Water Reflects Peach Blossoms

The Cloud Light Sword was repaired successfully.

Nanzhi ran towards Zhu Yan and caught his falling body while he smiled weakly.

"Zhao Yuanzhou?" Her heart ached, tears streaming down her face. "How are you?"

"Don't cry." Raising his hand to wipe away the tears that slid down her cheek, Zhu Yan comforted her gently: "I'm fine, look, I'm fine, aren't I?"

What's better?

His face was pale and his voice was so weak.

Li Lun walked forward and looked at Zhu Yan's arm, which was burned by the Unburnt Wood while repairing the Yun Guang Sword. He squatted down and held Zhu Yan's wrist.

The demonic power of the Huai Ghost meandered into Zhu Yan's body, and soon the burns on Zhu Yan's arms were healed.

Zhuo Yichen showed Nanzhi and Lilun the burning sacred tree in the box.

"Eternal Wood." Li Lun said in a deep voice, as if he felt the pain of burning his real body again.

Zhuo Yichen said, "Zhao Yuanzhou has lost his demonic power. I saw the presence of the Eternal Wood on him. I discussed it with him and used the Cloud Light Sword to peel off the Eternal Wood."

Zhu Yan raised his eyes and looked at Li Lun: "I have also tasted the pain of being burned by the Eternal Wood. Li Lun, I'm sorry. In the clinic..."

"You didn't do it on purpose." Li Lun interrupted him and said quickly in a low voice: "After all, it's just that you like to pick up random things."

Zhu Yan smiled helplessly: "That's true."

"Nanzhi also likes to pick up random things."

"If she hadn't picked me up, she could have been happy and free."

Hearing him say this, Nanzhi became angry and hit him directly: "Zhao Yuanzhou!"

"It was my decision to take you in. If you say that, how can you justify the life and death we've shared along the way?"

Zhu Yan's heart paused, he smiled and said no more.

Nanzhi looked at Zhuo Yichen and Li Lun and said, "Help him get on the bed and let him have a good rest."

Zhuo Yichen stepped forward to help Zhu Yan up, and Li Lun held Zhu Yan's other arm. The two looked at each other, then both looked away and carried Zhu Yan to the bed like a prisoner.

Walk out of the room built of rocks.

Neither Zhuo Yichen nor Li Lun said a word.

In the end, it was Zhuo Yichen who said, "I won't kill Zhao Yuanzhou."

"That would be better." Li Lun looked at him: "If you make a move, I will kill you first."

The two looked at each other and saw absolute seriousness in each other's eyes.

"What are your plans next?" Zhuo Yichen asked.

He was able to talk calmly with Li Lun, which was an absurd thing he would never have thought of a few days ago.

Li Lun said coldly, "Kill Wen Zongyu and then return to the Great Wilderness. I promised Shen Nanzhi to take her to see the scenery of the Great Wilderness, and then set up an organization dedicated to protecting monsters."

"You humans have a court and an army to protect you, and we demons must do the same. We must communicate directly with the court to control the demons in the wilderness and prevent demon hunters and humans from easily hunting and killing demon beasts."

Zhuo Yichen became interested: "It doesn't sound like something you could come up with."

Li Lun glanced at Zhuo Yichen lightly and said with a hint of praise: "It was Nanzhi who came up with it."

He then changed the subject: "Zhuo Yichen, where will you go from now on? You are a demon, but you won't be accepted by the Great Wilderness. In the human world, those mortals who once worshipped you will now be afraid of you. I'm afraid you won't be able to stay in the Demon Hunting Bureau anymore."

Zhuo Yichen looked towards the gray sky of the Great Desolate Land and said, "I used to think that humans and demons were different, and that demons were inherently evil. But after experiencing everything along the way, I've discovered that there's really no difference between humans and demons."

"People are evil and monsters are cruel. What I need to do is not to catch monsters, but to protect the justice and goodness of the human world and the wilderness with the Cloud Light Sword."

"Whether or not I will still be in the Monster Hunting Division, I will only follow the path of justice that I believe in my heart."

……

When Zhu Yan woke up, he saw Nanzhi sleeping on the bed.

He raised his hand to straighten the loose hair on her temples, but accidentally woke her up.

"I'm sorry for waking you up." Zhu Yan's heart softened. He took Nanzhi's hand and asked, "How long have you been guarding here?"

Nanzhi shook her head: "It won't be long. Xiaojiu made some medicine for you. I'll go get it."

Holding Nanzhi, Zhu Yan said, "I want to drink later."

He sat up. Nanzhi was afraid that he would feel uncomfortable leaning on the bed frame, so she put a pillow behind his back.

At this moment, they were the only two in the room. Zhu Yan held Nanzhi's hand and didn't want to let go for a moment. He asked gently, "I've always wanted to ask you this, but I never had the right opportunity. Ah Zhi, what exactly happened in Qijuan Cave?"

Nanzhi didn't expect that Zhu Yan could actually notice it, and his expression froze for a moment.

Knowing she couldn't hide it, she lowered her head and made a final struggle: "Nothing."

"Then why did you know the voice talking to us was Yinglong as soon as you woke up?" Zhu Yan was determined to get to the bottom of it. He followed Nanzhi's gaze and almost pleaded, "Azhi, don't hide it from me."

The hand held by Zhu Yan felt warm, but Nanzhi's heart felt cold.

She looked into Zhu Yan's deep, caring eyes and told him, "The divine blood and divine bones in me belong to Xichen."

Zhu Yan asked, "Xichen?"

"Xichen, Yinglong, and Bingyi were gods at the same time. Unable to bear the sight of the Great Wilderness's monsters living in poverty for generations, she offered to sacrifice herself and transform into life, spreading it to the wilderness. However, she was missing a piece of her divine bone, so she used her divine power to set up a formation in the wilderness, reincarnating her soul, divine bones, and divine blood. She was raised from a child in a human body, repairing her divine bones, hoping that one day she could bring life to the wilderness."

"do not go!"

Grasping Nanzhi's hand tightly, Zhu Yan could no longer control himself and pulled her into his arms, hugging her tightly: "Don't go..."

Zhu Yan's embrace was very warm. Listening to his panicked and rapid heartbeat, Nanzhi closed her eyes. "What about you? Zhao Yuanzhou, you've been seeking death."

"You want to atone for the wrongs you've done, you want your anger to dissipate, you want to die."

It felt like there was something stuck in his throat, which he could neither swallow nor spit out. It was like wet cotton wool, blocking him. Zhu Yan hugged Nanzhi tightly.

"I……"

He wanted to refute, but found that Nanzhi had known it all along.

She just didn't say anything, but kept taking silent actions, wanting to protect him and make him give up the idea of dying.

A tear fell from the corner of her eye, and Nanzhi couldn't help but choke up. "I think I will transform into every inch of life in the wilderness. Every leaf and every flower is me. The fragrance brought by the wind is also me. Even in winter, the crisp and upright pines and cypresses are me."

“I am always here, all year round.”

"I don't want it!" Zhu Yan rarely lost his composure, his heart aching: "You are not Xichen, there is no need..."

"I'm not Xichen."

Nanzhi interrupted him and broke away from his embrace, her eyes gentle yet firm: "I am Shen Nanzhi. Xichen and Shen Nanzhi are not the same person."

"One hundred thousand years ago, Xichen chose to sacrifice himself to bring hope of life to the Great Wilderness. One hundred thousand years later, Shen Nanzhi chose to offer his divine blood and divine bones. This has nothing to do with Xichen; it was Shen Nanzhi's own choice."

The conflict between monsters and humans originated from the fact that the barrenness of the wilderness made monsters yearn for the human world, while humans coveted the monsters' fur and bones and feared their power.

She is willing to bring life to the wilderness.

I also hope that the wilderness will become a beautiful place, so that monsters will no longer yearn for the human world and will no longer be harmed by humans.