Gu Qingling followed the servant back to the courtyard, as if she had a premonition of what was about to happen. She stood calmly at the entrance of the courtyard until dusk fell, and a wail pierced the sky.
Finally, it begins.
She slowly let out a breath of cold air, squeezed her frozen fingers hard, and then ran towards the Pei family ceremony hall.
That's where Pei Hongdu and his family elders discussed matters.
This journey can be described as filled with tragedy.
Countless demons broke through the seal and bitten the servants. The closer they got to the meeting hall, the more cruel and bloody the scene around them became.
The soldiers of the Pei family also spontaneously gathered to resist the demons, but for some unknown reason, the power of these demons increased greatly, and they almost killed all the soldiers with overwhelming force.
As if they realized that Gu Qingling was difficult to deal with, the ferocious beasts and monsters did not attack her. Instead, they passed her by with a slight fear and rushed towards the people behind her.
These people were just fragments of fantasy, not real flesh and blood. Therefore, Gu Qingling stood by and watched until she ran to the high bluestone steps of the council hall.
The bluestone has been washed away with blood, and corpses are scattered everywhere.
She raised her head and found that two soldiers had their hearts pierced with spears and were nailed to wooden pillars. Blood was flowing under their feet, gathering on the ground and mixing with the dirty puddles.
It was so tragic that Pei Hongdu had...
Gu Qingling's heart ached with pain.
She stepped up the steps step by step, the wind became more and more violent, and her ears were filled with whining sounds, mixed with subtle sobbing.
Who is crying? The servants? Or Pei Hongdu?
Gu Qingling lowered her eyes and raised her hand to push away the meeting hall.
The light swayed and then suddenly went out. The remaining skylight shot in from behind her, faintly illuminating the stumps on the ground and Pei Hongdu's small figure covered in blood.
The moment Gu Qingling raised her foot and walked across the meeting hall, she noticed the weak fluctuations in the formation, and she suddenly understood.
No wonder there wasn't a single demon at the door of the meeting hall. They were all driven away by this formation. But this formation was full of blood, and it should have been drawn by the Pei family at the end of their lives.
Pei Hongdu knelt and sat in the center of the formation, holding a section of his sister's arm in his arms, as if in a daze.
"Pei Hongdu." Gu Qingling stood outside the formation and called him softly: "Let's go back."
She could see that Pei Hongdu had recovered his memory at this moment. He should understand that this was his fantasy, not reality.
boom!
With a loud noise, a huge fireball flew from nowhere and destroyed most of the meeting hall. The beams collapsed, hot flames licked upwards, and the entire hall was crumbling with wood chips raining down.
Pei Hongdu's eyelashes trembled suddenly. He stared at the flames. After a moment, he stood up, put his hand on Gu Qingling's hand, then held her tightly with his backhand, and whispered: "Okay. Let's go back."
The two of them descended the stairs, and the demonic fire had already swallowed up the entire Pei family. However, the two of them were not products of the illusion after all, so they were not affected.
Even so, this journey was not easy. The bloody scenes unfolded all the way, and for Pei Hongdu, it was like a sharp knife, constantly cutting out the flesh of his heart.
But unlike before, Pei Hongdu is no longer alone.
He felt Gu Qingling's hand holding his tightly. If the conditions didn't allow it, she would have covered Pei Hongdu's ears and blindfolded his eyes.
The road suddenly became very long, and Pei Hongdu's figure also grew, gradually becoming the appearance she was most familiar with.
The two of them walked to the front door of Pei's house.
The moment he was about to step out, Pei Hongdu suddenly felt something in his heart. He stopped and turned his eyes, his eyes falling on the swaying flames behind him.
In a daze, he seemed to see a thin young boy with burns all over his body, dragging a sword taller than himself, walking awkwardly and desperately among the demons.
He was constantly being attacked, and the power contained in the assembly hall formation was also constantly protecting him.
But this power was already crumbling, and he could feel the breath of his remaining family members becoming inaudible under repeated attacks.
What was he thinking at that time?
Pei Hongdu actually forgot about it for a while.
He only knows that he is no longer in such a mess, no longer so incompetent, and that he has the ability to protect the people he loves.
In a daze, the figure of the fragile young man stood there, looking at him from a distance. But the demonic fires around him suddenly surged and rushed towards him with endless hatred.
tear, devour.
In Pei Hongdu's eyes, that figure quickly disappeared, and his heart would no longer have any fluctuations.
"Pei Hongdu?"
Gu Qingling tilted her head and called him.
Pei Hongdu gently held the back of her hand: "Yes. Let's go."
He raised his feet and walked out of the door of Pei's house.
At the same time, the purgatory-like scene on earth suddenly solidified, as if it had turned into an extremely smooth mirror.
Soon, an undetectable crack spread across the top, growing and spreading——
Click!
It was a very light crisp sound.
Click-click!
The entire illusion instantly shattered into countless pieces, as if it had been crushed by some force. Countless pieces of powder suddenly exploded and floated down one after another, glowing with starlight, which actually had a sense of beauty.
Gu Qingling raised her eyes and looked around, then poked Pei Hongdu on the shoulder: "You have destroyed the illusion. Do you know how to get out?"
Pei Hongdu lowered his eyes and looked at her: "Huh? Can't we get out without the illusion?"
Gu Qingling stared at him: "..."
Pei Hongdu curled his lips and smiled: "I won't tease you anymore. Of course I know how to get out."
Only then was Gu Qingling satisfied: "Let me tell you, since you are in the mood to be cool, you will definitely find a way to get out."
She stopped again and opened her arms towards Pei Hongdu: "I'm so tired now."
Pei Hong felt blessed in his heart. Without any hesitation, he leaned over to pick her up and asked, "Is it fun?"
Gu Qingling pretended to be stupid: "What?"
Pei Hongdu: "Is it fun to tease my old self on purpose?"
Gu Qingling nodded sincerely: "That's so fun! You used to be so tender, you would blush when teased, and you had to pretend to be serious with me, but you couldn't even pretend to be anything like it. You tried your best to make up for yourself. It was so cute.
