Chapter 519 It’s too late

The man stood on an island in the lake with his back to this side.

Yun Qingqing recognized the figure in the dark brocade robe with gold patterns at a glance.

Xiao Changheng seemed to sense the movement behind him. He slowly turned around and looked back, quietly watching her getting closer and closer, and finally landing in front of him.

Yun Qingqing met his gaze and was suddenly stunned.

The man in front of me still had the most familiar look, but something was obviously different about him.

The look he gave herself was as deep as a bottomless well. The surface of the water at the bottom of the well was filled with relief and joy, but deeper inside it seemed to be filled with endless longing.

Yun Qingqing stood there staring at him, not knowing how to react for a moment.

There were only three steps between the two of them, but neither of them moved.

Finally, Xiao Changheng slowly walked up to her, raised his hand, and gently stroked her face.

“Qingqing…”

Yun Qingqing's heart skipped a beat, she pursed her lips, and subconsciously spoke softly:

"Um?"

Xiao Changheng suddenly grabbed her into his arms, rested his chin on her shoulder, and spoke in a deep voice in her ear:

"I'm sorry... I'm late..."

Yun Qingqing suddenly came back to her senses, but was even more confused than before.

She frowned tightly, and a hint of coldness flashed in her eyes.

"Who are you?" Yun Qingqing grabbed his shoulders and tried to push him away.

But he found that the other person's body suddenly sank and was about to fall down.

Yun Qingqing's expression started to frighten her, and she immediately pulled him back into her arms, only to see that Xiao Changheng's eyes were closed and he was unconscious.

She frowned tightly, immediately took his pulse to check his body, and then checked the black jade pendant on his body.

Xuan's jade pendant was intact, and he was also safe and sound, and did not look like he was possessed by anything.

Yun Qingqing looked at the unconscious man in her arms and quickly went over everything that had happened today in her mind. She was unable to come back to her senses for a long time.

After a long time, she finally sighed slowly, hugged Xiao Changheng and sat down, felt the golden light on her fingertips, and gently tapped his brow.

Yun Qingqing used the soul-searching technique to enter Xiao Changheng's consciousness again.

The moment she entered his consciousness, Yun Qingqing realized that undercurrents were surging all around her. Invisible forces seemed to be trying to repel her consciousness. Those bizarre lights and shadows of her memories also became more blurred, as if they were guarding against something.

Yun Qingqing felt even more complicated.

This person's spiritual awareness is clearly much stronger than before. Not to mention far surpassing ordinary people, even many practitioners cannot compare to it.

But in fact, as soon as they met, Yun Qingqing deliberately used her spiritual eyes to observe his bones, and the answer was still nothing.

But he was clearly recognized by Wang Qing, and now he has such a powerful spiritual awareness, not to mention the mess that his two disciples had done together, which was also aimed at this man.

Taking all these signs together, it became particularly strange that Xiao Changheng did not cultivate his physique.

Yun Qingqing did have some guesses in her mind, but even in the era two thousand years ago when many powerful people emerged, she had never heard of any method that could completely remove one's bones.

In other words, the root bones are bound to a person's soul. As long as the soul is the same person, no matter how many times they are reincarnated, the aptitude for cultivation will not change much.

Yun Qingqing had a lot of thoughts in her mind as she walked down to the bottom level along Xiao Changheng's consciousness.

Not long after the initial obstacle, this sea of consciousness suddenly became unobstructed, leaving her with a path to the bottom of her consciousness.

Yun Qingqing couldn't tell what she was feeling, so she simply didn't think too much about it. She quickened her pace and sank all the way down to the bottom of his consciousness.

Finally she came to the ball of light again and dived in without hesitation.

The light and shadows changed before her eyes, and she indeed came to that fairyland-like scenery again.

Just a while ago, Yun Qingqing personally experienced the same scenery in the illusion, and the illusion was filled with incredibly rich spiritual energy.

The scenery before my eyes was still the same scenery, but it had lost all its spiritual energy. My vision and feeling could not be unified, and there was an inexplicable weirdness.

This was not the first time that Yun Qingqing had experienced this kind of weirdness, but because she had just been in another fantasy world with rich spiritual energy, the weird feeling here was particularly obvious at this moment.

She sighed softly, without thinking too much, and turned to look at the cold white jade tree on the edge of the cliff.

She pursed her lips slightly, without hesitation, quickly stepped forward and gently stroked her hand on the tree trunk, then looked up and quietly stared at the treetops.

The trunk is as smooth and delicate as ever, with a texture like white jade.

But after waiting for a while, there was no response around. Yun Qingqing frowned slightly. Every time she came here, as long as she came into contact with this jade tree for a while, she would suddenly return to reality, and Xiao Changheng would be awakened at the same time.

But this time, she stroked the tree trunk for obviously longer than before, but there was still no response.

Yun Qingqing lowered her head and thought for a moment, took a deep breath, walked slowly forward, put her face against the tree trunk, closed her eyes and felt it carefully.

After a long while, she opened her eyes again. The cliff was still in front of her, and in the distance was a gorgeous, colorful fairyland scenery.

Yun Qingqing: ...

She had originally intended to get straight to the point and resolve the issue quickly, but the more anxious she became, the less effective it became.

Yun Qingqing calmed herself down, looked up at the treetops, and planned to jump up and sit on a branch... She remembered that there was a flower bud on the tree before, so she planned to go up and take a look.

Just then, she suddenly opened her eyes slightly.

Between the trees that looked like white jade, I saw a pure white bud gradually unfolding, with its petals spreading out layer by layer until a huge flower bloomed. It was so beautiful that it was beyond words.

While Yun Qingqing was stunned, suddenly a breeze blew by, and the flower seemed to come alive. Its petals trembled slightly, and slowly fell from the branches and leaves, drawing an elegant arc towards her.

Yun Qingqing subconsciously stretched out her hand and was about to catch it.

Suddenly, everything in front of my eyes went dark and then bright.

When she came to her senses again, she had woken up in the same place, holding Xiao Changheng in her arms. His long and thick eyelashes were trembling, as if he was about to open his eyes at the next moment.

Yun Qingqing thought about what had just happened and didn't come back to her senses for a long time, until the man in her arms slowly opened his eyes and spoke softly:

"Is this... escaping from the illusion?"

Yun Qingqing came back to his senses and was stunned for a moment before he realized that the illusions he was talking about were not the ones he experienced alone later, but the illusion of the chaotic space under the cliff at the beginning.

Her frown deepened.

"...What do you remember?" She lowered her eyes and looked at Xiao Changheng with a serious expression.

Xiao Changheng met her gaze, was slightly stunned, then sat up and rubbed his eyebrows.

"I..." he said hesitantly, "I just... suddenly couldn't find you in that dark space, and then... I ended up here."