Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 259 All Realms
Since the Realm Lord had said that Gu Jingnian could stay in the Realm for two days, he did not leave immediately and stayed overnight in Yingyao, this paradise.

Although the palace was large, it had no guests in the past, so there were no guest rooms prepared. Gu Jingnian laid out a quilt on a rattan chair and lay down to sleep.

The rattan chair was hard, but he fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow and slept soundly.

On the one hand, he was indeed tired, and on the other hand, he felt very safe and secure here.

Although there were people like Liu Yuchuan who tried to break into the realm to refine the fertile people, the realm was already the safest place in the world. Gu Jingnian completely let down his guard and slept soundly for the first time in a long time.

But in the middle of the night, he was woken up by a push.

"My son, my son."

Gu Jingnian opened his eyes and, in the hazy moonlight, saw Ying Yao kneeling beside the rattan chair, looking unusually clean and pretty.

She usually looked dirty and pitiful, but tonight she was finally wearing a clean silk spring dress. Her hair had just been washed and had a faint fragrance. Her skin was no longer covered in grime and was fair and smooth.

"what happened?"

"Young master, are you really leaving tomorrow? You said you had a way to meet again, but you haven't told me what that way is yet."

Gu Jingnian rubbed his eyes and mumbled, "Although there is a way, it may not work. I will implement it tomorrow. Moreover, it's best if you don't know about this matter."

"Oh."

Yingyao responded with a dissatisfied tone.

After a while, seeing that Gu Jingnian still had his eyes closed, she couldn't help but say, "Well, it's time to say goodbye. Is the young master still able to sleep?"

"if not?"

"Let's chat."

"it is good."

Gu Jingnian then moved aside a bit, letting Yingyao sit on the rattan chair, and asked, "What are you talking about?"

"I do not know."

Yingyao was the one who said she wanted to chat, and she was also the one who said she didn't know what to talk about.

By the moonlight, she looked at Gu Jingnian's face, taking advantage of his closed eyes to scrutinize him carefully. It didn't matter what they talked about.

Instead, Gu Jingnian casually said, "In the past, the caged people and the Northern government were always trying to capture you. At that time, we thought they were all-powerful and there was no way to escape. But now that you have become a member of the boundary, you are much more powerful than them."

Reflecting on these things, a question arose in his mind: what is the essential difference between the beings of the realm and those of the cage? After a moment, he dismissed the thought.

"This feeling is like climbing a snow-capped mountain for a long time, where every step feels like you can't go on anymore. But when you look back, you're already very, very far from the foot of the mountain. But we still have to keep going, to reach the very top..."

As they chatted, Gu Jingnian almost fell asleep again.

Yingyao lay down at some point, I don't know when.

The two first sat close together, then embraced, it all happened naturally.

"Son."

"Ah."

"We are no longer connected by blood."

"It's ok."

“I don’t want it to be nothing, I want it to be something,” Ying said. “I feel very uncomfortable when it’s nothing, I want it to be something with you.”

She looked innocent, but at this moment, that wildness of a little beast came out again. She snuggled up to Gu Jingnian, clumsily pressing against him. Gu Jingnian reacted quickly, but turned away.

Yingyao, puzzled, asked, "Young master, are you angry?"

"I'm not angry, I just think you're too young."

“I’m not young. In terms of the length of my life, I’ve lived much longer than you, young master.”

"Really? How many years have you lived?"

“I won’t tell you,” Yingyao replied immediately.

This was the first time she had refused to answer Gu Jingnian, but Gu Jingnian did not feel alienated. Instead, he turned back and smiled.

"Okay, then should I call you 'older sister'?"

“No way,” Ying shook her head. “I’m not young anyway.”

“What I mean is, you haven’t figured out what you want yet,” Gu Jingnian said. “You’re doing it just for the sake of doing it because you’ve suddenly stopped being connected to me.”

“No, that’s not true,” Yingyao retorted, but she couldn’t explain why.

"Once you're completely out of your old situation, you'll realize that it doesn't necessarily have to be related to me."

Ying Yao said, "I will still like you then, no matter how much time has passed."

"let's discuss it later."

"Will you and I be related then, young master?"

"Yes, if you really want to, not just do it for the sake of doing it."

"What does 'want' mean? What's the difference?"

“It’s just…” Gu Jingnian didn’t know how to put it, but finally said, “It’s probably a kind of atmosphere.”

To put it bluntly, he never saw Yingyao as a woman. Even when she was in Yan's womb, the two of them were completely naked and open with each other, neither of them feeling shy.

Yingyao said "Oh," and after a while, she suddenly blurted out something unexpected.

"So you mean I'm not sexy?" "No, why would you say that?"

“Back when I was working at the pharmacy, there was a woman who came to see the doctor. She had no money and wanted to repay him with her body, but the doctor refused. That’s what she said.”

Gu Jingnian chuckled and said, "I thought you didn't understand these things, but it turns out I still don't understand you... Let's get to know each other slowly."

After saying that, he yawned again.

Yingyao thought for a moment, then asked another strange question.

"If it were Miss Hu who came, would the young master agree?"

"how is this possible?"

Gu Jingnian muttered something.

But then he thought that if Hu Jingnan came, she would definitely know exactly what she wanted. Although the woman was quiet and dignified, her eyes were gentle and tender, and her figure was graceful. When she was in love, she would be shy and swaying with her waist, unlike Yingyao, who made him reluctant to make a move.

Thinking of this, he turned his back again.

In conclusion, once Gu Jingnian and Ying Yao are no longer bound by blood, the future of their relationship will not be determined overnight.

The next day.

The warm sunlight streamed into the room, giving people a sense of peace.

Gu Jingnian opened his eyes, feeling aches and pains in his back from sleeping.

The next moment, Yingyao also opened her eyes.

She looked up and saw Gu Jingnian, and was momentarily taken aback.

She was also very tired last night and slept very soundly, completely forgetting where she was. Now, remembering what she had said last night and seeing that she had slept in Gu Jingnian's arms all night, she lowered her head shyly like a startled deer and then turned to her side.

We've slept together before, but back then we were so close, it felt like the most natural thing to do. Now, however, it just feels a little strange.

"I……"

Yingyao seemed to want to say something but didn't. She rubbed her head and ran straight out.

Pushing open the door, she couldn't help but glance back at Gu Jingnian, pursed her lips to suppress a smile, and quickly ran away.

As Gu Jingnian watched her retreating figure, he suddenly felt a sense of tension.

But he did not linger in this paradise and planned to go find Zi Cang that very day.

Before leaving, Gu Jingnian and Ying Yao exchanged some insights on the transmission of images.

In their experience, a telepathic connection often requires an anchor point, or a key; to put it simply, it requires a clear mental sense of where you want to go.

Therefore, Gu Jingnian repeatedly recalled the realm of Zi Cang in his mind.

He bathed in the light, looked at the mirror, and tried to project the images in his mind onto the mirror.

Finally, the mirror reflected a door, an ordinary wooden door.

Without hesitation, Gu Jingnian stepped towards the door.

Upon entering, it was indeed a mountain forest with beautiful scenery, very similar to the realm where Zi Cang was located... The next moment, the earth shook, and a giant man with a huge body, half the height of Pu Fu, came from afar.

This giant had no head, but had eyes on his breasts and a large mouth at his navel. He wielded a huge axe and cleaved through any mountain he encountered.

Gu Jingnian looked up again and saw the huge sole of the foot coming down on him.

He dared not fight the terrifying giant, so he took out a mirror and projected another door image onto it.

"Oh!"

The giant stomped down, leaving a deep, enormous footprint that stretched for miles around.

Gu Jingnian, however, has already stepped into a new world.

He looked down and saw that he was in the sky, with an endless blue ocean below.

The world was completely blue except for the white clouds, until a whale rose from the sea and a huge bird flew in from afar.

Gu Jingnian did not deploy his fire wings, but stared at the sea as his body rapidly plummeted downwards.

A door appeared where he had fallen.

"Pfft."

The whale that had risen to the surface fell back into the sea.

Gu Jingnian appeared in the darkness. He looked up and saw ten moons in the sky, each a different color. In each moon, one could vaguely see a claw-like afterimage.

Stepping through the next door, a biting wind howled, and amidst the vast glacier, Gu Jingnian had only taken three steps when his body was already half-frozen by the cold, and he almost ended up stranded on the glacier.

He finally managed to break through another door, but the flames quickly enveloped and devoured him.

He felt the flames filling the sky and suddenly realized that his perception of the realm where Zi Cang was located was becoming increasingly distant and blurred.

If he doesn't go back, he might get stuck in these situations and never find a way out.

So he spread his fiery wings, flew into the sky, and tried to project his image through a door once more.

The next moment, someone spoke behind him.

"You are so brave."

(End of this chapter)