"I always feel like you did it on purpose." Yang Wennan rubbed her sore nose.
He was now just a mortal, and the temperature on the snowfield was too low, especially when he stood by the river, he felt the chill running through his body.
Coupled with the earlier gust of evil wind, the cold here was unusually intense, as if it were targeting him from every angle.
Now there's that same story of Wang Xi throwing away the golden crow.
Yang Wennan gave a wry smile: "Junior sister, are you trying to make your senior brother die again?"
Wang Xi looked puzzled. It was just a conditioned reflex that Jinwu was thrown out. Just as she was about to rush down to look for it, Bai Yu grabbed her by the collar. "Hey! You! Snow Phoenix, let me go! I'll go down and look for it."
"Do you know what's down there?" Wang Xi asked, looking bewildered. "It's just a normal place to get water, right? I even went down there to break the ice these past few days, but I couldn't... wait? I didn't break it! How come the Golden Crow opened it all at once?"
Wang Xi noticed the problem, as if she understood something. "That's right! My senior brother and I have been here for so long. We can use the Cleansing Spell to wash up, and even if we use water, it's snow water. Several times I wanted to go down to catch fish, but I couldn't. How could it, how could it..."
She gestured wildly, slowly removing Bai Yu's claws from her clothes. "I... I won't jump anymore, let me go."
Bai Yuyi released her and looked at Yang Wennan. "Are you afraid of pain? Let me help you."
"I don't want to be dismembered." Yang Wennan rubbed his stiff face. "This river and the river in the sky have the same source. This place is all upstream. There is no real upstream."
"Hmm." Bai Yu simply nodded, without saying anything more.
"She was born here."
"That's what the old monkey said when he died."
"Do you remember who the old monkey is? Finding the old monkey might be the key to solving why the massacre happened here back then."
"The monkey was just an ordinary monkey. I left after I woke up. If you're asking who in this world is like that monkey..."
Bai Yu hesitated for a moment. Killing was like his second parents, and he was very restrained in his feelings for him and Jinwu. There was only one person in the world who made an exception for him.
It was the same before rebirth, and it is the same after rebirth.
"Your grandmaster in this life." Bai Yu thought of Lu Wei, who was still in a state of chaos when they met again on Qinghe Mountain. "It's just a pity that you were cut into several pieces, which is more cruel than the method your Soul Clan used to preserve you."
“I remember now…” Yang Wennan drew a large circle on the ground with his sword, and then stopped when he finished drawing it.
“We are all pawns on this circle, and the role of a pawn is to return to its place. When you set up this circle, I was still a child, and you sealed my memories, giving me only the corresponding curses.”
"Hmm." Bai Yu responded appropriately, indicating that she was still listening.
“That must have been her first near-resurrection!” Yang Wennan placed his finger on the star pattern, kneeling on the ground. “What was the cause of death? Or rather, what triggered the restart?”
“There is another primordial god who is still alive, not just Qi Yun.”
Yang Wennan paused for a moment.
Wang Xi was listening attentively, but most of the time she only half understood, yet she didn't dare interrupt their conversation.
This time, curiosity overcame fear of Bai Yu. "Does the Snow Phoenix mean... that there were actually two gods in the world back then? Both of them were in the heavens?"
"Hmm..." He looked at the sky, then at the frozen lake in front of him, "Then let's make it three! Qingling and I fell from the sky, so we don't count."
"Two in heaven, and only my master's past life on earth?" She asked the question that had been lingering in her mind. "Right? Am I right? Slaughter was my master's past life?"
"That should be true, but the safest approach is to have no plan at all. Until the very last moment, no one knows the answer better than the people themselves."
Bai Yu interrupted, "That superfluous god knows."
Yang Wennan: ...
"The White Deer War God, Lu Wei, was chosen by him. His name is Wei Lai, and he likes children. In ancient times, the White Deer tribe often said that they were descendants of the gods, and this god was Wei Lai."
"Children?" Wang Xi exclaimed in surprise. "Does that myth say there are many children on the battlefield, and those children are the main force of the war? They all know how to use bows?"
"All the children of Bailu learn archery." Bai Yu's eyes were expressionless. He seemed puzzled by Wang Xi's reaction and said incredulously, "Sheyue originated from Bailu. You didn't know that? That shouldn't be the case! Logically speaking, you should be a princess of a fallen kingdom by now."
“I almost succeeded!” Wang Xi nodded vigorously, pointing to Yang Wennan, who was kneeling on the ground muttering to himself and talking to the river. “If it weren’t for Senior Brother Yang and that monk, I would never have been able to find my father.”
“That’s not your father anymore.” Bai Yu said with certainty. “If you were to go to the Xuan Yun Sect, you would be returning to the path of that princess of a fallen kingdom. This was decided long ago.”
"Then I..."
"Yes." Bai Yu looked into her eyes, a golden light flashing in his silver-gray pupils, which seeped into her eyes. His cool fingertips touched her forehead. "You should have died long ago."
"If..." At this moment, her brain seemed to have experienced a massive explosion, her thoughts in disarray, and she asked in confusion, "You say I don't exist, then what did my senior brother and the senior master on the mountain see?"
Bai Yu pointed to the tree behind him, "I was resting in the tree when those two monks came in. It was Xue Nu who brought them here. I didn't stop them. They obey this tree."
"This tree... it's also a source of slaughter..."
"Yes, all the Fusang trees in this world come from the branches of this tree, and slaughter is more like the fruit that this tree bears."
Wang Xi: "So...me too."
"If it is your imperial brother who comes out, then you are..."
"Then what exactly am I? You're making me even more confused."
"Jump down!" Yang Wennan suddenly said. "Jump in, and I'll follow right behind you."
"...Huh?" Wang Xi opened her mouth, looking helplessly at the only two creatures on the snowfield, then at the lake. "I...I really jump? Jinwu, I haven't seen him get up! What if he can't get out?"
"I can't help Master with my current strength." Yang Wennan had already stepped onto the ice. "I promise you won't feel any pain. Go down first, I'll come to be with you right away."
"Senior brother, the way you're talking..." Wang Xi rubbed his forehead, "Don't you think it would make me look crazy if I listened to you and jumped in?"
“I think so too, but there’s nothing we can do… This river has another name, the Sea of Souls. All life and death in this world cannot escape this river; once you go down into it, you won’t drown.”
"Would they die of thirst?"
Yang Wennan took a deep breath and pressed Wang Xi's head into the lake. "Call the two monks here. You're in charge of the shore."
"Huh? Senior brother! A hot spring! It's not cold at all!"
Yang Wennan: ...
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