Chapter 250 12. Endgame (4.2k)
In the Yang Mansion, the eyes of the three people focused on Yang Lianyue. Although these girls were extremely familiar with them, she was still a little embarrassed.
Slowly stood up from her mother's arms, buried her head, not knowing what to say for the time being.
She was not in a hurry, but her father and mother didn't think so. They stared at their daughter for a while, and then looked at Li Chengqi aside.
"What on earth is going on?" The man frowned. "The madam said that Yue'er heard the sound of the flute and then fell into coma. The situation seemed to be exactly the same as before."
He stared into Li Chengqi's eyes, trying to discern something from them.
"Did you really cure Yue'er? Speaking of which, I have never asked you how you did it before, but it relapsed again this time. Boy, can you tell me what you did?"
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Li Chengqi didn't answer immediately. He looked in one direction of the room. Sun secretly noticed that the direction Li Chengqi was looking at was where Yue'er was staring before she fell unconscious.
"The sound of the flute." He said to himself. On such an occasion, there was a smile in his eyes.
Yang Shi's face darkened.
"Dad..." the girl said timidly, she shook her head, "It has nothing to do with Brother Cheng Qi. The previous illness and those dreams were indeed cured. What I saw this time was completely different. I was not afraid. On the contrary, in this coma, What I saw reassured me.”
"What are you saying?" The man turned around and yelled, "As long as you can still see those strange things, this disease will always be there. At the beginning, this disease will not deprive you of your life, and this dream did not let you Feeling weak, who knows if it will become the same in the future?”
Looking at the girl's widened eyes, she probably didn't expect him to be angry.
Yang Shi sighed and patted Li Chengqi on the shoulder again, "Boy, I'm the one who's worried. You did cure my daughter's previous illness. But if the dream appears again, is there anything you can do about it?"
Li Chengqi shook his head. Just when Yang Shi was about to say something else, he interrupted: "Master, I don't think you need to worry. You can still fall asleep when you hear the sound of the flute. This is not a bad thing. Maybe, for Yue'er, you are still older. It’s helpful.”
"What do you mean?" The man was stunned.
Li Chengqi made a silent gesture, "Shh, listen carefully."
Although I don’t know why, the attic room was indeed quiet, with only the rising and falling breathing of the four people. It was so quiet that even the chirping of birds and insects in the peach forest outside the attic had disappeared. Along with the rhythmic pulsation of their own heartbeats, it seems that another beat has penetrated, not only into the ears, but also into the depths of the soul, gradually merging with the heartbeats and breathing.
The sound of the flute gradually begins, and this rhythm is full of primitive feeling, as if it can drag people back to the ancient times, to see the sacrifices held by the ancestors for the gods. Those praying figures dance on and under the altar, dancing, and the beats are mixed together. At the same time, the whole land was roaring and trembling with it.
They also turned into one dancing figure, regardless of you or me.
Golden light diffused from behind and gathered together. Thousands of such golden lights rushed to the end of the horizon, like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, dispersing the darkness there. In a daze, he could see a figure standing in the dispelled darkness, with his broad sleeves and robe dancing like clouds.
"Creak-" The sound of pushing the door awakened everyone in the house, and someone pushed open the door to the mahogany attic.
"Who!" Even though he was extremely sleepy and confused, Yang Shi woke up first. He stared at the door with eyes wide open.
No one in the Yang family would come to the mahogany attic at this time, and the other party would not be his.
And if it weren't for his subordinates, who could have passed through the highly skilled guards in Yang's mansion and walked here quietly... the man was extremely vigilant. The body is hunched down, leaning forward, and veins bulge on the forearms. If he senses something wrong, the burst of power is enough to break the opponent's neck within a time period that a mortal can't even notice!
But these vigilances were interrupted by a call.
"Master." Li Chengqi greeted.
Um? Master? What does ‘Master’ mean? Is it a name? Or a title? The man raised his head and saw clearly the figure in the backlight.
The wide sleeves of the robe are as smooth as clouds, and the hanging hair looks like splashed ink.
The visitor was holding a golden flute. When the man raised his head, he happened to meet the other person's eyes. For a moment, he felt as if he had seen a deep lake one afternoon. When the wind passes by, ripples are set off on the lake. People on the shore marvel at the beauty of the lake, but they still don't know its depth.
It seems to be a title.
Yang Shi confirmed this title in an instant. With such a posture, the Master is really a suitable description.
"Who are you?" He bowed and unconsciously became respectful in front of the other party and put down his hostility. It was clear that he didn't even know the origin of the other party.
After a long time, the people in the room heard a faint reply.
"Heng Xiao Jin Ni."
Heng Xiao Jin Ni? What's this name? A title? The man was stunned for a moment, but he suddenly thought of something and his eyes widened.
Li Xi'an didn't care what the man in front of him was thinking. From the moment he stepped into the attic, his eyes were always on the girl. She seemed a little scared and huddled in her mother's arms.
"I...have I seen you somewhere?" Suddenly, the girl spoke up, and she mustered up the courage to look at Li Xi'an.
"Very keen perception, no wonder you can feel him sleeping." Li Xi'an said.
But the man staggered back. He didn't dare to link what he was thinking with the figure in front of him. He didn't dare. Not only was this kind of existence far away from people like them, but even the entire world, I'm afraid he couldn't make the other person lower his eyes. And he, Yang Shi, Yang Mansion, how could He De attract such an existence?
"Just call me Master, don't be nervous." Li Xi'an saw the man's anxiety.
"You..."
"Your love is excellent." Li Xi'an said. He stretched out his hand, and his forearms and palms were covered with fine scales like red steel. The man was not too surprised by this, but the eyes of the mother and daughter in the room widened.
"Maybe we need a space to be alone, there are too many eyes."
Li Xi'an snapped his fingers.
Yang Lianyue found that her father's face was frozen, and she raised her head. Her mother did the same, looking around. It was pitch black, with only some scattered lights. As the stars spread over and engulfed her, all the figures she was familiar with disappeared. The place seemed empty, with only her and the "Master" standing there.
The girl stared at the golden flute in the other person's hand.
"Are you playing the music?" Her voice was very soft, but she was not afraid.
She should be scared.
Feeling uneasy in such a strange and empty environment, she could not see her father and mother, and before her eyes she became a completely unknown and mysterious "master".
She also felt that she should be afraid, but there was no fear in her heart. Instead, she felt a sense of familiarity, just like she was under the magnificent burning dusk in her previous dream.
"It's me." Li Xi'an said.
"What are you doing? Well... what do you want to do? Brother Chengqi got the means to treat my illness from you, right? He will mention it in his spare time in the past few days, taking him out of hell twice The noble existence." The girl pondered.
"Although he never mentioned the full story of what happened, I can feel that he has changed a lot. In him, I even felt the feeling that only my father felt, that kind of heaviness."
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"You like him." Li Xi'an continued.
"Yes, of course I like Brother Chengqi. You're weird, aren't you? How can you like someone who you haven't seen since we were young? The novelty of childhood should have been replaced long ago."
"There's nothing surprising. Your perception is very powerful, powerful enough to be close to Ancestor in his sleep. With this foundation, he realized that his thoughts were normal when he was a child." "Thank you." The girl smiled and faced Li Xi She was calm when talking about Li Chengqi, but when she talked about Li Chengqi, she showed the disordered thoughts unique to a girl. She was probably worried that her love would be ruthlessly denied. Love that yearns for freedom and peace often encounters power, right? She can see such plots in many story books.
"My footprints have appeared in the eyes of some people very early, but they will not know that I have been here, nor will they know that the young lady of the Yang family has had a dream about the Boundary Mountain."
The girl looked up, her eyes hesitant.
"Is the pain in my dream because of him? That red giant. I know he has no ill intentions towards me. Is it that I...offended him?"
"No, that's not the case. He just longs for someone to accompany him in this endless darkness. Maybe this is a gift to some people. After all, this is Zu's dream, and he can peek into the path of the superior. But for you now, Deadly poison, your loss of life comes from the separation of your spirit and body after contact with him."
"So, you saved me, is there anything I can do to help you?" The girl asked obediently, her eyebrows lowered.
"Does your father know you are so smart?"
"You probably don't know that in his eyes, I am still the girl who will never grow up, holding his arm and acting coquettishly. I don't need to be smart with the disease and the passage of life, I just need to be well-behaved, so that when I die, they won't be able to grow up." It would be a pity. After all, my well-behaved daughter can still appear again. It would be too distressing if she was still smart." Yang Lianyue smiled, her voice rising.
"Sit." Li Xi'an stretched out his hand, and two chairs and a table suddenly appeared in the star-like space, with the endgame placed on the table.
Yang Lianyue glanced at the endgame and thought it was a strange chessboard.
It can be seen from some trend layouts that black should be suppressing white, and suppressing it mercilessly. But suddenly, the change occurred at the move that was about to succeed. White began to devour Black's chess, unreasonably, and Black began to gradually avoid it, and finally collapsed.
"Is this?" She was a little confused.
She knew that there were stories in storybooks about some big shots who liked to set up a chessboard when chatting with their juniors, but there was no storybook about this extremely weird endgame.
"Let's take a look." The black piece appears in the girl's hand, while the white piece will fall after every step the girl takes.
She was still playing chess at first, but soon slowed down. When she slowed down to think, she raised her eyes to observe the opponent. The opponent had his eyes closed and seemed to have no concern at all, letting her think for as long as she wanted. So time passed little by little, and she thought for longer and longer, until it took an unknown number of hours for a chess piece to fall, and she stopped.
Li Xi'an opened his eyes.
Bai Zi has changed.
He defeated the black chess piece, but was trapped in a cage.
"What's wrong?" he said.
"I can't leave anymore," the girl replied. "Black will win, and White has no way to go."
"Yes, in the end, black will still win." Li Xi'an said softly. He turned over his hand and overturned the chessboard. The pieces fell to pieces, but his face was expressionless. "But when you have the ability to overturn the chessboard, even the masters who play chess can't do anything to you. I'm not very good at playing chess. Compared with the step-by-step layout and capture of pieces, I'm better at knocking another chess player off. Kill. No matter what I do, I will always be the winner.”
The girl was a little dull.
"I do need your help with something, girl."
"Please enlighten me." The girl recovered from the daze of overturning the chessboard and saluted respectfully.
"Do you know... Zu? Shinichi."
"I once heard in a dream that he often talked nonsense. Zu, is he like you, the Master?"
"It's not me, it's another guy, the guy in your dream. He is sleeping too deeply, and I need you to be his spiritual anchor in this world so that he can come back again. There is a slight risk to you. , so it’s a deal, it’s up to you.”
"I don't think I need anything from the Master. After all, you saved me, so I should help you."
"Just fulfill my old friend's wish." Li Xi'an said, placing a flute in front of the girl.
"Are you familiar?"
Yang Lianyue was stunned and nodded slowly, "In the dream that I entered after hearing the sound of the flute, the thing I saw was this hole flute... strange, in the dream, it should have been destroyed."
"It is indeed destroyed, look carefully."
She concentrated and saw the cracks on the golden dongxiao's body. They were already very subtle, but they did exist.
"The world you saw is called Qingsuo, Qingsuo Realm. And the last thing you saw was the end of that world."
The girl looked at the broken flute, then looked at Li Xi'an.
She seemed to understand something.
This was a misunderstanding, but Li Xian was not prepared to explain. At least until he actually reaches Shinichi, leave this misunderstanding behind. In the process of implementing this plan, there is no guarantee that there will be no mistakes, and knowing the existence of Hengxiao Jin Ni is safer than knowing a Kyushu dragon that has inherited the Qingsuo world. Hengxiao Jin Ni is also a famous ancestor in the star sea. No matter what, even if the worst outcome occurs, the things in the depths of the star sea can only think of the awakening of the unshakable one.
He cannot expose the existence of Kyushu in this world.
No matter what.
"You want to say..." The girl realized what Li Xi'an was thinking.
"Yes, I will teach you the Dao of Qingsuo Realm. When the ancestor wakes up, he will teach you how to practice and protect your safety."
Li Xi'an had no intention of bringing this Jiuzhou ancestor back to Kyushu from the beginning. In this world where even the untouchable cannot approach, Master Wanshi Shen Gong cannot naturally do it. Even if he arrives by force, he will probably be an ancestor who has lost his Dharma form. There is no need for this. The value of an ancestor who can move freely outside the stars is much higher than returning to Kyushu.
Silence, stillness.
This gift is too precious.
Even if the girl has never practiced cultivation, she can still understand the importance of the Tao of a world. It was a thousand times more valuable than her life. In other words, her mortal life was insignificant and incomparable.
"Why me?"
"Because you can see it." Li Xi'an replied.
He stood up, leaned over to look at the girl sitting on the chair, and tapped her eyebrows with his red-scaled fingers.
"This is the key to the tomb, can you do it, girl?"
Xingyu closed behind Li Xi'an, and the girl in the darkness receded slowly nodded.
My family tried their best and took the time to make up for it after school.
I probably don’t have much time at home lately.
(End of chapter)