Fan Chen raised his head and took a closer look at the familiar yet unfamiliar figure in front of him, "Your appearance... has changed a lot." He almost didn't recognize it, "Have you been in a place outside the world for more than a thousand years?
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"Well, I never told you before that I am originally from another world." Now that the vest has fallen off, Jiang Ran no longer hides it, "Actually, this is what I really look like. You didn't expect me to look like this, right?
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Fan Chen looked at her features carefully, as if he wanted to carve it into his heart. In fact, as long as it was her, it didn't matter what she looked like, "...just come back." As long as she is still here, as long as she doesn't leave.
Hearing this, Jiang Ran felt a little sad for no reason, and after a while he said, "How have you been doing these past few years?"
Fan Chen was stunned and didn't know how to answer for a moment. Mo Ming remembered the last scene of her before disappearing. She was holding a blood-stained sword and standing on the ice field of the North in red clothes. Her whole body was covered with deep wounds.
A deep sense of exhaustion enveloped me, and even the back that seemed to never bend was filled with fatigue. He looked blankly at the sky like a sculpture, and his whole body exuded boundless loneliness. He didn't know how long he had been standing there.
Seeing him rushing over in a hurry, he turned around and looked over.
"Little Lotus, are you here to stop me too?" The smile on her lips felt a little broken for some unknown reason.
It's just that he didn't notice this at the time. He just looked at the remaining divine power on her sword and said, "I will never stop any of your decisions, but... I want to know why?" Why did she suddenly change?
Just like a person, he does incredible things.
She didn't answer, but her eyes were more tired and sleepy. She raised her head and continued to glance at the sky, then stood up and said, "It's not important anymore. If... I'll tell you the reason when I come back." Some things have to be done by someone.
Do.
After saying that, she shook off the blood on her sword, gripped the sword again and flew away. He just stood there, watching her drift away until she never came back.
Over the past thousand years, it seems that time has stopped at the moment she left, and has never flown again.
He was trapped in this period of time, regretting over and over again why he didn't notice her strangeness, why he didn't stop her regardless, why he didn't leave with her, so he wouldn't have to wait where she disappeared.
, keeping the promise of 'waiting for me to come back', and the thoughts that he could never express to his mouth again, a long and endless wait that was almost desperate.
Is he doing well?
Seeing that he was silent for a long time, even in a daze, Jiang Ran coughed and said with a touch of teasing, "I heard someone say that you are now the number one person in the six realms. That's good, I didn't expect that the little lotus back then has changed.
It’s so powerful.”
Fan Chen came back to his senses and suppressed those heavy thoughts. Fortunately, she finally came back, and that was enough.
"It's just a false name. You taught me my technique." His eyebrows softened and he said softly, "Nothing can compare to what I used to do." In terms of cultivation and strength, she is the only one who can be ranked first among mortals.
She is the only one from ancient times to the present who has cultivated the power to kill gods.
"I'm not good now. I can't compare to what I used to be." With her current body, she can't even take a few steps without getting out of breath, let alone her cultivation.
Fan Chen looked at her again, his brows furrowed. With his cultivation, he could tell at a glance that she had no cultivation at all, and her body seemed to have an old illness, so he stretched out his hand and said, "A Ran, can I...
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"Well, let's see." Jiang Ran handed over her wrist. It was no secret that she was in poor health anyway.
Fan Chen felt her pulse, her brows furrowed into the Chinese character "Sichuan", her face was serious as if she had some terminal illness, "Why is your body so weak now?" This is simply worse than a mortal.
"Maybe it's because I've been in a vegetative state for ten years!" She directly told him about the time she traveled through time and turned her body into a vegetative state.
Fan Chen's face became even more serious, and he immediately listed a lot of plans for recuperating his body. After a while, he said, "Ah Ran, you are not in a hurry to re-enter the Tao. Once your body is better recuperated, you will be better able to introduce Qi into your body."
Okay. As for improving your physique... I'll think of a way, it's just a matter of your practice..."
"It's okay, I don't really want to rebuild it anyway." Jiang Ran said nonchalantly.
"You don't plan to re-cultivate?" Fan Chen was stunned and said in surprise, "But..." Her cultivation back then was capable of killing gods.
"Yeah." She nodded and sighed, "Actually, I didn't like any practice at first. In the past, I had no choice. If I fell behind, I would be beaten. But now...I'm tired, so I can just practice whatever happens."
Fan Chen opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but after a while he nodded in compromise as usual, "Okay."
If you don't like it, then don't practice it. It took a lot of effort to come back. He really didn't want her to be bothered by other chores anymore, as long as she was happy.
"What is that you have been holding in your hand?" She pointed to the box he had been carrying. She saw it just as she came over and couldn't help but ask.
Only then did Fan Chen remember and smiled gently at her. He seemed to have returned to the man who was as gentle as jade, with a gentle aura all over his body. "The banquet was to confirm your identity, so I ordered them to add every dish."
Cilantro, I saw you didn’t eat anything, so I prepared another one for you."
He handed the box to her directly and added, "Don't worry, there's no coriander in these."
Jiang Ran was surprised. It turned out to be a little lotus flower. It was always so gentle and delicate, and she could remember even such small details. She took the box, opened a corner, and a scent suddenly hit her nostrils. The fragrance made her mouth water, and she subconsciously
I want to take it back and start eating.
However, Fan Chen directly helped her take out the food and placed them one by one on the stone table next to her, signaling her to fill her stomach quickly.
"Qingjue is still in the house..." She thought of Qingjue who was still cooking cabbage, and hesitated whether to bring the big meal back to eat.
"Don't worry, Ah Ran. I've already cast a spell over there, so she won't notice you leaving." Fan Chen explained and handed the chopsticks to her.
She felt relieved, and without being polite to him, she took it directly and sat down by the stone bench to eat. She was really hungry so late, and it was a waste of time to go back and forth.
They were all old acquaintances, and there was no image to pay attention to, so they naturally ate openly. These dishes were indeed good, so delicious that they could make people swallow their tongues. She could really understand the mood of Qingjue and the others who were fighting for food at the banquet just now.
. But now she was the only one, and even the people next to her just looked at it with a smile and did not join in. They even handed her a bowl of soup from time to time.
"What kind of meat is this?" she asked, pointing to the most delicious dish.
"Futian." Fan Chen glanced at it and replied, "A high-level spiritual beast that lives deep under the sea."
"Deep under the sea?" She was stunned for a moment, "This kind of spiritual beast shouldn't be brought out by the beast tide, right?" Generally, beast tides at sea are formed due to the turbulence of the sea surface and are frightened, but generally they do not affect the bottom of the sea.
yes.
"Indeed." Fan Chen nodded, "That's why I went to kill you specially. I was afraid that you wouldn't show up at the banquet, so I prepared this."
"..." Jiang Ran paused with her chopsticks, and a sense of familiarity hit her again. Has she been completely figured out?
As expected of a little lotus, she has always done things so well.
She didn't eat quickly, but she was always full from the food on the table, and her body couldn't eat much. After taking the soup from Little Lotus, she put down her chopsticks.
"I'm full." After taking the last sip of soup, he looked at the gentle man in front of him and then got to the point, "What's going on with the seal in Zhentian Pavilion?"