The moon is snow-white, hanging high in the sky, illuminating this originally dark world.
Taoist Master Lingbao has been walking with the woman on his back. Because of the person on his back, the footsteps are slightly heavier than before. The toes kept dragging along the shallow water, and the line continued for ten miles and ten miles.
"Fellow Taoist Seventh...where did he go?" Taoist Master Lingbao observed the surroundings along the way. His expression was calm, but his heart was extremely nervous, and his heartstrings were always tense.
He has been using the Dark Breath Technique to block his breath. In the same way, you should also be on guard around you with the eyes that destroy delusion.
This month, it seems that it will never land. Here, the sun does not rise.
Taoist Master Lingbao had been walking here for an unknown amount of time, and gradually realized that this was not a place where bones were piled up. If corpses are piled up, there will naturally be ups and downs, and bumps and bumps will occur while walking.
But during this walk, Taoist Master Lingbao didn't feel the touch at all, and the road was smooth.
The moon is white and not always bright. There are also clouds here. At this moment, the floating clouds covered the bright moon, and the moonlight became slightly dim for a short time.
Because of the snow-white moonlight, this flat beach on the earth, and the shallow water that was originally bright and dotted with stars, has lost its starlight.
Then, Taoist Master Lingbao saw clearly while lowering his head. When the shallow water has collected the starlight, the most abundant color is its dim yellow light.
What he saw was that the road was flat and smooth. Even if there is no starlight, this road can still slightly light up the darkness.
This is more like jade, not a skeleton, and there is no so-called decay, only a smooth surface.
"Jade paved the road...So, where did the terrifying scene that I and fellow Taoist Ah Qi saw go?" Taoist Master Lingbao lowered his head, frowned slightly, and murmured in his heart.
What he and Ah Qi saw were densely packed and countless heads piled up into thousands of mountains. Even everything on the mountain is made of piled skulls, and the color of the mountain outside is the dryness and decay of internal organs and blood.
The earth is also paved with countless lives.
"Those scenes are real. Otherwise, why can't my delusion break through this false curtain? But if it is real, why...doesn't there be any resentment or intention to die? Why can't I see anything when I walk? A skeleton?"
At this moment, Taoist Master Lingbao was a little confused.
He has always firmly believed that the exercises created by his master are the best in the world. This Dark Breath Technique can not only shield one's own breath, but also see through the unknown, and it also has an extremely strong sense of death and resentment.
But he didn't. Perhaps this is the place of delusion. This is just my own poor academic skills. Just can't see through it.
Taoist Master Lingbao stopped there, motionless. He lowered his head and looked at the white land beneath his feet.
Until the clouds opened again and the moonlight fell again, the starlight once again covered the shallow water.
At this moment, Taoist Master Lingbao suddenly felt that his vision was getting blurry.
At this moment, he still lowered his head.
The stars in the shallow water began to get brighter and brighter, and rippled in circles.
Taoist Master Lingbao, at this moment, saw countless stars appearing in the shallow water.
It's stars, not starlight. One after another, the shallow water covered the screen.
Taoist Master Lingbao suddenly raised his head, and what he saw was no longer the white moonlight. What was replaced were stars, stars all over the sky.
"The bright moon is gone?" Taoist Master Lingbao frowned again.
Without the bright moon, the light between the sky and the earth is getting brighter and brighter, even approaching daytime.
Taoist Master Lingbao felt the cool breeze again at this moment, and then there was the sound of falling leaves.
He was confused. There was only flat land around here, and there was only shallow water, and nothing else.
Taoist Master Lingbao even felt that he might not be able to get out of this world. Because this place is so big, it’s as big as half of the vast sky. With the power of light and sun being suppressed, even if he didn't sink, he wouldn't be able to get out of here until the Year of the Monkey, the Horse and the Moon.
It's even possible that you'll never get out of here. Because here, there is only emptiness and nothing to use as coordinates, so it is easy to get lost.
But at this moment, Taoist Master Lingbao noticed the falling leaves.
His vision seemed to be getting blurry, and when he raised his head, something seemed to be fiery red, falling from the corner of his eye, dancing like a butterfly, and finally landed in the shallow water.
"Why...I seem to see red fire all over the sky?" Taoist Master Lingbao murmured in a state of confusion.
Fiery red objects kept falling slowly from high in the sky, passing through the corners of Taoist Lingbao's eyes and cheeks. It rained fire like this, just like the stars in the sky that replaced the snow-white moonlight, falling one after another.
Gradually blurred, and finally the sky was dark and the earth was dark. This booming meteor shower lasted for a long time. I don't know how long it took, until his vision gradually recovered, and Taoist Lingbao saw that in front of his eyes and around him, there was really red fire falling.
But this is not a rain of fire, nor is it falling stars one after another.
Another leaf fell from the sky again. This is a green leaf.
When this leaf slides into the stream, it turns into a light boat and slowly sails forward.
Taoist Master Lingbao is standing in this leaf, in this light boat.
Everything around has changed. No more vast emptiness and no shallow water.
The creek is crystal clear, and the stones inside are like gems sprinkled in the creek, making the creek colorful.
The leaves one after another fell into the stream, causing ripples, forming layers of phantoms under the afterglow of the stars.
The flow of this creek meanders into the distance. There was a breeze blowing, and ripples appeared on the water. Under the starlight, the waves were sparkling, golden light was shining, and the stream was filled with brilliance.
This water is like the flowing eyes of a beautiful woman. The mountains in the distance are as beautiful as a beautiful woman's frown. There are mountains and rivers here.
"Where...is this place? Why...I appear here." Taoist Master Lingbao became even more confused.
From beginning to end, he did not feel the turmoil of heaven and earth. There are no forbidden fluctuations. Why does it appear here?
That shallow water, this mountain water. It shouldn't have appeared in this land of bones. However, this scenery changes again and again.
The water of this stream is indeed like the flowing eyes of a beautiful woman. Taoist Master Lingbao lowered his head and was instantly immersed in it, unable to extricate himself.
The boat paddled gently through the stream, sparkling along the way. I don’t know where to go in the mountains and rivers. The position of the stars in the night sky seemed to remain unchanged forever, always shining on the boat and the figures on it.
The water surface was sparkling, and Taoist Master Lingbao was immersed in this water surface, as if he saw a beauty who could captivate the soul underwater.
There is indeed a face under the water, but it is not the face of a beautiful woman.
This is a face with clear features like a sculpture, as white as jade, and extremely handsome.
Taoist Master Lingbao stretched out his hand and touched himself, and saw the face under the water doing the same thing and making the same movements.
"this is me."
Taoist Master Lingbao stood on the boat and looked at the handsome man reflected in the water. He suddenly laughed and became more and more satisfied as he looked at it. It seems that this is his face.
"Is this me? Many years have passed since I entered cultivation. I have been wearing a mask when I go out. As time goes by, I have forgotten it. I am confused, my Lingbao is really confused. I obviously have such a handsome face, but I have always hidden it. Tucked in. Are you afraid of being kidnapped by those lustful female disciples and used as the wife of the village?"
"Master's eyes were sharp and he saw me under the mask. He even told Senior Brother that I look very much like the Immortal King of Donghua back then. It seems that I can't escape the title of the most beautiful man in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. .”
Taoist Master Lingbao looked at the water and laughed loudly. A strong wind blew up, and the leaves fell, lifting his clothes, leaving nothing behind him, swaying in all directions.
He doesn't care about why he appears here. For him, a face means everything. The boat carried him alone and traveled along the stream to a distant place.
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The rice harvest is bumper, and the adults in the village rarely have free time during the season. The village was quiet again.
The rain has stopped, but there are still a lot of them left in the leaves and on the eaves, dripping down bit by bit along their own trajectories, and shaking in the wind, like thousands of threads. , scattered.
So, for a while, silk rain fell in mid-air, fine and moist. Looking from a distance, it was formed into a curtain of light under the rendering of the sunshine and the colorful expressions.
This piece of color is pouring in mid-air, as if absorbing the scenery of lakes and mountains all over the world. It is so beautiful.
This seems to have gathered all the beauties in the world. The gathering of these is the most beautiful thing in the world. Far better than the late autumn when the city is full of golden rice.
But at this moment, Ah Qi's fingers trembled slightly, and the palm that had just tilted down trembled and stayed there.
The butterfly has not been buried and can stay under the daylight for as long as possible. But even if it could stay any longer, it would be nothing more than a rotten corpse in the end.
Ah Qi suddenly laughed and cried again. Looking at the butterfly in the palm, it finally stopped struggling and cried.
He slowly turned his head and looked outside the courtyard gate. There was a soft sound of footsteps, walking step by step towards the small courtyard on the top of the hill.
At this moment, it is just after noon. The adults in the village are harvesting the golden fruits in the rice fields. The children in the village have always disliked him, so naturally no one would come here at this time.
But there are still footsteps approaching here.
As the footsteps approached, Ah Qi's fingers trembled even more violently, and her palms flipped over and fell to the ground, accurately falling into the dug hole.
The originally colorful wings were stained with wet mud and sewage. It is no longer beautiful. The moment Ah Qi picked up the soil and covered it, it won't be long before this dead butterfly will return to the earth. Eventually, dust will return to dust, and earth will return to earth, becoming one body.
The footsteps got closer and closer, and finally, a figure gradually appeared on the top of the hill.
At this moment, Ah Qi burst into tears. His figure gradually became smaller and became the appearance of a five-year-old child again.
At this moment, the figure finally walked to the courtyard and gently pushed open the door.
Ah Qi turned around and met the figure's eyes.
It was a woman, with a beautiful and fair face, under the sun, with long hair spread out. The black strands of hair made her skin look like snow, and her eyebrows were delicate and delicate.
She has a fair face and soft and delicate skin. Her eyebrows are long and picturesque, and her eyes are as clear as water. There is a small mouth under the small and straight bridge of the nose. The lips are thin and the corners of the mouth are slightly curved upward with a smile.
This woman, wearing a long black dress, looked like a white orchid blooming in a clear spring. Although she had traveled thousands of miles and was dusty all the way, she seemed to have no trace of human fireworks.
There is always a reassuring softness about her.
Ah Qi saw that this woman had been smiling from the moment she first came in.
"Hello, my name is Hua Luo, Hua Kai Hua, Hua Luo Luo. From far, far away
I came from afar and heard that there was a lonely child in this village with no one to take care of him. Just like me, helpless. "
"Because you are an orphan, just like me. That's why I came here. Now that I'm here, you and I will depend on each other from now on."
"From today on, I am your sister and you are my brother. Just like biological siblings, I will take care of you from now on, okay?
Listening to the woman's voice, Ah Qi's eyes flashed with a hint of complexity, which quickly disappeared. She just spoke softly and said, "Okay."
"Yes, as the aunt said, you are well-behaved, sensible and obedient." Hua Luo laughed and walked step by step in front of Ah Qi.
"Come on, call me sister!"
Ah Qi actually responded and kept looking at the woman.
Behind her, she carried a huge burden. But every step she took was extremely brisk. In just a few steps, he walked up to Ah Qi, bent down and lowered his head.
"I see your eyes are red, as if you just cried. Why are you crying? Are the children in the village bullying you?" The woman saw the redness in Ah Qi's eyes and saw the tears were still wet, so she asked road.
"This butterfly experienced a heavy rain, ruthless wind, and icy rain. Finally, it died." Ah Qi shook his head and pointed at the butterfly on the ground that was stained by mud and water.
The woman yelled, reached out, grabbed a handful of soil, and buried the small hole in the ground. Then he smiled and said: "What do you mean? Although you are still young, you are still a man. How can you cry? Life, old age, illness, death, and everything can't be escaped. Look at me, sister. My whole family has been raped, and you are not here. Are you crying in front of me?"
She reached out to pat Ah Qi's head, but when she saw the stain on her hand, she quickly changed her hand and rubbed Ah Qi's head. Smiling, she said: "Sister, I know you feel distressed and you are reluctant to let go. It's just..."
After a pause in her voice, the woman suddenly thought of something. She straightened her body with a smile and said, "I forgot that this butterfly turned into something else."
She turned around, walked to the corner of the yard, and squatted down again.
The woman stretched out her hand that was filled with muddy water, and dug for a while in the puddle of clean water on the side to wash away the mud in her hands.
After washing, the woman reached out and grabbed a handful of hay. Start picking one root after another.
After a long time, Hua Luo stood up. He turned around and walked in front of Ah Qi again, stretched out his hand, raised his eyebrows and spoke.
Ah Qi looked at Hua Luo's hand and the butterfly in her palm. Not a word.
"Look, this is the butterfly just now. It is by your side in another way, and it will never leave you in this life."
In the hands of falling flowers, there are butterflies, butterflies woven from hay.
Ah Qi kept looking at the butterfly in the woman's palm, and suddenly said: "What about you?"
The woman was stunned for a long time after hearing this. Then she laughed again, without any trace of sadness on her face. Although she was the only one who escaped from the Holy Capital a year ago after being executed by everyone in her family.
"You're afraid that I'll leave first, right? That's right, I'm at least fifteen years older than you." Hua Luo reached out and put the butterfly in Ah Qi's hair, and spoke softly.
"If I die, I will definitely be by your side in other ways. Now that I am here and decide to be your sister for the rest of my life, I will never let you feel helpless and lonely again."
"Okay, I've come a long way. It's been three days since the last time I had a good night's sleep. Let me get a good night's sleep first." The woman yawned and suddenly fell asleep.
At this moment, the child became a teenager again. He reached out to support the woman. Looking at the woman, a complicated expression came over again.
He picked up Hualuo, walked back to the room, placed her on the bed, and carefully covered her with the quilt.
Ah Qi placed her hand on Hua Luo's palm and frowned slightly.
The palm of my hand is like ice, really like ice.
"Back then, Hua Luo's family was full of loyal men, but she offended the treacherous ministers and had everyone in the family beheaded. I don't know how Hua Luo back then came from the holy capital thousands of miles away in the body of a weak woman. here."
Ah Qi looked at the woman, her complex eyes gradually turned soft. Talking quietly to himself.
"Flowers are always as gentle and beautiful as the spring breeze. When they are quiet, they are like a landscape, and they are also like gorgeous clouds.
"She is the dawn of my life and my lifelong sister."
"It's just that when I was young, I never knew what Hua Luo was hiding in her heart. It was because she didn't dare to reveal her deep hatred. She was alone and afraid of loneliness."
"Those years... Hua Luo did not express her deepest hatred after all, because she was afraid that I would be alone. Perhaps, after seeing me, she didn't want to take revenge anymore. Because she decided to be my sister. , Don’t want me to be lonely again one day. Or even implicate me.”
Ah Qi whispered to herself, feeling the warmth on her face and tasting the salty taste at the corner of her mouth.
"For many years, as long as I have my sister around, I feel at ease. It was like this before, it is like this now, and it will be like this in the future. The reason why I don't let my sister follow me is because I am afraid that I will sink here forever."
The warmth on Ah Qi's face was getting hotter and hotter, and she was still talking to herself.
"I thought that after that day, all the flowers would wither in April in this world. For me, it would no longer be spring. I regretted the passing of this spring and having nowhere to look for it, but I didn't expect that... A withered peach blossom bloomed again, and it has been transferred to me."
"Just like back then, my sister traveled thousands of miles to come to me. This time, she once again came to me from afar."
