Earth time in early July 2017, Ionia. The silver plains of the province of Navoli.

"I've walked the Silver Plains, I've fished in the Grassy River, and this land knows me."

This quote comes from the League of Legends game, Blade Dancer. Irelia's original lines, Xiao Yuebai still remembers them.

When I was playing a game by myself, whenever I heard this sentence in the headset, combined with the background of the Ionian Noxian War, Xiao Yuebai could clearly feel the complex emotions expressed by the girl in this sentence.

It is the yearning for a beautiful hometown, the luxury of good memories, the record of all happiness, and the future for which he fights.

Now the 14-year-old girl who said this sentence has also become a girl in her 20s, and when she leads the people out of her hometown and on the road to Presidium, she finally arrives again in this endless plain.

The purpose of the group's visit to Presidium was to ask for Karma's consent and hope that she would tell Galadriel where to plant the Valinnor Twin Sacred Tree, which was the result of everyone's discussion.

Galadriel and Xiao Yuebai both agreed that since Soraka had guided him to Ionia, the two sacred trees that had witnessed and participated in the creation of the world should be planted in Ionia.

It was now the sixth day they had left Zanjia Village, and they had made their way up the Mirhan River into what Irelia had called the Silver Plains.

The twilight sun had turned the horizon red, but he couldn't dye the lush magical plants beneath their feet.

At this moment, whether it is Xiao Yuebai or Kaisha, or even the owner of this place, Irelia, they are all barefoot, stepping on the soft grassland under their feet.

Feel the cool breeze gently blowing on your cheeks, feel the moist air around you nourish your heart and lungs, and feel the skin on your feet and wash your soul with moisture.

Even Xiao Kai, who was held on his father's shoulder, seemed to be infected by this atmosphere, grabbing his father's short hair to his heart's content, and letting out happy laughter and screams.

The couple quietly followed behind their son, and they were not worried that he would fall, because she believed in her husband and the land.

Ionia is known as the Land of Heaven, not because of its abundance of land, but also because of the presence of unique natural spirits.

Therefore, as Xiao Yuebai and Kaisha, who once saved "it", all the people related to it will be protected by this invisible and intangible, but existential spirit.

Even if Xiao Kai fell off his father's shoulder, the flowers and plants under his feet would automatically gather together to form a soft and cool cushion to protect him from the slightest injury.

In this way, in the laughter of the children, the setting sun in the west soon took away the last rays of light.

Irelia found a cobblestone beach where the group set up a makeshift and began to make dinner.

In order to follow the local customs, Xiao Yuebai and Kaisha did not use the wood on this land to make a fire, but used all the camping tools stored in their dark space to make some food.

After eating, Xiao Yuebai took out the simple tent, set up the tent for everyone, boiled a pot of boiling water, made tea, and began to spend a comfortable bedtime.

Sitting on the recliner, Irelia, who had already learned to make tea with Keisha, respectfully took a teacup and handed it to Xiao Yuebai.

"Thank you!" Taking the teacup in the apprentice's hand, Xiao Yuebai looked at the quietly flowing river in front of him, took a sip of tea soup and asked:

"By the way, Ellie, this is the Silver Plains, right?"

"Yes teacher!" Standing beside her teacher, Irelia nodded and responded crisply to Xiao Yuebai's question.

Putting the empty teacup in the palm of his hand, Xiao Yuebai suddenly turned his head to look at his little apprentice, and suddenly asked softly, "You have a lot of stories here, right?" ”

Irelia was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then her eyes began to fill with mist in an instant, and Xiao Yuebai raised her hand and patted the girl's shoulder when she saw this.

Then he summoned a chair from the dark space and put it beside him, and said to her: "If the negative emotions in the heart are buried in the depths of the heart for too long, people will become dark. ”

"Speaking up at the right time will help you vent those negative emotions, and don't you think I, as a teacher, am a better person for you to talk to?"

After Xiao Yuebai's words fell, he found that his little apprentice's face was obviously a little hesitant, knowing that she was hesitating whether to say it or not, so Xiao Yuebai continued:

"What? Is it me, the teacher, who is not qualified? ”

Her eyes widened suddenly, and Irelia shook her head like a rattle, and said with a slightly panicked expression: "No, teacher, you are very good to me, you are a very good teacher, I just don't know how to speak!" ”

Hearing this, Xiao Yuebai suddenly turned his head to look at his little apprentice, and suddenly asked, "Is it because of the outbreak of this war that you can't find the peace in your heart?" ”

After the teacher's words fell, Irelia's big glasses suddenly became a little sluggish, but in an instant, they were filled with mist.

I saw that this girl, who had been quiet for a long time, suddenly stood up from the chair, suddenly knelt in front of Xiao Yuebai, prostrate herself on the ground, and said bitterly:

"Please teach me, master!"

Looking at the figure kneeling in front of him, the trembling back indicated the girl's uneasiness, Xiao Yuebai sighed when he saw this and got up to help her up.

Then he turned and walked towards the silver meadow behind him, beckoning to Irelia to follow.

The stars are shining brightly above the night sky, and the grassland under the night sky is also shining with silver light after absorbing the day's sunshine, and the whole grassland is like a sea of mercury, setting off layers of sparkling waves after the breeze blows.

The master and apprentice walked on the light silver grass under their feet, and it was not until they were far away from the camp that Xiao Yuebai said to the girl who was half a body behind him:

"Are you still wondering if you have ruined the peace of the Newborn Land?"

Glancing at her teacher in surprise, Irelia nodded in some disappointment and said in a deep voice, "Since the end of the war, I've always been thinking. ”

"Is it because of my resistance that the seeds of violence have awakened in the hearts of the Ionians, and now in my hometown, many people feel that the idea of the supremacy of force in Noxus is correct."

"So they also began to pursue power, thinking that only if you subdue others, others will reason with you."

"Compared to this chaotic environment, I think I still prefer the original firstborn land."

"But it is undeniable that it all started because of the battle in Presidium, teacher, do you think I did the right thing in the first place?"

Hearing this, Xiao Yuebai suddenly stopped his steps, turned to look at his apprentice, and then said to her with a smile: "Ellie, you have been to my world, and you already know your world, do you think this world is peaceful?" ”

The teacher's question made Irelia stunned for a moment, but she still seriously recalled what she had seen during this time, then shook her head and said:

"No, the world is far from the words tranquility and peace. But... What does this have to do with us in Ionia? ”