"...Protect." Lu Xiaoxiao pulled his younger brother up with a force, and muttered, "It is protecting us."

The little junior brother stood firm, looked up, and found that it was still holding something in its claws.

Must be God.

Even cranes have very limited flying feathers containing spiritual energy, and each loss of one will make flying more painful. But now, the younger brother understood why the old crane used a method that obviously placed a heavier burden on himself to force back the other blood cranes - in its claws, there was a person tightly.

Or.

a corpse.

- Dead dumb boy.

"elder brother……"

Lu Xiaoxiao heard the girl in his arms shouting in a low voice, cold tears hitting her neck drop by drop. At this moment, even without looking back, Lu Xiaoxiao suddenly understood something.

A cold blue light appeared in front of him.

The boundary has arrived.

The moment Lu Xiaoxiao took the little girl and the little junior brother through the barrier, he heard a heavy crash.

She stopped the flying sword and turned her head to see the old crane with scattered feathers and eversion of flesh and blood, slowly sliding down against the barrier.

"Crane Immortal!"

The little girl blurted out, broke free from Lu Xiaoxiao's arms, and threw herself at Old Crane.

The younger brother grabbed her collar and took her to the ground with a half-fall and half-landing. Outside the enchantment, flying dust rose. The old crane also fell to the ground. Blood, a huge pool of blood slowly opened to the surroundings, the crane lay in the pool of blood, the feathers faded from scarlet little by little, and returned to the color of white as snow.

It lowered its head, gently grabbed the dumb boy, and placed him in front of its chest feathers.

Then he covered the dumb boy with his wide wings.

Like the evening two days ago, like the morning even longer ago, with its wings against the midwinter wind, the children hid in its chest.

You take one, I take one, a child rides a white crane.

You shoot the second, I shoot the second, the two children are looking for clear fruit.

You shoot three, I shoot three, three children feed Baihe.

You take four, I take four, four children...

...

In those early mornings when the sun first rose, the sea outside the city wall of Crane City was illuminated into a stream of light, and when the wind blew, the fine folds of colorful light appeared, like colored glass lying on the earth. At the top of the city wall, a dumb boy and a girl with a broken arm sat on the sand duo. The girl sang a nursery rhyme crisply, swaying her calves, and accompanied by the rhythm, the boy and the old crane gave high fives.

A child who can talk has no arms, and a child with arms can't sing, but a mute, a stump, and a crane can play games happily.

...You shoot five, I shoot five, five children make paper cranes.

Crane, crane, crane.

Crane of Crane City...

The old crane's head also plunged into his own wings, and the blue-grey bird's beak was attached to the blue-white face.

It's dead.

They are all dead.

"...Six children weave bamboo boxes."

Ayu's singing gradually disappeared in his throat, and Douda's tears rolled out one by one. The wind blew on the child's face, unable to dry the tears.

Lu Xiaoxiao raised his hand and rubbed his face hard, then walked over to pick up the little girl who seemed to have turned into a stone statue, and wanted to take her to deal with the arm injury - if you don't deal with it, the little girl's only two remaining arms will be gone. To be scrapped. As soon as he turned around, Lu Xiaoxiao was startled.

I don't know when, a large number of people gathered on the edge of the enchantment.

There are old carpenters with rickety backs, unkempt female pulpers, dark-skinned sand-carrying men, disciples of the Beast-fighting Sect in cyan robes, and people who congratulate themselves in the color of the holy colors... They stood in the ruins, Like Ayu, he stared blankly at the crane and the boy in the pool of blood outside the barrier.

High in the sky, blood cranes were still hitting the barrier in groups.

A thunderous bang exploded.

When everyone looked up, they saw thirty-six cold swords flying in all directions, and black mists rose into the sky, condensed into monsters that were half human and half bird, and fell into the cranes. Their breath was much weaker than before, but they did not get attacked by the cranes.

Lou Jiang coughed violently, and took a step back until he retreated six or seven feet before finally stopping.

"Fellow Daoist Lou, it's alright! You can enter the battle!"

In the barrier, the elder of the Imperial Beast Sect guarding Hecheng suddenly opened his eyes and shouted with joy.

With a flash of blue light, Lou Jiang appeared in the formation with a pale face.

The elder of the Royal Beast Sect stood up, opened his hands, and a city wishing seal emitting a dim light appeared in his hands. As the light of the city's blessing appeared, the large and small streets of Crane City began to emit a faint light together. Xizhou is cold, and there is no warm place in winter. In order to provide a wintering place for the cranes, the Imperial Beast Sect built the entire Crane City into a huge formation. Right now, this formation will be fully activated.

"Taiyizong, Shanhaige, you all acted on the orders of the gods, but it turned out to be nothing more than that!!! Hahahahaha!"

The strange bird that fell into the distance clapped and laughed.

"Monster! You should pay the price for what you did today!" The wind blew the jacket of the elder of the Beast Master Sect, and he raised his long eyebrows and scolded, "This old man must use the blood of yours. , to pay me for the blood disaster in Hecheng today! I want your bones to be nailed under Hecheng for thousands of years! It is the main messenger behind you, and the Imperial Beast Sect will definitely investigate to the end. eye for eye!"

"Hahahahahaha! Hahahaha!" The strange bird looked up to the sky and laughed, "Blood disaster? We personally created the blood disaster in Hecheng today, that's not us! It's you! Blood has been repaid, why did you treachery in the past, and when you did the next thing, you didn't know there was such a word?!"

"The demons dare to speak obscenities!"

The elder of the Royal Beast Sect shouted angrily, and with a hand, the seal of the city was flipped, and dozens of cold beams of light rose into the sky.