Chapter 6: Peony Blossoms
It was late at night, and Zhiyan and his clothes were lying on the bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep. When reading Yun Ting and Yun Jing's memories, she did feel something, and at that moment, she felt that some fragments in her mind joined together, forming a small fragment of memory.
In those clips, the qiē he saw made Zhiyan feel deep fear.
While reading Yun Jing's memories, she saw a gorgeously dressed middle-aged man in the darkness squeezing a baby's neck with his hands, without the slightest pity in his eyes. Just when the baby was about to run out of breath, a blue light emitted from the baby's body, forcing the man aside and waiting for the light to disappear, he threw her to the ground and left without looking back, leaving the baby alone crying in despair.
And when reading Yunting's memory, the middle-aged man appeared again, and she saw the middle-aged man standing in front of her indifferently and ruthlessly, ordering someone to pass a long iron chain through her body from the collarbone, and tie it to a shining tree.
She recalled these fragments over and over again, only to feel that her hands and feet were cold, and her body couldn't help but tremble with fear. She didn't know if these fragments were her own memories, who that man was, and what these fragments portended, but it was the first time that she had collected the memories of so many people. Although these fragments are a bit painful, they are always a good thing, in short, it shows that what the book says is not a lie, and as long as you keep doing this, you will definitely find your former self.
"Hehehe, are you finally starting to wake up?" In the darkness, a strange male voice sounded, and Zhiyan sat up in horror, looking around but not finding a person. The room was surrounded by barriers, and no one was allowed to enter without permission.
Zeran ...... Zeran ...... Where are you? Zeran ......"
Zhiyan shouted, but the surroundings were quiet and a little abnormal, and some movement could not be heard. For some reason, her head began to hurt again, and the man's laughter kept ringing in her ears.
"Stop...... Who are you! ”
Zhiyan sat up from the bed all of a sudden, wiped the cold sweat on her forehead, only to find that the qiē just now was just a nightmare, she breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to go to Zeran but found that there was something lying next to her inexplicably.
"Ahh
With the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, a somewhat complaining voice sounded, "Don't ...... Don't be so violent! And also! I'm not a ghost! ”
Ze Ran heard the movement and hurriedly teleported to the Zhiyan room. When I lit the candle, I found a man in red sitting on the ground, he looked about fifteen or sixteen years old, very beautiful, handsome with a little softness, like a figure from a painting. He rubbed the sore place on his body, looked at Zhiyan with an aggrieved face, and seemed to be about to cry at any time. When he saw Ze Ran, his eyes lit up, and he jumped happily and pounced.
“…………”
“…… Zeran, he is...... Your son? ”
Ze Ran raised his eyebrows, separated him from himself with a dark face, turned his head to Zhiyan, and looked innocent, "I don't know him at all......"
"Hey, who the hell are you? Why did you come to my room? Zhiyan looked at him with displeasure. In the middle of the night, there was suddenly another person around the third watch, thanks to her good ability to bear it, otherwise she would have been scared to death.
"I ...... I'm the peony flower in the yard...... Because of the aura of the two of you, I cultivated into a human form by chance...... It's so cold outside at night, and there are horrible bugs, and I'm scared...... He cast a spell and entered the house......" The man looked at the two of them pitifully, his eyes shining with tears, "I have nowhere to go, it is because of the two of you that I am where I am today, and you are responsible for me......"
Zhiyan listened with a black line on his face, and this sentence always sounded weird, as if he had really done something rebellious to him, and God did not tolerate it.
"Hey, you're ......"
A certain flower immediately raised its head and burst into tears.
“……”
"Zeran, or we will take him in? He is quite pitiful alone, just enough for him to help chop wood, boil water, wash and cook. It's really not good, it's also a bit useful to put it in a vase as an ornament, do you say it's okay? Zhiyan walked up to a certain flower and pinched his little face happily.
"I'm well-behaved, I'm well-behaved......" A certain flower immediately chimed in.
Ze Ran looked at the two of them with a begging look on their faces, and smiled lightly, "Yan'er said it's okay, I don't know if I came to the world without permission, whether I have to go back again, I can rest assured that he can accompany you." Little Flower Demon, what's your name? ”
"Le'er, my name is Le'er~"
"Le'er......" Zeran looked at Le'er and smiled softly, "It's a good name, you will stay here in the future, it's just that your cultivation is still shallow, and you have just turned into a human form, for your safety, remember not to leave this courtyard casually." ”
A certain flower nodded obediently, sat in the room silly, and smiled happily.
Looking at Ze Ran's smile, Zhi Yan's heart suddenly felt a faint loss, I don't know when it started, the smile on Ze Ran's face became less and less, and she couldn't remember when she saw Ze Ran laughing. For some reason, Zhiyan always felt that Zeran was a little evasive about himself, and he always had a little intentional or unintentional alienation in his care and care. She has always wanted to ask, but she has never dared to ask, always afraid that it will push their relationship to a worse situation. Ze Ran didn't want to say it, she was also happy to pretend to be stupid, and sometimes asking too clearly would hurt herself to the core.
Ze Ran noticed the strangeness of Zhiyan, put his hand on her shoulder gently, and said softly, "What's wrong?" Is there something uncomfortable? ”
Zhiyan smiled lightly and quietly removed Ze Ran's hand, "I'm fine, I'm just a little sleepy and want to sleep well." Thank you for arranging the fun, thank you. ”
“……”
When the bright moon was in the sky, Zeran stood in the courtyard looking at the beautiful moonlight, and there was an indelible sorrow on his face. The moonlight shone on his silver hair like a light veil, adding to the sadness. He stared at the sky for a long time, as if with great determination, and quickly recited a few incantations from his mouth, enveloping the room with a blue light.
"Yan'er, I can feel that you must have remembered something. I want you to remember me, but those memories are so cruel that they can only hurt you...... I beg your pardon for being presumptuous...... I'll have to reinforce the seal on your memory......"
He jumped up from the air, turned into the true body of the divine beast Ice Phoenix, and flew above the Nine Heavens with a wail.
The Starry Divine Tree shone on the dark side of the Night Court Palace. The stars in the sky represent all things in the Six Realms, and each life in the Six Realms has its corresponding star, and the stars of the living will hang in the night sky, and the stars of the ghosts will return to this tree, waiting for its master to be reincarnated and reborn again.
Zeran turned into a human body, sat down quietly next to the tree, stroked the cold trunk, and listened to the crisp jingle of the wind blowing through the sacred tree, as if he had returned to the time of a thousand years ago.
"Zeran, can you turn into a phoenix and show me?"
"Zeran, what is the world like?"
"In the world, men and women who love each other will get married, Zeran is it okay for us to get married, is it okay for me to marry you......"
Thinking back to what happened in the past, Ze Ran's eyes shone with a warm and soft light, if only it were still the same as before.
"Fenghuang, you are here again......" Lian Qiao, a heavenly general who was passing by here, saw Zeran and sighed softly, what an infatuated guy.
"Phoenix Emperor? The Heavenly Monarch has given me face, and he has not yet cut my name as the Phoenix Emperor. Ze Ran's smile was a little mocking, a little bit to Tianjun but more to himself.
Lian Song sat down beside Ze Ran and patted him on the shoulder, "The Phoenix Clan is mostly a fire phoenix, since the birth of the Phoenix Clan, there has been only one ice phoenix, you have been with the female snail Niangniang before, and you have done so many things for the beings of the Six Realms, if you are not the Phoenix Emperor, who else can take this position?" ”
"None of this matters......"
"Fenghuang, although I know that there are some things that should not be said, after all, we have known each other for so many years, and I really don't want to watch you ruin yourself because of love. Here you still don't want to come back in the future. ”
“……”
"Fenghuang, you have to be clear, she can't come back! Even if you wait here for thousands, tens of thousands of years, she will never come back. God has fallen into the devil's way, and there is only one end, and that is to be doomed. If you continue like this, sooner or later you will follow in her footsteps. Lian Song comforted, remembering the bloody scene back then, he still shuddered. The divine realm that has been quiet and peaceful for tens of thousands of years is covered with black clouds, and bright red blood dyes the clouds, sun, moon and stars blood red. It was as if the divine realm had turned into hell on that day......
"Who told you to tell me these bastard words......"
"That's what I meant."
"Do you think she deserves to die?"
"I ...... No...... I just want to see the former Phoenix Emperor again. ”
"Huh...... The former Phoenix Emperor? The former Feng Emperor has long since disappeared with her, and now it is only Ze Ran who is here, and her Ze Ran ......"