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"So here's the place..."
In a black Cultivator robe, the man walked with steady and steady steps.
His black boots climbed on the ground, but not a single dust stuck. A long sword was draped on his back, and at the end of the handle hung a green Jade stone pendant.
His jet-black long hair was tied into a tall ponytail, several strands falling down and hanging casually on his shoulders.
With the perfect, handsome, slightly cold and charismatic corners of the face, the man was the one dubbed as the 'Black Wind of the Grasslands'.
The man's name was Liu Fengjue.
This man was the second senior brother that the little disciple, Fang Yuli and his Shifu, Lan Mian spoke of.
Lu Feng Jue stopped his footsteps right in front of the outer area of the forest. With a face as cold as ice dew and snow he stared at the scenery around him.
Silent and quiet, there was no sound and aura that the atmosphere of the forest should have. There was not even the sound of birds chirping or the sound of summer crickets, as if this forest was dying in silence.
Obviously, there is something strange about this forest.
Lu Feng Jue's eyes paused on the footprints on the ground, his brows furrowed narrowly when he saw that there were remnants of mortal human tracks.
"Someone just entered the forest".
"... When viewed from the depths of his footprints, that person must have also been carrying one person with him".
Lu Feng Jue closed his eyes, he felt ridiculous.
Are there still mortal humans who are so daring to enter the Qiancheng forest and valley?. Does that person not know what kind of place the Qiancheng Valley is?.
...A valley that could easily annihilate mortal humans and hundreds of Jindan stage Cultivators.
...No one knew the reason that the Qiancheng forest was dangerous, nor did anyone know what kind of danger it was in.
...For hundreds of years this place has always been shrouded in a fog of mystery and darkness.
Rumors that a person can go inside, but cannot get out are true. It is real and has been proven to be true.
The Qiancheng Valley, a place filled with wonders, treasures, secrets, and potential was where his current mission location was.
"... I just need to wait for Shifu and Sister three".
Liu Feng Jue pitted, staring at the blue sky and the white clouds.
In his heart he wondered what made Shifu and his Shimei late.
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"Shifu, look!, so many people. They who?".
"Hm?", Feeling the edge of his shirt being pulled, Lan Mian turned his head back.
He glanced at the direction that his little disciple had pointed at, right below them were thousands of mortal humans who seemed to be gathering at the same place. They are divided into several groups, with different types, races, and different origins.
"They are victims of the calamity of war, if not mistakenly many miles away from here there is the Chu Empire and the Wen Empire, lately they are rumored to be starting a war. In order to save themselves from the unrest, the commoners of the Chu Empire living on the border chose to wander and become displaced. They may run out of food at this time and be forced to stop and settle for a while to fill supplies".
Lan Mian's sharp silver eyes glanced at some mortal humans who looked thin, dirty and unkempt. These people are more tragic victims of war, because they have no money, no food, no hope of life.
In the midst of the disastrous War crisis like now, they were nothing more than cannon fodder destined to perish early.
Lan Mian closed his eyes for a moment before continuing, "... Well, although not all of them can fill the supply".
Sitting sweetly on top of the stork, Fang Yuli looked at the scene below. The eyes of a Cultivator were extremely sharp, so he could see everything clearly from up here.
The look in Fang Yuli's eyes then fell on a thin and weak boy, she watched the boy closely, she looked at him carefully, Fang Yuli looked at the boy desperately trying to use the remnants of his strength to eat the tree roots in his hands.
Forcibly swallowing an object that was not worth eating and was repelled by the stomach, the little boy struggled to the end to eat it. Until the tree root was successfully swallowed, the little boy was finally able to sigh in relief.
However, before he felt happy to be able to fill his stomach, the little boy was shocked by his sudden convulsing body reaction. The pain and nausea made his head dizzy, his stomach felt like burning, with the sound of his little body rumbling and falling to the ground.
Unable to understand what had happened to him, the little boy breathed his last in distress and pain.
Before closing his eyes a single tear quietly flowed on the little boy's thin cheeks, before the gates of death he might wonder, what sin did he make that he should feel this suffering?, why did his life end like this?.
And as for the Gods in the sky, why just stand by and watch mortal men as they suffer?.
Don't Gods and Goddesses love humans?, so why not save them?.
Wh why?.
It was as if the little boy's eyes could look far away, his gloomy and numb gaze like it could stare straight at the white bagau flying gracefully above in the sky.
Sitting on a stork, watching a life like an extinguished flame, Lu Mian remained seated indifferently, but not with his little disciple.
The three gazes of the girl were shaken, she was deeply shocked, and she did not understand what she was seeing.
However, here, on his chest, he felt very sore. It felt like his heart was being crushed with iron hands, it was extremely painful. Especially when the gaze of his eyes collided with the boy's numb gaze, Fang Yuli could even read the meaning of his gaze.
The look said, why not help me?.
Your eternal highness?.
"Shifu I want to help those people". Unknowingly a row of sentences came out from Fang Yuli's mouth.
Hearing the words of his little disciple, Lan Mian let out a long sigh. His arms stretched out and fell on the top of Fang Yuli's hair.
"Son, we can't do anything. All this is their destiny".
"But, but we can help her, by giving her food or shelter!".
"Son, my disciple, in this world how many people live to suffer besides them?, there may be hundreds, thousands, or even millions. If only saving a hundred or a thousand we might be able to, but if more than that".
Fang Yuli's black eyes were wet from tears, stubbornly wiping away the tears that would flow on her cheeks.
"Ughh. but..."
"Son, the Eternal does love humans, but they cannot understand human emotions, difficulties and sorrows, in fact they are just indifferent extensions.".
"So Shifu, what is the destiny of man like this?, can it not be changed, even by a God?".
"Yes and no. I honestly don't know either. In this world destiny may be something complicated and difficult to explain. Just as the twists and turns of life and death, the rise and fall of Dynasties, or the alternation of seasons, day and night, a destiny is like a mystery in a fog that can never be solved".
"I-I understand Shifu".
Before the white stork flew away, Fang Yuli stared at the boy's corpse again. This time he could not see the intact corpse of the little boy, but rather the fragmented and dismembered corpse, which was ready to be roasted to be eaten by other starving refugees.
Fang Yuli could only close her eyes and grimace. His spirit to undertake the mission was extinguished after seeing all these cruel scenes.
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Mei Hua walked into the backyard with a large woven basket on her back.
He stood in front of a row of radishes ready to be harvested, his hands itching from being impatient to pluck them all out.
"Ah... Big harvest, look how much profit I made after selling all this".
If there is no problem then Mei Hua intends to go down the mountain again to sell vegetables.
Yes, in order to make sure the vegetables she had grown were not wasted Mei Hua decided to sell them at the market.
Mei Hua actually did not need to worry about spending her money, because all the pink crystal stones she sold were enough to make a lot of money. If Mei Hua was short of money in just need to sell one or two.
However, Mei Hua did not want to live too dependent on the crystal stone, because she felt unsafe selling it continuously. He was afraid that the existence of his crystal stone would become the target of people with bad intentions and thoughts.
After filling a basket full of radishes, Mei Hua heaved a sigh of relief. It was all over, and he was able to rest.
Sitting in the courtyard, under the shade of a beautiful Wisteria tree, with a cup of warm tea in her hand, and a nice snack that accompanied, Mei Hua felt her life was filled with satisfaction.
"This world... No, this life is not much worse than heaven".
In the days when the apocalypse arrived, he rarely even sat in the yard enjoying tea. Mei Hua had never felt this relaxed and comfortable.
"How could this cruel world be the same as heaven".
"...!!!".
Mei Hua who was sipping tea was startled with a grim voice from behind her. If she was the type to waste food and drink, Mei Hua would definitely spit her mouth tea without hesitation. But unfortunately he's a guy who values food and doesn't like to waste it, so... Mei Hua had to swallow everything in one gulp.
"Ugh.. Uhuk!... Uhuk!, your boy surprised me!".
The little villain, Mo Xuan, clad in a simple black robe walked limping towards Mei Hua. Her body was smaller and thinner than Mei Hua, yet somehow standing behind her Mei Hua felt intimidated by her dark and gloomy aura.
"Say Brother Hua, from which side does this world look like heaven?. Wars, power struggles, betrayals, murders, and oppression all happen every day, every moment, every time in this world. The ground was moistened into a blood red color, and hills of bones were constantly appearing, demons, demons, and demons were rampant, but the immortals in the sky remained cold and indifferent".
Hearing Mo Xuan's yin and yang words, Mei Hua was stunned, her blue eyes wide open.
Inside Mo Xuan's black eyes as if a magnet was pulling him, Mei Hua could not turn away, she felt as if her entire body was being sucked into a complicated vortex of darkness.
Faintly Mei Hua saw, Mo Xuan's black eyes began to turn into dark and vertical gold.
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