The Lotus Lantern is with you

He still has the peach blossom in his hand.

Mo Chen was sitting by the lotus pond, the lotus flowers in the pond had withered, only the green water rippled gently.

"You are not Chen Xiang...you give him back to us!" At that time, the woman shouted at him hoarsely.

Give them back?What to give them back?Liu Chenxiang, heh...

Mo Chen closed his eyes, the peach blossom in his hand was stained black, and finally turned into ashes and fell on the pure white snow.

……

Ding Xiang folded her arms, tears falling drop by drop.

"Why do you think he is? How did he become like this, what about Chen Xiang? Where did he go?"

……

Ao Chun lowered his eyes sadly.

"Lilac... let's go back to the East China Sea..."

Ao Chun remembered his father's words. It was the first time his elderly father and king had a heart-to-heart talk with him, and it was also the first time that he knew about the past of the Dragon Clan.

Once, they were one of the most noble creatures in the world. Once, they had the power to destroy the world. Once... everything is in the past.

In ancient times, the Phoenix clan broke through time and space and left this world. Most of the ancestors of the Dragon clan fell in that previous war.The ones left now are vulnerable.

Before Ao Chun left the Dragon Palace, the old dragon king said earnestly, "Ao Chun, you have to know that everything I did for my father today is for you, and you should treat it as it is for that Lilac girl. Don't fight against the Jade Emperor anymore, you know... ...The survival of my dragon clan today depends on the emperor's words."

"The glory of the Dragon Clan has become a thing of the past. Now the aura of the three realms is getting weaker and weaker. Compared with the future, there will be no more Dragon Clans born. The King Father doesn't ask for anything, only that the Dragon Clan can retain the last bloodline."

"Ao Chun, you brothers and sisters are the hope of my dragon clan. My father hopes that you can understand that you are no longer a child, and the youngest sons of my dragon clan are becoming rarer and rarer. This bloodline, maybe... my father is not only Your father is also the king of my East China Sea Dragon Clan, father and king cannot do anything arbitrarily."

Maybe it was the first time seeing his normally kind father so tired, Ao Chun finally understood the responsibility he shouldered.

The glory of their dragon clan has really become a thing of the past. After hundreds of millions of years of competition in this world, the spiritual energy on this land has long been divided, and they have no time left.

So he compromised.

The disaster continued, and the war, like a hurricane, quickly turned the land into turbidity. Xia died, and gold followed.

The Mongolian cavalry smashed the last city gate. Everyone remembers that the war burned for 49 days. Later, some people passed by there.

Mo Chen was sitting on the highest seat at that time, and below was the secret report sent by the servant of the gods. He read the words on the secret report, and every word moved his thoughts.

"The marriage between Miss Lilac and the Eighth Prince has been cancelled..." He couldn't hear what the people below were saying clearly, and he was a little distracted.

Has the marriage been annulled?This is really unexpected.But it is not such a surprise.

The secret report said that Ding Xiang couldn't bear the punishment of God, so she went to beg the Dragon King, but was confined in the Dragon Palace.

The north is drought, the plague is rampant, and thousands of acres of land have no harvest.And at this time, her mother died.

Ding Xiang was almost going crazy. She looked desperately at her home being demolished into ruins, and her mother died of illness before her eyes. She didn't even have time to watch her wedding with Ao Chun.

She had a big fight with Ao Chun, Mo Chen didn't know the situation at that time, but only learned from the spies that she left the Dragon Palace.

The subordinates were still reporting the news of Mother Ding's death, but Mo Chen was looking in a certain direction, lost in thought.Ding's mother was very kind to him, just like his biological mother, he has always been very grateful to her, she is a good mother, but she is an ordinary mortal, unable to escape life, old age, sickness and death.

"How...how did she die..."

"Returning to the master, the Jin Dynasty was in chaos, the farmers rioted/revolted, and the Huashan area was affected by the war. The Ding Mansion... could not escape this catastrophe."

Mo Chen's hand stopped, didn't he run away?

"You go to the underworld..."

Huashan was completely silent at this time, not even the sound of insects, the weeds were overgrown, and the breeze passed by, but there were tiny cries, so weak that they almost merged with the wind.

Ding Xiang hid at the foot of Mount Hua and wept softly, her tears staining her green skirt.Great grief hit her heart, but she cried very carefully, but such a mournful expression made her heart break.

Suddenly, it was dark in front of her.She raised her head, but saw the man in black standing in front of her quietly looking at her. Ding Xiang found that the man's eyes were deep black, and such calm eyes made her feel very wronged.

Mo Chen stared at the woman sitting under the tree with her arms around her knees, and he handed her a handkerchief.

"do not Cry."

Ding Xiang stared at him, her stubborn eyes filled with refusal, but under Mo Chen's calm gaze, she finally couldn't hold back and burst into tears.

The crying sound seemed to vent all the grievances and sorrows. For a while, there were only women's crying at the foot of Huashan Mountain, surrounded by a lament.

After a long time, she didn't know how long she had been crying. She felt that she had never cried like this in her life, but she never thought that such a embarrassing scene would be seen by this person.

She took a handkerchief and wiped away her tears fiercely, and looked at the man who had been standing aside, looking at the sky in silence, with her eyes swollen from crying.

His expression was still calm, staring at the gray sky, but there was no emotion in his eyes.

That bland expression made her heart ache. It was only when she was in the same position that she finally understood how much pain this person had endured under his calm appearance.

"...Thank you..." Ding Xiang bit her lip and whispered.

Mo Chen was still indifferent, "I have found your mother's soul, don't worry, she voted for a good family, at least in the next life, she will spend her life safely."

"..." Ding Xiang lowered her head, hiding the tears in her eyes, "Thank you, thank you very much..."

Mo Chen didn't reply, he raised his foot to leave, but the woman behind him grabbed his sleeve, he stopped, turned his head, the woman's eyes were dim.

"Mo Chen...I...last time, I'm sorry..."

Mo Chen said lightly, "There is no need to apologize to me...you did nothing wrong."

"I..." Ding Xiang's heart ached, feeling the bitterness in her throat, "Mo Chen... I left Donghai."

"..."

"Our wedding has been called off."

"..."

"I have nowhere to go, the Ding Mansion is gone, my mother is gone... I can't stay in Donghai any longer."

Ding Xiang kept talking, while Mo Chen listened quietly. The woman didn't know why she said these things. Their relationship should have broken down, but she couldn't help but say it out.

As we talked, maybe it was sadness that hit my heart, and tears fell down.

"..." Mo Chen looked at the tearful woman silently and asked. "Why do you want to leave Dragon Palace? You are only one step away from Dengxian. Didn't you always want to be with Ao Chun?"

Hearing this, the woman shook her head sadly, "We... are too far apart."

Mo Chen was puzzled, Ding Xiang lowered her head, and said sadly, "In the past, I have always wondered why the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother objected to the love between humans and gods. Now... I finally understand."

"I... Me and him..." The woman's voice was intermittent.

Hearing the woman's suffocated voice, Mo Chen couldn't help frowning, "If you can't continue, then don't."

Ding Xiang smiled bitterly, and when she raised her eyes, her star pupils were stained with grayness, "I... I once wanted to be a chivalrous heroine, fighting for those who were bullied. Later, I wanted to learn magic, because those The bad guys are too powerful, I can't beat them... But when I embarked on the road of cultivating immortals, I discovered that cultivating immortals is not as simple as I imagined, and it's not just a matter of taking a few elixir."

When she was a child, she hoped that she would become an admirable heroine, but when she grew up, she realized that being a heroine is not so easy.She saw with her own eyes how many innocent creatures died on the dry land, and how many lives were swept away by the flood.How innocent they were, but she couldn't save them.

Mo Chen listened from the side, the woman's voice was a bit desolate, and it seemed to bring back his memories.He was thinking that when he was an ordinary child, he also imagined that one day he would have magical powers, so that he could ride the clouds and ride the fog without being bullied any more.

Thinking about it now, that life as a human was like a dream.

Ding Xiang dragged him down Mount Hua, and the two sat in an abandoned restaurant, digging out many wine jars from the cellar.Ding Xiang chuckled, grabbed the wine and drank it.

Wine is a good thing, drink it when you are happy, drink it when you are sad, and drink it when you are sad, and you will no longer be sad.

Ding Xiang giggled and said, "I don't cultivate immortality anymore! My mother is dead, and my family is about to perish. What kind of immortal do I still want to be? When I come out of retreat, the dynasty will change here!"

"It's not something you should worry about."

"Why not!" Ding Xiang glared at him, "I am a citizen of this country, and she is going to perish, so why is it none of my business?"

"..."

"Oh, you gods, you only care about your own cultivation and asking, and forget everything else. Of course, I don't mean to blame you. After all, everyone has their own ambitions."

"But I can't." Ding Xiang laughed and cried, "This is the place where I live. Do I want to watch her go to destruction? I practiced immortality to protect my family and this place, but now I want to practice in seclusion. So what if you become an immortal?"

"Ask immortals to ask, and you can save the common people in the world." Mo Chen said with some self-deprecation.

"However, it is the god you said who sent the divine punishment." Ding Xiang sneered, "If you are so cold and ruthless as a god, it doesn't matter if you don't cultivate."

"..." Ruthless?Mo Chen thought, in fact, which one of them was ruthless from the beginning?It's just that the passage of time has taken away their emotions, leaving only this immortal body.

The woman hiccupped, her eyes blurred, "I want to join the army, I want to be a general, I don't want any dragon clan, any marriage, any begging for immortality, I don't want any more, I want to ask my way!!"

"..." asked!Mo Chen's heart trembled, he looked at the woman in disbelief.

The woman's blushing face and hazy eyes were already slightly sleepy, but her words shocked him.

"Ask..." Mo Chen murmured.

The woman shook the wine in her hand and sang folk songs from her hometown. Mo Chen watched the woman slapping the wooden table without blinking, as if she was already drunk.

three days later.

On a snowy morning, there was no sunshine, and the icy wind whizzed by. The woman in Tsing Yi, dressed as a man, drove westward on a horse. The dust was blowing away, taking away the last trace of feminine tenderness from the woman's eyes.

Mo Chen looked at the woman's back, but suddenly felt melancholy.

The years have changed a lot, and it has only been more than 20 years, but so many changes have taken place.