Chapter 001: Cloud Village
"Three days and three nights!".
The beige eyes rolled, and the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes squeezed into five eyebrows.
The head full of white hair swayed back and forth on his little neck, looking at the Sky Clan on his back under the stone platform, and quietly looking up to listen to him tell the ancient legend of Panxing.
"That's right, it's the battle of three days and three nights, so that the sun and the moon have no light, and the ancient heavenly court has been damaged and fell to the ground, becoming the current Fuxian Lake.
In particular, after the Battle Tower Emperor and the Seven Great War Generals, not only was there no news at all, but today, after 10,000 years, it has disappeared so that we are little known...".
Standing on a white stone platform in the corner of the wall, an old man with a white beard who reached his waist was spitting ink and telling people ancient legends.
Speaking of the big battle, he was excited, his face was wrinkled into a ball, and his short body made the Sky Clan people who passed by laugh and pointed.
"Hey, that kid, why are you here again, every time you listen to me and run, you don't know how to reward some throat moisturizers, you, open for me, go back to where you came from...".
The little old man just finished telling the excitement, and he was thinking about how to scrape these listeners and let them reward them a little more, and his stomach is not very full today!
As a result, the kid who had only listened for five days and disappeared after listening to it came again, this kid looked at his clothes, everyone knew that he was the child of the poorest family, although this cloud village was small enough and too poor!
Ever since he came to this remote Yuncun Baiyu five days ago, this kid likes to come and listen to his stories.
But it's too picky, Xingtong is reluctant to reward one, and he doesn't want to give a little bit of the ingredients that can fill his stomach, and he wants me to show you as a monkey for free?
If you want to be free, don't give a reward, let you remember it for a long time today, and what you get without work will make people feel guilty!
It's a pity that the little old man forgot to be born as a wise creature, and there is a spirit that can be compared to people!
The more you grow, the more you can't lose your cheekiness!
"Hey, you're still running!". As soon as the little old man stepped down from his little short leg standing on the stone platform, he turned around and saw that the child had run away.
"Haha, let's see, this is the end of just listening to the story and not giving a throat moistening fee, everyone give a little bit, fill your stomach, and in the next story, we will tell the story that the jade-faced fairy and the Dugu Emperor are difficult to describe and have to be whispered!".
When the little old man saw that the child was nowhere to be seen, he walked back and looked at the listeners, who were still looking down and discussing.
He used the usual tricks, and the seductive words really made the audience below start to feel their bags.
"Hehe, thank you for the reward, the cost is on my star herald!". The little old man hurriedly picked up the bag placed on the stone platform, bent down and bowed his head to the audience.
The autumn wind blew up, and the white mist around Baiyu Village was blown away, and some figures appeared up and down, descending from the sky to the cloud level.
At this time, the autumn wind became more and more intense, blowing away the fog that clinged to the ground, revealing the white ground with potholes, and some of the water on the ground reflected the brilliance, which was a beautiful arc caused by the refraction of the sunset sun from the place where the sky was not tightly foggy.
Suddenly, from all over the surrounding clouds, there were shouts calling for food.
I saw that the people who were still surrounding the little old man scattered noisily, and one by one they rose to the sky barefoot, and dispersed happily.
"Cut, I'll run away after shouting for dinner, I don't even have enough money to drink Langguo wine tonight, all the low-level Sky Clan people with star veins, hmph! ”。
Sitting on the edge of the stone platform, scratching his feet, the little old man who kept cursing and scolding in his mouth, swept his tools on the white stone platform into the bag, pulled the sealing rope tight, disappeared in an instant, drank the wine in the gourd, wiped his mouth, and opened a pair of white wings on his back like everyone else, and flew in the direction of the restaurant.
It was only when the little old man passed by others that he found that his wings were much whiter than others, and occasionally there was a flash of green light at the wing nodes.
"Grandpa, I'm back. ”
Pushing open the door woven with grass and rattan, she called out to grandpa, she knew that grandpa must be back at this moment every day.
"You're back in October, aren't you hungry?" a stiff voice sounded in the room.
"What are you going to eat tonight, grandpa!". October Ju's thin body walked up to his grandfather, who was pickling salted fish in the house.
Grandpa looked up, and he stretched the back of his body that could no longer be straightened because of his age. "Well, I was lucky today, I went to the surface river and inserted a few more fish, so I could sell some and make fish to eat tonight. ”
"Wow, does grandpa have meat to eat tonight? It's still fish, but, grandpa, they all say that the ground is very dangerous, you still go, if you meet a demon beast, you can't come back, what should I do in October!" , October Ju had a worried look on his face.
"It's okay, while I can still fly now, I can't starve my grandson, and besides, I went with the mountain hunting team, as long as the demon beasts don't appear in groups, grandpa will be fine." Grandpa said as he marinated the last fish and washed his hands in the basin next to him.
October Ju walked to his grandfather's back, stretched out his thin little hand and stroked his grandfather's thin wings, which had begun to shed feathers, and sobbed in a low voice.
"Good grandson, why are you still crying!". Grandpa was just about to take the remaining two fish to the kiln and cook them when he heard the sound of crying behind him.
"Grandpa, it's all bad for me, if only my wings could fly, you don't have to work so hard, Brother Jin can fly down to Baiyu Village with his father to help pick some wild vegetables and hunt some small beasts. October Ju snorted the snot that was coming out of his crying and choked up.
"You will definitely grow up, good grandson, don't think too much, if it weren't for your mother giving birth to you, you would not be ten years old, you will still be a little flesh-winged!"
Grandpa turned his body and stroked the little head of October Ju, although October Ju was congenitally deficient, but he was always a child who was almost ten years old, he was now old, and his back was hunched, stroking October Ju's head, and he also needed to raise his hands high.
"Grandpa, I just don't want them to say I'm a little waste without a father!" After October knelt down, he threw himself into his grandfather's arms and cried.
"Good grandson, don't listen to others chew their tongues, your parents must have had difficulties back then, otherwise they wouldn't have placed you in the Amazing God Gorge where the chrysanthemums are in full bloom, fortunately, grandpa and the captains heard the cry when they were hunting over there, and you could live."
Fate, I'm lucky to be alive!
On the bright side, if you can have wings to grow, it means that you are also a clan member of the sky, and if you go to the Qing Palace in the future, you will know who your parents are!
The villagers won't drive you away, but they don't know which branch of the Sky Clan your parents belong to, you should have heard of the half-demons, they live on the earth, and in addition to guarding against the Terrans, there are also star beasts who don't want to see them.
Where we are safe in the sky, at least we can sleep well, knowing that the most important thing in the world is to live, and then we can think about other goals!"
Grandpa's words rang in my ears, and the story of the half-demon and the human race that my grandfather said came to mind, and the neighbors on the street talked about the most in a day were also the half-demon and the human race, as well as the terrifying beasts.
October Ju thinks about it in his heart, and now he is a lot happier.
"Don't think about it so much, if you have time, go to the Yuntai on the edge of the village to look at the sky outside, let your mind open up, and your mood will naturally be beautiful, I heard that if you go to the heavenly court in the center of the Panxing Continent, where is the sky more beautiful, and the sky is bluer!".
When Grandpa said this, his eyes showed a yearning, full of yearning for where he could live in the Heavenly Court, and heard that where was the beauty of the life of the Sky Clan.
"Well, grandpa, I will live well, grow up and honor grandpa, and then look for my parents, I want to ask them why they abandoned me, then grandpa, where have you been? October Ju raised his head and looked at his grandfather, his eyes exploring.
"Grandpa, I haven't been there, that's still the news I heard when I was a child, and the adults who came to inspect the Qing Palace before said it, but it's a pity that I wasn't selected because of the inferior star vein, and I missed it!" Grandpa said this, there is no regret, only buried in reality for sustenance.
It's a pity that after his son grew up, his son was in a battle with a demon beast and never came back.
It's dead, this person is gone.
Looking down at October Ju, he stretched out his yellowish-brown left hand, and he patted her thin back. "Good grandson, this world is natural selection, survival of the fittest, if grandpa leaves, you have to learn to swallow your anger, don't always offend people,
We have nothing to compare with others, if we are not happy, just think about the hardships of those half-demons, they live in the crypt, not only to guard against the plundering team of our Sky Clan, but also to constantly alert the Star Demon Beasts and Terrans on the ground around us, in fact, we are already very lucky!".
"Well, grandpa, I know, so I never get into trouble, they bully me, I just run away, no one can catch up with me. October Ju opened his big eyes and looked at his grandfather attentively, his eyelids flickering.
"Well, the good grandson is the most well-behaved and the fastest, and when our good grandson's wings grow, he must also be the fastest and strongest Sky Clan in our sky!" Grandpa looked at the happy October Ju, and also laughed and praised her without hesitation.
"Grandpa, I'm hungry, I'm all cooing, let's cook fish to eat, I'll light a fire for grandpa. Breaking away from her grandfather's embrace, she wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, got up and walked to the stove brick.
"Okay, my grandson is so good. Grandpa listened to October Ju's words and picked up the remaining two fish with relief.
"Grandpa, today I went to the street and listened to the story of the old man with a white beard who was a star herald, but I had no money, he wanted me to give a reward, and then I ran away, isn't it wrong, do you want to leave a fish for him tomorrow!". The Tang people lifted the dry wood, and the flames that came out crackled.
"Oh, that Star Herald always cheats you country people who haven't been to a big city for nothing, grandpa, when I was young, we had a captain who was a Star Clan's seventh-order Sky Clan, and he came back after going to our Sky Clan city, and also told how big the city was, how safe it was, and rumored stories, and by the way, there were also books of the Terran race!." Grandpa said as he dissected two fish on the dipping board.
"Grandpa, what is a book? And today's white-bearded old man said that the ancient heavenly court fell into the current Fuxian Lake, what else was the Siwei Valve a few days ago, Tianjian Xue Palace, what was it for, but he talked about the Qing Imperial Palace the most, as if we were now under the control of the Qing Imperial Palace!" October Ju stirred the flames under the stove bricks, looked down, and kept talking.
Grandpa's hand paused. "Ahem, good grandson, come, put the fish in the kiln. ”
"Grandpa, do we have books? October Ju still said inquiringly, not paying attention to his grandfather's face.
"Good grandson, put this fish in too, and grandpa will go and turn some rain over. Grandpa walked out the door at a quicker pace than usual.