Chapter 194: Immaculate
At night, they got on the carriage leaving the city. Although the Queen Mother said that it would be okay if they only stayed in the palace for one night, they left as soon as possible as promised. Whether the Queen Mother looked at them or they looked at the Queen Mother, it was a silent pain for both parties. Compared with the fatigue caused by the heavy body, the weight of the unknown things in my heart makes life painful.
There were less than twenty people left in Wu Guo's team, and they did not leave with Bai Ya and the others. Breaking into another country's imperial city without permission is definitely enough to cause a war. Although the superiors on both sides understand that this is a last resort, they still have to show off to the people below and give an explanation. Maybe, Wu State will also establish diplomatic relations with the two countries in the future, after all, the Abyss of Shiyue Mountain no longer exists. After everything settled down, the general promised them that he would leave this ridiculous land with them.
"How did you escape from the Tengu?"
On the carriage, Jun Aoyan asked Qi Huan. Bai Ya was sitting on the carriage in front of him driving. When he heard this topic, he just looked back sideways. Now his breathing is finally normal, but he can always smell a vague aroma, which may be the diluted smell that remains in his nose. Liu Shenghan counted the magical artifacts next to Aoyan, wiping them clean with a handkerchief one by one to check for damage. Now that the topic was brought up, she stopped what she was doing, turned her eyes around Ao Yan, and looked at him seriously.
"I knew you would ask this." He breathed a sigh of relief, "I finally have the time to talk about it."
"The demon marks on your hands haven't been explained yet. And you've hid more than one thing from us. Please explain them all." Bai Ya suddenly said this.
"Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you. Are you regretting what I promised you?" Qi Huan rolled his eyes, "And that's not a demon pattern, okay. Speaking of which, it's still growing... Let's talk about the Tengu first. Well. In fact, we had some misunderstandings about it before. It is not the ferocious monster as in the legend. In fact, it is completely the opposite."
"completely opposite?"
The moon hangs high in the sky, as bright as a jade plate.
It is true that tengu are evil in nature. But in fact, it is not inherently evil to everyone.
After all, it is a strange beast from heaven, and it does not seem strange to have a pair of eyes that can see through people's hearts. But in the eyes of the Great Tengu, the evil of human nature will continue to be magnified. Evil is so obtrusive that it ignores everything else. It is such a picky and "biased" creature. It is like a mirror that magnifies human imperfections and ugliness.
But children are different. Some people say that human nature is inherently evil, while others say that human nature is inherently good. In the final analysis, the standards for making decisions are naturally different. In the eyes of Tengu, children's desires are instinctive, direct and pure, and this is not a great evil in human nature. On the contrary, the innocence of children has long since ceased to exist in adults who have been tempered by life, and Tengu likes this very much.
It is friendly to children and loves them.
People say that tengu will abduct children, hide them and eat them, and the children will never be found again. This is what is called Shenyin.
"This is also a misunderstanding." Qi Huan said, "But rather than saying it is a misunderstanding, it is better to say...it was premeditated."
"Premeditated?"
"child
It was thrown away. He replied, "At first it was mostly girls, but also boys." There are also elderly people who are unable to support them or are considered a burden and are abandoned. Their families are all poor, or some are born with disabilities or poor brains. They left their children here and left. The Tengu knew their intentions the moment they set foot on the mountain. When the parents leave, it takes the children away. The parents who went back said that their children got lost in the mountains while collecting medicine, and were attacked by wild animals... Some people knew that there was a tengu here, so they said that they were eaten by it. "
Although tengu can indeed eat people, not everyone will eat them. If there are people who are too poor and unable to raise children or the elderly, it will just watch them leave silently. If it has malicious intentions and deliberately abandons unwanted girls or children with defects, it will sometimes attack them, scare them, and even eat them. Sometimes, it deliberately bites off people's hands and feet without letting them die, in order to scare that group of people from coming here again. After those people returned, they became confused and confused. They were either in a daze or crazy. They could not even recognize acquaintances. Some people who do not cooperate with treatment will be infected and die. This is all retribution. Those who returned alive spread horror, adding to the bloodshed rumors that their children had been eaten. Although they did not realize their fault until this point, no one who would disturb them by going up the mountain to collect medicine, or who abandoned the elderly and children, would dare to come again.
Those children left behind were naturally unable to survive in the barren environment, and eventually they all met the fate of death. The old man's life has come to an end, and his soul is very light and dissipates quickly, but the child's immature soul is completely different. In that special place where spiritual power flows, their souls are extremely heavy and cannot leave. The Tengu takes their souls with them, accompanying them and leading them to play freely in the mountains, and no one can control them.
They will not become ferocious evil spirits, but will be transformed and reincarnated.
Until that hypocritical god came here with the xun she stole.
Just as human cats and dogs respond to human whistles, so do tengu respond to this instrumental music from the heavens. In the music of Kinnara, its mind turned into a truly ferocious monster without thoughts of its own, just as people wished. After its mind was severely damaged, Kinnara sang it back to sleep. It has become a real hidden danger in Shiyue Mountain.
The little prince's soul loved it as much as he loved his sister and his own wood carving. He didn't know why he died, he only knew that he was dead, but he was very happy - although the tengu looked scary, he was much cuter than those in the palace who looked human-like and had unclean mouths and hearts. Wherever he wanders, the tengu carries his small wooden carving in its mouth. It was so careful, for fear of biting the wood carving into pieces.
He has never left here. He should have been reincarnated with other children long ago. In this case, he would have no chance.
He didn't want to leave it either.
"Then...you know, it was awakened."
"It's Kinnara who is causing trouble." Aoyan told him.
"Well, I made a rough guess. I met the little prince, and he said his name was Wei Yan. But I can't say I saw him, I heard his voice. I still remember that I was rescued by Amber at the bottom of the sea. Is it a matter of life?"
Aoyan nodded and said
Shenghan told her.
"If not for this, I might not be able to communicate with them." Qi Huan was very happy. "When we were the only ones left in the buried valley, my spirit was connected to them... I heard their voices. Then The child is really pitiful."
He tried to move his skills and set up formations, but failed to get out of the valley using many methods. The power of nature was too huge. Although there is plenty of water, there is very little food. Fortunately, even in the deep valleys, there are many delicious medicinal herbs hidden, but eating them raw is too choking. But there is no way. Since this is the only thing, you can only eat this. People have to find a way to survive.
At first, he failed to successfully communicate with the Tengu. He was always cautious, fearing that if he didn't make the right move, he would anger the giant creature not far from him. He could only listen to the little prince telling some interesting stories over the years and introducing friends who had left. In addition to him, there were many other friends left here, but the Tengu's mind was no longer able to transform them... Moreover, it was trapped at the foot of the mountain, and the human soul could not do anything.
Other children's souls were eaten. By something unknown.
"The Tengu will protect us." The little prince told Qi Huan, "It can protect us from the attack of a kind of monster. In fact, none of us have seen clearly what the monster is. We only know that if we are too far away from the Tengu, it will There is danger. As long as it is there, we will not be kidnapped."
At that time, Qi Huan told him truthfully: "If the soul is hurt, it will not be reincarnated. But the soul is not hurt so easily... Are there other monsters in Shiyue Mountain?"
"I don't know. Maybe it came from somewhere else. Those friends... were all taken away. I am the only one left hiding in the mountain stream to accompany it."
Most of the time, Qi Huan would tell him stories about the outside world and everything about Jiutian Abroad. He was interested in everything. Slowly, Qi Huan discovered that as long as he made the child happy, the dog would not trouble him that day.
Bai Ya, who was driving the car, turned around and said, "You are such a evil-minded person and you didn't even feed it."
"Actually, it's almost." Qi Huan said with a serious look on his face, "Fortunately, I'm better at hitting, and I beat him to his heart."
"I believe it."
"Me too."
"Hahaha."
"Why are you like this! Don't you listen anymore!"
"You speak, you speak."
Later... the little prince stayed too long after all. He has stayed in this world for too long. Since Qi Huan got to know him, he would occasionally show his spirit body in front of Qi Huan. But his soul has been seriously polluted by the world. If he continues like this, he will eventually lose his original mind and turn into a ghost.
The frequency of his dazes and loss of control became more and more frequent, and the days when I could have a calm conversation with him were few and far between. Not only did he have to be wary of the bad-tempered Tengu who would get yelled at every time he sneezed, but he also had to deal with the soul of the little prince who would suddenly turn against him at any time.
He doesn't have that much resentment, so it's easy to deal with, but what happens when he completely degenerates?
This day came earlier than Qi Huan expected.
"So I transcended him."
At this point, his tone had become a little heavy. He was indeed impressed by that short but happy memory and could not forget it. But at the same time, he also knew that this would happen sooner or later.
