The Spirit World

Chapter 1012 Shadow Pendant (Forty-Seven)
[Three thousand fallen flowers and flowing water, the most heartless thing is to hate the affectionate. ]

"princess……"

The calls kept coming and going.

"princess!"

They were anxious and frightened.

"princess--"

They are trembling and miserable!
The distant call woke her up from her sleep.

But her eyes were as fierce as a fire, and against the backdrop of the bonfire, beads of sweat were flowing down her phoenix eyes and brows, and besides the crystal clearness, it was her fair skin that was emitting a glow.

She realized that she had woken up from a nightmare, shook her head gently and sighed.

"After all... you won't let me go..."

She looked up at the sky above the campfire. The sun still hadn't emerged from the darkness. The world was no longer able to distinguish between day and night, and was filled with filth.

It is precisely because abruptly expressing one's desires would make people too disgusted that there are so many high-sounding lies.

How can you say, I want something you have, please give it up and give it to me.

Really, you are underestimating yourself.

Only you are evil! You are unjust, you are! You are abominable! You are hostile to us!
Only then can your things be ours. Only then can we defeat you as we should and take away everything you have!
How...just...

"Are you awake? Miss Chen Lin..." The person next to her handed her a piece of burnt bread. She declined with a smile, which was also a kind of inexplicable confirmation.

"It's delicious... It would be a shame not to eat it." The man bit the bread and glanced at the pocket watch in his hand: "Now, it should be daytime, eight o'clock in the morning. It is indeed time to eat."

The man slowly leaned back and stretched symbolically.

"I'm not hungry." Lin'er stood up and put the jade sword in her hand on her waist. Her fiery red dress fluttered with the flames. Her whole body was too thin, with a slender waist and fragrant sleeves.

"Are you leaving, Miss Chen Lin?" The man also stood up.

Seeing Lin'er was about to leave, he stretched out his hand as if to grab Lin'er's arm. Just as he was about to touch her, the jade sword at his waist was instantly lifted up in Lin'er's grip, revealing a sharp edge that was enough to suppress the flames.

The sword had the luster of white jade, and exquisite and strange sword patterns ran along the sword body to the tip of the sword. Its ancient name was engraved on the place where Lin'er held it in her hand - [Yuxuan].

The owner of this ancient sword, Lin'er, glared at the man's outstretched hand. Her left hand was holding the Yuxuan scabbard buckled at her waist, and her right hand had already pulled Yuxuan out half an inch. The man was also startled by Lin'er's alertness and took a step back.

Lin'er's beauty is like the king among the stars. Even the brightest stars have to fade their colors and pay homage to her.

She was too beautiful, with a look of sorrow and ferocity, yet her angry eyes were so realistic that they were stunning.

"Ah... I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Miss Chen Lin! It's my fault, my fault... I felt..." The man stood upright and took a step away from Lin'er: "You are a woman alone outside. If you encounter danger, you should always have a companion... right..."

He laughed and joked, trying to cover up this sudden irrationality, but Lin'er frowned slightly, she sheathed Yuxuan, and turned to leave.

She didn't answer, so there was no need to answer.

The man followed with big strides.

He was dressed in traveler's clothes, carrying a huge backpack, was a little fat, and carried an extremely inconspicuous water bag.

He didn't even seem to have a weapon, and he began to pant after taking a few steps.

"Ms. Chen Lin! Where are you going?!"

He followed Lin'er. Lin'er walked briskly, but he had to jog while panting.

"You don't have to follow me."

Lin'er glanced at him with sidelong eyebrows. The inconvenience of his body seemed out of place in this world without the sun. He must have lived a very luxurious life before, but lost such a life after the sun disappeared.

He had obviously lost weight, and his clothes were looser. In order to prevent the loose clothes from weighing him down, he rolled up his trouser legs.

"I just saved your life, it's no big deal. You don't have to follow me anymore..."

Lin'er spoke slowly, but her voice was much more severe, sounding like an order.

"Ah... Miss Chen Lin... I don't know how to tell you..."

He panted and followed Lin'er's pace. The bag he was carrying was dented and the things inside made a clinking sound.

"We may just be passing by... You know what? If I were alone in this wilderness, it would be more than enough, but I am still more worried about your danger, Miss Chen Lin..."

He said something to save face without changing his expression.

"I told you, it's dangerous for you, a woman, to be out there alone! If I, as a man, don't come to protect you, I, as a man, will not be recognized by the family!"

He patted his chest and abdomen and said, "Taking care of girls is a romantic thing that only men can do!"

"How old are you? Talking about these... all sorts of nonsense..."

Lin'er frowned slightly and actually found it a little funny.

This little fat boy must be a simple-minded person. Lin'er couldn't sense any aura of a fighter from him at all. This "kid" might even have trouble killing a fish.

It is incredible that he survived in the wilderness without the sun for three months, and he is still so naive, which is truly rare.

"I'm 15 years old! Miss Chen Lin!"

He wiped his nose and actually felt a sense of pride.

"You're just a child. It's too early to talk about protection."

"Besides, you and I are not related, so you don't have to care too much."

Lin'er smiled unintentionally. It was difficult for her to show a genuine smile. Her smiles were always silent and slow. Although they were not false, they also rarely lacked joy.

The day without the sun is filled with flying fluorescent fireflies that have long lost the habit of day and night. They emit brilliance day and night, but also look exhausted. They flicker faintly before falling to the wet ground.

"Ms. Chen Lin! I'm fifteen years old! In our family, a fifteen-year-old boy should have been able to stand tall and proud!"

He naively thought that Lin'er was persuading him, so he excitedly started talking to her again.

"Traveling to the Elf Kingdom is just a necessary practice for our family!"

"Although I don't know why the sun hasn't appeared for so long! But I'm still a good guide to the Elf Kingdom! Our family has business dealings with the elves. We sell some human tools in exchange for their secret potions, and then take them to Fran to sell."

"Their potion—"

He kept talking, but he didn't notice that Lin'er wasn't listening at all. She looked at everything she could see around her. Not far away, the elves' unique lighting "tool" - lantern grass emitted piles of light.

Here, there is no need for a man to point the way to the Elf Kingdom. The huge lantern grass illuminates the world of the elves. Huge trees and vegetation are not uncommon in the Elf Kingdom, but most of them have begun to decay due to the loss of the sun. Many of the trees and plants that cannot keep up with the nutrition have withered. The mucus generated by their decay has a special ancient wood fragrance, which is intertwined with fragrance and ugliness, making people unable to stop.

"The elves seem to be the only race with wings besides the birdmen. As I remember, they have a very powerful secret medicine that can make people grow wings temporarily. It sells very well in the Fulan area! Many dignitaries get this secret medicine from our family."

"When I was little, I thought it was weird. They could use magic to fly around or send themselves off, but they still wanted this secret medicine."

"Now, I also want a pair of wings that can fly freely! That way, it will be very comfortable! No need to walk around on the ground, flying in the sky is such an endless beautiful thing~"

He was laughing so happily that he didn't even notice that Lin'er had walked too far. He had to really run to catch up with Lin'er again.

"Ms. Chen Lin! What are you going to do in the Elf Kingdom? I'm very curious... Please tell me..."

He said excitedly, causing Lin'er to look at him slowly.

"If you don't shut up I'm going to have to cut your mouth off, kid."

Lin'er's harsh and ambiguous jokes made the man stammer and even his steps stiffen.

Lin'er's intimidation actually made him really scared.

The huge trees and huge grasses revealed all the things in the Elf Kingdom.

A huge seven-spotted ladybug was staring at the two of them under the light of the lantern grass. Suddenly, it flapped its huge wings and opened its shell. The white thin wings made a loud noise and rolled up the wind whistling.

"Ah... guess who's here..."

A low and hoarse call reached the ears of the two.

"It's the Guardian Elf!" the man pointed at the ladybug loudly, and the ladybug squinted its eyes and stopped next to the grass.

"It's that... woman... it's incredible..."

A huge frog was lying on the grass, looking at the two of them with its head raised and chin puffed out.

Their voices are all serious and deep, but they always feel like they come from the same person.

"It's that woman! She's here!"

A huge dragonfly stood beneath the lantern grass.

"It's really her..."

Surprises and "guardian elves" appeared one after another under the huge elf grasses everywhere.

They were of various kinds, all insects and tiny animals in the forest. However, their size was too huge. Compared with the ancient forest of the Elf Kingdom, the difference was very small, but compared with Lin'er and the man, they were so huge that it was unimaginable.

This is the blessing from the Elf Kingdom. In this spiritual world of the Elf, the creatures that absorb the blessing from the Elf Kingdom are huge and spiritual, and have extremely long lifespans.

They recognized this woman with a divine look.

"She is so different from three thousand years ago..."

"She's become so young!"

"She doesn't look like she's changed at all!"

"Why isn't the king with her?"

"Why is a little fat guy following her?"

"Why is it a fat boy this time?!"

"Idiot! Those are piglets raised by humans..."

"Why did she bring a piglet here..."

"This woman is so strange... She is the same as she was three thousand years ago..."

"Yes, yes... Three thousand years should be more than enough for her to live..."

The guardian elves were chatting with each other in a random manner, calling out to each other, filling the entire grass with the joy of birds, beasts and insects.

The man couldn't understand why this huge forest was suddenly so restless. He looked at the huge patches of grass around him timidly, as if the "guardian elves" that poked their heads out from under the countless lantern grasses were eyeing them and wanted to eat them.

However, Lin'er walked calmly in the grass. She could hear clearly and understand what they were saying.

It is just the border between the Elf Kingdom and the Principality, much far away from the real Elf Kingdom.

"Ms. Chen Lin...I feel a little...ah, no...I mean, don't be afraid."

The noisy forest sounds are irritating to the mind. In this gigantic forest, everything that originally lived here has also grown in size. The chirping of insects and the singing of birds sound like thunder.

One lantern grass after another hangs on the trees as if the forest is repairing the scars left after the loss of the sun. The light is bright enough, but that's all.

After all, you can't take a complete picture in the forest.

"I've never encountered such a situation! These guardian elves are screaming like crazy... Don't they think we are enemies?"

The man pointed at himself in surprise. He looked at Lin'er's back. The golden light and the Wanxiang feather weave echoed with each other. He saw a pair of white wings suddenly formed behind Lin'er.

The feathers were pure white like light, and they only needed a little light from the lantern grass to illuminate the entire forest.

"Ms. Chen Lin! You!"

He shouted in surprise, causing everything in the ancient forest to chirp and make noise again.

Lin'er took light steps and left the ground with a touch of the ground. Her wings spread the light of stars, and the dazzling white stars were like the morning sun, spreading in every corner where she flew over.

Lin'er flew over the grass, flew over the branches, flew to the treetops, and looked into the distance in front of the lantern grass and groups of guardian elves.

Those elves who also had thin wings were living under a tree. The glowing tree shone brightly and turned into a second sun in the dark shadow, illuminating the entire elven kingdom.

In this fairy kingdom, only this tree can show the wonder of huge creatures. The miracle of life makes everything here look full of vitality, birds and beasts gather together, and the "curtain wall" of green vegetation surrounds the entire fairy kingdom. The tree looks like a criss-crossing starry sky climbing upwards, immersed in the tenacity of life and releasing the whiteness of life.

The white jade branches like willow catkins swayed gently, and even the sky, which had long lost the sun, swayed a little.

Such a far view! The towering giant seems to be connected to the sky. The dream of reaching the sky day and night is out of reach, but it can be done in an instant.

No, it should be only this dark night without the sunlight.

It is so beautiful, so majestic, and so unshakable.

Its existence is to tell the world that time cannot defeat the vitality of this evergreen tree!
It is so beautiful, too beautiful, that it fills the hearts of humans who are completely unaccustomed to it.

This is unique to the elves, and has always been out of reach for humans.

(End of this chapter)