She was a lanternfish, tiny, purple fish.

Her name is Ziyou, and she now lives in the vast Tianhe. And her hometown, far away in the vast ocean of the mortal world, a water called Cangming.

A hundred years ago, when she was only three hundred and one years old, she followed the whole family, from Cangming to Tianhe through the fierce water, secluded streams, quicksand rivers, ice abysses, Tongtian canals, and Lingyundu.

Along the way, the Lantern Fish family has gone through thousands of dangers and disasters, and there are countless dead, and when they arrived in Tianhe, she was the only one who was lucky to survive, so she had to carry the ideals of the entire family and continue to cultivate alone.

Although the lifespan of the lanternfish is as long as 1,000 years, it is only a mortal fish after all. As fish, they live on water, but at the same time, they are imprisoned by water, and the most important thing is that they often become the object of human beings, and they cannot escape the fate of being slaughtered by others.

In order to get rid of this cruel fate, in order to cut off the fateful entanglement with the water, in order to strive for the greatest freedom, generations of members of the Lantern Fish family have been on the arduous journey to the Heavenly River, hoping that one day they can shed the body of the fish and ascend to the heavenly realm through penance.

Therefore, according to legend, there is a secret in Tianhe that can make the fish clan feather and ascend to immortals. For thousands of years, this legend has attracted countless mortal sea clans to fight for it, but for thousands of years, she has been the only one who can pass through Lingyundu and cross the heavens alive.

When she jumped into the Tianhe River and surfaced to look into the distance, she found that this shimmering silver water was so vast, vast, beautiful and mysterious, that it was no match for the sea in the dust. It's just that there is no bustle and prosperity here, there is just boundless coldness and loneliness.

There is only one species of fish that grows here, and they are called rays. These natives living in Tianhe are noble and indifferent, and they don't care about her as an outsider at all.

Rays have long pectoral fins, like the wings of birds, and they are able to fly freely on the surface of the water with their graceful shuttle-like bodies. All this made her extremely envious when she was young. She once thought that such a graceful flight was the only way to become an immortal.

So when the rays fly, she always watches their posture carefully, and carefully asks them for the secrets, but they proudly tell her that the rays are born with such skills.

Hearing such an answer, she was very frustrated, but she was unwilling. She followed the ray's movements, practicing over and over again, but could only fly a short distance close to the surface of the water in a short time. In fact, flyover is not what lanternfish are good at, as they do not have long fins like bird's wings, and their pectoral fins are short.

The unique feature of the lanternfish is that their bodies can sparkle like flames, and the beauty of that brilliance is by no means comparable to that of other fish families. Beneath the darkness of the deep sea, lanternfish are like swimming lights, happy to drive away the darkness and light the way home for those lost fish.

This is the pride of her entire family, and it is also the advantage that other fish cannot match, and it is from this that the title "lanternfish" in the mortal world comes from.

Once, her family was regarded as the leader of light by the entire Cangming Sea Clan, and her status was noble. However, in Tianhe, she is regarded as an outlier and is ridiculed in every way.

However, even so, she always adhered to the belief of her family at a young age and refused to give up that big dream easily.

Gradually, the hard work she put in day after day finally paid off, and she was able to leap more and more, and the distance she could fly farther and farther. After a hundred years of repeated practice, she can finally fly freely between the clouds and water like a ray and go anywhere she wants in the heavenly river.

A hundred years of time is so lonely and so long. She realized her wish to fly, but suddenly found that no matter how hard she could, she couldn't fly out of this water, because even if she flew high and far, she still had to return to the water to draw strength - fish, after all, are not birds.

Thinking about this, she couldn't help but be disappointed, and this disappointment kept her awake at night.

One day in heaven, one year in the dust.

The night in the Tianhe is so long, the stars in the river are rippling, the moon is like a huge silver plate, occupying most of the center of the river, the bright glow reflects the surface of the Tianhe River transparently, although the scene is empty and beautiful, but it makes her feel boundless emptiness and dazed, she often can't tell whether she is in the water, or in the moon, even after a thousand years, the feeling of emptiness and powerlessness is still fresh in her memory.

Heaven and earth are so big and boundless, she doesn't know where the other side of her dream is.

If she hadn't met him, maybe her life would continue to be barren, and the family dream she carried would only be that round of moon shadow in the water after all......

On that day, she was swept up by the wind and waves of the river, and her immature body fell heavily on the karma stone by the river.

When she rolled off the stone, her head accidentally got stuck in the crack of the stone, and she struggled several times, but she couldn't break free.

It's over, it's over! It is not right for the heavens and the earth......

It's really an unforeseen situation, but why is it her?!

She closed her eyes and sighed, and couldn't help but feel the sadness of the hero's end in her heart.

It won't be long before she dies of dehydration.

Is it just like that? She has not yet completed the mission entrusted to her by her family, so how can she explain it to her deceased parents and those fellow clansmen?

For a moment, she thought of her hometown, Cangming, and the ups and downs of the flames under the deep sea, each of which was the soul of a clansman. As lanternfish, after they die, their bodies turn into beautiful flames and drift to the bottom of the sea with the currents of the sea.

However, if the body is unable to enter the water after death, it will dissolve into droplets and disappear without a trace.

You're going to turn into droplets soon, right? She thought so, tears slowly welling up in the corners of her eyes—it was better that she didn't have to drift to see her parents and compatriots, and she didn't have to explain anything to them, so as not to disappoint them.

Thinking weakly, she finally gave up her futile struggle and slowly closed her eyes.

I don't know how long it took, in a trance, she suddenly heard a burst of laughter, and when she opened her eyes, she saw two figures, one green and one white, walking in the ethereal place of the fairy aura.

The two of them were clear and beautiful, with outstanding demeanor, without a trace of fireworks on their bodies, as if they were among the gods.

One of them has narrow sleeves in a green coat, with a heroic posture like a sword, and the sharp and restrained eyebrows between his eyebrows, slightly revealing a bit of pride.

And the one next to the person in Tsing Yi, the green silk is half bundled and half draped, his face is extremely handsome, and the brilliance of the cirrus clouds on the noble white robe is looming, so that his whole person is shrouded in a halo of high and bright run, and when he walks all the way, he has a smile on his eyebrows and eyes, wide sleeves fluttering, and the robe on his body is blown by the wind and is as elegant as a cloud.

"There is such a good-looking 'person' in the sky?!" She couldn't help but widen her eyes, her eyes burned, and she stared at the man in white in a daze, looking so drunk that she forgot about her embarrassing situation for a while.

The two immortals got closer and closer, and the white-robed man casually glanced at it while talking and laughing, and suddenly noticed the glowing purple light, and couldn't help but stop, raised his hand and gently patted his companion's shoulder, pointed to the karma stone and said, "Wei Jie, what do you think it is?" ”

"Where?" Weisuke turned his head and looked in the direction he was pointing, a hint of surprise flashing across his face.

When the eyes of the two of them turned together, Ziyou couldn't help but be shocked-ah! They found out......

At that moment, she held her breath and subconsciously wanted to escape, but her body couldn't move, so she had to helplessly watch the two unfamiliar faces gradually approach, and her heart was pounding with nervousness.

Oh no, he's coming! ——

She screamed in her heart, feeling her heart in her throat, and her obsidian eyes widened as she stared straight at the handsome man in white robes, not knowing what he wanted.

In an instant, she suddenly remembered those companions who had been captured and slaughtered by humans, and the fear in her heart arose, and she couldn't help but tremble all over her body - these people never take the lives of fish seriously, they are cruel, and once they fall into their hands, they are afraid that their lives will be lost......