Many things are made very clear without needing to be stated.

She looked at Xie Changji, waiting for him to back off or hesitate.

But the other side kept moving forward.

"you……"

Before Hua Xiangwan could finish her words, he suddenly raised his hands in the wind and snow and pulled her into his arms.

He was half a head taller than her. He put one hand behind her head and the other hand on her waist. With her clothes hanging down, he held her tightly.

Warmth invaded her whole body and she stood there in a daze.

Her nose was on his shoulder, and she could clearly smell the cold pine fragrance on him. Her eyes looked over his shoulder at the white snow, which formed a sharp contrast with the warmth he gave her.

"Not every moment has meaning, but right now, I am here."

His voice was in her ears: "So, don't laugh."

Hearing this, Hua Xiangwan narrowed her eyes slightly. Only then did she realize the true meaning of everything he had just said.

He has a pair of eyes that can see through the world.

See clearly her joys and sorrows, see clearly her likes and dislikes.

So, he also saw that she kept smiling while listening to Yusheng talking about the past, even though the wound deep in her heart had already rotted beyond recognition.

He was not trying to move forward, he was simply trying to soothe her emotions.

"Wanwan," his cold voice carried a unique gentleness that was hard for ordinary people to hear. His tone was so light that it almost drowned out all the emotions. "It's all in the past. Let's move on."

After these words came out, she didn't know why, but she felt that the waves that Yu Sheng's words had stirred up in her heart seemed to calm down in an instant.

The memories and pain those words brought up seemed to be gently caressed by a pair of hands, gently stretching and flowing to another direction.

She stood in the other's arms, somewhat at a loss. After a long while, she finally smiled: "You are... really a weird person."

As she spoke, she raised her hand to pull away Xie Changji's hand. Just as she was about to say something, she felt a powerful aura pressing down on her from above.

The ground around them was shaking. Hua Xiangwan turned around abruptly. Xie Changji grabbed her hand and led her up.

The ground they were standing on suddenly collapsed. Hua Xiangwan looked up and saw a huge face appear in the sky. The face seemed to be covered by clouds and it was screaming wildly above: "Hua Xiangwan, where is my son?!"

"Palace Master Wen?"

Hua Xiangwan heard the sound, raised her head and showed a shocked expression.

After a moment, she seemed to realize who was coming, and said anxiously: "Palace Master Wen, you are here? Please save Shaoqing quickly, he just sent me a message saying that Minghuo wanted to kill him, and then disappeared!"

"Nonsense!"

Wen Rong was cursing from above, and Hua Xiangwan hurriedly took out the sound transmission jade talisman. She hesitated and glanced at Xie Changji beside her, then handed it forward and said through gritted teeth, "This is what Shaoqing left for me just now. The content should not be known to others. Please listen to the content of the sound transmission privately, Palace Master Wen."

“Bring it here!”

As soon as Wen Rong heard the words, a huge force came from the sky. The jade token flew high up, passed through the clouds, and disappeared.

Behind the clouds was the inner hall of Qingle Palace. Wen Rong took the jade token, raised her hand and waved it, then she heard the conversation between Wen Shaoqing and Ming Huo.

"My mother lit the lamp of life for me. If you kill me, my mother will definitely kill you."

"I killed you?" A dark and confused laugh came from the sound transmission talisman. "In the Goddess Mountain, you coveted the wife of a powerful man in the Tribulation Crossing Stage. Who killed you? Why did I kill you? Drowning is where you belong."

"Awan, save me! Minghuo wants to kill me!"

Wen Shaoqing's voice suddenly stopped. Wen Rong tightly grasped the jade token of voice transmission. Her eyes were red and she gritted her teeth without saying a word.

Confused...

Ming Huo, this bastard, the Yin Yang Sect has always been under the jurisdiction of Qingyue Palace, but he was helped to rise to power by Qin Yunyi. She knew that Ming Huo's heart was not in Qingyue, but when she thought that Wen Shaoqing and Qin Yunyi would finally become a family after getting married, she did not impose more restrictions.

I didn't expect that he had such courage.

Hua Xiangwan knew that the sound transmission jade talisman had a great impact on Wen Rong. She pretended to be anxious and waited for Wen Rong. After a long time, Wen Rong spoke again: "Why did he transmit sound to you?"

"I gave him a sound transmission note," Hua Xiangwan hesitated, glanced at Xie Changji beside him, and said carefully, "He crushed the sound transmission note, so I knew something happened to him. Palace Master Wen, how is he now?"

She raised her head, her tone full of restrained anxiety: "I have been looking for him for a long time and couldn't find him. Now Minghuo is gone too. He..."

"He's dead!"

Wen Rong said excitedly: "The soul lamp is extinguished, he died of drowning!"

Hearing this, Hua Xiangwan's eyes widened instantly, and her legs went limp and she was about to collapse. Xie Changji was quick to support her and couldn't help but look at her one more time.

Tears quickly filled Xiang Wan's eyes, and she trembled and said, "He...how could he..."

"Tell me clearly," Wen Rong stretched out her hand from the clouds and grabbed Hua Xiangwan aggressively, "How did he die? You..."

"Get lost!"

Before Wen Rong got close, Xie Changji shouted loudly, and the sword intent spread out from his body, instantly forming a sword formation in front, blocking between the huge hand and Hua Xiangwan.

He looked up coldly, staring at the huge face in the sky: "Don't touch her."

"No..." Hua Xiangwan seemed to have just realized what Xie Changji was doing. She hugged Xie Changji tightly, as if to hold him tightly, and said excitedly, "Xie Changji, don't treat Palace Master Wen like this! Come to me if you have anything to say! She is Shaoqing's mother, don't! Don't hurt her!"

Xie Changji was stopped by Hua Xiangwan and froze in his tracks. Hua Xiangwan raised her head and looked at Wen Rong: "Palace Master Wen! Please leave quickly! Don't worry about me!"

Even though she was experiencing the pain of losing her son, Wen Rong still choked up when she saw Hua Xiangwan who had no idea what was going on.

Xie Changji looked at her coldly. Hua Xiangwan seemed to be desperately trying to hold on to Xie Changji. She kept shaking her head and shouting, "Palace Master Wen, hurry up!"

Wen Ren waited for a moment, knowing that Xie Changji would not be able to question Hua Xiangwan alone, so he just said, "You'd better explain it clearly!"

After saying this, she withdrew the spell and disappeared into the air.

When everything around him quieted down, Xie Changji turned around calmly, looked at Hua Xiangwan who was hugging him tightly and acting with her eyes closed, and pursed his lips.

"Palace Master Wen!!"

"She's gone."

Xie Changji couldn't help but remind her. Hua Xiangwan paused. She raised her tearful eyes and looked around. After confirming that Wen Rong had left, she breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, and wiped her face: "I was scared to death."

Xie Changji said nothing, he just looked at him calmly.

Hua Xiangwan noticed his gaze and raised her head: "What are you looking at?"

Xie Changji hesitated for a moment, then reached out and carefully touched her eyes.

There was real water vapor under his fingertips. He frowned slightly and said, "It's real."

"Of course," Hua Xiangwan thought he was ignorant, hid the Blood Order and the Jade Sea Pearl, turned around and walked out, "Do you think I have lived by fighting and killing for two hundred years?"

Xie Changji walked forward silently, held her hand, and poured his spiritual power into her body. Hua Xiangwan glanced at him and smiled: "Now that I don't have a sword in my hand, I have to use other methods. You don't think I'm mean, do you?"

Xie Changji shook his head, then thought for a moment and asked, "Looking for love?"

Xunqing was her natal sword back then.

Hua Xiangwan paused, a little surprised: "Why are you asking this?"

"It's inconvenient to ask."

Xie Changji explained that the Sword of Questioning the Heart was, after all, the sword that governed the realm of life and death, and it was rarely unsheathed at will. Hua Xiangwan understood immediately after hearing this. He and she had made a blood pact in the past, and although she no longer needed Xunqing, he was still recognized by Xunqing.

Xunqing is like his other natal sword, which makes her somewhat dissatisfied. She grumbles: "You have taken all the advantage."

Xie Changji didn't say anything. Hua Xiangwan sighed and said, "Well, I'll put it somewhere. I'll get it for you when I'm on my way there some other day."

"Um."

The two talked as they walked down the mountain.

The inexplicable emotion just now disappeared in silence, and I don’t know where it went.

Hua Xiangwan deliberately didn't mention it, and Xie Changji also remained silent.

After walking for a while, they reached the foot of the mountain and saw the people kneeling on the ground, weeping and bowing.

They have all returned to their original appearance, kneeling on the ground and bowing to the Goddess Mountain.

Hua Xiangwan looked back and saw that the Goddess Mountain had almost completely collapsed. She couldn't help shaking her head: "The Goddess is gone, how pitiful."

"And Dao Zong."

Xie Changji reminded that Yunsheng Town was originally under the jurisdiction of Dao Zong, and Dao Zong would not ignore them whether they were protected by the Goddess Mountain or not.

Hua Xiangwan thought about it and nodded, "That's right."

As they were talking, the two of them came down the mountain and randomly found an inn.

While Xie Changji was making the bed, Hua Xiangwan briefly explained the situation to Cui Niao and Yu Gu. Yu Gu paused for a moment and then said softly, "Ming Huo's whereabouts are unknown. I will first spread the news that the blood order is with Ming Huo. Ming Huo is the leader of the Yin Yang Sect. Wen Rong will definitely go to the Yin Yang Sect to ask for punishment. I'm afraid Qing Le Palace will not be able to calm down for a while."

"Um."

Hua Xiangwan knocked on the table and said, "I'll continue looking for the blood order. Call me if you need anything."

"Okay, then you and Chang Ji should be careful."

Yu Gu gave a few instructions and then withdrew her consciousness from the bird. The bird flapped its wings and flew away. Hua Xiangwan thought for a moment, lowered her head and began to write a letter to Wen Rong, briefly describing what happened at Shennu Mountain.

The only thing she was careless about was that after Wu Li rebelled, she saved Wen Shaoqing, and Wen Shaoqing asked her to murder Xie Changji and promised to become the Demon Queen. As a result, Xie Changji did not drink her wine, and then she received news that Wen Shaoqing was asking for help.

Finally, she wrote some nonsense such as she absolutely did not believe that Wen Shaoqing was dead and she must find him to express her infatuation, and then sent it to Wen Rong.

After she finished writing this, she turned around and saw Xie Changji had already made the bed and was sitting at the table making tea.

Hua Xiangwan watched his movements and realized that he seemed to have not meditated for a long time. She couldn't help but be curious: "Why don't you meditate?"

"When I went downstairs, I saw someone making tea," Xie Changji said calmly, "so I borrowed one and came up."

"What I mean is," Hua Xiangwan stood up and sat across from him, "you used to meditate and practice all the time, why are you getting lazier lately?"

"I am practicing."

Xie Changji explained, and Hua Xiangwan raised an eyebrow: "What are you practicing? How to make tea?"

"Um."

Xie Changji answered in a serious tone, which made Hua Xiangwan curious: "Why is your practice of the Heart Sword so strange?"

"Because the laws of all things are originally established on all living things." Xie Changji spoke slowly, and the sound of gurgling water filled the room. "Only by entering the world and experiencing human nature can one understand the laws governing the operation of all things in this world. In the past, I was too self-contained. I talked about leaving the world before entering it. How could I truly transcend it?"

"So you are entering the world now?" Hua Xiangwan propped her chin up and tapped the table, "and then come out of the world?"

As she spoke, she was a little surprised: "Back then, you were not yet considered to be in the secular world?"

As soon as these words came out, Xie Changji stopped moving.

The overly cruel ending kept appearing in his mind. He held the handle of the tea for a long time before whispering, "I am trapped in this world."

"So you will return to the realm of life and death in the future, right?"

Hua Xiangwan is careless.

The hot water on the small stove was boiling, and Xie Changji lowered his eyes slightly.

Hua Xiangwan thought he wouldn't answer, but after a while, she heard him say, "I can't go back."

Hua Xiangwan was startled, and the boiling water knocked the lid of the pot open. Xie Changji calmly fetched water, brewed tea, and pushed the tea to Hua Xiangwan: "Try it."

Hua Xiangwan finally came back to his senses and nodded after thinking about it.

Xie Changji took a sip of tea and said slowly, "You didn't take the dragon hunting disk."

"Well," Hua Xiangwan thought casually, thinking about something else, "He's dead. Whoever has the Dragon Hunting Disk is the murderer."

"How do we find the Demon Lord's Blood Order next?"

When Hua Xiangwan heard Xie Changji mention the serious matter, she became excited and immediately laughed: "As long as we get a piece of the Demon Lord's blood order, it will be easy to find."

"oh?"

"The Blood Order is a whole after all. Even if it is divided into pieces, they will sense each other. We should be able to find it by following the piece in our hand."

Xie Changji nodded upon hearing this and didn't say much.

The two of them sat in the room, drinking tea quietly.

Through the window, the snow-capped mountains in the distance were exceptionally bright in the moonlight. Hua Xiangwan then realized that the room had always been warm. The snow-capped mountains outside seemed like a painting and did not affect the room at all.

She looked for a long time and finally felt a little tired. She stretched, stood up and walked into the house: "I'm going to sleep first."

Xie Changji nodded, and Hua Xiangwan entered the room. She lay on the bed, hung the Bi Hai Pearl around her neck, put it inside her clothes, and then closed her eyes.

This has been her habit for many years. Whenever she feels like she is going to have a nightmare, she takes out the blue sea pearl that can calm her mind.

Xie Changji drank the tea he had made outside the house, went to the bathroom to wash himself, turned off the lights, and then returned to the bed.

He did not go to bed immediately, but sat quietly beside her. He raised his hand and gently stroked her long hair, and a blue light flew into her forehead.

Hua Xiangwan completely relaxed and seemed to be in a deep sleep. Seeing her sleeping soundly, he pulled her hand in front of him and stroked her wrist.

Blood flowed from Hua Xiangwan's wrist. He observed the amount of blood. After a moment, he raised his hand to press on Hua Xiangwan's wound, quickly wrote a spell, and then raised his hand to stroke his own wrist, closing the two wounds.

His blood quickly entered Hua Xiangwan's body through the spell. After waiting for a while, he realized that it was about time, so he took his hands away, raised his hands and wiped the wounds with magic light at their wrists. The wounds disappeared instantly, as if nothing had happened.

Then he quickly cleaned up all the bloodstained items, restored everything to its original state, and then returned to bed.

The blood loss made him a little tired, but it was no big deal for him.

He hugged Hua Xiangwan as usual, poured his spiritual power into her body, and raised his hand to hold hers.

Just holding the back of her hand for a moment, he noticed that she seemed to be holding something in her hand on her chest.

He had never explored it in the past, but at that moment, he reached out and touched the object in her hand as if possessed by a ghost.

The smooth sphere is hot and a bit scorching.

He recognized it almost instantly.

It's the Jade Sea Pearl.

The Jade Sea Pearl has the effect of calming the mind and focusing the spirit. She had not worn it before, but she wore it tonight.

He stared at the bead in her hand for a long time. He tried to take it away, but after hesitating for a moment, he finally stopped.

He raised his eyes and looked at her face. Seeing her calm expression, he hesitated. After a moment, he thought about it, then bent down and kissed her forehead.

"Good dream."

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and held hers, and together they grasped the Jade Sea Pearl. He lay down behind her, held her in his arms, and closed his eyes.

He felt the circulation of her spiritual power, the flow of her blood, and the beating of her heart.

He knew clearly that all of this was given by him.

He fed her with blood every day, day after day, and finally one day, he reshaped her golden elixir for her, reconnected her tendons and veins for her, and even her blood vessels were flowing with his blood.

Then she can pick up again all the things she has lost, her love, her soul-locking lamp, everything she has.

Even if he died, her flesh and blood would be inseparably linked to him.

This thought filled his heart, and he was like a tangled vine, wrapping around the back of her hand holding the Jade Sea Pearl, silently entangling her entire body.

Hua Xiangwan slept in a daze all night.

In her dream, she seemed to have returned to her youth and met Xie Changji. On the second Chinese Valentine's Day, Shen Yichen came to find her. In the past, they always spent the Chinese Valentine's Day together. She had originally made an appointment with Xie Changji, but in the early morning she saw Yaoguang looking for him, and she felt a little unhappy.

She thought that if he didn't take the initiative to ask, she would not spend this Chinese Valentine's Day with him this year.

But she waited the whole morning and Xie Changji didn't say a word. He seemed completely unaware that it was a festival and he was going out to exorcise evil spirits for the people.

She was feeling depressed, and just as Shen Yichen came to ask her out, she went out with Shen Yichen as usual.

Yunlai was bustling and prosperous. Shen Yichen led her and bought her lanterns along the way. She was having fun and even forgot about the unhappy things.

After chatting with Shen Yichen for a long time, a girl next to them suddenly screamed: "Ah, fireworks."

Hearing this, she turned around with a smile, and fireworks suddenly exploded. Between the grand fireworks and the bright lights, she saw the young man holding a lantern like hers, standing quietly not far away.

He was out of tune with this mundane world, silent as snow. When she turned around and met his eyes, she vaguely saw a hint of panic in his eyes.

However, he quickly adjusted his mood, nodded at her, and turned and left as if he was just passing by.

He was holding the same beauty lamp as hers and walking against the crowd. She tried to hold back, but couldn't help shouting, "Hey, Xie Changji."

The boy paused, and she asked tentatively, "Want to go shopping together?"

He turned his back to her for a long time before speaking harshly, "No need. I have to go back to meditate."

Having said that, he walked away.

Hua Xiangwan looked at his back, and somehow, she felt reluctant. She turned around to look at Shen Yichen beside her and said hurriedly, "Yichen, I'm leaving now after shopping here today. Please bring back the things you bought. Thank you."

"Okay," Shen Yichen nodded and instructed, "Come back early."

Hua Xiangwan waved her hand, caught up with the young man holding a lantern, raised her hands and clapped: "Thank you, Changji."

Xie Changji turned around in surprise, and Hua Xiangwan smiled: "Is there any day that is not good for meditation? Today is Chinese Valentine's Day, come and go shopping with me."

“No need…”

"Let's go," Hua Xiangwan pulled him over and started walking through the crowd, "I just went to a glutinous rice dumpling restaurant, it was delicious, I'll take you there."

Xie Changji pursed his lips tightly and followed her through the crowd.

When they arrived at the Tangyuan shop, she pulled him to sit down and called the boss loudly: "Boss, a bowl of sesame filling."

"Hey," the boss smiled when he saw Xie Changji, "Sir, I just told you that you should have a bowl. It's such a pity that you haven't had a bowl in such a long time."

Hearing this, Xie Changji blushed for some reason. He stood up and wanted to leave, but Hua Xiangwan grabbed him and said hurriedly, "Why are you leaving? Eat one pill first."

Xie Changji was pulled by her, unable to move forward or backward. After hesitating for a long time, he finally sat down.

The boss brought the glutinous rice balls up, and Hua Xiangwan handed him a spoon, as if teaching a child: "Here, have you tried it?"

Xie Changji nodded, lowered his eyes and ate the glutinous rice balls quietly. Hua Xiangwan propped up her chin and looked at him.

He was handsome, and usually had an aloof, ethereal air about him. But now, as he was eating glutinous rice balls, he finally looked more like a human being.

She watched quietly. Xie Changji didn't look up and ate the dumplings quietly. She smiled and asked, "Is it delicious?"

Xie Changji nodded and reminded her: "It's too late, go back."

"There are many more."

Hua Xiangwan gave him the money and pulled him up. He stood stiffly as she dragged him into the crowd.

"Xie Changji, I have everything," she said, holding his hand, nonchalantly, "the only thing I lack is someone to accompany me."

"You have a lot of company."

Xie Changji's voice was very faint.

"But not everyone can be seen by me when I turn around," Hua Xiangwan laughed, "I have everything, but I still hope that when I turn around, I can see someone standing behind me."

Xie Changji turned to look at her, and there was a hint of longing in Hua Xiangwan's eyes.

"Then I know in my heart that I am not walking alone in this world."

Xie Changji said nothing, he just looked into her eyes calmly.

The moment the fireworks exploded again, his voice was muffled by the fireworks.

He said, Yeah.

The dream was very dull. When Hua Xiangwan woke up, she was still a little dazed.

So much time had passed that she didn't know whether the dream was real or not. She also didn't know whether the last "hmm" was real or just a dream.

But she didn't investigate further. She turned around and looked around. Xie Changji had gone somewhere, and Xiaobai was lying in front of the window, lazily basking in the sun.

She lay on the bed with her whole body stretched out like a big character, feeling a little dazed.

Guessing that Xie Changji was probably going to cook, she stood up, took out the Demon Lord's Blood Order, raised her hand and drew a search array below the Demon Lord's Blood Order. The Demon Lord's Blood Order quickly began to spin, and when Xie Changji pushed the door and entered the room, the Demon Lord's Blood Order just stopped.

Looking at the direction it was pointing, Hua Xiangwan was a little surprised: "No way..."

"Eat."

Xie Changji knelt in front of the table and called Hua Xiangwan.

Hua Xiangwan didn't move. She stared at the Demon Lord's Blood Order and frowned, "Impossible."

As soon as she finished speaking, her chest suddenly shook. This was a reminder that the defensive talisman she left for Yun Qingxu was triggered.

"Oh no," she stood up hurriedly, "Something happened to Yun Qingxu!"

Having said that, she jumped out of the window, called out "Xiaobai", and left in a hurry.

Xie Changji looked at the glutinous rice balls in front of him. After a moment, he and Yu Jian followed Hua Xiangwan, holding the glutinous rice balls.

Hua Xiangwan turned around and saw Xie Changji holding a bowl in his hand. She immediately knew that this man was getting angry. Without saying anything, she rode on Xiaobai and stretched out her hand to him: "Give me the bowl!"

Xie Changji shook his head: "I'll choke."

"I can't!"

Hua Xiangwan insisted, thinking that it was a bit unbecoming for Xie Changji to carry breakfast to rescue people, but the other party did not move. After a while, the two of them rushed to the dense forest on the outskirts of the city.

There was a loud "bang" and I saw Yun Qingxu being blown away by a talisman.

Hua Xiangwan hurriedly stopped Baihu, and before she could say anything, she saw a bowl of glutinous rice balls being delivered to her.

Hua Xiangwan choked, and Xie Changji looked at her calmly: "You eat first, I'll go save people."

In just that instant, Yun Qingxu was knocked to the ground again.

Hua Xiangwan was anxious, so she quickly took the dumplings and told Xie Changji, "Go!"

Xie Changji nodded and walked forward slowly. When the third magic circle was about to fall on Yun Qingxu, he turned around and looked in the direction where the magic circle came from.

The lightsaber sped towards where it came from, and Hua Xiangwan heard Qin Yunshang shouting in the distance: "It's Xie Changji, run!"

After saying this, Hua Xiangwan felt that someone in the distance had used up all his belongings and disappeared in an instant.

She nearly choked to death on the spot after failing to swallow a mouthful of glutinous rice balls.

Qin Yunshang, this bastard, runs too fast.