Chapter 1: Seeing Demons in a Foreign Land
"In ancient times, the name of the holy place was Heavenly Hell, which was connected to the lower realm by two heavenly pillars. They divided it into the Broken Spirit Realm, the Jingchuan Realm, the Xiuze Realm, and the Hengkan Realm, and the realm was divided into several domains. At the same time, they built a sacred artifact that maintained the balance of the Four Realms, Lan Yun. Later, there was a dispute between the cultivation of gods and the cultivation of demons. Cultivating demons broke their heavenly pillars and turned into a mountain. Cultivating the gods cut off their heavenly pillars and turned into a pure mountain. The demon cultivator was driven out of the holy land by the cultivator, and his subordinates were gathered into the demon clan. The cultivators set their subordinates as the palace gods. The holy relic Lan Yun fell into the nether realm in a dispute between the two. The cultivators sent the palace gods to protect the holy relic Lan Yun. I don't know the whereabouts of the holy relics today, but I know, Lan Yun is out, and the Xuan Realm has changed. ”
I had heard this story when I was very young, but the Domain Leader still read it to me, even though I was fifteen. The domain leader is the leader of this Guan Yun domain, we don't know what his name is, we just call him the domain leader. I don't know who I am, but he still calls me Tatsuchi because he tells me that the day he first saw me, it was very late.
"Chenchi. ”
"Yes. ”
"Chenchi. ”
"Hmm. ”
"Chenchi. ”
"Domain Leader, what's the matter?"
Only then did the domain leader react, and he asked me, "Chenchi, how old is this year?" I replied truthfully: "Fifteen years old, and I will be sixteen in half a year." The domain leader looked into the distance and said, "It's almost sixteen, so soon, when I first met you, you were only ten days." ”
"Domain Leader, do you remember the past again?" Domain Leader sighed and said, "Yes, so fast, you and Xuan Yu are so old. "Xuanyu is the daughter of the domain leader, but she is three years older than me, she never cares about the difference between men and women, she has always been with me, as if she is an older sister and I am a younger brother. I suddenly remembered when Xuan Yu was sacrificed to the gods a few years ago, so I said, "Domain Leader, am I going to be sacrificed to the gods soon?"
The domain leader looked at me and said, "When we are sixteen years old, the people of our Soul Breaking Realm will all be sacrificed to the gods, so that the characteristics of the family and race will be revealed. I subconsciously touched the black mark between the corners of my forehead, and I didn't speak for a long time. The domain leader seemed to see what was on my mind, and he said, "It's okay, it's okay when the time comes." He touched my black mark again, and said to himself, "I'm afraid, this secret will not be a secret in half a year." ”
I didn't hear him clearly, and asked, "What did you say?" After a while, he said again, "Xuanyu is coming." "At this time, I heard the sound of running on the road outside the door, and I knew that at this time, only Xuan Yu who would come to the domain leader's house at this time was going home.
This time, Xuanyu was very happy when she came back, and when she saw me, she happily shouted "Brother Chenchi", she who usually doesn't call me my brother, suddenly made me tremble. She saw the domain leader and said, "Father." ”
Yu Ling seemed to understand what she wanted to say, so he asked her, "Do you have something to say to me?" Xuan Yu smiled and said, "Father, I will go to the mountain with Yuan He tomorrow." ”
Yuan He, the guy who has been very close to Xuan Yu recently, I don't like him very much, he laughs like a woman. Yu Ling smiled and said, "My daughter is older, and I can't keep it." Also, it's nineteen, and it's time to find a companion after so many years. After saying that, he smiled again, looking very happy.
Xuan Yu's face turned red all of a sudden, she smiled unconsciously, and left quickly. I know that she went to Yuan He to say that the domain leader agreed to her going up the mountain with him.
"Chenchi. The old voice of the domain leader remembered again. The domain leader is actually not old, but he has to manage Guan Yunyu, a domain that is about the same size as the village, and he also has to manage me and Xuanyu, so he is really busy. In addition, he had to persuade those who wanted to drive me away.
Seeing that I didn't speak, he called out again: "Chenchi, what do you want?" I looked at him and said, "It's nothing, I just want to see the "General History of the Xuan Realm". Yu Ling took out his cigarette pouch, took a puff of cigarette, and let out a long puff of smoke, which gradually flew upwards with the wind until it was gone. "I don't understand why you love that so much?"
I bowed my head and said, "I don't know, I just love the stories about antiquity." Domain Leader, do you think that's all true?"
The domain leader knocked on the cigarette gun and said, "What really?"
I said, "Lan Yun, it's the Lan Yun who 'Lan Yun is present, and the Xuan Realm has changed'. ”
Yu Ling's face instantly turned pale, whiter than the powder on the face of the daughter-in-law next door. His tone suddenly became stern, and he said, "Chenchi, don't study this issue in the future." What is Lan Yun? It's just a legend. ”
"No, if it's just a legend, why is it written in the 'General History of the Xuan Realm'?" The domain leader became even more angry, and said: "If I hear you say about Lan Yun, the Demon Clan, the Palace God Clan or something in the future, I won't let you go out again in the future, you can honestly stay in the house for me to reflect." "I saw that the face of the domain leader was so bad, and I didn't talk to him.
After a while, I called out to him, "Domain Leader." ”
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"Domain Collar"
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"Domain Domain?"
"What's the matter?" said the domain leader to me. I asked him, "Can I go out?" and I had already made an appointment with Ahler, and if I didn't show it, I guess I wouldn't have even one last friend. The domain leader stopped talking, and he closed his eyes as if he wanted to sleep. I thought I couldn't go, I just stayed there and figured it out. Even the air is so quiet, I'm afraid of waking up something.
The domain leader suddenly opened his mouth, and he said, "You go." Come back before the sun goes down. "The Domain Leader believed me, because he knew that if he said to come back before the sun went down, I would be sure to come back before that.
I met Ahr under the old locust tree on the hill, swinging his legs on the branches. I quickly climbed up and sat down next to him, and was about to scare him when he spoke first. He said, "I thought you weren't coming. ”
I was amazed that he found me and asked him, "How did you know I was coming?"
He smiled, and as if he didn't smile, he said, "Every time you come, there's a lot of movement." I looked at him in surprise, and then looked at the footprints I had walked, but I didn't notice that I was walking as loudly as Xuanyu.
Ahr turned to me, turned his face to me, and whispered to me, "Shall I tell you a secret?"
Ahr said, "I heard from my father that there is an army of the Demon Clan stationed at the foot of the mountain, and there are many soldiers. Looks like there's something big going on. I suddenly became interested and asked, "The Demon Clan, you mean the Demon Clan handed down from ancient times?"
Finally, my insistence was right, and sure enough, there was a heavenly hell. Ahr was also excited, and he said to me, "Yes, it's the Demon Clan. Yuan He went to the bottom of the mountain, saw their military flags, and when he got closer, he saw their military camp, which was really spectacular. ”
I asked, "Yuan He doesn't understand anything, how does he know where the soldiers of the Demon Clan are camping?"
"Have you forgotten? The General History of the Xuan Realm has the pattern of their military flag. Not to mention the military flag pattern, even the black mark that they proved to be the Demon Clan has been recorded. When he had said this, he went on no further, for he knew that the black mark on my forehead was exactly the same as in the record. I saw that he stopped talking, and I understood what he meant, and I said, "It's okay, I'm used to it." ”
I said to him again, "Thank you, Aher, for being the only one who does not reject my mark. I smiled at him, and he gave me a smile in return.
"Chenchi, should we go down the mountain and have a look?"
"What are you going to do?"
"Look at the people of the Demon Clan, I haven't seen it this big. ”
"I haven't seen it either. Don't go, the domain leader told me to go back before the sun goes down, otherwise, you know. "Every time I go back late, the domain leader will punish me to go to Qingliangjing and punish me for writing the Law of Guan Yun Realm fifty times. The yin qi of Qingliangjing is too heavy, and it will always be frozen by the yin qi there. So from there, I learned to go home on time.
"I've heard that it was the master of ceremonies of the Demon Clan who said that we would have Lan Yun here. "As soon as I heard Lan Yun, I was even more excited. Unexpectedly, I just found out that there is a demon clan, and I know that there is really Lan Yun. Oh my God, it's worth it for me to die here today.
"But Domain Leader Aher, I'm still afraid that Domain Leader will be angry, he has already been angry once today. I think if we really have Lan Yun here, we can wait until they come to search the mountains and then see them. ”
"Chenchi, you coward. We just need to look at it from a distance halfway up the mountain, so we don't need to look closely. In this way, our curiosity is satisfied, and you don't have to be punished for writing the "Law of Guan Yunjie". "It wasn't Ahler's words that attracted me, but the appearance of Lan Yun that I was looking forward to, and that attracted me.
I said, "Well, to prove that I'm not a coward, I'll go with you coward." ”
Aher looked at me with a disdainful look and said, "Cut." I think you're afraid, right?" I ignored him, because I knew that with the Demon Clan, there would be the Palace God Clan. I knew that when the blade of the Demon Clan was about to slash at me, the people of the Palace God Clan would definitely appear.
As we walked down the mountain, Aher asked me, "Chenchi, do you think we will see the demon cultivators?"
I shrugged my shoulders and said, "I don't know. But what I do know is that when you see him, you will be frightened by his fierce appearance. Ahr glared at me and said, "That's because you're the fastest, so I'll have to play dead to save myself." No way, who called me so smart. ”
When I heard him say that, I burst out laughing, and I said, "You think the demon cultivator is a bear?" His face was blue and he was sweating profusely. I laughed at him and said, "Why, the demon cultivator didn't scare you, but the bear scared you?"
I watched his eyes keep staring at the way downhill, and I couldn't help but shudder. I looked in the direction he was looking, and I was really stunned by what I saw.
I saw a long procession going up the mountain, dressed in strange costumes, and one of the leaders was holding a flag in his hand, which happened to be the military flag of the Demon Clan.
"Run!" I took Ahler's hand and hurried back to the mountain as fast as I could, I was going to tell the Domain Leader. However, the army has already discovered us.
When the large army was in hot pursuit after us, we went to the woods. In the mountains, we who are weak are indeed the strongest side, because no one can figure out the lost side on the mountain. Guan Yunshan guessed that it was because of this invulnerable defense that he was not forcibly occupied by others today, but we who live here are leisurely here.
We ran into the mountains and forests, because it was so terrible that people who had never been here could stay there forever and forever. I pulled Aher, and he couldn't run anymore, and he said, "Chenchi, you run first, I can't run." You tell me to rest for a while, and I'll chase you later. "I held him tightly for fear he would collapse to the ground.
I said to him, "Don't think I don't know, once you sit down, no one can pull you up." ”
Ahr said, "I'm sorry, Chenchi. If I had listened to you, if we hadn't come here to see the soldiers of the Demon Clan, I think we would have been fine. When I heard this, I was immediately annoyed.
I said to Aher, "Don't say that, Aher, we're already here. If this is according to what you said, then we should go back quickly, and you will also burden me. I tell you, Aher, if you die, I will die with you. ”
This sentence worked, and Ahr immediately began to rush forward, as if I was the one who did not have the strength to run. He said: "Chenchi, you are right, I can't affect you. "I saw that the soldiers behind me had been left behind, and I thought that I could get rid of them completely with just a few detours.
I said to Aher, "Let's run, we'll get rid of them in no time." "I don't know how long I ran, but I saw that the sun was about to go down on the mountain, and I knew I was going to be late. But at this time, life is more important than everything. When we saw the silhouette of the tribe, we were already speechless with excitement. "We're a little bit close," Aher said. I smiled and nodded at him, for the first time I knew how good it was that I was still alive.
He was also excited, and he said to me, "Chenchi, do you know? I thought I was going to die, but it's good to be alive." He looked at me and said, "Chenchi, it doesn't matter if I died just now, but you can't die." Because you are"
"Chenchi!" I saw the domain leader, I looked at the sun again, it was already going down. "Chenchi, where have you been?" I suddenly remembered the group of soldiers of the Demon Clan.
"Oh no, Domain Leader. I was nervous and speechless, and the domain leader seemed to sense something, and he asked me what was wrong.
I told him the truth that Ahr and I had met the soldiers of the Demon Clan halfway up the mountain, and that there were quite a few of them. The domain leader's face suddenly became like the face of Ahl just now.
"Fifteen years, fifteen years. I asked him, "Domain Leader, what's wrong with you?"
"I knew there would be such a day," he said. Chenchi, you go and inform everyone in the tribe and tell them that the people from the Demon Clan are here, and just tell the truth. ”
"I see. I pulled Aher, "Aher, let's go." ”
We ran to the tribe for fear that going late would bring some disaster. In the short time since we left, the mountain forest where the Demon Clan soldiers had been trapped just now emitted a red light that soared into the sky, reflecting on the sunset, as if it had been washed in blood. It was accompanied by a loud boom, like the sound of trees falling together. The domain leader stood there, looked at all this, and said, "Sure enough, it's still here." ”