Battle of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures-Primordial Era: I Refuse to Have Regrets
Zhang Xingfeng was not fully awake for a moment when the fiery red *** Yan appeared before him.
Feng Tiejun fell silent. He looked at his sister, unsure if speaking out would benefit her, but he knew he couldn't let her keep hiding this forever.
"She loves me? That cute little girl from back then actually loves me now... She loves me! Really, she really loves me!" Zhang Xingfeng's heart suddenly trembled. He didn't know why, but he felt the same tremor as when he first saw Rou. "Could it be that I've fallen in love with her too? No, no... I love Rou... It's Rou! I love Rou!" Zhang Xingfeng kept telling himself. After a while, Zhang Xingfeng's mind cleared, his thoughts became firm, and he looked at Rou Yan with clear eyes.
***Yan's face flushed slightly, her large eyes were bright and clear, and her gaze was so firm! Love should be expressed! This was the voice in ***Yan's heart.
"Zhang Xingfeng, I've fallen in love with you!" ***Yan said directly.
"Yu Yan, you know I love Rou, so why do you insist on this?" Zhang Xingfeng said calmly, with a hint of bitterness in his voice.
Suddenly, Yu Yan threw down the soft whip in her hand, staring straight at Zhang Xingfeng with an unwavering gaze. "I love you... Is it wrong to love you? I couldn't forget you the first time I saw you when I was little... But I didn't know it was love. Decades have passed, I've grown up, and I know I love you. I'm almost twenty now, and most girls at this age are already married... But I've been waiting... waiting... Do you know why I haven't told you? It's because you love Sister Rou, and I didn't have the courage to say it! It's not that I didn't want to!" Yu Yan seemed very agitated.
Yan took a deep breath. Calming herself, she said, "Sister Rou is gone, she's dead. But her death has caused me great pain, yet also a sliver of joy... I feel so despicable, so utterly despicable. I actually felt a sliver of joy at Sister Rou's death... I thought I had a chance! But when I saw you, I still didn't have the courage! Now, it's alright, brother, you've spoken for me. Now I have the courage. I love you, I want to call you Brother Feng, just like Sister Rou! Brother Feng! I want to call you Brother Feng! I'll call you that for the rest of my life! Brother Feng!"
Zhang Xingfeng looked at the emotionally charged Yan, feeling only bitterness in his heart. He didn't know what to say or do...
"Brother Feng, do you know? That day outside the capital, I was looking for you... I ran and ran... ran and ran... but I just couldn't find you... I looked for you for a very long time before I finally saw you on the imperial carriage. I was so excited, hoping you would see me. You saw me, really, you saw me, but... but then you turned your gaze to someone else... I thought you had forgotten me. Forgotten me, the little girl from back then, now a vulgar innkeeper!"
Zhang Xingfeng looked at the muttering Yan and, for some reason, suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart. So painful!
"Stop talking!" Zhang Xingfeng stared intently at Yan and said, "I haven't forgotten you, no, I will always remember that little girl from back then, you know... I've always treated you like my own sister... my own sister! I don't want anyone to bully you, I want you to always be happy... I want you to always be free from worries and pain! Do you know that?"
***Yan's tears flowed uncontrollably as she shook her head repeatedly, unaware of her surroundings. "No... no... I don't want to be your sister... I don't want to! I don't want to be your sister, Brother Feng... tell me... you can treat me as your wife, tell me! Tell me, you can treat me as your wife!"
***Yan looked at Zhang Xingfeng with longing, her gaze filled with hope, like a drowning person clutching at a last straw...
Zhang Xingfeng didn't know what to say. He wanted *** Yan to be his sister, but looking at *** Yan's gaze, he didn't dare to speak...
***Yan smiled... smiled, "Hahaha... I understand, I understand, Brother Feng, thank you, I understand..."***Yan smiled like that, letting the tears flow, and walked towards her room...
"Smack!"
"I don't want to see you again... My sister doesn't want to see you either... Get out of here!"
Zhang Xingfeng felt a sharp pain on his face. He clearly saw Feng Tiejun's slap, but he didn't want to. "Perhaps, this will make me feel better!" Zhang Xingfeng smiled bitterly to himself.
"Brother Feng, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry... I'll leave right away. I won't appear in front of Yu Yan again. I won't let her suffer anymore. I'll disappear right away..." As Zhang Xingfeng spoke, he suddenly disappeared from the inn.
Zhang Xingfeng had already appeared in the city. He had left at top speed in an instant because he didn't want to face Yan's gaze again; he dared not!
Zhang Xingfeng kept smiling... smiling... walking, just like a normal person, walking slowly... having lunch at a restaurant, sleeping at an inn at night... walking like this, heading east...
Seeing his smile, who knows the bitterness in his heart at that moment!
Ten days!
Zhang Xingfeng's speed was indeed slow; it took him ten days to reach the capital. This was because he had been walking, relying on his own two feet, walking slowly, at the same pace as an ordinary person.
Ten days have passed, and Zhang Xingfeng's expression has hardly changed; he still has that approachable smile.
Today, Zhang Xingfeng arrived in another city. He walked in without any emotional fluctuation. It was a large city, not much different from Beijing...
Zhang Xingfeng glanced at the sun, which was already high in the sky, and knew it was time to go to the restaurant for dinner.
Zhang Feng walked directly to the nearest restaurant, but suddenly Zhang Xingfeng sensed a strong aura of resentment and regret coming from there... It was extremely strong, frighteningly strong.
Zhang Xingfeng looked closely and saw a person... drinking... There were dozens of bottles of wine on the table. Zhang Xingfeng knew this was another heartbroken person, drowning their sorrows in alcohol.
Zhang Xingfeng slowly walked over to the heartbroken man, and a waiter immediately came over. Zhang Xingfeng glanced at the waiter and handed him a ten-tael silver ingot. "Just order some dishes, no need for wine, I brought my own!"
As Zhang Xingfeng spoke, he took out his wine jug and began to drink.
The heartbroken person at the table was oblivious, continuing to drink. Their face was wet with tears, whether from the alcohol or the tears themselves... no one knew!
"Drinking to drown my sorrows only makes them worse... Hahaha..." The heartbroken man gulped down another bottle of wine...
Zhang Xingfeng suddenly noticed the man's clothes and was startled. Wasn't this the red robe worn by the Top Scholar?
The waiter came over and placed the dishes on the table. Perhaps because Zhang Xingfeng had initially given him ten taels of silver, the Zhang Xingfeng had a favorable impression of him. Seeing Zhang Xingfeng staring in surprise at the drunkard's scholar's Top Scholar, the waiter said:
"Young master, you have no idea, but this gentleman before you is the Top Scholar of the current dynasty... He is very famous in our Ying Yang City!" The waiter said with a hint of pride.
Zhang Xingfeng listened attentively. Seeing Zhang Xingfeng focused attention, the waiter said happily, "This Top Scholar studied diligently for over ten years, finally achieving great success. But his wife didn't have the good fortune to see him return... You don't know. How wonderful and beautiful this Top Scholar's wife was! It's such a pity... such a pity, she died before seeing Top Scholar son return..."
"Haha... What's the use of success and fame... What's the use! Yi Yun is gone. Gone!" the drinking man suddenly shouted.
"Liu Chang, how did my sister treat you back then? You were so cold and indifferent to her, even postponing the wedding and only getting engaged. You even said that the wedding night would be when you were nominated for the imperial examination! You bastard... You made my sister wait so long... Go to hell!" Suddenly, a big man rushed in from outside, grabbed the man who was drinking, and roared.
Liu Chang was in a daze, looking at the big man in front of him, and suddenly burst into tears. "Big brother, big brother... I'm sorry to Yi Yun. She was with me for eight years, and I made her wait for eight years... eight years... I have been studying with all my heart, wanting to achieve fame and success, but I have always been indifferent to her. But now I realize that she is the one I really need, she is the one!" As Liu Chang spoke, he climbed onto the big man's shoulder and cried.
The burly man looked at Liu Chang, who was crying on his shoulder, and shook his head slightly in pain and helplessness. He then carried Liu Chang on his back and said, "Waiter, put the bill on my tab!" With that, he strode out.
"Cherish the people around you... don't regret it later!" Liu Chang, who was on the back of the big man, suddenly shouted loudly and poured the wine from the wine pot he was holding tightly into his mouth.
Zhang Xingfeng was stunned. The voice of "Cherish the person in front of you" seemed to explode like a thunderclap in spring. Zhang Xingfeng's whole heart began to tremble. "Cherish the person in front of you, cherish the person in front of you. Rou is already dead... Am I going to live in the past forever? It's okay for me to be like this, but how can I hurt others because of this? How is Yu Yan now? Is she in pain? Is she suffering?"
"Ten days, ten days, ten days I haven't thought about her a moment in a day. Why... is it just because I treat her like my sister... just because she's my sister? But do I really only see her as a sister? Liking is a light kind of love, love is a strong kind of liking! I'm deceiving myself, I'm deceiving myself, I'm using my own love to deceive myself, denying that I've also fallen in love with Yu Yan!" Zhang Xingfeng was now recalling the tremor in his heart when he first learned that Yu Yan had fallen in love with him!
That was the same tremor I felt when I saw Rou, the same tremor! Back then, I was deceiving myself, telling myself I only loved Rou, constantly hypnotizing myself, hypnotizing myself...
"I've fallen for you, Yu Yan ... I don't want to regret it later, I don't want to deceive myself, I've fallen in love with you!" Zhang Xingfeng's gaze became firm.
Zhang Xingfeng suddenly felt a nameless panic in his heart, just like the panic he felt when he felt his elder brother Lang Feng in Tianshan last time, and even stronger this time.
"Yu Yan, wait for me! Please don't let anything happen to you!" Zhang Xingfeng cried out in panic, his body suddenly accelerating, and he disappeared into the restaurant in an instant.
The wind cut through Zhang Xingfeng's clothes like a knife, tearing them, but Zhang Xingfeng didn't care. He was covered in dust, but Zhang Xingfeng still didn't care. He knew that the thing he wanted to do most right now was to run to Yu Yan and keep telling her, "I love you!"
Zhang Xingfeng kept accelerating, constantly speeding up his body. Even when he reached his limit, Zhang Xingfeng continued to accelerate, and the veins on Zhang Xingfeng body began to bulge.
Zhang Xingfeng didn't care; all he knew was to speed up...
The speed was too fast, exceeding the speed of ordinary cultivators wielding swords. Zhang Xingfeng showed no surprise and continued to desperately accelerate his body.
Suddenly, a sliver of blood splattered brilliantly...
Zhang Xingfeng's body began to regain some color; the pressure was too great, and his blood vessels were starting to give way...
Zhang Xingfeng, oblivious to everything, continued accelerating. He only knew he needed to see Yu Yan, and his panic intensified. "Yu Yan, please don't let anything happen to you!" Zhang Xingfeng began to accelerate frantically...
The blood bloomed in a poignant and beautiful way...
Zhang Xingfeng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he stopped abruptly. "Brother Feng, Brother Feng, where is Yu Yan? Where is Yu Yan?" Zhang Xingfeng grabbed Feng Tiejun, who was riding a horse.
Feng Tiejun was pulled off his horse at high speed by Zhang Xingfeng. He couldn't help but curse, but who knew how anxious he was? When he saw the blood-covered man in front of Zhang Xingfeng, he didn't have time to ask why Zhang Xingfeng was covered in blood. He immediately said anxiously, "Zhang Xingfeng, my sister went looking for you. She left only a letter!"
Covered in blood, Zhang Xingfeng looked at the letter in Feng Tiejun's hand and trembled as he took it.
"Brother, I've already gone to find Brother Feng. I know I can never leave him in my life, I can't lose him... I'm going to find him, don't look for me! (Yu Yan enters)"
Zhang Xingfeng suddenly felt a sharp, piercing pain.
"Cherish the people in front of you... so you won't have any regrets..." "So you won't have any regrets"...
Zhang Xingfeng was already starting to regret it...
Zhang Xingfeng no longer cared about that little bit of Demonic Yuan Power. At this point, he only had less than one-tenth of his Demonic Yuan Power left, but Zhang Xingfeng couldn't wait any longer. His Spiritual Sense began to spread wildly... He no longer focused on suppressing his Demonic Yuan Power...
The Spiritual Sense began to spread... to the far west... to Yongzhou Prefecture in the west... half of the Ming Dynasty... the entire Ming Dynasty...
Zhang Xingfeng's face suddenly flushed.
"Pfft!" Unable to suppress it any longer, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. The range of his Spiritual Sense perception had far exceeded Zhang Xingfeng's limit.
But Zhang Xingfeng smiled. He already knew where Yu Yan was. Suddenly, a Killing Intent appeared on Zhang Xingfeng's face, and he no longer cared about any Demonic Yuan Power.
"Teleportation!"
A surge of Chaos Power caused Zhang Xingfeng to vanish from Feng Tiejun's sight in an instant.
"I don't want any regrets!" Zhang Xingfeng's voice echoed throughout the space.