The sky is dark and the sun is nowhere to be seen. The air was filled with water vapor, giving people an unusually heavy and gloomy feeling.
In the endless wilderness, except for the occasional appearance of some wild beasts, most of the time there is nothing there.
However, today, under such a gloomy sky, there is a woman who is silently carrying a man on her back.
"I really owe you my last life."
"Hmph, those storytellers must be telling lies. All that stuff about a hero saving a beauty is totally wrong for me."
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Murong Qingzhu was really helpless at this moment. The man she carried on her back was of course none other than Gu Qingyang, who had fallen into a deep sleep.
After the battle a few days ago, both of them were poisoned. She knew that toxin very well.
She knew that the most terrifying thing about that kind of poison was that it could cause people to die unconsciously and perish in endless dreams.
Just a dream.
It is said to be a dream, but in fact it is immersed in the dream forever until death comes. In this way, it will naturally be a real dream.
Now, she and Gu Qingyang are on the road. But the place she wanted to take Gu Qingyang to was not the Meng family, let alone the Murong family.
She didn't go to Meng's house because the poison itself was incurable. Because this toxin itself is prepared with countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
If it must be calculated, this poison should be regarded as a tonic.
Of course, it is considered poison just because it is so supplementary.
The first reason why she didn't go to Meng's house was because of this. The second reason is because she is not in the mood to experience hatred again.
Speaking of Murong, she is indeed stronger now than before. Over the years, she has accidentally received news from the Murong family several times.
She knew that the Murong family was now much stronger. The family is even known to have many young geniuses.
However, since she was once determined to cut off that causal relationship. Then, now she doesn't want to return to Murong's house.
What's more, the Murong family has nothing that can save them both.
And she was not sure whether Gu Qingyang could still persist until that time if she really chose to return to Murong's house.
So, after weighing many factors, she made a decision. She wanted to take Gu Qingyang to Jiangnan, which Gu Qingyang had mentioned.
She remembered that he said that he had promised a person to go to Jiangnan to watch the rain on that person's behalf.
Although she was not sure whether Gu Qingyang could watch the rain in his current condition.
But no matter what, she must take Gu Qingyang to Jiangnan.
Regret is really a terrible thing. Whenever it appears, there will always be someone who is saddened by it and extremely sad for it.
She knew the feeling of regret, and had seen the sadness that Gu Qingyang inadvertently showed when he talked about this matter.
"If you want to kill me, then go ahead! I, Gu Qingyang, have never been afraid of so-called death in my life!"
"Kill, kill, kill——"
"The nature of human nature is complexity. Do you think I'm greedy? Aren't you just as greedy as me? Hum!"
"You are always used to using your so-called morals to flaunt others, but how have you ever used that set of morals to flaunt yourselves?"
"Do you want to get power?"
"Do you know what real power is? Let me tell you, this is the so-called power, real power!"
"It never belongs to those who are born to be carefree. Maybe those people are geniuses, but they are just geniuses."
"Real power will always belong to those who can do whatever it takes to achieve the goal and who can sacrifice everything!"
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I don’t know how long they walked, but Gu Qingyang finally spoke after a long time. But Murong Qingzhu knew that this was just his dream talk.
He is still himself, but he is completely immersed in the dream. And this was not the first time Murong Qingzhu heard these words.
As early as when Gu Qingyang drank the Sanming Wine, she saw in Gu Qingyang's inner image the scene of Gu Qingyang talking drunkenly and in his sleep.
What Gu Qingyang is saying now, he had already said it once before that time.
However, Murong Qingzhu felt like he would never tire of hearing these words.
Even what Gu Qingyang said in his dream was sometimes extremely clear, sometimes it was blurry, and sometimes it was intermittent.
But she could still vaguely imagine what Gu Qingyang looked like when he experienced these things through these words of Gu Qingyang.
Moreover, perhaps because of the poison of this dream, when she imagined those things, corresponding scenes actually appeared in her mind.
And in such a state, there will always be some scenes that appear repeatedly.
Just like the tavern with the word "Fenglin Wan" written on it, or Gu Qingyang who always gets drunk but always tells stories.
And the drinkers coming and going.
They are old and young, male and female... They are part of all living beings, and they show all the ways of all living beings for her.
In addition, while half asleep and half awake, she also saw her long knife. And in the illusion of the dream, she was also developing sword skills.
However, as time passed, when Murong Qingzhu accidentally realized that she was sinking deeper and deeper into the dream, she was suddenly shocked.
"can not sleep!"
Later, these three simple words became the motto that supported Murong Qingzhu to move forward, and she always persisted.
She knew very well that now, Gu Qingyang had fallen into a deep sleep and was immersed in dreams.
Depending on this kid alone, whether he can go to Jiangnan really depends on his fate.
But with her help, going to Jiangnan at this time would no longer be a dream.
But if even she is completely lost, then there is no need to mention Jiang Nan.
However, the feeling of having to endure it despite being drowsy can really make people miserable.
"Ying'er——"
However, just when Murong Qingzhu was finally about to walk out of this wasteland, she finally reached her limit and stumbled to the ground.
Gu Qingyang was pressed under her, becoming a perfect human cushion. At that moment, she also felt that she couldn't bear it anymore.
However, Gu Qingyang made a very painful cry.
This call made her wake up instantly, and she felt that all the sleepiness in her heart was swept away in an instant.
At the same time, a sadness similar to the one shown by Gu Qingyang began to sprout in her heart like a seed.
She remembered being alone.
Murong Zishi, her biological brother.
She vaguely remembered that he was a man who loved freedom as much as she did. When he was young, her brother also had a land that was considered a pure land like her.
If the pure land in her heart is Jiangnan, it is the rain in Jiangnan Road. Then her brother's pure land is the northern border, the 800,000 barren mountains in the northern border.
It's freezing cold in the north, with snow falling from time to time.
Her brother just liked the snow there, the lightness of the heavy snow falling from the sky, and the snow-white world.
When she was young, she and her brother went to the North three times with their parents. But they have only seen the snow in the north once.
That year, she was eight years old.
Her brother, five years old.
Later, because of the family's development and the family's internal and external troubles, the two siblings no longer had the chance to watch rain or snow.
It was not until later that her parents passed down the inheritance before their death and told her to protect her younger brother and family.
But at that time, many things happened at the same time. Her parents died for the sake of the family, and so did her younger brother.
Although Murong Zishi was three years younger than her, she was eighteen years old when her parents died, and he was only fifteen years old.
But Murong Zishi had understood many things a long time ago, so he also knew what accepting that inheritance meant.
Therefore, what she didn't expect was that Murong Zishi would become a different person from that day on, and he would turn around and imprison her.
Then, the inheritance was taken away by him.
In just three months, he basically calmed down the family's internal worries and made many family members feel convinced by him.
However, just when everything was moving in the right direction, the last force in the family that resisted Murong Zishi suddenly united with outsiders.
A great war broke out.
Since that war, although the chaos has subsided, although the foreign enemies have been eliminated, everything has returned to calm.
But Murong Zishi's age was always fixed at the age of fifteen, when he died.
Before he died, he came to her with a seriously injured body.
He talked to her a lot at that time, telling her that the reason why he imprisoned her was because he wanted to resolve everything first.
He wanted to give her a prosperous Murong family, and he also wanted her to be free from the constraints of the family after the Murong family became truly prosperous.
He wanted her to be truly free.
It's a pity that although he can be called a young hero of the Murong family. But he eventually fell because of his limited abilities.
Before he died, he returned the Murong family inheritance to her. But he didn't ask her to inherit the Murong family like their parents did.
That day, he said, it would be great if they were just a pair of ordinary siblings.
The hegemony of the family, the supreme glory of the family, go to hell.
Even in order for her sister to be truly free after his death, he even chose other successors before his death.
At that time, Murong Zishi left a total of more than ten successors for her.
But after Murong Zishi's death, Murong Qingzhu, his sister, did not leave and did not choose to directly accept that freedom.
At that time, new worries were still brewing. And she chose to be born strong and lead the family to clear all obstacles.
It took her three thousand years to accomplish this. Three thousand years ago, she was just an eighteen-year-old girl.
But three thousand years later, no one in the Murong family or anyone else in the world remembered whether she was still a so-called girl.
Three thousand years have passed by in a blink of an eye. When people look back three thousand years later, all they can see is the head of the Qingzhu family.
However, when the Murong family was prosperous, she chose to retreat bravely, leaving her share of dominance to the only clan member who passed her test.
Then, she disappeared.
Since then, she has lived in seclusion for a long time, so long that even she can't remember how long she has lived.
After that, the Murong family also cut off contact with her. It's not that the younger generations of the Murong family don't want to honor her half-ancestor.
It's that the younger generations really don't know how to honor her. After all, what she has always wanted is freedom.
As long as they don't disturb her, they seem to have given her the greatest freedom.
On weekdays, she would never miss the Murong family.
But today, because of Gu Qingyang's call full of sadness, the long-lost memories still revived in her mind.
She thought of that person, that brother who had been obedient to her since childhood, who made the most willful choice at the most critical moment in his life.
Since then, they have been separated forever.
He was completely destroyed, and she was alone.
She had made such sad calls countless times before. But the result of calling countless times was that there was no response.
However, Gu Qingyang seemed to have fallen directly into a nightmare. He was calling, calling one after another.
At first, there was only sadness in his voice. But later on, his voice became much calmer.
Until the end, even Murong Qingzhu, who was closest to him, could not hear any emotion in his voice.
But Murong Qingzhu, who is familiar with people's hearts, knew that this was a sign that a person's heart was about to die.
There is a saying that has been well said since ancient times, which is that the greatest sorrow is the death of the heart.
She felt that the process Gu Qingyang was going through now was the process of heart death. Such a discovery made her frown.
She knew that she had to do something now, otherwise, death would be the only thing waiting for Gu Qingyang.
It's a dream, but the horror of this poison is no joke. Silently, killing people in their sleep, this is the horror of a dream that never ends.
She didn't want to watch this old friend who appeared inexplicably die under the poison of her old enemy.
But how to save Gu Qingyang also put her in trouble. Her understanding of Gu Qingyang was still very limited after all.
The Gu Qingyang she knew was just the Gu Qingyang who lived in the Southern Territory. As for what kind of person Gu Qingyang was before this.
What kind of experiences did Gu Qingyang have before this? Many of these things were unknown to her.
So, how can she save people?
"Ying'er..."
Finally, Gu Qingyang once again issued an extremely weak call. And after he made this call, he became extremely weak.
At the same time, his breath began to become extremely chaotic.
Murong Qingzhu, who was carrying him on his back, could clearly feel it at this moment.
In his body, there was a strong breath of life and a breath of death fighting against each other.
There is no doubt that that breath of life originated from the Sanming Wine that Gu Qingyang drank.
He passed the test of Three Lives Wine, so he was able to obtain the blessings contained in Three Lives Wine.
Murong Qingzhu did not expect that her attempt to kill Gu Qingyang would actually save Gu Qingyang's life in the end.
But it seemed that Gu Qingyang couldn't hold on for much longer. Maybe it won't be long before he falls and dies.
"call--"
In the face of all kinds of helplessness and sadness, Murong Qingzhu could only increase the speed of her body skills to the extreme.
She had to hurry up, otherwise, when Gu Qingyang woke up by chance, he still wouldn't be able to take a look at Jiang Nan.
So, just like that, Murong Qingzhu turned into a stream of blue light and completely disappeared from the wasteland.
At her insistence, Gu Qingyang began to move towards Jiangnan at an extremely fast speed.
However, Murong Qingzhu herself did not notice it when she was still worried about Gu Qingyang's condition.
On Gu Qingyang's body, a ray of cyan light pattern had already appeared. And that light pattern was nothing else, it was a curse.
That was the last gift that Gu Qingying gave to Gu Qingyang before his death. At this moment, it was just like before, extending his life in its own way.
"Ying'er, be good, go to bed early, brother will go to bed after working for a while. We won't starve this winter, let alone be frozen."
"Later, brother will definitely take you to see all the rain in the world. By then you can run around in the rain."
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Murong Qingzhu's eyes gradually turned red while Gu Qingyang was talking in his sleep. Because Gu Qingyang is telling another story in his own way.
Compared with the previous stories related to life and death, fighting and killing, this time's story is completely different.
While listening to this story, Murong Qingzhu had a feeling of sympathy.
And she could also guess from Gu Qingyang's words that the so-called Ying'er should be no longer alive.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be so sad. However, time keeps passing like this.
After a long time, even Murong Qingzhu herself didn't know how many mountains and rivers she had crossed.
Finally, she came to a very rich and prosperous place. What you see is full of tall pavilions and a city full of ancient charm.
This is - Jiangnan.
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