Yan Jiuge stretched out his hand and handed the lantern in his hand towards Chu Qi.
The light from the red lanterns is so bright that even through the gauze-covered lampshade, one can feel the heat.
Chu Qi's mind was still in a trance, Yan Jiuge's words just now were still lingering in his ears. As time passed, that emotion invaded his chest and lungs.
The past memories of the two of them gathered in Chu Qi's mind, and when he finally came to his senses, he saw a lantern being delivered to him.
Sweat oozed from Yan Jiuge's palms. The light illuminated his serious expression and the tension in his eyes - he was waiting for Chu Qi's answer.
The hand holding the Long Yin sword had never felt so heavy, as if the object in his hand was not a lantern, but a massive stone.
After a brief silence, Chu Qi stretched out his hand towards the lantern.
Yan Jiuge's eyes suddenly lit up.
"I… "
When his fingers touched the lantern, Chu Qi opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he saw scarlet rays of light rising from the sky.
Unexpected events occurred suddenly, and the current was pressing. In an instant, it was intertwined like a net and soon covered the entire city of smoke.
The scarlet formation was reflected in Chu Qi's eyes, making him suddenly sober. At this moment, he and Yan Jiuge were in an illusion - the enemy hiding in the dark had not been dealt with yet.
"Ayan!"
A strong wind blew all night long, disrupting the bright lights in the city. Pedestrians on the streets became panicked and began to flee in all directions.
Yan Jiuge had already drawn out the Long Yin Sword, and the gentleness in his eyes turned into solemnity. When he heard Chu Qi calling him again, he subconsciously looked back.
"There is an evil spirit wreaking havoc in Yancheng. I will go and kill it, and then come back—" to find you.
Before he finished explaining, the lantern in Yan Jiu's hand was taken away by Chu Qi. His heartbeat was out of control, and he was stunned for a moment, only looking at Chu Qi's face.
The young man in white clothes and red light has serious eyes and picturesque features.
"If I say that the place we are currently in is an illusion, would you believe me?" Chu Qi said.
The long wind blew up Chu Qi's hair, and the silver ornaments on his head jingled, but his ears seemed to be missing something, and felt a little empty.
His Aqi always makes him feel inexplicably familiar.
"I believe."
Yan Jiuge's thoughts quickly calmed down, "But you and I are real. What's the difference between the so-called illusion and reality?"
“…” Chu Qi was stunned.
"I want to finish setting off the lanterns with you." Yan Jiuge reached out his hand and tidied up Chu Qi's hair that was messed up by the evening breeze. "Wait for me to come back."
Warm fingers brushed across the tip of Chu Qi's ear.
Afterwards, Chu Qi watched Yan Jiuge's figure walking quickly towards Yan Chi and others. The sky was scarlet and disaster was coming.
"Ayan, I want to go with you, I..." Chu Qi opened his mouth, wanting to call Yan Jiuge, but suddenly realized that he could not say any more words.
An invisible barrier trapped Chu Qi in place, and a bright white light emanated from his waist. It was the scroll of the past that Chu Qi carried with him before he went out.
At this moment, a strong wind swept through the smoky city, blowing out countless lights.
First, hundreds of evil figures condensed from the formation and fell into the Smoke City. Then six evil spirits rose from the six directions of the formation and attacked Chu Qi.
At this critical juncture, many practitioners from Medicine King Valley emerged from the crowd, lined up one by one, surrounded Chu Qi and began to defend.
The Yan family was also on the defensive.
Yan Jiuge held the Longyin sword and cut down an evil spirit transformed by evil spirit. When its body was destroyed, the original form of a demon fox was revealed on the ground.
Everyone was busy, except Chu Qi who was trapped in an invisible barrier.
He seemed to be a spectator in this battle.
Just as Chu Qi was trying to find a way to get out of the barrier, a strange voice suddenly sounded in front of him.
"Haha, I finally found Yan Jiuge's weakness!"
The man had a severely damaged face, and it seemed that he had to break through layers of defense to reach Chu Qi. Under his face, there was nothing, and it was so blank that it was frightening.
Perhaps it cannot be called a human being.
Chu Qi frowned and prepared to fight. He broke through the shackles in his heart in the illusion and comprehended the sword intent, which allowed him to protect himself.
The man stretched out a skinny hand, and his fingers quickly turned into claws, digging towards Chu Qi's chest at a strange angle.
"I'm going to kill you." More and more cracks appeared on its face, and finally it became a faceless puppet.
At this moment, a strong white light burst out from the barrier covering Chu Qi.
The Scroll of the Past Worlds began to unfold automatically, wrapping Chu Qi inside it and blocking the claw for him.
The surrounding scenes began to blur, and the power of the illusion became somewhat shaky after the scroll of the past was unfolded.
"Aqi!"
In the swaying shadow, Chu Qi heard Yan Jiuge's voice and saw the figure heading towards him.
"!"
The retrospective volume is completely unfolded.
At this moment, time and space froze, and a powerful force enveloped Chu Qi.
On this wordless scroll, golden runes began to emerge, and then turned into ancient characters, appearing in Chu Qi's eyes.
[Volume 1: Medicine King Valley heir Chu Qi travels as an adult and meets Yan Jiuge, the young master of the Yan family, who is exorcising evil spirits outside Yancheng. The two get to know each other and fall in love with each other. They express their love at the Lantern Festival in Yancheng. After that, Medicine King Valley and the Yan family join forces to completely eliminate the evil spirits in the Hidden Cloud Realm. The evil spirit Gui Ya is killed by Yan Jiuge's sword. Ending: Gui Ya dies, and the world is in peace.]
The golden runes intertwined in Chu Qi’s eyes, making him feel as if he had returned to the time when he suddenly died and received the message of the “plot”.
Before Chu Qi could be too shocked, he saw the golden runes on the scroll being torn apart by an illusory black claw. Scarlet runes surged, replacing the original golden runes and turning into ancient characters again.
[Volume 1 (revised): The Nine-Tailed Fox Clan has the ability to predict the secrets of heaven. The former clan leader wanted to change his daughter's fate. He was bewitched by the ghost tooth and went to the Valley of Gods, stole the body of the sacred tree, and gave it to his daughter Ling Congwu, in an attempt to change Ling Congwu's fate as a half-human, half-demon with no talent.
After being possessed by Guiya, he knew from the prophecy that he would die, so he deceived the current chief of the fox clan, Hujiu, and asked him to help get rid of the heirs of Yaowang Valley and Yan's family. Hujiu didn't know that the soul of the former chief had been eroded by Guiya, and for the sake of the interests of the demon clan, he agreed to Guiya's request.
The demon tribe set up an ambush in Yancheng, and the heir of Yaowang Valley died...]
When the scarlet text jumped to the words "The heir of Medicine King Valley died", it was already extremely difficult, as if it had encountered some huge resistance.
Sure enough, when the word "end" was about to appear, another vitality force rose from the scroll, replacing the scarlet runes and continuing to write:
[The sacred tree was inspired and gave the "Retrospective Scroll" to bless Chu Qi when he came of age. The master of Yaowang Valley got the inspiration from the sacred tree and hid Chu Qi's identity to prevent Gui Ya from finding out. Gui Ya then turned his attention to Yan Jiuge, who was born with immortal bones. However, Yan and Qi formed a bond, which led Gui Ya to believe that Chu Qi was Yan Jiuge's weakness and wanted to kill him.
The ending of the retrospective volume has been revised, and the second volume has begun.]
Seeing this, the scroll of history suddenly began to close and no more characters popped out.
At the same time, the illusion of Yancheng in front of Chu Qi completely disappeared, and was replaced by another scene.
*
This is also a fantasy.
There was a cave around it, with a layer of ice that had condensed for thousands of years, quietly surrounding a crystal coffin. The crystal coffin was made of excellent materials and was located in the center of a large spirit gathering formation. The spiritual energy gathered from all directions continuously provided nourishment to the person in the coffin.
The person lying in the crystal coffin was none other than Chu Qi himself.
He finally saw the ending he saw in his dream.
—After his death, Yan Jiuge searched all over the world for elixirs of resurrection, hoping to change his fate, but in vain. He became a possessed madman and died a miserable death.
Just thinking of this, an indescribable sadness spread from Chu Qi's heart.
He had just emerged from the illusion of lanterns in Yancheng, and before he could light lanterns with A'yan, he entered the illusion of the ending of his previous life.
The scroll of the past lingered beside Chu Qi. It did not unfold the scroll, but slowly dissipated the barrier that isolated Chu Qi, allowing his soul to merge into the illusion.
At this time, hurried footsteps were heard outside the cave.
Yan Jiuge, dressed in a black and gold robe, had a stern look on his face, and the hem of his robe was still stained with poisonous miasma, as if he had hurriedly returned from the poisonous forest in search of medicine.
When he saw the crystal coffin in the cave, Yan Jiuge's expression gradually warmed up, and his pair of dark golden eyes showed tenderness.
"Aqi, I'm here to see you."
"I found a flower for you today. If you wake up, you will like it very much."
He walked closer and gently touched the crystal coffin with his fingers, as if he could touch the person sleeping in the coffin through this action.
On Yan Jiuge's wrist, the inner demon pattern grew wildly like weeds, winding up along the heart meridian.
Yan Jiuge was unaware.
After Chu Qi's death, the inner demon pattern on his palm never faded.
He didn't know it when he was young, but he realized after he lost her that there was no other A Qi in the world who could influence his feelings.
Gently placing the Nine Nether Resurrection Flower beside the coffin, Yan Jiuge watched the changes of the person in the coffin without blinking. With the preservation of the crystal coffin, Chu Qi's eyebrows and eyes were still vivid, as if he was really just asleep.
Everything was silent. The Nine Netherworld Resurrection Flower bloomed and then withered, disappearing in front of the crystal coffin.
Endless obsession engulfed Yan Jiuge, and his inner demon could no longer be suppressed and broke out.
"I'll be able to accompany Ah Qi soon." He whispered, with paranoia in his eyes, "If we can't live together, then we can die together. How can life and death separate you and me?"
Demonic patterns grew on Yan Jiuge's body, and he was completely trapped in the illusion of his inner demons.
At this time, an uninvited guest came outside the cave.
He looked ordinary, but his body was like a patchwork of joints, moving in a methodical manner. A dark evil spirit was wrapped around him, along with his dark eyes, which were flickering with dark will-o'-the-wisp fire, making him look a little weird.
"Sure enough, after killing your weak spot, a mere blow of dust can overthrow you."
"So what if you were born with immortal bones? From now on, your luck belongs to me."
A hoarse voice echoed in the silent cave, and murderous energy emerged from "his" body, then rushed towards Yan Jiuge, determined to devour Yan Jiuge.
“Bang!”
At this critical moment, the silence was broken by the sudden sound of a crystal coffin opening.
Guiya, who was controlling the puppet, suddenly stopped moving. He looked in the direction of the sound in disbelief and discovered that a gap had been opened in the crystal coffin in the cave.
How could a dead person, who was cursed by it itself, come back to life
In horror, a slender white hand stretched out from the coffin first, grabbed the edge of the coffin, and used five fingers to support the whole body out of the coffin.
The person in the coffin had loose hair and was wearing the most comfortable silk clothes. If it weren't for the coldness in his emerald green eyes, he would have looked like someone who had just woken up from a dream.
"You - how could you be alive? That Nine Nether Resurrection Flower is clearly fake!" That was a trap he set up himself, and Yan Jiuge had to die.
Guiya screamed, his hoarse voice echoing in the cave, unable to believe why Chu Qi was resurrected.
Which step went wrong
"No, it's useless for you to revive. Yan Jiuge has gone mad. He will soon be killed by the backlash of his inner demon—"
There was a loud "swoosh" in the air.
An invisible sword slashed towards Guiya. It turned its head reflexively, and its head turned at an angle that ordinary people could hardly do. Finally, the sharp sword energy brushed against Guiya's mouth, leaving a narrow wound.
This is not the end yet. The spiritual power released by the sword seems to be able to suppress the evil spirit in its body, causing the momentum around it to drop rapidly.
At this moment, Guiya actually began to feel fear.
This time, the person who drew the sword at it was not Yan Jiuge, but a cultivator whom it had never taken seriously.
"How come you have something to suppress me?"
"Why did you come back to life?"
"who are you?"
From the moment the crystal coffin was disturbed, Guiya's intuition was not good. He stared at the person in the coffin, as if he was examining his own fate.
It took Chu Qi some time to completely integrate the body in this illusion. When his consciousness and five senses recovered, this was the scene.
His Ayan must not end up like in his previous life.
Wuwang sword intent condensed in his hand. Chu Qi looked at the thing that was neither human nor ghost indifferently, "Shut up, are you worthy of inheriting his luck?"
The spirit gathering array in the cave started to run wildly because of Chu Qi's sword. Spiritual power gathered from all directions, making the cave, which was not wide to begin with, become extremely oppressive.
This is a cave formed by ice crystals that have existed for thousands of years. In addition to being an excellent place to preserve the crystal coffin, it is also difficult to escape from.
After seeing Chu Qi's spiritual power, Gui Ya finally understood where his intuitive uneasiness came from.
"You are the successor of the sacred tree, and you are the enemy who can restrain me!" You have the ability to dispel evil spirits and can also draw the spiritual energy of the sacred tree. This is its real nemesis.
The Wuwang sword intent slashed towards Guiya's head, leaving it with nowhere to escape.
This body is its substitute, so it doesn't matter if it dies. What can kill it is the Wuwang sword intention, which can cut off the cause and effect of the world.
The sound of the puppet strings breaking rang in Guiya's ears one after another. Its stand-in was cut in half. At the same time, all the stand-ins connected to the puppet strings were completely severed from its original body.
The spiritual power of the sacred tree enveloped it, and the man in front of it spoke coldly.
"I came here to kill you."
(End of this chapter)