Chapter 166: Mission
I saw that the little Ava with the tambourine in front of me was crying and angry because her father was busy with political affairs and couldn't accompany her, and she didn't even listen to the words of the nurse who brought her up with one hand, and just ran to the foot of the mountain with her head down.
Opposite her, the little novice from a poor background was listening to the master's order to fetch water from the Gantong Temple halfway up the Cangshan Mountain to the place where the mountain stream flowed.
I don't know if the fate of the two is destined to meet here, Ava, who was crying and running, and Luo Quan, who was concentrating on carrying water, finally met in a corner of the mountain road, and was pushed by fate.
Maybe it's the good-tempered Luo Quan, even if it's Ava, who has been pampered since childhood, can't quarrel with him, right? Or, in the face of such a shy and lovely Ava, even if it is the arrogant Luo Quan, she can't ignore her sorrows.
Who knows.
Anyway, in short, the two who move and stand still, complement each other, and accompany and encourage each other in this way. Even if the two who are still childish have never known each other's names.
In this way, Ava was angry, and she would come to Luo Quan, who never told her the truth, but would only listen to her quietly. And Luo Quan was punished, and the clever Ava saw it from a distance in the royal city, and would take the initiative to run over to make him happy.
Although not long after, Luo Quan was sent by the elders to a distant tantric temple for cultivation. But the friendship between the two little ones continued when Ava followed King Nanzhao to the sacred mountain in Tibet to select mage apprentices.
Speaking of that long journey, Princess Ava also said frankly that she had never looked down on Luo Quan, who was born as a monk. Moreover, after Luo Quan was sent away, she once regretted why she didn't ask her father to keep that cute and wooden little brother who would only listen to her chatter with a straight face.
As she spoke, Princess Ava couldn't help but show an ardent expectation on her face—how she hoped that Master Luo Quan could appear at the wedding with Qiao Lang in her dream as a brother she truly identified with, rather than the national teacher of Nanzhao, and send her that unique blessing......
Feeling the princess's intentions, Luo Quan's tense face couldn't help but shed two lines of green tears, and when he suddenly woke up, the unruly and arrogant mage was finally relieved. And the surrounding spring scenery is still the same, Luo Quan and Ava, but in the blink of an eye, they have returned to their original appearance.
His face is full of the vicissitudes of time, but he is still so wise and martial; There is more strength and persistence between her eyebrows, but she is still so gentle and quiet.
The two of them have indeed changed a lot, but it seems that nothing has changed after all.
"Farewell, my father-in-law—no, Sister Ava. I hope that in the next life, I can renew my brotherhood and sister relationship with you! Before the words fell, the Liuhe treasure robe on Luo Quan's body had already floated to my and Ava's side with his will, resisting all the high-purity spiritual energy that burst out of Luo Quan's body when the forbidden technique was lifted.
Before parting, Luo Quan, who happily lifted the Dafa of Soul Flow, turned into a wisp of floating dust and took the lead in floating into the black vortex created by the forbidden art of the end.
"Ah, definitely!" When the princess saw his obsession disappear, she couldn't help but clasp her fingers together, as if praying to the gods that she could give Luo Quan, who had been hated for thousands of years, a chance to redeem herself.
After completing the ritual, she slowly walked in front of me, drew a magic circle, and began to send me out of this vipassana world that was about to collapse due to the loss of the source of soul power, while looking at me silently, wanting to stop talking.
"Does the princess have something to ask for?" I, who slowly became smart and well-behaved by getting along with Ah Xia and Linda and others, how could I not know that she had something on her mind.
"Well, that, Childe, I do have something to ask for, can I ......" After hesitating for a while, Ava saw that time was running out, and finally made up her mind and told me about her request.
It turns out that the princess who has seen my strength and witnessed me use the Reincarnation Mirror to counterattack Master Luo Quan, I hope I can find a way to help Qiao Lang, whose body fell on the bottom of the Erhai Sea, to surpass.
As she spoke, she stretched out her hand and felt something from behind her.
I looked closely, but it was the Ruyi Bronze Mirror that Master Naraquan had used to track us. As smart as I am, I naturally understand that the princess wants me to use it as a container to cross the light of the woodcutter to the bottom of the Erhai Sea and turn into the body of a stone mule to complete the ritual of reincarnation.
When the ...... realized this, I suddenly remembered something, but I didn't dare to grant her wish right away.
"Sure enough, is it too much trouble?" When the princess saw that I was entangled, a trace of melancholy could not help but rise on her face.
"Uh, no! It's just, don't you say goodbye to him? "I'm referring to the woodcutter who was sent out of the Vipassana world by the princess with the cabinet and Mengzhao before. Didn't you say okay, you two are going to re-enter reincarnation?
"Nope. I want to stay here with her and witness the dissipation of our consciousness together......" The "she" referred to in the princess's remnant soul words is naturally the Ava Shuang Ling who was devoured by Luo Quan's obsession and turned into a spirit child, and floated in the sky that will soon turn into nothingness.
"As for Qiaolang, if there is fate, he and I will definitely meet again in the next life! Is that right? ”
The last expression of the princess in my impression was that when she smiled sideways at me, she glanced at me as brilliant as the sunset.
I didn't have the privilege of witnessing the magnificence of her soul returning to reincarnation, and my avatar had been gently sent out of her Vipassana world by the spring breeze she summoned in a whispering voice, along with the strange wish-wishing mirror and the glowing Liuhe treasure robe.
When I returned to my body, I woke up to find that I had been transferred to a safe meadow outside of the cave by Sharon. Along with them, there are also cabinets and dreams that have regained consciousness.
Thinking of the princess's commission, I hurriedly looked down and saw that there were indeed two more treasures in my hand. I just turned the treasure mirror over, and as soon as the moonlight shone in, the figure of Princess Ava really appeared in the reflected moon shadow, but the light and shadow were empty, but I couldn't play back her tactful and beautiful voice.
However, this was enough for the woodcutter who wandered on the top of the mountain, waiting for the princess to appear. As a lover with a good heart, the moment he saw her face, he already understood everything.
It's all in plain sight, that's it.
I saw that he didn't hesitate at all, as if the princess had stayed in the Vipassana world without hesitation, condensed his soul power, and plunged into the wishful treasure mirror, motionless. It seems that he really never doubted the princess's choice.
Seeing that the matter had come to an end, I had to get up immediately, and with Sharon's support, together with the cabinet and Mengzhao, I dragged my tired steps and slowly walked down the mountain.
Just as we were about to turn around the foot of the mountain, the stone cave that extended in all directions collapsed with a bang.
"Hey, husband, I'll just say, you shouldn't take away the night pearl that people put in that sarcophagus......" Mengzhao was startled by the loud noise, and couldn't help complaining about the cabinet, seeing me turn my head to look at them with suspicion, and the voice immediately became quieter.
Under my questioning, the cabinet still told me the truth.
It turned out that after he and Mengzhao regained their senses, they happened to see Sharon with my deity on her back searching for me with a flashlight, and of course the two of them didn't think about it, so they followed Sharon all the way back to the stone room.
Originally, the three of them were about to get out of the same way with their souls out of the body, but the guy in the cabinet didn't know where the aura came from, and they saw the fist-sized luminous orb in the white jade sarcophagus at a glance.
This is not over, he is cheap, and he also touched the tinkling gold and silver jewelry worn on the top of Ava and Luo Quan's physical bodies, on their necks, and even on their wrists and ankles.
At this moment, the white jade coffin lost the nourishment of the night pearl, and the effect of preserving the immortality of the corpse was also impossible to maintain at this time.
The cabinet and Mengzhao were naturally frightened at that time, and they didn't need to be greeted by Sharon, just like the frightened rabbit, they took three steps and two steps, and ran out of the cave in one breath.
After listening to the explanation of the cabinet, I thought about the calmness of the princess and Luo Quan smiling at the wind and clouds before parting, and I only felt that although the approach of the cabinet was a little inappropriate, it was indeed not to the point of resentment for the two of them, after all, since the two of them had re-entered reincarnation, would they still care about this empty immortal skin in the world?
So I don't blame him anymore, I see that the red sun has risen in the east, and I only punish him and Mengzhao to be responsible for finding me a cruise boat after going down the mountain, preparing to make up for sleep first, and then take advantage of the dead of night to go to Erhai Lake to find Qiao Lang's body tonight.
The cabinet and Mengzhao were really good, and when I got back to the inn and separated from Sharon, I fell asleep, and the two of them ran out in a hurry, and by the time the phone called in the evening, they had already contacted the ship and were waiting for me at the docks.
After agreeing to the princess, I naturally didn't want to procrastinate, so after bringing the Ruyi bronze mirror and putting the treasure under the coat, I followed the location of the cabinet to find the ship they had found.
Coming to the center of the lake, we used our eyes to observe the faint resonance between the light of the woodcutter and his body in the bronze mirror, and we found the location of the sinking of the woodcutter's body in less than an hour.
After letting the cabinet and Mengzhao take a couple photo to open the boat boss, I saw that there was no one around, so I only jumped into the water, and Liuhe Baoyi had already separated all the surrounding lake water, helping me to fall all the way to the bottom of the water unimpeded.
Searching the bottom of the dimly lit lake, I saw a stone mule leaning half of its body into the mud and sand.
Looking down at the bronze mirror, the woodcutter who was originally hiding in it really emitted different fluctuations. Seeing this, of course, I would not let him wait long, and according to the princess's instructions, I raised my hand to draw the moonlight from the surface of the lake, used the bronze mirror as a transit, and reflected it straight to the stone mule.
It is also wonderful, when the moonlight shines on the dusty and water-eroded stone mule through the bronze mirror, the remnant soul of the woodcutter who lives in the bronze mirror also seems to be alive, and in the blink of an eye, like flowing water, slowly flows into the lifeless stone mule along the moonlight as a medium.
And when the soul qi was gone, the bronze mirror in my hand seemed to have completed its mission, and it instantly lost its refreshing blue-yellow, and spots of patina appeared all over my body.
And the stone mule, whose body and soul were one, also turned into the color of sand at the same time, and when it was touched by a herring fish that inadvertently swam over, it quietly turned into powder, and when it was blown by the sea breeze, it drifted back to the earth.
After witnessing all this, I felt that after Qiao Lang nodded and thanked me in the dark before parting, I felt that I had lived up to the princess's trust, so I followed the current and gently floated to the water.
In this short and long drift, I can't help but think of an old saying: ask what the world is like, and teach people to live and die.
Maybe that's it, right? Probably. Tomb Hunter East White