Chapter 74: Flower Sea Memories and Straight Men Forced to "Revolving Doors"
Huahai Yijing and straight men are forced to "revolving lanterns"
A Che's discovery was like a glimmer of light in the darkness.
Li Jiuyou and Jiang Xuelan exchanged a glance (though quickly averted), and with the strange tacit understanding between their blood pacts, they instantly reached a consensus—they had to go in the direction Ah Che pointed! Continuing to fight the Sword Formation and Iron Punishment in the Punishment Hall was too low a chance of victory given their poor condition, and they might even die here!
"Man Gu! Make way!" Li Jiuyou roared, and the Jinsheng Sword burst out with an even more violent demonic fire. Without holding back, it forcibly chopped towards a corner of the sword formation, creating an opportunity for Man Gu!
"Xuanjia, protect Ache!" Jiang Xuelan cast a range freezing spell at the same time. The extremely cold air temporarily delayed the actions of Tie Xing and some of his disciples!
Man Gu understood what he meant and roared. His werewolf blood burst out, his muscles bulged, and he swung his bone club like a whirlwind, rushing towards the direction Ah Che pointed! Wherever the bone club passed, the red spider lilies were suppressed by the strong wind, temporarily opening up a small path!
Ah Che tightly embraced the Jianmu fragment, which emitted a warm green light. The light from the fragment seemed to form a thin protective shield, offsetting most of the hallucinogenic effects of the floral fragrance, allowing him to barely see the road ahead. Xuan Jia lay on his shoulder, a faint glow on its tortoise shell, resisting the scattered sword energy.
Xingtong's eyes flickered slightly, and he took the opportunity to release a more powerful illusion. Although he could not completely control the disciples of the Punishment Hall, he could still create some visual confusion and brief hesitation.
"Want to escape?" Tie Xing snorted coldly, and his sword thrust became even heavier, trying to break through Jiang Xuelan's icy barrier. The other disciples of the Punishment Hall also quickly changed their formation and gave chase!
The group fought and retreated, rushing towards the depths of the sea of flowers. The deeper they went, the more lush and gorgeous the red spider lilies became, and the stronger the fragrance became. Even with the protection of the Jianmu fragments, everyone began to feel dazed and hallucinations appeared before their eyes.
Li Jiuyou seemed to see the scene when he was a child being bullied by other children of the Zhe tribe and called a "bastard", and his anger burned uncontrollably.
Jiang Xuelan saw the flames in the sky and the fallen figures of his parents on the night when the Xianmen Village was massacred. The frozen lake in his heart was filled with huge waves and the cold was biting.
Lian Man Gu saw the tragic scene when Feng Ye died in battle and let out a sad and angry roar.
The horrible scene of children biting each other in the dungeon flashed before Ah Che's eyes. His face turned pale and his body trembled.
This sea of red spider lilies is forcibly evoking the most painful and least willing memories in everyone's heart!
The blood bond link is like a red-hot iron wire, clearly imprinting the deepest pain of the two people on each other!
Li Jiuyou's rage and humiliation!
Jiang Xuelan's grief and hatred!
And the vaguely similar undertones of isolation and hurt in each other's memories...
The two extreme pains were transmitted crazily through the contract, causing them to have splitting headaches and almost lose their minds!
"Damn it...what the hell is this flower!" Li Jiuyou gritted his teeth, his red-gold pupils turned red, and his attacks became more and more wild and uncontrollable.
Jiang Xuelan's face was also pale, and the hand holding the sword was trembling slightly. He was holding on only with his strong willpower.
Just as the two were about to be swallowed by this torrent of memories, that damned, incomparably clear connection allowed them to not only feel each other's pain, but also vaguely capture some vague, deliberately forgotten fragments of each other's memories.
In Li Jiuyou's chaotic memories, there seemed to be a scene of charred ruins, and the figure of a furry little beast with a hint of red gold on the tip of its tail flashed by...
In Jiang Xuelan's cold memory, in addition to the sword light of the immortal sect and his mother's blood, there seemed to be... a faint and worried whimper of a baby animal, and half a blood-stained steamed bun that was stuffed in?
This feeling was extremely short-lived and was instantly drowned by even more intense pain, but it was like a sharp thorn that pierced into the deepest part of both people's consciousness.
**Why does his memory...feel so familiar?**
Huge doubts and an indescribable throbbing arose in the hearts of both of them at the same time.
Finally, they reached the small mound Ah Che had pointed to. On it, an unusually tall, almost dark red, red spider lily blossomed alone. Beneath it, half-buried in the earth, lay a broken black stone tablet. Inscribed with faint ancient runes, it emitted faint spatial fluctuations.
The light from the Jianmu fragments shone on the special red spider lily and the stone tablet, and the petals trembled slightly. A clearer **memory fragment** that did not belong to any of them was suddenly projected into everyone's mind like an activated photo stone!
It was a gruesome scene of an ancient battlefield, where immortal light and demonic fire collided, and corpses piled like mountains. A towering, gravely wounded man in Zhe clan armor (his features bore a passing resemblance to Li Jiuyou), clutching a dying woman dressed as a disciple of an immortal sect, stumbled into the sea of flowers. The man gently placed the woman among a cluster of blooming red spider lilies. Using his last remaining strength, he buried a blood-stained bronze token (similar to the key that opened the Abyss Gate) and a faintly glowing bead (presumably the core of some demonic elixir or magical weapon) in the earth. He then carved something with his own blood on a nearby stone tablet. The woman, tears streaming, laboriously stroked the man's cheek... Finally, the two embraced, their auras completely dissipated, their bodies transformed into points of light, merging into the earth. And that special red spider lily, where they had vanished, emerged from the ground, even more vibrant...
This tragic and affectionate memory scene, like a clear stream, temporarily washed away the painful memories in everyone's minds and brought a huge shock.
“What is that...?” Man Gu widened his eyes.
"Ancient...guardian?" Xuanjia murmured.
Even Tie Xing and the disciples of the Punishment Hall who were chasing after them were so shocked by this sudden collective illusion that they froze in their tracks.
At that moment, the dark red flower of the other shore swayed slightly, its petals falling and melting into the ground. Then, the runes on the half-hidden black stone tablet suddenly lit up!
A small, unstable teleportation portal, barely wide enough for one person, suddenly opened above the stone tablet! On the other side of the portal, a different scene loomed: a barren valley!
"Let's go!" Jiang Xuelan made a prompt decision.
Li Jiuyou immediately provided cover and forced the nearest disciple of the Punishment Hall to retreat with a single blow of his sword.
Without hesitation, everyone rushed into the light gate one after another!
Tie Xing's face turned ashen, and he slashed at the light gate with his sword, but only shattered the afterimage. The light gate flashed violently, quickly closed and disappeared!
The disciples in the Punishment Hall looked at each other in bewilderment.
Tie Xing looked at the calming sea of red spider lilies and the dimmed stone tablet again, his eyes dark. "Chase them! They can't get far! Notify all sentries and closely monitor all possible areas where they may appear!"
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