Antiquity

Chapter 34 Choice
On a night as calm as water, the Yuyu Palace was as bright as day. The night pearls the size of longan eyes were neatly inlaid on the phoenix pillars, exuding a thin mist of light. The white jade steps connected to the golden throne were gorgeous and noble.The palace was empty and quiet, except for the Queen of Heaven in a white robe with her eyes closed, sitting elegantly on the king's seat with an inexplicable expression.

Low footsteps sounded from outside the hall, Tianhou opened her eyes, looked at the person coming, and said indifferently: "I have sent Jing Zhao back to the palace, you know she has lost the dragon pill, why did you punish her so severely?"

"Wu Huan, how important the Dragon Pill is to the Jinlong lineage, Jing Zhao should have been severely punished for his reckless behavior." The Heavenly Emperor walked from outside the hall under the moonlight, and under the silver light in the room, he looked at the throne on the throne, which he had not seen for nearly a thousand years. For those who passed by, a faint thought flashed across the black eyes, but it was well concealed.

"You are fair!" Tianhou pursed her lips, her eyes were inexplicable, she sat up straight, and leaned towards the back of the throne: "But you don't have to worry, that person is only a mere mortal, and he can't refine Jing Zhao's Dragon Pill, I will It was brought back for Jing Zhao."

Hearing this, the Emperor of Heaven was obviously taken aback, and blurted out: "But you are in the apse today, didn't you tell Houchi to let her choose?"

"You are really here..." Houtian gave the Emperor meaningfully a look, clasped his hands lightly on the edge of the imperial chair, and said casually: "The choice is up to her, but... no matter how she chooses, I will not let Qingmu Bringing Jing Zhao's Dragon Pill out of the Heavenly Palace is nothing more than a mortal king, how can his life be compared with Jing Zhao's future cultivation!"

"Wu Huan, Qing Mu has already inherited the Sun-burning Spear of the True God Bai Jue. It will be a great help in resisting the demon world in the future, not to mention that he was injured by the breath of the three fire dragons for Jingjian. That's why I didn't take it back. The reason for Jingzhao Longdan, doing this... is really against heaven! Besides, Houchi is your daughter after all, how can you let her make a choice under such circumstances?"

The Heavenly Emperor's voice was slightly annoyed, and his eyebrows gradually turned cold.After all, he is the Emperor of Heaven, and he is in charge of the Three Realms. Even if Jing Zhao suffers from this matter, he can't just ignore it.

Tianhou glanced at him unexpectedly, with a faint sarcasm in her eyes: "Twilight, you don't have to worry about Houchi's affairs, it's my business. But I didn't expect that you would rather let the fairy named Qingmu Jing Zhao has lost the Dragon Pill, it seems that the ancient true gods were really wise in choosing you as the Lord of the Three Realms, and the golden dragon lineage is indeed the destiny of the world, and justice is important."

"Wu Huan, the true god died for the Three Realms back then, and blessed Kyushu, after all, you are her divine beast, how could you speak such nonsense!" The Heavenly Emperor straightened his eyebrows, and finally there was a little more anger in his voice.

For tens of thousands of years, the Emperor of Heaven has seldom said serious words, even now knowing that she is embarrassing Houchi, he doesn't care too much, but as long as the ancient true god is involved, he never pretends to her.

Obviously you have been dead for tens of thousands of years, but why are you still like a tarsus, which can't disappear no matter what...

Tianhou's hand that was lightly tapping on the imperial chair froze suddenly, her eyes suddenly darkened, and the colorful broken hair on her head was also raised slightly. She suppressed the anger in her heart, and her voice softened a little, and said: "I How come you don’t know that the ancient true god’s kindness to you is more than a mountain, I’m just talking casually, you and I have been together for tens of thousands of years, so I’m not as respectful to you in your heart as you are to the ancient true god?”

As the voice spoke, there was a bit of weak complaint, contrary to the arrogance and arrogance of the Queen of Heaven just now, the Emperor of Heaven frowned, sighed, walked a few steps towards the palace, and said: "Okay, don't talk about these things Yes. Back then, we were ashamed of Mr. Gu, and Houchi was weak, so we should take care of him more."

"Don't meddle in the matter of the Houchi." As soon as the words came out, Tianhou's eyes obviously showed a bit of weirdness. We haven't seen each other for a thousand years, do you really want to get angry with me because of a few outsiders?"

The Emperor of Heaven paused for a moment, and when he saw Tianhou looking at him with burning eyes, he finally sighed slowly and waved his hands: "Wu Huan, it's all up to you, as long as you don't overdo it."

"Don't worry, I won't argue with a few juniors, I'll go and see Jing Zhao." The Queen of Heaven frowned, obviously dissatisfied with the reservations in the Emperor's words, but still terminated the conversation, turned around and walked out of the hall go.

The Palace of Yuyu became quiet and cold in an instant, and the Emperor Tian looked at the disappearing figure of the Queen of Heaven, and his expression gradually became complicated.

Tens of thousands of years ago, the Three Realms were created in chaos.At that time, he was just an ordinary god in the ancient world. It happened that the ancient true god was looking for someone who could resist the lower world, and found that he was a golden dragon with the appearance of an emperor. During those thousands of years, he fell in love with the divine beast under the seat of the ancient true god—the multicolored phoenix Wuhuanshangshen.

It's a pity that when the ancient world still existed, there were many gods, and he was just a small god in the lower world. Wu Huan was the person next to the true ancient god, and there were not many gods who pursued her, so he had no chance at all.After the catastrophe of chaos came, the ancient true god disappeared together with the other three true gods, and many gods fell. In the end, the ancient world was sealed up. The ancient king who was suddenly promoted to the Supreme God.

At this time, he was already the Lord of the Three Realms, and his status was not what it used to be, but after all, he was at the same level as Gu Jun, even if he felt unwilling, there was nothing he could do.But he didn't expect that Houchi would be born thousands of years later. He was bitter but also found that Houchi was destined to die young. In his grief, Gu Jun visited places of ancient miracles to find life, and left Wuhuan in Qingchi Palace. He was given a chance, and in the end it became the current situation.

It's been tens of thousands of years now, and he still doesn't know...Whether Wu Huan loves the Empress more, or cares about him more.

There is an inexplicable coldness in the cold purple pine courtyard. Under the bright moonlight, Houchi sits on the stone bench in the courtyard, resting his chin with one hand, looking blankly in the direction of the purple pine swaying, silent and speechless.

Fengran stood in the corridor, with a worried expression on her face. Houchi had always looked like this since she came back from Yuyu Palace, and the three of them tacitly did not mention the matter of leaving Tiangong. She gritted her teeth and was about to walk forward, but slightly He froze and stopped in his tracks.

A young man in black clothes walked out of the room, hiding under the moonlight, walking slowly, but faintly revealing the power to calm people's hearts.

Qing Mu put a big black fur coat on Hou Chi, seeing her turn her head with a dazed expression, he casually removed the pine leaves from her hair, smiled softly, and said, "Although your celestial power has improved a lot, but your body It's still weak after all, and the Tiangong is cold, so it's better to be careful."

Under the warm moonlight, Hou Chi only felt that this smile was extremely precious, she held Qing Mu's hand abruptly, and said, "Qing Mu, I will definitely not let anything happen to you."

These words were really confusing. After Houchi finished speaking, he realized that he immediately shut his mouth tightly, and lowered his head to hide the sadness in his eyes.

Hearing Houchi's words, Qingmu's held hand paused slightly, looking at the buried head, his eyes gradually softened, he patted Houchi's shoulder, and said, "I know."

The voice was gentle and soft, inexplicably calming, Houchi raised his head, blinked his eyes, and said: "Qingmu, I want to look at the mountains, the bamboos planted must have grown, leaving Dahei to watch the house , I don’t know if it can hold it... Let’s go home tomorrow.”

Home...?As if hit by these words to the softest part of his heart, Qing Mu stared at Hou Chi, his eyes suddenly became intense and deep.

"Okay?"

The ink color in Houchi's eyes was thick and soft, she looked at Qingmu, her eyes filled with faint expectation and a little invisible eagerness, Qingmu nodded, held her in his arms, slightly hooked her lips, and replied: "Okay. "

Houchi nodded heavily, and his palms tightened slightly. Since she would lose Qingmu no matter what she chose, she had to choose a method that would never lose him...

Whether the Emperor of Heaven is furious or the immortals condemn him, even if Jing Zhao will become a demon because of this... She will not let go of Qing Mu. In the ten thousand years of her life after breaking out of her shell, this is the only thing she does not want to lose... …

Under the cold moonlight, the two quietly embraced each other, the garden was full of silence, after a while...

"Qingmu, tell me...if Father God knows that I have lost his reputation, will he be angry?"

"..."

"It doesn't matter, he left me in Qingchi Palace for so many years, even if he knew about it, he can't blame me."

"The back pool..."

"kindness?"

"Hou Chi, you won't."

Qingyue's voice slowly spread to his ears, Houchi raised his head, under the hazy moonlight, he could only see a clear and vague side face, but he also missed the faint reluctance and determination in his eyes.

Coming out of the back pool room, the ease and warmth in Qing Mu's eyes disappeared instantly, and his whole body became cold. He walked through the corridor and saw the woman leaning against the purple pine, and was slightly taken aback.

"Fengran, why are you here?"

"Qing Mu..." Feng Ran stepped out of the shadows with a solemn expression, "Did you know something?"

The surprise in Qing Mu's eyes was just right, he raised his eyes to look at Feng Ran, and asked in doubt: "What are you talking about?"

Fengran paused, looked at him suspiciously, saw that his expression was not fake, waved his hand, turned around and left, after a few steps, finally stopped, sighed, and turned his head.

"Whether you know it or not, I still hope that you... don't do things that make Houchi sad. You should understand how important you are to her. Tomorrow we will go back to Lookout Mountain, where there will be the formation of the True God Bai Jue to protect her." , the Empress Dowager can’t break through easily.”

After saying this, Feng Ran disappeared into the courtyard, Qing Mu's eyes flickered slightly, and he looked at the room in Houchi not far behind him, and sighed softly.

The dawn is gradually getting white, and the entire fairyland is peaceful.

Jing Zhao changed into a gilded long dress, and sat quietly in front of the window. After a while, she put the green step on the dressing table on her head, looked at herself in the mirror, and smiled softly. laugh.

The person in the mirror is gorgeous and noble, and when he purses his lips and smiles, he is better than countless landscapes in the world, but, slowly, the pride between his brows fades little by little, and in the end, there is only a faint trace of worry and fear left...

"Jing Zhao, why do you...?" Jing Jian appeared by the door, looked at Jing Zhao who was sitting in front of the window, who obviously hadn't slept all night, and sighed.

"Second brother, how do you think he will choose?" Jing Zhao still just stared at himself in the mirror, and spoke slowly.

"You know Qingmu better than I do. What I'm worried about now is that the mother only sees Houchi. I'm afraid she will..."

"What has she to worry about! Whether it's the position of the god or the purity, she can get anything I can't ask for...Now even you have to worry about her. Could it be that I, Jing Zhao, are destined to be inferior to her for the rest of my life? ?" As if touched by the worry in Jing Jian's words, Jing Zhao suddenly turned his head and looked at Jing Jian with anger in his eyes.

Jing Jian was taken aback for a moment, and seeing the undisguised unwillingness in Jing Zhao's eyes, he shook his head and didn't say much, but said, "My mother will tell Hou Chi about your Dragon Pill yesterday, Qing Mu will know sooner or later, they They are not procrastinators, there must be a decision today, if Qingmu insists on leaving the Heavenly Palace, what will you do?"

"I..." Hearing these words, Jing Zhao's face turned pale instantly, she bit her lip, and was unable to say a word for a long time.

"If he leaves the palace, the queen mother will be furious, and will forcefully take the dragon pill out of his body..."

"Mother, she won't..." Jing Zhao said hastily, seeing the determination in Jing Jian's eyes, he lowered his head in despair. Given the mother's love for her, if Qingmu really chooses this way, she will definitely not be soft...

"Jing Zhao, in fact, you have known for a long time... the final result will be like this." Jing Jian's expression darkened, and there was a bit of anger and sigh between his brows. He looked at Jing Zhao and said firmly: "You bet It's not your Dragon Pill at all, but Qing Mu's life, you are not saving him, but... forcing him!"

Forcing him to give up Houchi, and forcing Houchi to give up him...

Jing Zhao's face turned pale little by little, seeing the disappointment in Jing Jian's expression, she raised her head in fear, and murmured: "No, I just want to save him, second brother, I really just want to save him..."

At the end, Jing Zhao closed his eyes in pain, and his hands on the dressing table tightened violently, showing traces of bruises.

"If in the end he decides to take out the dragon pill in his body, you..."

Before Jing Jian finished speaking, a loud phoenix cry suddenly resounded in Tiangong, it was extremely shrill.

"Someone has broken into Qinglong Terrace!" Realizing that the scream was made by the Phoenix guarding Qinglong Terrace, Jing Jian was slightly taken aback, and couldn't help saying in surprise.

"Qinglongtai is the place where all the immortals are punished by thunder. Who would go there...?" Jing Zhao muttered to himself, his voice suddenly stopped, and his expression became stiff and frightened: "Second brother..." She looked at Jing Jian, lips trembling constantly.

"Jing Zhao, what's wrong with you?" Jing Jian saw that Jing Zhao's complexion changed, and hurried over to support her.

"Hurry up, go to Qinglongtai!" Jing Zhao's voice suddenly became shrill, with a panicked look on his face: "The dragon pill in Qingmu's body penetrated into his spiritual veins, and ordinary methods can't get it out at all. Only Jiutianxuan from Qinglongtai Lei can do it, he must have gone to Qinglongtai, you go and stop him, once the dragon pill is taken out, he will be wiped out!"

The sound of the phoenix sound became more and more miserable, Jing Jian was stunned, and looked out the window in the direction of Qinglongtai... Then, he suddenly flew towards Qinglongtai.

On the Azure Dragon Terrace, the sky has just appeared the first ray of light.

The young man in red stood under the Azure Dragon Terrace, looking into the depths of the Heavenly Palace from a distance, his eyes were tender and loving.

"Qingmu, tell me...if Father God knows that I have lost his reputation, will he be angry?"

"Hou Chi, you won't."

The young man in red slowly curled his mouth, and behind him, the Sunburning Spear hanging in the air let out a faint whine...

You won't, for the rest of my life, I won't let you choose...

So sorry.

In the end, I can't accompany you back to Mount Wangwang, guarding the wooden house, looking at the bamboo forest you planted by yourself, and waiting for Bai Xuan to return...

(End of this chapter)