Fu Luan

At the end of the Xu Dynasty, a reception banquet that enjoyed the guests and the host finally came to an end.

The guests left in twos and threes. Le Wuyan and the others walked towards the bamboo forest on the west side of the city lord's mansion. Xie Shigu took his Taoist companion to go with them, and they parted ways when they reached the bamboo forest. Zun and Madam live in this bamboo forest?"

Le Wuyan: "Do you have an opinion?"

Xie Shigu shook his fan, looked deep into the forest, and said, "No, I just think this place is pretty good, better than the place we arranged for."

He looked at Qin Ziyu with a smile again: "Little Peony, you arranged this place? Are you treating one too favorably than another?"

Qin Ziyu looked a little embarrassed, and just about to say that it wasn't him, Le Wuyan said: "You figured it out, Little Peony is the disciple of the Immortal Venerable, so what if you arrange the best place for us? What does it have to do with you? "

Xie Shigu snorted lightly, said "See you later", turned around and left with his Taoist companion.

Qin Ziyu raised his eyes and saw that the two people in front of him had gone far away, and their shoulder-to-shoulder backs stretched under the moonlight, and he was slightly dazed.

"Don't look, everyone is leaving." Le Wuyan said angrily.

Qin Ziyu returned to his senses, and quickly covered up the discomfort in his expression: "Xianzun, madam, it's getting late, and I'm going back too. If you need anything, just send me a voice transmission."

Le Wuyan waved his hand: "Let's go, let's go."

Qin Ziyu nodded, bowed to them at last, and left in another direction.

Le Wuyan muttered: "You're so stupid."

The people around him also said, "Let's go."

Le Wuyan turned around, met Xu Youming's gaze looking at him, and forced a smile.

The man stretched out his hand, brushed his long hair blown by the night wind, and asked softly, "Are you drunk again?"

"No," Le Wuyan immediately denied, shaking his head, "Really not."

He raised his wrist and glanced at the string of rosary beads on it. The traces of fairy energy entwined on the white jade beads under the moonlit night seemed to have turned into substance, continuously infiltrating his body. Le Wuyan said to himself: "Wear this thing. In the future, it seems that it will not be so easy to get drunk, even if you are drunk, your mind is still clear, so the fairy weapon can still have this effect?"

Xu Youming: "Yes."

Le Wuyan sighed: "Can't you say two more words?"

Xu Youming looked at him: "Say what?"

Le Wuyan was helpless and funny, narrowed his eyes, there was a fleeting cunning in his eyes, suddenly opened his hands and fell straight forward.

Xu Youming's usually calm face finally showed a trace of nervousness, he stepped forward, hugged him with both hands, and Le Wuyan fell into his arms, laughing loudly.

Xu Youming hugged him tightly, lowered his head, and the voice in his ear was muffled: "What are you laughing at?"

Le Wuyan said: "I still seem to be drunk, and I don't want to leave, the immortal will carry me on my back."

After saying that, he raised his eyes, with bright smiles in his eyes, seeing Xu Youming staring at him but not saying a word, Le Wuyan stretched out his hand and knocked on his heart: "Not happy?"

Xu Youming still didn't make a sound, let go of him and turned his back, Le Wuyan leaned over, jumped onto Xu Youming, and was supported by his hands.

Walking forward, Le Wuyan lowered his head and put it on Xu Youming's shoulder, listening to his steady footsteps mixed with the sound of his heartbeat, slowly closed his eyes.

The moonlight is thick, and the hustle and bustle returns to tranquility.

Xie Shigu opened the door and entered the room with hot soup, Qi Sifan sat on the couch reading a book, did not look up when he heard the sound, just pretended that the other person in the room did not exist.

Xie Shigu stepped forward, put the soup bowl on the low table beside him, and said in a low voice, "Take a sip of soup, I see that you ate a lot of wine before, but you didn't touch a few dishes, isn't it to your liking?"

Qi Sifan ignored him and slowly turned a page of the book.

Xie Shigu lowered his eyes to look at the person in front of him for a moment, with darkness hidden in his pupils: "Shi Wei, when will you be able to talk to me?"

"I'm not Shi Wei." Qi Sifan looked indifferent as always, and didn't look at him, "Why is the leader wasting time on me? Why don't you let me die earlier and be reincarnated. It's not me you want anyway."

Xie Shigu's eyes became darker: "You must say such things?"

Qi Sifan finally raised his eyes, and there was only disgust in his eyes: "Otherwise, the lord wants to hear what I have to say? Does the lord dare to let me show my true colors? I am just a mortal, an ordinary mortal who is nearly sixty years old. I have been kidnapped and tied to you for 40 years. What are you planning? Even if you use your fairy methods to make me look immortal, but I am already old and decayed inside. Can you deceive others and yourself? I I hate you so much, when will you give me a happy moment and let me be completely relieved?"

Hearing this, there was a flash of hostility on Xie Shigu's face, which was suppressed by him again: "You want to die that much?"

"Yes, I want to die." Qi Sifan was very calm when he said this word, "I have long wanted to die. There is not a day that I don't want to die in these years."

Xie Shigu stared at him, trying to find even the slightest bit of warmth like back then through those eyes full of hatred, but there was nothing, nothing.

"Your parents are gone, but that woman is still alive. If you dare to die, I will let her be buried with you immediately." He said in a deep voice.

Qi Sifan sneered: "The only one you can use to threaten me now is Wanniang. A mortal's life is only a hundred years. When Wanniang dies, you will have nothing to threaten me. I will definitely go!" die."

"It's been so many years, and you still miss her?" Xie Shigu said angrily, "She's already married to someone else and has a lot of children. You just love her so much, and you still miss her after decades?"

"I can't forget," Qi Sifan seemed to be mocking himself, "I'm sorry for her. What's wrong with her being able to marry someone else and live a safe life? She is my childhood sweetheart's fiancee. I owe her my whole life. How can you make me forget?"

"What about me?" Xie Shigu raised his voice, "You forgot about me, what we had in the past, and why you became a mortal! You have endured the punishment of heaven and reincarnated forever, and I finally found you. You fell in love with someone else!"

Qi Sifan closed his eyes indifferently.

He is not Shi Wei, he never wanted to be Shi Wei at all.

He was originally an ordinary mortal in the mortal world of the Western Continent. Before the age of 17, he didn't even know that there were four other continents in this world, and those cultivators with infinite mana who were no different from immortals. Do not know at all.

He has a childhood sweetheart fiancée, he obtained fame in his teens, and married his beloved at the most vigorous age, but all of this was ruined by the person in front of him.

On the day he and Wanniang paid homage, this person forcibly took him into this grotesque and strange world, saying that they were originally immortals in the sky, a loving Taoist couple, and they had to be separated because of the punishment of heaven. He didn't believe it. He also didn't want to believe it. Everything this man said was too ridiculous to him. He just wanted to go back, and there was not a day in the past 40 years.

On the day when he was forced to form a contract with this person, he put a stolen dagger near his throat. He would rather die, but he couldn't. This person threatened him with his parents and his wife, He can only live, day after day in pain.

Xie Shigu stretched out his hand, Qi Sifan looked away.

Indifference, numbness, and disgust were all the emotions his Taoist companion felt when facing him now.

Xie Shigu didn't dare to touch him. The scene of Qi Sifan's death on the day of the bond is still vivid in my mind. That dagger is just a low-grade spiritual weapon, but for a mortal body without spiritual roots , is enough to make the soul fly away, so he dare not.

They have maintained this deadlock for so many years, and it seems that there will never be a day when the situation will be broken.

It's not that he didn't think that Qi Sifan could forget the people in this life by simply letting Qi Sifan reincarnate again, but he couldn't bear it. His Shi Wei had already experienced the pain of reincarnation for hundreds of generations, so he couldn't bear it.

He was even reluctant to use magic to erase Qi Sifan's previous memories. The soul of a mortal is too weak, and if he moves a little more, his time will suffer a little more. He would rather be hated and loathed all the time.

After a stalemate for a long time, Xie Shigu withdrew his hand and lowered his voice: "The law of heaven is not fair. If you want you to live forever, you can only be a mortal. But I don't believe in fate. I will definitely get the Phoenix King bone for you, so that you can regenerate your spiritual roots."

Qi Sifan's answer was always indifferent.

Xie Shigu took a step back: "The soup is getting cold, drink it while it's hot and take a break earlier, even if you're angry with me, don't make things difficult for yourself, I'll just go to the next room and meditate."

After walking out of the house, Xie Shigu stood on the porch for a moment, closing his eyes.

There was a slight wind movement from below, and he looked down coldly, only to see someone standing there in a daze on the corridor bridge halfway across the river, his thin figure surrounded by the shadow of the moon.

Xie Shigu narrowed his eyes slightly, the other party seemed to have sensed something and turned around.

Facing Xie Shigu's slight gaze staring at him, Qin Ziyu was taken aback for a moment, then quickly lowered his head when he came back to his senses, and strode away.

He didn't know that Xie Shigu lived here, if he knew, he wouldn't come.

When the moon shadow is more slanted, the wind outside the window blows into the house.

Being carefully placed on the bamboo bed by Xu Youming, Le Wuyan woke up in a daze, eyes closed but didn't want to move.

Xu Youming helped him take off his outer shirt, shoes and socks, brushed his fingers lightly over his temples, paused for a moment, then suddenly frowned, got up and went out again.

Le Wuyan heard slight movements outside, but didn't bother to move. After all, there was no trouble that Xu Youming couldn't solve.

After a while, Xu Youming came back again, but he still didn't touch his body.

Xu Youming sat down again on the side of the couch, Le Wuyan opened his eyes and looked over: "What did you do?"

"It's nothing," Xu Youming said calmly, "It's just someone spying on you."

Le Wuyan laughed and said: "Who is it? You are so bold, how dare you come to spy on you at night."

Xu Youming: "I don't know."

Le Wuyan raised an eyebrow.

Xu Youming said: "I ran too fast, I didn't see clearly."

Le Wuyan snorted: "The Immortal Venerable is becoming more and more useless."

Xu Youming: "Yes."

"..." Le Wuyan originally wanted to tease him a few more words, but seeing his reaction, he could only forget it. Apart from being bitter and jealous, this person can't arouse him at all.

Xu Youming didn't say anything anymore, and strengthened the barrier one more time.

Le Wuyan asked him curiously: "As for what? You are the Immortal Venerable of Transcending the Tribulation Period, except for that sick Xie Shigu, who else can break your enchantment?"

Xu Youming: "It's always right to be careful. Apart from cultivation, there are other crooked ways. There are always things I don't know about."

Le Wuyan didn't think so, but he didn't talk about it anymore, lying on the bamboo bed, just looking straight at the people around him.

Xu Youming turned sideways and stroked his temple hair again: "What are you looking at?"

Le Wuyan: "... As I told you, I entered the illusion in the eight-door formation, and I also have a Taoist companion inside."

Xu Youming's fingers on his forehead paused: "I remember."

"I thought about it later, maybe the things in the illusion are real? What do you think?" Le Wuyan asked tentatively.

This was also what he couldn't understand the most. The encirclement and suppression of Xiaoyao Mountain was always a knot in his heart. He knew that Xu Youming might not get the answer, but he couldn't help but want to ask.

Xu Youming asked in a low voice: "What did you see in the illusion?"

The four eyes met, for a moment Le Wuyan even wanted to say it regardless, but swallowed the words back, Xu Youming said "I can't say it", so he had better not say it all.

"Everything in the illusion is the opposite of what happened in reality. The person who wanted to kill me protected me. I thought it was a beautiful dream, but it was not. The end of the dream was more tragic than the reality."

When Le Wuyan spoke, he kept staring at Xu Youming's eyes. His eyes were dark and filled with the deepest bottomless emotions, which made Le Wuyan feel extremely uncomfortable.

"What is Xianzun looking at me like this all the time..."

Xu Youming lowered his head and kissed his forehead.

Le Wuyan's closed eyelashes trembled slightly: "Don't kiss..."

Xu Youming stopped his movements and stayed close to him for a while, closing his eyes and breathing heavily, as if he had some kind of lingering fear and endless fear.

Le Wuyan felt it, felt uncomfortable for a while, and asked again: "Illusion, is it real?"

After a moment of silence, the person next to him raised his head again and looked at him.

Xu Youming didn't say, and couldn't say, but his eyes told Le Wuyan the answer.

it is true.

Le Wuyan was startled.

Xu Youming's hand was still on his cheek, and it was the sentence he had said countless times: "You are not him."

Like a sigh.

Le Wuyan just looked at the person above him blankly, as if he understood the meaning of Xu Youming's words for the first time.

He is not him, he cannot be him.

The hand on Xu Youming's arm slowly tightened, and Xu Youming saw his reddish eyes with confusion, surprise, and disbelief.

"Why?" Le Wuyan asked tremblingly.

Xu Youming shook his head slightly: "Don't ask."

Le Wuyan: "...Can't you say it?"

Xu Youming said: "I can't say."

Le Wuyan closed his eyes and raised his arms to cover them, not wanting Xu Youming to see him at a loss.Even though he had already guessed it, getting the answer from Xu Youming still made him almost helpless.

It turned out that he really died once, under the catastrophe, and his soul was wiped out, but his memory was all reversed, and he didn't know it at all.

He hated Xu Youming for not letting him make his own choice, but he also guessed that this might be the only choice.

Xu Youming leaned down and hugged him.

Le Wuyan rested his head on Xu Youming's shoulder.

After a long time, there was a suppressed choking sound.