A full moon hangs high in the sky, spreading its bright and white light.
The gurgling water of the creek soaked the two people who fell from the sky.
Yan Zening felt the cold liquid flow from his cheeks, forearms, and legs, while his shoulders were pressed against the soft warmth, and shallow breathing flowed by his ears.
He opened his eyes, not knowing what time it was or where he was.
He remembered the moment when the sky fell, when there was nothing for him to rely on. When he was about to be shattered, a hand grabbed him. This hand tore into pieces the dejection and despair caused by his isolation. From it arise hope and blank confusion.
Yan Zening stood up feeling the pebbles and dragged Chi Yu to the shore relying on his intuition.
Chi Yu is still unconscious.
Yan Zening was sitting on the shore. The cloth strips covering his eyes had been lost, and he didn't know where to look with his empty eyes.
Amidst the sound of the stream and the swaying of leaves, he suddenly wanted to know what Chi Yu looked like.
Yan Zening slowly touched Chi Yu's head.
He touched the eyes, and Yan Zening thought, what kind of eyes did she have? Could they be pink and phoenix eyes? Almond eyes? Or... slide down the fingertips, the nose seems to be very straight, the lips are very soft, they don't seem to be big, and the face is not round... a bit Like an oval face.
Following the tracings of his fingertips, Yan Zening drew a portrait of Chi Yu in his mind.
His fingertips finally stopped on Chi Yu's chin for a long time. Finally, Yan Zening asked the question he had in his blank confusion:
"Why don't you let go?"
You are the most important thing, right?
So why don't you let go.
Yan Zening was not given time to think.
"Cough...cough."
Chi Yu woke up choked by the water welling up in her abdomen. As soon as she opened her eyes, she quickly knelt down and vomited out the water in her abdominal cavity.
After wiping his mouth, Chi Yu saw Yan Zening turned into a drowned rat beside him.
"Master?" Chi Yu called softly.
Yan Zening turned her head and looked at Chi Yu, and Chi Yu felt relieved. She was afraid that Yan Zening's head would be damaged if she fell from such a height, but luckily it didn't.
Chi Yu looked around and observed the surrounding environment. This was a canyon with a stream running through the middle and lush trees growing on both sides of the stream.
Considering that it was already getting late, Chi Yu planned to spend the night in the canyon and set off back to Yan's house at dawn.
She told Yan Zening her thoughts.
Unexpectedly, Yan Zening listened to Chi Yu and rejected her idea.
"It's better for us not to go to the Yan family."
Chi Yu was puzzled.
Yan Zening continued: "What happened to the flying boat this time was most likely not an accident. Some people in the Yan family don't want me to go back. If I go back, given my current situation, the odds are against me."
Since ancient times, there have been countless shady things in a big family. Wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes. Chi Yu consciously feels inconvenient to ask about these things in detail. After all, family scandals cannot be made public.
But where can we go if we don’t go to Yan’s house?
"Let's go back to Yijianmen, Master." Chi Yu suggested excitedly. After all, she had lived there for two years, and the familiar environment made her feel safe.
Yan Zening shook his head and spoke in a slow tone.
"The master has made arrangements for our future. If we go back, wouldn't it violate the master's will and let the master deal with himself?"
"Then where to go?"
Yan Zening looked at the sky and said with unprecedented firmness, "Go to the east, let's go to the east."
There was a thought in his heart that told him that there was hope in the east.
…
At the same time, in Yan's mansion.
The housekeeper who escaped from the flying boat reported the situation to Yan Xu.
Yan Xu is the younger brother of Yan Chengzi, the head of the Yan family. His cultivation is at the peak of foundation building. The disaster of the flying boat was all his fault.
Although the Yan family is a family that cultivates immortality, most of the Yan family are mortals.
Mortals have mortal interests, and people who cultivate immortality do not engage in worldly things. Naturally, the mortals of the Yan family take care of the Yan family, gather treasures, and make friends with powerful people. Over time, they gradually manage the Yan family into a behemoth. Therefore, the mortals of the Yan family regard the Yan family as... What's in the bag.
If Yan Zening loses his cultivation and returns to the Yan family, he will most likely have to share a piece of the pie with these people.
Yan Zening was both the son of the family head and a former Jindan master. He had great prestige. In the next few decades, it would be difficult for those people not to fight against Yan Zening if they wanted to safeguard their original interests.
The group with vested interests, headed by Yan Xu, simply did nothing and continued to do anything. They manipulated the flying boat and ruined Yan Zening's life.
"Can you guarantee that he is dead?" Yan Xu asked.
The butler replied with a smile: "It would be difficult not to die if he fell from such a high place, and even the Daluo deity couldn't save him."
Yan Xu sighed, "Hey, if it weren't for my little grandson, why would I, a cultivator of immortality, have to get involved in these mundane things?"
The butler lowered his eyebrows and remained silent.
…
When the full moon on the canyon was replaced by a full sun, Chi Yu and Yan Zening set out to the east.
They walked out of the canyon and were ready to take a rest first, so they headed to the market town.
After walking for half a day and entering the lively market of the town, Chi Yu and Yan Zening were looked at strangely by the people passing by.
Chi Yu looked at himself and found nothing unusual. He felt that he was too sensitive and others were just looking at strangers with curiosity.
Until a group of children surrounded Yan Zening and shouted, "Eyeless monster—eyeless monster—". Only then did Chi Yu know the reason.
Careless.
Chi Yu slapped his forehead, and the teacher's eye belt fell off.
"Go, go." Chi Yu hurriedly chased away the children, "Go back to your parents and don't wander around on the street all day long."
While talking, Chi Yu looked at Yan Zening with a look of disbelief.
Yan Zening had a smile on his face without any anger at all. He even stroked a child's head and apologized softly:
"I'm sorry for scaring you."
He pulled off a pearl from the inside of his clothes and handed it to the child, "This is for you, please forgive me."
The child felt happy when he saw something good-looking, and jumped up and down with the pearl to find his friends to play with.
After this episode, Yan Zening asked Chi Yu to help him cut another eyeband. "It's really bad to scare others, especially children." Chi Yu nodded in agreement.
At noon, they found an inn to eat and rest.
Chi Yu slept until the afternoon before getting up. As soon as she got up, she went to the market to buy a piece of white silk and took it back to the inn to cut it.
When Yan Zening got up and went out, he happened to meet Chi Yu coming to see him.
Chi Yu held a freshly cut piece of white cloth in his hand and wanted to help Yan Zening tie it up. Yan Zening stopped Chi Yu and said, "Let me do it. It's not good to bother you all the time. I have to learn to do something."
Chi Yu watched Yan Zening fasten the goggles and asked, "When should we set off?"
"The day after tomorrow, I'll prepare some things tomorrow." Yan Zening replied. "Have another good night's rest."
However, they were not destined to have a peaceful night.
night.
"Third brother, guess what good stuff I smelled." A man with a sharp mouth and a wretched figure walked on the streets of the small town at night.
"Can your dog nose smell good things?" Another man with sinister eyebrows and thin eyes like a bamboo pole answered.
"Aura! The pure aura is coming from there -" the wretched man pointed at the inn where Chi Yu and Yan Zening were resting. "It's coming towards me from there. Third child, we found something good today."
They passed an alley and walked straight to the inn.
In the deepest part of the alley, a small corpse was lying there. If Chi Yu were here, he would be surprised to find that this body is the child that Yan Zening gave to Pearl today.
