06 | Past Events (M)
The fish mustered up his courage and walked slowly towards the orange-red lake not far away.
Daze's miasma does not disperse for many years, covering the sky and the sun. As a result, the environment here is eerie and gloomy. However, this lake, as if it could glow on its own, smudged the chaotic sky within dozens of miles of the lake into an orange-red.
Yiyu walked to the stone monument by the lake, which was covered with damp moss, telling people about the turn of time. Yi Yu noticed the nicks hidden under the moss, and carefully distinguished, it was the word "other shore".
"The other side?" Yi Yu was slightly stunned, and the homonyms of these two inscriptions seemed to imply that visitors should not touch the stone tablet.
However, she still obeyed the man's words and gently pressed her palm against the stone tablet.
The stele was not as clammy and cold as she had imagined, on the contrary, a warm current instantly spread throughout her body along the fit of her palm. At the same time, there seemed to be an unknown force in her body gradually awakening under the warmth of the warm current, and she couldn't help but close her eyes to feel this recovering force.
She had never felt the breath of water so clearly, not only the lake water, but also the water vapor in the air, and she had a faint premonition that as long as she was in the water, she could instantly move thousands of miles away.
Yi Yu opened her eyes, and before she could rejoice in her sudden awakening of strength, she saw a scene that she would never forget in her life.
Countless orange-red river lanterns slowly emerge from the surface of the lake and float into the air one after another.
It turned out that the orange-red water of the lake was actually stained by the river lamp hidden under the surface of the water.
The lotus-shaped river lanterns continue to float, and after a while, the entire lake surface and sky of the Shark Lake are scattered with lights, dotted with stars, shining.
A lotus-shaped wooden boat slowly rose from under the lake, and on the top of the boat sat a white-haired man, with a crane hair and a young face, dressed in a blue robe, which was the usual attire of the people of Daze.
The wooden boat slowly walked to the edge of the lake, and the man opened his slightly closed eyes, and in an instant he came from the wooden boat to the shore.
"Your breath is familiar." The crane-haired man said in a deep voice, "It has the taste of Xiaosi." ”
"I'm here to find my mother." Yiyu directly expressed his intention.
"It seems that I guessed correctly, you are indeed the daughter of the fourth child." The man continued expressionlessly, "Why did you come back since you had already fled. ”
"My father died, so I came to my mother's ......" Yiyu lowered his head.
"It's a pity." The man sighed softly, "What's your name?" ”
"My name is Yiyu." Yi Yu raised his head and said proudly, "Yi is my father's surname, and Yu is my mother's surname." ”
"My name is Yuyi, it stands to reason that you should call me uncle." The crane-haired man said.
"Uncle, can you take me to see my mother?" Yi Yu hurriedly asked.
"That person once made a rule that the people of the merman clan could not love outsiders." Yuichi was silent for a moment before continuing, "So you shouldn't have survived in the first place, can you understand what I mean?" ”
Yi Yu's heart tightened, and an ominous premonition arose.
She couldn't help but start moving backwards, only to find that her feet were about to move as if they were being pinned to the ground.
"Uncle, you can't ...... like this," Yiyu begged with a crying voice.
"I'm sorry, kid......" Yuyi sighed, "don't hold a grudge against Uncle." ”
As soon as Yu slowly stretched out his hand, a water sword shot out of his sleeve, and Yi Yu subconsciously closed his eyes, but he didn't feel the pain of death.
Perhaps, death is not painful in the first place.
Yi Yu comforted herself and opened her eyes, and what she saw was a tall and straight back.
"Good skills." Yu Yi sighed, "Your Excellency's sword path is profound, and you must be a cultivator of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect." ”
"The predecessor is right, Chen Changqing, the head of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect." The man pointed at Yu Yi with the blade of his sword, his eyes fixed on the thin and long blade.
"It turned out to be the head of the house." Yuyi said slowly, "However, today's matter is a family affair of the merman clan, so it is better for Your Excellency not to interfere." ”
"Seeing that the road is uneven, I still have to draw a knife to help, not to mention that I brought this girl here, and I have the obligation to take her away." Chen Changqing said firmly.
"You are not my opponent, for the sake of the Ten Thousand Swords Gate's generations of guarding the roe deer owl, this time I won't worry about you, you can go." Fish together.
"I know that my predecessors have a profound Taoism, and they have the unique natal talent of the merman clan. However, since it is a sword cultivation, there are only two things in the world, the things that can be cut and the things that cannot be cut. If you are cowardly before you fight, how can you have the courage to break through ten thousand laws with one sword in the future, feather and ascend to immortality? Chen Changqing said with a smile.
"Descendants of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, you must not know what to do." Yu's tone gradually became cold, "If you want to become an immortal, at least you have to live until that day, if you die halfway, there will be nothing." ”
"Thanks to the relationship between the predecessors, since you have embarked on the road to immortality, what you are seeking is to be different from the comfort of mortals. If I can't even keep my own heart, and I have to compromise even the bottom line of being a human being, then I would rather fall on the road of seeking immortals. ”
"Since you are looking for death, I will fulfill you." As soon as the fish spoke, he chanted a spell that Chen Changqing didn't understand, Chen Changqing didn't dare to slack off, and put the long sword across his chest, and a high wall of sword qi protected him and Yiyu behind.
With the sound of Yuichi's chanting, his body gradually emitted an orange-red luster like a river lamp. The luster grew brighter and brighter, and the moment his chanting came to an abrupt end, he himself turned into a blinding light.
Yi Yu was so blinded by this light that she couldn't open her eyes, and she felt that she was about to become one with this light. Just when she wanted to give up, suddenly a hand grabbed her arm.
"Follow me." The gentle and firm voice is Chen Changqing.
Without thinking, Yiyu began to run with the traction of her palm, and the next moment, she briefly jumped up and then fell.
With the sound of "poof", a cold meaning instantly invaded every inch of Yiyu's body, and she choked on a mouthful of water, but there was no feeling of suffocation.
The feeling in the water was as familiar and warm as when she returned to her home.
The moment they enter the water, they know what to do. She held Chen Changqing's hand instead, and silently thought about the place of Hanshui, and in the next moment, she really took Chen Changqing to emerge from the surface of the Hanshui River.
"We escaped." Yi Yu said to Chen Changqing in surprise.
The man next to her ignored her.
She originally thought that her voice was too quiet, and Chen Changqing didn't hear it, but when she turned her face sideways, she found that the face of the man next to her was as pale as ice and snow.
And the river below him had already been stained red with blood.