As more wind came, Liu Zhaoqing suddenly heard a lot of complex sounds in his "ears".
There was the sound of trickling water, the swaying of green bamboos in the breeze, and the obvious sound of snoring.
"snore?"
Liu Zhaoqing opened his eyes and was stunned.
What I saw before my eyes was no longer a pure white void, but a farmyard.
Behind me is a path through the bamboo forest. In front of a fence covered with vines there is a trickle of water. At the end of the path there is a small bridge made of two long bluestone slabs connecting the path to the entrance of the farmhouse.
There are two acres of land in front of the wooden building, planted with flowers, plants and vegetables.
There is a long gray-brown stone next to the fence. A young man with black hair and white clothes is lying on it, with his legs crossed and his eyes closed, motionless, as if he is resting and sleeping.
The snoring Liu Zhaoqing heard before came from him.
Liu Zhaoqing hesitated for a moment, then slowly flew above his head.
Seeing the hoe and pickaxe placed next to the stone where the man was lying, Liu Zhaoqing realized that this man must be the owner of the courtyard.
But... with such a young appearance and a white shirt that is not stained by dust, he doesn't look like someone who does farm work at all, right?
Just as Liu Zhaoqing was thinking this, a pair of big hands suddenly attacked.
It turned out that the man woke up.
"Golden butterfly?" The sleepy man slowly opened his palm and saw the golden butterfly in his palm, with a look of curiosity in his eyes.
Then he did not do anything to harm the butterfly, but instead spread out his hands and let it fly away.
However, not long after, the butterfly flew away from him for a while and then flew back.
The man waved his hand, and the butterfly flew backwards out of the yard, out of the bamboo forest, and flew to no one knew where.
When the man got off the stone and stretched, a golden butterfly appeared on his finger.
It flew back again.
Raising his finger, the man looked at the golden butterfly, stroked his beard and smiled.
Then he blew gently at it, and the butterfly disappeared.
Liu Zhaoqing, a butterfly, was blown so hard that he felt dizzy and flew backwards for an unknown distance.
When I steadied myself again, there was only white all around me, and there was no bamboo forest or hut anywhere.
This wouldn't do. Liu Zhaoqing immediately took action again, trying to get back to where he was just now.
The fact that he could have such a piece of land in this space, coupled with the abilities he just displayed, showed that the man was obviously not an ordinary person.
But this time Liu Zhaoqing really couldn't find the way back. He flew for a long time but couldn't see the bamboo forest and the hut again.
He lost his way in this white world.
But he still didn't give up and kept flying in one direction.
I don’t know how long I flew, but finally a voice came.
"It flew the other way around."
This voice seemed to be the same voice as the man before, and seemed a little helpless.
Then Liu Zhaoqing felt a familiar breeze, and the next second he suddenly appeared in the hut again.
When looking at the man, Liu Zhaoqing was surprised. This ability... was indeed the person he was looking for.
“It’s all thanks to you that you can come here.” The man stroked his beard, looked at the golden butterfly flapping its wings in front of him, and said after thinking for a moment.
"But it's really not convenient to talk like this."
Waving his white sleeves, Liu Zhaoqing found himself feeling a sense of solidity.
That is the feeling that can only be felt by stepping on the ground.
Looking down, Liu Zhaoqing was surprised to find that his body had recovered.
No, to be precise, it's... only half recovered.
It has hands and feet, but they are all translucent.
"It's been a while since I've seen any visitors. Come and taste the fragrant tea I grow."
Hearing the invitation coming from the wooden table over there, Liu Zhaoqing bowed and responded.
"Thank you, Mr. for your help."
"I'm not a 'sir', just an ordinary farmer." The man laughed.
"You, on the other hand, have been able to stick to your original intentions and not lose your character here. You deserve to be called 'sir' by others."
"I don't deserve it." Liu Zhaoqing immediately lowered his head and said modestly.
"You deserve it." The man motioned Liu Zhaoqing to come over and drink the tea he had brewed and placed on the table.
When Liu Zhaoqing came over and tasted it obediently, the man said, "I have seen many lost people or other creatures, but it is rare to find someone like you who can find himself quickly."
After finishing speaking, the man asked Liu Zhaoqing: "How does it taste?"
"The taste...hmm..." Liu Zhaoqing frowned slightly, glanced at the man, and continued: "...there is no taste."
"Like... plain water?"
He did not lie and spoke directly about his feelings. Although the tea was clear and the tea leaves in the cup were attractively green, it was indeed tasteless.
The man didn't get angry at all when he heard Liu Zhaoqing's words, but laughed instead.
"You're quite an interesting butterfly."
"..."
"Sir, I am not a butterfly." Liu Zhaoqing put down the tasteless tea and said to him, "I am a marquis from the Han area, and I am fighting against foreign races at the moment."
Then he stood up and bowed again: "Please tell me how to leave this place, so that I can help my people and friends who are fighting."
The man looked at Liu Zhaoqing, and suddenly said, "Is this why you gave up hope and forced me to show up?"
Liu Zhaoqing was stunned, then a little embarrassed.
When he gave up hope and closed his eyes, it was indeed a form of coercion, because he knew that this place must have been created by some kind of existence, and since he, as an intruder, had not been eliminated, it must have proved that the existence was watching.
In that case, he could just force it out himself.
This behavior is indeed very effective, but the results are as they are now, very embarrassing.
"It happened for a reason. I really can't wait any longer. Please punish me, sir."
Liu Zhaoqing apologized sincerely, his waist was almost bent forward to 90 degrees.
After taking a look, the man shook his head and said, "Get up. Punishment is just a low-level skill. Besides, you've already suffered a lot just now."
Hearing this, Liu Zhaoqing also breathed a sigh of relief, then raised his head and asked tentatively: "Then sir..."
"I can't help you get out." Liu Zhaoqing's face froze as the man said the first sentence.
"What?" Liu Zhaoqing asked immediately, "Isn't this the Peng bird's sea of consciousness?"
"Yes."
The man nodded, and then said again: "This place is indeed the consciousness of Peng, and I am just a trace of his memory."
"Peng's consciousness is vaster than a thousand miles. How can I, who have forgotten what Xiangming tastes like, break through it?"
Liu Zhaoqing fell silent, then said: "But...if even Mr. Lian can't do it, then won't I be trapped here forever?"
In response, the man asked, "Why would a butterfly born here always want to leave?"
Liu Zhaoqing shook his head and explained again: "I am not a butterfly. I have my own name, and this place is just an illusion."
However, his remarks caused the man to laugh and stroke his beard.
"I wonder what you are laughing at, sir?" Liu Zhaoqing asked, frowning slightly.
"Since we know this place is an illusion, what is the difference between you and the butterfly?"
"A child can become a butterfly, and a butterfly can also become a child, just like you are now. If you close your eyes and open them again, can you be sure that you will not change back to your previous appearance?"
The man asked with a smile, and Liu Zhaoqing was unable to answer for a moment.
The man didn't dwell on it too much afterwards. He turned around and walked into the house while speaking calmly:
"Come with me. Although I can't help you break through this piece of Peng's consciousness, I should be able to make you no longer so confused."
The man walked very quickly and Liu Zhaoqing followed him immediately, but after entering the house, he actually closed the door.
Liu Zhaoqing was afraid of losing him, so he quickly opened the door. The moment he stepped into the house, he found that the scenery around him had changed.
It was dark all around.
Just when Liu Zhaoqing thought he had entered some empty land again, a gigantic fish head bigger than an elephant suddenly appeared beside him.
The sudden appearance of the big fish scared Liu Zhaoqing so much that he stepped back, but the huge fish head still hit him.
But the big fish did not knock him away, but went straight through his body.
At this moment, the shocked Liu Zhaoqing realized that this dark place was actually... underwater.
"Is this...underwater?"
"I don't know what you would call this place now, but we generally call it Beiming."
After the man finished speaking, he stretched out his right hand and slowly spread out his palm.
Liu Zhaoqing looked over curiously and soon saw that there was a black fish smaller than his palm in his palm.
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Compared with the big fish that just passed through his body, the fish in the man's hand was too small.
In such dangerous dark water, it seemed that in the next second, you might be swallowed by an unknown predator and disappear from the world.
However, this tiny fish did not seem to be afraid of the dark and unknown road ahead.
Its thin tail was swinging hard, and Liu Zhaoqing had no doubt that if it had not been trapped by the white-clothed man's hand, this tiny fish would have plunged recklessly into the endless dark and cold water in the next second.
Although he is insignificant, he can resolutely face dangers that are thousands of times greater than his own.
Such a fearless creature will surely achieve extraordinary things in the future.
Suddenly, thinking of the place name the man just mentioned, Liu Zhaoqing thought of something.
He looked at the fish and said, "This is Beiming, so this fish could be..."
The man in white smiled and nodded.
This little fish is the Kun, which will transform into a Peng bird with wings covering thousands of miles in the future.
"This is a newly born fish." The man looked at the palm-sized fish with emotion in his eyes.
“This is also the first time I’ve seen it when it was first created.”
"First time?" Liu Zhaoqing looked at the man, then looked around: "Does that mean that the place we are in now is also an illusion?"
"That's right." The latter revealed the origin of everything around him: "Everything you see is created by Peng's consciousness, and everything about it will be presented to us without reservation."
The meaning of this sentence should be to let Liu Zhaoqing understand that everything around him is false.
He frowned and said, "But... didn't the sir say before that he could make me less... 'confused'?"
If this is just another dream, then Liu Zhaoqing's most fundamental demand has not been resolved. How could he not be confused?
"Don't be anxious." The man looked at the confused Liu Zhaoqing with a smile in his eyes.
He lowered his head to look at the fish in his hand and said, "All the answers are in it."
Then the man slowly spread out his palm and put the fish in his hand into the dark water.
The fish rushed into the cold, dark water without any hesitation.
All of a sudden, Liu Zhaoqing discovered that the water around him was flowing rapidly, and fish and shrimps of various sizes and types were swimming quickly around him.
"Time... is speeding up?"
After Liu Zhaoqing noticed this, he suddenly found that the man in white next to him, who had one hand behind his back, waved his right sleeve.
The two of them rushed directly into the darkness and came to a small fish.
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