"Chen, you really don't want to go back to hell with me?" Gong Nanfeng said very disappointed.
After all, I have been waiting for a thousand years.
Zhang Ruochen was so confused that his mind was no longer here. He shook his head slightly and said: "I am now in the realm of Qianwen. I need to return to the Kunlun realm and heaven to make up for some shortcomings in my state of mind. When my state of mind is perfect,
It’s time to return to hell.”
Gong Nanfeng can understand, after all, Zhang Ruochen grew up in the Kunlun world.
If you want to pass the test of Qianwen, you must go back and take a trip.
"Would you like me to help you bring a message to the Xuejue family? After all, you have heard nothing from me in the past thousand years and you have been isolated in the Xumi Temple. It is impossible to predict your life or death. They said it is not certain.
I thought you had died a thousand years ago, so I am very worried." Gong Nanfeng said.
Zhang Ruochen nodded and said, "Thank you very much."
"Chen, what should we be grateful for for our relationship?"
Gong Nanfeng is now at the level of immortality. He is powerful and no longer afraid of having his artifact robbed. He dares to go on the road alone, confident that there is no place in the world that he dares not go.
"I can only tell my mother the news about my return to Kunlun Realm. Otherwise, you will kill me." Zhang Ruochen said cautiously.
Gong Nanfeng patted his chest and said: "Understood! I keep my mouth shut and will never spread the news that you went to Kunlun Realm and Heavenly Court."
As a monk in the hell realm, sneaking into the Kunlun realm and heaven is inherently risky.
If the news is leaked and all the monks in the world know that Zhang Ruochen is still alive and has gone to Kunlun Realm and Heavenly Court, the consequences will be disastrous.
After separating from Gong Nanfeng, Zhang Ruochen immediately rushed to Kunlun Realm.
Zhang Ruochen has figured out a lot of things. Although he has indeed returned to the original time and space, time will not wait for him at the same place and will keep flowing.
Time waits for no one, it has been so since ancient times.
If you go to the past, you will inevitably miss the present.
People cannot always only gain and not lose.
Gain and loss are always a balance.
A thousand years of time is just a blink of an eye for the gods, and a retreat sometimes lasts more than a thousand years.
For the great sage, a thousand years is neither long nor short. For the great sage who pursues the path of the gods, sometimes in the realm of hundreds of flails and the realm of ten thousand deaths, polishing the holy will and accumulating the rules of the holy way are both
It would take thousands of years to separate.
For example, Bai Qing'er and Yan Yu both spent more than a thousand years in the Baiyong Realm.
If you want to condense the stronger holy will, the more time it will take.
If you want to achieve high enough achievements in the divine realm in the future, you will have to spend a lot of time in the holy realm. Someone as powerful as Bai Qing'er would spend close to three thousand years cultivating to become a god.
Chi Yao was able to reach the divine realm in eight hundred years because of the help of the space-time treasure "Heavenly Wheel Seal". The actual cultivation time would not be much less than three thousand years.
Da Sikong and Er Sikong were able to cultivate to the demigod level within a thousand years. The first reason is because they practiced Buddhism, so it did not take too long to break through the Thousand Questions Realm.
Secondly, these two monks actually picked too many Yuanhui-level holy medicines that contained pure source power in the Origin Temple. They directly relied on the holy medicines to accumulate and easily completed the accumulation of the rules of the holy path in the realm of eternal death.
Only when the Holy Will was condensed in the Hundred Flails Realm, they spent hundreds of years integrating the Holy Will of a high level.
However, a thousand years means a lifetime for a monk in the Saint Realm.
The vast majority of human saints do not live for more than a thousand years.
As for mortals...
Zhang Ruochen didn't dare to think about it anymore, because he knew that some people could wait for him for a thousand years.
Some people can’t wait!
It was precisely because of this that he couldn't wait to rush to the Kunlun Realm.
The Merit War in the Kunlun Realm ended thousands of years ago. Now the world holes in the entire big world have been repaired, and outside the realm, a large world-protecting formation has been laid out using various planets, ruin realms, starry sky fortresses, and ancient holy cities as formation bases.
Formation, it is impossible to enter the Kunlun realm at will.
Fortunately, Da Sikong and Er Sikong, two Buddhist and Taoist demigods from the Kunlun realm, were present, so Zhang Ruochen followed him through the realm-protecting formation and quietly returned to the Kunlun realm.
Zhang Ruochen did not immediately go to see the owner of the God of Death Island. After all, he did not know whether Grand Master was in the Kunlun Realm. Instead, he rushed to Tiantai Prefecture in the Central Region as quickly as possible without stopping.
The Kunlun realm has been completely revived, and its territory has become even broader.
The mountains and rivers are full of vitality, and the major states and capitals are prosperous.
The prosperous age is as the holy monk Xumi wishes.
The Blood God Sect is one of the seven ancient religions in the post-Kunlun realm in the Middle Ages. The main altar is located in the north of Tiantai Prefecture's "All Saints Land", near the ancient snow mountains.
Zhang Ruochen did not go to the Blood God Sect to visit the Blood Spirit Immortal and his former friends. He went straight into the ancient snow mountain, walked through thousands of miles of ice and snow, and came to the edge of the endless abyss.
The Endless Abyss is one of the most mysterious places in the Kunlun Realm.
Standing here, Zhang Ruochen looked up at the sky. The thick dark clouds in the sky were only tens of meters above his head, giving him an extremely depressing feeling.
Looking up into the distance, there is endless emptiness.
This cliff is like the end of the world.
Zhang Ruochen couldn't help but recall the feeling of standing here for the first time. At that time, it always felt like the sky was about to collapse. The clouds were so low and dark that they seemed to be able to swallow people.
At that time, I came here because I was looking for the missing talented woman with holy books.
Forget the past.
Zhang Ruochen's heart became nervous, and he jumped down with a hint of fear.
Not long after, he passed through the first gradient and came to the second gradient.
In front of you, there is a blood-red mountain with many palaces and towers. The blood-red water turns into a waterfall and flows down from the top of the mountain, which is extremely spectacular.
"Crash."
Zhang Ruochen sensed several powerful auras in the mountain, but without alerting them, he went straight to a courtyard on the mountainside.
My steps were heavy and I felt even more frightened.
Like a wanderer returning home from a distant place.
Zhang Ruochen, who was still imagining what the scene would be like in the courtyard, had not yet opened the door, or even walked close to the courtyard, when his whole body seemed to be petrified.
He stood on the edge of the cliff, dozens of meters away from the courtyard, staring at the lonely grave under the bare blood maple tree outside the courtyard. He burst into tears and knelt down heavily, his voice choked with sadness.
Sobbed again: "Mom, I'm late when I come back, Chen'er... I'm late when I come back!"
The lonely grave is desolate, with bloody maple leaves everywhere.
In front of the solitary grave, the four words "Lin Lan's Tomb" are engraved on the stone tablet.
Lin Lan is the name of Zhang Ruochen's biological mother, "Concubine Lin".
In the beginning, the Blood Queen sent someone to take her to the Endless Abyss, and she lived in this courtyard. Before Zhang Ruochen went to the hell world, he met her here for the last time.
Zhang Ruochen was mentally prepared when he knew that a thousand years had passed, but he still had a trace of illusion.
Imagining that his mother is still in this courtyard, he pushes the door and walks in. His mother will definitely be pleasantly surprised. Then she takes his hand and tells him many repetitive and warm words, telling him to protect himself and not to do anything.
Something too risky.
Then, my mother cooked a lot of dishes and kept putting them into his bowl with a smile on her face. She didn't eat, she just stared at him, as if she could never get enough, full of doting.
However, when he saw the tombstone and the lonely grave, all the illusions in Zhang Ruochen's mind were shattered.
Zhang Ruochen originally thought that he had experienced countless lives and deaths, had seen countless monks turned into corpses, and had even been to the beginning of time and walked through the long river of time. His heart was already strong and would not be knocked down by anything.
However, a small solitary grave instantly defeated his mental defense.
At this moment, he was as fragile as a child, unable to hold back his tears at all.
Zhang Ruochen almost crawled to Concubine Lin's grave, crying and saying, "Mother...Mother...Chen'er is late for coming back...I'm sorry...I'm sorry..."
"It's all Chen'er's fault, I was wrong, I was wrong, I should have been with you, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...ah..."
Zhang Ruochen couldn't control his emotions at all and looked up to the sky and roared.
"Squeak!"
Next to it, the door to the courtyard was pushed open, and Kong Xuan quickly walked out of it.
When she saw Zhang Ruochen kneeling in front of the lonely grave and crying unnaturally, she was slightly stunned for a moment, and then she seemed to confirm Zhang Ruochen's identity and said tentatively: "Young Master... Are you you, Young Master?"
Zhang Ruochen's current appearance is somewhat different from that of the ninth prince of Yunwu County. Moreover, after going to Taichu, even the aura on his body is different from before.
After not seeing each other for a thousand years, Kong Xuan really didn't dare to recognize the man in front of him.
After all, monks all over the world thought that Zhang Ruochen died thousands of years ago and fell into the Origin Temple in the Jiannan Realm. It is said that he was probably killed by the gods of the heaven world or the God of Xiu Chen.
"Swish."
Several figures came through the wind and landed on the mountain road. They stood on the edge of the cliff and looked at Zhang Ruochen.
There are disciples of the Blood Queen, Qiu Yichi and Chi Linyuan.
And Kong Lanyou.
When Kong Lanyou saw the figure kneeling in front of the grave, his eyes suddenly turned red, and he burst into tears. He tremblingly said: "Cousin, you are finally back!"
Qiu Yichi and Chi Linyuan were shocked and looked at each other.
Zhang Ruochen ignored anyone and was completely immersed in grief. He slumped down among the fallen leaves of the blood maple and didn't even have the strength to stand up. He whispered something in his mouth.
I don't know how much time passed, but after Zhang Ruochen's mood stabilized, Kong Lanyou walked up to him and whispered: "My cousin, my condolences, Aunt Lin is only a mortal after all, and she cannot escape birth, old age, illness and death."
"She stayed in the endless abyss as a mortal. She must have been lonely those years, right?" Zhang Ruochen said.
Kong Lanyou said: "I asked Kong Xuan to send Aunt Lin to King Mountain in the Eastern Region. There were people from the Lin family, as well as the fourth prince and the ninth princess of Yunwu County. They were accompanied by their relatives, and Aunt Lin was also there.
Not so lonely.”
"In her later years, Aunt Lin insisted on returning to the Endless Abyss, saying that she would wait for you here and wanted to see you for the last time. Your cousin from the Lin family also came to the Endless Abyss and spent her last days with her.
.”
"I once extended Aunt Lin's life and wanted to fulfill her wish. However, I could not wait for you until she was two hundred and thirty years old. At that time, she had run out of oil and the fire of life was extinguished.
Even the Great Sage cannot save her life."
"In those years, she would wield a wooden stick every day, accompanied by Kong Xuan and Lin Lingshan, on the edge of this cliff, under this blood maple tree, looking into the distance, often murmuring, how can I return my Chen'er?
He's not back! My Chen'er, why hasn't he come back yet? I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for him..."
"Before Aunt Lin died, Lin Lingshan wanted to take her body back to King Mountain and bury it with the prince. However, she insisted on staying here and waiting for you to come back. She said that she would always stay on this cliff.
Wait, I will see you as soon as you return."
Zhang Ruochen burst into tears again, and the guilt and self-blame in his heart reached an unbearable level.
In my mind, I recalled all the past events.
Recalling that eight hundred years after he first arrived, he had nightmares every night, dreaming of being killed by Chi Yao, and it was Concubine Lin who held him in her arms and comforted him.
Recalling that Concubine Lin knelt down to her brother in the Lin Mansion in order to ask him to practice the exercises.
Recalling that when he first started practicing, Concubine Lin secretly sold her gold hairpin to buy blood pills for him.
…
For Concubine Lin, Zhang Ruochen is everything to her.
However, the time Zhang Ruochen spent with her was too little. Instead, he disappeared for a long time, which always made her worried.
When he was captured by the First Central Empire and faked his death with the help of Sword Master Xuanji, he had no choice but to change his name and become homeless. Huang Yanchen was always by her side to take care of him.
Later, when I went to Heaven, the fourth prince Zhang Shaochu, Jiujun Zhang Yuxi, Lin Lingshan and others were taking care of Concubine Lin.
Going to the hell world with the Queen of Blood, Zhang Ruochen thought he would be able to rescue Kong Le and Kunlun soon, but who knew that when he came back again, it was already a thousand years later, and his mother could not wait for him after all, and she could not see him for the last time.
Zhang Ruochen couldn't help but reflect, even if he hadn't fallen in Xumi Temple for a thousand years, how much would he have been able to accompany Concubine Lin?
The time spent accompanying her is probably not as good as that of Huang Yanchen.
There is always too much helplessness, always on the road of cultivation, always wandering on the edge of life and death.
However, if you don’t practice hard, don’t fight hard, and you can’t even protect the ones you love, how can you talk about companionship?
Is companionship or protection more important?
Zhang Ruochen no longer wanted to think about this problem, but what he was thinking about was how his mother stood here waiting for him every day in her old age. In the end, she couldn't see him. How desperate was that?
"spiritualism."
Zhang Ruochen stared with anger, pressed his palms to the ground, and powerful mental power burst out.
A series of mental thoughts condensed into a translucent figure, and the spiritual summoning circle was quickly carved on the ground, and dense lines appeared.
Kong Lanyou knew that Zhang Ruochen was a very emotional person and could not accept this fact, so he quickly advised: "It's useless, cousin, Aunt Lin is just a mortal, her soul is extremely fragile, and she has long since dissipated in the world."
Kong Lanyou once thought about preserving Concubine Lin's soul, but it was useless. Once a mortal dies, the consciousness in the soul will soon disappear and turn into an unconscious ghost.
What’s the point of preserving it like this?
It is better to let Concubine Lin pass away peacefully.
Moreover, when Concubine Lin died, her soul was already exhausted.
Qiu Yichi said: "Your Highness, Mrs. Lin has passed away for hundreds of years, and all her souls have disappeared. Even if she is summoned back, it is just a shadow of a soul, which has long lost consciousness. Summoning souls will not do anything except make you suffer the backlash.
significance."
Zhang Ruochen didn't listen to anyone's words and insisted on going his own way.
Soon, the engraving of the soul-summoning array was completed. Under the urging of Zhang Ruochen's spiritual power, the sky changed, thunder and lightning flashed, heavy rain fell, and a deep soul-summoning passage was slowly opened.
"Mother, where are you? Come back!"
Zhang Ruochen tried his best to control the soul-calling channel and collect Concubine Lin's soul fragments between heaven and earth.
An unknown amount of time passed, but Zhang Ruochen's powerful mental power began to fail. Tears of blood welled up in his eyes, the soul summoning channel collapsed, and the vision between heaven and earth disappeared.
Only the rain was still falling, soaking his hair and clothes.
"Come again."
Zhang Ruochen pressed his palm on his chest and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Use blood to activate the spiritual magic circle.
Kong Lanyou, Qiu Yichi, Chi Linyuan, and Kong Xuan couldn't stand it any longer, so they all took action. No matter how big or small their abilities were, whether they were useful or not, they poured all their spiritual power into the soul-calling magic circle.
This time, Zhang Ruochen finally saw an old figure disappearing and gathering in the endless and distant depths through the soul-calling magic circle.
"Mother!"
Zhang Ruochen mobilized all his strength and roared.
The old figure was walking forward, but his voice could not be heard.
The soul-calling array could no longer hold up again. Kong Lanyou, Qiu Yichi, Chi Linyuan, and Kong Xuan all fell to the ground due to heavy consumption.
Zhang Ruochen ignored them, looked wildly in his eyes, slit his own wrists, and used the already weak blood connection between himself and Concubine Lin as a guide to use the soul-calling spell again.
This time, Zhang Ruochen spent a long time and once again saw the old figure slowly walking away in the depths of the world.
"Mom, come back, I am your Chen'er!"
"Mother!"
"Mother!"
…
Zhang Ruochen didn't care, he just made a series of calls, which seemed to be heartbreaking.
Just when he was about to lose his hold, far away in the depths of the world, at the end of the soul-calling passage, the old figure didn't know if he heard his voice. He looked back and seemed to have a smile on his face.
, then, the shadow completely dissipated.
Zhang Ruochen's vision went dark, his mental energy was exhausted, and he knelt down in the rain.
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