Sun Youwei's lips were trembling, and his face turned blue and white like the newly blooming Galan.

A circle of thin skin around her eye sockets fell deeply, making her aging eyes look bigger than ever. The empress's eyes had a faint sense of despair. Feng Yan could not feel any vitality from it. It was like a volcano. After experiencing mist and boiling, the magma rolled down the ridge after the eruption.

That's certainly hot, but...

"What did Feng Dai... say to you?" Sun Youwei asked in a low voice.

"Grandma makes me feel at ease." Feng Yan said softly, "The efforts of the spirit-sacrificing man for many years will not be so sluggish. As long as Fuxi of the Heavenly Dao is still there, even if Gushing temporarily recovers his body, he may not be able to break through the curse seal constructed over the past ten years... We just need to wait. This is a struggle between the Heavenly Dao. As mortals, what we can do is limited."

"Wait? When will it be?"

"The sixteenth day of the first lunar month." Feng Yan said softly, "If Fuxi could complete the formation before the sixteenth day of the first lunar month... this Gushun chaos will be over."

Sun Youwei chuckled very lightly, "What if the final effort is in vain."

"Then I still have me."

"you?"

"If necessary, I can also become a new sword and pierce the key to Guzhe," Feng Yan whispered, "For this reason, Grandma Dai left me a gift."

...

Under the giant banyan, Xiaoqi suddenly screamed and sat up suddenly.

Ji Ran, who was dozing aside, immediately grabbed Xiaoqi's hand, "What's wrong?"

Xiaoqi was sweating all over, and felt dizzy in front of her eyes and her body was still shaking slightly. Seeing Ji Ran sitting beside her, she immediately hugged him tightly.

Ji Ran's face turned red, and his hands suddenly stiffened in the air. After a while, it gently landed on Xiao Qi's back.

“…had a nightmare?”

Xiaoqi gasped, without opening his mouth to answer, but nodded.

"What did you dream about?"

Xiaoqi frowned and thought for a while, "...I don't remember."

"Ah? Can you not remember this?"

"It seems... someone is talking to me..." Xiaoqi said in a low voice. She closed her eyes and tried desperately to capture the remaining impression in her mind. However, the murmurs and pictures that lingered in the dream were still like the moon in the water and the flowers in the mirror, which could not be touched.

"You're tired," Ji Ran replied, "After all day today, I've been running outside, saving people and running for life."

Xiaoqi adjusted his posture of leaning against Ji Ran with some anxiety, "Probably."

"Don't be afraid, I'm always by my side." Ji Ran said softly, "Continue to sleep."

Xiaoqi shook her head, she stood up on the ground, she was already sleepless

"... I've been sleeping for so long, and I'm not tired anymore." She turned around, "Is my sister back?"

Ji Ran shook her head, "She is still in the palace, but don't worry, Wei Xingzhen will chase after him after he comes back."

"Brother-in-law is back," Xiaoqi's eyes lit up, "What about the others?"

Ji Ran looked at Xiaoqi, "Your fifth brother is back, but..."

Seeing Ji Ran's appearance of speaking for some reason, Xiao Qi's heart tightened, "...Is something wrong with him?"

"No, nothing happened to him, but Ayu..." Ji Ran was silent for a moment, "I don't know what happened, but in short, Ayu passed away."

Xiaoqi's pupils shook slightly, "Ayu..."

"Don't be sad." Ji Ran said softly.

Xiao Qi didn't know what to react at the moment.

She didn't even have time to feel sad about this. Her short time with Ayu had already occupied her thoughts at this moment.

I remembered the afternoon when I returned from the underground palace of Ping Yaoshu, and the past when Ayu followed Mei Shier to visit her home, and the bustling home was... and Feng Yishu's subconscious favoritism towards Ayu in the past.

Now something happened to Ayu, the fifth brother...

Xiao Qi was shocked and came to his senses, "Where are they now?"

"Ayu has been cremated. In this situation, I cannot be buried well. I can only wait until I find a place to stay for her." Ji Ran replied, "Wulang finished Ayu's funeral in the afternoon and returned to the Ping Yao Office. When he came to see you, you just fell asleep. He didn't let me call you, but said that he would come back soon, so that you don't worry.

"By the way, he asked me if I knew where I could get flint in the city now. I told him about the fact that my uncle had asked to send flint to us. He asked you to keep flint properly. This thing was mentioned in Ayu's prophecy before his death."

Xiaoqi looked down at the two cloth bags hanging around his waist and nodded in a daze.

Ji Ran held Xiaoqi's hand.

"Don't worry, he didn't collapse." Ji Ran whispered, "He said he still has a lot to do."

...

On the city tower in the north of the city, in the dim lantern light, Chen Heng strode to patrol under the eaves of the aisle. Behind him, Feng Yishu looked anxious, "Sir, what do I do to help me?"

"Stop messing around here anymore!" Chen Heng stopped and scolded with a calm face, "Do you know how many people there are in Luoyang City now? Even if all the people who died in the blood rain and giant trees were removed, the remaining people were 400,000 or 500,000! With so many people, you can just evacuate them?"

"but--"

"Open your eyes and look outside! It's so heavy rain that people will die if they touch it. Now, relying on the existing defenses and the four walls in the city, we still have support to guard the city, and the people also have shelter. After leaving Luoyang, how can you let the people take shelter from the rain? How can we resist these evil spirits who are ready to approach at any time?"

Speaking of this, Chen Heng looked keenly into the distance and shouted fiercely, "Shoot the arrow!"

Three thousand arrows rose into the sky like fireworks, dispelling the demon fog gathered in the distance.

"But the rain will always stop!" Feng Yishu argued, "The last blood rain lasted for a total of four days-"

"Enough Goro! I can't help you go to the imperial court to spread such words," Chen Heng said in a deep voice, "I also understand and tell you that this kind of irresponsibility is to ignore the lives of the people in the city, and I just want to escape from the heavens. Even if the Lord gave the order, I would not obey it!"

Feng Yishu's hand clenched into a fist.

If Wei Xingzhen and Sister were not in the palace at this moment and Du Huanfeng was missing... He wouldn't have come to Chen Heng for help.

But now it seems...

Chen Heng felt an inexplicable murderous aura suddenly coming from behind him. He turned around in disbelief, and Feng Yishu's fist had already hit his face.

Chen Heng staggered and took two steps back and stood firm again - he never expected that the young man who had made him most proud of the past would start against him.
Chapter completed!