Emotions
Changxia seemed to be trapped in a deep dream, in which she and Xie Fengxue lived in their youth.
She was thirteen years old, and Xie Fengxue was fifteen years old.
Yunting has a lot of snow in winter, so they went to the foot of the snowy mountain to pick up pine and cypress trees and go up the mountain, preparing to learn how to smoke bacon from others.
Changxia was tired from walking, so she asked Xie Fengxue to carry her on his back. So the senior brother carried the firewood he had just picked up in his hands and carried her on his back.
Two people left a trail of footprints on the snow-covered mountain road of Zangfeng Mountain.
Before Bie Jingchun returned to Cangfeng Mountain, she and Xie Fengxue had been living together.
If one were to draw a circle around Cang Xuan, Chang Xia would put Yun Ting, the Zen Master, the Master and other close people inside the circle, and everyone else outside.
The circle is a little smaller, and it includes Zang Fengshan, Zuo Qin, Lian Hua and Shen Siyan.
A little younger are the master, senior brother and Zuo Qin.
A little further down, there was only Xie Fengxue in the circle.
The senior sister from Cangfeng Mountain has always been kind and benevolent.
She hid those secret throbbing feelings very well - others thought that her love for Xie Fengxue was a gentleman's love, open and aboveboard.
Actually, it’s not.
She liked him to the point of being hypocritical and cunning, and to the point of being selfish.
When she was thirteen years old, there was heavy snow in Zangfeng Mountain, and Xie Fengxue carried her up the mountain. At that time, she was still ignorant and did not understand emotions, but when she put her arms around her brother's neck, she had the desire to hold him like this for the rest of her life.
It was because I was ignorant back then that the thoughts I had were so real.
That was her most naked desire before it was packaged by poetry, books and etiquette.
She thought that her senior brother would belong to her forever.
The mountain road in the dream seemed to have no end. Cangfeng Mountain was so high that they could never see the top.
The snow-covered mountains were a vast expanse of white, and it seemed as if there were only her and Xie Fengxue in the world.
Chang Xia lay on his shoulder boredly and suddenly asked: "Brother, we will never be separated, right?"
Xie Fengxue stopped.
He shook Chang Xia and made sure she was firmly on his back before he said calmly, "Yes, we will never be separated."
Changxia played with his hair, wrapping it around her little finger in circles and then untying it in circles.
She was still very young, at an age when everything she did seemed new and interesting. The pavilions floating in the sky were spectacular, and the scenery of Cangfeng Mountain was also magnificent.
But she just felt that none of these were as interesting as curling her senior brother's hair.
After a long while, she said, "Brother, when you want to leave me, remember to tell me first."
Otherwise, I will go to heaven and hell to bring you back.
The last sentence was not said by the young Changxia, but by the present Changxia.
The kite on the table was buzzing desperately, waking her up when she was curling her hair, but she calmly completed the dream, adding the final touch to those youthful memories before opening her eyes.
As she unfolded the kite, she thought that of course what she had said in her dream was true, but she hadn't finished.
Even if Xie Fengxue really told her in advance that he was leaving.
Changxia will go to great lengths to bring him back.
Inside the kite was a notice from Morningstar Mountain.
Cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage immediately headed for the nearest border defense line, while those in Xiaoling Mountain took the teleportation array set up by Zuo Qin and headed directly to Chi Zhou Sea. The Four-Directional Sword Formation would be fully disbanded in half an hour.
It just so happened that because of the Qianqiu Banquet, 60% of Cang Xuan’s cultivators were in Xiaoling Mountain.
It saves a lot of trouble.
Changxia picked up Caishou, sent a message to Xie Fengxue, and then ran to the place mentioned in the notice with a solemn expression.
Changxia was not the only one awakened by the kite.
Xie Fengxue jumped down from Jianmu, and the sea water and fish that had been sealed for thousands of years seemed to be awakened at this moment and actually moved a little.
The fortune teller in green robe with wide sleeves put his index finger to his lips, and when his finger moved upwards, his sparkling eyes appeared.
"Shhh."
The world returned to silence again.
In his right hand was a half-burned piece of talisman paper with intricate patterns drawn on it, but it was not difficult for a fortune teller who was proficient in illusion to make out the patterns.
Dream entry talisman.
He placed the talisman paper and the burnt ashes in the brocade bag, and suddenly smiled as he tied the bag.
He whispered:
"knew."
Unfortunately, the wooden ladder to heaven has remained unchanged for thousands of years. Time and space are imprisoned here, and even the wind cannot blow in. No one can hear his promise.
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When Shen Siyan returned to Xiaoling Mountain, he met a pair of faces full of resentment.
He looked away guiltily, but Linjiang didn't let him go.
"I thought it was someone who came back, it turned out to be Shen Zhangyuan."
The last three words were deliberately emphasized as if to remind him of his identity.
Shen Siyan remained silent, and Lin Jiang continued, "So it's Dean Shen who doesn't care about his brothers' lives just to be affectionate with his sweetheart."
Shen Siyan couldn't help but said: "I'm not being affectionate."
I didn't deny my sweetheart.
What's so difficult about this? Only Changxia would think that he likes to be reserved.
Of course he likes her, but his liking for Lianhua and Changxia's liking for Lianhua are the same kind of liking.
But his love for Changxia is not like that.
Lin Jiang suddenly realized, "So it's Dean Shen who is still in unrequited love."
Shen Siyan: ...
"That's enough."
Lin Jiang sneered, "You clearly knew that there would be a big mess today, but you disappeared at such a critical moment. Do you know how I have been spending the past few hours?"
Shen Siyan: "I don't know."
Linjiang: ...
"Oh, so Senior Sister Changxia doesn't know that you like her."
Shen Siyan: ...
"If you continue like this, the guilt in my heart will disappear!"
"No more guilt. Senior Sister Changxia also likes Senior Brother Xie."
Shen Siyan: ...
He completely lost his temper and begged for mercy: "This is all I have on, don't lift it up, don't lift it up."
Lin Jiang continued to sneer: "You deal with the mess behind, I want to take a vacation."
Shen Siyan was puzzled: "Even if you take a vacation, what else can you do besides handling official business in the Privy Council?"
The two of them have been inseparable for hundreds of years, and Shen Siyan had no idea that Lin Jiang was actually having a little secret behind her back.
Lin Jiang said as a matter of course: "Take a vacation and go to Chi Zhou Sea to kill monsters! Protecting Cang Xuan is everyone's responsibility."
Shen Siyan looked at him with a puzzled expression: "Your vacation is really unique."
Not only did I not relax, I became even busier.
However, he said regretfully, "I don't think you can take this leave. I have to go to the Eastern Territory to guard the Human Emperor for a year, so I won't have time to take care of the Privy Council's affairs."
When Lin Jiang heard this, his face turned completely dark.
Shen Siyan felt that this was not enough to stimulate him, so he walked over leisurely with his head in his arms, muttering to himself, "I heard that the wine, spices, and beauties in the East are really good."
Lin Jiang spat at him behind his back and cursed Shen Siyan the most vicious thing: "Bah! You deserve it for not being able to pursue Senior Sister."
He was thoughtful but his expression remained unchanged.
The girl he likes doesn't like him and may never like him, but so what?
After all, the sun, moon and stars keep moving, and life goes on one day at a time.
The place he was going to was Tunan Pavilion, which had now become Ji Tinglan's territory. All the disciples of Yunting had moved out long ago, and it was now used as the Queen's palace and was heavily guarded by the aristocratic families of the East Region.
But there's no way to stop him.
Chen Siyan thought happily that at least there was Jiang Bailu in Tunan Pavilion. Now that all the cultivators had gone to the border, there was someone who accompanied him in Tunan Pavilion and was as stable as a rock. Then he would not be considered an outlier.
What he didn't know was that his fourth junior brother from Zangfeng Mountain, whom he was worried about, was now squatting on the chair opposite Ji Tinglan like a bird with its feathers blown off.
"Why don't you let me go to the East with you!"
Ji Tinglan poured him a cup of tea and said, "You are already grown up, don't make a fuss like a child."
Jiang Bailu: "The demon race reaches adulthood after a thousand years, and I am still in the larval stage."
Ji Tinglan remained calm and said, "Children should stay out of the adult's business."
Jiang Bailu was so angry that he laughed: "Anyway, I can't win against you."
Ji Tinglan sighed imperceptibly.
She had known her responsibilities since she was a child, and for the first hundred years, she had been able to grow up carefree under the protection of her senior sister. But the older she got, the more she understood, and the heavier her burden became.
When she was young, she traveled down the mountain with her senior sister. When she passed through the East Territory, she encountered an assassination attempt. It was a young man from a noble family in the East Territory who had fought with Ji Sheng and came to kill the sword immortal's apprentice.
He was only at the Nascent Soul stage, so of course he couldn't achieve anything. The senior sister caught him without much effort and said to him kindly, "The Human Emperor is dead, can't you just live your life well?"
The man's eyes were bloodshot, as if he was filled with great hatred: "It was your master who forced the Human Emperor to death. I will make you pay with your lives!"
The senior sister said, "My master let you go once. He said you were a pitiful person, so I will let you go this time. But if you try to kill me again next time, I will not be soft-hearted anymore."
The man tilted his head and said, "Who wants your sympathy from above?"
Tinglan then realized that this man killed them not because he was afraid of trouble and bullied the weak, but because he even dared to assassinate the Sword Immortal. He truly disregarded life and death for the faith in his heart.
On the one hand, she was annoyed by the East Territory's misunderstanding of her master and senior sister, but seeing that the people of the East Territory still believed in the Human Emperor for a hundred years after his departure, she was more ashamed of the easy life she was leading now - your people are still cheering for you, willing to die for you, what are you doing?
Ji Tinglan, what qualifications do you have to be carefree?
For hundreds of years thereafter, she no longer liked to go down the mountain. She only loved to study her skills in her own little house and complete the homework left to her by her uncle before he committed suicide.
Tinglan said: "Jiang Bailu, my time is about to start running out. I will grow old and die soon, but you still have a long life ahead of you."
"You still have plenty of time to fulfill your ideals and ambitions, but I only have a fleeting hundred years left."
She held out her hand and chuckled to herself, "Back then, it took me over a hundred years just to decide between mechanical engineering and immortal cultivation. Now, I have to accomplish so many 'great' things in such a short time."
Jiang Bailu opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
Tinglan continued, "I know you weren't really going to do anything by messing with me. You've always been very sensible and would never do anything you shouldn't do."
"But Bai Lu, I don't have time anymore. Time has been chasing me since the moment I decided to ascend the throne."
They were on both sides of the table. The empress was adorned with jewels and jade, and her dark robes stretched to the ground, looking extremely luxurious.
Jiang Bailu had never been so aware as she was now that they were no longer the young boys and girls who watched the flowers and picked fruits on Cangfeng Mountain.
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