Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1277 I owe you too much, I will pay it back in this lifetime (3300 words)
After having lunch with the girls, Lin Lan originally wanted to accompany Yixian and Zhenhai to the temporary port tower to see if the Bri sisters had collected any new information in Dongzhou.

Before they set out, Ao Jiuxiao, the young patriarch of the Qinglong clan, had already returned to the Dragon Palace.

The great Azure Dragon demon with long flowing blue hair came to visit in person and met him and Yixian.

What surprised him even more was that Ao Jiuxiao actually handed him the Dongzhou's state monument when he came here.

In his words, since the Suzaku clan chose to entrust the Nanzhou State Stele to him, there was no reason for the Qinglong clan, which had always been taken care of by the Donghuang ship girls, not to entrust the Nanzhou State Stele to him.

What's more, he also resolved the threat posed by the Natlan Sirens for thousands of years and completed the mission that the Qinglong Clan had always wanted to accomplish but had been unable to do so.

In addition, Ao Jiuxiao also hopes that he can go to Beizhou and bring back safely the Qinglong clan leader and clan members who are participating in the inheritance of the Demon King.

Lin Lan had originally planned this, so he and Yixian accepted Ao Jiuxiao's request without hesitation.

He also asked the little sword spirit to transfer the power of Dongzhou's life monument to Bai Qixue's body.

In addition to bringing the Zhenzhou Life Stele, Ao Jiuxiao also told them the intelligence he got from the Qianjiao Clan.

The members of the Spark Column in the North State are frantically searching for Mercury in the Central State, the Western State, and the nearly scorched earth South State to commemorate their whereabouts.

Fortunately, Kirov had already set out to return to the Northern Province. In another week, he would be able to inform the Soviet Alliance that he had arrived in Natlan and that everyone was safe.

However, the description of the situation in Xizhou brought by Ao Jiuxiao made him feel that something was wrong with Xizhou.

The so-called Blue Divine Cult clearly mastered a strange method that could quickly improve one's cultivation, but the leader of the Blue Divine Cult actually chose to actively cooperate with the Spark Column.

Today, the Blue God Cult not only works together with the Spark Column to govern the Western Province, which has been devastated by famine and evil cultivators, but also helps find Mercury to commemorate them.

Although this information seemed to be good news, Lin Lan always felt that something was fishy.

That's why he was eager to collect more information about this mysterious organization.

Unfortunately, West Province is too far away from East Province, and Natlan has no means of long-distance communication, so this matter has never been resolved.

But just as Lin Lan and the girls were walking out of the restaurant, Miss D suddenly asked him:
"Assistant, the experimental materials you sent to the base are expected to wake up in two hours. Don't you want to come and take a look?"

"Experimental materials...ah, Langyuexi?!"

Lin Lan slapped his head. He was interrupted by Bai Qixue before the meal and actually forgot such an important matter.

Lang Yuexi, the reincarnation of the military immortal, has been in seclusion since the battle in Nanzhou due to the lack of the ultimate power of his origin.

After he and Harbin sent Langyuexi to the base, Miss D and the Breaker discussed and decided to develop a special Rubik's Cube device to convert the Rubik's Cube energy into extreme power.

In order to avoid transmitting too much of the ultimate power of the origin at one time and causing Langyuexi to go astray, Antiks scientifically adjusted the power conversion of this device to be gradual.

Although Lin Lan always felt it was strange to use the word science to describe immortal cultivators.

But out of trust in Antiks's black technology, he chose to adopt the suggestions of Miss D and the Breaker.

Calculating the time, today is indeed the day that Antiks calculated that Langyuexi should come out of seclusion.

"Haha, in that case, let's all accompany the commander to welcome the awakening of this old friend."

Yixian, Zhenhai and Huanchang looked at each other and spoke gently to Lin Lan.

"Comrade Commander, count us in, we're also going to pick up Lang Yuexi!"

Xiong Meng and Bai Qixue also applied to him with expectant tone.

During their journey to Nanzhou, they had already regarded the cheerful and lively Natlan girl as their comrade-in-arms and companion.

He used his own strength to release the glacier to freeze the nightmare fleet and the evil army to cover the rear, called on the people of Nanzhou to take the spiritual weapon fleet to take them to the Fire God Tree to support Lin Lan, and even overdrawn all his strength in the battle of Duanzhou River...

The Northern Alliance ship girls and the little white tiger Bai Qixue saw all of this.

Lin Lan nodded to the girls and said with a smile:

"Then let's go together to welcome Lang Yuexi out of seclusion."

He knew very well that the Donghuang ship girls were able to govern Dongzhou well in such a short time, and the military immortal played an indispensable role.

Lang Yuexi himself helped him and the good man Richard a lot in the early stages of their journey across the South State, helping them overcome the most difficult starting stages.

Donghuang has a tradition of repaying a drop of kindness with a spring since ancient times, and this is also his principle in life.

So let them welcome the awakening of this Natlan girl in the warmest way.

……

"Drip...drip...drip..."

In the vast frozen land of ice and snow, a girl in white clothes with snow-white hair was staggering alone, supported by her scabbard.

The whistling cold wind was like a sharp knife cutting through the girl's skin, and turned into the cries and wails of the wounded fighting on the ancient battlefield, piercing through her mind.

But even so, the slender figure of the girl in white still insisted on moving forward.

She had forgotten how much time had passed, where she came from, and where she was going.

But the ice-blue eyes beneath the white bangs still maintained clarity, except for a deep sense of fatigue.

“You have gone through seven lifetimes of suffering and experienced seven different death experiences.

“This time, it is the process of my death before I lose all my cultivation and perish.

"No one is waiting for you ahead. At the end of the vast road, there is only nothingness."

An emotionless female voice echoed across the endless frozen land, but the girl remained unmoved and continued forward.

Even though she fell to the ground again and again, looking miserable, the girl still got up again and again, sword in hand, and continued to move forward.

It was as if she always believed that as long as she kept moving forward, she would be able to return to the person she missed.

"Drip... drip... drip..." An inexplicable and regular strange sound faintly echoed in the girl's ears, but the girl just gritted her teeth, gripped the hilt of the sword and kept moving forward.

"I am... different from you..."

There was no one around, but the girl was still in pain, squeezing out these words from between her teeth:

"Someone is waiting for me to go home... If I fall down here, I, I will never be able to go back..."

"Pfft!"

Several arrows took shape and pierced through the girl's legs, causing her to lose balance and fall to the snowy ground.

The blood dyed the surrounding white snow red, but was quickly covered by new snow.

Although the girl felt her life force gradually dissipating and her legs were losing sensation due to the severe cold, she still used her hands to support her body and crawled slowly.

"Hey……"

Along with the heavy sigh of the female voice just now, the girl crawling in the snow felt that everything in front of her began to become hazy.

The coldness and tiredness in the body gradually dissipated, replaced by the feeling of being soaked in warm liquid.

I'm going to die.

At this moment, Lang Yuexi finally remembered his own name, and scenes of memory flashed through his mind.

And finally, these flashing memories froze on the scene where she was watching the man's companions defeat the evil cultivators on the dark and chaotic battlefield.

She wanted to return to the man who saved the people of Nanzhou. She also had many, many questions she wanted to ask him and his companions who were able to wield powerful steel weapons.

But in the end, Lang Yuexi just smiled bitterly with regret.

In fact, what she didn't tell the other party was that her body had reached its limit.

The price of forcefully using the power of the previous life is the irreversible exhaustion of the limit of one's own original power.

She already understood this in Yunze City. How could the power of the Great Dao be used by mortals?
She was not her previous life after all.

Perhaps the correct answer is to give the body to her previous life to complete reincarnation.

But even though he knew that his existence was destined to disappear, Lang Yuexi still chose to continue crawling forward after a few bitter smiles.

"Tell me, why are you so obsessed?"

Somewhere in the dark, the voice of her previous life rang in Lang Yuexi's ears again.

But this time the voice was no longer emotionless, but had a hint of complexity.

"You only need to face death as you did in your previous seven lives, and I will complete my reincarnation cycle and become the protector of Nathran for you.

"The peace of my country and my family is my way, but it is not your way."

"Do not."

Lang Yuexi suddenly raised his head with all his strength and looked at the vast white ice sky.

"He has shown me with his actions that the protector of Natlan should be the people of Natlan!

"A country with only one powerful guardian but whose people have not awakened to the patriotic sentiments has no future!"

The sound that Lang Yuexi made with all his strength looking up to the sky echoed over the endless frozen earth and even stopped the wind and snow.

"…So, what is your way?"

"Becoming that man's sword is my destiny!"

When Lang Yuexi said this without hesitation, everything around her was completely shattered.

Along with a relieved laugh, Lang Yuexi heard the last words left by her previous life as her voice became weaker and weaker:
“I asked what I saw, and the way of Natlan has already been overturned.

"Several generations in later generations have been searching for the seeds of the Heavenly Dao and the Reincarnation, but they have only found that the seeds are dormant in foreign lands, and their search has been fruitless.

“In him, I glimpsed the cause and effect of Natlan’s heavenly way.

"Become his sharp sword and cut off all his enemies. The future of Natlan... is in your hands."

Lang Yuexi had no idea what the Heavenly Dao that she talked about in her previous life was.

But even if the other party didn't say this last instruction, she would carry it out to the end.

Because this is what she has proven.

“Ding…ding…ding…ding-dong! Ding-ding-dong!”

The voice of rules that had been echoing in his ears also stopped at this moment, and the pleasant music that sounded immediately made Lang Yuexi feel confused.

When she closed her eyes and opened them again, she found herself floating in warm light blue water.

These strange light blue liquids were constantly being drawn away, but Lang Yuexi had no time to take care of them.

Because her eyes were already attracted by the man who was standing outside the transparent barrier among many strange and familiar girls, with a bright smile on his familiar face and waving at her.

"You've been in seclusion for too long. You just kept mumbling about becoming a sharp sword. Do you still dream when you're in seclusion?
"Also, the medical bills you owe are going to increase again."

As the transparent barrier slowly rose, the familiar voice that had allowed him to persevere until now finally reached his ears again.

"call……"

When Lang Yuexi heard these familiar words, her eyes sore, but she finally took a deep breath and showed Lin Lan the happiest and happiest smile of her life:
"I owe the admiral and all of you so much, so... I will repay you with my whole life!"

(End of this chapter)