Chapter 1 A Dream for a Thousand Years
"I'm just dead?"
His heart was pierced by the cold golden sword, and his body sank to the bottom of the sea, her indifferent figure reflected in her faded pupils. He thought he would be able to accept the result with peace, but when the tip of the sword passed through his heart, he realized how unbearable the pain in his heart was.
When the last glimmer of light under his eyes disappeared, a white shadow jumped into the water, stretched out his hand to grab him, but in the end he was powerless, and could only let a tear that could not be allowed to hit his face, and watched him sink to the bottom of the sea.
It wasn't until this moment that he realized that, perhaps, he had missed the most correct choice in this life......
"Is this dream again?"
The mirror image of the dream eventually turned into darkness. When he opened his eyes again, the young Jiang Ruoyan pulled up his sleeves and wiped the sweat beads on his face, frightened, confused in his heart, and a trace of pain.
This dream was not the first time it had appeared, and it was too real, as if it had crossed a thousand years of time, conveying something to him.
"Whew, closing my eyes won't let me sleep soundly. Jiang Ruoyan covered her forehead and smiled bitterly.
"The vicissitudes of heaven and earth are a thousand years old, and the bones of the past have turned to ashes. ”
"In the new era, the immortal war spirit is coming again. ”
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The cool valley breeze seemed to hum a light song, blowing through the grass, bringing up a pure white wildflower and falling on Jiang Ruoyan's shoulder.
Tonight, the stars are shining brightly, and the river is shallow.
Among the stars, there are four stars that are particularly dazzling, and they have all reached the level of Ziwei.
Zi Weixing is the lord of the number of fights, the lord of strategy, and the lord of political stars. The light of a purple microstar overshadows the stars, that is, the emperor is the only one, and the world is determined.
However, in this era, there are four Ziwei-level stars, and it is obvious that this world will not be very peaceful.
In the vast universe, there are always many unknowns, and there are also infinite variables, which lead people to reverie, and no one can accurately predict what will happen in the next moment. Just like this chaotic world, no one can imagine which ordinary people who come out of the ordinary alleys and alleys write myths through the ages. Or maybe the whole world will be turned upside down......
"Boy, do you say that the stars in the sky and the Lingyue Realm we live in are just a small Lingyue in the Endless Universe to the Endless Universe?"
"Who knows? I haven't seen it with my own eyes. ”
"Okay, then Lao Tzu has decided, when Lao Tzu takes off the animal path, cultivates his human body, and cultivates to a successful level, he must go to the other side of the starry sky to have a look, to explore the essence and origin of Lingyue, haha. Wow!"
"Hehe, I heard that the lifespan of a dog is only eighteen years at most, may I ask you old Gui Geng, can you still live to that time...... Eh, what do you want to do?"
It turned out that the half-man-tall leper dog had risen from the grassy slope. It grinned at Jiang Ruoyan, with a fierce look, and pounced on Jiang Ruoyan with a "whoosh", just to bite it up.
A man and a dog are entangled.
When he was tired, he lay on his back on the grass again, panting roughly.
There are no earthly trivialities here, only mountain flowers and wild grasses. Here, you can share a starry sky with the earth, mountains, grass, trees, and stone streams, and it is also very pleasant to listen to a dog's idle talk about "the occasion of heaven and man".
Perhaps, only here can Jiang Ruoyan get a moment of peace of mind.
"Hey, boy, look at the star. ”
The dog's paw pointed to a faintly glowing cold star in the depths of the northern starry sky.
"What's wrong?"
Jiang Ruoyan followed its guidance and looked over, the light of the cold star was getting brighter and brighter each time, and it seemed that he was unwilling to succumb to the purple microstar.
"That star is the Taiyin Star, one of the sixteen monarch stars. It's been a thousand years, and the Taiyin Star has finally reappeared!" explained the leper dog with a slightly moved face.
"Taiyin Star?"
Jiang Ruoyan heard of it for the first time. There is no basis, but there is an indescribable familiarity.
The leper dog couldn't help but sigh, and gushed endlessly: "A thousand years ago, the Lingyue Continent, the four regions and Kyushu, the heroes competed for the deer, and the five stars were all rejuvenated. At that time, the Lingyue Realm was the world of the five ancient dynasties and the world of the five emperors. ”
"Taiyin Star is located in the north, representing one of the five emperors, the monarch of the Stygian Moon Dynasty - the Hades Emperor. At that time, the Emperor of the Dead Moon was a real hero, leading the Ancient Moon Wu Clan to annex forty-seven dynasties one after another, and even expanded the imperial territory of the Dark Moon Dynasty beyond the Lingyue Realm, making the Dark Moon Dynasty reach its peak and become the strongest in the Lingyue Realm at that time. Today, one of the important reasons why your Terran forces can quickly expand beyond the realm and conquer the extraterrestrial realm is the 'Gate of the Great Realm River' that the Hades Emperor has completely opened!"
"Oh?" Jiang Ruoyan asked rhetorically, "If he is really as invincible as you say, then why are the four major dynasties of the Holy Dragon, Qinghua, Taizhao, and Sword Star who now dominate the Lingyue Realm, instead of the Stygian Moon Dynasty?
"This ...... This ......"
The leper dog was deflated at once, and his face was a little ugly. Not because Jiang Ruoyan's rebuttal made him speechless, but because it knew very little about the historical events of the fall of the Immortal Emperor.
You know, it once boasted to Jiang Ruoyan that they were omniscient. However, there is no knowledge of that history. Therefore, they have always regarded that historical void as their greatest shame in the past millennium.
A thousand years have passed, not only have they not been able to figure it out, but generations of wise men in the entire Lingyue Realm have also spent their entire lives exploring it, but in the end it has been fruitless.
The reason for the fall of the Hades Emperor and the disappearance of the Guyue Wu Clan is always a mystery.
"Even if he used to be the hero Lingyue, how invincible he was, but what now, isn't it just a white bone left under the thick soil, a pinch of loess? Who can be called the emperor of the Five Emperors, which one is weak? The Emperor of the Underworld is not, and today, the Four Emperors can still laugh and be proud of the world. Jiang Ruoyan said with emotion.
Indeed, since antiquity, it has gone through the Middle Ages and the Early Ages...... The Lingyue realm is full of hundreds of ethnic groups, and there are many strong emperors, and these five people in the era of the Five Emperors are definitely an immortal monument in the long river of history. ”
Immediately, the leper dog thought of something again, and said with a smile: "It is rumored that the only female monarch among the five emperors, Dragon Emperor Xuanyuan Yun, she not only cultivates to be peerless, and her martial arts are unparalleled in the world, but also has the beauty of upside down beings...... Woohoo!"
"Xuanyuan ......"
Looking at the obscene dog, Jiang Ruoyan warned sharply: "Hey, can you also blaspheme the Dragon Emperor?" Also, you are just a leper dog, can you not make such a lewd expression!"
Jiang Ruoyan was already somewhat immune to it, and this dog could really tell any vague anecdotes. Moreover, this leper dog also proudly told Jiang Ruoyan that its ancestors were best at digging into other people's privacy, and even the strongest dragon clan in the primeval period was very jealous of them.
However, let it blow into the sky, Jiang Ruoyan didn't believe it anyway, and just regarded those as small stories after dinner.
"You say, when a person dies, will he turn into stars in the sky to protect the people he loves on the earth?"
Jiang Ruoyan pressed her hands behind her head, looking at the visible Taiyin star, thinking about the lullaby that her mother sang for herself when she was a child.
"No, no, no, that's all a lie!" the leper shook his head wildly, and denied it with a serious face.
Jiang Ruoyan's face suddenly darkened, and she felt very angry. This leper dog is too bad at dealing with dogs, so why should he break his beautiful illusions?
The leper dog didn't notice Jiang Ruoyan's bad mood at all, as if he had seized the opportunity to show off his knowledge, and continued to talk at length: "My Tongtian Dog Clan has ancient books that all living beings in the six realms have three souls, which are the heavenly soul, the earth soul, and the life soul. When the body dies, the soul is shattered. If one is born to cultivate the Tao of goodness, after death, the heavenly soul will ascend to the Heavenly Dao, forget lust and sorrow, and enjoy the eternal bliss of the Shinto; if one is born into evil and evil, after death, the earthly soul will sink into the Hell Path, and will be reduced to a hungry ghost, or at the worst it will not be reborn forever, and at least it will be tortured by the eighteen layers of hell to atone for the sins of the previous life, and then it will be able to cross the Nai He Bridge and return to the Yang Dao. ”
"As for the stars in the sky, what can they represent? Some of the great sages who have cultivated to the heavens believe that they are all like the Lingyue Realm, a great world that exists in the Endless Universe. As for yes or no, because the distance is so far that no one has ever been there, so it is unknown. Of course, there are also some wise men and prophets who believe that they can actually reflect the numerological situation in the world. This is known as stargazing. Those wise prophets used the sky as their natal chart and the stars as their operators, so as to reason and predict the major events in the world that would happen in the Lingyue Realm. Just like observing the 'Four Stars Qi Ziwei', it is the simplest and most mysterious kind of stargazing. ”
Jiang Ruoyan didn't pay much attention to "stargazing" or anything at the moment, but was more concerned about the "six reincarnations" mentioned by the leper dog. So he sneered vengefully: "Hehe, that's right." You must have done something harmful in your previous life, and you will only be kicked into the animal path when you enter the yang path. ”
"Stinky boy, you...... Whew......"
The leper dog pounced on Jiang Ruoyan again, opening its bloody mouth to bite him.
"Haha, I guessed it! Mom, I'm so angry that I'm going to kill someone!"
Jiang Ruoyan turned over and ran away. Sensing an opportunity, he jumped and climbed onto a thick green tree.
"Stinky boy, you come down for Lao Tzu!"
"You have the ability, you come up!"
"You come down!"
"You come up!"
Jiang Ruoyan was condescending, and that look was so unpleasant.
The leper dog barked and barked in a hurry, and its short fours spun in place.
Although it does have the ability to jump up, isn't that a jump to the edge of the knife, right in the hands of that kid?
Just bite off the tree, so the leper dog hugged the trunk and bit wildly. Jiang Ruoyan knew that the leper dog was really angry. Now, the joke is bigger.
"Woo-" There was a call from the depths of the valley.
"Oh, my cub is hungry. Stinky boy, I'll let you go today, and you'll feel good next time. Putting down a cruel word, the leper dog snorted coldly, and then picked up the he had just caught, and soon disappeared into the grass.
"Alas. Jiang Ruoyan sighed lightly, the leper dog has to take up the burden of taking care of the family, in the face of life, there are some things, he can't blindly escape.
Thinking about it, Jiang Ruoyan also left this paradise and went down the mountain.
As he expected, on the way down the mountain to the city, someone blocked his way.
"You are the person sent by Concubine Xiao, right?" Jiang Ruoyan said coldly staring at the black-clothed man in front of him.
Only the people in the palace knew that he had come out to practice, and the one who wanted to kill him the most was the most powerful concubine Xiao Niangniang in the palace now.
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PS: The original title of this book was "Lingyue". "Yue" is the meaning of the divine pearl, in ancient legends, it is a divine pearl given by God to the virtuous emperor. Lingyue is closely related to this book, and it will be an interesting setting unique to the book, I hope you like it.