Qi Ji came back to her senses from her madness. She had always had these outbursts from time to time over the years. Every time she saw the appearance of Liang Shishen, she could not bear the pain in her heart. Gradually, she was even unwilling to see him again. She just hid him tightly, not letting the clan members know about his weakness, especially not daring to let Qin know about his weakness.
She concealed everything very well and tried desperately to find a solution. But after trying everything, she could only delay his weakening. In desperation, she thought of Qin Shi Shen, who still had great power. If she could devour him, her Shi Shen would definitely be able to return to its original appearance.
Generally speaking, clan gods cannot devour each other, but as they all know, the Qin and Liang clans have been intermarrying for thousands of years, and over countless generations, the bloodlines of the two clans have been mixed.
Several decades ago, before Liang's God had declined to this state, they had visited the old house once. That time, Qin's God suddenly smiled at Liang's God and said casually, "Look at you like this, I can devour you."
Qi Ji was shocked at the time. She felt that Qin Shishen was not joking. He could really devour Liang Shishen, and he was considering it! Since then, she, who was already suffering from the weakness of Shishen, became more alert and nervous. As Shishen's condition got worse day by day, this nervousness slowly fermented into malice.
If the Qin family's clan god can devour the Liang family's clan god, then why can't her clan god devour him in return! As long as he also starts to weaken, as long as the Qin family's clansmen start to die, it will be fine!
"I'm not ready yet... Give me some more time, I will be able to..."
The Liang God touched her face and stopped her from continuing, "Aji, we were wrong a long time ago. More than two hundred years ago, I shouldn't have devoured the Liang clan members."
Qi Ji's expression froze. "It was the Qin God who started devouring first. He devoured his people and gained power. Why can't you do the same? Instead, you got so many curses. I don't understand. I really don't understand!"
Before the Qin Clan God suddenly went crazy and devoured hundreds of Qin Clan members, no Clan God had ever devoured a human being. If all Clan Gods were destined to decline and perish, she might not be so obsessed with letting Liang Clan God live forever, but Qin Clan God happened to appear. All Clan Gods began to decline, but he gained new strength by devouring his clan members, and from then on he could replenish his strength by devouring evil. How jealous and resentful! He was originally no match for her Clan God!
His success naturally led to imitation. The Qin and Liang families had always had a good relationship, and precisely because of that, the Liang family was the first to know about this.
Qi Ji, who was worried about the weakening of Liang's God at the time, was very excited. However, the tribe members who were in the process of great development were no longer as pious as before, and no one was willing to sacrifice their lives to let Liang's God do this experiment. Even if there were people who were willing, there were only a dozen or so people.
"Extinction is our destiny." said the Liang God.
But Qi Ji didn't want to believe this fate.
On that day, Qi Ji secretly summoned hundreds of Liang clan members to participate in the ceremony in the name of sacrifice, and killed all of them.
When the Qin God arrived, he only saw corpses all over the ground. Qi Ji was covered in blood. He stretched out his hand to him stiffly and smiled, "You are saved. Come on, devour them, and you can be like Qin God."
However, it was not the same. He did not gain power, but only a curse, a curse that made matters worse.
Until now, Qi Ji still doesn’t understand why this happened
"Maybe it's because the Qin family god and I were born in different ways." The creation of each family god is not exactly the same. It is said that the creation of the Qin family god was particularly painful and tragic, and the stronger the emotion, the stronger the ability. Love will fade with time, but pain will become stronger with time.
"Aji, you are really tired." Liang Shishen said, "Sleep with me."
"I don't want to! I don't want to. Tomorrow, the Qin family god will come. We still have a chance. I can do whatever I can to kill all his people now..."
As Qi Ji was talking, he met the gaze of Liang God, and his ferocious expression gradually became confused.
"Why do you look at me like that?" She touched Liang Shishen's face and was hurt by his eyes. "Why do you look at me like that? I did it for you. You can't hate me just because of what I did. You have to love me, love me as before, okay?"
She was too scared, and perhaps she had already understood in her heart that it was because of her wrong decision that she forced the Qin God to devour the dead tribesmen that accelerated his demise. She knew she was wrong, but there was no way to save it. She could only make mistakes again and again. Even if she threw away her softest thing, she still couldn't save Qin Shishen's life.
In the end, it was all in vain.
"I'm so unwilling..."
"I understand." Liang Shishen stretched out his stone-cold hand and held her in his arms. His body emitted a soft golden light. Qi Ji became blurred in such light. She seemed to see the small house by the lake a thousand years ago. The sunset was so beautiful, and the sky was full of flying catkins. A red dragonfly landed on her fingertips. She turned around and saw a man in a robe standing in the shadow of the house, staring at the sunset outside.
He seemed to be independent of the chaotic world, so lonely, yet so tough, full of complex and mysterious feelings. She was a princess, and others thought she was of noble status, but she often felt like a reed by the lake, not knowing where she would float to. She couldn't help thinking, if there was wind at this moment, she really wanted to be like the reed, floating into his palm.
Ding-ling, ding-ling, the bells hanging under the eaves are ringing.
Half of his body sank into the chest of Liang Shishen. Qi Ji stretched out his hand absentmindedly and grabbed at the void. Finally, he was dragged into the chest with a dazed look in his eyes and disappeared completely.
As she disappeared into his body, the cracks and stiffness on Liang's body recovered a little, and he looked more like a human. In order to allow his wife to walk freely outside, he lent her his remaining little strength, but as long as he wanted, this strength would return to his body at any time.
Sitting up, Liang Shishen lifted up his drooping hair and stroked his chest with one hand, "I understand, so Aji just sleep well."
If he was devoured, Qi Ji, his wife who lived and died with him, would also disappear. Extinction was inevitable, so it was better to return to his body now... and become his nutrients.
According to her wish, they will be together forever.
There is a faint blue light in the sky, and this subtle light is as calm as a pond before dawn. The woods surrounding the old house are deep and dense, with rich green mixed in the dark blue, forming tones and brushstrokes like oil paintings.
Luo Yu'an went back to the old house overnight. There was only one car passing through the forest road. The door opened silently and swallowed the car in. The old house was the quietest at this time. The people who accompanied him showed some tiredness. Luo Yu'an asked them to rest and walked towards the shrine alone.
She pushed open the door of the shrine and saw her clan god at a glance. He was sitting on the corridor outside the shrine, staring at the rose she had planted earlier. It had strong vitality and had grown many new leaves and even a small bud. She didn't know when it would bloom.
Luo Yu'an leaned against the door and looked at him, feeling that he was like a hazy white water lily on a dark blue pond, peaceful and beautiful.
Every time she saw him, she always felt that she would love him more, probably because he was the only one she had now.
"Ann, come."
Luo Yu'an walked up to him, put his hand in his cold hand, and sat down beside him.
"Did Second Brother go out and do something today? Qi Ji looks so nervous."
Shishen: "Nothing serious, I just found Liang Shishen and am ready to devour him."
Luo Yu'an was a little confused by his bland tone, "Devouring the Liang clan's god? Can clan gods devour each other?"
"Others may not be able to, but he can."
"Hmm? What's so special about him?"
"The Liang and Qin families have been married for many years, their bloodlines are mixed, and there are countless 'evil' in the body of the Liang family god."
Luo Yu'an was a little confused for a moment, "Evil..."
What exactly is evil? Her previous understanding was that as long as a person kills someone, "evil" will be generated in the body, but this generalization seems too simplistic and crude. And can Ujigami also produce such evil? Evil only arises from killing people? What is its essence? Why can the second brother gain strength from devouring them
As she was thinking about these questions in her mind, her hands unconsciously played with the bow on the edge of Shishen's robe. As she pulled, it became undone. When the bow came undone, his long hair also instantly spread out, and Luo Yu'an used her hands to comb his hair.
"Swallowing him will help me shed my shell, and you won't have to be afraid of the sun any more soon." Shishen held her and combed her hair. "It takes a long time for their wives to get used to the sun after their transformation, but you will soon be able to walk in the sun like a normal person."
Luo Yu'an was a little worried that he was doing this for her sake, so he hugged his arm and said, "I'm not in a hurry. Second brother wants to devour the Liang God. Is it dangerous to do this?"
"Dangerous?" Ujigami's expression was dim and indifferent. "Is it dangerous to see people trapped in the quagmire struggling to death?"
Luo Yu'an looked at Shi Shen's expression carefully, but couldn't see anything. It was a mask after all. She was still a little worried. She sat up and gently touched Shi Shen's chest through his clothes. There was a long crack there. He said that Liang Shi Shen had a lot of evil in his body, and in fact, he did too.
"Brother, I know you're very capable, but I'm still very worried about you, and I often feel the urge to protect you."
"I understand." Shishen had no expression, but inexplicably gave people a very gentle feeling. He said: "I already understand. When you were outside, I knew there was no danger, but I still hoped that you would come back soon. When you were not by my side, I inexplicably worried that you would be bullied. Is this how you feel?"
Luo Yu'an was surprised to hear these words, but then he couldn't help but feel happy. Ujigami, who said these words, was like a boy again, a boy who understood his own mind and expressed his feelings for the first time. He was particularly frank and sincere because of his lack of experience.
Ujigami looked at her smile, "Red."
Luo Yu'an looked at him, "What?"
Ujigami: "An is red."
The red of blood, the red of red camellia, the red of lust.
Luo Yu'an looked at the face of the clan god so close to her, moved her mouth, and was suddenly held in the arms of the clan god. The clan god held his wife, looked at the door of the shrine, and asked, "Why are you visiting so late at night?"
"Excuse me for disturbing you two, but I don't have much time, so I came here early."
The Liang family god appeared in the courtyard of the shrine. He was no longer the broken and stiff one before, but there were still many cracks on his body and face. He was wearing the Liang family's exquisite golden brocade clothes, which also emitted light in the night.
"Although I know I can't beat you, Aji is unwilling to give up, so I'd like to fight you anyway."
"It's too casual of you to come here so late at night to disturb other people's married life." Ujigami said shockingly after a long time.
Luo Yu'an: "Ahem!" Why are you suddenly saying this so seriously in this atmosphere of a duel
Also, second brother, do you think that what you just did is considered sex?! Second brother, are you serious