Chapter 23. Emblem of the World (Silkworm River Chapter)
On the thousands of miles of wasteland, Rui Silkworm Ji stepped forward briskly in the scorching midday sun, her snow-white skirt petals beating among the branches and weeds all over the ground.
Yuli accompanied him all the way, neither fast nor slow, one person and one fox walked farther and farther on the huge wasteland.
"Imperial girl!"
Yin Xiang rode a fierce horse from afar, he went around to three meters in front of Rui Silkworm Ji, and said on the horse: "Emperor, please stay!"
Rui Silkworm Ji turned her body sideways, her back to the sun, and her voice was cold: "You don't have to bother, I won't go to Tianshan Mountain to get this thirteenth sea chart stele." ”
"Miss Rui!"
Another hurried sound of horses' hooves came from behind her, and it was Ruan Sichen who also rode his horse to arrive.
He rolled over and dismounted, and with a pop he knelt down behind Rui Silkworm, and knocked at her three times on the barley and gravel slope:
"Miss Rui, Sichen knows that it is a vain move to ask the girl and the fairy beast to go to the Tianshan Mountains to steal the thirteenth sea chart stele! But if there is a big chaos today, and the people in the world are not happy, although today's Bai Country is guarded by the four major clans, and it has temporarily gained a corner of life, but the eastern land, the southern mountains, the western frontier and the northern desert outside the Bai Country have all been invaded by demons from all walks of life, and out of the border of this white country, it is a blood-stained world!"
Rui Silkworm Ji lowered her head slightly, her throat moved, Ruan Sichen knelt on the wasteland, and said loudly:
"Sichen has been loyal to his duties all his life, and seeing the people suffering, even if he is not in the territory of my Bai country, it will make it difficult for my generation to sleep and eat! Obtaining the sea chart stele, awakening the Jade Emperor, and going to the world in the name of the white country is the best chance for my army to fight the demons, and please take pity on the people in the world, go to the Tianshan Mountains to retrieve the last sea chart stele, and fulfill your emperor's long-cherished wish!"
Rui Silkworm Ji sighed, turned around, slowly knelt down in front of Ruan Sichen, and said softly:
"The commander didn't know that these thirteen nautical chart steles were originally immortal cultivation tablets given to him by Mu Yinchuan, the immortal monarch of the Tianshan Mountains. This apprentice followed him for thirteen years, and every year, Xianjun would give her a lesson tablet and let her understand the collection and truth in the tablet on her own. Each stele is originally black, and when the 100,000 puzzles and tests on the stele are thoroughly understood and completed, the stele will turn black into white. This apprentice, at the end of each year, will present a white and flawless class tablet to Xianjun, if there are any black spots left on the class tablet that year, she will be punished by the master. ”
"There are more than 360 days a year, but you have to understand 100,000 puzzles? Doesn't this apprentice of the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Monarch have a heavy task that cannot be completed every day?" Yin Xiang on the side heard this, and said in surprise.
Rui Silkworm Ji smiled bitterly and shook her head: "That's because the Immortal Monarch is worried that this disciple under his seat will fulfill the prophecy on the Wuji Diagram and awaken the realm emblem of delusional demons, so he must ask his apprentice to pass the tribulation on the thirteen nautical chart stone tablets every year, so as to cultivate his mind and not make big mistakes in the future." ”
Speaking of this, she paused, and her voice was hoarse: "But the thirteenth chart stele, that female apprentice didn't have time to comprehend at all, and she was executed by Xianjun himself and buried on Wanqing Peak." ”
Yin Xiang was taken aback, and wanted to ask something more, but when he saw Rui Silkworm Ji's face of bitterness and defeat, he was immediately silent, but Ruan Sichen interrupted Rui Silkworm Ji and said:
"So, the last chart stele does exist, and it is buried on the evening peak of the Tianshan Mountains? Miss Rui, since you even know the specific address of the stele, the old man is willing to lead the Ruan family's soldiers and horses to accompany you on this trip, my men and horses have been fighting in all frontiers for many years, and it is a common thing for soldiers to search for traces, we will definitely be able to help you find the evening peak of the Tianshan Mountains and the thirteenth stone stele!"
Rui Silkworm Ji looked at Ruan Sichen, who was shining brightly in her eyes, and said calmly:
"Commander, I don't want to go back to Tianshan, because I am the Yinchuan disciple who was killed by the immortal monarch, I once swore that I will not go back to that place in this life and this life, if the immortal monarch sees me return to the Tianshan Mountain, he will also kill me, my little life that was finally reborn, I will go to the Yellow Spring again, and now, I can't even go to the Yellow Spring, once I don't die, I will be scattered between heaven and earth. Commander, it's not that silkworms don't want to contribute to the people of the world, but silkworms... It's really out of my power, and I can't help myself. ”
Ruan Sichen looked at Rui Silkworm Ji's eyes in a daze, the light in his pupils quickly dimmed, he stood still, silently knelt down for half a pillar of incense, shook his head and got up, helped Rui Silkworm Ji and said:
"Miss Rui, although the old man doesn't understand what you're talking about, since you mentioned that if you go to the Tianshan Mountains, you will die, so it's useless for the Jade Emperor to ask for a Rui Emperor who lost his life. Okay, let these eight million Jade Emperor Master continue to rest in this place, as for the elimination of demons and the unification of the people, Ruan will find another way. ”
Rui Silkworm Ji's heart was hot, and her eyes suddenly felt full and wet, as if she had not been able to recite the chapters of the poetry that Master Taifu asked to recite in her childhood, and she was worried that she would be reprimanded, but she was relieved by her father's pity.
She sniffed, and couldn't help but show a girl's coquettish smile on her face, and nodded happily to Ruan Sichen and said:
"Commander, please rest assured! Silkworms themselves know some immortal cultivation spells, and Yuli is a powerful immortal beast, as long as the two of us are by your side for a long time, we will definitely be able to help Inspector solve many problems in the future!"
Ruan Sichen smiled: "Thank you, Miss Rui." This crossed her shoulders and strode towards Yin Xiang on the side.
Rui Silkworm Ji turned around and watched the two of them turn over and get on the horse, seeing Ruan Sichen taking the lead in walking away alone, Yin Xiang rode his horse and walked two steps, turned around and greeted Rui Silkworm Ji and said:
"Imperial girl, the sun is too strong, you better go back to the house with me to rest for a while, and then figure it out! ”
Rui Silkworm Ji pressed a sense of loss in her heart, turned around to call Yuli, but saw Yuli lying on the grass, with a dull look, and her expression was a little dull.
Rui Silkworm Ji screamed twice before it reacted, and hurriedly ran to her side with eight giant tails and squatted down.
Late at night, Ruan Governor's Mansion.
The huge Yuli slowly got up from the guest room in the corner of the East Garden and left, and went to visit the hundred little Teng Worms raised in the blue lake of Cangshan Mountain.
After the long night, after Rui Silkworm Ji sent Yuli away, she felt that she couldn't sleep, so she crossed the long Jiawan Bridge alone and came to the Huxin Pavilion in the governor's mansion.
She looked up at the last quarter moon hanging high in the canopy and the stars scattered like a bucket plate, and sat alone on her cheek, sitting at the stone table in the pavilion.
These thirteen nautical chart steles are Ruan Sichen's lifeblood, even if he is not his reincarnated father, but Ruan Governor Shuai is a good person, he protects his family and defends the country, his benevolence spreads far and wide, and he takes the safety of all the people in the world as his own responsibility.
If she hadn't met Yuli in this life, she would have stolen or robbed, and she would do her best to go to Tianshan Mountain to get Ruan Sichen back the thirteenth immortal cultivation tablet of that year. But now Yuli and her are inseparable, and it was beaten like that by Mu Yinchuan, she can't let Yuli go to Tianshan with her to take this risk no matter what.
After thinking about it, just when he was frustrated and annoyed, he suddenly heard the sound of gentle footsteps coming from the Jiawan Stone Bridge behind him, and when he looked back, it was Ruan Sichen's righteous son, Yin Xiang.
Yin Xiang is the lieutenant general of the Ruan Ninth Army, the only son of Ruan Sichen's subordinates, and then his father died in battle, and his mother was martyred.
Even if it has only been a few days since she entered the mansion, Rui Silkworm Ji can see at a glance that Ruan Chaori, the daughter of the Ruan family, has a lot of affection for Yin Xiang, and she can also see that Yin Xiang is quite interested in herself.
Fortunately, he didn't know her past, if he knew all the ins and outs, how would he think of her, a woman who was once shattered and then killed her master?
Rui Silkworm Ji sat still, but Yin Xiang stopped on the long bridge outside the Lake Center Pavilion, he carried two pots of long wine in his hand, and made a gesture to Rui Silkworm Ji's back, saying:
"Miss Rui, can you come closer and talk to the girl about the wine?"
Rui Silkworm Ji in the pavilion nodded, Yin Xiang walked into the pavilion, sat down firmly on the other side of the stone table, stretched out his hand and handed Rui Silkworm Ji a pot of long wine, opened another pot by himself, drank two sips, looked at the moon one way, and did not speak.
Rui Silkworm Ji pulled out the lid of the wine, and a mellow aroma came to her nose, which is indeed a fine wine.
She has studied under Yinchuan Xianjun for many years, and the thirteen-year immortal cultivation calendar can be equivalent to the cultivation of martial arts in the world for three or five hundred years.
Yin Xiang on the side was stunned at first when he saw her drinking like this, and then a smile appeared on his face.
Rui Silkworm Ji put down the wine cup and wiped her mouth with satin sleeves: "Good wine!"
"Miss Rui is really a heroine! My family's governor drinks heavily, but it is a pity that Asahi does not have Miss Rui's drinking. ”
Yin Xiang's eyes stared at Rui Silkworm Ji, and there were two bays of shallow moonlight beating in his eyes.
Rui Silkworm Ji smiled and bowed her head: "The night is quiet, how could General Yin come here?"
Yin Xiang stretched out his finger and pointed to a row of flat wings at the end of the Jiawan Bridge:
"The Wo Xuan is located on the shore of this lake, just now I saw the girl from the bedroom window alone to the center of the lake, a moment of curiosity, so I brought wine and followed, the girl really did not live up to Yin Xiang's good intentions. ”
The corners of Rui Silkworm Ji's eyes moved slightly: "General Yin, you said, awakening the Jade Emperor and dominating the world, is it something that Governor Ruan has been trying to plan all along?"
Yin Xiang was stunned for a moment, but said: "If the girl refuses, she refuses, or don't think about the thirteen nautical chart steles again!"
Rui Silkworm Ji looked up at him in surprise: "Isn't it General Yin that you don't want to obtain the stone tablet and wake up the Jade Emperor Master?"
Yin Xiang put his arms on the stone table and said to her in a straight voice: "I think, I want to dominate the people, rank on the side of the monarch, and stand above the millions! Is it to ask what man in the world does not want to realize such a dream? But you said that you once died at the hands of the Tianshan Immortal Monarch, so how can I force Miss Rui to do what you don't want to do? But girl, I am very curious. ”
"You wonder why a dead man can sit in front of you and talk to you?"
Rui Silkworm Ji whispered, seeing Yin Xiang nodding her head, she got up and paced to the pavilion in the center of the lake, without looking at her feet, she stepped straight on the sparkling lake, and walked all the way to the huge moon disk reflection in the distance in the center of the lake, Wan Wan turned around.
Yin Xiang quietly looked at Rui Silkworm Ji standing on the surface of the lake, at that moment, everything in heaven and earth was still, and the whole world was only the graceful and pretty, like the girl who came from the sky, and the big moon that was yellow and dizzy, clear and transparent like cutting water under her feet.
"The world is so big, and the mysteries of all the lines are far beyond the imagination of all living beings. General Yin, believe it or not, my Rui Silkworm Ji was once an immortal, and then I was slapped to death by my master, Mu Yinchuan, the Immortal Monarch of Mountains and Seas, on the evening peak of the Tianshan Mountains, and then I became a god by mistake, so I got the opportunity to be reborn. And now, I was beaten back to my hometown by the Great God Heaven, confiscated the god position, and became a mortal man who needed to wrap my belly in grains and grains to deal with spring, summer, autumn and winter. That's why I've been through life and death, and yet I'm still standing here and telling you about my death and rebirth. ”
Yin Xiang was silent for a moment, and asked from a distance across a lake: "That Immortal Monarch Mu Yinchuan... I mean your master, why did he kill you?"
"Because a long, long time ago, there was a Buddha treasure book called "Wuji Tu" once came to the Tianshan Mountains and taught my master a Buddha teaching, which said that I am the emblem of the ancient demons, born from the world. ”
Rui Silkworm Ji was bathed in the moonlight, calmly narrating, and her thoughts fell into distant memories:
"The delusional demon is the ancestor of all demons, and the oldest and most powerful heavenly demon in the Nine Realms of Qiankun. Legend has it that before the first year of Qiankun, Emperor Buddha Rulai suppressed the delusional demons in a place called the hinterland Senyuan, but just as he was about to enter the abyss, the delusional demons tried their best to throw their emblems into the human realm in the nine realms of Qiankun. ”
"The so-called realm emblem of delusional demons is the source of power of the entire demon realm, and those who have the emblem can command the heavens and demons and the boiling demons. If the Emperor Buddha did not have an accident later, no matter how much the realm emblem of the delusional demon made waves in the world, it would not be harmful, but at this juncture, the Nine Realms of Qiankun encountered an unprecedented disaster of annihilation, and the Buddha Rulai fell into the sky in the battle to defend the Nine Realms, and the seal of the Buddha in the hinterland Senyuan was weakened by more than half, and the only remaining Buddha power was not enough to ban the delusional demons for a long time, and once the delusional demons got the help of the boundary emblem, they could break out of the abyss at any time. ”
Yin Xiang frowned and listened to her quietly, the expression on his face was unexpectedly peaceful, Rui Silkworm Ji was secretly surprised, but she also had a good impression of his calm posture, and continued:
"When that boundary emblem fled to the human world, it not only injured the face of the immortal lord of the Western Heavenly Court, but as soon as it entered the red dust, it was born in the world and disappeared. The Buddha also said that when the human reincarnated from the emblem grows into the double decade, his hidden demonic nature will awaken, and the relationship between the delusional demon and his emblem is like that between the father and the son, and the feeling is extremely strong, once the emblem awakens, the delusional demon will gain more power, which will be enough to break the seal of the Buddha and escape from the hinterland forest. ”
"Therefore, finding this emblem of the delusional demon realm that has blended into the human world has become an important task for many worlds such as gods, immortals, demons, and demons. But it happened that at that time, I fled to the Tianshan Mountains due to the fall of the White Kingdom, and wanted to worship Mu Yinchuan, the immortal king of the mountains and seas, as a teacher, but I didn't know at that time, just the day before I arrived in the Tianshan Mountains, Wujitu had already revealed to the immortal monarch that I was the secret of the world emblem. ”
"Xianjun saw that I was a descendant of the emperor of the White Kingdom, and I took the initiative to run up to the Tianshan Mountains to find him for protection after the destruction of the country, he could not break the promise he had made to the ancestors of the White Kingdom to be merciful to the orphans, and he could not watch the emblem of the delusional demon grow up, so Xianjun made a decision, he first took me under his disciples, called raising me as an apprentice, in fact, he personally supervised and imprisoned, and waited for me to grow up to the twentieth year. At the time of the coming-of-age ceremony, he destroyed my body and scattered my soul between heaven and earth, so that the emblem of the delusion would never have a chance to awaken again. ”
Yin Xiang was dumbfounded when he heard this, and said, "However, if it was just to destroy the realm emblem of the delusional demon, why didn't he kill you when you first ascended the Tianshan Mountain, but waited until you grew up?"
Rui Silkworm Ji stood far away in the middle of the lake, and the bitterness on her face was reflected clearly in the moonlight:
"Because he thought that he could use his years of cultivation to strip me of the Demon Realm Emblem from my body, he originally wanted to save me and change my fate, but he just gave me thirteen more years of false longing and expectation. I also thought that I could change his indifference, and that the hundredth day on the sunny peak was my twentieth birthday, and I thought he would be in my womb... Let me live, but he didn't. ”
She took a breath, wiped the tears from her face with one sleeve, raised her head high in the moonlight, and said:
"For a person like him, even if you are very kind to him, he never has you in his heart, and he can only do whatever it takes to complete the Buddha's teachings on the infinite diagram. Although the Wuji Diagram designated me as the person who entrusted me with the emblem of the delusional demon realm, he did not let him kill me, it was he who decided to slap me to death on the evening peak, and it was he who chose to kill me mercilessly. ”
Speaking of this, Rui Silkworm Ji looked up at the moon sharply, and a cold smile came out of her throat:
So the first thing I did after I came back from the dead was to eat his heart and bite his heart full of holes! Only in this way can my resentment and grievances be relieved a little... When he saw that I had been promoted to a god by Guangqingtian because of my filial piety and sincerity, he thought that he was ashamed and left me in the Tianshan Mountains, so I lied to him! I deceived him for 29,000 years, deceived him to win people's hearts, stole Buddha relics, and turned the world upside down in the ten seas! Sure enough, it didn't take long for Guangqingtian to send someone to pick me up, and I finally got the opportunity to kill him with a sword on the top of the Tianshan Mountain!"
Rui Silkworm Ji was immersed in the old grievances, and as soon as she raised her head, she came through the lake with a full of anger.
She thought she would see Yin Xiang's expression of fear or disgust, but when she saw that he was just looking at her from across the lake, the sadness and pity in his eyes made Rui Silkworm Ji's heart tremble, and she couldn't help but turn her face away, and said in a light tone:
"Who knew that just when I thought I had avenged my blood and revenge, there was news of him in the world, and I lost my divine body because of this, and had to flee back to my hometown, I wanted to live a good life with Yuli, and live a life here quietly, so that even if the soul cannot be reincarnated and reborn after a hundred years, there will be no regrets. But just the day before yesterday, I saw my master again at the border of Cangshan, and he refused to let me go. Fortunately, I am blessed by the gods, and as long as I stay within the borders of the White Kingdom, neither my master nor the gods of the heavens can find me. ”
"So... General Yin, I can't leave the White Country, the thirteenth nautical chart stele, can only... I'm sorry for the Governor and you!"
Yin Xiang hesitated slightly at the edge of the pavilion in the center of the lake, and then strode towards the lake, and Rui Silkworm Ji was busy casting a spell to make him walk on the Pingchuan.
Yin Xiang stepped on the mirror-like sonorous lake all the way, and walked straight to Rui Silkworm Ji, and the two faced each other, standing in the reflection of the moon disk on the surface of the huge lake.
Suddenly, her hand was warm, and Rui Silkworm Ji looked down to see that Yin Xiang had already held her hands tightly, and said to her fixedly:
"Little silkworm girl, although I, Yin Xiang, am not a fairy monarch and a descendant of the emperor, I know the truth of thanksgiving and reciprocation. I was adopted by the governor since I was a child, and Asahi and Fang Nian are my brothers and sisters, and you saved Fang Nian in the mountains, which is the great kindness of Yu Yinxiang. Yin Xiang promises here today, I am willing to be your friend and relative, no matter what you will experience in the future, I Yin Xiang in this life, I will be with the girl to accompany the wine!"
After saying that, Yin Xiang drank the wine jug in his hand and threw it far away.
In addition to Huai Ziyou, this is the second time in Rui Silkworm Ji that she has heard someone call her "Little Silkworm" in this life, she likes to be called this way, just because she still remembers that she cooperated with the gods of the heavens in the Kunlun Realm to cooperate with the God Emperor Xin Tianquan's strategy to awaken the family memory of Yuan Cong Fuxi and his granddaughter Nie Xiaofeng, the blonde male god who never left Nie Xiaofeng and guarded her from time to time, looked at her so delicately, calling her milk name over and over again, Xiaofeng.
"Xiaofeng", just two words, gentle care, solemn and choking, mountains and seas, thousands of years, all rolled in it.
Wouldn't it be beautiful if in this life, there is also someone who can call himself like this and accompany him all his life?
Rui Silkworm Ji smiled and looked at Yin Xiang, who had empty sleeves and an unfinished face, and simply raised her wrists, and took out a pair of long wines from the two soft wattles.
Yin Xiang was happy, grinned and took it, not surprised, the two of them pulled out the lid of the wine, drank it all with their necks up, and then threw the wine jug out vigorously.
Hearing the sound of "poof" on the lake in the distance, the two looked at each other, and laughed when they stood under the moon ring.