Five years later. . . . . .
Jia Juesheng was holding a formation book in his hand, sitting alone on a stone bench under the peach tree, sometimes reading, sometimes resting his face on his hands, blinking and thinking about things.
Compared with the past, he was so focused that he could sit down and study the formation book for several hours, but today he seemed extremely restless, as if he had something on his mind.
And at this moment, a girl was dressed in white, with a ponytail on her head, and several slender braids on the side of her face. Her face was smooth and white, not stained with dirt, and her eyes were bright and dazzling, giving people an ancient look. A weird feeling.
This girl in white is none other than Hua Yao, who has taken care of Zi Yang for five years.
She pushed open the fence door and saw the restless Jia Juesheng alone under the tree, so she shouted: "Cripple, the pretty boy hasn't gotten up yet, has he?"
After Jia Juesheng heard the sound, his body trembled. Perhaps he was startled by the shout from the sky. He turned around and said, "He went out early in the morning."
Hua Yaoqiong's nose straightened slightly and she asked again: "Going out? Where did you go?"
Jia Juesheng pointed to the mountain behind him and said, "Let's go to the mountain to bask in the sun."
Hua Yao thought for a moment, nodded to herself and said, "That's right. After living in the darkness for five years, he can finally see the light of day again. The first thing he has to do is naturally see the scenery."
On the top of the mountain, a man with a face as handsome as a white lotus, holding a piece of weed in his mouth, half-squinting his eyes, was lying on the hay with his head on his arms and his back basking in the sun.
This person is none other than Ziyang, who has gone through a lot of hardships and successfully passed the five-year training of thunder.
"You really know how to enjoy it. You have just experienced a great calamity, and now you are enjoying it in the blink of an eye?" The illusive Lei Hu stood beside him and joked.
"Pfft!" Zi Yang spit out the weeds in his mouth, sat up, opened his clear water eyes, and asked lazily: "Didn't you always call me a fool before? Why has it changed today?"
His words almost choked Thunder Tiger. It stared at Ziyang with its beast eyes and said nothing for a long time.
Zi Yang's next words made it even more angry. It was so angry that it wanted to slap him to death, but it couldn't do that.
"Why are you looking at me like that? You can't stare me to death with one glance."
After hearing a few words from him, Lei Hu left him alone and walked to the cliff alone. Looking at the winding mountains, he said calmly: "Have you heard that a tiger has two wings?"
"Are you kidding me? A tiger with wings is stronger than a dragon." Zi Yang finished speaking in disbelief, then thought about it and said, "You are a divine beast, and you don't even have wings. Other tigers It’s even more impossible.”
"ignorance."
"Do you have wings? Why didn't I see it?"
"Will you show your strongest trump card to others?"
Lei Hu's words immediately changed Zi Yang's face. He walked to the edge of the cliff and sat down next to Lei Hu.
"What you just said about a tiger growing two wings, can't it be true?" Ziyang put his chin on his hand and couldn't help but ask.
Lei Hu said proudly: "Do you believe it now?"
Ziyang nodded slowly at first, and then shook his head hurriedly.
"I haven't seen it, so I can't believe it, and I can't believe it all."
When Lei Hu heard this, he ignored him. After all, there are some things that he still has to discover on his own, and blindly helping him will harm him.
"Why are you silent? What's so interesting about the mountains in front of you?" Zi Yang saw it looking at the mountains with a pair of animal eyes without blinking, like a twilight old man, looking a little lonely.
"It's too tiring to talk to you." Lei Hu sighed: "It's better to take one more look at this great river and mountains. If you take one less look, you won't have the chance to see it again in the future."
"You...that's not right! You are a god, how could you..." Zi Yang looked at it with a serious face and found that Lei Hu's body was gradually dissipating.
Thunder Tiger's limbs were disappearing little by little. It smiled at Ziyang and said, "I didn't tell you because I was afraid you would be sad. In fact, when you survive the five-year thunderstorm, it will also be the day I completely disappear from this world."
Zi Yang's mind went blank. The cynicism he had before was gone at this moment, and all that was left was a deep sense of guilt.
"You knew you were going to die, why did you help me? You could have lived!" Zi Yang stood up and shouted to Lei Hu.
Lei Hu said solemnly: "As a sacred beast of the Northern Continent, I should be like this. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility."
"I hope you can inherit my will..." Leihu wanted to say that he regarded every citizen of the Northern Continent as his own child, but he did not say it.
It glanced at Ziyang meaningfully and suddenly changed its words: "Try your best to protect the people of the Northern Continent."
"Remember what I said, the top experts who control the power of the Divine Palace are not scary. What is scary are those who do not take the ordinary path. Although they are not recognized by the Divine Palace, their use of the Divine Palace is not weaker than Those who are recognized by the Divine Palace are even far stronger than them."
"If you are defeated by one of them one day, don't say that you are the descendant of this god. I cannot afford to lose that person." Thunder Tiger's figure dissipated, and it left with a smile. .
Zi Yang sat on the ground in despair, muttering: "A tiger has wings..."
While Zi Yang was staring at the ground in a daze, a pair of warm and soft hands stretched out from behind him and covered his eyes.
Before anyone could speak, he said in an indifferent tone: "What are you doing?"
Faced with Zi Yang's cold words, Hua Yao's expression changed, she pinched his neck with both hands, gritted her teeth and threatened, "What kind of attitude do you have? Believe it or not, I will strangle you to death right now."
"Okay." Zi Yang smiled. Instead of being afraid, he said sarcastically, "Don't be merciful. You'd better break my neck in one go. I don't want to suffer."
Hua Yao snorted coldly, removed her hands, sat aside, turned her back to him and said, "You are so boring."
"My life is in your hands, what else do you want from me." Zi Yang pretended to be innocent.
Seeing that she didn't reply, Zi Yang said again: "You can't ask me to beg for mercy from you."
Hua Yao turned around and said seriously: "You have to beg me for mercy, and you have to beg for mercy sincerely."
"What if I don't?" Zi Yang raised his head and raised his chest, with a look of dissatisfaction on his face.
"You don't?" Hua Yao glanced at the ground and didn't find what she wanted.
Zi Yang said arrogantly, "What can you do to me?"
"I'm going to find a venomous snake to bite you to death tonight. No! One venomous snake is too cheap for you. I'm going to find ten. No! A hundred! A thousand!" Hua Yao crossed her arms and said angrily. .
"Okay." Zi Yang sat aside and said sternly: "If you dare to release a poisonous snake, I will die for you!"
"You..." Hua Yao stretched out her green fingers and pointed at him angrily.
Zi Yang pretended not to notice, turned his body, turned his back to her, and sunbathed himself.
Hua Yao flicked her ponytail and ignored him. The two of them just went back to back to argue with each other, neither of them paying any attention to the other.
This was fine at first, as neither of them gave in first, but as time went on, the lively and active Hua Yao became unable to sit still.
She said in a bad tone: "I'm tired. Please move your shoulder over and let me lean on you."
"No borrowing!"
"Don't want to borrow it?" Hua Yao held his arm with both hands and forced her face to rest on his shoulder. She kept complaining: "This is not the time for me to take care of you before. Now that you are healed, you won't recognize me." Are you here?"
Ziyang originally wanted to push her away, but as soon as the emotional card came out, he gave up the idea instantly and had no choice but to let her lean on him.
Although Hua Yao caught him off guard with her emotional card, Zi Yang's mouth was not idle. He went straight to the point and said, "It's okay to rely on you, but don't think anything wrong about me."
"Why do I have any undue thoughts about you?" Hua Yao lowered her head and did not dare to look at him, and her tone was not as tough as before.
Zi Yang said carefully: "You used to either touch my hand or my waist. Now you are leaning on my shoulder. If you go up further, are you going to kiss my face?"
Bo!
Hua Yao's lips moved slightly, and she touched his fair face gently, then turned away with a blushing face, clasped her fingers tightly together, and stopped looking at him.
Ziyang's mouth opened slightly, and his fair cheeks instantly turned red. He was stunned for a long time, and for a while, he actually forgot what happened just now.
After a moment, he slowly raised his palm and stroked the side of his face being kissed, still unable to believe that this was true.
Finally, he pinched his cheek hard, it hurt, it was true.
Ziyang took a deep breath and wanted to scold her, but he couldn't.
The sun sets over the western mountains, reflecting a crimson scene.
Zi Yang patted the weeds on his clothes and said, "It's getting late, it's time to go down the mountain."
"I can't walk anymore, please carry me down the mountain." Hua Yao lowered her eyebrows and smiled, holding on to the dead grass on the ground tightly with both hands.
"Hey?! Don't go too far. You kissed me on the face, and you still want me to carry you down the mountain?!" Ziyang pointed at her and said with dissatisfaction.
"You won't leave until you hug me."
"You want to leave or not? If you don't leave, I'll leave!"
Zi Yang turned around and left in anger, showing no intention of lingering. Seeing that he didn't look back, Hua Yao gritted her teeth, pulled up the dead grass on the ground, and threw it down the cliff.
The sky gradually darkened, Ziyang sat on the way down the mountain and waited, but Hua Yao was still nowhere to be seen.
He had to go back to the top of the mountain again, looked at Hua Yao who was still holding dry grass to vent his anger, coughed dryly, and said: "Your body is weak and the wind is strong on the mountain. Let me carry you down the mountain."
Hua Yao nodded with a smile.
"Did you go the wrong way? This is the way to the town, not the way home." Not long after walking, Hua Yao realized something was wrong and hurriedly reminded her.
As Ziyang walked away, he persuaded me: "It's extremely cold in the mountains in winter, so you can't live in the mountains forever. During this period, it's better for you to stay with your husband."
"Okay." Hua Yao said extremely depressed.
Outside the town, Ziyang took out a peach stone bracelet that shimmered with sunlight, consisting of ten peach beads.
He handed the bracelet to Hua Yao and said with a smile: "You have taken care of me for five years. I have nothing to give you. Just accept this peach core bracelet as a token of my appreciation."
Hua Yao held the bracelet with both hands and looked at Zi Yang's leaving figure, with two crystal tears streaming down her pretty face.
"Remember!" Zi Yang turned his back to her, stretched out a finger, and warned: "When you recover, come to the mountain to find me. I don't want to see you acting sick and weak all day long, and you have to hold on. Take your body and come to the mountain to find me."
Before Hua Yao could answer, his figure was shrouded in the darkness of the night.
On the mountain road, a black figure ran wildly along the path.
In the star-studded sky, not a trace of fog could be seen, but suddenly there were several dull thunders.
