Darkness filled the sky and earth like rendered ink, and in the courtyard without lights, only wind and rain remained.
The raging wind threw rainwater into the pavilion. In front of the stone table in the center of the pavilion, Li Tianlan sat motionless with a teacup in his hand.
Gongsun Qi has been gone for who knows how long. The tea originally placed in front of him has already cooled down, but the tea cup in Li Tianlan's hand is still warm. The tea in the cup is like boiling magma under the hot temperature. The heat is filled and the water is rolling.
, but he didn't notice it at all, he just thought about his own thoughts calmly.
At this moment, Li Tianlan was different from the madness in battle, and different from the gentleness in normal state. When he was thinking seriously, he was like a statue. He looked lifeless and had no upgrade, but exuded an almost depressing solemnity from the inside out.
The Lord of the Palace of Samsara went straight to the Imperial Army Mountain, the decisive battle against Gu Xingyun on June 15th, the undercurrents between the East Islands of Zhongzhou, the mysterious forces looming in the darkness, and Gongsun Qi's sudden visit today.
Vaguely, Li Tianlan felt for the first time that he seemed to be a participant in the general trend.
If Gongsun Qi had not lied to him, then his identity has been completely exposed now. After returning from Dongdao, no, even from now on, he will have to face the hostility from Kunlun City, and face the Wang family of Beihai Ruoyouruo.
He has no murderous intention, as well as those visible and invisible enemies who suddenly jump out to attack him before he has time to attack, and even give him a fatal blow.
In the future, where should the Li family go? Where should the Donghuang Palace go?
Since joining the WTO, this seems to be the first time that he has seriously thought about future survival issues and the future situation.
In the past, his superficial conflicts with Kunlun City were nothing. Killing Liu Xiuwei, offending Gu Yunxia, Yang Mengjiang's inexplicable disappearance, and even killing Gu Yangjiang were all things that could be revealed as long as enough chips were paid.
past things.
But his identity, for Kunlun City and even the Beihai Wang family, is a major matter that cannot be ignored.
The crisis was imminent, and the looming danger kept stimulating his heart. Li Tianlan instinctively began to think about the situation he would face in the future.
Seriously speaking, his current background is actually quite tough. Sigh City will be the strongest support behind him. Ning Qiancheng is still by his side, and Dongcheng is also by his side. Therefore, it seems that Dongcheng is still by his side.
The family is also worthy of trust, at least they won’t be on guard now.
The academic faction has been silent since the decisive battle on June 15th. He has not encountered any difficulties in his request to Zhuang Huayang. The most important thing is that the leader of the academic faction brought Li Guangsheng out from the border. This in itself is
A kind of support.
Although the Donghuang Palace is now a newly established organization, Li Tianlan and his team from Dongdao are already prominent enough based on their own military exploits. After returning to Zhongzhou, it is almost certain that the level of the Donghuang Palace will be adjusted upwards. This is the most obvious
How effective the amulet can be depends entirely on how high the Donghuang Palace will be upgraded.
This is all he has at the moment.
As for the Palace of Reincarnation...
Li Tianlan could sense more and more clearly what Samsara was secretly planning.
The timing of his identity being exposed was so inappropriate. To a certain extent, it should be the result of making way for the plans of the Reincarnation Palace. Li Tianlan would not blame anyone. It can be seen that after seeing the dawn and dawn, out of some premonition,
Li Tianlan no longer regards the Reincarnation Palace as his own resource. He has a vague feeling that this largest resource may not be able to help him for a long time in the future.
But the support tilted toward him from Sigh City, the Dongcheng family, and the academic community was already considerable enough. The only thing that made Li Tianlan uneasy was that he also had more enemies than he imagined.
It's not just Kunlun City, it's not just the Wang family in Beihai. Not to mention how many ferocious fangs were hidden behind his father's 'treason' battle back then, let's just say that he died as a result of his father's 'treason' in that battle.
As for the 120,000 troops at the border, the families they left behind today, twenty years later, are a nerve-wracking force.
Li Tianlan's face was expressionless. It was expected that the road ahead would be difficult, but the thorny situation still gave him a headache. After all, his identity was exposed too early. If only he could have two or three more years.
..
His eyes accidentally glanced at the teacups on the stone table, and he shook his head subconsciously.
This was considered a gift left to him by reincarnation, and it could even be said to be the greatest help.
The favor of nearly a thousand elite special warfare personnel in Central Continent.
In the past few days, Li Tianlan has taken time to meet guests every day. Before Wang Shengxiao and Gongsun Qi arrived today, Li Tianlan and several other special operations masters who owed him life-saving grace chatted about how to use favors.
In fact, it is very subtle. Li Tianlan is not so naive as to think that he has saved them. They really owe him a life. It is about survival. With the eyes of the Kunlun City and the Beihai Wang family, among these nearly a thousand people, one tenth can be saved.
Helping him with some small favors at the right time was enough to satisfy him. In the following time, how to carefully weave this hard-won network map has almost become the primary issue he needs to consider.
Survive, develop, and rise.
These three words are almost the future path of Donghuang Palace.
The wind and rain outside the pavilion became increasingly loud and deafening.
Li Tianlan's eyes gradually became firm, and his heart was filled with deathly silence.
In the dark villa in front of the pavilion, the lights in the hall lit up for a moment, and then fell silent again.
Li Tianlan suddenly came back to his senses, stood up in the pavilion filled with cold night, his figure flickered slightly, and after changing places with the shadow, he appeared in front of the villa door.
The silence of all members of the Donghuang Palace in recent days is what makes Lin Xuanyuan most gratified.
His identity was exposed, and naturally they couldn't hide it from Li Baitian and Ning Qiancheng. Li Baitian made a fuss for a long time, but then he became silent.
Li Tianlan knew the consequences of his identity being exposed, so how could Li Baitian and others not know? But what warmed his heart was that no one had said they wanted to withdraw from the Donghuang Palace.
Especially Li Baitian and Ye Huayu.
Both of them came from Shushan, which had nothing to do with Li Tianlan, but they didn't say they were quitting, and Shushan was silent now.
The awe-inspiring and unyielding sword intent behind this silence is undoubtedly the most heartbreaking thing about Shushan.
The cohesion of Donghuang Palace began to slowly take shape in the silence of everyone.
Almost everyone meditates while recuperating.
After many days of escaping, everyone has gained a lot.
Xu Chu, the elder brother of Yaochi who has newly joined the Donghuang Palace but has never quit, has already begun to attack the Half-step Thunder Realm.
Li Baitian is working hard to get closer to the peak of the Burning Fire Realm. Although the distance is still far away, even a small step closer is still good.
Ning Qiancheng began to try to continuously attack the stable period of the Burning Fire Realm.
Ye Huayu tried to enter the realm of burning fire.
Yu Qingyan's progress is the slowest, but she is also close to the Burning Fire Realm. Besides Li Tianlan, this little girl has the lowest realm, but her lethality is also second only to Li Tianlan. At least in the hearts of a few people in the Donghuang Palace
, no one dares to look down upon it anymore.
As for Dongcheng, he can be said to be the only ‘outsider’ in this villa at present.
However, she also never made things difficult for anyone. The sixth day after returning to Changdao from Zhongjing was about to pass, but for nearly a week, Dongcheng Ru was asleep all the time, and she didn't even wake up once.
The knight had personally inspected Dongcheng Rushi's condition and concluded that it was not bad news. He just said that the sword attack that night seemed to have consumed a lot of Dongcheng Rushi's mind. The coma was just her body protecting itself and slowly recovering. If
If nothing else happens, she will wake up within ten days.
Thinking about the condition of everyone in the villa, Li Tianlan opened the door of the villa and shook his head subconsciously.
At present, it seems that, except for Dong Cheng who is in a coma, his progress is the slowest and his meditation time is also the shortest.
His eyes casually glanced around the hall, trying to see who was turning on the lights just now, but when his eyes swept across the floor-to-ceiling windows of the hall, he was suddenly startled.
According to the knight, Dongcheng Ru, who shouldn't have woken up at this time, was sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with his knees in his arms, leaning against the armrest of the sofa, looking sideways at the wind and rain outside the window.
She didn't seem to notice Li Tianlan coming in at all, she just sat there quietly, motionless.
Her slightly messy long hair was casually draped behind her head, and she was wearing white pajamas. The light in the hall was dim and her face could not be seen clearly. At this moment, Dongcheng was sitting like that, but she was as quiet as if a ray of light would disappear at any time.
ghost.
Li Tianlan felt that something was wrong. For this fiancée who could naturally seem to regard him as her fiancé, Li Tianlan felt extremely strange in his heart. It didn't matter whether he liked or disliked him. It was an indescribable feeling. Emotionally, he felt that he should be close to her.
Some, but rationally he feels that he should stay away. At least to this day, he has not thought about how to face his fiancée who seems to have no resistance to the engagement.
Li Tianlan was a little helpless and turned on the small light on the ceiling. A subtle, dim and soft light shone from above, making the entire hall a mist.
Dongcheng remained motionless despite this, as if the wind and rain outside the window had become the most attractive thing to her.
Li Tianlan instinctively felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. He frowned subconsciously and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"nothing."
An extremely ethereal and melodious voice sounded, but with a very obvious indifference: "You have slept for too long, come out and get some fresh air."
Li Tianlan was stunned for a moment.
At this moment, he finally realized what was wrong.
The Dongcheng in front of me looked like a completely different person compared to the first time I met him in Zhongjing.
It's still the same appearance, but the temperament has changed.
Beauty, melancholy, and... ultimate indifference!
It was a kind of indifference to anything in the world, without any emotion, neither towards others nor towards herself.
Li Tianlan suddenly thought of the light gray walls that always seemed to have a gloomy and cold texture in the Dongcheng Ruzhi room where he lived in the Dongcheng family's villa.
He felt a little dazed in his heart, and once again thought of his first meeting in Zhongjing a few days ago.
The same unrivaled beauty.
But the cold and melancholy Dongcheng in front of me is like this, and the pure and clear Dongcheng that night is like this...
Which one is the real her?
Li Tianlan frowned again, and for a moment he felt like he didn't know what to do.
"Are you feeling unwell?"
Dongcheng said calmly and calmly: "Did my attitude make you angry? I can apologize."
Cold and indifferent.
She seemed to be apologizing, but every word she said was driving the distance between the two parties further and further away.
The girl who raised her dirty little face that night and asked me to hug her seemed to have died quietly on this windy and rainy night, leaving no trace.
Li Tianlan did feel a little uncomfortable and regretful in his heart, but he didn't know why he felt uncomfortable and regretful.
"No."
He said calmly.
"lie."
Dongcheng Ru finally turned around. In the soft and dim light, her beautiful but pale little face was expressionless, and her eyes like cold stars looked straight into Li Tianlan's eyes. As the light flowed, those eyes were still clear, but with a strong
An unbreakable chill.
Li Tianlan shook his head, suppressed all the thoughts in his mind and said, "Are you hungry? You have been in a coma for several days. Do you want to eat something?"
"You can do it?"
Dongcheng raised his delicate eyebrows and asked.
"Won't."
Li Tianlan shook his head: "But there is food in the refrigerator, you can make do with it."
Dongcheng curled her lips, and this time there seemed to be a hint of obvious ridicule in her cold eyes: "Originally, I thought you were the kind of man who is good at making women happy. You don't even know how to cook. I really don't know that Qin Wei
What does Bai like about you?"
An inexplicable anger surged up in Li Tianlan's heart, and he couldn't help but retorted: "Originally, I thought you were really that kind of innocent and even cute little girl..."
"little girl?"
Dongcheng suddenly interrupted Li Tianlan's words. Her beautiful eyes narrowed and she giggled. The cold laughter contained a strange and scalp-numbing charm: "Yes, little girl, how about my acting skills?"
Like? Do you like the silly and cute type? Let me show it to you?"
Li Tianlan calmed down and suddenly smiled and said, "No need."
Nodding, he turned around and planned to go upstairs directly. He still couldn't say he was disgusted with Dongcheng, but he instinctively wanted to stay away from women he couldn't see through.
"What do you think?"
Dongcheng suddenly spoke from behind. She took a step forward and reached out to hold Li Tianlan's arm.
This question was a bit weird, but the moment the two people came into contact, Li Tianlan froze, but he didn't think much about it and said casually: "I thought it was good before, but now, can't you see through it?"
"Kekeke..."
It was still the kind of charming, clear but extremely cold voice. In such an environment, even though Li Tianlan had amazing willpower, he couldn't help but sweat a little. During his hesitation, Dong Cheng's delicate body behind him seemed to press up against him.
Her body was hot, but her tone was as cold as a glacier: "Can't you see through it? From the time you walked in to now, you looked at my legs three times, my chest twice, and my face twice, my dear
What is it about your fiance that you can’t see through? As your fiancée, I am very willing to satisfy your ideas."
Her voice was soft, cold, yet charming, and her hot breath blew directly into Li Tianlan's ears.
"My skirt is not long, can I lift it up for you to see if it can be seen through?"
She was almost biting Li Tianlan's ear as she spoke. She also held Li Tianlan's palm with one hand and slid it down, actually lifting her white nightdress slightly by a few centimeters.
When his fingers touched the surprisingly soft thighs, Li Tianlan's body shook violently. He subconsciously took a few steps forward, turned around, and looked at Dongcheng Rusu calmly.
"What? Don't you like it?"
Dongcheng looked at Li Tianlan provocatively, or rather teasingly: "I'm still a virgin. As a fiancée, isn't it normal for me to serve my future man?"
The atmosphere is getting weirder.
Li Tianlan's heartbeat gradually became faster. For a moment, he even thought that he had seen a ghost, but the brief touch just now, the delicate but elastic warm skin, and the fresh and extremely seductive fragrance in his breath all told
The Dongcheng in front of him seemed so real. He took a deep breath and said calmly: "I will find an opportunity to talk to the old man in detail about our engagement. So now..."
"So you mean you don't want to marry me?"
Dong Chengru seemed to be unspeakably aggressive when they met for the second time. Her cold and charming smile slowly disappeared, and she looked at Li Tianlan coldly and asked.
Li Tianlan felt a headache and remained silent.
"What do you think you are?"
Dongcheng sneered and said: "I am the King of Heaven? Or the Jade Emperor? In the past nineteen years, do you know what I have paid for this engagement? Piano, music, dance, poetry, massage, embroidery, calligraphy, painting, cooking skills
.I will do all these things that you may like."
"Martial arts, finance, strategy, politics, psychology, interpersonal relations, these are the fields that can help you. I also know something about them."
"I have known about your existence since I can remember. You are my fiancé and the man who will marry me home in the future. Grandpa said this, grandma said it before she passed away, and my parents said,
My sister is also talking about it. I am learning swordsmanship in Yaochi, and my teacher is also talking about it. I am going to the Border Guard Corps, and my godfather is also talking about it. He has been talking about it for more than ten years!"
"Now when I hear the word Li, I think of Li Tianlan, and when I think of Li Tianlan, I think of my future husband. Do you know what instinct is? This is it! I can't resist myself. After more than ten years of hard work, the Dongcheng family
I have worked hard for more than ten years just to make you like me. What about you? You want to deny the engagement with just one sentence?! I have lived for you these nineteen years! Li Tianlan, who do you think you are? Are you qualified to regret the engagement?
!”
Even after the cold and excited voice fell, the lingering sound was still high and sharp.
Li Tianlan stared blankly at the cold and angry girl in front of him, his mind in complete confusion.
The indescribable shock and sourness fiercely impacted his heart and even his soul.
He only knew that he and Dongcheng had a marriage contract, but he never thought that behind this marriage contract, the Dongcheng family was so resolute in executing it.
I have lived for you these nineteen years!
This sentence really carries a shocking power.
Li Tianlan opened his mouth, but was speechless for a moment.
"You were clearly peeking at my figure just now, and now you say you don't want to marry me. Are all men so hypocritical?"
Dongcheng Ru asked coldly.
Li Tianlan was a little embarrassed and smiled bitterly: "It's different. I admit that I just took a peek. I have to say that you are indeed beautiful. I am a man, not a saint. I have desires and feelings, but desires and feelings are not the same thing.
Can you understand?"
Dongcheng Ru bit his lip and looked at Li Tianlan.
Her eyes seemed a little aggrieved, but she looked even colder and more stubborn: "So what do you want to say? Are you going to tell me that you just want to play with me, but you don't intend to marry me?"
By some strange coincidence, Li Tianlan hesitated for a moment and then nodded.
This action is so obscene and yet so honest.
Dongcheng Ru was indeed very beautiful. No one would be tempted by such a pure and pure woman. Li Tianlan didn't know what he was thinking, but when he thought that she was his fiancée, he felt some uncontrollable desire in his heart.
He really wanted to possess this rare clarity and beauty, maybe it was the dark side of his heart, but when it came to marriage, he had never thought about it.
The bride he dreamed of was in Huating, in the Reincarnation Palace, not in the Dongcheng family.
Saying this may make people look down upon, but at least for a second, that's what he really thought in his heart.
"You really are a bastard!"
Dongcheng's body trembled slightly and he sneered, but his eyes were fixed on Li Tianlan for a moment: "Even for the sake of the Dongcheng family, I can accept your dirty ideas, but how do you make her accept it?"
"who?"
Li Tianlan's mind was completely confused.
"Who else could it be? Of course it's that cute little fool, Dongcheng!"
Dongcheng sneered.
Everything in front of him was spinning. Li Tianlan's body swayed, and he even became a little unsteady.
He stared at the woman in front of him dumbfounded. He was silent for a long time and then slowly said: "Dongcheng Rusui? Then who are you? Where is Dongcheng Rusui?"
Dongcheng Ru took a deep breath in front of him and said coldly: "I am also your fiancée. I am Dongcheng Moon God. As for Ru..."
She pointed at her brain and smiled a little weirdly: "She needs to rest."
For a moment, Li Tianlan vaguely understood something, but there were many things he didn't understand. He subconsciously lit a cigarette, and the smoke unconsciously blew onto the face of Dongcheng Luna in front of him.
"Split personality?"
Li Tianlan tentatively asked: "Are you the other half of Ru Shi?"
"It should be said that this is my other half personality!"
Dongcheng Moon God looked cold and arrogant.
Li Tianlan smiled bitterly and took a long puff of smoke, remaining silent.
Dongcheng has such a split personality. It is obvious that her main personality is dominant. The Dongcheng Moon God in front of her is the secondary personality. Although she has a strong sense of autonomy, if the secondary personality dominates, Li Baitian will be hunted for many days.
It is impossible for others to not see it. It is obvious that the Dongcheng Luna in front of them has been silent most of the time, and the worst thing is that Dongcheng Rusu obviously does not know this.
Li Tianlan was smoking a cigarette and just about to speak, the phone suddenly rang.
Dongcheng Luna was stunned, then turned around and took out his mobile phone from the coffee table.
"It's my grandpa."
She spoke softly, looked at the time, and then at Li Tianlan. She handed the phone over and said, "Grandpa will be very happy if you answer it at this time."
The corner of Li Tianlan's mouth twitched and he shook his head subconsciously.
Dongcheng Luna gave Li Tianlan a complicated look, answered the phone, and said softly: "Grandpa, I am Luna."
There seemed to be silence for a while on the phone. It was obvious that all important figures in the Dongcheng family seemed to know the existence of Dongcheng Yueshen's sub-personality, except Dongcheng Rusui himself.
Li Tianlan shook his head vigorously and did not listen to what Dongcheng Luna and Dongcheng Hanguang said. When he came to his senses, Dongcheng Luna's call had come to an end.
She held the phone, obviously hesitant to speak, but finally remained silent and hung up the phone.
Li Tianlan just wanted to be quiet now, and was about to go back to his room when Dongcheng Luna suddenly said: "Grandpa asked me to tell you something."
"What?"
Li Tianlan responded subconsciously.
"He said..."
Dongcheng Moon God's cold big eyes were a little dazed, and he imitated Dongcheng Hanguang's tone and said slowly: "He said, you have to be careful of Phoenix Pavilion."
Li Tianlan's heart suddenly moved.
Dongcheng Yueshen spoke very slowly. Although it was a female voice, Li Tianlan could vaguely feel Dongcheng Hanguang's mood when he said these words.
That seems to be...
Hard to say?
Unspeakable?!
Li Tianlan thought of the meeting he had just had with Gongsun Qi again, his brows furrowed tightly and he was confused.
"Do you know Phoenix Pavilion?"
Li Tianlan suddenly asked.
Dongcheng Moon God seemed to be in a trance. Hearing this, he subconsciously shook his head and said nothing.
Li Tianlan's heart moved, and he remembered her expression that was hesitant to speak just now, and said casually: "Did you tell the old man something during the phone call just now?"
Dongcheng Luna was slightly startled. She hesitated. Although it was the second time she met Li Tianlan, or the first time, the instincts she had been instilled in her for many years seemed to make her not-so-perfect sub-personality understand it at all.
Going to reject Li Tianlan's question, she nodded, frowned, and said thoughtfully: "There are masters in the East Island."
Li Tianlan only thought it was nonsense and said calmly: "Then what?"
"no."
Dongcheng Moon God shook his head and said slowly: "That night in Zhongjing, there were masters in that forest, masters of the invincible realm. All the martial arts in this way were in the Silence Sword. Silence was unsheathed in advance, then
A sword can be said to be a truly invincible strike, but when the sword was unsheathed, it was pushed back together with all the sword intent. Even the broken scabbard was temporarily solidified with the sword intent. This means that
What?"
Li Tianlan's face was solemn, but his heart sank uncontrollably.
If Dongcheng's original sword was really an invincible blow, then the person who pushed back the sword completely would have crushed that sword with his own strength!
"What kind of strength is this?"
Li Tianlan narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself subconsciously.
"I don't know. But that person that night was definitely the most powerful person I have ever seen! He didn't seem to have any ill intentions toward us, but he might not have any good intentions."
Dongcheng Moon God shook his head and said.
"The most powerful?"
Li Tianlan shook his head subconsciously, somewhat disapprovingly.
"What do you mean?! Do you look down on me?"
Dongcheng Luna's eyes suddenly turned cold.
"no."
Li Tianlan said truthfully: "But with the frequency of your appearance, you shouldn't see many people, right?"
"If Dongcheng can see it, I can also see it!"
Dongcheng Moon God said coldly: "I have never seen many invincible masters. But I have at least seen Gu Xingyun!"