Chapter 308: Ten Years
The battle of Yunshan Temple seems to have caused the fuse of turmoil in the world, and the Avatar Sect Masters who were originally sitting in various parts of Shenzhou have faded out of people's sight, and it seems that they have completely left the world of Shenzhou!
And taking advantage of this opportunity, on the rivers and lakes, many heroes who have the heart to win the world have risen up one after another, under the banner of the immorality of the dynasty, while occupying the mountain as the king, wantonly expanding his subordinates, while advancing towards the Xuandu of Zhongzhou, wanting to carve up the Xuanyue Dynasty!
Since then, the Xuanyue Dynasty's thousand-year-long imperial rule has been completely broken, except for the Zhongzhou region that is still under its control, the remaining four continents have broken away from the control of the Xuanyue Dynasty, forming a four-way encirclement!
Without the Divine Transformation Grandmaster sitting in the world, the rule of the Xuanyue Dynasty also existed in name only! All of a sudden, the bloody rain and bloody wind were everywhere on the rivers and lakes, and battles and battles were staged all the time, not to mention that there were countless bones buried in the barren mountains and mountains, and even the originally densely populated prosperous place couldn't help but seem depressed! At the same time, in addition to the Xuanyue Dynasty, the other four dynasties were also born in this white bone and blood!
They are, the land of Dongzhou, the Tianxing Dynasty that exists by relying on the Qingxu Concept, the land of Tiannan, the lion and camel country with Buddhism as the state religion, the Jiuli Alliance with the demon god as the totem and the sacrificial ceremony, and the Frost Dynasty headed by the forces of the Beihai Tingjian Pavilion on the coast of the North Sea!
And just when the people of the world are caught in the dynastic struggle for hegemony and are miserable, there is a place above Shenzhou, independent of the world, like a paradise!
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Ten years later, the northwest land of China, the Dead Sea, the Netherworld!
The original name of the Dead Sea was not the Dead Sea, but the Northern Stygian Sea! However, the original name had been forgotten by the world thousands of years ago, and the name passed down by word of mouth became the Dead Sea! However, although it is called the Dead Sea, it is not devoid of life in this ocean, and here, whether it is fish and shrimp, or aquatic plants and corals, there are everything! In fact, the aquarium in the Dead Sea is definitely the most comfortable aquarium on the Shenzhou continent! In this Dead Sea, formerly known as the North Stygian Sea, in addition to the survival rules given by God, there is no other external interference, and the abundance of fish and shrimp is definitely the most in the sea of China!
And the reason why this place is called the Dead Sea by the world is because of the battle that happened here in the fall of the fourth person on the god list, when the entire Dead Sea was full of void cracks, and all living beings were completely withered! And after this battle, after thousands of years of cultivation, the impact caused by that year has long disappeared, but the name of this place has continued!
Moreover, because the battle back then was so terrifying, the top sects on the Shenzhou Continent were all secretive about the Netherworld Mountain, and they turned it into a forbidden place, strictly prohibiting their disciples from breaking in without permission. Over time, the name of the Dead Sea spread above Shenzhou, and as for the name before that, no one ever mentioned it again!
In fact, the Netherworld Mountain is a huge mountain range that spans nearly thousands of miles, that is, the Shenzhou world is vast, if you change the planetary plane to a small point, it is not an exaggeration to say that this Netherworld is a continent!
And at this time, in the purple bamboo forest on the easternmost side of this dark mountain, there is a figure shuttling back and forth in the bamboo forest! The body is ethereal like a dragon and a phoenix, and the feet are not stained with a little dust.
"Whoosh!"
A stray seabird passes above the bamboo forest and makes a "bu-woo-bu-woo" call. At this time, it is getting late, and the afterglow of the setting sun is sprinkled on the sea, dyeing the Dead Sea into a golden red! The originally beautiful and fairyland-like picture of the bamboo forest adds a desolation to the call of the seabirds!
The woman in white frowned slightly, raised her eyes and glanced at the mountain wall outside the bamboo forest, and then rose into the air, like a gust of wind, directly appeared next to the seabird, a pair of slender hands as white as jade, lightly on the seabird, and then put it into the sleeve!
"Girl, come down, it's time to go back!"
A slightly old voice suddenly came from the direction the woman had been looking at before, and before the woman could strangle the seabirds, it fell into her ears!
"Yes, master!"
Hearing the call, the delicate feet of the woman in white stepped slightly in the void, and then the whole body flew lightly towards the bamboo forest like a fairy running to the moon!
"Whew!"
A gust of fragrant wind blew, and the figure of the woman in white fell on the cliff outside the bamboo forest. This place is less than two zhang away from the Dead Sea below, and the radius is even less than a few zhang, but in this slightly narrow space, there is a stone carved chessboard, three stone benches, at this time, on this chessboard, there is a pot of fragrant tea that has cooled, and on the stone bench on the side, there is an old man, with white hair like frost and snow, and the skin on his face is also full of folds, looking like a drooping old man.
But in the old man's hands, he was now holding a three-inch long carving knife and a half-carved doll! and his old hands, which were also weathered, were now very steady, not in the least as old as his appearance appeared!
"Click, click, click, click......"
After the woman in white fell, the old man didn't seem to notice it, he still waved the carving knife in his hand without self-forgetfulness, and slowly carved the puppet in his hand one by one, as if the person who summoned the woman just now was not him!
The white-haired old man's actions were quite rude, but the woman in white did not mean to be angry at all, but stood behind the old man very respectfully, her eyes were slightly empty, looking at the back of the old man in the carefully carved in a daze!
Follow the woman's gaze, you will find that in front of the old man, there are also countless dolls carved from stone, although these dolls have different shapes, joys and sorrows, but they all have the same thing in common, that is, these dolls are semi-finished products, and all the dolls are missing the most critical eyes, so that they lack a trace of aura.
"Smack......
A piece of rubble rolls down from the doll and lands on the chessboard carved out of stone, making a crunch that wakes up the girl who is deep in thought!
The old man slowly stood up from the stone bench, a pair of old and cloudy eyes swept over the woman's cuffs, and with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, he said, "Let it go." ”
The woman spat out her tongue slightly, and the cloud sleeve that was originally rolled up on her right arm opened slightly, and the seabird that was bound in the sleeve struggled out of it, and when it flew into the air, it did not leave immediately. Instead, they circled around the strange two people on the cliff and flew in a circle before flying towards the mountains and forests in the distance!
Looking at the figure of the seabird gradually moving away, the old man's sleeves waved lightly, and there was not the slightest true element fluctuation in his body, and a crimson sword shadow flew over from the Dead Sea under the cliff, and automatically stopped beside the woman in white!
"Let's go!
The woman in white was not surprised by the sword shadow that appeared automatically, because she didn't know how many hundred times she had seen this same scene! But just when she wanted to step on the long sword and leave with the old man's sword, she suddenly recalled the meaning of the old man's words, and couldn't help but look stiff, looking at the old man's mottled face!
The old man seemed to be prepared for the woman's reaction, and after seeing the woman's silence, he just stuffed the carving knife in his hand into the woman's hand along with the puppet: "I've sent it to you! I'm afraid I won't need it as a teacher in the future!"
"Master!"
The woman's eyes were still staring directly at the old man in front of her, but the hands holding the carving knife couldn't help but tremble slightly, and an indescribable depression suddenly burst out from her heart, but a thousand words could only be turned into these two simplest words at this time!
The old man reached out and patted the woman's forehead twice, looked at her reddened eyes, and said with a light smile: "You stupid child, what are you crying about!"
"Master, you ......"
The woman in white looked at the old man in front of her aggrievedly, although the old man's movements just now were very light and light, but she still made a painful expression, just like when she was a child!
"Silly girl, let's take a look at the puppet in your hand first!"
Looking at the sad woman, the old man couldn't bear to continue teasing her, and chuckled and pointed to the doll in the woman's hand!
"Dolls?"
The woman in white was slightly stunned, the puppet carved in the old man's hand, she had seen it more than a thousand times, she thought that this puppet would not be any different, but at this moment, listening to the old man's meaning, there seems to be some mystery hidden in this puppet!
"This, this ......"
The woman in white looked down at the puppet in her palm, and in just an instant, she noticed the difference between this puppet, her mouth couldn't help but open wide, and her face was full of incredulity: "This puppet, it actually has eyes, it actually has eyes......!"
As she spoke, the eyes of the woman in white suddenly lit up, and she knew very well what the eyes that appeared on the puppet meant!
Yes, the puppet held in the palm of the woman in white at this moment is not a semi-finished product like before, but a complete finished product! A pair of eyes that are as gentle as jade and as soft as the spring breeze in March are carved by the old man on the puppet's nose, directly making this originally dead thing become full of vitality!
The old man nodded with a smile on the corner of his mouth, but he didn't rush to answer the woman's question, but continued to ask: "You are taking a closer look to see what else is different about this puppet!"
According to the old man's words, the woman in white continued to pick up a large number of the dolls in her hands that had been carefully carved by the old man, and carefully looked at its differences!
When the woman looked at the puppet for the first time, she had been pressing a heavy stone in her heart, and she didn't notice the subtle changes of the puppet except for the most obvious eyes!
The doll is carved with a young woman, but unlike the sad or happy girl dolls in her impression, this puppet held in her palm is a Jiangnan girl with three points of heroism!
The round goose egg face has a thin and small red lip, and above the red lips, there is a small and delicate Qiong nose, and above it is a pair of watery eyes like a spring breeze in March!
With a round face, small lips, a small nose, and a pair of eyes that are ashamed before speaking, no matter how you look at it, she looks like a Jiangnan woman! However, only on those watery eyes, there is a pair of sword eyebrows that belong to a man, which adds a bit of heroism to this originally gentle little bridge and flowing water!
"This, this puppet is me, not my aunt?" After a while, the woman in white asked with a puzzled face.
Because in her impression, the puppet carved by her master has always had only one image, that is, the aunt she has never met! But at this time, the puppet held by her in her palm is clearly her own appearance, which makes her not surprised!
The old man chuckled and nodded: "That's right, it's you! Since it's a doll given to you, the master can naturally only carve it into a tiger girl, if it is still carved into the appearance of your aunt, wouldn't it be weird?"
"Master~!People already have names, why do you still call people nicknames!"
Looking at the smile in the old man's eyes, the girl in white naturally understood that she had been tricked by her master!
Looking at the coquettish appearance of the woman in front of him, the old man's heart couldn't help but be in a trance, and after a while, Fang Cai smiled: "Yes, the master forgot, the tiger girl has grown up now, and it should be called Ye Tong......!"
As he spoke, the old man couldn't help laughing, but in the laughter, there was still a trace of indelible sadness!
The woman in white, Ye Tong (that is, the little girl Tiger Girl who was taken in by Ye Fan in an inn ten years ago) looked at the old man who was smiling, but her heart was inexplicably sour.
In ten years, she has grown from a wild girl who has nothing to do to a beautiful girl now, and the master in her memory who stood up to the sky and the earth and sheltered herself and her mother from the wind and rain has become an old man today! Fate seems to have played a big joke with herself, and while fulfilling herself, she is also tormenting this "old man" who is only 30 years old all the time!
Time seems to have taken a completely different trajectory in the two of them!
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