Hanling City, Lingkuang Mountains
In the deep dark valley of the mountain stream, a huge spherical light curtain exudes a gentle and soft light in the darkness. The light and shadow in the entire spherical light curtain are intertwined and confusing. In the deep valley completely shrouded in darkness, this faint light is like a straw in despair, bringing negligible hope.
Qiye fell into this spherical light curtain and met an old man who died here with a mysterious identity. During a detailed conversation with the old man, Qiye heard shocking news one after another that shocked him to the core. It also made his worldview like a frog in a well, blowing up an unstoppable hurricane. As a result, the little Qiye's young understanding of the world actually improved in the changes of light and shadow in a short period of time.
It turns out that the old man who died here was called "Hunyuan Taizu" and was one of the twelve immortal clans. Seven thousand years ago, on the human continent, in order to defend the living place of the human race, together with the Gods, Spirits and Water Tribes, they fought against the invasion of the alliance from the Demons, Orcs, Monsters and Ghosts, and fought bravely in the war. In the end, Unfortunately he died and was sealed here.
As the old man traced back carefully, Qiye was shocked by the protracted war that broke out on the human continent seven thousand years ago: the fighting between the two camps lasted for a full thousand years. Over the past thousand years, the war has become increasingly fierce and extremely tragic. There have been countless casualties among various races, and countless strong men have fallen.
During the Thousand-Year War, many weak and small races were exterminated one after another. Even the medium-sized clans such as the Human Race, the Water Race, the Ghost Race, and the Monster Race nearly suffered complete extinction. The entire human continent was destroyed beyond recognition, and many territories were disintegrated and fragmented.
Although the war was so tragic, the Justice League of many races still did not give up resistance. In the end, the invading army headed by the demons saw that even after paying such a heavy price, they still failed to occupy the human continent, so they had to give up and withdraw.
After listening to Taizu Hunyuan's narration, Qiye's heart was surging like a stormy sea and could not calm down for a long time.
With a "plop", Qiye ignored the pain all over his body and knelt down with both legs. With tears in his eyes, speechless and choked with sobs, he bent down and kowtowed:
"Immortals fought for the survival of our human race, but unfortunately fell here. I have no repayment, please accept my three bows." After sobbing, Qiye kowtowed three times respectfully, and each kowtow hit the light screen ground. There was a "dang, dang, dang" echo, his forehead was bruised and blood flowed down, but Qiye paid no attention to it.
Qiye undoubtedly paid the highest tribute to this old man who once defended the survival of his race. Although Qiye has never seen the outside world and has never known other races in the world, Qiye naturally knows how to repay the righteous act of the old man in front of him who sacrificed his life to defend the survival of his own race! If it were not for their sacrifice and brave resistance, I am afraid that the human race would have been destroyed long ago, and they would not exist in the world.
Although his existence is humble and his life is worthless, Qiye is still grateful to fate for allowing him to come into this world. In the past, Qiye asked himself countless times whether he hated this living world, but after hearing the old man's story today, Qiye deeply felt his ignorance at the time: being alive is already the greatest luck, and what right do he have to complain about this? What about giving birth to your own world?
When Taizu Hunyuan saw Qiye saluting so solemnly, his face that was filled with sadness was slightly moved. For the performance of the human race boy in front of him, Taizu Hunyuan felt happy and relieved in his heart. Although the boy is immature and young, he is kind-hearted. Judging from the scars all over his body, this young man must have experienced too many hardships. Even though he has suffered a lot since childhood, there is still no darkness in the young man's eyes.
"Little guy, what's your name?" Hunyuan Taizu looked at the young man with a kind face and asked.
"Seven nights!"
"Oh, Qiye, Qiye..." Taizu Hunyuan muttered thoughtfully after hearing the name. I don't know why, even though I have never heard of this name, why does it feel so far away to me, as if I have heard it before? After finding no results, Taizu Hunyuan felt relieved.
"Is this year a false year?"
"I don't know... Qiye is a slave orphan. He grew up in a spiritual mine. I don't know when and what month he was born." Qiye answered truthfully, somewhat sadly. Regarding his birth, Qiye also asked the earliest slave porters in the mine. As a result, no one knew when Qiye appeared in the mine, and no one knew about Qiye's biological parents.
"Slave orphan?" After hearing this, Taizu Hunyuan carefully looked at the young man's tattered clothes and felt a little puzzled.
"Slaves are the people who lost the city. After the city was captured, they were turned into slaves and sold to various places as coolies." Qiye said sadly with tears in his eyes. Every time I see the word "Slave" deeply imprinted on my right arm, it hurts like a silver needle piercing my heart.
"Are there still foreign races invading the human race now?" Taizu Hunyuan asked eagerly in surprise, thinking that if the human race is still being ravaged by foreign races, how did the human race survive in such a long time?
"No, it's not a foreign race. It's a constant war between human races."
"What! Between the human races? Why is there a war? Have the human races forgotten the humiliation of being invaded?" Hunyuan Taizu said even more surprised. After a while of silent thought, he sighed as if he suddenly understood. , sighing with a hint of helplessness and chilling.
Qiye saw Taizu Hunyuan sighing so much that he stopped talking. He also silently lowered his head, slowly wiped away the tears on his face, and then said with relief:
"Senior, there is no need to be so sad. Although the war within the human race continues, the human race is developing with each passing day. If there is a crisis of genocide in the future, the human race will definitely share the same enemy again!"
"No matter what, no matter what, I am an old and decayed person who is no longer able to ask about the affairs of the human race. In the future, I have to rely on you to pass on..." Hunyuan Taizu waved his hands with a long sigh, obviously no longer able to ask about right and wrong. .
"Inheritance?" Qiye confided helplessly. I have no power to restrain myself, let alone fighting for the future destiny of the human race. I don’t even have the power to change my current destiny, let alone for the sake of the human race? As for the fate of the human race in the future, he is even more powerless. Qiye only cares about thinking deeply about the current situation of his life.
"Who is the king of the human race now?" After a moment of silence, Taizu Hunyuan asked.
"King of the human race? This junior has never heard of it. I only heard from the adults in the slave camp that there are twelve countries on this human continent, ruled by twelve powerful emperors." Qiye thought for a while and then replied. road.
All Qiye's knowledge of the world came from the mouths of batch after batch of slaves from various cities in the Spiritual Mine. In their narration, Qiye had his first longing for the world outside the mountains, and realized that the place he was in was just a remote corner of the country that could be ignored. In the narrations of adult slaves, Seven Nights once shocked the vastness of this country. As for other races outside the human continent, the adults in the slave mining camp didn't know much about them, and Qiye knew very little about them. If he hadn't met Taizu Hunyuan today, Qiye wouldn't even know that there were immortals in this world.
"Did they originally split up? Maybe it was the result of the thousand-year war..." Taizu Hunyuan murmured to himself thoughtfully.
After slowly sorting out Qiye's words, Hunyuan Taizu fell into deep thought for a while, then his eyes converged and turned to Qiye, he glanced twice and asked in confusion:
"Little guy, why can't I sense any spiritual power from you?"
"Reporting back to senior, I have been working as a coolie in the spiritual mine since I was a child, without any spiritual power training, and all those who become slaves will have their spiritual power foundation abolished." Qiye slowly lowered his head, calmly and slightly unwillingly.
"There is such a thing!!!" After hearing Qiye's answer, Taizu Hunyuan was furious. The gentle eyes turned into angry glares in an instant, the long white beard was scattered and undulating, and the spiritual power around the soul was somewhat out of control. You must know that for a cultivator, abolishing the foundation of spiritual power is undoubtedly depriving him of the greatest dignity of existence, and from then on he is reduced to a beast and a horse to be slaughtered by others. For practitioners, without spiritual power, life is undoubtedly as low as an ant, making life and death the same.
Secondly, there is another point: in the past, only those who committed the most heinous crimes in the human race would have their spiritual power revoked. At that time, every human cultivator was a valuable fighting force in a war! To the end of the war, all that matters is the consumption of manpower. But now that the spiritual power of a cultivator is so casually abolished, how can Taizu Hunyuan not be angry.
"Senior, please calm down. For us fallen people, we no longer have any dignity and rights. This is a world of strong people..." Seeing that Taizu Hunyuan had such a big mood swing, Qiye was slightly surprised. Then he hurriedly leaned down and said respectfully. In this world where the weak eat the strong, those without strength naturally have no right to survive. Although Qiye feels unfair about this, he is even more powerless to change it.
"Hey, that's true, but I didn't expect that this little guy like you would have such profound knowledge at such a young age, which really impressed me." After listening to Qiye's words, Taizu Hunyuan's mood gradually calmed down, and his spiritual power gradually stabilized.
"Senior is so complimentary. This junior has just a little knowledge, how can it be compared with the gaze of senior." Qiye lowered his head and looked slightly ashamed.
"Haha, the little guy is so young. It's rare to be so humble. He will definitely achieve extraordinary things in the future." Taizu Hunyuan said with a smile, obviously having a good impression of Qiye in front of him.
"Thank you for the compliment, senior!" Qiye no longer dared to be humble and decline. Appropriate humility is fine, but going too far will make people disgusted.
"Haha, the fact that the little guy came here is considered a fate with the old man. Now that this ray of soul of the old man is about to dry up, it is also a fate that we can meet the little guy when the old man is dying. The old man has never harvested anything in his life. Disciple, I want to accept you as my disciple today. I wonder if this is my dying wish, little guy, would you like to...?" Taizu Hunyuan asked seriously, his tone was gentle and sincere, making it difficult to refuse.
After listening to Taizu Hunyuan's question, Qiye was unexpectedly at a loss. After a while, he came back to his senses and hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted respectfully:
"Senior can take this junior as his disciple, this is the junior's luck in this life. Master, I am so kind to you. Please accept this disciple's bow: Disciple will pay homage to your master for seven nights!"
"Hahaha...Okay, okay, okay!" After seeing Qiye perform the apprenticeship ceremony without any pretense, Hunyuan Taizu stroked his long beard again and laughed heartily. The laughter echoed throughout the light curtain space for a long time.
Although Taizu Hunyuan and Qiye met for the first time, after hearing about Qiye's experience, Taizu Hunyuan was deeply touched by Qiye's inner tenacity. Perhaps it is precisely because of being humbled in the dust that I have a conscience about the warmth and coldness of human relationships in the world. Perhaps it is precisely because of perseverance that we have the hope of never giving up.
