Or a long, endless darkness.

In the darkness it was still the splendid palace.

Yu Ling didn't know how he existed, he only knew that he had been here for a long, long time, so long that he had almost forgotten who he was. He watched the little boy in the palace grow into a teenager, and sometimes he felt that he was this man.

Yu Ling still remembers that he didn't know which time he dreamed of this boy, when he was forced by his master to practice swords, he froze to a coma in the cold wind and snow, and no one took care of him when he was seriously ill, and even the medicinal materials he had worked so hard to get were trampled to pieces, and finally he crawled back to his residence little by little.

Yu Ling was very impressed by the boy's numb and indifferent gaze like a dead man, which should not have belonged to a child.

From the last time he dreamed of this boy to now, he seems to have grown from five or six years old to fourteen or fifteen years old, but his face has always been blurred, making Yuling unable to see it really.

Who is this child, and why do you keep dreaming about him?

These doubts had been swirling in Yu Ling's mind for a long time, but there was never an answer. It was as if he would always be in this dark and silent space, watching the boy's life from birth to death.

At first, Yuling was still very anxious, since he was conscious, why couldn't he wake up, others would definitely be very worried about his safety, but after a long time, all his emotions were also worn out, and even who was outside cared about him, he couldn't remember clearly.

It was as if his memory was being replaced little by little, little by little, by the memory of the boy.

He seems to have experienced something like this once? When?

Forget it, I can't remember.

Yu Ling just silently watched the young man practicing swords in the palace, and the things that the other party had experienced were enough to make anyone's heart chill.

When he was ten years old, the boy recognized an older sister, the maid in this cold palace, and his only warmth. The girl will secretly bring him good food, will also tell him some very interesting stories, will play with him, will care and comfort him, but one day the girl's private pastry was suddenly discovered, she was caught by the palace guards, beaten to half-crippled, hung in front of the prison door, blood sprinkled all over the ground, until death did not look blind.

That day, the boy knelt in front of the door of the cell and cried all night until he was scolded by the guards to get out.

Later, he took advantage of the change of guards to take down the girl's body and bury it in his small courtyard, but everyone knew that he did it, so his master beat him directly in front of everyone to the point that he had only half a life left.

In order to recuperate from his injury, he spent half a year, and in this half year, the amount of training has not decreased, but has increased.

It was as if everyone was working against him, and he was already covered in bruises.

If the heart grows cold, there will be no room for any light.

When he was twelve years old, rumors spread in the palace that he was not even the illegitimate son of His Majesty the Emperor, but simply the slut who had long since died and the wild seed who didn't know whom, otherwise how could he be wasted like this.

The emperor was furious, and within a few days hundreds of maids in the palace were executed, and the rumors stopped, but the more violent the suppression, the more people believed, and from then on, the eyes surrounding the boy were not only indifferent, but also more contempt and disgust.

At the age of fourteen, the boy had to leave the palace temporarily to avoid the limelight, and his master threw him into a deserted Jedi and left it alone.

In the desolate Gobi Desert, he slept in the sand, and those vultures rushed to eat carrion, drank the blood of beasts, and occasionally was lucky enough to meet the oasis, which was the greatest happiness.

In the gloomy swampy forest, he was bitten by mosquitoes and poisonous snakes countless times, and his life hung by a thread several times, and finally he narrowly found the antidote herb nearby and picked up his life.

In the mountains and cliffs, he was like a wild man with strange beasts, until the last group of apes regarded him as a companion, and spent his days looking for food, which was his happiest time.

For he suddenly understood that sometimes the human heart is more sinister and terrible than a wild beast.

He wandered in this sparsely populated place, saw many landscapes, and experienced many things, and when he returned to the palace from thousands of miles away three years later, no one knew this savage boy anymore.

No one thought he would come back.

They thought he was still a waste, but in fact, the teenager who had sharpened countless back-and-forth between life and death was already more ferocious and terrible than a beast.

It's just that he learned the way to survive from the alien beasts, and those insects that are still weak will always disguise themselves with the changes in the environment, and they are always gentle and harmless to outsiders.

So he also changed a lot, no longer as indifferent as before, but gathered all the sharp fangs, appeared gentle and well-behaved and understanding, with the intuition of a beast, he was sensitive to the changes in the hearts of the people around him as if he could see through it at a glance, but no one could see through what was going on in his heart.

He is like a poisonous snake that lurks patiently, yes, those poisonous snakes are silent and unrevealing before they are ready to attack, and once they appear, they are fatal with one blow, which is the experience he has summed up from countless bites.

At the age of twenty, he had secretly cultivated a line of dead soldiers who only obeyed his orders, and quietly co-opted a series of courtiers who favored him, and through a sophisticated assassination case, he left layers of clues, and finally pointed the finger at one of his imperial brothers.

It was the boy who trampled his dignity to pieces when he was a child.

No one doubted that he was lying on the hospital bed and dying, although this matter was not enough to kill the imperial brother, but the reputation of the other party was also completely ruined, and his status in the emperor's heart plummeted from then on.

After years of secret planning, his revenge plan finally began to start slowly, and those who stood in front of him and those who had been his enemies would be shattered.

When the time is ripe, the original Royal Highness the Crown Prince was captured by the enemy in the other party's campaign, and it was he who leaked the news to a leader of the hostile camp, of course, his hands and feet were naturally clean, no one would trace him, and the clues would only be cut off from an irrelevant person. This incident made the emperor angry and directly abolished the crown prince, but the new candidate could not be determined for a long time.

It's just that among the more than a dozen princes who are particularly outstanding, some of them will never come out because of the assassination case, some of them died early in the course of training, and some of them have no chance of resurrection because of a scandal, and there is no one who is satisfied for a while.

No, there is, but the young prince is almost impossible to sit in this position due to his embarrassing background.

When the young man gradually became a young man, and made great contributions in foreign conquests, the rebellion of the Blue Ridge tribe in the south, encompassing a large area of southwestern territory, coupled with the repeated admonitions of some courtiers, His Majesty the Emperor could not help but gradually waver.

Although he has no evidence, he knows that many things that cannot be said are done by the ruthless son, but he doesn't care about this very much, as long as he has the ability to sit in this position, a ruthless person like this cold and wolf-like is the most suitable.

However, there is still one more opportunity.

If this son who has risen strongly can achieve immortal achievements and do things that no one has done before, then the power of opposition should be reduced to the lowest point.

So he sent this young man who was gradually growing up to the ice region, and let him continue to expand the territory, covering the territory of the Jiuxiang Ancient Kingdom to the land outside the fiefdom.

However, the young man never came back.

Because, he fell into the abyss.

Eight hundred years later, everything is a sea of life.