"Can't move forward any more!"

In an unknown mountain forest, Jia Guheng carried the carriage carrying sand, Hong and Ayu, and stopped at the highest peak of the mountain.

Dawn is approaching, and this is almost the darkest moment of the night.

Jia Guheng had given up pulling a cart on the mountain road. He carried the entire cart on his body and flew through the heavy rain and mountain torrents.

Now he finally found a cave that had not been flooded by the water, so he quickly landed with a carriage.

Except for Jia Guheng, the other three were all exhausted.

Jia Guheng picked up a pile of wet firewood and forced it to ignite it with the demon fire to keep the girls warm. After only a few hours, the wounds stained with rain on the back of Hong's hand had begun to deteriorate.

She walked alone to a remote place and broke her limbs on her own. Sand sat by the fire and looked at her sister, letting Ayu fall asleep on her shoulder.

When Hong came back, her face turned pale, but she said nothing.

For monks, broken limbs are not as terrible as ordinary people think. They have their own ways to stop bleeding from the wound - but the pain caused by the wound is treated equally.

"Do you still have to continue rushing tomorrow morning?" Sa asked in a low voice.

"Of course I have to hurry up." Hong replied immediately.

"But Ayu's divination said before-"

"Then we must also give priority to Mr. Xia's orders." Hong replied, "Besides, Ayu also said that her divination can be changed. Even if we cannot arrive in Chang'an safely now, it does not mean that we have to stop our trip."

Sand looked at the fire, "...so."

After a while, Jiaguheng stood up first.

"Where are you going?" Sand looked up at him.

"I'll go to Chang'an first."

"This place is thousands of miles away from Chang'an-"

"I can run back and forth in half a day." Jiaguheng turned around, "You guys just sleep here, I'll wake up tomorrow morning-"

Saur frowned, "I'd better not! I'm afraid you won't be able to come back at all when you go."

Hong agreed almost immediately.

Jia Guheng stopped in a little embarrassed.

Hong looked at the girl who had fallen asleep at this moment, "Can you wake up Ayu and ask her again?"

Sha shook her head, "...I remember the gentleman said before that the divination that Ayu can give every day is limited. We have already asked the two questions today. Even if she shouted her again, it would be useless. At the earliest, I have to wait for midnight tonight..."

Jia Guheng widened his eyes and was immediately displeased, "Doesn't you have to wait for a whole day?"

"That's better than if we were having a breakup in the middle of the way!"

Hong's voice echoed in the cave, and Ayu suddenly opened her eyes and sat up.

Hong and Jia Guheng both realized that they were too loud, so they temporarily silenced and removed their annoying gazes that looked at each other.

"You go." Ayu said suddenly.

Hong and Sa suddenly looked at A Yu, "…what?"

Ayu looked at Jiaguheng and repeated again, "You go."

Jia Guheng had almost no hesitation and started immediately, rushed towards the entrance of the cave like wind, disappearing into the rain outside.

"...A Yu!" Hong exclaimed, "Do you know what's going on now? Jiaguheng is the only one among us who can tolerate this blood rain. If he can't come back halfway, the rain will continue - we will be trapped here forever!"

"Sister..." Sauri gently pulled Hong's sleeve, "Sit down first."

"The rain will always stop." Ayu whispered, "People will wake up."

"Wake up?" Hong and Sa didn't understand Ayu's second half of the sentence. The taciturn girl still maintained her previous faint expression, as if she had no idea what she was talking about.

"Do you mean Jia Guheng will come back safely?"

"I hope he can..." Ayu replied.

"Hope..." Hong's brows frowned even more - wasn't that still a sign of no confidence?

"...I hope he brings back some news." Ayu continued.

"Then what." Sand asked tentatively.

Ayu lowered his head and looked at the cold stone in his hand again, "I want to go to Luoyang."

...

It was already dawn, but it was not dawn.

Jia Guheng was running like a afterimage in the rain. He heard the sound of waterfalls coming from his ears. He didn't pay attention at first, but he didn't see the strange phenomenon in the distant sky when he stopped to confirm the direction again.

This is far from being described by heavy rain - he saw a blood-red waterfall falling from the cracks of the clouds, like a hanging river in the sky.

He originally thought that there would probably be no living creatures on the ground, but after slowing down, he unexpectedly found that many villages were not attacked.

They are like isolated islands connected by one, falling in a vast ocean.

Jiaguheng landed in one of the villages and planned to catch a few people to ask what was going on. However, what he didn't expect was that in every village he went to, people fell asleep as if they were dead. No matter how threats and intimidated him, or even threw people directly into the heavy rain outside the house, no one woke up.

Jiaguheng cursed a few times and continued on the road.

He went from north to south like a gust of wind, and finally came to the territory not far from Chang'an.

The floods covering the ground changed from red to black, and although he had never seen these weird black rivers, he quickly realized their dangers.

The black river has swallowed up the entire Chang'an.

He saw everything under the water burning, radiating golden and red fires, which penetrated the black river, like a hell on earth.

After staying near the black river here for a short time, Jia Guheng felt that his skin was as painful as burning.

Strangely, this unbearable pain reminded him of the strange thing that happened not long ago when he fought with the fox demon named Ji Zhen.

At that time, he had obviously forced Ji Zhen to a dead end, but when he was about to come, he was suddenly caught by the other party. If Mr. Xia hadn't appeared in time, he would have probably died in Daizong Mountain.

The power contained in these black rivers seems to be of the same origin as the power after Ji Zhen changed at that time.

He did not stop anymore, but rushed to Luoyang to the east.

...

In the cave, Hong and Sand looked at the flames that were about to extinguish without saying a word.

Without sunlight, the world becomes cold.

It was never dawn, and they could only roughly infer the time they had spent based on the degree of hunger in their stomachs.

"It seems that the rain is getting heavier and heavier." Sand walked to the entrance of the cave and whispered.

Hong didn't say anything, she curled up in the corner, staring at the burnt branches without saying a word.

Sand withdrew his gaze and continued to look into the distance.

Soon, she saw a familiar figure in the dark forest - a flash of lightning flashed across the sky, and the dark horn above Jia Guheng's head was illuminated like several clusters of electric sparks.

"I'm back!" Jia Guheng appeared at the entrance of the cave with wet all over.

The sand immediately took a few steps back to avoid getting the rain that he brought back.

"How is it?" Saur asked with concern. Hong on the side did not look up, but immediately raised her ears.

"Chang'an can't go," Jia Guheng shook his head, "Let's go directly to Luoyang."
Chapter completed!