Chapter 311 "All the things in the past."...
After these words were spoken, everyone's eyes naturally focused on Tai Hao, and Wen Yu was no exception.
She was a little confused. It was Fengdu Jun who started the conversation, but why was Taihao the one who had to explain?
That day in the Nether Palace, the two of them were like this, talking mysteriously about something.
After going around in circles, it seems like I'm back to where I started...
The center of the earth is hot, humid and airtight, with steaming water vapor lingering inside, making certain secret thoughts even more shameful.
A deep sense of defeat suddenly washed over Wen Yu. She remained expressionless, yet her heart was already struggling. "Please, Emperor."
Tai Hao didn't take Fengdu's disrespect to heart. He was only worried about what Xiaoyu would think. "Xiaoyu, the ghost city of Youdu and the underground spiritual vein are already before us."
Wen Yu frowned and could only see Taihao's lips opening and closing, and then she heard him continue speaking.
"The so-called Fengdu Taimu is the Lord of Ghost City and the King of Nether City."
Before he finished speaking, everyone was shocked, but the one who was most shocked was definitely Wen Yu.
After all, she had worked in the Reincarnation Department for more than three hundred years and thought she knew a lot about the ghost town.
Unexpectedly, her immediate superior, Fengdu Jun and her predecessor, Mengpo Taiwu, turned out to be the Ghost City Lord and Youdu King, whom she once thought were out of reach.
Since the two of them enjoy the mountains, rivers, seas and boundless land veins, why do they both stay in a small place like the underworld?
"The Lord of Ghost City is named Zhaoqing, and the King of Nether City is Jiang Qi." Tai Hao's head was spinning, but he could only continue to explain, "Laihe and Anzhi are their given names."
"It's me, Anzhi." The mound suddenly sank into the ground, and when it rose again, it was right in front of Wen Yu. "Yuan Que."
The stirred-up dust and gravel made Wen Yu involuntarily take a half step back.
Without waiting for Wen Yu to speak, Yu Chang and Zang Lingji came up from the left and right guards in tacit understanding, and were very wary of the person in front of them.
When An Zhi saw this, he looked down at himself and realized how unruly he looked.
What I saw was not the skin and limbs I had imagined, but instead gravel, stones, dirt and grass roots, which was just dirty and scary.
"I..." She seemed very embarrassed, as if she had just realized her own strangeness. "Don't be surprised, I, I have become one with the earth veins..."
Perhaps because he was afraid of scaring Wen Yu, An Zhi kept backing away, refusing to stop until he was ten steps away.
Even until her whole body hit Fengdu who was coming towards her from behind, she was still fleeing to the side in panic.
"Anzhi!" Zhao Qing felt a pang of pain in his heart and raised his sleeve to cover most of her body. "It's okay, it's okay. If anyone thinks it's not nice, I'll gouge out his eyes."
He is still like this, seemingly majestic, but actually childish and beyond measure.
Even though he said that, Jiang Qi didn't dodge. Instead, he leaned forward slightly under the cover of his sleeves and asked Wen Yumi, "Did I scare you?"
In thousands of years and in just a moment of time, she never thought that she would lose even her own appearance.
Fortunately, God returned Yuan Que to her.
"The land nurtures mountains and hills, and crops grow in all seasons." Wen Yu breathed a sigh of relief, feeling ashamed of his subconscious retreat. "What's there to be afraid of?"
Wen Yu took a few steps forward to face Jiang Qi, and tentatively plucked off half a blade of grass from her head. "It looks very nice."
I said this not to save her eyes.
"You are still so good..." Jiang Qi's eyes were hot, but no tears flowed. After all, at this moment she was still a pair of fleshless rocks.
Wen Yu pursed her lips slightly, thinking she was Yuan Que again, "So, you are the King of Youdu, the Earth Mother..."
"Yes, you wait for me--" Jiang Qi concentrated and tried several times, and huge spiritual power vibrated and floated beside her.
However, it could only transform into the shape of the upper body, while the lower body was still made of earth and rocks, connected to the earth veins.
It seems that she has no way to leave Gouwu Mountain. Jiang Qi thought for a moment, but turned around and didn't want to dwell on it.
As long as I can meet Yuan Que, even for a moment.
"Look." Jiang Qi brushed Zhao Qing away and walked around in front of Wen Yu.
Being kind and benevolent, with a kind face, is a very dignified appearance.
It was clearly the first time they met, but Wen Yu felt that the man looked more and more familiar.
"I've seen your statues in both the Temple of the Gods and the Temple of Hou Tu Niangniang." Even though she was prepared, Wen Yu was still astonished. "You really are... the Earth Mother."
No wonder, no wonder the temple fair of Hou Tu Niangniang in the mortal world is so decadent.
She was now trapped in Gouwu Mountain, and having been away from her position for a long time, she naturally had no time to care for the people. Without anyone to support her, her incense offerings became sparse over time.
"There's no need to be polite between you and me." Jiang Qi could feel his limbs stiffen as soon as he moved, perhaps because he hadn't moved for too long.
But she still exhausted all her strength to hold Wen Yu's hands, "Just call me Anzhi."
"..." Wen Yu looked into her eyes and tried several times but still couldn't open his mouth, "You...why are you here?"
"Yuan Que..." Jiang Qi was silent for a while, then asked tentatively, "Have you forgotten everything that happened in the past?"
She was met with endless silence, and the answer seemed self-evident.
Zang Ling's eyes flickered as he glanced deeply at Jiang Qi, who was now filled with anxiety.
This person also recognized Yuan Que.
She knew it wasn't a mistake, because Wen Yu and Yuan Que were exactly alike in appearance, figure, and temperament.
If she was the only one who had mistakenly identified someone, and now there was also the Earth Mother Jiang Qi, Wen Yu should have thought...
"I am... Wen Yu." Wen Yu withdrew her hand calmly and bowed to Jiang Qi in front of her. "This little immortal pays homage to the Queen Mother of the Earth."
According to her rank in the Eastern Heaven, it would have been difficult for her to meet the Earth Mother if she were not in Gouwu Mountain.
Anyway, it seems like she made the profit?
"You..." Jiang Qi stared at Wen Yu with complicated eyes. Seeing the unfamiliarity in her eyes, he could only pinch his empty palms.
Regardless of whether it was Yuan Que or Wen Yu, if she asked, she would always answer, "When I first left the underworld, I originally wanted to travel around the world and roam the world."
After all, although she was the nominal King of Youdu, she had not traveled to every inch of the country or seen every piece of land.
In the past, she... did many wrong things and even implicated Yuan Que.
Since you have decided to leave the Reincarnation Department, you must go far away and find yourself again on the road.
"But I didn't expect that when I passed Gouwu Mountain, I would find that the spiritual veins here were unstable and even showed signs of overflowing." Jiang Qi recounted the whole incident without hiding anything. "So I closed my spiritual consciousness here and transformed myself into a mountain to suppress it."
But she didn't expect that she would become one with Gouwu Mountain.
Did Yuan Que have the same experience when he sacrificed his divine power and perished here?
Limbs are stiff and all five senses are lost.
Seeing his hands covered with stone patterns again, Jiang Qi knew that he could not maintain this look for long. He wanted to say a few more words to Wen Yu, but just as he was about to open his mouth, Zhao Qing put his arm around his shoulders from behind.
"This is why I couldn't find you even after searching the three realms and six paths." His tone was sullen, filled with only regret. "You just... don't want to see me. You're just avoiding me."
Zhaoqing clenched his hands into fists in his sleeves, but he only dared to hold Anzhi's hand loosely, fearing that she would break free.
"Anzhi..." He moved inch by inch, carefully burying his head in the crook of her shoulder.
Jiang Qi's body stiffened, and he answered with a trembling voice, "Yes."
Her frankness and openness made Zhaoqing silent. He had prepared a lot of words to vent his anger, but now he couldn't say them.
The atmosphere froze for a moment——
Wen Yu turned her head away slightly, not facing Jiang Qi and Zhao Qing directly.
She finally realized that Fengdu Jun...the Lord of Ghost City really liked to talk from behind like this.
"But doesn't Gouwu Mountain have a barrier..." Wen Yu wanted to ask Jiang Qi how he got into Gouwu Mountain, but then she thought it was only natural. "When was the barrier broken?"
What if the weak spot in the barrier was the work of the Earth Mother? This seemed to explain how the Roe Owl had left Gouwu Mountain and ended up in Jiangyang.
"The barrier is broken?" Jiang Qi subconsciously glanced at Tai Hao, who was silent beside him. "I did tear a small hole in it that day in order to enter the mountain, but I immediately repaired it."
When she arrived here that day and saw Wen Zhong, she knew who had set up the barrier. However, she had no idea how Tai Hao, who had always been located in the east, came to Gouwu Mountain in Zhongzhou.
But some people seemed to be completely oblivious to her little movements. Their eyes were glued firmly to Wen Yu, not wanting to move even an inch away.
Jiang Qi breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he didn't care.
She wasn't quite sure about this person's temperament, but she had heard a little about it. Her fellow immortals could only describe him in four words:
A loner.
It seemed that looking across the Eastern Heaven, only Lord Ju Mang could speak to him, and no one else could hear him.
"I didn't expect that as my consciousness became unstable and my magic power weakened, the barrier would also be affected." At this point, Jiang Qi also realized the seriousness of the problem. "Those in the mountains... didn't escape?"
"It's been resolved, don't worry, God." Wen Yu naturally knew what she was talking about. However, apart from the roe owl, there were other more serious issues. "However, the town of Mu Yao below the mountain was affected by the earthquake, causing the people to be displaced. The overflow of the Central Continent's spiritual veins has attracted all kinds of demons and monsters to make trouble."
"What?" Jiang Qi's expression suddenly changed, and it was obvious that he had no idea what was happening outside.
But before she could ask any more questions, perhaps because the spiritual power was too violent, she was shattered into a pile of earth and rocks.
Seeing the person in his arms being torn into pieces before his eyes, Zhao Qing felt a pain in his heart and cried out—
"Anzhi!" But he didn't expect that the person who spoke first before him would be Wen Yu.
She had said it countless times before and had never changed her mind, so why would she...
Compared to Zhaoqing, Wenyu was no less surprised. She raised her sleeve to touch her lips and stood there motionless.
"Xiaoyu." Taihao frowned, always paying attention to her abnormality.
Yu Chang noticed that something was wrong with her and called out doubtfully, "You..."
Only Zang Ling pressed his hands on the hilt of Fu Xuechunsha's knife, feeling inexplicably angry.
After such a short while, she even called him by his courtesy name. I'm afraid Wen Yu still doesn't know her full name to this day.
Before she ascended to heaven, she had a common name in the mortal world called Li Zhixian, which Wen Yu must have forgotten completely.
"Yuan Que! Do you remember me?" The lump of earth and stone arched on the ground and groped its way to Wen Yu's feet. "Don't worry, I'm fine."
On the contrary, turning into gravel made her move more freely and more flexible.
"Anzhi! Anzhi!" Zhao Qing hurriedly followed her pace, raising his sleeves to gather around him, "Not so fast! Move slower and be more careful!"
He and Master An were from the same school, so he naturally knew her abilities, but he was a little nervous after not seeing her for thousands of years and now finding her again.
"You have become one with Gouwu Mountain and it is difficult to separate yourself from it." Wen Yu bent down and knelt on one knee in front of Jiang Qi.
She already knew the whole story, but now even with Earth Mother Jiang Qi suppressing it with her own body, she couldn't save it. If she pulled it out, how would she solve the problem of the overflow of the Central Continent's spiritual veins?
But world peace should not depend solely on one woman; everyone should have the freedom they deserve.
Although she is the Earth Mother, she is first and foremost Jiang Qi and herself.
The principle is of course very simple, but when it comes to actually implementing it, Wen Yu is troubled.
"It's not completely impossible." Tai Hao naturally knew what she was thinking.
Whatever Xiaoyu wants, he will try to achieve it, but occasionally he will think of -
Compared to before, Xiaoyu hasn't changed at all.
At that time, she was willing to sacrifice herself for Hou Tu, but now she couldn't bear to see her trapped here.
"I forgot about the Emperor..." Wen Yu turned around and forced a smile, "What does all this have to do with you?"
Ever since Fengdu Jun asked Taihao to explain, she has been thinking—
What role does Taihao play in this?
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