Time travel without cheats

Ran Xiaoan completely collapsed.

Duan Yang is like this, he goes straight to the deepest panic in people's hearts, and then holds on to it, playing with it until he is dying, and then completely tears this illusion together with his hope to pieces, so defeated that even shouting is unnecessary.

Killing is boring, he only likes to kill his heart.

Ran Xiaoan was silent for a long time in a daze, his face was expressionless, his eyes were distracted, and he didn't know what he was thinking.Fang Jin didn't dare to disturb him. To be more precise, he was no better than Ran Xiaoan. He also needed to suppress the turbulent waves in his heart, try his best to calm down, and accept the unavoidable reality.

"Can't lose."

Ran Xiaoan stared blankly at the ground, her lips moved slightly.

"There must be a way." He slowly raised his head and looked at Fang Jin, "Duan Yang is afraid of me, he is afraid of me, right?"

"En!" Fang Jin knelt down and stroked his hair, "So, don't be afraid."

"I'm not afraid."

Ran Xiaoan pushed his hand away and stood up, looking at the imaginary sky, wild geese flying south, his Adam's apple twitched a few times, but he didn't make any sound.

But Fang Jin understood.

He said, "For Xiaole."

"What's your plan next?" Fang Jin asked, "We can't even be sure if this is Canglang'ao or not."

"Does Canglang Ao really exist?"

"En." Fang Jin squeezed out a smile confidently, "It's as if Tianxiang Pavilion really exists."

"Tianxiang Pavilion?" Ran Xiaoan looked at him suspiciously, "Isn't there any similarity between the methods of cracking Tianxiang Pavilion and Canglang's Ao?"

"I don't know." Fang Jin shook his head helplessly, "Since my sister passed away, Tianxiang Pavilion has never changed, and I don't know how long I can rely on the existing magic circle."

"That being the case, you... my mother didn't teach you this illusion?"

Fang Jin lowered her eyes, "The method of illusion is a gift from God, I don't have this talent."

"What endowment?"

"Jin Zhu." Fang Jinyun smiled lightly, "Xiao An, you have this talent, and it's even better than your mother."

"Really?" Ran Xiaoan was not surprised, even a little melancholy, "So, Xiao Le has suffered so much, is he suffering for my golden pearl?"

"Yes."

"Then I'd rather be an ordinary person, a useless fool." Ran Xiaoan murmured, "Obviously it was forced on me by God, and it's not what I want..."

"Ran Xiaoan." Fang Jin walked in front of him and stared at him seriously. Ran Xiaoan saw himself in those two twin pupils.

"Has Ran Xiaole ever complained? Has he ever given up on you because of your involvement? He already knew everything."

Ran Xiaoan kept silent, obviously wanting to hear him continue, Fang Jin sighed softly, "When I brought you to Tianxiang Pavilion eight years ago, I gave him a chance to leave you, but he didn't, he was still struggling. Waited for you for four years. At that time, he vaguely guessed your surname Duan, vaguely guessed that you are not a mortal body, but still refused to throw you this trouble, you think, is he stupid?"

"How did he find out?"

Fang Jin smiled wryly, "It's not me."

"Brother... why did you hide it from me?"

"Don't you understand?" Fang Jin took his hand and patted the back of his hand, "Xiao'an, as you said, this golden bead was forcibly given to you by heaven, but no matter how much you complain, it's done." , everything is God’s will, how long do you want him to carry it for you? For a lifetime? When do you plan to grow up? He still has a few lives to stand in front of you, just for his precious brother to be a So-called 'ordinary people'?"

"I don't want him to carry it."

"But this is a fact that you cannot refute. He will always protect you in his own way."

Ran Xiaoan's tightly closed thin lips trembled slightly. After a while, he finally spoke, but he was unexpectedly calm: "Fang Jin, why don't you object to my brother and I?"

Fang Jin was a little surprised, "If I object, will you listen to me?"

"will not."

"That's it." Fang Jin smiled lightly, but the smile didn't reach his eyes, "Xiao An, you have lost too much. Ran Xiaole is your lucky star."

"En." Ran Xiaoan bit her lip, as if that warm person was standing in front of him calling him, her eyes suddenly became moist.

"I want to save him." Ran Xiaoan looked ahead firmly, as if trying to break through the fog of mountains and hills, "I can do it."

"Well, I believe you."

The two were walking aimlessly in the empty valley, Ran Xiaoan seemed preoccupied, he picked up a branch, randomly picked up the weeds on the ground, and suddenly stopped in his tracks.

"wrong."

"What's wrong?"

"Where are the people from Canglang'ao? The disciples are gone, the servants are gone, everything is gone."

"You mean, it's an empty shell?"

"En." Before he finished speaking, Ran Xiaoan's gaze was fixed not far behind the shade of the tree. Fang Jin looked over and saw an old monk carrying a bamboo basket, holding a wooden stick as a crutch, struggling Climb up.

"Is there someone?" Fang Jin was startled, "Do you want to go up and ask?"

"He couldn't hear, and he couldn't speak."

"you recognize?"

"The two years of thinking about it, thanks to him being with my brother."

"This is unreasonable. Since it is an illusion, why does he appear here?"

Ran Xiaoan stared at the old monk's back, frowning deeply, "Let's keep up first."

"Ah."

The old monk walked and rested, and it took him a long time to reach the top of the mountain. When he put down the bamboo basket and looked back to see Ran Xiaoan and Fang Jin, his eyes were obviously widened. With a smile, he wrote on the ground with the wooden stick in his hand: Long time no see, don't you come here all right?

"Ah."

The old monk wrote again: He?

Ran Xiaoan pondered for a while, did not answer him, but asked: "Where is this?"

you do not know?

"I do not recognize."

The old monk smiled and wrote: Bell Tower.

"Is it a hallucination?"

Maybe yes, maybe not.

"How do I get out?"

The old monk picked up his bamboo basket, tugged at Ran Xiaoan's arm, and made a gesture of invitation.

Are you hungry?

"I'm not hungry."

You have to go in first before you can go out.

Ran Xiaoan looked at the writing on the ground, "Can I go to the dark room?"

please.I'm going to ring the bell.

"No one, who are you ringing the bell for?"

Isn't the donor a human being?

After the old monk finished writing, he turned and left. Ran Xiaoan and Fang Jin looked at each other and nodded.

boom--

The thick and hard iron plate melted a hole under Ran Xiaoan's karmic fire, Fang Jin stared at the black hole all over his body dumbfounded, and smacked his lips, "Ran Xiaoan, why did you stay in it for two years so honestly?" of?"

Ran Xiaoan raised his leg and stepped in, "Brother wants me to be punished, so I naturally have to obey."

The everlasting candle was still burning, it was Ran Xiaoan's only partner for two years, but when the setting sun poured into it along the entrance of the cave, it was no longer needed, and there was no need to hesitate to blow it out.

Ran Xiaoan stared at the thin wisp of green smoke in a daze for a while, and was brought back to his senses by Fang Jin's call, he threw down the candle casually, "What's wrong?"

"This is... this is..." Fang Jin was so choked up that he couldn't speak, he carefully stroked the writing on the wall, as if it was a long-lost old friend.

——Lately, the bells and drums are long and the night is long, and the Geng Xinghe is about to dawn.

"I haven't seen it before." Ran Xiaoan couldn't help being surprised, even if he was just meditating in the dark room, he wouldn't be unable to discover the huge two lines of characters.

"What's wrong?"

"Isn't it right?" Fang Jin laughed heartbroken, "Look at your dagger, that Tong character."

Ran Xiaoan lowered his head and touched the handle of the knife on his waist, "You mean, this is my mother's name?"

"Yes... yes! No mistake, no!" Fang Jin clasped Ran Xiaoan's shoulders tightly, laughing loudly, "My sister, these are my sister's words!"

Ran Xiaojing looked at the crying and laughing man in front of him quietly, "So what? What does a poem explain?"

Fang Jin froze suddenly, slumped on the ground, covered her face and laughed at herself, "Yeah, what do you mean? Did you say how hard she waited for Duan Yang?"

"Boom-thump-thump-"

The heavy bell rang, and something flashed across Ran Xiaoan's mind, but it was only fleeting, and he didn't catch it.

He looked at the fourteen beautiful and refined characters in a strange way, and asked in a low voice: "Fang Jin, did she commit suicide by jumping off a cliff?"

Fang Jin raised his eyelids feebly, "Yes, I'm holding you."

"En." Ran Xiaoan couldn't take his eyes off, he always felt that these words were a bit strange, but he couldn't say them.

"When did she marry Duan Yang?"

"16 years old, that is, when I was five years old."

"It's only been a year, and you were punished to go to the dark room?"

Fang Jin froze for a moment, calmed down and stood up, "No."

"you sure?"

"My parents passed away as soon as I was born. When my sister got married, she thought I was young, so she took me here to live with her, almost inseparable."

"She has never been in the dark room, and when did she write these two lines?"

"But this is her handwriting, there is no mistake."

"You are only five years old, and you can remember your sister's words?"

"There are her calligraphy and paintings in Tianxiang Pavilion, if you don't believe it..." Fang Jin paused, then narrowed his eyes and looked at Ran Xiaoan, "You don't believe me?"

"It's what you said, Duan Yang is good at using people's hearts to create illusions."

"On this clock tower, let us see this line of sentimental words, what is he trying to figure out?"

"I don't understand. If you convince me, I will believe you."

Fang Jin remained silent, and moved closer. The two of them stared at the writing on the wall for a long time without saying a word.

Almost at the same time, the other party's name was called out.

"You talk first." Ran Xiaoan raised his chin at him.

"I can assure you that this is your mother's word."

"Ah."

"But not when she died."

"how to say?"

"Although it is a sad poem, there is no sadness in this handwriting."

"Can you see that?"

Fang Jin sneered: "Don't talk about me if you have no ink, you may recognize all fourteen characters?"

"Stop looking down on people!" Ran Xiaoan didn't bother to retort, "When did she write that?"

"She has half a golden bead in her body, her soul is immortal, and she can come back to write at any time at night." Fang Jin's gloomy expression flickered with a faint light, "Xiao An, have you seen her? You and her look so similar gone."

"No."

I knew it would be like this, hope was extinguished, Fang Jin still couldn't hide the disappointment on her face, "That's right, who will care about her when she becomes ruthless? By the way, what do you want to say?"

After hearing his narration, Ran Xiaoan raised the corner of her mouth, "I always feel that this poem is not written for Duan Yang, but for me."

"you?"

"Yeah." Ran Xiaoan rarely took the initiative to slap Fang Jin on the back, "Go out."

"you do not…"

"If you want to stay here to remember your sister, I won't stop you."

Fang Jin hesitated for a moment, then glanced at the writing on the wall for the last time, and left with Ran Xiaoan.

The old monk had already prepared the fast food, and was alone there tapping the wooden fish. Ran Xiaoan examined it for a long time, and Fang Jin picked up a chopstick dish for him, "What's wrong?"

"nothing."

"Is he a human, a ghost, or a hallucination?"

"Not a ghost."

"When are you going to wait?"

Ran Xiaoan looked away, and pulled a large bowl of rice into his mouth, "Wait for dark first, then dawn."

Fang Jin thought of that line in the poem, "You mean...literally?"

"Well, try it."

"it is good."

Ran Xiaoan felt that even the two years of solitude and sleeplessness would not be as long as this short hour.

With the setting sun hidden in the corner of the bell tower, Ran Xiaoan stood up and raised the bell and pestle.

The old monk closed his eyes and beat the wooden fish as if he didn't know anything. Fang Jin didn't dare to disturb him. Ran Xiaoan closed his eyes and froze there as if frozen in ice. Smoke, the clothes were soaked in an instant, sweat dripped down the corners of the clothes onto the floor, and was quickly transpired.

"Little..." Fang Jin licked his lips, still holding his breath and concentrating.

"Boom-"

The sound of the bell is not as melodious as in the past. There is a deafening echo in the whole valley. The prayer flags on the beams of the house roar like a strong wind. Fang Jin covers his ears and walks towards Ran Xiaoan with difficulty. Falling to the ground, Fang Jin moved closer to him, only to hear four faint words: one more time.

Ran Xiaoan sat on the edge of the cliff without saying a word, looking up at the bright stars above his head in a daze, Fang Jin put on a coat for him, and sat down beside him, "Is it better?"

"I should ask you that."

Fang Jin smiled, "There is still tinnitus."

"Ah."

"Xiao An, I told you, you can do it."

"Can you?"

"En." Fang Jin looked at the dark cliff in the distance, "The power of a whole golden bead is not comparable to that of half a bead. It is a vast and unlimited potential. Your parents are far behind you, so even if you don't understand You can use your own energy to forcibly break through the spell to break the illusion barrier." He smiled gratifiedly, "My sister must know this, so she left those two lines?"

"What kind of person is she?"

"Are you curious? Are you actually curious?"

"I'm not curious." Ran Xiaoan made a gesture to stand up, "Forget it."

"Speak! After passing this village, there will be no more shops here. How can you not satisfy my nephew!" Fang Jin grabbed him and dragged him back, "Actually, it's nothing, she is just a very smart woman. Kind of pathetic smart."

"clever?"

"Yeah." Fang Jin smiled wistfully, "The more you look at it, the more desperate you become, especially the relationship between people. You are like her in this regard, you can't rub the sand in your eyes."

"Is it?"

"Yes." Fang Jin glanced at his side face, his vision was a little blurred, "Xiao An, can you understand?"

Ran Xiaoan gave a negative answer from the bottom of his heart, "I'm sorry."

"No problem. Just why are you asking me?"

Ran Xiao'an didn't answer, Fang Jin thought of his sister, feeling sad, he lay down on the grass with his head up, "I'll rest for a while."

"En." Ran Xiaoan hugged her knees, and continued to look up at the cloudless starry sky that could not be seen clearly.

As Fang Jin said, he was awakened by the morning bell.

Dawn broke, and the dawn sky was like a sack, with a huge hole torn out, and the surrounding scenes were unpredictable and dazzling.Fang Jin shook his head, took a deep breath, and laughed out loud.

Ran Xiaoan succeeded.

"Xiao An!"

Ran Xiaoan stared at his empty hand in a daze, Zhong Chu and the old monk disappeared so suddenly, he was so tired that he was out of breath, his head fainted, and he fell into Fang Jin's arms.

"Don't sleep!"

"Where is this?" Ran Xiao'an waved his hand, and helped Fang Jin to stand still, the surrounding was eerily quiet, only Duan Yun could be heard huddled behind the dark wall talking to himself, and it was still night.

"The capital?"

"Yes, the real capital."

"Go to my brother."

"Wait…"

Before he could say anything, a carriage approached from far to near, and Fang Jin immediately became vigilant, and he couldn't believe it when he saw the person coming out of the slop bucket in the carriage.

"Duan Xi?"

Ran Xiaoan was shocked, and rushed towards the carriage, desperately opening the lids of every barrel, only to see the three brothers and sisters of the Duan family sitting in the narrow wooden barrels dressed as eunuchs, but the one he cared about most was missing. people.

"Where's my brother!"

Duan Zhuo didn't say a word, Duan Ying just covered his face and wept, Ran Xiaoan's face was horrible, he looked at Duan Xi, the tearful young man sobbed: "Brother Xiao Le... was... was... wasted in order to save us... ...Xiao Rui...taken away..."

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