Xu Yan didn't care about what the disciples of the sect said about him, and even the invitation sent to him by the prince surnamed Bai was left behind after he turned around.

As far as he was concerned, since yesterday when he was inadvertently evoked by the cardinal, which caused the emotions that had been hidden in his heart for more than eight hundred years to burst out like a volcano in an instant, he only felt more and more urgent about the speed of his own strength, and other than that, he didn't want to care about anything related to the people and things in the Five States Continent, and he didn't care at all.

Because he just wants to take a light step at the moment, he can return to that heavenly realm, to the real 'hometown' that belongs to him.

He wanted to see if his former subordinates were okay, and to see if the woman who had sacrificed his life for him, and who was also his greatest beloved, was still sleeping quietly there. Even if she had lost her soul a long time ago, even if she was just a shell that he had placed in a world that no one could approach except himself.

But obviously none of this can happen, this is just the wishful thinking loneliness and fantasy in his heart, and it is a deep pain that he cannot restrain himself.

As we approached, the night sky was filled with stars, bright and bright.

Xu Yan looked up at them for a long time, and before he knew it, he fell into this kind of eternity-like silence, so that even he didn't know that as the emotions in his heart continued to spread and rise, these stars invisibly became the faces in his mind that were once extremely familiar, but now they had become very blurred.

This made him feel very sad and made him question himself, how could he gradually forget about them?

And the most regrettable thing for him was that because it was a new moon today, the moon did not rise in the night sky as usual, which made him feel that among the thousands of faces shining in the sky, there was no face that he missed the most and wanted to see the most.

Xu Yan sat alone on a stone bench in the courtyard, enjoying the evening breeze gently blowing on him at the beginning of spring.

The night breeze was a little cool, but it was far from being as sad and hesitant as it had already occupied his entire heart at this time, so he couldn't feel the night wind, nor could he feel the carp-like true qi in his body, which was speeding up by I don't know how many times, in the various points in his body that had been opened, constantly swimming and shuttling, back and forth, over and over again.

Xu Yan's consciousness, just like last night, once again walked away from this world, fleeing from what he knew, fleeing from all that he had. He didn't know where he was going, but in his heart, there was always a voice that seemed to tell him that as long as he didn't stay here, he would go wherever he wanted. Finally, Xu Yan felt that he had come to a new world, in which there was a torrential rain pouring down from the sky, and then he saw a naked woman waddle towards him with her back to him in the misty rain curtain in the distance.

She was hunched over her body, her hands clasped tightly to her chest, and she looked reverent and mysterious, as if she was holding something in her hands to prevent it from getting wet from the rain. Her steps staggered, and her whole crooked back was like a tense longbow. Xu Yan knew that it was because of the rain that was falling from the sky, that she couldn't walk vertically like ordinary people.

The woman walked very slowly, but she walked alone step by step.

In this endless world full of rain and cold, she looked so weak and lonely, Xu Yan wanted to be able to catch up with her at this moment and give her support, but no matter how hard he tried and tried, he couldn't catch up with her.

He and she have always maintained this fixed distance.

It can neither be stretched nor shortened, not even by a short distance.

Luckily, after walking for about a full day, the naked woman finally found a place to shelter from the rain.

She came to a cliff, a bare cliff with nothing, no vegetation, not even moss, only black, hard rock, but a large area hollowed out in the mountain for her petite body to hide in.

Xu Yan watched her walk into the cliff with such a solemn gaze, and after she successfully avoided the rain, she finally straightened up, and then saw her very carefully spread out the two palms that were tightly bent and wrapped together, revealing the contents of the palms.

It was a faint flame that could be extinguished at any moment, and it was the woman's green hand that kept the flame unquenched, and it was burning incessantly.

It's an unimaginable scene, and the woman uses her own flesh and blood as raw materials to keep the flame.

But for some reason, when Xu Yan saw this flame, the entire consciousness in his brain began to have a severe and irrepressible pain, as if a pair of invisible hands were tearing apart the consciousness in his brain. Xu Yan hugged his head and cried, and the whole person fell to the ground, the tears in his eyes were like a steady stream of torrential rain pouring down from the sky, rolling down from his eyes, but even so, he still tried his best to focus his eyes on the naked woman, because at this moment, his only thought was to see the woman's face clearly.

He wanted to see what she really looked like.

However, even though the woman had turned around at this time and was facing Xu Yan naked, he couldn't see her face clearly anyway, because on her face, there was a cloud that completely covered her appearance, or maybe she didn't have facial features at all?

For such a result, Xu Yan was suddenly shocked, and then immediately he remembered another figure.

That figure also has no facial features on his face, but it is a figure that he can never forget, and it is also a figure that he can't let go.

The world in front of me shattered!

The whole world was like a mirror formed by the ice spirit, which was shattered into countless pieces at this moment, and then under the shadow of these broken broken ice, Xu Yan saw a verdant sapling growing out of the rock, but on the few leaves of the sapling, the flame that was originally in the woman's palm kept burning on the leaves.

The woman's figure vanished.

The rain also dissipated, Xu Yan felt that his consciousness could no longer bear the pain, and was completely torn into pieces, and then his body began to fall, and kept falling, as if he was about to fall into the endless abyss.

Xu Yan didn't know how long he had been in the process of falling, but in his confused perception, he heard the sound of falling rain in his ears again, and along with his body, he also felt a trace of cold coldness.

"Xu Yan, wake up quickly...... Xu Yan, what's wrong with you, wake up soon!"

A crisp sound like a heavenly sound, piercing through the vast sound of falling rain, clearly reached his ears. The voice sounded a little hurried and panicked, and at the same time, he felt that his falling body was being shaken by a force that was not very large.

Boom!

A sudden thunderclap finally woke up Xu Yan, who had fallen into his imagination.

He slowly opened his eyes, and the familiar sight fell into his eyes again.

It was a courtyard where he had lived for three years, and in front of him was a figure he had long been familiar with.

On her body, there was a hint of grass-like fragrance, and Xu Yan would never forget this smell, because it could only belong to his nominal 'maid', the cardinal.

The wisps of orange-red candlelight swaying in the corners of the courtyard made Xu Yan feel a trace of temperature contained in it, and then he looked up at the handsome woman in front of him who was two years older than him and was holding an oil-paper umbrella for him, and suddenly asked with some surprise: "Sister Hong, why haven't you slept yet?"

Cardinal looked at Xu Yan, who was bleeding from all seven orifices in front of him, and could be described as shocking, and said coldly: "What are you sleeping, do you know that you almost went crazy?"