freenovelworld Chapter 115: Sadness in the Autumn
Chapter 115: Sadness in the Autumn
The sky is filled with yellow sand and no clouds are visible, the north wind dazzles the crowd!
The five people looked at the sandstorm in front of them with solemn expressions. As for A-mei, she ran to Xixi and held her hand. A-mei was still interested in Xixi, perhaps because there was still something she didn't know!
"Idiot, how about we go in again?"
Mu Wanqian spoke at this time.
In fact, Shen Yichen also had this idea, but Youyou in his sea of consciousness told him that there was a familiar smell in the sandstorm!
Shen Yichen thought for a moment and said:
"Forget it, we have to go through it anyway. It may be hard at the beginning, but maybe it will be easy later on!"
After saying that, several of them held hands and flew into the sandstorm together!
What about other cultivators? The cultivators of various sects in Manghuang did not feel the strangeness of the Vast Sea Desert, because they all rushed into the Vast Sea Desert in the dark hours before dawn during the storm, so they did not react much when they entered. After they entered, they thought that the Vast Sea Desert was like this no matter what kind of weather they encountered! The only puzzlement was that there were so few cultivators around, and they all thought they had gone in other directions!
The disciples of various sects and aristocratic families in Yingzhou did feel that the vast sea and desert had changed a lot, but with someone leading the way forward, it didn't matter. After all, the Sea Crystal Pearls were on a first-come, first-served basis, and no one had to go in and out three times like Shen Yichen and his companions. Although they had doubts in their hearts, they also flew in all directions to search!
Shen Yichen and his companions didn’t know how long they had been flying in the sandstorm, but they felt their true energy being consumed at a very fast speed!
"Idiot, we can't go on like this! What if a sandstorm hits and we run into danger? It will consume too much energy!"
Mu Wanqian said to Shen Yichen beside her.
"It's okay, I'll be out soon, find a place to rest when I get out!"
Shen Yichen responded softly, but in his heart he was thinking:
"When did I get the title of idiot?"
Youyou and Shen Yichen are no longer afraid of Ah Mei's suspicion. It doesn't matter anyway! Knowing it once is the same as knowing it several times!
Shen Yichen asked Youyou in his sea of consciousness:
"Youyou, are you going out soon?"
"You can't use your spiritual sense to detect it yourself, you should be able to detect it when it's this close. Can you stop being so lazy? You're poor, but you're also lazy! How are you going to pick up girls in the future?"
Youyou really takes advantage of every opportunity and confronts Shen Yichen whenever she gets the chance!
Shen Yichen was delighted when he heard this:
"It should be soon!"
He was not angry with Youyou. He thought that there were still many places where he could use Youyou in the vast desert, so he should be more accommodating to her!
Not long after Mu Wanqian finished asking, the five of them flew out of the sandstorm and stood on a very high sand dune, looking at the endless withered yellow windblown grass covering the ground, it was even spectacular!
So many windweeds must be the result of a sandstorm!
"Wow! There are so many round grasses in the desert!"
As Ah Mei spoke, she broke free from Shen Yichen's hand and ran down the sand dune. Shen Yichen and his companions sat directly on the sand dune and used their internal energy to recover their true energy! Resisting the storm in a sandstorm really consumes too much true energy!
Ah Mei, like a child, held the wind-rolling grass and rolled down the sand dunes one by one, and sometimes she even rolled down with it!
After they finished their practice, Ah Mei came up to them with her face covered in sand and shouted:
"Brother, I'm so thirsty now!"
Shen Yichen and his companions just realized that how to solve the problem of drinking water after entering the vast desert! They are all cultivators. Although they can go without food and water for a few days, it is definitely not possible for too long, and they were not prepared before!
Mu Wanqian said:
"Stupid, we have to find a water source. It will be troublesome if it's all desert!"
"It's okay, there will be water as long as there is wind weed, don't worry!"
Shen Yichen comforted everyone, while in his sea of consciousness he asked Youyou:
"Youyou, which way are you going? Where is the familiar smell you mentioned?"
Shen Yichen never expected Youyou to say:
"I don't know. I can't feel it when I go through a sandstorm!"
"You! You... can't be so deceiving!"
After Ah Mei finished drinking the water Xixi gave her, she asked:
"Big brother, where are we going?"
Shen Yichen didn't know either. It was an endless desert, and it looked the same in every direction. There was no water to be seen, let alone Hailing Lake!
"Idiot, let's keep going, it's getting dark!"
Mu Wanqian is still very decisive, much better than Shen Yichen in this respect!
"Okay, let's go in the direction of the setting sun!"
Shen Yichen agreed with Mu Wanqian's suggestion and specified a direction. One cannot walk around blindly in the desert, as it is easier to get lost!
The four of them took A-mei and flew towards the direction where the sun was setting. It was definitely unrealistic to walk in the desert!
Along the way, there was nothing but yellow sand and wind-blown grass. When the sunset filled the sky, there was no trace of the sandstorm behind us. Suddenly, my sister shouted:
"Big brother, look, there's a tree ahead!"
Several people accelerated and flew down, standing on the top of a sand dune, looking at the forest in front of them!
This is a poplar forest, a poplar forest the same color as the yellow sand. There are very few leaves, only dead trees and branches. Some are lying down, some are upright, some are half-broken, and some have only roots left. The shapes are all strange and varied. Under the reflection of the setting sun, it is so desolate and mysterious!
As the four of them walked down, they looked up at the dry branches that were eroded by wind and sand and seemed like they would break if touched.
Xixi looked at the scene and said:
“Is this the legendary poplar forest that lives for a thousand years without dying, stands for a thousand years after death, and remains rotten for a thousand years after falling?”
This time it was Shen Yichen's turn to taunt:
"Aren't you talking nonsense?"
A-mei then said:
"Big brother, there are holes in these trees. Is there anyone in the holes?"
After Ah Mei finished speaking, the three girls all laughed, but Shen Yichen was shocked when he heard it. Ah Mei's words were definitely not groundless, so he asked Youyou in his sea of consciousness,
"Youyou, is there anyone here?"
Sure enough, Youyou said:
"There is someone. It's that familiar aura I feel. It should be the round altar in Xiangyun Villa!"
"where is it?"
"Very far away, in a tree hole at the edge of the woods. That girl knows it too!"
Shen Yichen muttered to himself:
"How did it get here?"
His relationship with Yuantan was pretty good. Although they had conflicts, they had coexisted peacefully in Xiangyun Villa, so he didn't take it too seriously.
Xixi didn't care what Shen Yichen said, but continued:
"Grandpa Heng has been outside the domain. He told me that there is a kind of poplar forest growing in the desert outside the domain. It is called the Sorrowful Poplar. It is blood red. Legend has it that it was dyed with the blood of a saint. It grows in the yellow sand. It looks back for a thousand years, waits for a thousand years, guards for a thousand years, and misses for a thousand years, just like an infatuated woman, waiting for her lover to return in the yellow sand!"
The girl Ling'er asked:
“Is Populus euphratica a love-struck tree? How could there be such a story?”
Xixi said faintly:
"I don't know. When Grandpa Heng told me this, his face was solemn and sad, as if the story was true!"
No one expected that Ah Mei would say something very seriously at this moment:
"Stay away from that thing, it's a curse, it's better not to see it!"
Shen Yichen was shocked when he heard this. He didn't expect that what Xixi said really existed, and A Mei seemed to know about it. He wanted to ask more, but then he thought, forget it, it has nothing to do with him! He didn't even know where the outside world was!
Alas, it was just an unintentional remark. Who would have thought that someone would be involved in this worldly relationship?
"Idiot, let's rest here tonight, shall we? It's getting dark!"
Mu Wanqian had also heard the story of Shang Qing Hu Yang, and she heard it with Xixi, so she didn't care!
When night fell, the four of them built a bonfire under a huge towering poplar tree and rested there!
The night in the desert is really quiet. It is even quieter without wind. In the entire empty poplar forest, except for the occasional crackling sound from the campfire, no other sound can be heard!
Ah Mei was sleeping soundly on Mu Wanqian's thighs, and Mu Wanqian was also sleeping on a thick branch. Where was the girl Ling'er? She actually climbed up the poplar tree and lay in a dead tree trough with her eyes closed!
Shen Yichen didn't sleep. In addition to worrying about Yuantan, he was also thinking about Hailing Lake. He had rushed into the desert without thinking, so he was close to Hailing Lake. If he was lucky enough to find Hailing Lake, would he find his mother? He hadn't seen her for more than ten years, and he almost forgot what his mother looked like. His mother probably wouldn't recognize him!
Shen Yichen touched the Qiankun jade pendant on his chest and thought silently in his heart:
"Mom, do you miss me? I miss you so much!"
At this moment, there was still one person who had not slept under the poplar forest, and that was Xixi. She was also missing someone, and that was her Grandpa Heng. In her memory, her Grandpa Heng had been on the road all the time, on the way to find the sacred magic flower. He had been to Yingzhou, to Yanquan, to the outer domain, and even sneaked into Zhongzhou. Every time he came back, in addition to bringing her and the young lady delicious and fun things, he also told her and the young lady stories and what he had seen and heard outside. The story of the sad poplar was what Grandpa Heng told her and the young lady when he returned from the outer domain injured!
Every time Grandpa Heng traveled further and further, his stories became more and more touching, but the look on Grandpa Heng's face became more and more serious, and his smile became less and less! The only thing that did not change was the look in his eyes when he looked at her, which was always so doting!
"are u there?"
Xixi asked silently in her heart!
"Here I am!"
"Can you save my mother?"
"I really don't know. I have only grown up for a few hundred years, and I have only become conscious in the last few decades. All my memories are in that Fuchen Temple!"
After a moment of silence, Demonic Holy Flower continued:
"However, our energies come from the same source. Otherwise, I wouldn't have borrowed your power to seek a breakthrough that day. Unfortunately... I was too impatient!"
The Holy Demon Flower did not tell Xixi that it almost killed Xixi, and that there was an even more powerful power in Xixi's body!
"Hey, Grandpa Heng has been searching the cultivation world for nearly five hundred years to find you. I wonder where he is now?"
The more Xixi thought about it, the more she couldn't sleep, so she got up and walked into the depths of the poplar forest!
In the night, a lonely figure was walking in the desolate poplar forest! Behind Xixi was a man—Shen Yichen. He was a little worried about Xixi, so he followed her!
Although Shen Yichen was very careful, he was still discovered by Xixi soon after. Xixi turned to look at Shen Yichen and asked:
"Why are you following me?"
"I'm going to take you to play a fun game!"
Shen Yichen saw that Xixi was not in a good mood, so he tried to comfort her. The best way was to divert her attention and make her happier!
Xixi was puzzled when she heard this and thought:
"What is he going to do in the middle of the night?"
His body shuddered and he said:
"What are you doing! I'm not a prostitute, I'm not that casual!"
Shen Yichen's face was filled with black lines! He cursed in his heart:
"Oh my god! Is this how my image is?"
But he said:
"Xiao Bai, you are not cute at all. You always look down on others. I am a gentleman, okay!"
"follow me!"
Soon, under a thick and straight poplar tree, a woman was swinging on a swing, and a man was pushing and pulling her from time to time!
Waves of relaxed laughter echoed in the Populus euphratica forest!