Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 2612 Clarity
Li Ji didn't expect her to say that, and was slightly dazed in the moonlight.

"Sorry for making you worry."

Ying Baoyue glanced at the campfire and said, "I encountered so many things. I should have made up my mind, but I didn't say anything along the way."

After dropping the bombshell news that Emperor Ying was still alive, everyone was shocked. She failed to comfort everyone, and instead immersed herself in her own emotions.

"It's normal that you don't know what to do after such a big thing happened," Li Ji shook his head, "You are under a lot of pressure, and everyone knows it."

How many people in this world know what to do when Emperor Taizu is still alive and controlling the situation in the entire Shanhai Continent?

Li Ji suddenly understood why Ying Baoyue didn't want to go into the city tonight.

As long as she entered the palace, she would be the omnipotent king. She could no longer be confused or hesitate. Everyone was waiting for her to give orders.

But Ying Baoyue was not born knowing everything.

Whether it was on the way to the ceremony or later when facing the Xirong people and fighting against the evil god, they were too accustomed to following her ideas, treating her as the backbone of the entire team, and counting on her to turn the tide in everything.

Li Ji looked at the girl's frail figure under the moonlight, feeling somewhat sad.

Who could have remembered that she was just a fifteen-year-old girl.

Even after living two lifetimes, she never lived past the age of twenty.

"Don't take everything on yourself," Li Ji said, "You have your mistress, your friends, your old ministers, your imperial teacher, and..."

Ying Baoyue smiled, "And you, right?"

Li Ji was silent. He sighed slightly and looked at the moon in the sky. "The gods don't know everything. I don't even know what I am."

Everyone has their own problems.

Ying Baoyue understood why Li Ji was in pain. His background and identity were too special. He was at the intersection of the identities of a human and a god. He was facing the pain of identity split, and no one else in the world understood him.

In fact, she had been very troubled before about how to view Li Ji and the Azure Dragon God, two people who were obviously different but yet integrated together.

But when she was caught by the giant claw in the underground palace, she suddenly figured it out.

"Aji," Ying Baoyue looked seriously into the eyes of the man beside her, "When we first met in the Cloud Forest, you were both a human and a Azure Dragon God, weren't you?"

Although he ran into the forest as a human, the part of him that was the Azure Dragon God had always existed in little Li Ji's body, experiencing everything with him.

Ying Baoyue still remembers the other little Li Ji covered in blood that she saw when she left the Cloud Forest.

"When we were in the underground palace, I remembered something you said when you were a child," Ying Baoyue said softly, "You said that when you grow up, you would take me to fly to the sky."

People can't fly.

"Although you didn't recover your memory at that time, you actually knew that you were a god, right?"

The Azure Dragon God is not sleeping in little Li Ji's body all the time.

Ying Baoyue also suddenly realized this.

When they lived together in the Cloud Forest, what did little Li Ji say to her? Was the little Li Ji she saw at that time really just a human being?
Perhaps when she didn't realize it, the little Li Ji she saw and some of the words that little Li Ji said were not said by the little Li Ji as a human being, but by the being as a god.

"You've actually been here all along, haven't you?"

Ying Baoyue looked at Li Ji's black pupils and said softly.

He has been staying in little Li Ji's body, staring at her.

The god that she sealed with her own hands has been watching her through human eyes.

Qinglong was stunned. His eyes changed between the beast god and the human several times before finally stabilizing in their original appearance.

Li Ji nodded.

"Whether you are a god or a human, you are Aji," Ying Baoyue smiled, "I like the child I met in the Cloud Forest, the one I named Li Ji."

Ying Baoyue reached out and gently hugged Li Ji, resting her chin on his shoulder. Her eyes rested on the headband on the back of the man's head.

"As long as you are him, I like you."

"Thank you for bailing me out."

The moonlight fell on the woods and on the two of them.

Ying Baoyue rarely expressed her feelings so directly before. Li Ji, who was hugged, froze like a stone statue. "Why are you reacting like this?"

Ying Baoyue let go of him slightly, her eyes somewhat embarrassed.

"I……"

Li Ji was stunned, "I just didn't expect you to say that."

"I will try my best to tell you in the future," Ying Baoyue looked up at the bright moon in the sky.

She almost lost sight of the moon.

Although she had experienced life-and-death situations many times this year, when she was falling from the underground palace, she felt for the first time that there would be no future.

That underground palace seemed to be a place more terrifying than death. If she fell into it, she would really be torn to pieces this time and would never see those she loved again.

"After this incident, I suddenly realized that if I don't say something in time, I may not have the chance to say it in the future."

She almost never got the chance to say thank you to the people she loved.

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long," Ying Baoyue stood up, holding onto the tree trunk, "I've already thought about what to do next."

Li Ji was a little surprised, "Bao Yue?"

"You really think about it?"

"Yeah," Ying Baoyue looked down at Li Ji and smiled slightly.

"I'm going to kill him."

The woods suddenly became silent, with only the rustling of falling leaves.

The fireflies seemed to sense the solemn atmosphere and dared not fly.

There is no need to explain who this "he" in Ying Baoyue's words is.

Even Li Ji didn't expect her to say this so decisively.

"you……"

"Let's talk about the details when we get back," Ying Baoyue stretched out her hand to Li Ji, "I'm hungry."

……

……

"Who did you say you were going to kill?"

By the campfire, after listening to what Ying Baoyue said, everyone lost their appetite for food.

Murong Yin's reaction was the biggest. She stood up suddenly and looked at Ying Baoyue in disbelief.

"Master's Wife, I want to kill His Majesty," Ying Baoyue replied calmly, "I can't let him live any longer."

"Are you seeking revenge for Shu Bai? But..."

"It's not just to avenge Master," Ying Baoyue said, "He wants to disrupt the situation of the entire continent and bring disaster to the world."

"But what exactly does he want to do?" Murong Yin frowned, "Supporting the Western Rong people to conquer the Central Plains? What benefits will this bring to him?"

During dinner, Ying Baoyue recounted in detail what Emperor Ying had said to her in the underground palace, but everyone was left confused.

"Baoyue, according to what you said, Emperor Taizu is clearly already wealthy, so what is his purpose in faking his death and hiding underground to support the Xirong people?"

"Your Majesty the Emperor Taizu can't be a Western Rong person, right?"

Ji Jiashu asked. He was the most confused person present. He grew up listening to the heroic deeds of Emperor Ying and didn't understand why the hero of his childhood suddenly turned into a demon.

"He is not from Xirong," Ying Baoyue took a deep breath, "In fact, I don't quite understand what he wants, but..."

"The reason why he wants to support the Xirong people is because he wants to become a god."

what?
Everyone present was dumbfounded.

"Baoyue, what are you talking about?"