Dusk Returns to the Ruined Building

Beyond the vast sea and desert?

Cangyun Sect-Sima Lifeng

Yellow sandy sky, foggy land, vast desert, hard to find in the desert;

The grass is green all the way to the sky, the sand swallows the water, the wind and rain are merciless, and all of them are trapped in Yuyangli.

The sadness of love, the longing for the beauty, never ends year after year, the longing remains in dreams;

The Lanhai Pavilion is old and isolated, the wine soothes the resentful heart, the love makes the person haggard.

Sima Lifeng of the Cangyun Sect stood in the Lanhai Pavilion in the wind and rain, venting his frustration loudly.

"Han Ningshuang from Yanquan and Lishui is still on your mind? Who could have thought that a glance back at her would ruin a genius in swordsmanship who could become a saint with just one sword? How sad!"

Inside the Lanhai Pavilion, the drunken Sima Lifeng turned around upon hearing this. A man wearing a ghost mask and a black double-collared dragon-patterned gown slowly walked into the precarious Lanhai Pavilion.

Sima Lifeng was shocked. With his cultivation, he didn't even notice this person's appearance. This person is not simple! Sima Lifeng didn't respond, and continued to drink the wine in his hand.

"The fragrance of the pine trees is deep, the wine is mellow, and the Cang Yun Sect has a successor!"

The ghost-faced man smelled the aroma of wine!

Sima Lifeng still said nothing. He couldn't see through the person next to him, nor did he know why he showed up.

The ghost-faced man said with a half-smile:

"Are you really drunk or just pretending? Won't you have a bottle of wine?"

Sima Lifeng was stunned when he heard this, and immediately took out a pot of pine resin from his storage bag and placed it on the railing of Lanhai Pavilion in front of the ghost-faced man.

The man with the ghost face didn't hesitate or say anything. He picked it up and took a few sips.

"It's delicious! Although it's not as flavorful as the old drunkard's wine, it's still sweet and delicious."

Sima Lifeng still didn't speak. He was a man trapped in love and never cared about life and death. Maybe sometimes he even wanted to die!

"The storm in the vast desert has been going on for quite some time! It's a bit strange!"

It is not known whether the ghost-faced man was saying this to himself or to Sima Lifeng.

The following sentence must have been said to Sima Lifeng:

"Are you waiting for someone?"

Sima Lifeng replied calmly:

"That's it!"

Sima Lifeng was indeed waiting for someone, and that person was A-mei. However, no matter where he went, he was always waiting for someone, waiting for Han Ningshuang from Yanquan Lishui, and he had been waiting for decades.

"When I was young, I once waited for someone in a snowy mountain villa for fifty years. Unfortunately, what I waited for was just a dream!"

Upon hearing this, Sima Lifeng looked up at the ghost-faced man and raised the wine jug to signal him.

“Once you fall in love, you become the prey in the web. Everything in your sight is the thread that binds you. It is very difficult to break free. In the end, you will either be swallowed up or turned into dust!”

The ghost-faced man took a few sips of wine and continued:

"Later, I was fortunate enough to meet a senior who woke me up from my shattered dream. Today, we are destined to meet, so I'll give it to you as a reward for this pot of wine!"

"Love is fate, fate belongs to the heart, if the heart has no fate, then fate ends with love!"

After saying that, the ghost-faced man flew towards the vast desert in the storm!

Sima Lifeng held the wine pot and stared blankly at the figure in the drizzle. After thinking for a long time, he shouted loudly:

"Senior, what do you mean by this?"

"When you cut off the web of love in your heart with a sword, you will know the answer!"

When the voice came, the ghost-faced man also disappeared in the vast desert.

Beside the vast desert, in the wind and rain in Lanhai Pavilion, Sima Lifeng thought for a long time, finally shook his head, drank his wine again, and sighed inwardly:

"Oh, am I the prey in that love net, trapped for decades!"

"The fragrance of pine trees and the aroma of wine! Boy, you wandered around Tuoliang City just for this!"

Along with the sound, another person appeared in Lanhai Pavilion, a lively and cute girl in her teens, who was none other than A-mei who had disappeared for a long time!

A-mei walked towards Sima Lifeng and looked at the empty wine jug on the railing of Lanhai Pavilion.

"Has anyone been here?"

Sima Lifeng politely handed over a pot of wine and called out to him, "Senior":

"Just now there was a man with a ghost face, I didn't recognize him, he drank a pot of wine and left."

Ah Mei did not ask further questions, but looked at the wind and rain outside the pavilion and asked:

"Are you waiting for me? Any news about him?"

Sima Lifeng replied softly:

"I waited for him in Manghuang."

"Where did he go again?"

Sima Lifeng shook his head.

"do not know!"

Upon hearing this, A-mei turned around and threw the wine jug in her hand at Sima Lifeng, cursing:

"You! Is this how you do things? Why are you not as reliable as him!"

Sima Lifeng was speechless and said to himself:

"How can his little brat compare with me? Are we comparable? Besides, it was you who told me to wait for him and told me to tell you when I had news!"

But he didn't dare to say it, but said:

"Shen Yichen should be heading south. I think he seems to be a little afraid of Manghuang!"

You know what, Sima Lifeng really understands Shen Yichen. I guess this is the charm of drinking together!

"Alright, as promised, I won't hit you this time. I'll go to Yuyang County to find him myself."

After Ah Mei finished speaking, she turned to look at Sima Lifeng and said:

"Give me your storage bag!"

Sima Lifeng was depressed and cursed in his heart:

"Why are these two idiots staring at my storage bag? Oh my God, I have to stay away from them from now on!"

Sima Lifeng reluctantly gave the storage bag to A Mei! He felt regretful in his heart:

"That's the new wine I bought in Tuoliang City!"

Sima Lifeng suddenly remembered something and said:

"I have something I don't understand, please enlighten me, senior!"

As Ah Mei opened the storage bag and looked at the things inside, she said:

"Go ahead! For the sake of Sochi Matsukana, I'll try to help."

After saying this, A-mei licked her lips shamelessly.

Sima Lifeng's heart was bleeding at this moment, but he still asked respectfully:

"Love is fate, fate belongs to the heart, the heart has no fate, fate has no love, what does it mean?"

Ah Mei was shocked when she heard this, and looked at Sima Lifeng seriously, and asked sternly:

"Who told you this?"

Sima Lifeng was very confused and looked at A'mei with fear. He had never seen A'mei so serious in his memory!

"The man who just borrowed the wine, he-he-he saw that I was trapped in love, so he gave me some advice, left this sentence and left!"

Sima Lifeng was so nervous that he stuttered a little, or maybe he was too surprised!

"What does he look like?"

"A middle-aged man wearing a ghost mask"

After hearing what Sima Lifeng said, A Mei pinched her chin and fell into deep thought.

"That's not right! The person who said this to me was an old Taoist priest with a white beard!"

It turns out that A-mei and Sima Lifeng are the same, both are trapped by love, but in opposite ways! Sima Lifeng is trapped by love, while A-mei is trapped by ruthlessness! Her body has not grown for 200 years, perhaps because she has not found her own love! When A-mei was young, she met an old Taoist priest with a white beard in the Soul-Separating Valley of Yanquan, who said to her:

"Love is fate, fate belongs to the heart, if the heart has no fate, then the love ends! May the heaven have mercy on you and grant you a lifetime of love!"

The old Taoist priest looked at her with eyes full of pity!

For more than a hundred years, she has never understood the meaning of this sentence, nor has she found her predecessor, let alone her love. Now that it comes from Sima Lifeng's mouth, how can she not be shocked?

Seeing that A-mei had remained silent, Sima Lifeng turned around and looked at the vast sea and desert in the wind and rain, drinking his wine while muttering to himself:

"Hey, I asked her what she was doing. How can a teenager know what it is?"

Outside the Lanhai Pavilion, there was a drizzle, and inside the Lanhai Pavilion, there was silence!

After a long time, A-mei came to her senses, said something, and left.

"You are different from me. You ask yourself, what is love, what is fate, what is the heart, and what is the regret in your heart at this moment?"

Beside the vast desert, Sima Lifeng flew out of Lanhai Pavilion. The wine in the jug turned into a sword. Sima Lifeng held the wine sword in his hand, waving it and shouting loudly. He spent the first half of his life interpreting the answers to the questions raised by A Mei to the heavens, to the earth, and to the ruthless forces of good and evil.

"What is love?"

“It’s the love of first meeting with a smile on the Cangyue River, it’s the joy of meeting again after a long separation in Yuyao Tower, it’s the love of rebelliousness without regrets, it’s the love of a talented man and a beautiful woman brought together by the matchmaker, it’s the sweet love of you and me under the flowers and the moon, it’s the hard-to-give-up parting in front of Yandang Mountain, it’s the sad feeling that is still hard to find after crossing thousands of mountains and rivers, it’s the longing for love after being separated for thousands of miles, it’s the despair of being drunk and sinking into self-destruction!”

"What is fate?"

"I have climbed thousands of mountains and waded through thousands of rivers in my life. I don't know where I came from or where I am going, but I will always meet you!

After walking through thousands of miles of wind and rain, when I look back, you are everywhere in my dreams!

I have known and accompanied so many people, there have been sacrifices, forgettings, and memories, but you are the only one in my heart!

It is you that I see in the storm, it is you that I see between the mountains and the sea, it is you that I see while drinking wine and drinking tea, and it is you that is all in my tearful eyes!"

"What is the heart?"

“It is the heart that is not let down by time, it is the heart that is far away from right and wrong, it is the heart that is sentimental about mountains and rivers, it is the heart that is stained by worldly ties!

What needs to be healed is the heart, but what you want to forget is also the heart; what is clear and lucid is the heart, and what is confused is also the heart!

"It's my heart that's holding me back, but what about you? Ningshuang, isn't that also a heart full of shackles?"

"Regret? My regret? Haha, who can understand my regret?"

Outside the Lanhai Pavilion, the wine and sword merged into the tears of the sky. Perhaps the mist and rain in the sky was the most realistic reflection of the regret that God had for Sima Lifeng!