The smoke billowed straight into the sky.
Siming held the hilt of the sword and slowly pulled it out from his body. The edge of the sword was filtered by blood and turned red. The tremor of his heart also hit the iron edge across the half-inch distance, and was transmitted from the sword body to the sword. hand.
Her palms were also shaking.
The huge tree behind her had been destroyed by spiritual power and slowly collapsed. She slowly squatted down and leaned on the broken tree stump. She looked at the blood marks on the sword, her mouth half-opened, her towering chest rising and falling, and she kept breathing. Suffocating, her white blouse was soaked with blood, making it look like a large blooming peony. Blood also oozed from her mouth, and her lips turned blood red when she pursed her lips.
In the past, she had seen the death of many beauties in the human world, and she always felt that death inherently had a thrilling beauty.
Now that blood is flowing out, her white parts are closer to porcelain color, and her charming parts are more red, like a new bud. This kind of beauty is budding on her body, as if every petal is about to open at any time and bring her into the realm of the netherworld.
Siming raised his hand with difficulty and pressed his wound.
At the wound, time speeds up, the bleeding quickly stops and scabs form, and then the scabs peel off, leaving the skin as tender as new.
But this also consumed too much of her energy.
The woman who was always gentle and smiling was gone. She was covered in injuries and looked more like a female ghost crawling out of a pool of sticky blood, full of resentment.
She kept coughing, turned around and stumbled towards the woods.
At this moment, she just wanted to find a secret cave to stabilize her injuries. She didn't even bother to care about the royal city even if it turned upside down.
At this moment, her blood-soaked white dress was stuck to her slender and well-proportioned thighs, which made her feel disgusted. The blood seemed to be indelible filth, just like the scattered residual red and the dirty snow in the corner of the wall.
She was walking in the forest, calming down little by little. Suddenly, she felt cold all over, and the sound of someone talking came to her ears.
"Are we really not going with them on this trip to the snowfield? In the future, our names will not be included in the history books."
"There is no end in sight to this snowy field, and those snow tigers and giant elephants are not comparable to us at all... Nothing is more important than life, not to mention that the City of Breakthrough is in trouble now, and we must go back."
"What are those monsters in the snowfield? Why are they so powerful?"
"Yes, they are so powerful... So I am also worried that the snowfield is still not the end. The deeper you go, the stronger the monsters will be. By then, it will be too late to run away."
"Then when will it be the end?"
"It is said that a warrior will emerge from the Broken Boundary City every hundred years. It's been another hundred years. I hope this warrior can lead us out."
"Hmm... By the way, senior brother, do you smell the smell of blood?"
"The smell of blood..."
The brother and sister also noticed something strange in the woods. They looked around and saw the broken trees.
"It looks like there was a fight."
"There are blood stains here, could it be some kind of monster?"
"There!" Junior sister suddenly exclaimed, pointing in a certain direction, where a white corner of clothes was exposed.
Siming knew he had been discovered.
The injuries that had been squeezed all night broke out. Her body felt like it was nailed, and it was difficult to move. Even if she pressed for time, it would be difficult to recover all the injuries immediately.
If it had been in the past, these disciples from the Duanjie City would not have been able to enter her eyes at all, and she could decide their life and death with her own hands.
But at this moment, she could only avoid the sharp edge and take a detour, which added a bit of humiliation to her heart.
"Ning Jiujiu..." Siming gritted his teeth and shouted his name. The young man's face flashed in his mind, and he wanted to tear it into pieces: "Next time, you will never escape..."
Footsteps approached from behind.
"Where is the monster!" the male disciple shouted loudly.
Siming glanced at him coldly, and after hesitation, he chose to run away directly.
The male disciple saw her face in a trance. Even though it was just one side, he was still distracted.
He has never seen such a delicate and beautiful face, even the goddess described in the book with great words is nothing more than this.
Such beauty must have turned into a monster!
This further strengthened his determination to slay demons. He took out a wooden tube from his waist, pulled it out hard, and a stream of fireworks shot high into the sky and exploded one after another. This is the signal.
Siming also noticed the fireworks blooming in the night sky, and she secretly screamed that something was wrong.
It won't take long for the surrounding disciples to gather together.
Even if Si Ming is seriously injured now, she still won't take their realm seriously, but this is very troublesome.
So from then on, a hunt began. She was obviously the strongest hunter in Broken Boundary City, but at this moment she was surrounded and suppressed by some extremely humble young royals. This made her extremely ashamed and angry, and she wished she could just draw her sword and kill them all. . But it is definitely not a wise choice to continue taking action at this moment. She must return to the Xingling Palace. Only there can she not be afraid of Ye Chu and Zhong Sui's pursuit.
The light between heaven and earth is getting brighter and brighter.
She doesn't like daytime.
And the beacon fire and smoke in front of her was like a black sword reaching into the sky, which made her feel panic-stricken.
She was not sure if she would be directly defeated by Chong Sui if she returned to the city in her current state.
Hum... What does the raging flood in the imperial city have to do with me
So, in the misty canyon, she stopped, found a dry cave, crawled in, killed the unicorn in the middle, cut off its horn, and tore open its skin. , after taking out the demon pill and swallowing it alive, she simply set up a ban at the entrance of the cave, and then she leaned weakly against the stone wall. The stone wall was covered with slender flowers, and there were a lot of hay and snakes piled on the ground. Bones of insect beasts.
This was her first time resting in such an environment.
She loves cleanliness very much, and that love is almost obsessive, just like the spotless Xingling Palace and her flawless white body.
But at this moment, exhaustion overwhelmed her. Her swan-like neck rested on the hard and rugged stone, and she quickly fell asleep.
In her sleep, she saw Ning Changjiu again.
She dreamed that the young man in white was on the throne of the Kingdom of God. Under the throne were countless bones, but she knelt humbly under the stairs of bones, her knees touching the ground, her untied silver hair flowing down like water, ** Her snow feet were also heavily shackled, and her slender legs were covered with fine red whip marks. She knelt quietly, bowing her head to the figure on the throne. There seemed to be crowds of people around. They looked at me and sounded like they were mocking.
Her smooth forehead touched the ground, and she suddenly woke up from her dream.
Siming opened his eyes.
The unicorn carcasses were still piled in the corner, and there were no signs of the cave entrance being touched.
She recalled her previous dream, not knowing what it foreshadowed. If it was a sign of the future, then she wished she could die right now.
But dreams are just dreams and can never come true.
Siming recovered a lot of spiritual power, and her injuries were almost healed. She took off her blood-stained dress, revealing the thin lining behind it. She came to a dark spring, soaked the white dress, and used all her strength to I washed it many times until my knuckles turned white, then I used my spiritual power to dry it and put it on again.
It's almost noon now, and it's bright outside.
After she took care of everything, she finally walked towards the Broken Boundary City.
Her wounds healed, her skin became new, her face returned to indifference, the blood in her silver hair was washed away, and fell softly. She became the supreme priest again, in charge of the lives of countless people, and everything that happened last night, In her opinion, it was just the way of heaven that tempered her.
She didn't want to look back, but just walked forward slowly. She knew that one day, she would settle the accounts with Ning Jiujiu again, and by then, she would not lose again.
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On the ice field, Lord Xueyu was like an unfolded plank, gliding on the snow at high speed, dragging up a long snow wave belt.
The cold snow rubbed against its abdomen at high speed, causing a burning sensation. It felt like its few feathers were about to burn away.
And it saves effort to glide while lying down, so it has to keep comforting itself, saying that this is not its own skin anyway, and it is so ugly. If it breaks, just replace it with a new one...
Mr. Xueyu led them sliding in the snow and rushed up the high slope. Below the high slope was an extremely long slope. Mr. Xueyu rushed down with both fear and excitement.
Snowflakes flying.
One bird and two people slid down from the high diagonal bunk, like fish swimming on the water.
Shao Xiaoli held Ning for a long time, lying down slightly and grabbing the feathers on the back of Mr. Xueyu's neck. The cold wind filled his skirt, and the sharp wind whistled in his ears.
The sky and the earth are covered with snow, and all directions are white.
Shao Xiaoli was extremely frightened, but he also felt an inexplicable sense of joy. It was probably like this in those story books where the knight-errant Ren Aoyou wields a sword in the world.
With this in mind, she glanced at Ning Changjiu beside her and found that he had completely passed out. She immediately stopped her absurd thoughts and quickly stretched out her sleeves to wipe his face.
"Where are we going now!" Shao Xiaoli opened his mouth and shouted at the top of his lungs. The sound of the wind swallowed up most of the sound.
Mr. Xueyu also opened his beak and shouted: "I don't know either, this is not something I can control."
Mr. Xueyu really didn't use any effort. He just slid down the extremely long snow slope, sliding faster and faster.
Shao Xiaoli worriedly said: "What should we do if we hit something later..."
Lord Xueyu felt sad and said: "Then I will kill one of them, and you two will die together."
Shao Xiaoli held Ning for a long time, lying low on the bird's back and saying nothing. During this period, she also saw some native beasts in the snowfield.
It's just that their speed was too fast, and those beasts just passed by in the corner of their eyes. However, a few snowshoe hares foraging on the ice sheet were affected by the airflow brought by their passage, and they were knocked to pieces and fell to the ground. twitch.
At the end of the slope, there is another slightly raised slope.
They rushed up the high slope again and flew forward.
"Ah!" Mr. Xueyu screamed. He could no longer maintain his balance and fell forward.
The boys and girls on its back were also thrown high.
In mid-air, Shao Xiaoli suddenly grabbed Ning Changjiu's arm, swung his arm violently, and carried him on her back. She mustered up a lot of courage and perseverance, and fell to the snow with her boss on her back. She silently encouraged him. I thought that my front was very elastic, so I should be able to withstand falls more easily and be able to cushion a lot... In short, I couldn't let the boss get hurt any more.
But they didn't fall to the ice in the end.
When they were about to land, a huge white net suddenly popped up from the snow and wrapped them violently. Shao Xiaoli screamed, and Ning hugged each other for a long time and was pulled up by the white net.
"Brother, big brother, we caught a bald chicken. It seems to be a new breed. I haven't seen it often." Shao Xiaoli heard someone shouting.
"Well, you can take it back and study it..."
"Ah? What is that? Is it an injured leopard?"
"No, it seems like two people!"
"Human? How is it possible? How can there be people in the snowy field? Are they people who slipped out of the tribe?"
"It's not like...their outfits don't look like our people here."
"Could it be..." The two looked at each other, and they could see the shock in each other's eyes.
"Could it be someone from the Kingdom of Heaven?"
They thought so.
"You insignificant mortals, let me go quickly! You are the bald chicken, I am the angel flying in the sky, the carrier pigeon of the future God Lord..." The Blood Feather Lord flapped his wings in the white net, and his chest After a long period of friction, the feathers fell off, and the chicken breast became black, with a burnt aroma wafting out.
The two men covered in white animal skins and hiding in the dark looked at it in horror and swallowed.
"Chickens can talk... They must be people from heaven! Let's take them back quickly and tell the patriarch about this."
While talking, another white net has been cut.
Shao Xiaoli bit his broken sword with his teeth, slashed out a stream of sword energy, and cut the net. She carried Ning Changjiu on her back and landed lightly. The red cloth tying her hair tore apart, and silk silk hung down from her cheeks, sticking to her bloodless face.
The two men covered in snow-white animal skins looked up and were shocked.
There seemed to be a faint scent of blood lingering on the girl in front of her. The edges of her red dress were broken like grass blades that had been gnawed by insects. Bai Jiu's arms were also covered with blood marks.
But even so, the moment she raised her head while biting her sword, she still had a beauty they had never seen before.
Even the chief's daughter, who was recognized as the most beautiful in the tribe, was vastly different from the one in front of her.
The boy on her back also had his hair loose, and his delicate eyebrows made people mistake him for her sister at first glance.
"Who are you?" Shao Xiaoli said cautiously.
…
Shao Xiaoli had imagined the scene on the other side of the snowfield many times, but this time when she actually saw it, she found that everything was still very different from what she had imagined.
There is no snow at the end of the snow field, but a wilderness with extremely severe desertification.
The vast snowfield ends here, and in front of you is a huge misty rift valley, extremely deep. A narrow mountain road rises from the gray fog. The mountain road is like a bridge built by gods and ghosts in the chaos, straight and straight. The ground stretches away, not knowing where it leads.
At both ends of the only mountain road, there is an endless valley of unknown depth. The gray color below it undulates endlessly, like the entangled and surging backs of fish.
If Ning Jiujiu wakes up at this moment, he can recognize that the things rolling down below are exactly the same as the time slime in the abyss at that time.
"How deep is it down here?" Shao Xiaoli followed them with Ning Jiujiu on his back, looking at the cracked wall, his heart wandering.
One of the men explained: "There is no way to go down here. We once hung a stone with a rope to test it, but we couldn't reach the bottom at all. The stone and rope were corroded."
Shao Xiaoli carried the boss on his back and walked more steadily, fearing that if he lost his balance and fell down, his body would be wiped out.
Shao Xiaoli stepped steadily across the stone path, and she suddenly understood why her boss asked her to practice basic skills hard.
If it were his past self, I'm afraid he would have become unstable and fell into the canyon in fear...
The boss is worthy of being the boss, and he is indeed far-sighted.
They walked through this deep rift valley, and then saw a tribe surrounded by earth walls in a valley full of rocks.
Shao Xiaoli felt as if he had arrived at the poorest refugee street in Duanjie City. The houses here were even more dilapidated and crude. He wondered how the people here had survived in the past hundreds of years.
Shao Xiaoli had a lot of questions.
She wanted to know where the people here came from, how many years they had existed, and what was hidden further away.
But nothing is more important than the boss.
She followed them to a dilapidated thatched house, then boiled water to treat Ning Changjiu's injuries.
Lord Xueyu spread his wings and lay on the ground exhausted, unable to exert any strength.
"Little girl, I have done a great job today. When Uncle Ning wakes up, you must tell him the truth." Mr. Xueyu said weakly.
Shao Xiaoli vowed: "Although the boss said that you were not a good bird before, you will be punished this time and have made meritorious service. Next time I will definitely find you the most majestic sparrow outside Duanjie City."
Mr. Xueyu praised him: "The little girl is really loyal!"
Shao Xiaoli brought hot water, washed the rough towel, and said, "I want to wipe the boss's body, you go out."
"Ah?" Mr. Xueyu was startled and said, "Men and women are not intimate, shouldn't you be the one to go out?"
Shao Xiaoli grabbed its pair of wings, like a big white goose, and threw it out the door, saying: "You go here to inquire about the situation first, and I will call you when I am better."
"Okay? What's so good? What on earth do you want to do to Ning Changjiu!" Lord Xueyu asked.
Bang!
The door is closed.
Mr. Xueyu sighed, thinking that Uncle Ning was really unkind to women, and among so many women, not one of them was good.
Fortunately, the most vicious Si Ming will not come after him again.
That woman is really worthless except for her face and body...
Alas, now is the time after the disaster, so I might as well go out for a walk.
Lord Xueyu fluttered his bandaged hands and flew up, overlooking the entire tribe of scattered houses. Finally, he saw a wooden two-story dome house on the top of a hill. Although the house was incomparable to the palace in the Broken Boundary City, They are comparable, but they are taller among the short ones. In this series of crooked and cracked earth-cultured houses, they can be somewhat associated with the word majesty.
Mr. Xueyu flapped his wings and landed silently on the roof of the thatched shed. He used his claws to pry away some weeds. When he lowered his eyes, he discovered that there was a huge round table in the center of the room. Surrounding the round table, there were Seven or eight rugged men wearing animal skin coats sat around to discuss matters. Their decorations were also carved from animal bones and tusks, and their cheeks and skin also bore weather-beaten scars.
Mr. Xueyu pricked up his ears, and the sound of their conversation came through quite clearly.
"Everyone knows what A Jing just said."
"Yes. We have been carrying out plans to open up wasteland in the snowfields over the years. Ajing and the others have gone the farthest. Unexpectedly, this journey did not reach the end, but they brought back two living people."
"That's... the person on the other side?"
"Yes, the legend is indeed true. There is a country hidden on the other side of the snowfield. They have plenty of food and clothing and live a much better life than us."
"In other words, they know the way to heaven? Could it be that our prayers over the years have finally succeeded?"
"No, don't think so simply. Have you forgotten the teachings of our ancestors? Our real country is always in the north, not the country in the south. Even if we find them, they will not accept us. The ancestors also said , if someone comes from the Southern Heavenly Kingdom, they must be treated as an enemy, and there must be no chance."
"But Ajing said they seemed to be a brother and sister or a young couple who just entered by mistake..."
"In the past few years, we have traveled from that lifeless lake to two ice fields and one desert before finally migrating here and living a more stable life. We have carved a way out of the barren mountains and harsh waters, and we will never allow anyone to survive. They are not careless at all, in my opinion, we should capture them first, and we can slowly torture them for other matters."
"Well, that little girl is dressed luxuriously. She might be an important person in the Kingdom of Heaven. When the time comes, we can use her as a bargaining chip to exchange for something."
“…”
Mr. Xueyu jumped up and down when he heard this, thinking that the three of us would be very happy to be guests in this wretched place like yours. Unexpectedly, you mountain villagers were actually planning to cause mischief behind your back.
Mr. Xueyu, who is used to being a villain, aroused his heart of justice.
It then thought again, this is another opportunity for itself to make great achievements! When the time comes, I might be able to make the little girl happy, and the little girl will directly understand their agreement, and then the sky will be as high as a bird can fly.
Just...how to do it
Mr. Xueyu's head started to spin.
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While sleeping, Ning Jiujiu also had a dream.
He dreamed of a vast kingdom in the sky. A staircase of bones hung down from the vast void. He walked up, and the figures behind him were like the shadows of swaying trees.
At the end of the bone staircase, there is a huge throne. On the throne sits a headless giant wearing a gorgeous imperial crown. The giant puts his hands on the armrests of the throne. There is a scar running through his body on his chest. The scar does not look like The wound of the sword.
Ning looked at him in silence for a long time, without sadness or fear.
After an unknown amount of time, a girl's cry rang in his ears. The call was as distant as if it came from another world.
When he woke up, he found himself lying on a straw mat, with the fragrance of straw still lingering in his breath. Above his sight was an earth wall with some incompletely fired bricks piled on the four sides. Each pillar is supported by pillars. There is no paint on the surface of the pillars, and dark mold stains have grown on them.
In the simple house, Shao Xiaoli moved a small bench and sat next to him.
"Boss, you're awake."
Seeing Ning Changjiu open his eyes, Shao Xiaoli finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Ning Jiujiu stood up, looked at his clean loose white clothes, and said, "Did Si Ming come after you?"
Shao Xiaoli pretended to be angry and said, "It's already this time, why are you still thinking about other women?"
"..." Ning looked at the faint red marks on her young cheeks that had not faded for a long time, sighed, and said: "We will go back one day, and I will help you take revenge."
Shao Xiaoli also covered his face and tilted his head a little.
"Boss, let's hide as far away as possible. When we go back, the woman's injuries will probably be healed, and we are still no match." Shao Xiaoli said, "Although this place is a bit shabby, there are still people living there. It’s still no problem, let’s build a bigger house to live in when the time comes, okay?”
Ning Jiujiu fell into a brief silence. He smiled weakly and said, "Don't you want to go outside and have a look?"
Shao Xiaoli said: "Boss has really been thinking about going out."
Ning Jiujiu said: "There are still people waiting for me outside, and I still have a lot of things to do."
Shao Xiaoli asked cautiously: "Is she a woman?"
Ning Changjiang's eyelids drooped slightly, which is self-evident.
Shao Xiaoli vented a lot of anger, held his chin and asked: "The person who can make the boss obsessed with me like this must be a very beautiful sister, right?"
Ning Jiujiu nodded and said, "Yes."
Shao Xiaoli's heart sank, feeling that her life was dead. She straightened her skirt and said unconvinced: "What does that sister look like? Boss, tell me."
Ning Jiujiu asked: "Which one do you want to hear?"
Shao Xiaoli's eyes widened, she clutched her chest, choked in one breath, and coughed. She raised her head and said with tears in her eyes: "Boss, I really don't realize that people like you can actually..."
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said: "They are all very kind people just like you."
Shao Xiaoli said shyly: "I just repay the favor."
Ning Jiujiu stood up from his bed, took the belt hanging aside, and tied it around his waist.
Shao Xiaoli's eyes lit up and he immediately said: "Boss, I have seen your body and your innocence is gone, so you can't just abandon me in the future."
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said, "You are kinder when you don't speak."
Ning Jiujiu walked down from the straw-covered dirt bed, the wounds on his body were still aching faintly, and the spirit of the Sword Sutra and the Golden Crow in his body also fell into a deep sleep, feeling empty.
One night in three months, Ning Jiujiu once waded through the snowfields and came here.
It was just that after he walked through the only stone path in the Rift Gorge, he just took a look from a distance, understood that there was no legendary exit beyond the ice field, and left.
Shao Xiaoli followed behind and asked: "Boss, where are we going next? Xiaoli has done his best, but it is you who will protect me next."
Ning Jiujiu said: "Let's repair it for a few days first, and let's talk about the rest later."
Shao Xiaoli nodded and said to himself: "I don't know if my old house will still be there when we return to Duanjie City. It is the inheritance left by my mother to me."
"We'll live in the palace if you're not here." Ning Changjiu said with a smile, and suddenly asked: "By the way, where is Mr. Blood Feather? Where did it go?"
While talking, there was suddenly a loud noise outside.
Ning Jiujiu frowned and subconsciously pressed the position where the sword hung on his waist. Unfortunately, the fairy sword Minglan was badly broken, with only a hilt left.
The door opened, and several strong men ran in and surrounded them.
Shao Xiaoli was very nervous and had already begun to recite the swordsmanship formula silently in his heart.
But before she could draw her sword, the men quickly knelt down, and the leader raised his arms and shouted: "Greetings to the God King and God Queen."
The others also shouted, their voices sonorous, like swords clashing.
God King and God Queen
Ning Jiujiu frowned after hearing this, while Shao Xiaoli felt elated after hearing this, thinking that this foreigner was really enthusiastic.
"What's going on?" Ning Jiujiu asked.
After some questioning, Ning Jiujiu found out that several strange things had happened in the tribe after their arrival.
First, a strange bird flew across the sky. The strange bird dropped an egg in the air. The egg was smashed to the ground, and a note was written inside: "The arrival of the God King will destroy everything."
In the fish market of the village, someone also found a note from the belly of the fish. The note clearly said: "The Queen of Gods is coming, and all things will flourish."
And many people in the city heard little ghosts whispering in some dark corners, saying that the God King and God Queen were coming, and they should stop doing evil and run away.
Even when the leader of the village picked up the water cup during the discussion, he saw the word "God descended" engraved on the bottom of the pot.
This made them suddenly pay more attention to the arrival of the young girl. Naturally, they no longer discussed the matter of imprisoning them before. The two men who found them were also praised and given a lot of money. Meat and weapons.
Ning Jiujiu knew that these were all caused by Lord Xueyu.
This demon bird is not very clever, but it is full of cleverness.
Although this village is barren, due to the nearby snowfield, there is a lot of meat, including tigers and leopards with thick fur, and even an underage elephant.
This is undoubtedly a delicacy for the people of Duanjie City who are far away from the snowfields and rarely have a meal of meat.
They presented their gifts and paid homage to the God King and God Queen with a pious attitude. Soon after, Lord Xue Yu fell from the sky with a crown made of pheasant feathers and flew to a nearby big tree. superior.
The rest of the people also knelt down in front of the demon bird and shouted: "Meet the King of Light."
Of course, this was also a note written by Blood Feather Lord himself, but the King of Light came up with the words after racking his brains.
Shao Xiaoli looked at Xue Yujun's head with a colorful jade crown and his bandaged wings, and was silent for a long time.
Fortunately, others believed in Mr. Xueyu's words. The biggest reason was that there was a record of Bi Fang's divine bird in the book left by his ancestors hundreds of years ago. And Mr. Xueyu's current appearance is different from that of Bi Fang. The divine bird is quite similar.
Under Mr. Xueyu's deception, nothing happened in the end.
They moved to a cleaner place and were asked to teach them the Dharma tomorrow morning.
Ning Changjiu had read a lot of poetry and books and was no stranger to these, so he agreed.
This is the first night outside the snowfield.
Shao Xiaoli cooked a large pot of broth and ate as much as ever. She looked at the still dark sky and thought it would be great if this place could be combined with Duanjie City. Duanjie City had enough wood and superb skills. You can build nice-looking houses, but you are short of food, and there is enough meat here.
Of course, what she wants most is to accompany her boss to go out and have a look. I heard that at night outside, if you look up like this, you can see beautiful gems shining all over the sky.