Liu Qinghuan was overjoyed when he heard that the transmission could be carried back to Yunmengze from Qingqiu Valley. Now he no longer had to search for cross-continent teleportation formations.
"But..." The golden elixir monk suddenly stopped talking, and the young disciples behind him also fell silent.
Liu Qinghuan's face darkened: "What?"
The Jindan monk came back to his senses and said hurriedly: "This junior saw a piece of news in the battle report. In a battle with the Yin Yue Blood Realm in the Ten Thousand Demon Valley a few months ago, several senior Nascent Souls unfortunately died in the battle.
True Lord Penghua is one of them."
Liu Qinghuan couldn't help but be surprised!
True Lord Penghua is Lelele’s father! And if his father dies, how will Lele be sad?
…
After saying goodbye to a group of young monks, Liu Qinghuan drove the floating boat at full speed and finally arrived at Qingqiu Valley a few days later.
After successfully entering the valley, he asked about the location of the teleportation circle, but he did not rush there immediately. Instead, he found an inaccessible house deep in the valley.
The mountains and plains of Qingqiu Valley are covered with gorgeous maples, and there are Feiquan waterfalls and small bridges and fine pavilions hidden inside. It is almost a landscape, and you can see everywhere how carefully the original owner of this place took care of it.
Maybe it was due to her state of mind, but Liu Qinghuan always felt that there was a hint of coldness behind the beauty, and the fallen leaves floating in the wind were full of loneliness.
The guarding monk led him to a side hall and went in to report. Liu Qinghuan sat in front of the window and held up a tea cup, feeling slightly absent-minded.
After a cup of tea, footsteps were heard outside the door. He turned around and saw Lele pushing the door open and entering.
Seeing the person coming, the smile on Liu Qinghuan's face was replaced by surprise: "How did you..."
Lele's appearance is still as delicate and beautiful as before, but the clouds of green silk on her head have turned into white hair. She only uses a plain jade hairpin to pull it back behind her head, and there are no other hair accessories.
Looking again, the little girl who was naughty and cute back then and liked bright clothes was dressed in a simple commoner and dressed like a woman. There was a trace of sadness and exhaustion in her eyebrows.
Lele let him look at you for a moment, then smiled generously and said: "Liu Qinghuan, I didn't expect to see you here. It's been a long time since I last saw you."
This habit of calling people by their full names has not changed, and it makes Liu Qinghuan seem to see the elf-like girl from back then. She took a few steps forward and asked, "Why is your hair...eh?"
He was surprised to find that there was a thin girl behind Lele. The girl's face was sallow, her body was full of illness, and her breathing was weak but rapid.
Lele pulled the timid child in front of her and said gently: "Xiaoxiao, this is my mother's friend. Just call him Uncle Liu."
The little girl glanced at Liu Qinghuan quickly with her big round eyes, then dropped her eyes quickly, called out "Uncle Liu" as loudly as a mosquito, then turned around and threw herself into Lele's arms.
"Oh, this child..." Lele touched her head lovingly, smiled at Liu Qing and said, "This is my daughter Yan Xiaoxiao. Because she is weak, she seldom sees people, so she is a little bit...
Afraid of life. I heard that you were coming and were about to leave, so I took her out to see you."
She said with a hint of complaint: "Why are you in such a hurry? We haven't seen each other for many years, you should stay a few more days."
Liu Qinghuan temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart and said: "My master's deadline is approaching and I must rush back immediately, so I have to leave after seeing you."
After thinking for a while, he said: "I won't leave again for the time being after I come back this time. Nowadays, it is easier to travel between the two continents. If you need to come to me for anything, just go directly to Wenshi Sect."
"Well, I won't keep you for now." Lele took the child and sat down on a chair nearby, and asked with concern: "Is Senior Ming Yangzi okay?"
Liu Qinghuan shook his head: "I just received the news not long ago, and I just rushed back from the outside world...Don't talk about me, you, are you okay? Where is Brother Yan?"
A hint of pain quickly flashed across Lele's eyes, and he said with a gloomy expression: "Senior brother, he died in the battle with other worlds a few years ago."
Liu Qinghuan opened her mouth several times, but couldn't find any words of comfort. She could only say a dry word of condolences.
He looked at the well-behaved and quiet little girl: "Xiaoxiao is Brother Yan's child?"
"Yes." Lele said with a smile: "Senior brother and I got married when we were having babies. As you know, that wooden boy used to follow me around every day and it annoyed me to death and drove away all the other male cultivators.
, what can I do if I don’t marry him? At that time, the Yin Yue Blood Realm was defeated, and most of the Sao Feng Continent was recaptured, so they simply held a double cultivation ceremony to celebrate, but who would have thought..."
She smiled and then faded away. She held her child in her arms for a while and said, "Who would have thought that life was about to get better, but he... In these years, we have passed through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but the people around us have become worse and worse.
Come less and less..."
Liu Qinghuan looked at her with heartache, and behind that strong smile was overflowing bitterness and pain.
During the sealing war, life and death were like pieces of flying fallen leaves, who didn’t know where they would be carried by the wind. The situation on the Sao Feng Continent was even more tragic than that of Yunmengze. They had been forced to lose their home.
, and it took countless blood and tears to get it back.
"Mother."
A childish child's voice suddenly sounded, Xiaoxiao touched Lele's face, her little hands were thin and thin, and coaxed like an adult: "Mom, don't cry, Xiaoxiao will always be with you!"
Lele laughed all of a sudden and pinched her little nose affectionately: "Mom didn't cry! Xiaoxiao is with my mother every day, and she smiles happily every day."
Liu Qinghuan also smiled and looked at the little girl carefully. The more she looked at it, the more strange she became. After thinking for a while, she asked: "Xiaoxiao...is she a mortal?"
Lele was silent for a moment before saying: "I didn't know I was pregnant at that time, and I was still running at the forefront of the fight against the alien world every day. Later, I was seriously injured, just in time to catch up with the alien world's counterattack, and I was hiding in Tibet all day long.
.This is okay, but I don’t know if it’s because of my injury. Xiaoxiao was born very weak. She obviously has spiritual roots, but she can’t gather her energy..."
Liu Qinghuan thought for a while: "Let me see?"
Lele's eyes lit up: "Yes, I remember that you practiced alchemy, and now your cultivation is...ah! You are almost in the late Yuanying stage. I haven't moved in the early stage of Yuanying for many years!"
Her angry look made Liu Qinghuan laugh and couldn't help but sigh.
Even after suffering so much, Lele still maintained a purity and optimism. After losing the immaturity of his youth and tempering his sharp edge, what was left was as tenacious as the clear maples in the Qingqiu Valley.
Liu Qinghuan gently held Xiaoxiao's hand, and sent a trace of gentle spiritual power into her body, traveling through the whole body through the eight extraordinary meridians, and then to the Dantian. As time passed by, his brows gradually wrinkled.
Lele looked at him nervously, and after seeing him take back his hand, he quickly asked: "How is it?"