A few days later, Zhongli Ye became famous and firmly sat on the throne of the number one genius in the vast land of China, admired and worshipped by countless people.
Not long after, Zhongli Ye went into seclusion to gain insights, which triggered strange phenomena in heaven and earth. He successfully crossed the threshold at the young age of twenty and was promoted to... a great practitioner.
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The capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Princess' bedroom.
Inside the warm hibiscus tent, Lu Meir was dressed in pink, hugging her knees on the bed, her expression sometimes frightened, sometimes dazed...
For some unknown reason, at this moment, she felt her consciousness was very blurry, as if she had left her body and entered another dimension...
Large tracts of darkness...
Endless Sorrow...
Countless ghostly shadows...
The chilling horror lingers on, chasing after you like a maggot on your tarsal bones...
Lu Meir ran helplessly in the darkness, while in reality her face was covered with tears and her body was shaking...
"Save me... Someone save me..."
Muttering these words in fear, Lu Meir felt that the creepy feeling of oppression was already within reach...
She almost suffocated!
But in the next moment...
A clear sword light cut a bright crack in her world that had already been swallowed up by darkness!
The warm and dazzling sunlight shines through the cracks...
Immediately, the straight sword path killed all the ghosts!
A familiar yet strange voice sounded in her ears...
Intermittent and unclear... but so gentle and considerate, it made her feel at ease...
"Just call you...Jun? How about that?"
"Don't be afraid, from today on, everything will be different."
"Me? Um... My name is Xiao Tianchu."
"Believe me, we will definitely meet again!"
Chaotic memories flooded into Lu Meir's mind, shocking her mind, causing her to hug her knees tighter, lower her head and sob, with tears on her face, looking even more pitiful...
"I, remember now."
"I remember everything... now!"
"No wonder... No wonder the vixen and I were both born with natural charm, but were born in the same era. No wonder when I saw her, I naturally wanted to get close to her and wanted to become her..."
"So the truth... is actually like this..."
"Brother Tianxiao... I want to see you, I want to see you now!"
Accompanied by a murmur, Lu Meir wiped the tears from her face and turned sideways to get out of bed. However, the next moment, she suddenly found herself... Her limbs were limp and she felt powerless all over!
With a bang, Lu Meir's body lost balance and she fell heavily on the bed, unable to move anymore.
"This... What's going on?"
Lu Meir was horrified, and at this moment, a familiar female voice also sounded...
"Hehe... It's just a side effect of pulling at the memories deep in my soul..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a creaking sound, and a woman dressed in green, dressed as a maid, pushed the door open and walked in, with an inexplicable smile on her face...
When she first saw the person coming, Lu Meir was immediately surprised, because this girl was the closest personal maid who had been with her since she could remember!
"Cui'er? How come you... Are you from the demon clan? No, that's not right. Are you from Chan's side? No, that's still not right! What the hell is this..."
After a long string of words fell, the woman in green chuckled: "Your Highness the Princess has so many questions..."
These words, with a strong sense of sarcasm, made Lu Meir startled for a moment, but her mind also calmed down at this moment.
She took a long breath, stared at the woman in green and said, "You... want to kill this princess?"
"Your Highness, you are joking. There are countless restrictions in this Forbidden City. If you were not so restless recently and wanted to drive people away, I would not be able to even get close to you, so how could I possibly kill Your Highness?"
"… So what kind of bewitching method are you trying to use to control me?"
"Haha, Your Highness, you obviously have remembered everything, right? Why do you still want to tease me like this?" Hearing this, the green-clothed woman laughed so hard that her body shook, but Lu Meir's heart suddenly sank...
Yes, she had remembered everything... She naturally knew that with her noble bloodline, there was no way in the world to forcibly "control" her mind - she was the only one who could control others!
It was precisely because of this that Lu Meir had said those tentative words just now... Her idea was to pretend to be agreeable and then counterattack!
"You are worthy of being a princess who grew up in the royal family of the First Empire... It's a pity..." The green-dressed woman said with a smile, and then she took a step closer and stroked Lu Meir's face, "You are facing 'us'..."
"... You guys?" Lu Meir frowned deeply, but before she could finish her words, the woman in green took out a strangely shaped "sharp knife" from her bosom...
The next moment, she put it in Lu Meir's hand, and at the same time, pressed her body against it!
With a loud crash!
Blood is gushing out!
Lu Meir's pupils suddenly dilated!
For a moment, the endless darkness and the cold terror from before... swept over again!
"No... Don't continue to awaken at this time, no... No!—"
"hehe… "
As if to mock Lu Meir's persistence, the woman in green, whose heart and lungs had been pierced, struggled and whispered heart-piercing words into Lu Meir's ear...
"It's useless! Your Highness! Your awakening has reached its limit... Your fate cannot be changed!"
"From now on, there will be no more Princess Tianmei."
"There was only one... He had been hiding in Kyoto for more than ten years. Once he was exposed, he killed his personal maid and escaped..."
"Witch!"
After the last sound came, Lu Meir's pupils suddenly turned blood red!
A bright magic pattern appeared on her forehead, emitting powerful rays of light to help her resist the pressure from the Forbidden City formation!
Seeing this, the woman in green raised her head slightly, and in her last moments, she murmured, "The Xuanmen scheme... such a wild idea... hehe... it ends here..."
"Is this... all right? Chief... our faith... is this, all right..."
Before she finished her words, she tilted her head and took her last breath.
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Somewhere in a "fairyland" with birds singing and the mountains more secluded.
It is not yet noon, but the bamboo shadows are already slanting.
In the green bamboo forest, there was a sound of chess pieces falling one after another. It came from two old men - one was dressed in white with eyebrows as white as snow, and the other was dressed in black with black clothes from wrist to shoulder.
The two were playing chess on a stone chessboard.
The black and white chess pieces were like two armies fighting each other, going back and forth, neither side giving in. After an unknown amount of time, the man in black suddenly dropped a word in a certain position, like a ravine rising from the flat ground, instantly dragging the situation into a strange situation...
Seeing this, the man in white on the left fell into deep thought, but before he could come up with any clever ideas, a strange sight suddenly appeared in the sky...
There was a faint blood cloud.
They both looked up at the same time.
“… Something happened.”
“… Let’s go together.”
"good."
After saying this, the two looked at each other and said solemnly, as if making a declaration: "For the sake of all people in the world."