Legend has it that a hundred years ago, there was no moon on Earth.
The white mist surrounding the new world dissipated, and the terrifying trolls followed.
They covered the sky and the sun at every turn, devoured mountains and seas, and captured four continents in the New World in a short period of time.
Fortunately, in addition to the trolls, Yue Zun also arrived.
She carried the Moon Star to guard next to the Earth Star, preventing the trolls from coming directly, and this allowed the people on the Earth Star to survive.
Despite this, due to the influence of the trolls, various monsters and evil spirits wreak havoc on the land, causing a large number of casualties every year.
The earth star is the capital of Qiucheng, the country of Daxia.
Chang Heng was sitting at the entrance of a grocery store. It was lunch time and there were very few customers. He could just be lazy and rest.
The sun was shining brightly on the street, and a thin boy walked close to the small shadow under the eaves of the shop.
Unlike ordinary people, this boy has a pair of slender pointed ears.
After seeing Chang Heng, he had such an expression on his face.
"Uncle, are you working on your strange Rubik's Cube again?"
"Haha, we're almost done. Brat, go in and eat quickly, the food is getting cold." Chang Heng waved his hand and urged.
"Okay, uncle. I'll come find you after dinner."
"The things taught in school are so boring. Uncle, you said psychic mechanics is more interesting."
Chen Shun trotted into the store.
"Cultivation is actually boring? Is there something wrong with this kid today?"
Looking at his anxious figure, Chang Heng shook his head in confusion and continued his movements.
This is a Rubik's Cube with twenty sides, but it's not accurate either. Because when Chang Heng rotates it, the Rubik's Cube will deform and become an eight-sided cube or something else.
This is actually Chang Heng's perpetual motion mechanism, and it is also his greatest achievement after completing his breakthrough at the Psychic Sun Center.
Chang Heng didn't know why he came here.
In his memory, as soon as the sky and the earth went dark, he was lying on the ground of this world, seriously injured, and even the theoretical perpetual motion mechanism, which had no entity and could not be damaged, was broken.
Having lost all his strength, he wandered into the wilderness and happened to meet Chen Shun, who was scavenging.
With the help of the boy, he did not become a meal for monsters and passed the most difficult period.
Later, Chang Heng relied on his skills in making exquisite machinery to successfully acquire a shop in Suqiucheng, and by the way, he also took Chen Shun over.
The two finally lived a fairly stable life.
“If you think about it, it’s been four years since I’ve been here.”
"In this world, there is no trace of the Falcon Kingdom, and there are no legends of the great star masters."
"But the concentration of spiritual energy in this world is too high. Has the mentor been here?"
Chang Heng couldn't help but think of his mysterious Bingjie mentor.
It has been thousands of years since he disappeared.
"Oh, why are you thinking so much? Whether I can go back or not is a question now. I'd better heal my injuries first."
Chang Heng suppressed the confusion in his heart and continued to repair his perpetual motion mechanism.
In the afternoon, Chen Shun unexpectedly did not go to school.
"What's wrong?" Chang Heng asked confused.
In his impression, Chen Shun has always been a studious child. Not to mention skipping class, I was never even late once.
"Uncle, I'm not going to learn to cultivate immortality anymore. I'll learn spiritual weapons from you, okay?" Chen Shun replied.
He came to Chang Heng holding a wooden butterfly in his hand.
This wooden butterfly does not have any energy on it, nor is it etched with spell patterns. It is just a pure wooden product.
But after Chen Shun let go of his hand, it flapped its wings and flew into the air, with the tentacles on its head trembling slightly, lifelike.
"Uncle, I asked the teachers at school and they couldn't make such a butterfly."
"They said it's a miracle that this thing can move!" Chen Shun said in amazement, imitating the teacher's tone.
"You brat, stop doing this!"
"I've made many miracles like this for you in the past, but aren't you still clamoring to become an immortal? Why, have you changed your mind now?"
"I remember today is the day for Su Qiu College's qualification examination. To be honest, is it possible that you are not the type to cultivate immortality?"
Chang Heng was stunned for a moment and said without mercy.
"How could it be, uncle? I'm so smart, brave, and upright... Okay, I admit, my qualifications are a little bit behind."
Under Chang Heng's sharp gaze, Chen Shun shrugged his head and was defeated.
Taking the school opinion letter from Chen Shun's hand, Chang Heng glanced at it twice, but still couldn't help holding his stomach and laughing out loud.
"Pfft~"
"It is recommended to study liberal arts. Hahaha, you are just a little bit behind. There is no hope at all."
Chen Shun snatched the opinion piece angrily and raised his eyebrows, "Smile, smile, you will die laughing."
"Anyway, I'm just a loser in cultivating immortals! If I want to become an immortal, it's because I, a toad, want to eat swan meat. I'd better continue to scavenge."
Seeing Chen Shun start packing things, Chang Heng tried his best to calm down his smile, put his arm around his shoulders and comforted:
"Chen Shun, I told you not to cultivate immortality. It would be great if you follow me to learn spiritual weapons."
"Uncle, you also know my craftsmanship. Once I carve and process any kind of waste materials, the whole city will rob them. The supply exceeds the demand."
"You're a piece of trash, I think you can still be saved!"
"Really? Uncle, are you willing to teach me?" Chen Shun was overjoyed.
"Uh-huh. When did I stop teaching you, uncle?" Chang Heng said.
After that, Chang Heng took Chen Shun to Suqiu College to apply for withdrawal procedures, and the college quickly approved the application.
Cultivation is extremely resource intensive, especially for students with poor qualifications. After the qualification ranking every year, the college receives many such applications.
Not every family has the financial resources to afford their children to continue cultivating immortality, especially when there is no hope. This is a very cruel reality.
For Chen Shun, after his childhood dream came to an end in this way, he became more devoted to studying psychic science, so much so that he almost entered the realm of madness day and night.
Soon, under Chang Heng's guidance, he was able to independently make functional and practical mechanical items such as music boxes and classical clocks.
These items are not covered with skin, and the shiny steel pipes, deformed springs, etc. are all exposed. They have a rough beauty that is different from electronic items, and have received good feedback from the market in Suqiucheng.
The days passed like this, and now Chang Heng has handed over the grocery store business to Chen Shun.
If there are no accidents, Chang Heng will continue to teach such basic teaching for a few more years. But a letter broke the tranquility of their lives.
"Chen Shun, there's your letter! It's from the elves." Chang Heng said, looking at the beautiful tree of life postmark on the envelope.
"Elves?"
Among the tools on the workbench, Chen Shun raised his head. He touched his ears, seemed to think of something, and quickly took the letter.
But as he read it, his face became hard to look at.
"What was written in the letter?" Chang Heng asked.
"It's about my mother." Chen Shun said.
"This is a good thing! After all these years, we finally have news about your mother. Did the letter say where your mother is?" Chang Heng asked.
Chen Shun nodded, then shook his head, "She is in the Elf Forest of Yuexing. But she is already dead. The elves wrote to ask me if I wanted to say goodbye to her."
Chang Heng was silent.
He knew that Chen Shun's father had died at the hands of monsters in the wilderness in his early years, but he didn't expect that the mother Chen Shun had been looking forward to for many years was gone now.
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"What are your plans?" After a while, Chang Heng asked.
"Let's go. I want to know what happened to her these years." Chen Shun carefully collected the letter and left the workbench.
"I'll go with you."
"With your little strength, I'm afraid if you meet a monster on the way, you'll be dead." Chang Heng said.
"Uncle, you are talking too much about me! Now I have level 1 combat power." Chen Shun retorted dissatisfied.
"Isn't that still garbage? Can it beat the training robot I made?"
"..." Chen Shun stopped talking.
Now he was indeed beaten violently by the training robot.
"Okay. Don't be brave. When are you leaving?"
"Now!"
"Okay. Stand firm!" Chang Heng shouted loudly.
"What?"
Before Chen Shun could react, a large whirlpool appeared out of thin air in the room and sucked him in.
Outside the street, the same vortex appeared, and Chen Shun fell out of it and squatted on the ground.
In his surprised eyes, the vortex grew larger and larger, sucking in the entire grocery store. Then, a suitcase fell out of the whirlpool and was caught by a hand with distinct knuckles.
"What the hell? The house turned into a suitcase?"
"This is not mechanical!"
Chen Shun looked at Chang Heng dumbfounded.
"Haha, brat, you know how profound the science of spiritual weapons is. You will still have to learn it in the future."
"Don't be stupid, let's go!"
Chang Heng laughed, threw the suitcase on the carriage, and pulled Chen Shun up from the ground.
He flicked the reins, and the golden horse made of copper blew out two streams of steam from its nostrils and moved its powerful hooves.
The whole carriage rushed out of Suqiu City with a roar and ran towards the distance at high speed.
