Liansheng Country Yanjia Village, noon in the morning.

Yanjia Village, which was originally full of life, is now a vast lake.

Since the old village chief fled here with the whole village and went to the ruins of the Liansheng Kingdom, due to the appearance of the mysterious man Hexagram Liansheng, I don't know what kind of spell was used, after deliberately letting the stone tablet sink, the entire Yanjia Village also sank, and with countless groundwater filling up, this place became a lake.

Unconsciously, it had been more than a month since the old village chief and them left.

Due to the abundance of water, it didn't take long for many plants to grow along the lake, as well as a variety of unknown wildflowers and fruits.

These wildflowers, which enclose the lake in dense numbers, are different from what you would normally see, with brighter colors, thicker rhizomes, and taller shapes, almost reaching the height of a person.

If you look closely, these wildflowers are covered with small thorns of different colors, and on the tips of each thorn, you can faintly see colorful dew drops slowly condensing.

When the sun is at its strongest, the dew evaporates and becomes a myriad of colorful mist that fills the lake around it, turning the whole lake into a vast expanse.

And those wild fruits are not ordinary at first glance, in addition to the appearance of delicate and beautiful, big, thin skin and thick flesh, fresh and watery, but also exude the unique fragrance of the best fruits, which makes people appetite.

In the center of the lake, there is also a large area of water lilies, and it is full of equally colorful lotus flowers.

Around the lotus flower, there are many butterflies of breathtaking beauty, dancing, occasionally chasing each other to the surface of the lake, always creating a ripple when accidentally touching the water, and then scattering and flying away.

Therefore, this piece of water, at a glance, thought it was an unknown paradise, or it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a fairyland on earth.

In this vast desert, such a beautiful place can naturally attract all passers-by to stop and explore.

After all, this is one of the few oases in the desert, especially since it is also the only way for the Lotus Kingdom to reach the country of the Black-tailed Leafhopper, and some caravans that often travel between the two countries are willing to spend the night in such an oasis to replenish the necessary water and food for the long journey.

There are also some businessmen who have stayed in Yanjia Village, and when they find that the once humble village has become such a beautiful lake, they are also puzzled, and they don't know what happened here a month ago.

There are men with good water skills, and they will also dive to the bottom of the lake to visit the village that has sunk to the bottom of the lake, but the houses in the village have almost all collapsed due to the long-term immersion of the lake, and it is impossible to recognize.

But there is only one house, which is intact, not only the house is unharmed, but even the furniture and other furnishings of the house are intact, and there are vegetables and fruits in the yard, as if there are still people living in it.

On the bed in the bedroom of this house, there was also the body of a woman with gray hair and withered body, which looked extremely horrible and made the men who had inadvertently dived here so frightened that they turned around and swam away.

When the other merchants on the shore heard that there was a well-preserved female corpse that looked like it had been dead for thousands of years under such a beautiful lake, their scalps were numb and their hearts were pounding.

And the merchant, who had just finished drinking water by the lake, vomited even more after hearing this, vomited all the food in his stomach, and retched for a long time before he could settle the matter.

But if Yuan Xunshuang saw this withered female corpse, he would also be surprised, but he would definitely not be afraid, but would quietly stay by her side and say what she wanted to say the most, because this female corpse was the Aunt Yerong she missed and respected the most.

The reason why Yuan Xunshuang was surprised was because Aunt Yerong had already been buried in the cemetery of Yanjia Village, so how could she return home by herself?

In fact, this is not the strangest place, it is said that half a month ago, when a group of merchants spent the night here, they could always faintly hear the sound of women calling, especially at midnight, the sound would get louder and louder.

If someone dared to approach the lake at that hour, they could faintly see that at the bottom of the lake, a golden point of light came out of the stone monument and was moving slowly.

When this point of light moves to a house under the water that has not collapsed, it disappears again.

Soon after, a woman's old voice could be clearly heard coming from the bottom of the lake: "Shuang'er...... Twin ...... Where are you? Aunt...... I miss you......"

Although there was no one to be seen, everyone standing by the lake had an intuition that there was a woman wandering around at the bottom of the lake at the moment, as if she was really looking for a girl named Shuang'er.

Every time this happens, the people who are attracted to the lake are scared to go back to sleep.

Usually they toss and turn for a long time, unable to sleep, and then before dawn the next day, they hurriedly pack their bags and go on the road, obviously really frightened.

This strange thing also quickly spread to the nearest county seat from Yanjia Village, when Tong County Ling heard about it, a week ago, he also came in person, and also sent someone to dive under the water to check, after salvaging the female corpse, it was clear that it was not Nalan Qiqing, Tong County Ling secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Because when he first heard the news, he was most worried that this woman was the queen's mother, Nalan Qiqing, if this was the case, then he would be ashamed of the emperor's unrepentant entrustment.

Fortunately, it was a strange woman, so he was relieved. It's just that what makes him anxious is that he has already announced to the new emperor that Nalan Qiqing is wanted by the whole country, and it has been almost a month, and there is still no news.

It stands to reason that even if Nalan Qiqing is hiding in a remote village, she should be found, unless she leaves the Liansheng Kingdom with the Lotus Son of Heaven, if this is really the case, then there will only be the Black-tailed Leafhopper Country.

But the problem is that the country of the black-tailed leafhopper is thousands of miles away from the country of Lotus Sheng, how could she, a weak woman with a newborn child, go to such a distant country?

What's more, there is a boundless desert between the two countries, and even if you don't encounter a desert storm, walking in this desert with little water and food is the end of nine deaths.

After reburying the salvaged female corpse, Tong Xianling had no choice but to return to the county seat again.

It's just that at midnight on the night when Tong Xianling returned to the county seat, a golden point of light flew out of the stone tablet under the water again, this time the point of light did not fly to the bedroom where the original female corpse was at the bottom of the lake, but flew directly out of the lake, came to a new grave, and after flying around the grave three times, it disappeared into the cemetery.

This cemetery is naturally the place where Tong County ordered the female corpse to be reburied during the day, and when the light flew into the female corpse's eyebrows, the female corpse was resurrected!

She climbed out of the grave and jumped into the lake again, calling Yuan Xunshuang's nickname while swimming at the bottom of the lake, until the end of the hour, when she returned to her bed at home and lay down, and the point of light flew back to the stele and disappeared.

This female corpse was transformed by the doppelganger demon frog that Princess Yuanfeng gave her before Ye Rong entered the ruins, plus a wisp of her own divine sense.

At first, the female corpse that replaced Yerong had been buried in the cemetery of Yanjia Village, and almost every few days, Yuan Xunshuang would come to the grave to talk about his heart, and then tell her what he had experienced during this time, so as to ease his longing.

And these words will be kept in the eyebrows of the female corpse, and when it comes to midnight to midnight, a point of light will fly out of the stone tablet and enter the eyebrows of the female corpse, so that Ye Rong herself, who is far away in the ruins, can hear the words that Yuan Xunshuang said to her through the dream.

But then all the villagers fled to the ruins, and the village sank and was flooded, and the cemeteries collapsed after being soaked and softened, and all the bones inside were exposed.

The other bones were eaten by the fish, but Ye Rong's clone had the ability to protect itself and was preserved intact.

Because this doppelganger has a wisp of Yerong's divine consciousness in it, it is not considered a dead person, and it still has some of its own memories and thoughts.

So she instinctively returned to the place where she lived again, and repaired the collapsed house by herself, restored everything in the house to its original state, and habitually planted the vegetables and melons that Yerong usually likes to eat in the yard.

During the day, this doppelganger is lying on the bed in a dormant state, and once it is midnight, after being controlled by the light point flying out of the stone tablet, it will get up and look for Yuan Xunshuang everywhere.

It was not until the end of the hour that the female corpse returned to her lodgings and lay down again, and the point of light automatically returned to the stele.

This situation has been going on for a week, and it would have continued, but at the moment when it was just noon today, the female corpse lying dormant on the bed suddenly glowed with a golden light.

Then it began to shrink slowly, and finally turned back into the original doppelganger magic frog bead.

The magic frog bead flew up automatically, and after leaving Yerong's house, it flew quickly towards the stone tablet.

After coming to the stele and flying around the stele three times, a golden beam of light shot out of the magic frog bead, only to see that the position where the stele was hit, a small gap was very strangely cracked, and the magic frog bead did not hesitate to drill into it when it saw the gap.

As soon as the Demon Frog Bead entered the stone tablet, the crack healed automatically, and the Magic Frog Bead disappeared completely.

At the same time, Yerong's house, which was more than a hundred zhang away from the stone stele, collapsed again, and even the vegetables and fruits planted in the yard withered and rotted in an instant.

After the magic frog bead entered the stone tablet, it came to the ruins of the lotus kingdom, and after flying for a long time, the magic frog bead came to the entrance of a natural ice cave, circled around the entrance a few times, but could not find any gaps to enter the cave, obviously the entrance has been completely sealed by ice.

So the Demon Frog Bead shot out a golden beam again, and saw that a crack also appeared on the smooth ice, and the Demon Frog Bead drilled into the gap and continued to fly towards the depths of the cave.

The crack soon healed on its own again.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the cave, and a beautiful middle-aged woman with a baby girl in her arms was cautiously walking towards the cave.

This woman was basking in the sun by the lake before, when she heard an extremely familiar call, and Yuan Xunshuang, who was attracted, was holding the lotus goddess Yanyu in her arms......