Xi took the "flint" and looked in a daze.
Faintly, she could still feel the warmth of Master's palm remaining on the stone.
Master has said more than once that he will leave here and cannot stay with her forever.
Xi also thought that she was mentally prepared to say goodbye to him.
However, when this day really came, Xi still felt ups and downs in her heart and was unwilling to accept this reality.
"Master, are you trying to scare me?" She reached out and grabbed Gu Xu's sleeve again, and said with the last bit of self-deceiving hope, "You think I haven't practiced hard enough recently, and you want to use this method to motivate me. ?”
Gu Xu said nothing.
At this moment, a faint gray-white mist appeared in his field of vision, and as time passed, it became more and more dense.
He knew that these mist were the Hunyuan Qi at the edge of the world.
When they completely envelope him, he will leave this era that does not belong to him.
For the next period of time, the two of them stood side by side on the endless wilderness, looking at the setting sun slowly setting at the end of the land.
The sun shines on the ground, dyeing the sand, gravel and soil into ocher red, as if soaked in blood. A few dead trees stood alone among them, casting mottled shadows and swaying gently in the roaring wind.
Xi turned to look at Gu Xu.
In her eyes, the master's figure was becoming fainter and fainter, gradually becoming translucent, and could turn into a puff of smoke at any time and disperse with the wind.
At this moment, she truly felt that the two of them were really not from the same world.
She bit her lip, opened her arms, and suddenly hugged Gu Xu's waist like a koala hugging a tree trunk.
It seemed that as long as she hugged him tightly enough, she could keep the master.
"Master, you are so powerful. If you have a chance in the future, can... can you come back to see me?" She said softly, tears welling up in her eyes, "I really... really can't bear to part with you." you……"
Gu Xu lowered his head and looked at her.
When the sun was about to sink into the horizon, the clouds in the sky were reflected in the color of flames, and her clear eyes reflected bright light.
The young and beautiful face of the girl once again overlapped with the Zhao Yan in his memory who was standing on the dock to see him leave.
The two women look very similar. There may be slight differences in personality due to different experiences, but the way of expressing emotions is the same straightforward, frank and unambiguous.
The love for him is clearly written on his face.
Gu Xu sighed lightly.
"I don't know," he said honestly.
Whether it is "Guixu" or "Hunyuan Qi", they are the ultimate mysteries of this universe - even if they are as powerful as "Emperor Ziwei", they cannot accurately control how long they will travel in "Guixu" where.
When the sun set and the dark night covered the entire world, the master hugged tightly in Xi's arms completely disappeared, as if he had turned into air.
If it weren't for the fact that the animal bone spear and "flint" were still with her, she would even suspect that the encounter between herself and her master in the past few days was simply a dream.
Her legs weakened and she couldn't help but fall to the ground, looking up at the stars in the sky shining with cold light.
Her tribesmen were talking and laughing not far away, their voices carried by the wind, and they sounded lively.
But Xi felt an unprecedented loneliness.
Overnight, she seemed to finally understand what it felt like to "grow up."
…………
Gu Xu was shrouded in thick gray mist, and he didn't know where he was.
He held the "astrolabe" tightly in his hand.
The thumb-sized weapon spirit stood on the surface of the "astrolabe" with his hands on his hips - now that there were no outsiders around, he began to chatter towards Gu Xu again.
"My stupid master, have you ever realized that this little girl named 'Xi' is the previous life of your king's lover?"
"I know," Gu Xu said lightly, "Besides, let me tell you again, Zhao Yan is not my lover."
In fact, not long after Gu Xu returned to ancient times, he had already realized that this Red Fire tribe was the ancestor of the Zhao family in Youzhou thousands of years ago.
Xi, of course, is the "holy girl" in the Vulcan legend, and she is also Zhao Yan's previous life.
When he jumped from the waterfall at the end of the East China Sea, he never expected that he and Zhao Yan would meet again thousands of years ago!
He never expected that the legendary "Fire God" who stole fire, taught people to practice, and led people to build homes was actually himself who accidentally returned to the past!
"No wonder I took over the Vulcan's faith and authority without any effort," he thought silently, "it turns out that this is something that belongs to me."
At this time, he couldn't help but recall the legends he had read in books——
"When the God of Fire was struck to death by the gods above the nine heavens with thunder, the Saint became the new leader of the human race, leading people to resist the invasion of ghosts."
"The saint remained unmarried throughout her life and devoted everything to her faith and the cause of the rise of humankind. Even when she was dying, she left her last words, saying that if there was an afterlife, she would still want to serve the gods."
"Struck to death by lightning" should be the reason people in ancient times made up to explain his sudden disappearance.
But Xi's life left him with mixed emotions.
He had always thought that the saint was just a fanatical and devout believer.
Now he understands that it was his unexpected time travel that missed her life.
"No wonder Zhao Yan thought I looked familiar when we first met."
"No wonder the statue of Vulcan in the temple is dressed in the clothes of contemporary people."
"It turns out that all of this happened thousands of years ago."
When Gu Xu was filled with emotion, the "Astrolabe" tool spirit couldn't help but interjected: "Master, do you still remember that you nodded in front of Zhao Yan that night?"
"What are you nodding?" Gu Xu frowned.
"She asked you, if she was the person you met first, would you choose her?" Qi Ling chuckled mischievously, as if he was worried about the world being in chaos, "Look, you met someone from ancient times. It's her turn. She has been waiting for you for thousands of years. If you continue to refuse to take responsibility, you will be no different from a heartless man who always gives up..."
"Shut up!" Gu Xu interrupted him.
His mind was a mess at the moment.
He wanted to say that the "first" and "last" here should refer to his subjective time.
But then he thought about it and felt that it was not interesting to debate such a complex issue of "time and space" with a pervert with a brain defect, so he simply remained silent.
…………
at the same time.
Thousands of miles away in Jicheng, Zhao Yan, who had just become the king, woke up from her sleep.
(End of chapter)
