Chapter 13: Knowing and Parting
When Xie Lanyan came to her senses again, she had already returned to her room in Zhu Ming Palace, the morning sun shone in coldly through the crack in the window, and it happened to shine on the bronze mirror on the desktop, she turned her head in a trance to look at her confused face in the mirror, and always felt a little sane, and she couldn't remember what happened last night at all.
Just when she was feeling irritable, a respectful voice came through the door: "Miss Xie, Lord Si Ming said that this year's situation is too special, let everyone go to the rear snow monument today to pray for baptism, and then the Snow Lake Festival will be terminated early, do you want to join us?" ”
Xie Lanyan rubbed her forehead, so tired that she didn't want to move, and replied impatiently without thinking: "I'm not going." ”
"Then you have a good rest, and call me if you have something." The cultist whispered a reply and quickly left.
Xie Lanyan was inexplicably in a daze, the Snow Lake Festival is the largest festival of the White Sect, and the sect leader will open the mechanism of the snow lake in the Thousand Machines Palace to draw out the water flow of the source of the glacier, legend has it that there is a place for Lord Feng Ji to rest, and her divine power will turn into countless fires to light up the three lamps put by the believers, this kind of festival usually lasts for seven days, and when it is the last day, the female priest in charge of the doctrine will summon the believers of the main altar to pray in the snowfield, and they pray sincerely in the direction of the snow monument, hoping that the gods can protect this ancient island.
Thinking of this, the corners of Xie Lanyan's mouth grinned with disdain, she put on a dress and sat in front of the bronze mirror, and there was an extremely deep sarcasm that couldn't help but overflow - back then, like all the female priests, she regarded this day as the most important day, she would wear a gorgeous feather embroidered with red lotus flowers and walk in the wind and snow with great anticipation, and she would look at the snow monument connecting the sky from afar like all the cultists, but how could there be any gods, even Feng Ji, who was worshiped as a god by other races, should have given up this isolated island a long time ago.
Female Priest ...... Today's female secretary is Yun Qiushui's apprentice Cen Qing, right? It's been almost twenty years in a blink of an eye, and the two children who didn't know anything at the beginning have grown up to be the great priest in charge, leading the embattled White Sect to resist the oppression from the imperial capital with difficulty.
Suddenly thinking of Yun Qiushui, Xie Lanyan's face became gloomy.
Twenty years is not a long time for alien beings to live longer than humans, but every time she thinks of the past, she feels as long as the past century.
Where did you lose? In terms of bloodline, she is an extremely rare existence in different races, in terms of talent, she has read poetry and books since she was a child, and in terms of appearance, she is also a peerless and beautiful person, obviously she met the sect leader first, why was she compared to a Central Plains woman who was killed halfway?
The first time I met King Garan was in a rare snow stop day, at that time, the sect leader was just a little girl with noble blood but didn't know anything like today's flying shadow, the man broke into the Thousand Machines Palace in front of everyone's eyes, and without waiting for the great priest Wu Yu to repel it, he swept the lotus throne in one step, and it was in an instant that the throne that symbolized the supreme status of the sect leader bloomed with a brilliant brilliance that had not been seen in seven hundred years, making the Thousand Machines Palace shine like a dazzling pearl on the snowfield!
Since then, the former Qinghe Sect Leader decisively abdicated to make way for Xian, and he sat up so immodestly and became the new Sect Leader of the White Sect.
Maybe it was at that moment that the woman who had always been arrogant was attracted by the mystery of the other party, and she didn't even notice that when Wu Yu cautiously asked about the other party's origin, she was just looking at that person in a daze, inadvertently interlacing his eyes, and her heart stopped for a moment as if it had been electrocuted.
Garan—This was the name of the man when he introduced himself, and the status of the White Cult among the alien races was equivalent to the status of the royal family in the hearts of men, and he was only given the title of "King of Garan" ever since.
In the five years since, King Garan has shown a strength far beyond that of his previous masters, single-handedly forcing the fierce Imperial army to retreat three times to avoid it, and the White Sect has also reached an unprecedented peak under his leadership.
The only thing that puzzled her was King Garan's attitude towards the Snow Lake Festival, which was different from the anticipation of the aliens, and every year when the Snow Lake Festival opened, his mood was extremely dull, not only would he change his character of talking and laughing in the past, but he would even retreat from all the sect members to stand alone by the Snow Lake for a long time.
In the third year, when she finally mustered up the courage to walk to the king of the lake, she encountered the most severe reprimand since they met, and the eyes of the king of Garan that day were sharp and made her shudder, and she reminded word by word - "Xie Lanyan, you have crossed the line." ”
In fact, from that time on, she should have understood that she was not special in the other party's heart, but this man who usually praised her and would privately instruct her spells still easily took away her heart and made her ignore these things intentionally or unintentionally.
It is said that the sect leader of that day went to the snowfield alone to relax, and when he came back, he was chased and killed all the way to the Dengxian Dao by a woman holding a long sword, you must know that the strength of the sect leader is unfathomable, even if Wu Yu and several great elders combined can't pass ten moves under him, he must not be chased by a human woman without the power to fight back, and even directly through the periphery surrounded by forbidden spells on the spot into the divine farmland!
Just when everyone was stunned, as the supreme sect leader of the White Sect, she took the initiative to beg for mercy, and at that moment, she saw a certain luster in the other party's eyes that had never been seen before—it was a starlight flicker that would only come after a man was attracted to a woman.
She was unwilling, she couldn't believe that five years of getting along was just a self-deception, and she didn't want to believe that the man she wanted would be taken away by a woman who suddenly broke in, she was arrogant all her life, she put down her reserve and took the initiative to confess her heart to King Garan, she never expected that what she got was just a cold refusal, she blushed and asked him why desperately, but the other party just smiled faintly, there was a thin fire flickering in her reddish pupils, and she answered without hesitation - "No why, I like her very much, That's all. ”
How could a place like the White Sect accommodate a human woman from the Central Plains? Even the sect leader who covered the sky with one hand naturally suffered the opposition of all the disciples, and it was at that time that she finally saw another ruthless appearance under the plump and handsome appearance of this man, in order to keep Yun Qiushui by his side, he first directed and acted to attack a small village under the mountain, and then pretended to be compassionate to help Yun Qiushui after tricking him over, and after winning the favor of the other party, he used forbidden magic to control a few necromancers and injured her, and then brought her back to the Qianji Palace of the General Altar with peace of mind on the grounds of healing injuries and removing poison, At the same time, she brought back her two little apprentices, who taught them spells by herself, and said that she would train them to become the most powerful masters.
In the space of two years, such a person whose strength was so strong that all the disciples were in awe of him turned out to be that he had tried his best to please women again and again, while also being distracted to deal with the increasingly angry resistance forces in the church.
Finally one day, King Jialan lightly supported the clouds and Qiushui, and asked her to go to Fulong Town to buy a medicine for the injured disciples, she believed that it was true to put away the medicine prescription and leave, and then that unprecedented civil strife broke out - I thought that he had gathered the disciples to discuss the matter, but in the end he just took a tough attitude to kill the biggest opponent Wu Yu Da Si Ming, that beam of fire pierced Wu Yu's shoulder bone for the first time, and the severe pain made Wu Yu sweat continuously, and the two swore to look at each other without stopping, Until Wu Yu looked up to the sky and smiled and shouted in front of many believers, 'May I never turn a blind eye after I die, see when the sect leader will regret, and see when the white sect will die!' King Garan silently accepted this curse with a cold face, and then directly gouged out the other party's eyes and placed them at the highest place in the Thousand Machines Palace!
The Thousand Machines Palace was silent, and King Garan shook the blood stains in his hand, and asked word by word: "Who else wants to see it?" ”
No one answered, and the believers who had sworn just now bowed their heads to him and bowed to him, saying the opposite of their hearts: "I wish the sect leader a hundred years of good harmony and long peace and stability." ”
Afterwards, such a huge slaughter was covered up by King Garan's one-handed cover-up, and a year later, he got his wish and married Yun Qiushui, and the White Sect ushered in the only human great priest in history.
Yun Qiushui is indeed special, since she came, the sect leader suddenly changed his words and said that his real name is "Feng Jiuqing", of course, about this matter, except for Yun Qiushui, who was born in the Central Plains and didn't know much about the Feiyuan alien race, all the sect members, including her, didn't believe it, after all, the sect leader was also a man, and it was normal for a Pomeranian to smile in front of a woman he liked.
It wasn't until one day a long time later, when she sat alone in the secluded courtyard and looked at the blue and clear sky above her that she suddenly understood, and when he said the name "Garan", he was also looking up at the sky, looking at the big snowfield where the wind and snow stopped, the sky was cloudless and clear, and then he lowered his head and smiled and said those two words, Garan - it turned out to be just the blue sky of Garo, homonym Garan.
Maybe his name is really "Feng Jiuqing"? He always looked at the pool in the apse with a restless mind during the Snow Lake Festival, could it really have any special relationship with Lord Feng Ji?
The heartbeat was instantaneous, and the lucidity was also instantaneous, and as a bystander who witnessed the whole process and remained silent, she finally realized that this man who was as dangerous as a poppy was by no means a good type.
Reason made her return the title of "Great Commander", and left the snowfield alone, but feelings such a thing will always make people inadvertently have some kind of inexplicable impulse, she met the uninvited Commander of the Dark Department after more than ten years of seclusion, the other party confessed to her straightforwardly, and promised her that she would tell her all the secrets about King Garan after the fact, she once again felt the heartbeat of the year, and also remembered the loss and unwillingness of the day she left.
The biggest advantage of the alien race over humans is the long life, Yun Qiushui is already old, or she will die soon, maybe ...... She really has a chance to renew her relationship with the man she never forgets.
She agreed to the other party's request and returned to the White Sect all the way, and also found a high-sounding reason for herself - after all, she was also a foreigner with noble blood, after all, she was the great commander of the White Sect, of course she couldn't watch the imperial army set foot on this Thousand Machines Palace, which symbolized faith.
Xie Lanyan shook her head vigorously, her overly chaotic thoughts made her chest seem to be blocked and uncomfortable, only then did she see a small and imperceptible wound on her cheek from the bronze mirror, she was stunned at first, and suddenly remembered something and quickly touched it in her arms - wooden box! Sure enough, she had the wooden box given by the Commander of the Dark Division, and the last person in her memory seemed to have asked her to spill the contents of the wooden box into the altar, and then、And then what else did she say?
Xie Lanyan frowned hesitantly - she couldn't remember, why was this happening, she couldn't even remember what happened last night?
In a trance, a voice sounded directly in her head, and there was some kind of ghostly hint that made her put away all her thoughts in the next second and put away the wooden box again, Xie Lanyan tidied up her clothes and pushed the door out, as if a puppet controlled by a lead walked towards the altar without hesitation.