Smiling, he pushed Hua Cheng, who was pressing down on him so hard that he could hardly breathe, off his body. The passion had not yet subsided when Xie Lian suddenly remembered something and said casually, “Oh, Sanlang, the Cave of the Ten Thousand Gods…”

Hua Cheng put his arm on his chest again, playing with something unknown, and said lazily: "Hmm? What happened to the Pantheon Cave?"

Xie Lian said, “Nothing, I just suddenly remembered that if the copper furnace exploded, would all the statues in the Ten Thousand Gods Cave be in trouble?”

If that were the case, it would be a pity. After all, every statue in there was Hua Cheng's painstaking work, and he liked them all very much. Hua Cheng said, "No. I have already set up a boundary, even if the entire copper furnace collapses, the cave will be fine."

Xie Lian was excited and said, “Really? That’s great, then everything must be fine. I want to go take a look, can I?”

Hua Cheng seemed to be frozen for a moment, but then he smiled and said, "Okay. If you want to see it, go ahead. What's wrong with that?"

Xie Lian was even more excited and said, “Then let’s do it tomorrow. The copper furnace is already open, so we can go in anytime.”

Hua Cheng raised an eyebrow and said, "Tomorrow? Okay."

He didn't object and didn't say much, but the next moment, he turned over again.

He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but Hua Cheng tortured him more and more fiercely in the second half of the night. After two rounds, Xie Lian was forced to call his brother for help, and then he fell into a drowsy sleep.

Originally, he should have been able to sleep peacefully until dawn, but less than an hour later, Xie Lian felt a lightness beside him while he was sleeping. He opened his eyes and looked around, but the person was gone.

Xie Lian was startled, all his sleepiness disappeared, and he sat up suddenly.

After cleaning up casually, he slowly got off the couch, pushed the door open and went out, thinking, "Where is Sanlang?"

It was the first time that someone suddenly disappeared in the middle of the night. He walked around the Paradise Square but didn't see anyone. He remembered that there was a room in the Paradise Square that was used for teleportation, so he went over to take a look and found that the door of the room had been opened.

He remembered that the last time the array on the door was not drawn like this. At this moment, the cinnabar of the new array on the door had not yet dried. Xie Lian pushed the door open without thinking. When he came out again, the outside of the door was no longer Ji Le Fang, but a dark place.

Xie Lian closed the door, raised a ball of flame in his palm, and illuminated the surroundings. He was stunned when he saw the scene in front of him.

The place where this Thousand Miles Shrinking Formation leads to is actually a huge and eerie cave.

Pantheon Cave!

Why did Hua Cheng come to the Pantheon Cave alone in the middle of the night? Didn't they agree to come together tomorrow? Why did he come tonight?

Shaking his head, Xie Lian slowly walked around in the cool cave, holding the flame.

The sound of footsteps echoed in the air. The veils covering the faces of the statues were removed. In the darkness on all sides, there were countless faces exactly like his, sitting in silence. Thinking about this scene, it was a bit scary. Xie Lian passed by a cave and glanced at it. In the cave was a statue of the prince Yue, with gentle eyebrows and kind eyes, holding a flower and holding a sword, standing gracefully.

There are thousands or even hundreds of statues of gods here. I wonder how much time and effort it took to carve them, and I wonder how many years they have been silent in the darkness.

Thinking of this, Xie Lian sighed, faced the stone statue, bowed his head slightly, and murmured, "It must be very lonely."

It refers to the person who carves the statue of a god, and also to the statue of a god.

The statue of Prince Yue nodded.

Xie Lian: “…”

This is so scary.

After a while, Xie Lian finally realized what was going on. So that was the reason. It was probably because he had just replenished his mana, and his aura was extremely abundant at the moment. His presence here affected the statues, causing them to move.

Xie Lian hurriedly tried to gather his power, but it was too late. The statue of Prince Yue had already taken a step. Because Xie Lian's overflowing power had infected it, but he didn't control it carefully, it moved a little clumsily and fell down with a "thump".

Xie Lian quickly helped it up and said, “Be careful!”

He helped the statue stand up, smiling and raising its head slightly, with a look of nobility and pride, nodding to express gratitude. Seeing its pride, Xie Lian couldn't help but laugh, but he held back and asked, "Have you seen Huacheng?"

The statues can make simple sounds, but they cannot speak, unless they are the eloquent gods who specialize in speech. The Prince Yue statue looked a little confused when he heard his question, as if he didn't know who he was talking about. Xie Lian understood, but at this time he didn't know Hua Cheng. So he changed the topic and asked, "Then did you see a man in red?"

The statue then smiled and nodded modestly. Xie Lian asked, “Do you know where he went?”

He was not familiar with such a large grotto and was afraid of getting lost. The statue hesitated for a moment and pointed him in a direction. Xie Lian said, "Thank you, Your Highness."

After walking for a while, he looked back and saw that the statue of Prince Yue had quickly mastered how to walk and was even dancing with a sword on the spot with a graceful posture, as if he was at the much-anticipated Lantern Festival.

Unfortunately, no one appreciates it.

Not long after, Xie Lian encountered another fork in the road. Naturally, he was ready to ask his idol for help and walked into the nearest cave. As soon as he entered, he saw a figure sitting on the stone platform, holding a jar of wine and drinking it.

Xie Lian: “…”

He rushed over and snatched the wine away, saying, "Don't drink it!"

The statue was also him, but his face was slightly pale, and he was wearing a simple white robe that was no longer luxurious. The wine jar was taken away by Xie Lian, and it wanted to snatch it back, but it was confused and couldn't snatch it. It was so angry that it kept spinning around, and suddenly hugged Xie Lian and cried.

Xie Lian was stunned and said, “You don’t need to cry…”

The statue cried even harder, as if it had endless grievances. It stopped snatching the wine and just held him tightly. Xie Lian didn’t know why he was so clingy when he was drunk, so he just held it too, gently stroked its back, and comforted it, “Alright, alright…”

He looked again and saw that there was no wine in the "wine jar" in his hand. It didn't matter if he gave it back, so he asked, "Did you see a man in red? Where did he go?"

The statue showed him a way, so Xie Lian returned the wine jar to it and continued walking forward. The statue stopped crying, and sat on the ground holding the wine jar, and fell into a daze again.

Xie Lian looked back at it, sighed, and continued walking.

After a while, he heard a creaking sound, like the friction of iron chains, and came to an empty cave.

There was a swing hanging from the ceiling of the cave, and sitting on the swing was a statue of a god, full of youthfulness, wearing the Taoist uniform of a disciple of the Huangji Temple, about sixteen or seventeen years old. He grabbed the chain of the swing and tried hard to make it swing. But because it was sitting on the swing, it couldn't swing no matter what, so it showed a look of annoyance. Seeing this, Xie Lian went up to help it push twice.

The swing finally flew up, and the young statue in Taoist costume was happy. Xie Lian took the opportunity to ask, "Did you see a man in red? Where did he go?"

The young statue held the swing with one hand and pointed in a direction with the other. Xie Lian pushed him twice more and said, “Goodbye.”

But after the swing swung for more than a dozen times, it slowly stopped. No one pushed it anymore, and the young statue sat there blankly, revealing a troubled look again.

After walking for a long time, Xie Lian estimated: “It’s time to get there, right?”

At this moment, he suddenly heard a small, suppressed and painful sound, and was stunned: "What sound? ... Panting?"

The sound came from a cave in front. Xie Lian walked in and saw a stone platform inside the cave. On the platform, there seemed to be a reclining statue of a god, with a white veil covering it from head to toe, hanging down to the ground. Under the veil, there was a shadowy figure, sometimes curled up in a ball, sometimes tossing and turning, as if someone was suffering from torture and struggling hard.

“…”

Xie Lian was about to go up and pull down the white veil, when suddenly, a hand covered his eyes from behind. A low voice came from behind, sighing, "Brother."

Xie Lian laughed and said gently, “Sanlang, do you think that if you don’t show it to me, I won’t know what it is?”

After a long while, Hua Cheng sighed again and said, "Brother, I was wrong."

Xie Lian took his hand away and turned back to ask, “The Land of Gentleness?”

Standing behind him was a tall man in red, it was indeed Hua Cheng.

He was caught red-handed, and he put his hand on his forehead and finally admitted: "...Yes."

No wonder. As expected, no wonder Hua Cheng had refused to let him see it. Xie Lian said, “You came here tonight because you wanted to hide the statue beforehand, right?”

Hua Cheng looked away and said, "Yes."

Xie Lian didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Was he really that afraid to let him see this statue?

He said: "Why hide it? It's actually no big deal. But now a very tricky problem has arisen..."

The tricky problem is that after Xie Lian arrived, he inadvertently caused all the statues to move.

This was not a big deal, but for this special statue, it was very painful. Because the statue under the veil was carved of Xie Lian, who was seventeen years old and fell in love with a gentle woman in a cave in a barren mountain.

Other statues were either dancing with swords, drinking, or swinging on a swing, but it was unlucky because it was poisoned by the deadly flower demon. This caused it to suffer from the poison of lust after it "came back to life".

The panting under the veil was unbearable. Xie Lian couldn’t bear to hear it. Thinking of that thrilling and beautiful night, he said, “…This is too pitiful. If I leave now, will it return to being a stone statue?”

Then I wouldn't have to suffer this torture. Hua Cheng said, "I'm afraid not. After all, my brother is now at his most powerful, and the statues in the entire Pantheon Cave have been affected by you. Even if you leave, they will continue to attack for a long time."

That would be too painful. Xie Lian asked, "Then... is there any other way?"

Hua Cheng always has a solution. He nodded slightly and said, "I was just dealing with this. Brother, follow me."

He led Xie Lian into another cave. As soon as he entered, Xie Lian opened his eyes slightly. He saw a stone statue of a man standing in the cave. He was tall, with handsome eyebrows and eyes, a slightly raised mouth, and an eye patch on his right eye. He looked almost exactly like the man in red who led the way in front of him.

It turned out to be a statue of the Ghost King!

Xie Lian said: “This is…”

Hua Cheng said, "I carved this hastily after I realized something was wrong. I haven't touched it for many years, so my hands are a little rusty. Brother, take a look. Does it still look like it?"

Xie Lian studied it carefully for a while and said, “It looks very similar! But…”

Hua Cheng said: "But...how?"

Xie Lian smiled and said, “Not as good-looking as you are.”

Huacheng also laughed.

Then, Xie Lian continued, “So, the method you mentioned, Sanlang, is…”

Is it to let this statue of the Ghost King "detoxify" the statue of God that has been bewitched by the gentleness of the world?

After a moment of silence, Hua Cheng stopped smiling, straightened his expression, stared at Xie Lian's face, and said, "Yes."

Xie Lian hadn’t noticed the slight caution in his expression yet, and thought to himself, “This method is too…”

Although it is indeed a cure for the root cause and has immediate effects, it seems absurd and seductive when you think about it - to put it bluntly, isn't it just using a statue of the Ghost King to break the body of the statue of his own youth and thus suppress the poison of lust?

It’s so hard to even talk about it!

He didn't know how to respond, but Hua Cheng suddenly knelt down on one knee in front of him. Xie Lian was startled, and hurriedly pulled him, saying, "San Lang?" What was he doing?

Hua Cheng said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, I was disrespectful."

Xie Lian couldn’t pull him up, so he squatted down as well, asking in confusion, “Why are you being disrespectful?”

Hua Cheng stared at him, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, please believe me. I had no choice but to resort to this measure today. Although I carved this statue myself, I have never done anything disrespectful to your statue. If your Highness feels that this method is inappropriate, I will find another way."

Xie Lian finally understood why Hua Cheng suddenly became so serious.

After all, Hua Cheng was always worried that Xie Lian would find him offensive and strange for carving so many statues of Xie Lian in private. Now that he proposed this idea, he was probably even more worried that Xie Lian would think that he was full of nonsense and disrespectful.

Xie Lian smiled and sighed, holding onto Hua Cheng with both hands, finally pulling him up from the ground, and said, “Of course I believe you. I know that you have always respected me.”

However, it is hard to say whether he has "never blasphemed the gods in the slightest". After all, if we are to be strict, he has been "blaspheming" the gods at Qiandeng Temple every now and then since Huacheng returned from the butterfly transformation, and his courage is getting bigger and bigger.

Xie Lian coughed lightly and said, “I think this method… is not bad at all. Very good, very good.”

However, when he thought about the essence of this method, his face became slightly hot again, and he felt that this was a bit unreserved. After getting his consent, Hua Cheng finally regained his composure. Xie Lian placed his hand on the shoulder of the Ghost King statue and said, "Shall I consecrate this statue?"

Hua Cheng blinked and smiled slowly, "If brother is willing, I would love to have you."

Xie Lian nodded. After a moment, the statue raised its eyebrows slightly. Seeing this, Xie Lian couldn't help laughing, and withdrew his hand, saying, "This is too similar!"

Perhaps sensing something, a few figures slowly approached the cave. Several statues curiously gathered around, as if they wanted to take a closer look at the new statue in the cave that was completely different from the others. The ghost king statue also saw them, blinked, and raised one eyebrow higher. It was unknown what it was thinking of, and it seemed to be looking for something. Xie Lian coaxed and drove away the group of his own statues, but he glanced at them and suddenly asked, "Where is the land of gentleness?"

He had directly used this to refer to the unfortunate statue. At some point, only a white veil was left on the stone platform, and the statue of the gentle reclining god had disappeared!

Xie Lian thought to himself, "Oh no!" Hua Cheng, who came in with his hands behind his back, frowned. Xie Lian said, "The Cave of the Gods is huge. We won't be able to get out in a short while. Let's find it quickly!"

Hua Cheng said, "I'm afraid not. Brother, look."

He pointed at the ground. Xie Lian walked around to take a look, and then he discovered that there was actually a circle on the ground, which was drawn directly on the rock with extremely strong finger force.

A Thousand Miles-Shrinking Formation! How much of his magic power did this statue absorb that it could actually draw a Thousand Miles-Shrinking Formation with its bare hands?! Xie Lian almost fell to the ground on the spot.

The statue is in a state of tenderness. What if he escapes and bumps into a mortal woman? What kind of bizarre legend will be created in the future? ? ?

He asked, "When did it escape? Where could it have gone?"

Hua Cheng said: "Brother, don't be anxious. Think about it first. If you were in love at that time, who would you think of looking for first?"

This is not hard to think of. Xie Lianyuan was not too anxious, and quickly calmed down, saying: "I should go find ..."

Before he could finish his words, a spirit suddenly attacked him. Xie Lian was caught off guard and raised his hand to respond. Then he heard Feng Xin’s voice ringing in his ears: “Your Highness! What the hell, there was a monster impersonating you just now!”

...Sure enough! At that time, Xie Lian's most capable assistants were Feng Xin and Mu Qing. When something like this happened, he would naturally look for them first!

Fortunately, he looked for Feng Xin first instead of running wildly on the street. Xie Lian breathed a sigh of relief and said hurriedly, "No, no! That's not a monster, and it's not pretending to be me."

Feng Xin was shocked: "What do you mean??? Not a monster nor an imposter? Could that be your real self??? No way!"

Xie Lian: “Not really! Well, how is it now? Did you catch it? Don’t let it get away!”

Feng Xin said, "It's too late, he's already run away!"

Xie Lian said, “What? This is bad!”

Feng Xin: "Yeah, this is bad. What will it be like if someone sees me running around naked?!"

Xie Lian: “Wait, what did you say? Naked? I… No, it’s not wearing any clothes???”

Feng Xin said, "Almost! It's worn, but not too much. It's tattered as if it was torn into pieces by someone. By the way, if it's not a monster or an imposter, then what is it? What's going on? It looks like a statue to me... Wait, a statue?" He was horrified, "Could it have come out from under the copper furnace? What are you doing???"

Xie Lian couldn’t quite remember how many clothes he had on when he was in the Land of Gentleness. He felt so uncomfortable at the time that he might have torn them off himself in a daze. “I’ll explain it later! I’ll be upstairs right away!”

After he finished speaking, he cut off the spiritual connection and said to Hua Cheng: "Sanlang, we have to go to Xinxianjing!"

Over there, Hua Cheng had already collected the newly carved Ghost King statue, turning it into a small statue that could stand in the palm of his hand, and said, "Okay!" He drew a formation in a few seconds. After a while, the two of them went straight to the Nanyang Palace in Xinxianjing. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Feng Xin, and when he saw Hua Cheng, his eyes widened: "Blood Rain Visiting Flower? Why are you here too? What are you doing in heaven?!" A ghost king in desperate situation, not staying in his own territory all day, going to Xianjing whenever he wants, is too outrageous!

Hua Cheng ignored him, listened for a moment, and said, "It's a report. The Heavenly Court will not go back on its word, will it?"

Feng Xin naturally knew what Hua Cheng was talking about. Wasn't it the report that "the Heavenly Court must report the heroic deeds of the Blood Rain Flower Hunter who saved the gods and immortals for a whole year"? Veins popped out on his forehead, and he said, "What's the point of reporting in the middle of the night! Everyone needs to rest too, so we'll report during the day!"

Hua Cheng then said "Oh", probably to let it go. Xie Lian said, "Well, whatever you want! Let's get to the point. Where is the 'I' you saw? Where did he go?"

Feng Xin pointed in a direction and said, "It ran over there. I was just about to chase it when you guys came up!"

Xie Lian suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, and said, “Let me ask, that direction, could it be…”

Feng Xin said straightforwardly: "In the direction of Xuanzhen Palace."

Xie Lian: “…”

Hua Cheng said in a deep voice: "Let's go!"

The two of them didn’t dare to delay and rushed to Xuanzhen Hall, broke through the door and rushed in. When they rushed in, they saw Mu Qing sitting on the altar, as if he had just seen something incredible, and was completely stunned. Xie Lian went up to him and waved his hand in front of him, saying, “Mu Qing?”

When he saw Xie Lian, he finally came to his senses, but he was still shocked. After a long while, he asked, "Xie Lian, what are you doing?"

Xie Lian: "...What did I do? I...I don't know what I did. Please tell me?"

Mu Qing still stared, and asked: "What were you doing running into my palace in the middle of the night with your clothes in disarray???"

"..." Hua Cheng narrowed his eyes. Xie Lian said, "Don't say things that would cause misunderstanding! No matter what you saw just now, it definitely wasn't me!"

Mu Qing covered half of his face, as if he wanted to dig out what he had just seen. He said with a sullen face: "It's not you, but you are also responsible! It's the statue in the grotto, right? What are you doing, letting that kind of immoral statue run around in the middle of the night, you and Xueyu Tanhua don't have to play like this, right?!"

Hua Cheng sneered: "What does it have to do with you?"

Mu Qing said angrily: "What do you mean it's none of my business? This is my palace!"

Hua Cheng said leisurely: "I also have a part in rebuilding Xianjing."

“…”

To be honest, because they were seriously injured before going to heaven, many priests had to secretly ask the Lord of Ghost City for help. In fact, the construction of this new Xianjing was really inseparable from Huacheng. Xie Lian said, "We are not playing around, this is an accident. Where is it now?"

Mu Qing said: "It stole a sword from me and ran to..."

Without him saying anything more, Xie Lian knew where to go. In the garden outside Xuanzhen Hall, there was a clanging sound. At the same time, the small statue of the Ghost King that Hua Cheng was carrying also fell down by itself, jumping and hopping towards the direction of the garden.

Xie Lian rushed out immediately, and sure enough, the statue of Gentle Country was standing on the rockery in the garden!

The statue's clothes were disheveled, revealing most of its smooth shoulders and chest, and its lower garments were vague, quite ambiguous. The sculpture of the statue's face was even more amazing, with its brows furrowed, as if one could see the blush and sweat on its skin, a work of genius. Right now, it was holding the sword it had snatched from Xuanzhen Hall, clang clang, clang clang! It was trying to stab itself with the sword again and again, naturally wanting to do the same as Xie Lian did in the past, to detoxify itself by injuring itself.

But because the stone refined in the copper furnace was so strong, the sword could not penetrate it at all, and it was bent instead. It seemed to be desperate, and raised its palm, about to smash its head with a palm. Xie Lian hurriedly shouted: "Calm down! Calm down!"

The statue looked at him with a hazy look in its eyes, and Xie Lian flew up and hit it with his palm, causing it to fall off the rockery and lie in a cave, unable to stand up. Hua Cheng also flashed to Xie Lian's side and threw something down.

It’s the statue of the Ghost King!

Rather than saying that the Ghost King statue was thrown down by Hua Cheng, it was more likely that it broke free after seeing the young god statue. Once it was out of his hand, it regained its original slender shape in the air and fell down, covering the god statue. A gasp was heard from below. Xie Lian quickly jumped off the rockery and pushed Mu Qing, who had rushed over after hearing the noise, into the Xuanzhen Hall, saying, "It's too late! Sorry, can you borrow the treasure land for a while!"

Mu Qing was shocked: "What did you just do?"

Xie Lian said, “I’ll explain it later. I’m so sorry!”

Hua Cheng said slowly: "What is there to be sorry about? You have saved this man's life so many times."

Mu Qing: "No, you should explain it clearly now. I seemed to see you throw a you down, and he throw a he down, am I right? So what are you doing? What's happening in the rockery now?"

Xie Lian almost grabbed him by the neck and dragged him into the hall, “It’s urgent! I really want to express my admiration for you, don’t go over there! Why are you doing this?”

Mu Qing roared, "Xie Lian!!! What are you doing in my temple? I'm fucked, I'm really fucked!"

"That wasn't us! It was just an accident, it's really too late... and you're mixing up the words again!"

·

An hour later, the two statues had finally used up all the magic power they had absorbed from Xie Lian and Hua Cheng.

After taking a look inside the rockery, Xie Lian held his forehead with his hand.

Hua Cheng dealt with the statue, while Xie Lian quietly went out to stop Feng Xin and Mu Qing who wanted to come over to see what was going on. He said sincerely, “You don’t want to see this.”

Feng Xin was not a curious person to begin with, and he had a bad feeling, so he retreated wisely. Mu Qing, however, could not let it go, his face was as black as the bottom of an old pot, he swung his sleeves wildly, and muttered madly: "I can't believe it... I can't believe it! How could such a thing happen! How could such a thing happen in my temple!" Then he floated away like a ghost, and he was afraid that he would never be able to look directly at the rockery in his temple again. Xie Lian suspected that he would chop it down with a palm later.

To be honest, Xie Lian himself couldn’t believe that such a ridiculous accident had occurred. He really didn’t know whether he should feel ashamed or not. He turned around and looked at the two statues—no, now it should be said that “one” statue, and he said, “Are they… just like this?”

Hua Cheng said: "That's it. We can't be separated anyway."

Xie Lian covered his face.

How can a priest's statue be in this shape? How can people see it? It's so indecent, it's really unreasonable!

He groaned, "...Sanlang, hide them... well. Don't let anyone see them."

Hua Cheng smiled and said, "Of course. Don't worry, brother."

After bringing the two merged statues back to the Pantheon Cave, where they had finally returned to their proper places, Xie Lian wiped the sweat off his face.

The other statues of Xie Lian in the Cave of Ten Thousand Gods gathered around curiously again, but were coaxed away by Xie Lian: "Don't look at anything inappropriate, don't look at anything inappropriate."

They had no choice but to leave. Although they did not see the final form of the statue with their own eyes, they looked back as they walked, as if they were envious of the gentle "Xie Lian" who finally had a "partner".

The poison of the gentle land was cured, but the other statues were still missing a perfection. No one appreciated the prince's pleasure, no one helped him when he was drunk, and no one sent him on the swing...

Xie Lian couldn't help being greedy, and thought to himself, "It would be nice if every Xie Lian could have a Hua Cheng."

Unexpectedly, Hua Cheng also said the same thing: "Brother, don't you think it would be better for every prince to have a Sanlang?"

The two hit it off immediately and stayed in the Cave of the Gods to show off their skills.

Soon, Xie Lian witnessed the entire process of Hua Cheng transforming a heavy stone into a nimble and delicate stone statue. The skill was indescribable, because it was so fast that he couldn't see clearly how Hua Cheng did it. It seemed that Hua Cheng had already integrated the skill into his magic. He could only admire it.

Anyway, Hua Cheng turned around and pulled out a newly carved child from the rubble. The child had messy hair, ragged clothes, and a bandage on his face. He looked pitiful, holding something in his palms. Xie Lian put his hands on the child's head and blessed it, while Hua Cheng gave it some magic power. After a while, it blinked and turned its head to look around. It saw someone holding the back of its clothes, and it kicked him hard.

Hua Cheng seemed to have expected him to do this, and dodged it easily, holding it in his hand, letting it struggle and kick. Xie Lian had not expected this little Hua Cheng to be so fierce, and laughed: "Oh, so fierce!"

Hua Cheng made a "tsk" sound and threw it away. The kid fell to the ground with a "thump" and quickly got up, staring at Hua Cheng fiercely. Xie Lian was worried that he had thrown it too hard, so he stretched out his hand to it and said, "San Lang, you threw it too hard! Be careful not to break it." If you really count, this kid should have just been born!

Hua Cheng said indifferently: "It doesn't matter, he has a very strong vitality."

The kid was extremely vicious towards Hua Cheng, but very friendly towards Xie Lian. When he saw Xie Lian waving at him, he was about to walk over. At this moment, the statue of Prince Yue not far away seemed to sense something, walked down from its seat and looked over here.

When the child saw the statue of Prince Yue, he was stunned. The one eye that appeared outside the bandage opened wide, and he ran over with a thump, as if he wanted to grab him and throw himself on his clothes, but he didn't dare to get too close and dirty the robe of the god. After a long time, he carefully stretched out his hand to him and opened the palm that had been holding him tightly before.

It turned out that what was hidden in his palm was a small flower.

The prince accepted the flower, smiled, stretched out his hand, and took him up. The two of them walked away happily. It seemed that one had finally found someone who could appreciate his sword dance, and the other had finally found someone who could give him flowers.

Xie Lian looked at them with great satisfaction. Suddenly, he thought of another question and said, “Sanlang, when you have finished carving, won’t there be many statues of you and me in the Cave of the Gods? Will they mistake one for the other? After all, many of them look the same.”

Hua Cheng smiled and said, "No."

"Why?"

Hua Cheng said it again, "No."

He looked up at Xie Lian, smiled slightly, and said, "Even if 'Your Highness' made a mistake, 'I' would not make a mistake. Because a Huacheng will always be a believer of only one Your Highness, and will only be loyal to one person. So, never."

Xie Lian also stared at him and blurted out, “I wouldn’t be wrong. There is only one most loyal believer in Xie Lian, and I will always remember him. I…”

After saying this, he suddenly felt embarrassed.

Now, they are like two little kids who have made a promise to each other: "You are my favorite forever, and only you." Although sincere, it is childish.

Although naive, it is very sincere.

After a moment of silence, Xie Lian coughed and said, “Then… Next, let’s help His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who is swinging on the swing carve a Ghost King who is pushing the swing.”

No one helped it push the swing, and it looked very lonely and distressed. Hua Cheng happily said, "Okay."

Xie Lian continued, “What about the one drinking? This one is a bit of a headache. It seems confused and even cries. Oh, there are too many statues here. I wonder when we can finish carving them all.”

Hua Cheng smiled and said, "What are you afraid of? Take your time, you will encounter them eventually."

Xie Lian also nodded with a smile and said softly, “Yes, we will definitely meet him.”

Inside the grotto, the two originally independent stone statues have now become one.

They hugged each other tightly, gazing at each other's faces so close to each other, their eyes and bodies were as entangled as each other, truly inseparable.