Chapter 221 Jinjiang
Yan Shixun is not a person who would dwell on the past, but he is still deeply impressed by the day when he was abandoned by his parents.
That day, Xiaoyan Shixun gave away half of his only two candies.
On the same day, he thought he would have to survive alone from then on, but he didn't expect to meet Li Chengyun.
I was taken away by him and raised, and inherited his teachings.
As for the candy, Yan Shixun remembered that he gave it to the man who was sitting at the edge of the market, covered in blood and looking indifferent.
I also shared half of the hope of survival with that person.
He looked like he was about to cry, as if there was nothing left in the world that could make him miss it.
Xiaoyan Shixun looked seriously at the man that everyone was afraid of and avoiding, but she did not feel the slightest fear in her heart. She just felt that... this person, like herself, was also alone.
Therefore, an impulse sprouted in Xiaoyan Shixun's heart.
He wanted this man to live, only by living could he find hope. He had to live no matter how painful it was, even if he only had a candy in his hand, he had to use it as support to keep going.
With this thought in mind, Xiaoyan Shixun walked up to the man, and in his surprised eyes, word by word, persuaded him to stay in the world.
And he made an agreement with the man.
He hoped that the next time he saw the man, they would both be alive and well.
After all... they were the ones who shared the candy together, and Xiaoyan Shixun didn't want to see the man continue to be in despair.
If you count carefully, the man he met at the market was the first life Yan Shixun saved in his life.
However, Yan Shixun still doesn't know that the first person he rescued as a ghost exorcist...
He is the only remaining god under the great Dao of heaven and earth.
He is also the only ghost who can support the great road.
But for decades, it has repeatedly and indifferently rejected the great way and no longer responded to the world.
When Ye Li sat at the edge of the market, watching the bustling crowd with cold eyes, he was already extremely disgusted with the world in his heart, and was left with only a cold and indifferent attitude.
After that day, the human world should have lost the last of the ghosts and gods, and the door of Fengdu was closed from then on, never to be opened again.
As the underworld collapsed, the underworld fell into evil, and thousands of evil spirits invaded the human world. Living beings cried for help, and countless exorcists died.
However, at the moment when the thin young boy walked in front of Ye Li, the originally declining fortunes of the world suddenly turned around, and in the midst of all the dead silence, it regained vitality.
Ye Li's eyes, which saw through countless souls, looked straight at the young boy in front of him who was advising him word by word seriously, but he was shocked to find that the young boy was actually looking forward to his life sincerely, purely and without any falsehood.
Ye Li accepted the candy that Xiaoyan Shixun handed to him.
As a reward for karma, he stretched out his hand and gave a trace of his purest power to the pair of hands that were stretched out to him with sugar in their palms.
At the moment when the power of ghosts and gods entered Xiaoyan Shixun's meridians, his fate suddenly changed.
The evil ghost that should have been unable to survive regained its vitality because of the favor of ghosts and gods.
And the Avenue finally welcomed the miracle that was about to happen.
Li Chengyun never told Yan Shixun why he appeared at the market so coincidentally and met the sharp and indifferent young boy by coincidence, which made him, who had always been a free and easy person and did not want to be bound by any relationship, think of taking him in as a disciple.
Because at that time, Li Chengyun had already sensed the declining trend of the Great Dao. He calculated that the only way to prop up the Great Dao again and save the lives of thousands of lives was in that inconspicuous little market.
In the bustling crowd, the lonely and cold little boy, like a wounded little wolf cub but still with sharp eyes, walks alone in the world.
However, there are colorful flowers all around, but the little boy is the intersection of black and white.
He is the intersection of yin and yang, life and death. When his luck was at its lowest point, he suddenly flew up and turned all the death into life.
Li Chengyun was horrified and used his fingers to tell fortunes, but was shocked to find that this young boy who attracted all his attention was not only born with an evil spirit in his bones, but he should have died today because the evil spirit in his body exceeded the limit of living people.
However, a powerful vitality was injected into the young boy's dead end.
Everything will turn around when it reaches its extreme, and everything will eventually rise again after it reaches its lowest point.
In death, life is born again.
Li Chengyun stared at the young boy across the crowd. He could even hear his own heartbeat which was infinitely slowing down. It was as if at this moment he was with the Tao, and they all lowered their eyes to look at the young boy.
After a long moment, he smiled softly.
This child's fate is exactly the same as that of heaven and earth.
By replacing death with life, he completed his own miracle, and will also become... a miracle of the universe and the earth.
Li Chengyun walked over with his long legs, squatted in front of the young boy, and smiled gently on his handsome face.
He smiled and stretched out his hand to Xiaoyan Shixun. His heart melted by this stubborn yet adorable child. He decided to teach him everything he knew.
Outside the crowd, Ye Li, who had been looking at Xiaoyan Shixun indifferently without blinking, was relieved to see that Xiaoyan Shixun had found a home.
The ghost himself did not realize that his concern for the young boy had surpassed his feelings towards living people over thousands of years, and he even worried about the boy's whereabouts.
Ye Li simply lowered his hat to cover his face again, then turned around and disappeared at the edge of the market.
Xiaoyan Shixun, who was walking forward with Li Chengyun holding her hand, seemed to sense something and turned around to look towards where Ye Li was.
But there was only empty air, and no trace of Ye Li was left.
More than a decade has passed, and that memory has been sealed in Yan Shixun's mind. Even the man he met only once at that time has become blurred.
But now, when Yan Shixun stood at the three-way intersection of Nancun and looked at the tall figure walking slowly from the distance, he once again recalled the scene from the past.
It was just different from the one he had seen at the market before.
The man Yan Shixun saw at that time was covered in blood and looked disheveled, but he looked as sharp as if he had just walked down from the battlefield.
Although the man who appeared in Nancun was wearing a conical hat with its brim pulled down so low that his face could not be seen, the pure black robe in the old style on his body gave him a majestic and intimidating aura, which made people feel afraid and dared not offend him.
With every step the man took, the grass and trees he passed by would tremble and droop their branches, silently but in awe.
Even the entire forest fell into silence, and no one dared to disturb the man.
Ghosts and gods roam the world, judging sins.
Yan Shixun stared at the scene being replayed in front of him. It took him a long time to come back to his senses. He raised his eyes with complicated expressions and looked at Ye Li beside him.
"you……"
Yan Shixun's Adam's apple rolled, and the question that was already on the tip of his lips was grinded between his lips and teeth for several times before he finally opened his mouth.
He heard himself asking Ye Li——
"That year, the person I met at the market...was it you?"
Ye Li slowly withdrew his gaze from the distance. After a brief surprise, his eyes were filled with a gentle smile when he looked at Yan Shixun.
Under Yan Shixun's serious gaze, Ye Li nodded slightly, confirming Yan Shixun's guess.
"Shi Xun, the first time I met you was not before Wild Wolf Peak, but at the market more than ten years ago."
There was endless tenderness and tenderness in Ye Li's slightly lowered brows, without any trace of the coldness and sharpness just now.
It’s not that the ghost has no feelings for the human world, but all his emotions are given to the young boy who took his hand and put a candy in his palm.
"But, in fact, I didn't know at that time that you were the one who gave me a candy and told me to live more than ten years ago."
Ye Li's eyes carefully outlined Yan Shixun's face and eyebrows, and his originally low voice was filled with smiles.
At the beginning, Ye Li only discovered that a living soul entered Fengdu and witnessed the trial of Xi Shuang.
However, the central gate of Fengdu has been closed for many years and has never responded to the human world. How could there be a living soul that could accurately find the location of Fengdu and even enter Fengdu before he noticed?
Ye Li originally guessed that this was another self-rescue of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. It released the ghost and god hexagrams to the living, allowing the exorcists of the world to enter Fengdu, in order to once again persuade him to take on the Great Dao.
Or, chaos in the human world is happening again and is even beginning to affect Fengdu.
No matter which possibility it is, it means that the world will become a hell of evil spirits, and living beings will wail and die.
Ye Li wanted to close his eyes and ignore it.
But for some reason, because of the soul that entered Fengdu without permission, he suddenly recalled his encounter with the young boy in the human world.
The Lord of Fengdu, who was originally disappointed with the human world, finally stepped down from the altar, and because of a fleeting thought of tenderness, he stepped back into the human world.
At that time, Zhang Wubing was recruiting an assistant director. Ye Li was inexplicably attracted by this and thus noticed the existence of Yan Shixun.
Ye Li discovered that this human exorcist named Yan Shixun was the living soul that had previously broken into Fengdu.
Xi Shuang's soul was also saved by Yan Shixun. He rescued Xi Shuang from a dead end where she should have been killed by other exorcists or trapped forever in the Ghost Mountain as an evil ghost unable to be reborn. He then sent Xi Shuang to reincarnation with his own hands.
The verdict of Yan Shixun was so similar to the verdict of Yeli.
This surprised Ye Li.
For thousands of years, he watched as the exorcists in the world killed all ghosts and protected all living people, without asking about good or evil, but only about their camp.
He had long lost hope in the ghost exorcists in the human world.
However, Yan Shixun seemed so different among them.
Even if there is only one ghost among thousands of evil ghosts who has been wronged, Yan Shixun will bend down, grope for the truth from the chaos, and give justice to the wronged ghost.
I have realized the vastness of the universe, yet I still pity the greenery of the grass and trees.
Ye Li watched Yan Shixun's actions quietly, but his heart was filled with turmoil.
He never thought that the ideal ghost exorcist, whom he had been searching for for thousands of years, would appear after he was completely disappointed.
In a desolate and silent wasteland, the spring breeze blows gently, and new buds break through the soil.
The more Ye Li looked at Yan Shixun, the more he was attracted to him and couldn't take his eyes off him.
Even the human world that he once hated has become colorful again and worth looking forward to because of Yan Shixun's existence.
How can we allow others to snatch away the treasure we have finally found?
Ye Li didn't want to bring Yan Shixun back to Fengdu, as that would dim the dazzling light of this ghost exorcist.
The human world that Yan Shixun deeply loves is the place where he is destined to practice.
Therefore, after Ye Li confirmed that chaos was about to occur in the human world, he did not return to Fengdu.
——Even though he knew very well that even if the entire human world turned into hell and the great way collapsed, it would not affect the secluded and isolated Fengdu.
Fengdu, with its central door tightly closed, has never relied on the human world. Therefore, it has no cause and effect relationship with the human world and will not be implicated by it.
However, Ye Li wanted to stay by Yan Shixun's side, guarding his precious ghost exorcist and not letting Yan Shixun's brilliance be damaged.
However, the more he looked at Yan Shixun, the more Ye Li was amazed and attracted by him, until he could no longer take his eyes off Yan Shixun.
That is... a dazzling light that would attract even the gods and ghosts of Fengdu.
Ye Li also discovered that Yan Shixun was the young boy who gave him an apple candy at the market that year.
Is there any better cause and effect than this?
This discovery surprised Ye Li greatly.
He didn't expect that the young boy he saved in order to repay the candy would become his beloved ghost exorcist.
Before Ye Li realized it, he had already saved the person he loved with his own hands.
On top of the cause and effect, Ye Li added new cause and effect for him and Yan Shixun.
Let Yan Shixun and him be forever connected because of countless causes and effects, and hold the treasure tightly in his arms.
And now, Yan Shixun finally discovered that Ye Li was the man he gave life to at the market more than ten years ago.
Yan Shixun slowly opened his eyes and looked at Ye Li in disbelief, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.
“That’s true.”
Yan Shixun shook his head gently, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. Even though he often dealt with the world and knew that fate was unpredictable and mysterious, at this moment, he still felt that cause and effect was so wonderful.
The man with whom he shared candy and thought he was also single was standing next to him and walking with him all the way.
It was like the candy that had been given away returned to his hand, and the two became one.
The person he had been looking for for more than ten years, and the first person he saved as a ghost exorcist, turned out to be the only remaining god in the world.
And he actually seriously advised the other party to live.
For a moment, Yan Shixun was also surprised at what he had done back then.
Ye Li reached out and gently tucked Yan Shixun's scattered hair behind his ears. He leaned forward slightly and looked at Yan Shixun, smiling and saying seriously, "The candy you gave me is the only gift I have received in thousands of years."
"But now, I have more greedy ideas."
Ye Li's originally deep voice softened: "I want you, Shi Xun - the gift I want to get from you is you."
"Shi Xun, the human world expresses joy with love, I will give it to you with the name of God and the great way, and the heaven and earth will bear witness..."
"I love you."
It's like the snow-capped mountains melting into spring water, the dead wasteland is sprouting new buds and blooming, with clusters of flowers full of vitality and beauty.
Yan Shixun's vision was completely occupied by Ye Li. He could no longer see anything else, and the only voice in his ears was Ye Li's.
He looked at the face so close to him, and felt that even his breathing became lighter unconsciously.
Yan Shixun's heartstrings trembled slightly.
There was only one sentence left in his mind.
Ah...it turns out that what Lan Ze said to him before was all true, and Lan Ze was not mistaken.
It turns out that Ye Li really likes him.
It's not about wanting to be his friend, or a partner, but the love between lovers.
Yan Shixun's lips moved and he smiled before he said anything.
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