Volume 1 Poppy Flowers Chapter 4: Dream or Illusion
Where is this?
In a trance, Ping Lili felt that she was being pulled by a powerful force and entered a mysterious space.
The surroundings were filled with mist, except for a faint blue light in the distance ahead. Ping Lili felt her body moving involuntarily towards the light, and walked to the end of the light source. She saw a two-meter-high ice statue appear in front of DDD. In the huge ice, a girl in strange clothes was sleeping. The strange sickle-shaped pattern on the clothes looked like some kind of totem.
Ping Lili felt her body being pulled by that strange force again, and her feet involuntarily walked slowly towards the ice. Only when she got right up to her did she see the appearance of the girl in the ice clearly, "Oh my God!" Ping Lili exclaimed!
Only after a closer look did I realize that the girl in the ice had a face similar to mine!
The same delicate oval face, two faint willow-shaped eyebrows, a small nose and slightly upturned lips, and even a head of black and shiny hair...
If she hadn't been wearing strange clothes, Yinglili would have thought she was looking in the mirror. However, the girl in the ice had a frown on her face, and she was filled with an indescribable sadness. When Yinglili was trying to guess the other person's identity, the girl in the ice suddenly opened her eyes as if she had sensed something, and she was so scared that she took a few steps back.
“You’re finally here.”
After standing there in a daze for a while, he tried hard to restrain his urge to run away. He stroked his chest and asked tentatively, "Are you waiting for me?"
The other party did not answer, but just said to himself: "Since you can find me, you must have met him." "Him? Who is he?" Ping Lili widened his eyes curiously.
"The man I deeply loved five hundred years ago." The woman in the ice said softly. Ping Lili noticed that her eyes were drifting far away, as if she had drifted back five hundred years ago.
"Are you talking about DD Mo Yi?" Ping Lili suddenly remembered something and spoke tentatively.
Sure enough, after hearing Mo Yi's name, the woman in the ice suddenly looked more spirited: "Is he okay?"
"If it is considered good for a person to spend five hundred years alone, then there is probably nothing more cruel in this world." Ping Lili couldn't help but curl her lips.
"Really..." The girl's expression suddenly dimmed, and she murmured: "He must still hate me..."
"Wait, wait, let me spoil the fun by asking, why am I here? Who are you? Why do we have the same face?" Ping Lili was eager to figure out the current situation and couldn't help but interrupt the girl's recollections.
"You? You are me and I am you. The same person will naturally look the same." When the girl said this, there was a look of loss on her face.
"Eh...you mean, you are my previous life? Or another soul in my body?" After saying that, Ping Lili scratched his head awkwardly. He, who was once an atheist, now talks about past and present lives all the time. He always feels a little uncomfortable.
"That's probably it..." The girl seemed to be hesitant to speak.
"Then, who are you? Why are you frozen in the ice?" At this moment, Ping Lili suddenly noticed that there was a faint sickle-like mark on the other person's forehead.
"I am the great wizard Sha Mo who cursed the Nayu tribe. My name is Yao Ji. My body has been destroyed. What you saw was just my frozen soul." The faint voice floated into the ears of Ping Lili, making Ping Lili almost think that he had heard it wrong.
"Ah? What did you say? Are you the wizard who cast the curse? Then, what about what you just said about me being your reincarnation? Why was I cursed too?" Ying Lili was unusually excited. She felt that all this was too nonsensical and she couldn't understand it.
"This is my punishment for myself." The woman named Yao Ji said resentfully. Ping Lili resisted the urge to roll her eyes, crossed her arms across her chest, and waited for her to give a reasonable explanation.
After a long while, Yao Ji continued, "I didn't know Mo Yi was from the Nayu tribe before. Although he has an indifferent personality, he is actually very gentle in his bones. He is not as cruel and bloodthirsty as those Nayu people..."
Gentle in nature? Ping Lili thought of that man's slightly mean mouth, curled her lips and shook her head, not making any comment.
"At that time, the Nayu people massacred Shamo City, and the Shamo clan was about to be exterminated. As the reincarnation of the God of Shamo, I had no other choice, so..."
"So you cursed them?" Ping Lili showed an expression of understanding.
"'Suzaku's Sorrow' cursed them, causing them to kill each other, leaving them powerless to kill innocent people..."
"Let's get to the point. Why is it that even I, no, even you are cursed?" Ying Lili couldn't wait to know the reason why she was implicated for no reason.
"But later I found out that he, Mo Yi, was actually a member of the Nayu tribe, and was also one of the people I cursed." When Yao Ji said this, Ping Lili looked at her with a strange expression.
"In fact, in the battle of Shamo that day, both sides suffered heavy losses. Almost all the masters of the Nayu tribe died in Shamo City, and the remaining ones were just some young people who were not a threat. Therefore, there was no need to cast this vicious curse. At that time, I had to do it because of the insistence of the elders and the situation. But after I knew Mo Yi's identity, I regretted it. I tried all the methods like crazy to try to lift the curse, but..."
"You can't even break your own curse. Is that because you're not skilled enough?" After hearing such a ridiculous explanation, Ying Lili couldn't help but sneer.
"That was passed down orally by the elders of our Shamo tribe. It was a curse created by our ancestor, Lord Jianyi. How could it be easily broken? And since this curse was imposed by the elders, they naturally would not tell me how to break it..."
After hearing this, Ping Lili finally understood the whole story, but she suddenly remembered something: "Are you saying that you and Mo Yi knew each other before? Or that you were old lovers?"
Ping Lili's heart suddenly felt uneasy. In fact, she regretted asking that question. She found herself suddenly afraid to hear Yao Ji's answer, afraid of breaking the trust she had in that person.
"Maybe this is all my wishful thinking. Mo Yi probably won't fall in love with anyone..." When Yao Ji said this, her expression became even gloomier.
"Before I became the great wizard of the Shamo tribe, I had an encounter with Mo Yi." When talking about that encounter, Ping Lili noticed that Yao Ji's expression at this moment was filled with an indescribable brilliance.
"Later, due to a momentary negligence, I was poisoned by a villain, which led to temporary blindness. Being young and arrogant, I naturally could not bear such a blow. Later, I gave up on myself and even tried to commit suicide..." Speaking of those seemingly tragic pasts, Yao Ji's expression did not show resentment, but rather some happiness. Love is really a mysterious thing.
"And then?" Ping Lili tilted her head and patiently motioned for her to continue.
"A lot of things happened later. Mo Yi went alone to the Kongming tribe, which was known as a dangerous place where there is no return, and found the antidote for me, which allowed me to see the light again..."
Although I don't know what the Kongming Clan is, it sounds like they have gone through a lot of hardships. It's no wonder Yao Ji is so infatuated with such a loyal and righteous man. Ping Lili seemed to understand a little.
"But at that time, he only vaguely knew that I was from the Shamo tribe, and didn't know that I would eventually become the chief wizard of the Shamo tribe. And I didn't even know that he was from Nayu. He never mentioned this. So in the end, I made such an unforgivable mistake. In the past five hundred years, I have never even dared to imagine how I should face him..."
"It's fate that plays tricks on us!" After hearing this, Ping Lili couldn't help but sigh. Yao Ji's sadness made her feel sympathetic, but she couldn't understand why Yao Ji's reincarnation would also be cursed: "But I've already been reincarnated, why can't the curse disappear?"
"I pondered for a long time, but I couldn't break the spell I cast. In desperation, I simply cast the curse on myself. At that time, I was not yet eighteen years old. I thought that using my body, the reincarnation of the God of Sha Mo, to experiment should make it easier to find a way to break the curse..." Yao Ji did not tell the complete truth at this time. In fact, she cursed herself just as a bet, betting that her senior teachers would not leave her to die and might reveal some secrets. But she still overestimated her status in the hearts of her senior teachers!
"Then did you fail later?" After asking this question, Ping Lili suddenly felt that her question was quite stupid. Since she still had the mark of Suzaku on her body, it proved that Yao Ji must have failed.
"For a sorcerer, the biggest taboo is to cast a spell on oneself. If you are not careful, you will go astray and be doomed. But at that time, I didn't care about so much. Even if my soul was torn apart, I had to find a way to break the curse." Yao Ji didn't even blink when she said this. She spoke calmly as if she was talking about someone else's family, but every word struck a chord in Yan Lili's heart. "But I eventually went astray. I lost my mind and couldn't control the powerful force in my body. I almost died with Sha Mocheng. In the end, several senior uncles almost exhausted their cultivation to beat me into dust. But my senior brother Wu Su couldn't bear to see my soul destroyed, and begged the senior uncle not to destroy my soul. As an alternative, he personally used magic to seal my soul in this ice..."
When talking about her senior brother Wu Su, there seemed to be a hint of guilt on Yao Ji's face.
"I didn't expect that my senior brother's magic was so amazing. It took five hundred years for the power of the seal to weaken. I fell into the world and reincarnated again. So, now I just need you to help me break the seal of ice. When our soul and body merge into one, I can get all my previous spiritual power. Combined with my five hundred years of dedicated practice, I think I should be able to break the curse now."
When Ping Lili heard this, he suddenly shuddered, and all his consciousness became clear in an instant. If he felt a little touched before, it was now completely replaced by anger.
She couldn't help but roll her eyes. What kind of past life and present life is this? It turns out that she is just a test subject and a tool. She is cursed and hunted by people. Her life is messed up, and in the end she has to share her body with others and become a puppet soul. What kind of nonsense is this?
Thinking of this, her tone was obviously unhappy: "I think there are some things I want to make clear. No matter whether you are my past life or not, since I have been reincarnated as a human, this is my life. I don't think you have the right to decide other people's lives. Whether you want to break the curse or live forever, it has nothing to do with me."
"Without my power, you would not be able to suppress the power of 'Sorrow of the Vermillion Bird', nor would you be able to escape the pursuit of those Nayu people!" Yao Ji was not annoyed, but just spoke calmly.
This kind of indifferent attitude made Gong Lili even more furious: "Please! That was your fault! If you hadn't willfully cast a spell on yourself, I wouldn't have been cursed by that damn 'Sorrow of the Vermillion Bird'! And I don't need your power, I can find a way to break the curse myself, you should just continue to be sealed. I will pretend that I have never seen you, nor heard of these past events, goodbye!"
After saying that, she walked towards the azure light without looking back, leaving Yao Ji in the ice staring at her retreating figure in astonishment, unable to speak for a long time...
