Water Reflects Peach Blossoms

"The Great Wilderness is not only governed by the White Ze Goddess, but is also protected by powerful demons."

"The Bai Ze Goddess has a mortal body, and her behavior is more inclined to be human. Only a demon can better protect and understand demons."

Nanzhi saw Zhu Yan and Li Lun coming to the human world.

Zhu Yan's white hair with a braid of white balls makes him look very young. Li Lun, with his hair tied up in a short ponytail, is serious, but one can see the gentleness on his face.

He and Zhu Yan, one dislikes the human world but indulges his friend's thoughts, while the other knows that his friend dislikes it but wants him to experience the warmth of the mortal world.

When the two men went to the clinic to hide from the rain, they found the monster in the clinic's bunker, which was trapped in a cage and being bled and tortured.

Li Lun killed these people in anger, and took away everyone in the clinic.

This is where the arguments and disagreements arise.

Zhu Yan disagreed with him and attacked and injured him.

After that.

After returning to the Great Wilderness, Li Lun was judged by Zhao Wan'er, the goddess of Bai Ze. Li Lun refused to accept the judgment, and his demonic power that attacked Zhao Wan'er was blocked by Zhu Yan. Then, Zhao Wan'er, who blew the wooden flute and activated the Bai Ze Order, sealed him in the place of his birth.

It was at this moment that Nanzhi saw Zhu Yan, whose anger was out of control under the blood moon.

Zhao Wan'er was mistakenly killed.

The demon hunters who came to help the goddess Bai Ze were killed by Zhu Yan just after they passed through the mountain temple.

Everything turned bloody, red blood, red moon, making people feel endless despair and coldness.

Nanzhi closed her eyes and tears fell.

The tears that slid down her face were caught in the palm of Li Lun's hand who was standing behind her. The tears should have been cold, but he felt they were hot and burning, even hotter than the flame of the everlasting wood that was burning him.

"Are you shedding this tear for Zhu Yan or for me?" he asked.

Nanzhi slowly opened her eyes and said, "People are divided into good and bad, and so are demons. We can't generalize. We should find the mastermind and bring him to justice."

"How to find it?" Li Lun walked to Nanzhi.

He sat on the stone platform, his posture straight. "Goddess Bai Ze always appears on time when demons harm humans, but she cannot sense when humans harm demons."

"How can such a goddess protect the Great Wilderness? And what qualifications does she have to control the monsters in the Great Wilderness?"

"The Great Wilderness ultimately depends on us demons to maintain and manage it."

Nanzhi looked at Lilun and said, "You are not a bad person. You are just too extreme and have taken the wrong path. It is not too late to turn back now."

"Why are you looking back?" Li Lun looked back at Nanzhi calmly.

He was sitting next to her at this moment, but she still felt far away.

It seemed that Shen Nanzhi would never be able to see him, or maybe she could, but she hated this demon with blood on his hands from the bottom of her heart.

"Find the culprit," Nanzhi said in a dry voice, "Those people you hurt have never done anything to harm a demon. How innocent are they?"

"I know you're filled with resentment, but you shouldn't vent your anger on innocent people and let the real culprit go unpunished."

Li Lun felt bitter. Once he made up his mind about something, he would not look back. But now, he told Nanzhi, "Without the suppression of Bai Ze Ling, the Eternal Wood Flame is burning my body. I will die soon."

In the face of Nanzhi's shock and disbelief, he continued, "I know you're here to find Yaoshui. Now you have two choices: one, take the Yaoshui to repair the Bai Ze Order, or two, keep the Yaoshui and save my life."

Li Lun lied to Nanzhi.

Yao Shui was unable to extinguish the flame of the Eternal Wood, he just wanted to see her choice.

Choose him or the demon hunting team.

"Shen Nanzhi, the choice is yours." Li Lun said, handing her the teacup filled with Yaoshui.

Nanzhi took it and said, "I choose to repair Bai Ze Ling."

Li Lun closed his eyes in pain, frowning and unwilling to believe what he heard, but he was very clear in his heart about the choice Nanzhi had made.

"As expected." He stood up and took two steps back. A bitter smile appeared on his handsome face, his eyes filled with disappointment and pain. "I will always be the one who can be abandoned. Even if Zhu Yan betrayed me, you would not choose me."

Why was he the one left behind and not chosen?!

Shen Nanzhi cares about the people of the world, why can't she see his pain!

She would always choose those around her. In her eyes... he was nothing!

Putting Yaoshui on the stone platform, Nanzhi stood up and walked to Li Lun.

Li Lun looked at her with cold eyes. Even though he was not chosen and his heart was broken, he still had no intention of attacking her.

He just felt that Shen Nanzhi was so cruel, so cruel that the hope that had just ignited in him was instantly extinguished.

"We can have both." Nanzhi grabbed Li Lun's right hand and rolled up his sleeve, revealing the burnt and dry arm.

She said: "For the sake of the world, I chose to restore Yaoshui to Bai Ze Ling. For selfish reasons, I chose to save you."

As she spoke, she tore off the gauze wrapped around her palm, ripped open the scabbed wound that had been cut with a hairpin yesterday, and placed her bleeding palm on Li Lun's right forearm that was burned by the immortal wood.

Nanzhi explained to him, "I've read in the scriptures of the Mountain God Temple that the blood of the gods can extinguish the burning of the Eternal Wood."

"Li Lun, it's not like no one chose you."

"When facing the world, none of us has a choice. No matter what the sacrifice is or how painful it is, we can only choose the people of the world. But if I can have both, I will pay any price, even if it is my own."

"So, don't be afraid, I choose you."

The arm that was burned by the flame of the Eternal Wood was cold, and bright red blood covered the entire arm.

Li Lun knew that what Nanzhi said was true.

As a mortal, she couldn't synthesize the divine blood in her body. She used up a lot of it to save those people killed by Cheng Huang, and she almost had it sucked dry in order to call back Zhu Yan, who was controlled by the evil spirit. Now...

He lowered his head, looking at Nanzhi's hand on his arm, and looking at the divine blood that extinguished the flames of the eternal wood.

He did not feel the joy of having made a firm choice in his heart. Perhaps he did, but that was overshadowed by his worry about Nanzhi.

He supported Nanzhi, whose face was weak and bloodless, held her in his arms and used his magic power to stop her bleeding wound.

"I've been against Zhu Yan and the Monster Hunting Squad, and have tried to kill them time and again," he said in a low, puzzled voice, "and I'm quite a threat to you..."

"If you don't save me, I will die."

If he had known earlier that the divine blood could extinguish the burning of the Eternal Wood, he would rather give up his body and transfer his inner elixir to the body of Bai Jiu, whom he had chosen.

But now, it's too late...

He hoped Shen Nanzhi would be fine more than himself.

He hoped she was okay.

"You didn't." Nanzhi's voice was soft but serious.

"Zhao Yuanzhou told us that you are very powerful as a Huai Ghost. If you really want to kill, no one can stop you."

"You didn't mean to kill them, but for other reasons..."

"What's more, you never intended to hurt me. Every time you said something cruel, you always planned to make me avoid all dangers."

"You are not a very bad demon, what are you doing?" Nanzhi asked.

Li Lun was silent for a while before he said, "Because I want to live alone."