After meditating for a long time, he asked: "Since the plum blossom demon trapped you here, why did he ask you to be a sacrifice?"

Mei looked calm and said, "The cave gate is open. After midnight tonight, he will be able to force the virtual to become real and condense the solid. I am one with him and he will not succeed without me."

She looked up at Chenyou and said, "So, I want you to kill me."

"The moment I and him return to the original body of the Spirit Mirror, turning the virtual into reality is the best opportunity."

Chenyou looked at Mei and changed the subject: "Even if you are willing to die, I am willing to kill you. But my appearance is very different from the tree clan, and my aura is completely different. I am afraid that before I reach Meilan Snow Mountain, he will see the flaws."

Mei raised her eyes, staring at Shenyou with her green eyes: "No obstacle, I have a way to temporarily turn your appearance into the same as the tree clan."

Silent and silent.

"Why do you die with him?"

Mei smiled slightly: "It's not considered a death to the end, it's just going back to the original appearance."

"Your name is... Shenyou?"

Mei suddenly looked at him seriously.

Shenyou nodded and stared at Mei.

"Want to listen to a story?"

Mei said quietly.

"Um."

Mei turned around and said:

"A bird came on the cliff. Under the cliff, there was a clear spring where a fish lived."

"One day, the birds hunted and returned to their nests. Suddenly, a strong wind blew it and hit the rocks in the mountains and fell into the clear spring."

"A bird can't water. When it's about to drown, the fish swam under it and carried it to the shore."

"From then on, birds often come to the spring to watch fish, birds and fish, and become friends."

"Birds talk to fish about white clouds, sky, distant mountains, earth, fish talk to birds about flowing water, shallow sand, waves, falling leaves..."

"In their respective eyes, each other's world is extremely exciting."

"The cold and heat are coming and going, year after year, they talk to each other and have endless things to say. Until one day, the birds saw the earth withered yellow, the rivers withered, and the clear spring where the fish live was getting smaller and smaller."

"The fish also felt something was wrong. The water plants were dying, and there were fewer and fewer insects. But the bird said to the fish, "You have saved my life and I will repay you."

"From that day, the birds flew farther and farther, looking for food on the dead earth."

"At the beginning, it could bring back some small insects, but later, there were only grass leaves and debris... Later, it flapped its wings almost broke, but it could not find any food again."

Chenyou was attracted by the story, his eyes were a little dazed, and he asked, "What happened later?"

Mei raised her hand, caught a snowflake, and continued:

"Later, the bird flew closer and weaker day by day because it had no food. It returned to the fish and looked at it at the bottom of the water. At this time, the bird suddenly discovered that the fish's body had meat."

"It seems...it's natural for birds to catch fish."

"The bird said to the fish, do you want to fly into the sky and take a look?"

"The fish looked at the bird and agreed."

Mei turned around and stared at Shenyou: "The bird's claws penetrated into the water, and its movements were as precise and skillful as after being tempered. It grabbed the fish out of the almost dry spring water and flew into the sky."

“That’s how the story is.”

Mei's voice came to an abrupt end.

Chenyou frowned and asked, "Did the bird eat fish in the end?"

Mei did not answer, but asked Chen You back: "If you were that bird, what would you do?"

"It is to follow nature and eat fish to survive."

"Or fly with the fish and let it see a world it has never seen before?"

Chenyou fell silent, asked his heart, and said, "If I were a bird, I would not have chosen to be friends with fish at the beginning."

Mei smiled and said, "You are right, but there is no choice for many things in the world."

"If you were born to be connected with a person who is completely different from yourself, what would you choose?"

This time, Mei did not wait for Shenyou's answer, but said calmly:

“I have no choice.”

"Everything is just nature."

She paused word by word, and said slowly, with an inexplicable light flashing in her green eyes.

"I have no choice, so does he."

Mei said again.

At this moment, Shenyou felt an unspeakable sorrow from her body.

Mei smiled faintly, as if she noticed the gaze of Shenyou, and said, "Born as evil, everything that made him make him unable to give birth to any thoughts about good."

"And I was born to be good. Just like a bird catching fish, everything is just the nature."

After swaying and pondering for a moment, he shook his head and said, "Maybe the bird has resisted nature, and after flying into the sky with the fish, he put it back into the water."

Mei's eyes fell on Shen You's face: "Even so, can fish live? It can only stay in the water for the rest of its life. If it leaves the water, it will die soon. There is no choice about the sky in its life."

"Shenyou...I envy you very much."

Mei suddenly said.

Chenyou looked at her, wondering what she meant.

Mei slowly spoke and said, "Do you know the difference between monsters and fairies?"

Chenyou nodded and returned to: "Living creatures are monsters, and dead creatures are essences."

Mei sat gently on the snow and said, "There is another difference. Fairies, monsters, and these dead spirits can never be changed when they are born with spirituality. Good is good, evil is evil, clever, weird, calm, active... The demons and human races are all complex and passionate, and will be changed by the influence of the world. Only monsters, their nature will not change at all. That is their nature and destiny."

She turned around and looked at Chen You: "The magic weapon creature is actually a kind of monster. Innate spiritual treasures like us are no exception. In fact... I don't know what good is and what evil is. It's just a promise of your human race, but... my nature only gives me a choice. Even if... I don't want to die, I will only do that."

"Just like him, he wants to have tangible life and death, and he himself does not know where resentment comes from. And I... want to let the people live, but I myself, does not know where those mercy come from."

Mei's voice was full of confusion.

"So, Shenyou...I envy you very much."

"You can make choices based on your preferences and personality, and you will react to everything between heaven and earth. And the moment we... are born with spirituality, our nature is fixed and cannot be changed."

"You can choose to eat the fish, or release the fish, or even choose not to know the fish from the beginning."

"And our nature is destined from the beginning, we have only one choice. Eat the fish and follow our nature."

Mei raised her head, snowflakes fell on her delicate face, her green eyes blinked, looking at the sky:

"We are the darlings of heaven and earth, and we are also the slaves of heaven and earth. We have no right to choose forever."
Chapter completed!