After Zi Lan parted with Lord Changyun, he returned to his room alone.
He closed the door, lit a dim lamp in the room, and then took off his clothes. When he touched the wound, he couldn't help but let out a soft "hiss".
The wound on his shoulder had split open, and the blood that had seeped out, mixed with the scent of herbs, had completely permeated the wound cloth and his inner garments, and was about to seep through his clothes. It was quite blinding in the night light.
Fortunately, Zi Lan was able to endure the pain. He pursed his lips and found a can of medicine that Xue Li had left for him in the house as a backup.
He untied the gauze on his shoulder one by one, and then, alone in the light of the lamp, applied the medicine on his open wound bit by bit.
In fact, Lord Changyun's guess did hit the nail on the head for Zi Lan, so he immediately became extremely nervous.
Even though he didn't really mean to do it, he did think so in his mind.
He secretly expected Xue Li to notice something unusual.
If it was discovered tomorrow that his injury had not only not improved but had worsened, Xueli would definitely feel sorry for him. She would stay around him and maybe the two of them could spend more time together.
Recently, Xue Li has been occupied too much by other people, and Zi Lan really wants to have time together just the two of them like they used to.
Zi Lan felt guilty for having such shameless thoughts. He actually didn't want to make Xue Li sad for him.
And just as Lord Changyun said, Zi Lan felt that he shouldn't let the people who cared about him worry about him.
His injury was really painful.
He quietly re-bandaged his wound in the room, changed the blood-stained cloth and clothes, applied new magic medicine to stop the bleeding, then bandaged it with the wound cloth to cover up other traces, as if nothing had happened.
After doing all this, Zi Lan lay down on the bed again and slowly fell asleep.
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The next day, when Xue Li came to change Zi Lan's dressing, she couldn't help but exclaimed "Huh" as soon as the bandage was removed.
"How did your injury become like this? After changing the dressing yesterday, it didn't get any better?!"
Xue Li looked at Zi Lan's wound with a confused look on her face. The injury in front of her was very different from what she expected.
The wounds on other parts of the body were fine, most of them had improved significantly, except for the one on the right shoulder, which was not the most serious area. Not only did it not get better, but it seemed to have worsened than before.
Xue Li felt that something was wrong with this place, but she looked at Zi Lan's shoulder and couldn't see anything wrong. The wound was wrapped tightly with bandages, and the herbs were the same as yesterday. Even the bandages on this piece were quieter than others, but the wound seemed to have been torn apart. This really didn't make any sense.
Xue Li checked her prescription and after finding no problem, she looked at Zi Lan suspiciously and asked, "Did you do anything else after you changed your wound last night?"
Zi Lan was startled and sat stiffly on the bed. He looked at Xue Li with his wolf eyes and shook his head innocently.
Xueli asked again: "Did you not hold back and go out to practice swordplay?"
Zi Lan's expression became even more innocent, and he shook his head even more desperately.
"Um?"
Seeing that Zi Lan looked so innocent and couldn't explain what was going on, Xue Li could only hold the herbs and study them with even more confusion, trying to figure out what was going on.
Zi Lan watched Xue Li holding the medicine jar and looking at it, occasionally dipping her hand and putting a little in her mouth to taste it, but she didn't seem to notice anything unusual and didn't understand the situation for a long time. Finally, Zi Lan breathed a sigh of relief.
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In the end, Xue Li still didn't figure out what happened to Zi Lan's shoulder wound.
Fortunately, after she adjusted the formula of the medicine, the same problem did not occur again. Zi Lan's right shoulder injury and other injuries recovered step by step. After a while, he had almost completely recovered to his healthy appearance.
One day, when Fairy Shaoyin came out of the fairy palace after reading a book, she happened to run into a fox family playing near the lotus pond.
When Xue Xin first lived on Xue Lian Peak, she liked the medicinal lotus ponds on the peak very much. She said that the sight of the lotus flowers floating on the water was very interesting. So during the thousands of years that Xue Xin and Fairy Shao Yin lived together, the lotus ponds on Xue Lian Peak became more and more numerous, and now there is a lotus pond every few steps.
After Xue Li moved to Xuelian Peak, it was obvious that she also loved these medicinal lotuses very much.
To the surprise of Fairy Shaoyin, Lord Changyun also seemed to like it very much.
So recently Fairy Shao Yin often saw the three foxes of their family nestling by the lotus pond, staring motionlessly at the waves and lotus flowers in the pond, like fox balls planted by the water.
It was the same recently. Xue Xin and Chang Yun were sitting on both sides, one on each side. Xue Li was a little smaller, so she was placed between her parents. She was stretching out her claws, curiously trying to fiddle with the small water lilies that were floating very close to the shore. Of course, the lotus was connected by roots and stems, so it couldn't float very far. She would fiddle with it again when the small flower floated closer.
Xue Xin and Chang Yun rarely extended their claws, but sometimes when the creature floated close to them, they would stretch out their claws to touch it.
The three little foxes were having a lot of fun, and not far from them, Zi Lan, a huge snow wolf, was standing there stiffly.
Even though Zi Lan was also white, he was too big and didn't fit in with the picture. He looked like he wanted to blend in with the foxes but couldn't. His claws were so big that he couldn't pry the snow lotus. He had to stand pitifully by the side, curling up as much as possible to look smaller, but the effect was minimal.
Shao Yin almost laughed out loud when she saw this scene.
Fortunately, at this moment, Xueli seemed to have had enough of playing with Lotus. She turned around happily, ran towards Zilan, and then let out an "Awooo!" and stuck to him, rubbing against him affectionately.
Zi Lan's expression suddenly brightened visibly, his ears stood up, and the whole wolf was very happy. He gently lowered his head and rubbed his head against Xue Li's.
Shao Yin could also feel that since Chang Yun and Xue Xin came back, Zi Lan had less time to spend with Xue Li than before. Zi Lan always seemed depressed about this, but there was nothing she could do about it. Chang Yun and Xue Xin had lost too much time living with Xue Li, and they really wanted to make up for it as much as possible.
However, Shao Yin felt relieved when she saw that Xue Li and Zi Lan were still a very sweet couple.
Shao Yin was about to go over to greet them, but at this moment, she saw Danggui running back hurriedly from the Immortal Gate.
Danggui was a very shy little boy. Compared with the lively and straightforward Gancao, he had no temper and strong opinions. He ran all the way here, panting, his face flushed, and he said breathlessly: "Yuan, Yuanjun, there are guests in the peak."
Shao Yin asked: "Oh? Someone who is sick?"
Danggui shook her head and replied, "No, they were a few gods and immortals dressed in gorgeous clothes. They said they were from the Jade Rabbit Clan of the Ninth Heaven."
Shao Yin understood immediately and said, "Go and invite them in."
After saying that, Shao Yin turned around and called Xue Li and the others.
After a while, everyone gathered in the fairy palace.
The guests who came were indeed the gods of the Jade Rabbit clan, led by Princess Jade Rabbit. She was dressed up today and seemed very excited to be at Snow Lotus Peak, looking around all the way.
Not only the Jade Rabbit Princess, but all the gods and immortals sent by the Jade Rabbit Clan today were dressed in their best attire. The Jade Rabbit Clan was also a very beautiful clan among the twenty-eight clans of star-controlling beasts, and Fairy Shao Yin usually lived and traveled in an elegant yet simple manner. When they sat in the fairy palace like this, it immediately made the originally simple and elegant fairy palace bright and dazzling.
The Jade Rabbit Princess excitedly said, "Fairy Shaoyin, Fairy Xuexin, and all of you, we came here today because we have packed up everything at the Moon Palace, and we wanted to take you there right away! In particular, we would like to ask Fairy Xuexin to take a look at whether it is suitable and whether we can take over the Moon Palace."
This was what they had agreed with Lord Xuanwu before. To see if Fairy Xue Xin could take on the burden of the Moon Palace, they would go to the Moon Palace first and try.
But they didn't expect the Jade Rabbit Clan to be so proactive and act so quickly. You know, the Moon Palace is not a small palace, and such an ancient fairy palace cannot be managed casually.
Xue Li and her group looked at each other.
Finally, Fairy Shaoyin said, "Since we have already agreed on this, we must go and take a look. Please ask a few fellow fairies to lead the way."
"good!"
The Jade Rabbit Princess looked extremely expectant.
She said, "We have prepared the fairy carriage. Without further delay, please get on board, gods!"
The Jade Rabbit tribe had made very thorough preparations.
The Jade Rabbit Clan's fairy chariot is quite different from the Snow Wolf Clan's fairy chariot that Sydney often sees. It is painted with the patterns of the Jade Rabbit Clan, and the colors are mainly light. There are also many patterns such as flowing clouds, flowers, and the moon painted on the body of the chariot, which gives people a very relaxed and cute feeling, but the seat is very comfortable.
After Xue Li got on the fairy car, she looked at the scenery and objects inside and outside the car with curiosity. She saw that the little rabbits looked very happy, and because of this, the car was driving very briskly.
After a few hours, the fairy carriage stopped outside the Moon Palace, driven by the rabbits.
Xueli got out of the car.
She had seen the Moon Palace in the illusion set up by the Moon Goddess, but that was the ancient Moon Palace in the Moon Goddess's memory. Seeing it again after several months seemed like a lifetime ago.
However, in fact, the Moon Palace at that time and the Moon Palace in front of us now are indeed tens of thousands of years apart.
The layout of the Moon Palace has not changed, and the carved railings and jade bricks are just like in a fantasy world. However, even if the Jade Rabbit Clan works hard to maintain and renovate it, it cannot cover up the breath of time here. And because there has been no owner living there for a long time, the entire Moon Palace looks sparsely populated and very depressed.
The Moon Palace was dark all around, it was night, except for the huge moon behind it. That moon was not as bright and flawless as the one Xue Li saw in the illusion. Just as everyone had said, it already had dull gray spots on it, and when seen from such a close distance, the spots became even clearer and more obvious.
Princess Jade Rabbit handed them lanterns one by one and said, "The Moon Palace is dark all year round, so the Moon Palace always has lanterns lit and is illuminated by moonlight. This is your first time here, and this is the moon lantern that the Moon Palace often uses. With this lantern, you can see clearly even in dark places."
I saw that the moon lantern was made into a slightly flattened sphere, and the bright light in the middle was floating in the middle of the lantern. It was much brighter than ordinary lanterns, and it brightened the vision instantly.
Xue Li held the moon lamp in her hand and looked at it curiously.
At this time, Princess Jade Rabbit finished distributing the lanterns and said, "Okay, come in with me."