Chapter 21 Li Xiaoran's Past
As Xiaobai ran, he found that the scene in front of him had changed.
Xiao Shushu quickly hinted to Xiaobai not to get involved in anything for the time being. After all, these things are just memory illusions now, and he should wait until things are figured out before appearing and solving them.
Li Xiaoran's hand was shaking as he held the bronze key, and the teeth marks from the key dug deeply into his palm.
Entering the main courtyard ancestral hall, dark red bloodstains were winding on the blue brick ground.
This was the mark left by the porcelain pieces he broke for his sister.
Xiaobai finally saw clearly that the reason why the young man in front of her was familiar was because this person was her second senior brother - Li Xiaoran.
Who would have thought that the young man in front of him had a gentle appearance like jade, which was such a contrast to the second brother who spoke in a cold and cool manner.
"We will set off in three days."
The voice of the man in black robe in front sounded like ice.
"If you can't bring back the Rebirth Mirror, your sister will have to wear her wedding dress and enter the ancestor's cave."
The man in black robe left after saying this.
Li Yue ran in in panic at this time and grabbed Li Xiaoran's wrist, with bluish-white marks on her slender knuckles.
"Xiao Ran, don't go. That secret realm is full of..."
Li Yue suddenly started coughing violently, and whip marks were revealed where her sleeves had slipped off. It was obvious that new wounds were stacked on top of old ones.
It was as if the snow-white wrists were covered with centipedes, which was very dazzling in Li Xiaoran's eyes.
"Sister, look." Li Xiaoran suddenly laughed, and a cluster of faint blue flames condensed on his fingertips.
Xiaobai, who was standing on the side, was watching. The firelight illuminated Li Xiaoran's brow bone, but the whip wound, which had not healed either, could not shine into Li Xiaoran's dark eyes.
[Is Senior Brother really okay?] Xiaobai couldn't help but think in his heart.
"I can already activate the Netherworld Fire, really! If you believe me this time, I will definitely bring the things back to them, and then you will be free.
Ah sister, wait for me.
I will definitely save you this time."
Liyue wanted to tell her brother the secret of the secret realm, but found that the head of the family had not left and was still watching them in the dark.
He could only helplessly watch Li Xiaoran cry, thinking that after all, he had implicated his mother and now Xiaoran.
The moonlight at three quarters past midnight seeped into the entrance to the secret realm, stretching the shadows of the brother and sister into long, thin ghosts.
Li Xiaoran felt a hard object in his arms. It was the heart-protection mirror that his sister secretly gave him.
There are crooked lotus flowers carved on the edge of the mirror, which were carved out bit by bit with a silver hairpin when my sister was ten years old.
He turned around to look at his sister, gave her a reassuring look, and went in without looking back.
Li Xiaoran didn't know that his elder sister didn't leave after he went in. She took advantage of the gap when the head of the family and the elder were talking to slip in.
"Isn't this the Land of No Destiny? It turns out they sent my brother and sister here to die.
Is it really possible for a family to do this, risking their lives to get a better place? "
Looking at the familiar place in front of him, Xiaobai finally understood.
At that time, my senior brother said that he had been here before and wanted to sacrifice himself to send them out.
"Yes, isn't this Li family a group of immortals? How can they have such a thing? How dare their ancestors and their juniors do this?"
It seems that your senior brother has become a useless person in this secret realm. Xiao Baibai, I have a mission to save your senior brother, and the deadline is three days."
Xiao Shushu didn't expect that there were so many tasks.
“No, Xiao Shushu is not a mission, I also want to save my brother.
And Sister Yue and the others are all very good people." Xiaobai said firmly.
"Shouldn't this kind of family be united? We've never heard of this kind of thing happening in our area.
It seems that profit comes first after all." Jin Nugget also sighed.
In the blink of an eye, the scene in front of me changed again.
"It's the time-space turbulence coming." Xiao Shushu exclaimed, but Xiao Bai and the others were now shielded, and no one could hear the sound.
Liyue was still forming a defensive seal when suddenly the purple-black vortex appeared without warning, then tore open space and seeped out.
Then the gust of wind was seen rolling up blood-colored sand, as if it wanted to shred Li Yue's scream into pieces.
Li Xiaoran only had time to grab a piece of sister's clothes before he was also drawn into the chaos.
When their vision cleared again, they were standing on a scorched earth.
The surroundings were also very strange. The sky was a dirty crimson-purple color, and sticky black fog was seeping out of the cracks in the ground. In the distance, there was the sound of weapons clashing.
"Is that the Li family's swordsmanship?" Li Yue suddenly grabbed her brother's arm.
Through the rolling black fog, the Liyue siblings saw a blue-robed cultivator being besieged by three black shadows. Just as the sword light rose and fell, blood suddenly burst out from the cultivator's left shoulder.
Looking more closely at the blood-stained face, it was none other than the Li family’s genius who died twenty years ago—Li Yunzhou!
"Sister, hurry up!"
The young man in the illusion roared and pushed the girl in his arms desperately towards the teleportation array.
A blood-colored spell lit up between the girl's brows, but it was of no use. The powerful spiritual power instantly drained her life.
Li Xiaoran felt cold all over. The girl looked 70% similar to her sister.
"It turns out we are not the first couple."
Li Yue suddenly laughed, with a crazy laugh in her voice. She asked helplessly to the sky, "How many Rebirth Mirrors have been dyed red by the blood of the Li family's daughter?"
"Right now, Xiaobai."
Following the instructions of the little book.
Xiaobai fell down on the broken space-time rift. If you look closely, you can see a golden line still flowing on Xiaobai's forehead.
Then a clear voice rang out: "Stop! Stop now!
Don't do anything stupid, and don't even think about sacrificing your sister Yue."
"Brother, Sister Yue, what you are seeing now is not a prophecy, but reincarnation."
Xiaobai lightly drew a line of spiritual power from his fingertips, breaking through the air. The illusion suddenly froze at the moment when the girl disappeared.
Li Yue's pupils contracted as she saw the jade pendant on the girl's waist with the carefully carved word "Li" on it - that was the clan emblem of their branch.
No one knew at this time that in the fragments of time and space a hundred years ago, another Liyue was being reduced to ashes.
"How long can the respite gained by using the secret treasure last for you?
Brother, Sister Yue, this will never end. You have been deceived.
Brothers, can’t you see it?
Everything is for their benefit. You can take the secret treasure out today. Then, do you have the power to protect Sister Yue?
If freedom can be gained by sacrificing only one person, why does this cycle continue? Because human desires are endless. "
Xiaobai looked at the two people in front of her and spoke with a serious and distressed face. In fact, she seemed to understand that both of them had a knot in their hearts that they couldn't speak of.
But they are too soft-hearted and too entangled, so the results are inevitable, but they have to figure these things out themselves.
The illusion below suddenly reflected the mountain of wedding dresses piled deep in the ancestral hall.
“Brother, look, there will be a new sister next year, and a new daughter of the Li family the year after.
This is not a deal you want to make.”
“We must resist and not resist to the end.
You can never overturn this ending, this is the reality.
Brother and Sister Yue, the reason you have not been able to be free is that you have never resisted to the end, you have always been compromising with them.
You feel guilty towards each other, but no one has ever been sorry to anyone in this matter, and you were too soft-hearted from the beginning.
Anyone who stands in your way should be killed. Those people do not deserve mercy."
Xiaobai has seen it clearly. Even if this is just an illusion in the memory of reincarnation, she can still feel the helplessness of her senior brother and Sister Yue.
On one side are the closest relatives, and on the other side are people with blood ties, but you have to choose one side.
"Alas, little Baibai always thinks that compromise is the only way out when he is most helpless." Xiao Shushu was also helpless and could not say that their choice was wrong.
"If you don't resist, you will never be free, right? I was too soft-hearted before, right? It seems so, I have always had some empty fantasies."
Li Yue in front of him murmured, and at this moment the ground suddenly shook violently.
A giant hand condensed from the black fog and moved towards Li Xiaoran. The moment Li Yue's Netherworld Fire hit the fog, she let out a scream.
Black air rose from her body, and hideous horns grew in her hair.
"Oh no, Xiao Baibai, it seems that the reason why Liyue became a spirit is because of resentment. She is an evil spirit now. Run." Xiao Shushu was terrified the moment he saw it.
That's right, those years of fear and resentment had already corrupted her into an evil spirit.
“Run, but what about Sister Yue if you run? She will never be free.” Xiaobai broke free from the gold block’s hand and rushed straight towards Liyue.
"I'm not the one leading you to run, you troublesome little cub." Gold Nugget said as he ran after Little White.
"Sister!" Li Xiaoran desperately urged his spiritual power, but was held down by the gold nugget.
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