100 Truths (10)
"Xie An!"
Li Jintang ran to the tree and looked up at him. "Where have you been these days? Why didn't you come to see me? Don't you want to see me anymore?"
The young man lowered his eyes, silently looking at her face which was slightly red due to haste, raised his hand to gather the cloak, and wrapped her tightly.
"I've been dealing with some tough stuff." He took her hand and cupped it in his, his eyes flickering. "There's not a day that goes by that I don't want to see you."
She remembered something important, so she broke free from his hand and lowered her head to look at the bell on her ankle. "Can you help me take this off? My father would probably scold me if he saw it."
He smiled: "It can't be taken off."
"...Okay, then I won't take it."
She wasn't too disappointed. After all, she had met Xie An today, so she just let him scold her.
"By the way," Li Jintang hesitated for a moment, then asked cautiously, "Can you come tomorrow?"
He was silent for a long time, and she suddenly understood. She stepped back a few steps and waved at him: "Xie An, wait for me. I'll go back and bring the money. I'll go down the mountain and treat you to a meal, okay?"
"good."
Li Jintang walked forward a few steps, suddenly turned around, returned and hugged him.
Xie Changyan leaned back slightly, suddenly feeling a little at a loss.
Not noticing the other person's stiffness, she raised her head and asked in a low voice, "What happened to you? Can't you tell me?"
The scent of the girl's hair lingered around him. Xie Changyan turned his face away. For a moment, he really wanted to indulge in this dream with her forever. Even if it meant exhausting all his cultivation, even if it cost him several years of his life, he would be willing to do so.
Without waiting for an answer, Li Jintang let go of her hand and ran back into the house. As soon as she pulled out her purse, she grabbed it and ran out without wasting a second. But when she stood at the door and looked forward, there was still no one under the tree.
Her heart began to pound, she clutched her purse and ran to the tree, turning around a few times but still couldn't find anyone.
"Xie An, Xie An——"
Li Baiwei stood behind her, frowned, and felt strange: "Tang'er, who are you looking for?"
"I'm looking for that young man from earlier," she turned around, her face full of anxiety. "Sister, have you seen where he went?"
"What are you talking about? No one was here just now. There are only two of us here."
"Impossible, he was just here, he said he would wait for me."
Li Baiwei tilted her head and looked at her: "Then tell me, what's the name of the person you're looking for?"
"His name is, his name is..." Li Jintang thought her elder sister was joking with her, but when she was eager to answer this question, she suddenly found her mind was blank. Apart from her father, mother and elder sister, she could not find any other names.
She stopped moving, her eyes becoming increasingly blank: "Who am I looking for?"
Li Baiwei walked down the stairs and hooked her nose. "Don't think about it. Sister will take you down the mountain to play, okay?"
She turned her head and looked in that direction for a long time, then finally nodded.
The young man stood quietly not far away, the girl's figure in his eyes gradually disappeared, and the pouring sunlight seemed to coat him with a layer of silver light.
The person next to him frowned and said, "Master, are you really going to leave like this? You've done so much, are you willing to let her know nothing and wait for her to forget you?"
"She doesn't need to know," Xie Changyan's eyes fell on the sleeping girl on the couch, a hint of paranoia hidden in his eyes. He curled his lips and said, "As long as she is still by my side, what does it matter whether she remembers me or not?"
Anyway, she never liked him. It was his wishful thinking, and he was also stubborn in insisting on keeping her by his side.
*
The dust was all over the sky, trying hard to captivate the eyes of every passerby. Qiuyan covered her eyes with her hands, leaving only a few slits to glance at the people around her.
"Brother, why have you been so absent-minded all the way?" She nudged him with her elbow and said, "When you enter that mirror later, you must be alert. If you are not careful, you will be left there together."
"I... I just can't quite believe it," Qu Lingfei sighed, looking at her with a glimmer of hope. "Junior Sister, could what we overheard be a misunderstanding? When Master took us down the mountain to train, he wouldn't even pick a single flower or plant. How could he do something so heinous?"
Qiu Yan glanced at him and shook her head, saying, "I don't want to believe it either, but precisely because I don't believe it, I have to go and find out."
As they were talking, they stopped and a house came into view.
Qiuyan turned around and looked, her eyes lighting up. "Brother, that must be the place where I mistakenly entered the Mirage Mirror last time. I can't believe that after so much time, the appearance of this room has not changed at all."
Qu Lingfei stood in front of the house for a moment, a sudden sense of sadness welling up in his heart. The house looked the same, but the people who came were completely different. Back then, he had never imagined that he and these friends would one day draw their swords against each other.
The girl beside him seemed to see what he was thinking. She reached out and patted him on the shoulder, then rushed into the house first. Standing at the door, she waved at him with a fake smile, "Brother, what are you still standing there for? Come in."
Qu Lingfei came back to his senses after hearing this, agreed, and followed her in.
There were several pieces of wood chips scattered on the ground. The two of them searched around the house several times, but they couldn't find the mirror that could allow them to enter the illusion.
"That's strange," Qu Lingfei scratched his head, then suddenly realized, "Could it be that this thing has specific triggering conditions? Last time, there were five of us, but this time..."
"What are you thinking about?" Qiu Yan laughed, then said seriously, "Could it be that the appearance of these lenses is random and has nothing to do with this room?"
After thinking for a moment, he said, "You mean, maybe we came to the wrong place?"
"That's not necessarily the case. If we can't find the entrance, we'll..."
Before she could finish her words, she suddenly felt something flicker in her eyes, and then everything went dark, as if she was caught in a strong wind.
"Junior sister, junior sister——"
Alarm bells rang in her heart. She was about to look for Qu Lingfei when she suddenly heard him calling her anxiously. She responded hurriedly, reached out to the source of the voice, and grabbed a hand.
"Junior sister, are you okay?"
After his vision returned to normal, Qu Lingfei helped the girl who had fainted on the ground to stand up, letting her lean on him, and then looked around.
This place looks very ordinary, with houses and fields everywhere. It seems very comfortable, and it is impossible to imagine that people will die if they live here for a long time.
After a while, Qiuyan rubbed her dizzy head, propped herself up and stood up, looking around, saying, "Yes, this place is still the same as when I came here last time."
Not knowing where to start, the two pretended to be local townspeople and walked side by side on the intersecting roads.
"strangeness……"
Qu Lingfei didn't wait for her to finish and asked hurriedly, "What's strange?"
Qiuyan looked around at the houses and said, "It looks the same, but why do I feel like there are fewer people here?"
After she reminded him, he noticed that many houses on the street were in a dilapidated state, as if no one had lived in them for a long time.
She shook her head and said suspiciously, "It wasn't like this when I came back last time."
Qu Lingfei frowned, his gaze falling on the few pedestrians passing by on the street, "Why don't we just go and ask them what happened here?"
"No," Qiu Yan hurriedly stopped him, "It's no use. These people are like they've been cursed. They don't remember anything that happened."
As soon as she finished speaking, a hand suddenly reached out and covered her mouth. She opened her eyes wide and was dragged into the alley without warning.
Qu Lingfei held her hand tightly, made a gesture to keep quiet, slowly removed his hand from her lips, and looked towards the distance with wide eyes.
She got up from the ground and looked in the direction of his gaze with doubt, her pupils suddenly trembled -
They saw a group of people walking slowly down the street where they had just stood. Their clothes were almost identical to theirs. With their sharp eyes, they immediately recognized the two people leading them.
Qu Lingfei stretched out his trembling fingers and said tremblingly, "That... isn't that Master and Uncle-Master? Why are they here?"
"It's no surprise they're here," Qiuyan didn't seem all that surprised. She stood up and pulled him out in another direction, saying as they walked, "Master, you're here just in time. We don't know where to start investigating here anyway. Why don't we disguise ourselves and follow them? Maybe we can get something useful."
Qu Lingfei was shocked when he heard this: "This... Master has a high level of cultivation and is always cautious in his actions. What will we do if we are discovered?"
She stopped moving, turned around and smiled: "Brother, are you afraid of death?"
"I'm not afraid, but..."
"I'm not afraid either, so what's there to hesitate about?"
“…”
After a shout, accompanied by the sound of swords swishing, several disciples from the immortal world rushed into the houses and pulled out the confused townspeople.
Immortal Yunya waved his folding fan and leisurely watched their actions. "Junior brother, if you want to annihilate the demon clan in one fell swoop, these people are far from enough, right?"
"It's not enough," Xuande Immortal Venerable smiled slightly and said, "Brother, aren't you willing to help me? Why not go to the Demon Realm immediately and capture some demon cultivators with higher spiritual power and bring them here?"
Yun Ya put away his fan and frowned, "Are you going to act now? The Demon Realm Sect Master has the Golden Core and the Mysterious Jade, and we only have a fragment. How can we succeed?"
"If any piece of the Xuanyu is missing, its true power cannot be unleashed. As for the Golden Core..." Xuan De snorted coldly, "Qu Lingfei has been with me since he was young, and I haven't been able to figure out its purpose in all these years. And that Xie guy figured it out in just a few days? It seems his cultivation hasn't improved much compared to before. If you and I attack together, he won't dare to show his hand."
As the two spoke, the disciples had already led all the townspeople out, including Qiu Yan and Qu Lingfei, who had sneaked in in disguise. After knocking the townspeople unconscious, they immediately led them out of the illusion.
"Junior brother, I don't understand what you're saying even more." Yun Ya glanced at everyone and said, "If that's the case, why don't you just kill him and let these innocent people go?"
"These people are the only ones besides you and me who know what happened back then. Once the Mirage Mirror is closed, their memories will return when they wake up. How can I even live in this world with dignity then?" Xuande glared at him, his voice involuntarily lowering. "As for that demon, it would be best if we could finish him off today, but there's no guarantee that another demon won't appear after him. The deaths of those in the demon world are not a pity; they're lucky to be able to be used by me."
Yun Ya glanced at him, smiled, and clapped his hands. "Junior brother, you're really thoughtful. Let's go and kill that demon immediately. Once he's dead, the demon world will be leaderless and at the mercy of others."
"I don't think so."
Suddenly, a voice came from behind them. All the disciples of the Immortal Sect showed fear on their faces, and drew their swords in unison, pointing them at the young man in white who had appeared here at some point.
Xie Changyan's lips curled up, and a hint of sarcasm flashed across the corners of his eyes, but the smile never reached his eyes. "You two immortal masters have come all the way here just to kill me. I dare not neglect you, so I had to come out to greet you personally."
Seeing that he was carrying only a sword and no soldiers, everyone felt relieved. Yun Ya, with a determined look on his face, said with a smile, "Demon, the most important thing you should do now is to think carefully about how to write your last words!"
After he said that, he and Xuande exchanged a glance, and then the two of them struck out with their palms together. The fierce palm wind immediately covered the entire room, and the tables and chairs were instantly reduced to dust.
Xie Changyan sneered faintly, without moving the corner of his clothes. He raised his hand slightly, and the sword was unsheathed. In an instant, the extremely powerful attack turned into nothing.
"You two have prepared for a long time, is this all you can do?" He curled his lips slightly, and the next moment, the smile suddenly froze on his lips.
The sound of bells, which only he could hear, came into his ears, and a subtle fear suddenly invaded him without warning.
It was the Tongsheng Bell that was shaking, something went wrong in the dream.
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