Chapter 005: The Baptism Ceremony of the Divine Spring
If it weren't for the kind reminder of Nangong Ruxue's personal maid Ling'er, this snow princess wouldn't know how long she would have been in memory, and she quietly shed countless tears during this period, in addition to extreme longing and sadness, she almost shouted a name several times - Liu Hanfeng!
Fortunately, she still rationally forced herself not to really shout out, because this was a secret in her heart, a secret that she couldn't tell anyone around her. It's just that she endured it too hard, and her lips were bitten out of blood by her teeth.
She also understood that if she stayed here any longer, maybe she would really shout out on the spur of the moment, although she saw Liu Hanfeng burned to death with the high temperature with her before, she was still unwilling to accept this reality, because she always felt that Liu Hanfeng was not dead, as if she was by her side.
Especially looking at the piles of clothes left by smugglers on the ground, she had the illusion that Liu Hanfeng was lying in front of her, and in the dark, she seemed to hear the sound of Liu Hanfeng's heartbeat, and she even wanted to lift every piece of clothing to confirm whether Liu Hanfeng was really here.
But she couldn't do this, because there were countless pairs of eyes staring at her behind her, many of them were secretly sent to monitor her behavior of the palace maids or guards, in order to avoid her possible gaffes from spreading to the palace, so that some people with ulterior motives knew about it and made a big fuss, thus bringing unnecessary trouble to the queen mother, the snow princess had to quickly order to return to the palace.
It's just that Nangong Ruxue didn't expect that Liu Hanfeng was actually alive at that moment, and it was really under the pile of scattered clothes in front of her, and because of the nervous heartbeat, if she really shouted Liu Hanfeng's name out of voice at that time, maybe the two of them would have hugged each other at this moment.
When Liu Hanfeng, who was numb under his clothes, finally heard the sound of the dragon boat leaving, he carefully lifted the gap in his clothes, peeped for a while, and after confirming that the dragon boat blocked by the white fog was far away, he was completely relieved, lifted his clothes and stood up.
After standing up, Liu Hanfeng moved his extremely numb and stiff limbs, thinking that fortunately, the Ling'er maid reminded the Snow Princess in time to leave, otherwise he would lie down so numbly and not move his limbs, which would cause the blood in his limbs to be unobstructed and muscle necrosis would be miserable.
However, there was a trace of doubt in his heart, that is, the snow princess stood in front of him for a long time, and seemed to be crying, because he was hiding under his clothes and faintly heard a faint sob, this sound made Liu Hanfeng feel familiar and cordial inexplicably, and there was an urge to hold the other party in his arms and comfort him.
Thinking about it, Liu Hanfeng himself felt ridiculous, why did he have such pity for a strange woman, is it because this girl's sobbing voice is as quiet as snow? But how could she be as quiet as snow! Even if Jing Ruxue was really as lucky as him and was saved by a certain bird of paradise, it would be impossible for him to suddenly become the princess of the Divine Bird Empire.
Obviously, I missed it too much, so I had such an illusion, maybe I was too hungry, after all, after being saved by that little bird, I walked for a long time, and I didn't get a drop of water, and I curled up under my clothes for so long, and it was inevitable that I would hallucinate because of my weak body, and it was not impossible.
So Liu Hanfeng decided to leave here immediately, find the city gate as soon as possible, only when he enters the city, can he buy food, he also needs to find out the real situation of this world, whether it is the legendary Elysium, and also wants to understand the reason why he survived, so he can analyze whether Jing Ruxue also has the same chance of survival.
Liu Hanfeng secretly swore that if it was confirmed that Jing Ruxue might also survive, even if there was only a slight possibility, then as long as he was still alive in this world, even if he traveled all over the world, he would find Jing Ruxue, and then guard her forever, take care of her for the rest of her life, and never be separated again.
When Liu Hanfeng continued to hurry along the river, he kept reminiscing about the warm time when he had a sweet relationship with Jing Ruxue, and at the same moment, Nangong Ruxue, who was on the dragon boat, was also staring out the window and fell into memories again.
In this way, two people who love each other deeply think that the other party is dead, and they are deeply trapped in painful memories and can't extricate themselves, but they don't know that the two were so close before, so close that they could almost hear each other's heartbeat, but they still passed by.
At this moment, Liu Hanfeng would never have thought that Jing Ruxue was actually a person born in Elysium, or the snow princess on the dragon ship before, let alone that his most beloved woman also had an unknown legendary experience, and Nangong Ruxue's experience would start from twenty-eight years before her spaceship crash......
That year, for Nangong Ruxue at that time, she had already lived in the Divine Bird Empire for eighteen solar years, and one solar year was equivalent to 250 million earth years, that is to say, Nangong Ruxue, who was only eighteen years old in the Divine Bird Empire, was already 4.5 billion years old if converted to the age of the earth.
This number is astronomical for people on the earth, but it is normal for the Divine Bird Empire inside the sun, because the Divine Bird Empire time is stationary, and life is almost eternal, so long-lived people abound, not to mention billions of years, even tens of trillions of years of people can be seen everywhere.
In addition, the Divine Bird Empire itself is inside the sun, there is no sunset and sunrise, there is no cycle of day and night, and there is no passage of time, so that the pace of life of everyone living in the Divine Bird Empire is extremely slow, and the physiological and mental changes and perceptions are much slower than those of the earthlings, so even if they have lived in the Divine Bird Empire for billions of years, they only feel that they have lived for more than ten years.
In the Divine Bird Empire, at the age of eighteen, they are eligible to participate in the Divine Bird Ceremony, the so-called Divine Divine Ceremony, which is the annual companion bird Fengshen Spring Baptism Ceremony in the Imperial City of the Divine Bird Empire, and all legal citizens of the Imperial City who have reached the age of eighteen can let their companion birds enter the Fengshen Spring to be baptized.
Around the Fengshen Spring is a circle of staggered stands, for the owner of the companion bird and his family to watch, all the stands are enough to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people to watch at the same time, so the annual Fengshen Ceremony, in the central square of the Royal Garden where the Fengshen Spring is located, is crowded with people, lively and extraordinary.
Located in the royal garden in the center of the Imperial City, the Fengshen Spring is usually closed to the public, and only on the opening day of the annual Fengshen Ceremony, the owners and their families who are eligible to participate in the Fengshen Grand Ceremony are allowed to enter.
The area of this Fengshen Spring is not large, only a small round Tan with a radius of fifty feet, and the pool is not ordinary water, but a fragrant liquid like a jade liquid, and the liquid in it is extremely pure, the whole body is golden, and it is bottomless.
The entire Fengshen Spring Round Pond is composed of black and shiny carbon crystals, and there are rich and delicate golden textures on the surface, which looks mysterious and awe-inspiring.
On the top of the pool, there is a one-zhang size, carved extremely lifelike bird of paradise sculpture, it is golden yellow all over, the kind of wings ready to fly demeanor depicted extremely delicate and realistic, from its eyes there are constantly drops of golden liquid dripping down irregularly, falling in the pool to send out a very crisp "tick...... Tick" sound, and these seemingly random "tick" sounds, if you taste carefully, are completely a beautiful rhythmic sound.
Don't look at the mouth of the Fengshenquan Pond, the bottom of the pond is very deep, so that it can accommodate tens of thousands of companion birds to enter the pool at the same time. The rules of baptism are very simple, that is, each companion bird wakes up from the pool and flies out as quickly as possible according to its own willpower, even if it has completed the canonization ceremony.
Because of the liquid in the pool, there is a mysterious power of the extremely hypnotic soul in it, so once each companion bird enters the pool, it will fall into a hypnotic state, and it needs to rely on its own willpower to resist the power of hypnosis and wake itself up as soon as possible.
If you can wake up and fly out of a pillar of incense, you are eligible to be canonized as a first-grade divine bird, and so on, if you wake up and fly out of the five-pillar incense, you will be canonized as a five-grade divine bird, if you have not woken up beyond the five-pillar incense, it will be melted and decomposed, and finally turn into a golden liquid and become a part of the Fengshen Spring.
Once the companion bird turns into a liquid and dies, it means that it has not passed the baptism of the gods, then its owner will slowly decompose the soul and die, this death process is extremely slow and painful, and it cannot be rescued, so usually people who encounter this kind of misfortune will choose to take liquid time and die, so as not to suffer from the long painful dying process.
Since Nangong Ruxue has grown up in the imperial city since she was a child, and she is also a royal princess, in addition to the annual god ceremony with her father and queen mother, even if outsiders are usually not allowed to enter, she can still enter the vicinity of the god spring to play at will.
It stands to reason that adults under the age of eighteen are not allowed to enter the Fengshen Spring to be baptized, and the owner is not allowed to enter the Fengshen Spring for baptism, otherwise the whole body will melt and die.
At this point, Nangong Ruxue listened to the solemn warning of her father and queen mother when she was very young, so every time she played near Fengshen Spring, even if she was accompanied by an adult, she never dared to approach it privately, even if she grew up later, no one had ever admired Fengshen Spring up close.
But the day before Nangong Ruxue could participate in the baptism of the gods, she suddenly felt inexplicably lost, she herself couldn't tell what was wrong, maybe she felt overwhelmed by tomorrow's baptism, maybe she felt a little uncomfortable with her finally growing up, so she came to the center of the garden alone and walked around.
Maybe she really wanted to be alone and quiet, she didn't even bring the companion birds that she usually accompanies her, so she strolled to the side of the Fengshen Spring alone, maybe she thought that she was too involved in things, and she unconsciously sat on the carbon crystal at the mouth of the Fengshen Spring, and fell into contemplation for a long time.
Unexpectedly, behind her, there was a sneaky masked man in black, who was slowly approaching her, and when the masked man crept behind her less than a foot away, he suddenly rushed up, stretched out his hands and pushed Nangong Ruxue into the Fengshen Spring......