She is no longer the innocent child she was. Faced with the sudden appearance of the woman, she only has a deeper sense of vigilance in her heart.
"You don't believe me? That's right, after all, this is the first time I appear in front of you like this." She smiled softly, and her face suddenly changed, and she suddenly looked like the maid who often took care of her.
"Is it you?" Lu Qingling's eyes widened slightly.
"It's me, but it's not me. This is just a clone of me. The real me has long been integrated with this ancient clock." The woman's eyes were gentle, and her slender hands were placed on her fair face. "It's all our fault that Lingyou is like this. Now that the heart flower has been released, heaven will soon put things right. By then, Lingyou's life will be short."
Gu Qingling's heart skipped a beat.
She pursed her lips tightly and her eyes flickered slightly: "That's... what he deserves."
As an Immortal Emperor, doing such a thing is a crime that cannot be punished.
The woman's voice was still soft: "He cannot die. If he dies, you will become the next Immortal Emperor and be bound to this place forever."
...what?
For a moment, Gu Qingling thought she was hearing hallucinations.
The woman explained: "The person who kills the Immortal Emperor will become the new Immortal Emperor. Thousands of years ago, there was no distinction between purity and turbidity in the world, and there was chaos. At that time, the Immortal Emperor was not Lingyou, but a big snake named A'zhen.
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"It was so murderous that it caused rivers of blood in the three realms. We worked together to kill the snake. In the end, only Lingyou survived and gave Ah'an the final blow."
Gu Qingling was slightly startled.
"He is a very good child. He collected our bones, and then silently guarded the cold and dark fairy palace... But this loneliness was too long, and Ling You couldn't bear it after all. He has become what he is now.
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"...I don't want to become the Immortal Emperor. But he won't let us go first." Gu Qingling lowered her long eyelashes and said in a muffled voice.
The woman chuckled and tapped her eyebrows gently: "He is a naughty child. I have my own way. I just want to see if you are willing to help me."
"How can I help you?" Gu Qingling was a little confused. She found that she was becoming less and less wary of women, which was not a good thing.
But her intuition told her that she could trust what this person said.
The woman smiled and said nothing, just raised her eyes and looked behind her.
Across the ancient clock, she and Ling You looked at each other from afar, with tears glistening in her eyes.
"Go, little girl." The woman took a few steps back, raised her hand and patted her shoulder: "The boy will also go out with you."
As soon as she finished speaking, bursts of white light flashed in front of Gu Qingling's eyes. She fell suddenly, but fell into a hug filled with the fragrance of Zhu Luan flowers.
"Yeah."
The wind suddenly rose, and the black hair flew. Amidst the crazy sleeves like floating clouds, Gu Qingling looked into a pair of clear and soft eyes.
"...Bell."
The face of the woman in front of her was somewhat similar to hers, with bright eyes, white teeth, and beautiful eyebrows, just like plum branches covered with snow, which made her stare at her infatuatedly.
The woman reached out and scraped the bridge of her nose: "Why did you show up at this time... Hey, I wanted to wait until the situation stabilizes to see you again."
Gu Qingling came back to her senses and stared at the woman closely. She was speechless for a moment and only reached out to hold a strand of her hair, her eyes suddenly turned red.
Is this a dream?
If it is really a dream, can it be longer and longer?
Just as Wu Ling was about to open her lips, Gong Yuan quickly came over and was startled when he saw this: "Ling'er? How did you——"
Before he finished speaking, the ground shook violently.
Only then did Gu Qingling realize that a huge magic circle was spread out in front of the three of them, with countless golden seal characters surging wildly, like a demon. And just behind the magic circle, there were green branches and vines growing crazily.
The magic circle collided with the branches and vines, stirring up the wind and clouds, turning the world upside down, and the entire fairy world trembled slightly.
Wu Ling's eyebrows darkened slightly, he pressed Gu Qingling's head into the crook of his neck, and whispered: "Lingyuan, the giant tree reaching the sky cannot defeat this magic circle."
Lingyuan exhaled slowly and slowly, raised his hand to condense light into a bow, and the light arrow slowly took shape. Just as he was about to place it on the string, Lu Qingling reached out and held it down.
She asked blankly: "Father, mother, do you want the vines to break through the magic circle?"
Wu Ling said softly: "Yes. The fairy world is about to collapse. This is the only way to save it."
Gu Qingling murmured: "It turns out that sister didn't lie to me."
Wu Ling: "What?"
Gong Yuan also looked over in surprise.
……
Lingyou stood blankly in front of the ancient clock.
He seemed to have had all his energy drained away, his eyes were dull, and he murmured in a low voice: "Why do you even want to leave?"
"I only have you, I only have you...can't I keep even a trace of my soul?"
The ancient clock is being turned into ashes at an extremely fast speed, and the fine sand passes through Lingyou's fingers, like the last touch before leaving.
Ling You's fingers suddenly began to tremble violently. He opened his arms like crazy and raised his hands to pounce on the flying sand. His face was ferocious and veins popped out on his forehead.
"Don't leave, don't leave! You want to leave me alone again?! Why!!"
"Did you hear that? If you leave too, then I will become the next Ah Zhen. I want the three realms to be bloody and never peaceful!"
"——Unless you speak to stop me! Don't leave, stay for me...stay!"
His voice gradually became fainter, and he stared at the palm of his hand, and the last trace of black sand disappeared.
"Haha...hahahaha..."
"Okay, okay. I can't even keep you, so what qualifications do I have to guard the fairy world? Okay, that's great."
"I'm tired and tired of it. In this case, let's——"
Suddenly.
The immortal magic circle erupted with dazzling golden light. In a daze, Ling You raised his eyes and saw thousands of vines rushing towards him.
And the girl in the center, with a little cinnabar between her eyebrows, black hair and snowy skin, looks like a blooming flower or a flexible fish, letting the rainbow light spread all over the fairyland.
The magic circle has been broken.
The vines that covered the sky tied him tightly. Lingyou lowered his head, and his soft and fine hair was now messy and falling behind him. His handsome and handsome face was covered with bloodstains, and a fist-sized hole was penetrated by the vines on his shoulder.
Blood hole.
Lingyou slowly closed his eyes, curled his lips and smiled softly.
Little carp, are you going to kill me?
That’s fine.
I have had enough of this long loneliness.
And the next person to bear it is you - huh?
Lingyou felt something soft and cold pressed against his forehead.
He opened his eyes suddenly and saw that Gu Qingling's forehead was touching his own, and that touch of cinnabar penetrated the skin, causing the scene in front of him to change several times, and finally settled on the scene of people toasting and drinking under the laurel tree thousands of years ago.
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The woman in purple smiled and threw a handful of osmanthus flowers into his wine glass. Seeing that he was annoyed, she laughed like a silver bell.
"Xiao Lingyou, if you can't drink it, don't drink it. We will have plenty of time to drink in the future!"
The scene suddenly changed, and a large area of blood-red occupied the field of vision. The woman in purple stood in front of him, blood spilled from the corner of her lips, and her eyes were in a trance.
"...kill A'zhen...you are the only one left...Sorry, we have already..."
Ling You raised his eyes, his full moon-like snake pupils hung in the night sky. He held his sword and stood up slowly.
The cinnabar between the eyebrows gradually faded.
When Lingyou came back to his senses, he only saw Gu Qingling's back fading away.
……
The sun is setting in the west, and the smoke is curling up.
Gu Qingling picked up the wild vegetables, shook off the soil from the roots, raised her hand and threw them behind her, and the wild vegetables fell steadily into the bamboo basket behind her.
She nodded with satisfaction, holding the sickle in one hand and the hare she had brought in with the other. As soon as she reached the entrance of the village, a dark-skinned peasant boy came over with a bag of candy.
"Ahem, um... Well, Xiaoling, this is the maltose my mother bought from the town. It's very sweet. There's also a rabbit-shaped one, what about you - um?!"
He suddenly caught a glimpse of the rabbit in Gu Qingling's hand and was stunned for a moment: "Ah, you caught a real rabbit."
Gu Qingling raised her lips and smiled: "Yes, mother said she wanted to eat salt and pepper roasted rabbit tonight, so I hunted two of them. By the way, what did you just say, rabbit follow me?"
"No, it's nothing!" Looking at the peaceful death of the two rabbits, the farmer's boy turned red, threw the maltose into her basket, and ran away.
Gu Qingling was confused: "What's wrong?"
She continued walking slowly and leisurely. When she passed a hillside, she stopped and looked sideways.
The setting sun melted gold, the fire burned the floating clouds, and the breeze accompanied by the chirping of insects slowly blew past her ears, making her feel slightly in a trance.
Not long ago, she was still fighting against Ling You in the fairy world, until the giant tree broke through the seal of the fairy world, and the law of heaven finally took action to suppress the turbid energy that was about to surge out of the fairy world.
As for the scattered and turbid air, they were all solved by the vines. Those that could not be solved by the vines were left to them.
For more than ninety days, the three realms showed unprecedented unity. With the support of Demon King Xuanmin and Demon King Yunjia, the turbid air in the fairy world was slowly cleared.
As for her, she was led by Gong Yuan and Wu Ling, and while everyone was busy, she quietly slipped into the human world, found a random village, and settled there.
Wu Ling said: "There are specialties in the art industry, and we can't help much by staying there. Or is it that Xiaobao doesn't want to reminisce with his mother?"
Gong Yuan said: "Listen to your mother."
Gu Qingling said calmly: "This is laziness!"
Wu Lingqiao smiled sweetly: "So what, Xiaobao, just tell me whether you can leave or not."
Gu Qingling: "Let's go!"
The so-called bosom friend Mo Ruomu, the two hit it off immediately, and planned to hide away for a while. Anyway, there are so many people from the demon world and the demon world to help, so it would be okay if a few of them are missing.
As for Gong Yuan, after Tiandao exempted the Sharks from their crimes, he asked Ming Qin and Du Xue to take the young and strong Sharks warriors to the fairy world through the Tree of Heaven to clean up the remaining turbidity together. p>
As for himself——
"Is it okay to cut it like this? Is it too thin?" Gong Yuan's handsome and heroic eyebrows frowned slightly, and the hand holding the kitchen knife hung in front of a big radish, with an extremely serious expression.
It seems that what is placed in front of you is not a big carrot, but an extremely delicate mechanism.
Gu Qingling put down the basket and hare, raised her hand and touched a radish leaf, with a complicated look on her face: "Dad, you should wash the radish before cutting it - eh?"
The jade pendant around her waist suddenly glowed slightly.
A voice immediately came out: "Little carp! It's urgent! You must come to the fairy world!"
Gu Qingling raised her hand and pinched her eyebrows: "Lingyou, this is the ninth time you have called me this month. This time I can't say anything. I have agreed that I will roast rabbit with my mother." There was silence on the other end of the jade pendant for a while, and then Yun Chi's voice sounded.
"Little bell?"
"Master! Are you and Ling You together?"
"Yes. There are many islands in the fairy world, but he is the only one who remembers them all. We are urging him to draw the pictures." Yun Chi's gentle and elegant voice paused slightly, as if he saw something, and suddenly became low and stern: "Ling You! Don't mess around just to rush the work.
Paint!"
Ling You almost pinched the brush and said fiercely: "It's just a chi, do you believe this Immortal Emperor...Pfft!"
There was an earth-shaking sound coming from inside the jade pendant.
Gu Qingling silently put away the jade pendant. If she guessed correctly, Xuan Min should have walked around according to the wrong picture of the fairy island, and then rushed in to settle the score.
Xuan Min has a bad temper to begin with. If Yun Chi hadn't been there to mediate him, I'm afraid the war between immortals and demons would have happened again.
Gu Qingling suddenly felt that it was right for her to conceal her whereabouts and come here...