People are in the heavens, starting as Li Xingyun

Chapter 347: Missing Xiaoyao, Changing Fate

The capital of Nanzhao Kingdom.

As the colorful black light disappeared, everything was finally settled.

All the water monsters and demon bodies disappeared, leaving only a thick stone pillar a hundred feet tall, standing quietly above the calm river, suppressing the natural disasters and turmoil like a magic needle.

In the distance, the people of Nanzhao Kingdom, who were still protected by the barrier, stared blankly at the tall stone pillars in the distance, seemingly unable to believe that the two evil demons would actually die together in the battle. It felt like a dream.

When they came to their senses, the people of Nanzhao Kingdom also remembered everything they had experienced before.

Before long, regardless of whether they had been followers of the Moon Worship Cult in the past or not, all the people of Nanzhao State in the entire imperial capital began to curse the Moon Worship Cult's leader angrily, and gathered people to head towards the Moon Worship Cult's headquarters, intending to dismantle this evil cult that was causing harm to people.

At the same time, there were still some people who stayed where they were, covering their faces with their hands, crying and shouting, shedding tears of regret to express their guilt and longing for the Witch Queen.

People are like this. They never know how to cherish what they have, and often regret it after they lose it.

However, it was of no use. No matter how hard they cried, Lin Qing'er would never come back. They had forever lost the Witch Queen who loved and tolerated them unconditionally.

Half an hour later, the elders representing the Bai Miao and Hei Miao tribes broke into the Nanzhao Kingdom's palace with their troops.

Among them, a female general known as Nanman was the most ferocious.

He defeated many palace guards with high martial arts skills along the way, and broke into the central meeting hall. Then he drew the scimitar from his waist, put it on the neck of the Witch King who was sitting high on the dragon throne, and asked angrily:
"Is what that devil said true? Your Majesty, it was you and that bastard Baiyue who framed Her Highness the Witch Queen!"

There is no doubt that as a subject, this act of holding a knife to the king's neck is absolutely an unforgivable crime of deceiving the king. If it happened in the Central Plains Dynasty, he would be sentenced to death by slow slicing and his entire family would be punished, which would definitely not be considered excessive.

Even in the Nanzhao Kingdom, this is a capital crime.

But at this moment, no one in the hall tried to stop it. Even Elder Shi Gonghu Shi, who was the most supportive of the royal bloodline among the Black Miao, looked at the Witch King with a grim face and disappointment in his eyes.

As for the Witch King, he did not say anything, but just closed his eyes with a pale face, as if he had agreed.

It's funny, just like the scenes in many TV dramas, if an unjust, false or wrongful conviction occurs, not many people will be willing to believe it even if the good guy talks his mouth off.

On the contrary, if a bad guy confesses his plan unscrupulously, most people will believe it.

Today's situation is almost the same. The big devil played by Shen Sui Xin previously revealed in person that the Moon Worshiper and the Witch King had teamed up to harm Lin Qing'er, and everyone heard it.

Maybe not many people believed it at the beginning, but after Bai Yue’s self-exposure, almost no one would doubt this statement anymore.

After all, the power displayed by Shen Sui Xin was so strong that even Her Majesty the Witch Queen and the water monster were defeated by him one after another. And judging from what he said to Bai Yue, this was not even his peak state.

Compared with him, who is the Witch King? What qualifications does he have to make false accusations?

"Why! She is your witch queen, your first wife, why do you treat her like this!"

The Nanman general roared in grief and anger, and the Black Miao and White Miao leaders behind him looked at the Witch King coldly, demanding that he give an explanation, otherwise this matter would never end.

"Why? Hahahaha...you're actually asking why?!"

At this moment, the Witch King suddenly stood up, ignored the scimitar that cut the skin on his neck, and laughed with his head raised.

"Look at how you are. For the sake of a witch queen who assists the witch king in governing the Nanzhao Kingdom, you are actually forcing me, the witch king, to abdicate. It's as if you want to drive me off the throne... I want to ask, in your eyes, who is the king of Nanzhao Kingdom!"

After hearing what the Witch King said, the palace fell silent, and everyone looked at the Witch King with surprise, as if they were meeting him for the first time.

"Your Majesty, you are of course the king of Nanzhao, but the Witch Queen is equally important!"

A voice suddenly sounded, and it came from Shi Gonghu, who was loyal to the royal family. He looked at the Witch King with a complicated expression and sighed, "The Witch Queen is different from all the Witch Queens in the past. She is the saint of the Bai Miao tribe and theoretically has the right to inherit the throne. Since she married you, she has always abided by her duties and assisted you in managing the Nanzhao Kingdom. She has never directly interfered in government affairs. She is a perfect Witch Queen."

"That's why the people of Nanzhao love her so much... And don't forget, the Witch Queen is a descendant of the goddess Nuwa!"

Although Nuwa had been expelled from the list of gods by Fuxi tens of thousands of years ago, many beliefs about her still remain in the world, especially in Miao area. They have always regarded Nuwa as the only mother goddess, and her bloodline descendants are naturally the sons of gods, with a status far higher than that of the Witch King.

It is also for this reason that Shi Gonghu, Nanman and others came here to ask the Witch King for an explanation, and they were just about to point their finger at him and ask him "Why did Your Majesty rebel?"

"Yes, she is a descendant of Nuwa. As her husband, I actually learned about this from someone else. It's really ridiculous!"

The Witch King sat back on the throne dejectedly, looking up at the ceiling of the palace with lifeless eyes, muttering in a low voice, and it was not difficult to hear the strong resentment in his voice.

Shi Gonghu stopped talking, as if he had nothing to say. The same went for the others, who soon followed the disappointed Nanman general out of the palace, as if they didn't want to look at the Witch King again.

The next day, news came from the royal court of Nanzhao.

The Witch King felt so guilty because he was bewitched by the Moon Worshiper, which led to the death of the Witch Queen, that he fell seriously ill.

Therefore, the court affairs of the Nanzhao Kingdom were jointly managed by the high priests of the Black Miao and the White Miao from then on, until Princess Zhao Linger was found and allowed to inherit the throne.

……

Two flowers bloom, one branch each.

Thousands of miles away from the capital of Nanzhao, in a dense jungle, the Miao aunt who had been taken away by the Golden Phoenix earlier was now holding a cane and fighting fiercely with three men in black.

These men in black are also dressed like Miao people, and they all have some skills, at least at the second-rate level. In the martial arts world, they can be called "experts".

And now, the three of them were holding the rough curved knives unique to the Miao people, and they kept waving them at the aunties who were standing in the middle. The knife skills they displayed were sharp and cunning, which was quite dazzling.

Not only that, these three people seemed to have practiced some kind of combined attack method, which made the sword power more dense and difficult to defend against.

But what was surprising was that the slightly bloated auntie actually had extraordinary martial arts skills.

If we only talk about the realm, he is already at the first-class level, much stronger than the strongest person on the opposite side, and he also has extremely rich combat experience.

An ordinary crutch was swung by her, creating thousands of afterimages in an instant, which continuously collided with the scimitars in the hands of the three people, splashing out dazzling sparks. With her strong and solid skills, she was able to create space for maneuver in this dense network of swords.

Next to the aunt, there was a little girl of about five or six years old, who was timidly holding onto her clothes and hiding in a small safe area created by the aunt's desperate swinging of her cane. However, the three men in black were really ruthless and changed their strategy when they saw that they could not take the city down after a long time.

Out of the ten chopped blades, at least six were aimed at the little girl, and several times she was nearly cut in half.

As a result, the aunt had to divide her attention to protect the little girl, and would rather get stabbed than not block the knife energy coming towards the little girl, so that more and more wounds appeared on her body.

Just when the aunt was exhausted and was about to be seriously injured, three golden flames suddenly fell from the sky and hit the men in black in front of the aunt's surprised eyes.

The next second, the three men in black who besieged her became motionless. Without even a sound, they turned into ashes and dissipated into the air, like stains being wiped away by an eraser.

When the aunt saw this strange scene, she was stunned for a while, and then looked around nervously, as if she thought this was some kind of enemy trick.

"Strange, why are there only two of you here?"

A calm voice suddenly sounded in the air. The aunt turned around hurriedly and saw a handsome young man in a green shirt who appeared behind the two of them.

Looking at the elderly, the weak, the women and the children in front of him, Shen Sui Xin couldn't help but frowned slightly, then turned his gaze to the cute girl behind the aunt, looked at her face for a long time, his eyes slightly dazed.

They really look alike... Is it because they are the same actor?
As if she felt the other party was watching her, the little girl looked at the "big brother" in front of her timidly, not daring to speak, while the aunt held up the cane in her hand, guarded the girl vigilantly, and asked in a deep voice: "Who are you, and why did you help me just now?"

"It doesn't matter who I am, what matters is... who she is."

Moving his eyes away from the girl's face, Shen Sui Xin's lips curled up slightly, then he raised his hand and waved forward under the aunt's puzzled and vigilant gaze.

In an instant, the light flashed, and a woman dressed in Miao costume lay on the ground at his feet.

"Mother!!"

"Witch...Witch Queen?!"

Two shouts rang out instantly, coming from the little girl and the aunt, namely Zhao Linger and Grandma Jiang who had escaped from Nanzhao Kingdom.

The two men saw the figure and appearance of the woman on the ground clearly, and hurried forward to check. After confirming that this was indeed the living mother (the Witch Queen), they burst into tears of joy and tried to wake her up.

"Don't scream. She burned her soul before. Although I interrupted it, she still suffered a lot of damage. If she wants to wake up, she will have to wait for several days at least."

As he said this, Shen Sui Xin stretched out his hand and shot out two streams of light, which hit the foreheads of the old and the young. Through telepathy, he input the memories that had been slightly modified and processed into their minds.

By the way, he also looked at some of the experiences of the two after they left Nanzhao Kingdom.

It turned out that the golden-winged phoenix that sent Zhao Linger and the others away had suffered very serious injuries not long ago, so after it barely sent a group of people out of Nanzhao Kingdom, it was unable to continue flying. It only left behind a phoenix egg and then died.

In desperation, Situ Zhong, whose nickname of the Drunken Swordsman has not yet been officially confirmed, can only use sword-riding skills to take Zhao Linger and the other person to fly to Shushan Sect, hoping to get the protection of his senior brother Dugu Yuyun.

However, it didn't take long before they were chased and blocked by several groups of Moon Worshipers on the road.

Seeing that there were too many enemies and worried about accidents during the battle, Situ Zhong asked Granny Jiang to take Zhao Linger away first, while he stayed behind to stop everyone.

"Wait, why is he alone, Li... ahem! Aunt Jiang, where did the young man who left with you go? Why didn't he stay to protect you and Ling'er?"

"The young man who is with us?"

Granny Jiang, who was still receiving memories, subconsciously showed a puzzled look when she heard this, and said in a stammering voice: "But... I have never seen any young man before, did you make a mistake?"

"never seen it?"

Shen Sui Xin's expression moved slightly, and then he activated his divine sense, which radiated hundreds of miles away in the blink of an eye.

Soon, he saw a slovenly Taoist priest in a waving robe holding a sword and brutally a group of men in black more than 30 miles to the east.

Looking at his rosy face and the wine gourd around his waist, one can tell that this Taoist is the Drunken Sword Immortal who "rides the sword on the wind to eliminate demons between heaven and earth."

And then...there was nothing else.

"What's going on? He's really the only one!"

"Where is Li Xiaoyao? Where did a big guy like me go?"

His divine sense continued to expand, but he still didn't see the young man he had met in Nanzhao Kingdom before. A string of question marks suddenly floated across Shen Sui Xin's forehead, and he was a little confused.

After thinking for a moment, the expression on his face gradually became strange again.

"Could it be... that... because of my intervention as an outsider, the future plot has undergone a huge change, so that Li Xiaoyao, who was supposed to travel to ten years ago, was directly erased from the timeline?"

You know what, the possibility is quite high.

After integrating Qi Zhengyan's character card, Shen Sui Xin gained a deep understanding of time and space.

At least in the world view of "The Supreme Being", a strong person at the other side can completely erase all traces of a person who is not from the other side on the timeline, and even other people will not have any memory of him.

For example, the sudden disappearance of Li Xiaoyao is a similar case. He had been through life and death with Zhao Linger and his group not long ago, but now no one even knows who he is.

Thinking of this, Shen Sui Xin couldn't help but sigh, and then called out the system interface to check the long paragraph of text information that had just appeared not long ago -

【Ding! 】

[Congratulations to the host for triggering the main mission! 】

[Main Quest: If the sky has feelings, it will also grow old, and the righteous path of the world is vicissitudes]

[Task requirement 1: Save the descendants of Nuwa and change the tragic fate that is imprinted in the blood of this race... Mission completed, reward wealth worth ]

[Task requirement 2: Improve the overall strength of the human race, so that it has the power to compete with gods, demons, immortals and monsters, and no longer becomes an arena for the struggles of the other five realms... Mission completed, reward wealth value of one million, and a random character card]

(End of this chapter)