First encounter in childhood
"What should we do now..." Fang Jinghe and Yunti looked at each other.
"Send a message to Qianyu and ask her to come." An Luoyi said calmly to Yunti.
Yunti immediately responded, "Okay." She used her spiritual power to draw a sound transmission note and flew it out.
An Luoyi looked down at Xian Youlin and said secretly, "I will definitely save you."
Mu Qianyu rushed over after receiving the message, but Nanyuan Immortal Palace was far away and it would take time.
As dusk fell, Chongsheng's bones were freed from their restraints. An Luoyi and Yunti cremated his remains along with his mother's natal phoenix feather. The flames burned fiercely, devouring the sisters' only remaining lingering attachment to the world. In a trance, the three of them seemed to see the reappearance of Chongsheng and An Nanchi.
An Luoyi rushed forward as if she were a treasure, and the two sisters cried out in tears, "Dad, Mom."
Unfortunately, Chongsheng and Annanchi could not hear their daughters calling them. They walked hand in hand towards the mountain stream with deep affection, and then disappeared into the river along with the flowing water...
An Luoyi scattered his father's ashes and the remaining phoenix feathers into the stream. Yunti leaned against Fang Jinghe and cried inconsolably. Finally, the three of them kowtowed solemnly three times by the stream.
Mu Qianyu rushed to Jielin at dawn, and An Luoyi pulled her into the house and said, "Qianyu, I really don't know what to do."
An Luoyi looked visibly haggard, and it was obvious that he was overthinking. Mu Qianyu knew that the matter was of great importance and did not dare to delay.
Unexpectedly, Mu Qianyu shook her head repeatedly after looking at Xian Youlin. An Luoyi collapsed all of a sudden. She understood what the other party meant with just one look.
Yunti saw An Luoyi's pale face and felt a faint sense of unease in his heart. Fang Jinghe was watching anxiously from the side. He couldn't help but said, "What's going on? Tell me."
Mu Qianyu sighed and said, "His spiritual power is rapidly depleting. If this continues, he will die of spiritual power exhaustion."
Fang Jinghe slammed the table and said angrily: "It must be because of the black energy!"
"I heard from Yunti that this black energy is the original energy of the demon. If he doesn't want it to be eradicated..." Mu Qianyu said dejectedly, "I'm helpless this time..."
Yunti tried to say, "What if we send spiritual energy to Xianyoulin?"
Mu Qianyu reacted strongly and said, "No, the black energy of origin is very powerful and can devour everything. If we give it spiritual energy, it will not only be useless but will harm the person who is giving it spiritual energy."
"Is there no other way?" Fang Jinghe asked anxiously.
Mu Qianyu shook her head helplessly. Yunti embraced her sister and comforted her, "There must be another way. Let's think about it..."
An Luoyi remained silent, and the room fell into silence. Only the faint breathing of Xian Youlin could be heard.
"Luo Yi..." Xian Youlin called softly.
An Luoyi perked up and lay down beside the couch: "I'm here."
Xian Youlin said weakly: "Actually, I have a gift that I have always wanted to give you. I'm afraid that if I don't give it to you now, I will never have the chance again..."
"What is it?" An Luoyi's eyes were a little moist but he spoke softly while suppressing his trembling voice.
Xian Youlin took a chain sword from his waist. "I forged this from the tough scales of a monster. It has an ice element, making it perfect for you."
An Luoyi couldn't help sobbing: "You still remember this."
"Of course." Xian Youlin smiled with sweat on his forehead, "I will remember everything I promised you..."
"Why are you so stupid to block the black air for someone like me who is not worthy?" An Luoyi didn't know what to say.
"You are just not good at speaking. In my heart, you are the best person in the world." Xian Youlin encouraged her.
An Luoyi burst into tears: "No, I'm cold, boring, and inflexible. Why do you like me?"
Xian Youlin said with emotion: "I can't suppress my love for you. I fell in love with you at first sight, and I fell in love with you again... Meeting you is the happiest thing in my life. Why can't you be with me?"
"But I'm afraid! Before, I was afraid of the burden on my shoulders, and now I'm afraid of the outcome. You've seen what happened to my father and mother. I don't want to be separated from you, and I don't want to put you in a difficult position, so I want to strangle it in the cradle!" An Luoyi shouted loudly.
"If we have to give up because of fear, what can we do to succeed?" Xian Youlin's fox eyes drooped sadly, and when he looked up again, his eyes were full of warmth and tenderness. "I am willing to face difficulties with you, what about you?"
"I..." Xian Youlin's sincerity dispelled the fear in An Luoyi's heart, "I do."
Xian Youlin finally got his wish. He stood up and hugged An Luoyi: "Thank you, thank you for giving me this opportunity."
An Luoyi hugged back tightly, but unexpectedly Xian Youlin coughed up blood!
"Xian Youlin!" An Luoyi held his face in panic.
Blood continued to flow from the corner of his mouth and slid across An Luoyi's slender fingers. After coughing for a while, Xian Youlin fell into a deep coma.
An Luoyi held Mu Qianyu's arm and said tearfully, "Qianyu, please, think of another way! How can we save him?"
As An Luoyi's best friend, Mu Qianyu felt very sad when she thought about An Luoyi losing her lover. "Xiaoyi, it's not that I don't want to save her, I just don't have any other choice..."
Yunti and Fang Jinghe also felt bad.
At this moment, a piece of paper floated in from outside the door. Fang Jinghe took it, read it, and then tore it up and threw it on the ground: "Bah! What a thing!"
Yunti picked up the wrinkled letter and opened it. The contents were nothing short of fantastical and wishful thinking! The letter was signed by Fu Tan, who had actually threatened An Luoyi to marry him with Xian Youlin's life.
The Nine Heavens' upper realm is shattered, unable to care for the human world. The human world has long since become a purgatory, with constant war and countless lives destroyed. But Fu Tan feels that this is not enough. This resentment alone is not enough for him to absorb. He wants to transform the Three Realms into an endless purgatory! Then, there will be no place in this world that can hold him!
The first to be targeted was the Demon Realm. The Demon Lord had great ambitions in raising the Demon Child, but he didn't expect that in the end he would end up feeding the tiger with his own body... After his defeat in Zishui Pool, he was captured by Fu Tan, who imprisoned Fu Tan for half his life. Naturally, Fu Tan hated him, so Fu Tan absorbed the Demon Lord's spiritual power and made him suffer until death.
Fu Tan also visited the Demon Realm, where he unleashed a new wave of black energy, making it even more pervasive than before. Many Purple Phoenix members died from exhaustion, their spirits radiating into vengeful spirits, providing Fu Tan with strength. Over time, only a few Purple Phoenix members remained, and those who remained fled. The Demon Realm was now a deserted city, and Fu Tan used it as his base, using the vengeful spirits of the entire demonic realm as both sustenance and weaponry.
Yunti was silent for a long time after reading the letter. An Luoyi noticed that her expression was not right and asked sadly, "What did it say?"
Yunti stammered, "Futan is so delusional that he actually wants to marry you."
Xian Youlin was already in this state. Yunti didn't want to trouble her sister anymore, so she concealed Fu Tan's threat. She looked at Fang Jinghe and signaled him not to say anything. Fang Jinghe understood and said nothing more.
An Luoyi was stunned at first and then refused decisively: "I won't marry him!"
As Yunti expected, her sister would not agree at all. However, she was still curious about how the two knew each other, so she asked, "Sister, how did you and Fu Tan meet?"
Mu Qianyu was also very confused and waited for An Luoyi to explain in detail.
An Luoyi recalled her childhood memories and now it seemed like a bad fate. She said to Mu Qianyu, "Actually, you have seen him."
"Oh?" Mu Qianyu couldn't remember this person at all.
That was when An Luoyi was a child...
"Where did this kid come from? He's so dirty, he looks like he's been rolling in the mud!"
"Look at him, he looks so delicate, he must be a little flower demon! Otherwise, why haven't we seen him before?"
"Hey, hey, hey, you're not right. I think he's about the same age as the Saint. He might be a bastard!"
"Hush... How dare you! Not to mention that this is the Immortal Lord's Royal Garden, how could there be such a filthy monster? Your talk about a bastard child is even more outrageous. Be careful if the Immortal Lord hears it, or you'll be killed!"
Several cleaning immortal servants were whispering around a little boy, who was sucking his thumb with a confused look on his face.
Someone poked him with a broomstick, "Hey little guy, which immortal family are you from?"
The boy said nothing but just looked at them with childlike eyes.
"Looks like he's still mute?"
An elegant and fresh flower in the garden attracted the boy's attention. He slowly crawled over to it. The immortal servants thought that the boy wanted to touch it, but he broke the whole flower with such force!
The immortal servants screamed and pushed the boy away: "What are you doing! This is a flower that the Saint carefully cultivated for months and gave to the Immortal Lord!"
"You little devil, you're going to kill us!"
Bad attitudes and harsh words followed one after another, but the boy didn't take it seriously and instead enjoyed this chaotic and resentful atmosphere...
"What are you doing?" The person who came in had fluttering clothes and exuded a quiet and elegant air. From An Luoyi's perspective, it seemed that several fairy servants were bullying a boy. She had just come home from school from her mother's house and passed by the Imperial Garden. She wanted to see the Yinghua she raised, but she didn't expect to run into the fairy servants bullying the boy.
An Luoyi rushed forward and pulled the boy out from under the encirclement of the immortal servants. She asked with a protective look, "What happened?"
"Saint." Several immortal servants saluted with lingering fear.
The boy stared at the girl standing in front of him, feeling confused and at the same time, he had an indescribable feeling in his heart.
"I asked you what's wrong? Why are you bullying him?"
A fairy servant knelt hurriedly and said, "Saint, you have misunderstood! It was this boy who broke the Yinghua flower you gave to the Fairy Lord. We were so anxious that we spoke to him."
An Luoyi turned around and asked the boy softly, "Is that so?"
Admitting his wrongdoing was no big deal to the boy, but he somehow managed to deny it. Squeezing out tears, he said, "No, they 'accidentally' picked the flowers, and they were afraid my sister would blame them, so they insisted on saying it was me... I didn't admit it, so they hit me."
"Hey, kid! You're talking nonsense, it was obviously you who did it on purpose!" The fairy servant's eyes almost popped out after hearing this. She stood up excitedly and was about to touch the boy.
The boy hid behind An Luoyi and didn't dare to stick his head out.
"How dare you!" An Luoyi shouted coldly.
The immortal servant stopped and knelt down in fear.
The boy didn't look like he was lying. Perhaps the immortal servants had been careless... But... it was just one flower. There was no need to make such a fuss. She could just plant another one for her mother. An Luo thought for a long time and finally said, "It's just a flower. Just pick it. It's all gone."
The immortal servants had no courage to speak out, but fortunately the saint did not blame them. They bowed and left in disappointment.
"Thank you!" Mu Qianyu ran over happily.
"Qianyu!" An Luoyi was extremely surprised to see Mu Qianyu. "Is your master here to see Mother?"
"Yes." Mu Qianyu said happily, "Master actually allowed me to come to the Immortal Lord to practice with you!"
"Really? Your master is always stern to me, but he would agree to let you become his disciple?" An Luoyi said in surprise.
Mu Qianyu didn't expect this either: "I'm wondering too, but this is a good thing!"
An Luoyi smiled happily and nodded, "Indeed, we can see each other every day from now on."
A few years ago, the Great Sima and the Immortal Lord often visited, and Mu Qianyu also went to see them. Every time she saw An Luoyi, she always looked unapproachable, like a little old man. It was this kind of her that piqued Mu Qianyu's interest, so Mu Qianyu often sneaked out to tease her, and after a few visits, the two of them became familiar with each other.
The boy hiding behind An Luoyi secretly glanced at Mu Qianyu. For some reason... he felt a little annoyed seeing the two of them being so close. At that time, he didn't know that this emotion was called "unhappiness".
Mu Qianyu saw the boy looking around and asked, "What is this?"
An Luoyi then remembered the boy. After talking for so long, she still didn't know him. "By the way, whose fairy child are you?"
The boy poked his head as if he didn't understand what she was talking about.
Mu Qianyu complained: "Little guy, don't you even know who you are?"
He still didn't speak. An Luoyi thought he was afraid, so he said to Mu Qianyu, "Forget it. He's dirty all over. I'll take him to change his clothes first."
"Okay." The boy was indeed a little dirty, even Mu Qianyu couldn't stand it, "Then we'll see you tomorrow."
Her rigid master finally agreed to let her go out. Mu Qianyu was so happy that her tail was about to stand up, so she didn't take the boy to heart. When she left, her face was still filled with a happy smile.
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