Li Wan Heng Jin

After testing her doubts and understanding the false beast, Li Wan discussed with Huan Fang, and then she and Heng Jin went to the dinner.

There was no alcohol at tonight's banquet, only nectar brewed by the elder himself. The dishes prepared on the banquet were all vegetarian noodles, without any meat or fish.

Heng Jin and Li Wan were honored guests, sitting at the head of the table. The Cloud Whale Tribe had a unique way of treating guests.

The cups she and Heng Jin used were made from a gourd split in half, with a hole punched in the head and a red tassel hanging from it. They were exactly the same gourds used by couples in some places to drink wedding wine together.

The elder said that the welcoming banquet must start with the guest drinking nectar, so they had no choice but to follow the local customs, holding up the gourd cup to toast the members of the Yunjing tribe, and drinking it together.

The banquet was very lively. Although the nectar was sweet, it was so delicious that by the end of the banquet, all the more than ten jars of nectar that the elders had brought had been drunk. They had a very satisfying time.

Only the elder sat there in the midst of the hustle and bustle, silent and lonely.

He had drunk half of the cup of nectar in front of him, which he had drunk at the beginning of the banquet, and had not touched it since.

No one knew who started it, but the members of the Cloud Whale tribe transformed into their original forms and began to fly and dance in the night. Not many members of the tribe were sitting at the table.

Huanfeng came out from the darkness, and the elders and Li Wan, who had been paying attention, noticed her arrival almost at the same time.

The elder looked at Huanfeng, and Li Wan looked at the elder, both paying attention to each other's expressions and reactions.

"Emperor, Miss Fuqiu, please excuse me for a moment. Please enjoy your meal."

After greeting, the elder took the initiative to walk towards Huanfeng and said a few words to her. Huanfeng then followed him somewhere else. The members of the Yunjing tribe frequently looked in the direction they left.

For a moment, the conversation and laughter stopped, and the atmosphere at the banquet became awkward.

When the elder returned, a more relaxed smile appeared on his face. As the leader of the Cloud Whale Tribe, he naturally had to accompany the guests, but his mind had already flown elsewhere.

Heng Jin and Li Wan made an excuse to leave, and while the elders were leaving to see him off, they deliberately and secretly led him past the tree where the angelica was used as a lantern.

The paper lanterns casually placed on the grass were all lit with warm yellow light because they were cast with spells. The paintings on the lanterns were particularly obvious in the night.

Holding a paper lantern with a picture of herself sitting on the back of a cloud whale and soaring into the sky, Huanfeng walked towards the stunned elder.

"Aren't you curious, Elder? Why do I have traces of the Cloud Whale Clan's unique forgotten spell on my body? Are you not curious? Are you afraid to investigate further? Or is it you who did it?"

The elder was slightly angry, but he suppressed his anger and tried to remain calm, saying, "I'll discuss this after I send our distinguished guest away."

"Tonight, I'm afraid that after the distinguished guest leaves, the elder won't come back to see me again, right? Anyway, I'll soon forget that I saw you tonight, right?"

"It seems the Emperor and Miss Fuqiu are determined to help you. We can no longer get away with it without getting involved. So, let's talk it out. I've probably guessed that I might be the Cloud Whale you're looking for. Every time I see you, I get a strange feeling. I've forgotten a lot. No matter what happened in the past, it's all in the past. Huanfeng, it's time to let it go."

Two lines of clear tears fell, and Huanfeng felt as if all the strength in her body was drained away with his cold and heartless words, and the paper lantern in her hand fell to the ground.

Her hands trembled uncontrollably as she turned the wooden plaque with two little men engraved on it over to the side with the words on it and held it in front of him.

At this point, the oath felt like a joke.

"So, you've let it go, haven't you?"

"I've already forgotten it and it's become so strange that I can't even talk about letting it go."

He took out a palm-sized white porcelain bottle and handed it to her. "This is the nectar I carefully prepared. It's different from the nectar my tribesmen drink. I added some other magical herbs and elixirs. Drink it, and you will completely break your obsession."

Huanfeng took the porcelain bottle and smashed it on a stone. The porcelain bottle exploded and a strong sweet floral fragrance filled her nose. This smell was much more fragrant than the nectar at the dinner.

"You just break it off like that! Why? You've forgotten everything, your heart is as calm as water, but what about me? Those fragments of memory that haven't been completely forgotten are haunting me like evil spirits, preventing me from breaking free from your so-called obsession! In your eyes, tens of thousands of years are just a fleeting sentence."

Huan Feng smiled wryly and said self-deprecatingly, "Just before I heard you say these words, I was still wondering if you, like me, might have forgotten the past but not the love in your heart. Perhaps if I could just make you understand that you and I had a past, you would... Turns out, you understood it all, yet you still wanted me to let go of my obsession."

She cried sadly, but his expression remained calm, like a bystander.

Li Wan interrupted, "If you no longer want this relationship, you should have made the decision when you had all your memories back, and then stopped saying goodbye. She forgot because you cast a spell on her, and you forgot, and the entire Cloud Whale Clan forgot, because they drank the nectar you brewed. It's all your decision, and it's too unfair."

"Miss Fuqiu's words are exactly what I've been thinking. Now that there's a way to revisit our past love, don't you want to know what really happened? Is this what you call laying it all out, making a unilateral decision, and asking me to drink the nectar to break my obsession?"

He took several deep breaths to calm himself down, but ultimately he couldn't hold back. Huanhuang's tears completely broke his tense and anxious nerves.

"We have no choice! Who do you think taught me the recipe for this nectar? This immortality! This status! This rarity! Outsiders only know the glory, but they don't know! This is actually a sword hanging over our heads, demanding our lives. Huanfeng, wouldn't it be better for us to just live in peace like this for the rest of our lives?"

"The nectar method and the blessing of longevity all come from the same person, right?" Heng Jin asked.

"I didn't say there was any connection between the two, Emperor. Be careful what you say."

"You don't have to worry about my relationship with... Fuqiu. Since Fuqiu is determined to help you, today, you should just treat me as Fuqiu's brother and a guest of your elder. Outside this fairy mountain, I am the emperor. I know nothing about what goes on within the fairy mountain."

Huan Feng asked worriedly, "Did he catch you in some way, or did he learn some secret that caused your memory to be erased?"

"I don't know either. I forgot everything."

He fished out another small white porcelain bottle and slowly handed it to her. Afraid she would break it in anger again, the elder held the bottle tightly as he handed it to her.

"Huanfeng, no matter which hypothesis turns out to be true, neither you nor I can afford to suffer. Rather than revisiting past memories, becoming inseparable and exacerbating the pain, it's better to remain ignorant."

Sure enough, Huanfeng slapped his hand again, trying to knock the porcelain bottle to the ground. Fortunately, he had already grasped the porcelain bottle tightly according to his premonition.

"Heaven has given us life, and we were born into this world. Are we just supposed to be cowards, waiting to die in confusion?"

She used her internal energy to cast a spell, forcing the demon pill out and holding it in her hand. "You refuse to agree to see my memories, and I refuse to be separated from you and wait for death in vain. If that's the case, I'd rather die soon than continue suffering."

As she spoke, she pretended to destroy her demon pill.

The elder quickly stopped her.

The four looked at each other in silence. After a long stalemate, the elder finally lost his temper and retreated.

"If you promise me that you'll prioritize your life above all else, I'll agree to your memory."

Taking off all his disguises, he looked at her with a much gentler look in his eyes. He said helplessly and dotingly, "Quickly take back the demon pill. How can you threaten someone and use your own life as a bargaining chip?"

Raising his hand to wipe away her tears, he smiled and said, "You, you are as stubborn as a bull."

Huanfeng burst into laughter, "You are... as stubborn... as a stubborn bull."

After being comforted by him and getting his consent, Huanhuang's tears became more and more.

Heng Jin summoned Xiang Yao to appear. He had brought a marriage talisman and a large ball of red thread from the Moon Fairy, as well as a pair of small and exquisite red thread birds.

Li Wan looked at the pair of palm-sized red thread birds made of entwined red threads and found them very novel.

After explaining the situation to the elder, he took them back to his tree house.

To create the unique nectar for the angelica, the elders, fearing outsiders would discover it, painstakingly erected several layers of barriers within the treehouse. Therefore, performing the ritual here would be far safer than anywhere else on Yundian Immortal Mountain.

After asking Xiang Yao to guard outside the house, Heng Jin chose the most spacious room and moved all the extra furniture to other rooms before starting to form a circle on the ground with soft red thread.

Heng Jin placed the two red-threaded birds in his left and right palms respectively, and handed them to Huan Feng and the elder standing on his left and right respectively. "Take a drop of blood from your heart and drip it onto the red-threaded bird in front of you."

Huan Huang and the elder did exactly as they were told. The blood from their hearts was absorbed instantly when it dripped into the red-line bird, emitting a bright red light from the inside out. The bird seemed to come alive, flying into the sky and flying together above the magic circle.

Heng Jin designated the positions for Huan Feng and the elder to stand opposite each other in the center of the formation, and asked them to hold the inscribed wooden plaque tightly in both hands.

Use a red string with copper bells at both ends to tie their hands and the wooden sign together, and tie a lover's knot. The lover's knots at both ends of the red string should just hang at the center of the formation.

Huanfeng and the elders were extremely nervous, their eyes full of anticipation.

As agreed beforehand, Heng Jin gave a look and Li Wan consciously stood behind Huan Fang, while Heng Jin stood behind the elder.

As Heng Jin cast the spell, the Red Line Bird flapped its wings vigorously and flew in circles around the four of them in the magic circle.

The red line magic circle under their feet also began to emit the same light as the red line bird. The four of them closed their eyes, concentrated their minds, and sensed each other's presence.

As the bells rang, the voice of a joyful and lively girl calling Zhaohua rang out.

The cool mountain breeze blows on your face, the fragrance of flowers and fruits fills your nose, and the soft green grass under your feet, everything feels so real as if you are there.

Li Wan opened her eyes, feeling that she was running, and saw that she was wearing a pink dress with two big pink peaches embroidered on it, and was running barefoot on the endless grass.

When I looked up, I saw Heng Jin, who was also wearing a pink dress embroidered with big peaches, holding a lantern, standing in front of me. The smile on her face was almost reaching her ears, and she was laughing foolishly.

"Zhaohua! Why are you as stubborn as a bull?"

There was no blame in her tone, but rather a flirtatious tone of scolding between lovers.