Xin nodded again and looked at the Glory Stone in a daze. Suddenly his arms were hugged again. He turned around and saw that Linglong came over at some point and smiled at his father.
Lu Ming stood in the distance, smiling slightly as he watched the two farewell.
"Thank you for your hard work, Patriarch. If you persist a little longer, the fire will be extinguished next time we come back." Turning his head, Lu Ming said to the old Patriarch.
"Five hundred years of earth fire..."
"It's five hundred years later." Lu Ming interrupted him and smiled.
The patriarch was silent for a moment, then looked at Linglong, thinking about something.
…
Two hours later.
A carp-like fish flapped its tail and pectoral fins in the sky and slowly flew towards the edge of the Fire Weaver Realm. Under its pectoral fins hung a treasure ship trimmed with golden scales.
"The world outside is so magical."
Linglong's eyes widened as she looked at the flying fish and the treasure ship. "It turns out that fish can fly in the sky. This is the first time I've heard of it."
Lu Ming looked side by side with her, sizing up the slowly landing fishing boat, and couldn't help but whisper: "This is my first time too."
Although the voice was small, it was not deliberately concealed. Linglong naturally heard it and couldn't help but ask: "Aren't you Junshang? How come you haven't seen this thing before?"
"Does it mean that you are not even qualified to sit on this boat outside?"
Lu Ming couldn't help but smile, his thoughts of farewell were swept away, and he stared at the treasure ship,