After An Honghan entered the carriage, he had been taking a nap. When he heard Xi Xizhi speak, he slowly opened his tightly closed eyes, his gaze clear as ever. "Let's go when it gets darker."
Clearly, Xi Xizhi wasn't the only one who wanted to go to the bridge; An Honghan had been planning to do so for a while.
The closer Xi Xizhi got to the truth, the more complicated things became. The half-demon was shrouded in mystery, and his actions were even more perplexing.
What exactly is his purpose?
Xi Xizhi and An Honghan stayed quietly in the carriage for a long time.
They only began to move after the group of refugees outside had fallen asleep.
Xi Xizhi and An Honghan sneaked out of the carriage, bypassing Hu Qu who was on night watch outside, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.
Neither of them were ordinary people; they moved as fast as the wind, and in no time, they were far away from the crowd halfway up the mountain.
"It feels so unpleasant to be sneaking around like this." After glancing around and making sure no one was there, Xi Xizhi covered her heart and whispered.
When she ran out just now, Xi Xizhi was terrified of being discovered. She felt almost like a thief, always on edge.
"Hurry up, we need to be back before dawn." It would be bad if someone found out something about us.
Xi Xizhi paused, and asked with some doubt, "An Honghan, do you know the way?"
As far as Xi Xizhi knew, An Honghan, like herself, was visiting Fengzhou for the first time!
An Honghan seemed to have anticipated her question. He leaned close to her ear and breathed softly a few times, making Xi Xizhi's ear itch. She raised her hand and scratched it a few times.
“I’ve already memorized the map, so that place shouldn’t be hard to find.” With that, An Honghan put his arm around her waist and leaped forward with her.
To get to that bridge, the embankment is the only way.
So the two of them returned to this place.
Although it was already completely dark, the soldiers here did not rest. They continued to fill the gaps in the dike with materials, just as they had done during the day, with torches in hand.
Xi Xizhi secretly admired these soldiers who dedicated themselves to the people, and casually said, "You should reward them properly when we get back."
Without them, Fengzhou would probably have been submerged by the flood many days ago.
"Do you even need to tell me?" An Honghan was always fair in rewarding and punishing.
Soon, the two of them disappeared without attracting anyone's attention, their figures flashing past quickly along the path beside the dam.
The scene behind the dam was beyond their expectations.
The floodwaters almost completely covered everything; as far as the eye could see, there were only clusters of surging waves.
Such a swift current shouldn't exist in Fengzhou, but it does.
In such an environment, it was difficult to discern the routes marked on the map. An Honghan could only rely on his memory to lead Xi Xizhi in the general direction.
The two of them floated on the water's surface as they ran, without getting a single drop of water on them.
The speed was extremely fast. After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Xi Xizhi's ears twitched slightly, and her gaze turned to the right.
"An Honghan, it sounds like someone is talking over there. It's too far away, I can't hear clearly." Xi Xizhi raised her finger and pointed to the distant horizon.
An Honghan stopped in his tracks. They had walked a long way and were now surrounded by water. Even boats couldn't tell which way to go in this environment, let alone the two of them.
"Let's go take a look over there." An Honghan immediately changed direction and ran towards that place.
Xi Xizhi followed closely behind.
The distance grew closer and closer, and the voice became clearer and clearer.
The sound of crashing waves reached Xi Xizhi's ears, making her wish she could plug her ears and ignore them, but she dared not do so, afraid of missing some important information.
Enduring the torment of the sound, Xi Xizhi and An Honghan finally found the end of it.
Just as they got close, a wave suddenly crashed over them.
An Honghan and Xi Xizhi were not ordinary people; they dodged to the left and right respectively to avoid being splashed by the water.
"Damn humans, once I destroy this bridge, I will make sure you all die a horrible death." The voice was long and powerful, filled with intense hatred and rage.
With a loud bang, another violent impact occurred.
The waters surged, and huge waves scattered in all directions.
Could this be the place?
Xi Xizhi and An Honghan thought to themselves at the same time.
"Do you really think you can suppress me with just a bridge? Foolish humans." Another burst of large waves came from the source of the voice.
The waves surged in relentlessly.
The floodwaters submerged everything; apart from the water, only a large bridge could be seen.
The bridge is half submerged, with only half of the bridge structure visible above the water.
Upon closer inspection, one can discern the giant sword hanging beneath the arched bridge.
There are legends about "walking dragons" all over the country.
Most people treat this as casual conversation and don't take it seriously, but many elderly people know that... that knife is specifically designed to deal with dragons.
Xi Xizhi knew at a glance that this bridge was the work of that old bastard Situ Feiyu.
The distance was too great, and the waves kept crashing in, making Xi Xizhi's vision unclear. But she could clearly see an old man in a gray-white jacket on that half of the bridge—it was her master.
“Master…” Xi Xizhi shouted at the top of her lungs.
The old man who was sitting cross-legged seemed to have heard them and looked up in their direction.
A pale white light shone around Xi Zhen, radiating outwards from him and enveloping the entire bridge. It was as if this light gave the bridge its power; had Xi Zhen not been desperately protecting it, the bridge would probably have been destroyed by the surging waves long ago.
"Why are you here? Don't shout randomly, you mustn't distract Senior Xi." A very familiar voice slowly rang in Xi Xizhi and An Honghan's ears.
The two looked in the direction of the sound and immediately saw Master Feng.
So the Taoist priest that Master was talking about was him?
I see. That makes sense.
"Greetings, Your Majesty." Master Feng's gaze fell on An Honghan, observing him repeatedly for a long time. He said, "Your Majesty, you have indeed not disappointed me. The Dragon Pearl is already in your hands, isn't it?"
An Honghan didn't say anything, but nodded.
"You wretched humans, I will make you pay a heavy price for everything you have done!" A heavy, furious roar filled the water, deafeningly loud.
"I will destroy everything here."
"You just wait... I swear I will avenge this!"
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