Ice Fantasy Chapter 4: Illusion City (3)

The Star Sacrificial Platform is as high as ten thousand ren, and the hustle and bustle of the entire empire is far away at your feet. There is a faint divine comedy-like string sound undulating above his head. Like a metaphor from the gods.

Xing Jiu, do you know what happened to the fire in Mirage Sky? I know, dear king, that your father asked me the same question, but forgive me, I cannot say.

Is there someone from the fire family who wants to hurt Shi? Xing Jiu came over, knelt down in front of me, and crossed his hands. He said: Ka Suo, my future king, no one wants to hurt Ying Kong Shi, you trust me. It's just Wang, some things are not as simple as you imagined. Ka Suo, the red lotus is about to bloom, the twin stars will eventually converge, the wheel of fate has already begun, please wait patiently... Later Shi only has one eye. I always feel empty and sad when I see Shi wearing a blindfold, but Shi always tells me it's okay, his smile is sweet and warm.

He leaned over, kissed my brow, and called me bro. The cherry blossoms kept fading and drifting away in the wind, falling on my shoulders and his.

After a series of turbulent events, the father began to worry about the safety of the empire, so he seemed to consider passing the throne to the spiritually powerful Shi. Every time I pass by Lian Ji, I always see her weird and alluring smile.

My father once asked Shi in the hall, and he said: Shi, do you really want to be a king? Interpretation: Yes, I really want to be a king. What brother wants is freedom, please give him freedom and give me the throne.

Lian Ji's smile spread across the country and city. One day under the cherry tree, I asked Shi: Do you want to be a king so much? Bro, do you want to be king?

I don't want to. I shook my head, I want to go back to the snow fog forest, where there is no heavy snow, warm as spring, and my mother-in-law, the person who taught me the first illusion.

Brother, since you don't want to, let me be the king.

Cherry blossoms are falling like snow, and I can hear the snowbirds in the sky, and the ice and snow begin to melt.

Er Shi's smile is as beautiful as his mother's, even more beautiful.

It's another winter, and it's snowing heavily. The little princess of the Deep Sea Palace has grown up, and I have heard many people talking about her beauty and radiance, as well as the purest blood in her body. The concubines of the royal family are all from the Deep Sea Palace, my mother's queen is, and so is Lian Ji. Before the age of 130, they all looked like mermaids, and after they reached adulthood at the age of 130, they would turn into beautiful women and enter Renxue City.

"This little princess will be your princess, Ka Suo, she is the future queen." Father led the princess Lan Shang who had just turned into a human to me, and I saw Lan Shang's beautiful face and smile , she crouched down in front of me, crossed her hands, and said to me: Ka Suo, my future king. At that moment, I suddenly thought of Li Luo, she is also at the bottom of the Deep Sea Palace, I don't know if she will become a mermaid with pure blood in the next life. Looking at Lan Shang, I almost thought she was Li Luo, their faces were so similar. She came over and took my hand, tiptoed to kiss my eyebrows. Then I heard Shi's evil and grim laughter.

Father, maybe Lan Shang chose me, why do you have to let Lan Shang and Ka Suo be together?

Shi walked up to me, pulled Lan Shang over, stroked her hair, and said to her: Your hair is truly silver-white, you must have the purest blood, marry me, I can protect you suffer any harm.

Lan Shang smiled and said: Shi, my dear little prince, I love your brother, and you are just a younger brother in my heart. In fact, I have known your brother since I was a mermaid. I love him and I want to be his bride. I believe he can protect me and let me grow old under his shoulders.

Really? Shi suddenly approached Lan Shang's ear mysteriously, and said in a low voice: But, Ka Suo is not the strongest illusionist, for example, if I want to kill you, what can you do? What can he do?

Then Shi turned and left, weird laughter permeated the air, and landed on every part of Renxue City together with the snow.

Like a dark prophecy, one month later, Lan Shang died under the cherry blossom tree. When she died, her lower body was a fish tail.

Both the emperor and the empress were tight-lipped about this matter, not allowing anyone in the palace to reveal a word. It's just that many people say that Lan Shang committed suicide. Only Lian Ji's smile still permeated my surroundings strangely.

Grandma, why did Lan Shang die with a fish tail? Hasn't she already become a human?

Ka Suo, the mermaid clan has been a marriage clan of the royal family for thousands of years. Because they are of noble birth and their ability to manipulate water is at its peak, the marriage between the royal family and them will produce offspring with the strongest spiritual power. That's why Liluo couldn't be the queen. A mermaid transforms into a human form at the age of 130, however, if she is defiled before she is formally married to a royal prince, then she reverts to her mermaid form.

Grandma, do you know who defiled Lan Shang? I have no idea. Mother-in-law, did Lan Shang commit suicide?

I don't know either, Ka Suo, I'm not an astrologer, maybe Xing Jiu can tell you.

Xing Jiu, can you tell me how Lan Shang died? To commit suicide, water penetrated all internal organs from the inside of the body. Then why did she commit suicide?

Because she was defiled and her lower body returned to fishtail, she felt it was a shame. And, she loves you very much. So can you tell me who defiled her?

King, I always told you no before, so this time, I want to show you a dream, your own dream. There is a secret in this dream, just see if you can see it. If you can, then all the things that bother you will be solved.

The dream that Xing Jiu gave me was actually the scene where Shi and I passed the highest-level test of illusion. Shi and I were clasping the ring fingers of our left hands, chanting spells, and raising snowflakes on the ground. I have been walking in and out of this dream, but I don't know why Xing Jiu wants me to see this dream, I can't figure it out.

Until the end of this winter, my father solemnly announced me as the next king in the hall. That night I entered that dream again, and then I found the answers to all my questions. In that dream, when Shi and I were performing the illusion at the same time, I clasped my ring finger with my left hand, while Shi's right index finger was still flexing and stretching inadvertently. And the flexion and extension of the index finger of the right hand is the illusion gesture of the fire elves. On my way out of the city, I saw it frequently.

Xing Jiu, tell me everything you know. Since when did you know Shi's secret? Started with my horoscope for him. I checked the six astrologers who used to perform astrology, and from their bodies, I found out the reason for their death. Why did they die?

Simple, because Shi killed them with an illusion. It is a very simple illusion, which is to freeze the water in the body of those astrologers and pierce their internal organs. Theoretically speaking, these astrologers have very strong witchcraft abilities. This kind of basic internal attack is almost useless for them. A casual defense will also make the assassination fail. Just because Shi is the prince, no one will doubt him, and those astrologers will not be wary of him, so he can easily succeed.

What about you, Xing Jiu. When Shi cast the illusion, I quietly deciphered it, and that little illusion couldn't trouble me. But Shi knew I was wary of him. On the day of astrology, after everyone left, he came to me and said: Xing Jiu, you are a great astrologer. If you forget about today, then you can go on living. With your intelligence, you should know how vulnerable an astrologer is to an illusionist.

Why doesn't someone else astrology for him? Because he didn't want others to know that he knew the fire illusion. So what about Hyun Ta's death?

It was Shi who killed him. That phantom sky fire? It was set on fire.

So... how about Lan Shang's death? Is it still what Shi did? Shi defiled her, and Lan Shang committed suicide in shame. So, Xing Jiu, what did the painting you gave me back then mean? Wang, there are some things I still can't tell you now. Wang, do you know? In fact, in the year when Shi became an adult, he asked me to do astrology for him, and I was the first person to do astrology for him. That time, I gave him a dream. I had never seen that dream myself. It was gorgeous to the extreme, but it was terrifyingly weird. One day, I will give you that dream, because you are also the owner of that dream.

Xing Jiu, can you tell me about that dream now? cannot. But there is a dream, I can give it to you right now, that is Lan Shang's dream before he died. After speaking, Xing Jiu left and went to Xing Xingtai. And I, standing in front of the gate of Renxue City, looking around, heavy snow covered the entire black land. I was sad to see the green of the northern snow-fog forest stretching on the horizon. In a trance, I heard the sound of water dripping when Xuanta died, I heard the sound of the Phantom Palace collapsing in the fire, I heard the mermaid singing when Lan Shang died, and then I heard Shi calling me in the fire, brother .

My tears flowed down, dripping on the white marble steps, and froze.

That night I sat on the roof of the palace, under the clear moonlight, I walked into Lan Shang's dream. In the dream, I saw Xiao Lanshang when she was a mermaid. She was swimming in the icy sea beside Renxuecheng, she was as light as a butterfly in the sea. At the same time, I also heard the voice in her heart, the beautiful singing voice, it was the mermaid singing in the legend - I knew that the man on the roof was Ka Suo, the future king of the Illusory Snow Empire, I always saw him every day Sitting on the roof at night, my eyes are filled with vast starlight.

His face has a deep outline carved by the cold wind, and his eyebrows fly into his temples. The wind came from all directions, blowing his long hair that reached the ground and the snow-like illusion robe, and his hair spread out like smooth satin in the wind. I don't understand why he keeps losing sleep, it's just that I know I come here every night after I see him, and I imagine myself with him, under the same starlight.

Grandma told me that I am the most beautiful child in Deep Sea Palace and I will be the future princess. When I become a human, I will be his wife, Ka Suo, my future king. I will accompany him to sit on the roof every night and watch the stars every night, so Ka Suo, my future king, please wait for me... When I saw Shi, Shi was standing by the spring of Mirage Sky, His reflection clearly appeared on the water, and the cherry blossom trees next to him were covered with snow, and the snowflakes fell into the spring one after another, shaking Shi's reflection slightly.