Dusk Returns to the Ruined Building

Shen Yichen could play the Hongya chess game with his eyes closed when he was five years old. Since he was three years old, he watched his father Ji Qingyun playing chess alone every day, a duel between the left hand and the right hand. The moves were the same every time, and Shen Yichen didn't know that it was the Hongya chess game.

Shen Yichen once asked his father why he always played the same chess game, and his father gave the same answer every time.

"Chen'er, there are endless hidden dangers in this chess game!"

Shen Yichen's intelligence may not be inferior to his father's. After learning chess for a year, he can play the Hongya chess game with his father. Moreover, he can be on the left or on the right, but no matter whether he is on the left or the right, the outcome is the same. There are really endless disasters!

Shen Yichen didn't know when his father stopped playing the Hongya chess game. Perhaps it was because he saw two overlapping chess pieces, one black and one white, at the heart of heaven and earth on the chessboard.

At that time, his father Ji Qingyun was no longer playing chess with his left and right hands, but was staring blankly at the overlapping black and white chess pieces of the Heart of Heaven and Earth.

Shen Yichen had also asked his father before, and his father always answered with one sentence, but he was actually asking him:

"Chen'er, what do you think the end of this catastrophe will be, life or death, black or white?"

Shen Yichen did not respond to his father at first, and he forgot the day he responded to his father.

"Father, shouldn't the Heart of Heaven and Earth be the beginning of the chess game? How can it be the end of the catastrophe?"

Shen Yichen forgot what his father's reaction was at that time. It seemed that since that day, his father never looked at the chessboard again.

Things in the world are really wonderful. It was from then on that Shen Yichen started playing chess with both hands. Perhaps he was too tired of the endless ko in the game, so he started to flip over the chessboard and play chess randomly.

In Jianying Holy City, Shen Yichen fell into a coma this time not only because he was seriously injured, but also because he fell into a dream. When he dreamed of the past, he remembered every detail of his childhood.

There are repeated chess games, there is my former brother Nan, there is my mother's piano music, there is my father's back, and there is the small courtyard with crabapple trees and the beauty in the sunset.

Shen Yichen really didn't expect that he was so unfamiliar with his mother and father. He could neither see their faces clearly nor see through their hearts. There was sadness in the sound of the piano and hesitation in their backs.

In the Ji family's imperial city in Zhongzhou, the people he was most familiar with were Brother Nan and the beauty in the sunset in the Begonia Courtyard, because they were the two most real people.

Shen Yichen also discovered that there were actually two people under the sunset in the Begonia Courtyard, no, it should be three people, but one of them had his heart inside the courtyard but was hiding outside. That was his brother Nan.

Begonia Courtyard was his childhood safe haven. Whenever he was scolded by his mother or was unhappy, Shen Yichen would run to Begonia Courtyard, sit outside the window, and watch the sunset with the lonely beauty. His brother Nan would always follow him, hide outside the courtyard, and watch him quietly. His brother Nan was worried about him.

The interesting thing is that Shen Yichen and the beauty under the sunset seem to be in sync with each other. They never talk to each other, but just watch the sunset.

The reason why he was unhappy in his childhood was also very strange. His father asked him to learn music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and his mother asked him to learn the Holy Emperor Secret, as well as some other skills, but he could not remember them at all. At that time, Shen Yichen felt very tired and exhausted!

The past is like smoke!

Shen Yichen's dream was not just a memory, it was more like he had re-entered that forgotten period of time. He not only remembered many trivial matters, but also understood many unsolved mysteries.

The two overlapping black and white chess pieces in the Heart of Heaven and Earth are the method his father used to break the chess game of Infinite Disaster.

But Shen Yichen had a new question: was that the beginning of a breakthrough, or the end of it?

Shen Yichen was confused!

Shen Yichen played the Hongya chess game again in his dream. Since he couldn't understand his father's method of breaking the game, he had to find the answer himself.

Shen Yichen did not find the answer to the Hongya chess game, but he found the answer he wanted in his dream. The endless calamity of the Hongya chess game began with the heart of heaven and earth, and ended with the heart of heaven and earth.

Only when the heart of heaven and earth is empty, will the catastrophe end! Black or white, life or death, it doesn't matter, Shen Yichen wants this emptiness!

Shen Yichen wanted to end the calamity on his own, not by jumping out of the chess game, but by walking into the chess game, into the heart of heaven and earth. He was neither black nor white, neither alive nor dead, but empty.

Perhaps the word "hide" is more appropriate. Shen Yichen wants to hide in the heart of heaven and earth, so that the disaster will have no beginning and no end.

Shen Yichen also found a way to hide himself, which was the Xuchen Pearl.

So, by the Muling Lake, Shen Yichen deceived Gongsun Qingyu. He would never go to Wulang Academy. He wanted to hide in the world of martial arts and conceal himself from the mortal world.

This was Shen Yichen's idea, but he didn't know the future path and ending. He also knew why his father Ji Qingyun was hesitant, because although his father had found a way to break the deadlock, he had no idea what the ending would be!

One ending is another beginning!

Shen Yichen has already thought it through and decided that he will walk into the heart of heaven and earth in Jianying Holy City, which is the strange endless abyss. He possesses the Void Dust Pearl and will not die, and the world does not know that he will be reborn. This is the result he wants - emptiness and concealment!

The only person he felt sorry for was Sister Qing. Shen Yichen wanted to take Sister Qing into the endless abyss, and the end of the abyss should be one of the Nine Springs.

Shen Yichen really didn't know where he and Sister Qing would go, but he had to do this. He needed to know the truth, the truth about the Ji family, the truth about Guanxing Mountain, his own truth, and even the truth about Ji Xuanfeng.

Hidden in the heart of heaven and earth, observing the disasters of the world, this is what Shen Yichen gained from his dream of the past!

Shen Yichen also gained another thing, he is not stupid! The result of not being stupid is tiredness and loneliness. Shen Yichen will never forget the lonely child leaning against the wall in the sunset of the Begonia Courtyard. That child is himself.

By the Muling Lake, Shen Yichen watched the vast misty waves, enjoyed the tranquility of heaven and earth, and bathed in the boundless rosy clouds.

Mu Qingxue was really considerate. She just quietly looked at Shen Yichen's back on the cliff, without saying anything, without disturbing him, just admiring him!

Mu Qingxue was holding a booklet in her hand, and the page she opened to was the witch woman - Shenshan Tianchi.

After knowing the meaning of the riverbank that was neither male nor female, Mu Qingxue understood that this booklet was not written randomly. This was the destiny. Although she didn't know who had predicted it, she believed it without a doubt because she had just seen it with her own eyes. Although she was a little shy, she seemed to be fascinated by it, just because of that place - the sacred mountain Tianchi.

Shen Yichen would go to the sacred mountain Tianchi, and that was enough. It was really worth it for her to travel thousands of miles to the ninth heaven and risk her life and death to meet him with a sword. Although that was still unknown, Mu Qingxue wanted to laugh, because that meant that her relationship with Shen Yichen was a two-way journey.

"In your eyes, what is love? Is it longing, running towards each other, entanglement, the courage to not look back even if you hit the wall and get bloodied? Do you know what love is in my eyes? Love is letting go, it is deception, it is lies, it is not disturbing each other, it is the calm and peaceful life after the storm, and at the most critical moment, I will withdraw!"

By the Muling Lake, Shen Yichen was not only thinking about how to break the deadlock, but also thinking about how to reject Mu Qingxue behind him.

Shen Yichen knew that this was very difficult. Not only was it difficult to refuse the three years of persistence, it would also hurt Mu Qingxue's heart. Moreover, it happened at such a delicate and sensitive moment when the Seven-Colored Immortal Grass abandoned Mu Qingxue!

If Shen Yichen refused at this moment, wouldn't that mean that Mu Qingxue's three years of persistence were in vain? But he had to end this relationship!

Mu Qingxue was slightly stunned when she heard this, and then she smiled!

"Tsk tsk, Xiao Chenchen, I find you're even cuter than Xiao Ling'er. Even your lies are so formal, so affectionate, and so righteous!"

Shen Yichen's heart, ah, he thought about it for a whole morning before he mustered up the courage to say it out loud. He felt that not only was what he said right, but it also made so much sense. But Mu Qingxue's words shattered his words and pierced his heart!

Shen Yichen sighed inwardly:

"Xiao Chenchen, what the hell?"

"Xiao Chenchen, you're overthinking it. Having someone to think about, to miss, and to reminisce about is enough. I came to Jianying not for a relationship, much less love. In fact, you should find a pool of water as clear as a mirror and take a good look at yourself. Are you worthy of my love? Just look at my sister's long legs. Everyone in the Ten Thousand Demon Sect who wants to see them will have to line up all the way to Yanquan!"

Shen Yichen had a headache, it really hurt. He rubbed his head and sighed in his heart:

"Why are these women more troublesome than the other?"

"Yes, I ran myself to see your long legs, and my legs are almost broken. I plan to break your long legs!"

Someone is coming to Muling Lake!