Chapter 1 The Lizard's World

For a lizard, the world is but a mayfly's existence.

And you cannot discuss ice with a summer insect.

For someone who has a lifespan of a hundred years, every day is worth cherishing. But for the heavenly maiden, whose life is like a wisp of flowing wind, the value of time is greatly diluted. So, she unhurriedly entered the city of Chang'an. There were a few people she knew, and Chang'an's fine wine; time passed quickly.

After all, the power to stay in this era comes from Guixu.

The Lord of Guixu possesses all the worlds and is the strongest!

A mere, insignificant, trivial consumption of crossing the temporal interface should not be of much concern to him.

And time slowly moved forward.

Soon, the wandering swordsman of the Tang Dynasty would also leave the city, eventually following the trajectory of history, and leaving Chang'an with the monk. Of course, in fact, he was forcibly kidnapped and taken away.

And Jue didn't know this. She just felt that after the familiar people left one by one, the entire city of Chang'an, although still so large and majestic, was a little more lonely.

"It's time to set off."

The girl sighed in a low voice, gently adjusting her mask with her finger. But when she left the Tang Dynasty to go to Kunlun, she happened to meet the little girl who was quite close to Chen Yuan before. Jue frowned slightly. She had seen her several times in Chang'an these years, the wandering swordsman accompanying the child to play around.

But this time, the girl seemed to be blamed and reprimanded by several young men, their words quite rude.

"You!"

A-Zhao, a girl of only twelve years old, had a jade pendant snatched from her hand. Her eyes glared at the men in front of her. They were her cousins. After her father died this year, her cousins, Wu Weiliang, Wu Huaiyun, and Wu Yuanshuang, began their long journey of bullying her and her mother.

"Give it back to me! Give it back!"

The little girl gritted her teeth, trying to snatch back the jade pendant that her father had given her. "Hahaha, come and get it! Come here!"

When the little girl approached him, Wu Weiliang casually tossed the jade pendant away, throwing it to his younger brother in another corner. Then, he watched the little girl grit her teeth and run back to get the jade pendant. They formed the most basic three-talent formation of the military, tossing the jade pendant back and forth as if they were teasing her. Only the youngest of them seemed unbearable, but he couldn't go against his two older brothers.

Even though the little girl was being bullied, she still stubbornly bit her lip.

The expression on her face was stubborn, refusing to shed a single tear.

Finally, she fiercely pounced on the brother who was much older than her, without hesitation, biting down hard, biting until blood flowed. But her eyes were resolute, never willing to let go. The brother who had been playing with her like a cat or dog was enraged and exerted his strength, about to draw his saber and slap it down horizontally.

Suddenly, a gust of wind vibrated in the air.

The three direct descendants of the Wu family almost simultaneously felt a heavy pain on their faces, and then rolled away, teeth falling out. They saw in front of the twelve-year-old girl a figure wearing black and red tight-fitting clothes, a battle blade in her right hand, and a figure covered in an An (a type of wild boar) mask.

The mask was ferocious and majestic, as if revealing a dignity and domineering that did not belong to this era, did not belong to the mortal world.

Making people feel an uncontrollable sense of cowardice in their hearts.

Wu Weiliang felt a chill in his heart, then looked around and saw that this was his own mansion. He immediately roared, "Someone, come quickly! Who exactly are you?! Capture her for me quickly!"

A rustling sound came from the luxurious courtyard of the mansion, and a large number of guards rushed out in one breath.

The little girl, whose father had just passed away, was a little scared and took half a step back. Jue reached out and touched her hair, ordinary and unremarkable, and took half a step forward.

She didn't even wave her blade.

In the void, there was a sudden rainstorm of wind, rising and falling suddenly, sending more than a dozen burly guards in front of her flying backwards, turning into rolling gourds. Wu Weiliang, Wu Huaiyun, and Wu Yuanshuang looked terrified, seeing the entire Wu family enveloped in endless storms, and fled in panic.

"...So, just some powerful people bullying others."

The girl's voice was cold and clear.

She turned her head to look at the little girl with some injuries on her body and said, "How are you? Are you okay?"

"Mmm..."

Jue could already tell that this was A-Zhao, whom she had met and spent time with in later generations.

The latter seemed extremely nervous, and only now relaxed a little. Having just witnessed such a huge change, she was still able to maintain her composure, and said, "Thank you, senior, for saving my life." After Jue healed her wounds, she stayed in this city for a while. Considering the situation of the girl and her mother, she proposed to take them away from here and return to another place to live.

But the little girl refused, "My mother is still alive, how can I abandon her as a daughter?" "And she is also reluctant to leave this hometown, unwilling to leave."

"Besides, I have an agreement with an older brother. He is a wandering swordsman, he likes swords, he likes wine, but he can never beat a monk. We made an agreement that I will go back to Chang'an to see him. If he doesn't see me, he will definitely be sad."

At this moment, the little girl's face was still filled with pure expectation and longing...

Jue said, "Then what if they bully you again? "

The little girl's expression was calm, and she said, "With senior's suppression during this time, they won't dare to act recklessly again; I follow the principle of an eye for an eye, and I will repay them for the things they did to bully us in the future."

Jue nodded silently, because due to the entanglement of karma, she could not do more.

Otherwise, the huge karmic backlash would directly cause her to return immediately. She just didn't know why, even though Xuanzang was also an extremely special individual, Jue could interact with him without suffering karmic and fate backlash, without being directly pulled back.

In the end, she pointed her fingers together in the void.

Flowing wind gathered, turning into a talisman.

Then, under the little girl's astonished gaze, she allowed this talisman to slowly fall, falling into her hand.

"I'm leaving a force here."

"If you encounter any disaster that could take your life, it should be able to help you once."

The little girl A-Zhao held the talisman. The next moment, the woman wearing the An mask in front of her had disappeared, leaving only a wisp of flowing wind. A-Zhao pursed her lips, hid the talisman of flowing wind, turned her head, looked at the towering palaces and pavilions, the high gates and big houses, and carefully, step by step, stepped onto the stairs.

I will have my revenge.

She whispered to herself.

Wu Huaiyun and Wu Weiliang were both used by Wu Zetian to get rid of Consort Helan in the palace, and were found guilty and executed.

Wu Yuanshuang was exiled to Zhenzhou and died when Wu Zetian became Empress.

And that wisp of flowing wind was always protected by the little girl who was seen by the heavenly maiden that year, the little girl who stubbornly refused to cry when bullied by her brothers, like the last trace of kindness in her heart, until the girl stepped onto the throne step by step. After she ascended the throne, in the twelfth month of the second year of Tianshou, a minister rebelled, falsely claiming that a hundred flowers were in full bloom, inviting the Emperor to visit Shangyuan to appreciate the flowers.

And that night, the Empress, whose temples were already gray, thought of the girl who had suddenly come to protect her when she was young.

She took out that wisp of flowing wind.

Looking at herself in the mirror, she only felt melancholy and sadness, and sighed softly, "Decades have passed, the flowing wind is still the flowing wind of Kunlun, but I am already so old... The changes in the world are nothing more than this..." She sighed in sadness for a long time, recalling the heroic girl back then, recalling the invitation at the time.

"It's just a pity, I still don't know what kind of face is under that An mask."

"What a pity, what a pity, if I had agreed back then, would my life have been different?"

Unfortunately, there is never any what-if in the world.

She looked at this wisp of flowing wind and said with a smile, "I won't live much longer either. If I let this wisp of wind go with me and be extinguished, it would be too wasteful. I still have to find a proper way to pass down the traces of her existence... Heh, even if it's a way that only she and I can understand."

The woman who had already become the Empress waved her sleeves and used that wisp of flowing wind in her hand to write the poem that would eventually be passed down through the ages, *Imperial Edict on the Last Day of the Year, A Visit to Shangyuan*.

*Tomorrow I shall visit Shangyuan, to swiftly herald the arrival of spring, the flowers must bloom overnight, do not wait for the morning breeze to urge them!*

So, the next day, a hundred flowers bloomed.

In the *Annals of Tang Poetry*, the Empress looked at the blooming flowers, closed her eyes, and listened to the eunuch reciting the poem, as if she had seen the unrestrained girl who had come on the wind and left with the wind when she was young, lowering her eyes and whispering, "Do not wait for the morning breeze to urge them, the morning breeze... Will I, have a chance to see that wisp of wind again..."

Just like the sword skills of the best swordsman in the Tang Dynasty, which were ultimately inherited by the unrestrained sword immortal.

Such traces of a person and a wisp of wind, like a fleeting shadow, ultimately only turned into the two words [morning breeze] in a poem, recited by people for thousands of years, but without knowing what they ultimately represented. Emperors, generals, sword immortals, holy monks, and even the fleeting visitor from Kunlun, in the end, they were nothing more than traces of ink characters on white paper.

And after Jue parted ways with the girl, she finally arrived at Kunlun Mountain.

"Mission Objective One: Kunlun Ruins."

"Well, I remember that the Kunlun Ruins are on the opposite side. One method is to enter through the Heavenly Gate, but that's not good."

"Huh? Eh? Eh?"

Just as Jue was thinking about how to step into the Kunlun Ruins, she stumbled, the Guixu Guardian's waist tag lit up, and with a whoosh, it directly teleported the girl to the turbid Kunlun Ruins. The girl relied on her flowing wind magical powers and her mastery of both sword and blade to forcefully break free from the turbidity and the core secrets.

"Should I go take a look over there first?"

Jue pondered, looked over there, and was about to step forward.

Suddenly, the turbid air vibrated and roared violently!

Then, a thunderous roar, unwilling and despairing, exploded.

"Fuxi!!!!"

"Fuxi!!!"

The voice was filled with life and death, despair, as if roaring and shouting the name of the enemy she could not let go of the most, like thunder, shaking endlessly, making people's hearts shudder and their backs suddenly feel cold, not stopping for a long time. The girl paused her steps, spat out a mouthful of turbid air, turned around, and retreated step by step stiffly.

No, you can't hear me.

You can't hear me, oh.

Can't hear me.

"Still, let's do the side quests first, side quests are safer, safer."

The girl left stiffly, patted her chest, and cold sweat seeped from her forehead.

What a terrifying aura, what terrifying hatred.

Who exactly is trapped here?

And who exactly was able to trap this guy here?

Damn it!

Scared me to death.

The girl looked at the Guixu Lord's side quest and muttered to herself, "On a certain day of a certain month of a certain year, the turbid world Fuxi invaded the clear world, and was defeated by the Venerable. Taking advantage of the situation, he learned of a secret. He once left a special treasure trove in the Kunlun Ruins, extremely secretive, Guixu is rich in all seas, must take it down!"

"Hmm?? Isn't this secretly looting someone else's treasure trove?" "Guixu Lord, rich in all seas, could it be that being rich in all seas comes from this?"

The girl was puzzled, and then followed the Guixu Lord's traces to find the treasure trove, and opened it with the Guixu token.

Then, she saw divine weapons one by one, and jade coffins one by one.

She saw the sleeping girl inside.

White hair, black clothes.