Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 202 The World is So Big

Before Shi Fei finished speaking, he saw a jade-green halo seeping out of the dilapidated screen wall of the Governor's Mansion.

"Stand back!" He instinctively stood in front of Tan Qi. He caught a glimpse of the words from "Book of Rites" crawling all over the corner where Ah Ruo was curled up. He immediately sent out sword energy to shatter the squirming words.

The green light gradually spread like ink smudged on rice paper, and wherever it passed, the flesh and blood beams and pillars made a crackling sound like burning grease.

Shi Fei saw that the swollen organic walls were fading back to their original blue brick color, and the asphalt-like mucus seeping from the gaps in the glazed tiles was evaporating into blue smoke with a sandalwood scent in the light.

"The universe is clear and bright, and the foul qi is dispersed——"

In the green light, a person appeared quietly.

The man was holding a whisk, wearing Taoist robes, and had a kind face.

Shi Fei has met this person before!
Xuan Mingzi!
Xuan Mingzi waved his whisk lightly, and wherever the whisk passed, the words of the "Da Yun Sutra" embedded in the pillars of the corridor struggled and jumped out like live fish, exploding into gold powder with a fishy smell in mid-air.

He walked through the courtyard in the Yu step. With each step he took, a bronze palace lantern emerged from the void, and a miniature version of the Big Dipper was clearly dancing in the flame of the lamp.

When the seventh lamp came on, the tooth-like cavity that was chewing the brocade in the west wing suddenly froze and slowly transformed back into the wood carving pattern of the moon-shaped door.

The maid's lower body, which was fused with the Taihu stone, made a sticky peeling sound, and the coral-like hyperplasia tissue was turning into a railing with peeling red lacquer.

"Master Xuanmingzi is really good at this." Shi Fei picked up a twitching green brick with the tip of his sword, and the tentacle relief on the surface of the brick gradually faded in the green light.

"You are..." Xuan Mingzi looked at Shi Fei in surprise, looked him up and down, and said, "Have we met before?"

As he spoke, he shook out his whisk, and the three thousand silver threads suddenly stretched straight like strings. With the clear sound of vibration, the last few gray-green tentacles clinging to the eaves broke off.

"I met the Taoist priest once at Qiri Mountain two days ago. Don't you remember me?" Shi Fei also looked Xuan Mingzi up and down.

He felt that this Xuan Mingzi seemed slightly different from the ones he had seen before, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

"Seven Suns Mountain?" Xuan Mingzi thought for a moment, then looked at Shi Fei again and said, "You are not an ordinary person. You actually dared to break into the Jade Emperor Temple on Seven Suns Mountain!"

“Qi Ri Mountain is guarded by my junior brother Xuan Xuanzi. You must have encountered my junior brother pretending to be me.”

Xuanse in Taoism mostly refers to black. Xuanmingzi means black and white, and Xuanxuanzi means pitch black.

As for the junior brother pretending to be the senior brother, it may be because he has great respect for the senior brother, or it may be because he wants to attract some hatred for the senior brother.

"..." Shi Fei suddenly realized.

Damn, the priest of the Jade Emperor Temple on Qiri Mountain is an old silver coin!

"The matter here is over, and it's time for me to leave." Xuan Mingzi saw that the Governor's Mansion had returned to normal, nodded, and turned into light and disappeared.

He is only interested in situations of alienation and nothing else.

Especially, he is busy!
With Xuan Mingzi's departure, the mess in the Governor's Mansion can only be handed over to... Tan Qi.

Tan Qi is the son of an official and the governor of Hubei. So many people have died and he is the only one who has witnessed it, so it is only right that he stays here to deal with the follow-up.

Seeing Tan Qi struggling to deal with other people from the Qing court, Shi Fei took A Ruo away quietly.

The morning mist of the Xiangjiang River drifted over the edges of A Ruo's sunglasses. Shi Fei noticed that Mi Fangfang's name was engraved on the hinge of the frame of the Western-style glasses.

The young man lifted the gauze covering his injured eyes, revealing the criss-crossing Gu lines on his immature face. Those dark golden lines were slowly fading in the sunlight.

On the bank of the Xiang River, Shi Fei asked Ah Ruo: "Where are you going?"

The sky gradually brightened. In the sunlight, Ah Ruo looked younger than expected. He was about 18 or 19 years old, with a green face and a frown on his face. He said in a slightly bewildered manner, "I... I don't know."

After his great revenge, he had no desire to live. Ever since he sacrificed his soul at the altar of the Scorpion God in the mountains, he had never thought of surviving.

But he did survive. He was very grateful to Shi Fei.

"Why don't you go home?" Shi Fei looked at the boy in front of him and said, "Although you can't see, it shouldn't affect your return home."

A Ruo is a Gu Master in the Miao village. Although she is blind, it should not be a problem for her to return home and survive.

"I...I don't want to go back." Ah Ruo shook her head and said, "People outside the mountain are not good, and people inside the mountain are even worse."

People outside the mountain are evil, and seemingly beautiful things are actually very dangerous. So is it okay for people inside the mountain?

Nor is it!
People outside the mountain can at least have enough to eat and have opportunities. Inside the mountain is just a small circle, with dozens of families, who have established strange rules through internal friction in order to survive.

Poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people. The simplicity of mountain people is just an illusion of people outside the mountains. The outside of the mountains is very beautiful, but it is also an illusion of people in the mountains.

Human fantasy is the most poisonous poison.

Ah Ruo continued, "The world is so big, I want to go see it."

Shi Fei heard the hidden meaning and asked, "You want to follow me?"

"If you have a grudge, you must avenge it; if you have a favor, you must also repay it!" Ah Ruo said seriously.

Shi Fei shook his head and said, "I don't need you to repay me, just live well."

Ah Ruo said: "I know my benefactor is very powerful. One day, I can block the knife for my benefactor, which will be enough to repay my benefactor!"

"..." Shi Fei looked at Ah Ruo's face, who was about eighteen or nineteen years old, and said these words, and once again felt the sadness of this world.

When he was eighteen or nineteen years old, he was discussing games with his classmates in college. He was nothing like Ah Ruo, who sacrificed his soul for revenge after being cheated.

"In a person's life, besides love, there are also friendship and family affection." Shi Fei looked at the boy and said, "Don't do such stupid things in the future. Your life has just begun."

"I have no love, nor family affection or friendship." Ah Ruo said something else.

Shi Fei said: "Then your life must be very meaningless!"

"..." Ah Ruo was silent for a moment and said, "I think so too."

In the mountains, life and death, and family affection all become very strange.

Before my father died, relatives had already come to our house, just to take away the valuables in the house after my father's death.

What is life?
Why do people live?

The boy also had doubts in his heart, so he walked out of the mountains. After meeting Mi Fangfang, the boy felt hopeful.

He felt that Mi Fangfang was a messenger sent by God.

but……

A Ruo felt a little pain in her eyes.

"The meaning of life..." Shi Fei recalled his college life, it was so real!
He felt like he should have actually gone to college.

"...The meaning of life may not be that good!" Shi Fei continued, "So we need to do something meaningful."

"Something meaningful?" A Ruo raised her head and looked at Shi Fei while wearing sunglasses.

"Some people are alive but still dead, while some people are dead but still alive!" Shi Fei thought of this and patted A Ruo's head: "Let's go! Let's do something meaningful!"

(End of this chapter)