There is a green mountain outside Zisu Imperial City, three hundred feet high.
The scenery seen from the palace is unique. The emperor named it Huashan, which means the mountains and rivers are transformed into pictures.
There is a dilapidated temple hidden on the hillside of Huashan Mountain. The clay statue on the platform inside the temple has a mottled face, with only lowered eyebrows and eyes, silently watching the mother and son in the temple.
In front of the incense burner, a gentle woman wearing simple makeup and plain clothes worshiped the statue and comforted her two sons softly.
"Be careful and don't stray too far from mother."
Her slightly calloused hands held the two rings left by her deceased husband to her children. The woman recalled what her husband had said, but there were only three words in her heart:
Well done again.
Wiping away her tears, the woman who had done some housework followed her late husband's instructions, reluctantly pushed the incense burner, and inserted the ring into the double-ring groove on the floor under the incense burner.
The ring trembled slightly, and purple light threads intertwined into a circle on the ground, forming mysterious patterns, inspiring countless runes to float up and surround the mother and son.
The woman protected the child behind her, her eyes blurred, memories and uneasiness came one after another, and her voice trembled slightly as she asked the child:
"It's okay Cheng Yun, be optimistic about Yin Feng. Don't be afraid, mother is here."
The older child seemed a little dull. He held his restless younger brother and stared at the runes that lit up one after another around him, feeling nothing but novelty.
There is a simple platform suspended in the eternal silence of the void, surrounded by attics, and the magical atmosphere is flowing.
The man who looked like a man was leaning on the railing, looking at a battlefield somewhere in the distance.
There is immortal energy surrounding it, there is Qi and blood flowing into the sky, there is also a sea of Buddhas who save the world, and the light of the sword is ethereal.
At this moment, all the cultivators were looking towards the center of the battlefield, and the indifferent man was also looking at it with great interest.
There was a hundred-foot-long golden ape with eyes wide open in anger. The energy and blood in his body exploded like stars gathering together, overwhelming everything. His eyes glowed with divine light, and he smashed a crimson war hammer that was almost broken into pieces into the cave sky.
The light dissipated, and the gentle woman came back to her senses and found that she was no longer in the temple.
When he looked up, he didn't see the mottled statue, but instead saw a familiar yet unfamiliar man looking at him indifferently.
"Yinlang..."
The ordinary-looking man in black shirt played with a white jade finger, looking at the woman with his deep eyes. The light was flowing, and the surrounding attics lit up one after another, connecting them one by one.
A majestic formation emerged from the void, even attracting several looks from the battlefield.
The gentle woman remained motionless, the expression of sadness and hope on her face was frozen, like an ingeniously crafted statue.
The man's body was full of breath, the talisman array became more powerful, and a scroll of heaven and earth spread out. The life of the woman and her husband continued to be interpreted on the scroll.
After reading it several times, the white jade finger suddenly shattered into powder and returned to its original state.
The man rubbed his fingers and pondered, then looked to somewhere in the distant world.
A pretty woman thanked the fat cook in the tea shop and handed over three copper coins.
As if sensing the man's gaze, the woman held up a glass of turbid wine and wore a white jade ring on her slender hand.
The man withdrew his gaze and with a casual wave, the gentle woman disappeared. Although the scroll was there, the woman's husband and her two sons were no longer seen.
All traces and some of the rules of that world are quietly changing, no one knows, and there is no way to follow.
In that world, there is no longer a trace of a man's lost heart, and there are no more two sons leaning next to the woman.
The man looked at the previous battlefield and tapped his finger to count the nine breaths.
After nine breaths, the Golden Ape Divine Hammer had not yet arrived. The man looked puzzled and was about to go.
But in the next breath, the hammer completely shattered, and the golden ape body flew out. A handsome young man retracted his sword finger from the battlefield, and then appeared in front of the man in an instant. His breath was pure, but the look of his purple-gold eyes gradually dimmed.
The man closed his eyes and deduced, and after a while he looked at the tea shop. Only the fat cook took out an extra copper coin and it was shiny when he touched it.
Looking at the scroll of heaven and earth, the man controlled the handsome young man who had lost his soul and sat cross-legged in the center of the platform.
The talisman array lit up again and completely blocked the void here.
The light dissipated, and two children, one large and one small, were lying on the ground leaning against each other in the temple. The mottled clay statues on the stage were not damaged at all within the talisman array.
Chengyun had a dream.
In the dream, my mother called out her father's name to someone, but she saw countless chains surrounding her and imprisoning her.
Uneasiness and anger filled my brain, but I was like a spectator, unable to interfere at all.
As the number of chains increased, her mother's appearance became increasingly blurred, and Cheng Yun became even more uneasy, because he could clearly feel that his past memories were quickly disappearing.
The feeling of emptiness gradually deepened. Apart from himself and his brother, all that was left in the past was a vague memory of his mother.
What frightened Cheng Yun even more was that he suddenly felt a sense of numbness towards this emptiness, and this numbness even gradually expanded.
Under extreme depression, Cheng Yun was still unable to make any movement, but finally he seemed to have broken through some kind of barrier and was able to shout out.
But at this moment, a force pulled Cheng Yun away from the dream, leaving behind his mother who was completely wrapped in chains.
I can no longer remember my mother's appearance, but the figure of the gentle woman has always been engraved in Cheng Yun's heart.
At this time, the clay statue in the temple was broken into pieces, and a shiny copper coin rose from the broken pieces, shining brightly.
As Chengyun's breathing calmed down, the copper coins turned into golden liquid and blended into Chengyun's body. Various creatures vaguely wandered along the meridians, floated in the acupoints in the body, and then disappeared.
Not feeling any changes in his body, Cheng Yun woke up with a start, crying loudly and telling his brother that his mother was missing.
Yinfeng looked at his sad brother strangely and said blankly:
"We don't have a mother."
Cheng Yun stood dumbfounded, unconsciously, his brain became confused, and he suspected that it was indeed a dream. Suddenly, his whole body felt warm, and there seemed to be a roar, and Cheng Yun's eyes became firm.
That's not a dream.
When I asked Yinfeng how the two came here, I couldn't remember anything, but my younger brother said that they had no father or mother. They were once taken in by a family, but this morning the brothers were kicked out.
Pointing to his brother, he asked where the two rings with their respective names engraved on them came from.
Yinfeng looked at his brother strangely, hadn't he been carrying him since he could remember?
Cheng Yun rubbed his head, but he couldn't figure it out, but what he was sure of was that his younger brother must also have had a dream.
If I hadn't shouted out in the end, I might have become like my brother, forgetting my mother and having these fake memories.
Wiping away the tears still hanging on his face, Cheng Yun picked up the two rings, handed the one to his younger brother, and said solemnly:
"We have a mother, you must remember that I will find my mother."
Yinfeng remembered that his brother had said it many times, but he still nodded seriously in response.
Staying in this ruined temple was no longer an option. Cheng turned around and saw his younger brother yawning and skillfully getting into the quilt, pulling out two straps and stretching them towards him.
He tied Yinfeng behind his back and carried him on his back. He walked out of the temple gate without feeling the difficulty. The sky was getting dark. Chengyun didn't know where to go, so he had to walk down the muddy path in front of the temple.
The mountain peaks in the distance are hazy and a little cold.
The mountain road gradually narrowed, and the ring hanging around Cheng Yun's neck glowed faintly with purple light.
Feeling a little cold, Cheng Yun tied up his sleeping brother a little tighter.
Even though it is much easier to carry my brother on my back now than before, I still have to take a break after walking for a while.
Cheng Yun was about to sit on the stone to rest when suddenly the grass shook and a wild wolf jumped out and charged towards him with a ferocious howl.
Before he could completely avoid it, the beast's mouth opened and closed and bit Cheng Yun's left arm. A large amount of blood spattered out. Cheng Yun trembled all over and turned pale. He stumbled back a few steps, farther away from the wild wolf.
At this moment, Cheng Yun didn't know that there was a shadow in his ring, watching the wild wolf confront Cheng Yun.
Due to the rules, the spirit outside this ring needs to be protected and have good luck, but the person who imprisoned him here does not seem to have considered that ordinary beasts can also kill the owner of the ring at this moment.
Almost fainting from the pain, Cheng Yun trembled all over. He could feel his brother's relatively steady breathing behind him and gritted his teeth not to cry.
He lowered his body to the beast opposite him, staring at the beast with a pale face under the moonlight.
Hidden Wind was still awakened and began to whimper uneasily, which further aroused the ferocity of the wild wolf.
The wild wolf became even more excited after tasting the tender flesh and blood. Taking advantage of the moment when the villain was unstable due to pain, he pounced and bit him again.
Cheng used his half-broken arm to block, and moved to the right to imitate the wild beast, opening his mouth and biting the wild wolf's neck with all his strength.
The left forearm entered the hungry wolf's mouth, and there was the sound of chewing. Cheng Yun's mouth was filled with his own blood, broken teeth and a few tufts of beast hair.
Cheng Yun exhaled heavily and choked on the blood in his mouth. He coughed several times and spat out his teeth and hair mixed with blood to the ground.
The yellow-green wolf eyes flashed, and he was not in a hurry to pounce on the almost non-threatening villain.
Due to their vigilant nature, the wild wolves wandered around Cheng Yun, still chewing in their mouths.
Suddenly, Cheng Yun's whole body burst into purple light, and his whole body recovered as before. The light in his right arm turned into a blade and slashed at the wild wolf.
The wolf stood dumbly, its head rolled aside with astonishment in its eyes.
The light gradually dissipated, Cheng Yun opened his eyes, and touched his regrown left arm in confusion.
Seeing that the wild wolf was lifeless, he didn't dare to let his younger brother see this scene, so he patted his younger brother to comfort him and hurriedly ran away along the trail.
After Cheng Yun left, animal blood began to flow from the neck of the wolf corpse, which looked extremely strange under the still horrifying wolf eyes.
The shadow within the precept felt that its own spiritual power was diminishing, and silently recited it nine times, which was exactly the same as the rules of this precept.
But at this moment, a vague human figure appears in the ring. Upon careful inspection, the shadow does not look like the real spirit of this ring, but it is very unsettling in this strange ring.
I was confused before, but after I gained a clear consciousness, I immediately realized that I was a spirit outside the ring.
I don't know who and when they imprisoned me here, what the ring is, or where the inner spirit is.
Although I can only roughly control this invisible ring, it is enough for the present. I can only force myself to wait patiently for the tenth time.
Wolf, right arm. Tiger, right leg...
Nine repetitions, nine pains, nine silent fortunes, nine whimpering hidden winds.
And after nine times, a complete body appeared in the ring. The appearance was the same as that of the ring owner, but he seemed to have no consciousness.
Instinctively feeling uneasy and staying away from the body, the shadow looks forward to a hungry black bear that notices Cheng Lun.
The black bear quickly rushed to Cheng Yun, his one eye full of greed and violence, and his fishy saliva dripped on the ground.
At this moment, the ring's light was completely dimmed, and although the shadow was vaguely unstable, it could not conceal its excitement.
Cheng Yun, who had gone back and forth in pain nine times, was already a little numb. Too much pain put a heavy burden on Cheng Yun's psychology, and he was only supported by the thought of protecting his younger brother.
The blind bear roared and jumped out. Cheng Yun tried his best to dodge but was still knocked away by the bear. He turned his body in the air with all his strength to hit the stone wall to avoid hurting Yin Feng.
The violent frontal impact made Cheng Yun almost faint, his eyesight went black, and a gentle voice sounded in his heart:
"It's okay to be lucky, be optimistic about Hidden Wind..."
"Mother..." Cheng Yun murmured.
Yinfeng cried and struggled, and the black bear opened its big mouth in excitement and bit into Yinfeng eagerly. Suddenly, its whole body froze and froze, and then turned into a puddle of black powder.
The old man with a thin face and a white beard hanging down his chest waved his gray sleeves and dispersed the powder. He looked at the child who had fainted after holding the crying toddler under him with a complicated expression.
His consciousness cleared that there was no serious problem. He put the smaller child into the backpack and picked up the older child. He seemed to have noticed something. The old man's aura suddenly rose and he looked indifferently towards the shadow.
A huge snake-like monster that was previously suppressed by the ring turned into a cold man with a black horn on his head. He looked at the old man fearfully and apologized:
"I don't know if Mr. Lin will be offended in person." After saying that, he slowly backed away and waited until the scary old man could no longer be seen before he dared to transform into his true form and escape.
The old man known as Mr. Lin sensed that some of the low-level monsters around him were still crawling on the ground, and he looked thoughtfully at the child in his arms who was still mumbling about his mother.
Seeing this scene, the ghost inside the ring felt his mind fluctuate violently. He let out a long sigh and gradually became silent.
