Waking up from a dream
"Ouch~ Where is this?"
Yuan Shuang fell into a forest. Looking around, he found that Li Ling and the others were nowhere to be found. He suddenly panicked.
It was pitch black, with no one around. From time to time, the strange cries of birds could be heard from the forest. The sounds were mournful and sad, and eerie...
Yuan Shuang paused for a moment, then stood up. She held onto a nearby tree, feeling a presence behind her, but when she turned around, there was no one there.
"What are you doing?"
"Wow!!!" A strange boy's voice came from behind Yuan Shuang. She turned around immediately and was so scared that her face turned pale. Her courage, which was not great to begin with, was shattered to pieces and she almost fainted.
She closed her eyes tightly and waved her hands around wildly, not caring whether she was hitting a human or a ghost.
"Stop, stop, stop, we're one of them!"
Sha Pan grabbed Yuan Shuang's rebellious hand and frowned, saying, "Why are you so timid?"
Yuan Shuang closed her eyes tightly and cried, "Don't catch me, it's not tasty..."
Her voice trembled, and her body trembled. Tears hung on her eyelashes, and she sniffed through her delicate nose. Her expression of wanting to cry but not being able to was so pitiful.
Sha Pan knew he had gone too far, so he quickly let go of her hand and said, "Don't cry!"
Despite his persuasion, Yuan Shuang became even more violent.
Sha Pan was annoyed by her behavior. Panqiu women were carefree and treated Panqiu men as close friends. This little joke was nothing to them.
It was his first time going out, and he never expected that a foreign woman would be so irresistible.
"Wuwuwuwu... I let you bully me, I let you bully me. I, I'm already giving you a break by not sprinkling itching powder on you, and you actually called me a coward!"
Sha Pan hurriedly coaxed Yuan Shuang: "Don't cry, don't cry, I apologize to you..." This was the first time he coaxed someone, there was no skill, only emotion.
At this moment, he would be willing to work like a slave for the girl in front of him.
And! Why are this girl's tears like a flood? They won't stop! Sha Pan found time to complain in his heart.
"Ah! You are born in the year of the dog!"
When Yuan Shuang heard this, he bit the injured sand pan in anger.
"Open your mouth! Ouch!"
This little girl is trying to bite off a piece of flesh from him!
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"Li Ling! Li Ling, don't go!" Yinchaoli Ke's voice sounded behind "Li Ling".
"Li Ling" seemed not to hear the voice behind him and ran straight towards the Hidden Tide Altar.
This dream again!
Li Ling shook his dizzy head and looked at himself through the misty fog as he rushed into the flames without hesitation.
Li Ling wanted to make sense of this dream, so he took a step forward and followed the figure.
As he walked, Li Ling realized that no one here could see him. He felt like an outsider, looking back at a past that he himself didn't even know about.
This time, he once again saw that familiar yet unfamiliar painting, and once again felt the pain of being hit by the flaming wooden beam.
Li Ling's expression remained unchanged. He was already used to the discomfort of empathizing with the person in his dream, and he could pretend to be calm so that no one could see through it.
He has experienced this dream many times, and this is the ninth time.
Li Ling thought that this dream would end and he would wake up.
But this time the dream did not disappear like a passing cloud as imagined, but instead showed signs of continuing to develop.
Time passed little by little, and the immersive feeling of being on the verge of death, the cold sweat running down his forehead, and the increasingly severe burning sensation on his back made his face turn pale.
The fire burning on the Hidden Tide Altar is not an ordinary fire, but the purest blood fire of Jinming.
Ancient books recorded that the purest blood fire of Jinming could burn everything and reduce it to ashes, and only the tears shed by the goddess in sorrow could extinguish it.
At this moment, there was no way anyone would be willing to risk their own life to save him. I really didn't know why I was so crazy in my dream, rushing in like a fool without caring about anything.
Just when Li Ling thought he was about to die, he heard a familiar voice.
"Li Ling" had fainted, but Li Ling did not know who that person was. It was his sister - An Nan!
Li Ling's pupils shrank slightly, and an unknown emotion rose in his heart.
"A Ling, are you in there?" An Nan shouted anxiously. The eyelashes of "Li Ling" who fainted on the ground trembled, but there was no sign of waking up.
Because there was no response, Anan shouted several times in a row, and then it became quiet, with only the crackling sound of the flames burning the wood.
Just when Li Ling thought An Nan had left, someone broke in.
Anan pushed away the burning beams with his bare hands, ignoring the blood blisters on his fingers, and dragged "Li Ling" out from the clutches of death.
Li Ling, standing aside and watching all this, was a little dazed. He hadn't seen his sister since she became possessed by the devil. There was no news from the Five Clans either. Sister, where are you...are you okay now?
He didn't mind whether Anan was possessed by a demon or not. To him, Anan was his last relative in this world and the only person to whom he could confide his inner thoughts when he was wronged outside.
Anan struggled to carry "Li Ling" on his back and walked out step by step.
Li Ling saw her fall down covered in blood, saw the people from Yinchao rushing over not far away, saw the two of them leaning against the water corridor, with flames rising to the sky behind them and water ripples in front of them. When he saw Anan looking at him, a reassuring smile appeared on his cracked lips.
Tears welled up in Li Ling's eyes unconsciously. It was clearly just a dream, so why did he feel so uncomfortable, as if it had really happened?
There was a sharp pain in his brain, and Li Ling waved his hand, shattering the illusion: "Sister, is that you?"
Just now, he finally remembered who he was. He recalled everything in the God Realm, how he was haunted by evil spirits and forced to come to this small world to use the power of reincarnation to eliminate the evil spirits.
According to his original fate, he would suffer a severe emotional setback in every life and would never be able to recover.
Reincarnation after reincarnation, but no good ending... This is what Mr. Lei had never told him before.
In other words, the nine dreams he had during this period, which he thought were ridiculous, actually happened. However, he died in the sea of fire in the first eight times, but something unexpected happened in the ninth time.
That incident was when Anan risked his life to save him...
This small world was created by the God of Samsara for him to overcome his tribulations. Apart from him, no living being could reincarnate. Therefore, if other beings died unexpectedly, they would not be able to be resurrected like him.
After the last reincarnation ended, he temporarily recovered his memory and contacted Lei Lao, asking him to save Anan's life. This also meant that his last life would also change because of this.
But Li Ling did not regret it, after all, it was his own choice.
There was nothing but white all around.
After a while, a white phantom quietly appeared in front of Li Ling, and the afterimage was exactly the appearance of An Nan.
She whispered, "A Ling, long time no see."
Looking at this familiar figure, Li Ling couldn't help but tremble and said, "Sister..."
He grew up without a father or mother, and through his own efforts he cultivated himself from a tiny fairy into a god, but because of his low qualifications, he was not taken seriously.
Only Anan, who regarded him as a relative, would risk her life for him. Anan was unique in the world, and he could not lose Anan.
"A Ling, the dead are gone, you don't have to mind." An Nan reached out and stroked Li Ling's cheek, comforting him: "Everyone has his or her own mission. Mine is to help you overcome the tribulation and help you return to the throne of God."
Li Ling took a deep breath, "But originally, I was the one who deserved to die..." He clenched his hands tightly, trying to control himself, "What happened back then?"
"Why did the me in the dream barge in without caring about anything? And who is that portrait?"
The phantom was illusory for a moment, as if it would disappear in the next moment. Anan looked at his eyebrows quietly and found that he had matured and stabilized a lot. But after looking at him a few more times, she found that the boy in front of her was still as young and ignorant as she remembered. Whenever he was in front of her, he would show his dependence without any concealment.
Li Ling said reluctantly: "I don't want you to leave..."
In fact, even if Anan didn't say it, Li Ling still guessed something.
During each reincarnation, the protective formation outside the Five Spirits Holy Realm is the most stable and solid. However, after a period of time after a reincarnation, the protective formation will become fragile, and the outsider is likely to take advantage of the opportunity to sneak in at that time.
I think that person's cultivation must be quite good, otherwise, Master Lei would definitely be able to discover this heresy.
Seeing his expression change several times, Anan knew that she could not hide it anymore, so she confessed: "A Ling, I'm sorry, sister didn't mean to hide it from you, but when I knew you were going to die, I panicked. She told me... as long as I give her my physical body, she can help you survive this disaster." Anan recalled the past, and the snow-white phantom became more transparent.
"How can I accept your apology... I can't bear it..." Li Ling's voice was a little choked. His sister became like this because of him. What right did he have to blame her? He said firmly: "I will definitely let you come back."
"It's useless. Mr. Lei gave me this opportunity so that I can say goodbye to you."
Li Ling's eyes flashed red, and a black aura filled his body. He said in disbelief and helplessness: "Old Lei said there is a way to revive you. I will bring you back to life..."
Anan shook his head, not wanting him to do anything stupid. "A Ling, what's done cannot be changed. I saved you willingly."
Li Ling seemed to see her brilliant smile through the illusory light and shadow, and only heard her say gently: "I am just an orphan adopted by my father and mother. Without them, I would have died long ago..."
Li Ling's heart was in a panic. He sensed something and shouted anxiously, "Sister, don't go!"
"Goodbye, Aling."
The white light of stars spread out in the sky, leaving no trace either in the past or in the present.
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"It seems that this time A Ling is going to hate me completely." Old Lei stroked his white beard and said helplessly.
The Tongtian Mirror suspended in the sky shone with golden light, and the handsome face of a man appeared in the mirror. He was still so leisurely and elegant, brewing tea and taking a sip.
Murong Yu smiled faintly and said, "The laws of heaven are boundless, how can they be changed so easily?"
Seeing him like this, Lei Lao couldn't help but teasing him: "You have a heart of stone, you have a heart of stone. I really don't know how Bai Ying fell in love with you in the first place. You are not reasonable at all."
The image in the mirror suddenly shattered, and Lei Lao shook his head, "I knew you didn't want to hear this."
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