usatvline Chapter 117 Chasing the Light
Chapter 117 Chasing the Light
Her eyes were bright as she praised him, "Chasing the light, that's great! I'll take you out to play tomorrow."
Chasing Light was the name she gave to the spirit sword. At first, the sword spirit resisted without any reaction and refused to be called by this name, but it had to give in after hearing Li Nian's increasingly useless names.
Qingshuang was the name she took in her previous life in order to follow Su Yu, and it was filled with the nascent love of a young girl.
But in this life, no matter his love, she just wants to follow her own light and go all the way to the end.
So I gave it this somewhat childish name, Chasing Light.
The next day, Li Nian woke up in Zhezhi Garden. He spread out his spiritual sense and found that Su Yu and his senior brothers and sisters were not there. He was immediately overjoyed.
He used the Stepping Wind Technique and rushed to the mountain gate. When he saw the Jindan disciples guarding the gate, he paused slightly, stopped, put a concealment talisman on himself, and ran out in the blink of an eye.
The soft and fine rain came towards my face, as light as the cold air in my eyes.
Holding a paper umbrella and wearing a light blue dress, Li Nian once again stepped into the imperial capital of Longyuan Kingdom - Runing City.
In her previous life, she voluntarily drew a circle as her prison and was willing to be trapped there for several years.
There are shops on both sides of the street, and the fine spring rain falls gently between the green tiles and red walls, and on the protruding eaves.
Looking around, you can see all kinds of shop signs flying high, horse-drawn carriages passing by, pedestrians holding umbrellas, and many peaceful and comfortable smiling faces.
As one of the four great empires, the imperial capital of Longyuan Kingdom is truly wealthy and prosperous.
Standing on this bustling street, Li Nian had an indifferent expression, as if nothing caught her eye.
But the hand holding the umbrella handle tightened slightly, and she walked forward slowly without stopping.
She walked very slowly, the hem of her skirt didn't move at all, and each step she took was light but very weighty.
An old man who was shouting nearby, hunched over, glanced over inadvertently, and his cloudy eyes suddenly widened.
Is his eyesight blurring?
This little girl is so pretty, even prettier than the legitimate princess of their imperial city.
He smiled and said to the girl, "Little girl, would you like some candy? I have the best ones here."
Hearing this, Li Nian paused slightly, turned around and looked towards the source of the sound, a little confused, and walked up to the old man.
The old man's eyebrows and beard were all gray, but his face was still purple-red, and he looked energetic.
The deep and shallow wrinkles on his face were like winding mountain roads. He smiled and looked at the girl with some loving care.
"Little girl, do you want to eat candy?"
Li Nian was stunned, his clear eyes curved, and the corners of his light pink lips curled up slightly.
“Old man, is yours the best?”
When the old man heard this, he stroked his beard and laughed heartily, "Of course, I won't cheat a little girl."
Li Nian raised his eyebrows slightly, and the faint sadness lingering between his eyebrows dissipated.
"Then I want to make a sugar figure based on my drawing. Can the old man make it?"
The old man responded, his face full of confidence, and he started working swiftly.
Li Nian lowered his long eyelashes and watched the old man's smooth technique.
Subtle spiritual power extended out, penetrating silently into the bodies of all the pedestrians on the long street like a silk thread.
She controlled her spiritual sense and spread it out inch by inch. The powerful spiritual sense almost covered half of Runing City.
After a while, the spiritual power dissipated and the spiritual consciousness was withdrawn.
Just at this time, the old man had also finished making the sugar man.
As if to take credit, he said with a smile, "Little girl, I didn't lie to you, did I? Does this look like you?"
Li Nian took the lifelike sugar man, and the air seemed to be filled with a hint of sweetness.
She smiled lightly, "Looks like it, the old man's craftsmanship is indeed well-deserved."
As he said that, he gave him a thumbs up.
The old man stroked his beard happily. Although he didn't understand the meaning of the little girl's gesture, he didn't want to reveal that he was old and ignorant, so he calmly gave the same thumbs-up.
Li Nian was inexplicably tickled by the joke and smiled brightly, with dimples faintly visible on her cheeks.
She put down a piece of silver, turned around and left, continuing to walk towards the center of the imperial city.
When the old man saw the money on the stall, he was slightly stunned, smiled and shook his head.
Seeing the girl turn around and leave, with her back no longer visible, he sighed slightly.
This is too much to give, but in the end, it still cheated the little girl.
Li Nian on this side brought the sugar man to her mouth, opened her pink lips slightly, and bit off the head first. With a crisp sound, the sweetness melted in her mouth.
Li Nian frowned slightly. She had just checked on the people walking on the street and found that they were not infected with the plague and were still healthy.
It seems that the plague in the previous life has not yet broken out, but it is not ruled out that the range of her spiritual awareness is too small and she missed it.
That's why she decided to come to the center of the imperial city.
The center of the entire imperial city is Lingyuntai, which is the highest place in the entire imperial city and also the most prosperous place.
After finishing off the candy man in her hand, she also came to the bottom of Lingyuntai.
There must be cultivators in the imperial city, guarding the palace and Lingyun Terrace. It was inconvenient for her to go up, so she had to stay below Lingyun Terrace.
She closed her eyes lightly, and her spiritual power penetrated into the pedestrian's body again like a thin silk thread, and her spiritual consciousness also spread out.
After a while, he opened his eyes and felt relieved. Sure enough, the plague had not yet begun.
After finding out this, Li Nian tore open the teleportation talisman and instantly arrived above Runing City.
She lowered her eyes and looked at the people coming and going, and the natural disaster in her previous life seemed to flash in her eyes.
The pharmacy was looted overnight, corpses were strewn on both sides of the street, children were crying, and everyone was in danger. Not a blade of grass grew.
One by one they died in despair and helplessness, their bodies left unclaimed.
The once prosperous Runing City was now in ruins, and a rotten smell permeated the entire imperial city.
Li Nian took a deep breath, tears welling up in her eyes. She remembered the stubborn and kind little girl.
She was also a teenage girl, and her dignity was still visible between her eyebrows and eyes, but she had fallen to the point of begging.
They had been together for several years in their previous life, but unexpectedly, the little girl would be infected with the plague and become an unclaimed corpse.
The little girl's name was Yaoyao. When she died in her arms, her face was covered with tears and her brows were filled with despair and helplessness.
She said over and over again, "Li Nian, I have begged the gods countless times, even if it means giving me anything, just to ask that the plague will no longer torment the people of Longyuan Kingdom."
The girl's voice was weak. She opened her blood-red eyes, which were tortured by illness, and looked at her confusedly.
"Niannian, there are no gods in this world, right? Now I am going to die..."
"Li Nian, I hate... I hate the injustice of the world... I hate the injustice of heaven... Why... do the defenseless people have to endure all this suffering..."
The girl died in despair, growing colder and colder in her arms, without a sound.
Li Nian clenched the medicine in her hand tightly, her eyes slightly red, and she closed her sore eyes after a while.
The ball of light on the side looked at her master with some worry, her little tentacles moved slightly, and she pressed against her master's cold cheek.