Chapter 86
Chapter 86
"Ci Yan! Resign the city lord!"
A loud cry appeared in a quiet environment, which was especially harsh.
Yu Junyan came aggressively, ignoring the guards' obstruction, and rushed forward. When he saw Ci Yan, he pushed the person away and ran straight over, turning a blind eye to Sun Yun and Jiang Ziming who were about to be arrested.
His clothes were disheveled, with blood stains on them, and he was in a state of embarrassment. He questioned Ci Yan, "The city is full of demons, what are you doing!"
Ci Yan looked up at him, but didn't speak.
"Where's the city lord?" Seeing her silent, Yu Junyan jumped up and down a few times angrily, holding back his anger and looking around, his eyes fell on the study room, "There are many casualties in the city, demons are breeding, and they are about to become ghosts in the city. People are panicking, dragons have no leader, why is the city lord hiding?"
"Second son!"
Yang Zhi came in a hurry, stopped him from entering the study in time, and stopped him, "I have something to do in the city, I really don't have time to see you, the city is chaotic right now, you should go back and take care of the Yu family!"
"The city is in great chaos right now, the most urgent thing is to find out the source of the monsters, and save the people in the city by subduing them. The Yu family is nothing compared to the innocent people in the city. Don't stop me, Uncle Li. If the city lord doesn't show up again, the people in the city are still alive The heart dies first." Yu Junyan was agitated, and he hesitated again and again because Li Zhi was an elder, so he was about to move his hand, "Before going to battle, you should not hurt the heart of a soldier. Doesn't Uncle Li understand this point?"
Li Zhi was so stunned by his words that he was speechless. The second son of the Yu family, who had always been foolish and domineering, had such a pattern, which made him, an elder who only knew how to protect the rise and fall of the Ci family, ashamed.
Seeing Li Zhi not letting go, Yu Junyan clenched his fists angrily and asked, "Ci Yan, what are you doing! What is the city lord doing! What is Ci's doing!"
He asked three times in a row, his face was red when he asked, and he wished he could immediately drag City Lord Ci to the city gate to calm the panic.
Ci Yan bowed her head in shame, not daring to make a sound.
"Ci Yan!"
Yun Zheng said: "I'll go with you."
Yu Junyan: "Who are you, what can you do!"
Yunzheng knew that he was in a hurry for the safety of the city, but it was useless for him to be so aimlessly anxious, what Ci Yan did was also to save the people in the city, but the methods were different.
He teleported forward, raised his hand to restrain Yu Junyan, and sealed his mouth accurately. He stared angrily and jumped on the spot in a hurry.
Jiang Ziming and Sun Yun looked at each other, both understood what the other meant, and followed Yun Zheng to leave first.
Li Zhi came back to his senses when he saw them leaving, and went to help Yan Yan, "Miss, don't force the city lord any more, he's all doing this to resign!"
Ci Yan was unmoved, she didn't let go of his hand, looked up at him, and asked: "Is it at the price of innocent people's lives?"
Li Zhi was dumbfounded.
Ci Yan continued to ask: "Compared to the innocent people in the city, what is the Ci family?"
Yu Junyan understands the truth, but as an elder, he has practiced Taoism for decades, doesn't he understand this truth?However, Li Zhi received the kindness of the people because of Ci's family, so he first thought that he should be Ci's family.
At the time of the stalemate, the spiritual power continuously emitted from the study dissipated, and the door opened.
City Lord Ci was haggard, with a thin face, as if there was only a layer of skin left on his face, and he was completely different from the "living Bodhisattva" who was surrounded by people on the street yesterday.
He glanced at the person kneeling beside Ci Yan, his expression was startled, then he looked at Ci Yan who was kneeling, and tried to approach calmly, but his swaying body betrayed his lack of energy.
Ci Yan raised her eyes to look at him, her eyes trembled with his trembling body, her fists were clenched tightly to resist the urge to stand up and help him.
Li Zhi rushed to help him, but he pushed his hand away, he walked up to him with trembling steps, and Ci Yan kowtowed: "Ci Yan is willing to accompany father to confess his crime."
City Lord Ci stood in front of her, looking down at her head that she dared not lift up, and suddenly knelt down towards her, Ci Yan hurriedly knelt back a few steps, Sun Xiuyuan was stunned, Li Zhi hurriedly knelt down after him.
City Lord Ci: "Today's situation is that Ci's family is to blame, it has nothing to do with you, you don't need to plead guilty."
Ci Yan was already crying, looking at her haggard father, she shook her head, "I am from the Ci family, and others respect me because I am the young lady of the Ci family. Yet?"
Hearing this, the city lord resigned and remained silent.
Li Zhi was heartbroken, "Miss!"
City Lord Ci raised his hand to stop Li Zhi, and said in a deep voice, "Since I took over as Patriarch, I knew that sooner or later there would be a day when Ci's crimes were so serious that I would be ashamed of the immortal sect and the world."
"My daughter wants to ask her father a question."
City Lord Ci looked at her with a look of fear in his cloudy eyes.
Ci Yan's eyes were red and swollen, and her voice was already hoarse. She looked at the gray-bearded and respected Cibai City Lord, who died 30 years ago at the hands of a fierce demon in the Dry Moon Valley. In the past 30 years, Ci's family has never been in danger.
He is a qualified patriarch of Yu Ci's family, a loving father of Yu Ciyan, and a perfect city lord of the people of Cibai City.
but……
Ci Yan was emotional, crying so hard that she couldn't breathe, she gritted her teeth to hold back the crying, but as long as she thought of the possibility of the answer, she couldn't help crying.
With her nails stuck in her palm, she finally asked in a crying voice, "30 years ago."
Just four words made her feel like a knife. She bit her lower lip tightly, biting blood forcefully. Looking at her father who was shocked and his expression changed suddenly, she felt pain all over her body, but she still couldn't give up thinking about it. Confirm the answer with your own ears.
"Yan'er!" Sun Xiuyuan knew what she was going to ask when he heard those four words again, and raised his hand to signal her not to ask again.
"Ah!" Ci Yan cried out of breath, for the first time she couldn't help crying, her shoulders trembled, and her heart and lungs were in severe pain.
Seeing her in great pain, Sun Xiuyuan still wanted to ask the answer. He raised his eyes and looked at City Lord Ci. He was ashamed after hearing the words, and his whole body was trembling slightly.
The answer was self-evident, and Sun Xiuyuan was also terrified.
"Three... 30 years ago"
Ci Yan trembled and continued to ask.
Sun Xiuyuan held down her hand and pulled her nails out of his palm. With tears in his eyes, he looked at City Lord Ci with a begging expression, and finished asking Ci Yan with a sob.
"Thirty years ago, there was a catastrophe in Dry Moon Valley. Is Yaoqing Fairy Yuyun related to this?"
He didn't want to ask a question more like a statement, and the answer seemed to have appeared.
As soon as the words fell, City Lord Ci lost all his strength and fell to the ground, tears gushed out of his cloudy eyes, his muscles bulged, and his mood fluctuated greatly.
Li Zhi held his hand nervously, "City Lord!"
"Cough~" City Lord Ci kept coughing, and stopped Li Zhi's concern with trembling hands. Looking at Ci Yan, who was crying and collapsing, and Sun Xiuyuan, who bowed his head and endured it, he was deeply saddened.
Their generation is different from them.
The disciples of Ci's family, as long as they have spiritual power, go to the city to help. Now the house is empty, silent and lonely, and Ci Yan's crying echoes in it, making it even more desolate.
City Lord Ci bowed his head and exhausted 30 years of strength before he could say, "Yes."
The answer seemed to be unimportant, but when she heard the answer with her own ears, Ci Yan still couldn't believe it.
Sun Xiuyuan burst into tears like rain, soaking the ground in front of his eyes.
"Yan'er, I'm sorry for my father."
Ci Yan gritted her teeth and shook her head, not daring to say a word.
"Three days later, I will confess my sins in front of the fairy gate, and at that time, I will gather the power of hundreds of schools to subdue the demons and save the innocent people in the city."
Hearing this, Ci Yan looked up at him, shook her head desperately, but couldn't make a sound to keep him.
Li Zhi: "City Lord! No way!"
City Lord Ci's eyes were firm, and he looked at Sun Xiuyuan, "Xiuyuan, the old man has never asked you for anything. After I plead guilty, Xianmen will punish Zhici's family from top to bottom. I beg you to protect Yan'er and save the innocent people of Ci's family. "
After saying that, he solemnly kowtowed to him.
Sun Xiuyuan kowtowed three times in a row, each one making a muffled sound.
Seeing this, City Lord Ci had a wry smile on his lips, looking at Ci Yan full of guilt and reluctance.
Li Zhi hurriedly helped him up, he hesitated to speak.
City Lord Ci put all his strength on Li Zhi's body, and walked forward tremblingly.
Ci Yan looked at his hunched body, opened her mouth several times but could not call out "Father", the figure who had been guarding her since she was a child moved further and further away, and finally disappeared in front of her eyes.
She couldn't bear the colic in her viscera any longer, she opened her mouth to spit out her painstaking efforts, and Sun Xiuyuan panicked in fright.
Ci Yan looked at the blood in her hands, her mind seemed to be blocked by something, she was drowsy, like a dream, and couldn't tell the truth from reality.
In her ears were Sun Xiuyuan's shouts, but she opened her mouth but couldn't make a sound.
"Yanyan!"
It was Yu Junhao's voice, how dare she like the eldest son of the Yu family, she had the face to pester him, how could she have the face to question why he dared not marry her.
How dare she!
Yu Junhao fell down in front of her, ignoring his embarrassment, he hurriedly held her bloody hand to feel her pulse.
Shortness of breath, disturbed breath, blocked tendons.
There is no sign of survival, which is a symptom of heart death.
He turned pale with fright, hugged her into his arms, and kept giving her spiritual energy, but she couldn't receive it at all, and she didn't respond to his shouts at all.
Sun Xiuyuan couldn't answer him, he was already immersed in the collapsed emotions, so he had no choice but to cast a spell to block his spiritual power, and roared loudly: "Yu Junhao! Calm down! Listen to me!"
Only then did Yu Junhao regain his senses and look at him.
"Now you are the only one who can save Yan'er. Listen to me and remember every word I say."
Yu Junhao looked at him and regarded him as a lifeline.
"Yan'er is in prison and has no way out, but she still has unfinished business and won't seek death, but she will definitely die in the city after the incident, so what you want to save is Yan'er in two days' time."
Yu Junhao looked at him blankly, staring at him, waiting for his answer.
Sun Xiuyuan: "Yu Junhao, Yan'er wants to die with all her heart, and she can only live if you save her."
Hearing this, Yu Junhao suddenly realized, and hugged the person in his arms tightly, "I have never blamed her, I have never complained, she is the salvation of my life."
Seeing him like this, Sun Xiuyuan realized that he knew all about it, and dared to hand Ci Yan to him in his heart.
Yu Junhao asked tremblingly, "What should I do?"
"The heart is not dead yet, so why save it?"
A cold voice sounded, and a person came out of nowhere, with black robes, white hair, and indifferent eyes.
Sun Xiuyuan was startled, "Mr. Chen?"
Mr. Chen raised his hand to signal the two of them not to talk, moved to Ci Yan, squatted down to check her breath, and there was a penetrating sneer on the corner of his mouth.
"A thought between life and death."
Hearing this, Yu Junhao hurriedly begged him, "Mr. Chen, please save Yanyan."
Mr. Chen glanced at him coldly, raised his hand to seal Ci Yan's emotions, pulled her out of the grief, sent her spiritual power to admire her disordered breath, and repaired her tendons .
During the time of a cup of tea, Ci Yan's breathing was stable, her blood was circulating, and she gradually regained her vitality.
Ci Yan's eyelashes trembled and showed signs of awakening. Mr. Chen withdrew his spiritual power and said coldly: "Sometimes life is more difficult than death. Life is atonement, and death is liberation."
After speaking, she disappeared before Ci Yan woke up.
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