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Xiu'er lowered her head, continuously rubbing the wine cup in her hand with her fingers, as if hesitating whether or not she should believe the person in front of him.

From the moment she had followed Yuanhai out of the Fire Phoenix Army Camp, she had been betting in her heart that she would be able to defeat him and use her sacrifice to exchange for the lives of thousands of soldiers. She was constantly on guard against anything that might happen to her, including the vicious gazes from the soldiers and the low curses from their mouths. She was well aware of that, but for the sake of the soldiers' safety, she had to endure it.

But now, facing this old man, she was at a loss. The person in front of her could be said to be the greatest enemy of all of Fire Phoenix Empire. If she were to kill him now, then even if thousands of soldiers died a violent death, no one would say a word wrong about her. After thousands of years of enmity and warfare, more than a million soldiers had died. To use more than a thousand regular soldiers to exchange for the heads of Lord Messenger of God s, no matter how one looked at it or what price it had to pay, it was all worth it.

This was a cold topic, but it was not difficult to calculate. If the ones sitting here were Chen Chu, Qu Feizhi or even strong man, they would have already made their own decisions.

But Xiu'er could not do it, she knew very well what the person in front of her had said. Perhaps, the only person who could solve the mystery in her heart would be this person.

Drinking all the wine in the cup in one gulp, Xiu'er slowly raised her head and said to Chen Tianming who was standing in front of him, "Lord Messenger of God is right.

"Two years ago?" Chen Tianming repeated the word.

Xiu'er nodded with a hint of awkwardness: "Yes, about two years ago, or maybe a little more. I should say, I only remember what happened after that. I have no memories of my childhood. "

Chen Tianming poured wine into Xiu'er's wine cup and smiled at her: "If Lord Xiu does not abandon me, this old one is willing to hear the details."

Ever since she could remember, Xiu'er felt that she was already a big child. She lived with her parents on the fishing boat, and every day she would help her father catch fish to patch up the net and help her mother wash and cook. Whenever she saw the children of other families laughing and playing, the Xiu'er would feel that it was very strange. In her memories, there had never been such a scene, as if from the moment she could remember, she was already older than the other children.

After almost a year, the Xiu'er could no longer hold back and finally asked his parents. The two old men looked at each other for a while. Her father lit up the pipe, smoked a few mouthfuls, and then told Xiu'er that she had been suffering from a strange disease since she was young. She was unconscious and slept every day, just like a living corpse. All these years, he had relied on her mother to feed and drink to barely survive. It was also because of this that Xiu'er didn't have any memories from her childhood. Now that she had finally woken up, her parents did not want her to know about her tragic past, which was why they had not told her the truth.

Her father said that while her mother kept wiping away her tears. Xiu'er also cried as she hugged her mother's head. Her father sat by the side, smoking and sighing incessantly.

Xiu'er secretly made up her mind. She wasn't going anywhere, she was going to properly honor her parents and make up for the debt of love she had accumulated over the past ten years. Making this decision actually wasn't easy at all. There was always a throbbing in the depths of her heart as she constantly called out, and that voice made her head north, all the way north.

Another year had passed, and her father had met with an accident in Xiu'er. He followed the village fishermen to a distant place to fish, only to run into a thousand-year-old fishing flood. The huge fish tide broke through the fishing net, dragging the fishing boat with it as it ran. The fishermen behind him all turned around to look at him. They would rather not hand over the money to save their lives. The people in front were unlucky, the fishing net had been destroyed, the fishing boat had been turned over, and they had all fallen into the water and been buried by the fish. Xiu'er's father was one of the fishermen in the first row.

After learning about this grievous news, Xiu'er's mother cried like hell. She said that this was retribution, the punishment for beating a fish for life and getting bitten by a fish in the end. This was retribution.

Xiu'er also cried as she tried to persuade her mother. But as she cried, her mother suddenly turned around, wanting to kowtow to Xiu'er. This frightened the girl, and she hurriedly reached out to help her mother, asking her what was going on.

Xiu'er's mother choked with sobs and told her that their old couple had lied to Xiu'er a year ago. The Xiu'er wasn't born from them, it was something they picked up.

The old couple had been married for many years and had once had a daughter. However, when the daughter was ten years old, she drowned and the old couple never came out again. When her father went out to fish and saw a man floating on the river, he scooped him up. Seeing that it was a young lady who was still breathing weakly, he quickly sent her home for her mother to help him.

At that time, Xiu'er looked like a teenage girl, the more the old couple looked at him, the more they thought of his daughter. Furthermore, his daughter was taken away by the river, and now a girl had rushed over to him, wasn't this a gift from the heavens? Thinking of this, the old couple gritted their teeth and stamped their feet. They decided that if this girl could still remember what happened earlier, they would send it back to her after waking up. If he couldn't remember, then he would lie to her to be her own daughter!

After about ten days, the Xiu'er slowly woke up. When her mother was changing clothes and feeding her, she probed him a few times and found out that this child really couldn't remember what happened before. She told her father about this matter and the two of them were anxious to see her daughter, hence they decided to follow the method they discussed and lie to Xiu'er.

Who would have thought that Xiu'er's father, who had believed that the heavens would accept a girl to send to her daughter, would be taken in by the heavens just like that? Xiu'er's mother felt that this was her retribution. The heavens had given her retribution, so she simply told Xiu'er everything that had happened before and after.

When Xiu'er heard this news, she cried even harder. It wasn't a lie, she said to her mother. Father saved him from the water to give him her second life. If not for Father, he would have long been drowned to death. So his father was his father, and his mother was his mother. There was no deceit, there was only gratitude.

Xiu'er's mother took out a neatly folded handkerchief from a big box and handed it to Xiu'er, saying that this was what she had found on her back then, and was the only thing that she had left behind. When he had picked her up, she had been wearing a plump dress and was covered in blood. The old couple speculated that this might be the house that was being hunted down by a criminal. In order to save their child, they threw the child out. She didn't dare to keep her clothes, and while she was cooking, her mother burned her clothes into a ball. Before she started burning, her mother took out a handkerchief from her clothes. Thinking that the child might find her biological parents in the future, she relented and left the handkerchief behind. Even her father didn't know about this.

Xiu'er gently unfolded his handkerchief. This was a high-quality silk handkerchief, but it was not considered big. It was clear that the person who bought this handkerchief did not have a lot of money on him. The handkerchief was green in color with a large green bamboo leaf embroidered on it. In the lower right corner, there was a red line with the word "Hole" embroidered on it. Other than that, there was nothing else.

Thinking that this was probably the only clue his parents had left in his life, Xiu'er's tears fell again. Her mother cried along with them, and the two of them cried together again.

Xiu'er cried until she was tired, then she fell asleep beside the bed. When she woke up, she found that her mother was gone. When she went outside, the boat was also gone. The little girl went crazy and searched for a long time, but couldn't find it. She could only return home and wait.

After waiting for four whole days, Xiu'er finally understood that her mother might not be coming back anymore. She packed up some of her clothes, put the handkerchief on her back, and took some change from the jar where she kept her money. She walked to the door and kowtowed a few times before turning around and leaving.

She still had the urge to head north, but she restrained herself. She had to go southwest first. Since her father had said that he had fished her out of the river, it was no mistake to go up the river to look for her. But when she came out of the fishing village and into the town, she panicked.

The Xiu'er was Fengwu Province, one of the five provinces of the Fire Phoenix's north of the empire. Looking up, the southwest direction of the entire empire could be considered as her upstream. How do I find this?

With no other choice, Xiu'er began to help others earn money while asking about the ways of the provinces to find a wife. Fortunately, her luck was not bad. While she was helping out at a tavern, she heard someone idle talk about the Peacock Ridge and the Peacock Dais. These few words seemed to open a new world in the Xiu'er's mind. That's right, my birth parents might not have met with bandits, but they might have met with natural disasters, such as the Peacock Plane. Furthermore, the word 'Peacock Stage' had a hole in it and her handkerchief had a hole in it. Was this just a coincidence?

At this time, Xiu'er was also a bit desperate, she did not have any other clues, so she did not let go after catching a possible clue, and stubbornly walked towards the southwest.

But when she really reached the Peacock Ridge, she was a little dumbfounded. Not to mention that a lot of the villagers had moved away, the majority of the villagers who had not moved away did not want to bring up this matter again. From the bits and pieces of information that were left behind, Xiu'er knew that there was indeed someone who fell down from the peacock stage, but they were all pregnant women who did not match her age. Xiu'er had once taken out a handkerchief for the villagers to identify, but there were eight households with the surname Kong out of ten of these Peacock Ridge, but with just this "hole", it was truly difficult to find.

Xiu'er, who was extremely disappointed, was discouraged and was unable to find anything else. After thinking for a while, she decided to return to Phoenix Dance Province to see if her foster mother had already returned. If there was nothing to do at home, then she would head north to see where the impulse in her heart had come from.

Just as they were on their way back to Phoenix Dance Province, Xiu'er met Hu Erniu's group. Although Hu Erniu was overjoyed, he was still an honest and straightforward person. In a situation where he knew that he couldn't win, he still forced himself to save Xiu'er. After knowing that Hu Erniu was also going to the north, she decided to help him out.

Although it was called helping, Xiu'er only found out about the difference between him and ordinary people not long ago. In the days when her Peacock Ridge were still lingering, she saw villagers practice the Peacock Spear Art and felt a sense of déjà vu in her heart. When the townspeople practiced, she would learn from them. This so called spear technique was actually used by most of the villagers to strengthen their bodies and strengthen their bodies. There was no worry about it being passed on to others, but some villagers came over to give her some pointers. She already knew that her strength was beyond ordinary. Now that she had the Peacock Spear Art, she felt that she was already considered to be an expert.

However, he did not know that she was actually lacking a standard for evaluating him. Most of them were based on his own thoughts. If her true strength was matched with the Peacock Spear Art, even an ordinary top master would not be a match for her. If she was weak, it was because her defense was extremely weak. She could only be slightly stronger than an ordinary person.

The Xiu'er didn't reveal his true abilities in front of Hu Erniu, and just followed them all the way to County-City. At that time, the large army of Pang Lai County had already gathered around, and all the passes in the distance were firmly locked down by the Demonic Beast army, making it impossible for anyone to move. Hu Erniu was greedy for achievements, he wanted to take a detour. Xiu'er knew that this road was dangerous, but in order to repay Hu Erniu for taking care of him, she resolutely decided to help him. This was why the Demonic Beast were blocking the way, and the Xiu'er was making a move.

When the logistics team reached the Phoenix City Pass, especially after seeing Kong Sheng, Xiu'er was no longer calm. She did not know who this young general was, nor did she know what the relationship between her and him was, but she felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity towards him.

This feeling was hard to describe. To say that he was a relative without such an elder brother, father and daughter were just bullsh * tty things. He was ten years older than she was. Perhaps it was the feeling of a lover, but it also had a lot of trust. It did not have the kind of suspicion that other lovers had.

Xiu'er couldn't explain it, so she didn't know what to say. But the moment she stood on top of the Phoenix City Pass city walls, she was clear about one thing, and that was that her footsteps would not stop. The strong impulse in her heart had almost turned into a voice resonating in her mind, calling her over and over again to go to the north to go to Mo Qiu.

She felt a little unwilling to part with Kong Sheng, especially when she was inexplicably captured by Huo Yanrann and sent to the imperial city to be imprisoned. When Kong Sheng risked his life to save her and the two of them went onto the guillotine, her feelings for Kong Sheng almost reached an extreme level.

But the more it was like this, the calmer the Xiu'er became. The days in the cell had calmed her down a lot, and she had thought about it a lot. Why did Huo Yanrann say those unfathomable words to him? Why did she use such simple chains to make him lose all of her strength? These were all riddles that Huo Yanrann could not solve. If she wanted the answer, he could only find it herself.

And it was because of this that Xiu'er had already decided to attack Mo Qiu the moment the guillotine was put down. Kong Sheng being injured became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

And after going through such a series of events as robbing and fighting prison, Wulian Border Army and so on, the Xiu'er finally knew that she had done the right thing the moment she set foot on the Moqiu. That indistinct voice gradually became clearer, and that inner call became stronger and stronger. The expedition team fought for a strategic purpose and also had the Xiu'er's own selfish desire. Looking at the Red Camp and the profound practitioners falling one by one, in addition to the pain in her heart, she also felt an additional sense of guilt, a guilt that stemmed from her own selfish desires to make the warriors sacrifice their lives. Therefore, she became increasingly calm and cold-blooded. As long as her soldiers could survive, she could very calmly issue the order to massacre the entire village.

Then, the Ninth Tiger King came over to discuss a plan to get the Moqiu City from her. Due to that little bit of selfish desire in the depths of her heart, Xiu'er agreed. She watched as Ninth Tiger King rushed up to Mo Qiu, rushed into the Moqiu City, and then watched as the army that was charging back surrounded her expedition army. The moment she gave the order to leave the camp, Xiu'er raised her head and looked at Mo Qiu, who was nearing the end of the line. She knew that this was probably the moment she was the closest to that voice, and that she might not have a chance to reach Mo Qiu for the rest of her life.

When Yuanhai came to the besieged Fire Phoenix Army Camp and told her that as long as she was willing to go to Moqiu City, Lord Messenger of God would be able to let go of this Moqiu Army, Xiu'er agreed without hesitation. It was also for the sake of the soldiers' chance at survival, as well as the voice in her heart. Maybe three days wouldn't change anything, but she believed that with Chen Chu and Qu Feizhi there, this team would have a little more hope of survival. To be able to use her own life in exchange for these three days, it was worth it.

Especially when she walked closer to the Moqiu City and the voice in her heart seemed to have resonated by her ears, she felt that she had done the right thing. Using his own life in exchange for three days of rest in the army and the fact that he had been troubled for such a short period of time was truly worth it.

After saying all of these in one breath, Xiu'er looked up at Chen Tianming. Her eyes were slightly red, her expression neither sad nor happy.

Chen Tianming took a deep breath and said lightly: "Lord Xiu, follow me, I'll bring you to see Beast God."