Chapter 2: The Fall of the Moon
The cold wind was cold, the last class of the martial arts academy had long since ended, and the doorman was sweeping the fallen leaves on the ground. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The disciples who were nostalgic for the past left one after another, and even the last three were ready to leave.
When passing by the martial arts arena, in the twilight, they saw a figure standing dignified with their legs bent.
"Is it Luo Ning? Why is he still practicing at this time, didn't the teacher say that he would only be punished until the end of his schoolwork?" Jiang Qi said in surprise.
The other person, Zhang Xiao, was a little interested: "Don't worry about him, several times when I come home late, I can see Luo Ning practicing alone." Luo Ning doesn't seem to be from our Jiangning City, and he has rarely spoken since he came to our Martial Academy, especially after that incident ten years ago. ”
Ten years ago, Luo Ning had just come to Jiangning City Martial Arts Academy.
At that time, the disciples were also six or seven years old, and when they saw Luo Ning coming from a different place alone, they dug a small pit in the ground, pushed Luo Ning inside, and sealed it with a wooden board. The small space can only fit Luo Ning's small body, and he can't even turn over. The gaps between the planks reveal the sunlight coming in and the laughter of others.
At first, Ronin struggled desperately, shouting eagerly, only to be greeted with more unbridled ridicule.
Tired, tired, Luo Ning no longer resisted, no longer let out a shout, quietly curled up under the plank, everyone else was frightened, and when the plank was opened, he found that Luo Ning's eyes were red and terrible, like blood.
Huo Xuze sighed, although the three of them were not involved in the incident ten years ago, the impression that Luo Ning gave could never be erased.
From that time on, although Luo Ning also laughed, he was silent more often than not. ”
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Until the sky completely darkened, Ronin returned home.
Flipping through a huge spread book on the round table, the candlelight was shining.
The giant book is a foot and a half long and a foot wide, and its appearance is black and gold, and inside the giant book, every page is painted with a powerful demon beast, their appearance has a lot in common with the beast, but the shape is much larger.
The giant book is engraved with mysterious prohibitions, making each monster beast look like a living thing.
The thousand-meter-high deep-sea ichthyosaur flipped its body to set off monstrous waves, its long and narrow body covered with silver-white scales, like a giant sword in the blue water, easily tearing apart a warship and devouring all the enemies in front of it!
The black-green two-headed snake king is entrenched in the whole forest, her head is in the east of the forest, her tail is in the west of the forest, and the venom she spouts is smelly and smelly, and there is no grass in the place where she passes!
The winged bird with a golden crown on its head flew in the dark night sky, its roar shook the souls of pedestrians, its dark eyes were as sharp as death, and the life that was targeted had no chance of escape.
Each of these powerful monsters is a terrifying existence, ordinary people have never heard their names, and there is no way to know how powerful they are; only those who have a certain strength will half-understand their horror.
But without exception, on each page, a human with flaming red eyes was fighting against it! The sword slashed against the tough scale armor, bursting with sparks of metal......
Especially on the last page of the huge book, the huge eyes depicted on the entire page are as bright red as blood, which makes people's hearts palpitate!
"These are the glorious deeds of our ancestors. Luo Ning let out a long breath and sighed: "I don't know if it's true or not!"
He had asked his father before, that tall and handsome man, is there really such a big demon beast in the world?
My father always touched the back of his head lovingly, and looked at the wonderful family classics silently, and only after a long time did he speak:
"Ronin, you have to remember not to be fooled by superficial illusions. The demon beasts in the clan canon definitely exist in this world, there is no doubt about this, you are still only staying at the size of their shapes, and their strength is beyond your imagination!"
Father waved his hand and continued: "As for the battle between the ancestors and the demon beasts in the clan canon, it is not necessarily true, many tribes, including some families in the city, in order to inspire the younger generations of disciples to work hard, in order to seek a better origin for their own family, will fabricate some powerful ancestors. ”
"We, the Luo clan, are just an ordinary clan!"
At that time, my father's tone was very lonely.
Who doesn't want their ancestors to be heroes, who doesn't want their ancestors to have amazing and inexplicable exploits, but the facts are the facts.
The canon has been passed down for hundreds of years, long enough to forget the history of the past. After all, it is difficult for the next generation to distinguish the authenticity from the previous generation, listening to the stories of the ancestors, and constantly repeating and continuing them.
Even the fact that it has been "passed down for hundreds of years" is itself false, and may have only been invented by previous generations.
The Luo clan people are born with fiery pupils, and once they encounter extreme anger and sadness, their pupils will turn blood-red, but nothing else.
That's why my father felt that the content of the family code was fabricated.
This may be a painstaking effort of the ancestors, but it is still hypocrisy after all.
At this moment, Luo Ning, who is close to adulthood, has gradually understood these things, and it is not a pain to slander his ancestors.
It's just that a trace of inexplicable sadness flashed in Luo Ning's eyes:
"Ten years, everything has changed!"
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Ten years ago, of course, it wasn't just Ronin who was bullied.
Ten years ago, on a normal night, the moon was ...... without warning Broken, it disappeared into the starry sky silently, without making any sound, only the ephemeral brilliance that erupted at the moment of shattering was equally heartbreaking, but unfortunately few people could appreciate it, who would be bored and keep staring at the moon.
Then countless meteorites landed.
In that natural disaster, more than 100,000 humans were killed and injured, and the casualties of the Luo clan were only a tiny fraction of them.
Afterwards, the Great Qin Empire launched a discussion about why the moon fell, some people thought that it was a notice from the heavens to Daqin, and some people claimed that a human figure appeared at the moment of seeing the moon fall, many people scoffed at this, thinking that it was just a ridiculous rumor that deliberately attracted people's attention, and many people thought about whether there was any other life in the starry sky other than the empire.
However, there is no time for this.
Losing the tidal power of the moon, the demon beasts that had been hunting each other for generations became even more crazy and began to attack the borders of the Great Qin Empire, killing far more humans than the number of people who died from natural disasters.
Thinking of this, Luo Ning's gaze was a little misty.
"The moon is simply shattered!" That night, seven-year-old Luo Ning was looking at the starry sky curiously, but suddenly saw two figures flashing on the moon, Luo Ning couldn't imagine how huge the figure far beyond the starry sky was, and in an instant, the moon was broken.
What landed in the Luo clan and killed many clansmen was not an ordinary meteorite, but a half-tattered stone stele, the text on it is the same origin as the Great Qin script and the small seal, and it is recorded that it is a cultivation method to enhance the spirit, that is, the carving method that Luo Ning has been for.
The cultivation method of improving the spirit is unheard of, and the Luo clan recorded the contents of the stone tablet, and then buried the stone tablet with the remains of the clansmen.
The outside world never knew about it.
However, disasters can never be predicted, and they can be caught off guard as unexpectedly.
Just before the Luo clan came out of the grief of the death of their loved ones, a group of thieves dressed in gorgeous costumes walked into the Luo clan's land, and they let out a cry of admiration when they saw the fiery red eyes of the Luo clan.
Then he comfortably slaughtered all the Luo clansmen, took their eyeballs and left.
Thinking of this, Luo Ning's expression became extremely calm, and these unquenchable hatreds flowed in his blood all the time.
Today's Luo clan is the only one left, Luo Ning.
No one cared about what happened to the Luo clan.
In the past ten years, the madness of demon beasts has ravaged and destroyed the territory of Great Qin, making the already martial Great Qin Empire's pursuit of cultivation more thorough, implementing a national merit system, hunting demon beasts has military merits, and the major sects have also relaxed the restrictions on recruiting and cultivating disciples, and everyone is proud to become a martial artist to hunt demon beasts.
Or rather: the empire is dying.
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