Li Guanqi experienced the scene of reuniting with his lover after a long absence for the second time.
But last time it was a hundred years.
And this time, it was 5 years.
From Han Mengyao's point of view, five years has been a long time, but from Li Guanqi's point of view, at least he has tried his best to reunite 95 years earlier. Five years of separation is a long time, but at least it is earlier than 100 years of separation.
And in this extraordinary five-year period, he still has a lot to do.
"I need to talk to Evil Phoenix."
In the sea of blue flowers composed of soul-condensing flowers, Li Guanqi sat on the ground, lowered his head, and whispered to Han Mengyao, who was nestled in his arms.
"Eh?"
Han Mengyao looked at him in surprise, "You, how do you know..."
"Let it come out."
Li Guanqi did not explain.
Regarding the matter of the Doomsday Wasteland, he planned to only tell Lin Xianbai and Han Mengyao.
But he hasn't had time to talk about these things to Han Mengyao yet. After all, it takes too long to talk about the Doomsday Wasteland. From Han Mengyao's perspective, the two have just met, so they shouldn't talk about these heavy and serious things.
And the most important thing is, according to what Han Mengyao told him a hundred years later, Han Mengyao, who has been extraordinary for five years now, definitely regards Evil Phoenix as his sister.
He told Han Mengyao directly with white teeth that the evil phoenix would try to control her mind after 10 years of transcendence. After 18 years of transcendence, she and it would go to the North Pole to make an end. It was probably difficult for Han Mengyao to accept it.
Instead of doing this, it's better to cut the mess with a sharp knife first.
"..."
The evil phoenix didn't come out.
"Evil Phoenix."
Li Guanqi looked at Han Mengyao's black eyes and said helplessly: "If you don't come out to see me, I will have to go in to find you."
"it……"
Han Mengyao sat up from Li Guanqi's arms, looking slightly hesitant, "Sister Evil Phoenix, I'm afraid of you."
"certainly."
Li Guanqi smiled and said, "Of course it is afraid of me now."
"Okay, if you don't come out, that's fine."
"I'll go in and find you."
"Buzz——"
As soon as he finished speaking, the soul power in Li Guanqi's body escaped and condensed into an invisible sword of soul power, which went straight into the center of Han Mengyao's eyebrows.
Supernatural power: God-killing sword!
When the God-killing Sword is activated with all its strength, it needs to manifest a body with three heads and six arms to allow the phase of compassion to appear.
But it doesn’t have to be this way when you’re not using your full strength.
Facing the current evil phoenix, Li Guanqi, who has a fourth-order peak soul, does not need to use his full strength at all.
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"Humans..."
In the middle of the azure ocean.
Next to Han Mengyao's light blue translucent soul body is a huge light blue translucent phoenix. At this time, his eyes are gloomy, staring at the small soul sword in front of him.
"We need to talk."
The soul sword changed its appearance to look like Li Guanqi.
He stood on the water waves and looked at the translucent phoenix in front of him.
The soul in the middle stage of the first level.
Evil Phoenix's soul strength and Han Mengyao's soul strength are basically the same.
"Human, you want to kill me?"
Evil Phoenix said calmly.
"Um?!"
Han Mengyao's soul suddenly showed surprise and anxiety, and looked at Li Guanqi in confusion, "Why?! Guanqi, Sister Xiehuang has helped me a lot, if it hadn't been for it..."
"If it hadn't been for it, you would have been killed on the spot by the steel-sword cursed spirit's last-ditch counterattack during the cursed spirit encirclement and suppression operation at the end of Extraordinary Year 1."
Li Guanqi took over the conversation and still looked at Xie Huang, "I know, I know everything."
"..."
Han Mengyao was silent for a moment, then stood in front of the evil phoenix and looked at Li Guanqi seriously, "It is indeed not a human being. Maybe you also think that if it is not of my race, its heart must be different, but at least, sister evil phoenix is very important to me.
, is my biological sister."
"I told you, I know everything."
Li Guanqi smiled.
Of course he knew the importance of Evil Phoenix to Han Mengyao and his kindness to her.
Li Guanqi cannot do it now to kill the evil phoenix.
Due to emotions and reasons, Evil Phoenix helped Han Mengyao, and he had to repay this kindness.
How to do that?
If you don’t want to kill them, how about driving them away?
The future god said that the shaking of the space-time barrier this time caused problems with the time difference between reality and the strange world, delaying the return of all extraordinary beings.
The God of the Future said it very nicely. This was just an extremely low-probability, accidental event caused by Emperor Wu of the Great Luo Shen trying to open the transmission channel between the two worlds, and then inadvertently causing it.
The problem is, no matter how accidental it is, wouldn't it happen to them?
This time, Li Guanqi relied on Lin Xianbai's secret tips to get the Time Crown, and with the Time Crown, he gained the ability to activate [Travel Through Time and Space].
What about next time?
What if the time and space barrier shakes again, and if they come back so many years later, will he still have the next "Time Crown" to use?
All kinds of things.
Li Guanqi didn't dare to gamble at all.
The phoenix cannot be killed or driven away, it must be kept by Han Mengyao.
Moreover, on the other hand, this also gives Evil Phoenix himself a step down so that he no longer has to worry about Han Mengyao's affairs.
You can't kill it or drive it away, you can only find a way to resurrect it with a phoenix egg later.
Let's work out a temporary solution now.
"Soul contract."
Li Guanqi looked at the soul body of Evil Phoenix and smiled: "I want you to sign a soul contract with Han Mengyao. The content is very simple. Live and die together. If she dies, you will die, and you cannot do anything detrimental to her.
"
"But Sister Xiehuang and I are meant to live and die together."
Han Mengyao said in surprise from the side.
"No, not entirely, and the key content of the contract is the second half of the sentence."
Li Guanqi still looked at the evil phoenix, "It cannot do anything detrimental to you, such as trying to take away your body."
"Oh."
Xiehuang didn't explain anything, just sneered, "You already know this."
"Um?!"
Han Mengyao looked shocked and looked at it in disbelief, "Sister Evil Phoenix, you, you really..."
Evil Phoenix didn't look at her, as if she was cold and heartless.
But Li Guanqi knew very well that if the evil phoenix was really merciless to Han Mengyao, then Han Mengyao would not be able to survive the extraordinary 18-year Arctic war.
Just a big bird with a hard mouth but a soft heart.
"If you want to sign, sign quickly!"
The evil phoenix raised its proud head and flapped its wings, "Punch out the soul contract and get out of our sea of consciousness. Hurry up."
Its voice sounded cold.
But the communication between the soul and the body does not rely on "voice", but on the transmission of soul thoughts.
While the evil phoenix now only has a first-level soul, Li Guanqi has a peak fourth-level soul, and can completely understand the inner emotional changes of the evil phoenix through its soul thoughts.
Is Evil Phoenix angry at this time?
Not really.
Li Guanqi penetrated the depths of Evil Phoenix's soul and found no emotions such as anger or irritation at all.
On the contrary...it's relief.
This is easy to understand.
Evil Phoenix has always been very conflicted about whether to seize Han Mengyao's body, and she doesn't know how to choose.
And Li Guanqi asked him to sign a soul contract so that he could not harm Han Mengyao, which meant that he had no choice at all.
Then there is no choice, so there is no need to worry.
I was relieved.
Li Guanqi did not rely on his own ideas to understand or speculate.
This is what Xiehuang told him personally.
In the wasteland a hundred years later, Li Guanqi also asked Evil Phoenix why he showed mercy to Han Mengyao in the North Pole during his 18th year of transcendence.
But Xiehuang didn't answer the first few times.
Until one night.
The evil phoenix controlled Han Mengyao's body and sat on the roof looking at the stars.
Li Guanqi originally went to the bedroom to play basketball with Han Mengyao, but found that it was controlling his body. The atmosphere was a bit awkward at that time. Seeing that Han Mengyao didn't come out, he casually changed the topic.
First, I asked a mentally retarded question.
——Fat the evil phoenix that is looking at the stars and ask it what you are doing.
However, Xiehuang actually said with erratic eyes: "Look at my hometown."
Of course Li Guanqi was confused.
But Xiehuang did not continue.
So Li Guanqi casually brought up another topic and asked why it was merciful to Han Mengyao in the Arctic.
Unexpectedly, the evil phoenix actually gave an answer that night.
——I can’t bear it, I can’t bear it.
Six simple words can actually explain it clearly.
Evil Phoenix has feelings for Han Mengyao, this is the biggest prerequisite.
Then, not all cats and dogs can bear the soul of the phoenix. Only the body of the phoenix species can resurrect the evil phoenix and survive for a long time. This is the second premise.
Han Mengyao swallowed and successfully fused the Phoenix Heart of the Evil Phoenix.
As a new creature that is half alien-blooded human and half phoenix, this girl is the only body known in the world that can be barely resurrected. If something is not done, it will be sorry for itself.
After all, an opportunity for resurrection is right in front of you, who can refuse?
Therefore, Evil Phoenix would not be willing to take away Han Mengyao's body to resurrect him.
But the evil phoenix really had feelings for her and regarded her as his sister from the bottom of his heart, so if it really did something, such as killing Han Mengyao to seize her body, then it would feel guilty.
This is unbearable.
As the saying goes, hesitation leads to defeat.
Therefore, in the Arctic, Evil Phoenix, who originally had the upper hand, was forced to hold on until the end by Han Mengyao, resulting in a situation where their souls were fused and it was difficult to tell them apart.
This is the complexity of things in the world.
If Evil Phoenix was a complete "bad guy", then Li Guanqi could simply kill him and solve the problem easily.
But things in the world are far from that simple.
Well, of course, if Evil Phoenix was completely bad, then Han Mengyao would not be able to survive the extraordinary 18-year Arctic War, and would even die before the Arctic War.
But these are things that don’t need to be considered.
Li Guanqi traveled back to the present for five extraordinary years and was able to change all the regrets he had seen one by one.
"Buzz——"
"Those who violate this oath will have their souls shattered!"
Li Guanqi stretched out his right hand, and the humanoid soul power transformed from the God-killing Sword began to gradually change, and soon turned into the shape of a contract, flashing with little blue lights.
Soul contract is a kind of soul technique, which is specially used to make agreements on certain things. It can only be used by people with first-level souls and above. Those with less than first-level souls are not even qualified to sign a soul contract.
Moreover, an intermediary is needed to act as a witness.
Of course, it does not mean that the witness can violate the contract if he dies. The life and death of the witness has nothing to do with the contract.
It's just that this soul contract requires a soul other than the signer to condense it.
And Li Guanqi naturally did his part.
"bite!"
The evil phoenix actively released its soul power, and after the soul contract was released, a golden circular mark appeared on it.
"Meng Yao."
Li Guanqi's voice came from the soul contract, "It's your turn."
"Sister Evil Phoenix..."
But Han Mengyao looked at Evil Phoenix with complicated eyes, "It shouldn't be like this. If you want to seize my body, there are too many opportunities, right? Why wait until later? Don't say anything else, just the last one
Yue, you can do it. If you didn’t help me, I would have done it myself.”
"Shut up!!"
The evil phoenix flapped its wings suddenly, and its long beak almost touched the tip of Han Mengyao's pen.
But she just stared at it.
"……well."
Evil Phoenix sighed, and patted her head gently with his right wing, "Be obedient, be good, and sign quickly. If you sign, it will make me completely give up on this idea. I don't have to think about this and that all day long. I can sleep
I can’t even sleep well.”
After saying that, the light blue phoenix soul came to the corner of the sea of consciousness, curled up, covered itself with its wings, and seemed to just start sleeping.
"It turns out that it has been struggling with this matter."
Han Mengyao looked at Evil Phoenix and whispered to herself.
"Who can not be confused?"
Li Guanqi's voice came from the soul contract floating in the air, "This is human nature... Well, no, this is the common behavior of any highly intelligent creature. Even relatives, in the face of life and death, sometimes find it difficult
Choice, in fact, the fact that Evil Phoenix can struggle with this matter has already surpassed 99% of human beings in terms of moral standards.
Then, it was time to sign the contract with Mengyao.
There is no need to learn how to escape the soul power like the evil phoenix. You may not be able to do this yet, just raise your hand and touch the contract with your fingers."
"Um."
Han Mengyao's soul nodded slightly, then raised his right hand and touched the soul contract with his light blue translucent fingertips.
"bite!"
After the Evil Phoenix, a second golden brand appeared on the soul contract.
The soul contract between Han Mengyao and Evil Phoenix has been reached!
"Buzz——"
The soul contract was divided into two, and they each escaped into the soul bodies of Han Mengyao and Xie Huang. Not only did they sign the contract, but their soul bodies were also strengthened a little bit. After all, the source of the soul power of this soul contract was Li Guanqi.
It was transformed into a god-killing sword.
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outside world.
In the sea of blue flowers of Soul Condensing Flower.
Han Mengyao, who was lying among the flowers, slowly opened her eyes.
What caught his eye was the tall white-haired figure of Li Guanqi, who was controlling a wisp of breeze to harvest all the Soul Condensing Flowers around him.
These soul-condensing flowers are not high-end goods, they are all low-grade and first-order. There are only a few second-order soul-condensing flowers.
Moreover, the medicinal value of Soul Condensing Flower is very low.
Because it has extremely side effects, people who need it will fall into a serious soul illusion after drinking the medicine. While it improves the soul, it will also overwhelm the soul. There is a small chance that the soul will be damaged, and the gain will not be worth the loss.
However, those who can resist this soul illusion do not need this level of medicine.
In short, the name of Soul Condensing Flower is not bad, but it is actually a kind of plant garbage, similar to the pest status in the insect world.
If it were a weird world, I could still keep it, at least it would look good.
But reality must be cleared up.
If it is not cleared, black fog will continue to appear in this castle area, and those soul monsters will continue to appear, and they will no longer only appear at 24 o'clock - 1 o'clock, nor will they only wander around the black fog area.
Maybe they are weak now, but what about in the future?
If a third-level or fourth-level soul-condensing flower suddenly appears here, creating a third-level or fourth-level soul monster, then if it rushes out, it will be a catastrophe for the residents of Norway.
Li Guanqi originally came to find Han Mengyao, but he solved it by the way [Case 142 - Norwegian Castle].
"Meng Yao."
Li Guanqi harvested all the soul-condensing flowers and destroyed the roots of these plant wastes buried in the ground. Then he looked at Han Mengyao who woke up with a smile on his face.
"Let's go, it's time to go home."
Li Guanqi came over, stretched out his right hand, and took Han Mengyao's smooth, tender white hand.
"Our parents are still waiting for us."
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On the plane returning from Norway, Li Guanqi explained everything about the doomsday wasteland to Han Mengyao.
Different from Lin Xianbai's performance, Han Mengyao was only slightly surprised, and then believed Li Guanqi's words.
It seemed that to her, there was no need to question this man's words.
final.
After returning to Yucheng, it was a family dinner.
Li Guanqi's father, Li Yangqiu, personally cooked to entertain Han Mengyao and her parents.
Li Guanqi also met his future father-in-law and mother-in-law for the first time.
It's interesting to say that he didn't have any stage fright when facing the Five Elements level Thunder Dragon Lizard, but when facing these two ordinary people, he felt a little restless... Well, maybe not just a little bit, but very uneasy.
Fortunately, Li Guanqi cooked a pot of strange blood potion before meeting.
Not all of the materials he gave Lin Xianbai originally, he also kept the last one. After all, in addition to his parents, his parents also had brothers and sisters. Han Mengyao also had parents and brothers, and her parents and brothers also had relatives...
All in all, Li Guanqi cooked ten bottles of the strange blood potion in one pot, leaving one bottle for Penglai to proof, and giving away the other nine bottles.
With the magical different-blood potion, Li Guanqi earned a lot of favor from his elders after helping his prospective father-in-law and mother-in-law become different-blood humans, and gained their good looks before the meal was served.
Is Li Guanqi an extraordinary king?
yes.
But the public doesn’t know this, and the same is naturally true for Han Mengyao’s parents.
Although they are the parents of "the most popular diva-level star in the world, Han Mengyao, the daughter of fire", these two old people are not snobbish. They even bluntly said that it doesn't matter even if Han Mengyao likes an ordinary poor boy.
If that were the case, it would be easier to handle.
But not Li Guanqi.
And parents always hope that their children can live a better life.
Han Mengyao did not tell anyone that Li Guanqi was the extraordinary king, but Han Mengyao confessed his identity to his parents two years ago.
Therefore, Han Mengyao's parents did not agree with the engagement.
The reason is simple.
Li Guanqi entered a strange world this time and disappeared for 5 years.
What about next time?
10 years? 20 years? 30 years? Then let their precious daughter remain a widow for the rest of her life?
No parent is willing to compare their hearts to their own.
Therefore, the atmosphere of that family dinner was harmonious from beginning to end. Only at the end, when the engagement was discussed, Han Mengyao's parents smiled, but did not give in at all and firmly opposed it.
Han Mengyao lost her temper at the dinner table.
But Li Guanqi didn't.
Because this is something that I have been mentally prepared for.
Even his own parents, Li Yangqiu and Wang Lingbai, had not been optimistic before the dinner party and told their son to be mentally prepared.
So Li Guanqi just smiled and sent Han Mengyao's parents home, then flew several times over Yucheng, and finally found Han Mengyao with a disappointed face on the rooftop of a tall building.
He didn't say anything.
I just sat with her on the edge of the rooftop, blowing the evening breeze, and watching the lights of the city and the bright night scene in the distance.
"Watching chess."
"Um?"
"I've been waiting for you for 5 years."
"I know, and I also know that if I don't come back this year, you will wait for me for many more years, a hundred years, or even longer."
"I love you."
"I love you too."
"Then...if my parents don't agree to our marriage, what will you do?"
