Chapter 3: The Past
When Tang Qingshan regained his senses again, it was close to evening, and he found himself lying on the bed of the blacksmith's house, the coals in the stove were burning red, and the fifth uncle was standing under the eaves of the porch and leaning on his body, looking at the valley that had turned into heavy rain. In the warm room, occasionally blowing in a fresh mountain breeze, Tang Qingshan stood up, walked to the stove and squatted down to add some firewood.
"You kid, I didn't say you. How many times do you have to faint a day to be satisfied?" the blacksmith chuckled wickedly, rubbing his chin.
"If you hit me twice, I'll get dizzy less. Tang Qingshan replied softly.
"Ouch, our little Qingshan is really going to grow up!
"Fifth uncle, aren't you sad at all that there are so many people in the village?" Tang Qingshan looked at the fire, and tears had rolled down his eyes.
The blacksmith walked to the rattan chair by the fire and sat down, touched Tang Qingshan's head and said.
"You are still a child, you should be yourself, don't be bothered by the things that adults should be worried about, you can also be sad, sad, but after the sorrow is gone, you still can't do anything. That's the ridiculousness of the grown-ups. The blacksmith said heartlessly.
"Fifth uncle, what should I do?" Tang Qingshan looked at the blacksmith in confusion.
"Maybe, I know what you should do, you go home first, and come back to me tomorrow. The blacksmith raised his hand and began to chase the people.
When Tang Qingshan returned home in his robe, it was already completely dark, and his mother was sitting at the table with an oil lamp, her hands lightly on her forehead, her eyes closed, and the prepared food was buttoned on the table.
"Mother, I'm back. Tang Qingshan said softly.
"The mountains are back. Mother opened her eyes.
"Mother made your favorite white chopped chicken, and wild vegetable soup," said the mother, getting up and getting busy.
Looking at his mother's busy figure, Tang Qingshan felt a little relieved in his heart, at least my mother is still by my side, I am not alone. But when I thought of the villagers again, the little brilliance in my eyes disappeared again. Mother came to the table with two bowls of rice and handed Tang Qingshan a bowl.
"Shan'er, your Aunt Niu's house caught fire last night and burned down most of it, tomorrow everyone will help build a new house, you can also go and have a look. ”
"Hmm. Tang Qingshan responded softly, and took the rice into his mouth.
"This time the village is in trouble, everyone is sad, the village has suffered a lot of losses, but the priority is to let the living people live their lives. Mother looked at Tang Qingshan, her eyes full of care.
"Hmm. Tang Qingshan still responded softly.
"Child, don't be nagging, but such a ferocious beast broke into the village, not who can save everyone by himself, you child has been kind since he was a child, and his mind is also heavy, don't take all the mistakes on yourself. You have to be strong, stronger, to help those we can, so that we can survive, just like everyone in the village helped us back then. Mother looked at Tang Qingshan gently.
"Mother, I'm really useless. Listening to his mother's relief, Tang Qingshan couldn't hold back the emotions in his heart anymore and cried.
"If only I had noticed a wild beast earlier. ”
"If only I had warned everyone earlier. ”
"If I were a few years older, I would have enough strength to protect everyone. ”
"What if.... What if..."When Tang Qingshan said this, he couldn't cry anymore.
"Son" The mother walked over, stopped Tang Qingshan in her arms, and gently stroked Tang Qingshan's head. There were also sad tears in the corners of his eyes.
The next day, it was almost noon, Tang Qingshan walked out of his home and walked slowly to the blacksmith shop at the entrance of the village. When I came to the door of the blacksmith shop, I found that the fifth uncle did not open the furnace today, and he didn't know where he went. A person sat on the stone at the door and basked in the sun and waited for the fifth uncle to come back. After the open-hearted communication with his mother last night, the depression in Tang Qingshan's heart was more or less eased, at the age of twelve, it was still too heavy for him to bear all this. However, the reality is that whether you accept it or not, you have to face it bravely.
In less than a stick of incense, the blacksmith returned to the entrance of the village, looked at Tang Qingshan from a distance and shouted.
"Xiao Shanzi, what are you stupid about, sitting there waiting for your daughter-in-law?" the blacksmith still had a wicked smile.
"Fifth uncle, don't make fun of me, didn't you ask me to see you today?" Tang Qingshan stood up and patted the soil off his pants.
"Do I still need you to tell me I called you? With that, the blacksmith walked in the direction of the outside of the village.
The blacksmith took Tang Qingshan into the dense woods, bypassing the tombstone in the back mountain, Tang Qingshan glanced over there through the gap in the forest, and continued to follow the blacksmith.
"Hey, you kid, you look young and sentimental, like a big lady in a deep boudoir. The blacksmith glanced at Tang Qingshan and said angrily.
"Fifth uncle. ”
"Huh?"
"What is a boudoir?"
"The boudoir is where the daughter-in-law you will marry in the future sleeps now!" the blacksmith was stunned for a moment, and then laughed. Tang Qingshan's face turned red immediately after hearing this, and he didn't dare to ask anything else, for fear that the blacksmith would continue to joke about him, so he followed the blacksmith and continued to walk towards the mountain.
After walking for about another hour, the two of them came to the bottom of a cliff. There was a stone gate in front of him, and the blacksmith stood in front of the stone gate, turning around and smiling evilly at Tang Qingshan.
"Stand away from Lao Tzu. After that, without waiting for Tang Qingshan to make a move, he took out the hammer behind him, held his breath and concentrated, holding the handle of the hammer with both hands, and a layer of black mist faintly appeared on his body. Tang Qingshan held his breath and quietly watched the blacksmith's every move. At this time, the blacksmith had finished accumulating his strength, and smashed the hammer towards the stone door. There was a loud bang, and it exploded in Tang Qingshan's ears like thunder on a sunny day. The huge sound wave blew Tang Qingshan on the ground and turned three times in a row. Tang Qingshan lay on the ground for a long time and didn't move, feeling dizzy. After a long time, he looked up and looked ahead, and saw the blacksmith leaning against the stone door and looking at him.
"Didn't you stand a little farther away, why did you do so badly?" said the blacksmith heartlessly.
"Fifth uncle, a month ago, you went out of the mountains to sell medicinal herbs and animal skins, and bought half a catty of burning knives with the village chief's grandfather behind your back. Tang Qingshan said a little angrily.
"What are you talking about?" the blacksmith's eyes widened.
"I was striking iron at your house that day, and then you drank too much and fell asleep, and you shouted that the little kiss would accompany me to have another drink..."Tang Qingshan seemed to grasp the key to the problem, and said casually.
"Oh, my little Qingshan!How is it?Where did you fall?Does it hurt?" The blacksmith ran to Tang Qingshan's side and pulled him up, slapping Tang Qingshan's clothes constantly, and the weasel on his face gave the chicken New Year's greetings.
"Fifth uncle, you're enough. ”
"Alright, alright, let's get down to business. Come in with me. Blacksmith Zhengse said, and took Tang Qingshan towards the stone cave.
"Fifth uncle, what kind of place is this?, you can't see anything in the dark?" Tang Qingshan hadn't finished speaking. The torches on both sides of the cave began to burn on their own, one after the other, all the way to the depths of the cave. There are also various pictures painted on the wall, there are people, birds, mountains, trees, and some things that Tang Qingshan has never seen.
"This is the place where we have the refuge of the Demon Slayer Tang Clan. The blacksmith's voice came faintly from ahead.
"In the primeval period, the world was divided into six, and there were twelve clans guarding the end of the world to defend the world from the outside world. Our Demon Slayer Tang Clan is one of these twelve clans, guarding the northwest of the world. If you observe me carefully, you will find that the weapon that our clan is good at using is the war hammer, no matter how big or small, no matter how long or short the war hammer is, as long as it is used in our hands, it will be more lethal than others, and with the unique exercises of our clan, I will drop a day, Xiao Qingshan, I can't talk to you in detail, scare you..."
"Ahem~!hmm~, since the beginning of the battle of Makino's fire, we have formed a mortal enmity with the Confused Succubus Clan led by the Three-Faced Mind Eater from outside the sky. The Succubus of Confusion is good at mental attacks, and its physical body is extremely strong, whether it is a confrontation between two armies or a sneak attack at night, humans are extremely vulnerable in front of them. ”
"Fifth Uncle, what is the battle of Makino chasing fire?" Tang Qingshan interrupted the blacksmith and asked his doubts.
"In the primeval period, human civilization was extremely powerful, and after several large-scale civil wars, several forces could not help each other, so the leaders of various tribes gathered together to prepare for the implementation of foreign colonial policies, but how to open the door to the other world became an urgent problem.
Without knowing anything about the outside world, several principalities united with the Warlock Association to form the Falling Star Tianlin Great Array on the main peak of Falling Star Mountain, and the warlike Broken Heart Zhen clan was the first to rush in at the same time as the big array was activated, and five other clans also rushed in for fear of being subservient. Oh, that's the sadness of that era. The blacksmith turned his head to look at Tang Qingshan and said, "These unobtrusive ancestors, without doing any protection, rashly went to the other world, and as a result, the energy control of the Falling Star Sky Array was unstable, and these big brothers and sisters of the special Niu X all disappeared into the teleportation array so inexplicably. ”
"Is this the end?" Tang Qingshan felt that a hat was about to be woven into black thread on his head.
"How is it possible? The people who stayed after everyone disappeared didn't know how to rescue their companions, so everyone discussed countermeasures, and later the people from the Warlock Association said that it was better to leave the big array in Luoxing Mountain, and the gem absorbed the aura of heaven and earth to recover, and maybe they could find everyone back. Unlucky is unlucky in this matter! Who would have thought that the great array would be activated again that night. The blacksmith was a little distracted at this.
"What!" Tang Qingshan exclaimed when he heard this. I was even more puzzled in my mind, why did the big array suddenly activate by itself?
"I guess the activation of the big array is definitely not our people coming back!" Tang Qingshan looked at the blacksmith for a long time without speaking, and asked rhetorically.
"Yes, ignorance and ignorance will pay the price, as will greed and killing. An extraterrestrial demon army discovered the fluctuation of our teleportation trajectory, and cast a reverse spell along the trajectory, injecting a huge amount of energy, and an alien magic circle that was even larger than the Falling Star Mountain Range covered the Falling Star Mountain Range, not only destroying the Falling Star Heavenly Array on the main peak of the Falling Star Mountain, but also planting their imprint in our world. The huge demon army rushed into the sky, and the six remaining clans led the remaining humans to fight back, launching a battle with no way back on the Makino Plain. ”
"The warriors of the alien race can release energy rays, and the flesh of the mage is also extremely strong, and the rout of the human race seems to have become a foregone conclusion. Just when the people were desperately resisting the attack from outside the sky, the Burning Frost Yin clan and our clan worked together to create the ultimate artifact, the Fire Chasing Candle Demon Blade, and the power of the artifact destroyed the heavens and the earth. The patriarch of the Yin clan has even cultivated a fire attribute technique, and no one can match the divine skill with the divine soldier for a while.
After reversing the decline in one fell swoop, under the leadership of the Yin clan, the human race rose up and launched a counterattack. Our clan also successfully killed the Three-Faced Mind Eater with the help of the Yin Clan, and the crystal nucleus that fell out of this monster was also carried by the leader of our clan. The boss is always invincible when fighting the succubus with the core, and it seems that the methods of the succubi don't have much effect on our leader. In the end, such a strange scene appeared on the battlefield of the Muye Plain, and there were no aliens within a hundred steps of the Demon Slaying Tang Clan Leader. Later, with the passage of time, the demon core and the leader, actually slowly fused together, although there were a few times when the leader was almost assimilated by the demon nature of the demon core into a three-sided mind eater, but later relied on the leader's strong willpower to defend himself, not only conquered the demon core, but also cultivated a set of stunts from it that can fight with the succubus of confusion!
"The appearance of the storm has completely changed the fate of our clan, this extraterrestrial secret technique is not only effective against the succubus of confusion, but also on other extraterrestrial demons! The warriors began to cultivate the storm day and night, combined with the murderous aura on the battlefield, the cultivation is even more effective, and the black evil qi cultivated on the body is particularly strong, and even the leader fused the murderous and evil qi together, cultivating an even more terrifying black and red true qi. From then on, where our clan went to war, the demons had to retreat. That's the scenery, even if the Yin clan has the ultimate artifact Flame Chasing Candle Demon Blade, there is no scenery of our Tang clan, that battle! In the case of long-term confrontation with demons, human beings are constantly learning and evolving. Over time, each clan more or less mastered the method of fighting against the Heavenly Demons. Finally, outside the Falling Star Mountain, ten Returning Void-level Half-Immortals and hundreds of Burning Body-level powerhouses struck together, successfully smashing two-thirds of the Outer Heaven Demon Array. However, the backlash of the Demon Array's explosion also made us sacrifice a lot of top martial artists, just by returning to the void and half immortals, we lost eight places!. Seeing that victory was in sight, the Terrans were willing to give up easily. The patriarch of the Yin clan took the lead and sacrificed four ancient artifacts, including the Flame Chasing Candle Demon Blade, the Tianlan Sword, the Demon Talisman, and the Ten Brake Blood Seals, to suppress the remaining one-third of the Heavenly Demon Array. At this point, except for the remnants of the Heavenly Demons, who hid in the deep mountains, underground, and closed the six senses, they were all eliminated by us. At this time, he had already walked through the corridor and came to the depths of the earth. The blacksmith found a clean place to sit down.
"Okay, you also know a rough idea, the one sitting on the chair in the hall behind us is the patriarch of our Tang clan, of course it's just a statue, you can visit around by yourself first, and then ask me if you have any questions!"
Tang Qingshan walked towards the hall alone. Behind him came the sound of the blacksmith screaming.
"I can only look at it~I can't touch it~!"