withered prosperity

"What?" Yan Hai also looked at the hand.

"I think it might be..." Yun Ji paused after saying this: "There has been a breakthrough in the Da Xiao Yao Jue."

"Apart from martial arts, do you feel any changes in your body?"

Yun Ji thought for a while, then shook his head at him.

"No." He replied, "Nothing has changed."

Yan Hai slowly withdrew his hand from between his tightly clasped palms.

"This place is really weird, you have to pay more attention." He said to Yun Ji: "If there is anything wrong, you must tell me."

Yun Ji nodded.

"Yue Liuyi." Yan Hai turned around, and said to Yue Liuyi who had been watching them not far away, "Have you prepared everything I asked you to do?"

"Get ready... oh! It's ready! It's all ready!" Yue Liuyi nodded: "How dare I neglect what you ordered!"

"I want to watch it again." He grabbed Yue Liuyi's arm and dragged her to the other side.

"Yue Cuiwei, why do you look down on me so much..." Yue Liuyi looked unhappy, but followed his footsteps.

After making sure that the people behind couldn't see it, Yue Liuyi mouthed a few words to Yan Hai.

"Take care of yourself!" Yan Hai pressed his palms hard: "Do what I ask you to do, the rest has nothing to do with you."

Yue Liuyi wanted to open his mouth to speak, but he stared at him with cold eyes, so he could only shut his mouth.

"We bring 50 people."

"Only fifty people? How can this work?" Yue Liuyi said with a smile: "Why don't you bring five hundred people in! That's the only way to be safe!"

What she said was obviously mocking, and Yin Yutang's face became even more gloomy.

They were already sitting in the tent that had been set up at the moment, with a large table in the center covered with a simple topographical map drawn by Yue Liuyi.

"Is this the only way?" Yun Ji walked around the table.

"It's not a road, it's just a suspension bridge." Yan Hai stood beside him and pointed it out to him.

The lotus-shaped mountain peaks are leaning on each other, almost overlapping each other, but at the same place on each floor, it seems that there is a gap between the two petals.

"It is said that there was no such gap in the first place, but after a certain day's earthquake, there was such a passage." Yan Hai pointed to the center of the entire island, where some houses were drawn: "This place is the thousand-year-old road." Lotus Palace."

"These empty places..."

"Except for the place I drew, the rest are almost all cliffs." Yue Liuyi stood opposite them: "These peaks and the gaps between the peaks are all undercurrents of the deep sea, if you accidentally fall, you will never come back. "

"Endless Abyss?" Yun Ji raised his head and looked at Yan Hai.

It is a place that is specially marked at the intersection of the Suspension Bridge and the Thousand Lotus Palace.

"It is said that this place has no bottom, and there will be no echoes from whatever you throw into it." Yue Liuyi said while looking around: "Yue Qingbi fell in this place back then, and I don't know if she was broken into pieces in the end. Pieces still turned into minced meat... tell me, when she fell, what was she thinking?"

No one answered her mouth.

"Leave early tomorrow morning." Yan Hai came to a conclusion: "Except for us, you can bring as many people as you want, but after entering, you and your people must stay there, and you cannot go to Qianlian Palace with us."

"what?"

"It's really troublesome." Yan Hai pressed his forehead. "Yueliu Clothes.",

A gleaming short sword rested on Yin Yuzhang's neck.

"You...Liuyi Jun, what are you doing?" Yin Yutang questioned while stopping the surrounding guards who wanted to do something.

No one expected her to attack suddenly, and at such a close distance, it is impossible for anyone to stop her in time.

"You ask me? I'm his puppet now!" Yue Liuyi flicked the blade of the sword with his fingers: "He told me to go east, but I dare not go west. He told me to kill people, so I can only use one sword... I Of course I don't want to do that, but if you think about it, he could do anything in the past, can't he?"

"We've already arrived here, so let's just say it!" Yan Hai tapped his finger on the table lightly: "Yin Jiu, no matter what you want from this island, I would like to advise you, you have to know how to measure yourself. You took the snowgrain flower back then, I no longer care about it with you, but don't think too much about other things!"

"What is he looking for? Could it be that..." Yue Liuyi showed a surprised expression: "Yin Jiu, are you here to look for Yue Qingbi? Have you come here to collect her body after more than ten years? I can't see that you are like this A man of deep affection!"

"Okay." Yan Hai glared at her coldly, then turned his head to meet Yin Yuzhang's eyes: "If you want to bring so many people in, it's just that you can't enter Baoshan and return empty-handed, but the things on Qianlian Island, Can it really be taken away by anyone?"

Suddenly, the atmosphere in the tent froze.

"What does Cuiwei-jun mean by this?" Yin Yuzhang said very calmly: "I and Twelve are not familiar with martial arts, and now we are risking our lives to come here, we should have more means of self-protection! You want You know, something happened to the two of us, the whole world..."

"Is there still a shortage of people who want to be emperors in this world?" Yue Liuyi interrupted him with a smile: "If you really cherish the throne so much, I advise you to stay well after passing Wuli Xuesha, and then Just wait until we get back."

"Then how?" Yin Yutang immediately shook his head: "To put it bluntly, if you can't come back and we can't get out, then what should we do?"

"Opening the passage from the inside does not require such complicated steps." Yan Hai said indifferently: "If you really can't wait for us, you can leave on your own!"

"Wait a minute." Yin Yuzhang asked suspiciously: "Aren't you afraid that we will leave by boat? We will leave you on the island?"

Yue Liuyi suddenly sighed, and put away the sword on his neck.

"Yin Jiu, are you stupid to be an emperor?" She twisted the dagger into a sword flower and put it into the scabbard behind her waist. "Since I have a way to make you follow us obediently, I naturally have a way to make you stay and wait for us to go together."

The implication of Yue Liuyi's words was naturally to poison them.

"Okay, just do as you two want." Yin Yuzhang's voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth. "However, I also have a request, and I hope the two of you can agree."

"You are not qualified to negotiate terms with me." Yan Hai flatly rejected him: "I will not agree to any other requests except that you want to accompany Yue Qingbi."

"We push Yin Jiu so hard, will he jump over the wall in a hurry?" Before parting, Yue Liuyi asked.

Of course, the expression on her face didn't really bother her.

Yan Hai frowned.

"I understand, I understand!" Yue Liuyi took a few steps back: "I will definitely correct this problem of self-righteousness."

The remaining two watched her leave.

"Yunji." Yan Hai suddenly turned his head and asked, "Can you accompany me to a place?"

They walked a long way along the coast.

In the end, there were already jagged rocks under his feet, so Yun Ji picked him up.

Yan Hai pointed in the direction, and finally they saw a flat stone at the end of the stretch into the sea.

"Sit here with me for a while."

Although Yun Ji was a little puzzled, he sat down on the stone with him as he said.

The sky was dim, and the golden afterglow above the sea scattered with the rays of the sun.

Yan Hai leaned on Yun Ji's shoulder, watching the sunset silently.

"When I was seven years old, I began to think about escaping from this place." He raised his head and looked at the sky that was gradually stained by twilight. "But, for the first time, I only escaped here."

"and after?"

"Of course I was arrested and went back. I told some lies and was punished." Yan Hai simply lay down and rested his head on his lap: "But that night, I was lying here alone, and I felt that if If I can’t live freely and happily, then I simply won’t live.”

Yun Ji combed his hair with his fingers.

"But what is freedom and happiness, I don't really understand." He closed his eyes and took a deep breath: "Even now, I don't really understand..."

"Do what you want to do, no one can influence your decision."

"Ah! If that's what you say..." He rubbed his cheek against Yunji's finger: "I'm very happy now."

Yun Ji lowered his head and kissed his closed eyes.

When they were about to part at the touch of a finger, Yan Hai hooked him around the neck...

They kissed lingeringly for a long time in this empty and uninhabited place, and when they parted, the moon had already risen from the junction of the sea and the sky.

Yan Hai turned over and reached the edge of the boulder.

Yun Ji was about to pull him, but he stopped him.

"Wait a little longer." He lay there, smiled and said to Yun Ji: "I'll see it soon."

As soon as he finished speaking, a faint blue light emanated from the water, illuminating his smiling face.

In the sea water, blue light spots emerged, and gradually, more and more of these light spots became one piece, covering the entire coast with a layer of light.

Yan Hai reached out and scooped up a handful of sparkling sea water, and handed it to him.

"I heard people say that in the past, someone built a hundred-foot-tall building, just to pick up the stars in the sky for the one he loves." He tilted his head, his long hair almost fell into the swollen sea water. "It's a pity that I'm penniless, so I can only speculate, so you can just accept this as a star!"

Yun Ji stared at him blankly, and stretched out her hand as a gesture.

The stars in the sea slowly fell into Yunji's palm along the gap between his fingers.

The sea water finally reached the rocks, and Yan Hai seemed to be kneeling in the boundless sea of ​​stars.

Yun Ji grabbed his wrist tightly and dragged him into her arms.

"Yan Hai, I don't want these." He strangled Yan Hai so painfully that he spoke with a smile and a slight panting sound.

"Then what do you want?" Yan Hai ran his hands through his hair, breaking up his bun.

He didn't answer, but pushed Yan Hai down on the stone.

In Xumi's time, the sea water had already covered Yan Hai's cheeks.

Yan Hai's breath quickened.

The sea water rose higher and higher, and he couldn't help opening his mouth... At this moment, Yun Ji kissed him and took a breath.

Then, the two rolled over and fell into the sea full of stars.