seventy-three, three years
Somewhere in the wilderness of the cliff country, a carriage was running wildly on the road, followed by more than a dozen horses, shouting to chase the carriage. The carriage driver shook the reins and ran wildly.
Wow! An arrow shot into the back of the cart, and the horses whined continuously, causing the entire cart to fall on the side of the road, and the goods carried behind the cart were scattered all over the ground.
The leader of the Xiangma came to the coachman and proudly glanced down at the coachman begging for mercy. He didn't even bother to dismount and said to his subordinates: "Kill him and take the goods away."
The coachman raised his head and a black cloud emerged from his frightened eyes.
The world changed drastically, and it suddenly became gloomy. The strong wind whistled away some smaller goods. The leader of the Xiangma asked his subordinates to catch up with the goods and personally pulled out his saber to ask the coachman to finish the coach.
A silver lightning flashed by in shock, making the earth pale. The head of the sound horse stiffened and slowly turned his head away. A young man in black held his wrist, his eyes exuding a faint coldness. It was Ling Xi.
The cold chill rose from the heart of the leader of the Xiangma. He had been lying in this area for many years and felt fear from others for the first time. A layer of frost formed from Ling Xi's hand, spreading up and frozen the leader of the Xiangma into an ice sculpture.
Ling Xiha let out a breath of cold air, quickly freezes the air into ice slag, releases the hand holding the ice sculpture's arm, glances at the people around him and asks, "Where is this?"
The horses looked at each other and immediately scattered like birds and beasts, fleeing everywhere. Before they could run ten feet out, all the horses under their crotch were frozen in place, and together with the horses, they turned into ice.
The sky disappeared in a blink of an eye, and the tranquility of the past was restored, as if the strange phenomenon of heaven and earth just now was just an illusion.
Ling Xi looked up at the scorching sun in the sky, and said in confusion: "Spiritual Cultivation Realm?"
His consciousness disappeared from leaving the Ice Prison, and until now he suddenly appeared here, the Dharma body and the Yuan Spirit both broke through to the spiritual cultivation realm.
He hadn't been puzzled for a long time, and he felt something strange in his body. Countless wrinkles climbed up on his face, his skin aged rapidly, and his whole body quickly turned into an old man who was about to quit.
Ling Xi half-kneeled weakly, touching his face and widened his eyes. Tian Ni used his skills crazily just now, ate most of his vitality, and turned him into this. Then another warm current spread into Ling Xi's body. Ling Xi felt that his body had recovered a little and stood up again. Tian Ni actually returned some vitality to him abnormally.
The coachman beside him was so scared that he couldn't speak by the change on Ling Xi's body that he trembled and collapsed on the ground.
Ling Xi glanced at his dry arms, felt silent in his heart, and activated his spiritual power to form a black earth mask, burned it into ceramics with flames and put it on his face to cover up the abnormality of his body.
"Where is this?" Ling Xi asked in a hoarse and abnormal voice. If it weren't for the sound of his own throat, Ling Xi wouldn't have heard that he was talking.
"Clay Kingdom." The coachman responded timidly, fearing that Ling Xi would turn him into an ice sculpture like the group of loud horses.
"Ling Xi?" A weak voice sounded, and it was Xiaoling who called him in his mind.
"Xiao Ling... how are you?" Ling Xi stopped talking and asked about her situation.
"I'm fine. Senior King Min sacrificed himself to send me out safely. But I feel like I've been sleeping for a long time." Xiao Ling said confusedly.
"So too." Before Ling Xi finished speaking, she was interrupted by Xiao Ling in screaming: "Ling Xi! Your body! What's going on?!"
Ling Xi smiled bitterly and explained: "I don't know either. As soon as I came back from the Ice Prison, Tian Ni's body was sucked away from its vitality. It also gave me a little more. Don't you want me to die soon?"
"No matter how it is, it cannot be so serious. Tian Ni will indeed return a certain amount of vitality to the host, which is to ensure the host's combat effectiveness. No matter when, your physical functions will not be affected by lifespan, but will suddenly die after the lifespan is absorbed. The emperor of that year also took advantage of this to create so many powerful dead soldiers."
"I suspect we have been in the ice prison for a long time." Ling Xi stared at the withered yellow flowers in the distance of the road and guessed: "I remember that autumn was not yet in that time, and it is obvious that it is late autumn now."
After saying that, Ling Xi asked the coachman: "I ask you, are Yaguo and Qi still fighting?"
"Qi State... has been in a standstill for three years." The coachman saw Ling Xi talking to himself alone for a long time, and suddenly asked him and said without hesitation.
Ling Xiru was struck by lightning and stood there. He knew that he had not lie when he looked at the coachman. If the incident of the three-year truce of war was true, he would have been in the Ice Prison for at least three years.
"Three years?!" Ling Xi's tone trembled, and he couldn't believe it.
Three years have changed so much, and Ling Yingxi is still waiting for him to rescue him. I don’t know how the relationship between Guyun Sect and Wang Ting has reached. In the past three years, he has been completely abandoned except for breaking through the spiritual cultivation realm.
"Ling Xi? Ling Xi!" Xiao Ling tried hard to wake up Ling Xi and said to him: "You don't have to think too much, Ling Yingxi... will be fine."
"What's the point of saying this? Do you know she won't be in trouble? Three years! She has been waiting for me for three years!" Ling Xi said with an out of control, and the ground under her feet was frozen into ice by Ling Xi's scattered spiritual energy.
"Are you still you? The Ling Xi I know is not an idiot, he is calmer than you." Xiaoling couldn't hear his emotional fluctuations, and he made a calm statement.
Ling Xi lowered his head and complained: "Of course you don't care about these three years, but I may not be able to live for another three years. Our time was unequal from the beginning."
"Since it is the path you have chosen, just raise your head and walk on it, and don't let me look down on you."
Ling Xi was silent for a long time, and suddenly laughed at herself: "Yes, I... shouldn't care."
"What can you do if you give up on yourself?"
Ling Xi's eyes were full of firmness again: "I can do my best."
In the capital of Yaguo, a young man in his teens wore a gorgeous yellow robe and wrote a pen to correct memorials. The Chief of Internal Affairs was with His Highness, accompanying him. The little emperor was no longer the same as before, and had his imperial power, and his every move showed a sense of dignity.
"Report!" An imperial guard walked into the hall and knelt down and reported: "Your Majesty, someone outside the hall asked for a visit, it was Ling Xi of Guyun Sect."
The little emperor suddenly stood up from the throne, threw down the pen in his hand and asked, "What did you say?"
"Ling Xi of Guyun Sect asked for a meeting."
The little emperor walked down the stairs on his own and almost fell down. The chief official of the interior affairs hurriedly helped him and followed the little emperor out of the hall.
Ling Xi stood outside the hall, looking at this almost unrecognizable person, and couldn't help but feel a little moved. The little emperor went from being a willful child back then to such a young man.
"Ling Xi?" The little emperor stepped forward to greet Ling Xi. Ling Xi was still wearing clothes from three years ago. Although she looked a little small, she could recognize him at a glance.
"Your Majesty, I'm here to say goodbye to you."
A hoarse voice came from under the ceramic mask, making the little emperor stunned on the way to Ling Xi.
"I am indeed Ling Xi, but it was just because of some changes that happened. Your Majesty doesn't need to panic." Ling Xi did not intend to explain the reason to the little emperor and said briefly.
"Ling Xi, you are finally back." The little emperor still smiled: "Don't leave? I'll let you be my Minister Nie Zheng and handle government affairs for me."
"Your Majesty, you have grown up. It won't be long before you will be the lord of this place, with many talents in the area, why do you need me?" Ling Xi refused.
The Chief Interior Manager is also different from three years ago. Without the hostility he had at the beginning, he took the initiative to politely say: "No matter what, you will always be a VIP from my country. Why not let us hold a banquet before leaving."
"No, I have more important things, I can't delay here." Ling Xi looked at the sky. A familiar figure came towards Yaoyang and was landing beside him.
Hongjing stepped on the ground with his limbs, shattered the floor tiles, and put up the wings of his shoulder blades. His purple vertical pupils looked at Ling Xi happily, and couldn't help but rub his forehead against him.
The little emperor seemed a little caught off guard and couldn't help but take a step back. The Imperial Guard hurriedly protected the little emperor and pointed his spear at Hongjing.
"Long time no see, Hongjing." Ling Xi gently stroked Hongjing's patterned lilac velvet on his forehead and smiled at it.
Hongjing responded, ignoring the guarded human army around him, and approached Ling Xi intimately. The little emperor recalled the giant beast that had saved him, so he asked the Imperial Guard to retreat.
As soon as Hong Jing approached Ling Xi, he immediately noticed something was wrong, and carefully sniffed Ling Xi's body and whineed.
"I'm fine." Ling Xi comforted it, patted its back and said, "Take me back to Guyun Sect."
"Wait." The little emperor stopped Ling Xi and handed him a beautifully bound booklet and said, "This is what General Gongsun asked me to give it to you. This is his family sword technique, and he is still waiting to fulfill his promise."
Ling Xi pushed the booklet and refused to say, "Gongsun Gongsun's death is also related to me. No matter what, I can't bear it."
"He said, it's not your fault, it's his fault. I think you'll forgive General Gongsun if you accept this swordsmanship."
Ling Xi hesitated for a while, but still accepted the booklet and saluted to the little emperor: "I admire General Gongsun's profound wisdom and righteousness. If I have time, I will definitely come back in the future." After he said that, he rode on Hongjing's back and signaled it to leave.
Hongjing raised his head and roared throughout the world, raised his wings again, carried Ling Xi to run two steps and met the sky, soaring straight into the sky and disappeared.
The little emperor shouted into the sky: "Ling Xi, remember to come back to see me!"
The voice echoed several times between the palaces. The little emperor put down his hand, stared at the sky for a long time and turned around and said, "Go back."
"yes."
The peaks of Guyun Sect are filled with fairy spirit and dense forests. After three years of restoration, they are no different from the original environment. At this moment, on the top of the Peak Mountain, a woman in white is alone here, with her skirt fluttering and moving with the wind, quietly looking at the sunset in the distance.
She is Ling Yingxi, who has not seen for many years. Compared to three years ago, Ling Yingxi now has a more profound meaning. She is not involved in the world, and her cold temperament becomes more obvious. If she stands alone for a long time, someone may think that this is a fairy who descends from the earth from heaven.
She pursed her lips gently, bit a leaf with her teeth, and blew a melodious tune. The tune was dark and low, revealing a little longing and a little loneliness.
A big bird appeared in the distant sunset, and the bird's back was vaguely carrying a person. Against the light, you can only see the dark shadows.
Chapter completed!