Back at Xie Lian still facing San Lang, Xie Lian said, "Rain of Blood Reached the Flowers?"
"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince." San Lang replied.
Xie Lian finally turned his back to San Lang with a smile, "That's the first time I've heard you calling me like that."
The boy in red sat on a straw mat, and adjusted his feet, "How does it taste?"
Xie Lian thought about it, but decided not to ask something like, "Why did you stop calling me gege?", And instead said, "It's okay. Not bad."
He continued, "That night at Mount Yu Jun, the groom who took me away was you, right?"
Seeing Hua Cheng grinning, Xie Lian realized his words might mean something else, why could I be wrong and correct him seriously, "I mean, the undercover groom who took me away was you, right?"
"I'm not in disguise," Hua Cheng answered.
"..." good! if they had to go into deeper discussions, Hua Cheng was not wrong. The young man at that time who took him away never said that he was a groom! He only stopped in front of the bridal stretcher used by Xie Lian and then reached out. It was Xie Lian himself who voluntarily welcomed the helping hand then went with him, "Fine! Then why did you appear then?"
"This question only has two answers," Hua Cheng said, "First, I came to that place only for His Majesty, secondly, I just happened to be passing by and had free time. Which do you think is more reliable?"
Xie Lian counted how many days Hua Cheng spent with him, and replied earnestly, "Which is more trustworthy, I can't say, but you really have a lot of free time."
With his left arm holding his right elbow and his right hand supporting his chin, Xie Lian gave Hua Cheng a look and nodded. "You are very different from what many rumors say."
Hua Cheng changed his sitting position but still with his hand propped up his cheek, still staring at Xie Lian and said, "Oh? And how do you know that the one who previously claimed to be called San Lang was me who turned out to be Hua Cheng?"
A picture of a bloodied umbrella, a silver ring that gently clinked, and a cold silver vambrace (piece of iron arm on armor) filled Xie Lian's mind and memory and she then thought, 'It's not like you are hiding your true identity seriously ' But when those words fall from his lips, it becomes something else.
He said in a serious tone, "You are dressed all in red, know everything, are able to do everything, and know no fear. Even after all examinations and investigations of your identity that have been given before you do not give any reaction or response, so you should be someone who has the position of 'the Greatest' or something bigger. Besides that 'Rain of Blood Reaches Flowers' that even heavenly officials in heaven fear, it's like there are no other candidates to compare to guess your true identity. "
Hua Cheng laughed, "Should I take those words as a compliment?"
"Can't you call that a compliment?" Xie Lian thought.
"To save so many words, why doesn't His Majesty question what motive I have for approaching you?" Hua Cheng asked.
"If you don't want to say anything, if I ask about it, will you keep telling me?"
"You can always send me away."
Xie Lian laughed, "You are very strong, if I kick you out now, if you really want to do something, won't you just change your skin and change your identity and come back?"
Both of them looked at each other with a small smile when at that time, a small knocking sound broke the silence that occurred in the temple for a moment. They looked at the place where the voice came from and there was no one there, only a small black clay pot rolling on the ground.
It was the same pot that Ban Yue had put before. Xie Lian put it next to the straw mat, but somehow the small pot turned upside down by itself and rolled back to the door. Detained by a wooden door that had previously been made by Hua Cheng, the small pot rolled and began to hit and hit the door repeatedly. Xie Lian was worried that the small pot would break, so he decided to open the door, and the small clay pot rolled toward a grass field outside.
Xie Lian followed behind him, and saw that when the small clay pot made it to the grass field, the pot stood on its own. Even if it was only a pot, the view gave the illusion that it was staring at the night sky. Hua Cheng also appeared from the temple afterwards, and Xie Lian called out to the pot, "Ban Yue, are you awake?"
Luckily when they returned from the Gobi desert, it was already late at night, if someone saw Xie Lian who asked and spoke to a pot, they might throw it.
A few moments later, a sad voice of a young girl came from the pot, "General Hua."
Xie Lian sat next to him and calmed him down, "Ban Yue, did you come out to see the stars? Why didn't you come out of that pot?"
Hua Cheng leaned against the tree next to them and said, "He just left the ruins of Ban Yue. It might be better if he stayed in the pot for much longer."
Xie Lian thought the advice given by Hua Cheng made sense. After all, Ban Yue had been trapped in Ban Yue country for two hundred years; suddenly changing his pace out may be difficult for him to adjust to. "Then you should stay in there and heal yourself. This is where I cultivate and live, you don't need to worry about anything. Don't think about those soldiers and generals anymore."
The pot shook twice as if trying to say something. After a long pause, Xie Lian felt that he still needed to fill it in and say what had happened before, and chew on his words. "Ban Yue, it's actually not because of your snakes that don't listen to you anymore. General Pei Little secretly learns snake control techniques that you do. Everyone isn't hurt by the snakes you control."
"General Hua, I couldn't move at that time, but I heard everything," Ban Yue said darkly.
Xie Lian stopped. So Pei Su only sealed Ban Yue's movements, but not with his mind. "So?"
After some thoughts, Xie Lian continued, "Maybe General Pei Little did it because he couldn't stand seeing the soldiers of Ban Yue suffer and wanted to give them some help, but unfortunately he used the wrong method."
"..." The clay pot shook for a moment and Ban Yue again said, "General Hua, what happened to Pei Su gege?"
Xie Lian crossed her arms inside her sleeve, "I don't know. But, all the mistakes made will always be punished."
For a moment of silence greeted them again, and the pot shook again twice, and Xie Lian finally understood that the movement meant a nod of agreement.
"Even though Ke Mo always curses him, Pei Su gege isn't actually a bad person." Ban Yue said.
"Is that true?"
"Correct."
Ban Yue has always been a closed child and has always been intimidated by children her age. He is only on good terms with a few children of the Central Plains. Knowing that Pei Su would attack a country with only two thousand troops with him, he might also not be well received in the army. They were aloof, turned into cold, and gloomy figures, so they must have shared many similar pasts. Xie Lian didn't know what else to say.
"Oh that's right. Ban Yue, the name Hua Xie is a fake name, and I haven't been a general for a long time. You don't have to keep calling me General Hua anymore." Xie Lian said after a long pause.
"Then how should I call you?" Ban Yue asked.
That's actually a good question. If Ban Yue also called him 'Your Majesty' seriously, it would feel strange. Xie Lian also didn't really care about her position or the way people called her, she just wanted to change the subject at the time. "Whatever you say. I think it's okay if you keep calling me General Hua." It's just that there is one more person here named Hua, so if Ban Yue called him 'General Hua' it might cause confusion. But then he thought, 'Hua Xie' is a fake name he took from the first word of another call he had, 'Flower-Crowned Martial Deity', also 'Hua Cheng' maybe it was a fake name too? Knowing that the two of them coincidentally chose the same name, it was rather funny.
"Sorry, General Hua," Ban Yue said again.
Xie Lian turned to look at him and said sadly, "Ban Yue, why do you always apologize to me?"
Does he really look that sad to everyone? From inside the pot, Ban Yue stated, "I, want to save the world."
Xie Lian: "..."
"General Hua, you said that," Ban Yue said.
Xie Lian: "???"
Xie Lian urgently said, "Wait, wait!"
Hearing him scream, Ban Yue froze. "What is wrong?"
Xie Lian peeked at Hua Cheng who was still leaning against the tree with his arms crossed, and said in a low voice, "Did I really say that?"
Those words were his favorite words when he was only ten years old. In the hundreds of years that followed, he should not have said it at all; he could not believe it. But Ban Yue said firmly and confidently, "General, those are your words."
Xie Lian was still struggling to dodge it, "I don't think so ..."
Ban Yue said to him seriously, "You did say that. There was a time when you asked us all what we wanted to do when we were adults. Everyone answered, and afterwards you also said: 'My dream is to save the world; and save commoners.'
"..."
So there you have it. Xie Lian used her hands to cover her entire forehead. "Um. Ban Yue. Why do you remember so clearly something that was said so long ago with no such purpose?"
Ban Yue was confused, "Without purpose? But General Hua, I thought those words were taken seriously by you."
Xie Lian raised her head to look at the night sky, feeling helpless. "Haha really? Maybe. I can't remember anything I might have said before."
"You also say, 'Do what you think is right!" Ban Yue told him.
".. what .. bullshit! .. Why do I keep saying such things .. I'm not like that at all ... right ?? ' Xie Lian thought.
"But, I no longer know what is meant by something true," Ban Yue said.
Xie Lian froze.
Ban Yue's annoyed voice buzzed from the pot, "I thought I was doing the right thing, but in the end I was the one who opened the gate that let the enemy slaughter my own people. My country is gone. But if I don't open the gate, the people of Ban Yue will terrorize Central Plains and hurting more people.General Hua was so kind to me, and when I was walking in the Central Plains, there were many good people who wanted to feed me, but Ke Mo was also good to me, and all the soldiers obeyed my orders. Ban Yue, I really want to do well as Head Reverend, but not only am I opening the gates, I'm also killing them, and rejecting them as humans, if they don't eat human flesh, they will suffer, and I can't let go. they are from that suffering. "
He kept blabbering and saying a lot of things, sounding more and more confused, "It feels, no matter what I do, the results will be bad. General Hua, I know I haven't done much well, but can you tell me, where is my fault?"
Hearing her question, Xie Lian rubbed the back of her neck and said slowly, "Sorry, Ban Yue. The answer to that question, I didn't know then, and now ... I don't think I know the answer either."
Ban Yue said sadly, "General Hua, it feels like the last two hundred years, I don't know what I have done."
Xie Lian was more depressed, "Doesn't that also mean that I have lived for eight hundred years without any results?"
Xie Lian left the little demon Ban Yue in the pot to see the stars alone and calm down, and he decided to return to the Pu Qi temple with Hua Cheng. After closing the door, Hua Cheng said, "Pei Su hates Ban Yue, how could he do all that because he feels sad about the suffering of the soldiers?"
Xie Lian sighed, "That's all just a guess. It would be better if Ban Yue heard more positive words."
After some thought, Xie Lian shook her head, "If Pei Su really wants to release and free Ban Yue from the rubble, he can choose to clear the Small Road Inside Ban Yue instead of choosing to feed the soldiers with human flesh. He has a lot bravery."
"He can't," Hua Cheng said, "To clear the Small Road Inside Ban Yue, he must go through the heavenly court first."
"So?" Xie Lian asked.
Hua Cheng explained casually, "That is not ideal. The heavenly court records precisely where each official goes and what they do. If heaven decides to send officials, then they must thoroughly clear the Small Road Inside Ban Yue, including That little Ban Yue girl. Of course Pei Su prefers to deal with this matter alone, and for him, it's just a matter of feeding some humans to hungry ghosts when he himself has time to do that. "
He snorted, "For a rising god, mortal life naturally does not mean like an ant."
Xie Lian did not comment on the last part, and only said, "He can send his clones to deal with Ban Yue's army."
"The clones do not have the same amount of strength," Hua Cheng said, "You have not seen how Pei Su's clone, A-Zhao? He cannot take care of so many Ban Yue soldiers, and can only die in their hands for a while to calm the waves. hatred."
Xie Lian glanced at him, and recalled that when San Lang jumped into the Sinner Hole, he destroyed all of Ban Yue's warriors in an instant. He turned to him and said, "Your cloning is quite strong."
Hua Cheng raised his eyebrows. "Of course. But this is actually my true form."
Xie Lian stopped thinking about other things, and looked at him in surprise, "Eh? Is this your true form?"
"One hundred percent authentic." said Hua Cheng.
If there was something to blame, it should have been when Hua Cheng looked as if he welcomed Xie Lian to test himself, and without thinking, Xie Lian raised her finger and to prick the snow white skin her skin touched Hua Cheng's face.
After stabbing and touching that face, Xie Lian was shocked and shouted 'oh no!' on his head. He was just curious to see and feel what exactly the fake skin possessed by a Demon King, but it seemed that his body moved faster than his mind and stabbed him (cheek)! Embarrassing!
Suddenly feeling someone piercing his face, Hua Cheng also looked rather shocked, but he always seemed relaxed and calm, which made his earlier shocked expression immediately disappear. He did not say anything, but his eyebrows raised even higher than usual, as if waiting for Xie Lian to explain what he had done, the laughter in his eyes remained. Xie Lian could not explain it; he stared at his own finger, hid it, and casually said, "Not bad. Not bad."
Hua Cheng finally burst into laughter, and crossed his arms with his head tilted, "What do you think of this fake skin?"
"It was very well made," Xie Lian said sincerely, "But ..."
"But what?" Hua Cheng asked.
Xie Lian looked at his face and studied it for a moment. Then finally said, "But, can I see your true face?"
If Hua Cheng said 'fake skin' then that means even if the body before him is the real one, his face is not. This youth's appearance was not Hua Cheng's real appearance.
This time, Hua Cheng did not immediately respond and dropped him. Maybe it was all in Xie Lian's head, but Hua Cheng's eyes looked a little dark, and his heart was tense.