Chapter 32: The Long Tie
At first, she shuddered a little at her father's sudden embrace, but then, she felt all the melancholy and complaints in her body melt in his arms, and the kind of fatherly love she had not seen for a long time made her feel at ease, and her body relaxed and fell on his chest and cried to her heart's content.
This was the first hug she had ever embraced since she could remember, and it turned out that in the Yellow Springs Country, she could feel the body temperature from another person so truly. After all, blood is thicker than water, and in an instant, all the grievances between her and her father have turned into smoke.
The Demon King of Flame Luo whispered in his daughter's ear: "Life cannot really disappear in the Yellow Springs Kingdom, they will always be transformed into other forms of existence, and the person who can control the laws of life here is me, so I can reverse the demise of Hyacinth's body!" ”
He gently pushed his daughter away, standing some distance from her, and then reached out to guide the blue butterfly that surrounded her into his palm. In fact, he had already seen that the blue butterfly was the embodiment of Hyacinth, and he silently recited a spell like a scripture, and then threw the butterfly into the air.
The butterfly flew up, dropping bits of gold dust in its path, and the figure of a man gradually revealed with the shining gold. Pothos rubbed her eyes in surprise, and finally determined that the person in front of her was Hyacinth, and she ran to him relentlessly, not caring about the attention of the people around her. For the first time, she touched her lover, and the happiness made her cry.
Hyacinth didn't know what else to do but hug her tightly, and he was so excited that he couldn't say a word, and no words could describe his heartfelt joy at this time.
Xia Qiu, who was on the side, was also moved to the point that her eyes moistened, and she twisted her head to the side and wiped it secretly. The thousand riders simply ran over, patting Hyacinth on the shoulder regardless of it.
Hyacinth turned to look at Qianqi, Ouyang Xiaoleng, and Xia Qiu, and said, "I didn't expect us to meet again!" ”
"You guy, how can you be so reckless, you don't even care about your life for us, I thought I would never see you again!" The expression on Qianqi's face was mixed with sadness and joy.
"You all stand down!" The Demon King of Flame Luo commanded the black and white demons who were whispering on the side.
When he was facing his heartbroken daughter just now, he was inspired by the uncontrollable fatherly love that made him forget about his majesty as the lord of the Yellow Springs Kingdom, and only then did he realize that his performance just now was a little out of shape. The reason why he was able to shock this lifeless and lifeless Yellow Springs Kingdom was precisely because of his indifference and cruelty that made everyone unfathomable. He has complete control of the laws of life in the Yellow Springs Realm, and if he doesn't care about him, he will turn into dust, trees, dead souls, or blood crows...... His cruelty terrified the highly intelligent black and white evils, and they surrendered to him because of it. And today he is obviously unusual, becoming a kind and even somewhat doting father of his daughter.
After the Black and White Demons had left, the Demon King of Flame Luo said to the boys, "As for the Earth Talisman you mentioned, it does exist in my palace, but no one other than me has seen its true face. It is like a seal in this Yellow Springs world, maintaining the balance of this distorted space, and also preventing the dark power in the forbidden forest from leaking out, which is why I will never give it to anyone so easily! ”
"I see! If you had told us the stakes in the first place, we wouldn't have wanted to take it with us! It seems that we must leave as soon as possible to find another way! ”
Before the Flame Luo Demon King finished speaking, Ouyang Xiaoleng wanted to leave with Qianqi and Xia Qiu.
"You young man, why are you so anxious? It is precisely because no one has ever seen it that I can hand over the real one to you, and leave a fake one here, until someone can pass my level and forcibly let it see the light of day, no one else will know that the real talisman has been brought back to the demon world by you! And my only request, but when you go back, you must not let anyone else know where you got this talisman. The reason is very simple, there are definitely more than one or two runes scattered by the gods in all walks of life, and if we keep this secret between us, no one will suspect that the earth runes here are missing. ”
As he spoke, the Demon King turned and walked towards the back of the throne, and he gently pressed the bulge in the hidden part of the throne. With a crisp click, the back of the throne slid open in both directions, and a drawer-sized hole appeared, and he reached into it and pulled the talisman out of it.
The form of the earth talisman was completely different from what Ouyang Xiaoleng had imagined, it was a golden silk bag containing grit from the divine realm.
"Scattering this gravel under the foundation around the pillar will bring the earth to a halt, but if you want to suppress the shaking of the sky, you will need a celestial talisman." Without hesitation, the Flame Luo Demon King handed the bag into Ouyang Xiaoleng's hands.
"Thank you!" Ouyang Xiaoleng carefully took the bag, its value far exceeded its own weight, and the moment he held it in his hand, he felt a sense of relief.
Xia Qiu and Qianqi couldn't help but walk up to him, their eyes focused on the small bag, for them, from the moment they decided to enter the Yellow Springs World, their adventure began. Although this bag contained the original purpose of their trip, they unexpectedly gained more things, including their own growth, friendship with Hyacinths, and the next words of the Demon King of Flame Luo revealed the truth about the Yellow Springs Kingdom.
"When I was young, I was a god in the divine realm who was in charge of executions, and because I was tired of killing, I volunteered to be sent to such a place. This distorted space seems cold, but there is no birth, death, death, souls here although they have been tormented for a long time but will eventually transform into other forms of existence, when they turn into a tree, a blood crow or a grain of dust, their sins will be washed away, although here is only a cycle and continuation of nothingness, but it can calm me more than killing. The appearance of the flower girl broke this peace, maybe this is called bad fate, you want to escape the heartache, but in the end you can't escape the heartbreak, she is the cause I planted with my own hands, and the fruit is also the fruit that I must taste. ”
The Demon King reached out and took off the mask on his face, revealing the noble cheeks under the mask, he had the typical deep outline of a descendant of the Protoss, with a tall nose, golden brown pupils, a melancholy face, pale sideburns, and a somewhat similar demeanor to the Amber Dragon King.
This is the first time that Pothos has seen the true face of his father, he has hidden his beauty and everything in the past behind a mask, and at the same time he has hidden his vulnerability and compassion, but today all his emotions and memories collide fiercely at the moment when he is facing his daughter again, and he is out of control.
"Hyacinth, you send these three teenagers away from the back door first, I still have something I want to say to Pothos alone!" The Demon King commanded.
"Yes!" Hyacinth nodded in response, then turned to them, "Come on, follow me!" ”
Although the three teenagers were still reluctant, they had to say goodbye to the green pothos and the Flame Luo Demon King, and followed him out through another door behind the main hall.
After Xiao Leng and the others left, the Demon King of Flame Luo instructed his daughter Luluo: "Today, my act of letting these three teenagers leave here will definitely shake the prestige I have established between the black and white evils, and I want to rest for a while for the time being." I'm going to announce that I'm going to hand over the management of this place to you, and I'm going to enter the Forbidden Forest, where there are many paths to the Otherworld, and I've been wondering if there will be a way to the past time and space, and if I can go back to the past, I'll definitely stop your mother Flower Girl from leaving the Yellow Springs Realm. ”
Green Pothos was taken aback by her father's words. First of all, she always thought that her father still resented her mother, but she didn't expect him to have the obsession to go back to the past to stop her mother from running to death; Secondly, for the matter of succeeding him as the lord of the Yellow Springs Kingdom, she was not mentally prepared at all.
"Once you fail, you don't know what kind of world you'll be drawn into, and you will be lost in it forever, it's too risky!" And with my strength, how can I convince the Black and White Evils to rule this world? ”
"Hehe, over the years, I have blindly grasped the pain of losing your mother, but I never thought that I could do anything to save and change, I closed my heart, and even you were isolated from me. It wasn't until today, seeing your love affair with Hyacinth, and the courage of the boys from the other world to save their own world, that I realized what I had missed, and as long as there was a glimmer of hope, I also wanted to go back in time and find her, or simply stay with her in another time and space. ”
The Demon King of Flame Luo has made up his mind, the only thing he feels sorry for and not relieved is his daughter Green Pothos, who has been imprisoned by him for many years, and has just been able to get out of the tower, and is about to take over the responsibility of taking charge of this world, it is not easy to deal with the black and white evils, but he believes that having Hyacinth by her side will definitely help her through the difficulties.
Although Pothos still wants to persuade her father to change her mind, after experiencing the life and death of Hyacinth, she also understands what the pain of lovesickness is, so she can better understand her father's deep affection for her mother.
The Demon King of Yanluo looked at his daughter who wanted to speak and stopped, sighed deeply, and showed a faint smile to her, feeling that it was really an arrangement to leave Hyacinth back then, and this man would take his place to protect the pothos in the future, and accompany her to give her the warmth and love that she had never given.
He put on his mask of golden scales, sat back on the throne, summoned back the black and white evils waiting outside the hall, and tried to return to the unpredictable tone of the previous voice, saying, "I have something to announce! ”
Because Ouyang Xiaoleng and the others were missing from the main hall, the black and white demons standing below were talking non-stop, and they used a language similar to Sanskrit with each other, which even the Yama Demon King could not fully understand. Although Green Pothos couldn't understand their language, she was sensitive and felt the oppressive aura that permeated the entire hall, and it was difficult to predict whether what would happen next would be good or bad, good or bad.
Immediately afterwards, this depression was broken by the voice of his father, Wang Hongzhong.
"I've already rejected the request of the Demon King Fox Descendants to get the Earth Talisman and send them back to their own world! As you can see, none of the soul guards outside the Lingyun Palace can stop them, and if they are left in the Yellow Springs Realm, it will inevitably plunge this place into complete chaos, so I have to make an exception to let them leave to ensure the stability of the Yellow Springs World. He paused, heard the following discussion gradually subsided, and continued, "I am old, and I am tired of managing the Yellow Springs Country, and today I finally met my daughter Green Pothos, which made me want to take a break, I plan to enter the forbidden forest, looking for the magical power that exists in the black hole that can change everything." ”
He didn't have the ease with which he used to be, and he heard a hint of faltering in his voice, and he couldn't help but pause again to see how the black and white evils below would react. When he found that they were neither suspicious nor wavering, he continued, "I believe that with the deterrence of this talisman, the management of pothos and hyacinths, and your right-hand man, the country of Huangquan will be as peaceful as it has been for thousands of years!" And I, too, will say goodbye, and let the pothos send me to the edge of the Forbidden Forest, where you will stay and wait for her to send. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he stood solemnly and straightened his robe a little.
"Yes!"
Fearful of the power of the talisman, the White and Black Evils obeyed his instructions and retreated to the sides of the temple, making way for the pothos to support him away.